Top 45 Automotive Startup Investors in Nigeria (June 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Kepple Africa Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt | Seed, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | $300k–$4.5M |
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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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MUFG Innovation Partners
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Japan, Indonesia | Series A, Series C | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | $12M–$928M |
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LocalGlobe
VC Fund
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1 | United Kingdom, United States, France | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $1M–$33M |
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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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Verod Capital Management
VC Fund
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1 | Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom | Series A, Series C | Financial Services, FinTech, Finance | $23M–$110M |
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MSA Novo
VC Fund
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1 | Egypt, India, Pakistan | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, E-Commerce, FinTech | $1.5M–$32M |
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British International Investment
VC Fund
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1 | India, Kenya, Nigeria | Debt Financing, Series B | Financial Services, Banking, Finance | $9M–$130M |
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Balderton Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Series A, Series B, Series C | Software, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence | $4.5M–$150M |
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EchoVC Partners
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Nigeria, Kenya | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Information Technology, FinTech, Software | $200k–$22M |
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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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BYLD
VC Fund
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, Nigeria | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, Payments, FinTech | $120k–$6.5M |
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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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AfricInvest
VC Fund
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1 | Tunisia, Kenya, Morocco | Private Equity, Series A | Financial Services, Manufacturing, FinTech | $6.5M–$65M |
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Palm Drive Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada, Colombia | Seed, Series A | Software, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence | $465k–$27M |
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IFC Venture Capital Group
VC Fund
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1 | United States, India, China | Series B, Series C | E-Commerce, Energy, Internet | $9.1M–$60M |
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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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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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NBK Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, The Netherlands | Series A | FinTech, Finance, Financial Services | $65M–$65M |
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Kreos Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Germany, United Kingdom, United States | Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Series B | Biotechnology, Health Care, Software | $5.5M–$67M |
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TPG Growth
VC Fund
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1 | United States, India, China | Private Equity, Series C, Series B | Health Care, Software, E-Commerce | $15M–$1.3B |
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Class 5 Global
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Singapore, United Arab Emirates | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce | $300k–$23M |
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Mobility 54
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya, Nigeria, Côte d'Ivoire | Seed, Series A | Financial Services, Transportation, Payments | $3M–$24M |
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Latitude
VC Fund
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1 | United Kingdom, United States, The Netherlands | Series B, Series C, Series A | Financial Services, Software, FinTech | $20M–$170M |
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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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Roka Works
VC Fund
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1 | Nigeria, Singapore, The Netherlands | Series A, Seed | FinTech, Finance, Financial Services | $23M–$23M |
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Stride Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | India, France, Singapore | Debt Financing, Seed, Series A | E-Commerce, Financial Services, Internet | $286k–$37M |
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Musha Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Nigeria, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Financial Services, FinTech | $125k–$10M |
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Tekedia Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Nigeria, United Arab Emirates | Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel | FinTech, Information Technology, Financial Services | $150k–$2.5M |
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Ndubuisi Ekekwe
Angel
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1 | Nigeria, United Arab Emirates | Pre-Seed, Angel | FinTech, AgTech, Internet | |
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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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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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Spartech Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Nigeria, The Netherlands | Series A, Seed, Series B | FinTech, Finance, Automotive | $23M–$23M |
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Tekton Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, South Korea, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | E-Commerce, Internet, FinTech | $1.2M–$30M |
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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
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.
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.
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.
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: 535
- 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.
- YouAppi — Change the way the game is played and make a lasting impression, the second time around. YouAppi mobile advertising puts your app where you want it — top of mind. Find new users and reactivate lapsed users to grow your app revenue with YouAppi. Follow us on Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn, or for more information, visit www.youappi.com.
