Borderless partners with early-stage founders to accelerate access, bootstrap adoption and create value across the Algorand and EdgeFi ecosystems.

Borderless Capital

Algorand Europe Accelerator is a European startup accelerator for developers and entrepreneurs building decentralized applications. The accelerator funds, supports, and guides passionate founders to build promising decentralized applications on the Algorand platform. It offers USD$15,000 upfront seed funding for each selected project. Projects that have demonstrated aptitude and potential throughout the program are candidates for follow-up investments of up to $500,000.

Algorand Europe Accelerator

Plug and Play is a seed and early-stage investor focused on great teams leading emerging growth companies.  Plug and Play runs 12 industry-specific accelerator programs twice a year, that acts as a platform for major corporations and high quality startups to connect and collaborate.  Located in the heart of Silicon Valley, Plug and Play participates in Seed, Angel and Series A funding where they often co-invest with their strategic partners. Through years of experience and as part of their network, Plug and Play has put together a world-class network of serial entrepreneurs, strategic investors, and industry leaders who actively assist the firm with its successful and growing investment portfolio.  SEED ROUND. Plug and Play participates in seed round investing through a program called Startup Camp. Startup Camp is a 10-week program based in Silicon Valley for top-notch entrepreneurs to work intensively on building out their business model. Select startups will refine their business models and prototypes with help from a combination of structured workshops, speaker series and mentorship sessions, as well as active coaching from their investment team. At the culmination of Startup Camp, founders will have crystalized their business plans and pitched their company to the venture capital community at EXPO Demo Day.''  ANGEL ROUND Plug and Play makes angel round investments throughout the year, sourced from their monthly Plug and Play Angels (PAPA) sessions. They are partnered with local angel investors in Silicon Valley who participate in PAPA to find the most promising startups and best new technologies.  SERIES A. Series A typical Series A round is in the range of $2 million to $10 million, and is intended to provide operating capital for the company for six months to two years. This round capitalizes the company as it develops its products, performs initial marketing and branding, acquires talent, and conducts other early-stage business operations. It is in this stage that Plug and Play will co-invest with over 180 venture capital partners.  Plug and Play has helped grow market leaders such as PayPal, Danger, Google, DropBox, LendingClub, Zoosk, SoundHound, CreditSesame, Skytree, and has over 400 more early-stage startups in its portfolio.

Plug and Play

Wayra is a globally connected and technological open innovation hub in the world.  We currently operate in  10  countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Germany, Mexico, Peru, Spain, the United Kingdom, and Venezuela. Through Telefónica our global presence allows us to be at the helm of innovation, shoulder to shoulder with driven entrepreneurs and in a position to engage the right partners and leaders of industries for business. Our mission is clear, to connect innovators with Telefónica and generate joint business opportunities. We are the interface between Telefónica and entrepreneurial ecosystems across the globe because innovation makes good business sense.

Wayra

Amasia is a thesis-driven, global venture capital firm currently focused on sustainability and climate. Using a nuanced framework designed around behavior change, we invest in founders with global ambitions, from the Seed to Series B stages, across the United States, Southeast Asia, India, Europe and Latin America. We facilitate their growth with access to global markets, global best practices, and global knowledge.

Amasia

Omron Ventures is a corporate venture capital firm that invests and drives the growth of invested start-ups.  It was Kazuma Tateishi, founder of OMRON, who established Kyoto Enterprise Development (KED, 1972-1979), known to be the oldest private venture capital firm in Japan.

Omron Ventures

ClearSky is a venture capital/growth equity group that invests in innovative companies, with a special focus on (i) technologies driving the energy transition, climate related technologies, and sustainability, (ii) the digital transformation of enterprise customers’ operations and communications, and (iii) disruptive solutions for cybersecurity, industrial security, and critical infrastructure security.

ClearSky

SIX FinTech Venture is the corporate venture capital arm of Six Group that began operation on December 1, 2017, with its headquarters in Zurich in Switzerland. It looks to invest in global early stage startups in the financial technology space.

SIX FinTech Ventures

We invest in exceptional individuals with the passion for solving hard challenges and bringing disruptive innovation to high growth markets.

Conexo Ventures

Zubi Capital is a dedicated and independent Asset Management and Wealth Management firm. We create innovative impact investment and advisory solutions that incorporate current and future environmental and social opportunities and risks, as we believe these will benefit from a competitive advantage and improved long-term financial prospects. We view impact investing as an integral part of any asset class and a core part of an enlightened investor’s overall portfolio.

Zubi Capital

ClimateTrade

ClimateTrade is a blockchain-based carbon credits trading platform. Their vision is to be the most disruptive and exponential fintech company in the environmental sector to accelerate the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals, focusing on the client. They have built an ecosystem where companies and consumers can easily offset their carbon footprint and also access to other climate related products. Their API is the first Carbon API created in the world and allows companies to offer products and services carbon neutral and be certified in blockchain.

