Top 15 FinTech Startup Investors in Zambia in November 2024
A list of 15 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Fintech startups based in Zambia. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Fintech companies from Zambia. We update this investor list every month.Top 15 FinTech Startup Investors in Zambia in November 2024
Investor | FinTech Zambia investments |
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Runa Capital | 2 |
Enygma Ventures | 2 |
Vibe VC | 2 |
Ventures Platform | 2 |
Babs Ogundeyi | 2 |
ACE & Company | 2 |
The Todd & Rahul Angel Fund | 2 |
Jordan Engineering | 1 |
Zrosk Investment Management | 1 |
KFW DEG | 1 |
Earl Grey Capital | 1 |
Jag Singh | 1 |
Blockchain Founders Fund | 1 |
Tiger Global Management | 1 |
Gbenga Ajayi | 1 |
Runa Capital is a global venture capital firm built by serial entrepreneurs that invests in early-stage software startups around the world...
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Financial Services
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Germany, France
Portfolio highlights
- Sismo.io — Sismo enables users to aggregate their identity and selectively disclose personal data to apps with Sismo Connect - the crypto-native SSO using ZKPs.
- Keep — The open-source alerts management and automation platform. Imagine you had GitHub Actions for any part of your observability stack.
- SeeChange Technologies — Enhance your retail operations with Computer Vision AI, optimising inventory, improving customer insights, and elevating in-store experiences.
Enygma Ventures is an investment fund for female entrepreneurs and women founders, focused on Southern Africa or SADC. Unlike traditional private equity, venture capital, and banks our team is full of award winning entrepreneurs who understand the same struggles you face first hand.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Lending, Education
- Seed, Funding Round
- South Africa, Zambia, Swaziland
Portfolio highlights
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- Koa Academy — Koa Academy is on the cutting edge of online schooling in South Africa! We offer small classes, quality educators, and individualized, engaged online learning.
- Brown and Ayo — Brown and Ayo have provided customers with an extensive online marketplace of natural hair extensions created to mimic black natural hair textures. The company prides itself in bringing innovative and well-loved products to the SA black woman consumer.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, EdTech, Education
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, India, Zambia
Portfolio highlights
- RipenHQ — A venture studio creating products and services that ripen the internet.
- DealCart — DealCart enables users to buy their favorite products in groups by allowing users to buy in groups and sharing deals on WhatsApp and other social media platforms.
- Carry — Ocho is everything you need to build wealth as a business owner.
We back founders building the future of Africa. We invest in companies that solve for non-consumption, plug infrastructural gaps and democratise prosperity in Africa, by eliminating the barriers for access and reducing the costs of delivering goods and services.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Nigeria, United States, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Lengo — Lengo is an AI based intelligence platform that offers a large database on consumer goods for companies in the FMCG sector.
- Shekel Mobility — B2B marketplace for auto dealers to grow their dealerships leveraging on flexible inventory financing and management solutions. Available on web and mobile.
- 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
Cofounder and CEO of Kuda
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Nigeria, Zambia, Pakistan
Portfolio highlights
- Zazuu — Zazuu is a platform for sending money across the border.
- Curacel — Curacel creates APIs & tools that enable businesses to embed insurance in digital channels and to administer claims cost-effectively.
- 24SEVEN — 24seven.pk is using tech and data to digitize and disrupt the fresh food and FMCG verticals in one of the fastest-growing and rapidly evolving consumer markets in the world.
ACE & Company (“ACE”), founded in 2005, is a global investment group specialized in private investments with total assets of over $1.6 bn across three investment strategies and investment solutions. With headquarters in Geneva and offices in London, New York, and Cairo, ACE’s global presence brings the company in direct contact with sourcingpartners, investment firms, as well as entrepreneurs and provides investors unparalleled access to a network of opportunities. ACE’s passion is for finding investment opportunities where we have an advantage through many years of relationship building, a carefully developed position of knowledge in the sectors which we are active, and a culture of efficiency to gain first mover’s advantage.
