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 portfolio and angel investor network.
We will be in Lisbon, Portugal this week for NEARCON, and there's an exclusive event co-hosted by HZN x GCR x Outlier Ventures. If you are around and want to join us RSVP here.
Updates from our Portfolio Companies and Partners
t2 - They have released the first phase of social writing experiences on t2 Introducing Territories V1: a new way for writers and readers to interact, fostering community discussions on niche subjects. You can read more here.
Rooch Network - Rooch has released v0.2. It features Account Abstraction, a sleek new Dashboard, and a dedicated developer testnet. Now with enhanced Ethereum & Bitcoin compatibility. The Rooch Dashboard is a web application based on Rooch JSON RPC, providing state and transaction queries, and account setting management features. More features will be added in the future. Visit: https://dashboard.rooch.network/. Users can operate the Dashboard through MetaMask. You can read more here.
Passage - They have been rolling out Fuze, the suite of powerful data microservices they have been using to orchestrate web3 data and loyalty programs - for broader use cases. Built by experts from IBM Watson, McKinsey Digital, Salesforce CDP - Fuze adds superpowers to your customer & commercial data stack. For the world's most innovative brands, Fuze works seamlessly on top of home-grown systems or your favorite infra (Segment, SFMC, Snowflake, etc) to add what might be missing.
Fuze microservices include:
Seamlessly unify any commercial data set, even if unstructured & disconnected
Fluently data from emerging tech frameworks, like Web3, AR, VR, Metaverse, and GenAI
Get your first party data AI ready
Talent Protocol - Builder.fi, a product by Talent Protocol, which has been tested by private alpha with their beta testers group has opened its waitlist. Think about it as if Quora and FriendTech had a baby: you can buy keys from top builders and ask them direct questions. The questions are always public, the answers remain private for key holders.
Scroll - After more than two years of building, they have launched Scroll Mainnet. Try it by following this link.
Modulus Labs - Our newest portco, whose goal is to bring powerful AI on-chain with specialized ZK. We are excited to back such a fantastic team solving such a big problem - learn more here on how specialized ZK brings AI on-chain here.
Pudgy Penguins - Is looking for partners to co-host an event at Miami Art Basel. If you are interested let us know and happy to connect you.
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Discord is Calling
Join our Discord and meet the other 70+ 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!
GCR Angel Network
Since the launch of the GCR Angel Network, we saw:
Click here for more details on the program.
Over 45+ Mentors Available for You
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
Use GCR’s Job Board to Amplify Your Job Openings
Please don’t hesitate to share with us your job openings! We can help you amplify them on our Job Board.
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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