Quick Look: Alliance ALL16 Demo Day Features 18 New Projects—Prediction Markets and AI Applications Emerge
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Quick Look: Alliance ALL16 Demo Day Features 18 New Projects—Prediction Markets and AI Applications Emerge
ALL17 application deadline is March 25.
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TechFlow Intro: Alliance is a top-tier crypto incubator that has launched standout projects including Pump.fun, Pendle, and Tensor.
The latest cohort, ALL16, features 18 graduating teams focused on stablecoin payments, prediction markets, AI applications, and real-world asset (RWA) tokenization.
From financing African SMEs to building web assistants for the visually impaired, from onchain pre-IPO stocks to AI-powered law firm staff, the founders of these teams come from backgrounds including Y Combinator (YC), Jane Street, Apple AI, and the Solana Foundation.
Applications for ALL17 close on March 25.
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Alliance’s ALL16 cohort officially unveils its 18 new projects.
Allod (@AllodFinance) | Enterprise-grade stablecoin banking
Allod enables businesses in emerging markets to instantly and cheaply transfer USD via stablecoins—bypassing manual bank compliance reviews. Banks flag one-third of wire transfers as anomalous, with false-positive rates exceeding 97%. Allod bundles fiat on/off-ramps, counterparty compliance, and key management into a seamless, everyday banking experience.
The founder graduated from UC Berkeley’s Computer Science program and co-founded Fei Labs, which raised $1.3 billion and launched a decentralized stablecoin that once ranked among the top ten by market cap.
Predexon (@predexon) | Unified API for prediction markets
Predexon simplifies development across prediction markets such as Polymarket and Kalshi. Developers can use Predexon’s market-matching engine to deduplicate and unify markets across platforms, tap into real-time data pipelines for historical and live data, and execute cross-platform trades 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-funding liquidity for fintech companies
Superbank helps fintech companies secure affordable pre-funding for fiat bank accounts—without taking on excessive debt or diluting equity. Unlike traditional long-term business assessments, Superbank primarily underwrites payment rails, issuing loans against settlement funds that typically clear within one to three days. It automates legacy manual processes 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 collaborated for nine years.
Givance (@givance_ai) | AI employees for law firms
Givance integrates autonomous agents across an entire law firm’s tech stack to automate operations. Lawyers can delegate tasks like client intake, communication, billing, and collections to AI agents—reducing administrative overhead and increasing billable time. Approximately 200,000 U.S. law firms lack dedicated operations staff—a real gap this solution addresses.
The founder has two successful exits and professional experience 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 authorities flag suspicious activity, Deconflict immediately alerts exchanges and banks—enabling them to freeze assets before funds leave, without exposing sensitive case details. Over 800 law enforcement agencies across 26 countries are already integrated onto the platform.
The founder brings 22 years of law enforcement experience, including service at the U.S. Secret Service; the co-founder previously led AI initiatives for Apple Intelligence.
Crebit (crebitpay.com) | Stablecoin-based cross-border tuition payments for international 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 Bre-B, Crebit completely bypasses SWIFT fees. Brazil’s largest bank, Itaú, has designated Crebit as its official study-abroad partner.
The founding team includes alumni from Stanford University, Amazon, NASA, and MIT.
Couch (@couch_labs) | AI-powered web assistant for the visually impaired
Couch helps visually impaired users 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 surfaces only what truly matters—such as actionable items like booking the cheapest flight or filtering results.
The founder spent 15 years building developer tools at Meta and Cloudflare.
Freeport (@freeportmrkts) | Tradable real-time news feed
Freeport delivers real-time breaking news with associated trade directions and analysis—enabling retail investors to “trade the news” instantly. Its AI agents continuously update market intelligence, inferring optimal trade opportunities from headlines about tokenized stocks and perpetual contracts on Hyperliquid.
Both founders studied mathematics and computer science together and have experience at IMC and Jane Street.
Inflow (@Inflowpay) | Stripe for cross-border SMEs
Inflow enables any SME to accept global card payments at reasonable prices. By rebuilding merchant record infrastructure on stablecoin rails, Inflow leverages existing connections to secure bank contracts that would normally take years to negotiate—outperforming legacy providers charging 10% fees and imposing multi-week settlement cycles.
One founder was the founding engineer at an MPC wallet startup; the other previously built a self-funded company generating seven-figure annual revenue.
