a16z Crypto Introduces CSX Fall 2024 Cohort with 21 Startups
a16z
Crypto
has
unveiled
the
21
startups
chosen
for
its
Crypto
Startup
Accelerator
(CSX)
Fall
2024
program,
which
kicks
off
this
week
in
New
York
City.
This
cohort
will
participate
in
an
intensive
eight-week
program
designed
to
provide
firsthand
lessons
from
leading
crypto
founders,
guidance
from
a16z’s
investing
and
operating
teams,
and
opportunities
to
build
connections
within
the
broader
a16z
network,
according
to
a16z
crypto.
Diverse
Global
Representation
The
selected
companies
hail
from
11
different
countries,
including
Austria,
Brazil,
Bulgaria,
Canada,
Germany,
Japan,
Poland,
Portugal,
the
United
Arab
Emirates,
the
UK,
and
the
US
(including
Puerto
Rico).
These
startups
are
working
on
a
wide
array
of
projects
across
the
crypto
stack,
including
artificial
intelligence
(AI),
decentralized
finance
(DeFi),
infrastructure,
and
consumer
applications
such
as
photo
sharing
and
mapping.
Highlighted
Startups
The
CSX
Fall
2024
cohort
includes:
-
Anera
Labs:
Building
liquidity
infrastructure
that
unites
all
onchain
liquidity. -
Banyan:
Uses
AI
to
bridge
communication
gaps
at
work
and
bring
clarity
to
the
enterprise. -
Blocksense:
Enables
creation
of
oracles
that
can
leverage
internet
data
and
CPU/GPU
computations. -
Cork
Protocol:
Risk
pricing
protocol
accelerating
onchain
credit. -
Dot:
Transforms
user-created
pixel
art
into
game
pieces
for
onchain
games. -
Fermah:
Building
a
universal
zero-knowledge
proof
generation
layer. -
Future
Primitive:
Creating
a
new
home
for
internet
photo
pals. -
Kuzco:
A
marketplace
for
LLM
inference. -
MeshMap:
Building
a
3D
map
of
the
world
and
a
network
of
AR
content. -
Opacity
Labs:
Privately
verifies
web2
data
with
zkTLS. -
OpenGradient:
Building
a
blockchain
that
aims
to
bring
the
world’s
compute
onchain. -
PIN
AI:
Building
an
open
platform
for
personal
AI
(data+agents). -
Pod:
A
new
L1
primitive
that
is
blockless,
leaderless
and
relaxes
the
notion
of
transaction
total
ordering. -
Sekai:
Makes
it
easy
to
create,
share,
and
monetize
interactive
narratives. -
Skyfire:
An
open
payment
protocol
which
enables
AI
agents
to
be
able
to
pay
for
anything. -
Suave:
Enables
DApps
to
accept
any
token
from
any
wallet
on
any
blockchain. -
t1:
Real-time
proof
generation
to
unify
Ethereum. -
TACEO:
MPC
encrypted
compute
for
Web3. -
Term
Labs:
A
DeFi
lending
platform
that
matches
borrowers
and
lenders
at
fixed
rates. -
vlayer
labs:
Trustless
verifiable
data
infrastructure
powered
by
zero-knowledge
proofs. -
zkSpin:
Building
highly-parallel
blockchain
to
run
demanding
DApps
onchain.
Future
Plans
This
is
the
second
CSX
cohort
in
2024,
following
the
Spring
program
in
London,
which
concluded
with
a
Demo
Day
in
June.
The
next
CSX
cohort
will
be
hosted
in
San
Francisco
in
Spring
2025,
with
applications
opening
in
early
January.
a16z
CSX
invests
a
minimum
of
$500,000
in
each
accepted
company,
providing
significant
financial
support
to
help
these
startups
achieve
product-market
fit.
Congratulations
to
all
the
CSX
Fall
2024
companies
as
they
embark
on
this
exciting
journey.
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source:
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