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Top 50 Artificial Intelligence Startup Investors in South Africa (June 2026)

The most active venture capital funds and angel investors investing in South Africa Artificial intelligence startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in South Africa Artificial intelligence startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Phillip Sebole Masango
Angel
3 South Africa Seed, Series A, Private Equity Information Technology, Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence $1.6M–$14M
Oui Capital
VC Fund
3 Kenya, Nigeria, United States Seed, Pre-Seed Transportation, Financial Services, Information Technology $40k–$4.9M
Venture Capital Studio
VC Fund
2 South Africa Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Information Technology, FinTech, Finance $256k–$9.6M
Vumela Fund
VC Fund
2 South Africa, Brazil Seed, Debt Financing Education, Software, E-Commerce $600k–$1.4M
Industrial Development Corporation
VC Fund
2 South Africa, Canada, Sweden Debt Financing, Series A, Post-IPO Debt Renewable Energy, Mobile, Sustainability $1.1M–$315M
Alumni Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, United Kingdom, Canada Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $1.4M–$86M
Knife Capital
VC Fund
2 South Africa, United States, Sweden Series A, Seed Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology $2M–$30M
Hustle Fund
VC Fund
2 United States, Singapore, Canada Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, FinTech, Financial Services $120k–$30M
4Di Capital
VC Fund
2 South Africa, United States, Kenya Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Financial Services, Mobile $441k–$47M
54 Collective
VC Fund
2 Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa Seed, Pre-Seed Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech $40k–$4M
Bose Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, India, Denmark Series B, Series A Software, Music, Mobile $1.5M–$80M
LoftyInc Capital
VC Fund
2 United States, Nigeria, Egypt Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Software $100k–$37M
HAVAÍC
VC Fund
2 South Africa, United States, Kenya Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, FinTech $57k–$15M
Future Africa
VC Fund
2 Nigeria, United States, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology $100k–$20M
Soma Capital
VC Fund
2 United States, India, Mexico Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech $350k–$40M
Andrew Bredenkamp
Angel
1 South Africa Seed Software, Speech Recognition, Translation Service
Paper Plane Ventures
VC Fund
1
Investec
VC Fund
1 United States, United Kingdom, Australia Debt Financing, Series A Software, Financial Services, Energy $1.1M–$260M
Crossfin Technology
VC Fund
1 South Africa, United States, Russian Federation Series A, Private Equity Payments, Financial Services, Software
Capaci.Tech
VC Fund
1 South Africa, United States Seed SMS, Apps, SaaS $97k–$4M
Microsoft for Startups
VC Fund
1 United States, India, Canada Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Atlantica Ventures
VC Fund
1 Nigeria, South Africa, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, FinTech, Internet $450k–$3.7M
BaseCamp Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, South Africa, Trinidad and Tobago Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Financial Services $1.1M–$8M
Joe Caruso
Angel
1 United States, France, Israel Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, SaaS, Internet $420k–$2.2M
Kalon Venture Partners
VC Fund
1 South Africa, Luxembourg, United States Seed, Series A Apps, Internet, Software $570k–$7M
Appsolute Ventures
VC Fund
1 South Africa Pre-Seed Big Data, Analytics, Data Integration
Strat Tech
VC Fund
1 South Africa Seed Software, Analytics, Artificial Intelligence
Hannover Re
VC Fund
1 United States, Germany, Brazil Series A, Seed, Private Equity Insurance, FinTech, InsurTech $9M–$47M
Arise Pty Ltd
VC Fund
1 Ghana, South Africa Series A Facial Recognition, Financial Services, Identity Management
Bill Spruill
Angel
1 South Africa Series A Facial Recognition, Identity Management, Information Technology
Basecamp Fund
VC Fund
1 United States, Canada, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $500k–$6M
Karim Beguir
Angel
1 Tunisia, France, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce $600k–$31M
Futuregrowth Asset Management
VC Fund
1 South Africa, France, United States Seed, Series B Software, Transportation, Financial Services $1.9M–$16M
Jeff Dean
Angel
1 United States, United Kingdom, Japan Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software $450k–$53M
Naspers Foundry
VC Fund
1 South Africa, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Financial Services, Farming, Software $854k–$15M
Nedbank
VC Fund
1 South Africa, Australia, United States Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Series A Software, Information Technology, Mining $2M–$650M
Savannah Fund
VC Fund
1 Kenya, United States, South Africa Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, FinTech, Software $25k–$8M
MANTIS Venture Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, Brazil, Pakistan Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Information Technology, FinTech $2M–$80M
3 Capital Ventures
VC Fund
1 South Africa Seed SaaS, Delivery, Software
Bantam Group
VC Fund
1 United States, Canada, Israel Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence $120k–$20M
Digital Africa Ventures
VC Fund
1 South Africa Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Logistics, Supply Chain Management
Wavecrest Growth Partners
VC Fund
1 United States, United Kingdom, Canada Private Equity, Series A Software, SaaS, Automotive $10M–$104M
Sphere Holdings
VC Fund
1 South Africa Series A Software, Web Apps, Health Care
Mozilla Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, Germany, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Artificial Intelligence, Software, SaaS $580k–$50M
LeapFrog Investments
VC Fund
1 India, Nigeria, United Kingdom Private Equity, Series D Financial Services, Finance, Insurance $4.3M–$175M
AgFunder
VC Fund
1 United States, United Kingdom, India Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Agriculture, AgTech, Biotechnology $100k–$40M
Sanari Capital
VC Fund
1 South Africa, United States, New Zealand Series A, Series B Information Technology, Laser, Sensor $3M–$15M
TotalEnergies Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, France, United Kingdom Series B, Series C Energy, Renewable Energy, Transportation $9.3M–$175M
Flori Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, United Kingdom, India Seed, Pre-Seed Blockchain, FinTech, Cryptocurrency $100k–$11M
Automattic
VC Fund
1 United States, United Kingdom, India Seed, Series A, Corporate Round Software, SaaS, Information Technology $777k–$30M
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Phillip Sebole Masango
Angel · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 3 investments in South Africa Artificial intelligence startups

