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Top 50 Renewable Energy Startup Investors in Africa in January 2025

Last updated: Jan 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 January 2025

Investor	Renewable Energy Africa investments
All On	6
Norfund	5
CRE Venture Capital	3
Opes Impact Fund	2
EDFI ElectriFI	2
Kepple Africa Ventures	2
ENGIE Rassembleurs d'Energies initiative	2
Novastar Ventures	2
Social Investment Managers & Advisors	2
Inspired Evolution Investment Management	2
Factor[e] Ventures	2
CoCapital	2
AXA Investment Managers	2
Acumen	2
Lendahand	2
Lion’s Head Global Partners	2
216 Capital	2
EcoEnterprises Fund	2
Shell Foundation	2
Mani Kapital	2
Finnfund	2
DILA Capital	2
Global Partnerships	2
At One Ventures	2
GreenHouse Capital	1
United States Agency for International Development	1
Anuva Investments	1
Investisseurs & Partenaires	1
Secha Capital Partners	1
DOB Equity	1
Fifty Years	1
Flyt	1
VilCap Investments	1
Renew Capital	1
The ASISA ESD Fund	1
Yuzuru Honda	1
Investo	1
InfraCo Africa	1
British International Investment	1
Edge Growth	1
Endeavor Catalyst	1
Oikocredit International	1
Beyond Capital	1
Persistent	1
Helios Investment Partners	1
Ambo Ventures	1
Anglo American	1
Triodos Bank	1
GreenTec Capital Partners	1
All On	1

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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.

Investment focus

Renewable Energy, Energy, Solar
Seed, Funding Round, Grant
Nigeria, France, Senegal

Portfolio highlights

Koolboks — Koolboks: solar-powered, financially accessible fridges with an integrated pay-as-you-go platform dedicated to making cooling accessible to all of Sub-Saharan Africa. Get a Koolboks refrigerator for as little as 25k Naira down payment today!
Mobile Power Ltd — Mobile Power's innovative pay-per-use battery sharing network unlocks clean energy for households, businesses and electric transport in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Greenage Technologies Power Systems — Greenage Technologies is revolutionizing the use of solar energy systems in Nigeria. Our local manufacturing creates differentiation in local product purchases, services, and cost. We are the first indigenous mass producer of solar Inverter technologies in Nigeria. We currently have our footprint in 26 states out of the 36 states in Nigeria andlooking to launch in Ghana, Rwanda and Kenya in the near future.

Norfund is the Norwegian Investment Fund for developing countries with 24.9 bill. NOK in total commitments (2019).

Investment focus

Energy, Financial Services, Renewable Energy
Funding Round, Private Equity, Debt Financing
Kenya, South Africa, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Xurya — Xurya is a renewable energy platform in providing commercial and industrial rooftop owners access to solar lease product on one side. And investors access to a stable and safe investment in rooftop solar plants on the other side. Both are achieved by maintenance service which enables both parties peace of mind.
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.
India Grid Trust — IndiGrid was established on October 21, 2016 by our Sponsor, Sterlite Power Grid Ventures Limited, and is registered with SEBI pursuant to the InvIT Regulations.Their Sponsor is one of the leading independent power transmission companies operating in the private sector, with extensive experience in bidding, designing, financing, constructing andmaintaining power transmission projects across India.

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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
South Africa, Nigeria, United States

Portfolio highlights

Sabi Am — Sabi is Africa's largest B2B company, & we are digitising informal trade via our platform. We access markets hard to reach and ensure ease of distribution, & are the No 1 FCMG supplier in Africa.
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.

Opes-Lcef is an impact investor that provides catalytic capital to early-stage social enterprises in emerging markets.

