Kanini Mutooni

AECF is a leading non-profit development organisation that supports innovative enterprises in the agribusiness and renewable energy sectors with the aim of reducing rural poverty, promoting resilient communities and creating jobs. We catalyze the private sector by surfacing and commercializing new ideas, business models and technologies designed to increase agricultural productivity, improve farmer incomes, expand clean energy access, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve resilience to the effects of climate change. We finance high risk businesses that struggle to access commercial funding; we are committed to working in frontier markets, fragile contexts, and high-risk economies where few mainstream financing institutions dare to go. To date, we have supported over 400 businesses in 26 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, impacted more than 30 million lives, created over 27,000 direct jobs.

Enza Capital is a private venture fund backing Founders and Teams using technology to solve large and meaningful problems across Sub-Saharan Africa.

MCE Social Capital (MCE) is a nonprofit impact investing firm that provides flexible capital to enterprises committed to generating sustainable livelihoods in emerging markets –with a focus on women and the environment– to allow these enterprises to scale and better serve their customers, their employees, and their communities. Since 2006, MCE has disbursed over $251 million in debt capital to 141 institutions in 55 countries throughout the developing world. We have hubs in Washington, DC; San Francisco; Barcelona and Nairobi as well as presence in additional cities across the U.S. including New York and Denver.

United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) mobilizes and catalyses an increase in capital flows for impactful investments in high-risk markets, especially in Least Developed Countries, Small Island Developing States and countries in special situations. By crowding in capital through the deployment of risk-absorbing financial instruments, mechanisms and structuring advisory, UNCDF contributes to job creation, sustained economic growth and equitable prosperity in more than 70 countries. In partnership with UN entities and development partners, UNCDF operates with speed and agility to deliver scalable, blended finance solutions to drive systemic change and pave the way for commercial finance and scale up by development finance institutions and multilateral development banks.

Vital Capital is a high-performing investor in growth markets. We leverage our deep operational expertise to identify overlooked opportunities, building successful, scalable businesses that transform lives. We turn critical challenges associated with the provision of food, water, healthcare, and sustainable infrastructure into high-return opportunities that deliver impact at scale. Since our Fund’s inception in 2011, we have improved the lives of millions of individuals and achieved above market-rate returns for investors. Learn more at vital-capital.com.