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Top 50 Finance Startup Investors in South Africa (July 2026)

The most active venture capital funds and angel investors investing in South Africa Finance startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in South Africa Finance startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Maven 11 Capital
VC Fund
5 United States, United Kingdom, Germany Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services $525k–$43M
1kx
VC Fund
4 United States, Germany, Switzerland Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software $1.8M–$28M
Sound Ventures
VC Fund
3 United States, Canada, Israel Series A, Seed, Series B Software, FinTech, Financial Services $2M–$105M
Kleiner Perkins
VC Fund
3 United States, China, United Kingdom Series B, Series A, Series C Software, Information Technology, Health Care $5M–$110M
Scalar Capital
VC Fund
3 United States, Canada, Israel Seed, Series A Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency $1.5M–$30M
Reciprocal Ventures
VC Fund
3 United States, Canada, Germany Seed, Series A, Series B Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Financial Services $2.3M–$50M
Launch Africa
VC Fund
2 Nigeria, South Africa, United States Seed, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology $200k–$4M
Wintermute
VC Fund
2 United States, Singapore, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services $3M–$50M
Imvelo Ventures
VC Fund
2 South Africa Seed, Series B Software, FinTech, Financial Services $570k–$2M
The LAO
VC Fund
2 United States, Switzerland, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services $1.1M–$30M
Merrill Lynch
VC Fund
2 United States, India, United Kingdom Series B, Series C Software, Information Technology, Internet $10M–$85M
CRE Venture Capital
VC Fund
2 Nigeria, South Africa, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, Software, FinTech $250k–$25M
Ingressive Capital
VC Fund
1 Nigeria, United States, Egypt Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology $25k–$15M
4Di Capital
VC Fund
1 South Africa, United States, Kenya Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Financial Services, Mobile $527k–$47M
Norrsken Foundation
VC Fund
1 Nigeria, United States, Rwanda Pre-Seed, Seed Financial Services, Health Care, FinTech $125k–$4M
Youcef Oudjidane
Angel
1 United States, Nigeria, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Payments $120k–$23M
Kepple Africa Ventures
VC Fund
1 Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt Seed, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Software $300k–$4.5M
54 Collective
VC Fund
1 Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa Seed, Pre-Seed Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech $40k–$4M
Quona Capital
VC Fund
1 India, Brazil, Indonesia Series A, Seed, Series B Financial Services, FinTech, Finance $3M–$87M
Olugbenga Agboola
Angel
1 Nigeria, Kenya, United States Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Finance $625k–$7.5M
Zip
VC Fund
1 India, South Africa, Czech Republic Series C, Corporate Round FinTech, Payments, Mobile Payments $20M–$50M
RaliCap
VC Fund
1 United States, Mexico, Nigeria Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Financial Services, FinTech, Payments $313k–$5.5M
Sherpa Africa Partners
VC Fund
1 Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa Pre-Seed, Seed Financial Services, Finance, FinTech $50k–$6M
Unicorn Growth Capital
VC Fund
1 Kenya, United States, South Africa Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Finance $1M–$5.3M
Bloccelerate VC
VC Fund
1 United States, Switzerland, Germany Seed, Series A, Series B Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
Placeholder
VC Fund
1 United States, United Kingdom, Cayman Islands Series A, Seed Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology $2M–$38M
Emerging Capital Partners
VC Fund
1 France, Nigeria, Morocco Private Equity, Post-IPO Equity Telecommunications, Energy, Finance $15k–$35M
BREEGA
VC Fund
1 France, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Series A Software, FinTech, Financial Services $1.1M–$24M
UNCOVERED FUND
VC Fund
1 Nigeria, Kenya, United States Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce $1.5M–$20M
Raba Partnership
VC Fund
1 United States, South Africa, Egypt Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Finance $635k–$32M
Collab+Currency
VC Fund
1 United States, Canada, Singapore Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software $2M–$50M
Gauss Ventures
VC Fund
1 United Kingdom, Malta, Germany Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Banking $390k–$4M
Knife Capital
VC Fund
1 South Africa, United States, Kenya Series A, Seed Software, Education, Manufacturing $2M–$30M
Naspers Foundry
VC Fund
1 South Africa, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Financial Services, Farming, Software $854k–$15M
4DX Ventures
VC Fund
1 Egypt, South Africa, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Logistics $50k–$40M
Alan Rutledge
Angel
1 United States, India, Mexico Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B Financial Services, FinTech, Software $600k–$8M
R-Ventures
VC Fund
1 Senegal, South Africa Seed Banking, FinTech, Finance
Global Founders Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, Germany, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, Software, FinTech $637k–$32M
FINCA Ventures
VC Fund
1 Kenya, Nigeria, Mexico Grant, Seed, Series A Financial Services, Agriculture, AgTech $40k–$4.2M
Still Capital Partners
VC Fund
1 United States, South Africa Series A FinTech, Banking, Finance
Qualica Technologies (Pty) Ltd
VC Fund
1 South Africa Pre-Seed Apps, Banking, FinTech
Beryl Group
VC Fund
1 South Africa Banking, FinTech, Finance
Bashar Hamood
Angel
1 United States, Nigeria, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
RaiCap
VC Fund
1 South Africa Pre-Seed Credit, Finance, Financial Services
Flamingo DAO
VC Fund
1 United States, Austria, Croatia Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Information Technology, Cryptocurrency
Hesham Zreik
Angel
1 United States, India, Nigeria Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
Wintermute Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, Singapore, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
AlphaCode Club
VC Fund
1 South Africa, United Kingdom Grant, Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Finance $26k–$7.2M
Animoca Brands
VC Fund
1 United States, United Kingdom, Singapore Seed, Series A Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency $1.5M–$40M
Venture Capital Studio
VC Fund
1 South Africa Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Information Technology, FinTech, Finance $262k–$10M
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Maven 11 Capital
VC Fund · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands · 5 investments in South Africa Finance startups, 15 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 125
  • Round size: Seed $1.9M–$10M; Pre-Seed $525k–$4M; Series A $5M–$43M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% 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.
  • Valinor
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1kx
VC Fund · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands · 4 investments in South Africa Finance startups, 7 in the past 12 months

