The Baobab Network
thebaobabnetwork.com Direct investor
The Baobab Network is an African accelerator that provides funding, hands-on support, and access to a global network to early-stage startups. It invests $100k in African startups and offers a 12-week accelerator program.
The Baobab Network is an accelerator. It invests directly in companies, at seed, in sector-agnostic. Its stated cheque size is $100k. 65 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“We invest $100k into Africa’s most exciting early-stage startups”
— The Baobab Network, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Accelerator
- Stage
- Seed
- Invests in
- Africa
- Sectors
- sector-agnostic
- Cheque size
- $100k
- Portfolio
- 65 companies
Team, as The Baobab Network publishes it
- Niama El Bassunie Managing Partner
Names and roles exactly as listed on thebaobabnetwork.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. 7 investors with a shared portfolio company. A shared company is not proof they invested together in the same round.
- Catalyst Fund 2 shared companies: medikea.co.tz, getthola.com
- Fuel Ventures 1 shared company: communitywolf.com
- Startup Wise Guys 1 shared company: fxkudi.com
- Microtraction 1 shared company: hadifinance.com
- 4DX Ventures 1 shared company: triply.co
- FJ Labs Management LP 1 shared company: alerzo.com
- Chui Ventures Management Co, LLC 1 shared company: mightyfinance.co.zm
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page The Baobab Network publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://thebaobabnetwork.com/name, is_investor, layer, type, invests_in_geographies, stage_min, stage_max, cheque_size, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, description, portfolio_count, people, status
- https://thebaobabnetwork.com/portfolio/sectors
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Record 6420 · added 2026-09-03 · link last verified 2026-10-21 · confidence high
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