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Top 50 Manufacturing VC Funds in Africa

A list of 50 VC funds that invest in Manufacturing startups based in Africa. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Manufacturing companies from Africa. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Manufacturing VC Funds in Africa

Investor Manufacturing Africa investments
Future Africa 3
All On 3
Harambeans 3
At One Ventures 2
Black Silver Capital 2
EDFI ElectriFI 2
Consonance Investment Managers 2
Opes Impact Fund 2
Knife Capital 2
Blue Haven Initiative 1
VilCap Investments 1
Investisseurs & Partenaires 1
Chandaria Capital 1
Edge Growth 1
Alitheia IDF 1
Triodos Bank 1
Vakayi Capital 1
Launch Africa 1
Autodesk Foundation 1
Norfund 1
Flat6Labs Tunisia 1
Aruwa Capital 1
Playfair Capital 1
Khosla Ventures 1
Eudaimonia Capital 1
Absa Bank Ghana 1
Nissay Capital 1
Novastar Ventures 1
AFEX 1
Secha Capital Partners 1
AfricInvest 1
Acumen 1
PanAfrican Investment Co. 1
End Poverty. Make Trillions 1
Flori Ventures 1
Vami Nigeria 1
Partech 1
SAB Foundation 1
VestedWorld 1
AngelList 1
Flat6Labs 1
Delta40 1
One Capital 1
Diaspora Ventures 1
Renew Capital 1
Cordaid Investment Management 1
Victoria Commercial Bank 1
Ardent Capital 1
Mahindra & Mahindra 1
Blink 1
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Future Africa VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Future Africa is a collective of mission-driven founders and funders building unicorns to solve Africa’s biggest challenges. They are build a future where purpose and prosperity are within everyone’s reach.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Nigeria, United States, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
  • Moove — Moove is a mobility fintech that provides revenue-based vehicle financing to mobility entrepreneurs, democratizing vehicle ownership globally. The company embeds its alternative credit-scoring technology onto ride-hailing, logistics, and last-mile/instant delivery platforms, which allows access to proprietary performance and revenue analyticsof mobility entrepreneurs to underwrite loans.
  • Itana — Talent City’s mission is to build a network of charter cities that focuses on creating technology-enabled jobs within a free trade zone with its own regulation and bylaws.
  • Filmmakers Mart — FilmmakersMart is Africa’s first film and entertainment marketplace where entertainment businesses and creatives find verified services seamlessly for their video productions while democratizing entry into the film and entertainment industry for emerging creatives. We’re building the operations system for the film and entertainment industry inAfrica.
All On VC Fund · Ikoyi, Lagos, Nigeria
All On: Energy Innovations. Powerful Collaboration. Our mission is to increase access to commercial energy products and services for under-served and un-served off-grid energy markets in Nigeria, with a special focus on the Niger Delta sources in Nigeria.
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Investment focus
  • Renewable Energy, Energy, Solar
  • Seed, Funding Round, Grant
  • Nigeria, France, Senegal
Portfolio highlights
  • Koolboks — Koolboks: solar-powered, financially accessible fridges with an integrated pay-as-you-go platform dedicated to making cooling accessible to all of Sub-Saharan Africa. Get a Koolboks refrigerator for as little as 25k Naira down payment today!
  • Mobile Power Ltd — Mobile Power's innovative pay-per-use battery sharing network unlocks clean energy for households, businesses and electric transport in Sub-Saharan Africa.
  • Greenage Technologies Power Systems — Greenage Technologies is revolutionizing the use of solar energy systems in Nigeria. Our local manufacturing creates differentiation in local product purchases, services, and cost. We are the first indigenous mass producer of solar Inverter technologies in Nigeria. We currently have our footprint in 26 states out of the 36 states in Nigeria andlooking to launch in Ghana, Rwanda and Kenya in the near future.
Harambeans VC Fund
Harambeans are African innovators who have pledged to “work together as one” to build Africa’s future. Over the last decade, Harambeans has spawned a series of tech-enabled ventures such as Andela, Flutterwave, and Yoco, which have collectively generated over 3000 jobs, and raised over $700m from Google Ventures, CRE Ventures and Accel.
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Investment focus
  • Supply Chain Management, Transportation, Information Technology
  • Seed, Funding Round, Angel
  • Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa
Portfolio highlights
  • Releaf — We are industrializing food processing in Africa. We've led 1000+ smallholder farmers to provide food factories with >7.5 million kilograms of quality crops.
  • MarketForce — MarketForce connects Africa’s informal retail outlets and consumers directly to suppliers of consumer goods and financial services by digitizing orders, delivery, and payments with the aim of solving the last mile distribution challenge.
  • 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.
At One Ventures VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 8 investments in the past 12 months
At One Ventures finds, funds, and grows teams to catalyze a world where humanity is a net positive to nature.
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Investment focus
  • Sustainability, Energy, Agriculture
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Roam — The Standard for Electric Mobility in Africa.
  • Transmutex SA — Producing clean energy from nuclear waste is the challenge Transmutex is taking on. Based on experimentaly validated science from CERN in Geneva.
