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Top 45 Gaming Startup Investors in South Africa in November 2024

Last updated: Nov 2024 A list of 45 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Gaming startups based in South africa. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Gaming companies from South africa. We update this investor list every month.

Top 45 Gaming Startup Investors in South Africa in November 2024

Investor	Gaming South Africa investments
Cult Food Science	3
Raine Ventures	2
Konvoy	2
Sustainable Food Ventures	2
TTV Capital	2
Standard Chartered Bank	2
Riot Games	2
Vumela Fund	2
Kale United	1
Legion Ventures	1
Ham Serunjogi	1
Twynam Agricultural Group	1
LoftyInc Capital	1
Tim Draper	1
Nasir Jones	1
Lavender Capital	1
Fish Dao	1
Perivoli Innovations	1
Maijid Moujaled	1
Alethea Capital Management	1
Andreessen Horowitz	1
Avenir	1
CRE Venture Capital	1
HAVAÍC	1
Alpha Moon Capital	1
Naspers Foundry	1
Brian Corrigan	1
Google	1
Khulisani Ventures	1
Ground Squirrel Ventures	1
AlphaCode Club	1
Musha Ventures	1
Michael Jordaan	1
4Di Capital	1
Chandaria Capital	1
AET Fund	1
Lateral Frontiers	1
Yield Guild Games	1
Fairum Ventures	1
2CrazyNFT	1
Newtown Partners	1
Avalon Wealth Club	1
Anonymous Trust	1
Unanimous Capital	1
Invenfin	1

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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.

Raine Ventures is an early stage fund managed by The Raine Group. The firm has offices in San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, London and Shanghai. With a global reach, Raine focuses on investment and advisory opportunities where its deep industry experience and unique network of strategic relationships can create value for portfolio companies andclients.

Investment focus

Gaming, Mobile, Internet
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Castore — Castore has been created to bring a new level of performance to men’s sportswear. They are the world’s first premium sportswear brand specifically for men, targeting only the most discerning athletes who value the attention to detail and precision performance features that underpin all garments. The Castore brand DNA lies in an unrelenting focus ontechnical innovation to create the most advanced products for those individuals who simply cannot settle for second best.
Perlego — Perlego is an online library subscription service for textbooks and non-fiction titles. Having partnered with over 3,000 of the world's best publishers, it gives its users unlimited access to over 650,000 eBooks and publications via an affordable monthly subscription. It aims to make learning accessible to all. It was founded in 2016 and isheadquartered in London, England.
Definely — Definely creates legal tech solutions to free lawyers from frustration, saving them time when understanding, drafting and reviewing legal documents.

Konvoy Ventures is a thesis driven venture capital firm. We invest in the platforms and technologies at the frontier of gaming.

Investment focus

Gaming, Video Games, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

k-ID — At k-ID, we specialize in integrating safety and privacy by design compliance solutions for digital platforms, focusing on creating a safer, more responsible online environment for children and teenagers.
Pok Pok — Pok Pok is a low-stimulation app for kids 2-7 filled with Montessori-inspired digital toys that offer a calmer way to learn through screen time play.
Afference — Powering the sense of touch in the digital world. Feel digital objects in AR, VR, and XR with our groundbreaking haptic feedback device, the Phantom.

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.

TTV Capital is a venture capital firm that funds and supports the businesses that shape the financial future of the world.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Canada, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Stream — Generative AI for workers' comp - turn documents into actionable summaries with AI LLM models trained specifically for WC.
KOHO Financial — Open an everyday spending account online with instant cash back & premium rewards. Join over 1.5M Canadians using KOHO's prepaid Mastercard to spend, save, build and borrow. Sign up in minutes!
Wildfire Systems — We are the only white-label cashback and shopping rewards loyalty platform that helps companies monetize e-commerce everywhere.

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

Verkor — Verkor is a battery cell manufacturer whose goal is to increase the production of low-carbon batteries to fulfill the growing demand for electric vehicles. The company focuses on the development of low-carbon batteries with a carbon footprint that is many times smaller than standard batteries. This reduces the logistics footprint, includingemissions, and provides businesses with batteries that are very inexpensive and use carbon-free electricity.
AdaniConneX — AdaniConneX is the largest Hyperscale Data Center provider. Avail the maximum uptime, highest energy efficiency, full scalability and security to your business and customers.
Fosun International — Fosun International Limited is a Hong Kong-based investment holding company engaged in financial, property, steel, and healthcare businesses. The Company has nine segments. Insurance operates and invests in insurance businesses. Investment is engaged in strategic investment, private equity investment, venture capital investment, and secondarymarket investment.Fosun International Limited was founded in 1992.

