Our organization integrates charitable purpose with traditional for-profit investment goals. Generating profit is a key enabler to our charitable purpose to provide permanent solutions for those who need it most.
Jibu has pioneered a new approach built upon best-practice, for-profit business concepts, capital, and talent to create a partnership network of self-sustaining, scalable water franchises that harness the latent economic potential of those who need safe water. Our approach enables people in the developing world to better control their own destinies and jump-start a virtuous cycle of wealth-generation for themselves and their communities.
Jibu has pioneered a new approach built upon best-practice, for-profit business concepts, capital, and talent to create a partnership network of self-sustaining, scalable water franchises that harness the latent economic potential of those who need safe water. Our approach enables people in the developing world to better control their own destinies and jump-start a virtuous cycle of wealth-generation for themselves and their communities.
Location: United States, Colorado, Colorado Springs
Employees: 501-1000
Total raised: $7M
Founded date: 2012
Investors 3
| Date | Name | Website |
| - | DOB Equity | dobequity.... |
| 25.11.2021 | Asia Afric... | aaicinvest... |
| - | Kepple Afr... | kepple-afr... |
Funding Rounds 1
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 01.02.2018 | Series B | $7M | - |
Mentions in press and media 18
| Date | Title | Description |
| 10.11.2025 | Her Farm, Her Story: Zena’s Journey of Growth with MazaoHub | Meet Zena, a smallholder farmer, widow, and mother of four, and proud grandmother, who has been part of the MazaoHub network for the past three years. Through MazaoHub’s Farmer Excellence Centres, Zena has received ongoing agronomic support... |
| 22.09.2025 | DOB Equity Invests in MazaoHub, an Agri – Tech Company Boosting Productivity of Smallholder Farmers in Tanzania | Nairobi Kenya, September 2025 DOB Equity, an impact venture fund backed by a Dutch family, is delighted to announce its investment in MazaoHub Precision Agriculture (MazaoHub). MazaoHub is a Tanzanian ag-tech company transforming smallholde... |
| 20.03.2024 | DOB Equity Announces Leadership Transition | Outgoing Co-CEOs Saskia van der Mast and Hayo Afman have been pivotal in advancing impact investment in East Africa Coen Boevé to take over as interim CEO DOB Equity, a family-backed impact investment fund committed to fostering positive so... |
| 19.12.2022 | Ubongo, an edtech startup based in Tanzania, has received $27.8 million grant from the LEGO Foundation | Ubongo, an African edtech startup, is one of the five recipients of the Lego Foundation’s global Build a World of Play Challenge, which awards grants to projects that use play to address pressing issues in early childhood education througho... |
| 02.02.2022 | Total Energies teams up with Chinese oiler to invest $10bn in Uganda and Tanzania | Total Energies and its partner China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOC) have brokered a deal with Uganda and Tanzania to invest more than $10bn in developing crude oil production in East Africa. |
| 10.01.2022 | BHP to invest $50 mln to advance Tanzania nickel project | Jan 10 (Reuters) - BHP Group Ltd would make an investment of $40 million to develop a nickel project in Tanzania, Kabanga Nickel said on Monday, and $10 million for a cleaner production technology, as the global miner seeks to reduce its ca... |
| 08.09.2021 | Tanzania secures nearly $600M from IMF for COVID relief | The International Monetary Fund’s executive board has approved $567m in emergency support for Tanzania to help it finance a COVID-19 vaccination campaign and meet the health and social costs of the pandemic, the IMF said in a statement. The... |
| 19.09.2019 | Vodacom Tanzania invests $1.6 Billion on 4G Coverage across Tanzania | Vodacom Tanzania PLC—a corporate connectivity and telecommunications provider that provides affordable and reliable connectivity, has launched a Supa Network campaign that aims to put Tanzania’s informed on the quality and benefits of its n... |
| 09.08.2019 | CrossBoundary Energy Access, PowerGen Set to Invest $5.5m in Mini-grid Project across Tanzania | CrossBoundary Energy Access (CBEA) a mini-grid financer, has partnered with PowerGen Renewable Energy, a mini-grid developer to finance 60 mini-grids in Tanzania. The partnership will see CBEA invest about $5.5 million in 60 mini-grids to s... |
| 09.08.2019 | Diageo Plc Set to Invest $219 Million in Renewable Energy across Its African Factories, CrossBoundary Energy Access, PowerGen Set to Invest $5.5m in Mini-grid Project across Tanzania and More | Happy weekend guys! Welcome to today’s edition of the Big 5 Daily. Join me as I take you through today’s 5 biggest African innovation. Have fun! Big news, Diageo PLC, a British multinational alcoholic beverages company headquartered in Lond... |
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