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Top 50 Finance Startup Investors in Africa (October 2026)

The most active venture capital funds and angel investors investing in Africa Finance startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Africa Finance startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Belgian Investment Company for Developing Countries
VC Fund
16 India, Kenya, Ecuador Debt Financing, Non-Equity Assistance, Venture - Series Unknown Financial Services, Finance, Banking $16k–$18M
Ventures Platform
VC Fund
11 Nigeria, United States, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Internet $100k–$4M
Ingressive Capital
VC Fund
10 Nigeria, United States, Egypt Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology $25k–$15M
Future Perfect Ventures
VC Fund
9 United States, Kenya, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Financial Services, Cryptocurrency $650k–$30M
Musha Ventures
VC Fund
9 United States, Nigeria, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Financial Services, FinTech $100k–$10M
Digital Currency Group
VC Fund
8 United States, United Kingdom, Singapore Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services $550k–$114M
Microtraction
VC Fund
8 Nigeria, United States, Ghana Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel Financial Services, FinTech, Software $30k–$1.3M
Launch Africa
VC Fund
8 Nigeria, South Africa, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology $200k–$4M
Silverbacks Holdings
VC Fund
7 Nigeria, United States, Egypt Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Finance $100k–$32M
Flourish Ventures
VC Fund
7 United States, India, Brazil Seed, Series A, Series B Financial Services, FinTech, Finance $1.3M–$65M
Pantera Capital
VC Fund
7 United States, Singapore, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services $1.4M–$50M
Resilience17
VC Fund
6 Nigeria, United States, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown FinTech, Financial Services, Payments $100k–$12M
LoftyInc Capital
VC Fund
6 United States, Nigeria, Egypt Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Software $100k–$37M
Maven 11 Capital
VC Fund
5 United States, United Kingdom, Australia Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services $1.3M–$43M
British International Investment
VC Fund
5 India, Kenya, United Kingdom Debt Financing, Venture - Series Unknown, Series B Financial Services, Banking, Finance $2.5M–$122M
Oui Capital
VC Fund
5 Nigeria, United States, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed Financial Services, Finance, Apps $40k–$4.9M
Golden Palm Investments
VC Fund
5 Nigeria, United States, Egypt Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Information Technology, Financial Services, Payments $30k–$15M
Oikocredit International
VC Fund
4 India, Kenya, Ghana Debt Financing, Series B, Series A Financial Services, Finance, FinTech $1.1M–$33M
Hustle Fund
VC Fund
4 United States, Singapore, Canada Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech $100k–$25M
Greycroft
VC Fund
4 United States, United Kingdom, Germany Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce $1.5M–$80M
Hesham Zreik
Angel
4 United States, India, Nigeria Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce $10k–$5M
1kx
VC Fund
4 United States, Germany, Singapore Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software $1.8M–$40M
Chandaria Capital
VC Fund
4 Kenya, Nigeria, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, Financial Services, FinTech $200k–$37M
Entrée Capital
VC Fund
4 Israel, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, FinTech, Financial Services $1.5M–$54M
F6 Ventures
VC Fund
4 Tunisia, France, United Arab Emirates Pre-Seed, Seed E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology $62k–$174k
Consonance Investment Managers
VC Fund
4 Nigeria, United States, Kenya Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Financial Services, Information Technology $50k–$10M
Sherpa Africa Partners
VC Fund
4 Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa Pre-Seed, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Financial Services, FinTech, Finance $50k–$6M
Kepple Africa Ventures
VC Fund
4 Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Software $100k–$23M
International Finance Corporation
VC Fund
4 India, Brazil, United States Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Venture - Series Unknown Financial Services, Finance, Banking $5M–$420M
Blockchain Capital
VC Fund
4 United States, United Kingdom, Singapore Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services $1M–$40M
Partech
VC Fund
4 France, United States, Germany Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce $1M–$56M
Antler
VC Fund
4 United States, Singapore, Australia Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $100k–$29M
EchoVC Partners
VC Fund
4 United States, Nigeria, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Information Technology, Financial Services, FinTech $200k–$22M
Goodwater Capital
VC Fund
4 United States, India, South Korea Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Software, FinTech, Financial Services $125k–$105M
Omidyar Network
VC Fund
3 United States, India, Kenya Series A, Seed, Series B Financial Services, Software, FinTech $700k–$34M
Verdant Capital
VC Fund
3 Kenya, South Africa, Ghana Debt Financing, Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Finance $2M–$30M
Philippe Teixeira da Mota
Angel
3 United Kingdom, Germany, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed FinTech, Financial Services, Software $125k–$35M
Colle Capital Partners
VC Fund
3 United States, United Kingdom, Kenya Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence $1.1M–$126M
Saison Capital
VC Fund
3 India, Singapore, Indonesia Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology $1.5M–$33M
Future Africa
VC Fund
3 Nigeria, United States, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology $100k–$40M
Tribe Capital
VC Fund
3 United States, India, Canada Seed, Series A, Series B Software, FinTech, Financial Services $2M–$150M
Two Culture Capital
VC Fund
3 United States, Mexico, India Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence $350k–$25M
Reciprocal Ventures
VC Fund
3 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software $2M–$50M
The Chrysalis Capital
VC Fund
3 Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Finance $100k–$15M
54 Collective
VC Fund
3 Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa Seed, Pre-Seed Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech $40k–$4M
Scalar Capital
VC Fund
3 United States, India, Canada Seed, Series A Blockchain, Software, Financial Services $1.5M–$30M
Sound Ventures
VC Fund
3 United States, Canada, Israel Series A, Seed, Series B Software, FinTech, Financial Services $1.4M–$105M
Michael Seibel
Angel
3 United States, Nigeria, United Kingdom Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology $500k–$21M
P1 Ventures
VC Fund
3 Egypt, Kenya, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Software $400k–$14M
Ground Squirrel Ventures
VC Fund
3 United States, Kenya, Zambia Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Finance $400k–$5M
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Belgian Investment Company for Developing Countries
VC Fund · Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium · 16 investments in Africa Finance startups

