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Top 50 Food and Beverage VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Africa in July 2025

Last updated: Jul 2025 A list of 50 VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Food and beverage startups based in Africa. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Food and beverage companies from Africa. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Food and Beverage VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Africa in July 2025

Investor	Food and Beverage Africa investments
1776 Ventures	4
Cult Food Science	3
Musha Ventures	3
Kube VC	3
54 Collective	3
Sustainable Food Ventures	3
Launch Africa	3
Unpopular Ventures	3
Novastar Ventures	2
Hack VC	2
Janngo	2
Ajayi Solutions	2
Seedstars Africa Ventures	2
MNF Ventures	2
UM6P Ventures	2
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development	2
Kale United	2
Cox Enterprises	2
Chandaria Capital	2
Accion Venture Lab	2
DOB Equity	2
VestedWorld	2
Alphamundi	2
Wamda Capital	2
First circle capital	2
Creadev	2
Hustle Fund	2
Standard Chartered Bank	2
Investisseurs & Partenaires	1
Triodos Bank	1
Gray Matters Capital	1
KFW DEG	1
AfricInvest	1
Cordaid Investment Management	1
All On	1
Savannah Fund	1
Anthemis Group	1
Foreign & Commonwealth Office - UK	1
Global Founders Capital	1
VentureSouq	1
Blue Haven Initiative	1
Afri Mobility	1
AlphaCode Club	1
DEG	1
Newid capital	1
GSMA Ecosystem Accelerator	1
Wangara Green Ventures	1
elea Foundation for Ethics in Globalization	1
Naspers	1
Norfund	1

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1776 Ventures is a global seed fund investing in companies in the following sectors: education, energy, smart cities, transportation, food/agriculture, fintech, and healthcare.

Investment focus

Education, EdTech, Software
Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
United States, Kenya, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Swiftly — Harness your public transit data with Swiftly's urban mobility solutions to make your city's mass transportation move more efficiently.
HopSkipDrive — Arranging safe, dependable transportation or children ages 6+ with qualified caregivers
Clarametyx Biosciences — Clarametyx Biosciences is a late preclinical stage biotechnology company developing targeted, immune-enabling biologic therapies to counter persistent infections associated with biofilms.

CULT Food Science is an investment company focused on supporting and advancing the technology behind the future of food.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Biotechnology, Food Processing
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, South Africa, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Novel Farms — Novel Farms uses microbial fermentation to develop cruelty-free, inexpensive and tunable bioscaffolds for the production of cell-based meat products. Novel Farms mission is to craft the taste and texture of the gourmet meats and transform cell-based meat consumption into a sought-after culinary experience for the next generation of consciouseaters.
Minus — A sustainable coffee alternative, combining the taste, look, and smell of coffee with a smaller footprint to ensure a brighter future for coffee and the planet.
Unicorn Biotechnologies — Unicorn Biotechnologies is developing a fully automated manufacturing platform to enable cellular agriculture producers to seamlessly scale products from the lab bench to supermarket shelves. Our full stack platform combines hardware, software and analytics to completely automate cellular agriculture manufacturing, reducing costs and increasingproduct quality. By providing a clear path to scale cellular agriculture from grams to tons, we will improve human and planetary health and drive the transition to animal free agriculture.

Seed capital for technology startups globally.

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

Kube VC is a global venture capital firm that invests in exceptional founders and category-defining companies.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Crowdz — Make accounts receivables a thing of the past with a competitive invoice auction for selling your invoices with invoice financing
Glamplus — Glamplus is a SAAS-enabled beauty marketplace for salons and spas in the SMB segment. Glamplus customized to suit salon,s needs. Glamplus offers Hassle-free digital appointment tracking, invoicing, customer engagement, revenue management & much more.
Klaar — Klaar eliminates the stress and bias of performance management with timely AI-powered insights that help teams identify areas for improvement, make data-driven decisions, and ultimately drive better performance & careers.

Building and scaling African tech startups with catalytic capital, value-add support and our global network.

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.

SFV backs globally early-stage founders building leading Future of Food companies that are: #Cell-based #Plant-based #Recombinant

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Biotechnology, Food Processing
Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
United States, India, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Another Food — Another Food is a plant cell culture startup which develops sustainable coffee from plant cells. A nature-identical coffee, healthier for consumers and better for the planet.
Peruvian Veef — Peruvian Veef is an offline and online store that offers real burgers, grilled seitan, crispy cravings, and vegan nugget products.
Atlantic Fish Company — Atlantic Fish Co is a cultivated seafood company using cellular agriculture to bring the world sustainable delicious seafood.

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

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

The best companies, off the beaten path.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Toma — Toma automates customer communications and operational tasks, helping dealerships boost revenue and enhance customer experiences with a conversational AI.
Rocketable — Rocketable is a software holding company that acquires existing software products and operates them using AI agents.
NORDA Dynamics — NORDA Dynamics is an autonomous UAV piloting system for carrying out missions in areas with limited connectivity.

