Grantee Directory

Projects and organizations funded by the Interledger Foundation, working to expand access to digital financial services around the world.

The Work in Practice

Interledger grantees work across the world in different financial environments, from regions with limited infrastructure to highly connected digital economies. They include community-based organizations, researchers, technologists, and advocates who build infrastructure, advance research, shape policy, and expand how financial systems work in practice.

Year
2022

44 results

  1. Beats By Girlz

    Community Grants

    40 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Erin Barra

    Beats By Girlz is a US based 501c3 with a global footprint whose mission is to empower the next generation of women and gender minorities through music and technology. Weā€™re committed towards giving our community the tools, resources, access, and opportunities to reach their full potential and we do that work in full partnership with our chapters and chapter leadership all around the world.

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  2. AgnostiPay

    Digital Financial Services

    75 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Netherlands
    Project lead: Jasper Voorendonk

    AgnostiPay's open-source technology allows the community of developers to take control of payments and enable Self-Sovereign Payments for their end-users - empowered by ILP. The project does not focus on creating a single node within a particular country but makes the possibility for developers to enable thousands of users in using ILP-nodes for self-sovereign payments, using a single piece of open-source code by leveraging the end-user credentials. The value unlocked by ILP-empowered AgnostiPay technology opens up the ILP network for additional payments. It can be used in many situations, such as e-commerce, mobile apps, and fintech infrastructures.

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  3. An Online Lending Platform Connecting Online Lenders to Entrepreneurs in Africa to Secure Equipment Financing

    Digital Financial Services

    75 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: CĆ“te d'Ivoire
    Project lead: Richard Seshie

    COOL LION FI aims to secure a full-stack license (money transmitter/electronic money/microfinance license) for Francophone Africa through which businesses can earn, buy, sell, trade, and share cross-borders.

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  4. BessPay

    Digital Financial Services

    75 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Jamaica
    Project lead: Douglas Davidson

    BessPay is an affordable subscription-based content monetization & hassle-free payment service for creators in Jamaica and the wider Caribbean.Ā  It connects creators to Interledger Protocol-enabled platforms and services through Mobile Carrier Billing & other local digital payment solutions. BessPay aims to enable most Jamaicans and Caribbean nationals with mobile phones to participate in the emerging global digital economy through Content Creation, Web Monetization, and open payment systems.

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  5. Binusu Universal Wallet

    Digital Financial Services

    75 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Uganda
    Project lead: Margaret Nankya

    Binusu Wallet is working on the ability to be an interoperable platform and wallet that achieves a wide range of financial applications.

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  6. Cheeri

    Digital Financial Services

    75 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Alice Lo

    Cheeri helps social enterprises and nonprofits obtain sustainable, continuous funding. Through making it easy for impact funders and purpose-driven organizations to prove their impact and manage funding, Cheeri aims to level the playing field as well as enhance collaboration between funders and funded, in support of UN Sustainable Development Goals and positive social change for their beneficiaries.

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  7. EZA

    Digital Financial Services

    75 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Kenya
    Project lead: Rehema Khimulu

    EZA (Swahili for SPREAD): projectā€™s goal is to avail opportunities to all persons regardless of gender, tribe, or employment/income. EZA will provide the general public with the potential to access microcredit capabilities. Most people donā€™t qualify for microlending services.

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  8. Interledger Protocol Open Source Digital Wallet (Kult's team)

    Digital Financial Services

    75 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Portugal
    Project lead: Helena Tude Machado, Helena Tude Machado

    Kult is a social platform for curating movies, TV series, books, podcasts, and songs that promote diverse cultural exchange between people and communities. With the mission of bringing value to human curation, it aims to create an open-source digital wallet that any platform can easily replicate. Focusing on financial inclusion for the Brazilian population, it also seeks to integrate the wallet with the PIX structure -- an instant and free electronic payment method offered by the Central Bank of Brazil with over 130 million users per month.

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  9. MUDA OTC Escrow

    Digital Financial Services

    75 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Uganda
    Project lead: Suleiman Murunga

    MUDA is looking to digitize the process by implementing a solution that will apply the ILP technology to digitize and improve the way the current cross-border liquidity is aggregated, managed, and utilized.

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  10. PayStreme

    Digital Financial Services

    75 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Fernando AlmiƱana

    Wallet Guru is an American financial technology company operating digital currency payment solutions with an initial focus on Latin America. The company is developing a payment streaming platform called Paystreme that enables users to pay in real-time for services. Users can send payments per second as they consume services such as cell phone coverage, broadband internet, pay TV, and content streaming platforms.

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