Flori Ventures

Flori Ventures, founded in 2021 and located in San Francisco, California, is a venture capital firm focused on seed-stage investments in the financial technology and blockchain sectors. The firm is dedicated to fostering a more inclusive financial system through its support of innovative companies that leverage blockchain technologies. Flori Ventures aims to accelerate the development of a new financial infrastructure that enhances accessibility and inclusivity, working with entrepreneurs who share this vision.

Tomer Bariach

Co-Founder and General Partner

Sebastian Buenaventura

Senior Associate

Roni Gur

Partner

Barb Izzo

Co-Founder and General Partner

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Mento Labs

Venture Round in 2024
Mento Labs is a decentralized platform designed for the launch and management of multi-currency stable assets and stablecoins. Its primary aim is to promote the real-world adoption of digital currencies by providing a transparent and over-collateralized protocol. The platform emphasizes stability, sustainability, and the diversification of reserve collateral, which helps crypto traders engage in transactions with digital currencies in a reliable manner. By offering a robust solution for managing digital assets, Mento Labs seeks to mitigate risks associated with cryptocurrency trading while supporting users worldwide.

Learn.xyz

Seed Round in 2023
Learn.xyz is an innovative learning platform that combines elements of both Duolingo and Wikipedia, utilizing AI to generate concise educational content. The platform allows users to ask questions and receive bite-sized "Curiosities," which include informative slides and quizzes, all generated in seconds based on user inquiries. Focused primarily on cryptocurrency, Learn.xyz offers insights into various crypto projects, covering their foundational concepts, underlying technologies, and community reviews. Additionally, users can earn points that grant access to future airdrops and exclusive educational courses, promoting a collaborative environment for discovering, discussing, and evaluating crypto initiatives. The app is available for download on both iOS and Android devices.

Kotani Pay

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Kotani Pay is a technology platform designed to facilitate the integration of blockchain protocols, decentralized applications (dapps), and blockchain fintech companies with local payment channels in Africa. By offering a reliable on-ramp and off-ramp service, Kotani Pay enables these organizations to effectively reach a broader customer base, particularly those who primarily utilize mobile money services. The platform streamlines the connection between blockchain solutions and local payment methods, allowing clients to concentrate on enhancing their payment channels within the mobile money ecosystem.

Jia

Seed Round in 2023
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.

Releaf

Seed Round in 2023
Releaf is a Nigerian company founded in 2017 that operates as an online marketplace connecting agribusiness buyers and sellers. It focuses on sourcing ingredients for African food factories, including cassava, palm oil, ginger, and maize, among others. Releaf aims to create climate-adaptive supply chains in response to the continent's growing population. The firm provides extension services to smallholder farmers, acting as a buyer and streamlining the conversion of raw materials into factory-grade inputs for vegetable oil production. By leveraging digital technologies such as USSD and open banking, along with proprietary machinery, Releaf collaborates with over 2,000 smallholder farmers, facilitating the supply of high-quality palm kernel nuts to food factories. This approach not only enhances operational efficiency for food manufacturers but also supports the economic development of small agricultural startups.

Finanex

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Finanex operates a finance platform designed to provide digital trade finance support to small and medium-sized agribusinesses in Latin America. The company focuses on enhancing the export capabilities of these businesses, particularly those involved in food exports, by offering tailored financial solutions that address the unique challenges of agriculture and production. By facilitating same-day funding and personalized service, Finanex aims to increase export volumes while generating a sustainable impact in rural communities facing economic vulnerabilities. This approach not only supports the growth of agribusinesses but also contributes to addressing food deficits in various countries.

ValuesCo

Seed Round in 2023
ValuesCo is developing a gamified platform that enables brands to engage consumers through on-chain campaigns focused on social and environmental impact. The platform facilitates the creation of community-driven social tokens, allowing organizations and creators to co-create value while promoting financial and impact objectives. By providing a rewards infrastructure, ValuesCo aims to incentivize consumer participation and contribution, enhancing brand engagement and driving next-generation consumer acquisition strategies.

Blockfence

Seed Round in 2023
Blockfence offers an AI-driven security solution aimed at Web3 crypto users, addressing the complexities of securing digital identities and assets in an environment rife with scams. The platform consolidates expertise from various sources to provide a comprehensive security service, featuring blockchain-based authentication, a password manager, and a cryptocurrency wallet. Utilizing advanced machine learning algorithms and community-aggregated data, Blockfence empowers users to defend against phishing attacks, malware, and other online threats, thereby simplifying the security management process for individuals navigating the crypto landscape.