Riot Games is the most player-focused game developer and publisher in the world. We published League of Legends in 2009, and have since released Teamfight Tactics, Legends of Runeterra, VALORANT, and League of Legends: Wild Rift.

Investment focus

Gaming, Video Games, Mobile Apps
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Germany, China

Portfolio highlights

Stoke Games — Stoke Games operates as an independent gaming studio.
Wicked Saints Studios — We used behavioral technology to create interactive media that is wickedly fun and actively good. Wicked Saints emerged from Niantic’s incubator last fall (CNBC article) with a prototype of the world’s first adventure activism game, World Reborn. At its simplest, World Reborn is an interactive story game with real-life quests facilitated byaugmented reality (AR). It not only defies genres between narrative and AR games but blends the digital and real world. Wicked Saints sees AR as a bridge between fantasy and reality, with untapped potential to offer players immersive experiences that change them and their world for good.
The Believer Company — Join the journey We are building a world-class team to serve players for years to come. If you believe in games, we believe in you.

Vumela was established in 2009 by FNB Business Banking and Edge Growth. The objective was to create an innovative model for the development of a sustainable and a financially and operationally independent investment business which invests in high growth small, medium and micro size enterprises with good economic and impact returns.Vumela wascapitalised in 2010. Within the first four years, we’d invested R90 million into eight high growth SMEs, and created a total of 400 jobs. They launched their second fund in 2015, after a further investment of R100 million from FirstRand and R127 million from the Jobs Fund. Within the first year of launching this second fund, we’ve committed R43 million to five investments that are expected to create over 1800 new jobs.The first fund of its kind in South Africa, Vumela’s main goals are to invest in and develop entrepreneurial companies in order to help alleviate poverty in South Africa by creating jobs, and to generate a return for its beneficiaries: the Shalamuka Foundation and the FirstRand Group.

Investment focus

Education, Software, Primary Education
Funding Round, Seed, Debt Financing
South Africa, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Rentoza — We champion giving you access, affordability and flexibility to explore tech on your own terms
Kombo King — Kombo King Ventless Fryer Tech removes the need for plumes of steam & the constant eye of an inconsistent employee to Revolutionize & solve the frying industry!
Kusini Water — Kusini Water builds water treatment systems from nanotechnology and macadamia nut shells.

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."

Legion Ventures is at the epicenter of the blockchain tokenized revolution – connected with leaders, funds, influencers, governments, companies, technology, and trends that are key to success in this market. They are intimately familiar with the complexities of today’s economic convergence around blockchain, digital securities, crypto trading,tokenizing real-world assets, liquidity solutions, global regulation, investor and customer behavior patterns, and the complex web of relationships tying decentralized systems to a better world. This expertise allows us to build the right plan for each stage in your blockchain journey.A sound finance and marketing strategy, along with sharp vision are must-haves in order to disrupt or keep up with disruption in the blockchain tokenized ecosystem. Legion Ventures’ provides real-time tailored services in order to reach to an innovative ever-changing world of democratized data.

Investment focus

Gaming, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Pre-Seed, Initial Coin Offering
Italy, Spain, Panama

Portfolio highlights

Coinzix — Coinzix - one of the most convenient and reliable crypto platforms with guaranteed liquidity and low commissions. Come in and make sure.
VisionGame — VisionGame brings the traditional game publishing experience, boosted for the blockchain. VisionGame provides unique products, technical and creative services, all to support the ever-growing gaming blockchain industry, raising the bar one game at a time.
MetaFi — MetaFi operates as a Trading Metaverse. Trading Metaverse is a new kind of social trading experience governed by its users.

Ham Serunjogi is a co-founder and CEO at Chipper Cash.

Investment focus

Mobile Apps, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Nigeria, United States, South Africa

Portfolio highlights

Caliza — Give your users access to the digital dollar economy. Get early access!
Sudo — Sudo is an open API platform that enables businesses to embed powerful financial features into their products. Build in minutes, launch in days.
CreditChek — Bridging the trust gap between global credit businesses and underserved African consumers.

Twynam Group is a leading Australian Funds Manager investing in early-stage climate tech. We also operate an agricultural and property portfolio.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Agriculture, Seafood
Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
United States, Australia, India

Portfolio highlights

Voltpost — The lamppost electric vehicle charger.
Alt Mobility — ALT Mobility is a full-stack EV leasing platform offering mobility as a service (MaaS) for commercial vehicle users.
Ocean Rainforest — Ocean Rainforest offer a collection of premium fully-traceable seaweed products, mostly for food and cosmetic producers.

LoftyInc Capital Management empowers Afropreneurs to build a prosperous and equitable future in Africa. We deliver value to both founders and investors.........

