Top 50 Startup Investors in Tanzania (October 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Launch Africa
VC Fund
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6 | Nigeria, South Africa, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology | $200k–$4M |
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Raba Partnership
VC Fund
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3 | United States, South Africa, Egypt | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Finance | $600k–$32M |
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Women Entrepreneurship for Africa
VC Fund
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3 | Nigeria, Uganda, Cameroon | Pre-Seed, Grant | Health Care, Agriculture, Food and Beverage | |
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Hooge Raedt Social Venture
VC Fund
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2 | Kenya, Tanzania, United States | Debt Financing, Venture - Series Unknown, Seed | Agriculture, Organic Food, Social Entrepreneurship | $48k–$1.5M |
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VentureSouq
VC Fund
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2 | United States, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia | Seed, Series A, Series B | FinTech, Financial Services, Software | $225k–$50M |
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Musha Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Nigeria, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Financial Services, FinTech | $100k–$10M |
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Vlad Tenev
Angel
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2 | United States, India, Tanzania | Seed, Series A, Series B | Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech | $2.5M–$70M |
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Ecostar Hub
VC Fund
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2 | Tanzania, Italy, Spain | Seed | Farming, Manufacturing, Consumer Goods | |
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Goodwell Investments
VC Fund
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2 | Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya | Series A, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown | FinTech, Financial Services, Banking | $140k–$26M |
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Hohle Gasse
VC Fund
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2 | Tanzania, Switzerland | Seed, Pre-Seed | Energy, Power Grid, Online Portals | |
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UTEC - The University of Tokyo Edge Capital Partners
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, United States, India | Seed, Series A, Series B | Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical | $624k–$20M |
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Development Bank of Japan
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, United States, Singapore | Venture - Series Unknown, Series A, Series B | Manufacturing, Information Technology, Robotics | $1.4M–$136M |
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J-POWER
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, Tanzania, United States | Corporate Round, Series A, Series B | Manufacturing, Renewable Energy, Information Technology | $2M–$29M |
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elea Foundation for Ethics in Globalization
VC Fund
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2 | India, Kenya, Mexico | Seed, Series A | E-Commerce, Agriculture, Food and Beverage | $100k–$4.5M |
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Nyca Partners
VC Fund
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2 | United States, United Kingdom, Israel | Series A, Seed, Series B | FinTech, Financial Services, Software | $2.2M–$65M |
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Acasia Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Egypt, Nigeria, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Mobile | $50k–$2.5M |
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Andrew Vigneault
Angel
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2 | United States, India, Mexico | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | $1.5M–$32M |
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Amplo
VC Fund
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2 | United States, India, Kenya | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, FinTech, Information Technology | $3M–$70M |
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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
VC Fund
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2 | United States, United Kingdom, India | Grant, Series A, Series B | Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical | $500k–$85M |
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NEC Capital Solutions
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, United States, Tanzania | Venture - Series Unknown, Series B, Series A | Manufacturing, Internet, Information Technology | $452k–$184M |
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Hustle Fund
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Singapore, Canada | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech | $100k–$25M |
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SICTIC
VC Fund
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2 | Switzerland, Germany, Tanzania | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $264k–$11M |
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Catalytic Africa
VC Fund
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2 | Zambia, Cameroon, Tanzania | Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed | Apps, Online Portals, Financial Services | $22k–$2M |
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FINCA Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Kenya, Nigeria, United States | Seed, Grant, Series A | Financial Services, Agriculture, AgTech | $40k–$4.2M |
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EDFI Agrifi
VC Fund
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2 | Kenya, Belgium, Tanzania | Debt Financing, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Agriculture, Fruit, Beauty | $1.5M–$3.2M |
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Peeyush Ranjan
Angel
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1 | United States, India, Tanzania | Seed, Series B, Series A | SaaS, Legal, FinTech | $3.7M–$20M |
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Aaron Fu
Angel
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1 | Kenya, Nigeria, Egypt | Seed, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, Internet, Software | $100k–$4M |
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Sajid Rahman
Angel
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1 | India, Nigeria, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Finance | $150k–$6M |
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Laura Spiekerman
Angel
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1 | United States, Canada, Tanzania | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Finance | $4.1M–$24M |
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Microtraction
VC Fund
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1 | Nigeria, United States, Ghana | Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | |
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GMC coLABS
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya, Tanzania | Seed, Pre-Seed | B2B, Mobile, Consumer | |
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Pontem Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Tanzania | Seed | Health Care | |
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British International Investment
VC Fund
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1 | India, Kenya, Nigeria | Debt Financing, Series B | Financial Services, Banking, Finance | $9M–$130M |
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Acacia Venture Capital Partners
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Mexico, Colombia | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B | Software, FinTech, E-Commerce | $125k–$8.2M |
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AXIAN
VC Fund
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1 | Egypt, Kenya, Mali | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Financial Services, FinTech, Payments | $1M–$12M |
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Norrsken22
VC Fund
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1 | South Africa, Egypt, Nigeria | Series B, Series C, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, Banking, B2B | |
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Ryan King
Angel
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1 | United States | Series A, Series B | FinTech, Finance, Software | $13M–$40M |
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HOF Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Singapore, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services | $385k–$57M |
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Jonas Huckestein
Angel
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1 | United Kingdom, Tanzania | Seed, Pre-Seed | Banking, Internet, Logistics | $3.6M–$10M |
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SMBC Venture Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States, Singapore | Venture - Series Unknown, Series A, Series B | Information Technology, Software, Health Care | $800k–$34M |
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Flexcap
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Tanzania | Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | $2.6M–$7.2M |
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NEC Corporation
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Japan, Israel | Series B, Series A | Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology | $1.2M–$209M |
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The Continent Venture Partners
VC Fund
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1 | Nigeria, Tanzania, The Netherlands | Pre-Seed, Seed | Finance, Banking, Shipping | |
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AAIC Investment
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya, Egypt, Nigeria | Series A, Seed, Series B | Health Care, Medical, E-Commerce | $450k–$51M |
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Shine Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Israel, Spain | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech | $3.5M–$71M |
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Planet N Group of Companies
VC Fund
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1 | Pakistan, United Arab Emirates, Oman | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | FinTech, E-Commerce, Financial Services | $850k–$5M |
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Ventures Platform
VC Fund
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1 | Nigeria, United States, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Internet | $100k–$4M |
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Finnfund
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya, India, South Africa | Debt Financing, Venture - Series Unknown, Series B | Financial Services, Energy, FinTech | $2.1M–$137M |
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Bessemer Venture Partners
VC Fund
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1 | United States, India, Israel | Series B, Series A, Series C | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $5M–$101M |
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The MBA Fund
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Ghana, France | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence | $120k–$16M |
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Launch Africa is a leading Pan-African VC fund solving the significant funding gap in the Seed and pre-Series A investment landscape in Africa
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Nigeria, South Africa, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 218
- Round size: Seed $200k–$4M; Pre-Seed $200k–$1.8M; Venture - Series Unknown $200k–$500k
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Zazu — Manza is an all-in-one financial platform for African SMEs, helping businesses manage payments, automate cash flow, and access real-time financial insights from one simple dashboard.