Defy Trends

Seed Round in 2023
Defy Trends is a developer of an artificial intelligence and data-driven crypto intelligence platform designed to assist investors in making informed investment decisions. The platform offers on-chain analysis, actionable data insights, and forecasts, all underpinned by thorough education and research. By providing comprehensive and intelligently curated information, Defy Trends enables users to understand the cryptocurrency market better, trade effectively, compare various crypto assets, and identify coins that may be undervalued or overvalued. This approach allows users to streamline their research and focus on strategic investment opportunities.

Hyphen

Seed Round in 2023
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

Seed Round in 2023
Covalent Climate Tech operates a forward crediting platform focused on permanent carbon removal. The company has developed an end-to-end investment platform that automates due diligence and risk management processes for carbon removal projects. By streamlining the evaluation of these projects, Covalent provides insights into their quality and financial health, enabling informed decision-making for investors. Additionally, the platform connects carbon removal projects with high-potential capital providers, facilitating access to essential funding. Clients can also obtain carbon removal credit ratings from independent researchers and organizations, enhancing transparency and trust in the carbon removal market.

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

Seed Round in 2023
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 focused on addressing climate change by sealing old oil and gas wells, ensuring the permanent storage of millions of tonnes of carbon dioxide and methane underground. The company also operates a carbon credit platform that enables businesses and individuals to offset their carbon emissions. This platform provides a clear and accessible method for purchasing carbon credits from verified projects aimed at reducing and removing greenhouse gases. By facilitating these transactions, Carbonpath empowers customers to engage in significant climate action and promote sustainable development, contributing to a more environmentally responsible future.

Thrive Protocol

Seed Round in 2023
Thrive is the top protocol for powering ROI-positive decentralized grant-making across crypto ecosystems.

Vana

Seed Round in 2023
Vana is a decentralized platform that empowers individuals to take ownership of their data and monetize it while contributing to the development of artificial intelligence. By focusing on user-owned data, Vana provides tools for managing and profiting from AI models, ensuring that data contributions are cryptographically verified for privacy. The platform facilitates data portability, allowing users to log in with their wallets and access their information across multiple platforms without centralized control. Additionally, Vana incorporates decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs), enabling users to share various types of data, such as social media profiles, in exchange for benefits. This innovative approach encourages personalized applications while maintaining individual data control.

Kolor

Seed Round in 2023
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 is a financial technology company that offers a mobile wallet application designed for global payment transactions. The platform allows users to send and receive money, make payments in stores using a quick response code, and pay their bills, facilitating accessible money transfers. In addition to these services, Dunia Payment also supports cryptocurrency transactions and online top-ups, providing a comprehensive solution for various financial needs.

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 allows users to invest in actively managed pools, create synthetic trading bots, and trade various non-fungible tokens (NFTs). Additionally, users can run nodes to maintain their trading bots. By providing these services, Tradegen aims to enhance accessibility to financial markets and empower individuals to improve their financial situations.

Loam

Seed Round in 2023
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 online platform focused on advancing the blockchain, NFT, gaming, and decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystems. The company develops a dungeon role-playing mobile game that aims to replicate the real world as a crypto-native city. By emphasizing utilitarian and accessible mobile-first gaming experiences for web3, IntoTheVerse integrates a comprehensive DeFi ecosystem within its blockchain game. Players can engage in various activities, including collecting loot from chests, discovering sacred artifacts, and unearthing long-forgotten NFT relics, thereby enhancing their gaming experience and interaction with the digital economy.

Thallo

Seed Round in 2022
Thallo is a company founded in 2021 by Joseph Hargreaves in London, England, focused on creating a transparent carbon offset marketplace. By leveraging blockchain technology, Thallo enhances the transparency, liquidity, and efficiency of the carbon offset market. The platform enables individuals and businesses to access on-chain carbon credits issued by reputable certification authorities, allowing them to buy, sell, hold, or retire verified credits. This approach democratizes access to carbon offsets, making it possible for small-scale investors to participate in a market that was previously restrictive. Thallo aims to facilitate the commitment of firms and individuals to offset their carbon footprints through verified and trustworthy carbon credits.

