Web3 early-stage venture capital fund Variant's first phase founder education program received a total of 400 applications, with selected projects covering various fields such as DeFi, infrastructure, DAO, social, governance, security, and NFT.
Author: Variant
Translation: Peng SUN, Foresight News
Recently, Web3 early-stage venture capital fund Variant announced the selection of 24 projects for the first batch of the "Founder Fellowship" (VFF) cryptocurrency founder education program, covering various fields such as DeFi, infrastructure, DAO, social, governance, security, and NFT. The founder education program will last for 3 months and received a total of 400 applications.
Variant is an early-stage venture capital fund that has invested in 52 Web3 companies, including Aptos, Aztec Network, Flashbots, Goldfinch, Maginc Eden, Mirror, Matter Labs, Scroll, Polygon, ZORA, and more. Currently, applications for the second phase of VFF students are open for intention submission.
Capsule
Capsule (formerly known as Korus) is an NFT marketplace targeting children, teenagers, and young people, allowing them to collect custom digital cards from their favorite character artists and KOLs. The founders are Stephaine Carroll and Frankie Li.
Chroma
Chroma is building a full-stack solution for launching and managing DeFi lending markets. The founders are Jack Longarzo, Tim van Scherpenzeel, and Aaron Xie.
Clave
Clave is a smart contract wallet officially launched in August 2023, supporting secure login using mobile phones, tablets, or laptops with biometric identity verification technology, without the need for keys or mnemonic phrases. Clave will change the way users interact with the blockchain through "intent," session key modules, security modules, and transaction simulators, supporting social recovery. Clave will initially support zkSync and has opened whitelisting.
In September, Clave was selected as one of the 18 projects in the Ethereum Foundation's ERC-4337 account abstraction funding round.
Dawn
Dawn is an Ethereum wallet on iOS that helps users use applications with minimal clicks, allowing direct connection to DApps from the Safari browser. Dawn is based on the iPhone's Secure Enclave, where wallet private keys are encrypted and stored in the keychain. By default, Dawn supports Face ID for wallet access. Dawn has achieved iPad compatibility and supports Zora, Tally, Snapshot, Daylight, Gitcoin, Uniswap, and Aave. Currently, Dawn supports 10 chains, with added support for Base Goerli, Sepolia, and Gnosis.
Digito
Digito is headquartered in Latin America and allows users to sign on-chain transactions and real-world documents using the same private key, with fraud protection implementation for purchase payments. The founder, Amhed Herrera, previously worked at Coinbase. Digito will first launch in the Dominican Republic and has invested $1 million to establish regulated infrastructure, expecting to obtain the first license in the Dominican Republic in the first quarter of 2024.
Doormat
Doormat is a key management system designed for crypto users.
Forum
Forum originated from an investment club and is an integrated application for jointly owning crypto assets with friends.
Future Primitive
Future Primitive innovates on the ERC-6551 standard (Tokenbound account) to turn each NFT into a smart contract wallet.
Hashcurve
HashCurve is a community-managed prediction market platform.
Heimdall Labs
Heimdall Labs is building a modular and decentralized compliance layer, providing a modular protocol for compliant smart contract solutions for crypto projects.
Mezzanine
Mezzanine combines the advantages of companies with the benefits of DAOs, introducing corporate governance to the blockchain.
Neynar
Neynar is a developer platform for Web3 social protocols, allowing developers to read, write, and own data from Web3 social protocols.
Nosh
Nosh connects restaurants directly with drivers and consumers, eliminating the intermediaries of food delivery platforms.
Pathfinder
Pathfinder is an integrated community activation tool that uses natural language processing technology to build a user-centric interface for discovering and interacting with blockchain applications.
Ponder
Ponder is an open-source framework for blockchain application backends, allowing developers to build GraphQL APIs for smart contracts on Ethereum, with features such as hot reload, type safety, and easy deployment to production, addressing the backend pain points of developing indexers or splicing out-of-the-box APIs.
Poolshark
Poolshark is a targeted AMM that allows users to profit from volatility with minimal maintenance, and traders can also become LPs. Currently, Poolshark has launched its testnet.
Probably Something
Probably Something is creating tools to help users understand complex digital ecosystems. Its current products include the NFT tool library Lifeboat and the AI-driven chatbot Lifebot.
Rocko
Rocko focuses on simplifying the lending process for DeFi lending protocols, allowing users to access the most suitable loans for themselves. Rocko is set to launch soon.
Seam
Seam is building a nostalgic yet innovative social networking application where users can design nostalgic custom social profiles and earn SP by completing tasks.
Shield
Shield is a Web3 security company that simplifies incident response, helping Web3 companies quickly recover after being hacked.
In April 2023, Shield announced the completion of a $2.1 million Pre-Seed funding round, with investors including Kraken Ventures, Eterna Capital, Alchemy, Moonpay, Bessemer Ventures DAO (Steel DAO), Orange DAO, NGC Ventures, Wagmi Ventures, MH Ventures, Coinswitch, 2Punks Capital, Lecca Ventures, and Very Serious Ventures. Angel investors Rob Behnke (CEO of crypto security audit company Halborn), Peter Liebert (former Chief Information Security Officer of California), Vijay Maharajan (founder of Bitscrunch), as well as angel investors from Coinbase, Google, Microsoft, and FireEye also participated in this round of funding.
Shield also stated that it has received funding from a16z's Crypto Startup School accelerator and is currently participating in it. Shield aims to help organizations take comprehensive security measures to prevent crypto exploits and increase user trust in the entire ecosystem. Shield's threat detection software can be directly integrated into any platform via API or integrated as a security bot for online communities on Discord.
Studio X
Studio X is a music crowdfunding platform that uses NFTs to provide upfront funding for artists. Users can collect an Alex Kings EP first, and if held long-term, they can receive artist airdrops in the future.
Troops
Troops is a mobile-first web application designed to bring people together. Troops enables communities to collectively own and customize their on-chain homes in a collaborative manner. Behind Troops is an open-source "community stack," with the main component being a full-chain permission protocol built on Safe.
Turbo
Turbo aims to improve the experience of independent game developers by creating simple and easy-to-learn toolkits and marketplaces.
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