CV VC's Blockchain Startup Portfolio

AdHash

Creating a smoother advertising ecosystem

Today’s advertising ecosystem is complex, with an ever-growing list of supply chain middlemen, and an immense amount of ad fraud. AdHash has created a secure privacy-focused platform in which first-party ad serving is possible, by removing the use of different intermediaries, advertisers and publishers to host simple software on their server, next to the other ad solutions.

This enables them to transact directly through a bidder and collect data straight from the source, bypassing the middlemen and giving them complete control of their data. The AdHash team has built up two advertising platforms since 2014, reaching 500+ corporate clients.

Assembl

Democratizing science

Assembl is improving quality and accessibility of scientific data by interconnecting disparate data sources and positively incentivizing data interchange with simple and scalable software solutions.

Asvin

Securing over-the-air updates for IoT vendors

The importance of cybersecurity is increasing at a fast pace. IoT solutions are especially fragile as they are often unpatched and lose security during operation lifetime. Vendors and operators of IoT devices are forced to ensure safety during necessary updates, but current solutions for secure operations are too expensive.

Asvin offers a seamless implementation, transparent pricing, and lower cyber risk. Blockchain technology enhances security by incorporating DLT and device IDs in the solution. The Germany-based team has gained several awards and prizes and launched various industrial pilots with companies (BD, Minol, Zeiss, and OdinS).

BlockFrauds

Private blockchain-enhanced intelligent fraud detection for the insurance industry

BlockFrauds is a pioneer in the landscape of fraud detection, paving the way forward for a new landscape in the global insurance sector. With world-class AI and an excellent blockchain use-case, BlockFrauds is a modern-day fraud-fighting hero. “Innovation and evolution are at the heart of everything we do.”

BlockFrauds uses a wide range of cutting-edge technologies, including AI and their proprietary algorithms, to help insurers detect fraud. BlockFrauds uses advanced speech and image analytics — Digital Speech DNA and Digital Image DNA — to flag any suspicious activities.

Blocksport

Increasing fan engagement for sports clubs

Sports of all shapes and sizes are renowned for captivating fans and creating loyal customers around the globe. E-sport has gained ground as the fast-growing, new global sport with this starting point. However, clubs lack customized mobile apps that are needed to engage with their global fan community and as a result, are missing out on brand visibility and revenues.

Blocksport provides a social sports platform for traditional sport and E-sport clubs that is easy and takes little time to set up, thanks to their white-label solution. The app can communicate with fans, community management, and gamification and is secured via the blockchain. The product is currently live and is being used by various sports clubs. Further in the pipeline is a digital assets (NFT) marketplace for clubs and fans.

Coala Pay

Infrastructure for donation management

Coala Pay makes moving aid money simple, borderless, and programmable. Their built-in payments rail insulates donor funds from foreign currency risks, excessive banking fees, and delays. Founded by humanitarians, Coala Pay brings deep international aid experience together with new technologies to make it easier than ever to find and fund local aid partners.

Coinrule

No-code platform for algo-crypto trading

Today’s high-volatility conditions of the crypto markets force traders to react quickly. At the same time, active investing is difficult and requires a significant amount of time. While professionals can code algorithmic bots and use sophisticated tools, retail investors are falling behind. Coinrule empowers regular investors to compete with professional algorithmic traders and Hedge funds.

It introduces a smart no-code platform where users can build trading strategies without programming a single line of code. Coinrule sits a layer above trading exchanges and sends automated trading instructions via APIs to exchange of any choice. They have currently established partnerships with 12 leading exchanges, and more than 130 000 rules were created on the platform during 2020.

Cybera

Fighting financial cybercrime that's costing businesses a combined $6.9 billion per year

Cybera is on a mission to disrupt financially motivated cybercrime by uniting experts from law enforcement, cybersecurity, technology, and the financial sector.

