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Top 50 Hardware VC Funds & Investors in Africa (June 2026)

The most active venture capital funds investing in Africa Hardware startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Africa Hardware startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
F6 Ventures
VC Fund
6 Tunisia, France Pre-Seed, Seed E-Commerce, Retail, FinTech $65k–$200k
Kepple Africa Ventures
VC Fund
5 Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt Seed, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Software $300k–$4.5M
4Di Capital
VC Fund
5 South Africa, United States, Kenya Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Financial Services, Mobile $441k–$47M
Microtraction
VC Fund
4 Nigeria, United States, Ghana Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel Financial Services, FinTech, Software $25k–$1.3M
Social Capital
VC Fund
4 United States, Canada, India Seed, Series A, Series B Software, FinTech, SaaS $1M–$45M
Investec
VC Fund
4 United States, United Kingdom, Australia Debt Financing, Series A Software, Financial Services, Energy $1.1M–$260M
AngelHub Ventures
VC Fund
4 South Africa, Mexico, Colombia Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Education $300k–$2.3M
Golden Palm Investments
VC Fund
4 Nigeria, Egypt, Kenya Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Information Technology, FinTech, Payments $30k–$15M
Future Africa
VC Fund
4 Nigeria, United States, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology $100k–$20M
Ventures Platform
VC Fund
4 Nigeria, United States, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Internet $100k–$20M
Tofino Capital
VC Fund
3 United States, Nigeria, Egypt Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, SaaS, Information Technology $250k–$140M
Compass Venture Capital
VC Fund
3 Mauritius, India, France Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, Information Technology, Big Data $30k–$2M
Launch Africa
VC Fund
3 Nigeria, South Africa, United States Seed, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology $200k–$4M
Alumni Ventures
VC Fund
3 United States, United Kingdom, Canada Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $1.4M–$86M
LoftyInc Capital
VC Fund
3 United States, Nigeria, Egypt Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Software $100k–$37M
216 Capital
VC Fund
3 Tunisia, France, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel SaaS, Information Technology, B2B $171k–$1.5M
54 Collective
VC Fund
3 Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa Seed, Pre-Seed Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech $40k–$4M
Oui Capital
VC Fund
3 Kenya, Nigeria, United States Seed, Pre-Seed Transportation, Financial Services, Information Technology $40k–$4.9M
Nedbank Corporate and Investment Banking
VC Fund
3 South Africa, United States Series A, Debt Financing Leasing, Industrial, Data Center $1.1M–$47M
Lynett Capital
VC Fund
3 United States, Kenya, Nigeria Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed FinTech, Mobile, Wireless $120k–$49M
Zeno Partners
VC Fund
2 United States, Canada, Nigeria Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $150k–$21M
HoaQ
VC Fund
2 Nigeria, United Kingdom, Togo Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel FinTech, Financial Services, Internet $100k–$3.3M
Knife Capital
VC Fund
2 South Africa, United States, Sweden Series A, Seed Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology $2M–$30M
International Finance Corporation
VC Fund
2 India, Brazil, United States Debt Financing, Series B Financial Services, Finance, FinTech $6M–$333M
Grand Bay Investments
VC Fund
2 South Africa Seed, Series A Data Center, Information Technology
Persistent
VC Fund
2 Ghana, Germany, Switzerland Seed, Series A Energy, Solar, Renewable Energy
4DX Ventures
VC Fund
2 Egypt, United States, South Africa Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Logistics $50k–$40M
UM6P Ventures
VC Fund
2 Morocco, Israel, United States Seed, Pre-Seed Agriculture, Apps, Retail $110k–$4M
RaliCap
VC Fund
2 United States, Nigeria, Mexico Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Financial Services, FinTech, Payments $313k–$8.3M
Soma Capital
VC Fund
2 United States, India, Mexico Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech $350k–$40M
Venture Capital Studio
VC Fund
2 South Africa Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Information Technology, FinTech, Finance $256k–$9.6M
Hustle Fund
VC Fund
2 United States, Singapore, Canada Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, FinTech, Financial Services $120k–$30M
E3 Capital
VC Fund
2 Kenya, South Africa, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Energy, Solar, Renewable Energy $1.3M–$40M
Technova
VC Fund
2 South Africa Seed, Series A Data Center, Information Technology
Accion Ventures
VC Fund
2 India, United States, Mexico Seed, Series A, Series B Financial Services, FinTech, Finance $500k–$33M
Finnfund
VC Fund
2 Kenya, India, South Africa Debt Financing, Series B Financial Services, Energy, FinTech $2.7M–$99M
SunFunder
VC Fund
2 The Netherlands, Kenya, Mauritius Debt Financing, Series C Solar, Energy, Renewable Energy $1.5M–$60M
Vy Capital
VC Fund
2 United States, India, China Seed, Series C, Series B Software, FinTech, Information Technology $905k–$675M
Nama Ventures
VC Fund
2 Saudi Arabia, Egypt, United Arab Emirates Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Information Technology, B2B $100k–$35M
Western Technology Investment
VC Fund
2 United States, Canada, Nigeria Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Health Care, Information Technology $1.5M–$52M
Aster
VC Fund
2 France, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Series B Software, Energy, Manufacturing $1.6M–$27M
Savannah Fund
VC Fund
2 Kenya, United States, South Africa Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, FinTech, Software $25k–$8M
Bonfire Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, Canada, France Seed, Series A, Series B Software, SaaS, Information Technology $2M–$50M
MNF Ventures
VC Fund
2 Morocco, France, Canada Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Online Portals, FinTech, Enterprise Software $200k–$1.6M
GreenTec Capital Partners
VC Fund
2 Kenya, Nigeria, Morocco Seed, Pre-Seed Information Technology, Retail, Computer $50k–$1M
Kalon Venture Partners
VC Fund
2 South Africa, Luxembourg, United States Seed, Series A Apps, Internet, Software $570k–$7M
Tahseen Consulting
VC Fund
2 India, Pakistan, Peru Seed, Angel, Series A Information Technology, E-Commerce, Transportation $150k–$2M
First circle capital
VC Fund
2 Nigeria, Egypt, United States Pre-Seed, Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Janngo
VC Fund
2 United States, Nigeria, France Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A E-Commerce, B2B, Logistics
At One Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, United Kingdom, Canada Seed, Series A, Series B Energy, Manufacturing, Agriculture $2.9M–$70M
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F6 Ventures
VC Fund · Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia · 6 investments in Africa Hardware startups

Flat6Labs is the MENA region’s leading seed and early stage venture capital firm, currently running the most renowned startup programs in the region. Annually, Flat6Labs invests in more than 100 innovative and technology-driven startups enabling thousands of passionate entrepreneurs to achieve their daring ambitions and ultimately becoming theirinstitutional co-founders.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Retail, FinTech
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: Tunisia, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 42
  • Round size: Seed $65k–$200k; Pre-Seed $65k–$81k
  • Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $10M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • WeMove — WeMove is a fitness marketplace for daily gym passes. They develop innovative solutions that meet your sports issues.
  • Bako Motors SAS — Bako Motors SAS is a motor vehicle manufacturing company that develops solar electric vehicles. manufacturer of electric vehicles with the goal of creating long-term fixes for rural areas' transportation issues with regard to people, cargo, and machinery. The business makes electric cars as well as solutions for clean energy generation andstorage that are infinitely scalable, providing users with inexpensive and environmentally friendly e-mobility.
  • Insight Plus — Insight Plus is a foreign exchange platform that specializes in interconnecting global exchanges into one eco system.
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Kepple Africa Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 5 investments in Africa Hardware startups

