Catalyzing Climate Finance: Turning Aspiration To Reality – panel discussion at Africa Tech Summit Nairobi 2025 featuring insights and views from Nijhad Jamal – Partner at Equator VC, Helen Lin – Partner at One Ventures, Samir Ibrahim – CEO and Founder at SunCulture, Yassine Oussaifi – Partner at AfricInvest Group and Chirantan Patnaik – Director, Venture Capital at BII.
This session explores and unpacks the intricacies of financing climate technology ventures in Africa. The panel collectively address the critical challenges and opportunities surrounding climate finance in the region and the necessity for varied funding sources – equity, debt, and concessional capital – to adequately support the burgeoning climate-focused businesses in Africa.
Key themes emerged, emphasizing the significance of proven technologies, effective execution strategies, market alignment, and robust unit economics in attracting investments. The pivotal role of DFIs was also highlighted, particularly in their capacity to provide enabling capital that can catalyze private sector investments in climate solutions.
Africa Tech Summit Nairobi 2025 celebrated its 7th edition on February 12th and 13th at the Sarit Expo Centre in Nairobi. Bringing together over 1600 leading industry players from 64 countries representing 800+ companies who listened and learned from 176 speakers across 73 sessions, exploring the latest trends and insights in technology and business across Africa and beyond.
It was a jam packed few days of keynotes, masterclass sessions, fireside chats, panels and pitches. View the session from across the Africa Money and Defi Summit, Africa Climate Tech & Investment Summit, Africa Startup Summit and Mobile & App Summit here.
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