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

Investor Marketplace South Africa investments
E4EAfrica 4
CRE Venture Capital 3
Kalon Venture Partners 3
UW Ventures 3
Oui Capital 3
Vumela Fund 3
Launch Africa 3
Alumni Ventures 2
TLcom Capital Partners 2
Enza Capital 2
Soma Capital 2
Knife Capital 2
AECI 2
LoftyInc Capital 2
Future Africa 2
Savannah Fund 2
Flourish Ventures 2
4Di Capital 2
Allan Gray 2
Hustle Fund 2
Zip 1
PUSH Ventures 1
ASISA Enterprise Development Fund 1
FJ Labs 1
Globivest 1
Untapped Global 1
Serra de Estrela Investments Ltd 1
Growth Grid Venture Capital Partners 1
Voskhod Venture Capital 1
Appsolute Ventures 1
AAIC Holdings 1
i-Cubed Capital 1
Endeavor South Africa 1
Crossfin Technology 1
Nurture Invest 1
Moscow Venture Fund 1
J.P. Morgan Asset Management 1
Garage Capital 1
Automattic 1
British International Investment 1
AgFunder 1
Five35 Ventures 1
Apis Partners 1
HAVAÍC 1
Invenfin 1
Flori Ventures 1
Presight Capital 1
Paper Plane Ventures 1
Nedbank 1
Next Chymia Consulting 1
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E4EAfrica VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 2 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • Logistics, Internet, Supply Chain Management
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • South Africa, France, The Netherlands
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
  • Happy Pay — Happy Pay is a credit scoring system developing company. The company integrates an autonomous artificial intelligence technology system with the merchant's platform to increase their average basket size and customer conversion metrics, providing users with buy now, and pay later services.
  • Conservio — Discover and Book South Africa's best nature accommodations with Conservio. Book vetted accommodations, easy and safe to book online.
CRE Venture Capital VC Fund · New York, New York, United States
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
  • 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.
Kalon Venture Partners VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa
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
  • 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 — Maximize your email security and domain protection with DMARC to safeguard your business against email impersonation, phishing, and spoofing.
  • visionAI — visionAI augments existing CCTV cameras with computer vision AI to drive improved operational outcomes in manufacturing.
UW Ventures VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa
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
  • 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.
Oui Capital VC Fund · Belmont, Massachusetts, United States
Oui Capital is an Africa-focused VC firm backing tech-enabled businesses at the pre-seed & seed stage.
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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.
  • 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
Vumela Fund VC Fund · Hyde Park, Newtownabbey, United Kingdom
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
  • 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
  • Kusini Water — Kusini Water builds water treatment systems from nanotechnology and macadamia nut shells.
  • Trade Shield — Automated trade credit risk management. Discover opportunities & reduce bad debt with always-on risk evaluation, credit scoring & recommended credit limits.
Launch Africa VC Fund · Ebène, Plaines Wilhems, Mauritius · 12 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
  • Affinity — Join over 60,000 who trust the Affinity mobile app to manage your personal banking needs and qualify for an Affinity Instant Loan
  • ToumAI Analytics — ToumAI Analytics is a software development company providing voice analytics, real-time analytics, and reporting services.
  • PBR Life Sciences — A cloud-based real-world, non-observational pharmacy sell-out data
Alumni Ventures VC Fund · Manchester, New Hampshire, United States · 94 investments in the past 12 months
Alumni Ventures offers diversified venture portfolios to accredited investors into highly competitive deals that individuals typically do not have access to on their own.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Artisan AI — Artisan is on a mission to build the first generation of AI employees, called Artisans, who can automate specific roles & workflows.
  • TAU Systems — TAU Systems provides medical imaging technology.
  • Foundation Alloy — Foundation Alloy makes better parts, faster, for modern engineering.
TLcom Capital Partners VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Software, Mobile, Information Technology
  • Series A, Funding Round, Seed
  • Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Hub2.Io — Welcome to HUB2, the leading FINTECH startup in interoperability and payment infrastructure in Francophone Africa. We are proud to work with all financial industry players in Africa who need stable and high-performing infrastructure, and contribute to their success.
  • 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
  • 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.
Enza Capital VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Venture investor in high-growth Founders and Teams using technology to solve large and meaningful problems across Africa
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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.
  • Affinity — Join over 60,000 who trust the Affinity mobile app to manage your personal banking needs and qualify for an Affinity Instant Loan
Soma Capital VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 26 investments in the past 12 months
Welcome to Soma Capital
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Investment focus
  • Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, India, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
  • Podqi — Podqi is an AI-powered platform specifically designed for entertainment companies to automate monitoring, takedown, and retroactive compensation for infringement on their portfolio of IP.
