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Description
An overview of the grants and accelerator programs the Filecoin ecosystem offers for those budding web3 devs.
A
Welcome
everyone
on
another
great
session
on
at
orbit
this
week.
My
name
is
stefan
and
today
we'll
be
talking
about
accelerators
and
grants
and
with
me
I
have
two
great
guest
speakers.
Today,
one
is
blake
a
program
manager
at
outlier
ventures,
one
of
our
accelerators
run
out
of
the
uk
and
isaac
md
tech
stars,
one
of
the
accelerators
here
out
of
seattle
and
then
we'll
address
some
of
the
grand
opportunities
as
well
in
case
you're,
working
on
some
great
ideas,
but
you
didn't
make
it
into
an
accelerator.
A
A
This
session
is
sort
of
like
focused
on
what
accelerated
programs
are
looking
for
in
startups.
How
funding
happens?
We'll
talk
a
little
bit
more
about
some
some
cool
projects
that
came
out
of
the
accelerator
programs,
but
overall,
as
you
can
see,
we've
been
investing
very
heavily
in
accelerated
programs
and
we'll
continue
to
do
so.
Here
are
some
of
the
four
major
accelerated
programs
that
we've
kicked
off
in
the
last
year
and
we
have
more
than
50
teams
work,
either
in
process
or
in
programs.
A
Running
live
right
now
today,
we'll
be
talking
a
little
bit
more
in
detail
about
what
outlier
ventures
experience
has
been
in
the
last
couple
of
months,
their
recommendations
and
then
we'll
jump
into
techstars,
who
is
currently
actively
recruiting
for
new
applications,
and
so
with
that
I'll
pass
it
on
to
blake
blake
walk
us
through
what
are
some
of
your
findings?
You
started,
I
think
it's
about
five
months
ago,
if
I'm
not
mistaken,.
B
Yes,
stefan
thank
you
for
having
me
for
a
great
introduction.
We
started
about
five
months
ago
and
what
five
months
it
has
been,
but
before
we
dive
in
into
lessons
learned
our
experience
of
accelerating
fall
coin
ipfs
and
protocol
labs
stack
projects.
I
want
to
first
explain
a
bit
more
about
outlier
ventures
and
the
program
itself.
B
Labs
have
been
extremely
helpful
in
helping
us
identify
the
key
opportunities
that
stem
from
this
technology,
which
is
so
much
more
than
just
storage
and
essentially
identify
trends
that
we
outline
as
financialization
of
the
open
data
economy,
nft
experience
and
metaverse
persistence
and
cloud
2.0,
the
centralized
storage
and
compute.
So
how
do
we
help
those
startups?
We
provide
them
with
expert
support
from
our
in-house
specialists
from
all
areas
of
business,
from
tokenomics
to
token
design,
distribution,
governance,
community
building
legal
hiring
operations.
B
B
We
always
consider
network
to
be
the
key
strength
here
at
outlier
ventures.
However,
certainly
this
time
we
got
some
extra
support
from
founders
that
have
experienced
previous
successes
with
that
technology
falcon
or
ipfs,
and
have
a
very
strong,
give
back
mentality
and
are
able
to
actually
teach
a
new
generation
of
entrepreneurs.
B
B
We
also
help
them
out
a
lot
with
tokenomics
and
token
design.
We
have
some
great
support
from
protocol
apps
on
that
front
as
well,
and
we
rely
on
our
network
of
partners
including
mentors
alumni
in
the
base
camp
portfolio
from
the
sphere
of
the
open
data
economy,
as
well
as
investors,
and
there
is
quite
several
big
ticket
investors
interested
in
the
falcon
basecamp
program,
cohort
that
are
also
actively
mentoring
them.
So
we
like
to
think
that
we're
evergreen
we
invest
through
barren
bull
market.
B
B
B
Now
I
would
love
to
share
some
of
the
examples
without
picking
any
favorites,
but
examples
that
I
think
to
some
extent
represent
the
themes
that
I
explained
earlier
stephanie.
If
I
can
ask
you
for
the
next
slide,
one
of
the
projects
in
the
cohort
and
following
in
the
trade
in
the
footsteps
of
openc,
adapting
nfd
storage,
they
just
love,
ipfs
and
falcoin
in
context
of
their
big
nft
assets,
they're
called
zone.
B
B
Worries
so
function
length
is
essentially
a
hardware
and
a
software
play
combined
coming
out
of
canada.
