Our Vision & Mission
EMURGO Africa invests and partners with Africa-focused enterprises, startups, and accelerators to foster the development of socially impactful solutions on Cardano’s third-generation and environmentally-sustainable blockchain. For more information,click hereOpens in new window
Our Vision
Turning Africa’s challenges into opportunities, leveraging the power of Cardano’s blockchain to strengthen and develop economic resilience in nations and its citizens, and democratizing access to basic needs through socially impactful Web3 solutions.
Our Mission
- Support the creation of blockchain Web3 solutions to promote businesses that solve social issues
- Promote Real-Fi, fusion of traditional finance and DeFi (decentralized finance)
- Raise awareness of Cardano as a technological platform to build socially impactful solutions and EMURGO’s role in the Cardano ecosystem.
Cardano Blockchain
EMURGO Africa, and Middle East focused investment arm of EMURGO which is the official commercial arm and a founding entity of the Cardano blockchain along with Cardano Foundation and Input Output (IO)
What We Do
EMURGO AFRICA positions Cardano as the standard tech infrastructure platform for the emerging industrial innovation in Africa and the Middle East.
INVESTMENT
EMURGO Africa is one of EMURGO’s investment arms with a $100 million allocation focused on identifying and investing African blockchain startups.
ACCELERATION
Leverage EMURGO’s incubation expertise and experience with partners, EMURGO AFRICA provides startups with the resources necessary for funding, global marketing, and product building through local partners across the continent.
BLOCKCHAIN IMPLEMENTATION
EMURGO AFRICA provides direct access to the Cardano ecosystem with its own products and partners. EMURGO AFRICA supports projects’ transformation from Web 2 to Web 3 on Cardano including building applications and tokenisation of your projects.
TAILORED BLOCKCHAIN SOLUTIONS
EMURGO AFRICA provides tailor-made solutions to enterprises and companies. Our solutions include development and marketing supports for companies to localise their products in Africa.
Our Value Add
We provide tailored end-to-end solutions leveraging blockchain technology for developers, startups, enterprises, and governments, to meet specific needs. This comprehensive process covers every detail from initial ideation to post-production support & maintenance.
Startups and SMEs
Large Companies
Governments
Academics
EMURGO Labs
EMURGO Labs is the flagship accelerator and development entity
of EMURGO Middle East and Africa (MEA).
Mission
EMURGO Labs’ mission is to develop and assist existing and emerging Web2 and Web3 technologies in scaling across borders leveraging the Cardano blockchain
Vision
EMURGO Labs’ vision is to create an equitable world through Web3 adoption on the Cardano blockchain.
How
EMURGOE Labs achieves its modus operandi by:
What
EMURGO Africa invests and partners with Africa-focused enterprises, startups, and accelerators to foster the development of socially impactful solutions on Cardano’s third-generation and environmentally-sustainable blockchain.
Partners
Incubator
ADANIAN LABS
A successful pan-African venture studio and incubator dedicated to nurture 300 impact driven commercially viable companies in Africa by 2025
Ecosystem Accelerator
ADAVERSE
Adaverse is a Cardano Ecosystem Accelerator that aggregates entrepreneurs, strategists and mentors building its most robust foundation in Africa and Asia.
It's a collaborative initiative between EMURGO and Everest Ventures Group that supports blockchain founders with funds, mentorship and tech infrastructure to scale Web3 solutions across the globe.
Venture Capital Firm
Kepple Africa Ventures
Kepple Africa Ventures is a venture capital firm dedicated to fostering the development of new technological industries on the African continent. Since its inception in 2018, Kepple Africa Ventures has invested in more than 100 startup companies in 11 different countries and its portfolio startups have gone on to build new solutions and services in diverse sectors across Africa.
Team
EMURGO AFRICA SECTOR
Dr. Kenzo Fujisue
Advisor
Partners