# Top 20 Beauty Startup Investors in Africa in June 2026

## Samata Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Beauty, Retail, Consumer

CREATING a More Inclusive Future Samata Capital accelerates equal access to capital and opportunity for talented entrepreneurs in emerging markets. We inten ...

## igniteXL Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Beauty, Fashion, Software

WELLNESS TO THE WORLD    
igniteXL Ventures is a global seed fund investing in game-changing founders at the intersection of technology, beauty

## Andrea Iannelli
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Beauty, Retail, Consumer

Andrea Iannelli

## DOB Equity
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Veessen, Gelderland, The Netherlands
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Private Equity, Seed
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Farming, Health Care

DOB Equity is a private equity firm specializing in growth capital and buy-and-build strategies in small and medium companies.

## Acumen
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Agriculture, Financial Services

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.

## GreenTec Capital Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Information Technology, Retail, Computer

GreenTec Capital Partners is Germany's premier investor into African start-ups and SMEs. GreenTec invests through its unique Results4Equity model, acting as a co-founding partner that is only compensated on business success.

## FirstCheck Africa
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Consumer, Payments, Financial Services

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.

## CDG Invest
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Rabat, Rabat-Sale-Zemmour-Zaer, Morocco
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Apps, SaaS

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.

## Future Africa
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology

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.

## EQ2 Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Retail, Advertising

Evergreen venture capital investing in Seed to Series A startups across MENA and Africa. 27 active investments, $71.8M portfolio NAV, 17% IRR.

## Right Side Capital Management
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Health Care

Systematic Pre-Seed Startup Capital

## Trond Riiber Knudsen
- Type: Angel
- Location: Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce

Trond Riiber Knudsen is a Founder of TRK GROUP.

## Antler
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

Build your next company with Antler, a global day zero investor enabling exceptional founders to start great companies, from the very beginning. Apply now!

## Peter anker
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Beauty, Retail, Consumer

Peter anker

## Renew Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Addis Ababa, Adis Abeba, Ethiopia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Mobile Apps, Financial Services, Finance

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.

## Pierre Martensson
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Beauty, Retail, Consumer

Pierre Martensson

## Patricia Ithau
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Beauty, Retail, Fashion

Patricia Ithau

## Kiprono Elvis Terigin
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Beauty, Retail, Consumer

Kiprono Elvis Terigin

## Chui Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Delaware, Ohio, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Beauty, Retail, Fashion

Investing in Africa | Chui Ventures is an investment company that seeks to back exceptional African companies at the early stage of their growth.

## Kwehnui Tawah
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Beauty, Retail, Consumer

Kwehnui Tawah is the Head of Platform Services + Special Projects at Sokowatch. He attended the University of Chicago.

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