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Top 10 Community Startup Investors in South Africa (June 2026)

The most active venture capital funds and angel investors investing in South Africa Community startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in South Africa Community startup companies. Find investors to raise a Seed, Series A or Angel round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Yossi Hasson
Angel
1 South Africa, United States, Ghana Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, Blockchain, Payments $120k–$551k
TotalEnergies Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, France, United Kingdom Series B, Series C Energy, Renewable Energy, Transportation $9.3M–$175M
Tom Berckt
Angel
1 South Africa Angel Apps, Events, Printing
Savannah Fund
VC Fund
1 Kenya, United States, South Africa Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, FinTech, Software $25k–$8M
Harambeans
VC Fund
1 Nigeria, Kenya, Morocco Seed, Angel Information Technology, B2B, Big Data $100k–$3.1M
Knife Capital
VC Fund
1 South Africa, United States, Kenya Series A, Seed Software, Education, Manufacturing $2M–$30M
4DX Ventures
VC Fund
1 Egypt, United States, South Africa Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed FinTech, Financial Services, Logistics $50k–$40M
Michael Leeman
Angel
1 United States, South Africa Angel, Seed Apps, Software, Publishing $125k–$590k
Vinny Lingham
Angel
1 United States, South Africa, United Kingdom Seed, Angel Blockchain, Internet, Software $125k–$5.6M
Vumela Fund
VC Fund
1 South Africa, Brazil Seed, Debt Financing Education, Software, E-Commerce $600k–$1.4M
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Yossi Hasson
Angel · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in South Africa Community startups

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

  • Industry: Financial Services, Blockchain, Payments
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Africa, United States, Ghana

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 29
  • Round size: Seed $120k–$551k; Pre-Seed $120k–$230k
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • WizzPass — WizzPass, a rapidly growing leader in the visitor management system and workplace management market is now FMS:Engage powered by FM:Systems.
  • The Sun Exchange — We finance, install, and maintain the solar system. You simply pay for the power it generates and save from day one.
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TotalEnergies Ventures
VC Fund · La Défense, Ile-de-France, France · 1 investments in South Africa Community startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Energy, Renewable Energy, Transportation
  • Stage:Series B, Series C
  • Geography: United States, France, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 93
  • Round size: Series B $9.3M–$175M; Series C $12M–$65M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Autogrid — AutoGrid Systems organizes energy data and employs big data analytics to generate real-time predictions that create actionable data.The company’s suite of flexibility management applications allows utilities, electricity retailers, renewable energy project developers and energy service providers to deliver cheap, clean and reliable energy bymanaging networked distributed energy resources (DERs) in real time and at scale. AutoGrid applications utilize petabytes of smart meter, sensor and third-party data, along with powerful data science and high-performance computing algorithms, to monitor, predict, optimize and control the operations of millions of assets connected across global energy networks.Established at Stanford University in 2011, they have assembled a team of world-class software architects, electrical and computer engineers, data scientists and energy experts who apply cutting-edge analytics and in-depth energy data science to solve the world’s most critical energy problems.
  • 45-8 ENERGY — 45-8 ENERGY is exploring eco-friendly helium for uses in many industries.
  • 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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Tom Berckt
Angel · 1 investments in South Africa Community startups

Tom is currently a commercial executive at Clicks2customers.com, a global Search Engine Marketing company. His background is in (bio-) engineering but he has been involved in online companies for the past 10 years. Besides working at Clicks2customers, Tom is a part time lecturer at TSIBA (http://www.tsiba.org.za/) a South AfricanNGO providing tertiary education to economically disadvantaged children. He is also an angel investor in a number is technology startups and is an active member of the Silicon Cape initiative (www.siliconcape.com)

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Events, Printing
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Personera — Talk to AI characters, challenge them in debates, and earn tokens. Socrates, Elon Musk, Shakespeare and 50+ more await you. Try free now.
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Savannah Fund
VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya · 1 investments in South Africa Community startups

