Top 30 Financial Services VC Funds & Investors in Zambia (September 2026)

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• Pranary — The practical business school for entrepreneurs
• The Good Mineral — The Good Mineral is award-winning, vegan makeup designed for acne prone, sensitive skin - enjoy natural glowing lightweight coverage - free from preservatives, fragrance, talc, oils, waxes and dyes.
• PremierCredit Zambia — PremierCredit is an international financial technology company that operates an online microlending and investment platform in Sub-Saharan Africa's emerging markets. The Financial Services Commission (FSC) has licensed and regulated the company, allowing them to provide inclusive financial services throughout Africa.

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• Kavak — KAVAK is an innovative company in the automotive industry that helps people acquire their own car, offering a wide range of guaranteed and certified cars.
• StrongDM — Manage access to any server, database, or Kubernetes instance in minutes. Fully auditable, replayable, secure, and drag-and-drop easy.
• OfBusiness — OFB Tech (OfBusiness) is a tech-enabled platform that facilitates raw material procurement and credit for SMEs with a focus on the manufacturing and infrastructure sectors. It integrates technology to SME's buying behavior to make available better products, at better prices, in better timelines to customers with comprehensive online andoffline support. Key raw materials include metals, chemicals, polymers, Agri commodities, petrochemicals, and building materials. OfBusiness provides SMEs access to cash flow-based financing for buying raw materials through its NBFC 'Oxyzo Financial Services'. The Company also offers a host of tech services for SMEs including BidAssist for new growth opportunities.

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• Myka.Insure — Myka is a insurance sales platform that enables individuals to sell insurance policies to their family, friends, colleagues, and community while earning income . It operates as a micro-entrepreneurship program where anyone (students, gadget sellers, car dealers, parents, retirees) can start their own insurance business with zero investment,flexible hours, and free training . The company is licensed by the National Insurance Commission of Nigeria and provides instant payouts to its partners .
• Cybervergent — Cybervergent is a technology company that specializes in providing top-notch cybersecurity solutions to businesses and organizations.
• Traction Apps — Traction apps provide businesses end to end tools they need to run and grow their businesses.

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• Vulture Labs — Transforming your existing CCTV into your Most Powerful Operational Tool.
• TRIC Robotics — TRIC Robotics develops an autonomous, non-chemical pesticide alternative for strawberry farms. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Newark, DE.
• Pilot Protocol — Network OS for AI Agents

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• Carry — Ocho is everything you need to build wealth as a business owner.
• Qene Games — Qene Games is an award-winning software development firm operating from Addis Abeba, Ethiopia. Founded in 2017, the company has been focused on developing and publishing video games while providing game development outsourcing, game art outsourcing, and other software development services.
• Hone Health — Hone Health is a telehealth clinic that helps people improve healthspan through advanced biomarker testing, clinician-guided care, and personalized protocols.

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• Vanhu Vamwe — Vanhu Vamwe is a luxury accessory brand that creates handcrafted, sustainable handbags using traditional African crafts and eco-friendly materials.
• The Rad Black Kids — The Rad Black Kids is a lifestyle and apparel company that specializes in fashion. The company’s main business includes selling clothing items such as hoodies, caps, t-shirts, and etc. It also offers a range of skate boards and vintage guitars. The Rad Black Kids was founded by Thulani Ngazimbi.
• African Warriors Fighting Championship — African Warriors Fighting Championship is Africa's leading promoter of traditional combat sports: Dambe and Wrestling.

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• Fibra Nova — Fibra Nova is a real estate investment trust that specializes in the acquisition, management, and development of properties for leasing.
• Combio Energia — ComBio Energia Provide energy generation solutions with renewable sources, creating, growing, and long-term economic value. They develop projects for steam generation and cogeneration of electricity with biomass, which promote environmental improvements and significant cost reductions for customers in the industrial segment. They offer, based on adetailed analysis of the needs of each customer, a dedicated energy solution, adapted to their consumption profile.
• MSU Green Energy — MSU Green Energy is a solar investment company that develops renewable energy and solar projects.

