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Top 50 Media (Entertainment) Startup Investors in South Africa (October 2026)

The most active venture capital funds and angel investors investing in South Africa Media (entertainment) startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in South Africa Media (entertainment) startup companies. Find investors to raise a Seed, Series A or Venture - Series Unknown round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Blue Label Ventures
VC Fund
3 South Africa, United States Seed, Venture - Series Unknown SaaS, Mobile, Hardware $207k–$1M
Sekunjalo Group
VC Fund
2 South Africa, Sweden, United States Seed, Post-IPO Equity, Venture - Series Unknown Media and Entertainment, News, Music
Launch Africa
VC Fund
2 Nigeria, South Africa, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology $200k–$4M
Hlayisani Capital
VC Fund
2 South Africa, Mauritius Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Series A Software, Education, Information Technology $2M–$11M
Travel Capitalist Ventures
VC Fund
2 Brazil, South Africa Seed News, Travel, Tourism $250k–$1M
Knife Capital
VC Fund
2 South Africa, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Information Technology, Education $1M–$15M
Proparco
VC Fund
2 Kenya, India, Nigeria Debt Financing, Private Equity, Venture - Series Unknown Financial Services, Energy, Finance $400k–$206M
Belgian Investment Company for Developing Countries
VC Fund
2 India, Kenya, Ecuador Debt Financing, Non-Equity Assistance, Venture - Series Unknown Financial Services, Finance, Banking $16k–$18M
Clifftop Colony Capital Partners
VC Fund
2 South Africa Seed, Angel, Series A Audio, Podcast, Software
KNF Ventures
VC Fund
2 South Africa Series A, Venture - Series Unknown SaaS, EBooks, EdTech
AngelHub Ventures
VC Fund
2 South Africa, Mexico, Colombia Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Education
Investisseurs & Partenaires
VC Fund
2 France, Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire Seed, Series A Financial Services, Health Care, Food and Beverage
Tom Berckt
Angel
1 South Africa Angel Apps, Events, Printing
Yossi Hasson
Angel
1 South Africa, United States, Ghana Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, Blockchain, Payments
Hlayisani Growth Fund
VC Fund
1 South Africa Seed Education, Apps, SaaS
Unanimous Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, Sweden, Hong Kong Seed, Series A, Series B Blockchain, Software, Gaming
Avalon Wealth Club
VC Fund
1 Singapore, Grenada, Vietnam Seed Gaming, Blockchain, Software
Icon Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, Israel, Canada Series C, Series B, Series D Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
African Infrastructure Investment Managers
VC Fund
1 Nigeria, South Africa Private Equity, Debt Financing Solar, Energy, SaaS
Technology Innovation Agency
VC Fund
1 South Africa Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed Information Technology, Software, Electronics $25k–$1.3M
Savannah Fund
VC Fund
1 Kenya, United States, South Africa Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, E-Commerce, FinTech $25k–$12M
Vumela Fund
VC Fund
1 South Africa, Brazil Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Debt Financing Education, Hospital, Software $500k–$1.7M
iHub
VC Fund
1 Kenya, South Africa Seed Education, E-Learning, EdTech
LoftyInc Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, Nigeria, Egypt Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Software $100k–$37M
Ignition Partners
VC Fund
1 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Series B, Series A, Series C Software, Enterprise Software, SaaS $2.1M–$54M
Lowenthal Capital Partners
VC Fund
1 South Africa Software, Logistics, Media and Entertainment
Fish Dao
VC Fund
1 United Kingdom, Estonia, Germany Seed, Series A Blockchain, Gaming, Web3 $1.7M–$8M
Brandtech Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, United Kingdom, Canada Seed, Series B, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Advertising $1.6M–$200M
Goldman Sachs
VC Fund
1 United States, India, China Debt Financing, Series C, Series B Software, Financial Services, FinTech $12M–$1.6B
NuState Capital
VC Fund
1 South Africa Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A Education, Software, SaaS
Michael Leeman
Angel
1 United States, South Africa Angel, Seed Apps, Software, Publishing $125k–$2.5M
Legion Ventures
VC Fund
1 Israel, Italy, Spain Seed, Pre-Seed, Initial Coin Offering Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency $300k–$4.5M
Alpha Moon Capital
VC Fund
1 Vietnam, Singapore, United States Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A Gaming, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency $400k–$2.6M
Sina Afra
Angel
1 Turkey, United States, Germany Seed, Series A, Angel E-Commerce, Fashion, Internet $100k–$11M
Crossfin Technology
VC Fund
1 South Africa, Singapore, United States Seed, Series A Payments, FinTech, Financial Services
Naspers
VC Fund
1 South Africa, India, Brazil Series B, Private Equity, Series A E-Commerce, Internet, Retail $510k–$421M
Vinny Lingham
Angel
1 United States, South Africa, United Kingdom Seed, Angel Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Internet $125k–$5.6M
Oikocredit International
VC Fund
1 India, Kenya, Ghana Debt Financing, Series B, Series A Financial Services, Finance, FinTech $1.1M–$33M
Snap
VC Fund
1 United States, India, Taiwan Seed, Pre-Seed, Series E Apps, Video, Internet $150k–$4M
Fairum Ventures
VC Fund
1 United Kingdom, Israel, Estonia Seed Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Information Technology $715k–$21M
Dain Rauscher Wessels
VC Fund
1 United States, South Africa Series C, Series B Software, Information Technology, Internet $8.4M–$102M
Marc Andreessen
Angel
1 United States, France, Germany Series A, Series B, Seed Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence $1M–$80M
Lavender Capital
VC Fund
1 China, Spain, Vietnam Seed, Initial Coin Offering Gaming, Blockchain, Bitcoin $400k–$4M
2CrazyNFT
VC Fund
1 South Africa, United Arab Emirates Seed Gaming, Metaverse, Blockchain
Adanian Labs
VC Fund
1 Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed Developer Platform, Financial Services, Gaming $60k–$100k
BullPerks
VC Fund
1 Lithuania, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates Seed, Initial Coin Offering, Series A Gaming, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency $75k–$12M
MiH Ventures
VC Fund
1 India, Saint Kitts and Nevis Venture - Series Unknown FinTech, Finance, Cryptocurrency
Action Hero Ventures
VC Fund
1 Singapore, South Africa Seed Sports, Content, Big Data
TotalEnergies Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, France, United Kingdom Series B, Series C Energy, Renewable Energy, Transportation $5M–$175M
WZ Capital
VC Fund
1 South Africa Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed Medical, Health Care, Information Technology
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Blue Label Ventures
VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 3 investments in South Africa Media (entertainment) startups

Blue Label Ventures is an accelerator that specializes in the identification, investment and global commercialization of high potential.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Mobile, Hardware
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: South Africa, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Seed $207k–$1M
  • Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • iCrypto — iCrypto is an Authentication-as-a-Service solution that will disrupt the antiquated password login paradigm. The iCrypto cloud architecture delivers strong authentication through your trusted mobile device, whether that be through your smartphone, tablet or wearable device. This can be used in place of passwords, or in addition to passwords formulti-factor authentication. The iCrypto service makes the enterprise and consumer onboarding process frictionless, thereby enabling any enterprise or knowledgeable consumer a low-touch path to added security. The global authentication market is growing at a pace of 20% CAGR with a $3B market. We have pulled together a world class team from Intel, HTC, Sun, and McAfee with decades of combined experience in the mobile, enterprise and security industries. Collectively, we have worked at 16 startups. Please email info@icrypto.com for more information.
  • Mobii Systems — Mobii's Media Intelligence Platform for live sports: Production AI, orchestrated by Synthetic Intelligence. Automated live production, real-time highlights, and personalized streams at broadcast scale.
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Sekunjalo Group
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 2 investments in South Africa Media (entertainment) startups

