Top 50 Automotive Startup Investors in Africa (June 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Factor E
VC Fund
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4 | Kenya, United States, India | Seed, Series A, Convertible Note | Energy, Renewable Energy, Agriculture | $20k–$10M |
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Launch Africa
VC Fund
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3 | Nigeria, South Africa, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology | $200k–$4M |
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Ecosystem Integrity Fund
VC Fund
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3 | United States, India, Brazil | Series A, Series B | Energy, Renewable Energy, Software | $4M–$45M |
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IDF Capital SA
VC Fund
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3 | South Africa | Seed | Automotive, Mobile Apps | |
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Ventures Platform
VC Fund
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3 | Nigeria, United States, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Internet | $100k–$4.4M |
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Kalon Venture Partners
VC Fund
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3 | South Africa, Luxembourg, United States | Seed, Series A | Apps, Internet, Software | $570k–$7M |
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TotalEnergies Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | United States, France, United Kingdom | Series B, Series C | Energy, Renewable Energy, Transportation | $9.3M–$175M |
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Kepple Africa Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt | Seed, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | $300k–$4.5M |
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Speedinvest
VC Fund
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2 | United Kingdom, Germany, Austria | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | $549k–$38M |
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Acumen
VC Fund
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2 | United States, India, Kenya | Seed, Series A | Agriculture, Health Care, Financial Services | $300k–$13M |
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UTEC - The University of Tokyo Edge Capital Partners
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, United States, India | Seed, Series A | Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical | $3.1M–$85M |
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UNCOVERED FUND
VC Fund
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2 | Nigeria, Kenya, United States | Seed, Series A | FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce | $1.5M–$20M |
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Left Lane Capital
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Germany, Canada | Series A, Series B, Seed | FinTech, Financial Services, Software | $2.5M–$100M |
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Ingressive Capital
VC Fund
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2 | Nigeria, United States, Egypt | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology | $25k–$15M |
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Global Brain Corporation
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, United States, United Kingdom | Series A, Series B | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $3M–$369M |
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Golden Palm Investments
VC Fund
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2 | Nigeria, Egypt, Kenya | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Information Technology, FinTech, Payments | $30k–$15M |
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Musha Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Nigeria, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Financial Services, FinTech | $125k–$10M |
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Mercy Corps Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Kenya, United States, Nigeria | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Agriculture | $100k–$35M |
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Mobility 54
VC Fund
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2 | Kenya, Nigeria, Côte d'Ivoire | Seed, Series A | Financial Services, Transportation, Payments | $3M–$24M |
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AlphaCode Club
VC Fund
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2 | South Africa, United Kingdom | Grant, Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Finance | $26k–$7.2M |
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4DX Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Egypt, United States, South Africa | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | FinTech, Financial Services, Logistics | $50k–$40M |
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Lateral Frontiers
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Nigeria, Kenya | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | FinTech, Financial Services, Software | $500k–$15M |
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Agence Française de Développement
VC Fund
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2 | India, Mali, Brazil | Grant, Seed, Post-IPO Debt | Waste Management, Banking, Finance | $30k–$500M |
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EchoVC Partners
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Nigeria, Kenya | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Information Technology, FinTech, Software | $200k–$22M |
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F6 Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Tunisia, France | Pre-Seed, Seed | E-Commerce, Retail, FinTech | $65k–$200k |
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At One Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United States, United Kingdom, Canada | Seed, Series A, Series B | Energy, Manufacturing, Agriculture | $2.9M–$70M |
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Thelatest.ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Nigeria, The Netherlands | Series A, Series B, Debt Financing | FinTech, Finance, Financial Services | $23M–$65M |
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TLcom Capital Partners
VC Fund
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2 | Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom | Series A, Seed | Software, Mobile, Information Technology | $1.9M–$13M |
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BlackRock
VC Fund
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, Germany | Post-IPO Equity, Series C, Private Equity | Software, Financial Services, Information Technology | |
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Unpopular Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, India, Mexico | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | |
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Wuri Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Kenya, Ghana | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology | |
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True Capital Management
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Nigeria, Canada | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | FinTech, Financial Services, Software | |
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Barclays Corporate Banking
VC Fund
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1 | United Kingdom, United States, Israel | Debt Financing, Seed | FinTech, Financial Services, Software | |
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Cathexis Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, India, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology | $125k–$15M |
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Enza Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa | Seed, Series A | Financial Services, Finance, E-Commerce | $238k–$31M |
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Capsa Capital Partners
VC Fund
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1 | Tunisia | Seed | Insurance, Automotive, Financial Services | |
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E2 Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | South Africa, The Netherlands | Seed | Mobile Apps, Automotive, Telecommunications | |
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216 Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Tunisia, France, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | B2B, SaaS, Software | $171k–$1.5M |
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VestedWorld
VC Fund
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1 | Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana | Seed, Series A, Series B | Agriculture, Farming, E-Commerce | $1.6M–$20M |
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Chandaria Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya, United States, Nigeria | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, Retail, FinTech | $250k–$37M |
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Playfair Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United Kingdom, United States, France | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce | $700k–$20M |
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Future Africa
VC Fund
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1 | Nigeria, United States, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology | $100k–$20M |
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Frontier Car Group
VC Fund
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1 | Nigeria | Series A | Automotive, E-Commerce, E-Commerce Platforms | |
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PanAfrican Investment Co.
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya, United States | Series A, Series B | Local, Content, Automotive | |
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New Enterprise Associates
VC Fund
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1 | United States, India, United Kingdom | Series A, Series B, Series C | Software, Health Care, Biotechnology | $5.3M–$103M |
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Hoak & Co.
