Top 50 Startup Investors in Zambia (July 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Ground Squirrel Ventures
VC Fund
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5 | United States, Kenya, Zambia | Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Finance | $400k–$5M |
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Enygma Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | South Africa, Zambia, Swaziland | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Financial Services, Lending, Education | $120k–$1M |
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Runa Capital
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Germany, France | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, SaaS, Financial Services | $1M–$20M |
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Inoks Capital
VC Fund
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2 | Zambia | Series A | Marketplace, Financial Services | $8.3M–$11M |
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The Todd & Rahul Angel Fund
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Zambia, Nigeria | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce | $500k–$30M |
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Catalytic Africa
VC Fund
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2 | Zambia, Tanzania, Benin | Angel, Grant, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, Apps, Agriculture | $22k–$1.5M |
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Hesham Zreik
Angel
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2 | United States, Nigeria, India | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence | $20k–$5M |
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EDFI ElectriFI
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Kenya, Nigeria | Debt Financing, Series A | Energy, Solar, Renewable Energy | |
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KFW DEG
VC Fund
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2 | India, Kenya, Brazil | Debt Financing, Grant, Private Equity | Financial Services, Energy, FinTech | $100k–$570M |
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Ventures Platform
VC Fund
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2 | Nigeria, United States, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Internet | $100k–$4.4M |
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UNDP
VC Fund
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2 | South Africa, United States, Egypt | Grant, Pre-Seed, Seed | AgTech, E-Commerce, Agriculture | $7k–$100k |
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Vibe VC
VC Fund
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2 | United States, India, Zambia | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, EdTech, Retail | $250k–$33M |
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ACE & Company
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Switzerland, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Software, Financial Services, FinTech | $1M–$24M |
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Babs Ogundeyi
Angel
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2 | Nigeria, Zambia, Pakistan | Seed, Pre-Seed | FinTech, Financial Services, Finance | $780k–$6M |
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Alitheia IDF
VC Fund
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2 | South Africa, Nigeria, Ghana | Series A, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Logistics, E-Commerce, Retail | $2.8M–$13M |
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Norfund
VC Fund
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1 | South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria | Private Equity, Debt Financing | Energy, Financial Services, Renewable Energy | $2.2M–$156M |
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Gbenga Ajayi
Angel
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1 | South Africa, Egypt, Kenya | Seed, Series B, Series A | Financial Services, Payments, Banking | $3M–$55M |
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Jag Singh
Angel
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1 | Germany, United Kingdom, United States | Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel | Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence | $100k–$5.3M |
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Growth Investment Partners
VC Fund
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1 | Ghana, Zambia | Debt Financing, Private Equity | Mining, Farming, Mineral | |
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Shell Foundation
VC Fund
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1 | India, United States, Kenya | Grant, Seed | Energy, Solar, Finance | $300k–$5.5M |
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LoftyInc Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Nigeria, Egypt | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | $100k–$37M |
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Tamboti Circle
VC Fund
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1 | Zambia | Pre-Seed | ||
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Acumen
VC Fund
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1 | United States, India, Kenya | Seed, Series A | Agriculture, Solar, Health Care | $300k–$12M |
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Danish Investment Fund for Developing Countries
VC Fund
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1 | France, Zambia, Myanmar | Private Equity | Renewable Energy, Energy, Water | |
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Renew Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia | Pre-Seed, Seed | Mobile Apps, Financial Services, Finance | |
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Jordan Engineering
VC Fund
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1 | Zambia | Seed | Agriculture, Financial Services | |
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AgDevCo
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya, Ethiopia, Mauritius | Debt Financing, Venture - Series Unknown | Farming, Agriculture, AgTech | $15k–$15M |
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Goneke Investment Group
VC Fund
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1 | Zambia | Private Equity | Energy, Oil and Gas, Project Management | |
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54 Collective
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa | Seed, Pre-Seed | Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech | $40k–$4M |
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Twilio
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Egypt, Brazil | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $195k–$40M |
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Opes Impact Fund
VC Fund
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1 | Italy, Kenya, India | Seed, Series A | Communities, Agriculture, Energy | $219k–$910k |
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Private Infrastructure Development Group
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya, Zambia, Senegal | Grant, Debt Financing, Series C | Energy, Renewable Energy, Solar | $66k–$50M |
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EDFI Management Company
VC Fund
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1 | Benin, Ghana, India | Debt Financing, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown | Renewable Energy, Energy, Solar | $2.6M–$15M |
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True Capital Management
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Nigeria, Canada | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | FinTech, Financial Services, Software | $125k–$59M |
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Not Boring Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada, Zambia | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, FinTech, Cryptocurrency | $400k–$32M |
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Zrosk Investment Management
VC Fund
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1 | Nigeria, United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Finance | $200k–$33M |
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Johnson & Johnson Foundation
VC Fund
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1 | Brazil, Colombia, Argentina | Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed | Health Care, Medical, Medical Device | $25k–$50k |
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Global Partnerships/Eleos Social Venture Fund
VC Fund
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1 | Uganda, Zambia | Series A, Series B | Logistics, Agriculture, Car Sharing | $2.1M–$10M |
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FMO
VC Fund
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1 | India, Kenya, The Netherlands | Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Series B | Financial Services, Finance, Renewable Energy | $4M–$420M |
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GreenTec Capital Partners
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya, Nigeria, Morocco | Seed, Pre-Seed | Information Technology, Retail, Computer | $50k–$1M |
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Patrick J. McGovern Foundation
VC Fund
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland | Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed | Non Profit, Education, Health Care | $100k–$750k |
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Goodwater Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United States, India, South Korea | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | FinTech, Financial Services, Software | $336k–$31M |
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Earl Grey Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United States, India, Canada | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Information Technology, SaaS, Software | $1.5M–$15M |
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Goodwell Investments
VC Fund
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1 | Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya | Series A, Series B | FinTech, Financial Services, Banking | $1.5M–$26M |
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TLG Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Nigeria, United Kingdom, Uganda | Debt Financing, Private Equity | Financial Services, Finance, Banking | $4M–$15M |
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Inside Capital Partners
VC Fund
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1 | Zambia, Madagascar, United States | Series A, Private Equity, Venture - Series Unknown | mHealth, Education, Health Care | |
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InfraCo Africa
VC Fund
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1 | India, Kenya, France | Seed | Electric Vehicle, AgTech, Energy | |
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Torrey Pines Investment
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Russian Federation, The Netherlands | Seed, Pre-Seed | Biotechnology, Health Care, Pharmaceutical | $3M–$3.1M |
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Zenga Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Zambia | Seed | Apps, Software, Business Information Systems | |
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Tiger Global Management
VC Fund
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1 | United States, India, China | Series B, Series A, Series C | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | $6.5M–$260M |
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Kenya, Zambia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 70
- Round size: Seed $400k–$3M; Series A $1.8M–$5M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Grapevine — Grapevine makes it possible for groups to invite members, collect and distribute donations, establish a community and connect with nonprofits.
