# Top 10 Community Startup Investors in Ghana in October 2023

## FMO
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: The Hague, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Debt Financing, Series B
- Focus: Financial Services, Finance, FinTech

FMO is a financial investment firm that specializes in financing businesses and projects FMO invests across the agribusiness value chain to enhance food security, support sustainability and promoting inclusive development.

## Whole Planet Foundation
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Austin, Texas, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Debt Financing
- Focus: Energy, Power Grid, Agriculture

Whole Planet Foundation is a private nonprofit organization established by Whole Foods Market and dedicated to poverty alleviation.

## Mulago Foundation
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Agriculture, Health Care, Pharmaceutical

Mulago finds and funds high-performance organizations that tackle the basic needs of the very poor. We fight poverty. Our job is to find the organizations best able to create change and give them what they need to do it.

## Kiva
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Debt Financing, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Social Entrepreneurship, Agriculture, Energy

Kiva is the world's first online lending platform. For as little as $25 you can lend to an entrepreneur around the world. Learn more here.

## Rabobank
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Debt Financing, Seed
- Focus: Renewable Energy, Energy, Agriculture

Rabobank offers all the advantages of global commercialism founded upon cooperative principles: knowledge-driven, customer-focused, and backed by a AAA credit rating. Rabobank focuses on the food, beverage, and agribusiness sectors offering specialized products and services in 46 countries. Their strength stems from a network of prominent industryspecialists, leading researchers and industry analysts who generate a wealth of knowledge for clients.

## The Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Grant
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Education

William H. Draper, III and Robin Richards Donohoe began investing together in the venture industry in 1994 concentrating on building companies in India. Since 1994, they have invested in over one hundred early stage information technology investments both in India and the United States. In 2010, the Foundation joined forces with Robert S. Kaplan,formerly vice-chairman of Goldman Sachs and currently professor of leadership at Harvard Business School. Together the team raised their second fund inviting fourteen innovative philanthropists to join the fund.

## Rio Technology Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Shopping, Lifestyle

Rio Technology Partners is an investment vehicle and strategic advisory firm.

## Savannah Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, FinTech, Information Technology

Savannah Fund is a seed capital fund specializing in US$25,000-US$500,000 investments in early stage high growth technology (web and mobile) startups in sub-Saharan Africa. Initially focused on East Africa, the fund aims to bridge the early stage/angel and venture capital investment gap that currently exists in Africa. The Fund expects toachieve this objective by combining capital with mentor networks both in the region and from Silicon Valley via an accelerator program and a follow-on independent seed fund.The fund is managed by an experienced and technology savvy team that have founded companies or are actively involved in angel investing or having run successful accelerator programs in past but also understand the unique Subsaharan African environment. They are backed and supported by both local, regional and international networks of angels,venture capitalists whose expertise we can draw on to help startups succeed and scale to fully fledged regional or global companies.They believe in the potential for Africa to become a global technology innovator by creating sustainable for profit companies that create jobs and make an impact.

## Netri Foundation
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Debt Financing
- Focus: Agriculture, Social Entrepreneurship

Netri Foundation seeks to improve the quality of life of the most disadvantaged through grants and social investments.

## RippleWorks
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: California City, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Debt Financing, Corporate Round
- Focus: Mobile, FinTech, Software

RippleWorks pairs the most promising social ventures with Silicon Valley expertise to jointly identify and address immediate and critical scaling challenges. RippleWorks' volunteer program provides a high-skilled opportunity for tech executives and successful entrepreneurs to apply their domains of expertise and drive meaningful impact aroundthe world. RippleWorks is a non-profit that operates with a heightened sense of urgency to drive business results faster, which in turn will accelerate social and economic impact.

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