Top 50 EdTech VC Funds & Investors in Nigeria (August 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Launch Africa
VC Fund
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5 | Nigeria, South Africa, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology | $200k–$4M |
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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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Women Entrepreneurship for Africa
VC Fund
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4 | Nigeria, Uganda, Cameroon | Pre-Seed, Grant | Health Care, Agriculture, Food and Beverage | |
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Microtraction
VC Fund
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4 | Nigeria, United States, Ghana | Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | $30k–$1.3M |
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Chinook Capital Limited
VC Fund
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4 | Nigeria | Seed, Pre-Seed | EdTech, Retail, Software | $120k–$1M |
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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–$40M |
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TLcom Capital Partners
VC Fund
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3 | Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom | Series A, Seed | Software, Mobile, Information Technology | $1.9M–$15M |
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Enza Capital
VC Fund
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3 | Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, E-Commerce, FinTech | $120k–$31M |
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Antler
VC Fund
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3 | Singapore, Australia, United Kingdom | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $100k–$29M |
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Timon Capital
VC Fund
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2 | Nigeria, Kenya, United States | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, Information Technology, FinTech | $100k–$30M |
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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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54 Collective
VC Fund
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2 | Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa | Seed, Pre-Seed | Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech | $40k–$4M |
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Injini
VC Fund
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2 | South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya | Grant, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Education, EdTech, E-Learning | $55k–$500k |
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LoftyInc Capital
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Nigeria, Egypt | Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | $100k–$10M |
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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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Kepple Africa Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | $100k–$23M |
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Owl Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, India, Germany | Series A, Series B, Seed | Education, EdTech, E-Learning | $2.5M–$50M |
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Equitable Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Nigeria, South Africa, Ghana | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, Information Technology, AgTech | $80k–$2.6M |
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Zrosk Investment Management
VC Fund
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1 | Nigeria, United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | FinTech, Financial Services, Finance | $200k–$33M |
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Target Global
VC Fund
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1 | Germany, Israel, United Kingdom | Series A, Seed, Series B | FinTech, Software, Financial Services | $2.7M–$110M |
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Reflect Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Pakistan, Nigeria | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Logistics, Information Technology, E-Commerce | $120k–$40M |
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Fondation Botnar
VC Fund
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1 | India, Kenya, Nigeria | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Logistics, EdTech | $327k–$10M |
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Yango Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | El Salvador, United Arab Emirates | Seed | B2B, FinTech, Delivery | $2.8M–$65M |
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Musha Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Nigeria, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Financial Services, FinTech | $100k–$10M |
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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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Rise Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Brazil, Mexico, Egypt | Series A, Series B, Seed | E-Commerce, Apps, Internet | $2.5M–$60M |
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Octerra Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Nigeria, United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Finance | $600k–$13M |
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ODBA
VC Fund
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1 | Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | FinTech, Financial Services, Health Care | $43k–$2M |
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L5lab
VC Fund
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EdTech investment fund
VC Fund
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1 | Nigeria | Pre-Seed | EdTech, Software | |
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Meta
VC Fund
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1 | United States, India, Canada | Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed | Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software | $5k–$7.2M |
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Frontier Learning Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Nigeria, South Korea | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Artificial Intelligence, EdTech, FinTech | $500k–$1M |
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Chui Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Nigeria, Kenya, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Retail, FinTech, E-Commerce | $250k–$5M |
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LocalGlobe
VC Fund
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1 | United Kingdom, United States, France | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $1M–$30M |
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Zedcrest Capital Limited
VC Fund
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1 | Nigeria, Egypt, Kenya | Pre-Seed, Seed | FinTech, Software, Financial Services | $300k–$3.7M |
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Beta.Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, B2B | $100k–$3M |
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Founder Collective
VC Fund
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, Israel | Seed, Series A | Software, Internet, E-Commerce | $1.1M–$20M |
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100Pay Ecosystem
VC Fund
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1 | Nigeria | Seed | EdTech | |
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Seier Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Denmark, Switzerland, Singapore | Seed, Pre-Seed | Blockchain, Internet, Cryptocurrency | $50k–$7M |
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Team Ignite Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $500k–$25M |
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Japan International Cooperation Agency
VC Fund
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1 | India, Japan, Vietnam | Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Series C | Financial Services, Finance, Banking | $3M–$415M |
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National Information Technology Development Agency
VC Fund
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Untapped Global
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya, South Africa, United Kingdom | Seed, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown | Transportation, FinTech, Financial Services | $1.2M–$30M |
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Praxis
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Nigeria, Kenya | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Grant | Non Profit, Social Assistance, Education | $250k–$15M |
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Niche Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Nigeria, Kenya | Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel | Financial Services, E-Commerce, Software | $10k–$5.7M |
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Norrsken Africa Fund
VC Fund
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1 | Nigeria | Seed | Leasing, Training | |
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CRE Venture Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Nigeria, South Africa, United States | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, Software, FinTech | $250k–$25M |
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FMO
VC Fund
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1 | India, Kenya, The Netherlands | Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Series B | Financial Services, Finance, Renewable Energy | $4.5M–$420M |
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UNITED
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, Nigeria, Indonesia | Seed, Series A | Apps, Software, Information Technology | $645k–$43M |
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Faster Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Nigeria, Bangladesh | Pre-Seed | EdTech, FinTech, Education | |
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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, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Nigeria, South Africa, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 217
- Round size: Seed $200k–$4M; Pre-Seed $200k–$1.8M; Venture - Series Unknown $200k–$500k
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $36M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Zazu — Zazu is a neobank for African SMEs, offering seamless banking tools, cash flow automation, and real-time insights. Zazu simplifies finance management in one all-in-one solution.
