UniLive
Seed Round in 2024
UniLive is a Web3 live broadcast platform that allows users to create short videos and creative content for global social and entertainment interaction.
NMKR
Venture Round in 2024
NMKR is a technology company specializing in Non-Fungible Token (NFT) infrastructure. It provides a platform for businesses to create, mint, and trade NFTs, simplifying the process of tokenizing real-world assets. The platform offers an easily accessible interface and tools to manage digital assets, making NFT projects more successful and accessible.
EthosX
Venture Round in 2023
EthosX is a blockchain-based decentralized finance platform focused on creating end-to-end financial derivatives. The platform allows users to hold derivatives as tokens in their wallets, facilitating the sale and transfer of these assets without the need for centralized exchanges, clearinghouses, or other intermediaries. By enabling crypto traders to leverage market volatility, EthosX aims to enhance profit potential in the trading of financial derivatives. Its innovative approach empowers individuals to engage in the derivatives market with greater flexibility and autonomy.
Confiction Labs
Seed Round in 2023
Confiction Labs is a developer of internet protocol gaming technology focused on expanding toward an open metaverse and evolving NFTs with blockchain technology. Its platform engages players over time through a mix of intrinsic and extrinsic motivations, featuring randomly generated challenges, power-ups, and maps, and enables users to grow their digital assets as the game progresses.
HELIX
Pre Seed Round in 2023
Helix is an institutional real-world asset (RWA) protocol enabling blockchain-based lending to real-world businesses in emerging economies.
Port3 is a developer of a Web3 social data portal that focuses on aggregating and standardizing both off-chain and on-chain data. The company aims to create a universally accessible social data layer that connects extensive datasets, facilitating the automation of numerous Web3 AI applications within a decentralized framework. By enabling the crypto community to share their digital identities securely and under controlled conditions, Port3 plays a crucial role in enhancing data interoperability and accessibility for various Web3 use cases.
MetaCene
Seed Round in 2023
MetaCene is a technology company focused on making Web3 gaming accessible to the masses. It prioritizes player-centric entertainment through innovative blockchain-based gaming platforms.
Magic Square
Venture Round in 2023
Magic Square operates a decentralized marketplace that makes blockchain-based applications more accessible and user-friendly for mainstream audiences. Its platform offers access to various apps across categories like finance, gaming, and social media, facilitating users' transition into the web3 ecosystem.
Helix Labs
Seed Round in 2023
Helix Labs is a developer focused on creating a protocol that enhances liquidity abstraction in decentralized finance. The company specializes in multi-chain liquid staking, which allows users to stake assets across various blockchain networks while retaining liquidity. Additionally, Helix Labs facilitates modular liquidity flow, enabling efficient movement of resources within and between ecosystems. Their advanced streaming capabilities further empower blockchain projects and developers by optimizing asset utilization and fostering seamless integrations. By providing these innovative solutions, Helix Labs aims to streamline interactions across the decentralized finance landscape.
SuperSight
Pre Seed Round in 2023
SuperSight is a UK-based startup developing crypto-specific Large Language Models (LLMs) to enhance interaction with crypto data. With over 420 million crypto users, but only around 30,000 capable of coding for on-chain insights, SuperSight bridges this gap by providing easy access to information from various on-chain and off-chain sources such as Discord, Telegram, Twitter, news sites, and more. The platform uses AI to improve search experiences, making them personalized, accurate, and insightful.
PoseiSwap
Venture Round in 2023
PoseiSwap is a decentralized exchange service provider.
Amini
Pre Seed Round in 2023
Amini is a climate technology company that leverages artificial intelligence and satellite technology to bridge Africa's environmental data gaps.
Deeper Network
Venture Round in 2023
Deeper Network is a company focused on providing a decentralized, private, and secure internet experience. Its innovative network operating technology integrates blockchain and network security to establish a global peer-to-peer network. This approach allows users to bypass censorship and access a decentralized internet. Additionally, Deeper Network offers a bandwidth-sharing system that promotes a fairer online environment. The company's solutions aim to enhance internet accessibility and security for individuals, creating a more equitable digital landscape.
Aether Games
Seed Round in 2023
Aether Games is a game development studio focused on creating NFT-based games. They are known for developing 'Gates of Ethernity' and 'Cards of Ethernity', and are also involved in producing CGI mini-series like 'Aether'. The company specializes in game publishing and animation, aiming to provide engaging experiences for gamers interested in NFT games.