Phillip Sebole Masango, is a South African C-Siute Executive and Venture Capitalist, a visionary who seamlessly navigates the intersections of Technology, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Business Development, Business Intelligence (BI), Design, Web, Blockchain, Cloud Computing, Cybersecurity, IoT, Digital Strategy, Creativity, and Innovation. With aproven track record of assuming CEO, CTO, and other top executive roles, he brings a rare fusion of technical expertise, business acumen, and strategic foresight to every venture he leads. Phillip doesn’t just build companies—he drives innovation, scales businesses, and redefines industries.A Mission Rooted in Empowerment and Progress: With extensive experience in the Startup Ecosystem, Technology Industry, Creative Industry, Digital Innovation, Management Consulting, and Venture Capital, Phillip thrives in environments where innovation flourishes. His mission is to empower individuals, startups, businesses, and organizations by delivering cutting-edge technology and digital solutions that drive exponential growth. However, his work extends beyond personal ambition—it is a devotion to serving humanity. Phillip is committed to creating a world where technology democratizes and decentralizes industries, enabling individuals and businesses to innovate, lead, and thrive. He envisions a future where technology not only liberates but also elevates and inspires—enabling companies to reach new heights and igniting a wave of global prosperity.A Legacy of Meaningful Success: For Phillip, success is not defined by accolades or financial gain—it is measured by the profound impact he creates. He refuses to chase success in pursuits that lack meaning, believing that true success comes from doing what one loves—better than anyone else—driven by passion, joy, and self-mastery. His approach to business and innovation is holistic, tackling challenges from multiple angles to fuel transformative change. He thrives in collaborative environments where boundaries are pushed, industries are reshaped, and new possibilities emerge.Yet beyond business, Phillip understands that life is a journey of emotions and meaning. He embraces every experience—both triumphs and challenges—as stepping stones toward a greater purpose. With unwavering dedication and a heart set on impact, he continues to push forward, leaving a legacy that will resonate for generations to come.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Private Equity
  • Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Seed $4.8M–$11M; Series A $1.6M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 82% lead, 18% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • The AI Studio — The AI Studio is an advanced artificial intelligence research and innovation hub operating under Amani Creative Studios. It is designed to enhance and integrate AI capabilities into our existing services, spanning Web2, Web3, cybersecurity, branding, and software development. Every solution we offer at Amani Creative Studios and Web3 Studio willnow be AI-powered and AI-enhanced, unlocking new capabilities in automation, prediction, personalization, and efficiency.AI-Powered Web3 Solutions – AI-driven smart contracts, blockchain forensics, and decentralized automation., AI-Driven Branding & Marketing – Intelligent content creation, data-driven strategies, and hyper-personalization, AI-Powered SaaS & Software Development – Automated workflows, predictive analytics, and intelligent decision-making, AI-Optimized UI/UX & Product Design – AI-powered design systems, adaptive interfaces, and automated A/B testing.
  • Amani — Amani Creative Studios is a Dynamic B2B innovation and technology studio where creativity, strategy, and cutting-edge technology converge to empower businesses, startups, and organizations at every stage of growth. We craft transformative digital solutions that redefine industries—blending artistry, strategic insight, and technical excellence todrive meaningful impact. In today’s digital-first world, we provide end-to-end technology and digital solutions that fuel innovation, enhance efficiency, and accelerate growth. Whether you're a startup bringing a vision to life, an established business scaling new heights, a company seeking innovation, or an organization embracing transformation, we are your strategic partner in pushing the boundaries of what's possible. Amani Creative Studios understands the intricate relationship between business products and brand identity. That’s why we offer tailored solutions designed to meet your unique objectives. We’re here to help you navigate the complexities of today’s competitive landscape, providing the expertise and strategies necessary to bring your business products and brands to the forefront. Let’s collaborate to turn your vision into a reality, combining innovative marketing, cutting-edge design, strategic branding, and advanced software development to elevate your business to new heights.
  • Startup Venture Studio — Startup Venture Studio is a leading venture studio dedicated to supporting startups from inception through to post-IPO. We offer a comprehensive suite of services designed to help founders navigate the complexities of building and scaling successful businesses. Our approach combines strategic consulting, operational support, and growth accelerationto drive sustainable success and innovation.
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Oui Capital
VC Fund · Belmont, Massachusetts, United States · 3 investments in South Africa Artificial intelligence startups

Oui Capital is an Africa-focused VC firm backing tech-enabled businesses at the pre-seed & seed stage.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Transportation, Financial Services, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 26
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$4.9M; Pre-Seed $40k–$1.3M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Duplo — We enable businesses across Africa to simplify their payment flows.
  • Cauridor — Cauridor is a Financial Services company.
  • Herconomy (Ex AGS Tribe) — Herconomy is a platform that allows women build their finances, capacity, collaborate and access opportunities.
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Venture Capital Studio
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 2 investments in South Africa Artificial intelligence startups

36 Followers, 31 Following, 1 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Black Silver Capital (@blacksilvercapital)

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, FinTech, Finance
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $928k–$9.6M; Pre-Seed $256k–$3.7M
  • Lead/follow: 88% lead, 12% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Accrual Software — We are a Software Development Company
  • Venture Capital Studio — 36 Followers, 31 Following, 1 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Black Silver Capital (@blacksilvercapital)
  • Cyrrix Cybersecurity — At Cyrrix Cybersecurity, we understand the importance of protecting your business from online threats. Our team provides a full range of cybersecurity services to help safeguard your company's sensitive information and systems. We offer comprehensive risk assessments, penetration testing, and incident response planning to identify and addressvulnerabilities in your network. Our managed security services provide ongoing monitoring and threat detection to keep your business protected around the clock. With our help, you can rest easy knowing that your company's valuable assets are secure.
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Vumela Fund
VC Fund · Hyde Park, Newtownabbey, United Kingdom · 2 investments in South Africa Artificial intelligence startups

Vumela was established in 2009 by FNB Business Banking and Edge Growth. The objective was to create an innovative model for the development of a sustainable and a financially and operationally independent investment business which invests in high growth small, medium and micro size enterprises with good economic and impact returns.Vumela wascapitalised in 2010. Within the first four years, we’d invested R90 million into eight high growth SMEs, and created a total of 400 jobs. They launched their second fund in 2015, after a further investment of R100 million from FirstRand and R127 million from the Jobs Fund. Within the first year of launching this second fund, we’ve committed R43 million to five investments that are expected to create over 1800 new jobs.The first fund of its kind in South Africa, Vumela’s main goals are to invest in and develop entrepreneurial companies in order to help alleviate poverty in South Africa by creating jobs, and to generate a return for its beneficiaries: the Shalamuka Foundation and the FirstRand Group.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Education, Software, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Debt Financing
  • Geography: South Africa, Brazil

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$822k; Debt Financing $854k–$1.4M
  • Lead/follow: 80% lead, 20% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $14M in 2015

Portfolio highlights

  • Rentoza — We champion giving you access, affordability and flexibility to explore tech on your own terms
  • Mia Healthcare
  • ProfitShare Partners — Business funding solutions with ProfitShare Partners. We specialise in Short Term Asset Finance to help empower SMEs.
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Industrial Development Corporation
VC Fund · Sandown, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 2 investments in South Africa Artificial intelligence startups

The Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa Ltd (IDC) is a national development finance institution set up to promote economic growth and industrial development.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Renewable Energy, Mobile, Sustainability
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Series A, Post-IPO Debt
  • Geography: South Africa, Canada, Sweden

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Round size: Series A $6M–$26M; Post-IPO Debt $1.1M–$16M; Debt Financing $30M–$315M
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • AMEA Power — Founded in 2016, AMEA Power has assembled a leading team of global industry experts to deliver clean energy projects across Africa, the Middle East and other emerging markets.
  • Minbos Resources — Minbos has to build a nutrient supply and distribution business that stimulates agricultural production and promotes food security. They provide nutrient supply and distribution business that stimulates agricultural production and promotes food security.
  • Pele Energy Group — Pele Energy Group owns and runs renewable energy infrastructure in addition to providing economic and community development consulting services.
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Alumni Ventures
VC Fund · Manchester, New Hampshire, United States · 2 investments in South Africa Artificial intelligence startups

Access curated startup investment opportunities and diversified venture capital exposure designed for accredited investors.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1378
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$10M; Series A $5M–$37M; Series B $12M–$86M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Humio — Humio operates as a time-series logging and aggregation platform designed for unrestricted and comprehensive event analysis. It is deployable on any infrastructure including both in the cloud and on-premises. Humio enables data aggregation, exploration, reporting, and analysis from a range of sources ingesting massive volumes of log data instantly.Its data storage and in-memory search/query engine technologies provide customers cost-competitive log management and analysis solution, all while requiring significantly less hardware and engineering resources.The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in London, England.
  • OpusClip — Opus Clip turns long videos into high-quality viral clips for you to share on TikTok, YouTube Shorts, and Reels to increase social media reach.
  • Arda Therapeutics — Arda Therapeutics is a biotechnology company taking aim at chronic diseases and aging by eliminating the pathogenic cells that drive these conditions. Their approach starts by using single-cell data to identify pathogenic cells and specific markers to target them. They then design therapies to eliminate these - and only these - cells.Arda wasfounded in 2021 in the San Francisco Bay Area, CA.
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Knife Capital
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 2 investments in South Africa Artificial intelligence startups

