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Top 40 Gaming VC (Venture Capital) Funds in South Africa in November 2024

A list of 40 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 40 Gaming VC (Venture Capital) Funds in South Africa in November 2024

Investor Gaming South Africa investments
Cult Food Science 3
Konvoy 2
TTV Capital 2
Raine Ventures 2
Standard Chartered Bank 2
Sustainable Food Ventures 2
Vumela Fund 2
Riot Games 2
Lavender Capital 1
Khulisani Ventures 1
Twynam Agricultural Group 1
Google 1
Chandaria Capital 1
Launch Africa 1
Alpha Moon Capital 1
LoftyInc Capital 1
Perivoli Innovations 1
Ground Squirrel Ventures 1
Anonymous Trust 1
Lateral Frontiers 1
Kale United 1
AlphaCode Club 1
Naspers Foundry 1
4Di Capital 1
2CrazyNFT 1
Avenir 1
Fairum Ventures 1
Alethea Capital Management 1
Musha Ventures 1
CRE Venture Capital 1
Yield Guild Games 1
Unanimous Capital 1
Invenfin 1
Avalon Wealth Club 1
AET Fund 1
Andreessen Horowitz 1
HAVAÍC 1
Fish Dao 1
Newtown Partners 1
Legion Ventures 1
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Cult Food Science VC Fund
CULT Food Science is an investment company focused on supporting and advancing the technology behind the future of food.
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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.
Konvoy VC Fund · Denver, Colorado, United States · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Konvoy Ventures is a thesis driven venture capital firm. We invest in the platforms and technologies at the frontier of gaming.
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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.
TTV Capital VC Fund · Atlanta, Georgia, United States · 7 investments in the past 12 months
TTV Capital is a venture capital firm that funds and supports the businesses that shape the financial future of the world.
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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.
Raine Ventures VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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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.
Standard Chartered Bank VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 8 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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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.
Sustainable Food Ventures VC Fund · Raleigh, North Carolina, United States · 2 investments in the past 12 months
SFV backs globally early-stage founders building leading Future of Food companies that are: #Cell-based #Plant-based #Recombinant
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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.
Vumela Fund VC Fund · Hyde Park, Newtownabbey, United Kingdom
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.
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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.
Riot Games VC Fund · Los Angeles, California, United States
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.
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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.
Lavender Capital VC Fund · 3 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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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.
Khulisani Ventures VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa
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.
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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.
Twynam Agricultural Group VC Fund · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Twynam Group is a leading Australian Funds Manager investing in early-stage climate tech. We also operate an agricultural and property portfolio.
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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.
Google VC Fund · Mountain View, California, United States · 26 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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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.
Chandaria Capital VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya
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.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Retail, FinTech
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Kenya, United States, Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
  • Leta — Leta Technology is a software development company that creates supply chain and logistics software to enable the efficient and automated movement of goods.
  • Jumba — Jumba is a construction technology platform that streamlines B2B construction material purchase and financing.
  • UTU Technologies — Trust infrastructure for the sharing economy.
Launch Africa VC Fund · Ebène, Plaines Wilhems, Mauritius · 6 investments in the past 12 months
Launch Africa is a fund with the primary objective of unlocking the capital constraints of Seed Stage tech startups.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
  • Bosso — Bosso projects and realizes automation and robotic solutions for the growth of your business.
  • Kredete — Kredete is a digital lending platform that provides free credit scores and reports to underserved individuals and small businesses in Africa to help them gain access to formal credit and improve their financial health. The platform connects borrowers with lenders and enterprises in Africa and is designed to simplify the lending process and makecredit more accessible by leveraging cutting-edge technology. Kredete offers a user-friendly platform that guides borrowers, lenders, and enterprises through the process of offering loans, making it simple for them to provide the right loan products for their needs.One of the key features of Kredete is its instant approval process, which is made possible by advanced algorithms and artificial intelligence. The platform offers flexible lending options by partnering with a variety of lenders and enterprises, enabling borrowers to choose the best option for their specific situation.Kredete is committed to protecting the privacy and security of all users' personal and financial information. It uses robust encryption and security measures to ensure that sensitive data remains safe and secure. Additionally, the platform maintains transparency throughout the loan process, providing lenders, enterprises, and borrowers with clear information about loan terms and associated fees.Kredete believes in empowering its users with the knowledge and resources they need to make informed financial decisions. To this end, the platform offers financial education, tools, and resources to help users better understand and manage their finances. Kredete also works closely with businesses and institutions to provide tailored financial solutions for their unique needs.Through its focus on accessibility, convenience, and transparency, Kredete is transforming the lending landscape in Africa and helping to bridge the financial inclusion gap. The platform remains dedicated to its mission of empowering lenders, enterprises, and borrowers across the continent to access the funds they need to achieve their financial goals.
