Tachyon is an accelerator for early-stage blockchain and Web 3.0 startups

Reserve Your Spot at Demo Day on September 28, 2021

What We Do

Twice a year, we bring together a highly selective group of founders for an intense 12-week sprint to hone their value proposition, test their assumptions with real customers, and prepare for the next phase of investment and growth. Together with our global network of experts and advisors, our experience building pillars of the core blockchain development suite, and a wide array of industry partners, we help guide founders in building validated, market-ready Web 3.0 businesses.

“Built by Entrepreneurs, for Entrepreneurs”

In-the-trenches Advice: We are founders. We’ve been founders. And we give our founders advice as entrepreneurs who have been in the trenches building companies.

Transforming Engineers into Entrepreneurs: We help highly technical founders become better startup founders.

Do As I Do, Not As I Say: We don’t give our founders any advise that we don’t do ourselves. We set the bar for excellence in how our team operates.

Our current program: Filecoin Launchpad

The Filecoin Launchpad Accelerator is a full-time, fully remote program dedicated to startups building more open, interoperable, and programmable tools, infrastructure, and applications for the distributed and decentralized web.

We support projects that build on and bridge the IPFS, Filecoin, and Ethereum communities and the tools, middleware, and applications enabling them.

Apply For Winter 2021 Cohort Now

Applications for our Winter 2021 cohort are now open. Teams from around the globe will be provided funding, mentorship, benefits, and programming around business and blockchain-specific issues, culminating in a Demo Day and post-program fundraising support kicking off in early 2022.

Teams will be able to leverage access to the ConsenSys and Protocol Labs networks, technical know-how and expertise.

Global teams receive:

Funding
Mentorship
Benefits
Programming around business and blockchain-specific issues

The program culminates in a Demo Day and post-program fundraising support kicking off in early 2022. Applications for the next cohort are open on a rolling basis and close at midnight EST on September 9. Appy Here

Filecoin Launchpad

Accelerator Demo Day II

Our program mentors and speakers represent some of the most influential contributors to Web 3.0

And our notable alumni remain connected to the community, serving as mentors to the new cohorts

Frequently Asked Questions

Have questions? View our FAQ to learn more about the program.

Tachyon Team

GABRIEL ANDERSON

Managing Director

Gabriel is a serial entrepreneur with specialties in early-stage growth, customer acquisition, and business development. He's a 3x founder, 2x intrepreneur has built startups that scaled +100M MAUs and advised countless that have successfully raised/exited

SIMON YI

Program Director

Simon helps founders gain momentum with users via growth, GTM and financial modeling strategies. He was partner at The Hand Media Group, lead growth at Reserve, and has mentored at Betaworks and Expa. He's a VaynerMedia, Deloitte & GE Capital alum.

Shaun Johnson

Program Director

Shaun brings a wealth of experience in the startup acceleration space, having built programs internationally, mentored at dozens, now transferring it all into Web3. Shaun is a board member of NY Tech Alliance and teaches Entrepreneurship at Parsons.

SHAWN CHENG

Mesh Partner, Portfolio Management & Alumni Support

Shawn leads our alumni relations, Demo Day and closed-door Investor Day for Tachyon. As Mesh Partner he handles Portfolio Management, and focuses on our strategic initiatives like best in class partnerships, DAOs, NFTs and the overarching blockchain space.

Prashant Sharma

Associate

Prashant is an Aerospace engineer turned entrepreneur with prior experience in building & scaling products in the blockchain industry. His area of expertise are sales & growth hacking and he previously worked at Polygon.