Geraldine Mupandanyama

Founder & CEO at Darena Ventures

Moderator

Geraldine Mupandanyama is the Founder & CEO of Darena Ventures, an ecosystem‑building advisory and emerging fund manager for climate‑smart enterprises. With over 20 years of operational leadership across multiple industries, she brings a practical, cross‑sector understanding of Africa’s evolving energy and climate investment landscape.

Her work sits at the intersection of sustainable finance, entrepreneur support, and climate‑focused business growth, with a focus on investment models that deliver attractive returns while strengthening communities. She also contributes to national efforts to advance impact‑investing frameworks and market development in Zimbabwe, alongside advising ecosystem partners working to expand investment readiness, capital mobilisation, and climate‑aligned SME growth across the continent.

An environmentalist by training and conviction, Geraldine speaks and writes on climate‑smart SME development, sustainable finance, entrepreneurship policy, and diaspora investment. She focuses on making climate and energy issues easy to understand and turning them into practical strategies that investors, founders, and policymakers can use.