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A Venture Studio & VC Fund in Africa Building Innovative Ventures with Founders on the Frontlines
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​Our investment + hands-on venture studio model gives founders everything they need to build high-impact ventures that transform lives, create jobs, and improve planetary health.
What We Do
We take a 3-step approach to building with our founders:
Catalyzing Capital
We lead investments into top Founders and innovative ventures early, and unlock the right capital partners to scale impact. We work closely with other investors to bring in follow-on capital, fueling innovation, growth, and market leadership.
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Co-Creating Companies
We’re more than investors — our venture studio team co-create the most innovative ventures across Africa. Then our studio team of experienced operators builds alongside founders, providing hands-on operational expertise, talent, and networks to turn bold ideas into scalable businesses.
Curating Community
​We connect founders with a trusted, action-driven network of operators, corporates, investors, and partners — the relationships that help ventures scale profitably, deploy innovation to the last mile, and thrive.
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By 2100, Africa will be home to 40% of the world’s population—4.2 billion people—making it the fastest-growing market on the planet.
This growth represents one of the greatest opportunities of our time: more customers, more talent, and more investable ventures than anywhere else on planet Earth.
Africa’s young, dynamic population—70% under the age of 30—is brimming with entrepreneurial potential. Closest to the constraints on the ground, this generation is designing the next wave of solutions in food systems, clean energy, mobility, and technology.
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But here is what makes the continent truly transformative: powered by global technological advancements and homegrown innovation, Africa will have the lowest cost of energy and the capacity to feed the world within the next few years.
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This isn’t just a demographic story; it’s an economic and planetary one.
And it is the opportunity we see at Delta40.
Our mission is to build and invest in ventures that unlock this growth– improving lives, incomes, and planetary health across Africa.
Our Venture Studio
From the moment we invest, founders gain full access to our venture studio team of experienced entrepreneurs, operators, and investors who have built and scaled companies from idea to exit, in Africa and around the world. ​We leverage this team to provide world class venture support, build new ventures, and create spaces for connection.​
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​Venture Studio Support
All of these services are delivered by a team of experienced entrepreneurs and operators on the ground who can embed into the company, roll up their sleeves, and create value side by side with the founders we support
Venture Studio Builds
In addition to investing in existing innovative ventures, Delta40 co-creates companies from scratch/idea stage with entrepreneurs-in-residence where we are uniquely positioned to seize opportunities or see big unmet needs.
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Our team works to:
Identify the biggest problems that need to be solved
Ideate bold solutions that can be created or adapted for the African market
Research deeply, listen to customers and study the market
Develop and test MVPs until the model is proven
Hire world-class teams to lead these ventures
Spin out ventures and raise initial capital to scale
Venture Studio Spaces
Beyond funding and hands-on support, our spaces in Nairobi, Kenya and Lagos, Nigeria give founders a place to work, connect, and access the full strength of our Venture Studio team.
​We know every startup begins small, and we’re committed to making sure founders don’t have to do it alone. That’s why teams can walk into our studio and tap into the expertise of a shared CFO, Chief Commercial Officer, Talent Specialist, and more– to refine strategy, review financial models, or plan their next hire.
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Our spaces are also designed for community– where founders host workshops, meet investors, or share lunch and ideas with fellow entrepreneurs.
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This is the power of building inside Delta40 Venture Studio.
Claire van Enk
Co-Founder & CEO, Farm to Feed
Delta40 has been a real partner in our journey: practical, thoughtful, and deeply invested in our success. Their support in leading our fundraising round helped us unlock new investor commitments. More than anything, they’ve helped us grow with clarity and have provided hands-on support on our key strategic projects.
Dr. Linda Davis
Founder & CEO, Giraffe Bioenergy
oining Delta40 Studio has been a game-changer for us. We were able to test critical components of our business, laying a solid foundation for innovation and growth of our operations. With Delta40’s capital strategy support, recruiting power, technical assistance, and introductions to catalytic investors, we raised our first round in 6 months and raised a second round of equity, debt, and grant capital in 18 months.
Rotimi Thomas
Co-Founder & CEO, SunFi
Delta40's unique value is that the team is made up of investor-operators with experience scaling climate ventures in Africa. Delta40 has become an invaluable partner to us at SunFi. The Delta40 team provides context-relevant business coaching and helps us unlock our most catalytic partnerships through guided introductions to Africa-focused climate tech investors, and more. D40 will become the critical corridor through which African climate entrepreneurs maximize our impact.
By 2030, we aim to...
Join Delta40
We see our portfolio companies as an extension of who we are. That’s why we’re committed to creating opportunities for our ecosystem to build with one of the incredible planet-positive startups in our portfolio, or step directly into the Delta40 Venture Studio as an entrepreneur or operator.
With DeltaTalent, you get the best of both worlds.
Our Partners
We have world class partners to support our portfolio and help us reimagine new ways investors can amplify entrepreneurs with the venture studio model in Africa. Join us!