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 that specializes in integrating blockchain technology into various enterprises. The company focuses on creating applications and providing a comprehensive infrastructure that allows businesses to harness the full potential of blockchain. By offering decentralized technology, Cryptum supports activities such as scientific research, product discovery, and development of crypto-based solutions. Additionally, the platform aims to make decentralized finance (DeFi) more accessible to mainstream users, facilitating the growth of the DeFi ecosystem through education and infrastructure. Overall, Cryptum enables clients to effectively scale their web3 finance initiatives.

Bitmama

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Bitmama is a cryptocurrency trading platform that facilitates the buying and selling of various digital assets, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Celo, primarily serving the African market. The company provides users with the ability to create personalized wallets and trade digital currencies through its exchange and API services. By integrating with bank accounts, credit or debit cards, and mobile money accounts, Bitmama offers a convenient and secure method for traders to manage their cryptocurrency transactions. Additionally, the platform's software is designed to ensure that users can navigate the trading process efficiently and securely within an encrypted network.

Omni

Series A in 2022
Launched in 2021, Omni is a comprehensive Web3 wallet supporting assets across 25+ blockchain networks, enabling seamless token management, DeFi activity, NFTs, and multi-chain staking with a single mnemonic. It aggregates bridging and DEX services for efficient swaps, abstracts staking complexity, integrates Ledger for security, and offers WalletConnect, fiat on-ramp, and broad NFT support. For more information, visit www.omni.app.

Liquidstar

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Developer of charge stations designed to deploy smart batteries for electrical power distribution. The company's platform gives a category of energy distribution, utilizing waypoint charge stations to deploy smart batteries for beyond-the-grid electrical power distribution stations that offer wireless battery-powered sustainable ecosystems, and uses excess solar energy to power mini AWS like data centers solving the takeoff issue that plagues many micro and mini-grids, enabling clients to have electricity for essential services during grid-destroying disasters.

Greentrade

Pre Seed Round in 2022
GreenTrade.tech is a marketplace platform that facilitates the forward financing of nature-based carbon credits and impact claims. The platform aims to accelerate the financing of new carbon projects by establishing long-term offtake agreements with project developers, transforming these contracts into digital tradable assets. This approach makes carbon credits readily available for corporate buyers, enabling them to mitigate costs and manage risks associated with future price fluctuations. By providing tailored impact projects that align with corporate operations, GreenTrade.tech supports companies in their decarbonization efforts and helps them achieve net-zero goals. The company's mission is to contribute to climate change mitigation by reducing 100 million tonnes of carbon by 2030.

Unergy

Seed Round in 2022
Unergy operates a marketplace that facilitates the connection between companies seeking funding for solar energy installations and retail investors interested in financing these projects. With the solar market exceeding $200 billion annually, Unergy addresses the financial challenges faced by businesses that require significant upfront investment, typically around $500,000, to implement solar solutions. By allowing retail investors to contribute smaller amounts, starting from $1,000, in exchange for equity in solar projects, Unergy removes barriers to financing. This model not only enables companies to reduce their utility costs by 20 to 40% but also offers investors the potential for annual returns exceeding 10%. Furthermore, Unergy's platform promotes participation in solar energy projects, supporting the transition to clean energy in Latin America while providing real-time project performance tracking.

Nandi Labs

Seed Round in 2022
Nandi Labs operates as a Web3 studio focused on empowering Black and African creators through innovative digital solutions. By leveraging the community's cultural richness, the company aims to create a sustainable ecosystem for new talent development. Nandi Labs is particularly known for its Digital FESTAC initiative, which blends real-world and metaverse experiences to foster creativity and expression among diverse storytellers. The platform specializes in creator payments and content distribution, utilizing Web3 applications and tokens to facilitate a new economy centered on art and culture. Through collaboration and storytelling, Nandi Labs is committed to transforming Black dreams into reality and promoting sustainable prosperity within the community.

OppZo

Venture Round in 2022
OppZo is an AI-driven lending platform established in 2020 and headquartered in Miami, Florida. The company focuses on providing working capital loans specifically to government contractors operating within Opportunity Zones. OppZo aims to democratize access to affordable financing by assisting small and medium-sized businesses in securing various types of loans. Through its platform, clients can receive funding tailored to their needs, often within a single day, thereby facilitating timely access to necessary working capital.

Learn.xyz

Seed Round in 2022
Learn.xyz is an innovative learning platform that combines elements of both Duolingo and Wikipedia, utilizing AI to generate concise educational content. The platform allows users to ask questions and receive bite-sized "Curiosities," which include informative slides and quizzes, all generated in seconds based on user inquiries. Focused primarily on cryptocurrency, Learn.xyz offers insights into various crypto projects, covering their foundational concepts, underlying technologies, and community reviews. Additionally, users can earn points that grant access to future airdrops and exclusive educational courses, promoting a collaborative environment for discovering, discussing, and evaluating crypto initiatives. The app is available for download on both iOS and Android devices.

