Top 50 InsurTech VC Funds in Africa
A list of 50 VC funds that invest in Insurtech startups based in Africa. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Insurtech companies from Africa. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 InsurTech VC Funds in Africa
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
- Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Nigeria, United States, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Moove — Moove is a mobility fintech that provides revenue-based vehicle financing to mobility entrepreneurs, democratizing vehicle ownership globally. The company embeds its alternative credit-scoring technology onto ride-hailing, logistics, and last-mile/instant delivery platforms, which allows access to proprietary performance and revenue analyticsof mobility entrepreneurs to underwrite loans.
- Itana — Talent City’s mission is to build a network of charter cities that focuses on creating technology-enabled jobs within a free trade zone with its own regulation and bylaws.
- Filmmakers Mart — FilmmakersMart is Africa’s first film and entertainment marketplace where entertainment businesses and creatives find verified services seamlessly for their video productions while democratizing entry into the film and entertainment industry for emerging creatives. We’re building the operations system for the film and entertainment industry inAfrica.
Goodwell Investments is a pioneering investment firm focused on financial inclusion, fintech and inclusive growth in sectors providing
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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.
- Inclusivity Solutions — Inclusivity Solutions provides digital insurance for the connected, but unprotected. Delivering simple & affordable insurance via mobile phones
Tencent is an internet service portal offering value-added internet, mobile, telecom, and online advertising services. Its communications and social platforms Weixin and QQ connect users with each other, with digital content and daily life services in just a few clicks. Tencent has maintained steady growth under its user-oriented operatingstrategies. It provides value-added internet, mobile, and telecom services, as well as online advertising under the strategic goal of providing users with "one-stop online lifestyle services." Tencent’s Internet platforms in China – QQ (QQ Instant Messenger), WeChat, QQ.com, QQ Games, Qzone, 3g.QQ.com, SoSo, PaiPai, and Tenpay – aim to address the various needs of internet users, including communication, information, entertainment, e-commerce, and others.In September 2013, Tencent's market valuation rose to $101 billion, and as of November 21, 2013, QQ had 2 billion active users and WeChat had 650 million monthly active users. The numbers of active users for QQ mail, Qzone, Tencent Weibo, and QQ news were 274 million, 626 million, 220 million, and 150 million, respectively.Tencent was founded in November of 1998. In April 2000, the IDG and PCCW invested a total of $2.2 million dollars in the company. Tencent was listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (SEHK) on June 16, 2004. Baidu, Alibaba, and Netease are Tencent's major competitors.
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- China, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- GMM Music — GMM Music unlocks the value of Thailand's music economy.
- Gensciences — Gensciences develops drugs that focus on underserved illnesses like hemophilia, metabolic diseases, and anti-tumor fields.
- Moonshot AI — Dark Side of the Moon is an AI large-scale model company.
We are an investment company focused on helping early and growth-stage entrepreneurs build successful companies in Africa.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Nigeria, United States, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Releaf — We are industrializing food processing in Africa. We've led 1000+ smallholder farmers to provide food factories with >7.5 million kilograms of quality crops.
- Tripesa — Tripesa offers payment solutions for Africa's travel and tourism industry.
- Norebase — Norebase knows that there's an opportunity to grow successful businesses in Africa. It also understands the complexities of the market, and so is using technology to make doing business in Africa worthwhile. With Norebase get to operate in Africa with no hassle and with minimum risk.
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.
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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.
Launch Africa is a fund with the primary objective of unlocking the capital constraints of Seed Stage tech startups.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Bosso — Bosso projects and realizes automation and robotic solutions for the growth of your business.
- Maad — Maad is Francophone Africa's fastest-growing B2B marketplace, based in Dakar, Senegal. Our tech-driven solution allows retailers to order products from our one-stop shop and benefit from working capital loans
- Wahu Mobility — Wahu Mobility is an open e-mobility platform that connects drivers, passengers, and goods in a simple, inclusive, transparent, nationwide, and multimodal manner.
We look for enablers of change that could have a meaningful impact to the Human Experience.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Mexico, Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- AiSDR — AiSDR sales automation acts as your inside sales rep. From outbound to inbound emails, AiSDR runs your outreach and drives leads to customers
- Leadsales — Leadsales es el primer CRM para Redes Sociales para integrar tus mensajes de WhatsApp Facebook e Instagram en una plataforma multiagente
- LighthouseAI — Discover how LighthouseAI provides expert solutions for pharmaceutical regulatory compliance. Explore and optimize your compliance journey.
