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Top 50 Blockchain Startup Investors in Africa (July 2026)

The most active venture capital funds and angel investors investing in Africa Blockchain startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Africa Blockchain startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Blockchain Founders Fund
VC Fund
5 United States, United Kingdom, Singapore Seed, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech $460k–$6M
CV VC
VC Fund
5 United States, Switzerland, Germany Seed, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Software, FinTech $125k–$4M
Flori Ventures
VC Fund
3 United States, United Kingdom, India Seed, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech $100k–$11M
Allen and Ollys International Limited -
Angel
3 Nigeria Seed, Convertible Note FinTech, Insurance, Blockchain $1k–$4k
Digital Currency Group
VC Fund
3 United States, United Kingdom, Singapore Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech $650k–$48M
LD Capital
VC Fund
3 United States, Singapore, United Kingdom Seed, Initial Coin Offering Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming $1.2M–$10M
Shima Capital
VC Fund
3 United States, Singapore, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming $1.2M–$12M
Momentum 6
VC Fund
3 United States, Singapore, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency $1.2M–$8.5M
Pantera Capital
VC Fund
3 United States, Singapore, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services $2M–$48M
54 Collective
VC Fund
2 Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa Seed, Pre-Seed Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech $40k–$4M
Musha Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, Nigeria, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Financial Services, FinTech $125k–$10M
Roger Ver
Angel
2 United States, Panama, Sweden Seed Bitcoin, FinTech, Cryptocurrency $300k–$2.2M
Rarestone Capital
VC Fund
2 United States, Singapore, India Seed, Initial Coin Offering Blockchain, Financial Services, Software $900k–$10M
Kepple Africa Ventures
VC Fund
2 Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt Seed, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Software $300k–$4.5M
Ingressive Capital
VC Fund
2 Nigeria, United States, Egypt Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology $25k–$15M
Shin Chan IEO/ICO Alerts
VC Fund
2 Seychelles Initial Coin Offering Gaming, FinTech, Blockchain
Alameda Research
VC Fund
2 United States, Singapore, Canada Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services $1.3M–$35M
Mapleblock Capital
VC Fund
2 Singapore, United States, Estonia Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming $1.7M–$20M
RR² CAPITAL
VC Fund
2 Ireland, Bulgaria, Portugal Seed, Initial Coin Offering Blockchain, Software, Information Technology $1M–$2.5M
Yossi Hasson
Angel
2 South Africa, United States, Ghana Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, Blockchain, Payments $120k–$551k
Gate
VC Fund
2 United States, Singapore, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services $1.4M–$20M
Cristina Santin
Angel
2 Nigeria Seed FinTech, Insurance, Blockchain $1k–$2k
GreenHouse Capital
VC Fund
2 Nigeria, Kenya, United States Seed, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
YellowSpoon Capital
VC Fund
2 Seychelles, United Arab Emirates Pre-Seed Blockchain, Gaming, FinTech
Bixin Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, Singapore, Australia Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech $1.5M–$30M
Nordea
VC Fund
2 Finland, Sweden, Norway Debt Financing, Seed FinTech, Financial Services, Banking
Tiger Global Management
VC Fund
2 United States, India, China Series B, Series A, Series C Software, FinTech, Financial Services $6.5M–$260M
Sandeep Nailwal
Angel
2 United States, Singapore, India Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services $1M–$40M
Delphi Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, Canada, Denmark Series B, Series C, Seed Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical Device $1.2M–$70M
Paradigm
VC Fund
2 United States, United Kingdom, Cayman Islands Series A, Seed, Series B Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, FinTech $3.5M–$152M
ParaFi Capital
VC Fund
2 United States, Singapore, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech $1.2M–$35M
Kingsway Capital
VC Fund
2 United States, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates Seed, Series A, Series B Financial Services, FinTech, Blockchain $1.8M–$120M
BH Digital
VC Fund
2 United States, Canada, China Seed, Series A, Series B Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services $3M–$200M
Integrity Seed Ventures
VC Fund
2 South Africa Seed FinTech, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
Signal Ventures
VC Fund
2 Seychelles Bitcoin, FinTech, Software
Launch Africa
VC Fund
2 Nigeria, South Africa, United States Seed, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology $200k–$4M
Hashkey Exchange
VC Fund
2 United States, Singapore, Switzerland Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services $500k–$25M
Oracles Investment Group
VC Fund
2 Singapore, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency $1.5M–$21M
Meridian Capital
VC Fund
2 United Kingdom, Seychelles, France Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
Future Africa
VC Fund
2 Nigeria, United States, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology $100k–$20M
Avalon Wealth Club
VC Fund
2 United States, Singapore, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming $810k–$21M
Newtown Partners
VC Fund
2 South Africa, United States, Ghana Seed, Series A Logistics, Health Care, Transportation $1M–$27M
F6 Ventures
VC Fund
2 Tunisia, France Pre-Seed, Seed E-Commerce, Retail, FinTech $65k–$200k
Rus Newton
Angel
2 Kenya, Canada, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed IaaS, SaaS, Mining $285k–$1.5M
Metavest Capital
VC Fund
2 United States, Hong Kong, Singapore Venture - Series Unknown, Seed Blockchain, Gaming, Online Games $650k–$5.5M
Spark Digital Capital
VC Fund
2 Singapore, United States, Hong Kong Seed, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology $300k–$5M
MV Global
VC Fund
1 United States, Singapore, Hong Kong Seed, Initial Coin Offering Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
The Avalanche Foundation
VC Fund
1 Seed Gaming, Finance, Infrastructure
Block Dream Fund
VC Fund
1 United States, Singapore, Taiwan Seed, Series A Blockchain, Gaming, Financial Services
Timi Aboyeji
Angel
1 Nigeria Pre-Seed Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
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Blockchain Founders Fund
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 5 investments in Africa Blockchain startups

