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Top 50 Finance Startup Investors in South Africa (August 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, Australia Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Financial Services, Cryptocurrency $1.3M–$43M
1kx
VC Fund
4 United States, Germany, Switzerland Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software $1.8M–$34M
Scalar Capital
VC Fund
3 United States, India, Canada Seed, Series A Blockchain, Software, Financial Services $1.5M–$30M
Sound Ventures
VC Fund
3 United States, Canada, Israel Series A, Seed, Series B Software, FinTech, Financial Services $2.2M–$110M
Reciprocal Ventures
VC Fund
3 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software $2M–$50M
Kleiner Perkins
VC Fund
3 United States, China, United Kingdom Series B, Series A, Series C Software, Information Technology, Health Care $5M–$120M
Qualica
VC Fund
2 South Africa, Taiwan Pre-Seed, Private Equity Software, Banking, Finance $2.5M–$2.5M
Launch Africa
VC Fund
2 Nigeria, South Africa, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology $200k–$4M
CRE Venture Capital
VC Fund
2 Nigeria, South Africa, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, Software, FinTech $250k–$25M
Merrill Lynch
VC Fund
2 United States, India, United Kingdom Series B, Series C Software, Information Technology, Internet $10M–$85M
Imvelo Ventures
VC Fund
2 South Africa Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series B Financial Services, FinTech, Software $659k–$5M
Wintermute
VC Fund
2 United States, Singapore, Cayman Islands Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services $3M–$50M
Zip
VC Fund
2 India, South Africa, Czech Republic Series C, Seed FinTech, Payments, E-Commerce $22M–$50M
The LAO
VC Fund
2 United States, Switzerland, Singapore Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software $100k–$30M
EchoVC Partners
VC Fund
2 United States, Nigeria, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Information Technology, Financial Services $200k–$22M
Unicorn Growth Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, Kenya, Nigeria Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Finance $1M–$5.3M
Beryl Group
VC Fund
1 Mauritius, South Africa Private Equity, Venture - Series Unknown Financial Services, Banking, FinTech
Africa GoGreen Fund
VC Fund
1 Kenya, United States, Benin Debt Financing Energy, Solar, Automotive $5.5M–$50M
Kagiso Tiso Holdings
VC Fund
1 Ghana, South Africa Seed Finance, Financial Services, Banking
Collab+Currency
VC Fund
1 United States, Canada, Singapore Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software $2M–$50M
Gauss Ventures
VC Fund
1 United Kingdom, United States, Malta Seed, Series A, Series B FinTech, Financial Services, Banking $390k–$80M
Bashar Hamood
Angel
1 United States, India, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce $7k–$5M
AlphaCode Club
VC Fund
1 South Africa, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates Grant, Seed, Series B Financial Services, FinTech, Apps $26k–$17M
Animoca Brands
VC Fund
1 United States, United Kingdom, Singapore Seed, Series A Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency $1.5M–$40M
CoinFund
VC Fund
1 United States, United Kingdom, Canada Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services $1.1M–$30M
A.Capital Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, United Kingdom, Canada Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency $2.4M–$100M
Flamingo DAO
VC Fund
1 United States, Austria, Croatia Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Artificial Intelligence $1.2M–$50M
Hesham Zreik
Angel
1 United States, Nigeria, India Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce $12k–$5M
Venture Capital Studio
VC Fund
1 South Africa Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Information Technology, Venture Capital, Software Engineering $262k–$14M
Cypher Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, Singapore, United Arab Emirates Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming $675k–$150M
Hash CIB
VC Fund
1 United States, Germany, Singapore Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software $3M–$20M
Ingressive Capital
VC Fund
1 Nigeria, United States, Egypt Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Payments $25k–$15M
4Di Capital
VC Fund
1 South Africa, United States, Kenya Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Financial Services, Mobile $527k–$47M
Quona Capital
VC Fund
1 India, Brazil, Indonesia Series A, Seed, Series B Financial Services, FinTech, Finance $3M–$87M
RaliCap
VC Fund
1 United States, Mexico, Nigeria Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel FinTech, Financial Services, Payments $300k–$5.5M
Brevan Howard Asset Management
VC Fund
1 United States, Germany, United Arab Emirates Series A, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Financial Services $4.3M–$500M
Knife Capital
VC Fund
1 South Africa, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Seed Software, Information Technology, Education $2M–$15M
Still Capital Partners
VC Fund
1 United States, South Africa Venture - Series Unknown, Series A FinTech, Banking, Finance $1M–$225M
Qualica Technologies (Pty) Ltd
VC Fund
1 South Africa Pre-Seed Apps, Banking, FinTech
Bloccelerate VC
VC Fund
1 United States, Switzerland, Germany Seed, Series A, Series B Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech $3M–$41M
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VC Fund
1 Nigeria, Kenya, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce $700k–$40M
Olugbenga Agboola
Angel
1 Nigeria, Kenya, United States Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Finance $625k–$7.5M
FINCA Ventures
VC Fund
1 Kenya, Nigeria, Mexico Grant, Seed, Series A Financial Services, Agriculture, AgTech $40k–$4.2M
Raba Partnership
VC Fund
