Top 40 Startup Investors in Zambia in May 2025

Investor	Zambia investments
Ground Squirrel Ventures	5
Enygma Ventures	2
Babs Ogundeyi	2
Runa Capital	2
Ventures Platform	2
ACE & Company	2
The Todd & Rahul Angel Fund	2
Vibe VC	2
UNDP	2
EDFI ElectriFI	2
Tiger Global Management	1
Shell Foundation	1
FINCA Ventures	1
InfraCo Africa	1
KFW DEG	1
Finnfund	1
Zrosk Investment Management	1
Blockchain Founders Fund	1
Goodwell Investments	1
FMO	1
Johnson & Johnson Foundation	1
Danish Investment Fund for Developing Countries	1
Global Partnerships/Eleos Social Venture Fund	1
Patrick J. McGovern Foundation	1
Goodwater Capital	1
Opes Impact Fund	1
Gbenga Ajayi	1
Alitheia IDF	1
Acumen	1
Earl Grey Capital	1
Renew Capital	1
GreenTec Capital Partners	1
Hesham Zreik	1
Twilio	1
Jordan Engineering	1
Zenga Ventures	1
54 Collective	1
Not Boring Capital	1
Jag Singh	1
Torrey Pines Investment	1

Seed round investment in frontier markets and clean energy

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.
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.

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 and Ayo have provided customers with an extensive online marketplace of natural hair extensions created to mimic black natural hair textures. The company prides itself in bringing innovative and well-loved products to the SA black woman consumer.

Cofounder and CEO of Kuda

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 — 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 is a global venture capital firm built by serial entrepreneurs that invests in early-stage software startups around the world...

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Financial Services
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Germany, France

Portfolio highlights

Ubitium — Ubiquitous computing, universal RISC-V microprocessor
Akhetonics — Creating the first all-optical RISC Processor
Twenty — Packed with advanced features, customizable workflows, supported by a large community. Transform customer relationship management seamlessly and efficiently.

We back founders building the future of Africa. We invest in companies that solve for non-consumption, plug infrastructural gaps and democratise prosperity in Africa, by eliminating the barriers for access and reducing the costs of delivering goods and services.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Raenest — Access Virtual Accounts, Invoicing, Multi-Currency Payouts, Auto Payroll, Accounting Integrations, and Virtual & Physical cards within minutes.
Maad — Maad is Francophone Africa's fastest-growing B2B marketplace, based in Dakar, Senegal. Our tech-driven solution allows retailers to order products from our one-stop shop and benefit from working capital loans
Juicyway — Juice is a developer of a payment network platform for cross-border business payments for businesses and individuals. It facilitates financial transactions between parties regardless of location to allow enterprises to participate in international trade and the exchange of goods and services.

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.

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.
PatientPoint — Discover how PatientPoint delivers content that drives better health decisions and outcomes for healthcare providers, brands, and patients.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Zambia, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Loyal — Loyal is a clinical-stage veterinary medicine company working on giving dogs longer, healthier lives.
Merkle Manufactory — Merkle Manufactory is a software company contributing to the Farcaster protocol and working on clients.
Meez Culinary Solutions — Organize, Train, Cost, Iterate, Collaborate, and Share your recipes and process.

We were told no one would take us seriously as investors without a website, so here's our website.

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.
Carry — Ocho is everything you need to build wealth as a business owner.

