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Top 50 Renewable Energy Startup Investors in Africa in September 2025

A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Renewable energy startups based in Africa. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Renewable energy companies from Africa. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Renewable Energy Startup Investors in Africa in September 2025

Investor Renewable Energy Africa investments
All On 7
Norfund 5
CRE Venture Capital 4
Factor E 3
Sissili Limited 2
Lion’s Head Global Partners 2
Persistent 2
DILA Capital 2
Kepple Africa Ventures 2
Inspired Evolution Investment Management 2
Mani Kapital 2
EcoEnterprises Fund 2
Shell Foundation 2
At One Ventures 2
216 Capital 2
ENGIE Rassembleurs d'Energies initiative 2
Equator 2
Social Investment Managers & Advisors 2
Finnfund 2
Lendahand 2
Global Partnerships 2
Opes Impact Fund 2
Novastar Ventures 2
Alphamundi 2
AXA Investment Managers 2
CoCapital 2
EDFI ElectriFI 2
Acumen 2
Frankford Re 2
Blue Rinc Capital 2
Jua Fund 1
Satgana 1
Breakthrough Energy Ventures 1
Ground Squirrel Ventures 1
Anuva Investments 1
Ambo Ventures 1
Fifty Years 1
DOB Equity 1
Edge Growth 1
Oikocredit International 1
CrossBoundary 1
Flat6Labs Tunisia 1
Proparco 1
Guillaume Amblard 1
Endeavor Catalyst 1
Blue Haven Initiative 1
Wangara Green Ventures 1
Helios Investment Partners 1
Octerra Capital 1
Launch Africa 1
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All On VC Fund · Ikoyi, Lagos, Nigeria · 3 investments in the past 12 months
All On: Energy Innovations. Powerful Collaboration. Our mission is to increase access to commercial energy products and services for under-served and un-served off-grid energy markets in Nigeria, with a special focus on the Niger Delta sources in Nigeria.
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Investment focus
  • Renewable Energy, Energy, Solar
  • Seed, Funding Round, Grant
  • Nigeria, France, Senegal
Portfolio highlights
  • Rivy — We're building the financial infrastructure to make clean energy easy to afford, quick to access, and open to all.
  • Salpha Energy — We're a solar energy company driving Africa's clean energy future through innovative, technology-led solutions.
  • Arnergy — ARNERGY's mission is to deliver energy solutions for productive use by deploying products, services and systems that power business operations and improve economic outcomes for our clients. Vision: Providing sustainable solutions to energy reliability issues across emerging markets.
Norfund VC Fund · Oslo, Oslo, Norway · 7 investments in the past 12 months
Norfund is the Norwegian Investment Fund for developing countries with 24.9 bill. NOK in total commitments (2019).
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, Energy, Renewable Energy
  • Funding Round, Private Equity, Debt Financing
  • Kenya, South Africa, Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
  • OmniRetail — Get visibility of complete value chain and optimize processes end to end with our network of networks platform.
  • Wave Mobile Money — Wave Mobile Money provides an app-based financial solution to save, transfer, and borrow money. Wave Mobile Money is on a mission to make Africa the first cashless continent. On a continent where less than 10% of the population has a bank account, Wave is building the first modern financial network — no account fees, instantly available, andaccepted everywhere! It is building life-changing financial infrastructure. When mobile money succeeded in Kenya, it lifted about a million people out of poverty. And yet, over 10 years later, most Africans still lack access to affordable ways to save, transfer or borrow the money they need to build businesses or provide for their families. Wave is solving this problem by using technology to build a radically inclusive and extremely affordable financial network.
  • Arnergy — ARNERGY's mission is to deliver energy solutions for productive use by deploying products, services and systems that power business operations and improve economic outcomes for our clients. Vision: Providing sustainable solutions to energy reliability issues across emerging markets.
CRE Venture Capital VC Fund · New York, New York, United States
Founded in 2015, CRE Venture Capital invests in early stage tech companies that are levered to Africa. CRE is headquartered in the New York metro area, with a regional office in Lagos, Nigeria.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • South Africa, Nigeria, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Sukhiba — Sukhiba is a decentralized community-based commerce platform.
  • Stitch — One API integration for enterprise online payments across South Africa. Accept Pay by bank, debit + credit card, cash, manual EFT, debit order and crypto.
  • Cutstruct — Cutstruct is your one source for bulk construction materials purchase. Get the best prices for cement, steel, granite, sharp sand wood, and more.
Factor E VC Fund · Fort Collins, Colorado, United States
Factor E is a finance company that impacts venture builders, dedicated to supporting the people and ideas that will turn the tables in the global battle for sustainable solutions to energy, agriculture, mobility, and waste challenges in emerging and frontier markets. It serves as a conduit between philanthropic and commercial investors throughmarket-driven forces.
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Investment focus
  • Energy, Renewable Energy, Agriculture
  • Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
  • United States, Kenya, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Terralima — Terralima is building a digital platform where we connect a trusted network of farmers in Africa to food producers and co-operatives who get high-quality, traceable agricultural commodities at a fair, transparent and stable market price. We are also bridging the funding gap for farmers and aggregators through embbeded fintech.Our online Tradingand Fintech platform delivers direct access to markets, on-demand credit, and efficient logistics for smallholder farmers; thus ensuring we can get food from where it is produced to where it's required, while eliminating food waste and maximising profits for farmers.
  • InspiraFarms — InspiraFarms provides on-and-near farm, grid & solar powered Cold Rooms & Packhouses for agribusinesses & distributors. Reduce energy costs & food losses!
  • Open Access Energy — South Africa's first multilateral wheeling software platform that automates energy transactions.
Sissili Limited VC Fund
Private Investment Company
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Investment focus
  • PaaS, Energy, Renewable Energy
  • Seed
  • Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
  • Rensource Energy — Rensource develops, finances, and manages critical energy infrastructure for African enterprises with the objective of powering Africa's economy
Lion’s Head Global Partners VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom
A global investment banking, asset management and advisory firm focused on delivering value to our clients in emerging and frontier markets
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Investment focus
  • Renewable Energy, Solar, Energy
  • Debt Financing, Funding Round
  • Kenya, France, Senegal
Portfolio highlights
  • Baobab+ — Baobab+ is a social business committed to providing access to energy and digital. We commercialize innovative products with financing solutions that meet the needs of local populations.
  • Yellow — Yellow enables a distributed network of sales agents to serve rural households with life-changing products and services through a digital technology platform called Ofeefee.
