Top 50 Finance Startup Investors in Africa (June 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Ingressive Capital
VC Fund
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10 | Nigeria, United States, Egypt | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology | $25k–$15M |
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Ventures Platform
VC Fund
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9 | Nigeria, United States, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Internet | $100k–$4.4M |
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Microtraction
VC Fund
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8 | Nigeria, United States, Ghana | Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | $25k–$1.3M |
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Launch Africa
VC Fund
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7 | Nigeria, South Africa, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology | $200k–$4M |
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Musha Ventures
VC Fund
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6 | United States, Nigeria, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Financial Services, FinTech | $125k–$10M |
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Flourish Ventures
VC Fund
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6 | United States, India, Brazil | Series A, Seed, Series B | FinTech, Financial Services, Finance | $2M–$65M |
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Future Perfect Ventures
VC Fund
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6 | United States, Kenya, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Blockchain, Financial Services, Finance | $625k–$30M |
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Maven 11 Capital
VC Fund
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5 | United States, United Kingdom, Germany | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services | $525k–$43M |
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Digital Currency Group
VC Fund
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5 | United States, United Kingdom, Singapore | Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech | $650k–$48M |
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Kepple Africa Ventures
VC Fund
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5 | Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt | Seed, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | $300k–$4.5M |
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54 Collective
VC Fund
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4 | Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa | Seed, Pre-Seed | Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech | $40k–$4M |
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Sherpa Africa Partners
VC Fund
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4 | Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa | Pre-Seed, Seed | Financial Services, Finance, FinTech | $50k–$6M |
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Pantera Capital
VC Fund
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4 | United States, Singapore, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services | $2M–$48M |
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Raba Partnership
VC Fund
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4 | United States, South Africa, Egypt | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Finance | $635k–$32M |
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1kx
VC Fund
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4 | United States, Germany, Switzerland | Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software | $1.8M–$28M |
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Entrée Capital
VC Fund
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4 | United States, Israel, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | $1.4M–$55M |
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True Capital Management
VC Fund
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3 | United States, Nigeria, Canada | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | FinTech, Financial Services, Software | $125k–$59M |
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Kleiner Perkins
VC Fund
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3 | United States, China, United Kingdom | Series B, Series A, Series C | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $5M–$110M |
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Scalar Capital
VC Fund
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3 | United States, Canada, Israel | Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency | $1.3M–$30M |
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Consonance Investment Managers
VC Fund
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3 | Nigeria, United States, Kenya | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, FinTech | $50k–$10M |
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Ground Squirrel Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | United States, Kenya, Zambia | Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Finance | $400k–$5M |
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Goodwater Capital
VC Fund
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3 | United States, India, South Korea | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | FinTech, Financial Services, Software | $500k–$31M |
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RaliCap
VC Fund
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3 | United States, Nigeria, Mexico | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Financial Services, FinTech, Payments | $313k–$8.3M |
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Atlantica Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | Nigeria, South Africa, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, FinTech, Internet | $450k–$3.7M |
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LoftyInc Capital
VC Fund
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3 | United States, Nigeria, Egypt | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | $100k–$37M |
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Sound Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | United States, Canada, Israel | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | $2M–$105M |
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AfricInvest
VC Fund
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3 | Tunisia, Kenya, Morocco | Private Equity, Series A | Financial Services, Manufacturing, FinTech | $6.5M–$65M |
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Oikocredit International
VC Fund
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3 | India, Nigeria, Kenya | Debt Financing, Series B | Financial Services, Finance, FinTech | $1.1M–$273M |
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Philippe Teixeira da Mota
Angel
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3 | United Kingdom, Germany, United States | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | FinTech, Financial Services, Software | $125k–$35M |
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Hustle Fund
VC Fund
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3 | United States, Singapore, Canada | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | $220k–$30M |
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Two Culture Capital
VC Fund
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3 | United States, Mexico, India | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | FinTech, Financial Services, Information Technology | $350k–$25M |
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Future Africa
VC Fund
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3 | Nigeria, United States, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology | $100k–$20M |
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Golden Palm Investments
VC Fund
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3 | Nigeria, Egypt, Kenya | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Information Technology, FinTech, Payments | $30k–$15M |
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P1 Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | Egypt, Kenya, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B | Financial Services, Software, Payments | $400k–$40M |
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GreenHouse Capital
VC Fund
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3 | Nigeria, Kenya, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Payments | |
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Saison Capital
VC Fund
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3 | India, Singapore, Indonesia | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology | $1.5M–$40M |
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Greycroft
VC Fund
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3 | United States, United Kingdom, Germany | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce | $1.5M–$79M |
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Savannah Fund
VC Fund
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3 | Kenya, United States, South Africa | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, FinTech, Software | $25k–$8M |
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Lateral Frontiers
VC Fund
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3 | United States, Nigeria, Kenya | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | FinTech, Financial Services, Software | $500k–$15M |
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Michael Seibel
Angel
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3 | United States, Nigeria, United Kingdom | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Artificial Intelligence, Software, FinTech | $500k–$21M |
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Hesham Zreik
Angel
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3 | United States, Nigeria, India | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence | $50k–$5M |
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VentureSouq
VC Fund
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2 | United States, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia | Seed, Series A, Series B | FinTech, Financial Services, Software | |
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Partech
VC Fund
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2 | United States, France, Germany | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, E-Commerce, SaaS | $1.1M–$55M |
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Speedinvest
VC Fund
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2 | United Kingdom, Germany, Austria | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | $549k–$38M |
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Tekton Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United States, South Korea, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | E-Commerce, Internet, FinTech | $1.2M–$30M |
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CRE Venture Capital
VC Fund
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2 | South Africa, Nigeria, United States | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce | |
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Wintermute
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Singapore, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services | |
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Left Lane Capital
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Germany, Canada | Series A, Series B, Seed | FinTech, Financial Services, Software | $2.5M–$100M |
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Idris Ayodeji Bello
Angel
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2 | Nigeria, United States, Egypt | Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | $100k–$5.1M |
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Olugbenga Agboola
Angel
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2 | Nigeria, Kenya, United States | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | FinTech, Financial Services, Finance | |
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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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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 72
- Round size: Seed $400k–$3.7M; Pre-Seed $25k–$2.1M; Series A $500k–$15M
- Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $5M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- SehaTech — Welcome to SehaTech, the groundbreaking company revolutionizing the health insurance market with our innovative solutions!
