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Top 50 Marketplace Startup Investors in Africa (June 2026)

The most active venture capital funds and angel investors investing in Africa Marketplace startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Africa Marketplace startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Launch Africa
VC Fund
16 Nigeria, South Africa, United States Seed, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology $200k–$4M
Future Africa
VC Fund
12 Nigeria, United States, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology $100k–$20M
F6 Ventures
VC Fund
12 Tunisia, France Pre-Seed, Seed E-Commerce, Retail, FinTech $65k–$200k
Microtraction
VC Fund
9 Nigeria, United States, Ghana Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel Financial Services, FinTech, Software $25k–$1.3M
Enza Capital
VC Fund
9 Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa Seed, Series A Financial Services, Finance, E-Commerce $238k–$31M
54 Collective
VC Fund
9 Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa Seed, Pre-Seed Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech $40k–$4M
LoftyInc Capital
VC Fund
9 United States, Nigeria, Egypt Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Software $100k–$37M
Ventures Platform
VC Fund
8 Nigeria, United States, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Internet $100k–$4.4M
Musha Ventures
VC Fund
8 United States, Nigeria, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Financial Services, FinTech $125k–$10M
Savannah Fund
VC Fund
8 Kenya, United States, South Africa Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, FinTech, Software $25k–$8M
Kepple Africa Ventures
VC Fund
8 Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt Seed, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Software $300k–$4.5M
Consonance Investment Managers
VC Fund
8 Nigeria, United States, Kenya Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, FinTech $50k–$10M
4DX Ventures
VC Fund
8 Egypt, United States, South Africa Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed FinTech, Financial Services, Logistics $50k–$40M
CRE Venture Capital
VC Fund
8 Nigeria, South Africa, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, Software, FinTech $250k–$25M
HoaQ
VC Fund
7 Nigeria, United Kingdom, Togo Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel FinTech, Financial Services, Internet $100k–$3.3M
Chandaria Capital
VC Fund
7 Kenya, United States, Nigeria Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, Retail, FinTech $250k–$37M
FJ Labs
VC Fund
6 United States, Brazil, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services $1.4M–$65M
Reflect Ventures
VC Fund
6 Pakistan, United States, Nigeria Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Logistics, Information Technology, E-Commerce $120k–$37M
Partech
VC Fund
6 United States, France, Germany Series A, Seed, Series B Software, E-Commerce, SaaS $1.1M–$55M
Janngo
VC Fund
6 Nigeria, United States, France Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A E-Commerce, B2B, Logistics $400k–$18M
MNF Ventures
VC Fund
6 Morocco, France, Canada Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Online Portals, FinTech, Enterprise Software $200k–$1.6M
International Finance Corporation
VC Fund
6 India, Brazil, United States Debt Financing, Series B Financial Services, Finance, FinTech $6M–$400M
Alumni Ventures
VC Fund
6 United States, United Kingdom, Canada Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $1.4M–$79M
FirstCheck Africa
VC Fund
5 Kenya, Nigeria, United States Pre-Seed, Seed Consumer, Payments, Financial Services $100k–$4.5M
Oui Capital
VC Fund
5 Kenya, Nigeria, United States Seed, Pre-Seed Transportation, Financial Services, Information Technology $40k–$4.9M
EchoVC Partners
VC Fund
5 United States, Nigeria, Kenya Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Information Technology, FinTech, Software $200k–$22M
GreenHouse Capital
VC Fund
5 Nigeria, Kenya, United States Seed, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
Soma Capital
VC Fund
5 United States, India, Mexico Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech $200k–$40M
Saviu Ventures
VC Fund
5 Côte d'Ivoire, Kenya, France Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, E-Commerce, Financial Services $165k–$5M
TLcom Capital Partners
VC Fund
5 Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Seed Software, Mobile, Information Technology $1.9M–$13M
Vinny Lingham
Angel
4 United States, South Africa, United Kingdom Seed, Angel Blockchain, Internet, Software $125k–$5.6M
Palm Drive Capital
VC Fund
4 United States, Canada, Colombia Seed, Series A Software, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence $465k–$27M
Orange Ventures
VC Fund
4 France, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series B, Series A Software, FinTech, Information Technology $600k–$33M
1776 Ventures
VC Fund
4 United States, Kenya, Brazil Seed, Series A, Convertible Note Education, EdTech, Software $500k–$23M
Golden Palm Investments
VC Fund
4 Nigeria, Egypt, Kenya Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Information Technology, FinTech, Payments $30k–$15M
Unpopular Ventures
VC Fund
4 United States, India, Mexico Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech $500k–$69M
Idris Ayodeji Bello
Angel
4 Nigeria, United States, Egypt Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed Software, FinTech, Financial Services $100k–$5.1M
Loyal VC
VC Fund
4 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Pre-Seed, Seed Artificial Intelligence, Software, E-Commerce $20k–$3.1M
Proparco
VC Fund
4 India, Kenya, Egypt Debt Financing, Seed Financial Services, Energy, Finance $400k–$153M
Hustle Fund
VC Fund
4 United States, Singapore, Canada Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, FinTech, Financial Services $220k–$30M
GreenTec Capital Partners
VC Fund
4 Kenya, Nigeria, Morocco Seed, Pre-Seed Information Technology, Retail, Computer $50k–$1M
E4EAfrica
VC Fund
4 South Africa, The Netherlands, France Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Logistics, Internet, Supply Chain Management $238k–$8M
Bhavik Bajaj
Angel
4 United States, Switzerland, United Kingdom Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel Information Technology, Software, FinTech $15k–$3M
Aruwa Capital
VC Fund
4 Nigeria, United States, France Seed, Series A Retail, FinTech, Big Data $100k–$20M
Kube VC
VC Fund
4 United States, India, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed FinTech, Financial Services, Software $120k–$25M
Quona Capital
VC Fund
3 India, Brazil, Indonesia Series A, Seed, Series B Financial Services, FinTech, Finance $2.4M–$87M
Lynett Capital
VC Fund
3 United States, Kenya, Nigeria Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed FinTech, SaaS, Mobile $120k–$49M
Speedinvest
VC Fund
3 United Kingdom, Germany, Austria Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Vumela Fund
VC Fund
3 South Africa, Brazil Seed, Debt Financing Education, Software, Primary Education
JAM Fund
VC Fund
3 United States, Mexico, India Seed, Series A E-Commerce, FinTech, Software
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Launch Africa
VC Fund · Ebène, Plaines Wilhems, Mauritius · 16 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

