Top 50 EdTech VC Funds & Investors in Africa (July 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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iHub
VC Fund
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12 | Kenya, South Africa | Seed | Education, E-Learning, EdTech | |
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Launch Africa
VC Fund
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8 | Nigeria, South Africa, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology | $200k–$4M |
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54 Collective
VC Fund
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5 | Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa | Seed, Pre-Seed | Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech | $40k–$4M |
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Proparco
VC Fund
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5 | India, Kenya, Nigeria | Debt Financing, Seed | Financial Services, Energy, Finance | $400k–$153M |
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Ventures Platform
VC Fund
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4 | Nigeria, United States, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Internet | $100k–$4.4M |
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Kepple Africa Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt | Seed, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | $300k–$4.5M |
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Investisseurs & Partenaires
VC Fund
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4 | France, Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire | Seed, Series A | Financial Services, Health Care, Food and Beverage | |
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AngelHub Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | South Africa, Mexico, Colombia | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Education | $300k–$2.3M |
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Vumela Fund
VC Fund
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4 | South Africa, Brazil | Seed, Debt Financing | Education, Software, E-Commerce | $600k–$1.4M |
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Chinook Capital Limited
VC Fund
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4 | Nigeria | Seed, Pre-Seed | EdTech, Retail, Software | $120k–$575k |
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Microtraction
VC Fund
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4 | Nigeria, United States, Ghana | Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | $25k–$1.3M |
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DOB Equity
VC Fund
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3 | Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda | Private Equity, Seed | Food and Beverage, Farming, Agriculture | $1M–$4M |
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MNF Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | Morocco, France, Canada | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Online Portals, FinTech, Enterprise Software | $200k–$1.6M |
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LoftyInc Capital
VC Fund
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3 | United States, Nigeria, Egypt | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | $100k–$37M |
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Untapped Global
VC Fund
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3 | Kenya, South Africa, United Kingdom | Seed, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown | Transportation, FinTech, Financial Services | $1.2M–$3M |
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ODBA
VC Fund
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3 | Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | FinTech, Financial Services, Education | $43k–$3.5M |
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Future Africa
VC Fund
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3 | Nigeria, United States, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology | $100k–$20M |
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Enza Capital
VC Fund
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3 | Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, Finance, E-Commerce | $100k–$31M |
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F6 Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | Tunisia, France | Pre-Seed, Seed | E-Commerce, Retail, FinTech | $65k–$200k |
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Injini
VC Fund
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3 | South Africa, Kenya, Rwanda | Grant, Seed | Education, EdTech, E-Learning | $55k–$132k |
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Consonance Investment Managers
VC Fund
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3 | Nigeria, United States, Kenya | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, FinTech | $50k–$10M |
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Seedstars Africa Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Kenya, France, Rwanda | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Energy, Credit, FinTech | $1.1M–$9.1M |
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EDFI Agrifi
VC Fund
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2 | Kenya, Belgium, Tanzania | Debt Financing, Seed | Agriculture, Fruit, FinTech | $2M–$3.2M |
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Emerge VC
VC Fund
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2 | United Kingdom, Germany, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Education, EdTech, E-Learning | $33k–$22M |
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Wamda
VC Fund
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2 | United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Tunisia | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Information Technology, Logistics, EdTech | $850k–$13M |
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pledges.com
VC Fund
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2 | Rwanda | Pre-Seed | Education | $1M–$1M |
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FINCA Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Kenya, Nigeria, Mexico | Grant, Seed, Series A | Financial Services, Agriculture, AgTech | $40k–$4.2M |
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Ardent Capital
VC Fund
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2 | Nigeria, Indonesia, Thailand | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | E-Commerce, Internet, Software | $100k–$15M |
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Save the Children
VC Fund
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2 | Kenya | Seed, Series A | Women's, Education, E-Learning | |
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International Finance Corporation
VC Fund
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2 | India, Brazil, United States | Debt Financing, Series B | Financial Services, Finance, FinTech | |
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Mohammed VI Polytechnic University
VC Fund
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2 | Morocco | Seed | Education, Consulting, E-Learning | |
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LocalGlobe
VC Fund
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2 | United Kingdom, United States, France | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $1M–$33M |
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Growth Capital
VC Fund
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2 | Nigeria | Seed, Pre-Seed | EdTech, Software, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) | |
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Nestcoin
VC Fund
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2 | Rwanda, Nigeria, United States | Pre-Seed, Seed | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Education | $670k–$1M |
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British International Investment
VC Fund
