Aika Africa Fund

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The marketplace where Africa's screened businesses and serious investors meet, match and raise long-term capital.

Bridging capital, skills & opportunity
Pre-screened, verified & transparent by design
A single digital marketplace for the whole continent

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Raise capital

Get in front of pre-screened investors and raise long-term funding.

Find pipeline

Access a curated flow of investment-ready, screened ventures.

Build your venture

Work with experts to scale — venture building beyond just support.

Track impact

Real-time ESG KPIs that unlock green-finance opportunities.

USD 331B
Africa's annual SME financing gap — the market Aika is built to close.
70%
of SMEs struggle to secure adequate funding and lack visibility.
2 weeks
focused access to a business after the NDA is signed.
One marketplace, two sides of the deal

Whether you're raising or deploying capital.

Aika connects good entrepreneurs with the right investors — and gives both sides the tools to move with confidence.

Confident African business owner using a tablet in her shop
Unicorn indicatorScreened on your metrics
For SMEs & entrepreneurs

Get ahead of the financing queue

Put a one-page profile in front of vetted investors. Doing things right gets you a clear tag and rating — and predictable access to long-term finance.

  • Automatic matching saves time on the fundraising trail.
  • Engage only investors ready to commit — not those still doing R&D.
  • Stage-by-stage notifications keep your raise predictable.
Find capital
A diverse investment team reviewing a business presentation
For investors & fund managers

Deploy capital, not cold outreach

Built by investment professionals, for investment professionals. Spend less time building pipeline and more time on deployment and portfolio management.

  • A pipeline of pre-screened, investment-ready ventures.
  • Run your own funds & modules in a sandbox — no data overlap.
  • Deep local knowledge replaces boots on the ground.
Find pipeline
How Aika works

From screened profile to signed deal.

STEP 01

Screen & onboard

Digital onboarding with biometric liveness and UBO checks before anyone enters the marketplace.

STEP 02

Match on metrics

Automatic matching surfaces the right counterpart, with a unicorn indicator on live performance.

STEP 03

Sign the NDA

Once the business agrees, both sides sign — opening a confidential, compliant window.

STEP 04

Two-week access

A focused window for the one-page summary, data room and due diligence — then deploy.

Trust is the foundation, not a feature.

Designed from the ground up to remove backroom deals and eliminate information asymmetry — the single largest cause of investment failure in the region.

Verified onboardingBiometric & UBO checks for everyone.
Two-way transparencyOpen data over backroom deals.
Unicorn screeningSurface the strongest ventures.
Impact trackedReal-time ESG that unlocks finance.

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The marketplace for capital, opportunity and skills — bridging the financing gap and catalysing investment across Africa.