VC Fund
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1 | Nigeria, United States | Seed, Series A | Automotive, Auto Insurance, Human Resources | |
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Ambo Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya | Seed | CleanTech, Automotive, Electronics | |
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V8 Capital Partners
VC Fund
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1 | Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Information Technology, Software, Health Care | $2M–$20M |
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MSA Capital
VC Fund
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1 | China, United States, Egypt | Series A, Seed, Series B | E-Commerce, Biotechnology, Financial Services | $1.4M–$130M |
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AngelList
VC Fund
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1 | United States, India, Canada | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech | $121k–$23M |
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Factor E is a finance company that impacts venture builders, dedicated to supporting the people and ideas that will turn the tables in the global battle for sustainable solutions to energy, agriculture, mobility, and waste challenges in emerging and frontier markets. It serves as a conduit between philanthropic and commercial investors throughmarket-driven forces.
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- Industry: Energy, Renewable Energy, Agriculture
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
- Geography: Kenya, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 34
- Round size: Seed $500k–$4.6M; Series A $1.3M–$10M; Convertible Note $20k–$1.1M
- Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Roam — The Standard for Electric Mobility in Africa.
- Open Access Energy — South Africa's first multilateral wheeling software platform that automates energy transactions.
- 60Hertz Energy — Unify asset management with asset monitoring, enhance scheduling, and facile communication. Book a Demo Now!
Launch Africa is a leading Pan-African VC fund solving the significant funding gap in the Seed and pre-Series A investment landscape in Africa
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, South Africa, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 162
- Round size: Seed $200k–$4M; Pre-Seed $200k–$1.7M
- Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $36M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Fixit45 — Fixit45 also provides fleet management, auto parts sourcing and delivery, auto care, refurbishment and upgrades, repair financing, and mechanic workshop software as well as pre-purchase inspections, underlying these with moderation for compliance and accountability.
- Gigmile — Gigmile provides financial services. They provide gig workers with core services and an affordable lease on productive assets that is tailored to their earnings to enable them to succeed in the mobility industry as entrepreneurs.
- HomecomingEx — Homecoming Revolution is a pan-African recruitment firm for global African professionals. We specialise in headhunting & placing global African talent.
The Ecosystem Integrity Fund (“EIF”) is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage companies contributing to environmental sustainability. It seeks to demonstrate that there is no trade-off between having a positive impact and achieving outstanding financial returns. The movement toward environmental sustainability is making incrementalimprovements to the largest industries in the world. Over the next several decades, the economy will be transformed by this movement.Sustainability is fundamentally about making things better: more efficient, more functional, less toxic, less costly. This is the next phase of the Industrial Revolution.
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- Industry: Energy, Renewable Energy, Software
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, India, Brazil
Investor stats
- Total investments: 66
- Round size: Series A $4M–$30M; Series B $5.5M–$45M
- Lead/follow: 74% lead, 26% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Trashie — Trashie provides a textile recycling service with rewards through its Take Back Bag and TrashieCash program.
- ZeroAvia — ZeroAvia is producing the world's first practical zero emission aviation powertrain, initially targeting 20-seat airplanes to start replacing dirty jet fuel in regional transport
- Vammo — Leoparda Electric is a company that manufactures electric motorcycles.
IDF Capital is an established financier, investing in high growth SMEs/Entrepreneurial businesses. We invest with a gender lens strategy
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- Industry: Automotive, Mobile Apps
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Carscan — cARscan is an Augmented Reality app with an embedded visual recognition AI to track the visual condition of every motor vehicle during its life-stage.
- 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.
We back founders building the future of Africa. We invest in companies that solve for non-consumption, plug infrastructural gaps and democratise prosperity in Africa, by eliminating the barriers for access and reducing the costs of delivering goods and services.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 143
- Round size: Seed $325k–$4.4M; Pre-Seed $100k–$1.3M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
Portfolio highlights
- MDaaS Global — At MDaaS Global, we build and operate modern, tech-enabled diagnostic centres in clinically-underserved communities, starting in Nigeria. Our big goal is to create affordable healthcare solutions for Africa's next billion.
- Brass — Get started with a modern current account
- LemFi — Send money to India, China, Pakistan, Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya and 30 other countries. Receive and manage your money without stress
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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- 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!
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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- 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.
We back exceptional founders in and from Africa who are addressing deep gaps between the status quo and the ideal.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 77
- Round size: Seed $500k–$4.5M; Pre-Seed $300k–$3.4M
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Paps — Paps is a transport and logistics company that offers innovative distribution and delivery solutions to companies and merchants.The company's e-commerce platform helps companies and traders with scheduling and tracking deliveries on a real-time basis. It offers the distribution of documents and parcels, storage of goods in a secure warehousethat meets standards, and delivery of insured parcels in relay point or last mile. It also provides professional services such as management and repayment of cash on delivery, provision of couriers, management of returns, collection, and periodic reporting.The Dakar, Dakar, Senegal-based company was founded in 2016
- Mvxchange — MVX makes freight shipping easier and more coordinated for companies of any size by bringing the whole booking and deployment process online. We simplify Africa’s end-to-end import and export trade transactions by aggregating and organizing 7+ services through 1 digital channel.
- Intmax — INTMAX has developed significant innovations in ZK implementation making it a unique Layer2 rollup network that offers low cost, security, tunable privacy, and above all, scalability.
Speedinvest is a globally active European venture capital firm built on a simple belief: many move more. From six offices across EMEA, our sector-focused investment teams back relentless founders from pre–Seed to Growth with long-term conviction, providing day-one access to our global network of corporate customers, experts, industry leaders, andtop-tier follow-on investors to scale smarter and faster. Building lasting companies like Bitpanda (Austria), Moove (Nigeria), Gigs (U.S.), Tide (UK), ARX Robotics (Germany), Wayflyer (Ireland), GoStudent (Austria), Seqera Labs (Spain), and Cylib (Germany) — together. Big ideas may start with one. But scaling and winning take The Power of More.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 528
- Round size: Seed $823k–$8M; Pre-Seed $549k–$3.8M; Series A $3.7M–$38M
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $384M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Findery — Find and leave notes anywhere in the world, discover local knowledge, hidden secrets, and exciting stories. Share your travel knowledge, geoblog, or local news!
