H20 Venture Partners

About The Fund

H2O Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that specializes in creating and building new social enterprises from the ground up, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa where smallholder agriculture is a key to poverty alleviation and inclusive economic development. They have an unparalleled track record in entrepreneurship, focusing on filling major gaps in smallholder value chains by developing innovative enterprises that make smallholder farming more profitable. With a genuine concern for environmental challenges and health improvement, H2O Venture Partners operates with the conviction that social enterprises can harness commercial discipline to deliver profitable, long-term social impact. Their investment focus is broad, touching on sectors such as BioTech, CleanTech, and Food & Beverage, as well as Medical Devices and hospital services. The firm leverages equity as the primary expertise in its investment portfolio. As venture capital fund operators, they employ a systematic and scalable approach to build businesses that offer essential products and services to support smallholder farmers both upstream and downstream. They are unique in the sector for constructing these enterprises systematically and at scale, seeking to develop business models that align impact with commercial viability. Their process involves a gated setup that starts with on-the-ground market opportunity identification, followed by ideation, validation, and business model planning that includes a pilot phase and subsequent scaling up based on successful piloting. With a passion for developing effective solutions that address persistent failures in agricultural value chains, H2O Venture Partners also has a role in the long-term strategic development of a balanced portfolio of synergistic enterprises. The firm is headquartered at 33-35 George Street, Oxford, OX1 2AY, United Kingdom, reflecting their longstanding commitment to not just trade but also to making a difference in developing economies.