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Top 50 Media (Entertainment) VC Funds & Investors in Africa (June 2026)

The most active venture capital funds investing in Africa Media (entertainment) startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Africa Media (entertainment) startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Microtraction
VC Fund
8 Nigeria, United States, Ghana Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel Financial Services, FinTech, Software $25k–$1.3M
54 Collective
VC Fund
6 Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa Seed, Pre-Seed Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech $40k–$4M
Future Africa
VC Fund
4 Nigeria, United States, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
Artha Group
VC Fund
3 India, United States, Kenya Seed, Angel Information Technology, Internet, E-Commerce
Consonance Investment Managers
VC Fund
3 Nigeria, United States, Kenya Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, FinTech $50k–$10M
MNF Ventures
VC Fund
3 Morocco, France, Canada Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Online Portals, FinTech, Enterprise Software $200k–$1.6M
Ventures Platform
VC Fund
3 Nigeria, United States, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Internet $100k–$20M
Renew Capital
VC Fund
3 Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia Pre-Seed, Seed Mobile Apps, Financial Services, Finance
Proparco
VC Fund
3 India, Kenya, Nigeria Debt Financing, Seed Financial Services, Finance, Energy $300k–$140M
Maroc Numeric Fund
VC Fund
3 Morocco, Canada, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Online Portals, Enterprise Software, FinTech
Luminate Group
VC Fund
2 Canada, Nigeria Seed SaaS, GovTech, Politics $600k–$3.3M
Lion’s Head Global Partners
VC Fund
2 Kenya, France, Senegal Debt Financing Renewable Energy, Solar, Energy
Antler
VC Fund
2 Singapore, Australia, United Kingdom Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $100k–$29M
CDG Invest
VC Fund
2 Morocco, France, Switzerland Pre-Seed, Seed Apps, Software, Internet
RaliCap
VC Fund
2 Mexico, Nigeria, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
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
HoaQ
VC Fund
2 Nigeria, United Kingdom, Togo Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel FinTech, Financial Services, Internet $100k–$3.3M
Savannah Fund
VC Fund
2 Kenya, United States, South Africa Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, FinTech, Information Technology
LoftyInc Capital
VC Fund
2 Nigeria, United States, Egypt Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Grenfell Holdings
VC Fund
2 Kenya, Uganda, Senegal Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Internet, Logistics, Consulting $850k–$2.1M
F6 Ventures
VC Fund
2 Tunisia, France Pre-Seed, Seed E-Commerce, Retail, FinTech $65k–$200k
Knife Capital
VC Fund
2 South Africa, United States, Sweden Series A, Seed Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology $2M–$30M
EchoVC Partners
VC Fund
2 United States, Nigeria, Kenya Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Information Technology, FinTech, Software $200k–$22M
SOSV
VC Fund
2 United States, India, United Kingdom Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
MaC Venture Capital
VC Fund
2 United States, Nigeria, Kenya Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
UNCOVERED FUND
VC Fund
2 Nigeria, Kenya, United States Seed, Pre-Seed FinTech, Financial Services, Software $700k–$3.7M
Nama Ventures
VC Fund
2 Saudi Arabia, Egypt, United Arab Emirates Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Information Technology, B2B $100k–$35M
Verdant Frontiers
VC Fund
1 Kenya, Italy, Ethiopia Seed, Pre-Seed Travel, FinTech, Finance
Launch Africa
VC Fund
1 Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
Inflection Point Ventures
VC Fund
1 India, United States, Singapore Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
Women's World Banking
VC Fund
1 India, Kenya, Uganda Series B, Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
E3 Capital
VC Fund
1 Kenya, United States, Mali Seed, Series A, Series B Solar, Energy, Financial Services
Avalon Wealth Club
VC Fund
1 Singapore, Grenada, Vietnam Seed Gaming, Blockchain, Software
Digital Technology Supercluster
VC Fund
1 Canada, Nigeria Seed, Corporate Round Software, Information Technology, Health Care
XA Network
VC Fund
1 Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Information Technology, Financial Services
Verdant Capital
VC Fund
1 Kenya Seed FinTech, Finance, Marketplace
cFund
VC Fund
1 United States, Kenya, Canada Seed, Series A Blockchain, Financial Services, Cryptocurrency
YUYANG INVESTMENT CO., LTD. (Ma's Family)
VC Fund
1 Mauritius Pre-Seed FinTech, Finance, Internet
Unanimous Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, Sweden, Hong Kong Seed, Series A, Series B Blockchain, Software, Gaming
Toyota Tsusho
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States, Kenya Series A, Series B Software, Manufacturing, Automotive
Western Technology Investment
VC Fund
1 United States, Canada, Nigeria Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Symbiotics Group
VC Fund
1 India, Kenya, Senegal Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Legion Ventures
VC Fund
1 Italy, Spain, Panama Seed, Pre-Seed, Initial Coin Offering Gaming, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
Lavender Capital
VC Fund
1 South Africa Seed Gaming, Metaverse, Blockchain
Serena Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, Canada, Spain Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Health Care, Wellness
Talanton
VC Fund
1 Kenya Seed, Series A, Series B Retail, Sports, Fashion
Vastly Valuable Ventures
VC Fund
1 Nigeria, United States, Egypt Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note Information Technology, Financial Services, FinTech
Five35 Ventures
VC Fund
1 South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria Seed, Pre-Seed Information Technology, Health Care, Wellness
Snap
VC Fund
1 United States, India, Taiwan Seed, Pre-Seed, Series E Media and Entertainment, Internet, Video
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Microtraction
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 8 investments in Africa Media (entertainment) startups

