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Top 50 Marketplace VC Funds & Investors in South Africa (June 2026)

The most active venture capital funds investing in South Africa Marketplace startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in South 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
E4EAfrica
VC Fund
4 South Africa, The Netherlands, France Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Logistics, Internet, Supply Chain Management $238k–$8M
Kalon Venture Partners
VC Fund
3 South Africa, Luxembourg, United States Seed, Series A Apps, Internet, Software $570k–$7M
TLcom Capital Partners
VC Fund
3 Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Seed Software, Mobile, Information Technology $1.9M–$13M
UW Ventures
VC Fund
3 South Africa Seed, Series A FinTech, Payments, Insurance $456k–$31M
Oui Capital
VC Fund
3 Kenya, Nigeria, United States Seed, Pre-Seed Transportation, Financial Services, Information Technology $40k–$4.9M
AECI
VC Fund
3 South Africa, United States Seed, Series A, Post-IPO Equity AgTech, Farming, Chemical $1.1M–$1.3M
Flourish Ventures
VC Fund
3 United States, India, Brazil Series A, Seed, Series B FinTech, Financial Services, Finance $2M–$65M
CRE Venture Capital
VC Fund
3 Nigeria, South Africa, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, Software, FinTech $250k–$25M
Vumela Fund
VC Fund
3 South Africa, Brazil Seed, Debt Financing Education, Software, E-Commerce $600k–$1.4M
Launch Africa
VC Fund
3 Nigeria, South Africa, United States Seed, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology $200k–$4M
Knife Capital
VC Fund
3 South Africa, United States, Kenya Series A, Seed Software, Education, Manufacturing $2M–$30M
Invenfin
VC Fund
2 South Africa, Chad, Egypt Seed, Series B Food and Beverage, Information Technology, FinTech $2.6M–$3M
Hustle Fund
VC Fund
2 United States, Singapore, Canada Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, FinTech, Financial Services $220k–$30M
Savannah Fund
VC Fund
2 Kenya, United States, South Africa Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, FinTech, Software $25k–$8M
Enza Capital
VC Fund
2 Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa Seed, Series A Financial Services, Finance, E-Commerce $238k–$31M
Alumni Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, United Kingdom, Canada Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $1.4M–$79M
Allan Gray
VC Fund
2 South Africa, United States Seed, Series A, Series C FinTech, Payments, Mobile Payments $456k–$100M
Soma Capital
VC Fund
2 United States, India, Mexico Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech $200k–$40M
Future Africa
VC Fund
2 Nigeria, United States, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology $100k–$20M
LoftyInc Capital
VC Fund
2 United States, Nigeria, Egypt Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Software $100k–$37M
4Di Capital
VC Fund
2 South Africa, United States, Kenya Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Financial Services, Mobile $441k–$47M
Nedbank
VC Fund
1 South Africa, Australia, United States Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Series A Information Technology, Software, Mining
Voskhod Venture Capital
VC Fund
1 Russian Federation Seed Cooking, Robotics, Food Delivery
i-Cubed Capital
VC Fund
1 South Africa Pre-Seed Medical, Wellness, Health Care
Endeavor South Africa
VC Fund
1 South Africa, United States Seed, Series A Financial Services, Internet, Payments
Paper Plane Ventures
VC Fund
1
FJ Labs
VC Fund
1 United States, Brazil, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
elea Foundation for Ethics in Globalization
VC Fund
1 South Africa, India, Kenya Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Logistics, Health Care
PUSH Ventures
VC Fund
1 Austria, United States, Germany Seed, Series A Software, Apps, Health Care
AAIC Holdings
VC Fund
1 Togo, Nigeria, South Africa Seed, Series A Health Care, Medical, Apps
Moscow Venture Fund
VC Fund
1 South Africa Drones, Security, Drone Management
AgFunder
VC Fund
1 United States, United Kingdom, India Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Agriculture, AgTech, Biotechnology $100k–$40M
AngelHub Ventures
VC Fund
1 South Africa, Mexico, Colombia Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Education $300k–$2.3M
Apis Partners
VC Fund
1 India, Singapore, South Africa Private Equity, Series B Financial Services, FinTech, Payments $5.4M–$175M
Basecamp Fund
VC Fund
1 United States, Canada, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $500k–$6M
Next Chymia Consulting
VC Fund
1 Kenya, Ghana, Romania Seed FinTech, Software, Blockchain $580k–$2M
Nurture Invest
VC Fund
1 South Africa Series A Software, Point of Sale
Kepple Africa Ventures
VC Fund
1 Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt Seed, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Software $300k–$4.5M
Serra de Estrela Investments Ltd
VC Fund
1 South Africa Seed Drones
Untapped Global
VC Fund
1 South Africa, Kenya Seed FinTech, Consumer Goods, Financial Services $1.2M–$3M
Appsolute Ventures
VC Fund
1 South Africa Pre-Seed Big Data, Analytics, Data Integration
ASISA Enterprise Development Fund
VC Fund
1 South Africa Medical, E-Commerce, Health Care
Icon Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, Israel, Canada Series C, Series B, Series D Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software $6M–$90M
HAVAÍC
VC Fund
1 South Africa, United States, Kenya Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, FinTech
Bantam Group
VC Fund
1 United States, Canada, Israel Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence $120k–$20M
Growth Grid Venture Capital Partners
VC Fund
1 South Africa Medical, Software, E-Commerce
Flori Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, United Kingdom, India Seed, Pre-Seed Blockchain, FinTech, Cryptocurrency
Quona Capital
VC Fund
1 India, Brazil, Indonesia Series A, Seed, Series B Financial Services, FinTech, Finance $2.4M–$87M
Crossfin Technology
VC Fund
1 South Africa, United States, Russian Federation Series A, Private Equity Payments, Financial Services, Software
Naspers Foundry
VC Fund
1 South Africa, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Financial Services, Farming, Software $854k–$15M
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E4EAfrica
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 4 investments in South 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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Kalon Venture Partners
VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 3 investments in South Africa Marketplace startups

