Celo  is an open-sourced Proof-of-Stake (PoS) blockchain designed to support stablecoins and tokenized assets with an algorithmic reserve-backed stability mechanism. Celo is a cryptocurrency that acts as a utility and governance token for the Celo  platform.

"The @CeloOrg Donut Hardfork is set to activate on Mainnet at Block Number 6774000, which will be on May 19th, 2021."

Donut Hardfork

"Celo (CELO) is now available on KuCoin. Supported trading pairs are CELO/USDT and CELO/BTC"

Kucoin Listing

"On Wednesday, June 9 (11:30 EST) come with your and hear more about the key priorities for the @CeloOrg ecosystem."

Celo Grants AMA

REDeFiNE TOMORROW 2021 online from July 22nd to 23rd.

REDeFiNE TOMORROW 2021

"The Blockchain for Europe Summit will take place on 8-9 June 2021 virtually and as you can see from the 2021 programme..."

Blockchain for Europe Summit 2021

"June 24, 2021 @ 8AM PDT ... Learn about decentralized finance and the future of financial markets."

Global DeFi Summit

"Ethereum Community Conference 4 | July 20-22, 2021 | Maison de la Mutualité, Paris, France"

EthCC 2021

"@CeloOrg's global community call, #Kuneco, is on Thurs Aug 19, 3pm UTC. Join us to hear about the latest project in the Celo community..."

Community Call

"We will announce the CELO network on which the TrueFeedBack ecosystem will be built and our partnership content with CELO on July 02."

TFB/CELO Partnership

XT.COM lists Celo (@CeloOrg) with CELO/USDT pair at 08:00 (UTC).

XT.COM Listing

"Join us for our next #Kuneco Celo Community Call, Thurs, Oct 21, 3pm UTC."

Kuneco Community Call

"September 20-22 | New York Marriott Marquis... The summit gathers crypto leaders, operators, builders, and investors for three days of..."

Mainnet 2021

"The Celo Core Community is excited to announce that Celo's second Hardfork, called Espresso, will be activated... 12:15pm PST."

Espresso Hardfork

Public Sale Round

Coinstore lists CELO, CUSD and CEUR (@CeloOrg) at 14:00 (UTC+8).

Coinstore Listing

"... @Celo_camp's top teams present their Celo #dapps live + you get to vote for the most impactful project at the end."

Batch 5 Demo Day

"This Friday—a special AMA featuring @anranga95 and @CGeoffWilson," at 4 PM (UTC).

Celo Connect 2022 in Barcelona from April 4th to 5th.

Celo Connect 2022

"The Ethereum Community Conference (EthCC) is the largest annual European Ethereum event focused on technology and community."

ETHCC 6

ReDeFiNE Tomorrow 2022 virtual summit from July 21st to 22nd.

ReDeFiNE Tomorrow 2022

"On April 6, she [Ashanti] releases her debut #NFT collection! Look out for it eq.exchange"

Ashanti NFTs on EQ

Mainnet 2022 by Messari in New York from September 21st to 23rd.

Mainnet 2022

TOKEN2049 from September 28th to September 29th in Singapore.

TOKEN2049 Singapore

DEVCON 2022 in Bogota, Colombia from Oct 11th to 14th at the Agora Bogotá Convention Center.

DEVCON 2022

DeFi Kitchen virtual event from March 9th to 16th.

DeFi Kitchen

"The first Celo Governance Call of the year is next week," at 5 PM (UTC).

Governance Call

"Don't miss the end-of-year wrap-up and hear what's coming up in 2023 with @RegenRene... 4PM UTC"

Community Town Hall

"The first #Kuneco Community Townhall... @ValoraApp updates w/@jackie_bona - Celo 2.0 Roadmap w/@timmoreton... 4PM UTC"

"Featuring a word from special guest @cdixon @a16z + updates from Celo ecosystem founders, and more," from 8 to 9 AM (PST).

Block Party

Hack Summit virtual conference for blockchain developers from March 31st to April 1st.

Hack Summit

ETHGlobal Tokyo in Tokyo, Japan from April 14th to 16th.

ETHGlobal Tokyo

"San Francisco... Join us for happy hour/networking from 5p-6p followed by a short panel from 6-6:30p..."

Time to Build

Developer Day - During GDC in San Francisco from10:00 AM to 4:00 PM (PDT).

Developer Day

"This month's #Kuneco Community Call is next week... 8AM PST, 3PM UTC"

"... Leading innovators @googlecloud & @CloudWerx_tech are joining Celo & @weareflowcarbon for a Startup Happy Hour at ReFi House!"

Panel

'Meetup + Party: Connecting Purpose-Driven Blockchain ecosystems' in Berlin, Germany from 6:00 PM to 10:30 PM (GMT+2).

