Our Core Services
AfriLeap Capital provides early-stage African founders with the strategic support, funding access, and ecosystem alignment they need to grow scalable, investable ventures. Through our integrated approach, we bridge readiness with capital deployment.
Venture Support Services
We offer hands-on advisory, investor-readiness programs, and growth support to early-stage ventures and founders across Africa.
Capital Mobilization & Blended Finance
We structure catalytic capital, blended instruments, 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 ecosystem platforms.
Partnerships & Ecosystem Integration
We forge partnerships across public, private, and development sectors to embed African ventures into value-aligned ecosystems.
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 crypto staking, micro-investment, and financial literacy platform. It enables African users—beginners and mainstream investors alike—to grow digital assets via simplified DeFi products, 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 an Entrepreneurial Investment Bank provides fee-based advisory services to external clients. It acts as an agent to help those clients achieve their goals including raising capital, selling the business, strategic partnerships, while specializing in serving entrepreneurs, founders, and small-to-mid-sized businesses (SMEs) in Africa. At M. Lewis Consulting & Research, we offer services like:
- Capital Raising (Debt & Equity
- Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) Advisory
- Strategic Partnerships & Joint Ventures
- Financial Restructuring & Market Research and Feasibility Studies
To de-risk Africa entry for institutional capital partners.
It also supports services such as mergers and acquisitions, valuation, restructuring, and capital raising for clients—primarily mid-sized businesses in Zambia or the SADC region.
With deep expertise in investment strategy, capital structuring, and financial & corporate advisory, M. Lewis Consulting & Research works closely with SMEs, private investors, family offices, and regional equity partners to identify high-potential opportunities and deliver long-term value.
M. Lewis Consulting & Research is involved in guiding businesses through complex financial decisions—whether it’s raising capital, restructuring, or navigating M&A—bringing a pragmatic, data-driven approach grounded in local insight and global best practices.

Basiwel
A hybrid business model, with scoping cross-sector opportunities in agritech, healthtech and proptech to meet growing consumer demand for food that promotes wellness, and tools that provide mental health, access to affordable housing units or commercial property, and mobile solutions for smallholder farming ecosystems in Zambia.
FreshFare 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 an African-focused growth equity firm and global family office. We invest in and partner with entrepreneurial businesses across key growth sectors including agriculture, logistics, real estate, and finance. It backs high-growth African businesses across the food industry, residential and commercial real estate, logistics and traditional financial institutions, with growth equity and smart capital, and long-term support — unlocking value, exits, and measurable impact.
A trusted partner for investors, growth-stage businesses, and legacy builders focused on food systems, affordable housing units, commercial real estate, logistics and traditional financial institutions in Zambia and the SADC region.
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.