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
- Internet, B2B, Information Technology
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa
Portfolio highlights
- Figorr — Figorr is your go-to, for accessing reliable information on temperature, humidity, and location. Experience the next generation of data-driven insights with Figorr today.
- Sendmarc — Stop cyber criminals from sending emails using your domain and protect your customers, suppliers and employees from cyber attacks with DMARC Security.
- Afropolitan — Afropolitan is building a Network State to unleash the maximum potential of Africans around the world. Are you interested? Join us with your email.
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.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Payments, Insurance
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- South Africa
Portfolio highlights
- Synatic — Synatic is a unified platform that enables your business to integrate and automate systems and services without sacrificing enterprise features and security.
- 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.
- 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.
Allan Gray is privately owned investment management company focused on generating long-term wealth for investors.
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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 — Stop cyber criminals from sending emails using your domain and protect your customers, suppliers and employees from cyber attacks with DMARC Security.
We back founders building the future of Africa. We invest in companies that solve for non-consumption, plug infrastructural gaps and democratise prosperity in Africa, by eliminating the barriers for access and reducing the costs of delivering goods and services.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Nigeria, United States, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Lengo — Lengo is an AI based intelligence platform that offers a large database on consumer goods for companies in the FMCG sector.
- Shekel Mobility — B2B marketplace for auto dealers to grow their dealerships leveraging on flexible inventory financing and management solutions. Available on web and mobile.
- Maad — Maad is Francophone Africa's fastest-growing B2B marketplace, based in Dakar, Senegal. Our tech-driven solution allows retailers to order products from our one-stop shop and benefit from working capital loans
Kepple Africa Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt
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.
- Carry1st — Carry1st develops and publishes enriching mobile games and content apps for African consumers.
Newmont is the world’s leading gold company and a producer of copper, silver, zinc and lead
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Investment focus
- Apps, FinTech, InsurTech
- Pre-Seed
- Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- ETAP — ETAP is a digital insurance application that allows you to set up your car insurance in just 90 seconds.
Partech is a global venture capital firm with offices in San Francisco, Paris, Berlin and Dakar. Partech invests in Internet and information technology startups at seed, venture and growth stages.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, France, Germany
Enhancing financial inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa through data driven lending.
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Investment focus
- InsurTech, Insurance
- Seed
- Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- mTek — Manage your insurance digitally by purchasing affordable covers online, comparing quotes from your favorite insurers and settling claims through mTek
Newtown Partners is a venture capital firm that actively invests in emerging, disruptive technology startups.
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Investment focus
- Logistics, Health Care, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- South Africa, Ghana, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Chefaa — Chefaa is a GPS-enabled pharmacy benefits platform connecting patients & pharmacies nation-wide to help patients manage all their pharmacy needs. Chefaa uses big data, data ming & machine learning
- Waspito — We are the platform that engages Africa into the conversation and action to drive affordable and accessible quality healthcare across the continent.
- Complete Farmer — We are providing cutting-edge technological farming protocols and innovations with a unique business model and logistics that are revolutionizing...
Our impact investing arm, Mercy Corps Ventures (MCV), invests in and fuels high-impact enterprises that increase the resilience of people and communities in frontier markets.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, AgTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Kenya, United States, Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- Kofa — Kofa is an automotive company that utilizes the latest electric battery and motor technology. The company aims to develop an affordable, sustainable and customer driven electric network in transformative energy, transport, and climate change around the globe. Kofa was founded in Ghana and is headquartered in Accra.
- Pivo — Pivo is an all-in-one financial services platform for businesses in the supply chain. Set up accounts, access credit and manage your finances in one simple application.
- Open Forest Protocol — With Open Forest Protocol (OFP), measure, report, verify and fund forestation projects with digital transparency
Acuity Ventures is a Silicon Valley-based family of venture capital funds that provide investment capital and strategic guidance to early stage and emerging growth companies. The Fund currently investing is Acuity Ventures III LP, formed in 2004. Acuity provides capital through convertible preferred debt, direct equity investments and otherinvestment participations.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Nigeria, Togo, Egypt
Portfolio highlights
- MIA Group — MIA Group is a consumer internet company in Francophone Africa. We are on a mission to make commerce easy through a digital ecosystem fulfilling the everyday needs of consumers online and offline.Our businesses include Miaplenou.com: The largest online retail platform operating in Togo, Benin, Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso. Launched 2012.Kiosk: online reselling App that enables anyone to start a business without investment. Launched 2021.MiaPay: QR code payment and lifestyle services
- Baloon Assurance — Baloon is a digital insurance broker. They offer online insurance brokerage services intended to help facilitate the purpose of meeting the insurance demands. Their services include providing insurance in the areas of automobile and health, enabling consumers to reimburse their insurance online.
