Top 5 Organic Food Startup Investors in Africa in January 2025
A list of 5 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Organic food startups based in Africa. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Organic food companies from Africa. We update this investor list every month.Top 5 Organic Food Startup Investors in Africa in January 2025
Investor | Organic Food Africa investments |
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Ryan Bethencourt | 1 |
Haskè Ventures | 1 |
Kale United | 1 |
Capital V | 1 |
Sustainable Food Ventures | 1 |
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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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Food Processing, Food and Beverage
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- United States, Chile, India
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.
- Libre Foods — MEAT, BUT MAKE IT MUSHROOMS. GET READY TO TASTE THE POWER OF FUNGI
Haskè Ventures is a venture builder based in Dakar and focused on transforming the startup landscape.
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- B2B, Retail, Banking
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Senegal
Portfolio highlights
- Kwely — An African Wholesale Marketplace, promoting the richness, authenticity and quality of Made in Africa products by making them accessible to the world.
- ProXalys — 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 — ProXalys is an online marketplace for agricultural products, offering assured payments and deferred payment options for merchants.
Kale United offers a portfolio of over 75+ plant-based game changers
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- Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Biotechnology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, Sweden, India
Portfolio highlights
- Opalia — Opalia is introducing a new era of dairy: functional, delicious, and sustainable dairy made from mammary cells.
- The Pack — Nutritionally complete vegan dog food. Grain-free & developed with food scientists & animal nutritionists, try our delicious vegan dog food now.
- Cultimate Foods — Cultimate Foods is a cellular agriculture company. It develops cultivated fat for hybrid alt-meat products. It's cultivated fat replicates the structure of animal fat tissue and it uses a "unique technological approach to 3D cultivation that creates the structure of their ingredient and reduces production costs."
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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Investment focus
- Food and Beverage, FinTech, Organic Food
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Nigeria, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
- Vacka — Vacka is a food and beverage manufacturer that produces and sells organic, plant-based vegan cheese varieties.
- NowNow — NowNow aims to democratise the mobile wallet space in Nigeria and Sub-Saharan Africa. We provide a bank and MNO agnostic online platform to recharge any mobile, pay bills, and utilities, send/receive money and pay@shop directly to merchants. The amount consumers pay is returned in the form of cashback and coupons making the recharge almostfree. We are PCI-DSS compliant and are licensed by the Central Bank of Nigeria.NowNow also offers a unique agent platform that enables additional revenue streams for individuals and businesses and provides financial services to the unbanked – allowing them to offer p2p, bank transfers, cash out, mobile recharge, pay bills etc.
- Vevolution — Vevolution is an investment platform providing data and intelligence for the AgriFoodTech ecosystems. Dedicated to removing animals from our supply chain.
SFV backs globally early-stage founders building leading Future of Food companies that are: #Cell-based #Plant-based #Recombinant
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Investment focus
- Food and Beverage, Biotechnology, Food Processing
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- United States, India, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Another Food — Another Food is a plant cell culture startup which develops sustainable coffee from plant cells. A nature-identical coffee, healthier for consumers and better for the planet.
- 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.
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