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Top 45 Education Startup Investors in South Africa (June 2026)

The most active venture capital funds and angel investors investing in South Africa Education startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in South Africa Education startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Vumela Fund
VC Fund
4 South Africa, Brazil Seed, Debt Financing Education, Software, E-Commerce $600k–$1.4M
AngelHub Ventures
VC Fund
4 South Africa, Mexico, Colombia Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Education $300k–$2.3M
Kepple Africa Ventures
VC Fund
2 Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt Seed, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Software $300k–$4.5M
Proparco
VC Fund
2 India, Kenya, Nigeria Debt Financing, Seed Financial Services, Finance, Energy $300k–$140M
Knife Capital
VC Fund
2 South Africa, United States, Sweden Series A, Seed Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology $2M–$30M
Investisseurs & Partenaires
VC Fund
2 France, Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire Seed, Series A Financial Services, Health Care, Food and Beverage
Edge Growth
VC Fund
1 South Africa Seed, Debt Financing Software, Education, Accounting
Kalon Venture Partners
VC Fund
1 South Africa, Luxembourg, United States Seed, Series A Apps, Internet, Software $570k–$7M
Iyinoluwa Aboyeji
Angel
1 United States, Nigeria, South Africa Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Information Technology, FinTech, Software $172k–$30M
Enygma Ventures
VC Fund
1 South Africa, Zambia, Swaziland Seed Financial Services, Lending, Education $120k–$1M
Calculus Capital
VC Fund
1 United Kingdom, United States, Ireland Series A, Seed Biotechnology, Software, Medical $2M–$18M
Naspers Foundry
VC Fund
1 South Africa, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Financial Services, Farming, Software $854k–$15M
Hlayisani Capital
VC Fund
1 South Africa, Mauritius Seed, Series A Software, Education, Information Technology
Norrsken Foundation
VC Fund
1 Nigeria, United States, Rwanda Pre-Seed, Seed Financial Services, Health Care, FinTech $125k–$4M
Frederik Gerner
Angel
1 South Africa, The Netherlands Seed, Angel B2C, Energy, Organic $28k–$55k
Youcef Oudjidane
Angel
1 United States, Nigeria, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Payments $120k–$23M
Autodesk Foundation
VC Fund
1 United States, Kenya, Uganda Seed, Series A, Series B Energy, CleanTech, Manufacturing $2.1M–$40M
Sustainable Ocean Alliance
VC Fund
1 United States, United Kingdom, France Seed, Pre-Seed Sustainability, Software, CleanTech $25k–$2.5M
Pearson
VC Fund
1 United States, India, United Kingdom Series A, Seed Education, EdTech, Software $210k–$11M
Educas
VC Fund
1 South Africa Seed Education, Non Profit, Environmental Consulting
The A to Z Impact Foundation
VC Fund
1 Kenya, South Africa Seed B2B, Education, Nutrition
BYLD
VC Fund
1 United States, United Kingdom, Nigeria Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, Payments, FinTech $120k–$6.5M
Raba Partnership
VC Fund
1 United States, South Africa, Egypt Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Finance $635k–$32M
Emerge VC
VC Fund
1 United Kingdom, Germany, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Education, EdTech, E-Learning $1k–$33M
LoftyInc Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, Nigeria, Egypt Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Software $100k–$37M
KNF Ventures
VC Fund
1 South Africa Series A SaaS, EBooks, EdTech
Odunayo Eweniyi
Angel
1 South Africa, United States Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel EdTech, Facebook, Education $115k–$1M
Oppenheimer Generations Foundation
VC Fund
1 South Africa Seed Education
Twinkl
VC Fund
1 United Kingdom, South Africa Seed Education, Baby, MOOC $637k–$1M
Olugbenga Agboola
Angel
1 Nigeria, Kenya, United States Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Finance $625k–$7.5M
Launch Africa
VC Fund
1 Nigeria, South Africa, United States Seed, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology $200k–$4M
LocalGlobe
VC Fund
1 United Kingdom, United States, France Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $1M–$30M
African Infrastructure Investment Managers
VC Fund
1 Nigeria, South Africa Private Equity, Debt Financing Solar, Energy, SaaS
4DX Ventures
VC Fund
1 Egypt, United States, South Africa Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Logistics $50k–$40M
iHub
VC Fund
1 Kenya, South Africa Seed Education, E-Learning, EdTech
Alan Rutledge
Angel
1 United States, India, Mexico Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B Financial Services, FinTech, Software $600k–$8M
Oli Farago
Angel
1 United Kingdom, United States, South Africa Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Series A Real Estate, Software, Financial Services $360k–$64M
Oakley Capital
VC Fund
1 United Kingdom, Spain, France Private Equity, Secondary Market Internet, Service Industry, Digital Marketing $14M–$583M
Global Founders Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, Germany, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, Software, FinTech $637k–$33M
FINCA Ventures
VC Fund
1 Kenya, Mexico, Sweden Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Education $1.1M–$4.2M
elea Foundation for Ethics in Globalization
VC Fund
1 India, South Africa, Kenya Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Logistics $100k–$2.8M
Isaac Oates
Angel
1 United States, France, South Africa Seed, Grant Health Care, B2B, DIY $570k–$4.2M
Oikocredit International
VC Fund
1 India, Nigeria, Kenya Debt Financing, Series B Financial Services, Finance, FinTech $1.1M–$273M
Bas Hochstenbach
Angel
1 South Africa, The Netherlands Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed B2C, Travel, Tourism $28k–$55k
54 Collective
VC Fund
1 Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa Seed, Pre-Seed Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech $40k–$4M
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Vumela Fund
VC Fund · Hyde Park, Newtownabbey, United Kingdom · 4 investments in South Africa Education startups

