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Top 50 Enterprise VC (Venture Capital) Funds in South Africa in May 2025

Last updated: May 2025 A list of 50 VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Enterprise startups based in South africa. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Enterprise companies from South africa. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Enterprise VC (Venture Capital) Funds in South Africa in May 2025

Investor	Enterprise South Africa investments
54 Collective	8
Kalon Venture Partners	7
AngelHub Ventures	7
4Di Capital	6
Knife Capital	6
HAVAÍC	6
LoftyInc Capital	5
Investec	5
Musha Ventures	5
E4EAfrica	4
SEEK	4
Industrial Development Corporation	3
Old Mutual Investment Group	3
Technology Innovation Agency	3
Future Africa	3
Nedbank Corporate and Investment Banking	3
Naspers Foundry	3
Hollard Insurance	3
Black Silver Capital	3
Newtown Partners	3
Kepple Africa Ventures	3
Vumela Fund	3
Compass Venture Capital	3
Oui Capital	3
CRE Venture Capital	2
SAAD Investment Holdings	2
Raine Ventures	2
Launch Africa	2
TLcom Capital Partners	2
Savannah Fund	2
Grand Bay Investments	2
Flourish Ventures	2
4DX Ventures	2
Riot Games	2
Konvoy	2
Crossfin Technology	2
Jozi Angels	2
BREEGA	2
Tahseen Consulting	2
Soma Capital	2
Alumni Ventures	2
Technova	2
Enygma Ventures	2
TTV Capital	2
4 Decades Capital	2
Hustle Fund	2
Imvelo Ventures	2
Samsung Electronics	1
Brandtech Ventures	1
Sanari Capital	1

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

Investment focus

Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa

Portfolio highlights

Billboxx — Enabling businesses pay and get paid twice as fast
Yeah — Yeah is a financial technology company that offers payment processing services while building a credit profile for the banked and unbanked.
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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Investment focus

Apps, Mobile Apps, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
South Africa, Luxembourg, United States

Portfolio highlights

Talk360 — Talk360 is an easy-to-use calling app that helps people make affordable international calls to any mobile and landline number. They believe that reliable communication and digital services must be affordable and accessible to everyone, regardless of someone's background. Especially people in emerging countries in Africa, who often need theseservices the most, do not always have the necessary banking possibilities. To bridge this distance, Talk360 will launch the world's first single checkout platform for Africa. This platform will combine all locally available payment methods and currencies across Africa, together with over 1.25 million cash points of sales, and will eventually be available to other companies as well. This means that 500 million Africans will be able to purchase digital services they never had access to before.
Sendmarc — Maximize your email security and domain protection with DMARC to safeguard your business against email impersonation, phishing, and spoofing.
visionAI — visionAI augments existing CCTV cameras with computer vision AI to drive improved operational outcomes in manufacturing.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Education
Seed, Series A
South Africa, Mexico, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

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

4Di Capital is an independent seed- and early-stage technology venture capital firm based in Cape Town, South Africa.Nurture capital is the term that best describes 4Di Capitalâ€:tm:s purpose and philosophy.We understand that in the early days of any business, support, mentoring and access to networks is just as important as seed capital.Using tried and tested international venture capital best practices, adapted for local use, we believe in entrepreneur-friendly finance without frills, and in working as a team with our investments to achieve their true potential.4Di Capital Early-Stage Technology Fund 1 targets startup investment opportunities with high growth potential at the seed- and early-stages in the mobile, enterprise software and web sectors.We look for founder teams with hungry passion, commitment, domain expertise and deep insights into the large market problems they wish to solve with their technology solutions.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
South Africa, United States, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Maxe AI — AI investment Assistant for all investors. AI Portfolios tracker of stocks bonds exchanges futures. all in one to track mutual funds.
Cloudline — The all-in-one cloud platform helping leisure businesses sell more, reduce costs & personalize experiences.
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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Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
South Africa, United States, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Octiv — Turbocharge your fitness business, grow your community and build your brand with Octiv's leading Gym Management Software.
Outsized — Independent talent for enterprise clients and consulting firms in Asia-Pacific, Africa, and the Middle East.
Simera Sense — Simera Sense develops camera control electronics for optical payload and Cubesat imager solutions.

