Top 50 Cryptocurrency Startup Investors in Africa
A list of 50 angel investors and VC funds that invest in Cryptocurrency startups based in Africa. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Cryptocurrency companies from Africa. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Cryptocurrency Startup Investors in Africa
We are the capital engine supporting emerging talent & crypto technology. On its mission to accelerate the development of a better financial system.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Caliza — Give your users access to the digital dollar economy. Get early access!
- TurnStay — We help hotels radically reduce payment fees.
- aviva — Aviva is building an AI-powered digital bank for Latin America’s underserved communities. While determined to fuel Latin America’s ongoing emergence of a new middle class with a fully-fledged portfolio of inclusive financial services, Aviva’s initial go-to-market concentrates on unsecured credit products for individuals and nano-businesses inMexico.As most of the underbanked 40+ million Mexicans live in small and medium-sized towns, Aviva builds a bridge to those living in remote communities with its physical onboarding kiosks. These nano-branches provide a documentless 3-minute video onboarding for everyone in need of liquidity. Novel AI-based technology, including natural language processing, allows Aviva to match customers’ spoken word to the fields of a comprehensive real-time credit application. Transforming speech to text and inferring emotions and personality from the visual layer of the application video gives Aviva an edge in scoring thin-file customers. Leveraging these novel risk models, Aviva aims to provide the lowest interest rates available to today’s underserved.
The emergence of bitcoin and subsequent blockchain technologies has generated a new digital asset class in which scarcity is based on mathematical properties. Through cryptographic verification and game-theoretic equilibrium, blockchain-based digital assets can be created, issued, and transmitted using the software. Polychain Capital is committedto exceptional returns for investors through actively managed portfolios of these blockchain assets.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Singapore, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Namcon — Namcon provides blockchain infrastructure services that rely on numerous devices and trusted execution environments for secure computing.
- Hyperbolic — Access open-source inference and compute at a fraction of the cost. Build with us.
- Pi Squared — Pi Squared (Proof of Proof) enables trustless remote computing, AI, and interoperable smart contracts for any blockchain or dApp.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Insurance, Blockchain
- Seed, Convertible Note
- Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- Get It Done Now — GIDN is a Nigerian Fintech Company targeting medium and low income population for Loans and Financial products. GIDN has in addition a cashless, mobile based community marketplace, with more than 5k members, and aims to regulate the informal economy and facilitate the purchase of Services and Digital Products.
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.
OKX Blockdream Ventures is a fund focused on exploring high-quality blockchain projects with great potential.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Singapore, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- zkLink — zkLink is a unified middleware layer connecting L1 chains and L2 networks with zk-SNARKs technology, reshaping the crypto landscape for DeFi, NFT, and RWA trading.
- aPriori — aPriori is a monad-native MEV infrastructure and liquid staking mechanism developed for parallel executions.
- Curio Research — Creative studio building crypto powered games.
GreenHouse Capital’s Founding Partners took their own fintech company Venture Garden Group (VGG) from a 7 employee, ₦30 million revenue startup to a 200 employees, ₦2 billion power house in just 4 years and raised an attention grabbing Series A round from Convergence Partners of South Africa. The uniqueness of their position was not lost on thefounders who then cultivated Garden Institute of Business Entrepreneurs (GIBE) to identify, incubate, and invest in young and innovative tech startups solving global challenges in Emerging Markets. GIBE was created to build a world class talent management hub for young and passionate entrepreneurs while creating a pool of technology inclined businesses and innovation oriented leaders.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Nigeria, Kenya, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Credpal — Buy now, pay later. Split in 6.
- Encore Pay — Encore Pay is a UAE-based FinTech and Payment solutions provider.
- MarketForce — MarketForce connects Africa’s informal retail outlets and consumers directly to suppliers of consumer goods and financial services by digitizing orders, delivery, and payments with the aim of solving the last mile distribution challenge.
More than a seed-stage fund and a portfolio of startups: Our community of founders taps into the power of financial innovation to collaborate around global problems and unlock prosperity for all.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, FinTech, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, India
Portfolio highlights
- Kotani Pay — Kotani Pay is a technology stack that enables blockchain protocols, dapps, and blockchain fintech companies to integrate seamlessly to local payment channels providing them with a reliable on ramp and off ramp service to reach a wider customer base in Africa.
