Top 10 Community VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Ghana in December 2024

Last updated: Dec 2024 A list of 10 VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Community startups based in Ghana. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Community companies from Ghana. We update this investor list every month.

Top 10 Community VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Ghana in December 2024

Investor	Community Ghana investments
FMO	2
Rio Technology Partners	1
Savannah Fund	1
RippleWorks	1
Kiva	1
The Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation	1
Mulago Foundation	1
Rabobank	1
Whole Planet Foundation	1
Netri Foundation	1

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FMO is a financial investment firm that specializes in financing businesses and projects FMO invests across the agribusiness value chain to enhance food security, support sustainability and promoting inclusive development.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Finance, Renewable Energy
Debt Financing, Funding Round, Series B
India, The Netherlands, 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.
Sistema.bio — Sistema.bio is a biodigester with biogas appliances. High efficiency biodigesters transform organic waste into renewable biogas.
Trans-Oil Group of Companies — TRANS-OIL GROUP is an agro-industrial holding with oilseeds crushing, grain handling, commodities trading, and exports. It produces vegetable oil, flour.

Rio Technology Partners is an investment vehicle and strategic advisory firm.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Shopping, Lifestyle
Seed
Ghana, United States

Portfolio highlights

Soko — SOKO produces innovative, ethical jewelry and accessories from sustainable materials in Nairobi, Kenya
Ahonya — Ahonya.com aims to be the Amazon of Ghana and is the leading online shopping site in Ghana allowing users to purchase genuine electronics at low prices. Our mission is to help consumers find and buy high quality electronics online – in less time for the best price. We strive to bring the widest range of quality products to consumers including:laptops, mobile phones, cameras, tablets, PC accessories, projectors and other electronic products

Savannah Fund is a seed capital fund specializing in US$25,000-US$500,000 investments in early stage high growth technology (web and mobile) startups in sub-Saharan Africa. Initially focused on East Africa, the fund aims to bridge the early stage/angel and venture capital investment gap that currently exists in Africa. The Fund expects toachieve this objective by combining capital with mentor networks both in the region and from Silicon Valley via an accelerator program and a follow-on independent seed fund.The fund is managed by an experienced and technology savvy team that have founded companies or are actively involved in angel investing or having run successful accelerator programs in past but also understand the unique Subsaharan African environment. They are backed and supported by both local, regional and international networks of angels,venture capitalists whose expertise we can draw on to help startups succeed and scale to fully fledged regional or global companies.They believe in the potential for Africa to become a global technology innovator by creating sustainable for profit companies that create jobs and make an impact.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, FinTech, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Kenya, United States, South Africa

Portfolio highlights

Oze — OZÉ brings African small businesses into the digital era. It is an app that makes it easy for businesses to track sales, expenses, and customer information. The data is analyzed to provide tailored recommendations, reports, and business education. If the entrepreneur needs a little extra support, an OZÉ Coach is just a click away. As they are usingOZÉ to manage their business and learn how to run it better, we are learning about them. Using this data and machine learning, we can predict their credit risk and provide them with affordable capital from our banking partners. With over 20,000 registered users, OZÉ is the largest online community of SMEs in Ghana. The most exciting thing is that OZÉ works; 97% of businesses that have used OZE for at least 9 months are growing or profitable or both!
Root — Launch digital and embedded insurance solutions with omni-channel distribution.
Afropolitan — Afropolitan is building a Network State to unleash the maximum potential of Africans around the world. Are you interested? Join us with your email.

RippleWorks pairs the most promising social ventures with Silicon Valley expertise to jointly identify and address immediate and critical scaling challenges. RippleWorks' volunteer program provides a high-skilled opportunity for tech executives and successful entrepreneurs to apply their domains of expertise and drive meaningful impact aroundthe world. RippleWorks is a non-profit that operates with a heightened sense of urgency to drive business results faster, which in turn will accelerate social and economic impact.

