Top 50 Food and Beverage VC Funds & Investors in Nigeria (August 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Women Entrepreneurship for Africa
VC Fund
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9 | Nigeria, Uganda, Cameroon | Pre-Seed, Grant | Health Care, Agriculture, Food and Beverage | |
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Soma Capital
VC Fund
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3 | United States, India, Mexico | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech | $125k–$35M |
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HoaQ
VC Fund
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3 | Nigeria, United Kingdom, United States | Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel | FinTech, Financial Services, Internet | $100k–$3.3M |
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Antler
VC Fund
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3 | Singapore, Australia, United Kingdom | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $100k–$29M |
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Hack VC
VC Fund
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3 | United States, Singapore, Canada | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency | $1M–$45M |
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Kube VC
VC Fund
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3 | United States, India, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | FinTech, Financial Services, Software | $120k–$24M |
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Liquid 2 Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | United States, Mexico, Canada | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $125k–$50M |
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Hustle Fund
VC Fund
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3 | United States, Singapore, Canada | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | $100k–$25M |
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Greenlabs Incubation Programme
VC Fund
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3 | Nigeria | Pre-Seed | AgTech, Waste Management, Food and Beverage | |
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GFR Fund
VC Fund
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2 | United States, United Kingdom, Australia | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Gaming | $1M–$20M |
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Ajayi Solutions
VC Fund
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2 | Nigeria | Seed | Retail, Farming, FinTech | |
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Cox Enterprises
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Italy, Belgium | Series C, Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $100k–$100M |
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Holland George Capital Management
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Brazil, Canada | Seed, Series A, Series C | Financial Services, Apps, FinTech | $60k–$100M |
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Kairos Angels
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Nigeria, Mexico | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | FinTech, Financial Services, B2B | $150k–$20M |
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Global Founders Capital
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Germany, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, Software, FinTech | $500k–$32M |
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Unpopular Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Mexico, India | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech | $500k–$34M |
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Winsten Ltd
VC Fund
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2 | Nigeria, United States | Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel | PaaS, Delivery, Software | $100k–$100k |
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SAHEL Capital
VC Fund
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2 | Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya | Debt Financing, Private Equity, Series B | Agriculture, Farming, Food and Beverage | $500k–$2.4M |
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Backroom Capital
VC Fund
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2 | Nigeria | Angel, Pre-Seed | Delivery, Logistics, Mobile Apps | |
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54 Collective
VC Fund
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2 | Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa | Seed, Pre-Seed | Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech | $40k–$4M |
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True Culture Fund
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Nigeria, Kenya | Seed, Series A | Mobile, Apps, Video | $500k–$6.4M |
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VentureSouq
VC Fund
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1 | United States, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia | Seed, Series A, Series B | FinTech, Financial Services, Software | $589k–$50M |
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EchoVC Partners
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Nigeria, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | FinTech, Information Technology, Financial Services | $200k–$22M |
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Jua Fund
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya, Ghana, Nigeria | Non-Equity Assistance, Pre-Seed | Agriculture, Renewable Energy, B2B | $100k–$1M |
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Samata Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria | Seed, Series A | Retail, Solar, Beauty | $1M–$1.4M |
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Naspers
VC Fund
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1 | South Africa, India, Brazil | Private Equity, Series B, Series A | E-Commerce, Internet, Retail | $456k–$421M |
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Goodwater Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United States, India, South Korea | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | FinTech, Financial Services, Software | $125k–$31M |
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Aruwa Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Nigeria, United States, France | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A | Retail, FinTech, Health Care | $100k–$20M |
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Kinnevik
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Sweden, Germany | Series B, Series A, Series C | E-Commerce, Health Care, Financial Services | $2M–$200M |
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SVG Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Canada, United States, Australia | Non-Equity Assistance, Seed, Pre-Seed | AgTech, Agriculture, Farming | $50k–$4.7M |
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Dune Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, India, Nigeria | Seed, Series A | Video Games, Gaming, Software | $2.4M–$15M |
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Microtraction
VC Fund
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1 | Nigeria, United States, Ghana | Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | $30k–$1.3M |
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Hashkey Exchange
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Singapore, Switzerland | Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services | $500k–$31M |
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Wangara Green Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Ghana, Nigeria | Seed, Pre-Seed | Agriculture, AgTech, Energy | |
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Jun Capital
VC Fund
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1 | China, Switzerland, Israel | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency | $1.4M–$30M |
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Sustainable Food Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, India, Germany | Pre-Seed, Seed | Food and Beverage, Biotechnology, Food Processing | $150k–$3.7M |
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Microsoft
VC Fund
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, India | Grant, Seed | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $1k–$5M |
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Alitheia IDF
VC Fund
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1 | Nigeria, South Africa, Ghana | Venture - Series Unknown, Series A, Seed | E-Commerce, Retail, Logistics | $2.8M–$13M |
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Long Journey Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, China | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $1.3M–$103M |
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Variant
VC Fund
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, India | Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology | $5M–$33M |
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Version One Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Internet, Blockchain | $1.4M–$55M |
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Zero Knowledge
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Israel, Nigeria | Seed, Pre-Seed | FinTech, Internet, Blockchain | $2.5M–$7.3M |
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Rebel Fund
VC Fund
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1 | United States, India, Canada | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $500k–$20M |
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Acumen
VC Fund
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1 | United States, India, Kenya | Seed, Series A | Agriculture, Health Care, Financial Services | $300k–$13M |
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AU21 Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Singapore, India | Seed, Initial Coin Offering | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming | $1.1M–$14M |
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FoundersX Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, Nigeria | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $500k–$38M |
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Base Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa | Seed, Series B | E-Commerce, Food Delivery, Banking | $2M–$55M |
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All On
VC Fund
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1 | Nigeria, France, Senegal | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Grant | Renewable Energy, Energy, Solar | $50k–$2.5M |
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Haleakala Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Nigeria | Seed | Marketplace, Restaurants, Food Delivery | |
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Kale United
VC Fund
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1 | Sweden, United Kingdom, Canada | Seed, Pre-Seed | Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Biotechnology | $100k–$2.5M |
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Women Entrepreneurship for Africa
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- Industry: Health Care, Agriculture, Food and Beverage
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Grant
- Geography: Nigeria, Uganda, Cameroon
Investor stats
- Total investments: 116
- Lead/follow: 99% lead, 1% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ORIKI — A wellness + farm to skin brand that creates pampering experiences and luxurious natural personal grooming products. Sharing Africa!