  • Orbillion Bio — At Orbillion Bio, we bring healthy, ethical and flavorful meats with a complete farm-to-table story to the modern consumer.
Black Silver Capital VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, FinTech, Finance
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • South Africa
Portfolio highlights
  • Accrual — We are a Software Development Company
  • 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.
  • Aesthetic Prosthetic Bionics — Biological Engineering, Bionics, Biomimetics, Hydraulics, Prosthetics, Neuroprosthetics, Exoskeleton Suits, Dynamics, Kinematics Robotics, Human-Robot Interaction, Artificial Organs, Artificial Intelligence, Quantum Computing, Knowledge Reasoning, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision, Robotics, Artificial GeneralIntelligence, Deep Learning, Bayesian Networks, Evolutionary Algorithms, Computational Neuroscience, Neurocybernetics, Cybernetics, Cognitive Science, Source Coding, Channel Coding, Algorithmic Complexity Theory, Algorithmic Information Theory, Information-Theoretic Security, Grey System Theory & Biotechnology
EDFI ElectriFI VC Fund · Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium
Impact investment in sustainable energy
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Investment focus
  • Energy, Solar, Renewable Energy
  • Debt Financing, Funding Round, Series A
  • United States, Kenya, Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
  • WeLight — WeLight deploys sustainable and accessible solutions to accelerate energy inclusion in rural areas of Africa.
  • Solarise Africa — Solarise Africa is a pan African energy leasing company for solar PV and other energy assets focusing on Commercial and Industrial (C&I) clients. Its business model is designed for scalability. Solarise Africa focuses on providing smart financing through close collaboration with a selected group of partners across solar and other renewableenergy technologies. For solar PV it is focusing on captive rooftop and ground mounted solar projects ranging from 100kW to 3MW. It is currently active in Kenya, looking to open in South Africa and has plans to expand into East, Southern and West Africa.
  • Amped Innovation — At Amped Innovation, we design breakthrough products for people living on less than four dollars per day. Our first product, the Blossom, is a solar home power system which is the lowest-cost and highest-performance product in its class, at one third the price and twice the power handling of competing systems. We built the Blossom with asoftware-enabled Pay-As-You-Go interface, which allows customers to purchase it in payment installments that are equivalent to what they currently spend on kerosene, while providing much more light, cell-phone charging, and ability to run appliances like televisions and sewing machines.
Consonance Investment Managers VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
We are an investment company focused on helping early and growth-stage entrepreneurs build successful companies in Africa.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, FinTech
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Nigeria, United States, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
  • Releaf — We are industrializing food processing in Africa. We've led 1000+ smallholder farmers to provide food factories with >7.5 million kilograms of quality crops.
  • Tripesa — Tripesa offers payment solutions for Africa's travel and tourism industry.
  • Norebase — Norebase knows that there's an opportunity to grow successful businesses in Africa. It also understands the complexities of the market, and so is using technology to make doing business in Africa worthwhile. With Norebase get to operate in Africa with no hassle and with minimum risk.
Opes Impact Fund VC Fund · Milano, Lombardia, Italy
Opes-Lcef is an impact investor that provides catalytic capital to early-stage social enterprises in emerging markets.
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Investment focus
  • Energy, Social Entrepreneurship, Renewable Energy
  • Seed, Series A
  • Kenya, India, Italy
Portfolio highlights
  • Mygrants — Mygrants is the most widely used educational online platform for refugees and asylum seekers in Italy and Europe.
  • MunyaxEco — MunyaxEco is working in solar energy as well as energy efficiency sectors by selling and installing environmentally friendly and high-quality equipment.
  • WidEnergy Africa — Widenergy Africa Ltd , is a women – led company, registered in Zambia, dedicated in the last miles distribution of clean energy solutions. We are the official distributor of Little sun solar products in Zambia (Solar lamps, Solar phone chargers), and will start soon with the distribution of clean cook stoves, with the objective to contribute inreduction of the Zambian deforestation rate, known as one of the highest in Africa.
Knife Capital VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 2 investments in the past 12 months
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
  • Funding Round, Series A, Seed
  • South Africa, United States, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
  • Octiv — Octiv is a well-known platform for gym management software.
  • Outsized — Independent talent for enterprise clients and consulting firms in Asia-Pacific, Africa, and the Middle East.
  • Simera Sense — Simera Sense develops camera control electronics for optical payload and Cubesat imager solutions.
Blue Haven Initiative VC Fund · Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Blue Haven Initiative is an innovative family office dedicated to putting wealth to work for market returns and positive social and environmental change.
