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Top 50 Biotech VC Funds & Investors in Africa (July 2026)

The most active venture capital funds investing in Africa Biotech startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Africa Biotech startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
LoftyInc Capital
VC Fund
2 United States, Nigeria, Egypt Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Software $100k–$37M
U.S. International Development Finance Corp
VC Fund
2 India, Kenya, United States Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Grant Financial Services, Finance, FinTech $328k–$500M
Shell Foundation
VC Fund
2 India, United States, Kenya Grant, Seed Energy, Solar, Finance $300k–$5.5M
CoCapital
VC Fund
2 Kenya, Mexico Series A, Series C Agriculture, Energy, Biomass Energy $12M–$12M
Unruly Capital
VC Fund
2 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Biotechnology, CleanTech, Artificial Intelligence $987k–$9.3M
Alphamundi
VC Fund
2 Kenya, Colombia, Ghana Debt Financing, Series A, Series B Agriculture, Renewable Energy, Financial Services $1.7M–$16M
Futuregrowth Asset Management
VC Fund
2 South Africa, France, United States Seed, Series B Software, Transportation, Financial Services $1.8M–$22M
Novastar Ventures
VC Fund
2 Kenya, Nigeria, United Kingdom Series A, Series B Agriculture, Health Care, Internet $1.7M–$42M
ENGIE Rassembleurs d'Energies initiative
VC Fund
2 France, India, Kenya Series A, Seed, Series C Solar, Energy, Agriculture $1.2M–$12M
University Technology Fund
VC Fund
2 South Africa Seed, Grant Biotechnology, AgTech, Medical $500k–$5M
Opes Impact Fund
VC Fund
2 Italy, Kenya, India Seed, Series A Communities, Agriculture, Energy $219k–$910k
University of Cape Town
VC Fund
2 South Africa Seed AgTech, Aquaculture, Biotechnology
DILA Capital
VC Fund
2 Mexico, United States, Colombia Seed, Series A FinTech, E-Commerce, Financial Services $800k–$25M
Cult Food Science
VC Fund
2 United States, South Africa, Canada Seed, Pre-Seed Food and Beverage, Biotechnology, Food Processing $275k–$12M
EcoEnterprises Fund
VC Fund
2 Brazil, Mexico, Kenya Series A, Debt Financing Agriculture, Food and Beverage, Food Processing $4.1M–$12M
GreenTec Capital Partners
VC Fund
2 Kenya, Nigeria, Morocco Seed, Pre-Seed Information Technology, Retail, Computer $50k–$1M
V8 Capital Partners
VC Fund
1 Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Information Technology, FinTech, Software $2M–$20M
HAVAÍC
VC Fund
1 South Africa, United States, Kenya Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, FinTech $100k–$15M
Anonymous Trust
VC Fund
1 United States, South Africa, United Kingdom Pre-Seed, Series A, Seed Software, Education, FinTech $25k–$2M
True Capital Management
VC Fund
1 United States, Nigeria, Canada Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed FinTech, Financial Services, Software $125k–$59M
DEG
VC Fund
1 India, South Africa, Ghana Debt Financing, Grant Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce $100k–$33M
Sustainable Food Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, India, Germany Pre-Seed, Seed Food and Beverage, Biotechnology, Food Processing $100k–$3.5M
VestedWorld
VC Fund
1 Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana Seed, Series A, Series B Agriculture, Farming, E-Commerce $1.6M–$20M
First circle capital
VC Fund
1 Nigeria, Egypt, United States Pre-Seed, Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Finance $100k–$4M
Triodos Bank
VC Fund
1 India, Germany, Kenya Debt Financing, Series A Financial Services, Energy, Solar $3.6M–$80M
Kale United
VC Fund
1 Sweden, United Kingdom, Canada Seed, Pre-Seed Food and Beverage, Biotechnology, Food Processing $100k–$2.5M
KFW DEG
VC Fund
1 India, Kenya, Brazil Debt Financing, Grant, Private Equity Financial Services, Energy, FinTech $100k–$570M
Africa50
VC Fund
1 Kenya, Morocco, Egypt Private Equity, Series A Energy, Education, Infrastructure
AAIC Investment
VC Fund
1 Kenya, Egypt, Nigeria Series A, Seed, Series B Health Care, Medical, E-Commerce $450k–$794M
Tencent
VC Fund
1 China, United States, United Kingdom Series B, Series A, Series C Software, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence $3.9M–$400M
Finnfund
VC Fund
1 Kenya, India, South Africa Debt Financing, Series B Financial Services, Energy, FinTech $2.7M–$135M
iLabAfrica
VC Fund
1 Kenya Seed Agriculture, Biotechnology
ShEquity
VC Fund
1 Nigeria, Kenya Seed FinTech, Finance, Agriculture $1.6M–$4M
AfricInvest
VC Fund
1 Tunisia, Kenya, Morocco Private Equity, Series A Financial Services, Manufacturing, FinTech $6.5M–$65M
Mylkcubator
VC Fund
1
Joyful Ventures
VC Fund
1 Canada, South Africa, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Food and Beverage, SaaS, Analytics $1.5M–$12M
Ohara Pharmaceutical
VC Fund
1 Japan, Kenya, Nigeria Series A, Series B Medical, Biotechnology, Health Care $10M–$184M
Alethea Capital Management
VC Fund
1 United States, South Africa Series A, Series B, Series C Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical $2.5M–$10M
Endeavor
VC Fund
1 Brazil, United States, Malaysia Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Financial Services $4.2M–$50M
Standard Chartered Bank
VC Fund
1 India, Singapore, United Kingdom Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt Financial Services, Energy, Finance $70M–$3B
Acumen
VC Fund
1 United States, India, Kenya Seed, Series A Agriculture, Solar, Health Care $300k–$12M
E4EAfrica
VC Fund
1 South Africa, The Netherlands, France Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Logistics, Internet, Supply Chain Management $1M–$7.5M
EDFI ElectriFI
VC Fund
1 United States, Kenya, France Debt Financing, Series A Energy, Solar, Renewable Energy $110k–$30M
Twynam Agricultural Group
VC Fund
1 United States, Australia, India Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed Biotechnology, Agriculture, Energy $708k–$33M
Lendahand
VC Fund
1 Kenya, Uganda, Germany Debt Financing, Series A, Series B Financial Services, FinTech, Renewable Energy $154k–$17M
Endeavor Catalyst
VC Fund
1 United States, Brazil, Mexico Series B, Series A, Series C Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce $5.5M–$200M
Oxfam’s Enterprise Development Programme
VC Fund
1 Tunisia, Ethiopia Grant, Series A Retail, Blockchain, E-Commerce
Ministry of programming
VC Fund
1 Sweden, South Africa Pre-Seed, Seed E-Commerce, Retail, Fashion
Launch Africa
VC Fund
1 Nigeria, South Africa, United States Seed, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology $200k–$4M
Oak Drive ventures
VC Fund
1 Philippines, France, South Africa Seed, Series B, Series A CRM, Banking, FinTech $5.3M–$6.5M
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LoftyInc Capital
VC Fund · Carmel, California, United States · 2 investments in Africa Biotech startups

LoftyInc Capital Management empowers Afropreneurs to build a prosperous and equitable future in Africa. We deliver value to both founders and investors.........

