Valora

Spun out of cLabs, Valora is building a decentralized Venmo-like mobile crypto wallet on top of the Celo blockchain, a mobile-first decentralized platform focused on mobile payments. Valora uses a novel decentralized PKI that lets you send cryptocurrency to phone numbers in a fully decentralized way. This feature makes it significantly easier to use than other crypto wallets and has resulted in organizations like the Grameen Foundation, ImpactMarket, and many DeFi applications built on Celo using it for their wallet needs. Investors: Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Polychain, and NFX. Stack: Typescript, Solidity, React Native, Android, iOS. Team backgrounds: Google, Twitter, Spotify, MIT, Stanford, Berkeley (~30 people today).