Launch Africa is a leading Pan-African VC fund solving the significant funding gap in the Seed and pre-Series A investment landscape in Africa

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, South Africa, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 162
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$4M; Pre-Seed $200k–$1.7M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $36M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Fixit45 — Fixit45 also provides fleet management, auto parts sourcing and delivery, auto care, refurbishment and upgrades, repair financing, and mechanic workshop software as well as pre-purchase inspections, underlying these with moderation for compliance and accountability.
  • Gigmile — Gigmile provides financial services. They provide gig workers with core services and an affordable lease on productive assets that is tailored to their earnings to enable them to succeed in the mobility industry as entrepreneurs.
  • HomecomingEx — Homecoming Revolution is a pan-African recruitment firm for global African professionals. We specialise in headhunting & placing global African talent.
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Future Africa
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 12 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

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

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 88
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$4M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3.7M; Series A $7M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Edves — Edves automates the brick and mortal School operations from Student enrollment, Fee Collection, Lesson Note up to Transcript Generation.
  • Releaf Earth — 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.
  • Nexford University — Transform your career with affordable, flexible degrees and job skills designed for today's workforce. Skip debt and learn at your own pace with Nexford.
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F6 Ventures
VC Fund · Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia · 12 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

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

  • 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.
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Microtraction
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 9 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

We invest in Africa's most remarkable teams with technical founders at the earliest stage of their venture

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, Ghana

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 103
  • Round size: Seed $25k–$1.3M; Angel $30k–$50k; Pre-Seed $50k–$1.1M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Accounteer — Accounteer is a cloud accounting platform for small businesses. Business owner can create invoices, track expenses and follow up on their finances with ease. Accounteer integrates with external services like banks, e-invoicing platforms and e-commerce. Future proof your business today by subscribing for a free Accounteer trial account.
  • LemFi — Send money to India, China, Pakistan, Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya and 30 other countries. Receive and manage your money without stress
  • ThankUCash — ThankUCash is a technology company powering rewards and loyalty for African banks and businesses. ThankUCash helps merchants grow revenue by connecting them to customers within and outside of their locations while retaining acquired customers using a data analytics-powered reward system where customers earn cash rewards for every transaction madeboth offline and online.
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Enza Capital
VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya · 9 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

Venture investor in high-growth Founders and Teams using technology to solve large and meaningful problems across Africa

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Finance, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 52
  • Round size: Seed $238k–$8M; Series A $3.6M–$31M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Tugende — Tugende helps motorcycle taxi drivers own their own motorcycles in eighteen months or less instead of renting indefinitely. Ownership significantly increases income, job security and road safety.
  • Jumba — Jumba is the trusted digital partner for hardware stores. Through tech, we support hardware stores to grow. Get cement at unbeatable prices. Access cement LPOs even at midnight. Get inventory on credit through Jengwa.
  • Quro Medical — Quro Medical is an innovative digital health company pioneering premium hospital-at-home services.
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54 Collective
VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 9 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

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

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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LoftyInc Capital
VC Fund · Carmel, California, United States · 9 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

LoftyInc Capital Management empowers Afropreneurs to build a prosperous and equitable future in Africa. We deliver value to both founders and investors.........

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 147
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2.4M; Series A $250k–$37M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $14M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Aku — Aku is a financial technology to drive financial inclusion on one mobile device. They provide payments and bring financial services to the doorstep. They support the new business owner in need of the right tools. They offer low-cost, accessible financial services that serve their customers. They radically democratized access to banking and digitalpayment channels.
  • AlumUnite — AlumUnite is a purpose-built platform to connect all educated Africans to develop Africa's human capital through alumni groups. We crowd-resource education.
  • Reliance Health — Reliance Health Global. Improve the lives of your staff with innovative company healthcare benefits fit for any business. You can rely on us.
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Ventures Platform
VC Fund · Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria · 8 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 143
  • Round size: Seed $325k–$4.4M; Pre-Seed $100k–$1.3M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • MDaaS Global — At MDaaS Global, we build and operate modern, tech-enabled diagnostic centres in clinically-underserved communities, starting in Nigeria. Our big goal is to create affordable healthcare solutions for Africa's next billion.
  • Brass — Get started with a modern current account
  • LemFi — Send money to India, China, Pakistan, Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya and 30 other countries. Receive and manage your money without stress
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Musha Ventures
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 8 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

Seed capital for technology startups globally.

