Marketplaces & exchangesChecked Sep 2026

Cavex (Carbon Value Exchange)

Cavex, the Carbon Value Exchange built by 4R Digital, is a digital marketplace designed for Africa that links buyers to small-scale carbon projects and pays proceeds straight to projects through mobile money.

Africa-specificMobile money payoutsSmall-project routingFSD Africa seed
DISTRIBUTION
Cavex (Carbon Value Exchange)
Founded2021
HQUnited Kingdom (4R Digital Ltd)
StageSeed
FundingUS$3M from FSDAi within a ~$6M seed raise
Founded2021
HQUnited Kingdom (4R Digital Ltd)
StageSeed
FundingUS$3M from FSDAi within a ~$6M seed raise
API / accessPartial
EvidenceWell corroborated

A marketplace built to pay small carbon projects directly through mobile money.

What they do

Inside Cavex (Carbon Value Exchange)

Cavex is a cloud marketplace that collects, verifies and monitors data from small-scale climate-positive projects, converts it into credits using distributed-ledger technology, and routes sales to buyers in the global North.

Its defining feature is direct transfer of carbon-sale proceeds to projects via mobile payments, aiming to channel over $500M to small African projects by 2030.

It was incubated by 4R Digital Ltd with grant support from FSD Africa, and FSDAi committed US$3M as part of a roughly US$6M seed raise.

Signal

Recent developments

  1. May 2025FSDAi committed US$3M to Cavex within a roughly US$6M seed raise.
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