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Top 50 Energy VC Funds & Investors in South Africa (September 2026)

The most active venture capital funds investing in South Africa Energy startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in South Africa Energy startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Boost VC
VC Fund
3 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Reality $100k–$8.9M
Metier Private Equity
VC Fund
3 South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria Private Equity, Seed Retail, Fashion, Consumer $7.7M–$36M
E3 Capital
VC Fund
3 Kenya, South Africa, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Energy, Solar, Renewable Energy $900k–$40M
Musha Ventures
VC Fund
3 United States, Nigeria, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Financial Services, FinTech $100k–$10M
4DX Ventures
VC Fund
2 Egypt, South Africa, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Logistics $50k–$40M
E4EAfrica
VC Fund
2 South Africa, The Netherlands, France Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Logistics, Internet, Supply Chain Management $1M–$8.4M
ARCH Emerging Markets Partners
VC Fund
2 Kenya, Canada, South Africa Series A, Series D, Debt Financing Solar, Finance, Consumer
Factor E
VC Fund
2 Kenya, United States, India Seed, Series A, Convertible Note Energy, Renewable Energy, Agriculture $20k–$10M
Secha Capital Partners
VC Fund
2 South Africa, The Netherlands Private Equity, Venture - Series Unknown, Seed Agriculture, Health Care, Manufacturing
BREEGA
VC Fund
2 France, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Series A Software, FinTech, Financial Services $1.1M–$24M
Unruly Capital
VC Fund
2 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence, CleanTech $908k–$55M
Simple.capital
VC Fund
1 South Africa, United States, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Software, Retail $100k–$11M
British International Investment
VC Fund
1 India, Kenya, Nigeria Debt Financing, Series B Financial Services, Banking, Finance $9M–$130M
Alphabit Fund
VC Fund
1 United States, United Kingdom, Singapore Seed, Initial Coin Offering, Venture - Series Unknown Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech $500k–$22M
to.org
VC Fund
1 Kenya, Senegal, South Africa Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B FinTech, Solar, Energy $2M–$8M
Twynam Agricultural Group
VC Fund
1 United States, Australia, India Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed Biotechnology, Agriculture, Energy $708k–$33M
Futuregrowth Asset Management
VC Fund
1 South Africa, France, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Transportation, Financial Services $1.8M–$22M
Endeavor South Africa
VC Fund
1 South Africa, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Internet, Payments, Software $2.5M–$48M
Network Society Ventures
VC Fund
1 South Africa Seed Solar, Blockchain, Crowdfunding
Development Bank of Southern Africa
VC Fund
1 South Africa, Kenya, Angola Debt Financing, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Banking, Finance, Transportation $15M–$753M
Persistent
VC Fund
1 Ghana, Germany, Switzerland Seed, Series A Energy, Solar, Renewable Energy $500k–$10M
Future Africa
VC Fund
1 Nigeria, United States, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology $100k–$40M
Fireball Capital
VC Fund
1 South Africa, Australia, Nigeria Series A, Venture - Series Unknown, Seed Software, Information Technology, Mobile Apps $473k–$40M
Anuva Investments
VC Fund
1 South Africa, Argentina Venture - Series Unknown, Debt Financing Manufacturing, Fashion, Textiles $1.1M–$12M
Satgana
VC Fund
1 France, Kenya, Germany Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Energy, Renewable Energy $491k–$6.4M
Smedvig
VC Fund
1 Belgium, Romania, South Africa Series A, Series C Mining, Medical, Software
Sunu Capital
VC Fund
1 Kenya, United States, Nigeria Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Health Care, FinTech, Information Technology $50k–$23M
Orbit Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, Egypt, United Arab Emirates Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Artificial Intelligence, Software, FinTech $100k–$12M
Lion’s Head Global Partners
VC Fund
1 Kenya, France, Senegal Debt Financing, Venture - Series Unknown Renewable Energy, Solar, Energy $2.3M–$11M
Flyt
VC Fund
1 South Africa Power Grid, Renewable Energy
Equator
VC Fund
1 Kenya, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A Software, Renewable Energy, Agriculture $1.8M–$15M
Climate Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, Canada, Germany Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Energy, Manufacturing, Renewable Energy $800k–$31M
Traxys S.A.
VC Fund
1 United States, Canada, Ukraine Debt Financing, Corporate Round, Series A Mining, CleanTech, Industrial $500k–$35M
United States Agency for International Development
VC Fund
1 Nigeria, United States, Kenya Grant, Venture - Series Unknown, Seed Renewable Energy, Energy, Solar $12k–$12M
Edge Growth
VC Fund
1 South Africa Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Internet, Energy Storage, Retail $142k–$1.4M
The ASISA ESD Fund
VC Fund
1 South Africa, United States Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Debt Financing Financial Services, FinTech, Consulting
Tekton Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, South Korea, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services $1.3M–$30M
Gaingels
VC Fund
1 United States, Canada, Mexico Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence $1M–$100M
Buffet Investments
VC Fund
1 South Africa, The Netherlands Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Information Technology, CRM, Apps $1.5M–$4.6M
University Technology Fund
VC Fund
1 South Africa Seed, Grant Biotechnology, AgTech, Medical $467k–$5M
Sherpa Africa Partners
VC Fund
1 Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa Pre-Seed, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Financial Services, FinTech, Finance $50k–$6M
Vumela Fund
VC Fund
1 South Africa, Brazil Seed, Debt Financing, Venture - Series Unknown Education, Hospital, Software $500k–$1.7M
Rifuwo Energy Partners
VC Fund
1 South Africa Solar, Energy
Sanari Capital
VC Fund
1 South Africa, United States, New Zealand Private Equity, Series A Information Technology, Laser, Energy $3M–$23M
Untapped Global
VC Fund
1 Kenya, South Africa, United Kingdom Seed, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown Transportation, FinTech, Financial Services $1.2M–$30M
Enso Equity
VC Fund
1 South Africa Seed, Pre-Seed Coffee, EdTech, Medical $321k–$347k
Timon Capital
VC Fund
1 Nigeria, Kenya, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, Information Technology, FinTech $100k–$30M
Royal Bafokeng Holdings
VC Fund
1 South Africa, Mauritius Venture - Series Unknown, Private Equity, Corporate Round Financial Services, Asset Management, Environmental Engineering
Savannah Fund
VC Fund
1 Kenya, United States, South Africa Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, E-Commerce, FinTech $25k–$12M
Holocene
VC Fund
1 South Africa, Kenya Seed Energy, Software, Analytics $491k–$1.6M
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Boost VC
VC Fund · San Mateo, California, United States · 3 investments in South Africa Energy startups, 20 in the past 12 months