For the many, not just the few. For good.

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?

Hack VC is a web3 venture capital firm.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

TAC — TAC is a TON network extension that allows the EVM community to access Telegram users, and it enables Ton wallet holders to easily interact with EVM dApps deployed on TAC.
Donut — Donut is the first crypto agentic browser that uses the finest crypto in-domain model and a swarm of browsing agents.
Hyperdrive — Hyperdrive delivers investment growth strategies utilizing a portfolio-centered approach.

Janngo supports entrepreneurs who leverage technology to massify three impacts on the continent: 1/ Essential services & products for African consumers, 2/ Growth acceleration of African SMEs, and 3/ Job creation, in particular for women & youth

Investment focus

E-Commerce, B2B, Logistics
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Nigeria, France

Portfolio highlights

Djamo — Djamo is a Provider of financial applications to allow customers to use their cards with zero fees in a wide range of services.
Capi Money — We help businesses in Africa pay their international suppliers by providing reliable, fast and affordable sources of EUR, USD or GBP.
Thunder Code — Transform your QA process with Thunder Code's AI-powered test automation platform. Create, manage, and run automated tests without coding - perfect for QA teams seeking efficiency, reliability, and seamless integration.

Ajayi Solutions seeks to participate in the development of the local economy in regions across Africa by investing in small to large scale privately-held businesses. The ratification of the Africa Continental Free Trade Agreement [AfCFTA] has opened a new chapter in trade across Africa and we seek to participate. We seek to invest in promisingentrepreneurs who create tech-enabled solutions to enable local production in Africa as well as facilitate intra- and inter-continental trade.

Investment focus

Farming, Agriculture, Food Processing
Seed
Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Farmcrowdy — Farmcrowdy is an agric-tech platform that gives Nigerians the opportunity to participate in Agriculture by selecting the kind of farms they want to sponsor. They use the sponsor’s funds to secure the land, engage the farmer, plant the seeds, insure the farmers and farm produce, complete the full farming cycle, sell the harvest and then pay the farmsponsor a return on their sponsorship. While this farm process is ongoing, the farm sponsors are able to keep track of the full-cycle by getting updates in text, pictures and videos.
Foodlocker — Foodlocker is a retail business that sources foodstuff from farmers, pays them fairly, & sells to customers at decent prices both online and in-store.

Seedstars Africa Ventures is an early-stage venture capital fund investing in high-growth companies active across Sub-Saharan Africa.

Investment focus

Energy, FinTech, Software
Seed, Series A
Kenya, France, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Bizao — Bizao helps companies accept all local payment methods across Africa. We build powerful APIs and smart financial flows wich greatly simplify the challenge of accepting Mobile Money, Visa/Mastercard and Airtime payment. We power all types of businesses: local retailers, online merchants, international digital content providers, money transferoperators, microfinance institutions. Our objective: accelerate mobile payment adoption in order to support economic development across the continent
Shamba Pride — Shamba Pride is a revolutionary Rural Distribution system for African Farmers, it provides online-to-offline DigiShop marketplace.
Beacon Power Services — Beacon Power Services is a utility company that provides energy management software and analytics for utilities.

MNF Ventures is a venture capital fund based in Morocco, investing in Seed, Pre-Series A and Series A startups. Tickets size can go up to USD 1M. We invest in tech startups operating in Fintech/Insurtech, EdTech, Regtech, HealthTech, Biotech, EnergyTech Cybersecurity, SaaS... Startups have either to be based in Morocco, or be based worldwideif at least one of the founders is a Moroccan citizen. MNF Ventures manages Maroc Numeric Fund and Maroc Numeric Fund II.

Investment focus

Online Portals, FinTech, Enterprise Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Morocco, France, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Logidoo — Logidoo is a digital logistics marketplace-designed company that markets shuttles through smart logistics. The company's platform, which provides rapid, dependable, secure, and economical logistics, allows users to compare offers for sending and receiving items and to track parcels in real-time.
ZSystems — ZSystems is a transformative super app designed to redefine B2B trade.
Upfund — Upfund is a real estate company that provides reliable data on office, retail, and business premises. Upfund is a digital solution designed to respond to most commercial real estate business issues. They develop tools perfectly adapted to clients' requests in a remarkable time. Founded in 2022 and is located in Paris, France.

UM6P Ventures is a venture capital investment firm that invests in Science & Innovation.