BIO invests in SMEs in developing countries and makes a structural contribution to the socio-economic growth.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Finance, Banking
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Non-Equity Assistance, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: India, Kenya, Ecuador

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 137
  • Round size: Debt Financing $1.6M–$18M; Non-Equity Assistance $16k–$145k; Venture - Series Unknown $43k–$9.8M
  • Lead/follow: 55% lead, 45% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Amartha — Amartha Mikro Fintech - P2P Lending Indonesia. Alternatif investasi dengan modal terjangkau mulai 100Rb. Tedaftar OJK, Imbal hasil 15%* & Berdampak Sosial.
  • Coris Holding — Coris Holding is a financial institution that was established with the motive to provide support to SMEs and SMIs.
  • Orchidia Pharmaceutical — Orchidia Pharmaceutical is a manufacturing company that provides ophthalmic drugs, food supplements, and cosmeceutical products.
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Ventures Platform
VC Fund · Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria · 11 investments in Africa Finance startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 173
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$4M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $84M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Myka.Insure — Myka is a insurance sales platform that enables individuals to sell insurance policies to their family, friends, colleagues, and community while earning income . It operates as a micro-entrepreneurship program where anyone (students, gadget sellers, car dealers, parents, retirees) can start their own insurance business with zero investment,flexible hours, and free training . The company is licensed by the National Insurance Commission of Nigeria and provides instant payouts to its partners .
  • Cybervergent — Start with your industry and see how Cybervergent delivers Digital Trust, from posture to proof, written for your context.
  • Traction Apps — Traction apps provide businesses end to end tools they need to run and grow their businesses.
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Ingressive Capital
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 10 investments in Africa Finance startups

Ingressive Capital is a renowned $50M Pan-African Venture Capital Fund that invests in indigenous founders and startups across Africa, with focus on Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Morocco, and Nigeria. Specializing in early-stage investments, particularly Pre-Seed and Seed stages, it targets technology companies led by top-tier talent driving transformativegrowth in Africa's GDP. The firm's thesis focuses on B2C solutions that cater to the explosive growth within the tech-enabled, decentralized-learning youth demographic, as well as B2B solutions that increase Africa’s value chain ownership from resource extraction to end-product sale. Its goal is to become becoming a highly valuable VC partner on the founders' cap tables, and being at the forefront of supporting and enabling entrepreneurial success across Africa.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 78
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$3.7M; Pre-Seed $25k–$2M; Series A $500k–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $50M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • SehaTech — Welcome to SehaTech, the groundbreaking company revolutionizing the health insurance market with our innovative solutions!
  • Chat Cash — Turn conversations into commerce. The unified operating system for payments, inventory, and AI sales on WhatsApp & USSD.
  • REasy — Top up locally, pay suppliers globally, and manage international shipments with REasy. Fast, secure, and designed for African businesses expanding worldwide.
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Future Perfect Ventures
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 9 investments in Africa Finance startups

Future\Perfect Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm 2014 to invest globally in blockchain technology and crypto assets. FPV was founded by Jalak Jobanputra.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Financial Services, Cryptocurrency
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Kenya, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 69
  • Round size: Seed $650k–$5.8M; Pre-Seed $1M–$6M; Series A $2.5M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $25M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Rilla — Demonstrating 90% reduction in cost-to-serve for live-streaming, Rilla is rewiring the content economy, directing the value generated back to creators and their communities.By leveraging audience bandwidth and rewarding them with ownership in the network, the savings are equivalent to a free month subscription every year for a moderate level ofviewership.Founded by the technical founders behind Altered State Machine, acquired for 214m. Together for 5+ ventures, collectively raising 130m+ and valued at 1b+.
  • CapStack Technologies — Discover Capstack, the leading bank-to-bank marketplace driving banking digital transformation. Join the innovation wave and transform your banking experience now!
  • Bagel Labs — Bagel Labs is a physical AI research lab developing world models and world action models for robot learning and control.
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Musha Ventures
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 9 investments in Africa Finance 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: 215
  • 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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Digital Currency Group
VC Fund · Stamford, Connecticut, United States · 8 investments in Africa Finance startups, 9 in the past 12 months

We are the capital engine supporting emerging talent & crypto technology. On its mission to accelerate the development of a better financial system.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 394
  • Round size: Seed $550k–$9.7M; Series A $3M–$48M; Venture - Series Unknown $1M–$114M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • AntSeed — AntSeed operates a peer-to-peer protocol and open marketplace for AI services, connecting buyers with independent providers for model inference, agents, and routing. The network uses BitTorrent DHT for discovery and WebRTC for transport, while payments settle in USDC on the Base blockchain through non-custodial smart contracts. Providers define their own services and pricing, and on-chain settlement data is used to build verifiable performance and reputation metrics. AntSeed exposes OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible APIs via a local proxy so existing tools, frameworks, and autonomous agents can route requests through the network. For non-technical users, the AntStation desktop application offers a chat interface that selects providers based on factors such as model type, cost, latency, and privacy. The ecosystem also includes the ANTS utility token, which underpins emissions and incentive programs tied to real network activity.
  • Umia — Umia is an onchain venture-creation platform for token-native projects. It provides a legal wrapper, token minting, community fundraising through public token auctions, a noncustodial treasury, and governance through onchain “decision markets.”
  • SafeWorld — SafeWorld is a safety testing platform for companies deploying robots around people, helping them assess and improve the safety.
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Microtraction
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 8 investments in Africa Finance startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 106
  • Round size: Seed $30k–$1.3M; Angel $30k–$50k; Pre-Seed $50k–$1.1M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $15M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Growwr — Tell Growwr who you need. Our AI hiring agent finds relevant talent, evaluates candidates, and helps you move from hiring brief to interview.
  • Paycrest — Unifying fiat and stablecoin payments globally, with speed, transparency, and built-in compliance.
  • Cr3dentials — Cr3dentials lets neobanks offer credit inside their app. We handle income verification, underwriting, capital, and collections. You keep the customer.
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Launch Africa
VC Fund · Ebène, Plaines Wilhems, Mauritius · 8 investments in Africa Finance startups, 6 in the past 12 months

