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Top 50 Marketplace VC Funds & Investors in South Africa (July 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
TLcom Capital Partners
VC Fund
7 Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Seed Software, Mobile, Information Technology $1.9M–$15M
Launch Africa
VC Fund
4 Nigeria, South Africa, United States Seed, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology $200k–$4M
E4EAfrica
VC Fund
4 South Africa, The Netherlands, France Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Logistics, Internet, Supply Chain Management $1M–$7.5M
Kalon Venture Partners
VC Fund
3 South Africa, Luxembourg, United States Seed, Series A Artificial Intelligence, Apps, Internet $570k–$11M
Allan Gray
VC Fund
3 South Africa, United States Seed, Series A, Series C FinTech, Payments, Mobile Payments $456k–$100M
UW Ventures
VC Fund
3 South Africa Seed, Series A FinTech, Payments, Mobile Payments $456k–$31M
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
Vumela Fund
VC Fund
3 South Africa, Brazil Seed, Debt Financing Education, Software, E-Commerce $600k–$1.4M
CRE Venture Capital
VC Fund
3 Nigeria, South Africa, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, Software, FinTech $250k–$25M
Knife Capital
VC Fund
3 South Africa, United States, Kenya Series A, Seed Software, Education, Manufacturing $2M–$30M
Oui Capital
VC Fund
3 Nigeria, United States, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed Transportation, Financial Services, Information Technology $40k–$4.9M
LoftyInc Capital
VC Fund
2 United States, Nigeria, Egypt Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Software $100k–$37M
FJ Labs
VC Fund
2 United States, Brazil, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services $1.4M–$65M
Apis Partners
VC Fund
2 India, Singapore, South Africa Private Equity, Series B Financial Services, FinTech, Payments $5.4M–$175M
Invenfin
VC Fund
2 South Africa, Chad, Egypt Seed, Series B Food and Beverage, Information Technology, FinTech $2.6M–$31M
Hustle Fund
VC Fund
2 United States, Singapore, Canada Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, FinTech, Financial Services $100k–$25M
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, Pre-Seed Financial Services, Finance, E-Commerce $100k–$31M
Alumni Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, United Kingdom, Canada Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $1.5M–$79M
Soma Capital
VC Fund
2 United States, India, Mexico Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech $400k–$35M
Newtown Partners
VC Fund
2 South Africa, United States, Ghana Seed, Series A Logistics, Health Care, Transportation $1M–$27M
Future Africa
VC Fund
2 Nigeria, United States, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology $100k–$20M
4Di Capital
VC Fund
2 South Africa, United States, Kenya Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Financial Services, Mobile $527k–$47M
Next Chymia Consulting
VC Fund
1 Kenya, Ghana, Romania Seed FinTech, Software, Blockchain $580k–$2M
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 Kenya, South Africa, United Kingdom Seed, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown Transportation, FinTech, Financial Services $1.2M–$3M
Icon Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, Israel, Canada Series C, Series B, Series D Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software $6M–$90M
Bantam Group
VC Fund
1 United States, Canada, Israel Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Internet, Health Care $120k–$20M
Quona Capital
VC Fund
1 India, Brazil, Indonesia Series A, Seed, Series B Financial Services, FinTech, Finance $3M–$87M
Investec
VC Fund
1 United States, United Kingdom, South Africa Debt Financing, Series A Software, Financial Services, Energy $1.1M–$550M
British International Investment
VC Fund
1 India, Kenya, Nigeria Debt Financing, Series B Financial Services, Banking, Finance $9M–$130M
Velocity Capital Fintech Ventures
VC Fund
1 The Netherlands, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Series B, Seed FinTech, Financial Services, Payments $1.1M–$25M
54 Collective
VC Fund
1 Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa Seed, Pre-Seed Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech $40k–$4M
Five35 Ventures
VC Fund
1 South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria Seed, Pre-Seed Information Technology, Wellness, Health Care $100k–$1.7M
Globivest
VC Fund
1 United States, United Kingdom, France Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed FinTech, Biotechnology, Software $1M–$16M
Strattech Partners
VC Fund
1 United States, South Africa Seed, Series C Software, E-Commerce, B2B
Ignition Partners
VC Fund
1 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Series B, Series A, Series C Software, Enterprise Software, SaaS $1.8M–$54M
J.P. Morgan Asset Management
VC Fund
1 United States, India, Canada Private Equity, Series B Financial Services, Software, FinTech $19M–$200M
VNV Global
VC Fund
1 United Kingdom, Sweden, Russian Federation Series B, Series A Health Care, E-Commerce, Marketplace $1M–$85M
Automattic
VC Fund
1 United States, United Kingdom, India Seed, Series A, Corporate Round Software, SaaS, Information Technology $777k–$30M
Crossfin Technology
VC Fund
1 South Africa, United States, Russian Federation Series A, Private Equity Payments, Financial Services, Software
Flori Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, United Kingdom, India Seed, Pre-Seed Blockchain, FinTech, Cryptocurrency
Naspers Foundry
VC Fund
1 South Africa, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Financial Services, Farming, Software $854k–$15M