- MinersAI — Unlock valuable insights from intricate geological data with Miners AI. Our AI-driven platform empowers exploration teams to make informed decisions and optimize mining operations.
- Primer — Primer is the first open automation platform for payments, enabling you to build end-to-end payment flows with no code, and a checkout developers love.
Acumen is a nonprofit venture fund that invests in early-stage companies bringing critical services like agriculture, clean energy, education, financial inclusion, healthcare and workforce development to low-income communities in 14 countries across East and West Africa, South Asia, Latin America, and the United States. Since 2001, Acumeninvested $128 million in 128 companies that have transformed the lives of over 308 million low-income people.
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- Industry: Agriculture, Health Care, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, India, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 168
- Round size: Seed $300k–$2.5M; Series A $1.6M–$13M
- Lead/follow: 52% lead, 48% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $2.8M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- BharatRohan — Nurturing empathy, tech, and impact for a revitalised agri value chain.
- Yellow — Yellow enables a distributed network of sales agents to serve rural households with life-changing products and services through a digital technology platform called Ofeefee.
- Energy Assured Nigeria — Energy Assured is an energy and utility procurement market provider for smaller businesses ranging from independent retailers and local franchisees to affinity group members in any sector. Users and customers benefit from economies of scale, more agile energy purchasing, and consistently lower gas, electricity, and water costs. Their expertsunderstand the pressures that small and medium-sized businesses face: they work to provide clients with exactly what they require so that clients can use energy as an asset to propel their business forward.
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- Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 175
- Round size: Seed $3.1M–$54M; Series A $5.2M–$85M
- Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ImmunoScape — ImmuniScape discovers and develops novel TCR-based therapeutics against solid tumors
- Metcela — Cells hold endless possibilities. Through science, we will unlock these potentials and harness them to improve the lives of patients worldwide.
- Startbahn — Startbahn develops Startrail, a sustainable and scalable blockchain infrastructure that assures the reliability, authenticity, and traceability of artworks.
UNCOVERED FUND is a venture capital firm that leads the creation of industries in Africa and other emerging countries.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 29
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$3.7M; Series A $2.2M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $15M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Sylndr — Sylndr is an automotive focused e-commerce marketplace bringing innovation to the used-cars market, where customers can reliably and transparently sell and buy used cars. The company is aiming to build trust in the used-car market by becoming the go-to place for customers seeking to sell and buy their cars, through an extensive range ofhigh-quality used vehicles accessible across a diverse set of financing solutions.
- Chari — Chari is an e-commerce and fintech app for traditional retailers in French-Speaking Africa allowing them to order any consumer goods they sell and get delivered for free in less than 24 hours. Chari is also a financial services provider for these retailers, offering them microloans
- Mecho — Mecho is an on-demand auto repair and maintenance platform for individuals and businesses in Africa.
Left Lane Capital is a venture capital and seed-growth equity firm that invests in high-growth internet and consumer technology businesses that are fundamental to the human condition and spirit – where customers maintain a long-term relationship with the product, platform, or service.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: United States, Germany, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 145
- Round size: Seed $2.5M–$18M; Series A $9M–$33M; Series B $20M–$100M
- Lead/follow: 63% lead, 37% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $1.4B in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- AnswersNow — Personalized tele-ABA therapy for your child with autism spectrum disorder.
- Diamond Standard — Invest in diamonds. Each Diamond Standard Coin and Bar contains an equivalent scarcity of carat, cut, color, and clarity. Diversify your portfolio.
- Good Health Company (Clinic) (GHC) — We have the Perfect Solution here for Hair fall treatment, Beard Growth, Performance Wellness, Weight loss. Buy Health Care Products & complete wellness platform for Men in India
Ingressive Capital is a renowned $50M Pan-African Venture Capital Fund that invests in indigenous founders and startups across Africa, with focus on Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Morocco, and Nigeria. Specializing in early-stage investments, particularly Pre-Seed and Seed stages, it targets technology companies led by top-tier talent driving transformativegrowth in Africa's GDP. The firm's thesis focuses on B2C solutions that cater to the explosive growth within the tech-enabled, decentralized-learning youth demographic, as well as B2B solutions that increase Africa’s value chain ownership from resource extraction to end-product sale. Its goal is to become becoming a highly valuable VC partner on the founders' cap tables, and being at the forefront of supporting and enabling entrepreneurial success across Africa.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 72
- Round size: Seed $400k–$3.7M; Pre-Seed $25k–$2.1M; Series A $500k–$15M
- Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $5M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- SehaTech — Welcome to SehaTech, the groundbreaking company revolutionizing the health insurance market with our innovative solutions!
- REasy — Top up locally, pay suppliers globally, and manage international shipments with REasy. Fast, secure, and designed for African businesses expanding worldwide.
- Complete Farmer — Complete Farmer connects growers, buyers, and vendors with technology, support, and market access across Ghana and beyond.
Global Brain Corporation is a venture capital firm that invests in companies from seed or early to pre-IPO startups. Global Brain has invested in 300+ startups from seed/early to pre-IPO startups and achieved 25 IPOs and 61 M&As as a result of providing hands-on support services and resources to its portfolio startups. Global Brain hasmanaged a pure investment fund as well as multiple corporate venture capital funds partnered together with tier 1 public companies of telecom, real estate development, financial service, beverages, agriculture food, logistics, and electronic devices.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 536
- Round size: Series A $3M–$142M; Series B $4M–$369M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Josys — Stop letting runaway SaaS costs & unsecured SaaS access ruin your day. Josys is the only SaaS Management Platform that provides true 360-degree control.
- Ridge-i — Ridge-i is proposing and developing an appropriate combination of technologies including AI in various phases of the company.We provide AI technology optimized for business needs. Ridge-i features Ridge-i's comprehensive ability to realize impact at business sites, from AI consulting focusing on machine learning and deep learning, to solutiondevelopment.
