Top 50 Startup Investors in Africa (October 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Launch Africa
VC Fund
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112 | Nigeria, South Africa, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology | $200k–$4M |
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Ventures Platform
VC Fund
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95 | Nigeria, United States, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Internet | $100k–$4M |
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LoftyInc Capital
VC Fund
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83 | United States, Nigeria, Egypt | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | $100k–$37M |
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F6 Ventures
VC Fund
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76 | Tunisia, France, United Arab Emirates | Pre-Seed, Seed | E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology | $62k–$174k |
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Women Entrepreneurship for Africa
VC Fund
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75 | Nigeria, Uganda, Cameroon | Pre-Seed, Grant | Health Care, Agriculture, Food and Beverage | |
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54 Collective
VC Fund
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74 | Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa | Seed, Pre-Seed | Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech | $40k–$2M |
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Musha Ventures
VC Fund
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71 | United States, Nigeria, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Financial Services, FinTech | $100k–$10M |
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Microtraction
VC Fund
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61 | Nigeria, United States, Ghana | Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | $30k–$1.3M |
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Future Africa
VC Fund
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57 | Nigeria, United States, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology | $100k–$40M |
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Algerian Startup Fund
VC Fund
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53 | Algeria, France, Spain | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Apps, E-Commerce, Manufacturing | $35k–$145k |
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Hesham Zreik
Angel
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51 | United States, India, Nigeria | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce | $10k–$5M |
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Golden Palm Investments
VC Fund
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49 | Nigeria, United States, Egypt | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Information Technology, Financial Services, Payments | $30k–$15M |
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Kepple Africa Ventures
VC Fund
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48 | Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | $100k–$23M |
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Antler
VC Fund
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44 | United States, Singapore, Australia | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $100k–$29M |
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Ingressive Capital
VC Fund
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44 | Nigeria, United States, Egypt | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology | $25k–$15M |
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4DX Ventures
VC Fund
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40 | Egypt, South Africa, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | FinTech, Financial Services, Logistics | $50k–$40M |
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CRE Venture Capital
VC Fund
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36 | Nigeria, South Africa, United States | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, Software, FinTech | $250k–$21M |
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British International Investment
VC Fund
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36 | India, Kenya, United Kingdom | Debt Financing, Venture - Series Unknown, Series B | Financial Services, Banking, Finance | $2.5M–$122M |
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Consonance Investment Managers
VC Fund
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35 | Nigeria, United States, Kenya | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Financial Services, Information Technology | $50k–$10M |
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Resilience17
VC Fund
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35 | Nigeria, United States, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | FinTech, Financial Services, Payments | $100k–$12M |
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Enza Capital
VC Fund
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34 | Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Financial Services, E-Commerce, FinTech | $1M–$31M |
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TLcom Capital Partners
VC Fund
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34 | Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom | Series A, Seed | Mobile, Software, Information Technology | $1.9M–$20M |
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Kaleo Ventures
VC Fund
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34 | Nigeria, United States, Kenya | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Financial Services, Information Technology, Software | $25k–$15M |
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EchoVC Partners
VC Fund
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33 | United States, Nigeria, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Information Technology, Financial Services, FinTech | $200k–$22M |
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Proparco
VC Fund
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33 | Kenya, India, Nigeria | Debt Financing, Private Equity, Venture - Series Unknown | Financial Services, Energy, Finance | $400k–$206M |
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Chandaria Capital
VC Fund
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33 | Kenya, Nigeria, United States | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, Financial Services, FinTech | $200k–$37M |
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Belgian Investment Company for Developing Countries
VC Fund
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32 | India, Kenya, Ecuador | Debt Financing, Non-Equity Assistance, Venture - Series Unknown | Financial Services, Finance, Banking | $16k–$18M |
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Voltron Capital
VC Fund
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32 | Nigeria, United States, Senegal | Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel | Financial Services, FinTech, Payments | $120k–$3M |
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Partech
VC Fund
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30 | France, United States, Germany | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce | $1M–$56M |
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Savannah Fund
VC Fund
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30 | Kenya, United States, South Africa | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, E-Commerce, FinTech | $25k–$12M |
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Lateral Frontiers
VC Fund
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30 | United States, Nigeria, Kenya | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | FinTech, Financial Services, Energy | $500k–$15M |
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Novastar Ventures
VC Fund
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30 | Kenya, Nigeria, United States | Series A, Series B | Agriculture, Health Care, FinTech | $1M–$42M |
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Acumen
VC Fund
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29 | United States, India, Kenya | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Agriculture, Solar, Farming | $300k–$7.4M |
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4Di Capital
VC Fund
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28 | South Africa, United States, Kenya | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Financial Services, Mobile | $677k–$47M |
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E3 Capital
VC Fund
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28 | Kenya, South Africa, United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | Energy, Solar, Renewable Energy | $900k–$40M |
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DOB Equity
VC Fund
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27 | Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania | Private Equity, Seed | Food and Beverage, Farming, Agriculture | $1M–$3.8M |
