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Top 50 Finance Startup Investors in Nigeria

A list of 50 angel investors and VC funds that invest in Finance startups based in Nigeria. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Finance companies from Nigeria. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Finance Startup Investors in Nigeria

Investor Finance Nigeria investments
Ventures Platform 9
Musha Ventures 6
Kepple Africa Ventures 4
Ingressive Capital 4
Michael Seibel 3
Entrée Capital 3
Lateral Frontiers 3
Flourish Ventures 3
Launch Africa 3
Necessary Ventures 2
Thelatest.ventures 2
Left Lane Capital 2
Accion Venture Lab 2
Ground Squirrel Ventures 2
Speedinvest 2
Newid capital 2
Tekton Ventures 2
Microtraction 2
Partech 2
Two Culture Capital 2
Everywhere Ventures (The Fund) 2
Saison Capital 2
Ham Serunjogi 2
VentureSouq 2
Idris Ayodeji Bello 2
VilCap Investments 2
Future Africa 2
P1 Ventures 2
TEN13 2
Babs Ogundeyi 2
Atlantica Ventures 2
RaliCap 2
Raba Partnership 2
Golden Palm Investments 2
Olumide Soyombo 2
AfricInvest 1
Olugbenga Agboola 1
Sriram Krishnan 1
Visa 1
Everywhere Ventures (The Fund) 1
Aidi Ventures 1
Mercy Corps Ventures 1
Goodwater Capital 1
Palm Drive Capital 1
Verod Capital Management 1
Future Perfect Ventures 1
NBK Capital 1
Helios Investment Partners 1
Tom Stafford 1
Century Oak Capital 1
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Ventures Platform VC Fund · Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria · 3 investments in the past 12 months
We back founders building the future of Africa. We invest in companies that solve for non-consumption, plug infrastructural gaps and democratise prosperity in Africa, by eliminating the barriers for access and reducing the costs of delivering goods and services.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Internet
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • Nigeria, United States, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
  • Lengo — Lengo is an AI based intelligence platform that offers a large database on consumer goods for companies in the FMCG sector.
  • Shekel Mobility — B2B marketplace for auto dealers to grow their dealerships leveraging on flexible inventory financing and management solutions. Available on web and mobile.
  • Maad — Maad is Francophone Africa's fastest-growing B2B marketplace, based in Dakar, Senegal. Our tech-driven solution allows retailers to order products from our one-stop shop and benefit from working capital loans
Musha Ventures VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Seed capital for technology startups globally.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, Software, FinTech
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, Nigeria, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
  • Orca Fraud — Orca empowers fraud fighters with effective tools to combat fraud
  • Hohm Energy — We make the process of going solar simple. Generate your free, custom solar proposal and get matched with an accredited solar provider in under 5 mins.
  • Startbutton — We help multi-national businesses sell products and get paid in African countries in a compliant and tax-efficient manner, without the need to register locally.
Kepple Africa Ventures VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Kepple Africa Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt
Portfolio highlights
  • Chari — Chari is an e-commerce and fintech app for traditional retailers in French-Speaking Africa allowing them to order any consumer goods they sell and get delivered for free in less than 24 hours. Chari is also a financial services provider for these retailers, offering them microloans
  • Intmax — INTMAX has developed significant innovations in ZK implementation making it a unique Layer2 rollup network that offers low cost, security, tunable privacy, and above all, scalability.
  • Carry1st — Carry1st develops and publishes enriching mobile games and content apps for African consumers.
Ingressive Capital VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Ingressive Capital they provide services in business development, partnerships, and financial support.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Nigeria, United States, Ghana
Portfolio highlights
  • MNZL — MNZL is on a mission to expand access to capital for Egyptians.Every person who owns an asset has accumulated wealth in it. When they want liquidity for their projects and needs, they should be able to tap into it as easily as withdrawing from a bank.With an innovative digital platform and products, we are working on making digital access tocapital a reality, and building the future of asset-backed financing in Africa.
  • 54gene — 54gene is a healthcare startup unlocking the African genome to fuel genetic research and development that may lead to new discoveries and benefit all populations.54gene was founded in 2019 by Dr. Abasi Ene-Obong to address the significant gap in the global genomics market: Nearly 90% of genetic material used in pharmaceutical research iscaucasian. Only 2% is African, despite the fact that Africans and people of African ancestry are more genetically diverse than all other world populations combined. As a result, pharmaceutical research and development is lacking the diverse data that may hold the key to medical discoveries and new healthcare solutions.
  • Startbutton — We help multi-national businesses sell products and get paid in African countries in a compliant and tax-efficient manner, without the need to register locally.
Michael Seibel Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 24 investments in the past 12 months
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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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • United States, Nigeria, United Kingdom
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.
  • Superorder — The top off-premise operating system for restaurants. Focus on making the food that you love and we'll take care of the rest.
Entrée Capital VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 10 investments in the past 12 months
We're a team of former serial founders managing over $1.25B across a number of funds, with offices in Tel Aviv, London, and New York.
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Investment focus
  • Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Israel, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • PointFive — PointFive provides ongoing cloud cost savings by providing deeper detection and collaborative repair solutions that fit smoothly into teams' normal operations.
