Top 50 Blockchain Startup Investors in Africa
A list of 50 angel investors and VC funds that invest in Blockchain startups based in Africa. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Blockchain companies from Africa. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Blockchain Startup Investors in Africa
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Switzerland, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Lawyerd! — Lawyerd! is fully automatically found infringements, finding responsible for hosting bodies, formulating complaints, adding evidence of the violation, and sending completed complaints in 3 seconds. Also, our clients can store their products on our platform and put the information into the blockchain when products are created
- Villcaso — Truly is the easiest way to safely invest in US residential real estate. Our permissionless token means you can invest in American homes as easily as buying a stablecoin. When you invest with Truly, you get access to a diverse and professionally managed basket of high-performing US real estate. Returns with Truly are reliably high, and you can exit your position at any point. We're on a mission to make it easy for global investors to safely invest in US residential real estate.
- Mycel — Mycel is a decentralized cross-chain asset management platform with an intent-based token transfer layer.
We Focus Exclusively On Adding Value To Blockchain & Emerging Technology Projects With Real World Applications.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- TDMM — TDMM is a financial company that specializes in trading, market making, and token management services.
- Roundtable — Roundtable is an operator of a news publishing website that delivers truthful information and educates the readers. Its news platform provides insights, expertise, news, and information on various incidents and happenings around the world, helping readers to stay updated and well-versed about all the current affairs around them.The company wasfounded in 2021 and is headquartered in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
- TradeDog Market Maker — We manage the entire crypto market making life cycle; We specialize in providing liquidity, trading and risk management solutions.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Insurance, Blockchain
- Seed, Convertible Note
- Nigeria
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- Get It Done Now — GIDN is a Nigerian Fintech Company targeting medium and low income population for Loans and Financial products. GIDN has in addition a cashless, mobile based community marketplace, with more than 5k members, and aims to regulate the informal economy and facilitate the purchase of Services and Digital Products.
We are the capital engine supporting emerging talent & crypto technology. On its mission to accelerate the development of a better financial system.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, Singapore
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- Caliza — Give your users access to the digital dollar economy. Get early access!
- TurnStay — We help hotels radically reduce payment fees.
- aviva — Aviva is building an AI-powered digital bank for Latin America’s underserved communities. While determined to fuel Latin America’s ongoing emergence of a new middle class with a fully-fledged portfolio of inclusive financial services, Aviva’s initial go-to-market concentrates on unsecured credit products for individuals and nano-businesses inMexico.As most of the underbanked 40+ million Mexicans live in small and medium-sized towns, Aviva builds a bridge to those living in remote communities with its physical onboarding kiosks. These nano-branches provide a documentless 3-minute video onboarding for everyone in need of liquidity. Novel AI-based technology, including natural language processing, allows Aviva to match customers’ spoken word to the fields of a comprehensive real-time credit application. Transforming speech to text and inferring emotions and personality from the visual layer of the application video gives Aviva an edge in scoring thin-file customers. Leveraging these novel risk models, Aviva aims to provide the lowest interest rates available to today’s underserved.
Mapleblock Capital is an investment firm that exclusively consults and invests in crypto-assets and blockchain companies. It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Delhi, India.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Singapore, Estonia
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- Cookie3 — Cookie3 utilizes off- and on-chain analytics and an AI data layer to determine quality users who bring value on-chain and reward them for their contribution. It's a three-platform hub for businesses, creators, and users with a unique value offering for all.
- Tevaera — Tevaera is a ZK Stack powered gaming ecosystem for effortlessly launching and playing web3 games.
- Gamic — Gamic is a decentralized community app designed for the crypto community. With Gamic, you can connect with like-minded individuals and stay up-to-date on the latest trends in blockchain, NFTs, AI and cryptocurrency. Gamic is powered by Web3 technology, ensuring a secure and decentralized experience for all users. Plus, with our Airdrop feature, you can easily reward members of your community with crypto tokens. Join the Gamic community today and be a part of the future of social networking!
More than a seed-stage fund and a portfolio of startups: Our community of founders taps into the power of financial innovation to collaborate around global problems and unlock prosperity for all.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, FinTech, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, India
Portfolio highlights
- Kotani Pay — Kotani Pay is a technology stack that enables blockchain protocols, dapps, and blockchain fintech companies to integrate seamlessly to local payment channels providing them with a reliable on ramp and off ramp service to reach a wider customer base in Africa.