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• Lupiya — Lupiya is a financial technology company that provides digital lending services designed to help individuals and small businesses access short-term credit and installment financing. The platform offers mobile-accessible loans that can be used for expenses such as personal needs, business cash flow, or emergency payments, using an online applicationprocess that evaluates creditworthiness through alternative data and behavioral indicators. Lupiya’s services include flexible repayment schedules, automated disbursement, and electronic account management so users can monitor balances and repayment activity within the app or web interface. The company also offers tools for budgeting and payment reminders to support borrowers in managing their credit obligations. Through integrations with local payment networks and banking partners, Lupiya facilitates secure fund transfers and compliance with financial regulations. Its lending infrastructure is tailored to expand access to credit for underserved populations and small enterprises that may have limited access to traditional banking services.
• Seamfix — Seamfix’s end-to-end electronic ID and credentials software solutions address the lack of digital ID systems for 30+ African countries and over 250M individuals, providing access to credit, banking, and other essential services for large parts of populations.
• Alma Clinics — ALMA CLINICS Primary Healthcare with Advanced Blockchain, AI technology. BEST Clinic providing affordable healthcare, Soweto, Johannesburg, South Africa.

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• Lupiya — Lupiya is a financial technology company that provides digital lending services designed to help individuals and small businesses access short-term credit and installment financing. The platform offers mobile-accessible loans that can be used for expenses such as personal needs, business cash flow, or emergency payments, using an online applicationprocess that evaluates creditworthiness through alternative data and behavioral indicators. Lupiya’s services include flexible repayment schedules, automated disbursement, and electronic account management so users can monitor balances and repayment activity within the app or web interface. The company also offers tools for budgeting and payment reminders to support borrowers in managing their credit obligations. Through integrations with local payment networks and banking partners, Lupiya facilitates secure fund transfers and compliance with financial regulations. Its lending infrastructure is tailored to expand access to credit for underserved populations and small enterprises that may have limited access to traditional banking services.

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• Roofr — The complete sales toolbox for roofers. From roof measurement reports to project-winning proposals.
• Vennre — Build wealth through vetted private market opportunities from $5k. GCC-first, globally accessible. Regulated, Sharia-compliant, digital-first.
• DiPonio Contracting — DiPonio Contracting is an infrastructure maintenance and construction company. It offers new and replacement upgrades for aged and existing water, wastewater, and storm sewer systems.

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• Enlightra — Extreme-bandwidth data transmission enabled by light
• Axiom Trust — Axiom Trust is an AI-powered trust startup that modernises professional trust administration during the "Great Wealth Transfer" of over $100 trillion in assets.
• Lace Lithography — Lace is building the patterning technology that will power the next 100 years of semiconductor manufacturing.

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• PaidHR — PaidHR works with organizations to streamline how they manage their staff. Our precisely created solutions enable them to create the ideal place to work.
• Lingawa — Speak your native language with pride! Learn Yoruba and Igbo with fun, immersive online lessons for adults and kids (ages 5+).
• Definely — Definely creates legal tech solutions to free lawyers from frustration, saving them time when understanding, drafting and reviewing legal documents.

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• Yeah — Yeah is a financial technology company that offers payment processing services while building a credit profile for the banked and unbanked.
• 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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• Rilla — Demonstrating 90% reduction in cost-to-serve for live-streaming, Rilla is rewiring the content economy, directing the value generated back to creators and their communities.By leveraging audience bandwidth and rewarding them with ownership in the network, the savings are equivalent to a free month subscription every year for a moderate level ofviewership.Founded by the technical founders behind Altered State Machine, acquired for 214m. Together for 5+ ventures, collectively raising 130m+ and valued at 1b+.
• Osmo — Osmo is a payment company that helps people to send and receive money immediately.
• Uniblock — Uniblock helps connect developers with Web3 using our APIs and services. Our developers use Uniblock because of how easy it is to integrate into exciting applications. Try it for free today!

