Hashed Founder's Brunch

Bangalore is hosting one of the most builder-dense weeks India has ever seen. Thousands of AI products are getting shipped. What we are increasingly seeing is this: the most promising AI products hit an infrastructure ceiling the moment they need to handle value transfer, enable agent-to-agent transactions, or operate without centralized control. Traditional systems aren’t designed for this. Web3 infrastructure is. This brunch is for those founders. An invite-only gathering of 25–30 AI founders, in partnership with Tether. Designed for high-signal conversations on where Web3 infrastructure meaningfully intersects with what you’ve just built. A relaxed, closed-door format built for real conversations, connecting with other founders, and unwinding post-brunch. We are specially looking to meet founders building on these tracks: 1. Agentic PaymentsAI agents that need to transact autonomously. Pay for API calls, settle micro-transactions between agents, handle subscriptions. Credit cards require human authentication. Stablecoin rails on self-custodial wallets are the only infrastructure that lets agents hold, send, and receive value without a human in the loop. 2. P2P Agent CommunicationAI agents talking to other agents without routing through centralized servers. Encrypted, zero-cost, peer-to-peer. Think the "GibberLink" moment from ElevenLabs' hackathon, but as production infrastructure at scale. 3. Tokenized Data and Compute MarketplacesDecentralized marketplaces for training data, inference compute, and model access that need settlement infrastructure and programmable ownership. If your product involves AI agents buying, selling, or trading resources, this is your track. Who Should Apply? You've built (or are building) an AI product that touches any of the above. You're in Bangalore this week. You want to be in a room with an investment team that's actively deploying capital at the AI x Web3 intersection. Spots are selectively allocated. Submit your interest, and we’ll follow up. About Hashed Emergent: ​Hashed Emergent is the venture capital arm of Hashed, backing builders from India and emerging markets shaping the on-chain frontier. It invests at the earliest stages of a web3 startup's journey, using its expertise, experience, and network to amplify their growth and success. The team is rooted in the cultural hubspots of web3 in emerging markets, spanning across Bangalore, Seoul, Singapore, Lagos and Dubai. Hashed Emergent drives web3 focused ecosystem and community expansion in these markets through its purpose-built initiatives including the India Blockchain Week Conference and India Web3 Landscape Report.X | LinkedIn About Tether: Tether is the issuer of USDT, the world's most widely used stablecoin, and the infrastructure layer powering value transfer across global markets. Beyond USDT, Tether's stack includes Tether Wallet (self-custodial payment rails), Hadron (tokenization platform), XAUT (gold-backed token), and Keet (P2P communication). Tether's infrastructure is what AI products need to transact, settle, and operate autonomously in production.X | LinkedIn | Telegram