- Learn.xyz — Have fun learning about anything you can imaging, thanks to the power of AI. Download the free Learn.xyz app today and start every day with new knowledge!
- Thrive Protocol — Thrive Protocol's vision is to maximize value creation for all people and communities.
Nordea Bank is Denmark's second-largest bank and counts every fourth Dane among its customers. Through their nationwide network of some 340 branch offices and a broad range of self-service facilities, they are able to offer you a full scale of financial products and services, including Netbank, Online Investment, telephone banking and cashdispensers.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Banking
- Funding Round, Debt Financing, Seed
- Finland, Sweden, Norway
Portfolio highlights
- Tibber — Tibber is a digital electricity supplier that offers smart solutions to minimize their customers’ consumption and costs. Its vision is to make sustainable energy consumption simple and affordable for all households. Tibber's mission is to reduce the residential electricity consumption for European households by 20 %. Founded in Norway andSweden in 2016, the company has expanded its offer to Sweden and Germany where it powers hundreds of thousands of homes. Tibber replaces traditional utilities with smart technology, supplying its customers with renewable energy at fair and transparent prices. In addition, its app provides real-time analytics into energy usage, and pairs with a variety of smart home devices to reduce electricity consumption at home. The company sells tech-gadgets in their online store and recently was licensed to balance the main power grid in Sweden with EVs.
- Statzon — Make data-driven plans & faster decisions with a simple access to +1M datasets & market reports about 8,000 topics from +200 trusted data providers.
- Get It Done Now — GIDN is a Nigerian Fintech Company targeting medium and low income population for Loans and Financial products. GIDN has in addition a cashless, mobile based community marketplace, with more than 5k members, and aims to regulate the informal economy and facilitate the purchase of Services and Digital Products.
Newtown Partners is a venture capital firm that actively invests in emerging, disruptive technology startups.
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Investment focus
- Logistics, Health Care, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- South Africa, Ghana, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Chefaa — Chefaa is a GPS-enabled pharmacy benefits platform connecting patients & pharmacies nation-wide to help patients manage all their pharmacy needs. Chefaa uses big data, data ming & machine learning
- Waspito — We are the platform that engages Africa into the conversation and action to drive affordable and accessible quality healthcare across the continent.
- Complete Farmer — We are providing cutting-edge technological farming protocols and innovations with a unique business model and logistics that are revolutionizing...
Bixin Ventures invests in early-stage infrastructure projects that cultivate and facilitate mass adoption of open finance through permissionless and decentralized networks.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Singapore, Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Chakra — Chakra is a bitcoin restaking technique based on ZK proof. Chakra creates a safe bitcoin proof-of-stake system to activate the liquidity of long-term Bitcoin assets and deliver decentralized services that are managed by asset holders.
- PrismaStake — Unleash the Power of Multi-Chain Staking and Boost Your Assets. Stake. Earn. Grow. Empowering Crypto Investors Across Multiple Blockchains.
- Kakarot Labs — Kakarot is an Ethereum Virtual Machine written in Cairo. Kakarot zkEVM enables teams to build & deploy EVM apps, and benefit from a dual advantage: the same developer experience (toolchain, libraries) and having their end-users use the same tools as Ethereum (metamask, wallet connect, etc.).
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
- Financial Services, FinTech, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Nigeria, United States, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Lengo — Lengo is an AI based intelligence platform that offers a large database on consumer goods for companies in the FMCG sector.
- Shekel Mobility — B2B marketplace for auto dealers to grow their dealerships leveraging on flexible inventory financing and management solutions. Available on web and mobile.
- Maad — Maad is Francophone Africa's fastest-growing B2B marketplace, based in Dakar, Senegal. Our tech-driven solution allows retailers to order products from our one-stop shop and benefit from working capital loans
We are an early-stage global venture capital firm investing in fintech founders.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, India, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Qoala — Asuransi online yang siap melindungi kamu dan orang tersayang, di mana aja, kapan aja. Premi murah, proses klaim mudah, dan 100% digital!
