Top 10 Social Impact Startup Investors in Africa (May 2026)
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Allen and Ollys International Limited -
Angel
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3 | Nigeria | Seed, Convertible Note | FinTech, Insurance, Blockchain | |
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Cristina Santin
Angel
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2 | Nigeria | Seed | FinTech, Insurance, Blockchain | |
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Praxis
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Malawi, Nigeria | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Non Profit, Social Assistance, Education | |
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Nordea
VC Fund
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2 | Finland, Sweden, Norway | Debt Financing, Seed | FinTech, Financial Services, Banking | |
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Hesham Zreik
Angel
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1 | United States, India, Nigeria | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence | |
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FMO
VC Fund
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1 | India, The Netherlands, Kenya | Debt Financing, Series B | Financial Services, Finance, FinTech | |
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Calvert Impact Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United States, India, Kenya | Debt Financing, Series A | Financial Services, Finance, Energy | |
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Ceniarth
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya, Ghana, India | Debt Financing, Seed, Series B | Agriculture, Social Entrepreneurship, Energy | |
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Leapfrog Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, United Kingdom | Series A, Series B, Series C | Software, Analytics, Security | |
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Vumela Fund
VC Fund
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1 | South Africa, Brazil | Seed, Debt Financing | Education, Software, Primary Education | |
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Cristina Santin
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- Industry: FinTech, Insurance, Blockchain
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Get It Done Now — GIDN is a Nigerian Fintech Company targeting medium and low income population for Loans and Financial products. GIDN has in addition a cashless, mobile based community marketplace, with more than 5k members, and aims to regulate the informal economy and facilitate the purchase of Services and Digital Products.
We are a creative engine for redemptive entrepreneurship, supporting founders, funders, and innovators motivated by their faith to love their neighbors and renew culture.
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- Industry: Non Profit, Social Assistance, Education
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Malawi, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 101
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Church Space — Church Space is a platform that provides flexible shared rental options for renters seeking commercial space at an affordable rate. It was launched in 2019 by founder and CEO Day Edwards.
- Please Assist Me — One app for all your home management needs. Say goodbye to all of the headache with managing multiple apps, service providers, and arrival times.
- Parallel Fluidics — Custom microfluidic devices in 3 days.
Nordea Bank is Denmark's second-largest bank and counts every fourth Dane among its customers. Through their nationwide network of some 340 branch offices and a broad range of self-service facilities, they are able to offer you a full scale of financial products and services, including Netbank, Online Investment, telephone banking and cashdispensers.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Banking
- Stage:Debt Financing, Seed
- Geography: Finland, Sweden, Norway
Investor stats
- Total investments: 23
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Tibber — Tibber is a digital electricity supplier that offers smart solutions to minimize their customers’ consumption and costs. Its vision is to make sustainable energy consumption simple and affordable for all households. Tibber's mission is to reduce the residential electricity consumption for European households by 20 %. Founded in Norway andSweden in 2016, the company has expanded its offer to Sweden and Germany where it powers hundreds of thousands of homes. Tibber replaces traditional utilities with smart technology, supplying its customers with renewable energy at fair and transparent prices. In addition, its app provides real-time analytics into energy usage, and pairs with a variety of smart home devices to reduce electricity consumption at home. The company sells tech-gadgets in their online store and recently was licensed to balance the main power grid in Sweden with EVs.
- Statzon — Make data-driven plans & faster decisions with a simple access to +1M datasets & market reports about 8,000 topics from +200 trusted data providers.
- Get It Done Now — GIDN is a Nigerian Fintech Company targeting medium and low income population for Loans and Financial products. GIDN has in addition a cashless, mobile based community marketplace, with more than 5k members, and aims to regulate the informal economy and facilitate the purchase of Services and Digital Products.
Hesham Zreik is the CEO of FasterCapital. He previously worked at DreamApps as a Project Manager. Hesham attended the University of Westminster.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, India, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 464
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Credit Cooperatif Africain — Crédit Coopératif Africain is a Rwandan microfinance institution established as a private limited company and subsidiary of SCIAC Ltd.
- Primelocation care givers foundation — Primelocation care givers foundation is the promoter and sponsor of an 80-bed secondary..
- Mwatuheka Orphanage and Vulnerable Support Charity — Mwatuheka Orphanage and Vulnerable Support Charity is a faith-based non-governmental organization (NGO) dedicated.
FMO is a financial investment firm that specializes in financing businesses and projects FMO invests across the agribusiness value chain to enhance food security, support sustainability and promoting inclusive development.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
- Stage:Debt Financing, Series B
- Geography: India, The Netherlands, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 105
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Laprophan — Laprophan gives people access to cutting-edge treatments and therapies. As a result, we are committed to researching, developing, and bringing new, innovative goods to market. dedication to patient-centered care pervades everything we do, from product creation to service delivery.
- AMEA Power — Founded in 2016, AMEA Power has assembled a leading team of global industry experts to deliver clean energy projects across Africa, the Middle East and other emerging markets.
- Northern Arc — Northern Arc Capital is a non-banking finance company that provides access to debt for under-served investors and businesses. Northern Arc Capita connects originators so that they may deepen their presence and provide access to financial services to millions of under-served households. Northern Arc Capital formerly Known as IFMR Capital. It wasfounded in 2008 and is headquartered in Chennai, India.
