Mento Labs
Venture Round in 2024
Mento Labs is a decentralized EVM platform that enables the launch and management of multi-currency stable assets and stablecoins. The platform operates a decentralized, over-collateralized, and transparent protocol aimed at supporting real-world adoption of digital currencies by users worldwide. It emphasizes stability, sustainability, and diversification of reserve collateral to mitigate risk, enabling crypto traders to transact with digital currencies in a stable and sustainable manner.
Learn.xyz
Seed Round in 2023
Learn.xyz is an AI-powered learning platform that lets individuals and organizations create, share, and engage with bite-sized educational content called Curiosities. Curiosities are generated in seconds from user queries and come with slides and quizzes, spanning history, science, current events, and beyond. The platform combines elements of language learning and crowdsourced knowledge to offer a social, engaging learning experience, and users can earn certificates for completing courses, which can be added to professional profiles. In addition, Learn.xyz develops a crypto education and knowledge-sharing facet that focuses on crypto projects, providing overviews of each project, explanations of underlying technologies, and reviews from real users. The platform includes points that grant access to exclusive learn-and-earn content and potential future airdrops, while enabling users to discover, discuss, and rate projects. The company aims to simplify on-demand learning, foster community discussion, and empower users to acquire new skills and validated insights across a broad range of topics.
Kotani Pay
Pre Seed Round in 2023
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.
Jia is a financial platform focused on empowering small businesses in emerging markets by providing blockchain-based financing solutions. The company facilitates access to capital by converting cryptocurrency liquidity into financial resources for entrepreneurs. Through its services, Jia offers loans and investment opportunities that not only support business growth but also grant ownership stakes, allowing entrepreneurs to build wealth and enhance the prosperity of their communities. By leveraging blockchain technology, Jia aims to give small businesses greater control over their financial futures and contribute to economic development.
Founded in Nigeria in 2017, Releaf operates as an online marketplace connecting buyers and sellers of various agricultural products such as cassava, palm oil, ginger, cashew nuts, fish, maize, cocoa, kola nuts, yam, and sesame seeds. It also provides extension services to smallholders, acts as a buyer for their products, and converts raw materials into factory-grade inputs.
FinanEx
Pre Seed Round in 2023
FinanEx operates a digital trade finance platform supporting underserved food exporters worldwide, particularly focusing on small and medium-sized agribusinesses in Latin America. Its mission is to increase export volumes sustainably while positively impacting rural communities.
ValuesCo
Seed Round in 2023
ValuesCo develops a gamified platform for brands to engage consumers in onchain campaigns focused on social and environmental impact. The platform uses gamification and rewards infrastructure to facilitate consumer acquisition and engagement.
Blockfence
Seed Round in 2023
Blockfence offers an AI-powered security solution for Web3 crypto users. Its platform aggregates expertise from multiple providers, simplifying comprehensive security in a landscape prone to scams.
Defy Trends
Seed Round in 2023
Defy Trends provides an AI-powered crypto intelligence platform that delivers on-chain analysis, data-driven insights, and market forecasts to support informed investment decisions. By combining comprehensive research with educational resources, the platform helps users understand the crypto market, compare assets, and identify undervalued or overvalued coins. The solution aims to streamline research and strategy development by curating actionable information and insights for investors seeking confidence in their crypto trades.
Hyphen is a climate tech startup accelerating climate action with real-time observations. Its automated system for real-time data collection, aggregation, and validation creates an up-to-date, auditable value chain of all data flows. It provides the necessary coordination and infrastructure to facilitate tamper-proof client data to monitor and validate environmental claims ranging from facility operations to nature-based solutions.
Covalent Climate Tech
Seed Round in 2023
Operates a climate management platform designed to simplify the reporting process for EU importers under the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM). The platform automates due diligence, facilitates capital deployment, and evaluates carbon removal projects based on quality, financial health, and other relevant factors.
Ponto
Venture Round in 2023
Ponto provides regulated payment services for global enterprises to offer financial services to their customers.
The company manages and eliminates the risks involved with offering financial services worldwide. This way, new products can deliver on the promise of improving and democratizing access to the economy for everyone.
Kaala is a software that makes it simple, quick, and nearly free to send money to anyone, anywhere.