Investment focus

Agriculture, Apps, Food Processing
Funding Round, Seed, Pre-Seed
Morocco, Israel, South Africa

Portfolio highlights

Terraa — Terraa is a B2B distribution platform in Moroccan.
NitroFix — NitroFix aims to lower the global carbon footprint by generating ammonia with no carbon emissions. NitroFix created an innovative manufacturing technology that generates 0% CO2. The method is based on an electrochemical reaction, which is aided by a new catalyst.
Userguest.com — Userguest is a Travel SaaS company that provides technology to hotels in order to improve their online revenue. Our smart tool applies RevMarketing Automation to hotel website, by matching a user’s booking intent with the hotel’s inventory priorities. We display personalized incentives to boost hotel revenue where it counts.

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) invests in changing lives. Through our financial investments, business services and work on policy reform, we're doing more than ever before to build open, market economies across 3 continents.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Banking, Finance
Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Funding Round
Turkey, United States, Poland

Portfolio highlights

Scatec ASA — Scatec is a leading renewable power producer, delivering affordable and clean energy worldwide.
Cosmos Health — Cosmos Health Inc. (NASDAQ: COSM), is a fully reporting Pharmaceutical Holding Company based in Chicago, Illinois, USA, that specializes, through its subsidiaries, in the wholesale of pharmaceutical products throughout Europe.
Crnogorski elektrodistributivni sistem — Crnogorski elektrodistributivni sistem is the state-owned energy distribution corporation in charge of supplying electricity to consumers through its enormous network.

Kale United offers a portfolio of over 75+ plant-based game changers

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Biotechnology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, Sweden, India

Portfolio highlights

Opalia — Opalia is introducing a new era of dairy: functional, delicious, and sustainable dairy made from mammary cells.
The Pack — Nutritionally complete vegan dog food. Grain-free & developed with food scientists & animal nutritionists, try our delicious vegan dog food now.
Cultimate Foods — Cultimate Foods is a cellular agriculture company. It develops cultivated fat for hybrid alt-meat products. It's cultivated fat replicates the structure of animal fat tissue and it uses a "unique technological approach to 3D cultivation that creates the structure of their ingredient and reduces production costs."

Empower to build. The story of Cox Enterprises is one of hard work, respect for employees, entrepreneurship and making bold decisions.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Seed, Series C, Series A
United States, Italy, Belgium

Portfolio highlights

Centivo — Centivo is an innovative health plan for self-funded employers founded on the belief that everyone deserves quality care at a price they can afford.
Sema4.ai — The Enterprise AI Agent Company
Crisp — Crisp connects data between retailers, distributors, and brands to power real-time insights across the supply chain.

Chandaria Capital operates as a venture capital Fund. We believe that innovative ideas will transform Africa. We invest, mentor, and work together with incredible entrepreneurs to create impactful companies that can change the continent.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Retail, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Kenya, United States, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Leta — Leta Technology is a software development company that creates supply chain and logistics software to enable the efficient and automated movement of goods.
UTU Technologies — Trust infrastructure for the sharing economy.
Dastgyr Technologies — Simplifying Global Trade

Accion Venture Lab is a leading early-stage investor in inclusive fintech, providing seed-first capital and strategic support to innovative startups that are meeting the financial needs of underserved people globally. Our global portfolio and local approach enable us to spot and respond to global trends faster, sharing learnings across geographies. Accion Venture Lab is an investment strategy of Accion and is managed by Accion Impact Management.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
India, United States, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Foyer — Saving the American Dream with the "401k" for homeownership
Finfra — From application to decisioning to operations - FINFRA provides the necessary infrastructure and services for technology companies to embed financial services to their environment through a seamless integration.
Agrim Wholesale — Agrim Wholesale is a b2b e-commerce market for manufacturers and retailers.

DOB Equity is a private equity firm specializing in growth capital and buy-and-build strategies in small and medium companies.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Health Care, Farming
Private Equity, Funding Round, Seed
Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda

Portfolio highlights

FarmWorks — FarmWorks is an agricultural technology company that gives farmers access to farm inputs as well as a market for the produce .FarmWork is to unlock agricultural potential by building clusters of mid-sized farms while working with thousands of small-holder farmers and establishing direct linkage to local and global markets.
Ilara Health — Ilara Health helps primary care clinics across Africa deliver better care.
Spouts of Water — SPOUTS mission is to manufacture and distribute ceramic water filters to provide everyone in Uganda with safe water.

VestedWorld is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in emerging markets companies that have the potential to generate competitive financial returns while contributing towards the growth and development of the markets in which they are located. The firm supports these businesses through the infusion of capital, active involvement incorporate governance, and by providing direct strategic and operational assistance.

Investment focus

Agriculture, Financial Services, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Series B
Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana

Portfolio highlights

EMTECH — EMTECH provides solutions for Digital Currency regulatory compliance, development and management to help Central Banks and FinTechs build, run and manage modern financial systems.
Complete Farmer — We are providing cutting-edge technological farming protocols and innovations with a unique business model and logistics that are revolutionizing...
Jackfruit Finance — Jackfruit Finance provides money, technology, and rewards to enable low-cost African schools to expand access to education.

