AECF is a leading African-based development organization that leverages the power of the private sector to address systemic issues of rural poverty and employment across the continent. We find and fund innovative, game-changing commercial businesses in the agribusiness and renewable energy sectors that see the business potential in low-income households.

By catalyzing funding, we help companies surface and commercialize new ideas, business models, and technologies that increase agricultural productivity, expand energy access, and alleviate poverty, particularly where these efforts impact women, young people and people living in fragile contexts. AECF works in frontier markets, and fragile contexts where few mainstream financing institutions go.

Over the course of 18 years, we have supported 698 businesses in 26 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, impacted more than 37 million lives, and leveraged US $916 million in matching funds.