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Nigeria, United States, Egypt

Portfolio highlights

Mtor — Mtor is an online marketplace that is reshaping the automotive aftermarket and provides sophisticated technology solutions.
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.
Terragon Group — Terragon is a leading Data and Marketing Technology company that uses data and analytics to help companies focused in Africa, intelligently connect at scale to their customers. We use an aggregation of online and offline data, and predictive scoring to help brands, marketing agencies and platforms accurately target people across channels anddevices. Headquartered in Lagos; Nigeria, we also have a presence in Kenya, South Africa, Ghana and India.

Tim Draper is the Founding Partner of Draper Associates. He attended Harvard Business School.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

GALY — Saving Our Planet by Transitioning the World to Cellular Agriculture
Buupass — BuuPass is Kenya's market leader for online bus booking. We enable travelers to reserve seats and make payments in a convenient and timely way. Try BuuPass today!
Zest Protocol — Zest Protocol enables users to put their Bitcoin to work. Earn more BTC, or borrow against your BTC.

Nas, byname of Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones, also called Nasty Nas, (born September 14, 1973, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.), American rapper and songwriter who became a dominant voice in 1990s East Coast hip-hop. Nas built a reputation as an expressive chronicler of inner-city street life.Nasir Jones, the son of a jazz musician, grew up in public housingin Queens, New York. He dropped out of school in the eighth grade and searched for a creative outlet, finally settling on hip-hop. His breakthrough came in 1992, when his song “Half Time” (credited to Nasty Nas) appeared on the sound track to the film Zebrahead. Columbia Records soon signed him to a contract. His debut recording as Nas, Illmatic (1994), drew widespread acclaim for its poetic narration of hard-edged inner-city life.The more pop-oriented approach of It Was Written (1996) helped that album reach an even wider audience than its predecessor but ignited a recurring tension in Nas’s career between the appetite of the pop audience and the demands of hip-hop purists. He maintained his commercial appeal with I Am... (1999), although by that time he had also become embroiled in a public feud with fellow rapper Jay-Z over which of the two was the preeminent voice in East Coast hip-hop. The schism inspired Stillmatic (2001), which many fans considered a return to form. The two rappers publicly settled their differences in 2005, and shortly thereafter Nas signed with Def Jam, of which Jay-Z was president at the time.Nas’s penchant for provocation marked Hip Hop Is Dead (2006) and an untitled follow-up (2008), while Life Is Good (2012) struck an introspective tone. He also notably collaborated with reggae musician Damian Marley (the youngest son of Bob Marley) on the album Distant Relatives (2010).Nas also made occasional film appearances, notably in Belly (1998), a crime drama in which he starred opposite rapper DMX, and Black Nativity (2013), an adaptation of Langston Hughes’s gospel play.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Magic Spoon — Magic Spoon cereal is high-protein, low-sugar, keto-friendly, and gluten-free. Available in Cocoa, Frosted, Fruity, Blueberry, Peanut Butter, and Cinnamon.
Everyrealm — Leaders in metaverse innovation and development.
Altered State Machine — Altered State Machine, aims to be a platform and protocol which any developer can build on it; can create, own, and compete with AI-based agents (bots) and upgrade and train their AI, buy, and sell them as NFTs. This will bring an evolution for NFTS.

Lavender Capital is an Incubator and Advisor to numerous GameFi and NFT start-ups and projects and recognized as a value-added partner and investor.

Investment focus

Gaming, Metaverse, Blockchain
Seed
South Africa

Portfolio highlights

FreeBnk — Ethical Crypto Banking for Next Generation
RunesFi — RunesFi is a one-stop DeFi platform that provides an easy-to-use, secure, and efficient trading experience.
STAGE — Always-on music competitions powered by the blockchain. Vote for your favorite artists and share their success.

Fish Dao

Investment focus

Blockchain, Gaming, Software
Seed, Series A
Germany, South Africa, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Ajuna Network — Ajuna Network is a decentralized ecosystem for gamers and creators.
Billionaire Plus — Billionaire Plus is a board game that combine NFT, Defi, collectibles and your journey.
Cumulus Encrypted Storage System (CESS) — CESS, a Blockchain Based Decentralized DistributedCloud Storage, a Blockchain Based Decentralized CloudDataNetwork Infrastructure, a Decentralized Cloud Storage Online Data SharingPlatform, a Blockchain Based CloudStorageSolution

Perivoli Innovations is a venture investment Trust established in 2016 by the Perivoli Trust. It donates profits to the Perivoli Foundation, a UK Charity, whose principal focus is Africa.