AlphaMundi Group Ltd is a commercial entity based in Switzerland and exclusively dedicated to Impact Investing: profitable investments that generate substantial net benefits to society. It was founded in 2007 by a group of partners with extensive experience in the financial industry as well as responsible investments, microfinance andphilanthropy.AlphaMundi provides debt and equity financing to scalable social ventures in strategic sustainable human development sectors such as microfinance, affordable education, fair trade agriculture and renewable energy. AlphaMundi is currently investing out of its impact debt fund, SocialAlpha Investment Fund (SAIF) - Bastion, domiciled in Luxembourg. AlphaMundi also manages co-investments for SAIF-Bastion investors and third parties.AlphaMundi partners believe that Impact Investing is a new tool for development that can enhance more classical responsible investment approaches (which often lack impact measurability) and complement charitable solutions (which often lack financial viability). To this extent, the firm also contributes to the emergence of Impact Investing through education events, publications and industry associations. Impact investments are now being integrated by leading US and European banks, pension funds, foundations and family offices into traditional investment portfolios, as primarily decorrelated, illiquid and profitable financial assets.

Investment focus

Agriculture, Renewable Energy, Financial Services
Debt Financing, Series A, Series B
Kenya, Colombia, Ghana

Portfolio highlights

Finaktiva — Finaktiva is the number one financial ally of Colombian entrepreneurs. We offer flexible and agile online financial solutions (loans in various forms, factoring and confirming) adjusted to the requirements of the companies. We also offer a range of non-financial tools through our platform to help SMEs´ grow. Our customers are typically businesseswith innovative business models, double-digit growth rates that have a positive impact in their communities.
AgriCapital — AgriCapital is a financial service firm that provides store credit, productive credit, credit installments, and accompaniment services.
Ampersand — Ampersand catalyzes and power mass-market electric mobility. By supplying the battery swap network and operating system the company makes sustainable mobility rapidly accessible and affordable for developing markets, to improve livelihoods and the environment. With over a million km already covered by e-motorcycles in Africa using our plug-and-playpowertrain and energy network.

We are a leading venture capital firm in Dubai, UAE, focused on supporting entrepreneurs in the MENA region at the seed- and early-stage building great companies.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
United Arab Emirates, Turkey, Jordan

Portfolio highlights

qeen.ai — qeen.ai is a GenAI native platform that enables autonomous AI to e-commerce firms of all sizes.
BloomPath — Bloompath gives engineering team leads clear visibility into project progress, team contributions, and what's gaining traction, without digging through tools. Stay aligned, spot blockers early, and keep your team moving forward.
Penny Software — Simple. Spending. Software.As above. But, more specifically, penny is a cloud-based Procure-To-Pay system. penny helps you digitize and manage your full procurement cycle from request to approval. Manage RFQs to vendors, compare quotations, send POs and even payment. penny was designed to make things easy and consolidate all of yourorganization’s spending needs into one intelligent system

First Circle Capital is a venture capital firm seeding the next fintech generation in Africa.

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.

Creadev is an evergreen investment company believe that shareholders' timing should match with the entrepreneur's vision, up to an unlimited amount of time. Creadev invest in and support companies able to scale-up and become worldwide best players in their sector.

Investment focus

Health Care, Food and Beverage, Agriculture
Series B, Series C, Funding Round
France, United States, China

Portfolio highlights

Mydawa — MYDAWA is here to ensure that every Kenyan can get quality, secure and affordable medicine and wellness products online
Everytable — Everytable aims to redefine the food landscape the same way McDonald’s did fifty years ago. But this time, instead of burgers and fries, they are selling nutritious, fresh, made-from-scratch food, at fast-food prices.
InnovaFeed — InnovaFeed is a biotech company that produces a new source of protein from insect rearing (Hermetia illucens) for animal feed and aquaculture in particular.Their model is based on a unique technological expertise that allows us to place the insect at the heart of their agri-food system and restore it to its natural place in their ecosystem: thatof recycling nutrients to then feed fish, birds or small mammals.In the context of a fast-growing world population, InnovaFeed’s activity responds concretely and competitively to an increase in protein demand while contributing to the development of a more sustainable food system, in particular through the development of quality aquaculture.

