Top 50 Agriculture (AgTech) Startup Investors in Africa (August 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Pearl Capital Partners
VC Fund
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19 | Uganda, Kenya, Malawi | Private Equity, Debt Financing, Seed | Agriculture, Farming, Food Processing | $5k–$2.6M |
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Women Entrepreneurship for Africa
VC Fund
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15 | Nigeria, Uganda, Cameroon | Pre-Seed, Grant | Health Care, Agriculture, Food and Beverage | |
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SAHEL Capital
VC Fund
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8 | Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya | Debt Financing, Private Equity, Series B | Agriculture, Farming, Food and Beverage | $500k–$2.4M |
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54 Collective
VC Fund
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8 | Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa | Seed, Pre-Seed | Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech | $40k–$4M |
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Acumen Resilient Agriculture Fund
VC Fund
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7 | Kenya, Ghana, Nigeria | Seed, Series A, Series B | Agriculture, Farming, AgTech | $600k–$35M |
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Acumen
VC Fund
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7 | United States, India, Kenya | Seed, Series A | Agriculture, Solar, Financial Services | $300k–$12M |
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Alphamundi
VC Fund
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6 | Kenya, Colombia, Ghana | Debt Financing, Series A, Series B | Agriculture, Renewable Energy, Financial Services | $1.7M–$16M |
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Mercy Corps Ventures
VC Fund
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6 | Kenya, United States, Nigeria | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Agriculture | $100k–$35M |
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AgDevCo
VC Fund
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6 | Kenya, Ethiopia, Mauritius | Debt Financing, Venture - Series Unknown | Farming, Agriculture, AgTech | $15k–$10M |
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FMO
VC Fund
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6 | India, Kenya, The Netherlands | Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Series B | Financial Services, Finance, Renewable Energy | $4.5M–$420M |
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Equitable Ventures
VC Fund
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5 | Nigeria, South Africa, Ghana | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, Information Technology, AgTech | $80k–$2.6M |
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Novastar Ventures
VC Fund
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5 | Kenya, Nigeria, United States | Series A, Series B | Agriculture, Internet, Clean Energy | |
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VestedWorld
VC Fund
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5 | Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana | Seed, Series A, Series B | Agriculture, E-Commerce, Financial Services | |
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University Technology Fund
VC Fund
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4 | South Africa | Seed, Grant | Biotechnology, AgTech, Medical | $467k–$5M |
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Finnfund
VC Fund
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4 | Kenya, India, South Africa | Debt Financing, Series B | Financial Services, FinTech, Energy | |
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Hesham Zreik
Angel
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4 | United States, Nigeria, India | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce | $12k–$5M |
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AgFunder
VC Fund
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4 | United States, United Kingdom, India | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Agriculture, AgTech, Biotechnology | $100k–$28M |
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1776 Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | United States, Kenya, Brazil | Seed, Series A, Convertible Note | Education, EdTech, Software | $500k–$23M |
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Future Africa
VC Fund
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3 | Nigeria, United States, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology | $100k–$40M |
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Opes Impact Fund
VC Fund
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3 | Kenya, India, Italy | Seed, Series A | Energy, Social Entrepreneurship, Renewable Energy | |
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Harambeans
VC Fund
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3 | Nigeria, Kenya, Morocco | Seed, Angel | Information Technology, B2B, FinTech | $100k–$3.1M |
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E3 Capital
VC Fund
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3 | Kenya, United States, Mali | Seed, Series A, Series B | Solar, Energy, Financial Services | |
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U.S. International Development Finance Corp
VC Fund
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3 | India, Kenya, United States | Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Venture - Series Unknown | Financial Services, Finance, FinTech | $1M–$1B |
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Shell Foundation
VC Fund
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3 | India, United States, Kenya | Grant, Seed, Debt Financing | Energy, Financial Services, Solar | $300k–$53M |
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GreenTec Capital Partners
VC Fund
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3 | Kenya, Nigeria, Morocco | Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Logistics, Information Technology, Retail | $50k–$1M |
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AECI
VC Fund
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3 | Luxembourg, South Africa, United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | Chemical, AgTech, Farming | $1.3M–$1.4M |
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F6 Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | Tunisia, France | Seed, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, Information Technology, Retail | $62k–$200k |
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DEG
VC Fund
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3 | India, South Africa, Ghana | Debt Financing, Grant | Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce | $100k–$33M |
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Kaleo Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | Nigeria, United States, Kenya | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Financial Services, Information Technology, FinTech | $25k–$15M |
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Goodwell Investments
VC Fund
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3 | Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya | Series A, Series B | FinTech, Financial Services, Agriculture | |
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Ceniarth
VC Fund
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3 | Kenya, United Kingdom, Ghana | Debt Financing, Seed, Series B | Agriculture, Financial Services, Social Entrepreneurship | $1.5M–$45M |
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Alitheia Capital
VC Fund
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3 | Nigeria, Ghana, Turkey | Series A, Seed | FinTech, Logistics, Agriculture | $3M–$12M |
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Ventures Platform
VC Fund
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3 | Nigeria, United States, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Internet | $100k–$4.4M |
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Agri-Business Capital Fund (ABC Fund)
VC Fund
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3 | Uganda, Nigeria, Côte d'Ivoire | Debt Financing, Venture - Series Unknown | Agriculture, Financial Services, Farming | $257k–$3M |
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Delta40
VC Fund
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3 | Kenya, Ghana, Uganda | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed | Agriculture, Solar, AgTech | $1.3M–$2.3M |
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Beta.Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, B2B | |
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Raba Partnership
VC Fund
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2 | United States, South Africa, Egypt | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Finance | $635k–$32M |
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Creadev
VC Fund
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2 | France, United States, Kenya | Series B, Series C | Health Care, Agriculture, Food and Beverage | $5.5M–$55M |
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VilCap Investments
VC Fund
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2 | United States, India, Kenya | Seed, Series A | Financial Services, Health Care, FinTech | $50k–$6M |
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CoCapital
VC Fund
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2 | Kenya, Mexico | Series A, Series C | Agriculture, Energy, Biomass Energy | $12M–$12M |
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Jua Fund
VC Fund
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2 | Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria | Pre-Seed | Agriculture, B2B, Farming | |
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Cox Enterprises
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Italy, Belgium | Series C, Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $100k–$100M |
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Kiva
VC Fund
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2 | Ghana, Kenya, Uganda | Debt Financing, Seed, Series A | Social Entrepreneurship, Agriculture, Energy | |
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Factor[e] Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Kenya, United States, India | Seed, Series A, Convertible Note | Energy, Agriculture, Renewable Energy | |
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EcoEnterprises Fund
VC Fund
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2 | Kenya, Mexico | Series A, Series C | Agriculture, Energy, Biomass Energy | |
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Lion’s Head Global Partners
VC Fund
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2 | Kenya, France, Senegal | Debt Financing | Renewable Energy, Solar, Energy | |
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Launch Africa
VC Fund
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2 | Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology | |
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Investisseurs & Partenaires
VC Fund
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2 | France, Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire | Seed, Series A | Financial Services, Health Care, Food and Beverage | |
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Platform Investment Partners
VC Fund
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2 | South Africa, Mauritius | Seed, Series B, Series A | Farming, FinTech, Agriculture | $940k–$14M |
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Janngo
VC Fund
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2 | Nigeria, Senegal, France | Seed, Pre-Seed | B2B, Logistics, E-Commerce | |
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Pearl Capital Partners is a specialist agriculture investment firm that has been investing in small and medium sized East African agribusinesses since 2005. Pearl Capital Partners investments generate financial returns for our investors while creating significant social impact. Pearl Capital Partners success is derived from working with ambitiousmanagement teams, providing supportive investment structures and specialist expertise that create high-growth agribusinesses.
