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Top 50 Finance VC Funds & Investors in South Africa (June 2026)

The most active venture capital funds investing in South Africa Finance startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in South Africa Finance startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Maven 11 Capital
VC Fund
5 United States, United Kingdom, Germany Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services $1.7M–$43M
1kx
VC Fund
4 United States, Germany, Switzerland Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software $1.8M–$28M
Scalar Capital
VC Fund
3 United States, Canada, Israel Seed, Series A Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency $1.3M–$30M
Sound Ventures
VC Fund
3 United States, Canada, Israel Series A, Seed, Series B Software, FinTech, Financial Services $2M–$105M
Kleiner Perkins
VC Fund
3 United States, China, United Kingdom Series B, Series A, Series C Software, Information Technology, Health Care $5M–$100M
Wintermute
VC Fund
2 United States, Singapore, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services $3M–$50M
CRE Venture Capital
VC Fund
2 South Africa, Nigeria, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Software $250k–$25M
Imvelo Ventures
VC Fund
2 South Africa Seed FinTech, Software, Financial Services $570k–$2M
Merrill Lynch
VC Fund
2 United States, India, United Kingdom Series B, Series C Software, Information Technology, Internet $10M–$85M
Reciprocal Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, Canada, Germany Seed, Series A, Series B Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech $2.5M–$50M
BYLD
VC Fund
1 United States, United Kingdom, Nigeria Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, Payments, FinTech $120k–$6.5M
R-Ventures
VC Fund
1 Senegal, South Africa Seed Banking, FinTech, Finance
Zip
VC Fund
1 India, South Africa, Czech Republic Series C, Corporate Round FinTech, Payments, Mobile Payments $20M–$50M
Collab+Currency
VC Fund
1 United States, Canada, Singapore Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software $2M–$50M
Five35 Ventures
VC Fund
1 South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria Seed, Pre-Seed Information Technology, Wellness, Health Care $100k–$1.7M
A.Capital Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, United Kingdom, Canada Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency $2.6M–$107M
BREEGA
VC Fund
1 France, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Series A Software, FinTech, Financial Services $1.1M–$25M
Venture Capital Studio
VC Fund
1 South Africa Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Information Technology, FinTech, Finance $256k–$9.6M
Placeholder
VC Fund
1 United States, United Kingdom, Cayman Islands Series A, Seed Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology $2M–$38M
CoinFund
VC Fund
1 United States, United Kingdom, Germany Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services $1.5M–$43M
Bloccelerate VC
VC Fund
1 United States, Switzerland, Germany Seed, Series A, Series B Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency $3M–$41M
EchoVC Partners
VC Fund
1 United States, Nigeria, Kenya Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Information Technology, FinTech, Software $200k–$22M
Flamingo DAO
VC Fund
1 United States, Austria, Croatia Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology $1M–$50M
RaiCap
VC Fund
1 South Africa Pre-Seed Credit, Finance, Financial Services
Ingressive Capital
VC Fund
1 Nigeria, United States, Egypt Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology $25k–$15M
Animoca Brands
VC Fund
1 United States, United Kingdom, Singapore Seed, Series A Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency $1.6M–$40M
UNCOVERED FUND
VC Fund
1 Nigeria, Kenya, United States Seed, Pre-Seed FinTech, Financial Services, Software $700k–$3.7M
AlphaCode Club
VC Fund
1 South Africa, United Kingdom Grant, Debt Financing Financial Services, FinTech, Finance $26k–$655k
4Di Capital
VC Fund
1 South Africa, United States, Kenya Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Financial Services, Mobile $441k–$47M
Sherpa Africa Partners
VC Fund
1 Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa Pre-Seed, Seed Financial Services, Finance, FinTech $50k–$6M
Quona Capital
VC Fund
1 India, Brazil, Indonesia Series A, Seed, Series B Financial Services, FinTech, Finance $2.4M–$87M
Emerging Capital Partners
VC Fund
1 France, Nigeria, Morocco Private Equity, Post-IPO Equity Telecommunications, Energy, Finance $15k–$35M
Launch Africa
VC Fund
1 Nigeria, South Africa, United States Seed, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology $200k–$4M
Naspers Foundry
VC Fund
1 South Africa, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Financial Services, Farming, Software $854k–$15M
RaliCap
VC Fund
1 United States, Nigeria, Mexico Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Financial Services, FinTech, Payments $313k–$8.3M
The LAO
VC Fund
1 United States, Singapore, Switzerland Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services $1M–$30M
54 Collective
VC Fund
1 Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa Seed, Pre-Seed Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech $40k–$4M
Norrsken Foundation
VC Fund
1 Nigeria, United States, Rwanda Pre-Seed, Seed Financial Services, Health Care, FinTech $125k–$4M
FINCA Ventures
VC Fund
1 Kenya, Mexico, Sweden Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Education $1.1M–$4.2M
Wintermute Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, Singapore, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services $2.7M–$55M
Kepple Africa Ventures
VC Fund
1 Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt Seed, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Software $300k–$4.5M
4DX Ventures
VC Fund
1 Egypt, United States, South Africa Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Logistics $50k–$40M
Raba Partnership
VC Fund
1 United States, South Africa, Egypt Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Finance $635k–$32M
Knife Capital
VC Fund
1 South Africa, United States, Sweden Series A, Seed Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology $2M–$30M
Still Capital Partners
VC Fund
1 United States, South Africa Series A FinTech, Banking, Finance
Beryl Group
VC Fund
1 South Africa Banking, FinTech, Finance
Qualica Technologies (Pty) Ltd
VC Fund
1 South Africa Pre-Seed Apps, Banking, FinTech
Gauss Ventures
VC Fund
1 United Kingdom, Malta, Germany Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Banking $390k–$4M
Unicorn Growth Capital
VC Fund
1 Kenya, United States, South Africa Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Finance $1M–$5.3M
Global Founders Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, Germany, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, Software, FinTech $637k–$33M
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Maven 11 Capital
VC Fund · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands · 5 investments in South Africa Finance startups, 10 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 114
  • Round size: Seed $1.7M–$10M; Series A $5M–$43M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Utexo — Utexo develops payment infrastructure that enables stablecoin transactions to settle directly on the Bitcoin network. The platform provides an API and related tools that allow payment operators, exchanges, wallets, and financial platforms to process USDT transfers through Bitcoin-based rails. Its system integrates technologies such as the LightningNetwork and the RGB protocol to support instant settlement, encrypted transaction execution, and predictable transaction costs. Utexo also offers cloud infrastructure and developer tools that manage routing, liquidity, and node operations required for stablecoin payments on Bitcoin. These services allow organizations to integrate Bitcoin-based stablecoin settlement into existing applications without operating or maintaining underlying blockchain infrastructure.
  • Oh — Oh is the decentralized and uncensored AI products can offer a range of benefits, such as enhancing privacy, encouraging innovation, and promoting freedom of information.
  • Plural Energy — Plural Energy helps investors invest directly in renewable energy projects. The company utilizes blockchain-enabled smart contracts to provide constant yield and liquidity to investors.
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1kx
VC Fund · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands · 4 investments in South Africa Finance startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 154
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$11M; Series A $6M–$28M
  • Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Seam Social — Seam is a Pinterest-like social network where you post using user created miniapps.
  • Impossible Cloud — Experience Impossible Cloud Storage: Secure, scalable, performant. Decentralized architecture, S3 API compatibility, 100% durability. Start free trial now.
  • Open Game Protocol — Open Game System is a project that helps web games work better on phones, allowing the games to use tools that phones already have.
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Scalar Capital
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in South Africa Finance startups