Boost VC: The Pre-Seed Fund Making Sci-FI a Reality. Investing in crypto, virtual reality, augmented reality, AI, Ocean Tech, Space Tech, human augmentation, exoskeletons and more.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Reality
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 408
  • Round size: Seed $217k–$6.1M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2.6M; Venture - Series Unknown $620k–$8.9M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $88M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Claryx — The hospital immune system. Claryx detects each infection, traces how it's spreading, recommends a response, and confirms that it's gone.
  • SkinBit — SkinBit is a healthtech company that develops AI-powered skin cancer detection, digital mapping, and health monitoring solutions.
  • Elita — Store your dog's stem cells with Elita. One-time opportunity to protect their future health and avoid costly surgeries later in life.
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Metier Private Equity
VC Fund · Gauteng, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 3 investments in South Africa Energy startups

Metier is a proven leader in the area of private equity, alternative assets and related advisory services. The company was founded in 2004 and raised, at the time, South Africa’s largest private equity fund in terms of third party local commitments. It has an established team which ranks amongst the largest and most experienced in the industry.Metier has a strong track record in private equity investing and selective M&A advice that confirms its leadership status.From inception, the company's Commerce Square offices were a reflection of the brand - open, welcoming, and independent of spirit. Seeking a return to a more personal format, Thierry, Anthony and Paul settled on the setting up of an independent and private firm to capture the next wave of growth in the private equity and dealadvising arena. They were joined by long-time legal colleague Malcolm Ball and now-Libstar director, Robin Smith.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Retail, Fashion, Consumer
  • Stage:Private Equity, Seed
  • Geography: South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Private Equity $7.7M–$36M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Hypa — Hypa offers prepaid fibre internet and voice services, providing various uncapped data packages with different speed options and payment methods. The company also provides a mobile application called Bela, which enables users to make calls and send messages over the internet. It also supports digital customer service through self-service platformsfor account and service management.
  • Bisedge — Bisedge provides outsourcing solutions for material handling equipment including forklifts and other MHE, maintenance packages as well as the operators. Bisedge is offering this solution as a “Product-As-A-Service” for a monthly fee.
  • Frogfoot Networks — Frogfoot Networks operates an open-access fibre network and provides fibre infrastructure for residential and business connectivity. The company functions as a fibre network operator, building and maintaining the physical network required for high-speed internet access. It offers fibre to the home services that deliver fixed-line broadband overoptical fibre for residential users. Frogfoot Networks also provides fibre to the business solutions tailored to commercial and enterprise requirements. Its open-access model enables multiple internet service providers to deliver their services over the same network, giving end users a choice of ISP. The company further offers prepaid and entry-level fibre options, designed for flexible, contract-free connectivity in selected coverage areas.
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E3 Capital
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 3 investments in South Africa Energy startups

E3 Capital invests in growing, entrepreneurial businesses in Sub-Saharan Africa addressing the lack of electrification in the region with new technology and innovative business models. The fund is backed by Schneider Electric, the leading energy management multinational, and a number of public-sector investors.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Energy, Solar, Renewable Energy
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Kenya, South Africa, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 54
  • Round size: Seed $900k–$8M; Series A $1.8M–$7.5M; Series B $9M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • GoCab — GoCab is fintech solution providing Drive-to-own option for vehicle purchase in Emerging markets, helping to bridge the gap between mobility entrepreneurs and financial services.
  • Plentify — Plentify connects home appliances with cheaper cleaner energy. It does this with an intelligent residential load management platform which matches demand with clean energy supply for 75% cheaper than batteries. Plentify combines advanced hardware, AI, and user-centric design to create smart home products that delight customers while alsostrengthening electricity systems.
  • Open Access Energy — South Africa's first multilateral wheeling software platform that automates energy transactions.
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Musha Ventures
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 3 investments in South Africa Energy 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: 214
  • Round size: Seed $120k–$7.5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3M; Series A $2.5M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • HoneyCoin — HoneyCoin is a web3/web2 ecosystem of products built in a way that abstracts complexity and brings all the value of web3 and web2 to the forefront.
  • Zeno — Zeno is a climate conscious motor company that offers eco-friendly motorcycles.
  • Lori Systems — Lori Systems is revolutionizing African logistics through innovative technology solutions. We connect shippers, transporters, and drivers to create efficient, reliable, and transparent supply chains across Africa.
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4DX Ventures
VC Fund · Brooklyn, New York, United States · 2 investments in South Africa Energy 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, South Africa, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 99
  • Round size: Seed $456k–$8M; Pre-Seed $50k–$6.5M; Series A $3M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $49M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Anda Africa — Anda is Angola’s leading mobility fintech platform, providing asset financing, ride hailing, and delivery services to empower mobility entrepreneurs. Built for emerging markets, Anda bridges the credit gap by financing productive assets such as motorcycles, tricycles, and cars, enabling drivers to own their vehicles, increase their earnings, andenter the formal economy. Through technology driven credit profiling and fully digitized payments, Anda creates financial identities for people who were previously underserved and unlocks responsible access to financial services. As an impact driven company, Anda brings together mobility, financing, and digital payments to deliver safe, affordable, and inclusive transportation while enabling a new generation of financially empowered entrepreneurs.
  • 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.
  • Aethex — End to end voice agents localized for your market.
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E4EAfrica
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 2 investments in South Africa Energy startups

E4E Africa Backing category-defining emerging market businesses. We invest in businesses that drive economic opportunity and sustainable growth.Learn MoreE4E specializes ... Read More

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Logistics, Internet, Supply Chain Management
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Africa, The Netherlands, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 27
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$7.5M; Pre-Seed $1M–$2M; Series A $1M–$8.4M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Kuunda — Kuunda provides consulting, liquidity management, data insight tools enabling users to fulfill financial needs through a digital platform.
  • Jem — We give employers the ability to send company-wide communications, deliver payslips, manage leave & give employees access to their earnings, via WhatsApp.
  • Ridge — Ridge structures natural assets into regulated, ISIN-listed financial products accessible through existing banking infrastructure.
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ARCH Emerging Markets Partners
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in South Africa Energy startups