1kx is an early-stage investment firm focused on ecosystem growth.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Germany, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 162
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$11M; Series A $6M–$28M
  • Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Bluff
  • Cryptio — We offer enterprise-grade accounting, reporting, and audit software for your digital assets.
  • Kulipa — Kulipa provides the underlying infrastructure to settle global payments, manage stablecoin accounts, and issue cards - all through a unified, compliant stack. Grow revenue with debit cards. Boost acquisition with white-labelled accounts & cards. Scale faster with global payment products.
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Sound Ventures
VC Fund · Beverly Hills, California, United States · 3 investments in South Africa Finance startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 210
  • 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.
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Kleiner Perkins
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 3 investments in South Africa Finance startups

Kleiner Perkins is an American venture capital firm headquartered on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park in Silicon Valley.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: United States, China, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1156
  • Round size: Series A $5M–$48M; Series B $10M–$74M; Series C $12M–$110M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Athens Research — Open-Source Roam Research. A private, extensible, and community-driven knowledge graph.
  • Peloton — Access high-energy indoor cycling workouts instantly. Discover the Peloton bike: the only exercise bike streaming indoor cycling classes to your home live and on-demand.
  • Miaozhen Systems — Beijing second hand information company (秒针信息) is a provider and evaluator of digital advertising solutions through cloud computing, cloud storage, and artificial intelligence technology. It is also the first digital advertising effect evaluation enterprise specializing in target audiences in China.Founded in 2006, Beijing second handinformation company solves the problem of contact effect of online advertisement by arrival rate, effective frequency, internet gross rating points, audience features, and provides an inter-media effect evaluation and optimization tool.
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Scalar Capital
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in South Africa Finance startups

Crypto investment firm. Austin, TX.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 38
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$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
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Reciprocal Ventures
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 3 investments in South Africa Finance startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 79
  • Round size: Seed $2.3M–$9M; Series A $6M–$28M; Series B $12M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Coinflow Labs — Tech-driven payments solutions for your business
  • Ceramic Network — Ceramic Network is a provider of protocols for decentralized and composable data applications. The network decentralizes application databases, making data universally composable and reusable across applications. It consists of three core parts: a highly-scalable, decentralized infrastructure for data availability and consensus, a marketplace ofcommunity-created data models, and a suite of standard APIs for storing, updating, and retrieving data from those models.
  • Blockworks — Blockworks is a financial media brand that delivers breaking news and premium insights about digital assets to millions of investors. Our editorial content, newsletters, podcasts and events provide investors with the critical analysis and information they need to make smarter decisions about digital assets.
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Launch Africa
VC Fund · Ebène, Plaines Wilhems, Mauritius · 2 investments in South Africa Finance startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 178
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$4M; Pre-Seed $200k–$1.8M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $36M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Yamify — Yamify is an AI platform where intelligent agents reliably run mission-critical business workflows in Africa. Founded by Silicon Valley engineers, our platform automates complex operations by integrating humans, systems, and infrastructure reliably, even under connectivity, latency, and compliance challenges. Starting with on-prem deployments,Yamify is evolving into a full AI automation infrastructure for African enterprises.
  • Shopstar — A place for makers and creators to start, manage and grow successful online stores. Our built-in design, payment and shipping methods provide you with an all in one solution. Get started with a free 14-day trial.
  • Kashat — The region's first nano financial service provider, offering small productive loans, and serving as the entry point to financial inclusion for the un- and underbanked population in Egypt.
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Wintermute
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in South Africa Finance startups

A leading algorithmic trading firm focused on building liquid and efficient markets in digital assets.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 90
  • Round size: Seed $3M–$18M; Series A $5M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $20M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • BULK Trade — One Exchange Infinite Markets
  • Pave Bank — The world's first multi-asset and programmable bank
  • Nova Markets — Nova Markets is an on-chain capital and prediction market infrastructure project.
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Imvelo Ventures
VC Fund · Sandown, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 2 investments in South Africa Finance startups

Imvelo Ventures is a venture capital and growth equity firm in South Africa managed by Capitec Bank.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series B
  • Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $570k–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 86% lead, 14% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Botlhale AI — Botlhale AI allows to build, train, test, and deploy multilingual conversational AI. Botlhale AI is a research and innovation start-up that specializes in conversational AI. Computer systems have become an integral part of everyday lives and as a result, natural spoken language is the desired form of human-computer interaction.
  • Acumen Software
  • The Cape Town Stock Exchange — The Cape Town Stock Exchange is a south Africa’s stock exchange for small- and medium-sized businesses.
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The LAO
VC Fund · 2 investments in South Africa Finance startups

The LAO is a global group of Ethereum enthusiasts and experts supporting the work of Ethereum builders.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 91
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$8M; Series A $4.4M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Bio.xyz — Bio.xyz is a Community and Marketplace e-commerce Company Founded on 2025 in New York, United States.
  • Recall Labs — Textile is building new digital experiences by focusing on user privacy, transparency, and decentralization.
  • Blackbird — We believe the next great hospitality technology platform should connect restaurants and their customers directly, in meaningful and ongoing ways. Blackbird is founded by a team with a passion for restaurants and a track record of using technology to solve problems.
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Merrill Lynch
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in South Africa Finance startups

