F7: Catalyst Accelerator & Mentors
How can Catalyst harness professional firepower to bootstrap an accelerator environment that amplifies and commercializes funded projects?
Wolfram Eureka Mentors for Cardano
Solution: Wolfram partners with select startups, incubators, and accelerators to inform and advise startups. (Please see proposal for more details.)
Strategy Framework - AIM
Solution: Research, analysis, and evaluation of the Catalyst ecosystem, develop bespoke, custom dedicated strategies ready for implementation
Social Design Academy (Adagov/SDA)
Solution: A social design program for individuals and organisations, that gives them a systematic approach to level-up for Web3 / UX 3.0.
Roadmap to Creating a Legal Entity
Solution: Document how to create a legal entity used for accounting, tax, and financial purposes for an entrepreneur being paid in ADA.
Proposals Mentors Marketplace -Cont
Solution: Build out further capacity to the PMM to offer assistance to funded Catalyst Projects.
Professional Accounting/Tax Advice
Solution: Offer workshops along with a tax resource to give projects the tools and advice needed to be financially aware and tax compliant
Milkomeda Accelerator
Solution: We will use our expertise at dcSpark to run an accelerator program for projects interested in building with Milkomeda
Mereb
Solution: To create a platform to make a better interaction between mentors, entrepreneurs and startups for the Catalyst.
Let's Woo Techstars
Solution: Develop a Techstars partnership as they do with various entities based on causes and commercialization.
Impact innovation accelerator
Solution: Use an existing purpose led business model that uses Cardano appropriate language and mentors with demonstrable experience of success
FinancialTimes Startup Competition
Solution: Create a global startup competition for funded projects to gain visibility and meet mentors and investors while receiving financial support.
Easy Engagement - New Members - AIM
Solution: A platform that matches between funded proposals needs and member expertise.
Distributed Digital ID SharkTank
Solution: An expert panel of 5 Digital ID experts hosted by Tony Rose will review projects. 60 minutes coaching sessions available upon request.
Distributed Autonomous Accelerator
Solution: Conduct a research project for a radical decentralized blockchain accelerator that nurtures teams that are worth investing in any context.
Decentralized Impact Incubation
Solution: A decentralised governance experience through an avant-gardiste incubation program in Tunisia that aim to educate and build an eco-system.
Cloud Credits
Solution: Build partnerships with IBM, AWS, GCP, Microsoft Azure, Heroku, Digital Ocean to provide cloud credits for funded proposals.
Catalyst Leadership Academy
Solution: The Catalyst Leadership Academy is where community members can teach and learn leadership skills. Offer high-quality and relevant courses.
Catalyst Community Accelerator
Solution: A Catalyst community entrepreneurship program developing entrepreneurial skills and building networks between entrepreneurs and mentors.
Bring more women to Cardano
Solution: Bringing more women into the Cardano network and improving participation of women within Catalyst proposals through mentorship.
Bridge Builders Mentorship Program
Solution: Building a Community Team of Experts, able to offer Expertise, Guidance and Mentorship for Funded Proposers to move to the next level
Boost impact projects with Catalyst
Solution: Score, mentor, tokenize and accelerate Catalyst Environmental & Social Projects while turning them into financially viable investments.
Bermuda: ADA Innovation Sandbox
Solution: Bermuda's InnoFund Incubator is an international program that supports digital asset companies looking for robust, secure foundations.
Application Portfolio Assessment
Solution: We want to establish & maintain a systematic application portfolio assessment as input to the community's professional portfolio management
Accelerator in Emerging Markets
Solution: Run an acceleration program by Seedstars for selected funded projects globally.