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Top 50 EdTech VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Africa in September 2025

A list of 50 VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Edtech startups based in Africa. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Edtech companies from Africa. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 EdTech VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Africa in September 2025

Investor EdTech Africa investments
iHub 10
Launch Africa 6
54 Collective 5
Proparco 5
Microtraction 4
Kepple Africa Ventures 4
Vumela Fund 4
Ventures Platform 4
AngelHub Ventures 4
Investisseurs & Partenaires 4
DOB Equity 3
Chinook Capital Limited 3
LoftyInc Capital 3
ODBA 3
Consonance Investment Managers 3
MNF Ventures 3
F6 Ventures 3
Future Africa 2
LocalGlobe 2
Knife Capital 2
Praxis 2
Musha Ventures 2
pledges.com 2
Acumen 2
FINCA Ventures 2
Savannah Fund 2
International Finance Corporation 2
Emerge VC 2
Wamda 2
Seedstars Africa Ventures 2
Nestcoin 2
British International Investment 2
Ardent Capital 2
TLcom Capital Partners 2
Growth Capital 2
IFC Venture Capital Group 1
The A to Z Impact Foundation 1
OMICRONE 1
KNF Ventures 1
Ceniarth 1
Rise Capital 1
Beta.Ventures 1
Save the Children 1
Fondation Botnar 1
Calculus Capital 1
AfricInvest 1
Untapped Global 1
BICIS Groupe 1
Calvert Impact Capital 1
Educas 1
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iHub VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya
iHub is a globally recognized organization that is deeply steeped in the local tech innovation culture. It is fair to say that the iHub has been both the main catalyst for regional tech acceleration and a role model for tech hubs across emerging markets. We are nurturing the best innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem; one that constantlychallenges and influences technology; one that can be replicated across the continent, as we believe that African innovation will play a critical role in shaping future technology globally.
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Investment focus
  • Education, E-Learning, EdTech
  • Seed
  • Kenya, South Africa
Portfolio highlights
  • SILABU — Silabu is a platform that links students with skilled teachers to help them achieve their learning objectives, offering an alternative to traditional education.
  • ntemata — ntemata an Edtech platform that allows you to automate teacher assessment processes and analyze competence-based learning holistically.
  • LoHo Learning — Loho Learning is an e-Learning platform that provides customized and interactive education to the schooling generation in a variety of digital formats.
Launch Africa VC Fund · Ebène, Plaines Wilhems, Mauritius · 6 investments in the past 12 months
Launch Africa is a leading Pan-African VC fund solving the significant funding gap in the Seed and pre-Series A investment landscape in Africa
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
  • PayTic — PayTic enables payments issuers to manage their card programs by providing dedicated back-office solutions that streamline the end-to-end operations in customer support, chargebacks, fraud, AML, reporting, and reconciliation. Our proprietary solutions are unique in automating and centralizing the program management processes, regardless of thenumber of processors and the payment networks involved in the payments products. We impact payments providers by eliminating the defragmented and manual processes and replacing them with a SaaS platform that increases proactivity, mitigates risks, and delivers value. It reduces the burn rate to near 0 in operational costs and offers an unprecedented competitive advantage. PayTic is introducing the Zero Ops model in managing payments.
  • Affinity — Join over 70,000 who trust the Affinity mobile app to manage your personal banking needs and qualify for an Affinity Instant Loan
  • Liquify Digital — Liquify is an invoice marketplace that transforms invoices from SMEs in emerging markets into an investable asset class for financiers seeking reliable yield
54 Collective VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 5 investments in the past 12 months
Building and scaling African tech startups with catalytic capital, value-add support and our global network.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa
Portfolio highlights
  • Billboxx — Empowering SMEs to pay and get paid on time, every time.
  • Yeah — Yeah is a financial technology company that offers payment processing services while building a credit profile for the banked and unbanked.
  • Konnect — Konnect provides a cross borders payment solution intended to simplify complex financial flows allowing companies of any scale and size to send and receive payments in a practical, secure, and low-cost way.
Proparco VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Proparco is devoted to private sector funding in the sustainable development sector.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, Energy, Finance
  • Funding Round, Debt Financing, Seed
  • India, Kenya, Mauritius
Portfolio highlights
  • ACCIONA — At ACCIONA we offer sustainable solutions to the most urgent challenges facing the planet, such as global warming, energy needs and water shortages
  • SeA Bank — SeA Bank is a banking institution that provides services like preferential loans, tax service, online transaction solutions and more.
  • Alya — FinTech providing instalments & payment solutions in Africa
Microtraction VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 2 investments in the past 12 months
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
Portfolio highlights
  • 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
Kepple Africa Ventures VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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.
Vumela Fund VC Fund · Hyde Park, Newtownabbey, United Kingdom
Vumela was established in 2009 by FNB Business Banking and Edge Growth. The objective was to create an innovative model for the development of a sustainable and a financially and operationally independent investment business which invests in high growth small, medium and micro size enterprises with good economic and impact returns.Vumela wascapitalised in 2010. Within the first four years, we’d invested R90 million into eight high growth SMEs, and created a total of 400 jobs. They launched their second fund in 2015, after a further investment of R100 million from FirstRand and R127 million from the Jobs Fund. Within the first year of launching this second fund, we’ve committed R43 million to five investments that are expected to create over 1800 new jobs.The first fund of its kind in South Africa, Vumela’s main goals are to invest in and develop entrepreneurial companies in order to help alleviate poverty in South Africa by creating jobs, and to generate a return for its beneficiaries: the Shalamuka Foundation and the FirstRand Group.