ClimateTrade is a Spanish blockchain-based carbon offsetting marketplace for businesses. The company’s marketplace allows businesses to offset carbon emissions with verified environmental projects. The company has also developed a carbon footprint calculator for specific industries.

New technology allows individuals and organizations to become carbon intelligent

Carbon Management Software

Heal R World and ClimateTrade join forces to provide SMEs access to the world's largest carbon offsetting portfolio.

ClimateTrade is a Spanish blockchain-based carbon offsetting marketplace for businesses. The company’s marketplace allows businesses to offset carbon emissions with verified environmental projects. The company has also developed a carbon footprint calculator for specific industries.Key customers and partnershipsIn <a href="https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230412005707/en/ClimateTrade-Acquires-TeamClimate-to-Offer-Subscription-Based-Carbon-Offsetting-to-Global-Consumers">April 2023</a>, ClimateTrade acquired TeamClimate, an Austrian carbon management provider, to expand its global reach and broaden its portfolio offering while providing SaaS-based carbon offsetting solutions.In <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/21086">August 2023</a>, the company entered into a partnership with Reibus International, a digital marketplace for metals, to offset carbon emissions for the metal industry. During the same month, the company also signed an MOU with <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/21270">Angara Global</a>, a Netherland-based decarbonizing solution provider, to integrate the latter’s patented AI-powered technology with carbon credits for high carbon emitters. ClimateTrade’s clients include Cabify, Banco Santander, Telefónica, Correos and Telégrafos, and Prosegur, among others.Funding and financialsIn January 2022, ClimateTrade raised EUR 7 million (USD 8 million) in a Pre-Series A round. The proceeds were used to fund its growth activities in Europe, Asia and the US with new offices in four countries. The second phase of the Series A round is expected to raise EUR 13 million (USD 14.8 million) later in 2022.

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 Circular IQ is a Netherlands-based digital platform that offers SaaS-based solutions for businesses to assess their circular performance through smart data-gathering and analytics. Circular IQ collects and analyzes supplier-specific data and provides tailor-made reports for businesses about the circularity of their operations.&nbsp;
 
 
 Circular IQ offers three main services 1) Circular Procurement Program, a service that monitors and reports the circular performance of a business&rsquo;s existing supply chain, 2) Product Circularity Improvement Program, a service in collaboration with KPMG to identify areas where the circularity of an existing supply chain can be improved, and 3) Circular Transition Indicators (CTI) Program, a service that supports and guides businesses through circular transition.
 
 
 Key customers and partnerships
 
 
 In March 2024, Circular IQ reported more than 2,000 CTI customer accounts in 94 countries. Microsoft, KPMG, Whirlpool, Saudi Aramco, Aptar, Rabobank, bp, Deloitte and Royal DSM were some of Circular IQ&rsquo;s high-profile clients.&nbsp;&nbsp;
 
 
 
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Circular IQ

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 Cloverly offers an API-based digital infrastructure for voluntary carbon markets (VCM). The Cloverly platform is used by both corporate buyers and project suppliers. Buyers can directly purchase carbon removal credits through its platform or integrate its technology into their products, services, or supply chains. Similarly, project suppliers leverage the Cloverly Marketplace and the supplier software, to manage commercial operations such as inventory management and tracking of carbon credit sales. The supplier platform offers carbon credits from suppliers including Therm, KOKO Networks and CarbonCure. For each carbon credit purchase, Cloverly produces a unique transaction receipt and certificate.&nbsp;
 
 
 Key customers and partnerships
 
 
 Leading companies such as American Express, Salesforce, Visa, have added Cloverly to their platforms to facilitate the purchase of carbon offset credits. The online gift card company, Instagift, also allows its customers to offset emissions through Cloverly. In November 2021, Clovery partnered with Diversifi to launch a service that offsets the crypto-carbon footprint. In May 2022, Cloverly also partnered with 
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 BeZero Carbon
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 Redwood Logistics
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 to measure freight emissions and offset those via carbon credits in July 2022. In November 2023, the company also collaborated with Sustain.Life, a B2B carbon intelligence startup, to supply carbon credits. As of February 2024, the Cloverly platform was used by over 300 global enterprises.&nbsp;
 
 
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 Cloverly&rsquo;s most recent funding was in May 2023, when it raised USD 19 million in a 
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 Series A funding
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 round led by Grotech Ventures. In July 2021, Cloverly raised USD 2.1 million in a seed funding round led by TechSquare Ventures. As a part of the transaction, Cloverly was also spun out from Southern Company, an American gas and electric utility where it was incubated.
 
