Not because they aren't ready. Because no platform was built to connect them intelligently, specifically, and across every form of capital available to them.
HerCapital makes the funding that already exists findable, matchable, and accessible to the founders who qualify for it.
The capital exists. The match was missing.— HerCapital, 2025
We are pan-African by design. A platform for every woman building a business on this continent, from Lagos to Nairobi, Accra to Kigali, Cape Town to Cairo.
HerCapital does not favour one funding type over another. Every form of capital has its place — depending on your stage, sector, country, and goals.
One capital platform. Three outcomes. No restarts. No separate tools. Start once and move through all three phases.
Six structured questions covering country, sector, stage, funding history, capital goal, and documentation readiness feed the scoring model and capture exactly what funders need to know.
A live rating across all four capital types: Grants, Accelerators, Angel & Equity, Debt. Colour-coded readiness tags with plain-English insight on what to strengthen.
Auto-filtered to your top capital type with real opportunities, including match score, funding amount, geography, deadline and sector. Switch filters to browse any type.
The intelligence layer between African women founders and the global capital ecosystem.
Six questions. One platform. Three outcomes: the Capital Fit, the Fundability Score, and a Capital Directory filtered to opportunities you actually qualify for.
The HerCapital newsletter is the funding intelligence for African women founders. New opportunities, capital insights, and platform updates, straight to your inbox.
The Capital Fit, the Fundability Score, and the Capital Directory running as one continuous, intelligent platform. Start once. Move through all three without starting over.
Begin with six questions about your business. Your answers power a live Fundability Score across all four capital types, then automatically filter the Capital Directory to the real opportunities that fit you.
Every answer flows directly into your Fundability Score and filters the Capital Directory to opportunities you actually qualify for. Be honest. The sharper your input, the sharper your match.
Your readiness across all four capital types, generated live from your answers. Colour-coded by readiness, with plain-English insight on what each score means.
Automatically filtered to your top capital type, country, and stage. Every opportunity is real, with a match score based on your profile.
African women are building some of the most resilient, innovative, and impactful businesses on the continent. They are not underfundable. They are undermatched.
HerCapital was built to close a fundamental gap, by making the funding that already exists findable, matchable, and accessible.
Across Africa, billions in grants, equity, accelerator funding, DFI capital, and debt financing are deployed every year. Much of it explicitly targets women-led businesses. Yet the majority of qualified founders never find it.
We are pan-African by design. A platform for every woman building a business on this continent, from Lagos to Nairobi, Accra to Kigali, Cape Town to Cairo.
"The capital exists. The clarity didn't. Until now."
Know your capital · Own your business
— HerCapital
HerCapital covers grants, equity capital, angel investment, venture funding, accelerators, incubators, DFI programmes, SME debt windows, revenue-based financing, fellowships, and blended finance instruments, across all 54 African countries.
The Capital Engine. Free. Six questions. Three outcomes. Live results.
Start Here →HerCapital is building the data and matching layer between African women founders and the global capital ecosystem. Better-qualified applicants. Reduced sourcing friction. Verified founder profiles, before a single dollar is deployed.
Pan-African scope. Multiple capital types. A growing intelligence layer that serves both sides of the funding equation.
List your programme and reach pre-screened, eligible founders at scale, reducing incomplete applications and qualification noise across your intake pipeline.
Surface your cohort to matched, stage-ready founders across African markets, not just your existing networks and familiar geographies.
HerCapital's Fundability Score creates a verifiable signal layer on founder readiness, enabling faster, more confident early-stage sourcing and decisions.
Opportunities are available for aligned investors building the matching layer with us.