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Investment focus
  • Education, Software, Primary Education
  • Funding Round, Seed, Debt Financing
  • South Africa, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
  • Rentoza — We champion giving you access, affordability and flexibility to explore tech on your own terms
  • Kusini Water — Kusini Water builds water treatment systems from nanotechnology and macadamia nut shells.
  • Trade Shield — Automated trade credit risk management. Discover opportunities & reduce bad debt with always-on risk evaluation, credit scoring & recommended credit limits.
Ventures Platform VC Fund · Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria · 2 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • 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.
AngelHub Ventures VC Fund · Stellenbosch, NA - South Africa, South Africa
Operating out of Stellenbosch in South Africa and backed by two family offices Angelhub Ventures's team is passionate about early stage investments in (South) Africa. Being entrepreneurial ourselves, we thoroughly understand the challenges and changes our founders face – which is why we back them in any way we can. Most importantly, we believein building great businesses and we are in it for the long haul.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Education
  • Seed, Series A
  • South Africa, Mexico, Colombia
Portfolio highlights
  • Syscap — Syscap is a financial technology company that offers cutting-edge solutions to financial institutions to have a better administration and management of their funding sources. It connects the leaders of financial and real estate institutions with their funders. For institutions, the company ensures the optimization of their funding source managementprocesses, but also the strengthening of the relationship with their funders. To funders, Syscap guarantees the transparency and timely monitoring of its funds for the safety and growth of its resources.
  • Godochurch — GoDoChurch is a cloud-based church administration software which is designed to assist Christian churches and ministries with managing members, Sunday services, events, communications, and more. The system is made up of a base package, covering messaging, news, ministries, lists, church roles, services, events, and growth paths, with additionalmodules for managing follow-ups, groups, and Kids church.
  • Velocity — Velocity is a micro fulfillment dark store that delivers through digital channels.
Investisseurs & Partenaires VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Investisseurs et Partenaires
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, Health Care, Food and Beverage
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • France, Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire
Portfolio highlights
  • iProcure — iProcure is a Nairobi-based start-up working to optimize the agriculture input supply chain in rural Kenya. iProcure’s web and mobile technology solution improves agriculture retailers’ operations. It lets them manage ordering based on inventory, point of sale activities, and client profiles along with geo-located purchasing patterns, real-timeagent performance and transaction analysis, and built-in mobile payments. As a result, retailers can better predict demand with business intelligence data, improve inventory management, and streamline distribution efficiency.
  • Trackbit — Trackbit is a cryptocurrency exchange platform.
  • Lapaire — Discover a wide range of high-quality & affordable eyeglasses at Lapaire Glasses. Book a free vision test with our professional optometrists to help you find your perfect pair of glasses to enhance your vision and style. Shops in 7 african countries: Benin, Ivory Coast, Togo, Burkina Faso, Mali, Kenya and Uganda.
DOB Equity VC Fund · Veessen, Gelderland, The Netherlands · 2 investments in the past 12 months
DOB Equity is a private equity firm specializing in growth capital and buy-and-build strategies in small and medium companies.
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Investment focus
  • Food and Beverage, Health Care, Farming
  • Private Equity, Funding Round, Seed
  • Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda
Portfolio highlights
  • FarmWorks — FarmWorks is an agricultural technology company that gives farmers access to farm inputs as well as a market for the produce .FarmWork is to unlock agricultural potential by building clusters of mid-sized farms while working with thousands of small-holder farmers and establishing direct linkage to local and global markets.
  • Ilara Health — Ilara Health helps primary care clinics across Africa deliver better care.
  • Spouts of Water — SPOUTS mission is to manufacture and distribute ceramic water filters to provide everyone in Uganda with safe water.
Chinook Capital Limited VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
Chinook Capital is focused on investments in seed- and pre-stage companies in internet software, services, and media sectors.
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Investment focus
  • EdTech, Retail, Software
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
  • Edves — Edves automates the brick and mortal School operations from Student enrollment, Fee Collection, Lesson Note up to Transcript Generation.
  • Youverify — Youverify helps businesses and individuals confirm identity and physical addresses. Using AI, Youverify confirms a user’s identity document and compares it with their facial biometrics. This information can be cross-checked against more than 300 databases locally and globally.Youverify in partnership with over 20,000 field verification officersverifies physical addresses all over Sub-Sahara Africa in less than 48 hours.Youverify fills the gap in Africa's digital industry by providing one API for identity and physical address verification.
  • Lifestores Pharmacy — Lifestores is a retail pharmacy start-up bringing disruptive innovation to the pharmaceutical sector in Nigeria by democratizing quality medicines and pharmaceutical services.
LoftyInc Capital VC Fund · Carmel, California, United States
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.
  • Salus Cloud — Salus Cloud is an AI-native platform for engineers to develop and manage security.
ODBA VC Fund · Port Louis, Port Louis, Mauritius
We invest in people and stories, which are at the heart of everything we do.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Financial Exchanges
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Nigeria, Rwanda, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Zazuu — Zazuu is a platform for sending money across the border.
  • Bitmama — Bitmama is the best cryptocurrency trading platform that lets you buy, sell Bitcoin, ETH, Celo, USDT, XRP, and more. Available in Nigeria & over 100 countries.