A growing number of South Africans are investing in venture capital companies that operate under Section 12J of the Income Tax Act. Contact us now.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Internet, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Africa, Luxembourg, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 17
  • Round size: Seed $570k–$3M; Series A $2M–$7M
  • Lead/follow: 71% lead, 29% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Talk360 — Talk360 is an easy-to-use calling app that helps people make affordable international calls to any mobile and landline number. They believe that reliable communication and digital services must be affordable and accessible to everyone, regardless of someone's background. Especially people in emerging countries in Africa, who often need theseservices the most, do not always have the necessary banking possibilities. To bridge this distance, Talk360 will launch the world's first single checkout platform for Africa. This platform will combine all locally available payment methods and currencies across Africa, together with over 1.25 million cash points of sales, and will eventually be available to other companies as well. This means that 500 million Africans will be able to purchase digital services they never had access to before.
  • Sendmarc — Manage your organization's DMARC, SPF, and DKIM with world-class implementation services and support. All in one easy-to-use platform.
  • visionAI — Enhance factory efficiency with visionAI by using existing cameras to uncover inefficiencies and eliminate your production blindspots. Book a demo now!
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TLcom Capital Partners
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in South 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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UW Ventures
VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 3 investments in South Africa Marketplace startups

UW is a multi-stage investor that provides growth and replacement capital across the equity-cycle. Its activities span from high-growth venture to mid-market private equity opportunities.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Payments, Insurance
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Round size: Seed $456k–$2.5M; Series A $1.6M–$31M
  • Lead/follow: 54% lead, 46% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Pargo — Pargo is a convenient logistics solution that lets you collect and return parcels at Pargo parcel points throughout the country when it suits you best.
  • Synatic — Synatic is a unified platform that enables your business to integrate and automate systems and services without sacrificing enterprise features and security.
  • Peach Payments — Get Peach as your Payment Gateway and Grow your ecommerce. Process online payments with Visa, Mastercard, Debit Orders, EFT payments, and subscriptions. Plugins for Wix, Shopify, WooCommerce.
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Oui Capital
VC Fund · Belmont, Massachusetts, United States · 3 investments in South 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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AECI
VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 3 investments in South Africa Marketplace startups

AECI is an explosives and specialty chemicals group domiciled in South Africa. Group businesses service the mining and manufacturing sectors both locally and internationally.The focus for growth is on Africa, South East Asia and South America. AECI’s businesses are characterised by application know-how and service delivery.They often operate inniche markets and are supported by leading technologies which are developed In-house or are sourced from international partners.AECI IS A SOUTH AFRICAN-BASED EXPLOSIVES AND SPECIALTY CHEMICALS COMPANY FOCUSED ON PROVIDING PRODUCTS AND SERVICES TO A BROAD SPECTRUM OF CUSTOMERS IN THE MINING, MANUFACTURING AND AGRICULTURAL SECTORS. IT HAS REGIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL BUSINESSES IN AFRICA, SOUTH EAST ASIA, THE USA AND AUSTRALIA. OTHER MARKETS OF INTEREST ARE IN LATIN AMERICA.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: AgTech, Farming, Chemical
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Post-IPO Equity
  • Geography: South Africa, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$1.3M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Khula! — Trade smarter, fund faster, and grow bigger with Khula.
  • Origin Materials — Origin is a new kind of chemical company, focused on the future of materials science.
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Flourish Ventures
VC Fund · Redwood City, California, United States · 3 investments in South Africa Marketplace startups