  • Artisan AI — Artisan is on a mission to build the first generation of AI employees, called Artisans, who can automate specific roles & workflows.
  • Flashnet — Flashnet is commited to build a Bitcoin exchange that anyone can use and where people keep their own money.
Knife Capital VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa
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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.
AECI VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa
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
  • AgTech, Farming, Chemical
  • Seed, Post-IPO Equity
  • South Africa, United States
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.
LoftyInc Capital VC Fund · Carmel, California, United States
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
  • 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.
Future Africa VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States
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
  • 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 — Find and book film locations, equipment, and services across Africa. Filmmakers Mart simplifies production logistics from start to finish.
Savannah Fund VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya
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
  • 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.
Flourish Ventures VC Fund · Redwood City, California, United States · 9 investments in the past 12 months
We are an early-stage global venture capital firm investing in fintech founders.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • United States, India, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
  • minu — In minu, we are revolutionizing the financial health of Mexican employees, offering them access to their already worked salary when they need it, instead of having to wait for payroll. We work with HR areas of companies that offer the provision of minu to improve satisfaction, retention, and attraction of talent. minu is supported by FinTech'sleading institutional investors globally, including QED.
  • MoneyHash — MoneyHash provides access to payment and fintech services across the Middle East & Africa with one simple integration.
  • Morada Uno — Morada Uno underwrites and insures house rentals by equipping real estate professionals with tools and technology. The company aims to simplify and create trust and security in real estate transactions, promoting fairness in every interaction, and promoting a positive change in the mentality and way of doing things in Mexico.
4Di Capital VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa
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
  • Software, Financial Services, Mobile
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • South Africa, United States, Kenya
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.
  • Cloudline — The all-in-one cloud platform helping leisure businesses sell more, reduce costs & personalize experiences.
  • Happy Pay — Happy Pay is a credit scoring system developing company. The company integrates an autonomous artificial intelligence technology system with the merchant's platform to increase their average basket size and customer conversion metrics, providing users with buy now, and pay later services.
Allan Gray VC Fund · Alfred, New York, United States
Allan Gray is privately owned investment management company focused on generating long-term wealth for investors.
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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 — Maximize your email security and domain protection with DMARC to safeguard your business against email impersonation, phishing, and spoofing.
Hustle Fund VC Fund · San Carlos, California, United States · 26 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, Singapore, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • ThriveAI — Offload the busywork. Focus on the outcomes that matter.
  • Agree.com — Agree.com is the best solution for creating and managing contracts, streamlining negotiations, enhancing compliance, optimizing workflows, and converting more customers — all within one intuitive platform. View edits, track signatures, and get alerted on all upcoming key milestones. Include free, one-click e-signatures with identity verification onevery agreement. Increase deal velocity and drive revenue impact with integrated payments.
  • Rently — Rently is a digital platform for buying, selling, and managing properties.
Zip VC Fund · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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
  • FinTech, Payments, Mobile Payments
  • Series C, Funding Round, Corporate Round
  • India, South Africa, Czech Republic
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.
PUSH Ventures VC Fund · Vienna, Wien, Austria · 3 investments in the past 12 months
We are an early-stage Venture Capital Firm investing in outstanding teams with convincing products and high growth potential.
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Investment focus
  • 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.
ASISA Enterprise Development Fund VC Fund
ASISA Enterprise Development Fund
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Investment focus
  • Medical, E-Commerce, Health Care
  • 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.
FJ Labs VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 84 investments in the past 12 months
FJ Labs is a stage-agnostic investment firm that focuses on marketplaces and consumer facing startups.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Brazil, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Fleequid — Buy or sell buses and commercial vehicles through auctions: Join Fleequid and effortlessly participate in top-notch B2B auctions for industrial vehicles
  • Powerhouse91 — Powerhouse91 operates as an eCommerce roll-up platform. Powerhouse91's business model relies on identifying high-potential consumer brands, acquiring, and scaling them through growth capital, shared resources, and e-commerce focused optimizations.
  • Scout AI — Scout AI is building the robotic foundation model for defense.
Globivest VC Fund · Beirut, Beyrouth, Lebanon
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
  • 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.
Untapped Global VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • 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.
Serra de Estrela Investments Ltd VC Fund
Family office, registered in British Virgin Islands
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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.
Growth Grid Venture Capital Partners VC Fund
Growth Grid Venture Capital Partners
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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.
Voskhod Venture Capital VC Fund · Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Voskhod Venture Capital is an investment firm.