  • GetFundedAfrica — GetFundedAfrica's mission is to help Africa’s most promising startups find funding, grow & solve society’s greatest challenges. We do this through a media portal - GetFundedAfrica News; a learning portal - REMSANA; and an investment arm - GFA Ventures
Consonance Investment Managers VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
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
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
MNF Ventures VC Fund · Casablanca, Grand Casablanca, Morocco · 2 investments in the past 12 months
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
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
F6 Ventures VC Fund · Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia
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
  • Datasphera — Datasphera's Exacctly SaaS monitors support conversations between customers and support agents and detects situations (like urgency, requests, dissatisfaction,...) and emotions (like happiness, anger, distress,...) to quantify customer satisfaction and offer real-time actions (Automated alerts on critical issues, ticket escalation, agentassistance to reply).
  • True Delta — True Delta is a data management and processing company. They are document recognition and data reconciliation processes. They offer data extraction from documents using ocr techniques, fast onboarding and data integration,and efficient data reconciliation with intelligent matching tools and less coding .
  • Bako Motors SAS — Bako Motors SAS is a motor vehicle manufacturing company that develops solar electric vehicles. manufacturer of electric vehicles with the goal of creating long-term fixes for rural areas' transportation issues with regard to people, cargo, and machinery. The business makes electric cars as well as solutions for clean energy generation andstorage that are infinitely scalable, providing users with inexpensive and environmentally friendly e-mobility.
Future Africa VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States
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
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
LocalGlobe VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 21 investments in the past 12 months
Seeding ambitious founders at places like @citymapper, @improbableio,@teamkano, @moo, @songkick,@seedcamp, @transferwise and @zoopla since 1999. Who's next?
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United Kingdom, United States, France
Portfolio highlights
  • Laka — Laka is collective bicycle insurance especially for cyclists. We flipped insurance. By making it pay to pay out, we are the collective that backs each other. Protect your bikes and gear against theft & damage with Laka 5-star rated cycle insurance.
  • Xelix — Empower your AP & P2P teams with Xelix: AI-powered software that prevents overpayments & delivers meaningful insights around working capital.
  • Two — Buy Now, Pay Later for your business customers. Two makes it easy and safe to offer invoice as a payment method on your e-commerce site.
Knife Capital VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
  • Funding Round, Series A, Seed
  • South Africa, United States, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
  • Octiv — Turbocharge your fitness business, grow your community and build your brand with Octiv's leading Gym Management Software.
  • Outsized — Independent talent for enterprise clients and consulting firms in Asia-Pacific, Africa, and the Middle East.
  • Simera Sense — Simera Sense develops camera control electronics for optical payload and Cubesat imager solutions.
Praxis VC Fund · New York, New York, United States
We are a creative engine for redemptive entrepreneurship, supporting founders, funders, and innovators motivated by their faith to love their neighbors and renew culture.
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Investment focus
  • Non Profit, Social Assistance, Education
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, Malawi, Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
  • Church Space — Church Space is a platform that provides flexible shared rental options for renters seeking commercial space at an affordable rate. It was launched in 2019 by founder and CEO Day Edwards.
  • Please Assist Me — One app for all your home management needs. Say goodbye to all of the headache with managing multiple apps, service providers, and arrival times.
  • Parallel Fluidics — Custom microfluidic devices in 3 days.
Musha Ventures VC Fund · New York, New York, United States
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
  • Regfyl — Powered by AI, Regfyl is the all-in-one fraud and compliance platform for financial institutions and fintechs. Regfyl allows these businesses to reduce costs and focus on higher value activities.
  • Sukhiba — Sukhiba is a decentralized community-based commerce platform.
  • Orca Fraud — Orca empowers fraud fighters with effective tools to combat fraud
pledges.com VC Fund
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Investment focus
  • Education
  • Pre-Seed
  • Rwanda
Portfolio highlights
  • AltSchool Africa — Let's invest in your Future. Learn highly sought after tech skills without hassle. A program designed to arm you with the skills and knowledge required to boldly launch your tech career.
Acumen VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 8 investments in the past 12 months
Acumen is a nonprofit venture fund that invests in early-stage companies bringing critical services like agriculture, clean energy, education, financial inclusion, healthcare and workforce development to low-income communities in 14 countries across East and West Africa, South Asia, Latin America, and the United States. Since 2001, Acumeninvested $128 million in 128 companies that have transformed the lives of over 308 million low-income people.
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Investment focus
  • Agriculture, Health Care, Financial Services
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • United States, India, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
  • Wami Agro — Revolutionizing agriculture with cutting-edge digital solutions and sustainable practices.
  • Ampersand — Ampersand catalyzes and power mass-market electric mobility. By supplying the battery swap network and operating system the company makes sustainable mobility rapidly accessible and affordable for developing markets, to improve livelihoods and the environment. With over a million km already covered by e-motorcycles in Africa using our plug-and-playpowertrain and energy network.
  • BioMassters — Biomassers aim to replace charcoal production and charcoal cooking by providing modern, affordable, and low-carbon pellet fuel production and cooking solutions based on locally produced fuel from waste materials.
FINCA Ventures VC Fund · Washington, District of Columbia, United States
FINCA Ventures is an impact investing initiative of FINCA International that provides patient capital and support to early-stage social enterprises.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, Information Technology, FinTech
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Kenya, Mexico, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
  • FloatPays — Floatpays help your employees achieve financial wellbeing by giving them early access to earned wages.
