Top 10 Fitness VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Africa in July 2025
A list of 10 VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Fitness startups based in Africa. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Fitness companies from Africa. We update this investor list every month.Top 10 Fitness VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Africa in July 2025
Investor | Fitness Africa investments |
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54 Collective | 2 |
Johnson & Johnson Foundation | 1 |
Knife Capital | 1 |
Newtown Partners | 1 |
4DX Ventures | 1 |
Nour Nouf Ventures | 1 |
Novastar Ventures | 1 |
Flat6Labs Tunisia | 1 |
Gray Matters Capital | 1 |
Tofino Capital | 1 |
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.
The Johnson & Johnson Foundation is a registered charitable organization that reflects the commitment of the Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies to keeping people well at every age and every stage of life by blending heart, science, and ingenuity to profoundly change the trajectory of health for humanity.
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- Health Care, Fitness, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Ghana, Zambia, United States
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- Dawa Health — DawaMom is a standardized mobile clinic that delivers maternal and neonatal health through a digital health platform leveraging a wide network of trained 1st level clinicians and community health workers (CHWs) for emerging markets.
- NextStep — NextStep is an information technology company that provides training and job placement for workers via mobile application platform. It features a mobile and web-based platform that enables its users to manage staff accordingly on their accurate positions. The company was founded in 2018 and headquartered in Seatle, Washington.
- Redbird — Millions of Africans live with chronic diseases without a convenient way to manage their health. And every year, millions more develop chronic disease – at a rate of two times the world average. Unlike those with acute disease, chronic disease patients require not just treatment, but also lifelong health monitoring to remain healthy andproductive. African chronic diseases patients need a convenient way to manage their conditions, and the current, top-down approach to healthcare cannot cope.That’s where we come in. At Redbird, we supply pharmacies with everything they need to offer rapid diagnostic services for chronic disease, helping them to solve this need by establishing them as the most convenient place for patients to manage their health.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
- Funding Round, Series A, Seed
- South Africa, United States, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Octiv — Turbocharge your fitness business, grow your community and build your brand with Octiv's leading Gym Management Software.
- Outsized — Independent talent for enterprise clients and consulting firms in Asia-Pacific, Africa, and the Middle East.
- Simera Sense — Simera Sense develops camera control electronics for optical payload and Cubesat imager solutions.
Newtown Partners is a venture capital firm that actively invests in emerging, disruptive technology startups.
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- 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.
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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- 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.
We inspire to build societies where knowledge empowers every individual to realize their full potential to contribute to the greater good and to be responsible for future generations.
Investment in startup business, Community Services, Shared Offices.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Financial Services, Health Care
- Seed, Funding Round, Convertible Note
- Saudi Arabia, United States, Egypt
Portfolio highlights
- YNMO — YNMO is the first Arabic/English digital solution that aims to improve the quality of care and educational services for individuals with special needs by allowing service providers such as schools, centers & clinics to design and monitor individualized treatment plans.
- Safanad — Safanad is a global holding company focusing on key investment platforms in Education, Healthcare, Digital Infrastructure, and Real Estate sectors, delivering strong risk-adjusted returns through partnership and operational excellence.
- Affinity — Join over 70,000 who trust the Affinity mobile app to manage your personal banking needs and qualify for an Affinity Instant Loan
For the many, not just the few. For good.
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Investment focus
- Agriculture, Internet, Clean Energy
- Series A, Funding Round, Series B
- Kenya, Nigeria, United States
Portfolio highlights
- BasiGo — BasiGo is an early-stage e-mobility start-up looking to revolutionize the public transportation sector by providing matatu owners with a cost-effective electric alternative to diesel buses.
- 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.
- MoKo Home + Living — MoKo Home is Kenya's one-stop furniture company specializing in comfort & smiles, having served over 10000 smiley homes to date. Will yours be next?
Flat6Labs is the MENA region’s leading seed and early stage venture capital firm, currently running the most renowned startup programs in the region. Annually, Flat6Labs invests in more than 100 innovative and technology-driven startups enabling thousands of passionate entrepreneurs to achieve their daring ambitions and ultimately becoming theirinstitutional co-founders.
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- E-Commerce, Retail, Education
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Tunisia, France
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- Datasphera — Datasphera's Exacctly SaaS monitors support conversations between customers and support agents and detects situations (like urgency, requests, dissatisfaction,...) and emotions (like happiness, anger, distress,...) to quantify customer satisfaction and offer real-time actions (Automated alerts on critical issues, ticket escalation, agentassistance to reply).
- 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.
We are an impact investor in the global south. Our deep roots in microfinance and education finance have demonstrated profit with purpose. We focus on self-development and skilling technology for women to find meaningful work.
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Investment focus
- Education, Health Care, E-Learning
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- India, United States, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- OYE — From Latin America to the world, we’re building a community to make emotional wellness part of everyday life.
- Shamba Pride — Shamba Pride is a revolutionary Rural Distribution system for African Farmers, it provides online-to-offline DigiShop marketplace.
- Applied Cognition — Applied Cognition is developing a novel medical device and platform for translational measurement of a newly discovered biology of the brain whose failure has been shown to cause neurodegeneration in preclinical models. We will be the first to non-invasively, continuously measure this biology in humans enabling us to develop treatments that stop or reverse the progression of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.
Tofino Capital is an early stage investor in emerging market technology companies.
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Investment focus
- SaaS, B2B, Enterprise Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- South Africa, Egypt, Finland
Portfolio highlights
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- 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.
- 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.
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