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Top 35 Startup Investors in Zambia

A list of 35 angel investors and VC funds that invest in startups based in Zambia. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in companies from Zambia. We update this investor list every month.

Top 35 Startup Investors in Zambia

Investor Zambia investments
Ground Squirrel Ventures 5
Enygma Ventures 2
Babs Ogundeyi 2
Runa Capital 2
Vibe VC 2
Ventures Platform 2
The Todd & Rahul Angel Fund 2
ACE & Company 2
Electrification Financing Initiative 2
Blockchain Founders Fund 1
Danish Investment Fund for Developing Countries 1
FINCA Ventures 1
Twilio 1
FMO 1
Patrick J. McGovern Foundation 1
Global Partnerships/Eleos Social Venture Fund 1
InfraCo Africa 1
Jordan Engineering 1
Renew Capital 1
Not Boring Capital 1
Zenga Ventures 1
KFW DEG 1
GreenTec Capital Partners 1
Gbenga Ajayi 1
Zrosk Investment Management 1
Jag Singh 1
Opes Impact Fund 1
Goodwell Investments 1
Tiger Global Management 1
Shell Foundation 1
Earl Grey Capital 1
Johnson & Johnson Foundation 1
Finnfund 1
UNDP 1
Goodwater Capital 1
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Ground Squirrel Ventures VC Fund · Boston, Massachusetts, United States · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Seed round investment in frontier markets and clean energy
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • United States, Kenya, Zambia
Portfolio highlights
  • Grapevine — Grapevine makes it possible for groups to invite members, collect and distribute donations, establish a community and connect with nonprofits.
  • MindMics — Discover MindMics. The world's most accurate personal heart health monitor and well-being platform. Look after your heart health to live longer and better.
  • Untapped Global — Untapped connects global investors, and foreign capital to opportunities in emerging markets. Delivering competitive returns, and measurable impact for global investors.
Enygma Ventures VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa
Enygma Ventures is an investment fund for female entrepreneurs and women founders, focused on Southern Africa or SADC. Unlike traditional private equity, venture capital, and banks our team is full of award winning entrepreneurs who understand the same struggles you face first hand.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, Lending, Education
  • Seed, Funding Round
  • South Africa, Zambia, Swaziland
Portfolio highlights
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  • Koa Academy — Koa Academy is on the cutting edge of online schooling in South Africa! We offer small classes, quality educators, and individualized, engaged online learning.
  • Brown and Ayo — Brown & Ayo brings you a range of hair extensions created to mimic our natural hair textures. We pride ourselves in bringing you both trendy and well-loved products. All our products are ethically sourced and sustainably manufactured.
Babs Ogundeyi Angel · Yaba, Lagos, Nigeria
Cofounder and CEO of Kuda
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • Nigeria, Zambia, Pakistan
Portfolio highlights
  • Zazuu — Zazuu is a platform for sending money across the border.
  • Curacel — Curacel creates APIs & tools that enable businesses to embed insurance in digital channels and to administer claims cost-effectively.
  • 24seven.pk — 24seven.pk is using tech and data to digitize and disrupt the fresh food and FMCG verticals in one of the fastest-growing and rapidly evolving consumer markets in the world.
Runa Capital VC Fund · Palo Alto, California, United States · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Runa Capital is a global venture capital firm built by serial entrepreneurs that invests in early-stage software startups around the world...
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Financial Services
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • United States, Germany, Russian Federation
Portfolio highlights
  • PandasAI — PandasAI is a Python library that integrates generative artificial intelligence capabilities into pandas, making dataframes conversational
  • Sismo.io — Sismo enables users to aggregate their identity and selectively disclose personal data to apps with Sismo Connect - the crypto-native SSO using ZKPs.
  • SeeChange — SeeChange is an AI software company and leader in real-time visual intelligence solutions.
Vibe VC VC Fund
We were told no one would take us seriously as investors without a website, so here's our website.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, EdTech, Education
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, India, Zambia
Portfolio highlights
  • RipenHQ — A venture studio creating products and services that ripen the internet.
  • DealCart — DealCart enables users to buy their favorite products in groups by allowing users to buy in groups and sharing deals on WhatsApp and other social media platforms.
