Our develoPPP Ventures Portfolio

Our start-ups are committed to generating positive social and environmental impact through their innovative business models. Below, you will find a list of our develoPPP Ventures portfolio companies, organized by commitment date. Our active portfolio is highlighted in blue, while former portfolio companies are highlighted in grey.

Countries:
Sectors:

MySafari

Tanzania, Sustainable Finance & Others

MySafari

MySafari digitizes intercity transport in Tanzania with a platform for ticketing, logistics, and fleet tracking, improving safety, efficiency, and financial inclusion for operators, agents, and passengers.

Starting date: 21 August 2025

Commitment: EUR 100,000

Website

Uruhimbi Kageyo LTD

Rwanda, Food & Agriculture

Uruhimbi Kageyo LTD

Uruhimbi Kageyo LTD delivers hydroponic animal feed and system installations that boost livestock productivity in Rwanda. By combining sustainable technology with farmer training, UKC helps smallholders reduce costs and improve yields year-round.

Starting date: 14 August 2025

Commitment: EUR 100,000

Website

Black Swan

Tanzania, Sustainable Finance & Others

Black Swan

Black Swan leverages AI-powered credit scoring and alternative data to unlock inclusive finance for Tanzania’s informal economy, driving Open Banking innovation, enabling micro-entrepreneurs to access formal financial services.

Starting date: 14 August 2025

Commitment: EUR 100,000

Website

eFiche

Rwanda, Health & Insurance

eFiche

eFiche digitizes primary healthcare in underserved regions through a cloud-based EMR platform with AI decision support, improving clinical efficiency and patient outcomes across East Africa’s rural health systems.

Starting date: 13 August 2025

Commitment: EUR 100,000

Website

VunaPay

Kenya, Sustainable Finance & Others

VunaPay

VunaPay enables instant digital payments for smallholder farmers in Kenya by digitizing cooperative operations. Thereby it improves income stability, reduces reliance on informal lending, and promotes rural financial inclusion.

Starting date: 13 August 2025

Commitment: EUR 100,000

Website

TanzMed

Tanzania, Health & Insurance

TanzMed

TanzMED offers a multilingual, AI-powered digital health platform integrating telemedicine, ePharmacy, and mental health tools to improve access to affordable healthcare for underserved communities in Tanzania.

Starting date: April 2025

Commitment: EUR 100,000

Website

TenX Nutrition

Kenya, Food & Agriculture

TenX Nutrition

TenX Nutrition combats malnutrition in Kenya by producing fortified mandazis using local ingredients, distributing through schools and informal retailers, and creating jobs for women in low-income communities.

Starting date: 01 August 2025

Commitment: EUR 100,000

Website

1000 Hills

Rwanda, Food & Agriculture

1000 Hills

1000 Hills Products processes organic fruits and specialty coffee using solar-powered, low-emission technology to produce premium exports for European markets, enhancing farmer incomes and reducing post-harvest losses through climate-smart production.

Starting date: 30 July 2025

Commitment: EUR 100,000

Website

Neurotech

Tanzania, Sustainable Finance & Others

Neurotech

Neurotech digitizes informal commerce in Tanzania through AI-powered WhatsApp tools that enable small merchants to manage sales, payments, and inventory in local languages, driving financial inclusion and business growth.

Starting date: 30 July 2025

Commitment: EUR 100,000

Website

Jahazii

Kenya, Sustainable Finance & Others

Jahazii

Jahazii provides salary advances for formal workers in Kenya to pay for unexpected expenses such as accidents or illnesses. This improves workers well-being and improves their resilience to shocks at much lower costs than alternative short-term financing options and without creating a social stigma.

Starting date: 29 July 2025

Commitment: EUR 100,000

Website

Kosmotive

Rwanda, Health & Insurance

Kosmotive

Kosmotive produces affordable, reusable menstrual pads and delivers menstrual health education, empowering women and girls in Rwanda while reducing single-use waste and promoting gender equality.

Starting date: 28 July 2025

Commitment: EUR 100,000

Website

Sevi Innovation

Kenya, Sustainable Finance & Others

Sevi Innovation

Sevi offers inventory financing to micro-retailers in Kenya that can build up a formal credit history and order in bulk from their suppliers enabling them to grow their revenues and save costs.

Starting date: 28 July 2025

Commitment: EUR 100,000

Website

Niajiri

Tanzania, Sustainable Finance & Others

Niajiri

Niajiri connects youth and MSMEs in Tanzania through a digital recruitment platform with gamified upskilling, career coaching, and an AI-powered applicant tracking system, promoting inclusive workforce development.

Starting date: 25 July  2025

Commitment: EUR 100,000

Website

EXUUS

Rwanda, Sustainable Finance & Others

EXUUS

EXUUS digitizes informal savings groups through its SAVE platform, offering micro-savings, loans, and insurance to underserved communities, especially women and rural populations, and bridging the gap to formal financial services.

Starting date: 22 July 2025

Commitment: EUR 100,000

Website

Kiazi Mflame

Kenya, Food & Agriculture

Kiazi Mfalme

Kiazi Mfalme boosts smallholder productivity in Kenya’s potato sector through an outgrower model with guaranteed off-take, cold storage, and agronomic support, reducing post-harvest losses and increasing farmer incomes.

Starting date: 11 July 2025

Commitment: EUR 100,000

Eza Neza

Rwanda, Food & Agriculture

Eza Neza

Eza Neza uses hydroponic farming and industrial freeze-drying to reduce food waste and extend shelf life of strawberries, enhancing market access and promoting sustainable agriculture in Rwanda.

Starting date: 07 July 2025

Commitment: EUR 100,000

Website

Forested

Kenya, Food & Agriculture

Forested

Forested provides consumer brands with “Ingredient Insets,” regenerative, carbon-negative, and nature-positive locally produced ingredients such as botanical oils, bee products, butters and herbs/spices, helping global brands to meet environmental targets.

Starting date: 03 April 2025

Commitment: EUR 100,000

Website

Laina Finance Ltd.

Tanzania, Sustainable Finance & Others

Laina Finance Ltd.

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

Website

Beem Africa

Tanzania, Sustainable Finance & Others

Inclusivity Solutions (PTY) Ltd.

Inclusivity Solutions is an African-based insurtech company offering digital insurance products and services. Putting the emerging consumer at the centre of their business, Inclusivity seeks to co-create risk protection products that are simple, affordable and accessible to market participants that have largely been excluded from traditional insurance distribution.

Starting date: 06 December 2019

Commitment: EUR 200,000

Website

Freshpack Technologies

Tanzania, Food & Agriculture

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 100,000

Website

DEG Impulse

You can find us here

Kämmergasse 22
50676 Cologne
Germany

Tel: +49 221 4986 8000
E-Mail: info@degimpulse.de

Partners in Transformation

Our services and programmes are among those offered by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) to promote collaboration with actors in the private sector.

Always up to date.

Connect with us on LinkedIn.