HAVAÍC is an investment and advisory firm that specialises in early-stage, high-growth African businesses with proven concepts and global prospects, offering investment opportunities to sophisticated investors and international venture capital companies with an interest in Africa. As a complementary offering, HAVAÍC provides corporate advisory andcapital raising services to emerging, internationally scalable businesses.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, FinTech
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
South Africa, United States, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

NjiaPay — Payments-as-a-Service platform that will streamline your operations and elevate your online payments across the African continent.
Talk360 — Talk360 is an easy-to-use calling app that helps people make affordable international calls to any mobile and landline number. They believe that reliable communication and digital services must be affordable and accessible to everyone, regardless of someone's background. Especially people in emerging countries in Africa, who often need theseservices the most, do not always have the necessary banking possibilities. To bridge this distance, Talk360 will launch the world's first single checkout platform for Africa. This platform will combine all locally available payment methods and currencies across Africa, together with over 1.25 million cash points of sales, and will eventually be available to other companies as well. This means that 500 million Africans will be able to purchase digital services they never had access to before.
Right Now Response — The future of repairs starts soon. Counting down to smarter tracking in 2025! There are perks to working 24/7, 365 days a year... Like launching the future of repairs ahead of schedule!

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

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Nigeria, United States, Egypt

Portfolio highlights

Mtor — Mtor is an online marketplace that is reshaping the automotive aftermarket and provides sophisticated technology solutions.
EMTECH — EMTECH provides solutions for Digital Currency regulatory compliance, development and management to help Central Banks and FinTechs build, run and manage modern financial systems.
Terragon Group — Terragon is a leading Data and Marketing Technology company that uses data and analytics to help companies focused in Africa, intelligently connect at scale to their customers. We use an aggregation of online and offline data, and predictive scoring to help brands, marketing agencies and platforms accurately target people across channels anddevices. Headquartered in Lagos; Nigeria, we also have a presence in Kenya, South Africa, Ghana and India.

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Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, Energy
Funding Round, Debt Financing, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Qwello — Qwello is an Electric Vehicle charge point developer and operator with operations in Europe. Qwello deploys charging infrastructure across major European cities by partnering with local municipalities through public concession contracts, providing both infrastructure and charging services.
Voltera — Voltera’s customers are companies that have a pressing need to power EVs at scale. They are challenged by the fact that charging infrastructure does not exist in the right place, at the right time, or of the right type necessary to support planned EV deployments. They're also challenged by the complexity of siting, building, owning, andoperating EV charging infrastructure without disrupting operations or investing significant time and upfront capital.
Onyx Renewable Partners — Onyx guides your every step toward a cleaner future. Established in 2014, Onyx offers clean energy, solar, and decarbonization solutions throughout the United States.

Seed capital for technology startups globally.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Nigeria, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Regfyl — Powered by AI, Regfyl is the all-in-one fraud and compliance platform for financial institutions and fintechs. Regfyl allows these businesses to reduce costs and focus on higher value activities.
Sukhiba — Sukhiba is a decentralized community-based commerce platform.
Orca Fraud — Orca empowers fraud fighters with effective tools to combat fraud

E4E (“Entrepreneurs for Entrepreneurs”) specializes in supporting early stage ventures in South Africa from very early stage (pre-series A) to scale up.E4E focus on smart entrepreneurs and business ideas that are great businesses and make a significant contribution to a better (South) Africa.

Investment focus

Logistics, Internet, Supply Chain Management
Seed, Series A, Series B
South Africa, France, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

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.
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.
Conservio — Discover and Book South Africa's best nature accommodations with Conservio. Book vetted accommodations, easy and safe to book online.