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International Finance Corporation
VC Fund
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27 | India, Brazil, United States | Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Venture - Series Unknown | Financial Services, Finance, Banking | $5M–$420M |
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HAVAÍC
VC Fund
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27 | South Africa, United States, Kenya | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A | Software, Health Care, FinTech | $83k–$15M |
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Unpopular Ventures
VC Fund
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27 | United States, India, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services | $500k–$34M |
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Hustle Fund
VC Fund
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26 | United States, Singapore, Canada | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech | $100k–$25M |
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Silverbacks Holdings
VC Fund
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26 | Nigeria, United States, Egypt | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A | FinTech, Financial Services, Finance | $100k–$32M |
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GreenHouse Capital
VC Fund
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26 | Nigeria, Kenya, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Payments | |
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Goodwater Capital
VC Fund
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26 | United States, India, South Korea | Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | $125k–$105M |
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Mercy Corps Ventures
VC Fund
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26 | Kenya, United States, Nigeria | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Agriculture | $100k–$35M |
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Everywhere Ventures
VC Fund
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26 | United States, United Kingdom, Australia | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence | $250k–$20M |
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MNF Ventures
VC Fund
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25 | Morocco, France, Canada | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Online Portals, FinTech, Enterprise Software | $200k–$1.6M |
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SOSV
VC Fund
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25 | United States, China, Canada | Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed | Biotechnology, Health Care, Software | $50k–$5M |
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Ground Squirrel Ventures
VC Fund
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25 | United States, Kenya, Zambia | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Finance | $125k–$48M |
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CDG Invest
VC Fund
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24 | Morocco, France, United Arab Emirates | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Apps, Financial Services | $200k–$19M |
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Pearl Capital Partners
VC Fund
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24 | Uganda, Kenya, Malawi | Private Equity, Debt Financing, Seed | Agriculture, Farming, Food Processing | $5k–$2.6M |
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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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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Nigeria, South Africa, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 218
- Round size: Seed $200k–$4M; Pre-Seed $200k–$1.8M; Venture - Series Unknown $200k–$500k
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Zazu — Manza is an all-in-one financial platform for African SMEs, helping businesses manage payments, automate cash flow, and access real-time financial insights from one simple dashboard.
- Fincart — Fincart is a leading shipping platform in Egypt, connecting your business with top courier services, automating operations, and helping you scale your eCommerce logistics.
- Udu Technologies — Explore GPU cloud and hardware through AGH Cloud, UduTech's flagship product, and AI advisory for teams in the United States, Africa, the Caribbean and beyond.
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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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 173
- Round size: Seed $100k–$4M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $84M in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Myka.Insure — Myka is a insurance sales platform that enables individuals to sell insurance policies to their family, friends, colleagues, and community while earning income . It operates as a micro-entrepreneurship program where anyone (students, gadget sellers, car dealers, parents, retirees) can start their own insurance business with zero investment,flexible hours, and free training . The company is licensed by the National Insurance Commission of Nigeria and provides instant payouts to its partners .
- Cybervergent — Start with your industry and see how Cybervergent delivers Digital Trust, from posture to proof, written for your context.
- Traction Apps — Traction apps provide businesses end to end tools they need to run and grow their businesses.
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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- 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 — Nucleon Smart Endpoint, AI and Zero-trust powered EDR platform.
Flat6Labs is the MENA region’s leading seed and early stage venture capital firm, currently running the most renowned startup programs in the region. Annually, Flat6Labs invests in more than 100 innovative and technology-driven startups enabling thousands of passionate entrepreneurs to achieve their daring ambitions and ultimately becoming theirinstitutional co-founders.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Tunisia, France, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 81
- Round size: Seed $70k–$174k; Pre-Seed $62k–$100k
- Lead/follow: 51% lead, 49% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $10M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Datasphera — Customer service is our #1 priority. Get a premium domain for your website today. Financing available.
- True Delta — True Delta is a data management and processing company. They are document recognition and data reconciliation processes. They offer data extraction from documents using ocr techniques, fast onboarding and data integration,and efficient data reconciliation with intelligent matching tools and less coding .
- Bako Motors SAS — Bako Motors SAS is a motor vehicle manufacturing company that develops solar electric vehicles. manufacturer of electric vehicles with the goal of creating long-term fixes for rural areas' transportation issues with regard to people, cargo, and machinery. The business makes electric cars as well as solutions for clean energy generation andstorage that are infinitely scalable, providing users with inexpensive and environmentally friendly e-mobility.
Women Entrepreneurship for Africa
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- Industry: Health Care, Agriculture, Food and Beverage
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Grant
- Geography: Nigeria, Uganda, Cameroon
Investor stats
- Total investments: 116
- Lead/follow: 99% lead, 1% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ORIKI — ORIKI is a luxury skin and hair care brand that fuses all-natural ingredients primarily sourced from the continent of Africa with scientific research to create extraordinary products.
- Mukuru Clean Stoves — Mukuru Clean Stoves is a social enterprise The company is engaged in designing, producing and distributing improved, reliable and affordable cook stoves for low income households. The company's stoves are produced using locally sourced recycled waste metal enabling them to reduce production costs and make affordable products in the market.The company distributes its products through networks of local women business owners and microfinance institutions.
- Loom Craft Chocolate — Loom Craft Chocolate is a artisanal cocoa processor with a strong focus on the quality of our products and the sustainability of our processes.
Building and scaling African tech startups with catalytic capital, value-add support and our global network.
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- Industry: Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 112
- Round size: Seed $40k–$2M; Pre-Seed $40k–$1.3M
- Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Yeah — Yeah is a financial technology company that offers payment processing services while building a credit profile for the banked and unbanked.
- REasy — Top up locally, pay suppliers globally, and manage international shipments with REasy. Fast, secure, and designed for African businesses expanding worldwide.
