Colosseum
Check: Colosseum's published accelerator investment is $250K pre-seed for accepted teams; it is a program-level standard, not Michael's personal discretionary check. Current materials say hackathon winners are interviewed and considered, with accepted teams receiving capital, mentorship and network access. Earlier official content described 7% terms; founders must verify the current instrument, percentage and token/equity structure.
Michael's lens combines markets research with Colosseum's tournament-style venture funnel: use global hackathons and four-week build sprints to observe which founders ship, learn and attract users before investing. He is interested in Solana products that exploit crypto-native primitives rather than append tokens to conventional software—especially futarchy and market-protected capital formation, tokenized cash-flowing assets, sophisticated trading tools, privacy-enabled settlement and AI-enabled onchain agents. He treats tokens as useful when distribution, user alignment, liquidity and governance matter, but recognizes that early public prices can distract pre-product teams and that long-horizon capital-intensive companies fit equity better.
Pre-seedHackathon to acceleratorInitial product sprint