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- Industry: Agriculture, Farming, Food Processing
- Stage:Private Equity, Debt Financing, Seed
- Geography: Uganda, Kenya, Malawi
Investor stats
- Total investments: 36
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$2.1M; Debt Financing $5k–$650k; Private Equity $18k–$2.6M
- Lead/follow: 92% lead, 8% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2017
Portfolio highlights
- Enimiro — Enimiro is creating an online farming platform in form of a mobile App to connect Ugandan smallholder farmers with local investors to increase harvest while enabling urban people to invest into farming and earn proceeds at just a click of a button.
- Kamp Feed — We are a company dealing in the production and sale of animal feeds (Pigs, Poultry, Cattle, Rabbit).
- Newman Foods — Newman Foods is an agro-processing company that manufactures, exports, and supplies a comprehensive range of fresh agricultural products. Newman Foods Ltd is a Kampala-based agro-processing company whose primary business is producing and marketing branded consumer foods sold through retail stores in the local and the regional market, as well asaggregation and export of fresh fruits and vegetables (FFV) to the European market.
Women Entrepreneurship for Africa
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- Industry: Health Care, Agriculture, Food and Beverage
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Grant
- Geography: Nigeria, Uganda, Cameroon
Investor stats
- Total investments: 116
- Lead/follow: 99% lead, 1% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ORIKI — A wellness + farm to skin brand that creates pampering experiences and luxurious natural personal grooming products. Sharing Africa!
- Mukuru Clean Stoves — Earthshot Prize Winner 2022. We use recycled metal to manufacture improved, efficient and affordable cookstoves.
- Loom Craft Chocolate — Loom Craft Chocolate is a artisanal cocoa processor with a strong focus on the quality of our products and the sustainability of our processes.
Sahel Capital is a leading fund manager and advisory firm focused on West Africa with deep roots in private equity, financial advisory, management consulting and agribusiness. When you partner with Sahel, you benefit from quality financial and operating experience, broad industry knowledge, and a powerful network of global relationships. Through anintegrated approach, we work closely with companies and investment partners to deliver capital solutions and advisory services tailored to fit your unique needs. The power of a partnership with Sahel leads to better investments, stronger businesses, and shared success.
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- Industry: Agriculture, Farming, Food and Beverage
- Stage:Debt Financing, Private Equity, Series B
- Geography: Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 18
- Round size: Debt Financing $500k–$2.4M
- Lead/follow: 78% lead, 22% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2017
Portfolio highlights
- Rasad Nigeria — Rasad Nigeria is specialize in the sourcing and export of premium cocoa and cashew nuts.
- Persea Oils and Orchards — Persea Oils and Orchards is deeply dedicated to organic and sustainable farming practices fostering agricultural growth.
- Noma Service Consolidated — Noma Service Consolidated is a commodity trading business that creates organized agricultural markets by linking supply at the source to local and worldwide demand.
Building and scaling African tech startups with catalytic capital, value-add support and our global network.
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- Industry: Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 111
- Round size: Seed $40k–$4M; Pre-Seed $40k–$1.3M
- Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
Portfolio highlights
- LipaLater — LipaLater is a lending marketplace that provides postpaid payments at e-commerce stores. They are making technology affordable for you. Get the electronic of your choice today and pay for it in comfortable monthly installments.
- REasy — Top up locally, pay suppliers globally, and manage international shipments with REasy. Fast, secure, and designed for African businesses expanding worldwide.
- Konnect — Konnect provides a cross borders payment solution intended to simplify complex financial flows allowing companies of any scale and size to send and receive payments in a practical, secure, and low-cost way.
Acumen Resilient Agriculture Fund is an equity fund designed to build the climate resilience of smallholder farmers.
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- Industry: Agriculture, Farming, AgTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Kenya, Ghana, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Seed $600k–$7M; Series A $2M–$4.2M; Series B $28M–$35M
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- IBISA — Parametric insurance: instant protection against extreme climate hazards
- SunCulture — At SunCulture, we strive to solve the biggest daily challenges of smallholder farmers. We use off-grid solar technology to provide our customers with reliable access to water, irrigation, lighting, and mobile charging, and we can do all of that with a single system.
- Winich Farms — At Winich Farms we are a technology-driven and agri-startup connecting farmers with access to finance, premium markets and passionate about ensuring global food security and democratising agricultural participation. We drive digital participation by crowdfunding through our online platforms, these we use to engage farmers with quality inputs,agricultural expertise, process automation, and machinery, with the promise of decent returns to our subscribers and the farmers at the end of each farming cycle.In addition to this, utilizing our agro e-retail platform (web and app), we connect vicinity farmers with market (households) directly at farm gate price thereby reducing the activities of middlemen, making agro produce more affordable and easily accessible.One farmer at a time, our big vision is to build an Africa that feeds the world and itself. How do we plan to achieve this? Empower African Farmers by lowering barriers to accessing Capital and financial services, data driven best practices and technology to improve yield as well as access to local and global markets for their produce with established offtaker relationships like Flour Mills of Nigeria, Dangote Foods, Labana Rice, Big Bull Rice etcBacked by Orange Corners we are on a mission to create a prosperous and economically resilient Africa powered by Agriculture.
Acumen is a nonprofit venture fund that invests in early-stage companies bringing critical services like agriculture, clean energy, education, financial inclusion, healthcare and workforce development to low-income communities in 14 countries across East and West Africa, South Asia, Latin America, and the United States. Since 2001, Acumeninvested $128 million in 128 companies that have transformed the lives of over 308 million low-income people.
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- Industry: Agriculture, Solar, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, India, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 186
- Round size: Seed $300k–$2.5M; Series A $1.6M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 49% lead, 51% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $2.8M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Sproxil — Sproxil is an information technology company that focuses on supply chains and consumer engagement. It specializes in brand protection, consumer engagement, anti-counterfeiting, product authentication, and consumer promotions. The company was founded in 2009 and headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
- Orb Energy — Orb Energy is a vertically integrated solar company that manufactures solar panels, design, install, and services complete system, and finance C&I customers.
