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Top 50 Startup Investors in Mauritius

Last updated: Sep 2023 A list of 50 angel investors and VC funds that invest in startups based in Mauritius. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in companies from Mauritius. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Startup Investors in Mauritius

Investor	Mauritius investments
Launch Africa	4
Future Africa	3
Kepple Africa Ventures	2
Christian Faes	2
Sudeep Ramnani	2
Partech	2
KFW DEG	2
Compass Venture Capital	2
Charles Delingpole	2
SunFunder	2
Richard Aseme	2
Jai Mahtani	2
Christian Angermayer	2
Nicolas Douay	1
Shakti Capital	1
CDC Group	1
Foreign & Commonwealth Office - UK	1
AV Ventures	1
African Capital Alliance	1
Greenhouse Capital Partners	1
AAIC Investment	1
FINCA Ventures	1
Leo Stigler	1
GSMA Ecosystem Accelerator	1
YUYANG INVESTMENT CO., LTD. (Ma's Family)	1
Lundin Foundation	1
Norrsken VC	1
JEN-HAO CHENG	1
Triple Jump	1
Leonard Stiegeler	1
Alumni Ventures	1
Newfund	1
Manuel Coser	1
Proparco	1
Norfund	1
Lateral Frontiers	1
Enza Capital	1
Mercure International	1
U.S. International Development Finance Corp	1
Five35 Ventures	1
Ceniarth	1
Oui Capital	1
Sagemcom	1
Acumen	1
Mercy Corps Ventures	1
AlphaCoin Fund	1
Acasia Ventures	1
Shell Foundation	1
Accion Venture Lab	1
MAPE Advisory Group	1

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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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Zanifu — The zanifu platform, allows small retailers in Sub Saharan Africa, to procure inventory from their suppliers & pay later.
ChekkitApp — Chekkit is a DAG blockchain powered anti-counterfeiting solution for food and drug supply chain tracking and customer insights platform. It helps producers protect their brands, track supply chain activities, and collect last-mile consumer insights in real-time.
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.

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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Anchor — Anchor is a Lagos-based banking-as-a-service platform for African businesses. Anchor provides APIs and infrastructure to build, embed and launch powerful financial products in a secure and scalable way.
Balad — Balad enable smooth, cheaper and faster money transfer remittance into Egypt bank accounts, mobile wallets and cash on counter.
Sytemap — We are building a blockchain-based property record to help home buyers and financial companies access, view and verify properties starting from digitizing Estate project layouts (Sytemap) Sytemap is a first step that allows us access to a large pool of property data. The end goal can really be described as building Zillow for Africa.

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

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt

Portfolio highlights

Carry1st — Carry1st develops and publishes enriching mobile games and content apps for African consumers.
Beacon Power Services — Beacon Power Services is a utility company that provides energy management software and analytics for utilities.
Cartona — Cartona is a B2b marketplace directly connects retailers with suppliers

Christian Faes is the co-founder and Exec Chair of LendInvest, which is marketplace platform for property finance, and one of the leading Fintech businesses in the UK. The business has raised well over £1 billion in debt and equity, from institutions such as Atomico, the European Investment Fund, Citibank, HSBC, and the National Australia Bank.Christian comes from a legal background having practised as a real estate lawyer in Australia (Allens Arthur Robinson), and then in the UK with Clifford Chance and Deutsche Bank. In 2008, Christian co-founded the business with Ian Thomas, initially seeing an opportunity in the short term mortgage market.Christian is a keen advocate for the Fintech sector, and sits on the Government’s Fintech Delivery Panel; and founded and chairs the Digital Finance Forum. He is an active supporter and early investor in several startups, including Seedrs, Crowdcube and Onfido.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
United Kingdom, Australia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Volume — Payment Infrastructure for the Internet
Finclusion Group — Enhancing financial inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa through data driven lending.
Knoma — Search hundreds of courses from leading schools and bootcamps. Learn now and pay later with Knoma and spread the cost with ethical finance

Sudeep Ramnani is the Founder and CEO of Sportybet. SportyBet is an international sports betting and real-money gaming operator that delivers an omni-channel entertainment experience in regulated emerging markets (www.sportybet.com). Sudeep is also an investor in fintech and mobile payments and an advocate of the growing African internet ecosystem.Sudeep will be discussing the challenge of changing customer betting patterns alongside other innovative leaders in the sports betting industry. His insights into the industry's toughest topics will be truly beneficial to anyone who attends the Sports Betting West Africa Summit.

Investment focus

Credit, FinTech, InsurTech
Seed, Angel
United States

Portfolio highlights

Finclusion Group — Enhancing financial inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa through data driven lending.

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.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, France, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Commsignia — Commsignia specializes in the research and development, manufacturing and distribution of cooperative intelligent transportation systems. Its product line includes a V2X Communication Software Stack and Commsignia’s own security stack implementation, Hybrid V2X/ADAS Safety Applications, a V2X Simulator, On-Board Units (OBU) and Roadside Units(RSU).The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.
Prolific — Launch your study to tens of thousands of trusted participants in minutes. Recruit niche or representative samples on-demand. Prolific builds the most powerful and flexible tools for online research. Sign up for free.
SustainCERT — SustainCERT is the leading global carbon emissions accounting and verification platform for carbon markets and corporate value chains.

