
Verda Ventures backs blockchain fintech founders serving emerging markets through MiniPay distribution.
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Verda Ventures covers fintech, stablecoin, crypto, and payments venture capital in emerging markets, with articles written by its investment team.
Verda uses industry and market analysis, data, and financials to assess opportunities, and qualitatively evaluates teams across three areas.
Verda assesses market attractiveness before measuring a ReFi project’s impact, based on its belief that projects need sustainable, profitable business models to achieve positive impact.
Verda Ventures says its rebrand recommits to expanding financial access and sharpens its focus on stablecoins, mobile wallets, and other financial products.
Emerging markets represent a $1 trillion opportunity. Verda Ventures and Opera launched the $40 million MiniPay Fund to support fintech startups focused on financial services in underserved regions.
Verda Ventures is a fintech venture capital fund backing stablecoin and digital finance founders in emerging markets, partnered with Opera MiniPay and Celo.
Verda and Varys Capital report that just 16 of 494 Latin American stablecoin firms focus on wholesale liquidity, treasury, and credit. The report warns that this concentration leaves the region’s stablecoin liquidity fragile.
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Alex Witt, founding general partner at Verda Ventures, brings experience across venture capital, digital assets, blockchain infrastructure, and traditional finance. Before Verda Ventures, he served as CFO at Celo, supporting its mainnet launch, fundraising, tokenomics, and financial operations, and previously co-founded SWFT Blockchain.
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Verda Ventures partners with Opera to launch a $40 million fund supporting Web3 startups building products around Opera’s MiniPay wallet. The fund targets ventures developing products for the wallet.
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