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Investment focus
  • Solar, Energy, Financial Services
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Kenya, United States, Ghana
Portfolio highlights
  • M-KOPA — M-KOPA is the global leader for “pay-as-you-go” energy services for off-grid customers. M-KOPA was established in 2011. Following 2 years of piloting and development, M-KOPA began commercial sales in Kenya in October 2012. M-KOPA expanded to Uganda in 2013 and commences operations in Tanzania in late 2014. Their team includes over 500 staff andwe sell our product through more than 1000 retail agents and shops. The founders of the company are experienced mobile technology innovators who believe in the huge potential of transformative, affordable products designed for underserved consumers. While excellent technology is a pre-requisite, technology alone does not solve for customer needs. Success comes when smart technology is combined with a commitment to on-going, on-the-ground delivery. To that end, M-KOPA is beginning to license its technology to experienced and reputable third parties in markets outside of East Africa (licensing queries should be sent to licensing@m-kopa.com). M-KOPA has developed a proprietary, patented technology platform that combines embedded GSM + mobile payments to revolutionize asset financing in emerging markets. The M-KOPAnet platform has been designed and built from the ground up by our talented team of software engineers, who continue to innovate and improve the system every day. It offers the powerful combination of accounting + customer relationship management + inventory tracking in one complete system. Aside from enabling our business operations to scale at record speed, the M-KOPAnet™ platform captures and processes huge volumes of data, enabling us to improve our proposition, customer service, and security in real-time.
  • TIBU Health — TIBU Health is a disruptive HealthTech logistics company that provides high-quality healthcare services.
  • Field — Health supply chain technology and services across Africa
VilCap Investments VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States
VilCap Investments is an early-stage impact investing fund, backing companies addressing the most pressing social and environmental challenges.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, Health Care, FinTech
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • United States, India, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
  • Vexi — Vexi issues, operates and processes credit cards for young underbanked population on a mission to make credit accessible, through a 100% digital onboarding and unparalleled customer experience
  • SatSure — SatSure, they are on a mission to evolve crop insurance products and provide accurate risk assessment of crop yield by integrating climatic variables with geospatial and economic datasets.
  • Altro (fka Perch) — Perch Credit (also known as Perch), is a fin-tech mobile app that allows users to take common recurring expenses, such as their subscriptions & rent, and turn these into creditworthy data points. Perch is currrently live on iOS and plans to be on Android in the coming months.Perch recently graduated YC (S20) and closed 2.5M in their mostrecent round.
Investisseurs & Partenaires VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Investisseurs et Partenaires
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, Health Care, Food and Beverage
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • France, Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire
Portfolio highlights
  • iProcure — iProcure is a Nairobi-based start-up working to optimize the agriculture input supply chain in rural Kenya. iProcure’s web and mobile technology solution improves agriculture retailers’ operations. It lets them manage ordering based on inventory, point of sale activities, and client profiles along with geo-located purchasing patterns, real-timeagent performance and transaction analysis, and built-in mobile payments. As a result, retailers can better predict demand with business intelligence data, improve inventory management, and streamline distribution efficiency.
  • Trackbit — Trackbit is a cryptocurrency exchange platform.
  • Lapaire — Discover a wide range of high-quality & affordable eyeglasses at Lapaire Glasses. Book a free vision test with our professional optometrists to help you find your perfect pair of glasses to enhance your vision and style. Shops in 7 african countries: Benin, Ivory Coast, Togo, Burkina Faso, Mali, Kenya and Uganda.
Chandaria Capital VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya
Chandaria Capital operates as a venture capital Fund. We believe that innovative ideas will transform Africa. We invest, mentor, and work together with incredible entrepreneurs to create impactful companies that can change the continent.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Retail, FinTech
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Kenya, United States, Nigeria
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.
  • Jumba — Jumba is a construction technology platform that streamlines B2B construction material purchase and financing.
  • UTU Technologies — Trust infrastructure for the sharing economy.
Edge Growth VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa
We are SME Development Solutionists, co-creating innovative solutions that combat business growth constraints.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Education, Accounting
  • Funding Round, Seed, Debt Financing
  • South Africa
Portfolio highlights
  • I-G3N — I-G3N is a South African developer of lithium-ion batteries. The company’s core market is on stationary storage in conjunction with Solar PV and focuses on superior products and on the incorporation of the latest technologies to battery functionality. One of the key focus areas is on exporting to the SADC region and the rest of Africa, asextraordinary opportunities exist on the rest of the continent, especially in the development of mini and micro-grids to impact development.
  • Syafunda — Syafunda is an educational platform that provides access to digital content through mobile technology. Inspired by personal experiences growing up in townships where there was a shortage of textbooks and math and science teachers.
  • ProfitShare Partners — Boost your business with Profit Share Partners. Specializing in Short Term Asset Finance, we empower SMEs with quick, hassle-free financial solutions
Alitheia IDF VC Fund · Moka, Moka, Mauritius · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Alitheia IDF is investing in dynamic and growing businesses throughout Africa. By investing in teams that recognize the importance of gender diversity the firm generates superior financial returns and impact.
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Investment focus
  • Logistics, E-Commerce, Retail
  • Series A, Funding Round, Seed
  • South Africa, Nigeria, Ghana
Portfolio highlights
  • Lupiya — Lupiya is an online marketplace for microloans. It is a branch-less, innovative digital microfinance platform that leverages technology to make the process of borrowing simpler and easier so that people and businesses located across the country even in rural, remote areas can access financial services.
  • Seamfix — Seamfix’s end-to-end electronic ID and credentials software solutions address the lack of digital ID systems for 30+ African countries and over 250M individuals, providing access to credit, banking, and other essential services for large parts of populations.
