The Entrepreneur's Journey in 2025
We invite the founders behind the Cryptonite 300 top companies to share their entrepreneurial stories across our e-letter, video and live platforms to show where Web3 innovation is taking the world.
The Cryptonite 300 Top Companies in 2025
Somewhere between the raw startups and the unicorns are the AI, blockchain, crypto, robotics, and other pioneering Web3 companies offering the best equity ROI potential in the global Silicon Valley. We place an annual bet each year when we choose our annual Cryptonite 300—Top private Web3 companies. Our picks for 2025, their current valuations, and AI profile links can be viewed in the post below.
The editorial and research team that produced the Cryptonite 300 previously produced the AlwaysOn 250 for Web2 companies. Out of the 1,483 unique companies that made the AO 250 list over twelve years (2003 to 2015), 572 were successfully acquired, and 193 went public, representing a 52 percent exit rate to date. If we maintain our record, that means that over 50 percent of the companies on the Cryptonite 300 will have a successful exit.😎💰💰💰
If your company is on the Cryptonite 300 whose founders want to tell their entrepreneurial journey, contact: TheEditor@cryptoniteventures.com
Tell your company’s entrepreneurial journey
In addition to the Weekly Rap Substack e-letter, Cryptonite hosts Cryptonite Live! programming on our YouTube channel. We also produce an annual top entrepreneur, investor, and influencer live gathering and global broadcast in San Francisco called Silicon Valley' 25—Where is Web3 taking the world?
To best serve the cutting-edge content needs of our global audience, Cryptonite offers the founders of Cryptonite 300 companies the opportunity to coordinate their company's entrepreneurial journey across all our media platforms.
The Cryptonite Live! interview
Cryptonite founder and editor Anthony Perkins is hosting interviews with the founders of Cryptonite 300 and will also be presenting at our summer gathering for the next four months. This opportunity consists of the following:
A 40-60-minute Entrepreneur's Journey live interview on Cryptonite Live! by editor & founder Anthony Perkins, and archived indefinitely on our YouTube channel so it can be shared across a company's blog, social media outlets and sent to out in marketing campaigns.
The interview is also embedded with a company profile in an edition of the Cryptonite Weekly Rap distributed to over 520,000 subscribers and archived and listed in the site's Entrepreneur's Journey section of the Weekly Rap's homepage.
Receive three complimentary Cryptonite founding memberships, with bonus Cryptonite PRO coins and a 'Founding Member' NFT.
Invitations to future private gatherings, global summits, and potential Cryptonite Live! guest commentator opportunities on our news and industry feature programs.
"Cryptonite does not merely represent a tech business media brand, it reflects a risk-taker lifestyle choice. You either accept the way the world is, or you make an effort to try to remake it for the better. You are either in or out. If you are in, Cryptonite is the entrepreneurial tool that will keep you informed and relevant.'
—Anthony Perkins, founder & editor of Cryptonite
Silicon Valley ‘25 live event participation—July X-X, San Francisco
Silicon Valley '25 (SV'25) is an annual gathering of top entrepreneurs, risk investors, thought leaders and scholars to discuss and debate the most pressing issues of our time, and where we honor the Cryptonite 300 top company winners for the year.
An announcement of the company's participation with the founder's profile brief and AI profile link in an edition of the Cryptonite Weekly Rap (distribution 520,000+).
The opportunity to be present and engage in front of a live gathering of 600 entrepreneurial peers, risk investors, industry experts, and influencers.
The SV'25 program will be broadcast live over Cryptonite Live! and archived on our YouTube channel and archived indefinitely under the SV'25 event playlist.
Two tickets + complimentary invite for spouse/partner at an exclusive dinner to honor the Cryptonite 300 companies.
The company logo will be rotating on the lobby and theatre screens throughout the gathering.
Brand Partner upgrade opportunities
A demo table in the main ballroom entrance.
Strategic introductions and meeting arrangements during SV'25 lunches and breaks.