- LemFi — Lemonade Finance is a digital bank for the African diaspora. Lemonade provides users with accounts in their country of residence and country of origin for personal and business banking needs.
Harlem Capital is an early-stage venture firm that invests in post-revenue tech-enabled startups, focused on minority and women founders. The firm invests in founders from all backgrounds and is committed to preserving capital for investments in minority and women founders. Their skill sets in finance, media, and entrepreneurship, along with theirexpansive network, allow them to provide the most value-add per invested dollar for early-stage companies.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Kenya, Peru
Portfolio highlights
- TestParty — TestParty is the most effective solution for organizations to achieve digital accessibility compliance in the WCAG for the ADA, EAA, Section 508, and more.
- Velma — Automatically coordinate the whole company on product delivery - with a superhuman project manager.
- Propense.ai — Propense.ai is a SaaS platform that identifies new revenue streams for businesses, augmented with AI technology. Our B2B predictive sales intelligence model enables firms to streamline and maximize their cross-selling revenue by analyzing historical and market data points to reveal revenue opportunities hiding in plain sight. Propense.ai makes iteasier for businesses to know what they should be selling to their clients next, effectively bringing the recommendation revolution to the B2B market.
An Invetsment Fund.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Internet, InsurTech
- Seed, Series B, Series A
- South Africa
Portfolio highlights
- I-G3N — I-G3N is a South African developer of lithium-ion batteries. The company’s core market is on stationary storage in conjunction with Solar PV and focuses on superior products and on the incorporation of the latest technologies to battery functionality. One of the key focus areas is on exporting to the SADC region and the rest of Africa, asextraordinary opportunities exist on the rest of the continent, especially in the development of mini and micro-grids to impact development.
- 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.
- Aviro Health — We believe that empowering and supporting people to manage their own health benefits everybody.We built the Aviro Pocket Clinic to support self-care and provide access to services. We give people what they need to perform important health checks like regular HIV self-testing and connect them to experts and services who can offer hands-on and supported care when needed.
Olive Tree Capital started as the foreign investment arm of the single member family office. With a diverse mandate, we are able to seek worthwhile global investment opportunities without asset class restrictions; we seek public market opportunities with discrepancies between market perception and fundamental reality, and we enjoy privatelyinvesting in and collaborating with partners who share our passion, dedication, and clarity. More philosophically, we live by the Golden Rule; thus, we especially love entrepreneurs, artists, and businesses that are positively contributing to humanity in parallel with pursuing profitability.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, India, Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- Curacel — Curacel creates APIs & tools that enable businesses to embed insurance in digital channels and to administer claims cost-effectively.
- AOA — AOA based in Boston, New York, and London developing cancer diagnostics in the field of women’s health.AOA is a female-led company, is committed to bringing the first accurate early-stage liquid biopsy ovarian cancer diagnostic test to market that will improve clinical practice, help reduce patient mortality and deliver cost savings to payers.
- DermBiont — Leading a Revolution in Dermatology
Acasia Ventures is a leading venture capital firm that invests in early-stage companies throughout the Middle East and Africa. With a focus on being a first believer in innovation and entrepreneurship, the firm strives to support the growth of the next generation of market leaders through their unique and scalable solutions. Its Tech Fund I iscurrently targeting investments in tech-driven and tech-enabled startups at the pre-Seed to pre-Series A stages.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Egypt, Nigeria, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Lengo — Lengo is an AI based intelligence platform that offers a large database on consumer goods for companies in the FMCG sector.
- Menthum — Saving Made Simple
- Bluworks.io — Bluworks.io is a HRTech SaaS platform offers cloud-based solutions.
As a leading African investment manager, we aim to deliver sustainable long-term returns for clients via our comprehensive range of investment capabilities.
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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.
Blue Point is a private equity firm that partners with entrepreneurs and management teams investing in and growing lower middle-market companies.