We back exceptional founders in and from Africa who are addressing deep gaps between the status quo and the ideal.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 77
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$4.5M; Pre-Seed $300k–$3.4M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Paps — Paps is a transport and logistics company that offers innovative distribution and delivery solutions to companies and merchants.The company's e-commerce platform helps companies and traders with scheduling and tracking deliveries on a real-time basis. It offers the distribution of documents and parcels, storage of goods in a secure warehousethat meets standards, and delivery of insured parcels in relay point or last mile. It also provides professional services such as management and repayment of cash on delivery, provision of couriers, management of returns, collection, and periodic reporting.The Dakar, Dakar, Senegal-based company was founded in 2016
  • Mvxchange — MVX makes freight shipping easier and more coordinated for companies of any size by bringing the whole booking and deployment process online. We simplify Africa’s end-to-end import and export trade transactions by aggregating and organizing 7+ services through 1 digital channel.
  • Intmax — INTMAX has developed significant innovations in ZK implementation making it a unique Layer2 rollup network that offers low cost, security, tunable privacy, and above all, scalability.
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4Di Capital
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 5 investments in Africa Hardware startups

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

  • Industry: Software, Financial Services, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: South Africa, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 40
  • Round size: Seed $441k–$6M; Pre-Seed $3M–$4M; Series A $2M–$47M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Lumkani — AFFORDABLE ALARM SYSTEMS & INSURANCE FOR YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS Whether you are in a township, informal settlement, or suburb, we have the right protection for you. AFFORDABLE ALARM SYSTEMS & INSURANCE FOR YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS Whether you are in a township, informal settlement, or suburb ...
  • Investsure — InvestSure is a technology company that uses its software to enable partner investment platforms to sell its unique Investment Indemnity (insurance) product to their clients. InvestSure provides a full set of APIs that trading platform developers can use to integrate the Investure Investment Indemnity product seamlessly and easily into theirwebsites and mobile applications. Once InvestSure technology is added to a trading platform, it enables users to buy insurance on their shares with a single click. The full process from buying to insurance to settling claims is fully automated.The Investment Indemnity product itself is a unique innovation; it is designed to protect to protect shareholders against any losses in share value caused by actual or perceived fraud committed by management. This enables investors to secure their investments. The cost of the product is low enough to not significantly reduce returns of investors where no insurance event occurs, but to provide significant downside protection where an insured event does occur.
  • CompariSure — Custom, built-for-purpose service and sales chatbot solutions for financial services providers.
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Microtraction
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 4 investments in Africa Hardware startups

We invest in Africa's most remarkable teams with technical founders at the earliest stage of their venture

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, Ghana

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 103
  • Round size: Seed $25k–$1.3M; Angel $30k–$50k; Pre-Seed $50k–$1.1M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Accounteer — Accounteer is a cloud accounting platform for small businesses. Business owner can create invoices, track expenses and follow up on their finances with ease. Accounteer integrates with external services like banks, e-invoicing platforms and e-commerce. Future proof your business today by subscribing for a free Accounteer trial account.
  • LemFi — Send money to India, China, Pakistan, Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya and 30 other countries. Receive and manage your money without stress
  • ThankUCash — ThankUCash is a technology company powering rewards and loyalty for African banks and businesses. ThankUCash helps merchants grow revenue by connecting them to customers within and outside of their locations while retaining acquired customers using a data analytics-powered reward system where customers earn cash rewards for every transaction madeboth offline and online.
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Social Capital
VC Fund · Palo Alto, California, United States · 4 investments in Africa Hardware startups

At Social Capital, we make big bets on transformational ideas, technology, and people.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 378
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$6.5M; Series A $3.5M–$15M; Series B $10M–$45M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $600M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • mParticle — mParticle by Rokt is the choice for multi-channel consumer brands who want to deliver intelligent and adaptive customer experiences in the moments that matter, across any screen or device.
  • ZeroBrush — Clean every surface of your teeth, every time, all at once. ZERObrush is a groundbreaking oral care mouthpiece built from a 3D model of your teeth and designed to clean the hard to reach places better than a manual toothbrush.
  • Propeller Health — Propeller Health is a mobile platform that offers sensors, mobile apps, analytics, and services to support respiratory health management. The HIPAA compliant platform stores users’ data in a cloud computing infrastructure.The Propeller sensor and mobile application help users learn more about and better manage their asthma, COPD, andrespiratory disease. The Propeller sensor attaches to users’ inhalers and wirelessly syncs with their smartphones. It tracks their triggers and symptoms and sends personalized feedback and education to their phones based on the symptoms. Users can see how often they use the medication, and set up medication reminders and alerts.Propeller community enables users to share their Propeller data with their physician and family members.Propeller Health is backed by Safeguard Scientifics, The Social+Capital Partnership, California HealthCare Foundation, and other investors.  The platform works with organizations such as Dignity Health, Wyckoff Heights Medical Center, Amerigroup Florida, and the City of Louisville. The system has been featured in The Economist, Washington Post, Fast Company, Wired, and Scientific American.Propeller Health has received TEDMED Innovation Showcase, White House Champion of Change, and Bluetooth Breakthrough Product awards.Propeller Health was launched by David Van Sickle, Greg Tracy, and Mark Gehring and its operations are based in Wisconsin, United States.
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Investec
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 4 investments in Africa Hardware startups

Welcome to Investec. Find out more about us, our businesses, sponsorships and career opportunities.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Financial Services, Energy
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Australia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 82
  • Round size: Series A $1.1M–$17M; Debt Financing $72M–$260M
  • Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Splend — Change the way you own your rideshare vehicle for good with Splend. All-Inclusive vehicle packages for your Uber journey, in one easy weekly payment.
  • InstaVolt — InstaVolt is leading the way in EV charging infrastructure, helping to make the UK an easier place to own and operate an electric vehicle.They own, install and maintain rapid electric vehicle charging units all over the country, giving landowners the opportunity to earn a rental income by housing them, and giving EV drivers access to the fastestcharging available.They are driven by their passion for protecting the environment. At their core is a mission to improve air quality and reduce carbon emissions.Air quality has reached critical levels in cities across the UK and cars, buses and lorries have been proven as contributing significantly to the problem. Increasing the use of electric vehicles, which emit zero emissions, is an important part of the solution.According to Government statistics, one of the biggest barriers that deters people from buying EVs is range anxiety – the fear of running out of charge. InstaVolt will ensure a rapid charging point is easily accessible to everyone in the country.They believe that charging an electric vehicle should be quick and easy. It’s why, unlike many other companies, they operate an ‘open charger’ model, so anyone can use their charging points on a pay-as-you-go basis. No monthly subscription and no membership cards are required.
  • Openpay — Openpay is a cutting-edge in-store, in-home and online payments solution that features a buy now and pay later service, interest-free. Openpay allows customers to make in-store and online purchases, and effectively split the payment for these purchases into multiple repayments over time. The company generates revenue from fees charged to merchantsand customers in exchange for the use of its payments platform.Openpay is available across Australia and New Zealand in many industries including retail, medical, automotive, home improvement, and more.
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AngelHub Ventures
VC Fund · Stellenbosch, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 4 investments in Africa Hardware startups