We invest in Africa's most remarkable teams with technical founders at the earliest stage of their venture

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, Ghana

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 103
  • Round size: Seed $25k–$1.3M; Angel $30k–$50k; Pre-Seed $50k–$1.1M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Accounteer — Accounteer is a cloud accounting platform for small businesses. Business owner can create invoices, track expenses and follow up on their finances with ease. Accounteer integrates with external services like banks, e-invoicing platforms and e-commerce. Future proof your business today by subscribing for a free Accounteer trial account.
  • LemFi — Send money to India, China, Pakistan, Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya and 30 other countries. Receive and manage your money without stress
  • ThankUCash — ThankUCash is a technology company powering rewards and loyalty for African banks and businesses. ThankUCash helps merchants grow revenue by connecting them to customers within and outside of their locations while retaining acquired customers using a data analytics-powered reward system where customers earn cash rewards for every transaction madeboth offline and online.
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54 Collective
VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 6 investments in Africa Media (entertainment) startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 107
  • Round size: Seed $40k–$4M; Pre-Seed $40k–$1.3M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • mTek — mTek is a digital online insurance platform that provides an entirely paperless ecosystem for the insurance industry.
  • REasy — Top up locally, pay suppliers globally, and manage international shipments with REasy. Fast, secure, and designed for African businesses expanding worldwide.
  • Konnect — Konnect provides a cross borders payment solution intended to simplify complex financial flows allowing companies of any scale and size to send and receive payments in a practical, secure, and low-cost way.
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Future Africa
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 4 investments in Africa Media (entertainment) startups

Future Africa is a collective of mission-driven founders and funders building unicorns to solve Africa’s biggest challenges. They are build a future where purpose and prosperity are within everyone’s reach.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 83
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Moove — Moove is a mobility fintech that provides revenue-based vehicle financing to mobility entrepreneurs, democratizing vehicle ownership globally. The company embeds its alternative credit-scoring technology onto ride-hailing, logistics, and last-mile/instant delivery platforms, which allows access to proprietary performance and revenue analyticsof mobility entrepreneurs to underwrite loans.
  • Itana — Talent City’s mission is to build a network of charter cities that focuses on creating technology-enabled jobs within a free trade zone with its own regulation and bylaws.
  • Filmmakers Mart — FilmmakersMart is Africa’s first film and entertainment marketplace where entertainment businesses and creatives find verified services seamlessly for their video productions while democratizing entry into the film and entertainment industry for emerging creatives. We’re building the operations system for the film and entertainment industry inAfrica.
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Artha Group
VC Fund · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · 3 investments in Africa Media (entertainment) startups