- Untapped Global — Untapped connects global investors, and foreign capital to opportunities in emerging markets. Delivering competitive returns, and measurable impact for global investors.
- Necessary Ventures — We invest in what the world needs.
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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- Industry: Financial Services, Lending, Education
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: South Africa, Zambia, Swaziland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Seed $120k–$1M
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Adbot — Adbot makes Google ads easy. Start a Google Ad Campaign and get results!
- 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.
- PremierCredit Zambia — PremierCredit is an international financial technology company that operates an online microlending and investment platform in Sub-Saharan Africa's emerging markets. The Financial Services Commission (FSC) has licensed and regulated the company, allowing them to provide inclusive financial services throughout Africa.
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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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Financial Services
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, Germany, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 150
- Round size: Seed $1M–$10M; Series A $1.5M–$15M; Series B $2.5M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $69M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Spectrm — charles is the Conversational Marketing AI and CRM platform for brands to attract, convert, and retain customers via AI agents and marketing automations.
- Qu & Co — Enabled by Nobel Prize-winning technology and a full-stack approach, Pasqal delivers cutting-edge quantum solutions worldwide
- Lace Lithography — Lace is building the patterning technology that will power the next 100 years of semiconductor manufacturing.
Inoks Capital specializes in credit, investment, financial, consulting, asset, and fund management services.
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- Industry: Marketplace, Financial Services
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Zambia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Series A $8.3M–$11M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Lupiya — Lupiya is an online marketplace for microloans. It is a branch-less, innovative digital microfinance platform that leverages technology to make the process of borrowing simpler and easier so that people and businesses located across the country even in rural, remote areas can access financial services.
Backed by 110+ world-class founders and operators. We help you find product/market fit faster, supercharge your distribution, and raise from the best investors.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Zambia, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 18
- Round size: Seed $3M–$30M; Pre-Seed $500k–$3.8M; Series A $6M–$21M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $24M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Loyal — Loyal is a clinical-stage veterinary medicine company working on giving dogs longer, healthier lives.
- Vulture Labs — Vulture Labs, Inc. is a deep-tech company founded in July 2025 to close the critical data gap between digital "systems of record" and the physical "system of work." The company's flagship platform, Vulture Vision, is a Spatial Operations Intelligence system that transforms a client's existing CCTV infrastructure into aproactive, queryable asset. Through a single, on-premise edge appliance that processes all video locally, the platform creates a real-time, 3D understanding of an environment, enabling users to perform natural language searches, receive predictive alerts, and generate reports on operational trends. This approach eliminates the need for new cameras or sensors while guaranteeing absolute data sovereignty, a critical requirement for its target enterprise verticals in manufacturing, logistics, and retail. Vulture Labs is a Delaware C-Corporation headquartered in San Francisco.
- TRIC Robotics — TRIC Robotics develops an autonomous, non-chemical pesticide alternative for strawberry farms. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Newark, DE.
Catalytic Africa is an initiative by ABAN and AfriLabs, supported by AFD and Digital Africa.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Apps, Agriculture
- Stage:Angel, Grant, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Zambia, Tanzania, Benin
Investor stats
- Total investments: 16
- Round size: Angel $22k–$80k; Pre-Seed $200k–$1.5M
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Figorr — Figorr is your go-to, for accessing reliable information on temperature, humidity, and location. Experience the next generation of data-driven insights with Figorr today.
- Sumet Technologies — Sumet is a transforming the distribution of essential goods across the african continent.
- TileGreen —
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, Nigeria, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 755
- Round size: Seed $50k–$2.1M; Pre-Seed $20k–$1M; Series A $170k–$5M
- Lead/follow: 55% lead, 45% follow
Portfolio highlights
- FellowMe — FellowMe is a social media platform that allows users to meet new people with a search experience, segmented by interests and location.
- Exnus Protocol — Exnus Protocol is a next-generation decentralized ecosystem built on the Solana blockchain.
- UrbanFarmers — UrbanFarmers is a platform that connects city dwellers with local urban farms and community gardens.
Impact investment in sustainable energy
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- Industry: Energy, Solar, Renewable Energy
- Stage:Debt Financing, Series A
- Geography: United States, Kenya, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 56
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- WeLight — WeLight deploys sustainable and accessible solutions to accelerate energy inclusion in rural areas of Africa.
