Top 10 Hospitality Startup Investors in Africa

Last updated: Apr 2024 A list of 10 angel investors and VC funds that invest in Hospitality startups based in Africa. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Hospitality companies from Africa. We update this investor list every month.

Top 10 Hospitality Startup Investors in Africa

Investor	Hospitality Africa investments
Musha Ventures	2
Standard Chartered Bank	2
Village Global	2
LoftyInc Capital	2
Enza Capital	1
Rising Tide Africa	1
LocalGlobe	1
M & Y Growth Partners	1
AfricInvest	1
Future Africa	1

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Seed capital for technology startups globally.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Terraa — Terraa is a B2B distribution platform in Moroccan.
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.
Revivo — Revivo is an online marketplace for electronics spare parts, tools & accessories.

Standard Chartered Bank offers personal and business banking services. Their solutions for companies include transaction banking and financial markets solutions. They also offer current accounts, savings accounts, credit cards, loans, and mortgage services.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Telecommunications, FinTech
Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Funding Round
India, United Kingdom, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Ecopetrol — Ecopetrol is Colombia's largest integrated oil & gas company.
Climate Impact X — Climate Impact X is a global marketplace that provides carbon exchange and credits for investors.
Indorama Fertilizers — Indorama Fertilizers operates a world-class, 1.4 million metric tonnes per annum urea manufacturing facility based in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. The plant has been developed to global environmental, social and construction standards. It plays a key role in supporting the agricultural sector in Nigeria by providing a reliable supply of fertilizers forlocal farmers, thereby enabling import substitution and supporting the diversification needs of the Nigerian economy. Indorama Fertilizers is also advantageously located to serve neighboring West African countries and key Western hemisphere markets, including North America, South America and Europe

Early stage venture capital backed by some of the world's best entrepreneurs.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

Excarta — Excarta is a cutting-edge AI research project that aims to make businesses more adaptable to unpredictable weather.
LightBeam.ai — LightBeam.ai - zero trust data protection pioneer, converges & simplifies data security, privacy, & AI governance, so businesses can accelerate their growth in new markets with speed & confidence. Leveraging generative AI as a foundational technology, We tie together sensitive data cataloging, control, & compliance across structured, unstructured, & semi-structured data applications providing 360-visibility, risk remediation, & compliance with PCI, GLBA, GDPR, HIPAA among other regulations.
Elemind Technologies — At Elemind, our goal is to use novel neuromodulation techniques to augment sleep, attention, and ultimately, the human experience.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Venture investor in high-growth Founders and Teams using technology to solve large and meaningful problems across Africa

Investment focus

Logistics, Financial Services, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa

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.
Jumba — Jumba is a construction technology platform that streamlines B2B construction material purchase and financing.
Yebo Fresh — Powering South Africa's Township Economy.

About Us Rising Tide Africa functions as part of a Global movement of The Rising Tide Program for Africa. It constitutes a group of women angel investors harnessing their power, network, passion and capital to positively impact and actively create a New Africa. Learn More Our Pillars Investment Access to High Potential Early Stage Co-investment

Investment focus

FinTech, Information Technology, Finance
Seed, Pre-Seed
Nigeria, United Kingdom, Ghana

Portfolio highlights

Wealth8 — Wealth8 is a black-owned investment platform that provides a simple and affordable way for the black community to save & invest in globally managed funds.
ANKA — ANKA is a platform to discover, buy, and sell African fashion, arts, and crafts. ANKA’s goal is to allow African creation lovers to live their passion while allowing the creators to live from theirs. ANKA facilitates transactions and exchanges directly between buyers and sellers on both sides of the world, in a user-friendly and secure way.
Seso Global — Seso Global is a platform for secure real estate management and transactions in Africa.Based in Lagos (Nigeria), Accra (Ghana) and Cambridge (UK), Seso Global is a Digital Lands Transactions platform that facilitates secure, trusted, and risk-free Blockchain Land Transactions between, Property Owners, Land Service Agencies and FinancialInstitutions.

Seeding ambitious founders at places like @citymapper, @improbableio,@teamkano, @moo, @songkick,@seedcamp, @transferwise and @zoopla since 1999. Who's next?

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Qogita — A leading global wholesale supplier that offers a wide variety of products, brands, and categories across geographies.
Catalog — Catalog is the first plug-and-play tool exclusively designed to digitise small-to-medium B2B merchants ordering process. With Catalog, B2B SMBs are equipped with the tool they need to reclaim their time, engage with buyers in meaningful ways and boost growth.
Victory League — The virtual home for football fandom.

m&y growth partners is the hands-on VC fund focusing on IT/Mobile investments in any stage in any country.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Hospitality, Internet
Series A, Seed, Angel
United States, Ghana, India

Portfolio highlights

Binded — Binded lets creators claim their copyrights on the blockchain and protect them for free. A creator uploads their art or photos to Binded via our website or integrations with creative tools like Instagram. We create a timestamp in the Bitcoin blockchain and give a certificate as proof. We are developing technology to create uniquefingerprints for all copyrighted works and store them on the blockchain. Like Youtube’s Content ID system for the entire internet. For every copyright claimed, we scan the web and show matches for possible copyright infringement. In 5 years we hope to be the main way copyrights are registered and utilized.
Mishtag — MishTag is a community of the Shoppers, by the Shoppers for the Shoppers. MishTag is a Visual Engagement, Analytics & Advertising platform for making photos more engaging and rewarding for Brands, Retailers, and Publishers.
Omg Digital — SEO, Speed, WordPress and Question Answers for Experts.

AfricInvest was founded in 1994 and is part of Integra Group, an investment and financial services company based in Tunisia.Uniquely positioned as one of the most experienced private equity investors on the continent, AfricInvest has dedicated investment teams focused on North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa, and employs 66 professionals based inseven offices.AfricInvest manages USD1 billion across 16 funds and benefits from strong, long-term support from both local and international investors, including leading development finance institutions in the United States and Europe.Having co-founded the African Venture Capital Association (AVCA) as well as the Middle East North Africa Private Equity Association (MENAPEA) and the Euromed Capital Forum, the firm is an active promotor of the private equity industry in the region.Since 1994, AfricInvest has invested in 135 companies across 25 African countries in a variety of high growth sectors and maintains a broad network of high quality executives across Africa, offering extensive expertise in key growth industries, including financial services, agribusiness, consumer/retail, education and healthcare.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Financial Services, FinTech
Funding Round, Private Equity, Series A
Tunisia, Morocco, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Bizao — Bizao vous permet d'accepter les moyens de paiement en ligne en Afrique pour la commercialisation de vos services et/ou produits.
GoMyCode — GOMYCODE: Learn digital skills! | GOMYCODE Empower people by upskilling and reskilling them on digital skills through instructor-assisted trainings.
MFS Africa — 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.

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.