Cybera closes the gaps that allow cyber criminals to thrive by sharing actionable information in real-time with financial institutions, fintech, and crypto exchanges, and coordinating a global legal response to support victims of financial cybercrime.

DSENT

Digital finance platform for real assets

The financial industry is becoming easier and more accessible, unlocking assets that are currently illiquid. However, trading volume in tokenized real assets is low. The untapped potential is enormous with beneficial regulations coming into fruition. DSENT is a digital finance & tokenization platform that manages the full lifecycle of tokens, from issuance, to connecting them to investors.

The focus lies on tokenization of real-world assets that are typically a bit more complex. Examples of this are revenue-sharing asset tokens of cattle ranches, profit sharing of tennis players, or tokenization of large art projects. DSENT is currently tokenizing various assets and is partnering up with key players in the space across multiple industries.

DoxyChain

Web3 document management for the future

DoxyChain is a pioneer DLT document management system (DMS) delivering cost-effective and modular blockchain infrastructure for DMS. DoxyChain is creating an entire blockchain infrastructure for document management executed by smart contracts.

The startup offers APIs for major enterprise applications and other blockchains. DoxyChain is a natural bridge between legacy Web 2.0 and Web 3.0

Fastagger

Using NFTs for payment and customer engagement

Fastagger provides a customer engagement platform for African small to medium-sized businesses. Their blockchain-based wallet analyzes user mobile transaction data and is powered by NFTs for coupons to enable customers to engage with social commerce SMEs.

This is combined with a cross-platform personalized customer engagement system capable of analyzing data, engaging users, answering questions, selling products, and optimizing logistics.

Float

Magic Internet Assets

Float makes Magic Internet Assets that allow you to get perpetual, leveraged exposure to the hottest crypto assets without worrying about liquidations or managing debt positions. Float allows you to seamlessly mint a long or short leveraged position that is tokenized. No liquidations, no over-collateralization, no trading fees.

The powerful interface also allows you to explore the positions, returns, trade history and much more for every single floatonaian in the entire ecosystem. Multichain, multi-asset and so much more multi on the way!

FlovTec

Market maker for digital assets

The digital asset space is growing rapidly, with more than USD 8 trillion worth of assets stored on the blockchain by 2027. Flovtec is a tech company providing market-making solutions to digital asset exchanges and token issuers to create a liquid and efficient market.

Currently, most of the digital assets on the blockchain are not tradable due to a lack of liquidity, which is why liquidity will play a crucial role in expanding the digital assets field further.

Forward Protocol

WordPress for Web 3.0

Forward Protocol provides the toolkits to ease blockchain adoption and leverage Web 3.0 technology. It presents a unique solution in a way no one else has attempted by bringing forth an easy-to-use WordPress-like model to facilitate a no-code environment with which users can deploy their applications on blockchain without technical knowledge.

Forward Protocol is cross-chain compatible, industry-agnostic, and adoption-focused so that users utilize smart contracts from the Forward Factory on any EVM-compatible chain in just a few clicks.

Fungies

Storefronts for game studios or private servers

Fungies lets you easily build customizable NFT marketplace in minutes. No coding is required, meaning that no time needs to be spent on integrating on the back-end integration. Furthermore, it’s a Multichain, Multicurrency solution which allows games on any EVM chain to integrate their game and NFTs. They help bring existing/new games to Web3 with developer tools / APIs.

GK8

Enterprise-grade custody platform

GK8 is an enterprise-grade custody platform that enables financial institutions to drive new revenue streams over their digital assets with 100% protection from cyber attacks. GK8 founders and most of the R&D team are veterans of Israel’s elite cyber-security units, protecting the nation’s strategic assets from state level hackers. CV VC sold its shares in an M&A exit to Celsius Network LLC.

HouseAfrica

Unlock the dead capitals trapped in Africa Real Estate.

HouseAfrica - Sytemap opens up your Real Estate projects beyond geographic limitations. Allow prospects to interact with project sitemaps virtually, enable fast decisions and grow sales better.

