LGT Venture Philanthropy

M-KOPA Kenya Limited, established in 2011 and headquartered in Nairobi, specializes in developing and marketing solar home systems designed for off-grid customers. The company offers a range of solar products, including systems equipped with lights, phone charging capabilities, and solar-powered radios. M-KOPA began commercial operations in Kenya in 2012 and has since expanded its services to Uganda and Tanzania. The company operates through a network of over 1,000 retail agents and shops, employing a team of more than 500 staff. M-KOPA is recognized for its innovative "pay-as-you-go" energy services, which leverage a proprietary technology platform that integrates mobile payments and asset financing, facilitating access to affordable energy solutions for underserved communities. The firm is also exploring opportunities to license its technology to reputable partners in markets beyond East Africa.

Nature for Water works together with local champions to develop best-in-class watershed investment programs that deliver outcomes for people and nature. Nature for Water is committed to mainstreaming nature-based Solutions in the water sector by sharing project learnings, processes, and tools. Outputs are made available via our Portfolio page and knowledge management partners. Nature for Water was established in 1952 in Arlington, Virginia.

The Antara Foundation partners with government to improve maternal and child nutrition outcomes by increasing collaboration among existing community health worker cadres. The Antara Foundation’s mission is to help create a public health system that consistently delivers products and solutions with scale, appropriate speed, and quality, backed by supportive policy and funding. The Antara Foundation was established in 2013 in New Delhi, India by Ashok Alexander.

By advocating for the conservancy model across Kenya, KWCA tackles three interlinked challenges: biodiversity loss, lack of livelihoods and Climate Change. KWCA places communities at the center of wildlife conservation. KWCA was established in 2013 in Nairobi, Kenya.

Blue Ventures is a science-led social enterprise that is focused on coastal communities. The organization works in partnership with coastal communities in places where the ocean is vital to the culture and economy, and promotes transformative and integrated approaches to marine conservation and coastal poverty alleviation. Its areas of focus include community conservation, health, education, research, ecotourism, and learning and advocacy programs. Blue ventures was founded by Dr. Alasdair Harris, Tom Savage, Dr. Robert Conway, and Matthew Linnecar in 2003 and is based in London, England.

SmartStart aims to achieve population-level change in access to early learning by providing an integrated national delivery platform which builds in the operational structures and systems required for accelerated scale. SmartStart is a national social franchise, with trained and licensed practitioners, who implement high-quality, standardized early learning programms to children, aged three to five. SmartStart was established in Saxonwold, Johannesburg.

M-KOPA Kenya Limited, established in 2011 and headquartered in Nairobi, specializes in developing and marketing solar home systems designed for off-grid customers. The company offers a range of solar products, including systems equipped with lights, phone charging capabilities, and solar-powered radios. M-KOPA began commercial operations in Kenya in 2012 and has since expanded its services to Uganda and Tanzania. The company operates through a network of over 1,000 retail agents and shops, employing a team of more than 500 staff. M-KOPA is recognized for its innovative "pay-as-you-go" energy services, which leverage a proprietary technology platform that integrates mobile payments and asset financing, facilitating access to affordable energy solutions for underserved communities. The firm is also exploring opportunities to license its technology to reputable partners in markets beyond East Africa.

Harambee is a not-for-profit social enterprise building African solutions for the global challenge of youth unemployment.

Feed Algae Ltd. is on the road to becoming the world's lowest cost producer of algal biomass and thereby enable us all to fully harness for the first time the fastest growing, highest yielding, most nutritious, most carbon-absorbing organism on the planet. We have licensed patented technology that gives us the means to recreate the natural growing conditions of algae that have made them the most successful organism on the planet. The technology itself is remarkably simple, combining leading edge knowledge of how algae behave with tried and tested, large scale pond engineering. This bio-industry will produce product for chemicals, fuel, feed and other uses.

MAMA+ aims to help more mothers "become a better mother," for the benefit of family and society as a concept, is committed to "serve for mothers"; the same time, Internet technology and family relations research as a dual-driven, brought together many passionate technical talent. Researchers who can feel empathy with their mothers are all motivated by their mothers' needs and insist on using their strength to make their feelings come true so as to realize more value for their mothers.

The Maasai Mara Wildlife Conservancies Association (MMWCA) is a Kenyan commitment. They plan to conserve the greater Maasai Mara ecosystem, through a network of protected areas (conservancies and conservation areas).

M-KOPA Kenya Limited, established in 2011 and headquartered in Nairobi, specializes in developing and marketing solar home systems designed for off-grid customers. The company offers a range of solar products, including systems equipped with lights, phone charging capabilities, and solar-powered radios. M-KOPA began commercial operations in Kenya in 2012 and has since expanded its services to Uganda and Tanzania. The company operates through a network of over 1,000 retail agents and shops, employing a team of more than 500 staff. M-KOPA is recognized for its innovative "pay-as-you-go" energy services, which leverage a proprietary technology platform that integrates mobile payments and asset financing, facilitating access to affordable energy solutions for underserved communities. The firm is also exploring opportunities to license its technology to reputable partners in markets beyond East Africa.

M-KOPA Kenya Limited, established in 2011 and headquartered in Nairobi, specializes in developing and marketing solar home systems designed for off-grid customers. The company offers a range of solar products, including systems equipped with lights, phone charging capabilities, and solar-powered radios. M-KOPA began commercial operations in Kenya in 2012 and has since expanded its services to Uganda and Tanzania. The company operates through a network of over 1,000 retail agents and shops, employing a team of more than 500 staff. M-KOPA is recognized for its innovative "pay-as-you-go" energy services, which leverage a proprietary technology platform that integrates mobile payments and asset financing, facilitating access to affordable energy solutions for underserved communities. The firm is also exploring opportunities to license its technology to reputable partners in markets beyond East Africa.

Husk Power Systems Pvt. Ltd. is a renewable energy company based in Patna, India, that focuses on generating and distributing electricity to households, community services, small businesses, and factories. Founded in 2007, the company utilizes biomass waste—such as rice husks and other agricultural residues—to produce electricity through its proprietary technology. Husk Power Systems designs and operates mini-power plants and micro-grids, offering electricity as a pay-for-use service primarily to rural areas. This approach not only provides reliable lighting, reducing reliance on kerosene, but also fosters economic development by enabling microenterprises and the use of electricity-operated machinery. By creating a sustainable energy ecosystem at each power plant, Husk Power Systems aims to deliver shared value to its stakeholders and stimulate local economies.