  • Bamba — We help large companies that want to help their affinity users to solve unforeseen events fast, by minimizing costs, through a smart digital agent embedded in any company’s interface
  • Lapaire — Discover a wide range of high-quality & affordable eyeglasses at Lapaire Glasses. Book a free vision test with our professional optometrists to help you find your perfect pair of glasses to enhance your vision and style. Shops in 7 african countries: Benin, Ivory Coast, Togo, Burkina Faso, Mali, Kenya and Uganda.
Savannah Fund VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya
Savannah Fund is a seed capital fund specializing in US$25,000-US$500,000 investments in early stage high growth technology (web and mobile) startups in sub-Saharan Africa. Initially focused on East Africa, the fund aims to bridge the early stage/angel and venture capital investment gap that currently exists in Africa. The Fund expects toachieve this objective by combining capital with mentor networks both in the region and from Silicon Valley via an accelerator program and a follow-on independent seed fund.The fund is managed by an experienced and technology savvy team that have founded companies or are actively involved in angel investing or having run successful accelerator programs in past but also understand the unique Subsaharan African environment. They are backed and supported by both local, regional and international networks of angels,venture capitalists whose expertise we can draw on to help startups succeed and scale to fully fledged regional or global companies.They believe in the potential for Africa to become a global technology innovator by creating sustainable for profit companies that create jobs and make an impact.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Kenya, United States, South Africa
Portfolio highlights
  • Oze — OZÉ brings African small businesses into the digital era. It is an app that makes it easy for businesses to track sales, expenses, and customer information. The data is analyzed to provide tailored recommendations, reports, and business education. If the entrepreneur needs a little extra support, an OZÉ Coach is just a click away. As they are usingOZÉ to manage their business and learn how to run it better, we are learning about them. Using this data and machine learning, we can predict their credit risk and provide them with affordable capital from our banking partners. With over 20,000 registered users, OZÉ is the largest online community of SMEs in Ghana. The most exciting thing is that OZÉ works; 97% of businesses that have used OZE for at least 9 months are growing or profitable or both!
  • Root — Launch digital and embedded insurance solutions with omni-channel distribution.
  • Afropolitan — Afropolitan is building a Network State to unleash the maximum potential of Africans around the world. Are you interested? Join us with your email.
International Finance Corporation VC Fund · Washington, District of Columbia, United States · 43 investments in the past 12 months
A strong and engaged private sector is indispensible to ending extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity. That's where IFC comes in - we have more than 60 years experience in unlocking private investment, creating markets and opportunities where they are needed most.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
  • Debt Financing, Funding Round, Series B
  • India, Brazil, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • ARAUCO — ARAUCO is a diversified global company in the forestry industry. They use world-class technologies and processes throughout the value chain. They are present in the forestry, pulp, timber, panels and renewable energy businesses.
  • AND Global — AND Global is a Financial Technology as a Services company that provides everything that a modern digital bank needs and more. The company was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Central Region, Singapore.
  • Midas — Midas is the first neobroker of Turkey, providing zero commission Turkish and American stocks.
Emerge VC VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Emerge is a $70m pre-seed fund backed by 100+ of the world’s best edtech and future of work founders and executives. Our vision is to democratise access to opportunity by being a catalytic partner for early-stage founders re-designing the future of learning and work.
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Investment focus
  • Education, E-Learning, EdTech
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Popp AI — Popp helps brands boost customer lifetime value + unlock community-led growth by transforming customer advocacy into a community sport.
  • Popp — Joinpopp provides AI-driven solutions to automate recruitment tasks, including application screening and candidate conversations. The platform integrates seamlessly with ATS/CRM systems, enhancing efficiency in the hiring process. Joinpopp also offers features for creating personalized messages, streamlining communication with potentialcandidates.
  • LearnWise AI — Transform your institution's student support with AI. Cut support costs by 50%, provide 24/7 assistance, and integrate with 400+ EdTech tools. Trusted by leading universities.
Wamda VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Wamda is a platform of programs and networks that aims to accelerate entrepreneurship ecosystems across MENA.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Logistics, EdTech
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Tunisia
Portfolio highlights
  • GoMyCode — GoMyCode is changing the education market by training talents in a dynamic belnded environement on digital skills and connects them with tech opportunities around the world. Based on 4 Main Aspects: - Data based Assessment - Data based matching - Business Analytics - Learning Platform - Content EditorGoMyCode provides digital Skills Training forthe Future of Work. In 4 Different fields: - DATA - DEVELOPMENT - DESIGN - DIGITAL MARKETING
  • Dukkantek — Dukkantek aims to empower and enable traditional merchants to be able to compete in the modern world or the digital world through digital transformation. It is a technology partner that improves and provides so many solutions to your business. Dukkantek has what every store needs to manage their business easily and efficiently. With Dukkantek, you will have an end-to-end technology companion that improves all your processes.
  • FreshSource — FreshSource is revolutionizing the agriculture value chain through a tech-based B2B platform that is disrupting the distribution model of horticulture produce.
Seedstars Africa Ventures VC Fund
Seedstars Africa Ventures is an early-stage venture capital fund investing in high-growth companies active across Sub-Saharan Africa.