- Zenno Astronautics — Zenno Astronautics hardware and software products ensure satellite missions are effectively managed, guaranteeing maximum economic returns and responsible use of space.
Golden Palm Investments is an investment holding and advisory company.
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- Industry: Information Technology, FinTech, Payments
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, Egypt, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 56
- Round size: Seed $1.8M–$6M; Pre-Seed $30k–$6.5M; Series A $2M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2014
Portfolio highlights
- ILLA — ILLA Trucking for Logistics Solutions & Distribution
- Maplerad — Maplerad is a fast, safe and easy way to send and receive money with friends, family or others you trust. You can receive and send money directly into any Nigerian bank account in minutes using Bitcoin, US Dollars, and Naira.
- Jetstream Africa — Jetstream monitors inventory and goods-in-transit for trade creditors and banks.
Seed capital for technology startups globally.
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 140
- Round size: Seed $125k–$4.9M; Pre-Seed $300k–$3.2M; Series A $2.5M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
Portfolio highlights
- nGrow.ai — Boost revenue and engagement
- HoneyCoin — HoneyCoin is a web3/web2 ecosystem of products built in a way that abstracts complexity and brings all the value of web3 and web2 to the forefront.
- Orca Fraud — Orca empowers fraud fighters with effective tools to combat fraud
Mercy Corps Ventures invests in and catalyzes venture-led solutions to increase the resilience of underserved individuals and communities. Founded in 2015 as the impact investing arm of global development agency, Mercy Corps, supports over 57 early-stage ventures to scale and raise over $515 million in follow-on capital. Their portfolio centersaround resilience-building solutions in adaptive agriculture and food systems, inclusive climate fintech, and climate-smart technologies so that those living in frontier markets can withstand disruption and plan for the future. Through capital and support, piloting new approaches, action-oriented insights, and rigorously managing impact, they catalyze the ecosystem toward smarter, more impactful investments.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Agriculture
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Kenya, United States, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 69
- Round size: Seed $330k–$5.3M; Pre-Seed $100k–$7M; Series A $2.5M–$35M
- Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Agruppa — Agruppa leverages mobile phone technology to empower small food vendors in low income neighborhoods by providing them with fruits and vegetables at wholesale prices.
- Meridia — De-risk the sourcing, procurement, trading & compliance of commodities under the EUDR.
- PowerLabs — PowerLabs is an energy and climate technology research and implementation company whose goal is to use intelligent energy to build a world where human output is boundless.
Mobility 54 is a joint venture among Toyota Tsusho Corporation and CFAO.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Transportation, Payments
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, Côte d'Ivoire
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Seed $3.3M–$13M; Series A $3M–$24M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
Portfolio highlights
- BasiGo — BasiGo is an early-stage e-mobility start-up looking to revolutionize the public transportation sector by providing matatu owners with a cost-effective electric alternative to diesel buses.
- Tugende — Tugende helps motorcycle taxi drivers own their own motorcycles in eighteen months or less instead of renting indefinitely. Ownership significantly increases income, job security and road safety.
- ETAP — ETAP is a digital insurance application that allows you to set up your car insurance in just 90 seconds.
We are an African venture capital fund, for world-class African entrepreneurs run by seasoned African investors.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Stage:Grant, Seed
- Geography: South Africa, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 27
- Round size: Seed $57k–$7.2M; Grant $26k–$114k
- Lead/follow: 70% lead, 30% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Abela — Abela is a mobile payments platform that allows the underserved to make and receive payments.
- BriefCo — BriefCo is South Africa's first and only legal cost consultancy leveraging technology. We utilize our own secure online platform to allow for the digital delivery and storage of all documents, thereby reducing the significant costs associated with printing, delivery, and file preparation.
- AgrigateOne — AgrigateOne is an online platform that enables openness between growers and buyers and gets data about agriculture and marine logistics.
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Browse database — It's Free!4DX Ventures is a Pan-Africa Focused Venture Capital Firm. Our mission is to connect people, ideas, and capital to create a vibrant African community.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Logistics
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Egypt, United States, South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 79
- Round size: Seed $500k–$6.4M; Pre-Seed $50k–$6.5M; Series A $6.6M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $60M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- HoneyCoin — HoneyCoin is a web3/web2 ecosystem of products built in a way that abstracts complexity and brings all the value of web3 and web2 to the forefront.
- Aether Bio — Aether uses its state of the art platform to rapidly engineer enzymes, enabling our customers to manufacture complex and novel products at fractional cost.
- Franc — Franc is the easiest way to save & invest. Our app doesn’t require any investment knowledge & our friendly risk quiz helps us understand how much investment risk is right for you. Users can start investing in less than 2 minutes. There is no minimum requirement & no paperwork. It is a seamless digital experience end-to-end. A usersimply chooses a goal, selects an investment strategy, verifies their identity & makes a deposit. Each user is recommended a personalised investment strategy for each investment goal, combining money market & index tracking ETFs. Our helpful calculators assist clients with their budgeting, retirement & targeted savings needs. We also provide free access to our online academy & fun financial literacy quizzes.We know saving is hard & investing can be scary, which is why we create savings groups & challenges so that users can encourage one another. We also run weekly competitions where users can stand a chance to win a cash prize that will boost their investments.
Lateral Capital is a mission driven venture fund investing in early and growth stage opportunities in Africa. We back companies that provide foundational technologies for the continent. We make debt and equity investments technology-enabled businesses that profitably solve significant pain points across financial services, healthcare, education,energy, agriculture, housing, logistics, mobility and more.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 37
- Round size: Seed $1M–$3.1M; Pre-Seed $500k–$3.5M; Series A $558k–$15M
- Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $50M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- CNote — CNote makes initial Cash Deposits easy for corporations, foundations, and individuals. Align your financial goals with your values and drive change in communities.
- Rhaeos — Rhaeos, the world's first wearable shunt monitor, aims to improve the quality care for patients with hydrocephalus through a novel, thermal biosensor. Developed within Northwestern University with collaboration between Dr. John Rogers, McCormick School of Engineering, Feinberg School of Medicine and Kellogg School of Management, Rhaeosrepresents a unique multidisciplinary translational effort for an important clinical need.
