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Founders Accelerator
Silicon Valley method, African and Caribbean ground truth, 100% women founders.
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LUMA CIRCLE · AFRICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
A global circle backing Africa's changemakers to solve what the world overlooks.
Luma Circle is a social impact investing platform. We connect Silicon Valley's innovation and capital with women building solutions in the communities markets skip, across Africa and the Caribbean.
Who we are
Social impact. A global circle.
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Social impact, investment discipline.
We are impact-led and we expect financial returns, because a vehicle that pays its own way is the only kind that lasts.
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A collaboration.
Luma Circle works with Silicon Valley Advantage (SVA), a female-founded accelerator with more than ten years, 80+ graduated startups and $1.4 billion in equity value built. Luma Circle represents SVA across Africa and the Caribbean.
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Women, by design.
Every intervention is designed for women, led by women and measured against that commitment. Women entrepreneurs in fragile contexts come first.
Where we focus
Capital for the communities markets skip.
Luma Circle strategically focusses on under-served and fragile communities in Africa, where traditional financing is unwilling or unable to go.
Our main focus: innovative finance for women-owned businesses.
Women-owned small businesses face a $1.7 trillion global finance gap. We build the digital rails, credit scores and blended vehicles that close it.
Affordable energy
560 million people in sub-Saharan Africa live without electricity; Caribbean households pay up to three times US prices. We back distributed solar, storage and pay-as-you-go finance that reach clinics, markets and cooperatives.
Explore our focusHealthcare
Africa has 46% of the health workers it needs, while nearly a million trained workers sit unemployed. We back telehealth, diagnostics and health-worker platforms that put them to work.
Explore our focusCreatives
Ideas that change the environment in a positive way and improve social impact, global change, and representation are key to how we help change society and what we invest in.
Explore our focusHow we work
Four platforms. One connected ladder.
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Impact Fund
A $50 million blended fund for seed and early stage businesses in energy, health and finance.
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Giving Circles
Communities of 20 to 50 members who fund, mentor and co-invest.
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Cooperative Capital Facility
Digital village savings groups, aggregated and financed with loans of up to $50,000 at 5%.
Learn moreIMPACT BY 2031 · PLANNING TARGETS
500,000
women and their households with reliable power
1 million
patient interactions for women and girls
$100 million
mobilised to women-led enterprises
200
women founders accelerated
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Whether you invest, give, build or partner, there is a place for you.