Top 35 Consumer Startup Investors in South Africa in May 2025
A list of 35 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Consumer startups based in South africa. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Consumer companies from South africa. We update this investor list every month.Top 35 Consumer Startup Investors in South Africa in May 2025
Investor | Consumer South Africa investments |
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4Di Capital | 3 |
Vumela Fund | 2 |
Jean-Paul Zammitt | 1 |
Bantam Group | 1 |
Alitheia IDF | 1 |
E4EAfrica | 1 |
Kanyi Maqubela | 1 |
Daniel Funk | 1 |
Paper Plane Ventures | 1 |
Presight Capital | 1 |
Moscow Venture Fund | 1 |
Vikram Chopra | 1 |
Tushar Ahluwalia | 1 |
Mato Perić | 1 |
Oliver Merkel | 1 |
Leonard Stiegeler | 1 |
Garage Capital | 1 |
FJ Labs | 1 |
Joe Caruso | 1 |
Microsoft | 1 |
AngelHub Ventures | 1 |
Kepple Africa Ventures | 1 |
Strattech Partners | 1 |
Savannah Fund | 1 |
Untapped Global | 1 |
J.P. Morgan Asset Management | 1 |
Knife Capital | 1 |
AgFunder | 1 |
Serra de Estrela Investments Ltd | 1 |
Next Chymia Consulting | 1 |
Capaci.Tech | 1 |
Voskhod Venture Capital | 1 |
Accion Venture Lab | 1 |
Ashwin Ravichandran | 1 |
Lireas Holdings | 1 |
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
- Software, Financial Services, Mobile
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- South Africa, United States, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Maxe AI — AI investment Assistant for all investors. AI Portfolios tracker of stocks bonds exchanges futures. all in one to track mutual funds.
- Cloudline — The all-in-one cloud platform helping leisure businesses sell more, reduce costs & personalize experiences.
- Happy Pay — Happy Pay is a credit scoring system developing company. The company integrates an autonomous artificial intelligence technology system with the merchant's platform to increase their average basket size and customer conversion metrics, providing users with buy now, and pay later services.
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
- Education, Software, Primary Education
- Funding Round, Seed, Debt Financing
- South Africa, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Rentoza — We champion giving you access, affordability and flexibility to explore tech on your own terms
- Kusini Water — Kusini Water builds water treatment systems from nanotechnology and macadamia nut shells.
- Trade Shield — Automated trade credit risk management. Discover opportunities & reduce bad debt with always-on risk evaluation, credit scoring & recommended credit limits.
Jean-Paul Zammitt
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Investment focus
- Retail, Fashion
- Seed
- South Africa
Portfolio highlights
- Faro — Every garment deserves to be worn. Leveraging technology and a specialised supply chain, FARO enables brands to offload obsolete inventory through stores in non-core markets, ensuring complete traceability throughout the process.
They are passionate about seeing their portfolio companies become successful.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Canada, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- AI Lean — Simplify your lien compliance with the only fully automated solution.
- Aikium Inc. — Protein therapeutics
- Groma — We blend traditional real estate investment, development and management with innovative technology to better serve our tenants, investors and communities.
Alitheia IDF is investing in dynamic and growing businesses throughout Africa. By investing in teams that recognize the importance of gender diversity the firm generates superior financial returns and impact.
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Investment focus
- Logistics, E-Commerce, Retail
- Series A, Funding Round, Seed
- South Africa, Nigeria, Ghana
Portfolio highlights
- Lupiya — Lupiya is an online marketplace for microloans. It is a branch-less, innovative digital microfinance platform that leverages technology to make the process of borrowing simpler and easier so that people and businesses located across the country even in rural, remote areas can access financial services.
- Seamfix — Seamfix’s end-to-end electronic ID and credentials software solutions address the lack of digital ID systems for 30+ African countries and over 250M individuals, providing access to credit, banking, and other essential services for large parts of populations.
- Ivili Group — Ivili Group is a leading South African textiles manufacturing group that has a diversified offering in textiles; including wool processing products and services and jeanswear garment manufacturing products and services.
E4E (“Entrepreneurs for Entrepreneurs”) specializes in supporting early stage ventures in South Africa from very early stage (pre-series A) to scale up.E4E focus on smart entrepreneurs and business ideas that are great businesses and make a significant contribution to a better (South) Africa.
