Sahara Impact Ventures

About the fund

Sahara Impact Ventures is among an early group of investors focusing on opportunities at the nexus of climate and gender in Africa. The women-led firm targets on three themes: sustainable food systems, clean energy access, and access to financial, health and education services in Ghana, Nigheria, Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. With its first fund, Sahara is looking to raise $30 million to cut equity and quasi-equity checks in pre-seed to Series A companies, offering tickets of $150,000 to $2 million. It has a hard cap of $50 million. Co-founder Yvonne Ofosu-Appiah was thechief investment officer of Ghana-based climate investment fund Wangara Green Ventures and board appointee for Impact Investing Ghana, Ghana’s national advisory board for impact investing.

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