Top 35 FinTech Startup Investors in Ghana in November 2024
A list of 35 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Fintech startups based in Ghana. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Fintech companies from Ghana. We update this investor list every month.Top 35 FinTech Startup Investors in Ghana in November 2024
Investor | FinTech Ghana investments |
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Good Soil VC | 5 |
Savannah Fund | 3 |
Factor[e] Ventures | 2 |
Investisseurs & Partenaires | 2 |
Matthias Hilpert | 2 |
Cathay Innovation | 2 |
Ingressive Capital | 2 |
Launch Africa | 2 |
Speedinvest | 2 |
CV VC | 2 |
Engie | 1 |
Symbiotics Group | 1 |
Ground Squirrel Ventures | 1 |
British International Investment | 1 |
Rising Tide Africa | 1 |
EDFI ElectriFI | 1 |
Standard Bank | 1 |
Persistent | 1 |
Matuca | 1 |
Oikocredit International | 1 |
The Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation | 1 |
Aster | 1 |
Amethis Finance | 1 |
LoftyInc Capital | 1 |
Anorak Ventures | 1 |
StillMark | 1 |
Ethos Family Office | 1 |
ARK Holdings | 1 |
Happy Wishy | 1 |
Block | 1 |
Blue Haven Initiative | 1 |
ImpactAssets | 1 |
Ashley Thompson- MacCarthy | 1 |
E3 Capital | 1 |
First circle capital | 1 |
GOODsoil VC is an early stage venture capital firm. We partner with founders seeking to invent new market categories and transform large, existing industries.They aim to take risks on innovative and ambitious people and products; providing risk capital for new and early-stage start-up companies, in return for an equity share.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Ghana, United Kingdom, Rwanda
Portfolio highlights
- Livoh — Livoh is a software firm offering live streaming platform so the content can reach its target market.
- Zeepay — Zeepay Ghana Limited is a wholly Ghanaian owned Mobile FinancialServices company focusing on providing integrated mobile payments services with mobile wallets targeting the unbanked and banked population with the objective of bringing the unbanked into the financial stream and easing payments and collections for the banked population.Zeepayfacilitates the processing of multiple mobile phone payment transactions, and operates as a aggregator that brings transaction of all players together on one single platform. The company’s core application runs on open source technology, and is designed to integrate all types of payment platforms, banks, merchants, Mobile Network Operators (MNOs), and other companies with subscriber based transactions.
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Savannah Fund is a seed capital fund specializing in US$25,000-US$500,000 investments in early stage high growth technology (web and mobile) startups in sub-Saharan Africa. Initially focused on East Africa, the fund aims to bridge the early stage/angel and venture capital investment gap that currently exists in Africa. The Fund expects toachieve this objective by combining capital with mentor networks both in the region and from Silicon Valley via an accelerator program and a follow-on independent seed fund.The fund is managed by an experienced and technology savvy team that have founded companies or are actively involved in angel investing or having run successful accelerator programs in past but also understand the unique Subsaharan African environment. They are backed and supported by both local, regional and international networks of angels,venture capitalists whose expertise we can draw on to help startups succeed and scale to fully fledged regional or global companies.They believe in the potential for Africa to become a global technology innovator by creating sustainable for profit companies that create jobs and make an impact.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, FinTech, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Kenya, United States, South Africa
Portfolio highlights
- Oze — OZÉ brings African small businesses into the digital era. It is an app that makes it easy for businesses to track sales, expenses, and customer information. The data is analyzed to provide tailored recommendations, reports, and business education. If the entrepreneur needs a little extra support, an OZÉ Coach is just a click away. As they are usingOZÉ to manage their business and learn how to run it better, we are learning about them. Using this data and machine learning, we can predict their credit risk and provide them with affordable capital from our banking partners. With over 20,000 registered users, OZÉ is the largest online community of SMEs in Ghana. The most exciting thing is that OZÉ works; 97% of businesses that have used OZE for at least 9 months are growing or profitable or both!
- Root — Launch digital and embedded insurance solutions with omni-channel distribution.
- Afropolitan — Afropolitan is building a Network State to unleash the maximum potential of Africans around the world. Are you interested? Join us with your email.
Impact venture builders dedicated to supporting the people and ideas that turn challenges in energy, agriculture, mobility, and waste into de-carbonized solutions for emerging and frontier markets.
