Codebase seamlessly blends in-person and virtual experiences. In the inaugural week, we orchestrate a face-to-face onboarding where every team collaborates with key personnel from our team to chart out a strategic roadmap, delve into startup-building masterclasses, and learn the nuances of building on Avalanche. 

After this immersive week, you'll transition to working remotely in alignment with your established roadmap. From weeks 2-11, we will facilitate twice-weekly roundtable discussions and workshops. While participation isn't required, it's strongly advised.

The final week of the program we will host a virtual Demo Day. During this Demo Day we will invite our global ecosystem of investors & ecosystem members to view your pitch and even select one of the prize winners.

We utilize a robust evaluation framework encompassing 30 criteria across five pivotal domains: founder & team expertise, the novelty and necessity of the company idea, market potential, current traction, and the team's prowess of the technical architecture. Paramount in our assessment is the alignment between founder and market, the company's potential to significantly onboard web3 users, its capacity to address user challenges and how they plan on solving them, demonstrating ability of being able to do so, and building a technical architecture that is interoperable and that others can build on top of/off of.

The stipend is flexible; use it for salaries, expenses, or to extend your post-program runway. We highly encourage full-time commitment from participants during the program, and the stipend aids in this dedication.

Participants are encouraged to work full-time on their company during the program and are mandated to attend in-person during on-boarding, and are encouraged to join our bi-weekly sessions. 

Outside these, we expect you to grow your company, engage with customers, and refine your product so that you testnet is ready to go live and be pitched at Demo Day

Our batches begin every March and October, specific dates tbd.

Yes, please do. Even if you aren’t planning on applying for this batch, please join our mailing list on build.avax.network so you can be apprised when the next pre-registration opens.

You should join our mailing list and if you are eligible when the next batch opens up, you should apply.

Although we won't offer a dedicated fund for non-winners at Demo Day, the Avalanche team will assess all participating companies during the program. Their insights will guide decisions on funding from affiliated capital sources for other program participants.

The primary requirement is that your company cannot have raised more than $500,000 in investment capital. If you have raised more than $500,000 through grants or a combination of grants and equity investments, you are eligible to apply and we will evaluate your company on a case-by-case basis. 

Also, in order to participate you must commit to building natively on Avalanche for twenty-four months. If you have specific questions about this requirement, get in touch.

Yes, you are eligible to apply and participate as a solo founder, however, we strongly encourage you to find a co-founder.

You should join our Talent Network. During the registration period we will facilitate connections between people who have applied with company ideas and those who are in the talent network.

While we are always open to very early stage applicants, our strike-zone is typically companies who have a working demo up to pre-product market fit.

It really depends! As mentioned above, we are looking for companies who are between a working demo and pre PMF in their company lifecycle.

If you’ve raised more than $250,000 in investment capital, you are not eligible to apply for Codebase.

We are confident that Codebase will benefit any founders who participate so if you believe you are a good fit, please apply.

All companies must have a software component that leverages the Avalanche blockchain.

Yes, although we strongly encourage you to find a co-founder. We believe that having a co-founder is a competitive advantage, can provide valuable feedback, and help you iterate more quickly.

Because every company will be required to deploy on the Avalanche blockchain, it will be necessary that you have someone technical on your team.

Yes, although we will inquire with you during the application process to ensure that you are adequately committed to delivering an MVP within the 10-week period.

You should apply and we will evaluate to determine if there is a good fit with the program or not.

You can apply as many times as you like but are only allowed to participate once should you be accepted.

No, we will not prioritize companies who have a direct connection with the program. All applicants must fill out all of the required registration applications and be interviewed in order to be accepted into the program.

Yes

No, although we strongly encourage you to do so prior to receiving the stipend. .