SEEK is a diverse group of companies that have a unified purpose to help people live more fulfilling and productive working lives and help organizations succeed. The Group encompasses a strong portfolio of employment, education, and volunteer businesses which span across Australia, New Zealand, China, South East Asia, Brazil, Mexico, Africa, andBangladesh. SEEK makes a positive impact on a truly global scale, operating in a total of 18 countries with market-leading positions in 14 countries. It creates world-class product technology solutions to address the needs of job seekers and hirers and facilitate the matching between job seekers and hirers across our online employment marketplaces. Online Education Services (‘OES’) offers leading online education and SEEK Learning offers trusted advice in relation to career-related education. SEEK’s commitment to having a positive impact on society is reflected through the diverse range of initiatives which its businesses across the globe partake in to support the communities they operate within. In Australia and New Zealand SEEK Volunteer is each country’s largest single source of volunteering opportunities offering not-for-profit organizations free access to post volunteer opportunities. This free marketplace is something SEEK is exceptionally proud of. Over its 20 years of operation, SEEK continues to innovate within the markets it operates in. It provides a culture of excellence and acceptance in our workplaces and celebrates the diversity of employees that contribute to the success of the organization.

Investment focus

Human Resources, Recruiting, Software
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
Australia, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Go1 — Go1 offers training content from 250+ industry-leading providers, delivered seamlessly through any HR tech stack.
Employment Hero — Employment Hero operates as an online human resource platform for small and medium-sized businesses. Its cloud-based HR platform combines HR software, financial services, scheduling, and payroll tools, as well as employee benefits, providing growing companies with an intuitive, affordable way to manage essential employee information and HRprocesses. The company aims to become the employment platform of choice for employers and employees in Australia and beyond, by providing free, easy-to-use HR software that employers love to use, and access to far greater benefits for all employees.Employment Hero was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Sydney New South Wales.
Talespin — Talespin is building the XR platform to power knowledge transfer and skill alignment for the future of employment

The Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa Ltd (IDC) is a national development finance institution set up to promote economic growth and industrial development.

Investment focus

Renewable Energy, Mobile, Energy
Debt Financing, Series A, Funding Round
South Africa, Canada, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

AMEA Power — Founded in 2016, AMEA Power has assembled a leading team of global industry experts to deliver clean energy projects across Africa, the Middle East and other emerging markets.
Pele Energy Group — Pele Energy Group owns and runs renewable energy infrastructure in addition to providing economic and community development consulting services.
Pele Green Energy — Pele Green Energy is an Independent Power Producer that develops, owns, procures, builds, and operates renewable energy power projects, including Small Scale Embedded Generation and utility scale power plants, and is the leading South African Independent Power Producer in the Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement, REIPPPProgramme.

As a leading African investment manager, we aim to deliver sustainable long-term returns for clients via our comprehensive range of investment capabilities.

Investment focus

Retail, FinTech, Finance
Private Equity, Series A, Funding Round
South Africa, Malawi, Australia

Portfolio highlights

CoverGo — CoverGo is the ultimate no-code insurance platform helping insurance companies build and launch products for health, life, and P&C.
Gala Macs — Gala Macs is an agricultural company engaged in the production of macadamia nuts.
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.

TIA is an initiative of the Department of Science & Technology (DST) in South Africa, to enable and support technological innovation.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Renewable Energy, Health Care
Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed
South Africa

Portfolio highlights

Jobox — Jobox is a student recruitment platform, built to connect employers, students and graduate career offices. Our focus is to improve graduate employability by ensuring all students have the skills they need to enter, stay in, and progress in the world of work.Jobox’s ecosystem provides employers with access to the best diverse & youthfultalent, students with more employment opportunities and universities with data-driven insights aimed at driving graduate employability forward.
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.
Ownedby Technologies — Ownedby is an interactive asset management solution for business and household assets, focused on appliances and devices, giving these unique identity that is traceable online, yet linked to and controlled by owners.

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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Nigeria, United States, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Moove — Moove is a mobility fintech that provides revenue-based vehicle financing to mobility entrepreneurs, democratizing vehicle ownership globally. The company embeds its alternative credit-scoring technology onto ride-hailing, logistics, and last-mile/instant delivery platforms, which allows access to proprietary performance and revenue analyticsof mobility entrepreneurs to underwrite loans.
Juicyway — Juice is a developer of a payment network platform for cross-border business payments for businesses and individuals. It facilitates financial transactions between parties regardless of location to allow enterprises to participate in international trade and the exchange of goods and services.
Filmmakers Mart — Find and book film locations, equipment, and services across Africa. Filmmakers Mart simplifies production logistics from start to finish.