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Investment focus
- Energy, Renewable Energy, Agriculture
- Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
- United States, Kenya, India
Portfolio highlights
- Terralima — Terralima is building a digital platform where we connect a trusted network of farmers in Africa to food producers and co-operatives who get high-quality, traceable agricultural commodities at a fair, transparent and stable market price. We are also bridging the funding gap for farmers and aggregators through embbeded fintech.Our online Tradingand Fintech platform delivers direct access to markets, on-demand credit, and efficient logistics for smallholder farmers; thus ensuring we can get food from where it is produced to where it's required, while eliminating food waste and maximising profits for farmers.
- InspiraFarms — InspiraFarms provides on-and-near farm, grid & solar powered Cold Rooms & Packhouses for agribusinesses & distributors. Reduce energy costs & food losses!
- Open Access Energy — Open Access Energy provides energy management software.
Investisseurs et Partenaires
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Health Care, Food and Beverage
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- France, Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire
Portfolio highlights
- iProcure — iProcure is a Nairobi-based start-up working to optimize the agriculture input supply chain in rural Kenya. iProcure’s web and mobile technology solution improves agriculture retailers’ operations. It lets them manage ordering based on inventory, point of sale activities, and client profiles along with geo-located purchasing patterns, real-timeagent performance and transaction analysis, and built-in mobile payments. As a result, retailers can better predict demand with business intelligence data, improve inventory management, and streamline distribution efficiency.
- Trackbit — Trackbit is a cryptocurrency exchange platform.
- Lapaire — Discover a wide range of high-quality & affordable eyeglasses at Lapaire Glasses. Book a free vision test with our professional optometrists to help you find your perfect pair of glasses to enhance your vision and style. Shops in 7 african countries: Benin, Ivory Coast, Togo, Burkina Faso, Mali, Kenya and Uganda.
Matthias Hilpert - CEO @ MH2 Capital
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Germany, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Workbounce — Workbounce is the co-pilot for customer-facing team connecting tools like Google Drive, Notion, Slack with intelligent search and analytics.
- Flinn — We are driven to impact the health of millions of people around the globe by enabling medical companies to launch and operate products more efficiently. To make this vision come true, we established a customer-centric, experimentation-driven product development approach.
- Atlas Metrics — The single source of truth for your ESG data
A Global Venture Capital Platform Connecting Innovators Everywhere
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- United States, France, China
Portfolio highlights
- Entalpic — Entalpic is an AI-driven discovery platform for sustainable industries aiming to optimize carbon-intensive sectors.
- Ghost — The backbone for retail brands to optimize their inventory lifecycle.
- David Energy — David Energy is an electricity provider that designs, builds, and manages onsite energy grids. The company empowers buildings with the tools needed to maximize onsite energy and bring transparency to a traditionally opaque, commoditized industry. It provides hands-on expertise and on the ground support, all delivered through its software platform.Founded in 2017, David Energy is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York.
Ingressive Capital they provide services in business development, partnerships, and financial support.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Nigeria, United States, Ghana
Portfolio highlights
- MNZL — MNZL is on a mission to expand access to capital for Egyptians.Every person who owns an asset has accumulated wealth in it. When they want liquidity for their projects and needs, they should be able to tap into it as easily as withdrawing from a bank.With an innovative digital platform and products, we are working on making digital access tocapital a reality, and building the future of asset-backed financing in Africa.
- 54gene — 54gene is a healthcare startup unlocking the African genome to fuel genetic research and development that may lead to new discoveries and benefit all populations.54gene was founded in 2019 by Dr. Abasi Ene-Obong to address the significant gap in the global genomics market: Nearly 90% of genetic material used in pharmaceutical research iscaucasian. Only 2% is African, despite the fact that Africans and people of African ancestry are more genetically diverse than all other world populations combined. As a result, pharmaceutical research and development is lacking the diverse data that may hold the key to medical discoveries and new healthcare solutions.
- Startbutton — We help multi-national businesses sell products and get paid in African countries in a compliant and tax-efficient manner, without the need to register locally.
Launch Africa is a fund with the primary objective of unlocking the capital constraints of Seed Stage tech startups.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Bosso — Bosso projects and realizes automation and robotic solutions for the growth of your business.
