The Nestle foundation focuses on providing agriculture grants for research in the following areas: child and maternal nutrition, agricultural development (especially in areas like food policies, food production, and food technology), macro and micro-nutrient deficiency, nutrient imbalances, interactions between infection and nutrition, promotion of nutritional education and health. Also, the foundation supports research proposals that are beneficial to developing-countries

FFA is a venture development and investment company that builds and scales businesses across Africa through our unique approach providing founders access to both capital and our highly skilled team. FFA has already invested in and supported 23 fintech and healthtech entrepreneurs in Africa across Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, South Africa and aims to build and scale 88 businesses by 2025. We are looking for innovative African AgriTech startups to transform business models and improve the delivery of a range of services to smallholder farmers and micro, small and medium-sized enterprises in the agricultural sector.  We will consider startups across the agricultural value chain addressing bottlenecks in areas such as productivity, postharvest handling, foodtech, data and information, market access, finance, and supply chain management.

The TimAfrica Venture Fund launched a digital seamless venture fund with an aim of investing equity funds in 50 high-end technology businesses across Africa within the next 7 years. 

True to our mission of transforming lives, we seek to identify, grow, and scale commercially viable businesses that are also creating societal change. In line with this purpose, we strongly believe that there are innovators who are determined to address challenges that exist in their communities by finding locally relevant solutions that work for them. We would like to give them a platform to enhance and scale across Kenya and beyond. Therefore, we launched the Safaricom Spark Venture Fund to invest and support late-seed, early-growth stage companies with a presence in Kenya, whilst leveraging Safaricom assets to enable the companies to scale. 

GroFin is seeking applications for its Small and Growing Business Fund. GroFin is a pioneering development financier specializing in financing and supporting small and growing businesses (SGBs) across Africa and the Middle East.

Prospero Zambia has announced a call for applications for the Innovation Partnerships in Food and Agriculture. Prospero Zambia works with intervention partners in the small livestock, fruits, and vegetables and legumes sectors to address market constraints that hamper sector growth, competitiveness, and opportunities for SMEs.

Equalife Capital Venture Debt Funding extends financing to East African Companies seeking capital to cope with cash flow challenges related to the crisis.

Vital Capital has launched a new debt facility providing loans to promising businesses in sub-Saharan Africa to help them get through the corona virus pandemic. The Vital Impact Relief Facility will dedicate US $10 million, offering firms immediate access to capital to weather the economic consequences of the virus while building a bridge to realizing their visions of becoming prosperous companies that can benefit millions of Africans.