Top 50 Automotive Startup Investors in Africa (August 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Mobility 54
VC Fund
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5 | Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Automotive, Financial Services, Transportation | $100k–$24M |
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Ventures Platform
VC Fund
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4 | Nigeria, United States, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Internet | $100k–$4.4M |
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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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British International Investment
VC Fund
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4 | India, Kenya, Nigeria | Debt Financing, Series B | Financial Services, Banking, Finance | $6.8M–$100M |
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Novastar Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | Kenya, Nigeria, United Kingdom | Series A, Series B | Agriculture, Health Care, FinTech | $1.7M–$42M |
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Kepple Africa Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | $100k–$23M |
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F6 Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | Tunisia, France | Seed, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, Information Technology, Retail | $62k–$200k |
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TLcom Capital Partners
VC Fund
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3 | Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom | Series A, Seed | Software, Mobile, Information Technology | $1.9M–$15M |
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U.S. International Development Finance Corp
VC Fund
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3 | India, Kenya, United States | Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Venture - Series Unknown | Financial Services, Finance, FinTech | $1M–$1B |
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IDF Capital SA
VC Fund
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3 | South Africa | Seed, Series A | Retail, FinTech, Internet | |
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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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Moxxie Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | United States, Canada, Kenya | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | $3M–$50M |
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Untapped Global
VC Fund
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3 | Kenya, South Africa, United Kingdom | Seed, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown | Transportation, FinTech, Financial Services | $1.2M–$30M |
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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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Launch Africa
VC Fund
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3 | Nigeria, South Africa, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology | $200k–$4M |
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Kalon Venture Partners
VC Fund
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3 | South Africa, Luxembourg, United States | Seed, Series A | Artificial Intelligence, Apps, Internet | $570k–$11M |
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4DX Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | Egypt, South Africa, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | FinTech, Financial Services, Logistics | $50k–$40M |
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Orbit Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Egypt, United Arab Emirates | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Artificial Intelligence, Software, FinTech | $100k–$12M |
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Thelatest.ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Nigeria, The Netherlands | Series A, Series B, Debt Financing | FinTech, Financial Services, Finance | $23M–$65M |
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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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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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Climate Capital
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Canada, Germany | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Energy, Manufacturing, Renewable Energy | $800k–$31M |
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Trucks Venture Capital
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Canada, India | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Automotive, Software, Transportation | $1M–$24M |
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EchoVC Partners
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Nigeria, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | FinTech, Information Technology, Financial Services | $200k–$22M |
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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 | $2.4M–$109M |
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Acumen
VC Fund
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2 | United States, India, Kenya | Seed, Series A | Agriculture, Solar, Financial Services | $300k–$12M |
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Beyond Capital Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | India, Kenya, Ghana | Series A, Venture - Series Unknown, Series B | Health Care, Insurance, E-Commerce | $2M–$12M |
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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, Series B | Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical | $2.5M–$100M |
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UNCOVERED FUND
VC Fund
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2 | Nigeria, Kenya, United States | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce | $700k–$40M |
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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, Payments | $25k–$15M |
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Golden Palm Investments
VC Fund
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2 | Nigeria, United States, Egypt | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Information Technology, Financial Services, Payments | $100k–$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 | $100k–$10M |
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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–$111M |
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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, Energy | $500k–$15M |
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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 | $713k–$33M |
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AlphaCode Club
VC Fund
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2 | South Africa, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates | Grant, Seed, Series B | Financial Services, FinTech, Apps | $26k–$17M |
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Equator
VC Fund
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2 | Kenya, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A | Software, Renewable Energy, Agriculture | $1.8M–$15M |
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Agence Française de Développement
VC Fund
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2 | India, Brazil, Mali | Grant, Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt | Banking, Finance, Waste Management | $12k–$351M |
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CFAO Kenya
VC Fund
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2 | Kenya | Series A, Corporate Round, Venture - Series Unknown | Solar, Automotive, Semiconductor | |
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CDG Invest
VC Fund
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1 | Morocco, France, Switzerland | Pre-Seed, Seed | Apps, Software, Internet | |
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216 Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Tunisia, France, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | B2B, SaaS, Software | $161k–$1.5M |
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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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Business Growth Fund
VC Fund
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1 | United Kingdom, Ireland, United States | Series A, Private Equity | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | |
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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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Satgana
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya, France, Austria | Pre-Seed, Seed | Electronics, B2B, Biotechnology | |
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54 Collective
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa | Seed, Pre-Seed | Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech | |
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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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Ethical Toy Program
VC Fund
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1 | Mali | Series A | Travel, Automotive, Communities | |
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Flybridge
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada, Brazil | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | |
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IFC Venture Capital Group
VC Fund
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1 | United States, India, Brazil | Series B, Series C | E-Commerce, Financial Services, Internet | |
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Mobility 54 is a joint venture among Toyota Tsusho Corporation and CFAO.
