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 100,000
African Agency for Arid Resources
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 100,000
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.
Figorr Kenya
Figorr Kenya
Real-time monitoring technology from Figorr safeguards perishable goods in transit, tracking temperature and humidity to ensure product quality. By reducing spoilage and CO2 emissions, Figorr optimizes supply chains for agricultural and medical clients.
Starting date: 04 September 2024
Commitment: EUR 100,000
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 100,000
DOT Glasses Kenya
DOT Glasses Kenya
Revolutionizing vision care, low-cost adjustable eyeglasses are offered for remote communities, correcting 85% of impairments with just six lens options, eliminating the need for optometrists.
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
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
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 100,000
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
Medikea
Medikea
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
GOBEBA
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 300,000
Tappi
Tappi App
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
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
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 100,000
Melanin Kapital
Melanin Kapital
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 300,000
Drop Access
Drop Access
Drop Access is a female-led company and is the first to manufacture a portable solar-powered cool box for the delivery of vaccines and medical supplies in rural areas in Africa. The "Vaccine Box" is a real innovation that uses technology IoT integration in terms of remote data collection and monitoring capability, data on temperature, location, battery voltage, stock, and fridge operations can be accessed from anywhere in the world in real time.
Starting date: 31 January 2023