The Sekunjalo Group is a collation of companies and investments and funds. It is self-funding, capital-intensive, and strategic in its investments.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Media and Entertainment, News, Music
  • Stage:Seed, Post-IPO Equity, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: South Africa, Sweden, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Lead/follow: 60% lead, 40% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Saab — Saab serves the global market of governments, authorities and corporations with products, services and solutions ranging from military defence to civil security.
  • Magic 828 — Magic 828 is a medium-wave commercial music radio station and was officially launched on 1 October 2015, broadcasting to Cape Town and the greater Western Cape region. Their studios are situated in Pinelands, Cape Town with a transmitter sited at the centre of a geographic triangle with Paarl, Durbanville and Malmesbury as the three corner points.Magic 828 radiates a 25 000 watt (25 kW) signal to major suburban areas of the Cape, unrestricted by mountainous terrain and operates on the AM wavelength. The essential broadcast format of the radio station is one of golden oldies music, mixed with less talk, sport, and news and community information.
  • African News Agency — The African News Agency (ANA) is Africa’s first syndicated multimedia news service and strives to be the continent’s single source of reliable and credible news on government, politics, economies, markets, business, sports, and lifestyle.We are committed to accurate and balanced coverage 24 hours a day; to report what is in the public interest,and to meet the information needs of our readers and subscribers. Whether you are a broadcaster, newspaper, digital customer, business, government or civil society organization, we can provide you with relevant and compelling content for your specific requirements.When news breaks, we will know and we will tell you immediately, helping you to make better decisions faster. We aim to provide news you can use: information that is helpful and relevant to decision-makers, investors and ordinary people.
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Launch Africa
VC Fund · Ebène, Plaines Wilhems, Mauritius · 2 investments in South Africa Media (entertainment) startups, 6 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

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Nigeria, South Africa, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 218
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$4M; Pre-Seed $200k–$1.8M; Venture - Series Unknown $200k–$500k
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Zazu — Manza is an all-in-one financial platform for African SMEs, helping businesses manage payments, automate cash flow, and access real-time financial insights from one simple dashboard.
  • Fincart — Fincart is a leading shipping platform in Egypt, connecting your business with top courier services, automating operations, and helping you scale your eCommerce logistics.
  • Udu Technologies — Explore GPU cloud and hardware through AGH Cloud, UduTech's flagship product, and AI advisory for teams in the United States, Africa, the Caribbean and beyond.
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Hlayisani Capital
VC Fund · Fourways, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 2 investments in South Africa Media (entertainment) startups

Hlayisani Growth Fund is focussed on mid-market, high growth private equity investments focussed on South Africa with an allowance for Sub-Saharan Africa and East African countries.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Education, Information Technology
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Africa, Mauritius

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 21
  • Round size: Series A $3M–$11M; Venture - Series Unknown $2M–$3.2M
  • Lead/follow: 71% lead, 29% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $24M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • wamly — Wamly is the recruitment software, It has given us time back to focus on transformational work.
  • GoMetro — Fleet management simplified with GoMetro. Integrate telematics, gain real-time visibility, and optimize operations with a secure, scalable platform,
  • Spatialedge — Empowering Businesses to Make the Right Data-driven Decisions. We specialise in building and operationalising cutting-edge analytical solutions that deliver business value through a suite of decision tools.
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Travel Capitalist Ventures
VC Fund · Doha, Ad Dawhah, Qatar · 2 investments in South Africa Media (entertainment) startups

Travel venture capital is Travel Capitalist Ventures sole focus since inception. We help travel startups in emerging markets.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: News, Travel, Tourism
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Brazil, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $250k–$1M
  • Lead/follow: 63% lead, 37% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Courus — Courus is an artificial intelligence company that provides real time market research and actionable insights. Customers include Small Businesses, Micro Businesses, & Consultants that benefit from access to quick, convenient, and affordable market research.
  • Flapper Technologies — Flapper Technologies is Brazil's first boutique private airline. The company was born of a need for accessible on-demand private aviation services, including flights to Premium destinations inaccessible to commercial aviation. Building on the rising popularity of sharing economy, the company sells individual seats on general aviation aircraft,as well as offers on-demand charters, including helicopters, private jets and large corporate airliners.With more than 550 certified aircraft available on its charter platform Flapper boasts the most complete private aviation offer in Latin America.
  • Travel Trade Today — News and resources for today's interconnected travel trade.
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Knife Capital
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 2 investments in South Africa Media (entertainment) startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Education
  • Stage:Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: South Africa, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 40
  • Round size: Series A $2M–$15M; Venture - Series Unknown $1M–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 70% lead, 30% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $50M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • wamly — Wamly is the recruitment software, It has given us time back to focus on transformational work.
  • Cue — Cue is one customer service platform for live chat, chatbots and broadcasts across WhatsApp, Messenger, web chat, email and many other digital channels.
  • Optique Optometrists — Optique Optometrists provides comprehensive eye care services, including eye tests, prescription glasses, and contact lenses. The company offers affordable eye care solutions and has multiple branches across South Africa. Customers can book appointments online and access a wide range of eyewear options. Optique Optometrists focuses on deliveringquality vision care and ensuring customer satisfaction through professional services and convenient booking options.
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Proparco
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 2 investments in South Africa Media (entertainment) startups

Proparco is devoted to private sector funding in the sustainable development sector.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Energy, Finance
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Private Equity, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Kenya, India, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 141
  • Round size: Debt Financing $400k–$206M; Private Equity $10M–$60M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.9M–$72M
  • Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • BasiGo — BasiGo is an early-stage e-mobility start-up looking to revolutionize the public transportation sector by providing matatu owners with a cost-effective electric alternative to diesel buses.
  • Ecoener — Ecoener is a renewable energy company that develops, builds, operates, and maintains electricity generation projects based on clean energy sources. The company works across hydropower, wind, and solar photovoltaic technologies, managing the full lifecycle of energy facilities from early development and engineering to construction and long-termoperation. It also engages in energy commercialization activities that support the sale and distribution of electricity generated from its assets. Ecoener handles project planning, permitting, environmental assessment, and technical design as part of its infrastructure development process. The company operates and expands renewable energy plants across multiple international markets while integrating maintenance and operational management services for its facilities. It also participates in storage-related and hybrid energy projects that combine different renewable technologies to support grid stability and energy supply efficiency.
  • Farm to Feed — One third of all food is lost or wasted, enough to feed the number of hungry people twice worldwide. Food loss and waste contributes to 10% of greenhouse gases globally. We aggregate and repurpose imperfect and surplus produce to create a healthier planet.
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Belgian Investment Company for Developing Countries
VC Fund · Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium · 2 investments in South Africa Media (entertainment) startups

BIO invests in SMEs in developing countries and makes a structural contribution to the socio-economic growth.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Finance, Banking
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Non-Equity Assistance, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: India, Kenya, Ecuador

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 137
  • Round size: Debt Financing $1.6M–$18M; Non-Equity Assistance $16k–$145k; Venture - Series Unknown $43k–$9.8M
  • Lead/follow: 55% lead, 45% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Amartha — Amartha Mikro Fintech - P2P Lending Indonesia. Alternatif investasi dengan modal terjangkau mulai 100Rb. Tedaftar OJK, Imbal hasil 15%* & Berdampak Sosial.
  • Coris Holding — Coris Holding is a financial institution that was established with the motive to provide support to SMEs and SMIs.
  • Orchidia Pharmaceutical — Orchidia Pharmaceutical Industries (Orchidia) is an outstanding Egyptian company specialized in the production of pharmaceutical ophthalmic products.
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Clifftop Colony Capital Partners
VC Fund · 2 investments in South Africa Media (entertainment) startups

Clifftop Colony is an independent principal investment advisory firm focused on private and illiquid assets in emerging Africa. They develop and raise capital for private equity franchises, individual companies and venture projects.Their goal is to create wealth-generating opportunities for their investment partners, shareholders and employees byseeking out the most promising investment prospects in Africa. They help investors develop and implement their African investment strategies and deliver opportunities and solutions. Their network of local advisors, entrepreneurs, business owners, financial service professionals, fund managers and corporate veterans provide knowledge, expertise and an active on-the ground presence in Southern Africa.Clifftop Colony offers fund solutions as well as direct investment opportunities to its clients. Their target investments include buy-outs, growth & venture capital financings, and speciality strategies.They are constantly on the look out for exceptional investment opportunities, either for individual investors, corporate M&A or private equity funds.They only select companies and funds they themselves are also prepared to invest in before presenting any opportunities to their clients and partners.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Audio, Podcast, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • iono.fm — iono.fm is an online audio platform providing podcasting, radio live-streaming, audio advertising and ancillary value-added audio services to radio stations and other content providers. The company has developed it’s own unique device-agnostic technology catering for both developed and emerging markets, allowing audio content providers and ownersof audio content to migrate into the digital age.iono.fm’s proprietary technology package is changing the way people access audio entertainment, moving from traditional analogue to digital, allowing for more efficient and targeted programmatic advertising campaigns.In developed markets, iono.fm offers a fully enabled platform for the latest PC’s and iOS and Android tablets and mobile phones whereas in emerging markets iono.fm is the only platform accessible on feature phones, a popular method of accessing radio content in Africa and other emerging countries. As such the platform is globally unique in that it does considered to be both market- and device-agnostic.Founded in Cape Town, iono.fm has achieved a dominant position in the South African market hosting and distributing audio content from radio stations, educational content providers, interest groups, professional associations and religious organisations. Having proven the business model and consolidated the home market, iono.fm is now well-positioned to drive its global expansion into other markets.
  • Wyzetalk — Wyzetalk is the secure social business platform that accelerates the performance of organizations that believe in the power of engaging communities to collaborate. A cloud-based software solution developed by a South African team, Wyzetalk enables companies and communities to speed up the decision-making process, enable large-scale collaboration,improve all-round communication, encourage idea generation and facilitate an open innovation environment to drive critical business success.Available as a web service, desktop, mobile and tablet app, Wyzetalk is more feature-rich than other products and offers unrivaled pricing, branding, and integration capabilities suited to local companies.The system does not restrict community participation on the basis of domains and conversations can be triggered from events created from a company's internal systems (financial, production, customer, sales) and public triggers (news sites, customer queries).
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KNF Ventures
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 2 investments in South Africa Media (entertainment) startups