  • Ivili Group — Ivili Group is a leading South African textiles manufacturing group that has a diversified offering in textiles; including wool processing products and services and jeanswear garment manufacturing products and services.
Triodos Bank VC Fund · Zeist, Utrecht, The Netherlands · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Triodos is a global pioneer of sustainable banking. Their mission is to make money work for positive social, environmental and cultural change.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, Energy, FinTech
  • Debt Financing, Funding Round, Series A
  • India, Germany, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
  • Sunvigo — Sunvigo provides you with cheap solar power from your roof and real green power from the grid.
  • Harmony Energy — Harmony Energy creates, constructs, and runs wind and solar energy projects. They build substantial solar PV farms, supporting landowners all along the way with their project. They have a range of project and technical abilities to share with landowners because they developed and operated wind power facilities.Established in 2010, Harmony Energyis one of the UK’s leading developers, owners, and operators of utility-scale battery energy storage. It also has expertise in developing, building, and running wind and solar facilities, both independently and in conjunction with others.
  • La Bolsa Social — La Bolsa Social is an equity crowdfunding platform that aims at funding the growth of companies with a positive social and environmental impact. The platform is focused on the investors who seek a comprehensive profitability in the economic, social, and environmental sectors. It connects impact investors with companies that improve society and theenvironment. Its objective is to improve the financing of companies with growth potential that has a positive impact on society and the environment and promoting ethical finance. Founded in 2015, La Bolsa Social is authorized in Spain by the CNMV.
Vakayi Capital VC Fund · Harare, NA - Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe
Vakayi Capital supports outstanding entrepreneurs providing essential services in Zimbabwe. Vakayi is uniquely positioned in Zimbabwe to tap into the exceptional investment opportunities in businesses with proven business models, strong growth prospects and the potential to significantly create jobs and impact the lives of low-income people. Theteam’s experience and extensive business network generates a robust deal flow for capital deployment in the clean energy, housing, education and healthcare sectors. Currently, Vakayi is the only fund in Zimbabwe focused on supporting small businesses.
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Investment focus
  • Industrial, Real Estate
  • Funding Round
  • Zimbabwe
Portfolio highlights
  • Homelux — Homelux is one of the leading property development companies in Zimbabwe and will deploy the funds towards the development of residential stands in the Tynwald suburb area of Harare.
Launch Africa VC Fund · Ebène, Plaines Wilhems, Mauritius · 8 investments in the past 12 months
Launch Africa is a fund with the primary objective of unlocking the capital constraints of Seed Stage tech startups.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
  • Bosso — Bosso projects and realizes automation and robotic solutions for the growth of your business.
  • Maad — Maad is Francophone Africa's fastest-growing B2B marketplace, based in Dakar, Senegal. Our tech-driven solution allows retailers to order products from our one-stop shop and benefit from working capital loans
  • Wahu Mobility — Wahu Mobility is an open e-mobility platform that connects drivers, passengers, and goods in a simple, inclusive, transparent, nationwide, and multimodal manner.
Autodesk Foundation VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Autodesk Foundation is the first foundation to focus investment exclusively on the people and organizations using design for impact.
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Investment focus
  • Energy, Environmental Engineering, Renewable Energy
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Kenya, Uganda
Portfolio highlights
  • M2X Energy — M2X Energy is a scalable methane conversion technology company that provides automated gas-to-product systems for methane conversion.
  • Found Energy — Found Energy's aluminum-thermal power systems extract renewable energy from aluminum at double the energy density of diesel and at a competitive cost. Compact, modular, safe, and carbon-free, our technology makes industrial decarbonization practical.
  • PowerUP — Clean Tech For Everyone
Norfund VC Fund · Oslo, Oslo, Norway
Norfund is the Norwegian Investment Fund for developing countries with 24.9 bill. NOK in total commitments (2019).
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Investment focus
  • Energy, Financial Services, Renewable Energy
  • Funding Round, Private Equity, Debt Financing
  • Kenya, South Africa, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Xurya — Xurya is a renewable energy platform in providing commercial and industrial rooftop owners access to solar lease product on one side. And investors access to a stable and safe investment in rooftop solar plants on the other side. Both are achieved by maintenance service which enables both parties peace of mind.
  • Miniplast — Miniplast Limited is one of the leading manufacturers of industrial and household products in Ghana, with over 25 years of experience in the sector.
  • OH Ecosystems — OH Ecosystems is a confectionary company that produces and operates cocoa processing and confectioneries.
Flat6Labs Tunisia VC Fund · Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia
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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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Retail, Education
  • Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Tunisia
Portfolio highlights
  • Ahkili — Ahkili is a health tech mobile application for appointment booking that connects patients to psychologists.
  • WeMove — WeMove is a fitness marketplace for daily gym passes. They develop innovative solutions that meet your sports issues.
  • LAMMA — Lamma is a web and mobile platform reinventing urban movement for package delivery through an extended carpooling network.
Aruwa Capital VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
Aruwa Capital Management is a Lagos-based, female-founded and led growth equity impact fund.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Big Data, Financial Services
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Nigeria, United States, France
Portfolio highlights
  • OmniBiz — Omnibiz is a digital platform for small businesses willing to attract new customers.