Knife Capital is an independent growth equity investment firm focusing on innovation-driven ventures with proven traction. By leveraging knowledge, networks & funding, Knife accelerates the international expansion of entrepreneurial businesses that achieved a product/market fit in a beachhead market. Knife have offices in Cape Town andLondon.Knife invests via a consortium of funding partnerships, including SARS section 12J Venture Capital Company KNF Ventures and select family offices. Knife facilitated lucrative exits of local technology companies to the likes of General Electric, Visa, Garmin and Uber.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: South Africa, United States, Sweden

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 26
  • Round size: Series A $2M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 65% lead, 35% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $10M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Octiv — Turbocharge your fitness business, grow your community and build your brand with Octiv's leading Gym Management Software.
  • Outsized — Independent talent for enterprise clients and consulting firms in Asia-Pacific, Africa, and the Middle East.
  • Simera Sense — Simera Sense develops camera control electronics for optical payload and Cubesat imager solutions.
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Hustle Fund
VC Fund · San Carlos, California, United States · 2 investments in South Africa Artificial intelligence startups

Hustle Fund is a seed fund that invests in early-stage startups operating in software, business-to-business, fintech, and digital health sectors.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 313
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$6M; Pre-Seed $120k–$2.5M; Series A $3.1M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • BitBrand — Introducing Digital Watch Faces From Top Luxury Brands
  • Swarm — Swarm is the professional network for expert fractional tech folk in AI, Design, and Software Engineering.
  • ContentRadar — Create & repurpose content with AI for LinkedIn & X in one click. Sign up for free!
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4Di Capital
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 2 investments in South Africa Artificial intelligence startups

4Di Capital is an independent seed- and early-stage technology venture capital firm based in Cape Town, South Africa.Nurture capital is the term that best describes 4Di Capitalâ€:tm:s purpose and philosophy.We understand that in the early days of any business, support, mentoring and access to networks is just as important as seed capital.Using tried and tested international venture capital best practices, adapted for local use, we believe in entrepreneur-friendly finance without frills, and in working as a team with our investments to achieve their true potential.4Di Capital Early-Stage Technology Fund 1 targets startup investment opportunities with high growth potential at the seed- and early-stages in the mobile, enterprise software and web sectors.We look for founder teams with hungry passion, commitment, domain expertise and deep insights into the large market problems they wish to solve with their technology solutions.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Financial Services, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: South Africa, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 40
  • Round size: Seed $441k–$6M; Pre-Seed $3M–$4M; Series A $2M–$47M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Lumkani — AFFORDABLE ALARM SYSTEMS & INSURANCE FOR YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS Whether you are in a township, informal settlement, or suburb, we have the right protection for you. AFFORDABLE ALARM SYSTEMS & INSURANCE FOR YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS Whether you are in a township, informal settlement, or suburb ...
  • Investsure — InvestSure is a technology company that uses its software to enable partner investment platforms to sell its unique Investment Indemnity (insurance) product to their clients. InvestSure provides a full set of APIs that trading platform developers can use to integrate the Investure Investment Indemnity product seamlessly and easily into theirwebsites and mobile applications. Once InvestSure technology is added to a trading platform, it enables users to buy insurance on their shares with a single click. The full process from buying to insurance to settling claims is fully automated.The Investment Indemnity product itself is a unique innovation; it is designed to protect to protect shareholders against any losses in share value caused by actual or perceived fraud committed by management. This enables investors to secure their investments. The cost of the product is low enough to not significantly reduce returns of investors where no insurance event occurs, but to provide significant downside protection where an insured event does occur.
  • CompariSure — Custom, built-for-purpose service and sales chatbot solutions for financial services providers.
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54 Collective
VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 2 investments in South Africa Artificial intelligence startups

Building and scaling African tech startups with catalytic capital, value-add support and our global network.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 107
  • Round size: Seed $40k–$4M; Pre-Seed $40k–$1.3M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • mTek — mTek is a digital online insurance platform that provides an entirely paperless ecosystem for the insurance industry.
  • REasy — Top up locally, pay suppliers globally, and manage international shipments with REasy. Fast, secure, and designed for African businesses expanding worldwide.
  • Konnect — Konnect provides a cross borders payment solution intended to simplify complex financial flows allowing companies of any scale and size to send and receive payments in a practical, secure, and low-cost way.
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Bose Ventures
VC Fund · Framingham, Massachusetts, United States · 2 investments in South Africa Artificial intelligence startups

Bose Ventures is looking for startups that are pushing the envelope of AR to help build some of these new experiences. They are investing in startups that are developing apps, services, and technology that leverage and extend the Bose AR platform. If you are one of these innovative startups

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Music, Mobile
  • Stage:Series B, Series A
  • Geography: United States, India, Denmark

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 22
  • Round size: Series A $1.5M–$9.9M; Series B $2M–$80M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $50M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Vesper — Vesper is an electrical and electronic manufacturing company that specializes in microphones, piezoelectric, and audio. The company is driven by a mission is to deliver voice-powered products to every market, around the world. Vesper was founded in 2009 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.
  • Medrhythms — Pioneering Next-Generation Digital Therapeutics to Improve Walking  
  • Noise — Buy latest Noise smart watches, wireless earbuds, BT neckband earphones, wireless headphones, speakers and smart watch accessories online at best prices in India.
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LoftyInc Capital
VC Fund · Carmel, California, United States · 2 investments in South Africa Artificial intelligence startups

LoftyInc Capital Management empowers Afropreneurs to build a prosperous and equitable future in Africa. We deliver value to both founders and investors.........

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 147
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2.4M; Series A $250k–$37M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $14M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Aku — Aku is a financial technology to drive financial inclusion on one mobile device. They provide payments and bring financial services to the doorstep. They support the new business owner in need of the right tools. They offer low-cost, accessible financial services that serve their customers. They radically democratized access to banking and digitalpayment channels.
  • AlumUnite — AlumUnite is a purpose-built platform to connect all educated Africans to develop Africa's human capital through alumni groups. We crowd-resource education.
  • Reliance Health — Reliance Health Global. Improve the lives of your staff with innovative company healthcare benefits fit for any business. You can rely on us.
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HAVAÍC
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 2 investments in South Africa Artificial intelligence startups

HAVAÍC is an investment and advisory firm that specialises in early-stage, high-growth African businesses with proven concepts and global prospects, offering investment opportunities to sophisticated investors and international venture capital companies with an interest in Africa. As a complementary offering, HAVAÍC provides corporate advisory andcapital raising services to emerging, internationally scalable businesses.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Africa, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 43
  • Round size: Seed $57k–$4M; Series A $1.9M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 60% lead, 40% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • MPost — MPost means Mobile Post office.It enables any mobile phone user to have his or her phone act like a mobile post office. It allows you to make your mobile number be a formal postal address. With it, you get access to Postal Services through your mobile phone.
  • RecoMed — Find the best doctors and dentists. Search by location or by speciality, and find the right doctor for you.
  • AURA — A South African cloud-based security and safety startup .
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Future Africa
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in South Africa Artificial intelligence startups

