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Top 35 Artificial intelligence VC (Venture Capital) Funds in South Africa in January 2025

Last updated: Jan 2025 A list of 35 VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Artificial intelligence startups based in South africa. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Artificial intelligence companies from South africa. We update this investor list every month.

Top 35 Artificial intelligence VC (Venture Capital) Funds in South Africa in January 2025

Investor	Artificial intelligence South Africa investments
Oui Capital	3
Future Africa	2
Alumni Ventures	2
LoftyInc Capital	2
Soma Capital	2
Knife Capital	2
Black Silver Capital	2
Bose Ventures	2
Hustle Fund	2
4Di Capital	2
Digital Africa Ventures	1
AgFunder	1
Kalon Venture Partners	1
LeapFrog Investments	1
Arise Pty Ltd	1
Automattic	1
Sanari Capital	1
Strat Tech	1
Sphere Holdings	1
Appsolute Ventures	1
TotalEnergies Ventures	1
Basecamp Fund	1
Crossfin Technology	1
BaseCamp Ventures	1
Futuregrowth Asset Management	1
Microsoft for Startups	1
Capaci.Tech	1
Wavecrest Growth Partners	1
Harambeans	1
Bantam Group	1
Savannah Fund	1
Naspers Foundry	1
Investec	1
HAVAÍC	1
Flori Ventures	1

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

Investment focus

Transportation, Information Technology, B2B
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
Kenya, Nigeria, United States

Portfolio highlights

Duplo — We enable businesses across Africa to simplify their payment flows.
Ndovu — Secure your investments in both local and global financial markets on ndovu - a secure, affordable, hassle-free online investment platform in Africa designed to work your money
Maad — Maad is Francophone Africa's fastest-growing B2B marketplace, based in Dakar, Senegal. Our tech-driven solution allows retailers to order products from our one-stop shop and benefit from working capital loans

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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Nigeria, United States, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Moove — Moove is a mobility fintech that provides revenue-based vehicle financing to mobility entrepreneurs, democratizing vehicle ownership globally. The company embeds its alternative credit-scoring technology onto ride-hailing, logistics, and last-mile/instant delivery platforms, which allows access to proprietary performance and revenue analyticsof mobility entrepreneurs to underwrite loans.
Juicyway — Juice is a developer of a payment network platform for cross-border business payments for businesses and individuals. It facilitates financial transactions between parties regardless of location to allow enterprises to participate in international trade and the exchange of goods and services.
Filmmakers Mart — FilmmakersMart is Africa’s first film and entertainment marketplace where entertainment businesses and creatives find verified services seamlessly for their video productions while democratizing entry into the film and entertainment industry for emerging creatives. We’re building the operations system for the film and entertainment industry inAfrica.

Alumni Ventures offers diversified venture portfolios to accredited investors into highly competitive deals that individuals typically do not have access to on their own.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Spintly — Integrate the Spintly Smart Access control system with your apps and software, without having to toggle between multiple devices & software.
Torch Dental — Torch Dental develops an all-in-one technology designed to meet dental practices' supply ordering and inventory management needs. Torch Dental simplifies and streamlines the ordering process, allowing dentists to focus on their patients.
Mojave Energy Systems — Mojave the latest in HVAC innovation. Help the Climate. Reduce Energy Use. Improve Indoor Comfort. Perform Reliably. Lower Costs.

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

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Nigeria, United States, Egypt

Portfolio highlights

Mtor — Mtor is an online marketplace that is reshaping the automotive aftermarket and provides sophisticated technology solutions.
EMTECH — EMTECH provides solutions for Digital Currency regulatory compliance, development and management to help Central Banks and FinTechs build, run and manage modern financial systems.
Terragon Group — Terragon is a leading Data and Marketing Technology company that uses data and analytics to help companies focused in Africa, intelligently connect at scale to their customers. We use an aggregation of online and offline data, and predictive scoring to help brands, marketing agencies and platforms accurately target people across channels anddevices. Headquartered in Lagos; Nigeria, we also have a presence in Kenya, South Africa, Ghana and India.

Soma Capital is a fund built by founders for founders that focuses on software. It has invested seed in startups now worth over $60 billion combined including Cruise, Rappi, Ironclad, Human Interest, Razorpay, Rippling, and Lambda School among others (20 unicorns) It was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Aquaria — Discover how you can secure access to safe, clean water from air using Aquaria's atmospheric water generators.
PlayAI — PlayHT is #1 AI Voice Generator with 600+ AI voices that creates ultra realistic Text to Speech voiceovers. Convert text to audio and download as MP3 & WAV files.
Vooma — Vooma is a back-office automation platform that enables automated order entry for brokers and carriers.