- Zone — Zone is a regulated blockchain network that enables payments and acceptance of digital currencies.
- Summer — Summer partners with employers help their populations navigate and reduce student loan debt. Summer is a certified B-Corp.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Insurance, Blockchain
- Seed
- Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- Get It Done Now — GIDN is a Nigerian Fintech Company targeting medium and low income population for Loans and Financial products. GIDN has in addition a cashless, mobile based community marketplace, with more than 5k members, and aims to regulate the informal economy and facilitate the purchase of Services and Digital Products.
Building the future of Web3. We invest in the next generation of iconic founders.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Singapore, Seychelles
Seed capital for technology startups globally.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Software, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Nigeria, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Orca Fraud — Orca empowers fraud fighters with effective tools to combat fraud
- 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.
- Startbutton — We help multi-national businesses sell products and get paid in African countries in a compliant and tax-efficient manner, without the need to register locally.
Golden Palm Investments is an investment holding and advisory company.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, FinTech, Logistics
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Nigeria, Egypt, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Sabipay — Pastel is a leader in Artificial Intelligence. We build products targeted at individuals (SwiftMoney) and enterprises (Sigma) in emerging markets
- Maplerad — Maplerad is a fast, safe and easy way to send and receive money with friends, family or others you trust. You can receive and send money directly into any Nigerian bank account in minutes using Bitcoin, US Dollars, and Naira.
- Jetstream Africa — Jetstream Africa is world class logistic company. We use our technology, networks, and systems to enable African businesses to quickly finance, manage and monitor their regional supply chains.
Impact venture builders dedicated to supporting the people and ideas that turn challenges in energy, agriculture, mobility, and waste into de-carbonized solutions for emerging and frontier markets.
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Investment focus
- Energy, Agriculture, Renewable Energy
- Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
- Kenya, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
- SunFi — SunFi tech solution help people access solar energy with installation and payment plans.
- enee.io — enee.io designs and develops battery monitoring systems that make both users and suppliers of renewable power systems more profitable.
- Gateway.fm — GatewayFM is the first truly decentralized blockchain infra/node provider, with globally distributed, multichain infrastructure
OKX Blockdream Ventures is a fund focused on exploring high quality projects. This fund will invest in blockchain basic infrastructure, layer 2, Polkadot ecosystem, Defi, Filecoin ecosystem etc.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Singapore, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- zkLink — zkLink is a unified middleware layer connecting L1 chains and L2 networks with zk-SNARKs technology, reshaping the crypto landscape for DeFi, NFT, and RWA trading.
- aPriori — aPriori is a monad-native MEV infrastructure and liquid staking mechanism developed for parallel executions.
- Curio Research — Creative studio building crypto powered games.
We are focusing on projects in early and growth stages, helping entrepreneurs develop world-class projects on blockchain technology
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, FinTech, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, Seychelles, France
Portfolio highlights
- DAOLaunch — DAOLaunch is a decentralized platform that connects investors and startups directly on the blockchain by introducing innovative fundraising solutions to the startup ecosystem. Users can effortlessly create and support new startups across all borders, and participate in transparent, flexible and fair financing rounds regardless of a project being a crypto or fiat.
- Colony Lab — Colony Lab is a community-driven initiative to power the Avalanche Platform growth by investing in early-stage projects.
- Defina Finance — Defina Finance is an online blockchain game that utilizes and combines decentralized finance (Defi) and NFT to allow players to own their gaming assets and monetize them through playing and training.
A cross-border cryptoasset investment firm. Global from day one.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Singapore, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- Dora — Dora is building the cross chain search engine
- Prodia — Easy-to-use Stable Diffusion API for AI-powered image generation at 90% lower cost than AWS. Effortless scale with no infrastructure worries.
- Caldera — Deploy production-grade rollups on Caldera with Arbitrum Orbit or OP Stack. Caldera blockchains are live and production-ready. It takes under half an hour to deploy your Ethereum-compatible application to a Caldera Chain.
OKX Ventures focus on the discoveries and investments in various aspects, including blockchain basic infrastructures, Layer2, DeFi, WEB3.0, NFT and Metaverse.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Cysic — Cysic is a blockchain company that offers zero-knowledge (ZK) hardware computation to deliver real-time ZK proof generation in a faster, cost-efficient, user-friendly, and decentralized manner.
