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I think you mixed up AE Foundation with AE Ventures. Each of these is covering a different part of the ecosystem and is independent. Foundation supports developers and core protocol development mostly funding DEVELOPERS. AE Venture funds STARTUPS that build businesses that use æternity blockchain to build their product.
The list from above is not accurate. It contains incomplete companies and some companies that are listed here were NOT supported or funded by AE Ventures and let me explain why you probably misunderstood it.
In AE ventures we have a 3 step process when we support / invest in teams. We do this trough Starfleet accelerator for startups (https://aeternitystarfleet.com/)
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First, we gather all the startups worldwide to apply to our program. Then we filter them and analyze to figure out which ones are the best. We invite up to 20 startups to join us for 1 week of “boot camp”.This boot camp is called the Genesis week and it is used to do a deep analysis of everything: their idea, product, team, technology, business model, token economics, its impact on aeternity ecosystem etc. It is structured as an educational program and they work their asses off for 12+ hours in that week. In the background, we scan them to identify their flaws, red flags and decide who do we focus on.
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After this first week, we do a Demo Day where they present their startup and their progress and we select only the best ones to continue. Usually 5-7 teams out of 20. We work closely with the teams that passed for the next 4 weeks helping them even more, they have targets they need to achieve, milestones to cover and we track their progress using our Startup Framework.
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After 4 weeks we organize another public Demo Day and we select the best from them (usually between 2 and 4 startups) to receive support and they start working hard on their businesses.
The list you have posted is a mix of startups from all of the above evaluation phases, some of them we dismissed and decided not to support, some of them we selected to support but they dropped out during the negotiation phase and some of them we invested and support until today.
The startups that we did support are alive and continue building their business using æternity blockchain. Almost all of them were instrumental to giving feedback to the core development team on all the SDK’s, tools and proposed or developed improvements on them starting from BEFORE the main-net was live (November 2018) until today. Some even developed tools that help others to build on aeternity.
So when you say that no information has been shared about them… that’s not quite true. We regularly post updates on all of these things on our blog, here on the forum on our youtube or via Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or other social media, we even had all of them on our Blockchain from the Block podcast last year.
https://twitter.com/aeventures
https://forum.aeternity.com/c/ecosystem/starfleet/72
also on the main site æternity.com (at the bottom)
All of the information is out there you just need to find it
The correct list of the startups can be found on the links above, to make it easier for you :
Abend https://abendpayments.com/
AMPnet https://ampnet.io/
Crypto Tasks https://beta.cryptotask.org/
Cryptic Legends http://crypticlegends.co/
Homeport https://sat-1.com/ and https://homeport.network/
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TraDEX https://tradexsocial.com/
RIDESAFE https://www.ridesafeafrica.com/
ReCheck https://beta.recheck.io/ + ReCheck’s Service for Secure Data Sharing is live!
UTU https://protocol.utu.io/
YAIR https://yair.art/
WEIDEX https://jelly.market/
Assetify https://www.assetify.net/
Smart credits https://smartcredit.io/
The last two were supported only recently but they are performing very well, and we have a few more (2 or 3) in the process of negotiation from Starfleet India. Some of the startups from above have been hit hard by the corona crisis (i.e Abend etc) some of them were helped by corona (i.e Crypto task)but all of them are focused on their business and working hard and surviving. Startup space is a tough world and yes some of them will not make it in the end but in the process, they contributed already greatly to the ecosystem in various ways with shows their dedication to æternity and the ecosystem.
Out of 4 startup programs we organized we had only 1 Chinese company applying for support. Out of several hundred for each batch, we would have loved to support more companies from China but none applied and we even had teams from Venezuela and Iran. Hopefully, sometime in the future, the community will organize Starfleet China to support local teams but that’s another story all together
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Luka