ACE’s purpose is to offer investors a long-term and collaborative investment approach that values honesty, transparency and rigorous execution, so that our strategies not only provide unique access to value accretive, risk-managed deals, but fosters what we consider our bedrock—trust.ACE’s progress has been marked by a globally respected track record since the Company was founded in 2005. In the last four years we have increased our total assets by fivefold and in 2017 received the Swiss Financial Supervisory Authority (FINMA) authorization.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Switzerland, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Roofr — The complete sales toolbox for roofers. From roof measurement reports to project-winning proposals.
- DePoly — DePoly is a spin off out of the LSMO lab at EPFL- Valais that has developed a novel technology allowing for the chemical recycling of PET plastic back to its main two components ethylene glycol (EG) and terephthalic acid (TPA). Our approach turns low valued materials (PET waste) into high-valued chemicals like TPA creating a circular economy. Weexpect this process to generate revenue from chemically recycling PET to TPA/EG, which can be sold back to industry to make new virgin PET plastic and allowing for a sustainable source of TPA and EG on the market.
- PatientPoint — PatientPoint is a leading digital health company that connects patients, healthcare providers and life sciences with health information at key moments of care.
The Todd & Rahul Angel Fund is a venture capital firm.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Pet
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Zambia, Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- Farcaster — A protocol for building sufficiently decentralized social networks
- Loyal — Loyal is a biotechnology company developing medicines to extend dog lifespan. By developing drugs with the potential to slow the aging process, they aim to delay or prevent age-related diseases like cancer and dementia.
- Merkle Manufactory — Merkle Manufactory is a software company contributing to the Farcaster protocol and working on clients.
Jordan Engineering
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Investment focus
- Agriculture, Financial Services
- Seed
- Zambia
Portfolio highlights
- Rent To Own Africa — What We're Up To Southwest England Albania, Kosovo and Macedonia Robotics Model Railroading
Zrosk Investment Management is an investment firm that invests in early-stage startups. We invest across the pre-seed to series A spectrum. We typically target at least 10% ownership in businesses we invest in and tend to maintain that position until series A providing much-needed early follow-on capital for our portfolio companies. Our commitmentis to provide more than just capital and to be one of the most prominent value-added investors on a company's cap table.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
- Series A, Pre-Seed, Seed
- United Kingdom, Nigeria, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Pade HCM — Hire, manage and pay your global team Hire anyone in Africa and automate onboarding, team management, payroll, compliance and much more.
- Kunda Kids — Kunda Kids is helping kids around the world fall in love with reading through our storybooks and activity books. Browse our range of storybooks for kids. Perfect for kids ages 3 to 8 years
- LemFi — Send money to India, China, Pakistan, Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya and 16 other countries. Receive and manage your money without stress
KFW DEG offers financing, advice and support to private sector enterprises operating in developing and emerging-market countries.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
- Debt Financing, Grant, Funding Round
- India, Kenya, United States
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Ronesans Holding — Ronesans Holding offers construction, real estate development, energy, industrial facilities and health infrastructure development services.
- Georgia Global Utilities — GGU is a water utility and renewable energy holding company that distributes potable water, collects, and processes wastewater.The investments in infrastructure made by the water utility company considerably increase the quality of water supply and wastewater services provided to consumers, as well as contribute to operating efficiency.GGU's renewable energy division owns and runs 240 MW of renewable energy assets, including eight 219 MW hydropower facilities and one 21 MW wind power plant.it was headquartered in Tbilisi, Georgia.
Founders funding founders at the earliest stages of company building.
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Investment focus
- SaaS, E-Learning, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, India, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- CrewAI — CrewAI is a multi-agent automation platform for enterprises to automate complex tasks. With its automation platform, organizations can deploy and manage AI agents to automate complex tasks and to value across a wide range of use cases, from research and analysis to coding and reporting.The company also offers a range of advanced new featuresincluding self-iteration, performance evaluation, persistent memory, and a range of new agent collaboration structures.
- dWallet Labs — dWallet Labs Ltd., based in Tel Aviv, Israel, a cybersecurity company specializing in blockchain technology, is building SingleWallet, the first interface to interact with dWallets on the Odsy Network. The mission of dWallet Labs is to build protocols and solutions on top of the Odsy Network.