Crypto investment firm. Austin, TX.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 37
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$12M; Series A $7.5M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Sound — Sound is a suite of music and economic tools powering the next generation of artists and their communities, starting with listening parties for new releases
  • Stack — Recognize and reward the relationships that matter
  • Stackr Labs — Micro-rollups to scale web3 applications
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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: 191
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$10M; Series A $8M–$35M; Series B $15M–$105M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $243M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Anomaly — Anomaly harnesses the power of AI to bring you Smart Response Predict and Smart Response Trends to level up your coding and billing and reduction of denials. We brought together millions of claims data from the industries largest players to develop an AI tool for hospitals and providers to reduce denials.
  • Diadia Health, Inc — An AI medical reasoning platform that helps clinicians analyze the root causes of symptoms and create personalized protocols that drive better outcomes.
  • Arcade — Arcade is a B2C platform that transforms the jewelry market through its prompt-to-product solution, allowing users to create unique designs using AI. The marketplace supports various user roles, enabling customers, designers, and influencers to engage and collaborate.
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Kleiner Perkins
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 3 investments in South Africa Finance startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1117
  • Round size: Series A $5M–$40M; Series B $10M–$71M; Series C $12M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • UiPath — Reinvent your workplace with the leading robotic process automation platform and learn how UiPath can help your company become a fully automated enterprise.
  • Mirage — Say hello to Captions, the only camera and editing app that automatically transcribes, captions and clips your talking videos for you.
  • Handshake — The largest expert network for learning, earning, and growing careers in the AI economy, giving everyone an accessible first step into an AI-powered career.
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Wintermute
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in South Africa Finance startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 88
  • Round size: Seed $3M–$18M; Series A $5M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $20M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Pave Bank — The world's first multi-asset and programmable bank
  • Codex — Codex is a peer-to-peer version of electronic cash allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution.
  • Silicon Data — Silicon Data is a data product that brings essential intelligence and efficiency to markets.
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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, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: South Africa, Nigeria, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 56
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$4M; Pre-Seed $250k–$3.3M; Series A $1.1M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Andela — Unlock the power of global tech talent with Andela. Hire experienced professionals quickly and cost-effectively. Build your team from our robust network of skilled specialists spanning 175 countries. Our AI-powered platform ensures a 96% talent match success rate. Get started now and hire with confidence.
  • Matta — Matta is a B2B platform offering a comprehensive, detailed marketplace for sourcing chemicals and materials efficiently and reliably
  • 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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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: FinTech, Software, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Seed $570k–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% 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.
  • Lipa Payments — Lipa Payments is a payment software solution that allows businesses to perform transactions using NFC. We remove the need for additional payment hardware.
  • 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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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: 88
  • 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