- Fincart — Fincart is a leading shipping platform in Egypt, connecting your business with top courier services, automating operations, and helping you scale your eCommerce logistics.
- Udu Technologies — Udu Technologies is an AI infrastructure company that offers GPU systems, AI platform integration, and technical support services.
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: 160
- Round size: Seed $120k–$4.4M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Traction Apps — Traction apps provide businesses end to end tools they need to run and grow their businesses.
- MarketForce — MarketForce is a US, Kenya and Nigeria-based technology company that is building the SuperApp for Africa's 100 million merchants. MarketForce provides an all-inclusive B2B Commerce and Fintech platform (dubbed “RejaReja” – Swahili for ‘retail’) that empowers merchants in Africa to source, order and pay for inventory digitally and conveniently,access financing, collect digital payments and make extra money by reselling digital financial services such as airtime, electricity tokens and bill payments. Launched in 2018, MarketForce is a fast-growing YC backed company running an asset-light business model and is currently operational in 5 markets in Sub-Saharan Africa, with over 200,000 merchants and 50 consumer brands trading on the platform.
- 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.
Women Entrepreneurship for Africa
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- Industry: Health Care, Agriculture, Food and Beverage
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Grant
- Geography: Nigeria, Uganda, Cameroon
Investor stats
- Total investments: 116
- Lead/follow: 99% lead, 1% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ORIKI — A wellness + farm to skin brand that creates pampering experiences and luxurious natural personal grooming products. Sharing Africa!
- Mukuru Clean Stoves — Earthshot Prize Winner 2022. We use recycled metal to manufacture improved, efficient and affordable cookstoves.
- Loom Craft Chocolate — Loom Craft Chocolate is a artisanal cocoa processor with a strong focus on the quality of our products and the sustainability of our processes.
We invest in Africa's most remarkable teams with technical founders at the earliest stage of their venture
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Ghana
Investor stats
- Total investments: 106
- Round size: Seed $30k–$1.3M; Angel $30k–$50k; Pre-Seed $50k–$1.1M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Accounteer — Accounteer is a cloud accounting platform for small businesses. Business owner can create invoices, track expenses and follow up on their finances with ease. Accounteer integrates with external services like banks, e-invoicing platforms and e-commerce. Future proof your business today by subscribing for a free Accounteer trial account.
- Spring in Africa — Wallets Africa helps Africans and African-owned businesses send money, receive money, make card payments, and access overdrafts.
- 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.
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–$1M
- 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.
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: 91
- Round size: Seed $500k–$4M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3.7M; Series A $7M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
Portfolio highlights
- STEM Cafe — STEMCafe by RVRB is a fun out of school learning centre for kids
- Juicyway — The new shape of money? Fluid. Access global currencies with Juicyway. Buy, sell, hold, and pay globally using our fast APIs, web, or mobile apps. Download now.
- 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.
TLCOM finds and funds exceptional founders building technology companies across Africa. Seed to Series C. Lagos, Nairobi, London.
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- Industry: Software, Mobile, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 75
- 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
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
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, E-Commerce, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 53
- Round size: Seed $1M–$8M; Pre-Seed $120k–$4M; Series A $3.6M–$31M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Yakeey — Yakeey is an end-to-end transactional marketplace that radically simplifies the experience of buying, selling and renting real estate.We leverage on data and technology to connect all real estate market players through a state of the art platform, create a chain of trust and powerful network effects and accelerate transactions.Yakeey is builton a community of real estate advisors, YakeeyPRO, to deliver a continuous professional and tailored service at every step of the transaction.
- Orca Fraud — Orca empowers fraud fighters with effective tools to combat fraud
- Aethex — End to end voice agents localized for your market.
Build your next company with Antler, a global day zero investor enabling exceptional founders to start great companies, from the very beginning. Apply now!
