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Backing African Women
Founders. Building
Healthier Communities.

Across Africa, women lead most small businesses but receive less than 2% of startup funding, leaving critical health, nutrition, and livelihood solutions underfunded.
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EHA Impact Ventures is a nonprofit investor proving that when women lead, communities thrive.

We provide flexible capital, deep operational support, and trusted networks, designed by people who have built businesses in Africa themselves. Every return is reinvested to fuel future investments and amplify long‑term impact.

Our Focus Areas

Health

Nutrition

Livelihoods

Our Model

We place catalytic capital in the hands of overlooked women founders, strengthen their operational muscle, and shift the systems that determine who gets seen, supported, and scaled.

Invest

We deploy early-stage, flexible, gender-smart capital,  partnering with aligned investors to co-design inclusive, community-rooted business models that drive sustainable growth.

Equip

We strengthen founders through tailored leadership programs, practical tools, and hands-on mentorship, empowering them to manage and measure impact with confidence.

Shift

We are reshaping the capital ecosystem and championing a new narrative of who is truly investable in Africa through networks, policy engagement, and advocacy.
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Our Impact

EHA Impact Ventures (EIV) is transforming the landscape of gender-smart investing in Africa. Our approach pairs flexible capital with operational support and care, ensuring overlooked women-led businesses don’t just survive, but thrive.
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$7.9M
Invested in Women-led
 Ventures
56%
Portfolio Company Staff
 are Women
400
Jobs Supported
3M+
People Projected Reached in Health & Livelihoods.

Portfolio Companies

Female-led businesses that combine profit with purpose.
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Meet the team behind the work

A group of African and global leaders who have built and scaled health ventures themselves. We exist to back women founders others overlook, because we know what it takes.
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News & Insights

Interviews, tips, guides, industry best practices, and news.

EHA Impact Ventures Reinvests $100,000 in Ananya Health to Advance Cervical Cancer Prevention

EHA Impact Ventures (EIV) has announced a follow-on investment of $100,000 in Ananya Health to advance its cervical cancer prevention device towards US Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) clearance. This is EIV’s third investment in Ananya Health, reaffirming its commitment to providing patient, founder-centered capital to women-led businesses solving critical healthcare challenges across Africa.

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EIV Reinvests in EHA Clinics to Strengthen Maternal Care and Expand Healthcare Access in Nigeria

EHA Impact Ventures (EIV), a non-profit impact investing firm backing women-led businesses in health, nutrition, and livelihoods across Africa, has announced a $1.25 million reinvestment in EHA Clinics, a leading network of primary healthcare facilities in Nigeria.

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EHA Impact Ventures and Cascador Convene Health Founders to Tackle Capital, Talent, and Market Access Challenges

EHA Impact Ventures (EIV) and Cascador convened founders, investors, healthcare leaders, and ecosystem stakeholders for the Health Founders' Table, an intimate gathering designed to foster honest conversations about the realities of building health-focused ventures in Africa.

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I am passionate about preparing leaders who create lasting change. My support to EIV directly equips African women founders with the leadership, tools, and networks to thrive. It’s not charity, it’s smart, long-term investing in people who are building their own future.

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Partners

Trusted by partners across Africa and beyond

Awards & Recognitions

Candid - Platinum Transparency 2023
Africa Impact Investment - Project Developer of the year