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Top 50 FinTech Startup Investors in South Africa

Last updated: Aug 2024 A list of 50 angel investors and VC funds that invest in Fintech startups based in South africa. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Fintech companies from South africa. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 FinTech Startup Investors in South Africa

Investor	FinTech South Africa investments
CRE Venture Capital	8
4Di Capital	7
UW Ventures	7
Naspers Foundry	6
Allan Gray	6
Maven 11 Capital	5
Quona Capital	5
Launch Africa	5
Raba Partnership	5
Goodwell Investments	4
Future Africa	4
Martin Villig	4
Everywhere Ventures (The Fund)	4
Change Ventures	4
Ragnar Sass	4
1kx	4
Merrill Lynch	4
Musha Ventures	3
Markus Villig	3
Scalar Capital	3
Imvelo Ventures	3
Oui Capital	3
Kalon Venture Partners	3
Firstminute Capital	3
Sound Ventures	3
RaliCap	3
Kleiner Perkins	3
Everywhere Ventures (The Fund)	3
Lireas Holdings	3
Hollard Insurance	2
500 Fintech	2
Newtown Partners	2
Phillip Sebole Masango	2
DCG Expeditions	2
Soma Capital	2
Village Global	2
Crossfin Technology	2
Newid capital	2
Two Culture Capital	2
Technology Innovation Agency	2
Invenfin	2
Wintermute	2
Alumni Ventures	2
Accion Venture Lab	2
Hustle Fund	2
AlphaCode Club	2
4DX Ventures	2
FSD Africa	2
Yossi Hasson	2
Boost VC	2

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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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
South Africa, Nigeria, United States

Portfolio highlights

Sabi Am — Sabi is Africa's largest B2B company, & we are digitising informal trade via our platform. We access markets hard to reach and ensure ease of distribution, & are the No 1 FCMG supplier in Africa.
Sukhiba — Sukhiba is a decentralized community-based commerce platform.
Stitch — One API integration for all online payments across South Africa. Accept Pay by bank, debit + credit card, cash, manual EFT, debit order and crypto. Orchestrate + reconcile digital payments across methods and send payouts

4Di Capital is a Cape Town-based venture capital fund management firm focused on early-stage technology investments in sub-Saharan Africa.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Series B
South Africa, United States, Uganda

Portfolio highlights

Maxe AI — AI investment Assistant for all investors. AI Portfolios tracker of stocks bonds exchanges futures. all in one to track mutual funds.
Sendmarc — Stop cyber criminals from sending emails using your domain and protect your customers, suppliers and employees from cyber attacks with DMARC Security.
Leta — Leta Technology is a software development company that creates supply chain and logistics software to enable the efficient and automated movement of goods.

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

Investment focus

FinTech, Payments, Insurance
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
South Africa

Portfolio highlights

Synatic — Synatic is a unified platform that enables your business to integrate and automate systems and services without sacrificing enterprise features and security.
MFS Africa — MFS Africa is the largest mobile money inter-operability hub in Africa, which connects mobile network operators across the continent through a single API. In addition to mobile remittance services, the MFS Africa API enables merchant payment, bulk payment, bank-to-wallet transfers, and an array of other cross border digital payments services.
Peach Payments — Get Peach as your Payment Gateway and Grow your ecommerce. Process online payments with Visa, Mastercard, Debit Orders, EFT payments, and subscriptions. Plugins for Wix, Shopify, WooCommerce.

Naspers Foundry is a global internet group and invests in technology-based companies. The company believes in the power of local backed by global scale and they look for opportunities to address big societal needs in markets where they see the greatest growth potential.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Information Technology, Information Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
South Africa, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Planet42 — Having your own car has never been easier. Planet42 is a vehicle rental company offering rent-to-own car service for private clients.
LifeCheq — Affordable holistic financial advice for everyone
SweepSouth — Book a home cleaning online from your mobile, tablet or computer. SweepSouth connects you with a cleaner in minutes. Cleaners are experienced, reliable, efficient and insured.

