Top 50 Startup Investors in Uganda (June 2026)
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Pearl Capital Partners
VC Fund
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11 | Uganda, Kenya, Malawi | Private Equity, Debt Financing, Seed | Agriculture, Farming, Food Processing | $5k–$2.6M |
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Renew Capital
VC Fund
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7 | Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia | Pre-Seed, Seed | Mobile Apps, Financial Services, Finance | |
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Hesham Zreik
Angel
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3 | United States, India, Nigeria | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence | $18k–$5M |
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Nordic Impact Funds
VC Fund
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3 | Uganda | Pre-Seed, Seed | Software, Finance, Personal Finance | |
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Segal Family Foundation
VC Fund
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3 | Uganda, United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | Financial Services, Apps, Water | |
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Yabx Technologies
VC Fund
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2 | Uganda | Venture - Series Unknown | SaaS, FinTech, Financial Services | $10M–$10M |
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Opes Impact Fund
VC Fund
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2 | Italy, Kenya, India | Seed, Series A | Communities, Agriculture, Energy | $219k–$910k |
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The Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Ghana, Uganda | Seed, Grant | Financial Services, Charity, FinTech | $100k–$5M |
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FCA Investments
VC Fund
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2 | Uganda | FinTech, Software, Financial Services | ||
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Savannah Fund
VC Fund
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2 | Kenya, United States, South Africa | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, FinTech, Software | $25k–$8M |
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MFS Africa
VC Fund
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2 | France, Uganda, Germany | Seed, Series A | FinTech, Insurance, Mobile | $3M–$7.3M |
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4Di Capital
VC Fund
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2 | South Africa, United States, Kenya | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Financial Services, Mobile | $441k–$47M |
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Soma Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United States, India, Mexico | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech | $350k–$40M |
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Beyond Capital Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya, India, Ghana | Seed, Series A, Series B | E-Commerce, Retail, Health Care | $2M–$12M |
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Serena Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada, Spain | Seed, Series A | E-Commerce, Health Care, Women's | $1.6M–$20M |
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Peggy Grigus Mangot
Angel
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1 | United States, Uganda | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | FinTech, Financial Services, Information Technology | $350k–$875k |
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Consonance Investment Managers
VC Fund
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1 | Nigeria, United States, Kenya | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, FinTech | $50k–$10M |
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GAIA Impact Fund
VC Fund
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1 | Singapore, South Korea, France | Series A, Seed | Solar, Energy, Renewable Energy | $100k–$4.3M |
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Active Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada, Mexico | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $300k–$72M |
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Kepple Africa Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt | Seed, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | $300k–$4.5M |
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East Africa venture capital association
VC Fund
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1 | Uganda | Pre-Seed | Mobile Apps, Transportation, Public Transportation | |
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Mobility 54
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya, Nigeria, Côte d'Ivoire | Seed, Series A | Financial Services, Transportation, Payments | $3M–$24M |
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Future Africa
VC Fund
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1 | Nigeria, United States, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology | $100k–$20M |
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Ed Levinson
Angel
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1 | Canada, Uganda | Seed | FinTech, Financial Services, Finance | |
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Tidjane Deme
Angel
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1 | Nigeria, Egypt, Uganda | Series A, Series B, Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Insurance | $3.6M–$200M |
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European Union
VC Fund
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1 | United Kingdom, Germany, United States | Grant, Seed | Health Care, Information Technology, Software | $16k–$23M |
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AfricInvest
VC Fund
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1 | Tunisia, Kenya, Morocco | Private Equity, Series A | Financial Services, Manufacturing, FinTech | $6.5M–$65M |
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Powering Renewable Energy Opportunities
VC Fund
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1 | Uganda | Seed | AgTech, Logistics, Agriculture | |
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Nordic Microfinance Initiative
VC Fund
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1 | India, Uganda, Myanmar | Series B, Series C | Financial Services, Finance, Banking | |
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Imprimatur Capital Fund Management
VC Fund
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1 | Latvia, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Debt Financing | Software, Information Technology, Apps | |
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GIZ - Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit
VC Fund
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1 | Egypt, Iraq, Ghana | Grant, Pre-Seed, Seed | Health Care, Information Technology, Coffee | $25k–$350k |
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Musha Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Nigeria, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Financial Services, FinTech | $125k–$10M |
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Wind
VC Fund
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1 | France, United States, Belgium | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, E-Commerce, Health Care | |
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Persistent
VC Fund
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1 | Ghana, Germany, Switzerland | Seed, Series A | Energy, Solar, Renewable Energy | |
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Marcus Boström
Angel
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1 | Sweden, Uganda | Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel | Email, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence | |
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Symbiotics Group
VC Fund
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1 | India, Colombia, United States | Debt Financing, Seed, Angel | Financial Services, FinTech, Energy | |
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Zephyr Acorn
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya, India, Uganda | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, Banking, FinTech | |
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African Development Bank
VC Fund
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1 | Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa | Debt Financing, Grant, Post-IPO Debt | Financial Services, Banking, Finance | |
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Plesion Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria | Seed, Pre-Seed | B2B, AgTech, Billing | |
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First circle capital
VC Fund
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1 | Nigeria, Egypt, United States | Pre-Seed, Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Finance | |
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DOB Equity
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda | Private Equity, Seed | Food and Beverage, Health Care, Farming | |
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Equilibria Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Uganda | Seed | Apps, Mobile, FinTech | |
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Jim Chu
Angel
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1 | United States, Uganda, Nigeria | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Solar, Water, Energy | |
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Incofin Investment Management
VC Fund
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1 | India, Kenya, Myanmar | Series A, Series B | Financial Services, Finance, FinTech | |
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SC Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Singapore, India | Series A, Series B | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | |
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Autodesk Foundation
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Kenya, Uganda | Seed, Series A, Series B | Energy, Environmental Engineering, Renewable Energy | |
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Delta40
VC Fund
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1 | Uganda | Seed | CleanTech, Manufacturing | |
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Jon Gosier
Angel
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1 | United States, Uganda | Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel | Software, Music, Analytics | |
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Norrsken Foundation
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Nigeria, Rwanda | Pre-Seed, Seed | Financial Services, Health Care, FinTech | |
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Beyond Capital
VC Fund
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1 | India, United States, Egypt | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B | Health Care, Financial Services, Medical Device | |
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Pearl Capital Partners is a specialist agriculture investment firm that has been investing in small and medium sized East African agribusinesses since 2005. Pearl Capital Partners investments generate financial returns for our investors while creating significant social impact. Pearl Capital Partners success is derived from working with ambitiousmanagement teams, providing supportive investment structures and specialist expertise that create high-growth agribusinesses.