  • MagnusMetal — Magnus_Metal - Digital Era has arrived for Metal Casting. MagnusMetal team is taking casting, a 6000 years old technology, to the digital Industry 4.0 era, with our breakthrough patent pending, volume alloy Digital Casting System and process
  • Sensi.Ai — Sensi.Ai developed the first audio AI that's able to analyze the routine in long term care environments, detect anomalies and provide insight on trends, with the purpose of improving the quality of care
Lateral Frontiers VC Fund · New York, New York, United States
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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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Nigeria, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
  • CNote — CNote created technology to streamline community-centered impact investing at scale. Further Racial Equity and Social Justice by investing with CNote.
  • 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.
  • Masa — Masa Finance seeks to disrupt traditional centralized credit infrastructure by providing individuals, businesses, and developers with the tools to access credit and enable untapped wealth creation for 4.95B people globally.
Flourish Ventures VC Fund · Redwood City, California, United States · 6 investments in the past 12 months
We are an early-stage global venture capital firm investing in fintech founders.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • United States, India, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
  • Qoala — Asuransi online yang siap melindungi kamu dan orang tersayang, di mana aja, kapan aja. Premi murah, proses klaim mudah, dan 100% digital!
  • Zone — Zone is a regulated blockchain network that enables payments and acceptance of digital currencies.
  • Summer​ — Summer partners with employers help their populations navigate and reduce student loan debt. Summer is a certified B-Corp.
Launch Africa VC Fund · Ebène, Plaines Wilhems, Mauritius · 6 investments in the past 12 months
Launch Africa is a fund with the primary objective of unlocking the capital constraints of Seed Stage tech startups.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
  • Bosso — Bosso projects and realizes automation and robotic solutions for the growth of your business.
  • Maad — Maad is Francophone Africa's fastest-growing B2B marketplace, based in Dakar, Senegal. Our tech-driven solution allows retailers to order products from our one-stop shop and benefit from working capital loans
  • Wahu Mobility — Wahu Mobility is an open e-mobility platform that connects drivers, passengers, and goods in a simple, inclusive, transparent, nationwide, and multimodal manner.
Necessary Ventures VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States
Necessary Ventures focuses on investing in what the world needs. They work with the founders to build the most scalable solutions.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, Software
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • United States, Nigeria, Venezuela
Portfolio highlights
  • Plural Energy — Invest in high yielding clean energy infrastructure around the world on Plural. As little as $500 can deliver some of the highest returns on-chain
  • Magrathea — Magrathea Metals is a mining company that unlocks centuries of growth in human civilization by reducing the socioenvironmental impacts.
  • Rubi Laboratories — Rubi Laboratories turns carbon emissions into carbon-negative textiles for the fashion industry, with a proprietary synthetic biology technology.
Thelatest.ventures VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
thelatest.ventures partners with the leading investment firms across the globe to localise, launch or scale intuitively exceptional growth businesses. To create superior investment and societal impact returns.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Finance, Financial Services
  • Series A, Series B, Debt Financing
  • Nigeria, The Netherlands
Portfolio highlights
  • Moove — Moove is a mobility fintech that provides revenue-based vehicle financing to mobility entrepreneurs, democratizing vehicle ownership globally. The company embeds its alternative credit-scoring technology onto ride-hailing, logistics, and last-mile/instant delivery platforms, which allows access to proprietary performance and revenue analyticsof mobility entrepreneurs to underwrite loans.
  • Moove — Moove is a mobility fintech that provides revenue-based vehicle financing to mobility entrepreneurs, democratizing vehicle ownership across Africa.The company embeds its alternative credit-scoring technology onto ride-hailing and e-logistics platforms, which allows access to proprietary performance and revenue analytics of mobility entrepreneurs tounderwrite loans.Moove was founded by Ladi Delano and Jide Odunsi in 2019.
Left Lane Capital VC Fund · Brooklyn, New York, United States · 7 investments in the past 12 months
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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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Series A, Series B, Series D
  • United States, Germany, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Modal.io — Modal is a Mastery Platform that gives every employee the skills they need to do better work by teaching them the technical skills to understand the context or the 'why' and the 'how'' in every step of the process.
  • AstroTalk — AstroTalk is a platform to consult best Astrologers of India online, on-call, or through chat. The company was founded in 2017 and based in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India.
  • Pearl — Pearl is shaping the future of dentistry with a suite of FDA-cleared dental AI solutions, which dentists, practices, labs and insurers use to elevate the efficiency, accuracy and consistency of dental care around the world.
Accion Venture Lab VC Fund · Washington, District of Columbia, United States · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Accion Venture Lab is a leading early-stage investor in inclusive fintech, providing seed-first capital and strategic support to innovative startups that are meeting the financial needs of underserved people globally. Our global portfolio and local approach enable us to spot and respond to global trends faster, sharing learnings across geographies. Accion Venture Lab is an investment strategy of Accion and is managed by Accion Impact Management.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • India, United States, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
  • Semaai — Full-stack agri-tech solution for Indonesian farmers
  • AquaExchange — AquaExchange is a technology platform for shrimp and fish farmers.
  • Cashinvoice — Cashinvoice connects supply chain stakeholders and digitises invoice-to-cash processes to unlock working capital trapped within supply chains and accelerate business growth
Ground Squirrel Ventures VC Fund · Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Seed round investment in frontier markets and clean energy
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • United States, Kenya, Zambia
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.