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Investment focus
- Logistics, Internet, Supply Chain Management
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- South Africa, France, The Netherlands
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Happy Pay — Happy Pay is a credit scoring system developing company. The company integrates an autonomous artificial intelligence technology system with the merchant's platform to increase their average basket size and customer conversion metrics, providing users with buy now, and pay later services.
- Conservio — Discover and Book South Africa's best nature accommodations with Conservio. Book vetted accommodations, easy and safe to book online.
Kanyi is a Managing Partner at Kindred Ventures, an early stage venture fund investing in mission-driven technology companies at the earliest stages. Previously, he served as a Partner at Collaborative Fund. Kanyi is a co-founder at Heartbeat Health, and previously ran growth at One Block Off the Grid (acquired by $NRG) and was an early employeeat Doostang (acquired by Universum Global). Kanyi has also served as a Lecturer and Adjunct at New York University Tisch School of the Arts, a curriculum adapted from his time in undergrad at Stanford University, where he studied Philosophy.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Health Care, Apps
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- United States, Brazil, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Qwili — Qwili makes smartphones with a voice-guided, local language onboarding experience for new users.
- Mediachain — Mediachain automatically connects media to its creator and information about it, and is a protocol for registering, identifying, and tracking creative works online. It automatically resolves media to who made it, what its about, and where it originated using content indentification technologyMediachain also lets creators, organizations, anddevelopers collaborate on metadata in an open, universal media library and allows participants to retain control over their data while broadening their reach using a decentralized architecture
- Stable Sea — Stable Sea provides seamless, compliant, cost-effective stablecoin offramping solutions, enabling businesses to bridge the gap between digital and traditional finance and unlock new opportunities.
Daniel Funk
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Investment focus
- Retail, Fashion
- Seed
- South Africa
Portfolio highlights
- Faro — Every garment deserves to be worn. Leveraging technology and a specialised supply chain, FARO enables brands to offload obsolete inventory through stores in non-core markets, ensuring complete traceability throughout the process.
Investment focus
Portfolio highlights
- Aerobotics — Powerful insights for precision growing and crop insurance
Presight is a global venture capital firm investing at the intersection of Wall Street, Silicon Valley, and Hollywood. Based in Los Angeles, CA, we manage over $600M in assets across two early-stage funds. We were founded in 2019 in partnership with Apeiron Investment Group, the multi-billion dollar private investment firm of Christian Angermayer, a serial entrepreneur in technology, fintech, blockchain/crypto, and life sciences.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Health Care, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Divibank — Divibank is a financing platform offering businesses access to growth capital.
- Faro — Every garment deserves to be worn. Leveraging technology and a specialised supply chain, FARO enables brands to offload obsolete inventory through stores in non-core markets, ensuring complete traceability throughout the process.
- Needle — Needle enables fast, AI-powered information discovery across all your data sources. Moreover, its RAG API helps developers build agentic AI applications.
Moscow Venture Fund is an investment fund.
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Investment focus
- Drones, Security, Drone Management
- Funding Round
- South Africa
Portfolio highlights
- UAV & Drone Solutions — UDS is an aerial vehicle development firm offering security surveillance, topographical surveying, and infrastructure inspection services.
Vikram Chopra is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of CARS24. He is a former Co-FOunder of FabFurnish and Investment Analyst of Sequoia Capital and was Business Analyst at McKinsey & Company.Mr. Chopra received a BTech and MTech in Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, and earned an MBA in Finance at the Universityof Pennsylvania - The Wharton School.
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Investment focus
- Internet, E-Commerce, Fashion
- Seed, Series B
- India, South Africa
Portfolio highlights
- Ninecamp — Ninecamp is a food and beverage company. They anticipate creating new and unique brands with a strong emphasis on high-quality offerings in product, service, and design.
- Faro — Every garment deserves to be worn. Leveraging technology and a specialised supply chain, FARO enables brands to offload obsolete inventory through stores in non-core markets, ensuring complete traceability throughout the process.
- Gabit — Gabit is an integrated platform designed to help people achieve their health goals through smart wearables, personalised fitness and nutrition plans, and science-backed skincare products. Our single-minded goal is to enable everyone to live healthier and longer by adding more healthy years to their lives.
Tushar Ahluwalia is the Co-Founder and CEO at Razor Group.
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Investment focus
- Retail, InsurTech, Insurance
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Germany, Mexico, South Africa
Portfolio highlights
- NUMOS — NUMOS is an insurance tech platform.
