If you haven’t heard of Network School @ns yet, it’s worth asking why. Because this isn’t another co working space or tech campus. It’s a gathering point for the people actively shaping what comes next. Founded by @balajis (former Coinbase CTO), Network School is built for ambitious digital nomads, engineers, builders, and creatives who want more than just a desk, they want alignment, infrastructure, and momentum. This is an all-in-one ecosystem, intentionally designed: food. fitness. wellness. focus. fun. Everything under one roof, everything built with purpose. And the mentorship? Not aspirational. Operational. From Vitalik, Brian Armstrong, Naval, Anatoly, Ben Horowitz, Garry Tan, Michael Saylor, the Winklevoss twins, Jesse Pollak, Jesse Powell, Yat Siu, Arthur Hayes, Andrew Huberman, Lilly Lu , and many more, these are the people actively rewriting the rules of tech, capital, and society. Network School isn’t a venue. It’s the nucleus of a movement. That’s why we’re proud to have hosted our own mini-accelerator there. The Network State vision is being built in real time. We’re grateful to be connected to the people and companies in our network who are part of this emerging ecosystem. A special thank you: Dean Little @deanmlittle, Zeus @ZeusNetworkHQ & Blueshift @blueshift, Jito Foundation & Jito Labs @jito_labs, @marcliew888 @jito @kxrnel, Solana Mobile @solanamobile, David Palmer, Akshay Rajan, @TryNoahAI, Vikram Seth @vsethco, 512 Ventures @512_Ventures, Daniel Malinovski Simplicity Group @SimplicityWeb3, Pyth Network @PythNetwork, Mario Bernardi, Rajpal Singh, Rarepublic, Quan Pratt @KELLQU4N 👉 If you want to stay close to the ideas, people, and places shaping what’s next, follow us to keep up with what we’re building and curating.

Who else is doing office hours for founders on how to exit to companies like eBay? Who else is hosting free workshops for founders on Sales led by a Revolut employee? Oh wait...that's us and @FoundationVent ! 😁 Register below 🧱

There's workshop's then theres a Foundation Ventures & @SuperteamUK Workshop.... A delectable discussion with @a16zfrontier All about enterprise sales What Question Would You Ask ? @solana

Most rounds die in the spreadsheet, not the pitch. We got someone who managed a 100m fund to show why ai cashflow forecasts cost you more in the long run. Only the best for @SuperteamUK Today, 4pm BST: Amai Capital's - Armani Richards opens two real cashflow models at Build for Breakpoint. Same stage, same sector. One raised. One killed. Learn the difference live. Free: luma.com/build-for-breakpoin…

🗓️ THURSDAY | OCT 8 ⏰ 11AM-12PM BST 📍 IRL Office Hours with the Founder of @CoinRuleHQ from @ycombinator S21

🗓️ TUESDAY | OCT 6 ⏰ 10AM-11AM BST 📍 IRL Lean how to frame an ask, what to send before a call & how to turn a "no" into a referral instead. Bring 10 names from your own contacts & Ade from LYQOS will work through them live with you. luma.com/build-for-breakpoin…

🗓️ FRIDAY | OCT 2 ⏰ 4PM-5PM BST 📍 ONLINE Armani will show real examples of forecasts that raised money and ones that killed deals. Join to learn what cashflow models investors like. luma.com/build-for-breakpoin…

Have funding but no paying customers? Closed high profile deals but cashflow in shambles? Why figure it out alone when you can learn from those who’ve already succeeded? We're inviting you to attend our upcoming IRL/online Workshops and Office Hours 🗝️👇

Everyone's building for "the ecosystem" but nobody is building for a buyer. Tomorrow's workshop by Kornel from @JET_EUROPA_ & @jito): You'll get: > a buyer map for your own product > a clearer read on who to stop chasing > closer to PMF Register ➔ luma.com/build-for-breakpoin…

Looking forward to be mentoring teams and founders this year in the run-up to @solana Breakpoint in London! I will be deep-diving into product growth, discuss your metrics and help figure out how to get your retention through the roof🔥 Thanks to @SuperteamUK and @FoundationVent for hosting me! Signup via the link in the next message⬇️

