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Top 50 Finance VC Funds in Nigeria

Last updated: Apr 2024 A list of 50 VC funds that invest in Finance startups based in Nigeria. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Finance companies from Nigeria. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Finance VC Funds in Nigeria

Investor	Finance Nigeria investments
Ventures Platform	9
Musha Ventures	6
Kepple Africa Ventures	4
Ingressive Capital	4
Launch Africa	3
Entrée Capital	3
Flourish Ventures	3
Lateral Frontiers	3
Accion Venture Lab	2
Raba Partnership	2
VentureSouq	2
Atlantica Ventures	2
Tekton Ventures	2
Left Lane Capital	2
Speedinvest	2
Ground Squirrel Ventures	2
Newid capital	2
TEN13	2
Necessary Ventures	2
Saison Capital	2
RaliCap	2
Thelatest.ventures	2
Everywhere Ventures (The Fund)	2
Future Africa	2
VilCap Investments	2
Microtraction	2
Golden Palm Investments	2
P1 Ventures	2
Two Culture Capital	2
Partech	2
Continent Venture Partners	1
MUFG Innovation Partners	1
Century Oak Capital	1
Goodwater Capital	1
The Chrysalis Capital	1
Savannah Fund	1
LoftyInc Capital	1
Beta.Ventures	1
Palm Drive Capital	1
Crestone Venture Capital	1
Helios Investment Partners	1
Vantage Capital	1
Kreos Capital	1
Oikocredit International	1
SBI Investment	1
Adlevo Capital	1
Hustle Fund	1
Class 5 Global	1
AfricInvest	1
NBK Capital	1

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

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Nigeria, United States, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Lengo — Lengo is an AI based intelligence platform that offers a large database on consumer goods for companies in the FMCG sector.
Shekel Mobility — B2B marketplace for auto dealers to grow their dealerships leveraging on flexible inventory financing and management solutions. Available on web and mobile.
Mecho — Mecho is an on-demand auto repair and maintenance platform for individuals and businesses in Africa.

Seed capital for technology startups globally.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Nigeria, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Terraa — Terraa is a B2B distribution platform in Moroccan.
Hohm Energy — We make the process of going solar simple. Generate your free, custom solar proposal and get matched with an accredited solar provider in under 5 mins.
Revivo — Revivo is an online marketplace for electronics spare parts, tools & accessories.

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

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt

Portfolio highlights

Chari — Chari is an e-commerce and fintech app for traditional retailers in French-Speaking Africa allowing them to order any consumer goods they sell and get delivered for free in less than 24 hours. Chari is also a financial services provider for these retailers, offering them microloans
Intmax — INTMAX has developed significant innovations in ZK implementation making it a unique Layer2 rollup network that offers low cost, security, tunable privacy, and above all, scalability.
Carry1st — Carry1st develops and publishes enriching mobile games and content apps for African consumers.

Ingressive Capital they provide services in business development, partnerships, and financial support.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Nigeria, United States, Ghana

Portfolio highlights

Gamp — Gamp is an IT services provider that offers device protection plans and repair support for tech users and businesses.
54gene — 54gene is a healthcare startup unlocking the African genome to fuel genetic research and development that may lead to new discoveries and benefit all populations.54gene was founded in 2019 by Dr. Abasi Ene-Obong to address the significant gap in the global genomics market: Nearly 90% of genetic material used in pharmaceutical research iscaucasian. Only 2% is African, despite the fact that Africans and people of African ancestry are more genetically diverse than all other world populations combined. As a result, pharmaceutical research and development is lacking the diverse data that may hold the key to medical discoveries and new healthcare solutions.
Subsbase — Discover the future of recurring revenue management with Subsbase. Streamline your operations, boost growth, and elevate customer experiences with our cutting-edge platform.

Launch Africa is a fund with the primary objective of unlocking the capital constraints of Seed Stage tech startups.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Susu — Susu is a dynamic and innovative company that offers a wide range of health services for families in the African diaspora. Susu provides a complete offer on Preventive care, Medical treatments, Management of chronic diseases, and Authentic drugs.
Lengo — Lengo is an AI based intelligence platform that offers a large database on consumer goods for companies in the FMCG sector.
Fixit45 — Fixit45 also provides fleet management, auto parts sourcing and delivery, auto care, refurbishment and upgrades, repair financing, and mechanic workshop software as well as pre-purchase inspections, underlying these with moderation for compliance and accountability.

We're a team of former serial founders managing over $1B across a number of funds, with offices in Tel Aviv, London, and New York.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Israel, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Bujeti — Corporate Credit Cards, Spend Management software built for your African realities. It empowers your people to do more. It combines virtual, smart physical credit cards, payments and expenses into one experience powered by Visa Cards, dedicated NUBANs, Mobile Wallets and Faster Payments.
Finom — Finom is an online payment solution for companies and freelancers that helps entrepreneurs manage their finances. It's easy to use, secure, and covers all business needs.
Bluewhite — Blue White Robotics offers custom-made, on-time, and affordable testing and experiment solutions based on military experiment methodologies. It was established by a group of former Israeli Air Force pilots and engineers. BWR works in close cooperation with a variety of universities, vehicle manufacturers, and startups in Israel and worldwide.

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

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, India, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Qoala — Asuransi online yang siap melindungi kamu dan orang tersayang, di mana aja, kapan aja. Premi murah, proses klaim mudah, dan 100% digital!
Zone — Zone is a regulated blockchain network that enables payments and acceptance of digital currencies.
Summer — Summer partners with employers help their populations navigate and reduce student loan debt. Summer is a certified B-Corp.