- Xaver — Xaver enables Financial Institutions to close Europe’s pension gap. By offering an advanced AI-driven B2B platform for life insurance and private pension sales, Xaver enhances the operational and sales efficiency of banks, insurers, and brokers by up to 65% and introduces a new era of white-labeled private pension products.With a leadership teamof experienced industry veterans - Max Bachem, Ole Breulmann, and Dr. Björn Holste - and backing from leading VC funds and a prominent group of former financial institution executives, fintech pioneers, and unicorn founders, Xaver is dedicated to improving the pension situation of Europeans through their B2B offering.
- Faro — Every garment deserves to be worn. Leveraging technology and a specialised supply chain, FARO enables brands to offload obsolete inventory through stores in non-core markets, ensuring complete traceability throughout the process.
Mato invests in technology companies globally. His portfolio companies have raised over US$ 5 billion in capital, employ >15,000 people and have operations in 35 countries across six continents.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Germany, India, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Faro — Every garment deserves to be worn. Leveraging technology and a specialised supply chain, FARO enables brands to offload obsolete inventory through stores in non-core markets, ensuring complete traceability throughout the process.
- Tern Group — Tern Group is an AI Platform to hire and relocate top healthcare talents globally, faster and cheaper. TERN is a full-stack solution to source and relocate top-tier medical and engineering talent from India, North Africa, South Africa, and Central Asia and the approach ensures a seamless, ethical, and transparent migration process, drasticallycutting complexity and shaving costs for healthcare systems.
- Bamba — Today, organizations spend a lot of money on physical data gathering exercises using old-fashioned paper-based methods. These methods result in expensive, severely delayed and incomplete data . With Bamba, a client can launch a data collection exercise anywhere in the world simply from the comfort of their web browser and the client can ensureindividuals respond with complete answers by paying those individuals for that data with mobile airtime in 122 different countries thus far.
Oliver Merkel is the Co-Founder of Flink Food.
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Investment focus
- Fashion, Retail, Delivery
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Germany, South Africa, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- karla — karla gives you the absolute superpower over the delivery of your online orders, It develop the delivery options for your online orders that you have never dared to dream of!
- 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.
- Faro — Every garment deserves to be worn. Leveraging technology and a specialised supply chain, FARO enables brands to offload obsolete inventory through stores in non-core markets, ensuring complete traceability throughout the process.
Leonard Stiegeler is the Founder of Pulse, the leading innovative media company in Africa. He is backing & investing in media-/art-/technology- & -enabled ventures/assets. Some of his interests include Business Insider Africa, Art News Africa and Digital News Africa. Prior, he was the General Manager of Swiss Ringier AfricaAG since 2016 – responsible for buiding up the group's business on the continent. Ringier is today active in 8 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and through its ROAM-holding leads brands such as Jobberman, Cheki, Private Property, BuyRentKenya, Pigiame, ZoomTanzania, and many more. Prior to his work with Ringier since 2013, Leo helped to establish Rocket Internet and other German investors in Africa. Leo is originally from Germany and has been based in different African countries since 2011.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Credit
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Nigeria, South Africa, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Bamba — Bamba is a small software development house building Android applications
- Faro — Every garment deserves to be worn. Leveraging technology and a specialised supply chain, FARO enables brands to offload obsolete inventory through stores in non-core markets, ensuring complete traceability throughout the process.
- Finclusion Group — Enhancing financial inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa through data driven lending.
Built by founders, for founders. Garage Capital helps best-in-class companies jump from garage to growth.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Canada, United States, South Africa
Portfolio highlights
- veritree — veritree helps businesses meet sustainability goals with verified reforestation. Plant trees, restore ecosystems, and track your impact with us.
- Faro — Every garment deserves to be worn. Leveraging technology and a specialised supply chain, FARO enables brands to offload obsolete inventory through stores in non-core markets, ensuring complete traceability throughout the process.
- Page — Page, an AI-powered external relations platform that provides real-time insights to help enterprises navigate government policies, media, and regulations.
FJ Labs is a stage-agnostic investment firm that focuses on marketplaces and consumer facing startups.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Brazil, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Fleequid — Buy or sell buses and commercial vehicles through auctions: Join Fleequid and effortlessly participate in top-notch B2B auctions for industrial vehicles
- Powerhouse91 — Powerhouse91 operates as an eCommerce roll-up platform. Powerhouse91's business model relies on identifying high-potential consumer brands, acquiring, and scaling them through growth capital, shared resources, and e-commerce focused optimizations.