- MindRight Health — MindRight Health is a tech startup that provides mental health coaching over text message to empower communities to heal from trauma
AlphaMundi Group Ltd is a commercial entity based in Switzerland and exclusively dedicated to Impact Investing: profitable investments that generate substantial net benefits to society. It was founded in 2007 by a group of partners with extensive experience in the financial industry as well as responsible investments, microfinance andphilanthropy.AlphaMundi provides debt and equity financing to scalable social ventures in strategic sustainable human development sectors such as microfinance, affordable education, fair trade agriculture and renewable energy. AlphaMundi is currently investing out of its impact debt fund, SocialAlpha Investment Fund (SAIF) - Bastion, domiciled in Luxembourg. AlphaMundi also manages co-investments for SAIF-Bastion investors and third parties.AlphaMundi partners believe that Impact Investing is a new tool for development that can enhance more classical responsible investment approaches (which often lack impact measurability) and complement charitable solutions (which often lack financial viability). To this extent, the firm also contributes to the emergence of Impact Investing through education events, publications and industry associations. Impact investments are now being integrated by leading US and European banks, pension funds, foundations and family offices into traditional investment portfolios, as primarily decorrelated, illiquid and profitable financial assets.
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- Industry: Agriculture, Renewable Energy, Financial Services
- Stage:Debt Financing, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Kenya, Colombia, Ghana
Investor stats
- Total investments: 22
- Round size: Series A $10M–$12M; Series B $3.5M–$16M; Debt Financing $1.7M–$11M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Finaktiva — Finaktiva is the number one financial ally of Colombian entrepreneurs. We offer flexible and agile online financial solutions (loans in various forms, factoring and confirming) adjusted to the requirements of the companies. We also offer a range of non-financial tools through our platform to help SMEs´ grow. Our customers are typically businesseswith innovative business models, double-digit growth rates that have a positive impact in their communities.
- AgriCapital — AgriCapital is a financial service firm that provides store credit, productive credit, credit installments, and accompaniment services.
- Ampersand — Ampersand catalyzes and power mass-market electric mobility. By supplying the battery swap network and operating system the company makes sustainable mobility rapidly accessible and affordable for developing markets, to improve livelihoods and the environment. With over a million km already covered by e-motorcycles in Africa using our plug-and-playpowertrain and energy network.
Mercy Corps Ventures invests in and catalyzes venture-led solutions to increase the resilience of underserved individuals and communities. Founded in 2015 as the impact investing arm of global development agency, Mercy Corps, supports over 57 early-stage ventures to scale and raise over $515 million in follow-on capital. Their portfolio centersaround resilience-building solutions in adaptive agriculture and food systems, inclusive climate fintech, and climate-smart technologies so that those living in frontier markets can withstand disruption and plan for the future. Through capital and support, piloting new approaches, action-oriented insights, and rigorously managing impact, they catalyze the ecosystem toward smarter, more impactful investments.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Agriculture
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Kenya, United States, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 73
- Round size: Seed $330k–$5.3M; Pre-Seed $100k–$7M; Series A $2.5M–$35M
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Turaco — Turaco develops simplified insurance and credit solutions through mobile technology to solve the healthcare financing needs. Turaco has simplified insurance products and also provides on-demand health loans, allowing customers to get healthcare at affordable monthly premiums.
- Meridia — De-risk the sourcing, procurement, trading & compliance of commodities under the EUDR.
- ReForest Latam — ReForest Latam is an biotech company restoring ecosystems and creating forests to fight climate change.
AgDevCo is a social impact investor and agribusiness project developer, incorporated as a non-for-profit distribution, limited companyin.
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- Industry: Farming, Agriculture, AgTech
- Stage:Debt Financing, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Kenya, Ethiopia, Mauritius
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Debt Financing $15k–$10M
- Lead/follow: 87% lead, 13% follow
Portfolio highlights
- EthioChicken — EthioChicken is a poultry producing companies in East Africa in which the operative companies are AGP Poultry PLC (AGP), Mekelle Farms Ltd (MKF) and Andasa Poultry PLC.
- Planting Naturals — Planting Naturals is a group of companies focused to the long-term production of organic products. Planting Naturals was founded by Kevin Godlington.
- Dekel Agri-Vision — Dekel Agri-Vision which is engaged in developing and cultivating palm oil plantations in Cote d'lvoire.
FMO is a financial investment firm that specializes in financing businesses and projects FMO invests across the agribusiness value chain to enhance food security, support sustainability and promoting inclusive development.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Finance, Renewable Energy
- Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Series B
- Geography: India, Kenya, The Netherlands
Investor stats
- Total investments: 194
- Round size: Series B $4.5M–$46M; Post-IPO Debt $25M–$420M; Debt Financing $5M–$195M
- Lead/follow: 55% lead, 45% follow
Portfolio highlights
- SolarSaver — We provide customised rooftop solar PV solutions to corporate, industrial customers in Namibia & SA through its proprietary zero-capital financing model.
- Coris Holding — Coris Holding is a financial institution that was established with the motive to provide support to SMEs and SMIs.
- Yednist' Group — Yednist’ Group is one of the largest agri-processing holdings in Ukraine operating in the following segments: production of bulk feed, packaged feed, premixes and concentrates; veterinary drugs distribution; pet goods distribution. Yednist’ Group operates five production facilities with a total annual capacity of 600 thousand tonnes, including 30thousand tonnes of premixes and concentrates.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Information Technology, AgTech
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, South Africa, Ghana
Investor stats
- Total investments: 24
- Round size: Seed $100k–$2.6M; Pre-Seed $80k–$1.8M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Forti Foods — The mission of Forti Foods is to enhance communities and change lives beyond the plate by fostering resilience and dignity via sustainable food innovation.
- Startbutton — Startbutton Africa is a Merchant of Record (digital commerce infrastructure platform) that helps businesses expand across African markets by simplifying payments, compliance, and collections
- Happy Pay — Happy Pay is a credit scoring system developing company. The company integrates an autonomous artificial intelligence technology system with the merchant's platform to increase their average basket size and customer conversion metrics, providing users with buy now, and pay later services.
For the many, not just the few. For good.
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- Industry: Agriculture, Internet, Clean Energy
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 48
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- BasiGo — BasiGo is an early-stage e-mobility start-up looking to revolutionize the public transportation sector by providing matatu owners with a cost-effective electric alternative to diesel buses.
- Turaco — Turaco develops simplified insurance and credit solutions through mobile technology to solve the healthcare financing needs. Turaco has simplified insurance products and also provides on-demand health loans, allowing customers to get healthcare at affordable monthly premiums.
- MoKo Home + Living — MoKo Home is Kenya's one-stop furniture company specializing in comfort & smiles, having served over 10000 smiley homes to date. Will yours be next?
VestedWorld is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in emerging markets companies that have the potential to generate competitive financial returns while contributing towards the growth and development of the markets in which they are located. The firm supports these businesses through the infusion of capital, active involvement incorporate governance, and by providing direct strategic and operational assistance.
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- Industry: Agriculture, E-Commerce, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana
Investor stats
- Total investments: 24
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- EMTECH — EMTECH provides solutions for Digital Currency regulatory compliance, development and management to help Central Banks and FinTechs build, run and manage modern financial systems.
- Terragon Group — Terragon is a leading Data and Marketing Technology company that uses data and analytics to help companies focused in Africa, intelligently connect at scale to their customers. We use an aggregation of online and offline data, and predictive scoring to help brands, marketing agencies and platforms accurately target people across channels anddevices. Headquartered in Lagos; Nigeria, we also have a presence in Kenya, South Africa, Ghana and India.
