Dutch impact investor Triple Jump has committed $1.5 million to Pyramidia Ventures, a Kenyan agritech venture studio focused on developing companies that provide affordable and nutritious food.
Why it matters: The funding aims to expand Pyramidia’s model of building and scaling climate-focused startups across Africa, strengthening the continent’s agri-food systems and accelerating the transition to resilient, low-carbon agriculture.
The details:
- The deal comprises $1.3 million in funding and an additional $200,000 for technical assistance and business development support from the Dutch Good Growth Fund (DGGF), managed by Triple Jump.
- Pyramidia Ventures, founded in 2021 by Ruth Bertens and Joseph Rehmann, operates as a venture builder, creating and piloting startup concepts in-house before recruiting co-founders to scale them.
- The studio’s portfolio includes Stable Foods, which offers irrigation-as-a-service, and companies like Womega and Afriprotein.
- With the new capital, Pyramidia plans to launch at least two new ventures annually, targeting pain points in Africa’s agri-food systems where climate resilience and unit economics intersect.
The studio’s approach is designed to compress the riskiest part of company creation while freeing founding teams to focus on product-market fit and scale. For investors like Triple Jump, the studio model offers a systematic way to de-risk early-stage bets in tough operating environments.
The goal: Pyramidia aims to build a pipeline of investable companies that make Africa’s agri-food systems more resilient and lower-carbon, while proving that studio-born startups can scale faster and withstand shocks better than their peers.
What’s next: If the next cohort of startups performs well, showing measurable gains in yields, water use, and farmer income, the studio could set a template for how venture studios become climate infrastructure in emerging markets.
