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Top 50 FinTech VC (Venture Capital) Funds in South Africa in September 2025

A list of 50 VC (Venture Capital) 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 VC (Venture Capital) Funds in South Africa in September 2025

Investor FinTech South Africa investments
CRE Venture Capital 8
4Di Capital 7
UW Ventures 7
Naspers Foundry 6
Launch Africa 6
Allan Gray 6
Raba Partnership 5
Quona Capital 5
Maven 11 Capital 5
Goodwell Investments 4
1kx 4
Everywhere Ventures 4
Change Ventures 4
Merrill Lynch 4
Future Africa 4
Scalar Capital 3
Everywhere Ventures 3
Kalon Venture Partners 3
Sound Ventures 3
Firstminute Capital 3
Kleiner Perkins 3
Lireas Holdings 3
Oui Capital 3
Imvelo Ventures 3
Musha Ventures 3
54 Collective 3
RaliCap 3
Newtown Partners 2
Flourish Ventures 2
Yellowwood 2
Century Oak Capital 2
PayPal Ventures 2
Realm Digital 2
Hollard Insurance 2
Village Global 2
DCG Expeditions 2
Alumni Ventures 2
Boost VC 2
Newid capital 2
Norrsken VC 2
Reciprocal Ventures 2
Hustle Fund 2
FSD Africa 2
500 Fintech 2
DCG Expeditions 2
4DX Ventures 2
Invenfin 2
AlphaCode Club 2
Speedinvest 2
First circle capital 2
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CRE Venture Capital VC Fund · New York, New York, United States
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.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • South Africa, Nigeria, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Sukhiba — Sukhiba is a decentralized community-based commerce platform.
  • Stitch — One API integration for enterprise online payments across South Africa. Accept Pay by bank, debit + credit card, cash, manual EFT, debit order and crypto.
  • Cutstruct — Cutstruct is your one source for bulk construction materials purchase. Get the best prices for cement, steel, granite, sharp sand wood, and more.
4Di Capital VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa
4Di Capital is an independent seed- and early-stage technology venture capital firm based in Cape Town, South Africa.Nurture capital is the term that best describes 4Di Capitalâ€:tm:s purpose and philosophy.We understand that in the early days of any business, support, mentoring and access to networks is just as important as seed capital.Using tried and tested international venture capital best practices, adapted for local use, we believe in entrepreneur-friendly finance without frills, and in working as a team with our investments to achieve their true potential.4Di Capital Early-Stage Technology Fund 1 targets startup investment opportunities with high growth potential at the seed- and early-stages in the mobile, enterprise software and web sectors.We look for founder teams with hungry passion, commitment, domain expertise and deep insights into the large market problems they wish to solve with their technology solutions.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Financial Services, Mobile
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • South Africa, United States, Kenya
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.
  • Cloudline — The all-in-one cloud platform helping leisure businesses sell more, reduce costs & personalize experiences.
  • Happy Pay — Happy Pay is a credit scoring system developing company. The company integrates an autonomous artificial intelligence technology system with the merchant's platform to increase their average basket size and customer conversion metrics, providing users with buy now, and pay later services.
UW Ventures VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa
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.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Payments, Insurance
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • South Africa
Portfolio highlights
  • Pargo — Pargo is a convenient logistics solution that lets you collect and return parcels at Pargo parcel points throughout the country when it suits you best.
  • Synatic — Synatic is a unified platform that enables your business to integrate and automate systems and services without sacrificing enterprise features and security.
  • 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 VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa
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.
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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 — Lifecheq Enterprise platform
  • 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.
Launch Africa VC Fund · Ebène, Plaines Wilhems, Mauritius · 6 investments in the past 12 months
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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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya
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.
  • Affinity — Join over 70,000 who trust the Affinity mobile app to manage your personal banking needs and qualify for an Affinity Instant Loan
  • Liquify Digital — Liquify is an invoice marketplace that transforms invoices from SMEs in emerging markets into an investable asset class for financiers seeking reliable yield
Allan Gray VC Fund · Alfred, New York, United States
Allan Gray is privately owned investment management company focused on generating long-term wealth for investors.
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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 — Manage your organization's DMARC, SPF, and DKIM with world-class implementation services and support. All in one easy-to-use platform.
