Dear GCR Friends,

This is our GCR Angel Network Newsletter, in which we share periodic updates on the new initiatives we’re working on and the growth of our network.

• "Why We Invested" Series - We are introducing the "Why We Invested" Series for the GCR portfolio companies! The goal is to make our investment process as community-centric and transparent as possible. Check our first two articles for Mysten Labs & Gearbox. We'd love to feature you, especially time it according to any of your upcoming announcements. Please reach out or respond directly to this email!

• GCR Portfolio Section on our Website - We introduced a new section on our website - GCR Portfolio! You can check it here, the 65+ PortCos we love and support. Send us any updated logos or let us know any way we can improve here!

• GCR Research Pool - We launched our new research program – GCR Research Pool – led by Chaos and Hang, our long-time research contributors at GCR. With this new Research Pool research program in place, we are looking to replace the current Media Mining. Read more about this program here.

• We reached 10K followers on Twitter - Thanks to all of you for supporting us. Our next target is to reach 10K members in Discord. If you haven’t joined yet, please join here, and would appreciate it if you can share with your community too.

Join our Discord and meet the other 68+ GCR portfolio founders - you will have access to a founder-only group where you can ask for advice with other founders, share your progress and more. Once you join the community, introduce yourself to Erlisa#5196 and we’ll add you directly to the group!

👀 We are partnering with zkLink (one of our awesome portfolio projects) for a writing bounty. If you want to invite your community to be part of this contest you can by sharing this link.

zkLink is a trading-focused multi-chain L2 network with unified liquidity secured by ZK-Rollups. zkLink ecosystem connects various L1 chains and L2 networks that enables developers and traders to leverage unified liquidity from isolated chains with a secure and seamless user experience, contributing to a more accessible and efficient DeFi ecosystem for everyone.

Since the launch of the GCR Angel Network, we saw:

• 45+ experienced and talented individuals signing up to be mentors

• 5 Portfolio Companies having mentoring sessions

• 19 members joining our Angel Pods to support our Portfolio Companies

• 13 Portfolio Companies requesting help from Angel Pods

• 90+ job openings shared on GCR’s Job Board

• 10+ introductions made to our Web3 partners and top investor network

Click here for more details on the program.

You can find our full list of existing mentors and sign up for some guidance here. Below are some of the mentors who signed up recently to help our portfolio companies!

• Christina Beltramini - Head of Growth + Partnerships at Aave

• Nicholas Davison, Director South East Asia at 500 startups

• Murray Newlands, Venture Partner at Network.VC

We are having an AMA with Sweatcoin where Oleg Fomenko, Co-founder and product lead at Sweat Economy, will walk us through the creation of Sweat Wallet(web3) and $SWEAT token from the transition of the Sweatcoin(web2) app, and share his vision and perspectives on making the world more physically active. Save the date, Mar 15 at 10:30 am EST.

If you want to host a Workshop/AMA, please feel free to reach us.

Please don’t hesitate to share with us your job openings! We can help you amplify them on our Job Board.

Join our Discord and we’ll give you special access roles; also don’t forget to follow us on Twitter & LinkedIn if you haven’t!

As always, please do not hesitate to share any feedback - whether by email or directly to your GCR contact. Look forward to speaking soon!

Kind regards,

The GCR Core Team