Top 50 Climate Startup Investors in South Africa (October 2026)

Portfolio highlights

• wamly — Wamly is the recruitment software, It has given us time back to focus on transformational work.
• Cue — Cue is one customer service platform for live chat, chatbots and broadcasts across WhatsApp, Messenger, web chat, email and many other digital channels.
• Optique Optometrists — Optique Optometrists provides comprehensive eye care services, including eye tests, prescription glasses, and contact lenses. The company offers affordable eye care solutions and has multiple branches across South Africa. Customers can book appointments online and access a wide range of eyewear options. Optique Optometrists focuses on deliveringquality vision care and ensuring customer satisfaction through professional services and convenient booking options.

Portfolio highlights

• HoneyCoin — HoneyCoin is a web3/web2 ecosystem of products built in a way that abstracts complexity and brings all the value of web3 and web2 to the forefront.
• Zeno — Zeno is a climate conscious motor company that offers eco-friendly motorcycles.
• 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.

Portfolio highlights

• SkinBit — SkinBit is a healthtech company that develops AI-powered skin cancer detection, digital mapping, and health monitoring solutions.
• heXem bio — heXem bio specializes in recording solutions for the early development of humans for longevity.
• Elita — Store your dog's stem cells with Elita. One-time opportunity to protect their future health and avoid costly surgeries later in life.

Portfolio highlights

• Jem — We give employers the ability to send company-wide communications, deliver payslips, manage leave & give employees access to their earnings, via WhatsApp.
• 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.

Portfolio highlights

• Hypa — Hypa offers prepaid fibre internet and voice services, providing various uncapped data packages with different speed options and payment methods. The company also provides a mobile application called Bela, which enables users to make calls and send messages over the internet. It also supports digital customer service through self-service platformsfor account and service management.
• Bisedge — Bisedge provides outsourcing solutions for material handling equipment including forklifts and other MHE, maintenance packages as well as the operators. Bisedge is offering this solution as a “Product-As-A-Service” for a monthly fee.
• Frogfoot Networks — Frogfoot Networks operates an open-access fibre network and provides fibre infrastructure for residential and business connectivity. The company functions as a fibre network operator, building and maintaining the physical network required for high-speed internet access. It offers fibre to the home services that deliver fixed-line broadband overoptical fibre for residential users. Frogfoot Networks also provides fibre to the business solutions tailored to commercial and enterprise requirements. Its open-access model enables multiple internet service providers to deliver their services over the same network, giving end users a choice of ISP. The company further offers prepaid and entry-level fibre options, designed for flexible, contract-free connectivity in selected coverage areas.

Portfolio highlights

• TRVL CAPE — Your Cape Town travel companion App. Your gateway to Cape Town! Quickly book flights, hotels, shuttles, and rental cars. Enjoy real-time updates, exclusive deals on our app! Let our travel experts help you plan the perfect trip to Cape Town. Let our skilled advisors craft a flawless itinerary for your journey.
• The AI Studio — The AI Studio is an advanced artificial intelligence research and innovation hub operating under Amani Creative Studios. It is designed to enhance and integrate AI capabilities into our existing services, spanning Web2, Web3, cybersecurity, branding, and software development. Every solution we offer at Amani Creative Studios and Web3 Studio willnow be AI-powered and AI-enhanced, unlocking new capabilities in automation, prediction, personalization, and efficiency.AI-Powered Web3 Solutions – AI-driven smart contracts, blockchain forensics, and decentralized automation., AI-Driven Branding & Marketing – Intelligent content creation, data-driven strategies, and hyper-personalization, AI-Powered SaaS & Software Development – Automated workflows, predictive analytics, and intelligent decision-making, AI-Optimized UI/UX & Product Design – AI-powered design systems, adaptive interfaces, and automated A/B testing.
• Cyrrix Cybersecurity — At Cyrrix Cybersecurity, we understand the importance of protecting your business from online threats. Our team provides a full range of cybersecurity services to help safeguard your company's sensitive information and systems. We offer comprehensive risk assessments, penetration testing, and incident response planning to identify and addressvulnerabilities in your network. Our managed security services provide ongoing monitoring and threat detection to keep your business protected around the clock. With our help, you can rest easy knowing that your company's valuable assets are secure.

