Celo Camp
Receive mentorship and funding to build Your Blockchain Project
Registration for Celo Camp batch 2 is now open
Celo Camp is a virtual boot camp for startups building apps on the Celo blockchain
An eight-week virtual boot camp that brings together teams from around the world who are committed to building an open financial system that creates prosperity for all.
Ideation Phase
September 2020 – October 2020
Teams apply to enter the competition. During this phase, teams share their ideas and progress. Five teams will be selected as finalists with an opportunity to win $10,000 cUSD and an invitation to visit San Francisco, Berlin, or Buenos Aires and meet with the broader Celo community.
Camp
November 2020 – December 2020
During the camp, mentors work with startups on their ideas. All teams will receive custom guidance on their technology and business strategy to help build and grow their product.
Prizes
Build an open-source decentralized application or service with greater impact using Celo's technology
1st place
The grand prize winner will receive $10,000 cUSD and roundtrip flights to San Francisco, Berlin, or Buenos Aires to meet with the C Labs team and the broader Celo community. This trip will give you an opportunity to meet with potential advisors, supporters, and partners to build and grow your project.
See here for terms and conditions.
2nd place
The runner-up team will receive $5,000 cUSD.
Celo Tenet Award (three prizes)
A $2,000 cUSD prize will be awarded to each of the (three) teams whose projects embody Celo’s community tenets:
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Design for all
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Strive for beauty
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Innovate on money
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Embrace humility
Read more here.
Registration is now open
Celo Camp Team
Noam SaMan
Mentor
UX Specialist
Tomer Weiss
Program director
Upright
Alon Shavit
Program director
Upright
Rachel Jakob
Program manager
Upright
Celo Camp Mentors
Alex Pruden
Deal Partner
Andreessen-Horowitz
Anna Carroll
Product Engineer
Dharma
Anna Kazlauskas
Engineering
C Labs
Anthony Yoon
Head of Partnerships
Spartan
Arianna Simpson
Founder, Managing Partner
Autonomous Partners
Aylon Morley
Director
Wentworth
Ben Perszyk
Investor
Polychain
Brynly Llyr
General Counsel
C Labs
Casey Caruso
Advisor
Bessemer Venture Partners
Connor McEwen
Mobile Team Lead
C Labs
Efrat Katz
Technology Leadership
PayPal
Garrett MacDonald
Founder
Tuku
Ivan Perez
Director of Biz Dev
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Jane Lippencott
Investor
Winklevoss Capital
Jehan Chu
Co-Founder
Kenetic
Ken Deeter
Partner
ElectricCapital
Kevin Schellinger
Founder
Oyoba & ChainSecurity
Liat Aaronson
Founder
Horizen Labs
Lily Liu
Co-Founder
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Mable Jiang
Principal
Multicoin Capital
Mariano Cortesi
Partner, Engineering
C Labs
Max Webster
Investor
Version One Ventures
Nitya Subramanian
Product manager
C Labs
Ran Goldi
CEO & Founder
First
Roderik van der Graaf
Managing Partner
Lemniscap
Roman Croessmann
Partner, Protocol & Economics
C Labs
Sam Tabar
Co-Founder
Fluidity
Santiago Roel Santos
Angel Investors
Roca Capital
Tom Schmidt
Investor
Dragonfly Capital
Yonatan Ben Shimon
Co-Founder
Beam MW
Jinglan Wang
Founder
Plasma group
Justine Humenansky
Research Fellow
World Economic Forum
Scott Trowbridge
Blockchain Labs Manager
WeWork
On Yavin
Founder
Cointelligence
Aly Madhavji
Co-Founder
Blockchain Founders Fund
Mira Christanto
Investor
Southeast Asia
Paul Nattapatsiri
CPO & Co-Founder
Band Protocol
Lauren Feld
Venture Development Lead
R3
Partners
Celo is an open platform that makes financial tools accessible to anyone with a mobile phone. Celo embraces a full-stack approach, reimagining technology at each layer. Celo’s innovations are designed along with communities around the world.
These are the three main reasons we chose Celo:
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Celo is a truly decentralized and open-source platform. Because Celo is forked from Ethereum its platform is very accessible for – and familiar to – the global development community. Read more about the protocol design.
2
We believe strongly in Celo’s mission to build an open financial system that creates the conditions of prosperity for all.
3
C Labs, the company building for the Celo platform, has an incredibly talented team that is engaged with Celo Camp and values the open-source developer community.
Types of projects we would like to see
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Build on Celo: Including dApps, APIs, smart contracts, staking services, and user onboarding.
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Contribute to Celo: Including research, scalability, privacy, governance, and interoperability.
3
Educate Community: Broader access to resources for onboarding and education.
Hero Stories
Learn how Celo Camp teams have become modern day heroes using Celo technology in our featured section
MugglePay
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Pesabase
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KotaniPay
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Dunia Payment
Ibrahim, an office assistant in Burkino Faso, is used to high fees and many issues with local banks. He discovered the powerful benefits of crypto technology through the DuniaPay app. What are these benefits?