1 United States, South Africa, Egypt Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Finance $635k–$32M
Kepple Africa Ventures
VC Fund
1 Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt Seed, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Software $300k–$4.5M
Youcef Oudjidane
Angel
1 United States, Nigeria, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Payments $120k–$23M
Norrsken Foundation
VC Fund
1 Nigeria, United States, Rwanda Pre-Seed, Seed Financial Services, Health Care, FinTech $125k–$4M
54 Collective
VC Fund
1 Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa Seed, Pre-Seed Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech $40k–$4M
Placeholder
VC Fund
1 United States, United Kingdom, Cayman Islands Series A, Seed Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology $2M–$38M
Naspers Foundry
VC Fund
1 South Africa, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Financial Services, Farming, Software $854k–$15M
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Maven 11 Capital
VC Fund · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands · 5 investments in South Africa Finance startups, 16 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 132
  • Round size: Seed $1.9M–$10M; Pre-Seed $1.3M–$3.1M; Series A $5M–$43M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Range — The financial control layer for companies operating across stablecoins, crypto and fiat rails.
  • THEA-AI — AI that amplifies human performance
  • Adjacent Markets — Event indexing and @AdjacentNews
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1kx
VC Fund · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands · 4 investments in South Africa Finance startups, 10 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 177
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$11M; Series A $5M–$28M; Venture - Series Unknown $3M–$34M
  • Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • EarnOS — EarnOS is the fully remote company that provides Global Ad & Payments Platform powered by Web3.
  • KOR Protocol — KOR Protocol is a decentralized intellectual property (IP) infrastructure designed to empower creators, protect rights, and enable seamless collaboration and monetization of IP assets across various industries, including music, film, TV, gaming, and art. Backed by notable entities like Animoca Brands, Republic, Niantic, Sfermion, Solana, andprominent creators such as Black Mirror, Disclosure, deadmau5, and Richie Hawtin, KOR leverages blockchain, AI, and DeFi to offer a transparent, efficient, and scalable environment for IP expansion.
  • Freehand — AI Teams for Complex Spend Management
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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, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, India, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 40
  • 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 — Stack's consumer products are shutting down. Withdraw remaining funds from the Stack app.
  • Stackr Labs — Micro-rollups to scale web3 applications
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Sound Ventures
VC Fund · Beverly Hills, California, United States · 3 investments in 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: 226
  • Round size: Seed $2.2M–$10M; Series A $10M–$30M; Series B $15M–$110M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $243M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Knit — Knit is an AI-Native Research Agency that combines the rigor and expertise of a traditional agency with the speed and efficiency of AI.
  • Warp — Warp is a payroll and compliance tool that makes it easy for founders to hire, onboard, and pay their employees.
  • 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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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: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Coinflow Labs — Tech-driven payments solutions for your business
  • CEA Industries — CEA Industries (NASDAQ: BNC) is a publicly traded company pursuing a BNB-focused digital asset treasury strategy.
  • Blockworks — Blockworks is a financial media brand that delivers breaking news and premium insights about digital assets to millions of investors. Our editorial content, newsletters, podcasts and events provide investors with the critical analysis and information they need to make smarter decisions about digital assets.
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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: 1197
  • Round size: Series A $5M–$50M; Series B $11M–$71M; Series C $12M–$120M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Athos — Athos uses EMG real-time biofeedback to help you go from guessing to knowing if you are performing at your best. #BuildBetterAthletes
  • Telogis — Telogis provides a comprehensive cloud-based Mobile Enterprise Management (MEM) software platform for companies that require dynamic routing, real-time work order management, navigation, telematics and mobile integration services for their mobile workforces. Telogis’ consistent innovation drives its ability to provide near-instant return oninvestment while improving driver safety and efficiency and reducing the environmental impact of commercial vehicles. Founded in 2001, Telogis is headquartered in Aliso Viejo, Calif. and has development and support centers in Australia and New Zealand, Latin America, Europe and throughout North America. Its products and services are used and distributed in more than 100 countries worldwide.
  • 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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Qualica
VC Fund · Gauteng, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 2 investments in South Africa Finance startups

