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Top 50 B2B Startup Investors in Africa in November 2024

A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in B2b startups based in Africa. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in B2b companies from Africa. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 B2B Startup Investors in Africa in November 2024

Investor B2B Africa investments
Janngo 4
Loyal VC 4
Future Africa 4
Launch Africa 3
LoftyInc Capital 3
Orange Ventures 3
Consonance Investment Managers 3
CRE Venture Capital 3
Chandaria Capital 3
Reflect Ventures 3
Musha Ventures 3
Harambeans 3
Unpopular Ventures 2
FirstCheck Africa 2
Enza Capital 2
Justin Kan 2
Kepple Africa Ventures 2
Ardent Capital 2
Voltron Capital 2
Oui Capital 2
VestedWorld 2
Stephen Pagliuca 2
Alumni Ventures 2
Logos Ventures 2
FirstCheck Africa 2
Haskè Ventures 2
Waarde Capital 2
DOB Equity 2
Renew Capital 1
Afri Mobility 1
Eudaimonia Capital 1
Réseau Entreprendre 1
Satgana 1
E4EAfrica 1
Jigsaw VC 1
Accion Venture Lab 1
Digital Africa Ventures 1
Tristan Walker 1
Arash Ferdowsi 1
The MasterCard Foundation 1
Partech 1
Alan Rutledge 1
Ground Squirrel Ventures 1
Beta.Ventures 1
Entrée Capital 1
Presight Capital 1
Jua Fund 1
Sankore Securities 1
Kima Ventures 1
SBI Investment 1
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Janngo VC Fund · Abidjan, Lagunes, Côte d'Ivoire · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Janngo supports entrepreneurs who leverage technology to massify three impacts on the continent: 1/ Essential services & products for African consumers, 2/ Growth acceleration of African SMEs, and 3/ Job creation, in particular for women & youth
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Investment focus
  • B2B, Logistics, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • Nigeria, Senegal, France
Portfolio highlights
  • Susu — Susu is a dynamic and innovative company that offers a wide range of health services for families in the African diaspora. Susu provides a complete offer on Preventive care, Medical treatments, Management of chronic diseases, and Authentic drugs.
  • YoLa Fresh — At YoLaFresh, our mission is to revolutionize the fresh produce supply chain in Africa by leveraging technology and data to disrupt traditional distribution models. We strive to create a more efficient and transparent system that benefits all stakeholders, from farmers to retailers and consumers. Our vision is to create a world where access tofresh, high-quality produce is a universal right. We believe that by empowering farmers and retailers with innovative technology solutions, we will improve their livelihoods and make a positive impact on their communities.
  • LAfricaMobile — WE HELP ENTREPRISES IN AFRICA TO BUILD STRONG LINKS WITH THEIR CUSTOMERS ON THE MOBILE PHONE.Thanks to customized solutions and products that take into account local context in Africa, LAfricaMobile makes communication between companies and their customers much easier. Our adaptability (Multi-operator, Multi-channel, Multi-country) allowscompanies to reach a wide target and gives end consumers instant, safe and secure access to the information they need.
Loyal VC VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Loyal runs a global venture fund with quarterly redemptions and a proprietary gate-stage process, reducing investment bias and unlocking greater returns. Partnered with INSEAD, Founder Institute, and 500+ advisors, we are Loyal to the world with 250+ investments in 50+ countries.
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Investment focus
  • Artificial Intelligence, Software, E-Commerce
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
  • United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • UTOBO INC. — utobo is the one-stop platform for educators and coaching services to take live classes, create courses and test series, and sell them online in just 30 minutes.
  • NIU NIU — NIU NIU is an e-Waste operating system that maximizes critical mineral extraction, while minimizing the environmental and social impact
  • The Leaf Protein Company — Unlocking Earth's most abundant source of proteins - green leaves.
Future Africa VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States
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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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.
Launch Africa VC Fund · Ebène, Plaines Wilhems, Mauritius · 6 investments in the past 12 months
Launch Africa is a fund with the primary objective of unlocking the capital constraints of Seed Stage tech startups.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
  • Bosso — Bosso projects and realizes automation and robotic solutions for the growth of your business.
  • Kredete — Kredete is a digital lending platform that provides free credit scores and reports to underserved individuals and small businesses in Africa to help them gain access to formal credit and improve their financial health. The platform connects borrowers with lenders and enterprises in Africa and is designed to simplify the lending process and makecredit more accessible by leveraging cutting-edge technology. Kredete offers a user-friendly platform that guides borrowers, lenders, and enterprises through the process of offering loans, making it simple for them to provide the right loan products for their needs.One of the key features of Kredete is its instant approval process, which is made possible by advanced algorithms and artificial intelligence. The platform offers flexible lending options by partnering with a variety of lenders and enterprises, enabling borrowers to choose the best option for their specific situation.Kredete is committed to protecting the privacy and security of all users' personal and financial information. It uses robust encryption and security measures to ensure that sensitive data remains safe and secure. Additionally, the platform maintains transparency throughout the loan process, providing lenders, enterprises, and borrowers with clear information about loan terms and associated fees.Kredete believes in empowering its users with the knowledge and resources they need to make informed financial decisions. To this end, the platform offers financial education, tools, and resources to help users better understand and manage their finances. Kredete also works closely with businesses and institutions to provide tailored financial solutions for their unique needs.Through its focus on accessibility, convenience, and transparency, Kredete is transforming the lending landscape in Africa and helping to bridge the financial inclusion gap. The platform remains dedicated to its mission of empowering lenders, enterprises, and borrowers across the continent to access the funds they need to achieve their financial goals.