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Investment focus

  • 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
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Savannah Fund
VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya · 8 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Kepple Africa Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 8 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

We back exceptional founders in and from Africa who are addressing deep gaps between the status quo and the ideal.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 77
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$4.5M; Pre-Seed $300k–$3.4M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Paps — Paps is a transport and logistics company that offers innovative distribution and delivery solutions to companies and merchants.The company's e-commerce platform helps companies and traders with scheduling and tracking deliveries on a real-time basis. It offers the distribution of documents and parcels, storage of goods in a secure warehousethat meets standards, and delivery of insured parcels in relay point or last mile. It also provides professional services such as management and repayment of cash on delivery, provision of couriers, management of returns, collection, and periodic reporting.The Dakar, Dakar, Senegal-based company was founded in 2016
  • Mvxchange — MVX makes freight shipping easier and more coordinated for companies of any size by bringing the whole booking and deployment process online. We simplify Africa’s end-to-end import and export trade transactions by aggregating and organizing 7+ services through 1 digital channel.
  • Intmax — INTMAX has developed significant innovations in ZK implementation making it a unique Layer2 rollup network that offers low cost, security, tunable privacy, and above all, scalability.
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Consonance Investment Managers
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 8 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

We are an investment company focused on helping early and growth-stage entrepreneurs build successful companies in Africa.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 31
  • Round size: Seed $550k–$3.3M; Pre-Seed $450k–$1M; Series A $50k–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Releaf Earth — 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.
  • Plural — Smarter, Faster, Future-Ready Policy Strategy. Plural transforms how enterprises and organizations anticipate and act on legislation. Our AI-powered platform delivers accurate bill analysis, policy insights, and stakeholder intelligence so you can stay ahead of risk, seize opportunity, and shape outcomes. See How It Works Book A Demo Trusted By Deepen Your State & Federal Legislative
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4DX Ventures
VC Fund · Brooklyn, New York, United States · 8 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

4DX Ventures is a Pan-Africa Focused Venture Capital Firm. Our mission is to connect people, ideas, and capital to create a vibrant African community.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Logistics
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Egypt, United States, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 79
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$6.4M; Pre-Seed $50k–$6.5M; Series A $6.6M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $60M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • Aether Bio — Aether uses its state of the art platform to rapidly engineer enzymes, enabling our customers to manufacture complex and novel products at fractional cost.
  • Franc — Franc is the easiest way to save & invest. Our app doesn’t require any investment knowledge & our friendly risk quiz helps us understand how much investment risk is right for you. Users can start investing in less than 2 minutes. There is no minimum requirement & no paperwork. It is a seamless digital experience end-to-end. A usersimply chooses a goal, selects an investment strategy, verifies their identity & makes a deposit. Each user is recommended a personalised investment strategy for each investment goal, combining money market & index tracking ETFs. Our helpful calculators assist clients with their budgeting, retirement & targeted savings needs. We also provide free access to our online academy & fun financial literacy quizzes.We know saving is hard & investing can be scary, which is why we create savings groups & challenges so that users can encourage one another. We also run weekly competitions where users can stand a chance to win a cash prize that will boost their investments.
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CRE Venture Capital
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 8 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

Founded in 2015, CRE Venture Capital invests in early stage tech companies that are levered to Africa. CRE is headquartered in the New York metro area, with a regional office in Lagos, Nigeria.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Software, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, South Africa, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 58
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$4M; Pre-Seed $250k–$3.3M; Series A $1.1M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Sabi Am — Sabi is Africa's largest B2B company, & we are digitising informal trade via our platform. We access markets hard to reach and ensure ease of distribution, & are the No 1 FCMG supplier in Africa.
  • Flood — Flood is a marketplace platforms that provides merchant solution, self services and big data solution.
  • Asoko Insight — The most comprehensive database of African private companies for due diligence and business development
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HoaQ
VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 7 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

Startup Investment Club

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Internet
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Nigeria, United Kingdom, Togo

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 26
  • Round size: Seed $1.7M–$3.3M; Angel $100k–$130k; Pre-Seed $200k–$1M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Clafiya — Clafiya connects patients to health practitioners to provide fast and affordable on-demand primary care services in Africa.
  • Chowdeck — Order food, groceries, drinks, medicines & everyday essentials from top restaurants, pharmacies, local markets, and stores near you. Fast delivery with Chowdeck.
  • Klas — Anyone, anywhere can teach online. Create & sell your ebooks, courses, and live classes- all on Klas.
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Chandaria Capital
VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya · 7 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Retail, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, United States, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 29
  • Round size: Seed $250k–$6M; Pre-Seed $1M–$3M; Series A $2M–$37M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% 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.
  • Savannah Brands — Savannah Brands is a food & beverage company.
  • UTU Technologies — Trust infrastructure for the sharing economy.
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FJ Labs
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 6 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

FJ Labs is a stage-agnostic investment firm that focuses on marketplaces and consumer facing startups.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Brazil, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 898
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$10M; Series A $4.4M–$30M; Series B $12M–$65M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $5.5M in 2016

Portfolio highlights

  • Fresha — Find the best salons and spa in your area with Fresha salon booking software. Book now!
  • Metaloop — Metaloop is a scrap trading company that helps businesses from the metal recycling industry to boost revenue without scaling.
  • POC Pharma — POC Pharma is a SaaS company helping the stakeholders in the Pharmacy Channel to digitally manage their go to market strategy.
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Reflect Ventures
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 6 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

Reflect Ventures makes venture capital investments in high-potential startups at the seed and series A/B+ stages. We identify extraordinary founders, companies and opportunities around the world, including in emerging and frontier markets. Our LPs comprise family offices, institutional investors and HNWIs on six continents, along withrecognized sector experts who are instrumental to our portfolio companies' future growth.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Logistics, Information Technology, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Pakistan, United States, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 56
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$12M; Pre-Seed $120k–$3.3M; Series A $4M–$37M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Appload — Appload provides an online solution for logistics services. They connect logistics companies with customers looking for cargo transport. The app offers a secure scheduling and electronic payment system and the ability to secure shipments through an industry partner. They serve in the B2B space in transportation and logistics technology. They alsoprovides customer services.
  • Gigmile — Gigmile provides financial services. They provide gig workers with core services and an affordable lease on productive assets that is tailored to their earnings to enable them to succeed in the mobility industry as entrepreneurs.
  • VIVAN Therapeutics — VIVAN Therapeutics, a company pioneering personalized cancer therapeutics using a new assay technology. MPT licensed technology from the Center for Personalized Cancer Therapeutics at Mt Sinai New York and is launching the world’s most comprehensive, personal genomics-based, block-chain enabled drug screening service. All recommended treatmentcombinations will include a cancer drug and a non cancer drug, making treatments less toxic and more affordable. Intelligently designed personalized treatment. Revolutionary cancer care.
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Partech
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 6 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