- 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.
- Amped Innovation — At Amped Innovation, we design breakthrough products for people living on less than four dollars per day. Our first product, the Blossom, is a solar home power system which is the lowest-cost and highest-performance product in its class, at one third the price and twice the power handling of competing systems. We built the Blossom with asoftware-enabled Pay-As-You-Go interface, which allows customers to purchase it in payment installments that are equivalent to what they currently spend on kerosene, while providing much more light, cell-phone charging, and ability to run appliances like televisions and sewing machines.
KFW DEG offers financing, advice and support to private sector enterprises operating in developing and emerging-market countries. Their customers can rely on their expertise: They can benefit from their market knowledge, their 21 locations worldwide, and their international network. For entrepreneurial success and development.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Energy, FinTech
- Stage:Debt Financing, Grant, Private Equity
- Geography: India, Kenya, Brazil
Investor stats
- Total investments: 117
- Round size: Grant $100k–$1.1M; Debt Financing $10M–$570M; Private Equity $11M–$274M
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
Portfolio highlights
- DataVolt — DataVolt is a leading innovator in state-of-the-art and sustainable data center solutions, empowering businesses across the globe to connect, collaborate, and grow in today's data-driven world. Our solutions, driven by security, sustainability, scalability, and reliability, facilitate digital transformation for our clients, amplifyingoperational efficiency and enabling them to contribute meaningfully to a sustainable digital future. With strategically positioned operations in Riyadh, Dubai, and California, we offer businesses the robust digital infrastructure necessary to succeed in the rapidly evolving digital landscape. We strive to redefine the future of data centers through groundbreaking innovation,
- Combio Energia — ComBio Energia Provide energy generation solutions with renewable sources, creating, growing, and long-term economic value. They develop projects for steam generation and cogeneration of electricity with biomass, which promote environmental improvements and significant cost reductions for customers in the industrial segment. They offer, based on adetailed analysis of the needs of each customer, a dedicated energy solution, adapted to their consumption profile.
- IPT PowerTech — IPT PowerTech coverage, coupled with our extensive expertise in supply chain management, field implementation, and power systems, has made us one of the most capable companies in handling the most complicated and versatile projects in the MEA region and its neighboring countries.
We back founders building the future of Africa. We invest in companies that solve for non-consumption, plug infrastructural gaps and democratise prosperity in Africa, by eliminating the barriers for access and reducing the costs of delivering goods and services.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 148
- Round size: Seed $325k–$4.4M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
Portfolio highlights
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- MarketForce — MarketForce connects Africa’s informal retail outlets and consumers directly to suppliers of consumer goods and financial services by digitizing orders, delivery, and payments with the aim of solving the last mile distribution challenge.
- ThankUCash — ThankUCash is a technology company powering rewards and loyalty for African banks and businesses. ThankUCash helps merchants grow revenue by connecting them to customers within and outside of their locations while retaining acquired customers using a data analytics-powered reward system where customers earn cash rewards for every transaction madeboth offline and online.
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- Industry: AgTech, E-Commerce, Agriculture
- Stage:Grant, Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: South Africa, United States, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 16
- Round size: Grant $25k–$100k; Pre-Seed $7k–$40k
- Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Amanleek — Amanleek, aims to simplify insurance services and make it more accessible for a wider base of individual and business customers through leveraging transparency, trust and innovation to deliver an enhanced experience for all parties involved through tech based solutions.
- Medtech Africa — Medtech Africa is a Nigerian-based startup leveraging Artificial Intelligence and Apps to enable Cardiologists to treat and manage patients living with Cardiovascular Disease using the Patient's own data.The App, Forcardio, is a smart mobile & web application that seamlessly connects FDA-approved Bluetooth-enabled Cardiovascular devicesused by Patients through a mobile app to physician's tablet/device.Forcardio, eliminates the need for Cardiologists to use hundreds of apps to manage CVD. Forcardio App connects all CVD devices.We provide features such as AI analytics and Planning tools for Patient data for Cardiologist, emergency warning systems, on-demand video/voice call and management tools for CVD Patients.
- Riwe — Riwe is building the operating system for climate resilience in Africa. We use AI, satellite data, and blockchain to power instant insurance, payments, and digital identity for farmers and rural businesses.Farmers get covered and paid in minutes — not weeks. Banks and insurers access verified risk data to expand safely into rural markets.Weoffer early warning systems and mobile-accessible, inclusive and affordable parametric climate insurance and climate insights to protect the income of farmers in Africa's underserved communities, ensuring their stability and profitability. Accessible from any mobile device, even without the internet via USSD and SMS, and pay for premium using mobile money
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- Industry: Financial Services, EdTech, Retail
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, India, Zambia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Round size: Seed $3M–$12M; Pre-Seed $250k–$4.5M; Series A $20M–$33M
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Carry — Ocho is everything you need to build wealth as a business owner.
- Qene Games — Qene Games is an award-winning software development firm operating from Addis Abeba, Ethiopia. Founded in 2017, the company has been focused on developing and publishing video games while providing game development outsourcing, game art outsourcing, and other software development services.
- Hone Health — Hone Health provides telehealth services that support hormone health and longevity, including testosterone replacement therapy (TRT)
ACE offers three core investment strategies across the stages of private investment: Secondaries, Buyout, and Venture. Our portfolio construction guidelines ensure that our investors access the necessary customization to achieve their risk and return requirements.ACE aims to drive returns by managing risks and strategically adjusting investmentexposure to the stage of a company’s development. We strongly believe that diversification and sizing of investments according to the risk profile are the most effective approaches to investing private capital.ACE’s specialized investment teams provide the support to create long-term and sustainable investment results.