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 147
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2.4M; Series A $250k–$37M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $14M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Aku — Aku is a financial technology to drive financial inclusion on one mobile device. They provide payments and bring financial services to the doorstep. They support the new business owner in need of the right tools. They offer low-cost, accessible financial services that serve their customers. They radically democratized access to banking and digitalpayment channels.
  • Cauridor — Cauridor is a Financial Services company.
  • AlumUnite — AlumUnite is a purpose-built platform to connect all educated Africans to develop Africa's human capital through alumni groups. We crowd-resource education.
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U.S. International Development Finance Corp
VC Fund · Washington, District of Columbia, United States · 2 investments in Africa Biotech startups

U.S. International Development Finance Corp is America’s development bank.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Grant
  • Geography: India, Kenya, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 126
  • Round size: Grant $328k–$5M; Post-IPO Debt $18M–$500M; Debt Financing $5.5M–$410M
  • Lead/follow: 78% lead, 22% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $300M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Kodak — A global technology company providing industry-leading products and services for commercial print, packaging, publishing, manufacturing and entertainment.
  • Bayport Management — Bayport Management Limited, through its subsidiaries, provides retail financial services in the Republic of Mauritius and internationally.
  • Pela Global — Pela Global Limited is an Australian company focused on critical and precious metals mining, primarily advancing projects in North Macedonia's Tethyan Belt. It specializes in antimony and gold resources, emphasizing sustainable development and global supply chain contributions.
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Shell Foundation
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in Africa Biotech startups

Shell Foundation is a philanthropic foundation that enables millions of people in Africa and Asia to increase their incomes with clean energy solutions.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Energy, Solar, Finance
  • Stage:Grant, Seed
  • Geography: India, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 29
  • Round size: Seed $790k–$1.1M; Grant $300k–$5.5M
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kofa — Kofa is an automotive company that utilizes the latest electric battery and motor technology. The company aims to develop an affordable, sustainable and customer driven electric network in transformative energy, transport, and climate change around the globe. Kofa was founded in Ghana and is headquartered in Accra.
  • Sistema.bio — Sistema.bio is a biodigester with biogas appliances. High efficiency biodigesters transform organic waste into renewable biogas.
  • Mufin Green Finance — Mufin Green Finance is an NBFC that specialises in the electric vehicle (EV) market.
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CoCapital
VC Fund · 2 investments in Africa Biotech startups

CoCapital provides dedicated Seed and Early Stage investment solutions for specialist Technology startups, prime Real Estate ventures as well as other alternative investment products.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Agriculture, Energy, Biomass Energy
  • Stage:Series A, Series C
  • Geography: Kenya, Mexico

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Series A $12M–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Sistema.bio — Sistema.bio is a biodigester with biogas appliances. High efficiency biodigesters transform organic waste into renewable biogas.
  • Sistema Biobolsa — Sistema.bio is a biodigester with biogas appliances. High efficiency biodigesters transform organic waste into renewable biogas.
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Unruly Capital
VC Fund · Italy, Texas, United States · 2 investments in Africa Biotech startups, 6 in the past 12 months

Investing in the crazy before it becomes normal

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, CleanTech, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 60
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$9.3M; Pre-Seed $987k–$3.6M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Matta — Matta delivers artificial intelligence software and services for businesses. Offerings include custom model development, data preparation, and API-based deployment across computer vision and language tasks. Tooling covers experiment tracking, evaluation, monitoring, and scalability to move prototypes into production. Services also addressintegration with existing data pipelines, security considerations, and MLOps practices. Engagements include solution design, implementation, and knowledge transfer so internal teams can operate and iterate models over time.
  • Willo — Willo is advancing and scaling true wireless power for humanity, technology, and industry. Discover the company powering the next era of energy delivery.
  • Tangible — Tangible empowers hardware companies with sustainable asset-based lending solutions. Our platform streamlines debt funding, compliance automation, and financial product design, enabling efficient capital mobilization and comprehensive reporting for a greener future. Scale your business with Twist.
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Alphamundi
VC Fund · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland · 2 investments in Africa Biotech startups

AlphaMundi Group Ltd is a commercial entity based in Switzerland and exclusively dedicated to Impact Investing: profitable investments that generate substantial net benefits to society. It was founded in 2007 by a group of partners with extensive experience in the financial industry as well as responsible investments, microfinance andphilanthropy.AlphaMundi provides debt and equity financing to scalable social ventures in strategic sustainable human development sectors such as microfinance, affordable education, fair trade agriculture and renewable energy. AlphaMundi is currently investing out of its impact debt fund, SocialAlpha Investment Fund (SAIF) - Bastion, domiciled in Luxembourg. AlphaMundi also manages co-investments for SAIF-Bastion investors and third parties.​AlphaMundi partners believe that Impact Investing is a new tool for development that can enhance more classical responsible investment approaches (which often lack impact ​measurability) and complement charitable solutions (which often lack financial viability). To this extent, the firm also contributes to the emergence of Impact Investing through education events, publications and industry associations. Impact investments are now being integrated by leading US and European banks, pension funds, foundations and family offices into traditional investment portfolios, as primarily decorrelated, illiquid and profitable financial assets.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Agriculture, Renewable Energy, Financial Services
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Kenya, Colombia, Ghana

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 21
  • Round size: Series A $10M–$12M; Series B $3.5M–$16M; Debt Financing $1.7M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Finaktiva — Finaktiva is the number one financial ally of Colombian entrepreneurs. We offer flexible and agile online financial solutions (loans in various forms, factoring and confirming) adjusted to the requirements of the companies. We also offer a range of non-financial tools through our platform to help SMEs´ grow. Our customers are typically businesseswith innovative business models, double-digit growth rates that have a positive impact in their communities.
  • AgriCapital — AgriCapital is a financial service firm that provides store credit, productive credit, credit installments, and accompaniment services.
  • Ampersand — Ampersand catalyzes and power mass-market electric mobility. By supplying the battery swap network and operating system the company makes sustainable mobility rapidly accessible and affordable for developing markets, to improve livelihoods and the environment. With over a million km already covered by e-motorcycles in Africa using our plug-and-playpowertrain and energy network.
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Futuregrowth Asset Management
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 2 investments in Africa Biotech startups

Futuregrowth manages the full range of fixed interest and developmental impact funds on behalf of our clients. We are committed to managing and investing our clients' funds in a responsible manner.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Transportation, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series B
  • Geography: South Africa, France, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 18
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$5.3M; Series B $11M–$22M
  • Lead/follow: 72% lead, 28% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • CubeSpace — Industry-leading modular attitude determination and control (ADCS) products and solutions. Laser-focused on our customers' success. Your global ADCS partner.
  • SweepSouth — Book a home cleaning online from your mobile, tablet or computer. SweepSouth connects you with a cleaner in minutes. Cleaners are experienced, reliable, efficient and insured.
  • Happy Pay — Happy Pay is a credit scoring system developing company. The company integrates an autonomous artificial intelligence technology system with the merchant's platform to increase their average basket size and customer conversion metrics, providing users with buy now, and pay later services.
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Novastar Ventures
VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya · 2 investments in Africa Biotech startups

For the many, not just the few. For good.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Agriculture, Health Care, Internet
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 67
  • Round size: Series A $1.7M–$24M; Series B $3.5M–$42M
  • Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $108M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Soko — SOKO produces innovative, ethical jewelry and accessories from sustainable materials in Nairobi, Kenya
  • Turaco — Turaco develops simplified insurance and credit solutions through mobile technology to solve the healthcare financing needs. Turaco has simplified insurance products and also provides on-demand health loans, allowing customers to get healthcare at affordable monthly premiums.
  • Moniepoint — Moniepoint provides an all-in-one payments, banking and operations platform for businesses and their customers.
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ENGIE Rassembleurs d'Energies initiative
VC Fund · 2 investments in Africa Biotech startups

