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Top 50 Consumer Startup Investors in Africa (August 2026)

The most active venture capital funds and angel investors investing in Africa Consumer startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Africa Consumer startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Women Entrepreneurship for Africa
VC Fund
15 Nigeria, Uganda, Cameroon Pre-Seed, Grant Health Care, Agriculture, Food and Beverage
Golden Palm Investments
VC Fund
6 Nigeria, United States, Egypt Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Information Technology, Financial Services, Payments $100k–$15M
Future Africa
VC Fund
6 Nigeria, United States, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology $100k–$40M
FJ Labs
VC Fund
5 United States, Brazil, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services $1.4M–$68M
U.S. International Development Finance Corp
VC Fund
5 India, Kenya, United States Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Venture - Series Unknown Financial Services, Finance, FinTech $1M–$1B
Ventures Platform
VC Fund
4 Nigeria, United States, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Internet $100k–$4.4M
4Di Capital
VC Fund
4 South Africa, United States, Kenya Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Financial Services, Mobile $527k–$47M
Launch Africa
VC Fund
4 Nigeria, South Africa, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology $200k–$4M
Aruwa Capital
VC Fund
4 Nigeria, United States, France Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A Retail, FinTech, Health Care $100k–$20M
Resilience17
VC Fund
4 Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana Seed, Pre-Seed Sports, Finance, Outdoors $100k–$12M
4DX Ventures
VC Fund
4 Egypt, South Africa, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Logistics $50k–$40M
Savannah Fund
VC Fund
4 Kenya, United States, South Africa Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, E-Commerce, FinTech $25k–$8M
Musha Ventures
VC Fund
3 United States, Nigeria, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Financial Services, FinTech $100k–$10M
Goodwell Investments
VC Fund
3 Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya Series A, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown FinTech, Financial Services, Banking $200k–$26M
Lion’s Head Global Partners
VC Fund
3 Kenya, France, Senegal Debt Financing, Venture - Series Unknown Renewable Energy, Solar, Energy $2.2M–$11M
Mercy Corps Ventures
VC Fund
3 Kenya, United States, Nigeria Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Agriculture $100k–$35M
JAM Fund
VC Fund
3 United States, Mexico, India Seed, Series A E-Commerce, FinTech, Software $2M–$47M
Village Global
VC Fund
3 United States, United Kingdom, India Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services $355k–$23M
Berrywood Capital
VC Fund
3 Nigeria, United States, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Payments $100k–$3.7M
E3 Capital
VC Fund
3 Kenya, South Africa, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Energy, Solar, Renewable Energy $900k–$40M
F6 Ventures
VC Fund
3 Tunisia, France Seed, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, Information Technology, Retail $62k–$200k
Justin Mateen
Angel
3 United States, Mexico, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, E-Commerce, Health Care $400k–$27M
Esas Ventures
VC Fund
3 United States, Kenya, Canada Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Health Care, Software, E-Commerce $700k–$30M
Grenfell Holdings
VC Fund
3 Kenya, Uganda, Senegal Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Internet, Logistics $1.8M–$2.1M
Tofino Capital
VC Fund
3 United States, Nigeria, Egypt Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $100k–$131M
Cem Garih
Angel
3 United States, India, Kenya Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence $460k–$38M
Talanton
VC Fund
2 Kenya Debt Financing, Seed, Series A Shoes, Retail, Sports $3M–$5M
Persistent
VC Fund
2 Ghana, Germany, Switzerland Seed, Series A Energy, Solar, Renewable Energy
Kevin Ambrosini
Angel
2 United States, Egypt, Kenya Seed, Series B, Series A E-Commerce, Logistics, Supply Chain Management
Samata Capital
VC Fund
2 Kenya, Nigeria Seed, Series A Beauty, Retail, Consumer $1M–$1.4M
Pearl Capital Partners
VC Fund
2 Uganda, Kenya, Malawi Private Equity, Debt Financing, Seed Agriculture, Farming, Food Processing
AfricInvest
VC Fund
2 Tunisia, Kenya, Morocco Private Equity, Series A Financial Services, Manufacturing, FinTech $6.5M–$65M
Susa Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Health Care $2M–$70M
KFW DEG
VC Fund
2 India, Kenya, Brazil Debt Financing, Grant, Private Equity Financial Services, Energy, FinTech $100k–$570M
Lynett Capital
VC Fund
2 United States, Kenya, Nigeria Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed FinTech, SaaS, Mobile $120k–$49M
Outlierz Ventures
VC Fund
2 Morocco, Egypt, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Logistics, Supply Chain Management, B2B $1.5M–$5M
Timon Capital
VC Fund
2 Nigeria, Kenya, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Information Technology, FinTech, Internet $300k–$30M
Renew Capital
VC Fund
2 Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia Pre-Seed, Seed Mobile Apps, Financial Services, Finance
FirstCheck Africa
VC Fund
2 Kenya, Nigeria, United States Pre-Seed, Seed Consumer, Payments, Financial Services $100k–$4.5M
igniteXL Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, South Korea, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed Beauty, Fashion, Software $226k–$8.1M
MNF Ventures
VC Fund
2 Morocco, France, Canada Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Online Portals, FinTech, Enterprise Software $200k–$1.6M
Unicorn Group
VC Fund
2 Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa Seed, Pre-Seed, Grant Apps, Internet, FinTech $100k–$2.3M
Left Lane Capital
VC Fund
2 United States, Germany, Canada Series A, Series B, Seed FinTech, Financial Services, Software $2.5M–$111M
DOB Equity
VC Fund
2 Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda Private Equity, Seed Food and Beverage, Farming, Agriculture $1M–$4M
Kepple Africa Ventures
VC Fund
2 Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Software $100k–$23M
Partech
VC Fund
2 United States, France, Germany Series A, Seed, Series B Software, E-Commerce, SaaS $1.1M–$55M
216 Capital
VC Fund
2 Tunisia, France, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel SaaS, B2B, Software
SunFunder
VC Fund
2 Kenya, Mauritius, United States Debt Financing, Series C Solar, Energy, Renewable Energy $1.5M–$60M
Accion Ventures
VC Fund
2 India, United States, Mexico Seed, Series A, Series B Financial Services, FinTech, Finance $500k–$30M
Vumela Fund
VC Fund
2 South Africa, Brazil Seed, Debt Financing Education, Hospital, Software $600k–$1.4M
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Women Entrepreneurship for Africa
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 15 investments in Africa Consumer startups

Women Entrepreneurship for Africa

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Agriculture, Food and Beverage
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Grant
  • Geography: Nigeria, Uganda, Cameroon