Hustle Fund is a seed fund that invests in early-stage startups operating in software, business-to-business, fintech, and digital health sectors.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Singapore, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Elfie — We fight high blood pressure and increase treatment adherence by rewarding patients for self-monitoring. World #1 app for hypertension. Download now.
Niural — Niural is the future of HR management with centralized control, advanced analytics, and automation for streamlined HR operations worldwide.
Punchup.live — Punchup is developing innovative tools to allow live entertainers to own and activate the relationship with their fans

Standard Chartered Bank offers personal and business banking services. Their solutions for companies include transaction banking and financial markets solutions. They also offer current accounts, savings accounts, credit cards, loans, and mortgage services.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Internet, FinTech
Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Funding Round
Singapore, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Singtel — The Singtel Group, Asia's leading communications group provides a diverse range of services including fixed, mobile, data, internet, TV, infocomms technology (ICT) and digital solutions.
Shriram Finance — Shriram Finance: Your choice for FD, FIP, General & Life Insurance, Personal, Business, and Vehicle Loans, along with easy BBPS and UPI payment services. India's leading NBFC for diverse financial needs.
Sandfire Resources NL — Sandfire Resources NL is a dynamic mid-tier Australian mining and exploration company which is listed on the Australian Securities Exchange.

Investisseurs et Partenaires

Investment focus

Financial Services, Health Care, Food and Beverage
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
France, Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire

Portfolio highlights

iProcure — iProcure is a Nairobi-based start-up working to optimize the agriculture input supply chain in rural Kenya. iProcure’s web and mobile technology solution improves agriculture retailers’ operations. It lets them manage ordering based on inventory, point of sale activities, and client profiles along with geo-located purchasing patterns, real-timeagent performance and transaction analysis, and built-in mobile payments. As a result, retailers can better predict demand with business intelligence data, improve inventory management, and streamline distribution efficiency.
Trackbit — Trackbit is a cryptocurrency exchange platform.
Lapaire — Discover a wide range of high-quality & affordable eyeglasses at Lapaire Glasses. Book a free vision test with our professional optometrists to help you find your perfect pair of glasses to enhance your vision and style. Shops in 7 african countries: Benin, Ivory Coast, Togo, Burkina Faso, Mali, Kenya and Uganda.

Triodos Investment Management focuses on investments in various areas, including renewable energy, microfinance, and real estate.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Energy, FinTech
Debt Financing, Funding Round, Series A
India, Germany, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Sunvigo — Sunvigo provides you with cheap solar power from your roof and real green power from the grid.
Harmony Energy — Harmony Energy creates, constructs, and runs wind and solar energy projects. They build substantial solar PV farms, supporting landowners all along the way with their project. They have a range of project and technical abilities to share with landowners because they developed and operated wind power facilities.Established in 2010, Harmony Energyis one of the UK’s leading developers, owners, and operators of utility-scale battery energy storage. It also has expertise in developing, building, and running wind and solar facilities, both independently and in conjunction with others.
La Bolsa Social — La Bolsa Social is an equity crowdfunding platform that aims at funding the growth of companies with a positive social and environmental impact. The platform is focused on the investors who seek a comprehensive profitability in the economic, social, and environmental sectors. It connects impact investors with companies that improve society and theenvironment. Its objective is to improve the financing of companies with growth potential that has a positive impact on society and the environment and promoting ethical finance. Founded in 2015, La Bolsa Social is authorized in Spain by the CNMV.

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.

Investment focus

Education, Health Care, E-Learning
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
India, United States, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

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.
Indian School Finance Company — ISFC is a Non-Banking Finance Company engaged in the business of lending to educational institutions and entrepreneurs managing such institutions. The company started its operations in December 2008 from Hyderabad and has expanded since to other cities.

KFW DEG offers financing, advice and support to private sector enterprises operating in developing and emerging-market countries. Their customers can rely on their expertise: They can benefit from their market knowledge, their 21 locations worldwide, and their international network. For entrepreneurial success and development.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Finance, Banking
Debt Financing, Funding Round, Grant
India, Kenya, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Etana — PT Etana Biotechnologies Indonesia (Etana) is an emerging producer of high-quality, affordable and innovative biopharmaceuticals to treat a range of metabolic, autoimmune and other major life-threatening diseases, including cancer. Nathan Tirtana. Legend Capital. UOB Venture Management. Innovent Bio
BUA Cement — BUA Cement Plc is engaged in the production and marketing of cement under the brand name “BUA Cement”. Presently the company produces CEM II type of cement in accordance with the Nigerian Industrial Standards. BUA Cement is ideal for all construction purposes in Nigeria. Its unique quality makes it the cement of choice for block-making, plasteringand concrete works. Its high early strength, rapid setting and low heat of hydration are all distinct features that characterize our high quality production process.
Stima — Premium electric motorcycles and battery swapping technologies to better serve moto-taxi and delivery riders in Africa - Starting in Kenya

