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Top 45 Startup Investors in Tanzania

Last updated: Aug 2024 A list of 45 angel investors and VC funds that invest in startups based in Tanzania. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in companies from Tanzania. We update this investor list every month.

Top 45 Startup Investors in Tanzania

Investor	Tanzania investments
Launch Africa	5
NEC Capital Solutions	2
Raba Partnership	2
Goodwell Investments	2
FINCA Ventures	2
Acasia Ventures	2
J-POWER	2
Development Bank of Japan	2
UTEC - The University of Tokyo Edge Capital Partners	2
Peeyush Ranjan	1
Bessemer Venture Partners	1
Amplo	1
Beyond Capital	1
Japan International Cooperation Agency	1
NEC Corporation	1
International Finance Corporation	1
Nyca Partners	1
Sajid Rahman	1
Musha Ventures	1
The MBA Fund	1
Vlad Tenev	1
Warioba Ventures	1
Andrew Vigneault	1
SMBC Venture Capital	1
Shine Capital	1
9Yards Capital	1
Flexcap	1
Acacia Venture Capital Partners	1
Ventures Platform	1
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation	1
elea Foundation for Ethics in Globalization	1
Finnfund	1
Alex Bouaziz	1
Pontem Ventures	1
Laura Spiekerman	1
Planet N Group of Companies	1
VentureSouq	1
Jared Schrieber	1
DCG Expeditions	1
Aaron Fu	1
AAIC Investment	1
Sanofi	1
AXIAN	1
GMC coLABS	1
Accion Venture Lab	1

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Launch Africa is a fund with the primary objective of unlocking the capital constraints of Seed Stage tech startups.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Bosso — Bosso projects and realizes automation and robotic solutions for the growth of your business.
Maad — Maad is Francophone Africa's fastest-growing B2B marketplace, based in Dakar, Senegal. Our tech-driven solution allows retailers to order products from our one-stop shop and benefit from working capital loans
Wahu Mobility — Wahu Mobility is an open e-mobility platform that connects drivers, passengers, and goods in a simple, inclusive, transparent, nationwide, and multimodal manner.

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.

Investment focus

Internet, Manufacturing, Information Technology
Funding Round, Series B, Series A
Japan, United States, Tanzania

Portfolio highlights

GITAI — GITAI is a robotics startup for space development. The company aims to replace astronauts with robots that can work for a long time while being remotely controlled from earth while in low earth orbit space stations to decrease the burden on astronauts, shorten the time it takes to perform work in space, and reduce costs.
Luup — Luup is an Internet Company.
Smart Shopping — Smartmat is an eco-friendly IoT purchase system for on-demand, no-hassle grocery with cost-effective shipping.

The Raba Partnership, Raba Capital, Raba

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
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.
Stitch — One API integration for all online payments across South Africa. Accept Pay by bank, debit + credit card, cash, manual EFT, debit order and crypto. Orchestrate + reconcile digital payments across methods and send payouts
Cleva — Cleva Banking is a banking platform helps in recieving international payments by opening USD accounts.

Goodwell Investments is a pioneering investment firm focused on financial inclusion, fintech and inclusive growth in sectors providing

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Agriculture
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

OmniRetail — Get visibility of complete value chain and optimize processes end to end with our network of networks platform.
Good Nature Agro — Their priority is to generate lasting income with small-scale farmers. They build local community leaders into qualified Private Extension Agents (PEAs) who oversee and train farmers throughout the growing season. They support PEAs to provide frequent trainings and personalized recommendations on how their growers can make their field healthier andmore productive. PEAs promote improved farm practices and deliver a farmer-friendly loan of seeds and additional inputs. At harvest, Good Nature is a guaranteed market for the certified legume seed that their growers produce. Choosing to produce these high-value crops over traditional cash crops - maize and cotton - more than doubles their income.
Inclusivity Solutions — Inclusivity Solutions provides digital insurance for the connected, but unprotected. Delivering simple & affordable insurance via mobile phones

