We have a lift-off!
We are so excited to work with awesome former colleagues from Facebook and support their startup success.
We were honored to receive more than 50 applications this year in our inaugural cohort.
📢 Hey there! Exciting news! Introducing the esteemed judge for our #PitchDojo event on July 27th! 🥷🌐
👨💼 Meet @RichardsJourna1, Founder of Iterative Ventures @TeamIterative. He'll bring vast Web3 expertise to the judging panel, making this event unmissable for enthusiasts!
Showcasing top-notch Web3 products, 5-10 teams will present their innovations on our platform! Don't miss it!
🗓️ July 27
⏰ 5:30 - 8pm PDT
📍Online + On-site in Palo Alto
🔗 https://t.co/MYBSGbIK2j
Experience an extraordinary live pitch event, discover cutting-edge Web3 startups, and win a $1,000 cash prize! 🏆 Mark your calendars and stay tuned for updates.☑️ #Web3 #PitchDojo #Startups #Innovation
🚀 Calling all Web3 startups and developers! Pitch Dojo is your platform to shine. Submit your application now and get ready to pitch your groundbreaking ideas. #PitchDojo#Web3#innovation
🔗 https://t.co/lVc36GEaDf
We had a blast co-hosting Meta founder community event with Melissa Zlatow !
Thanks to Zack Hendlin, Karthik Suresh, and James Wong for sharing their founder experiences with other Meta alumni founders.
#community#founders#meta#facebook
We wrapped up our #AI hackathon yesterday @draper_u. Highlights 👇
Shoutout to everyone who took out the time to ship those amazing demos in 48 hours.
We had 11 amazing pitches & demos.
💰 Winning team won $5,000 in prize money
The people and companies who made it possible ⬇️
Thank you @devrev , @qikfox and @TeamIterative for supporting us.
▪️Ahmed Bashir led a great keynote on LLMs
▪️Tarun Gaur thank you for taking out the time to judge & support
▪️Kasey Kyungsil Roh & Richard Chen thank you planning out and executing mentoring day on Saturday!!
For spreading the word ⬇️
@AqeelMeetsWorld thank you for posting in the slack and the mention in your newsletter!
@michelleefang thank you for the tweet!
@thechangj thank you for highlighting in SFIRL!
And of course, the amazing DU team behind the scenes.
🥇
Bao Van and team, excited to see what you all build.
Takeaways 👇
➡️ We don’t succeed alone, people pull us up, become our cheerleaders and partners. Each of them plays an important and unique role.
➡️ Scorecards and positions in Demo Days or Pitch Days are irrelevant in the long run if you’re building a company. Focus on the journey. For example qikfox Cybersecurity Systems , a company we later invested in through DraperU Ventures wasn’t even in Demo Day Top 20.
➡️ Done is better than perfect. Get that benefit and edge of experience, good or bad. Why would you want to wait 10 months to experience the exact same thing.
Our #Bitcoin#Staking Protocol allows #BTC holders to earn rewards for contributing to the security of PoS networks by staking their Bitcoin.
Read more at the CT article👇
Legal experts from Goodwin and Iterative Ventures will be hosting a web3 investment options such as trade-offs between SAFE, SAFT, and token warrant etc. Everyone is welcome to come and learn!
URL: https://t.co/eoiQGuaUnA
#web3#investing#vc#terms
In case you missed it 👇
I’m hosting an AI hackathon at @draper_u this weekend, June 16-18.
Come #cowork with us at our campus in San Mateo.
180+ are participating with engineers from Meta, Snapchat, Apple + our pre-seed founders.
We’ve partnered up with @devrev & @TeamIterative for this.
Day 1: ⬇️
Launch at 9am + workshops from @Replit (TBC) & DevRev (LLMs 101)
Day 2: ⬇️
@Meta alum working on AI for social apps.
Day 3: ⬇️
Top 5 teams pitch to investors from Iterative Ventures, DraperU Ventures, @SamsungNext , @KindredVentures etc.
Perks & Prizes 🏆
➡️ $2000 cash prize
➡️ Pitch to our pre-seed fund for up to $100,000
➡️ Winning team goes skydiving
➡️ $12,000 worth scholarship to DraperU’s Founder Fellowship
I’m hosting a AI hackathon June 16-18 with ~100 pre-seed entrepreneurs working in teams to work on shipping crazy demos in 48 hours.
PARTNERS 👇 👇 👇
Excited to announce our partners for the hackathon!!
➡️ @devrev founded by @dheeraj will be supporting with mentoring, workshops and there team will be there judging. They’ve raised $70m+ seed led by @khoslaventures
➡️ @TeamIterative founded by Kasey Kyungsil Roh & Richard Chen will be supporting with mentors from the Meta alumni community.
🥇 PERKS 👇 👇 👇
➡️ Pitch to VC Funds
$25,000 - $100,000
Pitch to DraperU Ventures who will be part of the judging panel, DraperU Ventures invests up to $100,000 and are the pre-seed fund of the @DraperNetwork
➡️ Get an invite to Draper's Annual Venture Summit for LPs and corporate innovation heads hosted by Tim Draper & Draper Venture Network
$12,000
➡️ Win $12,000 scholarship and invite to attend DraperU's flagship residential fellowship for pre-seed founders
➡️ Pitch to Draper funds investing from $25k-2m at Demo Day
Prizes 🏆
➡️ Win $2,500 cash in Prize Money
Get access to our credit and discount board for alumni
Sign up if you want to build the future you want to live in leveraging #AI
Apply here 👇
https://t.co/jmb9i3NWon
Seoul, we are coming to your doorstep! Listen to @moul talk in #ETHSeoul & #BUIDLAsia, come by our booth at #BUIDLAsia or join our gathering planned with @onblocxyz , @CosmostationVD, and @codestates. An afternoon of talks, beer, and food.
Register here: https://t.co/5valLOoTom
Nascent blockchains suffer from security issues due to low number of validator nodes on the network.
How does multichain architectures solve that?
Learn more about Shared Security here: https://t.co/ZtUVDovzhZ
#cryptocurrency#blockchain#security
We do not have any exposure to SVB and are happy to help others who are affected find solutions.
Please feel free to reach out. We will support the tech community where we can.
#help#SVBCollapse