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

The most active venture capital funds investing in South Africa Hardware startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in South 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
Investec
VC Fund
5 United States, United Kingdom, South Africa Debt Financing, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Financial Services, Energy $1M–$550M
4Di Capital
VC Fund
5 South Africa, United States, Kenya Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Financial Services, Mobile $677k–$47M
Nedbank Corporate and Investment Banking
VC Fund
4 South Africa, United States, Australia Series A, Debt Financing, Seed Mining, Leasing, Mineral $1M–$47M
Knife Capital
VC Fund
4 South Africa, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Information Technology, Education $1M–$15M
Oui Capital
VC Fund
4 Nigeria, United States, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed Financial Services, Finance, Apps $40k–$4.9M
Compass Venture Capital
VC Fund
4 Mauritius, India, France Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, Information Technology, Big Data $30k–$2M
AngelHub Ventures
VC Fund
4 South Africa, Mexico, Colombia Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Education $300k–$2.3M
Blue Label Ventures
VC Fund
3 South Africa, United States Seed, Venture - Series Unknown SaaS, Mobile, Hardware $207k–$1M
Tahseen Consulting
VC Fund
3 India, Pakistan, Peru Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Information Technology, E-Commerce, Transportation $150k–$1.5M
Grand Bay Investments
VC Fund
2 South Africa Seed, Series A Data Center, Information Technology
Alumni Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, United Kingdom, Canada Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care $850k–$75M
Kepple Africa Ventures
VC Fund
2 Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Software $100k–$23M
Savannah Fund
VC Fund
2 Kenya, United States, South Africa Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, E-Commerce, FinTech $25k–$12M
Capaci.Tech
VC Fund
2 South Africa, Kenya, United States Seed Apps, Software, B2B $10k–$4M
Future Africa
VC Fund
2 Nigeria, United States, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology $100k–$40M
LoftyInc Capital
VC Fund
2 United States, Nigeria, Egypt Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Software $100k–$37M
Kalon Venture Partners
VC Fund
2 South Africa, Luxembourg, United States Seed, Series A Artificial Intelligence, Apps, Internet $715k–$11M
Venture Capital Studio
VC Fund
2 South Africa Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Information Technology, Venture Capital, Software Engineering $262k–$14M
Soma Capital
VC Fund
2 United States, India, Mexico Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech $125k–$35M
Technova
VC Fund
2 South Africa Seed, Series A Data Center, Information Technology
Endeavor South Africa
VC Fund
2 South Africa, Australia, United States Seed, Series A, Series B SaaS, Internet, Payments $730k–$48M
Hustle Fund
VC Fund
2 United States, Singapore, Canada Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech $100k–$25M
Buffet Investments
VC Fund
1 South Africa, The Netherlands Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Information Technology, CRM, Apps $1.5M–$4.6M
Serra de Estrela Investments Ltd
VC Fund
1 South Africa, United States Seed Drones, Manufacturing, Product Design
KLT Holdings
VC Fund
1 South Africa, United States Series A, Private Equity Information Technology, CRM, Internet
Untapped Global
VC Fund
1 Kenya, South Africa, United Kingdom Seed, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown Transportation, FinTech, Financial Services $1.2M–$30M
Voskhod Venture Capital
VC Fund
1 Russian Federation Seed Cooking, Robotics, Food Delivery
Flori Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, United Kingdom, India Seed, Pre-Seed Blockchain, FinTech, Cryptocurrency
Lireas Holdings
VC Fund
1 South Africa, United States Seed, Series A, Series B FinTech, InsurTech, Security $4.6M–$47M
Atlantica Ventures
VC Fund
1 Nigeria, South Africa, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, FinTech, Internet $450k–$3.7M
Allan Gray
VC Fund
1 South Africa, United States Seed, Series A, Series C FinTech, Payments, Mobile Payments $456k–$100M
Microsoft for Startups
VC Fund
1 United States, India, Canada Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Fireball Capital
VC Fund
1 South Africa, United Kingdom Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Financial Services, Information Technology $500k–$40M
Shoprite Holdings
VC Fund
1 South Africa, United States Series B, Venture - Series Unknown Data Center, Industrial Automation, Information Technology
Invenfin
VC Fund
1 South Africa, United Kingdom, Chad Venture - Series Unknown, Seed FinTech, Food and Beverage, Information Technology $2.5M–$3M
Alitheia IDF
VC Fund
1 South Africa, Nigeria, Ghana Series A, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Logistics, E-Commerce, Retail $2.8M–$13M
Alpha Private Capital
VC Fund
1 South Africa Series A Email, Internet, Information Technology
Appsolute Ventures
VC Fund
1 South Africa Pre-Seed Big Data, Analytics, Data Integration
Nedbank
VC Fund
1 South Africa, Australia, United States Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Series A Information Technology, Software, Mining
ENL
VC Fund
1 Mauritius, South Africa Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Data Center, Financial Services, Information Technology
Bloc Smart Africa Fund
VC Fund
1 Kenya, Senegal, Cameroon Seed, Series B Health Care, Apps, Retail $330k–$2.7M
Accion Ventures
VC Fund
1 India, United States, Mexico Seed, Series A, Series B Financial Services, FinTech, Finance $500k–$30M
Endeavor Catalyst
VC Fund
1 United States, Brazil, Mexico Series B, Series A, Series C Software, FinTech, Financial Services $5.3M–$200M
E4EAfrica
VC Fund
1 South Africa, Germany, Mauritius Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Internet, Logistics, Supply Chain Management $1M–$8.4M
Launch Africa
VC Fund
1 Nigeria, South Africa, United States Seed, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology $200k–$4M
CV VC
VC Fund
1 United States, Switzerland, Germany Seed, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Software, FinTech $125k–$4M
Triodos Bank
VC Fund
1 India, Germany, Kenya Debt Financing, Series A Financial Services, Energy, Solar $3.6M–$80M
J.P. Morgan Asset Management
VC Fund
1 United States, India, Canada Private Equity, Series B, Series D Financial Services, FinTech, Finance $19M–$200M
Gewape Capital
VC Fund
1 South Africa Pre-Seed Consulting, Cloud Computing, Domain Registrar
Redcliffe Capital
VC Fund
1 India, United States, Singapore Seed, Angel E-Commerce, SaaS, Consumer Goods
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Investec
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 5 investments in South Africa Hardware startups

