My Top10 a16z backed project picks
a16z is the largest crypto fund with nearly $8 Billion in size, let's look at 10 of its best projects.
1/ World Coin
@worldcoin is building the world’s largest identity and financial network to serve as a public utility, giving ownership to everyone.
Its a Privacy-preserving protocol that provides proof-of-personhood. Recently raised $115M from Blockchain Capital, a16z, others.
2/ LayerZero
@LayerZero_Labs is an Omnichani interoperability protocol that enables the realization of cross-chain applications with a low level communication.
They recently raised $120M in Series B funding and their airdrop is highly anticipated by the market participants.
3/ Angle
@AngleProtocol is a capital efficient and over-collateralized stablecoin protocol composed of smart contracts running on open blockchains. \
Angle is so far behind one stablecoin, agEUR, pegged to the value of the Euro - €.
4/ Aleo
@AleoHQ is the ultimate toolkit for building applications performant, secure, and private.
Leo is a functional, statically-typed programming language built for writing private applications on Aleo.
5/ Yuga Labs
Yuga Labs is a web3 platform most known for the creation of the @BoredApeYC, a collection of unique Bored Ape NFTs.
Its other Projects include @MeebitsNFTs, @CryptopunksNFTs, @OthersideMeta and @10KTFshop.
Meebits released their latest version MB1.2 :
6/ Linera
@linera_io is a fast and scalable multi-chain protocol for the next generation of web3 applications.
It is a layer-1 blockchain protocol designed to bring the elastic scaling of web2 to web3, brings the idea of operating many lightweight chains, called microchains.
7/ Valora
@Valora is a mobile crypto wallet that enables global payments and easy access to Web3 dapps built on @CeloOrg.
Valora is the easiest way to send, swap, collect and purchase digital goods on the Celo blockchain.
8/ Pinecone
@pinecone provides Long-term memory for AI.
Pinecone's vector database lets you build fast + scalable applications using embeddings from AI models, and get to production sooner.
Pinecone recently raised $100M in Series B funding at a $750M valuation, led by @a16z.
9/ StoryProtocol
StoryProtocol is powering web3 narrative universes via story legos.
@StoryProtocol recently raised $29.3 Million Seed money from a16z, Hashed, Mirana Corp, DAO5 and Samsung Next.
10/ Character.Ai
Character.AI is bringing to life the science-fiction dream of open-ended conversations and collaborations with computers.
They use machine learning to generate visually appealing and emotionally resonant characters.
Their app is available on IOS app store and Android play store.