Launch Africa is a leading Pan-African VC fund solving the significant funding gap in the Seed and pre-Series A investment landscape in Africa

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Nigeria, South Africa, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 218
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$4M; Pre-Seed $200k–$1.8M; Venture - Series Unknown $200k–$500k
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Zazu — Manza is an all-in-one financial platform for African SMEs, helping businesses manage payments, automate cash flow, and access real-time financial insights from one simple dashboard.
  • Fincart — Fincart is a leading shipping platform in Egypt, connecting your business with top courier services, automating operations, and helping you scale your eCommerce logistics.
  • Udu Technologies — Explore GPU cloud and hardware through AGH Cloud, UduTech's flagship product, and AI advisory for teams in the United States, Africa, the Caribbean and beyond.
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Silverbacks Holdings
VC Fund · Ebène, Plaines Wilhems, Mauritius · 7 investments in Africa Finance startups

Silverbacks Holdings is a Mauritius-based private investment firm established in 2019, focusing on Africa-related companies in underserved industries such As technology, sports, entertainment, and the creative economy. The firm aims for returns averaging 2x to 5x on its investments and has achieved 9 profitable exits since its inception. Its portfolio includes over 240 companies across Africa, collectively valued at over $10 billion. Landmark investments include the Cape Town Tigers (2024 BAL semi-finalists), Forever7 Entertainment (Netflix content deals), and Moove (a global mobility fintech backed by Uber), and Wave (a mobile money and global remittance focused fintech backed by Stripe).

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 65
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$8.3M; Series A $1.4M–$32M; Venture - Series Unknown $100k–$26M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Vanhu Vamwe — Vanhu Vamwe is a luxury accessory brand that creates handcrafted, sustainable handbags using traditional African crafts and eco-friendly materials.
  • The Rad Black Kids — The Rad Black Kids are the Anti-Monolith Crusaders use design to tell stories. All our products are now made in Portugal. Sustainability and reduction of carbon emissions are paramount to us. We design longboards, clothing, and sneakers Free Shipping on all Domestic Orders.
  • African Warriors Fighting Championship — African Warriors Fighting Championship is Africa's leading promoter of traditional combat sports: Dambe and Wrestling.
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Flourish Ventures
VC Fund · Redwood City, California, United States · 7 investments in Africa Finance startups, 13 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 258
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$8.5M; Series A $3.5M–$25M; Series B $10M–$65M
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $350M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Spiko — Cash management for companies and individuals. Open your account in under 5 minutes, earn daily yield on your treasury and access cash anytime.
  • Stream — Stream is a company that helps make payments simpler, faster, and reliable.
  • Parallel Loop — Parallel Loop is a software engineering company that builds AI solutions, and custom software for startups and enterprises.
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Pantera Capital
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 7 investments in Africa Finance startups

Pantera is a technology investment firm investing at the intersection of money, markets, and machines, backing multi-stage founders at the frontier.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 400
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$18M; Series A $3.5M–$48M; Venture - Series Unknown $3.1M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Evernorth — Evernorth is a purpose-built digital asset treasury that gives investors exposure to tomorrow’s markets. The company focuses on XRP, using XRP Ledger infrastructure, DeFi, liquidity, and yield strategies. The company also develops treasury strategies to generate returns from its digital asset holdings.
  • Fission Labs — 24/7 liquidity, atomic settlement, institutional market infrastructure for tokenized funds.
  • Solana Company — Solana Company (Nasdaq: HSDT) is a listed digital asset treasury dedicated to acquiring Solana (SOL), created in partnership with Pantera and Summer Capital.
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Resilience17
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 6 investments in Africa Finance startups

A testament to the continent's unyielding spirit, and a crucible where ambitious ideas are forged into reality through code, capital, and conviction.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 53
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$12M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Vatar — Vatar is building safety infrastructure for Africa — a small device and on-device AI (Ogbon) that turns the CCTV cameras a home or business already owns into intelligent systems that understand what's happening, act on it in real time, and dispatch help when it matters.
  • Lagos Life — Lagos Life a massively popular browser-based life-simulation game modeled after Nigeria's commercial capital. Within nine days of launch, the game attracted over 4.7 million players, featuring fully simulated career tracks, social hubs, local virtual economies, and real-time multiplayer functionality directly inside web browsers.
  • Aeon Cyber Defense — Aeon is a cybersecurity company focused on securing cloud, code, runtime, and AI environments,Aeon platform appears to help organizations identify and manage security risks across modern, cloud-native technology stacks.AeonSec positions itself around integrated security visibility and protection for rapidly evolving software and AI infrastructure
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LoftyInc Capital
VC Fund · Carmel, California, United States · 6 investments in Africa Finance startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 187
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2.4M; Series A $250k–$37M
  • Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $43M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Cauridor — Cauridor is a Financial Services company.
  • WafR — WafR is a reward-based loyalty startup that allows users to earn phone recharges while shopping at retail shops.
  • Nucleon Security — Nucleon Smart Endpoint, AI and Zero-trust powered EDR platform.
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Maven 11 Capital
VC Fund · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands · 5 investments in Africa Finance startups, 16 in the past 12 months