Alitheia IDF
VC Fund
1 South Africa, Nigeria, Ghana Series A, Seed Logistics, E-Commerce, Retail $3M–$13M
Zip
VC Fund
1 India, South Africa, Czech Republic Series C, Corporate Round FinTech, Payments, Mobile Payments $20M–$50M
BaseCamp Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, Canada, South Africa Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Financial Services $1.1M–$12M
Presight Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, United Kingdom, Germany Seed, Series A, Series B Biotechnology, Health Care, Financial Services
Garage Capital
VC Fund
1 Canada, United States, South Africa Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
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TLcom Capital Partners
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 7 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: 68
  • Round size: Seed $1.9M–$8.5M; Series A $3.8M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $150M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Autochek — Welcome To Autochek Group's Homepage. Read About The Company's Vision And Mission. Select A Country And Apply For Car Loans
  • 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.
  • Ilara Health — Ilara Health helps primary care clinics across Africa deliver better care.
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Launch Africa
VC Fund · Ebène, Plaines Wilhems, Mauritius · 4 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: 178
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$4M; Pre-Seed $200k–$1.8M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $36M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Yamify — Yamify is an AI platform where intelligent agents reliably run mission-critical business workflows in Africa. Founded by Silicon Valley engineers, our platform automates complex operations by integrating humans, systems, and infrastructure reliably, even under connectivity, latency, and compliance challenges. Starting with on-prem deployments,Yamify is evolving into a full AI automation infrastructure for African enterprises.
  • Shopstar — A place for makers and creators to start, manage and grow successful online stores. Our built-in design, payment and shipping methods provide you with an all in one solution. Get started with a free 14-day trial.
  • Kashat — The region's first nano financial service provider, offering small productive loans, and serving as the entry point to financial inclusion for the un- and underbanked population in Egypt.
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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: 25
  • Round size: Seed $2.7M–$7.5M; Pre-Seed $1M–$2M; Series A $1M–$4.6M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • CMO
  • 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: Artificial Intelligence, Apps, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Africa, Luxembourg, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Seed $570k–$4.6M; Series A $2M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 63% lead, 37% 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 — 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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Allan Gray
VC Fund · Alfred, New York, United States · 3 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: 14
  • Round size: Seed $456k–$4M; Series A $1.6M–$31M; Series C $70M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% 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.
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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, Mobile Payments
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Round size: Seed $456k–$2.5M; Series A $1.6M–$31M
  • Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% 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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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: 5
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$1.3M
  • 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.
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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: 192
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$14M; Series A $5.2M–$33M; Series B $8.3M–$65M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Ringkas — Ajukan KPR mu di Platform Ringkas via Digital dan Online, Telah Bekerjasama dengan 25+ Bank Partner
  • Akua — Akua is an acquiring-as-a-service platform that offers scalable, secure, and efficient payment processing solutions for Latin America. Our platform leverages advanced technology to provide superior transaction processing, fraud prevention, and comprehensive regional integration. Problem Latin America's acquiring card payment markets aredominated by a few incumbents using outdated systems, hindering the adoption of new payment technologies and increasing fraud risks.
  • Stream — Stream is a company that helps make payments simpler, faster, and reliable.
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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: 23
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$910k; Debt Financing $854k–$1.4M
  • Lead/follow: 83% lead, 17% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $14M 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.
  • Mia Healthcare
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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: 60
  • Round size: Seed $300k–$5M; Pre-Seed $250k–$3.3M; Series A $1.1M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow

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.
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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

  • wamly — Wamly is the recruitment software, It has given us time back to focus on transformational work.
  • 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.
  • 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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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: Nigeria, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 29
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$4.9M; Pre-Seed $40k–$1.3M
  • Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Cauridor — Cauridor is a Financial Services company.
  • Maad — Maad is Francophone Africa's fastest-growing B2B marketplace, based in Dakar, Senegal. Our tech-driven solution allows retailers to order products from our one-stop shop and benefit from working capital loans
  • Herconomy (Ex AGS Tribe) — Herconomy is a platform that allows women build their finances, capacity, collaborate and access opportunities.
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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.
  • Cauridor — Cauridor is a Financial Services company.
  • 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.
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FJ Labs
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 2 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: 1119
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$10M; Series A $4.5M–$30M; Series B $11M–$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.
  • Lastro — Lastro is an all-in-one real estate management platform with integrated payments that simplifies managing rental properties. It helps landlords streamline workflows by organizing lease contract information in a cloud-based system, automating rent charging processes, monitoring tenant obligations and generating customized reports.
  • Revelo — Scale your development team with the top 1% of 1,000,000+ software engineers in Latin America. Get matched with senior remote developers who have strong technical and English-speaking skills & hire them without the overhead. We handle payroll, taxes, and HR. Flat monthly rate.
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Apis Partners
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 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: 68
  • 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

  • BIPO — BIPO provides cloud and mobile-based human resource management solutions.
  • 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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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: 16
  • Round size: Seed $2.6M–$3M; Series B $4.3M–$31M
  • Lead/follow: 75% lead, 25% 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: 420
  • Round size: Seed $997k–$6.4M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2.5M; Series A $4M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Cloudoor — Cloudoor deploys and delivers your code to your customers without breaking things.
  • BON Credit
  • EquityList — Equity management with online cap table management and employee stock option programs (ESOP) administration. Available free for Indian startups
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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: 41
  • Round size: Seed $25k–$3.3M; Pre-Seed $200k–$2.1M; Series A $750k–$8M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% 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.
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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, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 53
  • Round size: Seed $617k–$8M; Pre-Seed $100k–$4M; Series A $3.6M–$31M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Djamo — Djamo is a Provider of financial applications to allow customers to use their cards with zero fees in a wide range of services.
  • 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.
  • 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: 1791
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$10M; Series A $5.5M–$37M; Series B $11M–$79M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • NextDroid — NextDroid - We're Doing Something Different
  • 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!
  • ARRIS — Using next-gen advanced manufacturing technologies, ARRIS Composites produces smarter, lighter, stronger, and more sustainable products at scale.
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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: 700
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$8.6M; Pre-Seed $400k–$4M; Series A $8M–$35M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% 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.
  • Mudafy — Mudafy is a tech-enabled real estate broker for LatAm.
  • Gecko Robotics — To collect and make useful physical data in order to protect civilization's most critical infrastructure
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Newtown Partners
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 2 investments in South Africa Marketplace startups

Newtown Partners is a venture capital firm that actively invests in emerging, disruptive technology startups.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Logistics, Health Care, Transportation
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Africa, United States, Ghana

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 27
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$5.5M; Series A $3.6M–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% 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
  • Fulfillment Bridge
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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: 89
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$4M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3.7M; Series A $7M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • STEM Cafe — STEMCafe by RVRB is a fun out of school learning centre for kids
  • Juicyway — Juice is a developer of a payment network platform for cross-border business payments for businesses and individuals. It facilitates financial transactions between parties regardless of location to allow enterprises to participate in international trade and the exchange of goods and services.
  • 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.
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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 $527k–$7.3M; Pre-Seed $1.8M–$4M; Series A $2M–$47M
  • Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • VALR — Buy and sell bitcoin, ethereum & more | Pay anyone for free with VALR Pay
  • 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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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: 8
  • Round size: Seed $580k–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Qwili — Qwili makes smartphones with a voice-guided, local language onboarding experience for new users.
  • HAIRCAMP — Hair Camp provides learning services for beauticians. live classes, recorded curriculum, and online salons provide a platform for hairdressers to learn the techniques from industry-leading instructors. For inquiries, email, telephone numbers, and addresses are available on their website.
  • 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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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: 78
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$4.5M; Pre-Seed $300k–$3.4M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • TIBU Health — TIBU Health is a disruptive HealthTech logistics company that provides high-quality healthcare services.
  • Onboard — Onboard helps hardware companies transform their text manuals to 3D, intelligent manuals with instant customer support capabilities.
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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: Transportation, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Kenya, South Africa, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 17
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$3M
  • Lead/follow: 71% lead, 29% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Paga — Paga is the premier financial services infrastructure for Africa. Infrastructure for fiat, stablecoins, crypto, hosted accounts, payments orchestration and biller aggregation.
  • 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.
  • FlexClub México
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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