was a SARS-approved section 12J Venture Capital Company

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, EBooks, EdTech
  • Stage:Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Quicket — Quicket is a cloud-based and self-managed ticketing solution which allows anyone to instantly start selling tickets, marketing and managing their own event within minutes. Being user-friendly and self-managed allows Quicket to cater for the countless smaller event organisers that, before Quicket, had no viable solution in South Africa and currentlyhave no solution in Africa. Quicket also caters for larger events, integrating into the various payment solutions required for event management across Africa.
  • Snapplify — Snapplify is at the forefront of edtech solutions in Africa, and specialises in enabling digital learning for individuals and institutions via the largest digital educational marketplace in Africa. As a global edtech company, Snapplify strives for radical inclusion to level the playing field and equip individuals across emerging markets with theworld-class tools they need to collaborate, innovate and thrive. Snapplify’s technology is used in other educational products to facilitate collaboration throughout the educational community.Snapplify for Education’s award-winning platform is already a top choice for institutions integrating digital education into their classrooms. From software to support, Snapplify provides institutions with everything they need to create a secure, collaborative e-learning environment for students. Snapplify’s robust 24-hour-access digital-library solution offers thousands of free ebooks and widely applicable, curriculum-approved educational content supplied by partner publishers from across the globe. Snapplify’s diversity of device integration allows schools to use its products on the devices that they already have access to, without having to invest in costly digital infrastructure upgrades. Snapplify’s solutions are industry celebrated and globally recognised for their innovation in technology.In order to achieve its educational goals, Snapplify has built strong relationships with diverse partners around the growth of its ebook, e-textbook, and device catalogue, and partnered with international publishers and other key stakeholders to meet the demand for widely relevant, curriculum-compliant digital educational content. As a socially minded company, Snapplify is committed to supporting others and creating sustainable change through collaboration and innovation. Snapplify empowers, inspires, and uplifts teachers via Teacha! (a media hub, resource marketplace, and careers portal for educators); is the digital content partner on a project that delivers technology and e-learning to public schools in South Africa’s Gauteng province, and runs impact programmes through the Snapplify Foundation.Snapplify originated in South Africa, focusing initially on the South African education and digital content industries. Since its establishment in 2012, the company has grown and expanded into new markets in Africa and the United States, with offices across South Africa, as well as in Nairobi, London, Amsterdam and New Jersey. Snapplify is backed by AngelHub Ventures, a venture capital company backed by former First National Bank CEO Michael Jordaan and the Harris family, as well as international investors. In 2019, Snapplify secured $2 million expansion capital from venture capital firm Knife Capital, and empowered African investment manager Hlayisani Capital’s Hlayisani Growth Fund.Snapplify for Education’s award-winning platform is already a top choice for institutions integrating digital education into their classrooms. From software to support, Snapplify provides institutions with everything they need to create a secure, collaborative e-learning environment for students. Through Snapplify’s e-learning and digital library solution, Engage, educators can share teacher-created, multimedia resource materials with students; administrators can manage the access and permissions for multiple student and staff accounts; schools can host their own 24-hour access digital content library (which comes with over 50 000 free resources including study guides, e-textbooks, past exam papers for multiple curricula, children’s books in African languages and more); and students and parents can purchase prescribed e-textbooks. Snapplify’s diversity of device integration allows schools to use its products on the devices that they already have access to, without having to invest in costly digital infrastructure upgrades. Snapplify’s solutions are industry celebrated and globally recognised for their innovation in technology.
  • GraniteWMS — GraniteWMS is a powerful warehouse management system designed to streamline inventory, boost efficiency, and simplify warehouse operations.
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AngelHub Ventures
VC Fund · Stellenbosch, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 2 investments in South Africa Media (entertainment) startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Syscap — Syscap is a financial technology company that offers cutting-edge solutions to financial institutions to have a better administration and management of their funding sources. It connects the leaders of financial and real estate institutions with their funders. For institutions, the company ensures the optimization of their funding source managementprocesses, but also the strengthening of the relationship with their funders. To funders, Syscap guarantees the transparency and timely monitoring of its funds for the safety and growth of its resources.
  • Godochurch — GoDoChurch is a cloud-based church administration software which is designed to assist Christian churches and ministries with managing members, Sunday services, events, communications, and more. The system is made up of a base package, covering messaging, news, ministries, lists, church roles, services, events, and growth paths, with additionalmodules for managing follow-ups, groups, and Kids church.
  • Velocity — Velocity is a micro fulfillment dark store that delivers through digital channels.
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Investisseurs & Partenaires
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 2 investments in South Africa Media (entertainment) startups

Investisseurs et Partenaires

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Health Care, Food and Beverage
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: France, Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 103
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • iProcure — iProcure is a Nairobi-based start-up working to optimize the agriculture input supply chain in rural Kenya. iProcure’s web and mobile technology solution improves agriculture retailers’ operations. It lets them manage ordering based on inventory, point of sale activities, and client profiles along with geo-located purchasing patterns, real-timeagent performance and transaction analysis, and built-in mobile payments. As a result, retailers can better predict demand with business intelligence data, improve inventory management, and streamline distribution efficiency.
  • Trackbit — Trackbit is a cryptocurrency exchange platform.
  • Lapaire — Discover a wide range of high-quality & affordable eyeglasses at Lapaire Glasses. Book a free vision test with our professional optometrists to help you find your perfect pair of glasses to enhance your vision and style. Shops in 7 african countries: Benin, Ivory Coast, Togo, Burkina Faso, Mali, Kenya and Uganda.
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Tom Berckt
Angel · 1 investments in South Africa Media (entertainment) startups

Tom is currently a commercial executive at Clicks2customers.com, a global Search Engine Marketing company. His background is in (bio-) engineering but he has been involved in online companies for the past 10 years. Besides working at Clicks2customers, Tom is a part time lecturer at TSIBA (http://www.tsiba.org.za/) a South AfricanNGO providing tertiary education to economically disadvantaged children. He is also an angel investor in a number is technology startups and is an active member of the Silicon Cape initiative (www.siliconcape.com)

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Events, Printing
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Personera — Personera is a technology company focused on the development of Facebook applications and personalized products. Personera's unique platform allows brands to offer their communities a variety of branded print products or digital downloads, easily ordered directly from the brand's Facebook fan page and fully personalized with their socialnetwork content. Personera's platform is white-labeled and completely customizable for any unique brand identity. Products include calendars, photobooks, cards, and posters, and are available in professional print versions or digital downloads. All of their products include shared content between the brand and the individual consumer, creating a one of a kind keepsake or merchandise piece for every customer. Implementing Personera on websites or Facebook fan pages (or both) is easy. All it requires is installation of an app by adding a new tab to a fan page or embedding a line of code onto a website. Personera handles payments, printing and delivery via their global network.Personera's business model works on a per-sale revenue share basis, so there are zero setup fees for clients. They have a global network of commercial print partners that manage physical production and delivery of the products, ensuring high quality, fast and reliable service worldwide. Personera makes it easy for brands to monetize their Facebook page while engaging their fans with personalized product offerings. The Personera personalized products platform has been used by a variety of brands including leading magazines, musicians, celebrities and consumer focused companies.
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Yossi Hasson
Angel · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in South Africa Media (entertainment) startups