We Focus Exclusively On Adding Value To Blockchain & Emerging Technology Projects With Real World Applications.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 246
  • Round size: Seed $550k–$6M; Pre-Seed $460k–$2.5M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $75M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Coverio — Coverio is a software company that offers enterprise-wide payroll and hiring management software for web4 companies.
  • MonkeyLeague — MonkeyLeague is a video game company. They develop PC and console-based NFT games. The company offers a turn-based, play-and-earn multi-player soccer game that provides monkey NFTs of genetic composition formulated from 32 traits.
  • Uniblock — Uniblock helps connect developers with Web3 using our APIs and services. Our developers use Uniblock because of how easy it is to integrate into exciting applications. Try it for free today!
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CV VC
VC Fund · Zug, Zug, Switzerland · 5 investments in Africa Blockchain startups

We invest in blockchain

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Software, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Switzerland, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 61
  • Round size: Seed $150k–$4M; Pre-Seed $125k–$800k
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • TurnStay — Enjoy low transaction fees on card payments in ZAR, Euros or Dollars and fast payouts in your preferred currencies. Book a demo today
  • Orca Fraud — Orca empowers fraud fighters with effective tools to combat fraud
  • Reppo Labs — Blockchain Network that connect Data Owners with AI Developers and AI agents through Programmable IP Co-ownership
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Flori Ventures
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in Africa Blockchain startups

More than a seed-stage fund and a portfolio of startups: Our community of founders taps into the power of financial innovation to collaborate around global problems and unlock prosperity for all.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 102
  • Round size: Seed $250k–$11M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3.5M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Mento Labs — Mento Labs is a decentralized EVM platform for launching and managing multi-currency stable assets.
  • Learn.xyz — Learn.xyz’s is a mixture of Duolingo and Wikipedia, powered by AI, creating bite-sized “Curiosities” which feature slides and a quiz, in mere seconds just from taking in a user’s question. Find the app on iOS and Android.
  • Thrive Protocol — Thrive Protocol's vision is to maximize value creation for all people and communities.
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Allen and Ollys International Limited -
Angel · 3 investments in Africa Blockchain startups

Allen and Ollys International Limited -

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Insurance, Blockchain
  • Stage:Seed, Convertible Note
  • Geography: Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $1k–$4k
  • Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Get It Done Now — GIDN is a Nigerian Fintech Company targeting medium and low income population for Loans and Financial products. GIDN has in addition a cashless, mobile based community marketplace, with more than 5k members, and aims to regulate the informal economy and facilitate the purchase of Services and Digital Products.
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Digital Currency Group
VC Fund · Stamford, Connecticut, United States · 3 investments in Africa Blockchain startups

We are the capital engine supporting emerging talent & crypto technology. On its mission to accelerate the development of a better financial system.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 299
  • Round size: Seed $650k–$8.5M; Series A $3M–$48M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Zabo — Zabo is an API for connecting to any crypto exchange, wallet, protocol or account. Sign up for access to free API keys at Zabo.com
  • Joystream — Joystream is a block chain-based, decentralized video platform.
  • Ceramic Network — Ceramic Network is a provider of protocols for decentralized and composable data applications. The network decentralizes application databases, making data universally composable and reusable across applications. It consists of three core parts: a highly-scalable, decentralized infrastructure for data availability and consensus, a marketplace ofcommunity-created data models, and a suite of standard APIs for storing, updating, and retrieving data from those models.
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LD Capital
VC Fund · Shanghai, Shanghai, China · 3 investments in Africa Blockchain startups

LD Capital is one of Asia's earliest organizations focusing on value investing in blockchain field. Owing to industrial resource advantages and professional investment research teams, LD Capital has successively discovered and invested in projects such as Qtum, Vechain and Eos which all achieved over 100 times return.Their teams spread overChina, the United States, Europe, Singapore, Japan, and South Korea, and have accumulated rich experience in areas of traditional internet, Fintech, and advanced blockchain technology. They are committed to the globalization of blockchain and quality investment in the entire industry.LD Capital focuses on blockchain innovation projects within finance, games, content publishing, Internet of Things and other circuits, and we have been propelling broad layout of blockchain technology and infrastructure construction to facilitate the comprehensive development of the global blockchain ecosystem.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
  • Stage:Seed, Initial Coin Offering
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 164
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$10M; Initial Coin Offering $1.2M–$9.5M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Joystream — Joystream is a block chain-based, decentralized video platform.
  • OMNIA Protocol — OMNIA Protocol offers a secure and private infrastructure for accessing blockchain technology. It provides high availability RPC endpoints for Ethereum, ensuring users can connect to the blockchain without being traced or monitored. The company focuses on delivering a compliant environment for handling personal data, including blockchain addressesand transactional information. OMNIA Protocol aims to democratize access to blockchain infrastructure, challenging the current concentration of this access among a few corporations. It supports various blockchains, including Bitcoin, Binance, Avalanche, Polygon, Arbitrum, and Optimism, through its platform, offering secure Arbitrum RPC Nodes features.
  • Konnex World — Konnex is building the decentralized coordination, verification, and payment layer for autonomous robots. Powered by Large Behavioral Models and Proof-of-Physical-Work, it connects machines into a single global network where robots can understand, collaborate, and transact.
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Shima Capital
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in Africa Blockchain startups

Shima Capital is an investment fund that focuses on supporting blockchain startups. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 260
  • Round size: Seed $1.7M–$12M; Pre-Seed $1.2M–$4.1M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Kapkap — Kapkap is a web3 platform that uses AI for attention based value distribution in gaming.
  • BullPerks — BullPerks is a community of like-minded individuals who want to leverage their power and invest together in the best projects on equal terms with VCs.
  • Faith Tribe — Faith Tribe is a open- source fashion design platform that focuses on NFT minting, P2P transactions.
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Momentum 6
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in Africa Blockchain startups

Building momentum for ideas in WEB3.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 90
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$8.5M; Pre-Seed $1.2M–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Rivalz Network — Join the connectivity infrastructure between AI Agents, DeFAI and Markets.
  • RiskLayer — RiskLayer is an economic security middleware for DeFi and providing services and validating Creating positive feedback loops.
  • E Money Network — E Money Network is a modular Real-World Asset (RWA) blockchain technology designed with compliance at its core.
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Pantera Capital
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 3 investments in Africa Blockchain startups

