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The latest cohort of ALL16 has 18 teams graduating, focusing on stablecoin payments, prediction markets, AI applications, and RWA tokenization.

From financing for African SMEs to web assistants for the visually impaired, from on-chain pre-IPO stocks to AI employees for law firms, the founders of these teams come from backgrounds including Y Combinator, Jane Street, Apple AI, and the Solana Foundation.

The deadline for ALL17 applications is March 25th.

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Alliance ALL Phase 16, featuring 18 new projects, has officially launched.

Allod

(@AllodFinance) | Enterprise-grade stablecoin bank

Allod enables businesses in emerging markets to transfer dollars instantly and at low cost using stablecoins, bypassing manual compliance checks by banks—which flag one-third of wire transfers as suspicious, with a false alarm rate exceeding 97%. Allod handles fiat currency deposits and withdrawals, counterparty compliance, and key management within a single package of products that provide an everyday banking experience.

The founder graduated from the Computer Science Department of UC Berkeley and co-founded Fei Labs, a project that raised $1.3 billion and whose decentralized stablecoin once ranked among the top ten in market capitalization.

Predexon

(@predexon) | Unified API for Prediction Markets

Predexon simplifies development on prediction markets such as Polymarket and Kalshi. Developers can use Predexon's market matching engine to deduplicate and integrate markets from different platforms into a unified interface, access real-time data pipelines to obtain historical and real-time data, and execute trades across platforms through a single integration.

The two founders were college roommates at Berkeley's School of Engineering and previously worked at Amazon and AWS.

Superbank

(@superbankapp) | Pre-financing liquidity for fintech companies

Superbank helps fintech companies pre-finance fiat bank accounts at reasonable costs without incurring excessive debt or equity dilution. Unlike traditional long-term business assessments, Superbank primarily insures payment channels and provides loans for settlement funds that typically arrive within 1 to 3 days, automating traditionally manual processes through APIs.

The founder previously founded Penta, one of Europe's largest digital banks, which was later sold to Qonto for $250 million. The core team has worked together for nine years.

Givance

(@givance_ai) | AI Employees at Law Firms

Givance integrates autonomous AI agents into the entire technology stack of law firms, automating firm operations. Lawyers can delegate tasks such as client reception, communication, billing, and collection to AI agents, reducing management costs and increasing billing time—a real gap exists in the approximately 200,000 law firms in the United States that lack operational staff.

The founder has two successful exits and has experience working at Google Research, Snapchat, and YC S23.

Deconflict

(@deconflict_) | Palantir in the field of financial crime

Deconflict helps financial institutions prevent fraud by directly integrating user data with law enforcement data. When law enforcement flags suspicious activity, Deconflict instantly alerts exchanges, banks, and other money transfer institutions, allowing them to freeze assets before funds are transferred out, while protecting sensitive case details. Currently, over 800 law enforcement agencies from 26 countries have connected to the platform.

The founder has 22 years of law enforcement experience, including service with the U.S. Secret Service; the co-founder previously led Apple Intelligence's AI project.

Crebit

(crebitpay.com) | Stablecoin Cross-Border Payment for International Students

Crebit makes it faster and cheaper for international students to pay tuition fees across borders through stablecoin foreign exchange transactions. By partnering with local banks and supporting regional payment methods such as PIX and Bre-B, Crebit completely bypasses SWIFT fees. Itaú, Brazil's largest bank, has designated Crebit as its official study abroad partner.

The founding team comes from Stanford University, Amazon, NASA, and MIT.

Couch

(@couch_labs) | An AI Web Assistant for Visually Impaired People

Couch helps visually impaired people navigate the web. Traditional screen readers force users to listen to every single element on a page, while Couch operates as a lightweight browser extension: it first uses AI to understand the entire page, then presents only the truly important content—such as actions you can perform, like booking the cheapest flight or filtering results.

The founder spent 15 years developing tools at Meta and Cloudflare.

Freeport

(@freeportmrkts) | A tradable real-time news feed

Freeport provides real-time push notifications of major news, along with relevant trading directions and analysis, enabling retail investors to instantly access "trading news." The platform uses an AI agent to continuously update market information, inferring the best trading opportunities from news headlines about tokenized stocks and perpetual contracts on Hyperliquid.

The two founders studied mathematics and computer science together and both have experience working at IMC and Jane Street.

Inflow

(@Inflowpay) | Stripe for cross-border SMEs

Inflow enables any small or medium-sized enterprise (SME) to accept bank card payments from around the world at reasonable prices. By rebuilding the merchant record technology stack on a stablecoin track, Inflow leverages existing connections to secure banking contracts that typically take years to negotiate, beating established service providers that charge 10% fees and have settlement cycles of several weeks.