- Scout AI — Scout AI is building the robotic foundation model for defense.
For the last 20 years Joe has served as mentor, coach, and personal advisor to CEO’s and entrepreneurs. In recent years, he has served as investor, advisor and active director with dozens of companies, public and private.Joe is currently a member of Launchpad Venture Group and was previously a member of Walnut Ventures, Common Angels, eCoastAngels and a principal of Brookwood Partners, all investment groups for early stage companies. He also maintains an active consulting practice dealing with structuring and negotiation of acquisitions, strategic partnerships and financings, and issues related to dispute resolution.He has served on dozens of boards over the years and is recipient of the Leadership in Private Corporate Governance award from the National Association of Corporate Directors New England Chapter. He is a graduate of Northeastern University (BSEE with honors) and the Harvard Business School (MBA) He has served as advisor to Northeastern’s School of Technological Entrepreneurship, and serves as a mentor for Boston University's entrepreneurship program, the Boston TechStars program, and Mass Challenge.Previously, Joe served as interim CEO for companies in need of strategic change - running businesses ranging from 5 to 1,000 employees. Early in his career, he worked at Teradyne and Autex, Inc., and was CEO at Cyborg Corporation, a venture-funded company that was a pioneer in the use of PC’s in laboratory and factory automation. He also has served as an arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association.Former board memberships include: ACT Medical, Acumenta, Adhesive Technologies, American Fantasy Sports, Audiofile, Boston Restaurant Associates, Boston University's Photonics Center (advisory director), Coffee Connection, Colonial Mills, Common Angels, Corion, Cyborg Corporation, General Analysis, Haymarket Bank, Iconics, i2Chem, Laser Science, Metrisa, MicroE, Nimbit, Qiave Technologies, QD Vision, Quant Funds (trustee); Tytronics, Wwwhoosh, Zentox, the Turnaround Management Association (founding director, New England Chapter), the National Association of Corporate Directors (New England Chapter), the Association for Corporate Growth (New England Chapter) and WEST (Women Entrepreneurs in Science and Technology). Joe has also served as an arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, France, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- AceUp, Inc. — AceUp is the premier leadership development coaching solution, with unparalleled coaches, technology, and analytics.
- Konnecto — Market Intelligence | Konnecto | Prescriptive Analytics Konnecto is a GTM Intelligence Platform that provides brands with an ongoing blueprint on how to increase online sales and improve marketing ROI
- Surround Insurance — Helping consumers in their 20s and 30s get started with insurance that's fast, simple, and personalized for modern life.
Microsoft is an American multinational corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.Microsoft’s devices and consumer (D&C) licensing segment licenses the Windows operating system and related software, Microsoft Office for consumers, and the Windows Phone operating system. Thecompany’s computing and gaming hardware segment provides Xbox gaming and entertainment consoles and accessories, second-party and third-party video games, and Xbox Live subscriptions; surface devices and accessories; and Microsoft PC accessories. Its phone hardware segment offers Lumia smartphones and other non-Lumia phones. Its D&C segment provides Windows Store, Xbox Live transactions, and Windows phone store; search advertising; display advertising; Office 365 Home and Office 365 Personal; first-party video games; and other consumer products and services as well as operating retail stores.Microsoft’s commercial licensing segments license server products, including Windows Server, Microsoft SQL Server, Visual Studio, System Center, and related Client Access Licenses (CALs); Windows Embedded; Windows operating system; Microsoft Office for business, including Office, Exchange, SharePoint, Lync, and related CALs; Microsoft Dynamics business solutions; and Skype. Its commercial segment offers enterprise services, including premier support services and Microsoft consulting services; commercial cloud comprising Office 365 Commercial, other Microsoft Office online offerings, Dynamics CRM Online, and Microsoft Azure; and other commercial products and online services.The company markets and distributes its products through original equipment manufacturers, distributors, and resellers, as well as online.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Grant, Funding Round, Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, India
Portfolio highlights
- OpenAI — Introducing Sora: Creating video from text
- Regulate — REGULATE is an AI-powered SaaS platform transforming CPG innovation with predictive analytics, real-time compliance, and data-driven product validation. Our Insight Suite integrates consumer sentiment analysis, qualitative conceptual validation, and digital twin quantitative analytics to refine ideas before launch. It takes validated concepts andgenerates product formulations using ingredients and manufacturers from our database, fast-tracking development with accurate cost modeling to bring viable, market-ready products to shelves faster.Unlike legacy compliance tools, Regulate integrates insights and workflows traditionally siloed across platforms like TraceGains, Trustwell, Centric, and Mintel, while enabling flexible, real-time decision-making akin to tools like NotCo, Tastewise, SPINS, SymphonyAI Retail CPG, and Prevedere.Built to bridge the gap between data intelligence and agile formulation, Regulate draws inspiration from modern scientific and product development platforms like Benchling and Flavor Studio.Regulate is used by early-stage brands and innovation hubs like Mista, and is being adopted as a teaching tool at Cal Poly Pomona and Oregon State University to modernize product development education.