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Cloverly

UK-based Giki offers two mobile apps to reduce the personal carbon footprint of its users:Giki Badges is an app that allows users to find sustainable and healthy products in supermarkets through 15 unique badges to UK supermarket products based on sustainability, health, and fairness. Customers can scan the product barcode to find the badges that are being awarded to the product. Giki Badges reported awarding badges to over 280,000 supermarket products.Giki Zero is an app that allows users to calculate and reduce the personal carbon footprint. Giki Zero estimates the personal carbon footprint of a user based on a lifestyle survey (a set of detailed questions about the user’s lifestyle) and provides customized advice to reduce the user’s carbon footprint. Giki Zero Pro is an extension of the same product for businesses which allows employees to monitor and reduce their carbon footprint.Key customers and partnershipsIn April 2023, Giki partnered with <a href="https://www.compass-group.co.uk/media/news/compass-partners-with-social-enterprise-giki-to-empower-its-45k-strong-workforce-to-reduce-their-carbon-footprint/">Compass Group </a>, a UK-based food and support services provider, to calculate and reduce the personal carbon footprint of its employees. As of March 2024, Giki had worked with over 100 global customers, including NatWest Group, Federated Hermes International, BBC, Deloitte, Adobe and Accenture, among others.

Giki

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 Canada-based Metrio primarily offers SaaS-based Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) reporting solutions for businesses. Metrio allows companies to monitor their ESG performance in real-time using dashboard tools to create customized reports based on any standard ESG framework. In addition to ESG reporting, Metrio also offers ESG industry benchmarking, supply chain ESG monitoring, and ESG investment management services.&nbsp;
 
 
 Key customers and partnerships
 
 
 In June 2022, Metrio was acquired by Nasdaq. After the acquisition, Nasdaq integrated Metrio&rsquo;s SaaS platform into its suite of ESG solutions. Metrio continued to remain an independent company and brand after the investment. 	
 
 
 As of January 2024, Metrio software was used by over 5,000 clients, including 100+ multinational companies across financial, food, manufacturing, retail, and transportation sectors. Major customers include Target, Air Canada, Decathlon, and Aldo.
 
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Metrio

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 Proof (formerly Proof of Impact) is an Impact-as-a-Service (IaaS) company based in the Netherlands. Proof offers a range of SaaS-based digital tools for businesses and investors to collect, verify, and analyze real-time sustainability data from community assessments, IoT devices, and corporate disclosures. The company also verifies and secures them using blockchain technology and presents them in a quantifiable form for sustainable decision making.&nbsp;
 
 
 
 
 Proof&rsquo;s services include: 1) Digital consultancy&ndash;digital assessments to create and deploy a company&rsquo;s sustainability strategy, 2) Impact dashboard&ndash;an end-to-end solution to collect, verify, analyze, and report sustainability data, and 3) Impact Catalyst Cloud&ndash;cloud-based tools and API solutions for tracking, verifying, and investing in sustainability projects. Proof also operates a marketplace for sustainability projects where investors may directly select, and fund verified sustainable projects.&nbsp;
 
 
 
 
 Key customers and partnerships
 
 
 
 
 In May 2023, the company 
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 Proof&rsquo;s most recent funding was in August 2022, when it raised USD 6 million in a 
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Proof of Impact

Pure-play software solutions that measure, monitor, analyze, and report carbon footprints of internal business operations including ESG management and reporting software. Excludes supply chain and other Scope 3 carbon intelligence solutions.

Software for offsetting business carbon footprints including carbon intelligence startups that also offer offsetting solutions. Primarily includes instant offsetting services and carbon trading marketplaces.

Pure-play software solutions to measure, monitor, and analyze personal carbon footprints.

Software solutions to reduce, and offset personal carbon footprints including carbon intelligence startups that also offer offsetting solutions.

Pure-play software solutions that measure, monitor, analyze, and report carbon footprints from supply chains and other Scope 3 emissions.

Carbon trading marketplaces that allow individual and business users to buy and sell carbon offsets.

Solutions used improve carbon tracking transparency across internal and external business operations

Provides tools to monitor and offset CO2 emissions using reforestation, renewable energy credits, etc

Some carbon trading marketplaces are blockchain based (e.g., Nori)

Some carbon tracking companies use AI to measure and report CO2 emissions (e.g., Persefoni)

ClimateTrade, a blockchain-based marketplace for carbon credits, has partnered with Angara Global to provide solutions for high carbon emitters. The collaboration will integrate Angara's decarbonization technology with ClimateTrade's platform, allowing customers in hard-to-abate industries to purchase carbon credits and biodiversity credits. This partnership follows ClimateTrade's recent collaboration with Reibus International to offset carbon emissions for the metal industry.

ClimateTrade

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