We are an early-stage global venture capital firm investing in fintech founders.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 187
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$8.5M; Series A $5.2M–$35M; Series B $8.3M–$65M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Spade — Providing AI merchant extraction, brand logos, merchant locations, and categorization as a service to fin-techs.
  • Spry — Simplify your physical therapy practice with SPRY. Our all-in-one software streamlines billing, EMR, documentation, and insurance verification. Experience the SPRY difference today.
  • Hummingbird — Hummingbird is a platform for managing anti-money laundering (AML) operations. Compliance professionals use Hummingbird to collect case information, conduct investigations, and report on unusual or suspicious behaviors. The platform dramatically reduces paperwork and improves efficiency, enabling AML investigators to refocus on fighting financialcrime.Hummingbird’s founding team brings together product and regulatory experience from organizations like Square, IDEO, the Department of the Treasury, and the OCC. Hummingbird is using data and design to modernize regulatory compliance in finance.
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CRE Venture Capital
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 3 investments in South 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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Vumela Fund
VC Fund · Hyde Park, Newtownabbey, United Kingdom · 3 investments in South 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, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Debt Financing
  • Geography: South Africa, Brazil

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$822k; Debt Financing $854k–$1.4M
  • Lead/follow: 80% lead, 20% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $14M in 2015

Portfolio highlights

  • Rentoza — We champion giving you access, affordability and flexibility to explore tech on your own terms
  • Mia Healthcare
  • ProfitShare Partners — Business funding solutions with ProfitShare Partners. We specialise in Short Term Asset Finance to help empower SMEs.
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Launch Africa
VC Fund · Ebène, Plaines Wilhems, Mauritius · 3 investments in South 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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Knife Capital
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 3 investments in South Africa Marketplace startups

Knife Capital is an independent growth equity investment firm focusing on innovation-driven ventures with proven traction. By leveraging knowledge, networks & funding, Knife accelerates the international expansion of entrepreneurial businesses that achieved a product/market fit in a beachhead market. Knife have offices in Cape Town andLondon.Knife invests via a consortium of funding partnerships, including SARS section 12J Venture Capital Company KNF Ventures and select family offices. Knife facilitated lucrative exits of local technology companies to the likes of General Electric, Visa, Garmin and Uber.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Education, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: South Africa, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 31
  • Round size: Series A $2M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 71% lead, 29% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $10M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • d6 — SCHOOLS Schools Communication Platforms and School Management Software COMMUNITIES Community & Internal Business Communication Platforms MEDIA Let your brand be seen Advertise on
  • DataProphet — DataProphet offers production intelligence solutions for manufacturers. By combining human ingenuity with production data, we supercharge manufacturing excellence. Explore our Connect platform and expert services, trusted by industry leaders.
  • Stone Three Venture Technology — We combine expert services with the power of machine learning to help our customers increase their productivity and safety.
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Invenfin
VC Fund · Stellenbosch, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 2 investments in South Africa Marketplace startups

Invenfin is a growth capital investor operating in the technology, food & beverage sectors.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Food and Beverage, Information Technology, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series B
  • Geography: South Africa, Chad, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $2.6M–$3M
  • Lead/follow: 83% lead, 17% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • OfferZen — On OfferZen, Dutch tech companies reach out to you with upfront role and salary info so you can make the right career move.
  • Root — Launch digital and embedded insurance solutions with omni-channel distribution.
  • Float — At Float, we believe in a world where credit works for shoppers and not against them.Float offers shoppers a smarter way to pay with their credit card – by splitting big purchases in up to 24 bite-size, interest-free monthly payments. It’s all the perks of credit cards, but none of the cons. No extra debt, no applications, no credit checks – andno catch. Just shopping joy on their terms.At the same time, Float merchants enjoy more than 80% bigger orders and radically improved conversions. They also get direct access to 5 million pre-approved shoppers. Float’s instalment offering is fully customisable, giving merchants more control and flexibility than ever before. It’s all made possible by Float’s innovative technology, built on what we call ‘head-in-the-sky, feet-on-the-ground’ thinking.By giving their shoppers the most flexible, frictionless and financially responsible way to shop, merchants are partnering with us to build a new economy - where buying BIG, means paying small.Welcome to Float.
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Hustle Fund
VC Fund · San Carlos, California, United States · 2 investments in South 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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Savannah Fund
VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya · 2 investments in South 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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Enza Capital
VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya · 2 investments in South 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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Alumni Ventures
VC Fund · Manchester, New Hampshire, United States · 2 investments in South 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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Allan Gray
VC Fund · Alfred, New York, United States · 2 investments in South Africa Marketplace startups