Carbonpath
Seed Round in 2023
Carbonpath is a company focused on addressing climate change through the closure of old oil and gas wells and the permanent storage of significant quantities of carbon dioxide and methane underground. In addition to its environmental efforts, Carbonpath has developed a carbon credit platform that enables businesses and individuals to offset their carbon emissions. This platform provides a transparent and accessible method for purchasing carbon credits generated from verified projects aimed at reducing and removing greenhouse gases. By facilitating these transactions, Carbonpath allows its customers to engage in effective climate action and contribute to a more sustainable future.
Thrive Protocol
Seed Round in 2023
Thrive is the top protocol for powering ROI-positive decentralized grant-making across crypto ecosystems.
Vana is a decentralized platform empowering users to control their data, monetize it, and contribute to AI development. It facilitates user-owned data management and offers tools for developing, managing, and profiting from AI models. Vana's ecosystem includes DAOs that enable users to share data like social media and LinkedIn information in exchange for benefits.
Kolor links Patagonia to the rest of the globe so that anybody can use Web3 to protect lands from anywhere.
Dunia Payment
Seed Round in 2023
Dunia Payment offers a financial platform facilitating global payments. Users can send and receive funds, make QR-code based in-store purchases, settle bills, and engage in cryptocurrency transactions via its mobile wallet.
Ubeswap
Seed Round in 2023
Ubeswap operates a decentralized exchange and automated market maker protocol for Celo assets. Ubeswap's goal is to increase liquidity on Celo. It envisions a world where anyone can trade any asset from their phone or browser without relying on decades-old clearinghouse technology or other centralized systems.
CyberTime Finance
Seed Round in 2023
Two models are common now: primary and secondary market. On the primary market, collectibles are auctioned off for platform tokens. For example, for the CyberTime project, this token will be NFTL. The rest is like at Sotheby's: the highest bidder gets the picture in the end. Auction of the first price. Nothing complicated.
The secondary market is simply the secondary market. The price is formed by supply and demand, can increase or decrease, set by agreement between the seller and the buyer. It is also nothing complicated.
CyberTime in the future offers the third model: NFT Fantasy League, where you can earn by assembling teams of favorite artists. But that's left out for now, the model has not yet been launched, although it looks promising. Read the Litepaper for yourself if you're interested.
Tradegen
Seed Round in 2023
Tradegen operates a decentralized trading platform that focuses on asset management, algorithmic trading, and virtual trading. The platform enables participation in actively managed pools, supports the creation of synthetic trading bots, and facilitates the trading of various NFTs. It also runs nodes to maintain trading bots, all aimed at making financial markets more accessible through decentralized finance.
Loam develops an AI-enabled project developer assistant that develops and tests carbon and environmental contribution projects. It simplifies and accelerates the on-ramp to using AI to create insights, execute mission-critical functions, and drive strategic decisions.
IntoTheVerse
Seed Round in 2023
IntoTheVerse is an innovative online platform dedicated to advancing the blockchain, NFT, gaming, and decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystems. The company specializes in developing mobile dungeon role-playing games that aim to replicate real-world experiences within a crypto-native city. By focusing on utilitarian, composable, and accessible mobile-first games for the web3 environment, IntoTheVerse creates engaging experiences that integrate a full suite of DeFi features. Gamers can participate in immersive gameplay that includes collecting loot from chests, discovering sacred artifacts, and unearthing long-forgotten NFT relics. Through its unique approach, IntoTheVerse seeks to enhance the gaming experience while promoting the broader adoption of blockchain technologies.
Thallo is a London-based company established in 2021 by Joseph Hargreaves, focused on creating a transparent carbon offset marketplace. The platform leverages blockchain technology to enhance the transparency, liquidity, and efficiency of the carbon offset market. Thallo democratizes access to on-chain carbon credits certified by reputable authorities, allowing individuals and businesses to freely buy, sell, hold, or retire verified credits. This innovative approach enables a broader range of investors, including small-scale participants, to engage in carbon offsetting, thus facilitating efforts to mitigate carbon footprints in a more accessible manner.
