Founded by Wharton, engineering students from Vassar, Moonshot Commons recently started a seed round to “break geobarriers” for the next Gen Z founders in Web3. More than 10 top tier investors and funds participated in this round including HashKey Capital, Hash global, mask network, IoTex, ChainIDE, Paeonia Ventures, RSS3; In addition to the founders of IOSG, ODailyand more.
Since its inception in 2021, Moonshot’s community has grown rapidly worldwide. With over 6,000 members covering 20 campuses in the US and Asia, and partnerships with academia such as Crypto Fintech Lab @ Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Moonshot Commons has incubated more than 30 Gen-Z Web3 founders, raising a total of 100mm USD.
With its new round of funding, Moonshot Commons continues to invest in its global community by curating high-quality, vetted events: Mafia Mastermind Sessions (past speakers are founders of StepN, EthSign, DODO, Mask Network, RSS3, etc.), biannual hackathons, and Apollo Demo Day and more. Web3 Hackathon 2023W coming up in November will open applications. Moonshot also plans to invest in technology for its “graduate” founders to help with recruitment, fundraising and more.
Founders and longtime friends Kevin Li and Daniel Tian observe that since day 1, Web3 has enabled many of their rowdy peers living outside of Silicon Valley to build for a global market. “With Moonshot, our goal is to break down geographic barriers for the next ‘ Gen-Z founders and become the public infrastructure for smart, scrappy, global builders,” said Kevin and Daniel.
About Moonshot Commons:
We are a global builder community for Gen Z engineers on Web 3, based in Hong Kong, Singapore and New York. In two years, our founders have raised over $100 million from VCs – with many more to come!
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