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

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, France, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 525
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$9M; Series A $4.2M–$30M; Series B $9M–$55M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Yampa — Discover yampa's autonomous AI agents and revolutionize your customer experience. Elevate your service with the most advanced AI technology.
  • Privitar — Informatica is an Enterprise Cloud Data Management leader that brings data to life by empowering businesses to realize the transformative power of their most critical assets.
  • Jaspersoft — Enterprise reporting platform for delivering pixel perfect reports. Build custom reports and dashboards in minutes.
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Janngo
VC Fund · Abidjan, Lagunes, Côte d'Ivoire · 6 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

Janngo supports entrepreneurs who leverage technology to massify three impacts on the continent: 1/ Essential services & products for African consumers, 2/ Growth acceleration of African SMEs, and 3/ Job creation, in particular for women & youth

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, B2B, Logistics
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 22
  • Round size: Seed $400k–$15M; Pre-Seed $549k–$2.7M; Series A $4.7M–$18M
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $36M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • GoCab — GoCab is fintech solution providing Drive-to-own option for vehicle purchase in Emerging markets, helping to bridge the gap between mobility entrepreneurs and financial services.
  • Jobzyn — Jobzyn is building an AI-powered recruitment platform designed to help employers sift through overwhelming volumes of underqualified applications while helping candidates make better-informed career choices.
  • Thunder Code — Transform your QA process with Thunder Code's AI-powered test automation platform. Create, manage, and run automated tests without coding - perfect for QA teams seeking efficiency, reliability, and seamless integration.
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MNF Ventures
VC Fund · Casablanca, Grand Casablanca, Morocco · 6 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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International Finance Corporation
VC Fund · Washington, District of Columbia, United States · 6 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

A strong and engaged private sector is indispensible to ending extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity. That's where IFC comes in - we have more than 60 years experience in unlocking private investment, creating markets and opportunities where they are needed most.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Series B
  • Geography: India, Brazil, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 501
  • Round size: Series B $6M–$45M; Debt Financing $20M–$400M
  • Lead/follow: 59% lead, 41% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Konfio — Konfio provides digital banking, payments, and software tools designed to boost small and mid-size enterprise's growth and productivity. It offers working capital loans, a corporate credit card, a loyalty program, and business productivity software tools.The company was founded in 2013 by David Arana and Francisco Padilla and isheadquartered in Mexico City.
  • TerraPay — TerraPay, a mobile-first international payment network, has been founded with the vision to send money to any mobile. TerraPay interconnects financial services providers -- mobile wallet service providers, money transfer operators, banks and payment platforms – to create a “one network” for secure and seamless transnational movement of funds. Thenetwork facilitates a broad transaction set including interpersonal transfers, e-payments and government disbursements.TerraPay is platform agnostic and supports standard open APIs for integration with any mobile wallet provider. Through a single connection, partners gain access to a global payment network enabling rapid services up-scaling whilst minimizing Opex and Capex investments. As a fully regulated financial intermediary services network, TerraPay offers services beyond principal core transaction, routing and processing functions and assumes end-to-end responsibility for, regulatory compliance foreign exchange management and funds settlement.
  • Roojai — Get a car insurance quote online in less than 2 minutes. Roojai.com car insurance policy provides top service at low price. Monthly instalment available.
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Alumni Ventures
VC Fund · Manchester, New Hampshire, United States · 6 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

Access curated startup investment opportunities and diversified venture capital exposure designed for accredited investors.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1429
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$10M; Series A $5.2M–$37M; Series B $12M–$79M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Verishop — Shop designer clothing, shoes, bags and accessories from top Italian boutiques. Discover the latest luxury fashion at competitive prices with global shipping.
  • Lincode — The #1 business challenge that manufacturers identify is quality management. As new manufactured products continue to enter the market and consumer expectations shift faster than ever, factories are looking to improve their quality systems while scaling operations and cutting costs. At Lincode, we enable manufacturers to improve the speed, accuracy, and data tracking capabilities of their quality inspection systems at scale.
  • Arda Therapeutics — Arda Therapeutics is a biotechnology company taking aim at chronic diseases and aging by eliminating the pathogenic cells that drive these conditions. Their approach starts by using single-cell data to identify pathogenic cells and specific markers to target them. They then design therapies to eliminate these - and only these - cells.Arda wasfounded in 2021 in the San Francisco Bay Area, CA.
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FirstCheck Africa
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 5 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

FirstCheck Africa is an early believer for a generation of African women in tech. We invest early, with high conviction, in high-growth female-led startups with category-leadership potential.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Consumer, Payments, Financial Services
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$4.5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Jumba — Jumba is the trusted digital partner for hardware stores. Through tech, we support hardware stores to grow. Get cement at unbeatable prices. Access cement LPOs even at midnight. Get inventory on credit through Jengwa.
  • Uncover — Dermatologist-tested K-Beauty formulas powered by African botanicals for melanin-rich skin. Shop SPF 50 sunscreen, serums & kits with free Kenya shipping.
  • Cleva — For anyone with global financial needs, A US-based dollar account in your name to receive, hold, and save USD.
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Oui Capital
VC Fund · Belmont, Massachusetts, United States · 5 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

Oui Capital is an Africa-focused VC firm backing tech-enabled businesses at the pre-seed & seed stage.