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2 | India, Kenya, Nigeria | Debt Financing, Series B | Financial Services, Banking, Finance | $7.5M–$137M |
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TLcom Capital Partners
VC Fund
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2 | Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom | Series A, Seed | Software, Mobile, Information Technology | $1.9M–$15M |
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Knife Capital
VC Fund
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2 | South Africa, United States, Kenya | Series A, Seed | Software, Education, Manufacturing | $2M–$30M |
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Acumen
VC Fund
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2 | United States, India, Kenya | Seed, Series A | Agriculture, Solar, Health Care | $300k–$12M |
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Musha Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Nigeria, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Financial Services, FinTech | $125k–$10M |
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Praxis
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Nigeria, Kenya | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Grant | Non Profit, Social Assistance, Education | $250k–$15M |
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Savannah Fund
VC Fund
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2 | Kenya, United States, South Africa | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, FinTech, Software | $25k–$8M |
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AfricInvest
VC Fund
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1 | Tunisia, Morocco, Kenya | Private Equity, Series A | Financial Services, Manufacturing, FinTech | |
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Calvert Impact Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United States, India, Kenya | Debt Financing, Series A | Financial Services, Finance, Energy | |
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Oppenheimer Generations Foundation
VC Fund
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1 | South Africa | Seed | Education | |
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Toyota Tsusho
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States, Kenya | Series A, Series B | Software, Manufacturing, Automotive | |
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Naspers Foundry
VC Fund
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1 | South Africa, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Financial Services, Information Technology, Information Services | |
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FM Capital Group
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Nigeria | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series C | Software, Big Data, EdTech | |
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D3 Jubilee
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, United States, Kenya | Seed, Series A | Information Technology, Software, Health Care | |
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Hlayisani Growth Fund
VC Fund
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1 | South Africa | Seed | Education, Apps, SaaS | |
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Enygma Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | South Africa, Zambia, Swaziland | Seed | Financial Services, Lending, Education | |
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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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- Industry: Education, E-Learning, EdTech
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Kenya, South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
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 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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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, South Africa, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 178
- Round size: Seed $200k–$4M; Pre-Seed $200k–$1.8M
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $36M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Yamify — Yamify is an AI platform where intelligent agents reliably run mission-critical business workflows in Africa. Founded by Silicon Valley engineers, our platform automates complex operations by integrating humans, systems, and infrastructure reliably, even under connectivity, latency, and compliance challenges. Starting with on-prem deployments,Yamify is evolving into a full AI automation infrastructure for African enterprises.
- Shopstar — A place for makers and creators to start, manage and grow successful online stores. Our built-in design, payment and shipping methods provide you with an all in one solution. Get started with a free 14-day trial.
- Kashat — The region's first nano financial service provider, offering small productive loans, and serving as the entry point to financial inclusion for the un- and underbanked population in Egypt.
Building and scaling African tech startups with catalytic capital, value-add support and our global network.
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- Industry: Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 108
- Round size: Seed $40k–$4M; Pre-Seed $40k–$1.3M
- Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Yeah — Yeah is a financial technology company that offers payment processing services while building a credit profile for the banked and unbanked.
- REasy — Top up locally, pay suppliers globally, and manage international shipments with REasy. Fast, secure, and designed for African businesses expanding worldwide.
- 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 is devoted to private sector funding in the sustainable development sector.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Energy, Finance
- Stage:Debt Financing, Seed
- Geography: India, Kenya, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 128
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$13M; Debt Financing $400k–$153M
- Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Nuru — Nuru is a solar hybrid site. Nuru (Swahili for "light") is a company dedicated to enhancing connectivity in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Nuru deployed Congo's first solar-based mini-grid in 2017 and is currently constructing a 1.3MW solar hybrid site in Goma, the largest off-grid mini-grid in sub-Saharan Africa.Nuru is arenewable and environment company that specializes in the fields of storage micro-grids and solar energy. The company deployed Congo's first solar-based mini-grid in 2017 and is currently constructing a 1.3MW solar hybrid site in Goma.Nuru was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Goma, Nord-Kivu, Congo.
- BasiGo — BasiGo is an early-stage e-mobility start-up looking to revolutionize the public transportation sector by providing matatu owners with a cost-effective electric alternative to diesel buses.
- Ecoener —
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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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 148
- Round size: Seed $325k–$4.4M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Brass — Get started with a modern current account
- 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.
- ThankUCash — ThankUCash is a technology company powering rewards and loyalty for African banks and businesses. ThankUCash helps merchants grow revenue by connecting them to customers within and outside of their locations while retaining acquired customers using a data analytics-powered reward system where customers earn cash rewards for every transaction madeboth offline and online.
We back exceptional founders in and from Africa who are addressing deep gaps between the status quo and the ideal.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 78
- Round size: Seed $500k–$4.5M; Pre-Seed $300k–$3.4M
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- TIBU Health — TIBU Health is a disruptive HealthTech logistics company that provides high-quality healthcare services.