  • Ocho — Ocho is everything you need to build wealth as a business owner.
Ventures Platform VC Fund · Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria · 8 investments in the past 12 months
We back founders building the future of Africa. We invest in companies that solve for non-consumption, plug infrastructural gaps and democratise prosperity in Africa, by eliminating the barriers for access and reducing the costs of delivering goods and services.
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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.
  • Mecho — Mecho is an on-demand auto repair and maintenance platform for individuals and businesses in Africa.
The Todd & Rahul Angel Fund VC Fund
The Todd & Rahul Angel Fund is a venture capital firm.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Apps
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Zambia, Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
  • Earth — Earth is the creators of soil transformation, an environmentally-friendly alternative to burial and cremation. Over a 30-day process, they gently transform a body into nutrient-rich soil.Families receive a portion of this soil - to scatter or plant - and the remaining soil is sent to conservation land that we acquire, to restore and protect itfor future generations.Their experience is carbon neutral, digital-first and underpinned by best-in-class family care.Earth is headquartered in Seattle, Washington and was founded in 2020.
  • Loyal — Loyal is a biotechnology company developing medicines to extend dog lifespan. By developing drugs with the potential to slow the aging process, they aim to delay or prevent age-related diseases like cancer and dementia.
  • Merkle Manufactory — Merkle Manufactory is a software company contributing to the Farcaster protocol and working on clients.
ACE & Company VC Fund · Geneva, Geneve, Switzerland · 4 investments in the past 12 months
ACE & Company (“ACE”), founded in 2005, is a global investment group specialized in private investments with total assets of over $1.6 bn across three investment strategies and investment solutions. With headquarters in Geneva and offices in London, New York, and Cairo, ACE’s global presence brings the company in direct contact with sourcingpartners, investment firms, as well as entrepreneurs and provides investors unparalleled access to a network of opportunities. ACE’s passion is for finding investment opportunities where we have an advantage through many years of relationship building, a carefully developed position of knowledge in the sectors which we are active, and a culture of efficiency to gain first mover’s advantage. ACE’s purpose is to offer investors a long-term and collaborative investment approach that values honesty, transparency and rigorous execution, so that our strategies not only provide unique access to value accretive, risk-managed deals, but fosters what we consider our bedrock—trust.ACE’s progress has been marked by a globally respected track record since the Company was founded in 2005. In the last four years we have increased our total assets by fivefold and in 2017 received the Swiss Financial Supervisory Authority (FINMA) authorization.
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Investment focus
  • Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • United States, Switzerland, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Roofr — The complete sales toolbox for roofers. From roof measurement reports to project-winning proposals.
  • DePoly — DePoly is a spin off out of the LSMO lab at EPFL- Valais that has developed a novel technology allowing for the chemical recycling of PET plastic back to its main two components ethylene glycol (EG) and terephthalic acid (TPA). Our approach turns low valued materials (PET waste) into high-valued chemicals like TPA creating a circular economy. Weexpect this process to generate revenue from chemically recycling PET to TPA/EG, which can be sold back to industry to make new virgin PET plastic and allowing for a sustainable source of TPA and EG on the market.
  • Pledge — Pledge makes it simple for businesses of every size to measure, reduce and offset the climate impact of their products.
Electrification Financing Initiative VC Fund · Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium
Impact investment in sustainable energy
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Investment focus
  • Energy, Solar, Renewable Energy
  • Debt Financing, Funding Round, Series A
  • United States, Kenya, Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
  • WeLight — WeLight deploys sustainable and accessible solutions to accelerate energy inclusion in rural areas of Africa.
  • Okra Solar — Okra Solar is an IoT technology solution that enables solar generating communities to share and utilize more energy. It is a plug-and-play smart grid technology that enables rapid electrification for last-mile communities. Using mobile payments, modular grid design, and remote monitoring, they provide utility companies with a low-cost, data-drivensolution to operate solar networks in hard to reach communities. They are on a mission to connect off-grid communities to the modern economy.Okra Solar was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Sydney, Australia.