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

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
Seed, Series A, Series C
South Africa, United States

Portfolio highlights

Mobiz — Supercharge your SMS marketing with dynamic, high-converting landing pages sent directly into the hands of your customers.
onafriq — MFS Africa is the largest mobile money inter-operability hub in Africa, which connects mobile network operators across the continent through a single API. In addition to mobile remittance services, the MFS Africa API enables merchant payment, bulk payment, bank-to-wallet transfers, and an array of other cross border digital payments services.
Sendmarc — Stop cyber criminals from sending emails using your domain and protect your customers, suppliers and employees from cyber attacks with DMARC Security.

Maven 11 is a global blockchain and digital asset investment firm. The teams we partner with are on a rigorous quest to solve most exciting problems and make the necessary shift towards decentralised tomorrow.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Financial Services, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

onaji — Onaji is a Machine Learning Platform for Smart Contract Blockchains.It develops and deploys intelligent algorithms that interface with blockchain applications.
Dora — Dora is building the cross chain search engine
Astria — Astria is the Shared Sequencer Network: the easiest way to deploy decentralized rollups.

Quona Capital invests in fintech innovators that are advancing inclusion in emerging markets. Through our investments, Quona aims to deliver outstanding financial returns while making a lasting and positive impact on the world.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Series A, Series B, Seed
India, Brazil, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Caliza — Give your users access to the digital dollar economy. Get early access!
Arya.ag — Arya.ag, India’s largest grain commerce platform, bridges the gap between sellers and buyers of agriproduce providing complete assurance on quantity, quality, payments. Our clients include farmers, farmer producer organisations (FPOs), financial institutions, SME Agri processors, commodity traders and corporate agribusinesses. With visibility over11,000 commodity storage points across the country, Arya.ag assures year-round supply to SME and corporate buyers with embedded financing options.
Monkey Exchange — Monkey Exchange is an online corporate financial alternative to medium and small companies in Brazil focused on reducing cost of capital. We aim to provide financing, using receivables exchange to the supply chain of the multinational groups (Brazilians or not), by linking the suppliers to investors in a competitive environment.It's aGain-Gain situation: lower capital price for producing side and better returns for investors. And this is just the start.

Launch Africa is a fund with the primary objective of unlocking the capital constraints of Seed Stage tech startups.

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.
Maad — Maad is Francophone Africa's fastest-growing B2B marketplace, based in Dakar, Senegal. Our tech-driven solution allows retailers to order products from our one-stop shop and benefit from working capital loans
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.

The Raba Partnership, Raba Capital, Raba

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
South Africa, United States, Egypt

Portfolio highlights

Cloudline — Cloudline leverages lighter-than-air technology and the latest developments in unmanned aerial vehicles to deliver essential goods and services to the 1 billion people without direct access to roads and runways.
Stitch — One API integration for all online payments across South Africa. Accept Pay by bank, debit + credit card, cash, manual EFT, debit order and crypto. Orchestrate + reconcile digital payments across methods and send payouts
Cleva — Cleva Banking is a banking platform helps in recieving international payments by opening USD accounts.

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

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Agriculture
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

OmniRetail — Get visibility of complete value chain and optimize processes end to end with our network of networks platform.
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.
Inclusivity Solutions — Inclusivity Solutions provides digital insurance for the connected, but unprotected. Delivering simple & affordable insurance via 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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Nigeria, United States, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Moove — Moove is a mobility fintech that provides revenue-based vehicle financing to mobility entrepreneurs, democratizing vehicle ownership globally. The company embeds its alternative credit-scoring technology onto ride-hailing, logistics, and last-mile/instant delivery platforms, which allows access to proprietary performance and revenue analyticsof mobility entrepreneurs to underwrite loans.
Itana — Talent City’s mission is to build a network of charter cities that focuses on creating technology-enabled jobs within a free trade zone with its own regulation and bylaws.
Filmmakers Mart — FilmmakersMart is Africa’s first film and entertainment marketplace where entertainment businesses and creatives find verified services seamlessly for their video productions while democratizing entry into the film and entertainment industry for emerging creatives. We’re building the operations system for the film and entertainment industry inAfrica.

Martin is co-founder of Bolt.eu, Estonian Founders Society, Garage48.org, Good Deed Education Foundation and kood/Jõhvi coding school. Read more from http://martinvillig.com

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Education
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Estonia, Spain, South Africa

Portfolio highlights

Planet42 — Having your own car has never been easier. Planet42 is a vehicle rental company offering rent-to-own car service for private clients.
Mentornaut — Mentornaut is a new online tutoring platform is aiming to increase inclusion in personalized education and counts Super angel, United Angels VC, and a list of EdTech advocates like Bolt co-founder Martin Villig, and Clanbeat co-founder Kadri Tuisk among its investors.
StudentFinance — Catapult your career with leading re-skilling and up-skilling bootcamps. Study now and pay us back once you land a job & start earning!