  • Decentral Energy — Decentral Energy creates, owns, and manages renewable energy assets. Decentral provides customers with risk-free, completely financed solar energy solutions.
Persistent VC Fund · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
Africa's Climate Venture Builder - We believe in the power of climate-positive economic development in Africa. For the last decade, we have been working hand in hand with exceptional entrepreneurs, investing both financial and human capital to build successful climate ventures on the continent. Our companies offer competitive financial returns required to drive lasting impact.
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Investment focus
  • Energy, Solar, Renewable Energy
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • Ghana, Germany, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • EcoNetix — Econetix leads high-integrity carbon assets, fostering transparency in the carbon market and reducing global CO2 emissions. Discover our sustainable initiatives and AI-backed solutions for accurate carbon measurement and a greener future.
  • Hohm Energy — We make the process of going solar simple. Generate your free, custom solar proposal and get matched with an accredited solar provider in under 5 mins.
  • Circadian Technologies GmbH — Circadian Technologies accelerates the energy transition in frontier markets with a SaaS business model, empowering solar developers & energy service companies to reduce operating costs and grow revenue with a data driven platform and proprietary IoT hardware.Circadian transforms the entire value chain of its customers by uniquely providingan end-to-end solution to better design, finance, operate and maintain decentralized renewable energy systems for commercial & industrial sites.
DILA Capital VC Fund · Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
DILA Capital is a Mexico City-based VC Firm that fosters the growth of Mexican entrepreneurs and Start-Up Companies. By offering equity investments, debt financing and guidance, DILA strives to add value to our invested companies and entrepreneurs. In addition to our vast entrepreneur network, knowledge of the Mexican market and experience of ourpartners.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Mexico, United States, Colombia
Portfolio highlights
  • BUO — Skill Validation Platform for the Future of Work
  • Fairplay — Fairplay is a performance-based financing platform that supports and helps e-Commerce companies to grow by advancing revenue for marketing spend. It offers funding in exchange for a steady share of revenues until the capital is paid back plus a flat fee. Fairplay was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Mexico City.
  • Mattilda — Mattilda helps schools manage and automate payments.
Kepple Africa Ventures VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Kepple Africa Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt
Portfolio highlights
  • Chari — Chari is an e-commerce and fintech app for traditional retailers in French-Speaking Africa allowing them to order any consumer goods they sell and get delivered for free in less than 24 hours. Chari is also a financial services provider for these retailers, offering them microloans
  • Intmax — INTMAX has developed significant innovations in ZK implementation making it a unique Layer2 rollup network that offers low cost, security, tunable privacy, and above all, scalability.
  • Carry1st — Carry1st develops and publishes enriching mobile games and content apps for African consumers.
Inspired Evolution Investment Management VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa
Inspired Evolution established in 2007 as a specialised investment business to lead sustainable clean energy and resource efficiency investments across sub-Saharan Africa. Inspired Evolution offers a dedicated, multi-disciplinary, professional investment team with a deep track record targeting superior returns with measured development outcomes.Inspired Evolution’s investment focus is centered on clean energy and resource efficiency assets. We have demonstrated that capital deployment to investments in this specialised asset class, can generate exceptional returns at the nexus of social equity, ecological integrity and responsible economic growth. This lies at the heart of sustainable investing.Inspired Evolution’s view is that sustainability is not only everybody’s business as citizens of a rapidly globalising world, but that it will define the future of business and investment decisions.Inspired Evolution manages Evolution One Fund – its first dedicated, closed-ended third party investment fund. Evolution One Fund makes early stage, expansion and development stage, and later stage or mature equity and equity-related investments primarily for control or significant minority positions in market-leading growth businesses located principally in South and southern Africa.
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Investment focus
  • Energy, Renewable Energy, PaaS
  • Series A, Funding Round, Series E
  • Nigeria, Mauritius, South Africa
Portfolio highlights
  • Escotel — Escotel is an energy services company currently focused on Sub-Saharan Africa countries. Escotel provides energy services to mobile tower owners and operators, owning and operating decentralized renewable energy infrastructure across Africa
  • d.light — Founded in 2007 as a for-profit social enterprise, d.light manufactures and distributes award-winning solar lighting and power products designed to serve the more than 2 billion people globally without access to reliable electricity. Through five distribution hubs in East Africa, West Africa, India, Southeast Asia, and the United States, d.lighthas impacted over 65 million lives with its products. d.light is dedicated to providing the most reliable, affordable, and accessible solar lighting and power systems for the developing world, with the goal of reaching 100 million people by 2020. For more information, visit www.dlight.com.
  • Red Rocket South Africa — Red Rocket is a renewable energy integrated power plant (IPP) that designs, develops, and distributes clean energy.
Mani Kapital VC Fund
Mani Kapital is an investment management firm.
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Investment focus
  • Communities, Clean Energy, Renewable Energy
  • Funding Round
  • Kenya
Portfolio highlights
  • Sanergy — The Sanergy Collaborative is a partnership of 3 independent companies, who are united by a common vision. Explore more about our vision here!
EcoEnterprises Fund VC Fund · Costa Rica, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil · 2 investments in the past 12 months
EcoEnterprises Fund offers tailored growth capital and strategic guidance to innovative impact businesses in order to scale and optimize their financial, environmental and social performance. For nearly 20 years, we have successfully proven our unique approach, managing two funds that have financed over 30 companies across 11 countries. Our 3rdfund, EcoEnterprises Partners III, LP, was launched in May 2018, building on our track record of delivering portfolio results while generating fair and sustainable livelihoods for local communities, and preserving our most important asset: Planet Earth.
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Investment focus
  • Agriculture, Food and Beverage, Food Processing
  • Series A, Funding Round, Debt Financing
  • Mexico, Brazil, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
  • Nuu — Nuu is a food-based company that makes old-fashioned food with future generations in mind. Nuu is not to make the best products in the world, but the best products for the world.
  • Sistema.bio — Sistema.bio is a biodigester with biogas appliances. High efficiency biodigesters transform organic waste into renewable biogas.
  • Smartbreeder — Smartbreeder is a digital agronomic intelligence company that promotes sustainable agriculture with high efficiency of agricultural inputs, reducing costs, increasing productivity and rationalizing the decision-making process at all stages of crop management.
Shell Foundation VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom
Shell Foundation is a philanthropic foundation that enables millions of people in Africa and Asia to increase their incomes with clean energy solutions.