- Kredete — Kredete is a digital lending platform that provides free credit scores and reports to underserved individuals and small businesses in Africa to help them gain access to formal credit and improve their financial health. The platform connects borrowers with lenders and enterprises in Africa and is designed to simplify the lending process and makecredit more accessible by leveraging cutting-edge technology. Kredete offers a user-friendly platform that guides borrowers, lenders, and enterprises through the process of offering loans, making it simple for them to provide the right loan products for their needs.One of the key features of Kredete is its instant approval process, which is made possible by advanced algorithms and artificial intelligence. The platform offers flexible lending options by partnering with a variety of lenders and enterprises, enabling borrowers to choose the best option for their specific situation.Kredete is committed to protecting the privacy and security of all users' personal and financial information. It uses robust encryption and security measures to ensure that sensitive data remains safe and secure. Additionally, the platform maintains transparency throughout the loan process, providing lenders, enterprises, and borrowers with clear information about loan terms and associated fees.Kredete believes in empowering its users with the knowledge and resources they need to make informed financial decisions. To this end, the platform offers financial education, tools, and resources to help users better understand and manage their finances. Kredete also works closely with businesses and institutions to provide tailored financial solutions for their unique needs.Through its focus on accessibility, convenience, and transparency, Kredete is transforming the lending landscape in Africa and helping to bridge the financial inclusion gap. The platform remains dedicated to its mission of empowering lenders, enterprises, and borrowers across the continent to access the funds they need to achieve their financial goals.
- Wahu Mobility — Wahu Mobility is an open e-mobility platform that connects drivers, passengers, and goods in a simple, inclusive, transparent, nationwide, and multimodal manner.
Speedinvest is one of Europe’s most active early-stage investors, with more than €1bn AUM, 40 investors, and offices in Berlin, London, Munich, Paris, Vienna and San Francisco. Your success is our priority, so we don’t just send some money and "check in" at board meetings. Our mission is to empower you with game-changing support throughevery stage of your journey. Our focused investment teams know your industry inside and out. Their Deep Tech, Fintech, Industrial Tech, Network Effects, Digital Health and Subscriptions experience, know-how and deep networks are yours from day one. You also have full access to our in-house Platform+ team of operational experts who can provide tailored growth marketing, people (HR), US business development, and networking support throughout every stage of your journey.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Germany, United Kingdom, Austria
Portfolio highlights
- autone — Autone is a SaaS operational platform enabling retail & CPG businesses to make optimal decisions easily and quickly
- AllFocal Optics — AllFocal Optics revolutionizes display technology through groundbreaking nanophotonic solutions.
- Recyda GmbH — All-in-one Packaging Recyclability Management
We invest in blockchain
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Switzerland, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Lawyerd! — Lawyerd! is fully automatically found infringements, finding responsible for hosting bodies, formulating complaints, adding evidence of the violation, and sending completed complaints in 3 seconds. Also, our clients can store their products on our platform and put the information into the blockchain when products are created
- Villcaso — Truly is the easiest way to safely invest in US residential real estate. Our permissionless token means you can invest in American homes as easily as buying a stablecoin. When you invest with Truly, you get access to a diverse and professionally managed basket of high-performing US real estate. Returns with Truly are reliably high, and you can exit your position at any point. We're on a mission to make it easy for global investors to safely invest in US residential real estate.
- Mycel — Mycel is a decentralized cross-chain asset management platform with an intent-based token transfer layer.
ENGIE is a global energy player and an expert operator in the three key sectors of electricity, natural gas and energy services. The Group supports changes in society that are based as much on economic growth as on, social progress and the preservation of natural resources. ENGIE employs 152,900 people worldwide and achieved revenues of €74.7billion in 2014. The Group is listed on the Paris and Brussels stock exchanges (ENGI) and is represented in the main international indices: CAC 40, BEL 20, DJ Euro Stoxx 50, Euronext 100, FTSE Eurotop 100, MSCI Europe and Euronext Vigeo (World 120, Eurozone 120, Europe 120 and France 20). As a global energy player, ENGIE operates in close to 70 countries on 5 continents. While the Group still intends to maintain its position as a key player in Europe and a leader on the energy transition, it is now a benchmark energy provider in the emerging world.
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Investment focus
- Energy, Renewable Energy, Solar
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Singapore, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
- Sistema.bio — Sistema.bio is a biodigester with biogas appliances. High efficiency biodigesters transform organic waste into renewable biogas.
