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Top 50 Education VC Funds & Investors in Africa (June 2026)

The most active venture capital funds investing in Africa Education startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in 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
iHub
VC Fund
10 Kenya, South Africa Seed Education, E-Learning, EdTech
Launch Africa
VC Fund
7 Nigeria, South Africa, United States Seed, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology $200k–$4M
Proparco
VC Fund
5 India, Kenya, Egypt Debt Financing, Seed Financial Services, Finance, Energy $400k–$140M
54 Collective
VC Fund
5 Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa Seed, Pre-Seed Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech $40k–$4M
Vumela Fund
VC Fund
4 South Africa, Brazil Seed, Debt Financing Education, Software, E-Commerce $600k–$1.4M
Microtraction
VC Fund
4 Nigeria, United States, Ghana Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel Financial Services, FinTech, Software $25k–$1.3M
Investisseurs & Partenaires
VC Fund
4 France, Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire Seed, Series A Financial Services, Health Care, Food and Beverage
AngelHub Ventures
VC Fund
4 South Africa, Mexico, Colombia Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Education $300k–$2.3M
Kepple Africa Ventures
VC Fund
4 Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt Seed, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Software $300k–$4.5M
Ventures Platform
VC Fund
4 Nigeria, United States, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Internet $100k–$4.4M
Chinook Capital Limited
VC Fund
3 Nigeria Seed, Pre-Seed EdTech, Retail, Software $120k–$575k
ODBA
VC Fund
3 Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Education $180k–$3.5M
F6 Ventures
VC Fund
3 Tunisia, France Pre-Seed, Seed E-Commerce, Retail, FinTech $65k–$200k
Consonance Investment Managers
VC Fund
3 Nigeria, United States, Kenya Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, FinTech $50k–$10M
LoftyInc Capital
VC Fund
3 United States, Nigeria, Egypt Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Software $100k–$37M
DOB Equity
VC Fund
3 Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda Private Equity, Seed Food and Beverage, Farming, Agriculture $1M–$4M
Future Africa
VC Fund
3 Nigeria, United States, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology $100k–$20M
MNF Ventures
VC Fund
3 Morocco, France, Canada Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Online Portals, FinTech, Enterprise Software $200k–$1.6M
Enza Capital
VC Fund
2 Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa Seed, Series A Financial Services, Finance, E-Commerce $238k–$31M
International Finance Corporation
VC Fund
2 India, Brazil, United States Debt Financing, Series B Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
TLcom Capital Partners
VC Fund
2 Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Seed Software, Mobile, Information Technology $1.9M–$13M
Savannah Fund
VC Fund
2 Kenya, United States, South Africa Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, FinTech, Software $25k–$8M
Knife Capital
VC Fund
2 South Africa, United States, Kenya Series A, Seed Software, Education, Manufacturing $2M–$30M
Ardent Capital
VC Fund
2 Nigeria, Indonesia, Thailand Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Internet, Software $100k–$15M
Musha Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, Nigeria, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Financial Services, FinTech $125k–$10M
Wamda
VC Fund
2 United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Tunisia Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Information Technology, Logistics, EdTech $850k–$13M
Acumen
VC Fund
2 United States, India, Kenya Seed, Series A Agriculture, Health Care, Financial Services $300k–$13M
Praxis
VC Fund
2 United States, Nigeria, Kenya Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Grant Non Profit, Social Assistance, Education $1.2M–$10M
FINCA Ventures
VC Fund
2 Kenya, Nigeria, Mexico Seed, Grant, Series A Financial Services, Agriculture, AgTech $40k–$4.2M
Seedstars Africa Ventures
VC Fund
2 Kenya, France, Rwanda Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Energy, FinTech, Software $1.1M–$2.7M
Emerge VC
VC Fund
2 United Kingdom, Germany, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Education, EdTech, E-Learning $1k–$33M
pledges.com
VC Fund
2 Rwanda Pre-Seed Education $1M–$1M
LocalGlobe
VC Fund
2 United Kingdom, United States, France Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $1M–$33M
Nestcoin
VC Fund
2 Rwanda, Nigeria, United States Pre-Seed Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Education $670k–$1M
Untapped Global
VC Fund
2 South Africa, Kenya Seed FinTech, Consumer Goods, Financial Services $1.2M–$3M
British International Investment
VC Fund
2 India, Kenya, Nigeria Debt Financing, Series B Financial Services, Banking, Finance $7.5M–$100M
Growth Capital
VC Fund
2 Nigeria Seed, Pre-Seed EdTech, Software, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
FM Capital Group
VC Fund
1 United States, Nigeria Seed, Pre-Seed, Series C Software, Big Data, EdTech
Finnfund
VC Fund
1 Kenya, India, South Africa Debt Financing, Series B Financial Services, FinTech, Renewable Energy
Toyota Tsusho
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States, Kenya Series A, Series B Software, Manufacturing, Automotive
Pearson
VC Fund
1 United States, India, United Kingdom Series A, Series B Education, EdTech, Software
Calculus Capital
VC Fund
1 United Kingdom, United States, Ireland Series A, Post-IPO Equity Biotechnology, Software, Health Care
elea Foundation for Ethics in Globalization
VC Fund
1 South Africa, India, Kenya Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Logistics, Health Care
OMICRONE
VC Fund
1 Tunisia Pre-Seed Gaming, Training
Hlayisani Growth Fund
VC Fund
1 South Africa Seed Education, Apps, SaaS
KNF Ventures
VC Fund
1 South Africa Series A SaaS, EBooks, EdTech
Founder Collective
VC Fund
1 United States, United Kingdom, Israel Seed, Series A Software, Internet, E-Commerce $1.1M–$16M
Sustainable Ocean Alliance
VC Fund
1 United States, United Kingdom, France Seed, Pre-Seed Sustainability, Software, CleanTech $25k–$2.5M
UNITED
VC Fund
1 Japan, Nigeria, Indonesia Seed, Series A Apps, Software, Media and Entertainment $980k–$89M
Timon Capital
VC Fund
1 Nigeria, Kenya, United States Seed, Series A B2B, Internet, Logistics $300k–$30M
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iHub
VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya · 10 investments in 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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Launch Africa
VC Fund · Ebène, Plaines Wilhems, Mauritius · 7 investments in 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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Proparco
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 5 investments in 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, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 93
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$13M; Debt Financing $400k–$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.
  • Moniepoint — Moniepoint provides an all-in-one payments, banking and operations platform for businesses and their customers.
  • 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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54 Collective
VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 5 investments in 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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Vumela Fund
VC Fund · Hyde Park, Newtownabbey, United Kingdom · 4 investments in 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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Microtraction
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 4 investments in Africa Education startups