Speedinvest VC Fund · Vienna, Wien, Austria · 39 investments in the past 12 months
Speedinvest is one of Europe’s most active early-stage investors, with more than €1bn AUM, 40 investors, and offices in Berlin, London, Munich, Paris, Vienna and San Francisco. Your success is our priority, so we don’t just send some money and "check in" at board meetings. Our mission is to empower you with game-changing support throughevery stage of your journey. Our focused investment teams know your industry inside and out. Their Deep Tech, Fintech, Industrial Tech, Network Effects, Digital Health and Subscriptions experience, know-how and deep networks are yours from day one. You also have full access to our in-house Platform+ team of operational experts who can provide tailored growth marketing, people (HR), US business development, and networking support throughout every stage of your journey.
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Investment focus
  • Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Germany, United Kingdom, Austria
Portfolio highlights
  • planqc — planqc quantum computers store information in individual atoms – nature's best qubits. Quantum information is processed by arranging these qubits in highly scalable arrays and manipulating them with precisely controlled laser pulses. planqc unique combination of quantum technologies is the fastest way to scale to thousands of qubits, aprerequisite for industry-relevant quantum advantage.
  • Prewave — Supplier monitoring for purchasing, supply chain management and sustainability managers.
  • forward earth — Next-Gen carbon management for a sustainable future. AI-driven, automated, compliant, fast, and secure. Be prepared for requirements of CSRD, SFRD, EU-Taxonomy, and kick-start your carbon reduction and abatement program. White-label options for partners.
Newid capital VC Fund · Alexandria, Virginia, United States
Newid Capital invests internationally in growth-oriented financial services companies serving the underbanked.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Credit
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • India, Kenya, Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • Lulalend — Meet Lula. Meet Opportunity. We provide SMEs with all-digital funding solutions and business banking accounts to make cash flow.
  • NOW Money — NOW Money is the UAE's first digital payroll and mobile bank service developed specifically for low income workers.
  • Apollo Agriculture — BRINGING COMMERCIAL FARMING TO EVERYONE Andrew, 3 acre maize farmer and Apollo customer
Tekton Ventures VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 4 investments in the past 12 months
TEKTON VENTURES is an international seed investment firm that partners at inception with forward looking company builders in leading technology hubs worldwide. The firm’s principals have over three decades of experience as early stage investors. Leveraging an extensive global network of entrepreneurs and investors, Tekton makes early stageinvestments in category defining companies in several strategic geographies around the world.Passionate entrepreneurs exist in many parts of the world. Tekton Ventures focuses its investments in two different places: Silicon Valley and selected technology centers ( London and Israel); and the fast growing mobile/digitally connected markets in Asia (China, Korea and India).Our approach to global investing rests on partnerships with local venture ecosystems: we have built long standing relationships with some of the best local seed and venture investors in our geographies of focus.We see our unique global perspective as important to build transformational companies and make that knowledge available across our entire community of entrepreneurs.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, South Korea, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • NG.CASH — NG.CASH is a digital app designed to help Generation Z become financially independent. It allows users to manage their own money with solutions such as PIX (Brazil’s “instant-payment” method), prepaid credit card, allowance management and a virtual card, in addition to features that let users customise the app’s design and a marketplace withdiscounts on Gen Z’s most desired brands. Structured as a financial hub, NG.CASH aims to accompany its clients throughout their lives and increase financial literacy in the region.
  • 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.
  • Lhoopa — Making homeownership achievable for every Filipino family.
Microtraction VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
We invest in Africa's most remarkable teams with technical founders at the earliest stage of their venture
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Software
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
  • Nigeria, United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Pennee — Yana Finance provides up to 50 million Naira for ambitious business owners, with NDIC insured accounts. Yana Finance aims to simplify financial operations for businesses, ensuring they never run out of money and can manage cash flows efficiently.
  • Clafiya — Discover Clafiya: Your trusted digital health platform, uniting in-person care and virtual solutions for a personalized and caring healthcare experience. Embrace a healthier, happier you, with us by your side.
  • Intron Health — Intron is the future of clinical documentation with real-time clinical speech-to-text for 200+ African accents, easing the transition to digitized care.
Partech VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 12 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • United States, France, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Payt — Payt is a cloud software company for debtor management and collection.
  • Presti — Photorealistic images of your furniture in seconds using AI
  • Roger (Sanos Group) — Roger develops and markets dental practice management software products for the dental industry.
Two Culture Capital VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
The art and science of entrepreneurship
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Financial Services, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, Mexico, India
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.
  • Trebellar — Trebellar provides advanced data analytics for building occupancy, energy efficiency, and climate optimization. Maximize your workplace productivity with our intelligent building solutions.
  • Operant — Operant.AI is an intelligence platform for collection agents and customer success teams.
