Top 45 Machine Learning Startup Investors in Africa (June 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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54 Collective
VC Fund
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4 | Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa | Seed, Pre-Seed | Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech | $40k–$4M |
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QuantumSavanna VC
VC Fund
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3 | Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed | Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Analytics | $200k–$300k |
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MNF Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | Morocco, France, Canada | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Online Portals, FinTech, Enterprise Software | $200k–$1.6M |
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Knife Capital
VC Fund
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3 | South Africa, United States, Kenya | Series A, Seed | Software, Education, Manufacturing | $2M–$30M |
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Accion Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | India, United States, Mexico | Seed, Series A, Series B | Financial Services, FinTech, Finance | $500k–$33M |
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F6 Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Tunisia, France | Pre-Seed, Seed | E-Commerce, Retail, FinTech | $65k–$200k |
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Phillip Sebole Masango
Angel
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2 | South Africa | Seed, Series A, Private Equity | Information Technology, Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence | $1.6M–$14M |
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Industrial Development Corporation
VC Fund
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2 | South Africa, Australia, Canada | Post-IPO Debt, Debt Financing, Series A | Renewable Energy, Mobile, Sustainability | $1.1M–$315M |
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Venture Capital Studio
VC Fund
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2 | South Africa | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Information Technology, FinTech, Finance | $256k–$9.6M |
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4Di Capital
VC Fund
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2 | South Africa, United States, Kenya | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Financial Services, Mobile | $441k–$47M |
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Equator
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Software, Renewable Energy, Agriculture | $1.8M–$15M |
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Ajayi Solutions
VC Fund
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1 | Nigeria | Seed | Farming, Agriculture, Food Processing | |
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Bantam Group
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada, Israel | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence | $120k–$20M |
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Oui Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya, Nigeria, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed | Transportation, Financial Services, Information Technology | $40k–$4.9M |
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AgFunder
VC Fund
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, India | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Agriculture, AgTech, Biotechnology | $100k–$40M |
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The GSMA Innovation Fund
VC Fund
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1 | Nigeria, United States, Ghana | Grant | Information Technology, Farming, Agriculture | $150k–$407k |
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Anthemis
VC Fund
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, France | Seed, Series A, Series B | FinTech, Financial Services, Software | $1.3M–$60M |
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Flourish Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, India, Brazil | Series A, Seed, Series B | FinTech, Financial Services, Finance | $2M–$65M |
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Automattic
VC Fund
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, India | Seed, Series A, Corporate Round | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $777k–$30M |
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Carrot Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya, Canada | Seed, Pre-Seed | AgTech, Livestock, Machine Learning | |
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Nafiu Adenle
Angel
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1 | Nigeria | Seed | EdTech, Big Data, Software | |
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Factor E
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya, United States, India | Seed, Series A, Convertible Note | Energy, Renewable Energy, Agriculture | $20k–$10M |
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Michael Chow
Angel
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1 | United States, Kenya | Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Internet | |
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Leaps by Bayer
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada, China | Series A, Series B, Series C | Biotechnology, Health Care, Agriculture | $6.5M–$152M |
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Savannah Fund
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya, United States, South Africa | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, FinTech, Software | $25k–$8M |
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Uchechukwu Livinus
Angel
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1 | Nigeria | Pre-Seed | SaaS, Generative AI, Machine Learning | |
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Paper Plane Ventures
VC Fund
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LeapFrog Investments
VC Fund
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1 | India, Nigeria, United Kingdom | Private Equity, Series D | Financial Services, Finance, Insurance | $4.3M–$175M |
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U.S. International Development Finance Corp
VC Fund
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1 | India, United States, Kenya | Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt | Financial Services, Finance, Banking | $5M–$500M |
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CV VC
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Switzerland, Germany | Seed, Pre-Seed | Blockchain, Software, FinTech | $125k–$4M |
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Joe Caruso
Angel
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1 | United States, France, Israel | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, SaaS, Internet | $420k–$2.2M |
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Newid capital
VC Fund
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1 | India, Kenya, Turkey | Series A, Seed, Series B | Financial Services, FinTech, Credit | $1.3M–$6.9M |
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Sequoia Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United States, China, India | Series A, Series B, Series C | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $5.5M–$190M |
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Wavecrest Growth Partners
VC Fund
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, Canada | Private Equity, Series A | Software, SaaS, Automotive | $10M–$104M |
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SVG Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada, Ireland | Pre-Seed, Seed | AgTech, Agriculture, Farming | $50k–$4.7M |
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Ground Squirrel Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Kenya, Zambia | Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Finance | $400k–$5M |
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Musha Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Nigeria, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Financial Services, FinTech | $125k–$10M |
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Water and Energy for Food Grand Challenge
VC Fund
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1 | India, Kenya | Grant, Pre-Seed | SaaS, AgTech, Farming | |
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OEL Venture Investments
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya | Seed | Agriculture, Farmers Market, Machine Learning | |
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BlueOrchard Finance S A
VC Fund
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1 | India, Nigeria, Vietnam | Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Series A | Financial Services, Finance, FinTech | $3M–$220M |
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Prince Ade Global Investment Ltd
VC Fund
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1 | Nigeria | Seed | SaaS, Generative AI, Machine Learning | |
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Google Startups
Angel
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1 | Nigeria, Portugal, United Kingdom | Pre-Seed, Seed | Artificial Intelligence, Retail, Robotics | |
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Capaci.Tech
VC Fund
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1 | South Africa, United States | Seed | SMS, Apps, SaaS | $97k–$4M |
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Nedbank
VC Fund
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1 | South Africa, Australia, United States | Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Mining | $2M–$700M |
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Hannover Re
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Germany, Brazil | Series A, Seed, Private Equity | Insurance, FinTech, InsurTech | $9M–$47M |
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- Industry: Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 107
- Round size: Seed $40k–$4M; Pre-Seed $40k–$1.3M
- Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
Portfolio highlights
- mTek — mTek is a digital online insurance platform that provides an entirely paperless ecosystem for the insurance industry.
- 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.
QuantumSavanna VC is an Africa-first venture capital firm investing in GPU-native deeptech startups addressing infrastructure-scale challenges across energy systems, climate modeling, industrial digital twins, advanced agriculture, and AI infrastructure. The firm focuses on accelerated computing platforms, physics-informed machine learning, andedge-to-cluster AI architectures that deliver measurable performance advantages in real-world infrastructure environments. QuantumSavanna backs technical founders building defensible, compute-intensive systems companies designed for emerging markets and globally scalable deployment across LATAM, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East. The fund invests from Pre-Seed to Series A and partners closely with teams on architecture strategy, infrastructure deployment pathways, and institutional fundraising readiness.