  • ITM Power — ITM manufacture PEM electrolysers. A pioneering technology that generates green hydrogen enabling customers to decarbonise.
  • Pharmacierge — Pharmacierge is the digital e-prescribing service chosen by private clinicians to deliver medication to their patients throughout the UK and worldwide. Clinicians create and transfer e-prescriptions to our pharmacy near London's Harley Street, for free delivery to their patients either the same day or next weekday
  • The Boeing Company — Welcome to the official corporate site for the world's largest aerospace company and leading manufacturer of commercial jetliners and defense, space and security systems. Learn about our passion for innovation, our products, careers and more.
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Reciprocal Ventures
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 2 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, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 68
  • Round size: Seed $2.5M–$9M; Series A $5M–$30M; Series B $24M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Raiku — Raiku is a Web3 infrastructure startup focused on enhancing the Solana blockchain's reliability and predictability.
  • Ceramic Network — Ceramic Network is a provider of protocols for decentralized and composable data applications. The network decentralizes application databases, making data universally composable and reusable across applications. It consists of three core parts: a highly-scalable, decentralized infrastructure for data availability and consensus, a marketplace ofcommunity-created data models, and a suite of standard APIs for storing, updating, and retrieving data from those models.
  • Blockworks — Blockworks is a financial media brand that delivers breaking news and premium insights about digital assets to millions of investors. Our editorial content, newsletters, podcasts and events provide investors with the critical analysis and information they need to make smarter decisions about digital assets.
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BYLD
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in South Africa Finance startups