Maven 11 is a global blockchain and digital asset investment firm. The teams we partner with are on a rigorous quest to solve most exciting problems and make the necessary shift towards decentralised tomorrow.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Australia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 139
  • Round size: Seed $1.9M–$10M; Pre-Seed $1.3M–$3.1M; Series A $5M–$43M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $107M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Umia — Umia is an onchain venture-creation platform for token-native projects. It provides a legal wrapper, token minting, community fundraising through public token auctions, a noncustodial treasury, and governance through onchain “decision markets.”
  • tenka — tenka is an institutional-grade, decentralized market layer for asset-based finance (ABF) and private credit
  • functionSPACE — functionSPACE develops decentralized financial infrastructure and market primitives that allow users to price, trade, and build custom payoff structures based on a continuous range of numerical outcomes rather than simple binary choices.
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British International Investment
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 5 investments in Africa Finance 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, Venture - Series Unknown, Series B
  • Geography: India, Kenya, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 432
  • Round size: Series B $13M–$70M; Debt Financing $6.8M–$100M; Venture - Series Unknown $2.5M–$122M
  • Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $15M in 2009

Portfolio highlights

  • Mettle.net — Mettle was established in 1995 as a specialist financial services company and has, since its inception become recognised for innovation in the creation of specialised financial solutions.With clients ranging from international corporates to small and medium enterprises and individuals, clients experience a different kind of insight from Mettle.This level of vision and considered intuition can also be found in Mettle’s investments.
  • SunCulture — At SunCulture, we strive to solve the biggest daily challenges of smallholder farmers. We use off-grid solar technology to provide our customers with reliable access to water, irrigation, lighting, and mobile charging, and we can do all of that with a single system.
  • Coris Holding — Coris Holding is a financial institution that was established with the motive to provide support to SMEs and SMIs.
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Oui Capital
VC Fund · Belmont, Massachusetts, United States · 5 investments in Africa Finance startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Finance, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 37
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$4.9M; Pre-Seed $40k–$1.3M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $30M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Cauridor — Cauridor is a Financial Services company.
  • Herconomy (Ex AGS Tribe) — Herconomy is a platform that allows women build their finances, capacity, collaborate and access opportunities.
  • Alliance Chemicals Global — Alliance Chemicals Global supplies raw materials, commodities, and specialty chemicals to manufacturers across sectors such as home and personal care, food and nutrition, plastics, polymers, construction, coatings, and industrial applications. The company supports chemical distribution, sourcing, and logistics, including local currency invoicingand dedicated transport. It focuses on compliant, sustainable supply, working with global manufacturers and African clients. Its projects include plastic chemical recycling and development of a shea butter value chain. The organization serves customers mainly across African markets.
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Golden Palm Investments
VC Fund · Accra, Greater Accra, Ghana · 5 investments in Africa Finance startups

Golden Palm Investments is an investment holding and advisory company.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 87
  • Round size: Seed $230k–$6M; Pre-Seed $30k–$6.5M; Series A $3M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2014

Portfolio highlights

  • Talstack — Talstack is an all-in-one platform for employee growth and development
  • MAKA — MAKA is a community commerce platform for fashion and beauty, enabling everyone to discover their style, feel represented.
  • Renda — At Renda, we are passionate about revolutionizing the logistics and mobility sectors with cutting-edge technology that enables businesses and operators to seamlessly scale in emerging markets.
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Oikocredit International
VC Fund · Amersfoort, Utrecht, The Netherlands · 4 investments in Africa Finance startups

Invest in People with Oikocredit and use your money to create change. giving people opportunity to build better lives. Invest Now

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Series B, Series A
  • Geography: India, Kenya, Ghana

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 72
  • Round size: Series A $2.5M–$26M; Series B $3.6M–$24M; Debt Financing $1.1M–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Prestamype — Prestamype was launched in 2017 with the aim of providing a broader access to funding to micro and small businesses, with better credit conditions. With its first product, a secured working capital loan with a real estate collateral, it has lent over USD 24 million to 750 Peruvian entrepreneurs (as of 1st of October 2021). In 2019, Prestamypelaunched its online FX platform called Cambio Seguro. In 2020, the company launched its digital factoring product. In 2021, INCA Ventures and Angel Ventures Peru (AVP), two leading funds in Peru, invested in the company.
  • East Africa Fruits — EA Fruits Farm is a business that engages in the large production and distribution of fruits and vegetables. As fruits are an essential part of a human's diet for maintenance of good health and wellbeing, the business will take part in providing the opportunity for Tanzanian citizens and other people overseas to get such fruits and motivatemore people to increase their intake of fruits whereby the company will strive to increase the supply to match the increased demand for fresh fruits and vegetables. The business envisions to be among the leading producers, distributors, and exporters of the fruits within the Country and overseas. The company is a highly profitable and viable business that expects to rise to about 5,000 USD from its current small-scaled operations, while more than 450,000 USD will be raised as a result of further expansion within a period of 2-4 years.
  • Sindhuja Microcredit — Sindhuja Microcredit is a new generation digital and rural-focused Micro Finance Institution (MFI) providing financial services to the bottom of the pyramid self-employed women entrepreneurs.
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Hustle Fund
VC Fund · San Carlos, California, United States · 4 investments in Africa Finance startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 546
  • Round size: Seed $750k–$6M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2.5M; Series A $4M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $33M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • O-ID — Modular Humanoids, Made in Japan
  • BON Credit — BON Credit is an AI-powered credit platform that helps customers understand, manage, and improve credit intelligently.
  • Charter Space — Charter is developing a collaborative platform for satellite mission logistics and program management available via web app and API that provides satellite operators with intuitive information architecture to streamline missions and reduce wasted engineering hours so they can get to the launchpad faster.Charter's platform usesdesign-focused UI/UX and automation to reduce friction through intuitive dashboarding, improved information sharing, and optimized compute and data resource efficiency. For satellite companies, ATLAS streamlines processes, automates manual tasks, and provides engineers with communications and information infrastructure to seamlessly interface both across teams and organisations. reduces wasted engineering hours and lead times, and minimizes upfront technical debt, CapEx, and long-run OpEx.In other words, Charter is building a logistics solution that will be to satellite logistics what the graphical user interface was to command-line interfaces.
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Greycroft
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 4 investments in Africa Finance startups