- REasy — Top up locally, pay suppliers globally, and manage international shipments with REasy. Fast, secure, and designed for African businesses expanding worldwide.
- Complete Farmer — Complete Farmer connects growers, buyers, and vendors with technology, support, and market access across Ghana and beyond.
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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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 143
- Round size: Seed $325k–$4.4M; Pre-Seed $100k–$1.3M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
Portfolio highlights
- MDaaS Global — At MDaaS Global, we build and operate modern, tech-enabled diagnostic centres in clinically-underserved communities, starting in Nigeria. Our big goal is to create affordable healthcare solutions for Africa's next billion.
- Brass — Get started with a modern current account
- LemFi — Send money to India, China, Pakistan, Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya and 30 other countries. Receive and manage your money without stress
We invest in Africa's most remarkable teams with technical founders at the earliest stage of their venture
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Ghana
Investor stats
- Total investments: 103
- Round size: Seed $25k–$1.3M; Angel $30k–$50k; Pre-Seed $50k–$1.1M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Accounteer — Accounteer is a cloud accounting platform for small businesses. Business owner can create invoices, track expenses and follow up on their finances with ease. Accounteer integrates with external services like banks, e-invoicing platforms and e-commerce. Future proof your business today by subscribing for a free Accounteer trial account.
- LemFi — Send money to India, China, Pakistan, Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya and 30 other countries. Receive and manage your money without stress
- ThankUCash — ThankUCash is a technology company powering rewards and loyalty for African banks and businesses. ThankUCash helps merchants grow revenue by connecting them to customers within and outside of their locations while retaining acquired customers using a data analytics-powered reward system where customers earn cash rewards for every transaction madeboth offline and online.
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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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, South Africa, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 162
- Round size: Seed $200k–$4M; Pre-Seed $200k–$1.7M
- Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $36M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Fixit45 — Fixit45 also provides fleet management, auto parts sourcing and delivery, auto care, refurbishment and upgrades, repair financing, and mechanic workshop software as well as pre-purchase inspections, underlying these with moderation for compliance and accountability.
- Gigmile — Gigmile provides financial services. They provide gig workers with core services and an affordable lease on productive assets that is tailored to their earnings to enable them to succeed in the mobility industry as entrepreneurs.
- HomecomingEx — Homecoming Revolution is a pan-African recruitment firm for global African professionals. We specialise in headhunting & placing global African talent.
Seed capital for technology startups globally.
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 140
- Round size: Seed $125k–$4.9M; Pre-Seed $300k–$3.2M; Series A $2.5M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
Portfolio highlights
- nGrow.ai — Boost revenue and engagement
- 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.
- Orca Fraud — Orca empowers fraud fighters with effective tools to combat fraud
We are an early-stage global venture capital firm investing in fintech founders.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, India, Brazil
Investor stats
- Total investments: 187
- Round size: Seed $2M–$8.5M; Series A $5.2M–$35M; Series B $8.3M–$65M
- Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Spade — Providing AI merchant extraction, brand logos, merchant locations, and categorization as a service to fin-techs.
- Spry — Simplify your physical therapy practice with SPRY. Our all-in-one software streamlines billing, EMR, documentation, and insurance verification. Experience the SPRY difference today.
- Hummingbird — Hummingbird is a platform for managing anti-money laundering (AML) operations. Compliance professionals use Hummingbird to collect case information, conduct investigations, and report on unusual or suspicious behaviors. The platform dramatically reduces paperwork and improves efficiency, enabling AML investigators to refocus on fighting financialcrime.Hummingbird’s founding team brings together product and regulatory experience from organizations like Square, IDEO, the Department of the Treasury, and the OCC. Hummingbird is using data and design to modernize regulatory compliance in finance.
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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- Industry: Blockchain, Financial Services, Finance
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Kenya, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 63
- Round size: Seed $625k–$5.8M; Pre-Seed $1M–$6M; Series A $2.5M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $25M in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- Mojito — Mojito is an NFT studio and tech platform company that designs, powers, and operates NFT marketplaces for industry leading brands and IP holders.
- Tari Labs — Tari is the L1 protocol powered by you. Proof of work and an ingenious app platform to put all of its power in your hands.
- AZA Finance — Supporting Businesses In 115 Countries, Aza Finance Makes It Easier To Do Business In Africa. Contact AZA Finance Now.