  • Solarise Africa — Solarise Africa is a pan African energy leasing company for solar PV and other energy assets focusing on Commercial and Industrial (C&I) clients. Its business model is designed for scalability. Solarise Africa focuses on providing smart financing through close collaboration with a selected group of partners across solar and other renewableenergy technologies. For solar PV it is focusing on captive rooftop and ground mounted solar projects ranging from 100kW to 3MW. It is currently active in Kenya, looking to open in South Africa and has plans to expand into East, Southern and West Africa.
Blockchain Founders Fund VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 32 investments in the past 12 months
We Focus Exclusively On Adding Value To Blockchain & Emerging Technology Projects With Real World Applications.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • United States, United Kingdom, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Layer Edge — First Optimistic Rollups with Modular DA Layer on #Bitcoin. Fast, Inexpensive & Familiar EVM environment for #BTC ecosystem.
  • Tanssi Network — The Tanssi Network is a permissionless appchain infrastructure protocol designed for swift and effortless deployment of application-specific blockchains.
  • Unstable Protocol — Unstable Protocol implements zkOracles to enhance the DeFi utility for the LRTfi market.
Danish Investment Fund for Developing Countries VC Fund
Danish Investment Fund for Developing Countries
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Investment focus
  • Renewable Energy, Energy, Water
  • Funding Round
  • France, Zambia, Myanmar
Portfolio highlights
  • Eranove — The Eranove group counts more than 9000 employees all engaged in developping hydroelectric solutions to allow all the pan african citizens to access electricity and drinking water
  • Africa GreenCo — Our mission - addressing creditworthiness to increase generation and growth of renewable energy markets through partnerships and innovative solutions.
  • Alliance for Microfinance in Myanmar — Microfinance in Myanmar
FINCA Ventures VC Fund · Washington, District of Columbia, United States
FINCA Ventures is an impact investing initiative of FINCA International that provides patient capital and support to early-stage social enterprises.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, Agriculture, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Kenya, Mexico, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
  • Kwara — Kwara turns analog credit unions into modern digital banks.
  • 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
Twilio VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States
Twilio is a developer platform for communications and is reinventing telecom by merging the worlds of cloud computing, web services, and telecommunications. With Twilio, developers, and businesses make communications more contextual by embedding voice, video, messaging, and authentication directly into applications.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Egypt, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
  • PolyAI — The world's only customer-led conversational platform for enterprise.
  • Frame AI — Frame AI is a Proactive AI Platform that drives value from unstructured data across the company through traits, triggers, and trends.
  • Nurdle AI — Get your AI into production Faster, Cheaper & Easier with Nurdle's privacy-safe lookalike data. Trusted by leading brands in gaming and social media.
FMO VC Fund · The Hague, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands
FMO is a financial investment firm that specializes in financing businesses and projects FMO invests across the agribusiness value chain to enhance food security, support sustainability and promoting inclusive development.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
  • Debt Financing, Series B, Funding Round
  • India, The Netherlands, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
  • Laprophan — Laprophan gives people access to cutting-edge treatments and therapies. As a result, we are committed to researching, developing, and bringing new, innovative goods to market. dedication to patient-centered care pervades everything we do, from product creation to service delivery.
  • 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.
  • Indorama Fertilizers — Indorama Fertilizers operates a world-class, 1.4 million metric tonnes per annum urea manufacturing facility based in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. The plant has been developed to global environmental, social and construction standards. It plays a key role in supporting the agricultural sector in Nigeria by providing a reliable supply of fertilizers forlocal farmers, thereby enabling import substitution and supporting the diversification needs of the Nigerian economy. Indorama Fertilizers is also advantageously located to serve neighboring West African countries and key Western hemisphere markets, including North America, South America and Europe
Patrick J. McGovern Foundation VC Fund · Boston, Massachusetts, United States · 2 investments in the past 12 months
The Patrick J. McGovern Foundation is a global philanthropy bridging the frontiers of artificial intelligence, data science, and social impact to create a thriving, equitable, and sustainable future for all.
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Investment focus
  • Non Profit, Education, Health Care
  • Grant, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Kenya, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • HelpMum — Helpmum is a mobile healthcare service to reduce maternal & infant mortality through e-learning, vaccination tracker, and kit distribution.