Future Africa is a collective of mission-driven founders and funders building unicorns to solve Africa’s biggest challenges. They are build a future where purpose and prosperity are within everyone’s reach.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 87
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$4M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3.7M; Series A $7M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Edves — Edves automates the brick and mortal School operations from Student enrollment, Fee Collection, Lesson Note up to Transcript Generation.
  • Finclusion Group — Enhancing financial inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa through data driven lending.
  • Nexford University — Transform your career with affordable, flexible degrees and job skills designed for today's workforce. Skip debt and learn at your own pace with Nexford.
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Soma Capital
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in South Africa Artificial intelligence startups

Welcome to Soma Capital

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, India, Mexico

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 491
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$8M; Pre-Seed $350k–$4M; Series A $7.5M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Starcloud — Starcloud is building a network of megawatt-scale data centers in space, scaleable to gigawatt capacity. Falling launch costs allow Starcloud to take advantage of the abundant energy, passive cooling, and high-speed connectivity in space.
  • TicketRev — TicketRev helps fans find cheaper tickets to their favorite games and concerts. Fans name their price for their preferred seating location, enabling resellers and teams to sell their inventory faster.
  • Inventive AI — Inventive is an AI-powered RFP & Questionnaire Response Management platform that drives 70%+ efficiency in sales response workflows.
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Andrew Bredenkamp
Angel · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland · 1 investments in South Africa Artificial intelligence startups

Andrew Bredenkamp is founder and CEO of Acrolinx. Andrew has been solving content problems for the world’s biggest brands for over 25 years. Before starting Acrolinx, Andrew was Head of the Technology Transfer Centre at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) Language Technology Lab. Andrew holds degrees in languages,linguistics and a PhD in Computational Linguistics. He is on the advisory board of a number of organizations, including Translators without Borders.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Speech Recognition, Translation Service
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Lelapa AI — Lelapa AI is an AI-driven language technology startup specializing in low-resource languages, creating innovative solutions to bridge linguistic gaps and enhance digital accessibility.
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Paper Plane Ventures
VC Fund · 1 investments in South Africa Artificial intelligence startups

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Aerobotics — Powerful insights for precision growing and crop insurance
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Investec
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in South Africa Artificial intelligence startups

Welcome to Investec. Find out more about us, our businesses, sponsorships and career opportunities.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Financial Services, Energy
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Australia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 82
  • Round size: Series A $1.1M–$17M; Debt Financing $72M–$260M
  • Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Splend — Change the way you own your rideshare vehicle for good with Splend. All-Inclusive vehicle packages for your Uber journey, in one easy weekly payment.
  • InstaVolt — InstaVolt is leading the way in EV charging infrastructure, helping to make the UK an easier place to own and operate an electric vehicle.They own, install and maintain rapid electric vehicle charging units all over the country, giving landowners the opportunity to earn a rental income by housing them, and giving EV drivers access to the fastestcharging available.They are driven by their passion for protecting the environment. At their core is a mission to improve air quality and reduce carbon emissions.Air quality has reached critical levels in cities across the UK and cars, buses and lorries have been proven as contributing significantly to the problem. Increasing the use of electric vehicles, which emit zero emissions, is an important part of the solution.According to Government statistics, one of the biggest barriers that deters people from buying EVs is range anxiety – the fear of running out of charge. InstaVolt will ensure a rapid charging point is easily accessible to everyone in the country.They believe that charging an electric vehicle should be quick and easy. It’s why, unlike many other companies, they operate an ‘open charger’ model, so anyone can use their charging points on a pay-as-you-go basis. No monthly subscription and no membership cards are required.
  • Openpay — Openpay is a cutting-edge in-store, in-home and online payments solution that features a buy now and pay later service, interest-free. Openpay allows customers to make in-store and online purchases, and effectively split the payment for these purchases into multiple repayments over time. The company generates revenue from fees charged to merchantsand customers in exchange for the use of its payments platform.Openpay is available across Australia and New Zealand in many industries including retail, medical, automotive, home improvement, and more.
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Crossfin Technology
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in South Africa Artificial intelligence startups

Crossfin invests in FINTECH solutions to enable growth for economies in Africa and beyond. Crossfin invests in high growth and established cash generative businesses, offering investors a blended exposure to technology investments in Fintech.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Payments, Financial Services, Software
  • Stage:Series A, Private Equity
  • Geography: South Africa, United States, Russian Federation

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Adumo — We are your expert partner in payments, enabling you to seamlessly and securely accept payments in-store and online with our true omni-channel experience. Never miss a sale with South Africa's largest independent payments processor.
  • VantagePay — VantagePay provides white-label payment and technology solutions to the Banking, Telco, Financial Services, and Consumer Product Industries.
  • Momint — Momint is the Web3 investment platform of the future. The safest and easiest to use NFT marketplace in the world. Discover the real-world potential of NFTs.
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Capaci.Tech
VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in South Africa Artificial intelligence startups

CapaciTech operates as a South African holding company that consists of an advisory business and special purposes vehicles that house shareholdings in various entrepreneurial ventures.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SMS, Apps, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: South Africa, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Seed $97k–$4M
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Mobiz — Supercharge your SMS marketing with dynamic, high-converting landing pages sent directly into the hands of your customers.
  • HomeFarm — Homefarm provides smart, indoor gardens to homes and businesses. It is a group of modern farmers, designers, engineers, and researchers. It breaks new ground and innovates in the agricultural technology space.
  • Right Now Response — The future of repairs starts soon. Counting down to smarter tracking in 2025! There are perks to working 24/7, 365 days a year... Like launching the future of repairs ahead of schedule!
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Microsoft for Startups
VC Fund · Redmond, Washington, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Artificial intelligence startups

Microsoft for Startups is a global program designed to help startups scale with free access to Azure cloud and a streamlined path into selling alongside Microsoft and our vast partner ecosystem.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, India, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 71
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • VitVio — VitVio is a platform built around AI and computer vision with the goal of improving efficiency and quality of care in operating rooms.
  • UniPay — UniPay is an eCommerce platform for infrastructure and industry-lacking regions that offers 5 products that enable trust, promote transparency, and enforce accountability.
  • Emission Sentri — Drive emission management and reduction with insights
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Atlantica Ventures
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 1 investments in South Africa Artificial intelligence startups

Are you looking for start-up funding for your business? Get in touch with Atlantica Ventures to get the kick-start your start-up needs.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Nigeria, South Africa, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$3.7M; Pre-Seed $450k–$2.1M
  • Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $50M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Figorr — Figorr is your go-to, for accessing reliable information on temperature, humidity, and location. Experience the next generation of data-driven insights with Figorr today.
  • OnePipe — OnePipe aggregates APIs from banks and fintechs into a standardized gateway that is easy to integrate and makes partnerships seamless.
  • Sendmarc — Manage your organization's DMARC, SPF, and DKIM with world-class implementation services and support. All in one easy-to-use platform.
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BaseCamp Ventures
VC Fund · Moorestown, New Jersey, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Artificial intelligence startups

BaseCamp Ventures is a venture capital firm specializing in investments in incubation and early to middle stage companies. The firm primarily invests in information technology, software development with a focus on enterprise applications, e-commerce software, applied cloud technology, cloud and mobile infrastructure, new technology and softwareproducts. It typically invests in companies located in the East Coast and companies with headquarters located in Mid Atlantic region of the United States. The firm seeks to invest $0.25 million. It typically invests in companies having projected revenue of at least $25 million in five years. It prefers to take the lead on investments between $2 million and $5 million in the portfolio companies. BaseCamp Ventures was founded in 2000 and is based in Moorestown, New Jersey.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, South Africa, Trinidad and Tobago