Nedbank Corporate and Investment Banking is offers corporate and investment banking and global-market services to diverse clients.

Investment focus

Data Center, Health Care, Life Science
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
South Africa, United States

Portfolio highlights

LifeQ — We empower everyone to delay aging, optimize your health, harness more energy, reduce the probability of disease, and understand why and how your body is changing, right now! It is in your power to be your biologically younger self.
Omnisient — Privacy-Preserving Data Collaboration platform enabling businesses to collaborate while ensuring consumer privacy and data protection.

Naspers Foundry is a global internet group and invests in technology-based companies. The company believes in the power of local backed by global scale and they look for opportunities to address big societal needs in markets where they see the greatest growth potential.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Information Technology, Information Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
South Africa, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Planet42 — Having your own car has never been easier. Planet42 is a vehicle rental company offering rent-to-own car service for private clients.
LifeCheq — Transforming financial services sales & distribution
SweepSouth — Book a home cleaning online from your mobile, tablet or computer. SweepSouth connects you with a cleaner in minutes. Cleaners are experienced, reliable, efficient and insured.

Love your life without worrying about the risk.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
Series B, Series A, Funding Round
Australia, South Africa, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Bdeo — Bdeo provides a visual intelligence solution designed to change the way customers connect with insurance companies. Its platform enhances the customer journey beginning with underwriting and all the way through the time the claim is processed, also recognizing risks, damage, and providing assessments in real-time, allowing insurance companies todetect fraud or pay customers in the event a claim is approved.The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Madrid, Spain.
Naked Insurance — The new way to cover your stuff: savings & convenience through AI. Naked Insurance offers online insurance for car, home and contents. Get a quote in 90 seconds!
Simply — Life, Disability and Funeral Insurance

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Investment focus

Information Technology, FinTech, Finance
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
South Africa

Portfolio highlights

Accrual Software — We are a Software Development Company
Cyrrix Cybersecurity — At Cyrrix Cybersecurity, we understand the importance of protecting your business from online threats. Our team provides a full range of cybersecurity services to help safeguard your company's sensitive information and systems. We offer comprehensive risk assessments, penetration testing, and incident response planning to identify and addressvulnerabilities in your network. Our managed security services provide ongoing monitoring and threat detection to keep your business protected around the clock. With our help, you can rest easy knowing that your company's valuable assets are secure.
Aesthetic Prosthetic Bionics — Biological Engineering, Bionics, Biomimetics, Hydraulics, Prosthetics, Neuroprosthetics, Exoskeleton Suits, Dynamics, Kinematics Robotics, Human-Robot Interaction, Artificial Organs, Artificial Intelligence, Quantum Computing, Knowledge Reasoning, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision, Robotics, Artificial GeneralIntelligence, Deep Learning, Bayesian Networks, Evolutionary Algorithms, Computational Neuroscience, Neurocybernetics, Cybernetics, Cognitive Science, Source Coding, Channel Coding, Algorithmic Complexity Theory, Algorithmic Information Theory, Information-Theoretic Security, Grey System Theory & Biotechnology

Newtown Partners is a venture capital firm that actively invests in emerging, disruptive technology startups.

Investment focus

Logistics, Health Care, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
South Africa, Ghana, Kenya

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.
Chefaa — Chefaa is a GPS-enabled pharmacy benefits platform connecting patients & pharmacies nation-wide to help patients manage all their pharmacy needs. Chefaa uses big data, data ming & machine learning
Waspito — We are the platform that engages Africa into the conversation and action to drive affordable and accessible quality healthcare across the continent.

Kepple Africa Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt

Portfolio highlights

Chari — Chari is an e-commerce and fintech app for traditional retailers in French-Speaking Africa allowing them to order any consumer goods they sell and get delivered for free in less than 24 hours. Chari is also a financial services provider for these retailers, offering them microloans
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.
Carry1st — Carry1st develops and publishes enriching mobile games and content apps for African consumers.

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.

