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Top 50 Climate Startup Investors in Kenya

Last updated: Apr 2024 A list of 50 angel investors and VC funds that invest in Climate startups based in Kenya. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Climate companies from Kenya. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Climate Startup Investors in Kenya

Investor	Climate Kenya investments
E3 Capital	9
Novastar Ventures	6
Electrification Financing Initiative	5
Kepple Africa Ventures	5
Aster	3
Lion’s Head Global Partners	3
Global Partnerships	3
DOB Equity	3
Acumen	3
Opes Impact Fund	2
Shell Foundation	2
SunFunder	2
GIIG Africa Fund	2
CoCapital	2
At One Ventures	2
ENGIE Rassembleurs d'Energies initiative	2
Mani Kapital	2
Triodos Investment Management	2
VilCap Investments	2
Alphamundi	2
EcoEnterprises Fund	2
AXA Investment Managers	2
DILA Capital	2
Better Ventures	2
Unruly Capital	1
Aster Capital	1
Norfund	1
VestedWorld	1
Ben Franklin Technology Partners	1
PanAfrican Investment Co.	1
Ambo Ventures	1
Lendahand	1
CDC Group	1
Endeavor Catalyst	1
Factor[e] Ventures	1
Nordic Development Fund	1
Gray Matters Capital	1
Playfair Capital	1
Blink	1
Anglo American	1
Acumen Resilient Agriculture Fund	1
Markus Ament	1
Khosla Impact	1
Partners Group	1
Chandaria Capital	1
Schneider Electric	1
Proparco	1
Électricité de France	1
Hooge Raedt Social Venture	1
Victoria Commercial Bank	1

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Energy Access Ventures 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.

Investment focus

Solar, Energy, Renewable Energy
Series A, Seed, Convertible Note
Kenya, United States, Ghana

Portfolio highlights

Cavex — Cavex provides Carbon credits made transparent and efficiency.
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.
Untapped Global — Untapped connects global investors, and foreign capital to opportunities in emerging markets. Delivering competitive returns, and measurable impact for global investors.

For the many, not just the few. For good.

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?

Impact investment in sustainable energy

Investment focus

Energy, Solar, Renewable Energy
Debt Financing, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Kenya, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

WeLight — WeLight deploys sustainable and accessible solutions to accelerate energy inclusion in rural areas of Africa.
Okra Solar — Okra Solar is an IoT technology solution that enables solar generating communities to share and utilize more energy. It is a plug-and-play smart grid technology that enables rapid electrification for last-mile communities. Using mobile payments, modular grid design, and remote monitoring, they provide utility companies with a low-cost, data-drivensolution to operate solar networks in hard to reach communities. They are on a mission to connect off-grid communities to the modern economy.Okra Solar was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Sydney, Australia.
Solarise Africa — Solarise Africa is a pan African energy leasing company for solar PV and other energy assets focusing on Commercial and Industrial (C&I) clients. Its business model is designed for scalability. Solarise Africa focuses on providing smart financing through close collaboration with a selected group of partners across solar and other renewableenergy technologies. For solar PV it is focusing on captive rooftop and ground mounted solar projects ranging from 100kW to 3MW. It is currently active in Kenya, looking to open in South Africa and has plans to expand into East, Southern and West Africa.

Kepple Africa Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt

Portfolio highlights

Chari — Chari is an e-commerce and fintech app for traditional retailers in French-Speaking Africa allowing them to order any consumer goods they sell and get delivered for free in less than 24 hours. Chari is also a financial services provider for these retailers, offering them microloans
Intmax — INTMAX has developed significant innovations in ZK implementation making it a unique Layer2 rollup network that offers low cost, security, tunable privacy, and above all, scalability.
Carry1st — Carry1st develops and publishes enriching mobile games and content apps for African consumers.

Aster is a Venture Capital firm with offices in 4 major innovation hubs: Paris, London, Tel Aviv and San Francisco. Since 2000, they have partnered with more than 60 teams of entrepreneurs that are transforming markets with disruptive offers and technologies. They are always open to exploring new ideas related to mobility, energy and industrysectors that they have been covering until now. They invest in all stages, with a preference for the early phase.They are more than investors and they intend to act as an ally for entrepreneurs by connecting them to a valuable ecosystem of experts, influencers and business leaders. From marketing to executive talent, their commitment to the growth of their portfolio companies as well as the entire venture ecosystem also involves the commitment of their dedicated Operations team, their innovation strategy consulting firm (Aster Fab) and a crowdfunding branch to further expand opportunities (Aster Crowd).Some of their success stories include Solairedirect (acquired by Engie in 2015), Digital Lumens (acquired by Osram in 2017) and Avantium (IPOed in 2017).