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Switzerland, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 185
- Round size: Seed $1M–$6.4M; Series A $3.4M–$24M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Roofr — The complete sales toolbox for roofers. From roof measurement reports to project-winning proposals.
- Vennre — Build wealth through vetted private market opportunities from $5k. GCC-first, globally accessible. Regulated, Sharia-compliant, digital-first.
- DiPonio Contracting — DiPonio Contracting is an infrastructure maintenance and construction company. It offers new and replacement upgrades for aged and existing water, wastewater, and storm sewer systems.
Cofounder and CEO of Kuda
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, Zambia, Pakistan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Seed $2M–$6M; Pre-Seed $780k–$4M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
- Maplerad — Maplerad is a fast, safe and easy way to send and receive money with friends, family or others you trust. You can receive and send money directly into any Nigerian bank account in minutes using Bitcoin, US Dollars, and Naira.
Alitheia IDF is investing in dynamic and growing businesses throughout Africa. By investing in teams that recognize the importance of gender diversity the firm generates superior financial returns and impact.
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- Industry: Logistics, E-Commerce, Retail
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: South Africa, Nigeria, Ghana
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Seed $2.8M–$13M; Series A $3M–$11M; Venture - Series Unknown $4.5M–$5M
- Lead/follow: 80% lead, 20% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $100M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Lupiya — Lupiya is an online marketplace for microloans. It is a branch-less, innovative digital microfinance platform that leverages technology to make the process of borrowing simpler and easier so that people and businesses located across the country even in rural, remote areas can access financial services.
- Seamfix — Seamfix’s end-to-end electronic ID and credentials software solutions address the lack of digital ID systems for 30+ African countries and over 250M individuals, providing access to credit, banking, and other essential services for large parts of populations.
- Alma Clinics — Alma Clinics is a company that provides primary healthcare services using a digital clinical decision support. Alma Clinics provides a range of services, all of which are intended to be easy and reasonably priced while offering customers a thorough medical experience.
Norwegian investment fund for developing countries
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- Industry: Energy, Financial Services, Renewable Energy
- Stage:Private Equity, Debt Financing
- Geography: South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 103
- Round size: Debt Financing $2.2M–$156M; Private Equity $7.4M–$125M
- Lead/follow: 62% lead, 38% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2009
Portfolio highlights
- WeLight — WeLight deploys sustainable and accessible solutions to accelerate energy inclusion in rural areas of Africa.
- CrossBoundary — CrossBoundary Energy's renewable energy solutions help decarbonize enterprise by providing cleaner, cheaper and more reliable power.
- mopo — Mobile Power's innovative pay-per-use battery sharing network unlocks clean energy for households, businesses and electric transport in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Gbenga Ajayi is a Partner at QED Investors.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Payments, Banking
- Stage:Seed, Series B, Series A
- Geography: South Africa, Egypt, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 13
- Round size: Seed $3M–$34M; Series A $8M–$11M; Series B $33M–$55M
- Lead/follow: 69% lead, 31% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Union54 — Union54 is a debit card issuing API for fintech and corporates.Union54 allows any software company to issue debit cards to their customers without needing any bank or credit card processor. It provides BIN sponsorship., transaction processing, and settlement.
- Moniepoint — Moniepoint provides an all-in-one payments, banking and operations platform for businesses and their customers.
- Stitch — One API integration for enterprise online payments across South Africa. Accept Pay by bank, debit + credit card, cash, manual EFT, debit order and crypto.
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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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Geography: Germany, United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 87
- Round size: Seed $180k–$5.3M; Angel $153k–$382k; Pre-Seed $100k–$1.4M
- Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
Portfolio highlights
- REMOJO — Achieve sexual self-mastery with the REMOJO apps, courses and coaching programs. Quit porn for good, and bring your A-game to relationships, life and work.
- Strange Loop Labs — Guru automates tax, insurance, and audit processes with generative AI
- Lightning Reach — Lightning Reach is a financial support portal that makes it easy for people to find and apply for a wide range of personalised support in one place. This support can range from; charitable grants, local council schemes, help with bills and the cost of living crisis and benefits.
Welcome to Growth Investment Partners - A custom built investment model that meets the needs of the growing entrepreneur.
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- Industry: Mining, Farming, Mineral
- Stage:Debt Financing, Private Equity
- Geography: Ghana, Zambia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Springs & Bolts — SBLC manufactures U – Bolts, Leaf Springs, Trailer Suspensions & exports to the West Africa n Sub-Region and also sells on the Ghana market.
- Boxpack Zambia — Boxpack Zambia specialists in manufacturing Corrugated boxes.
- Altus Financial Services — Altus Financial Services operates as a non-bank microfinance institution focused on providing short- to medium-term financing solutions to underserved segments. Its core business model utilizes customized credit evaluation structures, such as a payroll-deduction system, to disperse capital to public sector workers, small business owners, andmicro-entrepreneurs. The value proposition centers on expanding financial inclusion by delivering rapid loan approvals and flexible terms that accommodate clients who do not fit traditional bank appraisal checklists. This structured underwriting enables capital allocation across diverse sectors including farming, retail, construction, and manufacturing.
Shell Foundation is a philanthropic foundation that enables millions of people in Africa and Asia to increase their incomes with clean energy solutions.
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- Industry: Energy, Solar, Finance
- Stage:Grant, Seed
- Geography: India, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 29
- Round size: Seed $790k–$1.1M; Grant $300k–$5.5M
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
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.
- Sistema.bio — Sistema.bio is a biodigester with biogas appliances. High efficiency biodigesters transform organic waste into renewable biogas.