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Investment focus
  • Energy, FinTech, Software
  • Seed, Series A
  • Kenya, France, Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
  • Ampersand — Ampersand catalyzes and power mass-market electric mobility. By supplying the battery swap network and operating system the company makes sustainable mobility rapidly accessible and affordable for developing markets, to improve livelihoods and the environment. With over a million km already covered by e-motorcycles in Africa using our plug-and-playpowertrain and energy network.
  • Shamba Pride — Revolutionizing Rural Agriculture Trade Ecosystem for Africa Farmers Traditional farming methods across Africa often depend on synthetic inputs, degrading so...
  • Beacon Power Services — Beacon Power Services is a utility company that provides energy management software and analytics for utilities.
Nestcoin VC Fund · Tórtola, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
Nestcoin is a web3 application company that builds, operates, and invests in crypto-native products.
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Investment focus
  • Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Education
  • Pre-Seed
  • Rwanda, Nigeria, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Stakefair — Stakefair is an ecosystem of blockchain, crypto and DeFi products.
  • Nandi Labs — Nandi Labs, Home of Nandi Cowry, Digital FESTAC and MoveMint Magazine
  • AltSchool Africa — Let's invest in your Future. Learn highly sought after tech skills without hassle. A program designed to arm you with the skills and knowledge required to boldly launch your tech career.
British International Investment VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 33 investments in the past 12 months
British International Investment is the UK's development finance institution. We've been at the forefront of supporting companies in developing countries for more than 70 years.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, Banking, Finance
  • Funding Round, Debt Financing, Series B
  • India, Nigeria, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
  • Ampersand — Ampersand catalyzes and power mass-market electric mobility. By supplying the battery swap network and operating system the company makes sustainable mobility rapidly accessible and affordable for developing markets, to improve livelihoods and the environment. With over a million km already covered by e-motorcycles in Africa using our plug-and-playpowertrain and energy network.
  • Wave Mobile Money — Wave Mobile Money provides an app-based financial solution to save, transfer, and borrow money. Wave Mobile Money is on a mission to make Africa the first cashless continent. On a continent where less than 10% of the population has a bank account, Wave is building the first modern financial network — no account fees, instantly available, andaccepted everywhere! It is building life-changing financial infrastructure. When mobile money succeeded in Kenya, it lifted about a million people out of poverty. And yet, over 10 years later, most Africans still lack access to affordable ways to save, transfer or borrow the money they need to build businesses or provide for their families. Wave is solving this problem by using technology to build a radically inclusive and extremely affordable financial network.
  • Miro Forestry & Timber Products — Miro Forestry & Timber Products was formed with the objective to develop a quality and cost-competitive forestry products business. The company is a commercial timber plantation business offering social, economic, and environmental benefits to local communities. Miro Forestry specializes in the manufacturing and production of plywood,edge-glued panels, CCA treated poles, and other forestry products.
Ardent Capital VC Fund · Bangkok, Krung Thep, Thailand
Leading Venture Capital & Builder in Southeast Asia | Experts in E-Commerce, B2B, B2C, Fulfilment Startups | Seed, Series A Funding
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Internet, Software
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Nigeria, Indonesia, Thailand
Portfolio highlights
  • Laborhack — LaborHack offers a select network of tested and certified carpenters, plumbers, electricians, masons, welders, and other tradespeople. It provides cleaning, plumbing, electrical, and HVAC services.
  • Trade Lenda — Trade Lenda: Access to Loans, Investments, Utility Payments, Credit Access, Insurance, and More! Unlock Opportunities to Earn, Invest, and Grow. Secure Personal or Business Loans Toda
  • Feather Africa — Feather Africa provides money transaction services, such as enabling users to send and receive money from anyone using the application. It offers withdrawals of cash without ATM cards by sending money to the nearest cash vendors.
TLcom Capital Partners VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in the past 12 months
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
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
Growth Capital VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
We are Nigeria's first social innovation fund aimed at creating an unprecedented path to scale for outliers driving social change in Nigeria.
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Investment focus
  • EdTech, Software, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
  • Edves — Edves automates the brick and mortal School operations from Student enrollment, Fee Collection, Lesson Note up to Transcript Generation.
  • Codepym — Codepym is a Software company that is focused primarily on education. Since its inception in 2016, Codepym has continued to take giants strides in reinventing learning and inspiring people to make lifelong positive impact.With more than 100 institutions, (primary, secondary, tertiary, and learning centres), with over 50 staff, everything we dohas our clients at the epicentre.
IFC Venture Capital Group VC Fund · Washington, District of Columbia, United States
IFC supports technology ventures that are creating new opportunities in emerging markets, transforming industries, and driving inclusive growth while realizing strong returns.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Financial Services, Internet
  • Funding Round, Series B, Series C
  • United States, India, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
  • Figopara — Figopara is a solution that discounts companies' e-invoices before their due dates with the offers received by financial institutions. It provides secure information to the financial companies that the customer is associated with and wants to reach by providing them with printed invoice information.Figopara was established in 2017 to developfinancial technology applications and is headquartered in Istanbul, Turkey.
  • Scanntech — Scanntech provides point-of-sale software to retail stores. The company offers tech solutions and connectivity in sales points to enables independent supermarkets to process transactions, run inventory management, and provide financial services to consumers through intelligence point of sale software.Scanntech was founded in 1992 and is based inMontevideo, Uruguay.