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

Investment focus

Financial Services, Information Technology, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Kenya, Mexico, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

FloatPays — Floatpays help your employees achieve financial wellbeing by giving them early access to earned wages.
Bamba — We help large companies that want to help their affinity users to solve unforeseen events fast, by minimizing costs, through a smart digital agent embedded in any company’s interface
Lapaire — Discover a wide range of high-quality & affordable eyeglasses at Lapaire Glasses. Book a free vision test with our professional optometrists to help you find your perfect pair of glasses to enhance your vision and style. Shops in 7 african countries: Benin, Ivory Coast, Togo, Burkina Faso, Mali, Kenya and Uganda.

Acasia Ventures is a leading venture capital firm that invests in early-stage companies throughout the Middle East and Africa. With a focus on being a first believer in innovation and entrepreneurship, the firm strives to support the growth of the next generation of market leaders through their unique and scalable solutions. Its Tech Fund I iscurrently targeting investments in tech-driven and tech-enabled startups at the pre-Seed to pre-Series A stages.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed
Egypt, Nigeria, Kenya

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 — Saving Made Simple
Bluworks.io — Bluworks.io is a HRTech SaaS platform offers cloud-based solutions.

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.

Investment focus

Renewable Energy, Water, Biotechnology
Series A, Corporate Round, Seed
Japan, Tanzania

Portfolio highlights

GITAI — GITAI is a robotics startup for space development. The company aims to replace astronauts with robots that can work for a long time while being remotely controlled from earth while in low earth orbit space stations to decrease the burden on astronauts, shorten the time it takes to perform work in space, and reduce costs.
WOTA — Human history is the history of our relationship with water. Water gave rise to our civilizations. Water has nourished people's livelihoods. This means that humans need water supplies, such as rivers and lakes, to survive. At WOTA, we desire to remove every limitation we have in relation to water. By integrating small water systems into the“big water infrastructure” of the past, we can achieve a more creative and sustainable way of life. That is our belief. In cities and deserts, remote islands, and outer space. We imagine a future where water is freely available to all people. Our work will always continue.
Kyoto Fusioneering — Kyoto Fusioneering is a research & development, design, and manufacture of parts related to fusion reactors.

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.

Investment focus

Renewable Energy, Robotics, Information Technology
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
Japan, United States, Tanzania

Portfolio highlights

AALTO HAPS — The AALTO Zephyr, the most persistent High Altitude Platform Station (HAPS) on the planet, is leading the world into The Stratospheric Age. Flexible, scalable, and adaptable. Zephyr makes this new and exciting age real, not just for some, but for everyone.
CesiumAstro — CesiumAstro builds high-throughput, software-defined phased array communication payloads for airborne and in-orbit platforms.
Albatross Technology — Albatross Technology is a technology company that develops offshore renewable energy devices and floating offshore wind turbines.

UTEC-The University of Tokyo Edge Capital Partners Co., Ltd.. UTEC is a seed/early stage technology focused venture capital firm associated with The University of Tokyo.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, United States, Singapore

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.
Celaid Therapeutics — Celaid Therapeutics specializes in manufacturing and sales of regenerative medicine products utilizing human hematopoietic stem cells.
Red Arrow Therapeutics — Red Arrow Therapeutics is a biotech firm that provides systemic cytokine delivery, targeted intratumoral activation, and biological potency.

Peeyush Ranjan is the GM and VP of Google Pay, Fintech, and Next Billion Users at Google. He attended the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur.

Investment focus

SaaS, Internet, Software
Seed, Series B, Series A
United States, India, Tanzania

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.

We partner with audacious entrepreneurs building enduring businesses.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, Israel, India

Portfolio highlights

Plenful — Plenful increases efficiency, ROI, and data accuracy around manual, administrative healthcare operational workflows.
Noded Ai — Noded Ai is preparing yourself for that customer meeting is tough. Noded brings them all together using your notes history and gives you exactly what you needed , when you need it. So you’re always prepared and one step ahead.
Coactive AI — Coactive unlocks analytics and insights from unstructured image and video data.

