Paris, France, April 17th, 2024, Chainwire
Paris Blockchain Week, the leading international conference dedicated to blockchain and Web3, announced the winners of this year’s Startup Competition, dishing out an array of prizes to the 10 finalists and 4 winning Startups, for up to $10 million in the shape of funding, grants, accelerations, listings and more.
The Paris Blockchain Week Startup Competition has emerged as a cornerstone event within the blockchain industry, and one of the most prestigious and highly-coveted awards for startups, entrepreneurs, and investors alike. A direct contest that pits some of the most promising Web3 projects against one another, the goal of the competition is to shine a spotlight on groundbreaking new initiatives with enormous potential to make a positive, real-world impact.
Over 800 Startups entered the contest, among which the best 100 made it to the first shortlisting. The Top 100 gained exposure to, and feedback from, dozens of the blockchain industry’s most reputable investors.
This year’s projects had the exclusive opportunity to pitch their ideas and initiatives to more than 500 prospective investors, including venture capitalists, accelerators, angels, and DAO representatives, to secure their backing and the chance to be lavished with massive exposure, prizes, funding, and grants.
For investors, the Startup Competition provided them with an exclusive opportunity to identify and connect with talented founders and invest in high-potential Web3 projects generating a highly qualified deal flow of Startups.
The winners were chosen from a pool of more than 800 blockchain startups that entered this year’s Startup Competition:
CrossCurve – Faraj Abutalibov, co-founder
Bitstack – Alexandre Roubaud, CEO
Reveel – Adrien Stern, CEO
Zyfi – Gauthier Vila, CEO
This year’s Startup Competition saw the participation of industry leaders, investors and blockchains from across the globe, including Tim Draper, RockawayX, AWS, Consensys, CoinMarketCap, Coin Academy, iExec, Blockchain Founders Fund, Outlier Ventures, v3ntures, Foresight Ventures, Mantle, Mirana, Morningstar Ventures, NEO, Bit2Me, XRP Ledger, PitchBook, Bitpanda, CV Labs, Stellar, Canonical Crypto, BNB Chain, Node Capital, Cathay-Ledger, Taisu, Hello Labs, Killer Whales, BPI, TRGC, Leadblock, Orange DAO, Blockwall, Cointelegraph,…