  • 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.
  • Area 1 Security — Email Security from Cloudflare protects inboxes against phishing, malware, and ransomware. Learn more about our advanced cloud-based email security.
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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, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 108
  • 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
  • LOOKOUT — Enhance your boating safety with Lookout Camera, the ultimate AI marine vision system. Spot hazards, navigate with augmented reality, and gain situational awareness like never before.
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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: 192
  • Round size: Seed $3M–$10M; Series A $3.6M–$25M; Series B $8M–$87M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $332M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • AllLife — AllLife is the only South African insurer of people living with HIV/AIDs. Sadly, prior to AllLife, many HIV patients would be told their lives were un-insurable. Now AllLife tells that they can lead long, productive lives – so much so that they’ll insure it.
  • Franq — Hyperlocal and phygital marketplace that connects financial products to retail & SME customers with the support of a baking agent.
  • Twinco Capital — Twinco Capital provides suppliers, both large and small, with access to affordable funding and helps buyers build a competitive and socially responsible supply chain. Twinco Capital is the first company to have successfully launched this type of supply chain financing, offering to finance as early as the time of issuance of purchase orders.purchase.
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Investec
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in South Africa Marketplace startups

Welcome to Investec. Find out more about us, our businesses, sponsorships and career opportunities.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Financial Services, Energy
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 88
  • Round size: Series A $1.1M–$17M; Debt Financing $72M–$550M
  • Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Splend — Change the way you own your rideshare vehicle for good with Splend. All-Inclusive vehicle packages for your Uber journey, in one easy weekly payment.
  • Openpay — Openpay is a cutting-edge in-store, in-home and online payments solution that features a buy now and pay later service, interest-free. Openpay allows customers to make in-store and online purchases, and effectively split the payment for these purchases into multiple repayments over time. The company generates revenue from fees charged to merchantsand customers in exchange for the use of its payments platform.Openpay is available across Australia and New Zealand in many industries including retail, medical, automotive, home improvement, and more.
  • Master Plastics — Discover innovative, sustainable packaging solutions for protecting and preserving agricultural and food products from farm to table with Master Plastics.
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British International Investment
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in South Africa Marketplace startups

British International Investment is the UK's development finance institution. We've been at the forefront of supporting companies in developing countries for more than 70 years.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Banking, Finance
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Series B
  • Geography: India, Kenya, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 152
  • Round size: Series B $14M–$50M; Debt Financing $9M–$130M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Scatec ASA — Scatec is a leading renewable energy solutions provider, accelerating access to reliable and affordable clean energy in emerging markets.
  • Wave Mobile Money — Wave Mobile Money provides an app-based financial solution to save, transfer, and borrow money. Wave Mobile Money is on a mission to make Africa the first cashless continent. On a continent where less than 10% of the population has a bank account, Wave is building the first modern financial network — no account fees, instantly available, andaccepted everywhere! It is building life-changing financial infrastructure. When mobile money succeeded in Kenya, it lifted about a million people out of poverty. And yet, over 10 years later, most Africans still lack access to affordable ways to save, transfer or borrow the money they need to build businesses or provide for their families. Wave is solving this problem by using technology to build a radically inclusive and extremely affordable financial network.
  • CLR Facility Services — CLR is a leading Integrated Facility Management (IFM) company with a PAN India presence, providing comprehensive solutions including IFM, Technical Services, Business Support, Aviation Services, Production Support, and Floor Care Services.
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Velocity Capital Fintech Ventures
VC Fund · Driebergen, Utrecht, The Netherlands · 1 investments in South Africa Marketplace startups

