Top 35 Digital Media VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Africa in September 2025
A list of 35 VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Digital media startups based in Africa. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Digital media companies from Africa. We update this investor list every month.Top 35 Digital Media VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Africa in September 2025
| Investor | Digital Media Africa investments | 
|---|---|
| Future Africa | 3 | 
| Consonance Investment Managers | 2 | 
| Luminate Group | 2 | 
| MaC Venture Capital | 2 | 
| Nama Ventures | 2 | 
| Lion’s Head Global Partners | 2 | 
| RaliCap | 2 | 
| Hasso Plattner Ventures | 1 | 
| Melo7 Tech Partners | 1 | 
| cFund | 1 | 
| Microtraction | 1 | 
| Ignition Partners | 1 | 
| UNCOVERED FUND | 1 | 
| Triple Jump | 1 | 
| Ventures Platform | 1 | 
| Assembly Capital Partners | 1 | 
| Kairos Angels | 1 | 
| Women's World Banking | 1 | 
| Savannah Fund | 1 | 
| TLcom Capital Partners | 1 | 
| GreenHouse Capital | 1 | 
| Norfund | 1 | 
| Icon Ventures | 1 | 
| HoaQ | 1 | 
| Unicorn Group | 1 | 
| Compass Venture Capital | 1 | 
| MNF Ventures | 1 | 
| Serena Ventures | 1 | 
| Triple Jump | 1 | 
| Technology Innovation Agency | 1 | 
| Symbiotics Group | 1 | 
| Input Output Global | 1 | 
| Verdant Frontiers | 1 | 
| Cascador | 1 | 
| Kepple Africa Ventures | 1 | 
            Future Africa is a collective of mission-driven founders and funders building unicorns to solve Africa’s biggest challenges. They are build a future where purpose and prosperity are within everyone’s reach.
          
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            Investment focus
            
          - Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Nigeria, United States, Kenya
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        - Moove — Moove is a mobility fintech that provides revenue-based vehicle financing to mobility entrepreneurs, democratizing vehicle ownership across Africa. The company embeds its alternative credit-scoring technology onto ride-hailing, logistics, and last-mile/instant delivery platforms, which allows access to proprietary performance and revenueanalytics of mobility entrepreneurs to underwrite loans.
- Juicyway — Juice is a developer of a payment network platform for cross-border business payments for businesses and individuals. It facilitates financial transactions between parties regardless of location to allow enterprises to participate in international trade and the exchange of goods and services.
- Filmmakers Mart — Find and book film locations, equipment, and services across Africa. Filmmakers Mart simplifies production logistics from start to finish.
            We are an investment company focused on helping early and growth-stage entrepreneurs build successful companies in Africa.
          
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            Investment focus
            
          - Software, Information Technology, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Nigeria, United States, Kenya
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        - Releaf Earth — We are industrializing food processing in Africa. We've led 1000+ smallholder farmers to provide food factories with >7.5 million kilograms of quality crops.
- Tripesa — Tripesa offers payment solutions for Africa's travel and tourism industry.
- Plural — Plural is a company that provides public policy tools to help teams save time and discover opportunities in workflows.
            Established in 2018, Luminate is a global philanthropic organisation with the goal of empowering people and institutions to work together to build just and fair societies.
          
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            Investment focus
            
          - SaaS, GovTech, Politics
- Seed
- Canada, Nigeria
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            MaC Venture Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on finding ideas, technology, and products that can become infectious. The firm invests in technology companies that benefit from shifts in cultural trends and behaviors in an increasingly diverse global marketplace.MaC VC is the result of the merger between successful LosAngeles and Bay Area-based Seed funds, Cross Culture Ventures, and M Ventures.
          