- Wattnow — Wattnow is a real-time monitoring solution that provides a breakdown of energy spending to identify wasteful trends.
AFD is France’s inclusive public development bank. We commit financing and technical assistance to projects that genuinely improve everyday life, both in developing and emerging countries and in the French overseas provinces.
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- Industry: Waste Management, Banking, Finance
- Stage:Grant, Seed, Post-IPO Debt
- Geography: India, Mali, Brazil
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Round size: Grant $30k–$500M; Post-IPO Debt $117M–$286M
- Lead/follow: 64% lead, 36% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Transnet SOC Ltd — As the custodian of ports, rail and pipelines, Transnet’s objective is to ensure a globally competitive freight system that enables sustained growth and diversification of the country’s economy.Transnet is currently transitioning from its Market Demand Strategy, characterised by accelerated capital investment, towards the Transnet 4.0 Strategy,which is focused on repositioning Transnet, and the country’s freight system, for competitiveness within the fast changing, technology- driven context of the 4th industrial revolution. The strategy’s main growth thrusts includes; geographic expansion, product and service innovation and diversification and expansion of the scope of Transnet’s manufacturing business. The key objectives of Transnet’s effort is directed towards increasing the connectivity, density and capacity of the integrated port, rail and pipeline network.Transnet 4.0 Strategy aims to grow Transnet to a R100 billion business by 2020. Organic growth of the current freight transport and handling divisions will account for the bulk of this growth and Transnet will continue to focus on improving operational efficiency and reliability in order to grow its market share. Consequently, capital investment to modernize and expand the port, rail and pipeline network and operations will continue to be a key priority, as will continued development of our people.Significant growth is being targeted from new markets, particularly in integrated logistics, the development of logistics hubs and clusters, natural gas midstream infrastructure, manufactured products and new digital businesses. Transnet will increasingly make use of strategic partnerships to drive these new ventures.Transnet has a critical role to play in furthering South Africa’s strategic and economic objectives and is actively refreshing its brand as it moves into new markets, expands and diversifies its service offering, and redefines its market position.Transnet operates as an integrated freight transport company, formed around a core of six operating divisions that complement each other. These are supported by a number of company-wide specialist units - Transnet Group Capital and Transnet Foundation- which underpin our company.
- State Bank of India — The State Bank of India (SBI) is an Indian multinational, public sector banking and financial services company. It is a government-owned corporation headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra. The company is ranked 216th on the Fortune Global 500 list of the world's biggest corporations as of 2017. It is the largest bank in India with a 23% marketshare in assets, besides a share of one-fourth of the total loan and deposits market.
- Democratic Republic of Congo — DRC is an investment management company that provides portfolio advisory, asset allocation, and wealth management services.
EchoVC Partners is a seed and early-stage venture capital firm focused on financing and cross-pollinating leading technologies, teams, business models, and knowledge across North America, Africa, and SE Asia. The average investment size ranges from $25,000 to several million dollars depending on the stage of opportunity and capital needs of thebusiness.
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- Industry: Information Technology, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 50
- Round size: Seed $200k–$4M; Pre-Seed $400k–$1.9M; Series A $1.2M–$22M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $8M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Kukua — Empowering today's generation of children through entertainment Stories and characters fundamentally change and reaffirm how children see themselves in the world. At Kukua we blur the worlds of entertainment and education
- TRADE X — TRADE X offers Dealers an interactive and fully encompassing global automotive trading platform.
- GraphScience — Since 2005, we have helped thousands of people get the perfect domain name.
Flat6Labs is the MENA region’s leading seed and early stage venture capital firm, currently running the most renowned startup programs in the region. Annually, Flat6Labs invests in more than 100 innovative and technology-driven startups enabling thousands of passionate entrepreneurs to achieve their daring ambitions and ultimately becoming theirinstitutional co-founders.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Retail, FinTech
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Tunisia, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 42
- Round size: Seed $65k–$200k; Pre-Seed $65k–$81k
- Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $10M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- WeMove — WeMove is a fitness marketplace for daily gym passes. They develop innovative solutions that meet your sports issues.
- Bako Motors SAS — Bako Motors SAS is a motor vehicle manufacturing company that develops solar electric vehicles. manufacturer of electric vehicles with the goal of creating long-term fixes for rural areas' transportation issues with regard to people, cargo, and machinery. The business makes electric cars as well as solutions for clean energy generation andstorage that are infinitely scalable, providing users with inexpensive and environmentally friendly e-mobility.
- Insight Plus — Insight Plus is a foreign exchange platform that specializes in interconnecting global exchanges into one eco system.
At One Ventures finds, funds, and grows teams to catalyze a world where humanity is a net positive to nature.
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- Industry: Energy, Manufacturing, Agriculture
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 71
- Round size: Seed $2.9M–$15M; Series A $6.6M–$45M; Series B $17M–$70M
- Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Relectrify — Unlocking extra lifetime and performance of batteries via advanced battery management (BMS) technology.
- Inlyte Energy — Inlyte Energy is a company that creates batteries for grid storage. Inlyte Energy's grid battery uses the most abundant commodities - iron and salt - to create an energy storage solution with the unique combination of high efficiency, long lifetime, competitive energy density, and exceptional safety.
- Blue Energy — Blue Energy is a nuclear power plant company that provides reliable, clean, and abundant electricity.
thelatest.ventures partners with the leading investment firms across the globe to localise, launch or scale intuitively exceptional growth businesses. To create superior investment and societal impact returns.
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- Industry: FinTech, Finance, Financial Services
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Debt Financing
- Geography: Nigeria, The Netherlands
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Series A $23M–$65M
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Moove — Moove is a mobility fintech that provides revenue-based vehicle financing to mobility entrepreneurs, democratizing vehicle ownership across Africa. 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 revenueanalytics of mobility entrepreneurs to underwrite loans.
