Africa Climate Ventures — Seed & early_growth VC Firm
Africa Climate Ventures is a Seed, early_growth venture capital firm investing in Climate / Energy, Food / AgTech, Other. The firm has 9 portfolio companies in our records.
- Portfolio
- 9 companies on record
- Partners
- 9 listed
- Stage
- Seed, early_growth
- Sectors
- Climate / Energy, Food / AgTech, Other, AI / ML
- Check size
- Not in our records
- AUM
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Last verified: 2026-09-01
Seed, early_growth
9+ companies
9 partners
Investment Thesis
Provides seed and early-growth capital plus venture-building support to African climate startups in e-mobility, climate-smart agriculture, circular economy, climate-positive built environment and carbon removals.
How Africa Climate Ventures invests
Africa Climate Ventures is a vc firm. The firm invests at the Seed, early_growth stages, with a focus on Climate / Energy, Food / AgTech, Other, AI / ML.
Africa Climate Ventures has backed 9 companies in our records, including Koko Networks, Kabisa, Great Carbon Valley.
Partners & Team
Peter Njonjo
Partner
James I Mwangi
Co-Founder & CEO
Co-Founder & CEO of Africa Climate Ventures. Previously Co-Founder & Global Managing Partner of Dalberg Advisors. Board Member of Koko Networks, Archbishop Tutu Leadership Fellow, and a WEF Young Global Leader.
CJ Fonzi
Co-Founder & COO
Co-Founder of Africa Climate Ventures. Previously Partner at Dalberg Advisors. Served as Dalberg’s first Director of Innovation.
Oluwakemi Olajide
Principal
Principal at Africa Climate Ventures. Previously Investment Manager at Alitheia Capital.
Scott Hosking
Principal
Principal at Africa Climate Ventures. Previously a Senior Project Manager at Dalberg Advisors.
Jermaine Coelho
Senior Associate
Secondee at Africa Climate Ventures from Dalberg Advisors.
Bilha Ndirangu
Venture Partner – Technical Carbon Removals
Co-founder of Jacob’s Ladder Africa, CEO of Africa’s Talking, and a Desmond Tutu Fellow.
Doreen Rwigamba
Venture Partner – KOKO Networks Rwanda
Previously a consultant with Dalberg Advisors and Founder of KivuCold.
Industry Focus
Invests In
Portfolio Companies (9)
Other
Koko Networks
Kabisa
Great Carbon Valley
Safi Organics
Octavia Carbon
A Kenyan technology company that designs, builds, and operates Direct Air Capture (DAC) machines.
Great Carbon Valley (GCV)
A systems integrator and developer of green industrial parks, green hydrogen, and large-scale carbon dioxide removal projects.
Kiri EV
An electric mobility startup that assembles electric motorcycles and operates a network of solar-powered battery swapping stations.
SupaMoto (Emerging Cooking Solutions)
A clean energy utility company providing advanced biomass pellet-burning cookstoves and locally manufactured pellets.
Kuza Freezer
A Kenyan social enterprise that manufactures and distributes solar-powered cold storage solutions to reduce post-harvest food loss.
- •Raising at Seed, early_growth? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
- •Lead with your fit in Climate / Energy, Food / AgTech, Other — the sectors they actively back.
- •warm intro preferred
- •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Mohamed Cassim, Chief Investment Officer.
- •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.
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