  • AgroEknor — AgroEknor provides agricultural research, integration, technology based optimization & global delivery of the agro superfoods.
  • Fastizers — Fastizers Food and Confectionery Limited is a newly formed food production firm in Nigeria that has been approved by the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC).
Playfair Capital VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 11 investments in the past 12 months
Playfair is a generalist VC fund with a contrarian approach to pre-seed technology investing. Based in London, Playfair invests across the UK and Europe with an intentionally high conviction, low volume approach: making 6-8 investments a year and preserving time, capital and resource to help companies post-investment. Playfair has backed 70+companies across two funds including Thought Machine, Andela, Mapillary, Recycleye and Orca AI.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United Kingdom, United States, France
Portfolio highlights
  • Recurse ML — Streamline your development with Recurse, enabling seamless code maintenance with just a single command.
  • NetFabric — NetFabric is developing a next-gen network observability platform
  • Passionfruit — Join hundreds of the best startups around the world and use Passionfruit to hire freelance marketing specialists on-demand.
Khosla Ventures VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 74 investments in the past 12 months
Khosla Ventures invests in companies that are bold, early and impactful. The firm was started in 2004 by Vinod Khosla, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, to provide venture assistance to entrepreneurs. Headquartered in Menlo Park, Calif., Khosla Ventures invests in a range of areas including AI, climate, sustainability, enterprise, consumer, fintech,digital health, medtech and diagnostics, therapeutics and frontier technology.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • United States, India, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Eden — Developer of non-invasive health technology designed to democratize access to early cancer risk assessment.
  • Aven — Inventing new ways to save people money
  • Cartwheel — Cartwheel is a powerful text-to-animation platform. Animate characters for your video, game, movie, ad, Social or VR project simply by typing.
Eudaimonia Capital VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
Eudaimonia Capital Pte. Ltd. is a seed stage investments firm.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, China, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Releaf — We are industrializing food processing in Africa. We've led 1000+ smallholder farmers to provide food factories with >7.5 million kilograms of quality crops.
  • TILLIT — Tillit is a DIY investment platform for retail investors offering best-in-class funds across regions, asset classes and styles. We are built and backed by investment specialists who believe that the success to long-term investing lies in funds. With a clean design, a user-friendly interface and engaging content, we empower people to make moreinformed investment decisions. We want people to stop trading and start investing.
  • Inclusively — HR employee productivity solution to empower employers to hire, retain and boost employee productivity through workforce personalization at scale.
Absa Bank Ghana VC Fund · Accra, Greater Accra, Ghana
Absa Ghana Personal Banking
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Investment focus
  • Farming, Manufacturing, Food and Beverage
  • Seed
  • Ghana
Portfolio highlights
  • Green Gold Farms — Green Gold Farms is also developing an innovative outgrower scheme that allows smallholder farmers to lift themselves out of poverty by training them on regenerative agriculture best practices, enabling them to produce on larger plots of land, and providing them with all of the necessary inputs and mechanization. Over time, the company aims to cedeits primary production to these smallholder farmers and move up the value chain into processing and, eventually, into manufacturing.
Nissay Capital VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 14 investments in the past 12 months
Nissay Capital is a venture capital Company specializing in seed, start-up, growth capital, middle stage, and later stage investment.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Medical, Internet
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • Japan, Ethiopia, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Zpeer — Zpeer provides appropriate medical care to all livestock and companion animals
  • Nailie — Nailie is an app that lets you connect to a nail specialists just for you.
  • Loglass — Loglass offers corporate intelligence to enhance business management.
Novastar Ventures VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya
For the many, not just the few. For good.
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Investment focus
  • Agriculture, Internet, Clean Energy
  • Series A, Funding Round, Series B
  • Kenya, Nigeria, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • BasiGo — BasiGo is an early-stage e-mobility start-up looking to revolutionize the public transportation sector by providing matatu owners with a cost-effective electric alternative to diesel buses.
  • Turaco — Turaco develops simplified insurance and credit solutions through mobile technology to solve the healthcare financing needs. Turaco has simplified insurance products and also provides on-demand health loans, allowing customers to get healthcare at affordable monthly premiums.
  • MoKo Home + Living — MoKo Home is Kenya's one-stop furniture company specializing in comfort & smiles, having served over 10000 smiley homes to date. Will yours be next?
AFEX VC Fund · Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria
AFEX is a provider of infrastructure and platforms drive capital to build a trust economy.
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Investment focus
  • AgTech, Farming, Agriculture
  • Series A
  • Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
  • Agricorp International Development Limited — At Agricorp, we are putting Nigeria on the global export radar by leveraging on our investments to building simple processing systems for spices and other agro products
Secha Capital Partners VC Fund
South African Impact Investing firm focusing the FMCG and Agribusiness Sectors
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Farming, Wellness
  • Funding Round, Seed, Private Equity
  • South Africa, The Netherlands
Portfolio highlights
  • I-G3N — I-G3N is a South African developer of lithium-ion batteries. The company’s core market is on stationary storage in conjunction with Solar PV and focuses on superior products and on the incorporation of the latest technologies to battery functionality. One of the key focus areas is on exporting to the SADC region and the rest of Africa, asextraordinary opportunities exist on the rest of the continent, especially in the development of mini and micro-grids to impact development.