Venture capital and technology investments

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 969
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$8.5M; Series A $3.4M–$25M; Series B $6.5M–$80M
  • Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $451M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Axiom — Axiom is an AI technology company that builds next-generation AI mathematicians.
  • Sapphire Digital — UFABRO situs judi bola dengan keamanan maksimal, enkripsi SSL, transaksi stabil, lisensi terverifikasi, dan layanan yang transparan. Mudah digunakan dan sangat andal.
  • Arceus Legal — Redefining the future of law for the companies inventing the next decade.
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Hesham Zreik
Angel · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 4 investments in Africa Finance startups

Hesham Zreik is the CEO of FasterCapital. He previously worked at DreamApps as a Project Manager. Hesham attended the University of Westminster.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, India, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1175
  • Round size: Seed $20k–$2M; Pre-Seed $10k–$1M; Series A $170k–$5M
  • Lead/follow: 53% lead, 47% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • EasyBusy — EasyBusy is a contractor-client matching platform designed to address key challenges in the GCC service and construction economy.
  • Excel And Impact Agro — Excel And Impact Agro aims to tackle the chronic shortage of vegetable production in Côte d'Ivoire.
  • JLC Industry Of Tomato Paste Sarl U — JLC Industry is a Togolese agro-industrial startup dedicated to the production, processing, and commercialization of tomato concentrate.
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1kx
VC Fund · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands · 4 investments in Africa Finance startups, 8 in the past 12 months

1kx is a research-driven global investment firm making trust instant, open, and programmable, with 160+ investments since 2018 across DeFi, stablecoins, and onchain infrastructure.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United States, Germany, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 183
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$11M; Series A $5M–$28M; Venture - Series Unknown $3M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • EarnOS — EarnOS is the fully remote company that provides Global Ad & Payments Platform powered by Web3.
  • KOR Protocol — KOR Protocol is a decentralized intellectual property (IP) infrastructure designed to empower creators, protect rights, and enable seamless collaboration and monetization of IP assets across various industries, including music, film, TV, gaming, and art. Backed by notable entities like Animoca Brands, Republic, Niantic, Sfermion, Solana, andprominent creators such as Black Mirror, Disclosure, deadmau5, and Richie Hawtin, KOR leverages blockchain, AI, and DeFi to offer a transparent, efficient, and scalable environment for IP expansion.
  • Freehand — Freehand AI Teams resolve disputes, negotiate credits, and settle enterprise spend autonomously; recover 2-5% margins with 100% audit coverage.
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Chandaria Capital
VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya · 4 investments in Africa Finance startups

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 53
  • Round size: Seed $250k–$6M; Pre-Seed $200k–$3M; Series A $2M–$37M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Klub — India's leading Revenue Based Financing platform with a vision to revolutionize growth capital. Join the Klub for fast, fair & flexible funding.
  • Nuzo — Nuzo offers cheaper payments and crypto rewards and ways to save and earn with staking and bill pay options.
  • African Originals — African Originals food and beverage company that offers authentic African craft beverages using traditional reciepies.
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Entrée Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 4 investments in Africa Finance startups, 17 in the past 12 months

We are a team of former serial founders managing $1.5Bn across a number of funds, with offices in Tel Aviv, London, and New York. We back the next generation of category-defining companies with conviction of founders who have built companies themselves. We back founders with a partnership built on trust, fairness and real operating experience. We stand with founders through every challenge, and help them grow with clarity, resilience and purpose.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 312
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$16M; Series A $5.4M–$30M; Series B $17M–$54M
  • Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $175M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Chamelio — Chamelio builds intelligent technology for in-house legal teams. We understand that every in-house legal team operates uniquely - shaped by their industry context, company culture, and strategic priorities. Our platform adapts to these distinct characteristics, delivering hyper-personalized workflows that evolve with your team's specific needs.
  • Archy — SaaS Practice Management Software for Dental Practices
  • Undecimal Bio — Undecimal Bio operates as a platform biotechnology company that develops targeted delivery mechanisms for small interfering RNA (siRNA) therapeutics. The company utilizes a proprietary platform that combines combinatorial chemistry libraries with transformer-based artificial intelligence to discover molecular conjugates capable of guiding genetic medicines to specified cells outside of the liver. This approach aims to circumvent traditional delivery constraints to expand the reach of RNA therapeutics into a broader range of therapeutic areas and human organs.
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F6 Ventures
VC Fund · Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia · 4 investments in Africa Finance startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: Tunisia, France, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 81
  • Round size: Seed $70k–$174k; Pre-Seed $62k–$100k
  • Lead/follow: 51% lead, 49% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $10M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Datasphera — Customer service is our #1 priority. Get a premium domain for your website today. Financing available.
  • True Delta — True Delta is a data management and processing company. They are document recognition and data reconciliation processes. They offer data extraction from documents using ocr techniques, fast onboarding and data integration,and efficient data reconciliation with intelligent matching tools and less coding .
  • Bako Motors SAS — Bako Motors SAS is a motor vehicle manufacturing company that develops solar electric vehicles. manufacturer of electric vehicles with the goal of creating long-term fixes for rural areas' transportation issues with regard to people, cargo, and machinery. The business makes electric cars as well as solutions for clean energy generation andstorage that are infinitely scalable, providing users with inexpensive and environmentally friendly e-mobility.
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Consonance Investment Managers
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 4 investments in Africa Finance startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 45
  • Round size: Seed $550k–$4M; Pre-Seed $185k–$1M; Series A $50k–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Releaf Earth — We are industrializing food processing in Africa. We've led 1000+ smallholder farmers to provide food factories with >7.5 million kilograms of quality crops.
  • Tripesa — Control what AI coding assistants can install. Approve libraries, MCP servers, and extensions before they enter your codebase.
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Sherpa Africa Partners
VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya · 4 investments in Africa Finance 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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Kepple Africa Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 4 investments in Africa Finance startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 85
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$4.5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3.4M; Series A $1.1M–$23M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow

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.
  • TIBU Health — TIBU Health is a disruptive HealthTech logistics company that provides high-quality healthcare services.
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International Finance Corporation
VC Fund · Washington, District of Columbia, United States · 4 investments in Africa Finance startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Finance, Banking
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: India, Brazil, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 761
  • Round size: Post-IPO Debt $50M–$420M; Debt Financing $20M–$356M; Venture - Series Unknown $5M–$67M
  • Lead/follow: 63% lead, 37% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2016

Portfolio highlights

  • Kuku FM — Discover the most popular audiobooks & podcasts on Kuku FM. Listen to trending shows, most-played content, and viral audio series everyone is loving.
  • Altobridge — AltoBridge.com is a bold and dynamic domain name that exudes sophistication and innovation. This sleek and memorable name evokes a sense of elevation and connection, making it perfect for a wide range of industries looking to establish a st
  • Lagos Free Zone — Lagos Free Zone is a leading industrial and commercial hub in Nigeria, offering businesses world-class infrastructure, tax incentives, and strategic access to global markets.
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Blockchain Capital
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 4 investments in Africa Finance startups, 9 in the past 12 months

Partners to crypto builders since 2013.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 222
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$14M; Series A $4M–$32M; Venture - Series Unknown $4M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $580M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • NG.CASH — NG.CASH is a digital bank designed to help the new generations (ages 12 to 30) achieve financial independence. It lets users take charge of their money through solutions like PIX (Brazil’s instant-payment system), prepaid and virtual cards, allowance management, and now credit products tailored for young adults. As a financial hub, NG.CASH is builtto grow with its clients, boosting financial literacy and supporting them at every stage of life.
  • TRM Labs — Next Generation Blockchain Intelligence | Monitor, Investigate, and Mitigate Crypto Fraud and Financial Crime
  • Tare — Tare is a fintech platform that focuses on modernizing credit markets through blockchain and AI. It connects loan originators, servicers, and investors to streamline underwriting, servicing, and financing processes. The platform enables capital flows, reduces operational complexity, and improves transparency across the end-to-end credit lifecycle.
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Partech
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 4 investments in Africa Finance startups

Partech is a global venture capital firm with offices in San Francisco, Paris, Berlin and Dakar. Partech invests in Internet and information technology startups at seed, venture and growth stages.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: France, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 699
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$9M; Series A $4.5M–$28M; Series B $9M–$56M
  • Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $345M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Modeinspect — acreom is the integrated markdown knowledge base with tasks. Your personal daily driver for your dev workflow.
  • TeamToolz — TeamToolz creates and implements user-friendly applications that simplify and streamline the creation, management and archiving of marketing communications. Addressing the urgency of time to market, our web-based tools better enable entire brand launches by coordinating the workflow of multiple outside agencies and internal groups, for moreintegrated worldwide brand management.
  • Revibe — Buy refurbished & used electronics (Smartphones, Laptops) in UAE at Revibe. Free delivery & 12 months warranty. Certified tech by our experts. Order Now!
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Antler
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 4 investments in Africa Finance startups

Build your next company with Antler, a global day zero investor enabling exceptional founders to start great companies, from the very beginning. Apply now!

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, Australia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2387
  • Round size: Seed $158k–$4.6M; Pre-Seed $100k–$600k; Series A $4.1M–$29M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $7.5M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • iiba — Iiba is a geospatial platform that specializes in providing location information related to child-rearing.
  • Obud — Obud is a wellness reservation systems that is designed for holistic health and lifestyle management purposes. The company's systems offer a comprehensive suite of tools for booking wellness activities, managing schedules, and accessing curated wellness programs, enabling wellness centers to streamline their operations, enhance userengagement, and promote a balanced and healthy lifestyle.
  • Plouton AI —
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EchoVC Partners
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 4 investments in Africa Finance startups

EchoVC Partners is a seed and early-stage venture capital firm focused on financing and cross-pollinating leading technologies, teams, business models, and knowledge across North America, Africa, and SE Asia. The average investment size ranges from $25,000 to several million dollars depending on the stage of opportunity and capital needs of the business.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 74
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$4M; Pre-Seed $200k–$2.2M; Series A $1.2M–$22M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $2.5M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Rivy — Access flexible financing for solar energy projects with Rivy. Power homes, businesses, and communities with clean, affordable energy.
  • Snowstorm — Official site of the Snowstorm Network
  • Rana Energy — No. 1 Solar Community in Africa
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Goodwater Capital
VC Fund · Burlingame, California, United States · 4 investments in Africa Finance startups

Consumer Tech Investors - We empower exceptional entrepreneurs everywhere to change the world for good.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United States, India, South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 914
  • Round size: Seed $850k–$7.5M; Pre-Seed $125k–$2.1M; Venture - Series Unknown $481k–$105M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $5M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Kaon — Discover prompts and AI apps built by a global community, or publish your own. FlowGPT is an open platform for building and sharing with AI.
  • Egoist Machines — Egoist Machines builds efficient full-stack ML infrastructure for reliable AI systems, from model serving and evaluation to secure deployment and operations.
  • Wrtn Technologies — Bring AGI Close to People
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Omidyar Network
VC Fund · Redwood City, California, United States · 3 investments in Africa Finance startups

Omidyar Network is a philanthropy whose mission is to bend the arc of the digital revolution toward shared power, prosperity, and possibility.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Software, FinTech
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, India, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 314
  • Round size: Seed $700k–$4M; Series A $2M–$15M; Series B $5.2M–$34M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Hopelab — Hopelab is a researcher, investor, and convener that supports equity-centered solutions for the mental health and well-being of Black, Brown, and Queer young people.
  • FinReach — FinReach Solutions is a company providing innovative credit guarantee programs to facilitate lending for underserved micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs), particularly those lacking collateral or formal credit history. Their solution enables financial institutions to extend credit to entrepreneurs, including women-led businesses andclimate-focused ventures, by de-risking loans through guarantees and leveraging data-driven borrower risk assessment. FinReach aims to expand financial inclusion in India’s lower-tier regions, helping thousands of borrowers access formal finance through partnerships with development finance institutions and global impact investors.
  • d.light — Founded in 2007 as a for-profit social enterprise, d.light manufactures and distributes award-winning solar lighting and power products designed to serve the more than 2 billion people globally without access to reliable electricity. Through five distribution hubs in East Africa, West Africa, India, Southeast Asia, and the United States, d.lighthas impacted over 65 million lives with its products. d.light is dedicated to providing the most reliable, affordable, and accessible solar lighting and power systems for the developing world, with the goal of reaching 100 million people by 2020. For more information, visit www.dlight.com.
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Verdant Capital
VC Fund · Port Louis, Port Louis, Mauritius · 3 investments in Africa Finance startups