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- Industry: Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Analytics
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $200k–$300k
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- FlockVoice — FlockVoice is an AI-powered poultry health intelligence platform that detects respiratory diseases 3–5 days before visible symptoms by analyzing chicken vocal patterns in real time. The company uses GPU-accelerated acoustic AI to reduce mortality, improve farm profitability, and enable predictive biosecurity.
- SteelCheck — SteelCheck is an AI-powered construction compliance platform that verifies steel reinforcement and structural steel installations in real time. Using GPU-accelerated computer vision and spatial analysis, the platform detects rebar sizes, spacing, and placement on construction sites and validates them against engineering drawings and BIMspecifications before concrete placement.The platform helps contractors, structural engineers, inspectors, and infrastructure developers prevent costly structural errors, reduce rework, and ensure compliance with building standards and safety regulations. SteelCheck integrates mobile inspection tools, edge AI devices powered by NVIDIA Jetson, and cloud-based analytics to deliver instant compliance alerts and automated inspection reports.Backed by Techstars pre-seed funding and QuantumSavanna VC seed investment, SteelCheck is building the intelligence layer for construction verification, transforming manual inspection into real-time structural compliance for the global construction industry.
- MetraEstate — MentraEstate is an AI-driven real estate intelligence platform designed to optimize property investment, valuation, and development decisions across emerging markets. The platform leverages machine learning, predictive analytics, and infrastructure-scale data modeling to provide investors, developers, and financial institutions with actionableinsights for portfolio optimization and risk management. MentraEstate focuses on emerging urban markets where data fragmentation limits investment efficiency, delivering structured intelligence tools that enhance transparency, forecasting accuracy, and capital allocation decisions.
MNF Ventures is a venture capital fund based in Morocco, investing in Seed, Pre-Series A and Series A startups. Tickets size can go up to USD 1M. We invest in tech startups operating in Fintech/Insurtech, EdTech, Regtech, HealthTech, Biotech, EnergyTech Cybersecurity, SaaS... Startups have either to be based in Morocco, or be based worldwideif at least one of the founders is a Moroccan citizen. MNF Ventures manages Maroc Numeric Fund and Maroc Numeric Fund II.
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- Industry: Online Portals, FinTech, Enterprise Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Morocco, France, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 32
- Round size: Seed $200k–$1.6M; Series A $250k–$700k
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $20M in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- Damanesign — Damanesign operates as a digital trust solutions startup. Damanesign is a startup that is seizing new legislation opportunities on digital trust in Morocco to provide users with the utmost safety in documentation.
- Atlan Space — Building Artificial Intelligence to autonomously pilot any fixed wing drone, to monitor and take measures over very large areas
- OnePay — OnePay is a fintech startup that operates as a distributor of means of payment and aggregator of payment and value-added services in electronic transactions.
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, Education, Manufacturing
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: South Africa, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 31
- Round size: Series A $2M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 71% lead, 29% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $10M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- d6 — SCHOOLS Schools Communication Platforms and School Management Software COMMUNITIES Community & Internal Business Communication Platforms MEDIA Let your brand be seen Advertise on
- DataProphet — DataProphet offers production intelligence solutions for manufacturers. By combining human ingenuity with production data, we supercharge manufacturing excellence. Explore our Connect platform and expert services, trusted by industry leaders.
- Stone Three Venture Technology — We combine expert services with the power of machine learning to help our customers increase their productivity and safety.
Accion Ventures is an investment strategy that today pursues early-stage investments as part of Accion Impact Management.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: India, United States, Mexico
Investor stats
- Total investments: 127
- Round size: Seed $500k–$6.5M; Series A $2.6M–$33M; Series B $8M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kuunda — Kuunda provides consulting, liquidity management, data insight tools enabling users to fulfill financial needs through a digital platform.
- Lami — Lami is an end-to-end digital insurance platform and API that enables companies across sectors to offer insurance products. Its API allows underwriters to connect with consumer-facing companies that can provide embedded insurance as a value add for existing customers, many of whom are uninsured.
- Cashinvoice — Cashinvoice connects supply chain stakeholders and digitises invoice-to-cash processes to unlock working capital trapped within supply chains and accelerate business growth
Flat6Labs is the MENA region’s leading seed and early stage venture capital firm, currently running the most renowned startup programs in the region. Annually, Flat6Labs invests in more than 100 innovative and technology-driven startups enabling thousands of passionate entrepreneurs to achieve their daring ambitions and ultimately becoming theirinstitutional co-founders.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Retail, FinTech
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Tunisia, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 42
- Round size: Seed $65k–$200k; Pre-Seed $65k–$81k
- Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $10M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- WeMove — WeMove is a fitness marketplace for daily gym passes. They develop innovative solutions that meet your sports issues.
- Bako Motors SAS — Bako Motors SAS is a motor vehicle manufacturing company that develops solar electric vehicles. manufacturer of electric vehicles with the goal of creating long-term fixes for rural areas' transportation issues with regard to people, cargo, and machinery. The business makes electric cars as well as solutions for clean energy generation andstorage that are infinitely scalable, providing users with inexpensive and environmentally friendly e-mobility.
- Insight Plus — Insight Plus is a foreign exchange platform that specializes in interconnecting global exchanges into one eco system.
