Brayton Williams ⏻
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Co-Founder of @BoostVC ⏻: Lead Pre-Seed rounds for Deep Tech (crypto, space, bio, AI, robotics, VR, SciFi). Advisor @Etherscan . BOD @unstoppableweb @OctaneAI .
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1/
@BoostVC
has raised $90m, our largest fundraise yet!
We believe Sci-Fi/DeepTech startups will be the most iconic, world changing and valuable companies of the future.
We want to be the first check for those founders 💰
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Coinbase is fighting for all of us.
If you are a bitcoin maximalist, NFT artist, DAO contributor, Stablecoin holder or just pro crypto innovation - support
@coinbase
right now.
We need teams with smart people & deep pockets standing up for crypto 💪
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1/ Common question: Favorite book to read about crypto/blockchain?
My answer:
@Twitter
. Anything in print is outdated. Need realtime updates and discussion since we are all still in search of the truth. So fortunate to have many smart people giving their time to educate.
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Founders building in consumer crypto. Don't pivot to tools/infra.
The most important thing for crypto is successful consumer applications.
I think about this
@usv
post often from 5 years ago
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Getting a lot of messages asking why crypto is crashing. Using chart for response 🚀
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Yesterday I became a boy dad 💙 (and joined 2 kid club)
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🤯 moment this week.
Founder got to the finish line with a lead investor. All co-investors and pro-rata had signed and wired.
Lead (75% of round) backs out on closing day.
We think the fund doesn't actually have money.
10 years in and I thought I had seen it all.
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Too many VCs pass because they can’t imagine themselves as the user. Big mistake.
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Crypto founder fundraising options:
- Venture Capital 💰
- Angel Investor 👼
- Crypto Fund 💻
- Crypto Angel (ETH Holders / Project Leads) 🤑
- Crypto Project (Ecosystem Funds / Grants) ⛏️
- Public (via ICO) 👨👩👧👦
Not a bad place to be a founder. But spend some time 🤔
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In crypto: Money is in abundance. Talent is limited.
Talent > $$
Everyone is trying to create a new crypto fund. Should we be focused on something that looks more like a talent agency?
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Bitcoin Cash hitting > 10% of Bitcoin. We may be seeing the greatest chess play of all time in crypto as 2x is dropped (used as a distraction) and BCH that we first ignored is now here as the safe haven for big blocks. The play all along. 🍿
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There must be a LOT of VCs wasting founders' time with no money to invest because I have been asked by founders more than ever this last quarter if we have money and how many checks we have written in 2024.
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Is that a cat wearing glasses on a llama unicorn being chased by UFOs? You are my hero
@VitalikButerin
and please start a clothing line 👕👘👚
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Wired money to 3 new pre-seed investments in last 7 days 💸
We are so back 🚀
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1/ Two weeks from today (4/4),
@BoostVC
will be hosting our 19th(!!) DeepTech Demo Day alongside 10+ other early stage DeepTech Funds!
Any investor looking for Seed/Series A DeepTech deal flow RSVP at
Also trying something new 👇
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Crypto narrative finally shifting from “when
@binance
” to “when mainnet” 👏
@zeppelin_os
@AragonProject
@MakerDAO
@0xProject
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BIG NEWS - huge congrats
@MaddieCallander
for becoming the newest Partner
@BoostVC
❤️🍾
Maddie joined us 8 years ago and Boost VC would not be where it is without her.
@AdamDraper
, myself and the rest of the team are so lucky to work with you!
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Crypto founders: Your plan should not be "we will be fine when the bull market comes back"
Solve a problem for someone. Find more of those people. Charge money.
The startup playbook is the same in crypto.
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Excited to be investing alongside
@PalmerLuckey
in the most passionate and engaged VR community out there,
@SideQuestVR
.
“No HMD manufacturer should have a stranglehold on the VR ecosystem or unilateral control over what people run on their VR headsets" -
@PalmerLuckey
The Oculus Quest's unofficial app store gets backing from Oculus founder Palmer Luckey by
@lucasmtny
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We
@BoostVC
are excited to work with
@brian_armstrong
@joycesticks
on the intersection of open source, science and crypto -
@ResearchHub
.