Pantera Capital is an investment firm focused exclusively on Bitcoin, other digital currencies, and companies in the space. The company believes that Bitcoin has the potential to transform the way people use money and that it will do for payments what the Internet has done for communications and commerce.Until 2014, Pantera focused on globalmacro hedge fund investments. The firm was founded in 2003 by Dan Morehead, who was a chief financial officer and head of Macro Trading at Tiger Management. The firm has since shifted its investment advisory services to focus exclusively on Bitcoin, other digital currencies, and companies in the space.Shareholders include Benchmark, Fortress Investment Group, and Ribbit Capital.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 304
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$19M; Series A $5.5M–$48M
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Perion — Win Crypto Questing in AAA Games.
  • Polkadot — Polkadot is a dedicated community that envisions a web where users own their digital identities and data, restoring their authority.
  • Solana Company
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54 Collective
VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 2 investments in Africa Blockchain startups

Building and scaling African tech startups with catalytic capital, value-add support and our global network.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 108
  • Round size: Seed $40k–$4M; Pre-Seed $40k–$1.3M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Yeah — Yeah is a financial technology company that offers payment processing services while building a credit profile for the banked and unbanked.
  • REasy — Top up locally, pay suppliers globally, and manage international shipments with REasy. Fast, secure, and designed for African businesses expanding worldwide.
  • Konnect — Konnect provides a cross borders payment solution intended to simplify complex financial flows allowing companies of any scale and size to send and receive payments in a practical, secure, and low-cost way.
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Musha Ventures
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in Africa Blockchain startups

Seed capital for technology startups globally.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 156
  • Round size: Seed $125k–$6M; Pre-Seed $300k–$3.2M; Series A $2.5M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • HoneyCoin — HoneyCoin is a web3/web2 ecosystem of products built in a way that abstracts complexity and brings all the value of web3 and web2 to the forefront.
  • Zeno — Zeno is a climate conscious motor company that offers eco-friendly motorcycles.
  • Lori Systems — Lori Systems is revolutionizing African logistics through innovative technology solutions. We connect shippers, transporters, and drivers to create efficient, reliable, and transparent supply chains across Africa.
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Roger Ver
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Africa Blockchain startups

Roger is currently involved in numerous Bitcoin related projects. He is an early investor in bitcoin-related startups. He has been a prominent supporter of bitcoin adoption and saw bitcoin as a means to promote economic freedom. He now promotes Bitcoin Cash, a hard fork of the cryptocurrency created with the intent to fix issues such as high feesand long transaction confirmation times.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Bitcoin, FinTech, Cryptocurrency
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: United States, Panama, Sweden

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Seed $300k–$2.2M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Portal to Bitcoin — The only custody-less interoperability protocol for Bitcoin. Swap native BTC, Ordinals, Runes with L2s and L1s
  • Acta Finance — Acta Finance develops a complete DeFi ecosystem, EVM compatible, able to deploy and integrate EVM compatible networks.
  • Monarch Wallet — As part of this journey, we will discontinue our wallet services effective July 1, 2024.
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Rarestone Capital
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 2 investments in Africa Blockchain startups

Accelerating the acceptance and adoption of decentralized technologies that will create a positive societal impact.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Financial Services, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Initial Coin Offering
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 63
  • Round size: Seed $900k–$7M; Initial Coin Offering $2M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Biconomy — Blockchain transactions made simple. Enable Gasless meta-transactions, instant cross-chain transfers, easy layer 2 onboarding & zero failed transactions
  • Velvet Capital — Trade any crypto onchain - spot and perpetuals across 7 chains with AI-powered routing. Non-custodial DeFi trading terminal + AI trading bot. 100K+ traders.
  • Composable Finance — Composable is a hyper liquidity infrastructure layer for DeFi assets powered by Layer 2 Ethereum and Polkadot.
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Kepple Africa Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Africa Blockchain startups

We back exceptional founders in and from Africa who are addressing deep gaps between the status quo and the ideal.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 78
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$4.5M; Pre-Seed $300k–$3.4M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Intmax — INTMAX has developed significant innovations in ZK implementation making it a unique Layer2 rollup network that offers low cost, security, tunable privacy, and above all, scalability.
  • TIBU Health — TIBU Health is a disruptive HealthTech logistics company that provides high-quality healthcare services.
  • Onboard — Onboard helps hardware companies transform their text manuals to 3D, intelligent manuals with instant customer support capabilities.
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Ingressive Capital
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 2 investments in Africa Blockchain startups

Ingressive Capital is a renowned $50M Pan-African Venture Capital Fund that invests in indigenous founders and startups across Africa, with focus on Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Morocco, and Nigeria. Specializing in early-stage investments, particularly Pre-Seed and Seed stages, it targets technology companies led by top-tier talent driving transformativegrowth in Africa's GDP. The firm's thesis focuses on B2C solutions that cater to the explosive growth within the tech-enabled, decentralized-learning youth demographic, as well as B2B solutions that increase Africa’s value chain ownership from resource extraction to end-product sale. Its goal is to become becoming a highly valuable VC partner on the founders' cap tables, and being at the forefront of supporting and enabling entrepreneurial success across Africa.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 73
  • Round size: Seed $400k–$3.7M; Pre-Seed $25k–$2.1M; Series A $500k–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $5M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • SehaTech — Welcome to SehaTech, the groundbreaking company revolutionizing the health insurance market with our innovative solutions!
  • REasy — Top up locally, pay suppliers globally, and manage international shipments with REasy. Fast, secure, and designed for African businesses expanding worldwide.
  • Eduflexx AI — EduFlexAI is an AI-driven ed-tech platform that personalizes learning by adapting school curriculums to individual student needs. Using advanced machine learning, real-time analytics, and AI-powered tools, EduFlexAI enhances engagement, improves academic performance, and optimizes teacher efficiency. Our mission is to make quality education morepersonalized, inclusive, and accessible for students worldwide.
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Shin Chan IEO/ICO Alerts
VC Fund · 2 investments in Africa Blockchain startups

Shin Chan IEO/ICO Alerts

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, FinTech, Blockchain
  • Stage:Initial Coin Offering
  • Geography: Seychelles

