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Top 50 Marketplace VC (Venture Capital) Funds in South Africa in January 2025

Last updated: Jan 2025 A list of 50 VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Marketplace startups based in South africa. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Marketplace companies from South africa. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Marketplace VC (Venture Capital) Funds in South Africa in January 2025

Investor	Marketplace South Africa investments
E4EAfrica	4
Launch Africa	4
UW Ventures	3
Kalon Venture Partners	3
Oui Capital	3
CRE Venture Capital	3
Vumela Fund	3
AECI	2
Hustle Fund	2
4Di Capital	2
TLcom Capital Partners	2
Future Africa	2
Enza Capital	2
Alumni Ventures	2
Allan Gray	2
Savannah Fund	2
LoftyInc Capital	2
Knife Capital	2
Soma Capital	2
Automattic	1
Globivest	1
Alitheia IDF	1
Icon Ventures	1
Basecamp Fund	1
BaseCamp Ventures	1
British International Investment	1
AgFunder	1
Strattech Partners	1
Velocity Capital Fintech Ventures	1
Five35 Ventures	1
J.P. Morgan Asset Management	1
Apis Partners	1
Untapped Global	1
HAVAÍC	1
Invenfin	1
Naspers Foundry	1
Flori Ventures	1
Kepple Africa Ventures	1
AAIC Holdings	1
Ignition Partners	1
Newtown Partners	1
Zip	1
Serra de Estrela Investments Ltd	1
PUSH Ventures	1
Quona Capital	1
Bantam Group	1
Appsolute Ventures	1
Nurture Invest	1
Growth Grid Venture Capital Partners	1
ASISA Enterprise Development Fund	1

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E4E (“Entrepreneurs for Entrepreneurs”) specializes in supporting early stage ventures in South Africa from very early stage (pre-series A) to scale up.E4E focus on smart entrepreneurs and business ideas that are great businesses and make a significant contribution to a better (South) Africa.

Investment focus

Logistics, Internet, Supply Chain Management
Seed, Series A, Series B
South Africa, France, The Netherlands

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.
TUNL — TUNL | Unlocking Exports
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.

Launch Africa is a fund with the primary objective of unlocking the capital constraints of Seed Stage tech startups.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Bosso — Bosso projects and realizes automation and robotic solutions for the growth of your business.
Kredete — Kredete is a digital lending platform that provides free credit scores and reports to underserved individuals and small businesses in Africa to help them gain access to formal credit and improve their financial health. The platform connects borrowers with lenders and enterprises in Africa and is designed to simplify the lending process and makecredit more accessible by leveraging cutting-edge technology. Kredete offers a user-friendly platform that guides borrowers, lenders, and enterprises through the process of offering loans, making it simple for them to provide the right loan products for their needs.One of the key features of Kredete is its instant approval process, which is made possible by advanced algorithms and artificial intelligence. The platform offers flexible lending options by partnering with a variety of lenders and enterprises, enabling borrowers to choose the best option for their specific situation.Kredete is committed to protecting the privacy and security of all users' personal and financial information. It uses robust encryption and security measures to ensure that sensitive data remains safe and secure. Additionally, the platform maintains transparency throughout the loan process, providing lenders, enterprises, and borrowers with clear information about loan terms and associated fees.Kredete believes in empowering its users with the knowledge and resources they need to make informed financial decisions. To this end, the platform offers financial education, tools, and resources to help users better understand and manage their finances. Kredete also works closely with businesses and institutions to provide tailored financial solutions for their unique needs.Through its focus on accessibility, convenience, and transparency, Kredete is transforming the lending landscape in Africa and helping to bridge the financial inclusion gap. The platform remains dedicated to its mission of empowering lenders, enterprises, and borrowers across the continent to access the funds they need to achieve their financial goals.
Wahu Mobility — Wahu Mobility is an open e-mobility platform that connects drivers, passengers, and goods in a simple, inclusive, transparent, nationwide, and multimodal manner.

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.

Investment focus

FinTech, Payments, Insurance
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
South Africa

Portfolio highlights

Pargo — Pargo is a convenient logistics solution that lets you collect and return parcels at Pargo parcel points throughout the country when it suits you best.
Synatic — Synatic is a unified platform that enables your business to integrate and automate systems and services without sacrificing enterprise features and security.
Peach Payments — Get Peach as your Payment Gateway and Grow your ecommerce. Process online payments with Visa, Mastercard, Debit Orders, EFT payments, and subscriptions. Plugins for Wix, Shopify, WooCommerce.