Everywhere Ventures (The Fund) VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 24 investments in the past 12 months
Everywhere Ventures (The Fund) is a first-of-its-kind early-stage venture fund created ​by founders for founders​ to support the next generation of entrepreneurs.Everywhere Ventures is a community-powered venture investing platform that integrates the capital, expertise, and mentoring of experienced founders and operators across ten micro funds.The Fund's $50M+ under management comes almost exclusively from the over 500 founders and operators who are its limited partners. Everywhere Ventures operates from the belief that those who have actually built successful companies are best suited to advise and support early-stage startups. Everywhere Ventures invests in pre-seed deals globally usually in the first financing round the company raises. Emphasis is placed on purpose-driven teams across money, health and work verticals.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • United States, United Kingdom, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Ogram — Ogram provides temporary and part-time staffing solutions for business that are looking to grow and improve their workflow. Hire Waiters, Runners, Kitchen Staff, Retail Staff, Warehouse Staff, E-Pickers and more.
  • North.cloud — Automate your enterprise-grade cloud finance with zero effort. Our AI reduces your cloud bill by 50% without any risk, contracts, or technical work.
  • ThreeV Technologies, Inc. — End to End Inspection Lifecycle Management Platform using AI
Saison Capital VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 15 investments in the past 12 months
They invest in Seed to Series A companies across South East Asia and India. 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
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Singapore, Indonesia, India
Portfolio highlights
  • BSX — BSX is a trading company that offers specializes in options and perpetual futures trading.
  • Echelon — Echelon is a high-efficiency money market that allows users to borrow and lend assets via non-custodial pools, earning interest and increasing purchasing power through leverage.
  • Meridian — Meridian is a Movement-native decentralized liquidity marketplace and liquid staking system that allows users to trade and earn with their assets smoothly.
Ham Serunjogi Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Ham Serunjogi is a co-founder and CEO at Chipper Cash.
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Investment focus
  • Mobile Apps, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Nigeria, United States, South Africa
Portfolio highlights
  • Caliza — Give your users access to the digital dollar economy. Get early access!
  • Sudo — Sudo is an open API platform that enables businesses to embed powerful financial features into their products. Build in minutes, launch in days.
  • CreditChek — Bridging the trust gap between global credit businesses and underserved African consumers.
VentureSouq VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 6 investments in the past 12 months
VentureSouq operates a large co-investment platform with a global investment portfolio.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia
Portfolio highlights
  • Elevate Pay — Bloom mobile banking app helps in money transfer in Sudan.
  • LayerPixel — LayerPixel uses a modular design to overcome TON's asynchronous limitations and leverage its sharding benefits.
  • PostEx — PostEx is a hybrid of receivables factoring solutions and courier services that pay invoice values upfront to e-commerce companies offering Cash on Delivery as one of their modes of payment.
Idris Ayodeji Bello Angel
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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Investment focus
  • Software, FinTech, Mobile Apps
  • Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Nigeria, United States, Egypt
Portfolio highlights
  • Jem — We give employers the ability to send company-wide communications, deliver payslips, manage leave & give employees access to their earnings, via WhatsApp.
  • SimpliFi — SimpliFi is on a mission to democratize payments by building the leading Cards as a Service (CaaS) platform for MENA and Pakistan.
  • 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.
VilCap Investments VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States
VilCap Investments is an early-stage impact investing fund, backing companies addressing the most pressing social and environmental challenges.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, Health Care, FinTech
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • United States, India, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
  • Vexi — Vexi issues, operates and processes credit cards for young underbanked population on a mission to make credit accessible, through a 100% digital onboarding and unparalleled customer experience
  • SatSure — SatSure, they are on a mission to evolve crop insurance products and provide accurate risk assessment of crop yield by integrating climatic variables with geospatial and economic datasets.
  • Altro (fka Perch) — Perch Credit (also known as Perch), is a fin-tech mobile app that allows users to take common recurring expenses, such as their subscriptions & rent, and turn these into creditworthy data points. Perch is currrently live on iOS and plans to be on Android in the coming months.Perch recently graduated YC (S20) and closed 2.5M in their mostrecent round.
Future Africa VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Future Africa is a collective of mission-driven founders and funders building unicorns to solve Africa’s biggest challenges. They are build a future where purpose and prosperity are within everyone’s reach.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Nigeria, United States, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
  • Moove — Moove is a mobility fintech that provides revenue-based vehicle financing to mobility entrepreneurs, democratizing vehicle ownership globally. The company embeds its alternative credit-scoring technology onto ride-hailing, logistics, and last-mile/instant delivery platforms, which allows access to proprietary performance and revenue analyticsof mobility entrepreneurs to underwrite loans.
  • Itana — Talent City’s mission is to build a network of charter cities that focuses on creating technology-enabled jobs within a free trade zone with its own regulation and bylaws.
  • Filmmakers Mart — FilmmakersMart is Africa’s first film and entertainment marketplace where entertainment businesses and creatives find verified services seamlessly for their video productions while democratizing entry into the film and entertainment industry for emerging creatives. We’re building the operations system for the film and entertainment industry inAfrica.
P1 Ventures VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in the past 12 months
P1 Ventures works as a venture capital firm. They specialize in early-stage industrial technology firms in Africa.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, Payments, FinTech
  • Seed, Series B, Pre-Seed
  • Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
  • MNZL — MNZL is on a mission to expand access to capital for Egyptians.Every person who owns an asset has accumulated wealth in it. When they want liquidity for their projects and needs, they should be able to tap into it as easily as withdrawing from a bank.With an innovative digital platform and products, we are working on making digital access tocapital a reality, and building the future of asset-backed financing in Africa.