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- Industry: Automotive, Financial Services, Transportation
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal
Investor stats
- Total investments: 22
- Round size: Seed $3.4M–$13M; Series A $3.1M–$24M; Venture - Series Unknown $100k–$3M
- Lead/follow: 55% lead, 45% 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.
- Waspito — We are the platform that engages Africa into the conversation and action to drive affordable and accessible quality healthcare across the continent.
- Drive to Own — Drive to Own allows users to purchase private cars with no maintenance or insurance costs and grants miles for running the vehicle based on their prepaid amount, allowing customers to acquire ownership of private cars without any long-term commitment or loan screening process.
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: 160
- Round size: Seed $120k–$4.4M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Traction Apps — Traction apps provide businesses end to end tools they need to run and grow their businesses.
- MarketForce — MarketForce is a US, Kenya and Nigeria-based technology company that is building the SuperApp for Africa's 100 million merchants. MarketForce provides an all-inclusive B2B Commerce and Fintech platform (dubbed “RejaReja” – Swahili for ‘retail’) that empowers merchants in Africa to source, order and pay for inventory digitally and conveniently,access financing, collect digital payments and make extra money by reselling digital financial services such as airtime, electricity tokens and bill payments. Launched in 2018, MarketForce is a fast-growing YC backed company running an asset-light business model and is currently operational in 5 markets in Sub-Saharan Africa, with over 200,000 merchants and 50 consumer brands trading on the platform.
- ThankUCash — ThankUCash is a technology company powering rewards and loyalty for African banks and businesses. ThankUCash helps merchants grow revenue by connecting them to customers within and outside of their locations while retaining acquired customers using a data analytics-powered reward system where customers earn cash rewards for every transaction madeboth offline and online.
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–$1.3M
- Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Ferntech — Take control of your decentralized power system with Odyssey's FernTech software and hardware. Get real-time insights and automate operations with our reliable data collection, system automation, and range of controllers and IoT gateways. Explore the FernTech product suite and see how it works in action. Contact us to learn more.
- 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!
British International Investment is the UK's development finance institution. We've been at the forefront of supporting companies in developing countries for more than 70 years.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Banking, Finance
- Stage:Debt Financing, Series B
- Geography: India, Kenya, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 323
- Round size: Series B $13M–$70M; Debt Financing $6.8M–$100M
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
Portfolio highlights
- SunCulture — At SunCulture, we strive to solve the biggest daily challenges of smallholder farmers. We use off-grid solar technology to provide our customers with reliable access to water, irrigation, lighting, and mobile charging, and we can do all of that with a single system.
- Coris Holding — Coris Holding is a financial institution that was established with the motive to provide support to SMEs and SMIs.
- Solon Capital Holdings — Solon Capital Partners is a West-Africa focused investment manager that is pioneering a new approach to economic development and poverty reduction in fragile and post-conflict states.
For the many, not just the few. For good.
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- Industry: Agriculture, Health Care, FinTech
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 68
- Round size: Series A $1.7M–$24M; Series B $3.5M–$42M
- Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $108M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Soko — SOKO produces innovative, ethical jewelry and accessories from sustainable materials in Nairobi, Kenya
- Turaco — Turaco develops simplified insurance and credit solutions through mobile technology to solve the healthcare financing needs. Turaco has simplified insurance products and also provides on-demand health loans, allowing customers to get healthcare at affordable monthly premiums.
- Sistema.bio — Sistema.bio is a biodigester with biogas appliances. High efficiency biodigesters transform organic waste into renewable biogas.
Kepple Africa Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 84
- Round size: Seed $500k–$4.5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3.4M; Series A $1.1M–$23M
- Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- TIBU Health — TIBU Health is a disruptive HealthTech logistics company that provides high-quality healthcare services.
