How to Scale AI x Crypto Startups: First-Hand Insights and Workshop
Many AI x crypto startups catch early momentum. Few survive the scaling phase.
What sets the long-term winners apart?
This workshop brings together founders, researchers, and operators who have built at the intersection of frontier tech and token economies.
We’ll share battle-tested strategies on scaling intelligent systems, aligning incentives with token design, and building infrastructure that can actually handle growth.
You’ll hear what others pay $thousands for - and connect with top-tier founders, VCs, and domain experts.
We’ll cover how to:
– Launch and scale real-world AI systems
– Raise funds and actually close the round
– Design tokens that grow with your project
– Avoid the rookie mistakes that sink most startups
If you're building an agent-based protocol, designing sustainable tokenomics, or just figuring out how to grow without breaking your system - this is where the sharpest minds in AI and Web3 come to share and collaborate.
Agenda
11:00 – Check-In & Welcome Coffee
Settle in, grab a drink, and meet other builders and investors in the room.
11:15 – Opening Remarks - Vatsal Raina, CTO at Apta.ai
Why scaling in AI x Crypto is different - and why it matters now more than ever.
How to turn cutting-edge AI into something usable, scalable, and valuable in Web3.
11:45 – Keynote: Scaling with Integrity – Aligning increasing token supply with growth - Alex Fatuliaj, Co-Founder at Simplicity Group
Lessons from 100+ token economies and how to design systems that don’t collapse under pressure.
12:05 – Deep Dive: Building Resilient AI Systems in Web3 - Vyas Raina, CSO at Apta.ai
Behind the scenes of building robust LLM agents, integrating with crypto rails, and staying ahead of technical debt.
12:30 – Interactive Workshop: Scaling Roadmaps + Common Pitfalls
Work in small groups with founders, researchers, and VCs to stress-test your own scaling plans or learn from others.
13:15 – Networking Coffee-break
One-on-one and small group networking with curated intros between founders, builders, and investors.
14:00 – Event Close
(But feel free to stay and keep the conversations going)
🧬 Featured Companies
Apta.ai is building the next generation of AI copilots — smart agents that automate complex workflows and surface deep insights through a conversational interface. Founded by Cambridge PhDs with 50+ publications and real-world deployment experience, Apta is scaling next-gen AI into practice.
Simplicity Group is a boutique consultancy focused on token design and research for Web3 ventures. With over $110M raised by clients and 50+ economies built, Simplicity helps founders align incentives, attract capital, and scale with clarity.
Speakers
Vatsal Raina Chief Technology Officer at Apta.ai
A top 1% Cambridge graduate in information engineering, PhD research in natural language processing and generative AI from the Machine Intelligence Laboratory Cambridge, formerly at Meta researching efficient retrieval augmented text embeddings.
Vyas Raina Chief Science Officer
A top 2% Cambridge engineering graduate with PhD research in adversarial robustness of LLMs from the Machine Intelligence Laboratory Cambridge, former research scientist at Amazon Web Services, and lead NLP researcher at Schonfeld.
Alex Fatuliaj Co-Founder & COO at Simplicity Group
Specializing in behavioral economics and politics, Alex advocates for sustainable token economies, with a sharp focus on incentive alignment and value accrual. He is a mentor at Sui Hub, Techstars, and other notable Web2 and Web3 projects.
More speakers and partners coming soon.