- Mukuru Clean Stoves — Earthshot Prize Winner 2022. We use recycled metal to manufacture improved, efficient and affordable cookstoves.
- Loom Craft Chocolate — Loom Craft Chocolate is a artisanal cocoa processor with a strong focus on the quality of our products and the sustainability of our processes.
Welcome to Soma Capital
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, India, Mexico
Investor stats
- Total investments: 928
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$9M; Pre-Seed $125k–$3.8M; Series A $6.5M–$35M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Mason America, Inc. — Mason is the device innovation platform for product leaders who dare to deliver the next innovation in their field.
- Mudafy — Mudafy is a tech-enabled real estate broker for LatAm.
- Gecko Robotics — To collect and make useful physical data in order to protect civilization's most critical infrastructure
Startup Investment Club
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Internet
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Geography: Nigeria, United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 29
- Round size: Seed $1.7M–$3.3M; Angel $100k–$130k; Pre-Seed $115k–$1M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Chowdeck — Order food, groceries, drinks, medicines & everyday essentials from top restaurants, pharmacies, local markets, and stores near you. Fast delivery with Chowdeck.
- Klas — Anyone, anywhere can teach online. Create & sell your ebooks, courses, and live classes- all on Klas.
- La Ruche Health Inc. — LaRuche Health offers inclusive apps that simplify care delivery and improve patient access to preventive healthcare services.
Build your next company with Antler, a global day zero investor enabling exceptional founders to start great companies, from the very beginning. Apply now!
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Singapore, Australia, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2215
- Round size: Seed $159k–$4.6M; Pre-Seed $100k–$645k; Series A $4.1M–$29M
- Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $72M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- iiba — Iiba is a geospatial platform that specializes in providing location information related to child-rearing.
- Two — Buy Now, Pay Later for your business customers. Two makes it easy and safe to offer invoice as a payment method on your e-commerce site.
- Homethings — Single-use plastic is bonkers. Homethings makes cleaning products that make sense. No more shipping water in plastic bottles. We send non toxic cleaning tabs so that you can refill over and over again using your tap.
Hack VC is a web3 venture capital firm.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Singapore, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 279
- Round size: Seed $2M–$16M; Pre-Seed $1M–$8M; Series A $6M–$45M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $150M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Mudafy — Mudafy is a tech-enabled real estate broker for LatAm.
- Axis Robotics — AXIS ROBOTICS | Transferring Diverse Human Intelligence Into Robotic General Intelligence
- Hyperlane — Hyperlane is the platform for developers building the interchain universe
Kube VC is a global venture capital firm that invests in exceptional founders and category-defining companies.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 112
- Round size: Seed $800k–$8.6M; Pre-Seed $120k–$2M; Series A $5M–$24M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- CloudBankin — Habile offers a complete spectrum of web solutions, software development and services. Habile provides innovative solutions through research. We have always put the customer in front on all considerations. Technology, Thought and Thorough Research are our key to success. We bring with us over 25 man years of experience in the Software industrywith wide expertise on Retail, Tax, Educational and Banking & Finance domains. We also compliment our technology offerings with strong graphics/GUI design capabilities, QA / QC teams and strong project management capabilities. We understand the customers more as we follow a customer centric approach. We focus on quality and this has always been striking force our development
Liquid2 Ventures provides technology startups with seed-stage investments and is based in San Francisco, California. The firm was founded in 2015 by Joe Montana, Mike Miller, and Michael Ma.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Mexico, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 868
- Round size: Seed $1.6M–$10M; Pre-Seed $125k–$3M; Series A $6M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Albedo — Aerial quality imagery - from space.
- Eden — Developer of non-invasive health technology designed to democratize access to early cancer risk assessment.
- Attention — Attention is building an AI co-pilot designed to automate repetitive, multi-app desktop tasks.
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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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Singapore, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 503
- Round size: Seed $808k–$6M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2.5M; Series A $4M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
Portfolio highlights
- BON Credit — BON Credit's free AI helps you find money you're missing, pay less interest, improve your credit, and always know what to do next.
- EquityList — Equity management with online cap table management and employee stock option programs (ESOP) administration. Available free for Indian startups
- Orbital Sentry — Orbital Sentry delivers real-time wildfire detection and continuous geostationary monitoring to protect communities, reduce losses, and power next-generation risk intelligence. Our persistent infrared data helps insurers, governments, and first responders act faster and build true climate resilience
Greenlabs Incubation Programme provides mentoring and growth assistance, supported by the Consumer Advocacy and Empowerment Foundation in cooperation with Jacobs Ladder Africa.
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- Industry: AgTech, Waste Management, Food and Beverage
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Ecobag Mart — Ecobag Mart is a startup company that offers environmentally friendly solutions in the food supply chain.
- Leovia Farms — Leovia Farms is an agri-tech startup focused on reducing food losses and climate pressures.
- Geocycle — Geocycle is a startup company for developing solutions to reduce food loss in agriculture.
