About

A venture builder dedicated to sourcing web3 capital from a global investor base for businesses solving real-world challenges in East Africa.
 
Providing seed funding and custom financing solutions.
Advising on financial modeling, investor readiness, business model validation, due diligence, pitch deck development, data analytics, and raising capital.
 

Investments

Dabba - web3-powered wifi networks, built for emerging markets
 
Sui - a first-of-its-kind Layer 1 blockchain and smart contract platform designed to make digital asset ownership fast, private, secure, and accessible.
 

Ventures

“Unnamed Online Retailer” (development stage) with a customer-centric approach providing buying guides, expert advice, and a next-level shopping interface for the East-African market.
 
valuencer.app - (development stage) is a web3 investment and content curation platform for true fans and a monetization platform for creators.
 

Ideated, tested, parked Ventures

  • Dependable Gardens - uses hydroponic farming to offer year-round, high-yield, high-quality, low-pesticide produce. It uses less water and space compared to traditional agriculture and captures premium prices during seasonal price peaks.
  • Electric Unicycle Adventure” brings you an exhilarating experience of exploring and test-driving electric unicycles, the transportation method of the future.
Stepn - web3 - MoveToEarn - a team of 9 employees walked 90 phones daily for 6 months, totaling ~16200km - ~50k USD revenue
Stepn is a web3 lifestyle app that rewards users for their physical activity. Users equipped with stepn NFTs can earn by walking, jogging, and running outdoors.
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Reality Mining - web3 - community-sourced street-level imagery and map data (2 employees mapped a city neighborhood using RealityMaps (shutdown))
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Small shop Digitalization consultancy - Bringing local businesses online using free tools like google.com/business, e.g., Open Door Beer Store
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  • House Search Engine
Online Musician Management and promotion online
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  • Everything Store - an online store for fire sales of second-hand items
Custom-made design furniture - e.g., Floating bed, from design to installed product
  • Kampala shopping assistant - a procurement system to find anything at the right price in a world that still negotiates for every item
  • Private Chef / Small Restaurant Stock Management App
  • Unsecured open-ended personal loans / revolving lines of credit at fair rates
  • Community Kings - English-speaking online community managers
  • Long-term to short-term rental conversions
  • Import of iPhones and tech gadgets to Uganda
  • Forex shop
  • Car Rental
  • Digital Micro Task Agency
  • Online course about advanced Qlik data analytics apps
 

Strategies

  • Grid trading (custom gsheet model)
  • Solana Defi arbitrage bot using jup.ag and ccxt
  • Algorithmic cash & carry - perpetual funding rate arbitrage
  • Hedged Yield Farming on Ethereum and Solana (APY.vision, tulip.garden, custom gsheet model)
  • Quant hedge fund investing
  • Uncollateralized lending (TrueFi, notes.finance)
  • A proprietary cross-exchange triangular arbitrage market-making trading engine written in Python (see detailed project description below)
  • Manual triangular arbitrage vs Fiat on CEXs
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