Top 50 Impact Startup Investors in Africa (August 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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E3 Capital
VC Fund
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17 | Kenya, South Africa, United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | Energy, Solar, Renewable Energy | $900k–$40M |
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EDFI ElectriFI
VC Fund
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15 | United States, Kenya, France | Debt Financing, Series A | Energy, Solar, Renewable Energy | $110k–$30M |
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All On
VC Fund
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11 | Nigeria, France, Senegal | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Grant | Renewable Energy, Energy, Solar | $50k–$2.5M |
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F6 Ventures
VC Fund
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8 | Tunisia, France | Seed, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, Information Technology, Retail | $62k–$200k |
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Persistent
VC Fund
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8 | Ghana, Germany, Switzerland | Seed, Series A | Energy, Solar, Renewable Energy | $500k–$10M |
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Acumen
VC Fund
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8 | United States, India, Kenya | Seed, Series A | Agriculture, Solar, Financial Services | $300k–$12M |
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Norfund
VC Fund
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6 | Kenya, South Africa, Nigeria | Private Equity, Debt Financing | Financial Services, Energy, Renewable Energy | $2.2M–$156M |
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Kepple Africa Ventures
VC Fund
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6 | Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | $100k–$23M |
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Women Entrepreneurship for Africa
VC Fund
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6 | Nigeria, Uganda, Cameroon | Pre-Seed, Grant | Health Care, Agriculture, Food and Beverage | |
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GAIA Impact Fund
VC Fund
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5 | Singapore, South Korea, France | Series A, Series B, Seed | Energy, Solar, Renewable Energy | $100k–$40M |
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SunFunder
VC Fund
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5 | Kenya, Mauritius, United States | Debt Financing, Series C | Solar, Energy, Renewable Energy | $1.5M–$60M |
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Novastar Ventures
VC Fund
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5 | Kenya, Nigeria, United Kingdom | Series A, Series B | Agriculture, Health Care, FinTech | $1.7M–$42M |
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Aster
VC Fund
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5 | France, United States, United Kingdom | Series A, Series B | Energy, Software, Manufacturing | $1.6M–$27M |
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Factor E
VC Fund
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5 | Kenya, United States, India | Seed, Series A, Convertible Note | Energy, Renewable Energy, Agriculture | $20k–$10M |
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54 Collective
VC Fund
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4 | Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa | Seed, Pre-Seed | Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech | $40k–$4M |
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Triodos Bank
VC Fund
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4 | India, Germany, Kenya | Debt Financing, Series A | Financial Services, Energy, FinTech | $5.2M–$365M |
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Kaleo Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | Nigeria, United States, Kenya | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Financial Services, Information Technology, FinTech | $25k–$15M |
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Lion’s Head Global Partners
VC Fund
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4 | Kenya, France, Senegal | Debt Financing, Venture - Series Unknown | Renewable Energy, Solar, Energy | $2.2M–$11M |
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CRE Venture Capital
VC Fund
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4 | Nigeria, South Africa, United States | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, Software, FinTech | $250k–$25M |
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Seedstars Africa Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | Kenya, France, Rwanda | Seed, Series A, Series C | Energy, ISP, Credit | $1.1M–$9.1M |
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TRINE
VC Fund
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4 | Kenya, Germany, Vietnam | Debt Financing | Solar, Energy, Renewable Energy | $898k–$6.1M |
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Shell Foundation
VC Fund
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4 | India, United States, Kenya | Grant, Seed, Debt Financing | Energy, Financial Services, Solar | $300k–$53M |
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Launch Africa
VC Fund
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4 | Nigeria, South Africa, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology | $200k–$4M |
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British International Investment
VC Fund
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4 | India, Kenya, Nigeria | Debt Financing, Series B | Financial Services, Banking, Finance | $6.8M–$100M |
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Oikocredit International
VC Fund
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4 | India, Nigeria, Kenya | Debt Financing, Series B | Financial Services, Finance, FinTech | $1.1M–$33M |
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Unruly Capital
VC Fund
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3 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence, CleanTech | $908k–$55M |
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DOB Equity
VC Fund
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3 | Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda | Private Equity, Seed | Food and Beverage, Farming, Agriculture | $1M–$4M |
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Proparco
VC Fund
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3 | India, Kenya, Nigeria | Debt Financing, Private Equity | Financial Services, Energy, Finance | $447k–$200M |
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Musha Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | United States, Nigeria, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Financial Services, FinTech | $100k–$10M |
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Equator
VC Fund
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3 | Kenya, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A | Software, Renewable Energy, Agriculture | $1.8M–$15M |
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Metier Private Equity
VC Fund
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3 | South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria | Private Equity, Seed | Retail, Fashion, Consumer | $20M–$36M |
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Alphamundi
VC Fund
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3 | Kenya, Colombia, Ghana | Debt Financing, Series A, Series B | Agriculture, Renewable Energy, Financial Services | $1.7M–$16M |
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Blue Haven Initiative
VC Fund
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3 | Kenya, United States, Ghana | Series A, Series B, Seed | Financial Services, Solar, Finance | $2M–$22M |
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Social Investment Managers & Advisors
VC Fund
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3 | United States, India, Kenya | Debt Financing, Series C, Post-IPO Equity | Solar, Renewable Energy, Energy | $150k–$90M |
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Global Partnerships
VC Fund
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3 | Kenya, United States | Series A, Seed | Clean Energy, Renewable Energy, Solar | $1.7M–$10M |
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Inspired Evolution Investment Management
VC Fund
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3 | Kenya, South Africa, Nigeria | Private Equity, Series A | Renewable Energy, Energy, Solar | $20M–$60M |
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Opes Impact Fund
VC Fund