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Financial Services, Energy
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 89
  • Round size: Series A $1.1M–$17M; Debt Financing $72M–$550M; Venture - Series Unknown $1M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $45M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • AtlasEdge — Empowering a sustainable digital society by enabling infrastructure where it is needed.
  • 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.
  • Master Plastics — Discover innovative, sustainable packaging solutions for protecting and preserving agricultural and food products from farm to table with Master Plastics.
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4Di Capital
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 5 investments in South 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: 41
  • Round size: Seed $677k–$7.5M; Pre-Seed $1.8M–$4M; Series A $2M–$47M
  • Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $24M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • BFree — BFree focuses its collection processes on sustainably leading customers out of debt by giving them back control over their finances.
  • FireID — FireID is a venture builder that helps makers, with unique skills and passion, build businesses to solve meaningful problems.
  • Kuunda — Kuunda provides consulting, liquidity management, data insight tools enabling users to fulfill financial needs through a digital platform.
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Nedbank Corporate and Investment Banking
VC Fund · Sandown, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 4 investments in South 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: Mining, Leasing, Mineral
  • Stage:Series A, Debt Financing, Seed
  • Geography: South Africa, United States, Australia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$1.4M; Series A $1.1M–$47M
  • Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • West Wits Mining — West Wits Mining is focused on the exploration, development and production of high value precious and base metals. View more info here.
  • 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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Knife Capital
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 4 investments in South 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, Information Technology, Education
  • Stage:Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: South Africa, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 40
  • Round size: Series A $2M–$15M; Venture - Series Unknown $1M–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 70% lead, 30% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $50M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • wamly — Wamly is the recruitment software, It has given us time back to focus on transformational work.
  • Cue — Cue is one customer service platform for live chat, chatbots and broadcasts across WhatsApp, Messenger, web chat, email and many other digital channels.
  • Optique Optometrists — Optique Optometrists provides comprehensive eye care services, including eye tests, prescription glasses, and contact lenses. The company offers affordable eye care solutions and has multiple branches across South Africa. Customers can book appointments online and access a wide range of eyewear options. Optique Optometrists focuses on deliveringquality vision care and ensuring customer satisfaction through professional services and convenient booking options.
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Oui Capital
VC Fund · Belmont, Massachusetts, United States · 4 investments in South 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: Financial Services, Finance, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 37
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$4.9M; Pre-Seed $40k–$1.3M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $30M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • Alliance Chemicals Global — Alliance Chemicals Global supplies raw materials, commodities, and specialty chemicals to manufacturers across sectors such as home and personal care, food and nutrition, plastics, polymers, construction, coatings, and industrial applications. The company supports chemical distribution, sourcing, and logistics, including local currency invoicingand dedicated transport. It focuses on compliant, sustainable supply, working with global manufacturers and African clients. Its projects include plastic chemical recycling and development of a shea butter value chain. The organization serves customers mainly across African markets.
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Compass Venture Capital
VC Fund · Moka, Moka, Mauritius · 4 investments in South 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: 11
  • Round size: Seed $30k–$1.6M; Series A $1.1M–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% 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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AngelHub Ventures
VC Fund · Stellenbosch, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 4 investments in South 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, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: South Africa, Mexico, Colombia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$2.3M; Series A $300k–$1.7M
  • Lead/follow: 71% lead, 29% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2014

Portfolio highlights

  • Motai —
  • 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.
  • Velocity — Velocity is a micro fulfillment dark store that delivers through digital channels.
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Blue Label Ventures
VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 3 investments in South Africa Hardware startups

Blue Label Ventures is an accelerator that specializes in the identification, investment and global commercialization of high potential.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Mobile, Hardware
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: South Africa, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Seed $207k–$1M
  • Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • iCrypto — iCrypto is an Authentication-as-a-Service solution that will disrupt the antiquated password login paradigm. The iCrypto cloud architecture delivers strong authentication through your trusted mobile device, whether that be through your smartphone, tablet or wearable device. This can be used in place of passwords, or in addition to passwords formulti-factor authentication. The iCrypto service makes the enterprise and consumer onboarding process frictionless, thereby enabling any enterprise or knowledgeable consumer a low-touch path to added security. The global authentication market is growing at a pace of 20% CAGR with a $3B market. We have pulled together a world class team from Intel, HTC, Sun, and McAfee with decades of combined experience in the mobile, enterprise and security industries. Collectively, we have worked at 16 startups. Please email info@icrypto.com for more information.
  • Mobii Systems — Mobii's Media Intelligence Platform for live sports: Production AI, orchestrated by Synthetic Intelligence. Automated live production, real-time highlights, and personalized streams at broadcast scale.
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Tahseen Consulting
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 3 investments in South 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, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: India, Pakistan, Peru