Credable
Seed Round in 2023
Credable is a digital banking platform that aims to provide financial services to underbanked populations in emerging markets. By partnering with financial institutions and businesses, Credable enables the launch of various financial products, including credit, savings, and payment solutions, on its B2B2C digital infrastructure. This approach connects financial institutions to their customers, empowering end-users with access to essential financial services. By leveraging its platform, Credable allows its partners to concentrate on their core operations while expanding their offerings in the financial services sector.
Goodwall
Venture Round in 2023
Goodwall is a digital platform for students and young professionals that serves as a professional social network and online community to connect, develop skills, and access opportunities. Users create profiles to showcase grades, achievements, skills, and ideas to universities and employers, and can discover jobs, internships, scholarships, and volunteer events. The platform is designed to meet the needs of Gen Z and millennials, offering opportunities aligned with users' preferences and potential to help prepare for future careers and address societal challenges. Based in Geneva, Switzerland, Goodwall was founded in 2014.
Ejara is a mobile investment platform designed specifically for Africa and its diasporas, offering access to a range of investment opportunities, including fractional shares, commodities, and cryptocurrencies. The company has developed blockchain-based software that facilitates the trading of investment products globally, allowing users to invest in various companies and manage their portfolios effectively. Ejara also provides features such as interest-saving accounts, which help users save and grow their investments over time. The platform is aimed at empowering traders by enabling them to track their investment performance and enjoy greater trading flexibility.
SubQuery
Venture Round in 2022
SubQuery is a data-as-a-service provider focused on making decentralized data more accessible, particularly from Polkadot projects. The company aggregates and organizes data, delivering well-structured information that enables developers to streamline their projects without the need to create custom backends for data processing. By operating between layer-1 blockchains and decentralized applications, SubQuery allows teams working with Substrate and Polkadot to efficiently process and query their data. The platform is designed to support the growth of data protocols that serve the application layer, facilitating the development of improved decentralized applications. SubQuery’s services enable users to query and extract data from the Polkadot network quickly and at no cost, promoting ease of access and utilization for developers in the blockchain ecosystem.
Ava Protocol
Venture Round in 2022
Ava Protocol is a blockchain platform that automates complex transactions using smart contracts and event triggers. It offers features such as scheduled payments, stop-loss orders, and automated workflows, enabling developers to enhance privacy, composability, and cost savings in crypto transactions across various blockchains like Ethereum.
BoundlessPay
Seed Round in 2022
BoundlessPay offers a user-friendly platform for secure processing of local and international cryptocurrency and fiat payments. It provides access to decentralized finance services like coin staking, lending, swapping, cross-border payments, and robust APIs for third-party payment processing.
Aspecta
Venture Round in 2022
Aspecta develops technology that links Web2 and Web3 footprints to AI-generated digital identities, delivering an interactive identity ecosystem for builders and others and unlocking data potential. It also operates a digital asset trading platform that enables the exchange of tokens, NFTs and other digital assets, offering bonding curve trading, project asset conversion and real-time market data to support participation in early projects and portfolio management.
BoundlessPay
Seed Round in 2022
BoundlessPay offers a user-friendly platform for secure processing of local and international cryptocurrency and fiat payments. It provides access to decentralized finance services like coin staking, lending, swapping, cross-border payments, and robust APIs for third-party payment processing.
Scalex
Pre Seed Round in 2022
By merging open-source blockchain technology and traditional payment infrastructures, Scalex provides a highly scalable and secure crypto-to-fiat gateway that enables web3 platforms, and crypto-service providers (B2B and retail crypto-payment solutions, wallet infrastructures, exchanges, NFT marketplaces, Play-to-earn platforms, DAOs, etc) in Africa to have access to a robust multichain liquidity framework with multiple fiat payment rails needed to scale their businesses.
DoraHacks
Series B in 2022
Founded in 2014, DoraHacks is a global organization that connects hackers worldwide through hackathons. It brings together universities, researchers, and tech practitioners to foster innovation in technology. With offices across Asia, Europe, and North America, DoraHacks operates as a hub for collaborative problem-solving.
AID:Tech
Venture Round in 2022
AID:Tech is a digital finance platform founded in 2016 by Joseph Thompson and Niall Dennehy that focuses on enhancing traceability and transparency in the distribution of funds for governments and organizations. Utilizing blockchain technology, AID:Tech issues digital identities and facilitates the management of international aid and social welfare payments. The platform empowers individuals to own, control, and monetize their digital identity metadata, while also linking to payment systems and providing valuable insights and data enhancements. By serving clients across the public, private, and development sectors, AID:Tech aims to improve the efficiency and accountability of payment and entitlement distribution services.