- Mino Games — Mino Games is a free-to-play mobile gaming studio that produced the top 50 grossing mobile game Mino Monsters, with over 13 million downloads. We create deeply engaging, widely appealing games for millions of fans. We’re currently building our world class development studio in Montreal.We are a small group of passionate engineers, artists andanalysts with a mission to create games that millions of people all around the world love to play for years. We are funded by the best angel investors, institutional investors, and gaming companies from across the world.Our third and latest game, Cat Game, has already hit the App Store’s Top 100 Grossing Chart in Canada. The game, currently in soft launch, is showing world class key metrics, and we are expecting it to be a global hit when we launch it by February 2019.We are looking today to grow the team and looking for world class ambitious talent to come join us on the journey, to develop and support this newest title into a global success on both iOS and Android, and help us with future projects as we rapidly grow.
Jag is one of Europe's most active angel investors, and is a Managing Partner at Angel Invest Ventures in Berlin. He's founded several companies (including two exits and a spectacular failure), and invested in over 100 startups over the last six years, including Spire (SPAC), Nutmeg (exit to JPM), Disperse, Eversend, Restack, and Anytype.He’s an ad-man at heart, and spent over a decade as a political strategist advising high-profile politicians, campaigns and corporations across the US and Europe. Jag is fluent in six languages, and can be found on Twitter via @JagSingh
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, SaaS
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- United Kingdom, Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Konfetti — konfetti is building the leading platform for local workshops and events by empowering workshop providers with customized SaaS solutions
- Widgetbook — Widgetbook is an open source tool for organizing widgets in Flutter. It accelerates UI development and improves the collaboration between developers, designers and clients.
- Bling.de — The pocket money card and app that empowers children & teens to be money-smart. Safe, simple and educational.
We Focus Exclusively On Adding Value To Blockchain & Emerging Technology Projects With Real World Applications.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Berachain — Berachain claims that its technology will enable staked assets to be utilised in DeFi protocols, increasing on-chain liquidity and capital efficiency. Staked assets, such as staked ether (ETH), are now locked while being utilised to safeguard the underlying blockchain's network. Berachain claims that its "proof of liquidity"consensus will allow users to stake assets on Berachain while also trading, borrowing, or lending on-chain.
- Backed Finance — Backed is a bridge between stocks, ETFs and the emerging DeFi ecosystem.
- Resonance Security — Safeguard your smart contracts and digital assets to stay ahead of potential security threats.
Founded in 2001, Tiger Global Management, LLC (“Tiger Global”) is a New York-based investment firm pursuing a long-term approach to investing in leading, global public and private companies that leverage technological innovation. Tiger Global’s public equity business includes fundamentally oriented long/short, long-focused and crossoverstrategies, targeting investments in high-quality, public growth companies. The private equity business invests in early through late stage companies that pursue innovative approaches to new and existing industries, building on over 20 years of experience investing in hundreds of businesses in more than 30 countries with more than 90 portfolio company IPOs. With a strong track record investing across sectors and stages, Tiger Global aims to be a thought partner to companies and their management teams across their lifecycle in public and private markets. The Firm’s mission is to generate world-class returns for its investors and to do so in a way that makes its employees, partners and portfolio companies proud.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- United States, India, China
Portfolio highlights
- TrueLayer — We power faster and safer online payments with our open banking payments network. Onboard users, accept payments & make payouts in seconds. Learn more today.
- Foundersuite — Foundersuite Makes Awesome Tools For Awesome Startups
- Path Robotics — We create manufacturing robots that autonomously scan, position, and weld your parts without the need for skilled welders or robot programmers.
Gbenga Ajayi of Kanza Ventures.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Payments, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Egypt, Zambia, Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- FlapKap — FlapKap is a company revolutionizing e-commerce and SaaS growth in the MEA region.
- Union54 — Developers of ChitChat: an integrated messaging app with payments and USD Cards.
- Remedial Health — We improve business to business access to medicines by providing such medicines from manufactures/registered distributors direct to large and small healthcare retail businesses (large pharmacies and remote chemist/PPMVs (Patent and Proprietary Medicine Vendors)) using technology to deliver just-in-time stock and provide financing and awide selection of inventory to such retail business.
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