GFR Fund is a San Francisco-based venture capital fund that invests in early-stage startups that are disrupting the consumer entertainment industry. GFR Fund is managed by GREE VR Capital, an affiliate of GREE Inc., a global leader in the mobile gaming industry.With over a decade of experience driving innovators in multi-platform entertainment,we see emerging technologies such as VR, AR, AI, Video Streaming and Blockchain as powerful tools that will propel the entertainment industry into a new generation of consumable content. We are looking for talented entrepreneurs who share our passion and values to help realize their vision and expand their businesses globally.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Gaming
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 91
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$7.5M; Pre-Seed $1M–$4M; Series A $7M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $20M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- GEEIQ — GEEIQ is the intelligence platform brands use to plan, activate and measure marketing in virtual worlds like Roblox, Fortnite and ZEPETO.
- CityLegends — A home for urban sports & culture partners of CityLegends. Making the lines.
- Final Boss Sour — The final boss of sour candy
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Browse database — It's Free!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.
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- Industry: Retail, Farming, FinTech
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Crowdyvest — Crowdyvest is an impact-driven coop society that creates financial solutions for a community of individuals and organizations in alignment with the 17 SDGs
- 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.
Empower to build. The story of Cox Enterprises is one of hard work, respect for employees, entrepreneurship and making bold decisions.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Series C, Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Italy, Belgium
Investor stats
- Total investments: 76
- Round size: Seed $100k–$3.6M; Series A $4.3M–$25M; Series C $20M–$100M
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Hermeus — Building the world's fastest aircraft.
- Crisp — Crisp connects data between retailers, distributors, and brands to power real-time insights across the supply chain.
- Bending Spoons — Bending Spoons is a fast-growing tech company focused on building and marketing mobile applications. Despite being such a young company, we've already achieved notable results, with tens of millions of downloads of our apps, and millions of users active every month. Our goal? Becoming the #1 app developer and publisher in the world. And ourambitions don't end there!We invest immensely in our team, and we couldn't be more proud of each other. We are a group of extremely young, talented, and ambitious software engineers, data scientists, and graphic designers, with among our ranks entrepreneurs that raised money from prestigious VCs, ex-CERN, ex-Google, and ex-McKinsey. We work from our amazing headquarters in Milan, but also support remote work.We're always on the lookout for people that want to be part of our über-challenging journey to build one of the greatest tech companies in the world. If that sounds exciting to you, don't hesitate to apply at http://bendingspoons.com/careers.html.
Holland George Capital Management is an investment company. It is located in New York and London
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- Industry: Financial Services, Apps, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series C
- Geography: United States, Brazil, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 19
- Round size: Seed $60k–$4.5M; Series A $10M–$36M; Series C $85M–$100M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Omaze — Omaze provides an online fundraising platform. It gives everyone a chance to win once-in-a-lifetime opportunities, like a trip to SpaceX's Singularity University headquarters, or a hang-out session with the cast of It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia.
- Yassir — Access on-demand daily services like ride-hailing, food and grocery delivery, and payments with Yassir, your super app.
- Varo Money — Get access to personal banking services including no monthly fee checking, high-yield savings, cash advances up to $250 and more with Varo Bank.
An investment club partnering with visionary entrepreneurs to create disruptive and innovative companies that have the potential to be come regional leaders and global challengers. ideas@kairosangels.com
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, B2B
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, Mexico
Investor stats
- Total investments: 24
- Round size: Seed $150k–$5M; Pre-Seed $500k–$3.7M; Series A $7.2M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Nestcoin — Nestcoin is a web3 application company that builds, operates, and invests in crypto-native products.
- Belong — Belong is a personal finance platform for people who are ready to play the long game.
- Cleva — For anyone with global financial needs, A US-based dollar account in your name to receive, hold, and save USD.
Over the past two decades, GFC have backed over five hundred entrepreneurs worldwide, e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, and Away Travel.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Software, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 971
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$9.2M; Pre-Seed $500k–$5M; Series A $5M–$32M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $2B in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- sevDesk — Deutschlands beliebteste Buchhaltungssoftware: Rechnungen& Angebote erstellen, Buchhaltung erledigen, Kunden- &Lagerverwaltung u.v.m.
- Cambridge Aerospace — Our mission is to eliminate the risk of existential war in Europe.
- Arrakis Technologies — Arrakis partners with ambitious companies to deploy secure AI in production, taking them from experimentation to real-world impact at warp speed.
The best companies, off the beaten path.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Mexico, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 596
- Round size: Seed $500k–$8M; Pre-Seed $500k–$2.6M; Series A $6M–$34M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Sourcepulse — Your early warning system for software delivery (YC S23)
- Giant — The Giant app turns screen time into personalized, interactive stories starring your child. Safe, ad-free, and designed to spark imagination.
- NORDA Dynamics — NORDA Dynamics is an autonomous UAV piloting system for carrying out missions in areas with limited connectivity.
Winsten Ltd invests in early stage pre-seed technologies. The company's current directors Leonard Lynch and Bill Lynch
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- Industry: PaaS, Delivery, Software
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Geography: Nigeria, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Pre-Seed $100k–$100k
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Jise — Jise provides restaurant food delivery services, connecting customers with local businesses.We are extremely passionate about transforming local businesses and dedicated to enabling new ways of working, earning, and living. By building the last-mile delivery infrastructure for local cities, Jise is bringing communities closer, one door at a time.It connects customers with their favorite local and national restaurants within Lekki Phase 1 for now. Marvelous Gbenro, Osazuwa Agbonze Jeremiah, Ibukun Olasupo, and Majid Tokurah came together to found the company in 2021. It is headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria.