- Konnect — Konnect provides a cross borders payment solution intended to simplify complex financial flows allowing companies of any scale and size to send and receive payments in a practical, secure, and low-cost way.
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 215
- Round size: Seed $120k–$7.5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3M; Series A $2.5M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
Portfolio highlights
- HoneyCoin — HoneyCoin is a web3/web2 ecosystem of products built in a way that abstracts complexity and brings all the value of web3 and web2 to the forefront.
- Zeno — Zeno is a climate conscious motor company that offers eco-friendly motorcycles.
- 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.
We invest in Africa's most remarkable teams with technical founders at the earliest stage of their venture
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Ghana
Investor stats
- Total investments: 106
- Round size: Seed $30k–$1.3M; Angel $30k–$50k; Pre-Seed $50k–$1.1M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $15M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Growwr — Tell Growwr who you need. Our AI hiring agent finds relevant talent, evaluates candidates, and helps you move from hiring brief to interview.
- Paycrest — Unifying fiat and stablecoin payments globally, with speed, transparency, and built-in compliance.
- Cr3dentials — Cr3dentials lets neobanks offer credit inside their app. We handle income verification, underwriting, capital, and collections. You keep the customer.
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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- 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 — Juicyway moves money across borders for people and businesses. Send, receive, hold, and exchange multiple currencies from one account. | NG
- 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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- Industry: Apps, E-Commerce, Manufacturing
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Algeria, France, Spain
Investor stats
- Total investments: 84
- Round size: Seed $80k–$145k; Pre-Seed $35k–$135k
- Lead/follow: 99% lead, 1% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Noma pro — Innovative skincare technology for radiant beauty and wellness.
- Instaclean — Professional at-home car wash services for ultimate convenience.
- Skaly academy — Skaly academy empowers its student to master the sales automation software, Skaly.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, India, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1175
- Round size: Seed $20k–$2M; Pre-Seed $10k–$1M; Series A $170k–$5M
- Lead/follow: 53% lead, 47% follow
Portfolio highlights
- EasyBusy — EasyBusy is a contractor-client matching platform designed to address key challenges in the GCC service and construction economy.
- Excel And Impact Agro — Excel And Impact Agro aims to tackle the chronic shortage of vegetable production in Côte d'Ivoire.
- JLC Industry Of Tomato Paste Sarl U — JLC Industry is a Togolese agro-industrial startup dedicated to the production, processing, and commercialization of tomato concentrate.
Golden Palm Investments is an investment holding and advisory company.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Financial Services, Payments
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 87
- Round size: Seed $230k–$6M; Pre-Seed $30k–$6.5M; Series A $3M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2014
Portfolio highlights
- Talstack — Talstack is an all-in-one platform for employee growth and development
- MAKA — MAKA is a community commerce platform for fashion and beauty, enabling everyone to discover their style, feel represented.
- Renda — At Renda, we are passionate about revolutionizing the logistics and mobility sectors with cutting-edge technology that enables businesses and operators to seamlessly scale in emerging markets.
Kepple Africa Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm.
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- 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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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Singapore, Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2387
- Round size: Seed $158k–$4.6M; Pre-Seed $100k–$600k; Series A $4.1M–$29M
- Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $7.5M in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- iiba — Iiba is a geospatial platform that specializes in providing location information related to child-rearing.
- Obud — Obud is a wellness reservation systems that is designed for holistic health and lifestyle management purposes. The company's systems offer a comprehensive suite of tools for booking wellness activities, managing schedules, and accessing curated wellness programs, enabling wellness centers to streamline their operations, enhance userengagement, and promote a balanced and healthy lifestyle.
- Plouton AI —
Ingressive Capital is a renowned $50M Pan-African Venture Capital Fund that invests in indigenous founders and startups across Africa, with focus on Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Morocco, and Nigeria. Specializing in early-stage investments, particularly Pre-Seed and Seed stages, it targets technology companies led by top-tier talent driving transformativegrowth in Africa's GDP. The firm's thesis focuses on B2C solutions that cater to the explosive growth within the tech-enabled, decentralized-learning youth demographic, as well as B2B solutions that increase Africa’s value chain ownership from resource extraction to end-product sale. Its goal is to become becoming a highly valuable VC partner on the founders' cap tables, and being at the forefront of supporting and enabling entrepreneurial success across Africa.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 78
- Round size: Seed $600k–$3.7M; Pre-Seed $25k–$2M; Series A $500k–$15M
- Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $50M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- SehaTech — Welcome to SehaTech, the groundbreaking company revolutionizing the health insurance market with our innovative solutions!
- Chat Cash — Turn conversations into commerce. The unified operating system for payments, inventory, and AI sales on WhatsApp & USSD.
- REasy — Top up locally, pay suppliers globally, and manage international shipments with REasy. Fast, secure, and designed for African businesses expanding worldwide.
4DX Ventures is a Pan-Africa Focused Venture Capital Firm. Our mission is to connect people, ideas, and capital to create a vibrant African community.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Logistics
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Egypt, South Africa, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 99
- Round size: Seed $456k–$8M; Pre-Seed $50k–$6.5M; Series A $3M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $49M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Anda Africa — Anda is Angola’s leading mobility fintech platform, providing asset financing, ride hailing, and delivery services to empower mobility entrepreneurs. Built for emerging markets, Anda bridges the credit gap by financing productive assets such as motorcycles, tricycles, and cars, enabling drivers to own their vehicles, increase their earnings, andenter the formal economy. Through technology driven credit profiling and fully digitized payments, Anda creates financial identities for people who were previously underserved and unlocks responsible access to financial services. As an impact driven company, Anda brings together mobility, financing, and digital payments to deliver safe, affordable, and inclusive transportation while enabling a new generation of financially empowered entrepreneurs.
