Thank you. Can you hear me? I just want to check because I've got a yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's all clear. Great. Thank you. Oh, great. Yeah, thanks very much for having me. My name is Ed. I'm the head of operations at Pokestata. Pokestata is a cross-chain Web3 fundraising platform that allows project to raise
funds and distribute tokens in a decentralized way. It sounds like it's on Polkadot, it's not. We are multi-chain and we exist to help projects succeed within the Web3 space, bringing a wealth of expertise in product, marketing, legal, research, etc. So we have helped over 110 projects raise, via a token sale.
and so far raised over 50 million for those projects who have gone on to raise follow on capital as well. So we help with that. To quick background on me, I come from the more entrepreneurial side. I started in RAN and solved my own manufacturing bicycle
bicycle-like manufacturing business in Asia, which got me into entrepreneurship. I loved it. I then launched a coding grid camp in London called Le Wagon or Le Vagon, as it's pronounced in French, where I found my love for tech and helping early stage founders get off the ground. And that
that led me to work at a product studio with the founders of Skype and the original engineers of that Skype, that Skype AI voice algorithm, probably what we're talking on now, in fact. And then I got into crypto then and since
1819ish and joined Pokestart in 2021 and I continue to play that role in helping early stage founders and being there in that sort of early stage for founders and existing projects and helping projects that sort of up to sort of you know, the seed, sort of pre-seed seed
series A level as well. So that's my role and we work very closely with our partners at Poolside with an accelerator. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I welcome to join and we're glad here that you're working AI before. Like today we talk some AI questions, you know, topics that we'd love to share your ideas.
I can't. Yeah, I'll just hear every, every, you know, crypto talk nowadays. Okay, welcome. Thank you, everyone. And next one we welcome Koto Murakami from Scal Adventures in Japan. So welcome Koto Hajime Masute. Hi, how's your way of watching this?
So thank you for having me tonight. I'm Kodam Rakhami from Skyland Adventures. I'm Principal here. And about this Skyland Adventures, we have been doing venture capital for more than 10 years in Japan in Tokyo. And we are now managing 4F1 and 1-3 is focused
We invested in AI, SARS, Robotics, Anime Company like everything. And last year we were with the fourth fund which is only for focusing on crypto. And about the 1-2-3 fund we have more than 120 portfolios.
We have four IPOs in last three years. So we have a very strong background from Web2Sign and Traction. And the about the fourth fund, we raised a 5-2 fund, which is around 40 ml. And we started to invest in not only Japan, but also into international.
project and we have already deployed more than 20 companies in Web3 market investment and we also participated in you know last BNB chain incubation program and also we invested in the one project from there as well so thank you very much for having me today thank you thank you as God eventually I have support a lot
which would be a change especially like in other like Japan road shows as well as our incubator program so thank you for all the time support and last but not least, Andrew, hope glad to see you finally online. Yeah, Andrew from Indici Ventures, give a brief introduction of self-hide. Yeah, sure, thanks for having me.