ENGIE Rassembleurs d'Energies initiative is the Group provides technical and financial support.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Solar, Energy, Agriculture
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series C
  • Geography: France, India, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$2.3M; Series A $3M–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Enogrid — Enogrid provides energy monitoring solutions. It also allows users to measure and optimize the performance of building operations, visualize energy flows, customize distribution coefficients, monitor self-energy consumption, access transaction documents, and more.
  • Frontier Markets — Frontier Markets connects India’s rural customers to products and services at their doorstep. 551 million rural customers lack access to financial, productive, durable products and services that can economically improve their lives. This is because product companies do not have deep enough infrastructure to access to rural customers; denyingtheir ability to drive innovative solutions locally to their target rural customer. Frontier Markets drives the best selection of life-improving products and services to rural customers, while creating sustainable livelihoods for rural women. In partnership with existing SHG networks, we onboarded 4,000 women to become our digitally savvy women entrepreneurs called Saral Jeevan Sahelis. Our Sahelis use our assisted e-commerce and delivery platform, called the Meri Saheli app, to collect real-time data on customer, coordinate orders, and deliveries to earning an average of 65,000/- a year without having to leave their village, becoming local leaders, and decision-makers at home. Our local distribution hubs has a team of delivery field staff who ensure doorstep delivery daily, as well as coordinate after-sales service for product companies. This combination of high-tech and local teams, and product partnerships, has helped 700,000 rural customers access 1 million+ quality solutions in clean energy, agri, and homecare. The Meri-Saheli app was designed for rural customers and by our Sahelis, ensuring it’s easy to use. Bharat India’s digitization thrives, but to reach last-mile rural customers, an assisted solution allows for quick adoption, deep learnings, and optimal services to be delivered. Since COVID, we have partnered with 3 fintech companies to launch doorstep atm services, online payments, and financial services and leading FMCG companies to drive local essential goods doorstep deliveries. Achieving 97% conversion rates, and onboarding 2,000 new customers monthly. We have launched our 2.0 version for scale, adding AI capabilities to help Sahelis train to use the Meri Saheli app on their own. This will be a gamechanger, allowing us to partner with multiple SHG organizations at once who want to start the Saral Jeevan Initiative in their fields on their own. Our team has over 60 years of experience working in rural India in sectors like microfinance, telecom, and distribution allowing us to crack the rural last-mile challenge profitably. We envision becoming India’s largest high-tech, high touch platform delivering solutions to Bharat India connecting 100 million rural customers with 1 million digitally savvy women entrepreneurs.
  • Qarnot — Qarnot provides economical and ecological cloud HPC on a disruptive platform. Qarnot designs and develops Q.rad, a computing heater embedding microprocessors as a heat source and connected to the Internet. The company has built three generations of computing heaters with multiple CPU's and sold it to construction companies looking for heatersfor new buildings. Qarnot offers affordable HPC to avoid data center costs related to infrastructure, maintenance, and cooling.Qarnot was founded on 2010 and is headquartered in Montrouge, France.
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University Technology Fund
VC Fund · Stellenbosch, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 2 investments in Africa Biotech startups

The University Technology Fund specifically focusses on commercialising technology, intellectual property, and research - Visit Us!

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, AgTech, Medical
  • Stage:Seed, Grant
  • Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$5M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Phyenti
  • Immobazyme
  • Happy Pay — Happy Pay is a credit scoring system developing company. The company integrates an autonomous artificial intelligence technology system with the merchant's platform to increase their average basket size and customer conversion metrics, providing users with buy now, and pay later services.
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Opes Impact Fund
VC Fund · Milano, Lombardia, Italy · 2 investments in Africa Biotech startups

Opes-Lcef is an impact investor that provides catalytic capital to early-stage social enterprises in emerging markets.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Communities, Agriculture, Energy
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Italy, Kenya, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 43
  • Round size: Seed $219k–$910k
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Refolo — Refolo is a type B social cooperative that sees social agriculture as having a dual impact: social and environmental. Refolo was created with the aim of creating an agro-ecological and social corridor that runs through the province of Brescia from north to south with the hope that administrations and other communities will come together to generatea positive impact on the environment and the community.Refolo operates in an area located between the municipalities of Brescia, Collebeato, Villa Carcina and Montirone, territories that share the presence of agricultural areas that over the years have been abandoned due to their unsuitability for intensive agriculture and lack of interest by new generations and that are now ready to start again.
  • Ecodudu — Ecodudu is a waste-to-value company. It uses a proprietary innovation to recycle organic waste into high-protein animal feed and organic fertilizer using the black soldier fly. It harnesses insects (nature’s recycling agents) to address global issues which include waste management, demand for protein, and environmental conservation.
  • Sistema.bio — Sistema.bio is a biodigester with biogas appliances. High efficiency biodigesters transform organic waste into renewable biogas.
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University of Cape Town
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 2 investments in Africa Biotech startups

University of Cape Town is a public research university that has previously been ranked as the top university in Africa. Originally established as South African College in 1829, where it was a school for boys, the College developed until in 1918 it was awarded full University Status with the power to award degrees. It is notable for itsresearch, particularly in Math, Applied Sciences and Medicine, as well as its history with political activism, especially during apartheid, where the University was a bastion for liberal progressivism and anti-apartheid demonstrations.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: AgTech, Aquaculture, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • MariHealth Solutions (RF) (PTY) LTD — Proteomics-powered analytics for aquaculture. We quantify 3,000+ proteins per sample to deliver deep biological insights for fish health, nutrition, and farming.
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DILA Capital
VC Fund · Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico · 2 investments in Africa Biotech startups

DILA Capital is a Mexico City-based VC Firm that fosters the growth of Mexican entrepreneurs and Start-Up Companies. By offering equity investments, debt financing and guidance, DILA strives to add value to our invested companies and entrepreneurs. In addition to our vast entrepreneur network, knowledge of the Mexican market and experience of ourpartners.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, E-Commerce, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Mexico, United States, Colombia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 68
  • Round size: Seed $800k–$10M; Series A $2.3M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $35M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Boletia
  • Fillip Fleet
  • Cicada Technologies — Cicada is a fintech company that combines technology, intuitive design, and market expertise to deliver a differentiated and easy-to-use trading solution that transforms how market participants connect and transact.
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Cult Food Science
VC Fund · 2 investments in Africa Biotech startups

CULT Food Science is an investment company focused on supporting and advancing the technology behind the future of food.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Food and Beverage, Biotechnology, Food Processing
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, South Africa, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 23
  • Round size: Seed $300k–$12M; Pre-Seed $275k–$2.4M
  • Lead/follow: 52% lead, 48% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Novel Farms — Novel Farms uses microbial fermentation to develop cruelty-free, inexpensive and tunable bioscaffolds for the production of cell-based meat products. Novel Farms mission is to craft the taste and texture of the gourmet meats and transform cell-based meat consumption into a sought-after culinary experience for the next generation of consciouseaters.
  • Minus — A sustainable coffee alternative, combining the taste, look, and smell of coffee with a smaller footprint to ensure a brighter future for coffee and the planet.
  • Unicorn Biotechnologies — Unicorn Biotechnologies is developing a fully automated manufacturing platform to enable cellular agriculture producers to seamlessly scale products from the lab bench to supermarket shelves. Our full stack platform combines hardware, software and analytics to completely automate cellular agriculture manufacturing, reducing costs and increasingproduct quality. By providing a clear path to scale cellular agriculture from grams to tons, we will improve human and planetary health and drive the transition to animal free agriculture.
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EcoEnterprises Fund
VC Fund · Costa Rica, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil · 2 investments in Africa Biotech startups