Artha India Ventures' league of member Angel Investors mentor and invest in nascent ventures with business ideas that create value by participating in the entrepreneurial process. AIV have invested in more than 47 start-ups and has diversified portfolio ranging from last minute hotel bookings (HotelsAroundYou.com), to classes aggregators(FindUrClass.com), cosmetic ecommerce (Purplle.com) and at home salon services (The Home Salon). From microfinance credit rating platforms (Inventure) to online interview platforms (Talview), electronic repair & insurance companies (PickMeIndia.com), Cloud Telephone (Exotel.com) and Cab Aggregators (BookMyCab.com) the portfolio has it all.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Internet, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: India, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 113
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Futwork — With Futwork, learn for free and get a telecaller job. Find Work from Home jobs in India. Flexi hours & work suitable for freshers and women. Earn from home now!
  • GetWork — Looking to hire top talent for your organization? GetWork is the platform for you! With a candidate pool of 1.9M+ job seekers, you can easily post your job and find the perfect candidate for your needs. Sign up today and start hiring with GetWork.
  • KarmaLifeAI — KarmaLifeAI is an AI-powered digital solution for the financial well being of blue-collar gig workers and micro-business. The company allows the user to pay directly for key expenditures and smoothen their consumption patterns. It offers real-time access to credit for gig workers, based on their payroll account, through partnerships with thedigital platforms they work for. It operates an interest-free subscription model in which the platform or the gig worker can pay a flat fee and access credit equalling up to one-third of their monthly income. The company analyzes alternative data points and payment behavior over time to unlock higher credit lines for the workers.
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Consonance Investment Managers
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 3 investments in Africa Media (entertainment) startups

We are an investment company focused on helping early and growth-stage entrepreneurs build successful companies in Africa.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 31
  • Round size: Seed $550k–$3.3M; Pre-Seed $450k–$1M; Series A $50k–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Releaf Earth — We are industrializing food processing in Africa. We've led 1000+ smallholder farmers to provide food factories with >7.5 million kilograms of quality crops.
  • Tripesa — Tripesa offers payment solutions for Africa's travel and tourism industry.
  • Plural — Smarter, Faster, Future-Ready Policy Strategy. Plural transforms how enterprises and organizations anticipate and act on legislation. Our AI-powered platform delivers accurate bill analysis, policy insights, and stakeholder intelligence so you can stay ahead of risk, seize opportunity, and shape outcomes. See How It Works Book A Demo Trusted By Deepen Your State & Federal Legislative
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MNF Ventures
VC Fund · Casablanca, Grand Casablanca, Morocco · 3 investments in Africa Media (entertainment) startups

MNF Ventures is a venture capital fund based in Morocco, investing in Seed, Pre-Series A and Series A startups. Tickets size can go up to USD 1M. We invest in tech startups operating in Fintech/Insurtech, EdTech, Regtech, HealthTech, Biotech, EnergyTech Cybersecurity, SaaS... Startups have either to be based in Morocco, or be based worldwideif at least one of the founders is a Moroccan citizen. MNF Ventures manages Maroc Numeric Fund and Maroc Numeric Fund II.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Online Portals, FinTech, Enterprise Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Morocco, France, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 32
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$1.6M; Series A $250k–$700k
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $20M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Damanesign — Damanesign operates as a digital trust solutions startup. Damanesign is a startup that is seizing new legislation opportunities on digital trust in Morocco to provide users with the utmost safety in documentation.
  • Atlan Space — Building Artificial Intelligence to autonomously pilot any fixed wing drone, to monitor and take measures over very large areas
  • OnePay — OnePay is a fintech startup that operates as a distributor of means of payment and aggregator of payment and value-added services in electronic transactions.
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Ventures Platform
VC Fund · Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria · 3 investments in Africa Media (entertainment) startups

We back founders building the future of Africa. We invest in companies that solve for non-consumption, plug infrastructural gaps and democratise prosperity in Africa, by eliminating the barriers for access and reducing the costs of delivering goods and services.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 142
  • Round size: Seed $325k–$4.4M; Pre-Seed $100k–$1.3M; Series A $6M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • MDaaS Global — At MDaaS Global, we build and operate modern, tech-enabled diagnostic centres in clinically-underserved communities, starting in Nigeria. Our big goal is to create affordable healthcare solutions for Africa's next billion.
  • SEND — SEND manages the entire process of moving freight by air, ocean and road to and from Africa - including customs processes, trucking and warehousing. Our application provides instant quotes & bookings, document management, cost transparency, notifications and tracking for your cargo.
  • ThankUCash — ThankUCash is a technology company powering rewards and loyalty for African banks and businesses. ThankUCash helps merchants grow revenue by connecting them to customers within and outside of their locations while retaining acquired customers using a data analytics-powered reward system where customers earn cash rewards for every transaction madeboth offline and online.
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Renew Capital
VC Fund · Addis Ababa, Adis Abeba, Ethiopia · 3 investments in Africa Media (entertainment) startups, 11 in the past 12 months