- Onboard — Onboard helps hardware companies transform their text manuals to 3D, intelligent manuals with instant customer support capabilities.
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, Information Technology, Retail
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Tunisia, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 62
- Round size: Seed $72k–$200k; Pre-Seed $62k–$100k
- Lead/follow: 60% lead, 40% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $10M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- WaterSec — WaterSec is a manufacturer of internet of things devices intended to communicate with gateways and send water usage data to application dashboards. They enable the customer to keep track of their water consumption. The monitoring of consumption was the solution to initiate the project. The water consumption and an optimized water-use efficiencyratio of all citizens and businesses.
- True Delta — True Delta is a data management and processing company. They are document recognition and data reconciliation processes. They offer data extraction from documents using ocr techniques, fast onboarding and data integration,and efficient data reconciliation with intelligent matching tools and less coding .
- 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.
TLCOM finds and funds exceptional founders building technology companies across Africa. Seed to Series C. Lagos, Nairobi, London.
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- Industry: Software, Mobile, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 75
- Round size: Seed $1.9M–$8.5M; Series A $3.8M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $150M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Autochek — Welcome To Autochek Group's Homepage. Read About The Company's Vision And Mission. Select A Country And Apply For Car Loans
- 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.
- Ilara Health — Ilara Health helps primary care clinics across Africa deliver better care.
U.S. International Development Finance Corp is America’s development bank.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
- Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: India, Kenya, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 129
- Round size: Post-IPO Debt $5M–$468M; Debt Financing $6.7M–$390M; Venture - Series Unknown $1M–$1B
- Lead/follow: 77% lead, 23% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $300M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Kodak — A global technology company providing industry-leading products and services for commercial print, packaging, publishing, manufacturing and entertainment.
- Bayport Management — Bayport Management Limited, through its subsidiaries, provides retail financial services in the Republic of Mauritius and internationally.
- Harena Rare Earths — Harena Rare Earths is a mineral exploration company. It focuses on the Ampasindava Ionic Clay Rare Earths Project in Madagascar, which contains 606,000 tonnes of Total Rare Earth Oxides (TREO). The company explores and develops critical magnet metals like neodymium, praseodymium, dysprosium, and terbium for use in clean energy, electronics, anddefense sectors.
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: Retail, FinTech, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% 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.
- Mortgage Market — Mortgage Market is a fintech startup that has created an online marketplace for home loans. Users are able to access a home loan easily via its online platform.
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Browse database — It's Free!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: 67
- Round size: Series A $4M–$30M; Series B $5.5M–$45M
- Lead/follow: 75% lead, 25% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Trashie — Just a 'small-town' recycling and rewards platform trying to make it in the big city.
- 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.
Moxxie invests in founders who make life and work better.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 62
- Round size: Seed $3M–$9.5M; Series A $10M–$24M; Series B $18M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Throne — Throne tracks gut health vitals and hydration with every flush.
- Knit Health — Knit is a healthcare-native intelligence platform trained on real clinical data. Unified AI layer for specialist routing, patient flow, care allocation & more.
- Dandelion Health AI — Catalyzing the development of clinical AI for everyone
Untapped connects global investors, and foreign capital to opportunities in emerging markets. Delivering competitive returns, and measurable impact for global investors.
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- Industry: Transportation, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Kenya, South Africa, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 19
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 68% lead, 32% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Elimutab — Elimutab - Find the best learning tablets for children and students, including options for 1-year-olds, studying with pens, and work and study needs.
- OX Delivers — Our objective is to deliver affordable transport in emerging markets, creating a self-reinforcing cycle of economic growth and social impact. To achieve this, we are developing the world's first clean-transport ecosystem that combines goods shipment with financial, trading & marketing services. This OX ecosystem will be enabled by ourunique zero-emissions OX truck; the only purpose-designed electric vehicle for emerging markets.
- Rabbit — Transforming transportion in the region. Rabbit is a micro-mobility sharing platform for short-distance transportation using environmentally friendly vehicles.
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: 95
- 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.
