CV VC's Blockchain Startup Portfolio

Accelchain

Build, validate & deploy Web3 apps without writing code

Building Web3 apps proves to be both expensive and time-consuming, and often lacks the required security. Accelchain is a Gen AI-based no-code platform that enables developers to rapidly build, test and deploy secure dApps to the blockchain without writing a line of code.

Accelchain offers an all-in-one tool for managing your entire Web3 lifecycle, simplifying the development of Web3 apps by providing a visual no-code interface to design and deploy Web3 apps. This revolutionises the blockchain development process and enhances efficiency by reducing time to market.

Altify

Investment management platform

Altify simplifies investing in alternative assets for over 80,000 users. With a minimum investment of just $10, Altify’s platform makes it easy to buy, sell and earn yield from a diverse range of assets once reserved for the ultra-wealthy.

Altify provides exclusive access to a wide range of investment opportunities including gold and cryptocurrencies to upcoming additions like private credit, real estate, and venture capital, complemented by innovative savings options.

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.

Chronicle Labs

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.

Fija Finance

Building the compliant infrastructure for platforms and exchanges

fija builds the compliant infrastructure for platforms and exchanges, to give their customers access to DeFi. They’re tackling a significant gap in the crypto market where most want to earn interest on their crypto, but only few actually do. With fija, everybody can access tokenized and automated DeFi yield strategies

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!

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.

GenTwo

Expanding the investment universe, together

GenTwo is a Swiss-based B2B fintech company that operates globally and expands the investment universe by making all assets investable.

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.

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.

Jamit

Enabling the next generation of storytellers

The audio storytelling market is growing by 20% each year, with currently over 700 million global listeners. However, creating content is expensive, complex, and lacks monetization channels in Africa right now. Jamit provides an all-in-one platform to empower the generation of storytellers.

Jamit is a decentralized podcast hosting platform, offering cloud storage, global reach, engagement rewards, and unique NFT experiences for creators and listeners. The platform provides the required tools to develop and maintain control over your podcast, giving you the freedom to grow your community.

Kasi Money

Kasi is empowering foreign gig workers in Africa with a neobank solution that caters to unpredictable income streams

Kasi is empowering foreign gig workers in Africa with a neobank solution that caters to unpredictable income streams. By leveraging stablecoins, they enable cheaper and faster remittances, making it easier for workers to support their families back home

Lawyerd

Automated brand protection

Intellectual property infringements cost $700 billion worldwide in 2022. Lawyerd is an automated blockchain-based brand protection agency offering automated certification, detection, and elimination of brand violations to big brands, NFT collections, and individual creators.

With its new Snitch to Earn software, Lawyerd empowers its users to detect, monitor, and act against trademark infringements swiftly, allowing brands to catch scammers and infringers while the community benefits.

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.

Manifest

Own real assets - A crypto token backed by real estate

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

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.

Mycel

An account transfer protocol with intent-centric architecture

Mycel is an account transfer protocol with intent-centric architecture. At the core of Mycel's innovation is the concept of Transferable Accounts, which enable users to move, manage, and trade assets across multiple blockchains while retaining complete control over their accounts. It is designed to synchronize state machines across diverse blockchains.

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.

Novum

Making transparency the default state of digital advertising

Novum is a self-hosted advertising platform which allows publishers and advertisers, for the first time, to serve ads, manage campaigns, and collect performance data on premise.

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.

Open Source Economy

Creating a decentralized company in one click

Open Source Economy is a network designed to unleash the true potential of open-source. The model addresses the funding challenges that open-source initiatives face while upholding the core values of openness, transparency, collaboration, and decentralization.

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.

Picnic

Decentralized investment platform that allows users to invest in digital assets in a simple & secure way

Picnic is a decentralized investment platform that allows users to invest in digital assets in a simple and secure way. This gives users greater control and autonomy over their investments, enabled by Smart Accounts. Through the platform, users can deposit funds, choose different digital assets to invest in, and track the history of their transactions.

Ponos Technology

Accelerating Zero-Knowledge Proofs

Ponos Technology is accelerating Zero-Knowledge Proofs with an advanced hardware-software co-design, offering end-to-end ZK provers assessment, optimization, HW acceleration and deployment. Their cost-performance optimized ZK proving solutions are provided to both core blockchain protocols and appchains

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.

Provably

Building Zero Knowledge for big data

Provably is building Zero Knowledge for big data to enable data ecosystems in Web2 and Web3. Their innovation lies in making complex technology easy to use, addressing a wide range of use cases.

Provably has a big vision to unlock the value in private, sensitive data and enable smarter products.

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!

Reppo Labs

Orchestrating decentralized AI to accelerate intelligence on-chain

Reppo Labs abstract the complexity of web3 tech to enable enterprise use-cases and onboard the most talented AI developers. Their goal is to build the best experience so that user-owned data and decentralized infrastructure can enable builder-owned models and agents, unlocking a new design space at the intersection of Crypto X AI

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.

Shamba Records

Transforming the landscape of agriculture in Africa

Shamba Records is impacting the lives of smallholdersmall holder farmers by revolutionizing AgTech in Africa. The company provides digital solutions that help farmers to access agriculture extension services, loans, and insurance.

The comprehensive suite of software and hardware tools includes a cutting-edge real-time data collection system. Shamba Records offers a real-time data collection tool to unleash credit access to farmers and a farmer's wallet, facilitating seamless credit processing and payments.

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.

Plend

Flexible borrowing and earning, launching first on Etherlink

Superlend is a decentralized finance (DeFi) platform designed for cross-chain lending and borrowing. It aggregates real-time data to offer the best possible rates and streamlines DeFi transactions, supporting EVM-compatible networks.

Through features like Aave v3's portal, it allows users to transfer assets seamlessly between different blockchain networks, maximizing returns while ensuring security

Talentir

Offering tools and services that enable creators to share revenue, engage with fans, and receive funding & payments through blockchain technology

Talentir offers tools and services that enable creators to share revenue, engage with fans, and receive funding and payments through blockchain technology. Talentir's Split Payment system allows creators and artists to share video revenue with contributors or fans. Co-Ownership campaigns enable creators to share, gift, or sell ownership of their content to their community

Ubitel

Building the future of internet connectivity on a L3

Ubitel is building the future of internet connectivity on a L3 that provides cheaper, faster and more accessible internet access worldwide by leveraging open hardware, zero knowledge, and autonomous systems to create an ISP that scales to everyone

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.

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.

Xtreamly

Transforming Ethereum with AI-Driven Liquidity Growth

Xtreamly's AI system elevates DeFi with LVR reduction and oracle-independent fee optimization, enhancing DEX and AMM performance through dynamic slippage and arbitrage model predictions.

Their innovative AI-based model introduces a 'Dynamic Fee model with Slippage-MEV as a Service', fundamentally transforming how these issues are addressed.

Zap Labs

Building a decentralized and permissionless infrastructure for a new data-as-an-asset economy, leveraging zkTLS

Zap Labs is building a decentralized and permissionless infrastructure for a new data-as-an-asset economy, leveraging zkTLS. By enabling Ethereum to verify and utilize vast amounts of real-world data, zkTLS opens the door to unprecedented applications that could reshape industries and redefine trust in the digital age

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.