- Fincart — Fincart is a leading shipping platform in Egypt, connecting your business with top courier services, automating operations, and helping you scale your eCommerce logistics.
- Udu Technologies — Explore GPU cloud and hardware through AGH Cloud, UduTech's flagship product, and AI advisory for teams in the United States, Africa, the Caribbean and beyond.
The Raba Partnership, Raba Capital, Raba
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, South Africa, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 59
- Round size: Seed $600k–$6M; Pre-Seed $635k–$6.5M; Series A $10M–$32M
- Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $60M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Thndr — Egypt's #1 investing platform by active users. Stocks, gold and mutual funds in one app, licensed and regulated by the FRA. Start with what you have.
- Ezeebit — Ezeebit is a payment solutions provider that enables African merchants to accept cryptocurrency payments both in-store and online. The platform processes transactions quickly and automatically converts the cryptocurrency into stablecoins to eliminate volatility risk. Funds are then settled into the merchant's local currency account, typicallySouth African Rand (ZAR), on the next business day. The company offers multi-currency support for popular cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum and maintains compliance with financial regulatory bodies.
- Letly — Letly is developing an AI‑driven platform for the rental property market that automates tasks related to managing rental listings and tenant interactions. It aims to use intelligent agents to handle tasks such as scheduling viewings, responding to inquiries, and optimizing property management workflows. The platform is currently in a waitlistphase, signaling ongoing development and private access only.
Women Entrepreneurship for Africa
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- Industry: Health Care, Agriculture, Food and Beverage
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Grant
- Geography: Nigeria, Uganda, Cameroon
Investor stats
- Total investments: 116
- Lead/follow: 99% lead, 1% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ORIKI — A wellness + farm to skin brand that creates pampering experiences and luxurious natural personal grooming products. Sharing Africa!
- Mukuru Clean Stoves — Earthshot Prize Winner 2022. We use recycled metal to manufacture improved, efficient and affordable cookstoves.
- Loom Craft Chocolate — Loom Craft Chocolate is a artisanal cocoa processor with a strong focus on the quality of our products and the sustainability of our processes.
Our goal is to create opportunities and choices for underserved people in East Africa through investments in socially-minded and viable businesses.
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- Industry: Agriculture, Organic Food, Social Entrepreneurship
- Stage:Debt Financing, Venture - Series Unknown, Seed
- Geography: Kenya, Tanzania, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Round size: Seed $67k–$1.3M; Debt Financing $104k–$540k; Venture - Series Unknown $48k–$1.5M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- BioBuu — BioBuu focuses on the development of manufacturing capacity and environmentally sustainable production.
- Farmoja — FarmMoja builds integrated, seedling-to-export value chains for global markets.
- YYTZ Agro-Processing — YYTZ Agro-Processing specializes in sourcing and processing cashew nuts.
VentureSouq (VSQ) is a MENA-based venture capital fund manager with a global portfolio. VSQ manages thematic funds, with a current focus on FinTech and ClimateTech.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 222
- Round size: Seed $225k–$9M; Series A $6M–$37M; Series B $300k–$50M
- Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $50M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Orbii AI — Our AI enriches & analyses borrower data, helping you make credit decisions in minutes. Accelerate your business loan Underwriting decisons.
- Siin — E-commerce Marketplace
- MilkStraw AI — Save 53% on your AWS bill in 5 minutes!
Seed capital for technology startups globally.
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 215
- Round size: Seed $120k–$7.5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3M; Series A $2.5M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
Portfolio highlights
- HoneyCoin — HoneyCoin is a web3/web2 ecosystem of products built in a way that abstracts complexity and brings all the value of web3 and web2 to the forefront.
- Zeno — Zeno is a climate conscious motor company that offers eco-friendly motorcycles.
- Lori Systems — Lori Systems is revolutionizing African logistics through innovative technology solutions. We connect shippers, transporters, and drivers to create efficient, reliable, and transparent supply chains across Africa.
Vlad Tenev is based out of Menlo Park, California, and is the Co-Founder, CEO, President, and Chair of Board of Director of Robinhood.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, India, Tanzania
Investor stats
- Total investments: 25
- Round size: Seed $2.5M–$13M; Series A $9M–$50M; Series B $21M–$70M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Nala — A new kind of mobile money transfer for Africans worldwide! Make safe, affordable, and reliable international payments to Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda.
- Cowboy Space — Earth's energy grid can't run at the pace of AI. We are building a space-based power grid with solar-powered GPU data centers in Low Earth Orbit.
- Pensieve — AI Grading Assistant that reduces grading time, generates rubrics, and give students timely feedback.
Ecostar Hub is a virtual research enterprise advancing entrepreneurship and innovation in the field of marketing and economics of ecosystems and biodiversity by creating university-business links and opportunities among research institutes and companies across Europe.
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- Industry: Farming, Manufacturing, Consumer Goods
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Tanzania, Italy, Spain
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Crické — Crické is food and drinks company. They make tasty, high-protein and eco-friendly insect-based food products for a well balanced and more sustainable diet.
- Treepex — Treepex engages in tree planting for its users. They also provide a platform and an innovative tracking system to track the tree. They allow their users to name the trees they plant and track their progress. They can also get regular photo updates.
- iGreengo — IGreengo is an online sustainable environment networking platform for sharing and improving open green spaces. IGreengo collaborates with the owners of green spaces and offers something unique, removing the chaos generated by the local mass tourism hotspots, enabling tourists to explore the beautiful exclusive places.