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- Industry: Agriculture, Farming, Food Processing
- Stage:Private Equity, Debt Financing, Seed
- Geography: Uganda, Kenya, Malawi
Investor stats
- Total investments: 36
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$2.1M; Debt Financing $5k–$650k; Private Equity $18k–$2.6M
- Lead/follow: 92% lead, 8% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2017
Portfolio highlights
- Enimiro — Enimiro is creating an online farming platform in form of a mobile App to connect Ugandan smallholder farmers with local investors to increase harvest while enabling urban people to invest into farming and earn proceeds at just a click of a button.
- Kamp Feed — Kamp Feed is a food producer of nutritional animal feeds that specializes in pelleted animal feeds.
- Newman Foods — Newman Foods is an agro-processing company that manufactures, exports, and supplies a comprehensive range of fresh agricultural products. Newman Foods Ltd is a Kampala-based agro-processing company whose primary business is producing and marketing branded consumer foods sold through retail stores in the local and the regional market, as well asaggregation and export of fresh fruits and vegetables (FFV) to the European market.
Renew Capital is an Africa-focused investment firm that addresses critical gaps for Africa’s growing businesses and connects them to a global network of impact investors.
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- Industry: Mobile Apps, Financial Services, Finance
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 26
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Bosso — Bosso projects and realizes automation and robotic solutions for the growth of your business.
- Chpter — Chpter is a software development company that offers fast billing and checkout to help start, run, and grow a business.
- Level Africa — Digital Investment Marketplace for Africa
Hesham Zreik is the CEO of FasterCapital. He previously worked at DreamApps as a Project Manager. Hesham attended the University of Westminster.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, India, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 478
- Round size: Seed $50k–$1M; Pre-Seed $18k–$1.2M; Series A $50k–$5M
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
Portfolio highlights
- EasyBusy — EasyBusy is a contractor-client matching platform designed to address key challenges in the GCC service and construction economy.
- Manufacturing Electronics Cards — it is a startup built on the idea of putting advanced electronics engineering expertise at the service of local and regional businesses.
- JLC Industry Of Tomato Paste Sarl U —
Local network Sharing experience to make opportunities for jobs and income. Private Equity that will create positive impact in East Africa
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- Industry: Software, Finance, Personal Finance
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Uganda
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow
Portfolio highlights
- REXIAL — REXIAL is automating direct debit by enabling merchants to collect recurring payments from their customers securely via ACH payments at a fraction of fees on credit or debit cards.
- ChapChap Africa — ChapChap Africa develops software that aims to help improve service delivery to under-served communities. ChapChap is a smartphone powered platform that’s helping small businesses stay afloat and thrive by introducing them to the digital age of doing business.
- XENO — XENO is an investment management platform that helps people to plan, save, and invest in financial goals. XENO was founded in 2016 and was headquartered in Kampala, Uganda.
The Segal Family Foundation partners with outstanding individuals and organizations that improve the well-being of communities.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Apps, Water
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Uganda, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Tugende — Tugende helps motorcycle taxi drivers own their own motorcycles in eighteen months or less instead of renting indefinitely. Ownership significantly increases income, job security and road safety.
- Dios Dental Clinic — Dios dental is a network of dental clinics which aims to bring affordable quality dental care. Their transparent pricing policy allows its clients to know their budget, with standard treatment and sterilization protocol. It was founded on March 1, 2016, and is headquartered in Rubaga, Uganda.
- Numida — Growing African small businesses with affordable, convenient, and fair credit.
Provider of cloud banking platform intended to help financial service providers (FSPs) to acquire and manage a profitable loan portfolio. The company's platform uses proprietary artificial intelligence/machine learning algorithms on alternate data sources, together with loan origination and loan lifecycle management software, to offer neoage digital credit products.Product array includes micro-loans, BNPL, savings, overdrafts, loans for retail customers as well as small and medium-sized enterprises ("SME"), etc., tailored to the needs of the existing thin file as well as new to credit (NTC) segment. Yabx enables financial institutions and networks (Telecom Operators, Mobile Money Operators, e-Commerce Players, merchant aggregators, payment gateways) to acquire and successfully manage profitable digital loan portfolios.
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- Industry: SaaS, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Uganda
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Venture - Series Unknown $10M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Furaha — Welcome to Furaha Financial, purpose driven financing. We are a financial technology business which acts as a software-based intermediary platform.
Opes-Lcef is an impact investor that provides catalytic capital to early-stage social enterprises in emerging markets.
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- Industry: Communities, Agriculture, Energy
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Italy, Kenya, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 43
- Round size: Seed $219k–$910k
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Refolo — Refolo is a type B social cooperative that sees social agriculture as having a dual impact: social and environmental. Refolo was created with the aim of creating an agro-ecological and social corridor that runs through the province of Brescia from north to south with the hope that administrations and other communities will come together to generatea positive impact on the environment and the community.Refolo operates in an area located between the municipalities of Brescia, Collebeato, Villa Carcina and Montirone, territories that share the presence of agricultural areas that over the years have been abandoned due to their unsuitability for intensive agriculture and lack of interest by new generations and that are now ready to start again.
- Ecodudu — Ecodudu is a waste-to-value company. It uses a proprietary innovation to recycle organic waste into high-protein animal feed and organic fertilizer using the black soldier fly. It harnesses insects (nature’s recycling agents) to address global issues which include waste management, demand for protein, and environmental conservation.
- Sistema.bio — Sistema.bio is a biodigester with biogas appliances. High efficiency biodigesters transform organic waste into renewable biogas.
