# Top 15 Biotech VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Kenya in October 2023

## ENGIE Rassembleurs d'Energies initiative
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series C
- Focus: Solar, Agriculture, Energy

ENGIE Rassembleurs d'Energies initiative is the Group provides technical and financial support.

## CoCapital
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series C
- Focus: Agriculture, Energy, Biomass Energy

CoCapital provides dedicated Seed and Early Stage investment solutions for specialist Technology startups, prime Real Estate ventures as well as other alternative investment products.

## Shell Foundation
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Grant, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Energy, Agriculture, Solar

Shell Foundation is an independent charity established by the Shell Group in 2000 to create and scale new solutions to global development challenges. We apply business thinking to major social and environmental issues linked to the energy sector – and seek to leverage the skills and networks of Shell where possible to deliver greater developmentimpact.Over the years, learning from both success and failure, we have established a new enterprise-based model to deliver significant and lasting social and environmental outcomes. We now deploy a blend of financial and non-financial resources to accelerate social innovation and harness private markets to deliver public benefit at scale.

## EcoEnterprises Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Costa Rica, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series C
- Focus: Agriculture, Energy, Biomass Energy

EcoEnterprises Fund offers tailored growth capital and strategic guidance to innovative impact businesses in order to scale and optimize their financial, environmental and social performance. For nearly 20 years, we have successfully proven our unique approach, managing two funds that have financed over 30 companies across 11 countries. Our 3rdfund, EcoEnterprises Partners III, LP, was launched in May 2018, building on our track record of delivering portfolio results while generating fair and sustainable livelihoods for local communities, and preserving our most important asset: Planet Earth.

## DILA Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services

DILA Capital is a Mexico City-based VC Firm that fosters the growth of Mexican entrepreneurs and Start-Up Companies. By offering equity investments, debt financing and guidance, DILA strives to add value to our invested companies and entrepreneurs. In addition to our vast entrepreneur network, knowledge of the Mexican market and experience of ourpartners.

## Triodos Investment Management
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Zeist, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Debt Financing, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Energy

Triodos is a global pioneer of sustainable banking. Their mission is to make money work for positive social, environmental and cultural change.

## iLabAfrica
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Agriculture, Biotechnology

Research Centre under the Fac­ulty of Inform­a­tion Tech­no­logy at Strath­more Uni­ver­sity, @iLabAfrica was estab­lished in Janu­ary 2011 to spear­head research, innov­a­tion and entre­pren­eur­ship in the ICT for Devel­op­ment (ICT4D) eco­sys­tem towards the attain­ment of the UNDP Mil­len­nium Devel­op­ment Goals (MDGs) and Kenya’s Vis­ion2030. They recog­nise that the spread of ICT tech­no­lo­gies in devel­op­ing coun­tries remains pain­fully slow; con­demning a large frac­tion of Africa’s pop­u­la­tion to poverty, under­nour­ish­ment, dis­ease and dis­em­power­ment. They also recog­nise that this situ­ation is improv­ing in some coun­tries as a res­ult of the phe­nom­enal growth of the mobile tele­phony ser­vices. This improve­ment in data access and con­nectiv­ity has cre­ated a wealth of oppor­tun­it­ies for entre­pren­eurs to engage in mobile-​based ser­vices deliv­ery business.

## Opes Impact Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Milano, Lombardia, Italy
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Energy, Social Entrepreneurship, Renewable Energy

Opes-Lcef is an impact investor that provides catalytic capital to early-stage social enterprises in emerging markets.

## Endeavor Catalyst
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology

Endeavor Catalyst is the rules-based, co-investment fund of Endeavor, set up to invest exclusively in Endeavor Entrepreneur-led companies and to sustain Endeavor’s long-term operations in a mission-aligned way. Launched in 2012, Endeavor Catalyst has ~$500M+ AUM across four funds and has made 260+ investments to date in 35+ different markets. TodayThe Endeavor Catalyst portfolio has 53 companies valued at $1B+. Investments include Globant (NYSE:GLOB), Rappi, and Creditas in Latin America; Yemeksepeti.com and Careem in MENA; and Bukalapak and Carro in Indonesia.

## Endeavor
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce

About EndeavorEndeavor is the world’s leading community of high-impact entrepreneurs. Today, Endeavor’s network spans nearly 40 countries and supports more than 2,000 entrepreneurs, whose companies generate combined revenues of over $28 billion US, have created more than 3.9 million jobs, and, in 2020, raised over $4 billion US in capital.Endeavor’s unique entrepreneur-first model and network of trust provide a platform for founders to dream big, scale up, and pay it forward to the next generation of entrepreneurs.
About Endeavor CatalystEndeavor Catalyst is the rules-based, co-investment fund of Endeavor, set up to invest exclusively in Endeavor Entrepreneur-led companies and to sustain Endeavor’s long-term operations in a mission-aligned way. Launched in 2012, Endeavor Catalyst has ~$250M+ AUM across three funds and has made 200+ investments to date in 32+ different markets. Today The Endeavor Catalyst portfolio has 37 companies valued at $1B+, including 29 unicorns. Investments include Globant (NYSE:GLOB), Rappi, and Creditas in Latin America; Yemeksepeti.com and Careem in MENA; and Bukalapak and Carro in Indonesia.

## U.S. International Development Finance Corp
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt
- Focus: Financial Services, Finance, FinTech

U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) is America’s development bank. DFC partners with the private sector to finance solutions to the most critical challenges facing the developing world today. We invest in projects that create jobs in emerging markets in sectors including energy, healthcare, critical infrastructure,telecommunications, and financing for small businesses and women entrepreneurs. DFC investments adhere to high standards and respect the environment, human rights, and worker rights.

## Electrification Financing Initiative
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Debt Financing, Series A
- Focus: Energy, Solar, Renewable Energy

Impact investment in sustainable energy

## Lendahand
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series C
- Focus: Agriculture, Biomass Energy, Renewable Energy

Crowdfund entrepreneurs in emerging markets and earn up to 7% interest annually.

## GreenTec Capital Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Information Technology, Agriculture, Computer

GreenTec Capital Partners is Germany's premier investor into African start-ups and SMEs. GreenTec invests through its unique Results4Equity model, acting as a co-founding partner that is only compensated on business success.

## Alphamundi
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Debt Financing
- Focus: Agriculture, Solar, Energy

AlphaMundi Group Ltd is a commercial entity based in Switzerland and exclusively dedicated to Impact Investing: profitable investments that generate substantial net benefits to society. It was founded in 2007 by a group of partners with extensive experience in the financial industry as well as responsible investments, microfinance andphilanthropy.AlphaMundi provides debt and equity financing to scalable social ventures in strategic sustainable human development sectors such as microfinance, affordable education, fair trade agriculture and renewable energy. AlphaMundi is currently investing out of its impact debt fund, SocialAlpha Investment Fund (SAIF) - Bastion, domiciled in Luxembourg. AlphaMundi also manages co-investments for SAIF-Bastion investors and third parties.​AlphaMundi partners believe that Impact Investing is a new tool for development that can enhance more classical responsible investment approaches (which often lack impact ​measurability) and complement charitable solutions (which often lack financial viability). To this extent, the firm also contributes to the emergence of Impact Investing through education events, publications and industry associations. Impact investments are now being integrated by leading US and European banks, pension funds, foundations and family offices into traditional investment portfolios, as primarily decorrelated, illiquid and profitable financial assets.

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