These
guys
very
experienced
them
with
lots
of
entrepreneurial
experience.
They
want
to
put
a
piece
of
blockchain
on
every
desk
and
not
not
just
any
blockchain.
Essentially,
they
want
to
enable
personal,
falcoid
mining
machines,
as
well
as
trying
to
invent
a
new
paradigm
in
which
you
can
exchange
your
storage
capability
as
part
of
a
smaller
cooperative.
B
So
that
way
I
can
backup
your
photos
or
a
photos
of
my
neighbor,
just
in
case
anything
happens,
and
this
software
and
hardware
component.
The
plan
is
to
open
up
the
gates
to
personal
validator
notes
one
day.
So
we're
really
excited
about
this
project,
and
there
is
a
great
team
executing
behind
it.
Glitter
is
a
project
coming
out
of
shenzhen
china
and
it's
using
ipfs
to
essentially
create
a
version
of
the
internet
content
that
never
dies
also
based
on
the
old
infrastructure
of
rss
feeds.
B
That
would
allow
circumventing
any
censorship
efforts
would
enable
true
data
ownership
and
provide
universal
accessibility
and
would
be
maintained
and
owned
by
the
users
of
the
network,
which
we
call
the
guardians
of
the
internet
as
well
as
enable
other
protocols
to
build
the
central
to
connect
to
the
centralized
app
on
this
network.
That
gives
unprecedented
access
to
content
that
never
dies,
and,
last
but
not
least,
a
more
fintech-facing
example.
B
Opt-In
data
sets
are
a
compliance,
slum,
dunk
and
basically
and
banks
understood
that
your
personal
banking
data
is
very
valuable
and
they
give
you
an
opportunity
in
a
very
private,
secure
and
effective
way.
Monetize
that
data
the
way
any
way
you
want
to
through
a
data
union.
So
I
want
to
thank
you
for
your
attention.
A
Thank
you
blake
great
overview.
Also,
what's
you
know,
it's
always
interesting
to
see
is
that
you
have
sort
of
a
wide
range
from
just
software
application,
tooling,
d5
and
also
like
hardware
right
fully
integrated
hardware
solutions.
I
thought
that
was
great
to
see.
Definitely
in
the
last
year,
what
we've
seen
is
sort
of
like
the
evolution
as
well,
of
what
type
of
applications
are
being
built
on
falcoin,
and
this
is
just
like
another
testament
of
that
which
is
great
now
moving
on
to
isaac
at
techstars.
A
C
Great
well
thanks
thanks
staphon
and
blake.
Those
are
some
awesome.
Looking
companies,
I'm
excited
to
see
how
they
do
well
good
morning,
good
afternoon,
good
evening,
depending
where
you
are
in
the
world
and
thank
you,
stefan
and
the
falcon
protocol
labs
folks
for
for
hosting
us,
and
I
guess,
happy
anniversary
on
when
you're
on
the
main
net.
It's
that's
tremendous.
My
name
is
isaac.
C
Cato
I'm
the
managing
director
of
the
new
filecoin
techstars
accelerator
program,
we're
the
new
kids
on
the
block
so
to
speak
here,
but
I'm
a
serial
entrepreneur.
I've
started
two
companies,
I've
run
three
I've
had
as
a
few
weeks
ago,
three
successful
exits.
I
was
a
vc
for
about
a
decade
and
I've
been
a
long
time.
Angel
investor
and
my
own
exposure
to
the
crypto
world
goes
back
to
2013.
C
When
I
I
brought
the
the,
I
brought
the
bitcoin
miners
to
my
green
data
center
in
iceland
that
I'd
started,
and
so
I've
been
following
the
space
since
then,
so
the
file
coin
texars
accelerator
is
the.
I
believe
the
newest
filecoin
focused
accelerator,
but
techstars
itself
has
been
around
for
quite
a
while.
If
you
don't
know
who
we
are,
we
are
one
of
the
biggest
venture
accelerators
in
the
world.
We
have
today
around
50
programs
running
globally.
C
D
C
Simply
this
we
dramatically
increase
your
odds
of
finding
entrepreneurial
success
and
tech
services
have
been
doing
it
for
the
last
15
years
so
far
over
well.
Over
2
700
companies
have
gone
through
the
programs
that
we
offer
and,
and
they
have
a
lot
of
success.
So
if
you
take
your
typical
startup
math,
which
is
that
most
startup
companies
fail,
most
techstars
alums
find
some
degree
of
success
and
quite
a
few
of
them
find
quite
a
lot.