- Learn.xyz — Have fun learning about anything you can imaging, thanks to the power of AI. Download the free Learn.xyz app today and start every day with new knowledge!
- Thrive Protocol — Thrive Protocol's vision is to maximize value creation for all people and communities.
LD Capital is one of Asia's earliest organizations focusing on value investing in blockchain field. Owing to industrial resource advantages and professional investment research teams, LD Capital has successively discovered and invested in projects such as Qtum, Vechain and Eos which all achieved over 100 times return.Their teams spread overChina, the United States, Europe, Singapore, Japan, and South Korea, and have accumulated rich experience in areas of traditional internet, Fintech, and advanced blockchain technology. They are committed to the globalization of blockchain and quality investment in the entire industry.LD Capital focuses on blockchain innovation projects within finance, games, content publishing, Internet of Things and other circuits, and we have been propelling broad layout of blockchain technology and infrastructure construction to facilitate the comprehensive development of the global blockchain ecosystem.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
- Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
- United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Swan Chain — FilSwan provides a layer 2 cross-chain infrastructure for Web3 projects by integrating data, computing, and payment into one suite. FilSwan offers a complete solution that enables web3 developers to integrate decentralized storage, edge computing, and payment across multiple chains with ease.
- Gamic — Gamic is a decentralized community app designed for the crypto community. With Gamic, you can connect with like-minded individuals and stay up-to-date on the latest trends in blockchain, NFTs, AI and cryptocurrency. Gamic is powered by Web3 technology, ensuring a secure and decentralized experience for all users. Plus, with our Airdrop feature, you can easily reward members of your community with crypto tokens. Join the Gamic community today and be a part of the future of social networking!
- BabylonChain — Babylon is a VC-backed blockchain project founded by Claude. E. Shannon Award recipient, Professor David Tse from Stanford University. The project’s mission is to bring Bitcoin’s unparalleled security to all PoS blockchains in the world. To this end, we are building, as the bridge between Bitcoin and the PoS world, a new public Cosmos-based PoSblockchain called Babylon with a native token.
Future Africa is a collective of mission-driven founders and funders building unicorns to solve Africa’s biggest challenges. They are build a future where purpose and prosperity are within everyone’s reach.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Nigeria, United States, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Moove — Moove is a mobility fintech that provides revenue-based vehicle financing to mobility entrepreneurs, democratizing vehicle ownership globally. The company embeds its alternative credit-scoring technology onto ride-hailing, logistics, and last-mile/instant delivery platforms, which allows access to proprietary performance and revenue analyticsof mobility entrepreneurs to underwrite loans.
- 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.
- Filmmakers Mart — FilmmakersMart is Africa’s first film and entertainment marketplace where entertainment businesses and creatives find verified services seamlessly for their video productions while democratizing entry into the film and entertainment industry for emerging creatives. We’re building the operations system for the film and entertainment industry inAfrica.
GreenHouse Capital’s Founding Partners took their own fintech company Venture Garden Group (VGG) from a 7 employee, ₦30 million revenue startup to a 200 employees, ₦2 billion power house in just 4 years and raised an attention grabbing Series A round from Convergence Partners of South Africa. The uniqueness of their position was not lost on thefounders who then cultivated Garden Institute of Business Entrepreneurs (GIBE) to identify, incubate, and invest in young and innovative tech startups solving global challenges in Emerging Markets. GIBE was created to build a world class talent management hub for young and passionate entrepreneurs while creating a pool of technology inclined businesses and innovation oriented leaders.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Nigeria, Kenya, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Credpal — Buy now, pay later. Split in 6.
- Encore Pay — Encore Pay is a UAE-based FinTech and Payment solutions provider.
- 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.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Insurance, Blockchain
- Seed
- Nigeria
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- Get It Done Now — GIDN is a Nigerian Fintech Company targeting medium and low income population for Loans and Financial products. GIDN has in addition a cashless, mobile based community marketplace, with more than 5k members, and aims to regulate the informal economy and facilitate the purchase of Services and Digital Products.