Goodwell Investments is a pioneering investment firm focused on financial inclusion, fintech and inclusive growth in sectors providing
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Banking
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 51
- Round size: Series A $1.5M–$12M; Series B $2M–$26M; Venture - Series Unknown $140k–$1.8M
- Lead/follow: 57% lead, 43% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $59M in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- OmniRetail — OmniRetail is a consumer goods distribution platform that solves the inefficiencies of traditional trade by digitizing key stakeholders through its products.
- Hinckley Recycling — Hinckley Recycling is dedicated to the responsibility of being a good steward of the environment and will in all circumstances aspire to constantly emphasize awareness of the natural environment, whilst maintaining a level of proficiency which demonstrates bona fide leadership in all spheres of the environment.
- Agent Banking Company — Agent Banking Company provides digital technology solutions that enable access to banking services through bank-approved agents.
Hohle Gasse is a provider of office spaces and commercial centers with rental options suitable for different company sizes and needs.
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- Industry: Energy, Power Grid, Online Portals
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Tanzania, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Anevo — Anevo helps real estate companies eliminate tedious backoffice work. Saving up to 90% of your time, Anevo lets you focus on what truly matters.
- Menon Skills — Menon Skills is an information technology firm that develops digital tools to enhance organization team skills through feedback and reviews.
- Waka Payments — Waka Payments is a mobile application that allows user to access, transfer, and manage cross border financial transactions.
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- Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 212
- Round size: Seed $624k–$12M; Series A $2.3M–$18M; Series B $2.8M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $326M in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Mujin — At Mujin, we design automation platforms to enhance any robot, enable advanced capabilities and lower operating costs.
- X Mile — Corporate Site:https://www.xmile.co.jp/ Service Site:https://x-work.jp/
- RegCell — RegCell aims to generate novel therapeutic technologies through augmenting or controlling the immune system and our goal is to save patients who suffer from autoimmune diseases and cancer .
Development Bank of Japan is an integrated investment and loan service provider to domestic and international clients. They will support sustainability management that balances economic and social value and will help to realize a sustainable society.
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- Industry: Manufacturing, Information Technology, Robotics
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 68
- Round size: Series A $1.7M–$50M; Series B $1.6M–$58M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.4M–$136M
- Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kyoto Fusioneering — Kyoto Fusioneering is a research & development, design, and manufacture of parts related to fusion reactors.
- Hagihara Industries — Hagihara Industries is engaged in the production and sale of industrial machinery. They manufacture machinery and equipment for converting, highly-functional film, synthetic fiber, fiber and yarn, and plastic industries.
- Albatross Technology — Albatross Technology is a technology company that develops offshore renewable energy devices and floating offshore wind turbines.
J-POWER Group believes that energy production and the environment can coexist in harmony. In light of this corporate philosophy, our environmental management aims to promote greater environmental responsibility while enhancing the economic value of our operations in order to further contribute to the development of a sustainable society. TheJ-POWER Group Environmental Management Vision is made up of a Basic Policy and an Environmental Action Program that defines specific tasks and goals and the means to achieve them. The Environmental Action Program brings together Corporate Targets, which define midterm targets for environmental initiatives, and Environmental Action Guidelines, which orient the initiatives to be implemented each fiscal year. J-POWER Group is working as a whole to realize environmental management in accordance with these targets and guidelines.
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- Industry: Manufacturing, Renewable Energy, Information Technology
- Stage:Corporate Round, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, Tanzania, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 16
- Round size: Series A $2.9M–$7.7M; Series B $7M–$29M; Corporate Round $2M–$3.7M
- Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Morgenrot — Morgenrot provides Earth-friendly, high-power distributed cloud computing solutions worldwide. GPU/CPU servers, Render Pool
- Active Surfaces — Active Surfaces is commercializing MIT-developed ultra-thin-film solar technology.
- Japan GX Group — Shibuya Blend Green Energy platform analyzes company processes and resources, recommends and plans improvement initiatives, and addresses corporate ESG challenges, assisting companies in balancing business and environmental protection.
elea Foundation for Ethics in Globalization
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Agriculture, Food and Beverage
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: India, Kenya, Mexico
Investor stats
- Total investments: 23
- Round size: Seed $100k–$4.5M; Series A $2M–$4.2M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
Portfolio highlights
- BukaPO — BukaPO is a food and beverage company that provides pulses, rice bowls, and various other snack food services.
- Toroto — Toroto neutralizes greenhouse gas emissions through nature-based solutions and carbon management. They provide a science-based way for companies and organizations to move closer to carbon-neutral operations. They support companies by measuring and reducing their environmental footprint. They also design forestry and regenerative agricultureprojects that make carbon offsetting possible.
- MazaoHub — AI-first SaaS connecting soil, farmers, inputs, agronomy care, field operations, traceability and markets through real last-mile intelligence.
Nyca is a leading venture capital firm focused on connecting innovative companies to the global financial system.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 240
- Round size: Seed $2.2M–$9.8M; Series A $6M–$30M; Series B $12M–$65M
- Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $210M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Forage — Forage is a third-party payment processor (TPP) and a pin provider that authenticates and processes EBT recipients and transactions. Forage makes it easier for grocers to accept SNAP EBT payments online. Forage guides merchants through the USDA application process and tech integration for merchants, taking most of the burden off retailers.Foragedemocratizes access to government benefits and helps underserved Americans easily access their benefits online. Forage works with multiple grocers and platforms such as Shopify and Flashfood to accept SNAP EBT payments online.
- Findigs — Simplify every step of tenant screening with airtight fraud protection. Meet the screening and decisioning system built to get renting right.
- RQD Clearing — RQD Clearing delivers the technology, solutions, and business model brokers expect from a correspondent clearing. They are built entirely on cloud-native, real-time technology and offer an implementation that scales as clients.
Acasia Ventures is a leading venture capital firm that invests in early-stage companies throughout the Middle East and Africa. With a focus on being a first believer in innovation and entrepreneurship, the firm strives to support the growth of the next generation of market leaders through their unique and scalable solutions. Its Tech Fund I iscurrently targeting investments in tech-driven and tech-enabled startups at the pre-Seed to pre-Series A stages.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Egypt, Nigeria, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 17
- Round size: Seed $50k–$2.5M; Pre-Seed $532k–$1M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Lengo — Lengo is an AI based intelligence platform that offers a large database on consumer goods for companies in the FMCG sector.