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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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 119
- Round size: Seed $1.9M–$10M; Pre-Seed $525k–$4M; Series A $5M–$43M
- Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Utexo — Utexo develops payment infrastructure that enables stablecoin transactions to settle directly on the Bitcoin network. The platform provides an API and related tools that allow payment operators, exchanges, wallets, and financial platforms to process USDT transfers through Bitcoin-based rails. Its system integrates technologies such as the LightningNetwork and the RGB protocol to support instant settlement, encrypted transaction execution, and predictable transaction costs. Utexo also offers cloud infrastructure and developer tools that manage routing, liquidity, and node operations required for stablecoin payments on Bitcoin. These services allow organizations to integrate Bitcoin-based stablecoin settlement into existing applications without operating or maintaining underlying blockchain infrastructure.
- Oh — Oh is the decentralized and uncensored AI products can offer a range of benefits, such as enhancing privacy, encouraging innovation, and promoting freedom of information.
- Bleap — Connect your wallet. Buy crypto easily. Send it to your friends. Pay for dinner. Split bills.
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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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 294
- Round size: Seed $650k–$8.5M; Series A $3M–$48M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Zabo — Zabo is an API for connecting to any crypto exchange, wallet, protocol or account. Sign up for access to free API keys at Zabo.com
- Ballet — Ballet Crypto is a companion mobile app, which enables sending of cryptocurrency, checking market value and activating additional currencies. The use of the mobile app is completely optional, as you do not need it to receive and store your cryptocurrency safely.
- Joystream — Joystream is a block chain-based, decentralized video platform.
We back exceptional founders in and from Africa who are addressing deep gaps between the status quo and the ideal.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 77
- Round size: Seed $500k–$4.5M; Pre-Seed $300k–$3.4M
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Paps — Paps is a transport and logistics company that offers innovative distribution and delivery solutions to companies and merchants.The company's e-commerce platform helps companies and traders with scheduling and tracking deliveries on a real-time basis. It offers the distribution of documents and parcels, storage of goods in a secure warehousethat meets standards, and delivery of insured parcels in relay point or last mile. It also provides professional services such as management and repayment of cash on delivery, provision of couriers, management of returns, collection, and periodic reporting.The Dakar, Dakar, Senegal-based company was founded in 2016
- Mvxchange — MVX makes freight shipping easier and more coordinated for companies of any size by bringing the whole booking and deployment process online. We simplify Africa’s end-to-end import and export trade transactions by aggregating and organizing 7+ services through 1 digital channel.
- 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.
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- Industry: Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 107
- Round size: Seed $40k–$4M; Pre-Seed $40k–$1.3M
- Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
Portfolio highlights
- mTek — mTek is a digital online insurance platform that provides an entirely paperless ecosystem for the insurance industry.
- 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.
A venture fund for pre-seed startups in Africa, led by Startup Operators, backed by Startup Operators.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 16
- Round size: Seed $300k–$6M; Pre-Seed $50k–$2M
- 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.
Pantera Capital is an investment firm focused exclusively on Bitcoin, other digital currencies, and companies in the space. The company believes that Bitcoin has the potential to transform the way people use money and that it will do for payments what the Internet has done for communications and commerce.Until 2014, Pantera focused on globalmacro hedge fund investments. The firm was founded in 2003 by Dan Morehead, who was a chief financial officer and head of Macro Trading at Tiger Management. The firm has since shifted its investment advisory services to focus exclusively on Bitcoin, other digital currencies, and companies in the space.Shareholders include Benchmark, Fortress Investment Group, and Ribbit Capital.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 290
- Round size: Seed $2M–$18M; Series A $5.5M–$48M
- Lead/follow: 49% lead, 51% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Civic — Connect with your users on their terms. Verify on your terms and Prove it's them every time. Your new favorite onboarding experience deploys with just a few lines of code.
- GlobeDX — See the markets through our lenses
- ZOOZ Power — ZOOZ Power developed a kinetic based power booster, based on a unique flywheel concept, enabling sustainable and cost-effective deployment of ultra-fast EV charging stations anywhere, including locations with limited grid power, with no need for infrastructure upgrades.
The Raba Partnership, Raba Capital, Raba
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, South Africa, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 56
- Round size: Seed $2M–$6M; Pre-Seed $635k–$6.5M; Series A $9.2M–$32M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $60M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Cloudline — Cloudline leverages lighter-than-air technology and the latest developments in unmanned aerial vehicles to deliver essential goods and services to the 1 billion people without direct access to roads and runways.
- Cloudline — The all-in-one cloud platform helping leisure businesses sell more, reduce costs & personalize experiences.
- Fuse Financial Technologies — Financial APIs for building products in the Middle East.
1kx is an early-stage investment firm focused on ecosystem growth.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Germany, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 157
- Round size: Seed $1.8M–$11M; Series A $6M–$28M
- Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Seam Social — Seam is a Pinterest-like social network where you post using user created miniapps.
- Giggles — Giggles is a social platform where users create and share content using artificial intelligence tools. The platform includes features for making short videos from prompts. Users can earn a digital currency called aura by engaging in activities and games. Digital assets are available for users to collect and trade. A waitlist is open for those whowant to join the platform.
- Impossible Cloud — Experience Impossible Cloud Storage: Secure, scalable, performant. Decentralized architecture, S3 API compatibility, 100% durability. Start free trial now.
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. Westand with founders through every challenge, and help them grow with clarity, resilience and purpose.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Israel, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 256
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$13M; Series A $4M–$25M; Series B $14M–$55M
- Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $300M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Identiq — Identiq's network members fight fraud and improve user experience by validating new users and vouching for ones they already know without sharing any personal user data at all.