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 116
  • Lead/follow: 99% lead, 1% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • ORIKI — A wellness + farm to skin brand that creates pampering experiences and luxurious natural personal grooming products. Sharing Africa!
  • Mukuru Clean Stoves — Earthshot Prize Winner 2022. We use recycled metal to manufacture improved, efficient and affordable cookstoves.
  • Loom Craft Chocolate — Loom Craft Chocolate is a artisanal cocoa processor with a strong focus on the quality of our products and the sustainability of our processes.
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Golden Palm Investments
VC Fund · Accra, Greater Accra, Ghana · 6 investments in Africa Consumer startups

Golden Palm Investments is an investment holding and advisory company.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Financial Services, Payments
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 76
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$6M; Pre-Seed $100k–$6.5M; Series A $3M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2014

Portfolio highlights

  • Talstack — Talstack is an all-in-one platform for employee growth and development
  • MAKA — MAKA is a community commerce platform for fashion and beauty, enabling everyone to discover their style, feel represented.
  • Renda — At Renda, we are passionate about revolutionizing the logistics and mobility sectors with cutting-edge technology that enables businesses and operators to seamlessly scale in emerging markets.
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Future Africa
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 6 investments in Africa Consumer startups

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

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 91
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$4M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3.7M; Series A $7M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • STEM Cafe — STEMCafe by RVRB is a fun out of school learning centre for kids
  • Juicyway — The new shape of money? Fluid. Access global currencies with Juicyway. Buy, sell, hold, and pay globally using our fast APIs, web, or mobile apps. Download now.
  • Lori Systems — Lori Systems is revolutionizing African logistics through innovative technology solutions. We connect shippers, transporters, and drivers to create efficient, reliable, and transparent supply chains across Africa.
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FJ Labs
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 5 investments in Africa Consumer startups

FJ Labs is a stage-agnostic investment firm that focuses on marketplaces and consumer facing startups.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Brazil, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1441
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$10M; Series A $5M–$30M; Series B $12M–$68M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $5.5M in 2016

Portfolio highlights

  • HUNTY — HUNTY is a platform that help people find jobs by connecting them with world class mentors who prepare them for the job search process. And people only pay when they get hired.
  • Revelo — Scale your development team with the top 1% of 1,000,000+ software engineers in Latin America. Get matched with senior remote developers who have strong technical and English-speaking skills & hire them without the overhead. We handle payroll, taxes, and HR. Flat monthly rate.
  • Metaloop — Metaloop is a scrap trading company that helps businesses from the metal recycling industry to boost revenue without scaling.
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U.S. International Development Finance Corp
VC Fund · Washington, District of Columbia, United States · 5 investments in Africa Consumer startups

U.S. International Development Finance Corp is America’s development bank.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: India, Kenya, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 129
  • Round size: Post-IPO Debt $5M–$468M; Debt Financing $6.7M–$390M; Venture - Series Unknown $1M–$1B
  • Lead/follow: 77% lead, 23% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $300M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Kodak — A global technology company providing industry-leading products and services for commercial print, packaging, publishing, manufacturing and entertainment.
  • Bayport Management — Bayport Management Limited, through its subsidiaries, provides retail financial services in the Republic of Mauritius and internationally.
  • Harena Rare Earths — Harena Rare Earths is a mineral exploration company. It focuses on the Ampasindava Ionic Clay Rare Earths Project in Madagascar, which contains 606,000 tonnes of Total Rare Earth Oxides (TREO). The company explores and develops critical magnet metals like neodymium, praseodymium, dysprosium, and terbium for use in clean energy, electronics, anddefense sectors.
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Ventures Platform
VC Fund · Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria · 4 investments in Africa Consumer startups

We back founders building the future of Africa. We invest in companies that solve for non-consumption, plug infrastructural gaps and democratise prosperity in Africa, by eliminating the barriers for access and reducing the costs of delivering goods and services.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 160
  • Round size: Seed $120k–$4.4M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Traction Apps — Traction apps provide businesses end to end tools they need to run and grow their businesses.
  • MarketForce — MarketForce is a US, Kenya and Nigeria-based technology company that is building the SuperApp for Africa's 100 million merchants. MarketForce provides an all-inclusive B2B Commerce and Fintech platform (dubbed “RejaReja” – Swahili for ‘retail’) that empowers merchants in Africa to source, order and pay for inventory digitally and conveniently,access financing, collect digital payments and make extra money by reselling digital financial services such as airtime, electricity tokens and bill payments. Launched in 2018, MarketForce is a fast-growing YC backed company running an asset-light business model and is currently operational in 5 markets in Sub-Saharan Africa, with over 200,000 merchants and 50 consumer brands trading on the platform.
  • ThankUCash — ThankUCash is a technology company powering rewards and loyalty for African banks and businesses. ThankUCash helps merchants grow revenue by connecting them to customers within and outside of their locations while retaining acquired customers using a data analytics-powered reward system where customers earn cash rewards for every transaction madeboth offline and online.
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4Di Capital
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 4 investments in Africa Consumer startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Financial Services, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: South Africa, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 41
  • Round size: Seed $527k–$7.5M; Pre-Seed $1.8M–$4M; Series A $2M–$47M
  • Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • FireID — FireID is a venture builder that helps makers, with unique skills and passion, build businesses to solve meaningful problems.
  • Kuunda — Kuunda provides consulting, liquidity management, data insight tools enabling users to fulfill financial needs through a digital platform.
  • Aerobotics — Powerful insights for precision growing and crop insurance
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Launch Africa
VC Fund · Ebène, Plaines Wilhems, Mauritius · 4 investments in Africa Consumer startups, 7 in the past 12 months

Launch Africa is a leading Pan-African VC fund solving the significant funding gap in the Seed and pre-Series A investment landscape in Africa

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Nigeria, South Africa, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 217
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$4M; Pre-Seed $200k–$1.8M; Venture - Series Unknown $200k–$500k
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $36M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Zazu — Zazu is a neobank for African SMEs, offering seamless banking tools, cash flow automation, and real-time insights. Zazu simplifies finance management in one all-in-one solution.
  • Fincart — Fincart is a leading shipping platform in Egypt, connecting your business with top courier services, automating operations, and helping you scale your eCommerce logistics.
  • Udu Technologies — Udu Technologies is an AI infrastructure company that offers GPU systems, AI platform integration, and technical support services.
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Aruwa Capital
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 4 investments in Africa Consumer startups