Our
companies
have
raised
over
16.5
billion
dollars
of
capital.
C
There
are
today
at
least
15
or
20
unicorns,
but
that
success
is
also
widely
distributed.
So
if
I
look
at
the
seattle
program,
for
example,
120
companies
have
gone
through
over
the
last
12
years,
and
75
percent
of
those
companies
are
either
still
in
business
or
have
or
have
exited.
So
we
do
a
really
nice
job
of
helping
our
companies
find
entrepreneurial
success
and
at
the
core
of
it
all
is
mentorship.
So
we
are
a
mentor
driven
program.
C
One
of
the
first
things
that
happens
when
you
come
into
a
texas
program
is
that
you
are
you're,
matched
with
three
to
five
lead
mentors
who
tend
to
be
either
seriously
successful.
Entrepreneurs
themselves
or
subject
matters
around
a
particular
function
or
industry,
and
they
work
very
closely
with
you
throughout
the
course
of
the
program
and
often
long
beyond
that
and
in
this
program,
specifically,
you
get
the
best
of
all
worlds.
C
In
that
case,
and
and
certainly
a
big
big
part
of
the
experience
is
the
mentorship
combined
with,
though
also
just
an
explosion,
in
your
network
of
investors,
of
the
all
the
tech
stars,
alums
prospective
hires
prospective
customers
and
partners
and
for
many
founders
who
go
through
the
program.
They'll
never
have
an
opportunity
like
that
to
basically
100x
their
relevant
networks
where,
as
stefan
said,
we're
taking
applications
now
through
december
1st
and
the
program
itself
will
run
from
march
21st
through
june
16th
of
2022.
C
It's
we're
based
in
seattle,
but
it's
remote
optional.
So
you
don't
ever
have
to
show
up.
If
you
do,
we
have
great
space
here
and
we
will
run
the
program
on
a
hybrid
basis,
but
we
have
a
lot
of
experience
running
a
remote
accelerator
since
we've
done
it
quite
successfully
over
the
last
couple
years
and
in
terms
of
the
types
of
companies
we're
looking
for
well
we're
pretty
broad.
C
So
we
cast
a
pretty
wide
net
in
terms
of
the
types
of
companies
that
we're
looking
for
and
the
best
way
to
figure
out
if
you're
a
good
fit
is
to
come
and
talk
to
us.
So
you
can
see
you
can
see
the
url
where
you
can
both
start
an
application
and
request
office
hours,
I'm
pretty
widely
available
and
I'd
love
to
chat
with
you.
And
if
you,
if
you
can't
see
that
here,
just
sign
just
do
a
search
for
filecoin
text.
Ours,
accelerated,
it'll,
come
up
quickly.
The
other
way
and
next
slide.
C
Please
define
the
other
way
to
get
to
know
a
bit
about
us.
Is
we've
been
running
a
series
of
fireside
chats
and
amas
with
various
folks
in
and
around
the
file
coin
ecosystem?
Stefan,
you
and
I
did
one
not
too
long
ago
and
the
next
one
that's
coming
up
is
with
juan
bennett,
the
founder
and
ceo
of
protocol
labs,
and
he
and
I
are
going
to
chat
about
where
he
sees
interesting
opportunities
for
disruption
and
innovation
and
great
places
for
startup
companies
to
go
and
play
in
and
around
this
this
world.
C
So
I
hope
you'll
join
us.
It's
on
october,
26th
at
5
p.m.
Usa,
pacific,
there's,
a
registration
link
there,
otherwise
chase
me
down
and
we'll
make
sure
you
get
it.
But
I
would
love
to
chat
with
you
if
you're
looking
to
find
success
for
your
for
your
for
your
startup.
This
is
a
great
place
to
come.
So
thank
you
for
for
the
time,
thanks
staphon.
A
Awesome,
thank
you
so
much
isaac
and
I
know
we
have
to
wrap
it
up,
but
first
of
all
great
great
examples,
awesome
opportunities
to
apply,
and
if
you
don't
make
it
into
the
accelerated
programs,
no
worry
we
have
grants
for
you.
We
can
help
your
business.
We
have
micro
grants
five
thousand
dollars
and
open
grants
up
to
fifty
thousand
dollars.
Please
apply
on
github
for
falcon
or
ipfs,
and
then
last
but
not
least,
we
also
have
research
grants
if
you're
working
on
something
bigger,
more
long-term,
focused
marco.