Renew Capital is an Africa-focused investment firm that addresses critical gaps for Africa’s growing businesses and connects them to a global network of impact investors.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile Apps, Financial Services, Finance
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 26
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Bosso — Bosso projects and realizes automation and robotic solutions for the growth of your business.
  • Chpter — Chpter is a software development company that offers fast billing and checkout to help start, run, and grow a business.
  • Level Africa — Digital Investment Marketplace for Africa
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Proparco
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 3 investments in 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, Finance, Energy
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Seed
  • Geography: India, Kenya, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 90
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$13M; Debt Financing $300k–$140M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Nuru — Nuru is a solar hybrid site. Nuru (Swahili for "light") is a company dedicated to enhancing connectivity in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Nuru deployed Congo's first solar-based mini-grid in 2017 and is currently constructing a 1.3MW solar hybrid site in Goma, the largest off-grid mini-grid in sub-Saharan Africa.Nuru is arenewable and environment company that specializes in the fields of storage micro-grids and solar energy. The company deployed Congo's first solar-based mini-grid in 2017 and is currently constructing a 1.3MW solar hybrid site in Goma.Nuru was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Goma, Nord-Kivu, Congo.
  • Ecoener
  • IPT PowerTech — IPT PowerTech coverage, coupled with our extensive expertise in supply chain management, field implementation, and power systems, has made us one of the most capable companies in handling the most complicated and versatile projects in the MEA region and its neighboring countries.
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Maroc Numeric Fund
VC Fund · Casablanca, Grand Casablanca, Morocco · 3 investments in Africa Media (entertainment) startups

Maroc Numeric Fund is a tech VC fund investing in Morocco.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Online Portals, Enterprise Software, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Morocco, Canada, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 25
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Logidoo — Logidoo is a digital logistics marketplace-designed company that markets shuttles through smart logistics. The company's platform, which provides rapid, dependable, secure, and economical logistics, allows users to compare offers for sending and receiving items and to track parcels in real-time.
  • Cypherleak — Cypherleak is an automated cyber risk monitoring and scoring solution that uses an organisation's domain name only to map their risk exposure across leaked passwords, attack surface, vulnerabilities and dark web data leakage. Additionally, Cypherleak supports global insurances by powering their cyber insurance products with reliable andaccurate cyber risk modeling and monitoring.
  • Aza Petrosolutions — Aza Petrosolutions provides services, solutions, and superior software and hardware for fuel management.
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Luminate Group
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in Africa Media (entertainment) startups

Luminate is a global foundation working to ensure that technology serves our needs and wellbeing.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, GovTech, Politics
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Canada, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$3.3M
  • Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Stears — Stears Business has a simple mission: deliver original, analytical, well-written stories that make sense of the Nigerian economy
  • New/Mode — New/Mode is the multi-channel advocacy & civic engagement platform that organizations, campaigns & causes use to win. Join the New/Mode Community.
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Lion’s Head Global Partners
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in Africa Media (entertainment) startups

A global investment banking, asset management and advisory firm focused on delivering value to our clients in emerging and frontier markets

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Renewable Energy, Solar, Energy
  • Stage:Debt Financing
  • Geography: Kenya, France, Senegal

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Baobab+ — Baobab+ is a social business committed to providing access to energy and digital. We commercialize innovative products with financing solutions that meet the needs of local populations.
  • Yellow — Yellow enables a distributed network of sales agents to serve rural households with life-changing products and services through a digital technology platform called Ofeefee.
  • Decentral Energy — Apply for risk-free and fully financed solar energy solutions. Decentral develops, owns, and manages clean energy assets in South Africa.
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Antler
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 2 investments in Africa Media (entertainment) startups

Build your next company with Antler, a global day zero investor enabling exceptional founders to start great companies, from the very beginning. Apply now!

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Singapore, Australia, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 936
  • Round size: Seed $362k–$5.8M; Pre-Seed $100k–$1.3M; Series A $4.6M–$29M
  • Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $72M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Indi — indi is an assistant for your child's care journey; supporting advocacy, mental health & uniting the village of care.
  • HackerPulse — HackerPulse is a growth copilot for software engineers. Trusted by 16.000+ software engineers.
  • Unseen — Unseen is a market intelligence platform for commercial real estate.
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CDG Invest
VC Fund · Rabat, Rabat-Sale-Zemmour-Zaer, Morocco · 2 investments in Africa Media (entertainment) startups