Yossi Hasson is the Co-Founder and CEO of Metaversal and a Venture Partner at 2048 Ventures. He is also a Non-Executive Director of WeThinkCode_. Prior to that, he was the Managing Director of Techstars. He attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business and the University of Pretoria/Universiteit van Pretoria.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Blockchain, Payments
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Africa, United States, Ghana

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 28
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Ozow — Easy, fast, safe online payments and bank API solutions for merchants and consumers across South Africa. Secure instant EFT directly from bank to bank.
  • Howler — Howler, is the powerful event technology platform designed at the uppermost benchmarks of service and technology to help consumers and event organisers to make moments that matter.
  • The Sun Exchange — Sun Exchange delivers risk-free commercial solar power with full financing, installation, and maintenance.
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Hlayisani Growth Fund
VC Fund · Fourways, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in South Africa Media (entertainment) startups

Hlayisani Growth Fund is focussed on mid-market, high growth private equity investments focussed on South Africa with an allowance for Sub-Saharan Africa and East African countries.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Education, Apps, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • GoMetro — See All Your Vehicles, All The Time | Go Metro
  • Sticitt — Sticitt is a cashless payment platform. Sticitt services schools, lifestyle and golf estates, as well as events and is assisting one utility company to get clients to pay for water bills using its cashless payments system.
  • d6 group — SCHOOLS Schools Communication Platforms and School Management Software COMMUNITIES Community & Internal Business Communication Platforms MEDIA Let your brand be seen Advertise on
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Unanimous Capital
VC Fund · San Mateo, California, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Media (entertainment) startups

Unanimous Capital is a venture capital firm focusing on early-stage investments while opportunistically participating in later stages. The firm also invests in founders solving meaningful problems by creating or disrupting markets at scale. Their range of operational experience allows them to capitalize on the current gap in early-stage funding andmakes us uniquely qualified to help companies thrive.Unanimous Capital was founded in 2018 and is based in San Mateo, California, USA.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Software, Gaming
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Sweden, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Jinx — Shop Jinx for ready-to-devour premium dog food and dog treats. Free shipping and 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
  • Conductive.ai — Conductive.ai is an engagement platform for game developers to motivate players to increase player lifetime value.
  • Blocklords — Be part of the most ambitious strategy game of our age.
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Avalon Wealth Club
VC Fund · 1 investments in South Africa Media (entertainment) startups

Avalon Wealth Club is a dynamic group of marketing experts, blockchain veterans, real estate investors and event organizers

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, Blockchain, Software
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Singapore, Grenada, Vietnam

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • DOS Labs — DOS stand for Decentralized Operating System. We build a blockchain gaming platform for web3.
  • Affyn — Affyn is a Blockchain-powered metaverse project developing a free-to-play and play-to-earn mobile game with integrated geolocation and augmented reality capability. Making use of geolocation capability and AR mechanics, it incorporates the fun element of gaming with Blockchain technology such as the utility of NFTs and their official currency andensures that the rewards stay attractive to both new and existing players.Affyn was founded by Lucaz Lee.
  • Billionaire Plus — Billionaire Plus is a board game that combine NFT, Defi, collectibles and your journey.
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Icon Ventures
VC Fund · Palo Alto, California, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Media (entertainment) startups, 7 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 172
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Eppo — Hypothesis-centered A/B experimentation, built for today's product and data teams.
  • 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.
  • Nomad Health — Search travel nurse jobs nationwide. Earn more money, haggle-free. Receive expert support without the pushy tactics of a traditional recruiter.
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African Infrastructure Investment Managers
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in South Africa Media (entertainment) startups

African Infrastructure Investment Managers (AIIM) develops and manages private equity infrastructure funds designed to invest long-term institutional unlisted equity in African infrastructure projects.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Solar, Energy, SaaS
  • Stage:Private Equity, Debt Financing
  • Geography: Nigeria, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Snapplify — Snapplify is at the forefront of edtech solutions in Africa, and specialises in enabling digital learning for individuals and institutions via the largest digital educational marketplace in Africa. As a global edtech company, Snapplify strives for radical inclusion to level the playing field and equip individuals across emerging markets with theworld-class tools they need to collaborate, innovate and thrive. Snapplify’s technology is used in other educational products to facilitate collaboration throughout the educational community.Snapplify for Education’s award-winning platform is already a top choice for institutions integrating digital education into their classrooms. From software to support, Snapplify provides institutions with everything they need to create a secure, collaborative e-learning environment for students. Snapplify’s robust 24-hour-access digital-library solution offers thousands of free ebooks and widely applicable, curriculum-approved educational content supplied by partner publishers from across the globe. Snapplify’s diversity of device integration allows schools to use its products on the devices that they already have access to, without having to invest in costly digital infrastructure upgrades. Snapplify’s solutions are industry celebrated and globally recognised for their innovation in technology.In order to achieve its educational goals, Snapplify has built strong relationships with diverse partners around the growth of its ebook, e-textbook, and device catalogue, and partnered with international publishers and other key stakeholders to meet the demand for widely relevant, curriculum-compliant digital educational content. As a socially minded company, Snapplify is committed to supporting others and creating sustainable change through collaboration and innovation. Snapplify empowers, inspires, and uplifts teachers via Teacha! (a media hub, resource marketplace, and careers portal for educators); is the digital content partner on a project that delivers technology and e-learning to public schools in South Africa’s Gauteng province, and runs impact programmes through the Snapplify Foundation.Snapplify originated in South Africa, focusing initially on the South African education and digital content industries. Since its establishment in 2012, the company has grown and expanded into new markets in Africa and the United States, with offices across South Africa, as well as in Nairobi, London, Amsterdam and New Jersey. Snapplify is backed by AngelHub Ventures, a venture capital company backed by former First National Bank CEO Michael Jordaan and the Harris family, as well as international investors. In 2019, Snapplify secured $2 million expansion capital from venture capital firm Knife Capital, and empowered African investment manager Hlayisani Capital’s Hlayisani Growth Fund.Snapplify for Education’s award-winning platform is already a top choice for institutions integrating digital education into their classrooms. From software to support, Snapplify provides institutions with everything they need to create a secure, collaborative e-learning environment for students. Through Snapplify’s e-learning and digital library solution, Engage, educators can share teacher-created, multimedia resource materials with students; administrators can manage the access and permissions for multiple student and staff accounts; schools can host their own 24-hour access digital content library (which comes with over 50 000 free resources including study guides, e-textbooks, past exam papers for multiple curricula, children’s books in African languages and more); and students and parents can purchase prescribed e-textbooks. Snapplify’s diversity of device integration allows schools to use its products on the devices that they already have access to, without having to invest in costly digital infrastructure upgrades. Snapplify’s solutions are industry celebrated and globally recognised for their innovation in technology.
  • Starsight Energy — Leading solar energy provider in Africa, delivering clean energy solutions to power the continent's future.
  • Eastcastle Infrastructure — Track record of providing reliable and sustainable connectivity for consumers and communities in Africa.
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Technology Innovation Agency
VC Fund · Pretoria, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in South Africa Media (entertainment) startups

WELCOME TO TIA Innovating Tomorrow Together Welcome to our agency - where ideas are nurtured, innovation is enabled , and impact is realised Through our funding, support programmes, and partnerships, we help innovators move from concept to impact. Whether you are an innovator or a partner, you are welcome here Funding Solutions SUPPORT PROGRAMMES

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Electronics
  • Stage:Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Seed $46k–$1.3M; Grant $25k–$1M; Pre-Seed $50k–$188k
  • Lead/follow: 79% lead, 21% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ann-Connect — Ann-Connect is an EdTech SaaS for learning, teaching, exams and assessments rolled into an all-in-one education platform.Founded in 2021 by Bonginkosi Mabaso, Nexa was born from a real problem: students missing exams and learning opportunities because of unreliable internet. Our mission is simple: make online education accessible to everystudent, regardless of connectivity or background. Today, Nexa is trusted by universities, training institutions, and professional bodies across South Africa, with partnerships that give access to more than 450,000 learners. One workspace. All your education tools: - Nexa ExamCore: Offline exam tool where students can access, write, and submit online exams even without internet. - Nexa Invigilator: Invigilation tool designed to monitor for online exams. - Nexa Invigilator Venue-based – Proctoring for physical/venue-based exams for schools, corporates & teams. - Nexa Room – Low-bandwidth video conferencing just like MS Teams but designed for teaching and learning, with AI-driven student engagement tracking. - Integrations – Seamless connection with Learning Management Systems (LMS), plagiarism checkers, and other education tools — all in one place. Recognised with awards from TIA, ABSA, and the Royal Academy of Engineering (UK), Nexa is shaping the future of global education by making it inclusive, resilient, and accessible everywhere. Ready to experience THE platform for inclusive learning? Visit ann-connect.com and join us in building education without limits.
  • Aviro Health — We believe that empowering and supporting people to manage their own health benefits everybody.We built the Aviro Pocket Clinic to support self-care and provide access to services. We give people what they need to perform important health checks like regular HIV self-testing and connect them to experts and services who can offer hands-on and supported care when needed.
  • All Weather Roads Engineering — All Weather Roads Engineering is a building material manufacturing firm also offering supply of construction material.
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Savannah Fund
VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya · 1 investments in South Africa Media (entertainment) startups