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Investment focus
- B2C, Retail, FinTech
- Private Equity, Seed
- United States, France, Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- Curacel — Curacel creates APIs & tools that enable businesses to embed insurance in digital channels and to administer claims cost-effectively.
- Siffron — siffron provides retail merchandising and custom display solutions.With more than 60 years of retail expertise, siffron has more than 6,000 retail fixtures, store shelving, shelf management systems, and stock displays.
- Europa Eyewear — Europa is an eyewear company which is proud to craft products and policies focused on supporting likeminded, independent eye care professionals
P1 Ventures works as a venture capital firm. They specialize in early-stage industrial technology firms in Africa.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Payments, FinTech
- Seed, Series B, Pre-Seed
- Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- MNZL — MNZL is on a mission to expand access to capital for Egyptians.Every person who owns an asset has accumulated wealth in it. When they want liquidity for their projects and needs, they should be able to tap into it as easily as withdrawing from a bank.With an innovative digital platform and products, we are working on making digital access tocapital a reality, and building the future of asset-backed financing in Africa.
- Lengo — Lengo is an AI based intelligence platform that offers a large database on consumer goods for companies in the FMCG sector.
- Nkoloso — Nkoloso AI monitors Africa's natural resources 10x faster using AI and Robotics.
Century Oak Capital GmbH is a venture capital firm specializing in early-stage investments in Europe and Emerging Markets.
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Investment focus
- Retail, E-Commerce, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Pakistan, Kenya, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Unbox — Unbox is the branded commerce operating system for SMEs helping them to sell online and increase their sales. We provide a ready to sell platform that allows entrepreneurs to digitize their business in less than 5 minutes - fully integrated with social commerce channels and our payment and shipping solutions, helping SMEs to save costs andcentralizing sales into a single platform.
- SnappRetail — SnappRetail aims to create the largest virtual retail franchise across Pakistan, through deployment of its POS hardware/software, focusing on:1. Traditional trade Analytics for brands and retailers 2. Order Aggregation for manufacturers and distributors 3. Payment Solution for customers 4. Fintech enablement for small merchantsTheSnappRetail POS application has been carefully curated keeping the retailer in mind, the application focuses on digitizing his shop operations and cash flow and creating a real-time tertiary sales data lake.
- Dastgyr Technologies — Making trade and capital seamless and reliable
We're changing the way medicine is made - leveraging innovation to better serve scientific discovery, withstand disruptive events, and reach those in need.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, B2B, IaaS
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Mali, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- bit.bio — Bit.bio specializes in the fields of coding and biology that determine the identity of every human cell. Their mission is coding cells for health. To do so, we apply the principles of computation to biology. Bit.bio's current focus is to develop a scalable technology platform capable of producing consistent batches of every human cell. Thishas the potential to unlock a new generation of medicine: it will enable research and drug discovery to move on from inappropriate models and work with the cells that actually are affected by the human disease. A scalable platform of consistent cells will also be the basis for a new generation of cell and tissue therapies. To achieve our goals, we have assembled a team of pioneers in stem cells, cellular reprogramming, mathematical modeling, and cell therapy. Collaboration is at the heart of bit.bio. We are empirical, highly ambitious, and driven by a common purpose.
- PartnerSlate — PartnerSlate is an online platform that helps food and beverage brands make the right strategic partnerships to get their next product to market. Brands can discover, connect, and build relationships with contract manufacturers and other food industry partners across North America.
- Cellevolve Bio — Cellevolve Bio is a development and commercialization company focused on cell therapies.
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.
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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.
Founded in July 2015, Elefund is a US-based venture capital firm with its headquarters in Mountain View, California. The firm has invested in several well-known companies whose products and services have benefited millions of people all over the world and created thousands of jobs.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
- Forward — Forward is a company that helps progammers and developers coordinate their program codes to build better websites.
- Powder — AI Agents for precise document analysis
- Canopy Connect — Verify premiums, limits, deductibles with Canopy Connect. Use our agent dashboard or build with our insurance API for even greater flexibility.
Accion Venture Lab is a leading early-stage investor in inclusive fintech, providing seed-first capital and strategic support to innovative startups that are meeting the financial needs of underserved people globally. Our global portfolio and local approach enable us to spot and respond to global trends faster, sharing learnings across geographies. Accion Venture Lab is an investment strategy of Accion and is managed by Accion Impact Management.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- India, United States, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Semaai — Full-stack agri-tech solution for Indonesian farmers
- AquaExchange — AquaExchange is a technology platform for shrimp and fish farmers.