- TablePointer — TablePointer is the A.I. and intelligent energy solution for small & medium commercial facilities to optimise energy efficiency, manage assets, upgrade profitability, and unlock sustainability gains right away.
- Billion Bricks — BillionBricks uses design and technology to reimagine housing, to empower everyone to be a homeowner. We are developing a self-financing, carbon-negative solar home solution that tackles the systemic issues of housing, energy access and climate change.
Symbiotics is the leading market access platform for impact investing. Symbiotics offers investment, asset management and capacity building services.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Debt Financing, Funding Round, Post-IPO Debt
- India, Kenya, Senegal
Portfolio highlights
- Varthana — With the availability of education & school loans, financing education has become easier. Apply for instant education loan with Varthana today.
- Khan Bank — Khan Bank is a universal bank and a customer of FMO.
- AMK Microfinance Institution — AMK’s commitment to social performance has been absolute. AMK has developed a comprehensive social performance management framework, which ensures that the organization stays focusing on its mission to assist large numbers of poor people. As of December 2016, over 2,300 staffs serve almost 600,000 clients in nearly 13,000 villages across Cambodia.This outreach represents 89% of all villages.
Seed round investment in frontier markets and clean energy
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Kenya, Zambia
Portfolio highlights
- Grapevine — Grapevine makes it possible for groups to invite members, collect and distribute donations, establish a community and connect with nonprofits.
- MindMics — Discover MindMics. The world's most accurate personal heart health monitor and well-being platform. Look after your heart health to live longer and better.
- Untapped Global — Untapped connects global investors, and foreign capital to opportunities in emerging markets. Delivering competitive returns, and measurable impact for global investors.
British International Investment is the UK's development finance institution. We've been at the forefront of supporting companies in developing countries for more than 70 years.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Banking, FinTech
- Funding Round, Debt Financing, Series B
- India, Kenya, Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- BasiGo — BasiGo is an early-stage e-mobility start-up looking to revolutionize the public transportation sector by providing matatu owners with a cost-effective electric alternative to diesel buses.
- Magnum Polymers — Magpet Polymers Private Limited is a part of the Magnumgroup, specializing in the conversion of PET (Polyethylene Terephthalate). As a significant PET converter in Eastern India, the company plays a crucial role in the packaging and containers industry. The company's operations encompass a wide range of activities, from manufacturing todistribution, providing comprehensive solutions to its clients. The company's authorized capital stands at Rs 63.0 lakhs, with 95.793655% paid-up capital, which is Rs 60.35 lakhs.
- Ecobank — A regional commercial bank operating in many African countries.
About Us Rising Tide Africa functions as part of a Global movement of The Rising Tide Program for Africa. It constitutes a group of women angel investors harnessing their power, network, passion and capital to positively impact and actively create a New Africa. Learn More Join Us Our Partners Investment Access to High Potential Early
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Information Technology, Finance
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Nigeria, United Kingdom, Ghana
Portfolio highlights
- Wealth8 — Wealth8 is a black-owned investment platform that provides a simple and affordable way for the black community to save & invest in globally managed funds.
- ANKA — ANKA is a platform to discover, buy, and sell African fashion, arts, and crafts. ANKA’s goal is to allow African creation lovers to live their passion while allowing the creators to live from theirs. ANKA facilitates transactions and exchanges directly between buyers and sellers on both sides of the world, in a user-friendly and secure way.
- Seso Global — Seso Global is a platform for secure real estate management and transactions in Africa.Based in Lagos (Nigeria), Accra (Ghana) and Cambridge (UK), Seso Global is a Digital Lands Transactions platform that facilitates secure, trusted, and risk-free Blockchain Land Transactions between, Property Owners, Land Service Agencies and FinancialInstitutions.
Impact investment in sustainable energy
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Investment focus
- Energy, Solar, Renewable Energy
- Debt Financing, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Kenya, Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- WeLight — WeLight deploys sustainable and accessible solutions to accelerate energy inclusion in rural areas of Africa.
- Sistema.bio — Sistema.bio is a biodigester with biogas appliances. High efficiency biodigesters transform organic waste into renewable biogas.