- Aether Bio — Aether uses its state of the art platform to rapidly engineer enzymes, enabling our customers to manufacture complex and novel products at fractional cost.
- Aethex — End to end voice agents localized for your market
Founded in 2015, CRE Venture Capital invests in early stage tech companies that are levered to Africa. CRE is headquartered in the New York metro area, with a regional office in Lagos, Nigeria.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Software, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, South Africa, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 66
- Round size: Seed $250k–$4M; Pre-Seed $250k–$3.3M; Series A $1.1M–$21M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Flood — Flood is a marketplace platforms that provides merchant solution, self services and big data solution.
- Letly — Letly is developing an AI‑driven platform for the rental property market that automates tasks related to managing rental listings and tenant interactions. It aims to use intelligent agents to handle tasks such as scheduling viewings, responding to inquiries, and optimizing property management workflows. The platform is currently in a waitlistphase, signaling ongoing development and private access only.
- Cutstruct — Cutstruct is your one source for bulk construction materials purchase. Get the best prices for cement, steel, granite, sharp sand wood, and more.
British International Investment is the UK's development finance institution. We've been at the forefront of supporting companies in developing countries for more than 70 years.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Banking, Finance
- Stage:Debt Financing, Venture - Series Unknown, Series B
- Geography: India, Kenya, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 432
- Round size: Series B $13M–$70M; Debt Financing $6.8M–$100M; Venture - Series Unknown $2.5M–$122M
- Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $15M in 2009
Portfolio highlights
- Mettle.net — Mettle was established in 1995 as a specialist financial services company and has, since its inception become recognised for innovation in the creation of specialised financial solutions.With clients ranging from international corporates to small and medium enterprises and individuals, clients experience a different kind of insight from Mettle.This level of vision and considered intuition can also be found in Mettle’s investments.
- SunCulture — At SunCulture, we strive to solve the biggest daily challenges of smallholder farmers. We use off-grid solar technology to provide our customers with reliable access to water, irrigation, lighting, and mobile charging, and we can do all of that with a single system.
- Coris Holding — Coris Holding is a financial institution that was established with the motive to provide support to SMEs and SMIs.
We are an investment company focused on helping early and growth-stage entrepreneurs build successful companies in Africa.
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 45
- Round size: Seed $550k–$4M; Pre-Seed $185k–$1M; Series A $50k–$10M
- Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Releaf Earth — 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 — Control what AI coding assistants can install. Approve libraries, MCP servers, and extensions before they enter your codebase.
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A testament to the continent's unyielding spirit, and a crucible where ambitious ideas are forged into reality through code, capital, and conviction.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 53
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$12M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
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- Vatar — Vatar is building safety infrastructure for Africa — a small device and on-device AI (Ogbon) that turns the CCTV cameras a home or business already owns into intelligent systems that understand what's happening, act on it in real time, and dispatch help when it matters.
- Lagos Life — Lagos Life a massively popular browser-based life-simulation game modeled after Nigeria's commercial capital. Within nine days of launch, the game attracted over 4.7 million players, featuring fully simulated career tracks, social hubs, local virtual economies, and real-time multiplayer functionality directly inside web browsers.
- Aeon Cyber Defense — Aeon is a cybersecurity company focused on securing cloud, code, runtime, and AI environments,Aeon platform appears to help organizations identify and manage security risks across modern, cloud-native technology stacks.AeonSec positions itself around integrated security visibility and protection for rapidly evolving software and AI infrastructure
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Browse database — It's Free!Venture investor in high-growth Founders and Teams using technology to solve large and meaningful problems across Africa
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- Industry: Financial Services, E-Commerce, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 54
- Round size: Seed $1M–$8M; Series A $3.6M–$31M; Venture - Series Unknown $2.6M–$17M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $58M in 2023
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- Satlyt — Satlyt helps satellites run software and work together in orbit.
- Orca Fraud — Orca empowers fraud fighters with effective tools to combat fraud
- Aethex — End to end voice agents localized for your market
TLCOM finds and funds exceptional founders building technology companies across Africa. Seed to Series C. Lagos, Nairobi, London.
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- Industry: Mobile, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 78
- Round size: Seed $1.9M–$8.5M; Series A $3.8M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 55% lead, 45% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $150M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Satlyt — Satlyt helps satellites run software and work together in orbit.
- Myka.Insure — Myka is a insurance sales platform that enables individuals to sell insurance policies to their family, friends, colleagues, and community while earning income . It operates as a micro-entrepreneurship program where anyone (students, gadget sellers, car dealers, parents, retirees) can start their own insurance business with zero investment,flexible hours, and free training . The company is licensed by the National Insurance Commission of Nigeria and provides instant payouts to its partners .
- LittleFish — Full stack enterprise platform that extends your infrastructure, instead of replacing it.
Kaleo Ventures is an investment firm that invests in pre-seed companies across Africa.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Information Technology, Software
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 58
- Round size: Seed $25k–$2.7M; Pre-Seed $100k–$1M; Series A $100k–$15M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $1.1M in 2024
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- ChipMango — ChipMango is a semiconductor company that provides chip design and pre-manufacturing engineering services.