Raba Partnership VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 4 investments in the past 12 months
The Raba Partnership, Raba Capital, Raba
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Software
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, South Africa, Egypt
Portfolio highlights
  • Thndr — Investing in U.S. stocks made easy with thndr global
  • Letly — Letly is building an agentic platform to embed AI into property rental.
  • Stitch — One API integration for enterprise online payments across South Africa. Accept Pay by bank, debit + credit card, cash, manual EFT, debit order and crypto.
Quona Capital VC Fund · Washington, District of Columbia, United States · 16 investments in the past 12 months
Quona Capital invests in fintech innovators that are advancing financial inclusion around the globe. Through our investments, Quona aims to deliver outstanding financial returns while making a lasting and positive impact on the world.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • India, Brazil, Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
  • Belvo — Belvo is the leading Open Banking API platform in Latin America and the easiest way for users to connect their account to an app
  • Ideem — Manual 2FA (SMS/WhatsApp One Time Passcodes, Authenticator Apps and Soft Tokens) are plagued with friction, fraud, and costs. Ideem cryptographically binds to the device to replace traditional possession factor 2FA and device fingerprinting solutions. Ideem's drop-in SDK works across all browsers and native apps. No user interaction isrequired - no effort, no permissions, no exceptions. Just an easy and invisible 2FA that reduces friction, fraud and costs.
  • Shivalik Small Finance Bank — Welcome to Shivalik Bank, home for all your financial needs. Contact us for savings accounts, current accounts, fixed deposits, recurring deposits gold loans & internet banking.
Maven 11 Capital VC Fund · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands · 21 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Financial Services, Cryptocurrency
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Credit Coop — Leverage Future Cash Flows
  • Plural Energy — Plural Energy connects institutional investors with high-quality renewable energy assets overlooked by traditional finance. Access middle-market clean infrastructure with competitive yields, tax benefits, and impact while advancing the energy transition.
  • Plural Energy — Plural Energy is a platform for renewable energy assets available to more investors from fund and asset managers to alternative retail investors and retirement savers.
Goodwell Investments VC Fund · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Goodwell Investments is a pioneering investment firm focused on financial inclusion, fintech and inclusive growth in sectors providing
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Financial Services, Banking
  • 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.
  • Hinckley Recycling — Hinckley Recycling is dedicated to the responsibility of being a good steward of the environment and will in all circumstances aspire to constantly emphasize awareness of the natural environment, whilst maintaining a level of proficiency which demonstrates bona fide leadership in all spheres of the environment.
  • Agent Banking Company — Agent Banking Company provides digital technology solutions that enable access to banking services through bank-approved agents.
1kx VC Fund · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands · 21 investments in the past 12 months
1kx is an early-stage investment firm focused on ecosystem growth.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Stackup — Stackup is transforming how businesses manage their on-chain operations by offering a smart account platform designed to simplify and automate complex blockchain tasks. As the need for seamless, secure, and efficient crypto transactions grows, Stackup provides centralized control over decentralized assets, allowing businesses to take charge ofevery detail of their operations with ease. Our platform integrates advanced security and adaptive features to eliminate the chaos of traditional crypto wallets, empowering businesses to manage their crypto stack in real-time. Whether you’re orchestrating large-scale transactions or ensuring complete transparency, Stackup’s solution brings order and precision to blockchain management—turning crypto chaos into structured, seamless business flow.
  • Orange Cap Games — Orange Cap Games is a game and experience design studio that creates digital and physical trading card games featuring Pudgy Penguins.
  • Impossible Cloud Network — Impossible Cloud Network (ICN) is the foundational layer for the next-generation internet — a decentralized, composable cloud infrastructure serving AI, Web3, and enterprise applications. Unlike siloed DePIN projects or centralized incumbents, ICN delivers a high-performance, permissionless platform integrating storage, compute, and networking.With $31M in total funding, enterprise-grade architecture, 1,000+ B2B clients, and 28,000+ hypernodes sold, ICN is uniquely positioned to outcompete traditional cloud services and power the future of decentralized infrastructure. ICN is community-owned, performance-optimized, and regulation-aligned — bridging real-world adoption with blockchain innovation.
Everywhere Ventures VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 25 investments in the past 12 months
Everywhere Ventures is a global pre-seed venture capital fund for founders, by founders. Click to read Everywhere VC, by Everywhere Ventures, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, FinTech
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • United States, Australia, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • VOW — Meet Quick, a purpose-built Webflow template to promote SaaS and software apps without writing code. Its pre-built content will help you get your website up and running in no time at all.
