Top 50 FinTech Startup Investors in Kenya (July 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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P1 Ventures
VC Fund
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8 | Egypt, Kenya, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B | Financial Services, Software, Payments | $400k–$40M |
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Antler
VC Fund
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7 | Singapore, Australia, United Kingdom | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $108k–$28M |
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54 Collective
VC Fund
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7 | Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa | Seed, Pre-Seed | Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech | $40k–$4M |
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Launch Africa
VC Fund
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7 | Nigeria, South Africa, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology | $200k–$4M |
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Musha Ventures
VC Fund
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7 | United States, Nigeria, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Financial Services, FinTech | $125k–$10M |
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Mercy Corps Ventures
VC Fund
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7 | Kenya, United States, Nigeria | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Agriculture | $100k–$35M |
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Zephyr Acorn
VC Fund
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6 | Kenya, India, Rwanda | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, Banking, FinTech | $1M–$10M |
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Accion Ventures
VC Fund
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5 | India, United States, Mexico | Seed, Series A, Series B | Financial Services, FinTech, Finance | $500k–$30M |
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Future Perfect Ventures
VC Fund
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5 | United States, Kenya, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Blockchain, Financial Services, Finance | $625k–$30M |
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Digital Currency Group
VC Fund
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5 | United States, United Kingdom, Singapore | Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech | $650k–$48M |
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HAVAÍC
VC Fund
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4 | South Africa, United States, Kenya | Seed, Series A | Software, Health Care, FinTech | $100k–$15M |
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Lateral Frontiers
VC Fund
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4 | United States, Nigeria, Kenya | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | $500k–$15M |
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Saviu Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | Côte d'Ivoire, Kenya, Senegal | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce | $165k–$5M |
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Pantera Capital
VC Fund
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4 | United States, Singapore, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services | $2M–$48M |
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GreenHouse Capital
VC Fund
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4 | Nigeria, Kenya, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Payments | |
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AfricInvest
VC Fund
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4 | Tunisia, Kenya, Morocco | Private Equity, Series A | Financial Services, Manufacturing, FinTech | $6.5M–$65M |
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Ground Squirrel Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | United States, Kenya, Zambia | Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Finance | $400k–$5M |
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UNCOVERED FUND
VC Fund
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3 | Nigeria, Kenya, United States | Seed, Series A | FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce | $1.5M–$20M |
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Greycroft
VC Fund
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3 | United States, United Kingdom, Germany | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce | $1.5M–$79M |
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Future Africa
VC Fund
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3 | Nigeria, United States, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology | $100k–$20M |
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True Capital Management
VC Fund
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3 | United States, Nigeria, Canada | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | FinTech, Financial Services, Software | $125k–$59M |
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Sherpa Africa Partners
VC Fund
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3 | Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa | Pre-Seed, Seed | Financial Services, Finance, FinTech | $50k–$6M |
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Novastar Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | Kenya, Nigeria, United Kingdom | Series A, Series B | Agriculture, Health Care, Internet | $1.7M–$42M |
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Coinbase Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | United States, Singapore, India | Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services | $2.4M–$40M |
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Hustle Fund
VC Fund
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3 | United States, Singapore, Canada | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | $100k–$25M |
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AXIAN
VC Fund
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3 | Egypt, Kenya, Mali | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Financial Services, FinTech, Payments | $1M–$12M |
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Acumen
VC Fund
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3 | United States, India, Kenya | Seed, Series A | Agriculture, Solar, Health Care | $300k–$12M |
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Flourish Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | United States, India, Brazil | Series A, Seed, Series B | FinTech, Financial Services, Finance | $2M–$65M |
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Consonance Investment Managers
VC Fund
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3 | Nigeria, United States, Kenya | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, FinTech | $50k–$10M |
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Adanian Labs
VC Fund
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3 | Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed | Developer Platform, Financial Services, Gaming | |
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Peter Sandberg
Angel
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2 | Denmark, Kenya, Estonia | Angel, Pre-Seed, Secondary Market | Internet, SaaS, FinTech | $150k–$212k |
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FMO
VC Fund
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2 | India, Kenya, The Netherlands | Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Series B | Financial Services, Finance, Renewable Energy | $4M–$420M |
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FSD Africa
VC Fund
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2 | South Africa, United States, Kenya | Seed, Series B | Financial Services, FinTech, Payments | |
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Enza Capital
VC Fund
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2 | Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa | Seed, Series A | Financial Services, Finance, E-Commerce | |
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U.S. International Development Finance Corp
VC Fund
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2 | India, United States, Kenya | Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt | Financial Services, Finance, FinTech | |
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Federico Pirzio-Biroli
Angel
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2 | United Kingdom, Kenya, Sweden | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Software, Venture Capital, Non Profit | |
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Factor E
VC Fund
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2 | Kenya, United States, India | Seed, Series A, Convertible Note | Energy, Renewable Energy, Agriculture | $20k–$10M |
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TEN13
VC Fund
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2 | Australia, United States, Kenya | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, SaaS, Financial Services | $808k–$46M |
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Nexo
VC Fund
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2 | United States, United Kingdom, Kenya | Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology | $2.1M–$60M |
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Distributed Global
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Switzerland, Canada | Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software | $3M–$30M |
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Wuri Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Kenya, Ghana | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology | |
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Flori Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United States, United Kingdom, India | Seed, Pre-Seed | Blockchain, FinTech, Cryptocurrency | |
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Peer Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United States, United Kingdom, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Cryptocurrency, Web3, Blockchain | |
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Goodwater Capital
VC Fund
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2 | United States, India, South Korea | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | FinTech, Financial Services, Software | |
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Visa
VC Fund
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2 | United States, United Kingdom, Canada | Series B, Series C | FinTech, Financial Services, Payments | |
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Plesion Capital
VC Fund
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2 | Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria | Seed, Pre-Seed | B2B, AgTech, Billing | |
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TQ Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United States, United Kingdom, Germany | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care | $2.1M–$72M |
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Infinite Capital
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Singapore, Switzerland | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software | $125k–$45M |
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Ali Shaaban
Angel
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2 | Egypt, Kenya, United States | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | FinTech, Financial Services, Banking | |
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DCG Expeditions
VC Fund
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2 | United States, United Kingdom, Israel | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Blockchain | |
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P1 Ventures works as a venture capital firm. They specialize in early-stage industrial technology firms in Africa.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Software, Payments
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Geography: Egypt, Kenya, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 43
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$5M; Pre-Seed $400k–$3M; Series B $7.5M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Root — Launch digital and embedded insurance solutions with omni-channel distribution.