CreatorOS

Series A in 2022
We build tools that allows enterprises verify information about a user *before* processing it - whether it is processed by a human or an AI agent. Traditionally, these verifications including but not limited to background checks cost ~$10. Using our advancements in AI and Cryptography, we're able to send that cost to a few cents. This enables enterprises to do verification at scale, earlier in their work-flows, and enables new kinds of businesses - which were not performing these verifications because of prohibitively high costs. For example, it makes no sense that a recruiter does a candidate's document verification and background checks AFTER the candidate has cleared all the interviews. That's because that verification is cumbersome and expensive. They can't afford to verify all the candidates at the top of the funnel. Many such workflows are ripe for disruption. Another example of a product that was not possible before. A dating app uses our tools to verify the users' information - including their employment, education and financial background. This was something that would have been too expensive to verify at a $10 pricepoint where the ARPU is only $8. Not only that, we're designing the tools ground up - so that AI agents can utilize these verifications before ingesting information, so that they take action basis truthful information. We have 3 tools 1. BlueCheck : our flagship product for background verification. The cheapest option to verify users' employment, education and financial background. A few cents instead of a few tens of dollars. Several Billion Dollar+ revenue companies are customers. A solution designed for enterprises that works out of the box! 2. Reclaim Protocol : our underlying infrastructure that makes BlueCheck possible. With advancements in cryptography, specifically zero knowledge proofs - our research over the last 3 years have resulted in inventing a new cryptographic primitive called zkTLS, which allows us to verify information from any website using the cryptography of the existing internet pipes (TLS). This is our secret sauce! 3. Questbook : our dog-fooding tool. Questbook is a tool to give out research and open source software development grants. These grants are reviewed by AI agents that we built inhouse. The biggest scam people try is to fake who they are when they are applying for grants. We dog-food our own tools to make sure we verify all the claims the users are making when they apply for grants. Our tools secure more than $10M of grants being given out on the platform. So it's high stakes, and it works!

Co:Create

Seed Round in 2022
Co:Create is a company that focuses on facilitating growth for NFT projects and Web3 brands. It operates a curated platform that connects tattoo collectors with artists, offering customers exclusive access to tattoo services. The platform provides white-glove service, priority booking, and detailed scheduling options, allowing users to customize their tattoo experience. Customers can request custom designs or purchase pre-drawn artwork from top tattoo artists, ensuring a personalized and high-quality service. Co:Create aims to enhance the interaction between artists and collectors, fostering a dynamic environment for creativity and innovation within the tattoo community.

Masa

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Masa is a decentralized AI platform focused on creating a data marketplace that allows users to be compensated for their data contributions. The platform aims to transform traditional centralized credit systems by offering a unique infrastructure that includes a non-fungible credit report, composable credit primitives, smart contracts, and liquidity pools. These components are designed to provide a scalable, interoperable, and standardized on-chain identity framework, catering to the evolving needs of the web3 ecosystem. By enabling developers to acquire, retain, and verify users while gamifying community engagement, Masa facilitates the launch of innovative credit products that align with existing centralized credit paradigms.

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 operates a platform that enhances transparency and accessibility in carbon and climate markets by integrating artificial intelligence and web3 technologies. The company addresses challenges in carbon project financing by facilitating the pre-sale of carbon credits, allowing project developers to secure reliable funding while creating a liquid marketplace for suppliers and liquidity providers. This approach mitigates risks and promotes price discovery, essential for the growth of the carbon market, which is expected to expand significantly by 2030. Solid World aims to de-risk carbon investments, making them more attractive and liquid, thereby accelerating capital deployment and project expansion. Since its inception in October 2021, the company has developed specialized blockchain infrastructure and secured commitments for liquidity pools, while assembling a team with extensive industry and blockchain knowledge. By partnering with leading firms in the sector, Solid World is positioned to innovate within the carbon credit space, offering solutions such as derivatives, collateralized loans, and on-chain insurance, thereby establishing itself as a frontrunner in forward carbon credit infrastructure.

