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Top 50 Big Data Startup Investors in Africa

Last updated: Apr 2024 A list of 50 angel investors and VC funds that invest in Big data startups based in Africa. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Big data companies from Africa. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Big Data Startup Investors in Africa

Investor	Big Data Africa investments
Lateral Frontiers	3
Ingressive Capital	3
TLcom Capital Partners	2
4 Decades Capital	2
Golden Palm Investments	2
Chandaria Capital	2
Ventures Platform	2
International Finance Corporation	2
Entrée Capital	2
Five35 Ventures	1
Animoca Brands	1
Goodwell Investments	1
LeapFrog Investments	1
Olumide Soyombo	1
VestedWorld	1
Newfund	1
Western Technology Investment	1
AngelHub Ventures	1
Varsha Rao	1
TotalEnergies Ventures	1
CardinalStone Capital Advisers	1
Kalon Venture Partners	1
Standard Bank	1
Alumni Ventures	1
Harambeans	1
SBI Investment	1
Musha Ventures	1
Kepple Africa Ventures	1
EchoVC Partners	1
Hlayisani Growth Fund	1
Tritech Global	1
O.D. Kobo	1
Bonfire Ventures	1
Eric Idiahi	1
Gbenga Oyebode	1
Goldman Sachs	1
Future Africa	1
Newtown Partners	1
AAIC Investment	1
Automattic	1
Babs Ogundeyi	1
Raba Partnership	1
Rus Newton	1
Artesian VC	1
Idris Ayodeji Bello	1
Proparco	1
Alitheia Capital	1
AE Ventures	1
Appsolute Ventures	1
Double Feather Partners	1

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Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Nigeria, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

CNote — CNote created technology to streamline community-centered impact investing at scale. Further Racial Equity and Social Justice by investing with CNote.
Rhaeos — Rhaeos, the world's first wearable shunt monitor, aims to improve the quality care for patients with hydrocephalus through a novel, thermal biosensor. Developed within Northwestern University with collaboration between Dr. John Rogers, McCormick School of Engineering, Feinberg School of Medicine and Kellogg School of Management, Rhaeosrepresents a unique multidisciplinary translational effort for an important clinical need.
Masa — Masa Finance seeks to disrupt traditional centralized credit infrastructure by providing individuals, businesses, and developers with the tools to access credit and enable untapped wealth creation for 4.95B people globally.

Ingressive Capital they provide services in business development, partnerships, and financial support.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Nigeria, United States, Ghana

Portfolio highlights

Gamp — Gamp is an IT services provider that offers device protection plans and repair support for tech users and businesses.
54gene — 54gene is a healthcare startup unlocking the African genome to fuel genetic research and development that may lead to new discoveries and benefit all populations.54gene was founded in 2019 by Dr. Abasi Ene-Obong to address the significant gap in the global genomics market: Nearly 90% of genetic material used in pharmaceutical research iscaucasian. Only 2% is African, despite the fact that Africans and people of African ancestry are more genetically diverse than all other world populations combined. As a result, pharmaceutical research and development is lacking the diverse data that may hold the key to medical discoveries and new healthcare solutions.
Subsbase — Discover the future of recurring revenue management with Subsbase. Streamline your operations, boost growth, and elevate customer experiences with our cutting-edge platform.

TLcom Capital, is an Africa focused tech VC, with offices in Lagos, Nairobi and London. TLcom had been investing since 1999 in Tech, Media, Mobil and Internet companies across Europe, US and Africa, which is the exclusive focus of its most recent TLcom TIDE Africa funds. TLcom manages total commitments of approximately 300 million USD in thesesectors via a series of dedicated investment vehicles. Our investment strategy is to identify, back and assist world class entrepreneurs and management teams with disruptive technologies and business models, compelling intellectual property and deep market knowledge. We primarily target companies focused on Africa as a prime market, in the following investment themes: Access to Data Service; Financial Services; eCommerce; B2C applications (including but not limited to: health, education, energy, media and entertainment); and Software solutions to corporates and SMEs.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Information Technology
Series A, Funding Round, Series B
Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Talstack — Talstack is an all-in-one platform for employee growth and development
Zone — Zone is a regulated blockchain network that enables payments and acceptance of digital currencies.
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.

4 Decades Capital is a venture capital firm based in Cape Town, South Africa.

Investment focus

Apps, Travel, Big Data
Seed
South Africa

Portfolio highlights

GoMetro — GoMetro designs deploy and operate flexible mobility platforms. Their proprietary technology stack empowers city leaders, transport managers, corporates, retail centres, property developers, airports and downtown to introduce bold new mobility strategies. Their connected transport digital platform equips transport planners to respond to thechallenges of increased congestion, aged infrastructure, disruptive mobility players, self-driving vehicles and a lack of quality public transport services.