Afriguild
Seed Round in 2022
Afriguild is a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) focused on creating opportunities through gaming, education, and community engagement. Originally a blockchain gaming guild, it has evolved to facilitate access to Web3 technologies for a broader audience. The organization enables individuals to participate in blockchain-based play-to-earn games and other income-generating activities, allowing users to become active earners and contributors within the emerging metaverse. By emphasizing inclusivity and accessibility, Afriguild aims to empower its community members to leverage the potential of decentralized technologies.
Seso Global
Seed Round in 2022
Seso Global is a digital platform focused on secure real estate management and transactions in Africa, with operations in Lagos, Accra, and Cambridge. The company offers a comprehensive property listing service that allows sellers to showcase commercial properties and residential homes for sale and rent in Nigeria, South Africa, and Ghana. By facilitating interactions between property owners, land service agencies, and financial institutions, Seso Global enhances the property purchasing experience, ensuring it is secure and efficient. The platform leverages blockchain technology to provide risk-free land transactions, enabling buyers to browse listings and connect with essential service providers such as banks and law firms to complete their transactions seamlessly.
Afriex
Venture Round in 2022
Afriex Inc. is a mobile payment application developer based in Oakland, California, specializing in overseas money transfer services. Founded in 2019, the company offers a digital wallet application that allows users to send and receive money globally, utilizing stablecoins to ensure fast and cost-effective remittance solutions. Afriex supports transactions to over 30 countries, enabling users to make payments and manage their finances more efficiently at current exchange rates, while also providing various withdrawal options to enhance the user experience.
AfriBlocks
Venture Round in 2022
AfriBlocks is a Pan-African collaboration platform and marketplace that connects global businesses with vetted African freelance professionals. The company facilitates access to diverse and affordable talent, offering intuitive collaboration tools and secure payment solutions to ensure smooth project execution. By focusing on remote contract projects, AfriBlocks enables businesses to efficiently complete tasks while supporting skilled freelancers with training resources and a streamlined workflow.
Occam.fi
Seed Round in 2021
Occam.fi is a suite of DeFi solutions tailored for Cardano. Designed to deliver market leading launchpad capabilities, DEX tools, and liquidity pools, Occam.fi is the first and most significant addition to Cardano's rapidly expanding DeFi.
The first component of Occam.fi’s ecosystem is its decentralised funding platform, or launchpad, called OccamRazer. Through this launchpad, the next-generation of disruptive Cardano applications can undertake significant capital raises through OccamRazer's IDO capabilities.
API3
Pre Seed Round in 2019
API3 develops a decentralized infrastructure for connecting blockchain applications to off-chain data providers. Its platform, API3, aggregates data from first-party oracles operated by premier API providers, enabling seamless and secure data exchange without intermediaries.
Quidli is a Paris-based company founded in 2018 that develops technological infrastructure to facilitate the exchange of equity for labor. Its platform enables businesses to distribute ownership equity as compensation, connecting companies, workers, freelancers, and investors. By leveraging blockchain technology, Quidli allows companies to split equity and incentivize contributions from individuals, thereby enhancing employee engagement and productivity. The platform also offers job security for workers, enabling them to pursue projects aligned with their interests while providing companies with a tool for recruitment. Overall, Quidli aims to create a more connected and equitable labor market.
Helixworks Technologies Limited
Seed Round in 2019
Helixworks Technologies Limited is a Cork, Ireland-based biotechnology company focused on DNA data storage and programmable biology. It develops a molecular storage system that stores digital information in DNA using an open architecture. The company advances enzymatic DNA synthesis methods and provides an end-to-end platform for DNA data storage, equipping developers with tools and services for molecular tagging, digital preservation and multiplexed next-generation sequencing applications, including barcoding kits for NGS workflows. By treating biology as an engineering discipline, Helixworks aims to enable the development of living machines and support healthcare data management and other advanced applications.
LiqEase
Seed Round in 2017
LiqEase is a company that leverages modern blockchain technology to digitize assets, specifically focusing on invoice financing to enhance liquidity for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). By converting invoices into digital assets, LiqEase enables businesses to access working capital more efficiently, thereby addressing the liquidity gap that many SMEs face. The company's platform facilitates the sale of invoices to investors at a discount, making these financial instruments easily investable and tradable. This approach not only provides an alternative financing solution for underserved businesses but also promotes increased transparency and trust within the supply chain, benefiting both businesses and professional investors.