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Top 15 CleanTech Startup Investors in Africa in September 2025

A list of 15 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Cleantech startups based in Africa. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Cleantech companies from Africa. We update this investor list every month.

Top 15 CleanTech Startup Investors in Africa in September 2025

Investor CleanTech Africa investments
Acumen 2
At One Ventures 2
Triodos Investment Management 1
GAIA Impact Fund 1
Mercy Corps Ventures 1
FMO 1
Equator 1
Shell Foundation 1
Delta40 1
Wangara Green Ventures 1
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office 1
Factor E 1
Autodesk Foundation 1
Cygnum Capital 1
Azur Innovation Fund 1
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Acumen VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 8 investments in the past 12 months
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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Investment focus
  • Agriculture, Health Care, Financial Services
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • United States, India, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
  • Wami Agro — Revolutionizing agriculture with cutting-edge digital solutions and sustainable practices.
  • 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.
  • BioMassters — Biomassers aim to replace charcoal production and charcoal cooking by providing modern, affordable, and low-carbon pellet fuel production and cooking solutions based on locally produced fuel from waste materials.
At One Ventures VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 11 investments in the past 12 months
At One Ventures finds, funds, and grows teams to catalyze a world where humanity is a net positive to nature.
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Investment focus
  • Energy, Sustainability, Manufacturing
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, United Kingdom, Australia
Portfolio highlights
  • Prefer — delicious. affordable. sustainable. bean-free coffee.
  • Provectus Algae — Provectus Algae leverages novel biomanufacturing processes to create sustainable stockfeeds, reducing methane emissions in ruminant livestock by up to 95%.
  • ChemFinity Technologies — ChemFinity Technologies is a chemical company that offers critical metal recovery, water purification, and gas separation services.
Triodos Investment Management VC Fund · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Hivos-Triodos Fund is an investment Fund.
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Investment focus
  • Agriculture, AgTech, Energy
  • Series A, Series C, Funding Round
  • India
Portfolio highlights
  • Easy Solar — Easy Solar distributes solar energy solutions, life improving products and financial services to the households and businesses in Sierra Leone.
  • Sistema.bio — Sistema.bio is a biodigester with biogas appliances. High efficiency biodigesters transform organic waste into renewable biogas.
  • GridBeyond Storage — GridBeyond Storage is a cooperative venture accelerating the adoption of behind-the-meter (BTM) energy storage devices.
GAIA Impact Fund VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Gaia Impact Fund is a venture capital firm specializing in renewable energy that builds long-term partnerships with startups operating in Sub-Saharan Africa and South-East Asia with a strong environmental and social focus. The firm supports businesses enabling sustainable and affordable energy provision to local communities. In regions where energymixes are highly carbonized, it supports technological innovations and business models enabling a cost-efficient diffusion of renewable energy on a large scale.
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Investment focus
  • Solar, Energy, Renewable Energy
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Singapore, South Korea, France
Portfolio highlights
  • Ecoligo — With ecoligo's sustainable investments - you benefit twice: protect the climate & receive attractive returns.
  • Agros — Agros exist to make farming economically viable and environmentally sustainable. The company provides farmers with carbon-reducing and income-increasing products and services, from input to market. Their unique ecosystem approach aggregates different low-carbon technologies, bundled with affordable finance, insurance, advisory and market access.Agros’ mission is to double the income of millions of farmers while reducing 100 megatons of annual carbon emissions.
  • 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 VC Fund · Portland, Oregon, United States
Our impact investing arm, Mercy Corps Ventures (MCV), invests in and fuels high-impact enterprises that increase the resilience of people and communities in frontier markets.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, AgTech
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Kenya, United States, Nigeria
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.
  • Pivo — Pivo is an all-in-one financial services platform for businesses in the supply chain. Set up accounts, access credit and manage your finances in one simple application.
  • Open Forest Protocol — With Open Forest Protocol (OFP), measure, report, verify and fund forestation projects with digital transparency
FMO VC Fund · The Hague, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands · 11 investments in the past 12 months
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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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, Finance, Renewable Energy
  • Debt Financing, Funding Round, Series B
  • India, Kenya, The Netherlands
Portfolio highlights
  • ACCIONA — At ACCIONA we offer sustainable solutions to the most urgent challenges facing the planet, such as global warming, energy needs and water shortages
  • SeA Bank — SeA Bank is a banking institution that provides services like preferential loans, tax service, online transaction solutions and more.
  • Sahyadri Farms — Sahyadri Farms is a farmer producer and agricultural company.
Equator VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya · 3 investments in the past 12 months
A venture capital firm investing in tech-enabled, early-stage ventures that are accelerating an equitable climate transition in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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Investment focus
  • Agriculture, Renewable Energy, Software
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • Kenya, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • SteamaCo — Discover SteamaCo: the advanced IoT smart metering platform revolutionising energy in emerging markets
  • Open Access Energy — South Africa's first multilateral wheeling software platform that automates energy transactions.
  • SHYFT Power Solutions — SHYFT builds industrial-grade IoT and integrated software to connect and intelligently manage distributed energy resources (DERs) in markets that struggle with resiliency. SHYFT is pioneering the development of integrated decentralized power systems in emerging markets like Nigeria, leapfrogging over traditional central infrastructure and enablingDERs to scale and support existing but unreliable grids.
