CLIC Agrifood Investment Connector 2025 for Sub-Saharan African – YOA

Deadline: April 25, 2025

Applications are open for the CLIC Agrifood Investment Connector 2025 for Sub-Saharan African. The ClimateShot Investor Coalition (CLIC) is devoted to accelerating and scaling finance for low-carbon, local weather-resilient, and nature-constructive agriculture, and meals techniques globally.

The CLIC Agrifood Investment Connector (‘Connector’) identifies local weather and nature constructive agribusinesses, assesses their local weather and nature impacts and dangers, and prepares them for investor pitching and due diligence. At the identical time, the Connector engages buyers, understands their wants, and facilitates significant connections to bridge the funding hole. Climate Policy Initiative (CPI) is the secretariat for CLIC.

Benefits

• Impact Assessment: CLIC applies a knowledge-pushed, proof-primarily based methodology to evaluate agri-SMEs’ local weather and nature impacts. You will obtain:
  • A pitch deck built-in with local weather and nature impression info
  • A complete local weather and nature impression evaluation report
• Investment Facilitation: Their knowledgeable staff gives fingers-on help to facilitate high quality connections between agri-SMEs and buyers. You will obtain:
  • One-on-one connections to our community of debt and fairness buyers
  • Curated alternatives for in-individual and digital pitch occasions
  • A enterprise overview for investor outreach and communications
  • Professional recommendation on pitch deck and knowledge room improvement
  • Personalized help with investor engagement and time period sheet evaluation

Eligibility

The following companies are eligible to apply:

• A legally integrated and for-profit enterprise engaged in agriculture and meals techniques, with its main operations in Sub-Saharan Africa.
• Early- or progress-stage and put up-income, with at the least two years of operations and one years’ audited monetary statements.
• Actively searching for industrial capital, whether or not by way of debt or fairness financing. A fundraising technique together with grants can be acceptable.
• Implementing or planning to implement climate- and nature-constructive practices inside its operations, or providing local weather and nature intelligence, merchandise, or providers to the agrifood sector.
• The administration ought to have at the least two folks, one in all which ought to have the ability to decide to the time necessities of this system and can be our essential level of contact.

You are inspired to apply if your enterprise is:

• Ready to scale: Your enterprise already has proof of idea and is able to scale, however must unlock funding to take action.
• Seeking industrial capital: You’ve primarily relied on bootstrapping and grants, and at the moment are seeking to transfer onto elevate fairness or debt funding.
• An impression-targeted enterprise: Your enterprise has a big local weather and nature impression, however wants help in measuring and quantifying that impression to have interaction buyers.

Application

Click here to apply

For extra info, go to CLIC Agrifood Investment Connector.