Golden Palm Investments is an investment holding and advisory company.

Investment focus

Information Technology, FinTech, Logistics
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Nigeria, Egypt, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Sabipay — Pastel is a leader in Artificial Intelligence. We build products targeted at individuals (SwiftMoney) and enterprises (Sigma) in emerging markets
Maplerad — Maplerad is a fast, safe and easy way to send and receive money with friends, family or others you trust. You can receive and send money directly into any Nigerian bank account in minutes using Bitcoin, US Dollars, and Naira.
Jetstream Africa — Jetstream is a supply chain platform that powers freight forwarding and global exports for African suppliers. With tracking and consolidated (LCL) shipping Jetstream levels the playing field for access to international trade for African SMEs with the click of a button.

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.

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.

We back founders building the future of Africa. We invest in companies that solve for non-consumption, plug infrastructural gaps and democratise prosperity in Africa, by eliminating the barriers for access and reducing the costs of delivering goods and services.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
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.
Shekel Mobility — B2B marketplace for auto dealers to grow their dealerships leveraging on flexible inventory financing and management solutions. Available on web and mobile.
Mecho — Mecho is an on-demand auto repair and maintenance platform for individuals and businesses in Africa.

A strong and engaged private sector is indispensible to ending extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity. That's where IFC comes in - we have more than 60 years experience in unlocking private investment, creating markets and opportunities where they are needed most.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Debt Financing, Funding Round, Series B
India, United States, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Lion's Head — Lion's Head is a commercial property platform that focuses on prime office properties with international blue-chip tenants in the CEE region.
Indorama Fertilizers — Indorama Fertilizers operates a world-class, 1.4 million metric tonnes per annum urea manufacturing facility based in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. The plant has been developed to global environmental, social and construction standards. It plays a key role in supporting the agricultural sector in Nigeria by providing a reliable supply of fertilizers forlocal farmers, thereby enabling import substitution and supporting the diversification needs of the Nigerian economy. Indorama Fertilizers is also advantageously located to serve neighboring West African countries and key Western hemisphere markets, including North America, South America and Europe
Shadowfax — Best last mile delivery service provider across Food, E-commerce, Groceries, Pharma, FMCG, Consumer durables, Auto, BFSI, Telecom, Freight forwarding & Apparel.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Israel, United Kingdom

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.
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.
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.

With a decade-long track record of venture building alongside some of the smartest female-led founding teams in Africa, we back female-focused startups across

Investment focus

Information Technology, Health Care, Wellness
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria

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.
Kasha — Health products and household goods you want, delivered to where you are.
Zuri Health — .ts-banner-image-1:hover .overlay{background-color:#ffffff} .ts-banner-image-2:hover .overlay{background-color:#ffffff} Popular categories Pharmacy Doctor at home Covid Labs & Diagonstics Wellness Telemed Show all Our Services PharmacyBuy both OTC and prescription medication and have it delivered to your doorstepLabs & DiagnosticsBook labs and Diagnostic tests and get your samples collected from the comfort of your home, hotel

Animoca Brands is a metaverse and gaming venture capital firm that focuses on driving digital property rights to gamers and internet users through NFTs. It utilizes gamification and blockchain to develop and market a portfolio of mobile applications, games, and additional products oriented to educational learning to ensure transparency, security,and new business models.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Hong Kong, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

GOMBLE — GOMBLE creates blockchain-based casual games that focus on the game's core fun rather than just playing for the money.
0G Labs — 0G Labs is a technology business that specializes in blockchain technology, emphasizing decentralization for a range of industries and societal issues.
Burnt — Creators of XION, The Blockchain Built To Make Crypto Human.

Goodwell Investments is a pioneering investment firm focused on financial inclusion, fintech and inclusive growth in sectors providing

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Agriculture
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa

Portfolio highlights

Complete Farmer — We are providing cutting-edge technological farming protocols and innovations with a unique business model and logistics that are revolutionizing...
Good Nature Agro — Their priority is to generate lasting income with small-scale farmers. They build local community leaders into qualified Private Extension Agents (PEAs) who oversee and train farmers throughout the growing season. They support PEAs to provide frequent trainings and personalized recommendations on how their growers can make their field healthier andmore productive. PEAs promote improved farm practices and deliver a farmer-friendly loan of seeds and additional inputs. At harvest, Good Nature is a guaranteed market for the certified legume seed that their growers produce. Choosing to produce these high-value crops over traditional cash crops - maize and cotton - more than doubles their income.
Inclusivity Solutions — Inclusivity Solutions provides digital insurance for the connected, but unprotected. Delivering simple & affordable insurance via mobile phones