KFW DEG offers financing, advice and support to private sector enterprises operating in developing and emerging-market countries. Their customers can rely on their expertise: They can benefit from their market knowledge, their 21 locations worldwide, and their international network. For entrepreneurial success and development.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Finance, Banking
Debt Financing, Funding Round, Grant
India, Kenya, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Stima — Premium electric motorcycles and battery swapping technologies to better serve moto-taxi and delivery riders in Africa - Starting in Kenya
BUA Cement — BUA Cement Plc is engaged in the production and marketing of cement under the brand name “BUA Cement”. Presently the company produces CEM II type of cement in accordance with the Nigerian Industrial Standards. BUA Cement is ideal for all construction purposes in Nigeria. Its unique quality makes it the cement of choice for block-making, plasteringand concrete works. Its high early strength, rapid setting and low heat of hydration are all distinct features that characterize our high quality production process.
Etana — PT Etana Biotechnologies Indonesia (Etana) is an emerging producer of high-quality, affordable and innovative biopharmaceuticals to treat a range of metabolic, autoimmune and other major life-threatening diseases, including cancer. Nathan Tirtana. Legend Capital. UOB Venture Management. Innovent Bio

Compass is a venture capital fund. We invest in start-ups with scalable business models and strong growth potential. We work with companies based in Mauritius, the Indian Ocean region and the African continent. Compass is wholly owned by and benefits from support from the ENL Group, one of Mauritius’ largest business conglomerates. Alongside theTurbine, our sister organisation and the region’s leading incubator and start-up accelerator, Compass is working to create a vibrant, sustainable start-up ecosystem in Mauritius and the Indian Ocean.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Financial Services, Big Data
Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
Mauritius, India, France

Portfolio highlights

Omnisient | Collaborative Consumer Intelligence — Omnisient is a privacy-preserving data collaboration platform that allows businesses to collaborate on data insights on consumer behaviour and preferences without sharing consumers' identities or contact information.
Shortlist — Shortlist works with impact-first organizations to find top talent by using recruiting technology and human touch to go beyond CVs.
FCB.ai — FCB.ai is the conductor of a conversational AI ecosystem to produce impactful onboarding and servicing customer experiences.

Charles Delingpole is Founder and CEO of ComplyAdvantage, a technology company focused on wiping out financial crime using Machine Learning. As CEO, Charles leads the product development and growth of the company. His passion for the issue came from his time as the MLRO of a previous startup he founded when he realized how inefficient processesaround money laundering are. Charles previously worked at The Student Room as a Founder and CEO. He attended the University of Cambridge and The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).Over 99% of money laundering is successful, ComplyAdvantage is working to stop it completely. Founded in 2014 with offices in London, New York, Singapore, and Cluj, ComplyAdvantage work with over 350 firms across 45 countries. Charles set up his first company, The Student Room Group, now the world’s largest student discussion forum when he was 16. After completing his MA in Politics at Trinity College Cambridge, and then an MSc in Management, Strategy, and Finance from the LSE, he became an associate at J.P. Morgan Cazenove.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Sync Savings — Rebuilding the infrastructure of cash savings
Superlayer — Superlayer drives better performance for sales teams, leveraging and automating best practices to close more deals in less time.
Thirdfort — Automated identity verification and AML compliance for lawyers and property professionals.

SunFunder is a specialist financing company dedicated to pioneering and scaling clean energy and climate investments in emerging markets.

Investment focus

Solar, Energy, Renewable Energy
Debt Financing, Series C
The Netherlands, Kenya, Mauritius

Portfolio highlights

d.light — Founded in 2007 as a for-profit social enterprise, d.light manufactures and distributes award-winning solar lighting and power products designed to serve the more than 2 billion people globally without access to reliable electricity. Through five distribution hubs in East Africa, West Africa, India, Southeast Asia, and the United States, d.lighthas impacted over 65 million lives with its products. d.light is dedicated to providing the most reliable, affordable, and accessible solar lighting and power systems for the developing world, with the goal of reaching 100 million people by 2020. For more information, visit www.dlight.com.
Yellow — Yellow enables a distributed network of sales agents to serve rural households with life-changing products and services through a digital technology platform called Ofeefee.
Zola Electric — ZOLA Electric designs renewable energy solutions based on the latest in solar, battery and power electronics technology. Adaptable to energy need and income, ZOLA Electric’s solar systems can be bought over time using PAYGo micro-finance leasing and mobile money payments. ZOLA Electric powers more than 180,000 homes and businesses across Tanzania,Rwanda, Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana. Investors include Tesla, Vulcan Capital, DBL Partners, Helios Investment Partners, EDF, Total and GE Ventures. ZOLA Electric is a recipient of the UN Momentum for Change Award, the Zayed Future Energy Prize and is a member of the Global Cleantech 100.

Richard Aseme is the VP, International Marketing and Distribution, EMEA at Paramount Pictures. He attended Oxford University (Jesus College) oct 1996 - June 2000.

Investment focus

FinTech, Credit, InsurTech
Seed, Angel
Egypt, United States

Portfolio highlights

Axis — axis for Business enables small businesses to seamlessly manage employee payroll, salary advances, and expenses - all from one place.
Finclusion Group — Enhancing financial inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa through data driven lending.

