Andrew Duplessie

Sortium is your AI-powered production team, just a prompt away. Tap into our dynamic AI & Web3 platform to craft professional assets in real time using natural language. Generate exceptional content, streamline tokenization, and simulate economics and behavior on the boundless Substrate infrastructure. Sortium is revolutionizing the creation process, rapidly enhancing efficiency and leveling the playing field for all. Experience the industry-standard output you deserve for all your game and virtual productions. Everyone else is wondering if it can be done. We’re already doing it. The AI & Web3 industry is defined by relentless momentum — it’s one where technology is never stagnant, that allows the most ambitious ideas to find an outlet and the tech to drive them. We thrive at that velocity, whether for our passion projects or reality-shattering collaborations across industries.

MoonPay simplifies access to buy, sell and trade crypto using everyday payment methods like cards, Apple Pay, PayPal and Venmo, while also providing simple tools to send, receive and manage stablecoins. Whether you are new to digital money or a company exploring new ways to use it, MoonPay provides the trusted infrastructure to onboard users into the blockchain-based financial ecosystem safely and seamlessly. With 30 million customers and powering the infrastructure for nearly 500 companies across the decentralized economy, MoonPay is a key driver behind mainstream crypto adoption. It is fully licensed in the U.S. and regulated in the UK, EU, Canada and Australia—and has been certified for its enterprise-grade security. MoonPay is changing payments.

Sortium is your AI-powered production team, just a prompt away. Tap into our dynamic AI & Web3 platform to craft professional assets in real time using natural language. Generate exceptional content, streamline tokenization, and simulate economics and behavior on the boundless Substrate infrastructure. Sortium is revolutionizing the creation process, rapidly enhancing efficiency and leveling the playing field for all. Experience the industry-standard output you deserve for all your game and virtual productions. Everyone else is wondering if it can be done. We’re already doing it. The AI & Web3 industry is defined by relentless momentum — it’s one where technology is never stagnant, that allows the most ambitious ideas to find an outlet and the tech to drive them. We thrive at that velocity, whether for our passion projects or reality-shattering collaborations across industries.

StartX is the startup accelerator, fellowship, and community for Stanford students, professors, and alumni. We help Stanford’s highest-potential early-stage founders build a better future. StartX is a community-run nonprofit organization, and we take 0% equity from our startups.This allows us to attract the best entrepreneurs and collaborate with others in the StartX ecosystem. We are supported through grants, donations, and corporate sponsorships, including $8M in grant funding from Stanford University, Stanford Health Care, and Kauffman Foundation. We are Industry and Stage Agnostic StartX founders tackle big problems in every industry, from biotech, medical device, hardware, cleantech, and non-profit to consumer and enterprise IT. The strength of our community speaks for itself: 2× higher chance of reaching $100M+ valuation than the best accelerators 1.7× higher seed valuation than the average Stanford startup +50% more successful at reaching Series A than industry average $8.4M average venture funding raised by StartX companies 85% StartX companies still growing + acquired over 8 years 5× proportion of venture funding raised by female-led StartX companies compared to industry average

We fund, develop and advise companies focused on solving the everyday problems of modern living. Science is a unique platform where talent, resources and financing are brought together in a bid to nurture and develop ideas, arm emerging businesses with the strategy, expertise and capital they need to grow, and to transform existing internet ventures, injecting them with new talent and innovation.

Since Science started in 2011, we’ve co-founded and invested in more than 70 companies and exited multiple companies including Dollar Shave Club (acquired by Unilever for $1B), HelloSociety (acquired by New York Times) and FameBit (acquired by Google). We have a track record for identifying legacy industries and creating platforms for innovation. We believe that blockchain is the next major platform for innovation and a foundational technology – that it has the ability to change the way both business and social structures work. For this reason, we are creating a new incubator to partner with leading entrepreneurs to build a portfolio of blockchain and cryptocurrency related businesses that are positioned for long term success. We expect many of the companies will take a long journey to success, so we will work with entrepreneurs to set up their businesses with this in mind, which means appropriate legal, technical, and operational structures and controls. Like any other business, a blockchain-related business must have solid operational underpinnings to survive and thrive, and we are perhaps the best in the world at providing this guidance to emerging businesses while reducing or eliminating the common causes of startup failure. In short, we want to use our expertise at company building to help what we anticipate will be the best blockchain entrepreneurs build the software giants of the next century. We believe our token holders should benefit from access to a stream of new tokens from our carefully incubated portfolio companies. In turn, investors should as a result, participate in any upside from ownership of the Science Tokens, as the proceeds from acquisition of portfolio companies are used to repurchase those tokens on the open market.