William H. Draper, III and Robin Richards Donohoe began investing together in the venture industry in 1994 concentrating on building companies in India. Since 1994, they have invested in over one hundred early stage information technology investments both in India and the United States. In 2010, the Foundation joined forces with Robert S. Kaplan,formerly vice-chairman of Goldman Sachs and currently professor of leadership at Harvard Business School. Together the team raised their second fund inviting fourteen innovative philanthropists to join the fund.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Charity, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Grant
- Geography: United States, Ghana, Uganda
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Seed $100k–$2.4M; Grant $550k–$5M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $65M in 2016
Portfolio highlights
- Emata — Emata brings digital and affordable financial products to farmers in East Africa.
- Ignite Reading — Ignite Reading delivers early literacy intervention based in the Science of Reading to help school districts achieve predictable, scalable gains in foundational reading skills. Our mission is simple: to ensure every child learns to read proficiently, ideally by the end of 1st grade when early intervention has the greatest long-term impact.
- American Journalism Project — The American Journalism Project is a new venture philanthropy organization dedicated to local news. By providing course-altering investments and venture support to civic news organizations, we are building a new public service media that is governed by, sustained by and looks like the public it serves.
FCA Investments is an impact investor specializing in developing countries and fragile states.
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- Industry: FinTech, Software, Financial Services
- Geography: Uganda
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Amfri Farms — Amfri farms produce frozen products and herbs and spices that include frozen apple banana puree, frozen mango pulp and dice, chilli, vanilla, coffee, lemon balm, dill, and turmeric. They also export jackfruit, avocados, Irish potatoes, pumpkins, and sweet potatoes.
- Laboremus Uganda — Laboremus Uganda delivers digital onboarding and KYC solutions for banks and fintechs in Africa.
- Sausage King 3000 Uganda — Sausage King 3000 Uganda offers fresh and processed beef products to all income groups in Uganda. The company aims to produce quality meat products on the African Continent and to educate consumers about the value of sausages as a nutritious food option. In addition to serving local markets, Sausage King 3000 Uganda also serves international hotelsand supermarkets.
Savannah Fund is a seed capital fund specializing in US$25,000-US$500,000 investments in early stage high growth technology (web and mobile) startups in sub-Saharan Africa. Initially focused on East Africa, the fund aims to bridge the early stage/angel and venture capital investment gap that currently exists in Africa. The Fund expects toachieve this objective by combining capital with mentor networks both in the region and from Silicon Valley via an accelerator program and a follow-on independent seed fund.The fund is managed by an experienced and technology savvy team that have founded companies or are actively involved in angel investing or having run successful accelerator programs in past but also understand the unique Subsaharan African environment. They are backed and supported by both local, regional and international networks of angels,venture capitalists whose expertise we can draw on to help startups succeed and scale to fully fledged regional or global companies.They believe in the potential for Africa to become a global technology innovator by creating sustainable for profit companies that create jobs and make an impact.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Kenya, United States, South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 38
- Round size: Seed $25k–$3M; Pre-Seed $200k–$2.1M; Series A $750k–$8M
- Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $25M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Oze — OZÉ brings African small businesses into the digital era. It is an app that makes it easy for businesses to track sales, expenses, and customer information. The data is analyzed to provide tailored recommendations, reports, and business education. If the entrepreneur needs a little extra support, an OZÉ Coach is just a click away. As they are usingOZÉ to manage their business and learn how to run it better, we are learning about them. Using this data and machine learning, we can predict their credit risk and provide them with affordable capital from our banking partners. With over 20,000 registered users, OZÉ is the largest online community of SMEs in Ghana. The most exciting thing is that OZÉ works; 97% of businesses that have used OZE for at least 9 months are growing or profitable or both!
- Root — Launch digital and embedded insurance solutions with omni-channel distribution.
- Afropolitan — Afropolitan is building a Network State to unleash the maximum potential of Africans around the world. Are you interested? Join us with your email.
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Browse database — It's Free!MFS Africa is the largest mobile money inter-operability hub in Africa, which connects mobile network operators across the continent through a single API. In addition to mobile remittance services, the MFS Africa API enables merchant payment, bulk payment, bank-to-wallet transfers, and an array of other cross border digital payments services.
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- Industry: FinTech, Insurance, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: France, Uganda, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $3M–$7.3M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Julaya — Julaya is a fintech providing African businesses with a digital account to make payments : disbursing mobile money transactions to their employees, suppliers, and owning their own virtual and physical prepaid cards.
- maviance — Maviance is a German-based consulting (business and IT) and software development company that develops industry-specific for web and mobile applications for businesses and governments. It creates sustainable and customized solutions to meet the requirements of customers by combining its industry experience with solution-oriented skills of businessre-design, concept, project management, programming, and testing.Our commitment to excellence and sustainability is evident in suite of innovative and scalable smart mobile enterprise applications in industries like Microfinance, Metering, Insurance and Sales Automation. Each of our applications consists of a web-based back office server, mobile clients and APIs for SMS, mobile billing, mobile payment and integration into existing systems. Maviance serves clients in the financial services, telecommunications and public sectors, increasing productivity, reducing costs and improving their management capabilities. Founded in 2008, maviance GmbH is headquartered in Leipzig, Germany.
- Numida — Growing African small businesses with affordable, convenient, and fair credit.
4Di Capital is an independent seed- and early-stage technology venture capital firm based in Cape Town, South Africa.Nurture capital is the term that best describes 4Di Capitalâ€:tm:s purpose and philosophy.We understand that in the early days of any business, support, mentoring and access to networks is just as important as seed capital.Using tried and tested international venture capital best practices, adapted for local use, we believe in entrepreneur-friendly finance without frills, and in working as a team with our investments to achieve their true potential.4Di Capital Early-Stage Technology Fund 1 targets startup investment opportunities with high growth potential at the seed- and early-stages in the mobile, enterprise software and web sectors.We look for founder teams with hungry passion, commitment, domain expertise and deep insights into the large market problems they wish to solve with their technology solutions.
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: South Africa, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 40
- Round size: Seed $441k–$6M; Pre-Seed $3M–$4M; Series A $2M–$47M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Lumkani — AFFORDABLE ALARM SYSTEMS & INSURANCE FOR YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS Whether you are in a township, informal settlement, or suburb, we have the right protection for you. AFFORDABLE ALARM SYSTEMS & INSURANCE FOR YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS Whether you are in a township, informal settlement, or suburb ...
