# Top 50 Financial Services VC (Venture Capital) Funds in South Africa in June 2026

## CRE Venture Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software

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.

## UW Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Payments, Insurance

UW is a multi-stage investor that provides growth and replacement capital across the equity-cycle. Its activities span from high-growth venture to mid-market private equity opportunities.

## Launch Africa
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Ebène, Plaines Wilhems, Mauritius
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology

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

## Allan Gray
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Alfred, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series C
- Focus: FinTech, Payments, Mobile Payments

Allan Gray is Africa's largest privately owned investment management company focused on generating long-term wealth for investors..

## 4Di Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, Mobile

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.

## Naspers Foundry
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Financial Services, Farming, Software

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.

## Raba Partnership
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance

The Raba Partnership, Raba Capital, Raba

## Maven 11 Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services

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.

## Goodwell Investments
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Banking

Goodwell Investments is a pioneering investment firm focused on financial inclusion, fintech and inclusive growth in sectors providing

## Future Africa
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology

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

## Change Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Apps

We are a seed stage venture capital fund based in the Baltic states, backing ambitious Baltic founders anywhere in the world.

## Merrill Lynch
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Series B, Series C
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Internet

Merrill Lynch Wealth Management has the financial advisors and expertise to help you achieve your goals at any stage of your life or career.

## Quona Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance

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.

## 1kx
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software

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

## Oui Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Belmont, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Transportation, Financial Services, Information Technology

Oui Capital is an Africa-focused VC firm backing tech-enabled businesses at the pre-seed & seed stage.

## Firstminute Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

firstminute is a seed fund backed by over 130 unicorn founders and a world-class community.

## 4DX Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Brooklyn, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Logistics

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. 

## HAVAÍC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Health Care, FinTech

HAVAÍC is an investment and advisory firm that specialises in early-stage, high-growth African businesses with proven concepts and global prospects, offering investment opportunities to sophisticated investors and international venture capital companies with an interest in Africa. As a complementary offering, HAVAÍC provides corporate advisory andcapital raising services to emerging, internationally scalable businesses.

## TLcom Capital Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Software, Mobile, Information Technology

TLcom Capital, is an Africa focused tech VC, with offices in Lagos, Nairobi and London. TLcom had been investing since 1999 in Tech, Media, Mobil and Internet companies across Europe, US and Africa, which is the exclusive focus of its most recent TLcom TIDE Africa funds.
TLcom manages total commitments of approximately 300 million USD in thesesectors via a series of dedicated investment vehicles. Our investment strategy is to identify, back and assist world class entrepreneurs and management teams with disruptive technologies and business models, compelling intellectual property and deep market knowledge.
We primarily target companies focused on Africa as a prime market, in the following investment themes: Access to Data Service; Financial Services; eCommerce; B2C applications (including but not limited to: health, education, energy, media and entertainment); and Software solutions to corporates and SMEs.

## Kalon Venture Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Apps, Internet, Software

A growing number of South Africans are investing in venture capital companies that operate under Section 12J of the Income Tax Act. Contact us now.

## Scalar Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency

Crypto investment firm. Austin, TX.

## Musha Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, FinTech

Seed capital for technology startups globally.

## Flourish Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Redwood City, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance

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

## Kleiner Perkins
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care

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

## Lireas Holdings
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: FinTech, InsurTech, Security

Lireas is a leading investment company with a specific focus on insurance and insurance technology investments. We have a track record of over 35 years investing in start-ups and existing businesses requiring growth funding or new partners. We invest in people and not just elaborate business plans a

## Imvelo Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sandown, NA - South Africa, South Africa
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Software, Financial Services

Imvelo Ventures is a venture capital and growth equity firm in South Africa managed by Capitec Bank.

## Sound Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Beverly Hills, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

Sound Ventures is a venture capital firm. The company seeks to invest in the technology sector.

## 54 Collective
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech

Building and scaling African tech startups with catalytic capital, value-add support and our global network.

## Yellowwood
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Financial Services, Payments, Insurance

We help build more purposeful businesses through marketing insights, marketing strategy and marketing planning.

## DCG Expeditions
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Blockchain

Luno Expeditions is a global early-stage investor supporting fintech & crypto founders on their journeys to build the next generation of financial services.

## Hollard Insurance
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series B, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology

Love your life without worrying about the risk.

## First circle capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Casablanca, Grand Casablanca, Morocco
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance

First Circle Capital is a venture capital firm seeding the next fintech generation in Africa.

## Hustle Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Carlos, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

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

## Wintermute
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services

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

## Alumni Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Manchester, New Hampshire, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

Access curated startup investment opportunities and diversified venture capital exposure designed for accredited investors.

## 500 Fintech
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance

500 Fintech

## P1 Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Focus: Financial Services, Software, Payments

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

## FSD Africa
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series B
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments

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

## Accion Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance

Accion Ventures is an investment strategy that today pursues early-stage investments as part of Accion Impact Management.

## LoftyInc Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Carmel, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software

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

## Venture Capital Studio
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Information Technology, FinTech, Finance

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## AlphaCode Club
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Gauteng, NA - South Africa, South Africa
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Grant, Debt Financing
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance

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

## Crossfin Technology
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Private Equity
- Focus: Payments, Financial Services, Software

Crossfin invests in FINTECH solutions to enable growth for economies in Africa and beyond. Crossfin invests in high growth and established cash generative businesses, offering investors a blended exposure to technology investments in Fintech.

## PayPal Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Jose, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software

PayPal Ventures is PayPal's venture capital arm, investing in PayPal's strategic interest fields for return.Leveraging PayPal Venture's expertise and experience, PayPal – and the companies in which it invests – are helping to bring innovative solutions to market more quickly, scale them faster, and build a global financial systemthat is more transparent, personalized, inclusive, and customer-focused. PayPal Venture's investments reinforce its commitment to leading the financial technology industry and supporting entrepreneurship.

## Soma Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech

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## Newid capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Alexandria, Virginia, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Credit

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

## Realm Digital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Payments, Crowdfunding, Financial Services

Realm Digital is a digital strategy and software development company in Cape Town. We specialise in digital solutions with a focus on custom development.

## Norrsken VC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Food and Beverage

We are a venture capital fund investigating in Start-Ups solving the worlds biggest problems while building massive businesses.

## Reciprocal Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech

Partnering with crypto founders from day 0. Here investments == partnerships.

## Boost VC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Mateo, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Blockchain, Virtual Reality

Boost VC: The Pre-Seed Fund Making Sci-FI a Reality. Investing in crypto, virtual reality, augmented reality, AI, Ocean Tech, Space Tech, human augmentation, exoskeletons and more.