Qualica provides B2B, managed services/software and tech in niche Industries such as Fin Serv, Airlines, enterprise branch mngt,user experience mngt, and mobile

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Banking, Finance
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Private Equity
  • Geography: South Africa, Taiwan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $2.5M–$2.5M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% 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.
  • Qualica — Qualica provides B2B, managed services/software and tech in niche Industries such as Fin Serv, Airlines, enterprise branch mngt,user experience mngt, and mobile
  • WiXtar — WiXtar Digital Services Co., Ltd. is a leading provider of intelligent retail solutions, dedicated to empowering brick-and-mortar stores through innovative digital transformation. Formerly known as LaFresh Information Co., Ltd., the company has over two decades of experience in the industry. In late 2023, WiXtar underwent a strategic merger withMaji Digital, Beauty Technology, and Singapore's Epoint Systems, rebranding itself to better reflect its expanded capabilities and global reach.​At the heart of WiXtar's offerings is the LaaS (LaFresh as a Service) platform—an open, scalable SaaS solution designed to integrate front-end and back-end operations seamlessly. This platform supports comprehensive automation and omnichannel applications, enhancing management efficiency, service quality, and customer experience. WiXtar's solutions are tailored for various industries, including food and beverage, retail, tourism, wellness, and entertainment.​With a presence in over 20 regions across the Asia-Pacific and the United States, WiXtar has established robust local and international teams, assisting more than 15,000 clients in achieving localized operations and digital transformation. The company's commitment to innovation is evident in its development of the market's first AI-powered multilingual voice recognition ordering system and multilingual menu generation software. WiXtar continues to lead the industry by breaking boundaries and enabling businesses to thrive sustainably through the power of information technology.​
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Launch Africa
VC Fund · Ebène, Plaines Wilhems, Mauritius · 2 investments in South Africa Finance startups, 7 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 217
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$4M; Pre-Seed $200k–$1.8M; Venture - Series Unknown $200k–$500k
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $36M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Zazu — Zazu is a neobank for African SMEs, offering seamless banking tools, cash flow automation, and real-time insights. Zazu simplifies finance management in one all-in-one solution.
  • Fincart — Fincart is a leading shipping platform in Egypt, connecting your business with top courier services, automating operations, and helping you scale your eCommerce logistics.
  • Udu Technologies — Udu Technologies is an AI infrastructure company that offers GPU systems, AI platform integration, and technical support services.
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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: 63
  • Round size: Seed $300k–$5M; Pre-Seed $250k–$3.3M; Series A $1.1M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% 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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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: 91
  • 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 award-winning 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.
  • 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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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: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series B
  • Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Seed $659k–$2M; Venture - Series Unknown $5M–$5M
  • Lead/follow: 63% lead, 37% 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.
  • MoneyWorks — MoneyWorks is a provider of a digital supply chain finance platform for businesses. The company's platform connects buyers seeking supply chain financing with lenders. It also provides SMEs access to invoice financing on the back of their buyer's credit record, thus reducing the late payment and cash flow shortage risk faced by startupsand helps clients have an early payment program for the benefit of their supply chain.
  • 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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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, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, Cayman Islands

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 91
  • Round size: Seed $3M–$18M; Series A $5M–$50M; Venture - Series Unknown $5M–$20M
  • 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 — The next billion-dollar market starts here. Powered by @HyperliquidX
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Zip
VC Fund · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · 2 investments in South Africa Finance startups

Zip is a leading digital financial services company providing fair and seamless solutions that simplify how people pay.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Payments, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Series C, Seed
  • Geography: India, South Africa, Czech Republic

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Series C $22M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 83% lead, 17% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Payflex — Shop smarter with Payflex's buy now pay later services - enjoy interest-free payments using Pay in 2, 3 or 4 options. Apply now and shop online or in-store.
  • 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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The LAO
VC Fund · 2 investments in South Africa Finance startups

