Top 50 Marketplace VC Funds & Investors in South Africa (October 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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TLcom Capital Partners
VC Fund
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7 | Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom | Series A, Seed | Software, Mobile, Information Technology | $1.9M–$20M |
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Launch Africa
VC Fund
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7 | Nigeria, South Africa, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology | $200k–$4M |
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CRE Venture Capital
VC Fund
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6 | Nigeria, South Africa, United States | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, Software, FinTech | $250k–$21M |
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Kalon Venture Partners
VC Fund
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5 | South Africa, Luxembourg, United States | Seed, Series A | Artificial Intelligence, Apps, Internet | $715k–$11M |
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Maven 11 Capital
VC Fund
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5 | United States, United Kingdom, Australia | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services | $1.3M–$43M |
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Knife Capital
VC Fund
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4 | South Africa, United States, United Kingdom | Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Information Technology, Education | $1M–$15M |
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Vumela Fund
VC Fund
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4 | South Africa, Brazil | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Debt Financing | Education, Hospital, Software | $500k–$1.7M |
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E4EAfrica
VC Fund
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4 | South Africa, Germany, Mauritius | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Internet, Logistics, Supply Chain Management | $1M–$8.4M |
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Oui Capital
VC Fund
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4 | Nigeria, United States, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, Finance, Apps | $40k–$4.9M |
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1kx
VC Fund
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4 | United States, Germany, Singapore | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software | $1.8M–$40M |
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Smollan
VC Fund
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3 | South Africa | Series A, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Apps, SaaS, Mobile | |
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Scalar Capital
VC Fund
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3 | United States, India, Canada | Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Software, Financial Services | $1.5M–$30M |
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Silvertree Internet Holdings
VC Fund
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3 | South Africa | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | E-Commerce, Marketing, Food and Beverage | |
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Savannah Fund
VC Fund
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3 | Kenya, United States, South Africa | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, E-Commerce, FinTech | $25k–$12M |
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AECI
VC Fund
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3 | Luxembourg, South Africa, United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | Chemical, AgTech, Farming | $1.3M–$1.4M |
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Sound Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | United States, Canada, Israel | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | $1.4M–$105M |
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Flourish Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | United States, India, Brazil | Series A, Seed, Series B | Financial Services, FinTech, Finance | $1.3M–$65M |
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Invenfin
VC Fund
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3 | South Africa, United Kingdom, Chad | Venture - Series Unknown, Seed | FinTech, Food and Beverage, Information Technology | $2.5M–$3M |
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Reciprocal Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | United States, Canada, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency | $2M–$50M |
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UW Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | South Africa | Seed, Series A | FinTech, Payments, Mobile Payments | $563k–$31M |
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Endeavor South Africa
VC Fund
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3 | South Africa, Australia, United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | SaaS, Internet, Payments | $730k–$48M |
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Newtown Partners
VC Fund
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3 | United States, South Africa, Ghana | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Logistics, Software, Health Care | $600k–$30M |
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Kleiner Perkins
VC Fund
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3 | United States, China, United Kingdom | Series B, Series A, Series C | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $5M–$110M |
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IDF Capital SA
VC Fund
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3 | South Africa | Seed, Series A | E-Commerce, Mobile Apps, Retail | $81k–$1.3M |
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Allan Gray
VC Fund
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3 | South Africa, United States | Seed, Series A, Series C | FinTech, Payments, Health Care | $563k–$100M |
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Naspers Foundry
VC Fund
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3 | South Africa, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Financial Services, Software, Farming | $989k–$17M |
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Growth Grid Venture Capital Partners
VC Fund
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3 | South Africa | Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Medical, InsurTech | $318k–$1.5M |
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Dazzle Angels
VC Fund
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2 | South Africa | Seed, Angel | Retail, Consumer, Delivery | |
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I’M IN
VC Fund
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2 | South Africa | Seed, Pre-Seed | Mobile Apps, Information Technology, Apps | $40k–$120k |
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Alumni Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United States, United Kingdom, Canada | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care | $850k–$75M |
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Future Africa
VC Fund
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2 | Nigeria, United States, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology | $100k–$40M |
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Untapped Global
VC Fund
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2 | Kenya, South Africa, United Kingdom | Seed, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown | Transportation, FinTech, Financial Services | $1.2M–$30M |
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Hustle Fund
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Singapore, Canada | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech | $100k–$25M |
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The ASISA ESD Fund
VC Fund
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2 | South Africa, United States | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Debt Financing | Financial Services, FinTech, Consulting | |
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Soma Capital
VC Fund
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2 | United States, India, Mexico | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech | $125k–$35M |
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Zip
VC Fund
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2 | India, South Africa, Czech Republic | Series C, Seed | FinTech, Payments, E-Commerce | $22M–$50M |
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FJ Labs
VC Fund
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2 | United States, United Kingdom, Brazil | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services | $1.2M–$65M |
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LoftyInc Capital
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Nigeria, Egypt | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | $100k–$37M |
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Enza Capital
VC Fund
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2 | Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Financial Services, E-Commerce, FinTech | $1M–$31M |
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The LAO
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Singapore, Switzerland | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software | $100k–$30M |
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4Di Capital
VC Fund
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2 | South Africa, United States, Kenya | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Financial Services, Mobile | $677k–$47M |
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Wintermute
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Singapore, Cayman Islands | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services | $3M–$50M |
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Vunani
VC Fund
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2 | South Africa, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Apps, Sports, Medical | |
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Apis Partners
VC Fund
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2 | India, Singapore, South Africa | Private Equity, Series B, Series C | Financial Services, FinTech, Payments | $10M–$120M |
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Simple.capital
VC Fund
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2 | South Africa, United States, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | FinTech, Software, Retail | $100k–$11M |
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PUSH Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Austria, United States, Germany | Seed, Series A | Software, Apps, Health Care | |
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Alitheia IDF
VC Fund
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1 | South Africa, Nigeria, Ghana | Series A, Seed | Logistics, E-Commerce, Retail | $3M–$13M |
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Garage Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Canada, United States, South Africa | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | |
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Nedbank
VC Fund
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1 | South Africa, Australia, United States | Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Series A | Information Technology, Software, Mining | |
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Voskhod Venture Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Russian Federation | Seed | Cooking, Robotics, Food Delivery | |
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TLCOM finds and funds exceptional founders building technology companies across Africa. Seed to Series C. Lagos, Nairobi, London.
