Web3 & Crypto Startups

New York, NY

Reading engagement is declining: leisure reading down 40% since 2003, only 16% read daily; teen screen time rising; reading scores at 35-year lows; workplace miscommunication with only 37% of...

Businesses struggle to deliver AI projects end-to-end (scoping, sourcing and vetting experts, ensuring security/compliance, and managing delivery).

The deck identifies the problem of lack of information integrity and trust in social networks, highlighting issues like manufactured narratives, foreign bots hijacking elections, and collapsing trust...

Africa's agricultural trade is fragmented, opaque, and inefficient: fragmented supply chains, high remittance fees (7–12%), payment delays, and sourcing challenges.

Traditional prediction markets resolve over hours or days, leading to low engagement; users desire quick, intuitive, social, real-time market participation.

Traditional prediction markets are slow and take hours or days to resolve, reducing engagement. Users desire quick, intuitive, and social ways to participate in markets that feel interactive and...

Seattle, WA

Web3 builders struggle to launch apps, websites, and tokens quickly; developer scarcity and high fraud/scam risk.

Florida

Legacy corporate systems and financial rails do not natively connect to blockchain infrastructure.

High barriers and costs to set up and operate online casinos: marketing, licensing (up to $30k per jurisdiction), and expensive software. Players must beat the house; many games are perceived as...

Pune, Maharashtra

Players lack true ownership and provenance of in-game items; monetization primarily benefits developers; fraud in item trading; payment processing issues for in-game credits.

Urbana, IL

Crypto holders lack seamless banking options to convert and use crypto as everyday fiat across global currencies.

Traditional one-sided trading requires more capital and only profits on directional moves; two-sided markets allow profiting on rises and falls but introduce leverage risk. Need a systematic approach...

Lack of interoperability between blockchains, slow/expensive consensus mechanisms, limited real-world integration and utility.

New York

California

Enterprise data and privacy vulnerable to hacks, AI-driven attacks, and emerging quantum threats; current encryption and vendor compromise leave data exposed.

Investors and token holders seek dependable yield while contributing to social impact, but existing "charity tokens" often lack reliability, transparency, and trustworthy allocation of funds.