HouseAfrica is in the process of signing an exclusive deal with the National Mortgage Bank (FMBN), which has 40 mortgage banks under them. FMBN will help accelerate the mortgage application process directly through the HouseAfrica platform.

iVE.ONE

Changing capital markets for good

Current capital markets have fallen behind in digitalization for traditional assets and securities. In addition, financial processes are complex and cost-intensive due to the many intermediaries involved. IVE.ONE offers a holistic end-to-end platform for the tokenization and issuance of any financial instrument or security.

The platform connects the three pillars of digital securities; issuance, investments, and compliance, and has a built-in compliance layer to ensure that everything satisfies regulatory and business requirements from different jurisdictions. IVE.ONE is currently the leading platform for digital securities in Germany and Europe and is partnering with key players within the space.

Ivorypay

Crypto payment solution for African businesses

Ivorypay is the most comprehensive blockchain-based all-in-one payment infrastructure designed to accelerate the growth of African online businesses. The infrastructure has been developed to assist businesses in accepting cryptocurrency payments from customers worldwide.

Leto

Data analytics on IPFS for business data

Leto empowers developers and users by providing insights about data stored on IPFS. Their mission is helping developers by providing safe tooling that helps them in their business while protecting their users. These tools will help individuals and organizations measure the performance, security, and reliability of their data storage and retrieval systems operating on IPFS.

Mazzuma

Mazzuma is one of the leading payment platforms in Africa that utilizes mobile money, artificial intelligence, and blockchain technology to enable peer-to-peer payments.

The Mazzuma token, MAZ, is the payment medium in the Mazzuma ecosystem. Transactions on the Mazzuma platform are instantaneous and have low transaction fees. The philosophy behind the Mazzuma ecosystem is to provide a robust payment system to the masses and enable users to use their funds in a convenient and stress-free manner.

Mazzuma has already begun discussions with targeted exchanges such as Binance, Coinbase, and Kraken. They aim to list their MAZ token on these exchanges, which would make the token more accessible, thus increasing market liquidity and trading volume in the process.

Money Math Games

Incentivizing children to solve math problems

Studies show over and over that solid financial literacy is linked to basic numeracy skills. Parents often lack the time or financial confidence to teach their children these skills. Money Math Games aims to create a financially independent future generation by teaching children basic math and introducing positive financial behavior from a young age.

The app allows parents to easily manage pocket money while children receive incentives and gain knowledge during the process. Currently, Money Math Games is used by several schools, and more than ten thousand questions have been answered on the platform so far.

NATIX

The future of camera monetization

The 1 billion fixed CCTV cameras are not the only ones out there. There are 44 billion additional cameras in mobile phones, drones, cars, etc., worldwide. Also, an increasing number of these devices are equipped with AI-accelerated chips, which enables them to run computer vision AI efficiently.

NATIX Network is about to make these AI-friendly devices part of the largest camera network in history. Their aim is to turn any camera, anywhere, into a visual sensor providing data to subscribers.

Nuvlio

Bridging the gap in agriculture financing

Did you know that five hundred million farmers around the globe have no access to any financial service? Nuvlio aims to connect small and medium-sized farmers to financial lenders by combining multiple data sources, AI modeling, and blockchain technology.

This risk intelligence framework enables financial institutions to accurately assess farmers' operations and give them proof by using blockchain technology to evaluate risk in an inexpensive, fast, and transparent way. Nuvlio has over 5000 farmers currently using its solution and products.

Orvium

Web platform to accelerate science

Science has far-reaching implications for society, which is why the quality control process, known as ‘peer review’, is of high importance. However, the scientific validation process is ineffective, slow and centralized, and there are no incentives for academics and researchers to evaluate their quality of work. Orvium aims to improve the scientific validation process and reduce publication time.

