Venture acceleration + impact investing

BFA Global’s team of experts works closely with innovators who are building affordable, accessible and appropriate tech solutions that improve the lives of underserved customers and small businesses.

We offer bespoke venture building support, embedding our experts into the startup teams, to help them better understand their customers’ needs and preferences and gain their trust, develop robust technology foundations, reach product-market fit, communicate more effectively with their clients, raise investment and connect with partners who can help them scale.

Early and growth stage venture building

We provide bespoke technical, business, strategy, marketing and additional support to help tech startups sustainably reach product-market fit and begin to scale

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Impact investing

Through our VC fund and accelerator The Catalyst Fund, we back high-impact startups building climate tech solutions for a resilient future

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Corporate-startup partnerships

We facilitate connections and pilots between startups we work with and corporate innovators who can help them reach scale

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Venture building as a service

We work with partners globally who manage inclusive tech acceleration programs and investment funds, to provide venture building support for their portfolio of early and growth stage startups

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Insights

Investor guide to remote due diligence for inclusive fintech startups
Inclusive Fintech |

Investor guide to remote due diligence for inclusive fintech startups

  For investors, the COVID-19 pandemic forced a remote approach to the due diligence process. As a result, investors...

By Rasima Swarup
Digital commerce in Ghana: opportunities focused on innovation for micro and small enterprises (MSEs)
Digital Financial Services |

Digital commerce in Ghana: opportunities focused on innovation for micro and small enterprises (MSEs)

Three key opportunity areas in which digital commerce innovations can contribute to the prosperity of MSEs Though the COVID-19...

By Malika Anand
Brief: What does effective acceleration look like for inclusive tech startups?
Financial Health |

Brief: What does effective acceleration look like for inclusive tech startups?

What does effective acceleration look like for inclusive tech startups? Despite a proliferation of accelerators for inclusive tech startups...

By Malika Anand
Catalyst Fund is expanding inclusive-tech acceleration to new sectors
Climate Action |

Catalyst Fund is expanding inclusive-tech acceleration to new sectors

Building on our proven approach to accelerating inclusive fintech startups and innovation ecosystems in emerging markets, Catalyst Fund is...

By Maelis Carraro
Why the Catalyst Fund startup accelerator delivers outsized success
Inclusive Fintech |

Why the Catalyst Fund startup accelerator delivers outsized success

Catalyst Fund welcomes new cohort of inclusive fintech startups creating solutions to improve the financial health of underserved communities...

By Thea Sokolowski
Catalyst Fund and Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance launch internship program for fintech startups in emerging markets
Inclusive Fintech |

Catalyst Fund and Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance launch internship program for fintech startups in emerging markets

Catalyst Fund and Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance launch internship program for fintech startups in emerging markets Startup CEOs...

By Abby Butkus

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