Deadline: 15 August 2025
Applications are now open for Celo Camp Blockchain Startup Incubation Program where developers, designers and dreamers come together to build a monetary system that creates conditions of prosperity for all.
Benefits
- Funding: Fast-track to grants, prizes in cUSD, and high exposure to investment opportunities.
- Mentorship: 1:1 mentorship meetings with industry leaders
- Network: Increase your network and connect with like-minded individuals from the Celo community
- Curriculum and Workshops: 8 week curriculum with educational resources, business guidance, advice, and learning objectives on how to build your project, bring it to market, and scale; Weekly workshops from industry experts and their partners
- Support: Technological and business support for seamless integration to Celo
- Perks: From their partners such as AWS, Twilio, Hubspot, Tatum, Hacken, and more!
- Impact: Be a part of creating positive change and contributing to a world of financial inclusion
Why should startups join Celo Camp?
- You should join Celo Camp if:
- You have an idea for a product or service that will build an open monetary system.
- You want to grow and scale your project.
- You’d love to connect with like-minded entrepreneurs, developers, and creators.
- You want to receive advice and feedback on your project from thought leaders in product, design, engineering, and business development.
What kind of projects does Celo Camp prioritize?
- Celo Camp looks for projects that lowers the barriers of access to crypto and DeFi building blocks, while contributing to financial inclusion. Some examples of projects we prioritize:
- DeFi / Financial primitives
- ReFi
- Uncollateralized Lending
- Remittances / Wallets
- On / Off ramps
- Financial inclusion / Donations / UBI
- Creator Economy / Gaming
- Community / Social tokens
- NFT marketplaces
- Environmental projects / ESG
- Stablecoin savings
- Robo advisor
- Yield Aggregators
- Identity / Social graph / Reputation
- Open source projects are prioritized
Eligibility Criteria
- Looking for companies:
- in Banking, Credit, Loans, Utilities, Wallets, Payments, Mobile Payments, Remittances, Commerce, Cryptocurrency, Financial Inclusion, Digital Banking, Web 3.0, Stablecoin, DeFi, GameFi, RWA Smart Contract Protocol
- located in Africa, Asia, Australia/NZ, Caribbean, Eastern Europe, Europe, Middle East, North America, South America
- incorporated or not
- prototype, users or paying users stage
- have raised funding or not
- currently raising funds
- have revenue or not
For more information, visit Celo Camp.
