# Hivos Food & Lifestyle Fund

> Hivos Food & Lifestyle Fund is a VC fund backing Agriculture and Information Technology. See 2 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Sep 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: The Hague, The Netherlands
- Total investments: 2
- Last investment: May 2018
- Lead investor: 100%
- Last updated: Sep 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hivos-impact-investments
- Website: https://x.com/hivosimpinv?lang=en
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hivosimpactinvestments

Hivos Food & Lifestyle Fund is an impact investment management firm that manages funds that have a beneficial impact as well as a financial return. They invest in seed-stage firms that can scale in terms of finance and impact and partner with them.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Agriculture | 1 | 50% |
| Information Technology | 1 | 50% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| GreenFingers Mobile | It believes that enabling inclusive agriculture through organized value chains, will radically reduce poverty, improve food security and build climate resilient economies in Africa.GreenFingers Mobile is a mobile technology platform which manages and finances large groups of smallholder farmers in value chains.GreenFingers Mobile replaces penand paper based management systems with real time big data, to reduce transaction costs and enable the efficient inclusion of smallholder farmers in global value chains.GreenFingers Mobile was initially piloted in 2013, and fully established in 2015. The technology solution currently operates in three countries, managing over 5,000 smallholder farmers, across commodities like ABE chilli, soy, sorghum and maize. |  | Seed | May 15, 2018 |  |
| GreenFingers Mobile | It believes that enabling inclusive agriculture through organized value chains, will radically reduce poverty, improve food security and build climate resilient economies in Africa.GreenFingers Mobile is a mobile technology platform which manages and finances large groups of smallholder farmers in value chains.GreenFingers Mobile replaces penand paper based management systems with real time big data, to reduce transaction costs and enable the efficient inclusion of smallholder farmers in global value chains.GreenFingers Mobile was initially piloted in 2013, and fully established in 2015. The technology solution currently operates in three countries, managing over 5,000 smallholder farmers, across commodities like ABE chilli, soy, sorghum and maize. |  | Seed | Mar 03, 2017 |  |

2 of 2 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Hivos Food & Lifestyle Fund invest in?

Hivos Food & Lifestyle Fund invests primarily in Agriculture and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 2 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in South Africa. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Hivos Food & Lifestyle Fund last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Hivos Food & Lifestyle Fund closed in May 2018. Shizune tracks 2 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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