I’m excited to announce the cohort for our fourth Crypto Startup Accelerator program (CSX 04), starting this week in San Francisco. CSX helps early-stage startups building on blockchain technologies to accelerate development and product-market fit. It is an intensive program that provides the expertise, mentorship, and support that startups need to build ambitious products across industries. Over the next two months, the founders of these companies will get firsthand guidance and support from a16z crypto’s investing and operating teams. We connect founders with capital, industry experts across the a16z network, and a cohort of leading web3 teams. a16z CSX also invests a minimum of $500,000 in each company that’s accepted. The founders in CSX 04 are coming to San Francisco from countries around the world: Canada, France, Germany, South Korea, United Arab Emirates, and across the US. Here are the companies participating in CSX 04: Ambient: building a blockchain that integrates large language models for verifiable, censorship-resistant AI capabilities @CambrianNetwork: provides verifiable data for AI agents engaging in DeFi @inconetwork: enables confidential compute to existing blockchains @KYDLabs: building a fully integrated commerce layer designed for live events @launchercapital: building the next generation of AI agents through gamification and blockchain technology @MahojinAI: a search-to-generate AI platform that provides exact images through a remixable library @getoro_xyz: a decentralized intelligence platform unlocking private data for frontier AI Toji: makes onchain popularity markets for videos @zardotapp: building a decentralized cash-to-stablecoin platform for emerging markets Some companies that have been accepted are currently in stealth, and will be named soon. We may also add more companies to the cohort. Congratulations to each of our CSX 04 companies. I can’t wait to kick things off with them this week.