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 24
  • Round size: Seed $150k–$1.5M; Pre-Seed $235k–$780k
  • 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
  • OlaClick — Create electronic menu boards for your restaurant or store. It is totally free. QR codes menu or digital menu boards. Digitalize your menu in an instant and start receiving orders !
  • Alvin — Alvin is a powerful mobile app that automatically creates and adjusts your budget to help you meet your goals.
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Grand Bay Investments
VC Fund · Miami, Florida, United States · 2 investments in South 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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Alumni Ventures
VC Fund · Manchester, New Hampshire, United States · 2 investments in South 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, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2705
  • Round size: Seed $850k–$9.9M; Series A $3.5M–$32M; Series B $8M–$75M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $90k in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Particle — Afternic is a one-stop site to buy, sell and park domains. See for your self why Afternic is the world's premiere domain marketplace and exchange reseller.
  • Akiba Digital — Akiba Digital is a data and technology company that provides financial intelligence solutions. Our vision is to to unlock financial opportunities for consumers, businesses and society using alternative data.
  • Enact — Enact is a leading solar energy and solar software company serving homeowners, businesses, and installers. Get a free quote or request a demo today!
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Kepple Africa Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in South Africa Hardware startups

Kepple Africa Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 85
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$4.5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3.4M; Series A $1.1M–$23M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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
  • 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.
  • TIBU Health — TIBU Health is a disruptive HealthTech logistics company that provides high-quality healthcare services.
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Savannah Fund
VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya · 2 investments in South 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: Software, E-Commerce, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, United States, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 46
  • Round size: Seed $25k–$3.3M; Pre-Seed $200k–$2.1M; Series A $750k–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $25M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Aya Data — Aya Data provides high-quality data annotation, AI training data, 3D annotations, machine learning solutions and also specialises in geospatial, NLP and computer vision projects.
  • Kubik — Kubik makes low-carbon buildings from plastic waste. Bringing environmental dignity to how countries grow.
  • 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.
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Capaci.Tech
VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 2 investments in South Africa Hardware startups

CapaciTech operates as a South African holding company that consists of an advisory business and special purposes vehicles that house shareholdings in various entrepreneurial ventures.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Software, B2B
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: South Africa, Kenya, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Seed $10k–$4M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • TUNL — Ship globally with ease. TUNL offers affordable, transparent international shipping built for South African brands. Up to 91% cheaper. No surprises.
  • Marquee Group — Marquee Group is a sports management focused on Golf and train athletes to achieve goals.
  • Right Now Response — The future of repairs starts soon. Counting down to smarter tracking in 2025! There are perks to working 24/7, 365 days a year... Like launching the future of repairs ahead of schedule!
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Future Africa
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in South 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: 92
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$4M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3.7M; Series A $7M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • STEM Cafe — STEMCafe by RVRB is a fun out of school learning centre for kids
  • Juicyway — The new shape of money? Fluid. Access global currencies with Juicyway. Buy, sell, hold, and pay globally using our fast APIs, web, or mobile apps. Download now.
  • Lori Systems — Lori Systems is revolutionizing African logistics through innovative technology solutions. We connect shippers, transporters, and drivers to create efficient, reliable, and transparent supply chains across Africa.
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LoftyInc Capital
VC Fund · Carmel, California, United States · 2 investments in South 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: 187
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2.4M; Series A $250k–$37M
  • Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $43M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Cauridor — Cauridor is a Financial Services company.
  • WafR — WafR is a reward-based loyalty startup that allows users to earn phone recharges while shopping at retail shops.
  • Nucleon Security — Zero-Trust and ML-based Endpoint Detection and Response Platform #EDR #FDR #EndpointSecurity
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Kalon Venture Partners
VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 2 investments in South 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: Artificial Intelligence, Apps, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Africa, Luxembourg, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 21
  • Round size: Seed $715k–$3M; Series A $2.5M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 62% lead, 38% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • GoMetro — Fleet management simplified with GoMetro. Integrate telematics, gain real-time visibility, and optimize operations with a secure, scalable platform,
  • Sendmarc — Manage your organization's DMARC, SPF, and DKIM with world-class implementation services and support. All in one easy-to-use platform.
  • visionAI — Discover how AI MES software enhances factory efficiency and reduces blindspots to minimize equipment downtime and boost productivity.
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Venture Capital Studio
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 2 investments in South 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, Venture Capital, Software Engineering
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Seed $928k–$10M; Pre-Seed $262k–$3.7M; Series A $2.7M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 90% lead, 10% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $250000B in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Accrual Software — We are a Software Development Company
  • 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.
  • Aesthetic Prosthetic Bionics — Biological Engineering, Bionics, Biomimetics, Hydraulics, Prosthetics, Neuroprosthetics, Exoskeleton Suits, Dynamics, Kinematics Robotics, Human-Robot Interaction, Artificial Organs, Artificial Intelligence, Quantum Computing, Knowledge Reasoning, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision, Robotics, Artificial GeneralIntelligence, Deep Learning, Bayesian Networks, Evolutionary Algorithms, Computational Neuroscience, Neurocybernetics, Cybernetics, Cognitive Science, Source Coding, Channel Coding, Algorithmic Complexity Theory, Algorithmic Information Theory, Information-Theoretic Security, Grey System Theory & Biotechnology
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Soma Capital
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in South Africa Hardware startups, 50 in the past 12 months