- Investsure — InvestSure is a technology company that uses its software to enable partner investment platforms to sell its unique Investment Indemnity (insurance) product to their clients. InvestSure provides a full set of APIs that trading platform developers can use to integrate the Investure Investment Indemnity product seamlessly and easily into theirwebsites and mobile applications. Once InvestSure technology is added to a trading platform, it enables users to buy insurance on their shares with a single click. The full process from buying to insurance to settling claims is fully automated.The Investment Indemnity product itself is a unique innovation; it is designed to protect to protect shareholders against any losses in share value caused by actual or perceived fraud committed by management. This enables investors to secure their investments. The cost of the product is low enough to not significantly reduce returns of investors where no insurance event occurs, but to provide significant downside protection where an insured event does occur.
- CompariSure — Custom, built-for-purpose service and sales chatbot solutions for financial services providers.
Welcome to Soma Capital
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, India, Mexico
Investor stats
- Total investments: 491
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$8M; Pre-Seed $350k–$4M; Series A $7.5M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Starcloud — Starcloud is building a network of megawatt-scale data centers in space, scaleable to gigawatt capacity. Falling launch costs allow Starcloud to take advantage of the abundant energy, passive cooling, and high-speed connectivity in space.
- TicketRev — TicketRev helps fans find cheaper tickets to their favorite games and concerts. Fans name their price for their preferred seating location, enabling resellers and teams to sell their inventory faster.
- Inventive AI — Inventive is an AI-powered RFP & Questionnaire Response Management platform that drives 70%+ efficiency in sales response workflows.
Beyond Capital Ventures is a venture capital firm, offering a diversified portfolio of companies in "need-to-have" sectors, led by conscious leaders.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Retail, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Kenya, India, Ghana
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Round size: Seed $2M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 55% lead, 45% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Fasal — Fasal offers smart irrigation automation and fertigation automation system, soil moisture & temperature sensors, weather stations for precision irrigation
- Ampersand — Ampersand catalyzes and power mass-market electric mobility. By supplying the battery swap network and operating system the company makes sustainable mobility rapidly accessible and affordable for developing markets, to improve livelihoods and the environment. With over a million km already covered by e-motorcycles in Africa using our plug-and-playpowertrain and energy network.
- Lapaire — Get the best affordable eyeglasses in Africa with Lapaire. Book your free vision test today at our locations across Benin, Ivory Coast, Togo, Burkina Faso, Mali, Kenya & Uganda. Quality glasses, professional optometrists, unbeatable prices.
Serena Ventures focuses on early-stage companies and giving them the opportunity to be heard. Serena Ventures extends relationships, encourages collaboration among portfolio companies, and expands partnership opportunities across my vast network.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Health Care, Women's
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Canada, Spain
Investor stats
- Total investments: 77
- Round size: Seed $1.6M–$7.3M; Series A $4M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $111M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Stears — Stears Business has a simple mission: deliver original, analytical, well-written stories that make sense of the Nigerian economy
- Juno Medical — Juno Care is a whole-family healthcare platform that provides modern open-access care for the entire family’s day-to-day needs including pediatrics, women’s health, adult primary care, and same-day services.
- SoLo Funds — SoLo is a community that allows members to easily access and supply short-term funds for immediate needs. Our community works together to create mutually beneficial outcomes where members can both improve their financial health.
Peggy Grigus Mangot is the MD Fintech Partnerships, Commercial Banking of JPMorgan Chase & Co. She previously worked at PayPal as an Operating Partner, PayPal Ventures. Peggy Grigus Mangot attended Indiana University.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Information Technology
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Uganda
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Pre-Seed $350k–$875k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- TaxGPT — Looking for instant tax help? Meet TaxGPT, your AI-powered tax assistant. We simplify tax processes and maximize deductions. Try TaxGPT today!
- clinicpesa — Your Instant Secure Medical Mobile Bank In Your Palm.
- Firstbase — Equip remote and hybrid workers for success across the entire employee journey with the Firstbase platform. Firstbase powers a complete equipment lifecycle, fusing SaaS automation with world-class physical operations. Simplify onboarding, streamline offboarding, centralize and simplify asset management and warehousing, and build IT sustainability. Optimize HR experiences, flex your workplace services, and maximize every asset with Firstbase.
We are an investment company focused on helping early and growth-stage entrepreneurs build successful companies in Africa.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 31
- Round size: Seed $550k–$3.3M; Pre-Seed $450k–$1M; Series A $50k–$10M
- Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Releaf Earth — We are industrializing food processing in Africa. We've led 1000+ smallholder farmers to provide food factories with >7.5 million kilograms of quality crops.
- Tripesa — Tripesa offers payment solutions for Africa's travel and tourism industry.
- Plural — Smarter, Faster, Future-Ready Policy Strategy. Plural transforms how enterprises and organizations anticipate and act on legislation. Our AI-powered platform delivers accurate bill analysis, policy insights, and stakeholder intelligence so you can stay ahead of risk, seize opportunity, and shape outcomes. See How It Works Book A Demo Trusted By Deepen Your State & Federal Legislative
Gaia Impact Fund is a venture capital firm specializing in renewable energy that builds long-term partnerships with startups operating in Sub-Saharan Africa and South-East Asia with a strong environmental and social focus. The firm supports businesses enabling sustainable and affordable energy provision to local communities. In regions where energymixes are highly carbonized, it supports technological innovations and business models enabling a cost-efficient diffusion of renewable energy on a large scale.
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- Industry: Solar, Energy, Renewable Energy
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Singapore, South Korea, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 20
- Round size: Seed $100k–$2.7M; Series A $1.1M–$4.3M
- Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Ecoligo — With ecoligo's sustainable investments - you benefit twice: protect the climate & receive attractive returns.
- Agros — Agros exist to make farming economically viable and environmentally sustainable. The company provides farmers with carbon-reducing and income-increasing products and services, from input to market. Their unique ecosystem approach aggregates different low-carbon technologies, bundled with affordable finance, insurance, advisory and market access.Agros’ mission is to double the income of millions of farmers while reducing 100 megatons of annual carbon emissions.
- MyJouleBox — MyJouleBox offers a solution for solar professionals in Africa to offer leased solar installations to their customers.
