# Top 40 Media (entertainment) Startup Investors in South Africa in June 2026 ## Knife Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing /*! elementor - v3.9.1 - 14-12-2022 */ .elementor-heading-title{padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1}.elementor-widget-heading ## Investisseurs & Partenaires - Type: VC Fund - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, Health Care, Food and Beverage Investisseurs et Partenaires ## AngelHub Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Stellenbosch, NA - South Africa, South Africa - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Education 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. ## Proparco - Type: VC Fund - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Debt Financing, Seed - Focus: Financial Services, Finance, Energy Proparco is devoted to private sector funding in the sustainable development sector. ## Hasso Plattner Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Internet Hasso Plattner Ventures invests in fast-growing, information technology-driven companies in Europe and the USA on behalf of Prof. Dr. h.c. Hasso Plattner, co-founder and chairman of software giant SAP. The support we offer reaches beyond financial commitments. Our multifaceted work includes acting globally as a strategic partner for our informationtechnology growth companies. In Germany, our commitment has taken also the form of a seed program for information technology startups coming out of the Hasso Plattner Institute.After retiring from the operative business of SAP in 2003, Hasso Plattner was appointed Chairman of the company’s Supervisory Board. He has devoted his time to the promotion of science, innovation and entrepreneurship ever since.To further these goals, Hasso Plattner founded Hasso Plattner Ventures on July 1st, 2005 in Potsdam, Germany. Hasso Plattner Ventures Africa launched as an affiliate in 2008, operating from Cape Town, South Africa.Hasso Plattner Ventures manages four funds. HP Ventures I started in 2005, focusing on early stage software companies in Germany, Switzerland and Austria. In 2008, HP Ventures II and HP Ventures Africa launched, looking for investment opportunities in startup- and expansion-stage companies across the USA, Europe, Israel and South Africa.As of 2015, HP Ventures III, a €150 million fund, focuses on fast-growing enterprise and infrastructure software companies mainly in Germany and the Silicon Valley. ## Legion Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Miami, Florida, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Initial Coin Offering - Focus: Gaming, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency 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. ## Goldman Sachs - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series C, Series B - Focus: Software, Financial Services, FinTech 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. ## Oikocredit International - Type: VC Fund - Location: Amersfoort, Utrecht, The Netherlands - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Debt Financing, Series B - Focus: Financial Services, Finance, FinTech Oikocredit is guided by the principle of empowering people. Their experience proves that the most effective and sustainable means of assisting those in need is providing an opportunity to help themselves. ## Lavender Capital - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Gaming, Metaverse, Blockchain 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. ## Michael Leeman - Type: Angel - Location: San Diego, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel, Seed - Focus: Apps, Software, Publishing 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. ## Unanimous Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Mateo, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Blockchain, Software, Gaming 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. ## Seed South Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Sports, Content, Social Media Seed South Capital invest in early-stage companies, transforming these into B-BBEE compliant business enterprises, forging a new class of youthful entrepreneurs. ## KNF Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: SaaS, EBooks, EdTech was a SARS-approved section 12J Venture Capital Company ## LoftyInc Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Carmel, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software LoftyInc Capital Management empowers Afropreneurs to build a prosperous and equitable future in Africa. We deliver value to both founders and investors......... ## Icon Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Palo Alto, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series C, Series B, Series D - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software 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. ## Vumela Fund - Type: VC Fund - Location: Hyde Park, Newtownabbey, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Debt Financing - Focus: Education, Software, E-Commerce 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. ## Marc Andreessen - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed - Focus: Software, SaaS, Internet Marc Andreessen was the Co-founder of LoudCloud Systems. ## Lowenthal Capital Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Davis, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Focus: Software, Logistics, Media and Entertainment Lowenthal Capital Partners fills this need through its subscription newsletter service which offers a myriad of stock picks. ## African Infrastructure Investment Managers - Type: VC Fund - Location: Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Private Equity, Debt Financing - Focus: Solar, Energy, SaaS African Infrastructure Investment Managers (AIIM) develops and manages private equity infrastructure funds designed to invest long-term institutional unlisted equity in African