Top 10 Agriculture (agtech) VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Ethiopia in November 2024
A list of 10 VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Agriculture (agtech) startups based in Ethiopia. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Agriculture (agtech) companies from Ethiopia. We update this investor list every month.Top 10 Agriculture (agtech) VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Ethiopia in November 2024
Investor | Agriculture (agtech) Ethiopia investments |
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Finnfund | 2 |
Finnfund | 2 |
Novastar Ventures | 2 |
Novastar Ventures | 2 |
KFW DEG | 1 |
Norfund | 1 |
Norfund | 1 |
KFW DEG | 1 |
Oxfam’s Enterprise Development Programme | 1 |
Oxfam’s Enterprise Development Programme | 1 |
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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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Energy
- Debt Financing, Funding Round, Series B
- Kenya, India, South Africa
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
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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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Energy
- Debt Financing, Funding Round, Series B
- Kenya, India, South Africa
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
For the many, not just the few. For good.
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Investment focus
- Agriculture, Internet, Clean Energy
- Series A, Funding Round, Series B
- Kenya, Nigeria, United States
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?
For the many, not just the few. For good.
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Investment focus
- Agriculture, Internet, Clean Energy
- Series A, Funding Round, Series B
- Kenya, Nigeria, United States
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?
KFW DEG offers financing, advice and support to private sector enterprises operating in developing and emerging-market countries.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
- Debt Financing, Grant, Funding Round
- India, Kenya, United States
Portfolio highlights
- DALI Stores — DALI Stores operates a chain of grocery stores.
- Monkey Exchange — Monkey Exchange is an online corporate financial alternative to medium and small companies in Brazil focused on reducing cost of capital. We aim to provide financing, using receivables exchange to the supply chain of the multinational groups (Brazilians or not), by linking the suppliers to investors in a competitive environment.It's aGain-Gain situation: lower capital price for producing side and better returns for investors. And this is just the start.
- Georgia Global Utilities — GGU is a water utility and renewable energy holding company that distributes potable water, collects, and processes wastewater.The investments in infrastructure made by the water utility company considerably increase the quality of water supply and wastewater services provided to consumers, as well as contribute to operating efficiency.GGU's renewable energy division owns and runs 240 MW of renewable energy assets, including eight 219 MW hydropower facilities and one 21 MW wind power plant.it was headquartered in Tbilisi, Georgia.
Norfund is the Norwegian Investment Fund for developing countries with 24.9 bill. NOK in total commitments (2019).
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Investment focus
- Energy, Financial Services, Renewable Energy
- Funding Round, Private Equity, Debt Financing
- Kenya, South Africa, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Xurya — Xurya is a renewable energy platform in providing commercial and industrial rooftop owners access to solar lease product on one side. And investors access to a stable and safe investment in rooftop solar plants on the other side. Both are achieved by maintenance service which enables both parties peace of mind.
- Miniplast — Miniplast Limited is one of the leading manufacturers of industrial and household products in Ghana, with over 25 years of experience in the sector.
- 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.
Norfund is the Norwegian Investment Fund for developing countries with 24.9 bill. NOK in total commitments (2019).
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Investment focus
- Energy, Financial Services, Renewable Energy
- Funding Round, Private Equity, Debt Financing
- Kenya, South Africa, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- SAEL — SAEL is the brand for an end-to-end solution for agro-energy products and services. They have successfully forayed into procurement, processing, refining, warehousing, and distribution of rice, rice by-products, solvent extraction, and renewable energy solutions. They are into technological innovation, sustainable energy creation, conversion, andutilization, powering sustainable and scalable farming practices, and promoting and safeguarding the interests of producer-consumer interests. They have rice mills, and the main product is different varieties of rice. They also have biomass and solar-based power plants and are expanding solar and biomass power plants. They also have a warehouse for food storage.
- Xurya — Xurya is a renewable energy platform in providing commercial and industrial rooftop owners access to solar lease product on one side. And investors access to a stable and safe investment in rooftop solar plants on the other side. Both are achieved by maintenance service which enables both parties peace of mind.
- 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.
KFW DEG offers financing, advice and support to private sector enterprises operating in developing and emerging-market countries.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
- Debt Financing, Grant, Funding Round
- India, Kenya, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Monkey Exchange — Monkey Exchange is an online corporate financial alternative to medium and small companies in Brazil focused on reducing cost of capital. We aim to provide financing, using receivables exchange to the supply chain of the multinational groups (Brazilians or not), by linking the suppliers to investors in a competitive environment.It's aGain-Gain situation: lower capital price for producing side and better returns for investors. And this is just the start.
- Ronesans Holding — Ronesans Holding offers construction, real estate development, energy, industrial facilities and health infrastructure development services.
- Georgia Global Utilities — GGU is a water utility and renewable energy holding company that distributes potable water, collects, and processes wastewater.The investments in infrastructure made by the water utility company considerably increase the quality of water supply and wastewater services provided to consumers, as well as contribute to operating efficiency.GGU's renewable energy division owns and runs 240 MW of renewable energy assets, including eight 219 MW hydropower facilities and one 21 MW wind power plant.it was headquartered in Tbilisi, Georgia.
Oxfam’s Enterprise Development Programme (EDP) is an innovative model that provides support to entrepreneurs in some of the world’s poorest countries to help them create and build viable, sustainable businesses. The resulting jobs and associated opportunities provide benefits for both the employees and the wider communities around them, liftingsome of the world’s poorest families out of poverty.
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Investment focus
- Retail, Blockchain, E-Commerce
- Grant, Series A
- Tunisia, Ethiopia
Portfolio highlights
- Farm Trust — Farm Trust is an E-commerce platform for fruits and vegetables that provide traceability through blockchain.
- GreenPath Food — Greenpath Food is a worldwide food supplier of the highest quality organic, regeneratively-grown produce from small-scale East African Farms.
Oxfam’s Enterprise Development Programme (EDP) is an innovative model that provides support to entrepreneurs in some of the world’s poorest countries to help them create and build viable, sustainable businesses. The resulting jobs and associated opportunities provide benefits for both the employees and the wider communities around them, liftingsome of the world’s poorest families out of poverty.
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Investment focus
- Retail, Blockchain, E-Commerce
- Grant, Series A
- Tunisia, Ethiopia
Portfolio highlights
- Farm Trust — Farm Trust is an E-commerce platform for fruits and vegetables that provide traceability through blockchain.
- GreenPath Food — Greenpath Food is a worldwide food supplier of the highest quality organic, regeneratively-grown produce from small-scale East African Farms.
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