UNDP works to eradicate poverty and reduce inequalities through the sustainable development of nations, in more than 170 countries and territories.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, AgTech, Marketplace
Grant, Pre-Seed, Seed
South Africa, India, Uganda

Portfolio highlights

FishLog — FishLog is fisheries supply chains ecosystem. Our vision is to transform fragmented fisheries supply chains into an integrated and efficient ecosystem with reliable solutions that create value along fisheries network. Our mission is to be the largest fisheries network in Indonesia. Offer complete fisheries post-harvest management services. Creatinga transparant, fair-trade and sustainable transaction along fisheries ecosystem with all stakeholders in our network.
Kee Farms Foundation — The Kee Farms Foundation is a non-profit organization that works to mitigate climate change through regenerative ocean and land agriculture.
Saint James School of Medicine — One of the top Caribbean medical schools. USMLE-ready in 5 Semesters. US clinical rotations. Accredited. Low tuition. No MCAT required

Impact investment in sustainable energy

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.
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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, India, China

Portfolio highlights

SILQ — SILQ is a platform dedicated to bridging economies and empowering businesses to trade, grow, and navigate new frontiers. By enabling seamless commerce, logistics, and finance, SILQ unlocks opportunities in emerging economies, fueling ambitions and redefining global trade.The name SILQ is a modern tribute to the legendary Silk Road—reimagined forthe digital age. The distinctive “Q” comes from Souq, the Arabic word for marketplace, symbolizing our commitment to fast, accessible, authentic, and reliable commerce.SILQ aspires to transform local products and manufacturers into global brands by connecting them with entrepreneurs in emerging markets across the Gulf, South Asia, and beyond.
Celestial AI — We develop audacious AI computing platforms that elevate performance, energy and economic efficiencies, enabling our customers to rapidly deploy innovations in their AI applications.
Temporal Technologies — Build invincible apps with Temporal's open source durable execution platform. Eliminate complexity and ship features faster. Talk to an expert today!

Shell Foundation is a philanthropic foundation that enables millions of people in Africa and Asia to increase their incomes with clean energy solutions.

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.
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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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.

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.

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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
Debt Financing, Funding Round, Grant
India, Kenya, United States

Portfolio highlights

ACCIONA — At ACCIONA we offer sustainable solutions to the most urgent challenges facing the planet, such as global warming, energy needs and water shortages
ACWA Power — ACWA Power is a developer, investor, co-owner and operator of a portfolio of power generation, renewable energy and desalinated water production plants.
CreditAccess Grameen — CreditAccess Grameen provides micro financial products and services for women from rural poor and low income households in India. It offers microcredit loans for income generation, family welfare, emergency, and home improvement, as well as micro insurance services covering life insurance, health insurance, and national pension scheme.CreditAccess Grameen also provides non-financial services, such as enterprise development, financial literacy promotion, basic health/nutrition education, basic medical services, special medical services for women and children, and training for women and women's rights/gender issues education. Vinatha M. Reddy founded Grameen Koota Financial Services in 1999. It became CreditAccess Grameen in January 2018, with its headquarters in Bengaluru in India.

Finnfund is a Finnish development finance company that provides long-term risk capital for private projects in developing countries. Apart from co-investing with Finnish companies they can finance ventures that use Finnish technology, cooperate with Finnish partners on a long-term basis or generate major environmental or social benefits.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Xac Bank — Xac Bank is the fourth largest bank in Mongolia with a loan portfolio of 395M USD, serving 298,000 borrowers and savers clients and deriving a yearly ROE of 22%. Xac Bank has demonstrated its ability to adapt to a fast growing and fast changing economic environment in Mongolia, on the back of a booming mining industry, and has re-focused itsoperations away from microfinance to SME, consumer lending and mortgages. In order to manage the associated risk, the bank has heavily invested in systems and human capabilities in order to serve the increasing need of underserved SMEs and urban as well as rural population. Xac Bank has also built an in-house mobile platform currently under upgrade in order to better serve the needs of its customers. Xac Bank is actively involved in deploying government and developmental funds to provide easier access to low cost housing and environment friendly energy to the lower layers of the Mongolian population. Finally, Xac bank is constantly providing non-financial services to the community under the form of financial literacy programs and business support to its lowest income customers via association with NGOs.
Cassava Technologies — Cassava Technologies is an innovative technology company encompassing fiber networks, data centers, renewable energy, cloud & cybersecurity.
Beacon Power Services — Beacon Power Services is a utility company that provides energy management software and analytics for utilities.