Investment focus

Software, Energy, Manufacturing
Series A, Funding Round, Series B
France, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Hadean — Hadean are a venture backed tech startup providing the most simple and secure platform for cloud native development. Intuitive and developer friendly, the Hadean Platform provides a friction free route to a cloud-native infrastructure. It lets you write applications once and deploy anywhere, taking care of setup, configuration, scaling, securityand more.Hadean have developed two flagship applications. Aether Engine provides distributed load balancing for agent-based simulations, while Muxer is a network model that utilises distributed edge networks. The result is spatial simulations of unparalleled size and complexity, where thousands of concurrent users can join and interact. Hadean have found traction in gaming, healthcare, virtual events and defence with industry leading companies such as Microsoft, Minecraft and CAE.
Twipes — Twipes aim to tackle the ever-growing issue of single-use items and their damaging effects on our environment. The biggest contributor being, plastic-filled wet wipes. When these products are flushed or thrown away, they leave behind micro-plastics as they slowly break down. These fragments contribute to the pollution in our oceans and ourselves.With Twipes we have created a simple solution to the ever growing micro-plastics problem. Truly flushable and biodegradable wipes. Made with wood pulp cellulose (zero plastic), Twipes will fully disintegrate in water in 3 hours and will completely biodegrade within 7 days. Compared to our closest competition which takes 180 days to break down.
EyeLights — EyeLights is a Head Up Display GPS. It allows motobikers to truly experience the ride by keeping their eyes on the road. Eyelights is the first universal motorcycle accessory that projects guidance, danger zones and traffic directly into your field of vision. A dangerous bend, a nearby stopper or speed over limitations, EyeLights warns you. Simple,uncluttered, they adapted the display for motorcycle riding.The EyeLights product installs in less than 5 minutes on your full-face, convertible or jet helmet. Their compact optical technology allows you to view your GPS more than 2 meters away while enjoying audio functions for more than 8 hours. The product is compatible with sun visors, insensitive to rain or fog and weighs less than 100g.

A global investment banking, asset management and advisory firm focused on delivering value to our clients in emerging and frontier markets

Investment focus

Renewable Energy, Solar, Energy
Debt Financing, Funding Round
Kenya, France, Senegal

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.

Global Partnerships is an impact-first investor dedicated to expanding opportunity for people living in poverty. For 25 years GP has invested in sustainable solutions that help impoverished people increase their incomes and improve their lives, with core investments in livelihoods, education, health, energy, housing, and sanitation. Since inceptionGP has deployed $356.5 million in impact investments to 135 partners, bringing meaningful impact to over 14.7 million lives in 21 countries.What is Impact-First Investing?Impact-first investing means investing in a way that seeks the highest possible social impact, while seeking to preserve capital with a modest financial return for investors.Impact-first investing is distinctly different from return-first investing, which seeks the highest possible financial return (often without consideration of social or environmental consequences), and from philanthropy, which seeks the highest social impact without any preservation of capital.We believe that impact-first investing has an essential role to play in advancing sustainable solutions to poverty for millions of people worldwide.What Does Impact Mean to Global Partnerships?All of our impact-first investing is aimed at empowering poor and marginalized people to earn a living, provide the basic necessities of life for their families, and improve their lives. We seek social impact on four dimensions:Broadening Opportunity – We have a holistic understanding of poverty, so we invest across all facets of poverty: livelihoods, education, energy, health, housing, sanitation, and water.Deepening Inclusion – We invest at the edge of the market, emphasizing approaches that include people marginalized by depth of poverty, gender, and/or geography, including women and the rural poor.Serving Millions – We believe that every person matters, and want to expand opportunity for as many people as possible. We therefore focus on sustainable approaches that can, over time, scale to serve millions of people living in poverty.Improving Lives – We only invest where evidence convinces us that people living in poverty value the opportunity being delivered and are empowered by it – economically or otherwise – to improve their lives.

Investment focus

Clean Energy, Renewable Energy, Solar
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Kenya, United States

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.
Eneza Education — Eneza Education, a.k.a. MPrep, was founded in 2011 by Kenyan teachers and educators serious about making technology useful for their students. From the rural areas of Nyanza to Wajir Town and the Mombasa Coast, Kenyan teachers united to create the content of our initial Class 7 and Class 8 study tool. We wanted a tool that combined the best ofgreat teaching practices: scaffolded assessments, direct feedback, and high engagement. And we wanted to make sure ALL kids had access to our system. What better way to start than with a simple SMS-based system?
Sun King — Sun King solar lanterns and home systems enables underserved communities to achieve more with inclusive distribution and flexible financing options.

DOB Equity is a private equity firm specializing in growth capital and buy-and-build strategies in small and medium companies.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Farming, Health Care
Private Equity, Funding Round, Seed
Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania

Portfolio highlights

Kwara — Kwara turns analog credit unions into modern digital banks.
Power — Putting individuals on the path towards financial health
Eden Care Medical — Eden Care Medical is a mobile application that provides medical and health insurance as well as financial services.

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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Health Care, Agriculture
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, India, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

AquaRech — AquaRech includes Farm management that enhances fish production, enables access to the market & promotes equal trade.
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.
ReCircle — They are a Waste Management service that provides a free doorstep pick-up service for offices, institutions, households and schools to dispose their recyclable waste (Raddi). They further supply this recycled waste to authorized recycling centres, ensuring safety and sustainability.