Everywhere Ventures (The Fund) is a first-of-its-kind early-stage venture fund created by founders for founders to support the next generation of entrepreneurs.Everywhere Ventures is a community-powered venture investing platform that integrates the capital, expertise, and mentoring of experienced founders and operators across ten micro funds.The Fund's $50M+ under management comes almost exclusively from the over 500 founders and operators who are its limited partners. Everywhere Ventures operates from the belief that those who have actually built successful companies are best suited to advise and support early-stage startups. Everywhere Ventures invests in pre-seed deals globally usually in the first financing round the company raises. Emphasis is placed on purpose-driven teams across money, health and work verticals.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
United States, Australia, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Ogram — Ogram provides temporary and part-time staffing solutions for business that are looking to grow and improve their workflow. Hire Waiters, Runners, Kitchen Staff, Retail Staff, Warehouse Staff, E-Pickers and more.
North.cloud — Automate your enterprise-grade cloud finance with zero effort. Our AI reduces your cloud bill by 50% without any risk, contracts, or technical work.
ThreeV Technologies, Inc. — End to End Inspection Lifecycle Management Platform using AI

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

Investment focus

Software, Apps, Mobile Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Estonia, United States, Lithuania

Portfolio highlights

AM Craft — AM Craft designs, manufactures, and delivers 3D-printed, small-batch airplane interior components.
RivalSense — Monitor competitors of your startup. Receive curated weekly updates.
Inspectle Food — Automized Food hygiene inspections with Inspectle Food. Compatible with GFSI standards (BRC, IFS, FSSC) - Track and assign non-conformities, Automatic reporting, statistics and notifications.

Ragnar Sass has strongest skill is to find the best people and keep them rocking in speed of 200 km/h. He has organized 20+ Hack-a-thons Garage48 in Eastern Europe + West & East-Africa. He advise other founders and share experience where it could help.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
Estonia, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Alvin — Highly accurate, automated column-level lineage, powering your data workflows.
BeTRITON — 100% electric recreational vehicle - revolution in sustainable travel. BeTRITON (formerly known as Z-Triton) offers extraordinary experience and freedom to travel both over land and water.
Around — The largest network of workspaces on flexible terms. We are a savvy team from Latin America providing fast-growing companies with on-demand access to flexible office space. Everywhere.We believe work at its best is always creative and collaborative, expressed with freedom, autonomy, and purpose; and the space surrounding us should help us achieveit, anywhere & everywhere.We are shaping the future of work today by improving workspaces and the rules around them, and helping innovative teams find their ideal space to make their best work every day — our first step on a journey to change the way we work and think about work.Our best work. Anywhere. Everywhere. We are Around.

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

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Dope Wars — Dope Wars is an open source metaverse project that uses a "Play-To-Own" approach to offer a variety of games, activities, and landscapes in a community-created ecosystem.
Igloo — Our mission is to create the largest onchain community, driving the consumer crypto revolution.
Cambria — Cambria is a massively multiplayer online game (MMO) project. It builds a Runescape-inspired game with onchain stakes.

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

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Funding Round, Series B, Series C
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

ITM Power — ITM manufacture PEM electrolysers. A pioneering technology that generates green hydrogen enabling customers to decarbonise.
Pharmacierge — Pharmacierge is the digital e-prescribing service chosen by private clinicians to deliver medication to their patients throughout the UK and worldwide. Clinicians create and transfer e-prescriptions to our pharmacy near London's Harley Street, for free delivery to their patients either the same day or next weekday
The Boeing Company — Welcome to the official corporate site for the world's largest aerospace company and leading manufacturer of commercial jetliners and defense, space and security systems. Learn about our passion for innovation, our products, careers and more.

Seed capital for technology startups globally.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Nigeria, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Orca Fraud — Orca empowers fraud fighters with effective tools to combat fraud
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.
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.

Markus Villig is founder and CEO of Taxify. He attended University of Tartu.