Congrats on the raise! Now let's get scientists PAID! 💰
Read more from the team:
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Big news! 🚨
@BoostVC
is looking to hire an associate (2nd ever!) to join
@AdamDraper
and I on the investment team!!
Must:
- Love SciFi
- Write code regularly
- Chat w/ founders
- Obsessive curiosity
Do not need:
- MBA or Ivy Degree
- Know what LPs are
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In Q1 we
@BoostVC
invested in 14 new Deep Tech companies 🤖🧬🛸🌊🧪
10 of those we were the FIRST VC who said YES.
6 of those we were the ONLY VC who said YES.
Looking for many more Deep Tech founders in Q2 looking for their first YES 🚀
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News! 🚀
1.
@BoostVC
closed our latest fund w/ $40M
2. Tribe 13 demo day is 4/28 -
3. Tribe 14 applications are open ($500k for 15%) -
All-star team
@AdamDraper
@MaddieCallander
Langa & Jess!
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Wearing my new favorite shirt in honor of $1k $ETH 😻🌈🛸
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Investor: Ya we invest in emerging technologies. AI and biotech mainly. What about you?
@BoostVC
: Hold my beer.
👏
@takeonGravity
#SciFiInvestor
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Throwback pic to
#Bitcoin2013
. $BTC at $125.
See you tomorrow
#Bitcoin2019
. $BTC at $11.1k.
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Turned 33 today. The perfect age that you can feel both extremely old and extremely young in crypto depending on the day/conversation.
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@Twitter
2/ Some favorite authors:
@VitalikButerin
@SatoshiLite
@eiaine
@aantonop
@starkness
@adam3us
@NickSzabo4
@laurashin
@VladZamfir
@FEhrsam
@wences
@AriDavidPaul
@naval
@ljxie
@NTmoney
@lopp
@SHodyEsq
@cburniske
@twobitidiot
@CremeDeLaCrypto
@Melt_dem
@danheld
@joeykrug
+more
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1/ I have been asked a bunch how long I think the crypto winter will last.
My response: We ARE NOT in a crypto winter. I think some of us just forgot we reached the moon 🌑 and never came back to earth 🌎. Reasons:
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In March of 2014 we pledged to fund 100 crypto startups when no one else wanted to fund them. We did it! 🧡
@AdamDraper
@MaddieCallander
🚀
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Little writeup on Dapp usage. "A month ago I started asking the people in crypto I meet if they tried the latest Dapps. 95% of the time went: NO. I had to make sure that at the very least, I could answer YES when someone asked 'Have you tried XYZ Dapp?'"
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5 yrs ago at one of the first crypto conferences 'Bitcoin 2013' we
@BoostVC
organized the hackathon. We maybe had 25 people participate and took place in San Jose. This weekend it was AMAZING to see over 1,000 people hacking away
@ETHSanFrancisco
at the Palace of Fine Arts 🤯 🚀
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Random shoutout to
@1517fund
! (🫡
@DStrachman
)
1517 is the most consistent name brought up amongst young, technical, super ambitious founders with just ideas to make a dent on the universe!
And thus we keep finding ourselves co-investing 🤝
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Tribe 12
@BoostVC
starts today w/ 21 companies!
9 Crypto 💸
6 VR/AR 👾
2 OceanTech 🌊
3 SciFi 🛸
1 Non SciFi 🎯
7 w/ Female Founders 👩💻
8 w/ International Founders 🌎
#MakingSciFiaReality
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Which angels and VCs are looking at Space pre-seed and seed deals?
Have a few awesome founders to share 🚀🛰️👽
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Nov 30, 2017 - $10k bitcoin 🎉 😍
Jan 17, 2018 - $10k bitcoin 😭 📉
Feb 15, 2018 - $10k bitcoin 🤨🧐
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Bitcoin and Ethereum succeeded at something most chains after have not. A large group of very smart people around the world got financial independence because of widespread distribution when price was nominal. This indebtedness created an army of mercenaries who won't be stopped.
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In Q2 we
@BoostVC
invested in 14 new Deep Tech companies 🤖🧬🛸🌊🧪
9 of those we were the FIRST VC who said YES.
6 of those we were the ONLY VC who said YES.
Looking for many more Deep Tech founders in Q3 looking for their first YES 🚀
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We are evolving and focusing! The new
@BoostVC
accelerator deal: $500k for Sci-Fi founders.