  • Lengo — Lengo is an AI based intelligence platform that offers a large database on consumer goods for companies in the FMCG sector.
  • Nkoloso — Nkoloso AI monitors Africa's natural resources 10x faster using AI and Robotics.
TEN13 VC Fund · Brisbane, Queensland, Australia · 4 investments in the past 12 months
TEN13 is Australia's leading Venture Capital Syndicate.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Australia, United States, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
  • iion — iion the only unified game advertising platform that unites brands and game publishers. Engage gamers, monetize effectively, and unlock infinite opportunities across gaming environments.
  • Everlab — The preventative health service of the future. Detect disease early, improve wellbeing, and optimise performance.
  • Switchboard — Switchboard is the fastest, easiest, most affordable way to integrate your supply chain and connect to all of your customers and suppliers. We can connect any supply chain system, including managing EDI.
Babs Ogundeyi Angel · Yaba, Lagos, Nigeria
Cofounder and CEO of Kuda
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • Nigeria, Zambia, Pakistan
Portfolio highlights
  • Zazuu — Zazuu is a platform for sending money across the border.
  • Curacel — Curacel creates APIs & tools that enable businesses to embed insurance in digital channels and to administer claims cost-effectively.
  • 24SEVEN — 24seven.pk is using tech and data to digitize and disrupt the fresh food and FMCG verticals in one of the fastest-growing and rapidly evolving consumer markets in the world.
Atlantica Ventures VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
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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Investment focus
  • Internet, B2B, Information Technology
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa
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.
  • Sendmarc — Stop cyber criminals from sending emails using your domain and protect your customers, suppliers and employees from cyber attacks with DMARC Security.
  • 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.
RaliCap VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in the past 12 months
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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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Mexico, Nigeria, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Fleet — Fleet is a mobility-as-a-Service software for enterprise transportation needs.
  • Revio — Subscription billing and payments made easy.
  • Circadian Technologies GmbH — Circadian Technologies accelerates the energy transition in frontier markets with a SaaS business model, empowering solar developers & energy service companies to reduce operating costs and grow revenue with a data driven platform and proprietary IoT hardware.Circadian transforms the entire value chain of its customers by uniquely providingan end-to-end solution to better design, finance, operate and maintain decentralized renewable energy systems for commercial & industrial sites.
Raba Partnership VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 3 investments in the past 12 months
The Raba Partnership, Raba Capital, Raba
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • South Africa, United States, Egypt
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.
  • Stitch — One API integration for all online payments across South Africa. Accept Pay by bank, debit + credit card, cash, manual EFT, debit order and crypto. Orchestrate + reconcile digital payments across methods and send payouts
  • Cleva — For anyone with global financial needs, A US-based dollar account in your name to receive, hold, and save USD, even as a non-US resident.
Golden Palm Investments VC Fund · Accra, Greater Accra, Ghana
Golden Palm Investments is an investment holding and advisory company.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, FinTech, Logistics
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Nigeria, Egypt, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
  • Sabipay — Pastel supports African businesses by offering tools that help manage their businesses and maximize efficiency.
  • 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 Africa is world class logistic company. We use our technology, networks, and systems to enable African businesses to quickly finance, manage and monitor their regional supply chains.
Olumide Soyombo Angel · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
Olumide Soyombo holds a BSc in Systems Engineering from University of Lagos, Nigeria and an MSc (Distinction) in Business and Information Technology from the Aston Business School, Birmingham, England; earning membership into the Beta Gamma Sigma Society for his high scholastic achievement.Olumide co–founded Bluechip Technologies Ltd in 2008 andhas grown the organisation from an organization with two employees to an organization with over 80 consultants spread across Lagos, Accra and Lusaka, Zambia.In 2014, Olumide setup Leadpath as a seed fund investing in local tech startups. He has invested in startups like Pushcv.com, Paystack, Piggybank.ng, Fashpa, Heels.com.ng , Delivery Science, Gloo.ng, and Cosign.co.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
  • Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Wealth8 — Wealth8 is a black-owned investment platform that provides a simple and affordable way for the black community to save & invest in globally managed funds.
  • 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.
  • The Gradient Boost — The Gradient Boost is an online mentor guided data science school. The Gradient Boost focus on delivering an online data science education from both a theoretical and practical perspective.
AfricInvest VC Fund · Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia
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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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, Manufacturing, FinTech
  • Funding Round, Private Equity, Series A
  • Tunisia, Morocco, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
  • Bizao — Bizao helps companies accept all local payment methods across Africa. We build powerful APIs and smart financial flows wich greatly simplify the challenge of accepting Mobile Money, Visa/Mastercard and Airtime payment. We power all types of businesses: local retailers, online merchants, international digital content providers, money transferoperators, microfinance institutions. Our objective: accelerate mobile payment adoption in order to support economic development across the continent
  • Turaco — Turaco develops simplified insurance and credit solutions through mobile technology to solve the healthcare financing needs. Turaco has simplified insurance products and also provides on-demand health loans, allowing customers to get healthcare at affordable monthly premiums.
  • Moove — Moove is a mobility fintech that provides revenue-based vehicle financing to mobility entrepreneurs, democratizing vehicle ownership globally. The company embeds its alternative credit-scoring technology onto ride-hailing, logistics, and last-mile/instant delivery platforms, which allows access to proprietary performance and revenue analyticsof mobility entrepreneurs to underwrite loans.