- Onboard — Onboard helps hardware companies transform their text manuals to 3D, intelligent manuals with instant customer support capabilities.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Health Care, Food and Beverage
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: France, Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire
Investor stats
- Total investments: 103
- Lead/follow: no public data
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.
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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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Education
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: South Africa, Mexico, Colombia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Round size: Seed $2M–$2.3M; Series A $300k–$1.7M
- Lead/follow: 71% lead, 29% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2014
Portfolio highlights
- Motai —
- 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.
- Velocity — Velocity is a micro fulfillment dark store that delivers through digital channels.
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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- Industry: Education, Software, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Debt Financing
- Geography: South Africa, Brazil
Investor stats
- Total investments: 22
- Round size: Seed $600k–$910k; Debt Financing $854k–$1.4M
- Lead/follow: 82% lead, 18% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $14M in 2015
Portfolio highlights
- Trade Shield — Trade Shield's aim is to increase access to trade credit facilities for those companies that most need them and will benefit the most from them.
- Mia Healthcare —
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Chinook Capital is focused on investments in seed- and pre-stage companies in internet software, services, and media sectors.
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- Industry: EdTech, Retail, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $120k–$575k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Ghana
Investor stats
- Total investments: 104
- Round size: Seed $25k–$1.3M; Angel $30k–$50k; Pre-Seed $50k–$1.1M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Spring in Africa — Wallets Africa helps Africans and African-owned businesses send money, receive money, make card payments, and access overdrafts.
- Allpro Technologies — Their mission is to Facilitate the free flow of finance and data in the school ecosystem.
- ThankUCash — ThankUCash is a technology company powering rewards and loyalty for African banks and businesses. ThankUCash helps merchants grow revenue by connecting them to customers within and outside of their locations while retaining acquired customers using a data analytics-powered reward system where customers earn cash rewards for every transaction madeboth offline and online.
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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- Industry: Food and Beverage, Farming, Agriculture
- Stage:Private Equity, Seed
- Geography: Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda
Investor stats
- Total investments: 51
- Round size: Seed $1M–$4M
- Lead/follow: 59% lead, 41% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kentaste — Virgin coconut oil, Coconut Cream, and Coconut Milk
- MazaoHub — MazaoHub is a AI-powered end-to-end farm management company.
- 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.
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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- Industry: Online Portals, FinTech, Enterprise Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Morocco, France, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 32
- Round size: Seed $200k–$1.6M; Series A $250k–$700k
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $20M in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- Damanesign — Damanesign operates as a digital trust solutions startup. Damanesign is a startup that is seizing new legislation opportunities on digital trust in Morocco to provide users with the utmost safety in documentation.
- Atlan Space — Building Artificial Intelligence to autonomously pilot any fixed wing drone, to monitor and take measures over very large areas
- OnePay — OnePay is a fintech startup that operates as a distributor of means of payment and aggregator of payment and value-added services in electronic transactions.
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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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 147
- Round size: Seed $100k–$5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2.4M; Series A $250k–$37M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $14M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Aku — Aku is a financial technology to drive financial inclusion on one mobile device. They provide payments and bring financial services to the doorstep. They support the new business owner in need of the right tools. They offer low-cost, accessible financial services that serve their customers. They radically democratized access to banking and digitalpayment channels.
- Cauridor — Cauridor is a Financial Services company.
- AlumUnite — AlumUnite is a purpose-built platform to connect all educated Africans to develop Africa's human capital through alumni groups. We crowd-resource education.
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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- Industry: Transportation, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Kenya, South Africa, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 17
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$3M
- Lead/follow: 71% lead, 29% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Paga — Paga is the premier financial services infrastructure for Africa. Infrastructure for fiat, stablecoins, crypto, hosted accounts, payments orchestration and biller aggregation.
- OX Delivers — Our objective is to deliver affordable transport in emerging markets, creating a self-reinforcing cycle of economic growth and social impact. To achieve this, we are developing the world's first clean-transport ecosystem that combines goods shipment with financial, trading & marketing services. This OX ecosystem will be enabled by ourunique zero-emissions OX truck; the only purpose-designed electric vehicle for emerging markets.
- FlexClub México —
We invest in people and stories, which are at the heart of everything we do.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Education
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 22
- Round size: Seed $200k–$2M; Pre-Seed $43k–$3.5M
- Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Hopea Pay — Hopea Pay provides payment plans for healthcare services that comply with Shariah financial standards. The platform allows patients to split bills into monthly installments from three to twenty-four months. Payments are sent directly to healthcare providers while patients manage their schedules digitally through a mobile app. The system meetsglobal standards for security and privacy, including HIPAA, PCI DSS, and SOC2. It works with healthcare providers to make services accessible through managed payment solutions.
- TUNL — Ship globally with ease. TUNL offers affordable, transparent international shipping built for South African brands. Up to 91% cheaper. No surprises.