Bixin Ventures invests in early-stage infrastructure projects that cultivate and facilitate mass adoption of open finance through permissionless and decentralized networks.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Singapore, Australia
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- Chakra — Chakra is a bitcoin restaking technique based on ZK proof. Chakra creates a safe bitcoin proof-of-stake system to activate the liquidity of long-term Bitcoin assets and deliver decentralized services that are managed by asset holders.
- PrismaStake — Unleash the Power of Multi-Chain Staking and Boost Your Assets. Stake. Earn. Grow. Empowering Crypto Investors Across Multiple Blockchains.
- Kakarot Labs — Kakarot is an Ethereum Virtual Machine written in Cairo. Kakarot zkEVM enables teams to build & deploy EVM apps, and benefit from a dual advantage: the same developer experience (toolchain, libraries) and having their end-users use the same tools as Ethereum (metamask, wallet connect, etc.).
Launch Africa is a fund with the primary objective of unlocking the capital constraints of Seed Stage tech startups.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Bosso — Bosso projects and realizes automation and robotic solutions for the growth of your business.
- Maad — Maad is Francophone Africa's fastest-growing B2B marketplace, based in Dakar, Senegal. Our tech-driven solution allows retailers to order products from our one-stop shop and benefit from working capital loans
- Wahu Mobility — Wahu Mobility is an open e-mobility platform that connects drivers, passengers, and goods in a simple, inclusive, transparent, nationwide, and multimodal manner.
Newtown Partners is a venture capital firm that actively invests in emerging, disruptive technology startups.
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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 are focusing on projects in early and growth stages, helping entrepreneurs develop world-class projects on blockchain technology
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, FinTech, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, Seychelles, France
Portfolio highlights
- DAOLaunch — DAOLaunch is a decentralized platform that connects investors and startups directly on the blockchain by introducing innovative fundraising solutions to the startup ecosystem. Users can effortlessly create and support new startups across all borders, and participate in transparent, flexible and fair financing rounds regardless of a project being a crypto or fiat.
- Colony Lab — Colony Lab is a community-driven initiative to power the Avalanche Platform growth by investing in early-stage projects.
- Defina Finance — Defina Finance is an online blockchain game that utilizes and combines decentralized finance (Defi) and NFT to allow players to own their gaming assets and monetize them through playing and training.
Kepple Africa Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- 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.
Flat6Labs is the MENA region’s leading seed and early stage venture capital firm, currently running the most renowned startup programs in the region. Annually, Flat6Labs invests in more than 100 innovative and technology-driven startups enabling thousands of passionate entrepreneurs to achieve their daring ambitions and ultimately becoming theirinstitutional co-founders.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Retail, Education
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Tunisia, France
Portfolio highlights
- Yaz — Yaz is a B2B wholesale e-Commerce web and mobile app that offers branded goods and services top up for retailers.
- Birdhouce — Birdhouce is a direct to consumer furniture startup that provides home storage. They develop an online 3d product configurator that makes the customer a designer from the comfort of their home. Their design categories include a dining room, living room, bedroom, hallway, office, kitchen, and kids room.
- Tiktak PRO — Tiktak PRO provides back office management services. They also provide hosting, updating, and certificate services. Additionally, they also provide commercial activity and technical support services.
Nordea Bank is Denmark's second-largest bank and counts every fourth Dane among its customers. Through their nationwide network of some 340 branch offices and a broad range of self-service facilities, they are able to offer you a full scale of financial products and services, including Netbank, Online Investment, telephone banking and cashdispensers.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Banking
- Funding Round, Debt Financing, Seed
- Finland, Sweden, Norway
Portfolio highlights
- Tibber — Tibber is a digital electricity supplier that offers smart solutions to minimize their customers’ consumption and costs. Its vision is to make sustainable energy consumption simple and affordable for all households. Tibber's mission is to reduce the residential electricity consumption for European households by 20 %. Founded in Norway andSweden in 2016, the company has expanded its offer to Sweden and Germany where it powers hundreds of thousands of homes. Tibber replaces traditional utilities with smart technology, supplying its customers with renewable energy at fair and transparent prices. In addition, its app provides real-time analytics into energy usage, and pairs with a variety of smart home devices to reduce electricity consumption at home. The company sells tech-gadgets in their online store and recently was licensed to balance the main power grid in Sweden with EVs.