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            Investment focus
            
          - Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Nigeria, Kenya
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        - Blok — Prioritize the right experiments and simulate potential product decisions. Discover the future of product development driven by AI.
- Quilt Health — Quilt Health is a digital health company focused on improving access to innovative treatments for people living with rare and complex conditions, starting with sickle cell disease. The company leverages technology, data integration, and artificial intelligence to streamline clinical trial recruitment, enhance patient access to therapies, andstrengthen provider networks
- Carrot Credit — Carrot Credit is a financial services company that provides line of credit to the customers and businesses.
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          - E-Commerce, Information Technology, B2B
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Saudi Arabia, Egypt, United Arab Emirates
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        - PIESHIP — Pieship is a logistics startup serving last mile and their customers using Ai and crowdsourcing.
- Nodes — Nodes.inc is building the world’s first AI-native, full-stack hiring platform designed to automate and optimize the entire talent lifecycle — from candidate sourcing to predictive onboarding. Powered by multi-agent systems and self-learning AI, Nodes eliminates outdated ATS workflows, bloated HR stacks, and manual recruiting processes.Theplatform goes beyond incremental improvements: it creates rich persona-based candidate profiles, autonomously headhunts across the internet, engages with passive talent using hyper-personalized outreach, and continuously retrains itself based on hiring outcomes. With performance-based pricing and a modular architecture, Nodes enables enterprises to reduce hiring time from 120 days to under 14, slash early-stage attrition, and ensure every hire is a high-fit hire.Backed by top operators and used by Fortune 500 companies, Nodes.inc is redefining the infrastructure layer for the future of work.
- Rize — Rize is a PropTech platform transforming rental payments for both residential and commercial properties. With its “Rent Now, Pay Later” service, Rize allows tenants to split their annual rent into manageable installments, which benefits both renters, who can better manage their rental budgets, and landlords, who can reach a larger consumer base andreceive their yearly rental payment in advance. By enhancing affordability and flexibility, Rize inherently boosts occupancy rates across the rental market.
            A global investment banking, asset management and advisory firm focused on delivering value to our clients in emerging and frontier markets
          
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            Investment focus
            
          - Renewable Energy, Solar, Energy
- Debt Financing, Funding Round
- Kenya, France, Senegal
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        - Baobab+ — Baobab+ is a social business committed to providing access to energy and digital. We commercialize innovative products with financing solutions that meet the needs of local populations.
- Yellow — Yellow enables a distributed network of sales agents to serve rural households with life-changing products and services through a digital technology platform called Ofeefee.
- Decentral Energy — Decentral Energy creates, owns, and manages renewable energy assets. Decentral provides customers with risk-free, completely financed solar energy solutions.
            Rally Cap is a global community of tech folks investing in an exclusive portfolio of top-tier early stage venture funds in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa.
          
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            Investment focus
            
          - Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Mexico, Nigeria, United States
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        - Divibank — Divibank is a financing platform offering businesses access to growth capital.
- Akua — Akua is an acquiring-as-a-service platform that offers scalable, secure, and efficient payment processing solutions for Latin America. Our platform leverages advanced technology to provide superior transaction processing, fraud prevention, and comprehensive regional integration. Problem Latin America's acquiring card payment markets aredominated by a few incumbents using outdated systems, hindering the adoption of new payment technologies and increasing fraud risks.
- Stay — Stay is a long-term incentive platform. We are working to decomplicate the task of investing in the future: both for companies and for their collaborators.
            Hasso Plattner Ventures invests in fast-growing, information technology-driven companies in Europe and the USA on behalf of Prof. Dr. h.c. Hasso Plattner, co-founder and chairman of software giant SAP. The support we offer reaches beyond financial commitments. Our multifaceted work includes acting globally as a strategic partner for our informationtechnology growth companies. In Germany, our commitment has taken also the form of a seed program for information technology startups coming out of the Hasso Plattner Institute.After retiring from the operative business of SAP in 2003, Hasso Plattner was appointed Chairman of the company’s Supervisory Board. He has devoted his time to the promotion of science, innovation and entrepreneurship ever since.To further these goals, Hasso Plattner founded Hasso Plattner Ventures on July 1st, 2005 in Potsdam, Germany. Hasso Plattner Ventures Africa launched as an affiliate in 2008, operating from Cape Town, South Africa.Hasso Plattner Ventures manages four funds. HP Ventures I started in 2005, focusing on early stage software companies in Germany, Switzerland and Austria. In 2008, HP Ventures II and HP Ventures Africa launched, looking for investment opportunities in startup- and expansion-stage companies across the USA, Europe, Israel and South Africa.As of 2015, HP Ventures III, a €150 million fund, focuses on fast-growing enterprise and infrastructure software companies mainly in Germany and the Silicon Valley.
          
