Top 15 Construction VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Africa in January 2026
A list of 15 VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Construction startups based in Africa. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Construction companies from Africa. We update this investor list every month.Top 15 Construction VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Africa in January 2026
| Investor | Construction Africa investments |
|---|---|
| Future Africa | 2 |
| FirstCheck Africa | 2 |
| FirstCheck Africa | 2 |
| LoftyInc Capital | 2 |
| Logos Ventures | 2 |
| Enza Capital | 2 |
| Zedcrest Group | 1 |
| Ardent Capital | 1 |
| Zedcrest Capital Limited | 1 |
| LocalGlobe | 1 |
| Foundamental | 1 |
| Emerging Capital Partners | 1 |
| Speedinvest | 1 |
| Chandaria Capital | 1 |
| SunFunder | 1 |
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
- Edves — Edves automates the brick and mortal School operations from Student enrollment, Fee Collection, Lesson Note up to Transcript Generation.
- Finclusion Group — Enhancing financial inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa through data driven lending.
- Nexford University — Transform your career with affordable, flexible degrees and job skills designed for today's workforce. Skip debt and learn at your own pace with Nexford.
FirstCheck Africa is an early believer for a generation of African women in tech. We invest early, with high conviction, in high-growth female-led startups with category-leadership potential.
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Investment focus
- Consumer, Financial Services, Payments
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Kenya, Nigeria, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Jumba — Your one-stop marketplace for construction materials. We offer a wide range of products to meet all your construction needs. Browse All Products.
- Uncover — Learn your skin, Love your skin. K-Beauty Crafted for Melanin
- Cleva — For anyone with global financial needs, A US-based dollar account in your name to receive, hold, and save USD.
FirstCheck Africa is an early believer for a generation of African women in tech. We invest early, with high conviction, in high-growth female-led startups with category-leadership potential.
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Investment focus
- Consumer, Financial Services, Payments
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Kenya, Nigeria, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Jumba — Your one-stop marketplace for construction materials. We offer a wide range of products to meet all your construction needs. Browse All Products.
- Uncover — Learn your skin, Love your skin. K-Beauty Crafted for Melanin
- Cleva — For anyone with global financial needs, A US-based dollar account in your name to receive, hold, and save USD.
LoftyInc Capital Management empowers Afropreneurs to build a prosperous and equitable future in Africa. We deliver value to both founders and investors.........
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Nigeria, United States, Egypt
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- Salus Cloud — Salus Cloud is an AI-native platform for engineers to develop and manage security.
- Nucleon Security — Nucleon Security is a cybersecurity software company that develops advanced, AI-powered endpoint protection solutions based on Zero Trust principles. Our mission is to help organizations of all sizes detect, prevent, and respond to cyber threats in real time—without compromising performance, usability, or sovereignty.At the core of our offeringis Nucleon EDR, a next-generation Endpoint Detection & Response platform designed to provide deep visibility, proactive defense, and automated response capabilities. Complemented by our MDR (Managed Detection & Response) services and Malprob, our malware detonation sandbox, we deliver a comprehensive security stack that adapts to evolving threat landscapes.Headquartered in France with operations across Europe and Africa, Nucleon Security partners with critical infrastructure, governments, and enterprises to strengthen their cyber resilience and accelerate secure digital transformation.
- ORDA — Process orders, accept payments, connect to logistic providers, engage with your customers + more. We equip you with everything you need to grow your business.
Logos Ventures is a venture capital investment firm.
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- B2B, FinTech, Logistics
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Kenya, United States
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- ImaliPay — ImaliPay is a financial health platform offering financial products to freelancers and blue collar gig workers in partnership with gig platforms.
- Zeraki — Zeraki is to use technology to address some of the obstacles learners encounter in accessing quality education. We use technology to enhance the quality of education students get at each level of education and use technology to help students transition from one level of education to the next, and ultimately from education into employment.
- Jumba — Your one-stop marketplace for construction materials. We offer a wide range of products to meet all your construction needs. Browse All Products.