Scientists are connected through a web platform and can work together to streamline the process of scientific publishing. The platform offers decentralized peer reviews, which effectively reduces publication time, and all activity is stored on the blockchain for full traceability.

Plenty

Defi applications on Tezos

Plenty is a decentralized exchange and automated market maker (Dex & AMM) built on the Tezos blockchain. The platform offers fast, secure, and low-cost trading for a wide range of digital assets. Plenty is designed to empower Tezos users with fast, secure, and low-cost trading services, providing them with greater control over their assets.

Pravica

Encrypted enterprise communication suite

The new working-from-home paradigm has caused enterprises to rely on mobile communication more than ever before. Still, most solutions do not protect enterprises' data sufficiently. Instead, large amounts of sensitive data are being collected and stolen globally every day. It is then leaked, passed on, or abused by other parties.

Pravica offers a unified communication suite that includes messaging, email, conference, among other features. The suite is fully secured and private as it keeps users' data end-to-end encrypted by utilizing blockchain technology. Pravica currently has 21 000 customers in 100 countries all over the world.

Proof

Making impact investing transparent and verifiable

Accelerating impact investing is critical for the challenges the world is facing. However, a large proportion of funds are invested into a ”black box”, where outcomes are unclear and no guarantee that the capital is coming to use. Proof of Impact is a data intelligence platform that makes impact data accessible to maximize return on investment.

Proof of Impact will help impact investors transform static impact data reporting into a cost-effective, real-time, dynamic digital solution. They are on a mission to make impact data accessible and measurable for investors and impact providers. They use blockchain technology for verification and increased transparency.

Pyrpose

Direct access to impact investing

Purpose provides direct access to impact investing with verified on-chain carbon reduction. Their future state is to have millions of consumers and thousands of businesses that care about reducing climate emissions on the platform, interacting, funding and innovating. Make a positive impact on the environment while earning a return on your investment!

Rens

Decentralized fashion collective

Rens is a decentralized fashion collective, enabling artists, NFT creators, influencers, DAOs, web3 games to create their own Fashion NFTs & sustainable physical labels. Rens Fashion Collective is different from a typical Fashion Group.

Its “community-generated labels” are not necessarily fully owned by Rens and are instead using Rens resources (climate-neutral NFTs usable in multiple metaverses, physical sustainable manufacturing, etc.) as a launchpad to kickstart/make themselves Multiverse Sustainable Brands like Rens.

Revix

Investment management platform

Revix brings simplicity, trust, and great customer service to investing in cryptocurrencies. Its easy-to-use online platform enables you to securely own the world’s top cryptocurrencies in just a few clicks. Revix guides new clients through the sign-up process to their first deposit and first investment.

Once set up, most customers manage their own portfolio but can access support from the Revix team at any time.

Scorechain

Analytics for digital asset transactions

As the adoption of cryptocurrencies rises, more and more regulations are being put in place to manage this new asset class. The threat of penalties and reputational damage is massive for enterprises that cannot respond to this change. The Scorechain software enables companies to monitor all crypto transactions continuously.

Their fully automated AI system automatically triggers alerts in case of any discovered irregularities. Currently, Scorechain caters to more than 100 customers in 33 countries and has some of the world's top industry leaders as its client base.

ServBlock

Automating the ‍quality assurance process

ServBlock is using blockchain to track and trace raw materials, excipients and components used in the biotech manufacturing process to ensure enhanced regulatory compliance. The company helps biotech companies transition from traditional paper-based workflows to leaner, digital-first operations.

Eliminate outdated paper-based material traceability process, optimize workflows and decrease costs.

Soda World

Introducing African artists to the world

Soda World is reshaping the relationship between artists and their audiences using technologies born of the metaverse. Africa is earmarked as the next trend in global content creation, yet the tools to capture and distribute their own content are out of reach for most artists.