Ribon

Seed Round in 2022
Ribon is a developer of a fund donation application that aims to foster a culture of philanthropy among millennials and younger generations. The platform allows large donors to contribute funds, which users can allocate to various social projects, thereby amplifying their impact through small personal contributions. This system encourages widespread participation in charitable giving, enabling individuals to support social causes without significant financial outlay. Additionally, Ribon's proprietary Reverse Matching Gift technology enhances employee giving programs for nonprofit healthcare systems, achieving high participation rates among employees. Recognized by the Gates Foundation as one of the top ten most innovative donation technologies globally, Ribon transforms workplace philanthropy, making it more engaging and scalable.

Remox

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Remox offers services that help connect the organization's wallets, onboard contributors, run payroll, do bookkeeping, monitor their financial data with live reporting, and make investments in DeFi while mitigating risks with dynamic risk assessments.

Numoen

Seed Round in 2022
Numoen is a developer of a decentralized derivative blockchain exchange platform that facilitates trading in cryptocurrency options and other digital assets. The platform is designed to provide an open-source, audited trading service that is free from liquidation risks. By enabling users to trade blockchain derivatives, coins, and crypto assets, Numoen aims to enhance the trading experience through a fully decentralized exchange. This approach allows for greater transparency and security in cryptocurrency trading, catering to the evolving needs of traders in the digital asset market.

Jambo

Seed Round in 2022
Jambo is a company focused on creating an extensive on-chain mobile network, centered around its flagship product, the JamboPhone, a powerful mobile device designed for the crypto-native market. With a foundation of over 800,000 mobile nodes spanning more than 120 countries, Jambo aims to accelerate decentralization and enhance network effects for various applications, such as validators and peer-to-peer networking. The JamboApp serves as a gateway for millions of users to engage with the on-chain economy, offering innovative earning opportunities, a decentralized application (dApp) store, and a multi-chain wallet. By integrating blockchain technology into its products, Jambo empowers users to participate in gaming, cryptocurrency trading, and decentralized finance, particularly benefiting individuals in emerging markets. Central to Jambo's ecosystem is the Jambo Token, which facilitates rewards, discounts, and other incentives, positioning the company as a key player in the evolving landscape of blockchain technology.

EthicHub

Seed Round in 2022
EthicHub is a platform designed to connect smallholder coffee producers with global investors and direct buyers, enhancing the economic viability of these farmers. By utilizing blockchain technology, EthicHub facilitates the direct flow of investments to farmers, who can secure loans using their harvested coffee as collateral. This system allows smallholder farmers to access affordable financing, which is crucial for breaking the cycle of poverty and low productivity. At the same time, coffee roasters offer fair prices for the crops, ensuring that farmers can repay their loans while benefiting from improved economic conditions. EthicHub aims to create a mutually beneficial ecosystem where lenders receive attractive returns on their investments, and farmers gain the necessary resources to thrive.

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 operates a digital environmental platform based in São Paulo, Brazil, focusing on the purchase, storage, and offsetting of carbon credits. Established in 2020, the company initially concentrated on the Amazon rainforest, successfully developing innovative approaches to promote sustainability. MOSS aims to tackle global warming by providing users with the means to contribute to environmental preservation through its digitally-driven processes. By sourcing and selling carbon credits, MOSS facilitates efforts to mitigate climate change and foster sustainable actions, ultimately striving for a significant global impact.

Impactmarket

Seed Round in 2022
ImpactMarket is a blockchain-based platform designed to empower underprivileged individuals by providing accessible financial solutions. Operating as a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) on the Celo network, it utilizes Web3 technology to offer services such as unconditional basic income, a crypto wallet named Libera, and educational initiatives through Learn and Earn. By leveraging smart contracts and a governance token, ImpactMarket facilitates a community-driven approach that encourages donations and social change. Its mission focuses on delivering inclusive financial services and educational resources to those who are financially unserved or underserved worldwide, promoting bottom-up economic development and prosperity.

Kotani Pay

Seed Round in 2022
Kotani Pay is a technology platform designed to facilitate the integration of blockchain protocols, decentralized applications (dapps), and blockchain fintech companies with local payment channels in Africa. By offering a reliable on-ramp and off-ramp service, Kotani Pay enables these organizations to effectively reach a broader customer base, particularly those who primarily utilize mobile money services. The platform streamlines the connection between blockchain solutions and local payment methods, allowing clients to concentrate on enhancing their payment channels within the mobile money ecosystem.

Syro

Seed Round in 2022
Syro is a company that specializes in providing a global business-to-business invoicing solution utilizing asset-backed stablecoins. Founded in 2020 and based in San Francisco, California, Syro's platform allows for the generation and transmission of invoices in a streamlined manner, enabling invoiced parties to receive digital invoices via email with an option for immediate payment. This innovative approach facilitates instant access to incoming funds, enhancing the efficiency of financial transactions in the B2B sector.