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Investment focus

Apps, Mobile Apps, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
South Africa, Luxembourg, United States

Portfolio highlights

Talk360 — Talk360 is an easy-to-use calling app that helps people make affordable international calls to any mobile and landline number. They believe that reliable communication and digital services must be affordable and accessible to everyone, regardless of someone's background. Especially people in emerging countries in Africa, who often need theseservices the most, do not always have the necessary banking possibilities. To bridge this distance, Talk360 will launch the world's first single checkout platform for Africa. This platform will combine all locally available payment methods and currencies across Africa, together with over 1.25 million cash points of sales, and will eventually be available to other companies as well. This means that 500 million Africans will be able to purchase digital services they never had access to before.
Sendmarc — Stop cyber criminals from sending emails using your domain and protect your customers, suppliers and employees from cyber attacks with DMARC Security.
visionAI — visionAI augments existing CCTV cameras with computer vision AI to drive improved operational outcomes in manufacturing.

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

Investment focus

Transportation, Information Technology, B2B
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
Kenya, Nigeria, United States

Portfolio highlights

Duplo — We enable businesses across Africa to simplify their payment flows.
Ndovu — Secure your investments in both local and global financial markets on ndovu - a secure, affordable, hassle-free online investment platform in Africa designed to work your money
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

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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
South Africa, Nigeria, United States

Portfolio highlights

Sabi Am — Sabi is Africa's largest B2B company, & we are digitising informal trade via our platform. We access markets hard to reach and ensure ease of distribution, & are the No 1 FCMG supplier in Africa.
Sukhiba — Sukhiba is a decentralized community-based commerce platform.
Stitch — One API integration for enterprise online payments across South Africa. Accept Pay by bank, debit + credit card, cash, manual EFT, debit order and crypto.

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.

Investment focus

Education, Software, Primary Education
Funding Round, Seed, Debt Financing
South Africa, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Rentoza — We champion giving you access, affordability and flexibility to explore tech on your own terms
Kombo King — Kombo King Ventless Fryer Tech removes the need for plumes of steam & the constant eye of an inconsistent employee to Revolutionize & solve the frying industry!
Kusini Water — Kusini Water builds water treatment systems from nanotechnology and macadamia nut shells.

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.

Investment focus

AgTech, Farming, Chemical
Seed, Post-IPO Equity
South Africa, United States

Portfolio highlights

KHULA! — Khula is a business which creates technology solutions for agriculture in Africa. Our main focus is on creating an inclusive mobile marketplace which will drive the success and growth of farmers, disrupting the wholesale food market. This marketplace optimizes logistics by using geolocation and by offering efficient and cost-effective logisticsservices for emerging farmers.
Origin Materials — Origin is a new kind of chemical company, focused on the future of materials science.

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

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Singapore, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Pi-xcels — Eco-friendly NFC digital receipts solution for actionable shopper data and enhanced customer journeys. No App, Just Tap. With one-tap convenience, Pi-xcels unlocks omni-channel marketing opportunities and boosts performance for retailers with our customer intelligence platform.
Finfra — From application to decisioning to operations - FINFRA provides the necessary infrastructure and services for technology companies to embed financial services to their environment through a seamless integration.
Phaseshift Technologies — Phaseshift Technologies is developing a Computational Materials Engineering (CME) platform to help accelerate the Research and Development of High-Performance Alloys. The CME platform is driven by Quantum Chemistry calculations and aided by Machine Learning based predictive algorithms.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Series B
South Africa, United States, Uganda

Portfolio highlights

Maxe AI — AI investment Assistant for all investors. AI Portfolios tracker of stocks bonds exchanges futures. all in one to track mutual funds.
Sendmarc — Stop cyber criminals from sending emails using your domain and protect your customers, suppliers and employees from cyber attacks with DMARC Security.
Leta — Leta Technology is a software development company that creates supply chain and logistics software to enable the efficient and automated movement of goods.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Information Technology
Series A, Funding Round, Seed
Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Educatly — We help you get into the University of your dreams. We are the only platform with all the information you need to Study Abroad
Zone — Zone is a regulated blockchain network that enables payments and acceptance of digital currencies.
littlefishapp — Littlefish is a comprehensive commerce platform that empowers banks to serve small business with tools to streamline operations, drive growth, and enhance customer engagement.

