Top 5 Finance VC Funds &amp; Investors in Senegal (August 2026)

Haskè Ventures is a venture builder based in Dakar and focused on transforming the startup landscape.

Investment focus

Industry: B2B, Food and Beverage, Retail
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
Geography: Senegal, Morocco, United States

Investor stats

Total investments: 8
Round size: Seed $200k–$700k; Pre-Seed $150k–$150k
Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

Génimi — Génimi is a mobile first platform that streamlines tutoring services to assist students in francophone africa.
ProXalys INC — ProXalys is an african digital bank or neobank for the financial inclusion and empowerment of african women (entrepreneurs and self-employed entrepreneurs, startups, SMEs, and startups).
ProXalys — BENGKULUTOTO Adalah Platform game online terbaik dan terpercaya di Indonesia. Nikmati pengalaman bermain seru, aman, dengan berbagai pilihan hiburan berkualitas tinggi kapan saja!

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Investment focus

Industry: Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
Stage:Debt Financing, Series B
Geography: India, Nigeria, Kenya

Investor stats

Total investments: 69
Round size: Series B $3.5M–$24M; Debt Financing $1.1M–$33M
Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow

Portfolio highlights

Djamo — Djamo is a Provider of financial applications to allow customers to use their cards with zero fees in a wide range of services.
Prestamype — Prestamype was launched in 2017 with the aim of providing a broader access to funding to micro and small businesses, with better credit conditions. With its first product, a secured working capital loan with a real estate collateral, it has lent over USD 24 million to 750 Peruvian entrepreneurs (as of 1st of October 2021). In 2019, Prestamypelaunched its online FX platform called Cambio Seguro. In 2020, the company launched its digital factoring product. In 2021, INCA Ventures and Angel Ventures Peru (AVP), two leading funds in Peru, invested in the company.
Sindhuja Microcredit — Sindhuja Microcredit is a new generation digital and rural-focused Micro Finance Institution (MFI) providing financial services to the bottom of the pyramid self-employed women entrepreneurs.

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The European Investment Bank (EIB) offers lending, borrowing, and treasury services primarily within the European Union. It provides project loans for public and private sectors, loans to banks and intermediaries, structured finance products, guarantees, and securitization instruments for debts. Additionally, EIB offers equity and fund investmentproducts, including infrastructure and environmental funds, as well as venture capital funds. EIB also supports microfinance and risk-sharing finance for research and innovation, and provides technical expertise for sustainable energy projects. Its services include infrastructure advisory, urban development support, guarantees for transport infrastructure, and funding for public-private partnerships and small- to medium-sized enterprises. The bank serves various sectors, including transportation, energy, health, education, and agriculture.

Investment focus

Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Energy
Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt
Geography: France, Germany, The Netherlands

Investor stats

Total investments: 520
Round size: Post-IPO Debt $18M–$726M; Debt Financing $16M–$352M
Lead/follow: 83% lead, 17% follow

Portfolio highlights

Ukrposhta — Ukrposhta sends and receives shipments from all over the world, as well as orders mail products sent to the most distant corners.
IPT PowerTech — IPT PowerTech coverage, coupled with our extensive expertise in supply chain management, field implementation, and power systems, has made us one of the most capable companies in handling the most complicated and versatile projects in the MEA region and its neighboring countries.
Santander Brasil — Banco Santander in Brazil, its largest division in Latin America and one of the world's most important, accounting for 50%.

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Created in 2012, FSD Africa is a £30 million financial sector development programme or ‘FSD’ based in Nairobi. It is funded by UK aid from the UK Government. FSD Africa aims to reduce poverty across sub-Saharan Africa by building financial markets that are efficient, robust and inclusive.FSD Africa is a market facilitator or catalyst. It appliesa combination of resources, expertise and research to address financial market failures and deliver a lasting impact. FSD Africa has a mandate to work across sub-Saharan Africa on issues that relate to both ‘financial inclusion’ and ‘finance for growth.’FSD Africa is also a regional platform. It fosters collaboration, best practice transfer, economies of scale and coherence between development agencies, donors, financial institutions, practitioners and government entities with a role in financial market development in sub-Saharan Africa. In particular, FSD Africa provides strategic and operational support to the FSD Network.

Investment focus

Industry: Financial Services, Energy, Finance
Stage:Grant, Venture - Series Unknown, Seed
Geography: Kenya, Ethiopia, United States

Investor stats

Total investments: 22
Round size: Seed $4M–$6M; Grant $10k–$134k; Venture - Series Unknown $4.5M–$10M
Lead/follow: 77% lead, 23% follow

Portfolio highlights

Miarakap — Miarakap is the first impact investment company dedicated to financing and supporting Small and Medium Enterprises with high potential in Madagascar.
Dhamana Guarantee — An East African focused credit guarantee company whose principal business is to guarantee local currency debt obligations in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Rwanda.
Africa Renewables Katalyst — ARK (Africa Renewables Katalyst Ltd) a Kenyan based company focused on helping Africa realize its full renewable energy potential through I-RECs

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