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Top 50 Automotive VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Africa in September 2025

Last updated: Sep 2025 A list of 50 VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Automotive startups based in Africa. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Automotive companies from Africa. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Automotive VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Africa in September 2025

Investor	Automotive Africa investments
Factor E	4
Launch Africa	3
Kepple Africa Ventures	3
Kalon Venture Partners	3
Ventures Platform	3
Ecosystem Integrity Fund	3
TotalEnergies Ventures	3
IDF Capital SA	3
Speedinvest	2
TLcom Capital Partners	2
At One Ventures	2
4DX Ventures	2
Mobility 54	2
Golden Palm Investments	2
Global Brain Corporation	2
Acumen	2
Lateral Frontiers	2
Musha Ventures	2
AlphaCode Club	2
F6 Ventures	2
UTEC - The University of Tokyo Edge Capital Partners	2
UNCOVERED FUND	2
Agence Française de Développement	2
Left Lane Capital	2
Ingressive Capital	2
EchoVC Partners	2
Thelatest.ventures	2
Mercy Corps Ventures	2
Village Global	1
New Enterprise Associates	1
Frontier Car Group	1
Stride Ventures	1
AfricInvest	1
VestedWorld	1
Future Africa	1
Enza Capital	1
PanAfrican Investment Co.	1
VNV Global	1
Oui Capital	1
CDG Invest	1
Cathexis Ventures	1
54 Collective	1
216 Capital	1
Ethical Toy Program	1
Chandaria Capital	1
Hoak & Co.	1
BlackRock	1
Silver Squid	1
V8 Capital Partners	1
Barclays Corporate Banking	1

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Factor E is a finance company that impacts venture builders, dedicated to supporting the people and ideas that will turn the tables in the global battle for sustainable solutions to energy, agriculture, mobility, and waste challenges in emerging and frontier markets. It serves as a conduit between philanthropic and commercial investors throughmarket-driven forces.

Investment focus

Energy, Renewable Energy, Agriculture
Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
United States, Kenya, India

Portfolio highlights

Terralima — Terralima is building a digital platform where we connect a trusted network of farmers in Africa to food producers and co-operatives who get high-quality, traceable agricultural commodities at a fair, transparent and stable market price. We are also bridging the funding gap for farmers and aggregators through embbeded fintech.Our online Tradingand Fintech platform delivers direct access to markets, on-demand credit, and efficient logistics for smallholder farmers; thus ensuring we can get food from where it is produced to where it's required, while eliminating food waste and maximising profits for farmers.
InspiraFarms — InspiraFarms provides on-and-near farm, grid & solar powered Cold Rooms & Packhouses for agribusinesses & distributors. Reduce energy costs & food losses!
Open Access Energy — South Africa's first multilateral wheeling software platform that automates energy transactions.

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

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

PayTic — PayTic enables payments issuers to manage their card programs by providing dedicated back-office solutions that streamline the end-to-end operations in customer support, chargebacks, fraud, AML, reporting, and reconciliation. Our proprietary solutions are unique in automating and centralizing the program management processes, regardless of thenumber of processors and the payment networks involved in the payments products. We impact payments providers by eliminating the defragmented and manual processes and replacing them with a SaaS platform that increases proactivity, mitigates risks, and delivers value. It reduces the burn rate to near 0 in operational costs and offers an unprecedented competitive advantage. PayTic is introducing the Zero Ops model in managing payments.
Affinity — Join over 70,000 who trust the Affinity mobile app to manage your personal banking needs and qualify for an Affinity Instant Loan
Liquify Digital — Liquify is an invoice marketplace that transforms invoices from SMEs in emerging markets into an investable asset class for financiers seeking reliable yield

Kepple Africa Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt

Portfolio highlights

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
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.
Carry1st — Carry1st develops and publishes enriching mobile games and content apps for African consumers.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Talk360 — Talk360 is an easy-to-use calling app that helps people make affordable international calls to any mobile and landline number. They believe that reliable communication and digital services must be affordable and accessible to everyone, regardless of someone's background. Especially people in emerging countries in Africa, who often need theseservices the most, do not always have the necessary banking possibilities. To bridge this distance, Talk360 will launch the world's first single checkout platform for Africa. This platform will combine all locally available payment methods and currencies across Africa, together with over 1.25 million cash points of sales, and will eventually be available to other companies as well. This means that 500 million Africans will be able to purchase digital services they never had access to before.
Sendmarc — Manage your organization's DMARC, SPF, and DKIM with world-class implementation services and support. All in one easy-to-use platform.
visionAI — visionAI augments existing CCTV cameras with computer vision AI to drive improved operational outcomes in manufacturing.