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, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Nigeria, South Africa, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 217
- Round size: Seed $200k–$4M; Pre-Seed $200k–$1.8M; Venture - Series Unknown $200k–$500k
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $36M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Zazu — Zazu is a neobank for African SMEs, offering seamless banking tools, cash flow automation, and real-time insights. Zazu simplifies finance management in one all-in-one solution.
- Fincart — Fincart is a leading shipping platform in Egypt, connecting your business with top courier services, automating operations, and helping you scale your eCommerce logistics.
- Udu Technologies — Udu Technologies is an AI infrastructure company that offers GPU systems, AI platform integration, and technical support services.
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: Artificial Intelligence, Apps, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: South Africa, Luxembourg, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 19
- Round size: Seed $570k–$4.6M; Series A $2.5M–$11M
- Lead/follow: 63% lead, 37% follow
Portfolio highlights
- GoMetro — Fleet management simplified with GoMetro. Integrate telematics, gain real-time visibility, and optimize operations with a secure, scalable platform,
- Sendmarc — Manage your organization's DMARC, SPF, and DKIM with world-class implementation services and support. All in one easy-to-use platform.
- visionAI — Discover how AI MES software enhances factory efficiency and reduces blindspots to minimize equipment downtime and boost productivity.
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, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Egypt, South Africa, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 93
- Round size: Seed $456k–$8M; Pre-Seed $50k–$6.5M; Series A $3M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $60M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Autochek — Welcome To Autochek Group's Homepage. Read About The Company's Vision And Mission. Select A Country And Apply For Car Loans
- 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.
- Aethex — End to end voice agents localized for your market.
Orbit helps scale breakthrough startups from around the globe across emerging and frontier markets.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Egypt, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 312
- Round size: Seed $150k–$2M; Pre-Seed $100k–$1M; Series A $2.6M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 77% lead, 23% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Qanary — Qanary is a digital second-opinion platform designed to help radiologists detect cancer at its earliest, most treatable stages.
- Cypien AI — Cypien learns your brand and visitor behavior, then composes segment-specific content, visuals, product order, search, landing pages, and UI.
- MyAlice — The modern customer service and social selling platform. Support anytime and sell anywhere with all your messages, orders, and agents in one place.
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, Financial Services, Finance
- 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.
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: 75
- Round size: Seed $2.9M–$15M; Series A $6.9M–$23M; Series B $17M–$70M
- Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Finless Foods — Discover sustainable, cell-cultured seafood alternatives like bluefin tuna at Finless Foods, committed to ocean health and responsible food innovation.
- Blue Energy — Modular power plants for modular nuclear reactors
- Colossal Biosciences — The science of genetics. The business of discovery.
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Browse database — It's Free!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: 73
- Round size: Seed $330k–$5.3M; Pre-Seed $100k–$7M; Series A $2.5M–$35M
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Turaco — Turaco develops simplified insurance and credit solutions through mobile technology to solve the healthcare financing needs. Turaco has simplified insurance products and also provides on-demand health loans, allowing customers to get healthcare at affordable monthly premiums.
- Meridia — De-risk the sourcing, procurement, trading & compliance of commodities under the EUDR.
- ReForest Latam — ReForest Latam is an biotech company restoring ecosystems and creating forests to fight climate change.
Diversified investments in the most promising early stage climate startups backed by top tier VCs.
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- Industry: Energy, Manufacturing, Renewable Energy
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Canada, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 128
- Round size: Seed $2M–$9M; Pre-Seed $800k–$2.5M; Series A $9.5M–$31M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Scalvy — Scalvy is a distributed power delivery company that develops modular power electronics and energy systems that enable distributed power delivery for applications such as data centers, energy storage, and electric mobility. The company replaces traditional centralized power architectures with a distributed system of “power neurons,” which convertand manage electricity closer to the point of use, improving efficiency, scalability, and system reliability. Its platform is built on software-defined, modular components that can be scaled across different power levels and use cases, allowing flexible deployment in high-demand environments. These systems support high-voltage output ranges and deliver high power density while reducing the physical footprint and complexity of conventional power infrastructure.
- Critical Loop — Unlock the grid. Unlock opportunity.
- Supra Elemental Recovery — Profitable rare earth element recovery, coming soon.
Trucks Venture Capital funds the entrepreneurs building the future of transportation.
