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Afropolitan is creating a Digital Nation to enable all Africans to build abundant lives. The internet enables people to organize around shared values at scales that were previously unthinkable before the turn of the century. If it were a country, Facebook would be the largest one in the world. With the advent of cryptocurrency, the next Facebook will not be a social network with a passive online community, but rather a full-blown digital country with its own native currency and shared purpose.

Fonbnk is a new distributed finance company enabling a frictionless, financial onramp for emerging markets. Leveraging the existing network of mobile phone accounts, anyone with a prepaid mobile SIM card can now have access to the global digital economy. We are driving financial inclusion through digital access for the nearly 2-billion humans who are unbanked.

Umoja Labs is a Web3 development company building tools for a globally inclusive financial future for everyone using blockchain technology.

We build, operate and invest in crypto-native products for everyday people in frontier markets.

Yellow Card is one of the largest licensed stablecoin-based infrastructure providers with capabilities spanning across 34 countries including 20 African countries, major emerging markets such as Brazil, India, Mexico, and China. From Stablecoin payment infrastructure to fiat settlement rails, custody wallet services, and custom local Stablecoin issuance, Yellow Card provides the complete infrastructure businesses need to manage Stablecoins, payments, and operations across emerging markets.

Roll is a social currency layer for the web. The protocol utilizes the Ethereum blockchain to issue branded social money for anyone to own, control, and coordinate the value they create across their network.

Infrastructure for powerful web3 products at scale.

The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent federal agency created by Congress in 1950 "to promote the progress of science; to advance the national health, prosperity, and welfare; to secure the national defense…"​ With an annual budget of more than $8 billion, NSF is the funding source for approximately 20 percent of all federally supported basic research conducted by America’s colleges and universities. In many fields, such as mathematics, computer science, and the social sciences, NSF is the major source of federal backing. NSF awards about 11,000 new awards per year, with an average duration of three years -- to fund specific research proposals that have been judged the most promising by a rigorous and objective merit-review system. In the past few decades, NSF-funded researchers have won more than 200 Nobel Prizes as well as other honors too numerous to list. NSF funds equipment that is needed by scientists and engineers but is often too expensive for any one group or researcher to afford. Another essential element in NSFs mission is support for science and engineering education, from pre-K through graduate school and beyond. There are many exciting careers at NSF, not only in science, technology, education and mathematics (STEM), but also in business and operations. For more information, please visit us at http://nsf.gov/careers/. NSF welcomes opportunities to engage with you on our LinkedIn page. Please see our Comment Policy [http://www.nsf.gov/social/policies.jsp ] for more information.

Since its founding in 1993, NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) has been a pioneer in accelerated computing. The company’s invention of the GPU in 1999 sparked the growth of the PC gaming market, redefined computer graphics, ignited the era of modern AI and is fueling the creation of the metaverse. NVIDIA is now a full-stack computing company with data-center-scale offerings that are reshaping industry.

Afropolitan is creating a Digital Nation to enable all Africans to build abundant lives. The internet enables people to organize around shared values at scales that were previously unthinkable before the turn of the century. If it were a country, Facebook would be the largest one in the world. With the advent of cryptocurrency, the next Facebook will not be a social network with a passive online community, but rather a full-blown digital country with its own native currency and shared purpose.

Fonbnk is a new distributed finance company enabling a frictionless, financial onramp for emerging markets. Leveraging the existing network of mobile phone accounts, anyone with a prepaid mobile SIM card can now have access to the global digital economy. We are driving financial inclusion through digital access for the nearly 2-billion humans who are unbanked.

Umoja Labs is a Web3 development company building tools for a globally inclusive financial future for everyone using blockchain technology.