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• Rent To Own Africa — Rent To Own provides affordable financing to high capacity entrepreneurs in rural communities across Zambia. Rent To Own variety of rental arrangements helps business owners build assets and expand their own services. Beyond traditional asset financing, Rent To Own adapts its services and to the individual needs of each client, including guidedasset selection process, direct distribution and one-on one training for maintenance and proper equipment usage. The company unique six-step loan process mitigates repayment risk and ensures that the equipment is being used optimally.

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• StackAI — Stack AI supercharges businesses. Deploy AI-powered applications in minutes, automate processes, and skyrocket productivity by connecting LLMs to data sources using Stack AI's no-code platform. Export your work with user-centric interfaces (chatbots and forms) and developer-friendly APIs.
• Milano Vice — Milano Vice is building a new virtual food brand by working with professional kitchens to prepare and deliver delicious pizzas to home.
• Kapital — Kapital empowers SMBs with a tech-banking platform giving visibility and control of their treasury, and their employees

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• NMB Bank — NMB Bank is dedicated to providing premium financial services to all existing and potential customers. Since 1993, we have offered supreme corporate, retail and investment banking solutions.
• VivaJets — VivaJets is a aviation company providing a full range of aircraft management services, fractional ownership opportunities, and aircraft sales and acquisition.
• Shona Capital Zambia — SHONA Capital is a leading provider of SME finance in Zambia, offering flexible loans and hands-on business support to empower businesses to grow and succeed.

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• Convoke — The AI-native operating system for drug development
• Daylight — Anode Labs is leveraging web3 infrastructure to build the world's largest virtual power plant.
• Somos Internet — Somos Internet is a network and telecommunications startup that provides latest generation internet with a fast, secure, stable connection. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia.

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• EduPay — Edupay provides affordable education loans with flexible repayment, ensuring uninterrupted learning.
• Explorer School — Explorer School is an online primary and secondary school that offers educational programs.
• Likota Furniture — Proudly Zambian business specialized in handcrafted, sustainable furniture.

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• CrewAI — A cutting-edge framework for orchestrating role-playing, autonomous AI agents that work together seamlessly to tackle complex tasks.
• Dreambase — AI-Native Analytics for @Supabase
• The Clearing Company — A new kind of prediction market.

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• Balloon Ventures — Balloon Ventures bundles loans of ~$25,000 with tech-enabled business support to de-risk and profitably lend to SMEs in Kenya and Uganda. The approach is unlocking a $150bn segment in sub-Saharan Africa who are currently under-served by all existing financial institutions. Balloon has now made $10m+ loans and is profitable and scaling fast.
• Rent To Own Africa — Rent To Own provides affordable financing to high capacity entrepreneurs in rural communities across Zambia. Rent To Own variety of rental arrangements helps business owners build assets and expand their own services. Beyond traditional asset financing, Rent To Own adapts its services and to the individual needs of each client, including guidedasset selection process, direct distribution and one-on one training for maintenance and proper equipment usage. The company unique six-step loan process mitigates repayment risk and ensures that the equipment is being used optimally.
• Electric Transits Africa — Electric Transits Africa is on a mission to accelerate the adoption of electric mobility across East Africa. ETA provides fully integrated EV leasing solutions — combining vehicles, charging infrastructure, and fleet management into a single, predictable monthly cost. They work with organisations of all sizes: logistics operators, corporate fleets,shuttle and transport providers, and public sector bodies. The model removes the barriers to EV adoption — high upfront cost, charging uncertainty, and operational complexity — so the clients can simply get on with running their businesses.

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• Inde Credit — Business Finance Solutions for Zambian SMEs. We help Zambian SMEs and other businesses providing goods and services in the mining, transportation, construction, manufacturing, agriculture and other related sectors.
• Eagle Metal Fabrication — Eagle Metal Fabrication offers metal fabrication and machining services.