CDG Invest is the investment branch of the CDG group. CDG Invest acts both as an investment manager for its own account following both financial and strategic logic, as well as as a fund manager for third parties. CDG Invest intervenes in various key sectors of the Moroccan economy: industry, agro-food, digital/digital, renewable energy, andterritorial PPP and with various segments of companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Software, Internet
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: Morocco, France, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 24
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • VelyVelo — Discover VelyVelo, the specialist in the rental, care and maintenance of electric bicycles for professionals in Paris, Lyon, Bordeaux and Marseille.
  • Crealo — Crealo is a smart solution that simplifies copyright management.
  • Strapack Morocco — Strapack Morocco offers packaging and industrial packaging solutions. It provides an extensive range of machinery, materials, and consumables to ensure efficiency in packaging activities.
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RaliCap
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Africa Media (entertainment) startups

Rally Cap is a global community of tech folks investing in an exclusive portfolio of top-tier early stage venture funds in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Mexico, Nigeria, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 45
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Regfyl — Powered by AI, Regfyl is the all-in-one fraud and compliance platform for financial institutions and fintechs. Regfyl allows these businesses to reduce costs and focus on higher value activities.
  • Fleet — Fleet is a mobility-as-a-Service software for enterprise transportation needs.
  • Circadian Technologies GmbH — Circadian Technologies accelerates the energy transition in frontier markets with a SaaS business model, empowering solar developers & energy service companies to reduce operating costs and grow revenue with a data driven platform and proprietary IoT hardware.Circadian transforms the entire value chain of its customers by uniquely providingan end-to-end solution to better design, finance, operate and maintain decentralized renewable energy systems for commercial & industrial sites.
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AngelHub Ventures
VC Fund · Stellenbosch, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 2 investments in 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 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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HoaQ
VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 2 investments in Africa Media (entertainment) startups

Startup Investment Club

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Internet
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Nigeria, United Kingdom, Togo

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 25
  • Round size: Seed $1.7M–$3.3M; Angel $100k–$130k; Pre-Seed $200k–$1M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Clafiya — Clafiya connects patients to health practitioners to provide fast and affordable on-demand primary care services in Africa.
  • Chowdeck — Order food, groceries, drinks, medicines & everyday essentials from top restaurants, pharmacies, local markets, and stores near you. Fast delivery with Chowdeck.
  • Klas — Anyone, anywhere can teach online. Create & sell your ebooks, courses, and live classes- all on Klas.
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Savannah Fund
VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya · 2 investments in 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: E-Commerce, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, United States, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 37
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Oze — OZÉ brings African small businesses into the digital era. It is an app that makes it easy for businesses to track sales, expenses, and customer information. The data is analyzed to provide tailored recommendations, reports, and business education. If the entrepreneur needs a little extra support, an OZÉ Coach is just a click away. As they are usingOZÉ to manage their business and learn how to run it better, we are learning about them. Using this data and machine learning, we can predict their credit risk and provide them with affordable capital from our banking partners. With over 20,000 registered users, OZÉ is the largest online community of SMEs in Ghana. The most exciting thing is that OZÉ works; 97% of businesses that have used OZE for at least 9 months are growing or profitable or both!
  • Root — Launch digital and embedded insurance solutions with omni-channel distribution.
  • Afropolitan — Afropolitan is building a Network State to unleash the maximum potential of Africans around the world. Are you interested? Join us with your email.
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LoftyInc Capital
VC Fund · Carmel, California, United States · 2 investments in 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: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 113
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Mtor — Mtor is an online marketplace that is reshaping the automotive aftermarket and provides sophisticated technology solutions.
  • EMTECH — EMTECH provides solutions for Digital Currency regulatory compliance, development and management to help Central Banks and FinTechs build, run and manage modern financial systems.
  • Terragon Group — Terragon is a leading Data and Marketing Technology company that uses data and analytics to help companies focused in Africa, intelligently connect at scale to their customers. We use an aggregation of online and offline data, and predictive scoring to help brands, marketing agencies and platforms accurately target people across channels anddevices. Headquartered in Lagos; Nigeria, we also have a presence in Kenya, South Africa, Ghana and India.
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Grenfell Holdings
VC Fund · Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong · 2 investments in Africa Media (entertainment) startups

Grenfell Holdings is an investment company based in Hong Kong.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Logistics, Consulting
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Kenya, Uganda, Senegal