Founder led capital for founder led companies. Pre-Seed Investing in AI-Native Business Software. We back technical founders building the future.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Canada, Mexico
Investor stats
- Total investments: 75
- Round size: Seed $535k–$5.4M; Pre-Seed $300k–$2.5M; Series A $5M–$72M
- Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $27M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Slang — Slang.ai is an AI answering service that's dead simple to set up. It's a better alternative to sending your customers to voicemail and losing business when you can't answer the phone.
- Dreambase — Dreambase develops AI-powered analytics software that enables organizations to generate insights, dashboards, and reports directly from their database without requiring traditional data infrastructure. The platform connects to data sources such as Supabase or PostgreSQL and analyzes schema, relationships, and usage patterns to automatically producemetrics and visualizations. Its system uses AI agents to perform tasks typically handled by data teams, including querying databases, identifying trends, building pipelines, and delivering recommendations based on real-time data. The platform eliminates the need for external data warehouses or manual event tracking by treating the database as the primary source of truth and generating insights directly from it.
- Schematic — Convert more users, expand accounts, and prevent churn with better monetization powered by Schematic.
We back exceptional founders in and from Africa who are addressing deep gaps between the status quo and the ideal.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 77
- Round size: Seed $500k–$4.5M; Pre-Seed $300k–$3.4M
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Paps — Paps is a transport and logistics company that offers innovative distribution and delivery solutions to companies and merchants.The company's e-commerce platform helps companies and traders with scheduling and tracking deliveries on a real-time basis. It offers the distribution of documents and parcels, storage of goods in a secure warehousethat meets standards, and delivery of insured parcels in relay point or last mile. It also provides professional services such as management and repayment of cash on delivery, provision of couriers, management of returns, collection, and periodic reporting.The Dakar, Dakar, Senegal-based company was founded in 2016
- Mvxchange — MVX makes freight shipping easier and more coordinated for companies of any size by bringing the whole booking and deployment process online. We simplify Africa’s end-to-end import and export trade transactions by aggregating and organizing 7+ services through 1 digital channel.
- Intmax — INTMAX has developed significant innovations in ZK implementation making it a unique Layer2 rollup network that offers low cost, security, tunable privacy, and above all, scalability.
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Browse database — It's Free!EAVCA is the representative organization for private equity and venture capital funds in East Africa, with a growing membership of private capital investors and advisors looking at the region for growth.At the core of what we do is promote East Africa as a private capital destination, while ensuring a favorable environment for trade for theprivate capital sector. Our advantage is in being able to provide local access to our members, which is critical to their East Africa strategy.
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- Industry: Mobile Apps, Transportation, Public Transportation
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Uganda
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Seconds — Seconds technologies is a Next-generation e-hailing platform providing technology in a double sided market place connecting people and things mobility everywhere, anytime with a multi-modal person’s transportation. Pivoted to modeling disruptive, distinctive technological solutions while integrating the transport system under one Application.Devoted to partnering with policy experts, the taxi industry, auto sector, and our communities to integrate localized and smart transportation innovations to confront the world’s transportation, environmental, and employment challenges. By building a safe, inclusive, and sustainable transportation and local services system. We hope to improve people’s lives and increase societal value for cities of the future. Seconds' mission is to provide a unified transportation solution at the touch of a buttonVision To become: The largest 360-degree transportation platform in the worldThe world's largest smart transportation operator A global leader in intelligent transportation systemsA global leader in the transportation and automotive technologies revolutionsValues Seconds was founded with the goal of providing clients with value.Safety first, experience second and efficiency third. Data-driven thinking and working is ingrained in our culture..We place a high priority on data collection and use it to make sensible judgments.In order to produce a win-win situation, we treat our partners and coworkers with humanitarian spirit.Before making any decisions, we thoroughly communicate and commit to exceptional execution.Respect and appreciate each other’s differences and embrace diversity
Mobility 54 is a joint venture among Toyota Tsusho Corporation and CFAO.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Transportation, Payments
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, Côte d'Ivoire
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Seed $3.3M–$13M; Series A $3M–$24M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
Portfolio highlights
- BasiGo — BasiGo is an early-stage e-mobility start-up looking to revolutionize the public transportation sector by providing matatu owners with a cost-effective electric alternative to diesel buses.
- Tugende — Tugende helps motorcycle taxi drivers own their own motorcycles in eighteen months or less instead of renting indefinitely. Ownership significantly increases income, job security and road safety.
- ETAP — ETAP is a digital insurance application that allows you to set up your car insurance in just 90 seconds.
Future Africa is a collective of mission-driven founders and funders building unicorns to solve Africa’s biggest challenges. They are build a future where purpose and prosperity are within everyone’s reach.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 87
- Round size: Seed $500k–$4M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3.7M; Series A $7M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Edves — Edves automates the brick and mortal School operations from Student enrollment, Fee Collection, Lesson Note up to Transcript Generation.
- Finclusion Group — Enhancing financial inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa through data driven lending.
- Nexford University — Transform your career with affordable, flexible degrees and job skills designed for today's workforce. Skip debt and learn at your own pace with Nexford.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Canada, Uganda
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Ensibuuko — Digital banking software for savings groups, SACCOs, and microfinance institutions. Join 21K+ organizations using Ensibuuko across Africa.
- WealthBar — CI Direct Investing makes it easy to access financial advice. CI Direct Trading is the best online investment platform for self-directed trading.
Tidjane DEME is a General Partner at Partech, co-leading Partech Africa Fund, Partech’s multi-stages tech fund exclusively dedicated to Africa digital markets. He joined in May 2016.Prior to joining Partech, Tidjane has worked for 15+ years in the tech industry in Africa, as an entrepreneur, a consultant as well as a senior business manager. Heworked for 7 years as a senior manager at Google, leading activities in Africa. He started the Google Francophone Africa office in Dakar in 2009, led ecosystem efforts to support developer communities and tech startups across 15+ countries, led Google’s Africa Content Strategy, launching and growing YouTube in 6 markets. He also led business development for Google’s Infrastructure investments in Africa. Prior to Google, Tidjane was a tech entrepreneur who founded and led CommonSys, a consulting and integration company deploying e-gov platforms and enterprise solutions in west Africa. He also cofounded 2 startups, an e-reputation platform in Europe and a SaaS platform for African SMEs. Tidjane started his career working with Cap Gemini in France before joining Cosine Communications, a Silicon Valley startup building network virtualization technology for carriers.Tidjane grew up in Senegal until age 18, then moved to France to attend Ecole Polytechnique (Msc Physics), did an exchange program at Imperial College London, and attended Ensta-Paritech (Telecom and IT Engineering).