- Toka — Toka develops cutting-edge and lawful digital forensics, intelligence and force protection capabilities to empower government agencies strengthen homeland security.
- Imagindairy — It's dairy, done differently. Our animal-free dairy products are lactose-free, growth hormone-free and cholesterol-free.
Achieve your financial goals & build generational wealth with our entertainer & athlete wealth management services. Offering comprehensive financial planning.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 132
- Round size: Seed $500k–$5M; Pre-Seed $125k–$725k; Series A $9.1M–$59M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $18M in 2012
Portfolio highlights
- MoonPay — MoonPay offers a fast and simple way to buy and sell cryptocurrencies. Buy crypto with credit card, bank transfers or Apple Pay today.
- Milano Vice — Milano Vice is building a new virtual food brand by working with professional kitchens to prepare and deliver delicious pizzas to home.
- Kapital — Kapital empowers SMBs with a tech-banking platform giving visibility and control of their treasury, and their employees
Kleiner Perkins is an American venture capital firm headquartered on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park in Silicon Valley.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
- Geography: United States, China, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1134
- Round size: Series A $5M–$46M; Series B $10M–$71M; Series C $12M–$110M
- Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Stripe — Stripe is a technology company that builds economic infrastructure for the Internet. Stripe is a platform for commercial finance infrastructure. Stripe is used by millions of businesses, ranging from the biggest corporations in the world to the most ambitious startups, to take payments, increase revenue, and open up new business prospects.
- TradeHero — Founded in 2012 by app developer MyHero, TradeHero's mission is to provide a platform for traders to monetize their investment expertise, by democratizing trading in a social and gamified mobile app. TradeHero is a free stock market simulation app, which draws real-world data from stock exchanges to create an unrivalled global socialinvestment network. Users can compete with friends from their social networks, or on the global leaderboards with users from across the world. The app brings novice and knowledgeable traders together, allowing novice traders to subscribe for stock tips via push notifications, and top traders to earn subscription fees from followers. Followers can subscribe, for a small monthly fee, to follow and receive trade feeds from their chosen Heroes via push notifications on their mobile device. These push notifications detail each Buy and Sell action of the Hero, allowing followers to receive expert trading tips and personal insight into successful investment strategies. TradeHero will share subscription revenue from followers equally with Heroes, thus allowing Heroes to monetize their trading expertise.
- Handshake — The largest expert network for learning, earning, and growing careers in the AI economy, giving everyone an accessible first step into an AI-powered career.
Crypto investment firm. Austin, TX.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Canada, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 37
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$12M; Series A $7.5M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
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 — Recognize and reward the relationships that matter
- Stackr Labs — Micro-rollups to scale web3 applications
We are an investment company focused on helping early and growth-stage entrepreneurs build successful companies in Africa.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 31
- Round size: Seed $550k–$3.3M; Pre-Seed $450k–$1M; Series A $50k–$10M
- Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% 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 — Tripesa offers payment solutions for Africa's travel and tourism industry.
- Plural — Smarter, Faster, Future-Ready Policy Strategy. Plural transforms how enterprises and organizations anticipate and act on legislation. Our AI-powered platform delivers accurate bill analysis, policy insights, and stakeholder intelligence so you can stay ahead of risk, seize opportunity, and shape outcomes. See How It Works Book A Demo Trusted By Deepen Your State & Federal Legislative
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- 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.
- MindMics — Discover MindMics. The world's most accurate personal heart health monitor and well-being platform. Look after your heart health to live longer and better.
- Untapped Global — Untapped connects global investors, and foreign capital to opportunities in emerging markets. Delivering competitive returns, and measurable impact for global investors.
Consumer Tech Investors - We empower exceptional entrepreneurs everywhere to change the world for good.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, India, South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 487
- Round size: Seed $1M–$8M; Pre-Seed $500k–$3M; Series A $4.5M–$31M
- Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Jerry — Jerry simplifies the expensive, frustrating, and time-consuming aspects of car ownership.
- Read AI — Read AI enables better meetings through shared measurement. Read AI is a provider of a real-time shared dashboard that measures engagement and sentiment for meeting attendees.
- Ello — Ello is an app-based reading coach that listens to your child read from real books, teaches and motivates them, and transforms them into enthusiastic readers.
Rally Cap is a global community of tech folks investing in an exclusive portfolio of top-tier early stage venture funds in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, Mexico
Investor stats
- Total investments: 57
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$8.3M; Pre-Seed $313k–$3.7M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Moffin — Moffin is an integration platform of KYC data providers that enables customers to collect and evaluate data. It can be used via API or no code.
- Radar Treasury — Radar helps companies in Latin America to perform their bank transfers without human intervention. Radar created the first payouts to bank accounts API in Chile.
- Revio — Subscription billing and payments made easy.
Are you looking for start-up funding for your business? Get in touch with Atlantica Ventures to get the kick-start your start-up needs.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Nigeria, South Africa, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$3.7M; Pre-Seed $450k–$2.1M
- Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $50M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Figorr — Figorr is your go-to, for accessing reliable information on temperature, humidity, and location. Experience the next generation of data-driven insights with Figorr today.
- OnePipe — OnePipe aggregates APIs from banks and fintechs into a standardized gateway that is easy to integrate and makes partnerships seamless.