So on GC Ventures, we are a crypto-native fund established in 2018. We have been active in the space since then, and we are also one of the earliest funds that deploy as a professional institutions in the space. The past projects we have invested mainly,
in layer one and also some protocols, again find metaverse and also social find. I'm very glad to have a chance and a quick background about me. I joined the firm around the same time when they established as the first batch of employee and then I won off the general partners now
focusing mostly on applications, infra and sometimes doing advisory to more gain related startups. Cool, cool, cool. So thank you all for all this because here today you know for participating in space as well as supporting the image
Before the incubator, we have the bootcamp, like targeting the solvety developer learners. Second, phase hackathon, which we just finished the submission period is now in the reviewing and we will have the final date for hacka-sons. The hackathon is facing people who know who want to create
new projects using our partners tools, building on B&B chains, and we have seven tracks, we have around like 300k prizes thanks to all of partners and supporters, and now we have the incubators which focus at more mature, not that mature, but we want something that you at least you did not just an idea but you have that
have a copy started your project already and you want to take your project to the next level and you want to grow with Bimitranco system as well as partners. You want to get some Foundings, Mentorships and as well as courses in your support like social matches with this industry so we would try, we would
to help you. So this is the background information of the incubator. So today we have our partners here. And the first question that I want to ask you is like, why do you choose support? What kind of roles are you going to play in this incubator? Maybe just follow the
regional sequence starting from the CSR, a GSR. Yes, sure. So we, I mean, mock making and liquidity providers within the crypto space is very unique proposition. It's our job to be layer one agnostic and work with the ecosystems and communities. BMW each chain has
happens to be one of those that we've seen it since its inception back when it used to be called BSC. And the best place to start on the education and the road and the journey to education is via the incubators. It's where you have the biggest effect on the projects to teach them what is the right way of approaching the market. And the reason why is for a lot of
projects, your journey will split into two forms. One will be the underlying product and the ecosystem development that you do, but the other will be the capital market's portion because most projects right now within crypto, you focus on doing a token and if you do, you are subject to the women's and fantasies of the capital markets. So with that in mind, on a global basis, because we do have a global team,
We work across incubators, teaching best practices, and offering our assistance and guidance within the market making space. Got it. Thank you. What about you at work? As a whole, we've focused on support early stage funders and projects.
not such early stage but a lot of stages but primarily in the spam market at this time we've been working with our partner poolside with early stage partners. So yeah we support the B&B chain zero tier incubator because it aligns with our mission to foster innovation and growth in this industry. The zero
to integrate itself, it offers a comprehensive program that provides resources, mentorship, networking, all of that, all these opportunities to entrepreneurs and developers, innovators, everything. Everyone looking to build their crypto startups, and that's what we love, right? That's why we exist.
from a personal level as well. It's what I love. It's what I've been doing for the last few years of my life. And Paul Siden and Pokestorre work alongside each other now, bringing these projects to life. But by supporting the incubator, we aim to contribute even further to the development
development of this ecosystem that we're all in by nurturing the talent, empowering them to succeed. And additionally, the incubators focus is on prominent venture partners as well. And that resonates with our commitment to drive adoption.
of decentralized solutions and try and grow this space as much as we can in a great way. So yeah, thanks to initiatives like Zero to Hero, it's all helping for the greater good of our space. Thank you, thank you. Yes, and for people who are really interested in incubator, so actually our application period covers from April 17th to
May 28, which means we still got one week to apply for it if you've got an amazing project or if you've got good and weepies that you want to flourish when they build the image ecosystem. So you just need to find the application link. You can find it in the image chain like Twitter profile page.
You can just type in VM2.0 in the Google Chrome and you can find our landing page. Or I think Twitter will later share the link and share the tweet. Alongside with this space, then you'll find the application link there and just type in your project information, the Pitcher project.
or we'll already review this applications on a rolling basis and schedule with an interview if we think like a project is a feat for this incubator. Okay, so maybe we'll continue with Codel. What's your, like, why do you choose this support list and what kind of role will Scala Venture play in this incubator?
So we as we see always we have seed focus on seed focus BC so we are always good to support entrepreneurs who is focusing on and like doing a lot of hard work to zero to one business and also last time I participated to
BNB Incubation Program in Europe. I've been traveling 8 cities in Europe with BNB Chain, BNB Team, more than one month. And I met around 50 projects in every city. You know, in the total, I met 50 startups in 8 cities.
And we have been working closely and I saw how B&B chain teams both the startups and I found you know, there's programs, problems, solving skills and with addition to the web serviceness in terms of BD and market analysis and engineers were very high and
they were making great progress with the startup project which they participated in. So it was very easy decision for us to join this program again. Thank you. Thank you, Carl. Yeah, that's something I think it will be changed willing to do for the ecosystem projects that we always
provide all the support we want. We can like like marketing like the BD like like tokenomics design like all the kind of anniversary support. Yeah so in V, yeah it's your turn. Yeah sure. So as a fondant like supporting this incubator is definitely fitting to our strategy and our investment ceases.