Xternity Games
Pre Seed Round in 2022
Xternity Games, founded in 2022 in Tel Aviv, Israel, develops a no-code platform aimed at web3 game developers, builders, and brands. The platform facilitates the integration of blockchain technology directly into game engines, enabling the minting of NFTs and the issuance of token rewards. Utilizing artificial intelligence, Xternity Games allows clients to create and manage web3 engagement campaigns, launch token collections, and establish custom stores. This approach not only enhances player experiences and fosters user engagement but also supports the development of membership and loyalty programs. By providing data-driven insights based on blockchain transactions, Xternity Games helps clients improve security and achieve their key performance indicators, effectively streamlining game development and unlocking new opportunities in the blockchain gaming sector.
Cryptum
Seed Round in 2022
Cryptum is a web3 development platform focused on integrating blockchain technology into various business applications. The company offers a comprehensive infrastructure that enables enterprises to effectively utilize blockchain through rapid integration of resources and technologies. By leveraging decentralized technology, Cryptum supports scientific research, product discovery, and development, aiming to make decentralized finance more accessible to mainstream users. Additionally, it provides educational resources to enhance the development of the decentralized finance ecosystem, empowering clients to maximize their potential within the web3 finance landscape.
Bitmama
Pre Seed Round in 2022
Bitmama facilitates trading of Bitcoin, Ethereum, stablecoins, and other digital assets in Africa. Users can create wallets, connect bank accounts or mobile money services to buy or sell cryptocurrencies.
Omni is a developer of a multi-chain wallet that focuses on providing non-custodial staking solutions for cryptocurrency. The platform simplifies the process of managing digital assets by allowing users to send, receive, stake, and delegate their cryptocurrencies seamlessly across different blockchains. With its user-friendly interface, Omni enables individuals to effortlessly add funds to staking pools, facilitating access to decentralized finance. Through its commitment to making cryptocurrency staking more accessible, Omni aims to enhance the overall user experience in the rapidly evolving digital asset landscape.
Liquidstar
Pre Seed Round in 2022
Liquidstar designs and deploys energy distribution infrastructure for emerging markets. It develops waypoint charge stations that host smart batteries to enable electrical power distribution beyond the traditional grid. Its platform supports modular, distributed energy systems powered in part by excess solar energy, creating wireless battery-powered ecosystems that sustain essential services during grid outages. By enabling mini-grid and off-grid operations, Liquidstar provides reliable electricity for critical facilities and communities, including disaster scenarios, while reducing dependence on centralized utilities. The solution emphasizes scalable, resilient power delivery that can be deployed rapidly to improve energy access in challenging environments.
GreenTrade
Pre Seed Round in 2022
GreenTrade is a platform that finances future nature-based and tech-based carbon projects to help companies decarbonize and reach their net-zero goals by delivering tailored impact projects that fit their operations. It accelerates the financing of new carbon projects by creating long-term offtake agreements with project developers and converting these contracts into digital, tradable assets for corporate buyers, enabling organizations to decarbonize and pursue climate targets.
Unergy is a platform that democratizes access to solar energy investment in Latin America. It connects companies seeking funding for solar installations, which typically cost around $500,000, with retail investors interested in financing these projects. This marketplace allows investors to contribute smaller amounts, starting at $1,000, in exchange for equity in solar projects. By facilitating this connection, Unergy helps companies reduce their utility costs by 20-40% while providing investors with the potential for annual returns exceeding 10%. The platform also enables clients to actively participate in the energy transition by tracking project performance in real-time, thereby promoting clean energy investment and profitability.
Nandi Labs
Seed Round in 2022
Nandi Labs leverages Web3 technology to empower Black creators globally. It aims to foster a thriving ecosystem by removing barriers and encouraging collaboration, enabling creators to monetize their work sustainably.
OppZo
Venture Round in 2022
OppZo operates an AI-powered lending platform that originates and services working capital loans for government contractors in Opportunity Zones. Founded in 2020, the company is based in Miami, Florida. The platform aims to democratize access to affordable working capital by offering a range of loan types and financing support tailored to small and medium-sized businesses, enabling clients to obtain working capital in line with their requirements, often within a day.