- Afropolitan — Afropolitan is building a Network State to unleash the maximum potential of Africans around the world. Are you interested? Join us with your email.
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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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 147
- Round size: Seed $100k–$5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2.4M; Series A $250k–$37M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $14M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Aku — Aku is a financial technology to drive financial inclusion on one mobile device. They provide payments and bring financial services to the doorstep. They support the new business owner in need of the right tools. They offer low-cost, accessible financial services that serve their customers. They radically democratized access to banking and digitalpayment channels.
- AlumUnite — AlumUnite is a purpose-built platform to connect all educated Africans to develop Africa's human capital through alumni groups. We crowd-resource education.
- Reliance Health — Reliance Health Global. Improve the lives of your staff with innovative company healthcare benefits fit for any business. You can rely on us.
Sound Ventures is a venture capital firm. The company seeks to invest in the technology sector.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 201
- Round size: Seed $2M–$10M; Series A $9M–$35M; Series B $15M–$105M
- Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $243M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Knit — Knit pairs forward-deployed researchers with autonomous research agents to deliver decision-ready insights faster and better than traditional agencies, unlocking entirely new ways for the world's most iconic enterprises to run research.
- Diadia Health, Inc — An AI medical reasoning platform that helps clinicians analyze the root causes of symptoms and create personalized protocols that drive better outcomes.
- Arcade — Arcade is a B2C platform that transforms the jewelry market through its prompt-to-product solution, allowing users to create unique designs using AI. The marketplace supports various user roles, enabling customers, designers, and influencers to engage and collaborate.
AfricInvest was founded in 1994 and is part of Integra Group, an investment and financial services company based in Tunisia.Uniquely positioned as one of the most experienced private equity investors on the continent, AfricInvest has dedicated investment teams focused on North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa, and employs 66 professionals based inseven offices.AfricInvest manages USD1 billion across 16 funds and benefits from strong, long-term support from both local and international investors, including leading development finance institutions in the United States and Europe.Having co-founded the African Venture Capital Association (AVCA) as well as the Middle East North Africa Private Equity Association (MENAPEA) and the Euromed Capital Forum, the firm is an active promotor of the private equity industry in the region.Since 1994, AfricInvest has invested in 135 companies across 25 African countries in a variety of high growth sectors and maintains a broad network of high quality executives across Africa, offering extensive expertise in key growth industries, including financial services, agribusiness, consumer/retail, education and healthcare.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Manufacturing, FinTech
- Stage:Private Equity, Series A
- Geography: Tunisia, Kenya, Morocco
Investor stats
- Total investments: 106
- Round size: Series A $7M–$65M; Private Equity $6.5M–$21M
- Lead/follow: 64% lead, 36% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ArabyAds — ArabyAds offers a suite of enterprise-level B2B ecommerce automation platforms that deliver the most promising, responsive and performance-oriented digital advertising technologies.
- Promamec — Since 1981, Promamec has been producing and distributing medical devices in Morocco: equipment, medical equipment or consumable
- Aerobotics — Powerful insights for precision growing and crop insurance
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- Industry: Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
- Stage:Debt Financing, Series B
- Geography: India, Nigeria, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 48
- Round size: Series B $3.5M–$8.8M; Debt Financing $1.1M–$273M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- YoFio — YoFio
- 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.
- 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.
Co-founder of Shapers. Previously Partner at Hedosophia.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 59
- Round size: Seed $2.5M–$14M; Pre-Seed $125k–$7.7M; Series A $8.8M–$35M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- BoomFi — All-in-one solution to send, accept and convert crypto payments. Fast multi-chain crypto and fiat settlement. Get started today.
- Flatpay — Flatpay's fair, flat-rate pricing simplifies payments & cuts costs. Benefit from our comprehensive solution & superior customer service. Join us now!
- Vega — The AI-native operating system for alternative asset managers, purpose-built to scale and automate the end-to-end investor lifecycle across every asset class.
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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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Singapore, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 327
- Round size: Seed $1M–$6.4M; Pre-Seed $220k–$2.5M; Series A $3.1M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Cloudoor — Cloudoor deploys and delivers your code to your customers without breaking things.
- Onton — We're building better e-commerce search. Type like you speak and search by image (or both) across all product sites. Save time and money by finding the right products, faster.
- Swarm — Swarm is the professional network for expert fractional tech folk in AI, Design, and Software Engineering.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Mexico, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 78
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$10M; Pre-Seed $350k–$7.9M; Series A $7M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
Portfolio highlights
- OnePipe — OnePipe aggregates APIs from banks and fintechs into a standardized gateway that is easy to integrate and makes partnerships seamless.
- LGND — LGND is a technology business that specialises in AI-powered spatial data solutions.
- Relativity Space — Building Humanity's Multi-Planetary Future
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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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 88
- Round size: Seed $500k–$4M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3.7M; Series A $7M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Edves — Edves automates the brick and mortal School operations from Student enrollment, Fee Collection, Lesson Note up to Transcript Generation.
- 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.
- Nexford University — Transform your career with affordable, flexible degrees and job skills designed for today's workforce. Skip debt and learn at your own pace with Nexford.
Golden Palm Investments is an investment holding and advisory company.
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- Industry: Information Technology, FinTech, Payments
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, Egypt, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 56
- Round size: Seed $1.8M–$6M; Pre-Seed $30k–$6.5M; Series A $2M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2014
Portfolio highlights
- ILLA — ILLA Trucking for Logistics Solutions & Distribution
- Maplerad — Maplerad is a fast, safe and easy way to send and receive money with friends, family or others you trust. You can receive and send money directly into any Nigerian bank account in minutes using Bitcoin, US Dollars, and Naira.
