Abstract
In this report, we’ll summarize key milestones achieved during Celo Camp Batch 10. This follows our Celo Camp 2025: Season 0-1 Proposal (posted on February 28th), which outlined the structure for Celo Camp Batch 10.
Celo Camp Batch 10
The tenth edition of Celo Camp kicked off on September 29th in collaboration with the Celo Foundation, MiniPay, Self, GoodDollar, Divvi, and CxAI. After an incredible 8 weeks of programming, tailor-made for founders building dApps on Celo, here are some of the program highlights. The program concluded on November 21st, following DevConnect in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Program Highlights
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5 projects have been onboarded or are in review for listing on MiniPay so far (KLIQ, MiniPlay have been onboarded).
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11 out of 12 teams graduated.
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11 teams (100% of graduates) demonstrated integration with Celo with a live demo.
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Net promoter score (NPS) = 89 [goal was 60+]
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24 camp sessions (more than 30 hours of live programming)
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20 camp speakers and mentors from organizations like MiniPay, the Celo Foundation, Self, Bloomtree Wellness, Divvi, Verda Ventures, GoodDollar, and Prezenti, alongside other great organizations.
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363 applications from 65 countries [goal was more than 150 applications]
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We are happy to recognize BitGifty, Batch 8 grand prize winner, for their continued growth on MiniPay with 189,000 monthly active users and processing over 200K monthly transactions across 14 countries.
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We are also excited to acknowledge Pretium Finance, Batch 9 grand prize winner, for their activity on MiniPay with over 2,755 daily active users across 8 countries.
Batch 10 graduates
Coinstancy - Saving, reimagined. Investing, simplified.
iExchange (SikaDesk) - Financial infrastructure for stablecoin interoperability.
VirtuaBroker - Next-generation payment infrastructure that enables businesses to move money across borders.
MiniPlay - Quick, fun mini-games that test your speed, memory, logic, and focus. Earn XP, climb the leaderboard, and redeem prizes.
Kliq - Unlocking nature-AI through a decentralised data collecting network.
YAP Technologies - YAP is a speaking-first language learning app that rewards verified practice with tokens and issues on-chain, portable proof of fluency.
Neda Pay - An all in one stablecoin platform from payments, swaps to on/off ramps.
Canvassing - Canvassing connects web3 researchers and web3 users, and delivers micro tasks for the former, and rewards the latter.
Asterisk - We have built the first women’s non-reproductive health tracking app that directly shares real-time data with researchers.
HushTalks - Is a mobile-first, privacy-focused social platform that enables anonymous, authentic conversations and integrates stablecoin micropayments for safe, everyday peer-to-peer value exchange.
Pesia’s Kitchen - EAT is a community-driven solution to food rescue and food security that integrates a peer-to-peer, secure, and low-cost financial layer—ensuring that support flows directly to the people making a difference on the ground, elevating positive social impact.
Investment Offers
Upright Ventures is currently reviewing which projects from Celo Camp Batch 10 will receive a share of the $100k investment pool. Our review process includes a vote from representatives of the MiniPay team, Celo Foundation, Verda Ventures and the Upright team. We will update this post with the final decision before the end of February.
Live Events
We were proud to co-host 3 live in-person events at 2 of the major crypto conferences of 2025: EthCC in Cannes (June 30-July 3) and DevConnect in Buenos Aires (November 17-November 22).
Cannes Stablecoins Summer
We partnered with MiniPay, the Celo Foundation, and Noah to bring together leaders in Web3 for the Stablecoins Summer event in Cannes! During the event we announced Celo Camp batch 10 and shared details on the program.
Funding The Commons Buenos Aires
We co-sponsored, hosted a workshop and gave a lightning talk on the main stage of the event which featured Vitalik Buterin (Co-founder Ethereum) and Roger Dingledine (Co-founder Tor). The event brought together 400+ participants and 50+ speakers. We were proud to meet so many graduates of Celo Camp on stage: David Casey (batch 2) Founder at Funding the Commons, Guillermo Goncalvez (batch 2) Founder & CEO at El Dorado, Henry Baiz (batch 5) Founder & CEO at Gane and Sarah Johnstone (batch 7) Co-Founder & CEO at Relay Funder.
Top Left: Vitalik & Roger talk: “Privacy & Public Goods.” Top right: Celo Camp’s workshop titled “Art of the pitch - deliver startup presentations that land.” Bottom left: Alon Shavit lighting talk titled “New Rails for Global Finance” highlighting MiniPay and Celo Camp’s alumni. Bottom right: Event speakers group photo.
Founders Dinner & VC Lounge Buenos Aires
We co-sponsored and hosted a full day event at the “Territorio AURA” which brought together Celo alumni and contributors, Web3 founders, early stage VCs and LPs to meet in person, share ideas and learn about Celo Camp. The event brought together 250+ participants including 20+ early stage VCs. The event was produced in collaboration with: DeFi Founders Club, Cork Protocol, MasterKey VC and other great organizations.
Celo core contributors including Marek Olszewski, Celo Foundation, cLabs, Celo Camp alumni, Prezenti, GoodDollar, Cork Protocol, Web3 founders and VCs mingling at the founders dinner.
Summary
Upright had an incredible second half of the year, with high-quality teams completing Celo Camp and two new projects (more to come) onboarded to MiniPay, as well as continued growth among our alumni. We want to thank the amazing participants, alumni, and Celo Camp supporters for another successful cohort. It was a pleasure to meet many of you in our live events at EthCC in Cannes and DevConnect in Buenos Aires.
We also want to thank the Opera team, Celo Foundation, and the Celo community for their great support during camp. We are also grateful to have launched new partnerships with GoodDollar, Divvi, Self, and CxAI as these verticals were highlighted during Celo Camp Batch 10!
Plans for 2026 & Beyond
In the past year, Celo has grown to become an ecosystem which offers founders unprecedented access to real world users. The immediate surge in daily active users experienced by our graduates onboarded to MiniPay is just incredible.
Together with the Celo community we want to continue and build a visible founders network where alumni become mentors/angels/clients for each other. A community in which entrepreneurs build their foundations and where capital, talent, and usage compound.
We would like to plan and launch the next batch of Celo Camp during 2026 with similar focus on MiniPay and key partners while taking feedback from the community to iteratively improve the program’s value-add for participants, alumni and the wider Celo ecosystem.