{"signature": "0xfd67b09c4089fc33ec672ef508d0003850ce68593171d570d1f6f0b1435ea90466dc47f75de1bb59eb80bc663a9f14c8b5a6941ae038ec40abe3f127d138d3bb1b", "application": {"round": "0x6546b9e249128429085587d3f347f4386db319c9", "answers": [{"type": "email", "hidden": true, "question": "Email Address", "questionId": 0, "encryptedAnswer": {"ciphertext": "I7jkbFRGZC4Pz7vmFG70eMaAaEo/RlPKLWSfPuEmeqMox7B1wZZUQvBZEKLPrly8", "encryptedSymmetricKey": "c23a3d258d1e5922682dbf5881736b52ef18855e720efeddc3aa366671f12617d16a06dc50fd47087dd17c1d57b3ff18095a023c74b05a72da42ed7dee1e574b42dbcba18ba318b43f165a78c7319aa4d3525b90e859352b89ae55c7691a8286a4ed319cab12f9f63c2fe21020ccf43eaae8c5ef840950fb53fbe900a17dad1300000000000000200269b61bd142572b12434a674463830075ad81575eb581cbf0e0ee2c6fb8c386be9db411e01443902822935020634cac"}}, {"type": "number", "answer": "72450", "hidden": false, "question": "Amount Requested in $USD (*note payouts will occur in ARB token) ", "questionId": 1}, {"type": "multiple-choice", "answer": "RFP 5: Open Contribution", "hidden": false, "question": "Which RFP is this project covering?", "questionId": 2}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "**KPIs**:  - Number of stakeholder interviews conducted (Target: 10) - Number of survey responses collected (Target: 30) - Percentage of support mechanisms identified and categorized (100%) - Completion of data integration (Target: 100%) - Development and deployment of the interactive interfcase (Target: 1 comprehensive interface) - Completion of documentation (Target: 100%)", "hidden": false, "question": "How do you measure the success of the project? Explain your key KPIs. ", "questionId": 3}, {"type": "number", "answer": "72450", "hidden": false, "question": "How will you use these funds? Please make a detailed plan for expenditures.", "questionId": 4}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "At cofound3r, our mission to democratize venture building aligns closely with Uniswap's goals of fostering innovation, enhancing ecosystem robustness, and ensuring community-driven growth. Uniswap aims to create a decentralized, efficient, and user-friendly financial system that allows anyone to participate and benefit. Our project supports these goals through the following key alignments:\n\n1. **Fostering Innovation:**\n    - By mapping and integrating support mechanisms, cofound3r will enable builders to access comprehensive resources, driving innovation within the Uniswap ecosystem.\n    - Our approach to connecting diverse support systems ensures that developers and entrepreneurs can leverage a wide range of tools and knowledge, fostering creativity and technological advancements.\n2. **Enhancing Ecosystem Robustness:**\n    - Uniswap values a strong, interconnected ecosystem. Our project addresses the fragmentation of support systems, creating a unified interface that streamlines access to all available resources.\n    - This integration will lead to more efficient use of resources, reducing redundancy and maximizing the impact of Uniswap’s support initiatives.\n3. **Community-Driven Growth:**\n    - Ensuring community input and feedback is a core part of our project. By validating our comprehensive map with stakeholders and continuously gathering feedback, we align with Uniswap’s emphasis on transparency and community engagement.\n    - This participatory approach will help Uniswap and Arbitrum communities to grow organically, based on the actual needs and experiences of builders.\n\n**Specific Benefits to the Uniswap Ecosystem within Arbitrum:**\n\n1. **Improved Accessibility to Resources:**\n    - Builders within the Uniswap and Arbitrum ecosystems will benefit from a streamlined, user-friendly interface that consolidates support mechanisms. This reduces the time and effort needed to access various resources, allowing builders to focus more on innovation and development.\n2. **Increased Efficiency and Impact:**\n    - By creating a cohesive support system, our project will optimize the use of Uniswap’s resources. This means more ventures can be supported effectively, leading to a higher success rate and greater overall impact on the ecosystem.\n    - The comprehensive interface and interactive interface will facilitate better decision-making for both builders and the Uniswap team, ensuring that support is allocated where it is needed most.\n3. **Enhanced Ecosystem Collaboration:**\n    - Our project fosters a collaborative environment where different support systems are interconnected. This not only helps individual builders but also promotes partnerships and synergies within the ecosystem.\n    - As various support mechanisms (financial, technical, mentorship, etc.) become more accessible and integrated, the Uniswap and Arbitrum ecosystems will experience more cohesive and collaborative growth.