- Menthum — Grow your wealth with Egypt's leading fintech platform. Earn up to 2x traditional bank returns with FRA-licensed security.
- Bluworks.io — Transform workforce operations with bluworks. Manage scheduling, attendance, payroll, and teams from one platform with complete visibility.
Andrew is a successful entrepreneur as well as investor and advisor to more than 100 early-stage startups across enterprise SaaS and fintech. He founded and served as CEO of ClearGraph (acquired by Tableau (NYSE: DATA)). Andrew is a top .5% contributor to Stanford StartX (2k+ entrepreneurs). Earlier in his career, he served multiple roles inventure and investment banking, and holds a B.S. in Finance, summa cum laude, from the Gabelli School of Business.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, India, Mexico
Investor stats
- Total investments: 45
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$5M; Pre-Seed $1.5M–$2.5M; Series A $13M–$32M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Synthpop — Streamlining healthcare, one workflow at a time. Automate 80% of your healthcare business processes with AI. Learn more.
- Telgorithm — Telgorithm is a messaging platform that allows businesses (particularly SaaS providers) to build messaging services into their applications while ensuring compliance and message deliverability. We are also a hosted messaging provider, meaning that businesses who have numbers that share both voice & messaging services have the ability to(quickly & seamlessly) migrate the messaging services on those numbers to Telgorithm while retaining the voice services (on those very same numbers) with their current legacy provider (this lowers the cost to switchover).
- Workr — Workr Labs enables manufacturers in industries like aerospace and automotive to unlock the potential of high-mix, low-volume production automation. Our intuitive robotic machine tending solution combines advanced AI-driven learning with seamless integration into existing CNC machines and robots. With Workr, manufacturers can train robots to handlenew tasks in under two minutes, ensuring consistent reliability, increased machine utilization, and reduced dependency on skilled labor. Our flexible SaaS model and scalable hardware make automation accessible, empowering teams to boost productivity and adapt to dynamic production demands.
Amplo is a global venture capital firm helping build companies that matter. It specializes in the fields of financial services, venture capital and financial exchanges.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, India, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 76
- Round size: Seed $3M–$13M; Series A $5.5M–$40M; Series B $14M–$70M
- Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $200M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Hint — Homeownership without the guesswork. Human expertise. An app that knows your home.
- Osmo — Giving computers a sense of smell.
- Tradespace — Connecting companies with innovators to get intellectual property from lab to market. Tradespace provides powerful tools and expertise to commercialize your IP and scout for innovation.
We are a nonprofit fighting poverty, disease, and inequity around the world
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
- Stage:Grant, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 408
- Round size: Grant $500k–$15M; Series A $5M–$60M; Series B $7.2M–$85M
- Lead/follow: 76% lead, 24% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $50M in 2017
Portfolio highlights
- SeamlessHR — Africa's Leading HR & Payroll Software - Empowering African Businesses for Productivity and Profitability Through Technology.
- AN2 Therapeutics — AN2 Therapeutics develops breakthrough medicines through our boron chemistry platform, advancing therapies for infectious diseases and cancer worldwide.
- Readily Diagnostics — Readily Diagnostics develops speedy and accurate diagnostic tests for respiratory disorders, enabling faster and more effective therapy at the point of care.
NEC Capital Solutions Limited provides financial services in Japan. It's Main Business is Leasing for Information and Communication Equipment, Office Equipment, Industrial Equipment and Installment Sales, Business Loans, Factoring Services, Business Outsourcing and Sales of Used Equipment.
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- Industry: Manufacturing, Internet, Information Technology
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Series B, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States, Tanzania
Investor stats
- Total investments: 57
- Round size: Series A $1.3M–$142M; Series B $452k–$184M; Venture - Series Unknown $543k–$16M
- Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- GITAI — GITAI is the world’s leading space robotics startup, aiming to provide safe and affordable means of labor in space and reduce operational costs by 100 times. GITAI is developing highly capable, safe, and reliable robots to help build and maintain satellites, space stations, lunar bases, and cities on Mars.
- Luup — Luup is Japan's #1 e-scooter and e-bike sharing service provider. Luup currently operates in Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, and Yokohama, while planning to expand to other cities all over Japan. The service is based on a high-density port network, where anyone can rent and return to their original fleets.
- Idea Record — Idea Records provided various business support solutions since its founding as a company promoting digital transformation in the restaurant industry. Among them, the SaaS platform GATE, released in 2018, has many functions that are particularly suited to the needs of restaurants, and is being introduced in many stores.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Singapore, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 546
- Round size: Seed $750k–$6M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2.5M; Series A $4M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $33M in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- O-ID — Modular Humanoids, Made in Japan
- BON Credit — AI powered financial assistant from Bon Credit helps uncover savings, manage finances, and make smarter money decisions with AI. Start saving smarter today!
- Charter Space — Charter is developing a collaborative platform for satellite mission logistics and program management available via web app and API that provides satellite operators with intuitive information architecture to streamline missions and reduce wasted engineering hours so they can get to the launchpad faster.Charter's platform usesdesign-focused UI/UX and automation to reduce friction through intuitive dashboarding, improved information sharing, and optimized compute and data resource efficiency. For satellite companies, ATLAS streamlines processes, automates manual tasks, and provides engineers with communications and information infrastructure to seamlessly interface both across teams and organisations. reduces wasted engineering hours and lead times, and minimizes upfront technical debt, CapEx, and long-run OpEx.In other words, Charter is building a logistics solution that will be to satellite logistics what the graphical user interface was to command-line interfaces.
SICTIC is the leading angel investor network in Switzerland with the largest Swiss seed-stage startup dealflow.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Switzerland, Germany, Tanzania
Investor stats
- Total investments: 301
- Round size: Seed $504k–$3.7M; Pre-Seed $264k–$2.7M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.2M–$11M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
Portfolio highlights
- hypt — hypt is a Swiss based SaaS marketing solution that empowers companies to digitalize word-of-mouth. By using our word-of-mouth manager companies are able to activate 40% of their customers to send out a personal recommendation to their peers increasing sales through word-of-mouth by 4 times. Our solution empowers our ICP customers in the finance andinsurance segments to strategically use and optimize the most authentic and cost effective advertising channel – word-of-mouth – and makes it an accessible asset of every marketing mix.
