Top 15 Non Profit VC Funds & Investors in Africa (October 2026)

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• Tallee — Tallee monitors your brand across every major AI platform, including ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity, and shows you exactly how to improve your AI search visibility.
• Orb Aerospace — Orb Aerospace builds resilient communications and autonomous systems that keep critical operations connected when infrastructure fails. Meet ARC Edge and Lassie.
• Kokari Coconuts & Company — Ko-ka-ri means "let the good go around". We believe this is the magic of coconuts. At Kokari, we transform every part of the coconut into wholesome products made with simple, clean ingredients. Africa has always understood less is more.

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• ORIKI — ORIKI is a luxury skin and hair care brand that fuses all-natural ingredients primarily sourced from the continent of Africa with scientific research to create extraordinary products.
• Mukuru Clean Stoves — Mukuru Clean Stoves is a social enterprise The company is engaged in designing, producing and distributing improved, reliable and affordable cook stoves for low income households. The company's stoves are produced using locally sourced recycled waste metal enabling them to reduce production costs and make affordable products in the market.The company distributes its products through networks of local women business owners and microfinance institutions.
• 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.

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• AI Skills and Compute Africa Foundation — AI Skills and Compute Africa Foundation is a nonprofit organization that focuses on advancing artificial intelligence capabilities across Africa. It provides GPU-based compute access to startups and researchers through structured grant programs that use AI tokens instead of cash funding. The foundation runs capacity-building programs aimed atdeveloping technical skills and expanding participation in AI, with dedicated allocations for women. It supports institutional researchers with sovereign compute, curated datasets, and assistance in transitioning AI projects toward real-world deployment. The organization also develops physical community spaces known as AISCA Houses and Studios that host collaboration, mentorship, and networking for local technical talent. Its work spans sovereign compute, curated data, capacity building, and community-building pillars to shift Africans from AI consumers to AI creators.

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• Salad Money — Salad provide small, affordable loans to meet your urgent needs. The first responsible lender, we offer fair lending to public & private sector employees
• Robust International — Robust International the company initially dealt in plantation logs. It has gradually and steadily expanded into the Agribusiness industry while concurrently reducing and eliminating its profile in the timber logs segment.
• INNOVA Health Supplies — The mission of INNOVA Health Supplies is to guarantee that everyone has access to safe and efficient solutions for their needs related to sexual and reproductive health.

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• 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.

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• Matale Hill Brothers — Matale Hill Brothers is a secondary processing and marketing of coffee from smallholder farmers and local markets.
• JKCC General Supplies — JKCC General Supplies is the producer and exporter of quality coffee.
• MiCreditoYa Microfinanciera — MICREDITOYA was established to offer financial solutions to a subset of microentrepreneurs who had limited access to the financial sector because of their socioeconomic and geographic circumstances.

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• Fido — Fido builds technology that enables fast and secure access to digital financial services. Their financial platform and machine learning risk models make instant credit decisions for customers with no financial track record while reducing operational costs.
• SokoFresh — SokoFresh is a social enterprise that offers cold storage solutions and a digital market linkage platform to small and medium-scale farmers. It provides access to reliable, off-grid, first-mile cold storage facilities and digital market linkage services to farmers and buyers in fruit and vegetable value chains.
• Omia Agribusiness Development — The mission of Omia Agribusiness Development is to provide African farmers with the tools they need to achieve maximum productivity, profitability, and sustainability.

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• Cegasa — Cegasa manufactures industrial batteries and energy storage solutions that specialize in electrochemical energy accumulation.
• Ikos Advanced — Ikos Advanced is a digital agricultural logbook designed for Spanish farmers to meet REA regulations on crop traceability. Ikosnotes enables detailed logging of farm activities like planning, task tracking, input applications, and harvests in a centralized digital platform. It automates data entry from connected sensors, irrigation systems, andweather data for real-time updates and official report generation. Users access it via web or mobile apps (iOS/Android) for multi-device management and team collaboration.
• Wenea Mobile Energy — Wenea Mobile Energy is a mobile energy operator.