- Qbrics, Inc — traceable, immutable, auditable, business process management, blockchain bpm,
Sahel Capital is a leading fund manager and advisory firm focused on West Africa with deep roots in private equity, financial advisory, management consulting and agribusiness. When you partner with Sahel, you benefit from quality financial and operating experience, broad industry knowledge, and a powerful network of global relationships. Through anintegrated approach, we work closely with companies and investment partners to deliver capital solutions and advisory services tailored to fit your unique needs. The power of a partnership with Sahel leads to better investments, stronger businesses, and shared success.
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- Industry: Agriculture, Farming, Food and Beverage
- Stage:Debt Financing, Private Equity, Series B
- Geography: Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 18
- Round size: Debt Financing $500k–$2.4M
- Lead/follow: 78% lead, 22% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2017
Portfolio highlights
- Rasad Nigeria — Rasad Nigeria is specialize in the sourcing and export of premium cocoa and cashew nuts.
- Persea Oils and Orchards — Persea Oils and Orchards is deeply dedicated to organic and sustainable farming practices fostering agricultural growth.
- Noma Service Consolidated — Noma Service Consolidated is a commodity trading business that creates organized agricultural markets by linking supply at the source to local and worldwide demand.
Backroom Capital is an early-stage investment firm focused on angel, pre-seed and seed investments to empower brilliant and daring entrepreneurs with the necessary early-stage capital to grow.We bring founders the money to start off, but more importantly, the right connections and network to grow their businesses in Africa and North America. Welove real sectors where technology is creating a significant impact in the lives of millions including Health, Transportation, Logistics, Real Estate, Education, and Media.
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- Industry: Delivery, Logistics, Mobile Apps
- Stage:Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Jise — Jise provides restaurant food delivery services, connecting customers with local businesses.We are extremely passionate about transforming local businesses and dedicated to enabling new ways of working, earning, and living. By building the last-mile delivery infrastructure for local cities, Jise is bringing communities closer, one door at a time.It connects customers with their favorite local and national restaurants within Lekki Phase 1 for now. Marvelous Gbenro, Osazuwa Agbonze Jeremiah, Ibukun Olasupo, and Majid Tokurah came together to found the company in 2021. It is headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria.
Building and scaling African tech startups with catalytic capital, value-add support and our global network.
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- Industry: Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 111
- Round size: Seed $40k–$4M; Pre-Seed $40k–$1.3M
- Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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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- Industry: Mobile, Apps, Video
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $500k–$6.4M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Novig — Novig is a peer-to-peer sports betting exchange and the first platform to offer commission-free bets.
- Chowdeck — Order food, groceries, drinks, medicines & everyday essentials from top restaurants, pharmacies, local markets, and stores near you. Fast delivery with Chowdeck.
- Patika — Patika focused on helping African microenterprises come online and enjoy the benefits of the digital age.
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.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 192
- Round size: Seed $589k–$8.4M; Series A $6M–$37M; Series B $6M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $50M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Orbii AI — Our AI enriches & analyses borrower data, helping you make credit decisions in minutes. Accelerate your business loan Underwriting decisons.
- Siin — E-commerce Marketplace
- MilkStraw AI — Save 53% on your AWS bill in 5 minutes!
EchoVC Partners is a seed and early-stage venture capital firm focused on financing and cross-pollinating leading technologies, teams, business models, and knowledge across North America, Africa, and SE Asia. The average investment size ranges from $25,000 to several million dollars depending on the stage of opportunity and capital needs of thebusiness.
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- Industry: FinTech, Information Technology, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 57
- Round size: Seed $200k–$4M; Pre-Seed $200k–$2.2M; Series A $1.2M–$22M
- Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $8M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Printivo — Design & print Business Cards, flyers, mugs and other print products online and we will deliver your doorstep. Get instant quotes.
- S&T Media — AdPump The Best Digital Platform to advertise your products and services
- Rana Energy — No. 1 Solar Community in Africa
EARLY-STAGE, PAN-AFRICAN, VENTURE CAPITAL FUND INVESTING CAPITAL AND COMMUNITY IN A NEW GENERATION OF AFRICAN ENTREPRENEURS.
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- Industry: Agriculture, Renewable Energy, B2B
- Stage:Non-Equity Assistance, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Kenya, Ghana, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Non-Equity Assistance $100k–$1M
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Jirogasy — Jirogasy manufactures, assembles, and designs solar home systems and communication systems for solar.
- BRYT Knowledge — Sign up & book a free lesson from highly qualified tutors covering both ZIMSEC and Cambridge Syllabi. Quality tutor-administered lessons are what we deliver.
- Powerstove Energy — Powerstove Energy, which uses advanced technology to deliver a superior smokeless, IoT-enabled cookstove that generates electricity.
CREATING a More Inclusive Future Samata Capital accelerates equal access to capital and opportunity for talented entrepreneurs in emerging markets. We inten ...
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- Industry: Retail, Solar, Beauty
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $1M–$1.4M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ReelFruit — On a mission to inspire delightfulness by offering the tastiest snacks in town.
- Uncover — Dermatologist-tested K-Beauty formulas powered by African botanicals for melanin-rich skin. Shop SPF 50 sunscreen, serums & kits with free Kenya shipping.
- Solar Taxi Ghana — Solar Taxi Ghana app provides various electronic vehicles that are powered by solar energy.
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.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Retail
- Stage:Private Equity, Series B, Series A
- Geography: South Africa, India, Brazil
Investor stats
- Total investments: 47
- Round size: Series A $456k–$20M; Series B $1.7M–$40M; Private Equity $55M–$421M
- Lead/follow: 57% lead, 43% follow
Portfolio highlights
- PharmEasy — PharmEasy is one of India's most trusted online pharmacy & medical stores offering pharmaceutical and healthcare products at a FLAT 20% OFF*. Used by 50 lakhs+ customers in India in 1.2K+ cities like Bangalore, Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Gurgaon, Noida, Pune, etc.