- 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
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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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 89
- Round size: Seed $500k–$4M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3.7M; Series A $7M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
Portfolio highlights
- STEM Cafe — STEMCafe by RVRB is a fun out of school learning centre for kids
- 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.
- Lori Systems — Lori Systems is revolutionizing African logistics through innovative technology solutions. We connect shippers, transporters, and drivers to create efficient, reliable, and transparent supply chains across Africa.
Venture investor in high-growth Founders and Teams using technology to solve large and meaningful problems across Africa
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- Industry: Financial Services, Finance, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 53
- Round size: Seed $617k–$8M; Pre-Seed $100k–$4M; Series A $3.6M–$31M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Djamo — Djamo is a Provider of financial applications to allow customers to use their cards with zero fees in a wide range of services.
- Tugende — Tugende helps motorcycle taxi drivers own their own motorcycles in eighteen months or less instead of renting indefinitely. Ownership significantly increases income, job security and road safety.
- Quro Medical — Quro Medical is an innovative digital health company pioneering premium hospital-at-home services.
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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- Industry: E-Commerce, Retail, FinTech
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Tunisia, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 42
- Round size: Seed $65k–$200k; Pre-Seed $65k–$81k
- Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $10M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- WeMove — WeMove is a fitness marketplace for daily gym passes. They develop innovative solutions that meet your sports issues.
- 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.
- Insight Plus — Insight Plus is a foreign exchange platform that specializes in interconnecting global exchanges into one eco system.
Injini is an Edtech incubator and seed investment program. The company supports great founders with a mission to improve educational outcomes across the continent.Injini select cohorts of EdTech startups from across Africa to join us on a 5-month incubation journey - extending funding and dedicated support from industry experts and skilledbusiness mentors.
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- Industry: Education, EdTech, E-Learning
- Stage:Grant, Seed
- Geography: South Africa, Kenya, Rwanda
Investor stats
- Total investments: 27
- Round size: Grant $55k–$132k
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Mindjoy — Mindjoy leverages mobile tech to build a joyful kid learning community. It makes e-learning inclusive and personal by sharing projects, adaptive practice on mobile devices, and ongoing support from learning coaches. It also provides Live small-group STEAM classes that spark joyful learning.The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered inCape Town, South Africa.
- Buddy Learning — Buddy Learning is an AI-tutoring platform that provides curriculum-aligned academic support and skill development courses.
- The Marking App — The Marking App provides a data-free application that automatically marks handwritten school assessments while also automating school administration.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 31
- Round size: Seed $550k–$3.3M; Pre-Seed $450k–$1M; Series A $50k–$10M
- Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% follow
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 — Smarter, Faster, Future-Ready Policy Strategy. Plural transforms how enterprises and organizations anticipate and act on legislation. Our AI-powered platform delivers accurate bill analysis, policy insights, and stakeholder intelligence so you can stay ahead of risk, seize opportunity, and shape outcomes. See How It Works Book A Demo Trusted By Deepen Your State & Federal Legislative
Seedstars Africa Ventures is an early-stage venture capital fund investing in high-growth companies active across Sub-Saharan Africa.
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- Industry: Energy, Credit, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Kenya, France, Rwanda
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$7.5M; Series A $8.2M–$9.1M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kuunda — Kuunda provides consulting, liquidity management, data insight tools enabling users to fulfill financial needs through a digital platform.
- 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.
- Beacon Power Services — Beacon Power Services is a utility company that provides energy management software and analytics for utilities.
AgriFi is financed by the European Union and managed by the EDFI Management Company. Responding to the lack of financing mechanisms it is adapted to smallholders with limited market orientation, vulnerable groups, women and youth, farmers and entrepreneurs.
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- Industry: Agriculture, Fruit, FinTech
- Stage:Debt Financing, Seed
- Geography: Kenya, Belgium, Tanzania
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Debt Financing $2M–$3.2M
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Alterfin — Alterfin focuses on providing financial assistants to the developing countries and economically backward people and communities.
- Shamba Pride — Revolutionizing Rural Agriculture Trade Ecosystem for Africa Farmers Traditional farming methods across Africa often depend on synthetic inputs, degrading so...
- East Africa Fruits — EA Fruits Farm is a business that engages in the large production and distribution of fruits and vegetables. As fruits are an essential part of a human's diet for maintenance of good health and wellbeing, the business will take part in providing the opportunity for Tanzanian citizens and other people overseas to get such fruits and motivatemore people to increase their intake of fruits whereby the company will strive to increase the supply to match the increased demand for fresh fruits and vegetables. The business envisions to be among the leading producers, distributors, and exporters of the fruits within the Country and overseas. The company is a highly profitable and viable business that expects to rise to about 5,000 USD from its current small-scaled operations, while more than 450,000 USD will be raised as a result of further expansion within a period of 2-4 years.