ARCH is a specialist emerging markets investment advisor with deep experience of emerging markets, private equity, asset management and legal and governance matters over many decades.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Solar, Finance, Consumer
  • Stage:Series A, Series D, Debt Financing
  • Geography: Kenya, Canada, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • CrossBoundary — CrossBoundary Energy's energy solutions help decarbonize enterprise by providing cleaner, cheaper, and more reliable power.
  • Sun King — Sun King is a solar company that designs, distributes, installs, and finances solar home energy products across Africa and Asia. Sun King produces solar home systems, inverter systems, and portable lanterns, providing a solution for communities that live without reliable energy access. Sun King also offers pay-as-you-go financing options, furtherallowing consumers to access energy without high up-front costs. Sun King works with their network of international distribution partners to expand the off-grid market.
  • Giyani Metals — Giyani Metals Corp. is developing the next generation of battery grade manganese for EVs and energy storage. Vertically integrated from mine to market in Botswana.
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Factor E
VC Fund · Fort Collins, Colorado, United States · 2 investments in South Africa Energy startups

Factor E is a finance company that impacts venture builders, dedicated to supporting the people and ideas that will turn the tables in the global battle for sustainable solutions to energy, agriculture, mobility, and waste challenges in emerging and frontier markets. It serves as a conduit between philanthropic and commercial investors throughmarket-driven forces.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Energy, Renewable Energy, Agriculture
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
  • Geography: Kenya, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 35
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$4.6M; Series A $1.3M–$10M; Convertible Note $20k–$1.3M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • InspiraFarms — InspiraFarms provides on-and-near farm, grid & solar powered Cold Rooms & Packhouses for agribusinesses & distributors. Reduce energy costs & food losses!
  • Open Access Energy — South Africa's first multilateral wheeling software platform that automates energy transactions.
  • 60Hertz Energy — Unify asset management with asset monitoring, enhance scheduling, and facile communication. Book a Demo Now!
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Secha Capital Partners
VC Fund · 2 investments in South Africa Energy startups

South African Impact Investing firm focusing the FMCG and Agribusiness Sectors

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Agriculture, Health Care, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Private Equity, Venture - Series Unknown, Seed
  • Geography: South Africa, The Netherlands

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Lead/follow: 70% lead, 30% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $30M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Plentify — Plentify connects home appliances with cheaper cleaner energy. It does this with an intelligent residential load management platform which matches demand with clean energy supply for 75% cheaper than batteries. Plentify combines advanced hardware, AI, and user-centric design to create smart home products that delight customers while alsostrengthening electricity systems.
  • FarmTrace — Transform your farm into a data-driven powerhouse with FarmTrace! Streamline HR, Asset, Energy, Stock, and Chemical Management.
  • Barracuda Holdings — Barracuda Holdings (Pty) Ltd. is an owner-driven company established in 2010 by the founding partners, each of whom has over 20 years of experience. Barracuda Holdings provides manufacturing expertise across multiple sectors, including Automotive accessories, diagnostic tools, and fleet management.
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BREEGA
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in South Africa Energy startups, 10 in the past 12 months

VCs use all sorts of tricks to attract the best companies. We do too. But as founders, we know that the main reason you choose an investor to be a part of your journey is because you like them. You trust them. Their values align with yours.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 150
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$9M; Series A $4.2M–$24M
  • Lead/follow: 69% lead, 31% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $165M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Bondio — Connect instantly to 1000+ networks in 200+ countries, with 0 commitments
  • Moneybox — Moneybox is the simple way to save, invest, buy your first home, and combine your old pensions - all with one award-winning app. Download now.
  • Biochar Industrial Group — Biochar Industrial Group partners with agricultural processors to convert biomass waste into biochar through industrial pyrolysis. The company finances, installs, and operates biochar production systems that process agricultural residues such as palm kernel shells, cashew husks, and sawdust. It manages biochar production, carbon creditverification, carbon credit sales, and revenue sharing with its partners. Biochar Industrial Group also provides waste value assessments and partnership programs for eligible agricultural processors.
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Unruly Capital
VC Fund · Italy, Texas, United States · 2 investments in South Africa Energy startups

Investing in the crazy before it becomes normal

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence, CleanTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 62
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$9.3M; Pre-Seed $908k–$3.6M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.6M–$55M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $8.5M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Matta — Creating AGI to manufacture the impossible.
  • Willo — Willo is advancing and scaling true wireless power for humanity, technology, and industry. Discover the company powering the next era of energy delivery.
  • Tangible — Tangible empowers hardware companies with sustainable asset-based lending solutions. Our platform streamlines debt funding, compliance automation, and financial product design, enabling efficient capital mobilization and comprehensive reporting for a greener future. Scale your business with Twist.
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Simple.capital
VC Fund · Englefield Green, Surrey, United Kingdom · 1 investments in South Africa Energy startups

Made with Softr, the easiest way to turn your data into internal tools and client portals. No coding required.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 23
  • Round size: Seed $665k–$5.5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Momint — Momint is the Web3 investment platform of the future. The safest and easiest to use NFT marketplace in the world. Discover the real-world potential of NFTs.
  • Rabbit — At Rabbit, we plan to change how the world shops.Retail has witnessed one revolution before with the introduction of E-Commerce that changed how customers order stuff and the second revolution is here! We are proud to be among the pioneers, a handful of global entrepreneurs that are leading and shaping the retail's second revolutionWe arefunded by amazing VCs that are helping us build the next big thingYou feel it is vague? that's intended as we are still building in stealth. but trust us, it is COOL!
  • Beeline Learn — Enjoy Learning Effectively. Beta version is now LIVE!
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British International Investment
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in South Africa Energy 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: 152
  • Round size: Series B $15M–$50M; Debt Financing $9M–$130M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Scatec ASA — Scatec is a leading renewable energy solutions provider, accelerating access to reliable and affordable clean energy in emerging markets.
  • Wave Mobile Money — Wave Mobile Money provides an app-based financial solution to save, transfer, and borrow money. Wave Mobile Money is on a mission to make Africa the first cashless continent. On a continent where less than 10% of the population has a bank account, Wave is building the first modern financial network — no account fees, instantly available, andaccepted everywhere! It is building life-changing financial infrastructure. When mobile money succeeded in Kenya, it lifted about a million people out of poverty. And yet, over 10 years later, most Africans still lack access to affordable ways to save, transfer or borrow the money they need to build businesses or provide for their families. Wave is solving this problem by using technology to build a radically inclusive and extremely affordable financial network.
  • CLR Facility Services — CLR is a leading Integrated Facility Management (IFM) company with a PAN India presence, providing comprehensive solutions including IFM, Technical Services, Business Support, Aviation Services, Production Support, and Floor Care Services.
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Alphabit Fund
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Energy startups

