Top 10 B2B Startup Investors in South Africa (July 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–$4M |
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E4EAfrica
VC Fund
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2 | South Africa, The Netherlands, France | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Logistics, Internet, Supply Chain Management | $1M–$7.5M |
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Jozi Angels
VC Fund
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2 | South Africa, Kenya | Pre-Seed, Seed | B2B, Finance, Lending | $39k–$1M |
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Utopia Capital Management
VC Fund
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1 | Tunisia, South Africa | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | B2B, FinTech, Payments | |
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Capaci.Tech
VC Fund
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1 | South Africa, United States | Seed | B2B, SMS, Apps | $105k–$4M |
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Five Elms Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Australia, Canada | Series A, Series B | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $2M–$32M |
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Fedgroup
VC Fund
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1 | South Africa | Seed | B2B, Insurance, Financial Services | |
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Digital Africa Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | South Africa, Tunisia | Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Logistics, Supply Chain Management | |
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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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ODBA
VC Fund
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1 | Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | FinTech, Financial Services, Education | $43k–$3.5M |
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- Industry: Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 108
- Round size: Seed $40k–$4M; 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.
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- Industry: Logistics, Internet, Supply Chain Management
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: South Africa, The Netherlands, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 24
- Round size: Seed $2.7M–$7.5M; Pre-Seed $1M–$1.8M; Series A $1M–$4.6M
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kuunda — Kuunda provides consulting, liquidity management, data insight tools enabling users to fulfill financial needs through a digital platform.
- CMO —
- Yebo Fresh — Yebofresh is a new online shopping service, delivering popular groceries straight into areas that are generally unserved by most formal retailers. Our unique business model and partnerships with manufacturers allow us to deliver top quality products and A-brands at extremely competitive prices. Yebofresh serves Imizamo Yethu, Langa, Khayelitsha,Mfuleni and Gugulethu and following recent seed funding, is rapidly expanding across the greater Cape Town area.
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: B2B, Finance, Lending
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: South Africa, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Pre-Seed $39k–$1M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Jahazii — Jahazii provides an online platform for workforce management. The company offers tools for storing and organizing employee records in one system. It manages scheduling, attendance tracking, and timesheets for different types of workers. The platform connects attendance and payroll functions to support salary processing. It allows employers toautomate payroll calculations and salary disbursement. The company also provides earned wage access, letting employees receive part of their pay before payday.
- 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.
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, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Tunisia, South Africa
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.
- 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: B2B, SMS, Apps
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: South Africa, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $105k–$4M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% 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!
Five Elms Capital | Growth Equity and Venture Capital Firm
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Australia, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 102
- Round size: Series A $2M–$30M; Series B $3.7M–$32M
- Lead/follow: 77% lead, 23% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Crelate — Let Crelate's end-to-end powerful recruitment CRM, applicant tracking system, and staffing software enhance your hiring process with ease.
- Panopta — FortiMonitor empowers NetOps teams with user-to-application performance monitoring that helps improve customer and employee digital experience.
- Sendlane — Sendlane is the All-In-One eCommerce Marketing Automation Tool built for turning online shoppers into loyal, lifetime customers. Get started for free today.
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 — LeaseSurance provides lease protection and eliminates property rental deposits. It employs financial technology to optimize assets in rental real estate by substituting lease insurance for security deposits. The platform provides rental real estate owners and operators with a comprehensive B2B solution, including a data-driven risk engine and dataplatform to enhance operational income and optimize portfolio performance.
African Digital Ventures centered on assisting African digital technology start-ups in their early stages.
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- Industry: Software, Logistics, Supply Chain Management
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: South Africa, Tunisia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- 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.
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.
We invest in people and stories, which are at the heart of everything we do.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Education
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 22
- Round size: Seed $200k–$2M; Pre-Seed $43k–$3.5M
- Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
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.
- GetFundedAfrica — GetFundedAfrica's mission is to help Africa’s most promising startups find funding, grow & solve society’s greatest challenges. We do this through a media portal - GetFundedAfrica News; a learning portal - REMSANA; and an investment arm - GFA Ventures
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