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3 | Italy, Kenya, India | Venture - Series Unknown, Seed | Communities, Agriculture, Energy | $219k–$910k |
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Technovision Communications
VC Fund
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3 | Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, Information Technology, FinTech | $50k–$5M |
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E4EAfrica
VC Fund
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3 | South Africa, The Netherlands, France | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Logistics, Internet, Supply Chain Management | $1M–$7.5M |
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Lateral Frontiers
VC Fund
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3 | United States, Nigeria, Kenya | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | FinTech, Financial Services, Energy | $500k–$15M |
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MNF Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | Morocco, France, Canada | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Online Portals, FinTech, Enterprise Software | $200k–$1.6M |
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LoftyInc Capital
VC Fund
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3 | United States, Nigeria, Egypt | Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | $100k–$10M |
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GIIG Africa Fund
VC Fund
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3 | Kenya, Nigeria, United States | Seed | Health Care, Environmental Engineering, Fuel | $100k–$3.3M |
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Wangara Green Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | Ghana, Nigeria | Seed, Pre-Seed | Agriculture, AgTech, Energy | |
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Energise Africa
VC Fund
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3 | Kenya, Uganda, Germany | Debt Financing, Venture - Series Unknown | Energy, Renewable Energy, Solar | $200k–$1.4M |
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Finnfund
VC Fund
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3 | Kenya, India, South Africa | Debt Financing, Series B | Financial Services, Energy, FinTech | $2.7M–$135M |
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Investisseurs & Partenaires
VC Fund
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3 | France, Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire | Seed, Series A | Financial Services, Health Care, Food and Beverage | |
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BREEGA
VC Fund
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3 | France, United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Series A | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | $1.1M–$24M |
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Lendahand
VC Fund
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3 | Kenya, Uganda, Germany | Debt Financing, Series A, Series B | Financial Services, FinTech, Renewable Energy | $154k–$17M |
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Blue Rinc Capital
VC Fund
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2 | Nigeria | Seed | PaaS, Energy, Renewable Energy | $1.1M–$1.1M |
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E3 Capital 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.
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- Industry: Energy, Solar, Renewable Energy
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Kenya, South Africa, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 49
- Round size: Seed $900k–$8M; Series A $1.8M–$7.5M; Series B $9M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 51% lead, 49% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
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.
- SolarX Africa — SolarX commercial and industrial (C&I) solar company that provides clean and efficient solar solutions, through leasing options in frontier markets.
Impact investment in sustainable energy
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- Industry: Energy, Solar, Renewable Energy
- Stage:Debt Financing, Series A
- Geography: United States, Kenya, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 65
- Round size: Series A $2.2M–$30M; Debt Financing $110k–$10M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
Portfolio highlights
- BURN — The future of clean cooking
- GOGO Electric — Bodawerk is an innovations and engineering company. Our products are created to serve the needs of people at the bottom of the pyramid.
- MyJouleBox — MyJouleBox offers a solution for solar professionals in Africa to offer leased solar installations to their customers.
All On: Energy Innovations. Powerful Collaboration. Our mission is to increase access to commercial energy products and services for under-served and un-served off-grid energy markets in Nigeria, with a special focus on the Niger Delta sources in Nigeria.
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- Industry: Renewable Energy, Energy, Solar
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Grant
- Geography: Nigeria, France, Senegal
Investor stats
- Total investments: 24
- Round size: Seed $100k–$2.5M; Grant $50k–$395k; Venture - Series Unknown $500k–$1.3M
- Lead/follow: 54% lead, 46% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Eja-Ice — Eja-Ice is a technology company that provides solar cold chain systems, refrigeration solutions, and temperature-controlled transport.
- Koolboks — Koolboks: solar-powered, financially accessible fridges with an integrated pay-as-you-go platform dedicated to making cooling accessible to all of Sub-Saharan Africa. Get a Koolboks refrigerator for as little as 25k Naira down payment today!
- Hinckley Recycling — Hinckley Recycling is dedicated to the responsibility of being a good steward of the environment and will in all circumstances aspire to constantly emphasize awareness of the natural environment, whilst maintaining a level of proficiency which demonstrates bona fide leadership in all spheres of the environment.
Flat6Labs is the MENA region’s leading seed and early stage venture capital firm, currently running the most renowned startup programs in the region. Annually, Flat6Labs invests in more than 100 innovative and technology-driven startups enabling thousands of passionate entrepreneurs to achieve their daring ambitions and ultimately becoming theirinstitutional co-founders.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Information Technology, Retail
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Tunisia, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 62
- Round size: Seed $72k–$200k; Pre-Seed $62k–$100k
- Lead/follow: 60% lead, 40% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $10M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- WaterSec — WaterSec is a manufacturer of internet of things devices intended to communicate with gateways and send water usage data to application dashboards. They enable the customer to keep track of their water consumption. The monitoring of consumption was the solution to initiate the project. The water consumption and an optimized water-use efficiencyratio of all citizens and businesses.
- True Delta — True Delta is a data management and processing company. They are document recognition and data reconciliation processes. They offer data extraction from documents using ocr techniques, fast onboarding and data integration,and efficient data reconciliation with intelligent matching tools and less coding .
- Bako Motors SAS — Bako Motors SAS is a motor vehicle manufacturing company that develops solar electric vehicles. manufacturer of electric vehicles with the goal of creating long-term fixes for rural areas' transportation issues with regard to people, cargo, and machinery. The business makes electric cars as well as solutions for clean energy generation andstorage that are infinitely scalable, providing users with inexpensive and environmentally friendly e-mobility.
Africa's Climate Venture Builder - We believe in the power of climate-positive economic development in Africa. For the last decade, we have been working hand in hand with exceptional entrepreneurs, investing both financial and human capital to build successful climate ventures on the continent. Our companies offer competitive financial returns required to drive lasting impact.
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- Industry: Energy, Solar, Renewable Energy
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Ghana, Germany, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 25
- Round size: Seed $500k–$1.3M; Series A $1.1M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 84% lead, 16% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Dodai — Dodai manufactures and assembles the electric motorcycles.