Olugbenga Agboola Angel
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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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Financial Services, Internet
  • Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Nigeria, Kenya, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • tushop — Tushop is a community group buying platform where members can sell groceries to those in their social networks and communities.
  • 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.
Sriram Krishnan Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 7 investments in the past 12 months
Sriram Krishnan is a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz where he invests in early stage consumer startups. Today, Sriram serves on the board of Hopin. Prior to joining a16z, Sriram held numerous senior product roles. Most recently, he led core consumer teams at Twitter where he was responsible for products including the home timeline, newuser experience, search, discovery, and audience growth. Before this, Sriram created and oversaw various mobile ad products for both Snap and Facebook, including Snap’s Direct Response ads business and the Facebook Audience Network, one of the largest networks in display advertising. Sriram started his career at Microsoft where he touched numerous projects related to Windows Azure. He is the author of "Programming Windows Azure" published by O'Reilly.Sriram writes actively at @sriramk on Twitter and at sriramk.com. Along with his wife Aarthi Ramamurthy, he also co-hosts The Good Time Show on Clubhouse, a nightly show through which they interview innovators around tech and culture.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, India, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Demox Labs — Demox Labs develops a decentralized, trustless oracle protocol for the connection of smart contracts to any off-chain data source. The company's data bridge from web2 to web3 unlocks all online data for smart contract development. Demox Labs was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Walnut Creek, California.
  • Lasso Labs — Lasso Labs is a data integration platform that provides real-time information flows that helps to stay current with new opportunities, and approachable analytics that helps in understanding of communities, by ingesting real-time data from on-chain and off-chain sources.
  • Aviator — Avoid broken builds, long code-reviews, cumbersome merge processes and flaky tests. Put your mundane, frustrating workflows on autopilot.
Visa VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 7 investments in the past 12 months
Visa is an American multinational financial services company that facilitates electronic payment systems throughout the world. The company operates the retail electronic payments network through the transfer of value and information among financial institutions, merchants, consumers, businesses, and government entities.Visa also provideselectronic payment, risk management, and payment security solutions to online merchants; digital goods transaction services in online games, digital media, and social networks; and mobile financial services for mobile network operators and financial institutions in developing economies.Visa’s global payment brands include Visa, Visa Electron, PLUS, and Interlink. Together they provide payment options through credit, debit, prepaid, and commercial programs in 200 countries and territories. Visa's global network, VisaNet, delivers value-added processing services such as fraud and risk management, dispute resolution, rewards, and other business-enhancing applications.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
  • Funding Round, Series B, Series C
  • United States, United Kingdom, Egypt
Portfolio highlights
  • Enfuce — Unlock growth with our card issuing solutions. Our expertise in issuer processing can turn your ambitious vision into a reality.
  • Clip — Clip is changing card acceptance in Mexico, offering different models of portable card-reading hardware to accept all credit and debit cards as well as other solutions. More than a device to accept all cards, Clip is an ally focused on empowering Mexican businesses.
  • Agrotoken — Agrotoken is a grain-backed, transactional digital asset used to save or exchange for supplies, services, and other assets. Agrotokens allow to carry out commercial and financial transactions with the direct support of the grains. Agrotoken creates a safe ecosystem to make trading grains easier, more efficient, and more reliable.Agrotoken isfocused on tokenization of commodities, smart contracts, and digital economy solutions for Agribusiness.
Everywhere Ventures (The Fund) VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 39 investments in the past 12 months
Everywhere Ventures (The Fund) is a first-of-its-kind early-stage venture fund created ​by founders for founders​ to support the next generation of entrepreneurs.Everywhere Ventures is a community-powered venture investing platform that integrates the capital, expertise, and mentoring of experienced founders and operators across ten micro funds.The Fund's $50M+ under management comes almost exclusively from the over 500 founders and operators who are its limited partners. Everywhere Ventures operates from the belief that those who have actually built successful companies are best suited to advise and support early-stage startups. Everywhere Ventures invests in pre-seed deals globally usually in the first financing round the company raises. Emphasis is placed on purpose-driven teams across money, health and work verticals.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, FinTech
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • United States, Australia, India
Portfolio highlights
  • SATIM — SATIM provides insights based on satellite radar data acquired regardless of weather and day/night time. Using developed software and algorithms SATIM can solve the problem of optimal information extraction from complex SAR imagery.
  • TitleWise — TitleWise develops software for real estate title research services. It provides a flexible tool for accurate digital reporting. It is created to modernize a central element of the real estate settlement process. From typed reports with quick turnarounds to legal descriptions, custom language according to the underwriter’s requirements, and easyupdates, TitleWise is ready to serve needs.
  • Efficient Capital Labs — Efficient Capital Labs provides capital in a fast, seamless & cost-effective manner to SaaS Businesses.
Aidi Ventures VC Fund
Aidi is an early-stage venture builder positioned to help early-stage founders attract smart capital, business opportunities, and sales.
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Investment focus
  • Finance, Product Design, Service Industry
  • Pre-Seed
  • Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
  • Frain technologies — We're passionate about the product delivery value chain.
  • CreditChek — Easily assess & verify credit worthiness in Africa.