Vumela was established in 2009 by FNB Business Banking and Edge Growth. The objective was to create an innovative model for the development of a sustainable and a financially and operationally independent investment business which invests in high growth small, medium and micro size enterprises with good economic and impact returns.Vumela wascapitalised in 2010. Within the first four years, we’d invested R90 million into eight high growth SMEs, and created a total of 400 jobs. They launched their second fund in 2015, after a further investment of R100 million from FirstRand and R127 million from the Jobs Fund. Within the first year of launching this second fund, we’ve committed R43 million to five investments that are expected to create over 1800 new jobs.The first fund of its kind in South Africa, Vumela’s main goals are to invest in and develop entrepreneurial companies in order to help alleviate poverty in South Africa by creating jobs, and to generate a return for its beneficiaries: the Shalamuka Foundation and the FirstRand Group.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Education, Software, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Debt Financing
  • Geography: South Africa, Brazil

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$822k; Debt Financing $854k–$1.4M
  • Lead/follow: 80% lead, 20% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $14M in 2015

Portfolio highlights

  • Rentoza — We champion giving you access, affordability and flexibility to explore tech on your own terms
  • Mia Healthcare
  • ProfitShare Partners — Business funding solutions with ProfitShare Partners. We specialise in Short Term Asset Finance to help empower SMEs.
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AngelHub Ventures
VC Fund · Stellenbosch, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 4 investments in South Africa Education startups

Operating out of Stellenbosch in South Africa and backed by two family offices Angelhub Ventures's team is passionate about early stage investments in (South) Africa. Being entrepreneurial ourselves, we thoroughly understand the challenges and changes our founders face – which is why we back them in any way we can. Most importantly, we believein building great businesses and we are in it for the long haul.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Education
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Africa, Mexico, Colombia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$2.3M; Series A $300k–$1.7M
  • Lead/follow: 77% lead, 23% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2014

Portfolio highlights

  • Syscap — Syscap is a financial technology company that offers cutting-edge solutions to financial institutions to have a better administration and management of their funding sources. It connects the leaders of financial and real estate institutions with their funders. For institutions, the company ensures the optimization of their funding source managementprocesses, but also the strengthening of the relationship with their funders. To funders, Syscap guarantees the transparency and timely monitoring of its funds for the safety and growth of its resources.
  • Godochurch — GoDoChurch is a cloud-based church administration software which is designed to assist Christian churches and ministries with managing members, Sunday services, events, communications, and more. The system is made up of a base package, covering messaging, news, ministries, lists, church roles, services, events, and growth paths, with additionalmodules for managing follow-ups, groups, and Kids church.
  • Velocity — Velocity is a micro fulfillment dark store that delivers through digital channels.
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Kepple Africa Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in South Africa Education startups

We back exceptional founders in and from Africa who are addressing deep gaps between the status quo and the ideal.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 77
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$4.5M; Pre-Seed $300k–$3.4M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Paps — Paps is a transport and logistics company that offers innovative distribution and delivery solutions to companies and merchants.The company's e-commerce platform helps companies and traders with scheduling and tracking deliveries on a real-time basis. It offers the distribution of documents and parcels, storage of goods in a secure warehousethat meets standards, and delivery of insured parcels in relay point or last mile. It also provides professional services such as management and repayment of cash on delivery, provision of couriers, management of returns, collection, and periodic reporting.The Dakar, Dakar, Senegal-based company was founded in 2016
  • Mvxchange — MVX makes freight shipping easier and more coordinated for companies of any size by bringing the whole booking and deployment process online. We simplify Africa’s end-to-end import and export trade transactions by aggregating and organizing 7+ services through 1 digital channel.
  • 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.
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Proparco
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 2 investments in South Africa Education startups

Proparco is devoted to private sector funding in the sustainable development sector.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Finance, Energy
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Seed
  • Geography: India, Kenya, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 90
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$13M; Debt Financing $300k–$140M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% 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.
  • Ecoener
  • IPT PowerTech — IPT PowerTech coverage, coupled with our extensive expertise in supply chain management, field implementation, and power systems, has made us one of the most capable companies in handling the most complicated and versatile projects in the MEA region and its neighboring countries.
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Knife Capital
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 2 investments in South Africa Education startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: South Africa, United States, Sweden

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 26
  • Round size: Series A $2M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 65% lead, 35% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $10M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Octiv — Turbocharge your fitness business, grow your community and build your brand with Octiv's leading Gym Management Software.
  • Outsized — Independent talent for enterprise clients and consulting firms in Asia-Pacific, Africa, and the Middle East.
  • Simera Sense — Simera Sense develops camera control electronics for optical payload and Cubesat imager solutions.
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Investisseurs & Partenaires
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 2 investments in South Africa Education startups

Investisseurs et Partenaires

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Edge Growth
VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in South Africa Education startups

We are SME Development Solutionists, co-creating innovative solutions that combat business growth constraints.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Education, Accounting
  • Stage:Seed, Debt Financing
  • Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $21M in 2013

Portfolio highlights

  • I-G3N — I-G3N is a South African developer of lithium-ion batteries. The company’s core market is on stationary storage in conjunction with Solar PV and focuses on superior products and on the incorporation of the latest technologies to battery functionality. One of the key focus areas is on exporting to the SADC region and the rest of Africa, asextraordinary opportunities exist on the rest of the continent, especially in the development of mini and micro-grids to impact development.
  • Syafunda — Trying something new
  • ProfitShare Partners — Business funding solutions with ProfitShare Partners. We specialise in Short Term Asset Finance to help empower SMEs.
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Kalon Venture Partners
VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in South Africa Education startups

