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Mesta is a venture-backed startup revolutionizing global FIAT and stablecoin payments through a real-time blockchain payment network, enabling businesses to move money faster and cheaper across borders.

Gensyn is a network for machine intelligence that connects core resources required for machine intelligence to flourish alongside human intelligence. It focuses on building decentralized AI applications and facilitating contributions to train and evaluate better models.

Virtuals Protocol is a society of AI agents that enables autonomous agents to generate services or products and engage in commerce with humans and other agents. The ecosystem is built around a tokenization platform and includes various components like the Agent Commerce Protocol and robotics.

Sahara is an AI and blockchain development platform that enables users to build, customize, and deploy AI agents quickly and efficiently. It combines no-code tools with powerful backend infrastructure to facilitate AI development on-chain.

Exo is building an open-source AI stack that allows users to run AI locally on their devices, enhancing privacy and control over personal data. Their platform includes a local AI assistant capable of integrating with smart devices.

OpenGradient is bringing the world's AI compute onchain for verifiability and transparency, providing a decentralized platform for user-owned AI.

Synthefy is building the world's first multi-modal GenAI platform for time series analysis, enabling businesses to extract actionable insights from their numerical data through advanced forecasting and synthesis capabilities.

The Sentient Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to ensuring that Artificial General Intelligence is open-source and never controlled by a single entity, safeguarding its alignment with humanity.

Led by founder-operator Alfred Chuang, Race Capital focuses on Web2 and Web3 infrastructure, offering CEO-to-CEO coaching and access to a team of first-check backers in Databricks, Solana, FTX, Slack, and Binance. The fund bridges traditional enterprise computing with crypto infrastructure through its deep expertise in infrastructure technologies.

Seed-stage led by former Facebook and OpenAI engineers focused on foundational infrastructure (developer platforms, AI systems), offering an intentional learning community with coding early-career engineers in hybrid technical-investing roles.