Operating out of Stellenbosch in South Africa and backed by two family offices Angelhub Ventures's team is passionate about early stage investments in (South) Africa. Being entrepreneurial ourselves, we thoroughly understand the challenges and changes our founders face – which is why we back them in any way we can. Most importantly, we believein building great businesses and we are in it for the long haul.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Education
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Africa, Mexico, Colombia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$2.3M; Series A $300k–$1.7M
  • Lead/follow: 77% lead, 23% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2014

Portfolio highlights

  • Syscap — Syscap is a financial technology company that offers cutting-edge solutions to financial institutions to have a better administration and management of their funding sources. It connects the leaders of financial and real estate institutions with their funders. For institutions, the company ensures the optimization of their funding source managementprocesses, but also the strengthening of the relationship with their funders. To funders, Syscap guarantees the transparency and timely monitoring of its funds for the safety and growth of its resources.
  • Godochurch — GoDoChurch is a cloud-based church administration software which is designed to assist Christian churches and ministries with managing members, Sunday services, events, communications, and more. The system is made up of a base package, covering messaging, news, ministries, lists, church roles, services, events, and growth paths, with additionalmodules for managing follow-ups, groups, and Kids church.
  • Velocity — Velocity is a micro fulfillment dark store that delivers through digital channels.
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Golden Palm Investments
VC Fund · Accra, Greater Accra, Ghana · 4 investments in Africa Hardware startups

Golden Palm Investments is an investment holding and advisory company.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, FinTech, Payments
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, Egypt, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 56
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$6M; Pre-Seed $30k–$6.5M; Series A $2M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2014

Portfolio highlights

  • ILLA — ILLA Trucking for Logistics Solutions & Distribution
  • Maplerad — Maplerad is a fast, safe and easy way to send and receive money with friends, family or others you trust. You can receive and send money directly into any Nigerian bank account in minutes using Bitcoin, US Dollars, and Naira.
  • Jetstream Africa — Jetstream monitors inventory and goods-in-transit for trade creditors and banks.
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Future Africa
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 4 investments in Africa Hardware startups

Future Africa is a collective of mission-driven founders and funders building unicorns to solve Africa’s biggest challenges. They are build a future where purpose and prosperity are within everyone’s reach.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 87
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$4M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3.7M; Series A $7M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Edves — Edves automates the brick and mortal School operations from Student enrollment, Fee Collection, Lesson Note up to Transcript Generation.
  • Finclusion Group — Enhancing financial inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa through data driven lending.
  • Nexford University — Transform your career with affordable, flexible degrees and job skills designed for today's workforce. Skip debt and learn at your own pace with Nexford.
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Ventures Platform
VC Fund · Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria · 4 investments in Africa Hardware startups

We back founders building the future of Africa. We invest in companies that solve for non-consumption, plug infrastructural gaps and democratise prosperity in Africa, by eliminating the barriers for access and reducing the costs of delivering goods and services.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 142
  • Round size: Seed $325k–$4.4M; Pre-Seed $100k–$1.3M; Series A $6M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • MDaaS Global — At MDaaS Global, we build and operate modern, tech-enabled diagnostic centres in clinically-underserved communities, starting in Nigeria. Our big goal is to create affordable healthcare solutions for Africa's next billion.
  • SEND — SEND manages the entire process of moving freight by air, ocean and road to and from Africa - including customs processes, trucking and warehousing. Our application provides instant quotes & bookings, document management, cost transparency, notifications and tracking for your cargo.
  • ThankUCash — ThankUCash is a technology company powering rewards and loyalty for African banks and businesses. ThankUCash helps merchants grow revenue by connecting them to customers within and outside of their locations while retaining acquired customers using a data analytics-powered reward system where customers earn cash rewards for every transaction madeboth offline and online.
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Tofino Capital
VC Fund · Washington, District of Columbia, United States · 3 investments in Africa Hardware startups

Tofino Capital is an early stage investor in emerging market technology companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 24
  • Round size: Seed $2.5M–$22M; Pre-Seed $250k–$1M; Series A $25M–$140M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • CAAFiSOM — CAAFiSOM is the leading Healthcare technology provider that provides a range of healthcare services.
  • Leta — Leta Technology is a software development company that creates supply chain and logistics software to enable the efficient and automated movement of goods.
  • Irreversible — Irreversible designs next-generation analog AI chips that enable meaningful intelligence anywhere — from sensors to robots.
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Compass Venture Capital
VC Fund · Moka, Moka, Mauritius · 3 investments in Africa Hardware startups

Compass is a venture capital fund. We invest in start-ups with scalable business models and strong growth potential. We work with companies based in Mauritius, the Indian Ocean region and the African continent. Compass is wholly owned by and benefits from support from the ENL Group, one of Mauritius’ largest business conglomerates. Alongside theTurbine, our sister organisation and the region’s leading incubator and start-up accelerator, Compass is working to create a vibrant, sustainable start-up ecosystem in Mauritius and the Indian Ocean.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Information Technology, Big Data
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Mauritius, India, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Seed $30k–$1.6M; Series A $1.1M–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Omnisient — Privacy-Preserving Data Collaboration platform enabling businesses to collaborate while ensuring consumer privacy and data protection.
  • FCB.ai — FCB.ai builds the conversational AI infrastructure to power the financial industry
  • Shortlist — Shortlist helps solve talent challenges for impactful and innovative organizations across Africa. We provide executive search and workforce innovation solutions.
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Launch Africa
VC Fund · Ebène, Plaines Wilhems, Mauritius · 3 investments in Africa Hardware startups

Launch Africa is a leading Pan-African VC fund solving the significant funding gap in the Seed and pre-Series A investment landscape in Africa

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, South Africa, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 162
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$4M; Pre-Seed $200k–$1.7M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $36M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Fixit45 — Fixit45 also provides fleet management, auto parts sourcing and delivery, auto care, refurbishment and upgrades, repair financing, and mechanic workshop software as well as pre-purchase inspections, underlying these with moderation for compliance and accountability.
  • Gigmile — Gigmile provides financial services. They provide gig workers with core services and an affordable lease on productive assets that is tailored to their earnings to enable them to succeed in the mobility industry as entrepreneurs.
  • HomecomingEx — Homecoming Revolution is a pan-African recruitment firm for global African professionals. We specialise in headhunting & placing global African talent.
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Alumni Ventures
VC Fund · Manchester, New Hampshire, United States · 3 investments in Africa Hardware startups