Alphabit Digital Currency Fund.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Initial Coin Offering, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 57
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$7.5M; Initial Coin Offering $1.8M–$22M; Venture - Series Unknown $2.7M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • ThirdFi — ThirdFi specializes in providing a comprehensive suite of tools and services designed to facilitate the development, trading, investment, and management of decentralized finance (DeFi) applications. With a focus on multi-chain interoperability, ThirdFi offers an API, SDK, and developer tools aimed at enhancing the DeFi ecosystem. The platformsupports liquidity provision and token reward earning through its Earn API, catering to developers looking to build in the Web3 space. ThirdFi's infrastructure is tailored for the evolving needs of web3 finance, enabling seamless integration and operation across various blockchain networks.
  • RECRD — RECRD is a video community, where users engage content with video responses, Creators monetise immediately through ad revenues and advertisers connect with their audience at no risk.
  • Slingshot DAO — Slingshot is a community-powered AI infrastructure network. $SHOT is the utility token powering an ecosystem of AI products on Base.
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to.org
VC Fund · Gstaad, Bern, Switzerland · 1 investments in South Africa Energy startups

Our efforts are dedicated to scaling decarbonization, refugee empowerment, and human optimisation. By scaling innovative solutions, we aim to ensure that both the planet and its people can thrive and coexist for generations to come.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Solar, Energy
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Kenya, Senegal, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$8M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% 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
  • Hohm Energy — We make the process of going solar simple. Generate your free, custom solar proposal and get matched with an accredited solar provider in under 5 mins.
  • Fuse Financial Technologies — Financial APIs for building products in the Middle East.
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Twynam Agricultural Group
VC Fund · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · 1 investments in South Africa Energy startups

Twynam Group is a leading Australian Funds Manager investing in early-stage climate tech. We also operate an agricultural and property portfolio.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Agriculture, Energy
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Australia, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 40
  • Round size: Seed $708k–$10M; Pre-Seed $1M–$1.9M; Series A $3.4M–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Plasmaleap — Plasmaleap is a plasma technology company that manufactures and sells zero-emissions chemical reactors designed for industrial and energy applications. The company develops reactor systems that use plasma processes to enable chemical production and transformation without relying on conventional combustion methods. Its technology supports sectorssuch as clean fuels, chemical manufacturing, and materials processing by offering electrified reactor solutions that can be integrated into existing industrial workflows. Plasmaleap designs modular systems that allow operators to deploy plasma reactors for on-site production and conversion of feedstocks using electricity as the primary energy input. The company also provides engineering support and technical integration services to help customers incorporate its reactor technology into commercial operations. Through its plasma-based approach, Plasmaleap focuses on enabling chemical processes that align with decarbonization and emissions reduction objectives across multiple industries.
  • Hachiko — Hachiko is a software building platform that aims to help the battery portfolio owners, also the firm is for energy trading.
  • Forge Industries — Giving landfill bound trash a second life as disruptive bio-fuel to power heavy industry
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Futuregrowth Asset Management
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in South Africa Energy startups

Futuregrowth manages the full range of fixed interest and developmental impact funds on behalf of our clients. We are committed to managing and investing our clients' funds in a responsible manner.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Transportation, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: South Africa, France, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 22
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$5.3M; Series A $3.4M–$11M; Series B $11M–$22M
  • Lead/follow: 68% lead, 32% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • CubeSpace — Industry-leading modular attitude determination and control (ADCS) products and solutions. Laser-focused on our customers' success. Your global ADCS partner.
  • Jem — We give employers the ability to send company-wide communications, deliver payslips, manage leave & give employees access to their earnings, via WhatsApp.
  • Happy Pay — Happy Pay is a credit scoring system developing company. The company integrates an autonomous artificial intelligence technology system with the merchant's platform to increase their average basket size and customer conversion metrics, providing users with buy now, and pay later services.
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Endeavor South Africa
VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in South Africa Energy startups

Endeavor South Africa is a non-profit entity and the leading supporter of high-impact entrepreneurs around the world.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Payments, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: South Africa, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Round size: Seed $2.5M–$4.6M; Series B $11M–$48M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $14M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Plentify — Plentify connects home appliances with cheaper cleaner energy. It does this with an intelligent residential load management platform which matches demand with clean energy supply for 75% cheaper than batteries. Plentify combines advanced hardware, AI, and user-centric design to create smart home products that delight customers while alsostrengthening electricity systems.
  • Sendmarc — Manage your organization's DMARC, SPF, and DKIM with world-class implementation services and support. All in one easy-to-use platform.
  • 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.
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Network Society Ventures
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Energy startups

Blockchain Investors Consortium (BIC) is a 50-member strong (crypto funds and a handful of individuals) who have over $1 billion of digital assets under management. The purpose of BIC is to allow its members to share due diligence and to co-invest in the most promising blockchain ventures. BIC is t

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Solar, Blockchain, Crowdfunding
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • The Sun Exchange — The Sun Exchange is the peer-to-peer solar leasing marketplace. We leverage financial innovation and the power of the crowd to drive sustainable energy development and make the environmental, social and economic benefits of solar accessible and affordable for all. Through the Sun Exchange online platform, anyone, anywhere in the world, can buyremotely-located solar cells and then lease them to power businesses and organisations in sunny emerging markets. Solar cell owners earn income from the electricity that’s generated, while schools, businesses, clinics and other organisations gain access to affordable clean energy, reducing electricity costs and carbon emissions.
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Development Bank of Southern Africa
VC Fund · Midrand, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in South Africa Energy startups

The Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) is a state owned entity with the purpose of accelerating sustainable socio-economic development and improve the quality of life of the people of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) by driving financial and non-financial investments in the social and economic infrastructure sectors.-Social infrastructure: Infrastructure aimed at addressing backlogs and expediting the delivery of essential social services to support sustainable living conditions and a better quality of life within communities - Economic infrastructure: Infrastructure aimed at addressing capacity constraints and bottlenecks in order to optimise economic growth potentialThe DBSA has prioritised water, energy, transport and ICT as its key focus areas.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Banking, Finance, Transportation
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: South Africa, Kenya, Angola