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Encourage everyone within the CT chamber to every so often climb out of it and explore corpo events beyond It widens your scope of understanding; what makes markets move, what true problems exist and the solutions people are coming up with to solve them It expands your circle of influence; tokenizing gold? Just met a guy who distributes physical bullions. Searching for tradfi funding? Just met a lady from Barclays Bank Eagle Labs connecting founders with growth opportunities. Freshen up your approach and connect the dots across many industries and markets. It'll help you grow in ways you cant predict. Also an opportunity to shill the market you're building in to an audience that is inquisitive and likely to test new products and services. Distribution is key, make yourself present in all the rooms you possibly can. Kudos to last night's event organised by @1MrHarding and the @FoundationVent team. Great pitches and incredible network stretching from healthcare to banking all in the same room.

gm london, tonight you can learn how to raise on the world’s fastest growing economy (the internet). we’re hosting @MetaDAOProject’s Head of Fundraising @0xMista for a fireside & drinks at our new central office. for @SuperteamUK members and +1s. lu.ma/superteam-metadao

SuperteamUK grows people into legends and projects into businesses.

OpenAI: $852B. Anthropic: $380B. Every founder thinks this trickles down to them. It doesn't. But something else does. Remember Allbirds? Dying DTC brand. Overnight, an "AI-powered sustainable commerce platform." Nothing about the shoes changed. Everything about the story did. That's the real gift of OpenAI's valuation. Not more capital. A new story template. Investors stopped asking "do you use AI?" They're asking: "Is AI turning your industry into the next inevitable wave, and are you the one leading it?" The decks winning right now don't lead with the product. They lead with the world after AI eats the industry, then position the founder as the only one who can build it. Your pitch isn't "we built an AI tool for X." It's "X is about to be unrecognizable, and we're the ones rewriting it." Most founders pitch the tool. The raise goes to whoever pitches the transformation. Building the new version of your industry? DMs open. This post reflects the views of Foundation Ventures and is for informational purposes only. Nothing here constitutes investment, financial, legal, or tax advice, or an offer to buy or sell any security or token. DYOR

The payments giants have already placed their bets.

The Truth Nobody's Saying About Raising in the New Market Cycle Spoiler: Most founders are building projects, not businesses. Our founder, Michael Harding @1MrHarding doesn't do conventional. For the last two years, he'd been the voice in the room saying what everyone's thinking but nobody says out loud. And at @conv3rgence London 2026, he took the stage at the historic Mansion House to push back—hard—on the myths holding founders back from real capital. The Reality Check He Shared Here's what we've learned educating UHNWs, family offices, and corporations: There's a difference between blockchain and crypto. Like soccer and American football. They look similar on the surface, but the rules, strategy, and outcomes are nowhere near the same. Most founders are confusing the two, and it's costing them. If your business has no clear path to revenue generation or scaling, it's not a startup. It's a project. And VCs need to stop funding meta ideas and get back to basics: revenue-generating businesses that add real value and can actually get acquired. Tokens are dead weight. They don't just fail, they actively kill your reputation and your next funding round. You're essentially weaponising your own pitch. Raising capital in 2026 isn't about chasing trends. It's about building something real.

We’re really pleased to be supporting the @robinmarketsxyz team via our R3sidency accelerator in 🇬🇧, and I’m looking forward to seeing them present at Demo Day next Tuesday!

Very proud to announce a new founder success program @shek_dev, @sunnyteehee & I are heading up called Superteam Black Big 🙏 to Solana Fnd, our perks partners & the best mentor network in crypto for making this happen. We're super excited to help these high signal teams win

Most demo days end when the Zoom closes. Founders pitch, investors nod, everyone logs off, and the deck disappears into an inbox somewhere between a cold email and a calendar invite that never gets sent. That's the problem we built Foundation Ventures to solve. Our second Virtual Demo Day is on April 27th, and the investors in the room are: @FunFairVentures Rayad Group Family Office Wintermute Edge Capital @RedBeardVC Five founders. Five minutes each. No panel judging, no performative Q&A, just the pitch, and then the part that actually matters: the follow-up. After the call, we personally bring every deck into the right investor conversations. Not a mass email blast. Not a "thanks for attending." Real, warm introductions matched to mandate, across the VCs in the room and our wider network of funds, family offices and syndicates. Because getting five minutes in front of capital is the easy part. Staying in front of it is what closes rounds. If you're an early-stage founder raising now, or an investor who wants to see vetted deals before the wider market does, DM us. luma.com/x4cx8vsk