Merrill Lynch Wealth Management has the financial advisors and expertise to help you achieve your goals at any stage of your life or career.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Internet
  • Stage:Series B, Series C
  • Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 90
  • Round size: Series B $10M–$80M; Series C $10M–$85M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2015

Portfolio highlights

  • Pharmacierge — Pharmacierge is the digital e-prescribing service chosen by private clinicians to deliver medication to their patients throughout the UK and worldwide. Clinicians create and transfer e-prescriptions to our pharmacy near London's Harley Street, for free delivery to their patients either the same day or next weekday
  • Eldorado Gold Corp. — Eldorado is a global gold mining company with a local operating philosophy.
  • Banco de Occidente, S.A. — Banco de Occidente is the fifth largest bank in Colombia by asset level and portfolio at June 30, 2016. It has national coverage and a portfolio of integrated products and services, offered through a network of 241 offices and 336 ATMs 9,671 banking correspondents and other features.
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CRE Venture Capital
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in South Africa Finance startups

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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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 60
  • Round size: Seed $300k–$5M; Pre-Seed $250k–$3.3M; Series A $1.1M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Flood — Flood is a marketplace platforms that provides merchant solution, self services and big data solution.
  • Letly — Letly is developing an AI‑driven platform for the rental property market that automates tasks related to managing rental listings and tenant interactions. It aims to use intelligent agents to handle tasks such as scheduling viewings, responding to inquiries, and optimizing property management workflows. The platform is currently in a waitlistphase, signaling ongoing development and private access only.
  • Cutstruct — Cutstruct is your one source for bulk construction materials purchase. Get the best prices for cement, steel, granite, sharp sand wood, and more.
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Ingressive Capital
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 1 investments in South Africa Finance startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 73
  • 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.
  • Eduflexx AI — EduFlexAI is an AI-driven ed-tech platform that personalizes learning by adapting school curriculums to individual student needs. Using advanced machine learning, real-time analytics, and AI-powered tools, EduFlexAI enhances engagement, improves academic performance, and optimizes teacher efficiency. Our mission is to make quality education morepersonalized, inclusive, and accessible for students worldwide.
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4Di Capital
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in South Africa Finance startups

4Di Capital is an independent seed- and early-stage technology venture capital firm based in Cape Town, South Africa.Nurture capital is the term that best describes 4Di Capitalâ€:tm:s purpose and philosophy.We understand that in the early days of any business, support, mentoring and access to networks is just as important as seed capital.Using tried and tested international venture capital best practices, adapted for local use, we believe in entrepreneur-friendly finance without frills, and in working as a team with our investments to achieve their true potential.4Di Capital Early-Stage Technology Fund 1 targets startup investment opportunities with high growth potential at the seed- and early-stages in the mobile, enterprise software and web sectors.We look for founder teams with hungry passion, commitment, domain expertise and deep insights into the large market problems they wish to solve with their technology solutions.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Financial Services, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: South Africa, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 41
  • Round size: Seed $527k–$7.3M; Pre-Seed $1.8M–$4M; Series A $2M–$47M
  • Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • VALR — Buy and sell bitcoin, ethereum & more | Pay anyone for free with VALR Pay
  • Investsure — InvestSure is a technology company that uses its software to enable partner investment platforms to sell its unique Investment Indemnity (insurance) product to their clients. InvestSure provides a full set of APIs that trading platform developers can use to integrate the Investure Investment Indemnity product seamlessly and easily into theirwebsites and mobile applications. Once InvestSure technology is added to a trading platform, it enables users to buy insurance on their shares with a single click. The full process from buying to insurance to settling claims is fully automated.The Investment Indemnity product itself is a unique innovation; it is designed to protect to protect shareholders against any losses in share value caused by actual or perceived fraud committed by management. This enables investors to secure their investments. The cost of the product is low enough to not significantly reduce returns of investors where no insurance event occurs, but to provide significant downside protection where an insured event does occur.
  • CompariSure — Custom, built-for-purpose service and sales chatbot solutions for financial services providers.
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Norrsken Foundation
VC Fund · Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden · 1 investments in South Africa Finance startups

Norrsken Foundation is non-profit organization solving problems such as poverty, famine, environmental issues and mental health.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Health Care, FinTech
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, Rwanda

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 18
  • Round size: Seed $125k–$4M; Pre-Seed $125k–$1.1M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • RYE — RYE is a members-only, low-cost green energy supplier built for businesses with no time to deal with energy suppliers. Always accurate energy or it's free
  • Eden Care Medical — Eden Care Medical is a mobile application that provides medical and health insurance as well as financial services.
  • 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.
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Youcef Oudjidane
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Finance startups

Youcef Oudjidane is the Founder and Managing Partner of BYLD and the Co-Founder and Chairman of Elevate (YC W22).