Shell Foundation VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom
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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Investment focus
  • Energy, Solar, Agriculture
  • Grant, Seed, Funding Round
  • India, United States, Kenya
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.
Delta40 VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya
Delta40 is the venture studio that invests in African female entrepreneurs involved in energy, agriculture and mobility sectors.
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Investment focus
  • CleanTech, Manufacturing
  • Seed
  • Uganda
Portfolio highlights
  • PowerUP — Clean Tech For Everyone
Wangara Green Ventures VC Fund · Accra, Greater Accra, Ghana
Wangara Green Ventures is a climate-focused impact investment asset manager in Ghana, West Africa.
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Investment focus
  • Agriculture, AgTech, Energy
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • Ghana, Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
  • Wami Agro — Revolutionizing agriculture with cutting-edge digital solutions and sustainable practices.
  • 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.
  • Northlite Solar — NorthLite Solar is a renewable energy provider that delivers solar power solutions for both commercial and residential sectors.
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office VC Fund
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office is a government organization.
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Investment focus
  • CleanTech, Smart Cities, Electric Vehicle
  • Seed
  • Ghana
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.
  • SOLshare — Sustainable, affordable energy access for low income rural people is possible right now. Their decentralised peer-to-peer microgrids deliver solar power to households and businesses, and enable them to trade their (excess) electricity for profit.SOLshare has created a revolutionary new approach to bring affordable solar electricity toeveryone in Bangladesh and beyond through its peer-to-peer solar energy trading platforms based on distributed ledger technology. They believe the smart peer to peer grids they are building in Bangladesh can be the future for utilities globally. SOLshare pioneers a micro-energy transition model 3.0 by interconnecting solar home systems in peer-to-peer networks, monetizing excess solar energy along the value chain in real time with mobile money and empowering communities to earn a direct income from the sun.
Factor E VC Fund · Fort Collins, Colorado, United States
Factor[e] Ventures impact venture builders, dedicated to supporting the people and ideas that will turn the tables in the global battle for sustainable solutions to energy, agriculture, mobility, and waste challenges in emerging & frontier markets.Working across the globe, we bring disruptive innovation to the worlds’ fastest-growing markets.We serve as a conduit between philanthropic and commercial investors who are like-minded in their pursuit of de-carbonized development through market-driven forces.
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Investment focus
  • Energy, Renewable Energy, Agriculture
  • Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
  • United States, Kenya, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Terralima — Terralima is building a digital platform where we connect a trusted network of farmers in Africa to food producers and co-operatives who get high-quality, traceable agricultural commodities at a fair, transparent and stable market price. We are also bridging the funding gap for farmers and aggregators through embbeded fintech.Our online Tradingand Fintech platform delivers direct access to markets, on-demand credit, and efficient logistics for smallholder farmers; thus ensuring we can get food from where it is produced to where it's required, while eliminating food waste and maximising profits for farmers.
  • InspiraFarms — InspiraFarms provides on-and-near farm, grid & solar powered Cold Rooms & Packhouses for agribusinesses & distributors. Reduce energy costs & food losses!
  • Open Access Energy — Open Access Energy provides energy management software.
Autodesk Foundation VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States
Autodesk Foundation is the first foundation to focus investment exclusively on the people and organizations using design for impact.
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Investment focus
  • Energy, Environmental Engineering, Renewable Energy
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Kenya, Uganda
Portfolio highlights
  • M2X Energy — M2X Energy is a scalable methane conversion technology company that provides automated gas-to-product systems for methane conversion.
  • Last Energy — Last Energy is creating a new system for the development and delivery of small modular nuclear power plants. Combining proven reactor technology with a first-of-its-kind delivery model and fully modular plant design, Last Energy aims to decarbonize energy production and increase access to clean, affordable power.
  • Found Energy — Found Energy's aluminum-thermal power systems extract renewable energy from aluminum at double the energy density of diesel and at a competitive cost. Compact, modular, safe, and carbon-free, our technology makes industrial decarbonization practical.
Cygnum Capital VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom
Cygnum Capital is a leading Investment Banking and Asset Management firm serving frontier and emerging markets. Cygnum Capital is a leading investment banking and asset management firm, specialising in tailored and innovative financial solutions across frontier and emerging markets globally. With offices in London, Nairobi, Lagos, Dubai and Amsterdam, our team of 80 finance professionals bring together deep sectoral knowledge with a broad product offering across corporate finance, asset management and financial advisory services.
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Investment focus
  • Solar, Energy, Retail
  • Funding Round
  • Sierra Leone
Portfolio highlights
  • Easy Solar — Easy Solar distributes solar energy solutions, life improving products and financial services to the households and businesses in Sierra Leone.
Azur Innovation Fund VC Fund
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Investment focus
  • SaaS, FinTech, Finance
  • Seed
  • Morocco
Portfolio highlights
  • Agenz — Agenz was founded to deliver credible real estate market data that is updated in real time, allowing individuals to make faster and more informed real estate decisions at the right time.
  • Tookeez — Fill your life
  • Presta Freedom — PrestaFreedom is a platform that offers a variety of home maintenance services via monthly and weekly membership options. The cleaning subscription is carried out by a group of skilled technicians, and it is paid formally with a very inspiring career plan and benefits.
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