AfricInvest was founded in 1994 and is part of Integra Group, an investment and financial services company based in Tunisia.Uniquely positioned as one of the most experienced private equity investors on the continent, AfricInvest has dedicated investment teams focused on North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa, and employs 66 professionals based inseven offices.AfricInvest manages USD1 billion across 16 funds and benefits from strong, long-term support from both local and international investors, including leading development finance institutions in the United States and Europe.Having co-founded the African Venture Capital Association (AVCA) as well as the Middle East North Africa Private Equity Association (MENAPEA) and the Euromed Capital Forum, the firm is an active promotor of the private equity industry in the region.Since 1994, AfricInvest has invested in 135 companies across 25 African countries in a variety of high growth sectors and maintains a broad network of high quality executives across Africa, offering extensive expertise in key growth industries, including financial services, agribusiness, consumer/retail, education and healthcare.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Financial Services, FinTech
Funding Round, Private Equity, Series A
Tunisia, Morocco, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Bizao — Bizao helps companies accept all local payment methods across Africa. We build powerful APIs and smart financial flows wich greatly simplify the challenge of accepting Mobile Money, Visa/Mastercard and Airtime payment. We power all types of businesses: local retailers, online merchants, international digital content providers, money transferoperators, microfinance institutions. Our objective: accelerate mobile payment adoption in order to support economic development across the continent
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.
Moove — Moove is a mobility fintech that provides revenue-based vehicle financing to mobility entrepreneurs, democratizing vehicle ownership globally. 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 revenue analyticsof mobility entrepreneurs to underwrite loans.

We are one of the few social impact investors committed to deploying capital to the most underserved markets in the world.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Consumer Goods, Food Processing
Debt Financing
Sierra Leone

Portfolio highlights

Capitol Foods — NurturingNature's Best Discover the Taste of Sierra Leone Organic Practices, Outstanding Flavors Ethically Sourced, Exceptionally Delivered From the Farms to Your Table Sustainable Practices, Outstanding Flavor The refreshing, crisp flavour of ripe apples captured in a delightful beverage Send a Message Capitol Foods - Your Choice for Natural Goodness Discover More

All On: Energy Innovations. Powerful Collaboration. Our mission is to increase access to commercial energy products and services for under-served and un-served off-grid energy markets in Nigeria, with a special focus on the Niger Delta sources in Nigeria.

Investment focus

Renewable Energy, Energy, Solar
Seed, Funding Round, Grant
Nigeria, France, Senegal

Portfolio highlights

Koolboks — Koolboks: solar-powered, financially accessible fridges with an integrated pay-as-you-go platform dedicated to making cooling accessible to all of Sub-Saharan Africa. Get a Koolboks refrigerator for as little as 25k Naira down payment today!
Mobile Power Ltd — Mobile Power's innovative pay-per-use battery sharing network unlocks clean energy for households, businesses and electric transport in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Greenage Technologies Power Systems — Greenage Technologies is revolutionizing the use of solar energy systems in Nigeria. Our local manufacturing creates differentiation in local product purchases, services, and cost. We are the first indigenous mass producer of solar Inverter technologies in Nigeria. We currently have our footprint in 26 states out of the 36 states in Nigeria andlooking to launch in Ghana, Rwanda and Kenya in the near future.

Savannah Fund is a seed capital fund specializing in US$25,000-US$500,000 investments in early stage high growth technology (web and mobile) startups in sub-Saharan Africa. Initially focused on East Africa, the fund aims to bridge the early stage/angel and venture capital investment gap that currently exists in Africa. The Fund expects toachieve this objective by combining capital with mentor networks both in the region and from Silicon Valley via an accelerator program and a follow-on independent seed fund.The fund is managed by an experienced and technology savvy team that have founded companies or are actively involved in angel investing or having run successful accelerator programs in past but also understand the unique Subsaharan African environment. They are backed and supported by both local, regional and international networks of angels,venture capitalists whose expertise we can draw on to help startups succeed and scale to fully fledged regional or global companies.They believe in the potential for Africa to become a global technology innovator by creating sustainable for profit companies that create jobs and make an impact.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, FinTech, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Kenya, United States, South Africa

Portfolio highlights

Oze — OZÉ brings African small businesses into the digital era. It is an app that makes it easy for businesses to track sales, expenses, and customer information. The data is analyzed to provide tailored recommendations, reports, and business education. If the entrepreneur needs a little extra support, an OZÉ Coach is just a click away. As they are usingOZÉ to manage their business and learn how to run it better, we are learning about them. Using this data and machine learning, we can predict their credit risk and provide them with affordable capital from our banking partners. With over 20,000 registered users, OZÉ is the largest online community of SMEs in Ghana. The most exciting thing is that OZÉ works; 97% of businesses that have used OZE for at least 9 months are growing or profitable or both!
Root — Launch digital and embedded insurance solutions with omni-channel distribution.
Afropolitan — Afropolitan is building a Network State to unleash the maximum potential of Africans around the world. Are you interested? Join us with your email.

digitally native finance

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

Elevate — Elevate is a modern platform that makes benefits better for employees and easier for employers.
TreasurySpring — We search out the best cash investments on the planet and deliver them through a simple digital portal. All you need to do is click some buttons.
Project Admission — A software solution that integrates with ticketing platforms, Project Admission makes buying, transferring, and reselling tickets simple, intuitive, and effective.

