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

Last updated: Apr 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 April 2025

Investor	Blockchain South Africa investments
Newtown Partners	2
Technology Innovation Agency	1
4Di Capital	1
Alphabit Fund	1
ARCH Emerging Markets Partners	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.

WELCOME TO TIA Innovating Tomorrow Together TIA is a national public entity that serves as the key institutional intervention to bridge the innovation chasm between research and development from higher education institutions, science councils, public entities, and private sector, and commercialisation. Who we are Call for Expression of Interest: Youth Technology Innovation Programme (YTIP) TIA

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.

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, Series B
South Africa, United States, Uganda

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.
Rather.chat — Rather.chat offers a platform that facilitates meaningful connections between businesses and their customers through WhatsApp. This service is designed to make customer interactions more personal and efficient, allowing for real-time communication. By leveraging the widespread use of WhatsApp, Rather.chat aims to enhance the customer serviceexperience, making it easier for businesses to address inquiries, resolve issues, and maintain engagement with their audience. The focus is on creating a seamless bridge for dialogue that respects the convenience and preferences of the modern consumer, who increasingly favors instant messaging over traditional forms of communication.
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.

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.

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.

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, FinTech
Funding Round, Grant, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Feteflex — Feteflex is an event service booking platform that serves as a marketplace for booking event professionals and service providers, including event venues, artists, event planners, DJs, caterers, MCs, rentals, and more. Our goal is straightforward: to simplify event planning by providing a transparent, secure, and accessible solution that connectsevent organizers with vendors, and service providers. Our mission is to empower event organizers and businesses across Africa by providing a marketplace for event planning, eliminating booking struggles, payment issues, and visibility challenges, and ensuring successful event execution.We are addressing the challenges of inefficiency, insecurity, and the need for more transparency in event planning for event organizers, vendors, and businesses in the event industry. Event service providers need help to gain visibility and secure bookings due to the absence of a dedicated platform. This makes it difficult for them to attract new clients and showcase their services. Vendors often need help with late or incomplete payments from customers, leading to financial instability and insecurity, hindering their growth and success, and ultimately resulting in decreased revenue. Event hosts often struggle to find event professionals and venues, leading to stress and inefficiencies from excessive time, effort, and resources spent on searching. Currently, no platform ensures secure transactions between clients and service providers, putting clients' money at risk if services aren't delivered.We believe in democratizing access to event management resources and opportunities, creating a level playing field where everyone from small vendors to large corporations can thrive. Our purpose is to make event planning accessible and enjoyable for all, eliminating the stress and inefficiencies that currently plague the industry. By offering a secure platform that connects users with verified event professionals, we are committed to driving positive social and economic change across Africa.Unique Features: Secure Payment System: Safeguards both client and service provider funds, releasing payments only after service confirmation. Real-Time Availability: Users can check the availability of venues and service providers instantly, eliminating the back-and-forth typically associated with event planning. Virtual Tours and Reviews: Provides immersive 360-degree virtual tours of venues and access to verified customer reviews to make informed decisions. Comprehensive Profiles: Detailed profiles of service providers, including pricing, amenities, videos, and photos. Customizable Packages: Users can create tailored event packages by selecting multiple services from different providers.We recognize the significant potential of the event management industry in creating jobs and driving economic growth. Our goal is to establish a reliable platform that connects event organizers with service providers to reduce unemployment and promote financial stability. This effort directly supports SDG #1 (No Poverty) by creating opportunities for small businesses and local service providers to thrive. The event industry in Nigeria faces challenges such as payment fraud, difficulty in finding reliable venues, inconsistent service quality, and outdated practices, all leading to dissatisfaction and financial instability for service providers. Feteflex aims to elevate the standards of the industry by providing a secure, efficient, and transparent platform. This not only improves the quality of services but also ensures decent work conditions and sustainable income for event professionals, aligning with SDG #8 (Decent Work and Economic Growth). SDG 17: Partnership for the Goals - We connect event organizers, service providers, artists, and venue operators, fostering a collaborative ecosystem. SDG 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure - We enhance the infrastructure for event planning by leveraging technology to revolutionize the event industry.
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.