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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Nigeria, United States, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Raenest — Access Virtual Accounts, Invoicing, Multi-Currency Payouts, Auto Payroll, Accounting Integrations, and Virtual & Physical cards within minutes.
Maad — Maad is Francophone Africa's fastest-growing B2B marketplace, based in Dakar, Senegal. Our tech-driven solution allows retailers to order products from our one-stop shop and benefit from working capital loans
Juicyway — Juice is a developer of a payment network platform for cross-border business payments for businesses and individuals. It facilitates financial transactions between parties regardless of location to allow enterprises to participate in international trade and the exchange of goods and services.

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.

Investment focus

Renewable Energy, Energy, Software
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
United States, India, Canada

Portfolio highlights

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.
Battery Smart — Battery Smart provides advanced Li-ion batteries to e-rickshaws. Battery Smart develops a retrofittable 48V Li-ion twin battery system that is compatible with all major electric rickshaw (e3w) models.
Vecmocon Technologies — Core technologies for electric mobility

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

IDF Capital is an established financier, investing in high growth SMEs/Entrepreneurial businesses. We invest with a gender lens strategy

Investment focus

Automotive, Mobile Apps
Seed, Funding Round
South Africa

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.

Speedinvest is one of Europe’s most active early-stage venture capital funds, with more than €1.2bn in AuM and offices in Berlin, London, Munich, Paris, and Vienna. Our dedicated sector-focused teams (Climate Tech & Industrial Tech, Deep Tech, Fintech, Health & Bio, Marketplaces & Consumer Tech, SaaS & Infra) are the first to fundEMEA's most innovative pre-Seed and Seed tech startups. Our in-house operational experts and global network of industry leaders support our portfolio companies with growth, people (HR), market expansion, and more throughout every stage of their journeys. Bitpanda, GoStudent, Wayflyer, Open, CoachHub, Schüttflix, TourRadar, Adverity, and TWAICE are among our portfolio of 400+ companies.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, Germany, Austria

Portfolio highlights

ARX Robotics — ARX is a defence technology company that specialises in developing autonomous unmanned systems and sensors for the European defence sector.
Due — Discover our global payment platform. Powered by open, decentralised and interoperable networks.
Tibo Energy — To make sure you operate within the limits of your contract we control your network. We avoid congestion in your energy network.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Information Technology
Series A, Funding Round, Seed
Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom

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.
Educatly — We help you get into the University of your dreams. We are the only platform with all the information you need to Study Abroad
littlefishapp — Littlefish is a comprehensive commerce platform that empowers banks to serve small business with tools to streamline operations, drive growth, and enhance customer engagement.

At One Ventures finds, funds, and grows teams to catalyze a world where humanity is a net positive to nature.

Investment focus

Energy, Sustainability, Manufacturing
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Prefer — delicious. affordable. sustainable. bean-free coffee.
Provectus Algae — Provectus Algae leverages novel biomanufacturing processes to create sustainable stockfeeds, reducing methane emissions in ruminant livestock by up to 95%.
ChemFinity Technologies — ChemFinity Technologies is a chemical company that offers critical metal recovery, water purification, and gas separation services.

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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Information Technology, Logistics
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Egypt, United States, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Taager — Taager is a social e-commerce platform enabling online merchants with end-to-end logistics.
PALM — PALM rewards users for consistency and advancement by fusing contemporary behavioral nudges with conventional investment techniques. To assist customers in achieving their objectives, PALM selects the best asset allocations among asset types, such as fixed income, stocks, and precious metals. PALM improves savings value and lowers out-of-pocketexpenses by fusing exclusive offers from an expanding merchant network with strong investment returns.
Hohm Energy — We make the process of going solar simple. Generate your free, custom solar proposal and get matched with an accredited solar provider in under 5 mins.

Mobility 54 is a joint venture among Toyota Tsusho Corporation and CFAO.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Transportation, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Kenya, Nigeria, Côte d'Ivoire

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.

Golden Palm Investments is an investment holding and advisory company.

Investment focus

Information Technology, FinTech, Logistics
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Nigeria, Egypt, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Sabipay — Pastel supports African businesses by offering tools that help manage their businesses and maximize efficiency.
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.