  • FarmTrace — Transform your farm into a data-driven powerhouse with FarmTrace! Streamline HR, Asset, Energy, Stock, and Chemical Management.
  • Herbivore Earthfoods — South Africa's leading plant based food shopping destination. Save between 10-30% on vegan meals, delivered to your door. Treat yourself with everyday goodness.
AfricInvest VC Fund · Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia
AfricInvest was founded in 1994 and is part of Integra Group, an investment and financial services company based in Tunisia.Uniquely positioned as one of the most experienced private equity investors on the continent, AfricInvest has dedicated investment teams focused on North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa, and employs 66 professionals based inseven offices.AfricInvest manages USD1 billion across 16 funds and benefits from strong, long-term support from both local and international investors, including leading development finance institutions in the United States and Europe.Having co-founded the African Venture Capital Association (AVCA) as well as the Middle East North Africa Private Equity Association (MENAPEA) and the Euromed Capital Forum, the firm is an active promotor of the private equity industry in the region.Since 1994, AfricInvest has invested in 135 companies across 25 African countries in a variety of high growth sectors and maintains a broad network of high quality executives across Africa, offering extensive expertise in key growth industries, including financial services, agribusiness, consumer/retail, education and healthcare.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, Manufacturing, FinTech
  • Funding Round, Private Equity, Series A
  • Tunisia, Morocco, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
  • Bizao — Bizao helps companies accept all local payment methods across Africa. We build powerful APIs and smart financial flows wich greatly simplify the challenge of accepting Mobile Money, Visa/Mastercard and Airtime payment. We power all types of businesses: local retailers, online merchants, international digital content providers, money transferoperators, microfinance institutions. Our objective: accelerate mobile payment adoption in order to support economic development across the continent
  • Turaco — Turaco develops simplified insurance and credit solutions through mobile technology to solve the healthcare financing needs. Turaco has simplified insurance products and also provides on-demand health loans, allowing customers to get healthcare at affordable monthly premiums.
  • Moove — Moove is a mobility fintech that provides revenue-based vehicle financing to mobility entrepreneurs, democratizing vehicle ownership globally. The company embeds its alternative credit-scoring technology onto ride-hailing, logistics, and last-mile/instant delivery platforms, which allows access to proprietary performance and revenue analyticsof mobility entrepreneurs to underwrite loans.
Acumen VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Acumen is a nonprofit venture fund that invests in early-stage companies bringing critical services like agriculture, clean energy, education, financial inclusion, healthcare and workforce development to low-income communities in 14 countries across East and West Africa, South Asia, Latin America, and the United States. Since 2001, Acumeninvested $128 million in 128 companies that have transformed the lives of over 308 million low-income people.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, Health Care, Agriculture
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • United States, India, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
  • AquaRech — AquaRech includes Farm management that enhances fish production, enables access to the market & promotes equal trade.
  • Ampersand — Ampersand catalyzes and power mass-market electric mobility. By supplying the battery swap network and operating system the company makes sustainable mobility rapidly accessible and affordable for developing markets, to improve livelihoods and the environment. With over a million km already covered by e-motorcycles in Africa using our plug-and-playpowertrain and energy network.
  • ReCircle — They are a Waste Management service that provides a free doorstep pick-up service for offices, institutions, households and schools to dispose their recyclable waste (Raddi). They further supply this recycled waste to authorized recycling centres, ensuring safety and sustainability.
PanAfrican Investment Co. VC Fund · New York, New York, United States
PanAfrican Investment is a private investment firm focused on the growth and development of companies in sub-Saharan Africa.
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Investment focus
  • Local, Content, Automotive
  • Series A, Series B
  • Kenya, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Savoteur — I'm Casandra, a full-time travel writer and luxury travel expert.
  • Mobius Motors — Mobius Motors sells affordable vehicles designed specifically for the needs of developing world consumers. We aim to change millions of lives by providing the appropriate transport to mobilise rural Africa. Our vision is a more connected, more prosperous Africa.
End Poverty. Make Trillions VC Fund · Marina Del Rey, California, United States
How we can end poverty in the United States, and make trillions of dollars doing it.
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Investment focus
  • Mobile, Farming, Finance
  • Seed
  • Ghana, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Asaak — Asaak is an asset financing company redefining financial inclusion and mobility for millions across Africa. Apply for a loan today!
  • Green Gold Farms — Green Gold Farms is also developing an innovative outgrower scheme that allows smallholder farmers to lift themselves out of poverty by training them on regenerative agriculture best practices, enabling them to produce on larger plots of land, and providing them with all of the necessary inputs and mechanization. Over time, the company aims to cedeits primary production to these smallholder farmers and move up the value chain into processing and, eventually, into manufacturing.