Scaling purpose-driven businesses to achieve leaps of growth, profitability and impact.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
Private Equity, Funding Round, Series D
India, Ghana, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

PasarPolis — PasarPolis is an insurtech startup that provides an online insurance comparison platform for individuals. The company offers quotes for health insurance, life insurance, car insurance, personal insurance, property insurance, and claims processing services.The company was founded by Cleosent Randing in 2015 and is headquartered in Jakarta,Indonesia.
MedGenome — MedGenome is a developer of sequencing genomics-based diagnostics and research platform intended to improve global health. The company's platform applies genomics technologies, bioinformatics, computing, and big data analytics to the genetically diverse and large population to understand the genetic basis of cancer, metabolic disorders, eyedisorders, and other rare diseases, enabling the healthcare industry to develop deep insights into diseases at the genetic and molecular level.
Shubham Housing Development Finance Company — Shubham Housing Development Finance Company was incorporated with a mission to provide Home loans and Home Improvement loans to customers who would normally fall outside the ambit of traditional lending institutions. Shubham is amongst the first organisations in the country focused on helping urban low-income and informal income families own a homeby providing formal credit. Shubham's operating model seeks to transcend document based underwriting and follow an interview based approach to understand the customer's income and expense flows.

Olumide Soyombo holds a BSc in Systems Engineering from University of Lagos, Nigeria and an MSc (Distinction) in Business and Information Technology from the Aston Business School, Birmingham, England; earning membership into the Beta Gamma Sigma Society for his high scholastic achievement.Olumide co–founded Bluechip Technologies Ltd in 2008 andhas grown the organisation from an organization with two employees to an organization with over 80 consultants spread across Lagos, Accra and Lusaka, Zambia.In 2014, Olumide setup Leadpath as a seed fund investing in local tech startups. He has invested in startups like Pushcv.com, Paystack, Piggybank.ng, Fashpa, Heels.com.ng , Delivery Science, Gloo.ng, and Cosign.co.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Wealth8 — Wealth8 is a black-owned investment platform that provides a simple and affordable way for the black community to save & invest in globally managed funds.
Afropolitan — Afropolitan is building a Network State to unleash the maximum potential of Africans around the world. Are you interested? Join us with your email.
The Gradient Boost — The Gradient Boost is an online mentor guided data science school. The Gradient Boost focus on delivering an online data science education from both a theoretical and practical perspective.

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.

Investment focus

Agriculture, E-Commerce, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana

Portfolio highlights

EMTECH — For Modern Central Banking
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...

Newfund is a $300M entrepreneurial VC firm dedicated to pre-seed and seed investments in France and North America, in companies driving global change. The company is always looking for founders who are driven to realize a vision that will significantly alter the world in which we live. In order to appreciate what entrepreneurs are creating andutilize their strengths, Newfund aims to comprehend entrepreneurs as unique individuals.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
France, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Neo Earth — We specialize in developing high-yield natural microalgae strains, tailored for producers seeking to enhance their productivity.
Bolero — Invest in the music rights of your favourite songs and get royalties on Bolero, the all-in-one marketplace to invest in Song Shares. Invest in music today!
Clever Carnivore — Clever Carnivore is a cell-cultured meat startup that uses stem cell biology, recombinant protein, and bioengineering to create cost-effective lab grown meats. With the company's high-efficiency model, cruelty-free, environmentally friendly, and cost-competitive technology it aims to produce sausage, burgers, and chicken nuggets.

Since 1980, WTI has helped more than 1,300 companies across every innovation sector finance their growth while minimizing dilution.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

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.
Cosmos Innovation — Cosmos Innovation specialize in full stack software development, product design, cloud hosting, and MVP deployment.
Intuition Robotics — Intuition Robotics empowers older adults to live happier, healthier and independent lives at home with an empathetic digital companion, ElliQ.

Operating out of Stellenbosch in South Africa and backed by two family offices Angelhub Ventures's team is passionate about early stage investments in (South) Africa. Being entrepreneurial ourselves, we thoroughly understand the challenges and changes our founders face – which is why we back them in any way we can. Most importantly, we believein building great businesses and we are in it for the long haul.

Investment focus

Software, Education, Information Technology
Seed, Series A
South Africa, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Syscap — Syscap is a financial technology company that offers cutting-edge solutions to financial institutions to have a better administration and management of their funding sources. It connects the leaders of financial and real estate institutions with their funders. For institutions, the company ensures the optimization of their funding source managementprocesses, but also the strengthening of the relationship with their funders. To funders, Syscap guarantees the transparency and timely monitoring of its funds for the safety and growth of its resources.
Godochurch — GoDoChurch is a cloud-based church administration software which is designed to assist Christian churches and ministries with managing members, Sunday services, events, communications, and more. The system is made up of a base package, covering messaging, news, ministries, lists, church roles, services, events, and growth paths, with additionalmodules for managing follow-ups, groups, and Kids church.
Velocity — Velocity is a micro fulfillment dark store that delivers through digital channels.

