SOSAI Renewable Energies Limited, a finalist of the EU-UNDP Nigeria Growth Stage Impact Ventures (GSIV), deploys efficient, reliable and affordable renewable energy solutions that provide energy to homes, businesses and Farmers in Northern Nigeria, since 2010.

The Recycling Scheme for Women and Youth Empowerment (RESWAYE), a finalist of the EU-UNDP Nigeria Growth Stage Impact Ventures (GSIV), is a social enterprise focused on empowering women and youth in coastal communities in Lagos through a system that rewards recycling services and practices. Introduced in 2019, the initiative aims to retrieve post-consumer waste from its point of generation into the recycling value chain, preventing ecosystem imbalance and encouraging a cleaner and more sustainable environment with inclusive economic growth while making them financially independent and promoting a circular economy through proper waste management program.

PLANET 3R, a finalist of the EU-UNDP Nigeria Growth Stage Impact Ventures (GSIV), converts textile and plastic waste to eco-friendly products. The company was established in 2020 and supports the circular economy in Ibadan and across Nigeria.

Established in 2014, TOMATOS JOS Farming and Processing Limited, a finalist of the EU-UNDP Nigeria Growth Stage Impact Ventures (GSIV), is a social enterprise based in northern Nigeria that makes retail-packaged food products for consumers across all income brackets, sourcing raw materials from a network of smallholder farmers who have been transformed from subsistence growers to profitable commercial farmers.

Tamarap International Company Limited (TAMARAP), a finalist of the EU-UNDP Nigeria Growth Stage Impact Ventures (GSIV), is a Nigeria agri-business focused on alleviating malnutrition in Africa and beyond by providing healthy plant-based solutions produced locally with international quality standards. The company was established in 2014 in Lagos and supplies dietary and nutritious products through its brand “PachaMama Foods”.

DrugStoc, a finalist of the EU-UNDP Nigeria Growth Stage Impact Ventures (GSIV), is an ISO certified service company leveraging technology to connect healthcare providers, such as hospitals and pharmacies with pharmaceutical manufacturers, to deliver affordable and quality medical products in a convenient fashion to healthcare institutions. Established in 2015 in Lagos, DrugStoc supplies medical products to over 4000 hospitals and clinics, pharmacies and health maintenance organization across Nigeria.

D-OLIVETTE, a finalist of the EU-UNDP Nigeria Growth Stage Impact Ventures (GSIV), is a Carbon Trust & Footprint Africa Certified Domestic Bio-refinery social enterprise that builds and distribute technologies that turn biodegradable and organic waste into clean energy, reusable clean water and more food. The company was established in 2018 in Lagos and provides clean cooking solutions to over 19 000 users across Nigeria and Benin.

HERVEST, a finalist of the EU-UNDP Nigeria Growth Stage Impact Ventures (GSIV), is closing the gender finance gap in Africa by increasing access to savings, investments and credit - credit particularly for female farmers and women-owned/led small businesses. The company was established in 2021 in Lagos and its mobile application and internet banking platform is connecting over 20 000 women in Nigeria, Ghana, Rwanda, South Africa, the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, India, the Netherlands, Benin, Mauritius, France, Australia and Germany.

BANKLY, a finalist of the EU-UNDP Nigeria Growth Stage Impact Ventures (GSIV), is the “bank to the unbanked,” meeting the needs of the financially excluded Nigerians by providing the personal and technological touchpoints they require to digitize their cash and grow their income in a safe and simple way. Established in 2018 in Lagos, BANKLY has deployed its customer application to over 150,000 users, testing the service across Nigeria in 2022, and aims to expand to Cameroon, Benin and Democratic Republic of Congo.

The YES Group, a GSIV Tanzania finalist, aims to empower rural smallholder farmers in the production, value addition and marketing of their agricultural products. Since its founding in 2012, the YES Group has provided goods and services to actors along the edible oil value chain, helping to expand the industry, supporting smallholder farmers’ livelihoods and protecting the environment. The group provides training to rural communities, especially youth and women, to improve the productivity and quality of their organic production, and offers oil seed pressing services to expand edible oil production.