Strategic accelerator · Asia-Pacific

Activating the next generation of blockchain founders.

AXL takes early blockchain teams from idea to market fit in twelve weeks. Capital, a curriculum built for the stage, and a network of mentors and investors that stays after pitch day.

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12 weeks
Program length
US$50K
Investment per startup
10–12
Startups per cohort
48
Startups over three years
Circuitry standing in for shared infrastructure 01
A small engineering team working together around laptops 02
Connections traced across a globe at night 03
What founders get

Twelve weeks, built around the company.

A customised curriculum that moves a team from ideation to pitch, with the people who have already solved the hard parts.

Capital up front

A first investment at the start of the program, on terms published before you apply.

A stage-specific curriculum

Business fundamentals, product and go-to-market, taught against your company rather than a case study.

Token economics

Design supply, incentives and utility with people who have watched token models break.

Scalable infrastructure

Architecture reviews before the traffic arrives, not after the first outage.

A global mentor network

Operators, engineers and investors matched to the questions your company is actually asking.

Pitch day

The program ends in front of a room of investors, with follow-on financing on the table.

A working session in progress around a whiteboard
Curriculum Ideation through to pitch
Two engineers reviewing work at a monitor
Mentors Matched to the real problem
A founder answering questions from investors across a table
Pitch day Investors in the room
Laptop with code on a desk in a modern workspace
Builders Teams shipping on-chain products
Two people shaking hands after a meeting
Adoption Products ordinary users pick up
Focus

Built for mainstream adoption.

We back founders building the products that bring the next wave of users on-chain. Useful first, blockchain second.

The first program was run with the Algorand Foundation. Each company in it built on Algorand.

  • DeFi and on-chain capital markets Cohort 1
  • NFT liquidity and utility Cohort 1
  • Infrastructure and developer tooling Cohort 1
  • TradFi rails and real-world assets Cohort 1
  • Real-world use cases Cohort 1
  • Consumer applications Focus
The Algorand APAC Accelerator

The first program, by the numbers.

Launched with the Algorand Foundation and venture partner Borderless Capital. The first cohort started in late January 2023.

100

Applications to the first cohort

7

Startups selected

US$350K

Invested in cohort one

US$2.4M

Committed across four programs

Live market output tracked on a monitor

Seven companies, five categories

DeFi, NFT liquidity, chain exploration, loan syndication and real-world use cases, in one room.

Financial documents and a calculator on a desk

Follow-on capital

Kilde, from the first cohort, closed a US$1.12M seed round in June 2023.

Connections traced across a globe at night

Built for the region

Founders from across Asia-Pacific, with the program run out of Brisbane.

See the first cohort →

Inside a cohort

Where the twelve weeks go.

A roadmap on the wall, a build that runs late, and a room of investors at the end of it.

An open-plan office interior
01 The floor
A planning wall covered in notes
02 The roadmap
A working desk lit late in the evening
03 The build
A team in a working session around a long table
04 The cohort
Server racks running in a data centre
05 The network
Reporting figures on a laptop screen
06 The traction
A founder answering questions from investors across a table
07 The pitch

Building on-chain? Tell us what you have shipped.

The product, the users and what the next twelve weeks would change.

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