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Top 10 Beauty VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Africa in May 2025

A list of 10 VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Beauty startups based in Africa. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Beauty companies from Africa. We update this investor list every month.

Top 10 Beauty VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Africa in May 2025

Investor Beauty Africa investments
Samata Capital 2
igniteXL Ventures 2
Acumen 1
Antler 1
Chui Ventures 1
CDG Invest 1
Future Africa 1
Renew Capital 1
FirstCheck Africa 1
DOB Equity 1
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Samata Capital VC Fund
CREATING a More Inclusive Future Samata Capital accelerates equal access to capital and opportunity for talented entrepreneurs in emerging markets. We inten ...
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Investment focus
  • Beauty, Retail, Consumer
  • Seed, Series A
  • Kenya, Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
  • ReelFruit — On a mission to inspire delightfulness by offering the tastiest snacks in town.
  • Uncover — Experience nourishing and rejuvenating Uncover Skincare products in Kenya. Made just for you, using the finest ingredients to offer innovative & effective solutions.
igniteXL Ventures VC Fund · Palo Alto, California, United States
WELLNESS TO THE WORLD igniteXL Ventures is a global seed fund investing in game-changing founders at the intersection of technology, beauty
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Investment focus
  • Fashion, Beauty, Software
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • United States, South Korea, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
  • buywith — buywith is a video commerce platform enabling retailers and brands to transform their e-commerce into engaging shoppable videos and dynamic video-led experiences, including an AI-powered digital studio for creating video ads for retail media at scale.
  • Lion Pose — Daily Skincare Products for People of Color
  • Uncover — Experience nourishing and rejuvenating Uncover Skincare products in Kenya. Made just for you, using the finest ingredients to offer innovative & effective solutions.
Acumen VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 7 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Agriculture, Financial Services
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • United States, India, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
  • Reema Health — Transforming the way people navigate the gaps between health care and social care. Reema combines a 24/7 AI-based confidant with in-person community guides to help people meet their social needs.
  • Raino Tech4Impact — Raino Tech4Impact is a social enterprise that leverages technology as an enabler to empower African communities. We have been deploying technology-driven solutions in agriculture and health, powered by renewable energy to achieve sustainability.
Antler VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 118 investments in the past 12 months
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • United Kingdom, Singapore, Australia
Portfolio highlights
  • GenPage — GenPage is a SaaS platform that supercharges outreach & account-based marketing (ABM) campaigns with personalized landing pages that captivate, engage, and close. We help our users create unique experiences at scale for every prospect with AI - and win more deals.
  • Lodgicl — Lodgicl streamlines the insurance supply chain to enhance the claims experience for policyholders, insurers, and partners.
  • FoodHealth — Your home for healthy eating made simple. Powered by a team of food lovers & Dietitians, we help you find the right food for your body. And then we deliver that food directly to your doorstep!
Chui Ventures VC Fund · Delaware, Ohio, United States · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Investing in Africa | Chui Ventures is an investment company that seeks to back exceptional African companies at the early stage of their growth.
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Investment focus
  • Fashion, Software, E-Commerce
  • Pre-Seed
  • Kenya, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Shop Zetu — Shop the latest trendy fashion, beauty and accessory brands in Kenya online! Discover affordable clothing, footwear, accessories, beauty products and more. Order today from Shop Zetu.
  • Socium — Socium Job these are companies that recruit and offer real career opportunities to all those who share their values ​​and wish to invest in their development.
  • Uncover — Experience nourishing and rejuvenating Uncover Skincare products in Kenya. Made just for you, using the finest ingredients to offer innovative & effective solutions.
CDG Invest VC Fund · Rabat, Rabat-Sale-Zemmour-Zaer, Morocco
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.
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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.
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.
  • 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.
  • Filmmakers Mart — Find and book film locations, equipment, and services across Africa. Filmmakers Mart simplifies production logistics from start to finish.
Renew Capital VC Fund · Addis Ababa, Adis Abeba, Ethiopia · 11 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
  • Bosso — Bosso projects and realizes automation and robotic solutions for the growth of your business.
  • Chpter — Chpter is a software development company that offers fast billing and checkout to help start, run, and grow a business.
  • Level Africa — Digital Investment Marketplace for Africa
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.
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.
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