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Top 50 Startup Investors in South Africa

A list of 50 angel investors and VC funds that invest in startups based in South africa. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in companies from South africa. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Startup Investors in South Africa

Investor South Africa investments
Launch Africa 16
4Di Capital 15
Knife Capital 13
CRE Venture Capital 12
AngelHub Ventures 11
Kalon Venture Partners 11
Vumela Fund 9
Naspers Foundry 8
HAVAÍC 8
E4EAfrica 7
Raba Partnership 6
Enygma Ventures 6
Black Silver Capital 6
AlphaCode Club 6
Investec 6
LoftyInc Capital Management 6
Quona Capital 5
Future Africa 5
Five35 Ventures 4
Ragnar Sass 4
Allan Gray 4
SEEK 4
Vinny Lingham 4
Savannah Fund 4
Merrill Lynch 4
Phillip Sebole Masango 4
Technology Innovation Agency 4
Newtown Partners 4
Kepple Africa Ventures 4
Goodwell Investments 4
Justin Stanford 4
Nedbank Corporate and Investment Banking 4
Old Mutual Investment Group 4
Change Ventures 4
Yossi Hasson 4
Musha Ventures 4
Martin Villig 4
4DX Ventures 3
Microsoft 3
Compass Venture Capital 3
The ASISA ESD Fund 3
Firstminute Capital 3
Capaci.Tech 3
1kx 3
Edge Growth 3
Cult Food Science 3
Maven 11 Capital 3
Markus Villig 3
Wes Schwalje 3
Crossfin Technology 3
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Launch Africa VC Fund · Ebène, Plaines Wilhems, Mauritius · 18 investments in the past 12 months
Launch Africa is a leading Pan-African VC fund solving the significant funding gap in the Seed and pre-Series A investment landscape in Africa.
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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.
4Di Capital VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 3 investments in the past 12 months
4Di Capital is an independent seed- and early-stage technology venture capital firm based in Cape Town, South Africa.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Mobile, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • South Africa, United States, Uganda
Portfolio highlights
  • Sendmarc — Stop cyber criminals from sending emails using your domain and protect your customers, suppliers and employees from cyber attacks with DMARC Security.
  • Leta — Leta Technology is a software development company that creates supply chain and logistics software to enable the efficient and automated movement of goods.
  • Numida — Growing African small businesses with affordable, convenient, and fair credit.
Knife Capital VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
  • Funding Round, Series A, Seed
  • South Africa, United States, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
  • Octiv — Octiv is a well-known platform for gym management software.
  • wamly — Wamly helps the world hire better people faster. Streamline your hiring process and save 70% of your hiring hours with our one-way video interview software.
  • VoxCroft — VoxCroft is making the world a better, safer place with population-centric intelligence.
CRE Venture Capital VC Fund · New York, New York, United States
Founded in 2015, CRE Venture Capital invests in early stage tech companies that are levered to Africa. CRE is headquartered in the New York metro area, with a regional office in Lagos, Nigeria.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • South Africa, Nigeria, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Bettr — Bettr is a digital banking app for creator. Download the app to get your zero monthly fee digital bank account and virtual card. Join our community of creators, gamers, influencers, freelancers, tiktokkers, streamers, YouTubers and digital gig workers.
  • Sava — Sava is a multi-management platform that provides an unlimited number of virtual cards as well as automated accounting reconciliation.
  • Stitch — One API for online payments and payouts, Stitch is a leading payment gateway and payment service provider in South Africa. Get paid via Pay by bank, debit + credit card, cash, direct deposit and debits. Manage + reconcile digital payments and send payouts
AngelHub Ventures VC Fund · Stellenbosch, NA - South Africa, South Africa
Operating out of Stellenbosch in South Africa and backed by two family offices Angelhub Ventures's team is passionate about early stage investments in (South) Africa. Being entrepreneurial ourselves, we thoroughly understand the challenges and changes our founders face – which is why we back them in any way we can. Most importantly, we believein building great businesses and we are in it for the long haul.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Education
  • Seed, Series A
  • South Africa
Portfolio highlights
  • Godochurch — GoDoChurch is a cloud-based church administration software which is designed to assist Christian churches and ministries with managing members, Sunday services, events, communications, and more. The system is made up of a base package, covering messaging, news, ministries, lists, church roles, services, events, and growth paths, with additionalmodules for managing follow-ups, groups, and Kids church.
  • Ikeja Wireless — Welcome to your Ikeja. We are a home-grown tech company that builds services enabling affordable internet access to Ekasi. We may have coverage in your area!
  • Opennetworks — Opennetworks is a Google Cloud Partner, Google Platform Partner and a Google Education Partner. Established in 2000, we have 16 of years experience dealing with customer’s technology needs. Opennetworks has been a Google Partner since 2011 and an exclusive relationship with PwC South Africa for large Google Cloud deployments.
Kalon Venture Partners VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 2 investments in the past 12 months
A growing number of South Africans are investing in venture capital companies that operate under Section 12J of the Income Tax Act. Contact us now.
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Investment focus
  • Apps, Mobile Apps, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • South Africa, Luxembourg, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Sendmarc — Stop cyber criminals from sending emails using your domain and protect your customers, suppliers and employees from cyber attacks with DMARC Security.
  • Talk360 — Talk360 is an easy-to-use calling app that helps people make affordable international calls to any mobile and landline number. They believe that reliable communication and digital services must be affordable and accessible to everyone, regardless of someone's background. Especially people in emerging countries in Africa, who often need theseservices the most, do not always have the necessary banking possibilities. To bridge this distance, Talk360 will launch the world's first single checkout platform for Africa. This platform will combine all locally available payment methods and currencies across Africa, together with over 1.25 million cash points of sales, and will eventually be available to other companies as well. This means that 500 million Africans will be able to purchase digital services they never had access to before.
  • GoMetro — GoMetro designs deploy and operate flexible mobility platforms. Their proprietary technology stack empowers city leaders, transport managers, corporates, retail centres, property developers, airports and downtown to introduce bold new mobility strategies. Their connected transport digital platform equips transport planners to respond to thechallenges of increased congestion, aged infrastructure, disruptive mobility players, self-driving vehicles and a lack of quality public transport services.