Hadron (@Hadron_Fi) | AMM-as-a-Service
Hadron makes it simple and low-cost for token teams to deploy proprietary AMMs on Solana. By reverse-engineering and generalizing the mathematical logic behind the black-box proprietary AMMs responsible for over half of Solana’s transaction volume, Hadron allows any token project to customize pricing and swap logic—and guarantees that each liquidity pool launches fully integrated with all major Solana DEX aggregators on Day One.
The founders come from the Solana Foundation and Alchemy.
Worm (@wormwtf) | Leveraged prediction markets
Worm offers prediction market traders more capital-efficient leverage tools. Through a liquidity provision protocol featuring dynamic hedging and liquidation engines, Worm enables users to access leveraged exposure to prediction markets via aggregated order books (initially supporting Polymarket and Kalshi), achieving optimal execution.
One founder left Facebook as a Product Manager to lead product development at Aave, later serving as Chief Product Officer at Rarible; the co-founder is a gold medalist in the International Mathematical Olympiad.
Graded (@Gradeddotworld) | Onchain StockX
Graded enables collectors worldwide to instantly and securely trade any collectible—physical or digital. By aggregating collectibles from existing markets (both onchain and offchain) and acting as custodian and settlement layer, Graded unlocks over $350 billion in value locked up in collectors’ hands across the physical collectibles market.
The founder previously built a crypto-native bank with peak stablecoin asset management of $100 million.
Lucent (uselucent.io) | Tokenization for life sciences
Lucent enables retail investors to buy private biopharma assets—specifically drug IP and royalty exposures—rather than shares in the underlying companies. Biotech firms tokenize on Lucent because it lets them raise capital against individual drug assets without diluting overall equity. Three VC-backed biopharma companies have already signed on, focusing on neurology and rare-disease therapies.
The co-founders graduated from Yale and Cornell, and previously founded a health-tech company generating nine-figure revenue and a biopharma company valued in the billions.
Akara (@AkaraMarkets) | Real-time sports betting intelligence
Akara provides retail traders with low-latency, low-cost sports betting edge. By deploying ground-based reconnaissance networks at live sporting events, Akara uses AI to convert real-time audio into actionable intelligence—faster than TV broadcasts (which lag reality by 30 seconds) and far cheaper than institutional-grade data services costing over $200,000 annually.
The founding team includes alumni from Morgan Stanley (quant trading), Palantir, Duke University (PhD), and MIT / Jane Street.
Bluvo (@Bluvo_co) | Plaid for crypto
Bluvo provides white-label APIs for DeFi apps to achieve seamless, secure direct connectivity with any centralized exchange (CEX). By designing a novel authentication flow and rethinking security best practices, Bluvo enables apps like Polymarket to let users easily move funds from CEXs using friendly UX flows—a capability that is costly and fragile to build in-house.
The team consists of serial entrepreneurs who previously built an algorithmic crypto trading firm with $100 million in trading volume.
Ratio (@ratio_dot_you) | Social prediction market app
Ratio helps retail prediction market participants quickly view top traders’ positions and copy-trade with one click. Top traders earn rewards as their audience grows and trading volume increases—becoming KOLs in a flywheel of copy-trading and creator monetization.
The founders previously scaled their respective startups to over 100,000 users and have experience at Coinbase and unicorn fintech companies.
Tradevu (@tradevu_co) | Stablecoin banking for African enterprises
Tradevu provides instant, low-cost financing to African SMEs by underwriting real trade activity—including logistics data, counterparty information, order velocity, and payment behavior. Credit is built around verified transactions, enabling funds to be deployed seamlessly across suppliers, currencies, and borders—covering viable businesses often excluded by traditional trade finance models.
The founder previously launched Pivo (YC S22), which deployed over $8 million to African SMEs, and Jalo, later acquired by a YC portfolio company.
PreStocks (@PreStocks) | Tokenized pre-IPO stocks
PreStocks provides instant liquidity for pre-IPO stocks to retail investors of any size—enabling entry and exit at any time. Each token is backed by a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) and supported by a custom-built market-making engine, ensuring real-time precise pricing and reliable onchain liquidity. Since launching in August, trading volume has exceeded $350 million—addressing illiquidity and pricing lags in private equity.
The founder entered crypto in 2013, was an early engineer at Canva, and completed 50 pre-IPO trades over the past year.
Congratulations to all founders selected for the ALL16 Demo Day.
Applications for Alliance’s ALL17 cohort close on March 25—apply now at alliance.xyz.
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