Savannah Fund is a seed capital fund specializing in US$25,000-US$500,000 investments in early stage high growth technology (web and mobile) startups in sub-Saharan Africa. Initially focused on East Africa, the fund aims to bridge the early stage/angel and venture capital investment gap that currently exists in Africa. The Fund expects toachieve this objective by combining capital with mentor networks both in the region and from Silicon Valley via an accelerator program and a follow-on independent seed fund.The fund is managed by an experienced and technology savvy team that have founded companies or are actively involved in angel investing or having run successful accelerator programs in past but also understand the unique Subsaharan African environment. They are backed and supported by both local, regional and international networks of angels,venture capitalists whose expertise we can draw on to help startups succeed and scale to fully fledged regional or global companies.They believe in the potential for Africa to become a global technology innovator by creating sustainable for profit companies that create jobs and make an impact.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, United States, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 46
  • Round size: Seed $25k–$3.3M; Pre-Seed $200k–$2.1M; Series A $750k–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $25M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Aya Data — Aya Data provides high-quality data annotation, AI training data, 3D annotations, machine learning solutions and also specialises in geospatial, NLP and computer vision projects.
  • Kubik — Kubik makes low-carbon buildings from plastic waste. Bringing environmental dignity to how countries grow.
  • Hohm Energy — We make the process of going solar simple. Generate your free, custom solar proposal and get matched with an accredited solar provider in under 5 mins.
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Vumela Fund
VC Fund · Hyde Park, Newtownabbey, United Kingdom · 1 investments in South Africa Media (entertainment) startups

Vumela was established in 2009 by FNB Business Banking and Edge Growth. The objective was to create an innovative model for the development of a sustainable and a financially and operationally independent investment business which invests in high growth small, medium and micro size enterprises with good economic and impact returns.Vumela wascapitalised in 2010. Within the first four years, we’d invested R90 million into eight high growth SMEs, and created a total of 400 jobs. They launched their second fund in 2015, after a further investment of R100 million from FirstRand and R127 million from the Jobs Fund. Within the first year of launching this second fund, we’ve committed R43 million to five investments that are expected to create over 1800 new jobs.The first fund of its kind in South Africa, Vumela’s main goals are to invest in and develop entrepreneurial companies in order to help alleviate poverty in South Africa by creating jobs, and to generate a return for its beneficiaries: the Shalamuka Foundation and the FirstRand Group.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Education, Hospital, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Debt Financing
  • Geography: South Africa, Brazil

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 26
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$910k; Debt Financing $1.1M–$1.7M; Venture - Series Unknown $500k–$1M
  • Lead/follow: 81% lead, 19% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $20M in 2015

Portfolio highlights

  • Trade Shield — Trade Shield's aim is to increase access to trade credit facilities for those companies that most need them and will benefit the most from them.
  • Breaze Delivery — Optimize your last-mile delivery in SA. Breaze offers same-day delivery, easy Shopify/WooCommerce integration, and live WhatsApp tracking for your brand.
  • Iris Fresh Pty Ltd — Iris Fresh exports fresh produce from Southern Africa to international buyers.
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iHub
VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya · 1 investments in South Africa Media (entertainment) startups

iHub is a globally recognized organization that is deeply steeped in the local tech innovation culture. It is fair to say that the iHub has been both the main catalyst for regional tech acceleration and a role model for tech hubs across emerging markets. We are nurturing the best innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem; one that constantlychallenges and influences technology; one that can be replicated across the continent, as we believe that African innovation will play a critical role in shaping future technology globally.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Education, E-Learning, EdTech
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • SILABU — Silabu is a platform that links students with skilled teachers to help them achieve their learning objectives, offering an alternative to traditional education.
  • ntemata — ntemata an Edtech platform that allows you to automate teacher assessment processes and analyze competence-based learning holistically.
  • LoHo Learning — Loho Learning is an e-Learning platform that provides customized and interactive education to the schooling generation in a variety of digital formats.
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LoftyInc Capital
VC Fund · Carmel, California, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Media (entertainment) startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 187
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2.4M; Series A $250k–$37M
  • Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $43M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Cauridor — Cauridor is a Financial Services company.
  • WafR — WafR is a reward-based loyalty startup that allows users to earn phone recharges while shopping at retail shops.
  • Nucleon Security — Zero-Trust and ML-based Endpoint Detection and Response Platform #EDR #FDR #EndpointSecurity
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Ignition Partners
VC Fund · Los Altos, California, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Media (entertainment) startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 241
  • Round size: Series A $2.1M–$13M; Series B $6M–$25M; Series C $8.5M–$54M
  • Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $200M in 2015

Portfolio highlights

  • Swype — Swype creates text input technology for screens. The patented interface enables users to create words with one continuous finger motion across an on-screen keyboard. This approach provides a faster and easier way to write. Swype delivers single-tap, multi-tap, predictive and "swype" motions for both stylus and finger based input.In addition, the application is designed to work across a variety of devices such as phones, tablets, game consoles, kiosks, televisions, virtual screens and more.Seattle based Swype Inc. was founded by Cliff Kushler and Randy Marsden in 2003. Cliff is the co-inventor of T9, the standard predictive text-entry solution used on almost 3 billion mobile phones worldwide. Randy is the developer of the onscreen keyboard included in Windows, with an installed base of over 500 million units
  • PaxVax — PaxVax is a vaccine start-up company developing candidate oral vaccines for influenza, and key infectious diseases. It has developed a proprietary oral vaccine technology based on a common virus called adenovirus. The technology removes the delivery hurdles of traditional injectable vaccines, namely the need for cold storage, needles, andadministration by medical personnel.PaxVax was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Gaithersburg, Maryland.
  • Docusign — DocuSign ensures the security & mobility to digitally transform businesses. Sign docs for free.
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Lowenthal Capital Partners
VC Fund · Davis, California, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Media (entertainment) startups

Lowenthal Capital Partners fills this need through its subscription newsletter service which offers a myriad of stock picks.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Logistics, Media and Entertainment
  • Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Vision Software PTY — Vision was founded in 1990. It is the leader in entertainment and edutainment software sales in South Africa and has 16 full-time employees. The company has regional offices in Durban and Cape Town and is rapidly building export sales into Kenya and four neighboring countries (Zimbabwe, Namibia, Botswana and Swaziland). In addition to ElectronicArts products, Vision distributes software for other leading publishers.
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Fish Dao
VC Fund · 1 investments in South Africa Media (entertainment) startups

Fish Dao

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Gaming, Web3
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Estonia, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $1.7M–$4.6M; Series A $8M–$8M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • CESS — CESS is a blockchain-based, decentralized Layer-1 infrastructure that integrates distributed storage, a high-speed content delivery network.
  • Ajuna Network — Ajuna Network is a decentralized ecosystem for gamers and creators.
  • Cumulus Encrypted Storage System (CESS) — CESS revolutionizes AI, DeSci, RWA, Enterprise, and more with secure, transparent, and traceable data solutions. Delivering AI computing and data infrastructure, CESS enables data privacy and sovereignty with a focus on AI Agent applications and frameworks.
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Brandtech Ventures
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Media (entertainment) startups

Brandtech Ventures is the investment arm of The Brandtech Group (formerly You & Mr Jones), and makes venture stage investments in brandtech startup and growth businesses. The firm is particularly focused on AI, AR, Video, Voice, Data, UGC and analytics. The Brandtech Group was founded by David Jones in 2015 and is headquartered in New York.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Advertising
  • Stage:Seed, Series B, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 34
  • Round size: Seed $1.6M–$10M; Series A $3.8M–$11M; Series B $9M–$200M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Blacktag — Blacktag is a global platform for Black content and creators.
  • Provenance — Provenance is a software solution for sustainability communications and supply chain transparency.
  • Griffin Gaming Partners — Griffin Gaming Partners is a venture capital firm focused exclusively on the gaming industry The firm invests across the broad gaming ecosystem, including content, software, and platforms.
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Goldman Sachs
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Media (entertainment) startups