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Debt Financing $15M–$753M
  • Lead/follow: 57% lead, 43% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Zimi Charge — Zimi Charge enables to charge sustainably using our mobile app and network of stations.
  • Lobito Atlantic Railway — A secure, efficient and reliable rail link, open to all customers, connecting Africa's Copperbelt to international markets.
  • Red Rocket South Africa — Red Rocket is a renewable energy integrated power plant (IPP) that designs, develops, and distributes clean energy.
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Persistent
VC Fund · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland · 1 investments in South Africa Energy startups

Africa's Climate Venture Builder - We believe in the power of climate-positive economic development in Africa. For the last decade, we have been working hand in hand with exceptional entrepreneurs, investing both financial and human capital to build successful climate ventures on the continent. Our companies offer competitive financial returns required to drive lasting impact.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Energy, Solar, Renewable Energy
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Ghana, Germany, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 26
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$1.3M; Series A $1.3M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 81% lead, 19% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Dodai — Dodai manufactures and assembles the electric motorcycles.
  • EcoNetix — Leading Carbon Asset Manager for voluntary and compliance markets (CORSIA, Art. 6), we help companies reduce emissions, offset with high-integrity credits, and communicate impact.
  • Circadian Technologies GmbH — AI-driven VPP unlocking revenue for telecom towers.
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Future Africa
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Energy 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: 92
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$4M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3.7M; Series A $7M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • STEM Cafe — STEMCafe by RVRB is a fun out of school learning centre for kids
  • Juicyway — The new shape of money? Fluid. Access global currencies with Juicyway. Buy, sell, hold, and pay globally using our fast APIs, web, or mobile apps. Download now.
  • Lori Systems — Lori Systems is revolutionizing African logistics through innovative technology solutions. We connect shippers, transporters, and drivers to create efficient, reliable, and transparent supply chains across Africa.
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Fireball Capital
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in South Africa Energy startups

Fireball Capital operates as a venture capital firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Mobile Apps
  • Stage:Series A, Venture - Series Unknown, Seed
  • Geography: South Africa, Australia, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Seed $473k–$1M; Series A $5.7M–$40M; Venture - Series Unknown $500k–$4M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Plentify — Plentify connects home appliances with cheaper cleaner energy. It does this with an intelligent residential load management platform which matches demand with clean energy supply for 75% cheaper than batteries. Plentify combines advanced hardware, AI, and user-centric design to create smart home products that delight customers while alsostrengthening electricity systems.
  • Immobazyme — Immobazyme provides pioneering the biotechnology industry. Using innovative technologies, along with an environmentally responsible outlook.the company aims to develop an analytical laboratory platform as well as serve the industrial sector through the production of high-value products by organic synthesis and environmental remediationtechnologies.
  • Contactable — Digital Identity Orchestration platform - used extensively by corporates across all sectors for digital onboarding, e-KYC, Self-RICA and identity proofing.
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Anuva Investments
VC Fund · Constantia, New York, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Energy startups

Anuva Investments invest in the small and medium sector and get the tax breaks to invest in companies that could create jobs.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Fashion, Textiles
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Debt Financing
  • Geography: South Africa, Argentina

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Venture - Series Unknown $1.1M–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Cape Mohair — Sock and blanket manufacturer in South Africa - It's about values | Integrity | Quality | Natural fibre
  • Decentral Energy — Decentral Energy creates, owns, and manages renewable energy assets. Decentral provides customers with risk-free, completely financed solar energy solutions.
  • Biodelta Nutraceuticals — Quality private label manufacturing for tablets, capsules, powders, syrups, creams, dietary supplements, herbal remedies, vitamins, minerals, and tinctures. Create your brand with our trusted expertise in herbal and nutritional supplements with minimum low quantities
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Satgana
VC Fund · Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg · 1 investments in South Africa Energy startups

Satgana is an Earth Tech Venture Capital firm investing in Europe and Africa.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Energy, Renewable Energy
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: France, Kenya, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 26
  • Round size: Seed $2.2M–$6.4M; Pre-Seed $491k–$2.5M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $9.8M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Plentify — Plentify connects home appliances with cheaper cleaner energy. It does this with an intelligent residential load management platform which matches demand with clean energy supply for 75% cheaper than batteries. Plentify combines advanced hardware, AI, and user-centric design to create smart home products that delight customers while alsostrengthening electricity systems.
  • Flox Intelligence — FLOX is bringing cutting-edge technology and Generative AI to wildlife management, addressing the challenges of human-wildlife coexistence across diverse landscapes.By streamlining and simplifying wildlife management workflows, we empower organizations to keep wild animals away from areas where they pose risks, such as airports, railways, roads,public spaces, agriculture, young forests, and other shared environments. Our autonomous solutions, grounded in advanced wildlife science and powered by Generative AI, ensure safety and efficiency, allowing our clients to focus on their core activities.With FLOX, you can achieve safer, more productive environments, ensuring harmonious coexistence between humans and wildlife.
  • Ark Climate — Ark Climate is a climate-tech company that develops software to support municipal climate protection planning and execution.
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Smedvig
VC Fund · Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway · 1 investments in South Africa Energy startups

Venture Capital firm based in London. We help enable business funding though capital investment. In turn, that funds and drives business growth as exceptional speed. Visit our site to find out how our proven model of business investment can help your start up.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mining, Medical, Software
  • Stage:Series A, Series C
  • Geography: Belgium, Romania, South Africa

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Druid AI — DRUID is an AI platform that allows companies to automate processes by designing and deploying UiPath RPA integrated chatbot virtual assistants.
  • Amyl Therapeutics — Amyl Therapeutics is a preclinical stage biotechnology company. Amyl Therapeutics uses a novel mechanism to bind to the amyloid fold of toxic protein aggregates of various types, including antibody light chain (AL) or transthyretin (TTR) aggregates, which accumulate in peripheral organs to cause systemic amyloidosis diseases, but also amyloid-β(Aβ), Tau, and α-synuclein aggregates, which accumulate in the brain to cause Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases.
  • Sedibelo Resources — Sedibelo Resources is a developing producer of platinum group metals (PGMs), is active in the acquisition, exploration for, and development and operation of deposits
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Sunu Capital
VC Fund · 1 investments in South Africa Energy startups

SUNU Capital is an early-stage venture capital fund investing in companies that are creating a more prosperous, inclusive, and self-sustaining future across the global south.SUNU makes tailored investments to help companies pursue game-changing opportunities and realize their vision. Post-investment, we draw upon our network to offer additionalcapacity and capital that helps businesses grow and prepare to access follow-on investments. We move swiftly and responsively. They commit long-term. We love a good challenge.​