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Singapore, Australia, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2216
- Round size: Seed $159k–$4.6M; Pre-Seed $100k–$645k; Series A $4.1M–$29M
- Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $72M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Praktiki — Praktiki is building the "Decision Layer" for medicine.While medical knowledge doubles every 73 days, frontline clinicians struggle to translate guidelines into practice. Current AI search tools excel at surfacing public data from clinical trials, but fail to capture "how" experts apply that evidence in real-world scenarios.Praktiki fills this gap. We utilise an AI Agentic Creator Engine to capture tacit specialist reasoning and fuse it with public evidence. This feeds a proprietary Expert Knowledge Graph that powers: 1) Microlearning: Case-based modules created 10x faster and which are 170% more effective than traditional education 2) AI Expert Guidance: Real-time decision support synthesising evidence with expert implementation strategies.2025 Traction - our MVP proved that solving the expertise gap drives high engagement: - Registered >10% of UK GPs - 60,000+ modules completed with an 85% completion rate - 51% month-over-month growth - Market-leading NPS of 83We are building a compounding data moat to expand beyond education into clinical intelligence and healthcare data solutions.
- Mast — Mast is the cloud-native, fully configurable loan origination platform empowering lenders to process applications faster and smarter. We make lending better, smoother and faster.
- Forti Foods — The mission of Forti Foods is to enhance communities and change lives beyond the plate by fostering resilience and dignity via sustainable food innovation.
At Timon Capital, they have tremendous respect for the entrepreneurial journey—especially in emerging markets. As former entrepreneurs, they have built companies and gone through the frustration of trying to manage wayward investors. They decided to hold themselves to a higher standard and named ourselves Timon: a Greek word that means ‘the oneinfluenced by honor’ as well as ‘fairly priced.’
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- Industry: Financial Services, Information Technology, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 28
- Round size: Seed $100k–$8.5M; Pre-Seed $200k–$4M; Series A $14M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Waza — Waza is a web platform with APIs. It helps startups and emerging market businesses manage their cash flow issues, invoicing needs, and international payment requirements.
- Zone — Zone is a regulated blockchain network that enables payments and acceptance of digital currencies.
- OmniRetail — OmniRetail is a consumer goods distribution platform that solves the inefficiencies of traditional trade by digitizing key stakeholders through its products.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Nigeria, Indonesia, Thailand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 42
- Round size: Seed $100k–$2.7M; Pre-Seed $100k–$350k; Series A $100k–$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.
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: 111
- Round size: Seed $40k–$4M; Pre-Seed $40k–$1.3M
- Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
Portfolio highlights
- LipaLater — LipaLater is a lending marketplace that provides postpaid payments at e-commerce stores. They are making technology affordable for you. Get the electronic of your choice today and pay for it in comfortable monthly installments.
- 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.
Injini's EdTech Accelerator and Think Tank aims to support founders of African startups with a mission to improve educational outcomes across the region.
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- Industry: Education, EdTech, E-Learning
- Stage:Grant, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 37
- Round size: Seed $100k–$500k; Grant $55k–$132k
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Buddy Learning — Explore educational resources for families with Buddy Learning in the United States. Join us today!
- The Marking App — The Marking App provides a data-free application that automatically marks handwritten school assessments while also automating school administration.
- Ubuntu Education — Ubuntu Education is an EdTech company focusing on leveling education by championing and empowering teachers.
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, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 170
- Round size: Seed $100k–$5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2.4M; Venture - Series Unknown $200k–$10M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $14M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Cauridor — Cauridor is a Financial Services company.
- WafR — WafR is a reward-based loyalty startup that allows users to earn phone recharges while shopping at retail shops.
- Nucleon Security — Zero-Trust and ML-based Endpoint Detection and Response Platform #EDR #FDR #EndpointSecurity
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.
Kepple Africa Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 84
- Round size: Seed $500k–$4.5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3.4M; Series A $1.1M–$23M
- Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% 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.
Owl Ventures is a venture capital fund that invests in education technology companies.The firm has invested in 24 companies across the education spectrum encompassing early childhood, K-12, higher education, and career mobility/professional learning. Owl leverages its deep domain expertise and takes an active hands-on approach to helpentrepreneurs scale their businesses into transformative category-leading companies.The firm was founded in 2014 and has over $600 million in assets under management.
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- Industry: Education, EdTech, E-Learning
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: United States, India, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 153
- Round size: Seed $2.5M–$10M; Series A $5.2M–$29M; Series B $13M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 55% lead, 45% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $270M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Preply — Looking for a tutor? Preply is the best platform for private online lessons with a flexible payment system and affordable prices. Book your first lesson.
- DeweyLearn — Turn observed performance into expert feedback today, and a smarter organization tomorrow.
- GrowthSchool — Whether it is Product, Growth, Design, Management, Tech & Data, Business, GrowthSchool is the place to learn from top experts in the field.
Equitable Ventures is a venture funding firm that focuses on financial inclusion in Africa. It provide opportunity to help Africa's most promising early-stage fintech firms, with both financial rewards and impact.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Information Technology, AgTech
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, South Africa, Ghana
Investor stats
- Total investments: 24
- Round size: Seed $100k–$2.6M; Pre-Seed $80k–$1.8M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Forti Foods — The mission of Forti Foods is to enhance communities and change lives beyond the plate by fostering resilience and dignity via sustainable food innovation.