Jai Mahtani

Investment focus

Credit, FinTech, InsurTech
Seed, Angel
United States

Portfolio highlights

Finclusion Group — Enhancing financial inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa through data driven lending.

Christian Angermayer - Founder & CEO @ Apeiron Investment Group

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Blockchain
Seed, Series A, Series B
Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

TRIP — TRIP is the UK's most trusted CBD Oils and CBD Drinks Supplier. Shop the UK's best CBD oils available online with FREE UK Shipping.
Finclusion Group — Enhancing financial inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa through data driven lending.
Upmin — Upmin is an online platform for Real estate management and works as a Digital property manager

Previously cofounder @ Keldoc - currently early stage investor & VP @ Entrepreneur First Paris

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Fashion
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
France, Mauritius, United States

Portfolio highlights

underdog — underdog is a simplified & refurbished household appliances.
Djamo — Djamo is a Provider of financial applications to allow customers to use their cards with zero fees in a wide range of services.
Bealy health — Bealy is a prevention and health solution dedicated to employees to improve their daily health and well-being.

Shakti Capital is a private fund leveraging technology to enable everyday traders to make exceptional returns.

Investment focus

Drones, Sensor, Robotics
Seed
Mauritius, United States

Portfolio highlights

Zindi — Zindi is the first data science competition platform in Africa. Zindi hosts an entire data science ecosystem of scientists, engineers, academics, companies, NGOs, governments, and institutions focused on solving Africa’s most pressing problems.Zindi works with companies, non-profit organizations, and government institutions to develop, curate,and prepare data-driven challenges. Solutions are ranked automatically by the accuracy achieved. Whether you are testing the data science waters for the first time or trying to crack a persistent business problem with data, Zindi helps organizations push their creative boundaries at an affordable cost.
Tangram Vision — The Tangram Vision Platform streamlines adding and managing perception for vision-enabled products like robots, drones and autonomy. Sensor fusion, calibration, and remote management of depth sensors, LiDAR, cameras and IMU sensors.

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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Banking, Finance
Funding Round, Debt Financing, Series B
India, Nigeria, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Ecom Express — Get express delivery courier services from Ecom Express, the best courier companies in India, and deliver your packages safely and on time to your customers.
Jingsil Intelligent — Jingsil Intelligent is dedicated to digital power distribution switches and intelligent power distribution management software systems.
Paymob — Paymob runs millions of transactions for different business sizes across the Middle East and Africa. Start using Paymob’s solutions and API’s to accept and send payments for your online business now.

Foreign & Commonwealth Office is a government organization that provides tourists and travellers with travel alerts, tips, and advice. It promotes the United Kingdom's interests overseas supporting its citizens and businesses around the globe.Foreign & Commonwealth Office has a worldwide network of embassies and consulates thatemploys over 14,000 people in nearly 270 diplomatic offices. It works with international organizations to promote British interests and global security, including the EU, NATO, Foreign & Commonwealth Office was founded on January 1, 1936 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Investment focus

Medical, Logistics, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed
Kenya, Mauritius, South Africa

Portfolio highlights

Ziada — Ziada is a mobile application that connects you to service providers near you and vice versa. Download Ziada today from the Google Playstore to start experiencing convenience.
HealthDart — Consult with a doctor, nurse or pharmacist, order medicines or get health advice - at a price you can afford
AgroCenta — AgroCenta is an online platform that connects the smallholder farmer in the staple food (rice, maize, millet and soybean) value chain to a wider online market to trade

AV Ventures is ACDI/VOCA’s for-profit subsidiary. AV Ventures provides innovative, catalytic financing to agribusiness small and medium enterprises (SMEs).

Investment focus

Credit, FinTech, Finance
Seed
Mauritius, United States

Portfolio highlights

Maka Motors — MAKA is dedicated to building the best electric motorcycles for Indonesian riders.
Plentina — Plentina is a fintech startup accelerating access to credit in emerging markets. We enable consumers to build their credit history while making easier payments to their favorite merchants.
AgroCenta — AgroCenta is an online platform that connects the smallholder farmer in the staple food (rice, maize, millet and soybean) value chain to a wider online market to trade

We are Africa's leading investment management firm. Our Services include Private Equity, Real Estate and Asset Management.

Investment focus

Construction, Telecommunications, Financial Services
Private Equity, Funding Round
Nigeria, Mauritius, United States

Portfolio highlights

WIOCC — WIOCC is revolutionising the delivery of high-capacity connectivity between Africa and the rest of the world. As a result, it is now widely recognised as Africa’s carriers’ carrier, offering a one stop-shop and end-to-end service between more than 30 African countries and the world’s key global financial and commercial centres. As a specialist inthe wholesale market, WIOCC’s unique, flexible, bandwidth packages have been designed to enable carriers, mobile operators and internet service providers (ISPs) to take full advantage of Africa’s rapidly developing markets for fixed and mobile broadband and international corporate networking. WIOCC recognises that customers differ, and tailors many of its solutions to specific customer requirements.
Food Concepts Plc — Food Concepts Pioneer Limited owns and operates bakeries which produce baked goods.
Accelerex Holdings — Accelerex Holdings specializes in the fields of financial services and investments.

