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Web3 school for Venture Capitalists
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Thesis

Contribution Academy is a non-for-profit web3 investment school for accredited investors with $1M+ of net wealth launched by Venture Capitalists having achieved 3x TVPI across 29-company web3 portfolio in 2021 and co-invested in many projects with Sequoia, Binance, Variant and alike.

Speaker

EGOR
ABRAMOV, CFA

General Partner at Contribution Capital

Co-founded Contribution Capital, a US-based VC fund investing in Early-stage web3 infrastructure projects

14 years in PE/VC, including 5 years as an Investment Director at a $500MM AUM VC fund, investing in Growth stage tech startups in the US/Israel

Two MA degrees in Applied Mathematics and Economics, previously worked as an engineer/developer

Enjoys sailing and skiing

Web3 industry breakdown: Visualization

Web3 industry breakdown: Visualization

Trees are Blockchains (Bitcoin, Ethereum etc)
Soil is a common ground connecting the Blockchains
Branches are L2 scaling solutions growing from the trees
Crowns represent end-user applications / web3 industries

We will be looking for low hanging fruits:
large web3 companies

How Academy works

We divide web3 in 24 sectors
We choose the key project within each sector
Every 2 weeks we consider one project for investments
We review its tech, product, business model, market and financial metrics
Finally, we make the investment decision

Course syllabus

01. Layer 1 | Stacks / Bitcoin ecosystem
02. Layer 1 | Cosmos (part 1) / Universe
03. Layer 1 | Cosmos (part 2) / Universe
04. Layer 1 | Filecoin / Storage
05. Layer 2 | Optimism / Rollups
06. Layer 2 | zkSync / ZKP tech
07. Layer 2 | TBD / Privacy preserving
08. Layer 0 | Chainlink / Oracles
09. Layer 0 | Lido / Staking
10. Layer 0 | Eigenlayer / Restaking
11. Layer 0 | LayerZero + Stargate / Bridges
12. Layer 0 | Celestia / Modularity
13. DeFi | Uniswap / Spot DEX
14. DeFi | GMX / Perpetual DEX
15. Defi | AAVE / Lending
16. DeFi | MakerDAO / Stablecoins
17. DeFi | Synthetix / Derivatives
18. RWA | Centrifuge / Tokenization
19. Social | Lens Protocol
20. Social | Livepeer
21. Social | ENS / DID
22. Gaming | Axie Infinity
23. Creators | BLUR / NFT
24. Other | The Graph / Analytics

How to participate

OBSERVER:

Free

Attend all our events online / offline
Participate in discussions
Membership in Academy channel

PARTICIPANT:

$1,000 / year fee

Video records of all our meetings
All materials / decks
Membership in Academy chat to talk to us directly

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