- Amped Innovation — At Amped Innovation, we design breakthrough products for people living on less than four dollars per day. Our first product, the Blossom, is a solar home power system which is the lowest-cost and highest-performance product in its class, at one third the price and twice the power handling of competing systems. We built the Blossom with asoftware-enabled Pay-As-You-Go interface, which allows customers to purchase it in payment installments that are equivalent to what they currently spend on kerosene, while providing much more light, cell-phone charging, and ability to run appliances like televisions and sewing machines.
Open a bank account, get a personal or business loan, make offshore investments and sign up for Internet Banking.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Mobile
- Debt Financing, Seed, Pre-Seed
- South Africa, Ghana, India
Portfolio highlights
- HelloChoice — HelloChoice is digital trading and auction platform that is transforming the agricultural trade by directly connecting Farmers and Buyers.
- Westfalia Fruit — Westfalia Fruit is a multinational supplier of fresh fruit and related processed products to international markets. Part of the Hans Merensky Holdings Group, Westfalia grows, sources and ripens, packs, processes and markets sustainably-grown avocados year round. Its vertically-integrated supply chain enables Westfalia to market quality fruit fromacross the globe.
- Sun King — Sun King solar lanterns and home systems enables underserved communities to achieve more with inclusive distribution and flexible financing options.
Africa's Climate Venture Builder - We believe in the power of climate-positive economic development in Africa. For the last decade, we have been working hand in hand with exceptional entrepreneurs, investing both financial and human capital to build successful climate ventures on the continent. Our companies offer competitive financial returns required to drive lasting impact.
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Investment focus
- Energy, Solar, Renewable Energy
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Ghana, Germany, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- EcoNetix — EcoNetix leads high-integrity carbon projects with a focus on Africa, fostering transparency in the carbon market and reducing global CO2 emissions. Discover our sustainable initiatives and AI-backed solutions for accurate carbon measurement and a greener future.
- Hohm Energy — We make the process of going solar simple. Generate your free, custom solar proposal and get matched with an accredited solar provider in under 5 mins.
- Circadian Technologies GmbH — Circadian Technologies accelerates the energy transition in frontier markets with a SaaS business model, empowering solar developers & energy service companies to reduce operating costs and grow revenue with a data driven platform and proprietary IoT hardware.Circadian transforms the entire value chain of its customers by uniquely providingan end-to-end solution to better design, finance, operate and maintain decentralized renewable energy systems for commercial & industrial sites.
Matuca is an investment company.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Software
- Seed
- Ghana
Portfolio highlights
- Oze — OZÉ brings African small businesses into the digital era. It is an app that makes it easy for businesses to track sales, expenses, and customer information. The data is analyzed to provide tailored recommendations, reports, and business education. If the entrepreneur needs a little extra support, an OZÉ Coach is just a click away. As they are usingOZÉ to manage their business and learn how to run it better, we are learning about them. Using this data and machine learning, we can predict their credit risk and provide them with affordable capital from our banking partners. With over 20,000 registered users, OZÉ is the largest online community of SMEs in Ghana. The most exciting thing is that OZÉ works; 97% of businesses that have used OZE for at least 9 months are growing or profitable or both!
Oikocredit is guided by the principle of empowering people. Their experience proves that the most effective and sustainable means of assisting those in need is providing an opportunity to help themselves.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
- Debt Financing, Series B, Funding Round
- India, Nigeria, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Prestamype — Prestamype was launched in 2017 with the aim of providing a broader access to funding to micro and small businesses, with better credit conditions. With its first product, a secured working capital loan with a real estate collateral, it has lent over USD 24 million to 750 Peruvian entrepreneurs (as of 1st of October 2021). In 2019, Prestamypelaunched its online FX platform called Cambio Seguro. In 2020, the company launched its digital factoring product. In 2021, INCA Ventures and Angel Ventures Peru (AVP), two leading funds in Peru, invested in the company.
- Access Bank — Access Bank provides banking products and services to individual and business customers in Ghana. It offers standard savings and current, access advantage, solo, and premier accounts. The company also provides online banking services that include ATM, online access, and point-of-sale terminal services; and bills payment and Western Union moneytransfer services.
- 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.
William H. Draper, III and Robin Richards Donohoe began investing together in the venture industry in 1994 concentrating on building companies in India. Since 1994, they have invested in over one hundred early stage information technology investments both in India and the United States. In 2010, the Foundation joined forces with Robert S. Kaplan,formerly vice-chairman of Goldman Sachs and currently professor of leadership at Harvard Business School. Together the team raised their second fund inviting fourteen innovative philanthropists to join the fund.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Education, Non Profit
- Seed, Grant, Funding Round
- United States, Ghana, Uganda
Portfolio highlights
- Emata — Emata brings digital and affordable financial products to farmers in East Africa.
