Venture Impact

Venture Impact

Unlocking Opportunity, Realizing Change

Our Pursuit

At Sanaga Ventures, we pursue a simple but urgent goal: to ensure entrepreneurship delivers growth and impact where it is needed most.

We are building the future together — from Lagos and Nairobi to Bangalore, Jakarta, São Paulo, and Cairo, and from Buea in Cameroon to Mombasa and Medellín. Every day, we create jobs, drive inclusion, and tackle the challenges of climate, inequality, and opportunity. What unites us is ambition and creativity. What holds us back are fragile systems, fragmented networks, and limited resources.

Our pursuit is to close this gap. We build bridges between talent and capital, connect ecosystems across continents, and strengthen the structures that allow us to thrive. By working with investors, institutions, and innovators, we create the conditions for entrepreneurship to unlock human potential and drive lasting change.

Sanaga Ventures exists to advance this pursuit — because growth without impact is not enough, and impact without scale will not last.

Systems. Capital. Strategy.

  • Ecosystem & Program Design

    Designing and delivering accelerators, investment platforms, and innovation networks.

  • Capital & Investment Readiness

    Mobilizing early-stage capital, building investor networks, and preparing ventures for growth.

  • Governance & Strategic Advisory

    Strengthening institutions, boards, and partnerships that enable entrepreneurship to scale sustainably.

  • "The best way to predict the future is to create it."

    Peter Drucker, Management Consultant, Educator & Author

  • "Entrepreneurship in emerging markets is not just about building a business, but about overcoming structural challenges and rewriting the rules of the game."

    Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director-General of the WTO

  • “It doesn't matter what your probability of failure is. If there's a 90% chance of failure, there's a 10% chance of changing the world.”

    Vinod Khosla, Businessman and Venture Capitalist


  • "The 'Cheetah Generation' looks at problems from a totally different and unique perspective."

    George Ayittey, Economist and Writer

  • “I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance… Unless you have a lot of passion about this, you’re not going to survive.”

    Steve Jobs, Founder Apple Computer

  • "Entrepreneurship is the engine of growth in emerging economies. It’s where ideas meet necessity and transform into opportunity." –

    Muhtar Kent, Former CEO of Coca-Cola

  • "The greatest impact entrepreneurs are those who tackle the world’s toughest challenges in the most underserved markets."

    Jacqueline Novogratz, Founder of Acumen

Contact us.

Rokin 38B, 1012 KT, Amsterdam

the Netherlands