Foreign & Commonwealth Office is a government organization that provides tourists and travellers with travel alerts, tips, and advice. It promotes the United Kingdom's interests overseas supporting its citizens and businesses around the globe.Foreign & Commonwealth Office has a worldwide network of embassies and consulates thatemploys over 14,000 people in nearly 270 diplomatic offices. It works with international organizations to promote British interests and global security, including the EU, NATO, Foreign & Commonwealth Office was founded on January 1, 1936 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Investment focus

Medical, Logistics, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed
Kenya, Mauritius, South Africa

Portfolio highlights

Ziada — Ziada is a mobile application that connects you to service providers near you and vice versa. Download Ziada today from the Google Playstore to start experiencing convenience.
AgroCenta — AgroCenta is an online platform that connects the smallholder farmer in the staple food (rice, maize, millet and soybean) value chain to a wider online market to trade
HealthDart — Consult with a doctor, nurse or pharmacist, order medicines or get health advice - at a price you can afford

Over the past two decades, GFC have backed over five hundred entrepreneurs worldwide, e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, and Away Travel.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Wind.app — Pay remote teams, freelancers and just about anyone you can think of instantly! Enjoy zero transfer fees, cash out locally, grow and protect your funds with Wind
Blink — Blink is the best online ordering system for restaurants and supermarkets that helps managers to take their business online providing the most powerful CRM and analytics environment.
Defacto — Never fall behind with defacto's instant financing solution. We also integrate with your accounting systems & scale to your needs. Join our wait list !

VentureSouq (VSQ) is a MENA-based venture capital fund manager with a global portfolio. VSQ manages thematic funds, with a current focus on FinTech and ClimateTech.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia

Portfolio highlights

Pathao — Pathao can move you forward. One app for your success, earning, betterment, comfort, easy going lifestyle and many more. Keep #MovingSafely
Mala Inc. — This is meta description
PostEx — PostEx is a hybrid of receivables factoring solutions and courier services that pay invoice values upfront to e-commerce companies offering Cash on Delivery as one of their modes of payment.

Blue Haven Initiative is an innovative family office dedicated to putting wealth to work for market returns and positive social and environmental change.

Investment focus

Solar, Energy, Financial Services
Series A, Series B, Seed
Kenya, United States, Ghana

Portfolio highlights

M-KOPA — M-KOPA is the global leader for “pay-as-you-go” energy services for off-grid customers. M-KOPA was established in 2011. Following 2 years of piloting and development, M-KOPA began commercial sales in Kenya in October 2012. M-KOPA expanded to Uganda in 2013 and commences operations in Tanzania in late 2014. Their team includes over 500 staff andwe sell our product through more than 1000 retail agents and shops. The founders of the company are experienced mobile technology innovators who believe in the huge potential of transformative, affordable products designed for underserved consumers. While excellent technology is a pre-requisite, technology alone does not solve for customer needs. Success comes when smart technology is combined with a commitment to on-going, on-the-ground delivery. To that end, M-KOPA is beginning to license its technology to experienced and reputable third parties in markets outside of East Africa (licensing queries should be sent to licensing@m-kopa.com). M-KOPA has developed a proprietary, patented technology platform that combines embedded GSM + mobile payments to revolutionize asset financing in emerging markets. The M-KOPAnet platform has been designed and built from the ground up by our talented team of software engineers, who continue to innovate and improve the system every day. It offers the powerful combination of accounting + customer relationship management + inventory tracking in one complete system. Aside from enabling our business operations to scale at record speed, the M-KOPAnet™ platform captures and processes huge volumes of data, enabling us to improve our proposition, customer service, and security in real-time.
TIBU Health — TIBU Health is a disruptive HealthTech logistics company that provides high-quality healthcare services.
BlueMark — BlueMark is the leading provider of impact intelligence and independent verification for the sustainable and impact investing market.

Afri Mobility is the venture capital arm of AKWA Group.

Investment focus

B2B, Food Delivery, Fleet Management
Seed, Convertible Note
Morocco, France

Portfolio highlights

Lyko — In a simple connection, integrate the planning and sales of thousands of mobility service providers around the world into your platform...
VotreColis — VotreColis.ma is a 100% b2b online solution that will help you streamline your delivery service. Facilitate merchant-customer relationships by providing them with a team of deliverers in all Moroccan cities, as well as a platform for managing and optimizing deliveries.
VotreChauffeur — VotreChauffeur is a transport and mobility company. They provide vehicles with private drivers. They provide water bottles, Wifi, phone chargers, and magazines in their vehicles. They serve customers.

We are an African venture capital fund, for world-class African entrepreneurs run by seasoned African investors.

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.

