Acumen (patient capital investment)
Status
Always open
Open continuously
No deadline — apply whenever you are ready.
Amount
Not published
Patient capital as equity or debt, historically in the US$250,000-3m range, with a long horizon and below-market return expectations
Funder
Acumen
private · supranational
Deadline: rolling — Investment pipeline is sourced continuously by regional teams. Acumen also runs thematic funds for agriculture and hardest-to-reach energy.
Your odds
Not published
This funder does not publish a success rate. We rank it using the rate observed across similar programmes and label it as an estimate rather than implying we know.
Effort
quick
Quick — mostly identity and bank details.
Who can apply
- Sectors: energy, agri, health, social, climate
- Stage: seed, series_a, growth
For-profit companies serving low-income customers in Africa, South Asia and Latin America
Source. https://acumen.org/investments/ — checked 2026-08-14 · not human-checked