Aruwa Capital Management is a Lagos-based, female-founded and led growth equity impact fund.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Retail, FinTech, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 22
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$3M; Series A $11M–$20M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.5M–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 82% lead, 18% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $20M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Koolboks — Koolboks: solar-powered, financially accessible fridges with an integrated pay-as-you-go platform dedicated to making cooling accessible to all of Sub-Saharan Africa. Get a Koolboks refrigerator for as little as 25k Naira down payment today!
  • Sika — Sika Box offers a comprehensive solution for global payment processing, focusing on bridging the payment divide between global enterprises and emerging markets. Utilizing blockchain and modern technologies, Sika Box re-engineers the payment process from customer acquisition to settlement. The platform enables merchants to offer alternate and localpayment options, facilitating seamless transactions. With a unified payment infrastructure named STASH, Sika Box allows merchants to consolidate payments from across the globe through a single payment gateway integration, simplifying the global commerce landscape for businesses.
  • Yikodeen — Yikodeen is a well-known and established footwear manufacturing company.
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Resilience17
VC Fund · 4 investments in Africa Consumer startups

Resilience17 is an Investment firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Sports, Finance, Outdoors
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 49
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$12M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Glouse — Glouse is an online application that provides groceries at the lowest prices with the same day deliveries.
  • Klasha — At Klasha, we're simplifying borderless payments for commerce in Africa. We help merchants worldwide sell online to Africa and receive payments in local African currencies while enjoying super fast last-mile delivery to customers across the continent.
  • Terra Industries — Terra Industries develops autonomous security systems and software platforms that support the monitoring and protection of physical assets, infrastructure, and operational environments across land, air, and maritime domains. The company provides unmanned vehicles, autonomous towers, and sensor-based surveillance hardware that collect and transmitdata for continuous situational awareness. Its software layer, built around an integrated operating system, processes sensor inputs, applies artificial intelligence models, and coordinates automated responses to detected events. Terra Industries designs its systems to support functions such as perimeter security, infrastructure monitoring, asset tracking, and threat detection within complex operational settings. The company’s platforms enable operators to manage multiple autonomous devices through a unified interface that supports mission planning, data visualization, and system control. Its technology is used by organizations that require coordinated security, monitoring, and response capabilities for facilities, remote sites, and distributed operations.
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4DX Ventures
VC Fund · Brooklyn, New York, United States · 4 investments in Africa Consumer 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, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Egypt, South Africa, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 93
  • Round size: Seed $456k–$8M; Pre-Seed $50k–$6.5M; Series A $3M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $60M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Autochek — Welcome To Autochek Group's Homepage. Read About The Company's Vision And Mission. Select A Country And Apply For Car Loans
  • 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.
  • Aethex — End to end voice agents localized for your market.
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Savannah Fund
VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya · 4 investments in Africa Consumer 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: Software, E-Commerce, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, United States, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 44
  • Round size: Seed $25k–$3.3M; Pre-Seed $200k–$2.1M; Series A $750k–$8M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $25M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Aya Data — Aya Data provides high-quality data annotation, AI training data, 3D annotations, machine learning solutions and also specialises in geospatial, NLP and computer vision projects.
  • Kubik — Kubik makes low-carbon buildings from plastic waste. Bringing environmental dignity to how countries grow.
  • 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.
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Musha Ventures
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 3 investments in Africa Consumer startups

Seed capital for technology startups globally.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 203
  • Round size: Seed $125k–$7.5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3.2M; Series A $2.5M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

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.
  • Zeno — Zeno is a climate conscious motor company that offers eco-friendly motorcycles.
  • Lori Systems — Lori Systems is revolutionizing African logistics through innovative technology solutions. We connect shippers, transporters, and drivers to create efficient, reliable, and transparent supply chains across Africa.
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Goodwell Investments
VC Fund · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands · 3 investments in Africa Consumer startups

Goodwell Investments is a pioneering investment firm focused on financial inclusion, fintech and inclusive growth in sectors providing

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Banking
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 48
  • Round size: Series A $1.5M–$12M; Series B $2M–$26M; Venture - Series Unknown $200k–$1.8M
  • Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • OmniRetail — OmniRetail is a consumer goods distribution platform that solves the inefficiencies of traditional trade by digitizing key stakeholders through its products.
  • Hinckley Recycling — Hinckley Recycling is dedicated to the responsibility of being a good steward of the environment and will in all circumstances aspire to constantly emphasize awareness of the natural environment, whilst maintaining a level of proficiency which demonstrates bona fide leadership in all spheres of the environment.
  • Agent Banking Company — Agent Banking Company provides digital technology solutions that enable access to banking services through bank-approved agents.
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Lion’s Head Global Partners
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in Africa Consumer startups

A global investment banking, asset management and advisory firm focused on delivering value to our clients in emerging and frontier markets

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Renewable Energy, Solar, Energy
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Kenya, France, Senegal

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Debt Financing $2.2M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $41M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Izili — Izili is a social business committed to providing access to energy and digital. We commercialize innovative products with financing solutions that meet the needs of local populations.
  • 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.
  • Decentral Energy — Decentral Energy creates, owns, and manages renewable energy assets. Decentral provides customers with risk-free, completely financed solar energy solutions.
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Mercy Corps Ventures
VC Fund · Portland, Oregon, United States · 3 investments in Africa Consumer startups

Mercy Corps Ventures invests in and catalyzes venture-led solutions to increase the resilience of underserved individuals and communities. Founded in 2015 as the impact investing arm of global development agency, Mercy Corps, supports over 57 early-stage ventures to scale and raise over $515 million in follow-on capital. Their portfolio centersaround resilience-building solutions in adaptive agriculture and food systems, inclusive climate fintech, and climate-smart technologies so that those living in frontier markets can withstand disruption and plan for the future. Through capital and support, piloting new approaches, action-oriented insights, and rigorously managing impact, they catalyze the ecosystem toward smarter, more impactful investments.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Agriculture
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Kenya, United States, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 73
  • Round size: Seed $330k–$5.3M; Pre-Seed $100k–$7M; Series A $2.5M–$35M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Turaco — Turaco develops simplified insurance and credit solutions through mobile technology to solve the healthcare financing needs. Turaco has simplified insurance products and also provides on-demand health loans, allowing customers to get healthcare at affordable monthly premiums.
  • Meridia — De-risk the sourcing, procurement, trading & compliance of commodities under the EUDR.
  • ReForest Latam — ReForest Latam is an biotech company restoring ecosystems and creating forests to fight climate change.
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JAM Fund
VC Fund · Las Vegas, Nevada, United States · 3 investments in Africa Consumer startups

JAM Fund operates as a venture capital firm investing in visionary founders disrupting large spaces. It is Tinder Founder Justin Mateen's venture capital firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Mexico, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 137
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$10M; Series A $8M–$47M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Curative — Get on-the-go COVID-19 testing and other essential health services, wherever you are.
  • Fun — Fun offers the highest converting rails to execute blockchain actions. Optimize your funding rails, reach new customers, and reduce costs.
  • Last Energy — Last Energy develops and delivers micro modular nuclear power plants designed to provide decarbonized, reliable energy through a full-service delivery model that spans design, construction, and operations. The company offers factory-produced modular plants, like its 20 MWe PWR-20 units, that can be deployed rapidly to serve energy-intensiveindustrial customers and utilities with baseload electricity and heat. Its services include long-term power purchase agreements that eliminate upfront capital for customers while enabling flexible siting and minimal resource requirements. Last Energy’s solutions support both behind-the-meter applications for industries and grid-scale energy projects for broader power delivery. The company integrates established reactor technology with its delivery process to help clients access consistent, carbon-free energy.
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Village Global
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in Africa Consumer startups