\n4. **Data-Driven Insights for Strategic Planning:**\n    - The data collected and integrated through our mapping process will provide valuable insights into the effectiveness and utilization of support mechanisms. This information will be crucial for Uniswap in refining its strategies and ensuring continuous improvement in its support initiatives.\n5. **Strengthened Community Engagement:**\n    - By engaging the community in the validation and feedback processes, we ensure that the support mechanisms evolve to meet real needs. This active involvement will lead to a more engaged and empowered Uniswap community within Arbitrum.\n\nIn summary, cofound3r’s project not only aligns with Uniswap’s overarching goals but also provides tangible benefits that will enhance the Uniswap ecosystem’s efficiency, innovation, and community engagement within Arbitrum. Our integrated approach promises to create a more supportive and dynamic environment for venture builders, driving forward the collective growth and success of the ecosystem.", "hidden": false, "question": "How do you envision this project aligning with Uniswap's goals, and what specific benefits do you anticipate it will bring to the Uniswap ecosystem within Arbitrum?", "questionId": 5}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Our main target audience for the cofound3r project includes two key groups: builders and individual support programs within the Uniswap and Arbitrum ecosystems.\n\n### 1. Builders (Those Building on Uniswap and Arbitrum)\n\n**Value Proposition:**\nBuilders face significant challenges navigating the fragmented support systems within the blockchain ecosystem. Our project aims to address these issues by providing:\n\n- **Integrated Access:** A unified interface that consolidates various support mechanisms such as financial aid, knowledge resources, mentorship, and technical tools, simplifying navigation and reducing the time and effort needed to access these resources.\n- **Efficiency:** Streamlined processes that minimize redundant efforts and prevent missed opportunities, allowing builders to focus more on developing and growing their ventures.\n- **Comprehensive Support:** Ensuring that builders receive not only financial support but also essential operational support such as mentorship, legal advice, and technical assistance, which are crucial for sustainable growth.\n\n### 2. Support Programs within Uniswap and Arbitrum Ecosystems\n\n**Value Proposition:**\nIndividual support programs often operate independently, leading to fragmented and siloed resources. These include grants, incubation programs, mentorship opportunities, and technical support. Our project focuses on:\n\n- **Coordination:** Connecting different support mechanisms to create a cohesive and integrated support system, enhancing overall effectiveness and impact.\n- **Enhanced Impact:** Facilitating better utilization of resources by ensuring that support programs are used optimally, leading to more successful ventures and accelerated growth of the ecosystems.\n- **Streamlined Processes:** Simplifying application processes and criteria, making it easier for builders to access the support they need, and improving the efficiency and effectiveness of support program investments.\n\n### Specific Categories of Support Mechanisms\n\nTo deliver on the objective of creating a sustainable ecosystem of builders, Uniswap and Arbitrum are developing support mechanisms that consist of a custom mix of the following categories:\n\n- **Access to Finance:** Grants, direct investments, crowdfunding, and other financial support.\n- **Access to Knowledge:** Online knowledge hubs, physical training workshops, certification programs, and R&D initiatives.\n- **Access to Support Systems:** Mentorship programs, advisory services, legal and compliance support, and technical support.\n- **Access to Entrepreneurial Programs:** Incubation programs, acceleration programs, hackathons, competitions, and market access programs.\n- **Access to Talent:** Job portals, training programs, internship and fellowship programs, and community-building initiatives.\n- **Access to Networking and Partnerships:** Industry conferences and events, partnership programs, and ecosystem alliances.\n- **Access to Infrastructure and Tooling:** Development tools, testnets and sandboxes, hosting and cloud services, and other technical resources.