# USAID East Africa Trade and Investment Hub

> USAID East Africa Trade and Investment Hub is a VC fund backing Agriculture. See 17 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Sep 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Nairobi, Kenya
- Total investments: 17
- Last investment: Apr 2023
- Lead investor: 41%
- Last updated: Sep 2026
- Website: https://x.com/investeafrica
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/eatradeandinvestmenthub

USAID East Africa Trade and Investment Hub is a U.S. Government that seeks to increase commerce and investment with and within Africa. The Hub's mission is to deepen regional integration, boost the economic viability of select regional agriculture value chains, promote two-way trade with the United States under the African Growth andOpportunity Act (AGOA), and facilitate investment and technology that drives intra-regional and global trade growth.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Grant | $100k–$1.8M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Agriculture | 9 | 53% |
| Farming | 6 | 35% |
| AgTech | 4 | 24% |
| Information Technology | 4 | 24% |
| Renewable Energy | 3 | 18% |

35 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Grant | 16 | 94% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 6% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Nigeria | 10 | 59% |
| Kenya | 3 | 18% |
| United States | 2 | 12% |
| Moldova | 1 | 6% |
| Mauritius | 1 | 6% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Juan Estrada-Valle | Chief of Party | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/juan-estrada-valle |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Victory Farms | Victory Farms is an aquaculture farm for tilapia fish comprising of hatcheries, nursery ponds and deep-water cages for farming. | $150K | Grant | Apr 03, 2023 | https://www.victoryfarmskenya.com/ |
| iProcure | 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. | $120K | Grant | Mar 31, 2023 | http://iprocureafrica.co |
| Ryp Labs | Ryp Labs develops and commercializes technologies designed to reduce food waste. It provides a natural and safe formulation that can be applied to a variety of surfaces, including stickers, labels, and sheets, to increase the shelf-life of fresh produce. Its food-safe labels (Shelf-Defense), and stickers (StixFresh), have been shown to double theshelf-life of fresh produce, by simply peeling and applying them to loose produce or its packaging. | $100K | Grant | Nov 10, 2022 | https://www.ryplabs.com/ |
| Cinch Markets | Cinch Markets is an agtech farming ecosystem bringing economies of scale from the industrial scale to the individual acre. | $1.5M | Grant | Feb 01, 2022 |  |
| Brycoal | Brycoal democratizes energy access for individuals at the base of the energy pyramid through the recycling of organic waste. They offer cooking and heating fuel in form of charcoal briquettes for households. | $100K | Grant | Nov 01, 2021 | https://x.com/brycoal |
| Flourish Cold Chain | Flourish provides 24 hours storage and preservation of food by creating a value chain to reduce post-harvest losses for rural farmers. |  | Grant | Nov 01, 2021 | https://flourishcoldchain.com/ |
| Kitovu Technology Company | Kitovu builds climate-smart farming and post-harvest infrastructure to enable African smallholder farmers to take out the guesswork from their operations. Kitovu has built three main products that support climate-smart farming and enable access to post-harvest infrastructure; YieldMax, eProcure, and StorageX. YieldMax applies data science andremote sensing to provide smallholder farmers with a personalized agronomic advisory that delivers operational insights, input specifications, and crop health audits. At harvest, we match the farmers' produce to partner buyers through our eProcure service. We also provide access to effective storage and access to finance through StorageX, a platform that leverages Electronic Warehouse Receipts Systems to transform farmers' goods under storage into collaterals. | $74K | Grant | Nov 01, 2021 | https://x.com/kitovut |
| Energy Assured Nigeria | Energy Assured is an energy and utility procurement market provider for smaller businesses ranging from independent retailers and local franchisees to affinity group members in any sector. Users and customers benefit from economies of scale, more agile energy purchasing, and consistently lower gas, electricity, and water costs. Their expertsunderstand the pressures that small and medium-sized businesses face: they work to provide clients with exactly what they require so that clients can use energy as an asset to propel their business forward. | $100K | Grant | Nov 01, 2021 | https://x.com/EAsured |
| Aisiki | Aisiki is a food supply chain startup that sources fresh and packaged food items directly from farmers. They sell staples and proteins to small shops, restaurants, and grocery stores. | $100K | Grant | Oct 01, 2021 | http://aisiki.co |
| Uzoebo Nigeria | Uzoebo is a hub for raw and processed agricultural products that aims to increase food availability, promote local food, and reduce wastage. | $100K | Grant | Oct 01, 2021 | https://x.com/NigeriaUzoebo |

10 of 17 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [MTN Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mtn) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- West Africa Trade Hub — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [XY Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/xy-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does USAID East Africa Trade and Investment Hub invest in?

USAID East Africa Trade and Investment Hub invests primarily in Agriculture, Farming and AgTech startups, most often at Grant and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 17 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Nigeria. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is USAID East Africa Trade and Investment Hub's check size?

USAID East Africa Trade and Investment Hub typically joins rounds of $100k–$1.8M at Grant. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds USAID East Africa Trade and Investment Hub participates in.

### How do I contact USAID East Africa Trade and Investment Hub?

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### Who are the partners at USAID East Africa Trade and Investment Hub?

The team at USAID East Africa Trade and Investment Hub includes Juan Estrada-Valle (Chief of Party). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Sep 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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