ACE SME Foundation is a USA 501 (c) 3 Non-Profit Foundation that focuses on providing grant and seed funding to African SMEs and Non-Profits, to help them to grow into self-sustaining enterprises. The primary clients we focus on are youth, women and PWD (Persons with Disabilities) owned SMEs and Non-Profits that make a social impact in their communities. 

ASF secures seed funding through donations raised in the USA and funds these SMEs either directly or through ASF’s affiliate Kenyan company, ACE Global Accelerators Ltd. (AGA). AGA is a social impact, for-profit company that charges a nominal fee to the SMEs for business training, coaching, and mentoring. This helps the SMEs to invest their seed funding wisely, so that they can grow profitable and sustainable businesses.

The key customers of the ASF Foundation seed funding are:

• African Women Entrepreneurs from age 25-65 who have a post high school education and have interest and ideas of starting a business, or they already have a business. The ideal demographic is women who have already started a business but require mentorship and funding to grow and sustain their business.
• African Youth (18-35) with at least a high school education, who have a smart business idea (technology or otherwise) that they want to turn into a business and require business mentoring and seed funding.
• African PWDs (Persons with Disabilities). There are many PWDs in Africa with brilliant business ideas, but there are limited resources provided to them to enable them to successfully build and grow their businesses.