Top 10 Fashion Startup Investors in Africa

Last updated: Apr 2024 A list of 10 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 10 Fashion Startup Investors in Africa

Investor	Fashion Africa investments
J.P. Morgan Asset Management	1
Umoja Rubber Products	1
Pipeline Angels	1
Talanton	1
CDG Invest	1
Farfetch	1
Microtraction	1
Ventures Platform	1
Flat6Labs Tunisia	1
Mizizi Africa Consumer Holdings	1

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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.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, Renewable Energy
Private Equity, Series B, Series D
United States, Canada, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

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.
TIFIN — TIFIN builds engaging fintech experiences through powerful AI and investment-driven personalization.
MineSense Technologies — MineSense Technologies is a developer of a data analytics platform intended to monitor and improve the productivity and recovery of mines. The company's platform provides businesses with real-time, sensor-based sorting of low-grade ore to a level of sensitivity and to identify differences in mineralogy, enabling the mining industry to sortores easily and enhance mineral planning.MineSense Technologies was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

Umoja Rubber Products is an investment Firm.

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.

Investment focus

Health Care, Education, Software
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
United States, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

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.

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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Apps, Internet
Pre-Seed, Seed, Private Equity
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.

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.

Investment focus

Fashion, E-Commerce, Software
Corporate Round, Funding Round, Convertible Note
United States, Spain, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

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

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Software
Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
Nigeria, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Famasi — Famasi is a digital health platform that helps people access their medications, schedule doorstep delivery, and automate monthly refills.
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.

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.

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.
Mecho — Mecho is an on-demand auto repair and maintenance platform for individuals and businesses in Africa.

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.