George Kassis

Investment DAO deploying checks into early stage web3 social companies

From 2021 to 2025, Techstars Web3 backed nearly 40 startups shaping the decentralized internet and building the onchain future. What started as a dedicated accelerator is now a global community of Web3 founders, mentors, and investors - accessible to any Techstars program. The format may have evolved, but the mission endures: supporting bold Web3 founders with the network, resources, and belief to build what’s next.

Newton Venture Program provides venture capital training and development for aspiring investors, practising investors, and others in the venture space. Our mission is to level the playing field for people from typically overlooked and underestimated backgrounds, ensuring that the next generation of investors represent the world we live in. Newton Alumni span the globe with more than 500 people from all backgrounds going on to secure positions in VC firms, accelerate their careers in VC, and become disruptors of the status quo. As of the start of 2024, 46% identify as female or non-binary, and 49% identify as the global majority. Newton is a joint venture between Phoenix Court and London Business School with founding partner, HSBC Innovation Banking. With our unique blend of faculty and practitioner teaching, we are training the investors of tomorrow to back the ventures of the future.

Investment DAO deploying checks into early stage web3 social companies

Outlier Ventures was the worlds largest web3 startup accelerator. Now, we fund agentic systems directly and are building the open protocols needed to coordinate capital, work, and ownership in the era they enable. Founded in 2014, we backed the first known DeAI and DePIN investments — Fetch.ai and IOTA — years before those categories had names. Today, with 400+ portfolio companies, were building the next chapter. The Post Web Our flagship thesis argues the browser-mediated internet is disappearing — not gradually, but structurally. Read the research at outlierventures.io/postweb Conviction Markets Our latest initiative is Conviction Markets — an open, permissionless protocol for coordinating capital, work, and ownership. Interested? Sign up to the waitlist at → convictionmarkets.io

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