Boost VC Demo Day: Meet Tribe 4′s Bitcoin Startups

It’s the final day of Tribe 4′s tenure in Boost VC’s startup accelerator, and things have been busier than ever.
The accelerator, perhaps most famous for its CEO Adam Draper’s promise to fund 100 bitcoin startups by the end of 2017, has been housing 16 bitcoin startups in its San Mateo, California, headquarters since the beginning of July.
The group, colloquially referred to as Tribe 4, has been gearing up for the startup world’s equivalent of a graduation ceremony: Boost’s Demo Day. Today, each of the startups will present a 3 – 4 minute pitch of their company to a room filled with hundreds of potential investors – an equal mix of venture capitalists and angels.
CoinDesk spoke at length with Draper and many of the Tribe 4 startups leading up to Demo Day. Together, they helped paint a picture of what it’s like to be part of a program that was built with a primary focus on bolstering the bitcoin ecosystem.
Their stories tell of an atmosphere that benefits immensely from collaboration and a vast professional network, but ultimately requires that the companies themselves put in the hard work.

This post was published at Coin Desk on October 30, 2014.

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