Launchable Web3 Startups - March 14 - 20

Launch•a•blenoun - An event series designed to facilitate the creation of innovative, venture-scalable startups.

Event RESULTS

That's a wrap for our first Launchable event – congratulations to our winning teams!  MVL would like to extend a huge thank you to our participants, speakers, judges, mentors, and special guests. We hope to see you at our next Launchable event.

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1st place

2ND place

3rD place

SPEAKER VIDEOS

but Why Apply
ONE:
$100,000

That’s right. You'll have the opportunity to launch your Web3 Startup with $100,000 in pre-seed funding.

TWO:
mentorship

Work and learn from fellow entrepreneurs, Web3 experts, and VCs. Take a look at some of our previous events.

Event Details

Join us virtually to build and advance your idea, learn from experienced operators and expert mentors, and pitch to a panel of VC judges. There are two ways to participate: 1) as a team, or 2) as an individual with an idea and/or eagerness to join a team.

Launchable: Web3 Startups includes a series of presentations from industry experts, discussions and networking in our community Discord channel, and time to work with your team to develop the idea, business model, prototype and final pitch.

We are looking for participants with varying backgrounds, including business, software development, product, and design. No prior web3 knowledge required. Applications are due by March 1. The event fee is $75 for applicants who are accepted.

Work together to build and advance your team
Speakers
Philip Rosedale
Philip Rosedale
Founder and Strategic Advisor, Linden Lab / Second Life

Philip Rosedale is the Founder of Linden Lab, parent company of Second Life, an open-ended, Internet-connected virtual world which is now acknowledged as a pioneering metaverse. Following Second Life, he worked on several projects related to distributed work and computing. Excited by innovations in these areas and the proliferation of new VR-enabling devices, he re-entered the virtual worlds space in 2013, co-founding High Fidelity, a company devoted to exploring the future of next-generation shared virtual reality. Philip rejoined Second Life in 2022, as Strategic Advisor, focused  on helping to shape and build a better metaverse.

Prior to Linden Lab, Philip created an innovative Internet video conferencing product ("FreeVue"), which was later acquired by RealNetworks, where he went on to become Vice President and CTO.

Spencer Rascoff
Spencer Rascoff
Co-founder & Chair: Pacaso, Recon Food, dot.LA, Supernova

Spencer Rascoff is an entrepreneur and company leader who co-founded Zillow, Hotwire, dot.LA, Pacaso, Recon Food, Queue and Supernova, and who served as Zillow's CEO for a decade. Spencer is an active angel investor and is starting new companies through his Los Angeles startup studio “75 & Sunny.” Spencer is co-chair of Supernova, a family of Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs) which have raised over $1 billion in capital. He is also on the Board of Directors of Palantir. Spencer teaches a Harvard University course, “Startups from Ideation to Exit,” and co-created and co-taught the “Managing Tech Ventures'' course at Harvard Business School. Spencer is the host of "Office Hours,” a podcast featuring candid conversations between prominent executives on leadership, diversity and inclusion, and startups.

Julie Larson Green
Julie Larson-Green
Chief Technology Officer at MagicLeap

Julie Larson-Green is the former chief experience officer (CXO) of the Office Experience Organization at Microsoft, where she worked 1993 through 2017. She subsequently joined Qualtrics as their CXO. Larson-Green notably managed the implementation of ribbons in Microsoft Office 2007, replacing the menu-driven interface with context-specific "ribbons" for which she won a technical leadership award in 2013. In addition, she led the efforts to evolve Microsoft's Metro design language (to become known as "Metro Style") to also ship as part of Windows 8, in 2012. "User interface is customer service for the computer."

Ed Fries
Ed Fries
General Partner at 1Up Ventures

Ed Fries created his first video games for the Atari 800 in the early 1980s. He joined Microsoft in 1986, and spent the next ten years as one of the early developers of Excel and Word. He left the Office team to pursue his passion for interactive entertainment and created Microsoft Game Studios. Over the next eight years he grew the team from 50 people to over 1200, published more than 100 games including more than a dozen million+ sellers, co-founded the Xbox project, and made Microsoft one of the leaders in the video game business.