We are a venture capital firm that invests in fintech companies with unstoppable founders. We provide early stage (no seed) capital funding.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: The Netherlands, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 27
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$1.2M; Series A $3M–$16M; Series B $5.5M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 52% lead, 48% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $123M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Yoco — Save time, money and guesswork. Yoco helps 200,000+ SA businesses run point of sale, take payments and access flexible business funding from one account.
  • Gotrade — Buy U.S. stocks with Gotrade! Investing is now easier, safer, and hassle-free. Access stocks like Google, Apple, Netflix, and more.
  • The Social Handshake — With Payroll Giving you make it easier and more financially attractive for your employees to give to charity. Directly from their salary.
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54 Collective
VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in South Africa Marketplace startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 108
  • Round size: Seed $40k–$4M; Pre-Seed $40k–$1.3M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Yeah — Yeah is a financial technology company that offers payment processing services while building a credit profile for the banked and unbanked.
  • REasy — Top up locally, pay suppliers globally, and manage international shipments with REasy. Fast, secure, and designed for African businesses expanding worldwide.
  • Konnect — Konnect provides a cross borders payment solution intended to simplify complex financial flows allowing companies of any scale and size to send and receive payments in a practical, secure, and low-cost way.
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Five35 Ventures
VC Fund · Gauteng, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in South Africa Marketplace startups

Five35 Ventures is committed to unlocking capital and growth opportunities for female-focused early-stage African technology startups.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Wellness, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$1.6M; Pre-Seed $1M–$1.7M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Susu — Susu is a dynamic and innovative company that offers a wide range of health services for families in the African diaspora. Susu provides a complete offer on Preventive care, Medical treatments, Management of chronic diseases, and Authentic drugs.
  • Kasha — Health products and household goods you want, delivered to where you are.
  • Zuri Health — .ts-banner-image-1:hover .overlay{background-color:#ffffff} .ts-banner-image-2:hover .overlay{background-color:#ffffff} Popular categories Pharmacy Doctor at home Covid Labs & Diagonstics Wellness Telemed Show all Our Services PharmacyBuy both OTC and prescription medication and have it delivered to your doorstepLabs & DiagnosticsBook labs and Diagnostic tests and get your samples collected from the comfort of your home, hotel
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Globivest
VC Fund · Beirut, Beyrouth, Lebanon · 1 investments in South Africa Marketplace startups

Globivest is a private investment firm with a diversified portfolio of assets. Our primary focus is on innovative and scalable early stage start-ups. We seek to establish long-term relationships with visionary entrepreneurs while adding clear value in strategy and execution.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Biotechnology, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 51
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$5M; Pre-Seed $2M–$3M; Series A $1M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Qureos — Level up with the best mentors and apprenticeships from businesses.
  • Goodvest — Goodvest is an investment app (life insurance) that builds a better world, in line with your values and promoting performance.
  • BioSapien — BioSapien is a pre-clinical biotech company developing novel biodegradable implantable products that deliver active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) for oncology indications with reduced systemic side effects. The applications for this technology are currently under investigation for pancreatic cancer and lung cancer. The intended pipeline ofindications is expected to expand into other cancers such as colorectal, breast, and stomach cancers. BioSapien's 3D-printed MediChip delivers FDA-approved toxic high-dose systemic therapies in a localized slow-release biodegradable mesh which is able to target tissues while improving patients' quality of care and life.
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Strattech Partners
VC Fund · Devon, Pennsylvania, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Marketplace startups

Strattech Partners, located in Devon, PA, is a consulting and venture capital firm that focuses on the development of growth stage companies. We offer CEO and CFO consulting services, operational consulting, and general financial consulting services, including treasury, general and strategic management services. Past engagements have includedacting CFO assignments as well as interim Controller/VP Finance assignments, turnaround and restructuring assistance, and other positions related to implementing change within organizations. Venture Capital investments are done through Strattech Partners I, LP and through our affiliate Zon Capital Partners, an SBIC venture fund.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, B2B
  • Stage:Seed, Series C
  • Geography: United States, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Qwili — Qwili makes smartphones with a voice-guided, local language onboarding experience for new users.
  • EcomXML — EcomXML is a leading e-commerce solution provider for business-to-business (B2B) enterprise integration. EcomXML provides companies with enterprise integration solutions to link their buyers, suppliers and e-commerce portals together to streamline their e-business in real-time through the Internet. EcomXML utilizes open XML technology to achieveboth inter-company and intra-company integration regardless their existing technology infrastructure.
  • StarCite — StarCite's online business-to-business software and services allow corporations to purchase and manage products and services related to their company meetings and events.
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Ignition Partners
VC Fund · Los Altos, California, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Marketplace startups