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: 1088
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$8.5M; Pre-Seed $125k–$3.8M; Series A $5M–$35M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $37M in 2026

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.
  • modus — Modus - The Context Warehouse for Enterprise AI. Automatically mine, compose, and deliver intent-based context to any AI platform. Backed by Insight Partners.
  • Cognition — Cognition develops artificial intelligence systems for software engineering and code automation. The company operates Devin, an AI software engineer that plans, writes, tests, debugs, and deploys code through integrated development workflows. Its platform works with existing development tools and codebases to support engineering tasks acrossapplication development, maintenance, and issue resolution. Cognition also provides tools that assist teams with system design, technical workflows, and collaborative coding processes. The company focuses on AI agents that automate repetitive engineering work while supporting software teams in managing complex development tasks.
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Technova
VC Fund · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · 2 investments in South 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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Endeavor South Africa
VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 2 investments in South Africa Hardware startups

Endeavor South Africa is a non-profit entity and the leading supporter of high-impact entrepreneurs around the world.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Internet, Payments
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: South Africa, Australia, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Round size: Seed $730k–$4.6M; Series B $11M–$48M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $14M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Plentify — Plentify connects home appliances with cheaper cleaner energy. It does this with an intelligent residential load management platform which matches demand with clean energy supply for 75% cheaper than batteries. Plentify combines advanced hardware, AI, and user-centric design to create smart home products that delight customers while alsostrengthening electricity systems.
  • Sendmarc — Manage your organization's DMARC, SPF, and DKIM with world-class implementation services and support. All in one easy-to-use platform.
  • Yebo Fresh — Yebofresh is a new online shopping service, delivering popular groceries straight into areas that are generally unserved by most formal retailers. Our unique business model and partnerships with manufacturers allow us to deliver top quality products and A-brands at extremely competitive prices. Yebofresh serves Imizamo Yethu, Langa, Khayelitsha,Mfuleni and Gugulethu and following recent seed funding, is rapidly expanding across the greater Cape Town area.
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Hustle Fund
VC Fund · San Carlos, California, United States · 2 investments in South 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, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 546
  • Round size: Seed $750k–$6M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2.5M; Series A $4M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $33M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • O-ID — Modular Humanoids, Made in Japan
  • BON Credit — AI powered financial assistant from Bon Credit helps uncover savings, manage finances, and make smarter money decisions with AI. Start saving smarter today!
  • Charter Space — Charter is developing a collaborative platform for satellite mission logistics and program management available via web app and API that provides satellite operators with intuitive information architecture to streamline missions and reduce wasted engineering hours so they can get to the launchpad faster.Charter's platform usesdesign-focused UI/UX and automation to reduce friction through intuitive dashboarding, improved information sharing, and optimized compute and data resource efficiency. For satellite companies, ATLAS streamlines processes, automates manual tasks, and provides engineers with communications and information infrastructure to seamlessly interface both across teams and organisations. reduces wasted engineering hours and lead times, and minimizes upfront technical debt, CapEx, and long-run OpEx.In other words, Charter is building a logistics solution that will be to satellite logistics what the graphical user interface was to command-line interfaces.
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Buffet Investments
VC Fund · 1 investments in South Africa Hardware startups

Buffet Investments operates as an investment firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, CRM, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: South Africa, The Netherlands

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$4.6M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Maholla — Our apps power consumer engagement & insights for Fortune 500 companies and top gaming publishers in over 30 countries. Using advanced data models, we match users with the best earning opportunities while ensuring fraud protection and user integrity—so they can share opinions, play games, and earn real cash with confidence.
  • Plentify — Plentify connects home appliances with cheaper cleaner energy. It does this with an intelligent residential load management platform which matches demand with clean energy supply for 75% cheaper than batteries. Plentify combines advanced hardware, AI, and user-centric design to create smart home products that delight customers while alsostrengthening electricity systems.
  • Flow — Flow enables automated social media advertising for the real estate industry, providing high volumes of quality property leads and brand building.
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Serra de Estrela Investments Ltd
VC Fund · 1 investments in South Africa Hardware startups

Family office, registered in British Virgin Islands

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Drones, Manufacturing, Product Design
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: South Africa, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Dove Air — Dove air is using advanced technology to empower people to address some of the biggest problems across Africa. We provide reliable and fast service while meeting all the safety standards.
  • Isengard Industries — Mass-produced, AI-guided precision munitions - combat-proven in Ukraine. Five aircraft from short-range anti-tank to the XQ 770 unmanned combat aircraft, built in the US and Poland or co-produced on allied territory.
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KLT Holdings
VC Fund · 1 investments in South Africa Hardware startups