- Jetstream Africa — Jetstream monitors inventory and goods-in-transit for trade creditors and banks.
P1 Ventures works as a venture capital firm. They specialize in early-stage industrial technology firms in Africa.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Software, Payments
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Geography: Egypt, Kenya, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 43
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$5M; Pre-Seed $400k–$2M; Series B $7.5M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Salus Cloud — Salus Cloud is an AI-native platform for engineers to develop and manage security.
- Traction Apps — Traction apps provide businesses end to end tools they need to run and grow their businesses.
- Reliance Health — Reliance Health Global. Improve the lives of your staff with innovative company healthcare benefits fit for any business. You can rely on us.
GreenHouse Capital’s Founding Partners took their own fintech company Venture Garden Group (VGG) from a 7 employee, ₦30 million revenue startup to a 200 employees, ₦2 billion power house in just 4 years and raised an attention grabbing Series A round from Convergence Partners of South Africa. The uniqueness of their position was not lost on thefounders who then cultivated Garden Institute of Business Entrepreneurs (GIBE) to identify, incubate, and invest in young and innovative tech startups solving global challenges in Emerging Markets. GIBE was created to build a world class talent management hub for young and passionate entrepreneurs while creating a pool of technology inclined businesses and innovation oriented leaders.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 32
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Credpal — Buy now, pay later. Split in 6.
- Encore Pay — Encore Pay is a UAE-based FinTech and Payment solutions provider.
- MarketForce — MarketForce connects Africa’s informal retail outlets and consumers directly to suppliers of consumer goods and financial services by digitizing orders, delivery, and payments with the aim of solving the last mile distribution challenge.
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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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: India, Singapore, Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 111
- Round size: Seed $1.8M–$8M; Pre-Seed $1.5M–$6M; Series A $5.3M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $55M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- XProtocol — XProtocol is a modular entertainment chain that uses base's superchain technology to help developers create games with player-driven economies.
- Redacted Coin — Redacted is a Web3 entertainment and gaming platform.
- Mythic Protocol — The Central Hub for Mythic Operatives to conduct their operations
Venture capital and technology investments
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 702
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$10M; Series A $3.1M–$23M; Series B $6.2M–$79M
- Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $378M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Blitsy — Blitsy is where creative people shop online. It aims to provide the best selection, value, inspiration, and online shopping experience for creative people worldwide. It was founded in 2011 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.
- MapAnything — Integrate and leverage location-based data and prioritization in your CRM, using Salesforce maps, to optimize your reps' activities.
- Tetra — InHome makes it easier, faster, and cheaper to buy a new boiler, furnace, or air conditioner replacements for your home in MA. No need to call contractors, have sales visits, wait for quotes, or research products. InHome does it all for you online. Get a free instant quote today for a replacement as soon as the next.
Savannah Fund is a seed capital fund specializing in US$25,000-US$500,000 investments in early stage high growth technology (web and mobile) startups in sub-Saharan Africa. Initially focused on East Africa, the fund aims to bridge the early stage/angel and venture capital investment gap that currently exists in Africa. The Fund expects toachieve this objective by combining capital with mentor networks both in the region and from Silicon Valley via an accelerator program and a follow-on independent seed fund.The fund is managed by an experienced and technology savvy team that have founded companies or are actively involved in angel investing or having run successful accelerator programs in past but also understand the unique Subsaharan African environment. They are backed and supported by both local, regional and international networks of angels,venture capitalists whose expertise we can draw on to help startups succeed and scale to fully fledged regional or global companies.They believe in the potential for Africa to become a global technology innovator by creating sustainable for profit companies that create jobs and make an impact.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Kenya, United States, South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 38
- Round size: Seed $25k–$3M; Pre-Seed $200k–$2.1M; Series A $750k–$8M
- Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $25M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Oze — OZÉ brings African small businesses into the digital era. It is an app that makes it easy for businesses to track sales, expenses, and customer information. The data is analyzed to provide tailored recommendations, reports, and business education. If the entrepreneur needs a little extra support, an OZÉ Coach is just a click away. As they are usingOZÉ to manage their business and learn how to run it better, we are learning about them. Using this data and machine learning, we can predict their credit risk and provide them with affordable capital from our banking partners. With over 20,000 registered users, OZÉ is the largest online community of SMEs in Ghana. The most exciting thing is that OZÉ works; 97% of businesses that have used OZE for at least 9 months are growing or profitable or both!
- Root — Launch digital and embedded insurance solutions with omni-channel distribution.
- Afropolitan — Afropolitan is building a Network State to unleash the maximum potential of Africans around the world. Are you interested? Join us with your email.
Lateral Capital is a mission driven venture fund investing in early and growth stage opportunities in Africa. We back companies that provide foundational technologies for the continent. We make debt and equity investments technology-enabled businesses that profitably solve significant pain points across financial services, healthcare, education,energy, agriculture, housing, logistics, mobility and more.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 37
- Round size: Seed $1M–$3.1M; Pre-Seed $500k–$3.5M; Series A $558k–$15M
- Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $50M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- CNote — CNote makes initial Cash Deposits easy for corporations, foundations, and individuals. Align your financial goals with your values and drive change in communities.