Access curated startup investment opportunities and diversified venture capital exposure designed for accredited investors.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1378
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$10M; Series A $5M–$37M; Series B $12M–$86M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Humio — Humio operates as a time-series logging and aggregation platform designed for unrestricted and comprehensive event analysis. It is deployable on any infrastructure including both in the cloud and on-premises. Humio enables data aggregation, exploration, reporting, and analysis from a range of sources ingesting massive volumes of log data instantly.Its data storage and in-memory search/query engine technologies provide customers cost-competitive log management and analysis solution, all while requiring significantly less hardware and engineering resources.The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in London, England.
  • OpusClip — Opus Clip turns long videos into high-quality viral clips for you to share on TikTok, YouTube Shorts, and Reels to increase social media reach.
  • Arda Therapeutics — Arda Therapeutics is a biotechnology company taking aim at chronic diseases and aging by eliminating the pathogenic cells that drive these conditions. Their approach starts by using single-cell data to identify pathogenic cells and specific markers to target them. They then design therapies to eliminate these - and only these - cells.Arda wasfounded in 2021 in the San Francisco Bay Area, CA.
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LoftyInc Capital
VC Fund · Carmel, California, United States · 3 investments in Africa Hardware startups

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

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 147
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2.4M; Series A $250k–$37M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $14M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Aku — Aku is a financial technology to drive financial inclusion on one mobile device. They provide payments and bring financial services to the doorstep. They support the new business owner in need of the right tools. They offer low-cost, accessible financial services that serve their customers. They radically democratized access to banking and digitalpayment channels.
  • AlumUnite — AlumUnite is a purpose-built platform to connect all educated Africans to develop Africa's human capital through alumni groups. We crowd-resource education.
  • Reliance Health — Reliance Health Global. Improve the lives of your staff with innovative company healthcare benefits fit for any business. You can rely on us.
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216 Capital
VC Fund · Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia · 3 investments in Africa Hardware startups

Our DNA is rooted in a passionate belief in the potential of Africa, a relentless drive for innovation, and an unwavering commitment to impact. We are not just investors; we are builders of a better future, one investment at a time.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Information Technology, B2B
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Tunisia, France, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 24
  • Round size: Seed $336k–$1.5M; Pre-Seed $171k–$1M
  • Lead/follow: 58% lead, 42% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Eyst Technology — EYST provides a technological solution against insurance fraud. The company is based in Puteaux, France.
  • Talenteo Inc. — Talenteo is an innovative SaaS solution for HR and payroll management, designed to simplify and automate company processes with an intuitive, AI-powered approach. It empowers SMEs and mid-market companies to streamline employee management, payroll, time tracking, and talent development. Talenteo enhances operational efficiency, minimizesadministrative errors, and enables businesses to focus on growth.
  • ProXalys — BENGKULUTOTO Adalah Platform game online terbaik dan terpercaya di Indonesia. Nikmati pengalaman bermain seru, aman, dengan berbagai pilihan hiburan berkualitas tinggi kapan saja!
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54 Collective
VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 3 investments in Africa Hardware startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 107
  • Round size: Seed $40k–$4M; Pre-Seed $40k–$1.3M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • mTek — mTek is a digital online insurance platform that provides an entirely paperless ecosystem for the insurance industry.
  • REasy — Top up locally, pay suppliers globally, and manage international shipments with REasy. Fast, secure, and designed for African businesses expanding worldwide.
  • Konnect — Konnect provides a cross borders payment solution intended to simplify complex financial flows allowing companies of any scale and size to send and receive payments in a practical, secure, and low-cost way.
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Oui Capital
VC Fund · Belmont, Massachusetts, United States · 3 investments in Africa Hardware startups

Oui Capital is an Africa-focused VC firm backing tech-enabled businesses at the pre-seed & seed stage.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Transportation, Financial Services, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 26
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$4.9M; Pre-Seed $40k–$1.3M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Duplo — We enable businesses across Africa to simplify their payment flows.
  • Cauridor — Cauridor is a Financial Services company.
  • Herconomy (Ex AGS Tribe) — Herconomy is a platform that allows women build their finances, capacity, collaborate and access opportunities.
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Nedbank Corporate and Investment Banking
VC Fund · Sandown, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 3 investments in Africa Hardware startups

Nedbank Corporate and Investment Banking is offers corporate and investment banking and global-market services to diverse clients.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Leasing, Industrial, Data Center
  • Stage:Series A, Debt Financing
  • Geography: South Africa, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Series A $1.1M–$47M
  • Lead/follow: 63% lead, 37% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Omnisient — Privacy-Preserving Data Collaboration platform enabling businesses to collaborate while ensuring consumer privacy and data protection.
  • Master Plastics — Discover innovative, sustainable packaging solutions for protecting and preserving agricultural and food products from farm to table with Master Plastics.
  • Aircraft Engine Lease Finance — Aircraft Engine Lease Finance is a commercial aircraft and engine leasing company that offers customized and flexible financing solutions to airlines, lessors, banks, and non-traditional aircraft owners. The company focuses on acquiring, leasing, and trading mid-life aircraft and provides liquidity and financial technology to airlines related todeal generation, technical bridging, lease administration, and asset management that are housed internally.
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Lynett Capital
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in Africa Hardware startups

Lynett Capital is an early stage investment firm dedicated to the empowering technology companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Mobile, Wireless
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Kenya, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 26
  • Round size: Seed $120k–$3.1M; Pre-Seed $500k–$2.7M; Series A $3M–$49M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Juxta — Juxta builds first-of-its-kind software that helps hospitals optimize the flow of patients, staff, and resources throughout their facilities. By incorporating intuitive geospatial programs into everyday operations, Juxta equips admin with a suite of unique analytics that help them make valuable choices for their hospitals.
  • Ribbon — Go live with an inheritance center that your members deserve
  • Luminate Medical — Luminate Medical is developing LILY, the world's first pain-free and portable solution to prevent hair loss caused by chemotherapy.
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Zeno Partners
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Africa Hardware startups

Zeno Ventures invests in early stage technology enabled companies addressing consumer and enterprise markets. Zeno Ventures likes to back exceptional entrepreneurs before their businesses have scaled and often even before their business models are formed. Zeno Ventures seeks to partner with talented and passionate founders solving difficultproblems that were illuminated by their personal experience.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 69
  • Round size: Seed $150k–$7.1M; Pre-Seed $1.1M–$2.3M; Series A $3.4M–$21M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • AvantStay — Travel with the people you love. Group travel has never been this easy - check out our homes and locations across the country.
  • Mighty Buildings — Mighty Buildings is a construction technology company innovating the construction industry by creating beautiful, and sustainable homes using 3D printing, robotics, and automation. Learn more about Mighty Buildings today!
  • Phiar Technologies — Phiar is an ultra-lightweight AI company, building the world's most advanced Ultra-Lightweight Spatial AI Engine to enable every vehicle to see its surroundings, running real-time at the edge, using just commodity mobile-grade processors and existing automotive computing platforms with a single camera.Focused first on powering ourIntelligent AR Navigation Platform, as the anchoring/foundational use-case to transform driving experience and safety, and to ultimately enable the next-gen connected cars and ADAS services.
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HoaQ
VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 2 investments in Africa Hardware startups

