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

43 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

    The goal of AgnostiPay is to directly connect everyone with everyone and exchange any kind of value or currency between them without the need for a commercial third party.

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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. COOL LION FI: 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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  7. EZA (Swahili for SPREAD): Embodies projectā€™s goal: to avail opportunities to all persons regardless of gender, tribe, or employment/income.

    Digital Financial Services

    75 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Kenya
    Project lead: Rehema Khimulu

    ENEZA 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

    One of the significant current gaps in the ILP network is the ability to use a Tier 1 ILP capable wallet on the continent and the major countries In Europe, South East - Asia, and Southern America.

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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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