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.

MRV Collective

Seed Round in 2022
MRV Collective is a foundation based in Sebastopol, California, established in 2021. The organization focuses on creating an industry coalition that promotes the strategic use of measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV) technologies to tackle climate change and biodiversity loss. By demonstrating the effectiveness of MRV technologies, MRV Collective aims to enhance nature-based decision-making and bridge the gap between nature conservation and financial investment. The foundation's executive management team oversees its assets to support these initiatives.

ETHtrust

Seed Round in 2022
ETHtrust is a developer of a financial protocol based on the Ethereum blockchain, designed to facilitate modern custody, transfer, and settlement of various assets. The company focuses on providing solutions that enhance transparency in financial operations, catering to corporate treasury and cash management needs. By offering a comprehensive rollout strategy, ETHtrust enables clients to effectively manage their financial resources and monitor cash flows, thereby streamlining their operations in a secure and efficient manner.

Traipse

Seed Round in 2022
Traipse is a mobile application that enhances community engagement by facilitating the exploration of local streetscapes, historic landmarks, and independently owned businesses through interactive puzzles and clues. The platform collaborates with local tourism agencies and business development organizations to create permanent, gamified tour content in historic districts, campuses, museums, and various venues. By developing a digital community currency in conjunction with local clients, Traipse incentivizes users to participate in these curated experiences, fostering a sense of connection and promoting local economies. Ultimately, the application serves as a tool for both education and entertainment, helping users to discover and appreciate their communities in a unique and engaging manner.

Stabiliti

Seed Round in 2022
Stabiliti is a blockchain technology company that specializes in carbon tracing software and services aimed at calculating and offsetting carbon footprints. The company's innovative proprietary technology offers comprehensive transparency and traceability throughout the entire lifecycle of carbon offsets. Stabiliti enables fractionalized live offsetting and facilitates complex tracking of carbon debt among multiple stakeholders, incorporating automatic matching features to enhance accuracy and efficiency. Through its solutions, Stabiliti seeks to address the growing demand for reliable carbon management and sustainability practices.

MaxOS

Seed Round in 2022
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., founded in 2019 and based in San Francisco, California, specializes in developing mobile games aimed at becoming integral parts of players' daily routines. The company focuses on creating engaging casual games that emphasize entertainment, social interaction, and user progression. By offering friendly word games and immersive gaming experiences, FunCraft strives to cultivate a sense of community among players, making their gaming worlds enjoyable and inviting.

Talent Protocol

Seed Round in 2021
Talent Protocol is a web3 professional network that empowers high-potential individuals to build an on-chain resume and launch a talent token, facilitating investment in their careers. By enabling users to create a branded career coin, the platform allows them to monetize their potential and cultivate a global community of supporters. This innovative approach redefines professional interactions, transforming careers from a predominantly individual pursuit to a collaborative journey where early support is recognized and success is shared. Talent Protocol aims to assist the next generation of talent in achieving success and fulfillment, making opportunities accessible to a broader range of individuals.

El Dorado

Pre Seed Round in 2021
El Dorado is developing a payments SuperApp for Latin America that leverages stablecoin technology to facilitate both domestic and cross-border transactions. This platform integrates over 70 local payment channels and operates through a network of currency exchange agents, addressing the region's fragmented financial ecosystem. The mobile software offers a free multi-currency digital wallet, enabling users to manage their finances efficiently. Through its features, El Dorado provides essential financial services, including peer-to-peer markets, allowing individuals and small to medium-sized businesses to buy and sell various currencies seamlessly.

Ari Swap

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Ari Swap specializes in a loyalty and rewards platform that enables customers to earn rewards for their purchases, which can be redeemed for future transactions using the Ari token as the points system. The company focuses on small- and medium-sized businesses, offering tools for creating, sending, and redeeming NFTs, digital coupons, and various promotions. Built on the Celo network, Ari Swap utilizes blockchain technology to enhance security and transparency, facilitating easy interactions among artists, collectors, and art enthusiasts. This innovative approach aims to streamline the process of managing both physical and digital assets within the loyalty rewards framework.