Investment focus

FinTech, E-Commerce, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Estonia, Poland, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

GScan — Cosmic-ray based solutions for 3D imaging. GScan redefines the boundaries of 3D scanning with Muon Flux Technology (MFT) detectors. Unparalleled quality, safety, ease-of-use. Scan anything. Detect everything.
Fuelfinance — We do your spreadsheets, graphs, and automations. You get P&L, CF, Financial Projections , Plan/Fact , Unit Economics, and finally, peace of mind. All in familiar to you Google Spreadsheets. Forget about months of integrations and insane setup costs. Starting from $999/month.
Tab — Tab is the API-first company that enables smart receipts to arrive straight to your mobile bank app, all linked to your payment card. We help merchants deliver a seamless checkout experience and to unlock new avenues for post-sale engagement, banks to offer better user experiences & reducing customer support costs and consumers can wave goodbyeto lost receipts, tedious expense reporting processes and a more engaging banking experience.

Crypto investment firm. Austin, TX.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Sound — Sound connects artists and listeners to take ownership over the culture they create together.
Stack — Whether you're a business or individual creator, we have robust APls, SDKs, and no-code integrations to analyze and grow engagement, loyalty, and revenue.
Stackr Labs — Micro-rollups to scale web3 applications

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

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Funding Round
South Africa

Portfolio highlights

BancX — bancX is a modular, as-a-service platform for banks, fintechs, lenders, and retailers to build or extend their offering to meet market demand.
Lipa Payments — Lipa [ lee-puh ] Payments is a payment software solution for banks and fintech's that allows small merchants to perform digital transactions using NFC and Bluetooth technology (Tap on Phone). We remove the need for additional payment terminal hardware. Start transacting in less than hour with our SDK.
The Cape Town Stock Exchange — The Cape Town Stock Exchange is a south Africa’s stock exchange for small- and medium-sized businesses.

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

Investment focus

Transportation, Information Technology, B2B
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
Kenya, Nigeria, United States

Portfolio highlights

Duplo — We enable businesses across Africa to simplify their payment flows.
Ndovu — Secure your investments in both local and global financial markets on ndovu - a secure, affordable, hassle-free online investment platform in Africa designed to work your money
Maad — Maad is Francophone Africa's fastest-growing B2B marketplace, based in Dakar, Senegal. Our tech-driven solution allows retailers to order products from our one-stop shop and benefit from working capital loans

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

Investment focus

Apps, Mobile Apps, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
South Africa, Luxembourg, United States

Portfolio highlights

GoMetro — See All Your Vehicles, All The Time | Go Metro
Talk360 — Talk360 is an easy-to-use calling app that helps people make affordable international calls to any mobile and landline number. They believe that reliable communication and digital services must be affordable and accessible to everyone, regardless of someone's background. Especially people in emerging countries in Africa, who often need theseservices the most, do not always have the necessary banking possibilities. To bridge this distance, Talk360 will launch the world's first single checkout platform for Africa. This platform will combine all locally available payment methods and currencies across Africa, together with over 1.25 million cash points of sales, and will eventually be available to other companies as well. This means that 500 million Africans will be able to purchase digital services they never had access to before.
Sendmarc — Stop cyber criminals from sending emails using your domain and protect your customers, suppliers and employees from cyber attacks with DMARC Security.

firstminute is a seed fund backed by over 120 unicorn founders and a world-class community.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Machine Learning
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Granola — Granola takes your raw meeting notes and makes them awesome
Storyblok — Storyblok is an intuitive content management system that helps your developer and marketing teams get value from your content faster and create innovative digital experiences.
Passionfruit — Join hundreds of the best startups around the world and use Passionfruit to hire freelance marketing specialists on-demand.

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

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Form Health — FORM takes a medical approach to weight loss. Our telehealth program provides convenient weight loss expertise wherever you are. Let our clinical team guide you towards improved health.
Hugging Face — Hugging Face is an open-source and platform provider of machine learning technologies. Their aim is to democratize good machine learning, one commit at a time. Hugging Face was launched in 2016 and is headquartered in New York City.
Supra — Supra is the world's highest-performing, fully vertically integrated L1 blockchain, and it's about to change everything.

