Catalyst Fund
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Catalyst Fund is a venture capital fund and venture builder that invests in pre-seed startups and provides follow-on funding at Seed and Series A. It focuses on technology solutions for climate adaptation and resilience in Africa, offering hands-on venture building support.
Catalyst Fund is a venture capital firm headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, founded in 2015. It invests directly in companies, from pre-seed to Series A, in climate adaptation, climate resilience, fintech and insurance. Its stated cheque size is $200K. 61 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“We invest in technology solutions for climate adaptation and resilience”
— Catalyst Fund, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Invests in
- Africa
- Sectors
- climate adaptation, climate resilience, fintech, insurance, carbon finance, climate data, agriculture, water management
- Cheque size
- $200K
- Founded
- 2015
- Portfolio
- 61 companies
Team, as Catalyst Fund publishes it
- Maelis Carraro Managing Partner
- Maxime Bayen General Partner
- Shino Grivel Fractional CFO
- Amolo Ng’weno General Partner
- Malika Anand Impact Venture Partner
- Yemi Adegbayi Vice Principal
- Javier Linares Venture Building Lead
- Kenneth Ngetha Venture Building Engagement Lead
- Sydney Thiam Venture Building Engagement Lead
- Tara Guelig Director of Sustainability & Impact, The Lightsmith Group; Investment Committee Member
Names and roles exactly as listed on thecatalystfund.com. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Co-invests most often with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 103 co-investors found.
- Quona Capital 3 shared companies: wasoko.com, cowrywise.com, power.dev
- Accion Impact Management LLC 3 shared companies: verqor.com, destacame.cl, lami.world
- LoftyInc Capital Management 3 shared companies: farmz2u.com, tendo.app, flexfinance.ai
- Inventus Capital Partners 2 shared companies: youtu.be, hover.to
- Magma Partners 2 shared companies: koltin.mx, verqor.com
- Amplifica Capital 2 shared companies: verqor.com, mujerfinanciera.com
- E4E Africa 2 shared companies: octaviacarbon.com, kwara.com
- Cauris Investment Management, LLC 2 shared companies: impactassets.org, asaak.com
- The Baobab Network 2 shared companies: medikea.co.tz, getthola.com
- A15 2 shared companies: vais.ai, lami.world
and 93 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Catalyst Fund publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.thecatalystfund.com/name, is_investor, layer, type, invests_in_geographies, stage_min, stage_max, sectors, cheque_size, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, description, portfolio_count, status, confidence
- https://www.thecatalystfund.com/our-storyfounded
- https://www.thecatalystfund.com/our-teampeople
- https://www.thecatalystfund.com/contacthq_country, hq_city
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Record 1749 · added 2026-08-29 · link last verified 2026-09-06 · confidence high
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