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Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
South Africa, United States, Sweden

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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Investment focus

Information Technology, FinTech, Finance
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
South Africa

Portfolio highlights

Accrual — We are a Software Development Company
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.
Aesthetic Prosthetic Bionics — Biological Engineering, Bionics, Biomimetics, Hydraulics, Prosthetics, Neuroprosthetics, Exoskeleton Suits, Dynamics, Kinematics Robotics, Human-Robot Interaction, Artificial Organs, Artificial Intelligence, Quantum Computing, Knowledge Reasoning, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision, Robotics, Artificial GeneralIntelligence, Deep Learning, Bayesian Networks, Evolutionary Algorithms, Computational Neuroscience, Neurocybernetics, Cybernetics, Cognitive Science, Source Coding, Channel Coding, Algorithmic Complexity Theory, Algorithmic Information Theory, Information-Theoretic Security, Grey System Theory & Biotechnology

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

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Music
Funding Round, Series B, Series A
United States, India, Denmark

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.

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

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Singapore, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Pi-xcels — Eco-friendly NFC digital receipts solution for actionable shopper data and enhanced customer journeys. No App, Just Tap. With one-tap convenience, Pi-xcels unlocks omni-channel marketing opportunities and boosts performance for retailers with our customer intelligence platform.
Finfra — From application to decisioning to operations - FINFRA provides the necessary infrastructure and services for technology companies to embed financial services to their environment through a seamless integration.
Phaseshift Technologies — Phaseshift Technologies is developing a Computational Materials Engineering (CME) platform to help accelerate the Research and Development of High-Performance Alloys. The CME platform is driven by Quantum Chemistry calculations and aided by Machine Learning based predictive algorithms.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Series B
South Africa, United States, Uganda

Portfolio highlights

Maxe AI — AI investment Assistant for all investors. AI Portfolios tracker of stocks bonds exchanges futures. all in one to track mutual funds.
Sendmarc — Stop cyber criminals from sending emails using your domain and protect your customers, suppliers and employees from cyber attacks with DMARC Security.
Leta — Leta Technology is a software development company that creates supply chain and logistics software to enable the efficient and automated movement of goods.

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

Investment focus

Software, Logistics, Supply Chain Management
Seed, Pre-Seed
South Africa

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.
Tripplo — Tripplo is a platform to automate and optimise operations for transporters, cargo owners and cargo brokers.
TUNL — TUNL | Unlocking Exports

AgFunder invests in impactful companies that can positively transform the world's food system. Founded in 2013, AgFunder manages a portfolio of over 50 companies across four funds from offices in Silicon Valley and Singapore. Through its media platform AFN, it has built a global ecosystem of over 90,000 subscribers.

Investment focus

Agriculture, AgTech, Biotechnology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

Klim — Klim enables farmers to transition to regenerative agriculture at scale by providing them financial support, knowledge, documentation tools, and a community via our digital companion for farmers.Klim-verified carbon removal credits, generated by Klim farmers, help companies to transition to net zero by offsetting their carbon emissions locallyand with maximum impact and transparency.
Uviquity — Uviquity is a firm that wants to encourage safety for their clients. The company is based in Raleigh, North Carolina, in the United States.
Eion — Eion removes atmospheric CO2, permanently and verifiably, with enhanced rock weathering on soil

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.

Investment focus

Apps, Mobile Apps, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
South Africa, Luxembourg, United States

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 — Stop cyber criminals from sending emails using your domain and protect your customers, suppliers and employees from cyber attacks with DMARC Security.
visionAI — visionAI augments existing CCTV cameras with computer vision AI to drive improved operational outcomes in manufacturing.

