YZi Labs Startup Acceleration Program Upgrade: Year-round Rolling Recruitment, Up to $500,000 Investment Support for Web3 and AI Projects

LiquiditySurfer · 2026-01-19T13:22:12+00:00

YZi Labs announces the upgrade of its EASY Residency Startup Acceleration Program to a year-round rolling admission, with startup centers established in New York and San Francisco. Each project can receive up to $500,000 in support, focusing on Web3, AI, and biotech sectors. The plan includes hosting a global Demo Day, with the first event scheduled for April in Dubai.

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2026-01-19 13:22:12

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【ChainNews】YZi Labs announces a major upgrade to its EASY Residency Startup Acceleration Program. Starting from Q3, the previously quarterly batch model will be replaced with a year-round rolling admission, allowing more entrepreneurs to join.

To provide better localized services, the accelerator has established long-term startup centers in New York and the San Francisco Bay Area, creating a complete startup ecosystem for selected projects. In terms of funding, each project can receive up to $500,000 in support, including $150,000 SAFE investment plus an additional $350,000 under an unlimited SAFE agreement.

In addition to funding, selected teams will also receive office space, housing stipends, and technical resources from strategic partners such as Amazon AWS.

In terms of development focus, the accelerator mainly concentrates on three major areas: Web3, AI, and biotechnology. Specifically, they are looking for early-stage projects in fields such as on-chain trading markets, stablecoins and payment infrastructure, tokenization of real-world assets, enterprise AI agents, robotics technology, and new drug development.

Every year, three global Demo Days will be organized, providing projects with opportunities to showcase to investors. The first Demo Day is scheduled for April during the TOKEN2049 conference in Dubai. The lineup of mentors and speakers is also quite impressive, including Binance co-founder Zhao Changpeng, He Yi, and Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin, among other industry experts.

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SpeakWithHatOn

· 6h ago

500,000 dollars is really impressive, and the rolling recruitment tactic is also smart.

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RektRecovery

· 10h ago

rolling admission sounds good until you realize the deal terms are the classic pattern we've seen collapse before... unlimited SAFE mechanics always end the same way, don't they

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FrontRunFighter

· 10h ago

rolling admissions sound nice on paper but let's be real—who's actually getting that full 500k? the real game is in the screening phase, always is. follow the mev extraction logic here and you'll see who actually moves capital vs who just talks about it.

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