  • Wahu Mobility — Wahu Mobility is an open e-mobility platform that connects drivers, passengers, and goods in a simple, inclusive, transparent, nationwide, and multimodal manner.
LoftyInc Capital VC Fund · Carmel, California, United States
LoftyInc Capital Management empowers Afropreneurs to build a prosperous and equitable future in Africa. We deliver value to both founders and investors.........
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Nigeria, United States, Egypt
Portfolio highlights
  • Mtor — Mtor is an online marketplace that is reshaping the automotive aftermarket and provides sophisticated technology solutions.
  • EMTECH — EMTECH provides solutions for Digital Currency regulatory compliance, development and management to help Central Banks and FinTechs build, run and manage modern financial systems.
  • Terragon Group — Terragon is a leading Data and Marketing Technology company that uses data and analytics to help companies focused in Africa, intelligently connect at scale to their customers. We use an aggregation of online and offline data, and predictive scoring to help brands, marketing agencies and platforms accurately target people across channels anddevices. Headquartered in Lagos; Nigeria, we also have a presence in Kenya, South Africa, Ghana and India.
Orange Ventures VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Orange Ventures is the Venture Capital Fund of the Orange Group, with 350m euros under management
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Investment focus
  • Software, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series B, Series C
  • France, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Pretto — Pretto is the only truly transparent online real estate price comparator.Pretto accompanies you until the signing of your loan, free of charge and without commitment.
  • Epoca — Epoca prepare the health solution of your dreams .
  • Supervizor — Supervizor allows companies to automatically check all accounting and operational data, and detect errors and fraud. No setup or dry runs required.
Consonance Investment Managers VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
We are an investment company focused on helping early and growth-stage entrepreneurs build successful companies in Africa.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, FinTech
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Nigeria, United States, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
  • Releaf — We are industrializing food processing in Africa. We've led 1000+ smallholder farmers to provide food factories with >7.5 million kilograms of quality crops.
  • Tripesa — Tripesa offers payment solutions for Africa's travel and tourism industry.
  • Norebase — Norebase knows that there's an opportunity to grow successful businesses in Africa. It also understands the complexities of the market, and so is using technology to make doing business in Africa worthwhile. With Norebase get to operate in Africa with no hassle and with minimum risk.
CRE Venture Capital VC Fund · New York, New York, United States
Founded in 2015, CRE Venture Capital invests in early stage tech companies that are levered to Africa. CRE is headquartered in the New York metro area, with a regional office in Lagos, Nigeria.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • South Africa, Nigeria, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Sabi Am — Sabi is Africa's largest B2B company, & we are digitising informal trade via our platform. We access markets hard to reach and ensure ease of distribution, & are the No 1 FCMG supplier in Africa.
  • Sukhiba — Sukhiba is a decentralized community-based commerce platform.
  • Stitch — One API integration for enterprise online payments across South Africa. Accept Pay by bank, debit + credit card, cash, manual EFT, debit order and crypto.
Chandaria Capital VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya
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.
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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.
  • Jumba — Jumba is a construction technology platform that streamlines B2B construction material purchase and financing.
  • UTU Technologies — Trust infrastructure for the sharing economy.
Reflect Ventures VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Reflect Ventures makes venture capital investments in high-potential startups at the seed and series A/B+ stages. We identify extraordinary founders, companies and opportunities around the world, including in emerging and frontier markets. Our LPs comprise family offices, institutional investors and HNWIs on six continents, along withrecognized sector experts who are instrumental to our portfolio companies' future growth.
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Investment focus
  • Logistics, Information Technology, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Pakistan, United States, Peru
Portfolio highlights
  • TAPPI — TAPPI is the leading association for the worldwide pulp, paper, packaging, and converting industries and publisher of Paper360º.
  • goFlux — GoFlux is a SAAS platform that allows companies to connect to service providers such as carriers and logistics operators. The company gives transparency to the quotation process and hiring of transport. through a Cloud platform, shippers can manage the entire hiring process of a carrier.The company was founded in 2015 and headquartered in SaoPaulo, Brazil.
  • 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
Musha Ventures VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 5 investments in the past 12 months
Seed capital for technology startups globally.
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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
Harambeans VC Fund
Harambeans are African innovators who have pledged to “work together as one” to build Africa’s future. Over the last decade, Harambeans has spawned a series of tech-enabled ventures such as Andela, Flutterwave, and Yoco, which have collectively generated over 3000 jobs, and raised over $700m from Google Ventures, CRE Ventures and Accel.
