Encode Club

What they do

Encode Club is a London-based global community and education platform focused on blockchain and emerging technology. Founded in 2020, it offers hackathons, bootcamps, accelerators, and workshops to train and onboard developers into the Web3 ecosystem. Encode Club partners with leading blockchain protocols such as Ethereum, Solana, Avalanche, Polkadot, Polygon, and Algorand, and also invests in promising startups that emerge from its programs. The organization has raised $5 million in funding and supports a wide network of university blockchain clubs and early-stage startups.

What they look for

Encode Club believes the best way to find the next unicorn is to create it. Their thesis revolves around "education-led investing": by training thousands of developers and hosting hackathons, they get first-look access to high-potential technical talent before other VCs. They focus on Web3 (DeFi, Infrastructure, Gaming) and increasingly AI Agents, seeking technical founders building crypto-native or AI-native solutions, with a strong bias towards hackathon winners from their own programs.

Stage

Pre-seed

Sectors

Fintech, Consumer, AI, Deeptech

Based

London, GB