KLT holdings

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, CRM, Internet
  • Stage:Series A, Private Equity
  • Geography: South Africa, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Milliways — Makers of super natural snacks. Masters of nonsense. Plastic free. Planet friendly.
  • Omnisient — Privacy-Preserving Data Collaboration platform enabling businesses to collaborate while ensuring consumer privacy and data protection.
  • Eaton Fiber — Eaton Fiber delivers wholesale, open-access fiber-to-the-premise (FTTP) infrastructure so you can expand faster, serve better, and grow without limits.
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Untapped Global
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Hardware startups

Untapped connects global investors, and foreign capital to opportunities in emerging markets. Delivering competitive returns, and measurable impact for global investors.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Transportation, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Kenya, South Africa, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 68% lead, 32% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Elimutab — At Elimutab we have safe and secure educational gadgets made for learners and schools. Including; Tablets, Chromebooks, Laptops, Projectors & Interactive smartboards.
  • OX Delivers — Our objective is to deliver affordable transport in emerging markets, creating a self-reinforcing cycle of economic growth and social impact. To achieve this, we are developing the world's first clean-transport ecosystem that combines goods shipment with financial, trading & marketing services. This OX ecosystem will be enabled by ourunique zero-emissions OX truck; the only purpose-designed electric vehicle for emerging markets.
  • Rabbit — Transforming transportion in the region. Rabbit is a micro-mobility sharing platform for short-distance transportation using environmentally friendly vehicles.
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Voskhod Venture Capital
VC Fund · Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation · 1 investments in South Africa Hardware startups

Voskhod Venture Capital is an investment firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Cooking, Robotics, Food Delivery
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Russian Federation

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Smile AI — Smile AI is a dental telemedicine platform that provides ready-made solutions and monitors oral cavity condition using dental photos.
  • ROBOTECH — ROBOTECH is an engineering firm that specializes in the design and implementation of high-performance automated machinery for businesses in a variety of industries.
  • UAV & Drone Solutions — UDS - UAV and Drone Solutions - Expert services for aerial mapping, inspections, security & data capture. Get custom drone solutions now!
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Flori Ventures
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Hardware startups

More than a seed-stage fund and a portfolio of startups: Our community of founders taps into the power of financial innovation to collaborate around global problems and unlock prosperity for all.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, FinTech, Cryptocurrency
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 100
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Mento Labs — Mento Labs is a decentralized EVM platform for launching and managing multi-currency stable assets.
  • Learn.xyz — Learn.xyz’s is a mixture of Duolingo and Wikipedia, powered by AI, creating bite-sized “Curiosities” which feature slides and a quiz, in mere seconds just from taking in a user’s question. Find the app on iOS and Android.
  • Thrive Protocol — Thrive Protocol's vision is to maximize value creation for all people and communities.
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Lireas Holdings
VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in South Africa Hardware startups

Lireas is a leading investment company with a specific focus on insurance and insurance technology investments. We have a track record of over 35 years investing in start-ups and existing businesses requiring growth funding or new partners. We invest in people and not just elaborate business plans a

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, InsurTech, Security
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: South Africa, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Series A $4.6M–$47M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • LifeQ — We empower everyone to delay aging, optimize your health, harness more energy, reduce the probability of disease, and understand why and how your body is changing, right now! It is in your power to be your biologically younger self.
  • Pineapple — In short, Pineapple see the traditional insurance model, user journey and products as lacking and set out to remedy these by doing the following: 1) Changing the business model to align incentives, show people how premiums are used and award members leftover premium back 2) Making insuring as easy as snapping a picture where AI does the rest andcover is issued in under 60 seconds 3) Allowing per-item insurance and new product innovation to address cover not currently offered or accessible to manyPineapple launched in South Africa in 2018 with their "My Stuff" per-item insurance and have since launched their auto offering "My Ride". They have also partnered with Travelers in the US and have white-labeled their platform in the US.
  • 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.
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Atlantica Ventures
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 1 investments in South Africa Hardware startups

Are you looking for start-up funding for your business? Get in touch with Atlantica Ventures to get the kick-start your start-up needs.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Nigeria, South Africa, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$3.7M; Pre-Seed $450k–$2.1M
  • Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $50M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Nosible — Nosible is the creator of a search engine that helps investors find appropriate investment ideas.
  • Salus Cloud — Salus Cloud is an AI-native platform for engineers to develop and manage security.
  • Cybervergent — Cybervergent is a company that helps entities across Africa and beyond seamlessly achieve governance, security, privacy, compliance, and risk management across digital ecosystems. Our platform provides organisations with a single platform to manage compliance, risk, privacy, audit and data security. With AI-powered automation, it helps you cut downmanual effort, reduce risk exposure, and demonstrate trust to regulators, customers, and stakeholders.
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Allan Gray
VC Fund · Alfred, New York, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Hardware startups

Allan Gray is Africa's largest privately owned investment management company focused on generating long-term wealth for investors..

