
Open Web Collective is an investor, accelerator program, and supporting community for blockchain and Web 3 startups.

OWC helps founders validate, build, and de-risk companies by defining and growing key performance indicators (KPIs), developing product-market fit, and fundraising. 

During the three-month long accelerator program, our promising pre-seed and seed stage startups work with leading investors, mentors, and corporate partners. Join the Collective by applying to our next batch.

Open Web Collective

D1 Ventures is a crypto asset focused investment and advisory firm.

D1 supports the future of the crypto economy through organic market building, global market intelligence and insights, strategic advisory, and the power of memetics.

D1 Ventures

Octopus is a protocol for launching Web3.0 appchains. By decreasing the cost of bootstrapping a Web3.0 applications in form of blockchain by two orders of magnitude, from several million dollars to less than one hundred thousand dollars; providing leased security, out-of-box interoperability and everlasting forkability; facilitating generalized mining centered token economics; bonding a set of social contracts consist of fair launch, regulatory compliance token distribution and protocol participants dominant on-chain governance, Octopus Network will unleash Web3.0 gold rush.

Octopus Network

Managed by experienced VCs from the U.S. and Asia, Dragonfly Capital Partners brings together the leading participants in the decentralized economy. Our global ecosystem enables us to invest in and support the most promising opportunities in the cryptoasset class.

Dragonfly Capital Partners

Electric Capital is a crypto asset management firm. They invest in tokens that are Programmable Money. They invest in both liquid and illiquid tokens that are emerging stores of value and rooted in novel technology. Electric Capital is started by technology entrepreneurs, engineers, and successful investors. Prior to Electric Capital, they started six companies (five acquired), invested in 100+ technology startups with a cumulative market cap in the tens of billions, and served as executives at technology companies such as Facebook, Google, and Twitter. They have been investing personally in cryptocurrencies since 2013 and were early believers in Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Monero.

Electric Capital

Continue Capital excels in investments on digital currency Startups, Private Equity and HFT Funds, focus on strategic sectors including blockchain industry, innovative science and technologies.

Continue Capital

We exist to enable community-driven innovation to benefit people around the world.

We are a non-profit foundation headquartered in Switzerland that is responsible for contracting protocol maintainers, funding ecosystem development, and shepherding core governance of the NEAR protocol.

NEAR Foundation

Lyrik Ventures exists to support founders and developers launching high-potential products on top of NEAR Protocol. Lyrik Ventures is NEAR Ecosystem Native investment vehicle for early stage projects looking for financial support, mentorship, and strategic guidance in the new frontier of Web3 development.

We invest in disruptive companies building in the NEAR ecosystem or integrating NEAR in the multichain future.

Lyrik Ventures offers entrepreneurs an opportunity to get access to the necessary funding to realise their projects as well as the guidance needed in order to succeed in their endeavours. What distinguishes its approach from the mainstream VC is that Move Capital’s work focuses on the long term future of the projects, mentorship, and accessibility. Crucially, it helps new entrepreneurs to navigate the world of crypto, get embedded in the ecosystem and widening their perspectives by putting them in touch with other VCs and opportunities.

Lyrik Ventures

Common Fund, Enabling Collaborative Finance. The non-custodial crowdfunding solution that's open to anyone.

Support local causes. Help get that new skate park built or make that indie film festival happen. Common Fund helps you make things you want in your community happen.

Common Fund strives to build a global community of people passionate about making a difference. Each successful project adds to a snowball effect compounding the success of future campaigns.

Common Fund

The Human Guild is an open group of founders and creators who believe everyone should be able to earn what they need in order to do what they love.

Our mission is to increase the number of people earning cryptocurrencies every day. This helps, but our community is always with you so you are not alone.

The Internet is changing and we want more people to experience the future together without barriers and gatekeeping. Build what you think is useful for humanity.