especially because our phone we focus on C-stage projects and it's very good for us to approach to projects when they are still in incubation space especially when we work with like formal incubator like you guys so it's a very good chance for
us. And another reason is also related to how the team has operated and the correction that BNB Chin has achieved right now. When we talked to many projects before to even choose a chain, BNB Chin is definitely the main concept
When they want to expand communities and exchange support. So we recognize that very early on. And it's also a very good chance for us to have in-depth cooperation through their first launch. And as of Role, or
We as a phone and also me personally we expect to provide hand on advisory especially on advisory and fundraising part and for me I also hope to be like a key context for projects wanting to raise from industry ventures. Thank you thank you thank you for the introduction and as well as
you're like incentives to join this incubator. So I think the people that listen to us here, maybe the most interesting topic is like what kind of projects are you looking for, right? If we pitch, if I apply for this incubator, if I were trying to pitch my project to you, what kind of projects are you expecting to see? And why? Yeah.
I think like any good business, right? The other day we have to understand that what we are doing is building a business within the Web 3 space and the concept of building this business has been around since the beginning of time. Functionally speaking, when we talk to projects, I think a lot of people say good teams and the
I like, but I think an understanding of business is very important. I know it sounds really corny, but the concept of what is a revenue model? How are you going to make money in this business? Something that I tend to look up for as well, and we talk to a lot of teams on a weekly basis. I tend to look up for teams that have an idea of how to properly circle around the needs
and target market that they're focused on. I think it's very easy for a game to go out there and say, "Oh, I'm building a game and I have 1.5 billion gamers in the world." But my more direct question to you is how many of those people play the type of game you're trying to create? How many of those people understand the nature of the market that you're going to enter? And I think that's something that a lot#
for pushing out their project thinking it's the next coming of the wheel. A lot of focus has to be on the few things, right? With regards to your build up, are you actually creating a need versus a want, whether you fit within that scheme? And based on top of that, will your product actually have that scalability effect? It's really good to say
that my project I expected to scale, for instance, Dexas like to do it all the time. Dexas like to say, because of what volumes are like in sexes, we're going to port some of that volume over. It doesn't work like that. And there's a reason why. And to understand that it's to do a deep dive into why something like a Dex relative to a sex doesn't get that type of traction. So in#
projects and the projects we hope to talk to are those that have an understanding of the sector they're entering into it could be because they have prior experience but also an understanding of how they expect the sector to evolve and develop so that tends to be how we look at this. Got it. The real workable business model yeah that's not thinking yes quite lightning because nowadays we've always talked about like which track
they're looking for like the K like what's kind of things yeah but maybe it's not that related to the track but more related to like you have a real like business model that can work that can like like really in a sustainable models yeah that's something also being changed looking for we're trying to find something that can you know last not something that just pop out and disappear
Yes, so thank you. Thank you, say, Jay and at work. Are you looking for some AI projects here? Let me just say, I first of all, I totally agree with what CG said, like going back to the basics. It's so important. Like you said, business has been around since the
don't have time right so sticking to that important structure is yeah it's important but what kinds of projects you asked yeah what kind of projects are expected to see personally and as a business we like to see a diverse range of projects okay so giving
giving the ability to support and help various sectors is great because it's all a learning experience for everyone. The projects themselves but also that network supporting them. I believe a mix of projects with different focuses and use cases will contribute to the overall growth and development of our like greater
ecosystem. So with that said, but personally and from what we're seeing, I'm particularly excited about infrastructure and scalability solutions because we had a really crazy last few years where technology moved quite quickly within Web3. We need this infrastructure
and scalability structure to help us push that innovation into a more organized and user friendly environment. DeFi became a little bit messy, but it's super exciting actually to see. A lot of these projects coming through now, where the prime focus is allowing early stage adoption
and making life just a lot easier for that first time Web3 Builder. And for me, that's great to see because that's how we grow, right? And just to give you an example, one of the projects that we've invested in and we're working with came through the B&B chain incubator. It was, you know, they were amongst a group of really
amazing projects but we managed to take a lot of the boxes to support them and they're actually participating right now in the Zero to Hero Hackathon and it's a project called Blocklist.network and what they're doing is incredible. They're building this incredible suite of tools and this amazing platform for
early stage users to come get on board and actually plug and play like Lego blocks come and build in Web 3 right so their target market directly targeting, sorry their target audience, so basically Web 3 to Web 3 that cross over there and watching it unfold as a
amazing. I'm from loving it. So that's what at the moment what I'm loving to see is the infrastructure and scalability solutions. We cannot be successful. We cannot unbought the real users, the massive users from the real world. I totally agree with that.