- Traction Apps — Traction apps provide businesses end to end tools they need to run and grow their businesses.
- Reliance Health — Reliance Health Global. Improve the lives of your staff with innovative company healthcare benefits fit for any business. You can rely on us.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Singapore, Australia, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1820
- Round size: Seed $186k–$4.6M; Pre-Seed $108k–$750k; Series A $4.6M–$28M
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $72M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Agentio — Agentio's patent-pending ad platform empowers marketers to finally unlock scalable, creator-led advertising. Programmatically buy the highest quality creator and influencer ad reads to deliver unprecedented efficiency and performance.
- Codis.io — COD LEGAL BLOG CONTACT US Areas We Serve California Florida TEXAS Ohio Trusted Insights on Birth Injury and Medical Negligence Law COD LEGAL BLOG is a dedicated legal information platform created to help readers understand complex legal matters in a clear and structured way. Click here to learn more. The legal system can often feel
- Quantflo — Options market intelligence and structured trade planning for Indian markets.
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: 108
- Round size: Seed $40k–$4M; Pre-Seed $40k–$1.3M
- Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
Launch Africa is a leading Pan-African VC fund solving the significant funding gap in the Seed and pre-Series A investment landscape in Africa
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, South Africa, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 178
- Round size: Seed $200k–$4M; Pre-Seed $200k–$1.8M
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $36M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Yamify — Yamify is an AI platform where intelligent agents reliably run mission-critical business workflows in Africa. Founded by Silicon Valley engineers, our platform automates complex operations by integrating humans, systems, and infrastructure reliably, even under connectivity, latency, and compliance challenges. Starting with on-prem deployments,Yamify is evolving into a full AI automation infrastructure for African enterprises.
- Shopstar — A place for makers and creators to start, manage and grow successful online stores. Our built-in design, payment and shipping methods provide you with an all in one solution. Get started with a free 14-day trial.
- Kashat — The region's first nano financial service provider, offering small productive loans, and serving as the entry point to financial inclusion for the un- and underbanked population in Egypt.
Seed capital for technology startups globally.
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 156
- Round size: Seed $125k–$6M; Pre-Seed $300k–$3.2M; Series A $2.5M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
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.
- Zeno — Zeno is a climate conscious motor company that offers eco-friendly motorcycles.
- Lori Systems — Lori Systems is revolutionizing African logistics through innovative technology solutions. We connect shippers, transporters, and drivers to create efficient, reliable, and transparent supply chains across Africa.
Mercy Corps Ventures invests in and catalyzes venture-led solutions to increase the resilience of underserved individuals and communities. Founded in 2015 as the impact investing arm of global development agency, Mercy Corps, supports over 57 early-stage ventures to scale and raise over $515 million in follow-on capital. Their portfolio centersaround resilience-building solutions in adaptive agriculture and food systems, inclusive climate fintech, and climate-smart technologies so that those living in frontier markets can withstand disruption and plan for the future. Through capital and support, piloting new approaches, action-oriented insights, and rigorously managing impact, they catalyze the ecosystem toward smarter, more impactful investments.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Agriculture
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Kenya, United States, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 71
- Round size: Seed $330k–$5.3M; Pre-Seed $100k–$7M; Series A $2.5M–$35M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Turaco — Turaco develops simplified insurance and credit solutions through mobile technology to solve the healthcare financing needs. Turaco has simplified insurance products and also provides on-demand health loans, allowing customers to get healthcare at affordable monthly premiums.
- Logidoo — Logidoo is a digital logistics marketplace-designed company that markets shuttles through smart logistics. The company's platform, which provides rapid, dependable, secure, and economical logistics, allows users to compare offers for sending and receiving items and to track parcels in real-time.
- Meridia — De-risk the sourcing, procurement, trading & compliance of commodities under the EUDR.
Zephyr Management is a global emerging markets investment manager, specializing in the creation and management of highly focused private equity and venture capital funds.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Banking, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Kenya, India, Rwanda
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Round size: Seed $1M–$3M; Series A $2M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Arifu — Home About Us Impact Gender Dynamics of Using Mobile Technology Informed Consumers Improve Financial Service Utilization Digital training benefits farmers and agricultural institutions Resources Careers Contact Us X DEMO SCHEDULE A DEMO About Arifu https://vimeo.com/531804968Arifu is an education technology company established in 2015 in Kenya. We offer a content marketplace that brings together subject matter
- Emata — Emata brings digital and affordable financial products to farmers in East Africa.