A venture DAO supporting the Ethereum Ecosystem

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 143
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$8.5M; Series A $6M–$30M; Venture - Series Unknown $100k–$24M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Bio.xyz — Biotech's new financial layer.
  • 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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EchoVC Partners
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 2 investments in South Africa Finance startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 57
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$4M; Pre-Seed $200k–$2.2M; Series A $1.2M–$22M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $8M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Printivo — Design & print Business Cards, flyers, mugs and other print products online and we will deliver your doorstep. Get instant quotes.
  • S&T Media — AdPump The Best Digital Platform to advertise your products and services
  • Rana Energy — No. 1 Solar Community in Africa
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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: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Kenya, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$5.3M; Pre-Seed $1.7M–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% 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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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: Financial Services, Banking, FinTech
  • Stage:Private Equity, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Mauritius, 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.
  • Safyr Capital Partners — The promise of Integrity and Excellence begins here.
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Africa GoGreen Fund
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in South Africa Finance startups

AGG drives green investments across Africa through renewable energy and energy efficiency financing. Supporting climate projects that reduce GHG emissions.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Energy, Solar, Automotive
  • Stage:Debt Financing
  • Geography: Kenya, United States, Benin

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Debt Financing $5.5M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 78% lead, 22% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • BioLite — BioLite designs off-grid personal scale energy products for cooking, charging, and lighting. Perfect for camping, fishing, tailgating, power outages, and more.
  • Spironet — Time 100 Influential Company 2024 | Africa's Largest EV Player | 15k bikes deployed | 9 million battery swaps | 270 million clean KM driven
  • Kasada Capital Management — Kasada is the leading independent real estate private equity platform dedicated to delivering sustainable value across the hospitality sector in Africa.
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Kagiso Tiso Holdings
VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in South Africa Finance startups

Kagiso Tiso Holdings Proprietary Limited is a venture capital arm of Kagiso Trust specializing in investing in start-up businesses, expansion, secondary purchases, buy in and buy out.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Finance, Financial Services, Banking
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Ghana, South Africa

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Fidelity Bank Ghana — Fidelity Bank Limited provides banking products and services. The company offers current and savings accounts.
  • Futurewise Education — Futurewise Education is a licensed insurer that secures future of children and for quality education.
  • Gagasi Heart Media Group — Gagasi Heart Media Group, media solutions company representing powerhouse coastal brands, Gagasi FM and Heart FM. https://t.co/bQqRZZBVyV
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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: 102
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$10M; Series A $5M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Yakoa — Content creation is now AI-native. If your digital rights system isn't, it's holding you back. Discover our solutions.
  • Limited — Secure your treasury and scale your business globally with a truly self-custodial account that only you control. No banks. No middlemen.
  • Ceramic Network — We've joined @textileio to build the first open intelligence network for AI agents. Follow us there.
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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, Series B
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Malta

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Seed $390k–$4M; Series A $3M–$34M; Series B $14M–$80M
  • Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Anvizent — Generative Data Pipelines
  • 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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Bashar Hamood
Angel · 1 investments in South Africa Finance startups

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, India, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 476
  • Round size: Seed $15k–$2M; Pre-Seed $7k–$500k; Series A $33k–$5M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow

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.
  • ZohoOptimizer AI — ZohoOptimizer AI is a platform designed to enhance Zoho’s suite of business applications by providing AI-driven process automation.
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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, Apps
  • Stage:Grant, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: South Africa, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 39
  • Round size: Seed $57k–$7.2M; Grant $26k–$114k; Series B $2.3M–$17M
  • Lead/follow: 64% lead, 36% 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 — Shining a light on every stage of the fresh produce supply chain, ensuring transparency for growers & buyers. Agritech | Software | Technology
  • Moment — Africa is entering a transformative period of economic and technological growth driven by rapid digital adoption, expanding mobile connectivity, and a young, increasingly connected population. With approximately 1.5 billion people and one of the world’s fastest-growing youth demographics, the continent is experiencing a significant shift towardelectronic payments, mobile-first services, and broader digital transformation.Although widespread internet access and traditional banking infrastructure developed later in many African markets compared to other regions, this delayed adoption has accelerated innovation in mobile technology and financial services. Mobile money platforms, digital banking solutions, fintech ecosystems, and e-commerce adoption are reshaping how consumers and businesses interact across the continent.This youth-driven wave of innovation is creating substantial opportunities in sectors such as fintech, telecommunications, logistics, e-commerce, renewable energy, education technology, and digital services. Both global corporations and emerging local enterprises are actively investing in Africa’s rapidly evolving digital economy, competing to unlock new markets and address underserved populations.The continent’s ongoing transformation is expected to play a major role in global economic growth over the next two decades, positioning Africa as a significant center for innovation, entrepreneurship, and digital commerce.
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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: 504
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$10M; Series A $5M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Vangrid — Vangrid operates as a decentralized physical infrastructure network.
  • Dow Protocol — An E-Commerce Financing RWA Platform on @BNBCHAIN, facilitating assets trusted by the world's largest banks. Lead invested by @mhventures @Maple_block
  • Ceramic Network — We've joined @textileio to build the first open intelligence network for AI agents. Follow us there.
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CoinFund
VC Fund · Brooklyn, New York, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Finance startups, 7 in the past 12 months