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.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
Japan, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

SAKANA Dream — Japanese fish and its cuisine are a treasure of Japan, On the other hand, the variety of fish consumed on a daily basis accounts for less than 1% of all fish living in Japanese waters. Although there are many underutilized fish that surpass the well-known fish, they are even discarded due to unstable catches and lack of name recognition. Aquaculture can provide a stable supply, however, it is not easy to keep fish in a small water cage and only a limited number of fish are delivered to the market. We, SAKANA Dream, select the most delicious fish from over 4,000 species in Japan, and make it possible to farm and produce them using the cutting edge technology. Our goal is to create the "world's most delicious fish" that no one has ever tasted before and deliver it to our customers.
Cierpa & Company — Cierpa & Company develops environmental, social, and governance management software. They offer services for the cloud, share information between departments, optimise workflows, and analyse and improve scores.
Counter Culture Company — Counter Culture Company is an online platform that offers K-pop dance classes ranging from beginner to professional levels.

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.

Investment focus

Agriculture, Health Care, Financial Services
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, India, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Wami Agro — Revolutionizing agriculture with cutting-edge digital solutions and sustainable practices.
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.
BioMassters — Biomassers aim to replace charcoal production and charcoal cooking by providing modern, affordable, and low-carbon pellet fuel production and cooking solutions based on locally produced fuel from waste materials.

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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

CNote — CNote makes impact investing 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.

Seed capital for technology startups globally.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Regfyl — Powered by AI, Regfyl is the all-in-one fraud and compliance platform for financial institutions and fintechs. Regfyl allows these businesses to reduce costs and focus on higher value activities.
Sukhiba — Sukhiba is a decentralized community-based commerce platform.
Orca Fraud — Orca empowers fraud fighters with effective tools to combat fraud

We are an African venture capital fund, for world-class African entrepreneurs run by seasoned African investors.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Automotive
Grant, Funding Round, Debt Financing
South Africa, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

BriefCo — BriefCo is South Africa's first and only legal cost consultancy leveraging technology. We utilize our own secure online platform to allow for the digital delivery and storage of all documents, thereby reducing the significant costs associated with printing, delivery, and file preparation.
Vocalysd.ai — Vocalysd is a customer-centric, AI-powered insights tool. Vocalysd unlocks usable, easy-to-digest insights from your conversational data. These insights are key to optimising client interactions and enhancing your customers' experience.
Sizanani — Collaboration is at the centre of everything we do. We partner with like-minded organisations to help our users find the best financial products in the market. We are the first WhatsApp-first stokvel solution because we believe that technology is fundamentally meant to create value, not apps.

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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Retail, Education
Pre-Seed, Seed
Tunisia, France

Portfolio highlights

Datasphera — Datasphera's Exacctly SaaS monitors support conversations between customers and support agents and detects situations (like urgency, requests, dissatisfaction,...) and emotions (like happiness, anger, distress,...) to quantify customer satisfaction and offer real-time actions (Automated alerts on critical issues, ticket escalation, agentassistance to reply).
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.

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.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Japan, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Alumnote — The alumni association management software developed by Alumnote allows schools to manage their alumni associations online. The focus of the company is to undertake loyalty building and marketing for potential donors such as graduates and provides digital tools, and supports the execution of donation acquisition.
Peach Cars — Buy or sell your car in Nairobi-Kenya with ease. Browse a wide range of vehicles, connect with trusted sellers, and find the perfect car today. Simple, fast, and secure transactions.
Pahr Therapeutics — PAhR Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biotech company advancing innovative therapies to treat pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) through novel biological mechanisms.

UNCOVERED FUND is a venture capital firm that leads the creation of industries in Africa and other emerging countries.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Nigeria, Kenya, United States

Portfolio highlights

Mecho — Mecho is an on-demand auto repair and maintenance platform for individuals and businesses in Africa.
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.
Termii — Termii is an online platform that helps teams secure repeat customers by sending personalized emails and SMS through multiple.Termii helps African businesses communicate with customers across SMS, email, voice, and instant messaging channels. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Lagos, Nigeria.

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.

Investment focus

Construction, Manufacturing, Building Material
Grant
India

Portfolio highlights

Solarbox — Solarbox is a developer of electric three-wheelers for last-mile logistics. The company's vehicles offer sustainable design, assembly, charging, and battery swapping methods, as well as a heavy load carriage system.
Saltech Design Labs — Saltech Design Labs offers waste management, construction and infrastructure, affordable housing, and renewable energy.
Green Delight Innovation — Green Delight Innovation is a supplier of biodegradable sanitary napkins.