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Investment focus
  • Supply Chain Management, Transportation, Information Technology
  • Seed, Funding Round, Angel
  • Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa
Portfolio highlights
  • Releaf — We are industrializing food processing in Africa. We've led 1000+ smallholder farmers to provide food factories with >7.5 million kilograms of quality crops.
  • MarketForce — MarketForce connects Africa’s informal retail outlets and consumers directly to suppliers of consumer goods and financial services by digitizing orders, delivery, and payments with the aim of solving the last mile distribution challenge.
  • SHYFT Power Solutions — SHYFT builds industrial-grade IoT and integrated software to connect and intelligently manage distributed energy resources (DERs) in markets that struggle with resiliency. SHYFT is pioneering the development of integrated decentralized power systems in emerging markets like Nigeria, leapfrogging over traditional central infrastructure and enablingDERs to scale and support existing but unreliable grids.
Unpopular Ventures VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 7 investments in the past 12 months
The best companies, off the beaten path.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, Mexico, India
Portfolio highlights
  • UnVale — UnVale will change how people develop, explore, and express their identities online.
  • Farmako — Install Farmako app, get a free health ID and get all your medical records safe and secure in one place!
  • Omnic.AI — The way to be a professional in esports. Omnic Data uses computer vision and a deep learning network to provide virtual coaching for the aspiring esports gamer.
FirstCheck Africa VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
FirstCheck Africa is an early believer for a generation of African women in tech. We invest early, with high conviction, in high-growth female-led startups with category-leadership potential.
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Investment focus
  • Consumer, Financial Services, Payments
  • Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Kenya, Nigeria, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Jumba — Jumba is a construction technology platform that streamlines B2B construction material purchase and financing.
  • Uncover — Experience nourishing and rejuvenating Uncover Skincare products in Kenya. Made just for you, using the finest ingredients to offer innovative & effective solutions.
  • Cleva — For anyone with global financial needs, A US-based dollar account in your name to receive, hold, and save USD.
Enza Capital VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya
Venture investor in high-growth Founders and Teams using technology to solve large and meaningful problems across Africa
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Investment focus
  • Logistics, Financial Services, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Nigeria, Kenya, 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.
  • Jumba — Jumba is a construction technology platform that streamlines B2B construction material purchase and financing.
  • Yebo Fresh — Powering South Africa's Township Economy.
Justin Kan Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Justin Kan is the Co-Founder of Stash. He previously worked at Atrium as a CEO. Justin Kan attended Yale University.
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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Nigeria, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Whop — One-stop-shop for all the latest and greatest digital products to help you earn online. From trading software to reselling communities, we've got you.
  • Proof of Play — We are a team of veteran game developers and entrepreneurs creating onchain games and open source technology. Our vision is simple: to create generation-defining games that fundamentally grant power and ownership to the players who play them.
  • Thrive Protocol — Thrive Protocol's vision is to maximize value creation for all people and communities.
Kepple Africa Ventures VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Kepple Africa Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm.
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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.
Ardent Capital VC Fund · Bangkok, Krung Thep, Thailand
Leading Venture Capital & Builder in Southeast Asia | Experts in E-Commerce, B2B, B2C, Fulfilment Startups | Seed, Series A Funding
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Internet, Software
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Nigeria, Indonesia, Thailand
Portfolio highlights
  • Laborhack — LaborHack offers a select network of tested and certified carpenters, plumbers, electricians, masons, welders, and other tradespeople. It provides cleaning, plumbing, electrical, and HVAC services.
  • Trade Lenda — Trade Lenda: Access to Loans, Investments, Utility Payments, Credit Access, Insurance, and More! Unlock Opportunities to Earn, Invest, and Grow. Secure Personal or Business Loans Toda
  • Feather Africa — Feather Africa provides money transaction services, such as enabling users to send and receive money from anyone using the application. It offers withdrawals of cash without ATM cards by sending money to the nearest cash vendors.
Voltron Capital VC Fund · 2 investments in the past 12 months
On a mission to back the most extraorordinary entreprenuers out of Africa solving important problems in large markets.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
  • Nigeria, United States, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
  • Lengo — Lengo is an AI based intelligence platform that offers a large database on consumer goods for companies in the FMCG sector.
  • Bujeti — Corporate Credit Cards, Spend Management software built for your African realities. It empowers your people to do more. It combines virtual, smart physical credit cards, payments and expenses into one experience powered by Visa Cards, dedicated NUBANs, Mobile Wallets and Faster Payments.
  • 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
Oui Capital VC Fund · Belmont, Massachusetts, United States
Oui Capital is an Africa-focused VC firm backing tech-enabled businesses at the pre-seed & seed stage.
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Investment focus
  • Transportation, Information Technology, B2B
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
  • Kenya, Nigeria, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Duplo — We enable businesses across Africa to simplify their payment flows.
