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Cardano Catalyst Acceleration Program


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After the 3-day bootcamp at the FT x Cardano Blockchain Challenge The Finals, in addition to the global winner of the challenge, 22 early-stage startups from Africa, LATAM, MENA and Asia were selected to participate in a 3-month Cardano Catalyst Accelerator Program.

The startups will be supplied with tools and network they need to get their businesses investment-ready. For this particular program, we are partnering with the Cardano community to provide blockchain-specific knowledge and resources to these entrepreneurs who have either already launched or are interested in launching their product on blockchain.

Selected Startups: Cardano Catalyst Accelerator Program

Chapa Financial Technologies

AFRICA • FINANCIAL SERVICES

Chapa Financial Technologies

Chapa is an online payment gateway that connects local merchants to local and global customers. Using Chapa, businesses can offer customers the choice to receive payments in crypto.

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Edubuk

AFRICA • EDUCATION

Edubuk

Edubuk (www.edubuk.io) is creating an AI driven Full Stack Holistic Skilling Ecosystem on the Blockchain

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Fresh Afrika

AFRICA • SUPPLY CHAIN,FOOD & BEVERAGES

Fresh Afrika

A Farm to fork, sustainable, fair and transparent tropical food supply chain, backed by the blockchain.

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GETEQUITY INC

AFRICA • ECOSYSTEM ENABLER

Getequity Inc.

GetEquity provides a private investment infrastructure allowing founders raise from their community in minutes by allowing them tokenise their fund raise allocation and providing access to retail investors and institutions to discover, fund and back awesome startups and founders like them in emerging markets starting from Africa.

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Healthchain

LATAM • HEALTH

Healthchain

Healthchain is building a blockchain platform to help healthcare institutions increase health data exchange by removing the complexity of integrating standards and regulations.

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Kitovu Technology Company

AFRICA • AGRI, ICT / TELCOM

Kitovu Technology Company

Kitovu Technology Company provides African smallholder farmers with climate-smart farm and post-harvest infrastructure to optimize their productivity and earn more from their farms.

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Kuri Bank

LATAM • FINANCIAL SERVICES

Kuri Bank

Kuri Bank uses blockchain to offer worldwide investments through blockchain and uses those funds to provide loans to SMBs in Latam.

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NEPRI Finance

AFRICA • FINANCIAL SERVICES

NEPRI Finance

The NEPRIDAO provides a foundation for people around the world to have greater access to inclusive, fair, lucrative, attractive, and sophisticated financial services and assets.

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OpenCBS

ASIA • FINANCIAL SERVICES,ENTERPRISE

OpenCBS

OpenCBS makes banking technology affordable and scalable for smaller-size financial institutions

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Oystr Finance Ltd

AFRICA • FINANCIAL SERVICES

Oystr Finance Ltd

Oystr is a financial identity as a service (FIDAAS) company, building an alternative financial data infrastructure for Africa's unbanked and underbanked, using phone number as a unique identifier to tie up everyday transactional data points from multiple sources.

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Regxta

AFRICA • FINANCIAL SERVICES

Regxta

We are building a digital bank for the 600m underserved in Africa using Machine Learning, Artificial intelligence and Alternative Data to award credit score.

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Remooz

MIDDLE EAST • ENTERTAINMENT

Remooz

Remooz is a free marketplace to create and trade NFTs. We're broadening accessibility to increase adoption in MENA.

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RemoStart

AFRICA • HR

RemoStart

RemoStart leverages blockchain technology to link talents from minority backgrounds to work remotely with startups, SMEs and Entrepreneurs all anywhere in the world.

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RePay Africa

AFRICA • FINANCIAL SERVICES

RePay Africa

RePay Africa is interoperable mobile money for remittance & money transfer for sub-saharan Africa unbanked/undeserved. Will enable people without a bank account to send money with just their ID & Mobile Number.

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RootsGoods Private Limited

ASIA • AGRI

RootsGoods Private Limited

RootsGoods is an AI-based deep tech, quality access and market intervention company for post-harvest.

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Simly

MIDDLE EAST • TRAVEL & TRANSPORT

Simly

Simly is a marketplace for eSims. We provide data packages in more than a 100 countries with a twist - unused and expired GBs can be redeemed in the form of crypto coins.

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Singular

ASIA • FINANCIAL SERVICES

Singular

Singular is a Mobile-Centric Defi investing platform offering gas-free investing, high-yield staking, and access to professionally managed decentralized assets.

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Snapbrillia, Inc.

ASIA • EDUCATION,ENTERPRISE,HR

Snapbrillia, Inc.

Mentor-mentee bounty and eLearning marketplace with entry-level projects to accelerate trust and adoption of Cardano in the broader development community.

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Stemmy

MIDDLE EAST • EDUCATION

Stemmy

Learn-to-Earn educational game where partners create Guilds and players exercise their minds and unlock new career opportunities.

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TechonomyAfrica

AFRICA • ECOSYSTEM ENABLER,EDUCATION,ADVERTISING & MARKETING

TechonomyAfrica

TechonomyAfrica is building Africa’s largest “learn to earn” Blockchain and Crypto DAO and has created over 1,000 beginner to advanced level video projects to teach Blockchain, DeFi, DAO Crypto development, trading, investments, application development related to financial app, decentralized markets, games, crypto wallets, and more.

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ThundaFund

AFRICA • ECOSYSTEM ENABLER, FINANCIAL SERVICES

ThundaFund

ThundaFund is an African crowdfunding platform. We support individuals, organizations and businesses to raise funds from many people online.

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WiiQare

AFRICA • EMERGING MARKETS

WiiQare

WiiQare empowers Africa citizens to finance their healthcare through earnings, savings, and remittances.

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Project Catalyst

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Project Catalyst

Project Catalyst is a series of experiments that seeks to generate the highest levels of community innovation. Catalyst is bringing on-chain governance to the Cardano blockchain by allowing the community to self-determine priorities for growth. It also lets participants deploy funding to proposals that tackle challenges and capitalize on opportunities that arise in the life cycle of Cardano.

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Cardano

ABOUT

Cardano

Cardano is built by a decentralized community of scientists, engineers, and thought leaders united in a common purpose: to create a technology platform that will ignite the positive change the world needs. We believe the future should not be defined by the past, and that more is possible - and, through technology, can be made possible for all. We measure the worth of a task not by its challenge, but by its results.

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Seedstars

ABOUT

Seedstars

Seedstars is a Swiss-based private company with a mission to impact people’s lives in emerging markets through technology and entrepreneurship. The group’s activities cover over 90 emerging ecosystems through a variety of initiatives such as the FTxSDG Challenge, previously known as the Seedstars World Competition, which is the largest entrepreneurship competition in emerging markets; Seedstars Programs that are designed to support entrepreneurs in varying stages of growth via training, education, mentoring, and access to resources; Seedstars 01, a talent incubator providing digital skills and startup-based immersive education for the next generation of changemakers; Seedspace, physical coworking spaces and hubs located in 15 countries; and Seedstars International, a global venture capital fund for seed-stage startups.

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FT x Cardano Blockchain Challenge launches open call for blockchain startup competition

The FT x Cardano Blockchain Challenge is sourcing ventures building on Cardano or interested in leveraging the Cardano blockchain platform and community.

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