  • ​Messenger — Messenger is a one-stop logistics platform that finances and aggregates end-to-end logistics and supply chain operations in order to assist businesses and logistics asset owners in achieving an efficient supply chain framework.
Mercy Corps Ventures VC Fund · Portland, Oregon, United States
Our impact investing arm, Mercy Corps Ventures (MCV), invests in and fuels high-impact enterprises that increase the resilience of people and communities in frontier markets.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, AgTech
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Kenya, United States, Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
  • Kofa — Kofa is an automotive company that utilizes the latest electric battery and motor technology. The company aims to develop an affordable, sustainable and customer driven electric network in transformative energy, transport, and climate change around the globe. Kofa was founded in Ghana and is headquartered in Accra.
  • Pivo — Pivo is an all-in-one financial services platform for businesses in the supply chain. Set up accounts, access credit and manage your finances in one simple application.
  • Open Forest Protocol — With Open Forest Protocol (OFP), measure, report, verify and fund forestation projects with digital transparency
Goodwater Capital VC Fund · Burlingame, California, United States · 67 investments in the past 12 months
Goodwater empowers exceptional entrepreneurs everywhere to change the world for the better. They believe consumer technology is a force on earth, shaping culture and transforming the global economy at unprecedented speed and scale. They invest in promising entrepreneurs to solve pressing problems. As a combined force, Goodwater companies are aglobal force for change, poised to measurably improve billions of lives.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, India, South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • Vendah — Social commerce platform democratizing the e-commerce in LATAM through local entrepreneurs
  • Zepto — India's fastest grocery delivery service.
  • TANGGapp — Send money to the Philippines with the best exchange rates! Money transfers are received in minutes. Get full transparency on your transaction - no FX markups or secret costs. Download TANGapp today and get started!
Palm Drive Capital VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 5 investments in the past 12 months
We are an NYC-based venture capital fund built on the belief that innovators are everywhere.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Series A, Seed, Funding Round
  • United States, Colombia, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • invygo — Invygo is MENA's first & largest car subscription service creating accessible mobility options through an all-inclusive monthly subscription, all in a seamless app-based experience.For consumers: we provide them access to passenger cars without any financial burdens through a customizable month-to-month subscription through a mobile appFor Dealers: through our technology, they get access to a new business model that helps them generate revenue and reduce their depreciation and operational cost The company was founded in 2018 by Eslam Hussein and Pulkit Ganjoo in Dubai, UAE.
  • GoFreight — GoFreight's award-winning Freight Forwarding Software empowers Freight Forwarders with an all-in-one cargo tracking solution that is easy to use and deploy.
  • Galactic Holdings — Galactic Holdings offers a series of digital finance products.
Verod Capital Management VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
Our Principals and team have strong background in executive management, direct investments, corporate finance, management consulting, and entrepreneurship. Verod builds companies with top-notch management teams, governance systems and business practices, enabling them grow into sector leaders. Using our industry and market knowledge, businessexpertise, operational skills, we have a proven track record of significantly increasing value of our portfolio companies. Verod uses an active, hands-on management policy to grow its portfolio companies into stronger and more profitable enterprises, while positioning the companies for a successful exit.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Finance, Financial Services
  • Series A, Funding Round
  • Nigeria, The Netherlands
Portfolio highlights
  • Moove — Moove is a mobility fintech that provides revenue-based vehicle financing to mobility entrepreneurs, democratizing vehicle ownership globally. The company embeds its alternative credit-scoring technology onto ride-hailing, logistics, and last-mile/instant delivery platforms, which allows access to proprietary performance and revenue analyticsof mobility entrepreneurs to underwrite loans.
  • Medplus — Medplus is a chain pharmacy retailer that offers health and beauty products.
  • Moove — Moove is a mobility fintech that provides revenue-based vehicle financing to mobility entrepreneurs, democratizing vehicle ownership across Africa.The company embeds its alternative credit-scoring technology onto ride-hailing and e-logistics platforms, which allows access to proprietary performance and revenue analytics of mobility entrepreneurs tounderwrite loans.Moove was founded by Ladi Delano and Jide Odunsi in 2019.
Future Perfect Ventures VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 3 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Blockchain, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, United Kingdom, India
Portfolio highlights
  • PYOR — PYOR has extensive expertise building in crypto and has played major roles in the creation of several large Indian unicorns, as well as extensive experience in global blue chip organisations.
  • Glystn — Glystn is a reliable platform for creator analytics and insights of any scale. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in SAN FRANCISCO, California.
  • CapStack — CapStack is a banking system that encourages collaboration among banks and financial services providers in order to boost asset profitability and diversification.
