Innovation Edge
innovationedge.org.za Direct investor
Innovation Edge is an impact investor that funds entrepreneurs and social innovators developing solutions to early childhood challenges in South Africa. It provides multiple rounds of funding through grants, equity and concessionary debt, along with venture support and connections to follow-on funders.
Innovation Edge is an investor headquartered in South Africa. It invests directly in companies, from pre-seed to seed, in early childhood development, early learning, early health and well-being and early security and safety. 46 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“Innovation Edge is an impact-first investor focused on solving early childhood challenges in South Africa .”
— Innovation Edge, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Other
- Headquarters
- South Africa
- Invests in
- South Africa
- Sectors
- early childhood development, early learning, early health and well-being, early security and safety
- Portfolio
- 46 companies
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Innovation Edge publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://innovationedge.org.za/is_investor, type, hq_country, sectors, thesis_quote, description, portfolio_count
- https://innovationedge.org.za/what-we-do/layer, invests_in_geographies, stage_min, stage_max
- https://innovationedge.org.za/apply-for-funding/status
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