infrastructure projects. ## Fairum Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Cryptocurrency, Gaming, Online Games 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. ## Brandtech Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series B, Series A - Focus: Software, Advertising, Artificial Intelligence 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. ## iHub - Type: VC Fund - Location: Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Education, E-Learning, EdTech 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. ## Technology Innovation Agency - Type: VC Fund - Location: Pretoria, NA - South Africa, South Africa - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Information Technology, Renewable Energy, Health Care WELCOME TO TIA Innovating Tomorrow Together TIA is a national public entity that serves as the key institutional intervention to bridge the innovation chasm between research and development from higher education institutions, science councils, public entities, and private sector, and commercialisation. Who we are Indigenous Knowledge-based Technology Innovations TIA is calling for the submission of ## Snap - Type: VC Fund - Location: Venice, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series E - Focus: Media and Entertainment, Video, Internet Snap is a privately-owned global camera company focusing on multinational technology and social media.Snap is behind Snapchat, a photo messaging app that allows users to take photos, record videos, add text and drawings, and send them to recipients. In 2016, it released Spectacles, video-sharing sunglasses that free the Snapchat app fromsmartphone cameras. ## Tom Berckt - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel - Focus: Apps, Events, Printing 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) ## 2CrazyNFT - Type: VC Fund - Location: Sliema, NA - Malta, Malta - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Gaming, Metaverse, Blockchain 2crazynft provides NFT, NFTgaming, crypto, and bitcoin. They provide players with their revolutionary NFT platform, gaming, and eSports. They offer by placing a bid with tokens, enabling users to play against them. ## Yossi Hasson - Type: Angel - Location: Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, Blockchain, Payments 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. ## Robertson Stephens Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series B, Series A - Focus: Software, Internet, Manufacturing Founded in 1978, Robertson Stephens was a San Francisco-based boutique investment bank that focused primarily on technology companies. It was among the most active investment banks in the technology sector at the height of the internet boom. ## Hlayisani Growth Fund - Type: VC Fund - Location: Fourways, NA - South Africa, South Africa - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Education, Apps, SaaS 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. ## TotalEnergies Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: La Défense, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series B, Series C - Focus: Energy, Renewable Energy, Transportation 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. ## Avalon Wealth Club - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Gaming, Blockchain, Software Avalon Wealth Club is a dynamic group of marketing experts, blockchain veterans, real estate investors and event organizers ## Savannah Fund - Type: VC Fund - Location: Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, FinTech, Information Technology 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. ## Fish Dao - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Gaming, Software Fish Dao ## Ignition Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Los Altos, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C - Focus: Software, Enterprise Software, SaaS 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. ## Launch Africa - Type: VC Fund - Location: Ebène, Plaines Wilhems, Mauritius - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology Launch Africa is a fund with the primary objective of unlocking the capital constraints of Seed Stage tech startups. ## Hlayisani Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Fourways, NA - South Africa, South Africa - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Education, Information Technology 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. ## Alpha Moon Capital - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Gaming, Metaverse, Blockchain 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. ## Sina Afra - Type: Angel - Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: E-Commerce, Fashion, Internet Sina Afra is the CEO and Founder of Tiko. He previously worked at Markafoni as a CEO and Founder. Sina Afra attended the University of Münster. ## Harambeans - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Information Technology, B2B, Big Data Harambeans are African innovators who have pledged to “work together as one” to build Africa’s future. Over the last decade, Harambeans has spawned a series of tech-enabled ventures such as Andela, Flutterwave, and Yoco, which have collectively generated over 3000 jobs, and raised over $700m from Google Ventures, CRE Ventures and Accel. ## Dain Rauscher Wessels - Type: VC Fund - Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series C, Series B - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Internet Dain Rauscher Wessels was a brokerage and investment banking firm based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. # About Shizune Shizune.co is an investor database. Core features: - 48,091 startup investors (angels, VCs, accelerators, and others) - Email, phone, LinkedIn (for intros), socials, and other contact data - Updated daily from public funding news - CSV and Excel export The User can access the full database FOR FREE after signing up: shizune.co