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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Nigeria, United States, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Moove — Moove is a mobility fintech that provides revenue-based vehicle financing to mobility entrepreneurs, democratizing vehicle ownership globally. The company embeds its alternative credit-scoring technology onto ride-hailing, logistics, and last-mile/instant delivery platforms, which allows access to proprietary performance and revenue analyticsof mobility entrepreneurs to underwrite loans.
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.
Filmmakers Mart — FilmmakersMart is Africa’s first film and entertainment marketplace where entertainment businesses and creatives find verified services seamlessly for their video productions while democratizing entry into the film and entertainment industry for emerging creatives. We’re building the operations system for the film and entertainment industry inAfrica.

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

Investment focus

Financial Services, Finance, E-Commerce
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa

Portfolio highlights

MNZL — MNZL is on a mission to expand access to capital for Egyptians.Every person who owns an asset has accumulated wealth in it. When they want liquidity for their projects and needs, they should be able to tap into it as easily as withdrawing from a bank.With an innovative digital platform and products, we are working on making digital access tocapital a reality, and building the future of asset-backed financing in Africa.
Hub2.Io — Welcome to HUB2, the leading FINTECH startup in interoperability and payment infrastructure in Francophone Africa. We are proud to work with all financial industry players in Africa who need stable and high-performing infrastructure, and contribute to their success.
EarthAcre — EarthAcre is partnering with local communities for climate and biodiversity conservation.

Alumni Ventures offers diversified venture portfolios to accredited investors into highly competitive deals that individuals typically do not have access to on their own.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Spintly — Integrate the Spintly Smart Access control system with your apps and software, without having to toggle between multiple devices & software.
Torch Dental — Torch Dental develops an all-in-one technology designed to meet dental practices' supply ordering and inventory management needs. Torch Dental simplifies and streamlines the ordering process, allowing dentists to focus on their patients.
Mojave Energy Systems — Mojave the latest in HVAC innovation. Help the Climate. Reduce Energy Use. Improve Indoor Comfort. Perform Reliably. Lower Costs.

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

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
Seed, Series A, Series C
South Africa, United States

Portfolio highlights

Mobiz — Supercharge your SMS marketing with dynamic, high-converting landing pages sent directly into the hands of your customers.
onafriq — MFS Africa is the largest mobile money inter-operability hub in Africa, which connects mobile network operators across the continent through a single API. In addition to mobile remittance services, the MFS Africa API enables merchant payment, bulk payment, bank-to-wallet transfers, and an array of other cross border digital payments services.
Sendmarc — Stop cyber criminals from sending emails using your domain and protect your customers, suppliers and employees from cyber attacks with DMARC Security.

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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, FinTech, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Kenya, United States, South Africa

Portfolio highlights

Oze — OZÉ brings African small businesses into the digital era. It is an app that makes it easy for businesses to track sales, expenses, and customer information. The data is analyzed to provide tailored recommendations, reports, and business education. If the entrepreneur needs a little extra support, an OZÉ Coach is just a click away. As they are usingOZÉ to manage their business and learn how to run it better, we are learning about them. Using this data and machine learning, we can predict their credit risk and provide them with affordable capital from our banking partners. With over 20,000 registered users, OZÉ is the largest online community of SMEs in Ghana. The most exciting thing is that OZÉ works; 97% of businesses that have used OZE for at least 9 months are growing or profitable or both!
Root — Launch digital and embedded insurance solutions with omni-channel distribution.
Afropolitan — Afropolitan is building a Network State to unleash the maximum potential of Africans around the world. Are you interested? Join us with your email.

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

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Nigeria, United States, Egypt

Portfolio highlights

Mtor — Mtor is an online marketplace that is reshaping the automotive aftermarket and provides sophisticated technology solutions.
EMTECH — EMTECH provides solutions for Digital Currency regulatory compliance, development and management to help Central Banks and FinTechs build, run and manage modern financial systems.
Terragon Group — Terragon is a leading Data and Marketing Technology company that uses data and analytics to help companies focused in Africa, intelligently connect at scale to their customers. We use an aggregation of online and offline data, and predictive scoring to help brands, marketing agencies and platforms accurately target people across channels anddevices. Headquartered in Lagos; Nigeria, we also have a presence in Kenya, South Africa, Ghana and India.