Investment focus

Education, Software, Primary Education
Funding Round, Seed, Debt Financing
South Africa, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Rentoza — We champion giving you access, affordability and flexibility to explore tech on your own terms
Kusini Water — Kusini Water builds water treatment systems from nanotechnology and macadamia nut shells.
Trade Shield — Automated trade credit risk management. Discover opportunities & reduce bad debt with always-on risk evaluation, credit scoring & recommended credit limits.

Compass is a venture capital fund. We invest in start-ups with scalable business models and strong growth potential. We work with companies based in Mauritius, the Indian Ocean region and the African continent. Compass is wholly owned by and benefits from support from the ENL Group, one of Mauritius’ largest business conglomerates. Alongside theTurbine, our sister organisation and the region’s leading incubator and start-up accelerator, Compass is working to create a vibrant, sustainable start-up ecosystem in Mauritius and the Indian Ocean.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Financial Services, Big Data
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Mauritius, India, France

Portfolio highlights

Omnisient — Privacy-Preserving Data Collaboration platform enabling businesses to collaborate while ensuring consumer privacy and data protection.
FCB.ai — Boost business success with proven AI chatbot solutions. Enhance sales figures, customer satisfaction, improve premium collections & more.
Shortlist — Shortlist works in India and East Africa to help growing enterprises hire based on skills and potential, rather than pedigree. The Shortlist platform screens candidates using predictive chat-based interviews and online competency-based assessments, letting employers skips the most time-consuming and bias-prone phases of hiring.

Oui Capital is an Africa-focused VC firm backing tech-enabled businesses at the pre-seed & seed stage.

Investment focus

Transportation, Information Technology, B2B
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
Kenya, Nigeria, United States

Portfolio highlights

Duplo — We enable businesses across Africa to simplify their payment flows.
Cauridor — Cauridor is a Financial Services company.
Maad — Maad is Francophone Africa's fastest-growing B2B marketplace, based in Dakar, Senegal. Our tech-driven solution allows retailers to order products from our one-stop shop and benefit from working capital loans

Founded in 2015, CRE Venture Capital invests in early stage tech companies that are levered to Africa. CRE is headquartered in the New York metro area, with a regional office in Lagos, Nigeria.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
South Africa, Nigeria, United States

Portfolio highlights

Sabi Am — Sabi is Africa's largest B2B company, & we are digitising informal trade via our platform. We access markets hard to reach and ensure ease of distribution, & are the No 1 FCMG supplier in Africa.
Sukhiba — Sukhiba is a decentralized community-based commerce platform.
Stitch — One API integration for enterprise online payments across South Africa. Accept Pay by bank, debit + credit card, cash, manual EFT, debit order and crypto.

Saad are active investors that buy, build and grow businesses in key focus industries for long-term sustainability and the benefit of all stakeholders.

Investment focus

Delivery, Logistics, Last Mile Transportation
Funding Round
South Africa

Portfolio highlights

Pargo — Pargo is a convenient logistics solution that lets you collect and return parcels at Pargo parcel points throughout the country when it suits you best.

Raine Ventures is an early stage fund managed by The Raine Group. The firm has offices in San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, London and Shanghai. With a global reach, Raine focuses on investment and advisory opportunities where its deep industry experience and unique network of strategic relationships can create value for portfolio companies andclients.

Investment focus

Gaming, Mobile, Internet
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Perlego — Perlego is an online library subscription service for textbooks and non-fiction titles. Having partnered with over 3,000 of the world's best publishers, it gives its users unlimited access to over 650,000 eBooks and publications via an affordable monthly subscription. It aims to make learning accessible to all. It was founded in 2016 and isheadquartered in London, England.
Definely — Definely creates legal tech solutions to free lawyers from frustration, saving them time when understanding, drafting and reviewing legal documents.
MusicInfra — Helping creators and copyright owners getting paid faster and more accurately than ever

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

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Affinity — Join over 60,000 who trust the Affinity mobile app to manage your personal banking needs and qualify for an Affinity Instant Loan
ToumAI Analytics — ToumAI Analytics is a software development company providing voice analytics, real-time analytics, and reporting services.
PBR Life Sciences — A cloud-based real-world, non-observational pharmacy sell-out data

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.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Information Technology
Series A, Funding Round, Seed
Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom

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.
Educatly — We help you get into the University of your dreams. We are the only platform with all the information you need to Study Abroad
littlefishapp — Littlefish is a comprehensive commerce platform that empowers banks to serve small business with tools to streamline operations, drive growth, and enhance customer engagement.