Human Guild

Proximity Labs is the NEAR DeFi-focused research and advisory firm consisting of former members of the NEAR Foundation, Binance, Consensys, Facebook, and more. Proximity works to support the NEAR and Aurora DeFi ecosystem through grants, advisory services, as well as publishing open-source software for developers. It has advised bluechip DeFi projects such as Bastion, Aurigami, Ref Finance, Burrow, and Trisolaris, which have contributed to both NEAR and Aurora’s recent success.

Proximity Labs

Caerus Ventures is a Venture Capital Fund and Venture Lab backed by the NEAR Foundation which sits at the intersection of where creators, talent and IP owners meet capital, technology and change makers. We back and build the next generation of platforms, services and applications which feed our cultural passions and positions creators and consumers at the heart of these new enterprises.

Caerus Ventures

MetaWeb Ventures is a Global Crypto Firm with an investment focus on the NEAR ecosystem.

We have deep and extensive connections in crypto, enterprises, and academic institutions around the world. Through our network, we help our portfolio projects to find the right partners, investors, and user base.

We take deep dives into token economics, technical architecture, product design, cybersecurity, and protocol innovation. Every investment decision made by our crypto-native team is grounded in 360-degree research informed by our position at the forefront of the industry.

We provide technical, marketing, community, and partnership support for early-stage startups. We make sure that we not only pick the great projects, but also help them become the best.

MetaWeb Ventures

Press Start Capital is a pre-seed/seed stage venture fund focused on Web3 gaming, metaverse, NFTs and entertainment.

Our fund partners are experienced builders with multiple exits. We believe the best support for founders is a community of fellow builders - learning and helping one another.

As crypto eats software and gaming eats culture, now is the time to build a new Golden Age of Entertainment - where players participate in the creation and ownership of the games, stories and assets they cherish.

Press Start Capital

Following the success of our NEAR Educate series, as well as our NEAR Hackathon, Encode Club is delighted to announce the Encode x NEAR Accelerator!

It is an eight-week online accelerator taking the best hackathon and early-stage projects worldwide and helping them take the leap to become fully-fledged startups.

Encode Accelerator

We are a team of deeply analytical builders who take an exhaustive first-principles approach to problem solving and trend identification. We underwrite investments across market segments, seeking to partner with those that align to our sense of character and ideals. 

Stealth Capital

AIDONIC is an awarded social-impact fintech enterprise based in Switzerland. We built innovative digital solutions tailored to NGOs needs and fully customizable to meet the actual requirements of our clients.

AIDONIC’s goal is to help humanitarian organizations worldwide to reach more vulnerable people with increased efficiency and less costs whilst ensuring full end-to-end transparency.

Funding

Funding programs, venture capitals and ecosystem funds on NEAR and Aurora ecosystem.

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Open Web Collective

Build the Open Web, Unlock the Future.

D1 Ventures

Powering the future of open economy.

Octopus Network

A multi-chain network providing leased security and interoperability to Substrate appchains.

Dragonfly Capital Partners

Global from day one.

Electric Capital

Crypto asset management firm.

Continue Capital

Focus on blockchain industry, innovative science and technologies.

NEAR Foundation

We raise awareness, support projects, and work to provide a clear path to decentralization on NEAR.

Lyrik Ventures

Backing Early Stage NEAR Ecosystem Projects, Protocols, Startups, and dApps.

Common Fund

Enabling worldwide collaborative finance.

Human Guild

Every human to be rewarded for bringing their creations to the world.

Proximity Labs

Empowering DeFi on NEAR and Aurora.

Caerus Ventures

Web3 VC and Venture Lab Unlocking Opportunity in Culture & Entertainment.

MetaWeb Ventures

Global Crypto Firm with an investment focus on the NEAR ecosystem.

Press Start Capital

Pre-seed & seed checks for Web3 Gaming/Metaverse/Entertainment builders.

Encode Accelerator

Helping the best NEAR-based hackathon and early-stage projects become fully-fledged startups.

Stealth Capital

Technology investment fund for founders, by founders.

Aidonic

Social Fundraising and last mile aid distribution technology.