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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