develoPPP Ventures hosts portfolio at AESIS2025 residency in Cape Town

With the Africa Early Stage Investor Summit (#AESIS2025) kicking off, VC4A is hosting a selected cohort of 12 high-potential companies from the develoPPP Ventures program portfolio in Cape Town, South Africa.

As a core implementing partner, VC4A is proud to facilitate a specialized Technical Residency for these founders, connecting them directly with Africa’s leading early-stage investors, mentors, and technical experts who are converging at the summit.

Driving sustainable growth with develoPPP Ventures

The develoPPP Ventures program, funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and implemented by DEG Impulse and GIZ, is instrumental in scaling innovative business models that deliver both high financial return and measurable development impact.

VC4A has been supporting the implementation since 2023 and is leveraging its extensive Pan-African network and expertise to provide the critical capacity-building, technical assistance, and ecosystem linkage required for these companies to thrive.

The develoPPP Ventures Technical Residency: Building investment readiness

The residency is designed to accelerate the investment readiness of these ventures, offering an intensive schedule that includes:

• 1:1 Technical Assistance & investor meetings: Curated sessions with attending experts and investors to refine fundraising strategies and secure follow-on capital.
  
• Technical workshops: Deep dives into growth areas like building technology for scale, international expansion, and OKR setting.
  
• Showcase opportunities: Platforms for founders to present their solutions and articulate their vision to a room full of decision-makers.

This week is a chance for these founders to move from regional success to pan-African visibility and connect with investors committed to funding companies that are built to last.

Meet the ventures at AESIS2025

We are pleased to showcase the following develoPPP Ventures companies that are participating in the Technical Residency at #AESIS2025. They represent cutting-edge innovation across multiple high-impact sectors across Africa:

The develoPPP Ventures East Africa showcase

EFiche Limited – Rwanda

eFiche is a Rwandan HealthTech company revolutionizing primary healthcare with its AI-powered EMR and analytics platform. Designed for low-resource settings, it digitizes patient registration, consultations, prescriptions, and payments, enabling paperless, cashless workflows across health facilities.

EWAKA Mobility Limited – Kenya

Electric bikes & fleet management powering Africa’s last-mile logistics. eWAKA is redefining mobility across Africa by offering innovative, sustainable, and tailored transportation solutions.

FlexPay – Kenya

Flexpay is a merchant-embedded saving-based purchase experience (Save Now, Buy Later) that offers a flexible payment option that allows customers to make purchases and pay for them over time, rather than paying the full amount upfront.

Irri Hub – Kenya

Irri-hub leverages technology to provide climate-smart irrigation solutions bundled up with full-stack services helping smallholder farmers maximise productivity as they build resilience against climate change.

Kazi Yetu – Tanzania

Kazi Yetu is an agribusiness founded to promote products made in East Africa, focusing on high-quality, traceable tea from Tanzania, and local value addition by processing products in Tanzania instead of exporting them raw.

Taimba Limited – Kenya

Taimba is a mobile-based Agri-tech service that provides direct linkage between food producers to urban traders, eateries, supermarkets and restaurants using in-house custom applications that automate operations end-to-end.

The develoPPP Ventures West & Southern Africa showcase

CoAmana – Nigeria

CoAmana is an agritech that connects farmers and traders through the Amana Market platform. They facilitate product financing for the traders. In addition, we enable companies access and interact with informal markets through the Amana Analytics product.

Earthbond Limited – Nigeria

Earthbond is a clean energy startup, a one-stop-shop for African SMEs transitioning from inconsistent, expensive power to affordable, reliable solar that meets their energy demand and their budget using innovative financing and carbon credits.

Franc – South Africa

Franc is a fintech that aims to make investing simpler, more accessible, and social for everyone in South Africa, including through its B2B offering for businesses.

Michanic – South Africa

Michanic is a mobile mechanic platform, making car maintenance convenient and creating sustainable jobs which increase earnings for mechanics and supporting local suppliers.

Swoove – Ghana

Swoove is a Ghanaian logistics technology company that provides infrastructure and services to help small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) with their delivery needs.

Grow For Me – Ghana

Combining capital, technology, trade, regulations and policy, Grow For Me enables individuals and businesses to invest in crop production, commodity aggregation, and providing off-takers with a single platform to source traceable commodities.

At AESIS 2025, we encourage you to seek out these founders, learn about their solutions, and discover how their models are addressing market inefficiencies while generating significant developmental impact.

develoPPP Ventures provides high-impact, growth-ready startups with catalytic matched funding of €100,000 euro, combined with essential technical assistance and access to global networks. This investment is designed to help post-revenue ventures scale their impact and business model.

Applications are currently open across Tanzania, Rwanda, and Kenya in East Africa as well as Nigeria and South Africa in West and Southern Africa respectively.

Click here to apply for develoPPP Ventures before December 31st.