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Insurance
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, Egypt, Uganda
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Round size: Series A $3.6M–$200M; Series B $10M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 57% lead, 43% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Djamo — Djamo is a Provider of financial applications to allow customers to use their cards with zero fees in a wide range of services.
- Tugende — Tugende helps motorcycle taxi drivers own their own motorcycles in eighteen months or less instead of renting indefinitely. Ownership significantly increases income, job security and road safety.
- 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.
Discover how the EU functions, its principles, priorities; find out about its history and member states; learn about its legal basis and your EU rights.
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- Industry: Health Care, Information Technology, Software
- Stage:Grant, Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 143
- Round size: Seed $16k–$5.5M; Grant $55k–$23M
- Lead/follow: 61% lead, 39% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Chessed.me — Chessed.me is a digital platform that improves children's concentration and cognitive abilities through individual chess lessons led by teachers.
- Adamo Foods — Adamo Food is a UK-based food tech company developing plant-based whole-cut meats using proprietary fermentation technology combined with mycelium.
- Dakar Mobilite — Dakar Mobilité is the Senegalese business that operates the Dakar BRT. The company is concerned with road safety, air pollution, and greenhouse gas emissions.
AfricInvest was founded in 1994 and is part of Integra Group, an investment and financial services company based in Tunisia.Uniquely positioned as one of the most experienced private equity investors on the continent, AfricInvest has dedicated investment teams focused on North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa, and employs 66 professionals based inseven offices.AfricInvest manages USD1 billion across 16 funds and benefits from strong, long-term support from both local and international investors, including leading development finance institutions in the United States and Europe.Having co-founded the African Venture Capital Association (AVCA) as well as the Middle East North Africa Private Equity Association (MENAPEA) and the Euromed Capital Forum, the firm is an active promotor of the private equity industry in the region.Since 1994, AfricInvest has invested in 135 companies across 25 African countries in a variety of high growth sectors and maintains a broad network of high quality executives across Africa, offering extensive expertise in key growth industries, including financial services, agribusiness, consumer/retail, education and healthcare.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Manufacturing, FinTech
- Stage:Private Equity, Series A
- Geography: Tunisia, Kenya, Morocco
Investor stats
- Total investments: 102
- Round size: Series A $7M–$65M; Private Equity $6.5M–$21M
- Lead/follow: 64% lead, 36% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ArabyAds — ArabyAds offers a suite of enterprise-level B2B ecommerce automation platforms that deliver the most promising, responsive and performance-oriented digital advertising technologies.
- Aerobotics — Powerful insights for precision growing and crop insurance
- Lapaire — Get the best affordable eyeglasses in Africa with Lapaire. Book your free vision test today at our locations across Benin, Ivory Coast, Togo, Burkina Faso, Mali, Kenya & Uganda. Quality glasses, professional optometrists, unbeatable prices.
PREO is a demand-led productive use of renewable energy (PURE) programme improving the livelihoods of communities through partnerships, knowledge sharing and innovation.
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- Industry: AgTech, Logistics, Agriculture
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Uganda
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- ClimaVault Africa — ClimaVault Africa provides solar-powered IoT cold storage hubs and plant-based edible coatings to reduce post-harvest losses, extend shelf life, and increase income for smallholder farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa. Our pay-as-you-store model ensures affordability, while our innovative technology improves food security, supports climate resilience, andcreates jobs. With 124,000+ farmers reached, we are scaling impact across Uganda.
The Norwegian Microfinance Initiative (NMI) is an innovative strategic partnership between the Norwegian public and private sectors that will invest in microfinance institutions (MFIs) in developing countries and provide professional assistance and technical support for these institutions. The mission of NMI is to contribute to the empowerment ofpoor people and to the creation of jobs, wealth, and economic and social sustainability in developing countries by investing in and supporting MFIs.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Finance, Banking
- Stage:Series B, Series C
- Geography: India, Uganda, Myanmar
Investor stats
- Total investments: 19
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Tugende — Tugende helps motorcycle taxi drivers own their own motorcycles in eighteen months or less instead of renting indefinitely. Ownership significantly increases income, job security and road safety.
- Sitara — Sewa Grih Rin provides affordable housing finance to the under-served low income households in urban and peri-urban locations.Incorporated in 2011, SEWA Grih Rin Limited was envisaged as a means for the under-served households to access affordable and formal housing finance in urban & peri-urban locations. We learnt that low-income householdsheld two facets of their life very close to their heart: they treasured the education of their children; and aspired to self-own a property, a home of their own.SEWA Grih Rin Limited’s work is aimed at directly improving the quality of life of informally employed households, especially their women members, by creating a tangible financial asset in their name. We provide an affordable alternative to those households whose credit capacity falls behind the widening financing gap given the informal nature of their employment.
- Light Microfinance — Light Microfinance is a non-banking finance company registered with the Reserve Bank of India. Headquartered at Ahmedabad, Gujarat, Light Microfinance provides micro and meso finance products and services with gender and poverty-focused programs, targeting rural and peri-urban areas, with a specific focus on poor women. The company operates inGujarat, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh and is one of the fastest growing microfinance companies in India today.
Imprimatur Capital Fund Management is a venture capital firm focusing on high-technology at an early stage in its commercial development. We invest in start-up technology businesses which are based on innovative intellectual property, are led by strong teams and have high international growth potential.Imprimatur Capital Fund Management, based inLatvia, manages seed and start-up funds with investors including the Latvian Guarantee Agency, other institutional investors and some private investors. The company source investment opportunities primarily from the Baltic/Nordic/Russia region.Imprimatur Capital Fund Management is a partner firm of Imprimatur Capital Ltd, headquartered in London and with investment operations in Europe, Russia, Asia Pacific, Latin America and the US.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Debt Financing
- Geography: Latvia, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 81
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Axial3D — Leading the way with the latest 3D imaging, models, and devices
- afriQloud — AfriQloud provides a white-labeled cloud computing solution to telecom operators, internet service providers, system integrators, and managed information technology service providers.