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            Investment focus
            
          - Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- Germany, United States, South Africa
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        - Artory — Artory connects the art market with the digital-first, financial ecosystem. Combining our leading technology, art expertise, digital certification, and tokenization, Artory secures on the blockchain verified artwork information from expert partners.
- Likeminded — Likeminded developed a digital platform for mental health that gives people fast, low-threshold access to psychological support.
- Robin.io — Automate deployment of complex 5G & enterprise apps to improve productivity and reduce cost with cloud native Kubernetes storage on the Robin platform.
            Melo7 Tech Partners, LLC was founded by Carmelo Anthony and Stuart Goldfarb to invest in and develop opportunities primarily in early stage digital media, consumer internet and technology ventures.
          
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            Investment focus
            
          - E-Commerce, Digital Media, Analytics
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Nigeria
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        - Stears — Stears Business has a simple mission: deliver original, analytical, well-written stories that make sense of the Nigerian economy
- Ambrosia — Industrial/Organic is an organic waste solutions provider that offers infrastructure-as-a-service to waste industry. The company converts food scraps into high-value resources in a distributed facility model.
- Mercury — Powerful banking. Simplified finances. Apply in 10 minutes for business banking that transforms how you operate.
            Digital asset capital management with Wave Digital Assets. Our early-stage crypto investment fund has been investing in blockchain companies, protocols, and cryptocurrencies since 2018. The fund takes a thesis-driven
          
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            Investment focus
            
          - Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Kenya, Canada
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        - Pezesha — Digital Financial Ecosystem for connecting MSMEs to Capital.
- EigenLabs — Eigen Labs is an engineering and research organization that contributes to protocols like EigenLayer and EigenDA
- Liqwid Labs — Liqwid is a non-custodial liquidity market protocol for lending and borrowing on Cardano, offering fast, affordable, and transparent liquidity solutions.
            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, Ghana
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        - Juicyway — Juice is a developer of a payment network platform for cross-border business payments for businesses and individuals. It facilitates financial transactions between parties regardless of location to allow enterprises to participate in international trade and the exchange of goods and services.
- Intron Health — Intron provides clinical speech recognition for 200+ accents spoken in developing countries starting with Africa, reducing documentation time by 6x so doctors can spend more time with patients
- PBR Life Sciences — A cloud-based real-world, non-observational pharmacy sell-out data
            Ignition is a venture capital firm dedicated to helping the best entrepreneurs seize opportunity. With over $2B under management, Ignition invests in emerging and future leaders in enterprise software.Ignition brings together an unparalleled combination of domain focus, technical expertise, and global operational experience. Ignition'spartners are proven business leaders who have built some of the world's most successful businesses of the last two decades, including Microsoft Windows and Office, McCaw Cellular Communications, AT&T Wireless and Starbucks.Ignition helps entrepreneurs by turning their early idea into a business, to hiring the right team, providing the right industry and functional insight and connections, to growing the business strategically, globally, financially, to realizing the best ultimate outcome, Ignition is ready to go the distance.
          
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            Investment focus
            
          - Software, Enterprise Software, SaaS
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
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        - Jupiter Intelligence — The Trusted Leader in Climate Risk Analytics. Learn about our best-in-science solutions.
- Carbon Robotics — The Carbon Robotics LaserWeeder solves one of agriculture's biggest problems: weed control. Laserweeding kills weeds without herbicides or tilling by harnessing computer vision and thermal energy to identify and destroy weeds at the meristem. It's healthier for crops and land, and safer for farmers.
- Blockchain Monster Hunt — Blockchain Monster Hunt develops an NFT collectible game that lives on multiple blockchains. It is a multi-chain metaverse game that connects people from different blockchain communities. It allows users to play and earn in an abundantly diverse world of monsters
            UNCOVERED FUND is a venture capital firm that leads the creation of industries in Africa and other emerging countries.
          