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. Amplo was founded in 2017 and headquartered in Spring, Texas.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, India, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Two Chairs — High quality, personalized mental health care in thoughtfully-designed therapy clinics conveniently located across the SF Bay Area.
Ensemble AI — Discover how a novel representation learning algorithm can increase the predictive power of your data in any domain and with any model.
Crosby Health — Turnkey clinical appeals for hospitals, health systems, private practices, and revenue cycle management providers.

Beyond Capital Fund is an evergreen impact investment fund that invests in for-profit, early-stage companies in East Africa and India. The fund invests in companies that aim to improve access to health care, sanitation, clean energy, agriculture and food security, and financial inclusion, all of which can help consumers at the bottom of theeconomic pyramid live better lives. Despite the fact that the fund seeks market-rate financial returns, Beyond Capital is structured as a nonprofit, allowing the organization to emphasize fidelity to its social mission alongside its financial mandate.Beyond Capital, headquartered in New York, was established in 2009.

Investment focus

Health Care, Financial Services, Medical Device
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
India, United States, Egypt

Portfolio highlights

Wellth — Improve quality scores, reduce high cost utilization, address health equity, and improve member satisfaction by using the right incentive at the right time to create life-changing healthy habits through Wellth.
Floworks AI — Unified Single Conversational Interface for all your work apps. Revolutionizing software interaction to enhance productivity and streamline workflow.
Haqdarshak — Haqdarshak is a technology-enabled platform working to transform how Indian citizens learn about, apply for, and benefit from, government schemes. The company is composed of a group of passionate social entrepreneurs using technology to impact the next billion. The team comprises of individuals from diverse background who have come together out ofcommon interest and passion. The investor community represents individuals holding prestigious positions in different companies across various sectors.

The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) is advancing its activities around the pillars of a field-oriented approach, human security, and enhanced effectiveness, efficiency and speed.

Investment focus

Renewable Energy, Energy, Water
Debt Financing, Series A, Series C
China, Japan, Vietnam

Portfolio highlights

AMEA Power — Founded in 2016, AMEA Power has assembled a leading team of global industry experts to deliver clean energy projects across Africa, the Middle East and other emerging markets.
BINH DUONG Water Environment — BINH DUONG Water Environment is a water supply company that provides services such as exploitation, treatment, and supply of clean water.
Masdar — Masdar is a renewable energy manufacturer that develops utility-scale renewable energy projects. At Masdar, they are staunch backers of the UAE's shift towards a knowledge-intensive economy. The company's goal is to exemplify the commercial adoption of clean technologies and to represent the UAE’s broader dedication to sustainablepractices.

NEC Group under the Solution for Society principle delivers safety, security, fairness and efficiency to our society with our partners around the globe.

Investment focus

Software, Manufacturing, Semiconductor
Funding Round, Series B, Series A
United States, Japan, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Flyhound — Flyhound is a public safety solution to help find people fast. We enable public safety agencies using commercial drones to locate and identify mobile phones on the ground to assist in rescue efforts, locate missing persons, evacuate disaster victims, find criminal suspects, and more.
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.
D-Wave Systems — D-Wave is the leader in the development and delivery of quantum computing systems, software, and services.

A strong and engaged private sector is indispensible to ending extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity. That's where IFC comes in - we have more than 60 years experience in unlocking private investment, creating markets and opportunities where they are needed most.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
Debt Financing, Funding Round, Series B
India, United States, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Maistra — Maistra is a tourist company. They also provide hotels, resorts, camps, conference halls, wellness centers, spas, and wedding halls. They also develop tourism and introduce hotels and resorts.
Vayana Network — Vayana Network is a financing network that enables Businesses and their Trade Partners to capture their entire receivable and payable trades electronically and finance through Banks and Financial Institutions. Businesses can finance their payables, or factor their receivables or make financing available to their counterparties. Vayana Network, inpartnership with MasterCard and Banks, also offers its award winning Commercial Card solution for Payable financing.
Georgia Global Utilities — GGU is a water utility and renewable energy holding company that distributes potable water, collects, and processes wastewater.The investments in infrastructure made by the water utility company considerably increase the quality of water supply and wastewater services provided to consumers, as well as contribute to operating efficiency.GGU's renewable energy division owns and runs 240 MW of renewable energy assets, including eight 219 MW hydropower facilities and one 21 MW wind power plant.it was headquartered in Tbilisi, Georgia.

