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Global Innovation Fund
Investor · London, United Kingdom · Europe
The Global Innovation Fund is a non-profit, impact-first investment fund that backs the development, testing and scaling of new products, services, business processes and policy reforms aimed at improving the lives of the world's poorest people. It provides grants, loans (including convertible debt) and equity investments of $50,000 to $15 million, along with technical and advisory support, to for-profit firms, non-profits, researchers and government agencies.
Invests inHealthcare & BiotechAI & Machine Learning
In its own wordsimpact investingclimate resiliencefinancial inclusiongender lensagriculturehealth
Your fit with Global Innovation Fund
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Or find every investor that fitsGlobal Innovation Fund lists 3 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 3 funding rounds, 1 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 50% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are Healthcare & Biotech (50%) and AI & Machine Learning (50%). 33% of its companies are based in South Africa. It invests most often alongside A15, Anara Impact Capital and Techstars.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Global Innovation Fund, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 50% |
| Series A | 50% |
| Series B | 0% |
| Growth | 0% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 0 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 0 | 0 |
| '26 | 3 | 1 |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
Show as a table
| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Healthcare & Biotech | 50% | 15% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 50% | 18% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| A15 | 1 |
| Anara Impact Capital | 1 |
| Techstars | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers3100%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company00%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare Global Innovation Fund head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Recent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with Global Innovation Fund| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 20 Jul 2026 | Seed | |
| 17 Apr 2026 | Series A | |
| 7 Apr 2026 | Seed Led |
Round details for Global Innovation Fund
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Global Innovation Fund's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
3 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI Diagnostics develops and provides AI-powered tuberculosis screening technology | Healthcare & Biotech | Apr 2026Series A | Page + round | |
| Mountain Harvest works with farmers to produce high-quality Arabica coffee in Uganda | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Reme-D develops and manufactures diagnostic kits for human and animal diseases | Healthcare & Biotech | Apr 2026Seed · 2 rounds | Page + round |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- globalinnovation.fund
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 7 Apr 2026
- Companies checked
- 3
Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.
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