Between February - March 2021, Seed Club welcomed 11 projects into its second accelerator cohort. Among SC02 participants were a mystical NFT with plans for community ownership, an initiative to define a new category of journalism centered around 24/7 coverage of live digital events, and a music focused Patreon operated by artists as a co-op. Over the 6 weeks of the Accelerator, the creators and teams behind these projects worked closely with Seed Club to better understand how web3 tools could help them create more value and impact for the fans, communities and customers they serve. This is a glimpse into where each project was as it started, with many learnings continuing to evolve as some sunset, some pivot and some find a successful foothold in web3.

Check out SC03 here.

By the Numbers

11

projects

1.13B

proj issued tokens

Cultivation

A curated collection of resources, ideas, and tools as mentioned by SC02 alumni ...

• 🗞️ A discourse on how community tokens can power cooperatives as penned by Austin Robey. Read about frameworks on democratic ownership and new economic models: "Ways to Improve the ownership economy."
• 🎧 A panel on growth as hosted by Will Rowe*.* Listen in on what can good growth might mean in the context of decentralized, collectively owned community: "What is good growth?"
• 🧰 A quick rundown of Web3 tools & projects as discussed by cohort members that may be helpful to you: [Dinner DAO] [Gnosis] [Snapshot] [Unlock] [Axie Infinity] [Coinvise] [Utopia] [Parcel] [Passage] [Syndicate DAO] [Social Stack] [Collab.Land]
• 🌱 Subscribe to cohort content if you haven't already: GCR Newsletter, Protein Blog, Ampled Blog, JUMP Newsletter, Afrofuture Blog, Rendar Notifs, The First Mint Newsletter

Meet SC02

afrofutureDAO

AfrofutureDAO is a DAO stewarding a vault of African history assets into Web3.

We curate and commission Afrofuturism while promoting Africa's Web3 creators.

Twitter: @afrofutureai

• Generated 31 ETH worth of African art and historical content in revenue to date, including a 3 ETH bid on an exciting Nelson Mandela project
• Built a tool to help existing token projects launch store fronts

"Seed Club was a fantastic experience for our team and crucial to the momentum we've built for AfrofutureDAO. Seed Club has done the hard work in aggregating the early energy that has formed around social tokens in a way that makes it an invaluable asset for anyone looking to launch into the space."

<aside> 🌱 "Pay attention to who's engaging, who's taking initiative, who is volunteering what they can take on."

• Andrew Berkowitz, on best practices to building community

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