- Moove — Moove is a mobility fintech that provides revenue-based vehicle financing to mobility entrepreneurs, democratizing vehicle ownership across Africa.The company embeds its alternative credit-scoring technology onto ride-hailing and e-logistics platforms, which allows access to proprietary performance and revenue analytics of mobility entrepreneurs tounderwrite loans.Moove was founded by Ladi Delano and Jide Odunsi in 2019.
TLcom Capital, is an Africa focused tech VC, with offices in Lagos, Nairobi and London. TLcom had been investing since 1999 in Tech, Media, Mobil and Internet companies across Europe, US and Africa, which is the exclusive focus of its most recent TLcom TIDE Africa funds. TLcom manages total commitments of approximately 300 million USD in thesesectors via a series of dedicated investment vehicles. Our investment strategy is to identify, back and assist world class entrepreneurs and management teams with disruptive technologies and business models, compelling intellectual property and deep market knowledge. We primarily target companies focused on Africa as a prime market, in the following investment themes: Access to Data Service; Financial Services; eCommerce; B2C applications (including but not limited to: health, education, energy, media and entertainment); and Software solutions to corporates and SMEs.
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- Industry: Software, Mobile, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 59
- Round size: Seed $1.9M–$8.5M; Series A $3.8M–$13M
- Lead/follow: 51% lead, 49% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $150M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Hub2.Io — Welcome to HUB2, the leading FINTECH startup in interoperability and payment infrastructure in Francophone Africa. We are proud to work with all financial industry players in Africa who need stable and high-performing infrastructure, and contribute to their success.
- Talstack — Talstack is an all-in-one platform for employee growth and development
- HoneyCoin — HoneyCoin is a web3/web2 ecosystem of products built in a way that abstracts complexity and brings all the value of web3 and web2 to the forefront.
BlackRock is an investment management company that provides its services to a diverse range of clients, including institutions, intermediaries, foundations, and individual investors. The firm operates as a global asset manager, overseeing and advising on a wide array of investment portfolios. In addition to its role as an investment manager,BlackRock is also known for its technological innovations and solutions that support various aspects of the financial industry. The company's multifaceted approach encompasses investment management, financial technology, and serving a broad spectrum of clients in the financial ecosystem.
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, Information Technology
- Stage:Post-IPO Equity, Series C, Private Equity
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 306
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Cart.com — Cart.com's end-to-end solution provides brands with the software, infrastructure, and expertise of the world's largest online retailers.
- Wartsila — Wärtsilä is a global leader in smart technologies and complete lifecycle solutions for the marine and energy markets. By emphasising sustainable innovation, total efficiency and data analytics, Wärtsilä maximises the environmental and economic performance of the vessels and power plants of its customers. In 2017, Wärtsilä’s net sales totalled EUR4.9 billion with approximately 18,000 employees. The company has operations in over 200 locations in more than 80 countries around the world. Wärtsilä is listed on Nasdaq Helsinki.
- Flō Networks — Flō Networks offers business connectivity, cloud, security, and encryption solutions. They also provide secure cloud connectivity, enterprise WAN, private network, voice for business, and managed firewall solutions. They communicated through their solutions and customer service.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, India, Mexico
Investor stats
- Total investments: 222
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Foodology — Foodology creates and operates digital restaurant brands made for delivery.The company aims to be a delivery-focused restaurant group in Latam. With its portfolio of virtual brands operated through cloud kitchens, Foodology strives to create a best in class delivery experience for its customers.The company was founded in 2019 by HarvardBusiness School classmates Daniela Izquierdo and Juan Guillermo Azuero.
- Kyte — Kyte delivers rental cars straight to your door. We deliver and pick up the vehicle. No lines, no paperwork, freedom to explore. Fully flexible. Book today!
- Omnic.AI — The way to be a professional in esports. Omnic Data uses computer vision and a deep learning network to provide virtual coaching for the aspiring esports gamer.
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Browse database — It's Free!Wuri Ventures focuses on innovating the spectrum between market-based solutions and pure public goods. It realizes that much successful innovation in Africa has occurred in this space, where innovation around market failures such as information asymmetry (data), fragmentation (platforms) and public goods (electricity, mobility) can solve previouslyintractable problems. Its unique mathematical properties, from cellular automata and emergence to numerical methods, studied by researchers, links ancient African culture to modern technology. It supports world-class entrepreneurs in solving Africa’s biggest challenges using innovation.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Kenya, Ghana
Investor stats
- Total investments: 18
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Kwely — Kwely is a dynamic and fast-growing startup. We are always looking for passionate, dynamic, fun and hard-working individuals to join our team.
- Cauri Money — Cauri Money specializes in financial technology with a wide range of digital banking solutions via app for fund transfer.
- Fig Finance — We're closing the credit gap. We connect global and local lenders, with the strongest emerging market businesses.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 130
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Pivo — Pivo is an all-in-one financial services platform for businesses in the supply chain. Set up accounts, access credit and manage your finances in one simple application.
- StackAI — Stack AI supercharges businesses. Deploy AI-powered applications in minutes, automate processes, and skyrocket productivity by connecting LLMs to data sources using Stack AI's no-code platform. Export your work with user-centric interfaces (chatbots and forms) and developer-friendly APIs.
