Top 30 Social Impact Startup Investors in Africa (September 2026)

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• ORIKI — A wellness + farm to skin brand that creates pampering experiences and luxurious natural personal grooming products. Sharing Africa!
• Mukuru Clean Stoves — Earthshot Prize Winner 2022. We use recycled metal to manufacture improved, efficient and affordable cookstoves.
• Loom Craft Chocolate — Loom Craft Chocolate is a artisanal cocoa processor with a strong focus on the quality of our products and the sustainability of our processes.

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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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• Groccery store — Groccery store is a local Groccery store based in Hlotse, Leribe, Lesotho, designed to address a key challenge in the community
• Excel And Impact Agro — Excel And Impact Agro aims to tackle the chronic shortage of vegetable production in Côte d'Ivoire.
• Mercy Community School — Mercy Community School is a community-driven education initiative based in Linda Compound, Lusaka, Zambia.

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• Myka.Insure — Myka is a insurance sales platform that enables individuals to sell insurance policies to their family, friends, colleagues, and community while earning income . It operates as a micro-entrepreneurship program where anyone (students, gadget sellers, car dealers, parents, retirees) can start their own insurance business with zero investment,flexible hours, and free training . The company is licensed by the National Insurance Commission of Nigeria and provides instant payouts to its partners .
• Cybervergent — Cybervergent is a technology company that specializes in providing top-notch cybersecurity solutions to businesses and organizations.
• Traction Apps — Traction apps provide businesses end to end tools they need to run and grow their businesses.

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• Mwingi — Everywhere for Everyone

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• 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.

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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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• Tallee — Tallee is an AI brand visibility and analytics platform that tracks how brands appear in AI search engines and large language model responses. It helps companies measure share of voice, monitor sentiment, compare competitors, and optimize their presence across AI-driven discovery platforms.
• Orb Aerospace — Building Better Airplanes Faster
• Kokari Coconuts & Company — Ko-ka-ri means "let the good go around". We believe this is the magic of coconuts. At Kokari, we transform every part of the coconut into wholesome products made with simple, clean ingredients. Africa has always understood less is more.

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• Zeraki — Zeraki is to use technology to address some of the obstacles learners encounter in accessing quality education. We use technology to enhance the quality of education students get at each level of education and use technology to help students transition from one level of education to the next, and ultimately from education into employment.
• TotoRegister — Revolutionising attendance data to protect children. #Innovate4Change

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• SeraPay — We are revolutionizing social commerce in Africa with SeraPay, ensuring the seamless buying and selling of goods on social media platforms. Our innovative service empowers businesses to access markets beyond their geographical borders, making social retail easier and more efficient.
• Savabyte — A pan-African women-led platform that connects career advancement opportunities to quality tech talent & women in technology. #ConnectingTechTalent
• Jungopharm — Jungopharm is a developer of a pharma and healthcare platform that aims to make health care understandable, accessible & affordable for all.

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• Alaprann.mu — Mauritian edtech startup giving students, schools and NGO's access to quality and interactive courses, values and skills to succeed

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• 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.

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• Umazi — We speed up corporate identity verification.
• Kubik — Kubik makes low-carbon buildings from plastic waste. Bringing environmental dignity to how countries grow.
• Mamy Eyewear — Mamy Eyewear is a provider of sunglasses, eyeglasses, and various accessories.

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• 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.

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• Growwr — Growwr is an AI-native workforce infrastructure platform building the operating system for global work.Its flagship product, Growwr AI, acts as an intelligent hiring agent that helps companies source, screen, evaluate, and hire talent through conversational workflows instead of manual recruiting processes. Companies can describe a role, definehiring priorities, and automatically receive ranked candidates based on verified skills, work history, and performance data.Beyond hiring, Growwr provides integrated global payment infrastructure that enables companies to pay talent across 180+ countries through cards, bank transfers, mobile money, and local payment rails.Because hiring, work, and payments happen inside one system, Growwr continuously generates verified workforce data around earnings, productivity, reliability, and work consistency. The company is leveraging this infrastructure to build workforce financial services including payroll, invoicing, credit scoring, and access to financial products for professionals in emerging markets.Growwr supports 90,000+ users across 15 countries, has processed over millions in payouts, and serves businesses across Africa, the UK, and the US.The company is building the AI and financial infrastructure layer powering the future of global work.
• Paycrest — Decentralized routing protocol for instant, secure, zero-fee payments in emerging markets.
• Cr3dentials — Embedded financing for neobanks