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Round size: Seed $50k–$23M; Pre-Seed $50k–$2M; Series A $3.6M–$18M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Thepeer — API infrastructure for businesses
  • Nandi Labs — Nandi Labs, Home of Nandi Cowry, Digital FESTAC and MoveMint Magazine
  • Hohm Energy — We make the process of going solar simple. Generate your free, custom solar proposal and get matched with an accredited solar provider in under 5 mins.
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Orbit Ventures
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 1 investments in South Africa Energy startups, 35 in the past 12 months

Orbit helps scale breakthrough startups from around the globe across emerging and frontier markets.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Egypt, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 547
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$2M; Pre-Seed $100k–$1M; Series A $2.6M–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 74% lead, 26% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Qanary — Qanary is a digital second-opinion platform designed to help radiologists detect cancer at its earliest, most treatable stages.
  • Cypien AI — Cypien learns your brand and visitor behavior, then composes segment-specific content, visuals, product order, search, landing pages, and UI.
  • MyAlice — The modern customer service and social selling platform. Support anytime and sell anywhere with all your messages, orders, and agents in one place.
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Lion’s Head Global Partners
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in South Africa Energy startups

A global investment banking, asset management and advisory firm focused on delivering value to our clients in emerging and frontier markets

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Renewable Energy, Solar, Energy
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Kenya, France, Senegal

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Debt Financing $2.3M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $42M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Izili — Izili is a social business committed to providing access to energy and digital. We commercialize innovative products with financing solutions that meet the needs of local populations.
  • Yellow — Yellow enables a distributed network of sales agents to serve rural households with life-changing products and services through a digital technology platform called Ofeefee.
  • Decentral Energy — Decentral Energy creates, owns, and manages renewable energy assets. Decentral provides customers with risk-free, completely financed solar energy solutions.
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Flyt
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in South Africa Energy startups

Flyt is a property development and investment firm. The company invests in strategically located properties, such as sectional title apartments, apart-hotels, and student housing. Through joint ventures and independent projects, they acquire, develop and add value to real estate. They co-invest and closely manage projects, completing rigorous anddetailed evaluations before investing to create significant returns that produce measurable impact.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Power Grid, Renewable Energy
  • Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Decentral Energy — Decentral Energy creates, owns, and manages renewable energy assets. Decentral provides customers with risk-free, completely financed solar energy solutions.
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Equator
VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya · 1 investments in South Africa Energy startups

A venture capital firm investing in tech-enabled, early-stage ventures that are accelerating an equitable climate transition in Sub-Saharan Africa.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Renewable Energy, Agriculture
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
  • Geography: Kenya, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$5M; Series A $14M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 64% lead, 36% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $55M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Leta — Leta Technology is a software development company that creates supply chain and logistics software to enable the efficient and automated movement of goods.
  • Open Access Energy — South Africa's first multilateral wheeling software platform that automates energy transactions.
  • 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.
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Climate Capital
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Energy startups

Diversified investments in the most promising early stage climate startups backed by top tier VCs.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Energy, Manufacturing, Renewable Energy
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 130
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$9M; Pre-Seed $800k–$2.5M; Series A $9.7M–$31M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Revoy — We haul Pacific Northwest freight with our 95% electrified fleet.
  • Critical Loop — Unlock the grid. Unlock opportunity.
  • Ludwig Computing — Ludwig Computing is an AI hardware startup creating energy-efficient compute platforms for future intelligent computing.
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Traxys S.A.
VC Fund · Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg · 1 investments in South Africa Energy startups

From exploration and mining to trading and marketing, we provide critical sourcing solutions for the ferroalloy, metal, mineral, mining and energy industries that power modern life.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mining, CleanTech, Industrial
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Corporate Round, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Ukraine

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Series A $16M–$30M; Debt Financing $2M–$35M; Corporate Round $500k–$9M
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Phoenix Tailings — Phoenix Tailings leads rare earth refining in the U.S. to secure the metals our economy and defense need to thrive.
  • Westwin Elements — Westwin Elements is a supplier of nickel and cobalt that is essential to key applications.
  • Sedibelo Resources — Sedibelo Resources is a developing producer of platinum group metals (PGMs), is active in the acquisition, exploration for, and development and operation of deposits
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United States Agency for International Development
VC Fund · Washington, District of Columbia, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Energy startups

The United States has a long history of extending a helping hand to people overseas struggling to make a better life. It is a history that both advances U.S. foreign policy interests as well as reflects the American people's compassion and support of human dignity. USAID extends help from the American people to achieve results for the poorestand most vulnerable around the world. That assistance does not represent a Democratic value or a Republican value, but an American value; as beneficiaries of peace and prosperity, Americans have a responsibility to assist those less fortunate so we see the day when assistance is no longer necessary.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Renewable Energy, Energy, Solar
  • Stage:Grant, Venture - Series Unknown, Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 91
  • Round size: Seed $50k–$250k; Grant $12k–$2.5M; Venture - Series Unknown $1000k–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 75% lead, 25% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Sesame Street — Play games, watch videos, and explore printable activities with Elmo, Cookie Monster, and friends on the official Sesame Street website.
  • JAM Foundation — JAM Foundation is a non-governmental, non-profit organization dedicated to improving the quality of life. JAM Foundation communities through impactful health, education, and social development initiatives. foundation focuses on empowering vulnerable populations, promoting public health, and supporting sustainable community development.
  • Humanity Family Foundation for Peace and Development — Humanity Family Foundation for Peace and Development is a non-governmental organization. HUFFPED is dedicated to fostering equity, social inclusion, and sustainable development for vulnerable populations, especially women, youth, and children.
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Edge Growth
VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in South Africa Energy startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Energy Storage, Retail
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Venture - Series Unknown $142k–$1.4M
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $39M in 2013

Portfolio highlights

  • Aviro Health — We believe that empowering and supporting people to manage their own health benefits everybody.We built the Aviro Pocket Clinic to support self-care and provide access to services. We give people what they need to perform important health checks like regular HIV self-testing and connect them to experts and services who can offer hands-on and supported care when needed.
  • Sensor Networks — Sensor Networks helps insurance companies improve risk mitigation, enhance loss management and better engage with customers through smart sensors. We've created Sensor Desk, an Internet of Things (IoT) platform that controls and manages a range of internally developed and third-party-connected sensors. Our focus is to predict and prevent lossor damage insurance claims, improve operational efficiency and reduce costs for end users.
  • Creslow Energy Solutions — Creslow Energy Solutions is a manufacturer of sustainable energy storage technologies.
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The ASISA ESD Fund
VC Fund · 1 investments in South Africa Energy startups