- EcoNetix — Leading Carbon Asset Manager for voluntary and compliance markets (CORISA, Art.6), we help companies reduce emissions, offset with high-integrity credits, and communicate impact.
- Circadian Technologies GmbH — AI-driven VPP unlocking revenue for telecom towers.
Acumen is a nonprofit venture fund that invests in early-stage companies bringing critical services like agriculture, clean energy, education, financial inclusion, healthcare and workforce development to low-income communities in 14 countries across East and West Africa, South Asia, Latin America, and the United States. Since 2001, Acumeninvested $128 million in 128 companies that have transformed the lives of over 308 million low-income people.
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- Industry: Agriculture, Solar, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, India, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 186
- Round size: Seed $300k–$2.5M; Series A $1.6M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 49% lead, 51% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $2.8M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Sproxil — Sproxil is an information technology company that focuses on supply chains and consumer engagement. It specializes in brand protection, consumer engagement, anti-counterfeiting, product authentication, and consumer promotions. The company was founded in 2009 and headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
- Orb Energy — Orb Energy is a vertically integrated solar company that manufactures solar panels, design, install, and services complete system, and finance C&I customers.
- MindRight Health — MindRight Health is a tech startup that provides mental health coaching over text message to empower communities to heal from trauma
Norwegian investment fund for developing countries
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- Industry: Financial Services, Energy, Renewable Energy
- Stage:Private Equity, Debt Financing
- Geography: Kenya, South Africa, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 104
- Round size: Debt Financing $2.2M–$156M; Private Equity $7.4M–$125M
- Lead/follow: 63% lead, 37% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2009
Portfolio highlights
- CrossBoundary — CrossBoundary Energy's renewable energy solutions help decarbonize enterprise by providing cleaner, cheaper and more reliable power.
- mopo — Mobile Power's innovative pay-per-use battery sharing network unlocks clean energy for households, businesses and electric transport in Sub-Saharan Africa.
- Yarych Confectionery — Yarych Confectionery operates as a packaged biscuits producer. Yarych Confectionery provides packaged biscuits market with its branded Maria, petit beurre and The Crackers biscuits.
Kepple Africa Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 84
- Round size: Seed $500k–$4.5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3.4M; Series A $1.1M–$23M
- Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- TIBU Health — TIBU Health is a disruptive HealthTech logistics company that provides high-quality healthcare services.
- Onboard — Onboard helps hardware companies transform their text manuals to 3D, intelligent manuals with instant customer support capabilities.
Women Entrepreneurship for Africa
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- Industry: Health Care, Agriculture, Food and Beverage
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Grant
- Geography: Nigeria, Uganda, Cameroon
Investor stats
- Total investments: 116
- Lead/follow: 99% lead, 1% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ORIKI — A wellness + farm to skin brand that creates pampering experiences and luxurious natural personal grooming products. Sharing Africa!
- Mukuru Clean Stoves — Earthshot Prize Winner 2022. We use recycled metal to manufacture improved, efficient and affordable cookstoves.
- Loom Craft Chocolate — Loom Craft Chocolate is a artisanal cocoa processor with a strong focus on the quality of our products and the sustainability of our processes.
Gaia Impact Fund is a venture capital firm specializing in renewable energy that builds long-term partnerships with startups operating in Sub-Saharan Africa and South-East Asia with a strong environmental and social focus. The firm supports businesses enabling sustainable and affordable energy provision to local communities. In regions where energymixes are highly carbonized, it supports technological innovations and business models enabling a cost-efficient diffusion of renewable energy on a large scale.
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- Industry: Energy, Solar, Renewable Energy
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: Singapore, South Korea, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 22
- Round size: Seed $100k–$2.7M; Series A $1.1M–$9.1M; Series B $1M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Agros — Agros exist to make farming economically viable and environmentally sustainable. The company provides farmers with carbon-reducing and income-increasing products and services, from input to market. Their unique ecosystem approach aggregates different low-carbon technologies, bundled with affordable finance, insurance, advisory and market access.Agros’ mission is to double the income of millions of farmers while reducing 100 megatons of annual carbon emissions.
- MyJouleBox — MyJouleBox offers a solution for solar professionals in Africa to offer leased solar installations to their customers.
- 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.
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- Industry: Solar, Energy, Renewable Energy
- Stage:Debt Financing, Series C
- Geography: Kenya, Mauritius, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 23
- Round size: Series C $20M–$60M; Debt Financing $1.5M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $60M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- M-KOPA — M-KOPA provides connected asset financing solutions for underbanked customers. Its platform combines digital micropayments and IoT connectivity to offer access to products including solar lighting, televisions, fridges, smartphones, financial services, and more.
- InspiraFarms — InspiraFarms provides on-and-near farm, grid & solar powered Cold Rooms & Packhouses for agribusinesses & distributors. Reduce energy costs & food losses!
- Energy Vision — ENERGY VISION is a telecom-focused Energy Service Company (ESCO), led by a team of experienced telecom and telecom infrastructure professionals.
For the many, not just the few. For good.
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- Industry: Agriculture, Health Care, FinTech
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 68
- Round size: Series A $1.7M–$24M; Series B $3.5M–$42M
- Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $108M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Soko — SOKO produces innovative, ethical jewelry and accessories from sustainable materials in Nairobi, Kenya
- 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.
- Sistema.bio — Sistema.bio is a biodigester with biogas appliances. High efficiency biodigesters transform organic waste into renewable biogas.
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).
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- Industry: Energy, Software, Manufacturing
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: France, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 137
- Round size: Series A $1.6M–$22M; Series B $6.6M–$27M
- Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $281M in 2017
Portfolio highlights
- Easybike — Easybike designs and manufactures a range of bikes that run on electricity. It offers its clients two major ranges of bikes which includes Liberty range and Infinity range.The company is driven by a vision to democratize innovative mode of travel. Easybike was known as one of the first brands in France to have specialized in electric bikes andtailor-made solutions. Easybike was founded in 2010 and is based in Paris, France.