Early stage venture capital backed by some of the world's best entrepreneurs.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 418
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$11M; Pre-Seed $355k–$3.8M; Series A $7.7M–$23M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $125M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • microagi — Accelerating embodied AGI
  • Mesh — Business entity identity verification radically simple, trusted, and portable, ensuring seamless interactions in the B2B Ecommerce, Marketplaces, Real Estate Technology, Construction | Mesh.
  • Cast Insights — Cast Insights is an AI-powered platform that turns global spoken content—TV, radio, podcasts, livestreams—into structured, searchable real-time intelligence for investors, policy teams, strategists, and newsrooms.
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Berrywood Capital
VC Fund · 3 investments in Africa Consumer startups

Berrywood Capital is an investment firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$2.7M; Pre-Seed $125k–$3.7M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Caliza — Give your users access to the digital dollar economy. Get early access!
  • Workpay — Looking for the best payroll software in Kenya? Workpay provides the best payroll software and hr software for your business in Kenya, Nigeria and for Africa
  • Koa — Empower your business with our cutting-edge digital payments platform! Lotus simplifies your business banking tasks and offers tailored financial solutions to boost your business growth. Take control of your business finances by exploring Lotus today!
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E3 Capital
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 3 investments in Africa Consumer startups

E3 Capital invests in growing, entrepreneurial businesses in Sub-Saharan Africa addressing the lack of electrification in the region with new technology and innovative business models. The fund is backed by Schneider Electric, the leading energy management multinational, and a number of public-sector investors.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Energy, Solar, Renewable Energy
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Kenya, South Africa, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 49
  • Round size: Seed $900k–$8M; Series A $1.8M–$7.5M; Series B $9M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 51% lead, 49% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • GoCab — GoCab is fintech solution providing Drive-to-own option for vehicle purchase in Emerging markets, helping to bridge the gap between mobility entrepreneurs and financial services.
  • Plentify — Plentify connects home appliances with cheaper cleaner energy. It does this with an intelligent residential load management platform which matches demand with clean energy supply for 75% cheaper than batteries. Plentify combines advanced hardware, AI, and user-centric design to create smart home products that delight customers while alsostrengthening electricity systems.
  • SolarX Africa — SolarX commercial and industrial (C&I) solar company that provides clean and efficient solar solutions, through leasing options in frontier markets.
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F6 Ventures
VC Fund · Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia · 3 investments in Africa Consumer startups

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

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Information Technology, Retail
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Tunisia, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 62
  • Round size: Seed $72k–$200k; Pre-Seed $62k–$100k
  • Lead/follow: 60% lead, 40% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $10M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • WaterSec — WaterSec is a manufacturer of internet of things devices intended to communicate with gateways and send water usage data to application dashboards. They enable the customer to keep track of their water consumption. The monitoring of consumption was the solution to initiate the project. The water consumption and an optimized water-use efficiencyratio of all citizens and businesses.
  • True Delta — True Delta is a data management and processing company. They are document recognition and data reconciliation processes. They offer data extraction from documents using ocr techniques, fast onboarding and data integration,and efficient data reconciliation with intelligent matching tools and less coding .
  • Bako Motors SAS — Bako Motors SAS is a motor vehicle manufacturing company that develops solar electric vehicles. manufacturer of electric vehicles with the goal of creating long-term fixes for rural areas' transportation issues with regard to people, cargo, and machinery. The business makes electric cars as well as solutions for clean energy generation andstorage that are infinitely scalable, providing users with inexpensive and environmentally friendly e-mobility.
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Justin Mateen
Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States · 3 investments in Africa Consumer startups

Justin Mateen is the Cofounder and former CMO of Tinder, the world's largest dating platform. In 2021, and 2022 Business Insider ranked Mateen as the best early stage investor in the US, placing him at the number 1 spot on the top 100 list of US Seed Investors both years. In 2020, Forbes included Mateen on their list of the decade's top10 tech entrepreneurs. Fast Company has listed him as one of the most creative people in business.Founded in 2012, Tinder is the highest grossing app on Apple's app store since 2017 and was valued at over $40 Billion dollars in 2021.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Mexico, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 170
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$10M; Pre-Seed $400k–$3.9M; Series A $8M–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Mason America, Inc. — Mason is the device innovation platform for product leaders who dare to deliver the next innovation in their field.
  • Estate Media — Real Estate's Biggest Personalities Under one Roof
  • Subquadratic — AI lab leading the subquadratic LLM revolution.
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Esas Ventures
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 3 investments in Africa Consumer startups

Esas Ventures is the venture capital arm of Esas Holding, one of the largest family-owned investment firms in Turkey and is backed by the first and second generation family members of Şevket Sabancı, one of the founding members of Sabancı Holding, a leading Turkish conglomerate.With offices in Istanbul and London, Esas Ventures invests in earlystage companies globally.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Software, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Kenya, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 42
  • Round size: Seed $700k–$9M; Series A $5M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • RubiBrands — Established in 2021, RubiBrands is a beyond Amazon roll-up business that acquires and partners with e-commerce native brands. It then grows these brands into global powerhouses through investments, centralizing and optimizing operations, focusing sourcing to Turkey, brand building and introduction to new markets and channels.
  • River — Easily buy Bitcoin in minutes. Zero fees on recurring buys. Invest in Bitcoin with confidence with world-class security.
  • GoWit Technology — Unlock your retail media potential with GoWit's omnichannel Retail Media Advertising platform. Expand your audience reach, optimize bidding, and leverage first-party data for maximum conversions and privacy protection.
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Grenfell Holdings
VC Fund · Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong · 3 investments in Africa Consumer startups

Grenfell Holdings is an investment company based in Hong Kong.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Internet, Logistics
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Kenya, Uganda, Senegal

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$2M; Pre-Seed $2.1M–$2.1M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Badili — Badili is a one-stop shop for buying and selling used and refurbished phones. Founded in 2021 and is based in Nairobi.
  • KaliSpot — KaliSpot is a 24/7 automated network of ATMs servicing Mobile Money, Bank and Fintech consumers in West & Central Africa. Combined with a mobile app, we provide a PhyGital transformative solution to Financial Services access in WCA.
  • Rocket Health Africa — Rocket Health is a bundled service of The Medical Concierge Group, a licensed and registered clinic, laboratory, and pharmacy. Rocket Health offers telemedicine healthcare services such as doctor consultations, laboratory sample pickups, and medicine delivery.
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Tofino Capital
VC Fund · Washington, District of Columbia, United States · 3 investments in Africa Consumer startups

