The fund aims to support and speed up the time-to-market of early-stage projects that have already initiated development.
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Fast facts
- Accelerator will focus on the multi-chain ecosystem and help bridge the gap faced by new interoperability projects in gaining technical and business expertise.
- Fund backed by 11 investment partners, including Alameda Research, KuCoin Ventures, OKX Blockdream Ventures, Hashkey Capital, and more.
- The accelerator is Ignite’s (formerly Tendermint) third offering aimed at helping blockchain developers.
- Tendermint founders were involved with Cosmos, the world’s largest cross-chain ecosystem.
- The accelerator also runs Ignite Ventures, launched last year, and Ignite CLI, a solution for developers to seamlessly build interoperable and sovereign blockchains.
- Ignite hopes the accelerator will help participating startups with capital and expert resources, including guidance in areas like blockchain development, marketing, and tokenomics, to speed up their development cycle.
- “Ignite Accelerator ensures that individuals who would like to be part of building an open and decentralized global future are set up for success,” said Ignite CEO Peng Zhong.
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