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Payments, Mobile Payments
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: South Africa, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Round size: Seed $456k–$4M; Series A $1.6M–$31M; Series C $70M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • onafriq — MFS Africa is the largest mobile money inter-operability hub in Africa, which connects mobile network operators across the continent through a single API. In addition to mobile remittance services, the MFS Africa API enables merchant payment, bulk payment, bank-to-wallet transfers, and an array of other cross border digital payments services.
  • Sendmarc — Manage your organization's DMARC, SPF, and DKIM with world-class implementation services and support. All in one easy-to-use platform.
  • Peach Payments — Get Peach as your Payment Gateway and Grow your ecommerce. Process online payments with Visa, Mastercard, Debit Orders, EFT payments, and subscriptions. Plugins for Wix, Shopify, WooCommerce.
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Microsoft for Startups
VC Fund · Redmond, Washington, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Hardware startups

Microsoft for Startups is a global program designed to help startups scale with free access to Azure cloud and a streamlined path into selling alongside Microsoft and our vast partner ecosystem.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, India, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 71
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • VitVio — VitVio is a platform built around AI and computer vision with the goal of improving efficiency and quality of care in operating rooms.
  • UniPay — UniPay is an eCommerce platform for infrastructure and industry-lacking regions that offers 5 products that enable trust, promote transparency, and enforce accountability.
  • Emission Sentri — Drive emission management and reduction with insights
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Fireball Capital
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in South Africa Hardware startups

Fireball Capital operates as a venture capital firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Financial Services, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: South Africa, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Series A $5.7M–$40M; Venture - Series Unknown $500k–$4M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Plentify — Plentify connects home appliances with cheaper cleaner energy. It does this with an intelligent residential load management platform which matches demand with clean energy supply for 75% cheaper than batteries. Plentify combines advanced hardware, AI, and user-centric design to create smart home products that delight customers while alsostrengthening electricity systems.
  • Immobazyme — Immobazyme provides pioneering the biotechnology industry. Using innovative technologies, along with an environmentally responsible outlook.the company aims to develop an analytical laboratory platform as well as serve the industrial sector through the production of high-value products by organic synthesis and environmental remediationtechnologies.
  • Contactable — Digital Identity Orchestration platform - used extensively by corporates across all sectors for digital onboarding, e-KYC, Self-RICA and identity proofing.
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Shoprite Holdings
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in South Africa Hardware startups

The largest South African retailer by market capitalisation, sales, profit and number of employees and customers.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Data Center, Industrial Automation, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series B, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: South Africa, United States

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.
  • Keychain — Keychain is a CPG production platform that collaborates with retailers and brands to streamline and simplify the process of developing items that consumers adore.
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Invenfin
VC Fund · Stellenbosch, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in South Africa Hardware startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Food and Beverage, Information Technology
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Seed
  • Geography: South Africa, United Kingdom, Chad

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 21
  • Round size: Seed $2.5M–$3M
  • Lead/follow: 57% lead, 43% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • OfferZen — On OfferZen, Dutch tech companies reach out to you with upfront role and salary info so you can make the right career move.
  • Root — Launch digital and embedded insurance solutions with omni-channel distribution.
  • Float — At Float, we believe in a world where credit works for shoppers and not against them.Float offers shoppers a smarter way to pay with their credit card – by splitting big purchases in up to 24 bite-size, interest-free monthly payments. It’s all the perks of credit cards, but none of the cons. No extra debt, no applications, no credit checks – andno catch. Just shopping joy on their terms.At the same time, Float merchants enjoy more than 80% bigger orders and radically improved conversions. They also get direct access to 5 million pre-approved shoppers. Float’s instalment offering is fully customisable, giving merchants more control and flexibility than ever before. It’s all made possible by Float’s innovative technology, built on what we call ‘head-in-the-sky, feet-on-the-ground’ thinking.By giving their shoppers the most flexible, frictionless and financially responsible way to shop, merchants are partnering with us to build a new economy - where buying BIG, means paying small.Welcome to Float.
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Alitheia IDF
VC Fund · Moka, Moka, Mauritius · 1 investments in South Africa Hardware startups

Alitheia IDF is investing in dynamic and growing businesses throughout Africa. By investing in teams that recognize the importance of gender diversity the firm generates superior financial returns and impact.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Logistics, E-Commerce, Retail
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: South Africa, Nigeria, Ghana

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Seed $2.8M–$13M; Series A $3M–$11M; Venture - Series Unknown $4.5M–$5M
  • Lead/follow: 80% lead, 20% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $100M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Lupiya — Lupiya is an online marketplace for microloans. It is a branch-less, innovative digital microfinance platform that leverages technology to make the process of borrowing simpler and easier so that people and businesses located across the country even in rural, remote areas can access financial services.
  • Seamfix — Seamfix’s end-to-end electronic ID and credentials software solutions address the lack of digital ID systems for 30+ African countries and over 250M individuals, providing access to credit, banking, and other essential services for large parts of populations.
  • Alma Clinics —
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Alpha Private Capital
VC Fund · 1 investments in South Africa Hardware startups

Alpha Private Capital operates as an investment firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Email, Internet, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Sendmarc — Manage your organization's DMARC, SPF, and DKIM with world-class implementation services and support. All in one easy-to-use platform.
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Appsolute Ventures
VC Fund · 1 investments in South Africa Hardware startups

A South African venture firm focussed on early stage African startups. By the founders of Bottles, the on-demand liquor delivery app.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Big Data, Analytics, Data Integration
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • MetaPOS — B2B data platform and mobile POS for informal and township retail. We connect store owners, payment companies, and consumer brands through shared value.
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Nedbank
VC Fund · Sandown, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in South Africa Hardware startups