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$10M; Pre-Seed $120k–$5M; Series A $23M–$23M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • FloatPays — Floatpays help your employees achieve financial wellbeing by giving them early access to earned wages.
  • Genei — genei is a intelligent research tool enabling you to improve productivity by using a custom AI algorithm to summarise articles, analyse research and find key information, instantly.
  • Next Gen Foods — Next Gen Foods is a food-tech startup that offers plant-based meat products. They use plants to create a delicious and satisfying meat experience that will make forget animal meat even exists.
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Kepple Africa Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in South Africa Finance startups

We back exceptional founders in and from Africa who are addressing deep gaps between the status quo and the ideal.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 78
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$4.5M; Pre-Seed $300k–$3.4M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Intmax — INTMAX has developed significant innovations in ZK implementation making it a unique Layer2 rollup network that offers low cost, security, tunable privacy, and above all, scalability.
  • TIBU Health — TIBU Health is a disruptive HealthTech logistics company that provides high-quality healthcare services.
  • Onboard — Onboard helps hardware companies transform their text manuals to 3D, intelligent manuals with instant customer support capabilities.
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54 Collective
VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in South Africa Finance startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 108
  • Round size: Seed $40k–$4M; Pre-Seed $40k–$1.3M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Yeah — Yeah is a financial technology company that offers payment processing services while building a credit profile for the banked and unbanked.
  • REasy — Top up locally, pay suppliers globally, and manage international shipments with REasy. Fast, secure, and designed for African businesses expanding worldwide.
  • Konnect — Konnect provides a cross borders payment solution intended to simplify complex financial flows allowing companies of any scale and size to send and receive payments in a practical, secure, and low-cost way.
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Quona Capital
VC Fund · Washington, District of Columbia, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Finance startups

Quona Capital invests in fintech innovators that are advancing financial inclusion around the globe. Through our investments, Quona aims to deliver outstanding financial returns while making a lasting and positive impact on the world.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 192
  • Round size: Seed $3M–$10M; Series A $3.6M–$25M; Series B $8M–$87M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $332M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • AllLife — AllLife is the only South African insurer of people living with HIV/AIDs. Sadly, prior to AllLife, many HIV patients would be told their lives were un-insurable. Now AllLife tells that they can lead long, productive lives – so much so that they’ll insure it.
  • Franq — Hyperlocal and phygital marketplace that connects financial products to retail & SME customers with the support of a baking agent.
  • Twinco Capital — Twinco Capital provides suppliers, both large and small, with access to affordable funding and helps buyers build a competitive and socially responsible supply chain. Twinco Capital is the first company to have successfully launched this type of supply chain financing, offering to finance as early as the time of issuance of purchase orders.purchase.
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Olugbenga Agboola
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Finance startups

Olugbenga Agboola is based out of San Francisco, California, and is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Flutterwave. Olugbenga previously worked at Access Bank as a Head of Digital Factory and Innovation. Olugbenga Agboola attended EC-Council University. Olugbenga Agboola has been a Certified Ethical Hacker and a Security Analyst.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 28
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$7.5M; Pre-Seed $625k–$3.7M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Terra Industries — Terra Industries develops autonomous security systems and software platforms that support the monitoring and protection of physical assets, infrastructure, and operational environments across land, air, and maritime domains. The company provides unmanned vehicles, autonomous towers, and sensor-based surveillance hardware that collect and transmitdata for continuous situational awareness. Its software layer, built around an integrated operating system, processes sensor inputs, applies artificial intelligence models, and coordinates automated responses to detected events. Terra Industries designs its systems to support functions such as perimeter security, infrastructure monitoring, asset tracking, and threat detection within complex operational settings. The company’s platforms enable operators to manage multiple autonomous devices through a unified interface that supports mission planning, data visualization, and system control. Its technology is used by organizations that require coordinated security, monitoring, and response capabilities for facilities, remote sites, and distributed operations.
  • Lorum Finance
  • Fuse Financial Technologies — Financial APIs for building products in the Middle East.
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Zip
VC Fund · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · 1 investments in South Africa Finance startups

Zip is an online payments technology provider that offers consumers credit options for online shopping. The company was founded in 2013 by Larry Diamond, Niamh Mc Enaney, and Peter Gray and is headquartered in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Payments, Mobile Payments
  • Stage:Series C, Corporate Round
  • Geography: India, South Africa, Czech Republic

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Series C $20M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 80% lead, 20% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Payflex — Payflex is an online payment product that enables shoppers to shop now and pay in 4 equal installments.
  • ZestMoney — Enjoy the convenience of shopping for electronic gadgets, fashion, travel, education on EMI without credit card. No debit card or credit score required!
  • Twisto — Twisto is on a mission to challenge the status quo of everyday finances via exceptional customer experience by being at the forefront in delivering cutting edge technology. Pay simply, fast and securely.
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RaliCap
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Finance startups

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

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 61
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$5.5M; 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.
  • Cata — Launch your branded mobile app for ordering, CRM & loyalty. Increase order frequency & basket size. Learn how Cata can scale your business!
  • Gangkhar Inc
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Sherpa Africa Partners
VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya · 1 investments in South Africa Finance startups

A venture fund for pre-seed startups in Africa, led by Startup Operators, backed by Startup Operators.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, 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.
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Unicorn Growth Capital
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Finance startups

Propelling category-leading companies fueling a new and inclusive digital economy

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Kenya, United States, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$5.3M; Pre-Seed $1.7M–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Fig Finance — We're closing the credit gap. We connect global and local lenders, with the strongest emerging market businesses.
  • Bitmama — Bitmama is the best cryptocurrency trading platform that lets you buy, sell Bitcoin, ETH, Celo, USDT, XRP, and more. Available in Nigeria & over 100 countries.
  • Touch and Pay Technologies — Mobile payment & services via NFC Technology
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Bloccelerate VC
VC Fund · Seattle, Washington, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Finance startups

Bloccelerate VC Investment Thesis Enterprise Blockchain Focus Areas Team Writings

