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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.'
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.
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.
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.