- 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.
- Delivery Hero — Delivery Hero is the world's leading local delivery company. We are on a mission to deliver an amazing experience - fast, easy, and to your door.
Consumer Tech Investors - We empower exceptional entrepreneurs everywhere to change the world for good.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, India, South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 875
- Round size: Seed $850k–$7.5M; Pre-Seed $125k–$2.1M; Series A $4.5M–$31M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kaon — Chat with AI characters for free on FlowGPT! More than 1 million characters and bots to chat with, AI boyfriend, girlfriend, uncencored chat and AI tools.
- RedotPay — Where Crypto Meets Real Life | Trusted by 8M+ | Accepted at 130M+ merchants | Pay with BTC, ETH, USDC, USDT & more
- Pure — Pure Poker is a privately held fintech and software company that develops a legal, compliant, rake-free real-money online poker platform. Headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company replaces the traditional casino "house" model with a trusted, identity-verified social gaming network.
Aruwa Capital Management is a Lagos-based, female-founded and led growth equity impact fund.
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- Industry: Retail, FinTech, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 22
- Round size: Seed $100k–$3M; Series A $11M–$20M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.5M–$2M
- Lead/follow: 82% lead, 18% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $20M in 2022
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!
- Sika — Sika Box offers a comprehensive solution for global payment processing, focusing on bridging the payment divide between global enterprises and emerging markets. Utilizing blockchain and modern technologies, Sika Box re-engineers the payment process from customer acquisition to settlement. The platform enables merchants to offer alternate and localpayment options, facilitating seamless transactions. With a unified payment infrastructure named STASH, Sika Box allows merchants to consolidate payments from across the globe through a single payment gateway integration, simplifying the global commerce landscape for businesses.
- Yikodeen — Yikodeen is a well-known and established footwear manufacturing company.
Kinnevik is an industry-focused investment company with an entrepreneurial spirit. Its purpose is to build digital consumer businesses that provide more and better choices. The company does this by working in partnership with talented founders and management teams to create, invest in, and lead fast-growing businesses in developed and emergingmarkets.Kinnevik believes in delivering both shareholder and social value by building well-governed companies that contribute positively to society. Kinnevik was founded in 1936 by the Stenbeck, Klingspor, and von Horn families. Kinnevik's shares are listed on Nasdaq Stockholm's list for large-cap companies under the ticker codes KINV A and KINV B.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Health Care, Financial Services
- Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
- Geography: United States, Sweden, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 173
- Round size: Series A $2M–$91M; Series B $23M–$120M; Series C $40M–$200M
- Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Zalando — Zalando is a European online fashion platform- offering a broad assortment of fashion for men, women and children. It carries over 1.500 brands and over 150.000 product choices for over 17 million customers in 15 countries. By constantly optimising its processes and platform offerings, using its e-commerce expertise and lots of can-do spirit,Zalando have become Europe's leading online fashion retailer in only a few years. Its goal is to create the world’s best online fashion experience. The cores of its business are what the company focuses on, always striving to be cutting-edge in fashion, technology, marketing, and logistics. Zalando SE in Berlin is the group’s centrepiece which focuses on the development of its core product: the online shopping experience. Zalando SE operates the international business and takes care of their business development. Zalando SE comprises functions like the management, marketing, administration, and technology.
- Oda — Oda is an online grocery retailer that provides door-to-door delivery services. It offers a huge range of fresh produce groceries to millions of doorsteps. Using the data-driven methodology, with a focus on sustainability all the way along the chain, the company aims to build an efficient retail system in the world. The company was founded in2013 and is headquartered in Oslo, Norway.
- Global Fashion Group — Global Fashion Group (GFG) is the leading fashion and lifestyle destination in LATAM, SEA & ANZ.
We are a Venture & Innovation Platform Advancing the Food & Agriculture Industries We work with leading corporations, startups, universities, and growers to solve the biggest challenges facing the food and agriculture industries.
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- Industry: AgTech, Agriculture, Farming
- Stage:Non-Equity Assistance, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Canada, United States, Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 288
- Round size: Seed $100k–$4.7M; Pre-Seed $50k–$100k
- Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Plasmaleap — Plasmaleap is a plasma technology company that manufactures and sells zero-emissions chemical reactors designed for industrial and energy applications. The company develops reactor systems that use plasma processes to enable chemical production and transformation without relying on conventional combustion methods. Its technology supports sectorssuch as clean fuels, chemical manufacturing, and materials processing by offering electrified reactor solutions that can be integrated into existing industrial workflows. Plasmaleap designs modular systems that allow operators to deploy plasma reactors for on-site production and conversion of feedstocks using electricity as the primary energy input. The company also provides engineering support and technical integration services to help customers incorporate its reactor technology into commercial operations. Through its plasma-based approach, Plasmaleap focuses on enabling chemical processes that align with decarbonization and emissions reduction objectives across multiple industries.
- Cellar Insights — Maximize the value of your potato crop with smart remote monitoring. Monitor storage conditions and prevent crop loss with Cellar Insights.
- Brilliant Harvest — Brilliant Harvest is the Most Powerful AI Helpdesk For Equipment Dealers.
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- Industry: Video Games, Gaming, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, India, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 27
- Round size: Seed $2.4M–$7.3M; Series A $7.5M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Swoop — Swoop operates as an internet marketplace platform that provides food delivery services while building a broader consumer super-app ecosystem. The company connects users with restaurants through a mobile and digital platform, enabling customers to browse menus, place orders, and receive deliveries via an independent rider network. Its deliverymodel relies on third-party couriers who fulfill orders, while the platform coordinates transactions, routing, and customer interactions. The company generates revenue through restaurant commissions and service fees applied to customer orders, rather than directly employing delivery personnel.
