Future\Perfect Ventures

We partner with entrepreneurs who share our core values and passion to create a better world. We invest early, working closely with founding teams and our network to help build the next generation of impactful technology companies.  Here are the stories of some of our entrepreneurs.

 Bill Barhydt, Abra’s founder, is a veteran of the cross-border money remittance sector.  He saw firsthand the inefficiencies created by multiple intermediaries including Western Union and banking institutions, which extract significant fees for small transactions.  With emerging markets rapidly adopting smartphones, Bill saw opportunity in these markets with a blockchain powered app that would provide real-time currency exchange with no transaction fees. Abra, now one of the leading global currency wallets, has developed a first-of-its-kind smart contract investing platform that uses bitcoin technology to allow users to hold, sell, and exchange any of its 28 supported cryptocurrencies and 50 supported fiat currencies on the mobile-based application.   Bitpesa is the first pan-African blockchain-powered payment network. After careers in finance, technology and development, the founding team saw opportunity in emerging blockchain infrastructure to reduce business-to-business and peer-to-peer payments from 12-20% to 3%, putting money back into the pockets of businesses and individuals who are now able to save and invest more back into the economy as a result.  Founded in Nairobi in 2013, Bitpesa expanded operations to Uganda, Tanzania and Nigeria in 2015, and has since opened three additional offices in Luxembourg, London and Dakar, Senegal. The increasing demand led BitPesa to partnerships in the DRC, Ghana, UAE, South Africa, and Mozambique.