Learn.xyz
Seed Round in 2022
Learn.xyz is an AI-powered learning platform that lets individuals and organizations create, share, and engage with bite-sized educational content called Curiosities. Curiosities are generated in seconds from user queries and come with slides and quizzes, spanning history, science, current events, and beyond. The platform combines elements of language learning and crowdsourced knowledge to offer a social, engaging learning experience, and users can earn certificates for completing courses, which can be added to professional profiles. In addition, Learn.xyz develops a crypto education and knowledge-sharing facet that focuses on crypto projects, providing overviews of each project, explanations of underlying technologies, and reviews from real users. The platform includes points that grant access to exclusive learn-and-earn content and potential future airdrops, while enabling users to discover, discuss, and rate projects. The company aims to simplify on-demand learning, foster community discussion, and empower users to acquire new skills and validated insights across a broad range of topics.
CreatorOS
Series A in 2022
CreatorOS is a platform designed to facilitate grant awarding to developers, enabling companies to establish small funds that support local talent and encourage investment in new projects. By utilizing a range of screening tools, including analysis of a developer's on-chain history and GitHub activity, CreatorOS ensures that clients can invest in developers with greater efficiency and transparency. Additionally, the platform promotes the creation of engaging, community-driven courses aimed at enhancing course completion rates, drawing inspiration from successful educational models like that of DuoLingo in language learning. Through its innovative approach, CreatorOS connects companies with developers while fostering skill development and project funding in the tech ecosystem.
Co:Create
Seed Round in 2022
Co:Create operates a curated platform that connects tattoo collectors with artists, offering access, white-glove service, and priority booking for purchases made directly from partnered artists. The platform supports detailed scheduling, discussions on customization and placement, and aftercare, enabling customers to request custom work or choose from pre-drawn designs created by top tattoo artists.
Masa
Pre Seed Round in 2022
Masa operates a decentralized AI marketplace that incentivizes users to contribute diverse datasets for AI model training. It rewards participants using its token, providing developers with access to varied datasets, decentralized tools, and a supportive ecosystem.
Quipu Bank
Seed Round in 2022
Quipu is building the first digital bank for the informal economy in LATAM. Using proprietary AI algorithms, Quipu assesses informal microbusinesses’ creditworthiness using over 80,000 alternative data points. Quipu leverages this data to provide working capital loans through a local supply chain financing system that allows microbusinesses to buy supplies, ingredients and materials at wholesale price. The company is building an uncollateralized loan protocol to boost their loan operation. Quipu’s goal is to become the one-stop-shop for financial services for micro-businesses in LATAM providing easy, fair and alternative access to working capital.
Solid World
Seed Round in 2022
Solid World builds a blockchain‑based platform that turns the forward market for carbon credits into a liquid, transparent marketplace. By allowing project developers to pre‑sell credits, the platform gives them reliable financing and gives buyers and liquidity providers a clear price signal. The company has secured $4 million in forward contracts for its liquidity pools and partners with leading firms in the carbon and blockchain space. Its team combines expertise in commodities, carbon finance and blockchain technology, and the platform is positioned to support derivatives, collateralised loans and on‑chain insurance that use carbon credits as collateral. Solid World’s approach reduces the risk and illiquidity that have limited capital deployment in the carbon market, accelerating the development of new projects.
Ribon is a developer of an innovative fund donation application aimed at enhancing charitable giving among millennials and younger generations. The company’s proprietary Reverse Matching Gift technology encourages nonprofit healthcare systems to achieve high employee participation rates in their giving programs, ranging from 60% to 100%. Recognized by the Gates Foundation as one of the top ten most innovative donation technologies globally, Ribon's platform allows large donors to contribute funds that individuals can then allocate to various social projects. This approach enables users to amplify their impact without having to spend their own money, thereby making workplace philanthropy more engaging and scalable. Through its solutions, Ribon aims to popularize the habit of donating and transform the landscape of charitable contributions.
Remox
Pre Seed Round in 2022
Remox is a treasury management platform operator, specializing in assisting on-chain organizations with their financial operations. The company's services include connecting organizational wallets, onboarding contributors, managing payroll across multiple networks, providing real-time financial insights, conducting dynamic risk assessments for DeFi investments, and monitoring community proposals. This enables organizations to maintain transparency and accountability in their financial management.
