Within the Aleph Festival, the Buildathon Season was the second stage of the Builder Funnel: six weeks of founder programs designed to help startups move faster on their way to Devconnect. There were six tracks for builders to choose from.
Crecimiento co-organized the two flagship tracks. The DeFi Track, alongside the Uniswap Foundation: activities every Tuesday at the Aleph Hub, streamed live for the selected startups, with technical workshops, from v4 hooks to sessions with OpenZeppelin, and fireside chats with founders like Gabriel Gruber (Exa). And the Founders Track, with the support of Lisk, for early-stage founders solving real problems in Latin America: talks with established founders and investors from the region's leading funds, with Hernán Kazah (Kaszek Ventures) and Nader Dabit (EigenLayer) among the participants' favorites.
The season's numbers: 36 selected startups, more than 40 activities and more than 50 hours of content. There were 18 group mentoring sessions, scheduled across time slots so no timezone was left out, and six masterclasses closing each week, with Arnaud Schenk (Aztec), Matías Nisenson (Wonderland), Devin Walsh (Uniswap Foundation), Gideon Greaves (Lisk), Nader Dabit (EigenLayer) and Iván Raskovsky (GenLayer). The agenda's thread ran from product and branding to go-to-market and legal, closing with pitching, demos and funding.
The season also promoted tracks from ecosystem partners: Edge City Patagonia, a month-long pop-up village in San Martín de los Andes with around 500 founders, researchers and creators; World Build 2, by Friends With Benefits and World, with up to 200 thousand dollars in grants and a final in San Francisco; Acelera by Odisea, alongside the Ethereum Foundation and with a Demo Day at Devconnect; and the Funding the Commons Hackathon & Residency.
Whoever entered the Buildathon Season secured a place at the Aleph Hub until November 22 and arrived with an edge at the next step of the funnel: the Startup World Cup. The festival that hosted it has its own story: Aleph Festival.