Graca Machel Trust, with their Afrishela Fund I, is driving innovative blended capital to early growth stage women-owned and led businesses aligned with the Trust’s current programmatic interventions, research focus areas, and network activity to build a track record in key priority sectors of agriculture, manufacturing, education, health, renewable energy, trade and financial services.

Aruwa, one of fewer than ten female-founded and -led investment houses on the entire African continent, is a gender lens fund with an active gender lens integrated into its portfolio and management team. Aruwa bridges the gap between venture capital and private equity for women-owned or female-focused businesses in Africa, targeting investments in sectors such as healthcare, fintech, renewable energy, and essential consumer goods.

How Global Partnerships apply an intersectional, enquiry-based approach to deepen inclusion within their investment portfolio.