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- Industry: Software, Mobile, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 77
- Round size: Seed $1.9M–$8.5M; Series A $3.8M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $150M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- HoneyCoin — HoneyCoin is a web3/web2 ecosystem of products built in a way that abstracts complexity and brings all the value of web3 and web2 to the forefront.
- Myka.Insure — Myka is a insurance sales platform that enables individuals to sell insurance policies to their family, friends, colleagues, and community while earning income . It operates as a micro-entrepreneurship program where anyone (students, gadget sellers, car dealers, parents, retirees) can start their own insurance business with zero investment,flexible hours, and free training . The company is licensed by the National Insurance Commission of Nigeria and provides instant payouts to its partners .
- LittleFish — Full stack enterprise platform that extends your infrastructure, instead of replacing it.
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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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Nigeria, South Africa, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 218
- Round size: Seed $200k–$4M; Pre-Seed $200k–$1.8M; Venture - Series Unknown $200k–$500k
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Zazu — Manza is an all-in-one financial platform for African SMEs, helping businesses manage payments, automate cash flow, and access real-time financial insights from one simple dashboard.
- Fincart — Fincart is a leading shipping platform in Egypt, connecting your business with top courier services, automating operations, and helping you scale your eCommerce logistics.
- Udu Technologies — Explore GPU cloud and hardware through AGH Cloud, UduTech's flagship product, and AI advisory for teams in the United States, Africa, the Caribbean and beyond.
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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- Industry: Financial Services, Software, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, South Africa, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 66
- Round size: Seed $250k–$4M; Pre-Seed $250k–$3.3M; Series A $1.1M–$21M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Flood — Flood is a marketplace platforms that provides merchant solution, self services and big data solution.
- Letly — Letly is developing an AI‑driven platform for the rental property market that automates tasks related to managing rental listings and tenant interactions. It aims to use intelligent agents to handle tasks such as scheduling viewings, responding to inquiries, and optimizing property management workflows. The platform is currently in a waitlistphase, signaling ongoing development and private access only.
- Cutstruct — Cutstruct is your one source for bulk construction materials purchase. Get the best prices for cement, steel, granite, sharp sand wood, and more.
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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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Apps, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: South Africa, Luxembourg, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 21
- Round size: Seed $715k–$3M; Series A $2.5M–$11M
- Lead/follow: 62% lead, 38% follow
Portfolio highlights
- GoMetro — Fleet management simplified with GoMetro. Integrate telematics, gain real-time visibility, and optimize operations with a secure, scalable platform,
- Sendmarc — Manage your organization's DMARC, SPF, and DKIM with world-class implementation services and support. All in one easy-to-use platform.
- visionAI — Discover how AI MES software enhances factory efficiency and reduces blindspots to minimize equipment downtime and boost productivity.
Maven 11 is a global blockchain and digital asset investment firm. The teams we partner with are on a rigorous quest to solve most exciting problems and make the necessary shift towards decentralised tomorrow.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 138
- Round size: Seed $1.9M–$10M; Pre-Seed $1.3M–$3.1M; Series A $5M–$43M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $107M in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- tenka — tenka is an institutional-grade, decentralized market layer for asset-based finance (ABF) and private credit
- functionSPACE — functionSPACE builds DeFi infrastructure to price and trade numerical outcomes.
- Alkemya Luxembourg — Alkemya Luxembourg is an international high tech metals firm specializing in sourcing and distributing rare earth oxides, titanium, and nickel wire, that are increasingly important to R&D and manufacturing companies in semiconductor, aerospace, and other high technology industries.
