Web3 + AI Pitch Competition by Ga^3in Ventures, Good News Ventures

​​Welcome to the Web3 + AI Pitch Competition during at Consensus Toronto edition presented by Ga^3in Ventures, Good News Ventures and YSpace!

​Ga^3in Ventures is a Duke & friends focused Web3 Syndicate & Venture Studio with 16,000 audience across the globe. We host Web3 pitch competitions around the world, investor soirees, and crypto funds yachts to grow the Web 3.0 industry.
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​Good News Ventures backs early-stage, high-growth startups in Web3 across North America and globally. We invest post-product with early traction, focusing on blockchain infrastructure, smart contracts, and DeFi. Our thesis centers on founder-market fit, timing, and long-term defensibility.
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​​​​YSpace is York University’s pan-university entrepreneurship and innovation hub supporting startups and entrepreneurs from a variety of sectors and communities. Our programming spans across scaling innovative technologies through customer and investor capital to scaling agri-food businesses into mass retail to diversity-focused initiatives like ELLA for women-led businesses and in partnership with Black Entrepreneurship Alliance (BEA) for Black-led businesses. We are also home to two physical hubs in the City of Markham and the Town of Georgina.
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​Coinchange.io provides seamless DeFi yield generation, crypto and fiat settlement, OTC trading across 100+ crypto pairs, and robust compliance solutions-all accessible through a simple API. Their platform enables businesses to offer daily stablecoin yields with no lockups or minimums while managing client accounts and analytics efficiently.
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​Agenda:

• ​16:00 - 16:30 guests gathering
• ​16:30 - 18:00 pitch competition
• ​18:00 - 21:00 after-party & networking, register here

​Startups, submit your pitch here (rules below).
VC & investors, if you want to judge - submit a form.

MC:
- managing partner at , professor at

Judges:

​ - VP of Investments at
Managing Partner at
- Senior operations manager at

​Every month, we carefully select 6-8 teams to present their Web3 innovation. Founders get a chance to interact with investors from around the world and network with industry leaders from the Duke Web3 Ecosystem by Ga^3in Ventures.

​​Each team gets 3 minutes to pitch and 5 minutes for Q&A from the judges.

​​Whether you are a VC or angel looking for your next investment, a platform looking for the next killer product, or a startup with a game-changing idea – join us and participate in the next wave of innovation.

​​​Apply To Pitch

​​​​P lease fill out the Application Form and we'll follow up with you. Pitching is FREE, but admission to the event is ticketed (Stipend is available, please apply). Regardless whether you are selected to pitch or note, please come to network with us and our ecosystem.

Selection process:

• ​We collect applications, then run a social media voting on our twitter account, then we post the results on who is pitching.
• ​Judges could nominate startups to pitch.
• ​Wild card: we randomly draw one startup from the audience to pitch, so if you are not selected, please still come to take your chances.

​​​​Event Details:

​​​​Presentations - 3 minute Presentation + 5 minute Q&A
Judges to be revealed closer to the event start

​​​Space is limited, so apply early! We can't wait to see the innovative Web3 ideas coming out of our global community.

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Past Judges:
​ Investment Partner at
- investment lead at
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- CMO at
- Director, Digital Assets at
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- VP of Investments at
- founder at
- Founder, CEO
- COO at
- general counsel at
- US CFO at
- partner at
- Head of Global Partnerships and Climate Lead at
- Founder and Managing Partner at
- Partner at
- Marketing Manager at
Managing Partner at
- founder at
- Investor at
- Angel investor & PE professional, backer at
- principal at (Polygon Ventures)
- US Ambassador at
- Business Development at
- researcher at and PhD candidate
, Investment Associate at
- partner at
- Founder at crypto & web3 community
- Founder, CEO at
- co-founder at Prosto VC
- blockchain investor at
- managing partner at
- Senior Investment Manager from
- Partner at

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