- Startbutton — Startbutton Africa is a Merchant of Record (digital commerce infrastructure platform) that helps businesses expand across African markets by simplifying payments, compliance, and collections
- Happy Pay — Happy Pay is a credit scoring system developing company. The company integrates an autonomous artificial intelligence technology system with the merchant's platform to increase their average basket size and customer conversion metrics, providing users with buy now, and pay later services.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Nigeria, United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 30
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$5M; Pre-Seed $200k–$2.5M; Series A $7M–$33M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
Portfolio highlights
- PaidHR — PaidHR works with organizations to streamline how they manage their staff. Our precisely created solutions enable them to create the ideal place to work.
- Lingawa — Speak your native language with pride! Learn Yoruba and Igbo with fun, immersive online lessons for adults and kids (ages 5+).
- Definely — Definely creates legal tech solutions to free lawyers from frustration, saving them time when understanding, drafting and reviewing legal documents.
Target Global is a prominent European technology investment firm with a significant presence in the venture capital landscape, boasting over €3 billion in assets under management. The firm operates out of key tech hubs including London, Berlin, Tel Aviv, and Abu Dhabi, and has a rich portfolio featuring some of Europe's most successful techcompanies such as Revolut, Auto1, Copper, Delivery Hero, Docplanner, and Rapyd.Founding and GrowthTarget Global was established in 2015 by Shmuel Chafets and Yaron Valler, who brought a wealth of experience from their tenure at Hasso Plattner Ventures. Their professional partnership dates back 15 years to their time at Giza Venture Capital, a trailblazer in Israel's investment ecosystem, where they honed their investment acumen and industry foresight.Investment Philosophy and ImpactTarget Global stands out in the European tech industry for its diverse team and its ability to identify and capitalize on unique opportunities. The firm's knack for recognizing potential in the early stages of Germany's tech economy led to the emergence of several unicorns in the 2010s. As the European tech industry evolves, Target Global remains at the forefront, seeking out innovative companies like Robovision, Saleor, and Finom. These recent investments reflect the firm's commitment to supporting cutting-edge technology and business models.Fundraising SuccessesTarget Global's fundraising prowess is evident in its six investment funds, which have collectively raised significant capital. The funds range from Early Stage Funds, focusing on nascent startups, to Growth Funds that support more mature companies scaling their operations. The firm's co-investment strategy has led to over €1 billion in capital deployment across a diverse array of partnerships.Backing and AchievementsWith the backing of investors such as FERI, UBS, Allianz X, Mubadala, and Hermes GPE, Target Global has cemented its reputation as a trusted and successful investment firm. Its portfolio spans over 140 companies at various development stages, with a focus on those targeting trillion-dollar markets.Just a few of the many notable companies in the firm’s portfolio include:- Tarabut, MENA’s leading open banking platform, which was recently featured in Forbes Middle East’s list of Top 50 Fintech Companies.- Flo Health, an AI-driven women’s health product, which is the world’s top health and fitness app by downloads.- Robovision, an easy-to-use AI-driven computer vision platform for users to develop their own deep-learning-based solutions.- Enter, a German company that helps homeowners and businesses reduce their carbon footprint.Target Global's track record includes support for 15 unicorn companies, over 20 exits, and 7 IPOs, showcasing its ability to drive growth and success in the European tech ecosystem. The team, comprised of individuals with founder and operator backgrounds, continues to pursue exceptional opportunities to expand the firm's portfolio and influence.Target Global's journey from its inception to its current status as a key player in European venture capital is marked by strategic investments, a commitment to diversity, and a deep understanding of the tech industry's dynamics. With a clear vision for the future, Target Global is poised to continue its role in shaping the next wave of European tech giants.
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- Industry: FinTech, Software, Financial Services
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Germany, Israel, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 221
- Round size: Seed $2.7M–$23M; Series A $4.2M–$34M; Series B $11M–$110M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Endel — Personalized soundscapes to help you focus, relax, and sleep. Backed by neuroscience.
- Mercuryo — Scale your business with fiat-to-crypto on ramp solution. Enable users to buy and sell crypto seamlessly with credit card, debit card, Apple Pay, & more.
- Alta — Alta leverages data and AI to drive business growth 24/7.
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Browse database — It's Free!Reflect Ventures makes venture capital investments in high-potential startups at the seed and series A/B+ stages. We identify extraordinary founders, companies and opportunities around the world, including in emerging and frontier markets. Our LPs comprise family offices, institutional investors and HNWIs on six continents, along withrecognized sector experts who are instrumental to our portfolio companies' future growth.
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- Industry: Logistics, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Pakistan, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 57
- Round size: Seed $200k–$12M; Pre-Seed $120k–$3.3M; Series A $4M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Jelt — HealthTech B2B Marketplace
- PulseTech — Bangladesh's licensed digital pharmaceutical distributor serving 14,000+ pharmacies.