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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- Industry: Education, EdTech, E-Learning
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 77
- Round size: Seed $53k–$8M; Pre-Seed $33k–$3.2M; Series A $5M–$22M
- Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- VARM — Varm provides efficient insulation for energy saving and comfort.
- MyEdSpace — MyEdSpace offers high-quality online courses created by experts with tailored resources for KS2 (Year 5/6), KS3 (Year 7-8), GCSE, and A-level students.
- Kinfolk — Resolve 70% of employee requests, run lifecycle programs on autopilot, gain visibility into service delivery and unlock capacity to scale Workforce Ops.
Wamda is a platform of programs and networks that aims to accelerate entrepreneurship ecosystems across MENA.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Logistics, EdTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Tunisia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Seed $1M–$13M; Series A $850k–$8M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
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- 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
- Dtek.AI — 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.
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- Industry: Education
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Rwanda
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Pre-Seed $1M–$1M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- 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.
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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- Industry: Financial Services, Agriculture, AgTech
- Stage:Grant, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, Mexico
Investor stats
- Total investments: 27
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$4M; Grant $40k–$100k; Series A $1.1M–$4.2M
- Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Cladfy — Cladfy is a data analytics company that creates tools to assist lenders, merchants, and individuals in making informed loan, savings, and expenditure decisions.
- Karpolax — Karpolax provides preservation technologies for agricultural companies that enable them to enhance the shelf life of fruits and vegetables.
- Affinity — Join over 125,000 who trust the Affinity mobile app to manage their banking needs, from savings to payments, as well as instant loans
Leading Venture Capital & Builder in Southeast Asia | Experts in E-Commerce, B2B, B2C, Fulfilment Startups | Seed, Series A Funding
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Nigeria, Indonesia, Thailand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 37
- Round size: Seed $100k–$2.5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$350k; Series A $1.1M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $13M in 2014
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.
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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- Industry: Women's, Education, E-Learning
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
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- 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.
- TotoRegister — TotoRegister is a transformative educational technology platform driven by a mission to protect and empower children while fostering enhanced educational outcomes. With a dedication to improving child protection, attendance monitoring, and data-driven decision-making, TotoRegister represents an innovative and holistic solution for educationalinstitutions and organizations. At its core, TotoRegister offers a hybrid digital attendance platform that not only simplifies attendance management but also leverages data analysis to ensure children's well-being. By promoting regular school attendance, TotoRegister takes significant strides toward fulfilling its vision of a world where every child can access a safe and high-quality education.Beyond attendance tracking, TotoRegister is actively involved in the development of new features, including a growth monitoring system. This initiative aligns with the company's commitment to advancing child protection, educational quality, and data-driven insights. TotoRegister stands firmly behind the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals, particularly focusing on Goal 4 (Quality Education) and Goal 5 (Gender Equality). By harnessing technology as a catalyst for change, TotoRegister is at the forefront of innovation in education, passionately committed to transforming educational experiences for children globally.
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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- Industry: Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
- Stage:Debt Financing, Series B
- Geography: India, Brazil, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 386
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Revelo — Scale your development team with the top 1% of 1,000,000+ software engineers in Latin America. Get matched with senior remote developers who have strong technical and English-speaking skills & hire them without the overhead. We handle payroll, taxes, and HR. Flat monthly rate.
- iyzico — iyzico was founded with the aim of providing a secure payment management platform to online companies of different sizes operating in different industries. Currently it offers iyziPos (secure virtualPOS solution with automated fraud prevention and high authorization-rate bank integrations) , iyziBazaar (manage marketplace payments), iyziLink (payby link, without the need of a shopping site), and Buyer Protection (secure shopping experience) as the flagship products.
- Candela — We build electric hydrofoil boats and ferries for leisure and commercial use. Explore the Candela C-8 and the Candela P-12.
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Browse database — It's Free!Mohammed VI Polytechnic University is an institution oriented towards applied research and innovation.
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- Industry: Education, Consulting, E-Learning
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Morocco
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Smartprof — Smartprof is a B2C educational platform based in North Africa. It's a platform that links students of primary, secondary and Highschool, with students of universities, business, and engineering schools that are able to teach and dispense coaching sessions. Smartprof helps match easily the supply and demand in the learning sphere in Morocco. Itthen creates a differenciated and innovative offer of teaching and learning, as the teachers and coachs are freshly young graduates that are molded to teaching. Finally, Smartprof aspires to become the reference of online courses and e-learning in the Northern African market and on the long term the Asian one.
Seeding ambitious founders at places like @citymapper, @improbableio,@teamkano, @moo, @songkick,@seedcamp, @transferwise and @zoopla since 1999. Who's next?