Ignition is a venture capital firm dedicated to helping the best entrepreneurs seize opportunity. With over $2B under management, Ignition invests in emerging and future leaders in enterprise software.Ignition brings together an unparalleled combination of domain focus, technical expertise, and global operational experience. Ignition'spartners are proven business leaders who have built some of the world's most successful businesses of the last two decades, including Microsoft Windows and Office, McCaw Cellular Communications, AT&T Wireless and Starbucks.Ignition helps entrepreneurs by turning their early idea into a business, to hiring the right team, providing the right industry and functional insight and connections, to growing the business strategically, globally, financially, to realizing the best ultimate outcome, Ignition is ready to go the distance.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Enterprise Software, SaaS
  • Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 215
  • Round size: Series A $1.8M–$13M; Series B $6M–$25M; Series C $8.5M–$54M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $200M in 2015

Portfolio highlights

  • Swype — Swype creates text input technology for screens. The patented interface enables users to create words with one continuous finger motion across an on-screen keyboard. This approach provides a faster and easier way to write. Swype delivers single-tap, multi-tap, predictive and "swype" motions for both stylus and finger based input.In addition, the application is designed to work across a variety of devices such as phones, tablets, game consoles, kiosks, televisions, virtual screens and more.Seattle based Swype Inc. was founded by Cliff Kushler and Randy Marsden in 2003. Cliff is the co-inventor of T9, the standard predictive text-entry solution used on almost 3 billion mobile phones worldwide. Randy is the developer of the onscreen keyboard included in Windows, with an installed base of over 500 million units
  • PaxVax — PaxVax is a vaccine start-up company developing candidate oral vaccines for influenza, and key infectious diseases. It has developed a proprietary oral vaccine technology based on a common virus called adenovirus. The technology removes the delivery hurdles of traditional injectable vaccines, namely the need for cold storage, needles, andadministration by medical personnel.PaxVax was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Gaithersburg, Maryland.
  • Unidesk — Citrix DaaS modernizes IT with a secure, easy-to-manage cloud solution to quickly deliver apps or desktops from any cloud or datacenter worldwide.
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J.P. Morgan Asset Management
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Marketplace startups

J.P. Morgan Asset Management is a leading asset manager for individuals, advisors and institutions. Their investment professionals are located around the world, providing strategies that span the full spectrum of asset classes.As one of the largest asset and wealth managers in the world, with assets under management of $1.7 trillion (as ofDecember 31, 2014), they provide global market insights and a range of investment capabilities that few other firms can match.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Software, FinTech
  • Stage:Private Equity, Series B
  • Geography: United States, India, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 45
  • Round size: Series B $19M–$105M; Private Equity $50M–$200M
  • Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.1B in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • MioTech — MioTech is an artificial intelligence platform that empowers investment managers to better serve their clients in a world of complex data. By integrating and analyzing data from all types of sources, MioTech streamlines the entire investment process, creating an ultimate data-driven investing experience. MioTech has offices in Shanghai and HongKong.MioTech is backed by Horizons Ventures, ZhenFund, and prestigious individual investors around the world.
  • Fruitist — Inspiring enjoyable and nutritious snacking with premium berries and cherries.
  • Catalyst Investment Partners — Catalyst Investment Partners is a vertically integrated real estate investment firm specializing in the acquisition, management, and leasing of industrial outdoor storage properties.
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VNV Global
VC Fund · Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden · 1 investments in South Africa Marketplace startups

VNV Global is an investment company with the business concept of using experience, expertise and a widespread network to identify and invest in assets with considerable potential for value appreciation. The company has a special focus on online marketplaces and businesses with strong network effects. The common shares of VNV Global are listed onNasdaq Stockholm, Mid Cap segment, with the ticker VNV.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, E-Commerce, Marketplace
  • Stage:Series B, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Sweden, Russian Federation

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 95
  • Round size: Series A $1M–$30M; Series B $5M–$85M
  • Lead/follow: 52% lead, 48% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • YUV — The world's first smart hair colour lab for salons and freelancers.
  • All3 — All3 uses AI and robotics to design, manufacture, and assemble buildings through a unified system. The company provides an end-to-end system that combines AI-driven architectural design, robotic off-site manufacturing, and automated on-site assembly for residential and commercial structures. Its platform enables customized building components to beproduced and assembled with software-controlled workflows, reducing reliance on manual processes and fragmented supply chains.All3 also offers vertically integrated services that cover planning, engineering, fabrication, and construction delivery, allowing developers to manage projects within a single system. Its technology supports complex building designs and constrained urban sites by adapting production and assembly processes to specific project requirements.
  • Flo Health — Track your periods, ovulation, and pregnancy with the Flo app. Log your cycle symptoms so you can understand your body better.
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Automattic
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Marketplace startups