Tofino Capital is an early stage investor in emerging market technology companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 25
  • Round size: Seed $2.2M–$22M; Pre-Seed $100k–$1M; Series A $25M–$131M
  • Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Vultron — Compress proposal production timeframes from weeks into days with Generative AI.
  • Terra Industries — Terra Industries develops autonomous security systems and software platforms that support the monitoring and protection of physical assets, infrastructure, and operational environments across land, air, and maritime domains. The company provides unmanned vehicles, autonomous towers, and sensor-based surveillance hardware that collect and transmitdata for continuous situational awareness. Its software layer, built around an integrated operating system, processes sensor inputs, applies artificial intelligence models, and coordinates automated responses to detected events. Terra Industries designs its systems to support functions such as perimeter security, infrastructure monitoring, asset tracking, and threat detection within complex operational settings. The company’s platforms enable operators to manage multiple autonomous devices through a unified interface that supports mission planning, data visualization, and system control. Its technology is used by organizations that require coordinated security, monitoring, and response capabilities for facilities, remote sites, and distributed operations.
  • Irreversible — Irreversible designs next-generation analog AI chips that enable meaningful intelligence anywhere — from sensors to robots.
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Cem Garih
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in Africa Consumer startups

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, India, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 34
  • Round size: Seed $2.5M–$11M; Pre-Seed $460k–$1M; Series A $5M–$38M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • TuMeke Ergonomics — Computer vision joint tracking for ergonomic risk assessments. Automate assessments so you can focus on implementing solutions.
  • Troop — Troop is an app for retail investors to vote, organize shareholder resolutions and activist campaigns. Sign up for early access today.
  • Moment — Engineering the future of fixed income with the world's leading financial institutions.
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Talanton
VC Fund · Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, United States · 2 investments in Africa Consumer startups

Talanton helps you combat poverty in developing countries by creating jobs. You can free those in poverty by coming alongside them through investments in growth-stage businesses.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Shoes, Retail, Sports
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Debt Financing $3M–$5M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Pezesha — Digital Financial Ecosystem for connecting MSMEs to Capital.
  • Enda Sportswear — Kenyan running shoes that reward a natural midfoot landing and match the way runners train. Proudly made in Kenya and certified Climate Neutral. The most socially conscious running shoes in the world.
  • MoKo Home + Living — MoKo Home is your plug for Modern Sofas, Quality Mattresses, Beds & affordable home furniture in Kenya. Order furniture online and we deliver
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Persistent
VC Fund · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland · 2 investments in Africa Consumer startups

Africa's Climate Venture Builder - We believe in the power of climate-positive economic development in Africa. For the last decade, we have been working hand in hand with exceptional entrepreneurs, investing both financial and human capital to build successful climate ventures on the continent. Our companies offer competitive financial returns required to drive lasting impact.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Energy, Solar, Renewable Energy
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Ghana, Germany, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 22
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • EcoNetix — We help companies reduce emissions, offset with high-integrity carbon projects, and communicate impact transparently to achieve compliance certainty, climate
  • 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.
  • Circadian Technologies GmbH — AI-driven VPP unlocking revenue for telecom towers.
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Kevin Ambrosini
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in Africa Consumer startups

Kevin Ambrosini is Chief Strategy Officer at Payoneer, a publicly-traded fintech with $80bn volume (+21% year-over-year), $1bn revenue and 28% adj EBITDA margins [2024]. Previously, Kevin was the Head of Global Strategy & GM, North America at Alibaba.com, where he helped take the business from revenue of $800m and 4% annual growth to $3bn and30% annual growth over 4 years. Kevin join Alibaba through its acquisition of OpenSky, where he was Co-founder and CFO. Kevin graduated from the University of California, Berkeley.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Logistics, Supply Chain Management
  • Stage:Seed, Series B, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Egypt, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • MaxAB — The Region's Leading Retailer Super App At MaxAB, we change how the supply chain works through our B2B food & grocery e-commerce platform At MaxAB, we change how the supply chain works through our B2B food
  • buywith — buywith is a video commerce platform enabling retailers and brands to transform their e-commerce into engaging shoppable videos and dynamic video-led experiences, including an AI-powered digital studio for creating video ads for retail media at scale.
  • Taager — Taager is a social e-commerce platform enabling online merchants with end-to-end logistics.
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Samata Capital
VC Fund · 2 investments in Africa Consumer startups

CREATING a More Inclusive Future Samata Capital accelerates equal access to capital and opportunity for talented entrepreneurs in emerging markets. We inten ...

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Beauty, Retail, Consumer
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Kenya, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$1.4M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • ReelFruit — On a mission to inspire delightfulness by offering the tastiest snacks in town.
  • Uncover — Dermatologist-tested K-Beauty formulas powered by African botanicals for melanin-rich skin. Shop SPF 50 sunscreen, serums & kits with free Kenya shipping.
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Pearl Capital Partners
VC Fund · Kampala, Kampala, Uganda · 2 investments in Africa Consumer startups

Pearl Capital Partners is a specialist agriculture investment firm that has been investing in small and medium sized East African agribusinesses since 2005. Pearl Capital Partners investments generate financial returns for our investors while creating significant social impact. Pearl Capital Partners success is derived from working with ambitiousmanagement teams, providing supportive investment structures and specialist expertise that create high-growth agribusinesses.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Agriculture, Farming, Food Processing
  • Stage:Private Equity, Debt Financing, Seed
  • Geography: Uganda, Kenya, Malawi

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 36
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Enimiro — Enimiro is creating an online farming platform in form of a mobile App to connect Ugandan smallholder farmers with local investors to increase harvest while enabling urban people to invest into farming and earn proceeds at just a click of a button.
  • Kamp Feed — Kamp Feed is a food producer of nutritional animal feeds that specializes in pelleted animal feeds.
  • Newman Foods — Newman Foods is an agro-processing company that manufactures, exports, and supplies a comprehensive range of fresh agricultural products. Newman Foods Ltd is a Kampala-based agro-processing company whose primary business is producing and marketing branded consumer foods sold through retail stores in the local and the regional market, as well asaggregation and export of fresh fruits and vegetables (FFV) to the European market.
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AfricInvest
VC Fund · Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia · 2 investments in Africa Consumer startups

