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.

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10Agrow Technologies

Kenya, Others

10Agrow Technologies

10Agrow is a digital platform that aims to strengthen the purchasing power of vulnerable groups (e.g. women, low-income households and micro businesses) by forming smart consumer groups. By merger, they can leverage their collective purchasing power and negotiate premium prices (20% below market rate) for essential products.

Starting date: 10 July 2022

End date: 31 May 2023

Commitment: EUR 200,000

Mazi

Kenya, Clean Technology & Energy

Mazi

Mazi provides on-demand clean energy mobility services. This includes electric motorcycles (for sale) paired with battery swapping infrastructure (Battery as a Service). Moreover, the startup owns and rents batteries to commercial motorcycle riders (“boda bodas”) and businesses on a per-use fee. By developing an ecosystem of connected e-bikes, batteries and swapping stations, the company is providing a realistic, greener and cheaper alternative to high pollutive and expensive petrol bikes.

Starting date: 23 December 2022

End date: 30 April 2024

Commitment: EUR 100,000

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Simusolar

Tanzania, Clean Technology & Energy

Simusolar

Simusolar provides technical and digital solutions to equip smallholder farmers with solar water pump systems. The irrigation pumps work on a Pay-As-You-Go (PAYG) system and have an integrated data collection for customer usage analysis. With a mobile sales app the sales team designs customised irrigation solutions for farmers.

Starting date: 02 December 2022

End date: 30 April 2024

Commitment: EUR 100,000

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Dial A Pad

Kenya, Water, Sanitation & Hygiene

Dial A Pad

Dial A Pad Ltd.  manufactures smart IoT enabled sanitary towel dispensers and places them into schools,workplaces and public places to combat period poverty in Kenya, Dial A Pad’s solutions overcome the issue of last-mile delivery and thus provides an effective, accountable, and transparent distribution system for the governmental free sanitary towels Program. Schools and county governments can use the collected data to monitor early marriages and teenage pregnancies and intervene accordingly.

Starting date: 09 June 2023

End date: 01 May 2024

Commitment: EUR 100,000

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Agribora

Kenya, Agriculture & Food, Finance

Agribora Kenya

Agribora's main goal is to empower smallholder farmers to engage in agribusiness by giving them access to finance. Agribora provides its customers with an e-wallet where they can create their own accounts and receive earmarked loans based on their transaction history, which is intended to derisk smallholder farming systems and improve farm productivity.

Starting date: 14 July 2022

End date: 31 May 2024

Commitment: EUR 200,000

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Pezesha Africa

Kenya, Finance

Pezesha Africa

Through an embedded marketplace, Pezesha Africa connects fundless MSMEs with distribution partners and institutional investors to provide access to affordable working capital loans. Based on real-time credit scoring, the company offers different lending options. The company helps to close the gap in MSME financing, allowing emerging sectors and markets to develop.

Starting date: 28 February 2022

End date: 31 May 2024

Commitment: EUR 200,000

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Shamba Pride

Kenya, Agriculture & Food

Shamba Pride

Through its DigiShop franchise network, Shamba Pride provides services to smallholder farmers. Shamba Pride enables last-mile agro-dealers and cooperative entrepreneurs to digitally connect with smallholder farmers and provide them with agriculture inputs, information, and services. Farmers are able to increase their farm productivity and sustain their employment and household income.

Starting date: 17 February 2022

End date: 31 May 2024

Commitment: EUR 300,000

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Yusudi

Kenya, Education

Yusudi

Founded in 2016, Yusudi provides customized training, coaching and placement services to young talent through its training academy. Yusudi has become a key player not only in qualifying graduates for employment in sales, but also in placing them in the labor market in a timely manner. In this way, it creates a virtuous cycle of talent and business growth and an improvement in income levels.

Starting date: 01 March 2023

End date: 30 June 2024

Commitment: EUR 100,000

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Play Zuri Health

Kenya, Health

Play Zuri Health

Zuri Health is a health app (virtual hospital) providing affordable and accessible healthcare services (chat with doctors, buy medication from pharmacies, book diagnostic tests and doctors visits at home) via mobile app, website, Whatsapp bot and SMS service. Zuri Health is reaching over 1,5 Million SMS subscribers across 7 African countries.