CoinFund is where web3 capable meets web3 capital: cryptonative technologists who invest in the future before it's a trend.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 209
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$10M; Series A $7.3M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • EDGE Markets — The Financial Platform for Smart Bettors
  • Flying Tulip — Better Yield, Better UX
  • LI.FI — Advanced Bridge & DEX Aggregation - Drive multichain strategies with cross-chain data messaging and get users from everywhere.
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A.Capital Ventures
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Finance startups, 6 in the past 12 months

a_capital provides resources and counsel to the creators, inventors and entrepreneurs, who are building a new future.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 129
  • Round size: Seed $2.4M–$13M; Series A $5M–$25M; Series B $16M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • SageOx — SageOx is the hivemind for agentic engineering.
  • Deep Infra — Deep Infra offers cost-effective, scalable, easy-to-deploy, and production-ready machine-learning models and infrastructures for deep-learning models.
  • Expo — Expo is the fastest way to build native apps for iOS, Android, and the web with React.
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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, Cryptocurrency, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Austria, Croatia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 38
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$11M; Series A $4.4M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% 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.
  • 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, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 887
  • Round size: Seed $50k–$2.1M; Pre-Seed $12k–$1M; Series A $170k–$5M
  • Lead/follow: 53% lead, 47% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Book Your Own — Book Your Own is building an integrated travel ecosystem designed to unify India’s fragmented travel market.
  • UrbanFarmers — UrbanFarmers is a platform that connects city dwellers with local urban farms and community gardens.
  • Excel And Impact Agro — Excel And Impact Agro aims to tackle the chronic shortage of vegetable production in Côte d'Ivoire.
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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, Venture Capital, Software Engineering
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Seed $928k–$10M; Pre-Seed $262k–$3.7M; Series A $2.7M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 90% lead, 10% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Accrual Software — We are a Software Development Company
  • 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.
  • Aesthetic Prosthetic Bionics — Biological Engineering, Bionics, Biomimetics, Hydraulics, Prosthetics, Neuroprosthetics, Exoskeleton Suits, Dynamics, Kinematics Robotics, Human-Robot Interaction, Artificial Organs, Artificial Intelligence, Quantum Computing, Knowledge Reasoning, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision, Robotics, Artificial GeneralIntelligence, Deep Learning, Bayesian Networks, Evolutionary Algorithms, Computational Neuroscience, Neurocybernetics, Cybernetics, Cognitive Science, Source Coding, Channel Coding, Algorithmic Complexity Theory, Algorithmic Information Theory, Information-Theoretic Security, Grey System Theory & Biotechnology
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Cypher Capital
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 1 investments in South Africa Finance startups

Leading blockchain investment and advisory firm based in the UAE. Empowering Web3 innovation through strategic investments and expert guidance.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 51
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$10M; Pre-Seed $675k–$3.7M; Venture - Series Unknown $3.7M–$150M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Biton — Biton is a full-chain ecology trading platform that offers services to simplify the trading process and mitigate cross-chain risks.
  • Lyvely — Lyvely. A Profile That Pays. The future of monetizing online for creators, freelancers, and digital entrepreneurs.
  • Falcon Finance — Falcon Finance is a protocol that enables the use of any liquid asset as collateral for issuing onchain liquidity and unlocking value across various financial domains.
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Hash CIB
VC Fund · Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation · 1 investments in South Africa Finance startups

