Boost VC Bitcoin Accelerator Accepting New Entries
Boost VC, which is known for funding bitcoin startups and fintech companies, is now accepting new entries for its 3-month program. Entries can be submitted through this page until the November 30 deadline for its Tribe 7 February start date. According to its About page, Boost VC is the "Before-the-Chasm" startup accelerator. The company has been around since 2012 and has been busy finding and funding passionate entrepreneurs who are using emerging technologies to build great ideas. The sectors they pay close attention to are digital reality and bitcoin technology, which they believe to....
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California-based startup accelerator Boost VC is continuing its "all-in" dive into the bitcoin space with an announcement of a new fund, Boost Bitcoin Fund 2, which promises each company in its upcoming Tribe 5 startup batch an investment of 300 BTC upon completion of the program. The fund, which was backed by Draper Associates, is one of many recent announcements to come from Boost VC. In November, the accelerator closed a $6.6m funding round led by Marc Andreessen and Ben Davenport and announced that its next cohort would feature only companies working with bitcoin and blockchain....
Boost VC, a well-known accelerator among startups and the bitcoin community recently had a demo day for its latest cohort. Boost VC gained the attention of the bitcoin community after it started focusing only on bitcoin and blockchain based startups for a couple of programs. Since then, the accelerator has distributed its focus between two emerging technologies - Bitcoin and Digital Reality. The digital reality segment includes startups and entrepreneurs who are working on augmented reality and virtual reality technologies. October 8, 2015 saw the graduation of the 6th batch of startups....
Bitcoin startup accelerator Boost VC has recently announced its new fund. Entitled "Boost Bitcoin Fund 2," the organization will award 300 BTC to every company in its upcoming "Tribe 5" batch that completes its upcoming incubator program. Boost VC states on its website: "Boost VC is the Bitcoin accelerator. We invest in 20-30 companies twice a year for three months. We provide housing and office space for each company located in the heart of Silicon Valley. We put talent, passion and drive alongside season entrepreneurs and investors to build world changing companies." The fund is a....
We had recently reported on the demo day organized by Boost VC, the blockchain and virtual reality startup accelerator. The demo day was held on the 8th of last month which saw the accelerator's sixth batch of startups graduating from the program. The last batch or tribe as Boost VC prefers to call them has 21 bitcoin and digital currency technology based startups. READ MORE: Boost VC's Tribe 6, Now out in the Wild to Make a Killing. As a line in one of the famous songs by the British rock band Queen goes... 'The show must go on'. Graduation of a batch of startups doesn't mark the end of....
The number of physical locations that accept bitcoin has rocketed, according to statistics from Coinmap.org's crowdsourced map. At the start of November, the number of entries on CoinMap stood at 552. This has nearly doubled to just over 1,000 current entries. The graph below, based on statistics collected by CoinMap contributor Rene-Lee Sylvain, shows the number of CoinMap entries from the end of October to 27th November. Graph showing entries on Coinmap.org. These statistics are based on the map's total number of entries, which is displayed publicly on the site. Sylvain said: "When I....