Starting date: 18 July 2022

End date: 30 June 2024

Commitment: EUR 300,000

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Inclusivity Solutions

Kenya, Health, Insurance

Inclusivity Solutions 

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

End date: 30 June 2024

Commitment: EUR 200,000

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Kiri EV

Kenya, Clean Technology & Energy

Kiri EV

The company's core business focuses on the sale and leasing of e-motorcycles. In addition Kiri EV offers ancillary services such as PAYGO battery charging. By providing cheaper and environmentally friendly fuel to drivers, Kiri contributes to the green transition of domestic transport.

Starting date: 07 July 2022

End date: 31 August 2024

Commitment: EUR 200,000

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Dawa Mkononi

Tanzania, Health

Dawa Mkononi

Dawa Mkononi is a data driven B2B e-commerce marketplace for healthcare facilities to procure and receive products delivered via an easy-to-use mobile app. In addition, the technological features of Dawa's platform enable the company to have full visibility of their own internal operations and to provide their B2B customers with key insights on their inventory management to reduce waste.

Starting date: 08 February 2023

End date: 30 April 2025

Commitment: EUR 300,000

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Aatif Aquaponics

Tanzania, Agriculture & Food

Aatif Aquaponics

The innovative and ecofriendly farming startup is specialized in growing and selling organic horticultural products such as basil, mint and coriander using aquaponics and hydroponics farming techniques, which is new to the East African region. The combination of aquaculture and hydroponics uses fish waste as a nutrient for plants. Aatif Aquaponics has developed a small prototype aquaponics farm in Bububu, Zanzibar, growing fruits and vegetables that are typically not grown on the island due the inadequacy of the soil for traditional agriculture.

Starting date: 07 July 2023

End date: 15 June 2025

Commitment: EUR 200,000

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Rology Medical

Kenya, Health

Rology Medical 

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

End date: 30 June 2025

Commitment: EUR 100,000

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Goldenpot

Tanzania, Agriculture & Food

Goldenpot 

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

End date: 20 June 2025

Commitment: EUR 300,000

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Aquarech

Kenya, Agriculture & Food

Aquarech

Aquarech Ltd. has developed Kenya’s first fish farming platform to enable the unlocked potential for job creation and food security of sustainable fish farming. Through the platform, fish farmers, fish feed manufacturers, and fish buyers can trade and build business relationships. The platform includes credit-financing services, a fish buy back system, a mobile app to easily purchase feed and a USSD platform for non-smartphone users. To establish a sustainable way of fish farming, Aquarech uses IoT water quality monitoring devices and provides climate-smart technical support to its fish farmers.

Starting date: 05 July 2023

End date: 30 June 2025

Commitment: EUR 300,000

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Biobuu Tanzania

Tanzania, Others

Biobuu Tanzania

Biobuu Tanzania is an organic waste collector and processor in Tanzania. The company has developed a large-scale factory model to produce insect-derived protein products, especially low-carbon animal feed and organic fertiliser (compost), from organic waste collected from the local marktets. In this way, Biobuu supports local governments to deal with the huge amount of organic waste, helping citizens to improve their health and helping the environment by the reduction of CO2.

Starting date: 01 February 2023

Commitment: EUR 300,000

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Ziotio

Tanzania, Clean Technology & Energy, Transport & Logistics

Ziotio

Ziotio sells smart, IoT-connected, zero-emission electric 3-wheelers directly to professional taxi drivers on a lease-to-own scheme. The smart, internet-connected system allows 100% remote asset control via a web and phone app. Ziotio's model allows self-employed drivers to increase their income, save money, and become financially stable vehicle owners themselves.

Starting date: 20 January 2023

End date: 30 June 2025

Commitment: EUR 300,000

Itule

Tanzania, Transport & Logistics

Itule 

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

End date: 31 July 2025

Commitment: EUR 100,000

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Flamingoo Foods

Tanzania, Agriculture & Food

Flamingoo Foods 

Flamingoo Foods  is one of few Tanzania's rice and maize producers and operates as an innovative food supply chain startup. Flamingoo Foods' business model is based on a data-driven sourcing, storing, processing and selling of paddy rice and maize. Through this innovative data-enabled approach, Flamingoo Foods is playing an important role in improving local food security by building resilience to climate extremes.

Starting date: 07 December 2022

End date: 31 July 2025

Commitment: EUR 300,000

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