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            Investment focus
            
          - FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Nigeria, Kenya, United States
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        - Mecho — Mecho is an on-demand auto repair and maintenance platform for individuals and businesses in Africa.
- 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.
- 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.
            Triple Jump is an impact-focused investment manager dedicated to creating positive social and environmental change while delivering healthy financial returns. Discover how we invest in emerging markets to drive sustainable growth.
          
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            Investment focus
            
          - FinTech, Finance, Financial Services
- Debt Financing, Series A, Series B
- India, Jordan, Germany
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        - Ecoligo — With ecoligo's sustainable investments - you benefit twice: protect the climate & receive attractive returns.
- Dvara KGFS — Dvara KGFS is building and supporting local, geographically focused community financial services institutions called Kshetriya Gramin Financial Services (KGFS).
- Altech Group — Altech Group aims at expanding access to clean, renewable, and affordable energy both for poor-grid and off-grid households.
            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
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        - Raenest — Access Virtual Accounts, Invoicing, Multi-Currency Payouts, Auto Payroll, Accounting Integrations, and Virtual & Physical cards within minutes.
- 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
- Juicyway — Juice is a developer of a payment network platform for cross-border business payments for businesses and individuals. It facilitates financial transactions between parties regardless of location to allow enterprises to participate in international trade and the exchange of goods and services.
            Assembly Capital Partners operates as a Venture Capital.
          
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            Investment focus
            
          - SMS, SaaS, Software
- Seed, Series A
- Nigeria, United Kingdom
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        - Instanda — Instanda is a SaaS insurance software platform that allows insurance companies to build, configure, and launch products online. Its no-code product design platform is built on a powerful set of insurance specific calculations, processing, and workflow capabilities.Instanda works with the carriers, MGAs, and brokers in UK, Europe, US, Canada, LATAMand Australia converting the lethargic back office to an agile front office, freeing the industry from high-cost legacy systems.Founded in 2012, Instanda is headquartered in London, England.
- Index Coop — Index Coop builds decentralized and exchange traded (ETF) crypto index funds based on web3 product themes. Buy & build your crypto assets investment portfolio with us today
- 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.
            An investment club partnering with visionary entrepreneurs to create disruptive and innovative companies that have the potential to be come regional leaders and global challengers. ideas@kairosangels.com
          
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            Investment focus
            
          - Financial Services, FinTech, B2B
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Nigeria, Mexico
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        - Flex Finance — Flex Finance is a simple, accessible mobile platform that allows SMEs manage and track their expenses, with little-to-no financial knowledge required. Using our inbuilt AI, business owners also receive insights that help them stop waste, save money and make smarter spending decisions. Flex is committed to enabling more SMEs make it past their thirdbirthday, so they can continue to provide the income and jobs that sustain the vast majority of Nigerians.
- Super Seguros — Super Seguros is an insurance company that developed radical insurance products. The company's automated assessment technology allows its users to buy a policy today and covered tomorrow. It was founded in 2019 and headquartered in Mexico City, Distrito Federal.
- 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.
            Women's World Banking is dedicated to providing women with the means to gain Financial Inclusion through access to finance and technology. Contact us today
          
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            Investment focus
            
          - Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Series B, Series C, Funding Round
- India, Kenya, Uganda
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        - Amartha — Amartha Mikro Fintech - P2P Lending Indonesia. Alternatif investasi dengan modal terjangkau mulai 100Rb. Tedaftar OJK, Imbal hasil 15%* & Berdampak Sosial.
- Pezesha — Digital Financial Ecosystem for connecting MSMEs to Capital.
- Bike Bazaar — Bike Bazaar is a two-wheeler life cycle company where you can buy, sell, exchange any two-wheeler or avail finance for your vehicle. The company provides a range of affordable solutions and hassle-free experience along the two wheeler lifecycle, which include financing to purchase new and pre owned two wheelers, access to green bikes, insurance,and a transparent marketplace for buying and selling of preowned two wheelers.Bike Bazaar was founded in 2017 and is located in Pune, Maharashtra, India.
            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
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        - 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.
            TLcom Capital, is an Africa focused tech VC, with offices in Lagos, Nairobi and London. TLcom had been investing since 1999 in Tech, Media, Mobil and Internet companies across Europe, US and Africa, which is the exclusive focus of its most recent TLcom TIDE Africa funds.
TLcom manages total commitments of approximately 300 million USD in thesesectors via a series of dedicated investment vehicles. Our investment strategy is to identify, back and assist world class entrepreneurs and management teams with disruptive technologies and business models, compelling intellectual property and deep market knowledge.
We primarily target companies focused on Africa as a prime market, in the following investment themes: Access to Data Service; Financial Services; eCommerce; B2C applications (including but not limited to: health, education, energy, media and entertainment); and Software solutions to corporates and SMEs.
          
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            Investment focus
            
          - Software, Mobile, Information Technology
- Series A, Funding Round, Seed
- Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom
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        - Hub2.Io — Welcome to HUB2, the leading FINTECH startup in interoperability and payment infrastructure in Francophone Africa. We are proud to work with all financial industry players in Africa who need stable and high-performing infrastructure, and contribute to their success.
- Educatly — We help you get into the University of your dreams. We are the only platform with all the information you need to Study Abroad
- littlefishapp — Littlefish is a comprehensive commerce platform that empowers banks to serve small business with tools to streamline operations, drive growth, and enhance customer engagement.
            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
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        - 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.
            Norfund is the Norwegian Investment Fund for developing countries with 24.9 bill. NOK in total commitments (2019).
          
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            Investment focus
            
          - Energy, Financial Services, Renewable Energy
- Funding Round, Private Equity, Debt Financing
- Kenya, South Africa, United Kingdom
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        - Xurya — Xurya is a renewable energy platform in providing commercial and industrial rooftop owners access to solar lease product on one side. And investors access to a stable and safe investment in rooftop solar plants on the other side. Both are achieved by maintenance service which enables both parties peace of mind.
- Access Bank — Access Bank provides banking products and services to individual and business customers in Ghana. It offers standard savings and current, access advantage, solo, and premier accounts. The company also provides online banking services that include ATM, online access, and point-of-sale terminal services; and bills payment and Western Union moneytransfer services.
- India Grid Trust — IndiGrid was established on October 21, 2016 by our Sponsor, Sterlite Power Grid Ventures Limited, and is registered with SEBI pursuant to the InvIT Regulations.Their Sponsor is one of the leading independent power transmission companies operating in the private sector, with extensive experience in bidding, designing, financing, constructing andmaintaining power transmission projects across India.
            The road to success is long. Re-defining an industry requires passion, perseverance, and true grit. At Icon Ventures, we help entrepreneurs with true grit navigate the journey to become icons of tomorrow.
          
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            Investment focus
            
          - Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
- Series C, Series B, Series D
- United States, Israel, Canada
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        - Medeloop — Medeloop is an end-to-end AI-driven platform for early stage clinical research and trials.
- HelloCreator — HelloCreator harnesses the power of AI and LLMs to provide creators with a virtual team to help them navigate the complexity and emotional demands of pursuing their craft in the digital world.
- Global Worldwide — Global Worldwide have been global leaders in Agriculture, Materials Science, Autonomous Weapon Systems, and Pharmaceutical Testing since our inception in 1945. Each division of the company has led its respective industry through productive, science-based innovation to meet the needs of customers and
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            Investment focus
            
          - Financial Services, FinTech, Internet
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Nigeria, United Kingdom, Togo
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        - 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.
- Chowdeck — Order food, groceries, drinks, medicines & everyday essentials from top restaurants, pharmacies, local markets, and stores near you. Fast delivery with Chowdeck.
- Klas — Anyone, anywhere can teach online. Create & sell your ebooks, courses, and live classes- all on Klas.
            Infrastructure   
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Capital    We provide infrastructure, training, mentorship, market access and patient capital for entrepreneurs, technology start-ups and early stage companies to address the challenges that they encounter.
          