- Statzon — Make data-driven plans & faster decisions with a simple access to +1M datasets & market reports about 8,000 topics from +200 trusted data providers.
- Get It Done Now — GIDN is a Nigerian Fintech Company targeting medium and low income population for Loans and Financial products. GIDN has in addition a cashless, mobile based community marketplace, with more than 5k members, and aims to regulate the informal economy and facilitate the purchase of Services and Digital Products.
Hashkey they offers investment opportunities and solutions to institutions, family offices, funds, and professional accredited investors across the digital asset and blockchain ecosystem.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Singapore, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- AltLayer — AltLayer is a system of highly scalable application-dedicated execution layers that derive security from an underlying L1/L2.
- Supra — Supra is the world's highest-performing, fully vertically integrated L1 blockchain, and it's about to change everything.
- Panoptic — Panoptic is a perpetual, oracle-free, instant-settlement options trading protocol on the Ethereum blockchain. Panoptic enables the permissionless trading of options on top of any asset pool in the Uniswap v3 ecosystem and seeks to develop a trustless, permissionless, and composable options product, i.e., do for decentralized options markets whatx*y=k automated market maker protocols did for spot trading.Read the whitepaper behind our product here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.14232
Seed capital for technology startups globally.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Software, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Nigeria, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Orca Fraud — Orca empowers fraud fighters with effective tools to combat fraud
- 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.
- Startbutton — We help multi-national businesses sell products and get paid in African countries in a compliant and tax-efficient manner, without the need to register locally.
15 years of experience in private equity, venture capital, investment banking, corporate strategy, angel investing, and business development having an MBA from the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University, USA and being a CAIA Charterholder.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, FinTech, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- United States, Egypt, India
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- Stakefair — Stakefair is an ecosystem of blockchain, crypto and DeFi products.
- Otida — Otida is an app that acts as a nutritionist, a fitness coach and physician, among other roles, for patients with diabetes who struggle while navigating through their day-to-day lives.
- 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.
Polygon is the most proven way to build and scale your decentralized application and projects on Ethereum, the world's largest blockchain ecosystem.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Gaming, Marketplace
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Singapore, Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- MetaZone — MetaZone's mission is to harness and expand the application layer of the metaverse to onboard a billion citizens. MetaZone is the first content distribution platform designed to facilitate the open digital economy. At its core, creators submit Metaverse Enabled Tokenized Applications (METAs) to the marketplace, allowing anyone to own,experience, and deploy them to any virtual world. Anyone connected to the platform can host high-quality functional 3D content on digital lands with the click of a few buttons.
- Anima — A new way to play.
- Stems Labs — community and platform for collaborative creativity
ARCH is a specialist emerging markets investment advisor with deep experience of emerging markets, private equity, asset management and legal and governance matters over many decades.
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Investment focus
- Solar, Finance, Consumer
- Series D, Debt Financing, Private Equity
- Kenya, South Africa, United States
Portfolio highlights
- CrossBoundary — CrossBoundary Energy's renewable energy solutions help decarbonize enterprise by providing cleaner, cheaper and more reliable power.
- Sun King — Sun King solar lanterns and home systems enables underserved communities to achieve more with inclusive distribution and flexible financing options.
- The Sun Exchange — The Sun Exchange is the peer-to-peer solar leasing marketplace. We leverage financial innovation and the power of the crowd to drive sustainable energy development and make the environmental, social and economic benefits of solar accessible and affordable for all. Through the Sun Exchange online platform, anyone, anywhere in the world, can buyremotely-located solar cells and then lease them to power businesses and organisations in sunny emerging markets. Solar cell owners earn income from the electricity that’s generated, while schools, businesses, clinics and other organisations gain access to affordable clean energy, reducing electricity costs and carbon emissions.