\n- **Access to Community Engagement:** User education programs, feedback mechanisms, and bounty programs.", "hidden": false, "question": "What is the target audience for this project? ", "questionId": 6}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "To enhance the efficiency, accessibility, and impact of Uniswap & Arbitrum venture support ecosystem by mapping its existing support mechanisms. This project aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of the available resources and optimize their accessibility, thereby facilitating the growth and success of ventures within the Uniswap & Arbitrum ecosystems.\n\n### **Approach**\n\nThe project will be executed in three main steps: **Identifying Support Mechanisms**, **Categorizing Support Mechanisms**, and **Creating a Comprehensive Representation**.\n\n### **Phase 1: Mapping Support Mechanisms**\n\n### **Step 1: Identifying Support Mechanisms**\n\n**Objective**: To identify and categorize all existing support mechanisms within the Uniswap & Arbitrum ecosystem.\n\n**Activities**:\n\n- **Stakeholder Interviews**: Conduct interviews with key stakeholders in the Uniswap & Arbitrum ecosystem to gather insights on available support mechanisms.\n- **Document Review**: Analyze existing documentation, reports, and databases to identify and catalog support mechanisms.\n- **Survey and Data Collection**: Distribute surveys to community members, project leaders, and other relevant parties to collect data on available support resources.\n\n**KPIs**:\n\n- Number of stakeholder interviews conducted (Target: 10)\n- Number of survey responses collected (Target: 30)\n\n### **Step 2: Categorizing Support Mechanisms**\n\n**Objective**: To categorize support mechanisms into distinct groups for better understanding and organization.\n\n**Activities**:\n\n- Categorization into Access to Finance, Knowledge, Support Systems, Entrepreneurial Programs, Talent, Networking, Infrastructure, and Community Engagement.\n\n**KPIs**:\n\n- Percentage of support mechanisms identified and categorized (Target: 100%)\n\n### **Step 3: Creating a Comprehensive Representation**\n\n**Objective**: To develop a comprehensive and visual representation of Uniswap & Arbitrum's support mechanisms.\n\n**Activities**:\n\n- **Data Integration**: Integrate collected data into a unified database.\n- **Visualization Tools**: Use visualization tools to create an interactive map showcasing the categorized support mechanisms.\n- **Verification**: Validate the map with stakeholders to ensure accuracy and completeness.\n- **Launch**: Launch the interactive map for the Uniswap & Arbitrum community.\n- **Feedback Gathering**: Collect feedback from users to identify any improvements or updates needed.\n- **Documentation**: Prepare detailed documentation of the support mechanisms and the mapping process for future reference and updates.\n\n**KPIs**:\n\n- Completion of data integration (Target: 100%)\n- Development and deployment of the interactive map (Target: 1 comprehensive interface)\n- Completion of documentation (Target: 100%)\n\n### **Deliverables**\n\n1. **Comprehensive Interface of Uniswap & Arbitrum's Support Mechanisms**: An interactive and validated interface detailing all available support resources.\n2. **Launch and Feedback Report**: Documentation of the launch process, user feedback, and recommended improvements.", "hidden": false, "question": "What are the Project Milestones and how do you plan to reach these? Be specific and highlight critical deliverables of the project", "questionId": 7}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "At cofound3r we have the vision to make venture building accessible to all. We strongly believe that if each one of us (regardless of their age, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, financial background, religion, etc) can receive the support they need to grow their venture and go from idea to growth, our world will become more fair, creative, and generous.\n\nOur team consists of builders that have created their first venture 24 years ago and have in total, 2 small exits, 2 flops and a merger. As a result, we know first hand that venture building is hard. The vast majority of ventures (across regions, industries, etc) are failing. More than 74% of the ventures that receive some kind of funding are failing.\n\n- Building Team\n    \n    Venture Builder:\n    \n    - Antonis Argyros (Discord: ant__is - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/antonisargyros/): With over 24 years of experience in establishing ventures and tech-enabled solutions, Antonis leads the development of our venture building model. He has successfully applied the key principles of the suggested framework for a Fortune 50 organisation, benefiting over 65 intrapreneurs in the last three years. His expertise includes setting up the first investment fund in Libya and leading the commercialization initiatives of one of the largest research and innovation centres in Southeast Europe .