Top 15 Legal VC Funds & Investors in South Africa (October 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Imvelo Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | South Africa | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series B | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | $302k–$5M |
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Kearny Jackson
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Iceland, South Africa | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $3.6M–$30M |
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Operator Partners
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Israel, Canada | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care | $800k–$35M |
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Sequoia Capital
VC Fund
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2 | United States, China, India | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $1.2M–$100M |
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SV Angel
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Canada, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $1M–$100M |
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Five35 Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | South Africa, Kenya, Egypt | Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech | $100k–$4.9M |
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MANTIS Venture Capital
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Brazil, United Kingdom | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services | $2.5M–$80M |
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Daybreak ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada, South Africa | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Artificial Intelligence, Software, Health Care | $1.7M–$20M |
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Knife Capital
VC Fund
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1 | South Africa, United States, United Kingdom | Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Information Technology, Education | $1M–$15M |
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Catalytic Africa
VC Fund
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1 | Zambia, Cameroon, Tanzania | Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed | Apps, Online Portals, Financial Services | $22k–$2M |
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Jozi Angels
VC Fund
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1 | South Africa, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Health Care, B2B, Apps | $188k–$1.6M |
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Glenheim Venture Capital Company
VC Fund
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1 | South Africa | Seed | Legal, Training, Education | |
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Webb Investment Network
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada, France | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $937k–$45M |
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Litquidity Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Ireland, South Africa | Seed, Series A, Series B | FinTech, Software, Financial Services | $2.6M–$200M |
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Lightspeed Venture Partners
VC Fund
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1 | United States, India, Israel | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $2M–$125M |
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Imvelo Ventures is a venture capital and growth equity firm in South Africa managed by Capitec Bank.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series B
- Geography: South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 19
- Round size: Seed $659k–$2M; Venture - Series Unknown $302k–$5M
- Lead/follow: 63% lead, 37% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Botlhale AI — Botlhale AI allows to build, train, test, and deploy multilingual conversational AI. Botlhale AI is a research and innovation start-up that specializes in conversational AI. Computer systems have become an integral part of everyday lives and as a result, natural spoken language is the desired form of human-computer interaction.
- Acumen Software — Acumen Software develops configurable SaaS solutions for enterprise work management, asset management, field service, smart city engagement and AIoT solutions.
- The Cape Town Stock Exchange — The Cape Town Stock Exchange is a south Africa’s stock exchange for small- and medium-sized businesses.
We are founder-first investors backing SaaS and Infrastructure startups at the earliest stages
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Iceland, South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 29
- Round size: Seed $3.6M–$12M; Pre-Seed $4M–$5M; Series A $12M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $67M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Decimal AI — Decimal AI is a software company that develops an AI-powered support platform for product and engineering teams.
- Ellis — Ellis connects and reconciles portfolio, fund, and investor data across the systems you already use. Every number traceable. Run every fund from one trusted view.
- Sandstone — Relationship management for legal departments.
Operator, no outside LPs, just our own capital. We invest in technology companies across Pre-Seed, Seed and Series A. Most importantly, we partner with founders we can help win.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Israel, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 266
- Round size: Seed $2.5M–$12M; Pre-Seed $800k–$2.5M; Series A $10M–$35M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $41M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Noetive — Intelligence of Record for the physical economy. A self-improving AI that learns how a business truly runs and works alongside its team.
- FSH Technologies (formerly Contenda) — Contenda helps repurpose old content into a new engagement. It contextually identifies content's key topics and spins it into the proper format for an audience to discover.
- One Footprint — One Footprint is an AI-native platform for digital identity verification, compliance, and secure data vaulting.
We help the daring build legendary companies from idea to IPO and beyond.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: United States, China, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2505
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$14M; Series A $6M–$50M; Series B $11M–$100M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- Despegar — Despegar operates as an online business-to-consumer travel agency that focuses on the Portuguese and Spanish speaking markets. It enables people to research travel plans, check flight availability, book airline, and hotel and car rental reservations online, as well as offer travel-related services, including access to airlines, car rentalcompanies, and hotels and vacation packages. The company serves the leisure and corporate travelers. It operates in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Uruguay, Venezuela, Spain, and the United States. The company was founded in 1999 and is based in Miami, Florida.