- Starform — We believe that the best games are forged in the crucible of player feedback.
- The Antifraud Company — We're fighting fraudsters.
We invest in Africa's most remarkable teams with technical founders at the earliest stage of their venture
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Ghana
Investor stats
- Total investments: 106
- Round size: Seed $30k–$1.3M; Angel $30k–$50k; Pre-Seed $50k–$1.1M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Accounteer — Accounteer is a cloud accounting platform for small businesses. Business owner can create invoices, track expenses and follow up on their finances with ease. Accounteer integrates with external services like banks, e-invoicing platforms and e-commerce. Future proof your business today by subscribing for a free Accounteer trial account.
- Spring in Africa — Wallets Africa helps Africans and African-owned businesses send money, receive money, make card payments, and access overdrafts.
- ThankUCash — ThankUCash is a technology company powering rewards and loyalty for African banks and businesses. ThankUCash helps merchants grow revenue by connecting them to customers within and outside of their locations while retaining acquired customers using a data analytics-powered reward system where customers earn cash rewards for every transaction madeboth offline and online.
Hashkey they offers investment opportunities and solutions to institutions, family offices, funds, and professional accredited investors across the digital asset and blockchain ecosystem.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Singapore, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 117
- Round size: Seed $500k–$18M; Series A $1M–$31M
- Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $360M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- AltLayer — AltLayer is a system of highly scalable application-dedicated execution layers that derive security from an underlying L1/L2.
- Panoptic — The Panoptic protocol enables the minting, trading, and market-making of perpetual put and call options.
- Mask Network — Your Portal To The New, Open Internet.
Wangara Green Ventures is a climate-focused impact investment asset manager in Ghana, West Africa.
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- Industry: Agriculture, AgTech, Energy
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Ghana, Nigeria
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- Total investments: 5
- Lead/follow: 80% lead, 20% follow
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- Wami Agro — WamiAgro connects African farmers with digital farm management, market access, credit support, and climate-smart agriculture solutions.
- 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.
Jun Capital is committed to professional investment management service. With virtue of rich investment management expertise and solid expertise of the core team, They ensure the most professional investment management process.With the investment management team of JUN Capital as the core, they select the most professional partners in differentcircles to provide investors with professional investment advice and management service.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: China, Switzerland, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 17
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$30M; Series A $1.4M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Biohem — Biohem is a low-carbon geopolymer cementitious material research and development company that specializes in the manufacture of low-carbon geopolymer cementitious materials as well as the provision of novel urban and industrial solid waste solutions.
- Aleph Zero — Discover Aleph Zero, a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing the adoption and development of decentralized technologies. Learn about our mission to create a secure blockchain ecosystem and develop secure smart contracts that power the decentralized world.
- Goons of Balatroon — A 2D/3D hybrid metaverse featuring Free 2 Play 2 Earn card strategy gaming and land ownership. Ridiculous. Chaotic. Fun. Play for free and earn!
SFV backs globally early-stage founders building leading Future of Food companies that are: #Cell-based #Plant-based #Recombinant
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- Industry: Food and Beverage, Biotechnology, Food Processing
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: United States, India, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 43
- Round size: Seed $934k–$3.7M; Pre-Seed $150k–$2M
- Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
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- Propel Foods — Startup that creates plant-based and hybrid protein through technology.
- 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.
Microsoft is an American multinational corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.Microsoft’s devices and consumer (D&C) licensing segment licenses the Windows operating system and related software, Microsoft Office for consumers, and the Windows Phone operating system. Thecompany’s computing and gaming hardware segment provides Xbox gaming and entertainment consoles and accessories, second-party and third-party video games, and Xbox Live subscriptions; surface devices and accessories; and Microsoft PC accessories. Its phone hardware segment offers Lumia smartphones and other non-Lumia phones. Its D&C segment provides Windows Store, Xbox Live transactions, and Windows phone store; search advertising; display advertising; Office 365 Home and Office 365 Personal; first-party video games; and other consumer products and services as well as operating retail stores.Microsoft’s commercial licensing segments license server products, including Windows Server, Microsoft SQL Server, Visual Studio, System Center, and related Client Access Licenses (CALs); Windows Embedded; Windows operating system; Microsoft Office for business, including Office, Exchange, SharePoint, Lync, and related CALs; Microsoft Dynamics business solutions; and Skype. Its commercial segment offers enterprise services, including premier support services and Microsoft consulting services; commercial cloud comprising Office 365 Commercial, other Microsoft Office online offerings, Dynamics CRM Online, and Microsoft Azure; and other commercial products and online services.The company markets and distributes its products through original equipment manufacturers, distributors, and resellers, as well as online.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Grant, Seed
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 278
- Round size: Seed $1k–$5M; Grant $18k–$2.5M
- Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $1M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- AppNexus — Microsoft Invest is a demand side platform built for the future of video advertising.
- GuidenAI — GuidenAI builds AI-powered products that simplify everyday experiences through intelligent automation and advanced technology.
- Wayve — Wayve are pioneering an AI-centric approach to self-driving, inspired by our vision of a smarter, safer and more sustainable world.
