Gensyn uses blockchain to connect machine learning researchers with compute power. Check out the 11-slide pitch deck it used to land $6.5 million.

When Ben Fielding and Harry Grieve met at the kick-off weekend of an accelerator program in March 2020, they were told it would be the last time they'd see each other for some time. Grieve and Fielding had joined Entrepreneur First's six-month program, where would-be founders mix with one another in the hope of launching a startup together. The pair clicked immediately and hunkered down throughout the pandemic while working on their new business Gensyn. The startup connects machine learning researchers with the computing power they need to train AI models. Gensysn has just raised $6.5 million, following on from a previously unannounced $1.1 million pre-seed raise.