Greenhouse Capital Partners invests in B2B technology solutions that improve resource efficiency, drive climate change resiliency and unlock new value streams across legacy industrial supply chains and infrastructure.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, Manufacturing
Series B, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Nigeria, Mauritius

Portfolio highlights

Bitmama — Bitmama is the best cryptocurrency trading platform that lets you buy, sell Bitcoin, ETH, Celo, USDT, XRP, and more. Available in Nigeria & over 100 countries.
Kuunda — Kuunda provides consulting, liquidity management, data insight tools enabling users to fulfill financial needs through a digital platform.
Grabango — As the leader in checkout-free technology for large-scale grocery and convenience stores, Grabango is working with billion-dollar global retailers to retrofit existing stores to make waiting in lines a thing of the past. We just raised $39M in Series B funding, and we are excited to accelerate the growth of our team and our store deployments todeliver on our mission to eliminate lines and save people time.With Grabango, shoppers choose their items as usual, and then skip the line by scanning a code in their Grabango app on the way out. Our solution uses computer vision technology to identify items as they are picked up. It counts those items and sends the receipt to the shopper’s phone after they leave the store. Grabango delivers a seamless shopping experience that is becoming the global standard.Driven by passion to improve peoples’ daily lives, our technology brings computer vision and machine learning to existing brick-and-mortar stores by processing the interactions between people and products. We are the first and only company to successfully retrofit checkout-free technology into an existing store and work with high accuracy in a dynamic, real world environment. No facial recognition technology is used and all data is anonymized to protect customer privacy.Founded in 2016, Grabango is based in Berkeley, California.

We will continue to invest and support the growth of innovative companies towards sustainable economic growth and solving social issues.

Investment focus

Health Care, Medical, E-Commerce
Series A, Seed, Series B
Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Zanifu — The zanifu platform, allows small retailers in Sub Saharan Africa, to procure inventory from their suppliers & pay later.
Credable — Credable is the Digital Banking Platform that is driving the future of banking by embedding financial services in businesses across emerging markets.
Aumet — Aumet allows medical manufacturers and distributors increase their sales by sharing hospital inquiries, business news, search for products, and find potential clients.Manufacturers and distributors who work together connect and get verified so they share hospital inquiries, market business news between each other .Suppliers list their productsand connect with distributors who sell these products and select countries, where they are looking for distributors, in the meantime distributors, connects with their suppliers, search for new product and list their interests.

FINCA Ventures is an impact investing initiative of FINCA International that provides patient capital and support to early-stage social enterprises.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Education, Agriculture
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Kenya, Mexico, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Bamba — We help large companies that want to help their affinity users to solve unforeseen events fast, by minimizing costs, through a smart digital agent embedded in any company’s interface
FloatPays — Floatpays help your employees achieve financial wellbeing by giving them early access to earned wages.
Kwara — Kwara turns analog credit unions into modern digital banks.

Leo Stigler is an investor.

Investment focus

Credit, FinTech, InsurTech
Angel
United States

Portfolio highlights

Finclusion Group — Enhancing financial inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa through data driven lending.

Our mission is to build synergies between start-ups and mobile operators, with the aim to scale innovative and sustainable mobile services in emerging markets.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Mobile
Grant, Seed
Kenya, Indonesia, Senegal

Portfolio highlights

Koolboks — Koolboks provides a reliable and alternative storage technique due to the superior insulation and ice battery technology employed in the design.
Taskmoby — Taskmoby is a digital marketplace that connects people with home service professionals like cleaners, plumbers, and electricians in Ethiopia
AgroCenta — AgroCenta is an online platform that connects the smallholder farmer in the staple food (rice, maize, millet and soybean) value chain to a wider online market to trade

investment

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, Internet
Pre-Seed
Mauritius

Portfolio highlights

101 financial.app — 101financial.app membantu investor pemula memasuki pasar keuangan dengan teknologi pemrograman yang terbaik dan berbagai fitur sosial. Semua pengguna dapat dengan cepat menjelajahi beragam saham, mata uang Kripto, dan menerapkan perdagangan margin untuk mencapai tujuan keuangan dengan modal kecil.

The Lundin Foundation is a philanthropic organization founded originally by the Lundin family. The Foundation is currently supported by a number of publicly traded natural resource companies committed to the highest standards of corporate responsibility. The Lundin Foundation embodies the entrepreneurial spirit of the Lundin family. TheFoundation provides risk capital in the form of investments into high potential small- and medium-sized businesses, with a view to generating wealth and employment needed to alleviate poverty on a sustained basis. It also provides strategic grants to early stage innovations and for technical and managerial assistance.

