Are you at the @flventure Early Stage Venture Conference today in Orlando?
Here’s who to put on your radar:
- @PlugandPlayTC (Global)
- @lasolasvc (Fort Lauderdale, FL)
- @DeepWorkCapital (Orlando, FL)
- @NWAngels (Boca Raton, FL)
- @Ocean_Azul (Coral Gables, FL)
- @orlandohealth ventures (Orlando, FL)
- @primerowvc (Orlando, FL)
- PS27 Ventures (Jacksonville, FL)
- @RadianCapital (New York, NY)
- @EisnerAmper (New York, NY)
- @FloridaFunders (Tampa, FL)
$150K in prizes from @SpaceFlorida. Real investors in the room. One of the best early-stage events in the Southeast.
If you’re here, come say hi. 👋
A lot of major hackathon deadlines coming up this week.
Here are some of the biggest ones closing soon 👇
June 2
➤ Agent Academy Hackathon
https://t.co/BfJMjJUSoe
➤ Vara Agents Arena Season 1
https://t.co/SfYFrA1kP4
June 3
➤ @StoryProtocol CDR Hackathon
https://t.co/1kEVzN6JHi
June 4
➤ Kite AI Global Hackathon
https://t.co/penrM7b61k
➤ HackerNoon Proof of Usefulness Hackathon
https://t.co/MkY7fllqrq
➤ Tatum x Build on Sui with Walrus
https://t.co/bOXj7FlAdi
June 5
➤ Algorand x 42Blockchain Agentic Commerce Hackathon
https://t.co/G6a0LRnxbU
➤ Solana Incubator Cohort 5 (accelerator)
https://t.co/4YiH1kPaN4
➤ HackerNoon Proof of Usefulness Hackathon
https://t.co/MkY7fllqrq
June 8
➤ Paradigm Fellowship 2026
https://t.co/WZOGwBVYsK
June 10
➤ Somnia Agentathon
https://t.co/A9rDlnUVEa
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made a lil vlog of me going around to all of the offices in sf to hand deliver invitations to my life announcement party happening next tuesday💌🥳
recognize any offices, who should we go to next 👀?!
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There's probably $100+ billion up for grabs for people who build startup for AI agents
Over the next 10 years you're going to have a market of billions of customers (agents) with millions of wallets that want to use your services.
TLDR; The internet was built for people:
1. Search google
2. Read landing page
3. Book demo
4. Talk to sales
5. Buy
Agents don’t do that.
Agents will:
1. Ask which product to use
2. Read your docs/pricing/security pages
3. Compare you to competitors
4. Check if you have an MCP/API/tool layer
5. Buy or recommend you without ever “visiting” your site like a person
Everyone is going to have personal agents and business agents. This feels inevitable at this point. OpenClaw, Hermes, Claude Code, Codex, Google Spark. The tools are here. Which means there will be more agents on the internet than humans.
So, where's the opportunity??
Go look at every SaaS tool you use. Notion. Slack. Jira. Google Analytics.
Now ask: what is the version of this built purely for agents?
Agent-native payments. Agent-native communication.
Agent-native memory. Every category gets rebuilt.
I clearly break down this shift and explain you everything on today's ep of @startupideaspod.
Over the next 10 years you're going to have a market of billions of customers (agents) with millions of wallets that want to use your services. The founders who build for them now are going to look like the people who built websites in 1995. Might feel janky at the moment, but also obvious in hindsight.
This is the next shift.
Link over here: https://t.co/0TAb7SASUK
Watch
this guy just cut the quantum cost of breaking bitcoin by more than half.
24.5B → 10.8B gate-qubit operations. then open-sourced it.
now it's a public leaderboard.
people worldwide are competing.
top score is 97.5% of google's private benchmark.
research that used to take phds years. done in a weekend with agents.
"The co-founder 'blood bond' is a myth.
The most common outcome for a company with multiple co-founders is that, years in, one person is still running it"
- @grinich
I’m visiting SF this week.
My last project got 4,000+ GitHub stars, but now I'm exploring a bigger problem.
I’m looking for founders/operators who are buried in decisions: reviewing work, switching context, checking what agents or teammates did, and figuring out what happens next.
Especially if you run a small team, AI service business, micro-SaaS portfolio, or anything with lots of handoffs.
Hit me up if this is you.
New https://t.co/clWHTWfoB3 stack just dropped for @MoneyGram
Moneygram quick recap is a behemoth:
- 200B+ in annual remittance volumes
- 500k physical locations
- 50%+ of money transfer business
they are now leveraging blockchain rails to its full capacity with their latest stablecoin launch, here is what the stack looks like:
- compliance: @MoneyGram
- onramp/offramp: @MoneyGram ramps
- custody: @FireblocksHQ
- stablecoin: MGUSD via @Stablecoin and @m0
- settlement: @StellarOrg
We are hosting SF’s first ever hackathon on an 89-foot SUPER YACHT.
The top 30 builders in SF. I get to hand pick a finalist - tell me in the comments why it should be you.
Rejected from YC? Good. These programs are open now:
1. @Techstars Anywhere - fully remote, any sector, any location, no relocation required. Deadline: June 10
2. @HelloAlice x @Allstate Main Street Grants Program - 2-week Boost Camp, $20K grant for 100 founders. Deadline: June 23.
3. @GoogleStartups North America - 10 weeks, no equity-free, AI for Energy, pre-seed to Series A. Deadline: June 30.
4. @jointhebridge Fall 2026 - SF residency for non-US founders, pre-idea to early stage. $250K first check, backed by @join_ef. Deadline: June 28
5. @mHUBChicago Compute-Energy Nexus - $200K for 6.5%, AI + energy hardware. Backed by @Equinix, HPE, @salesforce. Deadline: July 13.
Best programs don't always have the biggest names.
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