DEG, a Merkle Company is a full-service digital agency purpose-built to meet clients in the moment with data-driven marketing, commerce, and collaboration solutions.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
Funding Round, Debt Financing, Grant
India, South Africa, Ghana

Portfolio highlights

BioBuu — BioBuu focuses on the development of manufacturing capacity and environmentally sustainable production.
Laprophan — Laprophan gives people access to cutting-edge treatments and therapies. As a result, we are committed to researching, developing, and bringing new, innovative goods to market. dedication to patient-centered care pervades everything we do, from product creation to service delivery.
SUN Energy — SUN Energy - Pengembang Proyek PLTS Terkemuka untuk Mendukung Perjalanan Keberlanjutan Perusahaan Anda.

Newid Capital invests internationally in growth-oriented financial services companies serving the underbanked.

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

Our mission is to build synergies between start-ups and mobile operators, with the aim to scale innovative and sustainable mobile services in emerging markets.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Mobile
Grant, Seed
Kenya, Indonesia, Senegal

Portfolio highlights

Koolboks — Koolboks provides a reliable and alternative storage technique due to the superior insulation and ice battery technology employed in the design.
Taskmoby — Taskmoby is a digital marketplace that connects people with home service professionals like cleaners, plumbers, and electricians in Ethiopia
AgroCenta — AgroCenta is an online platform that connects the smallholder farmer in the staple food (rice, maize, millet and soybean) value chain to a wider online market to trade

Wangara Green Ventures is a climate-focused impact investment asset manager in Ghana, West Africa.

Investment focus

Agriculture, AgTech, Energy
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Ghana, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Wami Agro — Wami Agro is an agri-tech company involved in partnering with smallholder farmers to grow, aggregate, and sell diverse agricultural produce on the Ghanaian and international markets. We achieve this by providing tech-enabled interventions for smallholder farmers and ensuring easy access to credit and markets for farmers. Today, the Companyaggregates rice, maize, soya bean, and cassava from over 10,000 smallholder farmers and sells them to poultry farmers, FMCGs, distributors, and food service businesses within Ghana.
Kofa — Kofa is an automotive company that utilizes the latest electric battery and motor technology. The company aims to develop an affordable, sustainable and customer driven electric network in transformative energy, transport, and climate change around the globe. Kofa was founded in Ghana and is headquartered in Accra.
Northlite Solar — NorthLite Solar is a renewable energy provider that delivers solar power solutions for both commercial and residential sectors.

elea Foundation for Ethics in Globalization

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Logistics, Health Care
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
South Africa, India, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Elucid Social — Elucid Social integrates businesses with the social good movement through a data-driven strategy that yields measurable results. Elucid Social develops and deploys technologies to assess, report, and minimize human rights risks linked with the sourcing of products and services.
BluLever Educations — Join the artisans & apprentices who are building the future. At BluLever Education you can build your career, business, or the artisan ecosystem with an education partner that believes in artisans. Welcome to our digital home. We offer plumbing and electrical apprenticeships.
Oorja Development Solutions — Oorja is a project developer of solar PV systems to power livelihoods in emerging markets.

Naspers is a global internet group that empowers people and enrich communities. Naspers companies operate and invest in countries and markets across the world with long-term growth potential. 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 thegreatest growth potential. The company was founded on May 12, 1915, and is based in Cape Town, South Africa.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Marketplace
Series B, Series A, Series C
India, Brazil, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

VTEX — VTEX is a developer of a cloud-based eCommerce platform used to help companies future-proof their businesses and free them from software updates. It offers an end-to-end omnichannel commerce platform that allows users to increase sales and reduce overhead by uniting with partners, suppliers, and even competitors to eliminate channel conflict toseamlessly serve customers, enabling retailers, brands, and B2B manufacturers to collaborate with third-party suppliers and grow their business by launching their own marketplaces.
ZestMoney — Enjoy the convenience of shopping for electronic gadgets, fashion, travel, education on EMI without credit card. No debit card or credit score required!
The Student Hub —

Norfund is an active, strategic minority investor. They offer risk capital and expertise to help building sustainable businesses in poor countries.Norfund aim to invest in countries where they can have the greatest impact. In countries where the private sector is weak and access to capital is scarce. This is primarily in Sub-Saharan Africa, butalso in some countries in South East Asia and Central America.

Investment focus

Energy, Financial Services, Renewable Energy
Funding Round, Private Equity, Debt Financing
Kenya, South Africa, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Miniplast — Miniplast Limited is one of the leading manufacturers of Industrial and Household products in Ghana with over 25 years of experience in the sector.
Hela Clothing — Hela Clothing is a clothing manufacturer. From design to delivery, the firm collaborates closely with brands in the intimate, sleepwear, and children's product lines. With design centers in major markets, they can watch and predict customer preferences. This enables us to provide their customers with unique design options that fit theirrequirements.
OH Ecosystems — OH Ecosystems is a confectionary company that produces and operates cocoa processing and confectioneries.

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