Startup Investment Club

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Internet
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Nigeria, United Kingdom, Togo

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 25
  • Round size: Seed $1.7M–$3.3M; Angel $100k–$130k; Pre-Seed $200k–$1M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Clafiya — Clafiya connects patients to health practitioners to provide fast and affordable on-demand primary care services in Africa.
  • Chowdeck — Order food, groceries, drinks, medicines & everyday essentials from top restaurants, pharmacies, local markets, and stores near you. Fast delivery with Chowdeck.
  • Klas — Anyone, anywhere can teach online. Create & sell your ebooks, courses, and live classes- all on Klas.
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Knife Capital
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 2 investments in Africa Hardware startups

Knife Capital is an independent growth equity investment firm focusing on innovation-driven ventures with proven traction. By leveraging knowledge, networks & funding, Knife accelerates the international expansion of entrepreneurial businesses that achieved a product/market fit in a beachhead market. Knife have offices in Cape Town andLondon.Knife invests via a consortium of funding partnerships, including SARS section 12J Venture Capital Company KNF Ventures and select family offices. Knife facilitated lucrative exits of local technology companies to the likes of General Electric, Visa, Garmin and Uber.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: South Africa, United States, Sweden

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 26
  • Round size: Series A $2M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 65% lead, 35% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $10M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Octiv — Turbocharge your fitness business, grow your community and build your brand with Octiv's leading Gym Management Software.
  • Outsized — Independent talent for enterprise clients and consulting firms in Asia-Pacific, Africa, and the Middle East.
  • Simera Sense — Simera Sense develops camera control electronics for optical payload and Cubesat imager solutions.
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International Finance Corporation
VC Fund · Washington, District of Columbia, United States · 2 investments in Africa Hardware startups

A strong and engaged private sector is indispensible to ending extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity. That's where IFC comes in - we have more than 60 years experience in unlocking private investment, creating markets and opportunities where they are needed most.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Series B
  • Geography: India, Brazil, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 420
  • Round size: Series B $6M–$47M; Debt Financing $20M–$333M
  • Lead/follow: 57% lead, 43% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Adumo — We are your expert partner in payments, enabling you to seamlessly and securely accept payments in-store and online with our true omni-channel experience. Never miss a sale with South Africa's largest independent payments processor.
  • Salmon — Money is too important a part of people’s lives to be left in the hands of habit and tradition: to high-street banks, to petty street lenders, to pawn brokers, and the like. Every customer of financial services often feels that they deserve better, be it advantaged or disadvantaged, novice or expert, farmer, teacher, jeepney driver or officeworker.We — a team of finance professionals and entrepreneurs backed by world-class investors — come with the vision and capabilities to provide better and more inclusive service through a combination of technology, product design, security, data analytics and relentless focus on customer care.Managing one’s finances doesn’t need to be complex, frightening, boring or off-putting, it doesn’t have to be a chore. We aim to liberate our customers from the mundane and to quell their fears — providing our customers with more financial freedom while also saving their time and energy to focus on what truly matters to them in their daily lives.We are united by our experiences of building leading financial services and tech companies in various parts of the world — and by desire to apply our experience and modern technology for the benefit of millions of Filipinos.Not only have we built great financial and tech businesses, transforming industries in the process, but we also led large companies and banks through many economic cycles, keeping customers’ and investors’ money safe.We are building a financial technology business that works impeccably 24x365, creating thousands of jobs and provides easy access to finance for millions of Filipinos — and would love you see joining us in this journey, as a partner, vendor, employee, or a customer.
  • Fourth Partner Energy — Top renewable energy company in India offering solar, wind, and hybrid solutions for commercial & industrial sectors.
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Grand Bay Investments
VC Fund · Miami, Florida, United States · 2 investments in Africa Hardware startups

Grand Bay Investments is a privately-held investment management firm. Grand Bay Ventures invest capital with a long-term focus and can act as a single capital provider allowing us to move quickly to complete transaction into the lower middle-market firms.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Data Center, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Omnisient — Privacy-Preserving Data Collaboration platform enabling businesses to collaborate while ensuring consumer privacy and data protection.
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Persistent
VC Fund · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland · 2 investments in Africa Hardware startups

Africa's Climate Venture Builder - We believe in the power of climate-positive economic development in Africa. For the last decade, we have been working hand in hand with exceptional entrepreneurs, investing both financial and human capital to build successful climate ventures on the continent. Our companies offer competitive financial returns required to drive lasting impact.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Energy, Solar, Renewable Energy
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Ghana, Germany, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 22
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • EcoNetix — EcoNetix provides a comprehensive solution for ensuring accurate and transparent data while actively contributing to the development of a greener planet and the fulfillment of UNIDO's Sustainable Development Goals.
  • Hohm Energy — We make the process of going solar simple. Generate your free, custom solar proposal and get matched with an accredited solar provider in under 5 mins.
  • Circadian Technologies GmbH — AI-driven VPP unlocking revenue for telecom towers.
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4DX Ventures
VC Fund · Brooklyn, New York, United States · 2 investments in Africa Hardware startups

4DX Ventures is a Pan-Africa Focused Venture Capital Firm. Our mission is to connect people, ideas, and capital to create a vibrant African community.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Logistics
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Egypt, United States, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 76
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$8M; Pre-Seed $50k–$6.5M; Series A $6.6M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $60M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Suplyd — Suplyd is a comprehensive digital solution that bridges the gap between restaurant operators and their suppliers in order to disrupt an untouched market with extreme fragmentation and resolve the problem end-to-end.
  • Aether Bio — Aether uses its state of the art platform to rapidly engineer enzymes, enabling our customers to manufacture complex and novel products at fractional cost.
  • Franc — Franc is the easiest way to save & invest. Our app doesn’t require any investment knowledge & our friendly risk quiz helps us understand how much investment risk is right for you. Users can start investing in less than 2 minutes. There is no minimum requirement & no paperwork. It is a seamless digital experience end-to-end. A usersimply chooses a goal, selects an investment strategy, verifies their identity & makes a deposit. Each user is recommended a personalised investment strategy for each investment goal, combining money market & index tracking ETFs. Our helpful calculators assist clients with their budgeting, retirement & targeted savings needs. We also provide free access to our online academy & fun financial literacy quizzes.We know saving is hard & investing can be scary, which is why we create savings groups & challenges so that users can encourage one another. We also run weekly competitions where users can stand a chance to win a cash prize that will boost their investments.
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UM6P Ventures
VC Fund · Benguerir, Marrakech-Tensift-Al Haouz, Morocco · 2 investments in Africa Hardware startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Agriculture, Apps, Retail
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Morocco, Israel, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Round size: Seed $275k–$4M; Pre-Seed $110k–$1.5M
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Hsabati — Une vision à 360° de votre entreprise
  • Chari — Chari is an e-commerce and fintech app for traditional retailers in French-Speaking Africa allowing them to order any consumer goods they sell and get delivered for free in less than 24 hours. Chari is also a financial services provider for these retailers, offering them microloans
  • WafR — WafR is a reward-based loyalty startup that allows users to earn phone recharges while shopping at retail shops.
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RaliCap
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Africa Hardware startups

