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We're a circle of founders.
Now accelerating companies with AI.

The Circle →Read the thesis →Cohort 01 · 2026 · Cluj-Napoca

A tight circle of Blockchain & AI founders — at most 20, invite-only, on merit. An operator network and industry think tank: shared context, early feedback, the network already there. And now the circle puts it to work — accelerating companies with AI agents, alongside its operators.

Capacity
20 / max
Confirmed
12 / 20
Verticals
AI × Chain
Base
Cluj-Napoca
module.01 · contextRO · diagnostic

Every founder solves the same problems — alone.

  • 01Go-to-marketsiloed
  • 02Fundraisingsiloed
  • 03Connectionssiloed
  • 04Distributionsiloed
module.02 · signaltopology
CARPATH · 2544m
High-context peak. Shared ascent.
module.03 · capacityhard-cap
12/20
Twelve companies confirmed. Eight seats open until nomination.
module.04 · pitch→ 04.1

Your pitch, pressure-tested.

AI agents draft and red-line your deck; operators who've raised tear into it live — until it survives a cold read.
deck-reviewpitch-coach
module.05 · gtm→ 04.2

Your GTM, with reps.

We design your first user interviews and GTM motion with you — then you run the reps. Scope tight, sell from week one.
user-researchfirst-customers
module.06 · capital→ 04.3

Your raise, warm.

When you're ready, the circle opens its network — to the operators and capital that actually write the check.
warm-introscapital
module.07 · circle20 nodes · 12 live

Not advisors — operators.

The circle is founders who've shipped and raised real companies. They bring context, not just presence — and now put it to work accelerating the companies they back.
module.08.A · flagshipweb3

Blockchain

On-chain infrastructure, protocols, applications.
ProtocolsDeFiL2ToolingConsumer
module.08.B · flagshipAI

Artificial Intelligence

Agents, vertical AI, model infra, native-AI applications.
AgentsVertical AIInfraAppsResearch
module.09 · streamtail -f nominations.log
module.10 · rostercircle · 12 companies

The founders'companies.

Twelve companies built by the operators in the circle — at scale, at the frontier of AI and blockchain, out of Romania. The same people now accelerating the next ones. Invite-only; nominated, not applied.

WAM
WOLFSWAP
QUANTORIUS
ATLAS NAVI
LIQUIFY
PIGLI
SMART SENTINELS
TRILULILU
FREED FINANCE
HUMANS
VD LAW
ADEVAR LABS
// agentic acceleration · cohort 01 · 2026

Building something? Pitch it.

The circle now accelerates companies with AI — operators and AI agents working hands-on on pitch, GTM, and capital. Send your deck, an operator reviews it, and you hear back async. No middlemen, no cohort calendar.

what
pitch · GTM · capital
cohort
01 · 2026
by
operators + AI agents
module.11 · operatorcluj-napoca · RO
Alex Rus
// initiator — Carpath Labs

Co-founder & CBDO at WAM — a gaming ecosystem built at the intersection of AI and blockchain. Award-winning entrepreneur, building out of Cluj-Napoca. Carpath Labs starts from the same observation: the talent is here, the context isn't. That is why it combines an operator circle with an industry think tank — and now puts both to work accelerating companies with AI.

role
Co-Founder / CBDO
company
WAM
focus
AI × Blockchain
// access protocol · two doors · one circle

Two doors.
One circle.

Agentic Acceleration
Open · pitch your company
Operators and AI agents accelerate you — pitch, GTM, capital.
pitch → GTM → capital
Hands-on, async. No cohort calendar.
The Circle
Merit, not capital.
Twenty founders, hard-cap. Nominated, not admitted.
Internal nomination
Members propose. The group ratifies.

Anyone can pitch to be accelerated. The Circle you don't apply to — you earn your way in.

Carpath Labs · Founders Circle
// 2026 · RO · private
build 2026.04 · operator console