  • Liquid Intelligent Technologies — Liquid Intelligent Technologies, a business of Cassava Technologies is a pan-African technology group with capabilities across 14 countries, primarily in Sub-Saharan Africa.
The A to Z Impact Foundation VC Fund
Impact First Investing A to Z happily sacrifices financial returns on its investments in exchange for shared prosperity and positive societal outcomes. These investments empower underserved communities, leading to better jobs, improved health, and a higher quality of life.
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Investment focus
  • B2B, Education, Nutrition
  • Seed, Funding Round
  • Kenya, South Africa
Portfolio highlights
  • Kwanza Tukule — Kwanza Tukule is a cashless B2B business that offers food supply services to local food vendors.
  • BluLever Educations — Join the artisans & apprentices who are building the future. At BluLever Education you can build your career, business, or the artisan ecosystem with an education partner that believes in artisans. Welcome to our digital home. We offer plumbing and electrical apprenticeships.
OMICRONE VC Fund · La Garenne-colombes, Ile-de-France, France
OMICRONE is an information technology consulting company.
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Investment focus
  • Gaming, Training
  • Pre-Seed
  • Tunisia
Portfolio highlights
  • CoaChess — CoaChess provides services, instructions, and sophisticated learning methods designed to increase players' skills at any level. The most cutting-edge feature of CoaChess is its intelligent bot, which can imitate notable chess champions and other significant figures in the game's past.
KNF Ventures VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa
was a SARS-approved section 12J Venture Capital Company
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Investment focus
  • SaaS, EBooks, EdTech
  • Series A, Funding Round
  • South Africa
Portfolio highlights
  • Snapplify — Snapplify is at the forefront of edtech solutions in Africa, and specialises in enabling digital learning for individuals and institutions via the largest digital educational marketplace in Africa. As a global edtech company, Snapplify strives for radical inclusion to level the playing field and equip individuals across emerging markets with theworld-class tools they need to collaborate, innovate and thrive. Snapplify’s technology is used in other educational products to facilitate collaboration throughout the educational community.Snapplify for Education’s award-winning platform is already a top choice for institutions integrating digital education into their classrooms. From software to support, Snapplify provides institutions with everything they need to create a secure, collaborative e-learning environment for students. Snapplify’s robust 24-hour-access digital-library solution offers thousands of free ebooks and widely applicable, curriculum-approved educational content supplied by partner publishers from across the globe. Snapplify’s diversity of device integration allows schools to use its products on the devices that they already have access to, without having to invest in costly digital infrastructure upgrades. Snapplify’s solutions are industry celebrated and globally recognised for their innovation in technology.In order to achieve its educational goals, Snapplify has built strong relationships with diverse partners around the growth of its ebook, e-textbook, and device catalogue, and partnered with international publishers and other key stakeholders to meet the demand for widely relevant, curriculum-compliant digital educational content. As a socially minded company, Snapplify is committed to supporting others and creating sustainable change through collaboration and innovation. Snapplify empowers, inspires, and uplifts teachers via Teacha! (a media hub, resource marketplace, and careers portal for educators); is the digital content partner on a project that delivers technology and e-learning to public schools in South Africa’s Gauteng province, and runs impact programmes through the Snapplify Foundation.Snapplify originated in South Africa, focusing initially on the South African education and digital content industries. Since its establishment in 2012, the company has grown and expanded into new markets in Africa and the United States, with offices across South Africa, as well as in Nairobi, London, Amsterdam and New Jersey. Snapplify is backed by AngelHub Ventures, a venture capital company backed by former First National Bank CEO Michael Jordaan and the Harris family, as well as international investors. In 2019, Snapplify secured $2 million expansion capital from venture capital firm Knife Capital, and empowered African investment manager Hlayisani Capital’s Hlayisani Growth Fund.Snapplify for Education’s award-winning platform is already a top choice for institutions integrating digital education into their classrooms. From software to support, Snapplify provides institutions with everything they need to create a secure, collaborative e-learning environment for students. Through Snapplify’s e-learning and digital library solution, Engage, educators can share teacher-created, multimedia resource materials with students; administrators can manage the access and permissions for multiple student and staff accounts; schools can host their own 24-hour access digital content library (which comes with over 50 000 free resources including study guides, e-textbooks, past exam papers for multiple curricula, children’s books in African languages and more); and students and parents can purchase prescribed e-textbooks. Snapplify’s diversity of device integration allows schools to use its products on the devices that they already have access to, without having to invest in costly digital infrastructure upgrades. Snapplify’s solutions are industry celebrated and globally recognised for their innovation in technology.
  • Granite WMS — GraniteWMS is a barcode-based warehouse management software solution, enabling full traceability of all items in your warehouse and optimising warehouse processes and performance.
Ceniarth VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States
Worldwide Reach We invest globally, with exposure across developing, emerging, and developed economies.
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Investment focus
  • Agriculture, Social Entrepreneurship, Energy
  • Debt Financing, Seed, Series B
  • Kenya, Ghana, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Kheyti — Kheyti helps small farmers battle income variability by providing low cost technologies bundled with services.
  • iProcure — iProcure is a Nairobi-based start-up working to optimize the agriculture input supply chain in rural Kenya. iProcure’s web and mobile technology solution improves agriculture retailers’ operations. It lets them manage ordering based on inventory, point of sale activities, and client profiles along with geo-located purchasing patterns, real-timeagent performance and transaction analysis, and built-in mobile payments. As a result, retailers can better predict demand with business intelligence data, improve inventory management, and streamline distribution efficiency.