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Acta Finance — Acta Finance develops a complete DeFi ecosystem, EVM compatible, able to deploy and integrate EVM compatible networks.
  • Kawaii Islands — Kawaiiverse, started with Kawaii Islands in 2021, creates a fantasy metaverse on the clouds for Anime and Manga fanatics all over the world to Play, Create, Connect and Earn.
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Alameda Research
VC Fund · Central and Western, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong · 2 investments in Africa Blockchain startups

Alameda Research is a quantitative cryptocurrency trading firm that provides liquidity in cryptocurrency and digital assets markets. It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Central and Western, Hong Kong.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 211
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$9.1M; Series A $2.5M–$35M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Perion — Win Crypto Questing in AAA Games.
  • Farmington State Bank — Do more with a Moonstone FDIC insured bank account and manage your non-traditional assets from the same place.
  • Optim Finance — Optim Finance provides investment tools that optimize yield on digital assets. Their financial primitives enable users to rent ADA delegation rights to power novel use cases such as SPO loans, leverage into ISOs, and initial bonds.
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Mapleblock Capital
VC Fund · Delhi, Delhi, India · 2 investments in Africa Blockchain startups

Mapleblock Capital is an investment firm that exclusively consults and invests in crypto-assets and blockchain companies. It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Delhi, India.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Singapore, United States, Estonia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 47
  • Round size: Seed $1.7M–$15M; Series A $3.2M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Rena Labs — Rena was creating the execution environment (TEE) abstraction Layer, designed to streamline deployment and execution workflows. This innovation aimed to enable a broad spectrum of verifiable AI use cases by providing a secure and efficient framework. Rena’s approach bridged the gap between advanced AI applications and the need for trusted, seamlessexecution, offering a foundation for reliability and scalability in AI-driven solutions.
  • Kindred — Kindred Labs is building the default interface for human–AI interaction — always-on, trusted companions that unify productivity, commerce, and emotional connection into a single relationship. As the only AI company officially trusted by 25+ iconic IPs, including Sanrio, Warner Bros., LINE Friends, and Pudgy Penguins, Kindred Labs sits on a uniquecultural and distribution moat powered by billions of existing fans worldwide.Kindred’s growth has been consistently explosive: the company has attracted millions of registered users within weeks of opening access, climbed into the Top 10 on DappRadar with hundreds of thousands of on-chain daily and monthly active users and millions of on-chain transactions in a single month, and driven an NFT free-mint that organically reached above a 1.3 ETH floor, alongside outsized gains in brand mindshare and category visibility (including a #1 gainer ranking on Kaito).Backers and partners include SEI Foundation, Protocol Labs, 0G Foundation, Techstars, Orange DAO, Sky Mavis, CoinMarketCap Labs, Nvidia Inception, ElevenLabs, and others. Kindred Labs is founded by Max Giammario, whose M.A./Ph.D.-level research focuses on human–AI interaction, and is built by a team of experts from companies such as Apple and Disney.
  • Cluster Protocol — Cluster Protocol is the co-ordination layer for AI agents, a carnot engine fueling the AI economy making sure the AI developers are monetized for their AI models and users get an unified seamless experience to build that next AI app/ agent within a virtual disposable environment facilitating the creation of modular, self-evolving AI agents.
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RR² CAPITAL
VC Fund · Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal · 2 investments in Africa Blockchain startups

RR2 Capital is a venture capital firm that provides investment services.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Software, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Initial Coin Offering
  • Geography: Ireland, Bulgaria, Portugal

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$2.5M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Gamium — Gamium is a Web3 and Metaverse technology company building the truly Decentralized Social Metaverse.
  • STAGE — Always-on music competitions powered by the blockchain. Vote for your favorite artists and share their success.
  • NXI — Nexus Interactive gives collective growth and accrued value to its ecosystem.
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Yossi Hasson
Angel · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 2 investments in Africa Blockchain startups

Yossi Hasson is the Co-Founder and CEO of Metaversal and a Venture Partner at 2048 Ventures. He is also a Non-Executive Director of WeThinkCode_. Prior to that, he was the Managing Director of Techstars. He attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business and the University of Pretoria/Universiteit van Pretoria.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Blockchain, Payments
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Africa, United States, Ghana

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 29
  • Round size: Seed $120k–$551k; Pre-Seed $120k–$230k
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Howler — Howler, is the powerful event technology platform designed at the uppermost benchmarks of service and technology to help consumers and event organisers to make moments that matter.
  • WizzPass — WizzPass, a rapidly growing leader in the visitor management system and workplace management market is now FMS:Engage powered by FM:Systems.
  • The Sun Exchange — We finance, install, and maintain the solar system. You simply pay for the power it generates and save from day one.
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Gate
VC Fund · Malta, Illinois, United States · 2 investments in Africa Blockchain startups

Established in 2013 by Dr. Lin Han, Gate is one of the world’s pioneering cryptocurrency exchanges, serving over 34 million users across more than 224 countries and regions. It supports trading for over 3,800 cryptocurrencies, ranking among the top 2 globally in spot trading volume and top 3 overall in comprehensive strength. Gate is the firstmainstreamexchange to commit to 100% reserves. As of July 11, 2025, Gate holds $10.504 billion in reserves with a 126.03% reserve ratio. The Gate ecosystem goes beyond trading to include: Gate Alpha – A platform for early-stage, high-potential on-chain assets. Gate Web3 – A Web3 gateway integrating wallet, cross-chain, staking, and Dapp access. Gate Ventures – A blockchain and fintech-focused venture capital fund. Gate Labs – Incubation and operational support for innovative startups. Gate Pay – A crypto payment solution for global merchants and users. Gate operates under multiple licenses and regulatory registrations in jurisdictions includingDubai, Japan, Lithuania, Malta, Italy, Gibraltar, Argentina, Bahamas, and Hong Kong. In 2025, Gate launched its new brand domain Gate.com to reflect its vision as a next-generation crypto exchange.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 82
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$10M; Series A $2.4M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Capx — Capx's mission is to accelerate the flow of capital through the private markets, thereby enhancing global capital allocation. With secondary market and enterprise solutions, Capx combines high-quality collections of opportunities with efficient access for institutions and individual investors.
  • DeepSafe — DeepSafe is a decentralized AI trusted verification network designed to ensure transparency, security, and reliability in the development and deployment of artificial intelligence systems.
  • aPriori — aPriori is a monad-native MEV infrastructure and liquid staking mechanism developed for parallel executions.
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Cristina Santin
Angel · 2 investments in Africa Blockchain startups