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Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
South Africa, United States, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Octiv — Turbocharge your fitness business, grow your community and build your brand with Octiv's leading Gym Management Software.
Outsized — Independent talent for enterprise clients and consulting firms in Asia-Pacific, Africa, and the Middle East.
Simera Sense — Simera Sense develops camera control electronics for optical payload and Cubesat imager solutions.

Soma Capital is a fund built by founders for founders that focuses on software. It has invested seed in startups now worth over $60 billion combined including Cruise, Rappi, Ironclad, Human Interest, Razorpay, Rippling, and Lambda School among others (20 unicorns) It was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Aquaria — Discover how you can secure access to safe, clean water from air using Aquaria's atmospheric water generators.
PlayAI — PlayHT is #1 AI Voice Generator with 600+ AI voices that creates ultra realistic Text to Speech voiceovers. Convert text to audio and download as MP3 & WAV files.
Vooma — Vooma is a back-office automation platform that enables automated order entry for brokers and carriers.

Making the web a better place

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Corporate Round
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

n8n — n8n is a free and source-available workflow automation tool
Liquid AI — Liquid AI is an MIT spin-off with a presence in Boston, MA, and Palo Alto, CA. Our mission is to build state-of-the-art, general-purpose AI systems from first principles and deploy capable, efficient, highly aligned, and trustworthy AI for all.
OFFSITE — OFFSITE provides cloud computing and data center solutions.

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.

Investment focus

FinTech, Biotechnology, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

Iyris — Iyris Advanced Desert Greenhouses is the Middle East's premier agriculture glazing specialist, providing tailored solutions for increased desert crop output. iyris collaborates closely with the glass industry's greatest companies to provide ultra-clear glazing with the most advanced anti-reflective and light diffusive coatings.
Kwara — Kwara turns analog credit unions into modern digital banks.
Vibrant Planet — Data-driven science and cloud-based technology to help make communities and ecosystems more resilient in the face of climate change.

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.

Investment focus

Logistics, E-Commerce, Retail
Series A, Funding Round, Seed
South Africa, Nigeria, Ghana

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.
Seamfix — Seamfix’s end-to-end electronic ID and credentials software solutions address the lack of digital ID systems for 30+ African countries and over 250M individuals, providing access to credit, banking, and other essential services for large parts of populations.
Ivili Group — Ivili Group is a leading South African textiles manufacturing group that has a diversified offering in textiles; including wool processing products and services and jeanswear garment manufacturing products and services.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
Series C, Series B, Series D
United States, Israel, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Revefi — Revefi builds the next generation of enterprise data observability and monitoring space. The company's product is aimed at helping cloud enterprises get the right data to business delivered on time, detect and fix data issues before they impact downstream users, and reduce data warehouse spending. Revefi has offices in Redmond, Washington andSan Mateo, California.
Medeloop — Medeloop is an end-to-end AI-driven platform for early stage clinical research and trials.
Maven Clinic — Maven helps companies retain diverse talent, improve health outcomes, and reduce maternity and fertility costs. We support every path to parenthood: Pregnancy, Fertility, Egg Freezing, Adoption, Surrogacy, Infant Care, Breastmilk Shipping, and Manager Training.

Alumni Ventures offers diversified venture portfolios to accredited investors into highly competitive deals that individuals typically do not have access to on their own.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Alephee — Aleph enables brands to be involved in e-commerce, giving visibility into their online sales across multiple marketplaces such as Amazon, eBay, Mercado Libre. In one centralized platform brands connect resellers to share catalog and inventory to increase sales, grow market share and optimize logistics costs.
Niche — Niche is a social application that reinvents the way people connect and build community. It is a members-only club for the user's communities, groups, and hobbies.
Banana — Inference hosting for AI teams who ship fast and scale faster.

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.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, South Africa, Trinidad and Tobago

Portfolio highlights

TestBox — Compare and test customer support platforms in live AI-generated sandboxes. No more slides, sales pitches, or demos. Always free to use.
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.

