Entrepreneurship

Activity Description

Turn your ideas into reality. Celo welcomes startups that are aligned to our mission - financial inclusion and sustainability. Whether or not you are building on the Celo Blockchain. Celo provides a few pathways to incubate and accelerate startups but you are always welcome to integrate Celo into existing local programs.

Celo Founders Resources

Celo Foundation offers a variety of Founder Resources to support Founders from idea conception to VC funding rounds. For Founders with a Celo-native idea, the Celo Founders Programs are:

Accelerator | Celo Camp

Registration for Celo Camp batch 5 is now open until March 22, 2022 Fostering Ideation And Creation A virtual experience where developers, designers and dreamers come together to build a monetary system that creates conditions of prosperity for all Grow Develop as an entrepreneur and learn how to launch and scale a project by leaders in crypto Connect Surround yourself with people who are committed to making an impact Prosper Find your purpose and increase your impact on the world

www.celocamp.com

Flori

no. 1 Building on Celo or thinking about it? Believe your values align with Flori's? We'd love to hear from you and learn more. no. 2 The Flori community is a place for collaboration amongst founders, connecting needs to solutions and creating a meaningful support system. We believe we can get farther together.

www.floriventures.com

Celo: A global crypto community building prosperity for all

The Celo Ecosystem Venture Fund is a Polychain-led venture, supported by founding investors Andreessen Horowitz and Celo, with the goal of investing in and developing the Celo ecosystem. The fund aims to foster Celo's mission of creating a more accessible financial system by making strategic, seed-stage deployments into tools and services which will leverage Celo's protocol to build new financial infrastructure in the developing world.

celo.org

Celo Experience / GrantKit

The Celo Foundation GrantKit provides the tools for the Celo community to learn about the Celo Foundation Grant program, application process, and program administration. The Grant program is one way that the Foundation helps support and nurture the Celo ecosystem. This guide is meant for you to be prepared for every step of the Celo Foundation Grant program journey.

celo.org

Celo Collectives

Founders building on other chains, but are mission aligned, are welcome to join a Celo Collective.

Celo Alliance

The Alliance for Prosperity is an ecosystem of mission-aligned organizations including nonprofits, merchants, and payment processors fostering social impact and financial inclusion through the use of blockchain technology.

celo.org

Climate Collective

The Climate Collective is an expanding coalition of companies collaboratively building at the intersection of web3 and climate action. Through grant funding, member partnerships, and community education, we support a range of impactful products and interoperable protocols that progress the Regenerative Finance ("ReFi") ecosystem.

climatecollective.org

External Incubators & Entrepreneurship Programs

Plug Celo into your local Incubators and Entrepreneurship Programs. Support startups to take the first step with Celo.

For specific needs in establishing a partnership with an existing local program, please let us know on Discord, Community Office Hours or reach out to us directly.