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Insurance, Blockchain
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Round size: Seed $1k–$2k
  • Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Get It Done Now — GIDN is a Nigerian Fintech Company targeting medium and low income population for Loans and Financial products. GIDN has in addition a cashless, mobile based community marketplace, with more than 5k members, and aims to regulate the informal economy and facilitate the purchase of Services and Digital Products.
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GreenHouse Capital
VC Fund · Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria · 2 investments in Africa Blockchain startups

GreenHouse Capital’s Founding Partners took their own fintech company Venture Garden Group (VGG) from a 7 employee, ₦30 million revenue startup to a 200 employees, ₦2 billion power house in just 4 years and raised an attention grabbing Series A round from Convergence Partners of South Africa. The uniqueness of their position was not lost on thefounders who then cultivated Garden Institute of Business Entrepreneurs (GIBE) to identify, incubate, and invest in young and innovative tech startups solving global challenges in Emerging Markets. GIBE was created to build a world class talent management hub for young and passionate entrepreneurs while creating a pool of technology inclined businesses and innovation oriented leaders.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 32
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Credpal — Buy now, pay later. Split in 6.
  • Encore Pay — Encore Pay is a UAE-based FinTech and Payment solutions provider.
  • MarketForce — MarketForce connects Africa’s informal retail outlets and consumers directly to suppliers of consumer goods and financial services by digitizing orders, delivery, and payments with the aim of solving the last mile distribution challenge.
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YellowSpoon Capital
VC Fund · 2 investments in Africa Blockchain startups

Yellow Spoon Capital is a community based investment firm that brings high marketing support and growth strategic partnerships specialized in GameFi, Web 3.0, Metaverse, Defi, and other fields in the blockchain. They are working with quality KOLS to achieve good visibility on the French market. They also help projects by connecting them to theirnetwork for following needs.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Gaming, FinTech
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Seychelles, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ondefy — Ondefy is building infrastructure that enables a simple access to decentralized finance. Integrate multiple DeFi services unders 1 line of code.
  • Acta Finance — Acta Finance develops a complete DeFi ecosystem, EVM compatible, able to deploy and integrate EVM compatible networks.
  • Attarius Network — Attarius Network - the first and only all-in-one NFT ecosystem for game industry
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Bixin Ventures
VC Fund · Beijing, Beijing, China · 2 investments in Africa Blockchain startups

Bixin Ventures invests in early-stage infrastructure projects that cultivate and facilitate mass adoption of open finance through permissionless and decentralized networks.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, Australia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 68
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$8.7M; Series A $6.5M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Owlto — Owlto Finance is an intent-centric interoperability protocol, 'Bridge the World with AI Agent'.
  • Unitas
  • townsquare — TownSquare is a DeFi platform for cross-chain lending, leveraged yields, and on-chain asset strategies.
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Nordea
VC Fund · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland · 2 investments in Africa Blockchain startups

Nordea Bank is Denmark's second-largest bank and counts every fourth Dane among its customers. Through their nationwide network of some 340 branch offices and a broad range of self-service facilities, they are able to offer you a full scale of financial products and services, including Netbank, Online Investment, telephone banking and cashdispensers.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Banking
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Seed
  • Geography: Finland, Sweden, Norway

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 23
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Tibber — Tibber is a digital electricity supplier that offers smart solutions to minimize their customers’ consumption and costs. Its vision is to make sustainable energy consumption simple and affordable for all households. Tibber's mission is to reduce the residential electricity consumption for European households by 20 %. Founded in Norway andSweden in 2016, the company has expanded its offer to Sweden and Germany where it powers hundreds of thousands of homes. Tibber replaces traditional utilities with smart technology, supplying its customers with renewable energy at fair and transparent prices. In addition, its app provides real-time analytics into energy usage, and pairs with a variety of smart home devices to reduce electricity consumption at home. The company sells tech-gadgets in their online store and recently was licensed to balance the main power grid in Sweden with EVs.
  • Statzon — Make data-driven plans & faster decisions with a simple access to +1M datasets & market reports about 8,000 topics from +200 trusted data providers.
  • Get It Done Now — GIDN is a Nigerian Fintech Company targeting medium and low income population for Loans and Financial products. GIDN has in addition a cashless, mobile based community marketplace, with more than 5k members, and aims to regulate the informal economy and facilitate the purchase of Services and Digital Products.
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Tiger Global Management
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in Africa Blockchain startups

Founded in 2001, Tiger Global Management, LLC (“Tiger Global”) is a New York-based investment firm pursuing a long-term approach to investing in leading, global public and private companies that leverage technological innovation. Tiger Global’s public equity business includes fundamentally oriented long/short, long-focused and crossoverstrategies, targeting investments in high-quality, public growth companies. The private equity business invests in early through late stage companies that pursue innovative approaches to new and existing industries, building on over 20 years of experience investing in hundreds of businesses in more than 30 countries with more than 90 portfolio company IPOs. With a strong track record investing across sectors and stages, Tiger Global aims to be a thought partner to companies and their management teams across their lifecycle in public and private markets. The Firm’s mission is to generate world-class returns for its investors and to do so in a way that makes its employees, partners and portfolio companies proud.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: United States, India, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 905
  • Round size: Series A $6.5M–$50M; Series B $17M–$130M; Series C $26M–$260M
  • Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $2.2B in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • StrongDM — Manage access to any server, database, or Kubernetes instance in minutes. Fully auditable, replayable, secure, and drag-and-drop easy.
  • Spring Health — Eliminating barriers to mental healthcare. Clinically-proven technology with world-class providers to deliver precisely what your employees need.
  • Tools For Humanity — Tools for Humanity is a technology company building for humans in the age of AI.
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Sandeep Nailwal
Angel · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · 2 investments in Africa Blockchain startups

