# Top 15 Climate VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Ghana in October 2023

## CDC Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Debt Financing, Series B
- Focus: Financial Services, Banking, Finance

British International Investment is the UK's development finance institution. We've been at the forefront of supporting companies in developing countries for more than 70 years.

## SunFunder
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Debt Financing, Series C
- Focus: Solar, Energy, Renewable Energy

SunFunder is a specialist financing company dedicated to pioneering and scaling clean energy and climate investments in emerging markets.

## Shell Foundation
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- 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.

## 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

## Mercy Corps Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Portland, Oregon, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, AgTech

Our impact investing arm, Mercy Corps Ventures (MCV), invests in and fuels high-impact enterprises that increase the resilience of people and communities in frontier markets.

## Aster
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Energy, Solar

Aster is a Venture Capital firm with offices in 4 major innovation hubs: Paris, London, Tel Aviv and San Francisco. Since 2000, they have partnered with more than 60 teams of entrepreneurs that are transforming markets with disruptive offers and technologies. They are always open to exploring new ideas related to mobility, energy and industrysectors that they have been covering until now. They invest in all stages, with a preference for the early phase.They are more than investors and they intend to act as an ally for entrepreneurs by connecting them to a valuable ecosystem of experts, influencers and business leaders. From marketing to executive talent, their commitment to the growth of their portfolio companies as well as the entire venture ecosystem also involves the commitment of their dedicated Operations team, their innovation strategy consulting firm (Aster Fab) and a crowdfunding branch to further expand opportunities (Aster Crowd).Some of their success stories include Solairedirect (acquired by Engie in 2015), Digital Lumens (acquired by Osram in 2017) and Avantium (IPOed in 2017).

## Wangara Green Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Accra, Greater Accra, Ghana
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Real Estate, Sustainability, Transportation

Wangara Green Ventures is a climate-focused impact investment asset manager in Ghana, West Africa.

## ImpactAssets
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bethesda, Maryland, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology

ImpactAssets is the preeminent partner for impact investing and philanthropic giving for individuals, families and a range of organizations that want to create positive change for the world.

## Investisseurs & Partenaires
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, Health Care, Food and Beverage

Investisseurs et Partenaires

## E3 Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: Solar, Energy, Renewable Energy

Energy Access Ventures invests in growing, entrepreneurial businesses in Sub-Saharan Africa addressing the lack of electrification in the region with new technology and innovative business models. The fund is backed by Schneider Electric, the leading energy management multinational, and a number of public-sector investors.

## Oikocredit International
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Amersfoort, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Debt Financing, Series B
- Focus: Financial Services, Finance, FinTech

Oikocredit is guided by the principle of empowering people. Their experience proves that the most effective and sustainable means of assisting those in need is providing an opportunity to help themselves.

## Engie
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Energy, Renewable Energy, Solar

ENGIE is a global energy player and an expert operator in the three key sectors of electricity, natural gas and energy services. The Group supports changes in society that are based as much on economic growth as on, social progress and the preservation of natural resources. ENGIE employs 152,900 people worldwide and achieved revenues of €74.7billion in 2014. The Group is listed on the Paris and Brussels stock exchanges (ENGI) and is represented in the main international indices: CAC 40, BEL 20, DJ Euro Stoxx 50, Euronext 100, FTSE Eurotop 100, MSCI Europe and Euronext Vigeo (World 120, Eurozone 120, Europe 120 and France 20). As a global energy player, ENGIE operates in close to 70 countries on 5 continents. While the Group still intends to maintain its position as a key player in Europe and a leader on the energy transition, it is now a benchmark energy provider in the emerging world.

## End Poverty. Make Trillions
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Marina Del Rey, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Mobile, Farming, Finance

How we can end poverty in the United States, and make trillions of dollars doing it.

## Blue Haven Initiative
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Solar, Energy, Financial Services

Blue Haven Initiative is an innovative family office dedicated to putting wealth to work for market returns and positive social and environmental change.

## Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: CleanTech, Smart Cities, Electric Vehicle

Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office is a government organization.

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