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm that provides a wide range of financial services to a substantial and diversified client base.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Series C, Series B
  • Geography: United States, India, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 985
  • Round size: Series B $12M–$139M; Series C $20M–$145M; Debt Financing $60M–$1.6B
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $43M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • XIFIN — XiFin is the leading provider of SaaS-based healthcare revenue cycle management (RCM) and workflow automation solutions
  • ReNew — ReNew(NASDAQ: RNW),a global renewable company offering clean & green energy with a portfolio of 13.7 GW including Wind, Solar, Hybrid & Hydro Power.
  • BPL Medical Technologies — BPL, the best medical equipment manufacturing company in India is a pioneer in Innovative Medical Technologies and provides complete healthcare solutions.
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NuState Capital
VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in South Africa Media (entertainment) startups

NuState Capital as private equity investor is to generate attractive returns through positive social transformation.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Education, Software, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
  • Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Sticitt — Sticitt is a cashless payment platform. Sticitt services schools, lifestyle and golf estates, as well as events and is assisting one utility company to get clients to pay for water bills using its cashless payments system.
  • d6 — SCHOOLS Schools Communication Platforms and School Management Software COMMUNITIES Community & Internal Business Communication Platforms MEDIA Let your brand be seen Advertise on
  • Principal Software(d6 education) — d6 is a school management software application that helps you manage your school's curriculum, administration, communication and finance.
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Michael Leeman
Angel · San Diego, California, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Media (entertainment) startups

Michael is the San Diego based Senior VP Business Development for Cognician, a self coaching and behavior change platform based in San Francisco. He is also a shareholder and director. Michael also has array of investments in and advisory roles with a number of other start ups, including Gyft, Yola, ChessCube and Skyrove.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Software, Publishing
  • Stage:Angel, Seed
  • Geography: United States, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Seed $550k–$2.5M; Angel $125k–$590k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Personera — Talk to AI characters, challenge them in debates, and earn tokens. Socrates, Elon Musk, Shakespeare and 50+ more await you. Try free now.
  • Swiftly — Harness your public transit data with Swiftly's urban mobility solutions to make your city's mass transportation move more efficiently.
  • Appstores.com — Appstores is making it easier for consumers to find apps by giving small and large niche publishers and API/platform companies the tools to showcase apps most relevant to their users.
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Legion Ventures
VC Fund · Miami, Florida, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Media (entertainment) startups

Legion Ventures is at the epicenter of the blockchain tokenized revolution – connected with leaders, funds, influencers, governments, companies, technology, and trends that are key to success in this market. They are intimately familiar with the complexities of today’s economic convergence around blockchain, digital securities, crypto trading,tokenizing real-world assets, liquidity solutions, global regulation, investor and customer behavior patterns, and the complex web of relationships tying decentralized systems to a better world. This expertise allows us to build the right plan for each stage in your blockchain journey.A sound finance and marketing strategy, along with sharp vision are must-haves in order to disrupt or keep up with disruption in the blockchain tokenized ecosystem. Legion Ventures’ provides real-time tailored services in order to reach to an innovative ever-changing world of democratized data.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Initial Coin Offering
  • Geography: Israel, Italy, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Seed $300k–$4.5M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Coinzix — Coinzix - one of the most convenient and reliable crypto platforms with guaranteed liquidity and low commissions. Come in and make sure.
  • VisionGame — VisionGame brings the traditional game publishing experience, boosted for the blockchain. VisionGame provides unique products, technical and creative services, all to support the ever-growing gaming blockchain industry, raising the bar one game at a time.
  • MetaFi — MetaFi is a blockchain-based technology project that focuses on combining decentralized finance (DeFi), social trading, and the metaverse into one ecosystem. The platform aims to create a virtual financial environment where users can trade digital assets, interact with other traders, and participate in Web3-based financial activities.
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Alpha Moon Capital
VC Fund · 1 investments in South Africa Media (entertainment) startups

Alpha Moon Capital focuses on investing in early-stage decentralized financing, NFT and Web3 startups. We aim to support ambitious blockchain startups which bring innovations and great solutions to enhance the foundation of the decentralized web. We not only invest in Blockchain projects, but also incubate, accelerate and support projects to thefullest by connecting the founding team to the right influencers and investors.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
  • Geography: Vietnam, Singapore, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 54
  • Round size: Seed $400k–$2.6M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • MetaRacers — MetaRacers is a blockchain racing game with a PvP mode between 2 players directly on the track.
  • YIN Finance — YIN Finance is an NFT liquidity management platform that allows users to subscribe project strategies to achieve an effective high yield. YIN Finance offers active liquidity management, automatically re-invested, and multi-party yield farming.
  • Synergy Land — Synergy Land is a blockchain-based multiplayer action role-playing game (ARPG) developed by Synergy Games.
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Sina Afra
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in South Africa Media (entertainment) startups

Sina Afra is a serial entrepreneur and early-stage investor with over two decades of experience building, scaling, and exiting technology-driven companies.He is best known as the founder of Markafoni, one of Turkey’s first large-scale digital commerce companies and a defining success of the country’s early internet economy. In 2011, Naspers Groupacquired a majority stake in Markafoni in one of the landmark transactions of the Turkish internet sector.Over the course of his career, Sina has founded more than 20 companies, completed 12 exits, and angel-invested in over 60 early-stage startups across Europe, Africa, and the United States.He is a Founding Partner at Founder One, an impact venture capital fund, and the Founder and Chairman of the Entrepreneurship Foundation (Girişimcilik Vakfı), which focuses on developing entrepreneurial talent and strengthening the long-term infrastructure of the startup ecosystem in Turkey.Earlier in his career, Sina worked at KPMG and held leadership roles at eBay, where he gained first-hand experience in operating and scaling global internet platforms.His work has been recognized with more than 20 international awards and honors, including being named Internet Entrepreneur of the Year, Business Angel of the Year, and Forbes’ Brightest Minds Alive in Turkey, with features in Wired and Forbes.Sina holds a degree from the University of Münster and is an alumnus of Harvard Business School. He speaks five languages and is actively engaged in the European and Turkish technology and venture ecosystems.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Fashion, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 47
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$4.2M; Angel $150k–$1.5M; Series A $2M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Odeal — Oedeal is a developer of an app designed for companies to take payments via mobile. With the help of the company's platform, shops can do away with cash registers and accept payments from customers using tablets, smartphones, or point-of-sale devices, allowing them to finish their purchases right away. Making it simpler for all entrepreneursto access financial services is central to their mission of boosting the competitiveness of both enterprises and the nation.
  • Faturalab — Faturalab is a mobile app that provides supply chain financing, payments, financial benefits, and capital management services.
  • MARS — MARS provides digital financial services with unique card options and rewards programs.
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Crossfin Technology
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in South Africa Media (entertainment) startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 23
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ask Gogo — Ask Gogo develops data free application designed to facilitate buying, selling, renting, and job searching without using mobile data.
  • DigiSquad — DigiSquad is a team of entrepreneurs in the payments industry striving to expand the reach of digital payment platforms in underserved regions.
  • AKELO Group — AKELO Group provides a marketplace for embedded financial services and solutions for corporates, retailers and SME merchants.
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Naspers
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in South Africa Media (entertainment) startups

Naspers is a global internet group that empowers people and enrich communities. Naspers companies operate and invest in countries and markets across the world with long-term growth potential. 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 thegreatest growth potential. The company was founded on May 12, 1915, and is based in Cape Town, South Africa.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Retail
  • Stage:Series B, Private Equity, Series A
  • Geography: South Africa, India, Brazil

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 53
  • Round size: Series A $510k–$20M; Series B $1.7M–$100M; Private Equity $70M–$421M
  • Lead/follow: 55% lead, 45% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Abaguquli — Abaguquli is a non-profit organisation. aims to improve people's lives through education and innovation.
  • PharmEasy — PharmEasy is one of India's most trusted online pharmacy & medical stores offering pharmaceutical and healthcare products at a FLAT 20% OFF*. Used by 50 lakhs+ customers in India in 1.2K+ cities like Bangalore, Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Gurgaon, Noida, Pune, etc.
  • SweepSouth — Book a home cleaning online from your mobile, tablet or computer. SweepSouth connects you with a cleaner in minutes. Cleaners are experienced, reliable, efficient and insured.
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Vinny Lingham
Angel · San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Media (entertainment) startups