Knife Capital is an independent growth equity investment firm focusing on innovation-driven ventures with proven traction. By leveraging knowledge, networks & funding, Knife accelerates the international expansion of entrepreneurial businesses that achieved a product/market fit in a beachhead market. Knife have offices in Cape Town andLondon.Knife invests via a consortium of funding partnerships, including SARS section 12J Venture Capital Company KNF Ventures and select family offices. Knife facilitated lucrative exits of local technology companies to the likes of General Electric, Visa, Garmin and Uber.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Education
- Stage:Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: South Africa, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 40
- Round size: Series A $2M–$15M; Venture - Series Unknown $1M–$2M
- Lead/follow: 70% lead, 30% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $50M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- wamly — Wamly is the recruitment software, It has given us time back to focus on transformational work.
- Cue — Cue is one customer service platform for live chat, chatbots and broadcasts across WhatsApp, Messenger, web chat, email and many other digital channels.
- Optique Optometrists — Optique Optometrists provides comprehensive eye care services, including eye tests, prescription glasses, and contact lenses. The company offers affordable eye care solutions and has multiple branches across South Africa. Customers can book appointments online and access a wide range of eyewear options. Optique Optometrists focuses on deliveringquality vision care and ensuring customer satisfaction through professional services and convenient booking options.
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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- Industry: Education, Hospital, Software
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Debt Financing
- Geography: South Africa, Brazil
Investor stats
- Total investments: 26
- Round size: Seed $600k–$910k; Debt Financing $1.1M–$1.7M; Venture - Series Unknown $500k–$1M
- Lead/follow: 81% lead, 19% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $20M in 2015
Portfolio highlights
- Trade Shield — Trade Shield's aim is to increase access to trade credit facilities for those companies that most need them and will benefit the most from them.
- Breaze Delivery — Optimize your last-mile delivery in SA. Breaze offers same-day delivery, easy Shopify/WooCommerce integration, and live WhatsApp tracking for your brand.
- Iris Fresh Pty Ltd — Iris Fresh exports fresh produce from Southern Africa to international buyers.
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- Industry: Internet, Logistics, Supply Chain Management
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: South Africa, Germany, Mauritius
Investor stats
- Total investments: 27
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$7.5M; Pre-Seed $1M–$2M; Series A $1M–$8.4M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Kuunda — Kuunda provides consulting, liquidity management, data insight tools enabling users to fulfill financial needs through a digital platform.
- Jem — We give employers the ability to send company-wide communications, deliver payslips, manage leave & give employees access to their earnings, via WhatsApp.
- Ridge — Ridge structures natural assets into regulated, ISIN-listed financial products accessible through existing banking infrastructure.
Oui Capital is an Africa-focused VC firm backing tech-enabled businesses at the pre-seed & seed stage.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Finance, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 37
- Round size: Seed $600k–$4.9M; Pre-Seed $40k–$1.3M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $30M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Alliance Chemicals Global — Alliance Chemicals Global supplies raw materials, commodities, and specialty chemicals to manufacturers across sectors such as home and personal care, food and nutrition, plastics, polymers, construction, coatings, and industrial applications. The company supports chemical distribution, sourcing, and logistics, including local currency invoicingand dedicated transport. It focuses on compliant, sustainable supply, working with global manufacturers and African clients. Its projects include plastic chemical recycling and development of a shea butter value chain. The organization serves customers mainly across African markets.
1kx is a research-driven global investment firm making trust instant, open, and programmable, with 160+ investments since 2018 across DeFi, stablecoins, and onchain infrastructure.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United States, Germany, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 183
- Round size: Seed $1.8M–$11M; Series A $5M–$28M; Venture - Series Unknown $3M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
Portfolio highlights
- EarnOS — EarnOS is the fully remote company that provides Global Ad & Payments Platform powered by Web3.
- KOR Protocol — KOR Protocol is a decentralized intellectual property (IP) infrastructure designed to empower creators, protect rights, and enable seamless collaboration and monetization of IP assets across various industries, including music, film, TV, gaming, and art. Backed by notable entities like Animoca Brands, Republic, Niantic, Sfermion, Solana, andprominent creators such as Black Mirror, Disclosure, deadmau5, and Richie Hawtin, KOR leverages blockchain, AI, and DeFi to offer a transparent, efficient, and scalable environment for IP expansion.
- Freehand — AI Teams for Complex Spend Management
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- Industry: Apps, SaaS, Mobile
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: 75% lead, 25% follow
Portfolio highlights
- wiGroup — Award-winning loyalty and rewards software powering South Africa's largest network. Bank card-linked loyalty, digital gift cards, and vouchers across 27,000+ stores.
- SNAPnSAVE — SNAPnSAVE is a shopping app that gives you cash back when you shop in-store. No paper coupons, no plastic cards and no loyalty points. Just real cash back on items that you buy everyday, leaving you with more to spend on the things you want. Ka ching!
- 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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- Industry: Blockchain, Software, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, India, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 41
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$12M; Series A $7.5M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $20M in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- Sound — Sound is a suite of music and economic tools powering the next generation of artists and their communities, starting with listening parties for new releases
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- Stackr Labs — Micro-rollups to scale web3 applications
Investment focus
- Industry: E-Commerce, Marketing, Food and Beverage
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Aumax — Aumax is a social-first direct to consumer brand.