Nyca is a leading venture capital firm focused on connecting innovative companies to the global financial system.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Duetti — Duetti acquires music catalogs from independent artists a-la-carte with transparent, data-driven deals. Fund your career and breathe new life into tracks with uniquely intelligent marketing. Partner with us one track at a time, or even just a percentage of one.
Qapita — Qapita is a market leader in India & SEA built to automate workflows around equity management process for CapTables, ESOPs, Due-diligence, and Transactions.
Coverdash — Coverdash helps make insurance accessible to businesses of all shapes and sizes. Get the coverage you need in a dash.

Sajid currently works as Managing Partner at MyAsiaVC He attended London Business School.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
India, Nigeria, Kenya

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.

Seed capital for technology startups globally.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Orca Fraud — Orca empowers fraud fighters with effective tools to combat fraud
Hohm Energy — We make the process of going solar simple. Generate your free, custom solar proposal and get matched with an accredited solar provider in under 5 mins.
Startbutton — We help multi-national businesses sell products and get paid in African countries in a compliant and tax-efficient manner, without the need to register locally.

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.

Investment focus

Health Care, Food and Beverage, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, Ghana, France

Portfolio highlights

TestParty — TestParty is the most effective solution for organizations to achieve digital accessibility compliance in the WCAG for the ADA, EAA, Section 508, and more.
Papaya — Papaya is the quickest way to order and pay in restaurants and bars and enjoy a seamless ordering and payment experience with personalized offerings. Restaurants and bars turn tables faster, experience increased basket sizes, and better understand their customer base.
Frame - Fertility & Family Building — Frame enables the early identification of fertility risk and care navigation leading to better outcomes for patients, employers and healthcare providers.

Vlad Tenev is the co-founder and CEO of Robinhood. A first-generation immigrant from Bulgaria, Tenev earned his B.S. in Mathematics at Stanford University before starting two finance companies in New York City, selling trading software to hedge funds. In 2013, Tenev and longtime friend Baiju Bhatt co-founded Robinhood, a zero commission brokeragededicated to democratizing the finance system. The company has millions of users across the country and is currently valued at $5.6 billion.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, India, Tanzania

Portfolio highlights

Ezra AI — Ezra provides full-body MRI screening for potential early cancer and abnormalities in up to 13 organs. Book a scan today.
Lightning Labs — Building faster, cheaper, global layer-two bitcoin
Parafin — Parafin provides you with an end-to-end solution to offer one-click financing to your sellers.

Warioba Ventures is an investment and advisory firm.

Investment focus

Health Care
Seed
Tanzania

Portfolio highlights

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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, India, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Nav.it — Uniting behavioral science and health tracking, Nav.it's financial app is the first of its kind to create daily financial habits that reduce financial stress and create lasting behavioral change, using the power of prescriptive analytics.
Helicone — LLM-Observability for Developers
Synthpop — Streamlining healthcare, one workflow at a time. Automate 80% of your healthcare business processes with AI. Learn more.

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.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Health Care, Software
Funding Round, Series B, Series A
Japan, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Nailie — Nailie is an app that lets you connect to a nail specialists just for you.
Loglass — Loglass offers corporate intelligence to enhance business management.
Pathos Logos — Pathos Logos is an HR co-creation platform that specializes in sales of SaaS and supply of human resources for corporations.

Shine is a venture capital firm that partners with relentless, creative, convincing entrepreneurs from the earliest stages of company building.