Vumela Fund VC Fund · Hyde Park, Newtownabbey, United Kingdom
Vumela was established in 2009 by FNB Business Banking and Edge Growth. The objective was to create an innovative model for the development of a sustainable and a financially and operationally independent investment business which invests in high growth small, medium and micro size enterprises with good economic and impact returns.Vumela wascapitalised in 2010. Within the first four years, we’d invested R90 million into eight high growth SMEs, and created a total of 400 jobs. They launched their second fund in 2015, after a further investment of R100 million from FirstRand and R127 million from the Jobs Fund. Within the first year of launching this second fund, we’ve committed R43 million to five investments that are expected to create over 1800 new jobs.The first fund of its kind in South Africa, Vumela’s main goals are to invest in and develop entrepreneurial companies in order to help alleviate poverty in South Africa by creating jobs, and to generate a return for its beneficiaries: the Shalamuka Foundation and the FirstRand Group.
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Investment focus
  • Education, Software, Primary Education
  • Funding Round, Seed, Debt Financing
  • South Africa, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
  • Kusini Water — Kusini Water builds water treatment systems from nanotechnology and macadamia nut shells.
  • Kombo King — Kombo King Ventless Fryer Tech removes the need for plumes of steam & the constant eye of an inconsistent employee to Revolutionize & solve the frying industry!
  • Inoxico — Inoxico is a provider of business-to-business credit risk solutions. We combine quality data and cutting edge technology to deliver predictive analytics.
Naspers Foundry VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa
Naspers Foundry is a global internet group and invests in technology-based companies. The company believes in the power of local backed by global scale and they look for opportunities to address big societal needs in markets where they see the greatest growth potential.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, Insurance, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series B, Series A
  • South Africa, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • SweepSouth — Book a home cleaning online from your mobile, tablet or computer. SweepSouth connects you with a cleaner in minutes. Cleaners are experienced, reliable, efficient and insured.
  • LifeCheq — LifeCheq is a startup offering digitized, and holistic personal finance.
  • Nile.ag — Nile connects fresh produce buyers and producers by providing a platform for direct and secure transactions
HAVAÍC VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 2 investments in the past 12 months
HAVAÍC is an investment and advisory firm that specialises in early-stage, high-growth African businesses with proven concepts and global prospects, offering investment opportunities to sophisticated investors and international venture capital companies with an interest in Africa. As a complementary offering, HAVAÍC provides corporate advisory andcapital raising services to emerging, internationally scalable businesses.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Financial Services, Software
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • South Africa, United States, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
  • Right Now Response — Right Now Response is a breakdown management platform.It offers round-the-clock breakdown visibility, including live location tracing and monitoring from acceptance to roadside and workshop repair, allowing businesses to improve productivity by reducing cost.
  • Talk360 — Talk360 is an easy-to-use calling app that helps people make affordable international calls to any mobile and landline number. They believe that reliable communication and digital services must be affordable and accessible to everyone, regardless of someone's background. Especially people in emerging countries in Africa, who often need theseservices the most, do not always have the necessary banking possibilities. To bridge this distance, Talk360 will launch the world's first single checkout platform for Africa. This platform will combine all locally available payment methods and currencies across Africa, together with over 1.25 million cash points of sales, and will eventually be available to other companies as well. This means that 500 million Africans will be able to purchase digital services they never had access to before.
  • FinAccess — FinAccess is a banking software for microfinance organisations.
E4EAfrica VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 3 investments in the past 12 months
E4E (“Entrepreneurs for Entrepreneurs”) specializes in supporting early stage ventures in South Africa from very early stage (pre-series A) to scale up.E4E focus on smart entrepreneurs and business ideas that are great businesses and make a significant contribution to a better (South) Africa.
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Investment focus
  • Internet, Logistics, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • South Africa, France, The Netherlands
Portfolio highlights
  • Yebo Fresh — Powering South Africa's Township Economy.
  • Talk360 — Talk360 is an easy-to-use calling app that helps people make affordable international calls to any mobile and landline number. They believe that reliable communication and digital services must be affordable and accessible to everyone, regardless of someone's background. Especially people in emerging countries in Africa, who often need theseservices the most, do not always have the necessary banking possibilities. To bridge this distance, Talk360 will launch the world's first single checkout platform for Africa. This platform will combine all locally available payment methods and currencies across Africa, together with over 1.25 million cash points of sales, and will eventually be available to other companies as well. This means that 500 million Africans will be able to purchase digital services they never had access to before.
  • SweepSouth — Book a home cleaning online from your mobile, tablet or computer. SweepSouth connects you with a cleaner in minutes. Cleaners are experienced, reliable, efficient and insured.
Raba Partnership VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 5 investments in the past 12 months
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • South Africa, United States, Egypt
Portfolio highlights
  • Cloudline — Cloudline leverages lighter-than-air technology and the latest developments in unmanned aerial vehicles to deliver essential goods and services to the 1 billion people without direct access to roads and runways.
  • Revivo — Buy electronics spare parts and accessories easily online.
  • Fuse Financial Technologies — Financial APIs for building products in the Middle East.
Enygma Ventures VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa
Enygma Ventures is an investment fund for female entrepreneurs and women founders, focused on Southern Africa or SADC. Unlike traditional private equity, venture capital, and banks our team is full of award winning entrepreneurs who understand the same struggles you face first hand.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, Education, Marketing
  • Seed, Funding Round
  • South Africa, Zambia
Portfolio highlights
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  • Koa Academy — Koa Academy is on the cutting edge of online schooling in South Africa! We offer small classes, quality educators, and individualized, engaged online learning.
  • Brown and Ayo — Brown & Ayo brings you a range of hair extensions created to mimic our natural hair textures. We pride ourselves in bringing you both trendy and well-loved products. All our products are ethically sourced and sustainably manufactured.