Opes-Lcef is an impact investor that provides catalytic capital to early-stage social enterprises in emerging markets.

Investment focus

Energy, Social Entrepreneurship, Renewable Energy
Seed, Series A
Kenya, India, Italy

Portfolio highlights

Mygrants — Mygrants is the most widely used educational online platform for refugees and asylum seekers in Italy and Europe.
MunyaxEco — MunyaxEco is working in solar energy as well as energy efficiency sectors by selling and installing environmentally friendly and high-quality equipment.
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.

Shell Foundation is an independent charity established by the Shell Group in 2000 to create and scale new solutions to global development challenges. We apply business thinking to major social and environmental issues linked to the energy sector – and seek to leverage the skills and networks of Shell where possible to deliver greater developmentimpact.Over the years, learning from both success and failure, we have established a new enterprise-based model to deliver significant and lasting social and environmental outcomes. We now deploy a blend of financial and non-financial resources to accelerate social innovation and harness private markets to deliver public benefit at scale.

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.
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.
Mufin Green Finance — Mufin Green Finance is an NBFC that specialises in the electric vehicle (EV) market.

SunFunder is a specialist financing company dedicated to pioneering and scaling clean energy and climate investments in emerging markets.

Investment focus

Solar, Energy, Renewable Energy
Debt Financing, Series C
The Netherlands, Kenya, Mauritius

Portfolio highlights

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.
d.light — Founded in 2007 as a for-profit social enterprise, d.light manufactures and distributes award-winning solar lighting and power products designed to serve the more than 2 billion people globally without access to reliable electricity. Through five distribution hubs in East Africa, West Africa, India, Southeast Asia, and the United States, d.lighthas impacted over 65 million lives with its products. d.light is dedicated to providing the most reliable, affordable, and accessible solar lighting and power systems for the developing world, with the goal of reaching 100 million people by 2020. For more information, visit www.dlight.com.
Zola Electric — ZOLA Electric designs renewable energy solutions based on the latest in solar, battery and power electronics technology. Adaptable to energy need and income, ZOLA Electric’s solar systems can be bought over time using PAYGo micro-finance leasing and mobile money payments. ZOLA Electric powers more than 180,000 homes and businesses across Tanzania,Rwanda, Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana. Investors include Tesla, Vulcan Capital, DBL Partners, Helios Investment Partners, EDF, Total and GE Ventures. ZOLA Electric is a recipient of the UN Momentum for Change Award, the Zayed Future Energy Prize and is a member of the Global Cleantech 100.

GIIG invest in seed, growth and late stage companies.

Investment focus

Environmental Engineering, Health Care, Ride Sharing
Seed
Kenya, Nigeria, United States

Portfolio highlights

BioBuu — BioBuu focuses on the development of manufacturing capacity and environmentally sustainable production.
Treepz — Treepz Inc. (formerly Plentywaka) is building the largest shared mobility platform in West Africa with over 500,000 satisfied customers.
EnvisionIt Deep AI — Envisionit Deep AI is an innovative medical technology company that utilizes AI to streamline and improve medical imaging diagnosis for radiologists.

CoCapital provides dedicated Seed and Early Stage investment solutions for specialist Technology startups, prime Real Estate ventures as well as other alternative investment products.

Investment focus

Agriculture, Energy, Biomass Energy
Series A, Series C
Kenya, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Sistema.bio — The Biodigester solution Sistema.bio is a biodigester with biogas appliances. High efficiency biodigesters transform organic waste into renewable biogas.
Sistema Biobolsa — The Biodigester solution Sistema.bio is a biodigester with biogas appliances. High efficiency biodigesters transform organic waste into renewable biogas.

At One Ventures finds, funds, and grows teams to catalyze a world where humanity is a net positive to nature.

Investment focus

Sustainability, Energy, Agriculture
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Roam — The Standard for Electric Mobility in Africa.
Transmutex SA — Producing clean energy from nuclear waste is the challenge Transmutex is taking on. Based on experimentaly validated science from CERN in Geneva.
Orbillion Bio — At Orbillion Bio, we bring healthy, ethical and flavorful meats with a complete farm-to-table story to the modern consumer.

ENGIE Rassembleurs d'Energies initiative is the Group provides technical and financial support.