- Carewell — Carewell is influencing the way people work in healthcare by providing flexible digital solutions tailored to their specific needs.
- Prevision Medicine — Prevision Medicine AG is a oncology company that provides cancer therapy, tests living cancer cells, and deliver clinical insights.
Co-matching fund platform supporting startups and angel networks across Africa.
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- Industry: Apps, Online Portals, Financial Services
- Stage:Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Zambia, Cameroon, Tanzania
Investor stats
- Total investments: 22
- Round size: Seed $65k–$2M; Angel $22k–$90k; Pre-Seed $60k–$1.5M
- Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Figorr — Figorr is your go-to, for accessing reliable information on temperature, humidity, and location. Experience the next generation of data-driven insights with Figorr today.
- Sumet Technologies — Sumet is a transforming the distribution of essential goods across the african continent.
- TileGreen — TileGreen is a manufacturing technology company that invented a patented, machine-learning-based, and automated thermomechanical modular technology (TG1.0) that acts as a platform for producing more than 100 circular, economic, and durable building materials (recycled-polymer-aggregate-composite) from all types of mechanically unrecyclable plasticwaste at a green discount, not a green premium. Re-PAC material doesn’t crack, rot, rust, erode, or interact with chemicals, which makes it a durable, economical, and green alternative for multiple concrete, clay, wood, and metal non-structural applications.
FINCA Ventures is an impact investing initiative of FINCA International that provides patient capital and support to early-stage social enterprises.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Agriculture, AgTech
- Stage:Seed, Grant, Series A
- Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 32
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$4M; Grant $40k–$100k; Series A $1.1M–$4.2M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Cladfy — Cladfy is a data analytics company that creates tools to assist lenders, merchants, and individuals in making informed loan, savings, and expenditure decisions.
- Karpolax — Offering innovative fruit preservation products! For the grower, the packer, and the retailer.
- Affinity — Join over 145,000 who trust the Affinity to manage their personal and business banking needs, from payments to savings, as well as loans
AgriFi is financed by the European Union and managed by the EDFI Management Company. Responding to the lack of financing mechanisms it is adapted to smallholders with limited market orientation, vulnerable groups, women and youth, farmers and entrepreneurs.
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- Industry: Agriculture, Fruit, Beauty
- Stage:Debt Financing, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Kenya, Belgium, Tanzania
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Debt Financing $1.5M–$3.2M
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Alterfin — Belgian co-op investing in microfinance and sustainable agriculture in the South since 1994. Tweets in English, French and Dutch.
- Shamba Pride — Revolutionizing Rural Agriculture Trade Ecosystem for Africa Farmers Traditional farming methods across Africa often depend on synthetic inputs, degrading so...
- East Africa Fruits — EA Fruits Farm is a business that engages in the large production and distribution of fruits and vegetables. As fruits are an essential part of a human's diet for maintenance of good health and wellbeing, the business will take part in providing the opportunity for Tanzanian citizens and other people overseas to get such fruits and motivatemore people to increase their intake of fruits whereby the company will strive to increase the supply to match the increased demand for fresh fruits and vegetables. The business envisions to be among the leading producers, distributors, and exporters of the fruits within the Country and overseas. The company is a highly profitable and viable business that expects to rise to about 5,000 USD from its current small-scaled operations, while more than 450,000 USD will be raised as a result of further expansion within a period of 2-4 years.
Peeyush Ranjan is based out of Palo Alto, California and is the CEO and Co-Founder of Fermi AI. Peeyush previously worked at Airbnb as a VP Engineering. Peeyush Ranjan attended the University of Washington.
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- Industry: SaaS, Legal, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series B, Series A
- Geography: United States, India, Tanzania
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Seed $3.7M–$10M; Series B $9.2M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Koji — Koji is the world’s most powerful Link in Bio platform. With hundreds of free apps created by Koji and its community of independent developers, the Koji Link in Bio gives leading Creators on TikTok, Instagram, Twitch, and other social media platforms new ways to engage audiences, connect with supporters, and monetize.
- Hatica — Hatica aggregates activity from all your work apps to power software engineering dashboards and gen AI-driven insights to help teams drive velocity, alignment and well-being.
- Nala — A new kind of mobile money transfer for Africans worldwide! Make safe, affordable, and reliable international payments to Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda.
Aaron Fu is based out of New York, New York and is the Head of Venture Investments of DCG. Aaron previously worked at Catalyst Fund as a Partner. Aaron Fu attended the University of Oxford. Aaron Fu has received the LEAD Certificate: Corporate Innovation.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Internet, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 22
- Round size: Seed $100k–$4M; Pre-Seed $100k–$275k
- Lead/follow: 68% lead, 32% follow
Portfolio highlights
- OkHi — Smart addressing for emerging markets. Enabling businesses to collect an accurate address, navigate to it without getting lost and verity it remotely.
- Nala — A new kind of mobile money transfer for Africans worldwide! Make safe, affordable, and reliable international payments to Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda.
- Stitch — One API integration for enterprise online payments across South Africa. Accept Pay by bank, debit + credit card, cash, manual EFT, debit order and crypto.
Sajid currently works as Managing Partner at MyAsiaVC He attended London Business School.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: India, Nigeria, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 17
- Round size: Seed $150k–$3M; Pre-Seed $385k–$6M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ImaliPay — ImaliPay is a financial health platform offering financial products to freelancers and blue collar gig workers in partnership with gig platforms.
- EquityList — Equity management with online cap table management and employee stock option programs (ESOP) administration. Available free for Indian startups
- 10 Minute School — 10 Minute School is the largest online educational platform in Bangladesh. Through our website, app, and social media, more than 10 Million+ students are accessing quality education each day to accelerate their learning.
Laura Spiekerman is the Co-Founder of Alloy.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Canada, Tanzania
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Seed $4.1M–$19M; Series A $15M–$24M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Vergo — Vergo is a financial technology company and is not a bank. Banking services provided by Blue Ridge Bank, N.A.; Member FDIC.
- Meanwhile — The world's first regulated Bitcoin life insurance. Tax-efficient wealth planning for long-term Bitcoin holders.