Black Silver Capital VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Black Silver Capital invests in and builds a portfolio of high growth companies and businesses with innovative business models, geared to existing and emerging institutions and their customers. We invest growth capital in the form of equity to be used to assist established, but still high-risk ventures in expanding activity such as creatingadditional traction launching products into diverse markets as well as creating new products & technology lines.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, FinTech, Finance
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • South Africa
Portfolio highlights
  • Accrual — We are a Software Development Company
  • Cyrrix Cybersecurity — At Cyrrix Cybersecurity, we understand the importance of protecting your business from online threats. Our team provides a full range of cybersecurity services to help safeguard your company's sensitive information and systems. We offer comprehensive risk assessments, penetration testing, and incident response planning to identify and addressvulnerabilities in your network. Our managed security services provide ongoing monitoring and threat detection to keep your business protected around the clock. With our help, you can rest easy knowing that your company's valuable assets are secure.
  • Aesthetic Prosthetic Bionics — Biological Engineering, Bionics, Biomimetics, Hydraulics, Prosthetics, Neuroprosthetics, Exoskeleton Suits, Dynamics, Kinematics Robotics, Human-Robot Interaction, Artificial Organs, Artificial Intelligence, Quantum Computing, Knowledge Reasoning, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision, Robotics, Artificial GeneralIntelligence, Deep Learning, Bayesian Networks, Evolutionary Algorithms, Computational Neuroscience, Neurocybernetics, Cybernetics, Cognitive Science, Source Coding, Channel Coding, Algorithmic Complexity Theory, Algorithmic Information Theory, Information-Theoretic Security, Grey System Theory & Biotechnology
AlphaCode Club VC Fund · Gauteng, NA - South Africa, South Africa
AlphaCode is a club for next generation financial services entrepreneurs. They are building a world-class financial services eco-system that brings together entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs, industry experts, thought leaders and partner organisations. By connecting, sharing knowledge and developing unique insights, AlphaCode aims to transform thefinancial services industry.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Automotive
  • Grant, Funding Round, Debt Financing
  • South Africa, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Welo Health — Welo Health is an innovative Healthtech Company. It to provide at-home health services.
  • Abela — Abela is a mobile payments platform that allows the underserved to make and receive payments.
  • Vocalysd.ai — Vocalysd is a customer-centric, AI-powered insights tool. Vocalysd unlocks usable, easy-to-digest insights from your conversational data. These insights are key to optimising client interactions and enhancing your customers' experience.
Investec VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 6 investments in the past 12 months
Welcome to Investec. Find out more about us, our businesses, sponsorships and career opportunities.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Financial Services, Energy
  • Funding Round, Debt Financing, Series A
  • United States, United Kingdom, Australia
Portfolio highlights
  • Pulse Clean Energy — Pulse Clean Energy builds and operates power stations. We deliver power into the UK’s network when it is most needed.
  • Hecate Energy — Hecate Energy is a developer of solar, wind, and energy storage projects.
  • Adumo — We are your expert partner in payments, enabling you to seamlessly and securely accept payments in-store and online with our true omni-channel experience. Never miss a sale with South Africa's largest independent payments processor.
LoftyInc Capital Management VC Fund · Carmel, California, United States · 7 investments in the past 12 months
LoftyInc Capital Management empowers Afropreneurs to build a prosperous and equitable future in Africa. We deliver value to both founders and investors.........
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, Nigeria, Egypt
Portfolio highlights
  • EMTECH — For Modern Central Banking
  • 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.
  • Craydel — Get Professional career guidance based on Psychometric Assessments and get scholarships to the best MBA, Engineering, Medical, Education online and on campus courses in Africa and Abroad.
Quona Capital VC Fund · Washington, District of Columbia, United States · 18 investments in the past 12 months
Quona Capital invests in fintech innovators that are advancing inclusion in emerging markets. Through our investments, Quona aims to deliver outstanding financial returns while making a lasting and positive impact on the world.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • India, Brazil, Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
  • ZestMoney — Enjoy the convenience of shopping for electronic gadgets, fashion, travel, education on EMI without credit card. No debit card or credit score required!
  • Bureau — Bureau is trust network that facilitates end-to-end identity verification, compliance, and fraud prevention for new-age businesses.
  • Kanastra — Asset-management-as-a-service
Future Africa VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 10 investments in the past 12 months
Future Africa is a collective of mission-driven founders and funders building unicorns to solve Africa’s biggest challenges. They are build a future where purpose and prosperity are within everyone’s reach.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Nigeria, United States, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
Five35 Ventures VC Fund · Gauteng, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Five35 Ventures is committed to unlocking capital and growth opportunities for female-focused early-stage African technology startups.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Health Care, Marketplace
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
  • South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
Ragnar Sass Angel
Ragnar Sass has strongest skill is to find the best people and keep them rocking in speed of 200 km/h. He has organized 20+ Hack-a-thons Garage48 in Eastern Europe + West & East-Africa. He advise other founders and share experience where it could help.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
  • Estonia, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Alvin — Highly accurate, automated column-level lineage, powering your data workflows.
  • Around — The largest network of workspaces on flexible terms. We are a savvy team from Latin America providing fast-growing companies with on-demand access to flexible office space. Everywhere.We believe work at its best is always creative and collaborative, expressed with freedom, autonomy, and purpose; and the space surrounding us should help us achieveit, anywhere & everywhere.We are shaping the future of work today by improving workspaces and the rules around them, and helping innovative teams find their ideal space to make their best work every day — our first step on a journey to change the way we work and think about work.Our best work. Anywhere. Everywhere. We are Around.
  • BeTRITON — 100% electric recreational vehicle - revolution in sustainable travel. BeTRITON (formerly known as Z-Triton) offers extraordinary experience and freedom to travel both over land and water.
Allan Gray VC Fund · Alfred, New York, United States
Allan Gray is privately owned investment management company focused on generating long-term wealth for investors.
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Investment focus
  • Insurance, Health Care, SaaS
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • South Africa, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Sendmarc — Stop cyber criminals from sending emails using your domain and protect your customers, suppliers and employees from cyber attacks with DMARC Security.
  • Mobiz — Supercharge your SMS marketing with dynamic, high-converting landing pages sent directly into the hands of your customers.