We invest in Africa's most remarkable teams with technical founders at the earliest stage of their venture

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, Ghana

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 103
  • Round size: Seed $25k–$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.
  • LemFi — Send money to India, China, Pakistan, Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya and 30 other countries. Receive and manage your money without stress
  • 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.
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Investisseurs & Partenaires
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 4 investments in 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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AngelHub Ventures
VC Fund · Stellenbosch, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 4 investments in 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, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: South Africa, Mexico, Colombia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$2.3M; Series A $300k–$1.7M
  • Lead/follow: 71% lead, 29% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2014

Portfolio highlights

  • Motai
  • Syscap — Syscap is a financial technology company that offers cutting-edge solutions to financial institutions to have a better administration and management of their funding sources. It connects the leaders of financial and real estate institutions with their funders. For institutions, the company ensures the optimization of their funding source managementprocesses, but also the strengthening of the relationship with their funders. To funders, Syscap guarantees the transparency and timely monitoring of its funds for the safety and growth of its resources.
  • Velocity — Velocity is a micro fulfillment dark store that delivers through digital channels.
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Kepple Africa Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 4 investments in 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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Ventures Platform
VC Fund · Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria · 4 investments in Africa Education startups

We back founders building the future of Africa. We invest in companies that solve for non-consumption, plug infrastructural gaps and democratise prosperity in Africa, by eliminating the barriers for access and reducing the costs of delivering goods and services.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 143
  • Round size: Seed $325k–$4.4M; Pre-Seed $100k–$1.3M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • MDaaS Global — At MDaaS Global, we build and operate modern, tech-enabled diagnostic centres in clinically-underserved communities, starting in Nigeria. Our big goal is to create affordable healthcare solutions for Africa's next billion.
  • Brass — Get started with a modern current account
  • LemFi — Send money to India, China, Pakistan, Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya and 30 other countries. Receive and manage your money without stress
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Chinook Capital Limited
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 3 investments in Africa Education startups

Chinook Capital is focused on investments in seed- and pre-stage companies in internet software, services, and media sectors.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: EdTech, Retail, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $120k–$575k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Edves — Edves automates the brick and mortal School operations from Student enrollment, Fee Collection, Lesson Note up to Transcript Generation.
  • Youverify — Youverify helps businesses and individuals confirm identity and physical addresses. Using AI, Youverify confirms a user’s identity document and compares it with their facial biometrics. This information can be cross-checked against more than 300 databases locally and globally.Youverify in partnership with over 20,000 field verification officersverifies physical addresses all over Sub-Sahara Africa in less than 48 hours.Youverify fills the gap in Africa's digital industry by providing one API for identity and physical address verification.
  • Lifestores Pharmacy — Lifestores is a retail pharmacy start-up bringing disruptive innovation to the pharmaceutical sector in Nigeria by democratizing quality medicines and pharmaceutical services.
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ODBA
VC Fund · Port Louis, Port Louis, Mauritius · 3 investments in Africa Education startups