- Iceotope — Iceotope develops liquid cooling technology for data centers, artificial intelligence infrastructure, and high-performance computing environments. The company designs precision liquid cooling systems that use dielectric fluids to manage heat generated by GPUs, CPUs, memory, storage, and power components within server infrastructure. Its platformreplaces or reduces dependence on traditional air cooling by using sealed liquid-based thermal management architectures for rack-scale and edge computing deployments. The company provides cooling solutions for AI workloads, hyperscale data centers, telecommunications infrastructure, industrial edge computing, and enterprise computing systems. Its product portfolio includes liquid-cooled server systems, rack infrastructure, thermal management platforms, and integrated cooling architectures compatible with existing data center environments.Iceotope also develops thermal management technologies focused on energy efficiency, heat reuse, and reduced water consumption in compute-intensive environments. The company collaborates with hardware manufacturers, semiconductor companies, and infrastructure providers to support the deployment of liquid-cooled computing systems for AI, analytics, and high-density computing applications.
- Aether Fuels — Enabling a net zero world through sustainable liquid fuels.
Factor E is a finance company that impacts venture builders, dedicated to supporting the people and ideas that will turn the tables in the global battle for sustainable solutions to energy, agriculture, mobility, and waste challenges in emerging and frontier markets. It serves as a conduit between philanthropic and commercial investors throughmarket-driven forces.
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- Industry: Energy, Renewable Energy, Agriculture
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
- Geography: Kenya, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 34
- Round size: Seed $500k–$4.6M; Series A $1.3M–$10M; Convertible Note $20k–$1.3M
- Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Ferntech — Take control of your decentralized power system with Odyssey's FernTech software and hardware. Get real-time insights and automate operations with our reliable data collection, system automation, and range of controllers and IoT gateways. Explore the FernTech product suite and see how it works in action. Contact us to learn more.
- 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!
Building and scaling African tech startups with catalytic capital, value-add support and our global network.
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- Industry: Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 108
- Round size: Seed $40k–$4M; Pre-Seed $40k–$1.3M
- Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Yeah — Yeah is a financial technology company that offers payment processing services while building a credit profile for the banked and unbanked.
- REasy — Top up locally, pay suppliers globally, and manage international shipments with REasy. Fast, secure, and designed for African businesses expanding worldwide.
- Konnect — Konnect provides a cross borders payment solution intended to simplify complex financial flows allowing companies of any scale and size to send and receive payments in a practical, secure, and low-cost way.
Triodos Investment Management focuses on investments in various areas, including renewable energy, microfinance, and real estate.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Energy, FinTech
- Stage:Debt Financing, Series A
- Geography: India, Germany, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 46
- Round size: Series A $12M–$12M; Debt Financing $5.2M–$365M
- Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
Portfolio highlights
- MyJouleBox — MyJouleBox offers a solution for solar professionals in Africa to offer leased solar installations to their customers.
- GIGA Storage — Grootschalige energieopslag is de ontbrekende schakel in de energie transitie. Als de wind niet waait en de zon niet schijnt levert GIGA Storage duurzame
- CapFloat Financial Services Private Limited — Capital Float is an online platform that provides working capital finance to SMEs in India. It offers flexible, short-term loans that can be used to purchase inventory, service new orders or optimize cash cycles. Borrowers can apply online in minutes, select desired repayment terms and receive funds in their bank accounts in 7 days with minimalhassle.Capital Float was founded in 2013 by Gaurav Hinduja and Sashank Rishyasringa.
Kaleo Ventures is an investment firm prefers to invest in early-stage companies across Africa.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Information Technology, FinTech
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 56
- Round size: Seed $25k–$2.7M; Pre-Seed $50k–$1M; Series A $100k–$15M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Cuoral — Proactive customer success and engagement. We help you reduce customer churn and increase retention and revenue.
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- PowerLabs — PowerLabs is an energy and climate technology research and implementation company whose goal is to use intelligent energy to build a world where human output is boundless.
A global investment banking, asset management and advisory firm focused on delivering value to our clients in emerging and frontier markets
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- Industry: Renewable Energy, Solar, Energy
- Stage:Debt Financing, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Kenya, France, Senegal
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Round size: Debt Financing $2.2M–$11M
- Lead/follow: 64% lead, 36% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $41M in 2021
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 — Decentral Energy creates, owns, and manages renewable energy assets. Decentral provides customers with risk-free, completely financed solar energy solutions.
Founded in 2015, CRE Venture Capital invests in early stage tech companies that are levered to Africa. CRE is headquartered in the New York metro area, with a regional office in Lagos, Nigeria.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Software, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, South Africa, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 63
- Round size: Seed $300k–$5M; Pre-Seed $250k–$3.3M; Series A $1.1M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Flood — Flood is a marketplace platforms that provides merchant solution, self services and big data solution.
- Letly — Letly is developing an AI‑driven platform for the rental property market that automates tasks related to managing rental listings and tenant interactions. It aims to use intelligent agents to handle tasks such as scheduling viewings, responding to inquiries, and optimizing property management workflows. The platform is currently in a waitlistphase, signaling ongoing development and private access only.
- Cutstruct — Cutstruct is your one source for bulk construction materials purchase. Get the best prices for cement, steel, granite, sharp sand wood, and more.
Seedstars Africa Ventures is an early-stage venture capital fund investing in high-growth companies active across Sub-Saharan Africa.
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- Industry: Energy, ISP, Credit
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series C
- Geography: Kenya, France, Rwanda
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$7.5M; Series A $8.2M–$9.1M
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kuunda — Kuunda provides consulting, liquidity management, data insight tools enabling users to fulfill financial needs through a digital platform.
- 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.
- Beacon Power Services — Beacon Power Services is a utility company that provides energy management software and analytics for utilities.