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $850k–$2.1M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Badili — Badili is a one-stop shop for buying and selling used and refurbished phones. Founded in 2021 and is based in Nairobi.
  • Yobante Express — Yobante Express offers a web & mobile platform that connects retailers, businesses & individuals with carriers for point-to-point delivery.
  • Rocket Health Africa — Rocket Health is a bundled service of The Medical Concierge Group, a licensed and registered clinic, laboratory, and pharmacy. Rocket Health offers telemedicine healthcare services such as doctor consultations, laboratory sample pickups, and medicine delivery.
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F6 Ventures
VC Fund · Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia · 2 investments in Africa Media (entertainment) startups

Flat6Labs is the MENA region’s leading seed and early stage venture capital firm, currently running the most renowned startup programs in the region. Annually, Flat6Labs invests in more than 100 innovative and technology-driven startups enabling thousands of passionate entrepreneurs to achieve their daring ambitions and ultimately becoming theirinstitutional co-founders.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Retail, FinTech
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: Tunisia, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 42
  • Round size: Seed $65k–$200k; Pre-Seed $65k–$81k
  • Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $10M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • WeMove — WeMove is a fitness marketplace for daily gym passes. They develop innovative solutions that meet your sports issues.
  • Bako Motors SAS — Bako Motors SAS is a motor vehicle manufacturing company that develops solar electric vehicles. manufacturer of electric vehicles with the goal of creating long-term fixes for rural areas' transportation issues with regard to people, cargo, and machinery. The business makes electric cars as well as solutions for clean energy generation andstorage that are infinitely scalable, providing users with inexpensive and environmentally friendly e-mobility.
  • Insight Plus — Insight Plus is a foreign exchange platform that specializes in interconnecting global exchanges into one eco system.
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Knife Capital
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 2 investments in 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, Manufacturing, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: South Africa, United States, Sweden

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 26
  • Round size: Series A $2M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 65% lead, 35% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $10M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Octiv — Turbocharge your fitness business, grow your community and build your brand with Octiv's leading Gym Management Software.
  • Outsized — Independent talent for enterprise clients and consulting firms in Asia-Pacific, Africa, and the Middle East.
  • Simera Sense — Simera Sense develops camera control electronics for optical payload and Cubesat imager solutions.
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EchoVC Partners
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 2 investments in Africa Media (entertainment) startups

EchoVC Partners is a seed and early-stage venture capital firm focused on financing and cross-pollinating leading technologies, teams, business models, and knowledge across North America, Africa, and SE Asia. The average investment size ranges from $25,000 to several million dollars depending on the stage of opportunity and capital needs of thebusiness.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 49
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$4M; Pre-Seed $400k–$1.9M; Series A $1.2M–$22M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $8M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Kukua — Empowering today's generation of children through entertainment Stories and characters fundamentally change and reaffirm how children see themselves in the world. At Kukua we blur the worlds of entertainment and education
  • TRADE X — TRADE X offers Dealers an interactive and fully encompassing global automotive trading platform.
  • GraphScience — Since 2005, we have helped thousands of people get the perfect domain name.
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SOSV
VC Fund · Princeton, New Jersey, United States · 2 investments in Africa Media (entertainment) startups, 75 in the past 12 months

SOSV is a global, deep tech venture capital firm that operates the HAX and IndieBio startup development programs focused on human and planetary health. SOSV invests $500,000 in startups at their inception as they onboard either HAX or IndieBio for a 4-6 month period designed to accelerate the raise of their next institutional round. SOSV joins thelater rounds of HAX and IndieBio graduates. HAX, based in a 35,000 sq ft facility in Newark, NJ, is equipped with machine tools, 3D printers, chemical, electrical and mechanical engineering labs, as well as on-staff engineering and design experts. SOSV's IndieBio has locations in NYC and San Francisco, both of which offer extensive services and facilities to founders including on-site BSL-2 labs, well equipped lab benches and hoods, and advanced lab equipment, such as chromatography equipment.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1482
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • MixRift — MIXRIFT - game developers specialized in Mixed Reality
  • unspun — From 3D scan to perfect fitting custom jeans. unspun makes each pair of jeans unique to your actual body and design. On a mission to reduce global carbon emissions by 1%. As seen in Fast Company's World Changing Ideas, Time's Best Inventions, and PopSci's Best of What's New. Welcome to the future of apparel.
  • Mesa Quantum — Unlock the potential of chip-scale quantum sensing for enhanced Position, Navigation, And Timing capabilities. Explore Mesa Quantum's practical solutions.
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MaC Venture Capital
VC Fund · Los Angeles, California, United States · 2 investments in Africa Media (entertainment) startups, 8 in the past 12 months