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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Banking, Finance
Debt Financing, Funding Round, Series B
India, United Kingdom, Egypt

Portfolio highlights

TymeBank — TymeBank is a subsidiary of the Tyme Group, which focuses on financial technology and banking solutions. TymeBank focuses on providing accessible financial services to the lower-income market. It emphasizes digital banking and minimal fees. Customers can open secure personal and business accounts online, benefiting from low banking charges and highsavings interest rates through their digital platform.
ACWA Power — ACWA Power is a developer, investor, co-owner and operator of a portfolio of power generation, renewable energy and desalinated water production plants.
Shubham Housing Development Finance Company — Shubham.co is a leading housing finance company in India. We offer home loans, loans against property, Shubh Shakti Loans and more at affordable EMIs and interest rates. Apply online!

AgFunder invests in impactful companies that can positively transform the world's food system. Founded in 2013, AgFunder manages a portfolio of over 50 companies across four funds from offices in Silicon Valley and Singapore. Through its media platform AFN, it has built a global ecosystem of over 90,000 subscribers.

Investment focus

Agriculture, AgTech, Biotechnology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

Klim — Klim enables farmers to transition to regenerative agriculture at scale by providing them financial support, knowledge, documentation tools, and a community via our digital companion for farmers.Klim-verified carbon removal credits, generated by Klim farmers, help companies to transition to net zero by offsetting their carbon emissions locallyand with maximum impact and transparency.
Uviquity — Uviquity is a firm that wants to encourage safety for their clients. The company is based in Raleigh, North Carolina, in the United States.
Eion — Eion removes atmospheric CO2, permanently and verifiably, with enhanced rock weathering on soil

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.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, B2B
Seed, Series C, Funding Round
United States, South Africa

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.

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

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Series A, Series B, Seed
The Netherlands, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Yoco — Yoco is a point-of-sale payments provider for small businesses in Africa. Yoco helps 100,000 small businesses in South Africa get paid in-store, online, and on the go. Yoco was named one of the top 250 most promising fintech companies by CB Insights for the last 3 years running.The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Cape Town, SouthAfrica.
Gotrade — Making investing fun, fair and simple. Join over 500,000 investors investing in fractions of companies like Google, Apple & Netflix from as little as $1.
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.

With a decade-long track record of venture building alongside some of the smartest female-led founding teams in Africa, we back female-focused startups across

Investment focus

Information Technology, Health Care, Wellness
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria

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

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.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Series B, Funding Round, Private Equity
United States, Canada, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Pathalys Pharma — Pathalys is a clinical biopharmaceutical company that develops therapeutics that improve late-stage chronic kidney disease.
Arcadia — Arcadia unlocks access to global utility data. Our technology powers the next generation of climate solutions, giving anyone the tools to electrify and decarbonize.
Enlaza Therapeutics — Enlaza Therapeutics is a biotechnology research company. It was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in La Jolla, California.

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

Investment focus

Financial Services, Payments, FinTech
Private Equity, Series B, Funding Round
India, South Africa, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

KPay — KPay is a financial technology company that provides comprehensive payment collection solutions to SME merchants. It helps businesses streamline management processes and improve customer retention, business efficiency, and flexibility. KPay creates a more intuitive approach to running a business that enables merchants to reach their maximumpotential.
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.
MNT-Halan — MNT-Halan is a microfinance lending and payments company.

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

Investment focus

FinTech, Consumer Goods, Financial Services
Seed
South Africa, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Elimutab — At Elimutab we have safe and secure educational gadgets made for learners and schools. Including; Tablets, Chromebooks, Laptops, Projectors & Interactive smartboards.
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 — Transforming transportion in the region. Rabbit is a micro-mobility sharing platform for short-distance transportation using environmentally friendly vehicles.

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

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
South Africa, United States, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Sportable — Sportable is a sports data company that changes the game for teams and audiences. With Rugby being their primary focus, they are working with a number of teams and manufacturers to create and develop hardware and wearable devices that enable sport specific data to be collated in real time. Their technology gives the viewer, the team, and thebroadcaster unprecedented insight into the decision making of players.Sportable was founded in 2015 and is based in London, England.
Tanda — As a Tanda Agent, you can sell Kenya's favorite digital products, and grow your duka while you're at it
Right Now Response — The future of repairs starts soon. Counting down to smarter tracking in 2025! There are perks to working 24/7, 365 days a year... Like launching the future of repairs ahead of schedule!