Byld Ventures is a corporate venture capital firm focusing on early-stage technology investments.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 23
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$6.5M; Pre-Seed $120k–$2.1M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Waza — Waza is a web platform with APIs. It helps startups and emerging market businesses manage their cash flow issues, invoicing needs, and international payment requirements.
  • Munify — Fast, secure, and cost-efficient cross-border payments powered by stablecoins. Send and receive money globally without delays, high fees, or the complexity
  • Stream — Stream is a company that helps make payments simpler, faster, and reliable.
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R-Ventures
VC Fund · 1 investments in South Africa Finance startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Payflex — Payflex is an online payment product that enables shoppers to shop now and pay in 4 equal installments.
  • ZestMoney — Enjoy the convenience of shopping for electronic gadgets, fashion, travel, education on EMI without credit card. No debit card or credit score required!
  • Twisto — Twisto is on a mission to challenge the status quo of everyday finances via exceptional customer experience by being at the forefront in delivering cutting edge technology. Pay simply, fast and securely.
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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: 91
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$10M; Series A $5M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% 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.
  • Lit Protocol — Lit is a key management network for decentralized signing and encryption. Create apps and wallets that use secrets without single points of failure.
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Five35 Ventures
VC Fund · Gauteng, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in South Africa Finance startups

Five35 Ventures is committed to unlocking capital and growth opportunities for female-focused early-stage African technology startups.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$1.6M; Pre-Seed $1M–$1.7M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow

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.
  • Kasha — Health products and household goods you want, delivered to where you are.
  • Zuri Health — .ts-banner-image-1:hover .overlay{background-color:#ffffff} .ts-banner-image-2:hover .overlay{background-color:#ffffff} Popular categories Pharmacy Doctor at home Covid Labs & Diagonstics Wellness Telemed Show all Our Services PharmacyBuy both OTC and prescription medication and have it delivered to your doorstepLabs & DiagnosticsBook labs and Diagnostic tests and get your samples collected from the comfort of your home, hotel
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A.Capital Ventures
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Finance startups

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: 119
  • Round size: Seed $2.6M–$13M; Series A $5M–$25M; Series B $16M–$107M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Unit21 — Unit21 helps protect businesses against adversaries through a simple API and dashboard for detecting and managing money laundering, fraud, and other sophisticated risks across multiple industries.
  • Walnut — Create an interactive product demo easily with Walnut demo creation software! Customize your product demonstrations without coding, collect powerful insights, save time and resources, and master your sales experience. Discover our platform today.
  • Hugging Face — Hugging Face is an open-source and platform provider of machine learning technologies. Their aim is to democratize good machine learning, one commit at a time. Hugging Face was launched in 2016 and is headquartered in New York City.
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BREEGA
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in South Africa Finance startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 138
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$8M; Series A $4.2M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 61% lead, 39% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $165M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Kwara — Kwara turns analog credit unions into modern digital banks.
  • Dattak — Dattak offers cyber insurance solutions based on cybersecurity technologies. Their cybersecurity tools allow us to assess a company's level of cybersecurity without complex questionnaires. They provide their policyholders with a variety of cybersecurity tools to help them prevent and defend against cyberattacks.
  • Entalpic — Entalpic is an AI-driven discovery platform for sustainable industries aiming to optimize carbon-intensive sectors.
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Venture Capital Studio
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in South Africa Finance startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $928k–$9.6M; Pre-Seed $256k–$3.7M
  • Lead/follow: 88% lead, 12% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Accrual Software — We are a Software Development Company
  • Venture Capital Studio — 36 Followers, 31 Following, 1 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Black Silver Capital (@blacksilvercapital)
  • Cyrrix Cybersecurity — At Cyrrix Cybersecurity, we understand the importance of protecting your business from online threats. Our team provides a full range of cybersecurity services to help safeguard your company's sensitive information and systems. We offer comprehensive risk assessments, penetration testing, and incident response planning to identify and addressvulnerabilities in your network. Our managed security services provide ongoing monitoring and threat detection to keep your business protected around the clock. With our help, you can rest easy knowing that your company's valuable assets are secure.
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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: 79
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$6.1M; Series A $6M–$38M
  • Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • VAULT — Flick is a computer software company that specializes in the fields of software development, android, iOS, and mobile applications. Flick draws an audience of sports fans who want to engage on a deeper level with their favorite sports influencers, teams, and leagues. It was founded in 2018 and headquartered in Mamaroneck, New York.
  • Zerion — Zerion is an investing app that enables anyone, anywhere in the world, to access a suite of new financial products and services built on the backbone of decentralized finance (DeFi). Simple, user-centered design is combined with a powerful tech stack that aggregates across every major decentralized exchange, offering users a single point of entryfor managing their digital assets with ease. Zerion is non-custodial, which means users never delegate their funds to the platform. This agile approach mitigates centralization risk and has allowed Zerion to operate globally since inception.
  • MagicLabs — We've onboarded 50 million people to the world's leading apps. We're trusted by over 200,000 developers. We're Magic.
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CoinFund
VC Fund · Brooklyn, New York, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Finance startups

