Fund equity investment in AFRICA and MENA: Early-stage tech-enabled startup investment (food security, climate and nature) Grant
In context
This call is open to startups and small and medium-sized businesses, at idea and R&D stage, prototype and pilot stage and pre-seed. Funding is an equity investment. Coverage is read from the notice itself: Africa and the Middle East and North Africa.
This fund invests in early-stage, tech-enabled startups across Africa and the funder region working at the intersection of food security, climate change, and nature loss. It targets highly scalable models across five themes: digital farmer platforms, novel farming technologies, new foods and biotech, supply chain innovations, and nature/carbon data.
About this grant
The funder is an impact fund that invests in seed-stage African startups offering scalable solutions to the climate crisis in agri-food technology and the nature economy. The page frames the problem as the vulnerability of Africa's food systems and natural resources, including productive land and water, to climate shocks, and argues that the global food system, which accounts for roughly 10% of the global economy, contributes significantly to climate change, biodiversity loss, unstable food prices and low-paid jobs. …
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- Who can apply for Fund equity investment in AFRICA and MENA: Early-stage tech-enabled startup investment (food security, climate and nature)?
- Eligibility covers organisations in AFRICA, MENA; startup, sme. The full eligibility conditions are part of the Pro detail.
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Food systems funding covers sustainable production, supply-chain resilience, food loss, nutrition and smallholder livelihoods. It is offered by agriculture and development agencies, multilateral programmes and foundations, often with a focus on low- and middle-income countries. Applicants are generally asked to show local partnerships and how benefits reach farmers or consumers.
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