Lakeland Dental Offers Family Dentistry, Teeth Whitening, Tooth Fillings, Dental Crowns, & Dental Implants. Call Us In Staples, Clarissa, Or Long Prairie, MN

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Nigeria, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

CNote — CNote created technology to streamline community-centered impact investing at scale. Further Racial Equity and Social Justice by investing with CNote.
Rhaeos — Rhaeos, the world's first wearable shunt monitor, aims to improve the quality care for patients with hydrocephalus through a novel, thermal biosensor. Developed within Northwestern University with collaboration between Dr. John Rogers, McCormick School of Engineering, Feinberg School of Medicine and Kellogg School of Management, Rhaeosrepresents a unique multidisciplinary translational effort for an important clinical need.
Masa — Masa Finance seeks to disrupt traditional centralized credit infrastructure by providing individuals, businesses, and developers with the tools to access credit and enable untapped wealth creation for 4.95B people globally.

Accion Venture Lab is a leading early-stage investor in inclusive fintech, providing seed-first capital and strategic support to innovative startups that are meeting the financial needs of underserved people globally. Our global portfolio and local approach enable us to spot and respond to global trends faster, sharing learnings across geographies. Accion Venture Lab is an investment strategy of Accion and is managed by Accion Impact Management.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
India, United States, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Semaai — Full-stack agri-tech solution for Indonesian farmers
AquaExchange — AquaExchange is a technology platform for shrimp and fish farmers.
Cashinvoice — Cashinvoice connects supply chain stakeholders and digitises invoice-to-cash processes to unlock working capital trapped within supply chains and accelerate business growth

The Raba Partnership, Raba Capital, Raba

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
South Africa, United States, Egypt

Portfolio highlights

Cloudline — Cloudline leverages lighter-than-air technology and the latest developments in unmanned aerial vehicles to deliver essential goods and services to the 1 billion people without direct access to roads and runways.
Stitch — One API integration for all online payments across South Africa. Accept Pay by bank, debit + credit card, cash, manual EFT, debit order and crypto. Orchestrate + reconcile digital payments across methods and send payouts
Cleva — For anyone with global financial needs, A US-based dollar account in your name to receive, hold, and save USD, even as a non-US resident.

VentureSouq operates a large co-investment platform with a global investment portfolio.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia

Portfolio highlights

D3 — D3 - DNS Domains for Web3
Omniful — Omniful is your partner in retail revolution. Explore our comprehensive suite of AI-Powered solutions designed to empower omnichannel retailers, D2C brands, and fulfillment providers. From scalable order management, to agile warehouse management, to data-driven business intelligence, we provide the tools you need to thrive in tomorrow's dynamic market.
Orangewood Labs — Orangewood Labs is focused on automating mundane human jobs through Easy-to-use, collaborative and tele-operable robotic arms for Industries

Are you looking for start-up funding for your business? Get in touch with Atlantica Ventures to get the kick-start your start-up needs.

Investment focus

Internet, B2B, Information Technology
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa

Portfolio highlights

Figorr — Figorr is your go-to, for accessing reliable information on temperature, humidity, and location. Experience the next generation of data-driven insights with Figorr today.
Sendmarc — Stop cyber criminals from sending emails using your domain and protect your customers, suppliers and employees from cyber attacks with DMARC Security.
Afropolitan — Afropolitan is building a Network State to unleash the maximum potential of Africans around the world. Are you interested? Join us with your email.

TEKTON VENTURES is an international seed investment firm that partners at inception with forward looking company builders in leading technology hubs worldwide. The firm’s principals have over three decades of experience as early stage investors. Leveraging an extensive global network of entrepreneurs and investors, Tekton makes early stageinvestments in category defining companies in several strategic geographies around the world.Passionate entrepreneurs exist in many parts of the world. Tekton Ventures focuses its investments in two different places: Silicon Valley and selected technology centers ( London and Israel); and the fast growing mobile/digitally connected markets in Asia (China, Korea and India).Our approach to global investing rests on partnerships with local venture ecosystems: we have built long standing relationships with some of the best local seed and venture investors in our geographies of focus.We see our unique global perspective as important to build transformational companies and make that knowledge available across our entire community of entrepreneurs.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, South Korea, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Craydel — Get Professional career guidance based on Psychometric Assessments and get scholarships to the best MBA, Engineering, Medical, Education online and on campus courses in Africa and Abroad.
Hohm Energy — We make the process of going solar simple. Generate your free, custom solar proposal and get matched with an accredited solar provider in under 5 mins.
Nano Technologies — VUI provides Flexible Payroll (EWA) solutions, income statistics, and employee financial management education through a technology platform.

Left Lane Capital is a venture capital and seed-growth equity firm that invests in high-growth internet and consumer technology businesses that are fundamental to the human condition and spirit – where customers maintain a long-term relationship with the product, platform, or service.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
Series A, Series B, Series D
United States, Germany, France

Portfolio highlights

Polycam — Capture reality with Polycam's LiDAR scanner & photogrammetry. Make 3D scans and download 3D models. Available on iPhone, iPad, Android and Web.
AstroTalk — AstroTalk is a platform to consult best Astrologers of India online, on-call, or through chat. The company was founded in 2017 and based in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Bilt Rewards — Rewards program for renters

Speedinvest is one of Europe’s most active early-stage investors, with more than €1bn AUM, 40 investors, and offices in Berlin, London, Munich, Paris, Vienna and San Francisco. Your success is our priority, so we don’t just send some money and "check in" at board meetings. Our mission is to empower you with game-changing support throughevery stage of your journey. Our focused investment teams know your industry inside and out. Their Deep Tech, Fintech, Industrial Tech, Network Effects, Digital Health and Subscriptions experience, know-how and deep networks are yours from day one. You also have full access to our in-house Platform+ team of operational experts who can provide tailored growth marketing, people (HR), US business development, and networking support throughout every stage of your journey.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Germany, United Kingdom, Austria

Portfolio highlights

Lapse — The new social camera for friends, not followers
Inkitt — Publish stories online, join our author subscription program, and read books online for free. Join the Inkitt community for writers and readers today.
Necture — Ubiq enables mobility sharing operators to become profitable. Through demand prediction, demand fullfillment, predictive charging, dynamic pricing and policy compliance we provide tools for operational excellence.

