Rural and agri-tech startups in Africa can apply for the Emerald Africa financing facility, which provides debt to early-stage digital innovators who are enabling greater access to finance for rural SMEs.<\/b><\/p>\n

Organised by Small Foundation, <\/span>Emerald Africa<\/span><\/a> provides funding for loan books for early-stage companies by using a simple debt product, enabling founders to keep their equity.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The funding is responsive to entrepreneurial needs, and is aimed at digital innovators offering credit with a rural or agricultural focus, based in Sub-Saharan Africa, that have undertaken a pilot and achieved product-market fit, and are at pre-seed or seed stage.<\/span><\/p>\n

Applications are open <\/span>here<\/span><\/a> until December 31, 2023.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rural and agri-tech startups in Africa can apply for the Emerald Africa financing facility, which provides debt to early-stage digital innovators who are enabling greater access to finance for rural SMEs. Organised by Small Foundation, Emerald Africa provides funding for loan books for early-stage companies by using a simple debt product, enabling founders to keep<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33393,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,32,28,29],"tags":[13436,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-33391","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-east-africa","8":"category-news","9":"category-southern-africa","10":"category-west-africa","11":"tag-emerald","12":"tag-featured"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.disruptafrica.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.disruptafrica.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.disruptafrica.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.disruptafrica.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.disruptafrica.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/old.disruptafrica.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33392,"href":"https:\/\/old.disruptafrica.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33391\/revisions\/33392"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.disruptafrica.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.disruptafrica.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.disruptafrica.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.disruptafrica.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}