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

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Information Technology, Financial Services
Funding Round, Seed, Series B
South Africa, Chad, Egypt

Portfolio highlights

Root — Launch digital and embedded insurance solutions with omni-channel distribution.
Money Fellows — MoneyFellows digitizes the ROSCA model, enabling group lending and savings.
Dynamic Commodities — Dynamic Commodities is a specialist producer and exporter of a range of frozen fruit delicacies.Dynamic Commodities is exporter of an innovative, value-added range of frozen fruit products, including fruit sorbets and various cut frozen fruits, to countries such as the US, Canada, Japan and South Korea.

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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Information Technology, Information Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
South Africa, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Planet42 — Having your own car has never been easier. Planet42 is a vehicle rental company offering rent-to-own car service for private clients.
LifeCheq — Transforming financial services sales & distribution
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.

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.

Investment focus

Blockchain, FinTech, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

Mento Labs — Mento Labs is a decentralized EVM platform for launching and managing multi-currency stable assets.
Learn.xyz — Empower your team with learning they'll actually enjoy: Learn.xyz automatically turns your knowledge base into bite-sized learning modules that your employees will love
Thrive Protocol — Thrive Protocol's vision is to maximize value creation for all people and communities.

Kepple Africa Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt

Portfolio highlights

Chari — Chari is an e-commerce and fintech app for traditional retailers in French-Speaking Africa allowing them to order any consumer goods they sell and get delivered for free in less than 24 hours. Chari is also a financial services provider for these retailers, offering them microloans
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.
Carry1st — Carry1st develops and publishes enriching mobile games and content apps for African consumers.

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

Investment focus

Health Care, Medical, Apps
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Togo, Nigeria, South Africa

Portfolio highlights

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

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.

Investment focus

Software, Enterprise Software, SaaS
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Jupiter Intelligence — The Trusted Leader in Climate Risk Analytics. Learn about our best-in-science solutions.
Carbon Robotics — The Carbon Robotics LaserWeeder solves one of agriculture's biggest problems: weed control. Laserweeding kills weeds without herbicides or tilling by harnessing computer vision and thermal energy to identify and destroy weeds at the meristem. It's healthier for crops and land, and safer for farmers.
Blockchain Monster Hunt — Blockchain Monster Hunt develops an NFT collectible game that lives on multiple blockchains. It is a multi-chain metaverse game that connects people from different blockchain communities. It allows users to play and earn in an abundantly diverse world of monsters

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

Investment focus

Logistics, Health Care, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
South Africa, Ghana, Kenya

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.

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.

Investment focus

FinTech, Payments, Mobile Payments
Series C, Funding Round, Corporate Round
India, South Africa, Czech Republic

Portfolio highlights

Payflex — Payflex offers an online payment gateway solution to South African merchants that allows shoppers to pay over 6 weeks, interest-free.
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.

Family office, registered in British Virgin Islands

Investment focus

Drones
Seed
South Africa

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.

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

Investment focus

Software, Apps, Health Care
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Austria, United States, Germany

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.

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

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Series A, Seed, Series B
India, Brazil, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Solvento — The smart factoring solution for truckers.
Prima — Reliable manufacturing & supply chain partner for custom parts, metal fabrication & efficient sourcing from Mexico. Manage design, production & delivery
Bureau — Bureau is trust network that facilitates end-to-end identity verification, compliance, and fraud prevention for new-age businesses.

They are passionate about seeing their portfolio companies become successful.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

AI Lean — Simplify your lien compliance with the only fully automated solution.
Aikium Inc. — Protein therapeutics
Groma — We blend traditional real estate investment, development and management with innovative technology to better serve our tenants, investors and communities.

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

Investment focus

Big Data, Analytics, Data Integration
Pre-Seed
South Africa

Portfolio highlights

MetaPOS — South African Data Tech company focused on the ethical monetisation of data.

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

Investment focus

Software, Point of Sale
Series A
South Africa

Portfolio highlights

TallOrder — TallOrder improves your overall POS experience. Grow your business with an affordable, fast & accurate Cloud based point of sale solution

Growth Grid Venture Capital Partners

Investment focus

Medical, Software, E-Commerce
Funding Round
South Africa

Portfolio highlights

RecoMed — Find the best doctors and dentists. Search by location or by speciality, and find the right doctor for you.
Digital Cabinet — Digital Cabinet makes your business paperless. Security is the topmost priority for the Digital Cabinet, so save time and money with the Digital Cabinet.

ASISA Enterprise Development Fund

Investment focus