Alitheia IDF is investing in dynamic and growing businesses throughout Africa. By investing in teams that recognize the importance of gender diversity the firm generates superior financial returns and impact.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Retail, Logistics
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Series A, Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, South Africa, Ghana
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Seed $2.8M–$13M; Series A $3M–$11M; Venture - Series Unknown $4.5M–$5M
- Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $100M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Lupiya — Lupiya is a financial technology company that provides digital lending services designed to help individuals and small businesses access short-term credit and installment financing. The platform offers mobile-accessible loans that can be used for expenses such as personal needs, business cash flow, or emergency payments, using an online applicationprocess that evaluates creditworthiness through alternative data and behavioral indicators. Lupiya’s services include flexible repayment schedules, automated disbursement, and electronic account management so users can monitor balances and repayment activity within the app or web interface. The company also offers tools for budgeting and payment reminders to support borrowers in managing their credit obligations. Through integrations with local payment networks and banking partners, Lupiya facilitates secure fund transfers and compliance with financial regulations. Its lending infrastructure is tailored to expand access to credit for underserved populations and small enterprises that may have limited access to traditional banking services.
- Seamfix — Seamfix’s end-to-end electronic ID and credentials software solutions address the lack of digital ID systems for 30+ African countries and over 250M individuals, providing access to credit, banking, and other essential services for large parts of populations.
- Alma Clinics — ALMA CLINICS Primary Healthcare with Advanced Blockchain, AI technology. BEST Clinic providing affordable healthcare, Soweto, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Join the journey with Lee Jacobs, Cyan Banister, Brian Balfour, Jonathan Bruck, Pascal Levy-Garboua, Elaine Wherry
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 139
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$10M; Pre-Seed $1.3M–$4M; Series A $7M–$103M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Swoop — Swoop operates as an internet marketplace platform that provides food delivery services while building a broader consumer super-app ecosystem. The company connects users with restaurants through a mobile and digital platform, enabling customers to browse menus, place orders, and receive deliveries via an independent rider network. Its deliverymodel relies on third-party couriers who fulfill orders, while the platform coordinates transactions, routing, and customer interactions. The company generates revenue through restaurant commissions and service fees applied to customer orders, rather than directly employing delivery personnel.
- Forage — Forage is a third-party payment processor (TPP) and a pin provider that authenticates and processes EBT recipients and transactions. Forage makes it easier for grocers to accept SNAP EBT payments online. Forage guides merchants through the USDA application process and tech integration for merchants, taking most of the burden off retailers.Foragedemocratizes access to government benefits and helps underserved Americans easily access their benefits online. Forage works with multiple grocers and platforms such as Shopify and Flashfood to accept SNAP EBT payments online.
- Caretta — Caretta is a sales‑enablement application that works during sales calls to assist revenue teams. The tool listens to live calls, offers real‑time prompts to handle objections and questions, and produces post‑call notes that update CRM systems. It integrates with calendars, CRMs (such as HubSpot and Salesforce), drives contextual call preparation,and maintains security and compliance standards.
A first-check venture fund investing in the Ownership Economy
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 96
- Round size: Seed $5M–$20M; Series A $11M–$33M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $450M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Ceramic Network — Ceramic Network is a provider of protocols for decentralized and composable data applications. The network decentralizes application databases, making data universally composable and reusable across applications. It consists of three core parts: a highly-scalable, decentralized infrastructure for data availability and consensus, a marketplace ofcommunity-created data models, and a suite of standard APIs for storing, updating, and retrieving data from those models.
- The Clearing Company — The Clearing Company is an on-chain prediction market that aims to build an on-chain, permissionless prediction market that is compliant with regulatory standards and friendly to retail users.
- Tools For Humanity — Tools for Humanity is a technology company building for humans in the age of AI.
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Browse database — It's Free!Version One Ventures backs mission-driven founders at the earliest stages. Full thesis here: https://versionone.vc/updated-thesis/
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- Industry: Software, Internet, Blockchain
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 145
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$5.8M; Series A $4M–$21M; Series B $8M–$55M
- Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Swoop — Swoop operates as an internet marketplace platform that provides food delivery services while building a broader consumer super-app ecosystem. The company connects users with restaurants through a mobile and digital platform, enabling customers to browse menus, place orders, and receive deliveries via an independent rider network. Its deliverymodel relies on third-party couriers who fulfill orders, while the platform coordinates transactions, routing, and customer interactions. The company generates revenue through restaurant commissions and service fees applied to customer orders, rather than directly employing delivery personnel.
- Roost — Founded in early 2019 and based in Toronto, Roost is building the ultimate end-to-end rental platform to make long-term renting as streamlined as booking a hotel. Focused on Gen Z and Millennial renters, we're leveraging data and hyper-personalization to create innovative real estate and financial technology products to empower the moderntenant and landlord to rent better.We're backed by leading venture capital firms including Version One Ventures, Panache Ventures, and Union Capital, as well as several angel investors including the co-founder of Dayforce and a former executive at Uber.We’re passionate about technology and its impacts on the real world and envision a future where home is never more than a few clicks away. Let's help the world rent better - join us!
- Arctus Aerospace —
Zero Knowledge Ventures invests in the best founders tackling the impossible in blockchain and AI
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- Industry: FinTech, Internet, Blockchain
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Israel, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Seed $2.5M–$7.3M; Pre-Seed $2.8M–$5M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Swoop — Swoop operates as an internet marketplace platform that provides food delivery services while building a broader consumer super-app ecosystem. The company connects users with restaurants through a mobile and digital platform, enabling customers to browse menus, place orders, and receive deliveries via an independent rider network. Its deliverymodel relies on third-party couriers who fulfill orders, while the platform coordinates transactions, routing, and customer interactions. The company generates revenue through restaurant commissions and service fees applied to customer orders, rather than directly employing delivery personnel.
- Credbull — Credbull manages on-chain private credit funds that provide vital financing solutions to creditworthy small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).
- Myko AI — Myko AI is a data-driven financial planning and analysis platform that helps companies spend less time budgeting while making better decisions. They help finance professionals to directly access data and reports from QuickBooks into the Excel or google sheets.