A growing number of South Africans are investing in venture capital companies that operate under Section 12J of the Income Tax Act. Contact us now.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Internet, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Africa, Luxembourg, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 17
  • Round size: Seed $570k–$3M; Series A $2M–$7M
  • Lead/follow: 71% lead, 29% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Talk360 — Talk360 is an easy-to-use calling app that helps people make affordable international calls to any mobile and landline number. They believe that reliable communication and digital services must be affordable and accessible to everyone, regardless of someone's background. Especially people in emerging countries in Africa, who often need theseservices the most, do not always have the necessary banking possibilities. To bridge this distance, Talk360 will launch the world's first single checkout platform for Africa. This platform will combine all locally available payment methods and currencies across Africa, together with over 1.25 million cash points of sales, and will eventually be available to other companies as well. This means that 500 million Africans will be able to purchase digital services they never had access to before.
  • Sendmarc — Manage your organization's DMARC, SPF, and DKIM with world-class implementation services and support. All in one easy-to-use platform.
  • visionAI — Enhance factory efficiency with visionAI by using existing cameras to uncover inefficiencies and eliminate your production blindspots. Book a demo now!
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Iyinoluwa Aboyeji
Angel · 1 investments in South Africa Education startups

Iyinoluwa Aboyeji is the Founding Partner of Future Africa. He previously worked at Oby Ezekwesili Presidential Campaign as a Deputy Director General. Iyinoluwa Aboyeji attended the University of Waterloo - St. Jerome's University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$20M; Pre-Seed $172k–$2.1M; Series A $14M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Rapport — The smart solution for building superhuman teams. Rapport distills decades of research on high performing teams down to a few smart, simple steps that integrate seamlessly into your workflow.
  • Stitch — One API integration for enterprise online payments across South Africa. Accept Pay by bank, debit + credit card, cash, manual EFT, debit order and crypto.
  • Afropolitan — Afropolitan is building a Network State to unleash the maximum potential of Africans around the world. Are you interested? Join us with your email.
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Enygma Ventures
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in South Africa Education startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Lending, Education
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: South Africa, Zambia, Swaziland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Seed $120k–$1M
  • Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Adbot — Adbot makes Google ads easy. Start a Google Ad Campaign and get results!
  • 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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Calculus Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in South Africa Education startups

At Calculus Capital they are specialists in creating and managing tax efficient private equity funds for the individual. Funds that are ideal for today's market - offering generous tax benefits, and significant growth potential within a sensible risk profile.They look to make £2-5 million investments in established companies with provenmanagement teams and a successful product or service. Their entrepreneurial flair, combined with their experience and sound commercial judgement has resulted in a diversified investment portfolio and an impressive track record. In June 2013 Calculus Capital was top ranked in the prestigious Martin Churchill Tax Efficient Review for the 6th year in a row. The Government has recently shown its support for EIS funds, by maintaining the five generous tax benefits and widening the scope of EIS investments. These changes benefit Calculus Capital's rigorous and proven strategy. As a result they are experiencing their strongest pipeline of prospective investments yet.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Software, Medical
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 71
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$18M; Series A $2.6M–$9.2M
  • Lead/follow: 68% lead, 32% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • EnsiliTech — EnsiliTech is a biotechnology start-up developing ensilication, a platform technology, to remove the need for refrigeration when transporting and storing vaccines and biologicals
  • Grateful — Grateful provides cashless tipping and trunk management software that integrates QR/NFC, EPOS systems, and compliance reporting.
  • Laverock Therapeutics — Laverock Therapeutics is developing a gene silencing platform for the creation of programmable, allogeneic cell therapies.
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Naspers Foundry
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in South Africa Education startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Farming, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: South Africa, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Round size: Seed $854k–$6M; Series A $3M–$15M; Series B $940k–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 93% lead, 7% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Planet42 — Having your own car has never been easier. Planet42 is a vehicle rental company offering rent-to-buy car service for private clients.
  • LifeCheq — LifeCheq partners with insurers and advisory firms to deliver AI-enabled distribution, boost adviser productivity, and transform how financial advice is delivered.
  • 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.
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Hlayisani Capital
VC Fund · Fourways, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in South Africa Education startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Education, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Africa, Mauritius

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Lead/follow: 62% lead, 38% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • GoMetro — Fleet management simplified with GoMetro. Integrate telematics, gain real-time visibility, and optimize operations with a secure, scalable platform,
  • Spatialedge — Empowering Businesses to Make the Right Data-driven Decisions. We specialise in building and operationalising cutting-edge analytical solutions that deliver business value through a suite of decision tools.
  • Tractor Outdoor — Specialising in connecting brands to consumers through its network of traditional OOH, digital advertising technology, transit networks and ambient platforms
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Norrsken Foundation
VC Fund · Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden · 1 investments in South Africa Education startups

Norrsken Foundation is non-profit organization solving problems such as poverty, famine, environmental issues and mental health.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Health Care, FinTech
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, Rwanda

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 18
  • Round size: Seed $125k–$4M; Pre-Seed $125k–$1.1M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • RYE — RYE is a members-only, low-cost green energy supplier built for businesses with no time to deal with energy suppliers. Always accurate energy or it's free
  • Eden Care Medical — Eden Care Medical is a mobile application that provides medical and health insurance as well as financial services.
  • ORDA — Process orders, accept payments, connect to logistic providers, engage with your customers + more. We equip you with everything you need to grow your business.
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Frederik Gerner
Angel · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in South Africa Education startups

Frederik Gerner

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Investment focus

  • Industry: B2C, Energy, Organic
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: South Africa, The Netherlands

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Angel $28k–$55k
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • DX Digital Africa — DX Digital Africa specializes in automotive intelligence to build capabilities for vehicles of the future. Optimizing processes and reducing maintenance costs throughout the lifecycle of vehicles from the factory floor to scrap yard.
  • Yebo Fresh — Yebofresh is a new online shopping service, delivering popular groceries straight into areas that are generally unserved by most formal retailers. Our unique business model and partnerships with manufacturers allow us to deliver top quality products and A-brands at extremely competitive prices. Yebofresh serves Imizamo Yethu, Langa, Khayelitsha,Mfuleni and Gugulethu and following recent seed funding, is rapidly expanding across the greater Cape Town area.
  • Zelda Learning — Zelda provides free online career guidance for students looking to enter university and then links them to bursary and study opportunities.
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Youcef Oudjidane
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Education startups

Youcef Oudjidane is the Founder and Managing Partner of BYLD and the Co-Founder and Chairman of Elevate (YC W22).