- Dollar For — Dollar For crushes medical bills and empowers patients.
- American Journalism Project — The American Journalism Project is a new venture philanthropy organization dedicated to local news. By providing course-altering investments and venture support to civic news organizations, we are building a new public service media that is governed by, sustained by and looks like the public it serves.
Aster is a Venture Capital firm with offices in 4 major innovation hubs: Paris, London, Tel Aviv and San Francisco. Since 2000, they have partnered with more than 60 teams of entrepreneurs that are transforming markets with disruptive offers and technologies. They are always open to exploring new ideas related to mobility, energy and industrysectors that they have been covering until now. They invest in all stages, with a preference for the early phase.They are more than investors and they intend to act as an ally for entrepreneurs by connecting them to a valuable ecosystem of experts, influencers and business leaders. From marketing to executive talent, their commitment to the growth of their portfolio companies as well as the entire venture ecosystem also involves the commitment of their dedicated Operations team, their innovation strategy consulting firm (Aster Fab) and a crowdfunding branch to further expand opportunities (Aster Crowd).Some of their success stories include Solairedirect (acquired by Engie in 2015), Digital Lumens (acquired by Osram in 2017) and Avantium (IPOed in 2017).
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Investment focus
- Software, Energy, Manufacturing
- Series A, Funding Round, Series B
- France, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Otoqi — Otoqi is a vehicle delivery platform that develops connected services and logistics solutions for the automotive professionals.
- Neural Concept — Neural Concept is the first AI software for enhanced engineering. Leverage your historical CAD and CAE data to drastically shorten and improve your design cycles.
- LevelTen Energy — LevelTen Energy provides transaction infrastructure for buyers, sellers, advisors, and financiers in the renewable energy economy.
A Private Equity Fund and Investment company dedicated to Africa, built in partnership with Compagnie Benjamin de Rothschild. Amethis Finance invests in debt and equity in African financial institutions and corporates.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Manufacturing, Banking
- Private Equity, Debt Financing, Funding Round
- Côte d'Ivoire, Morocco, Mauritius
Portfolio highlights
- Merec Industries — Merec Industries is a miller and packaged food manufacturer in Mozambique.This family-owned company aims to strengthen its footprint in the SADC region and become an integrated multinational packaged food group
- Tarjama — Discover Tarjama& - Your trusted partner for professional language solutions. With a global reach and expertise in AI-driven translation, localization, and content creation, we cater to diverse industries, ensuring high accuracy and data security.
- Avacare Health — Avacare Health is a distributor and manufacturer of pharmaceuticals and healthcare consumable products.
LoftyInc Capital Management empowers Afropreneurs to build a prosperous and equitable future in Africa. We deliver value to both founders and investors.........
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Nigeria, United States, Egypt
Portfolio highlights
- Mtor — Mtor is an online marketplace that is reshaping the automotive aftermarket and provides sophisticated technology solutions.
- EMTECH — EMTECH provides solutions for Digital Currency regulatory compliance, development and management to help Central Banks and FinTechs build, run and manage modern financial systems.
- Terragon Group — Terragon is a leading Data and Marketing Technology company that uses data and analytics to help companies focused in Africa, intelligently connect at scale to their customers. We use an aggregation of online and offline data, and predictive scoring to help brands, marketing agencies and platforms accurately target people across channels anddevices. Headquartered in Lagos; Nigeria, we also have a presence in Kenya, South Africa, Ghana and India.
Anorak Ventures is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco investing in seed-stage technology companies.
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Investment focus
- Software, Virtual Reality, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Ghana, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- 2weeks — 2weeks makes games on the open web for you and your friends.
- Intellectible — Craft complex documents likes bids and proposals easily using AI
- ZeroTier — ZeroTier is the best global networking solution and overlay for IoT infrastructure, SD-WAN, VPN, and remote access.
StillMark is a venture capital firm
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Investment focus
- Bitcoin, Software, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Ghana, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- AMBOSS — Lightning Network Explorer and Analytics Tools. Search for nodes and channels on the Lightning Network and get detailed information on them.