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- Industry: Automotive, Software, Transportation
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Canada, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 82
- Round size: Seed $2M–$7M; Pre-Seed $1M–$5M; Series A $5M–$24M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- JetZero — JetZero is an aerospace company that designs and manufactures zero-emissions jet aircraft.Airlines have long sought more fuel-efficient aircraft and now that climate change is a worldwide problem, planes with minimal carbon emissions, if not zero, are unavoidable. Their objective is to hasten such shift. JetZero is actively collaborating withNASA on sustainable aircraft ideas that will soon make zero-emission flight a reality.JetZero is headquartered in Long Beach, California and was founded in 2020.
- Maritime Fusion — Fusion reactors for ships
- Astranova Mobility — Electrifi Mobility is an operator of an electric vehicle asset management and leasing firm aimed at helping commercial fleets electrify.
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: FinTech, Information Technology, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 57
- Round size: Seed $200k–$4M; Pre-Seed $200k–$2.2M; Series A $1.2M–$22M
- Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $8M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Printivo — Design & print Business Cards, flyers, mugs and other print products online and we will deliver your doorstep. Get instant quotes.
- S&T Media — AdPump The Best Digital Platform to advertise your products and services
- Rana Energy — No. 1 Solar Community in Africa
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: 677
- Round size: Series A $2.4M–$63M; Series B $4.3M–$109M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Eyeota — Engage your best customers with trusted audience data | enrich insights, enhance personalization and transform audience targeting.
- Moi — Moi Corporation was founded to deliver on the promise of the Twitcasting social live streaming platform. We developed Twitcasting to enable people to stream and share live video anytime, anywhere - connecting the world in real-time. TwitCasting provides a live streaming social platform that enables real-time chat between broacasters andviewers, through apps or desktop. Users can follow their favorite broadcasters and receive notifications when new a new live stream is about to start. Broadcasters can save and publish their live streams for later viewing.In early 2014 we added "Collabo" to Twitcasting, enabling as many as 6 users to broadcast together, in a single display. Viewers can join a broadcast that is already streaming live and broadcast together. It is the first app to support multi-device broadcasting in a single stream on mobile and PC. Our user base has doubled every year, and hit 7.5 million in September, 2014. While the largest part of our base is in Asia, users in US, Brazil, Mexico and other Latin American countries are now growing rapidly. About 70% of our users are under 25 years old, & approximately 95% of broadcasters shoot on mobile. 
- Deeping Source — Real-time Video Analytics based on Data Anonymization. High-accuracy computer vision for large-scale spaces: hypermarkets, shopping malls, convention centers, hospitals, logistics warehouses, construction sites, etc.
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, Solar, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, India, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 186
- Round size: Seed $300k–$2.5M; Series A $1.6M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 49% lead, 51% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $2.8M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Sproxil — Sproxil is an information technology company that focuses on supply chains and consumer engagement. It specializes in brand protection, consumer engagement, anti-counterfeiting, product authentication, and consumer promotions. The company was founded in 2009 and headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
- Orb Energy — Orb Energy is a vertically integrated solar company that manufactures solar panels, design, install, and services complete system, and finance C&I customers.
- MindRight Health — MindRight Health is a tech startup that provides mental health coaching over text message to empower communities to heal from trauma
Beyond Capital Ventures is a venture capital firm, offering a diversified portfolio of companies in "need-to-have" sectors, led by conscious leaders.
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- Industry: Health Care, Insurance, E-Commerce
- Stage:Series A, Venture - Series Unknown, Series B
- Geography: India, Kenya, Ghana
Investor stats
- Total investments: 17
- Round size: Series A $2M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 59% lead, 41% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Fasal — Fasal offers smart irrigation automation and fertigation automation system, soil moisture & temperature sensors, weather stations for precision irrigation
- Alt Mobility — ALT Mobility is a full-stack EV leasing platform offering mobility as a service (MaaS) for commercial vehicle users.
- BimaKavach — Buy business insurance online from India's top 25 insurers in minutes with AI-powered risk analysis, policy comparison, and customised coverage for businesses in India
UTEC-The University of Tokyo Edge Capital Partners Co., Ltd.. UTEC is a seed/early stage technology focused venture capital firm associated with The University of Tokyo.