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.

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 — Send money to India, China, Pakistan, Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya and 16 other countries. Receive and manage your money without stress

We Focus Exclusively On Adding Value To Blockchain & Emerging Technology Projects With Real World Applications.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Unit — Unit Network DAO is a sovereign layer 1 blockchain built using the Substrate framework by the Web3 Foundation, Polkadot and Parity Technologies. It provides the technological and economic infrastructure for mainstream adoption of the token economy. A near-future in which millions of tokens fuel borderless communities to empower the globe.
M10 — Material10 is an international game studio and publisher with a vision to build the future of massively multiplayer games, leveraging cutting edge technology and creating truly open virtual economies.
Validation Cloud — Discover enterprise-grade staking and node infrastructure: Ethereum, Polygon, and more. Enjoy secure, fast, and reliable staking and node services with Validation Cloud.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Finance, Renewable Energy
Debt Financing, Funding Round, Series B
India, Kenya, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

ACCIONA — At ACCIONA we offer sustainable solutions to the most urgent challenges facing the planet, such as global warming, energy needs and water shortages
SeA Bank — SeA Bank is a banking institution that provides services like preferential loans, tax service, online transaction solutions and more.
Sahyadri Farms — Sahyadri Farms is a farmer producer and agricultural company.

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.

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.

Danish Investment Fund for Developing Countries

Investment focus

Renewable Energy, Energy, Water
Funding Round, Private Equity
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

Global Partnerships' Social Venture Fund bridges the pioneer gap in sub-Saharan Africa by providing impact-led funding to early-stage social enterprises.

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.

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.

Investment focus

Non Profit, Education, Health Care
Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed
United States, Kenya, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

HelpMum — HelpMum is a social enterprise with the mission to reduce maternal and infant mortality in Africa.
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 UK-based nonprofit, building open databases and AI-powered research tools to accelerate climate action

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.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, India, South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Stash — Invest and build wealth with Stash, the investing app helping over 6M Americans invest and save for the future. Start investing in stocks, ETFs and more today.
Rabbit — At Rabbit, we plan to change how the world shops.Retail has witnessed one revolution before with the introduction of E-Commerce that changed how customers order stuff and the second revolution is here! We are proud to be among the pioneers, a handful of global entrepreneurs that are leading and shaping the retail's second revolutionWe arefunded by amazing VCs that are helping us build the next big thingYou feel it is vague? that's intended as we are still building in stealth. but trust us, it is COOL!
Wrtn Technologies — Wrtn Technologies develops an AI-powered writing assistant through NLP-based AI.

Opes-Lcef is an impact investor that provides catalytic capital to early-stage social enterprises in emerging markets.

Investment focus

Communities, Agriculture, Service Industry
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Italy, Kenya, India

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.

Gbenga Ajayi of Kanza Ventures.

Investment focus

FinTech, Payments, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
Egypt, Zambia, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Raenest — Access Virtual Accounts, Invoicing, Multi-Currency Payouts, Auto Payroll, Accounting Integrations, and Virtual & Physical cards within minutes.
Union54 — Developers of ChitChat: an integrated messaging app with payments and USD Cards.
Cedar Money — Cedar simplifies cross-border payments for businesses in Africa. We enable businesses send high-volume payments to their international suppliers at affordable rates and ZERO set-up fees.

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.

Investment focus

Logistics, E-Commerce, Retail
Series A, Funding Round, Seed
South Africa, Nigeria, Ghana

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.
Ivili Group — Ivili Group is a leading South African textiles manufacturing group that has a diversified offering in textiles; including wool processing products and services and jeanswear garment manufacturing products and services.

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.