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$10M; Pre-Seed $120k–$5M; Series A $23M–$23M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% 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.
  • Kaso — Elkaso is the leading Order and Procurement Management Tool for Restaurants and Suppliers in the Middle East.
  • Next Gen Foods — Next Gen Foods is a food-tech startup that offers plant-based meat products. They use plants to create a delicious and satisfying meat experience that will make forget animal meat even exists.
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Autodesk Foundation
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Education startups

Autodesk Foundation is the first foundation to focus investment exclusively on the people and organizations using design for impact.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Energy, CleanTech, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Kenya, Uganda

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Round size: Seed $2.1M–$12M; Series A $5M–$20M; Series B $40M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • M2X Energy — M2X Energy is a scalable methane conversion technology company that provides automated gas-to-product systems for methane conversion.
  • Last Energy — Last Energy is creating a new system for the development and delivery of small modular nuclear power plants. Combining proven reactor technology with a first-of-its-kind delivery model and fully modular plant design, Last Energy aims to decarbonize energy production and increase access to clean, affordable power.
  • Found Energy — Found Energy's aluminum-thermal power systems extract renewable energy from aluminum at double the energy density of diesel and at a competitive cost. Compact, modular, safe, and carbon-free, our technology makes industrial decarbonization practical.
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Sustainable Ocean Alliance
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Education startups

SOA develops leaders, cultivates ideas, and accelerates solutions to the biggest problems facing our ocean through the Leadership and Accelerator programs

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Sustainability, Software, CleanTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 47
  • Round size: Seed $25k–$2.5M; Pre-Seed $25k–$2.5M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Agriloops — Agriloops is reinventing aquaculture to produce eco-friendly products that are healthier and tastier. To carry out this mission, the Agriloops team gives all its power to a sustainable and innovative production mode, by designing the first aquaponic farm in salt water.
  • bound4blue — bound4blue provides Rigid Sails Technologies for vessels which deliver fuel consumption reductions of up to 40%.
  • PierSight Space — PierSight is building a constellation of SAR satellites to provide persistent monitoring for the maritime industry.
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Pearson
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in South Africa Education startups

Get to know who we are and what we have to offer. Our mission is simple, to help people make progress in their lives through learning.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Education, EdTech, Software
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 23
  • Round size: Seed $210k–$5M; Series A $2.7M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • HowNow — HowNow is a learning experience platform that helps companies onboard, upskill and support employees faster, everywhere they work.
  • Plum.io — Plum is revolutionizing how global enterprises hire, grow, and retain talent with the predictive power of psychometric data.
  • Smashcut — Smashcut is a next generation learning platform built for real time, media-based education.
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Educas
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in South Africa Education startups

Educas is a global investment firm focused on the education sector. Educas has two platforms: an international premium K-12 group of 42 schools educating over 31,000 students from Nursery to Grade 12 and a tertiary platform launched in 2017.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Education, Non Profit, Environmental Consulting
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Inspired — Inspired is a co-educational, non-denominational, independent school group designed to inspire students to achieve their maximum potential in a nurturing, progressive academic environment from ages 1 to 18.
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The A to Z Impact Foundation
VC Fund · 1 investments in South Africa Education startups

Impact-First Investing A to Z happily sacrifices financial returns on its investments in exchange for shared prosperity and positive societal outcomes. These investments empower underserved communities, leading to better jobs, improved health, and a higher quality of life.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: B2B, Education, Nutrition
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kwanza Tukule — Kwanza Tukule is a cashless B2B business that offers food supply services to local food vendors.
  • BluLever Educations — Join the artisans & apprentices who are building the future. At BluLever Education you can build your career, business, or the artisan ecosystem with an education partner that believes in artisans. Welcome to our digital home. We offer plumbing and electrical apprenticeships.
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BYLD
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in South Africa Education startups

Byld Ventures is a corporate venture capital firm focusing on early-stage technology investments.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Payments, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 23
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$6.5M; Pre-Seed $120k–$2.1M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% 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.
  • Munify — Fast, secure, and cost-efficient cross-border payments powered by stablecoins. Send and receive money globally without delays, high fees, or the complexity
  • Stream — Stream is a company that helps make payments simpler, faster, and reliable.
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Raba Partnership
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in South Africa Education startups

The Raba Partnership, Raba Capital, Raba

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, South Africa, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 55
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$6M; Pre-Seed $635k–$6.5M; Series A $9.2M–$32M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $60M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Cloudline — Cloudline leverages lighter-than-air technology and the latest developments in unmanned aerial vehicles to deliver essential goods and services to the 1 billion people without direct access to roads and runways.
  • Cloudline — The all-in-one cloud platform helping leisure businesses sell more, reduce costs & personalize experiences.
  • Fuse Financial Technologies — Financial APIs for building products in the Middle East.
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Emerge VC
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in South Africa Education startups

Emerge is a $70m pre-seed fund backed by 100+ of the world’s best edtech and future of work founders and executives. Our vision is to democratise access to opportunity by being a catalytic partner for early-stage founders re-designing the future of learning and work.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Education, EdTech, E-Learning
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 73
  • Round size: Seed $53k–$8M; Pre-Seed $1k–$1.4M; Series A $5M–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Popp AI — Popp helps brands boost customer lifetime value + unlock community-led growth by transforming customer advocacy into a community sport.
  • Popp — Joinpopp provides AI-driven solutions to automate recruitment tasks, including application screening and candidate conversations. The platform integrates seamlessly with ATS/CRM systems, enhancing efficiency in the hiring process. Joinpopp also offers features for creating personalized messages, streamlining communication with potentialcandidates.
  • Kinfolk — Resolve 70% of employee requests, run lifecycle programs on autopilot, gain visibility into service delivery and unlock capacity to scale Workforce Ops.
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LoftyInc Capital
VC Fund · Carmel, California, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Education startups

LoftyInc Capital Management empowers Afropreneurs to build a prosperous and equitable future in Africa. We deliver value to both founders and investors.........