Cipholio Ventures is a research-driven investment firm specializing in cryptocurrencies, tokens, and blockchain projects that have the potential to reshape the trillion-dollar markets.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, China, India
Portfolio highlights
- C14 — C14 is building the next generation of fiat to crypto payment flow. We build seamless fiat on-ramps and off-ramps for crypto, blockchain, and web3 businesses. With a seamless user experience and meaningful coverage for emerging crypto markets around the world, C14 is on a mission to empower users ev
- PoseiSwap — PoseiSwap is a decentralized exchange service provider.
- MetaEra Media — MetaEra is a one-stop resource aggregator for Web3.0. Meta Era focuses on blockchain and metaverse exploration, pursuing professional, thorough, and reliable information and data.
Kola Aina is an entrepreneur, technology operator and investor with vast experience working in Africa’s largest economic market. His prior entrepreneurial experience spans several sectors including venture capital, technology, media, agriculture, infrastructure, publishing and real estate. As an angel investor and while leading the early stageAfrican VC firm Ventures Platform. Venture Platform is a leading early stage African VC fund that provides founder friendly capital and support to early stage companies in a framework that is buoyed by corporate governance and hands-on support. Kola has lead investment in about 28 companies including Payments company; Paystack, Connectivity company; Tizeti, Healthcare company; MDaaS and the Agric-tech company; Thrive Agric.Kola, founded the enterprise technology company Emerging Platforms Limited, 9 years ago, quickly growing it to become one of the leading technology service delivery companies and leaders in the e-learning space in West Africa providing services to over 100,000 students. Emerging Platforms Limited is a software and technology firm that specializes in developing innovative technology solutions in education, national security and enterprise sectors.Prior to focusing on full time entrepreneurship, Kola worked in corporate finance, administration, corporate turn-around and strategy. He led strategy and finance for one of
the largest publishing companies in Nigeria up till 2009. Before that he worked in corporate finance proving financial analysis at Fifth Third Bank in the USA.Kola is a leader in the African startup and investing ecosystem, a Ted speaker and volunteers his time advising founders, speaking at events and serves on the Presidential Committee for Job Creation and Youth Employment as well as the Private Sector Advisory Group to the Presidency on Creativity and Technology. Kola studied Electrical Engineering and then secured a Master in Business Administration degree with a specialization in Finance from Bowling Green State University, Ohio. He has received further education from Berkley University, Harvard University and the Lagos Business School.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Nigeria, United States, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Partna — We're democratising access to crypto by providing tools that help businesses build user-friendly crypto products.
- Coinprofile — Coinprofile allows anyone, anywhere in the world send money to Africa. It's fast, seamless and free!
- CutStruct — We build apps for building projects. Our apps are helping builders extend the value of every dollar and increasing the confidence of ordinary people to build.
Luno Expeditions is a global early-stage investor supporting fintech & crypto founders on their journeys to build the next generation of financial services.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Blockchain
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, India, Nigeria
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- Onmeta — Onmeta
- Anchor — Anchor is building the infrastructure needed for businesses to build, launch, and scale banking and payment solutions.
- Sealance Corp. — Sealance provides financial services, cryptography and other services.
RR2 Capital is a venture capital firm that provides investment services.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Bitcoin, FinTech
- Seed
- Bulgaria, Switzerland, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Whalemap — The leading on-chain analytics platform for tracking cryptocurrency and blockchain data. Leverage our crypto whale charts for your crypto trading solutions.
- Aleph Zero — Discover Aleph Zero, a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing the adoption and development of decentralized technologies. Learn about our mission to create a secure blockchain ecosystem and develop secure smart contracts that power the decentralized world.
- Dolomite.io — Dolomite.io is a simple & secure decentralized crypto exchange.
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.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Mobile
- Debt Financing, Seed, Pre-Seed
- South Africa, Ghana, India
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- 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.
gCC (gumi Cryptos Capital) is a blockchain and cryptographic asset fund that invests in the crypto native stack from L1 to the application layer, as well as in traditional businesses supporting the ecosystem.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, Singapore
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- Adot — Adot is a pioneering decentralized search network for the AI Internet, providing users with privacy, accessibility, and sophisticated AI capabilities while transforming the digital landscape through decentralized architecture and cutting-edge technology.
- Mycel — Mycel is a decentralized cross-chain asset management platform with an intent-based token transfer layer.