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Buck list Marathon ✅
Time: 3:53:02
Marathon training starts today. Has always been a bucket list item.
Any nonobvious tips?
I have 13 weeks 🏃♂️
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We
@BoostVC
have made 5 new investment offers in December and we have 11 days left.
So many great founders out there. Is everyone else on vacation already?
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tBTC 🔥 The first trustless
#Bitcoin
on
#Ethereum
starts today
Congrats team
@thesis_co
@keep_project
@mhluongo
👏
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✈️ Only thing more annoying than a kid kicking the back of your seat is a grown man playing
@weareFitXR
🥊 punching your seat.
#BoostInNYC
#ThisIsWhyWeCantHaveNiceThings
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One day I think digital land will be worth more than a digital cat
@CryptoKitties
-
@BoostVC
's reason for working with
@decentraland
for
#Tribe10
🙌
@arimeilich
@eordano
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Biggest takeaway from SFBW: Bull run babies are a thing. Met at least 5 people expecting/had babies 9 months out from Nov-Feb peaks 📈💰👶
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I convinced 3 of my friends to buy the
@oculus
Quest. Quickly realized there is almost nothing we could play as a group. Everything is solo or strangers.
We just played
@adventurelabrat
: "VR escape rooms with a live game master all from the comfort of your home".
🤯 Future.
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.
@BoostVC
is looking for more infra projects to support this ICO craze & add to
@coinbase
@etherscan
@myetherwallet
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Crypto is finally feeling unsexy again. Who is starting a crypto company today? Those are the real believers 🙌
@BoostVC
is looking to back more crypto founders!
We were also the first investor in
@etherscan
@niftygateway
@21Shares
and many more in bear markets 🐻
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HUGE day for
@coinbase
👏
💰 Launches VC Fund
📈 Index Ticker Live: CBIDX
🍴 Support for Bitcoin Forks
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Most investors avoid crypto mining co's 👎
If I had to draw up the best fictitious business it would be creating money printing machines 💸 But governments typically frown upon that 🙃
Crypto mining brings money printing back to the people 💃
Looking for founders in the space!
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With crypto prices down/stagnant, tribalism is in full force. I believe the competition will be net positive. But definitely more name calling and trolling from each camp.
More
#buidl
. Less talk. More hackathons. Less conferences. More git. Less twitter.
🚀 Time to focus 🚀
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🎉
@BoostVC
demo day kicking off right now 🎉 Here is a snapshot of what we mean by a Sci-Fi / DeepTech only demo day!
Jetpacks, NFTs, VR, space, robotics and more!
Not too late to register to see the pitches @
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Aped in with
@AdamDraper
. Where the VC Apes at?
Needed that
@BoostVC
orange 🧡
@BoredApeYC
#BAYC
Boost VC was lucky to be the first investors in
@etherscan
@niftygateway
@unstoppableweb
and looking for more NFT projects!
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Excited to be backing - not only because it is a big idea but they are focused on community alignment, giving tokens to who matters.
1. Raise money/sell small stake of tokens 💰
2. Give said money away to FOSS 💸
3. Give rest of tokens away to FOSS Devs 💻
I'm contributing to a new Decentralized CA and naming project with a bunch of friends. The goal is to replace the Certificate Authority system entirely and to not have that annoying SSH fingerprint question.
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Met
@LucaNetz
in 2022 after he took over
@pudgypenguins
and was SUPER impressed.
I had to join the HUDDLE 🐧
Cool to see 2 years later partnering with
@unstoppableweb
(a
@BoostVC
co) to launch the first ever NFT community domain, .PUDGY!
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Which Big Tech company makes a >$1B web3/crypto acquisition first?
Facebook
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Google
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Microsoft
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Amazon
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Follow
@MyCrypto
ASAP. The whole working team from MyEtherWallet has left MEW to start fresh under a new brand. They have been a public defender protecting us from phishing/scams and will continue to do so under the new brand. Very excited for the future!
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Very successful
#consensus2017
. 1 panel. $10B in market crypto gains. 1 knee still intact. 🚀 Next up...
#TokenSummit
! 🙌
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5 years ago
@AdamDraper
went around pitching a VC fund with a huge focus on Crypto and VR.