  • Ndovu — Secure your investments in both local and global financial markets on ndovu - a secure, affordable, hassle-free online investment platform in Africa designed to work your money
  • Maad — Maad is Francophone Africa's fastest-growing B2B marketplace, based in Dakar, Senegal. Our tech-driven solution allows retailers to order products from our one-stop shop and benefit from working capital loans
VestedWorld VC Fund · Chicago, Illinois, United States
VestedWorld is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in emerging markets companies that have the potential to generate competitive financial returns while contributing towards the growth and development of the markets in which they are located. The firm supports these businesses through the infusion of capital, active involvement incorporate governance, and by providing direct strategic and operational assistance.
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Investment focus
  • Agriculture, E-Commerce, Financial Services
  • 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.
  • Terragon Group — Terragon is a leading Data and Marketing Technology company that uses data and analytics to help companies focused in Africa, intelligently connect at scale to their customers. We use an aggregation of online and offline data, and predictive scoring to help brands, marketing agencies and platforms accurately target people across channels anddevices. Headquartered in Lagos; Nigeria, we also have a presence in Kenya, South Africa, Ghana and India.
  • Complete Farmer — We are providing cutting-edge technological farming protocols and innovations with a unique business model and logistics that are revolutionizing...
Stephen Pagliuca Angel · Boston, Massachusetts, United States · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Stephen G. Pagliuca has served as a director from July 1990 (except for a six month hiatus beginning in late 2009 when he entered the Massachusetts U.S. Senate race).Mr. Pagliuca is a Managing Director of Bain Capital Partners, LLC and is also a Managing Partner and an owner of the Boston Celtics basketball franchise. Mr. Pagliuca joined Bain& Company in 1982, and founded the Information Partners private equity fund for Bain Capital in 1989.Prior to joining Bain, Mr. Pagliuca worked as a senior accountant and international tax specialist for Peat Marwick Mitchell & Company in the Netherlands.
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Investment focus
  • Media and Entertainment, Sports, Information Technology
  • Series B, Funding Round, Seed
  • United States, India, Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
  • Lula — Making Mobility Viable and Profitable
  • Releaf — We are industrializing food processing in Africa. We've led 1000+ smallholder farmers to provide food factories with >7.5 million kilograms of quality crops.
  • Liquid AI — Liquid AI is an MIT spin-off with a presence in Boston, MA, and Palo Alto, CA. Our mission is to build state-of-the-art, general-purpose AI systems from first principles and deploy capable, efficient, highly aligned, and trustworthy AI for all.
Alumni Ventures VC Fund · Manchester, New Hampshire, United States · 113 investments in the past 12 months
Alumni Ventures offers diversified venture portfolios to accredited investors into highly competitive deals that individuals typically do not have access to on their own.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Coframe — Transform your website with AI-driven optimization and personalization that boosts engagement and conversions. Coframe automates growth 24/7.
  • MOTORMIA — Meet Mia! MOTORMIA - Curated by auto enthusiasts, powered by AI. MOTORMIA is revolutionizing personalized discovery of aftermarket upgrades for your enthusiast vehicle
  • Reactiv — Reactiv is an AI-powered mobile app platform to help you sell more and increase retention, without the headache of managing another channel
Logos Ventures VC Fund
Logos Ventures is a venture capital investment firm.
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Investment focus
  • B2B, FinTech, Logistics
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Kenya, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • ImaliPay — ImaliPay is a financial health platform offering financial products to freelancers and blue collar gig workers in partnership with gig platforms.
  • Zeraki — Zeraki is to use technology to address some of the obstacles learners encounter in accessing quality education. We use technology to enhance the quality of education students get at each level of education and use technology to help students transition from one level of education to the next, and ultimately from education into employment.
  • Jumba — Jumba is a construction technology platform that streamlines B2B construction material purchase and financing.
FirstCheck Africa VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
FirstCheck Africa is an early believer for a generation of African women in tech. We invest early, with high conviction, in high-growth female-led startups with category-leadership potential.
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Investment focus
  • Consumer, Financial Services, Payments
  • Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Kenya, Nigeria, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Jumba — Jumba is a construction technology platform that streamlines B2B construction material purchase and financing.
  • Uncover — Experience nourishing and rejuvenating Uncover Skincare products in Kenya. Made just for you, using the finest ingredients to offer innovative & effective solutions.
  • Cleva — For anyone with global financial needs, A US-based dollar account in your name to receive, hold, and save USD.
Haskè Ventures VC Fund · Dakar, Dakar, Senegal
Haskè Ventures is a venture builder based in Dakar and focused on transforming the startup landscape.
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Investment focus
  • B2B, Retail, Banking
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Senegal
Portfolio highlights
  • Kwely — An African Wholesale Marketplace, promoting the richness, authenticity and quality of Made in Africa products by making them accessible to the world.
  • ProXalys — ProXalys is an african digital bank or neobank for the financial inclusion and empowerment of african women (entrepreneurs and self-employed entrepreneurs, startups, SMEs, and startups).