- Duvo Network — Duvo is a decentralized platform that lets artists showcase work, receive feedback, compete, and join campaigns. Artists can upload their creations and participate in competitions, where they are judged by the community. The winners of these competitions receive rewards, providing a tangible incentive for artists to participate and showcase theirtalents.
Operating out of Stellenbosch in South Africa and backed by two family offices Angelhub Ventures's team is passionate about early stage investments in (South) Africa. Being entrepreneurial ourselves, we thoroughly understand the challenges and changes our founders face – which is why we back them in any way we can. Most importantly, we believein building great businesses and we are in it for the long haul.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Education
- Seed, Series A
- South Africa, Mexico, Colombia
Portfolio highlights
- Syscap — Syscap is a financial technology company that offers cutting-edge solutions to financial institutions to have a better administration and management of their funding sources. It connects the leaders of financial and real estate institutions with their funders. For institutions, the company ensures the optimization of their funding source managementprocesses, but also the strengthening of the relationship with their funders. To funders, Syscap guarantees the transparency and timely monitoring of its funds for the safety and growth of its resources.
- Godochurch — GoDoChurch is a cloud-based church administration software which is designed to assist Christian churches and ministries with managing members, Sunday services, events, communications, and more. The system is made up of a base package, covering messaging, news, ministries, lists, church roles, services, events, and growth paths, with additionalmodules for managing follow-ups, groups, and Kids church.
- Velocity — Velocity is a micro fulfillment dark store that delivers through digital channels.
Kepple Africa Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt
Portfolio highlights
- Chari — Chari is an e-commerce and fintech app for traditional retailers in French-Speaking Africa allowing them to order any consumer goods they sell and get delivered for free in less than 24 hours. Chari is also a financial services provider for these retailers, offering them microloans
- 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.
- Carry1st — Carry1st develops and publishes enriching mobile games and content apps for African consumers.
Strattech Partners, located in Devon, PA, is a consulting and venture capital firm that focuses on the development of growth stage companies. We offer CEO and CFO consulting services, operational consulting, and general financial consulting services, including treasury, general and strategic management services. Past engagements have includedacting CFO assignments as well as interim Controller/VP Finance assignments, turnaround and restructuring assistance, and other positions related to implementing change within organizations. Venture Capital investments are done through Strattech Partners I, LP and through our affiliate Zon Capital Partners, an SBIC venture fund.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, B2B
- Seed, Series C, Funding Round
- United States, South Africa
Portfolio highlights
- Qwili — Qwili makes smartphones with a voice-guided, local language onboarding experience for new users.
- EcomXML — EcomXML is a leading e-commerce solution provider for business-to-business (B2B) enterprise integration. EcomXML provides companies with enterprise integration solutions to link their buyers, suppliers and e-commerce portals together to streamline their e-business in real-time through the Internet. EcomXML utilizes open XML technology to achieveboth inter-company and intra-company integration regardless their existing technology infrastructure.
- StarCite — StarCite's online business-to-business software and services allow corporations to purchase and manage products and services related to their company meetings and events.
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
- E-Commerce, FinTech, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Kenya, United States, South Africa
Portfolio highlights
- Oze — OZÉ brings African small businesses into the digital era. It is an app that makes it easy for businesses to track sales, expenses, and customer information. The data is analyzed to provide tailored recommendations, reports, and business education. If the entrepreneur needs a little extra support, an OZÉ Coach is just a click away. As they are usingOZÉ to manage their business and learn how to run it better, we are learning about them. Using this data and machine learning, we can predict their credit risk and provide them with affordable capital from our banking partners. With over 20,000 registered users, OZÉ is the largest online community of SMEs in Ghana. The most exciting thing is that OZÉ works; 97% of businesses that have used OZE for at least 9 months are growing or profitable or both!