- UCook — UCOOK is a food and beverage platform that offers meal kit delivery service. It was founded in August 2014 and is headquartered in Cape Town.
- CarZar (Pty) Ltd — CarZar is an online car buying service, empowering consumers to sell their second hand vehicle.
Savannah Fund is a seed capital fund specializing in US$25,000-US$500,000 investments in early stage high growth technology (web and mobile) startups in sub-Saharan Africa. Initially focused on East Africa, the fund aims to bridge the early stage/angel and venture capital investment gap that currently exists in Africa. The Fund expects toachieve this objective by combining capital with mentor networks both in the region and from Silicon Valley via an accelerator program and a follow-on independent seed fund.The fund is managed by an experienced and technology savvy team that have founded companies or are actively involved in angel investing or having run successful accelerator programs in past but also understand the unique Subsaharan African environment. They are backed and supported by both local, regional and international networks of angels,venture capitalists whose expertise we can draw on to help startups succeed and scale to fully fledged regional or global companies.They believe in the potential for Africa to become a global technology innovator by creating sustainable for profit companies that create jobs and make an impact.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Kenya, United States, South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 46
- Round size: Seed $25k–$3.3M; Pre-Seed $200k–$2.1M; Series A $750k–$12M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $25M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Aya Data — Aya Data provides high-quality data annotation, AI training data, 3D annotations, machine learning solutions and also specialises in geospatial, NLP and computer vision projects.
- Kubik — Kubik makes low-carbon buildings from plastic waste. Bringing environmental dignity to how countries grow.
- Hohm Energy — We make the process of going solar simple. Generate your free, custom solar proposal and get matched with an accredited solar provider in under 5 mins.
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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- Industry: Chemical, AgTech, Farming
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Luxembourg, South Africa, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$1.4M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% 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.
- Clariter — WE END THE LIFE OF PLASTIC. Our unique upcycling technology transforms plastic waste into 3 industrial ingredients; oils, waxes, and solvents that make 1000+ plastic-free end products.
Sound Ventures is a venture capital firm. The company seeks to invest in the technology sector.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 265
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$10M; Series A $9M–$30M; Series B $17M–$105M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $50M in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Knit — Knit is an AI-Native Research Agency that combines the rigor and expertise of a traditional agency with the speed and efficiency of AI.
- Factory — Factory is bringing autonomy to software engineering.
- Stability AI — AI for Humanity. Stability AI is a solution studio dedicated to innovating ideas. By using collective intelligence principles and augmented technology we design and implement feasible solutions to seemingly intractable problems.
We are an early-stage global venture capital firm investing in fintech founders.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, India, Brazil
Investor stats
- Total investments: 256
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$8.5M; Series A $3.5M–$25M; Series B $8.6M–$65M
- Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $350M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Cauridor — Cauridor is a Financial Services company.
- Stream — Stream is a company that helps make payments simpler, faster, and reliable.
- Jurisphere — Jurisphere.ai is an enterprise-grade AI platform tailored for law firms and in-house legal teams, integrating document review, legal research, drafting, and workflow automation into a unified workspace. The company's platform uses attorney verified AI workflows to surface relevant cases and insights from large volumes of legal documents,generate and refine contract drafts.
Invenfin is a growth capital investor operating in the technology, food & beverage sectors.
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- Industry: FinTech, Food and Beverage, Information Technology
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Seed
- Geography: South Africa, United Kingdom, Chad
Investor stats
- Total investments: 21
- Round size: Seed $2.5M–$3M
- Lead/follow: 57% lead, 43% 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.
Partnering with crypto founders from day 0. Here investments == partnerships.
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- Industry: Software, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 90
- Round size: Seed $2M–$8M; Series A $6M–$30M; Series B $12M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $1.6M in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Coinflow Labs — Tech-driven payments solutions for your business
- CEA Industries — CEA Industries (NASDAQ: BNC) is a publicly traded company pursuing a BNB-focused digital asset treasury strategy.
- BLOCKWORKS INC. — Blockworks is a financial media brand that delivers breaking news and premium insights about digital assets to millions of investors. Our editorial content, newsletters, podcasts and events provide investors with the critical analysis and information they need to make smarter decisions about digital assets.
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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- Industry: FinTech, Payments, Mobile Payments
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 20
- Round size: Seed $563k–$2.5M; Series A $1.3M–$31M
- Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% 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.
- Rather.chat — Rather.chat offers a platform that facilitates meaningful connections between businesses and their customers through WhatsApp. This service is designed to make customer interactions more personal and efficient, allowing for real-time communication. By leveraging the widespread use of WhatsApp, Rather.chat aims to enhance the customer serviceexperience, making it easier for businesses to address inquiries, resolve issues, and maintain engagement with their audience. The focus is on creating a seamless bridge for dialogue that respects the convenience and preferences of the modern consumer, who increasingly favors instant messaging over traditional forms of communication.