- Vida — The AI phone agent for small business. Answer calls and texts with an AI phone agent that always works and is never busy. number that answers calls and texts with AI.
- Alpen Labs — Alpen Labs is a startup scaling bitcoin with zero-knowledge technology. Its mission is to build universal rails for money by creating a scalable, private and programmable Bitcoin ecosystem.
FAMILY OFFICE PRACTICAL INTELLIGENCE WITH A PROGRESSIVE EDGE Has Arrived
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Ghana, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Airplane — Airplane is a developer-centric approach to building internal UIs and workload automation.
- Koala Health — Koala has all the medications and health products your pet needs. We package them by date and time to make pet care simpler. The best part? There are no service or shipping fees — you only pay for what your pet needs.
- CarbonCapture — CarbonCapture Inc. is a direct air capture company creating technologies to decarbonize the atmosphere. Contact us if you're interested in our mission.
ARK Holdings is a privately held family investment portfolio firm.
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Investment focus
- Mobile, Retail, FinTech
- Series A
- Ghana
Portfolio highlights
- Zeepay — Zeepay Ghana Limited is a wholly Ghanaian owned Mobile FinancialServices company focusing on providing integrated mobile payments services with mobile wallets targeting the unbanked and banked population with the objective of bringing the unbanked into the financial stream and easing payments and collections for the banked population.Zeepayfacilitates the processing of multiple mobile phone payment transactions, and operates as a aggregator that brings transaction of all players together on one single platform. The company’s core application runs on open source technology, and is designed to integrate all types of payment platforms, banks, merchants, Mobile Network Operators (MNOs), and other companies with subscriber based transactions.
Happy Wishy brand is the leading gift card and software distribution company.
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Investment focus
- Gift Card, E-Commerce, Video Games
- Seed
- Ghana
Portfolio highlights
- Happy Wishy Ghana — Buy video games, shopping, and gaming vouchers in Ghana.
Block is Square, Cash App, Spiral, TIDAL, TBD, and our foundational teams.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Banking, FinTech
- Seed, Series D, Corporate Round
- Egypt, Ghana, Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Telda — The easiest way to send, spend and save money. Open your account for free directly from your phone and start dealing with your money the easy way
- Gridless — At the Frontier of Bitcoin Mining in Africa
- Aston Reinvestment Trust — As a Community Development Finance Institution (CDFI) ART's remit is to ensure that viable businesses and social enterprises in the West Midlands can access the finance they need.
Blue Haven Initiative is an innovative family office dedicated to putting wealth to work for market returns and positive social and environmental change.
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- Solar, Energy, Financial Services
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- Kenya, United States, Ghana
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- M-KOPA — M-KOPA is the global leader for “pay-as-you-go” energy services for off-grid customers. M-KOPA was established in 2011. Following 2 years of piloting and development, M-KOPA began commercial sales in Kenya in October 2012. M-KOPA expanded to Uganda in 2013 and commences operations in Tanzania in late 2014. Their team includes over 500 staff andwe sell our product through more than 1000 retail agents and shops. The founders of the company are experienced mobile technology innovators who believe in the huge potential of transformative, affordable products designed for underserved consumers. While excellent technology is a pre-requisite, technology alone does not solve for customer needs. Success comes when smart technology is combined with a commitment to on-going, on-the-ground delivery. To that end, M-KOPA is beginning to license its technology to experienced and reputable third parties in markets outside of East Africa (licensing queries should be sent to licensing@m-kopa.com). M-KOPA has developed a proprietary, patented technology platform that combines embedded GSM + mobile payments to revolutionize asset financing in emerging markets. The M-KOPAnet platform has been designed and built from the ground up by our talented team of software engineers, who continue to innovate and improve the system every day. It offers the powerful combination of accounting + customer relationship management + inventory tracking in one complete system. Aside from enabling our business operations to scale at record speed, the M-KOPAnet™ platform captures and processes huge volumes of data, enabling us to improve our proposition, customer service, and security in real-time.
- TIBU Health — TIBU Health is a disruptive HealthTech logistics company that provides high-quality healthcare services.
- Field — Health supply chain technology and services across Africa
ImpactAssets is the preeminent partner for impact investing and philanthropic giving for individuals, families and a range of organizations that want to create positive change for the world.