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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, FinTech, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Kenya, United States, South Africa

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.

Grand Bay Investments is a privately-held investment management firm. Grand Bay Ventures invest capital with a long-term focus and can act as a single capital provider allowing us to move quickly to complete transaction into the lower middle-market firms.

Investment focus

Data Center, Information Technology
Seed, Series A
South Africa

Portfolio highlights

Omnisient — Privacy-Preserving Data Collaboration platform enabling businesses to collaborate while ensuring consumer privacy and data protection.

We are an early-stage global venture capital firm investing in fintech founders.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, India, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

minu — In minu, we are revolutionizing the financial health of Mexican employees, offering them access to their already worked salary when they need it, instead of having to wait for payroll. We work with HR areas of companies that offer the provision of minu to improve satisfaction, retention, and attraction of talent. minu is supported by FinTech'sleading institutional investors globally, including QED.
MoneyHash — MoneyHash provides access to payment and fintech services across the Middle East & Africa with one simple integration.
Morada Uno — Morada Uno underwrites and insures house rentals by equipping real estate professionals with tools and technology. The company aims to simplify and create trust and security in real estate transactions, promoting fairness in every interaction, and promoting a positive change in the mentality and way of doing things in Mexico.

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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Information Technology, Logistics
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Egypt, United States, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Taager — Taager is a social e-commerce platform enabling online merchants with end-to-end logistics.
MAKA — MAKA is a community commerce platform for fashion and beauty, enabling everyone to discover their style, feel represented.
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.

Riot Games is the most player-focused game developer and publisher in the world. We published League of Legends in 2009, and have since released Teamfight Tactics, Legends of Runeterra, VALORANT, and League of Legends: Wild Rift.

Investment focus

Gaming, Video Games, Mobile Apps
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Germany, China

Portfolio highlights

Stoke Games — Stoke Games operates as an independent gaming studio.
Wicked Saints Studios — We used behavioral technology to create interactive media that is wickedly fun and actively good. Wicked Saints emerged from Niantic’s incubator last fall (CNBC article) with a prototype of the world’s first adventure activism game, World Reborn. At its simplest, World Reborn is an interactive story game with real-life quests facilitated byaugmented reality (AR). It not only defies genres between narrative and AR games but blends the digital and real world. Wicked Saints sees AR as a bridge between fantasy and reality, with untapped potential to offer players immersive experiences that change them and their world for good.
The Believer Company — Join the journey We are building a world-class team to serve players for years to come. If you believe in games, we believe in you.

Konvoy Ventures is a thesis driven venture capital firm. We invest in the platforms and technologies at the frontier of gaming.

Investment focus

Gaming, Video Games, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

k-ID — At k-ID, we specialize in integrating safety and privacy by design compliance solutions for digital platforms, focusing on creating a safer, more responsible online environment for children and teenagers.
Pok Pok — Pok Pok is a low-stimulation app for kids 2-7 filled with Montessori-inspired digital toys that offer a calmer way to learn through screen time play.
Afference — Powering the sense of touch in the digital world. Feel digital objects in AR, VR, and XR with our groundbreaking haptic feedback device, the Phantom.

Crossfin invests in FINTECH solutions to enable growth for economies in Africa and beyond. Crossfin invests in high growth and established cash generative businesses, offering investors a blended exposure to technology investments in Fintech.

Investment focus

Payments, Financial Services, Information Technology
Funding Round, Series A, Private Equity
South Africa, United States, Russian Federation

Portfolio highlights

Adumo — We are your expert partner in payments, enabling you to seamlessly and securely accept payments in-store and online with our true omni-channel experience. Never miss a sale with South Africa's largest independent payments processor.
VantagePay — VantagePay provides white-label payment and technology solutions to the Banking, Telco, Financial Services, and Consumer Product Industries.
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.

