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

Last updated: May 2025 A list of 10 VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Blockchain startups based in South africa. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Blockchain companies from South africa. We update this investor list every month.

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

Investor	Blockchain South Africa investments
Newtown Partners	2
4Di Capital	1
ARCH Emerging Markets Partners	1
Technology Innovation Agency	1
Alphabit Fund	1
Invictus Capital	1
10x Group	1
IBM	1
Bittrex Global	1
Montegray Capital	1

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

MDaaS Global — At MDaaS Global, we build and operate modern, tech-enabled diagnostic centres in clinically-underserved communities, starting in Nigeria. Our big goal is to create affordable healthcare solutions for Africa's next billion.
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.

4Di Capital is an independent seed- and early-stage technology venture capital firm based in Cape Town, South Africa.Nurture capital is the term that best describes 4Di Capitalâ€:tm:s purpose and philosophy.We understand that in the early days of any business, support, mentoring and access to networks is just as important as seed capital.Using tried and tested international venture capital best practices, adapted for local use, we believe in entrepreneur-friendly finance without frills, and in working as a team with our investments to achieve their true potential.4Di Capital Early-Stage Technology Fund 1 targets startup investment opportunities with high growth potential at the seed- and early-stages in the mobile, enterprise software and web sectors.We look for founder teams with hungry passion, commitment, domain expertise and deep insights into the large market problems they wish to solve with their technology solutions.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
South Africa, United States, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Maxe AI — AI investment Assistant for all investors. AI Portfolios tracker of stocks bonds exchanges futures. all in one to track mutual funds.
Cloudline — The all-in-one cloud platform helping leisure businesses sell more, reduce costs & personalize experiences.
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.

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.

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 — We finance, install, and maintain the solar system. You simply pay for the power it generates and save from day one.

TIA is an initiative of the Department of Science & Technology (DST) in South Africa, to enable and support technological innovation.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Renewable Energy, Health Care
Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed
South Africa

Portfolio highlights

Jobox — Jobox is a student recruitment platform, built to connect employers, students and graduate career offices. Our focus is to improve graduate employability by ensuring all students have the skills they need to enter, stay in, and progress in the world of work.Jobox’s ecosystem provides employers with access to the best diverse & youthfultalent, students with more employment opportunities and universities with data-driven insights aimed at driving graduate employability forward.
Aviro Health — We believe that empowering and supporting people to manage their own health benefits everybody.We built the Aviro Pocket Clinic to support self-care and provide access to services. We give people what they need to perform important health checks like regular HIV self-testing and connect them to experts and services who can offer hands-on and supported care when needed.
Ownedby Technologies — Ownedby is an interactive asset management solution for business and household assets, focused on appliances and devices, giving these unique identity that is traceable online, yet linked to and controlled by owners.

Alphabit Digital Currency Fund.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
United States, United Kingdom, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

ThirdFi — ThirdFi specializes in providing a comprehensive suite of tools and services designed to facilitate the development, trading, investment, and management of decentralized finance (DeFi) applications. With a focus on multi-chain interoperability, ThirdFi offers an API, SDK, and developer tools aimed at enhancing the DeFi ecosystem. The platformsupports liquidity provision and token reward earning through its Earn API, catering to developers looking to build in the Web3 space. ThirdFi's infrastructure is tailored for the evolving needs of web3 finance, enabling seamless integration and operation across various blockchain networks.
RECRD — RECRD is a video community, where users engage content with video responses, Creators monetise immediately through ad revenues and advertisers connect with their audience at no risk.
Slingshot DAO — Bet on the next billion dollar games! Slingshot is the AI Roblox Game Launcher, powered by the $SLING Token and home to Game Factory.

Invictus Capital leverages existing public blockchain rails and the hundreds of thousands of onramps and offramps that exist globally to democratize access to investment products in emerging and developed markets. We believe investing should be convenient, transparent and low-cost.

Investment focus

Internet, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
Seed
South Africa

Portfolio highlights

Ovex — OVEX is a cryptocurrency exchange company.

10x Group is a group of serial entrepreneurs and founders investing in founders of digital start-ups in Europe and Silicon Valley.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Germany, India

Portfolio highlights

enmacc — enmacc, the OTC energy trading platform, offers innovative solutions for efficient trading of energy commodities in today's dynamic market.
finway — finway provides financial guidence to SMEs, plan & control all expenses and budgets in one tool.
Quantum Systems — Our vision is to become the global leader in providing aerial data for decision making by the use of our drones.

For more than a century, IBM has been a global technology innovator, leading advances in AI, automation and hybrid cloud solutions that help businesses grow.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Funding Round, Seed, Grant
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

AuthMind — AuthMind, an innovator in identity security, prevents identity-related cyberattacks. It's an Identity SecOps Platform including Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) and Identity Security Posture Management (ISPM). It works anywhere and deploys in minutes.
Ceramic.ai — Ceramic.ai builds enterprise-grade infrastructure to optimize how companies train and deploy their AI models
Ceramic — Next generation AI training systems for better models with less compute, less time, and lower costs.

Bittrex operates as a digital asset trading platform. Bittrex is the premier U.S.-based digital asset trading platform, providing lightning-fast trade execution, dependable digital wallets and industry-leading security practices.