Savannah Fund is a seed capital fund specializing in US$25,000-US$500,000 investments in early stage high growth technology (web and mobile) startups in sub-Saharan Africa. Initially focused on East Africa, the fund aims to bridge the early stage/angel and venture capital investment gap that currently exists in Africa. The Fund expects toachieve this objective by combining capital with mentor networks both in the region and from Silicon Valley via an accelerator program and a follow-on independent seed fund.The fund is managed by an experienced and technology savvy team that have founded companies or are actively involved in angel investing or having run successful accelerator programs in past but also understand the unique Subsaharan African environment. They are backed and supported by both local, regional and international networks of angels,venture capitalists whose expertise we can draw on to help startups succeed and scale to fully fledged regional or global companies.They believe in the potential for Africa to become a global technology innovator by creating sustainable for profit companies that create jobs and make an impact.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, United States, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 38
  • Round size: Seed $25k–$3M; Pre-Seed $200k–$2.1M; Series A $750k–$8M
  • Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $25M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Oze — OZÉ brings African small businesses into the digital era. It is an app that makes it easy for businesses to track sales, expenses, and customer information. The data is analyzed to provide tailored recommendations, reports, and business education. If the entrepreneur needs a little extra support, an OZÉ Coach is just a click away. As they are usingOZÉ to manage their business and learn how to run it better, we are learning about them. Using this data and machine learning, we can predict their credit risk and provide them with affordable capital from our banking partners. With over 20,000 registered users, OZÉ is the largest online community of SMEs in Ghana. The most exciting thing is that OZÉ works; 97% of businesses that have used OZE for at least 9 months are growing or profitable or both!
  • Root — Launch digital and embedded insurance solutions with omni-channel distribution.
  • 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.
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Harambeans
VC Fund · 1 investments in South Africa Community startups

Harambeans are African innovators who have pledged to “work together as one” to build Africa’s future. Over the last decade, Harambeans has spawned a series of tech-enabled ventures such as Andela, Flutterwave, and Yoco, which have collectively generated over 3000 jobs, and raised over $700m from Google Ventures, CRE Ventures and Accel.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, B2B, Big Data
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, Morocco

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$3.1M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Releaf Earth — We are industrializing food processing in Africa. We've led 1000+ smallholder farmers to provide food factories with >7.5 million kilograms of quality crops.
  • ZSystems — ZSystems is a transformative super app designed to redefine B2B trade.
  • 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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Knife Capital
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in South Africa Community startups

Knife Capital is an independent growth equity investment firm focusing on innovation-driven ventures with proven traction. By leveraging knowledge, networks & funding, Knife accelerates the international expansion of entrepreneurial businesses that achieved a product/market fit in a beachhead market. Knife have offices in Cape Town andLondon.Knife invests via a consortium of funding partnerships, including SARS section 12J Venture Capital Company KNF Ventures and select family offices. Knife facilitated lucrative exits of local technology companies to the likes of General Electric, Visa, Garmin and Uber.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Education, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: South Africa, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 31
  • Round size: Series A $2M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 71% lead, 29% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $10M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • d6 — SCHOOLS Schools Communication Platforms and School Management Software COMMUNITIES Community & Internal Business Communication Platforms MEDIA Let your brand be seen Advertise on
  • DataProphet — DataProphet offers production intelligence solutions for manufacturers. By combining human ingenuity with production data, we supercharge manufacturing excellence. Explore our Connect platform and expert services, trusted by industry leaders.
  • Stone Three Venture Technology — We combine expert services with the power of machine learning to help our customers increase their productivity and safety.
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4DX Ventures
VC Fund · Brooklyn, New York, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Community startups