  • ProXalys — ProXalys is an online marketplace for agricultural products, offering assured payments and deferred payment options for merchants.
Waarde Capital VC Fund · Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation
Waarde Capital is an investment company founded by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs. As such, they are well positioned to identify and support best companies with strong entrepreneurs.With three active funds under management, including LBO, growth equity, and venture fund, it invests practically on every stage of the business lifecycle, and do itglobally. Waarde invests in Europe, US, Israel, Russia, and Southeast Asia.Waarde Capital brings funding and assists in the strategic development of portfolio companies and, if necessary, offers debt financing that may significantly increase the value of the co-owned equity.Waarde Capital invests in Russia, Europe and the USA.Waarde Capital’s management team brings about 150 years of accumulated business experience of it's partners in Russia and other countries. Managing partners are skilled entrepreneurs who became professional investors.
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Investment focus
  • B2B, Manufacturing, Information Technology
  • Convertible Note, Funding Round, Series B
  • Israel, Nigeria, France
Portfolio highlights
  • Gauzy — Smart glass technology developed by Gauzy allows glass to change from transparent to varying degrees of opaque on demand.
  • MAX — Make mobility accessible, safe, reliable, and sustainable for 1 billion Africans
  • Sabi Am — Sabi is Africa's largest B2B company, & we are digitising informal trade via our platform. We access markets hard to reach and ensure ease of distribution, & are the No 1 FCMG supplier in Africa.
DOB Equity VC Fund · Veessen, Gelderland, The Netherlands
DOB Equity is a private equity firm specializing in growth capital and buy-and-build strategies in small and medium companies.
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Investment focus
  • Food and Beverage, Farming, Health Care
  • Private Equity, Funding Round, Seed
  • Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania
Portfolio highlights
  • Kwara — Kwara turns analog credit unions into modern digital banks.
  • Power — Putting individuals on the path towards financial health
  • Eden Care Medical — Eden Care Medical is a mobile application that provides medical and health insurance as well as financial services.
Renew Capital VC Fund · Addis Ababa, Adis Abeba, Ethiopia · 12 investments in the past 12 months
Renew Capital is an Africa-focused investment firm that addresses critical gaps for Africa’s growing businesses and connects them to a global network of impact investors.
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Investment focus
  • Mobile Apps, Financial Services, Finance
  • Pre-Seed, Funding Round, Seed
  • Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia
Portfolio highlights
  • Roam — The Standard for Electric Mobility in Africa.
  • Bosso Africa — Your plug for contruction material
  • Level Africa — Digital Investment Marketplace for Africa
Afri Mobility VC Fund
Afri Mobility is the venture capital arm of AKWA Group.
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Investment focus
  • B2B, Food Delivery, Fleet Management
  • Seed, Convertible Note
  • Morocco, France
Portfolio highlights
  • Lyko — In a simple connection, integrate the planning and sales of thousands of mobility service providers around the world into your platform...
  • VotreColis — VotreColis.ma is a 100% b2b online solution that will help you streamline your delivery service. Facilitate merchant-customer relationships by providing them with a team of deliverers in all Moroccan cities, as well as a platform for managing and optimizing deliveries.
  • VotreChauffeur — VotreChauffeur is a transport and mobility company. They provide vehicles with private drivers. They provide water bottles, Wifi, phone chargers, and magazines in their vehicles. They serve customers.
Eudaimonia Capital VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
Eudaimonia Capital Pte. Ltd. is a seed stage investments firm.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, China, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Releaf — We are industrializing food processing in Africa. We've led 1000+ smallholder farmers to provide food factories with >7.5 million kilograms of quality crops.
  • TILLIT — Tillit is a DIY investment platform for retail investors offering best-in-class funds across regions, asset classes and styles. We are built and backed by investment specialists who believe that the success to long-term investing lies in funds. With a clean design, a user-friendly interface and engaging content, we empower people to make moreinformed investment decisions. We want people to stop trading and start investing.
  • Inclusively — Our employee productivity solution empowers employers to hire, retain and boost employee productivity through workforce personalization.
Réseau Entreprendre VC Fund · Roubaix, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France
Réseau Entreprendre is a registered charity French association providing financial support to entrepreneurs.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Funding Round, Angel
  • France, Morocco
Portfolio highlights
  • Rewayz — Rewayz is operating a health platform connecting consumers with professional certified coaches and fun workshops and video exchanges.
  • Vinidaily — Vinidaily is the application that helps you choose the wine 100% adapted to your tastes and the occasion, in your favorite supermarket and soon everywhere else.
  • Stern Tech — We created a revolutionary SaaS platform for human behavior analysis. We use AI and cognitive sciences to interpret human behavior in real time. Use cases: Automotive, Health, Marketing, Training, Politics. See our partnership with Renault and STMicroelectronics : https://stern.consulting/sterntech-h1stvision.mp4
Satgana VC Fund · Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Satgana is a Climate Tech VC firm on a mission to invest in planet-positive startups building the Future of Earth.