Varsha Rao is the Executive Partner at Flare Capital Partners.Rao received her BS/BA in Economics/Math from the University of Pennsylvania. For two years following graduation, she worked at the Wasserstein Perella financial consulting firm, where she advised clients on private and public investment strategies. She then returned toschool to obtain an MBA from Harvard Business School.As a strong believer in the power of education, she contributes to various educational initiatives for underprivileged children and youth. Among them is Breakthrough, a program that works to motivate and empower K12 students to continue to higher education and excel academically and professionally.

Investment focus

Health Care, E-Commerce, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, India, France

Portfolio highlights

knownwell — Whether you need primary care or are focused on obesity medicine, we are here to serve you with warmth and expertise. No shame. No blame. Just care.
Groundfloor — Building the infrastructure for IRL community
Eigen Therapeutics — Eigen Therapeutics is a biotechnology company developing combination therapeutics for cancer. The company is in the research and development of synergistic therapies that improve efficacy while reducing the toxicity of small molecule therapies and immunotherapies, enabling physicians to get access to novel drugs in areas of unmet medical needs.

TotalEnergies Ventures is the venture capital arm of Total.As part of Total's commitment to a better energy future, TotalEnergies Ventures is focused on finding, funding and fostering high-potential start-ups which will contribute to creating a low carbon future.Current areas of interest include Renewables, Distributed Energy, NewMobility, Energy Access, Energy Storage, Bio-Plastics, Circular Economy, Carbon Capture and Hydrogen.

Investment focus

Energy, Renewable Energy, Transportation
Series B, Funding Round, Series C
United States, France, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Autogrid — Building a Resilient and Sustainable Grid with Distributed Energy Resources. Enabling a smarter, cleaner, more distributed electric power grid.
45-8 ENERGY — 45-8 ENERGY is exploring eco-friendly helium for uses in many industries.
Zola Electric — ZOLA Electric designs renewable energy solutions based on the latest in solar, battery and power electronics technology. Adaptable to energy need and income, ZOLA Electric’s solar systems can be bought over time using PAYGo micro-finance leasing and mobile money payments. ZOLA Electric powers more than 180,000 homes and businesses across Tanzania,Rwanda, Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana. Investors include Tesla, Vulcan Capital, DBL Partners, Helios Investment Partners, EDF, Total and GE Ventures. ZOLA Electric is a recipient of the UN Momentum for Change Award, the Zayed Future Energy Prize and is a member of the Global Cleantech 100.

CardinalStone Partners Limited is a boutique investment banking firm that offers financial advisory services. The firm provides mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, leveraged buyout arrangements, balance sheet optimization, capital restructuring, and competitor strategies advisory services. Additionally, it offers private placements, equitycapital markets and debt financing, and information services.

Investment focus

Retail, Banking, FinTech
Series A, Seed
Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Appzone Group — We are now Zone; a blockchain enabled payment infrastructure company. Our original business is now a separate stand-alone company called Qore.
Kobo360 — Kobo360 is Africa's leading supply chain technology platform. We are simplifying the supply chain ecosystem with end-to-end tech products, providing a 360-degree view to all stakeholders.
AfyA Care — AfyA Care invests in healthcare assets with a vision to make healthcare accessible and affordable.

A growing number of South Africans are investing in venture capital companies that operate under Section 12J of the Income Tax Act. Contact us now.

Investment focus

Apps, Mobile Apps, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
South Africa, Luxembourg, United States

Portfolio highlights

GoMetro — GoMetro designs deploy and operate flexible mobility platforms. Their proprietary technology stack empowers city leaders, transport managers, corporates, retail centres, property developers, airports and downtown to introduce bold new mobility strategies. Their connected transport digital platform equips transport planners to respond to thechallenges of increased congestion, aged infrastructure, disruptive mobility players, self-driving vehicles and a lack of quality public transport services.
Talk360 — Talk360 is an easy-to-use calling app that helps people make affordable international calls to any mobile and landline number. They believe that reliable communication and digital services must be affordable and accessible to everyone, regardless of someone's background. Especially people in emerging countries in Africa, who often need theseservices the most, do not always have the necessary banking possibilities. To bridge this distance, Talk360 will launch the world's first single checkout platform for Africa. This platform will combine all locally available payment methods and currencies across Africa, together with over 1.25 million cash points of sales, and will eventually be available to other companies as well. This means that 500 million Africans will be able to purchase digital services they never had access to before.
Sendmarc — Stop cyber criminals from sending emails using your domain and protect your customers, suppliers and employees from cyber attacks with DMARC Security.