Investment focus

Mobile, Apps, Energy
Series A, Series D, Funding Round
Kenya, Mauritius

Portfolio highlights

Umati Capital — We specialize in online gaming All games are secure, and the payouts are fast. Everyone will find an experience that fits them here. Read More Top Gaming Community Feel The Thrill Games comprise table and card games that are dominant in today's gambling lifestyle and activity. Play in the palm of your hand.A classic that
M-KOPA — M-KOPA is the global leader for “pay-as-you-go” energy services for off-grid customers. M-KOPA was established in 2011. Following 2 years of piloting and development, M-KOPA began commercial sales in Kenya in October 2012. M-KOPA expanded to Uganda in 2013 and commences operations in Tanzania in late 2014. Their team includes over 500 staff andwe sell our product through more than 1000 retail agents and shops. The founders of the company are experienced mobile technology innovators who believe in the huge potential of transformative, affordable products designed for underserved consumers. While excellent technology is a pre-requisite, technology alone does not solve for customer needs. Success comes when smart technology is combined with a commitment to on-going, on-the-ground delivery. To that end, M-KOPA is beginning to license its technology to experienced and reputable third parties in markets outside of East Africa (licensing queries should be sent to licensing@m-kopa.com). M-KOPA has developed a proprietary, patented technology platform that combines embedded GSM + mobile payments to revolutionize asset financing in emerging markets. The M-KOPAnet platform has been designed and built from the ground up by our talented team of software engineers, who continue to innovate and improve the system every day. It offers the powerful combination of accounting + customer relationship management + inventory tracking in one complete system. Aside from enabling our business operations to scale at record speed, the M-KOPAnet™ platform captures and processes huge volumes of data, enabling us to improve our proposition, customer service, and security in real-time.
Esoko Networks — Esoko is an information and communication service for agricultural markets in Africa. We provide advice directly to farmers (market prices, weather forecasts, and growing tips) to help them increase yields and profits. We also provide solutions to businesses to help them connect with farmers (marketing products, monitoring activities, and sourcinggoods). Esoko uniquely provides an entire ecosystem to make this work; including the content, software and field support.Esoko equips businesses, NGOs, Mobile Operators and Governments with a unique series of specialized apps to help manage information to and from the field. Farmers sell better and grow more. Businesses source differently, and market more effectively. Mobile operators increase market share through bundled services for rural communities, and governments track realtime market trends. No platform connects so many in such a powerful way.Esoko makes communication easier. You can send personalized messages to thousands. You can ask questions and get answers from the field. It?s the first time anyone can affordably and effectively reach people in remote rural communities. Organizations can reduce their operational costs, improve their monitoring of market trends, track field activities -- all for a fraction of the cost of traditional field operations. Esoko can transform African markets into more efficient value opportunities for both the business and the individual, simply by promoting market transparency through mobile devices.

We are a venture capital fund investigating in Start-Ups solving the worlds biggest problems while building massive businesses.

Investment focus

Software, Food and Beverage, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Sweden, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

LanguifyAI — Languify is an AI based language learning assistant which analyses, corrects, and tracks a user's spoken and written English across all platforms. The AI assistant prompts feedback and nudges that improve conversations in real-time that enable improvisation on the spot without any delay. It also enables users to learn at their own pace throughpersonalized learning plans and games designed to minimize repetition of errors.
Material Evolution — Material Evolution uses patented geopolymer technology and proprietary algorithms to create the most sustainable materials on the planet.Material Evolution’s first product is a cement mix made from 95% waste using its algorithm technology. Its smart concrete mix is 10X stronger, 5X more durable, and reduces carbon consumption by 85%. Mostimportantly, it’s economically viable for construction companies.
Bluu Seafood — Cultivated Seafood Made From Fish Cells. Tastier, Healther and More Sustainable.

JEN-HAO CHENG

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, Internet
Seed
Mauritius

Portfolio highlights

101 financial.app — 101financial.app membantu investor pemula memasuki pasar keuangan dengan teknologi pemrograman yang terbaik dan berbagai fitur sosial. Semua pengguna dapat dengan cepat menjelajahi beragam saham, mata uang Kripto, dan menerapkan perdagangan margin untuk mencapai tujuan keuangan dengan modal kecil.

Triple Jump is an impact-focused investment manager.

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, Financial Services
Debt Financing, Series A, Funding Round
India, Senegal, Mauritius

Portfolio highlights

Yellow — Yellow enables a distributed network of sales agents to serve rural households with life-changing products and services through a digital technology platform called Ofeefee.
Light Microfinance — We are one of the top Microfinance companies in India. Light Microfinance head office is located in Ahmedabad.
Baobab+ — Baobab+ is a social business committed to providing access to energy and digital. We commercialize innovative products with financing solutions that meet the needs of local populations.

Leonard Stiegeler is the Founder of Pulse, the leading innovative media company in Africa. He is backing & investing in media-/art-/technology- & -enabled ventures/assets. Some of his interests include Business Insider Africa, Art News Africa and Digital News Africa. Prior, he was the General Manager of Swiss Ringier AfricaAG since 2016 – responsible for buiding up the group's business on the continent. Ringier is today active in 8 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and through its ROAM-holding leads brands such as Jobberman, Cheki, Private Property, BuyRentKenya, Pigiame, ZoomTanzania, and many more. Prior to his work with Ringier since 2013, Leo helped to establish Rocket Internet and other German investors in Africa. Leo is originally from Germany and has been based in different African countries since 2011.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Credit
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Nigeria, United States, South Africa

Portfolio highlights

Finclusion Group — Enhancing financial inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa through data driven lending.
Bamba — Smart, simple, digital
Kwik — Kwik Delivery is the fastest and most affordable delivery service for your businesses in Lagos, Abuja, and Ibadan. We deliver under 2 hours.