Investment focus

Energy, Social Entrepreneurship, Renewable Energy
Seed, Series A
Kenya, India, Italy

Portfolio highlights

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.
MunyaxEco — Munyax ECO is an East African solar energy company that is dedicated to providing innovative renewable energy solutions while promoting gender equality. Discover how our sustainable practices and inclusive approach are driving positive change in the industry and beyond.
WidEnergy Africa — Widenergy Africa Ltd , is a women – led company, registered in Zambia, dedicated in the last miles distribution of clean energy solutions. We are the official distributor of Little sun solar products in Zambia (Solar lamps, Solar phone chargers), and will start soon with the distribution of clean cook stoves, with the objective to contribute inreduction of the Zambian deforestation rate, known as one of the highest in Africa.

Impact investment in sustainable energy

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.

Kepple Africa Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm.

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.

ENGIE Rassembleurs d'Energies initiative is the Group provides technical and financial support.

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.

For the many, not just the few. For good.

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?

SIMA is a social asset manager dedicated to empowering the Bottom of the Pyramid by providing demand-driven commercial capital and advisory solutions

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, a prominent solar cell manufacturing company in India, provides high-quality solar energy solutions. As a trusted solar power company and energy provider in India , our mission is to supply clean, sustainable electricity at affordable prices to all.

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.

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.

Impact venture builders dedicated to supporting the people and ideas that turn challenges in energy, agriculture, mobility, and waste into de-carbonized solutions for emerging and frontier markets.

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 — Open Access Energy provides energy management software.

CoCapital provides dedicated Seed and Early Stage investment solutions for specialist Technology startups, prime Real Estate ventures as well as other alternative investment products.

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.

AXA Investment Managers is a global investment management firm that manages assets on behalf of its institutional and retail clients.

Investment focus

Medical, Biotechnology, Medical Device
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Novocuff — Novocuff is a medical device firm that aims to improve pregnancy outcomes and reduce preterm deliveries caused by PPROM and cervical shortening.
Switchee — Specifically designed for social housing providers, Switchee exists to improve the quality of life for people living in rented homes.
Rivage Investment — Rivage Investment offers asset and investment management solutions for private debt and equity derivatives along with advisory solutions.

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.

Investment focus

Health Care, Agriculture, Financial Services
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, India, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

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.
Reema Health — Transforming the way people navigate the gaps between health care and social care. Reema combines a 24/7 AI-based confidant with in-person community guides to help people meet their social needs.
Raino Tech4Impact — Raino Tech4Impact is a social enterprise that leverages technology as an enabler to empower African communities. We have been deploying technology-driven solutions in agriculture and health, powered by renewable energy to achieve sustainability.

Invest in sustainable projects through Lendahand and contribute to positive change. Earn financial returns while supporting entrepreneurs worldwide. Discover how it works!

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.

A global investment banking, asset management and advisory firm focused on delivering value to our clients in emerging and frontier markets

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.

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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, B2B, Organic Food
Seed, Pre-Seed
Tunisia, France, Morocco

Portfolio highlights

Logidoo — Logidoo is a digital logistics marketplace-designed company that markets shuttles through smart logistics. The company's platform, which provides rapid, dependable, secure, and economical logistics, allows users to compare offers for sending and receiving items and to track parcels in real-time.
Wattnow — Wattnow is a real-time monitoring solution that provides a breakdown of energy spending to identify wasteful trends.
ProXalys — ProXalys is an online marketplace for agricultural products, offering assured payments and deferred payment options for merchants.

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.

Investment focus

Agriculture, AgTech, Energy
Series A, Funding Round, Series B
Brazil, Kenya, Mexico

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 is a philanthropic foundation that enables millions of people in Africa and Asia to increase their incomes with clean energy solutions.

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.

Mani Kapital is an investment management firm.

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!

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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Energy
Debt Financing, Funding Round, Series B
Kenya, India, South Africa

Portfolio highlights

AwanTunai — AwanTunai seek to reinforce Indonesian needs and productivity by providing digital loan for a better financial freedom and capability to micro-entrepreneurs
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.
Beacon Power Services — Beacon Power Services is a utility company that provides energy management software and analytics for utilities.

