Organizations

Proximity Labs is empowering DeFi on NEAR. Co-founded by Evgeny Kuzyakov.

Proximity Labs is a research firm focused on the NEAR ecosystem. The team works closely with many projects building on NEAR, provides grants, and creates open-source software targeting the NEAR blockchain.

Evgeny Kuzyakov

Proximity Labs

Orderly Network

Jumbo.Exchange

Veax

We believe we can only build the next generation of Pillar companies if we form a trusted partnership with founders of the companies we back. From our investment terms to the capabilities and support we provide, our mission is to align every step we take, every decision we make with the interests of entrepreneurs, right from the start.

As early-stage investors, many of our companies are ideas beginning to take flight; so we are investing in the people, the founders. We look for unstoppable founders who know how to blow through walls. Founders who rally people around their vision for the future and have the ability to create a swell of momentum around a market-transforming idea.

We co-founded Pillar with a group of 17 world-class executives, who have built some of the most substantial companies in Boston with a combined total of more than $30B in enterprise value. All are investors in our fund, and are active as hands-on advisors, mentors and board members to our entrepreneurs. An investment from Pillar is an investment from them.

Our partners are serial entrepreneurs with decades of operating experience in high-growth start-ups. We know what it’s like to build a team, a product, a community of customers. We know what it’s like to pour your time, energy and resources into scaling your company. That’s why we’re so committed to helping you align with the people and capabilities you need to win.

pillar

Since 2012, Trail of Bits has helped secure some of the world’s most targeted organizations and products. We combine high-end security research with a real-world attacker mentality to reduce risk and fortify code.

Building and using cryptographic libraries is notoriously difficult. Even when each component of the system has been implemented correctly (quite difficult to do), improperly combining these pieces can lead to disastrous results.

Cryptography, when rolled right, forms the bedrock of any secure application. By combining cutting-edge mathematics and disciplined software engineering, modern crypto-systems guarantee data and communication privacy. Navigating these subtleties requires experts in both cryptography software engineering and the underlying mathematics. That’s where we can help.

Trail of Bits

BLOCKCHAIN.com is the world’s most popular way to buy, sell, and trade crypto. Trusted by millions since 2011 with over $800 Billion in crypto transactions.

BLOCKCHAIN

AngelPad is a seed-stage accelerator program based in NYC and San Francisco. Since 2010 we have launched more than 130 companies. Every 6 months we select about 15 teams from a huge pool of applicants (usually around 2000) to work with us. While other accelerators have decided to “scale” and take on more and more companies or launch more and more cities, we have stayed true to our original goal: Find awesome companies with founders we like to work with and spend three very intense months with them. This focus has paid off, we have risen to be the #1 Accelerator in the U.S. (based on a real study from MIT/Brown University) and Strictly VC called us the “Anti-Y Combinator“. During the program, we work on everything from finding product market fit, defining a target market to getting first validation for the company. We are also instrumental in helping companies prepare for fundraising and of course for investor meetings.

AngelPad

WhatsMiner, operated by its manufacturer MicroBT team. We are leading in chip design and we produce the most advanced mining hardware.

Whatsminer

Gemini's maker-taker fee schedule offers fee discounts as well as rebates for high-volume market participants.

GEMINI

Fireblocks is the only secure way to move digital assets 24/7 across your entire ecosystem. Powering 50+ financial institutions.

Fireblocks brings an end to insecure and inefficient digital asset operations. For institutional traders that need to move digital assets without the operational or security headache.

Fireblocks streamlines operations by bringing all your exchanges, OTCs, counterparties, hot wallets, and custodians into one platform. Wallets, deposit addresses, and API credentials are secured using patent-pending chip isolation technology and the newest breakthrough in cryptography (MPC). Institutions are using Fireblocks to move funds securely in seconds – instead of hours.

Fireblocks

Binance Info is a professional platform with market data, price actions and blockchain project information about bitcoin, eth and all other major cryptocurrencies.

Binance Info

ETHDenver brings together diverse minds who are passionate about decentralization & the Ethereum blockchain ecosystem.

We encourage developers, technologists, cypher punks, coders, crypto-economists, designers, makers, and the like to apply. Our ecosystem is bottom up. Emergent. A ground swell of diverse intelligences who are committed to #buidling the decentralized future.

The ETHDenver #BUIDLATHON is about bringing together like minds around a common purpose. Distributed computing is the future, and Colorado is a leading community supporting this emerging technology. Our event is about empowering participants to shape this new world, while cementing the Rocky Mountain region and the State of Colorado as a thriving hub of Ethereum blockchain innovation.

Note that we’ve rebranded for the 2019 event. We feel that “hackathons”, are great technological experiences, but the ETHDenver 2018 turned out to be so much more. Welcome to the ETHDenver #BUIDLATHON + Community Gathering!

Proximity Labs

Empowering DeFi on NEAR.

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