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.
Most shared portfolio companies with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 103 investors with a shared portfolio company. A shared company is not proof they invested together in the same round.
- 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 2026-10-21 · confidence high
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