Investment focus

Solar, Agriculture, Energy
Series A, Seed, Series C
France, India, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Enogrid — Enogrid provides energy monitoring solutions. It also allows users to measure and optimize the performance of building operations, visualize energy flows, customize distribution coefficients, monitor self-energy consumption, access transaction documents, and more.
Frontier Markets — Frontier Markets connects India’s rural customers to products and services at their doorstep. 551 million rural customers lack access to financial, productive, durable products and services that can economically improve their lives. This is because product companies do not have deep enough infrastructure to access to rural customers; denyingtheir ability to drive innovative solutions locally to their target rural customer. Frontier Markets drives the best selection of life-improving products and services to rural customers, while creating sustainable livelihoods for rural women. In partnership with existing SHG networks, we onboarded 4,000 women to become our digitally savvy women entrepreneurs called Saral Jeevan Sahelis. Our Sahelis use our assisted e-commerce and delivery platform, called the Meri Saheli app, to collect real-time data on customer, coordinate orders, and deliveries to earning an average of 65,000/- a year without having to leave their village, becoming local leaders, and decision-makers at home. Our local distribution hubs has a team of delivery field staff who ensure doorstep delivery daily, as well as coordinate after-sales service for product companies. This combination of high-tech and local teams, and product partnerships, has helped 700,000 rural customers access 1 million+ quality solutions in clean energy, agri, and homecare. The Meri-Saheli app was designed for rural customers and by our Sahelis, ensuring it’s easy to use. Bharat India’s digitization thrives, but to reach last-mile rural customers, an assisted solution allows for quick adoption, deep learnings, and optimal services to be delivered. Since COVID, we have partnered with 3 fintech companies to launch doorstep atm services, online payments, and financial services and leading FMCG companies to drive local essential goods doorstep deliveries. Achieving 97% conversion rates, and onboarding 2,000 new customers monthly. We have launched our 2.0 version for scale, adding AI capabilities to help Sahelis train to use the Meri Saheli app on their own. This will be a gamechanger, allowing us to partner with multiple SHG organizations at once who want to start the Saral Jeevan Initiative in their fields on their own. Our team has over 60 years of experience working in rural India in sectors like microfinance, telecom, and distribution allowing us to crack the rural last-mile challenge profitably. We envision becoming India’s largest high-tech, high touch platform delivering solutions to Bharat India connecting 100 million rural customers with 1 million digitally savvy women entrepreneurs.
Qarnot — Qarnot provides economical and ecological cloud HPC on a disruptive platform. Qarnot designs and develops Q.rad, a computing heater embedding microprocessors as a heat source and connected to the Internet. The company has built three generations of computing heaters with multiple CPU's and sold it to construction companies looking for heatersfor new buildings. Qarnot offers affordable HPC to avoid data center costs related to infrastructure, maintenance, and cooling.Qarnot was founded on 2010 and is headquartered in Montrouge, France.

Mani Kapital is an investment management firm.

Investment focus

Communities, Clean Energy, Renewable Energy
Funding Round
Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Sanergy — The Sanergy Collaborative is a partnership of 3 independent companies, who are united by a common vision. Explore more about our vision here!

Triodos is a global pioneer of sustainable banking. Their mission is to make money work for positive social, environmental and cultural change.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Energy
Debt Financing, Funding Round, Series A
India, Germany, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

KoRo — KoRo is a fast-growing FoodTech startup - one of the leading brands for healthy, long-lasting and sustainable food.
La Bolsa Social — La Bolsa Social is an equity crowdfunding platform that aims at funding the growth of companies with a positive social and environmental impact. The platform is focused on the investors who seek a comprehensive profitability in the economic, social, and environmental sectors. It connects impact investors with companies that improve society and theenvironment. Its objective is to improve the financing of companies with growth potential that has a positive impact on society and the environment and promoting ethical finance. Founded in 2015, La Bolsa Social is authorized in Spain by the CNMV.
Bridge Taxi Finance — Bridge Taxi Finance offers bridge parts, accessories, vehicle management, bridge services, and panel services.

VilCap Investments is an early-stage impact investing fund, backing companies addressing the most pressing social and environmental challenges.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Health Care, FinTech
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, India, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Vexi — Vexi issues, operates and processes credit cards for young underbanked population on a mission to make credit accessible, through a 100% digital onboarding and unparalleled customer experience
SatSure — SatSure, they are on a mission to evolve crop insurance products and provide accurate risk assessment of crop yield by integrating climatic variables with geospatial and economic datasets.
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.

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.

Investment focus

Agriculture, Solar, Energy
Series A, Series B, Debt Financing
Kenya, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

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.
Mr. Green Africa — Mr. Green Africa - Recycling company that sells pre-processed recycling materials with a traceable social and environmental impact - fairly traded plastic.
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?

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.

Investment focus

Agriculture, Energy, Biomass Energy
Series A, Series C
Kenya, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Sistema.bio — The Biodigester solution Sistema.bio is a biodigester with biogas appliances. High efficiency biodigesters transform organic waste into renewable biogas.
Sistema Biobolsa — The Biodigester solution Sistema.bio is a biodigester with biogas appliances. High efficiency biodigesters transform organic waste into renewable biogas.

They are an active, long-term, global, multi-asset investor focused on enabling more people to harness the power of investing to meet their financial goals.As the investment partner of AXA Group, the A-rated protection and wealth management provider, we draw on a longstanding heritage of creating solutions to manage real-life risks andchallenges.At the same time, our investment professionals are committed to finding the most efficient and sustainable sources of return across world markets, from equities to fixed income, real assets to other alternative asset classes.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
Series B, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Kenya, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Mombak — Mombak is a carbon removal company that focuses on the reforestation of the Amazon. The company's team combines experts in science, technology, forestry, and carbon markets
Biolinq — Introducing a revolutionary platform for metabolic health.
LimmaTech Biologics — LimmaTech Biologics AG is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company.