  • Fusepay — Modern Finance & Payments for Indian Ocean Islands
  • Outfox Health — Healthcare answers quick as a fox
Change Ventures VC Fund · Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia · 6 investments in the past 12 months
We are a seed stage venture capital fund based in the Baltic states, backing ambitious Baltic founders anywhere in the world.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Apps
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania
Portfolio highlights
  • Aerones — Robotic wind turbine service company offering maintenance, inspection and repairs worldwide. Reduce downtime and improve the efficiency of your wind park
  • ENGYcell — ENGYcell provides personalized energy storage solutions to reduce energy costs, gain energy independence, and participate in the energy market.
  • Trace.Space — Engineers develop complex products 10x faster with Trace.Space. Requirements management for the next generation
Merrill Lynch VC Fund · New York, New York, United States
Merrill Lynch Wealth Management has the financial advisors and expertise to help you achieve your goals at any stage of your life or career.
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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.
Future Africa VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States
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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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 across Africa. 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 revenueanalytics of mobility entrepreneurs to underwrite loans.
  • 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.
  • Filmmakers Mart — Find and book film locations, equipment, and services across Africa. Filmmakers Mart simplifies production logistics from start to finish.
Scalar Capital VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States
Crypto investment firm. Austin, TX.
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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 — Recognize and reward the relationships that matter
  • Stackr Labs — Micro-rollups to scale web3 applications
Everywhere Ventures VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 16 investments in the past 12 months
Everywhere Ventures (fka "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 acrossten micro funds. The Fund's $70M+ 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.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, FinTech
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, United Kingdom, India
Portfolio highlights
  • VOW — Meet Quick, a purpose-built Webflow template to promote SaaS and software apps without writing code. Its pre-built content will help you get your website up and running in no time at all.
  • Fusepay — Modern Finance & Payments for Indian Ocean Islands
  • Outfox Health — Healthcare answers quick as a fox
Kalon Venture Partners VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa
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.
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Investment focus
  • Apps, Mobile Apps, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • South Africa, Luxembourg, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • 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 — Manage your organization's DMARC, SPF, and DKIM with world-class implementation services and support. All in one easy-to-use platform.
  • visionAI — visionAI augments existing CCTV cameras with computer vision AI to drive improved operational outcomes in manufacturing.
Sound Ventures VC Fund · Beverly Hills, California, United States · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Sound Ventures is a venture capital firm. The company seeks to invest in the technology sector.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Canada, Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • Antimetal — Making cloud savings automated, effortless, and risk-free. Start saving in 2 minutes, no code or engineering required.
  • Warp — Warp is a payroll and compliance tool that makes it easy for founders to hire, onboard, and pay their employees.
  • Landbase — Landbase combines leading agentic AI with human expertise to intelligently automate your Go-To-Market
Firstminute Capital VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 21 investments in the past 12 months
firstminute is a seed fund backed by over 120 unicorn founders and a world-class community.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Ontik — Ontik provides a modern payment platform that helps merchants achieve a greater number of trade customers. The platform automate key credit processes and reduces the administrative burden and enables real-time reporting, minimise credit losses, and get paid on time.
  • ai.work — Amplify your team with intelligent AI Workers connected to your systems, knowledge, and policies - built to work the ticket queues, automate the repetitive tasks, and get things done - lightning fast.
  • Landbase — Landbase combines leading agentic AI with human expertise to intelligently automate your Go-To-Market
Kleiner Perkins VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 39 investments in the past 12 months
Kleiner Perkins is an American venture capital firm headquartered on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park in Silicon Valley.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Series B, Series A, Series C
  • United States, China, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Motive — Motive fleet management (formerly KeepTruckin). GPS tracking, dashcams, ELD compliance, trailer tracking, etc.. Trusted by 120,000 fleets.
  • Profound — FatherSonMatchingShirts store offers a wide variety of apparel such as t-shirts, sweatshirts, hoodies, tank tops, and mugs. We're trying our best to bring customers. You are welcome to FatherSonMatchingShirts. We're trying our best to bring customers the shirts are made of high quality materials for maximum comfort in whatever you do.
  • Ambience Healthcare — Experience what it feels like to never have to type or dictate another note again.