Investing in a more sustainable & equitable world
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- Industry: Financial Services, Finance, Energy
- Stage:Debt Financing, Series A
- Geography: United States, India, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 13
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Northern Arc — Northern Arc Capital is a non-banking finance company that provides access to debt for under-served investors and businesses. Northern Arc Capita connects originators so that they may deepen their presence and provide access to financial services to millions of under-served households. Northern Arc Capital formerly Known as IFMR Capital.
- Accial Capital — Accial Capital is an impact-focused, tech-enabled investor in small business and consumer loan portfolios in Latin America and South East Asia. Accial Capital combines data, technology, capital and credit expertise to contribute to a world of widespread credit access and financial health.
- Sunwealth Power — Sunwealth is a clean energy investment firm who curates high-performance commercial solar projects that deliver clean energy and boast exceptional return potential for our investors.
Worldwide Reach We invest globally, with exposure across developing, emerging, and developed economies.
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- Industry: Agriculture, Social Entrepreneurship, Energy
- Stage:Debt Financing, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Kenya, Ghana, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Lead/follow: no public data
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.
- Farmerline — The Farmerline vision is to see an Africa where Agriculture NGO’s are not a functioning force in the market. Farmerline provides paid services that allow farmers to have the information and access they need to employ an entrepreneurial method of farming. Input dealers and traders pay for more efficient communication channels to farmers andfarmers pay for information packages and services. In this vision, more food is produce, more food gets to market, and GDP from cash crop export soars.
- Robust International — Robust International the company initially dealt in plantation logs. It has gradually and steadily expanded into the Agribusiness industry while concurrently reducing and eliminating its profile in the timber logs segment.
They believe that the most successful company in any industry gains a disproportionately higher return for its shareholders. their mission is to help their portfolio companies Leapfrog their competitors and achieve industry-leading levels of competitive and market performance as quickly as possible.They are all experienced operating executivesof technology companies as well as successful venture investors. They can recognize the patterns that signal opportunities or risks in a small, high growth company. They have the resources and relationships to help entrepreneurs create the key alliances that will allow them to achieve victory early and convincingly. Every entrepreneur wants an investor who can help build the business. What does this mean? Certainly it is about advice and experience. These are the intangibles. Then there are the tangibles - the introductions to key customers and strategic partners, the access to distribution channels, the assistance in attracting and recruiting key executives - these are the immediate advantages that help Leapfrog the competition. They have built an extensive network of relationships which can be called upon to accelerate the success of their portfolio companies. When you work with them, you work with all of them, not just a single partner. All the partners work closely with all their companies to ensure that all of their collective resources are being matched to the immediate needs of their portfolio companies.
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- Industry: Software, Analytics, Security
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 23
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- exuus ltd — Exuus is a finTech company that inspire resilience and enable communities to achieve their optimal satisfaction.
- C9 Inc. — C9 delivers predictive sales and marketing applications that increase revenue, generate more precise forecasts and mitigate pipeline risk. By combining data science with products that improve sales and marketing execution, C9 enables leading companies like Yahoo!, Pitney Bowes and Google to drive predictable growth. C9 is located in San Mateoand is backed by the Mayfield Fund, InterWest Partners and Leapfrog Ventures.
- Zebit — Zebit grants a max of $2,500 in credit to consumers without hidden fees. Due to cash constraints or lack of credit access, consumers typically turn to high-cost off-line financing methods (payday loans, rent-to-own, in-store financing) with payments that can total over 3 times the purchase value. Zebit grants credit to shop thousands of productsto buy now and pay over time. By combining consumer income data with sophisticated risk analytics, and allowing members to shop name brand products in a closed marketplace, Zebit provides the benefits of internet commerce (product selection, lower prices, and mobile-shopping convenience) that disrupts a $25 billion high-cost, off-line installment financing industry.
Vumela was established in 2009 by FNB Business Banking and Edge Growth. The objective was to create an innovative model for the development of a sustainable and a financially and operationally independent investment business which invests in high growth small, medium and micro size enterprises with good economic and impact returns.Vumela wascapitalised in 2010. Within the first four years, we’d invested R90 million into eight high growth SMEs, and created a total of 400 jobs. They launched their second fund in 2015, after a further investment of R100 million from FirstRand and R127 million from the Jobs Fund. Within the first year of launching this second fund, we’ve committed R43 million to five investments that are expected to create over 1800 new jobs.The first fund of its kind in South Africa, Vumela’s main goals are to invest in and develop entrepreneurial companies in order to help alleviate poverty in South Africa by creating jobs, and to generate a return for its beneficiaries: the Shalamuka Foundation and the FirstRand Group.
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- Industry: Education, Software, Primary Education
- Stage:Seed, Debt Financing
- Geography: South Africa, Brazil
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Inoxico — Inoxico is a provider of business-to-business credit risk solutions. We combine quality data and cutting edge technology to deliver predictive analytics.
- Kombo King — Kombo King Ventless Fryer Tech removes the need for plumes of steam & the constant eye of an inconsistent employee to Revolutionize & solve the frying industry!
- Kusini Water — Kusini Water builds water treatment systems from nanotechnology and macadamia nut shells.
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Allen and Ollys International Limited -
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Get It Done Now
— GIDN is a Nigerian Fintech Company targeting medium and low income population for Loans and Financial products. GIDN has in addition a cashless, mobile based community marketplace, with more than 5k members, and aims to regulate the informal economy and facilitate the purchase of Services and Digital Products.
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