Top 50 Finance VC Funds & Investors in South Africa (June 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Maven 11 Capital
VC Fund
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5 | United States, United Kingdom, Germany | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services | $525k–$43M |
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1kx
VC Fund
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4 | United States, Germany, Switzerland | Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software | $1.8M–$28M |
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Scalar Capital
VC Fund
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3 | United States, Canada, Israel | Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency | $1.3M–$30M |
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Sound Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | United States, Canada, Israel | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | $2M–$105M |
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Kleiner Perkins
VC Fund
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3 | United States, China, United Kingdom | Series B, Series A, Series C | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $5M–$110M |
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Merrill Lynch
VC Fund
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2 | United States, India, United Kingdom | Series B, Series C | Software, Information Technology, Internet | $10M–$85M |
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CRE Venture Capital
VC Fund
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2 | Nigeria, South Africa, United States | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, Software, FinTech | $250k–$25M |
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Imvelo Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | South Africa | Seed | FinTech, Software, Financial Services | $570k–$2M |
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Reciprocal Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Canada, Germany | Seed, Series A, Series B | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services | $2.5M–$50M |
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Wintermute
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Singapore, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services | $3M–$50M |
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CoinFund
VC Fund
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, Germany | Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services | $1.5M–$43M |
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Bloccelerate VC
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Switzerland, Germany | Seed, Series A, Series B | Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency | $3M–$41M |
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RaiCap
VC Fund
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1 | South Africa | Pre-Seed | Credit, Finance, Financial Services | |
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Animoca Brands
VC Fund
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, Singapore | Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency | $1.6M–$40M |
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UNCOVERED FUND
VC Fund
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1 | Nigeria, Kenya, United States | Seed, Series A | FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce | $1.5M–$20M |
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AlphaCode Club
VC Fund
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1 | South Africa, United Kingdom | Grant, Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Finance | $26k–$7.2M |
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4Di Capital
VC Fund
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1 | South Africa, United States, Kenya | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Financial Services, Mobile | $441k–$47M |
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Sherpa Africa Partners
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa | Pre-Seed, Seed | Financial Services, Finance, FinTech | $50k–$6M |
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Quona Capital
VC Fund
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1 | India, Brazil, Indonesia | Series A, Seed, Series B | Financial Services, FinTech, Finance | $2.4M–$87M |
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Emerging Capital Partners
VC Fund
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1 | France, Nigeria, Morocco | Private Equity, Post-IPO Equity | Telecommunications, Energy, Finance | $15k–$35M |
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Launch Africa
VC Fund
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1 | Nigeria, South Africa, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology | $200k–$4M |
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Naspers Foundry
VC Fund
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1 | South Africa, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Financial Services, Farming, Software | $854k–$15M |
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The LAO
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Singapore, Switzerland | Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services | $1M–$30M |
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Norrsken Foundation
VC Fund
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1 | Nigeria, United States, Rwanda | Pre-Seed, Seed | Financial Services, Health Care, FinTech | $125k–$4M |
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FINCA Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya, Nigeria, Mexico | Seed, Grant, Series A | Financial Services, Agriculture, AgTech | $40k–$4.2M |
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Wintermute Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Singapore, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services | $2.7M–$55M |
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Kepple Africa Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt | Seed, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | $300k–$4.5M |
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Raba Partnership
VC Fund
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1 | United States, South Africa, Egypt | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Finance | $635k–$32M |
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Still Capital Partners
VC Fund
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1 | United States, South Africa | Series A | FinTech, Banking, Finance | |
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Gauss Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United Kingdom, Malta, Germany | Seed, Series A | FinTech, Financial Services, Banking | $390k–$4M |
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Unicorn Growth Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya, United States, South Africa | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Finance | $1M–$5.3M |
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Knife Capital
VC Fund
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1 | South Africa, United States, Kenya | Series A, Seed | Software, Education, Manufacturing | $2M–$30M |
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Beryl Group
VC Fund
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1 | South Africa | Banking, FinTech, Finance | ||
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Global Founders Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Germany, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, Software, FinTech | $637k–$33M |
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EchoVC Partners
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Nigeria, Kenya | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Information Technology, FinTech, Software | $200k–$22M |
