Scott Onder

Chief Investment & Innovation Officer | Venture Investing in Frontier Markets | Climate | AI | Fintech for Impact

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 14 investments📅 9 years investing🗓 Last invested Nov 2024
VC🌍 United States
14
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1
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Portfolio

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Investor
Nov 2024
Plasma is building the first stablecoin-native neobank, Plasma One.
Humanitarian and Resilience Investing Initiative
2022
We are the international institution for public private cooperation. We connect communities of leaders around global issues through high-level meetings, research, initiatives and digital networks. We are non-profit, impartial and independent. We believe dialogue and cooperation between business, government and civil society can improve the state of the world.
Investor
2022
🌲 Open Forest Protocol (OFP) is a complete digital overhaul for the verification and issuance of carbon credits. 🌎 OFP re-imagines carbon credits by offering carbon developers a no upfront cost, open source, and network based verification system that allows them to create the most transparent and verifiable carbon credits. ✨ Designed to scale for projects anywhere in the world and of any size, with a focus on nature based solutions, OFP holds the promise of making voluntary carbon markets reliable, liquid and easily accessible for mitigating climate change in the coming century.
Investor
2021
Ejara est une plateforme permettant de démocratiser linvestissement et lépargne en Afrique notamment sur des actifs tels : crypto, obligations financières, etc. Elle est présente en Afrique Francophone (zone CFA) et en Europe.
Investor
2021
Topl is developing a Bitcoin layer 2 protocol that supports builders in emerging markets and those building a more inclusive and interconnected future. Topls Thunder network runs seamlessly alongside Bitcoin, bringing increased functionality, speed, and affordability to the most widely adopted cryptocurrency.
Investor
2021
Umoja Labs is a Web3 development company building tools for a globally inclusive financial future for everyone using blockchain technology.
Board Chair & Majority Shareholder
2021
The Microinsurance Catastrophe Risk Organisation (MiCRO) was founded in 2011 by Mercy Corps and Fonkoze as a specialized reinsurance company incorporated in Barbados in the aftermath of the 2010 Haiti earthquake.
late stageInsurance
Investor
2021
The core development team supporting the growth and success of the Goldfinch protocol: goldfinch.finance. We believe crypto will reshape the global economy and expand access to capital around the world. We are building the tools and technology to make that possible.
Investor
2019
It is very hard to access USD or stable currency in LatAms depreciating, and hyper-inflationary economies. We are solving that for individuals and businesses. Why Valiu? 👉 https://cutt.ly/Zf0YHtq
Investor
2019
Powered by People is a B2B wholesale platform that seamlessly connects makers in 46 countries with buyers in North America & beyond through secure transactions. We want to make ethical, sustainable and social-impact buying easy and risk free. The Creative Manufacturing and Handmade sector is one of the fastest growing global industries, yet it is slowed by communications and digital shortcomings. PBP solves this problem by providing a curated digital marketplace for buyers and makers to conduct business. The benefits are multiple. Buyers are able to customize and purchase products from a highly functional platform on flexible payment terms, leaving the international communication, payment and logistics to us. Makers—from Ghana to India to Guatemala—are able to massively expand their customer base simply by uploading their wares to the Powered by People site. And both makers and buyers can virtually track the manufacturing process every step of the way through our innovative PBP Produce tool. With team members in America, Canada, Kenya, India and Mexico, PBP connects all the dots, providing financing for the makers, facilitating orders and identifying the emerging trends that buyers want on their shelves. And it is the makers, perhaps, who stand to gain the most. When their small businesses thrive, they provide not just for themselves, but their employees, families and communities.
early stageConsumer Goods
Board Observer & Investor
2019
Turaco provides simple and affordable insurance products to underserved customers through technology-enabled, white-labeled partnerships with Africas top brands. As Africas leading insurtech, our vision is to insure the next 1 billion people and our mission is to act as a safety net, freeing people from the fear of financial shocks.
early stageInsurance
Investor
2018
Reimagining agricultural insurance to protect smallholders worldwide. At Pula, we are radically restructuring insurance, using technology and parametric insurance to insure the previously unbanked, uninsured, untapped market of 1.5 billion smallholders worldwide. We work across Africa and Asia, and in 2019 alone, we facilitated crop and livestock insurance cover to 1.1mln farmers and have offered our products in 11 markets . Since starting in 2015, our products have impacted over 4.9 Million smallholder farmers. Our Founders work in insurance has been recognized by several international awards including the Financial Times/IFC Award for Sustainable Finance, the Singapore Fintech Festival, Womens World Banking, Credit Suisse, and InsureTech3.0. We partner with organisations across multiple value chains, from agriculture to renewable energy including Fortune 500 Companies, Global NGO’s, Microfinance Instructions, Research Institutions, and Governments to help provide households the protection they need in an increasingly unpredictable climate.
Investor
2017
Wasoko is transforming communities across Africa by revolutionizing access to essential goods and services. By connecting small shops to the digital economy, we fix inefficient supply chains and provide services that were previously unavailable. Wasoko aims to provide everything a retailer needs, no wholesalers or banks necessary. Thousands of retailers across Kenya, Tanzania, and Rwanda use Wasokos mobile ordering and delivery service to receive the goods they need as quickly and cheaply as possible while also accessing growth financing for the first time.
Experience · 15 entries
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2024
Investor
Nov 2024
Plasma is building the first stablecoin-native neobank, Plasma One.
2022
Humanitarian and Resilience Investing Initiative
2022
We are the international institution for public private cooperation. We connect communities of leaders around global issues through high-level meetings, research, initiatives and digital networks. We are non-profit, impartial and independent. We believe dialogue and cooperation between business, government and civil society can improve the state of the world.
Investor
2022
🌲 Open Forest Protocol (OFP) is a complete digital overhaul for the verification and issuance of carbon credits. 🌎 OFP re-imagines carbon credits by offering carbon developers a no upfront cost, open source, and network based verification system that allows them to create the most transparent and verifiable carbon credits. ✨ Designed to scale for projects anywhere in the world and of any size, with a focus on nature based solutions, OFP holds the promise of making voluntary carbon markets reliable, liquid and easily accessible for mitigating climate change in the coming century.
2021
Investor
2021
Ejara est une plateforme permettant de démocratiser linvestissement et lépargne en Afrique notamment sur des actifs tels : crypto, obligations financières, etc. Elle est présente en Afrique Francophone (zone CFA) et en Europe.
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