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$12 Million Crypto War Chest: Blockchain Builders Back Founders in 2025 Funding Blitz

$12 Million Crypto War Chest: Blockchain Builders Back Founders in 2025 Funding Blitz

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2025-05-27 16:03:12
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Blockchain Builders Set To Deploy $12 Million To Crypto Founders By End Of 2025

Crypto’s next wave of disruptors just got a $12 million lifeline—and Wall Street’s spreadsheet jockeys won’t know what hit them.

Funding frenzy ahead: Anonymous ’blockchain builders’ are deploying capital to crypto founders at a pace that would make traditional VCs blush. No roadshows, no pitch decks—just code and conviction.

The 2025 deadline looms: With eighteen months to allocate the full amount, this isn’t your grandfather’s slow-drip venture capital. Expect checks written between blockchain transactions and coffee breaks.

Bonus jab: Meanwhile, traditional finance is still trying to tokenize their office coffee machines.

Building The Stanford Blockchain Ecosystem 

The Blockchain Builders Fund is one of the many projects already launched by Rosen, Peng and Willinger to support the growing Stanford Blockchain Ecosystem. The team has had a hand in launching Stanford’s Blockchain Accelerator, and they have taught in the MS&E 447 Blockchain Entrepreneurship course, and helped produce the Blockchain Application Stanford Summit (BASS) conference series. 

Speaking of their previous successes, Blockchain Builder’s Co-founder Kun Peng, stated: 

“These initiatives have supported over 200 founders, 400 students, and nearly 5000 cumulative attendees, and provide a DEEP network to inspire, support, and mentor new founders for success.”

David Tse, a professor at Stanford and co-founder of the Babylon protocol, a Bitcoin staking platform, believes the funding will help accelerate the growth of Stanford’s blockchain ecosystem. He further shared that the successes of the accelerator program are nurturing the founders from the university and helping push forward the future of Web3 across Stanford. 

“Stanford has an extensive history of blockchain research and innovation, including the Tse Lab that I run, the Centre for Blockchain Research, and coursework like my EE 374 course on blockchain infrastructure,” Tse said. “It’s also responsible for the BASS events and MS&E 447 entrepreneurship course, while the Stanford blockchain accelerator has helped further nurture its founder ecosystem and the number of blockchain startups launching.”

Experts Pushing Forward Web3 Development

Blockchain Builders boasts a team of experienced personalities and professionals across traditional finance and the emerging crypto economy. Willinger previously led Coinbase Ventures, invested at Capital One Ventures, and worked in product and partnerships at Blockstream and Google / Google X. Rosen, a prolific angel investor, bootstrapped a 100-employee venture, building distributed compute infrastructure for JPMorgan, London Stock Exchange, and the IRS; exiting to AI platform NGData. While Peng has extensive founder experience in web3 spanning crypto analytics and indexing, NFT, DeFi, and infrastructure.

Gil Rosen believes their efforts will help mould new-age and high-potential founders, working with them to grow their companies into global Web3 giants.  

“We roll up our sleeves and dive into the details of strategy, go-to-market, and fundraising - positioning them optimally for competitive follow-on rounds led by tier-1 investors,” Rosen added. 

Following the completion of Fund I, Blockchain Builders is looking forward to launching Fund II. The new funding round is looking to expand its support to the new IC3-Cornell accelerator which includes Berkeley, Carnegie Melon, Princeton, Yale, and UCL, and is collaborating on thought leading events with the ethereum Foundation, Solana, Starkware, BASE (Coinbase), and more; scaling its mission of supporting founders nationwide.

Disclaimer: This article is provided for informational purposes only. It is not offered or intended to be used as legal, tax, investment, financial, or other advice.

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