The next great founders will start here
It all begins with an idea.
EasyA gigabrains have gone from just having an idea to changing the world.
Cognition AI
$10.2B valuation
Walden pitched decentralized AI on the blockchain at EasyA's Harvard hackathon in 2022 and won the top prize.
Cognition AI raised $400M at a $10.2B valuation, building Devin, the world's first AI software engineer.
Listen Labs
$500M valuation
Alfred Wahlforss won one of the top prizes at EasyA's Hack Boston at Harvard in 2022. He went on to build BeFake, a viral AI app, before co-founding Listen Labs.
Listen Labs raised a $69M Series B at a $500M valuation from Ribbit Capital and Sequoia Capital, building AI that conducts customer interviews for Microsoft, Canva, and Perplexity.
BlindPay
YC-backed
The BlindPay team built a stablecoin off-ramp at the EasyA Consensus Hackathon in Austin, Texas.
BlindPay got into Y Combinator (W25) and raised $3.3M from Circle and YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim. They've processed over $125M in transfers across 100+ countries.
Gecko Security
YC-backed
Artemiy and Jeevan won multiple EasyA hackathons in London, Austin and at Harvard.
Gecko Security was accepted into Y Combinator, building tools that let developers ship secure code fast.
Axal
$2.5M raised
Ash Ahmed, Harvard grad and EasyA gigabrain, won top prize at EasyA's Hack Web3 hackathon at Harvard.
Shortly after, he got into by a16z Crypto Startup School, and just 3 months after graduating raised $2.5M to build Axal.
MintStars
$600K raised
Jessica Van Meir, Harvard PhD student and Gates Cambridge Scholar, won one of the top pitch prizes at EasyA's Hack Boston at Harvard in 2022, exploring blockchain solutions for the creator economy.
MintStars raised $600K from Polygon Labs and SpankChain, building a crypto-native creator platform where creators keep 100% of their earnings using USDC stablecoin payments.
RMD
Draper University
Andrey and Trevor pitched at the EasyA Consensus Hackathon in Austin in 2024 and won a $150,000 grant.
They were selected to attend the prestigious Draper University and closed their seed round to build the future of Web3 onboarding.
Spike
Nelson and Abi first pitched their idea at an EasyA hackathon at Harvard.
They went on to found Spike, Harvard's most popular prediction market.
Xeno
Tom built his first ever Web3 application at an EasyA hackathon in London, and iterated at EasyA hackathons in San Francisco and Hong Kong
Tom found product market fit with Xeno, building instant payment rails with stablecoin-powered PoS systems.
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