Vinny Lingham is the Co-Founder and CEO of Rumi.ai(Waitroom). He previously worked at YPO as a Member. Vinny Lingham attended Harvard Business School Executive Education.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United States, South Africa, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 40
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$5.6M; Angel $125k–$500k
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Glif — Interoperable tools for the Filecoin network
  • Afterparty — Afterparty is a technology company behind the new Web3 platform enabling creators to directly monetize and manage NFT collector relationships
  • Shield USDT — US bank accounts built for international wholesalers and distributors. Same-day USD wires, USDT payments, escrow, and business credit cards.
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Oikocredit International
VC Fund · Amersfoort, Utrecht, The Netherlands · 1 investments in South Africa Media (entertainment) startups

Invest in People with Oikocredit and use your money to create change. giving people opportunity to build better lives. Invest Now

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Series B, Series A
  • Geography: India, Kenya, Ghana

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 71
  • Round size: Series A $2.5M–$26M; Series B $3.6M–$24M; Debt Financing $1.1M–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Djamo — Djamo is a Provider of financial applications to allow customers to use their cards with zero fees in a wide range of services.
  • Prestamype — Prestamype was launched in 2017 with the aim of providing a broader access to funding to micro and small businesses, with better credit conditions. With its first product, a secured working capital loan with a real estate collateral, it has lent over USD 24 million to 750 Peruvian entrepreneurs (as of 1st of October 2021). In 2019, Prestamypelaunched its online FX platform called Cambio Seguro. In 2020, the company launched its digital factoring product. In 2021, INCA Ventures and Angel Ventures Peru (AVP), two leading funds in Peru, invested in the company.
  • Sindhuja Microcredit — Sindhuja Microcredit is a new generation digital and rural-focused Micro Finance Institution (MFI) providing financial services to the bottom of the pyramid self-employed women entrepreneurs.
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Snap
VC Fund · Venice, California, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Media (entertainment) startups

We believe the camera presents the greatest opportunity to improve the way people live and communicate.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Video, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series E
  • Geography: United States, India, Taiwan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Round size: Seed $150k–$4M; Pre-Seed $158k–$2.5M
  • Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Newond — Software and concierge services to support back-office operations during layoffs.
  • Perfect — Perfect Corp. is dedicated to transforming how consumers, content creators and beauty brands interact together. Their unique platform is the premier online destination for all beauty lovers. Their apps, YouCam Makeup, recently voted Best Fashion & Apparels App* of 2015, and market-leading YouCam Perfect redefine virtual beauty for tens ofmillions of users. Their experienced team of engineers and beauty aficionados is pushing the frontiers of technology to create the beauty platform of the future – a fluid environment where individuals express themselves, learn the latest about fashion and beauty, and enjoy instant access to the products from their favorite brands.*YouCam Makeup is the winner of 2015 Appy Award of Best Fashion & Apparels App.
  • Aleph Group — Aleph is the largest global digital media partner. In over 70 markets worldwide, we are trusted to connect the biggest players in digital media with the advertisers that rely on them. Aleph helps advertisers maximize the value of their investment through a complete service ecosystem - comprising innovative proprietary technology, digital expertiseand deeply embedded local market knowledge. Our teams help brands to master the leading digital platforms, bringing them closer to their customers. These services are delivered through our portfolio of digital media service brands: IMS; Httpool; WISE.BLUE; and Social Snack.
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Fairum Ventures
VC Fund · 1 investments in South Africa Media (entertainment) startups

Fairum is a Community which knows rapid growth. We are actively looking for strategic partnerships in the blockchain industry. We believe that blockchain technology can dramatically improve our lives and society. This improvement will be done by supporting projects that have a clear vision of the real economy and vibrate according to values such astransparency and connections between individuals.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Israel, Estonia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Seed $715k–$21M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Solak — Solak is an AI browser and DeFi platform that is transforming the digital world.
  • Graviton Zero — Graviton Zero multi-Chain Play to Earn NFT Game - In a Universe ravaged by War
  • Billionaire Plus — Billionaire Plus is a board game that combine NFT, Defi, collectibles and your journey.
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Dain Rauscher Wessels
VC Fund · Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Media (entertainment) startups

Dain Rauscher Wessels was a brokerage and investment banking firm based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Internet
  • Stage:Series C, Series B
  • Geography: United States, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 23
  • Round size: Series B $8.4M–$40M; Series C $24M–$102M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • ShoreTel — ShoreTel is a Sunnyvale, Calif. a seller of IP telecom systems to large businesses. ShoreTel, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the development and sale of Internet protocol (IP) communications systems for enterprises in the United States and internationally. The company’s systems are based on its distributed softwarearchitecture and switch-based hardware platform that enable multi-site enterprises to be served by a single telecommunications system. Its solutions include ShoreTel IP Phones; ShoreTel Voice Switches; ShoreTel Service Appliances; ShoreTel Director, which enables IT administrators to view and manage the entire system of the enterprise from any location using a single application; Unified Messaging solutions that enables users to obtain voice mail messages from various devices; Automated Attendant, which enables the enterprise to direct callers to appropriate individuals, workgroups, or messages; and Small Business Edition solution for smaller enterprises. The company also provides ShoreTel Communicator, which enables the integration of IP telephony solutions with instant messaging, desktop collaboration, and video; Microsoft Integration; ShoreTel Contact Center that enables organizations to route incoming contacts to appropriate agent in a multisite contact center; and ShoreTel Mobility for smartphone users that allows the user to communicate from any location, including office, home, or through Wi-Fi hotspots. In addition, it offers custom application development, integration, and implementation services for businesses; and post-contractual support, training, system design and installation, and professional services. The company sells its products to small, medium, and large companies, as well as public institutions in various markets, including the professional services, financial services, government, education, healthcare, manufacturing, non-profit organization, and technology through a network of distributors. ShoreTel, Inc. was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.
  • PowerDsine — Microsemi Corporation (Nasdaq: MSCC) offers a comprehensive portfolio of semiconductor and system solutions for communications, defense & security, aerospace and industrial markets. Products include high-performance, radiation-hardened and highly reliable analog mixed-signal integrated circuits, FPGAs, SoCs and ASICs; power management products;timing and voice processing devices; RF solutions; discrete components; security technologies and scalable anti-tamper products; Power-over-Ethernet ICs and midspans; as well as custom design capabilities and services. Microsemi is headquartered in Aliso Viejo, Calif., and has approximately 3,000 employees globally.
  • Chameleon Systems — Chameleon Systems is a privately held fabless semiconductor company that designs, markets and sells programmable system-on-a-chip solutions for the communications electronics markets. Headquartered in San Jose, California, the company has developed the industry´s first reconfigurable communications processor (RCP)--an ideal solution fordata-intensive Internet, DSP, wireless basestations, voice compression, software-defined radio, and other high-performance embedded telecom and datacom applications. The Chameleon RCP solution allows data and telecom equipment vendors to create customized communications signal processors to increase performance and channel count, more quickly adapt to new requirements and standards, reduce time-to-market, lower development costs and reduce risk.
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Marc Andreessen
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Media (entertainment) startups

Marc Andreessen was the Co-founder of LoudCloud Systems.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: United States, France, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 119
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$11M; Series A $3.1M–$48M; Series B $3M–$80M
  • Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Unite — We started Unite because we saw a problem.Two problems, in fact. A problem faced by marketplace sellers like you, who see high- quality traffic on your pages but have no way of retargeting shoppers who don’t end up purchasing, leaving potential sales on the table. And a problem faced by the marketplaces where you sell, which win by helping youdrive sales but aren’t equipped to offer you the sorts of online advertising tools like retargeting pixels, audience creation, and campaign management platforms that big brands have been using for years.That’s where we come in. Understanding these constraints and sharing the frustration faced by both sellers and marketplaces over lost revenue and lost customers, we created the perfect platform to put the industry’s most powerful advertising technology capabilities in the hands of people like you, building them into the marketplaces where you already sell. The result? Higher traffic and higher conversion rates. In other words, higher sales.Today, thousands of sellers across the Internet are using Unite to advertise like a big brand and drive sales. It’s time to join them.
  • Phi — Build your web3 cities from your wallet activities
  • Quillette — What is Quillette? Quillette is an Australian based online magazine that focuses on long-form analysis and cultural commentary. We are politically non-partisan, but rely on reason, science, and humanism as our guiding values. Quillette hosts the Quillette and Quillette Cetera podcasts, and every year we throw Quillette Socials
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Lavender Capital
VC Fund · 1 investments in South Africa Media (entertainment) startups

