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Top 30 Startup Investors in Rwanda in January 2025

A list of 30 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in startups based in Rwanda. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in companies from Rwanda. We update this investor list every month.

Top 30 Startup Investors in Rwanda in January 2025

Investor Rwanda investments
Factor[e] Ventures 3
Akitoye Balogun 2
Folarin Falana 2
pledges.com 2
Ground Squirrel Ventures 2
Nestcoin 2
Norrsken Foundation 2
ODBA 2
Acumen 2
Ecosystem Integrity Fund 2
TotalEnergies Ventures 2
Olugbenga Agboola 2
Shola Akinlade 2
Olugbenga Agboola 2
VestedWorld 1
Techstars Ventures 1
Blockchain Founders Fund 1
Acacia Venture Capital Partners 1
U.S. International Development Finance Corp 1
Battery Road Digital Holdings 1
Oikocredit International 1
DOB Equity 1
Fejiro Hanu Agbodje 1
Imbuto Foundation 1
NISK Capital 1
Bathurst Capital 1
Blue Haven Initiative 1
Opes Impact Fund 1
Good Soil VC 1
Team Ignite Ventures 1
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Factor[e] Ventures VC Fund · Fort Collins, Colorado, United States · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Impact venture builders dedicated to supporting the people and ideas that turn challenges in energy, agriculture, mobility, and waste into de-carbonized solutions for emerging and frontier markets.
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Investment focus
  • Energy, Renewable Energy, Agriculture
  • Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
  • United States, Kenya, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Terralima — Terralima is building a digital platform where we connect a trusted network of farmers in Africa to food producers and co-operatives who get high-quality, traceable agricultural commodities at a fair, transparent and stable market price. We are also bridging the funding gap for farmers and aggregators through embbeded fintech.Our online Tradingand Fintech platform delivers direct access to markets, on-demand credit, and efficient logistics for smallholder farmers; thus ensuring we can get food from where it is produced to where it's required, while eliminating food waste and maximising profits for farmers.
  • InspiraFarms — InspiraFarms provides on-and-near farm, grid & solar powered Cold Rooms & Packhouses for agribusinesses & distributors. Reduce energy costs & food losses!
  • Open Access Energy — Open Access Energy provides energy management software.
Akitoye Balogun Angel
Akitoye Balogun
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Investment focus
  • Education
  • Pre-Seed
  • Rwanda
Portfolio highlights
  • AltSchool Africa — Let's invest in your Future. Learn highly sought after tech skills without hassle. A program designed to arm you with the skills and knowledge required to boldly launch your tech career.
Folarin Falana Angel
Folarin Falana
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Investment focus
  • Education
  • Pre-Seed
  • Rwanda
Portfolio highlights
  • AltSchool Africa — Let's invest in your Future. Learn highly sought after tech skills without hassle. A program designed to arm you with the skills and knowledge required to boldly launch your tech career.
pledges.com VC Fund
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Investment focus
  • Education
  • Pre-Seed
  • Rwanda
Portfolio highlights
  • AltSchool Africa — Let's invest in your Future. Learn highly sought after tech skills without hassle. A program designed to arm you with the skills and knowledge required to boldly launch your tech career.
Ground Squirrel Ventures VC Fund · Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Seed round investment in frontier markets and clean energy
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • United States, Kenya, Zambia
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 — Necessary Ventures focuses on investing in what the world needs. They work with the founders to build the most scalable solutions.
Nestcoin VC Fund · Tórtola, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
Nestcoin is a web3 application company that builds, operates, and invests in crypto-native products.
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Investment focus
  • Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Education
  • Pre-Seed
  • Rwanda, Nigeria, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Stakefair — Stakefair is an ecosystem of blockchain, crypto and DeFi products.
  • Nandi Labs — Nandi Labs, Home of Nandi Cowry, Digital FESTAC and MoveMint Magazine
  • AltSchool Africa — Let's invest in your Future. Learn highly sought after tech skills without hassle. A program designed to arm you with the skills and knowledge required to boldly launch your tech career.
Norrsken Foundation VC Fund · Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
Norrsken Foundation is non-profit organization solving problems such as poverty, famine, environmental issues and mental health.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, Health Care, FinTech
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
  • United States, Nigeria, Rwanda
Portfolio highlights
  • RYE — RYE is a members-only, low-cost green energy supplier built for businesses with no time to deal with energy suppliers. Always accurate energy or it's free.