Venture investor in high-growth Founders and Teams using technology to solve large and meaningful problems across Africa
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Finance, E-Commerce
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa
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- MNZL — MNZL is on a mission to expand access to capital for Egyptians.Every person who owns an asset has accumulated wealth in it. When they want liquidity for their projects and needs, they should be able to tap into it as easily as withdrawing from a bank.With an innovative digital platform and products, we are working on making digital access tocapital a reality, and building the future of asset-backed financing in Africa.
- Hub2.Io — Welcome to HUB2, the leading FINTECH startup in interoperability and payment infrastructure in Francophone Africa. We are proud to work with all financial industry players in Africa who need stable and high-performing infrastructure, and contribute to their success.
- Affinity — Join over 100,000 who trust the Affinity mobile app to manage their banking needs, from savings to payments, as well as instant loans
Zedcrest Group is a capital management firm investing in debt and equity capital markets, business acquisitions, and buyouts.
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- Software, Procurement, Construction
- Seed
- Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- Cutstruct — Cutstruct is your one source for bulk construction materials purchase. Get the best prices for cement, steel, granite, sharp sand wood, and more.
Leading Venture Capital & Builder in Southeast Asia | Experts in E-Commerce, B2B, B2C, Fulfilment Startups | Seed, Series A Funding
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- E-Commerce, Internet, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Nigeria, Indonesia, Thailand
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- Laborhack — LaborHack offers a select network of tested and certified carpenters, plumbers, electricians, masons, welders, and other tradespeople. It provides cleaning, plumbing, electrical, and HVAC services.
- Trade Lenda — Trade Lenda: Access to Loans, Investments, Utility Payments, Credit Access, Insurance, and More! Unlock Opportunities to Earn, Invest, and Grow. Secure Personal or Business Loans Toda
- Feather Africa — Feather Africa provides money transaction services, such as enabling users to send and receive money from anyone using the application. It offers withdrawals of cash without ATM cards by sending money to the nearest cash vendors.
Zedcrest Capital is a full-service capital management firm, with core interests in fixed income securities trading, asset management and proprietary investments
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- Financial Services, Software, Credit
- Pre-Seed
- Nigeria, Kenya, United Kingdom
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- PaidHR — PaidHR works with organizations to streamline how they manage their staff. Our precisely created solutions enable them to create the ideal place to work.
- Pade HCM — Hire, manage and pay your global team Hire anyone in Africa and automate onboarding, team management, payroll, compliance and much more.
- Salus Cloud — Salus Cloud is an AI-native platform for engineers to develop and manage security.
Seeding ambitious founders at places like @citymapper, @improbableio,@teamkano, @moo, @songkick,@seedcamp, @transferwise and @zoopla since 1999. Who's next?
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, United States, France
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- Wefarm — Wefarm is a farmer-to-farmer digital network that enables farmers to share information via SMS. The company allows small-scale farmers to connect with one another to solve problems, share ideas, and spread innovation. Utilizing the latest machine learning technology, Wefarm’s service works both online and over SMS.Since its founding in 2015,Wefarm has been named one of Africa’s Most Innovative Companies by FastCompany and has won Google’s Impact Challenge Award, TechCrunch’s Europas-Tech for Good Award, and the European Union Commission’s Ideas from Europe prize, among others. The company is headquartered in London with a field presence in Nairobi, Kampala, and Dar-es-Salaam.
- Model ML — Automate financial grunt work with precision. Model ML helps top finance firms move faster with AI that understands deals, models, and pitch decks.
- venn — Venn creates a new way of urban neighboring by managing homes, creating shared spaces, supporting hyperlocal business initiatives and services, programs events, and facilitating community engagement – all on a neighborhood-wide level. Operating by the motto, “If they build it, they will stay,” venn’s platform encourages urbanites to become activecreators and participants in the development of their community and enables developing neighborhoods to become as vibrant and desirable as the downtown core. Founded in 2016 by people raised in the Big City and in cooperative communities, venn is a new movement of neighboring that impacts tens of thousands of people in three cities (Tel Aviv, Brooklyn, and Berlin) with +75 employees
Foundamental is the first partner to exceptional founders re-creating the real world globally
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Investment focus
- Construction, Software, Real Estate
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, India, Germany
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- Enter — baupal seeks to democratize sustainable and customized architecture, making design, energy assessments, permitting and cost evaluations more accessible and straightforward for private builders and smaller construction projects. baupal is an online building application service that takes advantage of digital processes and efficient team structuresto streamline design, planning and permitting processes for a range of small-scale projects.baupal was established in December, 2020 in Berlin, Germany.