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

Seed Round in 2021
Aijia is a Web3 ticketing and experience platform that utilizes blockchain technology to provide a secure marketplace for event ticketing. It facilitates access and experiences for fans, artists, teams, venues, and brands across various sectors, including music, sports, and entertainment. The platform allows customers to create events and manage ticket sales through an intuitive dashboard, enhancing the overall event experience while ensuring security and transparency in transactions.

Hedgey

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Hedgey provides a decentralized marketplace that facilitates the buying and selling of custom decentralized finance (DeFi) offerings for various tokens. The platform enables teams, investors, and communities to access token deals that include discounts, time locks, and additional benefits aimed at financing decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) treasuries. By offering a range of financial instruments, Hedgey allows clients to generate yield and diversify their treasuries without the need to sell tokens on the open market. Additionally, the company specializes in token vesting infrastructure, supporting teams and their stakeholders in managing their token distributions effectively.

DigitalStage.io

Seed Round in 2021
Digitalstage.io is a platform that focuses on digitizing the live music industry through live-streaming performances. It provides a digital performance channel that includes tools for artists, venues, and record labels to enhance fan engagement. The platform facilitates online merchant sales, ticketing, and the promotion of physical products, allowing artists to connect directly with their fans in a personal manner. By streamlining these services, Digitalstage.io aims to create a comprehensive ecosystem that supports the evolving needs of the music community.

BmyBit

Convertible Note in 2021
BmyBit specializes in automated cryptocurrency trading, offering a platform that enables users to execute buy and sell orders almost instantaneously. The company aims to enhance off-chain transaction transparency while providing a user-friendly interface that allows for the customization of trading strategies. By streamlining the trading process and minimizing overhead costs, BmyBit empowers users to efficiently respond to market trends with unlimited trading capabilities.

HoneyCoin

Pre Seed Round in 2021
HoneyCoin is a cryptographic payment and monetization platform that facilitates peer-to-peer transactions, allowing users to connect and transact with friends and family globally at any time. The platform is designed to empower creators, particularly in Africa, by enabling them to monetize their content and earn income from their talents. Users can receive payments instantly, enhancing the overall efficiency of financial interactions within the platform. HoneyCoin aims to bridge the gap between creators and consumers, providing a seamless way for individuals to earn and withdraw their earnings.

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

Seed Round in 2021
Kresko is focused on enhancing access to wealth through its innovative online platform for synthetic stocks, commodities, and cryptocurrencies. This platform allows users to manage their assets in a single application, facilitating activities such as minting, swapping, pooling, and farming. Kresko’s synthetic asset protocol emphasizes capital efficiency and an improved user experience, while also providing a clear overview of portfolio health and associated risks. By offering a frictionless listing of assets, Kresko enables developers to seamlessly incorporate crypto assets into their applications and wallets, making it easier for individuals to engage with digital finance.

CryptoMate

Pre Seed Round in 2021
CryptoMate is a developer of an artificial intelligence-based platform designed to simplify the transition to cryptocurrency for businesses. It offers a guided decentralized ecosystem that enables companies to adopt crypto business models seamlessly. Through its Crypto APIs, CryptoMate allows businesses to leverage blockchain technology and access various financial services, including wallet creation, cryptocurrency purchasing, and protocol engagement. Additionally, the platform features conversational AI that assists and engages users in the Web3 environment, ensuring that company workflows remain unaffected. By providing these tools, CryptoMate aims to facilitate financial inclusion through decentralized finance, enabling any company to operate within the evolving crypto economy.

Akiba Digital

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Akiba Digital is a data and technology company focused on delivering financial intelligence solutions. It specializes in developing a financial data aggregator application that assists users in managing their savings goals and overall financial management. The application provides on-demand insights and visualizations to help users track their progress, while also offering behavioral coaching as part of a premium rewards program. This enables individuals to access personalized financial guidance, promoting more efficient use of their financial resources. Akiba Digital aims to unlock financial opportunities for consumers, businesses, and society by leveraging alternative data.

Flux

Seed Round in 2021
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 is a cryptocurrency trading platform that facilitates the buying and selling of various digital assets, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Celo, primarily serving the African market. The company provides users with the ability to create personalized wallets and trade digital currencies through its exchange and API services. By integrating with bank accounts, credit or debit cards, and mobile money accounts, Bitmama offers a convenient and secure method for traders to manage their cryptocurrency transactions. Additionally, the platform's software is designed to ensure that users can navigate the trading process efficiently and securely within an encrypted network.