  • Dawa Health — DawaMom is a standardized mobile clinic that delivers maternal and neonatal health through a digital health platform leveraging a wide network of trained 1st level clinicians and community health workers (CHWs) for emerging markets.
  • Climate Policy Radar — Climate Policy Radar is a nonprofit organization that offers machine learning, climate legislation, and digital ecosystem services.
Global Partnerships/Eleos Social Venture Fund VC Fund · Seattle, Washington, United States
Global Partnerships' Social Venture Fund bridges the pioneer gap in sub-Saharan Africa by providing impact-led funding to early-stage social enterprises.
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Investment focus
  • Logistics, Agriculture, Car Sharing
  • Series A, Series B
  • Uganda, Zambia
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.
  • 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.
InfraCo Africa VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom
InfraCo seeks to fund and develop projects in sectors or geographies where the private sector would not otherwise work at such an early stage, seeking to exit its projects to private sector developers/financiers once project viability has been demonstrated, normally at or shortly before financial close. InfraCo will not compete directly withthe private sector but seeks to mobilise private sector involvement by bearing the time and cost risk of front end project development in order to mobilise private sector investment.
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Investment focus
  • Electric Vehicle, AgTech, Energy
  • Seed, Funding Round
  • India, Kenya, France
Portfolio highlights
  • Zembo — Discover Zembo - The African Electric Motorcycle. High-performance electric bikes designed for sustainability.
  • Africa GreenCo — Our mission - addressing creditworthiness to increase generation and growth of renewable energy markets through partnerships and innovative solutions.
  • Mobility for Africa — Mobility for Africa produces electric tricycles, bicycles, and other small vehicles that are affordable, high-quality, and sustainable.
Jordan Engineering VC Fund
Jordan Engineering
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Investment focus
  • Agriculture, Financial Services
  • Seed
  • Zambia
Portfolio highlights
  • Rent To Own Africa — Rent To Own provides affordable financing to high capacity entrepreneurs in rural communities across Zambia. Rent To Own variety of rental arrangements helps business owners build assets and expand their own services. Beyond traditional asset financing, Rent To Own adapts its services and to the individual needs of each client, including guidedasset selection process, direct distribution and one-on one training for maintenance and proper equipment usage. The company unique six-step loan process mitigates repayment risk and ensures that the equipment is being used optimally.
Renew Capital VC Fund · Addis Ababa, Adis Abeba, Ethiopia · 12 investments in the past 12 months
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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Investment focus
  • Mobile Apps, Financial Services, Finance
  • Pre-Seed, Funding Round, Seed
  • Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia
Portfolio highlights
  • Roam — The Standard for Electric Mobility in Africa.
  • Bosso Africa — Your plug for contruction material
  • Level Africa — Digital Investment Marketplace for Africa
Not Boring Capital VC Fund · Seattle, Washington, United States · 5 investments in the past 12 months
Behind-the-Scenes of Raising a Fund to Invest in Companies with Stories to Tell
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Investment focus
  • Cryptocurrency, FinTech, Blockchain
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • United States, Canada, Zambia
Portfolio highlights
  • Cromatic — Integrated platform for outsourcing R&D
  • Bastion — Bastion blends the best of web2 and web3 technologies to broaden opportunities for organizations and their customers.
  • Unnatural Products — Unnatural Products is a startup pairing AI with chemistry to create treatments for drug targets. Its AI-enhanced technology platform creates entirely new drugs by engineering passively permeable, macrocyclic peptides that access traditionally undruggable targets.Unnatural Products was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Santa Cruz,California.
Zenga Ventures VC Fund
Zenga Ventures is an investing firm for startups.
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Investment focus
  • Apps, Software, Business Information Systems
  • Seed
  • Zambia
Portfolio highlights
  • ZPOS — ZPOS is a mobile application that speicalizes in shop management system which allows to record all transactions of the business.