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.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, Germany, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Tavrn — Tavrn provides state of the art, AI-powered demand letters and medical chronologies for attorneys.
Everlab — The preventative health service of the future. Detect disease early, improve wellbeing, and optimise performance.
APFusion — APFusion is a B2B automotive marketplace helping salvage yards increase sales.

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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

MNZL — MNZL is on a mission to expand access to capital for Egyptians.Every person who owns an asset has accumulated wealth in it. When they want liquidity for their projects and needs, they should be able to tap into it as easily as withdrawing from a bank.With an innovative digital platform and products, we are working on making digital access tocapital a reality, and building the future of asset-backed financing in Africa.
Oze — OZÉ brings African small businesses into the digital era. It is an app that makes it easy for businesses to track sales, expenses, and customer information. The data is analyzed to provide tailored recommendations, reports, and business education. If the entrepreneur needs a little extra support, an OZÉ Coach is just a click away. As they are usingOZÉ to manage their business and learn how to run it better, we are learning about them. Using this data and machine learning, we can predict their credit risk and provide them with affordable capital from our banking partners. With over 20,000 registered users, OZÉ is the largest online community of SMEs in Ghana. The most exciting thing is that OZÉ works; 97% of businesses that have used OZE for at least 9 months are growing or profitable or both!
Nowlun — Search for cheap & fast freight prices from all shipping lines.

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.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Nigeria, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Rivy — We're building the financial infrastructure to make clean energy easy to afford, quick to access, and open to all.
Shuttlers — Shuttlers is a platform that offers mobility solutions by providing scheduled bus-sharing services for the professionals within the region.
Snowstorm — Official site of the Snowstorm Network

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.

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, Financial Services
Series A, Series B, Debt Financing
Nigeria, The Netherlands

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.

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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

TAPPI — TAPPI is the leading association for the worldwide pulp, paper, packaging, and converting industries and publisher of Paper360º.
Blooms — Blooms provides trade finance and global payments solutions for LatAm produce exporters.
Ábaco — We're reinventing financial services with capital, payments & platform solutions so every growing company can reach their full potential.

Early stage venture capital backed by some of the world's best entrepreneurs.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

Qanooni — Qanooni is a legal technology company offering an AI-powered platform designed specifically for lawyers and legal professionals.
Fal — fal.ai is the fastest way to run diffusion models with ready-to-use AI inference, training APIs, and UI Playgrounds
Gravity — Meet Orion, the autonomous AI-Powered Data Analyst that turns overwhelming data into clear direction. It works 24/7 so your team doesn't have to.

Foundational partners to ambitious founders at every stage of company-building.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, India, China

Portfolio highlights

Music AI — State-of-the-art ethical AI solutions for audio and music applications. The highest quality audio separation available.
Instabase — Instabase combines the latest AI breakthroughs with industry expertise to create real business value for your business.
ElevenLabs — Create the most realistic speech with our AI audio tools in 1000s of voices and 32 languages. Easy to use API's and SDK's. Scalable, secure, and customizable voice solutions tailored for enterprise needs. Pioneering research in Text to Speech and AI Voice Generation.

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.

Investment focus

Automotive, E-Commerce, E-Commerce Platforms
Series A
Nigeria

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.

We provide non-dilutive capital solutions & enables entrepreneurs to build and scale industry leading companies.

Investment focus

Financial Services, E-Commerce, Internet
Debt Financing, Seed, Series A
India, France, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Wiom — Provides affordable and unlimited Internet to Middle and lower middle income households
Refyne — Refyne partners with organisations to extend on-demand Earned Wage Access (EWA) to their employees. We believe employers play a crucial role in their staff’s financial literacy plan, and providing employees access to their real-time earned salary promotes a stress-free and productive workforce.Refyne’s one-stop platform enables your employee baseto build financial resilience and nurture a favourable work culture. With our plug and play technology, employees can see and withdraw their earned salary instead of opting exploitative payday loans or other high-interest credit schemes.
Wow! Momo — Wow! Momo is a chain of fast food restaurants headquartered in Kolkata. Our Other ventures are Wow! China, Wow! Chicken and China Belly.