Sandeep Nailwal is based out of United States and is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Polygon. Sandeep previously worked at Scopeweaver as a Co-Founder and CEO. Sandeep Nailwal attended the Indian Institute of Management.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 187
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$9.5M; Pre-Seed $1M–$6M; Series A $8M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Tria — Threely is onboarding billions onto Web3 with universal identities. Threely addresses are blockchain-agnostic identities that can be used across Web3 as a profile, chain-agnostic payment endpoints, logins, zkKYCs, and more. Threely is doing the crucial work of helping the top blockchain protocols, wallets, and dApps cast a wider net to onboard abroader part of the internet to Web3.
  • Self Protocol — Self is spearheading a secure, human-first internet by allowing users to verify their identities while maintaining their privacy. Self Protocol is an identity and proof-of-humanity solution that uses zero-knowledge technology to confirm personhood and distinctive traits, like age and nationality, without revealing private information.
  • SuperGaming — At SuperGaming, we are putting India on the global gaming map.
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Delphi Ventures
VC Fund · San Mateo, California, United States · 2 investments in Africa Blockchain startups

Delphi Ventures leverages years of experience, passion, & expertise to advance new technologies and build market leading biotechnology companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical Device
  • Stage:Series B, Series C, Seed
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Denmark

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 158
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$11M; Series B $9.3M–$70M; Series C $6M–$60M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $300M in 2008

Portfolio highlights

  • Upexi — Upexi is a multi-faceted brand owner that focuses on direct-to-consumer and Amazon brands. The company pursues organic growth for its present brands while operating in sectors with high growth trends. The objective of Upexi is to keep gathering consumer information and develop a sizable client database across all markets we serve.
  • Bullpen — Bullpen is completely non-custodial and protected by Turnkey's enterprise-level private key management infrastructure. Users can benefit from military-grade protection while maintaining total control over their assets thanks to an air-gapped architecture.
  • Distinct Possibility Studios — Distinct Possibility Studios operates as a game development studio. Distinct Possibility Studios is an indie game studio led by MMO and FPS veterans.
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Paradigm
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Africa Blockchain startups

Paradigm is an investment firm focused on supporting the great crypto/Web3 companies and protocols of tomorrow. Our approach is flexible, long term, multi-stage, and global. We often get involved at the earliest stages of formation and support our portfolio with additional capital over time.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, FinTech
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Cayman Islands

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 181
  • Round size: Seed $3.5M–$21M; Series A $10M–$110M; Series B $24M–$152M
  • Lead/follow: 71% lead, 29% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Zora — Zora operates as a crypto-driven marketplace.
  • Global Token Exchange — Global Token Exchange is an end-to-end decentralized trading platform with CEX-level performance.
  • The Wildcard Alliance — A new platform is coming where YOU are the Wildcard. Sign up and follow for the latest announcements.
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ParaFi Capital
VC Fund · Greenwich, Connecticut, United States · 2 investments in Africa Blockchain startups, 18 in the past 12 months

ParaFi Capital is an alternative investment firm focused on blockchain and decentralized finance markets.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 181
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$19M; Series A $6M–$35M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Fence — At Fence, we're transforming the way debt facilities are managed. We are the Operating System for your debt facility, reducing the amount of resources spent in back-office operations and letting teams focus on what matters.Our platform, built on blockchain technology, offers a Software as a Service (SaaS) solution that simplifies andautomate debt facility operations. Whether you're a capital provider or an asset originator, Fence leads you toward a smarter financial future.For capital providers, our platform enables internet-native debt solutions and real-time portfolio insights, enhancing your credit investment monitoring. With Fence, you stay ahead, making informed decisions for success. Asset originators benefit from enhanced capital efficiency and reduced operational costs, thanks to Fence's automation. We seamlessly integrate debt facilities into your tech stack and provide on-demand programmable debt, giving you unprecedented control over the capital you borrow.
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  • Blockworks — Blockworks is a financial media brand that delivers breaking news and premium insights about digital assets to millions of investors. Our editorial content, newsletters, podcasts and events provide investors with the critical analysis and information they need to make smarter decisions about digital assets.
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Kingsway Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in Africa Blockchain startups

Kingsway Capital is a investment management firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Blockchain
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 100
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$13M; Series A $7.5M–$120M; Series B $6M–$70M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Mesh
  • Mesh — Mesh enables safer, easier crypto transfers and payments from 300+ leading exchanges and wallets, all without leaving your platform
  • Open Campus — The Open Campus is a community-driven protocol that leverages the power of blockchain and invites all to build the future of education by putting the power of learning back in the hands of educators, students, and the community.
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BH Digital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in Africa Blockchain startups

BH Digital offers institutional investors access to a diverse array of compelling opportunities. Brevan Howard Digital combines Brevan Howard's institutional governance, controls, and risk management with specialized expertise inherent to crypto markets in both investing and business operations.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 48
  • Round size: Seed $3M–$200M; Series A $11M–$30M; Series B $35M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • KAIO — The first protocol purpose-built for RWAs, ensuring seamless movement, compliance, and liquidity in DeFi through a sovereign AppChain.
  • TRM Labs — Next Generation Blockchain Intelligence | Monitor, Investigate, and Mitigate Crypto Fraud and Financial Crime
  • Injective — Explore Injective: the high-performance blockchain powering decentralized finance, governance, and next-gen Web3 apps with unmatched speed and scale.
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Integrity Seed Ventures
VC Fund · 2 investments in Africa Blockchain startups

Venture Capital Fund

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ivorypay — Ivorypay is a crypto payment gateway that enables businesses to get paid in stable cryptocurrency and leverage Defi and NFT for growth.Our goal is simply to create a blockchain based payment solution that powers seamless and cheap cross-border transactions in Africa without FX restrictions and also create better spend use cases for theexponentially growing base of crypto adopters on the continent.
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Signal Ventures
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 2 investments in Africa Blockchain startups

Signal Ventures is an investment firm specializing in emerging cryptocurrency technology.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Bitcoin, FinTech, Software
  • Geography: Seychelles