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• Bridgement — Bridgement offers fast, flexible funding of up to R10,000,000 to help improve cash flow and grow your business. Visit our website to apply now or learn more.
• Helios Towers — We are a market-leading independent telecom tower infrastructure company, operating in #TZ, #DRC, #CB, #GH, #SA #SN
• Wilderness Holdings — Wilderness Holdings is a group of responsible ecotourism companies, such as Wilderness Safaris and Governors’ Camp Collection, that together use responsible tourism to build sustainable conservation economies in Africa. Wilderness Safaris and the Governors’ Camp Collection operate camps and safaris in some of Africa’s best wildlife and wildernessareas across seven different countries: Botswana, Kenya, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Recognising that conservation is as much about people as about the environment, the company has pursued important goals by supporting its non-profit partners, Children in the Wilderness and the Wilderness Wildlife Trust, which have helped change the face of nature-based tourism in southern Africa.

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• 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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• PayAngel — Official Page: Free International Money Transfers from UK, US, Canada, Australia and EU to Africa and Asia. #PayAngel #SendMoreThanMoney #Smile
• SokoFresh — SokoFresh is a social enterprise that offers cold storage solutions and a digital market linkage platform to small and medium-scale farmers. It provides access to reliable, off-grid, first-mile cold storage facilities and digital market linkage services to farmers and buyers in fruit and vegetable value chains.
• Omia Agribusiness Development — Leading Regional Distributors of Climate-Smart Agro Inputs for Crop and Livestock production. Free Farmer Support and Ready Market by @omiafoods

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• Ikos Advanced — Ikos Advanced is a digital agricultural logbook designed for Spanish farmers to meet REA regulations on crop traceability. Ikosnotes enables detailed logging of farm activities like planning, task tracking, input applications, and harvests in a centralized digital platform. It automates data entry from connected sensors, irrigation systems, andweather data for real-time updates and official report generation. Users access it via web or mobile apps (iOS/Android) for multi-device management and team collaboration.
• Visalia Energía — Visalia Energía is a Spanish multi-utility energy company focused on electricity, gas, gasóleo, propano, and renewable energy projects.
• Wenea Mobile Energy — Wenea Mobile Energy is a mobile energy operator.

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• AI Skills and Compute Africa Foundation — AI Skills and Compute Africa Foundation is a nonprofit organization that focuses on advancing artificial intelligence capabilities across Africa. It provides GPU-based compute access to startups and researchers through structured grant programs that use AI tokens instead of cash funding. The foundation runs capacity-building programs aimed atdeveloping technical skills and expanding participation in AI, with dedicated allocations for women. It supports institutional researchers with sovereign compute, curated datasets, and assistance in transitioning AI projects toward real-world deployment. The organization also develops physical community spaces known as AISCA Houses and Studios that host collaboration, mentorship, and networking for local technical talent. Its work spans sovereign compute, curated data, capacity building, and community-building pillars to shift Africans from AI consumers to AI creators.

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• Salad Money — Salad provide small, affordable loans to meet your urgent needs. The first responsible lender, we offer fair lending to public & private sector employees
• 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.
• INNOVA Health Supplies — The mission of INNOVA Health Supplies is to guarantee that everyone has access to safe and efficient solutions for their needs related to sexual and reproductive health.

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• HANetf — HANetf is Europe's first independent full service provider of UCITS ETFs.
• Icon Solutions — Leading payments solutions provider helping financial institutions modernise with advanced payments technology (IPF) and end-to-end services.
• Daksh eServices — Daksh eServices is an Indian outsourcing company which offers a range of web enabled customer care services including email response, real-time chat, knowledge management, eCRM architecture and other value added services to global eBusiness.The Daksh vision statement reads "To help eBusiness build exceptional customer relationships byleveraging India's high quality, cost effective intellectual capital ". To realize this vision, Daksh has built a world-class management team drawn from senior professionals at Compaq, Motorola, Andersen Consulting, Pepsi & Hewitt Associates. The team has a collective experience of over 100 man-years in running world-class service operations in an Indian environment and in transitioning business processes from the US to India.