KFW DEG VC Fund · Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 8 investments in the past 12 months
KFW DEG offers financing, advice and support to private sector enterprises operating in developing and emerging-market countries.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
  • Debt Financing, Grant, Funding Round
  • India, Kenya, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Copia Global — Copia is currently serving customers and rapidly growing in Kenya and Uganda with additional East African and West African countries expected in the next two
  • Indorama Fertilizers — Indorama Fertilizers operates a world-class, 1.4 million metric tonnes per annum urea manufacturing facility based in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. The plant has been developed to global environmental, social and construction standards. It plays a key role in supporting the agricultural sector in Nigeria by providing a reliable supply of fertilizers forlocal farmers, thereby enabling import substitution and supporting the diversification needs of the Nigerian economy. Indorama Fertilizers is also advantageously located to serve neighboring West African countries and key Western hemisphere markets, including North America, South America and Europe
  • Ecobank — A regional commercial bank operating in many African countries.
GreenTec Capital Partners VC Fund · Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany
GreenTec Capital Partners is Germany's premier investor into African start-ups and SMEs. GreenTec invests through its unique Results4Equity model, acting as a co-founding partner that is only compensated on business success.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Agriculture, Computer
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • Kenya, Nigeria, C&ocirc;te d'Ivoire
Portfolio highlights
  • Asilimia — Asilimia is a simple, fun mobile app for sending money through M-PESA quickly and without any transaction fees. Simply deposit money to your M-PESA, download Asilimia and send money for free to any other M-PESA account.
  • freshbag — freshbag is a wellness nutrition turnkey solution that supports corporate wellness programs by making it easy and convenient to live - and eat! - healthier.
  • ShapShap — ShapShap enhances delivery experience through its commission-based marketplace by assigning efficient orders to drivers to ensure their sustainability and scalability.
Gbenga Ajayi Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
Gbenga Ajayi of Kanza Ventures.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Payments, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Egypt, Zambia, Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
  • FlapKap — FlapKap is a company revolutionizing e-commerce and SaaS growth in the MEA region.
  • Union54 — Developers of ChitChat: an integrated messaging app with payments and USD Cards.
  • Remedial Health — We improve business to business access to medicines by providing such medicines from manufactures/registered distributors direct to large and small healthcare retail businesses (large pharmacies and remote chemist/PPMVs (Patent and Proprietary Medicine Vendors)) using technology to deliver just-in-time stock and provide financing and awide selection of inventory to such retail business.
Zrosk Investment Management VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Zrosk Investment Management is an investment firm that invests in early-stage startups. We invest across the pre-seed to series A spectrum. We typically target at least 10% ownership in businesses we invest in and tend to maintain that position until series A providing much-needed early follow-on capital for our portfolio companies. Our commitmentis to provide more than just capital and to be one of the most prominent value-added investors on a company's cap table.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
  • Series A, Pre-Seed, Seed
  • United Kingdom, Nigeria, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Pade HCM — Hire, manage and pay your global team Hire anyone in Africa and automate onboarding, team management, payroll, compliance and much more.
  • Kunda Kids — Kunda Kids is helping kids around the world fall in love with reading through our storybooks and activity books. Browse our range of storybooks for kids. Perfect for kids ages 3 to 8 years
  • LemFi — Lemonade Finance is a digital bank for the African diaspora. Lemonade provides users with accounts in their country of residence and country of origin for personal and business banking needs.
Jag Singh Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Jag is one of Europe's most active angel investors, and is a Managing Partner at Angel Invest Ventures in Berlin. He's founded several companies (including two exits and a spectacular failure), and invested in over 100 startups over the last six years, including Spire (SPAC), Nutmeg (exit to JPM), Disperse, Eversend, Restack, and Anytype.He’s an ad-man at heart, and spent over a decade as a political strategist advising high-profile politicians, campaigns and corporations across the US and Europe. Jag is fluent in six languages, and can be found on Twitter via @JagSingh
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Investment focus
  • Software, FinTech, SaaS
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
  • Germany, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Konfetti — konfetti is building the leading platform for local workshops and events by empowering workshop providers with customized SaaS solutions
  • Widgetbook — Widgetbook is an open source tool for organizing widgets in Flutter. It accelerates UI development and improves the collaboration between developers, designers and clients.
  • Bling.de — The pocket money card and app that empowers children & teens to be money-smart. Safe, simple and educational.
Opes Impact Fund VC Fund · Milano, Lombardia, Italy
Opes-Lcef is an impact investor that provides catalytic capital to early-stage social enterprises in emerging markets.
