Introducing Cohort S24! These 17 startups have been hard at work building over the past three months, and we’re thrilled to now be able to introduce you to them as part of Beacon’s largest-ever cohort. Read on to meet Cohort 24:
- Aligned: Aligned is a decentralized network verifying zero-knowledge proofs and posting them to Ethereum. Aligned is founded by Federico Carrone, Roberto Jose Catalan, Diego Kingston, and Mauro Toscano.
- Avantis: Avantis, founded by Sehaj Singh, allows you to trade crypto, forex, and commodities with 100x leverage.
- Coda: Coda is helping L1s/L2s unlock markets for any tokenized assets, ranging from NFTs to RWAs to GPU compute. Coda is founded by Kelvin and Davy.
- Compute Labs: Compute Labs is tokenizing compute power to give investors access to AI assets. Compute Labs is founded by Nikolay Filichkin and Albert Z.
- Crynux: Crynux is building an orchestration protocol on the Edge, merging decentralized AI and blockchain. Founded by Aaron Yu.
- eOracle: Founded by Matan Si, eOracle is extending Ethereum’s Proof of Stake to connect smart contracts with real-world data.
- exo: exo is Empowering users to run AI clusters at home using everyday devices. Founded by Alex Cheema and Mohamed Baioumy.
- EZKL: EZKL is verifiable AI and analytics made easy for developers. EZKL is founded by Jason Morton and Dante Camuto.
- Lorenzo: Founded by Matt Ye, Lorenzo is building the Bitcoin Liquidity Finance Layer for DeFi, Layer 2s, and trading platforms.
- Nubit: Nubit is bridging Web2 and Web3 with Bitcoin's power, offering the best one-stop ecosystem solution for consumer applications. Nubit is founded by Yu Feng, Hanzhi Liu, and Hongbo Wen.
- NodeKit: NodeKit is building Javelin, the first Superbuilder to unify all of web3. NodeKit is founded by Noah Pravecek, Nick Preszler, and Ricardo Tavarez.
- Othentic: Founded by Yarden Shechtertr, Othentic is enabling distributed computation services by providing a self-deploy infrastructure to spin up systems.
- PADO: PADO is unlocking internet data for web3 through a decentralized zkAttestation and Computation Network. PADO is founded by Vicky Zhang, Xiang Xie, and Tate Qi.
- Pin AI: Pin AI is building the open platform for Personal AI, focused on privacy and data ownership. Pin AI is founded by Davide Crapis, Bill Sun, and Ben Wu.
- StakeStone: StakeStone is revolutionizing staking with their omni-chain Liquid Staking Token protocol for Layer 2s. StakeStone is founded by Charles K.
- TAC: Founded by Pavel; Altukhov, TAC is bringing EVM-based apps to the TON network for Telegram’s massive user base.
- Warlock: Warlock is disrupting the MEV landscape. Founded by Alcibiades and Grug Capital.
Congratulations to all the S24 companies! It’s been incredible watching these startups scale over the past three months.