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Ingressive Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Nigeria, United States, Egypt | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology | $25k–$15M |
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RaliCap
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Nigeria, Mexico | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Financial Services, FinTech, Payments | $313k–$8.3M |
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BYLD
VC Fund
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, Nigeria | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, Payments, FinTech | $120k–$6.5M |
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54 Collective
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa | Seed, Pre-Seed | Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech | $40k–$4M |
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4DX Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Egypt, United States, South Africa | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | FinTech, Financial Services, Logistics | $50k–$40M |
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Flamingo DAO
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Austria, Croatia | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology | $1M–$50M |
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Qualica Technologies (Pty) Ltd
VC Fund
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1 | South Africa | Pre-Seed | Apps, Banking, FinTech | |
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R-Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Senegal, South Africa | Seed | Banking, FinTech, Finance | |
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Zip
VC Fund
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1 | India, South Africa, Czech Republic | Series C, Corporate Round | FinTech, Payments, Mobile Payments | $20M–$50M |
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Collab+Currency
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada, Singapore | Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software | $2M–$50M |
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Five35 Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria | Seed, Pre-Seed | Information Technology, Wellness, Health Care | $100k–$1.7M |
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A.Capital Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, Canada | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency | $2.6M–$107M |
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BREEGA
VC Fund
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1 | France, United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Series A | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | $1.1M–$25M |
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Venture Capital Studio
VC Fund
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1 | South Africa | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Information Technology, FinTech, Finance | $256k–$9.6M |
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Placeholder
VC Fund
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, Cayman Islands | Series A, Seed | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology | $2M–$38M |
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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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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 119
- Round size: Seed $1.9M–$10M; Pre-Seed $525k–$4M; Series A $5M–$43M
- Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% 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.
- Bleap — Connect your wallet. Buy crypto easily. Send it to your friends. Pay for dinner. Split bills.
1kx is an early-stage investment firm focused on ecosystem growth.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Germany, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 157
- Round size: Seed $1.8M–$11M; Series A $6M–$28M
- Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Seam Social — Seam is a Pinterest-like social network where you post using user created miniapps.
- Giggles — Giggles is a social platform where users create and share content using artificial intelligence tools. The platform includes features for making short videos from prompts. Users can earn a digital currency called aura by engaging in activities and games. Digital assets are available for users to collect and trade. A waitlist is open for those whowant to join the platform.
- Impossible Cloud — Experience Impossible Cloud Storage: Secure, scalable, performant. Decentralized architecture, S3 API compatibility, 100% durability. Start free trial now.
Crypto investment firm. Austin, TX.
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- 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
Sound Ventures is a venture capital firm. The company seeks to invest in the technology sector.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 201
- Round size: Seed $2M–$10M; Series A $9M–$35M; Series B $15M–$105M
- Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $243M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Knit — Knit pairs forward-deployed researchers with autonomous research agents to deliver decision-ready insights faster and better than traditional agencies, unlocking entirely new ways for the world's most iconic enterprises to run research.
- Diadia Health, Inc — An AI medical reasoning platform that helps clinicians analyze the root causes of symptoms and create personalized protocols that drive better outcomes.
- Arcade — Arcade is a B2C platform that transforms the jewelry market through its prompt-to-product solution, allowing users to create unique designs using AI. The marketplace supports various user roles, enabling customers, designers, and influencers to engage and collaborate.
Kleiner Perkins is an American venture capital firm headquartered on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park in Silicon Valley.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
- Geography: United States, China, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1134
- Round size: Series A $5M–$46M; Series B $10M–$71M; Series C $12M–$110M
- Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Stripe — Stripe is a technology company that builds economic infrastructure for the Internet. Stripe is a platform for commercial finance infrastructure. Stripe is used by millions of businesses, ranging from the biggest corporations in the world to the most ambitious startups, to take payments, increase revenue, and open up new business prospects.
- TradeHero — Founded in 2012 by app developer MyHero, TradeHero's mission is to provide a platform for traders to monetize their investment expertise, by democratizing trading in a social and gamified mobile app. TradeHero is a free stock market simulation app, which draws real-world data from stock exchanges to create an unrivalled global socialinvestment network. Users can compete with friends from their social networks, or on the global leaderboards with users from across the world. The app brings novice and knowledgeable traders together, allowing novice traders to subscribe for stock tips via push notifications, and top traders to earn subscription fees from followers. Followers can subscribe, for a small monthly fee, to follow and receive trade feeds from their chosen Heroes via push notifications on their mobile device. These push notifications detail each Buy and Sell action of the Hero, allowing followers to receive expert trading tips and personal insight into successful investment strategies. TradeHero will share subscription revenue from followers equally with Heroes, thus allowing Heroes to monetize their trading expertise.