- Kapital — Kapital empowers SMBs with a tech-banking platform giving visibility and control of their treasury, and their employees
Barclays PLC is a global financial services company that provides various financial products and services worldwide. It is engaged in retail banking, credit cards, corporate and investment banking, and wealth management with an extensive international presence in Europe, the Americas, Africa, and Asia.The company offers current accounts, savingsproducts, Woolwich-branded mortgages, unsecured loans, general insurance, and banking and money transmission services to small- and medium-sized businesses; investment and insurance products; business lending services; bank assurance solutions; and retail, credit and debit card, and corporate services. It also offers international payments services for consumer and business customers, including credit cards and consumer lending services; investment banking services comprising strategic advisory, financing, and risk management services to large corporate, government, and institutional clients; integrated corporate banking solutions, including cash management, lending, and trade financing services to corporate and financial institutions as well as multinationals; and a range of wealth and investment management services such as international and private banking, investment management, fiduciary, and brokerage services.With over 300 years of history and expertise in banking, Barclays operates in over 50 countries and employs more than 147,500 people. Barclays moves, lends, invests, and protects money of more than 48 million customers and clients worldwide.The company was formerly known as Barclays Bank Limited and changed its name to Barclays PLC in January 1985. It was founded in 1896 and is headquartered in London, United Kingdom.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Stage:Debt Financing, Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 129
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Bink — Upgrade your loyalty programme with card linking technology, or launch a new one in record time.
- WHSmith — Welcome to WHSmith. Here you can find stationery, books, toys and games and many more products. Shop online or find out more about us.
- Air Protein — Air Protein is a startup that aims to develop sustainable protein made from thin air. Using a proprietary probiotic process, Air Protein develops protein-enriched food made from CO2. This revolutionary new protein source can be used to make meat-free burgers, protein-enriched pasta, cereals, beverages, and more.Air Protein has been developed byKiverdi, a California-based biotechnology company.
Cathexis Ventures is the venture arm of Cathexis Holdings, a single-family office based in Houston Texas. Minimum check size $100k, max $10M for seed stage companies. Typically $250k checks.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 57
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$12M; Pre-Seed $125k–$1.5M; Series A $3.7M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
Portfolio highlights
- BBy — BBy connects nursing mothers with couples who can't produce or do not produce enough breast milk to feed their child
- Careerist — Careerist is the connecting bridge between people without tech or coding background and the U.S. tech industry. We quickly train and apply our students for simple well-paid jobs like software testing, while helping them grow into more advanced roles.
- Legistify — Legistify offers AI-powered legal operations software to streamline workflows, manage contracts, track legal cases and improve productivity for enterprise legal teams
Venture investor in high-growth Founders and Teams using technology to solve large and meaningful problems across Africa
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- Industry: Financial Services, Finance, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 52
- Round size: Seed $238k–$8M; Series A $3.6M–$31M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Tugende — Tugende helps motorcycle taxi drivers own their own motorcycles in eighteen months or less instead of renting indefinitely. Ownership significantly increases income, job security and road safety.
- Jumba — Jumba is the trusted digital partner for hardware stores. Through tech, we support hardware stores to grow. Get cement at unbeatable prices. Access cement LPOs even at midnight. Get inventory on credit through Jengwa.
- Quro Medical — Quro Medical is an innovative digital health company pioneering premium hospital-at-home services.
Capsa Capital Partners is an Asset Management firm
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- Industry: Insurance, Automotive, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Tunisia
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- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
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- Avidea — Avidea is a startup specializing in the digitalization of automobile claims management and the fight against fraud.
E2 Ventures is an investment firm.
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- Industry: Mobile Apps, Automotive, Telecommunications
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: South Africa, The Netherlands
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
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- Carscan — cARscan is an Augmented Reality app with an embedded visual recognition AI to track the visual condition of every motor vehicle during its life-stage.
- 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.
Our DNA is rooted in a passionate belief in the potential of Africa, a relentless drive for innovation, and an unwavering commitment to impact. We are not just investors; we are builders of a better future, one investment at a time.
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- Industry: B2B, SaaS, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: Tunisia, France, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 25
- Round size: Seed $336k–$1.5M; Pre-Seed $171k–$1M
- Lead/follow: 60% lead, 40% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Eyst Technology — EYST provides a technological solution against insurance fraud. The company is based in Puteaux, France.
- Addvocate.ai — Addvocate is an AI-powered B2B sales intelligence platform that transforms sales team performance by providing actionable, predictive insights and unified data to improve every stage of the sales cycle. Addvocate addresses common sales inefficiencies—such as poor preparation, missed opportunities, and reactive processes—by delivering AI-drivenrecommendations and proactive guidance tailored to each prospect and every phase of the sales journey. The platform consolidates data from over 30 sources, including CRM systems, sales intelligence tools, call analytics, emails, and customer feedback, into a single interface.
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VestedWorld is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in emerging markets companies that have the potential to generate competitive financial returns while contributing towards the growth and development of the markets in which they are located. The firm supports these businesses through the infusion of capital, active involvement incorporate governance, and by providing direct strategic and operational assistance.
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- Industry: Agriculture, Farming, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana
Investor stats
- Total investments: 26
- Round size: Seed $1.6M–$5.9M; Series A $2.5M–$4.4M; Series B $9M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $187k in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- BFree — BFree focuses its collection processes on sustainably leading customers out of debt by giving them back control over their finances.
- Complete Farmer — Complete Farmer connects growers, buyers, and vendors with technology, support, and market access across Ghana and beyond.
- Jackfruit Finance — Fast, flexible school financing in Kenya. Get working capital, projects, and asset loans designed around school fee cycles and growth needs.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Retail, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Kenya, United States, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 29
- Round size: Seed $250k–$6M; Pre-Seed $1M–$3M; Series A $2M–$37M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Leta — Leta Technology is a software development company that creates supply chain and logistics software to enable the efficient and automated movement of goods.
- Savannah Brands — Savannah Brands is a food & beverage company.
- UTU Technologies — Trust infrastructure for the sharing economy.
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Browse database — It's Free!Playfair is a sector agnostic fund focused exclusively on pre-seed investing. Based in London, Playfair invests across the UK and Europe with an intentionally high conviction, low volume approach: making six investments a year out of its third $70m fund and preserving time, capital and resource to help companies post-investment. Our 78% Series Agraduation rate is ~3x industry average. Playfair has backed 100+ companies since 2013, including Thought Machine, Orca AI, Protex AI, StackOne and Nory.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 132
- Round size: Seed $1M–$7.7M; Pre-Seed $700k–$3.1M; Series A $2.7M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Nory — Revolutionise your restaurant with Nory's restaurant management software. Streamline operations, boost profits, and enhance decision-making in one platform.