- Zenno Astronautics — Zenno Astronautics hardware and software products ensure satellite missions are effectively managed, guaranteeing maximum economic returns and responsible use of space.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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
MUFG announced today the establishment of MUFG Innovation Partners Co., Ltd. (“MUIP”) that will manage corporate venture capital funds of MUFG to accelerate open innovation and strengthening partnerships with FinTech related startups.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Series A, Series C
- Geography: United States, Japan, Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 66
- Round size: Series A $12M–$928M; Series C $18M–$103M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $2.7B in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Bloomo Securities — Bloomo Investment is a software company that specializes in the development of smart and fun investment apps.
- Carsome — Carsome is an online used car platform that provides efficient car selling services to individuals and entities. Through its online bidding portal, customers are able to sell their vehicles directly to dealers. Carsome facilitates the entire car selling process from inspection to valuation, bidding, and payment as well as logistics needs, allowingthe customers to sell their cars.It was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Malaysia, the company has expanded to Indonesia, Thailand, and Singapore.
- READYFOR — READYFOR is a Japanese crowdfunding platform for the service sector. It enables investors to find projects to invest on.
Seeding ambitious founders at places like @citymapper, @improbableio,@teamkano, @moo, @songkick,@seedcamp, @transferwise and @zoopla since 1999. Who's next?
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 333
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$12M; Pre-Seed $1M–$3.5M; Series A $3.5M–$33M
- Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $500M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Wefarm — Wefarm is a farmer-to-farmer digital network that enables farmers to share information via SMS. The company allows small-scale farmers to connect with one another to solve problems, share ideas, and spread innovation. Utilizing the latest machine learning technology, Wefarm’s service works both online and over SMS.Since its founding in 2015,Wefarm has been named one of Africa’s Most Innovative Companies by FastCompany and has won Google’s Impact Challenge Award, TechCrunch’s Europas-Tech for Good Award, and the European Union Commission’s Ideas from Europe prize, among others. The company is headquartered in London with a field presence in Nairobi, Kampala, and Dar-es-Salaam.
- Circular — Developers-focused job platform for Software Developers, DevOps, Data Science & more. Sign up now and get access to successful hiring processes in Spain, Remote.
- Victory League — Victory League is a profit-driven sports entertainment organization that uses mass-market events and media manipulation to benefit athletes financially.
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.
Verod is a leading West-African private equity investor seeking to partner with fast growing companies, led by strong, result driven management teams, and which have the potential to become large, dominant and sustainable enterprises.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Stage:Series A, Series C
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Series A $23M–$23M; Series C $90M–$110M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Moniepoint — Moniepoint provides an all-in-one payments, banking and operations platform for businesses and their customers.
- Medplus — Medplus is a wholesale, retail, and dispensing healthcare platform established for the distribution and retailing of locally manufactured and imported drugs, b
- 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.
MSA Novo, a multi-stageglobal venture capital firm, boasts a diverse portfolio of startups and established businesses in tech, fintech, and consumer sectors.
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- Industry: Financial Services, E-Commerce, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Egypt, India, Pakistan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 59
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$11M; Pre-Seed $1.5M–$6.5M; Series A $6.6M–$32M
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kaso — Elkaso is the leading Order and Procurement Management Tool for Restaurants and Suppliers in the Middle East.
- Tap Protocol — Tap Protocol is a protocol that focuses on the development of bitcoin capabilities through the Ordinals system.
- Yellow Metal — Fintech company that provides Gold loan
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: 152
- Round size: Series B $14M–$50M; Debt Financing $9M–$130M
- Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Scatec ASA — Scatec is a leading renewable energy solutions provider, accelerating access to reliable and affordable clean energy in emerging markets.
- Wave Mobile Money — Wave Mobile Money provides an app-based financial solution to save, transfer, and borrow money. Wave Mobile Money is on a mission to make Africa the first cashless continent. On a continent where less than 10% of the population has a bank account, Wave is building the first modern financial network — no account fees, instantly available, andaccepted everywhere! It is building life-changing financial infrastructure. When mobile money succeeded in Kenya, it lifted about a million people out of poverty. And yet, over 10 years later, most Africans still lack access to affordable ways to save, transfer or borrow the money they need to build businesses or provide for their families. Wave is solving this problem by using technology to build a radically inclusive and extremely affordable financial network.
