Laina Finance
Laina Finance
Laina Finance is an integrated financial service provider offering consumers automated credit approvals for installment payments, with both traditional and Sharia-compliant options. It empowers businesses by providing flexible, risk-free payment solutions to expand customer bases.
Starting date: 23 March 2025
Commitment: EUR 100,000
Freshpack Technologies
Freshpack
Freshpack offers an innovative, eco-friendly vegetable preservation box that extends shelf life by up to three times, without electricity or ice. Using smart fabric technology, it reduces spoilage, boosts vendor profitability, and enhances food security in Tanzania.
Starting date: 19 February 2025
Commitment: EUR 300,000
Pindo
Pindo
Pindo is a pioneering company creating digital communication products in African languages like Kinyarwanda, Swahili, and Luganda. Specializing in Voice AI, the company helps businesses engage with diverse, low-literacy, and offline communities, offering tailored, impactful solutions.
Starting date: 29 January 2025
Commitment: EUR 100,000
TIBU Health
TIBU Health
TIBU Health partners with pharmacies to establish affordable, tech-enabled "Minute Clinics" within their locations across East Africa. Offering primary care, diagnostics, and chronic disease management, the startup enhances patient care using AI tools and digital health solutions.
Starting date: 11 January 2025
Commitment: EUR 200,000
Q-Lana
Q-Lana
Q-Lana is a digital credit and asset management platform for financial institutions, leveraging low-code technology. It enables data-driven decisions, risk management, and ESG analysis, improving SME access to credit while promoting efficiency and sustainability in the financial ecosystem.
Starting date: 08 January 2025
Commitment: EUR 100,000
eWAKA Mobility
eWAKA Mobility
eWAKA offers eco-friendly electric mobility solutions, focusing on e-cargo bikes and motorcycles, designed for last-mile delivery and commuting. Their IoT-enabled fleet management platform optimizes routes, tracks performance, and ensures efficient, sustainable operations.
Starting date: 08 January 2025
Commitment: EUR 200,000
IRIBA Water Group
IRIBA Water
IRIBA Water provides affordable, safe drinking water through smart Tap&Drink ATMs, offering clean water at 70% less than bottled options. Its franchise model empowers women and youth, improves health, and reduces plastic waste in underserved communities.
Starting date: 19 December 2024
Commitment: EUR 200,000
African Agency for Arid Resources Limited (AGAR)
AGAR
AGAR integrates value chains from arid lands in East Africa, from seed to shelf, sourcing natural ingredients from pastoralist communities and transforming them into organic personal care products.
Starting date: 11 December 2024
Commitment: EUR 250,000
GenePlus Global
GenePlus Global
GenePlus is an agricultural biotech company improving Kenya’s dairy productivity since 2017. Through advanced cattle genetics and a USSD platform, the company boosts milk yields, cuts input costs, and ensures long-term farmer sustainability.
Starting date: 04 December 2024
Commitment: EUR 100,000
Kilimo Fresh Foods
Kilimo Fresh Foods
By connecting farmers directly to retailers, Kilimo Fresh improves supply chains in Tanzania, delivering fresh products to businesses quickly and reliably while ensuring fair prices for farmers.
Starting date: 11 September 2024
Hanny G Investment
Hanny G Investment
Providing eco-friendly cooking solutions, Hanny G manufactures fuel briquettes and institutional stoves, reducing firewood use and improving large-scale cooking efficiency for institutions and cafeterias.
Starting date: 28 August 2024
Commitment: EUR 300,000
Imara Technology
Imara Tech
By manufacturing and selling agricultural equipment at affordable prices, Imara Tech increases the productivity of smallholder farmers in Tanzania up to 25 times. Their most popular machine is the Multi Crop Thresher that can thresh nine different staple crops and is portable by motorcycle.
Starting date: 16 August 2024
Commitment: EUR 300,000
Simplitech
Simplitech
Providing an affordable alternative to traditional fiscal devices, Simplitech's online platform enables Tanzanian SMEs to issue virtual receipts, access cloud accounting, and reduce costs, improving tax compliance and business efficiency.
Starting date: 14 August 2024
Commitment: EUR 300,000
Healthy Seaweed
Healthy Seaweed
Healthy Seaweed addresses the lack of nutritious food options while promoting health, gender equality, and a healthier lifestyle through the production of nutrient-rich seaweed products sourced mainly from female farmers in Tanzania.
Starting date: 14 August 2024
Commitment: EUR 200,000
Irri-hub
Irri-hub
By providing affordable drip irrigation kits, solar pumps, and comprehensive support, Irri-Hub helps Kenyan farmers boost productivity, improve water management, and increase resilience against climate change.
Starting date: 14 August 2024
Commitment: EUR 300,000
Cliniva Healthcare
Cliniva Healthcare
Cliniva Healthcare provides affordable, personalized women's healthcare in Kenya through a hybrid model of neighborhood mini-clinics and telemedicine, offering continuous follow-up and reducing wait times with a nurse-led approach.
Starting date: 10 July 2024
Commitment: EUR 300,000
FlexPay
FlexPay
FlexPay is a merchant-embedded digital platform that follows a 'Save Now Buy Later' model: users can save money for future purchases, earn rewards, and pay over time, encouraging financial responsibility and continued credit-free consumption of essential goods and services.
Starting date: 11 April 2024
Commitment: EUR 300,000
Malaica Science
Malaica Science
Malaica has launched an online pregnancy programme that matches midwives with pregnant women and provides a platform to deliver proactive midwifery care at scale, in line with WHO guidelines and best practice, creating jobs for midwives, giving pregnant women access to the care they need and, most importantly, helping to reduce maternal and neonatal mortality.
Starting date: 08 February 2024
Commitment: EUR 300,000
Tappi
Tappi
Tappi provides MSMEs with an easy-to-use Software as a Service (SaaS) application to build a reputable online identity. By answering 8 questions on WhatsApp, investing 2 minutes and using their mobile airtime, businesses can build their own website, get reviews and grow their customer base.
Starting date: 08 February 2024
Commitment: EUR 200,000
E-Prod Solutions
E-Prod Solutions
eProd has developed an affordable, off-the-shelf digital agricultural supply chain management platform that enables agribusinesses to manage the registration and payment of supplying smallholder farmers. In addition, the platform integrates financial service providers to offer payment or credit cycle management services to smallholder farmers. Important additional features include product traceability from seed to field to final product, which is becoming increasingly important, especially in international markets.
Starting date: 17 January 2024
Commitment: EUR 300,000