We invest in people and stories, which are at the heart of everything we do.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 21
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$2M; Pre-Seed $180k–$3.5M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Fleri — Better healthcare for your family back home - Give your loved ones back home in Africa the gift of a better life with a healthcare coverage plan that works.
  • Edukoya — Edukoya builds online education content and offers online tutoring for students and their parents.
  • GetFundedAfrica — GetFundedAfrica's mission is to help Africa’s most promising startups find funding, grow & solve society’s greatest challenges. We do this through a media portal - GetFundedAfrica News; a learning portal - REMSANA; and an investment arm - GFA Ventures
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F6 Ventures
VC Fund · Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia · 3 investments in Africa Education startups

Flat6Labs is the MENA region’s leading seed and early stage venture capital firm, currently running the most renowned startup programs in the region. Annually, Flat6Labs invests in more than 100 innovative and technology-driven startups enabling thousands of passionate entrepreneurs to achieve their daring ambitions and ultimately becoming theirinstitutional co-founders.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Retail, FinTech
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: Tunisia, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 42
  • Round size: Seed $65k–$200k; Pre-Seed $65k–$81k
  • Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $10M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • WeMove — WeMove is a fitness marketplace for daily gym passes. They develop innovative solutions that meet your sports issues.
  • Bako Motors SAS — Bako Motors SAS is a motor vehicle manufacturing company that develops solar electric vehicles. manufacturer of electric vehicles with the goal of creating long-term fixes for rural areas' transportation issues with regard to people, cargo, and machinery. The business makes electric cars as well as solutions for clean energy generation andstorage that are infinitely scalable, providing users with inexpensive and environmentally friendly e-mobility.
  • Insight Plus — Insight Plus is a foreign exchange platform that specializes in interconnecting global exchanges into one eco system.
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Consonance Investment Managers
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 3 investments in Africa Education startups

We are an investment company focused on helping early and growth-stage entrepreneurs build successful companies in Africa.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 31
  • Round size: Seed $550k–$3.3M; Pre-Seed $450k–$1M; Series A $50k–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Releaf Earth — We are industrializing food processing in Africa. We've led 1000+ smallholder farmers to provide food factories with >7.5 million kilograms of quality crops.
  • Tripesa — Tripesa offers payment solutions for Africa's travel and tourism industry.
  • Plural — Smarter, Faster, Future-Ready Policy Strategy. Plural transforms how enterprises and organizations anticipate and act on legislation. Our AI-powered platform delivers accurate bill analysis, policy insights, and stakeholder intelligence so you can stay ahead of risk, seize opportunity, and shape outcomes. See How It Works Book A Demo Trusted By Deepen Your State & Federal Legislative
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LoftyInc Capital
VC Fund · Carmel, California, United States · 3 investments in 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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DOB Equity
VC Fund · Veessen, Gelderland, The Netherlands · 3 investments in Africa Education startups

DOB Equity is a private equity firm specializing in growth capital and buy-and-build strategies in small and medium companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Food and Beverage, Farming, Agriculture
  • Stage:Private Equity, Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 50
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$4M
  • Lead/follow: 58% lead, 42% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • MazaoHub — MazaoHub is a AI-powered end-to-end farm management company.
  • FarmWorks — FarmWorks is an agricultural technology company that gives farmers access to farm inputs as well as a market for the produce .FarmWork is to unlock agricultural potential by building clusters of mid-sized farms while working with thousands of small-holder farmers and establishing direct linkage to local and global markets.
  • Spouts of Water — SPOUTS mission is to manufacture and distribute ceramic water filters to provide everyone in Uganda with safe water.
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Future Africa
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in Africa Education startups

Future Africa is a collective of mission-driven founders and funders building unicorns to solve Africa’s biggest challenges. They are build a future where purpose and prosperity are within everyone’s reach.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 88
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$4M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3.7M; Series A $7M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Edves — Edves automates the brick and mortal School operations from Student enrollment, Fee Collection, Lesson Note up to Transcript Generation.
  • Releaf Earth — We are industrializing food processing in Africa. We've led 1000+ smallholder farmers to provide food factories with >7.5 million kilograms of quality crops.
  • Nexford University — Transform your career with affordable, flexible degrees and job skills designed for today's workforce. Skip debt and learn at your own pace with Nexford.
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MNF Ventures
VC Fund · Casablanca, Grand Casablanca, Morocco · 3 investments in Africa Education startups