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.

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.

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.

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 — Sun King solar lanterns and home systems enables underserved communities to achieve more with inclusive distribution and flexible financing options.

At One Ventures finds, funds, and grows teams to catalyze a world where humanity is a net positive to nature.

Investment focus

Energy, Sustainability, Manufacturing
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Adden Energy — Adden Energy is a developer of stable, lithium-metal, solid-state batteries. With demonstrated charge times as low as 3 minutes and capacity retention for over 10,000 cycles in a lab-scale cell, Adden Energy develops cutting-edge technologies to enable mass adoption of EVs around the world and contribute greatly to a cleaner future.
Blue Energy — Blue Energy is a nuclear power plant company that provides reliable, clean, and abundant electricity.
Mojave Energy Systems — Mojave the latest in HVAC innovation. Help the Climate. Reduce Energy Use. Improve Indoor Comfort. Perform Reliably. Lower Costs.

GreenHouse Capital’s Founding Partners took their own fintech company Venture Garden Group (VGG) from a 7 employee, ₦30 million revenue startup to a 200 employees, ₦2 billion power house in just 4 years and raised an attention grabbing Series A round from Convergence Partners of South Africa. The uniqueness of their position was not lost on thefounders who then cultivated Garden Institute of Business Entrepreneurs (GIBE) to identify, incubate, and invest in young and innovative tech startups solving global challenges in Emerging Markets. GIBE was created to build a world class talent management hub for young and passionate entrepreneurs while creating a pool of technology inclined businesses and innovation oriented leaders.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Nigeria, Kenya, United States

Portfolio highlights

Credpal — Buy now, pay later. Split in 6.
Encore Pay — Encore Pay is a UAE-based FinTech and Payment solutions provider.
MarketForce — MarketForce connects Africa’s informal retail outlets and consumers directly to suppliers of consumer goods and financial services by digitizing orders, delivery, and payments with the aim of solving the last mile distribution challenge.

The United States has a long history of extending a helping hand to people overseas struggling to make a better life. It is a history that both advances U.S. foreign policy interests as well as reflects the American people's compassion and support of human dignity. USAID extends help from the American people to achieve results for the poorestand most vulnerable around the world. That assistance does not represent a Democratic value or a Republican value, but an American value; as beneficiaries of peace and prosperity, Americans have a responsibility to assist those less fortunate so we see the day when assistance is no longer necessary.

Investment focus

Renewable Energy, Energy, Solar
Grant, Funding Round, Seed
United States, Nigeria, India

Portfolio highlights

SOLshare — Sustainable, affordable energy access for low income rural people is possible right now. Their decentralised peer-to-peer microgrids deliver solar power to households and businesses, and enable them to trade their (excess) electricity for profit.SOLshare has created a revolutionary new approach to bring affordable solar electricity toeveryone in Bangladesh and beyond through its peer-to-peer solar energy trading platforms based on distributed ledger technology. They believe the smart peer to peer grids they are building in Bangladesh can be the future for utilities globally. SOLshare pioneers a micro-energy transition model 3.0 by interconnecting solar home systems in peer-to-peer networks, monetizing excess solar energy along the value chain in real time with mobile money and empowering communities to earn a direct income from the sun.
Regen Organics — Regen Organics decarbonizes the production of food, feed, and fuel by locally manufacturing regenerative products. Explore more here.
Decentral Energy — Decentral Energy creates, owns, and manages renewable energy assets. Decentral provides customers with risk-free, completely financed solar energy solutions.

Anuva Investments invest in the small and medium sector and get the tax breaks to invest in companies that could create jobs.

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.

Investisseurs et Partenaires

Investment focus

Financial Services, Health Care, Food and Beverage
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
France, Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire

Portfolio highlights

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.
Trackbit — Trackbit is a cryptocurrency exchange platform.
Lapaire — Discover a wide range of high-quality & affordable eyeglasses at Lapaire Glasses. Book a free vision test with our professional optometrists to help you find your perfect pair of glasses to enhance your vision and style. Shops in 7 african countries: Benin, Ivory Coast, Togo, Burkina Faso, Mali, Kenya and Uganda.