Making the web a better place

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Corporate Round
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 24
  • Round size: Seed $777k–$9M; Series A $1M–$30M; Corporate Round $4.6M–$4.6M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Openvibe — Interact With Anyone On The Open Internet. All Decentralised Social Networks, Single Timeline.
  • Titan — Titan email is specially designed to bring businesses closer to their customers. Trusted by over 100,000+ businesses worldwide.
  • Element — They provide services for custom development, prioritised roadmap development, support contracts and commercial products for Matrix. The company enables governments, businesses and individuals to run their own secure communication infrastructure while interconnecting via the global Matrix network. New Vector, a European startup founded in 2017 bythe creators of an open, decentralized communications standard called Matrix to drive adoption and grow an ecosystem around an alternative messaging protocol for instant messaging and VoIP apps.The company was founded in 2017 and is based in London.
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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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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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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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Alitheia IDF
VC Fund · Moka, Moka, Mauritius · 1 investments in South Africa Marketplace startups

Alitheia IDF is investing in dynamic and growing businesses throughout Africa. By investing in teams that recognize the importance of gender diversity the firm generates superior financial returns and impact.

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Investment focus

  • 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
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Zip
VC Fund · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · 1 investments in South Africa Marketplace startups

Zip is an online payments technology provider that offers consumers credit options for online shopping. The company was founded in 2013 by Larry Diamond, Niamh Mc Enaney, and Peter Gray and is headquartered in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Payments, Mobile Payments
  • Stage:Series C, Corporate Round
  • Geography: India, South Africa, Czech Republic

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Series C $20M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 80% lead, 20% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Payflex — Payflex is an online payment product that enables shoppers to shop now and pay in 4 equal installments.
  • ZestMoney — Enjoy the convenience of shopping for electronic gadgets, fashion, travel, education on EMI without credit card. No debit card or credit score required!
  • 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.
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BaseCamp Ventures
VC Fund · Moorestown, New Jersey, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Marketplace startups

BaseCamp Ventures is a venture capital firm specializing in investments in incubation and early to middle stage companies. The firm primarily invests in information technology, software development with a focus on enterprise applications, e-commerce software, applied cloud technology, cloud and mobile infrastructure, new technology and softwareproducts. It typically invests in companies located in the East Coast and companies with headquarters located in Mid Atlantic region of the United States. The firm seeks to invest $0.25 million. It typically invests in companies having projected revenue of at least $25 million in five years. It prefers to take the lead on investments between $2 million and $5 million in the portfolio companies. BaseCamp Ventures was founded in 2000 and is based in Moorestown, New Jersey.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Seed $2.7M–$12M; Pre-Seed $1.1M–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Zenapse — Zenapse is a internet publishing industry.
  • 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.
  • New School Foods — Salmon, made from plants. Clean label with ALL the Omega-3s, NONE of the mercury. Made in Canada.
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Presight Capital
VC Fund · Los Angeles, California, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Marketplace startups

A simple static landing page for Presight Capital.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 111
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Divibank — Divibank is a financing platform offering businesses access to growth capital.
  • Tern Group — Tern Group is an AI Platform to hire and relocate top healthcare talents globally, faster and cheaper. TERN is a full-stack solution to source and relocate top-tier medical and engineering talent from India, North Africa, South Africa, and Central Asia and the approach ensures a seamless, ethical, and transparent migration process, drasticallycutting complexity and shaving costs for healthcare systems.
  • General Fusion — General Fusion is developing fusion energy: a clean, safe, abundant and on-demand approach to generating electricity.
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Garage Capital
VC Fund · Waterloo, Ontario, Canada · 1 investments in South Africa Marketplace startups

Built by founders, for founders. Garage Capital helps best-in-class companies jump from garage to growth.

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Marketplace VC funding in South Africa at a glance

Stats across 146 deals from 159 investors.

159
investors
in South Africa Marketplace startups
146
deals
in South Africa Marketplace startups
$1M
median round
in South Africa Marketplace startups
54%
lead investors
lead at least one round
18%
Seed
most common funding stage

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