Standard Bank Group is a global bank with African roots. It is South Africa's largest bank, distinguished by its extensive operations in 17 African countries. Outside the African continent, Standard Bank Group operations span to 16 countries, with an emerging market focus. Their customers benefit from their knowledge and expertise in emergingmarkets, coupled with their global outlook.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Mobile
Debt Financing, Seed, Pre-Seed
South Africa, Ghana, India

Portfolio highlights

HelloChoice — HelloChoice is digital trading and auction platform that is transforming the agricultural trade by directly connecting Farmers and Buyers.
Westfalia Fruit — Recognised as the Avocado Experts, Westfalia Fruit is a multinational organisation with the largest avocado-growing footprint in the world
Sun King — Sun King solar lanterns and home systems enables underserved communities to achieve more with inclusive distribution and flexible financing options.

Alumni Ventures offers diversified venture portfolios to accredited investors into highly competitive deals that individuals typically do not have access to on their own.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Cyvl.ai — Next-gen infrastructure asset management for governments and civil engineers. Powered by Cyvl's 3D scanning sensors and artificial intelligence algorithms.
Picogrid — Picogrid builds a unified platform for autonomous systems. Connect, command, and monitor sensors and autonomous systems at global scale.
Century Health — Accelerating access to breakthrough treatments, with the power of AI. Century Health does the heavy lifting to rapidly get you the insight you need, all while supporting the research community and protecting patient privacy.

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.

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.

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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, Information Technology
Series B, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, South Korea, United States

Portfolio highlights

Alxtal — Alxtal is a tech company who optimize the development, design, and manufacturing processes of the manufacturing industry with IT and AI.
TopoLogic — TopoLogic designs and manufactures heat flow sensors, thermoelectric conversion devices, and topological and novel spintronics materials.
OPTEMO — OPTEMO develops and supplies sales technology that allows businesses and customers to connect through a website.

Seed capital for technology startups globally.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Nigeria, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Terraa — Terraa is a B2B distribution platform in Moroccan.
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.
Revivo — Revivo is an online marketplace for electronics spare parts, tools & accessories.

Kepple Africa Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Software
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.

EchoVC Partners is a seed and early-stage venture capital firm focused on financing and cross-pollinating leading technologies, teams, business models, and knowledge across North America, Africa, and SE Asia. The average investment size ranges from $25,000 to several million dollars depending on the stage of opportunity and capital needs of thebusiness.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Nigeria, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Shuttlers — Shuttlers is a platform that offers mobility solutions by providing scheduled bus-sharing services for the professionals within the region.
Snowstorm — Snowstorm is a decentralized microproxy network. Already proven in crisis zones, it must now evolve into a next-generation system and internet freedom tool.
Senga Technologies — Welcome to Senga, custom-built, with love, for businesses shipping in Africa.

Hlayisani Growth Fund is focussed on mid-market, high growth private equity investments focussed on South Africa with an allowance for Sub-Saharan Africa and East African countries.

Investment focus

Education, Apps, SaaS
Seed, Funding Round
South Africa

Portfolio highlights

GoMetro — GoMetro designs deploy and operate flexible mobility platforms. Their proprietary technology stack empowers city leaders, transport managers, corporates, retail centres, property developers, airports and downtown to introduce bold new mobility strategies. Their connected transport digital platform equips transport planners to respond to thechallenges of increased congestion, aged infrastructure, disruptive mobility players, self-driving vehicles and a lack of quality public transport services.
Sticitt — Sticitt is a cashless payment platform. Sticitt services schools, lifestyle and golf estates, as well as events and is assisting one utility company to get clients to pay for water bills using its cashless payments system.
d6 group — SCHOOLS Schools Communication Platforms and School Management Software COMMUNITIES Community & Internal Business Communication Platforms MEDIA Let your brand be seen Advertise on

Tritech Global is a technology investment holding company spanning a number of market leading business verticals in multiple geographic jurisdictions around the world.

Investment focus

Apps, Travel, Big Data
Seed
South Africa

Portfolio highlights

GoMetro — GoMetro designs deploy and operate flexible mobility platforms. Their proprietary technology stack empowers city leaders, transport managers, corporates, retail centres, property developers, airports and downtown to introduce bold new mobility strategies. Their connected transport digital platform equips transport planners to respond to thechallenges of increased congestion, aged infrastructure, disruptive mobility players, self-driving vehicles and a lack of quality public transport services.

O.D. Kobo is an accomplished entrepreneur with over twenty-years of demonstrated history working in the financial services and technology sector.