DILA Capital is a Mexico City-based VC Firm that fosters the growth of Mexican entrepreneurs and Start-Up Companies. By offering equity investments, debt financing and guidance, DILA strives to add value to our invested companies and entrepreneurs. In addition to our vast entrepreneur network, knowledge of the Mexican market and experience of ourpartners.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Mexico, United States, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Fairplay — Fairplay is a performance-based financing platform that supports and helps e-Commerce companies to grow by advancing revenue for marketing spend. It offers funding in exchange for a steady share of revenues until the capital is paid back plus a flat fee. Fairplay was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Mexico City.
Mattilda — Mattilda helps schools manage and automate payments.
Pacto — Pacto provides technology to restaurants and bars in order to improve the customer experience and accelerate business growth. It seeks to be a catalyst for financial inclusion for small and medium-sized food and beverage companies by integrating them into digital commerce through technology-based solutions.

Better Ventures is the amplifier of essential science and technology startups.

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Kenya, Germany

Portfolio highlights

HILOS — Our mission is to change the way the world makes so that nothing goes to waste and everything that's put in can be taken back. We do this through our zero-waste manufacturing process paired with our circularity program.
Renoster Systems — An Intelligent Security Solution for Nature Reserves
Pow.bio — Pow.bio provides fermentation services for synthetic biology.

Investing in the crazy before it becomes normal

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Renewable Energy, Manufacturing
Seed, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

4QT — Cleantech, Construction, Electrification
Kateri — Kateri is a carbon producer that helps to unlock the potential of grasslands to sequester carbon.
Volteras — Volteras collects, standardizes, and optimizes data from hundreds of energy devices into a single data model. Volteras Connect enables businesses to use this data to produce new revenue streams, reduce costs, and create new business models. It aspires to be the link between electric vehicles and anything they may come into contact with, fromchargers and house batteries to energy suppliers and mapping software.

VC fund

Investment focus

Automotive, Sensor, Virtual Reality
Series A
United Kingdom, Kenya, France

Portfolio highlights

Hadean — Hadean are a venture backed tech startup providing the most simple and secure platform for cloud native development. Intuitive and developer friendly, the Hadean Platform provides a friction free route to a cloud-native infrastructure. It lets you write applications once and deploy anywhere, taking care of setup, configuration, scaling, securityand more.Hadean have developed two flagship applications. Aether Engine provides distributed load balancing for agent-based simulations, while Muxer is a network model that utilises distributed edge networks. The result is spatial simulations of unparalleled size and complexity, where thousands of concurrent users can join and interact. Hadean have found traction in gaming, healthcare, virtual events and defence with industry leading companies such as Microsoft, Minecraft and CAE.
Warehousing1 — Warehousing1 is building the number one warehousing and distribution network in Europe. Companies can utilize the innovative platform to find ideal warehousing solutions anywhere, manage them digitally and optimize processes by gaining real-time visibility and data transparency.
Eatron Technologies — Redefining Automotive Software - Intelligent Software Platform for Battery Management System & Intelligent Motion Control

Norfund is the Norwegian Investment Fund for developing countries with 24.9 bill. NOK in total commitments (2019).

Investment focus

Energy, Financial Services, Renewable Energy
Funding Round, Private Equity, Debt Financing
Kenya, South Africa, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

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.
Hela Clothing — Hela Clothing is a clothing manufacturer. From design to delivery, the firm collaborates closely with brands in the intimate, sleepwear, and children's product lines. With design centers in major markets, they can watch and predict customer preferences. This enables us to provide their customers with unique design options that fit theirrequirements.
OH Ecosystems — OH Ecosystems is a confectionary company that produces and operates cocoa processing and confectioneries.

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.

Investment focus

Agriculture, E-Commerce, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana

Portfolio highlights

FarmWorks — FarmWorks is an agricultural technology company that gives farmers access to farm inputs as well as a market for the produce .FarmWork is to unlock agricultural potential by building clusters of mid-sized farms while working with thousands of small-holder farmers and establishing direct linkage to local and global markets.
EMTECH — For Modern Central Banking
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.

Ben Franklin has provided the Capital, Knowledge and Networks that help innovative enterprises compete in the global marketplace, generating wealth and supporting regional economic growth. Ben Franklin has invested more than $165 million to grow more than 1,750 regional enterprises, across all areas of technology. It has launcheduniversity/industry partnerships that accelerate scientific discoveries to commercialization. The Ben Franklin Technology Partners is an initiative of the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development and is funded by the Ben Franklin Technology Development Authority.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Grant, Funding Round
United States, Kenya, Germany

Portfolio highlights

PolicyMap — PolicyMap is a mapping and analytics platform. Make an impact with good data.
InspectionGo — InspectionGo is a home inspector company providing a variety of services to help inspection companies. It provides digital exhibition, and back-end services such as accounting, marketing, coaching, and inside sales to home inspectors across the nation. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Morgantown, WV.
Phospholutions — We are on a mission to enhance global phosphorus use. We envision a future where the needs of a growing population can be met without compromising the environment.

