Smart asset financiers and early-stage investors, we’re back again with our Raise Ready Deal Share event, showcasing 6 more high-potential businesses, this time from Kenya, Nigeria, and Mozambique!
These businesses, selected from the Royal Academy Engineering Africa Prize’s alumni pool, have just participated in Raise Ready – an intensive deal-readiness programme from Viridian that helps founders walk the last mile in raising early-stage capital. Through expert coaching and focused content, participating businesses have refined their fundraising strategy, growth plans, and valuations.
How the pitch events will work:
- You will watch short pre-recorded pitches from each business and there will be time for a few questions in the main Zoom room.
- After the pitches are complete, each business will run a break-out room and investors will be able to select those they are interested in for further questions and discussion.
If you are not able to attend the sessions, but are still interested in these businesses – please still fill out the form. We will provide you with recordings and founder’s details.
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Businesses showcasing on Thursday, 30 July at 17h00 SAST/ 16h00 WAT/ 18h00 EAT:
E-Safiri – Kenya
Sectors: Sustainable Transport / Electric Mobility / Clean Energy
E-SAFIRI is a Kenyan-based company dedicated to providing an affordable and environmentally friendly fuel alternative, championing the adoption of electric mobility. Their approach involves expanding charging stations and battery swapping points nationwide, optimising efficiency by harnessing renewable and grid energy.
Kiri EV – Kenya
Sectors: Electric Mobility / Smart Infrastructure / Clean Energy
Kiri EV is an electric vehicle startup based in Nairobi, Kenya. Their mission is to challenge the status quo of the motor industry across the African continent; one segement at a time. They aim to prove that electric vehicles can and will play a big role in the future of transportation across Kenya and the continent.
Farmer Lifeline – Kenya
Sector: AgriTech
Farmer Lifeline Technologies is an agri-tech company using AI and solar-powered field devices to help smallholder farmers detect crop pests and diseases in real time. The platform also connects farmers to insurance, credit, and markets, strengthening financial inclusion while supporting underserved communities.
TERAWORK – Nigeria
Sectors: HR Tech / Talent Tech
TERAWORK is an AI-powered talent platform that helps businesses hire and manage reliable talent across multiple engagement models. Through pre-vetted candidates, intelligent matching, and built-in quality assurance,TERAWORK ensures businesses access the right talent quickly and efficiently.
5️⃣ Reeddi Technologies Ltd – Nigeria
Sector: CleanTech
Reeddi Technologies is a clean energy and access solutions company focused on improving livelihoods across underserved African communities, and through its innovation, Pluck, extends this mission into productive asset financing. Pluck enables unbanked micro-entrepreneurs in Nigeria to access income-generating tools such as smartphones, solar systems, and motorcycles through affordable installment plans, powered by a proprietary, tech-enabled system with embedded asset tracking, digital KYC, and integrated payments.
6️⃣ Agriview – Mozambique
Sector: Agriculture
Agriview turns maize husks, which farmers usually throw away or burn, into biodegradable food packaging like plates and takeaway boxes. Instead of using plastic or polystyrene containers that end up as waste, businesses can use packaging that naturally breaks down after use. This helps reduce pollution while giving farmers an extra source of income from something that previously had no value.
Register and book your seat to join us at any of the pitch events you are interested in attending.
If you can’t make it, we will make recordings available. Please register and tick the box that says you can’t make it but would like the recordings and founder details.
About Raise Ready
Current investment readiness programmes prepare entrepreneurs to make a pitch, but not necessarily to explain how the money they’re raising contributes to their business growth; what terms to negotiate on; or future considerations of taking on investment.
Through Viridian’s experience building and running the African Angel Academy (working with 800+ angels) and ongoing conversations with our wide network of African investors, we also understand the effect this is having on investors. Early-stage deals are taking too long and require a lot of time and resource investment to close.
Viridian’s Raise Ready programme addresses this gap by equipping early-stage founders with the knowledge and support to refine their growth plan, valuation, investment strategy, and to walk more confidently into investor negotiations.
Our goal is to have founders (and investors) make deals quicker, and on better terms.