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• Scale — Trusted by world class companies, Scale delivers high quality training data for AI applications such as self-driving cars, mapping, AR/VR, robotics, and more.
• gett.me — AI outplacement software
• Tyndall National Institute — Established with a mission to support industry and academia in driving research to market, Tyndall National Institute is one of Europe’s leading research centres in Information and Communications Technology (ICT) research and development and the largest research facility of its type in Ireland. Established in 2004 as a successor to the NationalMicroelectronics Research Centre (NMRC founded in 1982) at University College Cork, the Institute hosts over 460 researchers, engineers and support staff, including a full-time postgraduate cohort of 135 students, generating over 200 peer-reviewed publications each year.With a network of over 200 industry partners and customers worldwide, Tyndall generates around 30M income each year, 85% from competitively won contracts nationally and internationally. Tyndall is also a lead partner in European research programmes in its core areas of ICT, communications, energy, health and the environment worth 44M, including 6M accruing to industry in Ireland (from Framework 7). Hosting the only full CMOS, Micro-Electronic-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) and III-V Wafer Semiconductor fabrication facilities and services in Ireland, Tyndall is capable of prototyping new product opportunities for its target industries - electronics, medical devices, energy and communications. Tyndall is a globally leading Institute in its four core research areas of Photonics, Microsystems, Micro/Nanoelectronics and Theory Modelling & Design. Tyndall is the lead institution for the Science Foundation Ireland funded Irish Photonics Integration Centre (IPIC).

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• Book Village — We are a NPC helping to end the reading crisis in SA using our online reading application where volunteer tutors digitally teach children how to read.
• Buddy Learning — Explore educational resources for families with Buddy Learning in the United States. Join us today!
• The Marking App — The Marking App provides a data-free application that automatically marks handwritten school assessments while also automating school administration.

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• Arts & Positivity — Cornelius Keagon's Charity, also known as Arts & Positivity, is a Liberian humanitarian organization that was established by Cornelius Keagon on 5 July 2019. Consisting of over 100 volunteer workers, it is one of the most recognized humanitarian groups in Liberia. The organization is currently specializing in humanitarianism, charity, anddevelopment of young artists who are into paintings. It was founded on July 5, 2019 by Cornelius Keagon. Founded and based in Liberia, the organization is operating in one of the poorest countries in the world, making it's job more difficult but effective. Since it's inception, the organization has been consistent with it's monthly distributions along with regular visits to orphanages and slumps across Liberia. The organization currently operates under a secret banner, making itself unavailable for local press coverage.

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• Figorr — Figorr is your go-to, for accessing reliable information on temperature, humidity, and location. Experience the next generation of data-driven insights with Figorr today.
• Wazima — Africa's leading patient management & tele-health service provider.
• Amayi Foods — Amayi Foods is a Nigerian company and one of core beliefs is ensuring that have a positive impact on operating environment.

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• LEO Flight — LEO Flight | Not just science fiction anymore, your flying car is here
• Zuri Health — .ts-banner-image-1:hover .overlay{background-color:#ffffff} .ts-banner-image-2:hover .overlay{background-color:#ffffff} Popular categories Pharmacy Doctor at home Covid Labs & Diagonstics Wellness Telemed Show all Our Services PharmacyBuy both OTC and prescription medication and have it delivered to your doorstepLabs & DiagnosticsBook labs and Diagnostic tests and get your samples collected from the comfort of your home, hotel
• Ubawa Technologies — A payment processing platform that helps social media entrepreneurs accept payments and increase their customer conversion and retention rate with our conversational AI chat bot.

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• myFanPark — myFanPark is a South African celebrity engagement platform, to share videos.
• Flood — Flood is a marketplace platforms that provides merchant solution, self services and big data solution.
• Thula Baba Project — Thula Baba Project is a non-profit organization that offers buckets with baby and mommy supplies to mothers of undeserved communities.

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• BURN — Experience clean, safe, and affordable cooking with BURN's innovative cookstoves. Impact lives, reduce emissions, and enjoy delicious meals. Shop now!
• Hydrobox — Hydrobox transforms communities and empowers people using the most affordable, reliable, and sustainable power.
• Emerging Cooking Solutions — Emerging Cooking Solutions' mission is to improve health and stop deforestation caused by poor cooking conditions in developing countries

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• exuus ltd — Exuus is a finTech company that inspire resilience and enable communities to achieve their optimal satisfaction.
• Zebit — Zebit provides a max of $1,500 of credit to pay over time on thousands of products.
• HealthifyMe — HealthifyMe is an application that allows its users to achieve their fitness and weight loss goals from their computers and smartphones.The application enables its users to track their calories, nutrition, and fitness activities; track their weight and determine if they are healthy; set healthy goals and work toward meeting them; share theirdata with experts; and get expert advice and suggestions on their lifestyles.HealthifyMe was developed and launched by a team of doctors, nutritionists, and fitness trainers in 2012. It is based in Bangalore, India.