EcoEnterprises Fund offers tailored growth capital and strategic guidance to innovative impact businesses in order to scale and optimize their financial, environmental and social performance. For nearly 20 years, we have successfully proven our unique approach, managing two funds that have financed over 30 companies across 11 countries. Our 3rdfund, EcoEnterprises Partners III, LP, was launched in May 2018, building on our track record of delivering portfolio results while generating fair and sustainable livelihoods for local communities, and preserving our most important asset: Planet Earth.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Agriculture, Food and Beverage, Food Processing
  • Stage:Series A, Debt Financing
  • Geography: Brazil, Mexico, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Series A $4.1M–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Nuu — Nuu is a food-based company that makes old-fashioned food with future generations in mind. Nuu is not to make the best products in the world, but the best products for the world.
  • Sistema.bio — Sistema.bio is a biodigester with biogas appliances. High efficiency biodigesters transform organic waste into renewable biogas.
  • Smartbreeder — Smartbreeder is a digital agronomic intelligence company that promotes sustainable agriculture with high efficiency of agricultural inputs, reducing costs, increasing productivity and rationalizing the decision-making process at all stages of crop management.
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GreenTec Capital Partners
VC Fund · Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany · 2 investments in Africa Biotech startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Retail, Computer
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, Morocco

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 24
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $50k–$1M
  • Lead/follow: 83% lead, 17% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.2M in 2017

Portfolio highlights

  • Ecodudu — Ecodudu is a waste-to-value company. It uses a proprietary innovation to recycle organic waste into high-protein animal feed and organic fertilizer using the black soldier fly. It harnesses insects (nature’s recycling agents) to address global issues which include waste management, demand for protein, and environmental conservation.
  • Asilimia — Asilimia is a simple, fun mobile app for sending money through M-PESA quickly and without any transaction fees. Simply deposit money to your M-PESA, download Asilimia and send money for free to any other M-PESA account.
  • ShapShap — ShapShap enhances delivery experience through its commission-based marketplace by assigning efficient orders to drivers to ensure their sustainability and scalability.
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V8 Capital Partners
VC Fund · Ebène, Plaines Wilhems, Mauritius · 1 investments in Africa Biotech startups

V8 Capital Partners makes investments in enterprise technology businesses across Africa. African Venture Capital for software automation

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$3M; Series A $10M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Schoola — Schoola is solving elearning problems by using gamification to drive engagements and to increase performance in K12 schools. This we do by using incentives such as point, ranks, leaderboard to increase the learners interests keeping them engaged doing school work. Schoola is multilingual and content agnostic, therefore supports any curriculum andcan be used by any K12 school giving them the power to offer fun learning, while still having full control of contents. Social experience features (duel & tournaments) on the Schoola learn app have also proven to increase the learners interests. Get app (bit.ly/schoolaLEARN)
  • 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.
  • ShapShap — ShapShap enhances delivery experience through its commission-based marketplace by assigning efficient orders to drivers to ensure their sustainability and scalability.
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HAVAÍC
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in Africa Biotech startups

HAVAÍC is an investment and advisory firm that specialises in early-stage, high-growth African businesses with proven concepts and global prospects, offering investment opportunities to sophisticated investors and international venture capital companies with an interest in Africa. As a complementary offering, HAVAÍC provides corporate advisory andcapital raising services to emerging, internationally scalable businesses.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Africa, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 47
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$4M; Series A $1.9M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 64% lead, 36% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • SwiftVee — SwiftVEE is a livestock trading mobile app. They support live webcast livestock auctions and silent auctions. Their platform facilitates the discovery and viewing of livestock auctions.They provide webcast advertising, online auctions, and online livestock insurance services and data products for financial institutions.
  • Tanda — As a Tanda Agent, you can sell Kenya's favorite digital products, and grow your duka while you're at it
  • Digital Cabinet — Digital Cabinet makes your business paperless. Security is the topmost priority for the Digital Cabinet, so save time and money with the Digital Cabinet.
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Anonymous Trust
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Africa Biotech startups

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Education, FinTech
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Series A, Seed
  • Geography: United States, South Africa, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Seed $393k–$720k; Pre-Seed $25k–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • SettleKit — We help newcomers to the US set up their life here
  • De Novo Foodlabs — Producing non-animal dairy proteins using precision fermentation
  • Smart Separations — Smart Separations is a limited company based in London UK that has patented an innovative microfiltration technology to produce ceramic filters with self-assembled controllable pores of uniform size in the range between <1 and 50µm. This tight pore size control and range availability will revolutionise the field of MF with a cost-effectiveproduct.It aims to be the world’s leader in MF and particle separations technology – filling the void gap that exists in the market nowadays.
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True Capital Management
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Africa Biotech startups

Achieve your financial goals & build generational wealth with our entertainer & athlete wealth management services. Offering comprehensive financial planning.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 134
  • Round size: Seed $917k–$4.4M; Pre-Seed $125k–$725k; Series A $9.1M–$59M
  • Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $18M in 2012

Portfolio highlights

  • MoonPay — MoonPay offers a fast and simple way to buy and sell cryptocurrencies. Buy crypto with credit card, bank transfers or Apple Pay today.
  • Milano Vice — Milano Vice is building a new virtual food brand by working with professional kitchens to prepare and deliver delicious pizzas to home.
  • Kapital — Kapital empowers SMBs with a tech-banking platform giving visibility and control of their treasury, and their employees
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DEG
VC Fund · Overland Park, Kansas, United States · 1 investments in Africa Biotech startups

DEG, a Merkle Company is a full-service digital agency purpose-built to meet clients in the moment with data-driven marketing, commerce, and collaboration solutions.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Grant
  • Geography: India, South Africa, Ghana

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 25
  • Round size: Grant $100k–$800k; Debt Financing $6.5M–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • SUN Energy — SUN Energy - Pengembang Proyek PLTS Terkemuka untuk Mendukung Perjalanan Keberlanjutan Perusahaan Anda.
  • Turnkey Lender — Turnkey Lender is a Commercial lending software that can improve efficiency and reduce costs for financial services companies.
  • Naked Insurance — The new way to cover your stuff: savings & convenience through AI. Naked Insurance offers online insurance for car, home and contents. Get a quote in 90 seconds!
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Sustainable Food Ventures
VC Fund · Raleigh, North Carolina, United States · 1 investments in Africa Biotech startups

SFV backs globally early-stage founders building leading Future of Food companies that are: #Cell-based #Plant-based #Recombinant

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Food and Beverage, Biotechnology, Food Processing
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: United States, India, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 39
  • Round size: Seed $934k–$3.5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2.1M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Propel Foods — Startup that creates plant-based and hybrid protein through technology.
  • Peruvian Veef — Peruvian Veef is an offline and online store that offers real burgers, grilled seitan, crispy cravings, and vegan nugget products.
  • High Time Foods — High Time Foods provides shelf-stable and moldable plant-based meat alternatives to foodservice operators. Their first product is a plant-based chicken alternative that does not require refrigeration. The product is moldable and can be used in any cuisine as a substitute for chicken.
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VestedWorld
VC Fund · Chicago, Illinois, United States · 1 investments in Africa Biotech startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Agriculture, Farming, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 28
  • Round size: Seed $1.6M–$5.9M; Series A $2.5M–$4.4M; Series B $9M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $187k in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • BFree — BFree focuses its collection processes on sustainably leading customers out of debt by giving them back control over their finances.
  • Points Africa — Points Africa offers financial services specializing in customer loyalty and lifecycle management. It develops revenue-building campaigns and integrates technology for service operations. The company also provides UI/UX design and transaction data management.
  • Jackfruit Finance — Fast, flexible school financing in Kenya. Get working capital, projects, and asset loans designed around school fee cycles and growth needs.
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First circle capital
VC Fund · Casablanca, Grand Casablanca, Morocco · 1 investments in Africa Biotech startups