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, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 161
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$9M; Series A $7.5M–$43M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Veda — Veda is the largest vault infrastructure platform in DeFi, enabling institutions to launch and manage onchain financial products at scale.
  • Ceramic Network — Ceramic Network is a provider of protocols for decentralized and composable data applications. The network decentralizes application databases, making data universally composable and reusable across applications. It consists of three core parts: a highly-scalable, decentralized infrastructure for data availability and consensus, a marketplace ofcommunity-created data models, and a suite of standard APIs for storing, updating, and retrieving data from those models.
  • Tools For Humanity — Tools for Humanity is a technology company building for humans in the age of AI.
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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, Software, Cryptocurrency
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Switzerland, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 36
  • Round size: Seed $3M–$10M; Series A $6M–$18M; Series B $15M–$41M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $25M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Evertas — Evertas is a cryptoasset insurance company. Evertas focuses on covering institutional holders of cryptoassets including exchanges, custodians, traditional financial institutions, funds, family offices, and ultra-high net worth individuals.
  • ZenLedger — ZenLedger is an analytics startup that simplifies cryptocurrency taxes to help investors and tax professionals in portfolio management. Built by expert industry veterans in technology, finance, and accounting, it allows users to easily import crypto transactions, calculate gains and income, and prepare tax returns.Its automated platform helpsinvestors and tax professionals reduce the uncertainty, frustration, and manual grunt work of creating personal crypto brokerage accounts.
  • 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.
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EchoVC Partners
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 1 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: Information Technology, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 49
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$4M; Pre-Seed $400k–$1.9M; Series A $1.2M–$22M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $8M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Kukua — Empowering today's generation of children through entertainment Stories and characters fundamentally change and reaffirm how children see themselves in the world. At Kukua we blur the worlds of entertainment and education
  • TRADE X — TRADE X offers Dealers an interactive and fully encompassing global automotive trading platform.
  • GraphScience — Since 2005, we have helped thousands of people get the perfect domain name.
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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, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Austria, Croatia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 35
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$11M; Series A $4.4M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Namcon — Namcon provides blockchain infrastructure services that rely on numerous devices and trusted execution environments for secure computing.
  • Optic — Optic monitors blockchains to reveal the origins of any NFT and how it’s been reimagined, remixed, or copied.
  • mmERCH — mmERCH is a blockchain-enabled Web3 fashion startup.
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RaiCap
VC Fund · Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia · 1 investments in South Africa Finance startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Sava — Sava is a multi-management platform that provides an unlimited number of virtual cards as well as automated accounting reconciliation.
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Ingressive Capital
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 1 investments in South Africa Finance startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 70
  • Round size: Seed $400k–$4.5M; Pre-Seed $25k–$2.1M; Series A $10M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $5M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Nowlun — Search for cheap & fast freight prices from all shipping lines.
  • REasy — Top up locally, pay suppliers globally, and manage international shipments with REasy. Fast, secure, and designed for African businesses expanding worldwide.
  • Complete Farmer — Complete Farmer connects growers, buyers, and vendors with technology, support, and market access across Ghana and beyond.
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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: 386
  • Round size: Seed $1.6M–$10M; Series A $5M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 0G — The First Decentralized AI Operating System
  • DNABLOCK — We enable Web3 creator communities to design and mint NFT collections of truly custom photorealistic 3D avatars, environments and cinema-quality animated content with no code or animation knowledge.
  • Ignite Tournaments — Ready to take your mobile games to the next level? Join Ignite Tournaments and compete in real money esports tournaments. Download our app now and win big!
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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, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 28
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$3.7M; Pre-Seed $700k–$850k
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $15M in 2021