Meetup + Party

"Learn about Celo & take a deep dive into SocialConnect at an in-person workshop," from 6 to 9 PM (UTC).

Seoul Builder Meetup

Incrypted Conference 2023 online on June 10th and in Kyiv, Ukraine on June 11th.

Incrypted Conference 2023

Point Zero Forum at the Circle Convention Center, Zurich Airport, Switzerland from June 26th to 28th.

Point Zero Forum

TOA23 festival in Berlin, Germany from July 5th to 6th.

TOA23 Festival

"KBW spans one week delivering a world-class lineup of speakers, non-stop events and wonderful vibes."

Korea Blockchain Week

"Web3Conf is India's first and biggest chain agnostic conference by GirlScript Foundation."

Web3Conf India 2023

"Stablecoin Summit is the pivotal stablecoin summit gathering experts and prominent figures from governments, regulatory authorities..."

Stablecoin Summit

"... Blockchain Application Stanford Summit... application, engineering and entrepreneurship aspects of the blockchain technology."

BAS Summit

Token 2049 Asia at Marina Bay Sands, Singapore from September 13th to 14th.

Token 2049 Asia

SmartCon 2023 in Barcelona from October 2nd to 3rd.

SmartCon 2023

Andrei Grachev

Redphone Crypto

General partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)

Arianna Simpson

0xMaki

Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) crypto

Ali Yahya

Brian Armstrong

Matthew Graham

avery.apt

Nacho Trades

Founder of Aave.com and Venture Partner of Variant.fund

Stani Kulechov

CL207

Jesse Walden

Specialist at Coinbase Cloud and an investor in crypto protocols

Viktor Bunin

Kyle Samani

Tetranode

Eddy Lazzarin

SpiderCrypto

Sreeram Kannan

knower

maria

evan.sui

Chris Burniske

notsofast

olaf

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Germany

Greenfield One is an early-stage crypto and blockchain venture capital firm.

Greenfield One

United States of America

Electric Capital is a venture capital firm that focuses on investments in blockchain and cryptocurrency-related projects and companies. Founded by Avichal Garg and Curtis Spencer, Electric Capital is known for its active involvement in the cryptocurrency space and its support for innovative blockchain technologies.

Electric Capital

DTCP is an investment management firm focused on growth equity and digital infrastructure. Founded in 2015, the firm has raised more than $1 billion in funds from corporate and institutional investors and invested in over 60 companies. DTCP Growth invests in enterprise application and infrastructure software companies. DTCP Infra invests in mobileaccess, fiber, and data center infrastructure.
DTCP is headquartered in Hamburg with offices in Menlo Park, Tel Aviv, and Seoul.

DTCP

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9Yards Capital provides entrepreneurs with long-term, strategic capital and have a deep understanding of how governments and regulators operate. They take a focused approach to the industries they invest in and have a proven track record in financial services and logistics investing.

9Yards Capital

Andreessen Horowitz, often referred to as "a16z," is a prominent venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California. It was founded in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, both of whom are well-known figures in the tech industry. Andreessen Horowitz is one of the leading venture capital firms in Silicon Valley and has gained a reputation for its investments in technology companies, particularly in the areas of software, internet, and more recently, blockchain and cryptocurrency.

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)

Polychain Capital is a cryptocurrency-focused investment management firm and hedge fund. It was founded in 2016 by Olaf Carlson-Wee, who was the first employee at Coinbase and is known for being one of the earliest advocates of cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology. Polychain Capital is headquartered in San Francisco, California, and is considered one of the prominent players in the cryptocurrency investment space.

Polychain Capital

Valor is an investment firm that focuses on cross-border financial and investment opportunities. The firm operates across two investment strategies Growth Equity and Venture Capital. It was founded in 2011 and headquartered in New York, United States.

Valor Capital Group

Pre-launch sale 2

Main Sale

Coinlist

Jack Dorsey is the Co-Founder & CEO of Twitter Ventures

Jack Dorsey

Curios Endeavors is a personal angel investment entity.

Curious Endeavors

Avichal is Managing Partner at Electric Capital. He is a serial entrepreneur and technology executive. Avichal sold two companies and was most recently Director of Product at Facebook, which acquired his company Spool in 2012. He previously worked at Google on search ranking and ads ranking, is part-time at YCombinator, and an active angelinvestor.
Avichal's firm, Electric Capital, focuses on cryptocurrencies that are rooted in technological utility. Electric performs deep technological diligence, such as compiling code, profiling nodes, and analyzing blockchains with in-house software. The founders of Electric have started and sold five companies, have been investing in cryptocurrencies since 2013, and are investors in Anchor, Bitwise, Chia, Coda, dYdX, Dfinity, Oasis, Thunder and many other crypto projects.