Investment focus

Mobile, FinTech, Software
Debt Financing, Corporate Round
Ghana, South Africa

Portfolio highlights

Zoona — Zoona is an interoperable payments business that enables the drive of young entrepreneurs and the power of cutting-edge technology to bring a large variety of safe and reliable financial services to underserved communities in Zambia.
Farmerline — The Farmerline vision is to see an Africa where Agriculture NGOâ€™s are not a functioning force in the market. Farmerline provides paid services that allow farmers to have the information and access they need to employ an entrepreneurial method of farming. Input dealers and traders pay for more efficient communication channels to farmers andfarmers pay for information packages and services. In this vision, more food is produce, more food gets to market, and GDP from cash crop export soars.

Kiva is the world's first online lending platform. For as little as $25 you can lend to an entrepreneur around the world. Learn more here.

Investment focus

Social Entrepreneurship, Agriculture, Energy
Debt Financing, Seed, Series A
Ghana, Kenya, Uganda

Portfolio highlights

I2B — At I2B, we specialize in providing versatile no-code and AI services to streamline creation, automation, and scaling for businesses and organizations of all sizes. Our mission is to make advanced technology accessible, efficient, and scalable.
Farmerline — The Farmerline vision is to see an Africa where Agriculture NGOâ€™s are not a functioning force in the market. Farmerline provides paid services that allow farmers to have the information and access they need to employ an entrepreneurial method of farming. Input dealers and traders pay for more efficient communication channels to farmers andfarmers pay for information packages and services. In this vision, more food is produce, more food gets to market, and GDP from cash crop export soars.
Altech Group — Altech Group aims at expanding access to clean, renewable, and affordable energy both for poor-grid and off-grid households.

William H. Draper, III and Robin Richards Donohoe began investing together in the venture industry in 1994 concentrating on building companies in India. Since 1994, they have invested in over one hundred early stage information technology investments both in India and the United States. In 2010, the Foundation joined forces with Robert S. Kaplan,formerly vice-chairman of Goldman Sachs and currently professor of leadership at Harvard Business School. Together the team raised their second fund inviting fourteen innovative philanthropists to join the fund.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Education, Non Profit
Seed, Grant, Funding Round
United States, Ghana, Uganda

Portfolio highlights

Emata — Emata brings digital and affordable financial products to farmers in East Africa.
Dollar For — Dollar For crushes medical bills and empowers patients.
American Journalism Project — The American Journalism Project is a new venture philanthropy organization dedicated to local news. By providing course-altering investments and venture support to civic news organizations, we are building a new public service media that is governed by, sustained by and looks like the public it serves.

Mulago finds and funds high-performance organizations that tackle the basic needs of the very poor. We fight poverty. Our job is to find the organizations best able to create change and give them what they need to do it.

Investment focus

Agriculture, Health Care, Pharmaceutical
Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed
United States, Ghana, India

Portfolio highlights

Farmerline — The Farmerline vision is to see an Africa where Agriculture NGOâ€™s are not a functioning force in the market. Farmerline provides paid services that allow farmers to have the information and access they need to employ an entrepreneurial method of farming. Input dealers and traders pay for more efficient communication channels to farmers andfarmers pay for information packages and services. In this vision, more food is produce, more food gets to market, and GDP from cash crop export soars.
Hello Tractor — Hello Tractor is an award winning agtech social enterprise that focuses on connecting tractor owners and smallholder farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa through a farm equipment sharing application. We have over the years emerged as the leading provider of technology solutions designed for the tractor services market, capturing 75% of private commercialtractor inflows to Nigeria, expanding to a total of 16 markets across the continent as well as reaching well over 500,000 smallholder farmers.
Particles for Humanity — Particles for Humanity transforms medical technologies originated in academic labs into products that meet the health care needs of people in developing countries.

Rabobank offers all the advantages of global commercialism founded upon cooperative principles: knowledge-driven, customer-focused, and backed by a AAA credit rating. Rabobank focuses on the food, beverage, and agribusiness sectors offering specialized products and services in 46 countries. Their strength stems from a network of prominent industryspecialists, leading researchers and industry analysts who generate a wealth of knowledge for clients.