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- Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 195
- Round size: Seed $2.5M–$35M; Series A $2.8M–$64M; Series B $2.8M–$100M
- Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Flosfia — FLOSFIA is a spin-off from a research of Kyoto University, specializing in film-formation by mist chemical vapor deposition (CVD). Making use of physical properties of gallium oxide (Ga2O3), FLOSFIA has devoted to development of low-loss power devices.
- TXP Medical — TXP Medical build a next-generation medical system through acute care.
- Startbahn — Startbahn aims to realize a richer society by providing the technology needed by artists and people involved with art all over the world. We are developing Startbahn Cert., a service that issues blockchain certificates for artworks, and promoting the development of Startrail, a blockchain infrastructure that is the basis for Startbahn Cert. We alsorun joint projects with other companies.
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, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 30
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$3.7M; Pre-Seed $700k–$2.1M; Series A $4M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% 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.
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, Payments
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 77
- Round size: Seed $600k–$3.7M; Pre-Seed $25k–$2.1M; Series A $500k–$15M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% 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.
- Eduflexx AI — EduFlexAI is an AI-driven ed-tech platform that personalizes learning by adapting school curriculums to individual student needs. Using advanced machine learning, real-time analytics, and AI-powered tools, EduFlexAI enhances engagement, improves academic performance, and optimizes teacher efficiency. Our mission is to make quality education morepersonalized, inclusive, and accessible for students worldwide.
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Browse database — It's Free!Golden Palm Investments is an investment holding and advisory company.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Financial Services, Payments
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 76
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$6M; Pre-Seed $100k–$6.5M; Series A $3M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2014
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- Talstack — Talstack is an all-in-one platform for employee growth and development
- MAKA — MAKA is a community commerce platform for fashion and beauty, enabling everyone to discover their style, feel represented.
- Renda — At Renda, we are passionate about revolutionizing the logistics and mobility sectors with cutting-edge technology that enables businesses and operators to seamlessly scale in emerging markets.
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: 203
- Round size: Seed $125k–$7.5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3.2M; Series A $2.5M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
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- 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.
- Zeno — Zeno is a climate conscious motor company that offers eco-friendly motorcycles.
- Lori Systems — Lori Systems is revolutionizing African logistics through innovative technology solutions. We connect shippers, transporters, and drivers to create efficient, reliable, and transparent supply chains across 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: 172
- Round size: Seed $2.5M–$20M; Series A $9.4M–$40M; Series B $20M–$111M
- Lead/follow: 59% lead, 41% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $1.4B in 2022
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- Trovy — Your home's equity, in your wallet. Trovy Lending Co. dba Trovy NMLS #2676733
- Lexroom.ai — Lexroom.ai allows lawyers to complete hours of legal research in seconds.Legal professionals spend up to 50% of their time in repetitive, low value-adding tasks. That’s why we’re building Lexroom.ai, a product that allows lawyers to complete hours of research in seconds, so they can focus on what really matters.Lexroom.ai perfectly integrateswith lawyers' daily workflow and enables them to speed up time-consuming legal research tasks while increasing output quality, so that they can focus more on value-adding activities.Lexroom.ai is building a bridge between advanced artificial intelligence technologies and legal professionals, through a product specifically tailored to their needs.
- 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.
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, Energy
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 48
- Round size: Seed $1M–$12M; Pre-Seed $500k–$3.5M; Series A $558k–$15M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $50M in 2020
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- 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's smart meters and AI show every machine's consumption live and flag waste in time to stop it. Plants cut energy costs by up to 30%.
- Octavia Carbon — Reversing Climate Change | Ending the Fossil Fuel Age | In Kenya.
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: 603
- Round size: Seed $1M–$8M; Pre-Seed $713k–$3.8M; Series A $4.1M–$33M
- Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $384M in 2022
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- 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!
- Facility — Flexkeeping is a Hotel Operations Platform designed to help teams automate and collaborate like never before.
- Polaron — Material Design. Supercharged with AI.
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, Apps
- Stage:Grant, Seed, Series B
- Geography: South Africa, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 39
- Round size: Seed $57k–$7.2M; Grant $26k–$114k; Series B $2.3M–$17M
- Lead/follow: 64% lead, 36% follow
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- Planet42 — Having your own car has never been easier. Planet42 is a vehicle rental company offering rent-to-buy car service for private clients.
