Web3&AI Pitch Competition & VC networking by Ga^3in Ventures at DAS 2025
Schedule
Tue Mar 18 2025 at 10:00 am to 12:00 pm
UTC-04:00Location
New York | New York, NY

About this Event
Welcome to the Web3 Pitch Competition & VC networkinat Digital Asset Summit 2025 in NYC presented by Ga^3in Ventures!

Ga^3in Ventures is a Duke & friends focused Web3 Syndicate & Venture Studio with 16,000 audience across the globe. We host Web3 pitch competitions around the world, investor soirees, and crypto funds yachts to grow the Web 3.0 industry.
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(Hadron FC) is a global community that supports founders, developers, and creators building on web3. It offers events, services, and resources to help early-stage web3 startups in the Ethereum community.
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Agenda:
- 10:00 - 10:15 guests gathering
- 10:15 - 11:15 pitch competition
- 11:15 - 12:00 networking - startups & VC's
Startups, submit your pitch here (rules below).
VC & investors, if you want to judge - submit a form.
MC:
- partner at , professor at
Judges (To be announced):
- investment lead at
- Counsel at
- partner at
Every month, we carefully select 6-8 teams to present their Web3 innovation. Founders get a chance to interact with investors from around the world and network with industry leaders from the Duke Web3 Ecosystem by Ga^3in Ventures.
Each team gets 3 minutes to pitch and 5 minutes for Q&A from the judges.
Whether you are a VC or angel looking for your next investment, a platform looking for the next killer product, or a startup with a game-changing idea – join us and participate in the next wave of innovation.
Apply To Pitch
P lease fill out the Application Form and we'll follow up with you. Pitching is FREE, but admission to the event is ticketed (Stipend is available, please apply). Regardless whether you are selected to pitch or note, please come to network with us and our ecosystem.
Selection process
- We collect applications, then run a social media voting on our twitter account, then we post the results on who is pitching.
- Judges could nominate startups to pitch.
- Wild card: we randomly draw one startup from the audience to pitch, so if you are not selected, please still come to take your chances.
Pitching rules:
Presentations - 3 minute Presentation + 5 minute Q&A
Judges to be revealed closer to the event start
Space is limited, so apply early! We can't wait to see the innovative Web3 ideas coming out of our global community.
Sponsors reach out: [email protected]
Past Judges:
- Managing Partner at
- investment lead at
- partner at
- CMO at
- Director, Digital Assets at
- formerly with
- VP of Investments at
- Program Manager at
- founder at
- Founder, CEO
- COO at
- general counsel at
- US CFO at
- partner at
- Head of Global Partnerships and Climate Lead at
- Founder and Managing Partner at
- Partner at
- Marketing Manager at
- founder at
- Investor at
- Angel investor & PE professional, backer at
- principal at (Polygon Ventures)
- US Ambassador at
- Business Development at
- researcher at and PhD candidate
- partner at
- Founder at crypto & web3 community
- Founder, CEO at
- co-founder at Prosto VC
- blockchain investor at
- managing partner at
- Senior Investment Manager from
- Partner at
- Senior Investment Director at
- Principal at LBank Labs
- Founder & Partner at
Investment Manager for the family office of Sebastien Borget, Co-Founder & COO of
Director of
CEO of
Where is it happening?
New York, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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