Top 10 B2B Startup Investors in South Africa (October 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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54 Collective
VC Fund
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2 | Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa | Seed, Pre-Seed | Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech | $40k–$2M |
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E4EAfrica
VC Fund
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2 | South Africa, Germany, Mauritius | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Internet, Logistics, Supply Chain Management | $1M–$8.4M |
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Jozi Angels
VC Fund
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2 | South Africa, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Health Care, B2B, Apps | $188k–$1.6M |
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Five Elms Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada, Australia | Series A, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $2M–$37M |
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Fedgroup
VC Fund
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1 | South Africa | Seed | B2B, Insurance, Financial Services | |
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Utopia Capital Management
VC Fund
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1 | Tunisia, South Africa, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | B2B, FinTech, Payments | |
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Capaci.Tech
VC Fund
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1 | South Africa, Kenya, United States | Seed | Apps, Software, B2B | $10k–$4M |
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Digital Africa Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | South Africa, Tunisia, The Netherlands | Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Logistics, Supply Chain Management | $1.8M–$5M |
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ODBA
VC Fund
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1 | Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | FinTech, Financial Services, Health Care | $43k–$10M |
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Jonathan Smit
Angel
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1 | South Africa, The Netherlands | Seed, Pre-Seed | B2B, Travel, Tourism | |
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- Industry: Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 112
- Round size: Seed $40k–$2M; Pre-Seed $40k–$1.3M
- Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Yeah — Yeah is a financial technology company that offers payment processing services while building a credit profile for the banked and unbanked.
- REasy — Top up locally, pay suppliers globally, and manage international shipments with REasy. Fast, secure, and designed for African businesses expanding worldwide.
- 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.
E4E Africa Backing category-defining emerging market businesses. We invest in businesses that drive economic opportunity and sustainable growth.Learn MoreE4E specializes ... Read More
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- Industry: Internet, Logistics, Supply Chain Management
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: South Africa, Germany, Mauritius
Investor stats
- Total investments: 27
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$7.5M; Pre-Seed $1M–$2M; Series A $1M–$8.4M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Kuunda — Kuunda provides consulting, liquidity management, data insight tools enabling users to fulfill financial needs through a digital platform.
- Jem — We give employers the ability to send company-wide communications, deliver payslips, manage leave & give employees access to their earnings, via WhatsApp.
- Ridge — Ridge structures natural assets into regulated financial products, issued with an ISIN and accessible through existing banking infrastructure.
Jozi Angels is an angel network based in Johannesburg, South Africa. We exist to grow the startup ecosystem and facilitate the growth of innovative startups.
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- Industry: Health Care, B2B, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: South Africa, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Round size: Seed $200k–$1.6M; Pre-Seed $188k–$1M
- Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Jahazii — Jahazii helps employers offer on-demand access to earned wages, giving employees financial flexibility without loans while reducing pressure on HR and payroll teams. Funds on M-PESA in seconds, at no cost to you.
- TUNL — Ship globally with ease. TUNL offers affordable, transparent international shipping built for South African brands. Up to 91% cheaper. No surprises.
- The Awareness Company — We use data to tell stories that are useful to humans.
Five Elms Capital | Growth Equity and Venture Capital Firm
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United States, Canada, Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 105
- Round size: Series A $2M–$20M; Series B $3.7M–$32M; Venture - Series Unknown $2M–$37M
- Lead/follow: 77% lead, 23% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $12M in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- BoreDM — BoreDM is the modern geotechnical and geoenvironmental data management platform. Manage borehole logs, lab data, and subsurface reports. Import from gINT, AGS, DIGGS, or Excel.
- UrgentIQ — UrgentIQ provides a single, interoperable system that is purpose-built to help urgent care centers save time and money, improve care, and grow faster.
- Field Agent — Win at retail. Our on-demand platform connects brands to shoppers to capture in-store information, gather rich consumer insights, and drive product trial.
Fedgroup offers financial solutions in South Africa & abroad, providing investments, asset-backed lending, group risk & fiduciary services
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- Industry: B2B, Insurance, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- LeaseSurance — Deposit-free lease insurance for South African residential and commercial portfolios. Insurance-backed cover replaces cash deposits and cuts leasing admin.
We design and launch innovative investment vehicles to drive financial growth, inclusive prosperity and impact in emerging markets.
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- Industry: B2B, FinTech, Payments
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Tunisia, South Africa, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Evos — Evos is an AI-powered operations platform designed to transform how companies run their internal processes by turning manual workflows into autonomous, intelligence-driven systems. The platform is positioned for industries like logistics, manufacturing, energy, real estate, telecom, and retail, where operations teams are often overloaded with repetitive, multi-system tasks. A key focus is eliminating inefficiencies such as exception handling, coordination across multiple platforms, and manual data processing.
- TUNL — Ship globally with ease. TUNL offers affordable, transparent international shipping built for South African brands. Up to 91% cheaper. No surprises.
- 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.
CapaciTech operates as a South African holding company that consists of an advisory business and special purposes vehicles that house shareholdings in various entrepreneurial ventures.
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- Industry: Apps, Software, B2B
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: South Africa, Kenya, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $10k–$4M
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
Portfolio highlights
- TUNL — Ship globally with ease. TUNL offers affordable, transparent international shipping built for South African brands. Up to 91% cheaper. No surprises.
- Marquee Group — Marquee Group is a sports management focused on Golf and train athletes to achieve goals.
- Right Now Response — The future of repairs starts soon. Counting down to smarter tracking in 2025! There are perks to working 24/7, 365 days a year... Like launching the future of repairs ahead of schedule!
Backing the Bold. Creating African success stories, one founder at a time.
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- Industry: Software, Logistics, Supply Chain Management
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: South Africa, Tunisia, The Netherlands
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Seed $1.8M–$5M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Tripplo — Tripplo is a platform to automate and optimise operations for transporters, cargo owners and cargo brokers.
- TUNL — Ship globally with ease. TUNL offers affordable, transparent international shipping built for South African brands. Up to 91% cheaper. No surprises.
- 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.
We invest in people and stories, which are at the heart of everything we do.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 27
- Round size: Seed $200k–$10M; Pre-Seed $43k–$1.7M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Hopea Pay — Hopea Pay provides payment plans for healthcare services that comply with Shariah financial standards. The platform allows patients to split bills into monthly installments from three to twenty-four months. Payments are sent directly to healthcare providers while patients manage their schedules digitally through a mobile app. The system meetsglobal standards for security and privacy, including HIPAA, PCI DSS, and SOC2. It works with healthcare providers to make services accessible through managed payment solutions.
- TUNL — Ship globally with ease. TUNL offers affordable, transparent international shipping built for South African brands. Up to 91% cheaper. No surprises.
- Kunda Kids — Kunda Kids brings African stories to life! Award-winning books, music & media that make early learning joyful, empowering & proudly cultural.
A business owner and entrepreneur at heart, Jonathan started PayFast in 2007, personally developing the core platform and steering the company through more than a decade of hyper growth while maintaining a strong focus on financial return. Now a seasoned executive with strong technical roots and a keen understanding of the payments environment bothlocally and globally, he brings his unique combination of technical, operational and management expertise to bear in driving further growth within the business and across the larger group.
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- Industry: B2B, Travel, Tourism
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: South Africa, The Netherlands
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- TUNL — Ship globally with ease. TUNL offers affordable, transparent international shipping built for South African brands. Up to 91% cheaper. No surprises.
- Conservio — Discover and Book South Africa's best nature accommodations with Conservio. Book vetted accommodations, easy and safe to book online.
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