MNF Ventures is a venture capital fund based in Morocco, investing in Seed, Pre-Series A and Series A startups. Tickets size can go up to USD 1M. We invest in tech startups operating in Fintech/Insurtech, EdTech, Regtech, HealthTech, Biotech, EnergyTech Cybersecurity, SaaS... Startups have either to be based in Morocco, or be based worldwideif at least one of the founders is a Moroccan citizen. MNF Ventures manages Maroc Numeric Fund and Maroc Numeric Fund II.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Online Portals, FinTech, Enterprise Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Morocco, France, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 32
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$1.6M; Series A $250k–$700k
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $20M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Damanesign — Damanesign operates as a digital trust solutions startup. Damanesign is a startup that is seizing new legislation opportunities on digital trust in Morocco to provide users with the utmost safety in documentation.
  • Atlan Space — Building Artificial Intelligence to autonomously pilot any fixed wing drone, to monitor and take measures over very large areas
  • OnePay — OnePay is a fintech startup that operates as a distributor of means of payment and aggregator of payment and value-added services in electronic transactions.
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Enza Capital
VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya · 2 investments in Africa Education startups

Venture investor in high-growth Founders and Teams using technology to solve large and meaningful problems across Africa

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Finance, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 50
  • Round size: Seed $238k–$12M; Series A $3.6M–$31M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Tugende — Tugende helps motorcycle taxi drivers own their own motorcycles in eighteen months or less instead of renting indefinitely. Ownership significantly increases income, job security and road safety.
  • Jumba — Jumba is the trusted digital partner for hardware stores. Through tech, we support hardware stores to grow. Get cement at unbeatable prices. Access cement LPOs even at midnight. Get inventory on credit through Jengwa.
  • Quro Medical — Quro Medical is an innovative digital health company pioneering premium hospital-at-home services.
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International Finance Corporation
VC Fund · Washington, District of Columbia, United States · 2 investments in Africa Education startups

A strong and engaged private sector is indispensible to ending extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity. That's where IFC comes in - we have more than 60 years experience in unlocking private investment, creating markets and opportunities where they are needed most.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Series B
  • Geography: India, Brazil, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 386
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Revelo — Scale your development team with the top 1% of 1,000,000+ software engineers in Latin America. Get matched with senior remote developers who have strong technical and English-speaking skills & hire them without the overhead. We handle payroll, taxes, and HR. Flat monthly rate.
  • iyzico — iyzico was founded with the aim of providing a secure payment management platform to online companies of different sizes operating in different industries. Currently it offers iyziPos (secure virtualPOS solution with automated fraud prevention and high authorization-rate bank integrations) , iyziBazaar (manage marketplace payments), iyziLink (payby link, without the need of a shopping site), and Buyer Protection (secure shopping experience) as the flagship products.
  • Candela — We build electric hydrofoil boats and ferries for leisure and commercial use. Explore the Candela C-8 and the Candela P-12.
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TLcom Capital Partners
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in Africa Education startups

TLcom Capital, is an Africa focused tech VC, with offices in Lagos, Nairobi and London. TLcom had been investing since 1999 in Tech, Media, Mobil and Internet companies across Europe, US and Africa, which is the exclusive focus of its most recent TLcom TIDE Africa funds. TLcom manages total commitments of approximately 300 million USD in thesesectors via a series of dedicated investment vehicles. Our investment strategy is to identify, back and assist world class entrepreneurs and management teams with disruptive technologies and business models, compelling intellectual property and deep market knowledge. We primarily target companies focused on Africa as a prime market, in the following investment themes: Access to Data Service; Financial Services; eCommerce; B2C applications (including but not limited to: health, education, energy, media and entertainment); and Software solutions to corporates and SMEs.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Mobile, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 59
  • Round size: Seed $1.9M–$8.5M; Series A $3.8M–$13M
  • Lead/follow: 51% lead, 49% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $150M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Hub2.Io — Welcome to HUB2, the leading FINTECH startup in interoperability and payment infrastructure in Francophone Africa. We are proud to work with all financial industry players in Africa who need stable and high-performing infrastructure, and contribute to their success.
  • Talstack — Talstack is an all-in-one platform for employee growth and development
  • 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.
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Savannah Fund
VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya · 2 investments in Africa Education startups