- Medallion — Provider credentialing and enrollment reimagined. Accelerate time-to-revenue, stay compliant, and scale provider operations, without adding headcount, through automated credentialing and enrollment.
- Decolar.com — Decolar.com is an online travel agency that offers complete travel services, including tickets, tour packages, accommodation, and car rental. Since 1999, more than 2,000,000 people have bought their air tickets through this platform.Decolar.com is present in 21 countries, including Argentina, the U.S., and Spain. It has a partnership of more than500 airlines and 150,000 hotels worldwide. When purchasing an airline ticket or travel package, Decolar.com’s customers also receive discounts at restaurants and shops in the chosen destination, plus 10% discount on purchases in Duty Free.Decolar.com was launched in 1999 and is based in Guarulhos, Sao Paulo.
SV Angel is a service organization, investing in founders who share these values. They support entrepreneurs in building lasting companies by assisting at key inflection points and leveraging networks to help them propel their businesses forward.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1394
- Round size: Seed $1M–$11M; Series A $3M–$35M; Series B $8.3M–$100M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $430M in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Hyperpublic — Hyperpublic is an open database of people, places, and things tied to a specific location. Anyone can add objects to the database and developers will be able to build applications on top of the data.
- Flow Engineering — Flow Engineering develops AI-powered systems engineering software for requirements management, validation, and hardware design workflows.
- Proximal — Proximal builds AI training data and environments to improve software engineering agents and autonomous coding systems.
Five35 Ventures is committed to unlocking capital and growth opportunities for female-focused early-stage African technology startups.
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- Industry: Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: South Africa, Kenya, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 21
- Round size: Seed $100k–$2.8M; Pre-Seed $100k–$1.7M; Venture - Series Unknown $200k–$4.9M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Susu — Susu is a dynamic and innovative company that offers a wide range of health services for families in the African diaspora. Susu provides a complete offer on Preventive care, Medical treatments, Management of chronic diseases, and Authentic drugs.
- Kasha — Health products and household goods you want, delivered to where you are.
- Fincart — Fincart is a leading shipping platform in Egypt, connecting your business with top courier services, automating operations, and helping you scale your eCommerce logistics.
MANTIS is an early stage technology investment firm supporting the most innovative companies across consumer tech, media & entertainment, distributed ledger and other emerging technologies.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, Brazil, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 134
- Round size: Seed $2.5M–$17M; Series A $13M–$50M; Series B $18M–$80M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $100M in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- SolveAI —
- Factory — Factory is bringing autonomy to software engineering.
- Pilgrim — Pioneering a biologically enhanced future for humanity.
Venture Capital for the Next Generation.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Health Care
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Canada, South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 13
- Round size: Seed $5M–$20M; Pre-Seed $1.7M–$2.6M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $2.9M in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Kanurra — An auditable pharmacy benefit manager for self-funded and level-funded employers. Every claim visible, 100% of rebates received back, one flat fee.
- System Labs — System is a modern longevity and preventative care platform that delivers science-backed treatments and support - entirely online. From hormone health to metabolism, we help you take control of your long-term wellness with expert-led care and convenient delivery.
- Sandstone — Relationship management for legal departments.
Knife Capital is an independent growth equity investment firm focusing on innovation-driven ventures with proven traction. By leveraging knowledge, networks & funding, Knife accelerates the international expansion of entrepreneurial businesses that achieved a product/market fit in a beachhead market. Knife have offices in Cape Town andLondon.Knife invests via a consortium of funding partnerships, including SARS section 12J Venture Capital Company KNF Ventures and select family offices. Knife facilitated lucrative exits of local technology companies to the likes of General Electric, Visa, Garmin and Uber.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Education
- Stage:Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: South Africa, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 40
- Round size: Series A $2M–$15M; Venture - Series Unknown $1M–$2M
- Lead/follow: 70% lead, 30% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $50M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- wamly — Wamly is the recruitment software, It has given us time back to focus on transformational work.
- Cue — Cue is one customer service platform for live chat, chatbots and broadcasts across WhatsApp, Messenger, web chat, email and many other digital channels.
- Optique Optometrists — Optique Optometrists provides comprehensive eye care services, including eye tests, prescription glasses, and contact lenses. The company offers affordable eye care solutions and has multiple branches across South Africa. Customers can book appointments online and access a wide range of eyewear options. Optique Optometrists focuses on deliveringquality vision care and ensuring customer satisfaction through professional services and convenient booking options.
