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Founded by technology entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel in 2011, the Thiel Fellowship is a two-year program for young people who want to build new things.

Thiel Fellowship

We invest in open protocols, infrastructure, and applications that provide contributors greater agency and shared value.

Consensys Labs is the venture arm of Consensys, investing in exceptional teams across three tiers: 

Investments: Seed-stage investment fund which invests in decentralised protocols, infrastructure and applications, leveraging Consensys' experience as one of the earliest investors in and developers of Ethereum-based projects and dev tooling.

Tachyon: Accelerator for early-stage blockchain and Web 3.0 startups

Relays: Distributed hackathons for makers, builders, entrepreneurs and the crypto-curious to rapidly iterate towards proof-of-concept businesses

Founders engage with Labs at the tier that best fits their stage of growth and development as entrepreneurs. Relays are for founders beginning to experiment with the development of a product, whereas Tachyon will help you prepare for pre-seed investment. Finally, through our early-stage investment fund, Labs invests pre-seed, seed, and follow-on Series A capital into best-in-class technical teams building open protocols, infrastructure, and applications that provide contributors greater agency and shared value.

From day 1, founders are able to engage with the Labs global community of advisers, developers, and industry experts, and benefit from ConsenSys’ resources in technical, legal, and HR expertise. In parallel, we are able to adapt our investment of capital and resources to match the evolving needs of the teams as they grow and develop their companies.

Consensys Labs

Alliance DAO is accelerating the best Web3 founders. It is an international trade association created for decentralized financial market professionals to connect, collaborate and convene to celebrate the emergence of a healthy global DeFi ecosystem.  DeFi would not only facilitate markets for illiquid financial products that already exist but would also allow for the creation of new financial products and markets that don’t yet exist (Humenansky). 

Our mission is to drive the global adoption of DeFi technology and co-create a transparent, low cost, and trust-able decentralized financial system. 

We are a member-based organization which convenes decentralized financial platforms, mainstream financial institutions, regulators, policymakers, and lawyers to share knowledge, develop thought leadership studies, build collaborative initiatives and celebrate the impact that DeFi innovations help to bring to the world.

Accelerate DeFi is an eight-week, intensive program designed to give DeFi startups the resources to build, deploy, and grow their platforms. We connect founders to some of the largest traditional trading firms in the world, successful founders in DeFi, VCs, and legal/compliance experts, and help them build product, growth, and regulatory strategies.

Alliance DAO

DIGITALX100 BLOCKCHAIN ACELERATOR. Our mentors are top leaders in technology, business, investment and policy areas. By the end of the 10 weeks, startups which successfully completed the program will receive $100,000-$3,000,000 investment from top blockchain investment funds.

DigitalX100

CoLab is IDEO's platform for collaborative impact. We connect organizations to shape technology's impact on the world. Together, we design the future.

IDEO CoLab

Expa works with proven founders to develop and launch new companies. After 10 years designing and building consumer services, the Expa team has identified many techniques that help create successful companies.

We help companies avoid common pitfalls in early-stage ventures, and actively remove roadblocks along the way. We’re not an “incubator”, and not a VC. We are hands-on co-founders that care about the details. The Expa team spends significant time on every company we work with.

Expa usually founds new companies based on our own ideas, but we occasionally collaborate with founders of early-stage companies whose missions we believe in. In such cases we become hands-on partners to a company, to help craft the brand, build the prototype and iterate towards product-market-fit. Expa specializes in product strategy, system design and user experience.

Expa was founded by Garrett Camp, co-founder of Uber and StumbleUpon, to apply his lessons learned creating successful startups. Joined by Hooman Radfar (founder of AddThis), Naveen Selvadurai (Foursquare co-founder), Milun Tesovic (founder of Metrolyrics), Roberto Sanabria (Google, Linkedin), Vítor Lourenço (Twitter designer, co-founder of Envoy) and 25 talented in-house experts in SF & NYC, the Expa team actively guides companies. We have done this before, founding 4 industry-defining startups that have collectively reached over 100 million registered users. And now we’re applying what we’ve learned to create the next generation of startups.

Expa

Seed Club is The "Social Token" Incubator. We help online creators and communities launch tokens (aka their own cryptocurrency.)

There’s value in collaboration, and in coming together on the internet. This value lives in the creativity and connection found in people anywhere in the world.

Today, the opportunity to work on things we love, to work from our strengths and to our highest potential is a privilege. We help design, launch and grow social tokens so anyone on the internet can realize their full potential.

Through our cohort based program, we help communities bring the future value of their collaboration, creativity and connection into the present and turn their social capital into digital assets.

We’re backed by leaders in the Social Token Space.

Seed Club

LongHash is a platform for accelerating the development and understanding of blockchain technology.
LongHash's data journalism platform will help you understand cryptocurrency through a combination of data analysis and narrative storytelling. We welcome serious investors as well as newcomers who want to understand what the blockchain hype is about. Our analysis will be original, independent and global. Longhash incubators will provide a full range of support for start-ups working on blockchain-related projects. We plan to open incubators in at least ten cities in the United States, Asia, Europe and the Middle East. Our incubators will help us gather data on cutting-edge technologies and industry trends, both locally and internationally. Our first incubator will be at WeWork (Ark Hills South) in Tokyo, Japan.

LongHash

Binance X, a new initiative to foster innovation on the Binance platform and blockchain ecosystem at large. It is also the Binance Smart Chain Accelerator Fund, an arm of Binance.

At Binance, our long-term mission is to provide infrastructure to enable the freedom of money. With that as a guidepost, we have rapidly evolved towards that mission by expanding our suite of products.

Not too surprisingly, the number of developer-facing products has also increased accordingly. Our core exchange already has APIs to programmatically access exchange functionality. And that includes margin trading and very soon will also include lending and futures as well. Beyond the exchange, we also have a multi-chain, non-custodial wallet called Trust Wallet, a public blockchain with native DEX capabilities called Binance Chain, and a platform that tracks charitable donations via the blockchain offered by our Binance Charity Foundation.

In other words, we have become a platform that third-party developers can build and leverage for their own products and services. As a platform that is rapidly evolving, there is a need to provide a cohesive way to engage and support developers in our ecosystem, and thus, Binance X is conceived.

A developer typically comes to a new platform to learn how to build on the various products, find other developers to collaborate with, and get help on growing their project. 

We want to service those specific needs, so we organize our activities around these three themes of Learn, Collaborate and Grow. 

Under Learn, we provide official and eventually third-party resources to help you learn and reference relevant information. Under Collaborate, we provide tools and channels where you can engage, both online and in real life, with relevant Binance teams and other third-party developers. Under Grow, we refer you to different programs at Binance designed to help projects at different stages of maturity level up to the next phase of growth.

One of the programs we started at Binance X was the Binance X Fellowship Program. It was designed to support talented developers in creating free and open-source software that would enable new innovations and businesses in the crypto economy.

Since the program started earlier this year, we have on-boarded about 40+ projects across various ecosystems.

Here are a few highlighted fellowship projects:

GoBNB by Hammad Tariq
BEPTools by John-Paul Thorbjornsen, Cameron Stuart, Nadeem Shaikh
BrowserBNB and BNBTextWallet by Nikita Kozlov, Alexandr Safonov
PISA by Patrick McCorry, Sergi Delgado Segura
Burner Wallet by Austin Griffith
OP_SECURETHEBAG by Jeremy Rubin

At Binance X, we will be channeling our inner Ballmer to help developers maximize their potential and growth on the Binance platform. We are super excited to see all the innovations that would come out of this developer community.

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