Numoen is a developer of a derivative blockchain exchange platform that focuses on decentralized trading solutions for cryptocurrency options. The company provides an open-source and audited platform that facilitates liquidation-free trading services. This innovative platform allows traders to engage in transactions involving blockchain derivatives, coins, and various crypto assets, all within a fully decentralized exchange environment. Numoen aims to enhance the trading experience by prioritizing security and transparency in the rapidly evolving cryptocurrency market.
Jambo is a technology company building an on-chain mobile network driven by the JamboPhone, a crypto-native smartphone and ecosystem that combines hardware, software, and decentralized services. It operates a distributed mobile-network foundation with nodes across many countries to enable decentralized use cases such as validators and peer-to-peer networking while reducing connectivity costs. The platform includes the JamboApp, which features a multi-chain wallet, an ecosystem dApp store, and opportunities to earn rewards. It also supports gaming smartphones with integrated blockchain technology and financial software to connect users with the global on-chain economy. Jambo aims to onboard millions into the on-chain economy by enabling access to games, cryptocurrency trading, and decentralized finance, with the Jambo Token powering rewards and ecosystem incentives.
EthicHub
Seed Round in 2022
EthicHub is a platform that connects groups of smallholder coffee producers with global investors and direct buyers, combining lending and product sales to improve farmers’ profitability. The system uses coffee as collateral for loans, enabling affordable capital and fair prices that help farmers access financing and break cycles of poverty and low productivity. By leveraging blockchain-enabled regenerative finance, EthicHub channels investments directly to farmers, offers returns to investors, and keeps harvested crops as collateral in case of default, expanding banking access for smallholders and enabling participation in global agricultural value chains.
CyberBox
Pre Seed Round in 2022
CyberBox is the first NFT Marketplace with ReFi integration on the Celo blockchain. Our vision is to build a marketplace to support every NFT collection and every ReFi project that looks to create impact with NFTs and build their communities around them and promote the value of sustainability and climate protection.
Moss.Earth
Series A in 2022
Moss.Earth is an innovative environmental platform dedicated to promoting sustainability globally. Initially focused on protecting the Amazon rainforest, it has successfully expanded its mission to encompass worldwide impact through digital processes. The company specializes in sourcing and selling carbon credits, aiming to combat global warming and preserve forests for future generations.
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.
Kotani Pay
Seed Round in 2022
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.
Founded in 2020, Syro is headquartered in San Francisco, California. It specializes in global B2B invoicing solutions using asset-backed stablecoins, enabling instant access to incoming funds. The company generates and sends invoices with an option for immediate payment.
Cent Finance
Seed Round in 2022
Cent Finance is a mobile application for cryptocurrency and DeFi investments. Their team's goal is to make DeFi widely available. They achieve this by making it more user-friendly, accessible, and understandable for its users. All of this is possible while still allowing users to fully control their cryptocurrency assets. They use DeFi to level the playing field for individuals without access to financial services while also giving those who choose to give up their bank accounts and go cashless an alternative.
The Digital Pets Company
Seed Round in 2022
The Digital Pets Company operates a platform for artificial intelligence-based digital pets, specifically focusing on immersive environments such as virtual reality, social applications, and games. Its flagship product, Digital Dogs, utilizes advanced AI technologies including natural language processing, image recognition, and reinforcement learning to replicate the cognitive abilities of real pets. Users can interact with their Digital Dogs through voice, gestures, and emotions, fostering an emotional connection. The platform allows users to train their pets, teach them tricks, and even enter competitions. Additionally, all Digital Dogs are secured as NFTs on the Ethereum blockchain, enabling users to sell, swap, and share their digital companions with others. This innovative approach combines multi-sensory interaction with detailed visual elements, enhancing the overall user experience.
Nature Tech Collective
Seed Round in 2022
Nature Tech Collective is a non-profit alliance that accelerates nature-based solutions by advancing measurement, reporting, and verification technologies for climate change mitigation and biodiversity protection.
ETHtrust
Seed Round in 2022
ETHtrust is a developer of a financial protocol based on the Ethereum blockchain, focused on providing modern solutions for custody, transfer, and settlement of various assets. The company emphasizes full transparency in its operations and aims to streamline corporate treasury and cash management processes for its clients. By offering a comprehensive rollout strategy, ETHtrust enables organizations to effectively manage their finances and maintain oversight of their cash flows, thereby enhancing efficiency and accountability in asset management.