- 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.
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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- 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.
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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- Industry: Financial Services, Software, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, South Africa, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 58
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$4M; Pre-Seed $250k–$3.3M; Series A $1.1M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Sabi Am — Sabi is Africa's largest B2B company, & we are digitising informal trade via our platform. We access markets hard to reach and ensure ease of distribution, & are the No 1 FCMG supplier in Africa.
- Flood — Flood is a marketplace platforms that provides merchant solution, self services and big data solution.
- Asoko Insight — The most comprehensive database of African private companies for due diligence and business development
Imvelo Ventures is a venture capital and growth equity firm in South Africa managed by Capitec Bank.
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- 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.
Partnering with crypto founders from day 0. Here investments == partnerships.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 70
- 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.
A leading algorithmic trading firm focused on building liquid and efficient markets in digital assets.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 89
- Round size: Seed $3M–$18M; Series A $5M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $20M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
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- Pave Bank — The world's first multi-asset and programmable bank
- Silicon Data — Silicon Data is a data product that brings essential intelligence and efficiency to markets.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 168
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$9M; Series A $7.3M–$43M
- Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% 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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- Industry: Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Switzerland, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 37
- Round size: Seed $3M–$10M; Series A $6M–$18M; Series B $15M–$41M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% 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.
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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- 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.
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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- Industry: Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 400
- Round size: Seed $1.6M–$10M; Series A $5M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
Portfolio highlights
- MetaJuice — MetaJuice is building blockchain-driven assets that unlock the value of the metaverse where users can create, earn, own and shape the future. Through meta tokens such as VCORE and VCOIN, and NFTs, MetaJuice will realize its vision; creating a world where everyone can participate and share in its success.
- 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.
- Saltwater Games — Saltwater Games create unique XR games and provide gamers with an platform that prioritises the fun of immersive play and economic longevity via AAA experiences with innovative decentralised ownership.
UNCOVERED FUND is a venture capital firm that leads the creation of industries in Africa and other emerging countries.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 29
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$3.7M; Series A $2.2M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $15M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Sylndr — Sylndr is an automotive focused e-commerce marketplace bringing innovation to the used-cars market, where customers can reliably and transparently sell and buy used cars. The company is aiming to build trust in the used-car market by becoming the go-to place for customers seeking to sell and buy their cars, through an extensive range ofhigh-quality used vehicles accessible across a diverse set of financing solutions.
- Chari — Chari is an e-commerce and fintech app for traditional retailers in French-Speaking Africa allowing them to order any consumer goods they sell and get delivered for free in less than 24 hours. Chari is also a financial services provider for these retailers, offering them microloans
- Mecho — Mecho is an on-demand auto repair and maintenance platform for individuals and businesses in Africa.
We are an African venture capital fund, for world-class African entrepreneurs run by seasoned African investors.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Stage:Grant, Seed
- Geography: South Africa, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 27
- Round size: Seed $57k–$7.2M; Grant $26k–$114k
- Lead/follow: 70% lead, 30% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Abela — Abela is a mobile payments platform that allows the underserved to make and receive payments.
- 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.
- AgrigateOne — AgrigateOne is an online platform that enables openness between growers and buyers and gets data about agriculture and marine logistics.
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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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: South Africa, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 41
- Round size: Seed $441k–$7.3M; Pre-Seed $3M–$4M; Series A $2M–$47M
- Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% 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.
A venture fund for pre-seed startups in Africa, led by Startup Operators, backed by Startup Operators.
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- 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.
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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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: India, Brazil, Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 183
- 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.
- Tiaxa — TIAXA provides innovative financial services to people across the globe, with a particular focus on financial inclusion through mobile technology. Each day, Tiaxa provides more than 2 million Nano-Credits through users' mobile Operators in 14 countries including Argentina, Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, and thePhilippines.Tiaxa also provides the mobile telecommunications market with infrastructure, clearinghouse and revenue enhancement services, improving the efficiency with which the current prepaid user base is managed, and increasing revenues for Operators around the world, including China Telecom, Telefónica Movistar, America Móvil and Smart Communications.