Nedbank is a one of the largest banks in South Africa.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Mining
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Series A
  • Geography: South Africa, Australia, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 21
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Pele Energy Group — Pele Energy Group owns and runs renewable energy infrastructure in addition to providing economic and community development consulting services.
  • WhereIsMyTransport — WhereIsMyTransport is a leading mobility technology company and central source of complete public transport data for emerging-market megacities. Working on the ground in Africa, Latin America, Southeast Europe and South and Southeast Asia, we digitalise network information from all modes of public transport and maintain data accuracy as thesedynamic systems change. Our products and data services improve the public transport experience, and inform industry-leading clients.
  • Sandfire Resources NL — Sandfire has grown to be a global copper producer of significance and continues to make strong progress toward its goal of being a sustainable mining company.
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ENL
VC Fund · Moka, Moka, Mauritius · 1 investments in South Africa Hardware startups

ENL is a broad based enterprise, that develops and manages brands in industries like real estate, hospitality, fintech, industrials, etc.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Data Center, Financial Services, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Mauritius, South Africa

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Hub2.Io — B2B solution for e-merchant in WEST AFRICA, that allows payment trough Mobile Banking, Credit Card.
  • Omnisient — Privacy-Preserving Data Collaboration platform enabling businesses to collaborate while ensuring consumer privacy and data protection.
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Bloc Smart Africa Fund
VC Fund · 1 investments in South Africa Hardware startups

BLOC Smart Africa is a finance technology fund, managed by Bamboo Capital Partners.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Apps, Retail
  • Stage:Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Kenya, Senegal, Cameroon

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $330k–$2.7M
  • Lead/follow: 60% lead, 40% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kasha — Health products and household goods you want, delivered to where you are.
  • Afrikamart — Afrikamart is a west African distribution platform for fresh produce that offers its marketing services to producers - suppliers - and operates as a digital purchasing center for retailers, hotels and restaurants - customers.We combine extensive use of digital with its experience in the food value chain to: - Facilitate information exchangebetween suppliers and customers (purchase price, sale price, product availability, harvest and purchase forecasts) - Organize end-to-end logistics with a network of transporters - Optimize financial and product flows according to different purchase and payment termsOur team includes experienced technology driven individuals with a strong experience in food commodity trading. Afrikamart brings pragmatic solutions to solve food value chain inefficiencies in West Africa while empowering hundreds of underprivileged women and young people with economic opportunities.
  • TooMuchWifi — TooMuchWifi is known to be the Best and most Reliable Wifi provider. Ideal for your home or business!
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Accion Ventures
VC Fund · Washington, District of Columbia, United States · 1 investments in South 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: 147
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$6.2M; Series A $2.5M–$17M; Series B $8M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $62M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Kuunda — Kuunda provides consulting, liquidity management, data insight tools enabling users to fulfill financial needs through a digital platform.
  • AquaExchange — AquaExchange is a technology platform for shrimp and fish farmers.
  • Gangkhar — Gangkhar provides AI-native embedded insurance infrastructure for digital platforms, insurers, MGAs, and brokers to launch, optimize, and scale embedded protection.
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Endeavor Catalyst
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Hardware startups

Endeavor Catalyst is the co-investment fund set up to invest exclusively in led companies

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: United States, Brazil, Mexico

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 502
  • Round size: Series A $5.3M–$37M; Series B $8M–$100M; Series C $20M–$200M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $300M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Dataroid — Enterprise-level digital analytics and customer engagement platform that helps enhance every customer interaction with data-driven insights.
  • Pagaleve — pagaleve offers payment in installments at PIX, with no interest and no credit card required. They provide merchants with a new payment method in order to increase their sales in a simple, uncomplicated, and agile manner, but they also want to provide people with the opportunity to buy what they want without committing to the card'shigh-interest rates and credit.
  • EnduroSat — Enabling profitable LEO satellite constellations with standardized satellites and fixed-cost space service. 100+ satellites deployed to orbit
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E4EAfrica
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in South Africa Hardware startups

E4E Africa Backing category-defining emerging market businesses. We invest in businesses that drive economic opportunity and sustainable growth.Learn MoreE4E specializes ... Read More

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Logistics, Supply Chain Management
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Africa, Germany, Mauritius

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 27
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$7.5M; Pre-Seed $1M–$2M; Series A $1M–$8.4M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Kuunda — Kuunda provides consulting, liquidity management, data insight tools enabling users to fulfill financial needs through a digital platform.
  • Jem — We give employers the ability to send company-wide communications, deliver payslips, manage leave & give employees access to their earnings, via WhatsApp.
  • Ridge — Ridge structures natural assets into regulated, ISIN-listed financial products accessible through existing banking infrastructure.
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Launch Africa
VC Fund · Ebène, Plaines Wilhems, Mauritius · 1 investments in South 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: 178
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$4M; Pre-Seed $200k–$1.8M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $36M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Yamify — Yamify is an AI platform where intelligent agents reliably run mission-critical business workflows in Africa. Founded by Silicon Valley engineers, our platform automates complex operations by integrating humans, systems, and infrastructure reliably, even under connectivity, latency, and compliance challenges. Starting with on-prem deployments,Yamify is evolving into a full AI automation infrastructure for African enterprises.
  • Shopstar — A place for makers and creators to start, manage and grow successful online stores. Our built-in design, payment and shipping methods provide you with an all in one solution. Get started with a free 14-day trial.
  • Kashat — The region's first nano financial service provider, offering small productive loans, and serving as the entry point to financial inclusion for the un- and underbanked population in Egypt.
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CV VC
VC Fund · Zug, Zug, Switzerland · 1 investments in South Africa Hardware startups