- Power — Putting individuals on the path towards financial health
Accion Ventures is an investment strategy that today pursues early-stage investments as part of Accion Impact Management.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: India, United States, Mexico
Investor stats
- Total investments: 133
- Round size: Seed $500k–$6.4M; Series A $2.6M–$17M; Series B $8M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Billpocket — Billpocket convierte tu smartphone o tablet en una terminal punto de venta. Ya no tienes que esperar al banco y pagar exageradas cuotas de mantenimiento, fianzas y papel para poder cobrar con tarjeta. Simplemente necesitas una cuenta bancaria a donde puedas recibir tus cobros con tarjeta de débito y crédito.
- Cashinvoice — Cashinvoice connects supply chain stakeholders and digitises invoice-to-cash processes to unlock working capital trapped within supply chains and accelerate business growth
- Pintek — Pintek is a financial technology company aiming to democratise access to education in Indonesia through affordable and flexible credit.
Future\Perfect Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm 2014 to invest globally in blockchain technology and crypto assets. FPV was founded by Jalak Jobanputra.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Financial Services, Finance
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Kenya, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 63
- Round size: Seed $625k–$5.8M; Pre-Seed $1M–$6M; Series A $2.5M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $25M in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- 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+.
- Everledger — Everledger is a global technology enterprise specializing in addressing real-world economic, environmental, and societal challenges through their solutions that create ecosystems of trust. It is an ecosystem of trust is where all stakeholders within a network, are able to collaborate through a trusted data protocol. This trust is created throughthe ability to transparently trace and manage assets throughout their lifetime journey, across different touchpoints within the ecosystem.The company's breakthrough solutions harness the latest in emerging technologies including smart contracts, machine vision, and IoT, together with their proven and scalable blockchain-enabled platform. They combine a rich forensic approach to identify and track asset provenance to provide confidence in the transparency driven across global supply chains. This brings disparate stakeholders together with the trust that has been built.Everledger is independently committed to deploying scalable solutions for its clients’ needs today while having the freedom to lead with breakthrough solutions that tackle the challenges they face.
- Bagel Labs — Open protocol for humans and autonomous AI agents to collectively build, trade, and license Machine Learning datasets.
We are the capital engine supporting emerging talent & crypto technology. On its mission to accelerate the development of a better financial system.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 299
- Round size: Seed $650k–$8.5M; Series A $3M–$48M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Zabo — Zabo is an API for connecting to any crypto exchange, wallet, protocol or account. Sign up for access to free API keys at Zabo.com
- Joystream — Joystream is a block chain-based, decentralized video platform.
- 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.
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Browse database — It's Free!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.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: South Africa, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 47
- Round size: Seed $100k–$4M; Series A $1.9M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 64% lead, 36% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- SwiftVee — SwiftVEE is a livestock trading mobile app. They support live webcast livestock auctions and silent auctions. Their platform facilitates the discovery and viewing of livestock auctions.They provide webcast advertising, online auctions, and online livestock insurance services and data products for financial institutions.
- Tanda — As a Tanda Agent, you can sell Kenya's favorite digital products, and grow your duka while you're at it
- Digital Cabinet — Digital Cabinet makes your business paperless. Security is the topmost priority for the Digital Cabinet, so save time and money with the Digital Cabinet.
Lateral Capital is a mission driven venture fund investing in early and growth stage opportunities in Africa. We back companies that provide foundational technologies for the continent. We make debt and equity investments technology-enabled businesses that profitably solve significant pain points across financial services, healthcare, education,energy, agriculture, housing, logistics, mobility and more.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 42
- Round size: Seed $1M–$12M; Pre-Seed $500k–$3.5M; Series A $558k–$15M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $50M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Rhaeos — Rhaeos, the world's first wearable shunt monitor, aims to improve the quality care for patients with hydrocephalus through a novel, thermal biosensor. Developed within Northwestern University with collaboration between Dr. John Rogers, McCormick School of Engineering, Feinberg School of Medicine and Kellogg School of Management, Rhaeosrepresents a unique multidisciplinary translational effort for an important clinical need.
- Wattnow — Wattnow is a real-time monitoring solution that provides a breakdown of energy spending to identify wasteful trends.
- Octavia Carbon — Reversing Climate Change | Ending the Fossil Fuel Age | In Kenya.
Saviu is a venture capital fund focusing on African early-stage startups.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Côte d'Ivoire, Kenya, Senegal
Investor stats
- Total investments: 38
- Round size: Seed $550k–$5M; Pre-Seed $165k–$817k; Series A $2M–$5M
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $14M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- POZI — POZI app is an innovative tracking and geolocation solution primarily designed for fleet monitoring and management.
- Agenz — Agenz was founded to deliver credible real estate market data that is updated in real time, allowing individuals to make faster and more informed real estate decisions at the right time.
- Userguest.com — Userguest is a Travel SaaS company that provides technology to hotels in order to improve their online revenue. Our smart tool applies RevMarketing Automation to hotel website, by matching a user’s booking intent with the hotel’s inventory priorities. We display personalized incentives to boost hotel revenue where it counts.
Pantera Capital is an investment firm focused exclusively on Bitcoin, other digital currencies, and companies in the space. The company believes that Bitcoin has the potential to transform the way people use money and that it will do for payments what the Internet has done for communications and commerce.Until 2014, Pantera focused on globalmacro hedge fund investments. The firm was founded in 2003 by Dan Morehead, who was a chief financial officer and head of Macro Trading at Tiger Management. The firm has since shifted its investment advisory services to focus exclusively on Bitcoin, other digital currencies, and companies in the space.Shareholders include Benchmark, Fortress Investment Group, and Ribbit Capital.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 304
- Round size: Seed $2M–$19M; Series A $5.5M–$48M
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Perion — Win Crypto Questing in AAA Games.