- Rhaeos — Rhaeos, the world's first wearable shunt monitor, aims to improve the quality care for patients with hydrocephalus through a novel, thermal biosensor. Developed within Northwestern University with collaboration between Dr. John Rogers, McCormick School of Engineering, Feinberg School of Medicine and Kellogg School of Management, Rhaeosrepresents a unique multidisciplinary translational effort for an important clinical need.
- Wattnow — Wattnow is a real-time monitoring solution that provides a breakdown of energy spending to identify wasteful trends.
Michael Seibel is the Managing Director and Group Partner of Y Combinator. He previously worked at Socialcam as a CEO. Michael Seibel attended Yale University.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, FinTech
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 177
- Round size: Seed $1M–$7.1M; Pre-Seed $500k–$500k; Series A $5.9M–$21M
- Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Dripos — Dripos was crafted by restaurant operators like yourself to do it all. We aren't joking, everything from payroll & accounting to mobile ordering & marketing.
- Retell AI — RetellAI is an API for creating human-like conversational voice AI. Developers can build a voice AI similar to JARVIS in just a day — with an ~800ms response time and the ability to handle interruptions.
- Golden — Golden is a developer of a self-constructing knowledge database used to accelerate discovery and education. The company uses and leverages human effort by using machine intelligence to make the process of gathering and communicating knowledge simpler.It combines a powerful search across several entities with fine-grain alerts to stay on top ofchanges, and semi-automatic research assistance for gaps in knowledge that enable people in organizations to stay current, understand and leverage the latest trends in their industry.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 619
- Round size: Seed $53k–$2M; Pre-Seed $50k–$1M; Series A $170k–$5M
- Lead/follow: 53% lead, 47% follow
Portfolio highlights
- UrbanFarmers — UrbanFarmers is a platform that connects city dwellers with local urban farms and community gardens.
- Ensure Petroleum Pvt Ltd — Ensure Petroleum Fuel & Refinery is a Pakistan-focused energy venture founded by Muhammad Irfan Younas, a former executive.
- Manufacturing Electronics Cards — it is a startup built on the idea of putting advanced electronics engineering expertise at the service of local and regional businesses.
VentureSouq (VSQ) is a MENA-based venture capital fund manager with a global portfolio. VSQ manages thematic funds, with a current focus on FinTech and ClimateTech.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 165
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Erad — erad provides growth capital to online businesses. Connect your analytics and receive funding offers, for non-dilutive capital within 48 hours
- Nawy — The ultimate real estate broker in Egypt. Browse areas, compounds, and properties by price, location, and amenities to find the perfect place.
- Tradoor — Tradoor protects traders, LPs, and the protocol against unforeseen market fluctuations by using clever math and safety measures to enable traders to trade with confidence.
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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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, France, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 525
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$9M; Series A $4.2M–$30M; Series B $9M–$55M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Yampa — Discover yampa's autonomous AI agents and revolutionize your customer experience. Elevate your service with the most advanced AI technology.
- Privitar — Informatica is an Enterprise Cloud Data Management leader that brings data to life by empowering businesses to realize the transformative power of their most critical assets.
- Jaspersoft — Enterprise reporting platform for delivering pixel perfect reports. Build custom reports and dashboards in minutes.
Speedinvest is a globally active European venture capital firm built on a simple belief: many move more. From six offices across EMEA, our sector-focused investment teams back relentless founders from pre–Seed to Growth with long-term conviction, providing day-one access to our global network of corporate customers, experts, industry leaders, andtop-tier follow-on investors to scale smarter and faster. Building lasting companies like Bitpanda (Austria), Moove (Nigeria), Gigs (U.S.), Tide (UK), ARX Robotics (Germany), Wayflyer (Ireland), GoStudent (Austria), Seqera Labs (Spain), and Cylib (Germany) — together. Big ideas may start with one. But scaling and winning take The Power of More.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 527
- Round size: Seed $823k–$8M; Pre-Seed $549k–$3.8M; Series A $3.7M–$38M
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $384M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Tulyp — Tulyp is a financial service company that offers insure, investment, and secure payment solutions.
- morgana — Morgana is reshaping the mortgage industry in Latam. With a 5x faster application process, in-depth market knowledge, privileged access to data, and superb team, we are a groundbreaking digital mortgage broker that will shortly be competing with banks.
- Sona — The employee 'super' app for frontline teams. Sona combines the power of modern workforce management software with an unparalleled mobile user experience.
We partner with visionary founders and investors worldwide, offering capital, network, and expertise needed to turn groundbreaking ideas into market leading companies.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, South Korea, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 128
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$8M; Series A $1.8M–$20M; Series B $7M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2017
Portfolio highlights
- Grabr — Grabr is a global community marketplace that allows people to get unique or hard-to-find items from around the world by connecting them with travelers headed their way. Grabr is the safe, fast and friendly way to get anything from anywhere in the world and earn money on the road.
- PayJoy — Looking for a phone or a cash loan? PayJoy gives you credit with few requirements and in minutes. No late fees charged.
- Prósperos — Founded in 2023 by Vinay Pai and Salvador Chavez, Prósperos is delivering an innovative financial platform that allows millions of Latinos to manage their finances while taking care of their family in the USA and Latin America.The Prósperos platform provides two bank accounts and two cards– one for the account holder in the USA and one for theirfamily in Mexico, and soon Central and South America. With Prósperos, customers can say goodbye to slow and costly money-transfer solutions, and their families no longer need to wait in line to pick up cash. Within seconds, funds are available to family members in Latin America.