Co-matching fund platform supporting startups and angel networks across Africa.
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- Industry: Apps, Online Portals, Financial Services
- Stage:Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Zambia, Cameroon, Tanzania
Investor stats
- Total investments: 22
- Round size: Seed $65k–$2M; Angel $22k–$90k; Pre-Seed $60k–$1.5M
- Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% 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 — TileGreen is a manufacturing technology company that invented a patented, machine-learning-based, and automated thermomechanical modular technology (TG1.0) that acts as a platform for producing more than 100 circular, economic, and durable building materials (recycled-polymer-aggregate-composite) from all types of mechanically unrecyclable plasticwaste at a green discount, not a green premium. Re-PAC material doesn’t crack, rot, rust, erode, or interact with chemicals, which makes it a durable, economical, and green alternative for multiple concrete, clay, wood, and metal non-structural applications.
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Browse database — It's Free!Jozi Angels is an angel network based in Johannesburg, South Africa. We exist to grow the startup ecosystem and facilitate the growth of innovative startups.
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- Industry: Health Care, B2B, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: South Africa, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Round size: Seed $200k–$1.6M; Pre-Seed $188k–$1M
- Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Jahazii — Jahazii helps employers offer on-demand access to earned wages, giving employees financial flexibility without loans while reducing pressure on HR and payroll teams. Funds on M-PESA in seconds, at no cost to you.
- TUNL — Ship globally with ease. TUNL offers affordable, transparent international shipping built for South African brands. Up to 91% cheaper. No surprises.
- The Awareness Company — We use data to tell stories that are useful to humans.
Glenheim Venture Capital Company combines decades of experience in business development, financing, and global networks. They offer services such as fund formation, transaction flow, business growth, and investing in Africa.
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- Industry: Legal, Training, Education
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- UAV Industries — UAV Industries is the only company in Africa to have both a certified drone training school and a drone operators certificate. Allowing UAV Industries the necessary feedback between operations and training.
We invest $500-750K in early stage companies and have built a community of Affiliates, founders, and team members who are wired to give back.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 152
- Round size: Seed $937k–$5.2M; Series A $3.3M–$24M; Series B $6M–$45M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $25M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Augmodo — Augmodo Spatial AI enables real-time tracking of products across all stores, enhancing inventory management and shopping experiences. It discovers information through augmented reality for enhanced experiences.
- Soteris — Soteris provides artificial intelligence-based pricing tools to the insurance business. The company is working hard to transform the entire insurance value chain and would like to keep you updated on developments.
- Guild.ai — Guild: deploy, version, and run AI agents with built-in governance. Code-first, model-agnostic, vendor-neutral platform for engineering teams.
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- Industry: FinTech, Software, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Ireland, South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Round size: Seed $2.6M–$12M; Series A $30M–$50M; Series B $82M–$200M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $2M in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- Sandstone — Relationship management for legal departments.
- Allen Control Systems — Allen Control Systems is a robotics defense company purpose-built to deliver advanced robotic capabilities to fill modernization demands across the defense industry and national security communities.
- Valarian Technologies — We’re on a mission to help enterprises ensure their communication tools are secure, compliant and efficient.Valarian’s software allows multinational organisations to make the communication tools they already use compliant with data sovereignty, protection and privacy laws across jurisdictions worldwide. Valarian’s resilient, scalable platform canbe deployed into any environment (on-prem, cloud, or hybrid) and easily integrates with existing business collaboration tools like Microsoft Teams and WhatsApp, harmonising compliance, security and efficiency.
Lightspeed Venture Partners is a multi-stage venture capital firm focused on accelerating disruptive innovations and trends.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, India, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2426
- Round size: Seed $2M–$26M; Series A $7M–$85M; Series B $15M–$125M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $600M in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Tennr — Tennr is a custom AI assistant that accelerates research, answers complex questions, and generates custom reports.
- Whizzo — Whizzo specializes in materials science-driven manufacturing of engineered fashion and technical textiles. Our expertise lies in creating and executing innovative textile blends tailored for applications across automotive, agriculture, medical textiles, and engineered fashion.
- ElevenLabs — Create lifelike speech with our AI voice generator and voice agents platform. Access 5,000+ voices in 70+ languages with secure APIs and SDKs.
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