Traipse
Seed Round in 2022
Traipse is a developer of a mobile application that facilitates the exploration of streetscapes, historic landmarks, and locally-owned businesses through engaging puzzles and clues. The company collaborates with local tourism agencies and downtown business development organizations to create permanent, gamified tour content for historic business districts, campuses, museums, and other venues. By offering a platform that encourages users to connect with their communities in an interactive and educational manner, Traipse aims to promote local economies and cultural assets. The application also features a digital community currency, developed in partnership with local clients, which acts as a rewards and incentive system, further enhancing user engagement and fostering a sense of community involvement.
Stabiliti
Seed Round in 2022
Stabiliti operates a digital infrastructure platform for nature restoration. It facilitates traceable and scalable environmental funding by enabling secure data storage, real-time impact tracking, and integration with global funders via APIs. This allows landowners, businesses, and financial institutions to contribute to verified conservation projects through mechanisms like green margins and round-ups, supported by blockchain-backed records.
MaxOS expertise in blockchain, custom software development and mobile app development with a focus on the financial services industry.
FunCraft
Seed Round in 2022
FunCraft Inc., established in 2019 and headquartered in San Francisco, specializes in developing mobile games designed to become daily rituals for its players. The company creates casual games with engaging progression systems, live events, and social interaction features, aiming to provide entertainment and foster friendly competition among users.
Talent Protocol
Seed Round in 2021
Talent Protocol is a web3 platform that enables professionals to create on-chain resumes and launch talent tokens, allowing anyone to invest in their career growth. Its mission is to democratize career success by fostering collective support for emerging talent worldwide.
El Dorado
Pre Seed Round in 2021
El Dorado develops a mobile payments platform designed to facilitate domestic and cross-border transactions in Latin America. It connects with over 70 local payment channels and leverages a network of currency exchange agents, aiming to address the region's financial ecosystem fragmentation for individuals and small-to-medium businesses.
Ari Swap
Pre Seed Round in 2021
Ari Swap is a Web3 loyalty and rewards platform that enables businesses to issue loyalty rewards and allow customers to redeem them for future purchases, using a proprietary token as the points system. The platform includes an NFT engine to create, send, and redeem non-fungible tokens, digital coupons, offers, and promotions. It targets small and medium-sized businesses and extends into managing both physical and digital art on a blockchain-based marketplace built on the Celo network, providing a secure, transparent environment for buying, selling, and trading art and enabling artists, collectors, and enthusiasts to connect and transact.
Partna
Pre Seed Round in 2021
Partna is a technology company that focuses on making cryptocurrency more accessible, particularly in Africa. It provides a platform that enables businesses to develop user-friendly crypto products without the need for extensive coding knowledge. This infrastructure allows users to quickly launch customizable crypto exchanges in minutes. Additionally, Partna's offerings include tools for sending and receiving money among friends and family, as well as exchanging cryptocurrency for local currency. By simplifying the process of engaging with cryptocurrencies, Partna aims to enhance financial inclusivity and facilitate the adoption of digital currencies in the region.
Aya Holding
Pre Seed Round in 2021
Aya is a curated marketplace for start-ups and mid-level businesses to access vetted web3 digital skilled African talents.
Alpha Fortress Private Limited
Seed Round in 2021
OUR PRODUCTS: KYC DNA - Our AI-powered deep search engine for KYC, KYCC, and KYCCB in near real-time. ID-day - Online in-person verification through facial and voice recognition KYC Block - Document management system using blockchain Payouts - Reverse payment gateway Payment App - Platform for FIs to send & monitor payments FAZRemit - Online remittance services for emigrants to send money from USA to Sub-Saharan countries Since 2018, Alpha Fortress has successfully processed 400,000 transactions worth $135m, and $35m in the 2nd quarter of 2019.'
Aijia is a Web3 ticketing and experience platform that leverages blockchain technology to provide a secure marketplace for event ticketing. The company facilitates access to a wide range of experiences for fans, artists, teams, venues, and brands across various sectors, including music, sports, and entertainment. Aijia's platform allows users to create events and manage ticket sales through an intuitive dashboard, ensuring a seamless and secure booking process. By focusing on enhancing the overall experience for all stakeholders involved, Aijia aims to revolutionize the way events are accessed and enjoyed.