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Seed $2.7M–$8M; Pre-Seed $1.1M–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • TestBox — Compare and test customer support platforms in live AI-generated sandboxes. No more slides, sales pitches, or demos. Always free to use.
  • Zenapse — Zenapse is a internet publishing industry.
  • Akiba Digital — Akiba Digital is a data and technology company that provides financial intelligence solutions. Our vision is to to unlock financial opportunities for consumers, businesses and society using alternative data.
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Joe Caruso
Angel · Boston, Massachusetts, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Artificial intelligence startups

For the last 20 years Joe has served as mentor, coach, and personal advisor to CEO’s and entrepreneurs. In recent years, he has served as investor, advisor and active director with dozens of companies, public and private.Joe is currently a member of Launchpad Venture Group and was previously a member of Walnut Ventures, Common Angels, eCoastAngels and a principal of Brookwood Partners, all investment groups for early stage companies. He also maintains an active consulting practice dealing with structuring and negotiation of acquisitions, strategic partnerships and financings, and issues related to dispute resolution.He has served on dozens of boards over the years and is recipient of the Leadership in Private Corporate Governance award from the National Association of Corporate Directors New England Chapter. He is a graduate of Northeastern University (BSEE with honors) and the Harvard Business School (MBA) He has served as advisor to Northeastern’s School of Technological Entrepreneurship, and serves as a mentor for Boston University's entrepreneurship program, the Boston TechStars program, and Mass Challenge.Previously, Joe served as interim CEO for companies in need of strategic change - running businesses ranging from 5 to 1,000 employees. Early in his career, he worked at Teradyne and Autex, Inc., and was CEO at Cyborg Corporation, a venture-funded company that was a pioneer in the use of PC’s in laboratory and factory automation. He also has served as an arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association.Former board memberships include: ACT Medical, Acumenta, Adhesive Technologies, American Fantasy Sports, Audiofile, Boston Restaurant Associates, Boston University's Photonics Center (advisory director), Coffee Connection, Colonial Mills, Common Angels, Corion, Cyborg Corporation, General Analysis, Haymarket Bank, Iconics, i2Chem, Laser Science, Metrisa, MicroE, Nimbit, Qiave Technologies, QD Vision, Quant Funds (trustee); Tytronics, Wwwhoosh, Zentox, the Turnaround Management Association (founding director, New England Chapter), the National Association of Corporate Directors (New England Chapter), the Association for Corporate Growth (New England Chapter) and WEST (Women Entrepreneurs in Science and Technology). Joe has also served as an arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, France, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 26
  • Round size: Seed $420k–$2.2M; Pre-Seed $650k–$1.4M; Series A $1.6M–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Konnecto — Market Intelligence | Konnecto | Prescriptive Analytics Konnecto is a GTM Intelligence Platform that provides brands with an ongoing blueprint on how to increase online sales and improve marketing ROI
  • Mylestone — The pictures of your greatest memories are likely stored somewhere just out of reach. Maybe in an old photo album lost in the basement - or maybe indiscernible from the 3,000 other pictures on your phone, buried in streams on Facebook, or auto saved to a massive photo storage account.But what if you could access stories generated from thosepictures simply by talking to Alexa?With Mylestone, all you have to do is say “Alexa, tell me a story about Mom.” and voila, memories of loved ones at your beck and call.
  • HomeBinder — HomeBinder is a residential home management platform that reduces complexity in partnership with the businesses who serve them, improving client relationships and increasing referrals, bringing effortless homeownership to all.
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Kalon Venture Partners
VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in South Africa Artificial intelligence startups

A growing number of South Africans are investing in venture capital companies that operate under Section 12J of the Income Tax Act. Contact us now.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Internet, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Africa, Luxembourg, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 17
  • Round size: Seed $570k–$3M; Series A $2M–$7M
  • Lead/follow: 71% lead, 29% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Talk360 — Talk360 is an easy-to-use calling app that helps people make affordable international calls to any mobile and landline number. They believe that reliable communication and digital services must be affordable and accessible to everyone, regardless of someone's background. Especially people in emerging countries in Africa, who often need theseservices the most, do not always have the necessary banking possibilities. To bridge this distance, Talk360 will launch the world's first single checkout platform for Africa. This platform will combine all locally available payment methods and currencies across Africa, together with over 1.25 million cash points of sales, and will eventually be available to other companies as well. This means that 500 million Africans will be able to purchase digital services they never had access to before.
  • Sendmarc — Manage your organization's DMARC, SPF, and DKIM with world-class implementation services and support. All in one easy-to-use platform.
  • visionAI — Enhance factory efficiency with visionAI by using existing cameras to uncover inefficiencies and eliminate your production blindspots. Book a demo now!
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Appsolute Ventures
VC Fund · 1 investments in South Africa Artificial intelligence startups

A South African venture firm focussed on early stage African startups. By the founders of Bottles, the on-demand liquor delivery app.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Big Data, Analytics, Data Integration
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • MetaPOS — B2B data platform and mobile POS for informal and township retail. We connect store owners, payment companies, and consumer brands through shared value.
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Strat Tech
VC Fund · 1 investments in South Africa Artificial intelligence startups

Strat Tech operates as an investment firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Analytics, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Locstat — Locstat is a unique and first of its kind Graph Analytics Platform, with customer driven industry and point solutions, incorporating Graph-based AI, Analytics and Event Processing, that enables organisations to rapidly scale next generation data intelligence solutions.
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Hannover Re
VC Fund · Hanover, Niedersachsen, Germany · 1 investments in South Africa Artificial intelligence startups

We stand as one of the leading global reinsurers, offering comprehensive coverage in both property and casualty reinsurance across every continent worldwide

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Insurance, FinTech, InsurTech
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Private Equity
  • Geography: United States, Germany, Brazil

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Series A $9M–$47M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 88i Seguradora Digital S.A. — 88i is a digital platform for blockchain-based protection, insurance, and assistive services, connecting brokers and customers in a much simpler, more transparent and faster way.Founded by an ex-KPMG partner with more than 20 years of experience in the insurance market and supported by the application of the newest technology of blockchain andcryptocurrency, the company presents a new way to distribute and sell insurance. The interface is intended to be simplified by the use of a digital platform (app) that gives full transparency to the consumer to guarantee a faster path to contract and acquire insurance. The digital platform would work also as an insurance service market place, enabling different service providers linked to the insured item to offer their service. For example, home repair companies would be able to offer their services linked to a house insurance.
  • BriteCo — Their cloud-based BriteCo Appraisal Management System is the gateway to making the jeweler’s life easier and more productive—-and customers happier and more secure with immediate insurance coverage of their fine jewelry and watches.
  • Viridium Group — Viridium Group is the leading specialist in the efficient management of life insurance portfolios in Germany. The foundation of its activities is a customer-focused service organisation combined with efficient portfolio management. As of mid-2017, the companies of Viridium Group administered a combined total of about one million insurance policiesand about €15 billion in assets. The Group's shareholders are Cinven, a leading international private equity firm, and Hannover Re, the world's third-largest reinsurance company.
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Arise Pty Ltd
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in South Africa Artificial intelligence startups

Arise is a leading African boutique investment company backed by reputable cornerstone investors, namely Norfund, NorFinance, FMO and Rabo...