- Lagrange Labs — Seamlessly interact between chains with cryptographically secured state proofs, not opaque intermediaries.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Gaming, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- United States, United Arab Emirates, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- RunesFi — RunesFi is a one-stop DeFi platform that provides an easy-to-use, secure, and efficient trading experience.
- Privasea — Privasea is a company that provides global clients with tailored computing and data sharing solutions that conform to security standards while allowing user to use all of data, including sensitive types.
- XSwap — XSwap is a cross-chain swaps protocol that provide protocols and end-users with secure, reliable, and simple cross-chain payments, all supported by Chainlink CCIP.
Future\Perfect Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm 2014 to invest globally in blockchain technology and crypto assets. FPV was founded by Jalak Jobanputra.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Financial Services, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Kenya, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- PYOR — PYOR has extensive expertise building in crypto and has played major roles in the creation of several large Indian unicorns, as well as extensive experience in global blue chip organisations.
- Glystn — Glystn is a reliable platform for creator analytics and insights of any scale. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in SAN FRANCISCO, California.
- CapStack Technologies — Discover Capstack, the leading bank-to-bank marketplace driving banking digital transformation. Join the innovation wave and transform your banking experience now!
WeMade Games dedicated to serving gamers with a portfolio of entertaining, high quality PC and Mobile games. Established in 2000, WeMade Entertainment Co., Ltd. (KOSDAQ: 112040) is an international game developer publisher that has grown from a handful of passionate game pioneers to a group of over 1,000 game enthusiasts. Starting with itsfirst and a hit title "Legend of Mir 2", which has garnered over 200 million online PC gamers internationally, WeMade Entertainment has continued to develop and service dozens of PC and Mobile based games for fun loving gamers since its inception.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Blockchain, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Corporate Round
- South Korea, Singapore, Nigeria
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- HwikGo — HwikGo a MaaS platform has created a one-of-a-kind integrated platform that provides a transfer connection between public transportation and shared smart mobility via a traffic card.
- MetaCene — MetaCene is a blockchain company that aims to create an accessible Web3 world for the masses, with a focus on player-centric entertainment.
- HAECHI LABS — HAECHI LABS provides blockchain auditing services and digital wallets for most blockchain companies.
LCG Ventures is an investment firm.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
- Series A
- Seychelles
Portfolio highlights
- Octopus Network — Octopus is a cryptonetwork for launching and running Web3.0 application specific blockchains, aka appchains. By decreasing the capital expenditure for bootstrap an appchain by two orders of magnitude, from several million dollars to less than one hundred thousand dollars, Octopus Network is committed to unleash an innovation wave of Web3.0.
Biola Alabi is the Managing Partner of Biola Alabi Media, the media icon heads a dynamic consultancy and production company with expertise in strategic consulting for pay entertainment, digital television, interactive television and emerging entertainment distribution platforms; they service governments, content creators, telecommunicationindustry, and investors in the converging media technology space. Biola Alabi Media productions has recently produced Nigeria’s first food travel documentary-series "Bukas and Joints" currently airing across Africa and in the USA.She is also the founder of "Grooming for Greatness" a leadership development and mentorship program for a new generation of African leaders. Named one of the 20 Youngest Power Women in Africa by Forbes Magazine (2012), a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader (2012) and CNBC Africa’s AABLA West African Business Woman of the Year (2013), for over five highly successful years, Biola Alabi held the high-profile position of Managing Director for M-Net Africa, part of the globally renowned Naspers Group. Prior to this, she was based in the United States where she was part of the executive team at the influential children’s television brand Sesame Street and a member of the marketing team that launched the well-respected Korean motor vehicle corporation Daewoo in the USA.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Logistics, Blockchain
- Pre-Seed
- Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- ChekkitApp — Chekkit is a DAG blockchain powered anti-counterfeiting solution for food and drug supply chain tracking and customer insights platform. It helps producers protect their brands, track supply chain activities, and collect last-mile consumer insights in real-time.
Yossi Hasson is the Co-Founder and CEO of Metaversal and a Venture Partner at 2048 Ventures. He is also a Non-Executive Director of WeThinkCode_. Prior to that, he was the Managing Director of Techstars. He attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business and the University of Pretoria/Universiteit van Pretoria.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Blockchain, Payments
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- South Africa, United States, Ghana
Portfolio highlights
- Ozow — Easy, fast, safe online payments and bank API solutions for merchants and consumers across South Africa. Secure instant EFT directly from bank to bank.
