Top 15 Fashion Startup Investors in Africa
A list of 15 angel investors and VC funds that invest in Fashion startups based in Africa. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Fashion companies from Africa. We update this investor list every month.Top 15 Fashion Startup Investors in Africa
Investor | Fashion Africa investments |
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Future Africa | 1 |
Launch Africa | 1 |
Chui Ventures | 1 |
216 Capital | 1 |
Patricia Ithau | 1 |
Mizizi Africa Consumer Holdings | 1 |
J.P. Morgan Asset Management | 1 |
Farfetch | 1 |
Ventures Platform | 1 |
Flat6Labs Tunisia | 1 |
Umoja Rubber Products | 1 |
Pipeline Angels | 1 |
Microtraction | 1 |
Talanton | 1 |
CDG Invest | 1 |
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
- 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.
- Itana — Talent City’s mission is to build a network of charter cities that focuses on creating technology-enabled jobs within a free trade zone with its own regulation and bylaws.
- Filmmakers Mart — FilmmakersMart is Africa’s first film and entertainment marketplace where entertainment businesses and creatives find verified services seamlessly for their video productions while democratizing entry into the film and entertainment industry for emerging creatives. We’re building the operations system for the film and entertainment industry inAfrica.
Launch Africa is a fund with the primary objective of unlocking the capital constraints of Seed Stage tech startups.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Bosso — Bosso projects and realizes automation and robotic solutions for the growth of your business.
- 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
- Wahu Mobility — Wahu Mobility is an open e-mobility platform that connects drivers, passengers, and goods in a simple, inclusive, transparent, nationwide, and multimodal manner.
Investing in Africa | Chui Ventures is an investment company that seeks to back exceptional African companies at the early stage of their growth.
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Investment focus
- Fashion, Software, E-Commerce
- Pre-Seed
- Kenya, United States
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.
- Shop Zetu — Shop the latest trendy fashion, beauty and accessory brands in Kenya online! Discover affordable clothing, footwear, accessories, beauty products and more. Order today from Shop Zetu.
- Uncover — We are a community-built skincare brand that believes no woman should lose confidence over her skin. We celebrate every blemish, every stretch mark, every woman, and every body and encourage U to wear your skin with pride. We believe in patience, consistency, and self-love inspired through healthy, effective, nourishing products and lifestyle.
Our DNA is rooted in a passionate belief in the potential of Africa, a relentless drive for innovation, and an unwavering commitment to impact. We are not just investors; we are builders of a better future, one investment at a time.
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- Financial Services, B2B, Organic Food
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Tunisia, France, Morocco
Portfolio highlights
- Logidoo — Logidoo is a digital logistics marketplace-designed company that markets shuttles through smart logistics. The company's platform, which provides rapid, dependable, secure, and economical logistics, allows users to compare offers for sending and receiving items and to track parcels in real-time.
- Imaginario AI — Imaginario AI empowers creators and product makers with pre-built video AI features and a powerful workflow automation platform.
- ProXalys — ProXalys is an online marketplace for agricultural products, offering assured payments and deferred payment options for merchants.
Patricia Ithau
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Investment focus
- Beauty, Retail, Fashion
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Shop Zetu — Shop the latest trendy fashion, beauty and accessory brands in Kenya online! Discover affordable clothing, footwear, accessories, beauty products and more. Order today from Shop Zetu.
- Uncover — We are a community-built skincare brand that believes no woman should lose confidence over her skin. We celebrate every blemish, every stretch mark, every woman, and every body and encourage U to wear your skin with pride. We believe in patience, consistency, and self-love inspired through healthy, effective, nourishing products and lifestyle.
A world-class house of African-inspired lifestyle brands
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Investment focus
- Sports, Fashion, Outdoors
- Seed
- Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Enda Sportswear — Kenyan running shoes that reward a natural midfoot landing and match the way runners train. Proudly made in Kenya and certified Climate Neutral. The most socially conscious running shoes in the world.
J.P. Morgan Asset Management is a leading asset manager for individuals, advisors and institutions. Their investment professionals are located around the world, providing strategies that span the full spectrum of asset classes.As one of the largest asset and wealth managers in the world, with assets under management of $1.7 trillion (as ofDecember 31, 2014), they provide global market insights and a range of investment capabilities that few other firms can match.
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Series B, Funding Round, Private Equity
- United States, Canada, Hong Kong
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- MioTech — MioTech is an artificial intelligence platform that empowers investment managers to better serve their clients in a world of complex data. By integrating and analyzing data from all types of sources, MioTech streamlines the entire investment process, creating an ultimate data-driven investing experience. MioTech has offices in Shanghai and HongKong.MioTech is backed by Horizons Ventures, ZhenFund, and prestigious individual investors around the world.
- Arcadia — Arcadia unlocks access to global utility data. Our technology powers the next generation of climate solutions, giving anyone the tools to electrify and decarbonize.
- Enlaza Therapeutics — Enlaza Therapeutics is a biotechnology research company. It was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in La Jolla, California.
Farfetch operates an e-commerce website that unites various independent fashion boutiques. It offers bags, coats, dresses, jackets, jewellery, swimwear, trouser, shoes, knitwear, suits, shorts, and accessories. They operate a modular end-to-end technology platform purpose built to connect the luxury fashion ecosystem worldwide. Their vision wasto create a single operating system that could address the complex demands of consumers and luxury sellers alike. Their platform is built on an API-enabled proprietary technology stack, which provides the foundation for the three main components: applications, services and data. Farfetch serves women, men, and kids. Jose Neves founded the company in 2008, with its headquarters in London, United Kingdom.
