David // 01.hl 🐲 @reason8eth

@zeroxcholy @a16zcrypto Impressive

@zeroxcholy @NousResearch @rep_hq 👀

New chapter for my previos job position @CointelegraphAc Welcome @reason8eth as New Head 🚀 of CT Accel) New program. New mentors. New funding structure. Stronger Startup Connect, Cannes Edition, that 2 years ago we launched with @JulietSu Now it is scaling into an industry standard.

@renesisfi Keep cooking!

We screened hundreds of projects to get to these 7. Every team here has a working product and real users - that's the bar. Over the next 12 weeks we put capital, structured development and the full CT ecosystem behind them. This is the strongest intake we've had. Let's go 🔥

Cointelegraph Accelerator @CointelegraphAc

4 weeks ago

Cointelegraph Accelerator welcomes a new cohort of startups ⚡️ • @CecuroAudit • @hive3tech • @DemetherDeFi • @KenomicAI • @TrendleFi • @renesisfi • @TheRiskProtocol Founders will get access to mentorship, funding opportunities, developer support, and global media

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⚡️ LATEST: @TrendleFi has joined the Cointelegraph Accelerator to bring attention markets into the mainstream, letting users trade narrative momentum across crypto and beyond.

why most startups fail to raise money: >they pitch growth >investors ask if it scales >they pitch TVL >investors ask if the capital is actually sticky >they pitch a token >investors ask where the value capture is exclusive clip from Incrypted Online Conference with @reason8eth from @CointelegraphAc 👇

Meet the Judges: ETHGlobal Lisbon 🇵🇹 @reason8eth, Head of Cointelegraph Accelerator (@CointelegraphAc) July 24–26 · Pavilhão Carlos Lopes ethglob.al/H734NIIBRQ

I know a guy who pretends to be a venture capitalist to get his competitors to voluntarily hand over their entire client list, revenue numbers, and churn rate... He is not a VC. He has never invested in anything. He drives a 2019 Civic But he registered an LLC called "[City Name] Growth Partners" and built a one-page website with stock photos of a downtown office he has never been inside. Total cost: $57 Every quarter he emails the founders of his 8 biggest competitors with this exact subject line: "[Company Name] - Growth Partners Preliminary Interest" The body says: "Hi [founder first name], we've been tracking [company name]'s growth in the [niche] space and believe there may be alignment for a strategic growth investment in the $2M-$5M range. Would you be open to a 30-minute intro call to discuss? We typically move fast on companies with your profile." 94% reply rate. Because every founder running a $500K-$3M agency secretly wants to be acquired and nobody has ever emailed them saying they want to invest The "intro call" is 30 minutes of the founder voluntarily handing over every metric in his business because he thinks he is pitching an investor "What's your current MRR?" "What's your client retention rate?" "Can you walk me through your top 10 accounts by revenue?" "What's your average contract value and sales cycle?" "What does your team structure look like?" The founder answers all of it. In detail. With pride. He even sends a follow-up email with a Google Drive link to his internal dashboard because the "VC" asked to "review the numbers with my partners" The guy now has the complete financial anatomy of 8 competing agencies. He knows who their biggest clients are. He knows which clients are at risk of churning. He knows exactly what they charge. He knows their margins He waits 3 weeks after the call. The founder sends a follow-up asking about "next steps." He replies: "Appreciate the time, [name]. After reviewing with the team we're going to pass on this round but will keep [company] on our radar for future opportunities. Best of luck with the growth." The founder is disappointed but not suspicious. VCs pass all the time Meanwhile the "VC" loads the competitor's top client names into AI-Ark. 89% verified emails first pass. Findymail catches the rest The cold email to their clients: "[first name] - most teams running outbound at your scale end up overpaying for [the exact service the competitor charges them for, which he knows from the call]. we install the same backend at roughly 30% less with a refund if results don't beat what you're getting now. quick whatsapp?" He knows the exact price to undercut because the competitor literally told him on a recorded Zoom call while trying to impress a fake investor 11 months in. $1,140,000 in closed revenue from the 8 "due diligence" calls Two of the founders he "evaluated" are now paying HIM as clients. They hired the guy who pretended to be their investor and stole their customers. They have no idea. They just think he runs a good agency He told me "founders will tell a stranger in a suit their deepest secrets if you call it due diligence. I call it that" I asked if any of them ever figured it out. He said "one guy saw me at a conference and said 'hey aren't you from Growth Partners?' and I said 'yeah we pivoted to services.' He bought me a drink. He's my client now" The operating cost of pretending to be a venture capital firm: $57 in domain registration and hosting The revenue from pretending to be a venture capital firm: $1.14M The 2019 Civic now has a custom license plate. It says "DUE DLGNC" Few