We invest in blockchain

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Software, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Switzerland, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 61
  • Round size: Seed $150k–$4M; Pre-Seed $125k–$800k
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • TurnStay — Enjoy low transaction fees on card payments in ZAR, Euros or Dollars and fast payouts in your preferred currencies. Book a demo today
  • Orca Fraud — Orca empowers fraud fighters with effective tools to combat fraud
  • Reppo Labs — Blockchain Network that connect Data Owners with AI Developers and AI agents through Programmable IP Co-ownership
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Triodos Bank
VC Fund · Zeist, Utrecht, The Netherlands · 1 investments in South Africa Hardware startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Energy, Solar
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Series A
  • Geography: India, Germany, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 45
  • Round size: Series A $12M–$12M; Debt Financing $3.6M–$80M
  • Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • MyJouleBox — MyJouleBox offers a solution for solar professionals in Africa to offer leased solar installations to their customers.
  • Storm — Storm focuses on wind energy solutions, developing and managing wind farms for renewable energy production.
  • axio — Capital Float is an online platform that provides working capital finance to SMEs in India. It offers flexible, short-term loans that can be used to purchase inventory, service new orders or optimize cash cycles. Borrowers can apply online in minutes, select desired repayment terms and receive funds in their bank accounts in 7 days with minimalhassle.Capital Float was founded in 2013 by Gaurav Hinduja and Sashank Rishyasringa.
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J.P. Morgan Asset Management
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Hardware startups

J.P. Morgan Asset Management is a leading asset manager for individuals, advisors and institutions. Their investment professionals are located around the world, providing strategies that span the full spectrum of asset classes.As one of the largest asset and wealth managers in the world, with assets under management of $1.7 trillion (as ofDecember 31, 2014), they provide global market insights and a range of investment capabilities that few other firms can match.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Stage:Private Equity, Series B, Series D
  • Geography: United States, India, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 53
  • Round size: Series B $19M–$105M; Series D $75M–$165M; Private Equity $50M–$200M
  • Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $138M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • CCTC — Chaozhou Three-Circle (Group) Co., Ltd. (CCTC) was established in 1970. The company has been listed in Shenzhen Stock Exchange since 2014 (stock code: 300408). It is a comprehensive enterprise engaged in research and development, manufacturing and sales of electronic basic materials, electronic components and communication devices. Thecompany's products cover optical communications, electronics, electrical, machinery, energy conservation and environmental protection, new energy, biological and fashion applications. The company has been both awarded as “National High-tech Enterprise” and ranked top 10 among China’s top 100 electronic component enterprises for consecutive years. The main products are electronic components, semiconductor components, information and communication components and new energy components and system integration. Within these industries the sales volume of ceramic substrate for chip resistor and ceramic rod for resistor are one of the market leaders in the world.
  • Fruitist — Inspiring enjoyable and nutritious snacking with premium berries and cherries.
  • Korsana Biosciences — Korsana Biosciences develops THETA-enabled antibody therapies for neurodegenerative diseases. The company focuses on shuttled monoclonal antibodies that cross the blood-brain barrier to reach central nervous system targets. Its lead program, KRSA-028, is an investigational anti-amyloid beta antibody for Alzheimer’s disease that uses a transferrinreceptor-based shuttle and Fc engineering to improve brain delivery and dosing. Korsana is also advancing additional THETA-based programs for undisclosed neurodegenerative indications.
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Gewape Capital
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Hardware startups

Gewape Capital is an innovative capital fund that uses exceptional people and capital to create lasting value.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Consulting, Cloud Computing, Domain Registrar
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Megabit Cloud — Cloud for Everyone. Fast, secure web hosting from $2.99/mo. Domain registration, WordPress hosting, VPS, and business email. Global infrastructure, local support.
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Redcliffe Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in South Africa Hardware startups

Discover Redcliffe Capital: Driving innovation and sustainable value creation globally. Partnering with visionary founders, we focus on AI-powered opportunities to transform businesses across diverse sectors. Explore our commitment to growth-driven investments and success.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, SaaS, Consumer Goods
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: India, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • RevFin — RevFin is a digital lending company.
  • Shoopy — Setup your online store in few minutes, create bills/invoices, manage inventory or account from mobile phone. Shoopy has integrated 100s of third party plugins for logistics, payments etc.
  • CoHo.in — CoHo provides you with quality homes, community and hassle-free experience, so that you don't just exist but start living!
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Hardware VC funding in South Africa at a glance

Stats across 189 deals from 208 investors.

208
investors
in South Africa Hardware startups
189
deals
in South Africa Hardware startups
$1.4M
median round
in South Africa Hardware startups
54%
lead investors
lead at least one round
17%
Seed
most common funding stage

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