- Cashinvoice — Cashinvoice connects supply chain stakeholders and digitises invoice-to-cash processes to unlock working capital trapped within supply chains and accelerate business growth
Picus Capital is an early-stage technology investment firm with a long-term investment philosophy. We work together with daring technology companies to build successful, global companies challenging the status quo and shaping tomorrow.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Germany, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Alvys — Alvys is a cloud-based transportation management system with high-tech automation. Specializing in workflow efficiency for small to mid-size carriers. Alvys stands out by saving carriers and freight brokers more time per load than any other TMS! Save up to 30 minutes per load, organize your operations in one place, scale with ease and integrateall your favorite tools. The proof is in the workflows and here's a sneak peek of our popular features:• Driver App • Tracking & Tracing • Source for Truck Capacity • End-to-End Visibility • One Click Accounting • Analytics & Reporting • Safety & Maintenance • Integrations • Benefits for BrokersTRY US FOR FREE! www.alvys.com
- Hive — Fulfillment with Hive means 100% peace of mind at up to 30% cost savings. Move your operations to Hive now.
- Niva — Niva's business identity platform enables institutions across the globe to verify more businesses faster, safer, and smarter with AI. Scale your fraud and compliance teams with Niva.
Mobility 54 is a joint venture among Toyota Tsusho Corporation and CFAO.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Transportation, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Kenya, Nigeria, Côte d'Ivoire
Portfolio highlights
- BasiGo — BasiGo is an early-stage e-mobility start-up looking to revolutionize the public transportation sector by providing matatu owners with a cost-effective electric alternative to diesel buses.
- Tugende — Tugende helps motorcycle taxi drivers own their own motorcycles in eighteen months or less instead of renting indefinitely. Ownership significantly increases income, job security and road safety.
- ETAP — ETAP is a digital insurance application that allows you to set up your car insurance in just 90 seconds.
Leading early-stage venture capital firm focused on pre-Seed, Seed and Series A stage technology companies in North America.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, India, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Caden — Caden is the world's first Zero-Party Data platform. We allow users to own and control their own personal data, make money off it, and share it with trusted consumer brands, while maintaining their privacy.
- Dashy Dash — Dashy Dash is a free community powered tool that makes it easy to manage invoices, discover new products & compare prices to help you save money.
- Vero Technologies — Vero Technologies is a Financial Services based company.
Kesho Capital invests in start-up and early-stage companies with a mission to resolve global problems and provide value.
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Investment focus
- Payments, InsurTech, Insurance
- Pre-Seed
- Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- Klump — Use Klump to buy today, and pay in 4 equal instalments over 3 months! Businesses accept payments and increase conversion rate and revenue. The Easy Life! Try it now.
- Octamile — Octamile is Africa's best Embedded Insurance & Claims Automation solution for Insurers & B2C businesses. Get a quote today...
4Di Capital is a Cape Town-based venture capital fund management firm focused on early-stage technology investments in sub-Saharan Africa.
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- Software, Financial Services, Mobile
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- South Africa, United States, Uganda
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- Maxe AI — AI investment Assistant for all investors. AI Portfolios tracker of stocks bonds exchanges futures. all in one to track mutual funds.
- Sendmarc — Stop cyber criminals from sending emails using your domain and protect your customers, suppliers and employees from cyber attacks with DMARC Security.
- Leta — Leta Technology is a software development company that creates supply chain and logistics software to enable the efficient and automated movement of goods.
Continent Venture Partners operates as a venture capital firm.
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- Supply Chain Management, Financial Services, Transportation
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Nigeria, Kenya, United States
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- MVX — MVX is a freight forwarding business and logistics platform that offers freight financing, tracking, and shipping services to help trade.
- MoneyHash — MoneyHash provides access to payment and fintech services across the Middle East & Africa with one simple integration.
- Mvxchange — MVX makes freight shipping easier and more coordinated for companies of any size by bringing the whole booking and deployment process online. We simplify Africa’s end-to-end import and export trade transactions by aggregating and organizing 7+ services through 1 digital channel.
Newfund is a $300M entrepreneurial VC firm dedicated to pre-seed and seed investments in France and North America, in companies driving global change. The company is always looking for founders who are driven to realize a vision that will significantly alter the world in which we live. In order to appreciate what entrepreneurs are creating andutilize their strengths, Newfund aims to comprehend entrepreneurs as unique individuals.