- Manholes 4 Africa — m4a (Pty) Ltd specializes in the manufacturing of composite and plastics products designed for the utilities networks industry. As an Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM), the company offers a comprehensive range of products including access chambers, microducts, bundled microducts (multiducts), sub ducts, corrugated pipes, axsCHAMBERS™,cnktCLOSURES™, fibreDUCT™, and fibreCABLE™. These products cater to the telecommunications sector, providing end-to-end solutions for infrastructure needs. m4a (Pty) Ltd is recognized for its innovative approach in developing polymer and composite civil infrastructure solutions. The company holds ISO9001 certification, ensuring high standards in quality management systems.
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Browse database — It's Free!Endeavor South Africa is a non-profit entity and the leading supporter of high-impact entrepreneurs around the world.
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- Industry: SaaS, Internet, Payments
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: South Africa, Australia, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Seed $730k–$4.6M; Series B $11M–$48M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $14M in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- Plentify — Plentify connects home appliances with cheaper cleaner energy. It does this with an intelligent residential load management platform which matches demand with clean energy supply for 75% cheaper than batteries. Plentify combines advanced hardware, AI, and user-centric design to create smart home products that delight customers while alsostrengthening electricity systems.
- 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.
Newtown Partners is a venture capital firm that actively invests in emerging, disruptive technology startups.
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- Industry: Logistics, Software, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United States, South Africa, Ghana
Investor stats
- Total investments: 37
- Round size: Seed $600k–$5.5M; Series A $3.3M–$30M; Venture - Series Unknown $2M–$2.5M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
Portfolio highlights
- MDaaS Global — At MDaaS Global, we build and operate modern, tech-enabled diagnostic centres in clinically-underserved communities, starting in Nigeria. Our big goal is to create affordable healthcare solutions for Africa's next billion.
- Chefaa — Chefaa is a GPS-enabled pharmacy benefits platform connecting patients & pharmacies nation-wide to help patients manage all their pharmacy needs. Chefaa uses big data, data ming & machine learning
- Waspito — We are the platform that engages Africa into the conversation and action to drive affordable and accessible quality healthcare across the continent.
Kleiner Perkins is an American venture capital firm headquartered on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park in Silicon Valley.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
- Geography: United States, China, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1362
- Round size: Series A $5M–$50M; Series B $10M–$75M; Series C $12M–$110M
- Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $58M in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- Armadin Security — Armadin Security is an AI-powered cybersecurity company that specializes in real-time threat hunting.
- Harvey — Harvey is an artificial intelligence technology service provider.
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IDF Capital is an established financier, investing in high growth SMEs/Entrepreneurial businesses. We invest with a gender lens strategy
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Mobile Apps, Retail
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $81k–$1.3M
- Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Droppa — Droppa is a delivery hub that makes it easier and safer to transport your parcels, goods and furniture using our mobile app and website.
- Carscan — cARscan is an Augmented Reality app with an embedded visual recognition AI to track the visual condition of every motor vehicle during its life-stage.
- Mortgage Market — Mortgage Market is a fintech startup that has created an online marketplace for home loans. Users are able to access a home loan easily via its online platform.
Allan Gray is Africa's largest privately owned investment management company focused on generating long-term wealth for investors..
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- Industry: FinTech, Payments, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series C
- Geography: South Africa, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Seed $563k–$4M; Series A $1.3M–$31M; Series C $70M–$100M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- 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.
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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- Industry: Financial Services, Software, Farming
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: South Africa, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 19
- Round size: Seed $989k–$6M; Series A $3.3M–$15M; Series B $2.3M–$17M
- Lead/follow: 89% lead, 11% 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.
Growth Grid Venture Capital Partners
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- Industry: Software, Medical, InsurTech
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Venture - Series Unknown $318k–$1.5M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- RecoMed — Find the best doctors and dentists. Search by location or by speciality, and find the right doctor for you.
- Click2Sure — We provide cloud-based Insurance SaaS solutions for omnichannel distribution, which can save costs & support data-driven decision making. Contact us today.
- 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.
Investment focus
- Industry: Retail, Consumer, Delivery
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kweza — Enjoy the Aviator game by Spribe on our website! Find the official version and top betting platforms with Aviator. Get a +120% Bonus and 250 Free Spins (FS) now!
- creditAIs — CreditAIs provides credit scoring tools for micro businesses and individuals that do not fit the existing traditional credit scoring models. It helps borrowers get credit while digitizing credit application processes for microlenders.
- SV Capital — SV Capital offers investors the opportunity to invest in alternative, real-backed assets on the African continent.
I’M IN is a pre-investment readiness program that believes in making a sustainable impact on the entrepreneurial ecosystem. It helps tech startups access seed investment and achieve business sustainability by providing an effective eco-system which offers business and technical support. I’M IN is an IDF Capital initiative that gives start-upentrepreneurs an opportunity to present their innovative ideas to a group of high-net-worth investors. Entrepreneurs with an exceptional business concept, who have an early stage market-viable product or service, are invited to apply to participate in the program.
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- Industry: Mobile Apps, Information Technology, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $40k–$120k
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Jobox — Jobox is a student recruitment platform, built to connect employers, students and graduate career offices. Our focus is to improve graduate employability by ensuring all students have the skills they need to enter, stay in, and progress in the world of work.Jobox’s ecosystem provides employers with access to the best diverse & youthfultalent, students with more employment opportunities and universities with data-driven insights aimed at driving graduate employability forward.