- Complete Farmer — We are providing cutting-edge technological farming protocols and innovations with a unique business model and logistics that are revolutionizing...
The University Technology Fund specifically focusses on commercialising technology, intellectual property, and research - Visit Us!
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- Industry: Biotechnology, AgTech, Medical
- Stage:Seed, Grant
- Geography: South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 20
- Round size: Seed $484k–$5M; Grant $467k–$473k
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Immobazyme — Immobazyme provides pioneering the biotechnology industry. Using innovative technologies, along with an environmentally responsible outlook.the company aims to develop an analytical laboratory platform as well as serve the industrial sector through the production of high-value products by organic synthesis and environmental remediationtechnologies.
- Happy Pay — Happy Pay is a credit scoring system developing company. The company integrates an autonomous artificial intelligence technology system with the merchant's platform to increase their average basket size and customer conversion metrics, providing users with buy now, and pay later services.
- MariHealth Solutions (RF) (PTY) LTD — Proteomics-powered analytics for aquaculture. We quantify 3,000+ proteins per sample to deliver deep biological insights for fish health, nutrition, and farming.
Finnfund is a Finnish development finance company that provides long-term risk capital for private projects in developing countries. Apart from co-investing with Finnish companies they can finance ventures that use Finnish technology, cooperate with Finnish partners on a long-term basis or generate major environmental or social benefits.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Energy
- Stage:Debt Financing, Series B
- Geography: Kenya, India, South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 43
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Access Bank — Access Bank provides banking products and services to individual and business customers in Ghana. It offers standard savings and current, access advantage, solo, and premier accounts. The company also provides online banking services that include ATM, online access, and point-of-sale terminal services; and bills payment and Western Union moneytransfer services.
- Ipak Yuli Bank — Kredir, Karta, Visa virtual, Omonat, Valyuta kurslari, Avtokredir, Pul o`tkazmalari
- Kentegra Biotechnology Holdings LLC — Kentegra Biotechnology Holdings is a leading U.S-Kenyan company that supports a Kenyan-based biopesticide processing business that aggregates, extracts, and refines pale refine extract (PRE) from the pyrethrum flower, and sells the PRE to formulators across the world. Kentegra is committed to improving farmer’s livelihoods by investing in thecommunities where we are working to help farmers and their families have a more stable income and better quality of life.Grants: Norad 2021, AgriFi 2020, USAID 2020, USAID 2019, DEG 2020, DEG 2019
Hesham Zreik is the CEO of FasterCapital. He previously worked at DreamApps as a Project Manager. Hesham attended the University of Westminster.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 888
- Round size: Seed $50k–$2.1M; Pre-Seed $12k–$1M; Series A $170k–$5M
- Lead/follow: 53% lead, 47% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Book Your Own — Book Your Own is building an integrated travel ecosystem designed to unify India’s fragmented travel market.
- UrbanFarmers — UrbanFarmers is a platform that connects city dwellers with local urban farms and community gardens.
- Excel And Impact Agro — Excel And Impact Agro aims to tackle the chronic shortage of vegetable production in Côte d'Ivoire.
AgFunder is a global venture capital firm backing deeptech platforms across AI, biotech, robotics, manufacturing, climate, and materials.
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- Industry: Agriculture, AgTech, Biotechnology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 156
- Round size: Seed $700k–$9M; Pre-Seed $100k–$1.1M; Series A $4.4M–$28M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $60M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Scindo — Creating a novel biological process to turn low-value plastic landfill waste into high-value molecules.
- Atomo Coffee — Atomo Coffee is a developer of molecular coffee. Atomo has reverse-engineered the coffee bean to create a smooth cup of coffee, made of naturally derived ingredients, and more sustainable than current commercial coffee.
- Resurrect Bio — Resurrect Bio is a disease resistance trait discovery company. Using AI and our high-throughput in planta screening platform we provide traits for breeders.
1776 Ventures is a global seed fund investing in companies in the following sectors: education, energy, smart cities, transportation, food/agriculture, fintech, and healthcare.
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- Industry: Education, EdTech, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
- Geography: United States, Kenya, Brazil
Investor stats
- Total investments: 97
- Round size: Seed $750k–$4M; Series A $2.2M–$23M; Convertible Note $500k–$2M
- Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019
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- Swiftly — Harness your public transit data with Swiftly's urban mobility solutions to make your city's mass transportation move more efficiently.
- HopSkipDrive — Arranging safe, dependable transportation or children ages 6+ with qualified caregivers
- Clarametyx Biosciences — Clarametyx Biosciences is a late preclinical stage biotechnology company developing targeted, immune-enabling biologic therapies to counter persistent infections associated with biofilms.
Future Africa is a collective of mission-driven founders and funders building unicorns to solve Africa’s biggest challenges. They are build a future where purpose and prosperity are within everyone’s reach.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 91
- Round size: Seed $500k–$4M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3.7M; Series A $7M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
Portfolio highlights
- STEM Cafe — STEMCafe by RVRB is a fun out of school learning centre for kids
- Juicyway — The new shape of money? Fluid. Access global currencies with Juicyway. Buy, sell, hold, and pay globally using our fast APIs, web, or mobile apps. Download now.
- Lori Systems — Lori Systems is revolutionizing African logistics through innovative technology solutions. We connect shippers, transporters, and drivers to create efficient, reliable, and transparent supply chains across Africa.
Opes-Lcef is an impact investor that provides catalytic capital to early-stage social enterprises in emerging markets.
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- Industry: Energy, Social Entrepreneurship, Renewable Energy
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Kenya, India, Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 18
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Ecodudu — Ecodudu is a waste-to-value company. It uses a proprietary innovation to recycle organic waste into high-protein animal feed and organic fertilizer using the black soldier fly. It harnesses insects (nature’s recycling agents) to address global issues which include waste management, demand for protein, and environmental conservation.
- MunyaxEco — Munyax ECO is an East African solar energy company that is dedicated to providing innovative renewable energy solutions while promoting gender equality. Discover how our sustainable practices and inclusive approach are driving positive change in the industry and beyond.
- WidEnergy Africa — Widenergy Africa Ltd , is a women – led company, registered in Zambia, dedicated in the last miles distribution of clean energy solutions. We are the official distributor of Little sun solar products in Zambia (Solar lamps, Solar phone chargers), and will start soon with the distribution of clean cook stoves, with the objective to contribute inreduction of the Zambian deforestation rate, known as one of the highest in Africa.
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Browse database — It's Free!Harambeans are African innovators who have pledged to “work together as one” to build Africa’s future. Over the last decade, Harambeans has spawned a series of tech-enabled ventures such as Andela, Flutterwave, and Yoco, which have collectively generated over 3000 jobs, and raised over $700m from Google Ventures, CRE Ventures and Accel.
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- Industry: Information Technology, B2B, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, Morocco
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Seed $100k–$3.1M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Releaf Earth — We are industrializing food processing in Africa. We've led 1000+ smallholder farmers to provide food factories with >7.5 million kilograms of quality crops.