AfricInvest was founded in 1994 and is part of Integra Group, an investment and financial services company based in Tunisia.Uniquely positioned as one of the most experienced private equity investors on the continent, AfricInvest has dedicated investment teams focused on North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa, and employs 66 professionals based inseven offices.AfricInvest manages USD1 billion across 16 funds and benefits from strong, long-term support from both local and international investors, including leading development finance institutions in the United States and Europe.Having co-founded the African Venture Capital Association (AVCA) as well as the Middle East North Africa Private Equity Association (MENAPEA) and the Euromed Capital Forum, the firm is an active promotor of the private equity industry in the region.Since 1994, AfricInvest has invested in 135 companies across 25 African countries in a variety of high growth sectors and maintains a broad network of high quality executives across Africa, offering extensive expertise in key growth industries, including financial services, agribusiness, consumer/retail, education and healthcare.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Manufacturing, FinTech
  • Stage:Private Equity, Series A
  • Geography: Tunisia, Kenya, Morocco

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 109
  • Round size: Series A $7M–$65M; Private Equity $6.5M–$21M
  • Lead/follow: 64% lead, 36% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Buzzkito — Buzzkito Network is disrupting the Avertising Industry by being the first BRAND TECH company in the MENA region. They fuse technology and brand building to make our clients happy. They are a data and psychological driven.
  • GoMyCode — GoMyCode is changing the education market by training talents in a dynamic belnded environement on digital skills and connects them with tech opportunities around the world. Based on 4 Main Aspects: - Data based Assessment - Data based matching - Business Analytics - Learning Platform - Content EditorGoMyCode provides digital Skills Training forthe Future of Work. In 4 Different fields: - DATA - DEVELOPMENT - DESIGN - DIGITAL MARKETING
  • RAYNAL Assurances — RAYNAL Assurances operates as an insurance company. RAYNAL Assurances underwrites a large range of non-life insurance risks associated to automotive, health, accident, fire, transport, and other multi-risks, addressing a clientele composed of both corporate and retail customers.
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Susa Ventures
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Africa Consumer startups

A seed-stage VC fund investing in founders building value & defensibility through data, network effects, & economies of scale.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 286
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$8M; Series A $6.9M–$27M; Series B $14M–$70M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Viz — The Viz.ai Intelligent Care Coordination Platform is the most widely used AI-powered solution to connect multidisciplinary beyond neurovascular, improving outcomes for patients and hospital economics.
  • MycoWorks — MycoWorks is engaged in the creation of sustainable design solutions with advanced biomaterials. The company’s proprietary custom-engineered material is sustainable, versatile, and animal-free, and feels and performs like leather. Their first product, Reishi, and the proprietary platform to make it, Fine Mycelium, are a groundbreaking approach tobiomaterials that delivers unparalleled versatility and unmatched performance in strength, durability, and hand feel. The perfect intersection of art and science, Reishi is the only natural material that performs like cowhide leather and is engineered to meet the highest quality standards.MycoWorks was founded by Sophia Wang and Philip Ross in 2013 and is based in Emeryville, California.
  • LimaCharlie — The LimaCharlie SecOps Cloud Platform provides comprehensive enterprise protection that brings together critical cybersecurity capabilities and eliminates integration challenges and security gaps for more effective protection against today's threats.
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KFW DEG
VC Fund · Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 2 investments in Africa Consumer startups

KFW DEG offers financing, advice and support to private sector enterprises operating in developing and emerging-market countries. Their customers can rely on their expertise: They can benefit from their market knowledge, their 21 locations worldwide, and their international network. For entrepreneurial success and development.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Energy, FinTech
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Grant, Private Equity
  • Geography: India, Kenya, Brazil

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 117
  • Round size: Grant $100k–$1.1M; Debt Financing $10M–$570M; Private Equity $11M–$274M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • DataVolt — DataVolt is a leading innovator in state-of-the-art and sustainable data center solutions, empowering businesses across the globe to connect, collaborate, and grow in today's data-driven world. Our solutions, driven by security, sustainability, scalability, and reliability, facilitate digital transformation for our clients, amplifyingoperational efficiency and enabling them to contribute meaningfully to a sustainable digital future. With strategically positioned operations in Riyadh, Dubai, and California, we offer businesses the robust digital infrastructure necessary to succeed in the rapidly evolving digital landscape. We strive to redefine the future of data centers through groundbreaking innovation,
  • Combio Energia — ComBio Energia Provide energy generation solutions with renewable sources, creating, growing, and long-term economic value. They develop projects for steam generation and cogeneration of electricity with biomass, which promote environmental improvements and significant cost reductions for customers in the industrial segment. They offer, based on adetailed analysis of the needs of each customer, a dedicated energy solution, adapted to their consumption profile.
  • IPT PowerTech — IPT PowerTech coverage, coupled with our extensive expertise in supply chain management, field implementation, and power systems, has made us one of the most capable companies in handling the most complicated and versatile projects in the MEA region and its neighboring countries.
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Lynett Capital
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Africa Consumer startups

Lynett Capital is an early stage investment firm dedicated to the empowering technology companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, SaaS, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Kenya, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 28
  • Round size: Seed $120k–$3.1M; Pre-Seed $500k–$2.7M; Series A $2.5M–$49M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Juxta — Juxta builds first-of-its-kind software that helps hospitals optimize the flow of patients, staff, and resources throughout their facilities. By incorporating intuitive geospatial programs into everyday operations, Juxta equips admin with a suite of unique analytics that help them make valuable choices for their hospitals.
  • Ribbon — Go live with an inheritance center that your members deserve
  • Luminate Medical — Luminate Medical is developing LILY, the world's first pain-free and portable solution to prevent hair loss caused by chemotherapy.
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Outlierz Ventures
VC Fund · Casablanca, Grand Casablanca, Morocco · 2 investments in Africa Consumer startups

We provide smart capital to grow investable startups in Africa

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Logistics, Supply Chain Management, B2B
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Morocco, Egypt, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$5M; Pre-Seed $1.5M–$1.6M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Terraa — Terraa is a B2B distribution platform in Moroccan.
  • Wattnow — Wattnow is a real-time monitoring solution that provides a breakdown of energy spending to identify wasteful trends.
  • Socium — Socium Job these are companies that recruit and offer real career opportunities to all those who share their values ​​and wish to invest in their development.
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Timon Capital
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 2 investments in Africa Consumer startups

At Timon Capital, they have tremendous respect for the entrepreneurial journey—especially in emerging markets. As former entrepreneurs, they have built companies and gone through the frustration of trying to manage wayward investors. They decided to hold themselves to a higher standard and named ourselves Timon: a Greek word that means ‘the oneinfluenced by honor’ as well as ‘fairly priced.’