MaC Venture Capital is a seed-stage venture capital firm that invests in technology startups leveraging shifts in cultural trends and behaviors.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 216
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • LOST iN — LOST iN travel guides. Experience a new city from within. Curated travel guides - dive into what makes each city its own. In print and on mobile.
  • Buzz Solutions — Buzz Solutions provides a software platform powered by Artificial Intelligence, Actionable Insights, and Predictive Analytics for faults and anomaly detection for the power line inspection process for power utilities. The company's platform automates the process of storing and organizing visual data (captured in the field through drones andhelicopters), analyzing for faults using its AI algorithms, mapping the data and providing heat maps as well as predictive insights for when, where and what kind of faults are happening on power line and assets. Using its solutions, power utilities save over 50% of cost and time to analyze data which makes condition-based maintenance efforts easier and time-efficient, thus, preventing wildfires, power outages, and other climate change effects on the physical infrastructure of the grid.
  • Safire Technology Group — SAFIRE, our patented li-ion shear thickening battery electrolyte additive stops explosion/fire through an instantaneous liquid-to-solid transformation upon mechanical impact, and imparts ballistic protection -- all inherent in the electrolyte chemistry.
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UNCOVERED FUND
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Africa Media (entertainment) startups

UNCOVERED FUND is a venture capital firm that leads the creation of industries in Africa and other emerging countries.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 28
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$3.7M; Pre-Seed $700k–$850k
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $15M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Chari — Chari is an e-commerce and fintech app for traditional retailers in French-Speaking Africa allowing them to order any consumer goods they sell and get delivered for free in less than 24 hours. Chari is also a financial services provider for these retailers, offering them microloans
  • Mecho — Mecho is an on-demand auto repair and maintenance platform for individuals and businesses in Africa.
  • Termii — Termii is an online platform that helps teams secure repeat customers by sending personalized emails and SMS through multiple.Termii helps African businesses communicate with customers across SMS, email, voice, and instant messaging channels. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Lagos, Nigeria.
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Nama Ventures
VC Fund · Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia · 2 investments in Africa Media (entertainment) startups

NAMA VENTURES TECH FOUNDERS FUNDING TECH STARTUPS LOOKING FOR FUNDING? APPLY NOW

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Information Technology, B2B
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Saudi Arabia, Egypt, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 53
  • Round size: Seed $120k–$5.6M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2.4M; Series A $5.2M–$35M
  • Lead/follow: 51% lead, 49% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Cargoz — Cargoz is a logistics startup that connects SMEs looking for warehousing space with warehousing companies who has extra capacity, like Airbnb but for commercial warehousing & storage.
  • Faceki — Offering cutting-edge solutions including KYC, KYB, KYT, AML, and Biometric Authentication.
  • Messenger — Messenger is a one-stop logistics platform that finances and aggregates end-to-end logistics and supply chain operations in order to assist businesses and logistics asset owners in achieving an efficient supply chain framework.
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Verdant Frontiers
VC Fund · Austin, Texas, United States · 1 investments in Africa Media (entertainment) startups

Verdant Frontiers designs and builds large-scale businesses to deliver compelling returns for investors and life-changing jobs in Africa.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Travel, FinTech, Finance
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, Italy, Ethiopia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Pezesha — Digital Financial Ecosystem for connecting MSMEs to Capital.
  • Zeraki — Zeraki is to use technology to address some of the obstacles learners encounter in accessing quality education. We use technology to enhance the quality of education students get at each level of education and use technology to help students transition from one level of education to the next, and ultimately from education into employment.
  • Leta — Leta Technology is a software development company that creates supply chain and logistics software to enable the efficient and automated movement of goods.
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Launch Africa
VC Fund · Ebène, Plaines Wilhems, Mauritius · 1 investments in Africa Media (entertainment) startups

Launch Africa is a leading Pan-African VC fund solving the significant funding gap in the Seed and pre-Series A investment landscape in Africa

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 159
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Shopstar — A place for makers and creators to start, manage and grow successful online stores. Our built-in design, payment and shipping methods provide you with an all in one solution. Get started with a free 14-day trial.
  • Bitmama — Bitmama is the best cryptocurrency trading platform that lets you buy, sell Bitcoin, ETH, Celo, USDT, XRP, and more. Available in Nigeria & over 100 countries.
  • HomecomingEx — Homecoming Revolution is a pan-African recruitment firm for global African professionals. We specialise in headhunting & placing global African talent.
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Inflection Point Ventures
VC Fund · Gurgaon, Haryana, India · 1 investments in Africa Media (entertainment) startups, 46 in the past 12 months