Phillip Sebole Masango, is a South African C-Siute Executive and Venture Capitalist, a visionary who seamlessly navigates the intersections of Technology, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Business Development, Business Intelligence (BI), Design, Web, Blockchain, Cloud Computing, Cybersecurity, IoT, Digital Strategy, Creativity, and Innovation. With aproven track record of assuming CEO, CTO, and other top executive roles, he brings a rare fusion of technical expertise, business acumen, and strategic foresight to every venture he leads. Phillip doesn’t just build companies—he drives innovation, scales businesses, and redefines industries.A Mission Rooted in Empowerment and Progress: With extensive experience in the Startup Ecosystem, Technology Industry, Creative Industry, Digital Innovation, Management Consulting, and Venture Capital, Phillip thrives in environments where innovation flourishes. His mission is to empower individuals, startups, businesses, and organizations by delivering cutting-edge technology and digital solutions that drive exponential growth. However, his work extends beyond personal ambition—it is a devotion to serving humanity. Phillip is committed to creating a world where technology democratizes and decentralizes industries, enabling individuals and businesses to innovate, lead, and thrive. He envisions a future where technology not only liberates but also elevates and inspires—enabling companies to reach new heights and igniting a wave of global prosperity.A Legacy of Meaningful Success: For Phillip, success is not defined by accolades or financial gain—it is measured by the profound impact he creates. He refuses to chase success in pursuits that lack meaning, believing that true success comes from doing what one loves—better than anyone else—driven by passion, joy, and self-mastery. His approach to business and innovation is holistic, tackling challenges from multiple angles to fuel transformative change. He thrives in collaborative environments where boundaries are pushed, industries are reshaped, and new possibilities emerge.Yet beyond business, Phillip understands that life is a journey of emotions and meaning. He embraces every experience—both triumphs and challenges—as stepping stones toward a greater purpose. With unwavering dedication and a heart set on impact, he continues to push forward, leaving a legacy that will resonate for generations to come.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Private Equity
- Geography: South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Round size: Seed $4.8M–$11M; Series A $1.6M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 82% lead, 18% follow
Portfolio highlights
- The AI Studio — The AI Studio is an advanced artificial intelligence research and innovation hub operating under Amani Creative Studios. It is designed to enhance and integrate AI capabilities into our existing services, spanning Web2, Web3, cybersecurity, branding, and software development. Every solution we offer at Amani Creative Studios and Web3 Studio willnow be AI-powered and AI-enhanced, unlocking new capabilities in automation, prediction, personalization, and efficiency.AI-Powered Web3 Solutions – AI-driven smart contracts, blockchain forensics, and decentralized automation., AI-Driven Branding & Marketing – Intelligent content creation, data-driven strategies, and hyper-personalization, AI-Powered SaaS & Software Development – Automated workflows, predictive analytics, and intelligent decision-making, AI-Optimized UI/UX & Product Design – AI-powered design systems, adaptive interfaces, and automated A/B testing.
- Amani — Amani Creative Studios is a Dynamic B2B innovation and technology studio where creativity, strategy, and cutting-edge technology converge to empower businesses, startups, and organizations at every stage of growth. We craft transformative digital solutions that redefine industries—blending artistry, strategic insight, and technical excellence todrive meaningful impact. In today’s digital-first world, we provide end-to-end technology and digital solutions that fuel innovation, enhance efficiency, and accelerate growth. Whether you're a startup bringing a vision to life, an established business scaling new heights, a company seeking innovation, or an organization embracing transformation, we are your strategic partner in pushing the boundaries of what's possible. Amani Creative Studios understands the intricate relationship between business products and brand identity. That’s why we offer tailored solutions designed to meet your unique objectives. We’re here to help you navigate the complexities of today’s competitive landscape, providing the expertise and strategies necessary to bring your business products and brands to the forefront. Let’s collaborate to turn your vision into a reality, combining innovative marketing, cutting-edge design, strategic branding, and advanced software development to elevate your business to new heights.
- Startup Venture Studio — Startup Venture Studio is a leading venture studio dedicated to supporting startups from inception through to post-IPO. We offer a comprehensive suite of services designed to help founders navigate the complexities of building and scaling successful businesses. Our approach combines strategic consulting, operational support, and growth accelerationto drive sustainable success and innovation.
The Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa Ltd (IDC) is a national development finance institution set up to promote economic growth and industrial development.
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- Industry: Renewable Energy, Mobile, Sustainability
- Stage:Post-IPO Debt, Debt Financing, Series A
- Geography: South Africa, Australia, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 19
- Round size: Series A $6M–$26M; Post-IPO Debt $1.1M–$49M; Debt Financing $30M–$315M
- Lead/follow: 53% lead, 47% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Ann-Connect — Ann-Connect is an EdTech SaaS for learning, teaching, exams and assessments rolled into an all-in-one education platform.Founded in 2021 by Bonginkosi Mabaso, Nexa was born from a real problem: students missing exams and learning opportunities because of unreliable internet. Our mission is simple: make online education accessible to everystudent, regardless of connectivity or background. Today, Nexa is trusted by universities, training institutions, and professional bodies across South Africa, with partnerships that give access to more than 450,000 learners. One workspace. All your education tools: - Nexa ExamCore: Offline exam tool where students can access, write, and submit online exams even without internet. - Nexa Invigilator: Invigilation tool designed to monitor for online exams. - Nexa Invigilator Venue-based – Proctoring for physical/venue-based exams for schools, corporates & teams. - Nexa Room – Low-bandwidth video conferencing just like MS Teams but designed for teaching and learning, with AI-driven student engagement tracking. - Integrations – Seamless connection with Learning Management Systems (LMS), plagiarism checkers, and other education tools — all in one place. Recognised with awards from TIA, ABSA, and the Royal Academy of Engineering (UK), Nexa is shaping the future of global education by making it inclusive, resilient, and accessible everywhere. Ready to experience THE platform for inclusive learning? Visit ann-connect.com and join us in building education without limits.
- Minbos Resources — Minbos has to build a nutrient supply and distribution business that stimulates agricultural production and promotes food security. They provide nutrient supply and distribution business that stimulates agricultural production and promotes food security.
- Theta Gold Mines — Theta Gold Mines is an Australian Securities Exchange listed company. Through it’s controlling subsidiaries in the Republic of South Africa, TGM currently controls 62,000 hectares of gold Mining and Prospecting Rights which covers the majority of the Transvaal gold fields approximately 350km East of Johannesburg. The Project is named TGME GoldProject which currently has 5.8Moz of a combination of underground/open-cut gold resources.
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- Industry: Information Technology, FinTech, Finance
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $928k–$9.6M; Pre-Seed $256k–$3.7M
- Lead/follow: 88% lead, 12% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Accrual Software — We are a Software Development Company
- Venture Capital Studio — 36 Followers, 31 Following, 1 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Black Silver Capital (@blacksilvercapital)
- Cyrrix Cybersecurity — At Cyrrix Cybersecurity, we understand the importance of protecting your business from online threats. Our team provides a full range of cybersecurity services to help safeguard your company's sensitive information and systems. We offer comprehensive risk assessments, penetration testing, and incident response planning to identify and addressvulnerabilities in your network. Our managed security services provide ongoing monitoring and threat detection to keep your business protected around the clock. With our help, you can rest easy knowing that your company's valuable assets are secure.
