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A&B Capital Partners

Innovation. Accelerated.

We back founders building globally from Africa and the Middle East, developing breakthrough technologies that make the world's critical systems more productive, resilient, and resource efficient — transforming the industries of tomorrow.

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Deep tech is undervalued where it matters the most.

The hardest industrial, agricultural, and security problems are concentrated in markets the venture map has mostly skipped. We think that gap is the opportunity: real engineering, applied to real infrastructure, for founders who build where the problem actually lives.

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Engineering-first founders

We back teams with technical depth solving physical, not purely digital, problems — hardware, systems, and infrastructure that are hard to copy.

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Underserved geographies

Africa and the Middle East hold enormous latent demand for industrial and agricultural technology, with far less capital chasing it.

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Dual-use durability

We favor technology with defensible, multi-market applications — commercial and strategic — that holds value through cycles.

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Conviction, early

We write meaningful first checks and stay hands-on from pre-seed through growth, not just at the round that looks safe.

Three themes, one direction.

Every bottleneck we underwrite reduces to one of three vulnerabilities — what a region has to import, what its environment threatens, and what puts its people at risk.

Economic Sovereignty

Building the technology that Africa and the Middle East own, manufacture and control.

Chips, industrial systems and intelligence designed locally, for local conditions.

Planetary Resilience

Deploying precision agriculture, climate intelligence and clean industrial systems.

Focused on the regions facing the most severe resource stress and climate exposure on earth.

Human Security

Securing people, communities and critical infrastructure.

From autonomous border systems to AI diagnostics — using technology built locally for the environments where it will be used.

Six sectors.

Where we look for companies, and the terrain we know best.

Energy and Power Systems

Advanced Manufacturing and Materials

Compute and Semiconductors

Space and Earth Observation

Water and Resource Efficiency

Applied AI and Robotics

Impact by design.

Every investment mapped, measured and reported against recognized global impact standards from day one.

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Every portfolio company mapped to relevant SDGs at entry, with contribution tracked and reported annually to LPs.

UN PRI

Signatory status in progress. ESG integrated across investment analysis, decision-making and active ownership.

SFDR Article 9

Pursuing Article 9 classification under the EU Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation as our target standard.

IFC Performance Standards

PS1–PS8 applied at due diligence and monitored throughout the holding period.

IRIS+

Portfolio KPIs drawn from the GIIN's IRIS+ catalogue for comparability with DFI reporting standards.

Impact Management Project

The IMP's five dimensions — What, Who, How Much, Contribution, Risk — applied to manage impact across the portfolio.

SDG alignment

Mapped across all 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals, with primary alignment tracked and reported per portfolio company.