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Investment focus
  • Energy, Solar, Agriculture
  • Grant, Seed, Funding Round
  • India, United States, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
  • Kofa — Kofa is an automotive company that utilizes the latest electric battery and motor technology. The company aims to develop an affordable, sustainable and customer driven electric network in transformative energy, transport, and climate change around the globe. Kofa was founded in Ghana and is headquartered in Accra.
  • Sistema.bio — Sistema.bio is a biodigester with biogas appliances. High efficiency biodigesters transform organic waste into renewable biogas.
  • Mufin Green Finance — Mufin Green Finance is an NBFC that specialises in the electric vehicle (EV) market.
At One Ventures VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 11 investments in the past 12 months
At One Ventures finds, funds, and grows teams to catalyze a world where humanity is a net positive to nature.
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Investment focus
  • Energy, Sustainability, Manufacturing
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, United Kingdom, Australia
Portfolio highlights
  • Prefer — delicious. affordable. sustainable. bean-free coffee.
  • Provectus Algae — Provectus Algae leverages novel biomanufacturing processes to create sustainable stockfeeds, reducing methane emissions in ruminant livestock by up to 95%.
  • ChemFinity Technologies — ChemFinity Technologies is a chemical company that offers critical metal recovery, water purification, and gas separation services.
216 Capital VC Fund · Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Our DNA is rooted in a passionate belief in the potential of Africa, a relentless drive for innovation, and an unwavering commitment to impact. We are not just investors; we are builders of a better future, one investment at a time.
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Investment focus
  • SaaS, B2B, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Tunisia, France, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Juridoc.tn — Juridoc.tn is an interactive legal document database providing access to Tunisian regulatory texts. It serves as a platform for legal services, offering a comprehensive collection of updated legal documents.
  • Arcube — We make sure all travellers, frequent and infrequent, make the most of travel loyalty programs, using our data-driven approach, airlines can understand their customers and provide hyper-personalised offerings to boost value and retention.Arcube uses a data-driven approach to make the most of airline loyalty programs for both frequent andinfrequent flyers. Our software allows airlines to understand their customers and provide hyper-personalised offerings to boost value and retention at no extra cost to the airline.
  • Talenteo Inc. — Talenteo is an innovative SaaS solution for HR and payroll management, designed to simplify and automate company processes with an intuitive, AI-powered approach. It empowers SMEs and mid-market companies to streamline employee management, payroll, time tracking, and talent development. Talenteo enhances operational efficiency, minimizesadministrative errors, and enables businesses to focus on growth.
ENGIE Rassembleurs d'Energies initiative VC Fund
ENGIE Rassembleurs d'Energies initiative is the Group provides technical and financial support.
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Investment focus
  • Solar, Agriculture, Energy
  • Series A, Seed, Series C
  • France, India, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
  • Enogrid — Enogrid provides energy monitoring solutions. It also allows users to measure and optimize the performance of building operations, visualize energy flows, customize distribution coefficients, monitor self-energy consumption, access transaction documents, and more.
  • Frontier Markets — Frontier Markets connects India’s rural customers to products and services at their doorstep. 551 million rural customers lack access to financial, productive, durable products and services that can economically improve their lives. This is because product companies do not have deep enough infrastructure to access to rural customers; denyingtheir ability to drive innovative solutions locally to their target rural customer. Frontier Markets drives the best selection of life-improving products and services to rural customers, while creating sustainable livelihoods for rural women. In partnership with existing SHG networks, we onboarded 4,000 women to become our digitally savvy women entrepreneurs called Saral Jeevan Sahelis. Our Sahelis use our assisted e-commerce and delivery platform, called the Meri Saheli app, to collect real-time data on customer, coordinate orders, and deliveries to earning an average of 65,000/- a year without having to leave their village, becoming local leaders, and decision-makers at home. Our local distribution hubs has a team of delivery field staff who ensure doorstep delivery daily, as well as coordinate after-sales service for product companies. This combination of high-tech and local teams, and product partnerships, has helped 700,000 rural customers access 1 million+ quality solutions in clean energy, agri, and homecare. The Meri-Saheli app was designed for rural customers and by our Sahelis, ensuring it’s easy to use. Bharat India’s digitization thrives, but to reach last-mile rural customers, an assisted solution allows for quick adoption, deep learnings, and optimal services to be delivered. Since COVID, we have partnered with 3 fintech companies to launch doorstep atm services, online payments, and financial services and leading FMCG companies to drive local essential goods doorstep deliveries. Achieving 97% conversion rates, and onboarding 2,000 new customers monthly. We have launched our 2.0 version for scale, adding AI capabilities to help Sahelis train to use the Meri Saheli app on their own. This will be a gamechanger, allowing us to partner with multiple SHG organizations at once who want to start the Saral Jeevan Initiative in their fields on their own. Our team has over 60 years of experience working in rural India in sectors like microfinance, telecom, and distribution allowing us to crack the rural last-mile challenge profitably. We envision becoming India’s largest high-tech, high touch platform delivering solutions to Bharat India connecting 100 million rural customers with 1 million digitally savvy women entrepreneurs.
  • Qarnot — Qarnot provides economical and ecological cloud HPC on a disruptive platform. Qarnot designs and develops Q.rad, a computing heater embedding microprocessors as a heat source and connected to the Internet. The company has built three generations of computing heaters with multiple CPU's and sold it to construction companies looking for heatersfor new buildings. Qarnot offers affordable HPC to avoid data center costs related to infrastructure, maintenance, and cooling.Qarnot was founded on 2010 and is headquartered in Montrouge, France.
Equator VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya · 3 investments in the past 12 months
A venture capital firm investing in tech-enabled, early-stage ventures that are accelerating an equitable climate transition in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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Investment focus
  • Agriculture, Renewable Energy, Software
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • Kenya, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • SteamaCo — Discover SteamaCo: the advanced IoT smart metering platform revolutionising energy in emerging markets
  • Open Access Energy — South Africa's first multilateral wheeling software platform that automates energy transactions.
  • SHYFT Power Solutions — SHYFT builds industrial-grade IoT and integrated software to connect and intelligently manage distributed energy resources (DERs) in markets that struggle with resiliency. SHYFT is pioneering the development of integrated decentralized power systems in emerging markets like Nigeria, leapfrogging over traditional central infrastructure and enablingDERs to scale and support existing but unreliable grids.
Social Investment Managers & Advisors VC Fund · New York, New York, United States
SIMA is a social asset manager dedicated to empowering the Bottom of the Pyramid by providing demand-driven commercial capital and advisory solutions
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Investment focus
  • Solar, Renewable Energy, Energy
  • Debt Financing, Series C, Post-IPO Equity
  • United States, India, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
  • Altech Group — Altech Group aims at expanding access to clean, renewable, and affordable energy both for poor-grid and off-grid households.