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Investment focus
  • Electronics, B2B, Biotechnology
  • Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Kenya, France, Austria
Portfolio highlights
  • Estuaire — Estuaire It seeks to strengthen the aviation sector by lessening its negative environmental effects. Their data firm is investigating all aspects of aviation pollution, such as CO2 emissions, NOx emissions, contrails, and aircraft production. Actionable indicators are provided to airlines, lessors, and carbon calculators to lessen the impact of airtravel.
  • Revivo — Revivo is an online marketplace for electronics spare parts, tools & accessories.
  • Sirona Technologies — Pioneering direct air capture (DAC) technology with a focus on speed, scalability and a low capex design.
E4EAfrica VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 3 investments in the past 12 months
E4E (“Entrepreneurs for Entrepreneurs”) specializes in supporting early stage ventures in South Africa from very early stage (pre-series A) to scale up.E4E focus on smart entrepreneurs and business ideas that are great businesses and make a significant contribution to a better (South) Africa.
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Investment focus
  • Logistics, Internet, Supply Chain Management
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • South Africa, France, The Netherlands
Portfolio highlights
  • Pineapple — In short, Pineapple see the traditional insurance model, user journey and products as lacking and set out to remedy these by doing the following: 1) Changing the business model to align incentives, show people how premiums are used and award members leftover premium back 2) Making insuring as easy as snapping a picture where AI does the rest andcover is issued in under 60 seconds 3) Allowing per-item insurance and new product innovation to address cover not currently offered or accessible to manyPineapple launched in South Africa in 2018 with their "My Stuff" per-item insurance and have since launched their auto offering "My Ride". They have also partnered with Travelers in the US and have white-labeled their platform in the US.
  • TUNL — TUNL | Unlocking Exports
  • 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.
Jigsaw VC VC Fund · St. Helier, NA - Jersey, Jersey
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Software
  • Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • United Kingdom, India, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
  • Kaizan — Kaizan is a Client Intelligence Platform for Client Success teams to retain and grow revenue
  • Swallow — A modern pricing platform that separates pricing from the rest of your code. Swallow increases the speed and confidence of pricing changes for greater growth and profitability.
  • Bamba — Today, organizations spend a lot of money on physical data gathering exercises using old-fashioned paper-based methods. These methods result in expensive, severely delayed and incomplete data . With Bamba, a client can launch a data collection exercise anywhere in the world simply from the comfort of their web browser and the client can ensureindividuals respond with complete answers by paying those individuals for that data with mobile airtime in 122 different countries thus far.
Accion Venture Lab VC Fund · Washington, District of Columbia, United States · 9 investments in the past 12 months
Accion Venture Lab is an investment initiative that provides startups with seed capital and support.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, India, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
  • Licify — Licify, a procurement cloud-based platform specialized in the construction industry, has redefined interactions between developers, contractors, sub-contractors and suppliers. It creates a community developing transparent and efficient realtionships allthrough the value chain. This improves the procurement and supply processes, generating savingsand increasing profitability.
  • Channel19 — Channel19 is building a platform for small truckers to aggregate freight from all of their digital broker and load board relationships in one place and find the best freight to move for their business. Truckers using Channel19 earn up to 20% more revenue and can save over $3,000 per truck per year in dispatch.
  • Advance Tech Lending — Advance Tech Lending is an online salary loans provider. They help employees cover their daily financial needs with a click of a button. They don’t charge interest, just a processing fee to get funds to you immediately.
Digital Africa Ventures VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 2 investments in the past 12 months
African Digital Ventures centered on assisting African digital technology start-ups in their early stages.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Logistics, Supply Chain Management
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • South Africa
Portfolio highlights
  • Locstat — We illuminate the concealed risks and opportunities in the dark spaces of your digital environment
  • Tripplo — Tripplo is a platform to automate and optimise operations for transporters, cargo owners and cargo brokers.
  • TUNL — TUNL | Unlocking Exports
Tristan Walker Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Tristan Walker is the Founder and CEO Walker and Company Brands. He attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business and Stony Brook University.
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Investment focus
  • Beauty, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
  • United States, Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
  • Bujeti — Corporate Credit Cards, Spend Management software built for your African realities. It empowers your people to do more. It combines virtual, smart physical credit cards, payments and expenses into one experience powered by Visa Cards, dedicated NUBANs, Mobile Wallets and Faster Payments.
  • Greptile — Tabnam is an AI-powered product research tool that scrapes the internet for customer experience data about a product to help shoppers make more informed decisions.
  • AddGlow — AddGlow foster on-site community to increase retention.
Arash Ferdowsi Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 23 investments in the past 12 months
Arash Ferdowsi is the Co-Founder & CTO at Dropbox. After studying at MIT, Arash Ferdowsi founded Dropbox with Drew Houston. Dropbox was a TechCrunch50 finalist in 2008.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, India, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
  • Artie — Leverage change data capture to replicate data from databases to your data warehouse or data lake with low latency and no impact to database performance.
