BBW25 - Day 2 - Opening Remarks & Welcome

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back for day two of Boston Blockchain Week. Please join me in welcoming to stage Manuel Raldi.

Hello everyone.

Thank you so much and welcome to Boston blockchain week day two. Here today I'm here to talk about our programs. We at Cubic Labs, we thrive on innovation and everything we do is designed to build the greatest value for our ecosystem and we offer a variety of programs ranging from incubation program with which we offer local support for our companies. that are here in the greater Boston region to R&D program which was one of our most successful programs we had so far with which we have invested $650,000 in 25 companies to help them moving from prototype stage to MVP leveraging blockchain technology and we have our flagship program which is the accelerator program 12 weeks long program with which we give with support in our companies who range into preede to seed stage. There are always leveraging blockchain technology and web 3.

And we had our first inaugural cohort start which started in February with a final demo day on May 9 that we had at Fidelity in downtown Boston. It was a huge success. We had over 270 applicants from all over the world. 11 companies were selected and raised complexively more than $9 million all together. I'm thrilled to announce that we are going to have our round two of this cohort which is going to start in mid October.

And right now we are in the middle of the selection process and I want to talk a and I want to talk a little bit about how the program is structured. We try to cover all the most important aspects about the entrepreneurial journey for our founders starting from the legal support. then tokconomics, tokenization, marketing, go to market strategy, product market fit and with the second half of the program which is focused more and more on fundraising. But we try and this is a chain agnostic program with which we give to our founders exposure to all the different protocols, all the different chains who are out there. But it's also a way to give our funders exposure to all the different ways in which they can go out there and fund raise.

And in a certain way, we call it a super connector program with which our founders are exposed to seale executives from some of the world's most important blockchain and web three institutions out there. So, and I'm talking about companies like Robin Hood, Coinbase, Grand Thornon. The list is very very long. So it's difficult for me to name them all. But these founders also benefit a lot from weekly check-in sessions between all of them to continue networking, exchange introductions, exchange knowledge and the entrepreneurial life of a startup founder.

It's pretty difficult. So that's really important for them to share what they're going through. And we have also weekly check-in sessions between them and the cubic collabs team to always figure out how we can support them in the best possible way. There are other activities like weekly and bi-weekly pitch contest with which they compete against each other kind of a similar way like we saw yesterday in the awesome pitch competition that we had. And that's to give them every single time real feedback from real investors but also exposure.

And we saw multiple times the pitch competitions becoming uh data room and conversation for investment opportunities with our network of angels and VCs who are pretty active in the blockchain space and that's something that we are really really excited about and it's extremely important for our founders as well and eventually what we were able to observe it was a night and day difference compared to when they started. to when they graduated the program which is once again 12 weeks long program and the next one is going to start on October 15 and we're really we're really thrilled for that. A special thank you goes a special thank you goes to Cubic Club's co-founders Yan Kane and Joni for making all of this possible. they had the foresight and sparkle to see the possibility into creating a thriving ecosystem here centered in Quincy but which is going to benefit all the greater Boston region all Massachusetts. So really it they I I truly think that they are the champions of the startup ecosystem here in Greater Boston and it has been a huge honor for me to work with them so far.

So we're excited because so much more is yet to come. The best is yet to come. So I would like to give them a round of applause. And now another huge thank you goes to all our sponsors. Without nothing of this would have been possible once again.

So, I'd like to thank the city of Quincy, Massachusetts Technology Collaborative, XDC Foundation, Fox Rock Properties, Figment, Wolf & Company, Coinbase, Goodwin, Silicon Valley Bank, Bentley University, Digital Innovation for America, Arlington Capital, A100X, Flip Side Crypto, BDO, Dash, Terraash, and our friends at the Boston DAO Desai Boston and Boston Blockchain Association, our media partners at bit bitcoin.com, crypto.news, News Blockchain North and our partners at Cryptomandis and Gain Ventures.