  • MFS Africa — MFS Africa is the largest mobile money inter-operability hub in Africa, which connects mobile network operators across the continent through a single API. In addition to mobile remittance services, the MFS Africa API enables merchant payment, bulk payment, bank-to-wallet transfers, and an array of other cross border digital payments services.
SEEK VC Fund · North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
SEEK is a diverse group of companies that have a unified purpose to help people live more fulfilling and productive working lives and help organizations succeed. The Group encompasses a strong portfolio of employment, education, and volunteer businesses which span across Australia, New Zealand, China, South East Asia, Brazil, Mexico, Africa, andBangladesh. SEEK makes a positive impact on a truly global scale, operating in a total of 18 countries with market-leading positions in 14 countries. It creates world-class product technology solutions to address the needs of job seekers and hirers and facilitate the matching between job seekers and hirers across our online employment marketplaces. Online Education Services (‘OES’) offers leading online education and SEEK Learning offers trusted advice in relation to career-related education. SEEK’s commitment to having a positive impact on society is reflected through the diverse range of initiatives which its businesses across the globe partake in to support the communities they operate within. In Australia and New Zealand SEEK Volunteer is each country’s largest single source of volunteering opportunities offering not-for-profit organizations free access to post volunteer opportunities. This free marketplace is something SEEK is exceptionally proud of. Over its 20 years of operation, SEEK continues to innovate within the markets it operates in. It provides a culture of excellence and acceptance in our workplaces and celebrates the diversity of employees that contribute to the success of the organization.
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Investment focus
  • Human Resources, Recruiting, Software
  • Funding Round, Series A, Series B
  • Australia, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Talespin — Talespin is building the XR platform to power knowledge transfer and skill alignment for the future of employment
  • Employment Hero — Employment Hero is Australia's top cloud-based HR, payroll and benefits platform for employers & employees. FREE trial for...
  • MyTutor — MyTutor provides secondary school learners with online access to over 7,000 Russell Group university students, reducing the time, hassle and cost of finding a subject expert locally.Lessons take place in their innovative online lesson space, which allows parents to substitute expensive tutors coming to their house, for live, one-to-one sessionswith young, bright and successful undergraduates. If the pupil forgets something, every session is recorded, so they can play it back after.They also partner with schools and universities to provide larger contracts for pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds. School teachers stay up-to-date with the programme through a personalised online dashboard.The company has grown at 3x YoY for the last three years, with 200,000+ bookings and applications from 50,000 tutors. At the same time quality has been maintained, with 70,000+ 5* reviews and every tutor personally interviewed.MyTutor was founded by Robert Grabiner, Bertie Hubbard and James Grant.
Vinny Lingham Angel · San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Vinny Lingham is Co-Founder & CEO at Civic. He was the founder and CEO of Gyft, a mobile gift card app that allows customers to buy, store, send and redeem gift cards conveniently from their mobile device. He is also the founder of Yola.com, a web development and hosting company that enables users without prior programming knowledge to developwebsites. Vinny is the recipient of numerous awards, including Top Young ICT Entrepreneur in Africa (2006) and was also a finalist for Men’s Health Best Man (2009) and ICT Personality of the Year in South Africa (2008). He also previously founded Clicks2Customers, which also won the Top Technology Company award in South Africa in 2006. He has previously served on marketing advisory boards for Nasdaq listed Valueclick and Yahoo, was also selected as an Endeavor “High Impact Entrepreneur” in 2006. Vinny studied a B.Com (Information Systems) at the University of Cape Town.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Internet, Software
  • Seed, Funding Round, Angel
  • United States, South Africa, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Collectibles.com — Collectibles.com is a Web3 community and marketplace for collectors and the worldwide collectibles sector.
  • TipLink — TipLink helps send crypto with a link. Someone with crypto can create a account and send that link to anyone over any platform. It’s like buying a gift card, connect the client's crypto wallet of choice and create a account by depositing how much they want to send.
  • Spexi Geospatial Inc. — An intuitive and collaborative platform for drone-based data
Savannah Fund VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya
Savannah Fund is a seed capital fund specializing in US$25,000-US$500,000 investments in early stage high growth technology (web and mobile) startups in sub-Saharan Africa. Initially focused on East Africa, the fund aims to bridge the early stage/angel and venture capital investment gap that currently exists in Africa. The Fund expects toachieve this objective by combining capital with mentor networks both in the region and from Silicon Valley via an accelerator program and a follow-on independent seed fund.The fund is managed by an experienced and technology savvy team that have founded companies or are actively involved in angel investing or having run successful accelerator programs in past but also understand the unique Subsaharan African environment. They are backed and supported by both local, regional and international networks of angels,venture capitalists whose expertise we can draw on to help startups succeed and scale to fully fledged regional or global companies.They believe in the potential for Africa to become a global technology innovator by creating sustainable for profit companies that create jobs and make an impact.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Kenya, United States, South Africa
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
  • Oze — OZÉ brings African small businesses into the digital era. It is an app that makes it easy for businesses to track sales, expenses, and customer information. The data is analyzed to provide tailored recommendations, reports, and business education. If the entrepreneur needs a little extra support, an OZÉ Coach is just a click away. As they are usingOZÉ to manage their business and learn how to run it better, we are learning about them. Using this data and machine learning, we can predict their credit risk and provide them with affordable capital from our banking partners. With over 20,000 registered users, OZÉ is the largest online community of SMEs in Ghana. The most exciting thing is that OZÉ works; 97% of businesses that have used OZE for at least 9 months are growing or profitable or both!
  • Root — Programmable insurance that you can integrate into your product or service with ease
Merrill Lynch VC Fund · New York, New York, United States
Merrill Lynch Wealth Management has the financial advisors and expertise to help you achieve your goals at any stage of your life or career.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Internet
  • Funding Round, Series B, Series C
  • United States, India, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Pharmacierge — Pharmacierge is the digital e-prescribing service chosen by private clinicians to deliver medication to their patients throughout the UK and worldwide. Clinicians create and transfer e-prescriptions to our pharmacy near London's Harley Street, for free delivery to their patients either the same day or next weekday
  • ITM Power — ITM Power manufacture PEM electrolysers. A pioneering technology that generates green hydrogen enabling customers to decarbonise.
