📢 RnD Ventures Newsletter 2026/01
⭐ RnD Ventures 2025 Recap
Happy New Year!
As we reflect on 2025, RnD Ventures recognizes a year of meaningful progress in advancing CollabTech and supporting builders.
Throughout the year, we doubled the size of our product ecosystem, published a book on the future of organizations, launched the first DAO-led investment program with Arbitrum, grew our network of community partners, and much more.
Our full 2025 recap is live, breaking down our work, achievements, and what’s coming next. Take a look and join us as we continue growing the CollabTech ecosystem!
📖 Learning Together
New week, new insights!
Here are some pieces shared recently by the community in our Discord channels:
- Why Your Perfect Product Isn't Enough to Win: Unpacking the critical difference between what you build and what you offer to the market.
- A Free Path to an .edu Email: A walkthrough of enrolling in a tuition-free, fully online university to gain access to a verified student email and the perks that come with it.
- How to Find Product-Market Fit: A practical, five-level guide from PostHog’s CEO on reaching real traction.
💡 Updates from Our Ventures
Meetwith
Create an account
The Meetwith team has created a tutorial video showing how to create your account.
This step-by-step guide walks you through the entire setup process, from registration to customizing your scheduling preferences.
Watch it now.
Common Ground
As 2026 begins, here’s a snapshot of Common Ground so far:
• 65,000 accounts created
• 1.7M messages exchanged
• 80,000 emoji reactions
• 10,000 articles published
This is just the start. More is coming this year.
Watch their demo to see how Common Ground works.
👥 New Faces at RnD Ventures
This week, five new members joined, including:
- A senior full-stack blockchain developer with 6+ years of experience building dApps across major ecosystems
- A Web3 marketing and operations leader with 6+ years of experience delivering GTM strategy, events, and end-to-end execution for top-tier crypto brands and global conferences
- A builder previously working on a team-coordination product, interested in learning more and exploring aligned collaboration
- A production-focused AI engineer designing and shipping scalable, reliable AI and LLM systems for full-time roles or paid projects
- An AI and full-stack engineer specializing in autonomous agents, advanced LLM integration, workflow automation, multimodal AI, and blockchain-connected production systems
Want to join our growing startup ecosystem? RnD Ventures is looking for:
- Business Developers | Grant Writers | Researchers | Developers | Marketers
Even if you don’t fit these roles but are passionate about CollabTech, we’d love to have you!
Join our Discord and introduce yourself today.
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