\n    \n    Solution Builder:\n    \n    - George Nikolaou (Discord: npizza - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/georgios-nikolaou-a58322180/): George heads our tech team, bringing extensive experience in building tech solutions for decentralized angel syndicates like Global Coin Research (https://globalcoinresearch.com/) and GCRx (https://www.gcrx.io/), as well as investment funds such as Conscience VC (https://www.conscience.vc/). His technical acumen ensures robust and scalable solutions for our project.\n    \n    Community Builder:\n    \n    - Nikos Fratzeskos (Discord: 0xnikos - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nfratz/)| : Nikos is our Community Manager with a rich background in creative advertising and marketing. He has been involved in the crypto space since 2017 and has deep experience in community building from working with a variety of projects in the crypto space, from a non-custodial fundraising interface and NFT projects to curating content creators crypto communities. His skills are crucial for engaging the community and facilitating smooth project integration.\n    \n    Project Builder:\n    \n    - Suhib Halalsheh (LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/suhibhalalsheh/): Suhib specializes in product research, analysis, and development, with hands-on experience managing proposals to drive growth and enable ecosystems at the country level. His meticulous approach to project management and documentation ensures that all stages of our project are well-coordinated and thoroughly documented.", "hidden": false, "question": "What are the roles and experiences of project team members?", "questionId": 8}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "No. We are a self funded project", "hidden": true, "question": "Is this project already funded by other grant programs? If funded by any Uniswap or Arbitrum-related programs, please specify.", "questionId": 9}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "No but we are happy to undergone an audit if needed", "hidden": true, "question": "Has this project undergone a security audit? If not, are you planning to undergo it?", "questionId": 10}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "At this stage we are not but the deliverables of this project will be open sourced", "hidden": true, "question": "Is this project open-source? If yes, share the repository link.", "questionId": 11}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "https://www.loom.com/share/db73ff779bbc44849fc7ceb88fa032d7?sid=c67de1c0-38b2-4f1f-9b8b-0187abfb8cf4", "hidden": false, "question": "Does this project have a demo? If yes, share a public link.", "questionId": 12}, {"type": "checkbox", "answer": ["I confirm. "], "hidden": true, "question": "I confirm that I have read the Code of Conduct and that I have filled out this form correctly and truthfully.", "questionId": 13}, {"type": "checkbox", "answer": ["I understand. "], "hidden": true, "question": "I understand that I will be required to provide KYC/KYB information by the UAGP team in case my application is accepted.", "questionId": 14}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "We met Fin during the GovHack in Brussels", "hidden": true, "question": "How did you find out about UAGP?", "questionId": 15}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "In the above question\"How will you use these funds? Please make a detailed plan for expenditures.\" we cannot add the detailed breakdown (it seems that we can only add numbers and not letters). For that we have added here the detailed budget analysis for this project.\n\nWe anticipate that the total budget for this project will be $63,000, with an additional 15% buffer to account for any unforeseen expenses, bringing the total potential budget to $72,450. This budget covers all aspects of the project, including stakeholder engagement, data collection, analysis, development of the interactive map, and post-launch activities. Below is a breakdown of the expected costs:\n\n1. **Stakeholder Engagement and Data Collection**:\n    - Stakeholder interviews: $13,500\n    - Document review and survey distribution: $7,500\n2. **Categorization and Analysis**:\n    - Categorization of support mechanisms: $6,000\n    - Data integration and analysis: $10,500\n3. **Development and Launch**:\n    - Development of the interactive interface: $13,500\n    - Verification and validation with stakeholders: $4,500\n    - Launch and feedback collection: $3,000\n4. **Documentation and Reporting**:\n    - Preparation of detailed documentation: $4,500", "hidden": true, "question": "Additional details. 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