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Facial Recognition, Financial Services, Identity Management
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: Ghana, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • CAL Bank — Welcome to better bankingOpen an account todayGet a loan to support your goalsApply for loanBanking that moves with youDownload the CalBank App Welcome to better bankingOpen an accountGet a loan to support your goalsApply for loanBanking that moves with youDownload the CalBank App Banking Made Simple Bank easily 24/7 online or in person at your
  • iiDENTIFii — iiDENTIFii: Secure biometric authentication for businesses. Verify customer identity in seconds with facial recognition and liveness detection.
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Bill Spruill
Angel · 1 investments in South Africa Artificial intelligence startups

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Facial Recognition, Identity Management, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • iiDENTIFii — iiDENTIFii: Secure biometric authentication for businesses. Verify customer identity in seconds with facial recognition and liveness detection.
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Basecamp Fund
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Artificial intelligence startups

Access curated startup investment opportunities and diversified venture capital exposure designed for accredited investors.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 50
  • Round size: Seed $2.2M–$6M; Pre-Seed $500k–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Waivr — Waivr is a real-time payments API to process recurring payments for subscription services via ACH and RTP, offering low costs, optimized payment cycles and instant disbursement.
  • DataBrain — DataBrain creates a single source of truth for metrics for data teams so they can easily collaborate, add governance and operationalize metrics.
  • Sukha — The Focus App for Healthy Productivity. Sukha offers focus music, timers, AI assistants and more while you work.
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Karim Beguir
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in South Africa Artificial intelligence startups

Co-Founder & CEO of InstaDeep and Google Developer Expert in Machine Learning, Karim helps companies get a grip on the latest AI advances and deploy them in practice. A graduate of France’s Ecole Polytechnique and former Program Fellow at NYU’s Courant Institute, Karim has a passion for teaching and using applied mathematics. This encouragedhim to launch InstaDeep, nominated at MWC17 in the top 20 global startup list by PCMAG. He is on a mission to democratize AI and make it accessible to a wider audience.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Tunisia, France, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Seed $630k–$31M; Pre-Seed $600k–$600k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Dabchy — Created in 2016 by Ameni Mansouri, Ghazi Ketata, and Osama Mahjoub, Dabchy is a localized fashion marketplace where women can buy and sell their new or used fashion items online. Dabchy is headquartered in Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia.
  • Uptale — Uptale provides an enterprise solution that enhances employee learning through immersive experiences in 360° and virtual reality. The platform allows organizations to create, share, and analyze training modules without requiring technical expertise.
  • Thunder Code — Transform your QA process with Thunder Code's AI-powered test automation platform. Create, manage, and run automated tests without coding - perfect for QA teams seeking efficiency, reliability, and seamless integration.
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Futuregrowth Asset Management
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in South Africa Artificial intelligence startups

Futuregrowth manages the full range of fixed interest and developmental impact funds on behalf of our clients. We are committed to managing and investing our clients' funds in a responsible manner.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Transportation, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series B
  • Geography: South Africa, France, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 18
  • Round size: Seed $1.9M–$5.3M; Series B $3.8M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 72% lead, 28% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Flow — Flow enables automated social media advertising for the real estate industry, providing high volumes of quality property leads and brand building.
  • hearX Group — hearX is an award-winning start-up with the mission of providing affordable access to hearing healthcare using smart digital solutions. With a strong research and engineering background, we aim to democratize and decentralize hearing care, obliterating the traditional audiology model and market, which was never built to scale, instead providinghearing care to millions by leveraging our smart tech, big data and artificial intelligence expertise.The hearX Group four categories of solutions: Lead Generation and Remote Care solutions, Clinical solutions, Preventative Solutions as well as Direct to Consumer intervention solutions.We have had more than 1 000 000 tests and screenings done using our products across 39 countries. Our innovative solutions are as accurate, but faster, cheaper and easier to use than traditional methods. We pride ourselves in offering a fully managed service, providing an entirely new way to overcome traditional barriers to the detection and diagnosis of disabling hearing loss.
  • Inseco — Sustainable insect protein producers, converting organic by-products into nutritious protein. This high in protein product is used in animal feed, pet food, crop production, cosmetics and pharmaceuticals.
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Jeff Dean
Angel · Palo Alto, California, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Artificial intelligence startups

Jeff Dean is the Chief Scientist of Google DeepMind and Google Research. He joined Google in 1999 and has played a pivotal role in shaping the company’s technical foundations. He currently focuses on advancing AI and deep learning research across Google’s research teams.He co-founded and led the Google Brain team, helping drive innovations indeep learning for speech recognition, computer vision, natural language understanding, and a wide range of predictive applications. Over the years, he has co-designed and implemented several generations of Google's core systems, including its web search infrastructure, crawling and indexing pipelines, and advertising technologies such as AdSense for Content.He is also a key contributor to Google's distributed computing infrastructure, having co-designed and implemented systems like MapReduce, BigTable, Spanner, Protocol Buffers, LevelDB, and TensorFlow—one of the most widely used open-source machine learning platforms.Jeff Dean earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Washington in 1996. He is a Fellow of the ACM, a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a recipient of the ACM-Infosys Foundation Award in the Computing Sciences and the Mark Weiser Award.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 87
  • Round size: Seed $2.3M–$35M; Pre-Seed $450k–$3M; Series A $6.1M–$53M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Altara — Altara is a San Francisco–based startup building a scientific-intelligence AI platform that analyzes complex physical-science and engineering data (batteries, chips, materials, etc.) to speed up R&D and failure analysis.
  • Periodic Labs — Periodic Labs develops artificial intelligence systems that simulate and predict the properties of materials using machine learning. The company applies computational models to support the discovery and design of materials used in sectors such as energy, electronics, and infrastructure. It builds tools that aim to reduce the time and costassociated with traditional research and development processes. Periodic Labs uses AI to analyze large-scale scientific data and collaborates with academic and industry partners to support material science research.
  • depthfirst — An AI-native security platform that understands your code, business logic, and infrastructure to find more vulnerabilities, slash false positives, and give developers actionable fixes in their workflow.
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Naspers Foundry
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in South Africa Artificial intelligence startups

Naspers Foundry is a global internet group and invests in technology-based companies. The company believes in the power of local backed by global scale and they look for opportunities to address big societal needs in markets where they see the greatest growth potential.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Farming, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: South Africa, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Round size: Seed $854k–$6M; Series A $3M–$15M; Series B $940k–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 93% lead, 7% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Planet42 — Having your own car has never been easier. Planet42 is a vehicle rental company offering rent-to-buy car service for private clients.
  • LifeCheq — LifeCheq partners with insurers and advisory firms to deliver AI-enabled distribution, boost adviser productivity, and transform how financial advice is delivered.
  • SweepSouth — Book a home cleaning online from your mobile, tablet or computer. SweepSouth connects you with a cleaner in minutes. Cleaners are experienced, reliable, efficient and insured.
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Nedbank
VC Fund · Sandown, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in South Africa Artificial intelligence startups