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, FinTech, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 17
  • Round size: Seed $300k–$8.5M; Series A $14M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Waza — Waza is a web platform with APIs. It helps startups and emerging market businesses manage their cash flow issues, invoicing needs, and international payment requirements.
  • Zone — Zone is a regulated blockchain network that enables payments and acceptance of digital currencies.
  • OmniRetail — OmniRetail is a consumer goods distribution platform that solves the inefficiencies of traditional trade by digitizing key stakeholders through its products.
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Renew Capital
VC Fund · Addis Ababa, Adis Abeba, Ethiopia · 2 investments in Africa Consumer startups, 11 in the past 12 months

Renew Capital is an Africa-focused investment firm that addresses critical gaps for Africa’s growing businesses and connects them to a global network of impact investors.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile Apps, Financial Services, Finance
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 26
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Bosso — Bosso projects and realizes automation and robotic solutions for the growth of your business.
  • Chpter — Chpter is a software development company that offers fast billing and checkout to help start, run, and grow a business.
  • Level Africa — Digital Investment Marketplace for Africa
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FirstCheck Africa
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 2 investments in Africa Consumer startups

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

  • Industry: Consumer, Payments, Financial Services
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$4.5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Jumba — Jumba is the trusted digital partner for hardware stores. Through tech, we support hardware stores to grow. Get cement at unbeatable prices. Access cement LPOs even at midnight. Get inventory on credit through Jengwa.
  • Uncover — Dermatologist-tested K-Beauty formulas powered by African botanicals for melanin-rich skin. Shop SPF 50 sunscreen, serums & kits with free Kenya shipping.
  • Cleva — For anyone with global financial needs, A US-based dollar account in your name to receive, hold, and save USD.
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igniteXL Ventures
VC Fund · Palo Alto, California, United States · 2 investments in Africa Consumer startups

WELLNESS TO THE WORLD igniteXL Ventures is a global seed fund investing in game-changing founders at the intersection of technology, beauty

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Beauty, Fashion, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, South Korea, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 18
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$8.1M; Pre-Seed $226k–$1.8M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $10M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • buywith — buywith is a video commerce platform enabling retailers and brands to transform their e-commerce into engaging shoppable videos and dynamic video-led experiences, including an AI-powered digital studio for creating video ads for retail media at scale.
  • Maeva — Maeva is a science-backed metabolic wellness brand built for people on GLP-1 medications — and anyone committed to a smarter weight-loss journey. Founded by Steven and Dean Neiger after Steven's own firsthand experience with GLP-1 therapy, Maeva was created to solve a real gap: when you're eating less, your body still needs completenutrition. Muscle loss, energy dips, hair thinning, and digestive discomfort shouldn't be the price of progress. Our Daily Nutrition Shakes — formulated separately for women and men — deliver 20–25g of plant protein, clinically dosed functional ingredients, and zero sugar, dairy, soy, or maltodextrin. Every product in our lineup is made in an NSF-certified, cGMP, FDA-registered U.S. facility and third-party tested for heavy metals and microbial safety. We don't believe in fairy-dust dosing or empty promises. Every ingredient is included at a level that actually works — so you can stay strong, energized, and feeling like yourself while you slim down.
  • Uncover — Dermatologist-tested K-Beauty formulas powered by African botanicals for melanin-rich skin. Shop SPF 50 sunscreen, serums & kits with free Kenya shipping.
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MNF Ventures
VC Fund · Casablanca, Grand Casablanca, Morocco · 2 investments in Africa Consumer startups

MNF Ventures is a venture capital fund based in Morocco, investing in Seed, Pre-Series A and Series A startups. Tickets size can go up to USD 1M. We invest in tech startups operating in Fintech/Insurtech, EdTech, Regtech, HealthTech, Biotech, EnergyTech Cybersecurity, SaaS... Startups have either to be based in Morocco, or be based worldwideif at least one of the founders is a Moroccan citizen. MNF Ventures manages Maroc Numeric Fund and Maroc Numeric Fund II.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Online Portals, FinTech, Enterprise Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Morocco, France, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 32
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$1.6M; Series A $250k–$700k
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $20M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • ZSystems — ZSystems is a transformative super app designed to redefine B2B trade.
  • Atlan Space — Building Artificial Intelligence to autonomously pilot any fixed wing drone, to monitor and take measures over very large areas
  • OnePay — OnePay is a fintech startup that operates as a distributor of means of payment and aggregator of payment and value-added services in electronic transactions.
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Unicorn Group
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 2 investments in Africa Consumer startups

Infrastructure Training Mentorship Market Access Capital We provide infrastructure, training, mentorship, market access and patient capital for entrepreneurs, technology start-ups and early stage companies to address the challenges that they encounter.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Internet, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Grant
  • Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$2.3M; Pre-Seed $350k–$1.4M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Swept AI — Precision in LLM monitoring. Ensuring AI Stays on Track, on Task, on Point.
  • Big Cabal Media — Big Cabal Media is a Nigerian digital media company making amazing content loved by young and passionate Africans everywhere
  • Ubawa Technologies — A payment processing platform that helps social media entrepreneurs accept payments and increase their customer conversion and retention rate with our conversational AI chat bot.
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Left Lane Capital
VC Fund · Brooklyn, New York, United States · 2 investments in Africa Consumer startups

Left Lane Capital is a venture capital and seed-growth equity firm that invests in high-growth internet and consumer technology businesses that are fundamental to the human condition and spirit – where customers maintain a long-term relationship with the product, platform, or service.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: United States, Germany, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 172
  • Round size: Seed $2.5M–$20M; Series A $9.4M–$40M; Series B $20M–$111M
  • Lead/follow: 59% lead, 41% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $1.4B in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Trovy — Your home's equity, in your wallet. Trovy Lending Co. dba Trovy NMLS #2676733
  • Lexroom.ai — Lexroom.ai allows lawyers to complete hours of legal research in seconds.Legal professionals spend up to 50% of their time in repetitive, low value-adding tasks. That’s why we’re building Lexroom.ai, a product that allows lawyers to complete hours of research in seconds, so they can focus on what really matters.Lexroom.ai perfectly integrateswith lawyers' daily workflow and enables them to speed up time-consuming legal research tasks while increasing output quality, so that they can focus more on value-adding activities.Lexroom.ai is building a bridge between advanced artificial intelligence technologies and legal professionals, through a product specifically tailored to their needs.
  • Moove — Moove is a mobility fintech that provides revenue-based vehicle financing to mobility entrepreneurs, democratizing vehicle ownership across Africa. 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 revenueanalytics of mobility entrepreneurs to underwrite loans.
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DOB Equity
VC Fund · Veessen, Gelderland, The Netherlands · 2 investments in Africa Consumer startups