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical Device
Seed, Series A, Series B
United Kingdom, Kenya, South Africa

Portfolio highlights

Adaptavate — Adaptavate is leading the carbon change in the construction industry
Greenspark — Turn your e-commerce business into a force for good, increase sales and engage your customers in climate action with Greenspark.
Downforce Technologies — Downforce Technologies is a pioneering leader in science-led, data-driven land management solutions focused on optimising soil health, soil organic carbon levels and biodiversity. With over 30% of the world's soil already degraded, urgent action is needed to address this pressing global challenge. Our platform offers a complete,high-resolution view of the land's carbon profile, enabling precise analysis and site-specific strategies for optimizing carbon levels.

Maijid Moujaled is a co-founder and president at Chipper Cash.

Investment focus

FinTech, Gaming, Mobile
Seed, Series A
Nigeria, South Africa

Portfolio highlights

Caliza — Give your users access to the digital dollar economy. Get early access!
PayHippo — PayHippo is making it easier to finance small and medium sized businesses in Africa. There is a need for financing of $158 bn for SMEs in Nigeria alone. To start, PayHippo helps SMEs access and spend lender capital effectively. During their first full operational year in 2020, the PayHippo co--founders leveraged their domain expertise and foundingexperience to beat their 2020 goal by 50%.
Carry1st — Carry1st develops and publishes enriching mobile games and content apps for African consumers.

Alethea Capital Management is an SEC-registered investment advisor founded in March of 2011. As an investment management and research firm, the mission of Alethea is simple – to provide the highest level of service and guidance to our clients with honesty, integrity, and transparency. The firm’s services include fee-based asset management,research/advanced quantitative systematization, manager/strategy evaluation, and comprehensive planning. Alethea’s center of operations is in San Diego, CA.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, South Africa

Portfolio highlights

3X4Genetics — Scientifically-robust nutrigenomics (personalised nutrition guided by your own genetic stack). Practitioner education & genomic reporting
Lipidio Pharmaceuticals — A Unique Approach to Treating Obesity Precision Targeting of the Skin Exploiting the skin as an endocrine organ Historically regarded as a protective barrier organ, the skin is now recognized as an active endocrine organ capable of synthesizing, and secreting diverse hormones and signaling
SEngine Precision Medicine — The Search Engine For Identifying Personalized Cancer Treatments.

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, California, investing in bold founders, innovators, and entrepreneurs building the future through technology.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Infinitus Systems — Infinitus Systems offers Voice Robotic Process Automation (VoiceRPA) software for businesses in the healthcare industry.
Valon Technologies — Valon Mortgage is a Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac approved, tech-enabled residential mortgage servicer. The company’s mission is to champion homeowners on their financial journey as the partner they trust with their home and their future.
Infinite Machine — Infinite Machine is to create the world's most captivating non-auto vehicles. Infinite Machine initial product, the P1, is a revolutionary new personal electric vehicle that combines innovative performance and usefulness with an industrial-style look. In Infinite Machine's ideal post-car future, environment and people coexist together.

A future-focused growth equity firm backing category-defining companies.

Investment focus

Financial Services, E-Commerce, FinTech
Series C, Series A, Series B
United States, India, France

Portfolio highlights

Ziina — Pay and get paid fast. Ziina is the easiest way to send and receive money in the UAE. Accept cashless payments anywhere with Apple Pay, Google Pay, or card.
Zepto — India's fastest grocery delivery service.
Sigma Computing — Sigma is the only BI analytics tool purpose-built for your cloud data warehouse. Uniquely scalable, with an experience you already know: the spreadsheet.

Founded in 2015, CRE Venture Capital invests in early stage tech companies that are levered to Africa. CRE is headquartered in the New York metro area, with a regional office in Lagos, Nigeria.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
South Africa, Nigeria, United States

Portfolio highlights

Sabi Am — Sabi is Africa's largest B2B company, & we are digitising informal trade via our platform. We access markets hard to reach and ensure ease of distribution, & are the No 1 FCMG supplier in Africa.
Sukhiba — Sukhiba is a decentralized community-based commerce platform.
Stitch — One API integration for enterprise online payments across South Africa. Accept Pay by bank, debit + credit card, cash, manual EFT, debit order and crypto.