Investment focus

Software, Blockchain, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Spain, Canada

Portfolio highlights

BinIt — BinIt helps MRFs analyze their material and optimize costs through data
10Beauty — The only 5-step manicure machine in the world.
iVerify — IVerify is a mobile threat hunting company that provides mobile security solutions for individuals who want to know they can trust their devices with their most sensitive information without sacrificing privacy.

Growth-stage venture capital.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Loop — Control your freight spend with Loop. A tech-first audit and pay platform loved by Shippers, Carriers and 3PLs.
Stitch — One API integration for all online payments across South Africa. Accept Pay by bank, debit + credit card, cash, manual EFT, debit order and crypto. Orchestrate + reconcile digital payments across methods and send payouts
Canopy Connect — Verify premiums, limits, deductibles with Canopy Connect. Use our agent dashboard or build with our insurance API for even greater flexibility.

Flexcap is a venture capital investment firm based in New York, New York. The firm focuses on early stage investments in enterprise SaaS and financial services.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Sales Automation
Seed, Series A
Tanzania, United States

Portfolio highlights

Ramani — Ramani is an application for salespeople to track their inventory, register their customers and record their sales transactions.
Synthpop — Streamlining healthcare, one workflow at a time. Automate 80% of your healthcare business processes with AI. Learn more.
Kindo — Enhance AI productivity with Kindo. The first platform to support any AI model plus 200+ SaaS integrations, all while being centralized, compliant, and secure. Try today!

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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
Mexico, Colombia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Elenas — Elenas is Latin America's top social commerce platform. Our platform has empowered tens of thousands of women across Colombia to launch online businesses and earn extra income by selling products on WhatsApp, Facebook and other social media sites. Currently, 11 million women across Latin America sell consumer good products through direct salescatalogs and door-to-door sales. Elenas provides a digital solution for them to start an online store, manage clients, and grow their business from home, without having to worry about product sourcing, delivery, or payment collection.
REVER — REVER is born to disrupt how eCommerce returns work by making them easier and faster for everyone.
Credable — Credable is the Digital Banking Platform that is driving the future of banking by embedding financial services in businesses across emerging markets.

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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Nigeria, United States, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Lengo — Lengo is an AI based intelligence platform that offers a large database on consumer goods for companies in the FMCG sector.
Shekel Mobility — B2B marketplace for auto dealers to grow their dealerships leveraging on flexible inventory financing and management solutions. Available on web and mobile.
Maad — Maad is Francophone Africa's fastest-growing B2B marketplace, based in Dakar, Senegal. Our tech-driven solution allows retailers to order products from our one-stop shop and benefit from working capital loans

We are a nonprofit fighting poverty, disease, and inequity around the world

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Pharmaceutical
Grant, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

Schrödinger — Schrödinger’s industry-leading computational platform facilitates the research efforts of biopharmaceutical and industrial companies, academic institutions and government laboratories worldwide. Schrödinger also has wholly-owned and collaborative drug discovery programs in a broad range of therapeutic areas.Schrödinger is deeply committed toinvesting in the science and talent that drive its computational platform. Schrödinger was founded in 1990, has over 700 employees and is engaged with customers and collaborators in more than 70 countries. To learn more visit www.schrodinger.com.
Noze — Stratuscent's leading scent detection technology empowers next-generation products with the sense of smell. We build proprietary libraries of "scentprints" that can be deployed right away, and we can also help our partners build custom libraries for their own unique applications.
North Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities — North Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities is the official representative of private, nonprofit higher learning institutions.

elea Foundation for Ethics in Globalization

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Logistics, Health Care
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
South Africa, India, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Yebo Fresh — Powering South Africa's Township Economy.
Elucid Social — Elucid Social integrates businesses with the social good movement through a data-driven strategy that yields measurable results. Elucid Social develops and deploys technologies to assess, report, and minimize human rights risks linked with the sourcing of products and services.
BluLever Educations — Join the artisans & apprentices who are building the future. At BluLever Education you can build your career, business, or the artisan ecosystem with an education partner that believes in artisans. Welcome to our digital home. We offer plumbing and electrical apprenticeships.

