Top 15 Organic Food Startup Investors in Africa (August 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Women Entrepreneurship for Africa
VC Fund
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3 | Nigeria, Uganda, Cameroon | Pre-Seed, Grant | Health Care, Agriculture, Food and Beverage | |
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Haskè Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Senegal, Morocco, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | B2B, Food and Beverage, Retail | $150k–$700k |
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Adanian Labs
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed | Developer Platform, Financial Services, Gaming | $60k–$100k |
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AgFunder
VC Fund
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, India | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Agriculture, AgTech, Biotechnology | $100k–$29M |
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Malagasy Investment Club
VC Fund
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1 | Madagascar | Seed | Training, Nutrition, Organic Food | |
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Hesham Zreik
Angel
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1 | United States, Nigeria, India | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce | $12k–$5M |
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Equitable Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Nigeria, South Africa, Ghana | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, Information Technology, AgTech | $80k–$2.6M |
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Bashar Hamood
Angel
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1 | United States, India, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce | $7k–$5M |
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Ryan Bethencourt
Angel
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1 | United States, Chile, India | Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel | Biotechnology, Food Processing, Food and Beverage | $100k–$4.6M |
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Digital Africa Tech
VC Fund
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1 | Egypt, Senegal | Seed | B2B, Medical, Diabetes | $500k–$3.6M |
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216 Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Tunisia, France, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | B2B, SaaS, Software | $161k–$1.5M |
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Capital V
VC Fund
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1 | Nigeria, United States, India | Seed, Pre-Seed | Food and Beverage, Food Processing, FinTech | $100k–$13M |
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Kale United
VC Fund
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1 | Sweden, United Kingdom, Canada | Seed, Pre-Seed | Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Biotechnology | $100k–$2.5M |
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Sustainable Food Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, India, Germany | Pre-Seed, Seed | Food and Beverage, Biotechnology, Food Processing | $150k–$3.7M |
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Thrive Worldwide
VC Fund
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1 | Nigeria | Pre-Seed | Organic Food, Food Processing, Plant-Based Foods | |
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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.
Haskè Ventures is a venture builder based in Dakar and focused on transforming the startup landscape.
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- Industry: B2B, Food and Beverage, Retail
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Senegal, Morocco, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $200k–$700k; Pre-Seed $150k–$150k
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Génimi — Génimi is a mobile first platform that streamlines tutoring services to assist students in francophone africa.
- ProXalys INC — ProXalys is an african digital bank or neobank for the financial inclusion and empowerment of african women (entrepreneurs and self-employed entrepreneurs, startups, SMEs, and startups).
- ProXalys — BENGKULUTOTO Adalah Platform game online terbaik dan terpercaya di Indonesia. Nikmati pengalaman bermain seru, aman, dengan berbagai pilihan hiburan berkualitas tinggi kapan saja!
Adanian Labs Africa, is a venture building studio with a mission to build tech powered impact driven startups across Africa. We are a smart tech hub powered by smart technologies like blockchain and AI to ensure that the solutions built are scalable and sustainable. www.adanianlabs.io
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- Industry: Developer Platform, Financial Services, Gaming
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 21
- Round size: Pre-Seed $60k–$100k
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
Portfolio highlights
- SeraPay — We are revolutionizing social commerce in Africa with SeraPay, ensuring the seamless buying and selling of goods on social media platforms. Our innovative service empowers businesses to access markets beyond their geographical borders, making social retail easier and more efficient.
- Savabyte — A pan-African women-led platform that connects career advancement opportunities to quality tech talent & women in technology. #ConnectingTechTalent
- Jungopharm — Jungopharm is a developer of a pharma and healthcare platform that aims to make health care understandable, accessible & affordable for all.
AgFunder is a global venture capital firm backing deeptech platforms across AI, biotech, robotics, manufacturing, climate, and materials.
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- Industry: Agriculture, AgTech, Biotechnology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 156
- Round size: Seed $700k–$9M; Pre-Seed $100k–$1.1M; Series A $4.4M–$29M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $60M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Scindo — Creating a novel biological process to turn low-value plastic landfill waste into high-value molecules.
- Atomo Coffee — Atomo Coffee is a developer of molecular coffee. Atomo has reverse-engineered the coffee bean to create a smooth cup of coffee, made of naturally derived ingredients, and more sustainable than current commercial coffee.
