"As capital becomes a commodity with more early-stage investors flocking to Africa, what will make us stand out will be our networks, relationships, and reputations."
What we look for
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Large Markets
A clear market opportunity that is massive and growing, captured through a scalable business model. We aim at reaching sustainable impact across a large audience by addressing deep markets, or investing in market-creating innovations.
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Scalable Economics
Tech-enabled businesses with proven, highly leverageable and defensible revenues, coupled with the ability to improve unit economics through cost and capital efficiency are able to achieve top-trend growth more easily than less efficient business structures. We are disciplined in ensuring the unit economics of the business we invest in are sustainable and attractive.
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Strong Agile Teams
We are looking for founders that combine strategic vision and executional capacity. Strong teams tend to be bound by a cohesive, inclusive, all-hands-on deck culture. We are seeking founders and teams guided by a clear value proposition and differentiated position in the market.
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Repeatable Growth
Solutions with highly replicable growth models and transferable problem-solution sets can most benefit from our growth investment and market expansion facilitation. As African markets are not uniform, we carefully model and test solution--market fit.
How much funding will you get?
If you are an African founder of a tech-enabled startup that is solving a significant African development challenge, please apply using the button below. If you have little or no revenues, we will refer you to our Angel Fund for funding consideration. If you have meaningful revenues with high growth potential, you may be eligible for investment from our Funds.