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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Energy
Debt Financing, Funding Round, Series B
Kenya, India, South Africa

Portfolio highlights

Kasha — Health products and household goods you want, delivered to where you are.
Ipak Yuli Bank — Kredir, Karta, Visa virtual, Omonat, Valyuta kurslari, Avtokredir, Pul o`tkazmalari
Kentegra Biotechnology Holdings LLC — Kentegra Biotechnology Holdings is a leading U.S-Kenyan company that supports a Kenyan-based biopesticide processing business that aggregates, extracts, and refines pale refine extract (PRE) from the pyrethrum flower, and sells the PRE to formulators across the world. Kentegra is committed to improving farmer’s livelihoods by investing in thecommunities where we are working to help farmers and their families have a more stable income and better quality of life.Grants: Norad 2021, AgriFi 2020, USAID 2020, USAID 2019, DEG 2020, DEG 2019

Alex Bouaziz co-founded Deel in 2018 where he now currently serves as chief executive officer. Earlier in his career, Alex has helped build startups such as Sarona Ventures, Lifeslice, and Cryptofighters.Alex is an MIT alumnus holding a master's degree in civil and environmental engineering. He also holds a BSc in civil and environmentalengineering from Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Mexico, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Riot — Meet Riot, the all-in-one platform that drives better protection for your team.
Async — Share smart voice memos with anyone, everywhere you work and create. Just send a link.
The Network — Our goal is to solve the Human Coordination Problem by engineering serendipity.

Pontem Ventures are a strategic investment vehicle that identifies, vets and invests in industry agnostic growth businesses.

Investment focus

Health Care
Seed
Tanzania

Portfolio highlights

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.

Laura Spiekerman is a co-founder and serves as CRO at Alloy. Prior to Alloy, Laura served as the head of business development and strategic partnerships at a payments company and a research/investments analyst in emerging markets at Imprint Capital Advisors.Laura holds a degree in political science from Barnard College and ColumbiaUniversity.

Investment focus

SaaS, Banking, Software
Seed, Series A
United States, Tanzania

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.
Vergo — Vergo is a financial technology company and is not a bank. Banking services provided by Blue Ridge Bank, N.A.; Member FDIC.
LaunchNotes — Thousands of leading companies use LaunchNotes to launch new products, announce new features, share product roadmaps, collect customer feedback, and more.

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

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Pakistan, Oman, Egypt

Portfolio highlights

MContent — MContent is a platform that creates direct financing and investments for deserving content creators, film professionals, and media artists.
WoW Health Solutions — WoW Health Pakistan Provides Best Healthcare Solutions In Pakistan. Connect With Doctor via Phone Call Or Call Doctor At Home Anytime.
Prosper Technologies — Cloud platform for financial data

VentureSouq operates a large co-investment platform with a global investment portfolio.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia

Portfolio highlights

Wisdomise — Explore Wisdomise, your all-in-one, AI-powered platform delivering carefully curated insights and automated investment opportunities.
Elevate Pay — Bloom mobile banking app helps in money transfer in Sudan.
LayerPixel — LayerPixel uses a modular design to overcome TON's asynchronous limitations and leverage its sharding benefits.

Jared Schrieber - Co-Founder & Board Member @ Numerator

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Hospitality
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Hungary, United States, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Algori — Improving FMCG growth with the fastest and most granular insights from 45,000 shoppers in Spain
Loop Golf — Search less, golf more with Loop Golf. We make it effortless to search and book tee times at popular local golf courses near you. Used by golfers across the nation, we're committed to simplifying your golf experience. Discover a range of golf courses and effortlessly secure your ideal tee time. With Loop Golf, embracing the joy of golfing has never been more accessible.
Giggle — Giggle is an hourly workforce marketplace serving the flexible needs of the modern labour market. Via instant matchmaking technology, quality assurance system and staffing support, Giggle eases the full staffing, recruiting and employment lifecycle of low skilled workers. The instant and short term matchmaking process provides better schedulingand budgeting opportunities for students, gig workers and employees alike.The company primarily serves hospitality, logistics and retail businesses facing post-covid workforce problems, bridging the demand between rigid operating hours and flexible individual needs.Founded in 2022 in Budapest, Giggle is currently seeking partners, investors and talent to scale across various European markets.