- Polkadot — Polkadot is a dedicated community that envisions a web where users own their digital identities and data, restoring their authority.
- Solana Company —
GreenHouse Capital’s Founding Partners took their own fintech company Venture Garden Group (VGG) from a 7 employee, ₦30 million revenue startup to a 200 employees, ₦2 billion power house in just 4 years and raised an attention grabbing Series A round from Convergence Partners of South Africa. The uniqueness of their position was not lost on thefounders who then cultivated Garden Institute of Business Entrepreneurs (GIBE) to identify, incubate, and invest in young and innovative tech startups solving global challenges in Emerging Markets. GIBE was created to build a world class talent management hub for young and passionate entrepreneurs while creating a pool of technology inclined businesses and innovation oriented leaders.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 32
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Credpal — Buy now, pay later. Split in 6.
- Encore Pay — Encore Pay is a UAE-based FinTech and Payment solutions provider.
- MarketForce — MarketForce connects Africa’s informal retail outlets and consumers directly to suppliers of consumer goods and financial services by digitizing orders, delivery, and payments with the aim of solving the last mile distribution challenge.
AfricInvest was founded in 1994 and is part of Integra Group, an investment and financial services company based in Tunisia.Uniquely positioned as one of the most experienced private equity investors on the continent, AfricInvest has dedicated investment teams focused on North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa, and employs 66 professionals based inseven offices.AfricInvest manages USD1 billion across 16 funds and benefits from strong, long-term support from both local and international investors, including leading development finance institutions in the United States and Europe.Having co-founded the African Venture Capital Association (AVCA) as well as the Middle East North Africa Private Equity Association (MENAPEA) and the Euromed Capital Forum, the firm is an active promotor of the private equity industry in the region.Since 1994, AfricInvest has invested in 135 companies across 25 African countries in a variety of high growth sectors and maintains a broad network of high quality executives across Africa, offering extensive expertise in key growth industries, including financial services, agribusiness, consumer/retail, education and healthcare.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Manufacturing, FinTech
- Stage:Private Equity, Series A
- Geography: Tunisia, Kenya, Morocco
Investor stats
- Total investments: 109
- Round size: Series A $7M–$65M; Private Equity $6.5M–$21M
- Lead/follow: 64% lead, 36% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Buzzkito — Buzzkito Network is disrupting the Avertising Industry by being the first BRAND TECH company in the MENA region. They fuse technology and brand building to make our clients happy. They are a data and psychological driven.
- GoMyCode — GoMyCode is changing the education market by training talents in a dynamic belnded environement on digital skills and connects them with tech opportunities around the world. Based on 4 Main Aspects: - Data based Assessment - Data based matching - Business Analytics - Learning Platform - Content EditorGoMyCode provides digital Skills Training forthe Future of Work. In 4 Different fields: - DATA - DEVELOPMENT - DESIGN - DIGITAL MARKETING
- RAYNAL Assurances — RAYNAL Assurances operates as an insurance company. RAYNAL Assurances underwrites a large range of non-life insurance risks associated to automotive, health, accident, fire, transport, and other multi-risks, addressing a clientele composed of both corporate and retail customers.
Seed round investment in frontier markets and clean energy
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Kenya, Zambia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 70
- Round size: Seed $400k–$3M; Series A $1.8M–$5M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Grapevine — Grapevine makes it possible for groups to invite members, collect and distribute donations, establish a community and connect with nonprofits.
- Untapped Global — Untapped connects global investors, and foreign capital to opportunities in emerging markets. Delivering competitive returns, and measurable impact for global investors.
- Necessary Ventures — We invest in what the world needs.
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.
Venture capital and technology investments
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 720
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$10M; Series A $3.2M–$25M; Series B $6.2M–$79M
- Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $378M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Danvas — Danvas is advancing screens that will possess a fully dimensional interactive design that brings NFT art to life and will reinforce the authentic ownership of the artwork. Its premium, luxury digital art canvas aims to accelerate the world’s appreciation of digital artists and their artwork, and introduce art collectors to the value, andpossibilities of the next wave of digital art.
- Instantly — Buy Instagram followers from Techcrunch50 for as little as $1. Fast delivery, real active followers and friendly 24/7 customer support. Try us today.
- Bamboo — Bamboo is a digital investment platform that provides real-time access to buy, hold, or sell stocks. The investment platform is accessible on both computers and mobile phones.
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.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 89
- Round size: Seed $500k–$4M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3.7M; Series A $7M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
Portfolio highlights
- STEM Cafe — STEMCafe by RVRB is a fun out of school learning centre for kids
- Juicyway — Juice is a developer of a payment network platform for cross-border business payments for businesses and individuals. It facilitates financial transactions between parties regardless of location to allow enterprises to participate in international trade and the exchange of goods and services.
- Lori Systems — Lori Systems is revolutionizing African logistics through innovative technology solutions. We connect shippers, transporters, and drivers to create efficient, reliable, and transparent supply chains across Africa.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 134
- Round size: Seed $917k–$4.4M; Pre-Seed $125k–$725k; Series A $9.1M–$59M
- Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $18M in 2012
Portfolio highlights
- MoonPay — MoonPay offers a fast and simple way to buy and sell cryptocurrencies. Buy crypto with credit card, bank transfers or Apple Pay today.
- 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
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.
For the many, not just the few. For good.
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- Industry: Agriculture, Health Care, Internet
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 67
- Round size: Series A $1.7M–$24M; Series B $3.5M–$42M
- Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $108M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Soko — SOKO produces innovative, ethical jewelry and accessories from sustainable materials in Nairobi, Kenya
- Turaco — Turaco develops simplified insurance and credit solutions through mobile technology to solve the healthcare financing needs. Turaco has simplified insurance products and also provides on-demand health loans, allowing customers to get healthcare at affordable monthly premiums.