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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- 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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- 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.
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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- 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.
The LAO is a global group of Ethereum enthusiasts and experts supporting the work of Ethereum builders.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Singapore, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 70
- Round size: Seed $1M–$8M; Series A $4.4M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Bio.xyz — Bio.xyz is a Community and Marketplace e-commerce Company Founded on 2025 in New York, United States.
- Recall Labs — Textile is building new digital experiences by focusing on user privacy, transparency, and decentralization.
- Blackbird — We believe the next great hospitality technology platform should connect restaurants and their customers directly, in meaningful and ongoing ways. Blackbird is founded by a team with a passion for restaurants and a track record of using technology to solve problems.
Norrsken Foundation is non-profit organization solving problems such as poverty, famine, environmental issues and mental health.
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- 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.
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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- Industry: Financial Services, Agriculture, AgTech
- Stage:Seed, Grant, Series A
- Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, Mexico
Investor stats
- Total investments: 23
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$4M; Grant $40k–$100k; Series A $1.1M–$4.2M
- Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Cladfy — Cladfy is a data analytics company that creates tools to assist lenders, merchants, and individuals in making informed loan, savings, and expenditure decisions.
- Karpolax — Karpolax provides preservation technologies for agricultural companies that enable them to enhance the shelf life of fruits and vegetables.
- 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.
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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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 107
- Round size: Seed $2.7M–$20M; Series A $5M–$55M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
Portfolio highlights
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- 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.
We back exceptional founders in and from Africa who are addressing deep gaps between the status quo and the ideal.
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- 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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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, South Africa, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 56
- Round size: Seed $2M–$6M; Pre-Seed $635k–$6.5M; Series A $9.2M–$32M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $60M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
Still Capital Partners is an investment firm.
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- 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.
Backing high-impact technologies that reshape industries Building growth
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- 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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Browse database — It's Free!Propelling category-leading companies fueling a new and inclusive digital economy
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- 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.
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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- Industry: Software, Education, Manufacturing
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: South Africa, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 31
- Round size: Series A $2M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 71% lead, 29% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $10M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- d6 — SCHOOLS Schools Communication Platforms and School Management Software COMMUNITIES Community & Internal Business Communication Platforms MEDIA Let your brand be seen Advertise on
- DataProphet — DataProphet offers production intelligence solutions for manufacturers. By combining human ingenuity with production data, we supercharge manufacturing excellence. Explore our Connect platform and expert services, trusted by industry leaders.
- Stone Three Venture Technology — We combine expert services with the power of machine learning to help our customers increase their productivity and safety.
Beryl Group is a proprietary investments company with equity holdings in logistics, energy, mining, and financial sector companies.
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- 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.
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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- Industry: Financial Services, Software, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 824
- 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
- Tino — Tino is building the future B2B payment network. The company allows merchants to use their credit card receivables as credit collateral, accessing working capital seamlessly and cheaply.Due to this increase in merchant purchase power, suppliers can boost their commercial opportunities, while keeping their default risk under control. The companyultimately aims to streamline the commercial relationship between merchants and their suppliers, leveraging data to boost transactions for B2B buying and selling.Pedro Sonego de Oliveira and Luis Eduardo Cascão founded Tino on November 2021. It has its headquarter in São Paulo, Brazil.
- Bold — Bold creates financial tools that allow users to increase sales by receiving card payments. The company was founded by José Vélez, Ana María Sandoval, Enríque Ramírez, Jorge Ulloa, and Sergio Vergara in 2019 and is headquartered in Bogotá, Distrito Especial, Colombia.
- Clever Care Health Plan Inc. — Clever Care delivers culturally sensitive Medicare options in Southern California that honor and represent the cultural values of the communities we serve. Health and wellness, centered around you.
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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- Industry: Information Technology, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 50
- 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.
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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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 72
- Round size: Seed $400k–$3.7M; Pre-Seed $25k–$2.1M; Series A $500k–$15M
- Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $5M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- SehaTech — Welcome to SehaTech, the groundbreaking company revolutionizing the health insurance market with our innovative solutions!