Avichal Garg

Future\Perfect Ventures

Social Capital’s mission is to build the future. We do this by identifying emerging technology trends, partnering with entrepreneurs that are trying to solve some of the world's hardest problems and help them build substantial commercial and economic outcomes. Our returns have placed us among the top technology investors in the world and act as a signal that we have generally been on the right track.

Social Capital

Canada

Version One Supports mission-driven founders who pioneer new areas.

Version One Ventures

SV Angel is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm. SV Angel supports entrepreneurs in building sustainable companies by helping them through key inflection points and using our network to help them grow their businesses.

SV Angel

Elad Gil is a serial entrepreneur, operating executive, and investor or advisor to private companies including AirBnB, Pinterest, Square, and Stripe.

Elad Gil

Warren Hogarth is a venture capitalist at Sequoia Capital. Warren's current areas of interest include cloud computing, bioinformatics and energy.

Prior to joining Sequoia Capital in 2008, Warren completed his PhD in Chemical Engineering, where he developed fuel cell technology. During this time, he was a visiting Fulbright Scholar toPrinceton University and a Guest Scientist at Germany's Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems.
Warren has an MBA from Harvard Business School and a PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Queensland.

Warren Hogarth

R&R Ventures is a new fund run by former Time Warner CEO, Dick Parsons, and media investor, Ron Lauder.

R&R Ventures

Linda Xie is co-founder and Managing Director of Scalar Capital. Previously she was a product manager at Coinbase which she joined in June 2014. At Coinbase, Linda has worked with regulators and law enforcement on compliance for digital assets. Prior to Coinbase, she was a portfolio risk analyst at AIG. Linda holds a B.A. in Economics from theUniversity of California, San Diego.

Linda Xie

Switzerland

Lakestar is a venture capital firm investing in technology companies led by exceptional entrepreneurs. Early investments included Skype, Spotify, Facebook, and Airbnb. Since raising the first fund in 2013, Lakestar manages an aggregated volume of over EUR 1bn across three early-stage funds, and more recently a growth fund. The company has expandedand broadened its portfolio and holds investments in the likes of Opendoor, Oscar, GetYourGuide, Glovo, Sender, Eigen, Five, Revolut, and Hometogo to name a few. Lakestar has a presence in Berlin, Zurich, and London.
Lakestar helps companies to identify new markets and expand into them rapidly, with a focus on the US and Europe. The team advises and supports portfolio companies in business development, recruitment, technology, and marketing. The investments range from early-stage companies to those in their growth stage.

Lakestar

Kilowatt Capital LLC A privately held company in San Francisco

Kilowatt Capital LLC

Nima Capital is a single-family office global approach to identifying first mover companies disrupting large industries around the world.

Nima Capital

General Catalyst is a venture capital firm that invests in powerful, positive change that endures.

General Catalyst

India

Cognisa Capital is a diversified investment Fund that is focused exclusively on blockchain opportunities.

Cognisa Capital

Julia is an advisor to start ups and an active technology angel investor, with angel investments in Gusto, Lever, Baobab Studios, Brit Media, BetterUp, SafeGraph, CodeFights, AltSchool, MissionU, Owlet, Philz Coffee, Tynker, Happiest Baby, Kite, MileIQ (acq by MSFT), Locu (acq by GoDaddy), Beme (acq by CNN), Alt12 (acq by Honest Co), Worklife (acqby Cisco) & Wheelz (acq by Turo), and later stage investments in Uber, Alibaba (IPO’d), FlipKart, Postmates, DocuSign, Survey Monkey, Blue Bottle Coffee, Stripe and Spotify.
Julia began her career as a corporate attorney at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich Rosati. In 2006, Julia joined Facebook as the second attorney in the legal department and led the commercial transactions team from June 2006 until April 2011. She negotiated numerous deals strategic to Facebook's growth and development, including with Microsoft, Spotify, ABC/Disney, CNN and YouTube. Julia led a team of 9 attorneys, oversaw Facebook's legal work related to its international expansion and operations, and worked on matters related to product and IP law. In her five years at Facebook, Julia was instrumental in scaling the legal team from two people to 40, setting up departmental procedures and infrastructure and hiring and managing outside counsel.

Julia received her JD from Harvard Law School in 1997, graduating cum laude, and her BA from UC Berkeley, graduating magna cum laude and phi beta kappa with a degree in Political Science. She is a member of the State Bar of California.