  • Eden Care Medical — Eden Care Medical is a mobile application that provides medical and health insurance as well as financial services.
  • ORDA — Process orders, accept payments, connect to logistic providers, engage with your customers + more. We equip you with everything you need to grow your business.
ODBA VC Fund · Port Louis, Port Louis, Mauritius
We invest in people and stories, which are at the heart of everything we do.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Financial Exchanges
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Nigeria, Rwanda, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Zazuu — Zazuu is a platform for sending money across the border.
  • 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.
  • GetFundedAfrica — GetFundedAfrica's mission is to help Africa’s most promising startups find funding, grow & solve society’s greatest challenges. We do this through a media portal - GetFundedAfrica News; a learning portal - REMSANA; and an investment arm - GFA Ventures
Acumen VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 7 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Agriculture, Financial Services
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • United States, India, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
  • BioMassters — Biomassers aim to replace charcoal production and charcoal cooking by providing modern, affordable, and low-carbon pellet fuel production and cooking solutions based on locally produced fuel from waste materials.
  • Reema Health — Transforming the way people navigate the gaps between health care and social care. Reema combines a 24/7 AI-based confidant with in-person community guides to help people meet their social needs.
  • Raino Tech4Impact — Raino Tech4Impact is a social enterprise that leverages technology as an enabler to empower African communities. We have been deploying technology-driven solutions in agriculture and health, powered by renewable energy to achieve sustainability.
Ecosystem Integrity Fund VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 9 investments in the past 12 months
The Ecosystem Integrity Fund (“EIF”) is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage companies contributing to environmental sustainability. It seeks to demonstrate that there is no trade-off between having a positive impact and achieving outstanding financial returns. The movement toward environmental sustainability is making incrementalimprovements to the largest industries in the world. Over the next several decades, the economy will be transformed by this movement.Sustainability is fundamentally about making things better: more efficient, more functional, less toxic, less costly. This is the next phase of the Industrial Revolution.
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Investment focus
  • Renewable Energy, Energy, Solar
  • Series A, Series B, Funding Round
  • United States, India, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Liminal — Advanced battery inspection and metrology with ultrasound and machine learning
  • ZeroAvia — ZeroAvia is producing the world's first practical zero emission aviation powertrain, initially targeting 20-seat airplanes to start replacing dirty jet fuel in regional transport
  • Vecmocon Technologies — Core technologies for electric mobility
TotalEnergies Ventures VC Fund · La Défense, Ile-de-France, France
TotalEnergies Ventures is the venture capital arm of Total.As part of Total's commitment to a better energy future, TotalEnergies Ventures is focused on finding, funding and fostering high-potential start-ups which will contribute to creating a low carbon future.Current areas of interest include Renewables, Distributed Energy, NewMobility, Energy Access, Energy Storage, Bio-Plastics, Circular Economy, Carbon Capture and Hydrogen.
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Investment focus
  • Energy, Renewable Energy, Transportation
  • Series B, Funding Round, Series C
  • United States, France, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Autogrid — AutoGrid Systems organizes energy data and employs big data analytics to generate real-time predictions that create actionable data.The company’s suite of flexibility management applications allows utilities, electricity retailers, renewable energy project developers and energy service providers to deliver cheap, clean and reliable energy bymanaging networked distributed energy resources (DERs) in real time and at scale. AutoGrid applications utilize petabytes of smart meter, sensor and third-party data, along with powerful data science and high-performance computing algorithms, to monitor, predict, optimize and control the operations of millions of assets connected across global energy networks.Established at Stanford University in 2011, they have assembled a team of world-class software architects, electrical and computer engineers, data scientists and energy experts who apply cutting-edge analytics and in-depth energy data science to solve the world’s most critical energy problems.
  • 45-8 ENERGY — 45-8 ENERGY is exploring eco-friendly helium for uses in many industries.
  • Ampersand — Ampersand catalyzes and power mass-market electric mobility. By supplying the battery swap network and operating system the company makes sustainable mobility rapidly accessible and affordable for developing markets, to improve livelihoods and the environment. With over a million km already covered by e-motorcycles in Africa using our plug-and-playpowertrain and energy network.
Olugbenga Agboola Angel
Olugbenga Agboola is the Co-Founder and CEO of Flutterwave. He previously worked at Africa Fintech Foundry as a Senior Entrepreneur In Residence. Olugbenga Agboola attended MIT Sloan School of Management.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Financial Services, Internet
  • Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Nigeria, Kenya, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • tushop — Tushop is a community group buying platform where members can sell groceries to those in their social networks and communities.