4Di Capital is an independent seed- and early-stage technology venture capital firm based in Cape Town, South Africa.Nurture capital is the term that best describes 4Di Capitalâ€:tm:s purpose and philosophy.We understand that in the early days of any business, support, mentoring and access to networks is just as important as seed capital.Using tried and tested international venture capital best practices, adapted for local use, we believe in entrepreneur-friendly finance without frills, and in working as a team with our investments to achieve their true potential.4Di Capital Early-Stage Technology Fund 1 targets startup investment opportunities with high growth potential at the seed- and early-stages in the mobile, enterprise software and web sectors.We look for founder teams with hungry passion, commitment, domain expertise and deep insights into the large market problems they wish to solve with their technology solutions.
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: South Africa, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 41
- Round size: Seed $441k–$7.3M; Pre-Seed $3M–$4M; Series A $2M–$47M
- Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Lumkani — AFFORDABLE ALARM SYSTEMS & INSURANCE FOR YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS Whether you are in a township, informal settlement, or suburb, we have the right protection for you. AFFORDABLE ALARM SYSTEMS & INSURANCE FOR YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS Whether you are in a township, informal settlement, or suburb ...
- Investsure — InvestSure is a technology company that uses its software to enable partner investment platforms to sell its unique Investment Indemnity (insurance) product to their clients. InvestSure provides a full set of APIs that trading platform developers can use to integrate the Investure Investment Indemnity product seamlessly and easily into theirwebsites and mobile applications. Once InvestSure technology is added to a trading platform, it enables users to buy insurance on their shares with a single click. The full process from buying to insurance to settling claims is fully automated.The Investment Indemnity product itself is a unique innovation; it is designed to protect to protect shareholders against any losses in share value caused by actual or perceived fraud committed by management. This enables investors to secure their investments. The cost of the product is low enough to not significantly reduce returns of investors where no insurance event occurs, but to provide significant downside protection where an insured event does occur.
- CompariSure — Custom, built-for-purpose service and sales chatbot solutions for financial services providers.
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- Industry: Software, Renewable Energy, Agriculture
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Kenya, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Seed $1.8M–$5M; Series A $14M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 60% lead, 40% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Leta — Leta Technology is a software development company that creates supply chain and logistics software to enable the efficient and automated movement of goods.
- Open Access Energy — South Africa's first multilateral wheeling software platform that automates energy transactions.
- SHYFT Power Solutions — SHYFT builds industrial-grade IoT and integrated software to connect and intelligently manage distributed energy resources (DERs) in markets that struggle with resiliency. SHYFT is pioneering the development of integrated decentralized power systems in emerging markets like Nigeria, leapfrogging over traditional central infrastructure and enablingDERs to scale and support existing but unreliable grids.
Ajayi Solutions seeks to participate in the development of the local economy in regions across Africa by investing in small to large scale privately-held businesses. The ratification of the Africa Continental Free Trade Agreement [AfCFTA] has opened a new chapter in trade across Africa and we seek to participate. We seek to invest in promisingentrepreneurs who create tech-enabled solutions to enable local production in Africa as well as facilitate intra- and inter-continental trade.
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- Industry: Farming, Agriculture, Food Processing
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Farmcrowdy — Farmcrowdy is an agric-tech platform that gives Nigerians the opportunity to participate in Agriculture by selecting the kind of farms they want to sponsor. They use the sponsor’s funds to secure the land, engage the farmer, plant the seeds, insure the farmers and farm produce, complete the full farming cycle, sell the harvest and then pay the farmsponsor a return on their sponsorship. While this farm process is ongoing, the farm sponsors are able to keep track of the full-cycle by getting updates in text, pictures and videos.
- Foodlocker — Foodlocker is a retail business that sources foodstuff from farmers, pays them fairly, & sells to customers at decent prices both online and in-store.
They are passionate about seeing their portfolio companies become successful.
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- Industry: Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Canada, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 107
- Round size: Seed $120k–$3.3M; Pre-Seed $500k–$5.7M; Series A $1.6M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- AI Lean — Simplify your lien compliance with the only fully automated solution.
- Aikium Inc. — Protein therapeutics
- Groma — We use technology to make properties work better and enable everyone to own a stake in their community. Join Groma in transforming real estate. Rent modern homes, invest in multifamily buildings, or become part of our resident investor community.
Oui Capital is an Africa-focused VC firm backing tech-enabled businesses at the pre-seed & seed stage.
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- Industry: Transportation, Financial Services, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 26
- Round size: Seed $200k–$4.9M; Pre-Seed $40k–$1.3M
- Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Duplo — We enable businesses across Africa to simplify their payment flows.
- Cauridor — Cauridor is a Financial Services company.
- Herconomy (Ex AGS Tribe) — Herconomy is a platform that allows women build their finances, capacity, collaborate and access opportunities.
AgFunder is a global venture capital firm backing deeptech platforms across AI, biotech, robotics, manufacturing, climate, and materials.
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- Industry: Agriculture, AgTech, Biotechnology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 138
- Round size: Seed $100k–$10M; Pre-Seed $100k–$1M; Series A $4.4M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $60M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Root AI — At Root, we are on a mission to create the intelligent robots that will help growers build the farms of the future.
- FaunaTech — FaunaTech is an Agtech company that concentrates on the research and development of devices capable of detecting diseases in cattle farms.
- Bear Flag Robotics — Safe, productive and efficient farming operations for the next generation of growers. Customize, Orchestrate, Automate,and Scale your fleet to your needs.
The GSMA Innovation Fund supports innovative digital solutions in emerging markets. The GSMA Innovation Fund believes digital solutions have the power to reduce inequalities within our world by connecting everyone and everything to a better future.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Farming, Agriculture
- Stage:Grant
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Ghana
Investor stats
- Total investments: 29
- Round size: Grant $150k–$407k
- Lead/follow: 86% lead, 14% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Wiseyak — Wiseyak specializes in artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques and offers solutions to the healthcare industry.
- WonderTree — The WonderGames engage special children through the newly embraced technology of Augmented Reality.
- Kola Market — Kola Market helps your small business drive more sales through innovative sales, marketing and financing . No matter the size of your business what or where you sell, we have a solution for you!
digitally native finance
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 253
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$7M; Series A $4M–$24M; Series B $10M–$60M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $150M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Tremor — Tremor designs, builds & manages SmartMarkets utilize state-of-art auction technologies & optimization techniques.
- TrueLayer — We power faster and safer online payments with our open banking payments network. Onboard users, accept payments & make payouts in seconds. Learn more today.