- Droppa — Droppa is a delivery hub that makes it easier and safer to transport your parcels, goods and furniture using our mobile app and website.
- 3DIMO — 3DIMO provides solutions to monitor the health and pattern of animal movements to detect abnormalities.
Access curated startup investment opportunities and diversified venture capital exposure designed for accredited investors.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2705
- Round size: Seed $850k–$9.9M; Series A $3.5M–$32M; Series B $8M–$75M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $90k in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- Particle — Afternic is a one-stop site to buy, sell and park domains. See for your self why Afternic is the world's premiere domain marketplace and exchange reseller.
- Akiba Digital — Akiba Digital is a data and technology company that provides financial intelligence solutions. Our vision is to to unlock financial opportunities for consumers, businesses and society using alternative data.
- Enact — Enact is a leading solar energy and solar software company serving homeowners, businesses, and installers. Get a free quote or request a demo today!
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Browse database — It's Free!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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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 92
- Round size: Seed $500k–$4M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3.7M; Series A $7M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- STEM Cafe — STEMCafe by RVRB is a fun out of school learning centre for kids
- Juicyway — The new shape of money? Fluid. Access global currencies with Juicyway. Buy, sell, hold, and pay globally using our fast APIs, web, or mobile apps. Download now.
- Lori Systems — Lori Systems is revolutionizing African logistics through innovative technology solutions. We connect shippers, transporters, and drivers to create efficient, reliable, and transparent supply chains across Africa.
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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- Industry: Transportation, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Kenya, South Africa, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 19
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 68% lead, 32% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Elimutab — At Elimutab we have safe and secure educational gadgets made for learners and schools. Including; Tablets, Chromebooks, Laptops, Projectors & Interactive smartboards.
- OX Delivers — Our objective is to deliver affordable transport in emerging markets, creating a self-reinforcing cycle of economic growth and social impact. To achieve this, we are developing the world's first clean-transport ecosystem that combines goods shipment with financial, trading & marketing services. This OX ecosystem will be enabled by ourunique zero-emissions OX truck; the only purpose-designed electric vehicle for emerging markets.
- Rabbit — Transforming transportion in the region. Rabbit is a micro-mobility sharing platform for short-distance transportation using environmentally friendly vehicles.
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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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Singapore, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 546
- Round size: Seed $750k–$6M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2.5M; Series A $4M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $33M in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- O-ID — Modular Humanoids, Made in Japan
- BON Credit — AI powered financial assistant from Bon Credit helps uncover savings, manage finances, and make smarter money decisions with AI. Start saving smarter today!
- Charter Space — Charter is developing a collaborative platform for satellite mission logistics and program management available via web app and API that provides satellite operators with intuitive information architecture to streamline missions and reduce wasted engineering hours so they can get to the launchpad faster.Charter's platform usesdesign-focused UI/UX and automation to reduce friction through intuitive dashboarding, improved information sharing, and optimized compute and data resource efficiency. For satellite companies, ATLAS streamlines processes, automates manual tasks, and provides engineers with communications and information infrastructure to seamlessly interface both across teams and organisations. reduces wasted engineering hours and lead times, and minimizes upfront technical debt, CapEx, and long-run OpEx.In other words, Charter is building a logistics solution that will be to satellite logistics what the graphical user interface was to command-line interfaces.
An Invetsment Fund.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Consulting
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Debt Financing
- Geography: South Africa, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Lead/follow: 64% lead, 36% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Pineapple — In short, Pineapple see the traditional insurance model, user journey and products as lacking and set out to remedy these by doing the following: 1) Changing the business model to align incentives, show people how premiums are used and award members leftover premium back 2) Making insuring as easy as snapping a picture where AI does the rest andcover is issued in under 60 seconds 3) Allowing per-item insurance and new product innovation to address cover not currently offered or accessible to manyPineapple launched in South Africa in 2018 with their "My Stuff" per-item insurance and have since launched their auto offering "My Ride". They have also partnered with Travelers in the US and have white-labeled their platform in the US.
- Aviro Health — We believe that empowering and supporting people to manage their own health benefits everybody.We built the Aviro Pocket Clinic to support self-care and provide access to services. We give people what they need to perform important health checks like regular HIV self-testing and connect them to experts and services who can offer hands-on and supported care when needed.
- Ngobese And Associates — Ngobese And Associates is a Financial Services providing firm offering brokeraging, advisory and intermediary services.
Welcome to Soma Capital
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, India, Mexico
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1088
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$8.5M; Pre-Seed $125k–$3.8M; Series A $5M–$35M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $37M in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- modus — Modus - The Context Warehouse for Enterprise AI. Automatically mine, compose, and deliver intent-based context to any AI platform. Backed by Insight Partners.
- Cognition — Cognition develops artificial intelligence systems for software engineering and code automation. The company operates Devin, an AI software engineer that plans, writes, tests, debugs, and deploys code through integrated development workflows. Its platform works with existing development tools and codebases to support engineering tasks acrossapplication development, maintenance, and issue resolution. Cognition also provides tools that assist teams with system design, technical workflows, and collaborative coding processes. The company focuses on AI agents that automate repetitive engineering work while supporting software teams in managing complex development tasks.