- CLR Facility Services — CLR is a leading Integrated Facility Management (IFM) company with a PAN India presence, providing comprehensive solutions including IFM, Technical Services, Business Support, Aviation Services, Production Support, and Floor Care Services.
In the two decades since our founding, we have worked with hundreds of extraordinary European founders, and have raised eight funds totalling more than $3bn.
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 381
- Round size: Series A $4.5M–$30M; Series B $9.3M–$85M; Series C $15M–$150M
- Lead/follow: 49% lead, 51% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $615M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Clue — Track your menstrual cycle with the Clue app, a women-led period and cycle tracker. Get science-based insights, predictions, and personalized tracking.
- 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.
- Quantum Systems — Our vision is to become the global leader in providing aerial data for decision making by the use of our drones.
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.
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Browse database — It's Free!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.
Byld Ventures is a corporate venture capital firm focusing on early-stage technology investments.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Payments, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 24
- Round size: Seed $200k–$6.5M; Pre-Seed $120k–$2.1M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Waza — Waza is a web platform with APIs. It helps startups and emerging market businesses manage their cash flow issues, invoicing needs, and international payment requirements.
- Bluerails — Bluerails is a fintech firm that has created an on-chain treasury platform to improve cross-border payments and treasury management for businesses, family offices, and high-net-worth individuals.
- Stream — Stream is a company that helps make payments simpler, faster, and reliable.
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.
AfricInvest was founded in 1994 and is part of Integra Group, an investment and financial services company based in Tunisia.Uniquely positioned as one of the most experienced private equity investors on the continent, AfricInvest has dedicated investment teams focused on North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa, and employs 66 professionals based inseven offices.AfricInvest manages USD1 billion across 16 funds and benefits from strong, long-term support from both local and international investors, including leading development finance institutions in the United States and Europe.Having co-founded the African Venture Capital Association (AVCA) as well as the Middle East North Africa Private Equity Association (MENAPEA) and the Euromed Capital Forum, the firm is an active promotor of the private equity industry in the region.Since 1994, AfricInvest has invested in 135 companies across 25 African countries in a variety of high growth sectors and maintains a broad network of high quality executives across Africa, offering extensive expertise in key growth industries, including financial services, agribusiness, consumer/retail, education and healthcare.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Manufacturing, FinTech
- Stage:Private Equity, Series A
- Geography: Tunisia, Kenya, Morocco
Investor stats
- Total investments: 106
- Round size: Series A $7M–$65M; Private Equity $6.5M–$21M
- Lead/follow: 64% lead, 36% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ArabyAds — ArabyAds offers a suite of enterprise-level B2B ecommerce automation platforms that deliver the most promising, responsive and performance-oriented digital advertising technologies.
- Promamec — Since 1981, Promamec has been producing and distributing medical devices in Morocco: equipment, medical equipment or consumable
- Aerobotics — Powerful insights for precision growing and crop insurance
Venture capital firm backing generational founders at pre-seed and seed. New York and San Francisco.
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Canada, Colombia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 170
- Round size: Seed $465k–$7.9M; Series A $7M–$27M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $75M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Durafi — Advanced DeFi Protocol for Derivatives
- Qashio — Qashio is a spend management platform that allows people to monitor costs, make payments with app credit cards, and handle payables. Founded in 2021 and is based in Dubai.
- Highstreet — Highstreet is a commerce-centric metaverse accessible on browsers and native PC VR. With veterans from VR, Defi, fine art, and hype markets, the mission of Highstreet is to bridge the gap between reality and the digital world and redefine how financial products should be consumed and sold on the market. Players are able to form parties to explore avast new world on the Highstreet interface, own and expand their virtual reality estates, and buy tokenized products from their favorite brands.
