{"id":11063,"date":"2023-08-19T13:30:20","date_gmt":"2023-08-19T13:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.impacc.org\/?p=11063"},"modified":"2025-10-23T07:31:58","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T07:31:58","slug":"new-impacc-ventures-in-tanzania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impacc.org\/en\/new-impacc-ventures-in-tanzania\/","title":{"rendered":"New Impacc Ventures in Tanzania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s official now: our new cohort of start-ups in Tanzania is set and we welcome Plant Biodefenders and Damu Sasa into our fold as the third cohort of Impacc ventures. <a href=\"https:\/\/63ows.r.bh.d.sendibt3.com\/mk\/cl\/f\/sh\/1t6Af4Oj9PgrH6gg45kftX3kS8Wst9\/IjKwjrM7DVAs\">Plant Biodefenders<\/a> has developed an fungal-based\u00a0organic pesticide that increases harvests and protects the environment; and <a href=\"https:\/\/63ows.r.bh.d.sendibt3.com\/mk\/cl\/f\/sh\/1t6Af4Oj9PgrH6gg45kftX3kS8Wst9\/S8y4-ug6WSax\">Damu Sasa<\/a> is a blood bank that helps hospitals stock the right blood units at the right time. The three companies prevailed in our extremely careful selection process because they have everything we&#8217;re looking for: great founders, good business ideas that improve lives &#8211; and a need for capital that the market doesn&#8217;t (yet) provide for. Now our real work begins: my colleague Anne Lawi is putting together a venture building team in Tanzania to help the start-ups not only with money but also with expertise; the German team\u00a0is getting down to fundraising so that we can soon provide the companies with the promised equity (on average just under 100k\u00a0EUR per start-up); and the Kenyan team is integrating the new candidates into our existing network of pro bono partners and experts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s official now: our new cohort of start-ups in Tanzania is set and we welcome Plant Biodefenders and Damu Sasa into our fold as the third cohort of Impacc ventures. Plant Biodefenders has developed an fungal-based\u00a0organic pesticide that increases harvests and protects the environment; and Damu Sasa is a blood bank that helps hospitals stock [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12498,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[145,127],"tags":[220],"class_list":["post-11063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-impacc-portfolio","category-start-ups","tag-blog-stories"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impacc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impacc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impacc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impacc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impacc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11063"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/impacc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12855,"href":"https:\/\/impacc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11063\/revisions\/12855"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impacc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impacc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impacc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impacc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}