- Jambo — Empowering the next generation of Africans via web3- Jambo
- GoPlus Security — GoPlus Security is an open, permissionless, user-driven security service platform for all types of blockchain users.
StillMark is a venture capital firm
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Investment focus
- Bitcoin, Software, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Ghana, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- AMBOSS — Lightning Network Explorer and Analytics Tools. Search for nodes and channels on the Lightning Network and get detailed information on them.
- hoseki — hoseki is building towards a world where Bitcoin is the global standard for money, and proving reserves is secure and easy.
- Gridless — At the Frontier of Bitcoin Mining in Africa
Discover Susquehanna, a global quantitative trading firm built on a rigorous, analytical foundation in financial markets.
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial Services, Cryptocurrency
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, China, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- BlockGames — BlockGames is a cross-game, cross-chain, decentralized player network accelerating user growth for games, with personalised rewards for players.
- Borderless AI — Borderless AI is an Employer of Record (EOR) & PEO platform simplifying global payroll management & team hiring to empower your growth worldwide. Book a demo now!
- WEE marketplace — WEE is an internet-based company operating from the United Arab Emirates, focusing on providing a marketplace platform that caters to the needs of its users by offering a wide selection of goods with the convenience of fast delivery services. Established in 2021, WEE aims to enhance the shopping experience by ensuring that customers can shop onlineand receive their orders swiftly, emphasizing the value of saving time. With a team of 45 employees, WEE supports various payment methods, including Cash on Delivery, and promotes customer satisfaction with a 14-day free return policy. The company also engages in community activities, such as sponsoring events, to maintain a close relationship with its user base.
Launch Africa is a fund with the primary objective of unlocking the capital constraints of Seed Stage tech startups.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Susu — Susu is a dynamic and innovative company that offers a wide range of health services for families in the African diaspora. Susu provides a complete offer on Preventive care, Medical treatments, Management of chronic diseases, and Authentic drugs.
- Lengo — Lengo is an AI based intelligence platform that offers a large database on consumer goods for companies in the FMCG sector.
- Fixit45 — Your best ever automobile service experience awaits you.
We invest in Africa's most remarkable teams with technical founders at the earliest stage of their venture
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Nigeria, United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Famasi — Famasi is a digital health platform that helps people access their medications, schedule doorstep delivery, and automate monthly refills.
- Pennee — Pennee supports small businesses to grow with low interest loans and data optimization.
- Clafiya — Discover Clafiya: Your trusted digital health platform, uniting in-person care and virtual solutions for a personalized and caring healthcare experience. Embrace a healthier, happier you, with us by your side.
Cipholio Ventures is a research-driven investment firm specializing in cryptocurrencies, tokens, and blockchain projects that have the potential to reshape the trillion-dollar markets.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, China, India
Portfolio highlights
- C14 — C14 is building the next generation of fiat to crypto payment flow. We build seamless fiat on-ramps and off-ramps for crypto, blockchain, and web3 businesses. With a seamless user experience and meaningful coverage for emerging crypto markets around the world, C14 is on a mission to empower users ev
- PoseiSwap — PoseiSwap is a decentralized exchange service provider.
- MetaEra Media — MetaEra is a one-stop resource aggregator for Web3.0. Meta Era focuses on blockchain and metaverse exploration, pursuing professional, thorough, and reliable information and data.
Century Oak Capital GmbH is a venture capital firm specializing in early-stage investments in Europe and Emerging Markets.
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Investment focus
- Retail, E-Commerce, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Pakistan, Kenya, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Unbox — Unbox is the branded commerce operating system for SMEs helping them to sell online and increase their sales. We provide a ready to sell platform that allows entrepreneurs to digitize their business in less than 5 minutes - fully integrated with social commerce channels and our payment and shipping solutions, helping SMEs to save costs andcentralizing sales into a single platform.