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, Energy, Internet
- Stage:Series B, Series C
- Geography: United States, India, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 60
- Round size: Series B $10M–$43M; Series C $9.1M–$60M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Loggi — Loggi is connecting Brazil, using technology to reinvent logistics with a fast, cost-efficient, and reliable network across e-commerce, wholesale food delivery, and courier services. Loggi is unlocking the growth of the on-demand economy, supporting new commerce for Brazil’s large, young, urban population.The company was founded in 2013 and isbased in São Paulo, Brazil.
- Coursera — Coursera is an online education company that serves over 20 million registered learners by partnering with 140 of the world’s best universities and education institutions. On Coursera, anyone, anywhere can access over 1,000 online courses and Specializations in dozens of fields in order to achieve meaningful career, educational, and personalenrichment goals throughout their lives.The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California.
- 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.
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.
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.
Watani Investment Company KSCC (NBK Capital) was established in 2005 as the investment banking arm of National Bank of Kuwait (NBK), one of the largest financial institutions in the region with nearly USD 50 billion in total assets. Drawing on the parent bank's unrivaled financial strength, substantial organizational structure and storiedbanking heritage, we deliver an array of financial solutions in four principal business disciplines Alternative Investments, Asset Management, Brokerage & Research and Investment Banking.With in-depth knowledge of the region’s financial and regulatory environments, as well as its unique cultural dimensions, NBK Capital offers a robust and growing investment platform for clients and investors. Recognized for our customer-centric approach, proven processes and successful track record, we have within the span of last two years advised on over USD 7.4 billion in financing transactions and USD 2.5 billion in M&A transactions.
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- Industry: FinTech, Finance, Financial Services
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, The Netherlands
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Series A $65M–$65M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $310M in 2014
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.
- Amo Hamza — Amohamza Seafood Restaurant
- 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.
Kreos Capital is Europe's largest and leading provider of growth debt to high-growth companies with revenues up to €150 million. Since 1998, as the pioneer growth debt provider across the UK, Western Europe, Scandinavia and Israel: Kreos has completed nearly 450 transactions and committed €1.8 billion in 14 different countries. Kreos has aproven track record of adding value to portfolio companies and helping them to grow with additional capital and flexibility throughout their business cycle whilst working closely with both the portfolio company management team and their equity sponsors.The Kreos global team has extensive debt financing, management and equity investing experience, covering the pan-European market from its locations in London, Tel Aviv and Stockholm.Kreos is a value added partner, able to offer additional capital and more flexibility with lower equity dilution. Kreos's international team has extensive entrepreneurial, debt financing and equity investing experience, covering all local European markets from its locations in London, Tel Aviv and Stockholm.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
- Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Series B
- Geography: Germany, United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 131
- Round size: Series B $10M–$67M; Post-IPO Debt $5.5M–$26M; Debt Financing $5.5M–$55M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $1.3B in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- BiolineRx — BioLineRx is building a best-in-class pipeline designed to deliver meaningful therapeutic benefit to patients with certain cancers and rare diseases.
- McMakler — McMakler is the leading hybrid real estate agent in Germany. The company combines state-of-the-art marketing technology and central processes at its headquarters in Berlin with a local team of almost 400 permanent real estate agents across Germany in all major regions. With a supported brand awareness of 33%, McMakler is today the best-known realestate agent in Germany and is characterised by its far above-average service quality.
- Botanix Pharmaceuticals — Botanix Pharmaceuticals is a pharmaceutical company that focuses on the treatment of skin diseases. Its mission is to improve the lives of patients battling acne, psoriasis, and atopic dermatitis by providing new treatment options for conditions that are currently inadequately addressed or are treated with therapeutics that are burdened with sideeffect profiles. The company is harnessing the untapped potential of a synthetic active pharmaceutical ingredient known as cannabidiol, which is currently being studied for the treatment of epilepsy, pain, arthritis, and schizophrenia, amongst other indications. Botanix is preparing for human trials utilizing synthetic cannabidiol in a proprietary drug delivery system (PermetrexTM) for direct skin delivery of the therapy.
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Browse database — It's Free!A leader in the alternative asset space, TPG was built for a distinctive approach, managing assets through a principled focus on innovation.