Hedgey Finance
Pre Seed Round in 2021
Hedgey develops a decentralized marketplace for buying and selling custom DeFi offerings on any token. Its platform offers features such as discounts, time locks, customizable vesting schedules, investor lockups, cross-chain compatibility, and governance-enabled token grants, enabling secure management of token allocations with transparency.
DigitalStage.io
Seed Round in 2021
DigitalStage.io offers a live-streaming platform designed to modernize the live music industry. It facilitates direct interactions between artists and fans through digital tools such as online ticketing, merchandise sales, and personalized fan engagements.
Yanda
Convertible Note in 2021
Yanda develops an automated cryptocurrency trading platform that aims to empower users with financial control while reducing overhead. The platform features a simple interface for configuring and customizing trading strategies alongside built-in trading facilities, enabling users to tailor cryptocurrency trading to respond efficiently to market trends.
HoneyCoin
Pre Seed Round in 2021
HoneyCoin is a cryptographic payment and monetization platform that facilitates instant peer-to-peer transactions and enables users to send and receive payments across networks. The platform also connects creators with consumers, particularly in Africa, helping creators monetize their content, reach audiences, and earn and withdraw earnings from their talent.
flywallet
Pre Seed Round in 2021
Flywallet is a financial services provider focused on making travel more affordable and accessible. The company offers a personal finance tool that allows users to save money specifically for flight tickets. This tool facilitates automatic monthly transfers and enables customers to reserve seats by initially paying half of the flight price, which is then credited to their balance for future use. Flywallet also provides options such as microloans, crowdfunding, and split payments, all aimed at reducing the up-front costs associated with travel. Through its innovative solutions, Flywallet helps customers secure discounted flight tickets while promoting savings.
Kresko develops an online capital platform for synthetic stocks, commodities, and crypto, with the goal of making wealth accessible on mobile. The company provides an asset protocol featuring a per-account data model that enables developers to integrate digital assets into applications and wallets, while improving capital efficiency, user experience, asset listing, and risk management. Its platform offers a unified DeFi experience that supports minting, swapping, pooling, and farming of assets, and includes portfolio health indicators to monitor risk. By building on its protocol, developers can deliver asset-backed functionality within their apps and wallets, expanding access to diverse digital assets and simplifying how users interact with them.
CryptoMate
Pre Seed Round in 2021
CryptoMate is a company focused on enabling mass adoption of cryptocurrency business models through its user-friendly, decentralized ecosystem. By providing seamless integration with its Crypto APIs, CryptoMate allows businesses to transition effortlessly into the new economy, regardless of their existing infrastructure. The company also leverages artificial intelligence to offer innovative software solutions, including social network bots that assist users in creating wallets, buying cryptocurrencies, and accessing various decentralized finance protocols. This approach not only enhances user engagement with Web3 technologies but also ensures that businesses can maintain their existing workflows while benefiting from the opportunities presented by blockchain. CryptoMate aims to empower any company to operate effectively within the crypto space, democratizing access to this growing financial landscape.
Akiba Digital
Pre Seed Round in 2021
Akiba Digital is a data and technology company that empowers businesses to make informed risk decisions through its financial intelligence solutions. It leverages alternative data to unlock financial opportunities for consumers, businesses, and society.
Flux is a mobile application that enables users to send and receive money, as well as make and accept payments across Africa. The platform facilitates cross-border transactions by allowing users to transact in their local currency or opt for cryptocurrency payments. Flux provides access to various financial services, allowing customers to receive cryptocurrency from around the globe and convert it instantly into their preferred currency. This versatility makes Flux a valuable tool for individuals and businesses engaging in cross-border financial activities.
Bitmama
Pre Seed Round in 2021
Bitmama facilitates trading of Bitcoin, Ethereum, stablecoins, and other digital assets in Africa. Users can create wallets, connect bank accounts or mobile money services to buy or sell cryptocurrencies.
Award Pool
Seed Round in 2021
Award Pool operates a web3 platform designed to enhance customer experiences by gamifying interactions. It facilitates creation, collection, and trading of digital assets like NFTs, fostering engagement through challenges on games and social channels.