PanAfrican Investment is a private investment firm focused on the growth and development of companies in sub-Saharan Africa.

Investment focus

Local, Content, Automotive
Series A, Series B
Kenya, United States

Portfolio highlights

Savoteur — I'm Casandra, a full-time travel writer and luxury travel expert.
Mobius Motors — Mobius Motors sells affordable vehicles designed specifically for the needs of developing world consumers. We aim to change millions of lives by providing the appropriate transport to mobilise rural Africa. Our vision is a more connected, more prosperous Africa.

Ambo Ventures is a new fund dedicated to launching sustainable ecosystems in Africa.

Investment focus

CleanTech, Automotive, Electronics
Seed
Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Roam — The Standard for Electric Mobility in Africa.

Crowdfund entrepreneurs in emerging markets and earn up to 7% interest annually.

Investment focus

Agriculture, Biomass Energy, Renewable Energy
Series A, Series C
Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Sistema.bio — The Biodigester solution Sistema.bio is a biodigester with biogas appliances. High efficiency biodigesters transform organic waste into renewable biogas.

British International Investment is the UK's development finance institution. We've been at the forefront of supporting companies in developing countries for more than 70 years.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Banking, Finance
Funding Round, Debt Financing, Series B
India, Nigeria, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Paymob — Paymob runs millions of transactions for different business sizes across the Middle East and Africa. Start using Paymob’s solutions and API’s to accept and send payments for your online business now.
Ecom Express — Get express delivery courier services from Ecom Express, the best courier companies in India, and deliver your packages safely and on time to your customers.
Jingsil Intelligent — Jingsil Intelligent is dedicated to digital power distribution switches and intelligent power distribution management software systems.

Endeavor Catalyst is the rules-based, co-investment fund of Endeavor, set up to invest exclusively in Endeavor Entrepreneur-led companies and to sustain Endeavor’s long-term operations in a mission-aligned way. Launched in 2012, Endeavor Catalyst has ~$500M+ AUM across four funds and has made 260+ investments to date in 35+ different markets. TodayThe Endeavor Catalyst portfolio has 53 companies valued at $1B+. Investments include Globant (NYSE:GLOB), Rappi, and Creditas in Latin America; Yemeksepeti.com and Careem in MENA; and Bukalapak and Carro in Indonesia.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, Brazil, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Sami — Sami is a Brazil-based health plan startup that provides a technology-based solution intended to be used in the healthcare sector. The company focuses on making health care simpler, more efficient, and friendlier by using simplified solutions, thus, providing patients with reduced costs for their medical care needs. Their mission is to transformBrazilian health into something simple, easy, reliable, and accessible, which helps each person to be their best version.Founded by Vitor Asseituno and Luiz Guilherme Berardo in 2018 and is based in São Paulo, Brazil.
Thunes — Payment infrastructure for a connected world.
InvGate — InvGate is the solution to build a modern service desk and empower IT with total visibility of your IT estate.

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.

Investment focus

Energy, Agriculture, Renewable Energy
Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
Kenya, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

SunFi — SunFi tech solution help people access solar energy with installation and payment plans.
enee.io — enee.io designs and develops battery monitoring systems that make both users and suppliers of renewable power systems more profitable.
Gateway.fm — GatewayFM is the first truly decentralized blockchain infra/node provider, with globally distributed, multichain infrastructure

The Nordic Development Fund (NDF) is the joint Nordic international finance institution focusing on the nexus between climate change and development in lower-income countries and countries in fragile situations.

Investment focus

Solar, Farming, Agriculture
Debt Financing
Kenya

Portfolio highlights

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.

We are an impact investor in the global south. Our deep roots in microfinance and education finance have demonstrated profit with purpose. We focus on self-development and skilling technology for women to find meaningful work.

Investment focus

Education, Health Care, E-Learning
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
India, United States, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Shamba Pride — Shamba Pride is a revolutionary Rural Distribution system for African Farmers, it provides online-to-offline DigiShop marketplace.
Applied Cognition — Applied Cognition is developing a novel medical device and platform for translational measurement of a newly discovered biology of the brain whose failure has been shown to cause neurodegeneration in preclinical models. We will be the first to non-invasively, continuously measure this biology in humans enabling us to develop treatments that stop or reverse the progression of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.
Indian School Finance Company — ISFC is a Non-Banking Finance Company engaged in the business of lending to educational institutions and entrepreneurs managing such institutions. The company started its operations in December 2008 from Hyderabad and has expanded since to other cities.