Seed round investment in frontier markets and clean energy

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Kenya, Zambia

Portfolio highlights

Grapevine — Grapevine makes it possible for groups to invite members, collect and distribute donations, establish a community and connect with nonprofits.
MindMics — Discover MindMics. The world's most accurate personal heart health monitor and well-being platform. Look after your heart health to live longer and better.
Untapped Global — Untapped connects global investors, and foreign capital to opportunities in emerging markets. Delivering competitive returns, and measurable impact for global investors.

Newid Capital invests internationally in growth-oriented financial services companies serving the underbanked.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Credit
Series A, Seed, Series B
India, Kenya, Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Lulalend — Meet Lula. Meet Opportunity. We provide SMEs with all-digital business banking accounts and funding solutions to make cash flow.
NOW Money — NOW Money is the UAE's first digital payroll and mobile bank service developed specifically for low income workers.
Apollo Agriculture — BRINGING COMMERCIAL FARMING TO EVERYONE Andrew, 3 acre maize farmer and Apollo customer

TEN13 is Australia's leading Venture Capital Syndicate.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Australia, United States, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Glider — Improve your bill payments experience with Glider's payments communication platform. Enable secure payments, access real-time reporting, increase revenue.
TANGGapp — Send money to the Philippines with the best exchange rates! Money transfers are received in minutes. Get full transparency on your transaction - no FX markups or secret costs. Download TANGapp today and get started!
Smileyscope — Smileyscope solves paediatric problems using VR keeping kids calm and still during needles, allowing clinicians to do their job safely

Necessary Ventures focuses on investing in what the world needs. They work with the founders to build the most scalable solutions.

Investment focus

Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, Software
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Nigeria, Venezuela

Portfolio highlights

Mooch — Mooch is the last budgeting app you'll ever need. Mooch builds a budget for you based on your personal finances and lifestyle, then automates it every month so you don't have to think about it. The better you are at budgeting and saving money the more rewards you earn from Mooch.
Magrathea — Magrathea Metals is a mining company that unlocks centuries of growth in human civilization by reducing the socioenvironmental impacts.
Rubi Laboratories — Rubi Laboratories turns carbon emissions into carbon-negative textiles for the fashion industry, with a proprietary synthetic biology technology.

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

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Singapore, Indonesia, Philippines

Portfolio highlights

Safary — Safary is the web3 alternative for Google analytics. Privacy friendly. No cookies. Acquire more wallets in one click.
Vidyut — Vidyut offers end-to-end solutions for purchase and financing to resale which provide superior economics on electric vehicles compared to petrol & diesel vehicles.
Blackwing — Blackwing runs a range of modular apps while retaining decentralization, and it is distinguished by leverage trading.

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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Mexico, Nigeria, United States

Portfolio highlights

Zenpli — Zenpli makes it easy for enterprises and startups in LatAm to manage KYC and fraud complexity through a single modular API, no matter the use case.
Revio — Subscription billing and payments made easy.
Circadian Technologies GmbH — Circadian Technologies accelerates the energy transition in frontier markets with a SaaS business model, empowering solar developers & energy service companies to reduce operating costs and grow revenue with a data driven platform and proprietary IoT hardware.Circadian transforms the entire value chain of its customers by uniquely providingan end-to-end solution to better design, finance, operate and maintain decentralized renewable energy systems for commercial & industrial sites.

thelatest.ventures partners with the leading investment firms across the globe to localise, launch or scale intuitively exceptional growth businesses. To create superior investment and societal impact returns.

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, Financial Services
Series A, Debt Financing
Nigeria, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

Moove — Moove is a mobility fintech that provides revenue-based vehicle financing to mobility entrepreneurs, democratizing vehicle ownership globally. The company embeds its alternative credit-scoring technology onto ride-hailing, logistics, and last-mile/instant delivery platforms, which allows access to proprietary performance and revenue analyticsof mobility entrepreneurs to underwrite loans.
Moove — Moove is a mobility fintech that provides revenue-based vehicle financing to mobility entrepreneurs, democratizing vehicle ownership across Africa.The company embeds its alternative credit-scoring technology onto ride-hailing and e-logistics platforms, which allows access to proprietary performance and revenue analytics of mobility entrepreneurs tounderwrite loans.Moove was founded by Ladi Delano and Jide Odunsi in 2019.

