Climate Resilient Africa Fund

Description:

Climate Resilient Africa Fund (CRAF) is an impact venture fund backing early-stage Africa startups at the nexus of food security, climate change and nature loss. It invests in biotech including new food groups, farmers platforms including precision agriculture, midstream supply chain innovation, novel farm systems and climate-nature data tools. CRAF has offices in Cairo, Accra, Nairobi, Johannesburg, London and Copenhagen. Its investors include private, governmental, development and impact capital.

Partners:

• Hossam Allam - Managing Partner

• Sherief Kesseba - Managing Partner

• Hussein Heiba - General Partner

• Moustafa Rehan - Venture Partner

Covalence Media:

We had the pleasure of speaking with Hossam Allam, Managing Partner at Climate Resilient Africa Fund, about climate adaptation in Africa’s agri-food sector. Hossam reflected on his background in engineering, how COVID impacted his career choices, and his outlook on emerging technologies in the agriculture industry.

Listen to the episode/read the transcription: https://the-climate-map.org/climate-adaptation-in-africas-agri-food-sector

Hossam Allam is the founder and Managing Partner at Climate Resilient Africa Fund (CRAF), which backs Africa technologies at the intersection of agri-food and climate action. He is a prolific angel investor, founded Cairo Angels, which has backed hundreds of Middle Eastern startups, and is a 500 Global instructor on venture finance. Before CRAF, he built and exited a market leading 4,000-person building services business. Previous to that, he spent 10 years at Shell first as an environmentalist, and then post MBA, developing natural gas markets for small scale distribution as well as USD multi-billion country-to-country sales. He is a marine environmental scientist by training.