Alumni Ventures offers diversified venture portfolios to accredited investors into highly competitive deals that individuals typically do not have access to on their own.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Alix — Alix is powering wealth across generations. Over the next 2 decades $84 trillion of wealth will be transferred within families. Alix is the platform and service provider to make that transfer totally seamless so those families can focus on what’s most important, each other.
Ascend Elements — Ascend Elements manufactures advanced battery materials using valuable elements reclaimed from discarded lithium-ion batteries. Our patented Hydro-to-Cathode process transforms todays waste into high-value materials for tomorrow's EV batteries a giant step up for sustainability and the entire industry.
TFC Therapeutics — TFC Therapeutics is a biotechnology company developing novel biologics to target and eliminate key drivers of cancer.

Newfund is a $300M entrepreneurial VC firm dedicated to pre-seed and seed investments in France and North America, in companies driving global change.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
France, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Synthpop — Use AI to improve speed and accuracy, without compromising security. Synthpop supports patient-centered care with fine-tuned GPT language models, enhancing and streamlining your clinical workflows.
Vendict — Streamline your security questionnaires. Respond to security questionnaires faster, with elaborated answers and supporting evidence. At Vendict, we use state-of-the-art AI technology to fully automate the response process.
Astran — Astran The Easiest Solution ever to provide your Confidential Data the highest Cloud Security

Manuel Coser has an extensive practice in the journalistic, TV, and film industry fields both as director, author, and camera operator; his work is specifically focused on citizens activism, political participation, human rights, and environmental issues.

Investment focus

Credit, FinTech, InsurTech
Angel
United States

Portfolio highlights

Finclusion Group — Enhancing financial inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa through data driven lending.

Proparco is devoted to private sector funding in the sustainable development sector.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Finance, Energy
Funding Round, Debt Financing, Series B
India, Kenya, Mauritius

Portfolio highlights

Sabesp — Sabesp is a Brazilian company that engages in providing basic sanitation services such as distribution of treated water, collection, and treatment of sewage. It is currently responsible for supplying water and collecting and treating sewage in the 367 municipalities of São Paulo state. It supplies 27.9 million people with water and provides sewagecollection services to 21.5 million people.Sabesp was founded in 1973 and is headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Nuru — Nuru is a solar hybrid site. Nuru (Swahili for "light") is a company dedicated to enhancing connectivity in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Nuru deployed Congo's first solar-based mini-grid in 2017 and is currently constructing a 1.3MW solar hybrid site in Goma, the largest off-grid mini-grid in sub-Saharan Africa.Nuru is arenewable and environment company that specializes in the fields of storage micro-grids and solar energy. The company deployed Congo's first solar-based mini-grid in 2017 and is currently constructing a 1.3MW solar hybrid site in Goma.Nuru was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Goma, Nord-Kivu, Congo.
TUHF — TUHF provides commercial & residential property development finance loans in South Africa. Contact us for property development investment or loans to buy residential property.

Norfund is the Norwegian Investment Fund for developing countries with 24.9 bill. NOK in total commitments (2019).

Investment focus

Energy, Financial Services, Renewable Energy
Funding Round, Private Equity, Debt Financing
Kenya, South Africa, United Kingdom

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Miniplast — Miniplast Limited is one of the leading manufacturers of Industrial and Household products in Ghana with over 25 years of experience in the sector.
OH Ecosystems — OH Ecosystems is a confectionary company that produces and operates cocoa processing and confectioneries.
Hela Clothing — Hela Clothing is a clothing manufacturer. From design to delivery, the firm collaborates closely with brands in the intimate, sleepwear, and children's product lines. With design centers in major markets, they can watch and predict customer preferences. This enables us to provide their customers with unique design options that fit theirrequirements.

Lakeland Dental Offers Family Dentistry, Teeth Whitening, Tooth Fillings, Dental Crowns, & Dental Implants. Call Us In Staples, Clarissa, Or Long Prairie, MN

Investment focus

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

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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.
CNote — CNote created technology to streamline community-centered impact investing at scale. Further Racial Equity and Social Justice by investing with CNote.
Masa — Masa Finance seeks to disrupt traditional centralized credit infrastructure by providing individuals, businesses, and developers with the tools to access credit and enable untapped wealth creation for 4.95B people globally.

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

Investment focus

Logistics, E-Commerce, B2B
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa

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Jumba — Jumba is a construction technology platform that streamlines B2B construction material purchase and financing.
Yebo Fresh — Powering South Africa's Township Economy.
Djamo — Djamo is a Provider of financial applications to allow customers to use their cards with zero fees in a wide range of services.

Mercure International specializes in food products, sports goods, and fashionwear industry. It handles both wholesaling as an exclusive distributor and retail sales through its stores and supermarkets.

Investment focus

Apps, Internet, Advertising
Series A
Mauritius

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CoinAfrique — CoinAfrique is a mobile application Android classifieds and launching tenders in Francophone Africa. With CoinAfrique find happiness in minutes.