Rebel Fund is powered by an elite team of top Y Combinator alumni partners to support the world's most promising technology startup founders
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, India, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 284
- Round size: Seed $500k–$6.4M; Pre-Seed $500k–$2M; Series A $7.5M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
Portfolio highlights
- InspectMind — InspectMind AI is a platform to redefine inspections with artificial intelligence that significantly reduces report preparation time by incorporating multimedia inputs into comprehensive reports.
- Sohar Health — Streamline patient intake and boost revenue with Sohar's real-time insurance verification and eligibility solutions. Automate workflows, reduce claim denials, and improve conversion rates with accurate, fast, and reliable tools. Book a demo today to transform your patient onboarding process.
- sync.labs — sync.so is an AI video lip-sync and visual dubbing platform. generate studio-grade lipsync for films, ads, and content via API or web studio.
Acumen is a nonprofit venture fund that invests in early-stage companies bringing critical services like agriculture, clean energy, education, financial inclusion, healthcare and workforce development to low-income communities in 14 countries across East and West Africa, South Asia, Latin America, and the United States. Since 2001, Acumeninvested $128 million in 128 companies that have transformed the lives of over 308 million low-income people.
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- Industry: Agriculture, Health Care, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, India, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 167
- Round size: Seed $300k–$2.5M; Series A $1.6M–$13M
- Lead/follow: 52% lead, 48% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $2.8M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Haqdarshak — Made with Framer
- BharatRohan — Nurturing empathy, tech, and impact for a revitalised agri value chain.
- Promethean Power Systems — Promethean Power Systems designs and manufactures rural refrigeration systems for commercial cold-storage applications in off-grid.Dairy processors who have not been able to collect enough quality milk to meet demand, which is growing at 6% annually. Milk producers whose milk gets spoiled because it is not collected in time are alsobeneficiaries, though they cannot afford the purchase price of the chillers.The system preserves milk at the village level, which reduces spoilage and transportation costs for processors, leading to increased farmer incomes. <BR/> The chillers enable processors to collect milk that has been chilled at the source, which improves the quality of milk and enables them to collect from isolated dairy villages. <BR/> The system is powered by the grid and by a generator when the grid is down, but will in future use a thermal battery backup to store grid energy.
A fund dedicated to backing the most brilliant minds in the blockchain space
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
- Stage:Seed, Initial Coin Offering
- Geography: United States, Singapore, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 207
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$5.8M; Initial Coin Offering $1.2M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
Portfolio highlights
- PERL.eco — The Planetary Ecosystem Registration Ledger will be a dedicated blockchain for real-world ecological assets through tokenizing carbon credits and biodiversity, NFTs and decentralised (DeFi) rewards.
- A-World — Welcome to Animal World, a battle game based on #BNBCHAIN's super metaverse card tower defense. By setting up a hero tower to destroy monsters.
- NeuronX — The First AI-Driven Lending Protocol on @dfinity
FoundersX Ventures is a cross-stage venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley, with strong investment focus on game-changing technologies in high growth industries, including Biotech, digital healthcare, enterprise AI, fintech and foodtech.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 73
- Round size: Seed $1M–$7.6M; Pre-Seed $500k–$1.4M; Series A $5M–$38M
- Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Linvest21 — Linvest21 is reshaping finance with AI-driven solutions, making financial services smarter, faster, and more accessible for businesses and individuals. Join us!
- Nitra — Nitra offers expense management software that integrates with the banks to provide innovative loan products.
- World Labs — World Labs is an AI startup that can analyze visual data with comprehension akin to a person's, a substantial advancement above existing capacities.
Base Capital is an investment firm.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Food Delivery, Banking
- Stage:Seed, Series B
- Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 19
- Round size: Seed $2M–$8M; Series B $12M–$55M
- Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kapu — Your favorite supermarket on every street.
- Nitex — Nitex is a B2B platform for sustainable garments supply chain allowing fashion retailers to manage product design, developments, compliance, order tracking, and insurance in one platform.
- Swoop — Swoop operates as an internet marketplace platform that provides food delivery services while building a broader consumer super-app ecosystem. The company connects users with restaurants through a mobile and digital platform, enabling customers to browse menus, place orders, and receive deliveries via an independent rider network. Its deliverymodel relies on third-party couriers who fulfill orders, while the platform coordinates transactions, routing, and customer interactions. The company generates revenue through restaurant commissions and service fees applied to customer orders, rather than directly employing delivery personnel.
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.
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- Industry: Renewable Energy, Energy, Solar
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Grant
- Geography: Nigeria, France, Senegal
Investor stats
- Total investments: 24
- Round size: Seed $100k–$2.5M; Grant $50k–$395k; Venture - Series Unknown $500k–$1.3M
- Lead/follow: 54% lead, 46% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Eja-Ice — Eja-Ice is a technology company that provides solar cold chain systems, refrigeration solutions, and temperature-controlled transport.
- 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!
- 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.
Haleakala Ventures is an investment firm
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- Industry: Marketplace, Restaurants, Food Delivery
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Chowdeck — Order food, groceries, drinks, medicines & everyday essentials from top restaurants, pharmacies, local markets, and stores near you. Fast delivery with Chowdeck.
Kale United offers a portfolio of over 75+ plant-based game changers
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- Industry: Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Biotechnology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Sweden, United Kingdom, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 26
- Round size: Seed $360k–$2.5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Opalia — Opalia is introducing a new era of dairy: functional, delicious, and sustainable dairy made from mammary cells.
- Hooked Foods — Hooked Foods is working on a plant-based tuna substitute. By serving delicious plant-based seafood for everyone to enjoy, the company is leading the transition to a healthier seafood ecosystem. The company was established in 2019 and is headquartered in Sweden.
- Cultimate Foods — At Cultimate, we are transforming the flavor and aroma industry with natural innovative ingredients.
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