Crypsense Digital Group, a Kenyan based Digital Assets Capacity Building&Management Platform is among the first African based Web 3 startups to qualify for the Draper VeChain Web 3 Accelerator Program. A 12 Week Accelerator Program delivered globally to high-growth blockchain companies.
The team pitched together with some of top 15 globally fastest growing Web 3 startups in Crypto, DeFi, NFTs, Metaverse&GameFi to a panel of expert judges from the Web 3 industry from VeChain, Draper University&Cream and was qualified for the program.
Draper University a leading pre-accelerator and Incubator in Silicon Valley that fosters growth of high potential technology startups was founded by Timothy Cook Draper, a top tier venture capital investor in the technology space that counts some of the top technology companies such as Tesla, SpaceX, Twitter, Coinbase, Skype, Baidu and many more among his most prominent investments. To date Draper University has graduated > 1000 start up founders and raised >350M$ in early stage funding.
VeChain is a top tier Layer1 blockchain that offers global enterprise solutions and derives its value from activities by members within the ecosystem solving real world economic problems.
The collaborative program offers necessary support for startups in blockchain and web 3 to get all the industry mentorship and support necessary to scale their impactful solutions globally.
This is an amazing opportunity to accelerate Web3 adoption in Africa through the program and partnerships. We have so much untapped talent and potential within our continent in blockchain and Web3. I am excited for Africa and I can’t wait to see where this opportunity takes us.
We understand the potential that blockchain has in solving some of the challenges that are facing Africa and we believe that we can use our disruptive nature as a continent to create value for ourselves through the adoption of the technology.
Alice Anangi, Co-founder&CEO, Crypsense Digital Group
Crypsense Digital Group is the first and fastest growing Digital Assets Capacity Building and management Platform in Africa that offers an end to end solution for institutional adoption of blockchain and digital assets in Africa.
The main pillars of the organization are capacity building, asset management and custodial solutions, asset financing and an accelerator launchpad to support blockchain and crypto startups in Africa. The capacity building platform offers a Learn to Earn (L2E) and Play to Earn (P2E) Learning Management System for Blockchain and
Cryptocurrency education that is interactive, easy to understand and makes the learning process fun and rewarding at the same time.
Crypsense Digital Group is a brainchild of The Africa Blockchain Center, one of the startups at Adanian Labs – a venture studio that aims to establish, nurture, and scale 300 impact-driven tech startups across Africa. The Africa Blockchain Center intends to demystify blockchain technology and establish platforms where businesses may learn, conduct R&D, launch blockchain solutions, and use blockchain as a service for a variety of applications across industries and sectors.
We are extremely proud to see such progress with our startups. We pride ourselves in providing the right environment, tools and resources to support startups and help them build scalable solutions. Crypsense Digital Group is very timely as Africa is exploring the potential for smart technologies in support of its 4IR efforts.
John Kamara, CEO, Adanian Labs