Everywhere Ventures (The Fund) is a first-of-its-kind early-stage venture fund created by founders for founders to support the next generation of entrepreneurs.Everywhere Ventures is a community-powered venture investing platform that integrates the capital, expertise, and mentoring of experienced founders and operators across ten micro funds.The Fund's $50M+ under management comes almost exclusively from the over 500 founders and operators who are its limited partners. Everywhere Ventures operates from the belief that those who have actually built successful companies are best suited to advise and support early-stage startups. Everywhere Ventures invests in pre-seed deals globally usually in the first financing round the company raises. Emphasis is placed on purpose-driven teams across money, health and work verticals.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

Indemn — Buy insurance online
Khyaal — Khyaal is a full-stack digital solution for senior citizens designed and developed to improve their quality of life. We facilitate on-demand services and organise fun and engaging activities for seniors. Being a part of the Khyaal family means making a difference in the world by enriching the lives of the elderly. If selflessness and empathy is atrait that you carry and would want to put at work, then you will find Khyaal as the perfect place to invest your valuable time.At Khyaal, we value your individuality and the skills that you bring to the table. We also believe in the power of collective consciousness to serve others and make their lives easier and wholesome. We want all members of the Khyaal family to feel respected personally and professionally. Our working environment will always make way for new ideas, ownership and collective growth.
Segwise — Segwise is an AI powered observability platform for Product Growth teams.

Future Africa is a collective of mission-driven founders and funders building unicorns to solve Africa’s biggest challenges. They are build a future where purpose and prosperity are within everyone’s reach.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Nigeria, United States, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Moove — Moove is a mobility fintech that provides revenue-based vehicle financing to mobility entrepreneurs, democratizing vehicle ownership globally. The company embeds its alternative credit-scoring technology onto ride-hailing, logistics, and last-mile/instant delivery platforms, which allows access to proprietary performance and revenue analyticsof mobility entrepreneurs to underwrite loans.
Anchor — Anchor is building the infrastructure needed for businesses to build, launch, and scale banking and payment solutions.
Itana — Talent City’s mission is to build a network of charter cities that focuses on creating technology-enabled jobs within a free trade zone with its own regulation and bylaws.

VilCap Investments is an early-stage impact investing fund, backing companies addressing the most pressing social and environmental challenges.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Health Care, FinTech
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, India, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Vexi — Vexi issues, operates and processes credit cards for young underbanked population on a mission to make credit accessible, through a 100% digital onboarding and unparalleled customer experience
SatSure — SatSure, they are on a mission to evolve crop insurance products and provide accurate risk assessment of crop yield by integrating climatic variables with geospatial and economic datasets.
Altro (fka Perch) — Perch Credit (also known as Perch), is a fin-tech mobile app that allows users to take common recurring expenses, such as their subscriptions & rent, and turn these into creditworthy data points. Perch is currrently live on iOS and plans to be on Android in the coming months.Perch recently graduated YC (S20) and closed 2.5M in their mostrecent round.

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

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Software
Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
Nigeria, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Famasi — Famasi is a digital health platform that helps people access their medications, schedule doorstep delivery, and automate monthly refills.
Pennee — Yana Finance provides up to 50 million Naira for ambitious business owners, with NDIC insured accounts. Yana Finance aims to simplify financial operations for businesses, ensuring they never run out of money and can manage cash flows efficiently.
Clafiya — Discover Clafiya: Your trusted digital health platform, uniting in-person care and virtual solutions for a personalized and caring healthcare experience. Embrace a healthier, happier you, with us by your side.

Golden Palm Investments is an investment holding and advisory company.

Investment focus

Information Technology, FinTech, Logistics
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Nigeria, Egypt, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Sabipay — Pastel is a leader in Artificial Intelligence. We build products targeted at individuals (SwiftMoney) and enterprises (Sigma) in emerging markets
Maplerad — Maplerad is a fast, safe and easy way to send and receive money with friends, family or others you trust. You can receive and send money directly into any Nigerian bank account in minutes using Bitcoin, US Dollars, and Naira.
Jetstream Africa — Jetstream is a supply chain platform that powers freight forwarding and global exports for African suppliers. With tracking and consolidated (LCL) shipping Jetstream levels the playing field for access to international trade for African SMEs with the click of a button.

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

Investment focus

Financial Services, Payments, FinTech
Seed, Series B, Pre-Seed
Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Lengo — Lengo is an AI based intelligence platform that offers a large database on consumer goods for companies in the FMCG sector.
Nkoloso — Nkoloso AI monitors Africa's natural resources 10x faster using AI and Robotics.
Kotani Pay — Kotani Pay is a technology stack that enables blockchain protocols, dapps, and blockchain fintech companies to integrate seamlessly to local payment channels providing them with a reliable on ramp and off ramp service to reach a wider customer base in Africa.

The art and science of entrepreneurship

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Mexico, India

Portfolio highlights

Captur — Captur helps companies make smarter decisions, at the speed of capturing a photo. We use expert triaging and visual AI to identify and action tasks instantly for companies managing in-field operations.
Trebellar — Trebellar provides advanced data analytics for building occupancy, energy efficiency, and climate optimization. Maximize your workplace productivity with our intelligent building solutions.
Operant — Operant.AI is an intelligence platform for collection agents and customer success teams.

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

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, France, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Groover — Groover is the best way to promote your music to blogs, radios, record labels, & Spotify playlisters. Get listened to, receive coverage & guaranteed feedback!
HD — HD is a healthcare and surgery marketplace, powering over 1,500+ healthcare providers including some of the biggest hospitals. HD connects patients to hospitals, clinics, operating rooms, and surgeons while offering healthcare financing solutions to increase access to affordable care and surgeries. To date, over 250,000 patients have benefited frommore accessible and affordable healthcare and surgeries through the company's platform.
MyRealTrip — MyRealTrip is leading tours&activities marketplace in South Korea. MyRealTrip is the best free travel platform in Korea where you can book flights, accommodations, tours & tickets, and special offers. Starting with guided tour service in 2012, it has been growing rapidly since it successfully launched air service in 2018. MyRealTrip isconstantly striving to provide travelers with a personalized experience and provide them with a more valuable experience.