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Switzerland, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 35
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Rover — Rover is a liquid staking protocol on Botanix that exchanges Bitcoin for rovBTC.
  • Tally — Tally is a DAO operations platform. DAOs use Tally to create and pass proposals, enable delegation, and power voting.
  • Validation Cloud — Discover enterprise-grade staking and node infrastructure: Ethereum, Polygon, and more. Enjoy secure, fast, and reliable staking and node services with Validation Cloud.
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Placeholder
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Finance startups

Placeholder is a venture capital firm that invests in decentralized networks and web services.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Cayman Islands

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 85
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$8.5M; Series A $6M–$38M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Zerion — Zerion is an investing app that enables anyone, anywhere in the world, to access a suite of new financial products and services built on the backbone of decentralized finance (DeFi). Simple, user-centered design is combined with a powerful tech stack that aggregates across every major decentralized exchange, offering users a single point of entryfor managing their digital assets with ease. Zerion is non-custodial, which means users never delegate their funds to the platform. This agile approach mitigates centralization risk and has allowed Zerion to operate globally since inception.
  • Ceramic Network — Ceramic Network is a provider of protocols for decentralized and composable data applications. The network decentralizes application databases, making data universally composable and reusable across applications. It consists of three core parts: a highly-scalable, decentralized infrastructure for data availability and consensus, a marketplace ofcommunity-created data models, and a suite of standard APIs for storing, updating, and retrieving data from those models.
  • Avantgarde Finance — Creating better experiences for aspiring asset managers & their investors by providing easy access to new superior financial infrastructure
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Emerging Capital Partners
VC Fund · Washington, District of Columbia, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Finance startups

ECP is a private equity group dedicated to investing in Africa.They are a pan-African private equity firm that has raised over US$2 billion for investment across the African continent, including the Francophone regions. They have put their investors’ capital to work in over 40 countries in all major regions of the continent, directly supportingover 50,000 jobs.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Telecommunications, Energy, Finance
  • Stage:Private Equity, Post-IPO Equity
  • Geography: France, Nigeria, Morocco

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 36
  • Round size: Private Equity $10M–$32M; Post-IPO Equity $15k–$35M
  • Lead/follow: 81% lead, 19% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $750M in 2014

Portfolio highlights

  • Eranove — The Eranove group counts more than 9000 employees all engaged in developping hydroelectric solutions to allow all the pan african citizens to access electricity and drinking water
  • Allego — Discover the benefits of EV charging. Find out how Allego electric vehicle charging stations can enhance convenience and reduce emissions.
  • Zipline International — Zipline operates the world's largest autonomous on-demand delivery system with the industry's leading instant logistics technology stack.
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BREEGA
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in South Africa Finance startups

VCs use all sorts of tricks to attract the best companies. We do too. But as founders, we know that the main reason you choose an investor to be a part of your journey is because you like them. You trust them. Their values align with yours.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 143
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$7.3M; Series A $4.2M–$24M
  • Lead/follow: 62% lead, 38% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $165M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • CrowdSec — CrowdSec is an open-source and collaborative security stack leveraging the crowd power. Analyze behaviors, respond to attacks & share signals across the community. Join the community and le's make the Internet safer, together.
  • Ubble.ai — ubble helps businesses fight against fraud with its frictionless online identity verification service that uses exclusive video live streaming and A.I. technology.
  • Send — Send is a commercial insurance platform that connects underwriting data, workflows, and decisions for commercial and specialty insurers.
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UNCOVERED FUND
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in South Africa Finance startups

UNCOVERED FUND is a venture capital firm that leads the creation of industries in Africa and other emerging countries.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 29
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$3.7M; Series A $2.2M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $15M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Sylndr — Sylndr is an automotive focused e-commerce marketplace bringing innovation to the used-cars market, where customers can reliably and transparently sell and buy used cars. The company is aiming to build trust in the used-car market by becoming the go-to place for customers seeking to sell and buy their cars, through an extensive range ofhigh-quality used vehicles accessible across a diverse set of financing solutions.
  • 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
  • Mecho — Mecho is an on-demand auto repair and maintenance platform for individuals and businesses in Africa.
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Raba Partnership
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in South Africa Finance startups

The Raba Partnership, Raba Capital, Raba

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, South Africa, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 57
  • 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

  • Thndr — Thndr is a financial services company that operates an app-based investment platform.It comes with 0% commission, no account minimum, access to market data, easy account setup, and funding processes. Users can also get access to the latest news, market data, and other educational tools. Seif Amr established the company in 2020 in Cairo, AlQahirah, Egypt.
  • Ezeebit — Ezeebit is a payment solutions provider that enables African merchants to accept cryptocurrency payments both in-store and online. The platform processes transactions quickly and automatically converts the cryptocurrency into stablecoins to eliminate volatility risk. Funds are then settled into the merchant's local currency account, typicallySouth African Rand (ZAR), on the next business day. The company offers multi-currency support for popular cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum and maintains compliance with financial regulatory bodies.
  • Letly — Letly is developing an AI‑driven platform for the rental property market that automates tasks related to managing rental listings and tenant interactions. It aims to use intelligent agents to handle tasks such as scheduling viewings, responding to inquiries, and optimizing property management workflows. The platform is currently in a waitlistphase, signaling ongoing development and private access only.
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Collab+Currency
VC Fund · Eugene, Oregon, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Finance startups

Collab+Currency is a crypto-focused venture fund that backs early-stage projects developing the next generation of financial infrastructure, culture, and human organization.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 94
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$10M; Series A $5M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • NFTfi — NFTfi allows borrowers to use the NFTs they own to access the liquidity they need - in a safe, secure and anonymous way. Lenders can earn attractive yields efficiently and have the chance to obtain rare assets at a steep discount in case of loan defaults.
  • Share — Share XYZ is an information technology service provider
  • Limited — Secure your treasury and scale your business globally with a truly self-custodial account that only you control. No banks. No middlemen.
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Gauss Ventures
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in South Africa Finance startups