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- Industry: Health Care, Software, E-Commerce
- Stage:Private Equity, Series C, Series B
- Geography: United States, India, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 122
- Round size: Series B $15M–$116M; Series C $30M–$142M; Private Equity $30M–$1.3B
- Lead/follow: 52% lead, 48% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $5.4B in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Reflektive — Reflektive is a leader in providing innovative, real-time performance management solutions for HR leaders and their agile organizations. Founded in 2014, Reflektive securely delivers Real-Time Feedback and Requests, Goal Management, Performance Reviews, and Check-Ins applications in the cloud for more than 450 clients worldwide including AAR, BlueOrigin, Comcast, Dollar Shave Club, Healthgrades, Instacart, Wavemaker Global, and Protective Life. Based in San Francisco with an office in Bangalore, Reflektive secured funding from Andreessen Horowitz, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and TPG Growth and was recognized in Gartner’s 2017 Cool Vendors in Human Capital Management report. Reflektive’s mission is to create the first people management platform that helps employees and managers work better together. #NoBadManagers We are hiring: https://jobs.lever.co/reflektive.com | recruiting@reflektive.com
- Xpressbees — Xpressbees is an e-commerce logistics company that provides logistics solutions to its partners. The company offers comprehensive last-mile delivery, reverse logistics, payment collection, drop shipping, vendor management, cross-border services, fulfillment services, and tailored software solutions to clients.
- Club Pilates — Club Pilates studios offer low-impact, full-body workouts with a variety of classes that challenge your mind as well as your body.
Class 5 Global is a venture fund investing in the next generation of emerging market entrepreneurs.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Singapore, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 39
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$8.5M; Pre-Seed $300k–$5M; Series A $8M–$23M
- Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- PAYZE — PAYZE is a tech-enabled API-based payment gateway that instantly onboards online merchants and provides online marketplaces capability to define any number of relevant split schemes. PAYZE provides an environment for online marketplaces to define payment split schemes once and never again worry about additional accounting or risks with taxes. This“automated ecosystem” enables marketplaces to scale their products without worrying about a settlement between all actors on their platforms nor checks from relevant tax authorities.
- Telda — The easiest way to send, spend and save money. Open your account for free directly from your phone and start dealing with your money the easy way
- 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.
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.
Latitude Ventures is the series B+ sister fund to UK-based seed fund LocalGlobe. Latitude invests in emerging break-out companies from LocalGlobe, as well as more widely in the most ambitious founders. Latitude and LocalGlobe have been early investor in iconic companies including Transferwise, Zoopla, Improbable, Robinhood, Citymapper and SecretEscapes, as well as emerging stars including Tessian, TravelPerk, Flow Commerce and Raisin.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Software, FinTech
- Stage:Series B, Series C, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, The Netherlands
Investor stats
- Total investments: 69
- Round size: Series A $25M–$75M; Series B $20M–$69M; Series C $50M–$170M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Deblock — Forget your bank account: Get an IBAN, a Debit Card and a Non-custodial Crypto wallet. Deposit any crypto on your current account. Exchange Euro and Crypto without any limit.
- Zego — Zego is a commercial motor insurance provider that powers opportunities for businesses, from entire fleets of vehicles to self-employed drivers and riders. It combines best-in-class technology with sophisticated data sources to offer insurance products that save businesses time and money. Since its inception, Zego has believed that the problemwith traditional insurance is that it holds businesses back. It’s too expensive and time consuming, and it no longer suits businesses who use vehicles to earn money. Zego’s products represent a solution to this problem for businesses based across the UK, Europe and beyond.
- Hailo — Hailo is an Israel-based deep learning company that develops a breakthrough specialized deep learning microprocessor to deliver data center performance to edge devices. The company aims to drive artificial intelligence to the edge. Its processors enable edge devices to go beyond handling sensors and streaming volumes of data for remoteprocessing–they can do the processing themselves.Hailo’s complete re-think of computer architecture breaks the barriers of traditional paradigms, accelerating the extremely heavy computation of deep neural networks.