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Browse database — It's Free!Trine makes it easy for people to invest in solar energy in growing markets, offering a return on investment that's good for people, for planet and for profit.
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- Industry: Solar, Energy, Renewable Energy
- Stage:Debt Financing
- Geography: Kenya, Germany, Vietnam
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Round size: Debt Financing $898k–$6.1M
- Lead/follow: 73% lead, 27% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Miale Solar — Miale Solar Inventions offer Power Purchase- or Lease to Own Agreements solar PV systems generating electricity with positive cash flow from year one
- Stride — Stride is a forward-thinking renewable energy firm to advance a sustainable future by providing eco-friendly home renovation projects, smart home technology, energy-efficient products, and solar energy access to every household.
- Altech Group — Altech Group aims at expanding access to clean, renewable, and affordable energy both for poor-grid and off-grid households.
Shell Foundation is a philanthropic foundation that enables millions of people in Africa and Asia to increase their incomes with clean energy solutions.
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- Industry: Energy, Financial Services, Solar
- Stage:Grant, Seed, Debt Financing
- Geography: India, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 30
- Round size: Seed $790k–$1.7M; Grant $300k–$5.5M; Debt Financing $4.3M–$53M
- Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kofa — Kofa is an automotive company that utilizes the latest electric battery and motor technology. The company aims to develop an affordable, sustainable and customer driven electric network in transformative energy, transport, and climate change around the globe. Kofa was founded in Ghana and is headquartered in Accra.
- Sistema.bio — Sistema.bio is a biodigester with biogas appliances. High efficiency biodigesters transform organic waste into renewable biogas.
- Mufin Green Finance — Mufin Green Finance is an NBFC that specialises in the electric vehicle (EV) market.
Launch Africa is a leading Pan-African VC fund solving the significant funding gap in the Seed and pre-Series A investment landscape in Africa
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Nigeria, South Africa, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 217
- Round size: Seed $200k–$4M; Pre-Seed $200k–$1.8M; Venture - Series Unknown $200k–$500k
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $36M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Zazu — Zazu is a neobank for African SMEs, offering seamless banking tools, cash flow automation, and real-time insights. Zazu simplifies finance management in one all-in-one solution.
- Fincart — Fincart is a leading shipping platform in Egypt, connecting your business with top courier services, automating operations, and helping you scale your eCommerce logistics.
- Udu Technologies — Udu Technologies is an AI infrastructure company that offers GPU systems, AI platform integration, and technical support services.
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.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Banking, Finance
- Stage:Debt Financing, Series B
- Geography: India, Kenya, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 323
- Round size: Series B $13M–$70M; Debt Financing $6.8M–$100M
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
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.
- Coris Holding — Coris Holding is a financial institution that was established with the motive to provide support to SMEs and SMIs.
- Solon Capital Holdings — Solon Capital Partners is a West-Africa focused investment manager that is pioneering a new approach to economic development and poverty reduction in fragile and post-conflict states.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
- Stage:Debt Financing, Series B
- Geography: India, Nigeria, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 69
- Round size: Series B $3.5M–$24M; Debt Financing $1.1M–$33M
- Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Djamo — Djamo is a Provider of financial applications to allow customers to use their cards with zero fees in a wide range of services.
- Prestamype — Prestamype was launched in 2017 with the aim of providing a broader access to funding to micro and small businesses, with better credit conditions. With its first product, a secured working capital loan with a real estate collateral, it has lent over USD 24 million to 750 Peruvian entrepreneurs (as of 1st of October 2021). In 2019, Prestamypelaunched its online FX platform called Cambio Seguro. In 2020, the company launched its digital factoring product. In 2021, INCA Ventures and Angel Ventures Peru (AVP), two leading funds in Peru, invested in the company.
- Sindhuja Microcredit — Sindhuja Microcredit is a new generation digital and rural-focused Micro Finance Institution (MFI) providing financial services to the bottom of the pyramid self-employed women entrepreneurs.
Investing in the crazy before it becomes normal
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence, CleanTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 62
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$9.3M; Pre-Seed $908k–$3.6M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.6M–$55M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Matta — Creating AGI to manufacture the impossible.
- 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.
DOB Equity is a private equity firm specializing in growth capital and buy-and-build strategies in small and medium companies.
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- Industry: Food and Beverage, Farming, Agriculture
- Stage:Private Equity, Seed
- Geography: Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda
Investor stats
- Total investments: 51
- Round size: Seed $1M–$4M
- Lead/follow: 59% lead, 41% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kentaste — Virgin coconut oil, Coconut Cream, and Coconut Milk
- MazaoHub — MazaoHub is a AI-powered end-to-end farm management company.
- 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.
Proparco is devoted to private sector funding in the sustainable development sector.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Energy, Finance
- Stage:Debt Financing, Private Equity
- Geography: India, Kenya, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 136
- Round size: Debt Financing $447k–$200M; Private Equity $10M–$60M
- Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
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.
- Ecoener — Ecoener is a renewable energy company that develops, builds, operates, and maintains electricity generation projects based on clean energy sources. The company works across hydropower, wind, and solar photovoltaic technologies, managing the full lifecycle of energy facilities from early development and engineering to construction and long-termoperation. It also engages in energy commercialization activities that support the sale and distribution of electricity generated from its assets. Ecoener handles project planning, permitting, environmental assessment, and technical design as part of its infrastructure development process. The company operates and expands renewable energy plants across multiple international markets while integrating maintenance and operational management services for its facilities. It also participates in storage-related and hybrid energy projects that combine different renewable technologies to support grid stability and energy supply efficiency.
- IPT PowerTech — IPT PowerTech coverage, coupled with our extensive expertise in supply chain management, field implementation, and power systems, has made us one of the most capable companies in handling the most complicated and versatile projects in the MEA region and its neighboring countries.
Seed capital for technology startups globally.