Cost of admission
Crytonite’s Entrepreneur’s Journey package includes the pre-event video podcast interview with a company founder and their participation in the Silicon Valley ‘25 broadcasted live event program in Presidio Park in San Francisco on July X & X this summer. Once our editors and the company agree on the programming details, the only ‘cost’ is the purchase of two tickets to the event. The entrepreneur’s pricing of $1,950 per ticket is 33 percent off the general ticket price.
While Cryptonite is programming the event, Silicon Valley ‘25 is presented by Voting Block USA (VB USA), a 501 c3 non-profit, nonpartisan, grassroots project dedicated to educating the public on how Web3 innovation—including blockchain, AI, crypto, robotics, metaverse, and Greentech—can help create a more private, secure, efficient, and sustainable private and public sector. Portions of ticket purchases and brand sponsorship may, therefore, be tax deductible.
If your company is on the Cryptonite 300 whose founders want to tell their entrepreneurial journey, contact: TheEditor@cryptoniteventures.com
Influencing the early-influencers
The Web2 era created $20 trillion in new wealth. Our view is that the Web3 boom represents a 10x Web2 economic opportunity and will create over $200 trillion in new wealth over the next quarter century. The promise of Web3 innovation is a more private, secure, self-empowered world. The Cryptonite 300 companies represent the most elite enterprises driving this disruption and new opportunity for the benefit of all.
"Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things. They push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world are the ones who do."
Steve Jobs in 1997 while launching the Think Different marketing campaign.
Web3 entrepreneurs can hugely accelerate this transition to a better world by broadcasting their entrepreneurial journeys and brand values to a broader, innovation-savvy influencer market—entrepreneurial peers, corporate players, investors, industry analysts, bloggers, early adopters, and supporting professional communities.
“Marketing is about values. It’s a complicated and noisy world, and we’re not going to get a chance to get people to remember much about us. No company is. So we have to be really clear about what we want them to know about us.”
—Steve Jobs
Turn global Silicon Valley insiders into your brand value advocates
Sell your company's journey and dreams to the global Silicon Valley insider and early adopter community in cross-media experiences with Cryptonite. Over 80 percent of Weekly Rap's subscribers are top executives from leading companies like Apple, Coinbase, Nvidia, and Disney, and the founders of private VC-backed companies like Perplexity.ai and Neuralink, and 25% are corporate and venture investors such as Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Coinbase Ventures, SamsungNext, and Salesforce Ventures. The other 20 percent are service professionals assisting big and emerging tech companies, such as Deloitte, JP Morgan, and Boston Consulting Group.
Statistically, 50 percent+ of the Cryptonite 300 class of 2025 will have a successful exit (i.e., IPO or company sale), and fewer than 20% will achieve sustainability by dominating their market sector. Successful entrepreneurial companies tell simple, intuitive, easy-to-remember stories that create images that are bigger than they actually are. As Mr. Jobs also used to say, 'Even the smallest company in the world can look as big as the largest company on the web.'
Cryptonite can work with your company across all mediums to build anticipation for your brand and consistently keep it in front of the industry influencers and early adopters who matter.
If your company is on the Cryptonite 300 whose founders want to tell their entrepreneurial journey, contact: TheEditor@cryptoniteventures.com
"In the global Silicon Valley, who you know, what you know, and when you know it is the highest valued currency. Our promise to our members and brand partners is to keep them in front of the innovators and champions who are helping turn the world around one more time for the better of all!'
—Anthony Perkins, founder & editor of Cryptonite
Brand partnership opportunities for BigTech companies, service firms, and high-end consumer brands
In addition to working with Cryptonite 300 companies, we also offer customized branding opportunities across all our platforms doe BigTech companies, service firms, and high-end consumer brands.
If your company, service firm, or consumer brand wishes to put its brand values and business development messaging in front of the entrepreneurs creating half the jobs and wealth in society, contact us at: TheEditor@cryptoniteventures.com.
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