- Maxwell Financial Labs — Hi, we're Maxwell. We’re on a mission to revolutionize the $8.5T residential mortgage market by reimagining how mortgage lenders collaborate with homebuyers and real estate agents to buy a home. We connect our hundreds of lenders onto one seamless, intuitively-designed platform, so the focus isn’t the paperwork, it’s the place to call home.Today, hundreds of lenders across the United States use Maxwell’s digital mortgage platform to originate billions in mortgage loans each month at a cycle time 45 percent faster than the national average.
We are an early-stage global venture capital firm investing in fintech founders.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, India, Brazil
Investor stats
- Total investments: 187
- Round size: Seed $2M–$8.5M; Series A $5.2M–$35M; Series B $8.3M–$65M
- Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Spade — Providing AI merchant extraction, brand logos, merchant locations, and categorization as a service to fin-techs.
- Spry — Simplify your physical therapy practice with SPRY. Our all-in-one software streamlines billing, EMR, documentation, and insurance verification. Experience the SPRY difference today.
- Hummingbird — Hummingbird is a platform for managing anti-money laundering (AML) operations. Compliance professionals use Hummingbird to collect case information, conduct investigations, and report on unusual or suspicious behaviors. The platform dramatically reduces paperwork and improves efficiency, enabling AML investigators to refocus on fighting financialcrime.Hummingbird’s founding team brings together product and regulatory experience from organizations like Square, IDEO, the Department of the Treasury, and the OCC. Hummingbird is using data and design to modernize regulatory compliance in finance.
Making the web a better place
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Corporate Round
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 24
- Round size: Seed $777k–$9M; Series A $1M–$30M; Corporate Round $4.6M–$4.6M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
Portfolio highlights
- n8n — n8n is a workflow automation platform that uniquely combines AI capabilities with business process automation, giving technical teams the flexibility of code with the speed of no-code.
- Openvibe — Interact With Anyone On The Open Internet. All Decentralised Social Networks, Single Timeline.
- Liquid AI — Liquid AI is an MIT spin-off with a presence in Boston, MA, and Palo Alto, CA. Our mission is to build state-of-the-art, general-purpose AI systems from first principles and deploy capable, efficient, highly aligned, and trustworthy AI for all.
Carrot Ventures is the Third Option for commercializing agricultural technologies. The firm's goal is to maximize shareholder value by creating new companies focused on solving real market problems. Carrot does that by putting novel technology in the hands of professional leadership and making sure companies are properly structured andfinanced.
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- Industry: AgTech, Livestock, Machine Learning
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Kenya, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- FlockVoice — FlockVoice is an AI-powered poultry health intelligence platform that detects respiratory diseases 3–5 days before visible symptoms by analyzing chicken vocal patterns in real time. The company uses GPU-accelerated acoustic AI to reduce mortality, improve farm profitability, and enable predictive biosecurity.
- Cellar Insights — Maximize the value of your potato crop with smart remote monitoring. Monitor storage conditions and prevent crop loss with Cellar Insights.
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- Industry: EdTech, Big Data, Software
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Abbadh Labs — Abbadh Labs is an AI deep-tech startup committed to transforming fragmented data into clear, actionable insights through advanced autonomous research, predictive analytics, and decision-intelligence systems. Its work spans academia, healthcare, and national security, bridging the divide between sophisticated technology and practical simplicity toempower institutions, researchers, healthcare professionals, and data analysts.At the core of its academic solutions is SABABAT (Smart Automated Builder And Big Analysis Tool v4.0), Abbadh Labs’ flagship platform designed to fully automate and simplify the research lifecycle. SABABAT enables users to seamlessly generate key research components—including dissertation proposals, 5-Chapter thesis writing, and literature reviews while also supporting questionnaire design, dataset handling, and advanced statistical analysis.Built with an autonomous intelligence layer, the platform delivers structured, context-aware, and hallucination-controlled outputs within minutes, eliminating the traditional delays and complexities associated with quantitative research. With an average turnaround time of under four minutes, SABABAT provides a fast, code-free, and intuitive environment tailored for students, researchers, health professionals and data analyst, who require accuracy, speed, and clarity in their work.Abbadh Labs’ mission is to make advanced technology accessible to everyone while unifying Africa’s data to enable easier, more effective prediction and decision-making. Its vision is to establish Africa’s first Unified Data Lake, driving national development through predictive intelligence and high-stakes decision-making.
Factor E is a finance company that impacts venture builders, dedicated to supporting the people and ideas that will turn the tables in the global battle for sustainable solutions to energy, agriculture, mobility, and waste challenges in emerging and frontier markets. It serves as a conduit between philanthropic and commercial investors throughmarket-driven forces.
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- Industry: Energy, Renewable Energy, Agriculture
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
- Geography: Kenya, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 34
- Round size: Seed $500k–$4.6M; Series A $1.3M–$10M; Convertible Note $20k–$1.1M
- Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Roam — The Standard for Electric Mobility in Africa.
- Open Access Energy — South Africa's first multilateral wheeling software platform that automates energy transactions.
- 60Hertz Energy — Unify asset management with asset monitoring, enhance scheduling, and facile communication. Book a Demo Now!
Michael Chow is the Founder and CEO of Dart Technologies.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Teamble — Teamble dramatically improves how managers coach their people and how employees learn and up-skill. Teamble uniquely combines continuous feedback, performance, employee engagement, and learning & development in one AI-based platform, built to drive higher performance.
- Boom — Boom is the easiest way to build credit credit with your rent. With Boom, report your rent payments to all three credit bureaus for as little as $2 per month. Enroll in minutes.
- Tembo Health — Seniors deserve the very best care, no matter where they live. Tembo Health partners with nursing homes to provide residents with high quality telemedicine appointments in specialties like psychiatry, cardiology, and more.
Leaps is the strategic impact investment unit of Bayer. By accelerating transformative biotechnologies, we aim to shift key paradigms in life science, changing the world for better.In health, we pursue breakthroughs that could set new standards in medical care, moving from treating symptoms to curing or preventing diseases. In agriculture, wedrive innovations that could nourish a growing population while restoring the planet.It was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Leverkusen, Nordrhein-Westfalen.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Agriculture
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
- Geography: United States, Canada, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 115
- Round size: Series A $6.5M–$100M; Series B $17M–$152M; Series C $30M–$150M
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
Portfolio highlights
- EarthOptics — EarthOptics is building the cloud-based machine learning platform for soil and ground management.
- Sudo Biosciences — Sudo Biosciences is a biopharmaceutical company committed to developing cutting-edge medications that are unmatched in their class.
