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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Swahilies offers a powerful, tech-driven financial platform designed to streamline operations for MSMEs in Sub-Saharan Africa. With tools for inventory management, sales tracking, and digital payments, Swahilies empowers businesses to boost efficiency and drive growth.
Starting date: 29 January 2025
Commitment: EUR 100,000
NovFeed specializes in sustainable agriculture, developing EcoVita, a bio-fertilizer made from aquaculture byproducts and organic waste. This cost-effective product replaces expensive chemical fertilizers, boosts crop yields by 45%, reduces environmental impact and empowers farmers.
Starting date: 15 January 2025
Commitment: EUR 100,000
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.
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
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 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
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
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
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
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