Why Pond

Like many early-stage projects, Pond was born under scrappy conditions—founded by a grassroots team and first time founders working from libraries, living rooms, and borrowed desks. We spent six months traveling the world to raise our first round, overcame legal and accounting hurdles, hired our first engineer from personal savings, and trained models on personal laptops before we had real infrastructure—all while struggling to onboard our first users. We feel every emotion you’re experiencing—and we’re ready to walk this journey with you.

We understand better than anyone what early-stage, resource-constrained AI teams truly need—both technically and operationally as we were one. Our mission is simple: to ensure no founder has to walk that path alone. We’ll work alongside you wholeheartedly—celebrating your highs, supporting your lows—until you no longer need us. We’ll roll up our sleeves and listen with humility—until you succeed.

Early-stage AI projects often face the following challenges:

Seed Funding: Limited access to agile, scalable, and timely capital
Infrastructure Burden: High AI operations costs with constrained technical and hiring capacity
Distribution: Difficulty reaching early users, gaining exposure, and executing go-to-market
Feedback to PMF: Lack of user feedback, iteration loops, and expert product guidance
Trusted Professional Services: Limited access to reliable legal, accounting, and operational support
Recruitment: Earning the trust of top talent and convincing them to join early

From your first check to product-market fit, Pond powers every step of your journey—so you can focus on the fun part with a lean, agile team.

Hackathon: Host a hackathon where builders can use your product stack—find co-founders, recruit top talent, outsource works, validate ideas, and co-create your product vision with the community.
Markets: Web3-native community contribution with milestone-based token unlocks, auction and automatic DEX migration, and a clear path to sustainability. Instead of spending months pitching 100+ VCs, we’ll work with you to get started. Upload relevant materials such as prototype demo, presentation deck and so on.
AI Studio: At the early stage, your focus should be on solving the problem you care about at the application layer—not building infrastructure from scratch. Pond provides the core infrastructure and services you need, including data pipelines, warehouses, data science notebooks, agent creation and deployment tools, plus Pond credits for free access to platforms like Cursor, Replit, Lovable, and more.
Accelerator: Build alongside Pond’s in-house technical and operational teams and access go-to-market support from day one. Bring us your toughest technical and business challenges—we’ll tackle them with you. Pond have a team of veteran engineers in data, system design, and AI, as well as a group of business development and marketing experts that can work for you based on your needs.
App Store & Integration Hub: Launch your first product to 200,000 daily active users on day one with Pond and iterate from their feedback.
Legal, Finance, and Other Services: We collaborate with trusted legal and financial partners who also support companies like Figma, EigenLayer, and Notion. While you focus on building and improving your product, we’ll help connect you with the right experts to support your success.