  • Wahu Mobility — Wahu Mobility is an open e-mobility platform that connects drivers, passengers, and goods in a simple, inclusive, transparent, nationwide, and multimodal manner.
Alpha Moon Capital VC Fund
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.
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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.
LoftyInc Capital VC Fund · Carmel, California, United States
LoftyInc Capital Management empowers Afropreneurs to build a prosperous and equitable future in Africa. We deliver value to both founders and investors.........
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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.
Perivoli Innovations VC Fund · St. Helier, NA - Jersey, Jersey
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.
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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.
Ground Squirrel Ventures VC Fund · Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Seed round investment in frontier markets and clean energy
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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.
Anonymous Trust VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States
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Investment focus
  • Software, Computer, Market Research
  • Pre-Seed, Series A, Seed
  • United States, South Africa, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
Lateral Frontiers VC Fund · New York, New York, United States
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.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Nigeria, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
Kale United VC Fund · Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Kale United offers a portfolio of over 75+ plant-based game changers
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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."
AlphaCode Club VC Fund · Gauteng, NA - South Africa, South Africa
We are an African venture capital fund, for world-class African entrepreneurs run by seasoned African investors.
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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.
Naspers Foundry VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa
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.
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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.
4Di Capital VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa
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.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Financial Services, Mobile
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • South Africa, United States, Uganda
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
2CrazyNFT VC Fund · Sliema, NA - Malta, Malta
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.
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Investment focus
  • Gaming, Metaverse, Blockchain
  • Seed
  • South Africa, United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
Avenir VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 6 investments in the past 12 months
A future-focused growth equity firm backing category-defining companies.
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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.
Fairum Ventures VC Fund
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.
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Investment focus
  • Cryptocurrency, Gaming, Online Games
  • Seed, Funding Round
  • Estonia, Grenada, Malaysia
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
Alethea Capital Management VC Fund · Rancho Santa Fe, California, United States
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.
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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.
Musha Ventures VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 5 investments in the past 12 months
Seed capital for technology startups globally.
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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
CRE Venture Capital VC Fund · New York, New York, United States
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.
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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.
Yield Guild Games VC Fund · Quezon, Quezon City, Philippines · 14 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • Gaming, Blockchain, Video Games
  • Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
  • United States, Singapore, Australia
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
Unanimous Capital VC Fund · San Mateo, California, United States
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.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Software, Gaming
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Sweden, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
  • 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 VC Fund · Stellenbosch, NA - South Africa, South Africa
Invenfin is a growth capital investor operating in the technology, food & beverage sectors.
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Investment focus
  • Food and Beverage, Information Technology, Financial Services
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series B
  • South Africa, Chad, Egypt
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
Avalon Wealth Club VC Fund
Avalon Wealth Club is a dynamic group of marketing experts, blockchain veterans, real estate investors and event organizers
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Investment focus
  • Gaming, Blockchain, Software
  • Seed, Funding Round
  • Singapore, Grenada, Vietnam
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
AET Fund VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
AET Fund envisions a Heart Driven World by making the world a colorful place through entertainment.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Internet, Gaming
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • India, United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • 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!
Andreessen Horowitz VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 124 investments in the past 12 months
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, California, investing in bold founders, innovators, and entrepreneurs building the future through technology.
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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.
HAVAÍC VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 2 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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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!
Fish Dao VC Fund
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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
Newtown Partners VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Newtown Partners is a venture capital firm that actively invests in emerging, disruptive technology startups.
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Investment focus
  • Logistics, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • South Africa, Ghana, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
  • 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...
Legion Ventures VC Fund · Miami, Florida, United States
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.
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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.
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