Author: Alliance
Compiled by: Deep Tide TechFlow
Deep Tide Introduction: Alliance is a top-tier incubator in the crypto industry, having incubated star projects like Pump.fun, Pendle, and Tensor.
The latest ALL16 cohort has 18 graduating teams, with a focus on stablecoin payments, prediction markets, AI applications, and RWA tokenization.
From financing for SMEs in Africa to web assistants for the visually impaired, from on-chain Pre-IPO stocks to AI employees for law firms, the founders' backgrounds include Y Combinator, Jane Street, Apple AI, Solana Foundation, and more.
ALL17 applications close on March 25th.
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Alliance ALL16's 18 new projects are officially unveiled.
Allod(@AllodFinance)|Enterprise-Grade Stablecoin Banking
Allod enables businesses in emerging markets to transfer dollars instantly and at low cost using stablecoins, bypassing manual bank compliance reviews—banks flag one-third of wire transfers as anomalous, with a false positive rate exceeding 97%. Allod bundles fiat on/off ramps, counterparty compliance, and key management into a product with an everyday banking account experience.
The founder graduated from UC Berkeley's Computer Science department and co-founded Fei Labs, which raised $1.3 billion, and its decentralized stablecoin once ranked among the top ten by market cap.
Predexon(@predexon)|Unified API for Prediction Markets
Predexon simplifies development on prediction markets like Polymarket and Kalshi. Developers can use Predexon's market-matching engine to deduplicate and unify markets from different platforms into a single interface, access real-time data pipelines for historical and live data, and execute trades across platforms through a single integration.
The two founders were college roommates at Berkeley's College of Engineering and previously worked at Amazon and AWS.
Superbank(@superbankapp)|Pre-Settlement Liquidity for Fintechs
Superbank helps fintech companies pre-fund their fiat bank accounts at reasonable costs, without taking on excessive debt or equity dilution. Unlike traditional long-term business underwriting, Superbank primarily underwrites payment flows, issuing loans against settlement funds typically received within 1 to 3 days, automating the traditional manual process via API.
The founder previously built Penta, one of Europe's largest digital banks, later sold to Qonto for $250 million. The core team has worked together for nine years.
Givance(@givance_ai)|AI Employees for Law Firms
Givance integrates autonomous agents into a law firm's entire tech stack, automating operations. Lawyers can offload tasks like client intake, communication, billing, and collections to the agents, reducing administrative overhead and increasing billable hours—a real gap exists, as roughly 200,000 US law firms lack operational staff.
The founder has had two successful exits and background at Google Research, Snapchat, and YC S23.
Deconflict(@deconflict_)|Palantir for Financial Crime
Deconflict helps financial institutions prevent fraud by directly connecting user data with law enforcement data. When law enforcement flags suspicious activity, Deconflict instantly alerts money movement entities like exchanges, banks ) before funds are moved out, allowing them to freeze assets without revealing sensitive case details. Over 800 law enforcement agencies from 26 countries are already on the platform.
The founder has 22 years of law enforcement experience, including at the US Secret Service; the co-founder led AI initiatives for Apple Intelligence.
Crebit(crebitpay.com)|Stablecoin Cross-Border Tuition Payments for Int'l Students
Crebit uses stablecoin FX trading to make cross-border tuition payments faster and cheaper for international students. By partnering with local banks and supporting regional payment methods like PIX and Boleto, Crebit completely bypasses SWIFT fees. Brazil's largest bank, Itaú, has designated Crebit as its official study abroad partner.
The founding team hails from Stanford, Amazon, NASA, and MIT.
Couch(@couch_labs)|AI Web Assistant for the Visually Impaired
Couch helps visually impaired people browse the web. Traditional screen readers force users to listen to every element on a page sequentially. Couch runs as a lightweight browser extension: it first uses AI to understand the entire page, then only presents what's actually important—like actions you can take, such as booking the cheapest flight, filtering results, etc.
The founder spent 15 years building tools at Meta and Cloudflare.
Freeport(@freeportmrkts)|Tradable Real-Time News Feed
Freeport delivers real-time breaking news alerts with relevant trade directions and analysis, enabling retail investors to instantly "trade the news." The platform uses AI agents to continuously update market intel, inferring the best trading opportunities from news headlines related to tokenized stocks and perpetuals on Hyperliquid.
The two founders studied math and CS together and both have backgrounds at IMC and Jane Street.
Inflow(@Inflowpay)|Stripe for Cross-Border SMEs
Inflow enables any SME to accept card payments from around the world at reasonable rates. By rebuilding the merchant acquirer tech stack on stablecoin rails, Inflow leverages existing connections to secure bank contracts that typically take years to negotiate, beating legacy providers who charge 10% fees and have multi-week settlement times.