- Moneco — Moneco is a financial application that aims to provide financial products.
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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- Industry: Software, Logistics, EdTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: India, Kenya, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 20
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$4.2M; Pre-Seed $327k–$1.1M; Series A $3.8M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Brisil — Climate tech startup transforming rice husk ash to green silica for industrial purposes using zero waste chemical process.
- Ekko — Ekko provides earned wage access, financial literacy, and HR digital transformation tools for enterprises across Southeast Asia.
- Dash Electric — Democratizes access to driver as a fleet solutions. Provides a crucial delivery infrastructure for business by leveraging the power of EV.
Investing in e-commerce, O2O, B2B SaaS, and FinTech startups across emerging markets, leveraging Yango's expertise to drive sustainable growth and innovation in dynamic regions worldwide.
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- Industry: B2B, FinTech, Delivery
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: El Salvador, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $2.8M–$65M
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Trukkr — Real-time fleet tracking, route optimization, and ERP integration for logistics companies. Transform your supply chain operations today.
- TripWip — TripWip's vision is to lead the carsharing business in Latin America. It is thrilled to be driving this unique business model in the region and is dedicated to transforming people's mobility.
- Fincart — Fincart is a leading shipping platform in Egypt, connecting your business with top courier services, automating operations, and helping you scale your eCommerce logistics.
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: 203
- Round size: Seed $125k–$7.5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3.2M; Series A $2.5M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% 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.
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: 0% lead, 100% follow
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 — Rent-to-own EV financing, driver matching, and professional driver training in Lagos, Nigeria.
Rise Capital is a leading global venture capital firm focused on Emerging Markets
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Apps, Internet
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: Brazil, Mexico, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 30
- Round size: Seed $3.9M–$15M; Series A $2.5M–$23M; Series B $11M–$60M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- SaveIN — SaveIN is your all-in-one Pay Later platform for healthcare, furniture, lifestyle, travel, consumer durables and more. Shop with 7000+ trusted merchants, split payments into No-cost EMIs, and enjoy seamless financing with zero down payment.
- 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.
- InstaCarro — InstaCarro is an online platform that enables individuals to buy and sell cars. The company aims to add value both to individuals who want to sell their cars and to resellers.For individuals who want to sell, InstaCarro delivers the convenience of online quotes, higher than average prices and immediate payment after inspection. For buyers, itoffers online access to the large inventory of cars previously inspected and guarantees immediate return if a car purchased is in different conditions than reported. It was launched by Diego Fischer and Luca Cafici in July 2015 and is operated from Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Octerra Capital is a venture capital firm.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Nigeria, United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 19
- Round size: Seed $600k–$13M; Pre-Seed $600k–$3M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- MANSA — Transforming The Way Money Moves. Backed by @tether_to
- PBR Life Sciences — PBR Life Sciences connects businesses with real-world opportunities in life sciences by combining data, technology, and people.
- Herconomy (Ex AGS Tribe) — Herconomy is a platform that allows women build their finances, capacity, collaborate and access opportunities.
We invest in people and stories, which are at the heart of everything we do.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Health Care
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 26
- Round size: Seed $200k–$2M; Pre-Seed $43k–$1.7M
- Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% 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.
- Kunda Kids — Kunda Kids brings African stories to life! Award-winning books, music & media that make early learning joyful, empowering & proudly cultural.
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- DavtonLearn — Davtonlearn is powering modern DIY (Do it yourself) Learning & engagement management system with packaged content services for corporate organizations, enabling connected skilling for workplace relevance. We are focused on lowering the multiple barriers to adopting technology-based learning, including the costs associated with development,deployment, and maintenance through our proprietary e-learning solution that enable enterprises to have customized LMS and curated the future of work-related content in less than 30 minutes.
EdTech investment fund
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- Industry: EdTech, Software
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
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Browse database — It's Free!Meta is a social-technology company that offers a wide ecosystem of applications and hardware. Its Family of Apps includes platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp and Threads which allow people to communicate, share content, and form communities. On the hardware side, Meta’s Reality Labs develops virtual and augmented realitydevices, including Meta Quest headsets and smart glasses. Meta also builds artificial intelligence tools notably Meta AI, powered by its Llama large language models, and envisions long-term digital spaces in the form of a metaverse.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software
- Stage:Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, India, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 64
- Round size: Seed $900k–$5.7M; Grant $5k–$2.3M; Pre-Seed $35k–$7.2M
- Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Scale — Trusted by world class companies, Scale delivers high quality training data for AI applications such as self-driving cars, mapping, AR/VR, robotics, and more.