- Moniepoint — Moniepoint provides an all-in-one payments, banking and operations platform for businesses and their customers.
Coinbase Ventures is an investment arm of Coinbase that aims to invest in seed-stage cryptocurrency and blockchain startups. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in San Francisco, California, United States.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Singapore, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 513
- Round size: Seed $2.4M–$15M; Series A $7M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $15M in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- 0xbow — 0xbow is an Ethereum privacy service provider that primarily offers support for Sky’s USDS stablecoin, delivering secure, confidential, and user-friendly transaction solutions within the decentralized finance ecosystem.
- Share — Share XYZ is an information technology service provider
- 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.
Hustle Fund is a seed fund that invests in early-stage startups operating in software, business-to-business, fintech, and digital health sectors.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Singapore, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 419
- Round size: Seed $997k–$6.4M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2.5M; Series A $4M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Cloudoor — Cloudoor deploys and delivers your code to your customers without breaking things.
- Oyen — Malaysia's first digital pet health insurance platform. Vet medical benefits for dogs and cats from RM25/month - up to RM8,000 annual insurance coverage with burial costs and third-party injury or damage available!
- Arklow — Compliance for AI Datasets and their Models.
AXIAN is a pan-African group that specializes in real estate, telecom, financial services, energy, and innovation.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Egypt, Kenya, Mali
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Seed $1M–$12M; Series A $5M–$8.5M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- PayTic — PayTic enables payments issuers to manage their card programs by providing dedicated back-office solutions that streamline the end-to-end operations in customer support, chargebacks, fraud, AML, reporting, and reconciliation. Our proprietary solutions are unique in automating and centralizing the program management processes, regardless of thenumber of processors and the payment networks involved in the payments products. We impact payments providers by eliminating the defragmented and manual processes and replacing them with a SaaS platform that increases proactivity, mitigates risks, and delivers value. It reduces the burn rate to near 0 in operational costs and offers an unprecedented competitive advantage. PayTic is introducing the Zero Ops model in managing payments.
- Hub2.Io — Welcome to HUB2, the leading FINTECH startup in interoperability and payment infrastructure in Francophone Africa. We are proud to work with all financial industry players in Africa who need stable and high-performing infrastructure, and contribute to their success.
- WeLight — WeLight deploys sustainable and accessible solutions to accelerate energy inclusion in rural areas of Africa.
Acumen is a nonprofit venture fund that invests in early-stage companies bringing critical services like agriculture, clean energy, education, financial inclusion, healthcare and workforce development to low-income communities in 14 countries across East and West Africa, South Asia, Latin America, and the United States. Since 2001, Acumeninvested $128 million in 128 companies that have transformed the lives of over 308 million low-income people.
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- Industry: Agriculture, Solar, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, India, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 178
- Round size: Seed $300k–$2.5M; Series A $1.6M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 51% lead, 49% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $2.8M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Bintix — Bintix averts landfill waste ... one household at a time.
- EduBridge — EduBridge is an organization started by a group of alumni and professors from IIM Bangalore & Lucknow in 2009. EduBridge works towards transforming the lives of the unemployed youth in the country across urban, semi-urban and rural areas. EduBridge provides them with a commercially relevant training at their doorstep and arm them with thenecessary skill sets and mindset to succeed in their professional careers and thus help transform their lives.
- Energy Assured Nigeria — Energy Assured is an energy and utility procurement market provider for smaller businesses ranging from independent retailers and local franchisees to affinity group members in any sector. Users and customers benefit from economies of scale, more agile energy purchasing, and consistently lower gas, electricity, and water costs. Their expertsunderstand the pressures that small and medium-sized businesses face: they work to provide clients with exactly what they require so that clients can use energy as an asset to propel their business forward.
We are an early-stage global venture capital firm investing in fintech founders.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, India, Brazil
Investor stats
- Total investments: 192
- Round size: Seed $2M–$14M; Series A $5.2M–$33M; Series B $8.3M–$65M
- Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Ringkas — Ajukan KPR mu di Platform Ringkas via Digital dan Online, Telah Bekerjasama dengan 25+ Bank Partner
- Akua — Akua is an acquiring-as-a-service platform that offers scalable, secure, and efficient payment processing solutions for Latin America. Our platform leverages advanced technology to provide superior transaction processing, fraud prevention, and comprehensive regional integration. Problem Latin America's acquiring card payment markets aredominated by a few incumbents using outdated systems, hindering the adoption of new payment technologies and increasing fraud risks.
- Stream — Stream is a company that helps make payments simpler, faster, and reliable.
We are an investment company focused on helping early and growth-stage entrepreneurs build successful companies in Africa.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 31
- Round size: Seed $550k–$3.3M; Pre-Seed $450k–$1M; Series A $50k–$10M
- Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Releaf Earth — We are industrializing food processing in Africa. We've led 1000+ smallholder farmers to provide food factories with >7.5 million kilograms of quality crops.
- Tripesa — Tripesa offers payment solutions for Africa's travel and tourism industry.