First Circle Capital is a venture capital firm seeding the next fintech generation in Africa.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, Egypt, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 35
  • Round size: Seed $455k–$4M; Pre-Seed $100k–$780k
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • PayTic — PayTic enables payments issuers to manage their card programs by providing dedicated back-office solutions that streamline the end-to-end operations in customer support, chargebacks, fraud, AML, reporting, and reconciliation. Our proprietary solutions are unique in automating and centralizing the program management processes, regardless of thenumber of processors and the payment networks involved in the payments products. We impact payments providers by eliminating the defragmented and manual processes and replacing them with a SaaS platform that increases proactivity, mitigates risks, and delivers value. It reduces the burn rate to near 0 in operational costs and offers an unprecedented competitive advantage. PayTic is introducing the Zero Ops model in managing payments.
  • Pumpkn — Need reliable funding? We provide quick loans and capital tailored for Agriculture businesses in South Africa. Grow your business with Pumpkn. Apply now!
  • Scale — Scale accelerates market entry and revenue for fintechs with a people-first approach.
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Triodos Bank
VC Fund · Zeist, Utrecht, The Netherlands · 1 investments in Africa Biotech startups

Triodos Investment Management focuses on investments in various areas, including renewable energy, microfinance, and real estate.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Energy, Solar
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Series A
  • Geography: India, Germany, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 45
  • Round size: Series A $12M–$12M; Debt Financing $3.6M–$80M
  • Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • MyJouleBox — MyJouleBox offers a solution for solar professionals in Africa to offer leased solar installations to their customers.
  • Storm — Storm focuses on wind energy solutions, developing and managing wind farms for renewable energy production.
  • axio — Capital Float is an online platform that provides working capital finance to SMEs in India. It offers flexible, short-term loans that can be used to purchase inventory, service new orders or optimize cash cycles. Borrowers can apply online in minutes, select desired repayment terms and receive funds in their bank accounts in 7 days with minimalhassle.Capital Float was founded in 2013 by Gaurav Hinduja and Sashank Rishyasringa.
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Kale United
VC Fund · Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden · 1 investments in Africa Biotech startups

Kale United offers a portfolio of over 75+ plant-based game changers

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Food and Beverage, Biotechnology, Food Processing
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Sweden, United Kingdom, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 24
  • Round size: Seed $360k–$2.5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Opalia — Opalia is introducing a new era of dairy: functional, delicious, and sustainable dairy made from mammary cells.
  • Hooked Foods — Leading the transition to a harmless seafood system by serving healthy vegan seafood for everybody to truly enjoy.
  • Cultimate Foods — At Cultimate, we are transforming the flavor and aroma industry with natural innovative ingredients.
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KFW DEG
VC Fund · Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 1 investments in Africa Biotech startups

KFW DEG offers financing, advice and support to private sector enterprises operating in developing and emerging-market countries. Their customers can rely on their expertise: They can benefit from their market knowledge, their 21 locations worldwide, and their international network. For entrepreneurial success and development.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Energy, FinTech
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Grant, Private Equity
  • Geography: India, Kenya, Brazil

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 117
  • Round size: Grant $100k–$1.1M; Debt Financing $10M–$570M; Private Equity $11M–$274M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • DataVolt — DataVolt is a leading innovator in state-of-the-art and sustainable data center solutions, empowering businesses across the globe to connect, collaborate, and grow in today's data-driven world. Our solutions, driven by security, sustainability, scalability, and reliability, facilitate digital transformation for our clients, amplifyingoperational efficiency and enabling them to contribute meaningfully to a sustainable digital future. With strategically positioned operations in Riyadh, Dubai, and California, we offer businesses the robust digital infrastructure necessary to succeed in the rapidly evolving digital landscape. We strive to redefine the future of data centers through groundbreaking innovation,
  • Combio Energia — ComBio Energia Provide energy generation solutions with renewable sources, creating, growing, and long-term economic value. They develop projects for steam generation and cogeneration of electricity with biomass, which promote environmental improvements and significant cost reductions for customers in the industrial segment. They offer, based on adetailed analysis of the needs of each customer, a dedicated energy solution, adapted to their consumption profile.
  • IPT PowerTech — IPT PowerTech coverage, coupled with our extensive expertise in supply chain management, field implementation, and power systems, has made us one of the most capable companies in handling the most complicated and versatile projects in the MEA region and its neighboring countries.
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Africa50
VC Fund · Casablanca, Grand Casablanca, Morocco · 1 investments in Africa Biotech startups

Africa50 is an infrastructure investment platform that contributes to Africa's growth by developing and investing in bankable projects, catalyzing public sec...

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Energy, Education, Infrastructure
  • Stage:Private Equity, Series A
  • Geography: Kenya, Morocco, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Lead/follow: 77% lead, 23% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • PAIX — PAIX data centres is a Pan-African provider of cloud- and carrier-neutral colocation data centre services and is headquartered in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. PAIX is the acronym for “Pan African Internet Exchange data centres”. PAIX was founded in 2016 by a team of data centre, telecom industry and investment professionals with a track record inthe African market. In its data centre operations, PAIX aims to offer a leading global quality service level to its national and international customer base across the African continent.
  • BasiGo — BasiGo is an early-stage e-mobility start-up looking to revolutionize the public transportation sector by providing matatu owners with a cost-effective electric alternative to diesel buses.
  • Raya Data Center — Raya Data Center leads the area data services industry by empowering organizations with innovative digital solutions and superior customer service. It provides a wide range of services, including public and private cloud hosting, cybersecurity, managed services, business continuity support, and more, to clients in a variety of industries in theMiddle East and Africa.
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AAIC Investment
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 1 investments in Africa Biotech startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Medical, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Kenya, Egypt, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 25
  • Round size: Seed $450k–$11M; Series A $3M–$794M; Series B $16M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Aumet — Aumet allows medical manufacturers and distributors increase their sales by sharing hospital inquiries, business news, search for products, and find potential clients.Manufacturers and distributors who work together connect and get verified so they share hospital inquiries, market business news between each other .Suppliers list their productsand connect with distributors who sell these products and select countries, where they are looking for distributors, in the meantime distributors, connects with their suppliers, search for new product and list their interests.
  • Mydawa — MYDAWA is here to ensure that every Kenyan can get quality, secure and affordable medicine and wellness products online
  • Chowdeck — Order food, groceries, drinks, medicines & everyday essentials from top restaurants, pharmacies, local markets, and stores near you. Fast delivery with Chowdeck.
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Tencent
VC Fund · Shenzhen, Guangdong, China · 1 investments in Africa Biotech startups

Tencent is an internet service portal offering value-added internet, mobile, telecom, and online advertising services. Its communications and social platforms Weixin and QQ connect users with each other, with digital content and daily life services in just a few clicks. Tencent has maintained steady growth under its user-oriented operatingstrategies. It provides value-added internet, mobile, and telecom services, as well as online advertising under the strategic goal of providing users with "one-stop online lifestyle services." Tencent’s Internet platforms in China – QQ (QQ Instant Messenger), WeChat, QQ.com, QQ Games, Qzone, 3g.QQ.com, SoSo, PaiPai, and Tenpay – aim to address the various needs of internet users, including communication, information, entertainment, e-commerce, and others.In September 2013, Tencent's market valuation rose to $101 billion, and as of November 21, 2013, QQ had 2 billion active users and WeChat had 650 million monthly active users. The numbers of active users for QQ mail, Qzone, Tencent Weibo, and QQ news were 274 million, 626 million, 220 million, and 150 million, respectively.Tencent was founded in November of 1998. In April 2000, the IDG and PCCW invested a total of $2.2 million dollars in the company. Tencent was listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (SEHK) on June 16, 2004. Baidu, Alibaba, and Netease are Tencent's major competitors.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: China, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 559
  • Round size: Series A $3.9M–$230M; Series B $15M–$283M; Series C $35M–$400M
  • Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow

Portfolio highlights

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  • XtalPi — XtalPi is a pharmaceutical technology company that is reinventing the industry’s approach to drug research and development with its Intelligent Digital Drug Discovery and Development (ID4) platform. Through its tightly interwoven quantum mechanics, artificial intelligence, and high-performance cloud computing algorithms, the ID4 platform enablespharmaceutical companies to increase their efficiency, accuracy, and success rate at critical stages of drug R&D. By accelerating the pace of drug discovery and development, XtalPi aims to contribute to a healthier society worldwide.Founded in 2014 by a group of quantum physicists at MIT, XtalPi has since grown into an elite team of researchers with multi-disciplinary expertise in physics, chemistry, pharmaceutical R&D, and algorithm design. XtalPi has received much recognition for its cutting-edge technologies, its innovative solutions, and the breadth of potential applications of its offerings across the pharmaceutical value chain, which has allowed it to gain industry approval and establish strategic partnerships with several top international pharmaceutical companies.
  • PolicyBazaar — Compare insurance policies offered by various insurers in India & buy insurance policy online. Get instant quotes & save huge on premiums.
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Finnfund
VC Fund · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland · 1 investments in Africa Biotech startups

Finnfund is a Finnish development finance company that provides long-term risk capital for private projects in developing countries. Apart from co-investing with Finnish companies they can finance ventures that use Finnish technology, cooperate with Finnish partners on a long-term basis or generate major environmental or social benefits.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Energy, FinTech
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Series B
  • Geography: Kenya, India, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 68
  • Round size: Series B $5M–$41M; Debt Financing $2.7M–$135M
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Mobisol — We transform lives through solar energy access. Our solar home systems and mini-grids benefit millions of people in Sub-Saharan Africa.
  • TPL Insurance — TPL Insurance is a Pakistan's first direct insurance company that take care of all insurance related matters.
  • Transvolt Mobility — Transvolt Mobility is an early-stage, technology-driven EV fleet operator, enabling India’s transition to sustainable, zero-emission transport by providing a scalable, multi-partner platform for commercial electric mobility across urban and industrial segments.
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iLabAfrica
VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya · 1 investments in Africa Biotech startups

Research Centre under the Fac­ulty of Inform­a­tion Tech­no­logy at Strath­more Uni­ver­sity, @iLabAfrica was estab­lished in Janu­ary 2011 to spear­head research, innov­a­tion and entre­pren­eur­ship in the ICT for Devel­op­ment (ICT4D) eco­sys­tem towards the attain­ment of the UNDP Mil­len­nium Devel­op­ment Goals (MDGs) and Kenya’s Vis­ion2030. They recog­nise that the spread of ICT tech­no­lo­gies in devel­op­ing coun­tries remains pain­fully slow; con­demning a large frac­tion of Africa’s pop­u­la­tion to poverty, under­nour­ish­ment, dis­ease and dis­em­power­ment. They also recog­nise that this situ­ation is improv­ing in some coun­tries as a res­ult of the phe­nom­enal growth of the mobile tele­phony ser­vices. This improve­ment in data access and con­nectiv­ity has cre­ated a wealth of oppor­tun­it­ies for entre­pren­eurs to engage in mobile-​based ser­vices deliv­ery business.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Agriculture, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Arbres Biotech — Arbres Biotech focuses on supplying seedlings of various plants to nurseries.
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ShEquity
VC Fund · Ebène, Plaines Wilhems, Mauritius · 1 investments in Africa Biotech startups

ShEquity is to provide smart and sustainable investments for African female entrepreneurs and innovators.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Finance, Agriculture
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Seed $1.6M–$4M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ecodudu — Ecodudu is a waste-to-value company. It uses a proprietary innovation to recycle organic waste into high-protein animal feed and organic fertilizer using the black soldier fly. It harnesses insects (nature’s recycling agents) to address global issues which include waste management, demand for protein, and environmental conservation.
  • Owoafara — Financial Technology providing access to loans, savings and insurance for the underbanked
  • Shuttlers — Commute better with Shuttlers. Join 100k+ professionals using our safe, affordable bus sharing, vehicle rental, and employee transport services across Nigeria.
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AfricInvest
VC Fund · Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia · 1 investments in Africa Biotech startups

AfricInvest was founded in 1994 and is part of Integra Group, an investment and financial services company based in Tunisia.Uniquely positioned as one of the most experienced private equity investors on the continent, AfricInvest has dedicated investment teams focused on North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa, and employs 66 professionals based inseven offices.AfricInvest manages USD1 billion across 16 funds and benefits from strong, long-term support from both local and international investors, including leading development finance institutions in the United States and Europe.Having co-founded the African Venture Capital Association (AVCA) as well as the Middle East North Africa Private Equity Association (MENAPEA) and the Euromed Capital Forum, the firm is an active promotor of the private equity industry in the region.Since 1994, AfricInvest has invested in 135 companies across 25 African countries in a variety of high growth sectors and maintains a broad network of high quality executives across Africa, offering extensive expertise in key growth industries, including financial services, agribusiness, consumer/retail, education and healthcare.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Manufacturing, FinTech
  • Stage:Private Equity, Series A
  • Geography: Tunisia, Kenya, Morocco

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 109
  • Round size: Series A $7M–$65M; Private Equity $6.5M–$21M
  • Lead/follow: 64% lead, 36% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Buzzkito — Buzzkito Network is disrupting the Avertising Industry by being the first BRAND TECH company in the MENA region. They fuse technology and brand building to make our clients happy. They are a data and psychological driven.
  • GoMyCode — GoMyCode is changing the education market by training talents in a dynamic belnded environement on digital skills and connects them with tech opportunities around the world. Based on 4 Main Aspects: - Data based Assessment - Data based matching - Business Analytics - Learning Platform - Content EditorGoMyCode provides digital Skills Training forthe Future of Work. In 4 Different fields: - DATA - DEVELOPMENT - DESIGN - DIGITAL MARKETING
  • RAYNAL Assurances — RAYNAL Assurances operates as an insurance company. RAYNAL Assurances underwrites a large range of non-life insurance risks associated to automotive, health, accident, fire, transport, and other multi-risks, addressing a clientele composed of both corporate and retail customers.
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Mylkcubator
VC Fund · 1 investments in Africa Biotech startups

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • MAOLAC — MAOLAC combines proteomics & NLP (search algorithm) to create Functional Milk Proteins (FMPs) that enable impact nutrition
  • De Novo Foodlabs — Producing non-animal dairy proteins using precision fermentation
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Joyful Ventures
VC Fund · West Hollywood, California, United States · 1 investments in Africa Biotech startups

