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Proof of Pitch jury and investors at the Louvre Palace

Proof of Pitch jury and investors at the Louvre Palace

Proof of Pitch Competition

Apply Now Be the Jury

Pitch at the Louvre Palace. In front of Tier 1 VCs writing Web3 checks.

500+

Vetted startups

100+

Global investors

3

Editions at the Louvre Palace

Dedicated
Tracks

Bittensor Track Subnet builders & decentralized AI

Main Track Open to all Web3 verticals: DeFi, Tokenization, DePIN, Decentralized AI

Canton Track Privacy-preserving DeFi & tokenization

Tier 1 Web3 VCs &
Thought Leaders in our Jury

General Track

Proof of Pitch jury - Rob Hadick (Dragonfly), Diogo Monica (Haun Ventures), Evan Feng (CoinFund), Matthew Felice Pace (Spectrum Nodes)

Proof of Pitch jury - Joe Bruzzesi (Raptor Digital), Simon Dedic (Moonrock Capital), Alice Li (Foresight Ventures), Andy Tang (Draper Associates)

Canton Track

Proof of Pitch Canton Track jury - Lecor Groen (Spartan), Keli Callaghan (Arrington Capital), Danish Chaudhry (Paper VC), Yiannis Varelas (5North)

Bittensor Track

Proof of Pitch Bittensor Track jury - Jacob Steeves (Bittensor), Marcus Graichen (taostats), Mike Grantis (General Tensor), Chris Zacharia (Bitstarter)

and more to be announced

Apply Now Be the Jury

Community Pick

VCs decide who wins.
You decide who you're rooting for.

Browse this year's 15 finalists across Bittensor, Main and Canton tracks. Pick your Top 3. See how the crowd compares to our Tier 1 jury, live.

Cast Your Top 3

Previous Proof of Pitch Winners

Where they are now

Redstone

Winner 2023

Raised $15M Series A with Arrington, Spartan, and Amber

Usual

Winner 2024

Raised $10M Series A with YZi, Coinbase Ventures, and Galaxy

NodeOps

Winner 2024 · DePIN Track

Raised $5M Seed led by L1 Digital, with Blockchain Founders Fund and Double Peak

Accountable

Winner 2025 · Main Track

Raised $7.5M Series A with Pantera and OKX

Synth

Winner 2025 · Bittensor Track

$60M+ FDV — powering forecasts for BTC, ETH, SOL, gold and tokenized equities

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15 finalists. 3 tracks. 1 stage.

Bittensor · Main · Canton

$1M in credits to win

Media grants, VC intros, booth space, mentorship

Pitch at the Louvre Palace

On stage, in front of 100+ investors

Apply by May 10th

Free to apply

Prize Pool

$1M in the Prize Pool

Blockchain infra

We can give unto $100k In Blockchain Infra:

1
1st place: 1 Year Business Plan
2
2nd Place: 6 months Business Plan
3
All Finalists: 3 months business plan

Every team that enters the Start Up Comp:

1 Month Growth Plan

+ for all the finalists & winners we will help them with x3 30 min consultancy sessions that they can book with us (expires after 1 year)

$35,000 Free
Cloud Credits

Cloud Credits

50% Discount on
Smart Contract Audit

Audit Discount

GTM Mentorship Program

Mentorship

30% Discount
on Listing Fee

Listing Discount

35k$ Grant - Media outlets

Media grant

50% discount on PR

PR services

Speech on main stage at the Louvre Palace — Speech on
main stage

Investor dinner at Proof of Talk — Access to the
Investor Dinner

Proof of Talk afterparty — Access to the
afterparty

Networking with the Proof of Talk network of VCs — Intros to Proof of Talk
Network of VCs

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