Subscribers on Soda World are engaged on a regular basis in an ecosystem that includes both real world and VR venues. The startup has produced over 60 virtual shows and has recorded some of the continent’s largest artist.

Sprinter

Source, manage, and operate remote teams & projects on a single, trusted platform

In today’s business world, advances in machine learning and artificial intelligence have accelerated automation. Business owners face two choices: Extinction or Evolution. Undoubtedly, every company needs to invest in new technology to survive. But the technical product development process is complex and is lacking in transparency.

Sprinter provides businesses with instant access to the talent and tools required to build, grow, and scale their operation. They combine powerful software and a global partner network to give companies confidence, transparency, and control over their budget.

Tracifier

Trust your food!

Tracifier is a supply chain management system based on blockchain technology with the mission to reduce yearly $50 billion food fraud in markets and develop sustainability practices in agribusiness worldwide by a blockchain-enabled system for provenance, traceability, and efficiency.

The solution delivers trusted visibility and control to supply chains via automation and make supply documents tamper-proof and authenticate using NFTs. Via an independent data-sharing platform Tracifier connects supply network together to exchange data and documents such as product origin details, processing data, and certifications in real-time. That will help organisations who use the solution to prove that their products are verifie

Utopia Music

Building the next-generation music infrastructure

Music consumption has gone through a massive digitalization shift in the past years, but the industry as a whole has been slow to follow. Inefficiencies caused by this have led artists to lose tens of billions of dollars in royalty payments each year. Utopia is bringing the power back to the copyright holder by leveraging big data to allocate uncollected revenues in a timely matter.

Blockchain is used to track, process, and tokenize music rights to create the fair music industry that creators deserve. Utopia has already launched successful pilots and is gaining ground by partnering up with prominent industry leaders.

Vereign

Bringing security to any email inbox

E-mail is convenient, widely used, but severely flawed. It is the number one channel for spam, phishing, and malware. Creating a trust layer to established communication tools is crucial in an increasingly interconnected world, where the digital identity is more and more inseparable from the real one. Vereign is here to secure the world’s largest identity network.

Vereign enables people to own their own digital identity by ensuring all parties know who sent the email and getting the content securely signed. The team uses blockchain technology to protect email identities from misuse and manipulation.

Villcaso

Own real assets - A crypto token backed by real estate

Villcaso makes it fast and easy for homeowners to access the $25T in wealth that’s locked up in their home equity. Liquidity is provided by a crypto token that’s cumulatively backed by the housing equity of every person who goes through this transaction.

The Villcaso token also serves as an inflation-resistant stablecoin given its backing is from US housing equity.

Web3 Sanctuary

Platform to train and place web3 developers

Web3 Sanctuary is a cutting-edge EdTech platform dedicated to training and connecting the next generation of web3 developers with industry professionals. Their platform offers a comprehensive curriculum designed to equip students with the knowledge, skills, and connections needed to succeed in the rapidly evolving web3 ecosystem.

Wildcards

Conservation with technology

Wildcards connects global conservation organizations to users. Social, gamified and transparent giving makes wildcards the perfect platform to start making your difference.

Xion

Decentralized payment gateway for business owners

Entrepreneurs and business owners often face a time-consuming and complicated process when starting a new online business. With Xion, you can simply skip this business scrutiny that comes with it. The Xion platform caters to merchants by helping them manage customers, subscriptions, and sales, with minimal effort to sign up and use only two lines of code.

Further, it provides a fully customizable self-hosted checkout button for e-commerce shops with a built-in, flexible, out-of-the-box rewards system. Xion also has a DeFi component allowing merchants to put their funds to work instead of withdrawing them.

Zero-Code

No-code solutions for brands & creators

Zero-Code is a revolutionary technology startup that is poised to disrupt the Web3 space by providing a user-friendly platform for building and deploying Web3 projects. Their mission is to democratize access to Web3 technology and empower individuals and businesses to unlock their creative potential without the need for coding expertise.