Live in 5 minutes Joining @incrypted Online Conference 2026 I'll be talking about: "Fundraising: From Narrative → Evidence → Commitment" Join live Ask your questions 👇

Incrypted @incrypted

2 months ago

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While in NY for Eth Conf @ethconf , I’ll still be speaking online at Ukraine’s biggest crypto conference, @incrypted - remotely this time. We always support friends, that’s the way

Incrypted @incrypted

2 months ago

Who's speaking tomorrow? 👇 1PM UTC - @KhomiakovKyrylo from @Binance with fireside 1:30PM UTC -  @deacix from @1inch on “Rethinking AMMs" 2PM UTC - @PLuchkovskyi from @KoloHub on "The Boring Layer That Makes Crypto Spendable" 2:30PM UTC - @mayurgupta77 & @paskal_navi from

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So grateful for the support @lacey_wisdom

Cointelegraph Accelerator @CointelegraphAc

2 months ago

Great products get built. Great narratives get funded. Today, @lacey_wisdom of PL Capital and Cointelegraph Accelerator's Viktor Y. will explore why the strongest pitch decks connect product, market, traction, and team into a single investable argument. • Traction-driven

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🔥 TODAY: Cointelegraph Accelerator joins the judging panel for Proof of Pitch at @proofoftalk. Alongside investors from Dragonly, Haun Ventures, Draper Associates, Moonrock Capital, Raptor Group, Foresight Ventures, and others, Cointelegraph will help evaluate the next generation of Web3 startups.

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Honored to be speaking at @ethconf in NYC, June 8-10. Come find me if you’re building in DeFi, RWA, predictions, infra, or consumer crypto - or just want to talk shop on what early-stage Web3 actually needs right now. Big things coming from the @CointelegraphAc side 👀

ETHConf @ethconf

2 months ago

🌟 NEW ETHConf speaker announced: @reason8eth, Head of @CointelegraphAc Runs Cointelegraph's accelerator program, providing investment, media reach, and mentorship to early-stage Web3 startups across DeFi, infrastructure, and consumer crypto. June 8–10, NYC. 🗽

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@zeroxcholy 👀

Running our first workshop for the current cohort.

Cointelegraph Accelerator @CointelegraphAc

2 months ago

Product-based startups do not scale by convincing everyone; they scale by deeply serving the right first market. @Starknet Head of Events @angela_s_n and Better Things Product Strategist Aleksandra Kotsalainen will deliver an interactive workshop built around one core

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At @plcapital we believe the GPT moment for robotics is closer than many believe, with innovation in the sector rapidly advancing and we see cryptographic and decentralized primitives as central to this narrative 🧵 1/5

Introducing the Monastery for AI-native founders. A single builder can now outperform a publicly traded company. $2 million. 12 weeks. Do the impossible.

Had so much fun at dinner with David & @yuriy_golikov @DevBrotherLabs 🙏🏽

One of our portco’s just levelled up. Moment of proudness 🥰

Ekiden @ekidenfi

3 months ago

Ekiden has raised $​2M to bring institutional-grade, high-frequency trading infrastructure on-chain. Here’s why this matters: 1/ On-chain trading has a large performance problem. $​800B+ in perpetual futures are traded daily Less than 1.5% is settled on-chain. Institutions

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