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Investment focus

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Reliance Health — Reliance Health Global. Improve the lives of your staff with innovative company healthcare benefits fit for any business. You can rely on us.
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KNF Ventures
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in South Africa Education startups

was a SARS-approved section 12J Venture Capital Company

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, EBooks, EdTech
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Snapplify — Snapplify is at the forefront of edtech solutions in Africa, and specialises in enabling digital learning for individuals and institutions via the largest digital educational marketplace in Africa. As a global edtech company, Snapplify strives for radical inclusion to level the playing field and equip individuals across emerging markets with theworld-class tools they need to collaborate, innovate and thrive. Snapplify’s technology is used in other educational products to facilitate collaboration throughout the educational community.Snapplify for Education’s award-winning platform is already a top choice for institutions integrating digital education into their classrooms. From software to support, Snapplify provides institutions with everything they need to create a secure, collaborative e-learning environment for students. Snapplify’s robust 24-hour-access digital-library solution offers thousands of free ebooks and widely applicable, curriculum-approved educational content supplied by partner publishers from across the globe. Snapplify’s diversity of device integration allows schools to use its products on the devices that they already have access to, without having to invest in costly digital infrastructure upgrades. Snapplify’s solutions are industry celebrated and globally recognised for their innovation in technology.In order to achieve its educational goals, Snapplify has built strong relationships with diverse partners around the growth of its ebook, e-textbook, and device catalogue, and partnered with international publishers and other key stakeholders to meet the demand for widely relevant, curriculum-compliant digital educational content. As a socially minded company, Snapplify is committed to supporting others and creating sustainable change through collaboration and innovation. Snapplify empowers, inspires, and uplifts teachers via Teacha! (a media hub, resource marketplace, and careers portal for educators); is the digital content partner on a project that delivers technology and e-learning to public schools in South Africa’s Gauteng province, and runs impact programmes through the Snapplify Foundation.Snapplify originated in South Africa, focusing initially on the South African education and digital content industries. Since its establishment in 2012, the company has grown and expanded into new markets in Africa and the United States, with offices across South Africa, as well as in Nairobi, London, Amsterdam and New Jersey. Snapplify is backed by AngelHub Ventures, a venture capital company backed by former First National Bank CEO Michael Jordaan and the Harris family, as well as international investors. In 2019, Snapplify secured $2 million expansion capital from venture capital firm Knife Capital, and empowered African investment manager Hlayisani Capital’s Hlayisani Growth Fund.Snapplify for Education’s award-winning platform is already a top choice for institutions integrating digital education into their classrooms. From software to support, Snapplify provides institutions with everything they need to create a secure, collaborative e-learning environment for students. Through Snapplify’s e-learning and digital library solution, Engage, educators can share teacher-created, multimedia resource materials with students; administrators can manage the access and permissions for multiple student and staff accounts; schools can host their own 24-hour access digital content library (which comes with over 50 000 free resources including study guides, e-textbooks, past exam papers for multiple curricula, children’s books in African languages and more); and students and parents can purchase prescribed e-textbooks. Snapplify’s diversity of device integration allows schools to use its products on the devices that they already have access to, without having to invest in costly digital infrastructure upgrades. Snapplify’s solutions are industry celebrated and globally recognised for their innovation in technology.
  • Granite WMS — GraniteWMS is a powerful warehouse management system designed to streamline inventory, boost efficiency, and simplify warehouse operations.
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Odunayo Eweniyi
Angel · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 1 investments in South Africa Education startups

Odunayo Eweniyi is the Co-founder and COO at Piggybank and PushCV. Odunayo is a Co-Founder and General Partner at FirstCheck Africa and a Board Member at Village Capital. She was also a Writer atTechCabal. Odunayo attended SOAS University of London, freeCodeCamp, and Covenant University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: EdTech, Facebook, Education
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
  • Geography: South Africa, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $115k–$1M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Raenest — Access Virtual Accounts, Invoicing, Multi-Currency Payouts, Auto Payroll, Accounting Integrations, and Virtual & Physical cards within minutes.
  • Norebase — Norebase knows that there's an opportunity to grow successful businesses in Africa. It also understands the complexities of the market, and so is using technology to make doing business in Africa worthwhile. With Norebase get to operate in Africa with no hassle and with minimum risk.
  • FoondaMate — Foondamate brings the internet through messaging applications so students with limited internet access can study online.
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Oppenheimer Generations Foundation
VC Fund · 1 investments in South Africa Education startups

Oppenheimer Generations Foundation is a long-term supporter of the AL group, with catalytic, early-stage funding round.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Education
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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.
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Twinkl
VC Fund · Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom · 1 investments in South Africa Education startups

Twinkl is a provider of teacher-created lesson planning, teaching, and assessment materials such as online educational games, augmented reality and so much more. It has over 525,000 resources and new content gets added every day. It was founded in 2010.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Education, Baby, MOOC
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $637k–$1M
  • Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Watobe — Free maths videos and quizzes for grades 7-12 Watobe has stopped offering live lessons, but our former teachers have started a new project called MathsLive - check them out! Start learning Grades 7-12 Videos 1000+ Quizzes 500+ Subject Maths Watobe is now FREE SA's largest collection of maths videos Quizzes to test your knowledge Exam
  • Happity — Happity helps parents find baby & toddler classes. Fast.
  • Erase All Kittens — The revolutionary online game that introduces children to computational thinking and professional coding languages.
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Olugbenga Agboola
Angel · 1 investments in South Africa Education startups