Verdant Capital is a specialist corporate finance firm with exception experience transacting across the African continent. Verdant Capital operates in two segments, Financial Institutions and Corporate Finance. It operates from offices in Johannesburg, Mauritius and Accra.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Kenya, South Africa, Ghana

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Debt Financing $2M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 55% lead, 45% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • BFree — BFree focuses its collection processes on sustainably leading customers out of debt by giving them back control over their finances.
  • 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.
  • Zeepay — Zeepay Ghana Limited is a wholly Ghanaian owned Mobile FinancialServices company focusing on providing integrated mobile payments services with mobile wallets targeting the unbanked and banked population with the objective of bringing the unbanked into the financial stream and easing payments and collections for the banked population.Zeepayfacilitates the processing of multiple mobile phone payment transactions, and operates as a aggregator that brings transaction of all players together on one single platform. The company’s core application runs on open source technology, and is designed to integrate all types of payment platforms, banks, merchants, Mobile Network Operators (MNOs), and other companies with subscriber based transactions.
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Philippe Teixeira da Mota
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in Africa Finance startups

Co-founder of Shapers. Previously Partner at Hedosophia.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 60
  • Round size: Seed $2.5M–$17M; Pre-Seed $125k–$7.4M; Series A $8.8M–$35M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Palm — AI-powered cash forecasting that sits on top of your TMS/ERP. Go live in weeks
  • Kontigo — We help underbanked gig workers in Latam build credit and access group financing where small groups of family or friends lend and save money together. Users can validate their income from multiple sources such as gig apps, catalog sales, and open finance (Uber, Rappi, Didi, Indriver, Avon, and all major banks). After verifying the income wedirectly offer them group savings and group loans, without leaving WhatsApp, their primary messaging app.
  • Keyring Network — Blockchain compliance solutions for the financial sector.
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Colle Capital Partners
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 3 investments in Africa Finance startups

Colle Capital Partners is a global, opportunistic, early stage technology venture fund. Managers have dealt in various verticals and across capital structures.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 107
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$8M; Series A $2.5M–$21M; Series B $3.7M–$126M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $72M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Itera — Instantly reconfigurable circuits turning months of work into moments of progress.
  • Neuron Factory — Neuron Factory is an AI technology company specializing in the development of advanced AI coworker platforms designed for complex enterprise environments, with an initial focus on the construction industry. The company’s platform leverages a proprietary enterprise task graph, enabling AI agents to intelligently coordinate, delegate tasks, andfacilitate real-time decision-making across large organizations.
  • Dandelion Health AI — Catalyzing the development of clinical AI for everyone
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Saison Capital
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 3 investments in Africa Finance startups

They invest in Seed to Series A companies across emerging markets. Although they have a sector agnostic fund mandate, they particularly like to work with founders that are building ecosystems with the potential to distribute financial services to the unbanked.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: India, Singapore, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 119
  • Round size: Seed $1.7M–$8.4M; Pre-Seed $1.5M–$6M; Series A $3.4M–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $55M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • JULO — JULO provides affordable unsecured personal loan (KTA) exclusively to smartphone users.They strive to provide low cost loan product to the masses while ensuring that it's economically viable to their lender partners. This is achieved by exercising prudent underwriting assessments to ensure that approved applicants are both able and willing topay back.They also reward positive behavior by giving cashback bonus and allowing good customers to borrow a higher amount at lower interest rate at loan maturity.
  • Pagaleve — pagaleve offers payment in installments at PIX, with no interest and no credit card required. They provide merchants with a new payment method in order to increase their sales in a simple, uncomplicated, and agile manner, but they also want to provide people with the opportunity to buy what they want without committing to the card'shigh-interest rates and credit.
  • business nextgen finance private limited (bnf) — Business NextGen Finance provides secured, property-backed loans to micro, small, and medium enterprises. Its financing supports business expansion, working capital, equipment, inventory, and other stated business needs. The company also provides digital tools for loan tracking, document access, and electronic repayments.
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Future Africa
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in Africa Finance 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 — Juicyway moves money across borders for people and businesses. Send, receive, hold, and exchange multiple currencies from one account. | NG
  • 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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Tribe Capital
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 3 investments in Africa Finance startups, 8 in the past 12 months

Tribe Capital is a top-quartile venture capital firm focused on capturing a perpetual edge in venture and crypto using data science. The team is made up of investors, engineers and scientists who use artificial intelligence (“AI”) and data science to model venture-backed private companies. Beyond investment capital, Tribe deploys these AI tools to separate signal from noise, helping our companies understand their businesses better. Our data-informed strategy includes an underwriting infrastructure and a quantitative analysis tool called termina. We leverage these tools to provide deep insight on factors driving growth and how to accelerate sustainable growth, honed through years of developing similar products at major tech and finance players like Lyft, Yahoo, Facebook, and Bridgewater Associates. Our team uses these tools to measure quantitative product-market fit, so we can more effectively assess and accelerate what Tribe refers to as “N-of-1” companies - companies with the potential to be 10-100x growth opportunities, while minimizing loss ratio by a large degree. Tribe Capital has $2.4 billion in assets under management and has made notable investments in Applied Intuition, Anduril, Kraken, SpaceX, and OpenAI.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, India, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 313
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$14M; Series A $5M–$50M; Series B $20M–$150M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $19M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Higgsfield — The ultimate AI-powered camera control for creators by creators
  • Firelight — Firelight is a DeFi protocol that allows XRP holders can stake tokens and help cover risks on DeFi platforms.
  • Alkemya Luxembourg — Alkemya Luxembourg is an international high tech metals firm specializing in sourcing and distributing rare earth oxides, titanium, and nickel wire, that are increasingly important to R&D and manufacturing companies in semiconductor, aerospace, and other high technology industries.
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Two Culture Capital
VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 3 investments in Africa Finance startups