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            Investment focus
            
          - Apps, Internet, FinTech
- Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed
- Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa
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        - Merge — Startup Funding | Investment Opportunities | Merge App
- Big Cabal Media — Big Cabal Media is a Nigerian digital media company making amazing content loved by young and passionate Africans everywhere
- Ubawa Technologies — A payment processing platform that helps social media entrepreneurs accept payments and increase their customer conversion and retention rate with our conversational AI chat bot.
            Compass is a venture capital fund. We invest in start-ups with scalable business models and strong growth potential. We work with companies based in Mauritius, the Indian Ocean region and the African continent. Compass is wholly owned by and benefits from support from the ENL Group, one of Mauritius’ largest business conglomerates. Alongside theTurbine, our sister organisation and the region’s leading incubator and start-up accelerator, Compass is working to create a vibrant, sustainable start-up ecosystem in Mauritius and the Indian Ocean.
          
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            Investment focus
            
          - Information Technology, Financial Services, Big Data
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Mauritius, India, France
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        - Omnisient — Privacy-Preserving Data Collaboration platform enabling businesses to collaborate while ensuring consumer privacy and data protection.
- FCB.ai — Boost business success with proven AI chatbot solutions. Enhance sales figures, customer satisfaction, improve premium collections & more.
- Shortlist — Shortlist works in India and East Africa to help growing enterprises hire based on skills and potential, rather than pedigree. The Shortlist platform screens candidates using predictive chat-based interviews and online competency-based assessments, letting employers skips the most time-consuming and bias-prone phases of hiring.
            MNF Ventures is a venture capital fund based in Morocco, investing in Seed, Pre-Series A and Series A startups. Tickets size can go up to USD 1M. We invest in tech startups operating in Fintech/Insurtech, EdTech, Regtech, HealthTech, Biotech, EnergyTech Cybersecurity, SaaS...
Startups have either to be based in Morocco, or be based worldwideif at least one of the founders is a Moroccan citizen.
MNF Ventures manages Maroc Numeric Fund and Maroc Numeric Fund II.
          
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            Investment focus
            
          - Online Portals, FinTech, Enterprise Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Morocco, France, Canada
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        - Logidoo — Logidoo is a digital logistics marketplace-designed company that markets shuttles through smart logistics. The company's platform, which provides rapid, dependable, secure, and economical logistics, allows users to compare offers for sending and receiving items and to track parcels in real-time.
- ZSystems — ZSystems is a transformative super app designed to redefine B2B trade.
- Upfund — Upfund is a real estate company that provides reliable data on office, retail, and business premises. Upfund is a digital solution designed to respond to most commercial real estate business issues. They develop tools perfectly adapted to clients' requests in a remarkable time. Founded in 2022 and is located in Paris, France.
            Serena Ventures focuses on early-stage companies and giving them the opportunity to be heard. Serena Ventures extends relationships, encourages collaboration among portfolio companies, and expands partnership opportunities across my vast network.
          
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            Investment focus
            
          - E-Commerce, Health Care, Wellness
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, Spain
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        - Rebels — Rebelstork was born to make Parenting Lighter. We are the largest tech-driven marketplace for baby gear in North America - diverting overstock and retailer returned baby gear away from landfills and into the homes of customers at a fraction of the retail price.
- KLIQ — Fitness Coaches, launch the app you've been dreaming of with no upfront costs. Build, manage and grow your community based business using our fully managed product.
- Pixeltable — Open Source Python framework that enables AI Engineers to focus on modeling and experimentation.
            Triple Jump is an impact-focused investment manager.
          