HAVAÍC is an investment and advisory firm that specialises in early-stage, high-growth African businesses with proven concepts and global prospects, offering investment opportunities to sophisticated investors and international venture capital companies with an interest in Africa. As a complementary offering, HAVAÍC provides corporate advisory andcapital raising services to emerging, internationally scalable businesses.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
South Africa, United States, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Sportable — Sportable is a sports data company that changes the game for teams and audiences. With Rugby being their primary focus, they are working with a number of teams and manufacturers to create and develop hardware and wearable devices that enable sport specific data to be collated in real time. Their technology gives the viewer, the team, and thebroadcaster unprecedented insight into the decision making of players.Sportable was founded in 2015 and is based in London, England.
Tanda — As a Tanda Agent, you can sell Kenya's favorite digital products, and grow your duka while you're at it
Right Now Response — Your go-to for expert breakdown assistance. Our dedicated team ensures you're back on the road swiftly and safely. Contact us for reliable support today!

Alpha Moon Capital focuses on investing in early-stage decentralized financing, NFT and Web3 startups. We aim to support ambitious blockchain startups which bring innovations and great solutions to enhance the foundation of the decentralized web. We not only invest in Blockchain projects, but also incubate, accelerate and support projects to thefullest by connecting the founding team to the right influencers and investors.

Investment focus

Gaming, Metaverse, Blockchain
Seed
South Africa

Portfolio highlights

Zuki Moba — The First E-Sports Game Empowering Gamers | Zuki Moba
Billionaire Plus — Billionaire Plus is a board game that combine NFT, Defi, collectibles and your journey.

Naspers Foundry is a global internet group and invests in technology-based companies. 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 the greatest growth potential.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Information Technology, Information Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
South Africa, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Planet42 — Having your own car has never been easier. Planet42 is a vehicle rental company offering rent-to-own car service for private clients.
LifeCheq — Affordable holistic financial advice for everyone
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.

Brian Corrigan is the VP and Head of Americas at PUBG Corporation. He attended Clarkson University and the University at Albany, SUNY. (This website is horribly out of date, probably best to hit my website or LinkedIn)

Investment focus

Gaming, Internet, SaaS
Series A, Seed, Angel
United States, Estonia, South Africa

Portfolio highlights

Powerspike — Powerspike is a new type of advertising network based on content creators - where any marketer can make their brand famous in a few clicks. Our Endorsement Serving technology automatically buys, executes, and optimizes content creator endorsements - replacing the traditionally lengthy process of RFP’s, human negotiations, and insertion orders.
Ready Player Me — The Ready Player Me platform leverages AI, ML , and a suite of developer-first tools to empower developers to integrate avatars into their games and apps to launch faster, improve user adoption, and grow revenue through asset monetization.
Carry1st — Carry1st develops and publishes enriching mobile games and content apps for African consumers.

Google is a multinational technology company focusing on search engine technology, online advertising, cloud computing, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, artificial intelligence, and consumer electronics. Their products address a wide range of use cases, including email, navigation, cloud computing, web browsing, video sharing,productivity, operating systems, cloud storage, language translation, photo storage, video calling, smart home, smartphones, wearable technology, music streaming, and more.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Grant, Funding Round, Seed
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Propelle — Propelle focuses on empowering millions of women financially. Propelle is a female-focused financial investment platform focusing on community, Education, and Investment. Propelle was founded in 2022 and was headquartered in London, United Kingdom.
Rockhead Games — Rockhead Games focuses on designing projects for PC and consoles and nextgen handheld devices. It delivers memorable moments, lead to imaginary worlds, present living characters, and challenge people by revisiting classic games. Rockhead Games was founded on 2011 and is headquartered in Porto Alegre, Brazil.
LevelTen Energy — LevelTen Energy provides transaction infrastructure for buyers, sellers, advisors, and financiers in the renewable energy economy.

Khulisani Ventures is Mineworkers Investment Company’s early-stage investment vehicle, providing capital for businesses that are ready to aggressively expand and increase their market footprint.

Investment focus

Farming, Livestock, Farmers Market
Funding Round
South Africa

Portfolio highlights

Livestock Wealth — Livestock Wealth is a crowdfarmingTM company that allows people to invest in livestock and earn from sale of the offspring.Their unique CrowdFarmingTM concept allows individuals to share the facilities of a commercial livestock farm while our experts look after their cows on a day to day basis.Cows have been a source of pride and a store ofwealth in Africa for centuries. The wealth in cows is based on something real – beef. The company enables anyone to be an organic beef farmer.

Seed round investment in frontier markets and clean energy

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Kenya, Zambia

Portfolio highlights

Grapevine — Grapevine makes it possible for groups to invite members, collect and distribute donations, establish a community and connect with nonprofits.
MindMics — Discover MindMics. The world's most accurate personal heart health monitor and well-being platform. Look after your heart health to live longer and better.
Untapped Global — Untapped connects global investors, and foreign capital to opportunities in emerging markets. Delivering competitive returns, and measurable impact for global investors.

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.