- SnappRetail — SnappRetail aims to create the largest virtual retail franchise across Pakistan, through deployment of its POS hardware/software, focusing on:1. Traditional trade Analytics for brands and retailers 2. Order Aggregation for manufacturers and distributors 3. Payment Solution for customers 4. Fintech enablement for small merchantsTheSnappRetail POS application has been carefully curated keeping the retailer in mind, the application focuses on digitizing his shop operations and cash flow and creating a real-time tertiary sales data lake.
- Dastgyr Technologies — Making trade and capital seamless and reliable
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Investment focus
- Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Israel, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Kollider — Kollider build tools and services to make financial markets available to everyone, across borders, instantly and simply using Bitcoin’s Lightning Network.
- LiveArtX — LiveArtX is a premium NFT platform that connects the art world with web3. Built by art industry leaders, LiveArtX brings creators, collaborators, and collectors into the metaverse.
- Coinshift — Coinshift is a crypto treasury management platform that helps businesses and decentralized autonomous organizations (DAO's) manage their crypto easily and empowers users to collaborate and approve transactions, execute mass pay-outs, etc.
Valar Ventures is a venture capital firm backed by Peter Thiel. Valar partners with entrepreneurs globally and believes that an increasing number of transformative technology companies will be started outside of Silicon Valley, and that the founders of those companies will benefit from having a partner that understands their unique challenges andopportunities.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Banking
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- MAJORITY — MAJORITY is the first digital financial service dedicated to serving migrants worldwide. For $5 a month, MAJORITY members in the U.S. receive an FDIC-secured account, VISA® debit card, use of more than 55,000 ATMs across North America, remittance and international calling, native language advisors, and access to our network of community meet-upspaces, local discounts and events. With MAJORITY, there are never overdraft fees or minimum balance requirements. MAJORITY was started in Sweden by a diverse team of banking, fintech, payments, and telecom executives serving immigrant communities globally for the last 15 years. MAJORITY’s U.S. headquarters are in Houston, Texas.
- Ember — Find everything you need to run your business in one app, with qualified accountants on hand whenever you need.
- Panacea Financial — Whether you're transitioning to residency, refinancing your student loans, or funding a new practice - Panacea Financial can help.
Thrive Africa is is an impact investment platform connecting global capital with impact opportunity
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin
- Pre-Seed
- Nigeria, United States
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
- E-Commerce, Retail, Education
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Tunisia, France
Portfolio highlights
- Yaz — Yaz is a B2B wholesale e-Commerce web and mobile app that offers branded goods and services top up for retailers.
- Birdhouce — Birdhouce is a direct to consumer furniture startup that provides home storage. They develop an online 3d product configurator that makes the customer a designer from the comfort of their home. Their design categories include a dining room, living room, bedroom, hallway, office, kitchen, and kids room.
- Tiktak PRO — Tiktak PRO provides back office management services. They also provide hosting, updating, and certificate services. Additionally, they also provide commercial activity and technical support services.
Lightning Ventures is an exclusively Bitcoin focused network of investors, operators, and developers, dedicated to supporting Lightning Network adoption worldwide
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Investment focus
- Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Canada, France
Portfolio highlights
- Vida — The AI phone agent for small business. Answer calls and texts with an AI phone agent that always works and is never busy. number that answers calls and texts with AI.
- OrdinalsBot — We make it easy to inscribe ordinals. Like, really easy.
- Pnkfrg Studios — Pnkfrg Studios is a mobile gaming studio startup designing games for the Lightning Network on Bitcoin.
LoftyInc Capital Management empowers Afropreneurs to build a prosperous and equitable future in Africa. We deliver value to both founders and investors.........
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Nigeria, United States, Egypt
Portfolio highlights
- Mtor — Mtor is an online marketplace that is reshaping the automotive aftermarket and provides sophisticated technology solutions.
- EMTECH — EMTECH provides solutions for Digital Currency regulatory compliance, development and management to help Central Banks and FinTechs build, run and manage modern financial systems.
- Terragon Group — Terragon is a leading Data and Marketing Technology company that uses data and analytics to help companies focused in Africa, intelligently connect at scale to their customers. We use an aggregation of online and offline data, and predictive scoring to help brands, marketing agencies and platforms accurately target people across channels anddevices. Headquartered in Lagos; Nigeria, we also have a presence in Kenya, South Africa, Ghana and India.