Continent Venture Partners operates as a venture capital firm.

Investment focus

Supply Chain Management, Financial Services, Transportation
Seed, Pre-Seed
Nigeria, Kenya, United States

Portfolio highlights

MVX — MVX is a freight forwarding business and logistics platform that offers freight financing, tracking, and shipping services to help trade.
MoneyHash — MoneyHash provides access to payment and fintech services across the Middle East & Africa with one simple integration.
Mvxchange — MVX makes freight shipping easier and more coordinated for companies of any size by bringing the whole booking and deployment process online. We simplify Africa’s end-to-end import and export trade transactions by aggregating and organizing 7+ services through 1 digital channel.

MUFG announced today the establishment of MUFG Innovation Partners Co., Ltd. (“MUIP”) that will manage corporate venture capital funds of MUFG to accelerate open innovation and strengthening partnerships with FinTech related startups.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Series A, Series C, Series B
United States, Japan, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Qoala — Asuransi online yang siap melindungi kamu dan orang tersayang, di mana aja, kapan aja. Premi murah, proses klaim mudah, dan 100% digital!
AwanTunai — AwanTunai seek to reinforce Indonesian needs and productivity by providing digital loan for a better financial freedom and capability to micro-entrepreneurs
SellersFi — SellersFi offers financial solutions for e-commerce merchants & brands. Contact us to get started and build your economic growth toolkit.

Century Oak Capital GmbH is a venture capital firm specializing in early-stage investments in Europe and Emerging Markets.

Investment focus

Retail, E-Commerce, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Pakistan, Kenya, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Unbox — Unbox is the branded commerce operating system for SMEs helping them to sell online and increase their sales. We provide a ready to sell platform that allows entrepreneurs to digitize their business in less than 5 minutes - fully integrated with social commerce channels and our payment and shipping solutions, helping SMEs to save costs andcentralizing sales into a single platform.
SnappRetail — SnappRetail aims to create the largest virtual retail franchise across Pakistan, through deployment of its POS hardware/software, focusing on:1. Traditional trade Analytics for brands and retailers 2. Order Aggregation for manufacturers and distributors 3. Payment Solution for customers 4. Fintech enablement for small merchantsTheSnappRetail POS application has been carefully curated keeping the retailer in mind, the application focuses on digitizing his shop operations and cash flow and creating a real-time tertiary sales data lake.
Dastgyr Technologies — Making trade and capital seamless and reliable

Goodwater empowers exceptional entrepreneurs everywhere to change the world for the better. They believe consumer technology is a force on earth, shaping culture and transforming the global economy at unprecedented speed and scale. They invest in promising entrepreneurs to solve pressing problems. As a combined force, Goodwater companies are aglobal force for change, poised to measurably improve billions of lives.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, India, South Korea

Portfolio highlights

FlowGPT — Discover a vast library of ChatGPT prompts uploaded by the FlowGPT community. Browse popular and useful prompts and get personalized recommendations for prompts that interest you. Join a vibrant community of ChatGPT users and discover, share, and discuss different prompts.
Read AI — Read AI enables better meetings through shared measurement. Read AI is a provider of a real-time shared dashboard that measures engagement and sentiment for meeting attendees.
Cambio — Quickly Resolve Hurtful Accounts Like Collections and Improve Your Credit Score with The Cambio App. Download Today!

Chrysalis Capital is an investment management firm focused on scaling early-stage tech companies in Africa and the diaspora.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Bitcoin
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Nigeria, United States

Portfolio highlights

Bankly — Bankly is a digital savings and peer to peer transfer product where users fund their wallet using tokens available on Bankly vouchers nationwide in a “Recharge to save” model. This cash digitisation system is similar to the telco mobile airtime top up and is currently available on MTN and 9mobile networks in Nigeria.Financial services has to beseen through the lenses of a fast moving consumer product in order to reach the last mile and the use of vouchers has been proven to be a successful cash digitisation system by the telecoms industry. Leveraging this existing consumer behaviour to drive financial inclusion, reduce cost of financial services and create a foundation to provide other financial services is where Bankly identifies huge potential and is poised to make an impact.
Bamboo — Bamboo is a digital investment platform that provides real-time access to buy, hold, or sell stocks. The investment platform is accessible on both computers and mobile phones.
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.

Savannah Fund is a seed capital fund specializing in US$25,000-US$500,000 investments in early stage high growth technology (web and mobile) startups in sub-Saharan Africa. Initially focused on East Africa, the fund aims to bridge the early stage/angel and venture capital investment gap that currently exists in Africa. The Fund expects toachieve this objective by combining capital with mentor networks both in the region and from Silicon Valley via an accelerator program and a follow-on independent seed fund.The fund is managed by an experienced and technology savvy team that have founded companies or are actively involved in angel investing or having run successful accelerator programs in past but also understand the unique Subsaharan African environment. They are backed and supported by both local, regional and international networks of angels,venture capitalists whose expertise we can draw on to help startups succeed and scale to fully fledged regional or global companies.They believe in the potential for Africa to become a global technology innovator by creating sustainable for profit companies that create jobs and make an impact.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, FinTech, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Kenya, United States, South Africa

Portfolio highlights

Oze — OZÉ brings African small businesses into the digital era. It is an app that makes it easy for businesses to track sales, expenses, and customer information. The data is analyzed to provide tailored recommendations, reports, and business education. If the entrepreneur needs a little extra support, an OZÉ Coach is just a click away. As they are usingOZÉ to manage their business and learn how to run it better, we are learning about them. Using this data and machine learning, we can predict their credit risk and provide them with affordable capital from our banking partners. With over 20,000 registered users, OZÉ is the largest online community of SMEs in Ghana. The most exciting thing is that OZÉ works; 97% of businesses that have used OZE for at least 9 months are growing or profitable or both!
Root — Launch digital and embedded insurance solutions with omni-channel distribution.
Afropolitan — Afropolitan is building a Network State to unleash the maximum potential of Africans around the world. Are you interested? Join us with your email.