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
  • Mecho — Mecho is an on-demand auto repair and maintenance platform for individuals and businesses in Africa.
  • Termii — Termii is an online platform that helps teams secure repeat customers by sending personalized emails and SMS through multiple.Termii helps African businesses communicate with customers across SMS, email, voice, and instant messaging channels. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Lagos, Nigeria.
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AlphaCode Club
VC Fund · Gauteng, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in South Africa Finance startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 26
  • Round size: Grant $26k–$114k; Debt Financing $131k–$655k
  • Lead/follow: 73% lead, 27% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • BriefCo — BriefCo is South Africa's first and only legal cost consultancy leveraging technology. We utilize our own secure online platform to allow for the digital delivery and storage of all documents, thereby reducing the significant costs associated with printing, delivery, and file preparation. ​
  • Vocalysd.ai — Vocalysd is a customer-centric, AI-powered insights tool. Vocalysd unlocks usable, easy-to-digest insights from your conversational data. These insights are key to optimising client interactions and enhancing your customers' experience.
  • Sizanani — Collaboration is at the centre of everything we do. We partner with like-minded organisations to help our users find the best financial products in the market. We are the first WhatsApp-first stokvel solution because we believe that technology is fundamentally meant to create value, not apps.
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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: 40
  • Round size: Seed $441k–$6M; Pre-Seed $3M–$4M; Series A $2M–$47M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Lumkani — AFFORDABLE ALARM SYSTEMS & INSURANCE FOR YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS Whether you are in a township, informal settlement, or suburb, we have the right protection for you. AFFORDABLE ALARM SYSTEMS & INSURANCE FOR YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS Whether you are in a township, informal settlement, or suburb ...
  • Investsure — InvestSure is a technology company that uses its software to enable partner investment platforms to sell its unique Investment Indemnity (insurance) product to their clients. InvestSure provides a full set of APIs that trading platform developers can use to integrate the Investure Investment Indemnity product seamlessly and easily into theirwebsites and mobile applications. Once InvestSure technology is added to a trading platform, it enables users to buy insurance on their shares with a single click. The full process from buying to insurance to settling claims is fully automated.The Investment Indemnity product itself is a unique innovation; it is designed to protect to protect shareholders against any losses in share value caused by actual or perceived fraud committed by management. This enables investors to secure their investments. The cost of the product is low enough to not significantly reduce returns of investors where no insurance event occurs, but to provide significant downside protection where an insured event does occur.
  • CompariSure — Custom, built-for-purpose service and sales chatbot solutions for financial services providers.
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Sherpa Africa Partners
VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya · 1 investments in South Africa Finance startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Round size: Seed $300k–$6M; Pre-Seed $50k–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Novek — Novek builds IOT technology to completely eliminate single use plastic from FMCG Supply chains.
  • CashBackApp — An App that offers you Cash Discounts on a wide range of household essentials available at local supermarkets in Kenya.
  • Jackfruit Finance — Fast, flexible school financing in Kenya. Get working capital, projects, and asset loans designed around school fee cycles and growth needs.
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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: 182
  • Round size: Seed $2.4M–$10M; Series A $3.6M–$30M; Series B $8M–$87M
  • Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $332M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Addi — Addi is a technology company that provides credit and banking solutions. Addi is headquartered in Bogota, Colombia.
  • Klar — Klar is a FinTech challenger bank that provides deposit and credit services for Mexican customers.Using the Klar card rewards users with cash of up to 4% cashback for each purchase, not points without confusing conversions or expiration dates. Clients can also send and receive payments and collections money instantly to Klar accounts and otherbanks. The Klar card is linked to an app where users can see all their movements in real-time.Stefan Moller, Daniel Autrique, Jeronimo Riefkohl, and Gianluigi Davassi established the company in Mexico City, Distrito Federal in 2018.
  • Konfio — Konfio provides digital banking, payments, and software tools designed to boost small and mid-size enterprise's growth and productivity. It offers working capital loans, a corporate credit card, a loyalty program, and business productivity software tools.The company was founded in 2013 by David Arana and Francisco Padilla and isheadquartered in Mexico City.
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Emerging Capital Partners
VC Fund · Washington, District of Columbia, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Finance startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 162
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$4M; Pre-Seed $200k–$1.7M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $36M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • Gigmile — Gigmile provides financial services. They provide gig workers with core services and an affordable lease on productive assets that is tailored to their earnings to enable them to succeed in the mobility industry as entrepreneurs.
  • HomecomingEx — Homecoming Revolution is a pan-African recruitment firm for global African professionals. We specialise in headhunting & placing global African talent.
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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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RaliCap
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Finance startups