NBK Capital VC Fund · Safat, Al Kuwayt, Kuwait
Watani Investment Company KSCC (NBK Capital) was established in 2005 as the investment banking arm of National Bank of Kuwait (NBK), one of the largest financial institutions in the region with nearly USD 50 billion in total assets. Drawing on the parent bank's unrivaled financial strength, substantial organizational structure and storiedbanking heritage, we deliver an array of financial solutions in four principal business disciplines Alternative Investments, Asset Management, Brokerage & Research and Investment Banking.With in-depth knowledge of the region’s financial and regulatory environments, as well as its unique cultural dimensions, NBK Capital offers a robust and growing investment platform for clients and investors. Recognized for our customer-centric approach, proven processes and successful track record, we have within the span of last two years advised on over USD 7.4 billion in financing transactions and USD 2.5 billion in M&A transactions.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Finance, Financial Services
  • Series A, Funding Round
  • Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, The Netherlands
Portfolio highlights
  • Moove — Moove is a mobility fintech that provides revenue-based vehicle financing to mobility entrepreneurs, democratizing vehicle ownership globally. The company embeds its alternative credit-scoring technology onto ride-hailing, logistics, and last-mile/instant delivery platforms, which allows access to proprietary performance and revenue analyticsof mobility entrepreneurs to underwrite loans.
  • Amo Hamza — Amohamza Seafood Restaurant
  • Moove — Moove is a mobility fintech that provides revenue-based vehicle financing to mobility entrepreneurs, democratizing vehicle ownership across Africa.The company embeds its alternative credit-scoring technology onto ride-hailing and e-logistics platforms, which allows access to proprietary performance and revenue analytics of mobility entrepreneurs tounderwrite loans.Moove was founded by Ladi Delano and Jide Odunsi in 2019.
Helios Investment Partners VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom
Helios Investment Partners is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in buyouts of going concerns, recapitalization, mezzanine, growth capital for private enterprises, restructurings joint ventures, startups; either green-field or brownfield; and the majority or blocking-minority structured investments in listed entities. It seeksto invest in the telecommunications, media, financial services, power, utilities, travel, leisure, distribution, fast-moving consumer goods, logistics, and Agro-allied sectors. The firm prefers to invest in Africa with a focus on Nigeria, South Africa, and Kenya. It seeks to invest between $15 million and $200 million in an individual transaction. The firm prefers to have a board seat in its portfolio companies. Helios Investment Partners LLP was founded in 2004 and is based in London, United Kingdom.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, Energy, Oil and Gas
  • Private Equity, Debt Financing, Funding Round
  • Nigeria, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Thunes — Pay, Accept, Exchange, Comply: white-label payment solutions for any use case. Real-time, interoperable payments in 130 countries via our direct network.
  • Africell Holding — Africell was established in 2001 in Africa and has been shaped by traditional African values, putting the communities in their markets at the heart and soul of our business. Connecting and empowering local communities lies at the very core of our strategy. Africell is one of the fastest-growing mobile telecommunications operators in Africa. Theyhave established theirselves as the number one provider in Gambia and Sierra Leone and are rapidly growing our newer operations in Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Uganda, where we purchased Orange Uganda. Africell Holding owns 100% of Africell’s operations in Gambia, Sierra Leone, DRC, and 98.99% of Africell Uganda. The total number of active subscribers reached 11 million by end of 2016. All four operations offer voice and 3G data services with plans to deploy LTE services, which are already available in Kampala, Uganda.
  • Zola Electric — ZOLA Electric designs renewable energy solutions based on the latest in solar, battery and power electronics technology. Adaptable to energy need and income, ZOLA Electric’s solar systems can be bought over time using PAYGo micro-finance leasing and mobile money payments. ZOLA Electric powers more than 180,000 homes and businesses across Tanzania,Rwanda, Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana. Investors include Tesla, Vulcan Capital, DBL Partners, Helios Investment Partners, EDF, Total and GE Ventures. ZOLA Electric is a recipient of the UN Momentum for Change Award, the Zayed Future Energy Prize and is a member of the Global Cleantech 100.
Tom Stafford Angel · Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
Tom is a Co-Founder at DST Global, an internet-focused investment firm with a global focus.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
  • Series A, Series B, Series C
  • United Kingdom, Germany, France
Portfolio highlights
  • Even — Even is a health tech company and healthcare provider that partners directly with the top hospitals in the country to offer you unlimited diagnostics, consultations, and 50 lakh worth of hospitalisations all with one monthly subscription cost.
  • Fuse Energy — Fuse Energy is building the future of electricity with cheaper tariffs, better service, and greener goals. Switch to Fuse Energy today
  • Surfboard — Surfboard WFM features integrated forecasting, capacity planning, automated scheduling and performance analytics for modern support teams.
Century Oak Capital VC Fund · Vaduz, Vaduz, Liechtenstein
Century Oak Capital GmbH is a venture capital firm specializing in early-stage investments in Europe and Emerging Markets.
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Investment focus
  • Retail, E-Commerce, Software
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Pakistan, Kenya, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Unbox — Unbox is the branded commerce operating system for SMEs helping them to sell online and increase their sales. We provide a ready to sell platform that allows entrepreneurs to digitize their business in less than 5 minutes - fully integrated with social commerce channels and our payment and shipping solutions, helping SMEs to save costs andcentralizing sales into a single platform.
  • SnappRetail — SnappRetail aims to create the largest virtual retail franchise across Pakistan, through deployment of its POS hardware/software, focusing on:1. Traditional trade Analytics for brands and retailers 2. Order Aggregation for manufacturers and distributors 3. Payment Solution for customers 4. Fintech enablement for small merchantsTheSnappRetail POS application has been carefully curated keeping the retailer in mind, the application focuses on digitizing his shop operations and cash flow and creating a real-time tertiary sales data lake.
  • Dastgyr Technologies — Making trade and capital seamless and reliable
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