Rally Cap is a global community of tech folks investing in an exclusive portfolio of top-tier early stage venture funds in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Mexico, Nigeria, United States

Portfolio highlights

Zenpli — Zenpli makes it easy for enterprises and startups in LatAm to manage KYC and fraud complexity through a single modular API, no matter the use case.
Revio — Subscription billing and payments made easy.
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.

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

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, China, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Fizz — Fizz, the student debit card that builds credit. Build your credit while you earn amazing rewards! No hidden fees, no credit check & no security deposit.
CesiumAstro — CesiumAstro builds high-throughput, software-defined phased array communication payloads for airborne and in-orbit platforms.
Harvey — Harvey builds custom LLMs for elite law firms to tackle the most complex legal challenges across every practice area, jurisdiction and legal system in the world.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

Ogram — Ogram provides temporary and part-time staffing solutions for business that are looking to grow and improve their workflow. Hire Waiters, Runners, Kitchen Staff, Retail Staff, Warehouse Staff, E-Pickers and more.
North.cloud — Automate your enterprise-grade cloud finance with zero effort. Our AI reduces your cloud bill by 50% without any risk, contracts, or technical work.
ThreeV Technologies, Inc. — End to End Inspection Lifecycle Management Platform using AI

Lireas Holdings is an investment company with a specific focus on insurance and insurance technology investments. Lireas Holdings focuses on investing in start-ups and existing businesses requiring growth funding or new partners. Lireas Holdings was founded in 1988 and was headquartered in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Investment focus

FinTech, InsurTech, Security
Seed, Series A, Series B
South Africa, United States

Portfolio highlights

LifeQ — We empower everyone to delay aging, optimize your health, harness more energy, reduce the probability of disease, and understand why and how your body is changing, right now! It is in your power to be your biologically younger self.
Pineapple — In short, Pineapple see the traditional insurance model, user journey and products as lacking and set out to remedy these by doing the following: 1) Changing the business model to align incentives, show people how premiums are used and award members leftover premium back 2) Making insuring as easy as snapping a picture where AI does the rest andcover is issued in under 60 seconds 3) Allowing per-item insurance and new product innovation to address cover not currently offered or accessible to manyPineapple launched in South Africa in 2018 with their "My Stuff" per-item insurance and have since launched their auto offering "My Ride". They have also partnered with Travelers in the US and have white-labeled their platform in the US.
Investsure — InvestSure is a technology company that uses its software to enable partner investment platforms to sell its unique Investment Indemnity (insurance) product to their clients. InvestSure provides a full set of APIs that trading platform developers can use to integrate the Investure Investment Indemnity product seamlessly and easily into theirwebsites and mobile applications. Once InvestSure technology is added to a trading platform, it enables users to buy insurance on their shares with a single click. The full process from buying to insurance to settling claims is fully automated.The Investment Indemnity product itself is a unique innovation; it is designed to protect to protect shareholders against any losses in share value caused by actual or perceived fraud committed by management. This enables investors to secure their investments. The cost of the product is low enough to not significantly reduce returns of investors where no insurance event occurs, but to provide significant downside protection where an insured event does occur.

Love your life without worrying about the risk.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
Series B, Series A, Funding Round
South Africa, Australia, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Bdeo — Bdeo provides a visual intelligence solution designed to change the way customers connect with insurance companies. Its platform enhances the customer journey beginning with underwriting and all the way through the time the claim is processed, also recognizing risks, damage, and providing assessments in real-time, allowing insurance companies todetect fraud or pay customers in the event a claim is approved.The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Madrid, Spain.
Naked Insurance — The new way to cover your stuff: savings & convenience through AI. Naked Insurance offers online insurance for car, home and contents. Get a quote in 90 seconds!
Simply — Life, Disability and Funeral Insurance

500 Fintech

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Vietnam, South Africa

Portfolio highlights

Kilo — Kilo develops a retail platform that provides retailers access to price, assortment, and inventory management. The platform is designed specifically to serve small and medium-sized retailers. The Kilo network effect creates a virtuous growth cycle for both supply and demand.
Stitch — One API integration for all online payments across South Africa. Accept Pay by bank, debit + credit card, cash, manual EFT, debit order and crypto. Orchestrate + reconcile digital payments across methods and send payouts
finally — Finally is the easiest way for businesses to manage their bookkeeping, accounting & finance. Learn more today.

Newtown Partners is a venture capital firm that actively invests in emerging, disruptive technology startups.