Backing high-impact technologies that reshape industries Building growth

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Banking
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Malta, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Seed $390k–$4M
  • Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Capitalise.com — At Capitalise, our vision is to give small businesses and their advisers transparency and control over business finance, in one place.
  • Bettr — Bettr is a digital banking app for creator. Download the app to get your zero monthly fee digital bank account and virtual card. Join our community of creators, gamers, influencers, freelancers, tiktokkers, streamers, YouTubers and digital gig workers.
  • Zilch — Buy now, pay later with Zilch. Shop thousands of brands online or in store and pay off your purchase over 6 weeks in 4 instalments.
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Knife Capital
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in South Africa Finance startups

Knife Capital is an independent growth equity investment firm focusing on innovation-driven ventures with proven traction. By leveraging knowledge, networks & funding, Knife accelerates the international expansion of entrepreneurial businesses that achieved a product/market fit in a beachhead market. Knife have offices in Cape Town andLondon.Knife invests via a consortium of funding partnerships, including SARS section 12J Venture Capital Company KNF Ventures and select family offices. Knife facilitated lucrative exits of local technology companies to the likes of General Electric, Visa, Garmin and Uber.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Education, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: South Africa, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 31
  • Round size: Series A $2M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 71% lead, 29% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $10M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • wamly — Wamly is the recruitment software, It has given us time back to focus on transformational work.
  • Optique Optometrists — Optique Optometrists provides comprehensive eye care services, including eye tests, prescription glasses, and contact lenses. The company offers affordable eye care solutions and has multiple branches across South Africa. Customers can book appointments online and access a wide range of eyewear options. Optique Optometrists focuses on deliveringquality vision care and ensuring customer satisfaction through professional services and convenient booking options.
  • Stone Three Venture Technology — We combine expert services with the power of machine learning to help our customers increase their productivity and safety.
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Naspers Foundry
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in South Africa Finance startups

Naspers Foundry is a global internet group and invests in technology-based companies. The company believes in the power of local backed by global scale and they look for opportunities to address big societal needs in markets where they see the greatest growth potential.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Farming, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: South Africa, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Round size: Seed $854k–$6M; Series A $3M–$15M; Series B $940k–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 93% lead, 7% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Planet42 — Having your own car has never been easier. Planet42 is a vehicle rental company offering rent-to-buy car service for private clients.
  • LifeCheq — LifeCheq partners with insurers and advisory firms to deliver AI-enabled distribution, boost adviser productivity, and transform how financial advice is delivered.
  • SweepSouth — Book a home cleaning online from your mobile, tablet or computer. SweepSouth connects you with a cleaner in minutes. Cleaners are experienced, reliable, efficient and insured.
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4DX Ventures
VC Fund · Brooklyn, New York, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Finance startups

4DX Ventures is a Pan-Africa Focused Venture Capital Firm. Our mission is to connect people, ideas, and capital to create a vibrant African community.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Logistics
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Egypt, South Africa, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 87
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$8M; Pre-Seed $50k–$6.5M; Series A $6.6M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $60M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Autochek — Welcome To Autochek Group's Homepage. Read About The Company's Vision And Mission. Select A Country And Apply For Car Loans
  • CINETPAY — CinetPay is a mobile money payment hub that federates mobile money payment methods in Africa.
  • Franc — Franc is the easiest way to save & invest. Our app doesn’t require any investment knowledge & our friendly risk quiz helps us understand how much investment risk is right for you. Users can start investing in less than 2 minutes. There is no minimum requirement & no paperwork. It is a seamless digital experience end-to-end. A usersimply chooses a goal, selects an investment strategy, verifies their identity & makes a deposit. Each user is recommended a personalised investment strategy for each investment goal, combining money market & index tracking ETFs. Our helpful calculators assist clients with their budgeting, retirement & targeted savings needs. We also provide free access to our online academy & fun financial literacy quizzes.We know saving is hard & investing can be scary, which is why we create savings groups & challenges so that users can encourage one another. We also run weekly competitions where users can stand a chance to win a cash prize that will boost their investments.
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Alan Rutledge
Angel · 1 investments in South Africa Finance startups

Alan Rutledge

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, India, Mexico

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 46
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$8M; Pre-Seed $600k–$2.5M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Cekura AI — Cekura AI is an AI based Software Development firm offering Developer Tool to observe and test AI voice agents.
  • Mentra — Mentra is a wearable technology company that develops smart glasses based on augmented reality and AI interface technologies.
  • Cosmoserve Space — Cosmoserve Space is developing autonomous robotic spacecraft to mitigate the rapidly growing problem of orbital debris.
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R-Ventures
VC Fund · 1 investments in South Africa Finance startups

R-Ventures is a global investor in high-impact tech startups driving change and economic growth through emerging market investments.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Banking, FinTech, Finance
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Senegal, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Bettr — Bettr is a digital banking app for creator. Download the app to get your zero monthly fee digital bank account and virtual card. Join our community of creators, gamers, influencers, freelancers, tiktokkers, streamers, YouTubers and digital gig workers.
  • Yobante Express — Yobante Express offers a web & mobile platform that connects retailers, businesses & individuals with carriers for point-to-point delivery.
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Global Founders Capital
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 1 investments in South Africa Finance startups