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Acta Finance — Acta Finance develops a complete DeFi ecosystem, EVM compatible, able to deploy and integrate EVM compatible networks.
  • Equilibrium — The first Polkadot-based interoperable DeFi money market that combines pooled lending, synthetic asset generation, and decentralized trading
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Launch Africa
VC Fund · Ebène, Plaines Wilhems, Mauritius · 2 investments in Africa Blockchain startups

Launch Africa is a leading Pan-African VC fund solving the significant funding gap in the Seed and pre-Series A investment landscape in Africa

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, South Africa, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 178
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$4M; Pre-Seed $200k–$1.8M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $36M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Yamify — Yamify is an AI platform where intelligent agents reliably run mission-critical business workflows in Africa. Founded by Silicon Valley engineers, our platform automates complex operations by integrating humans, systems, and infrastructure reliably, even under connectivity, latency, and compliance challenges. Starting with on-prem deployments,Yamify is evolving into a full AI automation infrastructure for African enterprises.
  • Shopstar — A place for makers and creators to start, manage and grow successful online stores. Our built-in design, payment and shipping methods provide you with an all in one solution. Get started with a free 14-day trial.
  • Kashat — The region's first nano financial service provider, offering small productive loans, and serving as the entry point to financial inclusion for the un- and underbanked population in Egypt.
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Hashkey Exchange
VC Fund · Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong · 2 investments in Africa Blockchain startups

Hashkey they offers investment opportunities and solutions to institutions, family offices, funds, and professional accredited investors across the digital asset and blockchain ecosystem.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 112
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$20M; Series A $1M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $360M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • AltLayer — AltLayer is a system of highly scalable application-dedicated execution layers that derive security from an underlying L1/L2.
  • Panoptic — The Panoptic protocol enables the minting, trading, and market-making of perpetual put and call options.
  • Mask Network — Your Portal To The New, Open Internet.
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Oracles Investment Group
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 2 investments in Africa Blockchain startups

Oracles investment group About Us Investing in the future Oracle Investment Group (OIG) is a venture capital firm with a distinctive focus on the domains of decentralized finance, metaverse development, blockchain gaming, and the intricate infrastructure that underpins these domains. At the core of our investment strategy lies the recognition that community and connectivity are

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Singapore, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 39
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$21M; Series A $3M–$9.9M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Faith Tribe — Faith Tribe is a open- source fashion design platform that focuses on NFT minting, P2P transactions.
  • Tren Finance — Tren Finance: a secure DeFi liquidity protocol offering seamless asset swaps, yield opportunities, and cross-chain compatibility through automated smart contracts, redefining liquidity for users and institutions.
  • BLIFE Protocol — BLIFE Protocol's objective is to promote growth and development of Web3 on Bitcoin.
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Meridian Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in Africa Blockchain startups

We are focusing on projects in early and growth stages, helping entrepreneurs develop world-class projects on blockchain technology

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Seychelles, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • NFTPad — What is NFTPAD.FI NFT gaming. art. DeFi.NFTPad has been founded to aid the growth of the NFT Industry and Ecosystem in a safe and sustainable way. NFTPad allows users to mint NFTs in minutes, auction them or raise liquidity so that they may be traded on AMMs such as PancakeSwap and Uniswap. Launchpad for Blockchain
  • DROP — DROP is an entertainment service intended to give a new shape to the music industry. They are defining the future of music ownership, distribution, and publishing via NFT standards, decentralized governance, and automated finance, providing audio creators with a new shape and sustainable future with their innovations.
  • Cryptomeda — Own a valuable NFT card collection and start earning profit now! Find out more.
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Future Africa
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Africa Blockchain startups

Future Africa is a collective of mission-driven founders and funders building unicorns to solve Africa’s biggest challenges. They are build a future where purpose and prosperity are within everyone’s reach.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 89
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$4M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3.7M; Series A $7M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • STEM Cafe — STEMCafe by RVRB is a fun out of school learning centre for kids
  • Juicyway — Juice is a developer of a payment network platform for cross-border business payments for businesses and individuals. It facilitates financial transactions between parties regardless of location to allow enterprises to participate in international trade and the exchange of goods and services.
  • Lori Systems — Lori Systems is revolutionizing African logistics through innovative technology solutions. We connect shippers, transporters, and drivers to create efficient, reliable, and transparent supply chains across Africa.
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Avalon Wealth Club
VC Fund · Helmshore, Lancashire, United Kingdom · 2 investments in Africa Blockchain startups

Avalon Wealth Club is a dynamic group of marketing experts, blockchain veterans, real estate investors and event organizers

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 64
  • Round size: Seed $810k–$21M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • OpenPad AI — OpenPad - The 1st AI Decentralized Launchpad
  • Stabble — stabble is a protocol revolutionizing liquidity pools by introducing protocol-managed and arbitrage pools. This allows stabble to tackle critical inefficiencies prevalent within Solana's decentralized exchanges.
  • AI Cross Matrix — AI Cross Matrix is a DeFi platform that makes the crypto economy simple by streamlining the exchange process with useful solutions.
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Newtown Partners
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 2 investments in Africa Blockchain startups

Newtown Partners is a venture capital firm that actively invests in emerging, disruptive technology startups.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Logistics, Health Care, Transportation
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Africa, United States, Ghana

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 27
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$5.5M; Series A $3.6M–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • MDaaS Global — At MDaaS Global, we build and operate modern, tech-enabled diagnostic centres in clinically-underserved communities, starting in Nigeria. Our big goal is to create affordable healthcare solutions for Africa's next billion.
  • Chefaa — Chefaa is a GPS-enabled pharmacy benefits platform connecting patients & pharmacies nation-wide to help patients manage all their pharmacy needs. Chefaa uses big data, data ming & machine learning
  • Fulfillment Bridge
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F6 Ventures
VC Fund · Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia · 2 investments in Africa Blockchain startups