Nedbank is a one of the largest banks in South Africa.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Mining
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Series A
  • Geography: South Africa, Australia, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 21
  • Round size: Series A $2M–$7.5M; Post-IPO Debt $17M–$650M; Debt Financing $2.2M–$195M
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Pele Energy Group — Pele Energy Group owns and runs renewable energy infrastructure in addition to providing economic and community development consulting services.
  • WhereIsMyTransport — WhereIsMyTransport is a leading mobility technology company and central source of complete public transport data for emerging-market megacities. Working on the ground in Africa, Latin America, Southeast Europe and South and Southeast Asia, we digitalise network information from all modes of public transport and maintain data accuracy as thesedynamic systems change. Our products and data services improve the public transport experience, and inform industry-leading clients.
  • Sandfire Resources NL — Sandfire has grown to be a global copper producer of significance and continues to make strong progress toward its goal of being a sustainable mining company.
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Savannah Fund
VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya · 1 investments in South Africa Artificial intelligence startups

Savannah Fund is a seed capital fund specializing in US$25,000-US$500,000 investments in early stage high growth technology (web and mobile) startups in sub-Saharan Africa. Initially focused on East Africa, the fund aims to bridge the early stage/angel and venture capital investment gap that currently exists in Africa. The Fund expects toachieve this objective by combining capital with mentor networks both in the region and from Silicon Valley via an accelerator program and a follow-on independent seed fund.The fund is managed by an experienced and technology savvy team that have founded companies or are actively involved in angel investing or having run successful accelerator programs in past but also understand the unique Subsaharan African environment. They are backed and supported by both local, regional and international networks of angels,venture capitalists whose expertise we can draw on to help startups succeed and scale to fully fledged regional or global companies.They believe in the potential for Africa to become a global technology innovator by creating sustainable for profit companies that create jobs and make an impact.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, United States, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 38
  • Round size: Seed $25k–$3M; Pre-Seed $200k–$2.1M; Series A $750k–$8M
  • Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $25M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Oze — OZÉ brings African small businesses into the digital era. It is an app that makes it easy for businesses to track sales, expenses, and customer information. The data is analyzed to provide tailored recommendations, reports, and business education. If the entrepreneur needs a little extra support, an OZÉ Coach is just a click away. As they are usingOZÉ to manage their business and learn how to run it better, we are learning about them. Using this data and machine learning, we can predict their credit risk and provide them with affordable capital from our banking partners. With over 20,000 registered users, OZÉ is the largest online community of SMEs in Ghana. The most exciting thing is that OZÉ works; 97% of businesses that have used OZE for at least 9 months are growing or profitable or both!
  • Root — Launch digital and embedded insurance solutions with omni-channel distribution.
  • Afropolitan — Afropolitan is building a Network State to unleash the maximum potential of Africans around the world. Are you interested? Join us with your email.
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MANTIS Venture Capital
VC Fund · Los Angeles, California, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Artificial intelligence startups

MANTIS is an early stage technology investment firm supporting the most innovative companies across consumer tech, media & entertainment, distributed ledger and other emerging technologies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, FinTech
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Brazil, Pakistan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 117
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$12M; Series A $13M–$50M; Series B $17M–$80M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Rogo — Rogo is the secure generative AI (GenAI) platform built for elite financial institutions. Save time, unlock insights and automate workflows in days.
  • LoanSnap — LoanSnap is a mortgage company that provides people with a clear view of their finances and shows them where they may be losing money every month. It currently serves the residents of California, Florida, Illinois, Colorado, and Tennessee. Allan Carroll and Karl Jacob founded Loansnap in 2017. It is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
  • Factory — Factory is bringing autonomy to software engineering.
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3 Capital Ventures
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in South Africa Artificial intelligence startups

3 Capital Ventures is an investment firm, and originally founded within Allan Gray.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Delivery, Software
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Yazi — Yazi is an AI-powered market research platform that runs entirely through WhatsApp, enabling organisations to conduct surveys, AI-moderated interviews, diary studies, and panel research at scale through the messaging channel that 3.2 billion people already use every day. Built for emerging markets where email surveys and app-based research fail toreach representative audiences, Yazi delivers 40%+ response rates and results in hours rather than weeks. The platform serves enterprise clients and research agencies across 15+ countries, with a proprietary panel of 1.8 million pre-qualified participants across Africa.
  • Pargo — Pargo is a convenient logistics solution that lets you collect and return parcels at Pargo parcel points throughout the country when it suits you best.
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Bantam Group
VC Fund · Westwood, Massachusetts, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Artificial intelligence startups

They are passionate about seeing their portfolio companies become successful.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 107
  • Round size: Seed $120k–$3.3M; Pre-Seed $500k–$5.7M; Series A $1.6M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • AI Lean — Simplify your lien compliance with the only fully automated solution.
  • Aikium Inc. — Protein therapeutics
  • Groma — We use technology to make properties work better and enable everyone to own a stake in their community. Join Groma in transforming real estate. Rent modern homes, invest in multifamily buildings, or become part of our resident investor community.
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Digital Africa Ventures
VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in South Africa Artificial intelligence startups

African Digital Ventures centered on assisting African digital technology start-ups in their early stages.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Logistics, Supply Chain Management
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Tripplo — Tripplo is a platform to automate and optimise operations for transporters, cargo owners and cargo brokers.
  • TUNL — Ship globally with ease. TUNL offers affordable, transparent international shipping built for South African brands. Up to 91% cheaper. No surprises.
  • Konnect — Konnect provides a cross borders payment solution intended to simplify complex financial flows allowing companies of any scale and size to send and receive payments in a practical, secure, and low-cost way.
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Wavecrest Growth Partners
VC Fund · Boston, Massachusetts, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Artificial intelligence startups

Wavecrest Growth Partners is a growth equity firm focused on investments in high-growth, profitable B2B technology companies. The firm targets investments in high-growth companies with proven products and business models and brings to bear a differentiated combination of investing and operating experience and networks to help accelerate growth andprofitability. It refers to invest in companies that have over 20% in annual growth and $5 to $30M in bookings or revenue.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Automotive
  • Stage:Private Equity, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 27
  • Round size: Series A $10M–$12M; Private Equity $73M–$104M
  • Lead/follow: 74% lead, 26% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $290M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • EDITED — Market, competitor, and enterprise retail analysis and automation, empowering buyers, planners, merchandisers, and marketers to grow profits.
  • Tier1 Financial Solutions — Tier1 Financial Solutions provides investment banking and capital markets CRM solutions, compliance and fraud prevention software services and more.
  • Collage group — Provider of marketing intelligence services designed to better serve and engage the influential consumers through insights, market intelligence and strategy. The company's services provide research, analytics, consumer insights, consulting and marketing strategies for the organizations, enabling businesses to work efficiently.
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Sphere Holdings
VC Fund · Sandston, Virginia, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Artificial intelligence startups

Founded in 2003, Sphere is a high performing investment holding company driven to create value for funders, shareholders and business partners. With a solid track record shaped over a decade, They actively seek out investment partnerships with high quality privately owned businesses across a range of strategic sectors.Their success is drivenby an experienced team, Their own capital, a disciplined investment process, and broad business networks. Passionate about partnerships, They commit for the long term and actively work with Their portfolio companies to build great businesses.Majority black controlled and managed and boasting 71% black ownership, including 31% women ownership, Sphere has the necessary credentials to advance the broad based Black Economic Empowerment goals of South African businesses. As the focus turns to the rest of the continent, They actively support Their investments in their pan-African ambitions.Their strong belief in the principles of broad based empowerment means that approximately 15% of the shares in Sphere are held by charitable organisations. Over the years, more than five million worthy beneficiaries in nine provinces across South Africa have benefited from Their track record of delivery.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Web Apps, Health Care
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • hearX Group — hearX is an award-winning start-up with the mission of providing affordable access to hearing healthcare using smart digital solutions. With a strong research and engineering background, we aim to democratize and decentralize hearing care, obliterating the traditional audiology model and market, which was never built to scale, instead providinghearing care to millions by leveraging our smart tech, big data and artificial intelligence expertise.The hearX Group four categories of solutions: Lead Generation and Remote Care solutions, Clinical solutions, Preventative Solutions as well as Direct to Consumer intervention solutions.We have had more than 1 000 000 tests and screenings done using our products across 39 countries. Our innovative solutions are as accurate, but faster, cheaper and easier to use than traditional methods. We pride ourselves in offering a fully managed service, providing an entirely new way to overcome traditional barriers to the detection and diagnosis of disabling hearing loss.
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Mozilla Ventures
VC Fund · New Castle, Delaware, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Artificial intelligence startups