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.
Roka Works is an investment firm.
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- Industry: FinTech, Finance, Financial Services
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, Singapore, The Netherlands
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Series A $23M–$23M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% 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.
- Taki Games — Taki is a token-powered social network where creators can earn by simply posting content and chatting with others.
- 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.
We provide non-dilutive capital solutions & enables entrepreneurs to build and scale industry leading companies.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Financial Services, Internet
- Stage:Debt Financing, Seed, Series A
- Geography: India, France, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 133
- Round size: Seed $988k–$5.5M; Series A $286k–$37M; Debt Financing $834k–$12M
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $100M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Magicpin — Discover the best places to eat, shop and hang out around you. Earn rewards by uploading all your bills. Exclusive vouchers, members-only prices, sneak peeks and much more.
- Swish — Swish is a 10-minute food delivery app from Bangalore. We prepare fresh meals and deliver them fast, from breakfast to dinner and everything in between. Because timing matters. Chai should arrive when it rains, not after it stops.
- Legend of Toys — Legend of Toys develops toy products centered on remote-control vehicles, drones, and related play categories. The brand’s product mix also extends into puzzles, dolls, action figures, planes, and arts-and-crafts items. The company presents its product lines and catalog structure around themed toys and hobby products rather than a single category.The business appears to focus on hobby and play products across age groups, with an emphasis on variety within the toy segment.
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
Tekedia Capital is an investment firm.
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- Industry: FinTech, Information Technology, Financial Services
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Round size: Seed $2.2M–$2.5M; Pre-Seed $150k–$2.1M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Corgi Insurance — Corgi Insurance Services, Inc. ("Corgi") is an American technology company that operates an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered insurance carrier based in San Francisco, California. Corgi Insurance develops and operates a fully integrated insurance stack using AI agents to automate traditional carrier operations, becoming the world’sfirst “AI insurance company.” The company owns multiple subsidiaries operating under a dog-themed naming convention.
- Winich Farms — At Winich Farms we are a technology-driven and agri-startup connecting farmers with access to finance, premium markets and passionate about ensuring global food security and democratising agricultural participation. We drive digital participation by crowdfunding through our online platforms, these we use to engage farmers with quality inputs,agricultural expertise, process automation, and machinery, with the promise of decent returns to our subscribers and the farmers at the end of each farming cycle.In addition to this, utilizing our agro e-retail platform (web and app), we connect vicinity farmers with market (households) directly at farm gate price thereby reducing the activities of middlemen, making agro produce more affordable and easily accessible.One farmer at a time, our big vision is to build an Africa that feeds the world and itself. How do we plan to achieve this? Empower African Farmers by lowering barriers to accessing Capital and financial services, data driven best practices and technology to improve yield as well as access to local and global markets for their produce with established offtaker relationships like Flour Mills of Nigeria, Dangote Foods, Labana Rice, Big Bull Rice etcBacked by Orange Corners we are on a mission to create a prosperous and economically resilient Africa powered by Agriculture.
- Rulebase — Rulebase create AI agents to safeguard fintechs and banks from fraud, automating investigations and preventing voice fraud.
Ndubuisi Ekekwe is the Co-Founder of Vetifly.