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

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Nigeria, United States, Egypt

Portfolio highlights

Mtor — Mtor is an online marketplace that is reshaping the automotive aftermarket and provides sophisticated technology solutions.
EMTECH — For Modern Central Banking
Terragon Group — Terragon is a leading Data and Marketing Technology company that uses data and analytics to help companies focused in Africa, intelligently connect at scale to their customers. We use an aggregation of online and offline data, and predictive scoring to help brands, marketing agencies and platforms accurately target people across channels anddevices. Headquartered in Lagos; Nigeria, we also have a presence in Kenya, South Africa, Ghana and India.

Beta.Ventures invests in driven, early-stage entrepreneurs scaling tech and tech-enabled startups to become market leaders. They are focused on the opportunities made available by a 1.2 billion-person, mobile phone enabled Africa.Beta.Ventures works closely with founders and teams from product idea to product launch through to the next stage ofcompany development. We are focused on the opportunities made available by a 1.2 billion-person, mobile phone enabled Africa.We are experienced entrepreneurs ourselves and are able to share what has proven to work for product and service scaling, revenue growth and fundraising.Operations is key to success at early stage companies, and our environment often faces a dearth of experience scaling opportunities; Beta.Ventures focuses intensely on the operations of a company, adding value through several levers we know, from experience, will enable a company to succeed.Our partners, affiliates, and mentors lead some top technology companies locally and internationally and we encourage you to partner with us to take advantage of our experience building great products/services, negotiating partnerships and deals, leading teams, and raising money.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, B2B
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Voyance — Voyance is a big data company helping businesses predict the future using machine learning combined with their data. Our platform can be used to answer questions like what does my revenue look like in the next two months, is this transaction fraudulent, will this customer churn and much more. We are currently piloting with organisations like banks,ecommerce and fintechs companies across Africa and United Arab Emirates.
PayHippo — PayHippo is making it easier to finance small and medium sized businesses in Africa. There is a need for financing of $158 bn for SMEs in Nigeria alone. To start, PayHippo helps SMEs access and spend lender capital effectively. During their first full operational year in 2020, the PayHippo co--founders leveraged their domain expertise and foundingexperience to beat their 2020 goal by 50%.
Knabu Distributed Systems Ltd — We are building a clearing bank.

We are an NYC-based venture capital fund built on the belief that innovators are everywhere.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Colombia, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Moove — Moove is a mobility fintech that provides revenue-based vehicle financing to mobility entrepreneurs, democratizing vehicle ownership globally. The company embeds its alternative credit-scoring technology onto ride-hailing, logistics, and last-mile/instant delivery platforms, which allows access to proprietary performance and revenue analyticsof mobility entrepreneurs to underwrite loans.
Louisa AI — AI sales enablement for finance and consulting firms by connecting their expertise and relationships with real-time intel
Popularium — At Popularium, we believe that successful games are built by world-class developers who know what great looks like.

Crestone is a $200m growth fund focused on FinTech companies that target 1 billion new middle class people and 100 million new formal businesses in high growth Emerging Markets.

Investment focus

SaaS, FinTech, Finance
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Philippines, Mexico, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Ringkas — Ajukan KPR Digital dengan aman dan mudah bersama Ringkas, dapat mengajukan beberapa Bank sekali pengajuan.
Kanastra — Asset-management-as-a-service
Hyperplane AI — The Hyperplane platform enables financial institutions to launch personalized consumer experiences through specialized foundation models (LLMs).

Helios Investment Partners is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in buyouts of going concerns, recapitalization, mezzanine, growth capital for private enterprises, restructurings joint ventures, startups; either green-field or brownfield; and the majority or blocking-minority structured investments in listed entities. It seeksto invest in the telecommunications, media, financial services, power, utilities, travel, leisure, distribution, fast-moving consumer goods, logistics, and Agro-allied sectors. The firm prefers to invest in Africa with a focus on Nigeria, South Africa, and Kenya. It seeks to invest between $15 million and $200 million in an individual transaction. The firm prefers to have a board seat in its portfolio companies. Helios Investment Partners LLP was founded in 2004 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Energy, Oil and Gas
Private Equity, Debt Financing, Funding Round
Nigeria, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Thunes — Payment infrastructure for a connected world.
Africell Holding — Africell was established in 2001 in Africa and has been shaped by traditional African values, putting the communities in their markets at the heart and soul of our business. Connecting and empowering local communities lies at the very core of our strategy. Africell is one of the fastest-growing mobile telecommunications operators in Africa. Theyhave established theirselves as the number one provider in Gambia and Sierra Leone and are rapidly growing our newer operations in Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Uganda, where we purchased Orange Uganda. Africell Holding owns 100% of Africell’s operations in Gambia, Sierra Leone, DRC, and 98.99% of Africell Uganda. The total number of active subscribers reached 11 million by end of 2016. All four operations offer voice and 3G data services with plans to deploy LTE services, which are already available in Kampala, Uganda.
Zola Electric — ZOLA Electric designs renewable energy solutions based on the latest in solar, battery and power electronics technology. Adaptable to energy need and income, ZOLA Electric’s solar systems can be bought over time using PAYGo micro-finance leasing and mobile money payments. ZOLA Electric powers more than 180,000 homes and businesses across Tanzania,Rwanda, Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana. Investors include Tesla, Vulcan Capital, DBL Partners, Helios Investment Partners, EDF, Total and GE Ventures. ZOLA Electric is a recipient of the UN Momentum for Change Award, the Zayed Future Energy Prize and is a member of the Global Cleantech 100.