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Investment focus
  • Cooking, Robotics, Food Delivery
  • Seed
  • Russian Federation
Portfolio highlights
  • Smile AI — Smile AI is a dental telemedicine platform that provides ready-made solutions and monitors oral cavity condition using dental photos.
  • ROBOTECH — ROBOTECH is an engineering firm that specializes in the design and implementation of high-performance automated machinery for businesses in a variety of industries.
  • UAV & Drone Solutions — UDS is an aerial vehicle development firm offering security surveillance, topographical surveying, and infrastructure inspection services.
Appsolute Ventures VC Fund
A South African venture firm focussed on early stage African startups. By the founders of Bottles, the on-demand liquor delivery app.
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Investment focus
  • Big Data, Analytics, Data Integration
  • Pre-Seed
  • South Africa
Portfolio highlights
  • MetaPOS — South African Data Tech company focused on the ethical monetisation of data.
AAIC Holdings VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
AAIC Holdingsis engages in nurturing investments in emerging countries, consulting and M&A, management outsourcing and human capital.
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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.
i-Cubed Capital VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa
We acquire equity in companies that are positioned for growth and create wealth for our shareholders. Our team of investment specialist and entrepreneurs evaluate business opportunities that provide medium to long term growth.
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Investment focus
  • Medical, Wellness, Health Care
  • Pre-Seed
  • South Africa
Portfolio highlights
  • Contro — Get your health and confidence products prescribed online and delivered to your door for free without the waiting rooms!
  • Yebo Fresh — Yebofresh is a new online shopping service, delivering popular groceries straight into areas that are generally unserved by most formal retailers. Our unique business model and partnerships with manufacturers allow us to deliver top quality products and A-brands at extremely competitive prices. Yebofresh serves Imizamo Yethu, Langa, Khayelitsha,Mfuleni and Gugulethu and following recent seed funding, is rapidly expanding across the greater Cape Town area.
Endeavor South Africa VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa
Endeavor South Africa is a non-profit entity and the leading supporter of high-impact entrepreneurs around the world.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, Internet, Payments
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • 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.
  • Sendmarc — Maximize your email security and domain protection with DMARC to safeguard your business against email impersonation, phishing, and spoofing.
  • 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.
Crossfin Technology VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa
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
  • Payments, Financial Services, Information Technology
  • Funding Round, Series A, Private Equity
  • South Africa, United States, Russian Federation
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.
Nurture Invest VC Fund · Harare, NA - Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe
Nurture Invest is a financial services firm providing asset management, private equity, investment advisory, and corporate advisory services principally.
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Investment focus
  • 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
Moscow Venture Fund VC Fund
Moscow Venture Fund is an investment fund.
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Investment focus
  • Drones, Security, Drone Management
  • Funding Round
  • South Africa
Portfolio highlights
  • UAV & Drone Solutions — UDS is an aerial vehicle development firm offering security surveillance, topographical surveying, and infrastructure inspection services.
J.P. Morgan Asset Management VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 5 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • 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.
Garage Capital VC Fund · Waterloo, Ontario, Canada · 10 investments in the past 12 months
Built by founders, for founders. Garage Capital helps best-in-class companies jump from garage to growth.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Canada, United States, South Africa
Portfolio highlights
  • veritree — veritree helps businesses meet sustainability goals with verified reforestation. Plant trees, restore ecosystems, and track your impact with us.
  • Faro — Every garment deserves to be worn. Leveraging technology and a specialised supply chain, FARO enables brands to offload obsolete inventory through stores in non-core markets, ensuring complete traceability throughout the process.
  • Page — Page, an AI-powered external relations platform that provides real-time insights to help enterprises navigate government policies, media, and regulations.
Automattic VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States
Making the web a better place
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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
  • Openvibe — Interact With Anyone On The Open Internet. All Decentralised Social Networks, Single Timeline.
  • 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.
British International Investment VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 31 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Financial Services, Banking, Finance
  • Debt Financing, Funding Round, Series B
  • India, United Kingdom, Egypt
Portfolio highlights
  • Asha Ventures — Asha Ventures is an India-focused equity investor for innovative businesses targeting India's emerging middle class.
  • Arnergy — ARNERGY's mission is to deliver energy solutions for productive use by deploying products, services and systems that power business operations and improve economic outcomes for our clients. Vision: Providing sustainable solutions to energy reliability issues across emerging markets.
  • ReNew Photovoltaics — ReNew Photovoltaics is a solar manufacturing company that provides reliable, quality, and top-tier solar products.
AgFunder VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 7 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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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.
  • Lumi AI — Ask questions in simple language and receive instant answers. No coding (SQL/Python) skills needed. Lumi is your personal, available 24/7, data analyst AI. Sign up for early access!