U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) is America’s development bank. DFC partners with the private sector to finance solutions to the most critical challenges facing the developing world today. We invest in projects that create jobs in emerging markets in sectors including energy, healthcare, critical infrastructure,telecommunications, and financing for small businesses and women entrepreneurs. DFC investments adhere to high standards and respect the environment, human rights, and worker rights.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Funding Round
India, United States, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Kentegra Biotechnology Holdings LLC — Kentegra Biotechnology Holdings is a leading U.S-Kenyan company that supports a Kenyan-based biopesticide processing business that aggregates, extracts, and refines pale refine extract (PRE) from the pyrethrum flower, and sells the PRE to formulators across the world. Kentegra is committed to improving farmer’s livelihoods by investing in thecommunities where we are working to help farmers and their families have a more stable income and better quality of life.Grants: Norad 2021, AgriFi 2020, USAID 2020, USAID 2019, DEG 2020, DEG 2019
TechMet — TechMet Ltd backs world-class teams and makes direct investments into companies and assets across the value chain.
TerraPay — Accelerating business growth with uninterrupted global payouts and collections

Five35 Ventures is committed to unlocking capital and growth opportunities for female-focused early-stage African technology startups.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Health Care, Marketplace
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria

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Buupass — BuuPass is Kenya's market leader for online bus booking. We enable travelers to reserve seats and make payments in a convenient and timely way. Try BuuPass today!
LNKO — Trendy and affordable screen protection glasses, with or without prescription
LocumBase — Freedom and flexibility - Connecting freelance medical pros with practices, clinics and hospitals in real time.

Ceniarth is a single-family office focused on funding market-based solutions that benefit underserved communities. Through their investing activity, they provide capital to accelerate the deployment of products and services that directly impact underserved communities. They aim to support enterprises in ways that lead to long term commercialsustainability.They organize their work around program areas that aim to think systematically about sector development and the obstacles to growth. They endeavor to support market ecosystems in ways that attract ongoing private investment or public sector support.Ceniarth began operations in 2013 and works in conjunction with the Isenberg Family Charitable Foundation. Their ability to leverage grants and program-related investments, in addition to return-seeking capital, allows us to think flexibly and creatively to address funding gaps. Their goal is to apply the right, most efficient form of capital for a given need in order to produce meaningful impacts for communities.

Investment focus

Agriculture, Social Entrepreneurship, Energy
Debt Financing, Seed, Series B
Kenya, Ghana, India

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iProcure — iProcure is a Nairobi-based start-up working to optimize the agriculture input supply chain in rural Kenya. iProcure’s web and mobile technology solution improves agriculture retailers’ operations. It lets them manage ordering based on inventory, point of sale activities, and client profiles along with geo-located purchasing patterns, real-timeagent performance and transaction analysis, and built-in mobile payments. As a result, retailers can better predict demand with business intelligence data, improve inventory management, and streamline distribution efficiency.
Farmerline — The Farmerline vision is to see an Africa where Agriculture NGOâ€™s are not a functioning force in the market. Farmerline provides paid services that allow farmers to have the information and access they need to employ an entrepreneurial method of farming. Input dealers and traders pay for more efficient communication channels to farmers andfarmers pay for information packages and services. In this vision, more food is produce, more food gets to market, and GDP from cash crop export soars.
Kheyti — Kheyti helps small farmers battle income variability by providing low cost technologies bundled with services.

Oui Capital is an Africa-focused VC firm backing tech-enabled businesses at the pre-seed & seed stage.

Investment focus

Transportation, Information Technology, B2B
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
Kenya, Nigeria, United States

Portfolio highlights

Duplo — We enable businesses across Africa to simplify their payment flows.
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
Ndovu — Ndovu is a micro-investment platform that provides smart, simple, and affordable access to global financial markets that build your wealth.

Sagemcom is a French high-tech group of international dimensions, the group operates on the broadband (digital home, set-top boxes, Internet routers, telephony and multimedia terminals), smart city (smart meter, smart grid, smart infra, smart sites and smart services), and Internet of Things markets (founding member of the LoRa Alliance).Withrevenue of around €1.3 billion, Sagemcom employs 4,000 people on five continents and ships every year more than 23 million terminals. Sagemcom aims to remain a world leader in communicating terminals with high added value.

Investment focus

Energy, Renewable Energy
Series A
Mauritius

Portfolio highlights

Escotel — Escotel is an energy services company currently focused on Sub-Saharan Africa countries. Escotel provides energy services to mobile tower owners and operators, owning and operating decentralized renewable energy infrastructure across Africa

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, Acumeninvested $128 million in 128 companies that have transformed the lives of over 308 million low-income people.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Health Care, Agriculture
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, India, Kenya

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GramVaani — Gram Vaani [meaning 'voice of the village'] is a social tech company based at IIT-Delhi. Their objective is to reverse the flow of information, that is, to make it bottom-up instead of top-down, by helping connect communities with companies/governments/dev agencies. Using simple technologies and social context to design tools,Gram Vaani has been able to impact communities- more than 2 million users in over 15 Indian States, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Namibia and South Africa.
Haqdarshak — Haqdarshak is a technology-enabled platform working to transform how Indian citizens learn about, apply for, and benefit from, government schemes. The company is composed of a group of passionate social entrepreneurs using technology to impact the next billion. The team comprises of individuals from diverse background who have come together out ofcommon interest and passion. The investor community represents individuals holding prestigious positions in different companies across various sectors.
SokoFresh — SokoFresh An Award winning social enterprise that is addressing post harvest loss issues through a cooling as a service proposition coupled with a market linkage service to small holder farmers and aggregators. SokoFresh An Award winning social enterprise that is addressing post harvest loss issues through a cooling as a service proposition coupled with a

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.