Savannah Fund is a seed capital fund specializing in US$25,000-US$500,000 investments in early stage high growth technology (web and mobile) startups in sub-Saharan Africa. Initially focused on East Africa, the fund aims to bridge the early stage/angel and venture capital investment gap that currently exists in Africa. The Fund expects toachieve this objective by combining capital with mentor networks both in the region and from Silicon Valley via an accelerator program and a follow-on independent seed fund.The fund is managed by an experienced and technology savvy team that have founded companies or are actively involved in angel investing or having run successful accelerator programs in past but also understand the unique Subsaharan African environment. They are backed and supported by both local, regional and international networks of angels,venture capitalists whose expertise we can draw on to help startups succeed and scale to fully fledged regional or global companies.They believe in the potential for Africa to become a global technology innovator by creating sustainable for profit companies that create jobs and make an impact.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, United States, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 38
  • Round size: Seed $25k–$3M; Pre-Seed $200k–$2.1M; Series A $750k–$8M
  • Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $25M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Oze — OZÉ brings African small businesses into the digital era. It is an app that makes it easy for businesses to track sales, expenses, and customer information. The data is analyzed to provide tailored recommendations, reports, and business education. If the entrepreneur needs a little extra support, an OZÉ Coach is just a click away. As they are usingOZÉ to manage their business and learn how to run it better, we are learning about them. Using this data and machine learning, we can predict their credit risk and provide them with affordable capital from our banking partners. With over 20,000 registered users, OZÉ is the largest online community of SMEs in Ghana. The most exciting thing is that OZÉ works; 97% of businesses that have used OZE for at least 9 months are growing or profitable or both!
  • Root — Launch digital and embedded insurance solutions with omni-channel distribution.
  • Afropolitan — Afropolitan is building a Network State to unleash the maximum potential of Africans around the world. Are you interested? Join us with your email.
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Knife Capital
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 2 investments in 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, Education, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: South Africa, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 31
  • Round size: Series A $2M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 71% lead, 29% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $10M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • d6 — SCHOOLS Schools Communication Platforms and School Management Software COMMUNITIES Community & Internal Business Communication Platforms MEDIA Let your brand be seen Advertise on
  • DataProphet — DataProphet offers production intelligence solutions for manufacturers. By combining human ingenuity with production data, we supercharge manufacturing excellence. Explore our Connect platform and expert services, trusted by industry leaders.
  • Stone Three Venture Technology — We combine expert services with the power of machine learning to help our customers increase their productivity and safety.
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Ardent Capital
VC Fund · Bangkok, Krung Thep, Thailand · 2 investments in Africa Education startups

Leading Venture Capital & Builder in Southeast Asia | Experts in E-Commerce, B2B, B2C, Fulfilment Startups | Seed, Series A Funding

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Nigeria, Indonesia, Thailand

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 37
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$2.5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$350k; Series A $1.1M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $13M in 2014

Portfolio highlights

  • Laborhack — LaborHack offers a select network of tested and certified carpenters, plumbers, electricians, masons, welders, and other tradespeople. It provides cleaning, plumbing, electrical, and HVAC services.
  • Trade Lenda — Trade Lenda: Access to Loans, Investments, Utility Payments, Credit Access, Insurance, and More! Unlock Opportunities to Earn, Invest, and Grow. Secure Personal or Business Loans Toda
  • Feather Africa — Feather Africa provides money transaction services, such as enabling users to send and receive money from anyone using the application. It offers withdrawals of cash without ATM cards by sending money to the nearest cash vendors.
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Musha Ventures
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in Africa Education startups

Seed capital for technology startups globally.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 140
  • Round size: Seed $125k–$4.9M; Pre-Seed $300k–$3.2M; Series A $2.5M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • nGrow.ai — Boost revenue and engagement
  • 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.
  • Orca Fraud — Orca empowers fraud fighters with effective tools to combat fraud
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Wamda
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 2 investments in Africa Education startups

Wamda is a platform of programs and networks that aims to accelerate entrepreneurship ecosystems across MENA.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Logistics, EdTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Tunisia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$13M; Series A $850k–$8M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • GoMyCode — GoMyCode is changing the education market by training talents in a dynamic belnded environement on digital skills and connects them with tech opportunities around the world. Based on 4 Main Aspects: - Data based Assessment - Data based matching - Business Analytics - Learning Platform - Content EditorGoMyCode provides digital Skills Training forthe Future of Work. In 4 Different fields: - DATA - DEVELOPMENT - DESIGN - DIGITAL MARKETING
  • Dtek.AI — Dukkantek aims to empower and enable traditional merchants to be able to compete in the modern world or the digital world through digital transformation. It is a technology partner that improves and provides so many solutions to your business. Dukkantek has what every store needs to manage their business easily and efficiently. With Dukkantek, you will have an end-to-end technology companion that improves all your processes.
  • FreshSource — FreshSource is revolutionizing the agriculture value chain through a tech-based B2B platform that is disrupting the distribution model of horticulture produce.
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Acumen
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in Africa Education startups

Acumen is a nonprofit venture fund that invests in early-stage companies bringing critical services like agriculture, clean energy, education, financial inclusion, healthcare and workforce development to low-income communities in 14 countries across East and West Africa, South Asia, Latin America, and the United States. Since 2001, Acumeninvested $128 million in 128 companies that have transformed the lives of over 308 million low-income people.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Agriculture, Health Care, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, India, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 162
  • Round size: Seed $300k–$4.2M; Series A $1.6M–$13M
  • Lead/follow: 52% lead, 48% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $2.8M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • AgroEknor — AgroEknor provides agricultural research, integration, technology based optimization & global delivery of the agro superfoods.
  • Orb Energy — Orb Energy is a vertically integrated solar company that manufactures solar panels, design, install, and services complete system, and finance C&I customers.
  • RDG Africa — Empowering the Future, one solar system at a time
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Praxis
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in Africa Education startups

