Top 5 Fitness VC (Venture Capital) Funds in South Africa in May 2026
Top 5 Fitness VC (Venture Capital) Funds in South Africa in May 2026
| Investor | Fitness South Africa investments |
|---|---|
| NEXT176 | 1 |
| 4DX Ventures | 1 |
| Knife Capital | 1 |
| Nour Nouf Ventures | 1 |
| Tofino Capital | 1 |
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- Fitness, Software, Wellness
- Seed
- South Africa
Portfolio highlights
- JOBJACK — The JOBJACK platform automates the entry-level recruitment process, so hiring your deskless staff is easy, quick and simple. Our proprietary entry-level psychometric assessments, along with built-in credit and risk checks, help our customers identify the right talent to grow their businesses.
- 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.
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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- FinTech, Logistics, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Egypt, United States, Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- Suplyd — Suplyd is a comprehensive digital solution that bridges the gap between restaurant operators and their suppliers in order to disrupt an untouched market with extreme fragmentation and resolve the problem end-to-end.
- 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.
- Franc — Franc is the easiest way to save & invest. Our app doesn’t require any investment knowledge & our friendly risk quiz helps us understand how much investment risk is right for you. Users can start investing in less than 2 minutes. There is no minimum requirement & no paperwork. It is a seamless digital experience end-to-end. A usersimply chooses a goal, selects an investment strategy, verifies their identity & makes a deposit. Each user is recommended a personalised investment strategy for each investment goal, combining money market & index tracking ETFs. Our helpful calculators assist clients with their budgeting, retirement & targeted savings needs. We also provide free access to our online academy & fun financial literacy quizzes.We know saving is hard & investing can be scary, which is why we create savings groups & challenges so that users can encourage one another. We also run weekly competitions where users can stand a chance to win a cash prize that will boost their investments.
Knife Capital is an independent growth equity investment firm focusing on innovation-driven ventures with proven traction. By leveraging knowledge, networks & funding, Knife accelerates the international expansion of entrepreneurial businesses that achieved a product/market fit in a beachhead market. Knife have offices in Cape Town andLondon.Knife invests via a consortium of funding partnerships, including SARS section 12J Venture Capital Company KNF Ventures and select family offices. Knife facilitated lucrative exits of local technology companies to the likes of General Electric, Visa, Garmin and Uber.
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- Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology
- 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.
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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- 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.
- Aanaab — Aanaab offers online courses in Arabic for teachers and educators to help them improve their skills in different areas including self-development, educational strategies, education techniques, and educational tools and techniques.
- HealTec — HealTec provides B2B healthcare rehabilitation manufacturing facility that enables the local production of medical prosthetics and other devices to serve Long-Term Care and rehabilitation patients.
Tofino Capital is an early stage investor in emerging market technology companies.
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- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Nigeria, Egypt
Portfolio highlights
- CAAFiSOM — CAAFiSOM is the leading Healthcare technology provider that provides a range of healthcare services.
- Leta — Leta Technology is a software development company that creates supply chain and logistics software to enable the efficient and automated movement of goods.
- Irreversible — Irreversible designs next-generation analog AI chips that enable meaningful intelligence anywhere — from sensors to robots.
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