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- Industry: FinTech, AgTech, Internet
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: Nigeria, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Errand360 — We are Nigeria's first community delivery service that makes use of sustainable means of transportation, we deliver goodness to your door steps and we are Eco-Friendly
- BeepTool — BeepTool is a disruptive Africa-based satellite & TV White Space-based connectivity as a service and Integrated digital inclusion ecosystem such as Telehealth, Digital Farmers and consumer marketplace, mobile payments, messaging and voice ecosystem apps providing affordable digital inclusions services to millions of people in remote and ruralareas in Africa and beyond who lack access to the digital economy and are digitally excluded and underserved in area of financial, healthcare, Aggrotech, EdTech and communication services to connect the unconnected, excluded and underserved communities across Nigeria and Africa. Affordable Internet Connectivity for Unconnected and Excluded Community in Africa via Satellite and TV White-Space as a Service and Digital Inclusion Ecosystem Made history by becoming the first company to successfully complete financial transactions using “nano-satellites in the world, “ BeepTool to make a difference in people’s lives and grant them access to the kind of connected services that they haven’t had access to before by providing affordable communications, healthcare, aggrotech, and financial services to millions of people in remote areas in Africa without access to cellular or internet connectivity. We are in partnership with more than 7 GEO and LEO satellite internet broadband operators worldwide and still counting. We have manufactured affordable android smartphones called Oyi-1 and Android Tablets called ABOLE pre-installed with our digital inclusion ecosystem low data rate apps. We have also designed and manufactured Solar powered, and satellites enabled Telehealth remote mobile stations for a rural community in Africa. Our affordable solar-powered satellites terminals broadcast Wi-Fi Hotspot to the rural community allowing rural users to access the web using a mobile application in areas our partners GEO and LEO satellites cover. BeepTool is connecting everyone in Africa using satellites network and TV white space spectrum.Building on its integrated mobile platforms and satellite-based connectivity systems, BeepTool is creating an ecosystem of service-on-demand products, ranging from telehealth to financial services, messaging, Aggrotech, micro-lending, video chat, video conferencing and VoIP, among others. Affordable Internet Connectivity for Everyone: Save up to 90% on costs compared to cabling bills, and more. Super Wifi. Connect on the Go: Connect entire villages, communities, schools, parks, clinics, and businesses with long-range, lightning-fast internet. Pocket Friendly. Budget-Friendly
- Boundlesspay — World-class user experience that seamlessly processes local and international cryptocurrency and fiat payments for individuals and merchants, in a secure and reliable way, utilizing blockchain technology .BoundlessPay gives users easy access to decentralized finance (DEFI) and centralized finance (CEFI) services such as coin staking, lending,swapping, in-app and cross-border payments or remittances, and robust APIs for 3rd party payment processing.
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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
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- 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
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
Spartech is a technology-focused venture capital fund with a value-add approach. We work with founders to unlock additional value for our portfolio companies and guide them to success by leveraging our network in the MENA region and our experiences in venture capital, private equity, and operational turnaround. While our outlook is to investglobally, we also like to open doors for founders in the MENA region to capitalise on “undigitized” and “undisrupted” sectors in the region.
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- Industry: FinTech, Finance, Automotive
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, The Netherlands
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Series A $23M–$23M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
Portfolio highlights
- AlgoDriven — Appraise, inspect & evaluate vehicles using cutting-edge automotive solutions to make your automotive business more profitable. Contact us!
- EON Aligner — Get the smile you've always wanted with clear aligners. Count on a network of over 3000 Eon Aligner doctors. Start your clear aligner journey today!
- 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.
We partner with visionary founders and investors worldwide, offering capital, network, and expertise needed to turn groundbreaking ideas into market leading companies.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, South Korea, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 128
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$8M; Series A $1.8M–$20M; Series B $7M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2017
Portfolio highlights
- Grabr — Grabr is a global community marketplace that allows people to get unique or hard-to-find items from around the world by connecting them with travelers headed their way. Grabr is the safe, fast and friendly way to get anything from anywhere in the world and earn money on the road.
- PayJoy — Looking for a phone or a cash loan? PayJoy gives you credit with few requirements and in minutes. No late fees charged.
- Prósperos — Founded in 2023 by Vinay Pai and Salvador Chavez, Prósperos is delivering an innovative financial platform that allows millions of Latinos to manage their finances while taking care of their family in the USA and Latin America.The Prósperos platform provides two bank accounts and two cards– one for the account holder in the USA and one for theirfamily in Mexico, and soon Central and South America. With Prósperos, customers can say goodbye to slow and costly money-transfer solutions, and their families no longer need to wait in line to pick up cash. Within seconds, funds are available to family members in Latin America.
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