Portfolio highlights

• Fedgroup — Fedgroup offers financial solutions in South Africa & abroad, providing investments, asset-backed lending, group risk & fiduciary services
• AMEA Power — Founded in 2016, AMEA Power has assembled a leading team of global industry experts to deliver clean energy projects across Africa, the Middle East and other emerging markets.
• Minbos Resources — Minbos has to build a nutrient supply and distribution business that stimulates agricultural production and promotes food security. They provide nutrient supply and distribution business that stimulates agricultural production and promotes food security.

Portfolio highlights

• Cape Mohair — Cape Mohair is a manufacturing company that manufactures and supplies a wide range of socks for outdoor and sports markets.
• Decentral Energy — Decentral Energy creates, owns, and manages renewable energy assets. Decentral provides customers with risk-free, completely financed solar energy solutions.
• Biodelta Nutraceuticals — Biodelta Nutraceuticals is a manufacturer and merchandiser of premium health products to all pharmacy & health shop chains. Biodelta has developed, designed and produced more than 1,000 products for these customers and is now strategically positioned to launch CBD products through these channels.

Portfolio highlights

• Bolide — Bolide exists to deliver smart, decentralised utilities to marginalised townships and secondary city businesses and body corporates (MDUs). Our mission is to ignite access to affordable power, water, data, AI powered security, and sustainable progress. One account, multiple interconnected services.
• Sensor Networks — Sensor Networks helps insurance companies improve risk mitigation, enhance loss management and better engage with customers through smart sensors. We've created Sensor Desk, an Internet of Things (IoT) platform that controls and manages a range of internally developed and third-party-connected sensors. Our focus is to predict and prevent lossor damage insurance claims, improve operational efficiency and reduce costs for end users.
• Creslow Energy Solutions — Creslow Energy Solutions is a manufacturer of sustainable energy storage technologies.

Portfolio highlights

• Wealthcome — Wealthcome is a wealth management company that offers tools for tracking expenses, optimizing fees, and analyzing investment performance.
• Cori Clinical — Cori Clinical provides AI-driven software for clinical development teams. The platform manages study documents end to end with version control, permissions, and comprehensive audit trails. It tracks deadlines and regulatory requirements to maintain compliance across protocols, submissions, and site communications. Automated workflows route tasks, generate checklists, and prepare documentation for reviews. AI tools classify files and extract metadata to reduce manual effort and standardize records. Built-in access controls and logging support audit readiness and data protection. The system serves sponsors, CROs, and research sites that need consistent processes for documentation and oversight.
• Biochar Industrial Group — Biochar Industrial Group partners with agricultural processors to convert biomass waste into biochar through industrial pyrolysis. The company finances, installs, and operates biochar production systems that process agricultural residues such as palm kernel shells, cashew husks, and sawdust. It manages biochar production, carbon creditverification, carbon credit sales, and revenue sharing with its partners. Biochar Industrial Group also provides waste value assessments and partnership programs for eligible agricultural processors.

Portfolio highlights

• Accrual Software — We are a Software Development Company
• Cyrrix Cybersecurity — At Cyrrix Cybersecurity, we understand the importance of protecting your business from online threats. Our team provides a full range of cybersecurity services to help safeguard your company's sensitive information and systems. We offer comprehensive risk assessments, penetration testing, and incident response planning to identify and addressvulnerabilities in your network. Our managed security services provide ongoing monitoring and threat detection to keep your business protected around the clock. With our help, you can rest easy knowing that your company's valuable assets are secure.
• Aesthetic Prosthetic Bionics — Biological Engineering, Bionics, Biomimetics, Hydraulics, Prosthetics, Neuroprosthetics, Exoskeleton Suits, Dynamics, Kinematics Robotics, Human-Robot Interaction, Artificial Organs, Artificial Intelligence, Quantum Computing, Knowledge Reasoning, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision, Robotics, Artificial GeneralIntelligence, Deep Learning, Bayesian Networks, Evolutionary Algorithms, Computational Neuroscience, Neurocybernetics, Cybernetics, Cognitive Science, Source Coding, Channel Coding, Algorithmic Complexity Theory, Algorithmic Information Theory, Information-Theoretic Security, Grey System Theory & Biotechnology