- REasy — Top up locally, pay suppliers globally, and manage international shipments with REasy. Fast, secure, and designed for African businesses expanding worldwide.
- Complete Farmer — Complete Farmer connects growers, buyers, and vendors with technology, support, and market access across Ghana and beyond.
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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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, Mexico
Investor stats
- Total investments: 57
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$8.3M; Pre-Seed $313k–$3.7M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Moffin — Moffin is an integration platform of KYC data providers that enables customers to collect and evaluate data. It can be used via API or no code.
- Radar Treasury — Radar helps companies in Latin America to perform their bank transfers without human intervention. Radar created the first payouts to bank accounts API in Chile.
- Revio — Subscription billing and payments made easy.
Byld Ventures is a corporate venture capital firm focusing on early-stage technology investments.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Payments, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 24
- 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.
- Bluerails — Bluerails is a fintech firm that has created an on-chain treasury platform to improve cross-border payments and treasury management for businesses, family offices, and high-net-worth individuals.
- Stream — Stream is a company that helps make payments simpler, faster, and reliable.
Building and scaling African tech startups with catalytic capital, value-add support and our global network.
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- 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.
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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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Logistics
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Egypt, United States, South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 79
- Round size: Seed $500k–$6.4M; Pre-Seed $50k–$6.5M; Series A $6.6M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $60M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- HoneyCoin — HoneyCoin is a web3/web2 ecosystem of products built in a way that abstracts complexity and brings all the value of web3 and web2 to the forefront.
- 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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Browse database — It's Free!Flamingo DAO is an NFT-focused DAO that aims to explore emerging investment opportunities for ownable, blockchain-based assets.
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- 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.
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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- Industry: Apps, Banking, FinTech
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- 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.
R-Ventures is a global investor in high-impact tech startups driving change and economic growth through emerging market investments.
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- Industry: Banking, FinTech, Finance
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Senegal, South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- 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.
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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- 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.
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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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Canada, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 93
- Round size: Seed $2M–$10M; Series A $5M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
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- ZTX — Empowering creators and communities to build, play and earn.
- StoryCo — Transform your comics, scripts, and books into engaging video content. Professional animation, voice acting, and production expertise in one platform.
- Limited — Secure your treasury and scale your business globally with a truly self-custodial account that only you control. No banks. No middlemen.
Five35 Ventures is committed to unlocking capital and growth opportunities for female-focused early-stage African technology startups.
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- 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
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- 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
a_capital provides resources and counsel to the creators, inventors and entrepreneurs, who are building a new future.
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- Industry: Software, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 122
- Round size: Seed $2.6M–$13M; Series A $5M–$25M; Series B $16M–$107M
- Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Circle Medical — Circle Medical is an online medical clinic that provides a better primary care experience. Book a telehealth appointment with one of our doctors today!
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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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: France, United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 141
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$8M; Series A $4.2M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 60% lead, 40% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $165M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Kwara — Kwara turns analog credit unions into modern digital banks.
- Carbon Maps — Calculate and monitor your environmental impact at product-level. Rapid, high-precision assessments of food products and agricultural raw materials.
- YMO Guinée — YMO Guinée is an app to send and receive money in Guinea, at the best rate. Available for free on iOS and Android.
36 Followers, 31 Following, 1 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Black Silver Capital (@blacksilvercapital)
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- 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.
Placeholder is a venture capital firm that invests in decentralized networks and web services.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Cayman Islands
Investor stats
- Total investments: 80
- Round size: Seed $2M–$6.1M; Series A $6M–$38M
- Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Zerion — Zerion is an investing app that enables anyone, anywhere in the world, to access a suite of new financial products and services built on the backbone of decentralized finance (DeFi). Simple, user-centered design is combined with a powerful tech stack that aggregates across every major decentralized exchange, offering users a single point of entryfor managing their digital assets with ease. Zerion is non-custodial, which means users never delegate their funds to the platform. This agile approach mitigates centralization risk and has allowed Zerion to operate globally since inception.
- MagicLabs — We've onboarded 50 million people to the world's leading apps. We're trusted by over 200,000 developers. We're Magic.
- Squads — Collaborative infrastructure for web3 native teams
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