Luno Expeditions is a global early-stage investor supporting fintech & crypto founders on their journeys to build the next generation of financial services.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Blockchain
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Onmeta — Onmeta
Anchor — Anchor is building the infrastructure needed for businesses to build, launch, and scale banking and payment solutions.
Sealance Corp. — Sealance provides financial services, cryptography and other services.

Aaron has 10+ years of global experience building, scaling and investing in technology products in corporate and startup environments. He has co-founded both B2B & B2C businesses, in Africa - he has led seed stage equity investments in 20+ startups (totaling $2m+), driven the exit of 3 startups in Africa, he also sits on the board of ofstartups ranging from AgriTech to Transport and has worked with 100s through partners like Visa, MTN, Airbus, Société Générale and the World Bank.Prior to the Catalyst Fund, he was the Managing Director of MEST, Africa’s Largest Pre-Seed Incubator, and Managing Partner for Africa at Nest.vc, a Hong Kong based fund, which he joined after a career in financial services.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Apps, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed
Kenya, Nigeria, Egypt

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 all online payments across South Africa. Accept Pay by bank, debit + credit card, cash, manual EFT, debit order and crypto. Orchestrate + reconcile digital payments across methods and send payouts

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Zanifu — The zanifu platform, allows small retailers in Sub Saharan Africa, to procure inventory from their suppliers & pay later.
Waspito — We are the platform that engages Africa into the conversation and action to drive affordable and accessible quality healthcare across the continent.
Lapaire — Discover a wide range of high-quality & affordable eyeglasses at Lapaire Glasses. Book a free vision test with our professional optometrists to help you find your perfect pair of glasses to enhance your vision and style. Shops in 7 african countries: Benin, Ivory Coast, Togo, Burkina Faso, Mali, Kenya and Uganda.

We provide potentially life-changing treatments and the protection of life-saving vaccines to millions of people

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical
Series A, Series B, Post-IPO Equity
United States, France, China

Portfolio highlights

Formation Bio — Building the pharma company of the future.
Areteia Therapeutics — Areteia Therapeutics is a biotechnology company committed to putting asthma patients in better control of their disease. The company was spun out of Pennsylvania-based Knopp, which published results from its phase 2 clinical trial last year that showed its oral drug candidate could reduce the count of blood eosinophil, which is an indication ofimproving lung function and is found in several asthma-related treatments.
Mirador Therapeutics — Redefining Immunology & Inflammation with Precision. Mirador Therapeutics envisions a bold new era of precision medicine for immune-mediated inflammatory and fibrotic diseases driven by speed and better development accuracy. Driven by our deep expertise and passion. Founded and led by several

AXIAN is a pan-African group that specializes in real estate, telecom, financial services, energy, and innovation.

Investment focus

Lending, Health Care
Seed
Kenya, Tanzania

Portfolio highlights

LipaLater — LipaLater is a lending marketplace that provides postpaid payments at e-commerce stores. They are making technology affordable for you. Get the electronic of your choice today and pay for it in comfortable monthly installments.
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.

Investment focus

B2B, Mobile, Consumer
Seed, Pre-Seed
Kenya, Tanzania

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.

Accion Venture Lab is a leading early-stage investor in inclusive fintech, providing seed-first capital and strategic support to innovative startups that are meeting the financial needs of underserved people globally. Our global portfolio and local approach enable us to spot and respond to global trends faster, sharing learnings across geographies. Accion Venture Lab is an investment strategy of Accion and is managed by Accion Impact Management.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Semaai — Full-stack agri-tech solution for Indonesian farmers
AquaExchange — AquaExchange is a technology platform for shrimp and fish farmers.
Cashinvoice — Cashinvoice connects supply chain stakeholders and digitises invoice-to-cash processes to unlock working capital trapped within supply chains and accelerate business growth

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