Portfolio highlights

• Trade Shield — Trade Shield's aim is to increase access to trade credit facilities for those companies that most need them and will benefit the most from them.
• Breaze Delivery — Optimize your last-mile delivery in SA. Breaze offers same-day delivery, easy Shopify/WooCommerce integration, and live WhatsApp tracking for your brand.
• Iris Fresh Pty Ltd — Iris Fresh exports fresh produce from Southern Africa to international buyers.

Portfolio highlights

• Ozow — Easy, fast, safe online payments and bank API solutions for merchants and consumers across South Africa. Secure instant EFT directly from bank to bank.
• Howler — Howler, is the powerful event technology platform designed at the uppermost benchmarks of service and technology to help consumers and event organisers to make moments that matter.
• The Sun Exchange — The Sun Exchange is the peer-to-peer solar leasing marketplace. We leverage financial innovation and the power of the crowd to drive sustainable energy development and make the environmental, social and economic benefits of solar accessible and affordable for all. Through the Sun Exchange online platform, anyone, anywhere in the world, can buyremotely-located solar cells and then lease them to power businesses and organisations in sunny emerging markets. Solar cell owners earn income from the electricity that’s generated, while schools, businesses, clinics and other organisations gain access to affordable clean energy, reducing electricity costs and carbon emissions.

Portfolio highlights

• DataProphet — DataProphet offers production intelligence solutions for manufacturers. By combining human ingenuity with production data, we supercharge manufacturing excellence. Explore our Connect platform and expert services, trusted by industry leaders.

Portfolio highlights

• InspiraFarms — InspiraFarms provides on-and-near farm, grid & solar powered Cold Rooms & Packhouses for agribusinesses & distributors. Reduce energy costs & food losses!
• Open Access Energy — South Africa's first multilateral wheeling software platform that automates energy transactions.
• 60Hertz Energy — Unify asset management with asset monitoring, enhance scheduling, and facile communication. Book a Demo Now!

Portfolio highlights

• GoCab — GoCab is fintech solution providing Drive-to-own option for vehicle purchase in Emerging markets, helping to bridge the gap between mobility entrepreneurs and financial services.
• 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.
• Open Access Energy — South Africa's first multilateral wheeling software platform that automates energy transactions.

Portfolio highlights

• CrossBoundary — CrossBoundary Energy's energy solutions help decarbonize enterprise by providing cleaner, cheaper, and more reliable power.
• Sun King — Sun King is a solar company that designs, distributes, installs, and finances solar home energy products across Africa and Asia. Sun King produces solar home systems, inverter systems, and portable lanterns, providing a solution for communities that live without reliable energy access. Sun King also offers pay-as-you-go financing options, furtherallowing consumers to access energy without high up-front costs. Sun King works with their network of international distribution partners to expand the off-grid market.
• Giyani Metals — Giyani Metals Corp. is developing the next generation of battery grade manganese for EVs and energy storage. Vertically integrated from mine to market in Botswana.

Portfolio highlights

• Anda Africa — Anda is Angola’s leading mobility fintech platform, providing asset financing, ride hailing, and delivery services to empower mobility entrepreneurs. Built for emerging markets, Anda bridges the credit gap by financing productive assets such as motorcycles, tricycles, and cars, enabling drivers to own their vehicles, increase their earnings, andenter the formal economy. Through technology driven credit profiling and fully digitized payments, Anda creates financial identities for people who were previously underserved and unlocks responsible access to financial services. As an impact driven company, Anda brings together mobility, financing, and digital payments to deliver safe, affordable, and inclusive transportation while enabling a new generation of financially empowered entrepreneurs.
• Aether Bio — Aether uses its state of the art platform to rapidly engineer enzymes, enabling our customers to manufacture complex and novel products at fractional cost.
• Aethex — End to end voice agents localized for your market

Portfolio highlights

• Kuunda — Kuunda provides consulting, liquidity management, data insight tools enabling users to fulfill financial needs through a digital platform.
• Jem — We give employers the ability to send company-wide communications, deliver payslips, manage leave & give employees access to their earnings, via WhatsApp.
• Ridge — Ridge structures natural assets into regulated financial products, issued with an ISIN and accessible through existing banking infrastructure.