Olugbenga Agboola is the Co-Founder and CEO of Flutterwave. He previously worked at Africa Fintech Foundry as a Senior Entrepreneur In Residence. Olugbenga Agboola attended MIT Sloan School of Management.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 23
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$7.5M; Pre-Seed $625k–$3.7M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Sipay — Sipay is a next-generation financial technology company offering a comprehensive all-in-one financial services platform. It enables B2B, B2C, and Sipay as a Service (Embedded Finance) customers to address all their banking and financial needs without requiring any other partners.
  • Curacel — Curacel creates APIs & tools that enable businesses to embed insurance in digital channels and to administer claims cost-effectively.
  • Afropolitan — Afropolitan is building a Network State to unleash the maximum potential of Africans around the world. Are you interested? Join us with your email.
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Launch Africa
VC Fund · Ebène, Plaines Wilhems, Mauritius · 1 investments in South Africa Education startups

Launch Africa is a leading Pan-African VC fund solving the significant funding gap in the Seed and pre-Series A investment landscape in Africa

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, South Africa, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 162
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$4M; Pre-Seed $200k–$1.7M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $36M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Fixit45 — Fixit45 also provides fleet management, auto parts sourcing and delivery, auto care, refurbishment and upgrades, repair financing, and mechanic workshop software as well as pre-purchase inspections, underlying these with moderation for compliance and accountability.
  • 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.
  • HomecomingEx — Homecoming Revolution is a pan-African recruitment firm for global African professionals. We specialise in headhunting & placing global African talent.
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LocalGlobe
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in South Africa Education startups

Seeding ambitious founders at places like @citymapper, @improbableio,@teamkano, @moo, @songkick,@seedcamp, @transferwise and @zoopla since 1999. Who's next?

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 324
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$12M; Pre-Seed $1M–$3.5M; Series A $3.5M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $500M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Wefarm — Wefarm is a farmer-to-farmer digital network that enables farmers to share information via SMS. The company allows small-scale farmers to connect with one another to solve problems, share ideas, and spread innovation. Utilizing the latest machine learning technology, Wefarm’s service works both online and over SMS.Since its founding in 2015,Wefarm has been named one of Africa’s Most Innovative Companies by FastCompany and has won Google’s Impact Challenge Award, TechCrunch’s Europas-Tech for Good Award, and the European Union Commission’s Ideas from Europe prize, among others. The company is headquartered in London with a field presence in Nairobi, Kampala, and Dar-es-Salaam.
  • 7bridges — The smart logistics platform that uses A.I technology to transform your logistics for scalable, sustainable and profitable business growth.
  • Cosmos Video — Cosmos Video is virtual office software for remote teams, cohort-based learning, and creative studios. Always-on spatial video with proximity-based audio.
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African Infrastructure Investment Managers
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in South Africa Education startups

African Infrastructure Investment Managers (AIIM) develops and manages private equity infrastructure funds designed to invest long-term institutional unlisted equity in African infrastructure projects.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Solar, Energy, SaaS
  • Stage:Private Equity, Debt Financing
  • Geography: Nigeria, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Snapplify — Snapplify is at the forefront of edtech solutions in Africa, and specialises in enabling digital learning for individuals and institutions via the largest digital educational marketplace in Africa. As a global edtech company, Snapplify strives for radical inclusion to level the playing field and equip individuals across emerging markets with theworld-class tools they need to collaborate, innovate and thrive. Snapplify’s technology is used in other educational products to facilitate collaboration throughout the educational community.Snapplify for Education’s award-winning platform is already a top choice for institutions integrating digital education into their classrooms. From software to support, Snapplify provides institutions with everything they need to create a secure, collaborative e-learning environment for students. Snapplify’s robust 24-hour-access digital-library solution offers thousands of free ebooks and widely applicable, curriculum-approved educational content supplied by partner publishers from across the globe. Snapplify’s diversity of device integration allows schools to use its products on the devices that they already have access to, without having to invest in costly digital infrastructure upgrades. Snapplify’s solutions are industry celebrated and globally recognised for their innovation in technology.In order to achieve its educational goals, Snapplify has built strong relationships with diverse partners around the growth of its ebook, e-textbook, and device catalogue, and partnered with international publishers and other key stakeholders to meet the demand for widely relevant, curriculum-compliant digital educational content. As a socially minded company, Snapplify is committed to supporting others and creating sustainable change through collaboration and innovation. Snapplify empowers, inspires, and uplifts teachers via Teacha! (a media hub, resource marketplace, and careers portal for educators); is the digital content partner on a project that delivers technology and e-learning to public schools in South Africa’s Gauteng province, and runs impact programmes through the Snapplify Foundation.Snapplify originated in South Africa, focusing initially on the South African education and digital content industries. Since its establishment in 2012, the company has grown and expanded into new markets in Africa and the United States, with offices across South Africa, as well as in Nairobi, London, Amsterdam and New Jersey. Snapplify is backed by AngelHub Ventures, a venture capital company backed by former First National Bank CEO Michael Jordaan and the Harris family, as well as international investors. In 2019, Snapplify secured $2 million expansion capital from venture capital firm Knife Capital, and empowered African investment manager Hlayisani Capital’s Hlayisani Growth Fund.Snapplify for Education’s award-winning platform is already a top choice for institutions integrating digital education into their classrooms. From software to support, Snapplify provides institutions with everything they need to create a secure, collaborative e-learning environment for students. Through Snapplify’s e-learning and digital library solution, Engage, educators can share teacher-created, multimedia resource materials with students; administrators can manage the access and permissions for multiple student and staff accounts; schools can host their own 24-hour access digital content library (which comes with over 50 000 free resources including study guides, e-textbooks, past exam papers for multiple curricula, children’s books in African languages and more); and students and parents can purchase prescribed e-textbooks. Snapplify’s diversity of device integration allows schools to use its products on the devices that they already have access to, without having to invest in costly digital infrastructure upgrades. Snapplify’s solutions are industry celebrated and globally recognised for their innovation in technology.
  • Starsight Energy — Starsight Energy provides premier clean on-grid and off-grid energy services to commercial and industrial clients in Africa. We make clean energy a smart bottom-line decision for clients by eliminating all up-front costs. Clients pay an all-inclusive monthly fee for end-to-end service.
  • Eastcastle Infrastructure — Track record of providing reliable and sustainable connectivity for consumers and communities in Africa.
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4DX Ventures
VC Fund · Brooklyn, New York, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Education startups