- Root — Launch digital and embedded insurance solutions with omni-channel distribution.
- Afropolitan — Afropolitan is building a Network State to unleash the maximum potential of Africans around the world. Are you interested? Join us with your email.
Untapped connects global investors, and foreign capital to opportunities in emerging markets. Delivering competitive returns, and measurable impact for global investors.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Consumer Goods, Financial Services
- Seed
- South Africa, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Elimutab — Elimutab - Find the best learning tablets for children and students, including options for 1-year-olds, studying with pens, and work and study needs.
- Momint — Momint is the Web3 investment platform of the future. The safest and easiest to use NFT marketplace in the world. Discover the real-world potential of NFTs.
- Rabbit — Transforming transportion in the region. Rabbit is a micro-mobility sharing platform for short-distance transportation using environmentally friendly vehicles.
J.P. Morgan Asset Management is a leading asset manager for individuals, advisors and institutions. Their investment professionals are located around the world, providing strategies that span the full spectrum of asset classes.As one of the largest asset and wealth managers in the world, with assets under management of $1.7 trillion (as ofDecember 31, 2014), they provide global market insights and a range of investment capabilities that few other firms can match.
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Series B, Funding Round, Private Equity
- United States, Canada, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- Pathalys Pharma — Pathalys is a clinical biopharmaceutical company that develops therapeutics that improve late-stage chronic kidney disease.
- Arcadia — Arcadia unlocks access to global utility data. Our technology powers the next generation of climate solutions, giving anyone the tools to electrify and decarbonize.
- Enlaza Therapeutics — Enlaza Therapeutics is a biotechnology research company. It was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in La Jolla, California.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
- Funding Round, Series A, Seed
- South Africa, United States, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Octiv — Turbocharge your fitness business, grow your community and build your brand with Octiv's leading Gym Management Software.
- Outsized — Independent talent for enterprise clients and consulting firms in Asia-Pacific, Africa, and the Middle East.
- Simera Sense — Simera Sense develops camera control electronics for optical payload and Cubesat imager solutions.
AgFunder invests in impactful companies that can positively transform the world's food system. Founded in 2013, AgFunder manages a portfolio of over 50 companies across four funds from offices in Silicon Valley and Singapore. Through its media platform AFN, it has built a global ecosystem of over 90,000 subscribers.
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Investment focus
- Agriculture, AgTech, Biotechnology
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, India
Portfolio highlights
- Klim — Klim enables farmers to transition to regenerative agriculture at scale by providing them financial support, knowledge, documentation tools, and a community via our digital companion for farmers.Klim-verified carbon removal credits, generated by Klim farmers, help companies to transition to net zero by offsetting their carbon emissions locallyand with maximum impact and transparency.
- Lumi AI — Ask questions in simple language and receive instant answers. No coding (SQL/Python) skills needed. Lumi is your personal, available 24/7, data analyst AI. Sign up for early access!
- Ingenimax — StarOps by Ingenimax, the future of platform engineering, built for AI/ML teams and platform engineering teams. Focus on outcomes, not cloud ops.
Family office, registered in British Virgin Islands
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Investment focus
- Drones
- Seed
- South Africa
Portfolio highlights
- Dove Air — Dove air is using advanced technology to empower people to address some of the biggest problems across Africa. We provide reliable and fast service while meeting all the safety standards.
Create new business models with multidisciplinary blockchain professionals. Next Chymia Consulting has an international network of Blockchain technology and financial services. We are a group which make use of international networks and provide consulting services worldwide.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Software, Blockchain
- Seed, Funding Round
- Kenya, Ghana, Romania
Portfolio highlights
- Qwili — Qwili makes smartphones with a voice-guided, local language onboarding experience for new users.
- IPOR Labs — Enter the Credit Hub of DeFi. Lend and borrow at the best defi rates and earn a competitive yield on your crypto, fixed with on-chain interest rate derivatives.
- Zuvy Technologies — Zuvy is a free invoice management software that enables your business to get cash today for unpaid invoices. Get started sending invoices via WhatsApp
CapaciTech operates as a South African holding company that consists of an advisory business and special purposes vehicles that house shareholdings in various entrepreneurial ventures.