- Sonarworks — SoundID Reference software calibrates your speakers and studio headphones, so you can trust that every mix will translate.
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Browse database — It's Free!GIZ works worldwide for sustainable development. Discover how we create solutions and support our partner countries.
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- Industry: Health Care, Information Technology, Coffee
- Stage:Grant, Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Egypt, Iraq, Ghana
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Pre-Seed $25k–$350k
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Carble — We provide carbon insetting technology to tropical commodity buyers and cash incentives to farmers that protect the forest. Our satellite-powered platform monitors carbon emissions, allowing for deforestation-free farming to be rewarded at scale.
- Orisdi — Orisdi provides customers with a wide range of products with a unique customer experience.
- AppCyclers — AppCyclers is an innovative e-waste management startup that utilizes web technology, data analysis, and community sensitization programs to ensure the safe disposal and management of e-waste. Our flagship product is a web-based platform that digitizes the e-waste collection process by providing an integrated digital marketplace for sourcing andpurchasing recyclable electronic materials.Our mission is to promote a safer and greener environment in Africa. We aim to achieve this by formalizing the e-waste collection process, providing an integrated digital marketplace for sourcing and purchasing recyclable electronic materials, educating local populations, and collaborating with key stakeholders to drive responsible e-waste management.We are currently in the seed round of fundraising. Please feel free to reach out to us at hello@appcyclers.com
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: 138
- Round size: Seed $125k–$4.2M; Pre-Seed $300k–$3.2M; Series A $2.5M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
Portfolio highlights
- nGrow.ai — Boost revenue and engagement
- Orca Fraud — Orca empowers fraud fighters with effective tools to combat fraud
- SkillMagic — SkillMagic's AI finds the best technical content, delivers it directly to junior engineers, and helps you track progress.
Wind Capital is a venture capital firm that offers support and funding to European innovators.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: France, United States, Belgium
Investor stats
- Total investments: 58
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- cosma — Cosma observes, maps and monitors the seabed to deliver open, neutral and affordable data at global scale.
- Via Sana — Via Sana provides healthcare workers with a fresh coworking environment as well as gorgeous and fully-furnished private offices.
- TiHive Technologies — High-speed inline quality control powered by Terahertz & AI. TiHive helps industries ensure production quality and efficiency at scale.
Africa's Climate Venture Builder - We believe in the power of climate-positive economic development in Africa. For the last decade, we have been working hand in hand with exceptional entrepreneurs, investing both financial and human capital to build successful climate ventures on the continent. Our companies offer competitive financial returns required to drive lasting impact.
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- Industry: Energy, Solar, Renewable Energy
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Ghana, Germany, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 22
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- EcoNetix — EcoNetix provides a comprehensive solution for ensuring accurate and transparent data while actively contributing to the development of a greener planet and the fulfillment of UNIDO's Sustainable Development Goals.
- 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.
- Circadian Technologies GmbH — AI-driven VPP unlocking revenue for telecom towers.
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- Industry: Email, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Geography: Sweden, Uganda
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- Emata — Emata brings digital and affordable financial products to farmers in East Africa.
- Causiq — Causiq combines data science with the principles of marketing mix modeling while unifying teams with a single source of truth, across online and offline.
- Hypertype — Smartest email experience ever made.
Symbiotics is the leading market access platform for impact investing. Symbiotics offers investment, asset management and capacity building services.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Energy
- Stage:Debt Financing, Seed, Angel
- Geography: India, Colombia, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- Sempli — Sempli is building the leading all-in-one finance digital bank for small businesses in Colombia.
- Accial Capital — Accial Capital is an impact-focused, tech-enabled investor in small business and consumer loan portfolios in Latin America and South East Asia. Accial Capital combines data, technology, capital and credit expertise to contribute to a world of widespread credit access and financial health.
- 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.
Zephyr Management is a global emerging markets investment manager, specializing in the creation and management of highly focused private equity and venture capital funds.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Banking, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Kenya, India, Uganda
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Emata — Emata brings digital and affordable financial products to farmers in East Africa.
- Turaco — Turaco develops simplified insurance and credit solutions through mobile technology to solve the healthcare financing needs. Turaco has simplified insurance products and also provides on-demand health loans, allowing customers to get healthcare at affordable monthly premiums.
- Power — Putting individuals on the path towards financial health
African Development Bank operates as a multilateral development finance institution in Africa. It finances development projects and programs in collaboration with national and international development institutions. The bank provides technical assistance for project selection, study, and preparation. It facilitates investments from the public andprivate sectors in initiatives aimed at economic and social progress. The African Development Bank serves the development finance and economic growth sectors.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Banking, Finance
- Stage:Debt Financing, Grant, Post-IPO Debt
- Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 67
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Awash Bank — Awash Bank offers unique products and services that support small and medium-scale businesses. They provide personal, business, sme banking, corporate banking, mobile banking, online banking, credit services, debit card services, consumer loans, and more.
- Invest In Africa — Invest In Africa improving access to skills, markets, and finance to empower enterprise to create long-term jobs. They focused on job creation and improving the business environment for both investors and local SMEs. They increase the linkages between large international and domestic companies and smaller local businesses and increase access toskills, markets, and finance.
- Ethiopian Airlines — Fly to 125+ destinations worldwide with Ethiopian Airlines. Discover our award-winning services, comfortable cabins, and affordable fares. Book now!
Plesion Capital is a venture capital firm.
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- Industry: B2B, AgTech, Billing
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- Chpter — Chpter is a software development company that offers fast billing and checkout to help start, run, and grow a business.
- Releaf Earth — We are industrializing food processing in Africa. We've led 1000+ smallholder farmers to provide food factories with >7.5 million kilograms of quality crops.
- Jackfruit Finance — Jackfruit Finance provides money, technology, and rewards to enable low-cost African schools to expand access to education.
First Circle Capital is a venture capital firm seeding the next fintech generation in Africa.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, Egypt, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 35
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- 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.
- Pumpkn — Need reliable funding? We provide quick loans and capital tailored for Agriculture businesses in South Africa. Grow your business with Pumpkn. Apply now!
- Scale — Scale accelerates market entry and revenue for fintechs with a people-first approach.