- Aeon Cyber Defense — Aeon is a cybersecurity company focused on securing cloud, code, runtime, and AI environments,Aeon platform appears to help organizations identify and manage security risks across modern, cloud-native technology stacks.AeonSec positions itself around integrated security visibility and protection for rapidly evolving software and AI infrastructure
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 the business.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Financial Services, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 74
- Round size: Seed $200k–$4M; Pre-Seed $200k–$2.2M; Series A $1.2M–$22M
- Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $2.5M in 2023
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Proparco is devoted to private sector funding in the sustainable development sector. Proparco participates in the financing and support of companies and financial institutions in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. Its action focuses on the key sectors of development: infrastructures with a focus on renewable energies, agro-industry, financial institutions, health, education ... Its interventions are aimed at strengthening the contribution of private actors the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted by the international community in 2015. Proparco finances companies whose activity contributes to the creation of jobs and decent incomes, the supply of essential goods and services, and the fight against climate change.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Energy, Finance
- Stage:Debt Financing, Private Equity, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Kenya, India, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 142
- Round size: Debt Financing $400k–$206M; Private Equity $10M–$60M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.9M–$72M
- Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow
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.
- Ecoener — Ecoener is a renewable energy company that develops, builds, operates, and maintains electricity generation projects based on clean energy sources. The company works across hydropower, wind, and solar photovoltaic technologies, managing the full lifecycle of energy facilities from early development and engineering to construction and long-termoperation. It also engages in energy commercialization activities that support the sale and distribution of electricity generated from its assets. Ecoener handles project planning, permitting, environmental assessment, and technical design as part of its infrastructure development process. The company operates and expands renewable energy plants across multiple international markets while integrating maintenance and operational management services for its facilities. It also participates in storage-related and hybrid energy projects that combine different renewable technologies to support grid stability and energy supply efficiency.
- CarbonFarm Technology — Decarbonise rice farming, transparently. CarbonFarm harnesses satellites and AI to monitor and certify decarbonisation projects at scale.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Financial Services, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 53
- Round size: Seed $250k–$6M; Pre-Seed $200k–$3M; Series A $2M–$37M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
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- Klub — India's leading Revenue Based Financing platform with a vision to revolutionize growth capital. Join the Klub for fast, fair & flexible funding.
- Nuzo — Nuzo offers cheaper payments and crypto rewards and ways to save and earn with staking and bill pay options.
- African Originals — African Originals food and beverage company that offers authentic African craft beverages using traditional reciepies.
BIO invests in SMEs in developing countries and makes a structural contribution to the socio-economic growth.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Finance, Banking
- Stage:Debt Financing, Non-Equity Assistance, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: India, Kenya, Ecuador
Investor stats
- Total investments: 137
- Round size: Debt Financing $1.6M–$18M; Non-Equity Assistance $16k–$145k; Venture - Series Unknown $43k–$9.8M
- Lead/follow: 55% lead, 45% follow
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- Coris Holding — Coris Holding is a financial institution that was established with the motive to provide support to SMEs and SMIs.
- Orchidia Pharmaceutical — Orchidia Pharmaceutical is a manufacturing company that provides ophthalmic drugs, food supplements, and cosmeceutical products.
On a mission to back the most extraordinary entrepreneurs out of Africa solving important problems in large markets.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Senegal
Investor stats
- Total investments: 68
- Round size: Seed $120k–$3M; Pre-Seed $200k–$1.2M
- Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Lingawa — Speak your native language with pride! Learn Yoruba and Igbo with fun, immersive online lessons for adults and kids (ages 5+).
- 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
- ZeroComplex AI — ZeroComplex AI develops Artificial Intelligence workflow that intends to revolutionize business operations with simplified AI integration.
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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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: France, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 699
- Round size: Seed $1M–$9M; Series A $4.5M–$28M; Series B $9M–$56M
- Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $345M in 2026
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- TeamToolz — TeamToolz creates and implements user-friendly applications that simplify and streamline the creation, management and archiving of marketing communications. Addressing the urgency of time to market, our web-based tools better enable entire brand launches by coordinating the workflow of multiple outside agencies and internal groups, for moreintegrated worldwide brand management.
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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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- 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
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- 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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Browse database — It's Free!Lateral Capital is a mission driven venture fund investing in early and growth stage opportunities in Africa. We back companies that provide foundational technologies for the continent. We make debt and equity investments technology-enabled businesses that profitably solve significant pain points across financial services, healthcare, education,energy, agriculture, housing, logistics, mobility and more.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Energy
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 55
- Round size: Seed $1M–$6M; Pre-Seed $500k–$3.5M; Series A $558k–$15M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $28M in 2024
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- Rhaeos — Rhaeos, the world's first wearable shunt monitor, aims to improve the quality care for patients with hydrocephalus through a novel, thermal biosensor. Developed within Northwestern University with collaboration between Dr. John Rogers, McCormick School of Engineering, Feinberg School of Medicine and Kellogg School of Management, Rhaeosrepresents a unique multidisciplinary translational effort for an important clinical need.
- Wattnow — Wattnow's smart meters and AI show every machine's consumption live and flag waste in time to stop it. Plants cut energy costs by up to 30%.
- Octavia Carbon — Reversing Climate Change | Ending the Fossil Fuel Age | In Kenya.
For the many, not just the few. For good.