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

Michael Jordaan, the former banker now heads up a private investment company, Montegray Capital and lends a strategic-hand to various businesses, including as Chairman of Wines of South Africa (WoSA), Chairman of consumer data buro, Compuscan and as Director on the JSE. Michael also actively invests as a partner in AngelHub Ventures, a SouthAfrican based Venture Capital Fund.In 2014 he co-founded a coding apprenticeship program, ProjectcodeX, to grow highly skilled software developers to fuel the digital economy.

Investment focus

SaaS, Education, Financial Services
Seed, Series A
South Africa

Portfolio highlights

VALR — Buy and sell bitcoin, ethereum & more | Pay anyone for free with VALR Pay
Snapplify — Snapplify is at the forefront of edtech solutions in Africa, and specialises in enabling digital learning for individuals and institutions via the largest digital educational marketplace in Africa. As a global edtech company, Snapplify strives for radical inclusion to level the playing field and equip individuals across emerging markets with theworld-class tools they need to collaborate, innovate and thrive. Snapplify’s technology is used in other educational products to facilitate collaboration throughout the educational community.Snapplify for Education’s award-winning platform is already a top choice for institutions integrating digital education into their classrooms. From software to support, Snapplify provides institutions with everything they need to create a secure, collaborative e-learning environment for students. Snapplify’s robust 24-hour-access digital-library solution offers thousands of free ebooks and widely applicable, curriculum-approved educational content supplied by partner publishers from across the globe. Snapplify’s diversity of device integration allows schools to use its products on the devices that they already have access to, without having to invest in costly digital infrastructure upgrades. Snapplify’s solutions are industry celebrated and globally recognised for their innovation in technology.In order to achieve its educational goals, Snapplify has built strong relationships with diverse partners around the growth of its ebook, e-textbook, and device catalogue, and partnered with international publishers and other key stakeholders to meet the demand for widely relevant, curriculum-compliant digital educational content. As a socially minded company, Snapplify is committed to supporting others and creating sustainable change through collaboration and innovation. Snapplify empowers, inspires, and uplifts teachers via Teacha! (a media hub, resource marketplace, and careers portal for educators); is the digital content partner on a project that delivers technology and e-learning to public schools in South Africa’s Gauteng province, and runs impact programmes through the Snapplify Foundation.Snapplify originated in South Africa, focusing initially on the South African education and digital content industries. Since its establishment in 2012, the company has grown and expanded into new markets in Africa and the United States, with offices across South Africa, as well as in Nairobi, London, Amsterdam and New Jersey. Snapplify is backed by AngelHub Ventures, a venture capital company backed by former First National Bank CEO Michael Jordaan and the Harris family, as well as international investors. In 2019, Snapplify secured $2 million expansion capital from venture capital firm Knife Capital, and empowered African investment manager Hlayisani Capital’s Hlayisani Growth Fund.Snapplify for Education’s award-winning platform is already a top choice for institutions integrating digital education into their classrooms. From software to support, Snapplify provides institutions with everything they need to create a secure, collaborative e-learning environment for students. Through Snapplify’s e-learning and digital library solution, Engage, educators can share teacher-created, multimedia resource materials with students; administrators can manage the access and permissions for multiple student and staff accounts; schools can host their own 24-hour access digital content library (which comes with over 50 000 free resources including study guides, e-textbooks, past exam papers for multiple curricula, children’s books in African languages and more); and students and parents can purchase prescribed e-textbooks. Snapplify’s diversity of device integration allows schools to use its products on the devices that they already have access to, without having to invest in costly digital infrastructure upgrades. Snapplify’s solutions are industry celebrated and globally recognised for their innovation in technology.
Real Time Wine — Share your wine moments. Real Time Wine is the social wine discovery app for everyone who enjoys wine, not just those who understand it. [In App Stores NOW!]

4Di Capital is an independent seed- and early-stage technology venture capital firm based in Cape Town, South Africa.Nurture capital is the term that best describes 4Di Capitalâ€:tm:s purpose and philosophy.We understand that in the early days of any business, support, mentoring and access to networks is just as important as seed capital.Using tried and tested international venture capital best practices, adapted for local use, we believe in entrepreneur-friendly finance without frills, and in working as a team with our investments to achieve their true potential.4Di Capital Early-Stage Technology Fund 1 targets startup investment opportunities with high growth potential at the seed- and early-stages in the mobile, enterprise software and web sectors.We look for founder teams with hungry passion, commitment, domain expertise and deep insights into the large market problems they wish to solve with their technology solutions.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Series B
South Africa, United States, Uganda

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Maxe AI — AI investment Assistant for all investors. AI Portfolios tracker of stocks bonds exchanges futures. all in one to track mutual funds.
Sendmarc — Stop cyber criminals from sending emails using your domain and protect your customers, suppliers and employees from cyber attacks with DMARC Security.
Leta — Leta Technology is a software development company that creates supply chain and logistics software to enable the efficient and automated movement of goods.