Vantage Capital is an Africa-focused fund manager with offices in Johannesburg. The business was founded in 2001 and has raised

Investment focus

Real Estate, Property Management, Manufacturing
Debt Financing, Funding Round, Series C
South Africa, Nigeria, United States

Portfolio highlights

CIM Sante — CIM Sante is a Moroccan private healthcare group that develops cardiac catherization. CIM Sante Group is made of 3 clinics namely The Heart and Vascular Diseases Clinic in Rabat(1994), The International Clinic of Marrakech (2011), The International Clinic of Tangier(2020). CIM Santé Group also radiology and laundry service companies in partnershipin medical laboratories.
Equity Invest — Equity Invest is a Moroccan holding company.
Purple Capital Partners — Purple Capital Partners Limited is a specialist investment firm with business areas in Principal Investment, Private Equity and Real Estate. Purple seeks to offer a range of alternative investment opportunities for itself, institutional and private investors. Purple provides thought – through, risk calculated opportunities with positive alphareturns using an investor – manager interest aligned structure.

Kreos Capital provides innovative and flexible debt solutions to equity-backed, pan-European and Israeli high-growth companies in the technology and healthcare sectors.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
Debt Financing, Series B, Post-IPO Debt
United Kingdom, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Qover — Plug & play solutions empowering any digital business to integrate insurance into its strategy. Our promise? A tailored insurance experience, right when your customers need it most.
Abivax — Abivax recently presented impressive 9-month interim extension data from studies of ABX464 in ulcerative colitis during an oral presentation at DDW 2019, demonstrating a continued duration of beneficial effect in patients after 11-months of treatment. View the conference presentation, here:
Crescendo Biologics — Crescendo Biologics is a new Cambridge-based company whose vision is to deliver next-generation antibody therapeutics based on novel class-leading platforms.The focus of the company is on developing platforms that will address key issues in generating high-affinity, soluble, human VH antibody fragments. These are the smallest fragments thatretain antibody binding, and have many desirable properties as potential therapeutics. Crescendo will then utilise these platforms for product development of in-house targets or in partnership with other companies.

Oikocredit is guided by the principle of empowering people. Their experience proves that the most effective and sustainable means of assisting those in need is providing an opportunity to help themselves.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
Debt Financing, Funding Round, Series B
India, Nigeria, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Kaleidofin — Kaleidofin provides a scalable and adaptable platform dedicated to democratizing finance through responsible fintech, empowering every customer. Our name, 'Kaleidofin', symbolizes the transformative power of financial solutions with a digital ecosystem that ensures finance for everyone, everywhere.
Prestamype — Prestamype was launched in 2017 with the aim of providing a broader access to funding to micro and small businesses, with better credit conditions. With its first product, a secured working capital loan with a real estate collateral, it has lent over USD 24 million to 750 Peruvian entrepreneurs (as of 1st of October 2021). In 2019, Prestamypelaunched its online FX platform called Cambio Seguro. In 2020, the company launched its digital factoring product. In 2021, INCA Ventures and Angel Ventures Peru (AVP), two leading funds in Peru, invested in the company.
Good Nature Agro — Their priority is to generate lasting income with small-scale farmers. They build local community leaders into qualified Private Extension Agents (PEAs) who oversee and train farmers throughout the growing season. They support PEAs to provide frequent trainings and personalized recommendations on how their growers can make their field healthier andmore productive. PEAs promote improved farm practices and deliver a farmer-friendly loan of seeds and additional inputs. At harvest, Good Nature is a guaranteed market for the certified legume seed that their growers produce. Choosing to produce these high-value crops over traditional cash crops - maize and cotton - more than doubles their income.

SBI Investment supports the business development and growth of private venture companies through fund investment. It manages and manages venture capital funds under the management philosophy of becoming a leading company responsible for the creation and development of core industries in the 21st century as a "new industry creator".SBIInvestment has invested in a total of 986 companies in the past, of which 169 (17.1% of investment companies) have exited through IPO or M & A.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Information Technology, Health Care
Funding Round, Series B, Series A
Japan, South Korea, United States

Portfolio highlights

LexxPluss — LexxPluss develops an automatic transfer software system and robot hardware.
Flyability — Flyability is an EPFL spin-off dedicated to creating safe, collision-tolerant robotics to access inaccessible places, replacing dangerous human operations with unmanned devices.
Helical Fusion — Helical Fusion is a startup company that aims to commercialize fusion energy using magnetic confinement of high-temperature plasmas.

Adlevo Capital is a private equity firm that finances technology-enabled companies across sub-Saharan Africa. It develops market intelligence through a local presence and an understanding of the dynamics of the local market. Adlevo Capital maintains active local presence via its base in Lagos, Nigeria. It was founded by Yemi Lalude in 2009.