We are a creative engine for redemptive entrepreneurship, supporting founders, funders, and innovators motivated by their faith to love their neighbors and renew culture.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Non Profit, Social Assistance, Education
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Grant
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 120
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Tallee — Tallee is an AI brand visibility and analytics platform that tracks how brands appear in AI search engines and large language model responses. It helps companies measure share of voice, monitor sentiment, compare competitors, and optimize their presence across AI-driven discovery platforms.
  • Orb Aerospace — Orb Aerospace is a manufacturing company that focuses on developing an electric aircraft to revolutionize the aviation sector. Orb Aerospace was founded in 2017 and was headquartered in Lowell, Michigan.
  • Kokari Coconuts & Company — Ko-ka-ri means "let the good go around". We believe this is the magic of coconuts. At Kokari, we transform every part of the coconut into wholesome products made with simple, clean ingredients. Africa has always understood less is more.
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FINCA Ventures
VC Fund · Washington, District of Columbia, United States · 2 investments in 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, Agriculture, AgTech
  • Stage:Seed, Grant, Series A
  • Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, Mexico

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 23
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$4M; Grant $40k–$100k; Series A $1.1M–$4.2M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Cladfy — Cladfy is a data analytics company that creates tools to assist lenders, merchants, and individuals in making informed loan, savings, and expenditure decisions.
  • Karpolax — Karpolax provides preservation technologies for agricultural companies that enable them to enhance the shelf life of fruits and vegetables.
  • 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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Seedstars Africa Ventures
VC Fund · 2 investments in Africa Education startups

Seedstars Africa Ventures is an early-stage venture capital fund investing in high-growth companies active across Sub-Saharan Africa.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Energy, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Kenya, France, Rwanda

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$2.7M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ampersand — Ampersand catalyzes and power mass-market electric mobility. By supplying the battery swap network and operating system the company makes sustainable mobility rapidly accessible and affordable for developing markets, to improve livelihoods and the environment. With over a million km already covered by e-motorcycles in Africa using our plug-and-playpowertrain and energy network.
  • Shamba Pride — Revolutionizing Rural Agriculture Trade Ecosystem for Africa Farmers Traditional farming methods across Africa often depend on synthetic inputs, degrading so...
  • Beacon Power Services — Beacon Power Services is a utility company that provides energy management software and analytics for utilities.
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Emerge VC
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in 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: 75
  • Round size: Seed $53k–$8M; Pre-Seed $1k–$1.4M; Series A $5M–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Edurino — Edurino is an e-learning platform that introduces digital learning responsibly and playfully for children aged 4-8+.
  • MyEdSpace — MyEdSpace offers high-quality online courses created by experts with tailored resources for KS2 (Year 5/6), KS3 (Year 7-8), GCSE, and A-level students.
  • Kinfolk — Resolve 70% of employee requests, run lifecycle programs on autopilot, gain visibility into service delivery and unlock capacity to scale Workforce Ops.
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pledges.com
VC Fund · 2 investments in Africa Education startups

Start a US charity in minutes, without filing any paperwork

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Education
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Rwanda

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $1M–$1M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • AltSchool Africa — Let's invest in your Future. Learn highly sought after tech skills without hassle. A program designed to arm you with the skills and knowledge required to boldly launch your tech career.
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LocalGlobe
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in 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: 327
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$12M; Pre-Seed $1M–$3.5M; Series A $3.5M–$33M
  • 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.
  • Clock Bio — Clock Bio operates as a biotech company, that develops novel regenerative medicines.
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Nestcoin
VC Fund · Tórtola, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain · 2 investments in Africa Education startups

Nestcoin is a web3 application company that builds, operates, and invests in crypto-native products.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Education
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Rwanda, Nigeria, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $670k–$1M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Stakefair — Stakefair is an ecosystem of blockchain, crypto and DeFi products.
  • Nandi Labs — Nandi Labs, Home of Nandi Cowry, Digital FESTAC and MoveMint Magazine
  • AltSchool Africa — Let's invest in your Future. Learn highly sought after tech skills without hassle. A program designed to arm you with the skills and knowledge required to boldly launch your tech career.
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Untapped Global
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Africa Education startups

Untapped connects global investors, and foreign capital to opportunities in emerging markets. Delivering competitive returns, and measurable impact for global investors.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Consumer Goods, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: South Africa, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$3M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% 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.
  • 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.
  • Rabbit — Transforming transportion in the region. Rabbit is a micro-mobility sharing platform for short-distance transportation using environmentally friendly vehicles.
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British International Investment
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in Africa Education startups