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

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Leta — Leta Technology is a software development company that creates supply chain and logistics software to enable the efficient and automated movement of goods.
Jumba — Jumba is a construction technology platform that streamlines B2B construction material purchase and financing.
UTU Technologies — Trust infrastructure for the sharing economy.

AET Fund envisions a Heart Driven World by making the world a colorful place through entertainment.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Gaming
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
India, United States, Canada

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Questt — School homework app by Questt helps teachers to assign homework to students. Download today on your smartphone.
3DC — 3DC develops and manufactures a new carbon material, graphene meso sponge (GMS), for electrodes in next-generation batteries, capacitors, fuel cells and other energy storage and generation devices.
Stream Captain — Captain.tv makes games for streamers to play live with their viewers! Streamers are the hosts, and viewers play alongside them and each other live on sites like Twitch!

Lateral Capital is a mission driven venture fund investing in early and growth stage opportunities in Africa. We back companies that provide foundational technologies for the continent. We make debt and equity investments technology-enabled businesses that profitably solve significant pain points across financial services, healthcare, education,energy, agriculture, housing, logistics, mobility and more.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Nigeria, Kenya

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CNote — CNote created technology to streamline community-centered impact investing at scale. Further Racial Equity and Social Justice by investing with CNote.
Rhaeos — Rhaeos, the world's first wearable shunt monitor, aims to improve the quality care for patients with hydrocephalus through a novel, thermal biosensor. Developed within Northwestern University with collaboration between Dr. John Rogers, McCormick School of Engineering, Feinberg School of Medicine and Kellogg School of Management, Rhaeosrepresents a unique multidisciplinary translational effort for an important clinical need.
Masa — Masa Finance seeks to disrupt traditional centralized credit infrastructure by providing individuals, businesses, and developers with the tools to access credit and enable untapped wealth creation for 4.95B people globally.

Yield Guild Games (YGG) is a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) for investing in non fungible tokens (NFTs) used in virtual worlds and blockchain-based games. The organization’s mission is to create the biggest virtual world economy, optimizing its community-owned assets for maximum utility, and sharing its profits with its token holders.

Investment focus

Gaming, Blockchain, Video Games
Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
United States, Singapore, Australia

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LOScoin — LOScoin is a web3 gaming and social application based on telegram bot. LOScoin is committed to profoundly combining Web3's novel interactive experience with the passion of LOScoin's MEME community, creating a highly engaging, entertaining, and economically active DAO community, and providing users with a completely new gaming and socialexperience.
Party Icons — Party Icons is a web3 mobile gaming platform. Its mission is to blend the social glue of party games with the intensity of extraction shooters.
Sapien — Sapien, established in 2023, is a data labeling company dedicated to enhancing AI model training through scalable, high-quality data labeling services. By combining advanced technology, blockchain rewards, human feedback, and domain expertise, Sapien enables AI model development across multiple industries, including healthcare, finance, andeducation technology, among many others. The company's approach to data labeling through gamification and positive reinforcement ensures superior data quality output and high retention rates from labelers, and cost-effectiveness for customers. Sapien's commitment to quality, scalability, and customer focus, along with its mission to foster ethical and impactful AI advancements, sets it apart as a leading trusted partner for businesses developing high-performance AI models.

Fairum is a Community which knows rapid growth. We are actively looking for strategic partnerships in the blockchain industry. We believe that blockchain technology can dramatically improve our lives and society. This improvement will be done by supporting projects that have a clear vision of the real economy and vibrate according to values such astransparency and connections between individuals.

Investment focus

Cryptocurrency, Gaming, Online Games
Seed, Funding Round
Estonia, Grenada, Malaysia

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Graviton Zero — Graviton Zero multi-Chain Play to Earn NFT Game - In a Universe ravaged by War
SUPA Foundation — SUPA Foundation is a dynamic and innovative GameFi company focused on developing next-generation Web3 trading card games and platforms. Combining the best of blockchain technology, NFTs, and gaming, SUPA Foundation aims to revolutionize the way players interact, engage, and profit from their gaming experiences.The company's flagship title,Internal Conflict, is a groundbreaking Web3 TCG that offers players the opportunity to collect, trade, and upgrade NFT cards, while benefiting from the lucrative and immersive Web3 ecosystem. With a strong commitment to creating engaging and rewarding gaming experiences, SUPA Foundation has garnered recognition, including the "Best NFTs App" award at the Fantom Hackathon, and established a thriving community across various social media channels such as Twitter, Discord, and Telegram.In addition to its core gaming projects, SUPA Foundation is dedicated to supporting the growth and adoption of blockchain technology in the gaming industry, through strategic partnerships and collaborations with other innovative projects in the blockchain, NFT, and gaming ecosystems.
Billionaire Plus — Billionaire Plus is a board game that combine NFT, Defi, collectibles and your journey.

