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IFC Unveils New $225 million VC Fund for Early Stage Tech Startups

Kenyan WallStreetbyKenyan WallStreet
November 15, 2022
in African News, Global News, Startups, Technology
Reading Time: 2 mins read
Makhtar Diop IFC

The International Finance Corporation (IFC) has unveiled a new $225 million fund to invest in early-stage companies in Africa, Middle East, Central Asia, and Pakistan. The IFC’s new fund will target startups addressing development challenges through technological innovations in climate, health care, education, agriculture, e-commerce, and other sectors.

In 2021, these regions collectively received less than 2% of $643 billion of global venture capital funding. Access to capital has been exacerbated by a slowdown in global venture capital investment, the COVID-19 pandemic, the rise in food and supply chain costs, higher interest rates, and currency depreciation. In addition, tech ecosystems are nascent or even nonexistent outside of more established markets such as Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria, Pakistan, Senegal, and South Africa.

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“IFC’s Venture Capital Platform will help tech companies and entrepreneurs expand during a time of capital shortage, creating scalable investment opportunities and backing countries’ efforts to build transformative tech ecosystems. We want to help develop homegrown innovative solutions that are not only relevant to emerging countries but can also be exported to the rest of the world” said Makhtar Diop, IFC’s Managing Director.

IFC Fund Targets Early Stage Companies

IFC will make equity or equity-like investments in tech startups and help them grow into scalable ventures that can attract mainstream equity and debt financing. IFC will also use the platform to collaborate with other teams in the World Bank Group to create and bolster venture capital ecosystems through regulatory reforms, sector analyses, and other tools. The platform will also focus on investments in low-income and fragile countries and help generate a pipeline of credible early-stage companies.

The platform will build on IFC’s investments and efforts to build tech ecosystems in Africa, Middle East, Central Asia, and Pakistan through initiatives such as the IFC Startup Catalyst Program. IFC has invested in companies like Twiga Foods, TradeDepot and Toters.

The fund will also be backed by an additional $50 million from the Blended Finance Facility of the International Development Association’s Private Sector Window, which helps de-risk investments in low-income countries. In addition, IFC will mobilize capital from other development institutions and the private sector to support entrepreneurs and tech companies in those countries.

READ; IFC Set to Invest $160M in Safaricom Ethiopia


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