Top 15 Fitness VC Funds & Investors in Africa (August 2026)

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• Praktiki — Praktiki is building the "Decision Layer" for medicine.While medical knowledge doubles every 73 days, frontline clinicians struggle to translate guidelines into practice. Current AI search tools excel at surfacing public data from clinical trials, but fail to capture "how" experts apply that evidence in real-world scenarios.Praktiki fills this gap. We utilise an AI Agentic Creator Engine to capture tacit specialist reasoning and fuse it with public evidence. This feeds a proprietary Expert Knowledge Graph that powers: 1) Microlearning: Case-based modules created 10x faster and which are 170% more effective than traditional education 2) AI Expert Guidance: Real-time decision support synthesising evidence with expert implementation strategies.2025 Traction - our MVP proved that solving the expertise gap drives high engagement: - Registered >10% of UK GPs - 60,000+ modules completed with an 85% completion rate - 51% month-over-month growth - Market-leading NPS of 83We are building a compounding data moat to expand beyond education into clinical intelligence and healthcare data solutions.
• Mast — Mast is the cloud-native, fully configurable loan origination platform empowering lenders to process applications faster and smarter. We make lending better, smoother and faster.
• Forti Foods — The mission of Forti Foods is to enhance communities and change lives beyond the plate by fostering resilience and dignity via sustainable food innovation.

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• LipaLater — LipaLater is a lending marketplace that provides postpaid payments at e-commerce stores. They are making technology affordable for you. Get the electronic of your choice today and pay for it in comfortable monthly installments.
• REasy — Top up locally, pay suppliers globally, and manage international shipments with REasy. Fast, secure, and designed for African businesses expanding worldwide.
• Konnect — Konnect provides a cross borders payment solution intended to simplify complex financial flows allowing companies of any scale and size to send and receive payments in a practical, secure, and low-cost way.

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• Adbot — Award-winning AI that manages your Google Ads 24/7 using six years of South African market intelligence. Better results, less cost.
• Kena Health — Talk to a nurse, doctor or mental health professional on your smartphone with the Kena Health App. Affordable primary healthcare for South Africans. Download Now.
• Lettuce — Lettuce is an app that lets you keep track of your investments. Just add the assets you own, and we'll keep track of what they're worth right now.

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• Logexa — We are the first Saudi on-demand warehousing platform that provides different storage options within multiple locations. With Logexa’s services, warehouses can increase their utilization rate. On the other hand, businesses can benefit from flexible, dispersed storage and not worry about scalability issues with their inventory.
• Hala — Hala offers a payment and wallet solution for individuals and point-of-sale (PoS) services that enable merchants to accept credit card payments.
• Squadio — Tech Teams as a service platform (TaaS) ready to take over your project and transform it digitally.

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• WaterSec — WaterSec is a manufacturer of internet of things devices intended to communicate with gateways and send water usage data to application dashboards. They enable the customer to keep track of their water consumption. The monitoring of consumption was the solution to initiate the project. The water consumption and an optimized water-use efficiencyratio of all citizens and businesses.
• True Delta — True Delta is a data management and processing company. They are document recognition and data reconciliation processes. They offer data extraction from documents using ocr techniques, fast onboarding and data integration,and efficient data reconciliation with intelligent matching tools and less coding .
• Bako Motors SAS — Bako Motors SAS is a motor vehicle manufacturing company that develops solar electric vehicles. manufacturer of electric vehicles with the goal of creating long-term fixes for rural areas' transportation issues with regard to people, cargo, and machinery. The business makes electric cars as well as solutions for clean energy generation andstorage that are infinitely scalable, providing users with inexpensive and environmentally friendly e-mobility.

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• Vultron — Compress proposal production timeframes from weeks into days with Generative AI.
• Terra Industries — Terra Industries develops autonomous security systems and software platforms that support the monitoring and protection of physical assets, infrastructure, and operational environments across land, air, and maritime domains. The company provides unmanned vehicles, autonomous towers, and sensor-based surveillance hardware that collect and transmitdata for continuous situational awareness. Its software layer, built around an integrated operating system, processes sensor inputs, applies artificial intelligence models, and coordinates automated responses to detected events. Terra Industries designs its systems to support functions such as perimeter security, infrastructure monitoring, asset tracking, and threat detection within complex operational settings. The company’s platforms enable operators to manage multiple autonomous devices through a unified interface that supports mission planning, data visualization, and system control. Its technology is used by organizations that require coordinated security, monitoring, and response capabilities for facilities, remote sites, and distributed operations.
• Irreversible — Irreversible designs next-generation analog AI chips that enable meaningful intelligence anywhere — from sensors to robots.

