Get 250+ investors tailored to your startup

Invest in your industry and stage
Emails & contact info included
Excel and CSV export
Automatically

Trusted by 3,000+ startups

Top 35 Consumer Startup Investors in South Africa in January 2026

Last updated: Jan 2026 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 January 2026

Investor	Consumer South Africa investments
4Di Capital	3
Vumela Fund	2
Kepple Africa Ventures	1
Presight Capital	1
Microsoft	1
Strattech Partners	1
E4EAfrica	1
Vikram Chopra	1
Tushar Ahluwalia	1
Oliver Merkel	1
Leonard Stiegeler	1
FJ Labs	1
AngelHub Ventures	1
Savannah Fund	1
Untapped Global	1
AgFunder	1
Serra de Estrela Investments Ltd	1
Voskhod Venture Capital	1
Ashwin Ravichandran	1
Kanyi Maqubela	1
Daniel Funk	1
Garage Capital	1
Joe Caruso	1
Next Chymia Consulting	1
Capaci.Tech	1
Accion Ventures	1
Jean-Paul Zammitt	1
Moscow Venture Fund	1
Lireas Holdings	1
J.P. Morgan Asset Management	1
Knife Capital	1
Nedbank	1
Alitheia IDF	1
Bantam Group	1
Paper Plane Ventures	1

Find investors that fund startups like yours. Automatically.

Our algorithm will find investors that invest in your industry, stage, and geography.

Investor list

4Di Capital is an independent seed- and early-stage technology venture capital firm based in Cape Town, South Africa.Nurture capital is the term that best describes 4Di Capitalâ€:tm:s purpose and philosophy.We understand that in the early days of any business, support, mentoring and access to networks is just as important as seed capital.Using tried and tested international venture capital best practices, adapted for local use, we believe in entrepreneur-friendly finance without frills, and in working as a team with our investments to achieve their true potential.4Di Capital Early-Stage Technology Fund 1 targets startup investment opportunities with high growth potential at the seed- and early-stages in the mobile, enterprise software and web sectors.We look for founder teams with hungry passion, commitment, domain expertise and deep insights into the large market problems they wish to solve with their technology solutions.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
South Africa, United States, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Aerobotics — Powerful insights for precision growing and crop insurance
CompariSure — Custom, built-for-purpose service and sales chatbot solutions for financial services providers.
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.

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 — 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.

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

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt

Portfolio highlights

Paps — Paps is a transport and logistics company that offers innovative distribution and delivery solutions to companies and merchants.The company's e-commerce platform helps companies and traders with scheduling and tracking deliveries on a real-time basis. It offers the distribution of documents and parcels, storage of goods in a secure warehousethat meets standards, and delivery of insured parcels in relay point or last mile. It also provides professional services such as management and repayment of cash on delivery, provision of couriers, management of returns, collection, and periodic reporting.The Dakar, Dakar, Senegal-based company was founded in 2016
TIBU Health — TIBU Health is a disruptive HealthTech logistics company that provides high-quality healthcare services.
Termii — Termii is an online platform that helps teams secure repeat customers by sending personalized emails and SMS through multiple.Termii helps African businesses communicate with customers across SMS, email, voice, and instant messaging channels. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Lagos, Nigeria.

A simple static landing page for Presight Capital.

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.
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.
General Fusion — General Fusion is developing fusion energy: a clean, safe, abundant and on-demand approach to generating electricity.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Grant, Funding Round, Seed
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

Bellame — Bellame is a style beauty company that is expanding daily. The company currently has 4 products cleanser, serum, eye cream, and moisture. They are on a transformational mission because beauty is more than skin-deep.
Meter — Meter provides internet infrastructure for businesses. Its full-stack approach combines hardware, software, and operations so that any company can seamlessly run on a reliable and modern network. Its goal is to make secure enterprise-grade networks more accessible, and to help innovative organizations get and stay online seamlessly. Fullstacksambition is to turn Meter’s infrastructure into a turnkey utility––when a company moves into any commercial space, the internet and WiFi just works.
MTN Nigeria — Nigeria's No.1 5G Network - Get your 5G Internet, airtime, data, prepaid plans, postpaid plans, broadband devices and more!

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.

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.

E4E Africa Backing category-defining emerging market businesses. We invest in businesses that drive economic opportunity and sustainable growth.Learn MoreE4E specializes ... Read More

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.

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.

Investment focus

Internet, E-Commerce, Fashion
Seed, Series B
India, South Africa

Portfolio highlights

Cautio — Cautio is a Visual Telematics company that provides safety and security to drivers and passengers.
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.

Tushar Ahluwalia is the Co-Founder and CEO at Razor Group.

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.

Oliver Merkel is the Co-Founder of Flink Food.

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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Credit
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Nigeria, South Africa, United States

Portfolio highlights

Bamba — Bamba is an android application allowing micro-merchants across Africa to run their entire business utilizing their phones. It focuses on simple tools for merchants to manage their customers, get paid, payout as well as takeout cash advances against their future cash flow.
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.