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Investment focus
  • Energy, Social Entrepreneurship, Renewable Energy
  • Seed, Series A
  • Kenya, India, Italy
Portfolio highlights
  • Mygrants — Mygrants is the most widely used educational online platform for refugees and asylum seekers in Italy and Europe.
  • MunyaxEco — MunyaxEco is working in solar energy as well as energy efficiency sectors by selling and installing environmentally friendly and high-quality equipment.
  • WidEnergy Africa — Widenergy Africa Ltd , is a women – led company, registered in Zambia, dedicated in the last miles distribution of clean energy solutions. We are the official distributor of Little sun solar products in Zambia (Solar lamps, Solar phone chargers), and will start soon with the distribution of clean cook stoves, with the objective to contribute inreduction of the Zambian deforestation rate, known as one of the highest in Africa.
Goodwell Investments VC Fund · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Goodwell Investments is a pioneering investment firm focused on financial inclusion, fintech and inclusive growth in sectors providing
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Agriculture
  • Series A, Series B, Funding Round
  • Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa
Portfolio highlights
  • Complete Farmer — We are providing cutting-edge technological farming protocols and innovations with a unique business model and logistics that are revolutionizing...
  • 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
Tiger Global Management VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 22 investments in the past 12 months
Tiger Global Management is an investment firm that deploys capital globally.Tiger Global seeks to earn superior risk-adjusted returns for its investors over the long term. The firm’s fundamentally oriented investments focus primarily on the global Internet, technology, telecom, media consumer, and industrial sectors. The private equity strategyhas a ten-year investment horizon and targets growth-oriented private companies. The public equity efforts emphasize deep due diligence on individual companies and long-term secular themes.
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Investment focus
  • Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Series B, Series A, Series C
  • United States, India, China
Portfolio highlights
  • Daki — Mobile delivery Daki is a subsidiary of JOKR.
  • Eliyan — Ultimate Chiplet Systems at a fraction of total cost of ownership. Without the downsides of advanced packaging, you achieve higher number of cores, compute performance, test coverage, and yield.
  • Xihuang Technology — Xihuang Technology is a comprehensive internet technology service company that integrates software research and development, planning, advertising, innovative marketing, and training services to create individuals, businesses, and agents.
Shell Foundation VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Shell Foundation is an independent charity established by the Shell Group in 2000 to create and scale new solutions to global development challenges. We apply business thinking to major social and environmental issues linked to the energy sector – and seek to leverage the skills and networks of Shell where possible to deliver greater developmentimpact.Over the years, learning from both success and failure, we have established a new enterprise-based model to deliver significant and lasting social and environmental outcomes. We now deploy a blend of financial and non-financial resources to accelerate social innovation and harness private markets to deliver public benefit at scale.
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Investment focus
  • Energy, Solar, Agriculture
  • Grant, Seed, Funding Round
  • India, United States, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
  • Kofa — Kofa is an automotive company that utilizes the latest electric battery and motor technology. The company aims to develop an affordable, sustainable and customer driven electric network in transformative energy, transport, and climate change around the globe. Kofa was founded in Ghana and is headquartered in Accra.
  • Yellow — Yellow enables a distributed network of sales agents to serve rural households with life-changing products and services through a digital technology platform called Ofeefee.
  • Mufin Green Finance — Mufin Green Finance is an NBFC that specialises in the electric vehicle (EV) market.
Earl Grey Capital VC Fund
Founders funding founders at the earliest stages of company building.
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Investment focus
  • SaaS, E-Learning, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, India, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Learn.xyz — Have fun learning about anything you can imaging, thanks to the power of AI. Download the free Learn.xyz app today and start every day with new knowledge!
  • dWallet Labs — dWallet Labs Ltd., based in Tel Aviv, Israel, a cybersecurity company specializing in blockchain technology, is building SingleWallet, the first interface to interact with dWallets on the Odsy Network. The mission of dWallet Labs is to build protocols and solutions on top of the Odsy Network.