Portfolio highlights

• Matta — With Matta, you can deploy AI agents across every step of your operations, from supply chain tracking to part measurement and see ROI in days.
• Willo — Willo is advancing and scaling true wireless power for humanity, technology, and industry. Discover the company powering the next era of energy delivery.
• Tangible — Tangible empowers hardware companies with sustainable asset-based lending solutions. Our platform streamlines debt funding, compliance automation, and financial product design, enabling efficient capital mobilization and comprehensive reporting for a greener future. Scale your business with Twist.

Portfolio highlights

• TUNL — Ship globally with ease. TUNL offers affordable, transparent international shipping built for South African brands. Up to 91% cheaper. No surprises.
• Marquee Group — Marquee Group is a sports management focused on Golf and train athletes to achieve goals.
• Right Now Response — The future of repairs starts soon. Counting down to smarter tracking in 2025! There are perks to working 24/7, 365 days a year... Like launching the future of repairs ahead of schedule!

Portfolio highlights

• CubeSpace — Industry-leading modular attitude determination and control (ADCS) products and solutions. Laser-focused on our customers' success. Your global ADCS partner.
• Jem — We give employers the ability to send company-wide communications, deliver payslips, manage leave & give employees access to their earnings, via WhatsApp.
• 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.

Portfolio highlights

• Respo — Respo technology as a catalyst for positive change highlights the potential for innovation to improve lives and foster community. Respo focuses on ethical development and the importance of user-centered design, ensuring that advancements benefit society.
• The Marking App — The Marking App provides a data-free application that automatically marks handwritten school assessments while also automating school administration.
• Word Of Mouth — Word of Mouth is a South African social enterprise (NPC), with a digital marketplace for informal economy workers to connect and trade with local customer from their community.

Portfolio highlights

• Revoy — We haul Pacific Northwest freight with our 95% electrified fleet.
• Ludwig Computing — Ludwig Computing is an AI hardware startup creating energy-efficient compute platforms for future intelligent computing.
• American Supercritical — American Supercritical manufactures modular supercritical carbon dioxide (sCO₂) power blocks designed to convert heat into electricity. The systems connect to energy infrastructures like gas turbine exhaust stacks, nuclear reactors, reciprocating engine gensets, and heavy industrial factories. They function across a temperature range of 300 to 1000 °C to produce scalable power outputs from 10 to 100+ MW. The factory-assembled blocks utilize dry-cooling by default and operate without requiring site-specific boiler or water chemist staffing.

Portfolio highlights

• Plasmaleap — Plasmaleap is a plasma technology company that manufactures and sells zero-emissions chemical reactors designed for industrial and energy applications. The company develops reactor systems that use plasma processes to enable chemical production and transformation without relying on conventional combustion methods. Its technology supports sectorssuch as clean fuels, chemical manufacturing, and materials processing by offering electrified reactor solutions that can be integrated into existing industrial workflows. Plasmaleap designs modular systems that allow operators to deploy plasma reactors for on-site production and conversion of feedstocks using electricity as the primary energy input. The company also provides engineering support and technical integration services to help customers incorporate its reactor technology into commercial operations. Through its plasma-based approach, Plasmaleap focuses on enabling chemical processes that align with decarbonization and emissions reduction objectives across multiple industries.
• Giraffe Bio — Giraffe Bio uses AI and biomolecules to optimize metal extraction, increase yield, and reduce environmental impact. Revolutionizing sustainable mining technology.
• Forge Industries — Giving landfill bound trash a second life as disruptive bio-fuel to power heavy industry

Portfolio highlights

• Sesame Street — SesameStreet.org brings learning and fun to every day with games, videos, printables, and more featuring Elmo, Cookie Monster, Abby and their Sesame Street friends.
• JAM Foundation — JAM Foundation is a non-governmental, non-profit organization dedicated to improving the quality of life. JAM Foundation communities through impactful health, education, and social development initiatives. foundation focuses on empowering vulnerable populations, promoting public health, and supporting sustainable community development.
• Humanity Family Foundation for Peace and Development — Humanity Family Foundation for Peace and Development is a non-governmental organization. HUFFPED is dedicated to fostering equity, social inclusion, and sustainable development for vulnerable populations, especially women, youth, and children.