Rally Cap is a global community of tech folks investing in an exclusive portfolio of top-tier early stage venture funds in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 54
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$8.3M; Pre-Seed $313k–$3.7M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Frain technologies — We're passionate about the product delivery value chain.
  • Moffin — Moffin is an integration platform of KYC data providers that enables customers to collect and evaluate data. It can be used via API or no code.
  • Revio — Subscription billing and payments made easy.
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The LAO
VC Fund · 1 investments in South Africa Finance startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 69
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$8M; Series A $4.4M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Recall Labs — Textile is building new digital experiences by focusing on user privacy, transparency, and decentralization.
  • Relay — Relay is a multichain payments network that allows users to spend any digital asset to transact on any blockchain
  • 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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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: 107
  • Round size: Seed $40k–$4M; Pre-Seed $40k–$1.3M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • mTek — mTek is a digital online insurance platform that provides an entirely paperless ecosystem for the insurance industry.
  • 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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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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FINCA Ventures
VC Fund · Washington, District of Columbia, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Finance startups

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, FinTech, Education
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, Mexico, Sweden

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 17
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$4M; Series A $1.1M–$4.2M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Bamba — We help large companies that want to help their affinity users to solve unforeseen events fast, by minimizing costs, through a smart digital agent embedded in any company’s interface
  • Lapaire — Get the best affordable eyeglasses in Africa with Lapaire. Book your free vision test today at our locations across Benin, Ivory Coast, Togo, Burkina Faso, Mali, Kenya & Uganda. Quality glasses, professional optometrists, unbeatable prices.
  • 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.
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Wintermute Ventures
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in South Africa Finance startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 105
  • Round size: Seed $2.7M–$20M; Series A $5M–$55M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • UnblockPay
  • Pyth Network — The Pyth network is a specialized oracle solution for latency-sensitive financial data that is typically kept behind the “walled gardens’’ of centralized institutions. The Pyth network is focused on finding a new and inexpensive way to bring this unique data on-chain and aggregating it securely.
  • Crossover Markets Group — Crossover Markets Group, Inc is a digital asset exchange designed to meet the liquidity needs of institutional clients trading cryptocurrencies.
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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: 77
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$4.5M; Pre-Seed $300k–$3.4M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Paps — Paps is a transport and logistics company that offers innovative distribution and delivery solutions to companies and merchants.The company's e-commerce platform helps companies and traders with scheduling and tracking deliveries on a real-time basis. It offers the distribution of documents and parcels, storage of goods in a secure warehousethat meets standards, and delivery of insured parcels in relay point or last mile. It also provides professional services such as management and repayment of cash on delivery, provision of couriers, management of returns, collection, and periodic reporting.The Dakar, Dakar, Senegal-based company was founded in 2016
  • 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.
  • 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.
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4DX Ventures
VC Fund · Brooklyn, New York, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Finance startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 76
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$8M; Pre-Seed $50k–$6.5M; Series A $6.6M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $60M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Suplyd — Suplyd is a comprehensive digital solution that bridges the gap between restaurant operators and their suppliers in order to disrupt an untouched market with extreme fragmentation and resolve the problem end-to-end.
  • Aether Bio — Aether uses its state of the art platform to rapidly engineer enzymes, enabling our customers to manufacture complex and novel products at fractional cost.
  • Franc — Franc is the easiest way to save & invest. Our app doesn’t require any investment knowledge & our friendly risk quiz helps us understand how much investment risk is right for you. Users can start investing in less than 2 minutes. There is no minimum requirement & no paperwork. It is a seamless digital experience end-to-end. A usersimply chooses a goal, selects an investment strategy, verifies their identity & makes a deposit. Each user is recommended a personalised investment strategy for each investment goal, combining money market & index tracking ETFs. Our helpful calculators assist clients with their budgeting, retirement & targeted savings needs. We also provide free access to our online academy & fun financial literacy quizzes.We know saving is hard & investing can be scary, which is why we create savings groups & challenges so that users can encourage one another. We also run weekly competitions where users can stand a chance to win a cash prize that will boost their investments.
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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: 55
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$6M; Pre-Seed $635k–$6.5M; Series A $9.2M–$32M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $60M in 2021