- Resurrect Bio — Resurrect Bio is a disease resistance trait discovery company. Using AI and our high-throughput in planta screening platform we provide traits for breeders.
MAIC Club is formed by 8 Malagasy Entreprenuers to offer an entrepreneurial approch to investment.
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- Industry: Training, Nutrition, Organic Food
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Madagascar
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- SAYNA — Sayna is to provide high-quality training in the digital sector and provide professional chances to young people by bridging the gap between the growing demand and supply for digital talent in Africa.
- Moringa Wave — We are a social enterprise which promotes the sustainable economic growth for the production and distribution of moringa oleifera and its derivatives, by collaborating with a network of local producers in Madagascar. As mission, we aim to the social, environmental and economic development of Madagascar, one of the poorest country in the world. We support the training and employment programs of young people and women.
Hesham Zreik is the CEO of FasterCapital. He previously worked at DreamApps as a Project Manager. Hesham attended the University of Westminster.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 887
- Round size: Seed $50k–$2.1M; Pre-Seed $12k–$1M; Series A $170k–$5M
- Lead/follow: 53% lead, 47% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Book Your Own — Book Your Own is building an integrated travel ecosystem designed to unify India’s fragmented travel market.
- UrbanFarmers — UrbanFarmers is a platform that connects city dwellers with local urban farms and community gardens.
- Excel And Impact Agro — Excel And Impact Agro aims to tackle the chronic shortage of vegetable production in Côte d'Ivoire.
Equitable Ventures is a venture funding firm that focuses on financial inclusion in Africa. It provide opportunity to help Africa's most promising early-stage fintech firms, with both financial rewards and impact.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Information Technology, AgTech
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, South Africa, Ghana
Investor stats
- Total investments: 24
- Round size: Seed $100k–$2.6M; Pre-Seed $80k–$1.8M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Forti Foods — The mission of Forti Foods is to enhance communities and change lives beyond the plate by fostering resilience and dignity via sustainable food innovation.
- Startbutton — Startbutton Africa is a Merchant of Record (digital commerce infrastructure platform) that helps businesses expand across African markets by simplifying payments, compliance, and collections
- Happy Pay — Happy Pay is a credit scoring system developing company. The company integrates an autonomous artificial intelligence technology system with the merchant's platform to increase their average basket size and customer conversion metrics, providing users with buy now, and pay later services.
Bashar Hamood is a Venture Partner at FasterCapital. He previously worked as an Associate Director at Logica. He attended Heriot-Watt University.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 476
- Round size: Seed $15k–$2M; Pre-Seed $7k–$500k; Series A $33k–$5M
- Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
Portfolio highlights
- EcoBites — EcoBites is a subscription service that delivers sustainably sourced and eco-friendly packaged snacks and meals to consumers doorsteps.
- Lawyeree — A platform offering AI legal advice to clients and allowing clients to be connected with the best lawyers.
- ZohoOptimizer AI — ZohoOptimizer AI is a platform designed to enhance Zoho’s suite of business applications by providing AI-driven process automation.
Ryan is a co-founder and CEO at Wild Earth and a co-founder and Partner at Sustainable Food Ventures, bringing years of experience in leading, building and advising high-growth food and biotechnology companies. Ryan is a biotech entrepreneur, investor, and one of the founders of the biohacker movement. He’s a co-founder and former Program Directorat IndieBio and has invested in over 130 early stage biotech startups and served as the head of life sciences at the XPRIZE Foundation. As an ethical vegan, Ryan is passionate about the future of biology as a technology, applied across all industries to solve some of humanity’s most intractable problems. Ryan fosters dogs for Rocket Dog Rescue and is passionate about mindfulness, meditation, and mentoring. His work at the interface of science, food, and business has been covered by many major publications.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Food Processing, Food and Beverage
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Geography: United States, Chile, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 16
- Round size: Seed $100k–$4.6M; Pre-Seed $100k–$945k
- Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
Portfolio highlights
- WTH Foods — WTH Foods is a plant-based alternative protein company based in Manila, Philippines. Using local and sustainable ingredients, we create plant-based versions of processed meat products that Southeast Asian love
- Sobo Foods — Sobo Foods is a plant based comfort food provider.
