BFA Global
bfaglobal.com Direct + LP
BFA Global is an impact innovation firm that combines research, advisory, venture building, and investment expertise. It invests in and accelerates startups through its VC fund and accelerator, The Catalyst Fund, focusing on climate tech and inclusive tech solutions in emerging markets.
BFA Global is an investor headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya. It invests both directly in companies and in funds as a limited partner, from seed to growth, in climate tech, inclusive tech, financial health and digital finance.
“Through our VC fund and accelerator The Catalyst Fund , we back high-impact startups building climate tech solutions for a resilient future”
— BFA Global, own website
- Layer
- Direct + LP
- Type
- Other
- Invests in
- emerging markets
- Sectors
- climate tech, inclusive tech, financial health, digital finance, gender finance, refugee finance, digital commerce, MSEs
Team, as BFA Global publishes it
- Maelis Carraro Managing Partner, Catalyst Fund
- Maxime Bayen Operating Partner, Catalyst Fund
- Michelle Hassan Executive Director, Global Portfolio
- Javier Linares Head of Venture Building, Catalyst Fund
- Rasima Swarup Head of Strategy & Operations, Catalyst Fund
Names and roles exactly as listed on bfaglobal.com. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page BFA Global publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://bfaglobal.com/is_investor, layer, type, invests_in_geographies, sectors, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, description
- https://bfaglobal.com/venture-acceleration-impact-investing/stage_min, stage_max, people
- https://bfaglobal.com/about-bfa-global/hq_country, hq_city
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Record 7396 · added 2026-09-06 · link last verified 2026-09-06 · confidence medium
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