Allan Gray is Africa's largest privately owned investment management company focused on generating long-term wealth for investors..

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Payments, Mobile Payments
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: South Africa, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Round size: Seed $456k–$4M; Series A $1.6M–$7M; Series C $70M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Mobiz — Supercharge your SMS marketing with dynamic, high-converting landing pages sent directly into the hands of your customers.
  • onafriq — MFS Africa is the largest mobile money inter-operability hub in Africa, which connects mobile network operators across the continent through a single API. In addition to mobile remittance services, the MFS Africa API enables merchant payment, bulk payment, bank-to-wallet transfers, and an array of other cross border digital payments services.
  • Sendmarc — Manage your organization's DMARC, SPF, and DKIM with world-class implementation services and support. All in one easy-to-use platform.
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Soma Capital
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in South 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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Future Africa
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in South 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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LoftyInc Capital
VC Fund · Carmel, California, United States · 2 investments in South 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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4Di Capital
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 2 investments in South Africa Marketplace startups

4Di Capital is an independent seed- and early-stage technology venture capital firm based in Cape Town, South Africa.Nurture capital is the term that best describes 4Di Capitalâ€:tm:s purpose and philosophy.We understand that in the early days of any business, support, mentoring and access to networks is just as important as seed capital.Using tried and tested international venture capital best practices, adapted for local use, we believe in entrepreneur-friendly finance without frills, and in working as a team with our investments to achieve their true potential.4Di Capital Early-Stage Technology Fund 1 targets startup investment opportunities with high growth potential at the seed- and early-stages in the mobile, enterprise software and web sectors.We look for founder teams with hungry passion, commitment, domain expertise and deep insights into the large market problems they wish to solve with their technology solutions.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 41
  • Round size: Seed $441k–$7.3M; Pre-Seed $3M–$4M; Series A $2M–$47M
  • Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Lumkani — AFFORDABLE ALARM SYSTEMS & INSURANCE FOR YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS Whether you are in a township, informal settlement, or suburb, we have the right protection for you. AFFORDABLE ALARM SYSTEMS & INSURANCE FOR YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS Whether you are in a township, informal settlement, or suburb ...
  • Investsure — InvestSure is a technology company that uses its software to enable partner investment platforms to sell its unique Investment Indemnity (insurance) product to their clients. InvestSure provides a full set of APIs that trading platform developers can use to integrate the Investure Investment Indemnity product seamlessly and easily into theirwebsites and mobile applications. Once InvestSure technology is added to a trading platform, it enables users to buy insurance on their shares with a single click. The full process from buying to insurance to settling claims is fully automated.The Investment Indemnity product itself is a unique innovation; it is designed to protect to protect shareholders against any losses in share value caused by actual or perceived fraud committed by management. This enables investors to secure their investments. The cost of the product is low enough to not significantly reduce returns of investors where no insurance event occurs, but to provide significant downside protection where an insured event does occur.
  • CompariSure — Custom, built-for-purpose service and sales chatbot solutions for financial services providers.
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Nedbank
VC Fund · Sandown, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in South Africa Marketplace startups

Nedbank is a one of the largest banks in South Africa.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Mining
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Series A
  • Geography: South Africa, Australia, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 21
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Pele Energy Group — Pele Energy Group owns and runs renewable energy infrastructure in addition to providing economic and community development consulting services.
  • WhereIsMyTransport — WhereIsMyTransport is a leading mobility technology company and central source of complete public transport data for emerging-market megacities. Working on the ground in Africa, Latin America, Southeast Europe and South and Southeast Asia, we digitalise network information from all modes of public transport and maintain data accuracy as thesedynamic systems change. Our products and data services improve the public transport experience, and inform industry-leading clients.
  • Sandfire Resources NL — Sandfire has grown to be a global copper producer of significance and continues to make strong progress toward its goal of being a sustainable mining company.
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Voskhod Venture Capital
VC Fund · Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation · 1 investments in South Africa Marketplace startups