- Mufin Green Finance — Mufin Green Finance is an NBFC that specialises in the electric vehicle (EV) market.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 147
- Round size: Seed $100k–$5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2.4M; Series A $250k–$37M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $14M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Aku — Aku is a financial technology to drive financial inclusion on one mobile device. They provide payments and bring financial services to the doorstep. They support the new business owner in need of the right tools. They offer low-cost, accessible financial services that serve their customers. They radically democratized access to banking and digitalpayment channels.
- Cauridor — Cauridor is a Financial Services company.
- AlumUnite — AlumUnite is a purpose-built platform to connect all educated Africans to develop Africa's human capital through alumni groups. We crowd-resource education.
Tamboti Circle is an investment firm.
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- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Zambia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Duniya Healthcare — Duniya Healthcare helps retail pharmacies to source their medicines from wholesalers.
Acumen is a nonprofit venture fund that invests in early-stage companies bringing critical services like agriculture, clean energy, education, financial inclusion, healthcare and workforce development to low-income communities in 14 countries across East and West Africa, South Asia, Latin America, and the United States. Since 2001, Acumeninvested $128 million in 128 companies that have transformed the lives of over 308 million low-income people.
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- Industry: Agriculture, Solar, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, India, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 178
- Round size: Seed $300k–$2.5M; Series A $1.6M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 51% lead, 49% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $2.8M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Bintix — Bintix averts landfill waste ... one household at a time.
- EduBridge — EduBridge is an organization started by a group of alumni and professors from IIM Bangalore & Lucknow in 2009. EduBridge works towards transforming the lives of the unemployed youth in the country across urban, semi-urban and rural areas. EduBridge provides them with a commercially relevant training at their doorstep and arm them with thenecessary skill sets and mindset to succeed in their professional careers and thus help transform their lives.
- Energy Assured Nigeria — Energy Assured is an energy and utility procurement market provider for smaller businesses ranging from independent retailers and local franchisees to affinity group members in any sector. Users and customers benefit from economies of scale, more agile energy purchasing, and consistently lower gas, electricity, and water costs. Their expertsunderstand the pressures that small and medium-sized businesses face: they work to provide clients with exactly what they require so that clients can use energy as an asset to propel their business forward.
Danish Investment Fund for Developing Countries
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- Industry: Renewable Energy, Energy, Water
- Stage:Private Equity
- Geography: France, Zambia, Myanmar
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: no public data
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
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
Jordan Engineering
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- Industry: Agriculture, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Zambia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- 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.
AgDevCo is a social impact investor and agribusiness project developer, incorporated as a non-for-profit distribution, limited companyin.
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- Industry: Farming, Agriculture, AgTech
- Stage:Debt Financing, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Kenya, Ethiopia, Mauritius
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Round size: Debt Financing $15k–$15M
- Lead/follow: 86% lead, 14% follow
Portfolio highlights
- EthioChicken — EthioChicken is a poultry producing companies in East Africa in which the operative companies are AGP Poultry PLC (AGP), Mekelle Farms Ltd (MKF) and Andasa Poultry PLC.
- Planting Naturals — Planting Naturals is a group of companies focused to the long-term production of organic products. Planting Naturals was founded by Kevin Godlington.
- Afrique Phyto Plus — Afrique Phyto Plus is a phytosanitary product company that provides most current innovations in sustainable agriculture.
Goneke Investment Group (GIG) is an alternative asset manager and private equity firm specialising in transformative investments across the critical systems that power economies: energy, advanced manufacturing, critical minerals beneficiation, aerospace, transportation, telecommunications, digital infrastructure, and precision agriculture. Sinceour founding in 2022, we are driven by an unwavering commitment to excellence, innovation, and the preservation of value—financial, social, and generational.
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- Industry: Energy, Oil and Gas, Project Management
- Stage:Private Equity
- Geography: Zambia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Saharan Oil & Gas Company — Saharan Oil & Gas Company Limited (formerly Hume Energy) is a conglomerate of project managers that provide energy solutions in Sub-Saharan Africa. Through our global network of partners we develop and apply Next Generation Technologies to help safely and responsibly address Africa’s growing energy deficit. Energy access influences comfort,safety, security, and human progress, touching every aspect of our lives. SOGCOL aims to evolve from a regional marketer to an advanced energy innovator and a global energy solutions provider. We aspire to be an industry leader in all aspects of energy production, transportation, distribution, and marketing. Our operations encompass identifying energy projects and facilitation of financing from research and development to promotion, marketing, and execution.
Building and scaling African tech startups with catalytic capital, value-add support and our global network.
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- Industry: Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 108
- Round size: Seed $40k–$4M; Pre-Seed $40k–$1.3M
- Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Yeah — Yeah is a financial technology company that offers payment processing services while building a credit profile for the banked and unbanked.
- REasy — Top up locally, pay suppliers globally, and manage international shipments with REasy. Fast, secure, and designed for African businesses expanding worldwide.
- Konnect — Konnect provides a cross borders payment solution intended to simplify complex financial flows allowing companies of any scale and size to send and receive payments in a practical, secure, and low-cost way.
Create amazing customer experiences with our Customer Engagement Platform (CEP) that combines communication APIs with AI. Build solutions for SMS, WhatsApp, voice, and email.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, Egypt, Brazil
Investor stats
- Total investments: 31
- Round size: Seed $195k–$1.7M; Series A $7.6M–$28M; Series B $7.6M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $50M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Coval — Coval is a simulation and evaluation platform for AI agents, enabling engineers to deploy reliable assistants across chat and modalities.