South African Impact Investing firm focusing the FMCG and Agribusiness Sectors

Investment focus

Health Care, Farming, Wellness
Funding Round, Seed, Private Equity
South Africa, The Netherlands

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.
FarmTrace — Transform your farm into a data-driven powerhouse with FarmTrace! Streamline HR, Asset, Energy, Stock, and Chemical Management.
Herbivore Earthfoods — South Africa's leading plant based food shopping destination. Save between 10-30% on vegan meals, delivered to your door. Treat yourself with everyday goodness.

DOB Equity is a private equity firm specializing in growth capital and buy-and-build strategies in small and medium companies.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Farming, Health Care
Private Equity, Funding Round, Seed
Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania

Portfolio highlights

Kwara — Kwara turns analog credit unions into modern digital banks.
Power — Putting individuals on the path towards financial health
Eden Care Medical — Eden Care Medical is a mobile application that provides medical and health insurance as well as financial services.

WE BACK HEROES using technology to solve the world's biggest problems

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Germany, Canada

Portfolio highlights

BIOS — BIOS Health is unlocking the potential of the nervous system in treating chronic disease by using AI-powered neural interfaces that can automatically read and write neural signals.
Elicit — Automate time-consuming research tasks like summarizing papers, extracting data, and synthesizing your findings.
Cosmic Aerospace — Cosmic Aerospace is a pioneering aerospace technology company dedicated to advancing the boundaries of propulsion systems and enabling innovative solutions for space exploration. The company collaborates with leading space agencies, research institutions, and commercial partners to design, test, and implement these groundbreaking technologies.

Flyt is a property development and investment firm. The company invests in strategically located properties, such as sectional title apartments, apart-hotels, and student housing. Through joint ventures and independent projects, they acquire, develop and add value to real estate. They co-invest and closely manage projects, completing rigorous anddetailed evaluations before investing to create significant returns that produce measurable impact.

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.

VilCap Investments is an early-stage impact investing fund, backing companies addressing the most pressing social and environmental challenges.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Health Care, FinTech
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, India, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Vexi — Vexi issues, operates and processes credit cards for young underbanked population on a mission to make credit accessible, through a 100% digital onboarding and unparalleled customer experience
SatSure — SatSure, they are on a mission to evolve crop insurance products and provide accurate risk assessment of crop yield by integrating climatic variables with geospatial and economic datasets.
Altro (fka Perch) — Perch Credit (also known as Perch), is a fin-tech mobile app that allows users to take common recurring expenses, such as their subscriptions & rent, and turn these into creditworthy data points. Perch is currrently live on iOS and plans to be on Android in the coming months.Perch recently graduated YC (S20) and closed 2.5M in their mostrecent round.

Renew Capital is an Africa-focused investment firm that addresses critical gaps for Africa’s growing businesses and connects them to a global network of impact investors.

Investment focus

Mobile Apps, Financial Services, Finance
Pre-Seed, Funding Round, Seed
Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia

Portfolio highlights

Bosso — Bosso projects and realizes automation and robotic solutions for the growth of your business.
Chpter — Chpter is a software development company that offers fast billing and checkout to help start, run, and grow a business.
Level Africa — Digital Investment Marketplace for Africa

An Invetsment Fund.