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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EchoVC Partners
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 5 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

EchoVC Partners is a seed and early-stage venture capital firm focused on financing and cross-pollinating leading technologies, teams, business models, and knowledge across North America, Africa, and SE Asia. The average investment size ranges from $25,000 to several million dollars depending on the stage of opportunity and capital needs of thebusiness.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 50
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$4M; Pre-Seed $400k–$1.9M; Series A $1.2M–$22M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $8M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Kukua — Empowering today's generation of children through entertainment Stories and characters fundamentally change and reaffirm how children see themselves in the world. At Kukua we blur the worlds of entertainment and education
  • TRADE X — TRADE X offers Dealers an interactive and fully encompassing global automotive trading platform.
  • GraphScience — Since 2005, we have helped thousands of people get the perfect domain name.
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GreenHouse Capital
VC Fund · Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria · 5 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

GreenHouse Capital’s Founding Partners took their own fintech company Venture Garden Group (VGG) from a 7 employee, ₦30 million revenue startup to a 200 employees, ₦2 billion power house in just 4 years and raised an attention grabbing Series A round from Convergence Partners of South Africa. The uniqueness of their position was not lost on thefounders who then cultivated Garden Institute of Business Entrepreneurs (GIBE) to identify, incubate, and invest in young and innovative tech startups solving global challenges in Emerging Markets. GIBE was created to build a world class talent management hub for young and passionate entrepreneurs while creating a pool of technology inclined businesses and innovation oriented leaders.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 32
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Credpal — Buy now, pay later. Split in 6.
  • Encore Pay — Encore Pay is a UAE-based FinTech and Payment solutions provider.
  • 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.
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Soma Capital
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 5 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

Welcome to Soma Capital

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, India, Mexico

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 534
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$8M; Pre-Seed $200k–$4M; Series A $7.5M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Mason America, Inc. — Mason is the device innovation platform for product leaders who dare to deliver the next innovation in their field.
  • Starcloud — Starcloud is building a network of megawatt-scale data centers in space, scaleable to gigawatt capacity. Falling launch costs allow Starcloud to take advantage of the abundant energy, passive cooling, and high-speed connectivity in space.
  • TicketRev — TicketRev helps fans find cheaper tickets to their favorite games and concerts. Fans name their price for their preferred seating location, enabling resellers and teams to sell their inventory faster.
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Saviu Ventures
VC Fund · Ebène, Plaines Wilhems, Mauritius · 5 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

Saviu is a venture capital fund focusing on African early-stage startups.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, E-Commerce, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Côte d'Ivoire, Kenya, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 33
  • Round size: Seed $550k–$5M; Pre-Seed $165k–$250k; Series A $2M–$5M
  • Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $14M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • POZI — POZI app is an innovative tracking and geolocation solution primarily designed for fleet monitoring and management.
  • Workpay — Looking for the best payroll software in Kenya? Workpay provides the best payroll software and hr software for your business in Kenya, Nigeria and for Africa
  • Userguest.com — Userguest is a Travel SaaS company that provides technology to hotels in order to improve their online revenue. Our smart tool applies RevMarketing Automation to hotel website, by matching a user’s booking intent with the hotel’s inventory priorities. We display personalized incentives to boost hotel revenue where it counts.
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TLcom Capital Partners
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 5 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

TLcom Capital, is an Africa focused tech VC, with offices in Lagos, Nairobi and London. TLcom had been investing since 1999 in Tech, Media, Mobil and Internet companies across Europe, US and Africa, which is the exclusive focus of its most recent TLcom TIDE Africa funds. TLcom manages total commitments of approximately 300 million USD in thesesectors via a series of dedicated investment vehicles. Our investment strategy is to identify, back and assist world class entrepreneurs and management teams with disruptive technologies and business models, compelling intellectual property and deep market knowledge. We primarily target companies focused on Africa as a prime market, in the following investment themes: Access to Data Service; Financial Services; eCommerce; B2C applications (including but not limited to: health, education, energy, media and entertainment); and Software solutions to corporates and SMEs.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Mobile, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 59
  • Round size: Seed $1.9M–$8.5M; Series A $3.8M–$13M
  • Lead/follow: 51% lead, 49% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $150M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Hub2.Io — Welcome to HUB2, the leading FINTECH startup in interoperability and payment infrastructure in Francophone Africa. We are proud to work with all financial industry players in Africa who need stable and high-performing infrastructure, and contribute to their success.
  • Talstack — Talstack is an all-in-one platform for employee growth and development
  • 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.
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Vinny Lingham
Angel · San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States · 4 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

Vinny Lingham is the Co-Founder and CEO of Rumi.ai(Waitroom). He previously worked at YPO as a Member. Vinny Lingham attended Harvard Business School Executive Education.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Internet, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United States, South Africa, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 39
  • Round size: Seed $2.5M–$5.6M; Angel $125k–$500k
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Glif — Interoperable tools for the Filecoin network
  • Decent Labs — We are rebuilding trust in technology. Decent Labs is developing a more transparent and equitable society by creating startups at the cross-section of financial technology and digital rights.
  • Spexi — An intuitive and collaborative platform for drone-based data
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Palm Drive Capital
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 4 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

Venture capital firm backing generational founders at pre-seed and seed. New York and San Francisco.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Colombia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 170
  • Round size: Seed $465k–$7.9M; Series A $7M–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $75M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Durafi — Advanced DeFi Protocol for Derivatives
  • Qashio — Qashio is a spend management platform that allows people to monitor costs, make payments with app credit cards, and handle payables. Founded in 2021 and is based in Dubai.
  • Highstreet — Highstreet is a commerce-centric metaverse accessible on browsers and native PC VR. With veterans from VR, Defi, fine art, and hype markets, the mission of Highstreet is to bridge the gap between reality and the digital world and redefine how financial products should be consumed and sold on the market. Players are able to form parties to explore avast new world on the Highstreet interface, own and expand their virtual reality estates, and buy tokenized products from their favorite brands.
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Orange Ventures
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 4 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