- Plural — Smarter, Faster, Future-Ready Policy Strategy. Plural transforms how enterprises and organizations anticipate and act on legislation. Our AI-powered platform delivers accurate bill analysis, policy insights, and stakeholder intelligence so you can stay ahead of risk, seize opportunity, and shape outcomes. See How It Works Book A Demo Trusted By Deepen Your State & Federal Legislative
Adanian Labs Africa, is a venture building studio with a mission to build tech powered impact driven startups across Africa. We are a smart tech hub powered by smart technologies like blockchain and AI to ensure that the solutions built are scalable and sustainable. www.adanianlabs.io
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- Industry: Developer Platform, Financial Services, Gaming
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Savabyte — Savabyte is a capacity builder and tech talent enricher with a pool of quality software engineers trained and mentored across our African ecosystem. It aims to empower more women to join the tech space and access the technical skills
- Jungopharm — Jungopharm is a developer of a pharma and healthcare platform that aims to make health care understandable, accessible & affordable for all.
- Ngamea Games — Ngamea Games is a cross platform African inspired and focused gaming company. With six aims: Asset Creation, Development, Incubation, Collaboration, Training, and Publishing. In addition to game development and gamification as a service.
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Browse database — It's Free!Peter Sandberg is a Co-Founder of Nordic Secondary Fund, and a venture partner at Startup Wise Guys. He has extensive experience as a Business Angel, Asset Management and Wealth Management
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- Industry: Internet, SaaS, FinTech
- Stage:Angel, Pre-Seed, Secondary Market
- Geography: Denmark, Kenya, Estonia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 17
- Round size: Pre-Seed $150k–$212k
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
Portfolio highlights
- TRAPMINE — TRAPMINE Endpoint Protection Platform provides fool-proof defense against malware, exploit attempts, file-less malware, ransomware and other forms of targeted attacks.Unlike traditional detection-based approaches like legacy antivirus, TRAPMINE combines proven and innovative technologies such as deep learning, behavior monitoring, endpointdeception and anti-exploit techniques to block cyber threats dead in their tracks. TRAPMINE's easy-deploy and lightweight solution comes with a comfortable built-in security console, at a price/performance ratio unmatchable even by the biggest names in Palo Alto.Why TRAPMINE?Cyber criminals target companies of all sizes from every industry, seeking anything that might be of value. Antivirus and other traditional security solutions are no longer efficient to protect organizations from attacks by today’s modern cyber threat actors. That’s why we founded TRAPMINE. TRAPMINE is created to solve the malware problem for all organizations at a reasonable price.
- Colibo A/S — Use Colibo's intranet software as your enterprise collaboration platform to increase productivity, drive employee engagement and better internal communications.
- November First — November First - Betalingsplatform til alle virksomheder
FMO is a financial investment firm that specializes in financing businesses and projects FMO invests across the agribusiness value chain to enhance food security, support sustainability and promoting inclusive development.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Finance, Renewable Energy
- Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Series B
- Geography: India, Kenya, The Netherlands
Investor stats
- Total investments: 178
- Round size: Series B $4.5M–$46M; Post-IPO Debt $25M–$420M; Debt Financing $4M–$195M
- Lead/follow: 52% lead, 48% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Tagaddod — Tagaddod is a renewable Energy and Waste Management Egyptian company, started in February 2013 and operating in Cairo –Egypt. Currently focusing on clean fuels, Tagaddod is working on Biodiesel production from Vegetable Oils. Biodiesel is a fuel alternative that is produced from waste vegetable oils and used in conventional diesel engines, whichcan directly substitute for or extend supplies of traditional petroleum diesel.
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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.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
- Stage:Seed, Series B
- Geography: South Africa, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 13
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- Cavex — Cavex uses digital finance and innovative technologies to drive environmental and socio-economic benefits for the people and communities most in need.
- WIC Capital — Capital investissement - Gender investing - Gender initiative - Impact investing - Early stage - PME - SME - Equity - Fund manager - Empower women
- Dhamana Guarantee — An East African focused credit guarantee company whose principal business is to guarantee local currency debt obligations in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Rwanda.
Venture investor in high-growth Founders and Teams using technology to solve large and meaningful problems across Africa
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- Industry: Financial Services, Finance, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 42
- Lead/follow: no public data
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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.
- Hub2.Io — Welcome to HUB2, the leading FINTECH startup in interoperability and payment infrastructure in Francophone Africa. We are proud to work with all financial industry players in Africa who need stable and high-performing infrastructure, and contribute to their success.
- Affinity — Join over 100,000 who trust the Affinity mobile app to manage their banking needs, from savings to payments, as well as instant loans
U.S. International Development Finance Corp is America’s development bank.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
- Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt
- Geography: India, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 84
- Lead/follow: no public data
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.
- Cassava Technologies — Cassava Technologies is an innovative technology company encompassing fiber networks, data centers, renewable energy, cloud & cybersecurity.
- Institut Pasteur de Dakar — The Institut Pasteur de Dakar Foundation (IPD) is a non-profit association of public utility, concerned with promoting public health and well-being in West Africa. Since its founding in 1896 by one of Louis PASTEUR's disciples, Émile Marcoux, the IPD has been at the forefront of the fight against infectious diseases. Since 2009, the InstitutPasteur de Dakar has been a Senegalese foundation, jointly managed by the government of Senegal and the Institut Pasteur (Paris).
Fede started out as an angel investor in 2010. His portfolio quickly grew, so he built a team around him and thus Playfair Capital was born. We have since gone on to become one of Europe’s most active and well-known early-stage VC funds. Before becoming a technology investor Fede worked for several NGOs in Africa, with a particular focus on aidtransparency. He recently renewed his focus on Africa by relocating to Kenya and becoming an angel investor in East Africa’s burgeoning startup ecosystem. He maintains an active role at Playfair and continues to lead our investment team.
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- Industry: Software, Venture Capital, Non Profit
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, Kenya, Sweden
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Bibblio — Conversion optimization, powered by AI. Increase user engagement, grow revenues and drive new audiences, for stronger site metrics and ROI.
