Kenya Climate Innovation Center

Offers commercialization and innovation support through research infrastructure, entrepreneurship guidance, and startup pathways.

Kenya Climate Innovation Center (KCIC) is a Kenyan private not-for-profit company limited by guarantee that grew out of the World Bank infoDev Climate Technology Program. It works as a climate entrepreneurship hub, with a mandate centered on environmental degradation, biodiversity loss, water and air pollution, ecosystem restoration, water security, and climate enterprise development.

Its funding model is donor-backed and blended rather than a single public grant stream. The structured record lists support from DANIDA, the IKEA Foundation, the European Union, UK aid, the African Guarantee Fund, and KCB Bank, and the program portfolio includes GreenBiz, AgriBiz, and SWIFT. KCIC's public impact figures point to more than 3,500 SMEs supported, 57,517 jobs created, and $63 million leveraged for supported enterprises.

For applicants, KCIC is strongest as an accelerator and delivery intermediary for Kenyan climate ventures in energy, agribusiness, water, and waste. It has expanded into Uganda and Tanzania, and its operating model pairs incubation and acceleration with access to finance and commercialization support.