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 337
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$12M; Pre-Seed $1M–$3.3M; Series A $3.5M–$33M
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $500M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Dataform — Develop and operationalize scalable data transformations pipelines in BigQuery using SQL.
- CYCLE — GetHenry is a rapidly growing subscription service for market-leading delivery companies. We make sure that thousands of couriers are on the move safely, quickly and comfortably every day. In this way, we not only create added value for delivery services, but also help to reduce transport-related CO2 emissions on the last mile.
- Circular — Developers-focused job platform for Software Developers, DevOps, Data Science & more. Sign up now and get access to successful hiring processes in Spain, Remote.
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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- Industry: EdTech, Software, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
Nestcoin is a web3 application company that builds, operates, and invests in crypto-native products.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Education
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Rwanda, Nigeria, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Pre-Seed $670k–$1M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
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- 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 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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- Industry: Financial Services, Banking, Finance
- Stage:Debt Financing, Series B
- Geography: India, Kenya, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 259
- Round size: Series B $9.7M–$70M; Debt Financing $7.5M–$137M
- Lead/follow: 49% lead, 51% follow
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- M-KOPA — M-KOPA is the global leader for “pay-as-you-go” energy services for off-grid customers. M-KOPA was established in 2011. Following 2 years of piloting and development, M-KOPA began commercial sales in Kenya in October 2012. M-KOPA expanded to Uganda in 2013 and commences operations in Tanzania in late 2014. Their team includes over 500 staff andwe sell our product through more than 1000 retail agents and shops. The founders of the company are experienced mobile technology innovators who believe in the huge potential of transformative, affordable products designed for underserved consumers. While excellent technology is a pre-requisite, technology alone does not solve for customer needs. Success comes when smart technology is combined with a commitment to on-going, on-the-ground delivery. To that end, M-KOPA is beginning to license its technology to experienced and reputable third parties in markets outside of East Africa (licensing queries should be sent to licensing@m-kopa.com). M-KOPA has developed a proprietary, patented technology platform that combines embedded GSM + mobile payments to revolutionize asset financing in emerging markets. The M-KOPAnet platform has been designed and built from the ground up by our talented team of software engineers, who continue to innovate and improve the system every day. It offers the powerful combination of accounting + customer relationship management + inventory tracking in one complete system. Aside from enabling our business operations to scale at record speed, the M-KOPAnet™ platform captures and processes huge volumes of data, enabling us to improve our proposition, customer service, and security in real-time.
- The City Bank — From 1983 till date, City Bank has been a case study in evolution, having transformed over time from a traditional organization to a critically acclaimed multi-faceted institution that embraces global best practices and chooses to be at the forefront of technological initiatives. Unlike many, the Bank's criteria for success are not only thebottom-line numbers but also the milestones set towards becoming the most complete bank in the country.
- Veritas Finance — Veritas Finance focuses on meeting the financial needs of the micro, small, and medium enterprises. Veritas Finance Private Limited is an organization started with the primary intention of reaching out to the customers who either have no access or inadequate access to financial services in the informal sector. 'Veritas' in Latin meanstruth. True to its name, Veritas is focused on making a true impact through inclusive access to financial services on the customers engaged in informal activities.The company is run by professionals with rich experience in the financial services industry that aims to make availing credit easy to this segment and make a positive impact on the lives of millions of Indians engaged in informal activities and who actually build the nation.
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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- Industry: Software, Mobile, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 68
- Round size: Seed $1.9M–$8.5M; Series A $3.8M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $150M in 2022
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- Autochek — Welcome To Autochek Group's Homepage. Read About The Company's Vision And Mission. Select A Country And Apply For Car Loans
- HoneyCoin — HoneyCoin is a web3/web2 ecosystem of products built in a way that abstracts complexity and brings all the value of web3 and web2 to the forefront.
- Ilara Health — Ilara Health helps primary care clinics across Africa deliver better care.
Knife Capital is an independent growth equity investment firm focusing on innovation-driven ventures with proven traction. By leveraging knowledge, networks & funding, Knife accelerates the international expansion of entrepreneurial businesses that achieved a product/market fit in a beachhead market. Knife have offices in Cape Town andLondon.Knife invests via a consortium of funding partnerships, including SARS section 12J Venture Capital Company KNF Ventures and select family offices. Knife facilitated lucrative exits of local technology companies to the likes of General Electric, Visa, Garmin and Uber.
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- Industry: Software, Education, Manufacturing
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: South Africa, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 31
- Round size: Series A $2M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 71% lead, 29% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $10M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- wamly — Wamly is the recruitment software, It has given us time back to focus on transformational work.
