Applications for Walmart Store N°8 Base Camp are closed
Accelerating the best teams driving innovations in commerce.
Base Camp Summary
Starting: 18 September 2023
Duration: 12 Weeks
Application closure: 8 September 2023
Where: Fully remote
Accelerating the next generation of consumer applications
Walmart’s large customer base and strategic reach makes it the perfect partner to springboard commercial innovation. Walmart Store No8 Base Camp leverages this powerful platform to develop new commerce innovations that will revolutionize the retail environment.
About Store N°8
About Synergis
Synergis Capital is a leading Venture Capital Firm backing the next generation of early stage startups that will unlock new enterprise solutions and redefine the consumer experience in a digital era.
For more information, visit the Synergis website.
What consumer projects are we looking for?
Commerce Infrastructure
- Decentralized payment infrastructure
- Point of Sale (PoS) solutions
- Tokenized rewards and loyalty
- Adoption: Account abstraction, wallets & messaging
Data and Growth Solutions
- Decentralized data collection
- Data ownership and privacy solutions
- Social protocol-based products
- Web3 solutions (attribution, identity, CRM)
Immersive Experiences
- Gaming experiences
- Experiential UI/UX solutions
- User Generated Product (UGP) tools
- Mixed reality infrastructure
- Decentralized IP development
AI-Blockchain Stack
- User Generated Content (UGC)
- Content moderation
- AI and blockchain-powered marketing
- Web3 customer service agents
- Machine to machine commerce
Outlier Ventures helped us develop our initial idea into a foundational layer of Web3.
Justin Banon
CEO and Founder, Boson ProtocolWhat do startups get out of the program?
Part 1
Week 1-2
Helping you to maintain focus on OKRs & Web3 Readiness Framework and ensuring you’re optimally leveraging our network.
Part 2
Week 3-6
Building your knowledge and refine your idea through workshops and 1:2:1 meetings with our Subject Matter Experts across token, design, legal, engineering, fundraising and more.Part 3
Week 7-12
Having learned and refined your idea and in the first six weeks, the final weeks of the program are tailored towards supporting the key areas needed to bring product to market.Post Program
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
- Direct support from Walmart and Store N°8
What we offer
- 12-week dedicated support and access to our 100+ team and network
- +2 months of additional fundraising support
- +3-6 month access to our Ascent Token Launch program (based on readiness scoring, terms apply)
- Up to $200k stipend as part of the program (terms apply)
In return for
- 6% equity and 6% future token supply
- Option to join future equity token rounds, token rounds, and NFT drops at a discount
Our 400+ mentor network
Alex Pruden
CEO, ALEO
Justin Banon
Co-Founder, Boson Protocol
Ioana Surpateanu
Chief Innovation Officer, Swash
We have accelerated 250+ teams across 27 cohorts
FAQs
- Funding in exchange for 6% of your company and 6% of future token supply
- Up to $200k stipend as part of the program (terms apply)
- 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 optional $30,000 interest-free repayable loan to help with initial legal costs
- 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 currently planned to be a fully remote and virtual program. There may be the opportunity for in-person summits in London or other European locations once the pandemic situation improves. We have so far invested in companies from Australia, Brazil, USA, Canada, Philippines, Nigeria, Germany, Sweden, Finland, Poland, UK, Switzerland.