- ZSystems — ZSystems is a transformative super app designed to redefine B2B trade.
- MarketForce — MarketForce is a US, Kenya and Nigeria-based technology company that is building the SuperApp for Africa's 100 million merchants. MarketForce provides an all-inclusive B2B Commerce and Fintech platform (dubbed “RejaReja” – Swahili for ‘retail’) that empowers merchants in Africa to source, order and pay for inventory digitally and conveniently,access financing, collect digital payments and make extra money by reselling digital financial services such as airtime, electricity tokens and bill payments. Launched in 2018, MarketForce is a fast-growing YC backed company running an asset-light business model and is currently operational in 5 markets in Sub-Saharan Africa, with over 200,000 merchants and 50 consumer brands trading on the platform.
E3 Capital invests in growing, entrepreneurial businesses in Sub-Saharan Africa addressing the lack of electrification in the region with new technology and innovative business models. The fund is backed by Schneider Electric, the leading energy management multinational, and a number of public-sector investors.
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- Industry: Solar, Energy, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Kenya, United States, Mali
Investor stats
- Total investments: 41
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Plentify — Plentify connects home appliances with cheaper cleaner energy. It does this with an intelligent residential load management platform which matches demand with clean energy supply for 75% cheaper than batteries. Plentify combines advanced hardware, AI, and user-centric design to create smart home products that delight customers while alsostrengthening electricity systems.
- YoLa Fresh — At YoLaFresh, our mission is to revolutionize the fresh produce supply chain in Africa by leveraging technology and data to disrupt traditional distribution models. We strive to create a more efficient and transparent system that benefits all stakeholders, from farmers to retailers and consumers. Our vision is to create a world where access tofresh, high-quality produce is a universal right. We believe that by empowering farmers and retailers with innovative technology solutions, we will improve their livelihoods and make a positive impact on their communities.
- Hohm Energy — We make the process of going solar simple. Generate your free, custom solar proposal and get matched with an accredited solar provider in under 5 mins.
U.S. International Development Finance Corp is America’s development bank.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
- Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: India, Kenya, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 129
- Round size: Post-IPO Debt $5M–$468M; Debt Financing $6.7M–$390M; Venture - Series Unknown $1M–$1B
- Lead/follow: 77% lead, 23% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $300M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Kodak — A global technology company providing industry-leading products and services for commercial print, packaging, publishing, manufacturing and entertainment.
- Bayport Management — Bayport Management Limited, through its subsidiaries, provides retail financial services in the Republic of Mauritius and internationally.
- Harena Rare Earths — Harena Rare Earths is a mineral exploration company. It focuses on the Ampasindava Ionic Clay Rare Earths Project in Madagascar, which contains 606,000 tonnes of Total Rare Earth Oxides (TREO). The company explores and develops critical magnet metals like neodymium, praseodymium, dysprosium, and terbium for use in clean energy, electronics, anddefense sectors.
Shell Foundation is a philanthropic foundation that enables millions of people in Africa and Asia to increase their incomes with clean energy solutions.
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- Industry: Energy, Financial Services, Solar
- Stage:Grant, Seed, Debt Financing
- Geography: India, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 30
- Round size: Seed $790k–$1.7M; Grant $300k–$5.5M; Debt Financing $4.3M–$53M
- Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kofa — Kofa is an automotive company that utilizes the latest electric battery and motor technology. The company aims to develop an affordable, sustainable and customer driven electric network in transformative energy, transport, and climate change around the globe. Kofa was founded in Ghana and is headquartered in Accra.
- Sistema.bio — Sistema.bio is a biodigester with biogas appliances. High efficiency biodigesters transform organic waste into renewable biogas.
- Mufin Green Finance — Mufin Green Finance is an NBFC that specialises in the electric vehicle (EV) market.
GreenTec Capital Partners is Germany's premier investor into African start-ups and SMEs. GreenTec invests through its unique Results4Equity model, acting as a co-founding partner that is only compensated on business success.
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- Industry: Logistics, Information Technology, Retail
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, Morocco
Investor stats
- Total investments: 24
- Round size: Pre-Seed $50k–$1M
- Lead/follow: 83% lead, 17% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.2M in 2017
Portfolio highlights
- Ecodudu — Ecodudu is a waste-to-value company. It uses a proprietary innovation to recycle organic waste into high-protein animal feed and organic fertilizer using the black soldier fly. It harnesses insects (nature’s recycling agents) to address global issues which include waste management, demand for protein, and environmental conservation.
- Asilimia — Asilimia is a simple, fun mobile app for sending money through M-PESA quickly and without any transaction fees. Simply deposit money to your M-PESA, download Asilimia and send money for free to any other M-PESA account.
- ShapShap — ShapShap enhances delivery experience through its commission-based marketplace by assigning efficient orders to drivers to ensure their sustainability and scalability.
AECI is an explosives and specialty chemicals group domiciled in South Africa. Group businesses service the mining and manufacturing sectors both locally and internationally.The focus for growth is on Africa, South East Asia and South America. AECI’s businesses are characterised by application know-how and service delivery.They often operate inniche markets and are supported by leading technologies which are developed In-house or are sourced from international partners.AECI IS A SOUTH AFRICAN-BASED EXPLOSIVES AND SPECIALTY CHEMICALS COMPANY FOCUSED ON PROVIDING PRODUCTS AND SERVICES TO A BROAD SPECTRUM OF CUSTOMERS IN THE MINING, MANUFACTURING AND AGRICULTURAL SECTORS. IT HAS REGIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL BUSINESSES IN AFRICA, SOUTH EAST ASIA, THE USA AND AUSTRALIA. OTHER MARKETS OF INTEREST ARE IN LATIN AMERICA.
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- Industry: Chemical, AgTech, Farming
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Luxembourg, South Africa, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$1.4M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Khula! — Trade smarter, fund faster, and grow bigger with Khula.
- Origin Materials — Origin is a new kind of chemical company, focused on the future of materials science.
- Clariter — WE END THE LIFE OF PLASTIC. Our unique upcycling technology transforms plastic waste into 3 industrial ingredients; oils, waxes, and solvents that make 1000+ plastic-free end products.
Flat6Labs is the MENA region’s leading seed and early stage venture capital firm, currently running the most renowned startup programs in the region. Annually, Flat6Labs invests in more than 100 innovative and technology-driven startups enabling thousands of passionate entrepreneurs to achieve their daring ambitions and ultimately becoming theirinstitutional co-founders.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Information Technology, Retail
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Tunisia, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 62
- Round size: Seed $72k–$200k; Pre-Seed $62k–$100k
- Lead/follow: 60% lead, 40% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $10M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- WaterSec — WaterSec is a manufacturer of internet of things devices intended to communicate with gateways and send water usage data to application dashboards. They enable the customer to keep track of their water consumption. The monitoring of consumption was the solution to initiate the project. The water consumption and an optimized water-use efficiencyratio of all citizens and businesses.