Lireas Holdings VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa
Lireas is a leading investment company with a specific focus on insurance and insurance technology investments. We have a track record of over 35 years investing in start-ups and existing businesses requiring growth funding or new partners. We invest in people and not just elaborate business plans a
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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.
Oui Capital VC Fund · Belmont, Massachusetts, United States
Oui Capital is an Africa-focused VC firm backing tech-enabled businesses at the pre-seed & seed stage.
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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.
  • Cauridor — Cauridor is a Financial Services company.
  • 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
Imvelo Ventures VC Fund · Sandown, NA - South Africa, South Africa
Imvelo Ventures is a venture capital and growth equity firm in South Africa managed by Capitec Bank.
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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 Payments is a payment software solution that allows businesses to perform transactions using NFC. We remove the need for additional payment hardware.
  • The Cape Town Stock Exchange — The Cape Town Stock Exchange is a south Africa’s stock exchange for small- and medium-sized businesses.
Musha Ventures VC Fund · New York, New York, United States
Seed capital for technology startups globally.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, Software, FinTech
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, Nigeria, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
  • Regfyl — Powered by AI, Regfyl is the all-in-one fraud and compliance platform for financial institutions and fintechs. Regfyl allows these businesses to reduce costs and focus on higher value activities.
  • Sukhiba — Sukhiba is a decentralized community-based commerce platform.
  • Orca Fraud — Orca empowers fraud fighters with effective tools to combat fraud
54 Collective VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 5 investments in the past 12 months
Building and scaling African tech startups with catalytic capital, value-add support and our global network.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa
Portfolio highlights
  • Billboxx — Empowering SMEs to pay and get paid on time, every time.
  • Yeah — Yeah is a financial technology company that offers payment processing services while building a credit profile for the banked and unbanked.
  • 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.
RaliCap VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Mexico, Nigeria, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Divibank — Divibank is a financing platform offering businesses access to growth capital.
  • 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.
  • Stay — Stay is a long-term incentive platform. We are working to decomplicate the task of investing in the future: both for companies and for their collaborators.
Newtown Partners VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa
Newtown Partners is a venture capital firm that actively invests in emerging, disruptive technology startups.
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Investment focus
  • Logistics, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • South Africa, Ghana, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
  • MDaaS Global — At MDaaS Global, we build and operate modern, tech-enabled diagnostic centres in clinically-underserved communities, starting in Nigeria. Our big goal is to create affordable healthcare solutions for Africa's next billion.
  • 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.
Flourish Ventures VC Fund · Redwood City, California, United States · 10 investments in the past 12 months
We are an early-stage global venture capital firm investing in fintech founders.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • United States, India, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
  • MoneyHash — MoneyHash provides access to payment and fintech services across the Middle East & Africa with one simple integration.
  • Liquid — A plataforma definitiva para CFOs maximizarem liquidez e receita.
  • Reserv — We are a premier claims platform, born from state-of-the-art data intelligence and talent management technology.
Yellowwood VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa
We help build more purposeful businesses through marketing insights, marketing strategy and marketing planning.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, Payments, Insurance
  • Pre-Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Nigeria, South Africa
Portfolio highlights
  • Klump — Use Klump to buy now and pay later in instalments for up to 12 months! Businesses accept payments, increase conversion rates, and boost revenue. The Easy Life! Try it now.
  • 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!
Century Oak Capital VC Fund · Vaduz, Vaduz, Liechtenstein
Century Oak Capital GmbH is a venture capital firm specializing in early-stage investments in Europe and Emerging Markets.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Retail, Software
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Nigeria, United States, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
  • Luna POS — Luna POS provides cloud-based cashier, inventory management, and accounting solutions for SMEs in Indonesia. The company offers a seamless mobile cloud-based Point of Sale (POS) and accounting system, helping the retail industry with managing business activities such as checking the stock of goods, making a bundle menu, calculating sales, and tosee financial statements of the business.
  • Unbox — Unbox is the branded commerce operating system for SMEs helping them to sell online and increase their sales. We provide a ready to sell platform that allows entrepreneurs to digitize their business in less than 5 minutes - fully integrated with social commerce channels and our payment and shipping solutions, helping SMEs to save costs andcentralizing sales into a single platform.