An Invetsment Fund.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Consulting
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Debt Financing
  • Geography: South Africa, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Lead/follow: 64% lead, 36% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Pineapple — In short, Pineapple see the traditional insurance model, user journey and products as lacking and set out to remedy these by doing the following: 1) Changing the business model to align incentives, show people how premiums are used and award members leftover premium back 2) Making insuring as easy as snapping a picture where AI does the rest andcover is issued in under 60 seconds 3) Allowing per-item insurance and new product innovation to address cover not currently offered or accessible to manyPineapple launched in South Africa in 2018 with their "My Stuff" per-item insurance and have since launched their auto offering "My Ride". They have also partnered with Travelers in the US and have white-labeled their platform in the US.
  • Aviro Health — We believe that empowering and supporting people to manage their own health benefits everybody.We built the Aviro Pocket Clinic to support self-care and provide access to services. We give people what they need to perform important health checks like regular HIV self-testing and connect them to experts and services who can offer hands-on and supported care when needed.
  • Ngobese And Associates — Ngobese And Associates is a Financial Services providing firm offering brokeraging, advisory and intermediary services.
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Tekton Ventures
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Energy startups

We partner with visionary founders and investors worldwide, offering capital, network, and expertise needed to turn groundbreaking ideas into market leading companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, South Korea, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 133
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$7M; Series A $1.8M–$23M; Series B $7M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2017

Portfolio highlights

  • Polsia — AI that runs your company while you sleep. 1,000+ companies ran autonomously. Engineering. Marketing. Support. Every day.
  • Hosted·AI — Build profitable AI clouds. Monetize GPU infrastructure. Ultra efficient GPUaaS, optimized GPU utilization, capacity sharing, 5x more revenue & margin per GPU.
  • Infinia — Infinia is a platform that assists the company's clients in managing transfer charges. Allowing you to charge using this method, check each transaction without accessing sensitive information from the accounts that connect to our service, and reconcile all payments in one spot. Integrate your e-commerce applications and platforms withInfinia's open banking platform to facilitate product and service payment without intermediaries and in a secure manner.
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Gaingels
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Energy startups

Gaingels is a venture investment syndicate in service of the LGBT+ community and its allies, investing in companies with LGBT+ founders and C-suite leaders at all stages of growth, as well as in more established companies resolved on building more inclusive teams, with a global portfolio of 130+ companies and $70M in deployed investment capital todate. The Gaingels network also actively supports its portfolio in identifying and recruiting diverse talent to their C-suite and board leadership teams and fosters a vibrant global community of industry leaders, investors, operators, and entrepreneurs who share a common goal for positive social change through business and successful investments.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Mexico

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1338
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$8.2M; Series A $5M–$35M; Series B $16M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $140k in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Catio — Cloud architecture platform enabling companies to excel with cloud native tech stacks, focused on tech stack evaluation, planning, and evolution, with the help of AI.
  • Epirus — Epirus is a high-growth technology company that develops cutting-edge directed energy systems and power management solutions to transform multiple industries.
  • Multiverse Computing — World leaders in quantum computing for the financial industry. The first quantum & quantum-inspired toolbox for finance.
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Buffet Investments
VC Fund · 1 investments in South Africa Energy startups

Buffet Investments operates as an investment firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, CRM, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: South Africa, The Netherlands

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$4.6M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Maholla — Our apps power consumer engagement & insights for Fortune 500 companies and top gaming publishers in over 30 countries. Using advanced data models, we match users with the best earning opportunities while ensuring fraud protection and user integrity—so they can share opinions, play games, and earn real cash with confidence.
  • Plentify — Plentify connects home appliances with cheaper cleaner energy. It does this with an intelligent residential load management platform which matches demand with clean energy supply for 75% cheaper than batteries. Plentify combines advanced hardware, AI, and user-centric design to create smart home products that delight customers while alsostrengthening electricity systems.
  • Flow — Flow enables automated social media advertising for the real estate industry, providing high volumes of quality property leads and brand building.
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University Technology Fund
VC Fund · Stellenbosch, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in South Africa Energy startups

The University Technology Fund specifically focusses on commercialising technology, intellectual property, and research - Visit Us!

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, AgTech, Medical
  • Stage:Seed, Grant
  • Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 25
  • Round size: Seed $484k–$5M; Grant $467k–$473k
  • Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Jem — We give employers the ability to send company-wide communications, deliver payslips, manage leave & give employees access to their earnings, via WhatsApp.
  • Immobazyme — Immobazyme provides pioneering the biotechnology industry. Using innovative technologies, along with an environmentally responsible outlook.the company aims to develop an analytical laboratory platform as well as serve the industrial sector through the production of high-value products by organic synthesis and environmental remediationtechnologies.
  • Happy Pay — Happy Pay is a credit scoring system developing company. The company integrates an autonomous artificial intelligence technology system with the merchant's platform to increase their average basket size and customer conversion metrics, providing users with buy now, and pay later services.
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Sherpa Africa Partners
VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya · 1 investments in South Africa Energy startups

A venture fund for pre-seed startups in Africa, led by Startup Operators, backed by Startup Operators.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Round size: Seed $300k–$6M; Pre-Seed $50k–$2M; Venture - Series Unknown $200k–$300k
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Novek — Novek builds IOT technology to completely eliminate single use plastic from FMCG Supply chains.
  • CashBackApp — An App that offers you Cash Discounts on a wide range of household essentials available at local supermarkets in Kenya.
  • Jackfruit Finance — Fast, flexible school financing in Kenya. Get working capital, projects, and asset loans designed around school fee cycles and growth needs.
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Vumela Fund
VC Fund · Hyde Park, Newtownabbey, United Kingdom · 1 investments in South Africa Energy 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, Hospital, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Debt Financing, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: South Africa, Brazil

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 25
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$910k; Debt Financing $1.1M–$1.7M; Venture - Series Unknown $500k–$1M
  • Lead/follow: 80% lead, 20% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $20M in 2015

Portfolio highlights

  • Trade Shield — Trade Shield's aim is to increase access to trade credit facilities for those companies that most need them and will benefit the most from them.
  • Mia Healthcare — Mia Healthcare is a Hospitals and Health Care firm offering dental services and orthodontic products.
  • Breaze Delivery — Optimize your last-mile delivery in SA. Breaze offers same-day delivery, easy Shopify/WooCommerce integration, and live WhatsApp tracking for your brand.
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Rifuwo Energy Partners
VC Fund · 1 investments in South Africa Energy startups