  • Farmerline — The Farmerline vision is to see an Africa where Agriculture NGO’s are not a functioning force in the market. Farmerline provides paid services that allow farmers to have the information and access they need to employ an entrepreneurial method of farming. Input dealers and traders pay for more efficient communication channels to farmers andfarmers pay for information packages and services. In this vision, more food is produce, more food gets to market, and GDP from cash crop export soars.
Rise Capital VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States
Rise Capital is a leading global venture capital firm focused on Emerging Markets
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Internet, Health Care
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Mexico, Egypt, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Facily — Facily is a social commerce marketplace in Latin America. The platform focuses on low-ticket items, delivering great prices and differentiated logistics to lower income neighbourhoods, leveraging learnings from China. Facily offers a unique experience by bringing the opportunity to buy together with friends directly from producers andmanufacturers, having fun playing with freemium features. Facily also promotes community buying by leveraging local leaders and influencers.
  • SaveIN — SaveIN, as the name suggests, is a financial services platform made exclusively for Indians, with an aim to revolutionize their experience across banking and daily financial transactions.We aim to offer, the full suite of traditional banking products and experiences, but in a never seen before avatar, thereby making it fun, simple, secure, andunbelievably rewarding experience. All this and more at just the click of a button, in a 100% digital and paperless, mobile first ecosystem.
  • Homzmart — Homzmart is an e-commerce platform that sells home furniture, home décor, lighting, and home supplies. The company specializes in the fields of home improvement, eCommerce, home directory, technology, and home shopping. It was founded in 2019 and headquartered in Cairo, Al Qahirah.
Beta.Ventures VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
Beta.Ventures invests in driven, early-stage entrepreneurs scaling tech and tech-enabled startups to become market leaders. They are focused on the opportunities made available by a 1.2 billion-person, mobile phone enabled Africa.Beta.Ventures works closely with founders and teams from product idea to product launch through to the next stage ofcompany development. We are focused on the opportunities made available by a 1.2 billion-person, mobile phone enabled Africa.We are experienced entrepreneurs ourselves and are able to share what has proven to work for product and service scaling, revenue growth and fundraising.Operations is key to success at early stage companies, and our environment often faces a dearth of experience scaling opportunities; Beta.Ventures focuses intensely on the operations of a company, adding value through several levers we know, from experience, will enable a company to succeed.Our partners, affiliates, and mentors lead some top technology companies locally and internationally and we encourage you to partner with us to take advantage of our experience building great products/services, negotiating partnerships and deals, leading teams, and raising money.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, B2B
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Voyance — Voyance is a big data company helping businesses predict the future using machine learning combined with their data. Our platform can be used to answer questions like what does my revenue look like in the next two months, is this transaction fraudulent, will this customer churn and much more. We are currently piloting with organisations like banks,ecommerce and fintechs companies across Africa and United Arab Emirates.
  • PayHippo — PayHippo is making it easier to finance small and medium sized businesses in Africa. There is a need for financing of $158 bn for SMEs in Nigeria alone. To start, PayHippo helps SMEs access and spend lender capital effectively. During their first full operational year in 2020, the PayHippo co--founders leveraged their domain expertise and foundingexperience to beat their 2020 goal by 50%.
  • Knabu Distributed Systems Ltd — We are building a clearing bank.
Save the Children VC Fund · Fairfield, Connecticut, United States
Save the Children invests in childhood – every day, in times of crisis and for their future. In the United States and around the world, they give children a healthy start, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. By transforming children's lives now, they change the course of their future and ours.
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Investment focus
  • E-Learning, Information Technology
  • Seed
  • Kenya
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
Fondation Botnar VC Fund · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Fondation Botnar is a charitable foundation established with the core purpose to support children’s basic needs throughout the world. It was founded in Basel in 2003 to continue the philanthropic work of the Botnar family. Their focus is health, nutrition and education.They have supported many compelling projects over the years and are now in aprocess to establish a new strategy. They are currently developing a fresh investment and organisational framework to sustainably manage the capital base.
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Investment focus
  • EdTech, Medical, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
  • Seed, Funding Round
  • India, Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
  • Edves — Edves automates the brick and mortal School operations from Student enrollment, Fee Collection, Lesson Note up to Transcript Generation.
  • Ruedata — Por medio de un software especializado en recolección y procesamiento de datos de llantas, Ruedata entrega resultados reales y tangibles de ahorro en uso de llantas, eficiencias en los costos de flotas de transporte de carga y pasajeros. Adicional mente se contribuye al medio ambiente minimizando el impacto al dejar de emitir toneladas de CO2.
  • Butterfly Learnings — Butterfly Learnings is a Leading ABA Therapy, Speech Therapy, and Occupational Therapy Center for parents with special needs children having autism, ADHD, speech delays, down syndrome, learning disabilities & much more.