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

Investment focus

Financial Services, Finance, Insurance
Private Equity, Funding Round, Series D
India, Nigeria, United States

Portfolio highlights

Zepz — Zepz is an online service that lets people send money to friends and family living abroad, using a computer, smartphone, or tablet. It is a convenient, low-cost alternative to traditional money transfer companies that use high street agents and charge high fees. Money can be received as a bank deposit, cash pick-up, Mobile Money, or mobile airtimetop-up.Zepz's service is available to senders in 50 countries. They offer transfers to more than 140+ destinations across Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and the Americas.
HealthifyMe — HealthifyMe is an application that allows its users to achieve their fitness and weight loss goals from their computers and smartphones.The application enables its users to track their calories, nutrition, and fitness activities; track their weight and determine if they are healthy; set healthy goals and work toward meeting them; share theirdata with experts; and get expert advice and suggestions on their lifestyles.HealthifyMe was developed and launched by a team of doctors, nutritionists, and fitness trainers in 2012. It is based in Bangalore, India.
Redcliffe Labs — Redcliffe LifetechRedcliffe Lifesciences specializes in reproductive health testing, rare diseases, and cancer genetic diagnostics. The company offers a wide range of advanced products and services for healthcare companies, research institutions, and other public and private partnerships, such as testing using molecular and gene-based diagnostics,therapeutic molecules and advanced therapies, next-generation sequencing, and all bioinformatics services.

Arise is a African investment company backed by three reputable cornerstone investors, namely Norfund, Rabobank, and FMO. We partner with sustainable locally owned financial services providers in Sub-Saharan Africa who are searching for a way to keep their independence but need financial expertise and long-term capital to prosper. Our in-depthlocal knowledge, minority shareholding and hands-on approach gives them the support they need to become financially sustainable and a strong contributor to the economy.It’s our way of making a lasting, positive difference to the people, businesses and communities of Africa.

Investment focus

Facial Recognition, Financial Services, Identity Management
Series A, Funding Round
Ghana, South Africa

Portfolio highlights

CAL Bank — CAL Bank provides a range of banking and financial solutions to large corporations, small and medium-sized enterprises, public sector institutions, and retail customers in Ghana. It operates through five segments: Corporate Banking, Retail & Business Banking, Treasury, Brokerage, and Asset Management.
iiDENTIFii — iiDENTIFii: Secure biometric authentication for businesses. Verify customer identity in seconds with facial recognition and liveness detection.

Making the web a better place

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Corporate Round
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

n8n — n8n is a free and source-available workflow automation tool
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.
OFFSITE — OFFSITE provides cloud computing and data center solutions.

Sanari Capital is a South African private investment company. They partner with owners and management in building companies, concepts and ideas.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Laser, Sensor
Series A, Funding Round, Series B
United States, South Africa, New Zealand

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 — Welcome to Energenics the home of real power, we specialize in the controlling and supporting of Power Generation Systems. We supply maintenance and support.

Strat Tech operates as an investment firm.

Investment focus

Software, Analytics, Artificial Intelligence
Seed
South Africa

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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Web Apps, Health Care
Series A
South Africa

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.

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

Investment focus

Big Data, Analytics, Data Integration
Pre-Seed
South Africa

Portfolio highlights

MetaPOS — South African Data Tech company focused on the ethical monetisation of data.

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.

Investment focus

Energy, Renewable Energy, Transportation
Series B, Funding Round, Series C
United States, France, United Kingdom

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.

Alumni Ventures offers diversified venture portfolios to accredited investors into highly competitive deals that individuals typically do not have access to on their own.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Alephee — Aleph enables brands to be involved in e-commerce, giving visibility into their online sales across multiple marketplaces such as Amazon, eBay, Mercado Libre. In one centralized platform brands connect resellers to share catalog and inventory to increase sales, grow market share and optimize logistics costs.
Niche — Niche is a social application that reinvents the way people connect and build community. It is a members-only club for the user's communities, groups, and hobbies.
Banana — Inference hosting for AI teams who ship fast and scale faster.

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.

Investment focus

Payments, Financial Services, Information Technology
Funding Round, Series A, Private Equity
South Africa, United States, Russian Federation

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.

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.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, South Africa, Trinidad and Tobago

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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Logistics, Medical Device
Seed, Series B, Funding Round
South Africa, France, United States

Portfolio highlights

Tripplo — Tripplo is a platform to automate and optimise operations for transporters, cargo owners and cargo brokers.
Pineapple — In short, Pineapple see the traditional insurance model, user journey and products as lacking and set out to remedy these by doing the following: 1) Changing the business model to align incentives, show people how premiums are used and award members leftover premium back 2) Making insuring as easy as snapping a picture where AI does the rest andcover is issued in under 60 seconds 3) Allowing per-item insurance and new product innovation to address cover not currently offered or accessible to manyPineapple launched in South Africa in 2018 with their "My Stuff" per-item insurance and have since launched their auto offering "My Ride". They have also partnered with Travelers in the US and have white-labeled their platform in the US.
Sourcefin — Explore Sourcefin's purchase order funding and invoice discounting solutions. Achieve financial stability with Sourcefin's expert services.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
United States, India, Canada

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

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.