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- Industry: Agriculture, Health Care, FinTech
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 73
- Round size: Series A $1M–$23M; Series B $3.5M–$42M
- Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $147M in 2026
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- MAX — Make mobility accessible, safe, reliable, and sustainable for 1 billion Africans
- ARC Ride — Affordable, reliable and clean e-mobility solutions for rapidly growing African cities.
- Sistema.bio — Sistema.bio is a biodigester with biogas appliances. High efficiency biodigesters transform organic waste into renewable biogas.
Acumen is a nonprofit venture fund that invests in early-stage companies bringing critical services like agriculture, clean energy, education, financial inclusion, healthcare and workforce development to low-income communities in 14 countries across East and West Africa, South Asia, Latin America, and the United States. Since 2001, Acumen invested $128 million in 128 companies that have transformed the lives of over 308 million low-income people.
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- Industry: Agriculture, Solar, Farming
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United States, India, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 209
- Round size: Seed $300k–$2.5M; Venture - Series Unknown $1000k–$7.4M
- Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $123M in 2025
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- Bintix — Bintix averts landfill waste ... one household at a time.
- eBik — eBik is an innovation-driven company that builds high-quality products by investing in R&D, innovation, and automation.
- EduBridge — EduBridge is an organization started by a group of alumni and professors from IIM Bangalore & Lucknow in 2009. EduBridge works towards transforming the lives of the unemployed youth in the country across urban, semi-urban and rural areas. EduBridge provides them with a commercially relevant training at their doorstep and arm them with thenecessary skill sets and mindset to succeed in their professional careers and thus help transform their lives.
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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- 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
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- 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.
E3 Capital invests in growing, entrepreneurial businesses in Sub-Saharan Africa addressing the lack of electrification in the region with new technology and innovative business models. The fund is backed by Schneider Electric, the leading energy management multinational, and a number of public-sector investors.
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- Industry: Energy, Solar, Renewable Energy
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Kenya, South Africa, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 54
- Round size: Seed $900k–$8M; Series A $1.8M–$7.5M; Series B $9M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- GoCab — GoCab is fintech solution providing Drive-to-own option for vehicle purchase in Emerging markets, helping to bridge the gap between mobility entrepreneurs and financial services.
- 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.
- Open Access Energy — South Africa's first multilateral wheeling software platform that automates energy transactions.
DOB Equity is a private equity firm specializing in growth capital and buy-and-build strategies in small and medium companies.
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- Industry: Food and Beverage, Farming, Agriculture
- Stage:Private Equity, Seed
- Geography: Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania
Investor stats
- Total investments: 59
- Round size: Seed $1M–$3.8M
- Lead/follow: 63% lead, 37% follow
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- MazaoHub — AI-first SaaS connecting soil, farmers, inputs, agronomy care, field operations, traceability and markets through real last-mile intelligence.
- FarmWorks — FarmWorks is an agricultural technology company that gives farmers access to farm inputs as well as a market for the produce .FarmWork is to unlock agricultural potential by building clusters of mid-sized farms while working with thousands of small-holder farmers and establishing direct linkage to local and global markets.
- Irrisol Engineering — Irrisol Engineering is an impact-driven social enterprise dedicated to providing affordable, socially inclusive, and environmentally sustainable water supply and irrigation systems for underserved rural communities.
A strong and engaged private sector is indispensible to ending extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity. That's where IFC comes in - we have more than 60 years experience in unlocking private investment, creating markets and opportunities where they are needed most.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Finance, Banking
- Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: India, Brazil, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 761
- Round size: Post-IPO Debt $50M–$420M; Debt Financing $20M–$356M; Venture - Series Unknown $5M–$67M
- Lead/follow: 63% lead, 37% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2016
Portfolio highlights
- Kuku FM — Discover the most popular audiobooks & podcasts on Kuku FM. Listen to trending shows, most-played content, and viral audio series everyone is loving.
- Altobridge — AltoBridge.com is a bold and dynamic domain name that exudes sophistication and innovation. This sleek and memorable name evokes a sense of elevation and connection, making it perfect for a wide range of industries looking to establish a st
- Lagos Free Zone — Lagos Free Zone is a leading industrial and commercial hub in Nigeria, offering businesses world-class infrastructure, tax incentives, and strategic access to global markets.
HAVAÍC is an investment and advisory firm that specialises in early-stage, high-growth African businesses with proven concepts and global prospects, offering investment opportunities to sophisticated investors and international venture capital companies with an interest in Africa. As a complementary offering, HAVAÍC provides corporate advisory andcapital raising services to emerging, internationally scalable businesses.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
- Geography: South Africa, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 49
- Round size: Seed $83k–$4M; Series A $1.9M–$15M; Venture - Series Unknown $318k–$632k
- Lead/follow: 65% lead, 35% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $50M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- NjiaPay — Payments-as-a-Service platform that will streamline your operations and elevate your online payments across the African continent.
- SwiftVee — SwiftVEE is a livestock trading mobile app. They support live webcast livestock auctions and silent auctions. Their platform facilitates the discovery and viewing of livestock auctions.They provide webcast advertising, online auctions, and online livestock insurance services and data products for financial institutions.
- Tanda — As a Tanda Agent, you can sell Kenya's favorite digital products, and grow your duka while you're at it
The best companies, off the beaten path.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 622
- Round size: Seed $500k–$8M; Pre-Seed $500k–$2.6M; Series A $6M–$34M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $13k in 2025
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- Sourcepulse — Sourcepulse empowers engineering leaders to spot delays early, fix process bottlenecks, and confidently commit to deadlines.