2crazynft provides NFT, NFTgaming, crypto, and bitcoin. They provide players with their revolutionary NFT platform, gaming, and eSports. They offer by placing a bid with tokens, enabling users to play against them.

Investment focus

Gaming, Metaverse, Blockchain
Seed
South Africa, United Arab Emirates

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Katana Inu — Katana Inu promotes gaming innovation by merging gaming and blockchain. As an all-encompassing ecosystem for gamers and traders, powered by Defi and NFT, Katana Inu's objective is to create a system where gamers can earn from their playtime.
Billionaire Plus — Billionaire Plus is a board game that combine NFT, Defi, collectibles and your journey.

Newtown Partners is a venture capital firm that actively invests in emerging, disruptive technology startups.

Investment focus

Logistics, Health Care, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
South Africa, Ghana, Kenya

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Chefaa — Chefaa is a GPS-enabled pharmacy benefits platform connecting patients & pharmacies nation-wide to help patients manage all their pharmacy needs. Chefaa uses big data, data ming & machine learning
Waspito — We are the platform that engages Africa into the conversation and action to drive affordable and accessible quality healthcare across the continent.
Complete Farmer — We are providing cutting-edge technological farming protocols and innovations with a unique business model and logistics that are revolutionizing...

Avalon Wealth Club is a dynamic group of marketing experts, blockchain veterans, real estate investors and event organizers

Investment focus

Gaming, Blockchain, Software
Seed, Funding Round
Singapore, Grenada, Vietnam

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DOS Labs — DOS stand for Decentralized Operating System. We build a blockchain gaming platform for web3.
Affyn — Affyn is a Blockchain-powered metaverse project developing a free-to-play and play-to-earn mobile game with integrated geolocation and augmented reality capability. Making use of geolocation capability and AR mechanics, it incorporates the fun element of gaming with Blockchain technology such as the utility of NFTs and their official currency andensures that the rewards stay attractive to both new and existing players.Affyn was founded by Lucaz Lee.
Billionaire Plus — Billionaire Plus is a board game that combine NFT, Defi, collectibles and your journey.

Trust

Investment focus

Software, Computer, Market Research
Pre-Seed, Series A, Seed
United States, South Africa, United Kingdom

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The Index — The Index is a platform of cutting-edge technology used by clients in the fashion and retail industry to grow their companies and enhance their digital footprints
De Novo Foodlabs — Producing non-animal dairy proteins using precision fermentation
Smart Separations — Smart Separations is a limited company based in London UK that has patented an innovative microfiltration technology to produce ceramic filters with self-assembled controllable pores of uniform size in the range between <1 and 50µm. This tight pore size control and range availability will revolutionise the field of MF with a cost-effectiveproduct.It aims to be the world’s leader in MF and particle separations technology – filling the void gap that exists in the market nowadays.

Unanimous Capital is a venture capital firm focusing on early-stage investments while opportunistically participating in later stages. The firm also invests in founders solving meaningful problems by creating or disrupting markets at scale. Their range of operational experience allows them to capitalize on the current gap in early-stage funding andmakes us uniquely qualified to help companies thrive.Unanimous Capital was founded in 2018 and is based in San Mateo, California, USA.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Software, Gaming
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Sweden, Hong Kong

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Jinx — Shop Jinx for ready-to-devour premium dog food and dog treats. Free shipping and 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Conductive.ai — Conductive.ai is an engagement platform for game developers to motivate players to increase player lifetime value.
Blocklords — Be part of the most ambitious strategy game of our age.

Invenfin is a growth capital investor operating in the technology, food & beverage sectors.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Information Technology, Financial Services
Funding Round, Seed, Series B
South Africa, Chad, Egypt

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Root — Launch digital and embedded insurance solutions with omni-channel distribution.
Money Fellows — MoneyFellows digitizes the ROSCA model, enabling group lending and savings.
Dynamic Commodities — Dynamic Commodities is a specialist producer and exporter of a range of frozen fruit delicacies.Dynamic Commodities is exporter of an innovative, value-added range of frozen fruit products, including fruit sorbets and various cut frozen fruits, to countries such as the US, Canada, Japan and South Korea.

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