Investment focus

Internet, Broadcasting, Video
Seed, Series A, Series B
China, Israel, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Kobo360 — Kobo360 is Africa's leading supply chain technology platform. We are simplifying the supply chain ecosystem with end-to-end tech products, providing a 360-degree view to all stakeholders.
GiveHope —
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Bonfire Ventures leads Seed rounds for business software solutions company founders transforming the industries they target.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, France, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

HealNow — HealNow partners with pharmacies to reduce the number of phone calls and payment forms they receive via fax, by allowing patients to pay co-payments online, schedule deliveries or curbside pickup, and answer any onboarding questions seamlessly. HealNow enables pharmacies to offer online payments of prescriptions for a faster onboarding and paymentsprocess. HealNow has built a system that’s specifically tailored to pharmacies of any shape or size, from grocery stores to independent pharmacies and everything in between. It was formed in 2018 and headquartered in New York, United States.
SafeRide Health — SafeRide Health provides technology-forward non-emergency medical transportation (NEMT) services for care providers and health plans offering Medicare Advantage and Medicaid. We intelligently improve and simplify NEMT to improve health outcomes and healthcare satisfaction.
Optimize.health — Running a remote patient monitoring program couldn't be easier. Launch and scale remote patient monitoring, with a simple and reliable RPM Solution.

Eric Idiahi, co-founder and partner at Verod Capital Management.

Investment focus

Dental, FinTech, Finance
Seed, Pre-Seed
India, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Mono — Secure and reliable open banking infrastructure for access to financial data and payments to build financial products for your customers.
Frain technologies — We're passionate about the product delivery value chain.
Snazzy — Forget the old-school braces, straighten your teeth using invisible braces. Affordable teeth aligners.

Gbenga Oyebode, partner at TCVP.

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed
Nigeria, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Mono — Secure and reliable open banking infrastructure for access to financial data and payments to build financial products for your customers.
Wealth8 — Wealth8 is a black-owned investment platform that provides a simple and affordable way for the black community to save & invest in globally managed funds.

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm that provides a wide range of financial services to a substantial and diversified client base.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Funding Round, Series C, Series B
United States, India, China

Portfolio highlights

Mews — Cloud-native, Mews PMS is an innovative hospitality management system that enables automation to boost revenue and empowers remarkable guest experiences.
Divcon Controls — Divcon Controls - Your Texas Building Automation Specialists
Montage Hotels & Resorts — Montage Hotels & Resorts, a hotel management company, consists of a collection of luxury hotels, resorts and residences that are perfect

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.

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.
Anchor — Anchor is building the infrastructure needed for businesses to build, launch, and scale banking and payment solutions.
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.

Newtown Partners is a venture capital firm that actively invests in emerging, disruptive technology startups.

Investment focus

Logistics, Health Care, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
South Africa, Ghana, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Chefaa — Chefaa is a GPS-enabled pharmacy benefits platform connecting patients & pharmacies nation-wide to help patients manage all their pharmacy needs. Chefaa uses big data, data ming & machine learning
Waspito — We are the platform that engages Africa into the conversation and action to drive affordable and accessible quality healthcare across the continent.
Complete Farmer — We are providing cutting-edge technological farming protocols and innovations with a unique business model and logistics that are revolutionizing...

We will continue to invest and support the growth of innovative companies towards sustainable economic growth and solving social issues.

Investment focus

Health Care, Medical, E-Commerce
Series A, Seed, Series B
Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Zanifu — The zanifu platform, allows small retailers in Sub Saharan Africa, to procure inventory from their suppliers & pay later.
Waspito — We are the platform that engages Africa into the conversation and action to drive affordable and accessible quality healthcare across the continent.
Credable — Credable is the Digital Banking Platform that is driving the future of banking by embedding financial services in businesses across emerging markets.

Making the web a better place

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Corporate Round
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

BlueLena — BlueLena provides end-to-end audience management and strategic marketing for news media through world-class technology, proven best practices, and deep industry expertise. Founded in 2020, BlueLena is based in Cary, North Carolina, United States.
OFFSITE — OFFSITE provides cloud computing and data center solutions.
Offsite — Offsite operates a platform that provides retreat planning for remote and hybrid teams. The company helps in the planning, management, and follow-up of team retreats, client-facing events, and other transformational, in-person experiences.

Cofounder and CEO of Kuda

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Nigeria, Zambia, Pakistan

Portfolio highlights

Zazuu — Zazuu is a platform for sending money across the border.
Curacel — Curacel creates APIs & tools that enable businesses to embed insurance in digital channels and to administer claims cost-effectively.
24seven.pk — 24seven.pk is using tech and data to digitize and disrupt the fresh food and FMCG verticals in one of the fastest-growing and rapidly evolving consumer markets in the world.

