Call for Builders
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Base Camp Summary
Duration: 12 weeks
Where: Fully remote
Investment: Up to $100,000
Introducing Call for Builders
We’ve worked with startups at the cutting edge of innovation for the past decade. It is our passion and what we love most about our business. During this time we have been lucky enough to speak with thousands of founders and are uniquely positioned to know their needs along with their investors.
With this deep insight along with our own passion and extensive knowledge of the industry, we have launched Outlier’s Call for Builders. This collection of verticals will serve as a guide for understanding both the high-level narratives driving innovation that we’re excited about and the micro-developments happening on Web3, which we hope will inspire founders looking to apply for our accelerator program, Base Camp.
If there are any verticals in our collection that excite you, we hope to hear from you. While this is not an exhaustive list, the Outlier’s Call for Builders outlines verticals where we are expecting to run a program in the next three to six months.
Please dive in, apply now and let’s fuel the future of Web3 together.
Real World Assets
RWA involves creating digital copies of tangible and intangible assets on the blockchain, unlocking benefits like efficiency gains, liquid markets, and decentralized ownership.
Gaming
Web3 revolutionizes gaming by offering players true ownership of in-game assets, enhanced security, and new economic opportunities through blockchain technology.
DePin
DePIN leverages blockchain to create and manage decentralized infrastructure, integrating physical nodes like servers and sensors to support various services.
Bitcoin
Bitcoin's evolving ecosystem, driven by new composability and scalability, unlocks a wide range of decentralized applications and financial opportunities beyond its traditional use as a medium of exchange.
Privacy Enhancing Technologies
PETs ensure secure and private data exchange on public blockchains, balancing transparency and privacy to unlock new economic collaborations.
Open Finance
Open Finance extends beyond traditional banking by leveraging blockchain and decentralized applications to provide inclusive, cost-efficient financial services to a broader audience.
Decentralized Social
Web3 social platforms combine SocialFi, memecoins, and DAOs to offer decentralized, privacy-focused social interactions, responding to growing dissatisfaction with traditional social media.
AI x Crypto
The convergence of AI and blockchain technologies promises to enhance data privacy, improve usability, and create innovative solutions that address the limitations of both fields.
About us
Outlier Ventures was founded in 2014, which has meant that we have had the opportunity to experience several Web3 cycles over the years. Whilst market cycles are seasonal, our commitment to backing great founders and accelerating early stage startups exponentially grows. We are focused on supporting Web3 founders from around the world, running programs with industry partners.
What is Base Camp?
Teams gain access to Outlier Ventures’ resources to support fundraising and product development efforts including:
Access to the global network of over 1000 leading Web3 builders, mentors, and investors across the globe
Opportunities to form strategic partnerships with companies in the Outlier network
Tailored content, advice and 1-to-1 office hours with our team of experts to support your project from the ground up
An additional 2 months of fundraising support, including strategy, introductions and fine tuning your story-telling
What do startups get out of the program?
Week 1-2
Helping you to maintain focus on OKRs & Web3 Readiness Framework and ensuring you’re optimally leveraging our network.
Week 3-6
Building your knowledge and refining your idea through workshops and 1:2:1 meetings with our Subject Matter Experts across token, design, legal, engineering, fundraising and more.
Week 7-12
Having learned and refined your idea in the first six weeks, the final weeks of the program are tailored towards supporting the key areas needed to bring product to market.
An opportunity to showcase your product to the wider Outlier network and 2 months fundraising support.
- 360 support from 40+ experts on token, product, legal, fundraising, etc.
- Access to a mentor network of industry leaders in the Web3 space
- Opportunity to build alongside a cohort of cutting-edge teams
- Fundraising support tailored to your needs
Outlier’s Call for Builders
In this work, we look at some of the narratives that we believe are exciting areas where founders are building promising new Web3 primitives and where we, as the global leading Web3 accelerator and most active Web3 investor, can have significant impact in supporting founders at the beginning of their journey.
What we offer
- 12-week dedicated support and access to our 100+ team and network
- +2 months of additional fundraising support
- Up to $100k stipend as part of the program (terms apply)
- Up to $200k in follow-up investment (terms apply)
In return for
- Agreed equity stake and future token supply
- Option to join future equity rounds, token rounds, and NFT drops at a discount
We have accelerated 300+ teams across 34 cohorts
Testimonials
FAQs
- Agreed equity stake and future token supply
- 3 month fully remote accelerator program
- Access to in house specialist operational, legal, commercial, and co-marketing support
- Token engineering support and business model testing to pinpoint product-market fit
- An active global mentor, partner and investor network featuring over 400+ mentors and 180+ alumni companies in Web3
Any Base Camp program is designed to nurture teams whose business potential best leverages the program’s protocol and design strengths and also aligns with Outlier Ventures’ Metaverse OS Thesis. Cohorts are generally selected through the lens of growing the protocol ecosystem across various layers such as: NFTs & Gaming, DeFi, Infrastructure, Services, and Middleware.
Participating startups will gain exposure to both Outlier Ventures’ and the protocol’s ecosystems, offering an unparalleled opportunity for founders to scale their technology and grow their business.
The Base Camp Accelerator is a fully remote and virtual program. This allows us to recruit and work with the best teams wherever. We have invested in companies across all continents. Our strength lies in the diversity of founders that we accelerate across the globe.