- gett.me — AI outplacement software
- Tyndall National Institute — Established with a mission to support industry and academia in driving research to market, Tyndall National Institute is one of Europe’s leading research centres in Information and Communications Technology (ICT) research and development and the largest research facility of its type in Ireland. Established in 2004 as a successor to the NationalMicroelectronics Research Centre (NMRC founded in 1982) at University College Cork, the Institute hosts over 460 researchers, engineers and support staff, including a full-time postgraduate cohort of 135 students, generating over 200 peer-reviewed publications each year.With a network of over 200 industry partners and customers worldwide, Tyndall generates around 30M income each year, 85% from competitively won contracts nationally and internationally. Tyndall is also a lead partner in European research programmes in its core areas of ICT, communications, energy, health and the environment worth 44M, including 6M accruing to industry in Ireland (from Framework 7). Hosting the only full CMOS, Micro-Electronic-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) and III-V Wafer Semiconductor fabrication facilities and services in Ireland, Tyndall is capable of prototyping new product opportunities for its target industries - electronics, medical devices, energy and communications. Tyndall is a globally leading Institute in its four core research areas of Photonics, Microsystems, Micro/Nanoelectronics and Theory Modelling & Design. Tyndall is the lead institution for the Science Foundation Ireland funded Irish Photonics Integration Centre (IPIC).
Frontier Learning Capital specializes in supporting innovative Edtech and AI startups in developing nations, driving impactful change through dynamic investments and strategic partnerships.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, EdTech, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Pre-Seed $500k–$1M
- Lead/follow: 80% lead, 20% follow
Portfolio highlights
- DCI.WIKI — DCI.WIKI provides a global, open system for registering and protecting research, creative content, and cultural heritage with unique Digital Content Identifiers.
- Risely AI — Risely AI provides an AI-powered advising platform that helps higher education institutions identify at-risk students, personalize outreach, and streamline student success workflows. The AI Advisor collects and organizes student data from all campus systems. It identifies students who need attention and suggests actions. The system drafts emailsand messages for student outreach. The platform follows security and compliance standards for student records. It integrates with campus systems quickly, allowing teams to start using it in days.
- MySchool Portal Inc — “AI-powered infrastructure for academic institutions. We make education in Africa more affordable by offering multiple tools, such as a discount card that enables and empowers universities to provide student ID cards that allow students to receive discounted offers from participating merchants.”
Investing in Africa | Chui Ventures is an investment company that seeks to back exceptional African companies at the early stage of their growth.
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- Industry: Retail, FinTech, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Seed $250k–$5M; Pre-Seed $1M–$3M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
Portfolio highlights
- PaidHR — PaidHR works with organizations to streamline how they manage their staff. Our precisely created solutions enable them to create the ideal place to work.
- Socium — Socium these are companies that recruit and offer real career opportunities to all those who share their values and wish to invest in their development.
- Tuteria — Get Home Tutoring Matched to Your Child's Needs. Prepare for IELTS, Common Entrance, IGCSE, GRE & JAMB. Book Lessons in 150+ Subjects Including Music, Coding & Languages.
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: 367
- Round size: Seed $1.6M–$13M; Pre-Seed $1M–$3.3M; Series A $4.2M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $500M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- nPlan — AI that forecasts project outcomes, creates scenarios of the future and helps mitigate risk across single projects and portfolios. Trained on over 750,000 past programmes.
- Stream — Stream is a financial services firm that allows employees to stream their earned wages into their accounts through an instant app. The app allows them to have complete control over when they get paid. It also effectively ends the need for employee advances, loans, and employee stress suffered from short-term, unplanned financial obligations. Thecompany aims to play a key role in reducing the poverty premium and preventing employees from entering cycles of debt caused by overdraft fees, high-interest credit, or payday loans.
- Dataform — Develop and operationalize scalable data transformations pipelines in BigQuery using SQL.
Zedcrest Capital is a full-service capital management firm, with core interests in fixed income securities trading, asset management and proprietary investments
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- Industry: FinTech, Software, Financial Services
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, Egypt, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 13
- Round size: Seed $3M–$3.7M; Pre-Seed $300k–$3.7M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
Portfolio highlights
- PaidHR — PaidHR works with organizations to streamline how they manage their staff. Our precisely created solutions enable them to create the ideal place to work.
- Pade HCM — Hire, manage and pay your global team Hire anyone in Africa and automate onboarding, team management, payroll, compliance and much more.
- Salus Cloud — Empowering developers worldwide with seamless and secure application deployment and management. Join the revolution. #Salus_Cloud
Beta.Ventures supports Africa's leading tech entrepreneurs.We are a New York and Lagos based venture capital firm helping ambitious entrepreneurs build innovative products and services, with a focus on rapid revenue and profit growth. We are unique in our ability to help companies grow organically in Africa, while also scaling globally.Wework closely with talented founders and teams from product idea to product launch through to the next stage of company development with a goal to maximize success and minimize risk.Our partners, affiliates and mentors lead 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. With us, you will avoid mistakes we, and others, have made.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, B2B
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Seed $100k–$3M
- Lead/follow: 53% lead, 47% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Rayda — Infrastructure to acquire, manage, insure and dispose fixed assets for businesses globally.
