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Top 10 InsurTech Startup Investors in South Africa in April 2025

Last updated: Apr 2025 A list of 10 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Insurtech startups based in South africa. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Insurtech companies from South africa. We update this investor list every month.

Top 10 InsurTech Startup Investors in South Africa in April 2025

Investor	InsurTech South Africa investments
Goodwell Investments	4
Lireas Holdings	3
Allan Gray	2
UW Ventures	2
4Di Capital	1
Vunani Capital Partners	1
Emilian Popa	1
Old Mutual Investment Group	1
Greenlight Reinsurance	1
MFS Africa	1

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Goodwell Investments is a pioneering investment firm focused on financial inclusion, fintech and inclusive growth in sectors providing

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Agriculture
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

OmniRetail — Get visibility of complete value chain and optimize processes end to end with our network of networks platform.
Good Nature Agro — Their priority is to generate lasting income with small-scale farmers. They build local community leaders into qualified Private Extension Agents (PEAs) who oversee and train farmers throughout the growing season. They support PEAs to provide frequent trainings and personalized recommendations on how their growers can make their field healthier andmore productive. PEAs promote improved farm practices and deliver a farmer-friendly loan of seeds and additional inputs. At harvest, Good Nature is a guaranteed market for the certified legume seed that their growers produce. Choosing to produce these high-value crops over traditional cash crops - maize and cotton - more than doubles their income.
Agent Banking Company — Agent Banking Company provides digital technology solutions that enable access to banking services through bank-approved agents.

Lireas Holdings is an investment company with a specific focus on insurance and insurance technology investments. Lireas Holdings focuses on investing in start-ups and existing businesses requiring growth funding or new partners. Lireas Holdings was founded in 1988 and was headquartered in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Investment focus

FinTech, InsurTech, Security
Seed, Series A, Series B
South Africa, United States

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.

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

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
Seed, Series A, Series C
South Africa, United States

Portfolio highlights

Mobiz — Supercharge your SMS marketing with dynamic, high-converting landing pages sent directly into the hands of your customers.
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 — Maximize your email security and domain protection with DMARC to safeguard your business against email impersonation, phishing, and spoofing.

UW is a multi-stage investor that provides growth and replacement capital across the equity-cycle. Its activities span from high-growth venture to mid-market private equity opportunities.

Investment focus

FinTech, Payments, Insurance
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
South Africa

Portfolio highlights

Pargo — Pargo is a convenient logistics solution that lets you collect and return parcels at Pargo parcel points throughout the country when it suits you best.
Synatic — Synatic is a unified platform that enables your business to integrate and automate systems and services without sacrificing enterprise features and security.
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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Maxe AI — AI investment Assistant for all investors. AI Portfolios tracker of stocks bonds exchanges futures. all in one to track mutual funds.
Rather.chat — Rather.chat offers a platform that facilitates meaningful connections between businesses and their customers through WhatsApp. This service is designed to make customer interactions more personal and efficient, allowing for real-time communication. By leveraging the widespread use of WhatsApp, Rather.chat aims to enhance the customer serviceexperience, making it easier for businesses to address inquiries, resolve issues, and maintain engagement with their audience. The focus is on creating a seamless bridge for dialogue that respects the convenience and preferences of the modern consumer, who increasingly favors instant messaging over traditional forms of communication.
Happy Pay — Happy Pay is a credit scoring system developing company. The company integrates an autonomous artificial intelligence technology system with the merchant's platform to increase their average basket size and customer conversion metrics, providing users with buy now, and pay later services.

Vunani Capital Partners has identified seven investment sectors and will focus on these sectors and with our strategic and management partners grow the investment portfolio looking in particular to extract greater value from our existing assets. As a majority black owned company VCP will also seek opportunities to consolidate BEE investments.

Investment focus

FinTech, Payments, InsurTech
Seed, Series A
South Africa, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

PawaPay — pawaPay helps global companies accept payments from and terminate transactions to African consumers via mobile money.
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.

