Top 5 Startup Investors in Mozambique (July 2026)

Miles co-founded DPI in 2007 after having become non-executive Chairman of Blakeney Management (Blakeney) in July 2006 by which time the firm was considered to be one of the largest portfolio investors in many African stock markets. Blakeney was set up by Miles in 1990, first as a consultancy and, since 1994, as an asset management firm, investingin Africa and the Middle East. Blakeney was one of the first investors in many African markets and Miles played an active role in the development of markets in countries such as Ghana, Morocco, Egypt, Kenya and Tunisia.Before starting Blakeney, Miles spent 22 years in money management and investment banking in London and on Wall Street.Miles is also on the boards of SABMiller plc, the world’s second largest brewer and SouthWest Energy (BVI) Ltd, an Ethiopian oil exploration company. He was the founder and chairman for five years of the London Business School’s Africa Board. He read Law at the University of Oxford. Miles is a British citizen.

Investment focus

Industry: Internet, Education, Publishing
Stage:Pre-Seed
Geography: Mozambique

Investor stats

Total investments: 5
Round size: Pre-Seed $7k–$12k
Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

Ethale Books App — The Ethale Books App by Ethale Publishing is the first-ever East African multilingual book app featuring local content. It is one of the first in the developing world to be specifically designed for android mobile phones and not e-readers. The trilingual app will make books available in Portuguese, Swahili and English for free, with revenuesustained via a mobile advertising strategy.

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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.

Investment focus

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

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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 — Kamp Feed is a food producer of nutritional animal feeds that specializes in pelleted animal feeds.
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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Aqua-Spark is an investment fund with a focus on sustainable aquaculture businesses around the world. The small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs) they invest in are working toward the production of safe, accessible aquatic life, such as fish, shellfish and plants, in ways that do not harm their oceans. Their investors value the fact that each investmentaims to create triple impact—specifically, each investment is chosen for its potential to generate significant financial returns while also activating positive environmental and social outcomes.Aqua-Spark believes that committing to a long-term vision is the way to realize effective and lasting impact results. When it comes to investments, they do not seek quick exits; instead, they look for entrepreneurs who strive to build and scale toward the future, who see their business as major economic opportunities that can also help solve looming environmental and food security challenges over the long-term. As an essential of each investee, Aqua-Spark seeks sustainability.

Investment focus

Industry: Biotechnology, Seafood, Aquaculture
Stage:Series A, Seed
Geography: United States, Norway, Israel

Investor stats

Total investments: 43
Round size: Seed $1.2M–$7M; Series A $3M–$13M
Lead/follow: 53% lead, 47% follow
Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $87M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

Ace Aquatec — Ace Aquatec is specialises in acoustic marine mammal deterrents and humane electrical fish stunning equipment. Our markets are aquaculture, off-shore construction / demolition and fishermen.The US3 is the latest model of acoustic deterrent for the fish farming industry offering data logging, high and low frequency transducers, and sonartriggering. The MMD is offered to the long line fishermen, to offshore platforms engaged in pile driving and government organisations engaged in post oil spillage response. The sophisticated electronics drives marine wildlife to a zone of safety.
Sea6 Energy — Sea6 Energy is a platform that utilizes the unlimited potential of the oceans in a sustainable and ethical way. It visualizes a future where the abundant oceans will be the biomass farms of the future, to provide solutions in energy, agriculture, and food.Sea6 Energy has a team of professionals from diverse fields like industrial automation,plant pathology, ocean engineering, bioprocess engineering, marine biology, and aerospace engineering, with the goal of building a whole new economy based on marine biomass.It develops technologies to convert biomass into biofuel, plant growth stimulants, plant defence products, animal feed ingredients, and other bio-renewable products to replace chemicals and plastics, effectively creating a Bio-refinery out of marine biomass, churning out a whole variety of products leaving nothing to waste.Sea6 Energy was founded on 2010 and is headquartered in Bangalore, India.
Oceano Fresco — Oceano Fresco develops and produces bivalves varieties with superior performance for shellfish farmers at a competitive cost, respecting environmental sustainability and ensuring consumer safety.They use a multi-disciplinary approach including expertise in molecular biology, genetics, animal physiology, computational biology and intellectualproperty to select value adding traits to shellfish farmers and contribute to the sustainability and profitability of the aquaculture industry.They work with hatcheries, nurseries and research centers in order to test and validate their solutions and ensure that they suit the specific needs of each customer, in each technical and environmental context.

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Reflect Ventures makes venture capital investments in high-potential startups at the seed and series A/B+ stages. We identify extraordinary founders, companies and opportunities around the world, including in emerging and frontier markets. Our LPs comprise family offices, institutional investors and HNWIs on six continents, along withrecognized sector experts who are instrumental to our portfolio companies' future growth.

Investment focus

Industry: Logistics, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Geography: Pakistan, United States, Nigeria

Investor stats

Total investments: 57
Round size: Seed $200k–$12M; Pre-Seed $120k–$3.3M; Series A $4M–$37M
Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

GoCement — Tempatnya jual beli bahan bangunan online terlengkap berkualitas dan harga murah di Indonesia. Cari kebutuhan alat dan bahan bangunanmu, hanya di GoCement
Jelt — HealthTech B2B Marketplace
VIVAN Therapeutics — VIVAN Therapeutics, a company pioneering personalized cancer therapeutics using a new assay technology. MPT licensed technology from the Center for Personalized Cancer Therapeutics at Mt Sinai New York and is launching the world’s most comprehensive, personal genomics-based, block-chain enabled drug screening service. All recommended treatmentcombinations will include a cancer drug and a non cancer drug, making treatments less toxic and more affordable. Intelligently designed personalized treatment. Revolutionary cancer care.

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