HashCIB offers financial solutions in the crypto-asset markets.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Round size: Seed $3M–$6.2M; Series A $6M–$13M; Venture - Series Unknown $4.3M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Shaga — Shaga is a veteran team of blockchain, gaming, distributed systems, and networking professionals.
  • Verida — The Verida Wallet is a mobile application that allows you to manage your decentralized identity and personal data. It provides a user-friendly interface for interacting with applications built on the Verida network.
  • Liquorice — We're thrilled to announce our $1.2M pre-seed round, led by @greenfield_cap and with participation from @l2iterative, @polymorphiccap, @HoradrimCapital, and @HASHCIB. Angel investors include founders from @1inch.
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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, Payments
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 77
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$3.7M; Pre-Seed $25k–$2.1M; Series A $500k–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% 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–$7.5M; Pre-Seed $1.8M–$4M; Series A $2M–$47M
  • Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • FireID — FireID is a venture builder that helps makers, with unique skills and passion, build businesses to solve meaningful problems.
  • Kuunda — Kuunda provides consulting, liquidity management, data insight tools enabling users to fulfill financial needs through a digital platform.
  • Aerobotics — Powerful insights for precision growing and crop insurance
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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: 205
  • Round size: Seed $3M–$10M; Series A $4M–$25M; Series B $8M–$87M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $332M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Jusfy — Jusfy offers legal services and consulting for individuals and business organizations.
  • 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.
  • Cordant — A single operational picture across every system money moves through. Your team acts on what's happening, not what already happened.
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RaliCap
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Finance startups, 6 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

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 62
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$5.5M; Pre-Seed $300k–$3.7M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Cata — Launch your branded mobile app for ordering, CRM & loyalty. Increase order frequency & basket size. Learn how Cata can scale your business!
  • Upper — Transforming cross-border e-commerce in Latin America
  • Gangkhar — Gangkhar provides AI-native embedded insurance infrastructure for digital platforms, insurers, MGAs, and brokers to launch, optimize, and scale embedded protection.
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Brevan Howard Asset Management
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in South Africa Finance startups

Brevan Howard Asset Management LLP is an investment manager authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority in the United Kingdom.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Financial Services
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United States, Germany, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 30
  • Round size: Series A $6M–$90M; Series B $50M–$150M; Venture - Series Unknown $4.3M–$500M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $300M in 2010

Portfolio highlights

  • Ripple — Discover why hundreds of financial institutions choose Ripple to provide a better international payments experience for their customers in real-time.
  • Variational — Go long or short with leverage on memecoins, DEX pairs, pre-launch tokens, points markets, and more.
  • Normal Computing — Normal Computing was founded by former members of the Google Brain Team, Palantir, and X who unlocked AI for some of the largest-scale and most mission-critical production systems, and the industry leading ML frameworks for Probabilistic and Quantum AI.
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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, Information Technology, Education
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: South Africa, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 39
  • Round size: Series A $2M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 69% lead, 31% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $10M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Cue — Cue is a customer service software company that empowers you with WhatsApp Business solutions to boost customer satisfaction, and drive growth.
  • Pura Soda — Discover PURA's refreshing beverages and live a little PURA.
  • 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.
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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:Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
  • Geography: United States, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Venture - Series Unknown $1M–$225M
  • 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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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, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Switzerland, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 37
  • Round size: Seed $3M–$10M; Series A $6M–$16M; Series B $15M–$41M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $25M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Rover — Bitcoin Liquid Staking on @BotanixLabs
  • Interstate — Interstate is an Ethereum pre-confirmation protocol. It aims to make Ethereum transactions near-instant and allow applications to self-order while maintaining full composability with L1.
  • Cloudburst Technologies — Crypto, Crypto Threat intelligence, OSINT, Open source intelligence
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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, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 30
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$3.7M; Pre-Seed $700k–$2.1M; Series A $4M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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: 91
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$6.5M; Series A $5.5M–$38M
  • Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • ARX — Secure chips, onchain. Creators of @useburner @offlinecashco @kongiscash.
  • Squads — Collaborative infrastructure for web3 native teams
  • Ceramic Network — We've joined @textileio to build the first open intelligence network for AI agents. Follow us there.
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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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Finance Investor funding in South Africa at a glance

Stats across 82 deals from 107 investors.

107
investors
in South Africa Finance startups
82
deals
in South Africa Finance startups
$5M
median round
in South Africa Finance startups
48%
lead investors
lead at least one round
21%
Seed
most common funding stage
94/6
VC / Angel
share of investor count

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