Fund vehicle

Hummingbird One

Compiled from public sources

The Hummingbird One Fund is a specialised blended-finance investment vehicle designed to address the critical small-ticket funding gap facing early-stage renewable energy and clean cooking enterprises across Sub-Saharan Africa. Managed as a closed-end developmental credit pool, the fund bypasses the industry trend of increasing transaction sizes, focusing instead on scale-building finance for younger, locally rooted businesses that traditional institutional financiers overlook. Geographically focused on frontier and expanding clean-energy markets in East and West Africa, the fund issues short- to medium-term loans designed to stabilise local component supply chains, facilitate clean technology adoption, and transition businesses into institutionally investable platforms.

Manager

Charm Impact Ltd

Vintage

2026

Strategy

Private Credit

Target size

$12m

Size

$6.3m

Status

Active