- ReCode Therapeutics — ReCode is the first genetic medicines platform to enable highly targeted delivery to organs, tissues and cells beyond the liver. Our pipeline of rare disease therapeutics uses optimized mRNA and gene correction with redosing capability.
Savannah Fund is a seed capital fund specializing in US$25,000-US$500,000 investments in early stage high growth technology (web and mobile) startups in sub-Saharan Africa. Initially focused on East Africa, the fund aims to bridge the early stage/angel and venture capital investment gap that currently exists in Africa. The Fund expects toachieve this objective by combining capital with mentor networks both in the region and from Silicon Valley via an accelerator program and a follow-on independent seed fund.The fund is managed by an experienced and technology savvy team that have founded companies or are actively involved in angel investing or having run successful accelerator programs in past but also understand the unique Subsaharan African environment. They are backed and supported by both local, regional and international networks of angels,venture capitalists whose expertise we can draw on to help startups succeed and scale to fully fledged regional or global companies.They believe in the potential for Africa to become a global technology innovator by creating sustainable for profit companies that create jobs and make an impact.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Kenya, United States, South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 38
- Round size: Seed $25k–$3M; Pre-Seed $200k–$2.1M; Series A $750k–$8M
- Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $25M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Oze — OZÉ brings African small businesses into the digital era. It is an app that makes it easy for businesses to track sales, expenses, and customer information. The data is analyzed to provide tailored recommendations, reports, and business education. If the entrepreneur needs a little extra support, an OZÉ Coach is just a click away. As they are usingOZÉ to manage their business and learn how to run it better, we are learning about them. Using this data and machine learning, we can predict their credit risk and provide them with affordable capital from our banking partners. With over 20,000 registered users, OZÉ is the largest online community of SMEs in Ghana. The most exciting thing is that OZÉ works; 97% of businesses that have used OZE for at least 9 months are growing or profitable or both!
- Root — Launch digital and embedded insurance solutions with omni-channel distribution.
- Afropolitan — Afropolitan is building a Network State to unleash the maximum potential of Africans around the world. Are you interested? Join us with your email.
Investment focus
- Industry: SaaS, Generative AI, Machine Learning
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- OkeyMeta — OkeyMeta is an AI research and technology company dedicated to building culturally grounded artificial intelligence that serves humanity responsibly and equitably. Our mission is to advance intelligence in ways that reflect the diversity of human experience while ensuring that the benefits of AI extend across all communities.We believe the futureof AI will be shaped not only by technical breakthroughs but also by how well systems respect culture, context, and human values. By embedding cultural grounding into the fabric of our research, OkeyMeta aims to create intelligence that is more inclusive, context-aware, and beneficial for societies worldwide.Through long-term research, responsible deployment, and global collaboration, we are working to establish AI that bridges local realities with global innovation. Our vision is to redefine intelligence in a way that empowers people and organizations everywhere, while ensuring progress remains aligned with ethical responsibility and cultural respect.
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Aerobotics — Powerful insights for precision growing and crop insurance
Scaling purpose-driven businesses to achieve leaps of growth, profitability and impact.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Finance, Insurance
- Stage:Private Equity, Series D
- Geography: India, Nigeria, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 70
- Round size: Series D $4.3M–$175M; Private Equity $9.3M–$110M
- Lead/follow: 54% lead, 46% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- ReNew — ReNew(NASDAQ: RNW),a global renewable company offering clean & green energy with a portfolio of 13.7 GW including Wind, Solar, Hybrid & Hydro Power.
- Neogrowth — Best loan offer for your small business. Apply for Collateral Free Business Loan online & get instant loan disbursal. For more details call us at 18004195565.
- Battery Smart — Battery Smart provides advanced Li-ion batteries to e-rickshaws. Battery Smart develops a retrofittable 48V Li-ion twin battery system that is compatible with all major electric rickshaw (e3w) models.
U.S. International Development Finance Corp is America’s development bank.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Finance, Banking
- Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt
- Geography: India, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 96
- Round size: Post-IPO Debt $33M–$500M; Debt Financing $5M–$468M
- Lead/follow: 74% lead, 26% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $300M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Kodak — A global technology company providing industry-leading products and services for commercial print, packaging, publishing, manufacturing and entertainment.
- Bayport Management — Bayport Management Limited, through its subsidiaries, provides retail financial services in the Republic of Mauritius and internationally.
- Freshtohome — Freshtohome is an online grocery store that sells a range of seafood and meat to its users.The website’s range of products include fish, poultry, mutton, steaks, and fillet. Fish consists of shell, freshwater, and marine. Furthermore, it enables suppliers to supply their seafood and meat to the website.Freshtohome was launched in 2015 by ShanKadavil and is based in Bangalore.
We invest in blockchain
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- Industry: Blockchain, Software, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Switzerland, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 59
- Round size: Seed $150k–$4M; Pre-Seed $125k–$600k
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- TurnStay — Enjoy low transaction fees on card payments in ZAR, Euros or Dollars and fast payouts in your preferred currencies. Book a demo today
- Orca Fraud — Orca empowers fraud fighters with effective tools to combat fraud
- Reppo Labs — Blockchain Network that connect Data Owners with AI Developers and AI agents through Programmable IP Co-ownership
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Browse database — It's Free!For the last 20 years Joe has served as mentor, coach, and personal advisor to CEO’s and entrepreneurs. In recent years, he has served as investor, advisor and active director with dozens of companies, public and private.Joe is currently a member of Launchpad Venture Group and was previously a member of Walnut Ventures, Common Angels, eCoastAngels and a principal of Brookwood Partners, all investment groups for early stage companies. He also maintains an active consulting practice dealing with structuring and negotiation of acquisitions, strategic partnerships and financings, and issues related to dispute resolution.He has served on dozens of boards over the years and is recipient of the Leadership in Private Corporate Governance award from the National Association of Corporate Directors New England Chapter. He is a graduate of Northeastern University (BSEE with honors) and the Harvard Business School (MBA) He has served as advisor to Northeastern’s School of Technological Entrepreneurship, and serves as a mentor for Boston University's entrepreneurship program, the Boston TechStars program, and Mass Challenge.Previously, Joe served as interim CEO for companies in need of strategic change - running businesses ranging from 5 to 1,000 employees. Early in his career, he worked at Teradyne and Autex, Inc., and was CEO at Cyborg Corporation, a venture-funded company that was a pioneer in the use of PC’s in laboratory and factory automation. He also has served as an arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association.Former board memberships include: ACT Medical, Acumenta, Adhesive Technologies, American Fantasy Sports, Audiofile, Boston Restaurant Associates, Boston University's Photonics Center (advisory director), Coffee Connection, Colonial Mills, Common Angels, Corion, Cyborg Corporation, General Analysis, Haymarket Bank, Iconics, i2Chem, Laser Science, Metrisa, MicroE, Nimbit, Qiave Technologies, QD Vision, Quant Funds (trustee); Tytronics, Wwwhoosh, Zentox, the Turnaround Management Association (founding director, New England Chapter), the National Association of Corporate Directors (New England Chapter), the Association for Corporate Growth (New England Chapter) and WEST (Women Entrepreneurs in Science and Technology). Joe has also served as an arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, France, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 26
- Round size: Seed $420k–$2.2M; Pre-Seed $650k–$1.4M; Series A $1.6M–$2M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Konnecto — Market Intelligence | Konnecto | Prescriptive Analytics Konnecto is a GTM Intelligence Platform that provides brands with an ongoing blueprint on how to increase online sales and improve marketing ROI
- Mylestone — The pictures of your greatest memories are likely stored somewhere just out of reach. Maybe in an old photo album lost in the basement - or maybe indiscernible from the 3,000 other pictures on your phone, buried in streams on Facebook, or auto saved to a massive photo storage account.But what if you could access stories generated from thosepictures simply by talking to Alexa?With Mylestone, all you have to do is say “Alexa, tell me a story about Mom.” and voila, memories of loved ones at your beck and call.