- Optique Optometrists — Optique Optometrists provides comprehensive eye care services, including eye tests, prescription glasses, and contact lenses. The company offers affordable eye care solutions and has multiple branches across South Africa. Customers can book appointments online and access a wide range of eyewear options. Optique Optometrists focuses on deliveringquality vision care and ensuring customer satisfaction through professional services and convenient booking options.
- Stone Three Venture Technology — We combine expert services with the power of machine learning to help our customers increase their productivity and safety.
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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- Industry: Agriculture, Solar, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, India, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 178
- Round size: Seed $300k–$2.5M; Series A $1.6M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 51% lead, 49% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $2.8M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Bintix — Bintix averts landfill waste ... one household at a time.
- EduBridge — EduBridge is an organization started by a group of alumni and professors from IIM Bangalore & Lucknow in 2009. EduBridge works towards transforming the lives of the unemployed youth in the country across urban, semi-urban and rural areas. EduBridge provides them with a commercially relevant training at their doorstep and arm them with thenecessary skill sets and mindset to succeed in their professional careers and thus help transform their lives.
- Energy Assured Nigeria — Energy Assured is an energy and utility procurement market provider for smaller businesses ranging from independent retailers and local franchisees to affinity group members in any sector. Users and customers benefit from economies of scale, more agile energy purchasing, and consistently lower gas, electricity, and water costs. Their expertsunderstand the pressures that small and medium-sized businesses face: they work to provide clients with exactly what they require so that clients can use energy as an asset to propel their business forward.
Seed capital for technology startups globally.
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 156
- Round size: Seed $125k–$6M; Pre-Seed $300k–$3.2M; Series A $2.5M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
Portfolio highlights
- HoneyCoin — HoneyCoin is a web3/web2 ecosystem of products built in a way that abstracts complexity and brings all the value of web3 and web2 to the forefront.
- Zeno — Zeno is a climate conscious motor company that offers eco-friendly motorcycles.
- Lori Systems — Lori Systems is revolutionizing African logistics through innovative technology solutions. We connect shippers, transporters, and drivers to create efficient, reliable, and transparent supply chains across Africa.
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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- Industry: Non Profit, Social Assistance, Education
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Grant
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 152
- Round size: Seed $250k–$10M; Venture - Series Unknown $4.5M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Tallee — Tallee is an AI brand visibility and analytics platform that tracks how brands appear in AI search engines and large language model responses. It helps companies measure share of voice, monitor sentiment, compare competitors, and optimize their presence across AI-driven discovery platforms.
- Orb Aerospace — Orb Aerospace is a manufacturing company that focuses on developing an electric aircraft to revolutionize the aviation sector. Orb Aerospace was founded in 2017 and was headquartered in Lowell, Michigan.
- Kokari Coconuts & Company — Ko-ka-ri means "let the good go around". We believe this is the magic of coconuts. At Kokari, we transform every part of the coconut into wholesome products made with simple, clean ingredients. Africa has always understood less is more.
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Browse database — It's Free!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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- Industry: E-Commerce, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Kenya, United States, South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 41
- Round size: Seed $25k–$3.3M; Pre-Seed $200k–$2.1M; Series A $750k–$8M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $25M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Aya Data — Aya Data provides high-quality data annotation, AI training data, 3D annotations, machine learning solutions and also specialises in geospatial, NLP and computer vision projects.
- Kubik — Kubik makes low-carbon buildings from plastic waste. Bringing environmental dignity to how countries grow.
- Hohm Energy — We make the process of going solar simple. Generate your free, custom solar proposal and get matched with an accredited solar provider in under 5 mins.
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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- Industry: Financial Services, Manufacturing, FinTech
- Stage:Private Equity, Series A
- Geography: Tunisia, Morocco, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 69
- Lead/follow: no public data
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.
Investing in a more sustainable & equitable world
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- Industry: Financial Services, Finance, Energy
- Stage:Debt Financing, Series A
- Geography: United States, India, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 13
- Lead/follow: no public data
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.
Oppenheimer Generations Foundation is a long-term supporter of the AL group, with catalytic, early-stage funding round.
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- Industry: Education
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
Toyota Tsusho is the trading arm of the Toyota Group. It enriches society by creating value by the company as Metals; Global Production Parts; Logistics; Automotive; Machinery; Energy; Project; Chemicals; Electronics; Food and Agribusiness; Consumer Products and Services;.
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- Industry: Software, Manufacturing, Automotive
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 42
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- TradeWaltz — TradeWaltz is an information platform that maintains the integrity of electronic trade documents.