- Keep — Keep has higher credit limits, the highest cash back rewards in Canada, and absolutely no fees! Join the thousands of Canadian business owners making the switch to Keep.
We invest in Africa's most remarkable teams with technical founders at the earliest stage of their venture
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Ghana
Investor stats
- Total investments: 100
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Accounteer — Choose to Automate your business' finances with smart accounting software or Pair it with one-on-one real human expert accounting and support.
- LemFi — Send money to India, China, Pakistan, Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya and 30 other countries. Receive and manage your money without stress
- ThankUCash — ThankUCash is a technology company powering rewards and loyalty for African banks and businesses. ThankUCash helps merchants grow revenue by connecting them to customers within and outside of their locations while retaining acquired customers using a data analytics-powered reward system where customers earn cash rewards for every transaction madeboth offline and online.
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- Industry: B2B, Mobile, Consumer
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Kenya, Tanzania
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Taimba Limited — Taimba is a B2B mobile-based platform connecting farmers to urban traders with aim of reducing food wastage and to stabilize market prices.
- WomenChoice Industries — WomenChoice Industries is a manufacturer and distributor of low-cost, affordable, reusable sanitary towels.
Pontem Ventures are a strategic investment vehicle that identifies, vets and invests in industry agnostic growth businesses.
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- Industry: Health Care
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Tanzania
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Dawa Mkononi — Dawa Mkononi (DM) is a registered company that mainly focuses on innovations to improve pharmaceutical supply chain. The app is run by DM Pharmacy located at Kariakoo in Dar es Salaam. The app currently serves for wholesale business only to pharmacies, ADDOs, and health facilities such as Hospitals and Clinics.
British International Investment is the UK's development finance institution. We've been at the forefront of supporting companies in developing countries for more than 70 years.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Banking, Finance
- Stage:Debt Financing, Series B
- Geography: India, Kenya, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 152
- Round size: Series B $14M–$50M; Debt Financing $9M–$130M
- Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Scatec ASA — Scatec is a leading renewable energy solutions provider, accelerating access to reliable and affordable clean energy in emerging markets.
- Wave Mobile Money — Wave Mobile Money provides an app-based financial solution to save, transfer, and borrow money. Wave Mobile Money is on a mission to make Africa the first cashless continent. On a continent where less than 10% of the population has a bank account, Wave is building the first modern financial network — no account fees, instantly available, andaccepted everywhere! It is building life-changing financial infrastructure. When mobile money succeeded in Kenya, it lifted about a million people out of poverty. And yet, over 10 years later, most Africans still lack access to affordable ways to save, transfer or borrow the money they need to build businesses or provide for their families. Wave is solving this problem by using technology to build a radically inclusive and extremely affordable financial network.
- CLR Facility Services — CLR is a leading Integrated Facility Management (IFM) company with a PAN India presence, providing comprehensive solutions including IFM, Technical Services, Business Support, Aviation Services, Production Support, and Floor Care Services.
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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- Industry: Software, FinTech, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, Mexico, Colombia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 26
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$8.2M; Pre-Seed $125k–$500k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Menza — Menza is a data analytics platform that generates interactive dashboards and proactive insights using AI.
- Modelence — Build production-ready apps with AI
- Karumi — Karumi is an AI agent that joins a live video call with your prospects to deliver personalized product demos, 24/7, in any language.
AXIAN is a pan-African group that specializes in real estate, telecom, financial services, energy, and innovation.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Egypt, Kenya, Mali
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Seed $1M–$12M; Series A $5M–$8.5M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- PayTic — PayTic enables payments issuers to manage their card programs by providing dedicated back-office solutions that streamline the end-to-end operations in customer support, chargebacks, fraud, AML, reporting, and reconciliation. Our proprietary solutions are unique in automating and centralizing the program management processes, regardless of thenumber of processors and the payment networks involved in the payments products. We impact payments providers by eliminating the defragmented and manual processes and replacing them with a SaaS platform that increases proactivity, mitigates risks, and delivers value. It reduces the burn rate to near 0 in operational costs and offers an unprecedented competitive advantage. PayTic is introducing the Zero Ops model in managing payments.
- Hub2.Io — Welcome to HUB2, the leading FINTECH startup in interoperability and payment infrastructure in Francophone Africa. We are proud to work with all financial industry players in Africa who need stable and high-performing infrastructure, and contribute to their success.
- WeLight — WeLight deploys sustainable and accessible solutions to accelerate energy inclusion in rural areas of Africa.
Norrsken22 is a tech growth fund, backed by an international network of tech founders, partnering with exceptional African entrepreneurs in scaling disruptive businesses.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Banking, B2B
- Stage:Series B, Series C, Pre-Seed
- Geography: South Africa, Egypt, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Taager — Taager is a social e-commerce platform enabling online merchants with end-to-end logistics.
- Raenest — Access Virtual Accounts, Invoicing, Multi-Currency Payouts, Auto Payroll, Accounting Integrations, and Virtual & Physical cards within minutes.
- TymeBank — TymeBank is a subsidiary of the Tyme Group, which focuses on financial technology and banking solutions. TymeBank focuses on providing accessible financial services to the lower-income market. It emphasizes digital banking and minimal fees. Customers can open secure personal and business accounts online, benefiting from low banking charges and highsavings interest rates through their digital platform.
Ryan is the Co-founder and CTO of Chime. Previously, Ryan was the VP of Engineering of Plaxo, an early professional social networking pioneer which was acquired by Comcast Interactive Media. Prior to Plaxo, Ryan worked at Liberate Technologies and Microsoft.Ryan earned a M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University and a B.S. in ComputerScience & Engineering from UCLA.
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- Industry: FinTech, Finance, Software
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Series A $13M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Unit21 — Unit21 helps protect businesses against adversaries through a simple API and dashboard for detecting and managing money laundering, fraud, and other sophisticated risks across multiple industries.
- Nala — A new kind of mobile money transfer for Africans worldwide! Make safe, affordable, and reliable international payments to Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda.
- Parafin — Parafin provides you with an end-to-end solution to offer one-click financing to your sellers.
HOF Capital is a global technology investment firm that leverages its global limited partner network to help founders build massive businesses.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 182
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$15M; Pre-Seed $385k–$5.5M; Series A $10M–$57M
- Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $300M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Codesphere — Codesphere is your Zeroconfig Cloud. No config - just code and run web apps from your browser. Team work on distributed full stack Typescript, and benefit from our automatic deployments, scaling, tests, and security / privacy audits. We optimize each and every detail to keep things simple for you. Codesphere is next level programming.