Alameda Research is a quantitative cryptocurrency trading firm that provides liquidity in cryptocurrency and digital assets markets. It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Central and Western, Hong Kong.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Singapore, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- 3Commas — 3Commas develops a crypto-asset management tool for tracking investments and exchanges in a unified platform. It provides access to a unified dashboard as the central hub for trading and portfolio management execution.
- Fuel Labs — At Fuel, we are building the fastest execution layer for the modular blockchain stack.
- Optim Finance — Optim Finance provides investment tools that optimize yield on digital assets. Their financial primitives enable users to rent ADA delegation rights to power novel use cases such as SPO loans, leverage into ISOs, and initial bonds.
Polymath Capital is a remote-first firm that invests in pre-seed and seed stage companies with an emphasis on community, longevity, and financial democratization. As an operator-led venture capital firm, we partner with ambitious founders to build the next generation of market-changing companies.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- United States, Mexico, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Maplerad — Maplerad is a fast, safe and easy way to send and receive money with friends, family or others you trust. You can receive and send money directly into any Nigerian bank account in minutes using Bitcoin, US Dollars, and Naira.
- Vienna Hypertext — Information Company
- Oyster Technologies — Get peace of mind for things you own instantly. With no fine print or complicated forms, Oyster gets you tailored personal insurance products designed for your lifestyle.
The best companies, off the beaten path.
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Mexico, India
Portfolio highlights
- Bujeti — Corporate Credit Cards, Spend Management software built for your African realities. It empowers your people to do more. It combines virtual, smart physical credit cards, payments and expenses into one experience powered by Visa Cards, dedicated NUBANs, Mobile Wallets and Faster Payments.
- Khyaal — Khyaal is a full-stack digital solution for senior citizens designed and developed to improve their quality of life. We facilitate on-demand services and organise fun and engaging activities for seniors. Being a part of the Khyaal family means making a difference in the world by enriching the lives of the elderly. If selflessness and empathy is atrait that you carry and would want to put at work, then you will find Khyaal as the perfect place to invest your valuable time.At Khyaal, we value your individuality and the skills that you bring to the table. We also believe in the power of collective consciousness to serve others and make their lives easier and wholesome. We want all members of the Khyaal family to feel respected personally and professionally. Our working environment will always make way for new ideas, ownership and collective growth.
- Pippin Title — Discover Pippin Title's technology to deliver fast, accurate, thorough nationwide commercial & residential title search reports in the USA.
Cypher Capital is a early stage VC and consultant firm
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Internet, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
- United States, Singapore, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- MetaOne — MetaOne offers guild management solutions for GameFi developers.
- bitsCrunch — Forensic and AI-powered NFT analytics that fight wash trading, fraud and give accurate value for digital assets.
- Concordia — Concordia is a modular risk and collateral management protocol that unifies and enables multi-chain collateralization of digital assets.
Amazon operates a vast online marketplace where customers can purchase a wide variety of products, including electronics, books, apparel, household goods, and more. The company has a robust logistics and delivery network, allowing for efficient shipping and quick delivery times for customers around the world. Amazon started as an online bookstorebut rapidly expanded its product and service offerings over the years.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Funding Round, Series B, Seed
- United States, India, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Skild AI — Building general purpose robotic intelligence
- Saks Global — Saks Global is a a combination of world-class luxury retail and real estate assets.
- Neiman Marcus Group — Shop fashion's top names for women, men, and kids. Plus, check out beauty's best brands, designer jewelry, luxurious decor, and distinctive gifts for any occasion.
15 years of experience in private equity, venture capital, investment banking, corporate strategy, angel investing, and business development having an MBA from the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University, USA and being a CAIA Charterholder.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, FinTech, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- United States, Egypt, India
Portfolio highlights
- Stakefair — Stakefair is an ecosystem of blockchain, crypto and DeFi products.
- Otida — Otida is an app that acts as a nutritionist, a fitness coach and physician, among other roles, for patients with diabetes who struggle while navigating through their day-to-day lives.
- 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.
MyAsia VC
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- India, United States, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Deciml — Deciml is an investment app in India that enables Indians to start investing young by investing the spare change from their online transactions. Download App.