4DX Ventures is a Pan-Africa Focused Venture Capital Firm. Our mission is to connect people, ideas, and capital to create a vibrant African community.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Logistics
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Egypt, United States, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 76
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$8M; Pre-Seed $50k–$6.5M; Series A $6.6M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $60M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Suplyd — Suplyd is a comprehensive digital solution that bridges the gap between restaurant operators and their suppliers in order to disrupt an untouched market with extreme fragmentation and resolve the problem end-to-end.
  • Aether Bio — Aether uses its state of the art platform to rapidly engineer enzymes, enabling our customers to manufacture complex and novel products at fractional cost.
  • Franc — Franc is the easiest way to save & invest. Our app doesn’t require any investment knowledge & our friendly risk quiz helps us understand how much investment risk is right for you. Users can start investing in less than 2 minutes. There is no minimum requirement & no paperwork. It is a seamless digital experience end-to-end. A usersimply chooses a goal, selects an investment strategy, verifies their identity & makes a deposit. Each user is recommended a personalised investment strategy for each investment goal, combining money market & index tracking ETFs. Our helpful calculators assist clients with their budgeting, retirement & targeted savings needs. We also provide free access to our online academy & fun financial literacy quizzes.We know saving is hard & investing can be scary, which is why we create savings groups & challenges so that users can encourage one another. We also run weekly competitions where users can stand a chance to win a cash prize that will boost their investments.
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iHub
VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya · 1 investments in South Africa Education startups

iHub is a globally recognized organization that is deeply steeped in the local tech innovation culture. It is fair to say that the iHub has been both the main catalyst for regional tech acceleration and a role model for tech hubs across emerging markets. We are nurturing the best innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem; one that constantlychallenges and influences technology; one that can be replicated across the continent, as we believe that African innovation will play a critical role in shaping future technology globally.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Education, E-Learning, EdTech
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • 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.
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Alan Rutledge
Angel · 1 investments in South Africa Education startups

Alan Rutledge

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, India, Mexico

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 46
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$8M; Pre-Seed $600k–$2.5M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • FlexDesk — FlexDesk is creating a new evolution of the flexible workspace model. Remote workers use the platform to discover and book a dedicated desk or private office by the day. FlexDesk unlocks this inventory by partnering with office landlords and coworking operators that have furnished, underutilized space.
  • Fello — Fello is a savings and investment platform that helps to save, invest and earn higher returns than a traditional savings account.
  • Double — Double is a software platform that helps users to build, automate, and analyze investment portfolio for retail investors.
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Oli Farago
Angel · 1 investments in South Africa Education startups

Oli Farago Founder & CEO at Coyote Software. He attended Culford School during 1996-2002.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Real Estate, Software, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 21
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$3.9M; Series A $5.1M–$64M; Equity Crowdfunding $360k–$7.5M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Maroo — The smartest way to pay for your wedding
  • HyperionDev — Accelerate your career with a online coding bootcamp. Learn to code in just 3 - 6 months.
  • The Smart Container Company — The Smart Container Company is the team behind KegTracker and BeverEDGE, a first-to-market IoT device and platform that instantly turns kegs into SMART containers. Our technology tracks real-time location, volume, temperature, and motion for each keg and delivers actionable insights that enable transparency and zero.
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Oakley Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in South Africa Education startups

Oakley Capital partners with ambitious founders and management teams to build successful businesses across three sectors: technology, consumer, education.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Service Industry, Digital Marketing
  • Stage:Private Equity, Secondary Market
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Spain, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 22
  • Round size: Private Equity $14M–$583M
  • Lead/follow: 68% lead, 32% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $3.4B in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Infravadis — Infravadis is a technology-enabled platform devoted to the market for underground infrastructure maintenance ("UIM").
  • Brevo — Brevo is a developer of a cloud-based digital marketing platform used to meet the demand of businesses to engage with customers. Its platform encompasses the entire chain, from the creation of a newsletter to analysis and reporting tools to targeting modules that enable businesses, eCommerce sellers, and agencies to build customer relationshipsthrough digital marketing campaigns, transactional messaging, and marketing automation.Unlike other marketing solutions built for enterprise-level budgets and expertise, Sendinblue tailors its all-in-one suite to suit the marketing needs of growing SMBs in tough markets.The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Paris, France.
  • Groupe Senef — Groupe Senef is a digital software provider that serves service industries like home care, cleaning, hospitality, and many others.
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Global Founders Capital
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 1 investments in South Africa Education startups