- Brewbot — Brewbot is a multidisciplinary team of designers and developers based in Belfast, N. Ireland. They come from different backgrounds and experiences — music, design, code, and fine art — but they all share a common passion for brewing.
- CRE Venture Capital — 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.
Factor E is a finance company that impacts venture builders, dedicated to supporting the people and ideas that will turn the tables in the global battle for sustainable solutions to energy, agriculture, mobility, and waste challenges in emerging and frontier markets. It serves as a conduit between philanthropic and commercial investors throughmarket-driven forces.
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- Industry: Energy, Renewable Energy, Agriculture
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
- Geography: Kenya, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 34
- Round size: Seed $500k–$4.6M; Series A $1.3M–$10M; Convertible Note $20k–$1.1M
- Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Ferntech — Take control of your decentralized power system with Odyssey's FernTech software and hardware. Get real-time insights and automate operations with our reliable data collection, system automation, and range of controllers and IoT gateways. Explore the FernTech product suite and see how it works in action. Contact us to learn more.
- Open Access Energy — South Africa's first multilateral wheeling software platform that automates energy transactions.
- 60Hertz Energy — Unify asset management with asset monitoring, enhance scheduling, and facile communication. Book a Demo Now!
TEN13 is Australia's leading Venture Capital Syndicate.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Australia, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 84
- Round size: Seed $999k–$8M; Pre-Seed $808k–$2.2M; Series A $3.7M–$46M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Appetise — MenuAid is a cheaper, flexible and more sustainable alternative to meal-kit delivery providers. We provide Kiwis with a weekly meal plan, complete with recipes and a list of ingredients that can either be self-shopped or collected/delivered from your favourite supermarkets.
- AutoGrab — Australia's Automotive Intelligence Platform
- Clipchamp — Create videos with royalty-free music and stock footage, use video templates, and export in up to 4K video resolution. Get started in-browser or download the Windows app.
Discover Nexo, the comprehensive platform that's driving the next generation of crypto wealth. Grow, trade, borrow and earn on your digital assets.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 26
- Round size: Seed $2.1M–$23M; Series A $6M–$60M
- Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kaleidoco — KALEIDOCO is a technology company built for Web3 experiences.
- zulu — USD mobile digital wallet for Latin America.
- Hypernative — Detect attacks in progress & prevent loses in real time by proactively monitoring on and off chain data sources and help mitigate security, governance and financial risks with early warnings & actionable insights.
Distributed Global is an investment firm focused on the blockchain and digital asset ecosystem.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Switzerland, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 90
- Round size: Seed $3M–$20M; Series A $5M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
Portfolio highlights
- XMTP — XMTP is a decentralized and quantum-resistant messaging protocol for builders.
- 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.
- Superstate — Superstate is modernizing investing through tokenized financial products
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Browse database — It's Free!Wuri Ventures focuses on innovating the spectrum between market-based solutions and pure public goods. It realizes that much successful innovation in Africa has occurred in this space, where innovation around market failures such as information asymmetry (data), fragmentation (platforms) and public goods (electricity, mobility) can solve previouslyintractable problems. Its unique mathematical properties, from cellular automata and emergence to numerical methods, studied by researchers, links ancient African culture to modern technology. It supports world-class entrepreneurs in solving Africa’s biggest challenges using innovation.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Kenya, Ghana
Investor stats
- Total investments: 18
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Kwely — Kwely is a dynamic and fast-growing startup. We are always looking for passionate, dynamic, fun and hard-working individuals to join our team.
- Cauri Money — Cauri Money specializes in financial technology with a wide range of digital banking solutions via app for fund transfer.
- Fig Finance — We're closing the credit gap. We connect global and local lenders, with the strongest emerging market businesses.
More than a seed-stage fund and a portfolio of startups: Our community of founders taps into the power of financial innovation to collaborate around global problems and unlock prosperity for all.
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- Industry: Blockchain, FinTech, Cryptocurrency
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 100
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- Mento Labs — Mento Labs is a decentralized EVM platform for launching and managing multi-currency stable assets.
- Learn.xyz — Learn.xyz’s is a mixture of Duolingo and Wikipedia, powered by AI, creating bite-sized “Curiosities” which feature slides and a quiz, in mere seconds just from taking in a user’s question. Find the app on iOS and Android.
- Thrive Protocol — Thrive Protocol's vision is to maximize value creation for all people and communities.
PEER is a venture capital firm focused on early-stage opportunities in peer-to-peer assets, marketplaces, and technology.
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- Industry: Cryptocurrency, Web3, Blockchain
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- Perle AI — Kiva AI is a platform designed to supply high-quality and compliant data solutions at scale to create specialized AI applications in domains such as healthcare, finance, and law.
- Veda — Veda is the largest vault infrastructure platform in DeFi, enabling institutions to launch and manage onchain financial products at scale.
- ShredSpots APP — Social Map App Of Hidden Street Sports Art
Consumer Tech Investors - We empower exceptional entrepreneurs everywhere to change the world for good.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, India, South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 456
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- Jerry — Jerry simplifies the expensive, frustrating, and time-consuming aspects of car ownership.
- Empowerly — We triple students' chances of getting into their top-choice colleges and universities. Get college counseling, essay editing, track university deadlines, and more. Learn more.
Visa is an American multinational financial services company that facilitates electronic payment systems throughout the world. The company operates the retail electronic payments network through the transfer of value and information among financial institutions, merchants, consumers, businesses, and government entities.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
- Stage:Series B, Series C
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 123
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- Car IQ — Car IQ is the first payment solution developed for vehicles and fleets that enables vehicles to autonomously initiate and complete payments for services such as tolls, fuels, parking and more.