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 203
- Round size: Seed $125k–$7.5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3.2M; Series A $2.5M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
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- 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.
A venture capital firm investing in tech-enabled, early-stage ventures that are accelerating an equitable climate transition in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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- Industry: Software, Renewable Energy, Agriculture
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
- Geography: Kenya, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Round size: Seed $1.8M–$5M; Series A $14M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 64% lead, 36% follow
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.
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Browse database — It's Free!Metier is a proven leader in the area of private equity, alternative assets and related advisory services. The company was founded in 2004 and raised, at the time, South Africa’s largest private equity fund in terms of third party local commitments. It has an established team which ranks amongst the largest and most experienced in the industry.Metier has a strong track record in private equity investing and selective M&A advice that confirms its leadership status.From inception, the company's Commerce Square offices were a reflection of the brand - open, welcoming, and independent of spirit. Seeking a return to a more personal format, Thierry, Anthony and Paul settled on the setting up of an independent and private firm to capture the next wave of growth in the private equity and dealadvising arena. They were joined by long-time legal colleague Malcolm Ball and now-Libstar director, Robin Smith.
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- Industry: Retail, Fashion, Consumer
- Stage:Private Equity, Seed
- Geography: South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Private Equity $20M–$36M
- Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
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- 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.
- Vivica — Vivica is a holding company that harnesses the power of innovative technology and human intuition.
- Stage Zero — Stage Zero provides sustainable energy solutions for homes and businesses in South Africa.
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.
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- Industry: Agriculture, Renewable Energy, Financial Services
- Stage:Debt Financing, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Kenya, Colombia, Ghana
Investor stats
- Total investments: 22
- Round size: Series A $10M–$12M; Series B $3.5M–$16M; Debt Financing $1.7M–$11M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Finaktiva — Finaktiva is the number one financial ally of Colombian entrepreneurs. We offer flexible and agile online financial solutions (loans in various forms, factoring and confirming) adjusted to the requirements of the companies. We also offer a range of non-financial tools through our platform to help SMEs´ grow. Our customers are typically businesseswith innovative business models, double-digit growth rates that have a positive impact in their communities.
- AgriCapital — AgriCapital is a financial service firm that provides store credit, productive credit, credit installments, and accompaniment services.
- 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.
Blue Haven Initiative is an innovative family office dedicated to putting wealth to work for market returns and positive social and environmental change.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Solar, Finance
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: Kenya, United States, Ghana
Investor stats
- Total investments: 24
- Round size: Series A $2M–$11M; Series B $12M–$22M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
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- M-KOPA — M-KOPA provides connected asset financing solutions for underbanked customers. Its platform combines digital micropayments and IoT connectivity to offer access to products including solar lighting, televisions, fridges, smartphones, financial services, and more.
- TIBU Health — TIBU Health is a disruptive HealthTech logistics company that provides high-quality healthcare services.
- BlueMark — BlueMark is the leading provider of impact intelligence and independent verification for the sustainable and impact investing market.
SIMA is a social asset manager dedicated to empowering the Bottom of the Pyramid by providing demand-driven commercial capital and advisory solutions
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- Industry: Solar, Renewable Energy, Energy
- Stage:Debt Financing, Series C, Post-IPO Equity
- Geography: United States, India, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Debt Financing $150k–$90M
- Lead/follow: 58% lead, 42% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $68M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Altech Group — Altech Group aims at expanding access to clean, renewable, and affordable energy both for poor-grid and off-grid households.
- Loom Solar Private Limited — Buy solar panel, battery and inverter for home, business, agriculture, DIY projects, and more. from 10 watts -100kW from Loom Solar - India's No. 1 solar company. Choose from solar panels, inverters, lithium batteries, charge controllers to solar installation kit. We provide solar finance for rooftop solar installation
- Insolation Energy — Insolation Energy is one of the top solar panel manufacturers in India, delivering efficient solar solutions. As a trusted solar power company in India, we are committed to providing clean, sustainable, and affordable electricity for all.
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.
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- Industry: Clean Energy, Renewable Energy, Solar
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Kenya, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Series A $1.7M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $5M in 2018
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 — Greenlight sells, installs and finances solar home systems for the 1.8 billion off-grid and under-electrified consumers in Africa and Asia.
Inspired Evolution established in 2007 as a specialised investment business to lead sustainable clean energy and resource efficiency investments across sub-Saharan Africa. Inspired Evolution offers a dedicated, multi-disciplinary, professional investment team with a deep track record targeting superior returns with measured development outcomes.Inspired Evolution’s investment focus is centered on clean energy and resource efficiency assets. We have demonstrated that capital deployment to investments in this specialised asset class, can generate exceptional returns at the nexus of social equity, ecological integrity and responsible economic growth. This lies at the heart of sustainable investing.Inspired Evolution’s view is that sustainability is not only everybody’s business as citizens of a rapidly globalising world, but that it will define the future of business and investment decisions.Inspired Evolution manages Evolution One Fund – its first dedicated, closed-ended third party investment fund. Evolution One Fund makes early stage, expansion and development stage, and later stage or mature equity and equity-related investments primarily for control or significant minority positions in market-leading growth businesses located principally in South and southern Africa.
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- Industry: Renewable Energy, Energy, Solar
- Stage:Private Equity, Series A
- Geography: Kenya, South Africa, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 13
- Round size: Series A $20M–$35M; Private Equity $20M–$60M
- Lead/follow: 69% lead, 31% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $178M in 2019
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- SolarSaver — We provide customised rooftop solar PV solutions to corporate, industrial customers in Namibia & SA through its proprietary zero-capital financing model.
- CrossBoundary — CrossBoundary Energy's renewable energy solutions help decarbonize enterprise by providing cleaner, cheaper and more reliable power.
- Cold Solutions Kenya — We are a leading temperature-controlled warehouse and logistics service provider, a one stop shop for cold chain solutions.