  • Curacel — Curacel creates APIs & tools that enable businesses to embed insurance in digital channels and to administer claims cost-effectively.
  • Afropolitan — Afropolitan is building a Network State to unleash the maximum potential of Africans around the world. Are you interested? Join us with your email.
Shola Akinlade Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Shola Akinlade is the Co-founder and CEO at Paystack.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Education, Financial Services
  • Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Nigeria, Kenya, Rwanda
Portfolio highlights
  • Chowdeck — Enjoy fast delivery from best restaurants near you. Order African food, Asian food, Pizza, fit-fam, Drinks from restaurants near you in Ikeja, Yaba, Surulere, Ogudu, Lekki.
  • Earnipay — Earnipay simplifies business operations with a single dashboard. From high-yield accounts and flexible credit options to efficient payments, payroll processing, and on-demand pay, streamline your financial operations and drive your business growth.
  • Afropolitan — Afropolitan is building a Network State to unleash the maximum potential of Africans around the world. Are you interested? Join us with your email.
Olugbenga Agboola Angel
Olugbenga Agboola is the Co-Founder and CEO of Flutterwave. He previously worked at Africa Fintech Foundry as a Senior Entrepreneur In Residence. Olugbenga Agboola attended MIT Sloan School of Management.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
  • Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Nigeria, Kenya, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • SiPay — Sipay is a next-generation financial technology company offering a comprehensive all-in-one financial services platform. It enables B2B, B2C, and Sipay as a Service (Embedded Finance) customers to address all their banking and financial needs without requiring any other partners.
  • Curacel — Curacel creates APIs & tools that enable businesses to embed insurance in digital channels and to administer claims cost-effectively.
  • Afropolitan — Afropolitan is building a Network State to unleash the maximum potential of Africans around the world. Are you interested? Join us with your email.
VestedWorld VC Fund · Chicago, Illinois, United States
VestedWorld is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in emerging markets companies that have the potential to generate competitive financial returns while contributing towards the growth and development of the markets in which they are located. The firm supports these businesses through the infusion of capital, active involvement incorporate governance, and by providing direct strategic and operational assistance.
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Investment focus
  • Agriculture, E-Commerce, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana
Portfolio highlights
  • EMTECH — EMTECH provides solutions for Digital Currency regulatory compliance, development and management to help Central Banks and FinTechs build, run and manage modern financial systems.
  • Terragon Group — Terragon is a leading Data and Marketing Technology company that uses data and analytics to help companies focused in Africa, intelligently connect at scale to their customers. We use an aggregation of online and offline data, and predictive scoring to help brands, marketing agencies and platforms accurately target people across channels anddevices. Headquartered in Lagos; Nigeria, we also have a presence in Kenya, South Africa, Ghana and India.
  • Complete Farmer — We are providing cutting-edge technological farming protocols and innovations with a unique business model and logistics that are revolutionizing...
Techstars Ventures VC Fund · Boulder, Colorado, United States · 5 investments in the past 12 months
Techstars helps founders succeed. Through our global accelerators, we invest in early-stage startups led by founders building a better future for everyone.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • MD Ally — MD Ally allows dispatchers and first responders to connect non-emergent calls to telehealth, in-network resources, social services & more in real-time.
  • Sensei — We are the leading European provider of autonomous stores, with an AI-powered solution to build efficient operations and deliver a seamless shopping experience.
  • Viva — Landlords use Viva to grow a property's online reputation, improve renter behavior, reward residents to increase renewals, create loyalty, drive more referrals, reduce vacancy, increase profits by up to 9%
Blockchain Founders Fund VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 38 investments in the past 12 months
We Focus Exclusively On Adding Value To Blockchain & Emerging Technology Projects With Real World Applications.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • United States, United Kingdom, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Symmio — Symmio is a platform that facilitates the clearing of derivatives transactions by focusing on the specific intentions of users. It provides easy, permissionless access to both traditional and emerging assets.
  • KRNL Labs — KRNL Labs is a decentralized infrastructure protocol that makes smart contracts and develops an open, multichain software registry for the Web3 ecosystem. That allows developers to build dApps that can leverage multiple blockchains simultaneously.