Investment focus

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

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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.
Open Forest Protocol — With Open Forest Protocol (OFP), measure, report, verify and fund forestation projects with digital transparency
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.

AlphaCoin Fund is a venture capital focused on investing blockchain technology and tokens. Since 2017, AlphaCoin has invested in over 80 leading blockchain technology projects both home and abroad, with a total investment amount in exceed of 90 million USD. Our investment team consists of professionals from backgrounds covering traditional andcrypto venture capital investing, blockchain technology and crypto exchange operations. AlphaCoin Fund has founded strategic partnerships with both top-tier venture capital institutions such as Zhen Fund, Sequoia Capital, Danhua Capital, etc and service providers . With its connections in the blockchain industry, AlphaCoin Fund has been long dedicated to building an orbicular industry chain with its partners, so as to provide value-added services such as technology assistance, business development advising, marketing, partnership building and exchange listing consulting.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Internet
Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
United States, Singapore, China

Portfolio highlights

Cowboy Snake — Cowboy Snake is the TvT play-to-earn game inspired by snake on the blockchain. Cowboy Snake is a product of OrenCT Ltd.
Formless — Formless enables gamers, NFT enthusiasts and digital collectors to find their favourite game while helping games find their targeted fans.
Clear — BEWARE: This profile infringes on the US Trademark "Clear Protocol" that belongs to Clear Protocol, Inc., a California corporation. Furthermore, Ernest Kestone and Marie Kestone are not associated with this company.

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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed
Egypt, Nigeria, Kenya

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Menthum — Saving Made Simple
Precision Cardiovascular — Precision Cardiovascular is a unique sensor system for remote monitoring of patients with acute heart failure that provides unbiased data to improve long-term health outcomes and reduce the expenses of emergency situations.
Swaplanet — Save up to 90% on children's clothes, by exchanging unused clothes stored in your house. The clothing sector produces 10% of global CO2 emissions (vs. 6% for plastics!!) Help us reduce this and help our planet! Save Money, Save Space, Save The Planet!

Shell Foundation is an independent charity established by the Shell Group in 2000 to create and scale new solutions to global development challenges. We apply business thinking to major social and environmental issues linked to the energy sector – and seek to leverage the skills and networks of Shell where possible to deliver greater developmentimpact.Over the years, learning from both success and failure, we have established a new enterprise-based model to deliver significant and lasting social and environmental outcomes. We now deploy a blend of financial and non-financial resources to accelerate social innovation and harness private markets to deliver public benefit at scale.

Investment focus

Energy, Agriculture, Solar
Grant, Seed, Series A
India, Kenya, United States

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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.
AgroCenta — AgroCenta is an online platform that connects the smallholder farmer in the staple food (rice, maize, millet and soybean) value chain to a wider online market to trade
Easy Matatu — Easy Matatu is a tech platform connecting commuters in Africa to safe, reliable and clean transportation

Accion Venture Lab is an investment initiative that provides startups with seed capital and support.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, India, Brazil

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Licify — Licify, a procurement cloud-based platform specialized in the construction industry, has redefined interactions between developers, contractors, sub-contractors and suppliers. It creates a community developing transparent and efficient realtionships allthrough the value chain. This improves the procurement and supply processes, generating savingsand increasing profitability.
Channel19 — Channel19 is building a platform for small truckers to aggregate freight from all of their digital broker and load board relationships in one place and find the best freight to move for their business. Truckers using Channel19 earn up to 20% more revenue and can save over $3,000 per truck per year in dispatch.
Advance Tech Lending — Advance Tech Lending is an online salary loans provider. They help employees cover their daily financial needs with a click of a button. They don’t charge interest, just a processing fee to get funds to you immediately.

MAPE is a leading Indian investment bank focused exclusively on M&A and Private Equity advisory.MAPE has been consistently ranked among the top ten banks in India by Bloomberg in rankings for investment banks (number of transactions) for all years from 2001 to 2013.The team is led by seasoned investment bankers with bulge bracketexperience.They have done marquee deals for all leading Indian business houses and are strongly deal driven, closing one deal every month since inception. They are well known in the industry for closing "difficult" deals.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Financial Services, Health Care
Private Equity, Post-IPO Equity, Seed
India, Qatar, Mauritius

Portfolio highlights

Century Seeds — Century Seeds provides vegetable seeds to vegetable growers. It offers ash gourd, beet root, bitter gourd, bottle gourd, brinjal/egg plant, broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, chilies/pepper, cucumber, long melon, muskmelon, okra, radish, ridge gourd, sponge gourd, tomato, and watermelon seeds.
Vienova — Vienova is a rapidly growing education company. It currently has six operational schools around Delhi. The company goal is to provide scalable and affordable K-12 education directly to students in semi-urban areas. It operates in the affordable segment of the Indian education system. The company provides private state certified schooling for gradesK -12 in semi urban areas in India. Most children are from families that are considered low income, with some from poor families that qualify for scholarships from the management company.
ELGI Equipments — ELGi designs and manufactures an extensive range of innovative and technologically advanced compressed air solutions for a variety of industry applications.

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