Dedicated to ideating, building, and scaling climate-positive startups across Africa’s agrifood value chains, Pyramidia Ventures is a venture studio with a mission to provide nutritious and affordable food for a growing population in a way that regenerates nature.
Operating on the principle of “fail fast and learn quickly”, Pyramidia localizes globally successful technologies to address Africa’s unique challenges and opportunities, generating and selecting the most promising ideas to develop in-house, ranging from drone services to spirulina farming.
Pyramidia generates innovative ideas in-house and attracts co-founders at various stages of the venture building process, including ideation, piloting and building. This approach aims to build investable, climate-focused early-stage businesses to transition to a sustainable agrifood system, creating a pipeline of investable opportunities for climate investors.
Pyramidia’s mindful venture design centers on companies and ideas that are rooted in local context and responsive to community needs, driving meaningful impact in the regions they serve. By prioritizing capacity building and empowering local talent, Pyramidia ensures ventures are both commercially viable from the end-user’s perspective and socially impactful. This focus makes Pyramidia a distinctive venture studio, offering clear value for co-founders building within its ecosystem.
This strategy offers several advantages: it builds a strong brand identity for co-founders, attracts investors and talent aligned with the sector, and creates a distinctive compounding effect, enabling Pyramidia to rapidly apply insights across future ventures.
As of March 2025, the Dutch Good Growth Fund has committed a Seed Capital convertible loan of USD 1.3M and Technical Assistance / Business Development support of USD 200K.