- Neem — Neem is an embedded finance platform enabling Financial Wellness for underbanked communities across emerging markets, starting in Pakistan.
- Maplerad — Maplerad is a fast, safe and easy way to send and receive money with friends, family or others you trust. You can receive and send money directly into any Nigerian bank account in minutes using Bitcoin, US Dollars, and Naira.
Sean Mahsoul
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Computer, Software
- Seed
- Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- Maplerad — Maplerad is a fast, safe and easy way to send and receive money with friends, family or others you trust. You can receive and send money directly into any Nigerian bank account in minutes using Bitcoin, US Dollars, and Naira.
Vestigium is a crypto-native venture capital firm that invests in cryptocurrencies, digital assets, and blockchain companies.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Services
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Norway, Seychelles
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- Joystream — JoyStream is a blockchain powered decentralized media distribution, curation, discovery, and monetization platform.
- Octopus Network — Octopus is a cryptonetwork for launching and running Web3.0 application specific blockchains, aka appchains. By decreasing the capital expenditure for bootstrap an appchain by two orders of magnitude, from several million dollars to less than one hundred thousand dollars, Octopus Network is committed to unleash an innovation wave of Web3.0.
OIG Ventures is an investment firm.
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- Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Series A, Initial Coin Offering
- Estonia, Singapore, Seychelles
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- GEMS — GEMS is an Esports 3.0 aggregator Platform that combines the elements of GameFi, Esports, Metaverse and SocialFi (GEMS).
- Katana Inu — Katana Inu promotes gaming innovation by merging gaming and blockchain. As an all-encompassing ecosystem for gamers and traders, powered by Defi and NFT, Katana Inu's objective is to create a system where gamers can earn from their playtime.
- Aura Network — Aura Network is the Layer 1 for emerging countries, providing public infrastructure through modular tech stacks. Build and drive Blockchain mass adoption.
Yolo Investments is a venture capital, focused on seed- and A-stage investment opportunities across gaming and fintech. Based in Estonia, Yolo’s mission is to invest in outstanding people with bright ideas, who are focused on innovating and disrupting the norm in all manner of tech startups. Founded in 2017 by Tim Heath as Vereeni Investments,Yolo has created a thriving ecosystem with ventures across a variety of industries, including fintech, gambling, media, software development, crypto and blockchain-related companies.
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- Information Technology, Sports, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Estonia, United States, Australia
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- Loupe — LOUPE is the #1 art streaming platform and service on connected TV and web with an integrated marketplace. The immersive visuals are available in and out of home, ad supported on living room TVs or with a commercial license for public display, and allows users to purchase the artwork, select prints & originals. Loupe launched exclusively onApple TV where it is ranked #1 Lifestyle app around the world, now with 25+ channels of art available on Amazon Fire, Android TV, Pluto TV, Samsung, Comcast Xfinity, Xumo and web streaming, with proprietary methods for user customization of the streams (patent pending). Loupe has 2M monthly active users, 80X audience growth in 2020, and more platforms launching in 2021.The company reaches an upscale mass market in OTT and OOH industries, consumer electronics, smart TV, home theater/home entertainment, interior design, art market, music streaming, and hospitality.
- Fanton — The first P2E Fantasy Football game with Telegram integration
- Basketball Forever — Basketball Forever.
Nascent Ventures Ltd | Impact Investing | Creative Hub
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- Cryptocurrency, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, Seychelles
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- Porter Finance — Porter Finance is the web’s fastest growing binary options trading platform, offering an unmatched 1500% rate of returns on maximum returns on digital options. With a fast learning curve, user friendly interface and excellent customer support, Porter Finance offers its traders the best online trading experience on the net. The binary optionsplatform offers a wide variety of currencies, stocks, commodities and indices to trade binary options. In total, Porter Finance offers well over 100 different assets for trading options of all types. Offering one of the most comprehensive trading platforms, every investor is sure to find what they are looking for at Porter Finance.The company was formed on the principal that knowledge is power and though knowledge comes success. Launched in 2014, the company prides itself on excellent service and guarantees the best environment for success to their traders passing on their knowledge to traders in order to maximize their trading potential.