How do you think about that? - I think most of every project is welcome. I think VNV title is also thinking like this. But as we see the statistical indicators for VNV chain,
like TV air and also like active numbers of wallet for the gaming. I would say DeFi and gaming is I'm very exciting to see these projects and be in a way chain ecosystem and also even if but like if you know take you
example for the game pie, like there's a lot of new gaming is very unique and like gamification is very new to play but like some of them are very using the same token of mix or like imitating another project. So I would say even if it is a completely new model that
is unlikely to be realized, but if it is, it will change the industry. We are, you know, as a VC, we are happy to, you know, take risks together and make it happen. So we are looking for the project like that. Yeah, yeah. Maybe one more question for you because you come from a Japanese, we see it and you know, like Japan is very famous for it. You know, we have
So many amazing games, like recently the Zelda, which are almost like a little world or a crazy thing. So when we talk about this games, like in the game 5 projects, how do you compare this to me? Like from your perspective, as a Japanese local, we see like, because like blockchain games can never be that, you know.
How can it be that like zero that right it's not like a free game of for a game So so when compessing this web to application is already very much true and was a web free application is still at a very early stage Like how do you compare this to like in terms of game like we talk about game fire right How can you can create some games that people I think it's also some game game can fight developers and stuff online
I think about that so when I make a game how can I like attract users or like how to attract the game players I'll tell that right which already like get accustomed to this quality of games So it's quite a good question. So I think everybody knows Nintendo and I'm like Mario or like you know
This is kind of a Wii Sports or something. For example, in a football, everybody is sports like... I forgot the name, but there's a lot of people playing FIFA or something. So even if there's no money or even if they are paying for these games.
I think the huge difference is like most of the customers for the game fire project is they are not playing for games so they are playing for earning money so this is a completely different approach to the 2C market
I forgot to say that I think it was one or two years ago there was a huge surge of stepping which is played on the walk to the game. The huge difference between stepping and other projects is that I'm
I'm working every day and of course it's not difficult to you know prank this game so everybody participated in into the gaming so like my friend he's not familiar with the crypto but like he jumped into the
stepping from the game fire for brain. So the key perspective is that how much these projects can get the users from Web2 side. So I think my narrative is like using, you know, other
It's always good to use this narty bus for. Yeah, sorry, and you're for entropy and this question. So you can introduce like what kind of projects are you expecting to see in the simulator? Yeah, so for
categories wise we don't have like limitations it's just that in the past few months we have focused more on infrastructure and for social buy and D5 it's more of a case by case basis but that being said for zero to hearing debater specifically
I would hope to see projects that can attract users and encourage money, the positive behaviors, mainly because we see a lot of past use cases and geography exposure of BNB chin. So we think that projects
that are specifically good at attracting users and getting fractions can also benefit from that. Got it, got it, thank you. Yeah. So I want to speak us now, I'll have already talked about like what kind of projects are expecting. And today's topic is like how to pitch your project. So as we'll
On one hand, it's about the project itself, it's quality, it's all its products. But another thing that's important for me is Peach Rep, because I think investors now look at many projects at what per day. And so it's very important how founder describe and peach their project to make a first like good impression. So I want to ask the first question, and I want to ask is like, when you
interview, we're going to meet a new project. What are the questions that you usually want to ask for these founders? Maybe some general questions, some special questions. The last time I asked the same question in the last time space, I think this Alex from the Shura Capital told me like he will ask like, what kind of meme voice have you invested? Like
to the founders and to examine their personalities or something like that. So I'm trying to get to know what kind of questions you were asking the founders. Maybe some spectral questions that you think are already, other investors won't ask usual. So maybe CG? Yeah, sure. I mean, I go back to basics, right?