Investment focus

SMS, Apps, SaaS
Seed
South Africa, United States

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!

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.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
Funding Round, Private Equity, Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Cardata — Fully-managed vehicle reimbursement programs and software that are transparent, reliable, and efficient, so you save time, money, and headaches.
Volante Technologies — Volante is the trusted partner to over 100 banks, financial institutions, market infrastructures, clearing houses, and corporate treasuries in 35 countries.
RapidWorks — The world's leading software for heavy equipment job management and dispatching. Discover how RapidWorks helps concrete, hydrovac, and crane teams work smarter and get paid faster.

Harambeans are African innovators who have pledged to “work together as one” to build Africa’s future. Over the last decade, Harambeans has spawned a series of tech-enabled ventures such as Andela, Flutterwave, and Yoco, which have collectively generated over 3000 jobs, and raised over $700m from Google Ventures, CRE Ventures and Accel.

Investment focus

Supply Chain Management, Transportation, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa

Portfolio highlights

Releaf — We are industrializing food processing in Africa. We've led 1000+ smallholder farmers to provide food factories with >7.5 million kilograms of quality crops.
MarketForce — MarketForce connects Africa’s informal retail outlets and consumers directly to suppliers of consumer goods and financial services by digitizing orders, delivery, and payments with the aim of solving the last mile distribution challenge.
SHYFT Power Solutions — SHYFT builds industrial-grade IoT and integrated software to connect and intelligently manage distributed energy resources (DERs) in markets that struggle with resiliency. SHYFT is pioneering the development of integrated decentralized power systems in emerging markets like Nigeria, leapfrogging over traditional central infrastructure and enablingDERs to scale and support existing but unreliable grids.

They are passionate about seeing their portfolio companies become successful.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

AI Lean — AI Lean develops an all-in-one technology for processing liens and auctions. The platform automates the lien-to-auction process from end-to-end, with no need to switch between software, and it integrates with existing self-storage software.
Aikium Inc. — Protein therapeutics
Groma — We blend traditional real estate investment, development and management with innovative technology to better serve our tenants, investors and communities.

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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, FinTech, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Kenya, United States, South Africa

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.

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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Information Technology, Information Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
South Africa, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Planet42 — Having your own car has never been easier. Planet42 is a vehicle rental company offering rent-to-own car service for private clients.
LifeCheq — Transforming financial services sales & distribution
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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Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, Energy
Funding Round, Debt Financing, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Qwello — Qwello is an Electric Vehicle charge point developer and operator with operations in Europe. Qwello deploys charging infrastructure across major European cities by partnering with local municipalities through public concession contracts, providing both infrastructure and charging services.
Voltera — Voltera’s customers are companies that have a pressing need to power EVs at scale. They are challenged by the fact that charging infrastructure does not exist in the right place, at the right time, or of the right type necessary to support planned EV deployments. They're also challenged by the complexity of siting, building, owning, andoperating EV charging infrastructure without disrupting operations or investing significant time and upfront capital.
Onyx Renewable Partners — Onyx guides your every step toward a cleaner future. Established in 2014, Onyx offers clean energy, solar, and decarbonization solutions throughout the United States.

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.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
South Africa, United States, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Sportable — Sportable is a sports data company that changes the game for teams and audiences. With Rugby being their primary focus, they are working with a number of teams and manufacturers to create and develop hardware and wearable devices that enable sport specific data to be collated in real time. Their technology gives the viewer, the team, and thebroadcaster unprecedented insight into the decision making of players.Sportable was founded in 2015 and is based in London, England.
Tanda — As a Tanda Agent, you can sell Kenya's favorite digital products, and grow your duka while you're at it
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!

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.

Investment focus

Blockchain, FinTech, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

Kotani Pay — Kotani Pay is a technology stack that enables blockchain protocols, dapps, and blockchain fintech companies to integrate seamlessly to local payment channels providing them with a reliable on ramp and off ramp service to reach a wider customer base in Africa.
Learn.xyz — Have fun learning about anything you can imaging, thanks to the power of AI. Download the free Learn.xyz app today and start every day with new knowledge!
Thrive Protocol — Thrive is the top protocol for powering ROI-positive decentralized grant-making across crypto ecosystems.

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