- With many projects that are preparing for TGEs, the eight -year -old Fund I is a goal to use the remaining funds towards the end of the year.
- The Stanford ecosystem is the primary source of blockchain founder investments for pre-seed and seed phase, made by blockchain builders, a venture fund.
The Durffonds of the Stanford Blockchain Ecosystem, Blockchain Builders, has announced that his $ 28 million fund, which surpassed, has been successfully closed. The pre-seed and seed fund make investments in excellent innovators from other prestigious universities and the groundbreaking crypto community of Stanford.
Gil Rosen, Kun Peng and Steven Willinger, three graduated students from Stanford, founded the fund, which invested more than $ 16 million in 40 blockchain projects, including AI, Infrastructure, Defi, Depin, Payments and Rwas.
With many projects that are preparing for TGEs, the eight -year -old Fund I is a goal to use the remaining funds towards the end of the year. The modular AI blockchain 0G (Hack VC, Bankless, Delphi Digital), the Open-Access Ai Cloud Hyperbolic (Variant, Polychain, Topology), the Blockless Layer-1 Pod (A16Z, 1KX) and the SuperCcuter Venty Labs, Dronagtera, Drytola, Dronagtera, Lighspeed, Companies.
Co-founder can explain Peng:
“Blockchain Builders was born from our firsthand experience scaling the Stanford blockchain ecosystem. We started Stanford’s Blockchain Accelerator, teach MS&E 447 Blockchain Entrepreneurship, and produce the Blockchain Application Stanford Summit (BASS) conference series – these initiatives have supported over 200 Founders, 400 students, and nearly 5000 Cumulative Attendees, and Provide a Deep Network to Inspire, Support, and Mentor New Founders for Success.
Babylon -founder Professor David Tse said:
“Stanford heeft een uitgebreide geschiedenis van blockchain -onderzoek en innovatie, waaronder het TSE -lab dat ik run, het Center for Blockchain Research en cursussen zoals mijn EE 374 -cursus over blockchain -infrastructuur. Het is ook verantwoordelijk voor de Bass Event en MS & E 447 Entrepreneurship -cursus, terwijl de Cursus van Stanford Blockchain heeft geholpen With the further ecosystem and the song of the number of the number of blockchain launch. “
The management of the fund has a wealth of knowledge in both conventional finances and cryptocurrency. Willinger previously worked in product and partnerships at Blockstream and Google / Google X, managed Coinbase Ventures and made investments at Capital One Ventures. A frequent angel investor, Rosen Boottreakt a company with 100 employees and built distributed calculation infrastructure for the IRS, JPMorgan and the London Stock Exchange before he left for the AI platform NGDATA. On the other hand, Peng has a wealth of founding experience in web3 with infrastructure, NFT, Defi and crypto analyzes and indexation.
Co-founder Gil Rosen stated:
“Our deep Stanford tires give us early access to large potential founders who appreciate our practical approach. We roll up our sleeves and dive into the details of strategy, GTM and fundraising that they optimally position them for competitive follow-ups led by Tier-1 investors.”
The team works together with the Ethereum Foundation, Solana, Starware, Base (Coinbase) and others to support founders throughout the country because it wants to finance II. It also extends its support to the new IC3-Cornell Accelerator, including Berkeley, Carnegie Melon, Princeton, Yale and UCL.
The Stanford ecosystem is the primary source of blockchain founder investments for pre-seed and seed phase, made by blockchain builders, a venture fund. Under the leadership of seasoned builders and operators who are enthusiastic about early companies, the team adds practical help to its capital obligation to guarantee the success of the founders. To develop the next generation of blockchain builders, the team works on projects such as Stanford’s Blockchain Accelerator, the Bass Conference Series, MS & E 447 and strategic alliances with top universities.