- HomeBinder — HomeBinder is a residential home management platform that reduces complexity in partnership with the businesses who serve them, improving client relationships and increasing referrals, bringing effortless homeownership to all.
Newid Capital invests internationally in growth-oriented financial services companies serving the underbanked.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Credit
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: India, Kenya, Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$1.3M; Series A $6M–$6.9M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Lulalend — Meet Lula. Meet Opportunity. We provide SMEs with all-digital business funding to make cash flow.
- NOW Money — NOW Money is the UAE's first digital payroll and mobile bank service developed specifically for low income workers.
- Apollo Agriculture — BRINGING COMMERCIAL FARMING TO EVERYONE Andrew, 3 acre maize farmer and Apollo customer
We help the daring build We help the daring build legendary companies from idea to IPO and beyond. companies.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
- Geography: United States, China, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1689
- Round size: Series A $5.5M–$45M; Series B $10M–$100M; Series C $12M–$190M
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $65M in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- Sourcepulse — Sourcepulse is the internal status page for software delivery, alerting teams before costly delays. We collect anonymous feedback from project members to identify exactly what to fix, just like how Sentry captures system details for production errors.
- Decart — Decart is an AI platform significantly improves the training and inference of large generative models.
- Faire — Faire helps local stores discover and try thousands of unique items risk-free.
Wavecrest Growth Partners is a growth equity firm focused on investments in high-growth, profitable B2B technology companies. The firm targets investments in high-growth companies with proven products and business models and brings to bear a differentiated combination of investing and operating experience and networks to help accelerate growth andprofitability. It refers to invest in companies that have over 20% in annual growth and $5 to $30M in bookings or revenue.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Automotive
- Stage:Private Equity, Series A
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 27
- Round size: Series A $10M–$12M; Private Equity $73M–$104M
- Lead/follow: 74% lead, 26% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $290M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- EDITED — Market, competitor, and enterprise retail analysis and automation, empowering buyers, planners, merchandisers, and marketers to grow profits.
- Tier1 Financial Solutions — Tier1 Financial Solutions provides investment banking and capital markets CRM solutions, compliance and fraud prevention software services and more.
- Collage group — Provider of marketing intelligence services designed to better serve and engage the influential consumers through insights, market intelligence and strategy. The company's services provide research, analytics, consumer insights, consulting and marketing strategies for the organizations, enabling businesses to work efficiently.
We are a Venture & Innovation Platform Advancing the Food & Agriculture Industries We work with leading corporations, startups, universities, and growers to solve the biggest challenges facing the food and agriculture industries.
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- Industry: AgTech, Agriculture, Farming
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: United States, Canada, Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 129
- Round size: Seed $100k–$4.7M; Pre-Seed $50k–$100k
- Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
Portfolio highlights
- OneCup AI — OneCup AI is Automated Precision Ranching for cattle, sheep and horses using Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision.
- AdvancedAG — AdvancedAG is a biotechnology research company that cultivates specialized bacteria to improve soil and crop health.
- Cellar Insights — Maximize the value of your potato crop with smart remote monitoring. Monitor storage conditions and prevent crop loss with Cellar Insights.
Seed round investment in frontier markets and clean energy
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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.
- MindMics — Discover MindMics. The world's most accurate personal heart health monitor and well-being platform. Look after your heart health to live longer and better.
- Untapped Global — Untapped connects global investors, and foreign capital to opportunities in emerging markets. Delivering competitive returns, and measurable impact for global investors.
Seed capital for technology startups globally.
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 140
- Round size: Seed $125k–$4.9M; Pre-Seed $300k–$3.2M; Series A $2.5M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
Portfolio highlights
- nGrow.ai — Boost revenue and engagement
- HoneyCoin — HoneyCoin is a web3/web2 ecosystem of products built in a way that abstracts complexity and brings all the value of web3 and web2 to the forefront.
- Orca Fraud — Orca empowers fraud fighters with effective tools to combat fraud
Scaling water-energy-food innovations to impact gender, food security, poverty reduction, climate mitigation and resilience, and the environment and biodiversity.
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- Industry: SaaS, AgTech, Farming
- Stage:Grant, Pre-Seed
- Geography: India, Kenya
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- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Synnefa — We provide an online farm record-keeping software as a service and integrate this platform with IoT solar-powered soil sensors to give farmers a 360-degree view of their farm and eliminate any guesswork. We leverage AI and ML technologies to analyse IoT data and agronomy data to increase production by 60% while reducing farm input costs by 40%.
- Oorja Development Solutions — Oorja is a project developer of solar PV systems to power livelihoods in emerging markets.
OEL Venture Investments
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- Industry: Agriculture, Farmers Market, Machine Learning
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Apollo Agriculture — BRINGING COMMERCIAL FARMING TO EVERYONE Andrew, 3 acre maize farmer and Apollo customer
BlueOrchard leads in Global Impact Investing, empowering people and protecting the planet through innovative, purpose-driven solutions.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
- Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Series A
- Geography: India, Nigeria, Vietnam
Investor stats
- Total investments: 43
- Round size: Series A $11M–$46M; Post-IPO Debt $5M–$220M; Debt Financing $3M–$99M
- Lead/follow: 70% lead, 30% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $100M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- JUMO — Enabling infrastructure for banking. We build enabling technology so that you can reach more customers, save money, achieve higher returns and greater scale.