Mozilla Ventures seeks to invest in early-stage startups focusing on technology sector.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 23
  • Round size: Seed $2.8M–$50M; Pre-Seed $580k–$5.4M; Series A $19M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Probabl — Open Source Commons for AI, Machine Learning, and Data Science.
  • Credo AI — Credo AI helps organizations shape AI development to the highest ethical standards through a workflow assessment platform that evaluates the data, the decisions and deployment of AI models, while creating an audit trail that is a complete record of the development process and its intention.
  • trail — Trail offers a straightforward approach to implementing AI Governance, empowering developers and businesses to create reliable AI solutions
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LeapFrog Investments
VC Fund · Port Louis Town, Port Louis, Mauritius · 1 investments in South Africa Artificial intelligence startups

Scaling purpose-driven businesses to achieve leaps of growth, profitability and impact.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Finance, Insurance
  • Stage:Private Equity, Series D
  • Geography: India, Nigeria, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 70
  • Round size: Series D $4.3M–$175M; Private Equity $9.3M–$110M
  • Lead/follow: 54% lead, 46% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • ReNew — ReNew(NASDAQ: RNW),a global renewable company offering clean & green energy with a portfolio of 13.7 GW including Wind, Solar, Hybrid & Hydro Power.
  • Battery Smart — Battery Smart provides advanced Li-ion batteries to e-rickshaws. Battery Smart develops a retrofittable 48V Li-ion twin battery system that is compatible with all major electric rickshaw (e3w) models.
  • Shubham Housing Development Finance Company — Shubham.co is a leading housing finance company in India. We offer home loans, loans against property, Shubh Shakti Loans and more at affordable EMIs and interest rates. Apply online!
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AgFunder
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Artificial intelligence startups

AgFunder is a global venture capital firm backing deeptech platforms across AI, biotech, robotics, manufacturing, climate, and materials.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Agriculture, AgTech, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 136
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$10M; Pre-Seed $100k–$1M; Series A $4.4M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $60M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • OlsAro — OlsAro produces salt-tolerant crops.
  • Integriculture — Integriculture makes cellular agriculture products to improve sustainability, food security, and reduce public health problems. The company offers a developed patented general-purpose large-scale cell culture system that can culture wide range of cells without external addition of expensive growth factors and provide consumers with affordable cleanmeat.Founded in 2015, Integriculture is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
  • Kawa Project — A materials science company developing functional materials from food waste to mitigate climate change - starting with coffee waste
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Sanari Capital
VC Fund · Sandston, Virginia, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Artificial intelligence startups

More than capital, we invest in meaningful partnerships that enhance future value and produce lasting legacies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Laser, Sensor
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: South Africa, United States, New Zealand

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Series A $3M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $29M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • iiDENTIFii — iiDENTIFii: Secure biometric authentication for businesses. Verify customer identity in seconds with facial recognition and liveness detection.
  • LightWare LiDAR — LightWare, leader in laser range-finder technology. We develop and distribute innovative laser rangefinder products for application across multiple industries. Responsiveness to our customers, product innovation, product & service quality and business integrity are the core pillars of our success.
  • Energenic Holdings — Energenic is a company that specialized in power solutions ranging from light switches to solar panels and everything in between. Energenic employs cutting-edge technologies, including generators, solar panels, inverters and batteries, and whole power control systems.
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TotalEnergies Ventures
VC Fund · La Défense, Ile-de-France, France · 1 investments in South Africa Artificial intelligence startups

TotalEnergies Ventures is the venture capital arm of Total.As part of Total's commitment to a better energy future, TotalEnergies Ventures is focused on finding, funding and fostering high-potential start-ups which will contribute to creating a low carbon future.Current areas of interest include Renewables, Distributed Energy, NewMobility, Energy Access, Energy Storage, Bio-Plastics, Circular Economy, Carbon Capture and Hydrogen.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Energy, Renewable Energy, Transportation
  • Stage:Series B, Series C
  • Geography: United States, France, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 93
  • Round size: Series B $9.3M–$175M; Series C $12M–$65M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Autogrid — AutoGrid Systems organizes energy data and employs big data analytics to generate real-time predictions that create actionable data.The company’s suite of flexibility management applications allows utilities, electricity retailers, renewable energy project developers and energy service providers to deliver cheap, clean and reliable energy bymanaging networked distributed energy resources (DERs) in real time and at scale. AutoGrid applications utilize petabytes of smart meter, sensor and third-party data, along with powerful data science and high-performance computing algorithms, to monitor, predict, optimize and control the operations of millions of assets connected across global energy networks.Established at Stanford University in 2011, they have assembled a team of world-class software architects, electrical and computer engineers, data scientists and energy experts who apply cutting-edge analytics and in-depth energy data science to solve the world’s most critical energy problems.
  • 45-8 ENERGY — 45-8 ENERGY is exploring eco-friendly helium for uses in many industries.
  • Ampersand — Ampersand catalyzes and power mass-market electric mobility. By supplying the battery swap network and operating system the company makes sustainable mobility rapidly accessible and affordable for developing markets, to improve livelihoods and the environment. With over a million km already covered by e-motorcycles in Africa using our plug-and-playpowertrain and energy network.
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Flori Ventures
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Artificial intelligence startups

More than a seed-stage fund and a portfolio of startups: Our community of founders taps into the power of financial innovation to collaborate around global problems and unlock prosperity for all.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, FinTech, Cryptocurrency
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 100
  • Round size: Seed $250k–$11M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3.5M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Mento Labs — Mento Labs is a decentralized EVM platform for launching and managing multi-currency stable assets.
  • Learn.xyz — Learn.xyz’s is a mixture of Duolingo and Wikipedia, powered by AI, creating bite-sized “Curiosities” which feature slides and a quiz, in mere seconds just from taking in a user’s question. Find the app on iOS and Android.
  • Thrive Protocol — Thrive Protocol's vision is to maximize value creation for all people and communities.
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Automattic
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Artificial intelligence startups

Making the web a better place

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Corporate Round
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 24
  • Round size: Seed $777k–$9M; Series A $1M–$30M; Corporate Round $4.6M–$4.6M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • n8n — n8n is a workflow automation platform that uniquely combines AI capabilities with business process automation, giving technical teams the flexibility of code with the speed of no-code.
  • Openvibe — Interact With Anyone On The Open Internet. All Decentralised Social Networks, Single Timeline.
  • Liquid AI — Liquid AI is an MIT spin-off with a presence in Boston, MA, and Palo Alto, CA. Our mission is to build state-of-the-art, general-purpose AI systems from first principles and deploy capable, efficient, highly aligned, and trustworthy AI for all.
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