Investment focus

Mobile, FinTech, Financial Services
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
Ghana, Nigeria, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Paga — Paga is a mobile payment company. We are building an ecosystem to enable people to digitally send and receive money, and creating simple financial access for everyone. Our mission is to make it simple for one billion people to access and use money. Our first market is Nigeria where Paga is the leading mobile payment company.
Interswitch — Interswitch is an Africa-focused integrated digital payments and commerce company that facilitates the electronic circulation of money as well as the exchange of value between individuals and organisations on a timely and consistent basis. The company started operations in 2002 as a transaction switching and electronic payments processingcompany that builds and manages payment infrastructure as well as deliver innovative payment products and transactional services throughout the African continent.
Rancard — Developer of Rendezvous social recommendations engine for online retail and places with an AI-powered Messenger bot. Rancard Inc., DE & CA (incorporated October 2016) is a startup subsidiary of Rancard Holdings, focused on Rendezvous, with its website socialrecommendations.com

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

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Singapore, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Noble XYZ — Noble is a purpose-built generic asset issuance chain for the Cosmos & Inter-Blockchain Communication (IBC) ecosystem.
Swarm — Swarm is the professional network for expert fractional tech folk in AI, Design, and Software Engineering.
Uniblock — Uniblock helps connect developers with Web3 using our APIs and services. Our developers use Uniblock because of how easy it is to integrate into exciting applications. Try it for free today!

Class 5 Global is a venture fund investing in the next generation of emerging market entrepreneurs.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Singapore, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Caliza — Give your users access to the digital dollar economy. Get early access!
BRKZ — BRKZ is a construction-tech company that provides a one-stop solution by selling building materials to contractors and builders.
Field Materials, Inc. — Increase Margins and Cut Costs with Digital Procurement

AfricInvest was founded in 1994 and is part of Integra Group, an investment and financial services company based in Tunisia.Uniquely positioned as one of the most experienced private equity investors on the continent, AfricInvest has dedicated investment teams focused on North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa, and employs 66 professionals based inseven offices.AfricInvest manages USD1 billion across 16 funds and benefits from strong, long-term support from both local and international investors, including leading development finance institutions in the United States and Europe.Having co-founded the African Venture Capital Association (AVCA) as well as the Middle East North Africa Private Equity Association (MENAPEA) and the Euromed Capital Forum, the firm is an active promotor of the private equity industry in the region.Since 1994, AfricInvest has invested in 135 companies across 25 African countries in a variety of high growth sectors and maintains a broad network of high quality executives across Africa, offering extensive expertise in key growth industries, including financial services, agribusiness, consumer/retail, education and healthcare.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Financial Services, FinTech
Funding Round, Private Equity, Series A
Tunisia, Morocco, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Bizao — Bizao helps companies accept all local payment methods across Africa. We build powerful APIs and smart financial flows wich greatly simplify the challenge of accepting Mobile Money, Visa/Mastercard and Airtime payment. We power all types of businesses: local retailers, online merchants, international digital content providers, money transferoperators, microfinance institutions. Our objective: accelerate mobile payment adoption in order to support economic development across the continent
Turaco — Turaco develops simplified insurance and credit solutions through mobile technology to solve the healthcare financing needs. Turaco has simplified insurance products and also provides on-demand health loans, allowing customers to get healthcare at affordable monthly premiums.
Moove — Moove is a mobility fintech that provides revenue-based vehicle financing to mobility entrepreneurs, democratizing vehicle ownership globally. The company embeds its alternative credit-scoring technology onto ride-hailing, logistics, and last-mile/instant delivery platforms, which allows access to proprietary performance and revenue analyticsof mobility entrepreneurs to underwrite loans.

Watani Investment Company KSCC (NBK Capital) was established in 2005 as the investment banking arm of National Bank of Kuwait (NBK), one of the largest financial institutions in the region with nearly USD 50 billion in total assets. Drawing on the parent bank's unrivaled financial strength, substantial organizational structure and storiedbanking heritage, we deliver an array of financial solutions in four principal business disciplines Alternative Investments, Asset Management, Brokerage & Research and Investment Banking.With in-depth knowledge of the region’s financial and regulatory environments, as well as its unique cultural dimensions, NBK Capital offers a robust and growing investment platform for clients and investors. Recognized for our customer-centric approach, proven processes and successful track record, we have within the span of last two years advised on over USD 7.4 billion in financing transactions and USD 2.5 billion in M&A transactions.

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, Financial Services
Series A, Funding Round
Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

Moove — Moove is a mobility fintech that provides revenue-based vehicle financing to mobility entrepreneurs, democratizing vehicle ownership globally. The company embeds its alternative credit-scoring technology onto ride-hailing, logistics, and last-mile/instant delivery platforms, which allows access to proprietary performance and revenue analyticsof mobility entrepreneurs to underwrite loans.
Amo Hamza — AmoHamza sea food restaurants, a national Saudi company, founded on 1990 in Riyadh city. Their main goal is in investing on food products that are healthy and have a delectable taste. The sea and its nutritious products were our main inspiration for making the best sea food meals and dishes. Since the company was founded, it was always our maingoal to succeed and build a trust based relationship with our customers with which helped us become the most wide-spread sea food company around the kingdom.
Moove — Moove is a mobility fintech that provides revenue-based vehicle financing to mobility entrepreneurs, democratizing vehicle ownership across Africa.The company embeds its alternative credit-scoring technology onto ride-hailing and e-logistics platforms, which allows access to proprietary performance and revenue analytics of mobility entrepreneurs tounderwrite loans.Moove was founded by Ladi Delano and Jide Odunsi in 2019.

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