Lavender Capital is an Incubator and Advisor to numerous GameFi and NFT start-ups and projects and recognized as a value-added partner and investor.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, Blockchain, Bitcoin
  • Stage:Seed, Initial Coin Offering
  • Geography: China, Spain, Vietnam

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $400k–$4M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • FreeBnk — FreeBnk provides stablecoin rails, borderless accounts, and crypto payments in 70+ countries. Fast, low-cost, and compliant global finance.
  • RunesFi — RunesFi is a one-stop DeFi platform that provides an easy-to-use, secure, and efficient trading experience.
  • STAGE — Always-on music competitions powered by the blockchain. Vote for your favorite artists and share their success.
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2CrazyNFT
VC Fund · Sliema, NA - Malta, Malta · 1 investments in South Africa Media (entertainment) startups

Compare the best online casinos Kuwait has to offer in 2026. Find safe VPN-friendly sites, instant crypto withdrawals, and Arabic support today.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, Metaverse, Blockchain
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: South Africa, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Katana Inu — Katana Inu promotes gaming innovation by merging gaming and blockchain. As an all-encompassing ecosystem for gamers and traders, powered by Defi and NFT, Katana Inu's objective is to create a system where gamers can earn from their playtime.
  • Billionaire Plus — Billionaire Plus is a board game that combine NFT, Defi, collectibles and your journey.
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Adanian Labs
VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya · 1 investments in South Africa Media (entertainment) startups

Adanian Labs Africa, is a venture building studio with a mission to build tech powered impact driven startups across Africa. We are a smart tech hub powered by smart technologies like blockchain and AI to ensure that the solutions built are scalable and sustainable. www.adanianlabs.io

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Developer Platform, Financial Services, Gaming
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 21
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $60k–$100k
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • SeraPay — We are revolutionizing social commerce in Africa with SeraPay, ensuring the seamless buying and selling of goods on social media platforms. Our innovative service empowers businesses to access markets beyond their geographical borders, making social retail easier and more efficient.
  • Savabyte — A pan-African women-led platform that connects career advancement opportunities to quality tech talent & women in technology. #ConnectingTechTalent
  • Jungopharm — Jungopharm is a developer of a pharma and healthcare platform that aims to make health care understandable, accessible & affordable for all.
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BullPerks
VC Fund · 1 investments in South Africa Media (entertainment) startups

BullPerks is a community of like-minded individuals who want to leverage their power and invest together in the best projects on equal terms with VCs.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
  • Stage:Seed, Initial Coin Offering, Series A
  • Geography: Lithuania, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Seed $75k–$4.2M; Series A $5M–$12M; Initial Coin Offering $3M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • BugsCoin — BugsCoin is a Web3-based investment education and simulated trading platform designed to help users learn trading skills risk-free while earning rewards.
  • TrendX — TrendX is an AI-driven Web3 trend tracking and intelligent trading tool that uses massive language models and AI technologies to identify market trends.
  • The Game Company — The Game Company is to revolutionizing the gaming industry by providing a Cloud-based platform that is accessible, inclusive, and innovative.
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MiH Ventures
VC Fund · New Delhi, Delhi, India · 1 investments in South Africa Media (entertainment) startups

MIH is the first India-based venture capital firm that exclusively invests in Blockchain-enabled companies. Our mission is to accelerate the inevitable future of Blockchain economy by supporting as many companies as possible. As a brand, we bring investors, influencers, and specialists to our partnering global blockchain projects. We contribute$500k++ in select projects, along with advisory services, exchange listing assistance, and a network of social influencers with thousands of followers.MIH is dedicated to the cause and equipped with highly experienced partners in both traditional finance and the blockchain technology. With MIH's support, blockchain startups achieve maximum exposure during critical roadmap events which in turn helps boost the recognition and community support both in India and globally.We know from experience the importance for a startup to focus on developing its product without being distracted and we understand the importance of infusing an appropriate amount of capital at the right time. This makes us a reliable partner for most companies like yours!

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Finance, Cryptocurrency
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: India, Saint Kitts and Nevis

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Picipo — Picipo is an online platform that provides NFT management solutions for smooth financial transactions and content creation.
  • NodeOps — NodeOps is the agentic operating system. Build, run, and scale AI agents in production on one platform, with enterprise-grade compute underneath. Home of CreateOS.
  • Paytail — Paytail is a technology start-up providing instant paperless EMIs to consumers to buy products as well as services across millions of offline merchants.
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Action Hero Ventures
VC Fund · 1 investments in South Africa Media (entertainment) startups

Investment focus

  • Industry: Sports, Content, Big Data
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Singapore, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • myFanPark — myFanPark is a South African celebrity engagement platform, to share videos.
  • Flood — Flood is a marketplace platforms that provides merchant solution, self services and big data solution.
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TotalEnergies Ventures
VC Fund · La Défense, Ile-de-France, France · 1 investments in South Africa Media (entertainment) startups

TotalEnergies Ventures is the venture capital arm of Total.As part of Total's commitment to a better energy future, TotalEnergies Ventures is focused on finding, funding and fostering high-potential start-ups which will contribute to creating a low carbon future.Current areas of interest include Renewables, Distributed Energy, NewMobility, Energy Access, Energy Storage, Bio-Plastics, Circular Economy, Carbon Capture and Hydrogen.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Energy, Renewable Energy, Transportation
  • Stage:Series B, Series C
  • Geography: United States, France, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 102
  • Round size: Series B $9.3M–$175M; Series C $5M–$65M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Autogrid — AutoGrid Systems organizes energy data and employs big data analytics to generate real-time predictions that create actionable data.The company’s suite of flexibility management applications allows utilities, electricity retailers, renewable energy project developers and energy service providers to deliver cheap, clean and reliable energy bymanaging networked distributed energy resources (DERs) in real time and at scale. AutoGrid applications utilize petabytes of smart meter, sensor and third-party data, along with powerful data science and high-performance computing algorithms, to monitor, predict, optimize and control the operations of millions of assets connected across global energy networks.Established at Stanford University in 2011, they have assembled a team of world-class software architects, electrical and computer engineers, data scientists and energy experts who apply cutting-edge analytics and in-depth energy data science to solve the world’s most critical energy problems.
  • 45-8 ENERGY — 45-8 ENERGY is exploring eco-friendly helium for uses in many industries.
  • Ampersand — Ampersand catalyzes and power mass-market electric mobility. By supplying the battery swap network and operating system the company makes sustainable mobility rapidly accessible and affordable for developing markets, to improve livelihoods and the environment. With over a million km already covered by e-motorcycles in Africa using our plug-and-playpowertrain and energy network.
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WZ Capital
VC Fund · 1 investments in South Africa Media (entertainment) startups

WZ Capital is a boutique venture capital firm investing in early-stage tech startups.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Medical, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Contro — See a licensed online doctor in South Africa for treatment, advice and prescriptions delivered to your door. Fast, private, doctor-guided care with Zapmed.
  • RecoMed — Find the best doctors and dentists. Search by location or by speciality, and find the right doctor for you.
  • SigmaX — Math app to help learners&any other ordinary person to better understand math & learn it a fun way. Available on Google play store & via https://t.co/hMzLOv2qXZ
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Media (Entertainment) Investor funding in South Africa at a glance

Stats across 115 deals from 124 investors.

124
investors
in South Africa Media (entertainment) startups
115
deals
in South Africa Media (entertainment) startups
$270k
median round
in South Africa Media (entertainment) startups
54%
lead investors
lead at least one round
30%
Seed
most common funding stage
92/8
VC / Angel
share of investor count

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Shizune enriches investors with contact data that includes: email, phones, LinkedIn, socials, website, and others.

To guarantee the highest discovery rate, we search across 20+ contact search tools.

To maximize delivery rate and reduce bounce rate, we validate emails.

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What is Shizune?

Shizune is a 48,091 investor database updated daily.

With Shizune you can:

  • browse the database
  • use smart matching
  • enrich with emails
  • download

All you need to find investors for your startup.

Who is Shizune for?

Shizune is built for startup founders by startup founders.

If you are looking for funding for your startup, try the Shizune database — we have investors for every stage, industry, and country.

Is Shizune free?

Shizune is free forever. You can search and browse investors for free.

Email search and export are paid features.

For full info, visit our pricing.

Who built Shizune?

Shizune is built by founders with the goal of helping all founders raise funding no matter where they are.

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