Boost VC's Tribe 6, Now out in the Wild to Make a Killing
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....
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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....
California startup incubator Boost VC took a markedly different approach to its latest batch of early-stage companies, known in its own internal parlance as Tribe 6. While Boost VC's Tribe 5 was dominated by bitcoin and blockchain startups - accounting for 90% of the 25 assembled companies, Tribe 6 was primarily focused on another emerging technology, virtual reality (VR). But with their latest batch, CEO Adam Draper and co-founder Brayton Williams didn't abandon their long-standing commitment to bitcoin, so much as take a step back. Tribe 6 still featured five blockchain startups, all of....
Boost VC, the San Mateo-based startup incubator led by CEO Adam Draper, announced 'Tribe 7' yesterday, its latest group of 20 early-stage startups. With its latest batch, Boost's portfolio currently stands at 138 companies – 55 working on blockchain products and 34 on virtual reality. The incubator now claims to be the most active investor in both of those sectors, adding that a total of over $125m that has been raised by its startups to date. Notably, while Tribe 5 was dominated by bitcoin and blockchain startups – accounting for 90% of the 25 firms – last year's Tribe 6 and now Tribe 7....
Following an April hack attack that affected many Tribe users, the Tribe DAO community has proposed compensation. The tribe is a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) that controls three projects in the ecosystem. The tribe was launched in 2021 when Fei protocol acquired Rari Capital. The Tribe ecosystem runs a protocol known as the Turbo liquidity […]
It's the final day of Tribe 4's tenure in Boost VC's startup accelerator, and things have been busier than ever. The accelerator, perhaps most famous for its CEO Adam Draper's promise to fund 100 bitcoin startups by the end of 2017, has been housing 16 bitcoin startups in its San Mateo, California, headquarters since the beginning of July. The group, colloquially referred to as Tribe 4, has been gearing up for the startup world's equivalent of a graduation ceremony: Boost's Demo Day. Today, each of the startups will present a 3-4 minute pitch of their company to a room filled with hundreds....