- BillionToOne — We are a team at the forefront of disease detection focused on moving Prenatal Screening and Liquid Biopsy forward.
- Drop — Join the free rewards app with over 5 million members that lets you earn points by shopping at 500+ brands, investing in crypto, playing games and more.
Jonas Huckestein creates great products from scratch. After moving to the US from Germany in 2010 he was the first engineer at Campfire Labs (acquired by Groupon), founding CTO of Ark.com, and is a Director at the StartupBus. He got a Mathematics degree at 18, Computer Science at 21 and is on leave from technology management grad school. Beforemoving here he worked in management consulting.
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- Industry: Banking, Internet, Logistics
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, Tanzania
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Seed $3.6M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Packfleet — We serve millions of Londoners, combining a top-notch delivery service with advanced technology to offer a carbon-neutral delivery experience like no other.
- Nala — A new kind of mobile money transfer for Africans worldwide! Make safe, affordable, and reliable international payments to Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda.
- Gradient Labs — Our AI agent resolves complex customer service queries end-to-end. Delivering quality, efficiency and compliance at every step.
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) and its group companies offer a broad range of financial services centered on banking. They are also engaged in the leasing, securities, credit card, investment, mortgage securitization, venture capital and other credit related businesses. The following lists the activities of SMBC, its subsidiaries andaffiliates in the various business segments.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Health Care
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 667
- Round size: Series A $1.1M–$32M; Series B $2.3M–$34M; Venture - Series Unknown $800k–$12M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- LQUOM — QWAVE offers cryptography communication technology.
- Etaily — Etaily provides e-commerce and retail solutions in the Philippines, enabling brands with end-to-end services, from store management to fulfillment.
- Link Therapeutics — Link Therapeutics specializes in developing therapeutic methods for targeting autoantibodies and identifying pathogenic autoantibodies.
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Browse database — It's Free!Flexcap is a venture firm in New York backing founders at the frontier of AI and deep tech. First money into more than 150 founders.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Tanzania
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $2.6M–$7.2M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kindo — Kindo brings AI-native security and automation to DevOps, SecOps, and ITOps. Streamline operations, cut alert fatigue, and resolve incidents autonomously with intelligent agents.
- Mesa — Earn points on your mortgage. With the first ever Homeowner Membership Platform, Mesa makes homeownership more affordable and rewarding. Join Mesa and get rewarded for your home.
- Candid Intelligence — Candid is compressing months of pre-construction engineering into hours of compute.
NEC is driving AX (AI Transformation) throughout society and industry. With cutting-edge technologies such as AI and cybersecurity, we are realizing our purpose of promoting a more sustainable world where everyone has the chance to reach their full potential.
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- Industry: Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology
- Stage:Series B, Series A
- Geography: United States, Japan, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 31
- Round size: Series A $1.2M–$209M; Series B $10M–$150M
- Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
Portfolio highlights
- SWAT Mobility — SWAT Mobility is a smart mobility company that provides demand-responsive, ride-sharing technology in high capacity vehicles. We work with corporates, transport operators and government agencies to improve transport services. Learn more about how we can help you leverage technology for your transport.
- Sakana AI — We are creating a new kind of foundation model based on nature-inspired intelligence.
- Rapidus — Rapidus is an Electronic component research, development, design, production, and sales that includes semiconductor elements and integrated circuits. Environmentally friendly, energy-saving semiconductors and semiconductor manufacturing technology are being researched and developed. Human resource development and training for the semiconductorsector.
The Continent Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that offers investing in early-stage and growth capital for startup companies.
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- Industry: Finance, Banking, Shipping
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, Tanzania, The Netherlands
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
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- MVX — MVX is a freight forwarding business and logistics platform that offers freight financing, tracking, and shipping services to help trade.
- Kosa — Domain name KOSA.ai is a powerful tech-driven brand with a sleek, modern appeal. The name KOSA conveys a sense of intelligence and sophistication, making it perfect for AI-focused startups or businesses in the technology sector. As a short,
- Credable — Credable is the Digital Banking Platform that is driving the future of banking by embedding financial services in businesses across emerging markets.
We will continue to invest and support the growth of innovative companies towards sustainable economic growth and solving social issues.
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- Industry: Health Care, Medical, E-Commerce
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Kenya, Egypt, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 25
- Round size: Seed $450k–$11M; Series A $3M–$51M; Series B $7M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Aumet — Aumet allows medical manufacturers and distributors increase their sales by sharing hospital inquiries, business news, search for products, and find potential clients.Manufacturers and distributors who work together connect and get verified so they share hospital inquiries, market business news between each other .Suppliers list their productsand connect with distributors who sell these products and select countries, where they are looking for distributors, in the meantime distributors, connects with their suppliers, search for new product and list their interests.
- Mydawa — MYDAWA is here to ensure that every Kenyan can get quality, secure and affordable medicine and wellness products online
- Chowdeck — Order food, groceries, drinks, medicines & everyday essentials from top restaurants, pharmacies, local markets, and stores near you. Fast delivery with Chowdeck.
Shine is an early-stage venture capital firm that partners with creative, convincing, relentless entrepreneurs to build iconic businesses.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Israel, Spain
Investor stats
- Total investments: 80
- Round size: Seed $3.5M–$21M; Series A $12M–$25M; Series B $10M–$71M
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $1M in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- MEANT 2B — MeantToBe is an AI-powered matchmaking platform designed to move beyond swipe-based dating apps by using personalized recommendations and behavioral signals to suggest more compatible romantic and social connections. It leverages machine learning to understand user preferences over time, aiming to improve match quality, reduce swipe fatigue, andcreate more meaningful interactions between users in a modern, AI-driven social discovery experience. Focused on next-generation relationship discovery.
- Antares — Factory-produced, deployable fission microreactors to provide strategic energy for mission-critical systems across Earth, space, and underseas.
- Pilgrim — Pioneering a biologically enhanced future for humanity.