Flori Ventures VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in the past 12 months
More than a seed-stage fund and a portfolio of startups: Our community of founders taps into the power of financial innovation to collaborate around global problems and unlock prosperity for all.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, FinTech, Cryptocurrency
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • United States, United Kingdom, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Kotani Pay — Kotani Pay is a technology stack that enables blockchain protocols, dapps, and blockchain fintech companies to integrate seamlessly to local payment channels providing them with a reliable on ramp and off ramp service to reach a wider customer base in Africa.
  • Learn.xyz — Have fun learning about anything you can imaging, thanks to the power of AI. Download the free Learn.xyz app today and start every day with new knowledge!
  • Thrive Protocol — Thrive Protocol's vision is to maximize value creation for all people and communities.
Vami Nigeria VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
Vami Nigeria is a investment firm.
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Investment focus
  • AgTech, Farming, Agriculture
  • Series A
  • Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
  • Agricorp International Development Limited — At Agricorp, we are putting Nigeria on the global export radar by leveraging on our investments to building simple processing systems for spices and other agro products
Partech VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 14 investments in the past 12 months
Partech is a global venture capital firm with offices in San Francisco, Paris, Berlin and Dakar. Partech invests in Internet and information technology startups at seed, venture and growth stages.
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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • United States, France, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Payt — Payt is a cloud software company for debtor management and collection.
  • FlexAI — We are unlocking the future of Machine Intelligence by rearchitecting the compute infrastructure
  • Presti — French startup using GenAI to create lifestyle product photos for furniture brands
SAB Foundation VC Fund · Gauteng, NA - South Africa, South Africa
The SAB Foundation invests in entrepreneurs and social innovation. Its priority focus in on businesses and innovations that benefit women and youth, people in rural areas and people living with a disability.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Manufacturing, Medical Device
  • Funding Round
  • South Africa
Portfolio highlights
  • LIQID Medical — Glaucoma Implants in South Africa. Liqid Medical is a medical device company focusing on addressing the need for effective, long-rerm solutions for glaucoma treatment.
VestedWorld VC Fund · Chicago, Illinois, United States
VestedWorld is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in emerging markets companies that have the potential to generate competitive financial returns while contributing towards the growth and development of the markets in which they are located. The firm supports these businesses through the infusion of capital, active involvement incorporate governance, and by providing direct strategic and operational assistance.
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Investment focus
  • Agriculture, E-Commerce, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana
Portfolio highlights
  • EMTECH — EMTECH provides solutions for Digital Currency regulatory compliance, development and management to help Central Banks and FinTechs build, run and manage modern financial systems.
  • Terragon Group — Terragon is a leading Data and Marketing Technology company that uses data and analytics to help companies focused in Africa, intelligently connect at scale to their customers. We use an aggregation of online and offline data, and predictive scoring to help brands, marketing agencies and platforms accurately target people across channels anddevices. Headquartered in Lagos; Nigeria, we also have a presence in Kenya, South Africa, Ghana and India.
  • Complete Farmer — We are providing cutting-edge technological farming protocols and innovations with a unique business model and logistics that are revolutionizing...
AngelList VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 12 investments in the past 12 months
Apply privately to 130,000+ remote jobs and startup jobs near you with one application. See salary and equity upfront. Find the latest tech jobs, company overviews, benefits and more at AngelList Talent.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Internet, FinTech
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, India, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • PAXAFE — PAXAFE's platform provides end-to-end visibility capable of answering who, what, when, where and how for all your shipments
  • Vidyut — Vidyut offers end-to-end solutions for purchase and financing to resale which provide superior economics on electric vehicles compared to petrol & diesel vehicles.
  • Myko AI — Myko AI is a data-driven financial planning and analysis platform that helps companies spend less time budgeting while making better decisions. They help finance professionals to directly access data and reports from QuickBooks into the Excel or google sheets.
Flat6Labs VC Fund · Gîza, Al Jizah, Egypt · 8 investments in the past 12 months
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. Flat6Labs manages a number of seed funds with a total AUM in excess of $85M. More than 25 leading institutions have invested into the Flat6Labs managed funds; believing in the asset class and Flat6Labs’ proven track record as the market leader.. Flat6Labs provides a wide range of investment ticket sizes ranging from $50K to $500k, supporting startups through their early journeys from Pre-Seed all the way to Pre-Series A stages. Alongside to the investments, Flat6Labs’ exceptional startup programs, executed to cater specifically for the needs of the innovative entrepreneurs, helps them accelerate their growth by providing them with a plethora of support services and connecting them to unparalleled opportunities with an expansive network comprising hundreds of business mentors, investors and corporates. Launched and headquartered in Cairo since 2011, Flat6Labs has multiple offices across the region; with ongoing plans to expand into other emerging markets.
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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, Apps
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia
Portfolio highlights
  • Fundbot — Fundbot is a solution for lenders that helps them digitize invoice financing, supply chain financing, and other financial services. It is a cash flow optimization tool and a financing marketplace for SMEs.The invoices are synchronized in the accounting system. It offers a digital CFO that analyses payables and receivables in real-time and offers tofinance. It provides financial recommendations based on the business’s needs.
  • Growdash — Growdash is a business intelligence and analytics tool built specifically for restaurants to support profitable growth strategic decisions across online sales channels.
