Blockchain Education Platform Encode Club Secures $5M To Support Growth Of Web3 Dev Community
Summary
Encode Club, a Web3 education community with focuses on blockchain education, talent sourcing and venture investing, has completed a $5 million funding round that was led by Lemniscap and Galaxy Digital (TSX: GLXY).The investment round included participation from Dragonfly Ventures, Folius Ventures, not3Lau Capital, Ascensive Assets, as well as notable investors SolBigBrain, Stefan George from Gnosis, Jordan and Kain Warwick from Synthetix, Anton Bukov from 1inch, and Jason Choi.Encode Club was founded in 2020 and bootstrapped for two years by Anthony Beaumont and Damir Bandalo to solve Web3s most pressing problem talent education and onboarding into Web3.The company educates developers on its partner protocols, scouts engineering talent for companies, and invests in the promising startups that emerge.Encode Club intends to use the $5 million raised to further invest in its hands-on events such as coding bootcamps, hackathons, accelerators and workshops aimed at onboarding and training developers globally.Long-term partners include many of the leading protocols such as Algorand, Avalanche, Chainlink, Dfinity, Filecoin, Near, Polkadot, Polygon, Solana, Tezos, The Graph and many more.Encode also offers live AMAs with industry leaders such as CZ, Stani Kulechov, Emin Gun Sirer, Tegan Kline amongst others.Anthony Beaumont, co-founder and CEO of Encode Club, said:In the spirit of community-building, Encode is committed to enabling the success of ambitious and talented people working towards the development of Web3. Our approach is unique both in the quality and number of programmes we run, as well as the breadth of ecosystems we support. At Lemniscap, we want to go beyond stepping foot in the Web3 space we want to plant roots and help to actively build a thriving blockchain ecosystem from the ground up. We are honoured to have co-led this funding round and are excited to see Encode Club realise its vision for the success of the blockchain developer community.Encode has completely reinvented what an early-stage developer academy is capable of by going from bootstrapped to education, incubating, investing, and partnering with some of the best talent, protocols, and investors in just under two years. We couldnt be more excited to see how they help Web3 mature and grow even further.To join a program and get trained by Encode Club, you may check out: https://www.encode.club/.As noted in a release, Encode Club is a web3 learning community operating in-person and online globally.It trains developers across protocols through programmes such as hackathons, coding bootcamps, workshops and accelerators in partnership with the leading protocols including the likes of Ethereum, Solana, Avalanche, Polkadot, Polygon, Algorand and many others.As mentioned in the update, Lemniscap is an investment firm specializing in investments in emerging crypto assets and blockchain startups.Since its founding in 2017, Lemniscap has funded multiple investments in the crypto blockchain space, on the core belief that blockchain technology will upend traditional business models, resulting in profound changes in the world economy.The Lemniscap team consists of talented people with backgrounds in financial markets, PE/VC, technology and entrepreneurship.
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