  • Loom Solar Private Limited — Buy solar panel, battery and inverter for home, business, agriculture, DIY projects, and more. from 10 watts -100kW from Loom Solar - India's No. 1 solar company. Choose from solar panels, inverters, lithium batteries, charge controllers to solar installation kit. We provide solar finance for rooftop solar installation
  • Insolation Energy — Insolation Energy is one of the top solar panel manufacturers in India, delivering efficient solar solutions. As a trusted solar power company in India, we are committed to providing clean, sustainable, and affordable electricity for all.
Finnfund VC Fund · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Finnfund is a Finnish development finance company that provides long-term risk capital for private projects in developing countries. Apart from co-investing with Finnish companies they can finance ventures that use Finnish technology, cooperate with Finnish partners on a long-term basis or generate major environmental or social benefits.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Energy
  • Debt Financing, Funding Round, Series B
  • Kenya, India, South Africa
Portfolio highlights
  • Xac Bank — Xac Bank is the fourth largest bank in Mongolia with a loan portfolio of 395M USD, serving 298,000 borrowers and savers clients and deriving a yearly ROE of 22%. Xac Bank has demonstrated its ability to adapt to a fast growing and fast changing economic environment in Mongolia, on the back of a booming mining industry, and has re-focused itsoperations away from microfinance to SME, consumer lending and mortgages. In order to manage the associated risk, the bank has heavily invested in systems and human capabilities in order to serve the increasing need of underserved SMEs and urban as well as rural population. Xac Bank has also built an in-house mobile platform currently under upgrade in order to better serve the needs of its customers. Xac Bank is actively involved in deploying government and developmental funds to provide easier access to low cost housing and environment friendly energy to the lower layers of the Mongolian population. Finally, Xac bank is constantly providing non-financial services to the community under the form of financial literacy programs and business support to its lowest income customers via association with NGOs.
  • Wave Mobile Money — Wave Mobile Money provides an app-based financial solution to save, transfer, and borrow money. Wave Mobile Money is on a mission to make Africa the first cashless continent. On a continent where less than 10% of the population has a bank account, Wave is building the first modern financial network — no account fees, instantly available, andaccepted everywhere! It is building life-changing financial infrastructure. When mobile money succeeded in Kenya, it lifted about a million people out of poverty. And yet, over 10 years later, most Africans still lack access to affordable ways to save, transfer or borrow the money they need to build businesses or provide for their families. Wave is solving this problem by using technology to build a radically inclusive and extremely affordable financial network.
  • Cassava Technologies — Cassava Technologies is an innovative technology company encompassing fiber networks, data centers, renewable energy, cloud & cybersecurity.
Lendahand VC Fund · Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands
Invest in sustainable projects through Lendahand and contribute to positive change. Earn financial returns while supporting entrepreneurs worldwide. Discover how it works!
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Environmental Consulting
  • Debt Financing, Series A, Series B
  • Kenya, Uganda, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • upOwa — upOwa brings electricity to Africa through our innovative Pay-As-You-Go solar technology for the poorest.
  • Tugende — Tugende helps motorcycle taxi drivers own their own motorcycles in eighteen months or less instead of renting indefinitely. Ownership significantly increases income, job security and road safety.
  • Sistema.bio — Sistema.bio is a biodigester with biogas appliances. High efficiency biodigesters transform organic waste into renewable biogas.
Global Partnerships VC Fund · Seattle, Washington, United States
Global Partnerships is an impact-first investor dedicated to expanding opportunity for people living in poverty. For 25 years GP has invested in sustainable solutions that help impoverished people increase their incomes and improve their lives, with core investments in livelihoods, education, health, energy, housing, and sanitation. Since inceptionGP has deployed $356.5 million in impact investments to 135 partners, bringing meaningful impact to over 14.7 million lives in 21 countries.What is Impact-First Investing?Impact-first investing means investing in a way that seeks the highest possible social impact, while seeking to preserve capital with a modest financial return for investors.Impact-first investing is distinctly different from return-first investing, which seeks the highest possible financial return (often without consideration of social or environmental consequences), and from philanthropy, which seeks the highest social impact without any preservation of capital.We believe that impact-first investing has an essential role to play in advancing sustainable solutions to poverty for millions of people worldwide.What Does Impact Mean to Global Partnerships?All of our impact-first investing is aimed at empowering poor and marginalized people to earn a living, provide the basic necessities of life for their families, and improve their lives. We seek social impact on four dimensions:Broadening Opportunity – We have a holistic understanding of poverty, so we invest across all facets of poverty: livelihoods, education, energy, health, housing, sanitation, and water.Deepening Inclusion – We invest at the edge of the market, emphasizing approaches that include people marginalized by depth of poverty, gender, and/or geography, including women and the rural poor.Serving Millions – We believe that every person matters, and want to expand opportunity for as many people as possible. We therefore focus on sustainable approaches that can, over time, scale to serve millions of people living in poverty.Improving Lives – We only invest where evidence convinces us that people living in poverty value the opportunity being delivered and are empowered by it – economically or otherwise – to improve their lives.
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Investment focus
  • Clean Energy, Renewable Energy, Solar
  • Series A, Seed, Funding Round
  • Kenya, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Turaco — Turaco develops simplified insurance and credit solutions through mobile technology to solve the healthcare financing needs. Turaco has simplified insurance products and also provides on-demand health loans, allowing customers to get healthcare at affordable monthly premiums.
  • Eneza Education — Eneza Education, a.k.a. MPrep, was founded in 2011 by Kenyan teachers and educators serious about making technology useful for their students. From the rural areas of Nyanza to Wajir Town and the Mombasa Coast, Kenyan teachers united to create the content of our initial Class 7 and Class 8 study tool. We wanted a tool that combined the best ofgreat teaching practices: scaffolded assessments, direct feedback, and high engagement. And we wanted to make sure ALL kids had access to our system. What better way to start than with a simple SMS-based system?
  • Sun King — Greenlight sells, installs and finances solar home systems for the 1.8 billion off-grid and under-electrified consumers in Africa and Asia.
Opes Impact Fund VC Fund · Milano, Lombardia, Italy
Opes-Lcef is an impact investor that provides catalytic capital to early-stage social enterprises in emerging markets.