The Raba Partnership, Raba Capital, Raba

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
South Africa, United States, Egypt

Portfolio highlights

Cloudline — Cloudline leverages lighter-than-air technology and the latest developments in unmanned aerial vehicles to deliver essential goods and services to the 1 billion people without direct access to roads and runways.
Stitch — One API integration for all online payments across South Africa. Accept Pay by bank, debit + credit card, cash, manual EFT, debit order and crypto. Orchestrate + reconcile digital payments across methods and send payouts
Cleva — For anyone with global financial needs, A US-based dollar account in your name to receive, hold, and save USD, even as a non-US resident.

Co-Founder of Global Advisors & CoinShares. Previously JP Morgan, Salomon Brothers & Shell International

Investment focus

IaaS, Mining, Bitcoin
Seed
Kenya, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Mintgreen — MintGreen specializes in heat recovery from Bitcoin mining. Our proprietary Digital Boilers heat communities sustainably.
UTU Technologies — Trust infrastructure for the sharing economy.

Artesian Capital Management is an alternative investments management company, which was spun out of ANZ Banking Group's capital markets business in 2004, with backing from ANZ Private Equity. Artesian's founding partners, purchased ANZ's stake in 2005. The company has subsequently been fully owned by partners and staff. Since 2004,Artesian has managed specialised funds focused on credit arbitrage and relative-value strategies across global financial markets. In 2008, while continuing to manage credit relative value investment strategies from its New York, London and Singapore offices, Artesian began to make principal investments in seed/early-stage ventures from its offices in Sydney, Melbourne and Shanghai. In 2011, Artesian launched the first of its early stage venture capital funds and now manages AUD +255m. Artesian's VC strategy is to partner with best of breed accelerators, incubators, angel groups and university programs. In 2017, Artesian launched its China VC Fund with a USD 50m cornerstone investment industry super fund Hostplus. Artesian will soon launch a Southeast Asia VC Fund.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Australia, United States, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Sitemate — Sitemate builds user friendly software which thousands of industrial companies use every day to streamline their paperwork and processes.
Braingaze — Braingaze solves major challenges around cognitive disorders of the brain. We use a patented neuro-biomarker based on small involuntary eye movements. These are triggered by functional games, the resulting signal is analysed using algorithms trained by Deep Learning based on actual real patient / control cases. We adress pre-symptomatic stagesof Alzheimer's disease and the most common child cognitive disorder ADHD. Our tools are on the market and covered by a CE Mark as a medical device. Our pipeline includes detection / diagnostic tools as well as digital therapy solutions that have shown to reduce symtoms by over 50%.
Navi Medical Technologies — Navi Medical Technologies is a medical device development company.

The 'Afropreneur' (entrepreneur with an African focus), as he self-describes, Idris Ayodeji Bello is a Partner at LoftyInc Allied Partners Limited and co-founder of The Wennovation Hub, an innovation platform based in Nigeria, that has successfully accelerated the launch of several technology start-ups in social impact sectors. He isalso a Founding Partner at Loftyinc Capital Management, owners of the Afropreneurs Fund (I&II)The 'Afropreneur' (entrepreneur with an African focus), as he self-describes, Idris Bello is a Partner at LoftyInc Allied Partners Limited and co-founder of The Wennovation Hub, an innovation platform based in Nigeria, that has successfully accelerated the launch of several technology start-ups in social impact sectors. He is also a Founding Partner at Loftyinc Capital Management, owners of the Afropreneurs Fund (I&II)A first class honors graduate of Computer Engineering from Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria, he has an M.Sc in Computer Science & Data Mining from the University of Houston; an MBA in Entrepreneurship & Strategy from Rice University in Houston and an M.Sc in Global Health Science from the University of Oxford, where he was a 2011 recipient of The Lord Weidenfeld Scholarship for demonstrating remarkable potential as a future leader from an emerging economy.Idris spent the greater part of a decade working at Chevron Corporation and ExxonMobil USA, where he led several large upstream technology projects across the USA and Sub-Saharan Africa. Idris has also worked with the Clinton Foundation Health Access Initiative where he played a major role in the deployment and evaluation of Swaziland’s first mobile health patient appointment reminder system as part of the country’s National AIDS Program. Listed among CNN’s Top Ten African Technology Voices, he is a Singularity University Impact Fellow, Harambe Entrepreneur Alliance Associate, Clinton Global Initiative University Fellow, MIT Global Start-up Fellow, SAP Ashoka Global Changemakers Award Winner, Dell Technology Award Winner, StartingBloc Innovation Fellow and a Nigeria Leadership Initiative Future Leader.As a leader, Idris has mentored and catalyzed scores of contributors across the growing African landscape and is an angel investor and advisor to several African startups including Andela, Flutterwave, RelianceHMO, among others. He continues to devote his efforts to the development of innovation-driven, technology-enabled social enterprises that empower the underserved and develop transformative ideas to change lives on the African continent.He spends most of his time between Lagos, Cairo, or airport lounges.