- Lun — Your all-in-one heat pump platform. Streamline system design, lead qualification, scheduling, quoting and much more.
- Adaptive Real Estate — Experience a stress-free back office for less than what you pay for dumpsters.
ECP is a private equity group dedicated to investing in Africa.They are a pan-African private equity firm that has raised over US$2 billion for investment across the African continent, including the Francophone regions. They have put their investors’ capital to work in over 40 countries in all major regions of the continent, directly supportingover 50,000 jobs.
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Investment focus
- Telecommunications, Finance, Energy
- Private Equity, Post-IPO Equity, Funding Round
- France, Nigeria, Côte d'Ivoire
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- Eranove — The Eranove group counts more than 9000 employees all engaged in developping hydroelectric solutions to allow all the pan african citizens to access electricity and drinking water
- Allego — Discover the benefits of EV charging. Find out how Allego electric vehicle charging stations can enhance convenience and reduce emissions.
- Zipline — Zipline operates the world's largest autonomous on-demand delivery system with the industry's leading instant logistics technology stack.
Speedinvest is one of Europe’s most active early-stage venture capital funds, with more than €1.2bn in AuM and offices in Berlin, London, Munich, Paris, and Vienna. Our dedicated sector-focused teams (Climate Tech & Industrial Tech, Deep Tech, Fintech, Health & Bio, Marketplaces & Consumer Tech, SaaS & Infra) are the first to fundEMEA's most innovative pre-Seed and Seed tech startups. Our in-house operational experts and global network of industry leaders support our portfolio companies with growth, people (HR), market expansion, and more throughout every stage of their journeys. Bitpanda, GoStudent, Wayflyer, Open, CoachHub, Schüttflix, TourRadar, Adverity, and TWAICE are among our portfolio of 400+ companies.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, Germany, Austria
Portfolio highlights
- Vocca — Vocca manages your patient calls, bookings, and reminders 24/7 so your team spends less time on admin and more time on care. Tailored to all specialties. Trusted by thousands.
- Finary — Finary is a platform that allows everybody to better track and manage their wealth.
- Runware — Runware provides lightning-fast text-to-image and image-to-image generation speeds—0.3 seconds for SD 1.5 and 0.9 seconds for SDXL, all through one powerful API.
Chandaria Capital operates as a venture capital Fund. We believe that innovative ideas will transform Africa. We invest, mentor, and work together with incredible entrepreneurs to create impactful companies that can change the continent.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Retail, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Kenya, United States, Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- Leta — Leta Technology is a software development company that creates supply chain and logistics software to enable the efficient and automated movement of goods.
- UTU Technologies — Trust infrastructure for the sharing economy.
- Dastgyr Technologies — Simplifying Global Trade
SunFunder is a specialist financing company dedicated to pioneering and scaling clean energy and climate investments in emerging markets.
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Investment focus
- Solar, Energy, Renewable Energy
- Debt Financing, Series C
- The Netherlands, Kenya, Mauritius
Portfolio highlights
- BioLite — BioLite designs off-grid personal scale energy products for cooking, charging, and lighting. Perfect for camping, fishing, tailgating, power outages, and more.
- Yellow — Yellow enables a distributed network of sales agents to serve rural households with life-changing products and services through a digital technology platform called Ofeefee.
- d.light — Founded in 2007 as a for-profit social enterprise, d.light manufactures and distributes award-winning solar lighting and power products designed to serve the more than 2 billion people globally without access to reliable electricity. Through five distribution hubs in East Africa, West Africa, India, Southeast Asia, and the United States, d.lighthas impacted over 65 million lives with its products. d.light is dedicated to providing the most reliable, affordable, and accessible solar lighting and power systems for the developing world, with the goal of reaching 100 million people by 2020. For more information, visit www.dlight.com.
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