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Investment focus
  • Communities, Agriculture, Service Industry
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • Italy, Kenya, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Refolo — Refolo is a type B social cooperative that sees social agriculture as having a dual impact: social and environmental. Refolo was created with the aim of creating an agro-ecological and social corridor that runs through the province of Brescia from north to south with the hope that administrations and other communities will come together to generatea positive impact on the environment and the community.Refolo operates in an area located between the municipalities of Brescia, Collebeato, Villa Carcina and Montirone, territories that share the presence of agricultural areas that over the years have been abandoned due to their unsuitability for intensive agriculture and lack of interest by new generations and that are now ready to start again.
  • Ecodudu — Ecodudu is a waste-to-value company. It uses a proprietary innovation to recycle organic waste into high-protein animal feed and organic fertilizer using the black soldier fly. It harnesses insects (nature’s recycling agents) to address global issues which include waste management, demand for protein, and environmental conservation.
  • Sistema.bio — Sistema.bio is a biodigester with biogas appliances. High efficiency biodigesters transform organic waste into renewable biogas.
Novastar Ventures VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya
For the many, not just the few. For good.
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Investment focus
  • Agriculture, Internet, Clean Energy
  • Series A, Funding Round, Series B
  • Kenya, Nigeria, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • BasiGo — BasiGo is an early-stage e-mobility start-up looking to revolutionize the public transportation sector by providing matatu owners with a cost-effective electric alternative to diesel buses.
  • Turaco — Turaco develops simplified insurance and credit solutions through mobile technology to solve the healthcare financing needs. Turaco has simplified insurance products and also provides on-demand health loans, allowing customers to get healthcare at affordable monthly premiums.
  • MoKo Home + Living — MoKo Home is Kenya's one-stop furniture company specializing in comfort & smiles, having served over 10000 smiley homes to date. Will yours be next?
Alphamundi VC Fund · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland · 2 investments in the past 12 months
AlphaMundi Group Ltd is a commercial entity based in Switzerland and exclusively dedicated to Impact Investing: profitable investments that generate substantial net benefits to society. It was founded in 2007 by a group of partners with extensive experience in the financial industry as well as responsible investments, microfinance andphilanthropy.AlphaMundi provides debt and equity financing to scalable social ventures in strategic sustainable human development sectors such as microfinance, affordable education, fair trade agriculture and renewable energy. AlphaMundi is currently investing out of its impact debt fund, SocialAlpha Investment Fund (SAIF) - Bastion, domiciled in Luxembourg. AlphaMundi also manages co-investments for SAIF-Bastion investors and third parties.​AlphaMundi partners believe that Impact Investing is a new tool for development that can enhance more classical responsible investment approaches (which often lack impact ​measurability) and complement charitable solutions (which often lack financial viability). To this extent, the firm also contributes to the emergence of Impact Investing through education events, publications and industry associations. Impact investments are now being integrated by leading US and European banks, pension funds, foundations and family offices into traditional investment portfolios, as primarily decorrelated, illiquid and profitable financial assets.
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Investment focus
  • Agriculture, Renewable Energy, Financial Services
  • Debt Financing, Series A, Series B
  • Kenya, Colombia, Ghana
Portfolio highlights
  • Finaktiva — Finaktiva is the number one financial ally of Colombian entrepreneurs. We offer flexible and agile online financial solutions (loans in various forms, factoring and confirming) adjusted to the requirements of the companies. We also offer a range of non-financial tools through our platform to help SMEs´ grow. Our customers are typically businesseswith innovative business models, double-digit growth rates that have a positive impact in their communities.
  • AgriCapital — AgriCapital is a financial service firm that provides store credit, productive credit, credit installments, and accompaniment services.
  • Ampersand — Ampersand catalyzes and power mass-market electric mobility. By supplying the battery swap network and operating system the company makes sustainable mobility rapidly accessible and affordable for developing markets, to improve livelihoods and the environment. With over a million km already covered by e-motorcycles in Africa using our plug-and-playpowertrain and energy network.
AXA Investment Managers VC Fund · Puteaux, Ile-de-France, France · 2 investments in the past 12 months
AXA Investment Managers is a global investment management firm that manages assets on behalf of its institutional and retail clients.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Medical, Renewable Energy
  • Funding Round, Series A, Series B
  • United States, France, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Agilize — Agilize offers online accounting services for micro and small businesses. It allows customers to check passive invoices from smartphone, tablet or computer, without worrying about numbers.
  • Latour Capital — In creating the VCF Latour Capital at the request of some great French entrepreneurs, we wanted to build a new tool entirely focused investment , majority LBO in business to potential.
  • Rivage Investment — Rivage Investment offers asset and investment management solutions for private debt and equity derivatives along with advisory solutions.
CoCapital VC Fund
CoCapital provides dedicated Seed and Early Stage investment solutions for specialist Technology startups, prime Real Estate ventures as well as other alternative investment products.
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Investment focus
  • Agriculture, Energy, Biomass Energy
  • Series A, Series C
  • Kenya, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
  • Sistema.bio — Sistema.bio is a biodigester with biogas appliances. High efficiency biodigesters transform organic waste into renewable biogas.
  • Sistema Biobolsa — Sistema.bio is a biodigester with biogas appliances. High efficiency biodigesters transform organic waste into renewable biogas.
EDFI ElectriFI VC Fund · Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium
Impact investment in sustainable energy
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Investment focus
  • Energy, Solar, Renewable Energy
  • Debt Financing, Funding Round, Series A
  • United States, Kenya, Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
  • WeLight — WeLight deploys sustainable and accessible solutions to accelerate energy inclusion in rural areas of Africa.
  • Sistema.bio — Sistema.bio is a biodigester with biogas appliances. High efficiency biodigesters transform organic waste into renewable biogas.
  • Amped Innovation — At Amped Innovation, we design breakthrough products for people living on less than four dollars per day. Our first product, the Blossom, is a solar home power system which is the lowest-cost and highest-performance product in its class, at one third the price and twice the power handling of competing systems. We built the Blossom with asoftware-enabled Pay-As-You-Go interface, which allows customers to purchase it in payment installments that are equivalent to what they currently spend on kerosene, while providing much more light, cell-phone charging, and ability to run appliances like televisions and sewing machines.
Acumen VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 8 investments in the past 12 months
Acumen is a nonprofit venture fund that invests in early-stage companies bringing critical services like agriculture, clean energy, education, financial inclusion, healthcare and workforce development to low-income communities in 14 countries across East and West Africa, South Asia, Latin America, and the United States. Since 2001, Acumeninvested $128 million in 128 companies that have transformed the lives of over 308 million low-income people.
