Introducing the 2025 Techstars + Cardano Founder Catalyst Cohort
Oct 10, 2025
New York (October 10, 2025) – Techstars is delighted to announce the 2025 Techstars + Cardano Founder Catalyst cohort! This ten week pre-accelerator program is focused on the Cardano ecosystem in partnership with Project Catalyst in an effort to support the next generation of web3 and blockchain companies using innovation to solve problems, fill gaps, and meet opportunities in the world.
The global program kicked off Monday, October 6th with a cohort of 20 talented companies from 16 different countries across the world. The selected participants in this program will level-up their businesses through entrepreneurial masterclasses, pitch coaching, mentorship, and collaboration with ambitious, like-minded peers.
We are excited to begin the journey with these early-stage startups pushing the boundaries of innovation in an emerging industry. Near the end of the program, we will celebrate these companies in an End of Program Final Pitch Showcase on Tuesday, December 9th. Details to come.
Congratulations to the 2025 Techstars + Cardano Founder Catalyst Cohort Companies:
Andamio solves trust and traceability in distributed work for teams and organizations with a Cardano-native protocol that unifies learning, contribution tracking, treasury payouts, and portable reputation.
Atrium Labs solves customer acquisition for crypto businesses with Atrium.io.
Bloccpay simplifies global payroll and benefits for startups and remote teams by delivering instant pay, local spending power, and everyday perks that connect income to real life.
Blockera Labs solves high entry costs and illiquidity in real estate investments for wealthy professionals with ROC, a secure, decentralized platform offering tokenized assets and fractional ownership.
Cryptomate solves the complexity of orchestrating localized payments and rapidly deploying adaptive financial products for globally-expanding businesses with our low-code fintech operating system.
GENGHIS enables crypto users worldwide to seamlessly purchase digital products and gift cards through a secure Web3 e-commerce platform with integrated multi-chain payments.
GenWealth is a self-custodial crypto recovery and inheritance dapp, focused on making inheritance easy.
Kwikpik is a digital commerce marketplace that helps businesses and consumers in Africa overcome the challenges of on-demand services, such as last-mile delivery, bill payments, and embedded financing.
NOTARIFY provides infrastructure for digital certainty.
Rentity solves the problem of slow, illiquid, and exclusive real estate financing for property owners and developers with a private credit platform powered by tokenized future cashflows, stablecoin payments, and rewards.
SmarTrust is developing a user-friendly web3 application to help tech freelancers and creators prevent non-payment, late payments, or scams via a self-managed escrow.
Synthwave solves the friction and complexity of crypto compensation for modern companies and their employees with an all-in-one crypto payroll and tokenized equity platform that makes digital asset ownership as easy as getting paid.
TAGBASE.io prevents counterfeiting of physical goods with NFC tags that verify authenticity in any smartphone browser—no app required.
Terralima empowers African smallholder farmers with a blockchain-powered digital commodity chain platform with embedded payments, finance, and market access.
The Chaincademy solves the career transition gap for tech students and career changers with personalised career maps and real projects.
Thellex is a payment platform that enables Merchants and users to seamlessly transfer funds, exchange crypto for fiat, and conduct secure transactions.
UTXOS is building the Fireblocks for UTXO chains like BItcoin and Cardano.
UzimaNexus solves Africa’s fragmented healthcare access and data challenges for patients, providers, and insurers by delivering a blockchain and AI-powered operating system that ensures secure, portable, and incentivized health records.
WineOpSys develops platforms and services for enterprises that incorporate blockchain technology for supply chain tracking and compliance.
Winks enables on-chain actions within X and other social media platforms, without users needing any middleware.
Find out more about Techstars Founder Catalyst programs.
Audra Gibson
Program Lead, Techstars Startup Community
Techstars + Cardano Founder Catalyst