Catalytic Investor of the Year
| Winner | SAB Foundation, South Africa – funds and supports entrepreneurs, emphasises creating opportunities for women, youth, rural communities and persons with disabilities. |
| 2nd Place | Innovation Edge, South Africa |
| 3rd Place | FirstRand Foundation, South Africa |
Financial Instrument of the Year
| Winner | Impact Bond Innovation Fund, Standard Bank Tutuwa Community Foundation, South Africa – one of the first social impact bonds transacted in South Africa with a bond aimed at delivering early childhood development outcomes in the Western Cape. |
| 2nd Place | 27four Investment Managers, South Africa |
| 3rd Place | Rand Merchant Bank, South Africa |
| 4th Place | Oryx Impact Fund, Nigeria. |
Impact Accelerator of the Year
| Winner | LEAP Africa, Nigeria – a social innovators programme that provides skills, resources and connections for young innovators to create lasting solutions to community challenges, such as interventions that help to build sustainable systems and structures; focused on education, agriculture/food security, renewable energy/sustainable environments, education and technology, etc. |
| 2nd Place | Capital Solutions Ltd, Uganda |
| 3rd Place | TAOTIC, Tanzania |
Impact Asset Manager of the Year
| Winner | Vital Capital, Uganda – identifies overlooked opportunities and builds scalable businesses that transform lives and turn critical challenges associated with the provision of water, food, healthcare and sustainable infrastructure into high-return opportunities that deliver impact at scale. |
| 2nd Place | Phatisa, Mauritius |
| 3rd Place | AlphaMundi Group, Kenya |
Impact Asset Owner of the Year
| Winner | Old Mutual, South Africa – pursues long-term risk-adjusted returns for clients while aligning with the broader interests of society and addressing long-term systemic risk; drives real-world outcomes in the form of impact. |
| 2nd Place | Impact For Africa S.p.A., Rwanda/Namibia |
| 3rd Place | Venture Capital Trust Fund, Ghana |
Impact Fund of the Year
| Winner | Yunus Social Business, Kenya – finances and grows social businesses to end poverty and the climate crisis; provides flexible loans and hands-on growth support to social businesses and reinvests the capital; provides debt capital at concessionary rates in local currency and USD to social businesses. |
| 2nd Place | Alitheia Capital, Nigeria |
| 3rd Place | Jaza Rift Ventures, Kenya |
Impact Market Builder of the Year
| Winner | IBIS Consulting, South Africa – helps clients achieve their impact goals through an integrated approach to impact investing advisory and support; maximises the impact created by clients by providing customised solutions and leveraging best practice methodologies and frameworks. |
| 2nd Place | Impact Investing Ghana, Ghana |
| 2nd Place | Data Innovators, South Africa |
| 3rd Place | Prospero, Zambia |
Outstanding Individual Achievement of the Year
| Winner | Evelyne Dioh, WIC Capital, Senegal – fund manager and managing director of WIC Capital, the first investment fund in West Africa that exclusively targets women-led small and growing businesses to unlock their full potential. |
| 2nd Place | Zanele Twala & Justin Prozesky, Standard Bank Tutuwa Community Foundation, South Africa |
| 3rd Place | Gwendolyn Zorn, Phatisa, Mauritius |
| 4th Place | Uche Kenneth Udekwe, Natal Cares, Nigeria |
Project Developer of the Year
| Winner | eha Impact Ventures, Nigeria – philanthropic impact investor that supports early stage, high-impact, women-led businesses in Africa. |
| 2nd Place | Impact For Africa S.p.A., Rwanda/Namibia |
| 3rd Place | Food Enterprise Solutions, Senegal |
Social Entrepreneur of the Year
| Winner | Lumkani, South Africa – insuretech company dealing with the challenge of informal settlement fires through risk-reducing technology and affordability; developer of an award-winning fire detection system. |
| 2nd Place | llard Health, Kenya |
| 3rd Place | AbuErdan, Egypt |
| 4th Place | Yebo Fresh, South Africa |
Special Consideration Award
| Winner | XSML Capital, Democratic Republic of Congo – partners in growth for entrepreneurs in frontier markets in Africa; provides expertise, network and bespoke financing to nurture local talent and bring durable and fair prosperity to under-served markets; since 2010 has invested in SMEs in challenging markets; invested in more than 70 enterprises and covered assets of $159 million. |
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