Investment focus

Logistics, Health Care, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
South Africa, Ghana, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Chefaa — Chefaa is a GPS-enabled pharmacy benefits platform connecting patients & pharmacies nation-wide to help patients manage all their pharmacy needs. Chefaa uses big data, data ming & machine learning
Waspito — We are the platform that engages Africa into the conversation and action to drive affordable and accessible quality healthcare across the continent.
Complete Farmer — We are providing cutting-edge technological farming protocols and innovations with a unique business model and logistics that are revolutionizing...

Phillip Sebole Masango is a Mentor at Allan Gray Orbis Foundation, the Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Eclipde Hub and Black Silver Capital, a Strategic Intelligence Member of World Economic Forum, a Member of Norval Foundation, Heavy Chef, Startup Grind Stellenbosch, The Silicon Cape Initiative, DueDash, and SimplyBiz_SA, and an ExecutiveDirector and Founder of Aesthetic Prosthetic Bionics Co.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Robotics, Aerospace
Series A, Seed, Private Equity
South Africa

Portfolio highlights

Black Silver Capital — 36 Followers, 31 Following, 1 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Black Silver Capital (@blacksilvercapital)
Cyrrix Cybersecurity — At Cyrrix Cybersecurity, we understand the importance of protecting your business from online threats. Our team provides a full range of cybersecurity services to help safeguard your company's sensitive information and systems. We offer comprehensive risk assessments, penetration testing, and incident response planning to identify and addressvulnerabilities in your network. Our managed security services provide ongoing monitoring and threat detection to keep your business protected around the clock. With our help, you can rest easy knowing that your company's valuable assets are secure.
Aesthetic Prosthetic Bionics — Biological Engineering, Bionics, Biomimetics, Hydraulics, Prosthetics, Neuroprosthetics, Exoskeleton Suits, Dynamics, Kinematics Robotics, Human-Robot Interaction, Artificial Organs, Artificial Intelligence, Quantum Computing, Knowledge Reasoning, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision, Robotics, Artificial GeneralIntelligence, Deep Learning, Bayesian Networks, Evolutionary Algorithms, Computational Neuroscience, Neurocybernetics, Cybernetics, Cognitive Science, Source Coding, Channel Coding, Algorithmic Complexity Theory, Algorithmic Information Theory, Information-Theoretic Security, Grey System Theory & Biotechnology

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

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Blockchain
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Onmeta — Onmeta
Anchor — Anchor is building the infrastructure needed for businesses to build, launch, and scale banking and payment solutions.
Sealance Corp. — Sealance provides financial services, cryptography and other services.

Soma Capital is a fund built by founders for founders that focuses on software. It has invested seed in startups now worth over $60 billion combined including Cruise, Rappi, Ironclad, Human Interest, Razorpay, Rippling, and Lambda School among others (20 unicorns) It was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

TestParty — TestParty is the most effective solution for organizations to achieve digital accessibility compliance in the WCAG for the ADA, EAA, Section 508, and more.
Volta — Volta provides the security and controls, to future-proof your business for managing digital asset operations; featuring a smart contract multi-sig wallet that bypasses traditional limitations and bottlenecks
Orchard Robotics — We develop advanced camera systems and computer vision software to enable precision crop load management for growers.

Early stage venture capital backed by some of the world's best entrepreneurs.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

Eyebot — Vision care at the touch of a button
Reviva — Reviva builds all-in-one vertical software and AI for wellness businesses
Waypoint Bio — Waypoint's proprietary spatial multi-omics platform enables us to solve critical issues around understanding how cell therapies navigate the three-dimensional tumor microenvironment and allow the measurement of cell-to-cell interactions.

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

Investment focus

Payments, Financial Services, Information Technology
Funding Round, Series A, Private Equity
South Africa, United States, Russian Federation

Portfolio highlights

Adumo — We are your expert partner in payments, enabling you to seamlessly and securely accept payments in-store and online with our true omni-channel experience. Never miss a sale with South Africa's largest independent payments processor.
VantagePay — VantagePay provides white-label payment and technology solutions to the Banking, Telco, Financial Services, and Consumer Product Industries.
Momint — Momint is the Web3 investment platform of the future. The safest and easiest to use NFT marketplace in the world. Discover the real-world potential of NFTs.