Orange Ventures is a venture fund investing in areas of Orange expertise and beyond, with financial objectives in line with VC industry standards. With 350m€ assets under management, Orange Ventures is in the top 10 corporate ventures in Europe with an investment strategy focused on helping future global tech champions, fostering innovation in theMiddle East and Africa, and supporting new sustainable and responsible business models.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series B, Series A
  • Geography: France, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 79
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$5M; Series A $2.7M–$12M; Series B $11M–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • SAYNA — Sayna is to provide high-quality training in the digital sector and provide professional chances to young people by bridging the gap between the growing demand and supply for digital talent in Africa.
  • Traace — Traace is a software that allows companies to measure and manage their carbon footprint. Carry out your carbon assessment. Follow your action plan easily and precisely.
  • Gebeya — Gebeya is building a-self-sustainable ecosystem that trains, hires, and nurtures the best of African talent. Our mission is to be the premier software engineering and IT training academy in Africa, while becoming the number one global IT services workplace that matches African IT talent with clients across Africa and the rest of the world.
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1776 Ventures
VC Fund · Washington, District of Columbia, United States · 4 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

1776 Ventures is a global seed fund investing in companies in the following sectors: education, energy, smart cities, transportation, food/agriculture, fintech, and healthcare.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Education, EdTech, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
  • Geography: United States, Kenya, Brazil

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 97
  • Round size: Seed $750k–$4M; Series A $2.2M–$23M; Convertible Note $500k–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Swiftly — Harness your public transit data with Swiftly's urban mobility solutions to make your city's mass transportation move more efficiently.
  • HopSkipDrive — Arranging safe, dependable transportation or children ages 6+ with qualified caregivers
  • Clarametyx Biosciences — Clarametyx Biosciences is a late preclinical stage biotechnology company developing targeted, immune-enabling biologic therapies to counter persistent infections associated with biofilms.
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Golden Palm Investments
VC Fund · Accra, Greater Accra, Ghana · 4 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

Golden Palm Investments is an investment holding and advisory company.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, FinTech, Payments
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, Egypt, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 56
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$6M; Pre-Seed $30k–$6.5M; Series A $2M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2014

Portfolio highlights

  • ILLA — ILLA Trucking for Logistics Solutions & Distribution
  • Maplerad — Maplerad is a fast, safe and easy way to send and receive money with friends, family or others you trust. You can receive and send money directly into any Nigerian bank account in minutes using Bitcoin, US Dollars, and Naira.
  • Jetstream Africa — Jetstream monitors inventory and goods-in-transit for trade creditors and banks.
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Unpopular Ventures
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 4 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

The best companies, off the beaten path.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, India, Mexico

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 253
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$8M; Pre-Seed $500k–$2.5M; Series A $6.8M–$69M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • DRUO — DRUO provides online payment gateway for businesses.
  • Golioth — Golioth helps developers to build IoT devices, secure your IoT, pipe device data from the edge to the cloud, and manage your IoT fleet from anywhere.
  • 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.
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Idris Ayodeji Bello
Angel · 4 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

The 'Afropreneur' (entrepreneur with an African focus), as he self-describes, Idris Ayodeji Bello is a Partner at LoftyInc Allied Partners Limited and co-founder of The Wennovation Hub, an innovation platform based in Nigeria, that has successfully accelerated the launch of several technology start-ups in social impact sectors. He isalso a Founding Partner at Loftyinc Capital Management, owners of the Afropreneurs Fund (I&II)The 'Afropreneur' (entrepreneur with an African focus), as he self-describes, Idris Bello is a Partner at LoftyInc Allied Partners Limited and co-founder of The Wennovation Hub, an innovation platform based in Nigeria, that has successfully accelerated the launch of several technology start-ups in social impact sectors. He is also a Founding Partner at Loftyinc Capital Management, owners of the Afropreneurs Fund (I&II)A first class honors graduate of Computer Engineering from Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria, he has an M.Sc in Computer Science & Data Mining from the University of Houston; an MBA in Entrepreneurship & Strategy from Rice University in Houston and an M.Sc in Global Health Science from the University of Oxford, where he was a 2011 recipient of The Lord Weidenfeld Scholarship for demonstrating remarkable potential as a future leader from an emerging economy.Idris spent the greater part of a decade working at Chevron Corporation and ExxonMobil USA, where he led several large upstream technology projects across the USA and Sub-Saharan Africa. Idris has also worked with the Clinton Foundation Health Access Initiative where he played a major role in the deployment and evaluation of Swaziland’s first mobile health patient appointment reminder system as part of the country’s National AIDS Program. Listed among CNN’s Top Ten African Technology Voices, he is a Singularity University Impact Fellow, Harambe Entrepreneur Alliance Associate, Clinton Global Initiative University Fellow, MIT Global Start-up Fellow, SAP Ashoka Global Changemakers Award Winner, Dell Technology Award Winner, StartingBloc Innovation Fellow and a Nigeria Leadership Initiative Future Leader.As a leader, Idris has mentored and catalyzed scores of contributors across the growing African landscape and is an angel investor and advisor to several African startups including Andela, Flutterwave, RelianceHMO, among others. He continues to devote his efforts to the development of innovation-driven, technology-enabled social enterprises that empower the underserved and develop transformative ideas to change lives on the African continent.He spends most of his time between Lagos, Cairo, or airport lounges.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 36
  • Round size: Seed $700k–$5.1M; Pre-Seed $100k–$1.1M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Bypa-ss — Bypa-ss is working on creating a world-class SaaS healthcare environment and revolutionizing healthcare in Egypt, Join Us
  • Simulon — Studio-quality VFX on a mobile. Sign up to the Simulon beta.
  • ORDA — Process orders, accept payments, connect to logistic providers, engage with your customers + more. We equip you with everything you need to grow your business.
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Loyal VC
VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 4 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