  • SnappRetail — SnappRetail aims to create the largest virtual retail franchise across Pakistan, through deployment of its POS hardware/software, focusing on:1. Traditional trade Analytics for brands and retailers 2. Order Aggregation for manufacturers and distributors 3. Payment Solution for customers 4. Fintech enablement for small merchantsTheSnappRetail POS application has been carefully curated keeping the retailer in mind, the application focuses on digitizing his shop operations and cash flow and creating a real-time tertiary sales data lake.
PayPal Ventures VC Fund · San Jose, California, United States · 10 investments in the past 12 months
PayPal Ventures is PayPal's venture capital arm, investing in PayPal's strategic interest fields for return.Leveraging PayPal Venture's expertise and experience, PayPal – and the companies in which it invests – are helping to bring innovative solutions to market more quickly, scale them faster, and build a global financial systemthat is more transparent, personalized, inclusive, and customer-focused. PayPal Venture's investments reinforce its commitment to leading the financial technology industry and supporting entrepreneurship.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Software
  • Series B, Series A, Series C
  • United States, United Kingdom, India
Portfolio highlights
  • bezahl.de — Bezahl provides digital and automated payment management and solutions.
  • Ume — Ume is a credit platform that specializes in accessing credit to all individuals for all purchases.
  • Mesh — Mesh enables safer, easier crypto transfers and payments from 300+ leading exchanges and wallets, all without leaving your platform
Realm Digital VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa
Realm Digital is a digital strategy and software development company in Cape Town. We specialise in digital solutions with a focus on custom development.
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Investment focus
  • Payments, Crowdfunding, Financial Services
  • Seed
  • South Africa
Portfolio highlights
  • Sticitt — Sticitt is a cashless payment platform. Sticitt services schools, lifestyle and golf estates, as well as events and is assisting one utility company to get clients to pay for water bills using its cashless payments system.
  • YueDiligence — YueDiligence - the all-in-one web-based solution empowering entrepreneurs and investors to make data-driven decisions for unparalleled success.
Hollard Insurance VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa
Love your life without worrying about the risk.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Series B, Series A, Funding Round
  • Australia, South Africa, 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
Village Global VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 22 investments in the past 12 months
Early stage venture capital backed by some of the world's best entrepreneurs.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, United Kingdom, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Qanooni — Qanooni is a legal technology company offering an AI-powered platform designed specifically for lawyers and legal professionals.
  • Fal — fal.ai is the fastest way to run diffusion models with ready-to-use AI inference, training APIs, and UI Playgrounds
  • Gravity — Meet Orion, the autonomous AI-Powered Data Analyst that turns overwhelming data into clear direction. It works 24/7 so your team doesn't have to.
DCG Expeditions VC Fund · Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong · 2 investments in the past 12 months
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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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Blockchain
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, United Kingdom, Israel
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.
Alumni Ventures VC Fund · Manchester, New Hampshire, United States · 94 investments in the past 12 months
Alumni Ventures offers diversified venture portfolios to accredited investors into highly competitive deals that individuals typically do not have access to on their own.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Artisan AI — Artisan is on a mission to build the first generation of AI employees, called Artisans, who can automate specific roles & workflows.
  • TAU Systems — TAU Systems provides medical imaging technology.
  • Foundation Alloy — Foundation Alloy makes better parts, faster, for modern engineering.
Boost VC VC Fund · San Mateo, California, United States · 18 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Blockchain, Virtual Reality
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Neurvona — AI Digital Twin Personas
  • Castle — Castle is a technology company that makes it easy for companies to add bitcoin to their treasury, regardless of their knowledge of bitcoin. We enable businesses to go from zero to bitcoin in less than 48 hours.
  • m00m world — m00m multiplayer sci-fi world! Build your container home, make friends, play mini-games, and fight the F8 Corporation. Based on our audio series and webcomic.
Newid capital VC Fund · Alexandria, Virginia, United States
Newid Capital invests internationally in growth-oriented financial services companies serving the underbanked.
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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 funding and business banking accounts 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
Norrsken VC VC Fund · Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden · 13 investments in the past 12 months
We are a venture capital fund investigating in Start-Ups solving the worlds biggest problems while building massive businesses.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Food and Beverage, Health Care
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Sweden, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Kapu — We are an online shopping community that helps you save even more on your everyday essentials when you buy together with your friends.
  • trawa — The partner for renewable and affordable electricity for businesses. Get electricity directly from solar and windparks with corporate PPAs.