Jozi Angels is an angel network based in Johannesburg, South Africa. We exist to grow the startup ecosystem and facilitate the growth of innovative startups.

Investment focus

B2B, Medical, Wellness
Pre-Seed
South Africa

Portfolio highlights

Jobox — Jobox is a student recruitment platform, built to connect employers, students and graduate career offices. Our focus is to improve graduate employability by ensuring all students have the skills they need to enter, stay in, and progress in the world of work.Jobox’s ecosystem provides employers with access to the best diverse & youthfultalent, students with more employment opportunities and universities with data-driven insights aimed at driving graduate employability forward.
Contro — Get your health and confidence products prescribed online and delivered to your door for free without the waiting rooms!
TUNL — Ship globally with ease. TUNL offers affordable, transparent international shipping built for South African brands. Up to 91% cheaper. No surprises.

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.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
France, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Klasha — At Klasha, we're simplifying borderless payments for commerce in Africa. We help merchants worldwide sell online to Africa and receive payments in local African currencies while enjoying super fast last-mile delivery to customers across the continent.
Socium — Socium Job these are companies that recruit and offer real career opportunities to all those who share their values and wish to invest in their development.
Brink Therapeutics — Brink Therapeutics is a Biotechnology Research firm conducting cell therapy research using reprogrammed recombinases.

We're a boutique firm bridging consulting, government relations, and international development committed to transformational change in the Middle East and North Africa +

Investment focus

Information Technology, E-Commerce, Consumer Goods
Seed, Angel, Series A
India, Pakistan, Peru

Portfolio highlights

BusCaro — Comfort, Reliability Consistency. Your one-stop solution for hassle-free commute. Commute Made Easier About BusCaro Innovative approach towards mobility for organizations across Pakistan. BusCaro is a tech-based startup providing solutions aimed at simplifying commute. Paired with a reliable technology stack, and the mission to drive a positive change in the mobility sector, BusCaro is a seamless
OlaClick (YC W21) — Create electronic menu boards for your restaurant or store. It is totally free. QR codes menu or digital menu boards. Digitalize your menu in an instant and start receiving orders !
Alvin — Alvin is a powerful mobile app that automatically creates and adjusts your budget to help you meet your goals.

Welcome to Soma Capital

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Podqi — Podqi is an AI-powered platform specifically designed for entertainment companies to automate monitoring, takedown, and retroactive compensation for infringement on their portfolio of IP.
Artisan AI — Artisan is on a mission to build the first generation of AI employees, called Artisans, who can automate specific roles & workflows.
Flashnet — Flashnet is commited to build a Bitcoin exchange that anyone can use and where people keep their own money.

Alumni Ventures offers diversified venture portfolios to accredited investors into highly competitive deals that individuals typically do not have access to on their own.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Artisan AI — Artisan is on a mission to build the first generation of AI employees, called Artisans, who can automate specific roles & workflows.
TAU Systems — TAU Systems provides medical imaging technology.
Foundation Alloy — Foundation Alloy makes better parts, faster, for modern engineering.

Technova operates as an advisory firm focused on growth.

Investment focus

Data Center, Information Technology
Seed, Series A
South Africa

Portfolio highlights

Omnisient — Privacy-Preserving Data Collaboration platform enabling businesses to collaborate while ensuring consumer privacy and data protection.

Enygma Ventures is an investment fund for female entrepreneurs and women founders, focused on Southern Africa or SADC. Unlike traditional private equity, venture capital, and banks our team is full of award winning entrepreneurs who understand the same struggles you face first hand.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Lending, Education
Seed, Funding Round
South Africa, Zambia, Swaziland

Portfolio highlights

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Koa Academy — Koa Academy is on the cutting edge of online schooling in South Africa! We offer small classes, quality educators, and individualized, engaged online learning.
Brown and Ayo — Brown and Ayo have provided customers with an extensive online marketplace of natural hair extensions created to mimic black natural hair textures. The company prides itself in bringing innovative and well-loved products to the SA black woman consumer.