Opes-Lcef is an impact investor that provides catalytic capital to early-stage social enterprises in emerging markets.
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- Industry: Communities, Agriculture, Energy
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Seed
- Geography: Italy, Kenya, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 43
- Round size: Seed $219k–$910k
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
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- Refolo — Refolo is a type B social cooperative that sees social agriculture as having a dual impact: social and environmental. Refolo was created with the aim of creating an agro-ecological and social corridor that runs through the province of Brescia from north to south with the hope that administrations and other communities will come together to generatea positive impact on the environment and the community.Refolo operates in an area located between the municipalities of Brescia, Collebeato, Villa Carcina and Montirone, territories that share the presence of agricultural areas that over the years have been abandoned due to their unsuitability for intensive agriculture and lack of interest by new generations and that are now ready to start again.
- Ecodudu — Ecodudu is a waste-to-value company. It uses a proprietary innovation to recycle organic waste into high-protein animal feed and organic fertilizer using the black soldier fly. It harnesses insects (nature’s recycling agents) to address global issues which include waste management, demand for protein, and environmental conservation.
- Sistema.bio — Sistema.bio is a biodigester with biogas appliances. High efficiency biodigesters transform organic waste into renewable biogas.
We Find, Fund and Follow African Founders into the future.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Information Technology, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 18
- Round size: Seed $500k–$5M; Pre-Seed $50k–$100k
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
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- Niteon — Niteon - Where Africa trades with the world on its own terms.
- Blueroomcare — Blueroomcare offers private, affordable online counseling via app messaging, videos, and voice messages when you need it from licensed therapists. Get help, you deserve to be happy!
- HouseAfrica — NetAccess Communication Nigeria Limited operates in the real estate industry. The company's primary focus is on software engineering, mobile development, and DevOps engineering. It also provides services related to internet use and communication. The company's team includes a CEO and a CTO, among others, who work together to deliver theirservices. NetAccess Communication Nigeria Limited also has a connection with HouseAfrica, indicating a potential collaboration or partnership between the two entities.
E4E Africa Backing category-defining emerging market businesses. We invest in businesses that drive economic opportunity and sustainable growth.Learn MoreE4E specializes ... Read More
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- Industry: Logistics, Internet, Supply Chain Management
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: South Africa, The Netherlands, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 25
- Round size: Seed $2.7M–$7.5M; Pre-Seed $1M–$2M; Series A $1M–$5.4M
- Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
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- Kuunda — Kuunda provides consulting, liquidity management, data insight tools enabling users to fulfill financial needs through a digital platform.
- Yebo Fresh — Yebofresh is a new online shopping service, delivering popular groceries straight into areas that are generally unserved by most formal retailers. Our unique business model and partnerships with manufacturers allow us to deliver top quality products and A-brands at extremely competitive prices. Yebofresh serves Imizamo Yethu, Langa, Khayelitsha,Mfuleni and Gugulethu and following recent seed funding, is rapidly expanding across the greater Cape Town area.
- Conservio — Discover and Book South Africa's best nature accommodations with Conservio. Book vetted accommodations, easy and safe to book online.
Lateral Capital is a mission driven venture fund investing in early and growth stage opportunities in Africa. We back companies that provide foundational technologies for the continent. We make debt and equity investments technology-enabled businesses that profitably solve significant pain points across financial services, healthcare, education,energy, agriculture, housing, logistics, mobility and more.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Energy
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 48
- Round size: Seed $1M–$12M; Pre-Seed $500k–$3.5M; Series A $558k–$15M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $50M in 2020
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- Rhaeos — Rhaeos, the world's first wearable shunt monitor, aims to improve the quality care for patients with hydrocephalus through a novel, thermal biosensor. Developed within Northwestern University with collaboration between Dr. John Rogers, McCormick School of Engineering, Feinberg School of Medicine and Kellogg School of Management, Rhaeosrepresents a unique multidisciplinary translational effort for an important clinical need.
- Wattnow — Wattnow's smart meters and AI show every machine's consumption live and flag waste in time to stop it. Plants cut energy costs by up to 30%.
- Octavia Carbon — Reversing Climate Change | Ending the Fossil Fuel Age | In Kenya.
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Browse database — It's Free!MNF Ventures is a venture capital fund based in Morocco, investing in Seed, Pre-Series A and Series A startups. Tickets size can go up to USD 1M. We invest in tech startups operating in Fintech/Insurtech, EdTech, Regtech, HealthTech, Biotech, EnergyTech Cybersecurity, SaaS... Startups have either to be based in Morocco, or be based worldwideif at least one of the founders is a Moroccan citizen. MNF Ventures manages Maroc Numeric Fund and Maroc Numeric Fund II.
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- Industry: Online Portals, FinTech, Enterprise Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Morocco, France, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 32
- Round size: Seed $200k–$1.6M; Series A $250k–$700k
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $20M in 2018
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- ZSystems — ZSystems is a transformative super app designed to redefine B2B trade.
- Atlan Space — Building Artificial Intelligence to autonomously pilot any fixed wing drone, to monitor and take measures over very large areas
- OnePay — OnePay is a fintech startup that operates as a distributor of means of payment and aggregator of payment and value-added services in electronic transactions.
LoftyInc Capital Management empowers Afropreneurs to build a prosperous and equitable future in Africa. We deliver value to both founders and investors.........
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 170
- Round size: Seed $100k–$5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2.4M; Venture - Series Unknown $200k–$10M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $14M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Cauridor — Cauridor is a Financial Services company.
- WafR — WafR is a reward-based loyalty startup that allows users to earn phone recharges while shopping at retail shops.
- Nucleon Security — Zero-Trust and ML-based Endpoint Detection and Response Platform #EDR #FDR #EndpointSecurity
GIIG invest in seed, growth and late stage companies.
