Impact Verification Platform
Sela is an impact enterprise building the digital infrastructure for a sustainable society.
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About Sela
Sela is building an ecosystem of tools to power the impact industry. A sustainable future requires understanding and integrating social and environmental awareness into the function of our society's products, services, and organizations.
Private capital is forming at a rapid rate to solve systemic challenges, such as climate change, public infrastructure gaps, and income inequality. Global impact investment AUM has grown from $35.5 billion (2015) to $502 billion (2018) amongst 1,340 organizations. New financial instruments, including Development & Social Impact Bonds, are also being designed and deployed. This accumulation of capital needs accounting and measuring tools that factor social and environmental value while ensuring trusted collaboration among a diverse set of stakeholders.
TRANSPARENCY
Sela Portal
The Portal is a web-based project management tool for operationalizing impact standards (e.g. ESG, IFC, IRIS). The tool enables transparency, real-time measurement and verification of capital projects and impact investment.
IMPACT IDENTITY
Sela Citizen App
The Citizen app is a mobile wallet that holds each Sela Citizen’s impact identity. The app enables direct communication for decentralized impact measurement and surveys, real-time collaboration amongst stakeholders, and monetization of impact data using digital currency, fiat and proprietary digital assets.
TRUSTED NETWORK
Sela Marketplace
The Marketplace is a trusted collection of impact investment opportunities for decentralized fundraising and collaboration. Sela Citizens collaborate to fund and execute these impact investments.
Inclusive Measurement of Progress
The Sela ecosystem empowers stakeholders across the many hierarchies and geographies of sustainable development while simultaneously operationalizing impact measurement.
- Objective data tracking through blockchain and computer vision
- Real-time reporting of capital and resource deployment
- Incentivization mechanisms across stakeholders
Roadmap
Oct 2017
Human-centered design with ConsenSys
May 2018
First pilot
Mar 2019
Initiated first sandbox use-case in Niger Delta
Jan 2020
Scale product availability
Apr 2017
Company founded
Apr 2018
Launched MVP and opened Lagos developer lab
Oct 2018
Began product-market sales fit research with cohort of researchers and industry leaders
Oct 2019
Private beta launch to additional sandboxes
Oct 2017
Human-centered design pilot with ConsenSys
May 2018
Pilot test
March 2019
Initiated first sandbox use-case in Niger Delta
Jan 2020
Scale product availability
April 2017
Company founded
Apr 2018
Launched MVP and opened Lagos developer lab
Oct 2018
Began product-market sales fit research with cohort of researchers and industry leaders
Oct 2019
Private beta launch to additional sandboxes
Leadership
Chi Nnadi
CEO
Julie Bissinger
COO
Kayode Ezike
Director Of R&D
Andrew Dell
Former CEO, HSBC Africa
Henri Erimodafe
Executive Director, UBS Nigeria
Tami Kesselman
Former Senior Advisor, UNDP SDG Impact Fund
John Simpkins
Former General Counsel, USAID
Honor Huyette
Honor Huyette
Ralf Kubli
Principal, Lakeside Partners AG
Gustav Simonsson
Core Dev Ethereum, Orchid Labs
Brian Fox
Architect, GNU Bash, Orchid Labs
Vivina Berla
Investment Professional, Emeritus Governor LSE
Alex Kehaya
Business Development, Orchid Labs
Boma Josiah
Product Designer
Ibrahim Illiyasu
Backend Developer
Latest Updates
Sela kickstarts computer vision R&D efforts
Over January and February 2019, the Sela team officially kickstarted its computer vision efforts by hosting two MIT Interns, Myra Ahmad’19 and Jeba Sania ‘20, at Hatch in Geneva. They both worked unde...
Read MoreSela Platform Development Progress As At January 2019
# **Progress Report** Here are video previews of the state of the development of our web and mobile platforms as at the month of January, 2019. **Web Platform Progress** **** <iframe width="100%"...
Read MoreFirst use case of Beta platform for localizing sites for upcoming cleanup
This week, the team got to onboard our first user for the Beta platform which was released earlier in December. The user was tasked with uploading geolocalized, timestamped data about the location of...
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