Adanian Labs, a pan African venture studio announced its partnership with EMURGO, the official investment arm of Cardano blockchain to scale tech startups in Africa and grow the Cardano ecosystem. EMURGO has invested a 7x figure undisclosed amount as a seed investment to Adanian Labs through its newly launched MURGO Africa investment entity.
This investment is focused on achieving one of the goals of Cardano which is to bring financial and educational empowerment via its blockchain platform to the billions who lack these opportunities.
Founded in 2020, Adanian Labs is focused on building a platform where African Tech start-ups can thrive and access all key resources that allow them to grow sustainably. The lab provides all the critical support start-ups would need to launch and scale in the continent including, access to funding, technology development, technical support, go to market strategies and partnerships.
“We are extremely encouraged by the partnership with EMURGO Africa as their vision to build a thriving technology ecosystem in Africa is well aligned with ours. We aim to build 300 tech powered, impact driven start-ups by 2025. We are passionate in our drive to create “CAMELS” strong, resilient companies, entrepreneurs and youth who will sustain African economies, even with limited resources. We coined #TheCamelTheory knowing the challenges in terms of equity that Africa has in its spin towards the fourth industrial revolution (4IR).”
John Kamara, Chief Executive Officer, Adanian Labs
As a venture studio, Adanian Labs uses its unique positioning to create and spearhead the sharing economy for African start-ups, by building a socio-economic ecosystem revolving around the sharing of resources, creation, production, distribution, trade and consumption.
“As the start-up that builds start-ups we apply lean start-up principles in processes, learning, iteration, scaling and innovating solutions. Our aim is to build solutions across SDG’s impact goals that will power Africa economies while creating massive impact to the youth.
This partnership with EMURGO Africa will allow us to forge more efficient collaborations that will enable us to build quicker, scale faster and optimize capitalization, creating a win win benefit to all our partners in the sharing nature of our growing ecosystem.”
John Kamara, Chief Executive Officer, Adanian Labs
“We are more focused than ever on accelerating the development of Cardano’s ecosystem with a rich mix of decentralized services catering towards a global community that is increasing in overall blockchain awareness including in Africa. EMURGO Africa is especially dedicated to delivering financial and educational empowerment opportunities on the continent by providing the capital and strategic partnerships necessary for local startups to scale rapidly and bring new solutions to Cardano. Our partnership with Adanian Labs provides us with a great framework to launch in Africa.”
Ken Kodama, Chief Executive Officer, EMURGO
The Adanian Labs – EMURGO Africa partnership signifies a new dawn for the African technology evolution that aims to foster private sector growth and see a burgeoning middle class emerge.