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Angel investing means putting money into a business early before it is big enough to attract larger investors. It is the first cheque a founder receives from someone outside their own capital. According to the ABAN 2025 Angel Investment Survey, 33% of active angel investors in Africa are diaspora members. And 65% of companies that received angel investment went on to raise more funding. The diaspora is already doing this. The question is whether you are doing it alone or …

Zambia has an angel investment ecosystem. It has founders building high-potential businesses across fintech, agriculture and digital services. It has a network of local investors who know those founders, who have evaluated their models, who have built relationships with them over years. What it also has is diaspora — professionals across Europe and beyond who understand the African market, who carry that knowledge with them, and who want to invest in businesses that are already growing. Zidicircle connects the two. …

Adeola Adedewe grew up in Africa. When he moved to the United States, he became credit invisible and his entire financial history, unreadable to the American system. He built Kredete to solve that problem. In 21 months, the platform grew from $500K in seed funding to $48M in annual recurring revenue, processing $500M in remittances for 700,000 monthly users. On 31 March 2026, Zidicircle members heard that story from the fund that backed Kredete before the trajectory was visible. Zachariah …

There is a gap in African SME financing that most people misdiagnose. They call it a capital problem. It is not. There is diaspora capital sitting in European savings accounts, pension schemes, and cautious remittance transfers. There are DFIs with African mandates struggling to deploy at the early-growth stage. The capital exists. The real gap is preparation — on both sides of the table. Most SMEs are not ready to receive investment when they need it. Most diaspora investors have …

Diaspora capital is often discussed in terms of potential. At Zidicircle, the work is focused on participation. Since 2016, Zidicircle has operated as a global cooperative connecting diaspora, African, and international communities to entrepreneurship and investment in African SMEs. The organization works across Europe and Africa to reach the global African diaspora through structured programs, cooperative investment vehicles, and recurring community sessions. Over the past year, this approach has moved from long-standing design into clearer execution. Starting With Learning Engagement …

Following the impactful and well-attended June webinar, “Demystifying Diaspora Angel Investing: From Curiosity to Confidence,” Zidicircle is excited to continue the conversation by hosting a second, high-level session focused on unlocking the regional potential of diaspora capital. Africa’s fragmented markets and varying regulatory environments often limit how far early-stage ventures can scale — yet regional integration is key for driving sustainable impact. At the same time, the diaspora remains an underutilized driver of capital, expertise, and connectivity that can transcend …

We are excited to announce the launch of the O-REMIT project that has been funded by the Belgian Government and implemented by partners; The International Organization for Migration (IOM)- Belgium and Luxembourg, Ondernemers voor Ondernemers vzw(OVO), Nationale Bank van België and ZidiCircle. This project aims to offer cost-effective alternatives for remittances and opportunities for investment of savings by tracking  diaspora remittance flows from Belgium into Morocco, Senegal, and the DRC, creating  awareness among remit senders and receivers on these corridors …

We are very excited to launch our first Diaspora-Ghana GREEN SME Matchmaking forum, an initiative of Zidicircle and SNV Ghana. SNV, under the GREEN Incubation and Acceleration Programmes, is supporting businesses and start-ups who are at early stages of development (pre-revenue) to make better use of natural resources, be energy efficient, properly manage waste and pollution, among others, and operate profitable business ventures in the Ashanti and Western regions. Zidicircle is an an Amsterdam based Diaspora startups incubator based in Amsterdam that’s …