Award Pool

Seed Round in 2021
Award Pool operates an integrated web-three platform designed to enhance customer engagement through gamification. The platform enables users to participate in challenges and competitions where they can earn points, prizes, and customizable Non-Fungible Token (NFT) rewards. By facilitating the creation, collection, and trading of experiences and collectibles, Award Pool allows brands, creators, and collectors to develop unique engagement challenges that captivate their audiences across various online communities and social media channels. This approach not only fosters interaction but also helps maintain excitement around brands by encouraging users to actively participate in shared interests and activities.

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 company focused on improving access to credit in emerging markets. By providing innovative solutions, it aims to enhance economic opportunities and promote financial inclusion for underbanked micro and small businesses. The platform significantly reduces the cost of credit, enabling users to access essential financial services directly, thereby supporting their productive endeavors and facilitating support for their families. Through its efforts, SympliFi is contributing to economic growth in regions that have traditionally faced barriers to financial resources.

Chainbeat

Seed Round in 2021
Chainbeat is a developer of a data analytics and insights platform focused on Web 3.0 and blockchain smart contracts. The platform delivers in-depth insights into active users, transactions, events, and token transfers. It provides real-time alerts and customizable reports that enhance decision-making by leveraging real-time data on smart contract usage. Chainbeat's services aim to equip users with the necessary information to navigate the evolving landscape of blockchain technology effectively.

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 specializes in creating a network of local regenerative economies. It enables local communities to build and manage their regenerative economy to fuel prosperity.

Canza Finance

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Canza Finance is focused on creating a decentralized finance platform aimed at improving access to financial services for underserved populations in Africa. By leveraging Web3 technology and blockchain, Canza Finance connects users with a network of local money market participants to facilitate financial transactions. The platform is designed to serve as an open financial portal, making it easier for individuals in emerging markets to access essential financial services without relying on traditional institutional frameworks. Through this innovative approach, Canza Finance aims to build the largest non-institutional-based financial system in the world.

Forti

Seed Round in 2021
Forti is a San Francisco-based developer of a social media platform that connects users with friends and favorite creators. The platform empowers users to manage their digital identity while facilitating support for various causes. Forti also enables content creators to incorporate cash prizes into their game shows, enhancing user engagement and interaction. Through its innovative approach, the company rewards users for their data, time, and attention, creating a more interactive and rewarding social networking experience.

Gane

Seed Round in 2021
Gane is a mobile cellular service provider focused on developing countries, where it offers users the opportunity to earn free services by engaging with advertisements, acquiring new skills, and utilizing a multi-currency wallet that rewards positive behaviors. Founded by an experienced CEO with a history in the telecom industry, Gane began its operations in Mexico in early 2021, leveraging partnerships with major players such as Telefonica and ATT to utilize their mobile infrastructure and access a wide network of storefronts. The company aims to deliver accessible communication solutions by providing freemium mobile services, including free internet, calls, and messages. Additionally, Gane collaborates with leading independent media agencies in Mexico to enhance mobile reach and data analytics for a substantial audience. By combining its innovative business model with a commitment to social impact, Gane seeks to address the challenges of affordability and accessibility in mobile internet and education for underserved populations.

DataUnion

Seed Round in 2021
DataUnion operates a data union-as-a-service platform that facilitates the creation of collaborative groups to generate artificial intelligence-ready data sets. The platform enables global contributors to upload, annotate, and verify images through a variety of bounty missions, ensuring the production of high-quality, crowd-sourced data. By participating in these data unions, contributors become co-owners of the data and the algorithms developed from it, allowing them to benefit financially from their contributions. DataUnion's approach emphasizes the importance of collaboration and shared ownership in the generation of valuable data for machine learning applications.

Shareitt

Seed Round in 2020
Shareitt is a marketplace platform that allows members to sell pre-owned items and shop without spending money. Founded in 2018 and based in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel, Shareitt has developed a mobile application to facilitate access to its marketplace. The platform operates on a social peer-to-peer commerce model, where users can buy and sell second-hand goods directly. It incentivizes transactions by rewarding users with coins, enabling them to acquire more products. This innovative approach encourages sustainable consumption and provides an accessible way for individuals to declutter and acquire items without financial expenditure.

Paychant

Seed Round in 2020
Paychant is a payment gateway that helps Africans on-ramp and off-ramp right inside any self-custodial wallets, DEX, or dApps using Africa's localized payment methods. Wallets or dApps looking to enter the African market can now take advantage of Paychant's ramp SDK to onboard and offboard users in Africa.

Mento Research Labs

Venture Round in 2014
Building the science for the new China.
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