<p>The Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industries Corporation (BSCIC) provides financial and non-financial services to small and cottage companies. Credit facilities are sourced from BSCIC's own fund, banks and financial institutions. BSCIC is committed to the governmental agenda, currently focusing on digitalization.</p>

88mph is a seed fund and invests in early-stage mobile-web companies targeting the African market. 88mph's current model, DealWeek, brings together promising ventures with founders turned investors, who spend one week evaluating, advising, and making investment deals happen.

African Capital Alliance (ACA) is an investment firm sponsoring funds and managing investments in Sub-Saharan Africa. ACA manages a private equity fund, a real estate fund and provides investment management and advisory services to institutional investors.

Amani Institute offers higher education in social innovation in order to develop professionals who create social impact in their future careers.

Based at University of Nairobi, C4DLab is a research and development lab, which runs a start-up incubation hub for start-ups with a digital or computing element. Leveraging the University's community and network, C4DLab's incubation programme brings start-ups from idea stage to growth stage by providing necessary resources and services, including mentorship, desk space, internet, research, hardware materials and access to a network potential business partners or funders. In addition, C4DLab offers its start-ups access to a pool of high-quality, free talent from the student population at the University.

Chanzo Capital is a growth capital firm investing both capital and mentoring in high-tech start-ups and scale-ups.The company invests between USD 500,000 and USD 5 million, staggered over the exponential growth phase of the company from Series A to C. The firm intends to finance the growth and development of the high-tech sector through the provision of capital, mentoring and value creation services to their portfolio of companies.

Intel Capital invests in developers and providers of hardware, software, and services in the following sectors: mobile, client, 5G, datacentre, cloud, big data, diversity, IoT and autonomous driving, semiconductor, memory and programmable solutions (FPGA), software and security, wearables, drones, robotics, AR/VR and AI, sports and health.

Knife Capital is a South African venture capital investment and scale-up advisory firm investing in innovation-driven ventures. Knife Capital manages HBD Venture Capital's portfolio of investments, invests via KNF Ventures in small and medium-sized enterprises and provides an entrepreneurship development programme. It typically makes investments of up to USD 5 million. It also runs an accelerator called Grindstone to provide business advisory services.

Newtown Partners is an angel investment and seed stage venture capital firm focused on early stage technology start-ups. Newtown supports enterprises with solutions in fintech, Internet of Things (IOT), augmented and virtual reality, agritech, blockchain, machine learning, connected home, smart robots, drones, affective computing, gesture control devices, and other disruptive emerging technologies.

Novastar Ventures aims to invest in early stage businesses led by entrepreneurs with the ambition to transform low-income consumer markets and alleviate severe social issues, by deploying innovative business models with the potential of growing rapidly, notably by widening access, improving quality and/or lowering costs of basic services or goods in East Africa. It typically provides investments in the range of USD 100,000 to USD 5m.