Rally Cap is a global community of tech folks investing in an exclusive portfolio of top-tier early stage venture funds in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria, Mexico

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 54
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$8.3M; Pre-Seed $313k–$3.7M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Frain technologies — We're passionate about the product delivery value chain.
  • Moffin — Moffin is an integration platform of KYC data providers that enables customers to collect and evaluate data. It can be used via API or no code.
  • Revio — Subscription billing and payments made easy.
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Soma Capital
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Africa Hardware startups

Welcome to Soma Capital

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, India, Mexico

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 491
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$8M; Pre-Seed $350k–$4M; Series A $7.5M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Starcloud — Starcloud is building a network of megawatt-scale data centers in space, scaleable to gigawatt capacity. Falling launch costs allow Starcloud to take advantage of the abundant energy, passive cooling, and high-speed connectivity in space.
  • TicketRev — TicketRev helps fans find cheaper tickets to their favorite games and concerts. Fans name their price for their preferred seating location, enabling resellers and teams to sell their inventory faster.
  • Inventive AI — Inventive is an AI-powered RFP & Questionnaire Response Management platform that drives 70%+ efficiency in sales response workflows.
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Venture Capital Studio
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 2 investments in Africa Hardware startups

36 Followers, 31 Following, 1 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Black Silver Capital (@blacksilvercapital)

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, FinTech, Finance
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $928k–$9.6M; Pre-Seed $256k–$3.7M
  • Lead/follow: 88% lead, 12% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Accrual Software — We are a Software Development Company
  • Venture Capital Studio — 36 Followers, 31 Following, 1 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Black Silver Capital (@blacksilvercapital)
  • Cyrrix Cybersecurity — At Cyrrix Cybersecurity, we understand the importance of protecting your business from online threats. Our team provides a full range of cybersecurity services to help safeguard your company's sensitive information and systems. We offer comprehensive risk assessments, penetration testing, and incident response planning to identify and addressvulnerabilities in your network. Our managed security services provide ongoing monitoring and threat detection to keep your business protected around the clock. With our help, you can rest easy knowing that your company's valuable assets are secure.
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Hustle Fund
VC Fund · San Carlos, California, United States · 2 investments in Africa Hardware startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 313
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$6M; Pre-Seed $120k–$2.5M; Series A $3.1M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • BitBrand — Introducing Digital Watch Faces From Top Luxury Brands
  • Swarm — Swarm is the professional network for expert fractional tech folk in AI, Design, and Software Engineering.
  • ContentRadar — Create & repurpose content with AI for LinkedIn & X in one click. Sign up for free!
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E3 Capital
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 2 investments in Africa Hardware startups

E3 Capital invests in growing, entrepreneurial businesses in Sub-Saharan Africa addressing the lack of electrification in the region with new technology and innovative business models. The fund is backed by Schneider Electric, the leading energy management multinational, and a number of public-sector investors.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Energy, Solar, Renewable Energy
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Kenya, South Africa, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 45
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$8M; Series A $1.8M–$7.5M; Series B $8.5M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 49% lead, 51% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • GoCab — GoCab is fintech solution providing Drive-to-own option for vehicle purchase in Emerging markets, helping to bridge the gap between mobility entrepreneurs and financial services.
  • Insight Terra — Insight Terra supports data driven risk management in critical situations where business operations, people and the environment all come together.
  • Open Access Energy — South Africa's first multilateral wheeling software platform that automates energy transactions.
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Technova
VC Fund · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · 2 investments in Africa Hardware startups

Technova operates as an advisory firm focused on growth.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Data Center, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Omnisient — Privacy-Preserving Data Collaboration platform enabling businesses to collaborate while ensuring consumer privacy and data protection.
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Accion Ventures
VC Fund · Washington, District of Columbia, United States · 2 investments in Africa Hardware startups

Accion Ventures is an investment strategy that today pursues early-stage investments as part of Accion Impact Management.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: India, United States, Mexico

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 123
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$6.4M; Series A $2.6M–$33M; Series B $8M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Jeitto — Jeitto is an app that joins the loan with the possibility of doing cell recharges and paying bills, aiming to transform people's financial experience with credit and convenience. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
  • Lami — Lami is an end-to-end digital insurance platform and API that enables companies across sectors to offer insurance products. Its API allows underwriters to connect with consumer-facing companies that can provide embedded insurance as a value add for existing customers, many of whom are uninsured.
  • Cashinvoice — Cashinvoice connects supply chain stakeholders and digitises invoice-to-cash processes to unlock working capital trapped within supply chains and accelerate business growth
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Finnfund
VC Fund · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland · 2 investments in Africa Hardware startups

Finnfund is a Finnish development finance company that provides long-term risk capital for private projects in developing countries. Apart from co-investing with Finnish companies they can finance ventures that use Finnish technology, cooperate with Finnish partners on a long-term basis or generate major environmental or social benefits.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Energy, FinTech
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Series B
  • Geography: Kenya, India, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 66
  • Round size: Series B $5M–$41M; Debt Financing $2.7M–$99M
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Amartha — Amartha Mikro Fintech - P2P Lending Indonesia. Alternatif investasi dengan modal terjangkau mulai 100Rb. Tedaftar OJK, Imbal hasil 15%* & Berdampak Sosial.
  • Mobisol — We transform lives through solar energy access. Our solar home systems and mini-grids benefit millions of people in Sub-Saharan Africa.
  • IPT PowerTech — IPT PowerTech coverage, coupled with our extensive expertise in supply chain management, field implementation, and power systems, has made us one of the most capable companies in handling the most complicated and versatile projects in the MEA region and its neighboring countries.
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SunFunder
VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya · 2 investments in Africa Hardware startups

SunFunder is a specialist financing company dedicated to pioneering and scaling clean energy and climate investments in emerging markets.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Solar, Energy, Renewable Energy
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Series C
  • Geography: The Netherlands, Kenya, Mauritius

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Series C $20M–$60M; Debt Financing $1.5M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $60M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • BioLite — BioLite designs off-grid personal scale energy products for cooking, charging, and lighting. Perfect for camping, fishing, tailgating, power outages, and more.
  • Yellow — Yellow enables a distributed network of sales agents to serve rural households with life-changing products and services through a digital technology platform called Ofeefee.
  • d.light — Founded in 2007 as a for-profit social enterprise, d.light manufactures and distributes award-winning solar lighting and power products designed to serve the more than 2 billion people globally without access to reliable electricity. Through five distribution hubs in East Africa, West Africa, India, Southeast Asia, and the United States, d.lighthas impacted over 65 million lives with its products. d.light is dedicated to providing the most reliable, affordable, and accessible solar lighting and power systems for the developing world, with the goal of reaching 100 million people by 2020. For more information, visit www.dlight.com.
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Vy Capital
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 2 investments in Africa Hardware startups