I like to know what he was doing before he founded the project and more importantly based on that I like to know what's the inspiration right if a founder for instance used to do something in let's say digital arts based and they come up with an NFTs tooling solution and because of that that was their inspiration it looks like
natural progression. But if somebody before, for instance, was an engineer, but tomorrow wants to create the world's best game. I mean, why it can be done. I think there also has to be that being sensible and know-how. And so, asking what's their inspiration probably is a key one for me, because you get a better understanding of what they're really in it for.
And when you ask a question like that, not only do you see the answer that they give, you see it the energy that they give it with. And this tells you the passion that they have. So it's very, very important to know. Most of the best founders have come across have actually been founders who have met in person. I'm based in Singapore and a lot of founders pass through Singapore for different events.
we get to catch up and you can really feel those who really believe that they're going to make a difference. And the most important reason why that comes to the fore is it shows to a very large extent an indicator of the tenacity that the founder will have. And that's going to be crucial going forward for the project. God, yeah, the path like, well, why he came to this place and how they
come to the point today. Yeah, cool. And at work, a question you were asked. Yeah, yeah, again, totally agree, you know, to passion, energy, what you've just mentioned that it's super key and you feel that natural, that natural determination to go out there. But back to the main question,
But for me, obviously you have the run of the mill questions like go-to-market, team expertise, etc. But the special, you know, the specialists talk about like the special questions that you ask, like separate to the norm. But these, yeah, the special questions are dynamic and specific to each of the projects.
So it's hard to give exact examples here, but what we're trying to find out is whether the founders are smart, honest people, experts in their area, again, who are passionate, right? And they're passionate about solving the problem that they've set out to.
that you see yourself working with in the next five or ten years. The problem solving, I'm a big believer in that problem really has to hurt, there needs to be a proper pain and that solution that's being built around that pain, you see that that come through in the passion of the founders and
Also, what did they do before? Exactly what CG said before. You see their progression, is it a natural progression in their career? Is that a building block? Is their previous experience a building block to this? So, yeah, I mean my key takeaways and the special questions are, can you see yourself working with them in five to 10 years and they smile
But they honest and are they actually solving the problem? Got it, got it. Yeah, I felt like many investors actually the focus on the personality, even rather than the, it's not just the project itself, but the personality of founders. Yeah, it matters a lot, especially in the long run. And Koto?
So, first of all, the basic idea of how I make a decision is that making decisions during the interview is probably this is very similar to most of Web3BC, but I do
Curricative and quantitative decisions. I mean, quantitative decisions are basic numerical indicators such as on DAUs or MAUs as well as on code review which will be very helpful for making the decision. This is actually the big part of
what we do but on the other hand, qualitative analysis, this is for founders and I have a key indicator for this in my mind. This is like I can work for this person for five years under any circumstances or like do I want to continue to support them
This is very similar to Edward mentioned but yeah, so to understand this one I'm gonna ask many questions about the founders upbringing and background so what is your hobby even if you know there's same hobbies it's gonna be our
good to working with them for a long time period or longer time period. So this is a basic interview question and I don't have any special questions but like if funders like this she I would drag to go to social restaurant with funders.
I'm glad that the first ad word and code I mentioned about the long term is about whether you can walk as a person for 5 or 10 years because crypto is still a very young industry. If you're in this industry for 1 or 5 years you already know G here, right? We cannot be just looking at maybe 3 years or 5 years, we're trying to look for more to bring this if we want to
like, really unbored the next like, when billing uses, we need to be a long term, a long industry industry. And that's also something some people like the founders applicants, maybe change the incubators looking for, we're trying to find long terminus not just people who want to maybe grab some money in this industry for a few months or like, or something that it's not maybe
last one year, that's not something we're looking for. But if you believe you're in the long term, you can try to apply for incubator. I just saw like we have shared the tweets as well the application link in their space if you can see it. So if you can click on the Serenity, you can find our RecapLiquation link there and type in your project information.