Zip is a leading digital financial services company providing fair and seamless solutions that simplify how people pay.
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- Industry: FinTech, Payments, E-Commerce
- Stage:Series C, Seed
- Geography: India, South Africa, Czech Republic
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Series C $22M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 83% lead, 17% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Payflex — Shop smarter with Payflex's buy now pay later services - enjoy interest-free payments using Pay in 2, 3 or 4 options. Apply now and shop online or in-store.
- ZestMoney — ZestMoney is a growing consumer lending FinTech company that uses digital EMI, without the need for a credit card or a credit score. The company believes that being able to pay in EMI should be available to everyone and not only those who hold a credit card or have a credit score. With the use of mobile tech, digital banking, and AI, ZestMoney wasmade accessible to millions of Indian consumers.Founded in 2016 by digital finance and technology professionals, Priya Sharma, Lizzie Chapman, and Ashish Anantharaman, the company is backed by leading global digital financial services investors like PayU, Ribbit Capital, Omidiyar Networks among other.
- Twisto — Twisto is on a mission to challenge the status quo of everyday finances via exceptional customer experience by being at the forefront in delivering cutting edge technology. Pay simply, fast and securely.
FJ Labs is a stage-agnostic investment firm that focuses on marketplaces and consumer facing startups.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Brazil
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1792
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$9.3M; Series A $5M–$30M; Series B $10M–$65M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $5.5M in 2016
Portfolio highlights
- HUNTY — HUNTY is a platform that help people find jobs by connecting them with world class mentors who prepare them for the job search process. And people only pay when they get hired.
- Mainstay — System of intelligence for residential real estate.
- Odyssey — Discover how Odyssey Energy Solutions unblocks bottlenecks in DRE project development. Access diverse financing, procure equipment efficiently, and remotely monitor system performance. Join over 2000 renewable energy companies that use Odyssey to scale. Get in touch today.
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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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 187
- Round size: Seed $100k–$5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2.4M; Series A $250k–$37M
- Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $43M in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Cauridor — Cauridor is a Financial Services company.
- WafR — WafR is a reward-based loyalty startup that allows users to earn phone recharges while shopping at retail shops.
- Nucleon Security — Zero-Trust and ML-based Endpoint Detection and Response Platform #EDR #FDR #EndpointSecurity
Venture investor in high-growth Founders and Teams using technology to solve large and meaningful problems across Africa
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- Industry: Financial Services, E-Commerce, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 53
- Round size: Seed $1M–$8M; Series A $3.6M–$31M; Venture - Series Unknown $2.6M–$17M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $58M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Yakeey — Yakeey is an end-to-end transactional marketplace that radically simplifies the experience of buying, selling and renting real estate.We leverage on data and technology to connect all real estate market players through a state of the art platform, create a chain of trust and powerful network effects and accelerate transactions.Yakeey is builton a community of real estate advisors, YakeeyPRO, to deliver a continuous professional and tailored service at every step of the transaction.
- Orca Fraud — Orca empowers fraud fighters with effective tools to combat fraud
- Aethex — End to end voice agents localized for your market.
A venture DAO supporting the Ethereum Ecosystem
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United States, Singapore, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 150
- Round size: Seed $1M–$8.5M; Series A $4.4M–$30M; Venture - Series Unknown $100k–$24M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Bio.xyz — Biotech's new financial layer.
- Recall Labs — Textile is building new digital experiences by focusing on user privacy, transparency, and decentralization.
- Blackbird — We believe the next great hospitality technology platform should connect restaurants and their customers directly, in meaningful and ongoing ways. Blackbird is founded by a team with a passion for restaurants and a track record of using technology to solve problems.
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Browse database — It's Free!4Di Capital is an independent seed- and early-stage technology venture capital firm based in Cape Town, South Africa.Nurture capital is the term that best describes 4Di Capitalâ€:tm:s purpose and philosophy.We understand that in the early days of any business, support, mentoring and access to networks is just as important as seed capital.Using tried and tested international venture capital best practices, adapted for local use, we believe in entrepreneur-friendly finance without frills, and in working as a team with our investments to achieve their true potential.4Di Capital Early-Stage Technology Fund 1 targets startup investment opportunities with high growth potential at the seed- and early-stages in the mobile, enterprise software and web sectors.We look for founder teams with hungry passion, commitment, domain expertise and deep insights into the large market problems they wish to solve with their technology solutions.
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: South Africa, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 41
- Round size: Seed $677k–$7.5M; Pre-Seed $1.8M–$4M; Series A $2M–$47M
- Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $24M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- BFree — BFree focuses its collection processes on sustainably leading customers out of debt by giving them back control over their finances.
- FireID — FireID is a venture builder that helps makers, with unique skills and passion, build businesses to solve meaningful problems.
- Kuunda — Kuunda provides consulting, liquidity management, data insight tools enabling users to fulfill financial needs through a digital platform.
