Afropolitan is a membership network connecting individuals from the African diaspora across various industries, including art, finance, tech, health, energy, sports, and media. The network is building a digital nation to enable its members to come together and create a new society based on the principles of abundance and the destruction of scarcity.
Employees: 1-10
Total raised: $2.1M
Investors 4
| Date | Name | Website |
| - | Adaverse | adaverse.c... |
| - | Hashed Eme... | hashedem.c... |
| - | Feleman | feleman.co... |
| - | Cultur3 Ca... | cultur3.ca... |
Funding Rounds 1
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 05.07.2022 | Seed | $2.1M | - |
Mentions in press and media 8
| Date | Title | Description |
| 22.08.2025 | The problem with the African tech ecosystem is its storytelling | By 2050, nearly one in four people on Earth will be African. Whether this demographic shift becomes a source of global prosperity or instability may depend on something seemingly intangible: the stories being told about the continent today.... |
| 25.11.2022 | EMURGO Africa’s Adaverse Announces Investment in Digital Nation Afropolitan About Adaverse TechCabal’s 2021 Year-End report Success! | Adaverse, an EMURGO-backed Cardano ecosystem accelerator supporting African Web3 development, recently announced its investment in the ‘Network State’ Afropolitan, a Web3-based community for African development. Adaverse joins Hashed, Cultu... |
| 31.08.2022 | From startup society to network state | This article was contributed to TechCabal by Chijioke Emole Echeme Emole* Imagine a country founded online. A country which is formed first in the cloud as a peculiar and purposeful ‘internet phenomenon’, and eventually as an interconnected... |
| 30.07.2022 | Start-ups eye metaverse, NFTs to solve Africa’s woes | African start-ups increasingly target unemployment and governance issues as founders digitise nation-states and marketplaces, looking to the metaverse and NFTs. Kim Harrisberg and Rina Chandran from the Thomson Reuters Foundation, however, ... |
| 30.07.2022 | Start-ups eye metaverse, NFTs to solve Africa’s woes | African start-ups increasingly target unemployment and governance issues as founders digitise nation-states and marketplaces, looking to the metaverse and NFTs. Kim Harrisberg and Rina Chandran from the Thomson Reuters Foundation, however, ... |
| 20.06.2022 | Afropolitan raises $2.1 million to build a digital nation | Afropolitan, a startup that wants to build a digital nation for Africans, has raised pre-seed funding of $2.1 million, according to its co-founder, Eche Emole. Founded in 2016 by Eche Emole and Chika Uwazie, Afropolitan started out as an or... |
| 20.06.2022 | Afropolitan raises millions from Balaji Srinivasan and others to build a digital nation | Last April, Balaji Srinivasan, a high-profile figure in the crypto space and the ex-CTO of Coinbase, wrote a piece titled “How to Start a New Country” in the 21st century. His view was that this new world—The Network State—would give millio... |
| - | Afropolitan Raises $2.1M to Build a Digital Nation | - |