This week
@Apple
is taking pre-orders for a VR headset and a
#Bitcoin
ETF is about to go live.
What is early today but will be obvious in 5 years?
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We signed docs to invest in a new VR company today. Are we doing this bear market right?
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My daughter just turned 1 🎉
Parents: any advice as I enter year 2?
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On-boarding the next batch of companies into the
@BoostVC
portfolio this week! Tribe 19!
- 13 companies
- crypto, robotics, space, biotech, climate, VR
- 4 countries (only 1 bay area)
- mostly second time founders
All pre-seed making Sci-Fi a Reality! 🤩
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Team anniversary post! Hiring
@MaddieCallander
was an all time top
@BoostVC
decision ♥️
Thanks for putting up with
@AdamDraper
and I for EIGHT whole years! 😂
Any founder we invest in, learns quickly they want Maddie on their side 💪
#BestTeam
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Tribe 12
@BoostVC
Demo Day tomorrow! 22 startups presenting 🦄
8 Crypto 💸
6 VR/AR 👾
3 OceanTech 🌊
2 Sci-Fi 🛸
3 Non Sci-Fi 🎯
#MakingSciFiaReality
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Well deserved and necessary Series B for
@RadiantNuclear
to bring safe and ubiquitous nuclear energy to the planet⚡
@BoostVC
has invested in every round and excited to now work with
@a16z
and
@foundersfund
🙌
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Founders: Make a lot of founder friends.
Huge competitive advantage.
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Been fortunate to have been working with Matt of
@etherscan
since early 2016 and watch him and his team build THE most ubiquitous product in crypto. 2018 is going to be the biggest year yet! 🚀 📈
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My recent post on 2018 Crypto: The year of TALENT and SHIPPING
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Hosted the first Dapp Night 💻 Invited some
@BoostVC
founders to present and demo some of those 🔥 Dapps out there:
@AragonProject
@AugurProject
@LivepeerOrg
@Deco_Network
. We are still early. Keep
#buidling
.
Who should we demo at Dapp Night
#2
? 🧐
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Be thankful for your first believers. The first Yes.
First investors. First customers. First employees.
I think about them often
@BoostVC
& forever grateful 🙏
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"If you are an existing
@CasaHODL
Node customer, you are in for a real treat...
You will receive everything in the Gold package including a new
@Trezor
One and a big surprise for use in your new 2-of-3 setup." 🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌
Casa is bringing multisig security to everyone! Get started with 2of3 Basic Multisig at no cost, or go for maximum security with our top-tier Key Shield security — we now have packages at every price point!
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Founders go quiet when things aren't going well. If we haven't heard from a founder in awhile, 99% of the time the company is near the end.
Communicate before it is too late!
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Today was a great Friday:
- Closed follow on check into Series C I backed 7.5 years ago as first check 🎮
- Committed to new Pre-Seed co as first check 🤖
- LP 💰
- Bitcoin halvening 🪙
Still some hours left. Let's see what we can do 🚀
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@Twitter
@VitalikButerin
@SatoshiLite
@eiaine
@aantonop
@starkness
@adam3us
@NickSzabo4
@laurashin
@VladZamfir
@FEhrsam
@wences
@AriDavidPaul
@naval
@ljxie
@NTmoney
@lopp
@SHodyEsq
@cburniske
@twobitidiot
@CremeDeLaCrypto
@Melt_Dem
@danheld
@joeykrug
3/ Made a list: . I have A LOT to add. Thanks to all for your constant writing for the community! Who am I missing?
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1/ Spent the last week at the
@AragonProject
offsite in Spain as an advisor to the team since Day 1. Wanted to share a few thoughts that impressed me most:
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The quality of founder getting started right now is incredible.
The future is going to be awesome.
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VC panel at the
@BoostVC
Deep Tech Founder Summit! 🔥
Writing checks and open for biz!
Thanks
@brettdg
@Initialized
,
@amaldorai
@AnorakVentures
,
@pjux
@drapervc
🙏
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Founders: When an investor commits IF YOU FIND A LEAD - ask them "Can we tell people you committed?"
This way you find out if they actually want to invest. It also becomes very hard for the investor to back out and lose social credibility.
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Got cold email to hire a crypto sales rep. Main qualification given: "In fact he has had several convos with Vitalik Buterin in the past." 🤔
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