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Investment focus
  • Agriculture, Health Care, Financial Services
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • United States, India, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
  • Wami Agro — Revolutionizing agriculture with cutting-edge digital solutions and sustainable practices.
  • Ampersand — Ampersand catalyzes and power mass-market electric mobility. By supplying the battery swap network and operating system the company makes sustainable mobility rapidly accessible and affordable for developing markets, to improve livelihoods and the environment. With over a million km already covered by e-motorcycles in Africa using our plug-and-playpowertrain and energy network.
  • BioMassters — Biomassers aim to replace charcoal production and charcoal cooking by providing modern, affordable, and low-carbon pellet fuel production and cooking solutions based on locally produced fuel from waste materials.
Frankford Re VC Fund
Private Investment Holding Company
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Investment focus
  • PaaS, Energy, Renewable Energy
  • Seed
  • Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
  • Rensource Energy — Rensource develops, finances, and manages critical energy infrastructure for African enterprises with the objective of powering Africa's economy
Blue Rinc Capital VC Fund
Blue Rinc Capital is an investment holding company focused on growth investments.
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Investment focus
  • PaaS, Energy, Renewable Energy
  • Seed
  • Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
  • Rensource Energy — Rensource develops, finances, and manages critical energy infrastructure for African enterprises with the objective of powering Africa's economy
Jua Fund VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa
EARLY-STAGE, PAN-AFRICAN, VENTURE CAPITAL FUND INVESTING CAPITAL AND COMMUNITY IN A NEW GENERATION OF AFRICAN ENTREPRENEURS.
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Investment focus
  • Agriculture, B2B, Farming
  • Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
  • Side — Side is an e-commerce distribution channel that leverages the power of “community” or “group buying” to provide goods to end customers more cheaply.
  • BRYT Knowledge
  • Powerstove Energy — Powerstove Energy, which uses advanced technology to deliver a superior smokeless, IoT-enabled cookstove that generates electricity.
Satgana VC Fund · Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Satgana is a Climate Tech VC firm on a mission to invest in planet-positive startups building the Future of Earth.
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Investment focus
  • Electronics, B2B, Biotechnology
  • Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Kenya, France, Austria
Portfolio highlights
  • Voltiris — Unlock renewable energy in your greenhouse with Voltiris' spectral filtering technology.
  • NitroVolt — NitroVolt: the next generational step of sustainable ammonia.
  • Brineworks — Industry leading costs through cutting edge electrochemistry, and renewably powered intermittent operation
Breakthrough Energy Ventures VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 22 investments in the past 12 months
Focused on developing and deploying the critical climate solutions our world needs to reach net-zero emissions by 2050.
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Investment focus
  • Energy, Renewable Energy, Manufacturing
  • Series A, Series B, Funding Round
  • United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • ZeroAvia — ZeroAvia is producing the world's first practical zero emission aviation powertrain, initially targeting 20-seat airplanes to start replacing dirty jet fuel in regional transport
  • Baseload Capital — At Baseload Capital we dream of a planet in balance with resilient societies that run on renewable geothermal energy.
  • Dandelion Energy — Dandelion's nation-leading geothermal drilling and heat pumps provide cost-effective, renewable home heating and cooling.
Ground Squirrel Ventures VC Fund · Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Seed round investment in frontier markets and clean energy
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • United States, Kenya, Zambia
Portfolio highlights
  • Grapevine — Grapevine makes it possible for groups to invite members, collect and distribute donations, establish a community and connect with nonprofits.
  • MindMics — Discover MindMics. The world's most accurate personal heart health monitor and well-being platform. Look after your heart health to live longer and better.
  • Untapped Global — Untapped connects global investors, and foreign capital to opportunities in emerging markets. Delivering competitive returns, and measurable impact for global investors.
Anuva Investments VC Fund · Constantia, New York, United States
Anuva Investments invest in the small and medium sector and get the tax breaks to invest in companies that could create jobs.
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Investment focus
  • Power Grid, Renewable Energy
  • Funding Round
  • South Africa
Portfolio highlights
  • Decentral Energy — Decentral Energy creates, owns, and manages renewable energy assets. Decentral provides customers with risk-free, completely financed solar energy solutions.
Ambo Ventures VC Fund
Ambo Ventures is a new fund dedicated to launching sustainable ecosystems in Africa.
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Investment focus
  • CleanTech, Automotive, Electronics
  • Seed
  • Kenya
Portfolio highlights
  • Roam — The Standard for Electric Mobility in Africa.
Fifty Years VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in the past 12 months
WE BACK HEROES using technology to solve the world's biggest problems
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Germany, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Deepcell — Deepcell uses AI to isolate and capture cells based on morphological features for multiple research and translational applications.
  • Gridware — Using remote telemetry and edge AI, Gridware wildfire prevention technology powers a grid that is smarter and more reliable than ever before.
  • Aalo Atomics — Creating abundant and dependable clean energy to power humanity for generations.
DOB Equity VC Fund · Veessen, Gelderland, The Netherlands
DOB Equity is a private equity firm specializing in growth capital and buy-and-build strategies in small and medium companies.
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Investment focus
  • Food and Beverage, Health Care, Farming
  • Private Equity, Funding Round, Seed
  • Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda
Portfolio highlights
  • Zydii — For the African workforce, Zydii is the premier localized digital training solution which is engaging and accessible, leading to transformative growth for businesses. Zydii is providing localized (African) digital courses via our proprietary online and offline (USSD & SMS) platform.
  • Ilara Health — Ilara Health helps primary care clinics across Africa deliver better care.
  • Spouts of Water — SPOUTS mission is to manufacture and distribute ceramic water filters to provide everyone in Uganda with safe water.
Edge Growth VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa
We are SME Development Solutionists, co-creating innovative solutions that combat business growth constraints.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Education, Accounting
  • Funding Round, Seed, Debt Financing
  • South Africa
Portfolio highlights
  • I-G3N — I-G3N is a South African developer of lithium-ion batteries. The company’s core market is on stationary storage in conjunction with Solar PV and focuses on superior products and on the incorporation of the latest technologies to battery functionality. One of the key focus areas is on exporting to the SADC region and the rest of Africa, asextraordinary opportunities exist on the rest of the continent, especially in the development of mini and micro-grids to impact development.
  • Syafunda — Syafunda is an educational platform that provides access to digital content through mobile technology. Inspired by personal experiences growing up in townships where there was a shortage of textbooks and math and science teachers.