- Aurora Labs — Aurora Labs is pioneering the use of Software Intelligence to solve the challenge of automotive software development. Created using Aurora Labs' Line-Of-Code Intelligence™, the Automotive Software Intelligence (ASI) solution collects granular and actionable data from complex automotive systems, applying AI to enable software transparency andmanagement. Aurora Labs' ASI solution detects and validates changes in the software lines-of-code for OTA updates, and analyses dependencies and software behaviour to enable predictive software maintenance throughout the vehicle lifecycle. Aurora Labs provides automotive development teams unique tools to roll out new technologies and services on time and on budget.Aurora Labs, founded in 2016, has raised $34m and has been granted dozens of patents. Aurora Labs has customers around the world and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel, with offices in Germany, North Macedonia, and the US.
- Electra — Electra is decarbonizing ironmaking for green steel production using intermittent renewable energy and low-grade iron ores.
Naspers Foundry is a global internet group and invests in technology-based companies. The company believes in the power of local backed by global scale and they look for opportunities to address big societal needs in markets where they see the greatest growth potential.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Information Technology, Information Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: South Africa, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Planet42 — Having your own car has never been easier. Planet42 is a vehicle rental company offering rent-to-own car service for private clients.
- LifeCheq — Affordable holistic financial advice for everyone
- SweepSouth — Book a home cleaning online from your mobile, tablet or computer. SweepSouth connects you with a cleaner in minutes. Cleaners are experienced, reliable, efficient and insured.
FM Capital Group LLC is a California registered investment advisory firm operating since August 20, 2014.
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- Industry: Software, Big Data, EdTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series C
- Geography: United States, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Tekion — Tekion is a next gen, cloud-native platform with the power of Big data, Internet of Things (IoT) and ML/AI for the automotive retail industry.
- SHYFT Power Solutions — SHYFT builds industrial-grade IoT and integrated software to connect and intelligently manage distributed energy resources (DERs) in markets that struggle with resiliency. SHYFT is pioneering the development of integrated decentralized power systems in emerging markets like Nigeria, leapfrogging over traditional central infrastructure and enablingDERs to scale and support existing but unreliable grids.
- DriveMe.ng — DriveMe is a mobility technology company that provides access to verified and professional drivers; through a one-stop platform aggregating product and service providers within the mobility space across Africa. Our platform provides ease of access for individuals and businesses to connect with verified drivers, driving instructors, buy motorinsurance, renew vehicle documents and other mobility operations services.
D3 is headquartered in Seoul and San Francisco, pioneering the domestic and global impact investment areas. D3 redefines the role of capital by investing in entrepreneurial innovation that improves the lives of low-income families, women, and immigrants, and creates an environmentally sustainable world.Invest in ICT start-ups with highsocio-environmental value in low-income countries such as Korea, USA and South America, Africa and India.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 104
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Geogrid — Geogrid is a building water purification plant startup. Geogrid digitizes solutions for tap water, including purification systems, pipe cleaning, water quality control, carbon emissions calculation, building water control, and environmental change monitoring.
- RECO — Integrated waste and resource management platform copmany
- Caredoc — CareDoc is an elderly care professional platform that provides information on proven elderly care facilities. Consumers looking for elderly care services were not able to find the information they wanted online or getting inaccurate information through word of mouth.On the other hand, providers of care services were having difficulty incollecting elderly customers. Caredoc solves these problems by providing verified care servise provider information on the mobile.
Hlayisani Growth Fund is focussed on mid-market, high growth private equity investments focussed on South Africa with an allowance for Sub-Saharan Africa and East African countries.
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- Industry: Education, Apps, SaaS
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- GoMetro — GoMetro designs deploy and operate flexible mobility platforms. Their proprietary technology stack empowers city leaders, transport managers, corporates, retail centres, property developers, airports and downtown to introduce bold new mobility strategies. Their connected transport digital platform equips transport planners to respond to thechallenges of increased congestion, aged infrastructure, disruptive mobility players, self-driving vehicles and a lack of quality public transport services.
- Sticitt — Sticitt is a cashless payment platform. Sticitt services schools, lifestyle and golf estates, as well as events and is assisting one utility company to get clients to pay for water bills using its cashless payments system.
- d6 group — SCHOOLS Schools Communication Platforms and School Management Software COMMUNITIES Community & Internal Business Communication Platforms MEDIA Let your brand be seen Advertise on
Enygma Ventures is an investment fund for female entrepreneurs and women founders, focused on Southern Africa or SADC. Unlike traditional private equity, venture capital, and banks our team is full of award winning entrepreneurs who understand the same struggles you face first hand.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Lending, Education
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: South Africa, Zambia, Swaziland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
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- Koa Academy — Koa Academy is on the cutting edge of online schooling in South Africa! We offer small classes, quality educators, and individualized, engaged online learning.
- Brown and Ayo — Brown and Ayo have provided customers with an extensive online marketplace of natural hair extensions created to mimic black natural hair textures. The company prides itself in bringing innovative and well-loved products to the SA black woman consumer.
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