Coinprofile
Seed Round in 2021
Coinprofile is a FinTech firm that offers money exchange and cryptocurrency exchange services.
SympliFi
Pre Seed Round in 2021
SympliFi is a financial technology platform that reimagines credit access in emerging markets to support economic growth. It focuses on expanding credit facilities for micro and small businesses, lowering borrowing costs, and advancing financial inclusion. The platform enables users to access financial services locally, helping individuals and their families participate more fully in the formal economy and build economic opportunity through entrepreneurship and local commerce.
Chainbeat
Seed Round in 2021
Chainbeat develops a data analytics platform focused on Web 3.0 blockchain networks. It provides comprehensive insights into active users, transactions, events, and token transfers, offering real-time alerts and custom reports based on smart contract usage to facilitate informed decision-making.
Coco Pago
Seed Round in 2021
Pago is a web3 application that provides access to financial services for individuals who send and receive money in Latin America. This is achieved through a network of P2P financial providers.
It is backed by Y Combinator and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. Kevin Charles, Francisco Jose Martin Toro, and Victor Charles founded Coco Pago.
Kolektivo
Seed Round in 2021
Kolektivo is a company dedicated to fostering local, regenerative economies. It empowers communities to establish and oversee their own regenerative economic systems, promoting prosperity and sustainability at a grassroots level. Kolektivo achieves this by providing technologies that support ecological regeneration, encourage community engagement, and facilitate the circulation of local value.
Canza Finance
Pre Seed Round in 2021
Canza Finance is developing a decentralized finance system aimed at providing accessible financial services to the underserved populations in Africa. Its platform leverages web3 and blockchain technology, partnering with local money market players to distribute transaction-based services and create an open financial portal for emerging markets.
Forti is a San Francisco-based developer of a social media platform that connects users with friends and creators. The platform empowers creators by allowing them to incorporate cash prizes into their game shows, enhancing user engagement. Additionally, Forti focuses on enabling users to take control of their digital identity, facilitating support for various causes. Users are rewarded for their data, time, and attention, promoting a more equitable digital experience.
Gane is a mobile cellular service provider focused on developing countries, where it offers consumers the opportunity to earn free service through interactions with advertisements, skill development, and the use of an embedded multi-currency wallet that rewards user behavior. Founded by an experienced CEO with a history of successful ventures in the telecom sector, Gane is designed to enhance communication accessibility and affordability. The company launched in Mexico in early 2021 and has established significant partnerships, including collaborations with major telecommunications companies and independent media agencies, allowing it to leverage extensive mobile infrastructure and access to a vast network of storefronts. By providing a freemium model for mobile services, Gane aims to transform communication practices in regions where mobile internet has traditionally been cost-prohibitive and educational resources have been limited, ultimately creating value and a positive impact in underserved communities.
DataUnion
Seed Round in 2021
DataUnion provides a platform that helps groups form data unions to collaboratively create artificial intelligence-ready datasets. The service enables global contributors to upload, annotate, and verify images and other data through bounty missions, producing machine-learning-ready, crowd-sourced, annotated and validated data. It also supports deriving algorithms from the data and allows contributor organizations to co-own the datasets and the resulting algorithms while sharing in financial benefits from their use.
Shareitt
Seed Round in 2020
Shareitt operates an online, social peer-to-peer marketplace for buying and selling second-hand goods. The platform, accessed via a mobile app, enables users to list used items, browse listings, and complete exchanges through a coin-based rewards system that lets earned coins be spent on purchases. Founded in 2018 and based in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel, Shareitt focuses on facilitating peer-to-peer commerce for pre-owned items with a simple, user-friendly experience.
Paychant
Seed Round in 2020
Paychant is a payment gateway that facilitates the conversion between African local currencies and cryptocurrencies, enabling users to seamlessly transact within self-custodial wallets, decentralized exchanges (DEXs), or decentralized applications (dApps). It offers a software development kit (SDK) to help Web3 wallets and dApps expand into the African market, providing a compliant and user-friendly on/off-ramp for digital asset transactions.
Mento Research Labs
Venture Round in 2014
Building the science for the new China.