Global Innovation Fund
VC Fund
London, United Kingdom
Global Innovation Fund is a VC fund in London focused on Education and Health Care. The Global Innovation Fund is a non-profit innovation fund headquartered in London with an office in Washington D.C. that invests in the development, rigorous testing, and scaling of innovations targeted at improving the lives of the world’s poorest people.They believe that the best ideas for solving some of the world’s most critical problems cancome from anyone, anywhere. Through their grants and risk capital, they help breakthrough solutions to global development challenges from for-profit firms, non-profit organisations, researchers, and government agencies to maximise their impact and affect meaningful change.
- Total investments:
- 35
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 66%
Last updated:
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Industries Global Innovation Fund invests in
Stages Global Innovation Fund invests in
Countries Global Innovation Fund invests in
Contacts
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Alix Zwane
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Ken Chomitz
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Sarah Alexander
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Shane Leonard
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Francesco Valente
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Education 5 (14%)
- Health Care 5 (14%)
- Information Technology 4 (11%)
- FinTech 3 (9%)
- Software 3 (9%)
Stage
- Grant 9 (26%)
- Series B 6 (17%)
- Funding Round 4 (11%)
- Seed 3 (9%)
- Series A 3 (9%)
Country
- United States 6 (17%)
- United Kingdom 4 (11%)
- Kenya 3 (9%)
- India 2 (6%)
- France 2 (6%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
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Alix Zwane
Chief Executive Officer
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Chief Executive Officer | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
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Ken Chomitz
Chief Analytics Officer
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Chief Analytics Officer | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Sarah Alexander
Senior Advisor and Investment Committee Member
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Senior Advisor and Investment Committee Member | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Shane Leonard
Chief Financial Officer
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Chief Financial Officer | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Francesco Valente
Investment Director
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Investment Director | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
| See all 7 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Reme-D
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Reme-D, a deep tech company with patented technology, that is redefining healthcare in low-resource settings through efficient, affordable disease testing systems, ensuring equitable access to vital diagnostics for everyone. | $1.5M / Seed / Jul 20, 2026 | |
AI Diagnostics
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AI Diagnostics is a medical technology company that provides tuberculosis diagnostics. | $5.2M / Seed / Apr 15, 2026 | |
Mountain Harvest
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Mountain Harvest produces Arabica coffee, working with local farmers to improve coffee quality and support sustainable farming practices. The company focuses on enhancing farmers' income opportunities and environmental sustainability. It offers education and internships in quality assurance, processing, and agronomy. Mountain Harvest alsocollaborates with academic institutions on research related to coffee production and quality. | $500K / Debt Financing / Apr 15, 2026 | |
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Reme-D
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Reme-D, a deep tech company with patented technology, that is redefining healthcare in low-resource settings through efficient, affordable disease testing systems, ensuring equitable access to vital diagnostics for everyone. | $500K / Seed / Apr 02, 2026 | |
4G Capital
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4G Capital has supported micro-enterprises in Africa since 2013, providing financial literacy training with working capital loans to help small businesses grow sustainably. 4G Capital clients receive a bespoke programme of business training to help them use micro-loans to achieve much higher take-home earnings. 4G Capital’s proprietorialmachine learning technology delivers high fidelity insights from traditionally data dark sectors. We design scalable credit products and services optimized for clients’ business risks, timescales and affordability. Training is delivered via mobile apps and face-to-face outreach. Using only mobile money, loans are accessed in under two minutes with either smart or feature phones.4G Capital directly addresses the Finance Gap across Africa. This stands at over $19 billion for Micro and SMEs in Kenya alone (source: IFC), even though this important segment accounts for over 30% of GDP. It is almost impossible for these companies to access credit without high collateral and data requirements. Over 30% of small businesses fail due to lack of funding. 4G Capital consistently achieves very high collections rates without collateral or refinancing its clients, by only lending to viable businesses on terms that are right for them. 4G Capital is on target to positively impact over 1 million people by 2020. With operations in Kenya and Uganda, and having received multiple industry awards, 4G Capital is now scaling across the continent and expanding its suite of products and services as Africa’s Fastest Fintech. Key achievements to date:· >94% collection rates without refinancing clients · Net Promoter Score 72 · Clients increase revenues by average 82% · 81% Women Customers · 82% Repeat Customers · 77% Rural Clients · 94% Increased financial literacy · $32M worth of loans to date · >50 locations in Kenya and expanding in Uganda and beyond · Partnership retail credit service plugs in to distributor systems to boost value chain sales | $2M / Debt Financing / Mar 27, 2026 | |
Agros
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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. | $4.3M / Series A / Mar 11, 2025 | |
Komunidad
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Komunidad is a Climate Action Management Software that integrates ESG & Sustainability Management, Climate Risk Assessment and Social Impact tools into a single, comprehensive solution. | $500K / Debt Financing / Aug 12, 2024 | |
Mr. Green Africa
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Mr. Green Africa is a Nairobi-based recycling start-up whose vision is to change people’s perceptions towards waste equals value. This small company incorporates the concept of shared value—creating economic value while addressing social and environmental challenges—into its core, by harnessing the untapped potential of an existing informal wastemanagement industry.Mr. Green Africa sells pre-processed recycling materials with a traceable social and environmental impact. | Series B / Jan 13, 2022 | |
Isizwe
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Africa is experiencing unprecedented growth, with 1.2 billion people predicted to join the population by 2050.Today, no African cities are among the world's most populous. By 2050, Kinshasa and Lagos will make the top 10. By 2100, the three most populated cities will all be African. A vast majority of these people still don't haveaccess to fast and affordable internet.That's where Isizwe comes in. We're changing the game with our lightning-fast and affordable fiber solutions available on a pay-as-you-go basus, bringing connectivity to Sub-Saharan Africa. | $460K / Venture - Series Unknown / Dec 30, 2021 | |
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Mr. Green Africa
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Mr. Green Africa is a Nairobi-based recycling start-up whose vision is to change people’s perceptions towards waste equals value. This small company incorporates the concept of shared value—creating economic value while addressing social and environmental challenges—into its core, by harnessing the untapped potential of an existing informal wastemanagement industry.Mr. Green Africa sells pre-processed recycling materials with a traceable social and environmental impact. | $2M / Nov 15, 2020 | |
| See all 35 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Global Innovation Fund invest in?
Global Innovation Fund invests primarily in Education, Health Care and Information Technology startups, most often at Grant and Series B stage. Most of the 35 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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Who are the partners at Global Innovation Fund?
The team at Global Innovation Fund includes Alix Zwane (Chief Executive Officer), Ken Chomitz (Chief Analytics Officer) and Sarah Alexander (Senior Advisor and Investment Committee Member), among 7 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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