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.
• FarmTrace — Transform your farm into a data-driven powerhouse with FarmTrace! Streamline HR, Asset, Energy, Stock, and Chemical Management.
• Barracuda Holdings — Barracuda Holdings (Pty) Ltd. is an owner-driven company established in 2010 by the founding partners, each of whom has over 20 years of experience. Barracuda Holdings provides manufacturing expertise across multiple sectors, including Automotive accessories, diagnostic tools, and fleet management.

Portfolio highlights

• ThirdFi — ThirdFi specializes in providing a comprehensive suite of tools and services designed to facilitate the development, trading, investment, and management of decentralized finance (DeFi) applications. With a focus on multi-chain interoperability, ThirdFi offers an API, SDK, and developer tools aimed at enhancing the DeFi ecosystem. The platformsupports liquidity provision and token reward earning through its Earn API, catering to developers looking to build in the Web3 space. ThirdFi's infrastructure is tailored for the evolving needs of web3 finance, enabling seamless integration and operation across various blockchain networks.
• RECRD — RECRD is a video community, where users engage content with video responses, Creators monetise immediately through ad revenues and advertisers connect with their audience at no risk.
• Slingshot DAO — Slingshot is a community-powered AI infrastructure network. $SHOT is the utility token powering an ecosystem of AI products on Base.

Portfolio highlights

• Izili — Izili 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 — Decentral Energy creates, owns, and manages renewable energy assets. Decentral provides customers with risk-free, completely financed solar energy solutions.

Portfolio highlights

• Phoenix Tailings — Phoenix Tailings leads rare earth refining in the U.S. to secure the metals our economy and defense need to thrive.
• Westwin Elements — Westwin Elements is a supplier of nickel and cobalt that is essential to key applications.
• Sedibelo Resources — Sedibelo Resources is a developing producer of platinum group metals (PGMs), is active in the acquisition, exploration for, and development and operation of deposits

Portfolio highlights

• Hive Health — Hive Health is a digital platform that provides access to easy-to-use, affordable, and quality HMO plans for SMEs in the Philippines.
• Netbank — Netbank provides various banking solutions like alternative lenders, payment solutions, neobanks, and wallets.
• Kraver's Canteen — Kraver's Canteen is an online F&B brand builder, operating the fastest growing cloud kitchen network in the Philippines. Can't agree what to order for the family? Satisfy every craving with the best delivery brands in the Manila, with just one delivery fee!

Portfolio highlights

• STEM Cafe — STEMCafe by RVRB is a fun out of school learning centre for kids
• Juicyway — Juicyway moves money across borders for people and businesses. Send, receive, hold, and exchange multiple currencies from one account. | NG
• 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.

Portfolio highlights

• Druid AI — DRUID is an AI platform that allows companies to automate processes by designing and deploying UiPath RPA integrated chatbot virtual assistants.
• Amyl Therapeutics — Amyl Therapeutics is a preclinical stage biotechnology company. Amyl Therapeutics uses a novel mechanism to bind to the amyloid fold of toxic protein aggregates of various types, including antibody light chain (AL) or transthyretin (TTR) aggregates, which accumulate in peripheral organs to cause systemic amyloidosis diseases, but also amyloid-β(Aβ), Tau, and α-synuclein aggregates, which accumulate in the brain to cause Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases.
• Sedibelo Resources — Sedibelo Resources is a developing producer of platinum group metals (PGMs), is active in the acquisition, exploration for, and development and operation of deposits

Portfolio highlights

• Zimi Charge — Zimi Charge enables to charge sustainably using our mobile app and network of stations.
• Lobito Atlantic Railway — A secure, efficient and reliable rail link, open to all customers, connecting Africa's Copperbelt to international markets.
• Red Rocket South Africa — Red Rocket is a renewable energy integrated power plant (IPP) that designs, develops, and distributes clean energy.