- Cart.com — Cart.com's end-to-end solution provides brands with the software, infrastructure, and expertise of the world's largest online retailers.
- 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.
Plesion Capital is a venture capital firm.
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- Industry: B2B, AgTech, Billing
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- Chpter — Chpter is a software development company that offers fast billing and checkout to help start, run, and grow a business.
- Releaf Earth — We are industrializing food processing in Africa. We've led 1000+ smallholder farmers to provide food factories with >7.5 million kilograms of quality crops.
- Jackfruit Finance — Jackfruit Finance provides money, technology, and rewards to enable low-cost African schools to expand access to education.
Led by Schuster Tanger, Andrew Marks, and Scooter Braun, TQ Ventures is a leading venture capital firm based in New York City and Los Angeles.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 169
- Round size: Seed $2.1M–$14M; Series A $6.5M–$40M; Series B $18M–$72M
- Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Copperlane — Copperlane is an AI-native mortgage origination software company that builds an automation layer between mortgage borrowers and loan officers to streamline the loan application process. The company develops a platform that uses AI agents to collect borrower information, verify financial documents, detect inconsistencies, and manage follow-upcommunication during the mortgage application lifecycle. Its system is designed to reduce manual coordination by automatically handling document requests, clarifying missing details, and structuring borrower data for loan officers.A core component of Copperlane’s offering is an AI agent that operates like a virtual loan officer, guiding applicants through the process, answering questions, and flagging issues such as missing or inconsistent documentation before underwriting begins. This helps improve data accuracy and reduces delays caused by back-and-forth communication between borrowers and lenders. The platform integrates with existing mortgage systems rather than replacing them, allowing lenders to use Copperlane as an overlay that enhances current loan origination workflows.
- TILT — Tilt is a live auction app where you can bid on clothing, sneakers and rare collectibles in real time. Join live stream auctions across the UK and Europe. Download on iOS and Android.
- Architect — Architect provide frontier AI lab for chip design.
Investing in Generational Innovation. Infinite Capital supports teams at the forefront of decentralized networks and deep tech.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Singapore, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 81
- Round size: Seed $1M–$23M; Pre-Seed $125k–$3M; Series A $7.5M–$45M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Mytra — Supercharged Industrial Productivity with Bots, Software, and Cells
- Tokemak — Automated DeFi Yield Farming & Liquidity Management
- Mach Industries — Delivering decentralized warfare capabilities to guarantee the defense of freedom.
Ali Shaaban has been a pioneer in the digital advertising and communications industry for more than 18 years, founding the award-winning full-fledged creative digital agency Icon Creations back in 2003 when the industry was at its infancy stage. Since then, Ali Shaaban has built strong long-term relationships and a strategic network with most ofthe leading automotive brands in Egypt and the Middle East, where he established a solid track record of delivering top-notch digital products & services that stood the test of time. Driven by passion for excellence and an always-on personalized approach to satisfying his partners, Ali Shaaban is the quintessential digital partner to have on your side in the automotive industry today.His automotive portfolio includes Alfa Romeo, Bentley, BMW, Castrol, Citroën, Ferrari, Fiat, Ford, Hyundai, JAC, Jaguar, Jeep, KIA, Land Rover, Maserati, Mazda, MINI, Mitsubishi, Nissan, Peugeot, Pirelli, Renault, Seat, Subaru, Toyota, Volkswagen and more. Aside from being a digital pioneer, Ali Shaaban is also an angel investor and serial supporter of emerging innovative startups and fresh business ideas, venturing into several sectors to contribute in making a sustainable impact on the local and regional economies. His latest investments have tapped into the Fintech sector with rising companies such as Paynas (https://Paynas.com), Oxygen (https://oxygen.us/), Dfin Holding (https://www.dfinholding.com/) , and Kiwe wallet (https://kiweapp.com/) as well as the Media and AI sector with Speakol (https://speakol.com/) , NU Digital Awards (https://nudigitalawards.com/) and Nanotronics (https://nanotronics.co/ ).Ali Shaaban believes in always taking the next step forward in his extensive career, and using his core values and commanding personality as motivation, he has paved an impressive path over the years that will certainly lead towards an even more diverse and fruitful future.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Banking
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Egypt, Kenya, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ImaliPay — ImaliPay is a financial health platform offering financial products to freelancers and blue collar gig workers in partnership with gig platforms.
- QuadriBot — QuadriBot is an engineering company specializing in the design and development of electronics and automation technology, real-time systems and the development of IT and electronic solutions around smart transportation issues. We focus on robotics and autonomous vehicles as well as any mobile platfo.
- MarketForce — MarketForce connects Africa’s informal retail outlets and consumers directly to suppliers of consumer goods and financial services by digitizing orders, delivery, and payments with the aim of solving the last mile distribution challenge.
DCG Expeditions is a global early-stage investor supporting fintech & crypto founders on their journeys to build the next generation of financial services.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Blockchain
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 30
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Craftt — Craftt is building a frictionless and fairer future of work. It's on a mission to deliver universal benefits that enable financial confidence for the modern workforce.
- NuConstruct — Software Development. MEV Builder from an alternative timeline. Advanced onchain solving and execution.
- Space and Time — Space and Time is the first decentralized data warehouse. Powering low-latency queries and tamperproof Web3 analytics. Web3 analytics at scale. A multichain data platform for dapps needing next-gen Web3 analytics. Connect analytics directly to smart contracts. Join on-chain and off-chain data in a single query.
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