  • Alinea — Alinea offers a social investing platform for crypto, stocks and playlists. We offer fractional investing, $0 commission on investments, and a minimum as low as $1.
  • PawCo Foods — The new generation of healthy and delicious dog food made from plant-based meat. Support earth, animal welfare, and your dog's health!
The MasterCard Foundation VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada
The Mastercard Foundation seeks a world where everyone has the opportunity to learn and prosper. Our focus is helping young people in Africa access opportunity by advancing education and financial inclusion.
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  • Zlto — Zlto, a digital rewards platform that offers incentives to users for positive behaviour
  • Tulaa — Tulaa combines mobile technology and last mile agent networks to connect agri-input suppliers, financial service providers and commodity buyers to smallholder farmers. The aim is to lower the cost and risk for the partners to do business with farmers.
  • Flex Finance — Flex Finance is a simple, accessible mobile platform that allows SMEs manage and track their expenses, with little-to-no financial knowledge required. Using our inbuilt AI, business owners also receive insights that help them stop waste, save money and make smarter spending decisions. Flex is committed to enabling more SMEs make it past their thirdbirthday, so they can continue to provide the income and jobs that sustain the vast majority of Nigerians.
Partech VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 12 investments in the past 12 months
Partech is a global venture capital firm with offices in San Francisco, Paris, Berlin and Dakar. Partech invests in Internet and information technology startups at seed, venture and growth stages.
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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • United States, France, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Payt — Payt is a cloud software company for debtor management and collection.
  • Presti — Photorealistic images of your furniture in seconds using AI
  • Roger (Sanos Group) — Roger develops and markets dental practice management software products for the dental industry.
Alan Rutledge Angel · 5 investments in the past 12 months
Alan Rutledge
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Software
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
  • United States, India, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
  • Bujeti — Corporate Credit Cards, Spend Management software built for your African realities. It empowers your people to do more. It combines virtual, smart physical credit cards, payments and expenses into one experience powered by Visa Cards, dedicated NUBANs, Mobile Wallets and Faster Payments.
  • FlexDesk — FlexDesk is creating a new evolution of the flexible workspace model. Remote workers use the platform to discover and book a dedicated desk or private office by the day. FlexDesk unlocks this inventory by partnering with office landlords and coworking operators that have furnished, underutilized space.
  • SearchEye — Get tech-driven SEO at scale, speed and a fraction of the cost compared to traditional agencies. Acquire PR Mentions, Digital PR and Content.
Ground Squirrel Ventures VC Fund · Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Seed round investment in frontier markets and clean energy
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • United States, Kenya, Zambia
Portfolio highlights
  • Grapevine — Grapevine makes it possible for groups to invite members, collect and distribute donations, establish a community and connect with nonprofits.
  • MindMics — Discover MindMics. The world's most accurate personal heart health monitor and well-being platform. Look after your heart health to live longer and better.
  • Untapped Global — Untapped connects global investors, and foreign capital to opportunities in emerging markets. Delivering competitive returns, and measurable impact for global investors.
Beta.Ventures VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
Beta.Ventures invests in driven, early-stage entrepreneurs scaling tech and tech-enabled startups to become market leaders. They are focused on the opportunities made available by a 1.2 billion-person, mobile phone enabled Africa.Beta.Ventures works closely with founders and teams from product idea to product launch through to the next stage ofcompany development. We are focused on the opportunities made available by a 1.2 billion-person, mobile phone enabled Africa.We are experienced entrepreneurs ourselves and are able to share what has proven to work for product and service scaling, revenue growth and fundraising.Operations is key to success at early stage companies, and our environment often faces a dearth of experience scaling opportunities; Beta.Ventures focuses intensely on the operations of a company, adding value through several levers we know, from experience, will enable a company to succeed.Our partners, affiliates, and mentors lead some top technology companies locally and internationally and we encourage you to partner with us to take advantage of our experience building great products/services, negotiating partnerships and deals, leading teams, and raising money.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, B2B
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Voyance — Voyance is a big data company helping businesses predict the future using machine learning combined with their data. Our platform can be used to answer questions like what does my revenue look like in the next two months, is this transaction fraudulent, will this customer churn and much more. We are currently piloting with organisations like banks,ecommerce and fintechs companies across Africa and United Arab Emirates.
  • PayHippo — PayHippo is making it easier to finance small and medium sized businesses in Africa. There is a need for financing of $158 bn for SMEs in Nigeria alone. To start, PayHippo helps SMEs access and spend lender capital effectively. During their first full operational year in 2020, the PayHippo co--founders leveraged their domain expertise and foundingexperience to beat their 2020 goal by 50%.
  • Knabu Distributed Systems Ltd — We are building a clearing bank.
Entrée Capital VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 12 investments in the past 12 months
We're a team of former serial founders managing over $1B across a number of funds, with offices in Tel Aviv, London, and New York.
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Investment focus
  • Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Israel, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Finom — Finom is an online payment solution for companies and freelancers that helps entrepreneurs manage their finances. It's easy to use, secure, and covers all business needs.
