# Top 50 Marketplace Startup Investors in Africa in June 2026

## Launch Africa
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Ebène, Plaines Wilhems, Mauritius
- Relevant deals: 16
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology

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

## Future Africa
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 12
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology

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.

## F6 Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia
- Relevant deals: 12
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Retail, FinTech

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.

## Microtraction
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
- Relevant deals: 9
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software

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

## Enza Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya
- Relevant deals: 9
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, Finance, E-Commerce

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

## 54 Collective
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa
- Relevant deals: 9
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech

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

## LoftyInc Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Carmel, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 9
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software

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

## Ventures Platform
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Internet

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.

## Musha Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, FinTech

Seed capital for technology startups globally.

## Savannah Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, FinTech, Software

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.

## Kepple Africa Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software

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

## Consonance Investment Managers
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, FinTech

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

## 4DX Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Brooklyn, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Logistics

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. 

## CRE Venture Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, Software, FinTech

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.

## HoaQ
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Internet

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## Chandaria Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Retail, FinTech

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## FJ Labs
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services

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

## Reflect Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Logistics, Information Technology, E-Commerce

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.

## Partech
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS

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.

## Janngo
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Abidjan, Lagunes, Côte d'Ivoire
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, B2B, Logistics

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

## MNF Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Casablanca, Grand Casablanca, Morocco
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Online Portals, FinTech, Enterprise Software

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.

## International Finance Corporation
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Debt Financing, Series B
- Focus: Financial Services, Finance, FinTech

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.

## Alumni Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Manchester, New Hampshire, United States
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

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

## FirstCheck Africa
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Consumer, Payments, Financial Services

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.

## Oui Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Belmont, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Transportation, Financial Services, Information Technology

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

## EchoVC Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Information Technology, FinTech, Software

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.

## GreenHouse Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments

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.

## Soma Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech

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## Saviu Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Ebène, Plaines Wilhems, Mauritius
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, E-Commerce, Financial Services

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

## TLcom Capital Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Software, Mobile, Information Technology

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.

## Vinny Lingham
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Blockchain, Internet, Software

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.

## Palm Drive Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence

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

## Orange Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series B, Series A
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Information Technology

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.

## 1776 Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
- Focus: Education, EdTech, Software

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

## Golden Palm Investments
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Accra, Greater Accra, Ghana
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Information Technology, FinTech, Payments

Golden Palm Investments is an investment holding and advisory company.

## Unpopular Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech

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## Idris Ayodeji Bello
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

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.

## Loyal VC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, E-Commerce

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.

## Proparco
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Debt Financing, Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, Energy, Finance

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

## Hustle Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Carlos, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

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

## GreenTec Capital Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Information Technology, Retail, Computer

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.

## E4EAfrica
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Logistics, Internet, Supply Chain Management

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

## Bhavik Bajaj
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, FinTech

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## Aruwa Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Retail, FinTech, Big Data

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

## Kube VC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software

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

## Quona Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance

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.

## Lynett Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, SaaS, Mobile

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

## Speedinvest
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

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.

## Vumela Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Hyde Park, Newtownabbey, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Debt Financing
- Focus: Education, Software, Primary Education

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.

## JAM Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, FinTech, Software

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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