Loyal runs a global venture fund with quarterly redemptions and a proprietary gate-stage process, reducing investment bias and unlocking greater returns. Partnered with INSEAD, Founder Institute, and 500+ advisors, we are Loyal to the world with 250+ investments in 50+ countries.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 148
  • Round size: Seed $78k–$3.1M; Pre-Seed $20k–$1M
  • Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Peerby Classic — Borrow and rent goods from others nearby - affordable, convenient and green. Tools, bikes, party equipment, electronics and more. Try it now.
  • Zobi — Zobi’s not just Artificial Intelligence, it’s Home Intelligence. Our smart, brand-agnostic solutions take a holistic view of homes - people, devices, networks, habits. They build an anonymous profile for each home, then use that intel to spot unusual behaviour and stop cybercriminals.
  • Finverity — Finverity provides technology, working capital and expertise to give banks, NBFIs, financiers and companies a strategic advantage in supply chain finance
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Proparco
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 4 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

Proparco is devoted to private sector funding in the sustainable development sector.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Energy, Finance
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Seed
  • Geography: India, Kenya, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 97
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$13M; Debt Financing $400k–$153M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow

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.
  • IPT PowerTech — IPT PowerTech coverage, coupled with our extensive expertise in supply chain management, field implementation, and power systems, has made us one of the most capable companies in handling the most complicated and versatile projects in the MEA region and its neighboring countries.
  • 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.
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Hustle Fund
VC Fund · San Carlos, California, United States · 4 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

Hustle Fund is a seed fund that invests in early-stage startups operating in software, business-to-business, fintech, and digital health sectors.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 331
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$6.4M; Pre-Seed $220k–$2.5M; Series A $3.1M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Arklow — Compliance for AI Datasets and their Models.
  • CompScience — Kinetic Eye's ground-breaking technology allows for detection of risk within hours rather than days. Protecting your bottom-line and more importantly, your employees.
  • FutureMoney — Introducing FutureMoney: the only investing app designed for parents. FutureMoney helps you give your kids more by growing your money, effortlessly. Start investing in your kids today with unlimited accounts, contributions and deposits, tax optimization, and fully-managed custom portfolios.
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GreenTec Capital Partners
VC Fund · Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany · 4 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

GreenTec Capital Partners is Germany's premier investor into African start-ups and SMEs. GreenTec invests through its unique Results4Equity model, acting as a co-founding partner that is only compensated on business success.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Retail, Computer
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, Morocco

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 24
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $50k–$1M
  • Lead/follow: 83% lead, 17% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.2M in 2017

Portfolio highlights

  • Ecodudu — Ecodudu is a waste-to-value company. It uses a proprietary innovation to recycle organic waste into high-protein animal feed and organic fertilizer using the black soldier fly. It harnesses insects (nature’s recycling agents) to address global issues which include waste management, demand for protein, and environmental conservation.
  • Asilimia — Asilimia is a simple, fun mobile app for sending money through M-PESA quickly and without any transaction fees. Simply deposit money to your M-PESA, download Asilimia and send money for free to any other M-PESA account.
  • ShapShap — ShapShap enhances delivery experience through its commission-based marketplace by assigning efficient orders to drivers to ensure their sustainability and scalability.
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E4EAfrica
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 4 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

E4E Africa Backing category-defining emerging market businesses. We invest in businesses that drive economic opportunity and sustainable growth.Learn MoreE4E specializes ... Read More

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Logistics, Internet, Supply Chain Management
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Africa, The Netherlands, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Seed $238k–$8M; Pre-Seed $1M–$1M; Series A $1M–$4.6M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kuunda — Kuunda provides consulting, liquidity management, data insight tools enabling users to fulfill financial needs through a digital platform.
  • Yebo Fresh — Yebofresh is a new online shopping service, delivering popular groceries straight into areas that are generally unserved by most formal retailers. Our unique business model and partnerships with manufacturers allow us to deliver top quality products and A-brands at extremely competitive prices. Yebofresh serves Imizamo Yethu, Langa, Khayelitsha,Mfuleni and Gugulethu and following recent seed funding, is rapidly expanding across the greater Cape Town area.
  • Conservio — Discover and Book South Africa's best nature accommodations with Conservio. Book vetted accommodations, easy and safe to book online.
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Bhavik Bajaj
Angel · 4 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, FinTech
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 74
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$3M; Angel $15k–$1.6M; Pre-Seed $43k–$1.3M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Asepha — Asepha is an AI clinical decision support (CDS) tool to help healthcare professionals make faster clinical decisions.
  • ORA Technologies — E-Commerce, Super App
  • THIRUMALS PAPER ARIZONA PVT. LTD. — TRADING PLATFORM OF PULP , PAPER & PACKAGING
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Aruwa Capital
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 4 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

Aruwa Capital Management is a Lagos-based, female-founded and led growth equity impact fund.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Retail, FinTech, Big Data
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$3M; Series A $11M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 80% lead, 20% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $20M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • 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).
  • OmniRetail — OmniRetail is a consumer goods distribution platform that solves the inefficiencies of traditional trade by digitizing key stakeholders through its products.
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Kube VC
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 4 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

Kube VC is a global venture capital firm that invests in exceptional founders and category-defining companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 107
  • Round size: Seed $800k–$8.6M; Pre-Seed $120k–$1.8M; Series A $5M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Crowdz — Make accounts receivables a thing of the past with a competitive invoice auction for selling your invoices with invoice financing
  • Glamplus — Glamplus is a SAAS-enabled beauty marketplace for salons and spas in the SMB segment. Glamplus customized to suit salon,s needs. Glamplus offers Hassle-free digital appointment tracking, invoicing, customer engagement, revenue management & much more.
  • Klaar — Klaar eliminates the stress and bias of performance management with timely AI-powered insights that help teams identify areas for improvement, make data-driven decisions, and ultimately drive better performance & careers.
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Quona Capital
VC Fund · Washington, District of Columbia, United States · 3 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