Investment focus

FinTech, Software, Financial Services
Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
Nigeria, United States, Egypt

Portfolio highlights

Jem — We give employers the ability to send company-wide communications, deliver payslips, manage leave & give employees access to their earnings, via WhatsApp.
SimpliFi — SimpliFi is on a mission to democratize payments by building the leading Cards as a Service (CaaS) platform for MENA and Pakistan.
ORDA — Process orders, accept payments, connect to logistic providers, engage with your customers + more. We equip you with everything you need to grow your business.

Proparco is devoted to private sector funding in the sustainable development sector.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Finance, Energy
Debt Financing, Funding Round, Seed
India, Kenya, Mauritius

Portfolio highlights

dru — dru is the Middle East and Africa's (MEA) first patient-centric, digitally-enabled lifestyle and diabetes management platform. dru aids the prevention and management of Diabetes, Pre-diabetes, and Obesity- serving millions in Egypt and across MEA and harnessing cutting-edge technology and an extensive network of providers. By usingdru's app, users can keep track and continuously monitor their blood sugar and blood pressure levels. dru users also have a full and organized record of their medications, lab and radiology results by logging them all in dru’s digital logbook intended for all types of medical records. One of the very unique features of dru is that it can connect its users to a wide array of monitoring devices, including continuous glucose monitoring. The insight dru users have access to as a result of dru’s features enables them to attain full 360 degree visibility over their health and state of wellbeing. dru’s round-the-clock medical support team are also available through the in-app's chat feature to answer all user queries and to connect users with a wide network of providers that are specialized in their cases.dru is now available for users, patients and patient caregivers to download on the Apple Store and on Google Play. dru was launched in 2023 by Almouneer, the leading digital transformation platform revolutionizing healthcare for patients and doctors across MEA.
Almouneer — Healthcare, Diabetes, Practice Management, Technology
NCBA Group — NCBA Group Plc, is a financial services conglomerate in East and West Africa.

Impact investor providing both social and financial returns

Investment focus

AgTech, FinTech, Finance
Series A, Seed, Series B
Nigeria, Ghana, Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Lidya — Lidya is unlocking credit for africans by providing financial insititutions with the mos effective tools to streamline their loan processes
Haul247 — Haul247 is an end-to-end logistics technology platform with the aim to simplify Nigeria and Africa’s freight industry by leveraging technology to drive efficiency, transparency, safety and storage of goods. Our Web and Mobile app cloud-based online logistics platform offers a modern and simplified way of trucking, warehousing, reverse haulage andtracking at fingertips. It is powered by an artificial intelligence algorithm to increase efficiency to our customers by helping them make decisions that save them time and cost. Our high-quality service is additionally supported by a dedicated and experienced team which oversees and tracks every stage of your delivery/storage.
Complete Farmer — We are providing cutting-edge technological farming protocols and innovations with a unique business model and logistics that are revolutionizing...

Investment focus

IaaS, Big Data, Computer
Pre-Seed
Kenya, Croatia

Portfolio highlights

AMPnet — AMPnet is a set of white-label crowdinvesting platforms with a central P2P marketplace for renewable energy shares. Through our platform, renewable energy communities all over Europe are providing much-needed liquidity to their investments and connecting directly to large financers of renewables such as NGOs, carbon offseting schemes, etc...
UTU Technologies — Trust infrastructure for the sharing economy.

A South African venture firm focussed on early stage African startups. By the founders of Bottles, the on-demand liquor delivery app.

Investment focus

Big Data, Analytics, Data Integration
Pre-Seed
South Africa

Portfolio highlights

MetaPOS — South African Data Tech company focused on the ethical monetisation of data.

Double Feather Partners is committed to solving social problems in developing countries, especially in Africa, through financial, strategic, and M&A advisory services, and to contributing to a world in which all people can enjoy the benefits of services that form the foundation of society. We will contribute to the realization of a world in which all people can enjoy the benefits of fundamental social services.

Investment focus

Big Data, Apps, Life Science
Seed, Series A, Series B
Japan, Egypt, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Asaak — Asaak is an asset financing company redefining financial inclusion and mobility for millions across Africa. Apply for a loan today!
Nawah Scientific — Nawah is MENA & Africa's first Cloud Lab providing Analytical and R&D services to the region's life science, food, agricultural and pharmaceutical sectors.
And Africa — And Africa is a consulting and investment advisory firm located in Tokyo, Japan with a branch office in South Africa.

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