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• Sofya — Sofya AI is a healthcare AI platform that uses NLP and voice tech to boost patient engagement and streamline clinical workflows.
• Kintsu — Kintsu operates as a healthtech platform that bridges the gap between patients, healthcare professionals, and institutions.
• Salva Health — Salva Health is a healthcare solutions provider company that develops products to enable the prevention and early detection of diseases.

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• Autochek — Welcome To Autochek Group's Homepage. Read About The Company's Vision And Mission. Select A Country And Apply For Car Loans
• Aether Bio — Aether uses its state of the art platform to rapidly engineer enzymes, enabling our customers to manufacture complex and novel products at fractional cost.
• Aethex — End to end voice agents localized for your market.

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• Plateaumed — Level up your medical practice with our world-class EHR
• Kena Health — Talk to a nurse, doctor or mental health professional on your smartphone with the Kena Health App. Affordable primary healthcare for South Africans. Download Now.
• Intron Health — Voice AI Built for How Africa Speaks Our next-generation intelligent voice model built from the ground up for AfricaUnlike Global systems retrofitted for the continent Sahara v-2 understands how Africa actually sounds Build with Sahara Try Sahara Built for African SpeechFrom Lagos Call Centers, to Hospitals in Nairobi, Boardrooms in Cape Town, and Courtrooms in

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• FinAGG — Discover FinAgg Quick Cash Flow for loans, credit, and finance solutions. Access trusted lenders for personal and business needs. Take charge today!
• PickMyWork — Have a product for Indian Users or merchants? - Leave the headache of scaling up your product to PickMyWork.
• Kreedo Early Childhood Solutions — Kreedo Preschool Non-Franchise Solution | education development partner that helps create your preschool brand | Promotes with strong ROI.

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• Pumpkn — Need reliable funding? We provide quick loans and capital tailored for Agriculture businesses in South Africa. Grow your business with Pumpkn. Apply now!
• Jem — We give employers the ability to send company-wide communications, deliver payslips, manage leave & give employees access to their earnings, via WhatsApp.
• The Awareness Company — We use data to tell stories that are useful to humans.

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• Soko — SOKO produces innovative, ethical jewelry and accessories from sustainable materials in Nairobi, Kenya
• Turaco — Turaco develops simplified insurance and credit solutions through mobile technology to solve the healthcare financing needs. Turaco has simplified insurance products and also provides on-demand health loans, allowing customers to get healthcare at affordable monthly premiums.
• Sistema.bio — Sistema.bio is a biodigester with biogas appliances. High efficiency biodigesters transform organic waste into renewable biogas.

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• 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.

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• Ctrack — Ctrack is the vehicle tracking provider with more than 24 years' experience of developing effective fleet solutions. Ctrack is a part of DigiCore Holdings, a global company listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, whose advanced Ctrack technology is fitted to almost 430,000 vehicles operating in 32 countries across 5 continents.
• 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.
• Barracuda Holdings — Barracuda Holdings (Pty) Ltd. is an owner-driven company established in 2010 by the founding partners, each of whom has over 20 years of experience. Barracuda Holdings provides manufacturing expertise across multiple sectors, including Automotive accessories, diagnostic tools, and fleet management.

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• Cue — Cue is a customer service software company that empowers you with WhatsApp Business solutions to boost customer satisfaction, and drive growth.
• Pura Soda — Discover PURA's refreshing beverages and live a little PURA.
• Optique Optometrists — Optique Optometrists provides comprehensive eye care services, including eye tests, prescription glasses, and contact lenses. The company offers affordable eye care solutions and has multiple branches across South Africa. Customers can book appointments online and access a wide range of eyewear options. Optique Optometrists focuses on deliveringquality vision care and ensuring customer satisfaction through professional services and convenient booking options.