Over the past two decades, GFC have backed over five hundred entrepreneurs worldwide, e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, and Away Travel.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 842
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$8.5M; Pre-Seed $637k–$5M; Series A $4M–$32M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $2B in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Finbits — Fintech company formed by co-founders with digital product background. The startup is solving major financial problems faced by entrepreneurs in LatAm: time wasted with non-core activities and difficult access to financial products. Finbits is developing an all-in-one finance solution for LatAm SMB. This new solution saves 80% of back-office costsand allows users access to financial products. This new financial OS integrates bank accounts, payment means, third-party ERP, and accounting software already available in the ecosystem. The new platform leverages modern technology and a data driven architecture to provide intelligent insights and financial products.
  • Musa — Musa is a smart city solution providing a platform that efficiently connects waste generators, haulers, and recyclers. Our mission is to guarantee that all waste becomes raw material directed to a productive chain of reuse. This is what connects us, a world without waste where everything can be reused. We want to transform the waste managementindustry by leveraging technology and developing new business models ensuring economic, social, and environmental impact.
  • Membrane — Membrane is AI for product integrations. Describe what you need, watch integrations build, test and maintain themselves.We exist to let any product connect to any other reliably, safely, and at scale, by turning intent & customer needs into integrations with AI.Our platform offers the state-of-the-art solution in the AI Age for productintegrations:Membrane Agent builds integrations for one or multiple apps at once, choosing correct API calls, field mappings, and data structuresMembrane Engine is the configurable infrastructure that you or any agent can play with. It contains actions, events/webhooks, flows, data collections, unified API models, field mappings, and schemas & more used to build and maintain integrations at scale.Membrane Packages - integration code that is purpose built for your use case, that you can deploy in your IDE.Membrane is used by 100+ B2B SaaS companies like Constant Contact, PandaDoc, Dialpad, Storyblok & many others as their preferred integration partner
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FINCA Ventures
VC Fund · Washington, District of Columbia, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Finance startups, 7 in the past 12 months

FINCA Ventures is an impact investing initiative of FINCA International that provides patient capital and support to early-stage social enterprises.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Agriculture, AgTech
  • Stage:Grant, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, Mexico

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 27
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$4M; Grant $40k–$100k; Series A $1.1M–$4.2M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Cladfy — Cladfy is a data analytics company that creates tools to assist lenders, merchants, and individuals in making informed loan, savings, and expenditure decisions.
  • Karpolax — Karpolax provides preservation technologies for agricultural companies that enable them to enhance the shelf life of fruits and vegetables.
  • Affinity — Join over 125,000 who trust the Affinity mobile app to manage their banking needs, from savings to payments, as well as instant loans
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Still Capital Partners
VC Fund · 1 investments in South Africa Finance startups

Still Capital Partners is an investment firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Banking, Finance
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: United States, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • BrightPlan — BrightPlan's financial wellness solution is built to lead all employees to financial success on their own terms at every stage of life.
  • Bettr — Bettr is a digital banking app for creator. Download the app to get your zero monthly fee digital bank account and virtual card. Join our community of creators, gamers, influencers, freelancers, tiktokkers, streamers, YouTubers and digital gig workers.
  • Uncle Nearest — The best whiskey maker the world never knew. Uncle Nearest 1856 Premium Whiskey. Visit one of these locations or buy online. Enjoy responsibly.
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Qualica Technologies (Pty) Ltd
VC Fund · 1 investments in South Africa Finance startups

Qualica has been taking the complex world of information technology and making it simple since 1999. Today, Qualica provides funding, professional services, and resources to several businesses across the financial services and hospitality industries.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Banking, FinTech
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • BancX — bancX is a modular, as-a-service platform for banks, fintechs, lenders, and retailers to build or extend their offering to meet market demand.
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Beryl Group
VC Fund · Sandown, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in South Africa Finance startups

Beryl Group is a proprietary investments company with equity holdings in logistics, energy, mining, and financial sector companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Banking, FinTech, Finance
  • Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Bettr — Bettr is a digital banking app for creator. Download the app to get your zero monthly fee digital bank account and virtual card. Join our community of creators, gamers, influencers, freelancers, tiktokkers, streamers, YouTubers and digital gig workers.
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Bashar Hamood
Angel · 1 investments in South Africa Finance startups, 9 in the past 12 months

Bashar Hamood is a Venture Partner at FasterCapital. He previously worked as an Associate Director at Logica. He attended Heriot-Watt University.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 323
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • EcoBites — EcoBites is a subscription service that delivers sustainably sourced and eco-friendly packaged snacks and meals to consumers doorsteps.
  • Lawyeree — A platform offering AI legal advice to clients and allowing clients to be connected with the best lawyers.
  • SafeNest — SafeNest offers a comprehensive home security system integrating smart technology with professional monitoring services.
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RaiCap
VC Fund · Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia · 1 investments in South Africa Finance startups

RaiCap it’s a early-stage startups venture capital. With Latin American presence, our value proposition is based on smart money investments, reflected in capital, mentoring and advice.In addition, the fund provides support and the necessary assistance to startups that want to expand regionally through strategic partners and our angelinvestors associated network.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Credit, Finance, Financial Services
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Sava — Sava is a multi-management platform that provides an unlimited number of virtual cards as well as automated accounting reconciliation.
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Flamingo DAO
VC Fund · Sacramento, California, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Finance startups