- True Delta — True Delta is a data management and processing company. They are document recognition and data reconciliation processes. They offer data extraction from documents using ocr techniques, fast onboarding and data integration,and efficient data reconciliation with intelligent matching tools and less coding .
- Bako Motors SAS — Bako Motors SAS is a motor vehicle manufacturing company that develops solar electric vehicles. manufacturer of electric vehicles with the goal of creating long-term fixes for rural areas' transportation issues with regard to people, cargo, and machinery. The business makes electric cars as well as solutions for clean energy generation andstorage that are infinitely scalable, providing users with inexpensive and environmentally friendly e-mobility.
DEG, a Merkle Company is a full-service digital agency purpose-built to meet clients in the moment with data-driven marketing, commerce, and collaboration solutions.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
- Stage:Debt Financing, Grant
- Geography: India, South Africa, Ghana
Investor stats
- Total investments: 25
- Round size: Grant $100k–$800k; Debt Financing $6.5M–$33M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
Portfolio highlights
- SUN Energy — SUN Energy - Pengembang Proyek PLTS Terkemuka untuk Mendukung Perjalanan Keberlanjutan Perusahaan Anda.
- Turnkey Lender — Turnkey Lender is a Commercial lending software that can improve efficiency and reduce costs for financial services companies.
- Naked Insurance — The new way to cover your stuff: savings & convenience through AI. Naked Insurance offers online insurance for car, home and contents. Get a quote in 90 seconds!
Kaleo Ventures is an investment firm prefers to invest in early-stage companies across Africa.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Information Technology, FinTech
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 56
- Round size: Seed $25k–$2.7M; Pre-Seed $50k–$1M; Series A $100k–$15M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Cuoral — Proactive customer success and engagement. We help you reduce customer churn and increase retention and revenue.
- BankWise — Liga123 merupakan situs slot jackpot 888 slots paling gacor dan juga platform ini terdata paling banyak dicari hari ini karena memiliki akses yang mudah tanpa harus menggunakan Apk tambahan seperti VPN untuk memainkan game favorit.
- PowerLabs — PowerLabs is an energy and climate technology research and implementation company whose goal is to use intelligent energy to build a world where human output is boundless.
Goodwell Investments is a pioneering investment firm focused on financial inclusion, fintech and inclusive growth in sectors providing
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Agriculture
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 42
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- OmniRetail — Get visibility of complete value chain and optimize processes end to end with our network of networks platform.
- Good Nature Agro — Their priority is to generate lasting income with small-scale farmers. They build local community leaders into qualified Private Extension Agents (PEAs) who oversee and train farmers throughout the growing season. They support PEAs to provide frequent trainings and personalized recommendations on how their growers can make their field healthier andmore productive. PEAs promote improved farm practices and deliver a farmer-friendly loan of seeds and additional inputs. At harvest, Good Nature is a guaranteed market for the certified legume seed that their growers produce. Choosing to produce these high-value crops over traditional cash crops - maize and cotton - more than doubles their income.
- Agent Banking Company — Agent Banking Company provides digital technology solutions that enable access to banking services through bank-approved agents.
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Browse database — It's Free!Ceniarth is an impact-first, single-family office that focuses on investments benefitting underserved communities globally.
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- Industry: Agriculture, Financial Services, Social Entrepreneurship
- Stage:Debt Financing, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Kenya, United Kingdom, Ghana
Investor stats
- Total investments: 17
- Round size: Seed $1.7M–$1.7M; Series B $9M–$40M; Debt Financing $1.5M–$45M
- Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Salad Money — Salad provide small, affordable loans to meet your urgent needs. The first responsible lender, we offer fair lending to public & private sector employees
- Robust International — Robust International the company initially dealt in plantation logs. It has gradually and steadily expanded into the Agribusiness industry while concurrently reducing and eliminating its profile in the timber logs segment.
- INNOVA Health Supplies — The mission of INNOVA Health Supplies is to guarantee that everyone has access to safe and efficient solutions for their needs related to sexual and reproductive health.
Impact investor providing both social and financial returns
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- Industry: FinTech, Logistics, Agriculture
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, Ghana, Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Seed $3M–$7M; Series A $4.2M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Haul247 — Haul247 delivers structured haulage, warehouse management, and port logistics across Africa. 3310+ trucks, 70+ warehouses.
- Complete Farmer — Complete Farmer connects growers, buyers, and vendors with technology, support, and market access across Ghana and beyond.
- Hinckley Recycling — Hinckley Recycling is dedicated to the responsibility of being a good steward of the environment and will in all circumstances aspire to constantly emphasize awareness of the natural environment, whilst maintaining a level of proficiency which demonstrates bona fide leadership in all spheres of the environment.
We back founders building the future of Africa. We invest in companies that solve for non-consumption, plug infrastructural gaps and democratise prosperity in Africa, by eliminating the barriers for access and reducing the costs of delivering goods and services.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 160
- Round size: Seed $120k–$4.4M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Traction Apps — Traction apps provide businesses end to end tools they need to run and grow their businesses.
- MarketForce — MarketForce is a US, Kenya and Nigeria-based technology company that is building the SuperApp for Africa's 100 million merchants. MarketForce provides an all-inclusive B2B Commerce and Fintech platform (dubbed “RejaReja” – Swahili for ‘retail’) that empowers merchants in Africa to source, order and pay for inventory digitally and conveniently,access financing, collect digital payments and make extra money by reselling digital financial services such as airtime, electricity tokens and bill payments. Launched in 2018, MarketForce is a fast-growing YC backed company running an asset-light business model and is currently operational in 5 markets in Sub-Saharan Africa, with over 200,000 merchants and 50 consumer brands trading on the platform.
- ThankUCash — ThankUCash is a technology company powering rewards and loyalty for African banks and businesses. ThankUCash helps merchants grow revenue by connecting them to customers within and outside of their locations while retaining acquired customers using a data analytics-powered reward system where customers earn cash rewards for every transaction madeboth offline and online.
Agri-Business Capital Fund (ABC Fund) is an investment Firm.
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- Industry: Agriculture, Financial Services, Farming
- Stage:Debt Financing, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Uganda, Nigeria, Côte d'Ivoire
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Round size: Debt Financing $257k–$3M; Venture - Series Unknown $854k–$1.2M
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Matale Hill Brothers — Matale Hill Brothers is a secondary processing and marketing of coffee from smallholder farmers and local markets.
- JKCC General Supplies — JKCC General Supplies is the producer and exporter of quality coffee.
- MiCreditoYa Microfinanciera — MICREDITOYA was established to offer financial solutions to a subset of microentrepreneurs who had limited access to the financial sector because of their socioeconomic and geographic circumstances.
Delta40 is the venture studio that invests in African female entrepreneurs involved in energy, agriculture and mobility sectors.
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- Industry: Agriculture, Solar, AgTech
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Kenya, Ghana, Uganda
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$2.3M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- SunFi — SunFi tech solution help people access solar energy with installation and payment plans.
- Farm to Feed — One third of all food is lost or wasted, enough to feed the number of hungry people twice worldwide. Food loss and waste contributes to 10% of greenhouse gases globally. We aggregate and repurpose imperfect and surplus produce to create a healthier planet.