  • Ingenimax — StarOps by Ingenimax, the future of platform engineering, built for AI/ML teams and platform engineering teams. Focus on outcomes, not cloud ops.
Five35 Ventures VC Fund · Gauteng, NA - South Africa, South Africa
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
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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
Apis Partners VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 9 investments in the past 12 months
Apis Partners LLP backs growth financial services innovators who create transformative impact in their communities.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, Payments, FinTech
  • Private Equity, Series B, Series C
  • India, Singapore, South Africa
Portfolio highlights
  • Xoxoday — Loyalty program is crucial for big companies. We can help you engage and reward your customers online, discover our loyalty programs
  • Thunes — Experience white-labelled cross border payment solutions for any use case. Real-time, traceable and interoperable across 130 countries via our direct network.
  • Xoxoday — Connect, motivate, align, and engage employees, channel partners, sales team, and consumers with our engagement, rewards, commission, and incentive technology.
HAVAÍC VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 2 investments in the past 12 months
HAVAÍC is an investment and advisory firm that specialises in early-stage, high-growth African businesses with proven concepts and global prospects, offering investment opportunities to sophisticated investors and international venture capital companies with an interest in Africa. As a complementary offering, HAVAÍC provides corporate advisory andcapital raising services to emerging, internationally scalable businesses.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, FinTech
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • South Africa, United States, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
  • NjiaPay — Payments-as-a-Service platform that will streamline your operations and elevate your online payments across the African continent.
  • Talk360 — Talk360 is an easy-to-use calling app that helps people make affordable international calls to any mobile and landline number. They believe that reliable communication and digital services must be affordable and accessible to everyone, regardless of someone's background. Especially people in emerging countries in Africa, who often need theseservices the most, do not always have the necessary banking possibilities. To bridge this distance, Talk360 will launch the world's first single checkout platform for Africa. This platform will combine all locally available payment methods and currencies across Africa, together with over 1.25 million cash points of sales, and will eventually be available to other companies as well. This means that 500 million Africans will be able to purchase digital services they never had access to before.
  • Right Now Response — The future of repairs starts soon. Counting down to smarter tracking in 2025! There are perks to working 24/7, 365 days a year... Like launching the future of repairs ahead of schedule!
Invenfin VC Fund · Stellenbosch, NA - South Africa, South Africa
Invenfin is a growth capital investor operating in the technology, food & beverage sectors.
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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.
Flori Ventures VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States
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
  • 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 — 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.
Presight Capital VC Fund · Los Angeles, California, United States · 5 investments in the past 12 months
Presight is a global venture capital firm investing at the intersection of Wall Street, Silicon Valley, and Hollywood. Based in Los Angeles, CA, we manage over $600M in assets across two early-stage funds. We were founded in 2019 in partnership with Apeiron Investment Group, the multi-billion dollar private investment firm of Christian Angermayer, a serial entrepreneur in technology, fintech, blockchain/crypto, and life sciences.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Health Care, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Divibank — Divibank is a financing platform offering businesses access to growth capital.
  • Faro — Every garment deserves to be worn. Leveraging technology and a specialised supply chain, FARO enables brands to offload obsolete inventory through stores in non-core markets, ensuring complete traceability throughout the process.
  • Needle — Needle enables fast, AI-powered information discovery across all your data sources. Moreover, its RAG API helps developers build agentic AI applications.
Paper Plane Ventures VC Fund
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Portfolio highlights
  • Aerobotics — Powerful insights for precision growing and crop insurance
Nedbank VC Fund · Sandown, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Nedbank is a one of the largest banks in South Africa.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Software, Mining
  • Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Series A
  • South Africa, Australia, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Oryx Energies — Oryx Energies provides oil and gas products and services.
  • Pele Energy Group — Pele Energy Group owns and runs renewable energy infrastructure in addition to providing economic and community development consulting services.
  • Sandfire Resources NL — Sandfire Resources NL is a dynamic mid-tier Australian mining and exploration company which is listed on the Australian Securities Exchange.
Next Chymia Consulting VC Fund · Sheung Wan, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
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
  • FinTech, Software, Blockchain
  • Seed, Funding Round
  • Kenya, Ghana, Romania
Portfolio highlights
  • Qwili — Qwili makes smartphones with a voice-guided, local language onboarding experience for new users.
  • IPOR Labs — Enter the Credit Hub of DeFi. Lend and borrow at the best defi rates and earn a competitive yield on your crypto, fixed with on-chain interest rate derivatives.
  • Zuvy Technologies — Zuvy is a free invoice management software that enables your business to get cash today for unpaid invoices. Get started sending invoices via WhatsApp
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