Top 10 Community VC Funds & Investors in Ghana (October 2023)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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FMO
VC Fund
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2 | India, The Netherlands, Kenya | Debt Financing, Series B | Financial Services, Finance, FinTech | $1.7M–$120M |
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RippleWorks
VC Fund
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1 | Ghana, South Africa | Debt Financing, Corporate Round | Mobile, FinTech, Software | |
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Kiva
VC Fund
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1 | Ghana, Kenya, Uganda | Debt Financing, Seed, Series A | Social Entrepreneurship, Agriculture, Energy | $50k–$18M |
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Savannah Fund
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya, United States, South Africa | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, FinTech, Information Technology | $25k–$8M |
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Mulago Foundation
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Ghana, India | Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed | Agriculture, Health Care, Pharmaceutical | $190k–$4M |
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The Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Ghana, India | Seed, Grant | Software, FinTech, Education | $100k–$1.7M |
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Rabobank
VC Fund
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1 | The Netherlands, United States, India | Debt Financing, Seed | Renewable Energy, Energy, Agriculture | $161k–$400M |
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Rio Technology Partners
VC Fund
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1 | Ghana, United States | Seed | E-Commerce, Shopping, Lifestyle | |
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Netri Foundation
VC Fund
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1 | Ghana | Debt Financing | Agriculture, Social Entrepreneurship | |
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Whole Planet Foundation
VC Fund
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1 | Ghana, Congo, Democratic Republic Of | Debt Financing | Energy, Power Grid, Agriculture | $6.5M–$18M |
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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.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
- Stage:Debt Financing, Series B
- Geography: India, The Netherlands, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 105
- Round size: Series B $4.5M–$30M; Debt Financing $1.7M–$120M
- Lead/follow: 57% lead, 43% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Laprophan — Laprophan gives people access to cutting-edge treatments and therapies. As a result, we are committed to researching, developing, and bringing new, innovative goods to market. dedication to patient-centered care pervades everything we do, from product creation to service delivery.
- AMEA Power — Founded in 2016, AMEA Power has assembled a leading team of global industry experts to deliver clean energy projects across Africa, the Middle East and other emerging markets.
- Northern Arc — Northern Arc Capital is a non-banking finance company that provides access to debt for under-served investors and businesses. Northern Arc Capita connects originators so that they may deepen their presence and provide access to financial services to millions of under-served households. Northern Arc Capital formerly Known as IFMR Capital. It wasfounded in 2008 and is headquartered in Chennai, India.
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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- Industry: Mobile, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Debt Financing, Corporate Round
- Geography: Ghana, South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Zoona — Zoona is a mobile technology company developing products such as money transfers, electronic voucher payments, and agent payments. It brings together the drive of young entrepreneurs and the power of cutting-edge technology to bring safe and reliable financial services to underserved communities all over Africa!It has support offices in SouthAfrica with operations in Zambia, Malawi, and Mozambique. Since being founded in 2009, they have processed over $2 billion in transactions and been recognized by The Nike Foundation and The Unreasonable Group as one of the top ten Startups best positioned to take girls out of poverty by helping them become entrepreneurs.
- Farmerline — The Farmerline vision is to see an Africa where Agriculture NGO’s are not a functioning force in the market. Farmerline provides paid services that allow farmers to have the information and access they need to employ an entrepreneurial method of farming. Input dealers and traders pay for more efficient communication channels to farmers andfarmers pay for information packages and services. In this vision, more food is produce, more food gets to market, and GDP from cash crop export soars.
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- Industry: Social Entrepreneurship, Agriculture, Energy
- Stage:Debt Financing, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Ghana, Kenya, Uganda
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Debt Financing $50k–$18M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- I2B — Develop your ideas without code. Using bubble. The visual development framework.
- Farmerline — The Farmerline vision is to see an Africa where Agriculture NGO’s are not a functioning force in the market. Farmerline provides paid services that allow farmers to have the information and access they need to employ an entrepreneurial method of farming. Input dealers and traders pay for more efficient communication channels to farmers andfarmers pay for information packages and services. In this vision, more food is produce, more food gets to market, and GDP from cash crop export soars.
- Altech Group — Altech Group aims at expanding access to clean, renewable, and affordable energy both for poor-grid and off-grid households.