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- SMS, Apps, SaaS
- Seed
- South Africa, United States
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- Mobiz — Supercharge your SMS marketing with dynamic, high-converting landing pages sent directly into the hands of your customers.
- HomeFarm — Homefarm provides smart, indoor gardens to homes and businesses. It is a group of modern farmers, designers, engineers, and researchers. It breaks new ground and innovates in the agricultural technology space.
- Right Now Response — The future of repairs starts soon. Counting down to smarter tracking in 2025! There are perks to working 24/7, 365 days a year... Like launching the future of repairs ahead of schedule!
Voskhod Venture Capital is an investment firm.
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- Cooking, Robotics, Food Delivery
- Seed
- Russian Federation
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- Smile AI — Smile AI is a dental telemedicine platform that provides ready-made solutions and monitors oral cavity condition using dental photos.
- ROBOTECH — ROBOTECH is an engineering firm that specializes in the design and implementation of high-performance automated machinery for businesses in a variety of industries.
- UAV & Drone Solutions — UDS is an aerial vehicle development firm offering security surveillance, topographical surveying, and infrastructure inspection services.
Accion Venture Lab is a leading early-stage investor in inclusive fintech, providing seed-first capital and strategic support to innovative startups that are meeting the financial needs of underserved people globally. Our global portfolio and local approach enable us to spot and respond to global trends faster, sharing learnings across geographies. Accion Venture Lab is an investment strategy of Accion and is managed by Accion Impact Management.
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- India, United States, Mexico
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- Foyer — Saving the American Dream with the "401k" for homeownership
- Finfra — From application to decisioning to operations - FINFRA provides the necessary infrastructure and services for technology companies to embed financial services to their environment through a seamless integration.
- Agrim Wholesale — Agrim Wholesale is a b2b e-commerce market for manufacturers and retailers.
Ashwin Ravichandran is the Co-Founder & Head of Operations at Spark. Ashwin attended Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham.
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- Education, AgTech, Health Care
- Funding Round, Pre-Seed, Seed
- Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya
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- Qwili — Qwili makes smartphones with a voice-guided, local language onboarding experience for new users.
- Wi-Flix — Watch all the african movies now
- Eazzier Transpay — Eazzier Transpay's portfolio of business goods and tools, which includes POS terminals and software, immediate capital, storefront business management software, bookkeeping, invoicing, and more, can be used by market women, shopping malls, and businesses of all sizes to manage and expand their operations.
Lireas Holdings is an investment company with a specific focus on insurance and insurance technology investments.
Lireas Holdings focuses on investing in start-ups and existing businesses requiring growth funding or new partners.
Lireas Holdings was founded in 1988 and was headquartered in Johannesburg, South Africa.
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- FinTech, InsurTech, Security
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- South Africa, United States
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- LifeQ — We empower everyone to delay aging, optimize your health, harness more energy, reduce the probability of disease, and understand why and how your body is changing, right now! It is in your power to be your biologically younger self.
- Pineapple — In short, Pineapple see the traditional insurance model, user journey and products as lacking and set out to remedy these by doing the following: 1) Changing the business model to align incentives, show people how premiums are used and award members leftover premium back 2) Making insuring as easy as snapping a picture where AI does the rest andcover is issued in under 60 seconds 3) Allowing per-item insurance and new product innovation to address cover not currently offered or accessible to manyPineapple launched in South Africa in 2018 with their "My Stuff" per-item insurance and have since launched their auto offering "My Ride". They have also partnered with Travelers in the US and have white-labeled their platform in the US.
- Investsure — InvestSure is a technology company that uses its software to enable partner investment platforms to sell its unique Investment Indemnity (insurance) product to their clients. InvestSure provides a full set of APIs that trading platform developers can use to integrate the Investure Investment Indemnity product seamlessly and easily into theirwebsites and mobile applications. Once InvestSure technology is added to a trading platform, it enables users to buy insurance on their shares with a single click. The full process from buying to insurance to settling claims is fully automated.The Investment Indemnity product itself is a unique innovation; it is designed to protect to protect shareholders against any losses in share value caused by actual or perceived fraud committed by management. This enables investors to secure their investments. The cost of the product is low enough to not significantly reduce returns of investors where no insurance event occurs, but to provide significant downside protection where an insured event does occur.
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