Protocol Labs Venture Studio (PL VS) is an initiative dedicated to growing and enabling new startups building breakthrough technologies, leveraging Filecoin, IPFS, libp2p, Ethereum, and other technologies in the PL ecosystem. These startups will join the Protocol Labs innovation network, which bridges connections to potential sources of capital, technical expertise, and web3-native services to accelerate the development and growth of the new startups.

0xEssential enables digital asset ownership through portability and offers tools and platforms that help create NFTs. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York, United States.

At 3Box Labs we are on a mission to usher in a new era for the web, where data is secure, interactions are trustworthy, and relationships are the basis of connection. Our first product, Ceramic, is the building block for composable data on the web and is powering thousands of the world's most ambitious applications. We're backed by the best investors in the space (USV, Placeholder, Variant, Multicoin) who have deep conviction in our mission. We are a lean, voraciously curious team from across the globe. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive team. We cannot succeed in our mission without it. People that identify with groups traditionally underrepresented in tech are particularly encouraged to apply.

Afterparty is a creator community platform. We give the most innovative creators and artists the tools for delivering world-class experiences to their biggest fans. And for the first time ever fans get to participate in the success of their favorite artists and creators.

Agoric is committed to making strong security easier to achieve. Creating secure smart contracts using today’s technology is inherently difficult. That difficulty has limited both the number of applications created, and the number of programmers qualified to create them. We are developing an open, JavaScript-based, object-capability (ocap) programming layer to address both issues. The Agoric ocap layer will include robust security properties beyond anything available today, and it will provide that security across substrates, from local machines to global blockchains.

Protecting applications requires protecting the application itself as well as the infrastructure, which is why many companies don’t move sensitive workloads to the public cloud, invest in hardening of machines and creating security zones to define which applications can run alongside other applications on the same machine. Anjuna solves this problem to allow running any application in any environment and alongside any application, by creating a software perimeter around applications that provides hardware-grade security for the applications. This completely removes the need to secure or patch the host, VM or container. Our solution doesn't require any changes to the application and protects it even if someone has root or physical access to the host.

Ansa Research is a research firm focused on distributed infrastructure. We cover digital networks aiming to rebuild how internet infrastructure operates, including Filecoin and other networks. We operate the Filecoin TL;DR Brand within the Filecoin ecosystem and also work on several social and community initiatives. We believe decentralized infrastructure is an opportunity north of a trillion dollars. However, there is an extremely narrow set of conditions by which this outcome is realized. We view this as an opportunity to create substantial amounts of value. If you’re a capital allocator looking to get a pulse on decentralized infrastructure, reach out. We spend our time working with builders across the stack (storage, retrieval, compute, DA layers, etc) - we’d love to share what we know / what we’re seeing. If you’re a builder / ecosystem working on decentralizing the cloud, we’d love to chat. We’re here to help accelerate roadmaps, make connections, amplify great projects, and drive awareness.

Anytype is the Unified User Interface for a distributed, content-addressable web. Its unified approach to a graphical interface allows users to create services on top of decentralized protocols without any programming skills. Through this, we want to bootstrap the mass adoption of Web 3.0 and enable it to reach a critical mass

Artizen is a match-funding platform for art, science, and technology. We help creators unlock match-funding from sponsors by selling cultural Artifacts to their fans. To date, Artizen has awarded over $1M to projects featuring major talent like the Wu-Tang Clan, Cate Blanchett, and legendary director Terrance Malick.

Audius'​ mission is to create a fully decentralized community of artists, developers, and listeners collaborating to share and defend the world’s music. To find out more, please visit: https://audius.org and https://audius.co

Āut is a suite of DAO-native Tools to expand decentralized communities. We're on a mission to accelerate the transition from an authoritarian, centralized, exploitative distribution of power - to non-hierarchical, more efficient, self-organizing organizational structures. Our protocols do so by "expanding" any Legacy DAO Contract – adding native concepts such as Roles & Commitment – directly at contract level, in a new DAO standard called Nova. Novas can be customized through the addition of composable Modules & Plugins, such as Onboarding Strategies and Reward Mechanisms. Currently maintained protocols include: - Nova (DAO Standard with Roles) - ĀutID (portable, non-transferable NFT ID) - Reputation - Various Modules & Plugins More about Āut Labs @ docs.aut.id

Autonomy Network is a decentralized automation protocol designed for Web3 builders.

Developer of an on-chain storage platform designed to store data on web3 based storage protocol.

Berty is a secure peer-to-peer messaging app that works with or without internet access, cellular data or trust in the network.

A gaming platform for skill-based challenges & tournaments, improve your skills playing e-sports games and win prizes.

BlockScience is an engineering, research and development, and analytics firm focused on the design and analysis of complex networks. We integrate academic-grade research with advanced mathematical and computational engineering to deliver design and analytics as a service to a variety of clients including for-profit, non-profit, academic, and government organizations. The BlockScience team has specialized in data science and computational methods for the design of socio-technical economic systems, working specifically on algorithm design problems with complex human behavior implications. The team built and open-sourced cadCAD (complex adaptive dynamics Computer-Aided Design) which is a python-based modeling framework for research, validation, and Computer Aided Design of complex systems. BlockScience continues to develop, teach, and apply best practices in economic systems engineering, as an applied hybrid of artificial intelligence and computational social science. The team is founded and directed by Dr. Michael Zargham; data and decisions systems architect who has been doing applied research on socio-technical systems since 2005 including but not limited to peer-to-peer influence and enterprise decision models for market research applications, a PhD from the University Pennsylvania focusing on control and optimization of decentralized systems, research and development of a decentralized digital media marketplace, as well as envisioning, building and scaling a data science team for an Ad Tech firm. BlockScience provides access to skills ranging from formal mathematical specifications of network design, derivation of properties from those specifications, and numerical experiments of those mathematical models. BlockScience also provides operational and technical executive support in the areas of logging requirements, KPI design, data science team building and defining requirements for analytical products based on machine learning and blockchain network data.

blocz is cloud company with a background in innovation, whether it’s reducing the energy footprint of the industry or collaborating with others on new technologies that will change the landscape of the digital universe. We are a founding member of the Open Grid Alliance and focus on cutting edge technology such as decentralisation, blockchain, crypto, security, Open Metaverse, NFT, and private 5G solutions to name but a few. We also provide private VMware cloud, cloud storage and backup solutions. We own and operate a technology innovation hub in Cambridge which focuses on game changing technologies such as blockchain, crypto, NFT, Open Metaverse, and more. With an onsite data centre and R&D lab on site we’re able to stand up a significant amount of technology for development and testing, we’re even building a VR/AR space on site for testing metaverse applications! The innovation hub is a place for clients and partners to come and experience new technologies and collaborate with like-minded people and organisations for mutual benefit.

Web3 browser that uncovers and visually displays paths across the web for internet users to share with their community.

Boto is a no-code automation platform where developers and non-developers can create and share their automation. The platform was founded in 2021 and is based in Delaware City, USA.

Braneframe is a Web3 company building peer-to-peer privacy-preserving applications built on open-source protocols. It is a leading project in the DXOS (Decentralized Operating System) ecosystem, whose participants are working toward an alternative to the tech giant-dominated public cloud.