- Pula Advisors — Pula is an insurance intermediary that implements data driven agricultural insurance. Pula assists hundreds of thousands of small-scale farmers across 6 countries in Africa. Farmers are able to safeguard their crops and invest in their farms through financial tools that take advantage of the rising use of mobile technology.
- Naked Insurance — The new way to cover your stuff: savings & convenience through AI. Naked Insurance offers online insurance for car, home and contents. Get a quote in 90 seconds!
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- Industry: SaaS, Generative AI, Machine Learning
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- OkeyMeta — OkeyMeta is an AI research and technology company dedicated to building culturally grounded artificial intelligence that serves humanity responsibly and equitably. Our mission is to advance intelligence in ways that reflect the diversity of human experience while ensuring that the benefits of AI extend across all communities.We believe the futureof AI will be shaped not only by technical breakthroughs but also by how well systems respect culture, context, and human values. By embedding cultural grounding into the fabric of our research, OkeyMeta aims to create intelligence that is more inclusive, context-aware, and beneficial for societies worldwide.Through long-term research, responsible deployment, and global collaboration, we are working to establish AI that bridges local realities with global innovation. Our vision is to redefine intelligence in a way that empowers people and organizations everywhere, while ensuring progress remains aligned with ethical responsibility and cultural respect.
Google Startups
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Retail, Robotics
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, Portugal, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
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- Bam & Boo — Get the best nature has to offer with Bam&Boo. Clean Beauty that empowers you Take Care. From the original Bamboo Toothbrush to the biggest launch of 2022, our Natural Deodorant. Find all the essentials for your daily routine with carefully sourced, all-natural ingredients, vegan, and cruelty-free.
- TeknTrash Robotics — TeknTrash is AI+analytics company which provides companies with consumer dataTo that end it developed Stipra: a software which manages consumption data for companies to understand consumer patternsStipra is comprised of a SAAS cloud based portal, an APP, and a network of SmartPODs ("Point of Disposal") able to capture consumptiondata, reward users, and provide real consumption data and analytics
- Royal Laundry — Royal Laundry is a deep-tech startup building a scalable AI/Robotics platform for licensing to commercial operators. Our cloud-native technology stack, featuring Computer Vision, Decision Engines, and Distributed Automation, transforms industrial textile processing through real-time inference, massive image data processing, and intelligentorchestration.
CapaciTech operates as a South African holding company that consists of an advisory business and special purposes vehicles that house shareholdings in various entrepreneurial ventures.
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- Industry: SMS, Apps, SaaS
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: South Africa, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $97k–$4M
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Mobiz — Supercharge your SMS marketing with dynamic, high-converting landing pages sent directly into the hands of your customers.
- HomeFarm — Homefarm provides smart, indoor gardens to homes and businesses. It is a group of modern farmers, designers, engineers, and researchers. It breaks new ground and innovates in the agricultural technology space.
- Right Now Response — The future of repairs starts soon. Counting down to smarter tracking in 2025! There are perks to working 24/7, 365 days a year... Like launching the future of repairs ahead of schedule!
Nedbank is a one of the largest banks in South Africa.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Mining
- Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Series A
- Geography: South Africa, Australia, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 24
- Round size: Series A $2M–$7.5M; Post-IPO Debt $17M–$700M; Debt Financing $2.2M–$195M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kuunda — Kuunda provides consulting, liquidity management, data insight tools enabling users to fulfill financial needs through a digital platform.
- Ivanhoe Mines — Ivanhoe Mines (TSX:IVN) is a Canadian mineral exploration and development company advancing three principal projects in Africa:1) The Kamoa copper discovery in a previously unknown extension of the Central African Copperbelt in the Democratic Republic of Congo's southern Katanga province. Members of the Ivanhoe Mines exploration teamrecently received the prestigious Thayer Lindsley Award from the Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada for the Kamoa copper discovery, recognized as the year's top international mineral discovery.Qualified Persons under National Instrument 43-101, have reviewed and approved all of the scientific and technical information contained in the Project sections on this website. Ivanhoe Mines has published independent NI 43-101-compliant technical reports for each of the Kamoa, Platreef and Kipushi projects, which are available at www.sedar.com. These technical reports include relevant information regarding the effective date and the assumptions, parameters and methods of the mineral resource estimates on the Kamoa, Platreef and Kipushi projects in these Project sections.
- WhereIsMyTransport — WhereIsMyTransport is a leading mobility technology company and central source of complete public transport data for emerging-market megacities. Working on the ground in Africa, Latin America, Southeast Europe and South and Southeast Asia, we digitalise network information from all modes of public transport and maintain data accuracy as thesedynamic systems change. Our products and data services improve the public transport experience, and inform industry-leading clients.
We stand as one of the leading global reinsurers, offering comprehensive coverage in both property and casualty reinsurance across every continent worldwide
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- Industry: Insurance, FinTech, InsurTech
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Private Equity
- Geography: United States, Germany, Brazil
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Round size: Series A $9M–$47M
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 88i Seguradora Digital S.A. — 88i is a digital platform for blockchain-based protection, insurance, and assistive services, connecting brokers and customers in a much simpler, more transparent and faster way.Founded by an ex-KPMG partner with more than 20 years of experience in the insurance market and supported by the application of the newest technology of blockchain andcryptocurrency, the company presents a new way to distribute and sell insurance. The interface is intended to be simplified by the use of a digital platform (app) that gives full transparency to the consumer to guarantee a faster path to contract and acquire insurance. The digital platform would work also as an insurance service market place, enabling different service providers linked to the insured item to offer their service. For example, home repair companies would be able to offer their services linked to a house insurance.
- BriteCo — Their cloud-based BriteCo Appraisal Management System is the gateway to making the jeweler’s life easier and more productive—-and customers happier and more secure with immediate insurance coverage of their fine jewelry and watches.
- Viridium Group — Viridium Group is the leading specialist in the efficient management of life insurance portfolios in Germany. The foundation of its activities is a customer-focused service organisation combined with efficient portfolio management. As of mid-2017, the companies of Viridium Group administered a combined total of about one million insurance policiesand about €15 billion in assets. The Group's shareholders are Cinven, a leading international private equity firm, and Hannover Re, the world's third-largest reinsurance company.
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