- Deepgram — Deepgram helps enterprises unlock the potential of their audio data with custom-trained speech recognition for accuracy and scale. Deepgram's deep learning speech recognition system searches for keywords in transcripts by sound and text within audio and video files, used for transcribing calls, meetings, and voicemails for searchable notes,providing businesses with a fast, high accuracy speech-to-text on an easy-to-use API.The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
- Hyro — A stellar customer journey starts with conversational AI. Take complex data and turn it into simple dialogue across any digital channel, for all enterprises and their customers.
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Browse database — It's Free!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.
Private Infrastructure Development Group is an infrastructure development firm that offers finance and funds for economic growth.
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- Industry: Energy, Renewable Energy, Solar
- Stage:Grant, Debt Financing, Series C
- Geography: Kenya, Zambia, Senegal
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Grant $66k–$17M; Series C $50M–$50M; Debt Financing $2.5M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow
Portfolio highlights
- SupaMoto — Supamoto is a social enterprise that aims to provide clean energy solutions. The company's main product is the Supamoto cookstove, a pellet gasifier stove designed for field testing in multiple African locations. This stove is part of the company's commitment to renewable home energy. Supamoto also offers opportunities for individuals toinvest in Zambia's renewable energy sector, further promoting the use of clean energy. The company has a significant impact on the renewable energy industry, as evidenced by its various campaigns and initiatives.
- LOCA — LOCA offers a ride-hailing app and LOCA PAY for QR payments, available 24/7.
- Sanivation — Sanivation really has its beginnings from 2006, when Emory approached Georgia Tech looking for a toilet that would be more reliable in treating human fecal sludge. Ideas for a solar toilet were tossed around, and prototypes were built in Bolivia in 2007 and 2008. Work continued through GTRI and Engineers Without Boarders on various iterations ofthe prototypes. In 2011 a group of Georgia Tech and Emory students and recent graduates submitted an application to Start-Up Chile (a business incubator) to begin an organization based on solar sanitation. In July 2011, 5 Tech students moved to Chile to work full time on solar sanitation. Initial prototypes went well, and the team designed service models to create a more viable business model.
EDFI Management Company (EDFI MC) is a multilaterally owned impact asset manager which delivers innovative development finance solutions that enable European DFIs, development banks and private sector investors to increase the scale and impact of their work. The company focuses on business models, technologies and geographies where other investorshave not been able to operate at the desired scale given their resources and investment criteria. To learn more visit www.edfimc.eu.
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- Industry: Renewable Energy, Energy, Solar
- Stage:Debt Financing, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Benin, Ghana, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Series B $7M–$15M; Debt Financing $3.3M–$9M; Venture - Series Unknown $2.6M–$4.2M
- Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Sawa Energy — Sawa energy is an affordable, predictable solar electricity solution to power Rwandan businesses with clean and renewable energy.
- Complete Farmer — Complete Farmer connects growers, buyers, and vendors with technology, support, and market access across Ghana and beyond.
- Arnergy — Arnergy is a trusted solar energy company that provides clean, reliable, and affordable solar power solutions for homes and businesses, helping you save money while enjoying uninterrupted energy.
Achieve your financial goals & build generational wealth with our entertainer & athlete wealth management services. Offering comprehensive financial planning.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 134
- Round size: Seed $917k–$4.4M; Pre-Seed $125k–$725k; Series A $9.1M–$59M
- Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $18M in 2012
Portfolio highlights
- MoonPay — MoonPay offers a fast and simple way to buy and sell cryptocurrencies. Buy crypto with credit card, bank transfers or Apple Pay today.
- Milano Vice — Milano Vice is building a new virtual food brand by working with professional kitchens to prepare and deliver delicious pizzas to home.
- Kapital — Kapital empowers SMBs with a tech-banking platform giving visibility and control of their treasury, and their employees
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Cryptocurrency
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Canada, Zambia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 38
- Round size: Seed $3.3M–$25M; Pre-Seed $400k–$4.4M; Series A $7.5M–$32M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $30M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Daylight — Anode Labs is leveraging web3 infrastructure to build the world's largest virtual power plant.
- Somos Internet — Somos Internet is a network and telecommunications startup that provides latest generation internet with a fast, secure, stable connection. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia.
- Ceramic Network — Ceramic Network is a provider of protocols for decentralized and composable data applications. The network decentralizes application databases, making data universally composable and reusable across applications. It consists of three core parts: a highly-scalable, decentralized infrastructure for data availability and consensus, a marketplace ofcommunity-created data models, and a suite of standard APIs for storing, updating, and retrieving data from those models.
Alternative investment solutions: private credit, discretionary portfolios, and the Magna Specialized Fund.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Nigeria, United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 30
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$5M; Pre-Seed $200k–$2.5M; Series A $7M–$33M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
Portfolio highlights
- PaidHR — PaidHR works with organizations to streamline how they manage their staff. Our precisely created solutions enable them to create the ideal place to work.
- Lingawa — Speak your native language with pride! Learn Yoruba and Igbo with fun, immersive online lessons for adults and kids (ages 5+).
- Definely — Definely creates legal tech solutions to free lawyers from frustration, saving them time when understanding, drafting and reviewing legal documents.
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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- Industry: Health Care, Medical, Medical Device
- Stage:Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Brazil, Colombia, Argentina
Investor stats
- Total investments: 16
- Round size: Grant $25k–$50k
- Lead/follow: 69% lead, 31% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Sofya — Sofya AI is a healthcare AI platform that uses NLP and voice tech to boost patient engagement and streamline clinical workflows.
- Kintsu — Kintsu operates as a healthtech platform that bridges the gap between patients, healthcare professionals, and institutions.