  • The Boeing Company — The Boeing Company is an American multinational corporation that designs, manufactures and sells fixed-wing aircraft, rotorcraft, rockets and satellites and provides leasing and product support services. Boeing is among the largest global aircraft manufacturers, is the second-largest aerospace & defense contractor in the world based on 2012revenue and is the US' largest exporter by dollar value. Boeing stock is a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.The Boeing Company's corporate headquarters are located in Chicago and the company is led by Chairman and CEO James McNerney. Boeing is organized into five primary divisions: Boeing Commercial Airplanes (BCA), Boeing Defense, Space & Security (BDS), Engineering, Operations & Technology, Boeing Capital and Boeing Shared Services Group.Boeing is the world's largest aerospace company and leading manufacturer of commercial jetliners and defense, space and security systems. A top U.S. exporter, the company supports airlines and U.S. and allied government customers in 150 countries. Boeing products and tailored services include commercial and military aircraft, satellites, weapons, electronic and defense systems, launch systems, advanced information and communication systems, and performance-based logistics and training.Boeing has a long tradition of aerospace leadership and innovation. The company continues to expand its product line and services to meet emerging customer needs. Its broad range of capabilities includes creating new, more efficient members of its commercial airplane family; integrating military platforms, defense systems and the warfighter through network-enabled solutions; creating advanced technology solutions; and arranging innovative customer-financing options.With corporate offices in Chicago, Boeing employs more than 170,000 people across the United States and in 70 countries. This represents one of the most diverse, talented and innovative workforces anywhere. More than 140,000 employees hold college degrees -- including nearly 35,000 advanced degrees -- in virtually every business and technical field from approximately 2,700 colleges and universities worldwide. Our enterprise also leverages the talents of hundreds of thousands more skilled people working for Boeing suppliers worldwide.Boeing is organized into two business units: Boeing Commercial Airplanes and Boeing Defense, Space & Security. Supporting these units are Boeing Capital Corporation, a global provider of financing solutions; the Shared Services Group, which provides a broad range of services to Boeing worldwide; and Boeing Engineering, Operations & Technology, which helps develop, acquire, apply and protect innovative technologies and processes.Divisions:- - - - -
Phillip Sebole Masango Angel · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa
Phillip Sebole Masango is a Mentor at Allan Gray Orbis Foundation, the Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Eclipde Hub and Black Silver Capital, a Strategic Intelligence Member of World Economic Forum, a Member of Norval Foundation, Heavy Chef, Startup Grind Stellenbosch, The Silicon Cape Initiative, DueDash, and SimplyBiz_SA, and an ExecutiveDirector and Founder of Aesthetic Prosthetic Bionics Co.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Robotics, Aerospace
  • Series A, Seed, Private Equity
  • South Africa
Portfolio highlights
  • Cyrrix Cybersecurity — At Cyrrix Cybersecurity, we understand the importance of protecting your business from online threats. Our team provides a full range of cybersecurity services to help safeguard your company's sensitive information and systems. We offer comprehensive risk assessments, penetration testing, and incident response planning to identify and addressvulnerabilities in your network. Our managed security services provide ongoing monitoring and threat detection to keep your business protected around the clock. With our help, you can rest easy knowing that your company's valuable assets are secure.
  • Black Silver Capital — Black Silver Capital invests in and builds a portfolio of high growth companies and businesses with innovative business models, geared to existing and emerging institutions and their customers. We invest growth capital in the form of equity to be used to assist established, but still high-risk ventures in expanding activity such as creatingadditional traction launching products into diverse markets as well as creating new products & technology lines.
  • Aesthetic Prosthetic Bionics — Biological Engineering, Bionics, Biomimetics, Hydraulics, Prosthetics, Neuroprosthetics, Exoskeleton Suits, Dynamics, Kinematics Robotics, Human-Robot Interaction, Artificial Organs, Artificial Intelligence, Quantum Computing, Knowledge Reasoning, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision, Robotics, Artificial GeneralIntelligence, Deep Learning, Bayesian Networks, Evolutionary Algorithms, Computational Neuroscience, Neurocybernetics, Cybernetics, Cognitive Science, Source Coding, Channel Coding, Algorithmic Complexity Theory, Algorithmic Information Theory, Information-Theoretic Security, Grey System Theory & Biotechnology
Technology Innovation Agency VC Fund · Pretoria, NA - South Africa, South Africa
TIA is an initiative of the Department of Science & Technology (DST) in South Africa, to enable and support technological innovation.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Renewable Energy, Health Care
  • Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • South Africa
Portfolio highlights
  • Aviro Health — We believe that empowering and supporting people to manage their own health benefits everybody.We built the Aviro Pocket Clinic to support self-care and provide access to services. We give people what they need to perform important health checks like regular HIV self-testing and connect them to experts and services who can offer hands-on and supported care when needed.
  • Ownedby Technologies — Ownedby is an interactive asset management solution for business and household assets, focused on appliances and devices, giving these unique identity that is traceable online, yet linked to and controlled by owners.
  • Jobox — Jobox is a student recruitment platform, built to connect employers, students and graduate career offices. Our focus is to improve graduate employability by ensuring all students have the skills they need to enter, stay in, and progress in the world of work.Jobox’s ecosystem provides employers with access to the best diverse & youthfultalent, students with more employment opportunities and universities with data-driven insights aimed at driving graduate employability forward.
Newtown Partners VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa
Newtown Partners is a venture capital firm that actively invests in emerging, disruptive technology startups.
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Investment focus
  • Logistics, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
  • Lami — Lami is an end-to-end digital insurance platform and API that enables companies across sectors to offer insurance products. Its API allows underwriters to connect with consumer-facing companies that can provide embedded insurance as a value add for existing customers, many of whom are uninsured.
  • BeyondTrucks — Vertical SaaS
  • Treggo — Build for the age of eCommerce. We are empowering sellers to successfully compete & grow in the booming e-commerce market.
Kepple Africa Ventures VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Kepple Africa Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm.