- Howler — Howler, is the powerful event technology platform designed at the uppermost benchmarks of service and technology to help consumers and event organisers to make moments that matter.
- The Sun Exchange — The Sun Exchange is the peer-to-peer solar leasing marketplace. We leverage financial innovation and the power of the crowd to drive sustainable energy development and make the environmental, social and economic benefits of solar accessible and affordable for all. Through the Sun Exchange online platform, anyone, anywhere in the world, can buyremotely-located solar cells and then lease them to power businesses and organisations in sunny emerging markets. Solar cell owners earn income from the electricity that’s generated, while schools, businesses, clinics and other organisations gain access to affordable clean energy, reducing electricity costs and carbon emissions.
Oracles Investment Group provides one of a kind platform for Crypto Project teams to raise capital, grow supporters, and Crypto Investors to take part in promising projects.
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- Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates, India
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- Dmail — Dmail Network is a decentralized mailbox that provides a safe and private environment for users' communication, storage, tokens, and NFTs. The company was founded by Mittal S. and Lucas L. in 2021.
- Orbofi — Create and monetize AI-generated images and assets for games, media, and AI NFTs. Create your own finetuned AI models.
- RepubliK GG — Welcome to the future of how creators and communities can connect. REPUBLIK is a Web 3.0 virtual content platform that gives power back to creators & fans where all users can maximize value from their social activity.
Discover Susquehanna, a global quantitative trading firm built on a rigorous, analytical foundation in financial markets.
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- Software, Financial Services, Cryptocurrency
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, China, Singapore
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- BlockGames — BlockGames is a cross-game, cross-chain, decentralized player network accelerating user growth for games, with personalised rewards for players.
- Borderless AI — Borderless AI is an Employer of Record (EOR) & PEO platform simplifying global payroll management & team hiring to empower your growth worldwide. Book a demo now!
- WEE marketplace — WEE is an internet-based company operating from the United Arab Emirates, focusing on providing a marketplace platform that caters to the needs of its users by offering a wide selection of goods with the convenience of fast delivery services. Established in 2021, WEE aims to enhance the shopping experience by ensuring that customers can shop onlineand receive their orders swiftly, emphasizing the value of saving time. With a team of 45 employees, WEE supports various payment methods, including Cash on Delivery, and promotes customer satisfaction with a 14-day free return policy. The company also engages in community activities, such as sponsoring events, to maintain a close relationship with its user base.
OKX Blockdream Ventures is a fund focused on exploring high-quality blockchain projects with great potential.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Singapore, Hong Kong
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- zkLink — zkLink is a unified middleware layer connecting L1 chains and L2 networks with zk-SNARKs technology, reshaping the crypto landscape for DeFi, NFT, and RWA trading.
- aPriori — aPriori is a monad-native MEV infrastructure and liquid staking mechanism developed for parallel executions.
- Curio Research — Creative studio building crypto powered games.
Nestcoin is a web3 application company that builds, operates, and invests in crypto-native products.
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- Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Education
- Pre-Seed
- Rwanda, Nigeria, United States
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- Stakefair — Stakefair is an ecosystem of blockchain, crypto and DeFi products.
- Nandi Labs — Nandi Labs, Home of Nandi Cowry, Digital FESTAC and MoveMint Magazine
- AltSchool Africa — Let's invest in your Future. Learn highly sought after tech skills without hassle. A program designed to arm you with the skills and knowledge required to boldly launch your tech career.
Building the future of Web3. We invest in the next generation of iconic founders.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Singapore, Seychelles
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- Anoma — An intent-centric architecture for decentralized counterparty discovery, solving, information flow control, & multi-chain atomic settlement
- Ellipsis Labs — Ellipsis Labs is building Phoenix, a decentralized limit order book on Solana that is fully on-chain, non-custodial, and crankless.
- Membrane Labs — Membrane Labs is a fintech firm that provides institutional digital asset services for OTC transactions.
Signal Ventures is an investment firm specializing in emerging cryptocurrency technology.