TTV Capital is a venture capital firm that funds and supports the businesses that shape the financial future of the world.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Worth AI — Dive into the world of AI underwriting and onboarding software, and explore the game-changing benefits they bring to KYC and customer onboarding automation. Stay ahead of the curve and discover how professionals in the industry are leveraging this technology to streamline processes, mitigate risks, and enhance overall efficiency. Don't miss out on these essential automation insights.
Stream — Generative AI for workers' comp - turn documents into actionable summaries with AI LLM models trained specifically for WC.
Wildfire Systems — We are the only white-label cashback and shopping rewards loyalty platform that helps companies monetize e-commerce everywhere.

4 Decades Capital is a venture capital firm based in Cape Town, South Africa.

Investment focus

Apps, Travel, Big Data
Seed
South Africa

Portfolio highlights

GoMetro — Fleet management simplified with GoMetro. Integrate telematics, gain real-time visibility, and optimize operations with a secure, scalable platform,

Hustle Fund is a seed fund that invests in early-stage startups operating in software, business-to-business, fintech, and digital health sectors.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Singapore, Canada

Portfolio highlights

ThriveAI — Offload the busywork. Focus on the outcomes that matter.
Agree.com — Agree.com is the best solution for creating and managing contracts, streamlining negotiations, enhancing compliance, optimizing workflows, and converting more customers — all within one intuitive platform. View edits, track signatures, and get alerted on all upcoming key milestones. Include free, one-click e-signatures with identity verification onevery agreement. Increase deal velocity and drive revenue impact with integrated payments.
Rently — Rently is a digital platform for buying, selling, and managing properties.

Imvelo Ventures is a venture capital and growth equity firm in South Africa managed by Capitec Bank.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Funding Round
South Africa

Portfolio highlights

BancX — bancX is a modular, as-a-service platform for banks, fintechs, lenders, and retailers to build or extend their offering to meet market demand.
Lipa Payments — Lipa Payments is a payment software solution that allows businesses to perform transactions using NFC. We remove the need for additional payment hardware.
The Cape Town Stock Exchange — The Cape Town Stock Exchange is a south Africa’s stock exchange for small- and medium-sized businesses.

Discover the latest in electronic & smart appliance technology with Samsung. Find the next big thing from smartphones & tablets to laptops & tvs & more.

Investment focus

Software, Manufacturing, Artificial Intelligence
Funding Round, Grant, Series B
United States, South Korea, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Coframe — Transform your website with AI-driven optimization and personalization that boosts engagement and conversions. Coframe automates growth 24/7.
Protect AI — Protect AI builds cybersecurity solutions for AI systems and ML models, helping ML developers and enterprises embrace MLSecOps.
Spline — Spline is a free 3D design software with real-time collaboration to create web interactive experiences in the browser. Easy 3d modeling, animation, textures, and more.

Brandtech Ventures is the investment arm of The Brandtech Group (formerly You & Mr Jones), and makes venture stage investments in brandtech startup and growth businesses. The firm is particularly focused on AI, AR, Video, Voice, Data, UGC and analytics. The Brandtech Group was founded by David Jones in 2015 and is headquartered in New York.

Investment focus

Software, Advertising, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series B, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

EVRYTHNG — EVRYTHNG is the internet of things smart products platform connecting consumer products to the Web and managing real-time data to drive applications and analytics throughout the product lifecycle. Its a consumer product manufacturers work with EVRYTHNG to manage billions of intelligent identities in the cloud for their products. This enables brandsto deliver digital services directly to end-users through their products, manage supply chains more effectively using real-time data, and operate smart products connected to the broader ecosystem of applications and services on the Web and in the enterprise.It was founded in 2011 and is based in London, Greater London.
Blacktag — Blacktag is a global platform for Black content and creators.
Provenance — Provenance is a software solution for sustainability communications and supply chain transparency.

Sanari Capital is a South African private investment company. They partner with owners and management in building companies, concepts and ideas.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Laser, Sensor
Series A, Funding Round, Series B
United States, South Africa, New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

iiDENTIFii — iiDENTIFii: Secure biometric authentication for businesses. Verify customer identity in seconds with facial recognition and liveness detection.
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.
Energenic Holdings — Welcome to Energenics the home of real power, we specialize in the controlling and supporting of Power Generation Systems. We supply maintenance and support.

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