  • Beans — Beans is on a mission to help the planet by reducing food waste, saving products, and offering them through an online grocery platform at discounted prices.
Reciprocal Ventures VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 6 investments in the past 12 months
Partnering with crypto founders from day 0. Here investments == partnerships.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Financial Services, Blockchain
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Canada, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • TrueX — TrueX is a non-custodial, stablecoin-native exchange that represents the next stage in crypto markets.
  • Warlock Labs — Warlock Labs is a provider of an omni-chain liquidation engine that improves the safety and profitability of decentralized protocols by recapturing the maximum extractable value.
  • CEA Industries — CEA Industries is an agriculture company that offers indoor cultivation services.
Hustle Fund VC Fund · San Carlos, California, United States · 26 investments in the past 12 months
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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Investment focus
  • Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, Singapore, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • ThriveAI — Offload the busywork. Focus on the outcomes that matter.
  • Agree.com — Agree.com is the best solution for creating and managing contracts, streamlining negotiations, enhancing compliance, optimizing workflows, and converting more customers — all within one intuitive platform. View edits, track signatures, and get alerted on all upcoming key milestones. Include free, one-click e-signatures with identity verification onevery agreement. Increase deal velocity and drive revenue impact with integrated payments.
  • Rently — Rently is a digital platform for buying, selling, and managing properties.
FSD Africa VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya
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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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
  • 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.
500 Fintech VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States
500 Fintech
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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 enterprise online payments across South Africa. Accept Pay by bank, debit + credit card, cash, manual EFT, debit order and crypto.
  • finally — Finally is the easiest way for businesses to manage their bookkeeping, accounting & finance. Learn more today.
DCG Expeditions VC Fund · Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
Luno 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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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.
4DX Ventures VC Fund · Brooklyn, New York, United States · 2 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, Information Technology, Logistics
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Egypt, United States, Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
  • Taager — Taager is a social e-commerce platform enabling online merchants with end-to-end logistics.
  • PALM — PALM rewards users for consistency and advancement by fusing contemporary behavioral nudges with conventional investment techniques. To assist customers in achieving their objectives, PALM selects the best asset allocations among asset types, such as fixed income, stocks, and precious metals. PALM improves savings value and lowers out-of-pocketexpenses by fusing exclusive offers from an expanding merchant network with strong investment returns.
  • 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.
Invenfin VC Fund · Stellenbosch, NA - South Africa, South Africa
Invenfin is a growth capital investor operating in the technology, food & beverage sectors.
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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.
AlphaCode Club VC Fund · Gauteng, NA - South Africa, South Africa
We are an African venture capital fund, for world-class African entrepreneurs run by seasoned African investors.
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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.
Speedinvest VC Fund · Vienna, Wien, Austria · 36 investments in the past 12 months
Speedinvest is one of Europe’s most active early-stage venture capital funds, with more than €1.2bn in AuM and offices in Berlin, London, Munich, Paris, and Vienna. Our dedicated sector-focused teams (Climate Tech & Industrial Tech, Deep Tech, Fintech, Health & Bio, Marketplaces & Consumer Tech, SaaS & Infra) are the first to fundEMEA's most innovative pre-Seed and Seed tech startups. Our in-house operational experts and global network of industry leaders support our portfolio companies with growth, people (HR), market expansion, and more throughout every stage of their journeys. Bitpanda, GoStudent, Wayflyer, Open, CoachHub, Schüttflix, TourRadar, Adverity, and TWAICE are among our portfolio of 400+ companies.
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Investment focus
  • Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United Kingdom, Germany, Austria
Portfolio highlights
  • ARX Robotics — ARX is a defence technology company that specialises in developing autonomous unmanned systems and sensors for the European defence sector.
  • Due — Discover our global payment platform. Powered by open, decentralised and interoperable networks.
  • Tibo Energy — To make sure you operate within the limits of your contract we control your network. We avoid congestion in your energy network.
First circle capital VC Fund · Casablanca, Grand Casablanca, Morocco · 2 investments in the past 12 months
First Circle Capital is a venture capital firm seeding the next fintech generation in Africa.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
  • Nigeria, Egypt, United States
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.
  • Pumpkn — Need reliable funding? We provide quick loans and capital tailored for Agriculture businesses in South Africa. Grow your business with Pumpkn. Apply now!
  • Scale — Scale accelerates market entry and revenue for fintechs with a people-first approach.
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