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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
Goodwell Investments VC Fund · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
Goodwell Investments is a pioneering investment firm focused on financial inclusion, fintech and inclusive growth in sectors providing
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Series A, Series B, Funding Round
  • Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa
Portfolio highlights
  • SOUK Farms — SOUK Farms is a fresh horticulture supply grower and exporter that pioneers innovation to improve agricultural sustainability and stimulate economic and social development.
  • MFS Africa — MFS Africa is the largest mobile money inter-operability hub in Africa, which connects mobile network operators across the continent through a single API. In addition to mobile remittance services, the MFS Africa API enables merchant payment, bulk payment, bank-to-wallet transfers, and an array of other cross border digital payments services.
  • Copia Global — Copia is currently serving customers and rapidly growing in Kenya and Uganda with additional East African and West African countries expected in the next two
Justin Stanford Angel · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa
Justin is a 31-year old entrepreneur, angel investor and venture capitalist from Cape Town, South Africa. He is founder, MD, board member, advisor, or investor to a wide variety of companies in the global technology sector.Having grown up on a farm, he decided not to complete high-school and instead made the move to the city of Cape Town, topursue his dreams of being an Internet entrepreneur.Despite years of struggles and false starts in the wake of the dotcom crash in 2001, he ultimately went on to successfully launch and grow a pan-African Internet based software company from a garage in the suburbs of Cape Town.Have founded his first startup attempt at the age of 18, Justin has been involved in tech startups and entrepreneurial endeavours ever since.He is today the co-founder and MD of 4Di Group, a diversified investment management group and family office, and co-founding General Partner of early-stage technology venture capital firm 4Di Capital, as well as an active angel investor.As co-founder and Steering Committee Chairman of the Silicon Cape Initiative in 2009, designed to highlight and foster South Africa's nascent emerging tech startup ecosystem, Justin fully believes in South Africa’s potential as a global technology innovation hub.In 2011, he was listed by the Mail & Guardian for the 'Top 200 Young South Africans', and in 2013, listed by Forbes for '30 Under 30: Africa's Best Young Entrepreneurs'.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Financial Services, Security
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • South Africa
Portfolio highlights
  • FitKey — FitKey is about helping you find and manage the fitness life that makes you happy, through discovering new classes, studios, and fitness activities. With easy online and mobile booking, FitKey keeps your routine interesting.
  • Ekaya.com — Ekaya exists to make renting simpler, safer and more connected - for everyone.
  • TaxTim — Originally funded by Google in 2011, TaxTim is Africa's answer to Making Tax Easy. Answer simple questions one-by-one, in a friendly automated chat, and your tax return is done in minutes. TaxTim has 40% market share of the tax base in South Africa (~4.5m), and has deployed localised versions in Namibia and Nigeria as JVs with PwC previously.TaxTim is integrated with the local revenue service (SARS) for instant electronic tax submissions, and partners with some of SA's largest consumer brands - Airbnb, Momentum, Sanlam, Old Mutual, FNB eBucks - to provide tax services for free or at discount. TaxTim has several business models including B2C, B2B and B2B2C. TaxTim is a compelling and popular consumer brand, with a fully-developed, profitable broker/financial product leads ecosystem.
Nedbank Corporate and Investment Banking VC Fund · Sandown, NA - South Africa, South Africa
Nedbank Corporate and Investment Banking is offers corporate and investment banking and global-market services to diverse clients.
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Investment focus
  • Data Center, Health Care, Life Science
  • Series A, Seed, Funding Round
  • South Africa, United States
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.
  • LifeQ — We empower everyone to delay aging, optimize your health, harness more energy, reduce the probability of disease, and understand why and how your body is changing, right now! It is in your power to be your biologically younger self.
Old Mutual Investment Group VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa
As a leading African investment manager, we aim to deliver sustainable long-term returns for clients via our comprehensive range of investment capabilities.
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Investment focus
  • Retail, FinTech, Finance
  • Private Equity, Series A, Funding Round
  • South Africa, Malawi, Australia
Portfolio highlights
  • CoverGo — CoverGo is the ultimate no-code insurance platform helping insurance companies build and launch products at record speed and configured for every product line.
  • Gala Macs — Gala Macs is an agricultural company engaged in the production of macadamia nuts.
  • Pineapple — In short, Pineapple see the traditional insurance model, user journey and products as lacking and set out to remedy these by doing the following: 1) Changing the business model to align incentives, show people how premiums are used and award members leftover premium back 2) Making insuring as easy as snapping a picture where AI does the rest andcover is issued in under 60 seconds 3) Allowing per-item insurance and new product innovation to address cover not currently offered or accessible to manyPineapple launched in South Africa in 2018 with their "My Stuff" per-item insurance and have since launched their auto offering "My Ride". They have also partnered with Travelers in the US and have white-labeled their platform in the US.
Change Ventures VC Fund · Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia · 7 investments in the past 12 months
We are a seed stage venture capital fund based in the Baltic states, backing ambitious Baltic founders anywhere in the world.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Apps
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Estonia, Lithuania, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Algori — Improving FMCG growth with the fastest and most granular insights from 45,000 shoppers in Spain
  • Trace.Space — Collaborative development tool for products with integrated hardware and software components.
  • Aerones — Robotic wind turbine service company offering maintenance, inspection and repairs worldwide. Reduce downtime and improve the efficiency of your wind park
Yossi Hasson Angel · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa
Yossi Hasson is the Co-Founder and CEO of Metaversal and a Venture Partner at 2048 Ventures. He is also a Non-Executive Director of WeThinkCode_. Prior to that, he was the Managing Director of Techstars. He attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business and the University of Pretoria/Universiteit van Pretoria.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, Blockchain, Payments
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • South Africa, United States, Ghana
Portfolio highlights
  • The Sun Exchange — The Sun Exchange is the peer-to-peer solar leasing marketplace. We leverage financial innovation and the power of the crowd to drive sustainable energy development and make the environmental, social and economic benefits of solar accessible and affordable for all. Through the Sun Exchange online platform, anyone, anywhere in the world, can buyremotely-located solar cells and then lease them to power businesses and organisations in sunny emerging markets. Solar cell owners earn income from the electricity that’s generated, while schools, businesses, clinics and other organisations gain access to affordable clean energy, reducing electricity costs and carbon emissions.