Portfolio highlights

• Decentral Energy — Decentral Energy creates, owns, and manages renewable energy assets. Decentral provides customers with risk-free, completely financed solar energy solutions.

Portfolio highlights

• Thepeer — API infrastructure for businesses
• Nandi Labs — Nandi Labs, Home of Nandi Cowry, Digital FESTAC and MoveMint Magazine
• 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.

Portfolio highlights

• Aya Data — Aya Data provides high-quality data annotation, AI training data, 3D annotations, machine learning solutions and also specialises in geospatial, NLP and computer vision projects.
• Kubik — Kubik makes low-carbon buildings from plastic waste. Bringing environmental dignity to how countries grow.
• 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.

Portfolio highlights

• KAS Africa — KAS Africa is a contract manufacturer of personal care, homecare and oral care products.

Portfolio highlights

• Pineapple — In short, Pineapple see the traditional insurance model, user journey and products as lacking and set out to remedy these by doing the following: 1) Changing the business model to align incentives, show people how premiums are used and award members leftover premium back 2) Making insuring as easy as snapping a picture where AI does the rest andcover is issued in under 60 seconds 3) Allowing per-item insurance and new product innovation to address cover not currently offered or accessible to manyPineapple launched in South Africa in 2018 with their "My Stuff" per-item insurance and have since launched their auto offering "My Ride". They have also partnered with Travelers in the US and have white-labeled their platform in the US.
• Aviro Health — We believe that empowering and supporting people to manage their own health benefits everybody.We built the Aviro Pocket Clinic to support self-care and provide access to services. We give people what they need to perform important health checks like regular HIV self-testing and connect them to experts and services who can offer hands-on and supported care when needed.
• Ngobese And Associates — Ngobese And Associates is a Financial Services providing firm offering brokeraging, advisory and intermediary services.

Portfolio highlights

• i4TECH — Modular, scalable, fully managed manufacturing digital solutions that enable your AI adoption. Moving Industry 4.0 forwards with a unified, comprehensive data driven approach
• Qanary — Qanary is a digital second-opinion platform designed to help radiologists detect cancer at its earliest, most treatable stages.
• openmed — OpenMed provides digital healthcare services, telemedicine, pharmacy products, diagnostics, and medication delivery.

Portfolio highlights

• Optimia AI — AI solutions to optimize business processes
• Maneli Pets — Discover Maneli Pet Food's range of novel, free-range proteins for healthier, happier pets around the world.
• Soldsie — Soldsie (formerly Centrally) is a payment system enabling merchants to monetize their Facebook page by allowing customers to purchase through comments.Customers register their payment information with Soldsie, and then comment on stores’ pages, channels and feeds to activate a charge to their account, and initiate the shipping process.Merchants use the Soldsie administrative dashboard track and manage inventory and shipping, and experience increased user comments, views and viral shares.

Portfolio highlights

• Novek — Novek builds IOT technology to completely eliminate single use plastic from FMCG Supply chains.
• CashBackApp — An App that offers you Cash Discounts on a wide range of household essentials available at local supermarkets in Kenya.
• Jackfruit Finance — Fast, flexible school financing in Kenya. Get working capital, projects, and asset loans designed around school fee cycles and growth needs.

