Sarama Resources is an exploration company focused on discovering gold deposits in West Africa. It holds exploration licenses in Burkina Faso, Liberia, and Mali.

IFU is a venture capital and private equity firm based in Copenhagen, Denmark, that specializes in providing equity, mezzanine financing, loans, and guarantees to projects in developing countries. Established in 1967, IFU focuses on creating and financing new businesses, joint ventures between Danish companies and local partners, and acquiring existing ventures. The firm primarily invests in sectors such as commercial services, biofuels, renewable energy, and irrigation systems, with a particular emphasis on climate and agribusiness. Investments are targeted at countries with a low gross national income per capita, as defined by specific criteria, and include regions across Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America. IFU typically invests between DKK 0.5 million and DKK 100 million and often seeks co-investment opportunities with Danish firms. The firm also supports small and medium-sized enterprises and provides advisory services for business investments in developing markets. With a preference for board membership, IFU aims to exit investments within five to seven years, ensuring a positive return for its stakeholders.

Founded in London in 2009, TLG Capital is a private investment firm focused on empowering entrepreneurs in frontier markets, particularly Sub-Saharan Africa. The company invests in sectors such as healthcare, finance, consumer goods, and real estate, aiming to create significant social, environmental, and developmental impact.

FEI OGEF is a venture capital firm established in 2018 and located in Port Louis, Mauritius. The firm focuses on providing local currency financing solutions to companies that deliver affordable solar energy to off-grid communities in the region. By investing primarily in the energy and technology sectors, FEI OGEF aims to address the challenges of energy access while promoting sustainable development through innovative financing models.

Inspired Evolution Investment Management is a Cape Town-based private equity and venture capital firm focused on sustainable energy and environmental technologies in Sub-Saharan Africa. Founded in 2007, the firm targets growth-oriented opportunities across clean energy, energy efficiency, water treatment, waste management, sustainable agriculture, and related infrastructure. It provides equity capital across multiple stages, often acting as a lead investor and taking board seats in portfolio companies. The firm emphasizes both financial returns and measurable development outcomes, and it generally targets markets in Southern Africa with broader engagement across Africa. In addition to capital deployment, Inspired Evolution offers advisory services to support growth and sustainability strategies. The firm operates offices in Mauritius, Ivory Coast, Kenya, and London, enabling cross-border collaboration and sourcing opportunities.

Orange is a leading digital operator that provides mobile and internet services in Europe and Africa, with a global corporate telecommunications arm that serves large enterprises, local authorities and SMEs worldwide. Through Orange Business Services, the group offers integrated voice and data, IT and cloud solutions, data center and network management, security, and unified communications designed to manage international operations. It supports complex projects across industries with end-to-end services, including IP voice, WAN-LAN design, application management and managed services. The company also maintains an innovation network and startup ecosystem through initiatives like Orange Fabs. Founded in 1991 and headquartered in Paris, France, Orange operates in around 30 countries and serves hundreds of millions of customers globally.

Swedfund is a government development finance institution based in Stockholm, with an office in Nairobi, established in 1979. It mobilizes capital and expertise for investments in private markets across Africa, Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe, including direct investments and fund of funds activities. It finances a range of instruments, from equity to loans and other debt-like structures, and supports knowledge transfer and equipment upgrades, including depreciation loans to Swedish small and medium-sized enterprises. It pursues minority investments, typically in the range of 5 to 100 million SEK, with board seats and participation in investment committees, and aims for exits in five to ten years. It operates as a bilateral development financier within the European Development Finance Institutions network.

GAIA Impact Fund is a venture capital firm that specializes in renewable energy and builds long-term partnerships with startups operating in Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia. It emphasizes environmental and social impact and backs businesses that enable sustainable and affordable energy provision to local communities. In regions with carbon-intensive energy mixes, the firm supports technological innovations and viable business models that enable cost-efficient, large-scale diffusion of renewable energy.

Global Innovation Fund is a London-based non-profit venture capital organization that supports the development, testing, and scaling of innovations aimed at improving the lives of the world's poorest people. It provides grants and risk capital to a range of actors, including for-profit firms, non-profit organizations, researchers, and government agencies, to fund early-stage ideas and help bring breakthrough solutions to scale and measurable impact.

Musha Ventures is a venture capital firm that operates as an Africa-focused micro venture capital and angel fund. It targets early-stage technology investments in education, healthcare, fintech, agriculture, and supply chain, with a focus on opportunities across Africa and related regions. The firm seeks to support ambitious founders developing technology-enabled solutions and scalable businesses in these sectors.

Omidyar Network is an impact investing firm founded in 2004 by Pierre and Pam Omidyar. It supports social entrepreneurs through both investments and grants, aiming to improve lives and communities by funding organizations that harness technology and innovation. The firm operates as a philanthropic investment organization, focusing on catalyzing social impact across areas such as access to capital, media, markets and transparency, governance, citizen engagement, and information access. It backs both for profit and non-profit ventures, spanning seed to growth stages, and emphasizes responsible tech, digital inclusion, and strengthening institutions and democratic processes. The organization seeks to empower individuals and communities through investments that promote better governance, informed citizenship, and thriving communities worldwide.

Flourish Ventures is a San Francisco-based early-stage global venture capital firm that backs fintech-enabled entrepreneurs focused on financial health and prosperity for individuals and small businesses. The firm pursues patient, long-term investments and manages around $850 million. It backs founders across the United States and global markets, including Asia, Africa and Latin America, and concentrates on sectors such as big data analytics, challenger banks, consumer and SME lending, digitizing money, fintech, insurtech, regtech and financial infrastructure. Since its founding in 2019, Flourish maintains partnerships with more than 70 global fintech founders and 18 ecosystem partners, including researchers, policymakers and regulators, to foster a fairer, more inclusive economy.

Greylock Partners is a venture capital firm founded in 1965 and based in Menlo Park, California, with additional offices in Wellesley, Massachusetts, and San Francisco. The firm invests across seed through growth stages in consumer and enterprise software, cloud/SaaS, data and analytics, security, and related information technology sectors, and may participate in areas such as advertising, fintech, health tech, and open source infrastructure. It often seeks board oversight of portfolio companies and prioritizes investments in the United States, India, China, Europe and Israel, with occasional activity in Ireland and the United Kingdom.

Blue Collective is a Brooklyn-based investment firm that provides venture capital and private equity funding to startups and growth companies across technology, life sciences, consumer goods, and business services. It invests across the funding spectrum from pre-seed and seed to late-stage and growth, including growth capital, buyouts, and majority investments, with a focus on opportunities primarily in the United States. The firm maintains an industry-agnostic approach and emphasizes backing exceptional teams capable of building scalable, enduring businesses.