Cool. And Andrew, kind of questions. Will you ask for the founders of the project? Actually, for me, I will also focus more on the founders' personal background. I think not like the previous week we said. I think smart smartness, determination are all very
important. But I will also ask them questions that can reflect what are they have self-awareness or not. Because what I realized for a lot of good founders is that they know what they are like, especially at the start, not every team
is perfect and not every ideas are perfect. But the awareness of what kind of resources or what kind of people they need are quite crucial. And that also reflects their humbleness when investors or advisors work with them. So I'm
On top of that, as a phone, we also like to clarify the problems that they want to solve. It sounds simple, but actually for a lot of projects, they can't give it like identify clearly what problems they want to solve. And then we also focus a lot on
go to market strategy, it's clear for us to for how they can make traction before the day burn rate goes off. I think it echoes with what just say to just say like you need to find your niche in marketing and what find the need is and how to you know meet this demand not just
screen, something like you think is good, what is the market thing is, it's good. Cool. And let's move on to the next part about the, I think about some like investment market style now, because nowadays I think like, here here actually we when we start the book camp, we have three languages, like English, Chinese and
out of US market or something like that. So I want to ask, and also before we have the event in Hong Kong or in many other Asian European cities, so how do you view the rise of this maybe? US was the most western narratives like on the projects in the current environment. Have you observed any
changes and it's the investment science with it, like especially after the FTX, like incident after all, there's some dumping like happens in the traditional US market. Yeah, that's what I guess I'll go first. It's interesting that you bring up, I don't think it's really regulatory driven. I think what
What we observed in 2020 and 2021 was the function of the laying of the foundations behind crypto. And the last part of the foundations was your layer one blockchains and the infrastructure layer. And we can't argue with it, right? A lot of the best infrastructural products did come out of the web. However, the Asia and the
of the world, well, we've never been lacking when it comes to the concept of developer teams. If you think about fintech and just general application developments, I mean, remove yourself from crypto's, they're ones talking about the Apple shop, for instance, there are so many teams which are based producing apps within the Asia region. I think now what's
So, because of that, what we observe is a lot more builders have started saying, okay, what are the actual use cases? I built the blockchain, that's great. Now, what is the actual use case?
case I can build on top of it. The funniest thing then is come where do you find these users? Well if you think about the nature of the person who would look in this space, the profile you're looking at is somebody who uses their phone a lot, it's someone who has many needs and wants, so a lot of time it tends to be developing countries and it's one where telcos and phone
are very wide ranging and it's fragmented markets at the same time. You see a lot of that in Asia. We've seen it in the last one year, we saw the rise of Korea, it became very big after KWW and I think this year there is a very large narrative for Japan. So I think based on these sorts of logics, we are seeing that natural shift where a lot of people are now saying
All right, cool. You're growing up now. Now it's time to prove what you can do. How are you going to get users and how are users going to use what you built? So that's what we're seeing quite a bit of. Mm-hmm. Great. How are you? Yeah, super interesting. You know, I work a lot with the researchers and analysts, research analysts that we've got
There is a Singapore and Deepak here in Portugal and we also have our founders as well out on the ground. We took a lot with VCs, a lot with angels, so we have quite an extensive network. But from what we're seeing, increasingly more, the answer is yes.
have we observed any significant changes in investment style? A little bit yes, we're seeing that more on Twitter, more in the press, about it in the US, losing its edge here, mainly from US people I think. But I have not thought about that this deeply at this point, but the US could change its stance here quite fast.
and the timeframe, the timeframe is too short, I think for VCs to be changing their investment style right now, in my opinion, and from what I can work out. But, you know, I haven't seen, I haven't seen investment style changes like right now as a result of this directly. In fact, I have a meeting tomorrow with a big VC to try and understand a bit more
But I do think, and this is again regurgitated information from Deris out in Singapore, he's out on the ground there, but I do think the next wave of the next wave is driven by Daps, like Daps instead of infrastructures, that's what is coming from Deris.