Investment focus

Health Care, Agriculture, Financial Services
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, India, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

BioMassters — Biomassers aim to replace charcoal production and charcoal cooking by providing modern, affordable, and low-carbon pellet fuel production and cooking solutions based on locally produced fuel from waste materials.
Reema Health — Transforming the way people navigate the gaps between health care and social care. Reema combines a 24/7 AI-based confidant with in-person community guides to help people meet their social needs.
Raino Tech4Impact — Raino Tech4Impact is a social enterprise that leverages technology as an enabler to empower African communities. We have been deploying technology-driven solutions in agriculture and health, powered by renewable energy to achieve sustainability.

Founders funding founders at the earliest stages of company building.

Investment focus

SaaS, E-Learning, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Rubie — Rubie is a software solutions company that helps businesses with complex products streamline and accelerate customer onboarding.
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.
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.

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.

Investment focus

Mobile Apps, Financial Services, Finance
Pre-Seed, Funding Round, Seed
Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia

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

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.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Agriculture, Computer
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Kenya, Nigeria, Morocco

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.

Hesham Zreik is the CEO of FasterCapital. He previously worked at DreamApps as a Project Manager. Hesham attended the University of Westminster.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

EcoBites — EcoBites is a subscription service that delivers sustainably sourced and eco-friendly packaged snacks and meals to consumers doorsteps.
SFA — Lebanon and abroad for its personal account and non-account in all fields of trade and public industry.
TeaLeaf — TeaLeaf is a firm that wants to assist in the distribution of tea.

Create amazing customer experiences with our Customer Engagement Platform (CEP) that combines communication APIs with AI. Build solutions for SMS, WhatsApp, voice, and email.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Egypt, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

PolyAI — The world's only customer-led conversational platform for enterprise.
Frame AI (acquired by HubSpot) — Frame AI is the customer feedback intelligence engine that powers winning CX with automatic sentiment, effort, and actionable themes extracted from every customer interaction in every channel. Learn how leading companies like Fastly, NVIDIA, and Oscar Health use Frame AI to activate needle-moving customer feedback at www.frame.ai.
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.

Jordan Engineering

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.

Zenga Ventures is an investing firm for startups.

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.

Building and scaling African tech startups with catalytic capital, value-add support and our global network.

Investment focus

Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa

Portfolio highlights

Billboxx — Enabling businesses pay and get paid twice as fast
Yeah — Yeah is a financial technology company that offers payment processing services while building a credit profile for the banked and unbanked.
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.

Behind-the-Scenes of Raising a Fund to Invest in Companies with Stories to Tell

Investment focus

Cryptocurrency, FinTech, Blockchain
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Canada, Zambia

Portfolio highlights

Cromatic — The integrated platform for easy discovery, quick engagement, and convenient management of outsourcing partners.
Voiceops — Your high-volume calls contain the blueprint for business growth, cost reduction, and risk management. Voiceops doesn't just analyze calls - it works alongside your team to automatically implement improvements that most businesses miss.Founded in New York and backed by top-tier investors on both coasts, Voiceops has driven billions ofdollars of revenue and cost-savings for industry leaders in education, financial services, and insurance. Real results: 80% increase in close rates, 98% reduction in compliance violations, 70% reduction in post-call work, 93% reduction in attrition, and 50% reduction in cost per lead.We're a fast-growing AI platform, with customers who have called our AI teammate “stunning” and the most advanced capability they’ve seen “by a landslide” — and we're just getting started.
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.

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

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence
Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
United Kingdom, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Konfetti — konfetti is building the leading platform for local workshops and events by empowering workshop providers with customized SaaS solutions
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.

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.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Pharmaceutical
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Russian Federation, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Mair Therapeutics — Mair Therapeutics main goal is finding and creating a small-molecule ion channel activator to treat Parkinson's disease, a preclinical drug discovery business.
Lomond Therapeutics — Targeting escape mutations in hematological cancers with first and best in class medicines.
MAIR PHARMACEUTICALS — Mair Pharmaceutical creates innovative processes and produces well-known unique substances for pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical firms worldwide.