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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Manufacturing, FinTech
Funding Round, Private Equity, Series A
Tunisia, Kenya, Morocco

Portfolio highlights

Nile.ag — Nile.ag provides a platform for farmers to trade fresh produce with multiple producers across a number of African countries. Its digital solutions address inherent issues relating to food trading, quality verification, payments and traceability.
Hewatele — Hewatele is a social enterprise that provides affordable quality medical oxygen to all needy patients together with its affiliates CPHD and Mediquip Global.
Unisystem Group — Unisystem Group is a Moroccan company specializing in the distribution of electronic security equipment and the integration of security solutions aiming at the protection of people and assets. Created in 2004, the firm progressively oriented its activity from a simple distributor of equipment to an added value player thanks to the development ofcompetencies in the integration of custom-made solutions and the maintenance of the electronic security systems.

VestedWorld is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in emerging markets companies that have the potential to generate competitive financial returns while contributing towards the growth and development of the markets in which they are located. The firm supports these businesses through the infusion of capital, active involvement incorporate governance, and by providing direct strategic and operational assistance.

Investment focus

Agriculture, Financial Services, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Series B
Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana

Portfolio highlights

EMTECH — EMTECH provides solutions for Digital Currency regulatory compliance, development and management to help Central Banks and FinTechs build, run and manage modern financial systems.
Complete Farmer — We are providing cutting-edge technological farming protocols and innovations with a unique business model and logistics that are revolutionizing...
Jackfruit Finance — Jackfruit Finance provides money, technology, and rewards to enable low-cost African schools to expand access to education.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Moove — Moove is a mobility fintech that provides revenue-based vehicle financing to mobility entrepreneurs, democratizing vehicle ownership globally. The company embeds its alternative credit-scoring technology onto ride-hailing, logistics, and last-mile/instant delivery platforms, which allows access to proprietary performance and revenue analyticsof mobility entrepreneurs to underwrite loans.
Itana — Talent City’s mission is to build a network of charter cities that focuses on creating technology-enabled jobs within a free trade zone with its own regulation and bylaws.
Filmmakers Mart — FilmmakersMart is Africa’s first film and entertainment marketplace where entertainment businesses and creatives find verified services seamlessly for their video productions while democratizing entry into the film and entertainment industry for emerging creatives. We’re building the operations system for the film and entertainment industry inAfrica.

Venture investor in high-growth Founders and Teams using technology to solve large and meaningful problems across Africa

Investment focus

Financial Services, Finance, E-Commerce
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa

Portfolio highlights

MNZL — MNZL is on a mission to expand access to capital for Egyptians.Every person who owns an asset has accumulated wealth in it. When they want liquidity for their projects and needs, they should be able to tap into it as easily as withdrawing from a bank.With an innovative digital platform and products, we are working on making digital access tocapital a reality, and building the future of asset-backed financing in Africa.
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.
Affinity — Join over 60,000 who trust the Affinity mobile app to manage your personal banking needs and qualify for an Affinity Instant Loan

PanAfrican Investment is a private investment firm focused on the growth and development of companies in sub-Saharan Africa.

Investment focus

Local, Content, Automotive
Series A, Series B
Kenya, United States

Portfolio highlights

Savoteur — Travel More, Work Less, Be Curious
Mobius Motors — Mobius Motors sells affordable vehicles designed specifically for the needs of developing world consumers. We aim to change millions of lives by providing the appropriate transport to mobilise rural Africa. Our vision is a more connected, more prosperous Africa.
Bridge International Academies — Bridge International Academies is an operator of scholastic academy services used to provide education to underprivileged children. Its services provide lessons based on national curricula, develop in-depth teacher training and programs, and use cutting-edge wireless technology that enables underprivileged children to get the right education, freeof cost, for a brighter future.

VNV Global is an investment company with the business concept of using experience, expertise and a widespread network to identify and invest in assets with considerable potential for value appreciation. The company has a special focus on online marketplaces and businesses with strong network effects. The common shares of VNV Global are listed onNasdaq Stockholm, Mid Cap segment, with the ticker VNV.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Health Care, Marketplace
Series B, Funding Round, Series A
United Kingdom, Sweden, Russian Federation