A global technology investment firm with a focus on category-defining technology companies with the potential to meaningfully impact humanity.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series C, Series B
  • Geography: United States, India, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 88
  • Round size: Seed $905k–$5M; Series B $11M–$300M; Series C $10M–$675M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $354M in 2014

Portfolio highlights

  • MotorPedia — MotorPedia is serving the unorganized automotive dealer market in India by providing a range of tech solutions and associated services to transform regular dealerships into AI-powered experience centers. These offerings enable dealers to compete with organized, tech-first players in the industry. Below is a list of solutions offered by MotorPedia:1. Digital Showroom 2. AI-Driven Photoshoot Capability 3. Digital Catalogue 4. Social Media Marketing 5. Classifieds Listings 6. Inventory Management 7. Lead Generation and Management Powered by AI (including an auto-focused GPT-based chatbot) 8. Pricing Recommendations Driven by AI-Led Predictive Modelling 9. Financial Dashboards and Ledger 10. RTO Services 11. Finance and Insurance Services 12. Park and Sell Stores 13. Extended Warranty and Roadside Assistance ProductsThese comprehensive solutions help automotive dealers enhance their operational efficiency and customer engagement through advanced technology and AI-driven tools.
  • Inshorts — Read latest news with inshorts in less than 60 words, related to business, sports, bollywood and technology in India and around the world in both english & hindi.
  • Counterpart — Counterpart is a management liability platform powered by big data and artificial intelligence that offers a range of insurance products complemented with a suite of services that proactively measure and mitigates exposures. Counterpart was founded in 2019 by Tanner Hackett and is based in Los Angeles, California, United States.
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Nama Ventures
VC Fund · Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia · 2 investments in Africa Hardware startups

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Information Technology, B2B
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Saudi Arabia, Egypt, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 53
  • Round size: Seed $120k–$5.6M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2.4M; Series A $5.2M–$35M
  • Lead/follow: 51% lead, 49% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Cargoz — Cargoz is a logistics startup that connects SMEs looking for warehousing space with warehousing companies who has extra capacity, like Airbnb but for commercial warehousing & storage.
  • Faceki — Offering cutting-edge solutions including KYC, KYB, KYT, AML, and Biometric Authentication.
  • Messenger — Messenger is a one-stop logistics platform that finances and aggregates end-to-end logistics and supply chain operations in order to assist businesses and logistics asset owners in achieving an efficient supply chain framework.
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Western Technology Investment
VC Fund · Portola Valley, California, United States · 2 investments in Africa Hardware startups

Since 1980, WTI has helped more than 1,300 companies across every innovation sector finance their growth while minimizing dilution.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 212
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$10M; Series A $2.5M–$21M; Series B $5M–$52M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $375M in 2013

Portfolio highlights

  • RightsFlow — RightsFlow is a leading technology-enabled provider of mechanical licensing and royalty accounting, reporting, and payment services for online music companies, record companies, distributors, artists, and songwriters. The RightsFlow technology powers rapid song identification and provides an unprecedented level of transparency for both licenseesand licensors. RightsFlow specializes in obtaining bulk physical, DPD, and ringtone licenses including streaming, tethered, and limited download rights. Our proprietary licensing technology and 30+ million song database allow us to license content, render accounting, and pay royalties on behalf of clients quickly and accurately, ensuring that rights-holders are paid for the use of their work. RightsFlow was acquired by Google in 2011 and is now part of the team at YouTube helping to simplify music licensing, content identification, accounting and payments for songwriters and publishers worldwide.
  • Panthalassa — Panthalassa is a technology company focused on developing renewable energy systems in the ocean, particularly to power computing and artificial intelligence infrastructure. The company works on harnessing wave energy to generate electricity at sea, which can then be used to run offshore data centers or converted into fuels that are transported backto land.
  • Lucra Sports — Lucra Sports operates as a social-first sports gaming platform that sits uniquely at the intersection of sports gaming and fantasy sports.
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Aster
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 2 investments in Africa Hardware startups

Aster is a Venture Capital firm with offices in 4 major innovation hubs: Paris, London, Tel Aviv and San Francisco. Since 2000, they have partnered with more than 60 teams of entrepreneurs that are transforming markets with disruptive offers and technologies. They are always open to exploring new ideas related to mobility, energy and industrysectors that they have been covering until now. They invest in all stages, with a preference for the early phase.They are more than investors and they intend to act as an ally for entrepreneurs by connecting them to a valuable ecosystem of experts, influencers and business leaders. From marketing to executive talent, their commitment to the growth of their portfolio companies as well as the entire venture ecosystem also involves the commitment of their dedicated Operations team, their innovation strategy consulting firm (Aster Fab) and a crowdfunding branch to further expand opportunities (Aster Crowd).Some of their success stories include Solairedirect (acquired by Engie in 2015), Digital Lumens (acquired by Osram in 2017) and Avantium (IPOed in 2017).

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Energy, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: France, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 136
  • Round size: Series A $1.6M–$22M; Series B $6.6M–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $281M in 2017

Portfolio highlights

  • Iceotope — Iceotope has developed technology with a blank drawing board and an open mind. So when we look at conventional problems, we find unconventional solutions.Built around our liquid-cooling approach and shaped by an extensive portfolio of patents, we’ve proven what our technology can do for HPC and data centre applications - dramatically reducingenergy consumption, space and noise. But it’s just the start. We’re going to keep innovating, working toward a day when wasteful, inefficient air-cooling is a thing of the past. We have created a business to look forward, but we’re also proud of the heritage that British engineering is built on. Iceotope is delighted to own the Made in Sheffield mark to show our dedication to the area’s tradition of engineering excellence. With decades of technical, design and engineering experience, we’ve established Iceotope as a trusted partner at the forefront of liquid-cooling technology. Now we’re investing to make sure we stay there: refining our designs, improving performance and engineering new applications.
  • Swiftly — Harness your public transit data with Swiftly's urban mobility solutions to make your city's mass transportation move more efficiently.
  • Neural Concept — Neural Concept is the first AI software for enhanced engineering. Leverage your historical CAD and CAE data to drastically shorten and improve your design cycles.
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Savannah Fund
VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya · 2 investments in Africa Hardware startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, United States, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 38
  • Round size: Seed $25k–$3M; Pre-Seed $200k–$2.1M; Series A $750k–$8M
  • Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $25M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Oze — OZÉ brings African small businesses into the digital era. It is an app that makes it easy for businesses to track sales, expenses, and customer information. The data is analyzed to provide tailored recommendations, reports, and business education. If the entrepreneur needs a little extra support, an OZÉ Coach is just a click away. As they are usingOZÉ to manage their business and learn how to run it better, we are learning about them. Using this data and machine learning, we can predict their credit risk and provide them with affordable capital from our banking partners. With over 20,000 registered users, OZÉ is the largest online community of SMEs in Ghana. The most exciting thing is that OZÉ works; 97% of businesses that have used OZE for at least 9 months are growing or profitable or both!
  • Root — Launch digital and embedded insurance solutions with omni-channel distribution.
  • Afropolitan — Afropolitan is building a Network State to unleash the maximum potential of Africans around the world. Are you interested? Join us with your email.
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Bonfire Ventures
VC Fund · Santa Monica, California, United States · 2 investments in Africa Hardware startups, 8 in the past 12 months

