Growth Pool grants

Welcome to the Growth Pool grant application!

We’re excited to continue to support more mature projects in the Celo ecosystem to launch on mainnet, or grow their scope if already established.

Successful applicants will receive a $25,000 grant

Applications for this pool may be for incremental features for ecosystem mainstays or public goods, as long as all the standard application criteria are met. VC-funded, private, for-profit companies are not disqualified as a hard rule (these companies are often the best placed to deliver complex and high quality solutions) if they are clearly delivering something pivotal to the community.

Growth Pool useful information

Eligibility for this pool

  • Must be open source or published.

  • Must be built for and deployed to Celo mainnet and be open to the public.

  • Delivery of the project must include socializing and communicating your work.

  • Priority will be given for public goods style projects over commercial enterprises (although the latter is not disqualifying, if it meets the application criteria).

  • No multiple applications for the same project/concept.

General information

  • One off payment of $25,000 cUSD to all successful applicants 

  • Payments will be split 50% at project onset, and 50% after agreed delivery..

  • For unsuccessful applications there will be some detailed feedback; we are subjectively reviewing projects individually

  • Applicants will sign a contract with Prezenti and be KYC’d through TrustID.

What this pool is not

  • Funding to directly pay for continuous project salaries.

  • Purely marketing expenditure.

  • Venture capital investment in the company.

  • Funding for events management.

  • “Pay for play” cash payments for an established project on another chain to deploy on Celo.

  • Liquidity provisioning for a project.

  • Token listing fees for a project.

  • Disbursement to fund a well capitalized, privately controlled, commercial-only company.