  • Howler — Howler, is the powerful event technology platform designed at the uppermost benchmarks of service and technology to help consumers and event organisers to make moments that matter.
  • Ozow — i-Pay is an instant EFT payment service in South Africa that allows your customer to make secure online payments directly into your bank account in real time.
Musha Ventures VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Seed capital for technology startups globally.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, Software, FinTech
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, Nigeria, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
  • Revivo — Buy electronics spare parts and accessories easily online.
  • Terraa — Terraa is a B2B distribution platform in Moroccan.
  • OmniBiz — Omnibiz is a digital platform for small businesses willing to attract new customers.
Martin Villig Angel · Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
Martin is co-founder of Bolt.eu, Estonian Founders Society, Garage48.org, Good Deed Education Foundation and kood/Jõhvi coding school. Read more from http://martinvillig.com
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Education
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Estonia, Spain, South Africa
Portfolio highlights
  • StudentFinance — Catapult your career with leading re-skilling and up-skilling bootcamps. Study now and pay us back once you land a job & start earning!
  • Planet42 — Having your own car has never been easier. Planet42 is a vehicle rental company offering rent-to-buy car service for private clients.
  • Mentornaut — Mentornaut is a new online tutoring platform is aiming to increase inclusion in personalized education and counts Super angel, United Angels VC, and a list of EdTech advocates like Bolt co-founder Martin Villig, and Clanbeat co-founder Kadri Tuisk among its investors.
4DX Ventures VC Fund · Brooklyn, New York, United States · 5 investments in the past 12 months
4DX Ventures is a Pan-Africa Focused Venture Capital Firm. Our mission is to connect people, ideas, and capital to create a vibrant African community.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Information Technology, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Egypt, United States, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
  • Zoie Health — Zoie is a digital health firm for women that provides family planning, fertility, and maternity care services.
  • Tactyc — Tactyc is an easy-to-use portfolio construction, forecasting and management software for venture funds.
  • MoneyFellows — MoneyFellows digitizes the ROSCA model, enabling group lending and savings.
Microsoft VC Fund · Redmond, Washington, United States · 22 investments in the past 12 months
Microsoft is an American multinational corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.Microsoft’s devices and consumer (D&C) licensing segment licenses the Windows operating system and related software, Microsoft Office for consumers, and the Windows Phone operating system. Thecompany’s computing and gaming hardware segment provides Xbox gaming and entertainment consoles and accessories, second-party and third-party video games, and Xbox Live subscriptions; surface devices and accessories; and Microsoft PC accessories. Its phone hardware segment offers Lumia smartphones and other non-Lumia phones. Its D&C other segment provides Windows Store, Xbox Live transactions, and Windows phone store; search advertising; display advertising; Office 365 Home and Office 365 Personal; first-party video games; and other consumer products and services as well as operating retail stores.Microsoft’s commercial licensing segments licenses server products, including Windows Server, Microsoft SQL Server, Visual Studio, System Center, and related Client Access Licenses (CALs); Windows Embedded; Windows operating system; Microsoft Office for business, including Office, Exchange, SharePoint, Lync, and related CALs; Microsoft Dynamics business solutions; and Skype. Its commercial other segment offers enterprise services, including premier support services and Microsoft consulting services; commercial cloud comprising Office 365 Commercial, other Microsoft Office online offerings, Dynamics CRM Online, and Microsoft Azure; and other commercial products and online services.The company markets and distributes its products through original equipment manufacturers, distributors, and resellers, as well as online. Microsoft Corporation was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in 1974. It is based in Redmond, Washington.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Internet
  • Grant, Funding Round, Seed
  • United States, United Kingdom, India
Portfolio highlights
  • AdMob — Earn more from your mobile apps using in-app ads to generate revenue, gain actionable insights, and grow your app with easy-to-use tools.
  • Inflection AI — We are an AI studio creating a personal AI for everyone.
  • WeavAir — Proactive Air Insights
Compass Venture Capital VC Fund · Moka, Moka, Mauritius
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.
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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.
The ASISA ESD Fund VC Fund
An Invetsment Fund.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Internet, InsurTech
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • South Africa
Portfolio highlights
  • Aviro Health — We believe that empowering and supporting people to manage their own health benefits everybody.We built the Aviro Pocket Clinic to support self-care and provide access to services. We give people what they need to perform important health checks like regular HIV self-testing and connect them to experts and services who can offer hands-on and supported care when needed.
  • I-G3N — I-G3N is a South African developer of lithium-ion batteries. The company’s core market is on stationary storage in conjunction with Solar PV and focuses on superior products and on the incorporation of the latest technologies to battery functionality. One of the key focus areas is on exporting to the SADC region and the rest of Africa, asextraordinary opportunities exist on the rest of the continent, especially in the development of mini and micro-grids to impact development.
  • Pineapple — In short, Pineapple see the traditional insurance model, user journey and products as lacking and set out to remedy these by doing the following: 1) Changing the business model to align incentives, show people how premiums are used and award members leftover premium back 2) Making insuring as easy as snapping a picture where AI does the rest andcover is issued in under 60 seconds 3) Allowing per-item insurance and new product innovation to address cover not currently offered or accessible to manyPineapple launched in South Africa in 2018 with their "My Stuff" per-item insurance and have since launched their auto offering "My Ride". They have also partnered with Travelers in the US and have white-labeled their platform in the US.
Firstminute Capital VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 14 investments in the past 12 months
firstminute is a seed fund backed by over 120 unicorn founders and a world-class community.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Machine Learning
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Quench.ai — Quench is a tech infrastructure for video creators to deliver exclusive content, engage and reward their true fans.
  • Roadie — Easier, scalable and zero-maintenance. With security, scorecards and customizability built-in.
  • Axis — axis for Business enables small businesses to seamlessly manage employee payroll, salary advances, and expenses - all from one place.
Capaci.Tech VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa
CapaciTech operates as a South African holding company that consists of an advisory business and special purposes vehicles that house shareholdings in various entrepreneurial ventures.