- Lori Systems — Lori Systems is revolutionizing African logistics through innovative technology solutions. We connect shippers, transporters, and drivers to create efficient, reliable, and transparent supply chains across Africa.
Beta.Ventures supports Africa's leading tech entrepreneurs.We are a New York and Lagos based venture capital firm helping ambitious entrepreneurs build innovative products and services, with a focus on rapid revenue and profit growth. We are unique in our ability to help companies grow organically in Africa, while also scaling globally.Wework closely with talented founders and teams from product idea to product launch through to the next stage of company development with a goal to maximize success and minimize risk.Our partners, affiliates and mentors lead top technology companies locally and internationally and we encourage you to partner with us to take advantage of our experience building great products/services, negotiating partnerships and deals, leading teams, and raising money. With us, you will avoid mistakes we, and others, have made.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, B2B
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- Rayda — Infrastructure to acquire, manage, insure and dispose fixed assets for businesses globally.
- Voyance — KFF is the independent source for health policy research, polling, and journalism. Our mission is to serve as a nonpartisan source of information for policymakers, the media, the health policy community, and the public.
- Stacs — Stacs allows you to quickly pay for what you need without breaking the bank by dividing your largest bills into tiny bits.
The Raba Partnership, Raba Capital, Raba
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, South Africa, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 58
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$6M; Pre-Seed $635k–$6.5M; Series A $9.2M–$32M
- Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $60M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Thndr — Thndr is a financial services company that operates an app-based investment platform.It comes with 0% commission, no account minimum, access to market data, easy account setup, and funding processes. Users can also get access to the latest news, market data, and other educational tools. Seif Amr established the company in 2020 in Cairo, AlQahirah, Egypt.
- Ezeebit — Ezeebit is a payment solutions provider that enables African merchants to accept cryptocurrency payments both in-store and online. The platform processes transactions quickly and automatically converts the cryptocurrency into stablecoins to eliminate volatility risk. Funds are then settled into the merchant's local currency account, typicallySouth African Rand (ZAR), on the next business day. The company offers multi-currency support for popular cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum and maintains compliance with financial regulatory bodies.
- Letly — Letly is developing an AI‑driven platform for the rental property market that automates tasks related to managing rental listings and tenant interactions. It aims to use intelligent agents to handle tasks such as scheduling viewings, responding to inquiries, and optimizing property management workflows. The platform is currently in a waitlistphase, signaling ongoing development and private access only.
Creadev is an evergreen investment company believe that shareholders' timing should match with the entrepreneur's vision, up to an unlimited amount of time. Creadev invest in and support companies able to scale-up and become worldwide best players in their sector.
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- Industry: Health Care, Agriculture, Food and Beverage
- Stage:Series B, Series C
- Geography: France, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 53
- Round size: Series B $5.5M–$35M; Series C $10M–$55M
- Lead/follow: 60% lead, 40% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Nxtfood — Nxtfood is a specialist in vegetable alternatives to meat.
- InnovaFeed — InnovaFeed is a biotech company that produces a new source of protein from insect rearing (Hermetia illucens) for animal feed and aquaculture in particular.Their model is based on a unique technological expertise that allows us to place the insect at the heart of their agri-food system and restore it to its natural place in their ecosystem: thatof recycling nutrients to then feed fish, birds or small mammals.In the context of a fast-growing world population, InnovaFeed’s activity responds concretely and competitively to an increase in protein demand while contributing to the development of a more sustainable food system, in particular through the development of quality aquaculture.
- DAMAE Medical — Damae Medical is a Paris, France-based medtech company. It has developed a medical device capable of seeing biological tissues in depth, at a cellular level and in vivo. This innovative optical imaging technology will especially allow dermatologists to evaluate in a precise, efficient and rapid way malignancy of tumors by a simple contact with thesurface of the skin. DAMAE Medical’s mission is to put the great power of bio-photonics at the service of opening new opportunities in medical imaging and diagnosis.
VilCap Investments is an early-stage impact investing fund, backing companies addressing the most pressing social and environmental challenges.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Health Care, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, India, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 90
- Round size: Seed $50k–$2.5M; Series A $2M–$6M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- SatSure — Premium domain available for purchase
- Altro (fka Perch) — Perch Credit (also known as Perch), is a fin-tech mobile app that allows users to take common recurring expenses, such as their subscriptions & rent, and turn these into creditworthy data points. Perch is currrently live on iOS and plans to be on Android in the coming months.Perch recently graduated YC (S20) and closed 2.5M in their mostrecent round.
- Advocatia Solutions — Advocatia simplifies how uninsured patients identify financial assistance programs and enroll into coverage.
CoCapital provides dedicated Seed and Early Stage investment solutions for specialist Technology startups, prime Real Estate ventures as well as other alternative investment products.
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- Industry: Agriculture, Energy, Biomass Energy
- Stage:Series A, Series C
- Geography: Kenya, Mexico
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Series A $12M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Sistema.bio — Sistema.bio is a biodigester with biogas appliances. High efficiency biodigesters transform organic waste into renewable biogas.
- Sistema Biobolsa — Sistema.bio is a biodigester with biogas appliances. High efficiency biodigesters transform organic waste into renewable biogas.
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- Industry: Agriculture, B2B, Farming
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Side — Side is an e-commerce distribution channel that leverages the power of “community” or “group buying” to provide goods to end customers more cheaply.
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- Powerstove Energy — Powerstove Energy, which uses advanced technology to deliver a superior smokeless, IoT-enabled cookstove that generates electricity.
Empower to build. The story of Cox Enterprises is one of hard work, respect for employees, entrepreneurship and making bold decisions.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Series C, Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Italy, Belgium
Investor stats
- Total investments: 76
- Round size: Seed $100k–$3.6M; Series A $4.3M–$25M; Series C $20M–$100M
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Hermeus — Building the world's fastest aircraft.
- Crisp — Crisp connects data between retailers, distributors, and brands to power real-time insights across the supply chain.
- Bending Spoons — Bending Spoons is a fast-growing tech company focused on building and marketing mobile applications. Despite being such a young company, we've already achieved notable results, with tens of millions of downloads of our apps, and millions of users active every month. Our goal? Becoming the #1 app developer and publisher in the world. And ourambitions don't end there!We invest immensely in our team, and we couldn't be more proud of each other. We are a group of extremely young, talented, and ambitious software engineers, data scientists, and graphic designers, with among our ranks entrepreneurs that raised money from prestigious VCs, ex-CERN, ex-Google, and ex-McKinsey. We work from our amazing headquarters in Milan, but also support remote work.We're always on the lookout for people that want to be part of our über-challenging journey to build one of the greatest tech companies in the world. If that sounds exciting to you, don't hesitate to apply at http://bendingspoons.com/careers.html.
Kiva is the world's first online lending platform. For as little as $25 you can lend to an entrepreneur around the world. Learn more here.
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- Industry: Social Entrepreneurship, Agriculture, Energy
- Stage:Debt Financing, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Ghana, Kenya, Uganda
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- I2B — At I2B, we specialize in providing versatile no-code and AI services to streamline creation, automation, and scaling for businesses and organizations of all sizes. Our mission is to make advanced technology accessible, efficient, and scalable.