Calculus Capital VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in the past 12 months
At Calculus Capital they are specialists in creating and managing tax efficient private equity funds for the individual. Funds that are ideal for today's market - offering generous tax benefits, and significant growth potential within a sensible risk profile.They look to make £2-5 million investments in established companies with provenmanagement teams and a successful product or service. Their entrepreneurial flair, combined with their experience and sound commercial judgement has resulted in a diversified investment portfolio and an impressive track record. In June 2013 Calculus Capital was top ranked in the prestigious Martin Churchill Tax Efficient Review for the 6th year in a row. The Government has recently shown its support for EIS funds, by maintaining the five generous tax benefits and widening the scope of EIS investments. These changes benefit Calculus Capital's rigorous and proven strategy. As a result they are experiencing their strongest pipeline of prospective investments yet.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Software, Health Care
  • Funding Round, Series A, Post-IPO Equity
  • United Kingdom, United States, Ireland
Portfolio highlights
  • Wazoku — Wazoku - Where Innovation Works Wazoku
  • Optalitix — Optalitix's data driven products and expertise allow you to move your models to the cloud and improve underwriting efficiency.
  • Arctic Shores — Unearth meaningful, job-relevant insights through our candidate assessments. A new type of behaviour based assessment that's powered by neuroscience.
AfricInvest VC Fund · Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia
AfricInvest was founded in 1994 and is part of Integra Group, an investment and financial services company based in Tunisia.Uniquely positioned as one of the most experienced private equity investors on the continent, AfricInvest has dedicated investment teams focused on North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa, and employs 66 professionals based inseven offices.AfricInvest manages USD1 billion across 16 funds and benefits from strong, long-term support from both local and international investors, including leading development finance institutions in the United States and Europe.Having co-founded the African Venture Capital Association (AVCA) as well as the Middle East North Africa Private Equity Association (MENAPEA) and the Euromed Capital Forum, the firm is an active promotor of the private equity industry in the region.Since 1994, AfricInvest has invested in 135 companies across 25 African countries in a variety of high growth sectors and maintains a broad network of high quality executives across Africa, offering extensive expertise in key growth industries, including financial services, agribusiness, consumer/retail, education and healthcare.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, Manufacturing, FinTech
  • Funding Round, Private Equity, Series A
  • Tunisia, Morocco, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
  • Bizao — Bizao helps companies accept all local payment methods across Africa. We build powerful APIs and smart financial flows wich greatly simplify the challenge of accepting Mobile Money, Visa/Mastercard and Airtime payment. We power all types of businesses: local retailers, online merchants, international digital content providers, money transferoperators, microfinance institutions. Our objective: accelerate mobile payment adoption in order to support economic development across the continent
  • Turaco — Turaco develops simplified insurance and credit solutions through mobile technology to solve the healthcare financing needs. Turaco has simplified insurance products and also provides on-demand health loans, allowing customers to get healthcare at affordable monthly premiums.
  • Moove — Moove is a mobility fintech that provides revenue-based vehicle financing to mobility entrepreneurs, democratizing vehicle ownership globally. 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 revenue analyticsof mobility entrepreneurs to underwrite loans.
Untapped Global VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Untapped connects global investors, and foreign capital to opportunities in emerging markets. Delivering competitive returns, and measurable impact for global investors.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Consumer Goods, Financial Services
  • Seed
  • South Africa, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
  • Elimutab — At Elimutab we have safe and secure educational gadgets made for learners and schools. Including; Tablets, Chromebooks, Laptops, Projectors & Interactive smartboards.
  • Momint — Momint is the Web3 investment platform of the future. The safest and easiest to use NFT marketplace in the world. Discover the real-world potential of NFTs.
  • Rabbit — Transforming transportion in the region. Rabbit is a micro-mobility sharing platform for short-distance transportation using environmentally friendly vehicles.
BICIS Groupe VC Fund · Dakar, Dakar, Senegal
BICIS Groupe is a financial institution that provides personal and commercial banking services.
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Investment focus
  • Manufacturing, Service Industry, Building Material
  • Debt Financing
  • Senegal
Portfolio highlights
  • Eyone — Eyone is an IT company which assists companies in digitizing their businesses through software publishing, consulting, and information systems architecture services. The company operates globally in France, Senegal, Mali, Ivory Coast, Cameroon and Gabon. And they offer applications available on-site or online on computers, tablets, and mobiles.
  • Sococim Industries — Sococim Industries specialises in cement production.
Calvert Impact Capital VC Fund · Bethesda, Maryland, United States
Investing in a more sustainable & equitable world
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, Finance, Energy
  • Debt Financing, Funding Round, Series A
  • United States, India, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
  • Northern Arc — Northern Arc Capital is a non-banking finance company that provides access to debt for under-served investors and businesses. Northern Arc Capita connects originators so that they may deepen their presence and provide access to financial services to millions of under-served households. Northern Arc Capital formerly Known as IFMR Capital.
  • Accial Capital — Accial Capital is an impact-focused, tech-enabled investor in small business and consumer loan portfolios in Latin America and South East Asia. Accial Capital combines data, technology, capital and credit expertise to contribute to a world of widespread credit access and financial health.
  • Sunwealth Power — Sunwealth is a clean energy investment firm who curates high-performance commercial solar projects that deliver clean energy and boast exceptional return potential for our investors.
Educas VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom
Educas is a global investment firm focused on the education sector. Educas has two platforms: an international premium K-12 group of 42 schools educating over 31,000 students from Nursery to Grade 12 and a tertiary platform launched in 2017.
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Investment focus
  • Education, Non Profit, Environmental Consulting
  • Seed
  • South Africa
Portfolio highlights
  • Inspired — Inspired is a co-educational, non-denominational, independent school group designed to inspire students to achieve their maximum potential in a nurturing, progressive academic environment from ages 1 to 18.
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