Founded in 2015, CRE Venture Capital invests in early stage tech companies that are levered to Africa. CRE is headquartered in the New York metro area, with a regional office in Lagos, Nigeria.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: South Africa, Nigeria, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 53
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Sabi Am — Sabi is Africa's largest B2B company, & we are digitising informal trade via our platform. We access markets hard to reach and ensure ease of distribution, & are the No 1 FCMG supplier in Africa.
- Sukhiba — Sukhiba is a decentralized community-based commerce platform.
- Stitch — One API integration for enterprise online payments across South Africa. Accept Pay by bank, debit + credit card, cash, manual EFT, debit order and crypto.
A leading algorithmic trading firm focused on building liquid and efficient markets in digital assets.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 88
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Pave Bank — The world's first multi-asset and programmable bank
- WOO Network — Discover WOO's ecosystem of centralized and decentralized apps to seize every opportunity in crypto.
- Silicon Data — Silicon Data is a data product that brings essential intelligence and efficiency to markets.
Left Lane Capital is a venture capital and seed-growth equity firm that invests in high-growth internet and consumer technology businesses that are fundamental to the human condition and spirit – where customers maintain a long-term relationship with the product, platform, or service.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: United States, Germany, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 145
- Round size: Seed $2.5M–$18M; Series A $9M–$33M; Series B $20M–$100M
- Lead/follow: 63% lead, 37% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $1.4B in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- AnswersNow — Personalized tele-ABA therapy for your child with autism spectrum disorder.
- Diamond Standard — Invest in diamonds. Each Diamond Standard Coin and Bar contains an equivalent scarcity of carat, cut, color, and clarity. Diversify your portfolio.
- Good Health Company (Clinic) (GHC) — We have the Perfect Solution here for Hair fall treatment, Beard Growth, Performance Wellness, Weight loss. Buy Health Care Products & complete wellness platform for Men in India
The 'Afropreneur' (entrepreneur with an African focus), as he self-describes, Idris Ayodeji Bello is a Partner at LoftyInc Allied Partners Limited and co-founder of The Wennovation Hub, an innovation platform based in Nigeria, that has successfully accelerated the launch of several technology start-ups in social impact sectors. He isalso a Founding Partner at Loftyinc Capital Management, owners of the Afropreneurs Fund (I&II)The 'Afropreneur' (entrepreneur with an African focus), as he self-describes, Idris Bello is a Partner at LoftyInc Allied Partners Limited and co-founder of The Wennovation Hub, an innovation platform based in Nigeria, that has successfully accelerated the launch of several technology start-ups in social impact sectors. He is also a Founding Partner at Loftyinc Capital Management, owners of the Afropreneurs Fund (I&II)A first class honors graduate of Computer Engineering from Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria, he has an M.Sc in Computer Science & Data Mining from the University of Houston; an MBA in Entrepreneurship & Strategy from Rice University in Houston and an M.Sc in Global Health Science from the University of Oxford, where he was a 2011 recipient of The Lord Weidenfeld Scholarship for demonstrating remarkable potential as a future leader from an emerging economy.Idris spent the greater part of a decade working at Chevron Corporation and ExxonMobil USA, where he led several large upstream technology projects across the USA and Sub-Saharan Africa. Idris has also worked with the Clinton Foundation Health Access Initiative where he played a major role in the deployment and evaluation of Swaziland’s first mobile health patient appointment reminder system as part of the country’s National AIDS Program. Listed among CNN’s Top Ten African Technology Voices, he is a Singularity University Impact Fellow, Harambe Entrepreneur Alliance Associate, Clinton Global Initiative University Fellow, MIT Global Start-up Fellow, SAP Ashoka Global Changemakers Award Winner, Dell Technology Award Winner, StartingBloc Innovation Fellow and a Nigeria Leadership Initiative Future Leader.As a leader, Idris has mentored and catalyzed scores of contributors across the growing African landscape and is an angel investor and advisor to several African startups including Andela, Flutterwave, RelianceHMO, among others. He continues to devote his efforts to the development of innovation-driven, technology-enabled social enterprises that empower the underserved and develop transformative ideas to change lives on the African continent.He spends most of his time between Lagos, Cairo, or airport lounges.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 36
- Round size: Seed $700k–$5.1M; Pre-Seed $100k–$1.1M
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Bypa-ss — Bypa-ss is working on creating a world-class SaaS healthcare environment and revolutionizing healthcare in Egypt, Join Us
- Simulon — Studio-quality VFX on a mobile. Sign up to the Simulon beta.
- ORDA — Process orders, accept payments, connect to logistic providers, engage with your customers + more. We equip you with everything you need to grow your business.
Olugbenga Agboola is the Co-Founder and CEO of Flutterwave. He previously worked at Africa Fintech Foundry as a Senior Entrepreneur In Residence. Olugbenga Agboola attended MIT Sloan School of Management.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 22
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- SiPay — Sipay is a next-generation financial technology company offering a comprehensive all-in-one financial services platform. It enables B2B, B2C, and Sipay as a Service (Embedded Finance) customers to address all their banking and financial needs without requiring any other partners.
- Curacel — Curacel creates APIs & tools that enable businesses to embed insurance in digital channels and to administer claims cost-effectively.
- Afropolitan — Afropolitan is building a Network State to unleash the maximum potential of Africans around the world. Are you interested? Join us with your email.
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