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

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Brazil, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Secfi — Secfi is the leading provider of equity education and stock option financing. Get the expertise, planning, and cash to own your startup stock options with confidence.
Clutch — Clutch is a Toronto-based technology company that is reinventing the way people buy and own cars. Clutch offers high-quality certified vehicles at great prices through a fully online customer experience. At Clutch.ca, customers browse inventory online, buy the car that’s right for them, and enjoy effortless at-home delivery. Clutch’s mission is toprovide customers with a delightful car buying experience by offering high-quality cars at great prices with ultimate convenience while making a positive impact on the communities in which it operates.
Transparency Analytics — Transparency Analytics is a new company dedicated to measuring risk and delivering transparent, technology-driven solutions for clients in the evolving world of private credit.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

AgFunder is a global venture capital firm investing in deep tech platforms to unlock limiting factors in food, agriculture, human and planetary health. With a readership of millions globally via AgFunderNews, an AI-driven knowledge base of over 50 million startups, and offices in San Francisco, London, and Singapore, AgFunder has unparalleled market intelligence and access.

Investment focus

Agriculture, AgTech, Biotechnology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

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 — Intelligent agents for platform engineering teams that automate and streamline your cloud-native infrastructure at production scale.
Eclipse Ingredients — Eclipse Ingredients transform the future of health and wellbeing by making beneficial ingredients accessible through sustainable production. Eclipse emerged from a unique collaboration between dietitian-turned-entrepreneur Siobhan Coster and CSIRO, Australia's national science agency.

Family office, registered in British Virgin Islands

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.

Voskhod Venture Capital is an investment firm.

Investment focus

Cooking, Robotics, Food Delivery
Seed
Russian Federation

Portfolio highlights

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 - UAV and Drone Solutions - Expert services for aerial mapping, inspections, security & data capture. Get custom drone solutions now!

Ashwin Ravichandran is the Co-Founder & Head of Operations at Spark. Ashwin attended Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham.

Investment focus

Education, AgTech, Health Care
Funding Round, Pre-Seed, Seed
Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
United States, Brazil, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Brale — Combining the best of CeFi & DeFi.
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

Daniel Funk

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.

Built by founders, for founders. Garage Capital helps best-in-class companies jump from garage to growth.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Canada, United States, South Africa

Portfolio highlights

Uvaro — Remix your favorite resources and hacks with your best company content in a personalized hub that moves as fast as your team does
Devyce — The easiest way to get a second UK mobile phone number. Get a new number or bring your own and port it for free. For teams and individuals.
Dominion Dynamics — Dominion Dynamics is an advanced technology firm building a dual-use, AI-driven Arctic sensing network designed for both military and civilian applications, focusing on seamless multi-domain coordination and persistent regional surveillance.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Investment focus

SMS, Apps, SaaS
Seed
South Africa, United States

Portfolio highlights

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!

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

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
India, United States, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Licify — Licify, a procurement cloud-based platform specialized in the construction industry, has redefined interactions between developers, contractors, sub-contractors and suppliers. It creates a community developing transparent and efficient realtionships allthrough the value chain. This improves the procurement and supply processes, generating savingsand increasing profitability.
Lami — Lami is an end-to-end digital insurance platform and API that enables companies across sectors to offer insurance products. Its API allows underwriters to connect with consumer-facing companies that can provide embedded insurance as a value add for existing customers, many of whom are uninsured.
Cashinvoice — Cashinvoice connects supply chain stakeholders and digitises invoice-to-cash processes to unlock working capital trapped within supply chains and accelerate business growth

Jean-Paul Zammitt

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.

Moscow Venture Fund is an investment fund.

Investment focus

Drones, Security, Drone Management
Funding Round
South Africa

Portfolio highlights

UAV & Drone Solutions — UDS - UAV and Drone Solutions - Expert services for aerial mapping, inspections, security & data capture. Get custom drone solutions now!

Lireas is a leading investment company with a specific focus on insurance and insurance technology investments. We have a track record of over 35 years investing in start-ups and existing businesses requiring growth funding or new partners. We invest in people and not just elaborate business plans a

Investment focus

FinTech, InsurTech, Security
Seed, Series A, Series B
South Africa, United States

Portfolio highlights

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.

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.

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.

/*! elementor - v3.9.1 - 14-12-2022 */ .elementor-heading-title{padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1}.elementor-widget-heading

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.

Nedbank is a one of the largest banks in South Africa.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Mining
Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Series A
South Africa, Australia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Pele Energy Group — Pele Energy Group owns and runs renewable energy infrastructure in addition to providing economic and community development consulting services.
WhereIsMyTransport — WhereIsMyTransport is a leading mobility technology company and central source of complete public transport data for emerging-market megacities. Working on the ground in Africa, Latin America, Southeast Europe and South and Southeast Asia, we digitalise network information from all modes of public transport and maintain data accuracy as thesedynamic systems change. Our products and data services improve the public transport experience, and inform industry-leading clients.
Sandfire Resources NL — Sandfire has grown to be a global copper producer of significance and continues to make strong progress toward its goal of being a sustainable mining company.

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.

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.

They are passionate about seeing their portfolio companies become successful.

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 use technology to make properties work better and enable everyone to own a stake in their community. Join Groma in transforming real estate. Rent modern homes, invest in multifamily buildings, or become part of our resident investor community.