Poolside web3 accelerator alumni
Lympid
Lympid is a regulatory-compliant platform to issue and trade premium RWAs: Horses, Art, Luxury Watches, US Treasuries, Real Estate, and much more
Lympid successfully raised millions from top-tier investors. 1inch was among the first to recognize the company’s vision and execution potential, followed by Founder Heads, New Tribe Capital, GBV, and others, including Hercules Ventures DAO, Xtream Capital, and OIG.
Cookie3
Cookie3 is the first open MarketingFi economy shared between businesses, creators, and users.
Cookie3 has built an ecosystem where a tokenized ownership economy brings marketing into the DeFi era—where users aren’t the customers (or products, like in Web2) but co-owners, co-creators, and investors.
Context
AI-Ready, Decentralized Semantic Name Service to organize and verify real-world data in Web3 Storage
Context provides a straightforward, efficient way to store and manage data, offering user control over data sharing and privacy. This platform is built on collaborative and iterative standard development, ensuring data access is secure and transparent.
Portals.fi
Portals.fi is a yield and protocol aggregator that enables anyone to easily create and bundle complex DeFi actions into a single transaction
It's growing rapidly and currently integrated on the likes of XDEFI Wallet, Mean Finance, Yearn Finance and more. Raised a $2M seed round, led by LightShift Capital. Founded by the ex-founder of Zapper, now raising another $500K extension round with 20% committed after 1 week and includes DCG.
Blockless
Blockless Provides ZK Serverless Functions, unlocking new dApps previously impossible to run on-chain.
Technical pedigree spans IBM, AWS, PayPal, Binance, Berkeley, Wharton, CMU, and the founders have successful projects listed on the Binance and Coinbase exchanges. Previously raised $2M pre-seed, now raising a further $5M they have 50% committed after 1 month.
Souldbound
Soulbound is an on-chain Reputation Live-Ops system that leverages proof-of-play to identify superfans, filter bots and speculators, and keep the most valuable players and communities engaged.
Raised $3.6m pre-seed led by Animoca Brands in 2021. Incredibly impressive team with over 70 years gaming experience, previously raised tens of millions of dollars and exited and IPOd businesses. Currently raising a $3.5M extension round and already have a very good interest.
Aether Games
Aether Games is a transmedia development studio that creates immersive gaming and entertainment experiences for both web2 and web3 audiences.
The founder, Jens Peeters was previously the highest-rated World of Warcraft player and a celebrity Esports manager. Raised $4.5M Seed Round via Token and Equity with Polygon Ventures, GSR, MystenLabs, Illuvium, Magic Eden, and others. Opened an new equity and token round due to demand. $2.5M / $3M filled in Seed already and $2.2M / $3.2M filled Strategic already (see tokenomics)
Jean-Paul Faraj
Head of Community & Partnerships @ Unstoppable Game
Emile Dubié
Co-Founder & CEO@ XDEFI Wallet
Omar Ganhem
Co-Founder@ Polkastarter Gaming