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- Industry: Health Care, Environmental Engineering, Fuel
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $100k–$3.3M
- Lead/follow: 71% lead, 29% follow
Portfolio highlights
- BioBuu — BioBuu focuses on the development of manufacturing capacity and environmentally sustainable production.
- Kubik — Kubik makes low-carbon buildings from plastic waste. Bringing environmental dignity to how countries grow.
- EnvisionIt Deep AI — Envisionit Deep AI is an innovative medical technology company that utilizes AI to streamline and improve medical imaging diagnosis for radiologists.
Wangara Green Ventures is a climate-focused impact investment asset manager in Ghana, West Africa.
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- Industry: Agriculture, AgTech, Energy
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Ghana, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Lead/follow: 80% lead, 20% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Wami Agro — WamiAgro connects African farmers with digital farm management, market access, credit support, and climate-smart agriculture solutions.
- Kofa — Kofa is an automotive company that utilizes the latest electric battery and motor technology. The company aims to develop an affordable, sustainable and customer driven electric network in transformative energy, transport, and climate change around the globe. Kofa was founded in Ghana and is headquartered in Accra.
- Northlite Solar — NorthLite Solar is a renewable energy provider that delivers solar power solutions for both commercial and residential sectors.
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- Industry: Energy, Renewable Energy, Solar
- Stage:Debt Financing, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Kenya, Uganda, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Debt Financing $200k–$1.4M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Oolu — Oolu is the fastest growing off-grid solar company West Africa. Our Vision is to be the leading energy and financial service provider to millions of customers in the developing world.Our model, developed with local communities, allows us to reach off-grid households in rural villages offering them modern energy access. With a monthly paymentmodel reducing barriers to access, as well as maintenance, parts and battery replacements included in our service, we save our clients money and assure them a continuous, dependable source of energy. In Wolof, a national language of Senegal, Oolu means ‘trust’. By building trust with the communities in which we work, we can grow together.
- Redavia — Solar In Ghana, REDAVIA provides clean and reliable energy to customers in sub-Saharan Africa. Affordable solar power for business in Ghana
- Aptech Africa — Aptech Africa, a leading Solar Energy and Water Pump Specialist in Africa. We provide quality solar design and installation for small and large scale projects.
Finnfund is a Finnish development finance company that provides long-term risk capital for private projects in developing countries. Apart from co-investing with Finnish companies they can finance ventures that use Finnish technology, cooperate with Finnish partners on a long-term basis or generate major environmental or social benefits.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Energy, FinTech
- Stage:Debt Financing, Series B
- Geography: Kenya, India, South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 68
- Round size: Series B $5M–$41M; Debt Financing $2.7M–$135M
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Mobisol — We transform lives through solar energy access. Our solar home systems and mini-grids benefit millions of people in Sub-Saharan Africa.
- TPL Insurance — TPL Insurance is a Pakistan's first direct insurance company that take care of all insurance related matters.
- Transvolt Mobility — Transvolt Mobility is an early-stage, technology-driven EV fleet operator, enabling India’s transition to sustainable, zero-emission transport by providing a scalable, multi-partner platform for commercial electric mobility across urban and industrial segments.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Health Care, Food and Beverage
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: France, Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire
Investor stats
- Total investments: 103
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- iProcure — iProcure is a Nairobi-based start-up working to optimize the agriculture input supply chain in rural Kenya. iProcure’s web and mobile technology solution improves agriculture retailers’ operations. It lets them manage ordering based on inventory, point of sale activities, and client profiles along with geo-located purchasing patterns, real-timeagent performance and transaction analysis, and built-in mobile payments. As a result, retailers can better predict demand with business intelligence data, improve inventory management, and streamline distribution efficiency.
- Trackbit — Trackbit is a cryptocurrency exchange platform.
- Lapaire — Discover a wide range of high-quality & affordable eyeglasses at Lapaire Glasses. Book a free vision test with our professional optometrists to help you find your perfect pair of glasses to enhance your vision and style. Shops in 7 african countries: Benin, Ivory Coast, Togo, Burkina Faso, Mali, Kenya and Uganda.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: France, United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 149
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$9M; Series A $4.2M–$24M
- Lead/follow: 64% lead, 36% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $165M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- reciTAL — First Intelligent Document Processing player with a Deep Tech label, reciTAL automates your extraction, classification and search processes, for all types of document and email flows.
- BeOpinion — BeOpinion is offering a unique experience of content enrichment using questions and social levers allowing you to increase and retain your users.
- Libeo — Libeo is a unique platform to collect, manage and pay all your supplier invoices. Without IBAN and in one click. We are reinventing how companies pay and connect with their business partners. No more hours spent manually entering invoices, answering to angry reminder emails from supplier and owing fees for late payments.* Automated invoiceentry, bulk or individual uploads. * Payments of supplier invoices, one clic no IBAN. * Team work: personalized approval workflow, on-the-go notifications. * Your finances in real time with consolidated financial indicators. Libeo is supported by the Ordre des Experts-Comptables of Ile-de-France, La Banque Postale, La Société Générale, La French Tech, Wilco, Finance Innovation and BNP Paribas.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Renewable Energy
- Stage:Debt Financing, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Kenya, Uganda, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Debt Financing $154k–$17M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
Portfolio highlights
- upOwa — upOwa brings electricity to Africa through our innovative Pay-As-You-Go solar technology for the poorest.
- Tugende — Tugende helps motorcycle taxi drivers own their own motorcycles in eighteen months or less instead of renting indefinitely. Ownership significantly increases income, job security and road safety.
- Sistema.bio — Sistema.bio is a biodigester with biogas appliances. High efficiency biodigesters transform organic waste into renewable biogas.
Blue Rinc Capital is an investment holding company focused on growth investments.
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- Industry: PaaS, Energy, Renewable Energy
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$1.1M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Rensource Energy — Rensource develops, finances, and manages critical energy infrastructure for African enterprises with the objective of powering Africa's economy
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