- AgrigateOne — Shining a light on every stage of the fresh produce supply chain, ensuring transparency for growers & buyers. Agritech | Software | Technology
- Moment — Africa is entering a transformative period of economic and technological growth driven by rapid digital adoption, expanding mobile connectivity, and a young, increasingly connected population. With approximately 1.5 billion people and one of the world’s fastest-growing youth demographics, the continent is experiencing a significant shift towardelectronic payments, mobile-first services, and broader digital transformation.Although widespread internet access and traditional banking infrastructure developed later in many African markets compared to other regions, this delayed adoption has accelerated innovation in mobile technology and financial services. Mobile money platforms, digital banking solutions, fintech ecosystems, and e-commerce adoption are reshaping how consumers and businesses interact across the continent.This youth-driven wave of innovation is creating substantial opportunities in sectors such as fintech, telecommunications, logistics, e-commerce, renewable energy, education technology, and digital services. Both global corporations and emerging local enterprises are actively investing in Africa’s rapidly evolving digital economy, competing to unlock new markets and address underserved populations.The continent’s ongoing transformation is expected to play a major role in global economic growth over the next two decades, positioning Africa as a significant center for innovation, entrepreneurship, and digital commerce.
A venture capital firm investing in tech-enabled, early-stage ventures that are accelerating an equitable climate transition in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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- Industry: Software, Renewable Energy, Agriculture
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
- Geography: Kenya, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Round size: Seed $1.8M–$5M; Series A $14M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 64% lead, 36% follow
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- Leta — Leta Technology is a software development company that creates supply chain and logistics software to enable the efficient and automated movement of goods.
- Open Access Energy — South Africa's first multilateral wheeling software platform that automates energy transactions.
- 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.
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: Banking, Finance, Waste Management
- Stage:Grant, Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt
- Geography: India, Brazil, Mali
Investor stats
- Total investments: 23
- Round size: Grant $12k–$1M; Post-IPO Debt $80M–$286M; Debt Financing $54M–$351M
- Lead/follow: 74% lead, 26% follow
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- National Bank of Egypt — National Bank of Egypt Home Page
- Caixa Econômica Federal — A Caixa é uma instituição financeira, sob a forma de empresa pública do governo federal brasileiro.
- Democratic Republic of Congo — #DRCInvest is a partnership initiative created to attract & facilitate private sector investment in agriculture & infrastructure development in the DR Congo
CFAO Kenya operates renewable energy and infrastructure projects and scale-up of the various start-ups in the mobility sector.
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- Industry: Solar, Automotive, Semiconductor
- Stage:Series A, Corporate Round, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Kenya
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- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow
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- OFGEN — OFGEN is a leading Pan- African Renewable Energy player specializing in developing, financing, executing, and operating distributed renewable energy assets.
- 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.
CDG Invest is the investment branch of the CDG group. CDG Invest acts both as an investment manager for its own account following both financial and strategic logic, as well as as a fund manager for third parties. CDG Invest intervenes in various key sectors of the Moroccan economy: industry, agro-food, digital/digital, renewable energy, andterritorial PPP and with various segments of companies.
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- Industry: Apps, Software, Internet
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Morocco, France, Switzerland
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- Total investments: 26
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- VelyVelo — Discover VelyVelo, the specialist in the rental, servicing and maintenance of electric bicycles for professionals in Paris, Lyon, Bordeaux and Marseille.
- Userguest.com — Userguest is a Travel SaaS company that provides technology to hotels in order to improve their online revenue. Our smart tool applies RevMarketing Automation to hotel website, by matching a user’s booking intent with the hotel’s inventory priorities. We display personalized incentives to boost hotel revenue where it counts.
- Strapack Morocco — Strapack Morocco offers packaging and industrial packaging solutions. It provides an extensive range of machinery, materials, and consumables to ensure efficiency in packaging activities.
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Browse database — It's Free!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: 26
- Round size: Seed $336k–$1.5M; Pre-Seed $161k–$1M
- Lead/follow: 62% lead, 38% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
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- 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.
- Robocare — RoboCare promotes sustainable agriculture by combining spectral technology and artificial intelligence (AI). Precision agricultural services include crop monitoring, stress mitigation, plant requirements control, increased land efficiency, and pesticide optimization.
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
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- Total investments: 129
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- 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.