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Investment focus
  • SMS, Apps, SaaS
  • Seed
  • South Africa, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Right Now Response — Right Now Response is a breakdown management platform.It offers round-the-clock breakdown visibility, including live location tracing and monitoring from acceptance to roadside and workshop repair, allowing businesses to improve productivity by reducing cost.
  • HomeFarm — What Homefarm is all about. Homefarm brings smart, indoor gardens to homes and businesses across South Africa and Europe.
  • Mobiz — Supercharge your SMS marketing with dynamic, high-converting landing pages sent directly into the hands of your customers.
1kx VC Fund · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands · 15 investments in the past 12 months
1kx is an early-stage investment firm focused on ecosystem growth.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Switzerland, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Spearbit — Web3 Security At Scale
  • fxhash — fxhash is an open platform to mint and collect Generative Tokens on the Tezos blockchain
  • Superstate — Superstate is developing the next generation of legal, blockchain-based financial solutions.
Edge Growth VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa
We are SME Development Solutionists, co-creating innovative solutions that combat business growth constraints.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Education, Accounting
  • Funding Round, Seed, Debt Financing
  • South Africa
Portfolio highlights
  • I-G3N — I-G3N is a South African developer of lithium-ion batteries. The company’s core market is on stationary storage in conjunction with Solar PV and focuses on superior products and on the incorporation of the latest technologies to battery functionality. One of the key focus areas is on exporting to the SADC region and the rest of Africa, asextraordinary opportunities exist on the rest of the continent, especially in the development of mini and micro-grids to impact development.
  • Syafunda — Syafunda is an educational platform that provides access to digital content through mobile technology. Inspired by personal experiences growing up in townships where there was a shortage of textbooks and math and science teachers.
  • ProfitShare Partners — ProfitShare Partners utilises tech to fast-track SME performance and delivery through its profit-sharing business model. ProfitShare Partners financially partners on transactions with SMEs to deliver successfully on their orders and contracts with reputable organisations, allowing them to access bigger business and grow exponentially in shortperiods of time.
Cult Food Science VC Fund
CULT Food Science is an investment company focused on supporting and advancing the technology behind the future of food.
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Investment focus
  • Food and Beverage, Biotechnology, Food Processing
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • United States, South Africa, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Novel Farms — Novel Farms uses microbial fermentation to develop cruelty-free, inexpensive and tunable bioscaffolds for the production of cell-based meat products. Novel Farms mission is to craft the taste and texture of the gourmet meats and transform cell-based meat consumption into a sought-after culinary experience for the next generation of consciouseaters.
  • Minus — A sustainable coffee alternative, combining the taste, look, and smell of coffee with a smaller footprint to ensure a brighter future for coffee and the planet.
  • Unicorn Biotechnologies — Unicorn Biotechnologies is developing a fully automated manufacturing platform to enable cellular agriculture producers to seamlessly scale products from the lab bench to supermarket shelves. Our full stack platform combines hardware, software and analytics to completely automate cellular agriculture manufacturing, reducing costs and increasingproduct quality. By providing a clear path to scale cellular agriculture from grams to tons, we will improve human and planetary health and drive the transition to animal free agriculture.
Maven 11 Capital VC Fund · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands · 9 investments in the past 12 months
Maven 11 is a global blockchain and digital asset investment firm. The teams we partner with are on a rigorous quest to solve most exciting problems and make the necessary shift towards decentralised tomorrow.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Lagrange Labs — Seamlessly interact between chains with cryptographically secured state proofs, not opaque intermediaries.
  • Gyroscope — Gyroscope: an asset-backed stablecoin built on resilient DeFi infrastructure leveraging a diversified reserve, autonomous monetary policy, and innovative AMMs
  • Superchain Network — The Open Index Protocol - By collecting and customising data in minutes, Superchain serves as the layer on top of which builders create applications, faster
Markus Villig Angel · Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Markus Villig is founder and CEO of Taxify. He attended University of Tartu.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Seed, Funding Round, Angel
  • Estonia, Poland, Ukraine
Portfolio highlights
  • Fuelfinance — We do your spreadsheets, graphs, and automations. You get P&L, CF, Financial Projections , Plan/Fact , Unit Economics, and finally, peace of mind. All in familiar to you Google Spreadsheets. Forget about months of integrations and insane setup costs. Starting from $999/month.
  • Adam — Adam connects you with verified painters and decorators across whole Europe. Get an instant price estimate and book a painter for the next day already!
  • Yaga — Yaga is designed for everyone who wants to sell items online in a convenient and secure manner.
Wes Schwalje Angel
Operator at nexus of policy, tech, and dev, investor, advised 8 unicorns on MENAP entry/scale-up, support Big Tech / startups to get along with govt
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Information Technology, Financial Services
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • India, United States, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
  • Finerio Connect — Finerio is an automated and free personal finance platform in Mexico. Finerio allows users to link debit and credit accounts of the most important banks in Mexico while providing them insights on how to financially plan and save money.
  • PowerCred — PowerCred is a one-stop API suite for clients to access alternate data from SMEs. Our integrated system provides real time connectivity which allows financial institutions to build better products to suit small business requirements. We have a network of data partners across categories which help us to build a robust and comprehensive intelligence system, allowing FIs to make more confident decisions, and empowering small businesses to focus on business growth.
  • Chhotastock — ChhotaStock :Invest and Grow more.India's first small ticket size investment platform.
Crossfin Technology VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa
Crossfin invests in FINTECH solutions to enable growth for economies in Africa and beyond. Crossfin invests in high growth and established cash generative businesses, offering investors a blended exposure to technology investments in Fintech.
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Investment focus
  • Payments, Financial Services, Information Technology
  • Funding Round, Series A, Private Equity
  • South Africa, United States, Russian Federation
Portfolio highlights
  • Adumo — We are your expert partner in payments, enabling you to seamlessly and securely accept payments in-store and online with our true omni-channel experience. Never miss a sale with South Africa's largest independent payments processor.
  • VantagePay — VantagePay provides white-label payment and technology solutions to the Banking, Telco, Financial Services, and Consumer Product Industries.
  • My-iMali — My-iMali is a mobile wallet solution used for safe and secure transactions. Pay any number of people for only R1.25, including Staff & Students.
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