- Morphic — Morphic is the sovereign AI platform for organizations to capture and own their tribal knowledge. The Morphic Revenue Agent is the first agent we're launching - a proactive AI agent for sales teams that connects to their existing software and helps to tighten pipeline discipline, so you can close faster and more predictably. The Morphic Workspace is an agentic platform for any team, technical and non-technical, to build an AI operating system for your business. Connect any software tool in your stack, and embedded agents help to automate work while maintaining unified context across all your work tools. The Morphic Workspace comes with: > Knowledge base > Project management > Meeting recorder > Custom tables/records > Embedded agents that live on the workspace and platforms like Slack, WhatsApp, Telegram etc.
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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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- 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
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- O-ID — Modular Humanoids, Made in Japan
- BON Credit — BON Credit is an AI-powered credit platform that helps customers understand, manage, and improve credit intelligently.
- 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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Browse database — It's Free!Silverbacks Holdings is a Mauritius-based private investment firm established in 2019, focusing on Africa-related companies in underserved industries such As technology, sports, entertainment, and the creative economy. The firm aims for returns averaging 2x to 5x on its investments and has achieved 9 profitable exits since its inception. Its portfolio includes over 240 companies across Africa, collectively valued at over $10 billion. Landmark investments include the Cape Town Tigers (2024 BAL semi-finalists), Forever7 Entertainment (Netflix content deals), and Moove (a global mobility fintech backed by Uber), and Wave (a mobile money and global remittance focused fintech backed by Stripe).
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 65
- Round size: Seed $200k–$8.3M; Series A $1.4M–$32M; Venture - Series Unknown $100k–$26M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
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- Vanhu Vamwe — Vanhu Vamwe is a luxury accessory brand that creates handcrafted, sustainable handbags using traditional African crafts and eco-friendly materials.
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GreenHouse Capital’s Founding Partners took their own fintech company Venture Garden Group (VGG) from a 7 employee, ₦30 million revenue startup to a 200 employees, ₦2 billion power house in just 4 years and raised an attention grabbing Series A round from Convergence Partners of South Africa. The uniqueness of their position was not lost on thefounders who then cultivated Garden Institute of Business Entrepreneurs (GIBE) to identify, incubate, and invest in young and innovative tech startups solving global challenges in Emerging Markets. GIBE was created to build a world class talent management hub for young and passionate entrepreneurs while creating a pool of technology inclined businesses and innovation oriented leaders.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 32
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- Encore Pay — Encore Pay is a UAE-based FinTech and Payment solutions provider.
- MarketForce — MarketForce connects Africa’s informal retail outlets and consumers directly to suppliers of consumer goods and financial services by digitizing orders, delivery, and payments with the aim of solving the last mile distribution challenge.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United States, India, South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 914
- Round size: Seed $850k–$7.5M; Pre-Seed $125k–$2.1M; Venture - Series Unknown $481k–$105M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $5M in 2025
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- Kaon — Discover prompts and AI apps built by a global community, or publish your own. FlowGPT is an open platform for building and sharing with AI.
- Egoist Machines — Egoist Machines builds efficient full-stack ML infrastructure for reliable AI systems, from model serving and evaluation to secure deployment and operations.
- Wrtn Technologies — Bring AGI Close to People
Mercy Corps Ventures invests in and catalyzes venture-led solutions to increase the resilience of underserved individuals and communities. Founded in 2015 as the impact investing arm of global development agency, Mercy Corps, supports over 57 early-stage ventures to scale and raise over $515 million in follow-on capital. Their portfolio centersaround resilience-building solutions in adaptive agriculture and food systems, inclusive climate fintech, and climate-smart technologies so that those living in frontier markets can withstand disruption and plan for the future. Through capital and support, piloting new approaches, action-oriented insights, and rigorously managing impact, they catalyze the ecosystem toward smarter, more impactful investments.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Agriculture
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Kenya, United States, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 73
- Round size: Seed $330k–$5.3M; Pre-Seed $100k–$7M; Series A $2.5M–$35M
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Logidoo — Logidoo is a digital logistics marketplace-designed company that markets shuttles through smart logistics. The company's platform, which provides rapid, dependable, secure, and economical logistics, allows users to compare offers for sending and receiving items and to track parcels in real-time.
- Meridia — De-risk the sourcing, procurement, trading & compliance of commodities under the EUDR.
- ReForest Latam — ReForest Latam is an biotech company restoring ecosystems and creating forests to fight climate change.
Everywhere Ventures is a global pre-seed venture capital fund for founders, by founders. Click to read Everywhere VC, by Everywhere Ventures, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1305
- Round size: Seed $1M–$6.5M; Pre-Seed $250k–$2.5M; Series A $6M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $4.4M in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- Donna — Meet Donna, the AI assistant built for field sales teams. Save time, cut admin, and close more deals with less effort.
- Noise — Noise makes finding UGC creators easy. Work smarter with personalized AI guidance to make your next UGC creator campaign go viral.
- Netsec — Professional cybersecurity and managed IT services to protect your business 24/7.
MNF Ventures is a venture capital fund based in Morocco, investing in Seed, Pre-Series A and Series A startups. Tickets size can go up to USD 1M. We invest in tech startups operating in Fintech/Insurtech, EdTech, Regtech, HealthTech, Biotech, EnergyTech Cybersecurity, SaaS... Startups have either to be based in Morocco, or be based worldwide if at least one of the founders is a Moroccan citizen. MNF Ventures manages Maroc Numeric Fund and Maroc Numeric Fund II.