One founder was a founding engineer at an MPC wallet startup; the other previously built a bootstrapped company to seven-figure annual revenue.
Hadron(@Hadron_Fi)|AMM-as-a-Service
Hadron makes it simple and cheap for token teams to deploy their own proprietary AMMs on Solana. By reverse-engineering and generalizing the math behind the black-box proprietary AMMs responsible for over half of Solana's volume, Hadron allows any token project to customize pricing and swap logic, and guarantees every liquidity pool is on all major Solana DEX aggregators from day one.
The founder is from the Solana Foundation and Alchemy.
Worm(@wormwtf)|Leveraged Prediction Markets
Worm provides capital-efficient leverage tools for prediction market traders. Through a liquidity provision protocol with dynamic hedging and a liquidation engine, Worm lets users gain leveraged exposure to prediction markets from aggregated order books (initially supporting Polymarket and Kalshi) with optimal execution.
One founder left a product manager role at Facebook to lead product at Aave, then became CPO at Rarible; the co-founder is a math olympiad gold medalist.
Graded(@Gradeddotworld)|On-Chain StockX
Graded enables collectors to instantly and securely trade any collectible (physical or digital) from anywhere in the world. By aggregating collectibles from existing markets (on and off-chain) and acting as a custody and settlement layer, Graded unlocks value trapped in the $350B+ physical collectibles market sitting in collectors' hands.
The founder previously built a crypto-native bank that peaked at $100M in stablecoin AUM.
Lucent(uselucent.io)|Life Sciences Tokenization
Lucent enables retail investors to buy into private biopharma assets—specifically drug IP and royalty streams, not the underlying companies themselves. Biotech companies tokenize on Lucent because it lets them fundraise against individual drug assets without diluting overall equity. Three VC-backed biopharma companies are already signed on, working on neurology and rare disease therapeutics.
The co-founders graduated from Yale and Cornell; one previously built a nine-figure revenue health tech company and a multi-billion dollar biopharma company.
Akara(@AkaraMarkets)|Live Sports Event Intelligence
Akara provides low-latency, low-cost sports betting edge for retail traders. By deploying ground scout networks at live games, Akara uses AI to convert real-time audio into actionable intelligence—faster than TV broadcasts lagging reality by 30 seconds, and far cheaper than institutional-only data services costing $200k+ annually.
The founding team is from Morgan Stanley (quant trading), Palantir, Duke (PhD), and MIT / Jane Street.
Bluvo(@Bluvo_co)|Crypto's Plaid
Bluvo provides white-label APIs for DeFi apps to enable seamless, secure direct connections to any centralized exchange (CEX). By designing a novel authentication flow and rearchitecting security best practices, Bluvo lets apps like Polymarket offer smooth user flows for easy fund transfers from CEXs—a feature expensive and fragile to build in-house.
The team are serial entrepreneurs who previously built an algorithmic crypto trading firm doing $100M in volume.
Ratio(@ratio_dot_you)|Social App for Prediction Markets
Ratio helps retail prediction market participants quickly see what top traders are doing and copy their trades with one click. Top traders earn as their audience grows and volume increases, becoming KOLs in a flywheel of copy trading and creator monetization.
The founders each previously scaled their startups to over 100k users and have backgrounds at Coinbase and unicorn fintech companies.
Tradevu(@tradevu_co)|Stablecoin Banking for African Businesses
Tradevu provides instant, low-cost financing to African SMEs by underwriting real trade behaviors (including logistics data, counterparty info, order velocity, and payment behavior). Credit is built around verified transactions, with funds deployable seamlessly across suppliers, currencies, and borders, covering viable businesses often excluded by traditional trade finance models.
The founder previously built Pivo (YC S22), which deployed over $8M to African SMEs, and Jalo, later acquired by a YC company.
PreStocks(@PreStocks)|Tokenized Pre-IPO Stocks
PreStocks provides instant liquidity for Pre-IPO stocks to retail investors of any size, allowing entry and exit at any time. Each token is backed by an SPV (Special Purpose Vehicle) equipped with a custom market-making engine for real-time accurate pricing and reliable on-chain liquidity. Since launching in August, volume has exceeded $350M, solving the poor liquidity and lagged pricing of private equity.
The founder has been in crypto since 2013, was an early engineer at Canva, and executed 50 Pre-IPO deals in the past year.
Congratulations to all the founders advancing to the ALL16 Demo Day.
Alliance ALL17 applications close March 25th. Apply at alliance.xyz.