Investment focus

FinTech, Internet, InsurTech
Seed, Series A, Series B
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.
Pineapple — In short, Pineapple see the traditional insurance model, user journey and products as lacking and set out to remedy these by doing the following: 1) Changing the business model to align incentives, show people how premiums are used and award members leftover premium back 2) Making insuring as easy as snapping a picture where AI does the rest andcover is issued in under 60 seconds 3) Allowing per-item insurance and new product innovation to address cover not currently offered or accessible to manyPineapple launched in South Africa in 2018 with their "My Stuff" per-item insurance and have since launched their auto offering "My Ride". They have also partnered with Travelers in the US and have white-labeled their platform in the US.
Aviro Health — We believe that empowering and supporting people to manage their own health benefits everybody.We built the Aviro Pocket Clinic to support self-care and provide access to services. We give people what they need to perform important health checks like regular HIV self-testing and connect them to experts and services who can offer hands-on and supported care when needed.

Yuzuru Honda is a Founder & Global CEO of FreakOut.

Investment focus

SNS, Internet, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
Japan, Nigeria, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

NodeFlair — NodeFlair aims to help tech talents make better career decisions through jobs, salaries, reviews, company insights, and more
AGRI SMILE — AGRI SMILE is a platform that focuses on sharing agricultural technology.
Tyms — Tyms online accounting software for your business connects you to your bank, accountant, bookkeeper, and other business apps. Start a free trial today. Also available in Nigeria, Ghana, Mauritius and South Africa.

Investo is a seed capital firm that invests both financial and intellectual capital in technology startups. The firm offers founders 24/7 access to advice and helps scale businesses, as well as provide key talent that may be needed. Inveseto provides guidance, talent and capital so game-changing companies can scale.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
United States, Mexico, Chile

Portfolio highlights

Cuéntame — Cuéntame develops tools designed for employees' emotional wellbeing.
Holacasa — Holacasa te ayuda a conseguir tu hipoteca, comparando +11 bancos. Sin costo ni compromiso.
Konta — Konta offers an online accounting service for micro and small businesses in México. Their company vision is to make running a small company easy. They are helping freelancers and small entrepreneurs by implementing a cost-effective, automated online accounting service. José Menéndez and Pablo Icaza founded the company in September 2019, with itsheadquarters in Monterrey, México.

InfraCo seeks to fund and develop projects in sectors or geographies where the private sector would not otherwise work at such an early stage, seeking to exit its projects to private sector developers/financiers once project viability has been demonstrated, normally at or shortly before financial close. InfraCo will not compete directly withthe private sector but seeks to mobilise private sector involvement by bearing the time and cost risk of front end project development in order to mobilise private sector investment.

Investment focus

Electric Vehicle, AgTech, Energy
Seed, Funding Round
India, Kenya, France

Portfolio highlights

Zembo — Discover Zembo - The African Electric Motorcycle. High-performance electric bikes designed for sustainability.
Africa GreenCo — Our mission - addressing creditworthiness to increase generation and growth of renewable energy markets through partnerships and innovative solutions.
Mobility for Africa — Mobility for Africa produces electric tricycles, bicycles, and other small vehicles that are affordable, high-quality, and sustainable.

British International Investment is the UK's development finance institution. We've been at the forefront of supporting companies in developing countries for more than 70 years.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Banking, Finance
Debt Financing, Funding Round, Series B
India, United Kingdom, Egypt

Portfolio highlights

TymeBank — TymeBank is a subsidiary of the Tyme Group, which focuses on financial technology and banking solutions. TymeBank focuses on providing accessible financial services to the lower-income market. It emphasizes digital banking and minimal fees. Customers can open secure personal and business accounts online, benefiting from low banking charges and highsavings interest rates through their digital platform.
ACWA Power — ACWA Power is a developer, investor, co-owner and operator of a portfolio of power generation, renewable energy and desalinated water production plants.
Shubham Housing Development Finance Company — Shubham.co is a leading housing finance company in India. We offer home loans, loans against property, Shubh Shakti Loans and more at affordable EMIs and interest rates. Apply online!