4DX Ventures is a Pan-Africa Focused Venture Capital Firm. Our mission is to connect people, ideas, and capital to create a vibrant African community.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Logistics
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Egypt, United States, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 79
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$6.4M; Pre-Seed $50k–$6.5M; Series A $6.6M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $60M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • HoneyCoin — HoneyCoin is a web3/web2 ecosystem of products built in a way that abstracts complexity and brings all the value of web3 and web2 to the forefront.
  • Aether Bio — Aether uses its state of the art platform to rapidly engineer enzymes, enabling our customers to manufacture complex and novel products at fractional cost.
  • Franc — Franc is the easiest way to save & invest. Our app doesn’t require any investment knowledge & our friendly risk quiz helps us understand how much investment risk is right for you. Users can start investing in less than 2 minutes. There is no minimum requirement & no paperwork. It is a seamless digital experience end-to-end. A usersimply chooses a goal, selects an investment strategy, verifies their identity & makes a deposit. Each user is recommended a personalised investment strategy for each investment goal, combining money market & index tracking ETFs. Our helpful calculators assist clients with their budgeting, retirement & targeted savings needs. We also provide free access to our online academy & fun financial literacy quizzes.We know saving is hard & investing can be scary, which is why we create savings groups & challenges so that users can encourage one another. We also run weekly competitions where users can stand a chance to win a cash prize that will boost their investments.
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Michael Leeman
Angel · San Diego, California, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Community startups

Michael is the San Diego based Senior VP Business Development for Cognician, a self coaching and behavior change platform based in San Francisco. He is also a shareholder and director. Michael also has array of investments in and advisory roles with a number of other start ups, including Gyft, Yola, ChessCube and Skyrove.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Software, Publishing
  • Stage:Angel, Seed
  • Geography: United States, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Angel $125k–$590k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Personera — Talk to AI characters, challenge them in debates, and earn tokens. Socrates, Elon Musk, Shakespeare and 50+ more await you. Try free now.
  • Swiftly — Harness your public transit data with Swiftly's urban mobility solutions to make your city's mass transportation move more efficiently.
  • Appstores.com — Appstores is making it easier for consumers to find apps by giving small and large niche publishers and API/platform companies the tools to showcase apps most relevant to their users.
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Vinny Lingham
Angel · San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Community startups

Vinny Lingham is the Co-Founder and CEO of Rumi.ai(Waitroom). He previously worked at YPO as a Member. Vinny Lingham attended Harvard Business School Executive Education.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Internet, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United States, South Africa, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 39
  • Round size: Seed $2.5M–$5.6M; Angel $125k–$500k
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Glif — Interoperable tools for the Filecoin network
  • Decent Labs — We are rebuilding trust in technology. Decent Labs is developing a more transparent and equitable society by creating startups at the cross-section of financial technology and digital rights.
  • Spexi — An intuitive and collaborative platform for drone-based data
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Vumela Fund
VC Fund · Hyde Park, Newtownabbey, United Kingdom · 1 investments in South Africa Community startups

Vumela was established in 2009 by FNB Business Banking and Edge Growth. The objective was to create an innovative model for the development of a sustainable and a financially and operationally independent investment business which invests in high growth small, medium and micro size enterprises with good economic and impact returns.Vumela wascapitalised in 2010. Within the first four years, we’d invested R90 million into eight high growth SMEs, and created a total of 400 jobs. They launched their second fund in 2015, after a further investment of R100 million from FirstRand and R127 million from the Jobs Fund. Within the first year of launching this second fund, we’ve committed R43 million to five investments that are expected to create over 1800 new jobs.The first fund of its kind in South Africa, Vumela’s main goals are to invest in and develop entrepreneurial companies in order to help alleviate poverty in South Africa by creating jobs, and to generate a return for its beneficiaries: the Shalamuka Foundation and the FirstRand Group.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Education, Software, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Debt Financing
  • Geography: South Africa, Brazil

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$822k; Debt Financing $854k–$1.4M
  • Lead/follow: 80% lead, 20% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $14M in 2015

Portfolio highlights

  • Rentoza — We champion giving you access, affordability and flexibility to explore tech on your own terms
  • Mia Healthcare
  • ProfitShare Partners — Business funding solutions with ProfitShare Partners. We specialise in Short Term Asset Finance to help empower SMEs.
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Community Investor funding in South Africa at a glance

Stats across 25 deals from 37 investors.

37
investors
in South Africa Community startups
25
deals
in South Africa Community startups
$450k
median round
in South Africa Community startups
41%
lead investors
lead at least one round
16%
Pre-Seed
most common funding stage
86/14
VC / Angel
share of investor count

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