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- Industry: Online Portals, FinTech, Enterprise Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Morocco, France, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 32
- Round size: Seed $200k–$1.6M; Series A $250k–$700k
- Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $20M in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- CleanMob — CleanMob is a Car Greetech B2B, whose mission is to decarbonize and optimize corporate vehicle fleets.Its proprietary technology combining AI algorithms, modeling and simulation, with data from smartphone sensors and connected vehicles, frees users from the need to install a telematics box, thus facilitating large-scale deployment for vehiclefleet managers.
- ZSystems — ZSystems is a transformative super app designed to redefine B2B trade.
- Upfund — Upfund is a real estate company that provides reliable data on office, retail, and business premises. Upfund is a digital solution designed to respond to most commercial real estate business issues. They develop tools perfectly adapted to clients' requests in a remarkable time. Founded in 2022 and is located in Paris, France.
SOSV offers pre-seed capital and follow-on financial support to startups focusing on deep technology and scientific innovation. Founders utilize purpose-built laboratory facilities and engineering spaces to accelerate product development and testing. The firm facilitates connections between entrepreneurs and a network of investors through structured matchmaking events and technology summits.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
- Stage:Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, China, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3729
- Round size: Seed $150k–$5M; Pre-Seed $50k–$1.6M; Convertible Note $50k–$3.6M
- Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $306M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Halla — Halla Intelligence is a digital solution that leverages over 100 billion shopper and product data points to recommend and promote what grocery items.
- Simply Good Jars — Simply Good Jars is a B-Corp company that delivers healthy meals in reusable + returnable packaging through use of smart refrigerated kiosks placed in offices, transit centers, universities and health-systems. Driven by purpose to change that way people think about consumption, SGJ introduces sustainable business practices into their everydayoperations with a zero-waste goal. For every jar returned back to the company for reuse, they will help feed someone in need and ensure that no packaging materials end up in landfills.
- Verdex Technologies — Verdex Technologies is an advanced materials platform technology that uses nanofibers to disrupt industries. Verdex doesn't just compete, it innovates and disrupts.
Seed round investment in frontier markets and clean energy
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
- Geography: United States, Kenya, Zambia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 71
- Round size: Seed $400k–$3M; Series A $1.8M–$5M; Venture - Series Unknown $125k–$48M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Grapevine — Grapevine makes it possible for groups to invite members, collect and distribute donations, establish a community and connect with nonprofits.
- Untapped Global — Untapped connects global investors, and foreign capital to opportunities in emerging markets. Delivering competitive returns, and measurable impact for global investors.
- Necessary Ventures — We invest in what the world needs.
CDG Invest is the investment branch of the CDG group. CDG Invest acts both as an investment manager for its own account following both financial and strategic logic, as well as as a fund manager for third parties. CDG Invest intervenes in various key sectors of the Moroccan economy: industry, agro-food, digital/digital, renewable energy, andterritorial PPP and with various segments of companies.
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- Industry: Software, Apps, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Morocco, France, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 54
- Round size: Seed $306k–$4M; Pre-Seed $200k–$330k; Series A $10M–$19M
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Klaim — Klaim is an InsureTech platform offering a SaaS medical claim management and financing platform all in one. They provide them with total visibility on their revenue cycle, increase their revenue through reduced claim processing time and errors, and faster payments.
- Yakeey — Yakeey is an end-to-end transactional marketplace that radically simplifies the experience of buying, selling and renting real estate.We leverage on data and technology to connect all real estate market players through a state of the art platform, create a chain of trust and powerful network effects and accelerate transactions.Yakeey is builton a community of real estate advisors, YakeeyPRO, to deliver a continuous professional and tailored service at every step of the transaction.
- MYCOPHYTO — Co-created in July 2016 by Justine LIPUMA, PhD in microbiology, and Christine PONCET-DOISE, Senior Research Engineer at INRA, MYCOPHYTO is the result of 30 years of experimentation in biological crop protection.
Pearl Capital Partners is a specialist agriculture investment firm that has been investing in small and medium sized East African agribusinesses since 2005. Pearl Capital Partners investments generate financial returns for our investors while creating significant social impact. Pearl Capital Partners success is derived from working with ambitiousmanagement teams, providing supportive investment structures and specialist expertise that create high-growth agribusinesses.
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- Industry: Agriculture, Farming, Food Processing
- Stage:Private Equity, Debt Financing, Seed
- Geography: Uganda, Kenya, Malawi
Investor stats
- Total investments: 36
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$2.1M; Debt Financing $5k–$650k; Private Equity $18k–$2.6M
- Lead/follow: 92% lead, 8% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2017
Portfolio highlights
- Enimiro — Enimiro is creating an online farming platform in form of a mobile App to connect Ugandan smallholder farmers with local investors to increase harvest while enabling urban people to invest into farming and earn proceeds at just a click of a button.
- Kamp Feed — We are a company dealing in the production and sale of animal feeds (Pigs, Poultry, Cattle, Rabbit).
- Newman Foods — Newman Foods is an agro-processing company that manufactures, exports, and supplies a comprehensive range of fresh agricultural products. Newman Foods Ltd is a Kampala-based agro-processing company whose primary business is producing and marketing branded consumer foods sold through retail stores in the local and the regional market, as well asaggregation and export of fresh fruits and vegetables (FFV) to the European market.
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