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• Paraty Tech — At Paraty Tech we help hotels sell more through their direct channels: booking engine, revenue management, web page design, etc.
• Brevo — Brevo is the most intuitive all-in-one customer engagement platform: email and SMS marketing, automation, CRM, live chat, and transactional email. Try it free.
• Groupe Senef — Groupe Senef is a digital software provider that serves service industries like home care, cleaning, hospitality, and many others.

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• Validis — Validis connects to 100+ accounting systems, delivering standardized, AI-ready financial data for audit, lending and advisory firms worldwide.
• Crux Informatics — Crux New York is a software development industry.
• Daksh eServices — Daksh eServices is an Indian outsourcing company which offers a range of web enabled customer care services including email response, real-time chat, knowledge management, eCRM architecture and other value added services to global eBusiness.The Daksh vision statement reads "To help eBusiness build exceptional customer relationships byleveraging India's high quality, cost effective intellectual capital ". To realize this vision, Daksh has built a world-class management team drawn from senior professionals at Compaq, Motorola, Andersen Consulting, Pepsi & Hewitt Associates. The team has a collective experience of over 100 man-years in running world-class service operations in an Indian environment and in transitioning business processes from the US to India.

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• Zeraki — Zeraki is to use technology to address some of the obstacles learners encounter in accessing quality education. We use technology to enhance the quality of education students get at each level of education and use technology to help students transition from one level of education to the next, and ultimately from education into employment.
• TotoRegister — Revolutionising attendance data to protect children. #Innovate4Change

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• exuus ltd — Exuus is a finTech company that inspire resilience and enable communities to achieve their optimal satisfaction.
• Zebit — Zebit provides a max of $1,500 of credit to pay over time on thousands of products.
• HealthifyMe — HealthifyMe is an application that allows its users to achieve their fitness and weight loss goals from their computers and smartphones.The application enables its users to track their calories, nutrition, and fitness activities; track their weight and determine if they are healthy; set healthy goals and work toward meeting them; share theirdata with experts; and get expert advice and suggestions on their lifestyles.HealthifyMe was developed and launched by a team of doctors, nutritionists, and fitness trainers in 2012. It is based in Bangalore, India.

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• Inspired — Inspired is a co-educational, non-denominational, independent school group designed to inspire students to achieve their maximum potential in a nurturing, progressive academic environment from ages 1 to 18.
• CMH Academy — CMH is a well-recognised higher education institution in the Hotel Management, Luxury Brand and Tourism sector in the heart of Paris.The school offers Bachelors, Master, MBA and Executive Programs with 18 specialisations to c.400 students from 60 nationalities. The school is particularly well known for its strong links with top luxury hotelsestablishments and its high job placement rates.

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• Northern Arc — Northern Arc Capital is a non-banking finance company that provides access to debt for under-served investors and businesses. Northern Arc Capita connects originators so that they may deepen their presence and provide access to financial services to millions of under-served households. Northern Arc Capital formerly Known as IFMR Capital.
• Accial Capital — Accial Capital is an impact-focused, tech-enabled investor in small business and consumer loan portfolios in Latin America and South East Asia. Accial Capital combines data, technology, capital and credit expertise to contribute to a world of widespread credit access and financial health.
• Sunwealth Power — Sunwealth is a clean energy investment firm who curates high-performance commercial solar projects that deliver clean energy and boast exceptional return potential for our investors.

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• 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.
• East Africa Fruits — EA Fruits Farm is a business that engages in the large production and distribution of fruits and vegetables. As fruits are an essential part of a human's diet for maintenance of good health and wellbeing, the business will take part in providing the opportunity for Tanzanian citizens and other people overseas to get such fruits and motivatemore people to increase their intake of fruits whereby the company will strive to increase the supply to match the increased demand for fresh fruits and vegetables. The business envisions to be among the leading producers, distributors, and exporters of the fruits within the Country and overseas. The company is a highly profitable and viable business that expects to rise to about 5,000 USD from its current small-scaled operations, while more than 450,000 USD will be raised as a result of further expansion within a period of 2-4 years.
• 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.