  • HIFI — HiFi Bridge is a cryptocurrency payments platform that allows customers to buy and sell cryptocurrencies, trade NFT's, borrow loans, and connect their bank accounts all-in-one.The startup offers equity, cryptocurrency, and options trading, as well as cash management accounts. The company provides the accessibility for traditional financialusers to gain access to modern decentralized finance tools through it's mobile and web platform.Zach Walsh and Mohamed Afifi founded the company in New York City in 2021.
Acacia Venture Capital Partners VC Fund · Shanghai, Shanghai, China
Acacia is a cross border investment manager, specialising in private market investments. The team is composed of a diverse and international group that is primarily based in Shanghai.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
  • Mexico, Colombia, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • REVER — REVER is born to disrupt how eCommerce returns work by making them easier and faster for everyone.
  • Credable — Credable is the Digital Banking Platform that is driving the future of banking by embedding financial services in businesses across emerging markets.
  • Eden Care Medical — Eden Care Medical is a mobile application that provides medical and health insurance as well as financial services.
U.S. International Development Finance Corp VC Fund · Washington, District of Columbia, United States · 4 investments in the past 12 months
U.S. International Development Finance Corp is America’s development bank.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
  • Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Funding Round
  • India, United States, Kenya
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.
  • Indorama Fertilizers — Indorama Fertilizers operates a world-class, 1.4 million metric tonnes per annum urea manufacturing facility based in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. The plant has been developed to global environmental, social and construction standards. It plays a key role in supporting the agricultural sector in Nigeria by providing a reliable supply of fertilizers forlocal farmers, thereby enabling import substitution and supporting the diversification needs of the Nigerian economy. Indorama Fertilizers is also advantageously located to serve neighboring West African countries and key Western hemisphere markets, including North America, South America and Europe
  • Institut Pasteur de Dakar — The Institut Pasteur de Dakar Foundation (IPD) is a non-profit association of public utility, concerned with promoting public health and well-being in West Africa. Since its founding in 1896 by one of Louis PASTEUR's disciples, Émile Marcoux, the IPD has been at the forefront of the fight against infectious diseases. Since 2009, the InstitutPasteur de Dakar has been a Senegalese foundation, jointly managed by the government of Senegal and the Institut Pasteur (Paris).
Battery Road Digital Holdings VC Fund · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Battery Road Digital Holdings is a venture capital and private equity firm that focuses on frontier and emerging markets.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Transportation, Payments
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Singapore, Egypt, India
Portfolio highlights
  • zypl.ai — zypl.ai applies 'no data' AI at scale to advance financial inclusion in emerging and frontier markets. Our SaaS solution enables banks and microfinance organizations to instantly and accurate underwrite loans, both offline and digitally, to consumers with limited or no credit history.zypl's proprietary approach includes training AImodels on synthetically generated data with simulation of 'black swan' conditions, providing stable and adaptable SaaS in spite of macro volatility in developing markets. Apart from analyzing traditional variables such as social, demographic, and professional background of clients, our SaaS reviews device metadata, psychometrics, web trace, and macroeconomic factors to arrive at credit decisions.In the process, we fully customize AI models to risk appetite of each individual enterprise partner with the goal of reflecting their competitive market advantages. Additionally, we offer complete flexibility on mode of integration through either cloud or on-premise deployment based on enterprise preference. We only deploy explainable AI models with embedded 'weight-of-evidence' interpretation of each decision made by the software, complying with emerging regulatory requirements on credit scoring.Having launched our beta last year, we have scaled presence to 10 enterprise clients in 4 markets across Central Asia. In this time, we have underwritten >$9 million in consumer and small business (services, trade, agriculture) loans to over 12 thousand consumers with staggeringly low 0.7% portfolio-at-risk rate. Since booking first revenue earlier this year, we have surpassed 25% compounded monthly growth rate and reached financial break-even this month.As a complement to credit scoring, our product team has ventured into churn prediction in telecom sector through partnerships with 3 leading telcos in Central Asia. Our rapid product iteration and development is a result of an AI Academy that we have launched to nurture talent internally.zypl.ai was ideated at Stanford University's Startup Garage and recently completed the Silkway Accelerator by Google for Startups and Astana Hub. Our startup was launched with a grant from the Islamic Development Bank as part of the Transform Fund. With our pre-seed capital raise, we plan on globalizing our AI SaaS solution by expanding to new markets in MENA, Southeast Asia, and Eastern Europe.
