Victoria Olsina joins R[3]sidency × Construct as a mentor

I’ve joined R[3]sidency × Construct as a mentor. Fabric Ventures and Wintermute are backing eight founding teams building the machine economy, and for the next 12 weeks I’ll be working with them on one question every early-stage team underestimates: how do the right people, and the right AI systems, find you?

For years I’ve helped crypto and fintech companies get discovered on Google and in AI answers. Most of that work happens after a company has already raised and launched. Mentoring founders at the start means the visibility gets built in from day one, not patched on later. It’s the same thinking behind my work on generative engine optimisation for Web3.

What is R[3]sidency × Construct?

R[3]sidency × Construct is a 12-week accelerator run by Fabric Ventures and Wintermute. It invests $300K in each of eight founding teams building at the intersection of AI, fintech, crypto, robotics and quantum: what Fabric calls the machine economy.

The format is in person. Founders co-work in London during the programme, then finish with a Demo Day and investor roadshow in New York.

Who’s behind it

R[3]sidency × Construct brings together two accelerators and a strong set of partners:

• Fabric Ventures is a thesis-driven venture firm that has backed companies from inception, including 15 unicorns (Fabric Ventures).
• Wintermute is one of the largest algorithmic trading firms and OTC desks in crypto, with over $3.5 trillion in annual trading volume. It launched Construct after backing more than 100 early-stage projects through Wintermute Ventures.
• Solana Foundation is the core ecosystem partner, with Superteam UK and continued support from Coinbase.

How selective is it?

Very. The previous R[3]sidency cohort, run with Coinbase, Animoca Brands and Founders Factory, chose eight startups from more than 800 applications and presented them to more than 40 investors at demo day (CFOtech UK).

Why the machine economy matters

The next wave of products won’t only be used by people. AI agents will compare options, make decisions and pay for services on behalf of their users, often on crypto rails. Robots and autonomous systems will need identity, payments and coordination.

That changes what “being discoverable” means. If an AI agent can’t read your website, understand what your product does or find it cited elsewhere, it won’t recommend you. For machine economy founders, AI visibility isn’t a marketing extra. It’s part of the product.

Why I said yes

Early-stage founders spend almost all their energy on building, fundraising and hiring. Distribution comes last, usually after launch, when the habits are already set.

I’ve seen what that costs. Strong technical teams with real products who are invisible in ChatGPT, missing from Google’s AI Overviews, and running sites that AI crawlers can’t even read. You can check your own site in a minute with my technical AI visibility checker. Most of those problems take hours to fix at the start, and months to fix later.

What I’ll bring to the founders

As a mentor, I’ll run one-to-one sessions with founders across the 12 weeks, plus a workshop on AI automation for the whole cohort. The focus is practical:

1. AI search visibility: making sure Google, ChatGPT, Perplexity and AI agents understand what each startup does and recommend it for the right queries.
2. Category positioning: choosing the terms and category each team should own, so they’re cited when someone asks “what’s the best tool for X”.
3. Content systems: setting up lean, repeatable content that compounds, instead of relying only on X threads and launch-day hype.
4. AI automation: building workflows so a small team can do the marketing and operations work of a much bigger one.

This isn’t my first time working with accelerator founders. In 2023 I ran an expert session for Outlier Ventures’ Base Camp, teaching founders from the Walmart Store N°8, Zero Knowledge, Polygon and NEAR programmes how to grow their traffic 5x without spending on ads. The core of that talk is here, and most of it still holds. What’s changed is that founders now need to be found by AI as well as by Google.

It’s the same approach I set out in my book, Mastering AI Search for Crypto and Web3 Brands, and the one that gets me named by ChatGPT, Grok and Google AI when people ask for a Web3 SEO expert.

What happens next

The cohort kicks off in October. Over the following weeks, founders meet the mentors and choose who they want to work with, and the programme runs through to Demo Day in New York.

I’ll share what I learn along the way: what machine economy founders get wrong about visibility, what works, and which fixes make the biggest difference early. This October is already a busy one: I’m also building my own product at SheBuilds by Lovable.

Conclusion

R[3]sidency × Construct backs founders building for a world where machines are customers too. Helping those founders get found, by people and by AI, from their first week is exactly the kind of work I want to be doing.

Thank you to Fabric Ventures and Wintermute for the invitation. Twelve weeks, eight teams, and a lot to build.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is R[3]sidency × Construct?

R[3]sidency × Construct is a 12-week accelerator run by Fabric Ventures and Wintermute, with Solana Foundation as core ecosystem partner, Superteam UK and support from Coinbase. It invests $300K in each of eight founding teams building in AI, fintech, crypto, robotics and quantum, with co-working in London and a Demo Day in New York.

What does a mentor do in R[3]sidency × Construct?

Mentors work with founding teams through one-to-one sessions across the programme, each bringing a specific area of expertise. My focus is AI search visibility, positioning, content systems and AI automation.

Who can apply to R[3]sidency × Construct?

Early-stage founding teams building at the intersection of AI, fintech, crypto, robotics and quantum. Places are limited to eight teams per cohort, so it’s highly selective.

Why does AI search matter for early-stage startups?

Buyers, investors and increasingly AI agents use ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google’s AI Overviews to find and compare products. A startup that AI systems can’t read or don’t cite is invisible in those answers, however good the product is.

Is your startup invisible to AI?

The same work I’m doing with R[3]sidency × Construct founders powers my AI SEO and GEO services for Web3 and crypto: getting your brand found, understood and recommended by Google, ChatGPT and AI agents. Book a free strategy session and I’ll show you where your visibility gaps are.