- 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.
- Stacs — Stacs allows you to quickly pay for what you need without breaking the bank by dividing your largest bills into tiny bits.
Each Founder Collective partner has founded and sold a technology company. The company we wish had existed when we first started out is what we hope to create with Founder Collective. We offer a user guide for managing the risky commodity known as venture capital. The company believes that in order to advance their firms and maintain control,entrepreneurs should aim to raise the least amount of money possible.Founder Collective was established on May 22, 2009 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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- Industry: Software, Internet, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 374
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$7M; Series A $1.4M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $85M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Pagaleve — pagaleve offers payment in installments at PIX, with no interest and no credit card required. They provide merchants with a new payment method in order to increase their sales in a simple, uncomplicated, and agile manner, but they also want to provide people with the opportunity to buy what they want without committing to the card'shigh-interest rates and credit.
- Ficus — Ficus helps life insurers modernize retained asset accounts with digital beneficiary accounts that improve account clarity, access to funds, and beneficiary experience.
- Ranger — Stop worrying about testing; automate it with Ranger.
100Pay develops payment and financial infrastructure products for businesses and developers in the blockchain and cryptocurrency sector. The company provides crypto and fiat payment processing, global payouts, wallet services, currency exchange, staking, and lending tools. It also offers APIs, checkout solutions, payment links, invoicing tools, andblockchain infrastructure for e-commerce platforms, fintech companies, and marketplaces. 100Pay supports integrations through developer SDKs and web-based payment services.
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- Industry: EdTech
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Cloudnotte — At Cloudnotte, we make school management simpler, teaching more effective, and learning more accessible for students.
Seier Capital is a private investment fund owned 100% by Lars Seier Christensen.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Internet, Cryptocurrency
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Denmark, Switzerland, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 21
- Round size: Seed $750k–$7M; Pre-Seed $50k–$1.2M
- Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Entravel — Entravel is a blockchain-powered travel and hospitality platform redefining global hotel booking through a crypto-native ecosystem. Designed for modern travelers and cryptocurrency users, Entravel provides access to more than one million hotels worldwide while enabling seamless payments using digital assets such as USDC and USDT.Operating withinthe competitive online travel industry, Entravel differentiates itself by leveraging blockchain technology and strategic pricing models to offer hotel rates that can be significantly lower than traditional booking platforms. The platform delivers instant booking confirmations, streamlined user experiences, and secure crypto transactions tailored for tech-savvy travelers and Web3 communities.A core component of Entravel’s business model is its invite-only affiliate ecosystem, where users can earn commissions through referrals and tiered partnership benefits. This community-driven structure incentivizes users to promote the platform while unlocking exclusive rewards and travel-related earning opportunities.By combining scalable booking infrastructure, decentralized payment capabilities, and affiliate-powered growth, Entravel aims to transform the hospitality sector and bridge the gap between travel services and the rapidly evolving blockchain economy.
- Kin, Personal AI — Get inspired, talk things through, navigate situations or get personalized guidance with Kin. Built for privacy, security, and with memory in mind.
- Blue Cell Therapeutics — Blue Cell Therapeutics is a biotechnology company developing novel stem cell therapies to cure chronic diseases including erectile dysfunction and lymphedema using specific stem cell types. The company aims to translate knowledge from basic science and animal experiments into novel treatments for chronic diseases using specific stem cell typesincluding the so-called Blue Cells which are a subset of ADRCs with angiogenic and regenerative properties.
We're experienced operators helping to ignite and scale startups
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 267
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$6.5M; Pre-Seed $500k–$1.5M; Series A $17M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- JustAI — An AI-first modern enterprise marketing stack that sets you in an always-on, set-and-forget motion. Increase your experimentation velocity and keep your team lean! Say goodbye to manual campaign management.
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- Herd Security — Herd Security is a cybersecurity company focused on protecting banking customers from the rising threat of AI-driven voice phishing (vishing) and social engineering scams. Leveraging advanced voice detection and AI technologies, Herd Security provides banks with real-time insights into potential vishing attacks, including those targeting high-risktransactions like wire fraud and elderly fraud. Designed to defend against the growing sophistication of AI-generated deepfake voice fraud, Herd Security offers security teams the tools and intelligence they need to safeguard customers’ sensitive information and financial assets. The platform integrates seamlessly with existing security infrastructures, empowering organizations to stay one step ahead of evolving social engineering threats.
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Browse database — It's Free!The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) is advancing its activities around the pillars of a field-oriented approach, human security, and enhanced effectiveness, efficiency and speed.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Finance, Banking
- Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Series C
- Geography: India, Japan, Vietnam
Investor stats
- Total investments: 27
- Round size: Series C $3M–$40M; Post-IPO Debt $125M–$350M; Debt Financing $13M–$415M
- Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
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- Coelba — Coelba is an energy distribution company.