Over the past two decades, GFC have backed over five hundred entrepreneurs worldwide, e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, and Away Travel.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Software, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 822
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$8.8M; Pre-Seed $637k–$5M; Series A $4M–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $2B in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • TalentHack — TalentHack is a health platform that connects directly with the fitness professionals and industry. They exist to redefine what a career in fitness can be, by providing opportunities to propel you forward. It takes hours for companies to find a single potential lead, let alone a candidate. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in New York,NY, United States
  • Membrane — Membrane is AI for product integrations. Describe what you need, watch integrations build, test and maintain themselves.We exist to let any product connect to any other reliably, safely, and at scale, by turning intent & customer needs into integrations with AI.Our platform offers the state-of-the-art solution in the AI Age for productintegrations:Membrane Agent builds integrations for one or multiple apps at once, choosing correct API calls, field mappings, and data structuresMembrane Engine is the configurable infrastructure that you or any agent can play with. It contains actions, events/webhooks, flows, data collections, unified API models, field mappings, and schemas & more used to build and maintain integrations at scale.Membrane Packages - integration code that is purpose built for your use case, that you can deploy in your IDE.Membrane is used by 100+ B2B SaaS companies like Constant Contact, PandaDoc, Dialpad, Storyblok & many others as their preferred integration partner
  • Bravo Sierra — Bravo Sierra creates performance body care products for the most active individuals. Every formula undergoes rigorous field-testing to meet strict standards of quality and efficacy. Designed and manufactured in the U.S.A, a portion of every purchase directly supports military veterans and their families.
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FINCA Ventures
VC Fund · Washington, District of Columbia, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Education startups

FINCA Ventures is an impact investing initiative of FINCA International that provides patient capital and support to early-stage social enterprises.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Education
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, Mexico, Sweden

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 17
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$4M; Series A $1.1M–$4.2M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Bamba — We help large companies that want to help their affinity users to solve unforeseen events fast, by minimizing costs, through a smart digital agent embedded in any company’s interface
  • Lapaire — Get the best affordable eyeglasses in Africa with Lapaire. Book your free vision test today at our locations across Benin, Ivory Coast, Togo, Burkina Faso, Mali, Kenya & Uganda. Quality glasses, professional optometrists, unbeatable prices.
  • Good Nature Agro — Their priority is to generate lasting income with small-scale farmers. They build local community leaders into qualified Private Extension Agents (PEAs) who oversee and train farmers throughout the growing season. They support PEAs to provide frequent trainings and personalized recommendations on how their growers can make their field healthier andmore productive. PEAs promote improved farm practices and deliver a farmer-friendly loan of seeds and additional inputs. At harvest, Good Nature is a guaranteed market for the certified legume seed that their growers produce. Choosing to produce these high-value crops over traditional cash crops - maize and cotton - more than doubles their income.
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elea Foundation for Ethics in Globalization
VC Fund · 1 investments in South Africa Education startups

elea Foundation for Ethics in Globalization

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Logistics
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: India, South Africa, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$1.2M; Series A $2M–$2.8M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • BukaPO — BukaPO is a food and beverage company that provides pulses, rice bowls, and various other snack food services.
  • Toroto — Toroto neutralizes greenhouse gas emissions through nature-based solutions and carbon management. They provide a science-based way for companies and organizations to move closer to carbon-neutral operations. They support companies by measuring and reducing their environmental footprint. They also design forestry and regenerative agricultureprojects that make carbon offsetting possible.
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Isaac Oates
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Education startups

Isaac Oates is the Founder and Executive Chair at Justworks. He attended the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Cornell University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, B2B, DIY
  • Stage:Seed, Grant
  • Geography: United States, France, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $570k–$4.2M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Osium AI — Speed up your materials and chemicals innovation with AI.
  • Lately — Lately uses AI to create your social media content and manage your social media marketing and social selling programs.
  • FoondaMate — Foondamate brings the internet through messaging applications so students with limited internet access can study online.
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Oikocredit International
VC Fund · Amersfoort, Utrecht, The Netherlands · 1 investments in South Africa Education startups

Invest in People with Oikocredit and use your money to create change. giving people opportunity to build better lives. Invest Now

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Series B
  • Geography: India, Nigeria, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 48
  • Round size: Series B $3.5M–$8.8M; Debt Financing $1.1M–$273M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

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.
  • YoFio — YoFio
  • Sindhuja Microcredit — Sindhuja Microcredit is a new generation digital and rural-focused Micro Finance Institution (MFI) providing financial services to the bottom of the pyramid self-employed women entrepreneurs.
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Bas Hochstenbach
Angel · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in South Africa Education startups

Bas Hochstenbach is the Co-Founder of Conservation Club. He attended Leiden University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: B2C, Travel, Tourism
  • Stage:Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: South Africa, The Netherlands

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Angel $28k–$55k
  • Lead/follow: 80% lead, 20% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • DX Digital Africa — DX Digital Africa specializes in automotive intelligence to build capabilities for vehicles of the future. Optimizing processes and reducing maintenance costs throughout the lifecycle of vehicles from the factory floor to scrap yard.
  • Yebo Fresh — Yebofresh is a new online shopping service, delivering popular groceries straight into areas that are generally unserved by most formal retailers. Our unique business model and partnerships with manufacturers allow us to deliver top quality products and A-brands at extremely competitive prices. Yebofresh serves Imizamo Yethu, Langa, Khayelitsha,Mfuleni and Gugulethu and following recent seed funding, is rapidly expanding across the greater Cape Town area.
  • Zelda Learning — Zelda provides free online career guidance for students looking to enter university and then links them to bursary and study opportunities.
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54 Collective
VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in South Africa Education startups

Building and scaling African tech startups with catalytic capital, value-add support and our global network.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 107
  • Round size: Seed $40k–$4M; Pre-Seed $40k–$1.3M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • mTek — mTek is a digital online insurance platform that provides an entirely paperless ecosystem for the insurance industry.
  • 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.
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Education Investor funding in South Africa at a glance

Stats across 52 deals from 71 investors.

71
investors
in South Africa Education startups
52
deals
in South Africa Education startups
$1.1M
median round
in South Africa Education startups
45%
lead investors
lead at least one round
21%
Seed
most common funding stage
83/17
VC / Angel
share of investor count

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