- Protex AI — Protex AI develops an AI-powered proactive health and safety technology that enables an injury-free industrial workplace. The company allows EHS teams to adopt proactive safety cultures and in doing so realize an injury-free workplace.
- Passionfruit — Join hundreds of the best startups around the world and use Passionfruit to hire freelance marketing specialists on-demand.
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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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 88
- 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.
- Releaf Earth — 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.
- 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.
Frontier Car Group is a berlin-based startup who develop, launch, and operate used-automotive marketplaces within emerging market economies, with operations in Nigeria, Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Pakistan, and Indonesia. Additionally, we are successfully engaging in two joint ventures with OLX in India and Poland. We increase theefficiency of selling and buying cars through technology, infra-structure creation, access to capital and innovative business models that allows all stakeholders to gain from our impact.
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- Industry: Automotive, E-Commerce, E-Commerce Platforms
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Cars45 — Cars45 buys, sells, prices, and rates the condition of pre-owned autos. The Cars45 process begins online, where owners enter their vehicle information for a free quote. They can then schedule an appointment at one of the company’s 13 inspection centers in Nigeria. After a multi-point evaluation including engine, brakes, tires, and a road-test,Cars45 makes an offer. If accepted, the company commits to wire payment to the owner’s bank account within 45 minutes. After pricing and creating a digital service history, Cars45 offers the autos it acquires to a private network of buyers.
PanAfrican Investment is a private investment firm focused on the growth and development of companies in sub-Saharan Africa.
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- Industry: Local, Content, Automotive
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Kenya, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Savoteur — Travel More, Work Less, Be Curious
- Mobius Motors — Mobius Motors sells affordable vehicles designed specifically for the needs of developing world consumers. We aim to change millions of lives by providing the appropriate transport to mobilise rural Africa. Our vision is a more connected, more prosperous Africa.
- Bridge International Academies — Bridge International Academies is an operator of scholastic academy services used to provide education to underprivileged children. Its services provide lessons based on national curricula, develop in-depth teacher training and programs, and use cutting-edge wireless technology that enables underprivileged children to get the right education, freeof cost, for a brighter future.
Foundational partners to ambitious founders at every stage of company-building.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
- Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1539
- Round size: Series A $5.3M–$60M; Series B $10M–$80M; Series C $13M–$103M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $2.8B in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Perplexity — Perplexity is a search engine platform that uses artificial intelligence to provide large language models and search engines. The company's platform enables the development of beneficial artificial general intelligence, as well as an open-source environment that is accessible to the public, allowing clients to develop skills and knowledge inartificial intelligence.
- Allay Therapeutics — SUPPORTING PATIENTS THROUGH EVERY PHASE OF RECUPERATION The first technology designed to deliver weeks of localized pain management
- Regulus Therapeutics — Regulus Therapeutics Is a biopharmaceutical company leading the discovery of a new class of high-impact medicines based on microRNAs. The discovery of MicroRNA in humans is one of the most exciting scientific breakthroughs in the last decade. MicroRNAs are small RNA molecules, typically 20 to 25 nucleotides in length, that do not encode proteinsbut instead regulate gene expression. It was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Carlsbad, California.
Hoak & Co. is a holding company that seeks to invest its capital in public and private securities as well as with other funds and investment vehicles. The firm's objective is to achieve superior investment returns through long-term capital appreciation created primarily through investments in management buyouts, growth capital, industryconsolidations, recapitalizations, private equity placements, and other public or private equity-related securities.
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- Industry: Automotive, Auto Insurance, Human Resources
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Nigeria, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Mecho — Mecho is an on-demand auto repair and maintenance platform for individuals and businesses in Africa.
- Work Shield — Work Shield provides a workplace misconduct solution to mitigate risk. A technology-driven, human-led platform helps organizations address misconduct incidents
Ambo Ventures is a new fund dedicated to launching sustainable ecosystems in Africa.
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- Industry: CleanTech, Automotive, Electronics
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
V8 Capital Partners makes investments in enterprise technology businesses across Africa. African Venture Capital for software automation
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Round size: Seed $2M–$3M; Series A $10M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- ShapShap — ShapShap enhances delivery experience through its commission-based marketplace by assigning efficient orders to drivers to ensure their sustainability and scalability.
- Yemaachi Biotechnology — Yemaachi Biotechnology uses cutting-edge immunogenomics, bioinformatics, and artificial intelligence to accelerate the development of cancer detection and cure strategies for lowering the economic burden of cancer.
MSA Capital is a global venture capital and private equity firm that invests in technology-enabled companies from seed to growth stage. The firm manages capital from the world's top sovereign wealth funds, international asset managers, pension funds, university endowments, fund of funds, and family offices, as well as China's leading neweconomy entrepreneurs.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Biotechnology, Financial Services
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: China, United States, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 135
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$9M; Series A $3.5M–$33M; Series B $10M–$130M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- XProtocol — XProtocol is a modular entertainment chain that uses base's superchain technology to help developers create games with player-driven economies.
- MindOn — MindOn is a robotics company that develops artificial intelligence software and algorithms to create humanoid robots.
- Amador Bioscience — At Amador we provide global-standard translational sciences and clinical pharmacology services to leading biopharmaceutical companies.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, India, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 167
- Round size: Seed $300k–$4M; Pre-Seed $121k–$2M; Series A $2.8M–$23M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $25M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Life360 — Life360 is the leading family location safety app. Stay connected with your loved ones to ensure their safety with Life360.
- PodcastAI — Podcast like a pro: easily create transcripts, show notes, viral clips and publish your podcast everywhere all in just a few clicks of a button. Powered by AI, built for podcasters.
- Nova Benefits — We help companies find affordable health insurance and wellness benefits that their employees can trust.
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