Equator Africa
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Equator Africa is a venture capital firm investing in tech-enabled solutions in energy, agriculture, and mobility sectors in Sub-Saharan Africa. It focuses on seed and Series A stage companies.
Equator Africa is a venture capital firm headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya. It invests directly in companies, from seed to Series A, in energy, agriculture and mobility.
“We exist to increase momentum in the campaign for climate action in Sub-Saharan Africa through the energy, agriculture and mobility sectors.”
— Equator Africa, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Invests in
- Sub-Saharan Africa
- Sectors
- energy, agriculture, mobility
Team, as Equator Africa publishes it
- Nijhad Jamal Managing Partner
- Morgan Defoort Partner
- Lyndsay Handler Operating Partner
- Joel Wanjohi Director
- Aishat Raji Director West Africa
- David Longdon Associate Director
- Phuthi Tsatsi Senior Associate
- Theresa Fehle Head of Portfolio
- Jamie Doyen Chief Financial Officer
- Tyrone Rainer Reporting & Data Analyst
Names and roles exactly as listed on equator.vc. 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. 19 co-investors found.
- Accion Impact Management LLC 1 shared company: apolloagriculture.com
- Anthemis Group 1 shared company: apolloagriculture.com
- Communitas Capital Partners, LLC 1 shared company: apolloagriculture.com
- Endeavor Catalyst 1 shared company: apolloagriculture.com
- Flourish Ventures 1 shared company: apolloagriculture.com
- Leaps by Bayer 1 shared company: apolloagriculture.com
- Abstract 1 shared company: odysseyenergysolutions.com
- Broadscale Group LLC 1 shared company: odysseyenergysolutions.com
- Equal Ventures 1 shared company: odysseyenergysolutions.com
- Twelve Below 1 shared company: odysseyenergysolutions.com
and 9 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Equator Africa publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://equator.vc/name, is_investor, layer, type, hq_country, hq_city, status, confidence
- https://equator.vc/investment-pillarsinvests_in_geographies, stage_min, stage_max, sectors, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page
- https://equator.vc/aboutdescription
- https://equator.vc/equator-vc-teampeople
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Record 3557 · added 2026-09-03 · link last verified 2026-09-06 · confidence high
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