Playfair Capital is an early-stage fund that commits to companies early and with conviction. Based in London, Playfair combines the best aspects of angel investing with a focused fund, to invest in truly ambitious founders, wherever they are in the world. Playfair takes a sector-agnostic approach and investments span deep tech, SaaS, marketplacesand B2B companies. We’ve backed the founders of more than 60 companies including Mapillary (acq. Facebook), CryptoFacilities (acq. Kraken), Omnipresent, Orca AI, Ravelin, sprout.ai, Thought Machine, Trouva and Vinehealth.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

StackOne — Accelerate your SaaS growth with our unified API solution for HRIS, ATS, and CRM. Say "yes" to customers, build advanced integrations quickly, and experienced the best data privacy controls in the market.
Spotted Zebra — Spotted Zebra's skills cloud powers skills-based organisations. Our platform ensures skills are the centre of every decision made about people. Whether talent acquisition, talent development or internal mobility, Spotted Zebra focuses people on skills.
Continuum Industries — Continuum Industries is a developer of Optioneer, the leading software for linear infrastructure optioneering.

Invest to change

Investment focus

Retail, Furniture, Manufacturing
Series A, Series B
Kenya

Portfolio highlights

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?

Anglo American is a global mining company with a portfolio that spans diamonds, platinum, copper, iron ore & more.

Investment focus

Renewable Energy, Energy, Mining
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Thea Energy — Discover Thea Energy, a fusion energy company reinventing the stellarator to create a limitless source of zero emission energy for a sustainable future.
Eden — We are the future of geothermal eneergy
Inlyte Energy — Inlyte Energy is a company that creates batteries for grid storage. Inlyte Energy's grid battery uses the most abundant commodities - iron and salt - to create an energy storage solution with the unique combination of high efficiency, long lifetime, competitive energy density, and exceptional safety.

Acumen Resilient Agriculture Fund is an equity fund designed to build the climate resilience of smallholder farmers.

Investment focus

Agriculture, Farming, AgTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
Kenya, Ghana

Portfolio highlights

FarmWorks — FarmWorks is an agricultural technology company that gives farmers access to farm inputs as well as a market for the produce .FarmWork is to unlock agricultural potential by building clusters of mid-sized farms while working with thousands of small-holder farmers and establishing direct linkage to local and global markets.
Victory Farms — Victory Farms is an aquaculture farm for tilapia fish comprising of hatcheries, nursery ponds and deep-water cages for farming.
Complete Farmer — We are providing cutting-edge technological farming protocols and innovations with a unique business model and logistics that are revolutionizing...

Serial FinTech entrepreneur, Markus Ament, or Maex as he is known, has led many companies from early-stage startups to global leaders, loved by thousands worldwide. He is currently CEO and co-founder at Centrifuge with the mission to create an operating system for global commerce, in order to fundamentally change how businesses transact andcollaborate. Maex is co-founder and member of the board of Taulia and has transformed the company from an idea in 2009 to the market leading Financial Supply Chain company, connecting businesses to create a more efficient and profitable supply chain. With an enviable list of the of Fortune 500 clients and over 300 employees, Taulia has quickly become the recognized leader in the financial supply chain.

Investment focus

Software, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

Anytype — for those who celebrate trust & autonomy.
Kubik — Kubik makes low-carbon buildings from plastic waste. Bringing environmental dignity to how countries grow.
Anything World — Anything World is a platform that allows you to play with any object you can imagine using the power of your voice.

Khosla Impact's mission is to assist great entrepreneurs developing products and services for the three billion people at the bottom of the world’s economic pyramid.Khosla Impact assists high-impact entrepreneurs who open up markets, increase productivity, and improve standards of living for the bottom half of the world economy.Weinvest in world-class entrepreneurs who are passionate about solving challenging, often intractable socio-economic problems through careful application of science, technology, and design or through creative business models. We believe in experimentation and encourage this approach among our entrepreneurs. We evaluate a wide range of opportunities but are primarily focused on for-profit enterprises serving people at the bottom half of the world’s economic pyramid: low-income laborers, farmers and families, as well as small businesses in emerging markets. Given our experience, South Asia is our initial, but not exclusive, geography of focus. We welcome entrepreneurs and business plans from all countries and regions.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Series A, Funding Round, Seed
India, United States, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

iMerit — iMerit's end-to-end data labeling solutions combined with Ango Hub data annotation tool is a best-in-class platform to scale your AI and machine learning data pipelines.
Neogrowth — Neogrowth operates as a non-banking financial company in India. It is focused on meeting the financial needs of small businesses which sell goods and services to consumers. It offers business financing services to small- and medium-sized retail companies that sell apparel, consumer durables and electronic items, footwear and accessories,handicrafts, gifts, and optical goods as well as to restaurants, beauty salons, hotels, gymnasiums, and health diagnostic centers. NeoGrowth began its commercial operations in 2013.
Smile ID (formerly Smile Identity) — Smile ID provides the best onboarding, identity verification, and user authentication service for fast growing businesses and startups in Africa.