British International Investment is the UK's development finance institution. We've been at the forefront of supporting companies in developing countries for more than 70 years.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 196
  • Round size: Series B $12M–$70M; Debt Financing $7.5M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 52% lead, 48% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • ChargeZone — CHARGE ZONE is a tech-driven EV Charging infrastructure company specializing in B2B and B2C charging services on both dedicated and opportunity based charging using smart-grid network. Based in India, with indigenous development of the technology of mobile-app and CMS with firmware/web-socket cloud based computing, CHARGE ZONE is on a mission to establish 100,000 charging stations across important markets of EVs in India for cars, buses and even trucks.
  • The City Bank — From 1983 till date, City Bank has been a case study in evolution, having transformed over time from a traditional organization to a critically acclaimed multi-faceted institution that embraces global best practices and chooses to be at the forefront of technological initiatives. Unlike many, the Bank's criteria for success are not only thebottom-line numbers but also the milestones set towards becoming the most complete bank in the country.
  • mopo — Mobile Power's innovative pay-per-use battery sharing network unlocks clean energy for households, businesses and electric transport in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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Growth Capital
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 2 investments in Africa Education startups

We are Nigeria's first social innovation fund aimed at creating an unprecedented path to scale for outliers driving social change in Nigeria.

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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FM Capital Group
VC Fund · 1 investments in Africa Education startups

FM Capital Group LLC is a California registered investment advisory firm operating since August 20, 2014.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Big Data, EdTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series C
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Tekion — Tekion is a next gen, cloud-native platform with the power of Big data, Internet of Things (IoT) and ML/AI for the automotive retail industry.
  • SHYFT Power Solutions — SHYFT builds industrial-grade IoT and integrated software to connect and intelligently manage distributed energy resources (DERs) in markets that struggle with resiliency. SHYFT is pioneering the development of integrated decentralized power systems in emerging markets like Nigeria, leapfrogging over traditional central infrastructure and enablingDERs to scale and support existing but unreliable grids.
  • DriveMe.ng — DriveMe is a mobility technology company that provides access to verified and professional drivers; through a one-stop platform aggregating product and service providers within the mobility space across Africa. Our platform provides ease of access for individuals and businesses to connect with verified drivers, driving instructors, buy motorinsurance, renew vehicle documents and other mobility operations services.
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Finnfund
VC Fund · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland · 1 investments in Africa Education startups, 7 in the past 12 months

Finnfund is a Finnish development finance company that provides long-term risk capital for private projects in developing countries. Apart from co-investing with Finnish companies they can finance ventures that use Finnish technology, cooperate with Finnish partners on a long-term basis or generate major environmental or social benefits.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Renewable Energy
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Series B
  • Geography: Kenya, India, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 40
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Kasha — Health products and household goods you want, delivered to where you are.
  • Satya MicroCapital — Satya MicroCapital is an NBFC-MFI that offers collateral-free credit to micro enterprises on the basis of strong credit assessment and a centralised approval system.SATYA started its microfinance operations by adopting the “Joint Liability Group (JLG) Model” with adequate use of technology and new adaptations. JLGs of SATYA means implementationsof Joint Liability of group members which exists up to 10 instalments in Bi-Weekly collections. The Company believes in the ideology to bring social touch and high technology in the Indian microfinance industry.The JLG lending operation mainly focuses on a woman (in case of SATYA, her husband acts as co-borrower) through a credit product that allows her to start a new business or enhance her existing business as well. SATYA provides prompt, convenient and affordable collateral-free credit to people at the bottom of the pyramid through a strong credit assessment and centralized approval.The Company started its microfinance operation from Sikandrabad Branch, Bulandshar District of Uttar Pradesh and the first token disbursement was done in November 2016. SATYA utilized demonetization as an opportunity to rework on the business strategy through cashless transactions. SATYA is an institution build with a vision of change, transformation and will be a differentiator in financial inclusion space and its approach is well recognized by industry experts and professionals across different sectors. SATYA is committed to being a socially responsible organization with a focus on Health, Education, Financial Literacy, Nasha-Mukt Samaaj, Gender Equality, and Swachh Bharat. The Company is spreading social awareness messages in its area of operations.
  • Kentegra Biotechnology Holdings LLC — Kentegra Biotechnology Holdings is a leading U.S-Kenyan company that supports a Kenyan-based biopesticide processing business that aggregates, extracts, and refines pale refine extract (PRE) from the pyrethrum flower, and sells the PRE to formulators across the world. Kentegra is committed to improving farmer’s livelihoods by investing in thecommunities where we are working to help farmers and their families have a more stable income and better quality of life.Grants: Norad 2021, AgriFi 2020, USAID 2020, USAID 2019, DEG 2020, DEG 2019
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Toyota Tsusho
VC Fund · Nagoya, Aichi, Japan · 1 investments in Africa Education startups