Portfolio highlights

MatHem — MatHem is an e-commerce company that combines a complete grocery store online with recipes and subscriptions for ready-made groceries. It delivers food to Swedish homes 7 days a week. The company also combines a full grocery store online with prescription and subscription finished shopping bags. MatHem offers a broad range of grocery products andadjacent household consumables, catering to more than half of Swedish households. The company food is delivered to your door with their own temperature-controlled to ensure an unbroken cold chain.Mathem.se has been awarded The Grocery Website of the Year (Årets matsajt) in 2010, 2011 and 2013 by the Swedish online magazine Internet world. It was founded in 2009 and is based in Stockholm, Sweden
NoTraffic — NoTraffic has developed the first AI-powered traffic signal platform that connects road...
VOI Technology — VOI is a micro-mobility startup that provides electric scooters for last-mile transportation. Douglas Stark, Filip Lindvall, and Fredrik Hjelm founded it in 2018. Its headquarters is located in Stockholm in Sweden.VOI Technology is aiming to create a system of electrically powered scooters around urban centers to provide an affordable,sustainable, and exhilarating way to commute while helping people to reduce their carbon footprint and cities to have a more sustainable transportation network.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Duplo — We enable businesses across Africa to simplify their payment flows.
Cauridor — Cauridor is a Financial Services company.
Maad — Maad is Francophone Africa's fastest-growing B2B marketplace, based in Dakar, Senegal. Our tech-driven solution allows retailers to order products from our one-stop shop and benefit from working capital loans

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.

Investment focus

Apps, Software, Internet
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
Morocco, France, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, India, United Kingdom

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

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

Investment focus

Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa

Portfolio highlights

Billboxx — Empowering SMEs to pay and get paid on time, every time.
Yeah — Yeah is a financial technology company that offers payment processing services while building a credit profile for the banked and unbanked.
Konnect — Konnect provides a cross borders payment solution intended to simplify complex financial flows allowing companies of any scale and size to send and receive payments in a practical, secure, and low-cost way.

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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Energy, Fashion
Seed
Tunisia, France

Portfolio highlights

Logidoo — Logidoo is a digital logistics marketplace-designed company that markets shuttles through smart logistics. The company's platform, which provides rapid, dependable, secure, and economical logistics, allows users to compare offers for sending and receiving items and to track parcels in real-time.
Imaginario AI — Imaginario AI empowers creators and product makers with pre-built video AI features and a powerful workflow automation platform.
ProXalys — ProXalys is an online marketplace for agricultural products, offering assured payments and deferred payment options for merchants.

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

Investment focus

Travel, Automotive, Communities
Series A
Mali

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.

Chandaria Capital operates as a venture capital Fund. We believe that innovative ideas will transform Africa. We invest, mentor, and work together with incredible entrepreneurs to create impactful companies that can change the continent.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Retail, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Kenya, United States, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Leta — Leta Technology is a software development company that creates supply chain and logistics software to enable the efficient and automated movement of goods.
UTU Technologies — Trust infrastructure for the sharing economy.
Dastgyr Technologies — Simplifying Global Trade

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.

Investment focus

Automotive, Auto Insurance, Human Resources
Seed, Series A
Nigeria, United States

Portfolio highlights

Mecho — Mecho is an on-demand auto repair and maintenance platform for individuals and businesses in Africa.
Work Shield — Work Shield is the only full-service solution to efficiently manage reporting, investigation, and resolution of workplace misconduct.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, Information Technology
Post-IPO Equity, Series C, Private Equity
United States, United Kingdom, Germany

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.

Silver Squid is A investment firm.

Investment focus

Automotive, Auto Insurance, Internet of Things
Seed
Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Mecho — Mecho is an on-demand auto repair and maintenance platform for individuals and businesses in Africa.

V8 Capital Partners makes investments in enterprise technology businesses across Africa. African Venture Capital for software automation

Investment focus

Information Technology, Health Care, Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana

Portfolio highlights

Zuri Health — .ts-banner-image-1:hover .overlay{background-color:#ffffff} .ts-banner-image-2:hover .overlay{background-color:#ffffff} Popular categories Pharmacy Doctor at home Covid Labs & Diagonstics Wellness Telemed Show all Our Services PharmacyBuy both OTC and prescription medication and have it delivered to your doorstepLabs & DiagnosticsBook labs and Diagnostic tests and get your samples collected from the comfort of your home, hotel
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.

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.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Debt Financing, Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

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.
WealthOS — WealthOS is an cloud-native, enterprise, core wealth management platform. Launch and run superior digital wealth management value propositions faster and cheaper.
Offr — Offr is the new way to buy and sell property, quickly and transparently.

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