- Veggie Victory — VeggieVictory is Nigeria’s first plant-based food tech company bringing people a healthier and more sustainable lifestyle through plant-based meats and meals.
The Digital Africa label federates African innovation initiatives and ecosystems, notably giving them access to resources and business opportunities, and putting them in touch with European innovation ecosystems to think about the future together. To implement this approach, Digital Africa will rely on a digital platform that will be launched inautumn 2018. This platform will be a space to allow innovative entrepreneurs in Africa to find the resources and contacts necessary for their development and for the growth of their projects (non-profit and startups) by federating the communities of knowledge and initiatives and by rendering available the shared resources by the partners of the Digital Africa initiative. It aims at becoming a public good, very much in the spirit of the commons, through harnessing innovation and digital actors on the continent.
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- Industry: B2B, Medical, Diabetes
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Egypt, Senegal
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Seed $500k–$3.6M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $76M in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- Almouneer — Healthcare, Diabetes, Practice Management, Technology
- ProXalys — BENGKULUTOTO Adalah Platform game online terbaik dan terpercaya di Indonesia. Nikmati pengalaman bermain seru, aman, dengan berbagai pilihan hiburan berkualitas tinggi kapan saja!
- Fatala Digital House — Digital transformation leveraged by Data&AI
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- Industry: B2B, SaaS, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: Tunisia, France, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 26
- Round size: Seed $336k–$1.5M; Pre-Seed $161k–$1M
- Lead/follow: 62% lead, 38% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Eyst Technology — EYST provides a technological solution against insurance fraud. The company is based in Puteaux, France.
- Addvocate.ai — Transform your enterprise sales team with AI-native solutions. Get 10x productivity increase with automated meeting prep, deal tracking, and CRM updates.
- Robocare — RoboCare promotes sustainable agriculture by combining spectral technology and artificial intelligence (AI). Precision agricultural services include crop monitoring, stress mitigation, plant requirements control, increased land efficiency, and pesticide optimization.
Transforming the global system to one that is more sustainable – from the perspectives of environment, food scarcity, health and animal welfare – by investing in solutions that facilitate sustained behavioral change and eliminate the consumption of animal products. Investing in vegan ventures
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- Industry: Food and Beverage, Food Processing, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $330k–$13M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2M
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Vacka — Vacka is a food and beverage manufacturer that produces and sells organic, plant-based vegan cheese varieties.
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- Vevolution — Vevolution is an investment platform providing data and intelligence for the AgriFoodTech ecosystems. Dedicated to removing animals from our supply chain.
Kale United offers a portfolio of over 75+ plant-based game changers
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- Industry: Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Biotechnology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Sweden, United Kingdom, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 26
- Round size: Seed $360k–$2.5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Opalia — Opalia is introducing a new era of dairy: functional, delicious, and sustainable dairy made from mammary cells.
- Hooked Foods — Hooked Foods is working on a plant-based tuna substitute. By serving delicious plant-based seafood for everyone to enjoy, the company is leading the transition to a healthier seafood ecosystem. The company was established in 2019 and is headquartered in Sweden.
- Cultimate Foods — At Cultimate, we are transforming the flavor and aroma industry with natural innovative ingredients.
SFV backs globally early-stage founders building leading Future of Food companies that are: #Cell-based #Plant-based #Recombinant
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- Industry: Food and Beverage, Biotechnology, Food Processing
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: United States, India, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 43
- Round size: Seed $934k–$3.7M; Pre-Seed $150k–$2M
- Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Propel Foods — Startup that creates plant-based and hybrid protein through technology.
- Peruvian Veef — Peruvian Veef is an offline and online store that offers real burgers, grilled seitan, crispy cravings, and vegan nugget products.
- Atlantic Fish Company — Atlantic Fish Co is a cultivated seafood company using cellular agriculture to bring the world sustainable delicious seafood.
Health, wellbeing and leadership support for those working to make the world a better place
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- Industry: Organic Food, Food Processing, Plant-Based Foods
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Veggie Victory — VeggieVictory is Nigeria’s first plant-based food tech company bringing people a healthier and more sustainable lifestyle through plant-based meats and meals.
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