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

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Credit
Series A, Seed, Series B
India, Kenya, Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Lulalend — Meet Lula. Meet Opportunity. We provide SMEs with all-digital business banking accounts and funding solutions to make cash flow.
NOW Money — NOW Money is the UAE's first digital payroll and mobile bank service developed specifically for low income workers.
Apollo Agriculture — BRINGING COMMERCIAL FARMING TO EVERYONE Andrew, 3 acre maize farmer and Apollo customer

The art and science of entrepreneurship

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Mexico, India

Portfolio highlights

Captur — Captur helps companies make smarter decisions, at the speed of capturing a photo. We use expert triaging and visual AI to identify and action tasks instantly for companies managing in-field operations.
Trebellar — Trebellar provides advanced data analytics for building occupancy, energy efficiency, and climate optimization. Maximize your workplace productivity with our intelligent building solutions.
Operant — Operant.AI is an intelligence platform for collection agents and customer success teams.

WELCOME TO TIA Innovating Tomorrow Together TIA is a national public entity that serves as the key institutional intervention to bridge the innovation chasm between research and development from higher education institutions, science councils, public entities, and private sector, and commercialisation. Who we are Urban/Township Agriculture Technologies TIA is calling for the submission of funding

Investment focus

Information Technology, Renewable Energy, Health Care
Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed
South Africa

Portfolio highlights

Jobox — Jobox is a student recruitment platform, built to connect employers, students and graduate career offices. Our focus is to improve graduate employability by ensuring all students have the skills they need to enter, stay in, and progress in the world of work.Jobox’s ecosystem provides employers with access to the best diverse & youthfultalent, students with more employment opportunities and universities with data-driven insights aimed at driving graduate employability forward.
Aviro Health — We believe that empowering and supporting people to manage their own health benefits everybody.We built the Aviro Pocket Clinic to support self-care and provide access to services. We give people what they need to perform important health checks like regular HIV self-testing and connect them to experts and services who can offer hands-on and supported care when needed.
Ownedby Technologies — Ownedby is an interactive asset management solution for business and household assets, focused on appliances and devices, giving these unique identity that is traceable online, yet linked to and controlled by owners.

Invenfin is a growth capital investor operating in the technology, food & beverage sectors.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Information Technology, Financial Services
Funding Round, Seed, Series B
South Africa, Chad, Egypt

Portfolio highlights

Root — Launch digital and embedded insurance solutions with omni-channel distribution.
Money Fellows — MoneyFellows digitizes the ROSCA model, enabling group lending and savings.
Dynamic Commodities — Dynamic Commodities is a specialist producer and exporter of a range of frozen fruit delicacies.Dynamic Commodities is exporter of an innovative, value-added range of frozen fruit products, including fruit sorbets and various cut frozen fruits, to countries such as the US, Canada, Japan and South Korea.

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

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

M^0 Labs — M^0 is money middleware for the digital age. It is a decentralized, on-chain protocol, as well as a corresponding set of off-chain standards and APIs, that allows holders of high-quality eligible collateral to participate in the issuance of a fungible cryptodollar. With M^0, any number of institutions around the world can tap on turnkey middlewareto become their own cryptodollar issuer, upgrading their money tech stack to the digital age.
Agora — Agora operates as a digital dollar and an asset platform.
Raven — Raven is a proprietary high-frequency algorithmic trading firm specializing in CeFi market making and DeFi liquidity provision.

Alumni Ventures offers diversified venture portfolios to accredited investors into highly competitive deals that individuals typically do not have access to on their own.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Formic Technologies — At Formic, we want to increase the collective output of humanity by making automation deployments trivial and easy. Every factory should have access to unlimited 'labor' through robotics and automation rentals. We are building technology, financing, operations and services to make this vision possible.Formic is a fast-growingventure-backed startup focused on unlocking robotic automation in labor-starved industries such as food and beverage, advanced manufacturing, consumer packaged goods and other industrial settings. We combine financial innovation with a firm understanding of what robotics are capable of, to enable manufacturing customers to scale up their manufacturing capacity quickly and with minimal risk.
Coldcart — Coldcart is a technology platform which orchestrates, optimizes and scales frozen and refrigerated parcel logistics for leading D2C and B2B companies - unlocking unprecedented new efficiencies in perishable parcel logistics.
Volley — Volley offers the most exciting Alexa games and Google Home games. Check out the available Google Home and Alexa trivia games to partake in the fun!