Voskhod Venture Capital is an investment firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Cooking, Robotics, Food Delivery
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Russian Federation

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Smile AI — Smile AI is a dental telemedicine platform that provides ready-made solutions and monitors oral cavity condition using dental photos.
  • ROBOTECH — ROBOTECH is an engineering firm that specializes in the design and implementation of high-performance automated machinery for businesses in a variety of industries.
  • UAV & Drone Solutions — UDS - UAV and Drone Solutions - Expert services for aerial mapping, inspections, security & data capture. Get custom drone solutions now!
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i-Cubed Capital
VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in South Africa Marketplace startups

We acquire equity in companies that are positioned for growth and create wealth for our shareholders. Our team of investment specialist and entrepreneurs evaluate business opportunities that provide medium to long term growth.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Medical, Wellness, Health Care
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Contro — Get your health and confidence products prescribed online and delivered to your door for free without the waiting rooms!
  • 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.
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Endeavor South Africa
VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in South Africa Marketplace startups

Endeavor South Africa is a non-profit entity and the leading supporter of high-impact entrepreneurs around the world.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Internet, Payments
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Africa, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Ozow — Easy, fast, safe online payments and bank API solutions for merchants and consumers across South Africa. Secure instant EFT directly from bank to bank.
  • Sendmarc — Manage your organization's DMARC, SPF, and DKIM with world-class implementation services and support. All in one easy-to-use 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.
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Paper Plane Ventures
VC Fund · 1 investments in South Africa Marketplace startups

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Aerobotics — Powerful insights for precision growing and crop insurance
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FJ Labs
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in South 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: 743
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Secfi — Secfi is the leading provider of equity education and stock option financing. Get the expertise, planning, and cash to own your startup stock options with confidence.
  • Clutch — Clutch is a Toronto-based technology company that is reinventing the way people buy and own cars. Clutch offers high-quality certified vehicles at great prices through a fully online customer experience. At Clutch.ca, customers browse inventory online, buy the car that’s right for them, and enjoy effortless at-home delivery. Clutch’s mission is toprovide customers with a delightful car buying experience by offering high-quality cars at great prices with ultimate convenience while making a positive impact on the communities in which it operates.
  • Transparency Analytics — Transparency Analytics is a new company dedicated to measuring risk and delivering transparent, technology-driven solutions for clients in the evolving world of private credit.
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elea Foundation for Ethics in Globalization
VC Fund · 1 investments in South Africa Marketplace startups

elea Foundation for Ethics in Globalization

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Logistics, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Africa, India, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • RUTOPIA
  • Elucid Social — Elucid Social integrates businesses with the social good movement through a data-driven strategy that yields measurable results. Elucid Social develops and deploys technologies to assess, report, and minimize human rights risks linked with the sourcing of products and services.
  • Oorja Development Solutions — Oorja is a project developer of solar PV systems to power livelihoods in emerging markets.
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PUSH Ventures
VC Fund · Vienna, Wien, Austria · 1 investments in South Africa Marketplace startups

We are an early-stage Venture Capital Firm investing in outstanding teams with convincing products and high growth potential.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Apps, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Austria, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 23
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • FERNRIDE — Fernride enables automated, sustainable logistics by combining the skills of remote drivers with autonomous technologies.
  • Valutico — Valutico is the world‘s leading provider of web-based company valuation tools.Started in 2014 by a team of enthusiastic Corporate Finance professionals and web developers, the concept was born out of frustration with the status-quo in Corporate Finance practice: That professional company valuations used to be the domain of only the mostsophisticated of investors.At Valutico, it has been their mission from the outset to offer cutting-edge valuation tools to a much wider audience. Today they empower everybody to perform company valuations that meet and exceed the standards of even the leading investment banks and advisory firms.The company today is headquartered in Vienna/Austria and has an additional office in Frankfurt/Germany.
  • Ohana — Ohana helps you to protect your child in the digital world. Limit screentime, get insights & guidance, block apps & websites and filter inappropriate content.
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AAIC Holdings
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 1 investments in South Africa Marketplace startups

