Source: a16zcrypto; Compiled by: Deng Tong, Golden Finance
Our Cryptocurrency Startup Accelerator (CSX) Fall 2024 program launched this week in New York City, and today I am excited to announce the 21 startups we have selected to join this group. Over the next 8 weeks, they will gain first-hand experience from top cryptocurrency founders, receive guidance and support from the a16z crypto investment and operations teams, and connect with each other and the broader a16z network.
CSX Fall 2024 companies are coming to New York from 11 different countries: Austria, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Germany, Japan, Poland, Portugal, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, and the United States (including Puerto Rico). They are building at every level of the crypto stack, including AI, DeFi, infrastructure, and consumer applications like photo sharing and maps.
Learn more about the Fall 2024 teams:
Anera Labs: Building liquidity infrastructure that unifies all on-chain liquidity
Banyan: Using AI to bridge the communication gap at work and bring clarity to the enterprise
Blocksense: Enables the creation of oracles that can leverage internet data and CPU/GPU compute
Cork Protocol: A risk pricing protocol that accelerates on-chain credit
Dot: Converts user-created pixel art into game pieces for on-chain games
Fermah: Building a universal zero-knowledge proof generation layer
Future Primitive: Creating a new home for the internet’s photo companions
Kuzco: A marketplace for LLM inference
MeshMap: Building a 3D world map and AR content network
Opacity Labs: Privately verifying web2 data with zkTLS
OpenGradient: Building a blockchain designed to bring world computation to chain
PIN AI: Building an open platform for personal AI (data + agents)
Pod: A new L1 Primitives, blockless, leaderless, and relaxes the notion of total order of transactions
Sekai: Makes it easy to create, share, and monetize interactive narratives
Skyfire: An open payment protocol that enables AI agents to pay for anything
Suave: Enables DApps to accept any token from any wallet on any blockchain
t1: Real-time proof generation to unify Ethereum
TACEO: MPC cryptographic computation for Web3
Term Labs: A DeFi lending platform that matches borrowers and lenders at fixed rates
vlayer labs: Trustless, verifiable data infrastructure powered by zero-knowledge proofs
zkSpin: Building highly parallel blockchains to run demanding DApps on-chain
This is our second cohort of CSX cohorts this year; the Spring 2024 London cohort culminated with a Demo Day in June. The next CSX will be in San Francisco in Spring 2025; if you’re interested in joining, applications will open in early January. a16z CSX invests a minimum of $500,000 in each company accepted. Stay tuned to the CSX website and newsletter for more updates.
Congratulations to all of the CSX Fall 2024 companies! We’re excited to work with you to help you achieve product-market fit.
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