Toyota Tsusho is the trading arm of the Toyota Group. It enriches society by creating value by the company as Metals; Global Production Parts; Logistics; Automotive; Machinery; Energy; Project; Chemicals; Electronics; Food and Agribusiness; Consumer Products and Services;.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Manufacturing, Automotive
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 42
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • TradeWaltz — TradeWaltz is an information platform that maintains the integrity of electronic trade documents.
  • Aurora Labs — Aurora Labs is pioneering the use of Software Intelligence to solve the challenge of automotive software development. Created using Aurora Labs' Line-Of-Code Intelligence™, the Automotive Software Intelligence (ASI) solution collects granular and actionable data from complex automotive systems, applying AI to enable software transparency andmanagement. Aurora Labs' ASI solution detects and validates changes in the software lines-of-code for OTA updates, and analyses dependencies and software behaviour to enable predictive software maintenance throughout the vehicle lifecycle. Aurora Labs provides automotive development teams unique tools to roll out new technologies and services on time and on budget.Aurora Labs, founded in 2016, has raised $34m and has been granted dozens of patents. Aurora Labs has customers around the world and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel, with offices in Germany, North Macedonia, and the US.
  • Electra — Electra is decarbonizing ironmaking for green steel production using intermittent renewable energy and low-grade iron ores.
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Pearson
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in 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, Series B
  • Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 22
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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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Calculus Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in 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, Health Care
  • Stage:Series A, Post-IPO Equity
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 58
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Wazoku — Wazoku - Where Innovation Works Wazoku
  • Optalitix — Optalitix's data driven products and expertise allow you to move your models to the cloud and improve underwriting efficiency.
  • Arctic Shores — Unearth meaningful, job-relevant insights through our candidate assessments. A new type of behaviour based assessment that's powered by neuroscience.
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elea Foundation for Ethics in Globalization
VC Fund · 1 investments in Africa Education startups

elea Foundation for Ethics in Globalization

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Logistics, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Africa, India, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

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  • Elucid Social — Elucid Social integrates businesses with the social good movement through a data-driven strategy that yields measurable results. Elucid Social develops and deploys technologies to assess, report, and minimize human rights risks linked with the sourcing of products and services.
  • Oorja Development Solutions — Oorja is a project developer of solar PV systems to power livelihoods in emerging markets.
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OMICRONE
VC Fund · La Garenne-colombes, Ile-de-France, France · 1 investments in Africa Education startups

OMICRONE is an information technology consulting company.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, Training
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Tunisia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • CoaChess — CoaChess provides services, instructions, and sophisticated learning methods designed to increase players' skills at any level. The most cutting-edge feature of CoaChess is its intelligent bot, which can imitate notable chess champions and other significant figures in the game's past.
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Hlayisani Growth Fund
VC Fund · Fourways, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in 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: Education, Apps, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • GoMetro — GoMetro designs deploy and operate flexible mobility platforms. Their proprietary technology stack empowers city leaders, transport managers, corporates, retail centres, property developers, airports and downtown to introduce bold new mobility strategies. Their connected transport digital platform equips transport planners to respond to thechallenges of increased congestion, aged infrastructure, disruptive mobility players, self-driving vehicles and a lack of quality public transport services.
  • Sticitt — Sticitt is a cashless payment platform. Sticitt services schools, lifestyle and golf estates, as well as events and is assisting one utility company to get clients to pay for water bills using its cashless payments system.
  • d6 group — SCHOOLS Schools Communication Platforms and School Management Software COMMUNITIES Community & Internal Business Communication Platforms MEDIA Let your brand be seen Advertise on
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KNF Ventures
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in 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: no public data

Portfolio highlights

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

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 355
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$7M; Series A $1.4M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $85M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • AirOps — Deploy task specific AI where you need it most with AirOps Apps. Install and configure in minutes, scalable and available everywhere.
  • Pikkit — Join Pikkit's social betting platform to sync your legal sportsbooks, keep up with friends' picks, share your bets, browse events, and track your favorite teams and players - all in one place.
  • Emporia Research — Emporia connects growth minded market researchers to the exact professionals they need for any B2B market research project. Source qualified candidates, automate recruitment and streamline incentive distribution. All in one place.
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Sustainable Ocean Alliance
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in 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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UNITED
VC Fund · Shibuya, Kanagawa, Japan · 1 investments in Africa Education startups

UNITED, Inc. is developing the smart phone app and the advertising technology business.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Software, Media and Entertainment
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, Nigeria, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 79
  • Round size: Seed $980k–$57M; Series A $3.8M–$89M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Coopel — Coopel is an RPA that allows beginners to easily automate daily tasks and make work efficient.
  • Kiwami — Kiwami offers sales promotion assistance and labor-saving solutions through the virtual store clerk.
  • Rehabilitation 3.0 — Rehabilitation 3.0 focuses on a preventive medical system that provides AI assessment and tracking on health, exercise, mood, and wellness.
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Timon Capital
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 1 investments in Africa Education startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: B2B, Internet, Logistics
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $300k–$3M; Series A $14M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Novek — Novek builds IOT technology to completely eliminate single use plastic from FMCG Supply chains.
  • Thepeer — API infrastructure for businesses
  • 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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