Celo

Celo is an open platform focused on providing financial tools to individuals with mobile phones, aiming to foster prosperity for all. It has developed a mobile-first blockchain platform that facilitates access to financial services and aims to enhance financial stability. The platform employs alphanumeric strings for cryptocurrency transactions, allowing users to transfer money quickly, securely, and reliably. Through these innovations, Celo seeks to democratize financial access and create a more inclusive monetary system.

Amit Chu

Head of Investments and Liquidity

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Haraka

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Haraka is a fintech company that facilitates loans between investors and entrepreneurs using a unique blockchain-based platform. It leverages social reputation to assess creditworthiness, enabling borrowers to access low-cost loans denominated in local stablecoins, thereby promoting transparency and reducing risk.

moreliquid

Pre Seed Round in 2024
moreliquid is a digital finance platform that provides end-to-end services to asset managers for tokenized securities, enabling tokenization of alternative finance funds and facilitating fast, secure, and cost-efficient transactions for professional investors while helping asset owners raise capital through a digital asset infrastructure.

Silver Koi

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Silver Koi is a technology company that develops decentralized exchange platforms for professional traders. Its primary focus is facilitating the trading of equities perpetuals and a wide array of real-world assets, such as interest rates, gaming assets, and luxury watches, using blockchain technology. The platform offers features like enhanced buying power and a decentralized order book, ensuring secure and efficient trading for its users.

Hurupay

Grant in 2023
Hurupay is digital wallet banking African migrants abroad and helping them Send money back home instantly.

Mintdropz

Grant in 2022
Mintdropz is a decentralized social media platform for creators built by creators to give them freedom to build, monetize, and grow in web3 in a seamless experience.

CPayant

Grant in 2022
CPayant specializes in facilitating cross-border trade transactions for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) across Africa. It offers efficient digital banking solutions, including instant multi-currency payments with low fees, secure escrow services via blockchain-powered smart contracts, and predictive AI-driven trade finance enabling. CPayant also simplifies processes by allowing businesses to manage their entire payment, banking, and trade transactions through its platform.

FRIENDZONE

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Looking for a fun and engaging way to connect with friends, family, and even strangers? Look no further than Friendzone – the app that lets you challenge other users and get rewarded for it!

Impactmarket

Seed Round in 2022
ImpactMarket is a blockchain-based decentralized financial services provider focused on empowering underprivileged populations globally. The company operates as an application-layer protocol, utilizing Web3 technology to deliver accessible financial solutions, including unconditional basic income, a crypto wallet named Libera, and an educational initiative called Learn and Earn. By functioning as a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) on the Celo network, ImpactMarket leverages smart contracts and a governance token to facilitate its operations. Its mission is to offer inclusive financial services and educational tools, thereby fostering social change, economic development, and prosperity for those who are financially unserved or underserved.

Chimoney

Grant in 2022
Chimoney provides infrastructure and an API that enables value transfer across currencies, ledgers, and protocols. It offers a secure, simple payment platform for businesses and developers to send and receive cross-border payments in multiple currencies and via various methods, aiming to unlock global payment capabilities and streamline financial operations. The company handles the payment chain and financial activities, supporting seamless value movement between systems and enabling projects to realize their potential.

Techtec

Grant in 2021
Techtec is a Tokyo-based company that specializes in the crypto and blockchain sector. It provides comprehensive planning and development support services for launching cryptocurrency initiatives. Leveraging its operational experience and collaboration with international partners, Techtec offers marketing assistance, document translation, and facilitates the listing of tokens on exchanges. Through these services, the company aims to enable its clients to navigate the decentralized future effectively.

Kotani Pay

Grant in 2021
Kotani Pay is a technology platform that enables blockchain protocols, dapps, and blockchain fintechs to integrate with local payment channels in Africa, providing reliable on-ramp and off-ramp services to reach a broad customer base that largely uses mobile money. The platform supports payroll management capabilities and focuses on simplifying connections to local payment rails so blockchain projects can operate more efficiently on the continent. By leveraging mobile money networks, Kotani Pay helps enterprises access and transact with users in Africa, expanding reach and adoption for blockchain services.

Summa

Acquisition in 2020
Summa is the premier provider of cross-chain architecture and interoperability as a service solutions for the blockchain industry. Their work on Stateless SPV's, Ethereum core development, and Zcash core development all promise to bring some of the largest chains closer together. Their software lowers the barriers between chains, enabling users, funds, and value to flow more freely throughout the blockchain ecosystem.
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