AAIC Holdingsis engages in nurturing investments in emerging countries, consulting and M&A, management outsourcing and human capital.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Medical, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Togo, Nigeria, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Gozem — Gozem is a transport technology platform for Francophone West and Central Africa.
  • CrowdForce — We empower businesses to drive mass adoption of digital, and financial services to underserved population in their communities.
  • RelianceHMO — RelianceHMO is solving this problem by providing affordable and reliable insurance packages for the average African. Reliance makes health insurance in Africa cheaper and easier to access by combining Telemedicine with data science.
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Moscow Venture Fund
VC Fund · 1 investments in South Africa Marketplace startups

Moscow Venture Fund is an investment fund.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Drones, Security, Drone Management
  • Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • UAV & Drone Solutions — UDS - UAV and Drone Solutions - Expert services for aerial mapping, inspections, security & data capture. Get custom drone solutions now!
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AgFunder
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Marketplace startups

AgFunder is a global venture capital firm backing deeptech platforms across AI, biotech, robotics, manufacturing, climate, and materials.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Agriculture, AgTech, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 138
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$10M; Pre-Seed $100k–$1M; Series A $4.4M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $60M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Root AI — At Root, we are on a mission to create the intelligent robots that will help growers build the farms of the future.
  • FaunaTech — FaunaTech is an Agtech company that concentrates on the research and development of devices capable of detecting diseases in cattle farms.
  • Bear Flag Robotics — Safe, productive and efficient farming operations for the next generation of growers. Customize, Orchestrate, Automate,and Scale your fleet to your needs.
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AngelHub Ventures
VC Fund · Stellenbosch, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in South Africa Marketplace startups

Operating out of Stellenbosch in South Africa and backed by two family offices Angelhub Ventures's team is passionate about early stage investments in (South) Africa. Being entrepreneurial ourselves, we thoroughly understand the challenges and changes our founders face – which is why we back them in any way we can. Most importantly, we believein building great businesses and we are in it for the long haul.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Education
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: South Africa, Mexico, Colombia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$2.3M; Series A $300k–$1.7M
  • Lead/follow: 71% lead, 29% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2014

Portfolio highlights

  • Motai
  • Syscap — Syscap is a financial technology company that offers cutting-edge solutions to financial institutions to have a better administration and management of their funding sources. It connects the leaders of financial and real estate institutions with their funders. For institutions, the company ensures the optimization of their funding source managementprocesses, but also the strengthening of the relationship with their funders. To funders, Syscap guarantees the transparency and timely monitoring of its funds for the safety and growth of its resources.
  • Velocity — Velocity is a micro fulfillment dark store that delivers through digital channels.
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Apis Partners
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in South Africa Marketplace startups

Apis Partners LLP backs growth financial services innovators who create transformative impact in their communities.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
  • Stage:Private Equity, Series B
  • Geography: India, Singapore, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 59
  • Round size: Series B $5.4M–$110M; Private Equity $10M–$175M
  • Lead/follow: 69% lead, 31% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $550M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Xoxoday — Loyalty program is crucial for big companies. We can help you engage and reward your customers online, discover our loyalty programs
  • Tutuka — Paymentology's card issuing & processing platform helps banks & Fintechs to launch innovative, secure, and flexible card payment products in weeks.
  • Paymentology
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Basecamp Fund
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in South 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, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 50
  • Round size: Seed $2.2M–$6M; Pre-Seed $500k–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Waivr — Waivr is a real-time payments API to process recurring payments for subscription services via ACH and RTP, offering low costs, optimized payment cycles and instant disbursement.
  • DataBrain — DataBrain creates a single source of truth for metrics for data teams so they can easily collaborate, add governance and operationalize metrics.
  • Sukha — The Focus App for Healthy Productivity. Sukha offers focus music, timers, AI assistants and more while you work.
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Next Chymia Consulting
VC Fund · Sheung Wan, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong · 1 investments in South Africa Marketplace startups

Create new business models with multidisciplinary blockchain professionals. Next Chymia Consulting has an international network of Blockchain technology and financial services. We are a group which make use of international networks and provide consulting services worldwide.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Software, Blockchain
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, Ghana, Romania

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $580k–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Qwili — Qwili makes smartphones with a voice-guided, local language onboarding experience for new users.
  • IPOR Labs — Enter the Credit Hub of DeFi. Lend and borrow at the best defi rates and earn a competitive yield on your crypto, fixed with on-chain interest rate derivatives.
  • Zuvy Technologies — Zuvy is a free invoice management software that enables your business to get cash today for unpaid invoices. Get started sending invoices via WhatsApp
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Nurture Invest
VC Fund · Harare, NA - Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe · 1 investments in South Africa Marketplace startups