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- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- France, United States, Canada
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- Bolero — Invest in the music rights of your favourite songs and get royalties on Bolero, the all-in-one marketplace to invest in Song Shares. Invest in music today!
- Touch Sensity — Touch Sensity is an information technology company that specializes in the fields of IoT and sensors.
- Infinite Orbits — Infinite Orbits is a company with a vision to provide reliable, turnkey in - orbit services to satellite operators all over the world.
AAIC Ventures focuses on companies with management, technology, and production in Asia, addressing a global market. AAIC Ventures believes that it is in the midst of a technological revolution and Asia, where it has its connections and experience, will play a pivotal role.At the heart of its AAIC Ventures' involvement in start-ups is thedrive to support their development, innovation process and growth with both advice and hands-on involvement.Developing good ideas into a marketable product and process requires incredible innovation and creativity. AAIC Ventures likes to challenge the status quo and take an active role in finding alternative ways for our companies to achieve their goals.AAIC Ventures combines its work with its portfolio companies with serious capital commitments, often participate in follow-on rounds, and help in all aspects of further capital raising efforts.
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- AgTech, Drones, Medical
- Seed, Series A
- Egypt, Kenya, Hong Kong
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- Rology — AI-assisted On-demand Teleradiology Platform
- Lami — Lami is an end-to-end digital insurance platform and API that enables companies across sectors to offer insurance products. Its API allows underwriters to connect with consumer-facing companies that can provide embedded insurance as a value add for existing customers, many of whom are uninsured.
- Insight Robotics — Insight Robotics is a forestry-focused risk management company, empowering forest owners to proactively mitigate threats by making sense of data.
We are a multi-family office platform with a highly active ecosystem of financial institutions and partners to provide customized wealth management services. Rockpool’s unique in-house Chief Investment Office (CIO) is a part of our DNA, ensuring institutional rigor is firmly at the heart of everything that we do.
Established in 2017 by a team ofexperienced investment professionals, Rockpool Capital is guided by its founding vision to connect, serve, and champion the unique and changing investment needs of Asia’s emerging and next generations.
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- Blockchain, FinTech, Financial Services
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, Hong Kong, Israel
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- Bishop Fox — Bishop Fox, the leader in offensive security, continuous pen testing, red teaming, attack surface management, and traditional security assessments.
- Aspen Digital — Aspen Digital is the gateway to Digital Asset allocation, an innovative technology-driven platform that empowers asset and wealth managers to offer / invest into digital asset products with confidence.
- FreeWire Technologies — Experience the future of ultrafast EV charging and energy management with Boost Charger Pro and Boost Power Pro. Elevate your site's reliability with blackout charging and bidirectional energy flow capabilities.
Fiat Ventures invests in the future of fintech.
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- FinTech, Financial Services, InsurTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Canada, Nigeria
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- StellarFi — We Pay Your Bills, So YouCan Build Credit. With Stellar your bills are paid on time and on your terms.
- Conduiit — Cloud-based purchase order, payment request and file management system that allows production management and finance teams to work seamlessly
- EarlyBird — EarlyBird simplifies investing for parents and elevates gifting by empowering friends and family to make meaningful investments to the children they love.
Golden Palm Investments is an investment holding and advisory company.
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- Information Technology, FinTech, Health Care
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Nigeria, Egypt, Kenya
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- Sabipay — Pastel is a leader in Artificial Intelligence. We build products targeted at individuals (SwiftMoney) and enterprises (Sigma) in emerging markets
- Maplerad — Maplerad is a fast, safe and easy way to send and receive money with friends, family or others you trust. You can receive and send money directly into any Nigerian bank account in minutes using Bitcoin, US Dollars, and Naira.
- Jetstream Africa — Jetstream is a supply chain platform that powers freight forwarding and global exports for African suppliers. With tracking and consolidated (LCL) shipping Jetstream levels the playing field for access to international trade for African SMEs with the click of a button.
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.
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- FinTech, Payments, InsurTech
- Seed, Series A
- South Africa, United Kingdom
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- 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.
E4E (“Entrepreneurs for Entrepreneurs”) specializes in supporting early stage ventures in South Africa from very early stage (pre-series A) to scale up.E4E focus on smart entrepreneurs and business ideas that are great businesses and make a significant contribution to a better (South) Africa.
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- Logistics, Internet, Supply Chain Management
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- South Africa, France, The Netherlands
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- 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.