In her free time, Julia volunteers at her kids' schools and with other community organizations. She has chaired the annual auctions at Bing Nursery School and Nueva School and is on the National Council of World Wildlife Fund. Previously, she sat on the boards of the Oshman Family JCC, Hebrew Free Loan Association and Hands on Bay Area. She biked from SF to LA with the California AIDS Ride and ran the Honolulu Marathon with Team in Training.

Julia Popowitz

Arianna Simpson has 3 current jobs including General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, Founder & Managing Director at Autonomous Partners, and Venture Partner at Crystal Towers.

Coinbase Ventures is the venture capital arm of Coinbase, one of the largest and most well-known cryptocurrency exchanges in the world. Coinbase Ventures is focused on investing in early-stage companies and projects in the blockchain and cryptocurrency space. It provides funding, resources, and support to startups and entrepreneurs working on innovative blockchain and crypto-related technologies and applications.

Coinbase Ventures

Vijay learned how to build large software systems at Google from 2002-2008 and at CMU. He worked on cluster management, mobile apps before smartphones and AdWords.

He was also the first engineer at Jumo (started by Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes), and worked with Acumen Fund (a socially responsible investment firm). He grew up in Montreal andis still a die-hard Canadiens fan.

Vijay Pandurangan

Tanguy Chau

Reid joined Greylock Partners in 2009. He focuses on building products that can reach hundreds of millions of participants and businesses that have network effects. An accomplished entrepreneur and executive, Reid has played an integral role in building many of today’s leading consumer technology businesses, including LinkedIn and PayPal. Hepossesses a unique understanding of consumer behavior and the dynamics of viral businesses, as well as deep experience in driving companies from the earliest stages through periods of explosive, “blitzscale” growth. Ranging from Linkedin to PayPal, from Airbnb to Convoy to Facebook, Reid invests in businesses with network effects and collaborates on building their product ecosystems. Reid co-founded LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional networking service, in 2003. LinkedIn is thriving with more than 500 million members around the world and a diversified revenue model that includes subscriptions, advertising, and software licensing. He led LinkedIn through its first four years and to profitability as Chief Executive Officer. Prior to LinkedIn, Reid served as executive vice president at PayPal, where he was also a founding board member. Reid is an accomplished investor. He currently serves on the boards of Airbnb, Aurora, Coda, Convoy, Entrepreneur First, Gixo, Microsoft, Nauto, Xapo and a few early stage companies still in stealth. In addition, he serves on a number of not-for-profit boards, including Kiva, Endeavor, CZI Biohub and Do Something. Prior to joining Greylock, he angel invested in many influential Internet companies, including Facebook, Flickr, Last.fm, and Zynga. Reid is the co-author of two New York Times best-selling books: The Start-up of You and The Alliance. His next book is focused on “blitzscaling”, based on his Stanford course of the same name. Reid is the host of the podcast, Masters of Scale. Reid earned a master’s degree in philosophy from Oxford University, where he was a Marshall Scholar, and a bachelor’s degree with distinction in symbolic systems from Stanford University. In 2010 he was the recipient of an SD Forum Visionary Award and named a Henry Crown Fellow by The Aspen Institute. In 2012, he was honored by the Martin Luther King center’s Salute to Greatness Award. Also in 2012, he received the David Packard Medal of Achievement from TechAmerica and an honorary doctor of law from Babson University. In 2017, Reid was appointed as a CBE by her majesty Queen Elizabeth II.

Reid Hoffman

Nitesh Banta is the Co-Founder & CEO at B12.

Nitesh Banta

Naval Ravikant is the CEO and a co-founder of AngelList. He previously co-founded Epinions (which went public as part of Shopping.com) and Vast.com. He is an active Angel investor, and have invested in dozens of companies, including Twitter, Uber, Yammer, Stack Overflow and Wanelo.

			Type	Stage
1	Polychain CapitalLead Ventures Capital	Tier 1	Ventures Capital	2 Rounds
2	Electric Capital Ventures Capital	Tier 1	Ventures Capital	Venture Round
3	Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)Lead Ventures Capital	Tier 1	Ventures Capital	Pre-launch sale 2
4	Jack Dorsey Angel Investor	Tier 2	Angel Investor	Pre-launch sale 1
5	Social Capital Ventures Capital	Tier 2	Ventures Capital	Pre-launch sale 1
6	SV Angel Angel Investor	Tier 2	Angel Investor	Pre-launch sale 1
7	Greenfield One Ventures Capital	Tier 2	Ventures Capital	2 Rounds
8	Coinbase Ventures Exchange	Tier 2	Exchange	Pre-launch sale 1
9	Valor Capital Group Ventures Capital	Tier 2	Ventures Capital	Pre-launch sale 2
10	Naval Ravikant Angel Investor	Tier 2	Angel Investor	Pre-launch sale 1

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