Ceniarth
VC Fund
San Francisco, United States
Ceniarth is a single-family office focused on funding market-based solutions that benefit underserved communities. Through their investing activity, they provide capital to accelerate the deployment of products and services that directly impact underserved communities. They aim to support enterprises in ways that lead to long term commercialsustainability.They organize their work around program areas that aim to think systematically about sector development and the obstacles to growth. They endeavor to support market ecosystems in ways that attract ongoing private investment or public sector support.Ceniarth began operations in 2013 and works in conjunction with the Isenberg Family Charitable Foundation. Their ability to leverage grants and program-related investments, in addition to return-seeking capital, allows us to think flexibly and creatively to address funding gaps. Their goal is to apply the right, most efficient form of capital for a given need in order to produce meaningful impacts for communities.
- Total investments:
- 17
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 47%
Last updated:
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Industries Ceniarth invests in
Stages Ceniarth invests in
Countries Ceniarth invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $1.7M–$1.7M
- Series B
- $9M–$40M
- Debt Financing
- $1.5M–$45M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Agriculture 8 (47%)
- Financial Services 4 (24%)
- Social Entrepreneurship 3 (18%)
- AgTech 2 (12%)
- Energy 2 (12%)
Stage
- Debt Financing 7 (41%)
- Seed 3 (18%)
- Series B 3 (18%)
- Series A 1 (6%)
- Funding Round 1 (6%)
Country
- Kenya 4 (24%)
- United Kingdom 2 (12%)
- Ghana 1 (6%)
- India 1 (6%)
- Canada 1 (6%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Diane Isenberg
Director & Founder
|
Director & Founder | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
|
Greg Neichin
Director
|
Director | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Stefan Freeman
Head of Investment
|
Head of Investment | Total investments: 1 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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. | $1.8M / Debt Financing / Nov 25, 2025 | ||
| Salad Money provides short-term, affordable loans to people who are experiencing financial difficulties. They are a for-profit social enterprise and the first truly responsible lender. | $2.7M / Debt Financing / May 29, 2025 | ||
| 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. | $25M / Debt Financing / Apr 23, 2025 | ||
| Salad Money provides short-term, affordable loans to people who are experiencing financial difficulties. They are a for-profit social enterprise and the first truly responsible lender. | $1.5M / Debt Financing / Oct 26, 2023 | ||
| A B2B aggregated marketplace for agriculture with integrated financing facilities. | Aug 15, 2023 | ||
| 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. | $9M / Series B / Aug 18, 2022 | ||
| The Farmerline vision is to see an Africa where Agriculture NGO’s are not a functioning force in the market. Farmerline provides paid services that allow farmers to have the information and access they need to employ an entrepreneurial method of farming. Input dealers and traders pay for more efficient communication channels to farmers andfarmers pay for information packages and services. In this vision, more food is produce, more food gets to market, and GDP from cash crop export soars. | $6.5M / Debt Financing / Apr 25, 2022 | ||
| Apollo Agriculture is an agtech company that offers farmers access to agricultural inputs, financing, and advice. Apollo helps farmers in emerging markets maximize their profits. The company uses agronomic machine learning, remote sensing, and mobile phones to deliver a customized package of credit, high-quality farm inputs, and advice that candouble farm yields, starting in Kenya. Apollo assesses farmer credit risk and customizes each package to a farmer's specific location using satellite data, soil data, farmer behavior data, and crop yield models. | $40M / Series B / Mar 21, 2022 | ||
| Kheyti helps small farmers battle income variability by providing low cost technologies bundled with services. | Venture - Series Unknown / Aug 24, 2020 | ||
| Komaza is a tech-driven sustainable forestry company revolutionizing the wood industry in Africa with its farmer platform. It combines technology, training, and service to create a new sustainable wood supply for Africa at an 80% cost disruption over traditional plantations. The company was founded in 2006 by Tevis Howard. | $28M / Series B / Jul 14, 2020 | ||
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FAQ
What does Ceniarth invest in?
Ceniarth invests primarily in Agriculture, Financial Services and Social Entrepreneurship startups, most often at Debt Financing and Seed stage. Most of the 17 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Kenya. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Ceniarth invest in?
Ceniarth typically joins rounds of $1.7M–$1.7M at Seed, $9M–$40M at Series B and $1.5M–$45M at Debt Financing. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Ceniarth's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Ceniarth took part in.
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Who are the partners at Ceniarth?
The team at Ceniarth includes Diane Isenberg (Director & Founder), Greg Neichin (Director) and Stefan Freeman (Head of Investment). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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