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.
Rology's AI-powered teleradiology platform enables 24/7 remote diagnostic reporting, matching scans to specialized radiologists. It combats critical radiologist shortages in underserved regions, reducing missed diagnoses, delayed treatments, and maternal mortality rates.
Starting date: 14 August 2024
Commitment: EUR 100,000
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 100,000
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 100,000
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 100,000
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 100,000
The company modernizes African transportation by introducing a digital infrastructure, including language-specific software and POS devices. Their online platform simplifies ticket purchasing and cargo tracking, reducing customer inconvenience and costs associated with traditional methods. Safiri’s revenue streams comprise B2B ticket plans, B2B parcel services, and B2C ticket sales facilitated through mobile apps, websites and ticket agents.
Starting date: 17 April 2024
Commitment: EUR 100,000
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 100,000
Yes:id builds tools and platforms for businesses and governments to implement identity verification, enabelling access to relevant private and public services, especially for those without official identification documents. Yes:ID has a B2B and B2G approach, targeting state institutions as well as the emerging InsurTech and FinTech sectors as they are in need of such applications to ensure financial and healthcare inclusion in Africa. To support petty traders, the company provides identity related business outsourcing (BOP).
Starting date: 06 March 2024
Commitment: EUR 100,000
Medikea offers a convenient healthcare solution that combines virtual and face-to-face care 24/7 through a seamless blend of app-based telemedicine and local physical clinics. Medikea has developed its own electronic medical record system, which includes laboratory and pharmacy inventory, appointment booking and dispensing systems, ensuring a smooth and integrated patient journey, reducing waiting times and digitising patient health records. A cash-pay business model also targets the uninsured.
Starting date: 28 February 2024
Commitment: EUR 100,000
GOBEBA has developed a holistic approach that ensures a safe, efficient, high-quality and low-threshold distribution of bulky utilities (such as cooking energy and water), benefiting consumers as well as brands. Consumers can use messenger services or an app to order the quantity of goods they need, which are then delivered by a driver from a nearby micro-fulfilment hub.
Starting date: 16 February 2024
Commitment: EUR 100,000
TemboPlus offers a suite of digital solutions (API/SDK) to help companies bring banking, payments and remittance services to underserved customers across Africa. As part of its offering, TemboPlus manages banking relationships and regulatory approvals, enabling its corporate clients to avoid the need to obtain their own banking licences or manage their own technology infrastructure to offer financial services.
Starting date: 10 February 2024
Commitment: EUR 100,000
Silabu provides a mobile education app that addresses the financial constraints and teacher shortages affecting primary and secondary school students in Tanzania. The platform combines peer-to-peer, group and one-to-one tutoring methods to create an inclusive and affordable learning environment. Key features include quick creation of peer learning groups, access to live group lessons from top tutors at a fraction of the traditional cost, on-demand booking of verified tutors and seamless sharing of learning materials.
Starting date: 09 February 2024
Commitment: EUR 100,000
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 100,000
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 100,000
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 100,000
Melanin Kapital is a climate fintech platform that aims to provide affordable and efficient financing for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) looking to invest in green productive assets. The company offers its main product, Kijani Credit, which enables SMEs to access green asset financing by leveraging carbon credits, AI-powered processes, and blockchain wallets. Additionally, Melanin Kapital provides an API product to financial institutions, helping them reduce climate risk and decarbonize their portfolios.
Starting date: 25 August 2023
Commitment: EUR 100,000
The start-up is the first Tanzanian company to produce maize flour based breakfast cereals in smaller quantities than the international competition for the local market. The maize flour is fortified with micronutrients and due to the smaller quantity packaging (one meal packaging), Goldenpot's cereals represent a nutritious food product accessible to lower- and middle-income households.The company is female founded, managed and sources its maize primarily from local female farmer groups.
Starting date: 31 July 2023
Commitment: EUR 100,000
Farm to Feed is addressing fresh produce supply and climate change solutions. The company created a market for imperfect/surplus produce, connecting smallholder farmers to the market and offering lower-cost products to the customer. FTF aims to transform the food system and is developing a data strategy for identifying food loss drivers and implementing a carbon credit model. They're also exploring semi-processing services and data products for additional income streams.
Starting date: 28 July 2023
Commitment: EUR 100,000
Kazi Yetu Ltd. produces organic teas, herbs, and spices without the use of chemicals for B2B and B2C customers in Tanzania and Europe. The products are locally grown, processed, and marketed, come in biodegradable packaging and can be traced from cultivation to consumption. The company promotes women's economic independence and is certified as a B Corporation.
Starting date: 10 July 2023
Commitment: EUR 100,000
Plant Biodefenders Limited is a Tanzanian company that manufactures an innovative biopesticide called Vuruga Biocide. The biopesticide is made from the Aspergillus oryzae fungus and effectively controls pests like the invasive fall armyworm and tomato leafminer. The company sells its affordable and environmentally friendly biopesticide to agricultural input distributors, wholesalers, and directly to growers of various crops.
Starting date: 07 July 2023
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