Our Core Services
AfriLeap Capital provides early-stage African founders with the strategic support, seed funding access, and ecosystem alignment they need to build operational and governance foundations, scalable, or investable ventures. Through our integrated approach, we provide seed funding and offer strategic guidance (hiring, market access).
Venture & Strategic Support
We offer hands-on strategic advisory, strategic guidance (hiring support, market access,investor-readiness programs), and operational support to early-stage ventures and founders across Africa.
Capital Mobilization
We structure seed capital and investment allocation, and strategic fundraising pathways to attract aligned investors and unlock funding.
Pipeline Design & Curation
We design, vet, and curate investable venture pipelines tailored for impact funds, accelerators, and investors.
Mentor startups
We are the Mentor-Investor that guide early-stage startups with strategic insight, operational expertise, and funding. We balance analytical evaluation of potential with hands-on mentorship, ensuring founders succeed. We are a trustworthy advisor, someone startups rely on for growth decisions.
Fund Management
AfriLeap Capital serves as the fund manager to LeapGrowth Fund and MoGrow FlexFund, deploying capital into high-impact ventures.
Direct Investments
AfriLeap makes direct investments in African startups, informal or social ventures with high growth and impact potential.
LeapGrowth Fund
LeapGrowth Fund is AfriLeap Capital’s early and seed-stage VC Fund providing pre-seed and seed funding to African startups. We invest in ventures ready to leap from idea to traction, providing the funding and support needed to become scale-ready and investable for Series A.
Explore LeapGrowthMoGrow FlexFund
MoGrow FlexFund is AfriLeap Capital’s flexible financing facility, Impact Fund — providing flexible capital models to micro-enterprises, informal or social ventures across Africa. We serve entrepreneurs who need more than VC capital and less than complex debt. We grow what’s real.
Explore MoGrow FlexFundPortfolio Companies
KwikaPay
KwikaPay is a digital payments platform incubated and backed by AfriLeap Capital. A portfolio company of AfriLeap Capital, KwikaPay is also an AfriLeap Capital venture co-founded by a Managing Partner, reflecting our build-and-scale strategy.
Strategic Ecosystem Partners and Affiliated Ventures
Moneyard
Millions of young adults lack access to financial literacy, crypto education, and safe investing tools. Traditional investing apps are often complex or high-risk, and financial education is either dry or hard to access.
Moneyard provides a solution to these challenges as a Financial Advisor / Wealth Manager, micro-investment, and financial literacy platform. It enables African users—beginners and mainstream investors alike—to invest their savings via building trust with people, saving tools, and secure wallet integrations, while offering beginner-friendly lessons on savings, investing, and digital finance.
Tandize Capital
Tandize Capital, focusing exclusively on providing revenue-based financing (RBF) to impact-led startups and women-led ventures in Zambia and Malawi, including those in the green fintech space. By offering financing solutions tailored to the unique revenue models of these businesses, Tandize Capital supports the growth of startups and small business ventures dedicated to women entrepreneurs/self-employed, or empowerment, with small business sustainability, renewable energy initiatives, and the project’s income generation.
M. Lewis Consulting & Research
Is a professional services company focused on consulting, research, education, training, and enterprise development. The company supports individuals, organizations, and institutions through research-driven solutions, capacity building, learning platforms, business & investment setup, website & tech activation, property & asset support, personal administration & operations team support, and advisory services designed to improve decision-making, performance, and long-term growth. The company designs and delivers knowledge-based solutions, learning programs, and advisory services like:
- GSBF — Graduate School of Banking & Finance
- StartEasy Enterprises & Consultancy
- School of Financial Systems
- Market Research
- To SMEs and growing companies, and fintech and lenders, we offer Financial Advisory & Investment Consulting or Corporate Finance & Business Advisory
To deliver evidence-based insights, practical solutions, or handle client’s business & administration process, and structured learning initiatives that drive sustainable growth and impact.
Explore GSBFExplore StartEasy Zambia
Basiwel
Builds the foundational infrastructure that powers Africa’s next generation of startups. We co-create, fund, and operationalize ventures from the ground up, ensuring strong systems, sustainable growth, and lasting impact across the continent. Basiwel is a venture studio based in Zambia dedicated to designing and building finance infrastructure startups and foundational tech ventures in Africa.
Learn MoreFreshFare Foods
FreshFare, a health food store with snacks, beverages, and farm-to-table services, making fresh, sustainable, and nourishing food access to all communities, families and individuals in Lusaka, Zambia.
Basiwel Property
Basiwel Property is a tech-enabled real estate and property investment platform that helps users discover, finance, co-invest in, and manage real estate assets across Africa. It focuses on making property ownership and investment affordable, accessible, and profitable for everyday people.
As a next-gen property investment and ownership platform, Basiwel Property enables Africans and global investors to build wealth through secure, smart, and accessible real estate opportunities. It facilitates affordable housing and commercial property developments in Zambia.
Through digital tools and transparent processes, Basiwel Property empowers individuals—especially young professionals, diaspora investors, and first-time buyers—to build wealth through real estate.
M. Lewis Capital Partners
Is a growth equity firm and strategic corporate partner focused on scaling African startups into market leaders. We provide capital, global connections, expansion strategies, and M&A advisory to support sustainable growth and long-term value creation. M. Lewis Capital Partners acts as the exclusive Africa investment desk for a select group of global families and founders by providing curated, direct investments in Sub-Saharan Africa’s Digital Infrastructure & FinTech, Food Security & Agri-Processing.
A trusted partner for investors, growth-stage businesses, and legacy builders focused on scaling African startups into market leaders in the most critical growth verticals.
AfriLeap Capital’s leadership has founded and supported several impactful ventures such as those displayed above. These Affiliated Ventures”, or “Strategic Ecosystem Partners”, “Founded & Nurtured by AfriLeap Leadership” reflect our Active commitment to building market-led solutions, even prior to the formation of AfriLeap.