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Investment focus
- Fashion, E-Commerce, Software
- Corporate Round, Funding Round, Convertible Note
- United States, Spain, Nigeria
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- Decommerce — Decommerce provides a Community Building Solution for brands to build strong and engaging communities. Host your own Data and reduce marketing spend through rewarding your loyal customers using web3 and blockchain based solutions
- Neiman Marcus Group — Shop fashion's top names for women, men, and kids. Plus, check out beauty's best brands, designer jewelry, luxurious decor, and distinctive gifts for any occasion.
- Colvin — At The Colvin Co we aim to change the way people buy flowers online by offering intermediary-free bouquets selected by our floral gurus through an optimised platform that delivers best-in-class user experience.
We back founders building the future of Africa. We invest in companies that solve for non-consumption, plug infrastructural gaps and democratise prosperity in Africa, by eliminating the barriers for access and reducing the costs of delivering goods and services.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Nigeria, United States, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Lengo — Lengo is an AI based intelligence platform that offers a large database on consumer goods for companies in the FMCG sector.
- Shekel Mobility — B2B marketplace for auto dealers to grow their dealerships leveraging on flexible inventory financing and management solutions. Available on web and mobile.
- 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
Flat6Labs is the MENA region’s leading seed and early stage venture capital firm, currently running the most renowned startup programs in the region. Annually, Flat6Labs invests in more than 100 innovative and technology-driven startups enabling thousands of passionate entrepreneurs to achieve their daring ambitions and ultimately becoming theirinstitutional co-founders.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Retail, Education
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Tunisia, France
Portfolio highlights
- Yaz — Yaz is a B2B wholesale e-Commerce web and mobile app that offers branded goods and services top up for retailers.
- Birdhouce — Birdhouce is a direct to consumer furniture startup that provides home storage. They develop an online 3d product configurator that makes the customer a designer from the comfort of their home. Their design categories include a dining room, living room, bedroom, hallway, office, kitchen, and kids room.
- Tiktak PRO — Tiktak PRO provides back office management services. They also provide hosting, updating, and certificate services. Additionally, they also provide commercial activity and technical support services.
Umoja Rubber Products is an investment Firm.
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Investment focus
- Sports, Fashion, Outdoors
- Seed
- Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Enda Sportswear — Kenyan running shoes that reward a natural midfoot landing and match the way runners train. Proudly made in Kenya and certified Climate Neutral. The most socially conscious running shoes in the world.
Pipeline Angels is changing the face of angel investing and creating capital for women and non-binary femme social entrepreneurs. Our members serve as the friends and family round for entrepreneurs who may not already have support at that critical stage.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Education, Software
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- United States, Nigeria
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- Mahmee — Mahmee is an integrated care delivery platform for maternal and infant health. Our team is building the digital infrastructure needed to connect patients, independent health professionals, and enterprise healthcare organizations together to ensure that moms and babies do not fall through the cracks of the U.S. healthcare system, which has thehighest maternity costs and mortality rates of all developed nations. Mahmee increases access to comprehensive care prenatal and postpartum care and reduces severe disparities in mortality and morbidity for Black mothers and infants. We power digital maternity initiatives for some of the largest public and private health systems in the country by connecting those enterprises to community-based perinatal health providers who use Mahmee EHR SaaS to manage their practices. Mahmee's marketplace helps new and expecting parents discover those providers and get fast access to care, in-person and virtually.
- CarpeDM — CarpeDM app is an exclusive member-only dating community created for singles seeking meaningful relationships with professional Black women.
- Avisi Technologies — Avisi Technologies is developing a nanotechnology-enabled defense against blindness from glaucoma.
We invest in Africa's most remarkable teams with technical founders at the earliest stage of their venture
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Nigeria, United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Pennee — Yana Finance provides up to 50 million Naira for ambitious business owners, with NDIC insured accounts. Yana Finance aims to simplify financial operations for businesses, ensuring they never run out of money and can manage cash flows efficiently.
- Clafiya — Discover Clafiya: Your trusted digital health platform, uniting in-person care and virtual solutions for a personalized and caring healthcare experience. Embrace a healthier, happier you, with us by your side.
- Intron Health — Intron is the future of clinical documentation with real-time clinical speech-to-text for 200+ African accents. Enhance speech-to-text technology!
Talanton helps you combat poverty in developing countries by creating jobs. You can free those in poverty by coming alongside them through investments in growth-stage businesses.
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Investment focus
- Retail, Sports, Fashion
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Pezesha — Digital Financial Ecosystem for connecting MSMEs to Capital.
- Enda Sportswear — Kenyan running shoes that reward a natural midfoot landing and match the way runners train. Proudly made in Kenya and certified Climate Neutral. The most socially conscious running shoes in the world.
- MoKo Home + Living — MoKo Home is Kenya's one-stop furniture company specializing in comfort & smiles, having served over 10000 smiley homes to date. Will yours be next?
CDG Invest is the investment branch of the CDG group. CDG Invest acts both as an investment manager for its own account following both financial and strategic logic, as well as as a fund manager for third parties. CDG Invest intervenes in various key sectors of the Moroccan economy: industry, agro-food, digital/digital, renewable energy, andterritorial PPP and with various segments of companies.
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Investment focus
- Apps, Software, Internet
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
- Morocco, France, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Crealo — Crealo is a smart solution that simplifies copyright management.
- Freshcut Morocco — Freshcut Morocco is an agro-industrial firm.
- Strapack Morocco — Strapack Morocco offers packaging and industrial packaging solutions. It provides an extensive range of machinery, materials, and consumables to ensure efficiency in packaging activities.
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