The African Start-up Matching Fund.

Let’s double or even better, triple your investment.

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24
Matching Fund applications processed
€642,453
Deployed as qualified matching grants
10
AfriLabs Innovation Hubs Supported
172
Angel Investors involved
€847,752
Invested by local angel investors in Startups affiliated to Hubs
11
Number of Startups supported

Increase the investment made by investors in African Start-ups

Fund African Startups with innovative digital solutions and measurable impact.

Strengthen African angel networks and innovative hubs.

Present reliable ecosystem data, insights, and impact reporting for all stakeholders.

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TileGreen

TileGreen is an Egyptian startup that innovates technologies to make concrete-alternative, premium, and carbon-negative building materials from plastic waste through its patent-pending technology that virtually recycles all types of plastic waste into building products.
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FedaPay

FedaPay is a Benin-based startup that helps small and large businesses receive payments to maximize their sales opportunities, allowing businesses in the region to use a single payment method and accept Mobile Money and credit cards. 
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Inputi

Inputi is a Ugandan-based startup that links smallholder farmers to suppliers of genuine quality farm inputs, revolutionizing the agricultural sector through the digitalization of every touch point of value chains through its dynamic integrated ERP
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Twende

Twende is a marketplace offering transport solutions to employees relying on informal or public transport, who don’t have dependable and efficient transport options in Cote D'Ivoire.
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Figorr

Figorr runs IoT-powered solutions that provide businesses, especially those in healthcare and agriculture, with key data such as location, humidity, and temperature of highly perishable products, helping entrepreneurs cut the losses that emerge from lack of such visibility.
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Koloso

Koloso is a free-to-access Zambian-based educational mobile app designed to help school students and adults achieve their personal learning goals.
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If the business angel invests an amount less or equal to €10,000, then the matching fund will double the amount of funding the startup receives from the angel investors.

3:1

If the business angel invests more than €10,000, then the matching fund will triple the amount of funding the startup receives from the angel investors.

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Startups

Registered in a hub member of the AfriLabs network

Innovation Hubs

Registered in AfriLabs hubs network.

Local Angel Networks

Registered in ABAN Angel Network.

Angel Investors

Registered in a Local Angel Network of ABAN network.

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