  • MagnusMetal — MagnusMetal embarks traditional casting into the 21st century with the patent-pending digital casting.
  • Bluewhite — Blue White Robotics offers custom-made, on-time, and affordable testing and experiment solutions based on military experiment methodologies. It was established by a group of former Israeli Air Force pilots and engineers. BWR works in close cooperation with a variety of universities, vehicle manufacturers, and startups in Israel and worldwide.
Presight Capital VC Fund · Los Angeles, California, United States
Presight is a global venture capital firm investing at the intersection of Wall Street, Silicon Valley, and Hollywood. Based in Los Angeles, CA, we manage over $600M in assets across two early-stage funds. We were founded in 2019 in partnership with Apeiron Investment Group, the multi-billion dollar private investment firm of Christian Angermayer, a serial entrepreneur in technology, fintech, blockchain/crypto, and life sciences.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Health Care, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Duetti — Duetti acquires music catalogs from independent artists a-la-carte with transparent, data-driven deals. Fund your career and breathe new life into tracks with uniquely intelligent marketing. Partner with us one track at a time, or even just a percentage of one.
  • Transmutex SA — Producing clean energy from nuclear waste is the challenge Transmutex is taking on. Based on experimentaly validated science from CERN in Geneva.
  • Parker — Banking, Credit, & Financial Analytics for the Best Ecommerce Brands.
Jua Fund VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa
EARLY-STAGE, PAN-AFRICAN, VENTURE CAPITAL FUND INVESTING CAPITAL AND COMMUNITY IN A NEW GENERATION OF AFRICAN ENTREPRENEURS.
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Investment focus
  • Agriculture, B2B, Farming
  • Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
  • Side — Side is an e-commerce distribution channel that leverages the power of “community” or “group buying” to provide goods to end customers more cheaply.
  • BRYT Knowledge
  • Powerstove Energy — Powerstove Energy, which uses advanced technology to deliver a superior smokeless, IoT-enabled cookstove that generates electricity.
Sankore Securities VC Fund
Investment Firm
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Investment focus
  • B2B, Logistics, E-Commerce
  • Seed
  • Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
  • BetaStore — BetaStore helps informal retailers get better access to goods at a wholesale price and delivers to their stores and can provide working capital support. The wholesale and retail market represents $270bn in Africa and more than 90% of the sales are made through informal channels. With BetaStore the retailers don't need to close their shops togo to the open markets and visit tens of suppliers to source for basic goods. Secondly, they don't have to buy more inventory than they need to get good prices. Finally by doing business with them, we can evaluate more accurately their risk profile and provide tailored payment facility and make them accessible for commercial lenders. Launched at the Founder Institute (www.fi.co)
Kima Ventures VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 40 investments in the past 12 months
Kima Ventures is one of the world's most active early-stage investors, investing in 2 to 3 startups per week all over the world; providing founders with funding, network, and support for them to reach the next steps of their journey.The firm invests from seed to Series A, mostly as lead investor but also working alongside other investors;backing ambitious founders who work hard to build awesome things that more and more people use everyday. The company helps them to build a great team, to learn very quickly, to keep the right focus and execute towards growth.Kima takes pride of itself in working side-by-side with entrepreneurs. They claim to understand that fundraising is only one step in the company’s journey, that’s why they take quick decisions and make the fundraising process as smooth as possible so the founders can get back to the work of building their business. Kima considers itself not only an investor, but a network of founders and experts sharing a pay it forward mindset.Headquartered in Paris with an office in London, the company was founded and backed by Xavier Niel, founder of Iliad and supporter of entrepreneurs through such projects as 42, Station F and 101projets. Over the last 5 years Kima has invested in over 400 startups in 24 different countries.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • France, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Hylight — Hylight inspects energy infrastructures and provide solutions that makes societies resilient to the effects of climate change.
  • Aloen — Aloen offers live AI training for agents, analyzing 100% of calls, and enhancing personalized AI models. solutions provided by Aleon are Automation & training, Every interaction counts, GDPR: Regulatory compliance, Committed teams: Retain your talents,
  • Usual Labs — Usual Labs operates as a decentralized finance(DeFi) protocol.
SBI Investment VC Fund · Minato, Chiba, Japan · 23 investments in the past 12 months
SBI Investment supports the business development and growth of private venture companies through fund investment. It manages and manages venture capital funds under the management philosophy of becoming a leading company responsible for the creation and development of core industries in the 21st century as a "new industry creator".SBIInvestment has invested in a total of 986 companies in the past, of which 169 (17.1% of investment companies) have exited through IPO or M & A.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Financial Services, Software
  • Series B, Funding Round, Series A
  • Japan, South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • MODE — MODE offers customized solutions to unleash the power of real-world data for your business.
  • Xaion Data — Xaion Data is an IT consulting firm concerned about implementation of AI technology in various business areas.
  • Pliant — Pliant makes the latest generation of corporate credit cards that adapt perfectly to business processes and needs.
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