Katapult Africa Investments

We invest in and accelerate impact driven tech startups. Through Katapult's existing investment and accelerator programs, we have invested in 146 companies from over 47 different countries. Several of our investments are within climate tech, smart cities, mobility, renewable energy, and more. Katapult has previously recruited startups already working on important social, environmental and agri-tech challenges across the African continent.

Afrikamart

Building the best B2B marketplace for smallholder farmers and food businesses.

Agrieye

AI based solution to support farming efficiency. Contains neural network, cloud platform, drones and 6-band multispectral cameras.

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Aquarech

Aquarech is at the forefront of aquaculture innovations to transform fish farmer livelihoods across Kenya. Strengthening the fish value chain and spearheading sustainable, environment-friendly practices buoys all actors involved.

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Atlan Space

Combats illegal fishing through artificially intelligent drones.

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Brayfoil

The next generation of wind turbine blades – that change shape to tailor loadings and respond better to incoming winds, enabling lighter blades, longer bladespans, and reducing the overall cost.

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Complete Farmer

Offers a unique platform that connects farmers to global food buyers and assists them in gaining a competitive edge across the supply chain.

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Crop2Cash

Digitalizes the value chain of food crops by building tools for agro-processors, allowing them to manage their supply relationships with farmers and other suppliers digitally.

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Diwala

Building a decentralized market platform powered by blockchain that enables refugees to actively build their identity.

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Elucid

Elucid advance human rights in global supply chains by improving producers’ health and livelihoods.

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Farmforce

A SaaS solution that simplifies the management of small-holder farmers, increases traceability and enables access to formal markets.

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Figorr

Helps businesses reduce loss of perishables through real-time asset monitoring.

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FinAccess

A digital finance infrastructure platform, powered by AI, that is enabling access to financial services.

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GrowAgric

GrowAgric is an end-to-end solution that provides small scale farmers with access to training, working capital financing, farm record keeping digital tools and access to new markets for their products.

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HerVest

HerVest is an inclusive fintech for women. We provide easy access to target savings, impact investments and credit financing for smallholder women farmers and women-owned/led micro-enterprises.

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Inclusive Energy

Remote monitoring and control meters collect real-time data from biogas digesters and solar PV assets.

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Legendary Foods

Delivering the nutrition of meat at the price & sustainability of plants using insect agriculture.

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MooMe

Offers innovative software and hardware to help monitor dairy farming production across the entire value chain.

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NXT Grid

Profitable, clean mini-grids, everywhere, by everyone. Onboarding investments, buying solar equipment and renting it to local developers.

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OKO Finance

Leverages data to provide effective, affordable insurance to farmers in emerging markets and deliver instant claim settlement.

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PraxiLabs

Provides interactive, bilingual, 3D, low-immersion Virtual Reality science labs within the fields of Chemistry, Biology and Physics.

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Raino Tech4Impact

Leveraging technology to decentralise and democratise cold-chain access in fisheries and aquaculture in East Africa.

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Red Flash

Helps municipalities in Sub-Saharan Africa with tax collection from the informal sector through its online platform.

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Rural Farmers Hub

Provides agricultural services to small and big farmers. Rural Farmer Hub’s core product – Capture™ – uses a proprietary algorithm and big data to assess crop and soil health, then generate near-real time farming insights and advice.

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RxAll

An AI-hyperspectral platform for authenticating medicines. Uses a proprietary molecular sensor device with an AI algorithm and database of spectral signatures of medicines.

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Sand To Green

Cultivating desert into arable land managed by regenerative agriculture practices and solar-desalination

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Sensegrass

Offers 360 farming solutions based on cutting edge technology including Nano-Satellite Mapping, Rover Bots and AI-based mobile & web application that makes farming simpler and more efficient.

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SimbaPay

Allowing the diaspora community to send money directly to the banked and the unbanked at a 1/3rd of the cost of typical solutions used today.

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SiMBi

SiMBi is the only reading technology that motivates students to read, by giving back to their global community.

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Spark

Spark is a social finance app that makes transactions with your contacts better. Spark lets users chat and transact easily in one place, custom manage group finances, and view all transaction records in an organized way.

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Think.iT

Tackling the global deficit of Software Engineers by identifying and accelerating North Africa’s future technology leaders.

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Vetsark

Vetsark helps farmers and agribusinesses digitalise their data and get bank financing.

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Wattnow

Offers IoT solutions by combining hardware and software for companies to optimize their energy consumption and reduce their costs and carbon footprints.

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