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.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, FinTech, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Kenya, United States, South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 36
- Round size: Seed $25k–$3M; Pre-Seed $200k–$2.1M; Series A $750k–$8M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $25M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Oze — OZÉ brings African small businesses into the digital era. It is an app that makes it easy for businesses to track sales, expenses, and customer information. The data is analyzed to provide tailored recommendations, reports, and business education. If the entrepreneur needs a little extra support, an OZÉ Coach is just a click away. As they are usingOZÉ to manage their business and learn how to run it better, we are learning about them. Using this data and machine learning, we can predict their credit risk and provide them with affordable capital from our banking partners. With over 20,000 registered users, OZÉ is the largest online community of SMEs in Ghana. The most exciting thing is that OZÉ works; 97% of businesses that have used OZE for at least 9 months are growing or profitable or both!
- Root — Programmable insurance that you can integrate into your product or service with ease
- Afropolitan — Afropolitan is building a Network State to unleash the maximum potential of Africans around the world. Are you interested? Join us with your email.
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.
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- Industry: Agriculture, Health Care, Pharmaceutical
- Stage:Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Ghana, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Grant $190k–$4M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Farmerline — The Farmerline vision is to see an Africa where Agriculture NGO’s are not a functioning force in the market. Farmerline provides paid services that allow farmers to have the information and access they need to employ an entrepreneurial method of farming. Input dealers and traders pay for more efficient communication channels to farmers andfarmers pay for information packages and services. In this vision, more food is produce, more food gets to market, and GDP from cash crop export soars.
- Hello Tractor — Hello Tractor is an award winning agtech social enterprise that focuses on connecting tractor owners and smallholder farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa through a farm equipment sharing application. We have over the years emerged as the leading provider of technology solutions designed for the tractor services market, capturing 75% of private commercialtractor inflows to Nigeria, expanding to a total of 16 markets across the continent as well as reaching well over 500,000 smallholder farmers.
- Particles for Humanity — Particles for Humanity transforms medical technologies originated in academic labs into products that meet the health care needs of people in developing countries.
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.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Education
- Stage:Seed, Grant
- Geography: United States, Ghana, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Seed $100k–$1.7M
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $65M in 2016
Portfolio highlights
- Emata — Emata brings digital and affordable financial products to farmers in East Africa.
- Numida — Growing African small businesses with affordable, convenient, and fair credit.
- People's Pension — People's Pension is a pension provider that offers innovative, flexible and digitally driven financial services to successfully increase resilience within the informal economy and reduce old-age poverty.
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.
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- Industry: Renewable Energy, Energy, Agriculture
- Stage:Debt Financing, Seed
- Geography: The Netherlands, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 98
- Round size: Seed $161k–$3.4M; Debt Financing $330k–$400M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.8M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Auramet — Innovation | Ingenuity | Involvement
- Astrape Networks — Astrape powers the future of datacenters: more bandwidth, less power.
- Ashtrom Renewable Energy — Ashtrom Renewable Energy offers breakthrough Israeli innovation alongside the robust financial backing and credibility of Ashtrom Group.
Rio Technology Partners is an investment vehicle and strategic advisory firm.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Shopping, Lifestyle
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Ghana, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Soko — SOKO produces innovative, ethical jewelry and accessories from sustainable materials in Nairobi, Kenya
- Ahonya — Ahonya.com aims to be the Amazon of Ghana and is the leading online shopping site in Ghana allowing users to purchase genuine electronics at low prices. Our mission is to help consumers find and buy high quality electronics online – in less time for the best price. We strive to bring the widest range of quality products to consumers including:laptops, mobile phones, cameras, tablets, PC accessories, projectors and other electronic products
Netri Foundation seeks to improve the quality of life of the most disadvantaged through grants and social investments.
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- Industry: Agriculture, Social Entrepreneurship
- Stage:Debt Financing
- Geography: Ghana
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Farmerline — The Farmerline vision is to see an Africa where Agriculture NGO’s are not a functioning force in the market. Farmerline provides paid services that allow farmers to have the information and access they need to employ an entrepreneurial method of farming. Input dealers and traders pay for more efficient communication channels to farmers andfarmers pay for information packages and services. In this vision, more food is produce, more food gets to market, and GDP from cash crop export soars.
Whole Planet Foundation is a private nonprofit organization established by Whole Foods Market and dedicated to poverty alleviation.
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- Industry: Energy, Power Grid, Agriculture
- Stage:Debt Financing
- Geography: Ghana, Congo, Democratic Republic Of
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Debt Financing $6.5M–$18M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Farmerline — The Farmerline vision is to see an Africa where Agriculture NGO’s are not a functioning force in the market. Farmerline provides paid services that allow farmers to have the information and access they need to employ an entrepreneurial method of farming. Input dealers and traders pay for more efficient communication channels to farmers andfarmers pay for information packages and services. In this vision, more food is produce, more food gets to market, and GDP from cash crop export soars.
- Altech Group — Altech Group aims at expanding access to clean, renewable, and affordable energy both for poor-grid and off-grid households.
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