  • Mino Games — Mino Games is a free-to-play mobile gaming studio that produced the top 50 grossing mobile game Mino Monsters, with over 13 million downloads. We create deeply engaging, widely appealing games for millions of fans. We’re currently building our world class development studio in Montreal.We are a small group of passionate engineers, artists andanalysts with a mission to create games that millions of people all around the world love to play for years. We are funded by the best angel investors, institutional investors, and gaming companies from across the world.Our third and latest game, Cat Game, has already hit the App Store’s Top 100 Grossing Chart in Canada. The game, currently in soft launch, is showing world class key metrics, and we are expecting it to be a global hit when we launch it by February 2019.We are looking today to grow the team and looking for world class ambitious talent to come join us on the journey, to develop and support this newest title into a global success on both iOS and Android, and help us with future projects as we rapidly grow.
Johnson & Johnson Foundation VC Fund
The Johnson & Johnson Foundation is a registered charitable organization that reflects the commitment of the Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies to keeping people well at every age and every stage of life by blending heart, science, and ingenuity to profoundly change the trajectory of health for humanity.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Fitness, Software
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Ghana, Zambia, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Dawa Health — DawaMom is a standardized mobile clinic that delivers maternal and neonatal health through a digital health platform leveraging a wide network of trained 1st level clinicians and community health workers (CHWs) for emerging markets.
  • NextStep — NextStep is an information technology company that provides training and job placement for workers via mobile application platform. It features a mobile and web-based platform that enables its users to manage staff accordingly on their accurate positions. The company was founded in 2018 and headquartered in Seatle, Washington.
  • Redbird — Millions of Africans live with chronic diseases without a convenient way to manage their health. And every year, millions more develop chronic disease – at a rate of two times the world average. Unlike those with acute disease, chronic disease patients require not just treatment, but also lifelong health monitoring to remain healthy andproductive. African chronic diseases patients need a convenient way to manage their conditions, and the current, top-down approach to healthcare cannot cope.That’s where we come in. At Redbird, we supply pharmacies with everything they need to offer rapid diagnostic services for chronic disease, helping them to solve this need by establishing them as the most convenient place for patients to manage their health.
Finnfund VC Fund · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland · 5 investments in the past 12 months
Finnfund is a Finnish development finance company that provides long-term risk capital for private projects in developing countries. Apart from co-investing with Finnish companies they can finance ventures that use Finnish technology, cooperate with Finnish partners on a long-term basis or generate major environmental or social benefits.
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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
UNDP VC Fund · New York, New York, United States
UNDP works to eradicate poverty and reduce inequalities through the sustainable development of nations, in more than 170 countries and territories.
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Investment focus
  • AgTech, Software, Aerospace
  • Seed
  • Zambia
Portfolio highlights
  • Megabit Cloud — Megabit Cloud provides cloud hosting services to everyone, including small and medium businesses, academic institutions, and non-profit organizations. Experience fast, reliable, and affordable hosting services with Megabit Cloud.
  • Netagrow Technologies — Netagrow's intelligent, seamless agriculture solution helps customers maintain higher standards of crop quality and growth capacity by artificial intelligence monitoring, analytics, and automation. We help forest and agricultural companies save resources, increase yields, and manage land in a more environmentally responsible manner. Those withsmall scale and commercial needs seek to improve and expand forest and agricultural production.
Goodwater Capital VC Fund · Burlingame, California, United States · 49 investments in the past 12 months
Goodwater empowers exceptional entrepreneurs everywhere to change the world for the better. They believe consumer technology is a force on earth, shaping culture and transforming the global economy at unprecedented speed and scale. They invest in promising entrepreneurs to solve pressing problems. As a combined force, Goodwater companies are aglobal force for change, poised to measurably improve billions of lives.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, India, South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • FlowGPT — Discover a vast library of ChatGPT prompts uploaded by the FlowGPT community. Browse popular and useful prompts and get personalized recommendations for prompts that interest you. Join a vibrant community of ChatGPT users and discover, share, and discuss different prompts.
  • Read AI — Read AI enables better meetings through shared measurement. Read AI is a provider of a real-time shared dashboard that measures engagement and sentiment for meeting attendees.
  • Cambio — Quickly Resolve Hurtful Accounts Like Collections and Improve Your Credit Score with The Cambio App. Download Today!
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