[Mar 31 - May 23, 2025]
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8 weeks
up to $500k in funding
free for startups: no fees, no equity
hands-on mentorship
**The program**
Thesis
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AI and agentic systems are the largest technological wave and the fastest economic transformation in the history of the world. Decentralized, machine-speed coordination outpaces traditional, hierarchical systems. New economic rails, built on programmable, trustless protocols are essential to efficiently create, distribute, and regulate value in this emerging cybernetic economy.
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For founders, this is an opportunity to build transformative products that will ensure open, permissionless access to the benefits of AI while facilitating the transition to the programmable cybernetic economy.
Benefits
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This is an 8-week startup accelerator program for top-tier founders in the AI and Crypto space. Our small cohort size (8 teams only) ensures that we can provide founders with the resources, support, and connections needed to accelerate toward Demo Day.
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No fees or equity. We don't take participation fees or upfront equity commitments.
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Funding. Up to $500k potential investment from Delphi Labs / cyber•Fund
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Compute. Up to $200k in compute credits with our partners
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Mentorship. From Delphi Labs, Delphi Ventures, Lido, p2p.org.
[ Subject to opt-in of participating mentors ]
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Expertise. Expert advise on AI/ML, infra, token design, GTM, strategy iteration, positioning, product, fundraising and marketing
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Meaningful support. Meaningful, deep support and potential subsequent incubation beyond superficial check-ins. Weekly calls with additional focused ad-hoc sessions wherever applicable
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Workshops. Weekly workshops and moderated mastermind sessions with experts
Format of the program
This is an intensive program for those who are committed to moving their project toward real world deployment:
Teams are expected to work full-time on their projects.
Open async communication with weekly office hours or guest speakers.
We plan two IRL events: in-person kick-off and demo day (with airfare reimbursements).
Teams are expected to be available for additional calls with partners or potential customers.
Program concludes with a livestreamed Demo Day with Tier 1 VCs eager to fund the most promising teams.
dAGI is for founders building distributed AI components, agents and on-chain market mechanisms that power everything from decentralized post-training, fine-tuning, agent coordination to profit-sharing.
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We are searching for driven founders with a strong mission to build an AI-based economy.
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Ideal founders will have a technical background in AI/ML research or engineering, or a unique market perspective.
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We want founders who are not afraid to have strong opinions.
**Timeline**
**Organizers**
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cyber•Fund is a founder-led investment firm accelerating the cybereconomy. We allocate capital to the best startups in distributed AI to ensure a healthy transformation to a cybernetic economy that benefits humanity.
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Over the last 10 years we’ve funded 150+ early stage investments including Ethereum, Solana, Celestia, EigenLayer,and actively contributed to projects such as P2P.org, =nil; Foundation, and the Lido DAO. We have also given out a few million USD in OSS & research grants including grants to TinyML Foundation, AI in education, research and open source projects.
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We actively invest in decentralized and distributed AI, (multi-) agentic systems. cyber•Fund organized dAGI Summit Bangkok, dAGI House Hackathon at EthCC in 2024 with 47 competing for more than $100k in prizes.
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We believe that traditional economies are bound by human productivity and inefficiencies due to coordination overheads. Complex systems favor monopolistic control — hierarchies arise and inevitably concentrate power and wealth.
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Our 2025 thesis on Decentralized AI can be found here.
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Delphi Labs' mission is to make crypto happen better and faster. We leverage hands-on experience with leading crypto protocols including AAVE, Legion and Synthetix to help entrepreneurs go from zero to one. When we accelerate projects, we become an extension of the executive team. Utilising our experience in investing (with Delphi Ventures), research (with Delphi Digital) and specialist knowledge from each member of the Labs team to accelerate early-stage projects.
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This is our 3rd Delphi Labs accelerator cohort, and the 2nd focused exclusively on crypto x AI. Cohort #2 launched in partnership with NEAR Foundation in Q4 ‘24 with >100 applications from which we selected 8 stand-out teams. This was a massive success, with >$20m raised by these teams during or right after the accelerator program from angels and tier 1 venture funds including ai16z crypto, сyber•Fund, Delphi Ventures among others.
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The 8 teams we ultimately invited into the accelerator fell into 4 categories: 3 teams focused on bringing private data into AI training sets; 3 focused on AI agents/automations; 1 focused on decentralized browsing; 1 focused on DePin and edge compute. You can find out more about each one of these and how we helped them here.
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We believe the AI industry will shift from a few dominant "God-models" to millions of specialized models optimized for specific uses. Crypto provides the ideal infrastructure for this future through its decentralized coordination, permissionless APIs, and censorship resistance, enabling a modular ecosystem of AI "legos" that delivers better solutions for developers and users. Our full thesis on crypto x AI, ‘a Distributed Rebellion’.
**Reviews**
Opened so many doors
Most accelerator or incubator programs are useless - fortunately Delphi Labs is the rare exception. They have made so many introductions and opened so many doors for us, the kind of value-add that most programs claim to provide but never follow through on. They helped us go from 0 to 1 in a tough vertical: regulated crypto products, and remain supporting with brainstorming, strategizing, product feedback, introductions, and more. Working with Delphi Labs has been a big part of our success and I'd recommend teams work with them if given the opportunity.
One handshake away from every investor
Delphi Labs is extremely up to date with the current market requirements to ship successful product. This allows them to give projects unbiased advice and direct their focus on most important milestones. Having Delphi as your advisor not only gives you access to tremendous knowledge but also positions you one handshake away from every relevant project and investor in the space.
They go for quality, not scale
Delphi Labs and cyber•Fund has an elite corps of deeply experienced talent that, frankly, cannot be acquired by an early-stage project on the open market (through any mix of advisory deals, independent contractors, angel investors, etc.)—because anyone with that rare mix of special qualities has already 'made it' and is no longer a gun for hire. They go for quality, not scale—thus when they choose to work with a project, it's out of deep conviction after thorough due diligence and internal debate, & you can be sure they are all-in and you will have their full attention. They get crypto, they get AI, they have experience as founders, traders, VCs, and mechanism designers—a really rare mix of high-level strategic acumen combined with nuts-and-bolts product experience. In addition, their network is deep and their ability to help make deals is close to unparalleled.
Support on a more personal level
When you are choosing partners, investors or an accelerator, it almost always comes down to specific people that you will be working with. Delphi Labs program expanded beyond being a formal structured set of learning outcomes to continuous advice and support on a more personal level. The team was dedicated to helping us well after the original timeframe, providing valuable insights and connections across the space.
A game-changer for us
They helped us nail our fundraising, fine-tune our marketing, and map out a solid product roadmap. Their deep Web3 know-how and killer network connected us with the right investors, partners, and advisors, giving us a huge boost. Beyond the strategy, they’ve been a supportive partner every step of the way. Big thanks to Delphi Labs for being such a key part of our journey!
**Requests for Startups**
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Additional information about Delphi Labs's and cyber•Fund's investment theses is available via the links below.
**FAQ**
[Mar 31 — May 23, 2025]
The future of AI is decentralized. It’s millions of specialized primitives orchestrating a new digital economy. And you're building it.
## **dAGI Accelerator**