- Notional Finance — Earn fixed income on your crypto or borrow at fixed rates for up to one year with Notional - DeFi's #1 fixed rate protocol
- Shipyard Software — Shipyard Software is a decentralized exchange for retail crypto traders. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
On a mission to back the most extraorordinary entreprenuers out of Africa solving important problems in large markets.
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Nigeria, United States, Kenya
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- Lengo — Lengo is an AI based intelligence platform that offers a large database on consumer goods for companies in the FMCG sector.
- Bujeti — Corporate Credit Cards, Spend Management software built for your African realities. It empowers your people to do more. It combines virtual, smart physical credit cards, payments and expenses into one experience powered by Visa Cards, dedicated NUBANs, Mobile Wallets and Faster Payments.
- Maad — Maad is Francophone Africa's fastest-growing B2B marketplace, based in Dakar, Senegal. Our tech-driven solution allows retailers to order products from our one-stop shop and benefit from working capital loans
Global Investors in Transformative Technologies
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- Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Singapore, Nigeria
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- Lemon Cash — Lemon Cash is digital wallet with FIAT and crypto capabilities. End to end digital ecosystem for Latin America.
- Uniblock — Uniblock helps connect developers with Web3 using our APIs and services. Our developers use Uniblock because of how easy it is to integrate into exciting applications. Try it for free today!
- Validation Cloud — Validation Cloud is a Web3 data streaming and infrastructure company that connects organizations into Web3 through a fast, scalable, and intelligent platform. Headquartered in Zug, Switzerland, Validation Cloud offers highly performant and customizable products in staking, node, and data-as-a-service. Its team brings extensive experience acrossWeb2 and Web3 from the likes of Coinbase, Kraken, Workday, Accenture, Crypto.com, Voyager, and more. Learn more at Validationcloud.io
PNYX Ventures is a digital asset management firm specialising in blockchain capital markets.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Canada, Estonia, Germany
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- Joystream — JoyStream is a blockchain powered decentralized media distribution, curation, discovery, and monetization platform.
- Webb Protocol — Welcome to Webb, an ecosystem of infrastructures and applications designed to extend privacy to the blockchain space. We are committed to a future where privacy is accessible for all in the multi-chain world.
- Minterest — Minterest is a cross-chain decentralized money market lending protocol for decentralized financial. Its unique design attracts and rewards long-term liquidity with Minterest distributing value captured by the protocol to MNT token holders who actively participate in its governance. Minterest was founded in 2020 and is based in Tallin, Estonia.
Struck Crypto is a multi-strategy crypto fund based in Los Angeles.
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- Blockchain, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, China, Singapore
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- Backd — Backd offers to maximize the power of assets and begin generating yield. Backd is a protocol for reactive liquidity decentralized finance (Defi).
- Shardeum — Shardeum is an EVM-based, linearly scalable smart contract platform that maintains low gas fees while providing true decentralization and solid security
- Eclipse — The first customizable, modular rollups, using the Solana VM. Sign up to access our testnet.
Endeavor Catalyst is the rules-based, co-investment fund of Endeavor, set up to invest exclusively in Endeavor Entrepreneur-led companies and to sustain Endeavor’s long-term operations in a mission-aligned way. Launched in 2012, Endeavor Catalyst has ~$500M+ AUM across four funds and has made 260+ investments to date in 35+ different markets. TodayThe Endeavor Catalyst portfolio has 53 companies valued at $1B+. Investments include Globant (NYSE:GLOB), Rappi, and Creditas in Latin America; Yemeksepeti.com and Careem in MENA; and Bukalapak and Carro in Indonesia.
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- Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- United States, Brazil, Mexico
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- Xocean — Using unmanned surface vessels (USVs), XOCEAN offers turnkey data collection services to Surveyors, Companies and Agencies.
- Clip — Clip is changing card acceptance in Mexico, offering different models of portable card-reading hardware to accept all credit and debit cards as well as other solutions. More than a device to accept all cards, Clip is an ally focused on empowering Mexican businesses.
- Harbor Lab — Designed to streamline the port cost management processes and optimize operational efficiency for cargo operations and husbandry services by leveraging technology and automation.
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