DOB Equity is a private equity firm specializing in growth capital and buy-and-build strategies in small and medium companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Food and Beverage, Farming, Agriculture
  • Stage:Private Equity, Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 52
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$4M
  • Lead/follow: 60% lead, 40% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kentaste — Virgin coconut oil, Coconut Cream, and Coconut Milk
  • MazaoHub — AI-first SaaS connecting soil, farmers, inputs, agronomy care, field operations, traceability and markets through real last-mile intelligence.
  • Moringa School — Moringa School is a full-time, immersive coding school in Nairobi, Kenya.
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Kepple Africa Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Africa Consumer startups

Kepple Africa Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 84
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$4.5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3.4M; Series A $1.1M–$23M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • TIBU Health — TIBU Health is a disruptive HealthTech logistics company that provides high-quality healthcare services.
  • Onboard — Onboard helps hardware companies transform their text manuals to 3D, intelligent manuals with instant customer support capabilities.
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Partech
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 2 investments in Africa Consumer startups

Partech is a global venture capital firm with offices in San Francisco, Paris, Berlin and Dakar. Partech invests in Internet and information technology startups at seed, venture and growth stages.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, France, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 559
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$10M; Series A $4.2M–$28M; Series B $9M–$55M
  • Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Prysm Systems — An interactive video wall is a powerful digital display option that sees your message. touch screen display designed for application commercial grade retail.
  • EcoVadis — Ratings platform to assess corporate social responsibility and sustainable procurement. Solutions include risk monitoring, audit management and sustainability ratings.
  • Brevo — Brevo is a developer of a cloud-based digital marketing platform used to meet the demand of businesses to engage with customers. Its platform encompasses the entire chain, from the creation of a newsletter to analysis and reporting tools to targeting modules that enable businesses, eCommerce sellers, and agencies to build customer relationshipsthrough digital marketing campaigns, transactional messaging, and marketing automation.Unlike other marketing solutions built for enterprise-level budgets and expertise, Sendinblue tailors its all-in-one suite to suit the marketing needs of growing SMBs in tough markets.The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Paris, France.
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216 Capital
VC Fund · Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia · 2 investments in Africa Consumer startups

Our DNA is rooted in a passionate belief in the potential of Africa, a relentless drive for innovation, and an unwavering commitment to impact. We are not just investors; we are builders of a better future, one investment at a time.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, B2B, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Tunisia, France, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 23
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Juridoc.tn — Juridoc.tn is an interactive legal document database providing access to Tunisian regulatory texts. It serves as a platform for legal services, offering a comprehensive collection of updated legal documents.
  • Talenteo Inc. — Talenteo is an innovative SaaS solution for HR and payroll management, designed to simplify and automate company processes with an intuitive, AI-powered approach. It empowers SMEs and mid-market companies to streamline employee management, payroll, time tracking, and talent development. Talenteo enhances operational efficiency, minimizesadministrative errors, and enables businesses to focus on growth.
  • ProXalys — BENGKULUTOTO Adalah Platform game online terbaik dan terpercaya di Indonesia. Nikmati pengalaman bermain seru, aman, dengan berbagai pilihan hiburan berkualitas tinggi kapan saja!
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SunFunder
VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya · 2 investments in Africa Consumer startups

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

  • Industry: Solar, Energy, Renewable Energy
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Series C
  • Geography: Kenya, Mauritius, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 21
  • Round size: Series C $20M–$60M; Debt Financing $1.5M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $60M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • M-KOPA — M-KOPA is the global leader for “pay-as-you-go” energy services for off-grid customers. M-KOPA was established in 2011. Following 2 years of piloting and development, M-KOPA began commercial sales in Kenya in October 2012. M-KOPA expanded to Uganda in 2013 and commences operations in Tanzania in late 2014. Their team includes over 500 staff andwe sell our product through more than 1000 retail agents and shops. The founders of the company are experienced mobile technology innovators who believe in the huge potential of transformative, affordable products designed for underserved consumers. While excellent technology is a pre-requisite, technology alone does not solve for customer needs. Success comes when smart technology is combined with a commitment to on-going, on-the-ground delivery. To that end, M-KOPA is beginning to license its technology to experienced and reputable third parties in markets outside of East Africa (licensing queries should be sent to licensing@m-kopa.com). M-KOPA has developed a proprietary, patented technology platform that combines embedded GSM + mobile payments to revolutionize asset financing in emerging markets. The M-KOPAnet platform has been designed and built from the ground up by our talented team of software engineers, who continue to innovate and improve the system every day. It offers the powerful combination of accounting + customer relationship management + inventory tracking in one complete system. Aside from enabling our business operations to scale at record speed, the M-KOPAnet™ platform captures and processes huge volumes of data, enabling us to improve our proposition, customer service, and security in real-time.
  • BioLite — BioLite designs off-grid personal scale energy products for cooking, charging, and lighting. Perfect for camping, fishing, tailgating, power outages, and more.
  • Energy Vision — Energy Vision is a telecom-focused energy service company. They provide environmentally friendly options to cellular operators and telecom tower firms for powering telecom equipment where the electric grid is either nonexistent or only partial and unreliable. This includes all related services such as engineering, implementation, NOC, operation andmaintenance, upgrades, and expansions.
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Accion Ventures
VC Fund · Washington, District of Columbia, United States · 2 investments in Africa Consumer startups

Accion Ventures is an investment strategy that today pursues early-stage investments as part of Accion Impact Management.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: India, United States, Mexico

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 133
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$6.4M; Series A $2.6M–$17M; Series B $8M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Billpocket — Billpocket convierte tu smartphone o tablet en una terminal punto de venta. Ya no tienes que esperar al banco y pagar exageradas cuotas de mantenimiento, fianzas y papel para poder cobrar con tarjeta. Simplemente necesitas una cuenta bancaria a donde puedas recibir tus cobros con tarjeta de débito y crédito.
  • Cashinvoice — Cashinvoice connects supply chain stakeholders and digitises invoice-to-cash processes to unlock working capital trapped within supply chains and accelerate business growth
  • Pintek — Pintek is a financial technology company aiming to democratise access to education in Indonesia through affordable and flexible credit.
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Vumela Fund
VC Fund · Hyde Park, Newtownabbey, United Kingdom · 2 investments in Africa Consumer 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, Hospital, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Debt Financing
  • Geography: South Africa, Brazil

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 24
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$910k; Debt Financing $854k–$1.4M
  • Lead/follow: 83% lead, 17% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $14M in 2015

Portfolio highlights

  • Trade Shield — Trade Shield's aim is to increase access to trade credit facilities for those companies that most need them and will benefit the most from them.
  • Mia Healthcare — Clear aligners, mobile clinics, fixed practices, practice services and lab products designed to work better together than apart.
  • Breaze Delivery — Optimize your last-mile delivery in SA. Breaze offers same-day delivery, easy Shopify/WooCommerce integration, and live WhatsApp tracking for your brand.
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