Portfolio highlights

• Scatec ASA — Scatec is a leading renewable energy solutions provider, accelerating access to reliable and affordable clean energy in emerging markets.
• Wave Mobile Money — Wave Mobile Money provides an app-based financial solution to save, transfer, and borrow money. Wave Mobile Money is on a mission to make Africa the first cashless continent. On a continent where less than 10% of the population has a bank account, Wave is building the first modern financial network — no account fees, instantly available, andaccepted everywhere! It is building life-changing financial infrastructure. When mobile money succeeded in Kenya, it lifted about a million people out of poverty. And yet, over 10 years later, most Africans still lack access to affordable ways to save, transfer or borrow the money they need to build businesses or provide for their families. Wave is solving this problem by using technology to build a radically inclusive and extremely affordable financial network.
• CLR Facility Services — CLR is a leading Integrated Facility Management (IFM) company with a PAN India presence, providing comprehensive solutions including IFM, Technical Services, Business Support, Aviation Services, Production Support, and Floor Care Services.

Portfolio highlights

• Lupiya — Lupiya is a financial technology company that provides digital lending services designed to help individuals and small businesses access short-term credit and installment financing. The platform offers mobile-accessible loans that can be used for expenses such as personal needs, business cash flow, or emergency payments, using an online applicationprocess that evaluates creditworthiness through alternative data and behavioral indicators. Lupiya’s services include flexible repayment schedules, automated disbursement, and electronic account management so users can monitor balances and repayment activity within the app or web interface. The company also offers tools for budgeting and payment reminders to support borrowers in managing their credit obligations. Through integrations with local payment networks and banking partners, Lupiya facilitates secure fund transfers and compliance with financial regulations. Its lending infrastructure is tailored to expand access to credit for underserved populations and small enterprises that may have limited access to traditional banking services.
• Seamfix — Seamfix helps governments, regulators and enterprises redesign, digitise and operate trust-critical processes with consulting, proven technology and global delivery.
• Alma Clinics — ALMA CLINICS Primary Healthcare with Advanced Blockchain, AI technology. BEST Clinic providing affordable healthcare, Soweto, Johannesburg, South Africa.

Portfolio highlights

• Grid Africa — Boost your business with custom solar solutions from Grid Africa. We offer tailored business solar energy systems and financing options to help South African companies reduce costs and enhance sustainability. Start your clean energy journey today.

Portfolio highlights

• Paps — Paps is a transport and logistics company that offers innovative distribution and delivery solutions to companies and merchants.The company's e-commerce platform helps companies and traders with scheduling and tracking deliveries on a real-time basis. It offers the distribution of documents and parcels, storage of goods in a secure warehousethat meets standards, and delivery of insured parcels in relay point or last mile. It also provides professional services such as management and repayment of cash on delivery, provision of couriers, management of returns, collection, and periodic reporting.The Dakar, Dakar, Senegal-based company was founded in 2016
• 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.
• Fuse Financial Technologies — Financial APIs for building products in the Middle East.

Portfolio highlights

• The Sun Exchange — The Sun Exchange is the peer-to-peer solar leasing marketplace. We leverage financial innovation and the power of the crowd to drive sustainable energy development and make the environmental, social and economic benefits of solar accessible and affordable for all. Through the Sun Exchange online platform, anyone, anywhere in the world, can buyremotely-located solar cells and then lease them to power businesses and organisations in sunny emerging markets. Solar cell owners earn income from the electricity that’s generated, while schools, businesses, clinics and other organisations gain access to affordable clean energy, reducing electricity costs and carbon emissions.

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.
• 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.

Portfolio highlights

• EasyBusy — EasyBusy is a contractor-client matching platform designed to address key challenges in the GCC service and construction economy.
• Excel And Impact Agro — Excel And Impact Agro aims to tackle the chronic shortage of vegetable production in Côte d'Ivoire.
• JLC Industry Of Tomato Paste Sarl U — JLC Industry is a Togolese agro-industrial startup dedicated to the production, processing, and commercialization of tomato concentrate.

Portfolio highlights

• Polsia — Autonomous AI that plans, codes, and markets your company daily while you sleep.
• Holo AI — Holo AI is an advertising agency that offers web development, SEO, content marketing, and UX design services.
• Infinia — Infinia is a platform that assists the company's clients in managing transfer charges. Allowing you to charge using this method, check each transaction without accessing sensitive information from the accounts that connect to our service, and reconcile all payments in one spot. Integrate your e-commerce applications and platforms withInfinia's open banking platform to facilitate product and service payment without intermediaries and in a secure manner.