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.
  • Cloudline — The all-in-one cloud platform helping leisure businesses sell more, reduce costs & personalize experiences.
  • Fuse Financial Technologies — Financial APIs for building products in the Middle East.
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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, Manufacturing, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: South Africa, United States, Sweden

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 26
  • Round size: Series A $2M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 65% lead, 35% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $10M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Octiv — Turbocharge your fitness business, grow your community and build your brand with Octiv's leading Gym Management Software.
  • Outsized — Independent talent for enterprise clients and consulting firms in Asia-Pacific, Africa, and the Middle East.
  • Simera Sense — Simera Sense develops camera control electronics for optical payload and Cubesat imager solutions.
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Still Capital Partners
VC Fund · 1 investments in South Africa Finance startups

Still Capital Partners is an investment firm.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Bettr — Bettr is a digital banking app for creator. Download the app to get your zero monthly fee digital bank account and virtual card. Join our community of creators, gamers, influencers, freelancers, tiktokkers, streamers, YouTubers and digital gig workers.
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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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Gauss Ventures
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in South Africa Finance startups

Backing high-impact technologies that reshape industries Building growth

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$5.3M; Pre-Seed $1.7M–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Sava — Sava is a multi-management platform that provides an unlimited number of virtual cards as well as automated accounting reconciliation.
  • 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.
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Global Founders Capital
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 1 investments in South Africa Finance startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 822
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$8.8M; Pre-Seed $637k–$5M; Series A $4M–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $2B in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • TalentHack — TalentHack is a health platform that connects directly with the fitness professionals and industry. They exist to redefine what a career in fitness can be, by providing opportunities to propel you forward. It takes hours for companies to find a single potential lead, let alone a candidate. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in New York,NY, United States
  • Membrane — Membrane is AI for product integrations. Describe what you need, watch integrations build, test and maintain themselves.We exist to let any product connect to any other reliably, safely, and at scale, by turning intent & customer needs into integrations with AI.Our platform offers the state-of-the-art solution in the AI Age for productintegrations:Membrane Agent builds integrations for one or multiple apps at once, choosing correct API calls, field mappings, and data structuresMembrane Engine is the configurable infrastructure that you or any agent can play with. It contains actions, events/webhooks, flows, data collections, unified API models, field mappings, and schemas & more used to build and maintain integrations at scale.Membrane Packages - integration code that is purpose built for your use case, that you can deploy in your IDE.Membrane is used by 100+ B2B SaaS companies like Constant Contact, PandaDoc, Dialpad, Storyblok & many others as their preferred integration partner
  • Bravo Sierra — Bravo Sierra creates performance body care products for the most active individuals. Every formula undergoes rigorous field-testing to meet strict standards of quality and efficacy. Designed and manufactured in the U.S.A, a portion of every purchase directly supports military veterans and their families.
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Finance VC funding in South Africa at a glance

Stats across 54 deals from 75 investors.

75
investors
in South Africa Finance startups
54
deals
in South Africa Finance startups
$2M
median round
in South Africa Finance startups
47%
lead investors
lead at least one round
20%
Seed
most common funding stage

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