- Salva Health — Salva Health is a healthcare solutions provider company that develops products to enable the prevention and early detection of diseases.
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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- Industry: Logistics, Agriculture, Car Sharing
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Uganda, Zambia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Series A $2.1M–$6.3M; Series B $8.5M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% 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.
- 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.
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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- Industry: Financial Services, Finance, Renewable Energy
- Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Series B
- Geography: India, Kenya, The Netherlands
Investor stats
- Total investments: 178
- Round size: Series B $4.5M–$46M; Post-IPO Debt $25M–$420M; Debt Financing $4M–$195M
- Lead/follow: 52% lead, 48% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Tagaddod — Tagaddod is a renewable Energy and Waste Management Egyptian company, started in February 2013 and operating in Cairo –Egypt. Currently focusing on clean fuels, Tagaddod is working on Biodiesel production from Vegetable Oils. Biodiesel is a fuel alternative that is produced from waste vegetable oils and used in conventional diesel engines, whichcan directly substitute for or extend supplies of traditional petroleum diesel.
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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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- Industry: Information Technology, Retail, Computer
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, Morocco
Investor stats
- Total investments: 24
- Round size: Pre-Seed $50k–$1M
- Lead/follow: 83% lead, 17% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.2M in 2017
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- 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.
- ShapShap — ShapShap enhances delivery experience through its commission-based marketplace by assigning efficient orders to drivers to ensure their sustainability and scalability.
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Browse database — It's Free!Patrick J McGovern Foundation advances AI and data innovation for global social impact. Supporting changemakers with technology solutions for equity and sustainability.
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- Industry: Non Profit, Education, Health Care
- Stage:Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 210
- Round size: Grant $100k–$750k
- Lead/follow: 89% lead, 11% follow
Portfolio highlights
- AI4ALL — AI4ALL opens doors to artificial intelligence for historically excluded talent through education and mentorship.
- AImpower.org — AImpower.org is a non-profit organization that enhances the ability of automatic speech recognition models to recognize stuttering speech.
- STEMarts Labs — STEMarts Labs creates interactive experiences that empower youth and communities via the intersection of art, science, and technology.
Consumer Tech Investors - We empower exceptional entrepreneurs everywhere to change the world for good.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, India, South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 550
- Round size: Seed $1M–$7.5M; Pre-Seed $336k–$3M; Series A $4.5M–$31M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kyash — Kyash is a fintech platform providing mobile banking services with full-stack banking technology currently offering digital wallet app. It has built proprietary full-stack banking infrastructure from the ground up to offer mobile-first consumer-facing digital wallets in Japan.The platform offers online payment and personal remittance apps underthe Kyash service name, and issues prepaid cards that can be used at Visa merchants. It also provides a new card that is available in three colors, navy, silver, and pink and adopts a simple design with card numbers and card names placed on the back. The first Visa card in Japan with an IC chip and contactless payment function that has no card number on the front side.Kyash was founded on January 23, 2015, and is based in Tokyo, Japan.
- Karrot Market — Karrot is the largest local community marketplace to buy, sell and trade new and used home decor, furniture, fashion and more. Join our growing community of over 10 million verified users!
- Koala Go — Your student's favorite online classroom. 24/7 live support. Co-browser. Gamified teaching environment. Worldwide invoicing. Interactive whiteboard.
Founders funding founders at the earliest stages of company building.
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- Industry: Information Technology, SaaS, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, India, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 18
- Round size: Seed $2.2M–$15M; Pre-Seed $1.5M–$5M; Series A $12M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- CrewAI — CrewAI is a multi-agent automation platform for enterprises to automate complex tasks. With its automation platform, organizations can deploy and manage AI agents to automate complex tasks and to value across a wide range of use cases, from research and analysis to coding and reporting.The company also offers a range of advanced new featuresincluding self-iteration, performance evaluation, persistent memory, and a range of new agent collaboration structures.
- 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.
- The Clearing Company — The Clearing Company is an on-chain prediction market that aims to build an on-chain, permissionless prediction market that is compliant with regulatory standards and friendly to retail users.
Goodwell Investments is a pioneering investment firm focused on financial inclusion, fintech and inclusive growth in sectors providing
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Banking
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 47
- Round size: Series A $1.5M–$12M; Series B $2M–$26M
- Lead/follow: 53% lead, 47% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- OmniRetail — OmniRetail is a consumer goods distribution platform that solves the inefficiencies of traditional trade by digitizing key stakeholders through its products.
- Hinckley Recycling — Hinckley Recycling is dedicated to the responsibility of being a good steward of the environment and will in all circumstances aspire to constantly emphasize awareness of the natural environment, whilst maintaining a level of proficiency which demonstrates bona fide leadership in all spheres of the environment.
- Agent Banking Company — Agent Banking Company provides digital technology solutions that enable access to banking services through bank-approved agents.
TLG Capital is an award-winning private investment firm dedicated to empowering frontier market entrepreneurs, with a focus on opportunities in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).TLG firmly believes that impact creation is crucial to sustained financial success. They are committed to tackling persistent challenges and better directing resources towardsimproving the lives for some of the world’s most vulnerable people. Their investments have had a significantly social, environmental and development impact across Sub-Saharan Africa.TLG Africa Limited is a permanent capital investment vehicle focusing on equity opportunities in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). TLG Africa invests in sectors underpinned by the ‘rise of the African consumer’, such as: healthcare, finance, consumer goods and real estate. These investments include direct minority/majority stake investments, secondary opportunities and distressed fund restructurings. TLG Africa always seeks board representation, along with other minority protections.Notable investments include WHO pre-approved pharmaceutical plant QCIL (Uganda) and healthcare facilities in West Africa. In recognition for their efforts, their deals have won multiple awards including ‘Landmark Deal of the Decade’ in 2012 and 'Frontier Deal of the Year' in 2014 from Private Equity Africa.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Finance, Banking
- Stage:Debt Financing, Private Equity
- Geography: Nigeria, United Kingdom, Uganda
Investor stats
- Total investments: 29
- Round size: Debt Financing $4M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 83% lead, 17% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- NMB Bank — NMB Bank is dedicated to providing premium financial services to all existing and potential customers. Since 1993, we have offered supreme corporate, retail and investment banking solutions.