Quona Capital invests in fintech innovators that are advancing financial inclusion around the globe. Through our investments, Quona aims to deliver outstanding financial returns while making a lasting and positive impact on the world.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: India, Brazil, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 183
  • Round size: Seed $2.4M–$10M; Series A $3.6M–$30M; Series B $8M–$87M
  • Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $332M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Addi — Addi is a technology company that provides credit and banking solutions. Addi is headquartered in Bogota, Colombia.
  • Klar — Klar is a FinTech challenger bank that provides deposit and credit services for Mexican customers.Using the Klar card rewards users with cash of up to 4% cashback for each purchase, not points without confusing conversions or expiration dates. Clients can also send and receive payments and collections money instantly to Klar accounts and otherbanks. The Klar card is linked to an app where users can see all their movements in real-time.Stefan Moller, Daniel Autrique, Jeronimo Riefkohl, and Gianluigi Davassi established the company in Mexico City, Distrito Federal in 2018.
  • Tiaxa — TIAXA provides innovative financial services to people across the globe, with a particular focus on financial inclusion through mobile technology. Each day, Tiaxa provides more than 2 million Nano-Credits through users'​ mobile Operators in 14 countries including Argentina, Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, and thePhilippines.Tiaxa also provides the mobile telecommunications market with infrastructure, clearinghouse and revenue enhancement services, improving the efficiency with which the current prepaid user base is managed, and increasing revenues for Operators around the world, including China Telecom, Telefónica Movistar, America Móvil and Smart Communications.
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Lynett Capital
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

Lynett Capital is an early stage investment firm dedicated to the empowering technology companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, SaaS, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Kenya, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 26
  • Round size: Seed $120k–$3.1M; Pre-Seed $500k–$2.7M; Series A $3M–$49M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Juxta — Juxta builds first-of-its-kind software that helps hospitals optimize the flow of patients, staff, and resources throughout their facilities. By incorporating intuitive geospatial programs into everyday operations, Juxta equips admin with a suite of unique analytics that help them make valuable choices for their hospitals.
  • Ribbon — Go live with an inheritance center that your members deserve
  • Luminate Medical — Luminate Medical is developing LILY, the world's first pain-free and portable solution to prevent hair loss caused by chemotherapy.
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Speedinvest
VC Fund · Vienna, Wien, Austria · 3 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

Speedinvest is a globally active European venture capital firm built on a simple belief: many move more. From six offices across EMEA, our sector-focused investment teams back relentless founders from pre–Seed to Growth with long-term conviction, providing day-one access to our global network of corporate customers, experts, industry leaders, andtop-tier follow-on investors to scale smarter and faster. Building lasting companies like Bitpanda (Austria), Moove (Nigeria), Gigs (U.S.), Tide (UK), ARX Robotics (Germany), Wayflyer (Ireland), GoStudent (Austria), Seqera Labs (Spain), and Cylib (Germany) — together. Big ideas may start with one. But scaling and winning take The Power of More.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, Austria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 500
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Factris — We finance your open invoices so that you have the cash flow you need to grow your business. Your invoices, our financing! No more stress!
  • Findery — Find and leave notes anywhere in the world, discover local knowledge, hidden secrets, and exciting stories. Share your travel knowledge, geoblog, or local news!
  • Toqio — Toqio is a development and orchestration platform where you can build, configure, and launch corporate embedded finance solutions for merchant networks.
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Vumela Fund
VC Fund · Hyde Park, Newtownabbey, United Kingdom · 3 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

Vumela was established in 2009 by FNB Business Banking and Edge Growth. The objective was to create an innovative model for the development of a sustainable and a financially and operationally independent investment business which invests in high growth small, medium and micro size enterprises with good economic and impact returns.Vumela wascapitalised in 2010. Within the first four years, we’d invested R90 million into eight high growth SMEs, and created a total of 400 jobs. They launched their second fund in 2015, after a further investment of R100 million from FirstRand and R127 million from the Jobs Fund. Within the first year of launching this second fund, we’ve committed R43 million to five investments that are expected to create over 1800 new jobs.The first fund of its kind in South Africa, Vumela’s main goals are to invest in and develop entrepreneurial companies in order to help alleviate poverty in South Africa by creating jobs, and to generate a return for its beneficiaries: the Shalamuka Foundation and the FirstRand Group.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Education, Software, Primary Education
  • Stage:Seed, Debt Financing
  • Geography: South Africa, Brazil

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Rentoza — We champion giving you access, affordability and flexibility to explore tech on your own terms
  • Kusini Water — Kusini Water builds water treatment systems from nanotechnology and macadamia nut shells.
  • Trade Shield — Automated trade credit risk management. Discover opportunities & reduce bad debt with always-on risk evaluation, credit scoring & recommended credit limits.
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JAM Fund
VC Fund · Las Vegas, Nevada, United States · 3 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

JAM Fund operates as a venture capital firm investing in visionary founders disrupting large spaces. It is Tinder Founder Justin Mateen's venture capital firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Mexico, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 110
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Movo — Movo is ai-powered workforce management software, full of HR automation features like employee scheduling, smart task management, mobile time clock software, shift balancing, hiring and onboarding automation. With Movo, your high-volume workforce can be up and running in one to two weeks.
  • Rise — We make it easy for you to find, hire, pay, and manage contractors internationally while ensuring full compliance. Pay your team in fiat or crypto.
  • Hidden Studios — Hidden Studios develops and advertises Fortnite Creative games, with 100M+ plays monthly. The company collaborated with prominent brands and creators, including Skydance, Snoop Dogg, and CaseOh, to deliver engaging gaming experiences. Hidden Studios maintains an active presence on YouTube, sharing content related to their Fortnite Creativeendeavors.
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