Partners Group are a unique, global alternative asset manager with strong Swiss roots, proactively providing their international client base with innovative, customized solutions.With CHF 19.2 billion in private equity assets under management, a global team of over 130 private equity professionals in seven offices, and over 300 partnershipinvestments led by over 200 general partners, Partners Group is one of the largest private equity asset managers worldwide.

Investment focus

Software, Solar, Manufacturing
Private Equity, Funding Round, Secondary Market
United States, Switzerland, China

Portfolio highlights

EXUS — EXUS specialises in Debt Collection and Loan recovery management software solutions. Streamline and optimise the debt collection process.
VelocityEHS — VelocityEHS offers AI-powered ESG & EHS management software solutions for global enterprises that help reduce costs and drive sustainable outcomes.
Ecom Express — Get express delivery courier services from Ecom Express, the best courier companies in India, and deliver your packages safely and on time to your customers.

Chandaria Capital operates as a venture capital Fund. We believe that innovative ideas will transform Africa. We invest, mentor, and work together with incredible entrepreneurs to create impactful companies that can change the continent.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Retail, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Kenya, United States, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Leta — Leta Technology is a software development company that creates supply chain and logistics software to enable the efficient and automated movement of goods.
Jumba — Jumba is a construction technology platform that streamlines B2B construction material purchase and financing.
UTU Technologies — Trust infrastructure for the sharing economy.

As a global specialist in energy management and automation in more than 100 countries, we offer integrated energy solutions across multiple market segments.

Investment focus

Software, Energy, Solar
Series A, Series C, Funding Round
United States, France, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Plotlogic — We are Plotlogic, one of the world’s most innovative mining technology companies.
EIT InnoEnergy — Founded in 2010, EIT InnoEnergy is the leading innovation engine in Sustainable Energy. With offices in Europe and US, the firm seeks to make equity minority investments in early-stage companies and through added value services make the business case bigger, sooner and safer (de-risking). Investment scope: climate tech and energy sectors.
Nozomi Networks — Nozomi Networks keeps operational technology cyber resilient with OT network and endpoint visibility, threat detection, and AI-powered analysis.

Proparco is devoted to private sector funding in the sustainable development sector.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Finance, Energy
Debt Financing, Funding Round, Seed
India, Kenya, Mauritius

Portfolio highlights

dru — dru is the Middle East and Africa's (MEA) first patient-centric, digitally-enabled lifestyle and diabetes management platform. dru aids the prevention and management of Diabetes, Pre-diabetes, and Obesity- serving millions in Egypt and across MEA and harnessing cutting-edge technology and an extensive network of providers. By usingdru's app, users can keep track and continuously monitor their blood sugar and blood pressure levels. dru users also have a full and organized record of their medications, lab and radiology results by logging them all in dru’s digital logbook intended for all types of medical records. One of the very unique features of dru is that it can connect its users to a wide array of monitoring devices, including continuous glucose monitoring. The insight dru users have access to as a result of dru’s features enables them to attain full 360 degree visibility over their health and state of wellbeing. dru’s round-the-clock medical support team are also available through the in-app's chat feature to answer all user queries and to connect users with a wide network of providers that are specialized in their cases.dru is now available for users, patients and patient caregivers to download on the Apple Store and on Google Play. dru was launched in 2023 by Almouneer, the leading digital transformation platform revolutionizing healthcare for patients and doctors across MEA.
Almouneer — Healthcare, Diabetes, Practice Management, Technology
NCBA Group — NCBA Group Plc, is a financial services conglomerate in East and West Africa.

EDF is an electric utility company that provides heat humps. wind turbines, photovoltaic, and geothermal energy. It serves small businesses, local authorities, and industrial and residential customers. They also generate electricity through nuclear, fossil fuel, hydro, solar, wind, biomass, biogas, tidal, geothermal, and cogeneration plants.EDFalso manages low and medium-voltage public electricity distribution networks, operates, develops, and maintains high-voltage and very-high-voltage electricity transmission networks; and services and produces equipment and fuel for nuclear reactors. The company is present in all businesses such as transport, trading, production, sale, and the distribution of energy.EDF was founded in 1946 and is headquartered in Paris, Ile-de-France, France.

Investment focus

Solar, Renewable Energy, Energy
Corporate Round, Series B, Seed
Kenya, France, Italy

Portfolio highlights

Persefoni — Persefoni is a Climate Management & Accounting Platform (CMAP). The company's Software-as-a-Service solutions enable enterprises and financial institutions to meet stakeholder and regulatory climate disclosure requirements with the highest degrees of trust, transparency, and ease. As the ERP of Carbon, the Persefoni platform provides usersa single source of carbon truth across their organization, enabling them to manage their carbon transactions and inventory with the same rigor and confidence as their financial transactions.
BBOXX Kenya — Bboxx exists to solve energy poverty. We transform lives and unlock potential through energy access.
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.

Victoria Commercial Bank is a leading commercial bank providing quality financial services with a focus on client orientation, integrity and professionalism

Investment focus

Retail, Furniture, Manufacturing
Debt Financing
Kenya

Portfolio highlights

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?

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