Planet N Group is a growth markets oriented high-tech investment firm focused on the Greater Middle East and Asia. Planet N’s portfolio spans financial inclusion, fintech, data science & AI, e-media, e-health, blockchain, edutech and e-commerce across Egypt, Pakistan, the UAE, Singapore and the UK
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- Industry: FinTech, E-Commerce, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Pakistan, United Arab Emirates, Oman
Investor stats
- Total investments: 33
- Round size: Seed $850k–$5M
- Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Fauree — Fauree has brought a working capital solution in supply chain finance. We are one of the leading fintech companies serving in Pakistan, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Oman and Canada.
- myco — myco is a content streaming super dApp that smoothly integrates AVOD and SVOD capabilities into a decentralized ecosystem.
- Idealz — Idealz is an e-commerce platform where users purchase products and receive entries into prize draws. The platform includes categories such as electronics, vehicles, and lifestyle items. A portion of transactions supports charitable initiatives, while selected participants may receive prizes through scheduled draw processes conducted by theplatform.
We back founders building the future of Africa. We invest in companies that solve for non-consumption, plug infrastructural gaps and democratise prosperity in Africa, by eliminating the barriers for access and reducing the costs of delivering goods and services.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 173
- Round size: Seed $100k–$4M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $84M in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Myka.Insure — Myka is a insurance sales platform that enables individuals to sell insurance policies to their family, friends, colleagues, and community while earning income . It operates as a micro-entrepreneurship program where anyone (students, gadget sellers, car dealers, parents, retirees) can start their own insurance business with zero investment,flexible hours, and free training . The company is licensed by the National Insurance Commission of Nigeria and provides instant payouts to its partners .
- Cybervergent — Cybervergent is a technology company that specializes in providing top-notch cybersecurity solutions to businesses and organizations.
- Traction Apps — Traction apps provide businesses end to end tools they need to run and grow their businesses.
Finnfund is a Finnish development finance company that provides long-term risk capital for private projects in developing countries. Apart from co-investing with Finnish companies they can finance ventures that use Finnish technology, cooperate with Finnish partners on a long-term basis or generate major environmental or social benefits.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Energy, FinTech
- Stage:Debt Financing, Venture - Series Unknown, Series B
- Geography: Kenya, India, South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 74
- Round size: Series B $5M–$41M; Debt Financing $4M–$137M; Venture - Series Unknown $2.1M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 51% lead, 49% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $93M in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Transvolt Mobility — Transvolt Mobility is an early-stage, technology-driven EV fleet operator, enabling India’s transition to sustainable, zero-emission transport by providing a scalable, multi-partner platform for commercial electric mobility across urban and industrial segments.
- ETG — ETG, established in 1967, is one of the largest and fastest growing integrated agricultural conglomerates in sub-Saharan Africa, importing and exporting soft commodities to and from 48 countries including Tanzania, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria and South Africa. It also has supply chain operations in China, India, America, Middle East, andSouth East Asia; merchandising desks in Europe, and; treasury companies in Singapore, Mauritius and UAE. Globally, ETG is present across 48 countries. ETG runs its business under five business verticals: 1. Fertilizer and Farm Inputs: ETG is one of the largest importers and distributors of fertilizers and farm inputs in sub-saharan africa 2. Cash traded products: Pulses, Sesame seed, Cashew and Rice are key commodities in this vertical. ETG is the world largest trader and processor of Pulses as well as world largest trader for raw cashew nuts. 3. Exchange traded commodities: Grains & oilseeds, sugar, coffee, cocoa, maize and soybean are key products in this segment. ETG is one of the major players for maize and soybean in sub-shara africa 4. Consumer Branded (Vamara): ETG operates multiple processing plants across 14 countries to manufacture products that are targeted to African consumers. ETG has 22 brands in its portfolio that offers products from vegetable cooking oil, condiments, and spreads, etc. 5. Logistics: ETG operates a very successful and integrated Logistics platform. ETG has a network of more than 400+ warehouses across 32 countries and a fleet of more than 900 trucks. ETG provided end-to-end Logistics services across sub-Sahara Africa.
- EVF General Finance Joint Stock Company — EVF provides a wide range of financial services, including credit lines for micro, small, and medium-sized firms (MSMEs).
Bessemer Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage and growth-stage companies across technology, healthcare, and consumer sectors. It provides capital to startups and emerging businesses while supporting founders with strategic guidance, operational insight, and network access. The firm participates in multiple fundingstages, from seed investments to later growth rounds, and works closely with portfolio companies on product development, market expansion, and organizational scaling. Its investment activities span software, cloud infrastructure, fintech, biotech, and internet-enabled businesses, aligning capital deployment with long-term company building.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
- Geography: United States, India, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1713
- Round size: Series A $5M–$45M; Series B $10M–$60M; Series C $12M–$101M
- Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $1B in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Avnera — Avnera is a fabless semiconductor firm making highly-integrated application targeted ICs for consumer audio and voice applications.Avnera has deep analog and mixed-signal circuit design expertise, including the know-how to integrate diverse circuit types onto single pieces of silicon. As such, Avnera IC's integrate RF, power management,audio data converters, host interfaces, & programmable DSPs onto low-cost CMOS, enabling very high performance at low total system cost.Avnera IC products target applications in PC accessory audio, iPod accessory audio, home theater, and consumer & enterprise voice. Avnera's list of customers includes names such as Logitech, Creative, Rocketfish, Panasonic, iHome, Vizio, Sanyo, Onkyo, Acoustic Research, Audioengine, Polycom, et al.
- Valence — Work better. Together.
- Simply Measured — Reimagine how social media can grow your business with Sprout Social. See our social media management tools in action. Start your own free trial today.
The MBA Fund is a VC fund and network of founders, executives and investors committed to mentoring and investing in leading early-stage, student and alumni founders. The firm was founded in 2018 by Josh Hoffman-Senn, Hiro Tien, Sieva Kozinsky and Hansae Catlett.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Ghana, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 78
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$4.8M; Pre-Seed $120k–$3.6M; Series A $10M–$16M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- heva — heva - AI-native practice management platform connecting global patients with quality healthcare. Find affordable medical procedures, trusted providers, and seamless cross-border care coordination.
- Creatify AI — Empower everyone's ad creation.
- ThetaWave AI — Turn lectures into notes, mindmaps, quizzes & flashcards in real-time. Trusted by 1,000,000+ students from Stanford, MIT & more. Free to try.
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