And projects from from the West the good but sort of building from how can I say sort of building from zero to one? Well those from the east are sort of building from one to a hundred in terms of improving like net profit margins operations and bringing traffic etc. But you know all of that aside, it's just I think it's just how
business works in the East, if a business model is proven to be economically viable, competitors would try to replicate it and make it better by improving its margins, like through economies of scale or something. And the harsh feedback looping environment is great for adapt, I guess.
Yes, that's his point. It's great for a doctor's sake to continuously improve itself, just stay competitive and prevent. Yeah, I think there's no very clear line between the Eastern West, but I agree with what you said about it there to one and one to 100 days.
try, especially in the states, they're looking for applications. Maybe people from the areas can build this better because of the developer resources as well as the focus details to the user experience thing. And Koto, maybe people want to understand more about
How is Japanese crypto market that was running? For the beginning with, we have executed very little investment in the US. Compared to other speakers, we have completed different generations.
the Japanese crypto market. We are working closely with the Regulatory Institute in Japan. As a VC fund, it's a way to invest in and token. If VC fund is registered in Japan,
Japan, so like some will be making brunch in Singapore and some will be making a brunch in Dubai or other countries. But as the primary minister said, they want to bring a lot of international crypto start-up into Japan and
now the taxation is 55% crypto. So it's very high and it's almost difficult to do any business in Japan. Government want to dive into WebStrees, so like the taxation and the regulatory laws are going to be changed.
as we see Hong Kong's regulatory reform and also the excitement of last month's event in Hong Kong. I think next big wave is coming from Hong Kong or like more like Asia side.
Yeah, I also agree that it's less about like which geography driven is more of a sector sector or narrative driven I feel and for us we definitely have more
from focusing on in-for only to more acceptable to defy or social fight in the last month, I think. And I think the main reason is also because we have seen lower or more reasonable evaluation in January.
from those sectors. And for the app and layer, it just happens that for Chinese teams, there are a lot of them that have proven they have the ability to acquire lots of users and community members in a short period of time. And especially we have same similar
trends in South Asia before? Yeah, I just question because I want to encourage all people from all over the world to apply for the incubator. So no matter which way background is, no matter if you have any big business supporting you before, but if you have a good project, I don't have to have like a no-how
to acquire in the users. So we, or the like the partners like we welcome you to join this incubator. So I think we have too much time left. Some last question about like I think since people care about it is like I've introduced like a partners in our incubator with provide mentorship, we provide like advice, use support as well as like some we also
have up to 50k prizes for the winners of the incubator, per winners, as well as being between support. So I want to know, if you luckily find some good projects in the incubator and you give some investments, what kind of other support, post investment support will you provide to the projects?
view this item vast. CG. This is where we give the big sell, isn't it? At the end of the day, where GSR sits within the ecosystem is very unique. The phrase we like to use and the approach we like to do is that we would assist projects with regards to the capital markets portion of what they're going to do.
And the reason why for a project when you do your project and you've been your TGE, where your journey is just beginning, too many founders I find do their TGE and they spend the next one year price-watching rather than focusing on growing and evolving. What we do is we are going to run, we teach them about how capital markets tend to trade.
guide them along the journey in terms of what kind of exchanges are out there, how should they consider these exchanges, we will also help them not only from a market making perspective, but also when they need help with OTC, with regards to their treasuries, their early investors. At the end of the day, what we are trying to do is help create their markets in a more rational fashion, something which doesn't always exist and it is something that is very
you need to crypto. Besides this, our network and the fact that we are global firm, GSI is about 250 people across the globe, with officers in all regions. What this means is we're exposed to a lot of the other VCs as well as participants almost on a supply chain vertical within the market. We make introductions that will help projects on that basis.
So if anything, for us, it only begins from the incubator stage. Most of the work that GSR gets involved with is actually post-go-life. >> Got it. Yeah, that's the best question. Very super-fast for you. So, outward. >> Yeah, cool. So, yeah, so, Pokestata, let's
So during the incubator we assist with workshops. I know our co-founder Miguel has delivered to the few as well. So we like to be hands-on during as well and reach out as well to me and stuff if there's more we can do as well.