  • AwanTunai — AwanTunai seek to reinforce Indonesian needs and productivity by providing digital loan for a better financial freedom and capability to micro-entrepreneurs
  • IMAN — One-stop shop for Halal investing
Oikocredit International VC Fund · Amersfoort, Utrecht, The Netherlands · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Oikocredit is guided by the principle of empowering people. Their experience proves that the most effective and sustainable means of assisting those in need is providing an opportunity to help themselves.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
  • Debt Financing, Series B, Funding Round
  • India, Nigeria, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
  • Kaleidofin — Kaleidofin provides a scalable and adaptable platform dedicated to democratizing finance through responsible fintech, empowering every customer. Our name, 'Kaleidofin', symbolizes the transformative power of financial solutions with a digital ecosystem that ensures finance for everyone, everywhere.
  • Access Bank — Access Bank provides banking products and services to individual and business customers in Ghana. It offers standard savings and current, access advantage, solo, and premier accounts. The company also provides online banking services that include ATM, online access, and point-of-sale terminal services; and bills payment and Western Union moneytransfer services.
  • Avanti Finance — Avanti Platform is an open-access digital financial spine, flexible enough for users and partners to create, curate and deploy the financial products
DOB Equity VC Fund · Veessen, Gelderland, The Netherlands
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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Investment focus
  • Food and Beverage, Farming, Health Care
  • Private Equity, Funding Round, Seed
  • Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania
Portfolio highlights
  • Kwara — Kwara turns analog credit unions into modern digital banks.
  • Power — Putting individuals on the path towards financial health
  • Eden Care Medical — Eden Care Medical is a mobile application that provides medical and health insurance as well as financial services.
Fejiro Hanu Agbodje Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Hanu is the Founder/CEO of Patricia, a User-experience expert with a deep understanding of user-centered designs (USD) and strong skills for conducting user research and surveys, and translating them into sitemaps, user flows, customer journey maps, wireframes, mockups and prototypes. He is a graduate of mathematics and statistics
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Investment focus
  • Education, Blockchain, Communities
  • Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Rwanda, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Rooomxix
  • AltSchool Africa — Let's invest in your Future. Learn highly sought after tech skills without hassle. A program designed to arm you with the skills and knowledge required to boldly launch your tech career.
  • Afropolitan — Afropolitan is building a Network State to unleash the maximum potential of Africans around the world. Are you interested? Join us with your email.
Imbuto Foundation VC Fund · Kicukiro, Kigali, Rwanda
Imbuto Foundation Mission is to support the development of a healthy, educated and prosperous society.
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Investment focus
  • EdTech, Education
  • Pre-Seed
  • Rwanda
Portfolio highlights
  • Rango Library — The Rango Library, which fights teen pregnancies by educating young people in the district about sexual and reproductive health, won this year's iAccelerator as the best start-up.
NISK Capital VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya
NISK Capital is a boutique investment banking and advisory firm providing end-to-end services to Small and Medium sized Enterprises (SMEs) across the East African Community (EAC). The company is committed to supporting progress in the East African region. NISK Capital recognizes that the increasing convergence of global markets, local people andregional economies is the fundamental driver of global security and social improvement.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services
  • Seed
  • Rwanda
Portfolio highlights
  • BeneFactors — BeneFactors Ltd. is a Rwandan factoring company, providing tailored working capital solutions to firms. Factoring is a financial service, where future payments from your buyers are sold to a third party, the factor for cash. They can work with pending invoices or purchase orders for delivery. This means that you can continue working even if yourbuyers take a long time to pay or take on more clients at the same time - allowing you peace of mind as you grow your business.
Bathurst Capital VC Fund · Kicukiro, Kigali, Rwanda
Bathurst Capital is an investment firm.
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Investment focus
  • Wellness, Insurance, Health Care
  • Pre-Seed
  • Rwanda
Portfolio highlights
  • Eden Care Medical — Eden Care Medical is a mobile application that provides medical and health insurance as well as financial services.
Blue Haven Initiative VC Fund · Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Blue Haven Initiative is an innovative family office dedicated to putting wealth to work for market returns and positive social and environmental change.
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Investment focus
  • Solar, Energy, Financial Services
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Kenya, United States, Ghana
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
  • TIBU Health — TIBU Health is a disruptive HealthTech logistics company that provides high-quality healthcare services.
  • BlueMark — BlueMark is the leading provider of impact intelligence and independent verification for the sustainable and impact investing market.
