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Carry1st

Written byRaphael Rocher
PublishedDec 3, 2024
UpdatedJun 2, 2026
1 min read

Carry1st

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Background

Organization Name – Carry1st

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Carry1st is a mobile gaming and digital entertainment company founded in 2018 and headquartered in New York, with its core market focus on sub-Saharan Africa. The company’s operational logic is straightforward but the execution is genuinely complex: Africa’s mobile gaming market is large, young, and growing, but it is fragmented across payment infrastructure, language, and regulatory environments in ways that make it largely inaccessible to international publishers. Carry1st’s stated model is to bridge that gap — licensing globally recognised titles like Call of Duty: Mobile and Valorant,… Read More

Gaming Entertainment Mobile Digital Africa

Creation Date

June 2026

Headquarters

New York, USA

Organization Maturity Level

Growing Business

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Notable Achievements

2024

Fast Company Recognition

2021

Partnerships with Major Game Developers. Call of Duty: Mobile and Valorant across Africa

2018

Investment Rounds: raised over $60 million in funding

2022

Launch of Pay1st. a localized payments platform, facilitating seamless in-game transactions for African users.

2023

Building Tribe: The Tribe community, launched in 2023, is now Africa’s largest gaming community with over 450,000 members,

Core Team

Cordel Robbin-Coker, Co-Founder, CEO at Carry1st

Cordel Robbin-Coker

Co-Founder, CEO

Lucy Hoffman, Co-Founder at Carry1st

Lucy Hoffman

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Tinotenda Mundangepfupfu, Co-Founder, Chief Technology Officer at Carry1st

Tinotenda Mundangepfupfu

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Raphael Rocher

Raphael Rocher

Raphael Rocher is Contributor at VaaSBlock and host of the NCNG podcast, specialising in operational oversight, risk management practices, and cross-market research across emerging Web3 ecosystems. With a background bridging blockchain, compliance workflows, and product operations, he focuses on improving the structure, transparency, and maturity of early-stage crypto organisations.

Based between Seoul and Southeast Asia, Raphael works closely with founders navigating complex market conditions, helping evaluate organisational processes, governance readiness, and long-term operational resilience. His work contributes to VaaSBlock’s independent scoring methodology and research outputs, particularly for projects expanding into Asian markets.

Prior to VaaSBlock, Raphael held roles across product operations and systems implementation, giving him a practical understanding of how teams execute under pressure, scale infrastructure, and manage operational risk. This experience allows him to analyse Web3 teams not only from a technical or marketing lens, but from an organisational and cross-functional standpoint.

Today, Raphael contributes to ecosystem research publications, RMA™ assessment reviews, and due-diligence guidance for projects aiming to demonstrate higher operational credibility. He frequently examines trends across Korean blockchain ecosystems, cross-chain infrastructure, and the evolving requirements placed on Web3 companies by investors, regulators, and institutional partners.

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