Nurture Invest is a financial services firm providing asset management, private equity, investment advisory, and corporate advisory services principally.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Point of Sale
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • TallOrder — TallOrder improves your overall POS experience. Grow your business with an affordable, fast & accurate Cloud based point of sale solution
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Kepple Africa Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in South 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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Serra de Estrela Investments Ltd
VC Fund · 1 investments in South Africa Marketplace startups

Family office, registered in British Virgin Islands

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Drones
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Dove Air — Dove air is using advanced technology to empower people to address some of the biggest problems across Africa. We provide reliable and fast service while meeting all the safety standards.
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Untapped Global
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Marketplace startups

Untapped connects global investors, and foreign capital to opportunities in emerging markets. Delivering competitive returns, and measurable impact for global investors.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Consumer Goods, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: South Africa, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$3M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • Elimutab — Elimutab - Find the best learning tablets for children and students, including options for 1-year-olds, studying with pens, and work and study needs.
  • Rabbit — Transforming transportion in the region. Rabbit is a micro-mobility sharing platform for short-distance transportation using environmentally friendly vehicles.
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Appsolute Ventures
VC Fund · 1 investments in South Africa Marketplace startups

A South African venture firm focussed on early stage African startups. By the founders of Bottles, the on-demand liquor delivery app.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Big Data, Analytics, Data Integration
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • MetaPOS — B2B data platform and mobile POS for informal and township retail. We connect store owners, payment companies, and consumer brands through shared value.
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ASISA Enterprise Development Fund
VC Fund · 1 investments in South Africa Marketplace startups

ASISA Enterprise Development Fund

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Medical, E-Commerce, Health Care
  • Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • RecoMed — Find the best doctors and dentists. Search by location or by speciality, and find the right doctor for you.
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Icon Ventures
VC Fund · Palo Alto, California, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Marketplace startups

The road to success is long. Re-defining an industry requires passion, perseverance, and true grit. At Icon Ventures, we help entrepreneurs with true grit navigate the journey to become icons of tomorrow.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
  • Stage:Series C, Series B, Series D
  • Geography: United States, Israel, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 180
  • Round size: Series B $12M–$45M; Series C $10M–$50M; Series D $6M–$90M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $375M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Thanx — Drive revenue with personalized guest engagement, loyalty programs, and data-driven marketing. The #1 software for restaurants.
  • TuneIn — From live sports & local radio to news, music & podcasts, TuneIn has the perfect thing to “hear” wherever “here” might be.With 75 million monthly active users, TuneIn is one of the most widely used streaming audio platforms in the world. TuneIn broadcasts over 100,000 owned & operated and partner radio stations, in addition toboasting more than 5.7 million podcasts. TuneIn Premium subscribers unlock exclusive access to live commercial-free news from top networks like CNBC, CNN, FOX News Radio and MSNBC, commercial-free music channels for every mood and activity, and less ads throughout the platform. TuneIn can be accessed in 197 countries and on more than 200 different major platforms and connected devices, including voice assistants like Siri, Alexa, Google Assistant, Samsung Bixby and Cortana, and key integrations with Sonos, Bose and Tesla. With venture funding from Sequoia Capital, Comcast Ventures, IVP, Innovation Endeavors, Causeway, General Catalyst Partners, Icon Ventures and Marker LLC, TuneIn is headquartered in San Francisco, California. We are currently working and hiring remotely across the United States, as well as in parts of Europe and South America. Come join us in reinventing radio for a connected world!
  • Zephyr Health — Zephyr Health operates as an insights-as-a-service solution built specifically for life sciences companies addressing critical business and patient needs. Zephyr Illuminate™ helps pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device companies make confident decisions faster across the entire lifecycle with precise and predictive data insights.
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HAVAÍC
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in South Africa Marketplace startups