  • ProfitShare Partners — Boost your business with Profit Share Partners. Specializing in Short Term Asset Finance, we empower SMEs with quick, hassle-free financial solutions
Oikocredit International VC Fund · Amersfoort, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Oikocredit is guided by the principle of empowering people. Their experience proves that the most effective and sustainable means of assisting those in need is providing an opportunity to help themselves.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
  • Debt Financing, Series B, Funding Round
  • India, Nigeria, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
  • Kaleidofin — Kaleidofin provides a scalable and adaptable platform dedicated to democratizing finance through responsible fintech, empowering every customer. Our name, 'Kaleidofin', symbolizes the transformative power of financial solutions with a digital ecosystem that ensures finance for everyone, everywhere.
  • Access Bank — Access Bank provides banking products and services to individual and business customers in Ghana. It offers standard savings and current, access advantage, solo, and premier accounts. The company also provides online banking services that include ATM, online access, and point-of-sale terminal services; and bills payment and Western Union moneytransfer services.
  • Avanti Finance — Avanti Platform is an open-access digital financial spine, flexible enough for users and partners to create, curate and deploy the financial products
CrossBoundary VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya
CrossBoundary Energy's renewable energy solutions help decarbonize enterprise by providing cleaner, cheaper and more reliable power.
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Investment focus
  • Energy, Analytics, Renewable Energy
  • Seed
  • Tunisia
Portfolio highlights
  • Wattnow — Wattnow is a real-time monitoring solution that provides a breakdown of energy spending to identify wasteful trends.
Flat6Labs Tunisia VC Fund · Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia
Flat6Labs is the MENA region’s leading seed and early stage venture capital firm, currently running the most renowned startup programs in the region. Annually, Flat6Labs invests in more than 100 innovative and technology-driven startups enabling thousands of passionate entrepreneurs to achieve their daring ambitions and ultimately becoming theirinstitutional co-founders.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Retail, Education
  • Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Tunisia, France
Portfolio highlights
  • Yaz — Yaz is a B2B wholesale e-Commerce web and mobile app that offers branded goods and services top up for retailers.
  • Birdhouce — Birdhouce is a direct to consumer furniture startup that provides home storage. They develop an online 3d product configurator that makes the customer a designer from the comfort of their home. Their design categories include a dining room, living room, bedroom, hallway, office, kitchen, and kids room.
  • Tiktak PRO — Tiktak PRO provides back office management services. They also provide hosting, updating, and certificate services. Additionally, they also provide commercial activity and technical support services.
Proparco VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 12 investments in the past 12 months
Proparco is devoted to private sector funding in the sustainable development sector.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, Energy, Finance
  • Funding Round, Debt Financing, Seed
  • India, Kenya, Mauritius
Portfolio highlights
  • dru — dru is the Middle East and Africa's (MEA) first patient-centric, digitally-enabled lifestyle and diabetes management platform. dru aids the prevention and management of Diabetes, Pre-diabetes, and Obesity- serving millions in Egypt and across MEA and harnessing cutting-edge technology and an extensive network of providers. By usingdru's app, users can keep track and continuously monitor their blood sugar and blood pressure levels. dru users also have a full and organized record of their medications, lab and radiology results by logging them all in dru’s digital logbook intended for all types of medical records. One of the very unique features of dru is that it can connect its users to a wide array of monitoring devices, including continuous glucose monitoring. The insight dru users have access to as a result of dru’s features enables them to attain full 360 degree visibility over their health and state of wellbeing. dru’s round-the-clock medical support team are also available through the in-app's chat feature to answer all user queries and to connect users with a wide network of providers that are specialized in their cases.dru is now available for users, patients and patient caregivers to download on the Apple Store and on Google Play. dru was launched in 2023 by Almouneer, the leading digital transformation platform revolutionizing healthcare for patients and doctors across MEA.
  • Almouneer — Healthcare, Diabetes, Practice Management, Technology
  • NCBA Group — NCBA Group Plc, is a financial services conglomerate in East and West Africa.
Guillaume Amblard Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Guillaume Amblard
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Investment focus
  • Software, Banking, FinTech
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • France, United Kingdom, Tunisia
Portfolio highlights
  • Uptale — Uptale provides an enterprise solution that enhances employee learning through immersive experiences in 360° and virtual reality. The platform allows organizations to create, share, and analyze training modules without requiring technical expertise.
  • Wattnow — Wattnow is a real-time monitoring solution that provides a breakdown of energy spending to identify wasteful trends.
  • Thunder Code — Transform your QA process with Thunder Code's AI-powered test automation platform. Create, manage, and run automated tests without coding - perfect for QA teams seeking efficiency, reliability, and seamless integration.
Endeavor Catalyst VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 14 investments in the past 12 months
Endeavor Catalyst is the rules-based, co-investment fund of Endeavor, set up to invest exclusively in Endeavor Entrepreneur-led companies and to sustain Endeavor’s long-term operations in a mission-aligned way. Launched in 2012, Endeavor Catalyst has ~$500M+ AUM across four funds and has made 260+ investments to date in 35+ different markets. TodayThe Endeavor Catalyst portfolio has 53 companies valued at $1B+. Investments include Globant (NYSE:GLOB), Rappi, and Creditas in Latin America; Yemeksepeti.com and Careem in MENA; and Bukalapak and Carro in Indonesia.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
  • Series B, Series A, Series C
  • United States, Brazil, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
  • Tamara — Tamara is a fintech startup that offers a buy now, pay later platform that enables customers to pay on an installment basis, helping merchants to grow their sales. It specializes in the fields of financial services, fintech, and mobile apps.In 2020, Abdulmajeed Alsukhan, Turki Bin Zarah, and Abdulmohsen Albabtain co-established the company inRiyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia.
  • Immensa — Immensa is building the largest on-demand AM spare parts platform for the energy industry thought, rapid digitization and RE of physical spare parts, collaborating with leading OEM's and Energy companies, enabling digital inventories on a global scale.
  • Logcomex — Global trade intelligence
Blue Haven Initiative VC Fund · Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Blue Haven Initiative is an innovative family office dedicated to putting wealth to work for market returns and positive social and environmental change.