Accion Venture Lab is a leading early-stage investor in inclusive fintech, providing seed-first capital and strategic support to innovative startups that are meeting the financial needs of underserved people globally. Our global portfolio and local approach enable us to spot and respond to global trends faster, sharing learnings across geographies. Accion Venture Lab is an investment strategy of Accion and is managed by Accion Impact Management.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
India, United States, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Semaai — Full-stack agri-tech solution for Indonesian farmers
AquaExchange — AquaExchange is a technology platform for shrimp and fish farmers.
Cashinvoice — Cashinvoice connects supply chain stakeholders and digitises invoice-to-cash processes to unlock working capital trapped within supply chains and accelerate business growth

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

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Singapore, Canada

Portfolio highlights

BitBrand — Introducing Digital Watch Faces From Top Luxury Brands
Kidsy — Kidsy is an e-commerce platform that offers new and open-box discounted baby and kid clothing and other products.
Roofer.com — Roofing on-demand using drones and AI, serving the Dallas, Fort Worth, and Austin Texas regions.

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

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Automotive
Grant, Funding Round, Debt Financing
South Africa, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

BriefCo — BriefCo is South Africa's first and only legal cost consultancy leveraging technology. We utilize our own secure online platform to allow for the digital delivery and storage of all documents, thereby reducing the significant costs associated with printing, delivery, and file preparation.
Vocalysd.ai — Vocalysd is a customer-centric, AI-powered insights tool. Vocalysd unlocks usable, easy-to-digest insights from your conversational data. These insights are key to optimising client interactions and enhancing your customers' experience.
Sizanani — Collaboration is at the centre of everything we do. We partner with like-minded organisations to help our users find the best financial products in the market. We are the first WhatsApp-first stokvel solution because we believe that technology is fundamentally meant to create value, not apps.

4DX Ventures is a Pan-Africa Focused Venture Capital Firm. Our mission is to connect people, ideas, and capital to create a vibrant African community.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Information Technology, Logistics
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Egypt, United States, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

MAKA — MAKA is a community commerce platform for fashion and beauty, enabling everyone to discover their style, feel represented.
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.
Zoie Health — Zoie is a digital health firm for women that provides family planning, fertility, and maternity care services.

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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
Seed, Series B, Funding Round
South Africa, United States, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

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
Africa Climate Ventures — We build climate unicorns in Africa Our Thesis Climate action is reshaping the global economy Consumers are shifting towards climate-friendly products.Governments, aiming for net-zero, are shifting policy and committing billions of dollars to climate action.New technologies, processes, and energy sources are being developed, revolutionizing markets and redefining country resource endowments.Carbon markets are flourishing, fostering new business

Yossi Hasson is the Co-Founder and CEO of Metaversal and a Venture Partner at 2048 Ventures. He is also a Non-Executive Director of WeThinkCode_. Prior to that, he was the Managing Director of Techstars. He attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business and the University of Pretoria/Universiteit van Pretoria.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Blockchain, Payments
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
South Africa, United States, Ghana

Portfolio highlights

Ozow — Easy, fast, safe online payments and bank API solutions for merchants and consumers across South Africa. Secure instant EFT directly from bank to bank.
Howler — Howler, is the powerful event technology platform designed at the uppermost benchmarks of service and technology to help consumers and event organisers to make moments that matter.
The Sun Exchange — The Sun Exchange is the peer-to-peer solar leasing marketplace. We leverage financial innovation and the power of the crowd to drive sustainable energy development and make the environmental, social and economic benefits of solar accessible and affordable for all. Through the Sun Exchange online platform, anyone, anywhere in the world, can buyremotely-located solar cells and then lease them to power businesses and organisations in sunny emerging markets. Solar cell owners earn income from the electricity that’s generated, while schools, businesses, clinics and other organisations gain access to affordable clean energy, reducing electricity costs and carbon emissions.

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

Investment focus

Software, Virtual Reality, Blockchain
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

forml — Discover how our platform can help your business harness the power of Machine Learning and drive growth. Get started today!
AstroBeam — AstroBeam is focused on creating more comfortable, more accessible, and more human ways to hangout and have fun with friends in VR!
Taxa Technologies — Designer probiotics for personal care

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