Outlier Ventures has been backing Web 3 founders since 2014 and is the world’s leading Open Metaverse accelerator program, funding and helping more than 100+ Web3 startups a year! Their portfolio includes notable projects across DeFi, NFTs and blockchain infrastructure with a focus on emergent Open Metaverse use cases such as NFT-based play-to-earn games, augmented reality and more.

Founded in 2021, Non-Fungible Labs is a creative tech powerhouse developing a wide range of real-world applications for non-fungible tokens (NFTs). Our team includes some of the world’s leading blockchain investors, strategists, and web3 engineers, and we are committed to helping the world realise the full potential of NFTs through a range of practical solutions. From rethinking ownership to redefining art, we are at the forefront of the new digital landscape, and we’re only just getting started.

Ex Populus was founded by some of the most notable executives in desktop gaming, mobile gaming, VR and Esports to create a launchpad for ambitious studios to effectively proliferate their content among consumers. “Ex Populus” is latin and translates in English to “from people”. The name is intended to provide a juxtaposition and provocation to “Ex Machina” which translates in English to “from the machine”.

Altered State Machine is building a platform and open source protocol enabling game creation and training of A.I. “Agents”, owned and traded using NFTs across multiple game-verses. The protocol enables anyone to own an A.I, and the open source machine learning models that define what it learns over time. In-game AI is an exciting aspect of modern game mechanics and ASM are helping to make that industry accelerate in the right direction.

UpLink is building a decentralized telco, tokenizing connectivity. We empower people to act as service providers and incentivize them to spread The Collective Network farther, faster, and cheaper. In return, UpLinkers are rewarded with ULX tokens and support the rapidly growing IoT market, unlocking new business opportunities.

Launched in 2020, Sperax is headquartered in NYC. After envisioning a Sperax Layer 1 blockchain, the team transitioned to building the first auto-yield-bearing stablecoin: Sperax USD (USDs). In December 2021, Sperax released USDs on L2 Arbitron. Residing on-chain, USDs is backed by collateral and algorithmically by the protocol’s ability to mint $1 worth of SPA when redeeming $1 of USDs. USDs combine the scalability benefits of algorithmic stablecoins with the stability benefits of collateralized stablecoins.

mesha is a decentralized platform for investors to come together. We're building a new way for people to invest: in groups. Unlock NFTs, crypto, and more with group investing.

Koi is building a decentralized publishing protocol and web 3.0 library. The protocol and tools Koi is implementing will allow for a robust ecosystem. The Koi ecosystem will provide grants for developers to take advantage of Koi tools that allow verified data and content, and new models for content monetization. Built on Arweave.org's permaweb, Koi is censorship resistant, highly scalable with no gas fees, and permanent over all time.

Guardtime was founded with a mission to make the world's information universally reliable, without reliance on the risks of human trust. Our invention, KSI, was originally designed to support the Estonian Government in its quest for zero-trust systems i.e. systems that can provide formally verifiable mathematical proof of the correctness of operations. The cost to the global economy of managing human trust can be measured in the trillions of dollars per year. A whole range of business functions (audit, compliance, cybersecurity, inspection, certification) exist that try to narrow the uncertainty associated with trusting others. However, they fail, with rising cost. Our vision is a world where these functions no longer exist as they are cryptographically encoded into the design of applications.

Fragnova was born with the vision to enable a decentralized gaming ecosystem that allows anyone to develop and play games, interlink experiences, platforms and users. To create an environment that provides ownership rights to its users and the right tools to establish new forms of monetization, independent of closed systems, for its creators.

Boson Protocol enables a decentralized commerce ecosystem where all participants share in the value they create. We automate digital to physical redemptions with minimized arbitration, using NFTs encoded with game theory. We call this decentralized autonomous commerce. Our vision is to enable a decentralized commerce ecosystem by funding and enabling the development of a stack of specialist applications to disrupt, demonopolize and democratize commerce.

Matterless Studios is a venture-backed startup creating digital companions and toys made for the augmented reality metaverse.