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Where capital meets opportunity

Where capital meets opportunity.

Africa's marketplace for screened businesses and serious investors — matched, verified and ready to deal.

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Pre-screened NDA-gated Unicorn screening
Confident African business owner being screened onto the Aika marketplace
VerifiedBiometric & UBO
Unicorn indicatorScreened on metrics
One platform, the full journey

Everything Africa's builders and backers need.

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, with venture building that goes beyond 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
of focused access to a business once 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.

African founder presenting strong growth metrics to his team
Unicorn indicatorScreened on your metrics
For founders & SMEs

Get ahead of the financing queue

Put a one-page profile in front of vetted investors. Doing things right earns you a clear tag and rating, plus 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.
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Investment-readyPre-screened pipeline
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, with no data overlap.
  • Deep local knowledge replaces boots on the ground.
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Why Aika

Closing Africa's financing gap.

Africa's SMEs face a USD 331B annual financing gap. Aika connects screened businesses with serious investors, turning real opportunity into long-term capital.

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.

Transparent & compliant by design

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.

Where Africa's deals get done.

Join the founders and investors raising and deploying capital across the continent.

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