Bonfire Ventures leads Seed rounds for business software solutions company founders transforming the industries they target.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 144
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$8.9M; Series A $5M–$25M; Series B $15M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Odynn
  • Juno — Juno offers automation for modern tax firms, focusing on research, preparation, review, and advisory services. The software includes structured tax review features that ensure consistent checks and enhance quality control in tax preparation processes.
  • Ranger AI — Discover how Ranger RFX simplifies proposals with innovative tools designed for manufacturers. Improve accuracy, reduce downtime, and achieve cost savings today.
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MNF Ventures
VC Fund · Casablanca, Grand Casablanca, Morocco · 2 investments in Africa Hardware startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Online Portals, FinTech, Enterprise Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Morocco, France, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 32
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$1.6M; Series A $250k–$700k
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $20M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Damanesign — Damanesign operates as a digital trust solutions startup. Damanesign is a startup that is seizing new legislation opportunities on digital trust in Morocco to provide users with the utmost safety in documentation.
  • Atlan Space — Building Artificial Intelligence to autonomously pilot any fixed wing drone, to monitor and take measures over very large areas
  • OnePay — OnePay is a fintech startup that operates as a distributor of means of payment and aggregator of payment and value-added services in electronic transactions.
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GreenTec Capital Partners
VC Fund · Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany · 2 investments in Africa Hardware startups

GreenTec Capital Partners is Germany's premier investor into African start-ups and SMEs. GreenTec invests through its unique Results4Equity model, acting as a co-founding partner that is only compensated on business success.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Retail, Computer
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, Morocco

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 24
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $50k–$1M
  • Lead/follow: 83% lead, 17% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.2M in 2017

Portfolio highlights

  • Ecodudu — Ecodudu is a waste-to-value company. It uses a proprietary innovation to recycle organic waste into high-protein animal feed and organic fertilizer using the black soldier fly. It harnesses insects (nature’s recycling agents) to address global issues which include waste management, demand for protein, and environmental conservation.
  • Asilimia — Asilimia is a simple, fun mobile app for sending money through M-PESA quickly and without any transaction fees. Simply deposit money to your M-PESA, download Asilimia and send money for free to any other M-PESA account.
  • ShapShap — ShapShap enhances delivery experience through its commission-based marketplace by assigning efficient orders to drivers to ensure their sustainability and scalability.
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Kalon Venture Partners
VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 2 investments in Africa Hardware startups

A growing number of South Africans are investing in venture capital companies that operate under Section 12J of the Income Tax Act. Contact us now.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Internet, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Africa, Luxembourg, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 17
  • Round size: Seed $570k–$3M; Series A $2M–$7M
  • Lead/follow: 71% lead, 29% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Talk360 — Talk360 is an easy-to-use calling app that helps people make affordable international calls to any mobile and landline number. They believe that reliable communication and digital services must be affordable and accessible to everyone, regardless of someone's background. Especially people in emerging countries in Africa, who often need theseservices the most, do not always have the necessary banking possibilities. To bridge this distance, Talk360 will launch the world's first single checkout platform for Africa. This platform will combine all locally available payment methods and currencies across Africa, together with over 1.25 million cash points of sales, and will eventually be available to other companies as well. This means that 500 million Africans will be able to purchase digital services they never had access to before.
  • Sendmarc — Manage your organization's DMARC, SPF, and DKIM with world-class implementation services and support. All in one easy-to-use platform.
  • visionAI — Enhance factory efficiency with visionAI by using existing cameras to uncover inefficiencies and eliminate your production blindspots. Book a demo now!
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Tahseen Consulting
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 2 investments in Africa Hardware startups

We're a boutique firm bridging consulting, government relations, and international development committed to transformational change in the Middle East and North Africa +

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, E-Commerce, Transportation
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: India, Pakistan, Peru

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Seed $150k–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • BusCaro — Comfort, Reliability Consistency. Your one-stop solution for hassle-free commute. Commute Made Easier About BusCaro Innovative approach towards mobility for organizations across Pakistan. BusCaro is a tech-based startup providing solutions aimed at simplifying commute. Paired with a reliable technology stack, and the mission to drive a positive change in the mobility sector, BusCaro is a seamless
  • HelpNow — HelpNow Corporate Site
  • Omnisient — Privacy-Preserving Data Collaboration platform enabling businesses to collaborate while ensuring consumer privacy and data protection.
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First circle capital
VC Fund · Casablanca, Grand Casablanca, Morocco · 2 investments in Africa Hardware startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, Egypt, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 35
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • PayTic — PayTic enables payments issuers to manage their card programs by providing dedicated back-office solutions that streamline the end-to-end operations in customer support, chargebacks, fraud, AML, reporting, and reconciliation. Our proprietary solutions are unique in automating and centralizing the program management processes, regardless of thenumber of processors and the payment networks involved in the payments products. We impact payments providers by eliminating the defragmented and manual processes and replacing them with a SaaS platform that increases proactivity, mitigates risks, and delivers value. It reduces the burn rate to near 0 in operational costs and offers an unprecedented competitive advantage. PayTic is introducing the Zero Ops model in managing payments.
  • Pumpkn — Need reliable funding? We provide quick loans and capital tailored for Agriculture businesses in South Africa. Grow your business with Pumpkn. Apply now!
  • Scale — Scale accelerates market entry and revenue for fintechs with a people-first approach.
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Janngo
VC Fund · Abidjan, Lagunes, Côte d'Ivoire · 2 investments in Africa Hardware startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, B2B, Logistics
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Djamo — Djamo is a Provider of financial applications to allow customers to use their cards with zero fees in a wide range of services.
  • Capi Money — We closed a Series A last year (Creandum leading, with YC + fmc doubling down) and are processing over $1B a year, with 3 more pay-in markets in 2026.
  • Thunder Code — Transform your QA process with Thunder Code's AI-powered test automation platform. Create, manage, and run automated tests without coding - perfect for QA teams seeking efficiency, reliability, and seamless integration.
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At One Ventures
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Africa Hardware startups

At One Ventures finds, funds, and grows teams to catalyze a world where humanity is a net positive to nature.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Energy, Manufacturing, Agriculture
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 71
  • Round size: Seed $2.9M–$15M; Series A $6.6M–$45M; Series B $17M–$70M
  • Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Temo — Looking for an electric motor for your tender, or a practical outboard for your sailboat? Discover TEMO's range of electric motors for boats
  • Relectrify — Unlocking extra lifetime and performance of batteries via advanced battery management (BMS) technology.
  • Inlyte Energy — Inlyte Energy is a company that creates batteries for grid storage. Inlyte Energy's grid battery uses the most abundant commodities - iron and salt - to create an energy storage solution with the unique combination of high efficiency, long lifetime, competitive energy density, and exceptional safety.
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