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            Investment focus
            
          - FinTech, Finance, Financial Services
- Debt Financing, Series A, Funding Round
- India, Senegal, Mauritius
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        - Baobab+ — Baobab+ is a social business committed to providing access to energy and digital. We commercialize innovative products with financing solutions that meet the needs of local populations.
- Yellow — Yellow enables a distributed network of sales agents to serve rural households with life-changing products and services through a digital technology platform called Ofeefee.
- Light Microfinance — Light Microfinance is a non-banking finance company registered with the Reserve Bank of India. Headquartered at Ahmedabad, Gujarat, Light Microfinance provides micro and meso finance products and services with gender and poverty-focused programs, targeting rural and peri-urban areas, with a specific focus on poor women. The company operates inGujarat, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh and is one of the fastest growing microfinance companies in India today.
            TIA is an initiative of the Department of Science & Technology (DST) in South Africa, to enable and support technological innovation.
          
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          - Information Technology, Renewable Energy, Health Care
- Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed
- South Africa
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        - Jobox — Jobox is a student recruitment platform, built to connect employers, students and graduate career offices. Our focus is to improve graduate employability by ensuring all students have the skills they need to enter, stay in, and progress in the world of work.Jobox’s ecosystem provides employers with access to the best diverse & youthfultalent, students with more employment opportunities and universities with data-driven insights aimed at driving graduate employability forward.
- Aviro Health — We believe that empowering and supporting people to manage their own health benefits everybody.We built the Aviro Pocket Clinic to support self-care and provide access to services. We give people what they need to perform important health checks like regular HIV self-testing and connect them to experts and services who can offer hands-on and supported care when needed.
- Ownedby Technologies — Ownedby is an interactive asset management solution for business and household assets, focused on appliances and devices, giving these unique identity that is traceable online, yet linked to and controlled by owners.
            Symbiotics is the leading market access platform for impact investing. Symbiotics offers investment, asset management and capacity building services.
          
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          - Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Debt Financing, Funding Round, Post-IPO Debt
- India, Kenya, Senegal
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        - Varthana — With the availability of education & school loans, financing education has become easier. Apply for instant education loan with Varthana today.
- Khan Bank — Khan Bank is a universal bank and a customer of FMO.
- AMK Microfinance Institution — AMK’s commitment to social performance has been absolute. AMK has developed a comprehensive social performance management framework, which ensures that the organization stays focusing on its mission to assist large numbers of poor people. As of December 2016, over 2,300 staffs serve almost 600,000 clients in nearly 13,000 villages across Cambodia.This outreach represents 89% of all villages.
            Input Output Global is a technological business renowned for its engineering and study of blockchain structures.
          
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          - FinTech, Finance, Marketplace
- Seed
- Kenya
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        - Pezesha — Digital Financial Ecosystem for connecting MSMEs to Capital.
            Verdant Frontiers designs and builds large-scale businesses to deliver compelling returns for investors and life-changing jobs in Africa.
          
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          - Travel, FinTech, Finance
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Kenya, Italy, Ethiopia
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        - Pezesha — Digital Financial Ecosystem for connecting MSMEs to Capital.
- Zeraki — Zeraki is to use technology to address some of the obstacles learners encounter in accessing quality education. We use technology to enhance the quality of education students get at each level of education and use technology to help students transition from one level of education to the next, and ultimately from education into employment.
- Leta — Leta Technology is a software development company that creates supply chain and logistics software to enable the efficient and automated movement of goods.
            Cascador | Business Growth Accelerator for Mid-Stage Nigerian Companies Cascador is a business growth program for Nigerian entrepreneurs leading mid-stage companies, providing mentoring and access to advisors, and investors.
          
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          - Analytics, Digital Media, Data Integration
- Seed
- Nigeria
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        - Stears — Stears Business has a simple mission: deliver original, analytical, well-written stories that make sense of the Nigerian economy
            Kepple Africa Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm.
          
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          - Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt
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        - 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.
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