Opes Impact Fund VC Fund · Milano, Lombardia, Italy
Opes-Lcef is an impact investor that provides catalytic capital to early-stage social enterprises in emerging markets.
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Investment focus
  • Energy, Social Entrepreneurship, Renewable Energy
  • Seed, Series A
  • Kenya, India, Italy
Portfolio highlights
  • Ecodudu — Ecodudu is a waste-to-value company. It uses a proprietary innovation to recycle organic waste into high-protein animal feed and organic fertilizer using the black soldier fly. It harnesses insects (nature’s recycling agents) to address global issues which include waste management, demand for protein, and environmental conservation.
  • MunyaxEco — Munyax ECO is an East African solar energy company that is dedicated to providing innovative renewable energy solutions while promoting gender equality. Discover how our sustainable practices and inclusive approach are driving positive change in the industry and beyond.
  • WidEnergy Africa — Widenergy Africa Ltd , is a women – led company, registered in Zambia, dedicated in the last miles distribution of clean energy solutions. We are the official distributor of Little sun solar products in Zambia (Solar lamps, Solar phone chargers), and will start soon with the distribution of clean cook stoves, with the objective to contribute inreduction of the Zambian deforestation rate, known as one of the highest in Africa.
Good Soil VC VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom
GOODsoil VC is an early stage venture capital firm. We partner with founders seeking to invent new market categories and transform large, existing industries.They aim to take risks on innovative and ambitious people and products; providing risk capital for new and early-stage start-up companies, in return for an equity share.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Financial Services, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Ghana, United Kingdom, Rwanda
Portfolio highlights
  • Livoh — Livoh is a software firm offering live streaming platform so the content can reach its target market.
  • Zeepay — Zeepay Ghana Limited is a wholly Ghanaian owned Mobile FinancialServices company focusing on providing integrated mobile payments services with mobile wallets targeting the unbanked and banked population with the objective of bringing the unbanked into the financial stream and easing payments and collections for the banked population.Zeepayfacilitates the processing of multiple mobile phone payment transactions, and operates as a aggregator that brings transaction of all players together on one single platform. The company’s core application runs on open source technology, and is designed to integrate all types of payment platforms, banks, merchants, Mobile Network Operators (MNOs), and other companies with subscriber based transactions.
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Team Ignite Ventures VC Fund · California City, California, United States · 12 investments in the past 12 months
We're experienced operators helping to ignite and scale startups
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, Canada, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Yenmo — Yenmo offers mutual fund loans with a partnership option.
  • Markopolo ai — Markopolo is a complete paid marketing suite that helps you launch targeted ads in seconds. Generate the perfect creative and AI-powered copy, schedule posts ahead of time to save time and get real-time analytics on how well they perform! If you’re looking for a smarter, faster way to create ads and automate the boring parts of ad management,there’s a tool you need to meet.We have built the software for cookieless era. We use server side pixel to gather lossless data from each and every attribution point. Business that adopt Markopolo see 34% reduction in Cost per click, 41% increase in Conversion rate and 30% increase in Budget spending efficiency within first few campaigns. These are the benchmarks achieved with the algorithms behind Marokopolo, and we have just started! We provide an end to end solution in Paid Marketing, which is critical for a modern marketing team manager to improve efficiency. Finding the right audience to target is a complicated science that we have cracked at Markopolo. We have a patent pending status in USPTO on it. Lastly getting real-time analytics from all these platforms and actionable suggestions from Markopolo algorithm completes the whole user journey.Features: - Integrates with Facebook, Instagram, Google Ads and YouTube - Built in Campaign Manager for scheduling and managing all the ads from one place - Ad Engine that monitors and optimises all the Ads 24/7 - Suggestion Engine that guides like a professional marketer - Get a holistic overview of all the metrics from all the campaigns in one dashboard - Ad Maker that comes with AI Generated Copy and Creatives - Targeting AI generates custom Audience presets - GDPR Compliant1,000+ businesses use Markopolo to automate their campaign creation and management in Social and Search Ad platforms.Try us out- https://www.markopolo.ai/Watch our product demo- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VExF-j9sdg&t=87sWatch this how to get started video series- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyFsYkb4YvQ&list=PLG1FKDs4H_wGH0NfxNflJgr0WVzn6m8Pj
  • Scalestack — Scalestack AI brings all of your GTM data together, suggests prioritized actions and helps your reps to execute your sales plays. Unlock a new level of sales productivity and generate more pipeline.
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