Investor and Entrepreneur with 10+ years of successful launching, fund raising, growing, and exiting more than 20 technology ventures in Africa, Asia, Middle East, and Russia. Present focus on Africa. Extensive process and strategy consulting experience with leading consulting firm in Europe, US, Africa. Joint MBA Columbia Business School /London Business School.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Apps, Travel
Seed, Series A, Series B
Egypt, South Africa, United States

Portfolio highlights

Swvl — Swvl | Book Your Daily Ride or Make Money Driving Now
Curve — Curve is a banking platform that consolidates cards and accounts into one smart card and app.It allows customers to supercharge their legacy banks to the 21st century without leaving their bank or topping-up. Curve offers a host of benefits to its customers; it makes cards fee-free when spending abroad, get instant notifications andcategorization of spend, earn an instant 1% cashback at the likes of Amazon, Uber, Netflix and Sainsbury’s and Time Travel enables customers to swap spend to a different card in the app for up to two weeks after the purchase was made. Curve also offers Curve Customer Protection, a policy that covers all credit and debit card payments made via the Curve card up to £100,000, giving cardholders an extra layer of protection for disputes with merchants and any unauthorised use of their Curve card. IDC Ventures backs Curve with Fuel Venture Capital, Vulcan Capital, OneMain Financial, and Novum Capital backs Curve.Shachar Bialick, Anna Mostyn Williams, and Tom Foster-Carter established the company in London, England in 2015.
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As a leading African investment manager, we aim to deliver sustainable long-term returns for clients via our comprehensive range of investment capabilities.

Investment focus

Retail, FinTech, Finance
Private Equity, Series A, Funding Round
South Africa, Malawi, Australia

Portfolio highlights

CoverGo — CoverGo is the ultimate no-code insurance platform helping insurance companies build and launch products for health, life, and P&C.
Gala Macs — Gala Macs is an agricultural company engaged in the production of macadamia nuts.
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.

Greenlight Re (www.greenlightre.ky) is a specialist property and casualty reinsurance company based in the Cayman Islands and Ireland. The company provides a variety of custom-tailored reinsurance solutions to the insurance, risk retention group, captive and financial marketplaces. Established in 2004, Greenlight Re selectively offers customizedreinsurance solutions in markets where capacity and alternatives are limited. With a focus on deriving superior returns from both sides of the balance sheet, Greenlight Re's assets are managed according to a value-oriented, equity-focused strategy that complements the Company's business goal of long-term growth in book value per share.

Investment focus

Insurance, InsurTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Armilla AI — Discover how Armilla AI is revolutionizing AI governance with cutting-edge warranty and insurance solutions. We provide 2-week AI assessments that guarantee performance, transparency, and fairness for enterprises and AI vendors alike. Partner with us to innovate with confidence and trust.
InRev — Contract Surety Bonds in Seconds
District Cover — District Cover takes a data-driven approach to understanding city-based businesses' risk profiles and creates tailored insurance policies for small businesses. We exist to ensure brokers and small businesses can rely on consistent access to insurance solutions that empower continued growth. Our proprietary, non-admitted commercial insuranceproduct provides a new solution as existing options become harder to get, less relevant, and more expensive.

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.

Investment focus

FinTech, Insurance, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
France, Uganda, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Julaya — Julaya is a fintech providing African businesses with a digital account to make payments : disbursing mobile money transactions to their employees, suppliers, and owning their own virtual and physical prepaid cards.
maviance — Maviance is a German-based consulting (business and IT) and software development company that develops industry-specific for web and mobile applications for businesses and governments. It creates sustainable and customized solutions to meet the requirements of customers by combining its industry experience with solution-oriented skills of businessre-design, concept, project management, programming, and testing.Our commitment to excellence and sustainability is evident in suite of innovative and scalable smart mobile enterprise applications in industries like Microfinance, Metering, Insurance and Sales Automation. Each of our applications consists of a web-based back office server, mobile clients and APIs for SMS, mobile billing, mobile payment and integration into existing systems. Maviance serves clients in the financial services, telecommunications and public sectors, increasing productivity, reducing costs and improving their management capabilities. Founded in 2008, maviance GmbH is headquartered in Leipzig, Germany.
Numida — Growing African small businesses with affordable, convenient, and fair credit.

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