Rifuwo Energy Partners is an investment firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Solar, Energy
  • Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Grid Africa — Boost your business with custom solar solutions from Grid Africa. We offer tailored business solar energy systems and financing options to help South African companies reduce costs and enhance sustainability. Start your clean energy journey today.
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Sanari Capital
VC Fund · Sandston, Virginia, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Energy startups

More than capital, we invest in meaningful partnerships that enhance future value and produce lasting legacies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Laser, Energy
  • Stage:Private Equity, Series A
  • Geography: South Africa, United States, New Zealand

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Series A $3M–$15M; Private Equity $4.8M–$23M
  • Lead/follow: 78% lead, 22% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $29M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Ctrack — Ctrack is the vehicle tracking provider with more than 24 years' experience of developing effective fleet solutions. Ctrack is a part of DigiCore Holdings, a global company listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, whose advanced Ctrack technology is fitted to almost 430,000 vehicles operating in 32 countries across 5 continents.
  • LightWare LiDAR — LightWare, leader in laser range-finder technology. We develop and distribute innovative laser rangefinder products for application across multiple industries. Responsiveness to our customers, product innovation, product & service quality and business integrity are the core pillars of our success.
  • Sensor Networks — Sensor Networks helps insurance companies improve risk mitigation, enhance loss management and better engage with customers through smart sensors. We've created Sensor Desk, an Internet of Things (IoT) platform that controls and manages a range of internally developed and third-party-connected sensors. Our focus is to predict and prevent lossor damage insurance claims, improve operational efficiency and reduce costs for end users.
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Untapped Global
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Energy 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: Transportation, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Kenya, South Africa, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 68% lead, 32% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Elimutab — Elimutab - Find the best learning tablets for children and students, including options for 1-year-olds, studying with pens, and work and study needs.
  • OX Delivers — Our objective is to deliver affordable transport in emerging markets, creating a self-reinforcing cycle of economic growth and social impact. To achieve this, we are developing the world's first clean-transport ecosystem that combines goods shipment with financial, trading & marketing services. This OX ecosystem will be enabled by ourunique zero-emissions OX truck; the only purpose-designed electric vehicle for emerging markets.
  • Rabbit — Transforming transportion in the region. Rabbit is a micro-mobility sharing platform for short-distance transportation using environmentally friendly vehicles.
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Enso Equity
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in South Africa Energy startups

Enso Equity is a venture capital firm that invests in both seed-stage and later-stage companies. They operate in three separate industries, namely private equity, public equity, and private credit.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Coffee, EdTech, Medical
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $321k–$347k
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Okja — Visit Okja for freshly baked pastries, great coffee and smoothies. Baked fresh in-house every day.
  • Happy Pay — Happy Pay is a credit scoring system developing company. The company integrates an autonomous artificial intelligence technology system with the merchant's platform to increase their average basket size and customer conversion metrics, providing users with buy now, and pay later services.
  • Reflective Learning — Reflective delivers affordable yet effective Maths and English learning tools to South African classrooms, designed to elevate student achievements
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Timon Capital
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 1 investments in South Africa Energy 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: Financial Services, Information Technology, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 29
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$8.5M; Pre-Seed $200k–$4M; Series A $14M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Waza — Waza is a web platform with APIs. It helps startups and emerging market businesses manage their cash flow issues, invoicing needs, and international payment requirements.
  • Zone — Zone is a regulated blockchain network that enables payments and acceptance of digital currencies.
  • OmniRetail — OmniRetail is a consumer goods distribution platform that solves the inefficiencies of traditional trade by digitizing key stakeholders through its products.
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Royal Bafokeng Holdings
VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in South Africa Energy startups

Royal Bafokeng Holdings operates as a holding company for its subsidiaries.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Asset Management, Environmental Engineering
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Private Equity, Corporate Round
  • Geography: South Africa, Mauritius

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • EnviroServ — EnviroServ is a waste management solutions provider. EnviroServ has successfully operated within all industries, both in South Africa and beyond, to become a trusted and preferred waste management supplier.
  • Cassava Technologies — Cassava Technologies is an innovative technology company encompassing fiber networks, data centers, renewable energy, cloud & cybersecurity.
  • Northam Platinum Limited — Northam produces platinum group metals such as platinum, palladium, and rhodium. They produce metals for the motor manufacturing industry, the jewellery industry, and other industrial uses, from chemical and electrical applications to glass manufacture.
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Savannah Fund
VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya · 1 investments in South Africa Energy 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: Software, E-Commerce, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, United States, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 46
  • Round size: Seed $25k–$3.3M; Pre-Seed $200k–$2.1M; Series A $750k–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $25M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Aya Data — Aya Data provides high-quality data annotation, AI training data, 3D annotations, machine learning solutions and also specialises in geospatial, NLP and computer vision projects.
  • Kubik — Kubik makes low-carbon buildings from plastic waste. Bringing environmental dignity to how countries grow.
  • Hohm Energy — We make the process of going solar simple. Generate your free, custom solar proposal and get matched with an accredited solar provider in under 5 mins.
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Holocene
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in South Africa Energy startups

Holocene is cultivating a local community of talented, passionate climate enthusiasts.Building and investing in African climate tech ventures

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Energy, Software, Analytics
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: South Africa, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $491k–$1.6M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Farm to Feed — One third of all food is lost or wasted, enough to feed the number of hungry people twice worldwide. Food loss and waste contributes to 10% of greenhouse gases globally. We aggregate and repurpose imperfect and surplus produce to create a healthier planet.
  • Cinergy Mobile Power — Cinergy is a company focused on clean mobile power systems for film, television, and outdoor entertainment production. It provides energy solutions designed to support production camps, stage power, and other on-site power needs. Its stated aim is to help entertainment operations reduce carbon emissions and move toward net-zero practices. Thecompany emphasizes reliable, quiet, and clean power in challenging environments.
  • The Awareness Company — We use data to tell stories that are useful to humans.
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Energy VC funding in South Africa at a glance

Stats across 188 deals from 164 investors.

164
investors
in South Africa Energy startups
188
deals
in South Africa Energy startups
$8.7M
median round
in South Africa Energy startups
50%
lead investors
lead at least one round
21%
Private Equity
most common funding stage

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