- Infinity Power — Infinity Power is a renewable energy company that offers solar, battery storage, and grid infrastructure solutions.
- Ambiental MS Pantanal — Ambiental MS Pantana is Brazil’s largest private sanitation enterprise.
NITDA created to implement the Nigerian Information Technology Policy and co-ordinate general IT development in the country.
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- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Northino — Northino is an inclusive online learning platform that provides localized digital skill courses, empowering millions of African native speakers. Our mission is to bridge the gap between digital literacy and illiteracy in Africa by making quality education accessible to all. We envision a digitally inclusive world where every individual can harnessthe power of technology for personal and professional growth.
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: 19
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 68% lead, 32% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Elimutab — Elimutab - Find the best learning tablets for children and students, including options for 1-year-olds, studying with pens, and work and study needs.
- 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.
- Rabbit — Transforming transportion in the region. Rabbit is a micro-mobility sharing platform for short-distance transportation using environmentally friendly vehicles.
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: 178
- Round size: Seed $250k–$10M; Venture - Series Unknown $4.5M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% 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 — Building Better Airplanes Faster
- 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.
Venture Capital firm
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- Industry: Financial Services, E-Commerce, Software
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 20
- Round size: Seed $872k–$5.7M; Pre-Seed $10k–$2.1M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Bemi — Automatic Audit Trail for Postgres
- Sytemap — We are building a blockchain-based property record to help home buyers and financial companies access, view and verify properties starting from digitizing Estate project layouts (Sytemap) Sytemap is a first step that allows us access to a large pool of property data. The end goal can really be described as building Zillow for Africa.
- Monark Markets — Monark is an infrastructure platform that enables brokerages, wealth managers, and clearing firms to embed alternative assets natively into their existing product stacks.
Norrsken Africa Fund is an investment firm.
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- Industry: Leasing, Training
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Gigmile — Gigmile provides financial services. They provide gig workers with core services and an affordable lease on productive assets that is tailored to their earnings to enable them to succeed in the mobility industry as entrepreneurs.
Founded in 2015, CRE Venture Capital invests in early stage tech companies that are levered to Africa. CRE is headquartered in the New York metro area, with a regional office in Lagos, Nigeria.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Software, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, South Africa, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 63
- Round size: Seed $300k–$5M; Pre-Seed $250k–$3.3M; Series A $1.1M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Flood — Flood is a marketplace platforms that provides merchant solution, self services and big data solution.
- Letly — Letly is developing an AI‑driven platform for the rental property market that automates tasks related to managing rental listings and tenant interactions. It aims to use intelligent agents to handle tasks such as scheduling viewings, responding to inquiries, and optimizing property management workflows. The platform is currently in a waitlistphase, signaling ongoing development and private access only.
- Cutstruct — Cutstruct is your one source for bulk construction materials purchase. Get the best prices for cement, steel, granite, sharp sand wood, and more.
FMO is a financial investment firm that specializes in financing businesses and projects FMO invests across the agribusiness value chain to enhance food security, support sustainability and promoting inclusive development.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Finance, Renewable Energy
- Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Series B
- Geography: India, Kenya, The Netherlands
Investor stats
- Total investments: 194
- Round size: Series B $4.5M–$46M; Post-IPO Debt $25M–$420M; Debt Financing $5M–$195M
- Lead/follow: 55% lead, 45% follow
Portfolio highlights
- SolarSaver — We provide customised rooftop solar PV solutions to corporate, industrial customers in Namibia & SA through its proprietary zero-capital financing model.
- Coris Holding — Coris Holding is a financial institution that was established with the motive to provide support to SMEs and SMIs.
- Yednist' Group — Yednist’ Group is one of the largest agri-processing holdings in Ukraine operating in the following segments: production of bulk feed, packaged feed, premixes and concentrates; veterinary drugs distribution; pet goods distribution. Yednist’ Group operates five production facilities with a total annual capacity of 600 thousand tonnes, including 30thousand tonnes of premixes and concentrates.
UNITED, Inc. is developing the smart phone app and the advertising technology business.
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- Industry: Apps, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, Nigeria, Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 89
- Round size: Seed $645k–$4.4M; Series A $868k–$43M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
Portfolio highlights
- WAKA — WAKA is a studio that produces metaverse games and specializes in contract development for domestic businesses.
- Rehabilitation 3.0 — Rehabilitation 3.0 focuses on a preventive medical system that provides AI assessment and tracking on health, exercise, mood, and wellness.
- Movus Technologies — Movus Technologies Indonesia is automotive company that provides car ownership rental services.
Faster Capital is an investment firm that operates in the financial industry.
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- Industry: EdTech, FinTech, Education
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, Bangladesh
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Munafa — Munafa simplifies payment collection for small business.It manages cash and credit,inventory,reporting ,invoice generation ,cash flow forecasting and can take payment from debit or credit card without pos machine.
- Teachly — EdTech SaaS Platform
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