Flat6Labs is the MENA region’s leading seed and early stage venture capital firm, currently running the most renowned startup programs in the region. Annually, Flat6Labs invests in more than 100 innovative and technology-driven startups enabling thousands of passionate entrepreneurs to achieve their daring ambitions and ultimately becoming theirinstitutional co-founders.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Retail, FinTech
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: Tunisia, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 42
  • Round size: Seed $65k–$200k; Pre-Seed $65k–$81k
  • Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $10M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • WeMove — WeMove is a fitness marketplace for daily gym passes. They develop innovative solutions that meet your sports issues.
  • Bako Motors SAS — Bako Motors SAS is a motor vehicle manufacturing company that develops solar electric vehicles. manufacturer of electric vehicles with the goal of creating long-term fixes for rural areas' transportation issues with regard to people, cargo, and machinery. The business makes electric cars as well as solutions for clean energy generation andstorage that are infinitely scalable, providing users with inexpensive and environmentally friendly e-mobility.
  • Insight Plus — Insight Plus is a foreign exchange platform that specializes in interconnecting global exchanges into one eco system.
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Rus Newton
Angel · 2 investments in Africa Blockchain startups

Co-Founder of Global Advisors & CoinShares. Previously JP Morgan, Salomon Brothers & Shell International

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Investment focus

  • Industry: IaaS, SaaS, Mining
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, Canada, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Seed $285k–$1.5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Mintgreen — MintGreen specializes in heat recovery from Bitcoin mining. Our proprietary Digital Boilers heat communities sustainably.
  • Arcube — We make sure all travellers, frequent and infrequent, make the most of travel loyalty programs, using our data-driven approach, airlines can understand their customers and provide hyper-personalised offerings to boost value and retention.Arcube uses a data-driven approach to make the most of airline loyalty programs for both frequent andinfrequent flyers. Our software allows airlines to understand their customers and provide hyper-personalised offerings to boost value and retention at no extra cost to the airline.
  • UTU Technologies — Trust infrastructure for the sharing economy.
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Metavest Capital
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 2 investments in Africa Blockchain startups

Metaverse & NFT gaming consultancy. Project incubation, capital & advisory #playtoearn

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Gaming, Online Games
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Seed
  • Geography: United States, Hong Kong, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 43
  • Round size: Seed $650k–$5M; Venture - Series Unknown $5.2M–$5.5M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Nexis Network — A public layer-1 blockchain foundation for the decentralization of an Artificial Intelligence ecosystem providing distributed computing and decentralized data storage.Combining the strengths of optimistic and ZK proofs, Rust and Solidity programming languages, Nexis aims to enhance scalability, minimize cost barriers, and enable, and providesecure and adaptable transactions for lightning-fast data availability for the future of accelerated computing, RWA’s, DeFi and Artificial Intelligence (AI) models.Nexis Network offers an innovative solution addressing critical issues in the blockchain and Web3 space that limit utilization by Artificial Intelligence (A.I.), Risk-Weighted Assets (RWAs) and financial markets. Nexis Network enhances cross-chain interoperability, instant transaction settlement, enhanced data security, and scalable low-cost transactions. A crucial element of Nexis’s design is its Decentralized Delegated Proof-of-Stake Validator Network, which ensures real-time, interoperable and affordable transactions forever, challenging the maximal extractable value (MEV) dominance and eradicating central points of control. The project's modular framework allows each ecosystem component to evolve independently, keeping pace with rapid innovations in accelerated computing, artificial intelligence, and consumer applications.
  • Sidus Heroes — gaming company
  • Mavryk Dynamics — Mavryk Dynamics simplifies trading real-world assets (RWA) and using decentralized finance (DeFi).
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Spark Digital Capital
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in Africa Blockchain startups

Established in 2017, Spark Digital Capital is an NY based family office that invests in Blockchain-enabled companies. They firmly believe in a future where blockchain not only plays a significant role in the world but also creates unlimited efficiencies and opportunities to the society and people’s lives. With their teams' strong finance andtechnology background they aim to bring blockchain into prosperity.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Singapore, United States, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 95
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$5M; Pre-Seed $300k–$1.5M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Zengo — Zengo is the most secure crypto wallet: The only self-custodial wallet with no private key vulnerability. Powered by MPC, always recoverable, never hacked.
  • DeepSafe — DeepSafe is a decentralized AI trusted verification network designed to ensure transparency, security, and reliability in the development and deployment of artificial intelligence systems.
  • SecondLive — SecondLive is a diversified metaverse focused on building social networks and supporting creator economic activities.
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MV Global
VC Fund · Central, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong · 1 investments in Africa Blockchain startups

Master Ventures is a blockchain focused venture studio. We combine visionary ideas, exceptional talent, and investment capital to invest and build the next generation of revolutionary blockchain businesses and products.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
  • Stage:Seed, Initial Coin Offering
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 76
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • 0G — The First Decentralized AI Operating System
  • Yellow — Yellow is a financial services provider of software, analytics, and investments in blockchain startups.
  • Mind Network — The 1st Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) Restaking Layer for AI and POS Networks. Mind Network is backed by Binance Labs, Hashkey, Big Brain, Chainlink, etc.
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The Avalanche Foundation
VC Fund · 1 investments in Africa Blockchain startups

Avalanche Foundation introduced Avalanche Multiverse to expedite Subnets’ expansion.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, Finance, Infrastructure
  • Stage:Seed

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Tribo Games — Players deserve better
  • NovaNet — NovaNet offers local verifiable computing and privacy protection applications, including AI, decentralized Internet of Things (DePIN), and games.
  • Blueprint Finance — Blueprint Finance develops protocols and infrastructure to advance on-chain financing.
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Block Dream Fund
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Africa Blockchain startups

OKX Blockdream Ventures is a fund focused on exploring high quality projects. This fund will invest in blockchain basic infrastructure, layer 2, Polkadot ecosystem, Defi, Filecoin ecosystem etc.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Gaming, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, Taiwan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 47
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • KlayCity — KlayCity is a P2E virtual world where district NFT owners can govern, explore and earn while enjoying the gaming experience.
  • LiveArtX — LiveArtX is a premium NFT platform that connects the art world with web3. Built by art industry leaders, LiveArtX brings creators, collaborators, and collectors into the metaverse.
  • Ajuna Network — Ajuna Network is a decentralized ecosystem for gamers and creators.
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Timi Aboyeji
Angel · 1 investments in Africa Blockchain startups

Timi Aboyeji

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Stakefair — Stakefair is an ecosystem of blockchain, crypto and DeFi products.
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