A leading algorithmic trading firm focused on building liquid and efficient markets in digital assets.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United States, Singapore, Cayman Islands
Investor stats
- Total investments: 91
- Round size: Seed $3M–$18M; Series A $5M–$50M; Venture - Series Unknown $5M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $20M in 2021
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- BULK Trade — One Exchange Infinite Markets
- Pave Bank — The world's first multi-asset and programmable bank
- Nova Markets — Decide what lists next on @HyperliquidX and earn from every listing, forever.
Vunani Limited is a JSE listed, majority black owned and managed financial services company with a proud 15 year track record. We have offices in Cape Town, and Johannesburg in South Africa, and in Harare Zimbabwe. We provide a comprehensive range of financial products and services, such as institutional fund management, private wealth management,corporate advisory and stock broking services to institutions and private clients. Our stock broking division is rated as one of South Africa's top 20 brokerages and offers specialist advice on equities, bonds and cash. The group also has interests in property development and asset management. In 2011 Vunani listed its jointly held property portfolio on the JSE Main Board under Vunani Property Investment fund. We remain the asset manager and a shareholder in the Fund.
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- Industry: Apps, Sports, Medical
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: South Africa, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- RecoMed — Find the best doctors and dentists. Search by location or by speciality, and find the right doctor for you.
- SNAPnSAVE — SNAPnSAVE is a shopping app that gives you cash back when you shop in-store. No paper coupons, no plastic cards and no loyalty points. Just real cash back on items that you buy everyday, leaving you with more to spend on the things you want. Ka ching!
- Pulse — An easy way to share your GoPro videos with friends and your community. Pulse is a social network for sports that connects creators to fans and communities. Trail running, snowboarding, mtb, paragliding, kite surfing
Apis Partners LLP backs growth financial services innovators who create transformative impact in their communities.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
- Stage:Private Equity, Series B, Series C
- Geography: India, Singapore, South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 79
- Round size: Series B $10M–$110M; Series C $45M–$78M; Private Equity $10M–$120M
- Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- BIPO — Streamline your global workforce with BIPO's award-winning HR solutions. HRMS, payroll outsourcing & EOR services across 170+ countries. Get a free demo today!
- Moneybox — Moneybox is the simple way to save, invest, buy your first home, and combine your old pensions - all with one award-winning app. Download now.
- Paymentology — In 2021, SaltPay acquired both Tutuka and Paymentology, resulting in a ‘payments and card processing powerhouse’ with CEO Rowan Brewer at the helm. The merger combined the ultra-advanced, multi-cloud platform of Paymentology with the global reach and experience of Tutuka to revolutionise cloud-based processing globally. Now, Paymentology is thefirst truly global issuer-processor, giving banks and fintechs the technology, team and experience to issue and process cards anywhere in the world, at scale. They currently have payments experts with deep, local market knowledge on the ground in 50 countries, across 14 time zones, guaranteeing 24/7 support. Their superior multi-cloud Platform, offering both shared and dedicated processing instances, vast global presence, and richer real-time data, set them apart as the leader in payments.
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- Industry: FinTech, Software, Retail
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: South Africa, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 23
- Round size: Seed $665k–$5.5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$11M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Rabbit — At Rabbit, we plan to change how the world shops.Retail has witnessed one revolution before with the introduction of E-Commerce that changed how customers order stuff and the second revolution is here! We are proud to be among the pioneers, a handful of global entrepreneurs that are leading and shaping the retail's second revolutionWe arefunded by amazing VCs that are helping us build the next big thingYou feel it is vague? that's intended as we are still building in stealth. but trust us, it is COOL!
- Beeline Learn — Enjoy Learning Effectively. Beta version is now LIVE!
We are an early-stage Venture Capital Firm investing in outstanding teams with convincing products and high growth potential.
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- 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.
Alitheia IDF is investing in dynamic and growing businesses throughout Africa. By investing in teams that recognize the importance of gender diversity the firm generates superior financial returns and impact.
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- Industry: Logistics, E-Commerce, Retail
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: South Africa, Nigeria, Ghana
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Seed $3M–$13M; Series A $3M–$11M
- Lead/follow: 80% lead, 20% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $100M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Lupiya — Lupiya is an online marketplace for microloans. It is a branch-less, innovative digital microfinance platform that leverages technology to make the process of borrowing simpler and easier so that people and businesses located across the country even in rural, remote areas can access financial services.
- 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.
- Alma Clinics —
Built by founders, for founders. Garage Capital helps best-in-class companies jump from garage to growth.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Canada, United States, South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 106
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Uvaro — Remix your favorite resources and hacks with your best company content in a personalized hub that moves as fast as your team does
- Devyce — The easiest way to get a second UK mobile phone number. Get a new number or bring your own and port it for free. For teams and individuals.
- Dominion Dynamics — Dominion Dynamics is an advanced technology firm building a dual-use, AI-driven Arctic sensing network designed for both military and civilian applications, focusing on seamless multi-domain coordination and persistent regional surveillance.
Nedbank is a one of the largest banks in South Africa.
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- 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.
Voskhod Venture Capital is an investment firm.
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- 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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