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- Bitcoin, FinTech, Software
- Funding Round
- Seychelles
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- Acta Finance — Acta Finance develops a complete DeFi ecosystem, EVM compatible, able to deploy and integrate EVM compatible networks.
- Equilibrium — The first Polkadot-based interoperable DeFi money market that combines pooled lending, synthetic asset generation, and decentralized trading
Success is a choice. We bring high marketing support, growth strategic partnerships& financial investment to the best crypto startups.
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- Blockchain, Gaming, FinTech
- Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Seychelles, United Arab Emirates
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- Ondefy — Ondefy is building infrastructure that enables a simple access to decentralized finance. Integrate multiple DeFi services unders 1 line of code.
- Acta Finance — Acta Finance develops a complete DeFi ecosystem, EVM compatible, able to deploy and integrate EVM compatible networks.
- Attarius Network — Attarius Network - the first and only all-in-one NFT ecosystem for game industry
Since the creation of Bitcoin, decentralized systems and applications have been integral to innovation in countless industries. Taureon is a leading investment manager and consulting firm in the distributed ledger technology ecosystem committed to furthering its disruption, implementation, and use.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- United States, Singapore, France
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- Versatus — Build the future in any language.
- HYDRO — The Ultimate Platform for Staked Assets
- Helix Labs — Decentralized Finance Focused Universal ZK Rollup
Ingressive Capital they provide services in business development, partnerships, and financial support.
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Nigeria, United States, Ghana
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- 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.
Orbit Startups helps companies scaling breakthrough technologies across emerging and frontier markets to the regions with the most aggressive growth.
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- E-Commerce, Information Technology, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- India, Singapore, Pakistan
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- TAPPI — TAPPI is the leading association for the worldwide pulp, paper, packaging, and converting industries and publisher of Paper360º.
- esportsXO — esportsXO is a tournament discovery platform with largest pool of esports content creators and professional esports players. It owns several tournament IPs and country's largest, first of it's kind gaming house callee XOspace.
- Tappi — Convert one-time customers into loyal ones by getting discovered, growing leads and building your business reputation.
Shin Chan IEO/ICO Alerts
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- Gaming
- Initial Coin Offering
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- Acta Finance — Acta Finance develops a complete DeFi ecosystem, EVM compatible, able to deploy and integrate EVM compatible networks.
- Kawaii Islands — Kawaiiverse, started with Kawaii Islands in 2021, creates a fantasy metaverse on the clouds for Anime and Manga fanatics all over the world to Play, Create, Connect and Earn.
PNYX Ventures is a digital asset management firm specialising in blockchain capital markets.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Canada, Estonia, Norway
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- Joystream — JoyStream is a blockchain powered decentralized media distribution, curation, discovery, and monetization platform.
- Webb Protocol — Welcome to Webb, an ecosystem of infrastructures and applications designed to extend privacy to the blockchain space. We are committed to a future where privacy is accessible for all in the multi-chain world.
- Minterest — Minterest is a cross-chain decentralized money market lending protocol for decentralized financial. Its unique design attracts and rewards long-term liquidity with Minterest distributing value captured by the protocol to MNT token holders who actively participate in its governance. Minterest was founded in 2020 and is based in Tallin, Estonia.
Investment focus
- IaaS, Big Data, Computer
- Pre-Seed
- Kenya, Croatia
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- 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.
"Uncovering & Building Value"
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- Blockchain, Mobile Apps, Mobile Payments
- Seed, Series B
- Nigeria, United States
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- Busha — Buy, Sell, Trade your BTC, ETH, USDT, Tron to NGN on Busha the simplest, safest, and most trusted platform to manage your cryptocurrency portfolio.
- 24 Exchange — 24 Exchange renders multi-asset trading platform for professional quants and active traders.
Metaverse & NFT gaming consultancy. Project incubation, capital & advisory #playtoearn
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- Gaming, Blockchain, Digital Entertainment
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Hong Kong, Singapore, United States
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- Gaming, Blockchain
- Seed
- Nigeria
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- Metaverse Magna — Play the best games on the AppStore with friends & frenemies for prize money via PvP and multi-player eSport tournaments. Daily prize pools bigger than $1K.
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