We are SME Development Solutionists, co-creating innovative solutions that combat business growth constraints.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Beyond Capital Fund is an evergreen impact investment fund that invests in for-profit, early-stage companies in East Africa and India. The fund invests in companies that aim to improve access to health care, sanitation, clean energy, agriculture and food security, and financial inclusion, all of which can help consumers at the bottom of theeconomic pyramid live better lives. Despite the fact that the fund seeks market-rate financial returns, Beyond Capital is structured as a nonprofit, allowing the organization to emphasize fidelity to its social mission alongside its financial mandate.Beyond Capital, headquartered in New York, was established in 2009.

Investment focus

Health Care, Financial Services, Medical Device
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
India, United States, Egypt

Portfolio highlights

Wellth — Improve quality scores, reduce high cost utilization, address health equity, and improve member satisfaction by using the right incentive at the right time to create life-changing healthy habits through Wellth.
Floworks AI — Floworks is an AI-powered assistant for the sales team to track, analyze and automate all operations running over WhatsApp.
Haqdarshak — Haqdarshak is a technology-enabled platform working to transform how Indian citizens learn about, apply for, and benefit from, government schemes. The company is composed of a group of passionate social entrepreneurs using technology to impact the next billion. The team comprises of individuals from diverse background who have come together out ofcommon interest and passion. The investor community represents individuals holding prestigious positions in different companies across various sectors.

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.

Investment focus

Energy, Solar, Renewable Energy
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Ghana, Germany, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

EcoNetix — EcoNetix leads high-integrity carbon projects with a focus on Africa, 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.

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.

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.

Ambo Ventures is a new fund dedicated to launching sustainable ecosystems in Africa.

Investment focus

CleanTech, Automotive, Electronics
Seed
Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Roam — The Standard for Electric Mobility in Africa.

Anglo American is a global mining company with a portfolio that spans diamonds, platinum, copper, iron ore & more.

Investment focus

Renewable Energy, Energy, Mining
Seed, Series A, Series C
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Thea Energy — Discover Thea Energy, a fusion energy company reinventing the stellarator to create a limitless source of zero emission energy for a sustainable future.
Applied Carbon — Applied Carbon is scaling ground-breaking technology to regenerate soils and trap atmospheric carbon for the benefit of people and the world.
Marathon Fusion — The fuel cycle for fusion energy.

Triodos Investment Management focuses on investments in various areas, including renewable energy, microfinance, and real estate.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Energy, FinTech
Debt Financing, Funding Round, Series A
India, Germany, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Sunvigo — Sunvigo provides you with cheap solar power from your roof and real green power from the grid.
Harmony Energy — Harmony Energy creates, constructs, and runs wind and solar energy projects. They build substantial solar PV farms, supporting landowners all along the way with their project. They have a range of project and technical abilities to share with landowners because they developed and operated wind power facilities.Established in 2010, Harmony Energyis one of the UK’s leading developers, owners, and operators of utility-scale battery energy storage. It also has expertise in developing, building, and running wind and solar facilities, both independently and in conjunction with others.
La Bolsa Social — La Bolsa Social is an equity crowdfunding platform that aims at funding the growth of companies with a positive social and environmental impact. The platform is focused on the investors who seek a comprehensive profitability in the economic, social, and environmental sectors. It connects impact investors with companies that improve society and theenvironment. Its objective is to improve the financing of companies with growth potential that has a positive impact on society and the environment and promoting ethical finance. Founded in 2015, La Bolsa Social is authorized in Spain by the CNMV.

GreenTec Capital Partners is Germany's premier investor into African start-ups and SMEs. GreenTec invests through its unique Results4Equity model, acting as a co-founding partner that is only compensated on business success.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Agriculture, Computer
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Kenya, Nigeria, Morocco

Portfolio highlights

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.
Asilimia — Asilimia is a simple, fun mobile app for sending money through M-PESA quickly and without any transaction fees. Simply deposit money to your M-PESA, download Asilimia and send money for free to any other M-PESA account.
ShapShap — ShapShap enhances delivery experience through its commission-based marketplace by assigning efficient orders to drivers to ensure their sustainability and scalability.