BGF is the most active equity investor in the UK and Ireland, providing long-term, minority investment to growing companies.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Series A, Private Equity
- Geography: United Kingdom, Ireland, United States
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- Total investments: 268
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- Sulmara — Innovation for a sustainable energy future | Sulmara
- Besseges — ValvesTubesFittings.com launched in 2015 as the online arm of Besseges VTF and has become one of the leading online pipeline suppliers.
- Miracle Design & Play — Miracle Design & Play specializes in designing and installing playgrounds for children.
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.
Satgana is a global Climate Tech Venture Capital firm backing purpose-driven founders building a planet-positive future, in Europe and Africa.
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- Industry: Electronics, B2B, Biotechnology
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Kenya, France, Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 16
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Voltiris — Unlock renewable energy in your greenhouse with Voltiris' spectral filtering technology.
- NitroVolt — NitroVolt: the next generational step of sustainable ammonia.
- Brineworks — Industry leading costs through cutting edge electrochemistry, and renewably powered intermittent operation
Building and scaling African tech startups with catalytic capital, value-add support and our global network.
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- Industry: Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 107
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Billboxx — Empowering SMEs to pay and get paid on time, every time.
- mTek — mTek is a digital online insurance platform that provides an entirely paperless ecosystem for the insurance industry.
- REasy — Top up locally, pay suppliers globally, and manage international shipments with REasy. Fast, secure, and designed for African businesses expanding worldwide.
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.
We offer a one-stop ethical sourcing platform for your supply chain via Factory Certification, Social Impact Assessment, Environmental Assessment, and worker well-being initiatives
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- Industry: Travel, Automotive, Communities
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Mali
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Teliman — Teliman has launched the very first on-demand taxi-moto service in Bamako, connecting urban commuters with professional drivers (trained, equipped and fully insured) in Africa’s fastest growing capital (Bamako). Rather than “disrupting” the local eco-system, Teliman aims at developing innovative solutions to create shared value for a communitywhere public transportation is highly insufficient and 600,000+ passengers struggle every day to commute. Having gained the trust of Toyota Tsusho Corporation (via CFAO) and local investors in pre-seed, Teliman aims to provide a safe, convenient and affordable solution for Mali and West-Africa.
New York and Boston Based Early-Stage Venture Capital Firm Backing Seed Stage AI Companies. Focused on AI Enablement, Developer Platforms, Agentic Business Applications, and Native AI for Human Ingenuity
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, Brazil
Investor stats
- Total investments: 351
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Jibo — Founded in 2012, Jibo is widely known for creating the eponymous robot, Jibo: the first social robot for the home. Jibo is built to interact and communicate with the people around him, and he uses advanced Natural Language Understanding (NLU) along with speech and facial recognition to forge relationships with his family. Jibo, Inc. officiallylaunched Jibo to the public in 2017 after nearly three years of intensive development and optimization. The company is privately held and headquartered in Boston.
- Metaphi — Metaphi is the AI agent that gives you superpowers by proactively researching things of your interest, and executing tasks for you.
- MelodyArc — MelodyArc is a platform for building and deploying AI operators - agentic AI systems that work across real-world tools, data and teams.
IFC supports technology ventures that are creating new opportunities in emerging markets, transforming industries, and driving inclusive growth while realizing strong returns.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Financial Services, Internet
- Stage:Series B, Series C
- Geography: United States, India, Brazil
Investor stats
- Total investments: 60
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Scanntech — Scanntech provides point-of-sale software to retail stores. The company offers tech solutions and connectivity in sales points to enables independent supermarkets to process transactions, run inventory management, and provide financial services to consumers through intelligence point of sale software.Scanntech was founded in 1992 and is based inMontevideo, Uruguay.
- TradeDepot — TradeDepot is an end-to-end distribution platform that connects the world's top consumer goods companies directly to retailers on the streets of Africa's cities. With its headquarters in Lagos, Nigeria, TradeDepot’s aim is to build the largest retail distribution network in Africa. The company was founded in 2016, with a mission toimprove milk distribution to smaller retailers on the continent, using technology. Today, the company is scaling the same technology to improve the distribution of food, beverages and personal care products to retailers, and to improve livelihoods for these retail store owners.
- Ingenix — Our solution leverages proprietary multimodal AI essential for tackling the complexities of multimodal biological systems.
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