Rahul Sood
Rahul Sood
CEO and Co-Founder of Irreverent Labs (Creators of the MechaFightClub)

Rahul Sood is the CEO and co-founder of Irreverent Labs, the former CEO of Unikrn, and was the founder of VoodooPC. Sood was also an early investor in AR/VR company Vrvana he's also an investor in blockchain play to earn horse racing game ZED Run, and high end PC gaming company, MAINGEAR.

Judges

Soma Somasegar
Soma Somasegar
Madrona Venture Group
Arry Yu
Arry Yu
Yellow Umbrella Ventures
Sadie Raney
Sadie Raney
Strix Leviathan

Special Guests

Tim Wagner
Tim Wagner
CEO, Vendia
Ridhima Kahn
Ridhima Kahn
Vice President, Dapper Labs
David Aronchick
David Aronchick
Director of Research Development,
Protocol Labs
Matt Sorg
Matt Sorg
Tech & Product Lead - Gaming,
Solana
Soufia Trabelsi
Soufia Trabelsi
Web3 Gaming Lead,
Polygon Studios
Joe Ferrara
Joseph Ferrara
Business Development,
Ava Labs

Mentors

Farah Ali
Farah Ali
VP Tech Strategy, EA
Shane Mac
Shane Mac
Serial Founder / Investor
Maria Gilfole
Maria Gilfole
Madrona Venture Group
John Thimsen
John Thimsen
CTO Qualtrics
Jon Turow
Jon Turow
Madrona Venture Group
Kelci Zile
Kelci Zile
Global Lead, AWS
Jay Bartot
Jay Bartot
Serial Founder
Shirish Nadkarni
Shirish Nadkarni
Serial Founder / Investor
Joe Cutler
Joe Cutler
Perkins Coie
Kurtis Heirmel
Kurtis Heimerl
University of Washington
Allen School CSE
Chris Picardo
Chris Picardo
Madrona Venture Group
Aakash Mandhar
Aakash Mandhar
Head of Engineering,
Immutable
Martina Welkoff
Martina Welkoff
Founding Partner,
The WXR Fund
John Sechrest
John Sechrest
Managing Director,
Mossy Ventures
John Sechrest
Aaron Bird
Serial Founder / Investor

Agenda

March 14 - 20

All events are virtual, date & time displayed in Pacific Daylight Time (PDT)

Monday
14
Learn
4:30 - 7pm
tuesday
15
Learn
5 - 7pm
Wednesday
16
Learn
5 - 7pm
Thursday
17
Learn
5 - 7pm
friday
18
build
5 - 7:30pm
Saturday
19
build
All Day
sunday
20
build
3 - 4:30pm

Pre-Event Activities

  • Feb 1 - Applications Open
  • March 1 - Application deadline (11:59pm PDT)
  • March 9 - Participants and teams are selected and notified
  • March 11 -Teams are formed and announced
  • March 11 - March 18th - Teams are encouraged to meet virtually to develop a plan for the weekend.

Monday, March 14
4:30 - 7:00pm

  • 4:30 - Kick off
  • 5:00 - Julie Larson-Green, CTO, Magic Leap
  • 5:45 - Team Intros
  • 6:15 - Networking on Gather

Tuesday, March 15
5:00 - 7:00pm

  • 5:00 - Rahul Sood, Founder & CEO, Irreverent Labs
  • 5:45 - Matt Sorg, Solana

Wednesday, March 16
5:00 - 7:00pm

  • 5:00 - David Aronchick, Protocol.ai
  • 5:45 - Soufia Trabelsi, Polygon

Thursday, March 17
5:00 - 7:00pm

  • 5:00 - Ridhima Kahn VP, Dapper Labs
  • 5:45 - Tim Wagner, Vendia

Friday, March 18
5 to 7:30pm

  • 5:15 - Weekend Overview
  • 5:30 - Philip Rosedale, Founder of Second Life & Co-Founder of High Fidelity; and Spencer Rascoff Former CEO, Zillow; GP 75 & Sunny VC, Chairman of Dot.la

Saturday, March 19
All Day

  • 12:00 - Ed Fries, Founder of Xbox & Microsoft Game Studios, GP at 1UP Ventures
  • 1:00-4:00 - Pitch Practice

Sunday, March 20
3 to 5pm

  • 3:00 Final Pitches
  • 4:30 Winner announced
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