Joyful Ventures is a venture capital fund that invests in alternative protein sources.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Food and Beverage, SaaS, Analytics
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Canada, South Africa, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$12M; Pre-Seed $1.7M–$1.8M
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Maia Farms — Maia Farms creates sustainable mushroom and mycelium ingredients for food makers. Clean-label, high-performance, and built to scale.
  • Nakitora AI LLC — NAKITORA’s mission is to accelerate food & beverage (F&B) innovation by harnessing real-time AI insights, helping brands create the right products for the right consumers, faster than ever. Their core product, TasteGPT™, is a generative intelligence platform that ingests 10M+ daily data points (menus, reviews, social, e-retail), using adomain-tuned LLM and real-time vector search to instantly surface emerging trends and unmet needs. They serve global F&B brands, CPGs, and innovators who need rapid, data-driven product development. Compared to batch analytics or generic tools, NAKITORA offers real-time, domain-specific ideation and zero-survey prediction.
  • De Novo Foodlabs — Producing non-animal dairy proteins using precision fermentation
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Ohara Pharmaceutical
VC Fund · Koka, Shiga, Japan · 1 investments in Africa Biotech startups

Ohara Pharmaceuticals is a pharmaceutical business involved in the development, manufacture, and distribution of pharmaceutical products.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Medical, Biotechnology, Health Care
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, Kenya, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Series A $10M–$78M; Series B $30M–$184M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Mydawa — MYDAWA is here to ensure that every Kenyan can get quality, secure and affordable medicine and wellness products online
  • Helium Health — Helium Health empowers healthcare providers in Africa with digital tools, financing solutions, and data partnerships. Learn more about our innovative solutions.
  • Africa Healthcare Network — Africa Healthcare Network (“AHN”) has established the first dialysis chain across Sub-Saharan Africa, providing high-quality, life-saving dialysis at affordable cost. AHN brings world-class technical expertise combined with developing world practical operating experience to a region in dire need of quality dialysis treatment. Dialysis is alife-saving treatment for patients with Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) and End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD). The few hospitals that provide treatment operate centers that are slowly deteriorating while charging prohibitive prices. Additionally, the lack of trained professionals and limited capital investment in care for non-communicable diseases in Sub-Saharan Africa, dialysis centers are few and far between, causing patients to endure the high costs for travel to receive care. Those who cannot afford the costs of treatment and travel are resigned to death. Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) and AKI are on the rise in the region due to strong epidemiologic factors, including increased urbanization leading to lifestyle diseases, other non-communicable diseases, HIV and other infections and toxins. Utilizing our network of executives/partners, we will secure high-quality equipment and train professionals to provide superior care. Our ability to source lowest cost consumables, operational efficiency and scale, will allow us to lower the cost to patients. The net result is increased access, higher quality and lower cost to patients, while maintaining profitability.AHN operates in Rwanda, Tanzania and Kenya.
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Alethea Capital Management
VC Fund · Rancho Santa Fe, California, United States · 1 investments in Africa Biotech startups

Alethea Capital Management is an SEC-registered investment advisor founded in March of 2011. As an investment management and research firm, the mission of Alethea is simple – to provide the highest level of service and guidance to our clients with honesty, integrity, and transparency. The firm’s services include fee-based asset management,research/advanced quantitative systematization, manager/strategy evaluation, and comprehensive planning. Alethea’s center of operations is in San Diego, CA.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: United States, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Series A $2.5M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • PatientPartner — Discover PatientPartner, the leading patient engagement software transforming pharma and med-tech with scalable, data-driven solutions that drive better health outcomes.
  • Lipidio Pharmaceuticals — A Unique Approach to Treating Obesity Precision Targeting of the Skin Exploiting the skin as an endocrine organ Historically regarded as a protective barrier organ, the skin is now recognized as an active endocrine organ capable of synthesizing, and secreting diverse hormones and signaling
  • SEngine Precision Medicine — The Search Engine For Identifying Personalized Cancer Treatments.
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Endeavor
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Africa Biotech startups

About EndeavorEndeavor is the world’s leading community of high-impact entrepreneurs. Today, Endeavor’s network spans nearly 40 countries and supports more than 2,000 entrepreneurs, whose companies generate combined revenues of over $28 billion US, have created more than 3.9 million jobs, and, in 2020, raised over $4 billion US in capital.Endeavor’s unique entrepreneur-first model and network of trust provide a platform for founders to dream big, scale up, and pay it forward to the next generation of entrepreneurs.
About Endeavor CatalystEndeavor Catalyst is the rules-based, co-investment fund of Endeavor, set up to invest exclusively in Endeavor Entrepreneur-led companies and to sustain Endeavor’s long-term operations in a mission-aligned way. Launched in 2012, Endeavor Catalyst has ~$250M+ AUM across three funds and has made 200+ investments to date in 32+ different markets. Today The Endeavor Catalyst portfolio has 37 companies valued at $1B+, including 29 unicorns. Investments include Globant (NYSE:GLOB), Rappi, and Creditas in Latin America; Yemeksepeti.com and Careem in MENA; and Bukalapak and Carro in Indonesia.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Brazil, United States, Malaysia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 73
  • Round size: Series A $4.2M–$25M; Series B $9M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $292M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Lunar Outpost — Lunar Outpost creates technologies that enable a sustainable presence in cislunar space while driving a positive impact here on Earth. With product lines focused on robotics and advanced instrumentation Lunar Outpost has helped create the first oxygen on Mars as part of the Perseverance mission, has the first ever contract to sell space resources(specifically lunar resources) to NASA, and has successfully created product line from advanced technology work. Key products include the commercial lunar rover MAPP that can provide mobility to a variety of payloads on the lunar surface, and the Canary Air Quality and Monitoring System, an IoT system, which has collected over 20 Billion unique data points to date in over 20 different states.[
  • Ascent Funding — Private student loans for undergraduate, graduate, and career education students. Flexible repayment, competitive rates, and a simple application. See your rate in minutes.
  • ABC da Construção — ABC da Construção is a construction company that provides consultation and materials to clients. It supplies furnishing, designing, and building supplies. ABC da Construção was founded in 1990 and is headquartered in Minas Gerais, Brazil.
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Standard Chartered Bank
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Africa Biotech startups, 24 in the past 12 months

Standard Chartered Bank offers personal and business banking services. Their solutions for companies include transaction banking and financial markets solutions. They also offer current accounts, savings accounts, credit cards, loans, and mortgage services.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Energy, Finance
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt
  • Geography: India, Singapore, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 128
  • Round size: Post-IPO Debt $100M–$3B; Debt Financing $70M–$1.3B
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Singtel — The Singtel Group, Asia's leading communications group provides a diverse range of services including fixed, mobile, data, internet, TV, infocomms technology (ICT) and digital solutions.
  • Avaada — Business and sustainability can go hand-in-hand. Their unique strategy interweaves business goals with environmental sustainability and social responsibility, producing mutually beneficial results. By contributing to community’s socio-economic development in the short-term, they foresee delivery of continual value to their shareholders. Throughtheir community engagement initiatives, they are contributing to uplift the lifestyle of communities they work with.
  • China Energy Engineering Corporation — China Energy Engineering Corporation is the solutions providers for the power industry across the world. It also enables to provide customers with one-stop integrated solutions and full life-cycle project management services. They offer survey and design services for large-scale power generation projects covering grid projects, power sources, andconsultancy services including evaluation, supervision of power projects, policy consultation, and assessment.The company sell and manufactures civil explosives and cement and provides blasting services for projects. It also operates power plants and other infrastructure projects such as environmental protection projects, highways, and water conservancy projects.China Energy Engineering Corporation was named The Top 150 Global Design Firms” in 2015 for their design business and 15th among “The Top 250 Global Contractors” in 2014 for their contracting businesses respectively by ENR.China Energy Engineering Corporation was established on December 19, 2014, and is headquartered in Chaoyang District, Beijing, China.
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Acumen
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Africa Biotech startups