The art and science of entrepreneurship

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Mexico, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 88
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$11M; Pre-Seed $350k–$8.3M; Series A $7M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Captur — Captur helps companies make smarter decisions, at the speed of capturing a photo. We use expert triaging and visual AI to identify and action tasks instantly for companies managing in-field operations.
  • AscendArc — Discover innovative, cost-effective small geostationary satellites that enhance bandwidth and deployment speed, revolutionizing satellite communications.
  • LGND — Turn decades of satellite and aerial imagery into instant insights. LGND delivers fast, scalable Earth intelligence through intuitive apps, embeddings, and APIs.
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Reciprocal Ventures
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 3 investments in Africa Finance startups

Partnering with crypto founders from day 0. Here investments == partnerships.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 86
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$9M; Series A $6M–$30M; Series B $12M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Coinflow Labs — Tech-driven payments solutions for your business
  • CEA Industries — CEA Industries (NASDAQ: BNC) is a publicly traded company pursuing a BNB-focused digital asset treasury strategy.
  • Blockworks — Blockworks is a financial media brand that delivers breaking news and premium insights about digital assets to millions of investors. Our editorial content, newsletters, podcasts and events provide investors with the critical analysis and information they need to make smarter decisions about digital assets.
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The Chrysalis Capital
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 3 investments in Africa Finance startups

The Chrysalis Capital is a venture capital firm focuses on early-stage tech companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$2.4M; Series A $10M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Koa — Koa is a savings and financial services platform that provides tech solutions and financial services apps via its API. The company was co-founded by Alexis Roman and Delila Kidanu.
  • Ladder — Make smart choices, reach your goals and secure your financial future with Ladder, your AI-powered partner in financial success.
  • Bitmama — Bitmama is the best cryptocurrency trading platform that lets you buy, sell Bitcoin, ETH, Celo, USDT, XRP, and more. Available in Nigeria & over 100 countries.
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54 Collective
VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 3 investments in Africa Finance startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 111
  • Round size: Seed $40k–$4M; Pre-Seed $40k–$1.3M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • LipaLater — LipaLater is a lending marketplace that provides postpaid payments at e-commerce stores. They are making technology affordable for you. Get the electronic of your choice today and pay for it in comfortable monthly installments.
  • REasy — Top up locally, pay suppliers globally, and manage international shipments with REasy. Fast, secure, and designed for African businesses expanding worldwide.
  • Konnect — Konnect provides a cross borders payment solution intended to simplify complex financial flows allowing companies of any scale and size to send and receive payments in a practical, secure, and low-cost way.
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Scalar Capital
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in Africa Finance startups

Crypto investment firm. Austin, TX.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Software, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, India, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 41
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$12M; Series A $7.5M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $20M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Sound — Sound is a suite of music and economic tools powering the next generation of artists and their communities, starting with listening parties for new releases
  • Stack — Stack's consumer products are shutting down. Withdraw remaining funds from the Stack app.
  • Stackr Labs — Micro-rollups to scale web3 applications
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Sound Ventures
VC Fund · Beverly Hills, California, United States · 3 investments in Africa Finance startups

Sound Ventures is a venture capital firm. The company seeks to invest in the technology sector.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 265
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$10M; Series A $9M–$30M; Series B $17M–$105M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $50M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Knit — Knit is an AI-Native Research Agency that combines the rigor and expertise of a traditional agency with the speed and efficiency of AI.
  • Factory — Factory is bringing autonomy to software engineering.
  • Stability AI — AI for Humanity. Stability AI is a solution studio dedicated to innovating ideas. By using collective intelligence principles and augmented technology we design and implement feasible solutions to seemingly intractable problems.
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Michael Seibel
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in Africa Finance startups

Michael Seibel is the Partner Emeritus of Y Combinator. He previously worked at Socialcam as CEO. Michael Seibel attended Yale University, where he took a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 212
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$7.2M; Pre-Seed $500k–$500k; Series A $5.9M–$21M
  • Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kira — The first agentic layer for cross-border payments. USD accounts, stablecoin conversion and payments for platforms, OTC desks and global trade.
  • Recall.ai — Recall.ai provides a single API for meeting bots on every platform like Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams and more.
  • Arena — Arena accelerates testing, debugging, and optimization for the world’s most advanced hardware. Atlas is an AI hardware engineer grounded in applied physics with an understanding of the real-world environment.
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P1 Ventures
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in Africa Finance startups

P1 Ventures works as a venture capital firm. They specialize in early-stage industrial technology firms in Africa.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 45
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$5M; Pre-Seed $400k–$3M; Series A $10M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $35M in 2024

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
  • Lua — Build, deploy, and scale enterprise-grade AI agents. Ship your first agent without touching infrastructure.
  • Traction Apps — Traction apps provide businesses end to end tools they need to run and grow their businesses.
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Ground Squirrel Ventures
VC Fund · Boston, Massachusetts, United States · 3 investments in Africa Finance startups

Seed round investment in frontier markets and clean energy

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Kenya, Zambia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 70
  • Round size: Seed $400k–$3M; Series A $1.8M–$5M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Grapevine — Grapevine makes it possible for groups to invite members, collect and distribute donations, establish a community and connect with nonprofits.
  • Untapped Global — Untapped connects global investors, and foreign capital to opportunities in emerging markets. Delivering competitive returns, and measurable impact for global investors.
  • Necessary Ventures — We invest in what the world needs.
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