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Browse database — It's Free!DOB Equity is a private equity firm specializing in growth capital and buy-and-build strategies in small and medium companies.
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- Industry: Food and Beverage, Health Care, Farming
- Stage:Private Equity, Seed
- Geography: Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda
Investor stats
- Total investments: 48
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- FarmWorks — FarmWorks is an agricultural technology company that gives farmers access to farm inputs as well as a market for the produce .FarmWork is to unlock agricultural potential by building clusters of mid-sized farms while working with thousands of small-holder farmers and establishing direct linkage to local and global markets.
- Ilara Health — Ilara Health helps primary care clinics across Africa deliver better care.
- Spouts of Water — SPOUTS mission is to manufacture and distribute ceramic water filters to provide everyone in Uganda with safe water.
Equilibria Capital is an asset management firm that manages investment funds and separate accounts for private and institutional clients.
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- Industry: Apps, Mobile, FinTech
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Uganda
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Numida — Growing African small businesses with affordable, convenient, and fair credit.
Jim Chu is the Founder & CEO at Untapped Global.
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- Industry: Solar, Water, Energy
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Uganda, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- OnePipe — OnePipe aggregates APIs from banks and fintechs into a standardized gateway that is easy to integrate and makes partnerships seamless.
- dloHaiti — dloHaiti is a Market Based Solution for Clean Water in Haiti. Sustainable and impactful, it provides clean drinking water to underserved areas of Haiti, areas where access to clean, safe drinking water is unreliable, expensive, or simply unavailable.
- Onelamp Uganda — Distributing solar fishing lanterns and solar lights in Uganda.
Incofin Investment Management (Incofin IM) manages funds that invest in microfinance institutions (MFIs) in developing countries. MFIs provide financial services, such as credits, savings and insurances, to people who cannot have recourse to regular banks. As a specialist in rural microfinancing, Incofin IM’s main goal is to reach out to people wholive in more secluded rural areas and/or who are active in the agricultural sector.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: India, Kenya, Myanmar
Investor stats
- Total investments: 29
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- Namdev Finvest — Namdev Finvest operates a non-banking finance platform that provides loans to rural and semi-urban agriculture, as well as the priority sector.
- Spouts of Water — SPOUTS mission is to manufacture and distribute ceramic water filters to provide everyone in Uganda with safe water.
- Saggraha Management Services — SaGgraha Management Services is a Bottom of the Pyramid financial services provider with a mission to contribute to the country's financial inclusion effort. The company is promoted by a team of professionals with banking, microfinance and financial services experience. The company believes at maintaining highest ethical and professionalstandards, governance and transparency.
SC Ventures is Standard Chartered Bank’s innovation, fintech investment, and venture unit. Focused on "rewiring the DNA in banking", SC Ventures aims to develop an innovation culture and mindset, deepen capabilities, and experiment with new business models through an open platform and network of people and partnerships. It runs aneXellerator innovation lab network across Singapore, Shanghai, Hong Kong, London, Nairobi, and San Francisco.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Singapore, India
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- Total investments: 23
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- uTu — After spending collective decades studying, building, and delivering technologies that connect enterprises to people they arrived at the conclusion that AI powered conversations are going to redefine the relationship between technology and people. They hung a shingle in fall of 2016, got the band back together, and started cranking out some badasscode. Their aim is to be part of the vanguard that charts this new world.
- Furaha — Welcome to Furaha Financial, purpose driven financing. We are a financial technology business which acts as a software-based intermediary platform.
- My Zoi Financial Inclusion Technologies — MyZoi, a Standard Chartered subsidiary, aims for global Digital financial inclusion of the underbanked. Based in the UAE
Autodesk Foundation is the first foundation to focus investment exclusively on the people and organizations using design for impact.
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- Industry: Energy, Environmental Engineering, Renewable Energy
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Kenya, Uganda
Investor stats
- Total investments: 13
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- M2X Energy — M2X Energy is a scalable methane conversion technology company that provides automated gas-to-product systems for methane conversion.
- Last Energy — Last Energy is creating a new system for the development and delivery of small modular nuclear power plants. Combining proven reactor technology with a first-of-its-kind delivery model and fully modular plant design, Last Energy aims to decarbonize energy production and increase access to clean, affordable power.
- Found Energy — Found Energy's aluminum-thermal power systems extract renewable energy from aluminum at double the energy density of diesel and at a competitive cost. Compact, modular, safe, and carbon-free, our technology makes industrial decarbonization practical.
Delta40 is the venture studio that invests in African female entrepreneurs involved in energy, agriculture and mobility sectors.
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- Industry: CleanTech, Manufacturing
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Uganda
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Jon Gosier is the Founder and CEO of FilmHedge. He previously worked at HarperCollins Publishers as an Author. Jon Gosier attended the THNK School of Creative Leadership.
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- Industry: Software, Music, Analytics
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Geography: United States, Uganda
Investor stats
- Total investments: 13
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- CAMPVS — CAMPVS enables artists of all genres to reach a local and national audience with our brand partners and talent showcases.
- Fanbase — Fanbase: the Next-Generation Social Creator Hub where you can Be You, Without Limits. Post and monetize short-form videos, images, long-form videos, stories, livestreams, and audio content. Offer both Free and Exclusive Content with subscription fees you set. Every love from users earns you real money. Join now and embrace your creativity!
- Streamlytics — The future of 1st party data is data driven by communities and people. Not corporations. Over 5 Billion data points and growing.
Norrsken Foundation is non-profit organization solving problems such as poverty, famine, environmental issues and mental health.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Health Care, FinTech
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, Rwanda
Investor stats
- Total investments: 18
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- RYE — RYE is a members-only, low-cost green energy supplier built for businesses with no time to deal with energy suppliers. Always accurate energy or it's free
- Eden Care Medical — Eden Care Medical is a mobile application that provides medical and health insurance as well as financial services.
- ORDA — Process orders, accept payments, connect to logistic providers, engage with your customers + more. We equip you with everything you need to grow your business.
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.
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- Industry: Health Care, Financial Services, Medical Device
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Geography: India, United States, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 27
- Lead/follow: no public data
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 — Floworks is an AI-powered assistant for the sales team to track, analyze and automate all operations running over WhatsApp.
- Haqdarshak — Made with Framer
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