- Farmerline — The Farmerline vision is to see an Africa where Agriculture NGO’s are not a functioning force in the market. Farmerline provides paid services that allow farmers to have the information and access they need to employ an entrepreneurial method of farming. Input dealers and traders pay for more efficient communication channels to farmers andfarmers pay for information packages and services. In this vision, more food is produce, more food gets to market, and GDP from cash crop export soars.
- Altech Group — Altech Group aims at expanding access to clean, renewable, and affordable energy both for poor-grid and off-grid households.
Impact venture builders dedicated to supporting the people and ideas that turn challenges in energy, agriculture, mobility, and waste into de-carbonized solutions for emerging and frontier markets.
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- Industry: Energy, Agriculture, Renewable Energy
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
- Geography: Kenya, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 31
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- SunFi — SunFi tech solution help people access solar energy with installation and payment plans.
- Gateway.fm — GatewayFM is the first truly decentralized blockchain infra/node provider, with globally distributed, multichain infrastructure
- Open Access Energy — Open Access Energy provides energy management software.
EcoEnterprises Fund offers tailored growth capital and strategic guidance to innovative impact businesses in order to scale and optimize their financial, environmental and social performance. For nearly 20 years, we have successfully proven our unique approach, managing two funds that have financed over 30 companies across 11 countries. Our 3rdfund, EcoEnterprises Partners III, LP, was launched in May 2018, building on our track record of delivering portfolio results while generating fair and sustainable livelihoods for local communities, and preserving our most important asset: Planet Earth.
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- Industry: Agriculture, Energy, Biomass Energy
- Stage:Series A, Series C
- Geography: Kenya, Mexico
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Nuu — Nuu is a food-based company that makes old-fashioned food with future generations in mind. Nuu is not to make the best products in the world, but the best products for the world.
- Sistema.bio — Sistema.bio is a biodigester with biogas appliances. High efficiency biodigesters transform organic waste into renewable biogas.
- Sistema Biobolsa — Sistema.bio is a biodigester with biogas appliances. High efficiency biodigesters transform organic waste into renewable biogas.
A global investment banking, asset management and advisory firm focused on delivering value to our clients in emerging and frontier markets
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- Industry: Renewable Energy, Solar, Energy
- Stage:Debt Financing
- Geography: Kenya, France, Senegal
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Baobab+ — Baobab+ is a social business committed to providing access to energy and digital. We commercialize innovative products with financing solutions that meet the needs of local populations.
- Yellow — Yellow enables a distributed network of sales agents to serve rural households with life-changing products and services through a digital technology platform called Ofeefee.
- Decentral Energy — Apply for risk-free and fully financed solar energy solutions. Decentral develops, owns, and manages clean energy assets in South Africa.
Launch Africa is a leading Pan-African VC fund solving the significant funding gap in the Seed and pre-Series A investment landscape in Africa
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 154
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Affinity — Join over 60,000 who trust the Affinity mobile app to manage your personal banking needs and qualify for an Affinity Instant Loan
- ToumAI Analytics — ToumAI Analytics is a software development company providing voice analytics, real-time analytics, and reporting services.
- PBR Life Sciences — A cloud-based real-world, non-observational pharmacy sell-out data
Investisseurs et Partenaires
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- Industry: Financial Services, Health Care, Food and Beverage
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: France, Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire
Investor stats
- Total investments: 103
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- iProcure — iProcure is a Nairobi-based start-up working to optimize the agriculture input supply chain in rural Kenya. iProcure’s web and mobile technology solution improves agriculture retailers’ operations. It lets them manage ordering based on inventory, point of sale activities, and client profiles along with geo-located purchasing patterns, real-timeagent performance and transaction analysis, and built-in mobile payments. As a result, retailers can better predict demand with business intelligence data, improve inventory management, and streamline distribution efficiency.
- Trackbit — Trackbit is a cryptocurrency exchange platform.
- Lapaire — Discover a wide range of high-quality & affordable eyeglasses at Lapaire Glasses. Book a free vision test with our professional optometrists to help you find your perfect pair of glasses to enhance your vision and style. Shops in 7 african countries: Benin, Ivory Coast, Togo, Burkina Faso, Mali, Kenya and Uganda.
Platform Investment Partners is an investment holding company focused on telecoms and technology.
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- Industry: Farming, FinTech, Agriculture
- Stage:Seed, Series B, Series A
- Geography: South Africa, Mauritius
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $2.6M–$5.7M; Series B $940k–$14M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Nile.ag — Nile.ag provides a platform for farmers to trade fresh produce with multiple producers across a number of African countries. Its digital solutions address inherent issues relating to food trading, quality verification, payments and traceability.
- Float — At Float, we believe in a world where credit works for shoppers and not against them.Float offers shoppers a smarter way to pay with their credit card – by splitting big purchases in up to 24 bite-size, interest-free monthly payments. It’s all the perks of credit cards, but none of the cons. No extra debt, no applications, no credit checks – andno catch. Just shopping joy on their terms.At the same time, Float merchants enjoy more than 80% bigger orders and radically improved conversions. They also get direct access to 5 million pre-approved shoppers. Float’s instalment offering is fully customisable, giving merchants more control and flexibility than ever before. It’s all made possible by Float’s innovative technology, built on what we call ‘head-in-the-sky, feet-on-the-ground’ thinking.By giving their shoppers the most flexible, frictionless and financially responsible way to shop, merchants are partnering with us to build a new economy - where buying BIG, means paying small.Welcome to Float.
- Yellow — Yellow enables a distributed network of sales agents to serve rural households with life-changing products and services through a digital technology platform called Ofeefee.
Janngo supports entrepreneurs who leverage technology to massify three impacts on the continent: 1/ Essential services & products for African consumers, 2/ Growth acceleration of African SMEs, and 3/ Job creation, in particular for women & youth
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- Industry: B2B, Logistics, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, Senegal, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Susu — Susu is a dynamic and innovative company that offers a wide range of health services for families in the African diaspora. Susu provides a complete offer on Preventive care, Medical treatments, Management of chronic diseases, and Authentic drugs.
- YoLa Fresh — At YoLaFresh, our mission is to revolutionize the fresh produce supply chain in Africa by leveraging technology and data to disrupt traditional distribution models. We strive to create a more efficient and transparent system that benefits all stakeholders, from farmers to retailers and consumers. Our vision is to create a world where access tofresh, high-quality produce is a universal right. We believe that by empowering farmers and retailers with innovative technology solutions, we will improve their livelihoods and make a positive impact on their communities.
- LAfricaMobile — WE HELP ENTREPRISES IN AFRICA TO BUILD STRONG LINKS WITH THEIR CUSTOMERS ON THE MOBILE PHONE.Thanks to customized solutions and products that take into account local context in Africa, LAfricaMobile makes communication between companies and their customers much easier. Our adaptability (Multi-operator, Multi-channel, Multi-country) allowscompanies to reach a wide target and gives end consumers instant, safe and secure access to the information they need.
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