HAVAÍC is an investment and advisory firm that specialises in early-stage, high-growth African businesses with proven concepts and global prospects, offering investment opportunities to sophisticated investors and international venture capital companies with an interest in Africa. As a complementary offering, HAVAÍC provides corporate advisory andcapital raising services to emerging, internationally scalable businesses.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Africa, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 42
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • NjiaPay — Payments-as-a-Service platform that will streamline your operations and elevate your online payments across the African continent.
  • Talk360 — Talk360 is an easy-to-use calling app that helps people make affordable international calls to any mobile and landline number. They believe that reliable communication and digital services must be affordable and accessible to everyone, regardless of someone's background. Especially people in emerging countries in Africa, who often need theseservices the most, do not always have the necessary banking possibilities. To bridge this distance, Talk360 will launch the world's first single checkout platform for Africa. This platform will combine all locally available payment methods and currencies across Africa, together with over 1.25 million cash points of sales, and will eventually be available to other companies as well. This means that 500 million Africans will be able to purchase digital services they never had access to before.
  • Right Now Response — The future of repairs starts soon. Counting down to smarter tracking in 2025! There are perks to working 24/7, 365 days a year... Like launching the future of repairs ahead of schedule!
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Bantam Group
VC Fund · Westwood, Massachusetts, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Marketplace startups

They are passionate about seeing their portfolio companies become successful.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 107
  • Round size: Seed $120k–$3.3M; Pre-Seed $500k–$5.7M; Series A $1.6M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • AI Lean — Simplify your lien compliance with the only fully automated solution.
  • Aikium Inc. — Protein therapeutics
  • Groma — We use technology to make properties work better and enable everyone to own a stake in their community. Join Groma in transforming real estate. Rent modern homes, invest in multifamily buildings, or become part of our resident investor community.
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Growth Grid Venture Capital Partners
VC Fund · 1 investments in South Africa Marketplace startups

Growth Grid Venture Capital Partners

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Medical, Software, E-Commerce
  • Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • RecoMed — Find the best doctors and dentists. Search by location or by speciality, and find the right doctor for you.
  • Digital Cabinet — Digital Cabinet makes your business paperless. Security is the topmost priority for the Digital Cabinet, so save time and money with the Digital Cabinet.
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Flori Ventures
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Marketplace startups

More than a seed-stage fund and a portfolio of startups: Our community of founders taps into the power of financial innovation to collaborate around global problems and unlock prosperity for all.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, FinTech, Cryptocurrency
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 100
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Mento Labs — Mento Labs is a decentralized EVM platform for launching and managing multi-currency stable assets.
  • Learn.xyz — Learn.xyz’s is a mixture of Duolingo and Wikipedia, powered by AI, creating bite-sized “Curiosities” which feature slides and a quiz, in mere seconds just from taking in a user’s question. Find the app on iOS and Android.
  • Thrive Protocol — Thrive Protocol's vision is to maximize value creation for all people and communities.
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Quona Capital
VC Fund · Washington, District of Columbia, United States · 1 investments in South 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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Crossfin Technology
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in South Africa Marketplace startups

Crossfin invests in FINTECH solutions to enable growth for economies in Africa and beyond. Crossfin invests in high growth and established cash generative businesses, offering investors a blended exposure to technology investments in Fintech.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Payments, Financial Services, Software
  • Stage:Series A, Private Equity
  • Geography: South Africa, United States, Russian Federation

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Adumo — We are your expert partner in payments, enabling you to seamlessly and securely accept payments in-store and online with our true omni-channel experience. Never miss a sale with South Africa's largest independent payments processor.
  • VantagePay — VantagePay provides white-label payment and technology solutions to the Banking, Telco, Financial Services, and Consumer Product Industries.
  • Momint — Momint is the Web3 investment platform of the future. The safest and easiest to use NFT marketplace in the world. Discover the real-world potential of NFTs.
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Naspers Foundry
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in South Africa Marketplace startups

Naspers Foundry is a global internet group and invests in technology-based companies. The company believes in the power of local backed by global scale and they look for opportunities to address big societal needs in markets where they see the greatest growth potential.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Farming, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: South Africa, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Round size: Seed $854k–$6M; Series A $3M–$15M; Series B $940k–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 93% lead, 7% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Planet42 — Having your own car has never been easier. Planet42 is a vehicle rental company offering rent-to-buy car service for private clients.
  • LifeCheq — LifeCheq partners with insurers and advisory firms to deliver AI-enabled distribution, boost adviser productivity, and transform how financial advice is delivered.
  • SweepSouth — Book a home cleaning online from your mobile, tablet or computer. SweepSouth connects you with a cleaner in minutes. Cleaners are experienced, reliable, efficient and insured.
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Marketplace VC funding in South Africa at a glance

Stats across 127 deals from 145 investors.

145
investors
in South Africa Marketplace startups
127
deals
in South Africa Marketplace startups
$1.1M
median round
in South Africa Marketplace startups
52%
lead investors
lead at least one round
18%
Seed
most common funding stage

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