Flamingo DAO is an NFT-focused DAO that aims to explore emerging investment opportunities for ownable, blockchain-based assets.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Information Technology, Cryptocurrency
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Austria, Croatia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 34
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • NFTfi — NFTfi allows borrowers to use the NFTs they own to access the liquidity they need - in a safe, secure and anonymous way. Lenders can earn attractive yields efficiently and have the chance to obtain rare assets at a steep discount in case of loan defaults.
  • Namcon — Namcon provides blockchain infrastructure services that rely on numerous devices and trusted execution environments for secure computing.
  • mmERCH — mmERCH is a blockchain-enabled Web3 fashion startup.
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Hesham Zreik
Angel · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 1 investments in South Africa Finance startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 377
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • ToyFlix — Toyflix is a pioneering subscription-based toy rental platform transforming India’s US$2 billion toy industry by making premium.
  • LocationBit — it is a community-driven global location encyclopedia designed to tackle the fragmented and inaccessible nature of local knowledge in 2025.
  • Kyamaganda Community Development Organisation — it is a community-based nonprofit organization founded to restore hope and dignity among vulnerable children, youth, and families in Uganda.
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Wintermute Ventures
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in South Africa Finance startups

Wintermute Ventures is the investment arm of Wintermute, a global algorithmic trading firm, liquidity provider, and leading OTC desk in digital assets. Drawing from Wintermute's expertise in pioneering DeFi trading and powering liquidity across the entire ecosystem, Wintermute Ventures is uniquely positioned to back early-stage Web3 projectswith hands-on support. Focused on long-term growth, the company takes a flexible approach, investing from early ideation to later-stage expansion. Committed to developing strategic relationships and driving positive outcomes, Wintermute Ventures prioritizes decentralized ownership, ensuring its investments align with the company’s broader vision of a decentralized future. Since 2020, it has invested in over 100 projects.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 99
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Zerion — Zerion is an investing app that enables anyone, anywhere in the world, to access a suite of new financial products and services built on the backbone of decentralized finance (DeFi). Simple, user-centered design is combined with a powerful tech stack that aggregates across every major decentralized exchange, offering users a single point of entryfor managing their digital assets with ease. Zerion is non-custodial, which means users never delegate their funds to the platform. This agile approach mitigates centralization risk and has allowed Zerion to operate globally since inception.
  • Pyth Network — The Pyth network is a specialized oracle solution for latency-sensitive financial data that is typically kept behind the “walled gardens’’ of centralized institutions. The Pyth network is focused on finding a new and inexpensive way to bring this unique data on-chain and aggregating it securely.
  • Inversion — Inversion is a technology-first investment company that acquires and transforms legacy businesses with blockchain technology.
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AlphaCode Club
VC Fund · Gauteng, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in South Africa Finance startups

We are an African venture capital fund, for world-class African entrepreneurs run by seasoned African investors.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Stage:Grant, Seed
  • Geography: South Africa, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 30
  • Round size: Seed $57k–$7.2M; Grant $26k–$114k
  • Lead/follow: 63% lead, 37% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Planet42 — Having your own car has never been easier. Planet42 is a vehicle rental company offering rent-to-buy car service for private clients.
  • AgrigateOne — AgrigateOne is an online platform that enables openness between growers and buyers and gets data about agriculture and marine logistics.
  • Naked Insurance — The new way to cover your stuff: savings & convenience through AI. Naked Insurance offers online insurance for car, home and contents. Get a quote in 90 seconds!
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Animoca Brands
VC Fund · Cyberport, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong · 1 investments in South Africa Finance startups

Animoca Brands is a metaverse and gaming venture capital firm that focuses on driving digital property rights to gamers and internet users through NFTs. It utilizes gamification and blockchain to develop and market a portfolio of mobile applications, games, and additional products oriented to educational learning to ensure transparency, security,and new business models.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 432
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$10M; Series A $5M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • GameFi.org
  • Ceramic Network — Ceramic Network is a provider of protocols for decentralized and composable data applications. The network decentralizes application databases, making data universally composable and reusable across applications. It consists of three core parts: a highly-scalable, decentralized infrastructure for data availability and consensus, a marketplace ofcommunity-created data models, and a suite of standard APIs for storing, updating, and retrieving data from those models.
  • AI Pay with Crypto — AI Pay with Crypto is an AI-native financial infrastructure built for the emerging agent economy.APC enables autonomous AI agents to execute payments, settle transactions using programmable stablecoins, and connect directly to real-world merchant networks through QR codes, POS terminals, and other payment channels
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Venture Capital Studio
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in South Africa Finance startups

36 Followers, 31 Following, 1 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Black Silver Capital (@blacksilvercapital)

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, FinTech, Finance
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $928k–$10M; Pre-Seed $262k–$3.7M
  • Lead/follow: 88% lead, 12% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Accrual Software — We are a Software Development Company
  • Venture Capital Studio — 36 Followers, 31 Following, 1 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Black Silver Capital (@blacksilvercapital)
  • Cyrrix Cybersecurity — At Cyrrix Cybersecurity, we understand the importance of protecting your business from online threats. Our team provides a full range of cybersecurity services to help safeguard your company's sensitive information and systems. We offer comprehensive risk assessments, penetration testing, and incident response planning to identify and addressvulnerabilities in your network. Our managed security services provide ongoing monitoring and threat detection to keep your business protected around the clock. With our help, you can rest easy knowing that your company's valuable assets are secure.
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Finance Investor funding in South Africa at a glance

Stats across 69 deals from 101 investors.

101
investors
in South Africa Finance startups
69
deals
in South Africa Finance startups
$3.3M
median round
in South Africa Finance startups
44%
lead investors
lead at least one round
20%
Seed
most common funding stage
94/6
VC / Angel
share of investor count

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