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- Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, India, Mali
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- Goodr — Goodr is a sustainable food surplus management platform that leverages technology to reduce food waste and combat hunger. They provide an end-to-end solution for businesses seeking to earn money from their edible food waste by donating it to local nonprofit organizations. Their platform provides the logistics, analytics, and security for businessesto earn deductions under the PATH act in compliance with the Internal Revenue Services. Goodr’s blockchain-enabled platform also provides an IRS audit-friendly donation record, real-time food waste analytics, and community impact reports. Their model aims to provide a triple-win situation: improve business’ bottom line through tax deductions, reduce greenhouse emissions from landfills, and use edible food waste to reduce hunger.
- Mad capital — Mad Capital is not your normal lender.
- Cropin — CropIn is a leading AI and Data-led agri-tech organization that provides SaaS solutions to agribusinesses globally. CropIn’s unique suite of products enables various stakeholders in the agri-ecosystem to adopt and drive digital strategy across their operations. Using cutting-edge technology like big data analytics, artificial intelligence,machine learning, and remote sensing, CropIn creates an interconnected network of all these stakeholders at different levels of the agriculture ecosystem, enabling clients to analyze and interpret data to derive real-time actionable insights on standing crop. Businesses can thus leverage technology to effectively drive their initiatives around Digitization, Predictability, Compliance, Sustainability and Traceability. With the vision to ‘maximize per acre value’ and the mission to ‘make every farm traceable’, CropIn adds value to agri-businesses by increasing efficiency, scaling productivity, and strengthening sustainability across the board. Thus far, CropIn has digitized over 5.5 million acres of farmland and enriched the lives of nearly 2.1 million farmers, while gathering data on 380+ crops and 3,600+ crop varieties in 46+ countries on 6 continents.
Ashley Thompson-MacCarthy is the CEO at Obsidian Achernar. Ashley Thompson-MacCarthy attended Middlesex University.
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- Mobile, Retail, FinTech
- Series A
- Ghana
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- Zeepay — Zeepay Ghana Limited is a wholly Ghanaian owned Mobile FinancialServices company focusing on providing integrated mobile payments services with mobile wallets targeting the unbanked and banked population with the objective of bringing the unbanked into the financial stream and easing payments and collections for the banked population.Zeepayfacilitates the processing of multiple mobile phone payment transactions, and operates as a aggregator that brings transaction of all players together on one single platform. The company’s core application runs on open source technology, and is designed to integrate all types of payment platforms, banks, merchants, Mobile Network Operators (MNOs), and other companies with subscriber based transactions.
E3 Capital invests in growing, entrepreneurial businesses in Sub-Saharan Africa addressing the lack of electrification in the region with new technology and innovative business models. The fund is backed by Schneider Electric, the leading energy management multinational, and a number of public-sector investors.
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- Solar, Energy, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Kenya, United States, Mali
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- Plentify — Plentify connects home appliances with cheaper cleaner energy. It does this with an intelligent residential load management platform which matches demand with clean energy supply for 75% cheaper than batteries. Plentify combines advanced hardware, AI, and user-centric design to create smart home products that delight customers while alsostrengthening electricity systems.
- YoLa Fresh — At YoLaFresh, our mission is to revolutionize the fresh produce supply chain in Africa by leveraging technology and data to disrupt traditional distribution models. We strive to create a more efficient and transparent system that benefits all stakeholders, from farmers to retailers and consumers. Our vision is to create a world where access tofresh, high-quality produce is a universal right. We believe that by empowering farmers and retailers with innovative technology solutions, we will improve their livelihoods and make a positive impact on their communities.
- Hohm Energy — We make the process of going solar simple. Generate your free, custom solar proposal and get matched with an accredited solar provider in under 5 mins.
First circle capital is a venture capital investment firm.
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- Financial Services, FinTech, PaaS
- Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Nigeria, Egypt, Ghana
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- MNZL — MNZL is on a mission to expand access to capital for Egyptians.Every person who owns an asset has accumulated wealth in it. When they want liquidity for their projects and needs, they should be able to tap into it as easily as withdrawing from a bank.With an innovative digital platform and products, we are working on making digital access tocapital a reality, and building the future of asset-backed financing in Africa.
- Orca Fraud — Orca empowers fraud fighters with effective tools to combat fraud
- Scale — Scale accelerates market entry and revenue for fintechs with a people-first approach.
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