  • Natify — Native targeted advertising in games & metaverses
Delta40 VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya
Delta40 is the venture studio that invests in African female entrepreneurs involved in energy, agriculture and mobility sectors.
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Investment focus
  • CleanTech, Manufacturing
  • Seed
  • Uganda
Portfolio highlights
  • PowerUP — Clean Tech For Everyone
One Capital VC Fund · Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
One Capital is a China-based private equity investment firm.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Manufacturing, Virtual Reality
  • Series A, Seed, Angel
  • China, Japan, Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
  • oVice — oVice is a virtual spatial platform that allows people to gather in one place, move, talk, and collaborate freely as avatars. With the mission of “maximizing effective online communication”, oVice develops and provides lifelike features that offer users a close-to-reality interactive online experience. Featuring customization, you can change thelayout to match the theme of your usage, build lockable rooms, place down static objects, and more!Use it as a remote office, an event venue, an academic conference hall, and even a space for parties!
  • Beatrust — Tags connect and drive collaboration, expanding your team's potential
  • SmarterEye — SmarterEye is a technology company dedicated to the R&D and manufacture of autonomous driving systems and related products.
Diaspora Ventures VC Fund · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Diaspora Ventures invests in the next generation of french entrepreneurs building tech companies. Diaspora Ventures targets French founders who have true global ambition, by investing early and giving them access to the best tech ecosystem in the world, the United States.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Social Media, Manufacturing
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • United States, France, Ghana
Portfolio highlights
  • Safary — Safary is the web3 alternative for Google analytics. Privacy friendly. No cookies. Acquire more wallets in one click.
  • Dynamiq — Build, deploy and monitor on-premise GenAI applications to solve specific business needs, reducing costs, driving revenue and boosting competitiveness - all in one platform
  • Spaceport Technologies — Accelerating the growth of the next digital economy
Renew Capital VC Fund · Addis Ababa, Adis Abeba, Ethiopia · 12 investments in the past 12 months
Renew Capital is an Africa-focused investment firm that addresses critical gaps for Africa’s growing businesses and connects them to a global network of impact investors.
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Investment focus
  • Mobile Apps, Financial Services, Finance
  • Pre-Seed, Funding Round, Seed
  • Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia
Portfolio highlights
  • Bosso — Bosso projects and realizes automation and robotic solutions for the growth of your business.
  • Roam — The Standard for Electric Mobility in Africa.
  • Level Africa — Digital Investment Marketplace for Africa
Cordaid Investment Management VC Fund · The Hague, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands
We are one of the few social impact investors committed to deploying capital to the most underserved markets in the world.
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Investment focus
  • Manufacturing, Consumer Goods, Food Processing
  • Debt Financing
  • Sierra Leone
Portfolio highlights
  • Capitol Foods — NurturingNature's Best Discover the Taste of Sierra Leone Organic Practices, Outstanding Flavors Ethically Sourced, Exceptionally Delivered From the Farms to Your Table Sustainable Practices, Outstanding Flavor The refreshing, crisp flavour of ripe apples captured in a delightful beverage Send a Message Capitol Foods - Your Choice for Natural Goodness Discover More
Victoria Commercial Bank VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya
Experience the Ultimate
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Investment focus
  • Retail, Furniture, Manufacturing
  • Debt Financing
  • Kenya
Portfolio highlights
  • MoKo Home + Living — MoKo Home is Kenya's one-stop furniture company specializing in comfort & smiles, having served over 10000 smiley homes to date. Will yours be next?
Ardent Capital VC Fund · Bangkok, Krung Thep, Thailand
Leading Venture Capital & Builder in Southeast Asia | Experts in E-Commerce, B2B, B2C, Fulfilment Startups | Seed, Series A Funding
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Internet, Software
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Nigeria, Indonesia, Thailand
Portfolio highlights
  • Laborhack — LaborHack offers a select network of tested and certified carpenters, plumbers, electricians, masons, welders, and other tradespeople. It provides cleaning, plumbing, electrical, and HVAC services.
  • Trade Lenda — Trade Lenda: Access to Loans, Investments, Utility Payments, Credit Access, Insurance, and More! Unlock Opportunities to Earn, Invest, and Grow. Secure Personal or Business Loans Toda
  • Feather Africa — Feather Africa provides money transaction services, such as enabling users to send and receive money from anyone using the application. It offers withdrawals of cash without ATM cards by sending money to the nearest cash vendors.
Mahindra & Mahindra VC Fund · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Mahindra Tractors, India's no. 1 tractor manufacturer offers a wide variety of farm tractors along with agriculture equipments for all your farming needs. Visit us now!
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Investment focus
  • Automotive, Manufacturing, Rental
  • Series C, Funding Round, Private Equity
  • India, Italy, Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • REE Automotive — REE Automotive, the leader in Fleet Vehicle Electrification. X-By Wire, Corner Technology based on ground-up technology.
  • Eurl LD Azouaou — Eurl LD Azouaou engaged in the business of tractor assembly and distribution.
  • EV Co — EV Co. provides four-wheeler electric passenger vehicle services.
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