Savannah Fund is a seed capital fund specializing in $50 to US$500,000 investments in early-stage high growth technology (web and mobile) startups in sub-Saharan Africa. Initially focused on East Africa, the fund aims to bridge the early stage/angel and venture capital investment gap that currently exists in Africa.

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Ubongo creates top-quality, localized edutainment to help Africa's 500 million kids learn, and leverage their learning to change their lives. Our vision is to equip Africa's next generation with the educational foundation, critical skills, and positive mindsets to improve their lives and communities. Over 32 million families in Africa learn with our edu-cartoons and radio programs, and we're rapidly growing across the continent.We build collaborative "Ubongo Impact"​ partnerships with those who share our mission, and want to reach and positively influence families across Africa. Leading changemakers can use Africa's favorite cartoons to deliver life-changing messages to millions of kids & parents across the continent. Together we're building brains and building change, through human-centered research, content co-creation, distribution to millions of families, and rigorous impact evaluation. Research shows that watching Ubongo's edutainment leads to significantly improved learning outcomes for kids and positive behavioral change for caregivers.REACH: 32M Households monthly (and counting!)EFFECTIVENESS: 12% increase in school readiness of viewersLANGUAGES: Full Languages: English, Kiswahili, Hausa, Yoruba, Chichewa, Kinyarwanda, Kikuyu, Luo, FrenchPartially Adapted: isiZulu (health & numeracy content), seSotho (health & numeracy content)Language inclusivity: Launched 1 season in Kenya Sign LanguageCOUNTRIES: Broadcasting on TV in 41 countries in Africa, and online around the world.Check out our shows!AKILI AND ME - www.youtube.com/akiliandmeUBONGO KIDS - www.youtube.com/ubongokidsNUZO AND NAMIA - https://www.youtube.com/@NuzoandNamiaConnect with us for insights on media for development, social and behavior change communication, and educational technology!Building brains. Building change.

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JUMO is a financial technology company that partners with banks, MNOs and other e-commerce players to deliver progressive financial choices to customers in emerging markets across Africa and Asia.At JUMO we connect people to opportunities. Two billion people worldwide have limited access to formal financial services such as borrowing and saving. We've built a large-scale, multi-sided technology platform and designed progressive financial choices to reach them. We use their digital footprint to create a financial identity using only behavioural data.Our customers are in emerging markets across Africa and Asia. Most of them are micro and small to medium enterprises who need instant access to finance so they can grow and invest. So far we've served more than 10 million customers and disbursed over 40 million loans – and the numbers are rising daily.

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The Lake Tanganyika basin of Central Africa is fast emerging as one of the most geo-politically significant places on Earth.  Africa's largest source of fresh water, home to enormous mineral resources vital to next generation technologies, newly discovered fossil fuels, and hundreds of endangered and unique biodiversity, the lake region is also home to millions of indigenous and displaced poor across 4 countries: Tanzania, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Burundi and Zambia.  At its core, the LTFHC implements current programs that affect millions of people at the last mile of healthcare delivery in the Lake Tanganyika basin and is accelerating efforts to establish a floating medical and broader research facility.For additional information, please visit our website: www.floatingclinic.org.

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Apis Partners is an ESGI-native global private equity and venture capital asset manager that supports growth-stage financial services and financial infrastructure businesses by providing them with catalytic growth equity capital. Collectively Apis, through its team of around 40 professionals and staff with deep industry expertise, manages or advises on total committed capital from investors (including drawn and invested capital) of ca. $1.2 billion. Including its headquarters in London, Apis has representation in eight countries across Europe, Asia and Africa. Apis is highly conscious of the developmental impact that the provision of growth capital for financial services and financial infrastructure businesses in growth markets can achieve, and as such, financial inclusion is a core tenet of Apis' approach and investment mandate.Apis became a signatory to the United Nations backed Principles for Responsible Investment (UNPRI) upon inception of the firm in 2014.

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QinetiQ is an integrated global defence and security company focused on mission-led innovation. Our purpose is protecting lives by serving the national security interests of our customers. We employ more than 8,000 highly-skilled people, committed to creating new ways of testing technologies, systems, and processes to make sure they meet operational needs; and enabling customers to deploy new and enhanced capabilities with the assurance they will deliver the performance required.

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