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.
Co-invests most often with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 7 co-investors found.
- 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 2026-09-06 · confidence high
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