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• Zazu Africa — A smart digital-money account that helps you do more with your money.
• Flywheel.io — Flywheel is a data management and analysis platform built specifically for scientists and the researcher's workflow. They empower research momentum by focusing on data and medical image capture, content management, scientific computation, and collaboration. With reproducible research in mind, they combine open-source methods from topuniversities, a modern web user interface, and an extensible compute engine based on containerization technology. The result is a software platform to accelerate discovery and help researchers do science, not IT.Flywheel accelerates new scientific discoveries in life-science, biotech, and academic imaging research through cloud-scale collaboration. As a result, imaging researchers are able to avoid innovation bottlenecks, and accelerate discovery by doing more science, and less IT.

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• Laka — Laka is collective bicycle insurance especially for cyclists. We flipped insurance. By making it pay to pay out, we are the collective that backs each other. Protect your bikes and gear against theft & damage with Laka 5-star rated cycle insurance.
• LANDBAY — Your dedicated Landbay intermediary page for specialist buy-to-let mortgages. Partner with a lender who gives you direct decisions with a flexible approach and a full online application process.
• OurPetsLife — At OurPetsLife, our mission is to empower pet owners with innovative, reliable, and accessible Pet products trusted by the professionals. From dog food, supplements for pets, shampoo, pet treats, dental care & much more.

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• Axis — With axis, you can send money to friends instantly and for free, buy anything online, request money from anyone, earn rewards and cashback, and understand your spending habits so that you can budget.
• Nestcoin — Nestcoin is a web3 application company that builds, operates, and invests in crypto-native products.
• Pluto — Unlimited corporate cards with spend controls, petty cash management and automated receipt collection built for businesses in MENA (UAE, Saudi Arabia & more).

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• SeraPay — We are revolutionizing social commerce in Africa with SeraPay, ensuring the seamless buying and selling of goods on social media platforms. Our innovative service empowers businesses to access markets beyond their geographical borders, making social retail easier and more efficient.
• Savabyte — A pan-African women-led platform that connects career advancement opportunities to quality tech talent & women in technology. #ConnectingTechTalent
• Jungopharm — Jungopharm is a developer of a pharma and healthcare platform that aims to make health care understandable, accessible & affordable for all.

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• Cauridor — Cauridor is a Financial Services company.
• WafR — WafR is a reward-based loyalty startup that allows users to earn phone recharges while shopping at retail shops.
• Nucleon Security — Zero-Trust and ML-based Endpoint Detection and Response Platform #EDR #FDR #EndpointSecurity

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• Erco Energía — We build Solar PV, EV infrastructure and Electric Energy Storage systems. Erco was founded in 2012 and is based in Medellín,Colombia with offices in Cali and Bogotá.
• CrossBoundary — CrossBoundary Energy's energy solutions help decarbonize enterprise by providing cleaner, cheaper, and more reliable power.
• mopo — Mobile Power's innovative pay-per-use battery sharing network unlocks clean energy for households, businesses and electric transport in Sub-Saharan Africa.

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• Kaon — Chat with AI characters for free on FlowGPT! More than 1 million characters and bots to chat with, AI boyfriend, girlfriend, uncencored chat and AI tools.
• RedotPay — Where Crypto Meets Real Life | Trusted by 8M+ | Accepted at 130M+ merchants | Pay with BTC, ETH, USDC, USDT & more
• Wrtn Technologies — Bring AGI Close to People

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• Kofa — Kofa is an automotive company that utilizes the latest electric battery and motor technology. The company aims to develop an affordable, sustainable and customer driven electric network in transformative energy, transport, and climate change around the globe. Kofa was founded in Ghana and is headquartered in Accra.
• Sistema.bio — Sistema.bio is a biodigester with biogas appliances. High efficiency biodigesters transform organic waste into renewable biogas.
• Mufin Green Finance — Mufin Green Finance is an NBFC that specialises in the electric vehicle (EV) market.