Born at Stanford.

Founder ambition, speed, agility, and domain expertise, are the real alpha.

Stanford is the beating heart of tomorrow’s innovation and the mind, body, and spirit of xBuilders.

We teach coursework, run accelerators, and produce events for Stanford Students, Alumni, and peers, that have spawned hundreds of founders (and tens of unicorns), building ubiquitous intelligence, digitization, and capital markets.

We began by backing deeply technical founders leveraging blockchain innovation to build the open, interoperable, digital infrastructure, that underpins the Finance industry’s largest platform shift in 50 years. 

With extensive backgrounds in data infrastructure and machine learning we broadened our remit to the bleeding edge infrastructure stack for pervasive AI, and the universal digitization and financialization it necessitates.


  • pod

    The xBuilders team has been a critical asset for pod. With their strong connections in the Web3 space and unique ability to help us earn mindshare at their flagship events, they've been incredibly helpful as we've navigated fundraising and early growth. Having support from people who've been down this road before makes a big difference.

    -Shresth Agrawal, CEO/Cofounder pod

  • Working with xBuilders Fund has been like adding co-founders who deeply understand both the founder journey and the frontier of crypto. From day one, they’ve been in the trenches with us—bringing not just capital, but critical assets like the Stanford community, strategic intros, and distribution firepower through BASS and ETH SF. Their support was pivotal in helping us close our first key partnerships and sharpen our GTM and investor pitch.

    -Michael Heinrich, Founder/CEO 0g.ai

  • xBuilders is simply one of the best partners a founder could ask for. They’ve been part of the team from day one, helping us drive critical milestones through high-impact strategic introductions and founder-first support. Their help in scaling our ecosystem to over 50 key partners, many across the Stanford landscape, has been transformational. We’re proud to have them on the Nexus journey from the very start.

    -Daniel Marin, Founder/CEO Nexus

  • xBuilders has been the key relationship in our journey: from that first Stanford class, to monthly strategy sessions, their accelerator, and their intros that led directly to an a16z CSX investment. Their thought-provoking guidance keeps sharpening our product, and their BASS events and private meet-ups are my go-to hubs for top-tier crypto connections. They’re more than backers—they’re indispensable partners and friends.

    -Sam Green, Founder/CEO Cambrian

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