Let's say post incubation perspective. We've got our pool site accelerator, which is like the next stepping stone and we also have the I have a focus start, which is our launch pad, right? So we have full team of analysts and researchers. They help you set up tokenomics as well. All the setup for your idea and TGE.
should you wish to raise a virus token cell? It can get messy. We've done over 110 of them, so keeping it concise and having a professional team that's done this a lot of times to help you avoid mistakes is like a key number one. And then once launched, we've got no
that works to BC's retail investors as well and also users as well. New product launches, we can push the word, we've got a big following on Twitter, 600,000 I think and a lot on Telegram so getting new products out there and getting users on board to get real push new products is key.
So we can help with all of that and separate a bit to the side as a little digress here but again going back to Blockless Network that came through B&B what we're actually doing for them is supporting them on a super hands-on
So we are running, we're working with them as their marketing team, we're working with them as their BD team, we're working with them, you know, helping support on some design elements and things like that when it comes to BD. So we are really hands on, I chat with the team and our whole team chats with the team basically on a daily basis.
if not every other day basis. So yeah, we try and provide as much support as we can to the projects we work with that come through and we really really love it. So we'll see the full the fruits of our labour, let's say coming out in a lot of the projects
projects as these months roll on and things start to pick up a bit. But yeah, just to give you an idea, it's really hands on after the program, if we take on the projects. Got it, buddy. Yeah, I can hear everything like keys. It's for all-around things. And Koro, what's your usually doing the program at
after the incubation. So we're going to do on-goating mentorship and strategy advice. We're going to continue to offer mentorship and provide strategic guidance as you know as your business grow and evolves and additional fundraising around as your company grows. We're
to potentially participate in for all funding round to support your extension and also we're going to make exit strategy planning for token, for example tokenomics or like you know as IEO like IEOS strategies and operational support so we're going to provide
We provide support with hiring sales and marketing and other operational aspects of your business. Our unique point is that we are managing our engineering community. So there are a lot of engineers who are very
and get a high engaged engineers community. So like if you want to use an engineer community, it's good for your business because like a lot of infrastructure projects or their business, I call it like B2E, but like
For example, layer one, layer two projects, they need engineers to make adapts on the infrastructure. So that's why we are making our engineering communities support that. And also we're going to provide the design support. So we have in-house creative team which are helping designing and video editing.
This is much helpful for you in taking out the issue from our audience in the SNS. And also we're going to provide a Japanese market support, of course like we are based in Japan. And also we provide a connection into web
big tech in the web too because we have in the web to market more than 10 years in our network and our LPs are mostly coming from the web to big tech. So it's very easy for us to support for our companies with these web to hire the companies as well.
Yeah, I think for us for NPC ventures, although we don't have a specific incubator or advisory arm for me and other partners, a lot of our partners are
seasonal entrepreneurs and/or seasonal advisors in the WAV3. So it's something that we are very open for more hands-on guidance if that is what the team needs especially for me is some narrative building and part of positioning and also business.
development and for our post investment management especially because our fund has invested a lot of layer one which now has become a very big ecosystem themselves like it
If it's a like question info that they want to build that besides our BNB change, it's something we can improve. Or we also have connections on the community sites, especially in Great Asia, which is also something we can facilitate.
Also for fundraising like the funds that we have going with or that funds we have like exchange deals with we are very happy to to make the connection. Yeah. Okay.
Everybody I know it's the first you're hearing from me today, but our host Hazel the amazing Hazel has just lost connection so we are out of question so it was good timing for Hazel so no worries We have come to the end of the space today, so I just want to remind everybody that the application deadline
for the incubator is going to be the 28th of this month. That's six days from now. If you click on the tweet that we've linked here in the space, you will be directed to the application. So we encourage everyone to apply. I want to give a special thanks to all the speakers who took time out of their day today to give
advice, explain what they do and the kind of support that they can give to your project. So I think again to everybody, we are going to end the space now and make sure to get those applications in and we'll see you next time, all right. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.