- TUNL — TUNL | Unlocking Exports
- 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.
EchoVC Partners is a seed and early-stage venture capital firm focused on financing and cross-pollinating leading technologies, teams, business models, and knowledge across North America, Africa, and SE Asia. The average investment size ranges from $25,000 to several million dollars depending on the stage of opportunity and capital needs of thebusiness.
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- Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Nigeria, Kenya
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- Shuttlers — Shuttlers is a platform that offers mobility solutions by providing scheduled bus-sharing services for the professionals within the region.
- Snowstorm — Snowstorm is a decentralized microproxy network. Already proven in crisis zones, it must now evolve into a next-generation system and internet freedom tool.
- Senga Technologies — Welcome to Senga, custom-built, with love, for businesses shipping in Africa.
BEENEXT is a Venture Capital fund managed by serial entrepreneurs that focuses on assisting founders with its operational experience, network, trust, unique perspectives, and the capital. The team invests in early-stage tech start-ups that are focused on building the new digital platforms driven by the data network. BEENEXT aims to establish aplatform of founders, by the founders and for the founders across the globe, primarily in South East Asia, India and Japan. Since its establishment in 2015, the team has
invested in over 180 companies globally.
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- Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- India, Japan, Indonesia
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- ProsParity — Reimagining Distribution Of Credit In The Electric Mobility Sector
- Jago Coffee — Jago Coffee serves freshly brewed coffee beverages wherever you are through a fleet of fully electric mobile cafes.
- Papaya — Papaya is the quickest way to order and pay in restaurants and bars and enjoy a seamless ordering and payment experience with personalized offerings. Restaurants and bars turn tables faster, experience increased basket sizes, and better understand their customer base.
Seed round investor
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- mHealth, Hospital, InsurTech
- Seed
- Germany, Nigeria
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- Reliance Health — Reliance Health is a healthcare company using technology to make healthcare more affordable and accessible. Using an integrated approach that includes affordable health insurance, telemedicine, and a combination of partner and proprietary healthcare facilities.
- Startup Insider — Startup Insider is an industry portal for the startup scene in Germany, Austria and Switzerland helping them grow.
Graph Ventures is an investment group that specializes in seed and early-stage venture investments. It was founded in 2011. Investments include:
* BetterUp
* Birdies
* BlueApron
* Dapper Labs
* Earnin
* Envoy
* Hinge
* Houseparty
* Ipsy
* Loft
* Lever
* Lingokids
* Moon Express
* Papaya
* PicsArt
* Porch
* Quinto Andar
* RideOS
* Saildrone
*Very Good Security
* VivaReal
* Zeplin
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- Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Brazil, Canada
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- Koltin — Koltin offers preventive, accessible health plans focused on people.
- Ximple — Ximple breaks the cycle of perpetual financial exclusion that million of families in Latin America experience through innovative underwriting. We partner up with Direct Sellers to enhance their business through software and working capital solutions
- Lex — Lex is a lo-fi, text-based social app for womxn, trans, genderqueer, intersex, two spirit, and non-binary people for meeting lovers and friends. Lex—short for lexicon—is the only social app where the text comes first and the selfies, second.
Leading early-stage venture capital firm focused on pre-Seed, Seed and Series A stage technology companies in North America.
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- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, India, Canada
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- Caden — Caden is the world's first Zero-Party Data platform. We allow users to own and control their own personal data, make money off it, and share it with trusted consumer brands, while maintaining their privacy.
- AnthologyAI — AnthologyAI is the breakthrough Artificial Intelligence Consumer Insights & Predictions Platform with billions of real-time data sourced directly and ethically from consumers. Access previously unavailable levels of intelligence about retail spending, geolocation, media consumption, travel, ride sharing and more — in realtime, at scale.
- Vero Technologies — Vero Technologies is a Financial Services based company.
Tangerine Life is a financial technology company that consistently goes the extra mile to improve the financial security of our consumers.With innovation and ingenuity as our guiding principles, we provide a range of avenues through which our consumers can access secure financial services that enable them improve their lives.
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Apps
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Nigeria
TRADE X offers Dealers an interactive and fully encompassing global automotive trading platform.
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- InsurTech, Insurance, Auto Insurance
- Pre-Seed
- Nigeria
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- Octamile — Octamile is Africa's best Embedded Insurance & Claims Automation solution for Insurers & B2C businesses. Get a quote today...
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