One of the founders was a founding engineer at an MPC wallet startup, and the other had previously built a self-funded company with an annual revenue of seven figures.

Hadron

(@Hadron_Fi) | AMM as a Service

Hadron makes it simple and low-cost for token teams to deploy their own proprietary AMMs on Solana. By reverse-engineering and generalizing the mathematical logic behind Solana's black-box proprietary AMM, which accounts for more than half of Solana's trading volume, Hadron allows any token project to customize its pricing and swap logic and guarantees that each liquidity pool runs on all major DEX aggregators on Solana on its first day of launch.

The founders come from the Solana Foundation and Alchemy.

Worm

(@wormwtf) | Leveraged Prediction Market

Worm provides prediction market traders with a more capital-efficient leverage tool. Through a liquidity provision protocol with a dynamic hedging and liquidation engine, Worm allows users to participate in prediction markets with leverage from aggregated order books (initially supporting Polymarket and Kalshi) for optimal execution.

One of the founders led Aave's product development after leaving his product manager position at Facebook, and later became Rarible's Chief Product Officer; the co-founder is a gold medalist in the Mathematical Olympiad.

Graded

(@Gradeddotworld) | On-chain StockX

Graded enables collectors to trade any collectible (physical or virtual) instantly and securely from anywhere in the world. By aggregating collectibles from existing markets (on-chain and off-chain) and acting as a custody and settlement layer, Graded unlocks over $350 billion in value locked in the hands of collectors in the physical collectibles market.

The founder previously established a crypto-native bank with peak stablecoin asset management of $100 million.

Lucent

(uselucent.io) | Tokenization of Life Sciences

Lucent allows retail investors to purchase private biopharmaceutical assets, specifically drug intellectual property and royalty exposure, rather than the companies themselves. Biotech companies are tokenized on Lucent because this allows for financing of individual drug assets without diluting overall equity. Three VC-backed biopharmaceutical companies have already signed on, covering neurology and rare disease therapies.

The co-founder is a graduate of Yale and Cornell and previously founded a nine-figure revenue health technology company and a multi-billion dollar biopharmaceutical company.

Akara

(@AkaraMarkets) | Live Sports Event Information

Akara offers retail traders the advantage of low latency and low cost in sports betting. By deploying a ground-based reconnaissance network at live games, Akara uses AI to transform real-time audio into actionable intelligence—faster than television broadcasts that are 30 seconds behind reality, and at a significantly lower cost than institutional data services that cost over $200,000 annually.

The founding team comes from Morgan Stanley (quantitative trading), Palantir, Duke University (PhD), and MIT/Jane Street.

Bluvo

(@Bluvo_co) | Encrypted Plaid

Bluvo provides white-label APIs for DeFi applications, enabling seamless and secure direct connections to any centralized exchange (CEX). By designing a completely new authentication process and refactoring security best practices, Bluvo allows applications like Polymarket to easily transfer funds from CEXs with a user-friendly workflow—a feature that is costly and vulnerable to build from scratch.

The team consists of serial entrepreneurs who previously built an algorithmic crypto trading company with a trading volume of $100 million.

Ratio

(@ratio_dot_you) | Prediction Market Social Application

Ratio helps retail investors quickly view the actions of top traders and copy their trades with a single click. Top traders earn revenue as their audience grows and trading volume increases, becoming KOLs (Key Opinion Leaders) through a flywheel effect of copy trading and creator monetization.

The founders each built their previous startups to over 100,000 users and have experience working at Coinbase and a unicorn financial company.

Tradevu

(@tradevu_co) | Stablecoin Bank for African Enterprises

Tradevu provides instant, low-cost financing to African SMEs by underwriting genuine trade transactions, including logistical data, counterparty information, order speed, and payment behavior. Credit is built around verified transactions, and funds can be seamlessly deployed across suppliers, currencies, and borders, covering viable businesses often excluded by traditional trade finance models.

The founder previously founded Pivo (YC S22), which deployed more than $8 million in funding for African SMEs, and Jalo, which was later acquired by the YC group.

PreStocks

(@PreStocks) | Tokenized Pre-IPO Stocks

PreStocks provides instant liquidity for pre-IPO stocks to retail investors of all sizes, allowing for immediate entry and exit. Each token is backed by an SPV (Special Purpose Vehicle) and equipped with a custom market-making engine, enabling real-time, accurate pricing and reliable on-chain liquidity. Since its launch in August, it has generated over $350 million in trading volume, addressing the issues of poor liquidity and pricing lag in private equity.

The founder entered the crypto space in 2013 and was an early engineer at Canva. He completed 50 pre-IPO deals in the past year.

Congratulations to all the founders who made it to ALL16 Demo Day!

The application deadline for Alliance ALL17 is March 25th. Apply at alliance.xyz .