Carl Cervone

Work

More context in my bio.

OSO / Kariba Labs — Cofounder. Technology for measuring impact in the open.
Protocol Labs — Startup Operator. R&D network and venture studio for the decentralized web.
Enveritas — Cofounder (YC S18). Sustainability verification for the coffee supply chain.
TechnoServe — Director. Business solutions to poverty.
MESO Microfinance — Manager. Village-based microfinance in Tanzania.

CurrentAI — Data and scoring models for the Open Source AI Stack Map.
Optimism Retro Funding — Impact metrics and funding allocation algorithms for the Optimism Foundation.
Plurality — Data visualizations for the book by Audrey Tang, E. Glen Weyl, and the Plurality community.
Deep Funding — Dependency graph-based funding allocation algorithm for Ethereum infrastructure.
OSS Directory — Curated directory of open source projects and their artifacts.
Hypercerts — Data and protocols for rewarding contributions across domains.

East Africa Coffee Initiative — $65M Gates Foundation program to improve coffee farming in East Africa.
Global Coffee Farmer Study — The first bottom-up census of global coffee farms.
Gitcoin Grants — Quadratic funding for open source software.
Cup of Excellence — Specialty coffee’s leading quality competition and auction.
Value Chain Analysis — 10 years of value chain lectures at Columbia SIPA.
Estimating Soil Loss Using ASTER and Diffuse Reflectance Spectrometry — Thesis using satellite imagery and soil spectrometry to predict soil erosion.