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Investment focus
  • Solar, Energy, Financial Services
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Kenya, United States, Ghana
Portfolio highlights
  • M-KOPA — M-KOPA is the global leader for “pay-as-you-go” energy services for off-grid customers. M-KOPA was established in 2011. Following 2 years of piloting and development, M-KOPA began commercial sales in Kenya in October 2012. M-KOPA expanded to Uganda in 2013 and commences operations in Tanzania in late 2014. Their team includes over 500 staff andwe sell our product through more than 1000 retail agents and shops. The founders of the company are experienced mobile technology innovators who believe in the huge potential of transformative, affordable products designed for underserved consumers. While excellent technology is a pre-requisite, technology alone does not solve for customer needs. Success comes when smart technology is combined with a commitment to on-going, on-the-ground delivery. To that end, M-KOPA is beginning to license its technology to experienced and reputable third parties in markets outside of East Africa (licensing queries should be sent to licensing@m-kopa.com). M-KOPA has developed a proprietary, patented technology platform that combines embedded GSM + mobile payments to revolutionize asset financing in emerging markets. The M-KOPAnet platform has been designed and built from the ground up by our talented team of software engineers, who continue to innovate and improve the system every day. It offers the powerful combination of accounting + customer relationship management + inventory tracking in one complete system. Aside from enabling our business operations to scale at record speed, the M-KOPAnet™ platform captures and processes huge volumes of data, enabling us to improve our proposition, customer service, and security in real-time.
  • TIBU Health — TIBU Health is a disruptive HealthTech logistics company that provides high-quality healthcare services.
  • BlueMark — BlueMark is the leading provider of impact intelligence and independent verification for the sustainable and impact investing market.
Wangara Green Ventures VC Fund · Accra, Greater Accra, Ghana
Wangara Green Ventures is a climate-focused impact investment asset manager in Ghana, West Africa.
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Investment focus
  • Agriculture, AgTech, Energy
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • Ghana, Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
  • Wami Agro — Revolutionizing agriculture with cutting-edge digital solutions and sustainable practices.
  • Kofa — Kofa is an automotive company that utilizes the latest electric battery and motor technology. The company aims to develop an affordable, sustainable and customer driven electric network in transformative energy, transport, and climate change around the globe. Kofa was founded in Ghana and is headquartered in Accra.
  • Northlite Solar — NorthLite Solar is a renewable energy provider that delivers solar power solutions for both commercial and residential sectors.
Helios Investment Partners VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom
Helios Investment Partners is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in buyouts of going concerns, recapitalization, mezzanine, growth capital for private enterprises, restructurings joint ventures, startups; either green-field or brownfield; and the majority or blocking-minority structured investments in listed entities. It seeksto invest in the telecommunications, media, financial services, power, utilities, travel, leisure, distribution, fast-moving consumer goods, logistics, and Agro-allied sectors. The firm prefers to invest in Africa with a focus on Nigeria, South Africa, and Kenya. It seeks to invest between $15 million and $200 million in an individual transaction. The firm prefers to have a board seat in its portfolio companies. Helios Investment Partners LLP was founded in 2004 and is based in London, United Kingdom.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, Energy, Oil and Gas
  • Private Equity, Debt Financing, Funding Round
  • Nigeria, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Thunes — Payment infrastructure for a connected world.
  • Africell Holding — Africell was established in 2001 in Africa and has been shaped by traditional African values, putting the communities in their markets at the heart and soul of our business. Connecting and empowering local communities lies at the very core of our strategy. Africell is one of the fastest-growing mobile telecommunications operators in Africa. Theyhave established theirselves as the number one provider in Gambia and Sierra Leone and are rapidly growing our newer operations in Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Uganda, where we purchased Orange Uganda. Africell Holding owns 100% of Africell’s operations in Gambia, Sierra Leone, DRC, and 98.99% of Africell Uganda. The total number of active subscribers reached 11 million by end of 2016. All four operations offer voice and 3G data services with plans to deploy LTE services, which are already available in Kampala, Uganda.
  • Zola Electric — ZOLA Electric designs renewable energy solutions based on the latest in solar, battery and power electronics technology. Adaptable to energy need and income, ZOLA Electric’s solar systems can be bought over time using PAYGo micro-finance leasing and mobile money payments. ZOLA Electric powers more than 180,000 homes and businesses across Tanzania,Rwanda, Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana. Investors include Tesla, Vulcan Capital, DBL Partners, Helios Investment Partners, EDF, Total and GE Ventures. ZOLA Electric is a recipient of the UN Momentum for Change Award, the Zayed Future Energy Prize and is a member of the Global Cleantech 100.
Octerra Capital VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Octerra Capital is a venture capital firm.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Analytics
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Nigeria, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Wattnow — Wattnow is a real-time monitoring solution that provides a breakdown of energy spending to identify wasteful trends.
  • MANSA — MANSA builds the infrastructure that powers the next evolution of global payments.
  • PBR Life Sciences — A cloud-based real-world, non-observational pharmacy sell-out data
Launch Africa VC Fund · Ebène, Plaines Wilhems, Mauritius · 6 investments in the past 12 months
Launch Africa is a fund with the primary objective of unlocking the capital constraints of Seed Stage tech startups.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
  • Bosso — Bosso projects and realizes automation and robotic solutions for the growth of your business.
  • Kredete — Kredete is a digital lending platform that provides free credit scores and reports to underserved individuals and small businesses in Africa to help them gain access to formal credit and improve their financial health. The platform connects borrowers with lenders and enterprises in Africa and is designed to simplify the lending process and makecredit more accessible by leveraging cutting-edge technology. Kredete offers a user-friendly platform that guides borrowers, lenders, and enterprises through the process of offering loans, making it simple for them to provide the right loan products for their needs.One of the key features of Kredete is its instant approval process, which is made possible by advanced algorithms and artificial intelligence. The platform offers flexible lending options by partnering with a variety of lenders and enterprises, enabling borrowers to choose the best option for their specific situation.Kredete is committed to protecting the privacy and security of all users' personal and financial information. It uses robust encryption and security measures to ensure that sensitive data remains safe and secure. Additionally, the platform maintains transparency throughout the loan process, providing lenders, enterprises, and borrowers with clear information about loan terms and associated fees.Kredete believes in empowering its users with the knowledge and resources they need to make informed financial decisions. To this end, the platform offers financial education, tools, and resources to help users better understand and manage their finances. Kredete also works closely with businesses and institutions to provide tailored financial solutions for their unique needs.Through its focus on accessibility, convenience, and transparency, Kredete is transforming the lending landscape in Africa and helping to bridge the financial inclusion gap. The platform remains dedicated to its mission of empowering lenders, enterprises, and borrowers across the continent to access the funds they need to achieve their financial goals.
  • Wahu Mobility — Wahu Mobility is an open e-mobility platform that connects drivers, passengers, and goods in a simple, inclusive, transparent, nationwide, and multimodal manner.
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