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

  • Industry: Agriculture, Solar, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, India, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 178
  • Round size: Seed $300k–$2.5M; Series A $1.6M–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 51% lead, 49% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $2.8M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Bintix — Bintix averts landfill waste ... one household at a time.
  • EduBridge — EduBridge is an organization started by a group of alumni and professors from IIM Bangalore & Lucknow in 2009. EduBridge works towards transforming the lives of the unemployed youth in the country across urban, semi-urban and rural areas. EduBridge provides them with a commercially relevant training at their doorstep and arm them with thenecessary skill sets and mindset to succeed in their professional careers and thus help transform their lives.
  • Energy Assured Nigeria — Energy Assured is an energy and utility procurement market provider for smaller businesses ranging from independent retailers and local franchisees to affinity group members in any sector. Users and customers benefit from economies of scale, more agile energy purchasing, and consistently lower gas, electricity, and water costs. Their expertsunderstand the pressures that small and medium-sized businesses face: they work to provide clients with exactly what they require so that clients can use energy as an asset to propel their business forward.
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E4EAfrica
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in Africa Biotech startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Logistics, Internet, Supply Chain Management
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Africa, The Netherlands, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 25
  • Round size: Seed $2.7M–$7.5M; Pre-Seed $1M–$2M; Series A $1M–$4.6M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • 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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EDFI ElectriFI
VC Fund · Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium · 1 investments in Africa Biotech startups

Impact investment in sustainable energy

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Energy, Solar, Renewable Energy
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Kenya, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 62
  • Round size: Series A $2.2M–$30M; Debt Financing $110k–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • BURN — The future of clean cooking
  • GOGO Electric
  • MyJouleBox — MyJouleBox offers a solution for solar professionals in Africa to offer leased solar installations to their customers.
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Twynam Agricultural Group
VC Fund · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · 1 investments in Africa Biotech startups

Twynam Group is a leading Australian Funds Manager investing in early-stage climate tech. We also operate an agricultural and property portfolio.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Agriculture, Energy
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Australia, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 38
  • Round size: Seed $708k–$10M; Pre-Seed $1M–$1.9M; Series A $3.4M–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Vycarb — Vycarb is a Brooklyn-based firm that enables decentralized carbon removal through real-time, autonomous, and direct detection of CO2 in water.
  • Plasmaleap
  • Hachiko
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Lendahand
VC Fund · Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands · 1 investments in Africa Biotech startups

Invest in sustainable projects through Lendahand and contribute to positive change. Earn financial returns while supporting entrepreneurs worldwide. Discover how it works!

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Renewable Energy
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Kenya, Uganda, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Debt Financing $154k–$17M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • upOwa — upOwa brings electricity to Africa through our innovative Pay-As-You-Go solar technology for the poorest.
  • Tugende — Tugende helps motorcycle taxi drivers own their own motorcycles in eighteen months or less instead of renting indefinitely. Ownership significantly increases income, job security and road safety.
  • Sistema.bio — Sistema.bio is a biodigester with biogas appliances. High efficiency biodigesters transform organic waste into renewable biogas.
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Endeavor Catalyst
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Africa Biotech startups

Endeavor Catalyst is the co-investment fund set up to invest exclusively in led companies

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: United States, Brazil, Mexico

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 391
  • Round size: Series A $5.5M–$40M; Series B $10M–$100M; Series C $19M–$200M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $292M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Dataroid — Enterprise-level digital analytics and customer engagement platform that helps enhance every customer interaction with data-driven insights.
  • Pagaleve — pagaleve offers payment in installments at PIX, with no interest and no credit card required. They provide merchants with a new payment method in order to increase their sales in a simple, uncomplicated, and agile manner, but they also want to provide people with the opportunity to buy what they want without committing to the card'shigh-interest rates and credit.
  • Shop Circle — Shop Circle is a tech-driven company that acquires and grows the best e-commerce apps. We empower thousands of brands to build experiences that customers will love.
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Oxfam’s Enterprise Development Programme
VC Fund · Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Africa Biotech startups

Oxfam’s Enterprise Development Programme (EDP) is an innovative model that provides support to entrepreneurs in some of the world’s poorest countries to help them create and build viable, sustainable businesses. The resulting jobs and associated opportunities provide benefits for both the employees and the wider communities around them, liftingsome of the world’s poorest families out of poverty.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Retail, Blockchain, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Grant, Series A
  • Geography: Tunisia, Ethiopia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Farm Trust — Farm Trust is an E-commerce platform for fruits and vegetables that provide traceability through blockchain.
  • GreenPath Food — Greenpath Food is a worldwide food supplier of the highest quality organic, regeneratively-grown produce from small-scale East African Farms.
  • River Poultry — River Poultry is addressing a critical gap in Uganda's poultry industry. Consumers struggle to differentiate between fresh, high-quality eggs and those that are potentially spoilt. Simultaneously, farmers grapple with low profitability due to inefficient production and limited market information.To tackle these challenges, we'vedeveloped Kuevos-AI, an advanced egg-scanning technology that accurately detects defects and determines egg freshness. This ensures consumers receive only the highest quality products while empowering farmers to make data-driven decisions. Additionally, our AI-powered systems predict market demand, enabling us to optimize production and reduce waste. By combining these innovative solutions, River Poultry is enhancing food safety, increasing farmer incomes, and building a sustainable poultry value chain.
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Ministry of programming
VC Fund · Sarajevo, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina · 1 investments in Africa Biotech startups

Build and scale world-class digital products with Ministry of Programming.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Retail, Fashion
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: Sweden, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Circulaire — Premium second hand price comparison site. We collect retailers so that consumers can save time and money.
  • Nordic Angels — Join Nordic Angels, the largest investor network in the Nordics, to collaborate, connect, and strengthen the startup ecosystem through exclusive events and resources.
  • Transparent — Transparent offers speakers with a modular design that can be repaired and upgraded over time. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Stockholm, Sweden.
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Launch Africa
VC Fund · Ebène, Plaines Wilhems, Mauritius · 1 investments in Africa Biotech startups

Launch Africa is a leading Pan-African VC fund solving the significant funding gap in the Seed and pre-Series A investment landscape in Africa

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, South Africa, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 178
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$4M; Pre-Seed $200k–$1.8M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $36M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Yamify — Yamify is an AI platform where intelligent agents reliably run mission-critical business workflows in Africa. Founded by Silicon Valley engineers, our platform automates complex operations by integrating humans, systems, and infrastructure reliably, even under connectivity, latency, and compliance challenges. Starting with on-prem deployments,Yamify is evolving into a full AI automation infrastructure for African enterprises.
  • Shopstar — A place for makers and creators to start, manage and grow successful online stores. Our built-in design, payment and shipping methods provide you with an all in one solution. Get started with a free 14-day trial.
  • Kashat — The region's first nano financial service provider, offering small productive loans, and serving as the entry point to financial inclusion for the un- and underbanked population in Egypt.
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Oak Drive ventures
VC Fund · Fort Bonifacio, Quezon City, Philippines · 1 investments in Africa Biotech startups

Oak Drive ventures will provide management support to a growing stable of operating companies. It combines decades of operational and investment experience to create value across various industries.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: CRM, Banking, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series B, Series A
  • Geography: Philippines, France, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $5.3M–$6.5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Hive Health — Hive Health is a digital platform that provides access to easy-to-use, affordable, and quality HMO plans for SMEs in the Philippines.
  • Inseco — Sustainable insect protein producers, converting organic by-products into nutritious protein. This high in protein product is used in animal feed, pet food, crop production, cosmetics and pharmaceuticals.
  • Netbank — Netbank provides various banking solutions like alternative lenders, payment solutions, neobanks, and wallets.
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