- VivaJets — VivaJets is a aviation company providing a full range of aircraft management services, fractional ownership opportunities, and aircraft sales and acquisition.
- Shona Capital Zambia — SHONA ZAMBIA offers responsible, adaptable financing along with useful management assistance that goes beyond money. We strive to eliminate obstacles, enhance capacities, and promote long-term, sustainable growth by collaborating with clients, business leaders, and communities.
Inside Capital Partners (“Inside”) is an independent private equity manager aiming to invest through equity in strong potential opportunities in selected Southeast African countries.Inside believes that access to high level information, a strong focus on selected geographies and enterprises along with a strong network of operational andbusiness experts, are key to enhancing value creation.For this reason, the Inside team, which is composed of people with strong ties to the region, operates through its offices in Mauritius and Zambia, and from its network of partners in the other selected countries.Inside also works in close proactive partnerships with entrepreneurs, and leverages on its network of experts, to fast track the development of small and medium-sized enterprises.
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- Industry: mHealth, Education, Health Care
- Stage:Series A, Private Equity, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Zambia, Madagascar, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Drive Health — Drive Health is a digital health startup that develops AI-powered health assistant technology.
- RDG Africa — Empowering the Future, one solar system at a time
- Hautes Études Pratiques Internationales — Hautes Études Pratiques Internationales is a private higher‑education platform that runs degree‑level programmes.
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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- Industry: Electric Vehicle, AgTech, Energy
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: India, Kenya, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Lead/follow: no public data
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.
Torrey Pines Investment, founded in 2002, is a specialty life-science investment company located in San Diego.Torrey Pines has a team of investment professionals with extensive experience in entrepreneurship, venture capital and operations. Our firm has created biopharma incubators investing in early development stage assets from internationalpharma and biotech partners in CNS, oncology, and virology areas to bring them to commercial success through pharma partnering and M&A.We are committed to capitalizing on the unique opportunities in biotech and pharma, where we can add value in development or regulatory strategy by utilizing resources of our portfolio CRO companies. We seek to leverage our industry knowledge, network of industry and financial contacts, and internal resources to assist our portfolio management in developing and executing their business strategy. Our bottom line is to help our companies achieve growth, build value and realize wealth.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Pharmaceutical
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Russian Federation, The Netherlands
Investor stats
- Total investments: 32
- Round size: Seed $3M–$3.1M
- Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $60M in 2017
Portfolio highlights
- Mondego Bio — Headquartered in Portugal’s main biotech park, Biocant, Mondego Bio is developing best-in-class protein tyrosine phosphatase non-receptor type 2 (PTPN2) inhibitors, providing a potential immuno-oncological therapy with an improved safety and tolerability profile.
- BIMINI Biotech — BIMINI Biotech is a startup that develops innovative therapeutic strategies for oncology. It is developing therapeutic strategies that target the growth hormone receptor (GHR) and its interaction with insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1) for oncology, metabolic diseases, and aging.The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Leiden, TheNetherlands.
- Chromis Therapeutics — Chromis Therapeutics, Inc. (Chromis) is a San Diego-based biopharmaceutical company, focused on the development of curative treatments for chronic HBV infection, based on its advanced proprietary drug design and discovery platform. The company is seeking investment to advance its novel cccDNA inhibitor (CHR101), viral entry and viral capsidassembly inhibitor lead candidates for the treatment of chronic HBV. CHR101 has a potential to eradicate HBV and to efficiently cure chronically infected HBV patients, as compared to drugs currently on the market. CHR101's activity is supported by a robust discovery preclinical data package.
Zenga Ventures is an investing firm for startups.
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- Industry: Apps, Software, Business Information Systems
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Zambia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ZPOS — ZPOS is a mobile application that speicalizes in shop management system which allows to record all transactions of the business.
Founded in 2001, Tiger Global Management, LLC (“Tiger Global”) is a New York-based investment firm pursuing a long-term approach to investing in leading, global public and private companies that leverage technological innovation. Tiger Global’s public equity business includes fundamentally oriented long/short, long-focused and crossoverstrategies, targeting investments in high-quality, public growth companies. The private equity business invests in early through late stage companies that pursue innovative approaches to new and existing industries, building on over 20 years of experience investing in hundreds of businesses in more than 30 countries with more than 90 portfolio company IPOs. With a strong track record investing across sectors and stages, Tiger Global aims to be a thought partner to companies and their management teams across their lifecycle in public and private markets. The Firm’s mission is to generate world-class returns for its investors and to do so in a way that makes its employees, partners and portfolio companies proud.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
- Geography: United States, India, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 905
- Round size: Series A $6.5M–$50M; Series B $17M–$130M; Series C $26M–$260M
- Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $2.2B in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- StrongDM — Manage access to any server, database, or Kubernetes instance in minutes. Fully auditable, replayable, secure, and drag-and-drop easy.
- G.O.A.T Brand Labs — Purpose G.O.A.T is mono-maniacally focussed on the audacious goal of Making Indian D2C brands world...
- Tools For Humanity — Tools for Humanity is a technology company building for humans in the age of AI.
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