Inflection Point Ventures, with over 3300 CXOs and professionals, HNIs and Family Offices, is India’s leading angel network investing in early-to-mid stage startups. IPV supports new-age entrepreneurs with not just capital but also uses its wide network of investors to provide startups with access to new markets, customers, guidance and mentorship.Inflection Point Ventures is democratizing angel investing with low membership fee, lowest investment ticket size (per investor), transparent investment process and extensive upfront due-diligence led by industry experts. IPV is industry agnostic, with a focus on committed and competent founders.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: India, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 223
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Bloq — Bloq quantum computing systems are difficult and time-consuming because of their many intricacies.
  • Devnagri — Devnagri provide high-quality translation solutions.
  • MyPickup — MyPickup is a Subscription-based electric auto-rickshaw service that can offer a convenient and sustainable commuting option for daily travelers like office-goers and school children.
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Women's World Banking
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Africa Media (entertainment) startups

Women's World Banking is dedicated to providing women with the means to gain Financial Inclusion through access to finance and technology. Contact us today

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Stage:Series B, Seed
  • Geography: India, Kenya, Uganda

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Pezesha — Digital Financial Ecosystem for connecting MSMEs to Capital.
  • Bike Bazaar — Bike Bazaar is a two-wheeler life cycle company where you can buy, sell, exchange any two-wheeler or avail finance for your vehicle. The company provides a range of affordable solutions and hassle-free experience along the two wheeler lifecycle, which include financing to purchase new and pre owned two wheelers, access to green bikes, insurance,and a transparent marketplace for buying and selling of preowned two wheelers.Bike Bazaar was founded in 2017 and is located in Pune, Maharashtra, India.
  • Sitara — Sewa Grih Rin provides affordable housing finance to the under-served low income households in urban and peri-urban locations.Incorporated in 2011, SEWA Grih Rin Limited was envisaged as a means for the under-served households to access affordable and formal housing finance in urban & peri-urban locations. We learnt that low-income householdsheld two facets of their life very close to their heart: they treasured the education of their children; and aspired to self-own a property, a home of their own.SEWA Grih Rin Limited’s work is aimed at directly improving the quality of life of informally employed households, especially their women members, by creating a tangible financial asset in their name. We provide an affordable alternative to those households whose credit capacity falls behind the widening financing gap given the informal nature of their employment.
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E3 Capital
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 1 investments in Africa Media (entertainment) startups

E3 Capital invests in growing, entrepreneurial businesses in Sub-Saharan Africa addressing the lack of electrification in the region with new technology and innovative business models. The fund is backed by Schneider Electric, the leading energy management multinational, and a number of public-sector investors.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Solar, Energy, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Kenya, United States, Mali

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 43
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Plentify — Plentify connects home appliances with cheaper cleaner energy. It does this with an intelligent residential load management platform which matches demand with clean energy supply for 75% cheaper than batteries. Plentify combines advanced hardware, AI, and user-centric design to create smart home products that delight customers while alsostrengthening electricity systems.
  • Insight Terra — Insight Terra supports data driven risk management in critical situations where business operations, people and the environment all come together.
  • Cutstruct — Cutstruct is your one source for bulk construction materials purchase. Get the best prices for cement, steel, granite, sharp sand wood, and more.
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Avalon Wealth Club
VC Fund · 1 investments in 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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Digital Technology Supercluster
VC Fund · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada · 1 investments in Africa Media (entertainment) startups

DIGITAL fuels momentum for Canadian companies to grow in Canada, driving economic growth, creating jobs and building prosperity & wellbeing.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Corporate Round
  • Geography: Canada, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • NaijaHacks — NaijaHacks organizes the largest tech competition/Hackathon in Africa
  • Food-X Technologies — Food-X Technologies is a SaaS startup in the grocery space. Food-X Technologies offers a software that helps grocery retailers operate fulfillment centres and track food freshness.
  • Unity Health Toronto — Unity Health Toronto, comprised of providence healthcare, st. joseph’s health centre and st. michael’s hospital works to advance the health of everyone in our urban communities and beyond, that provides a health network that serves patients, residents and clients across the full spectrum of care, spanning primary care, secondary community care,tertiary and quaternary care services to post-acute through rehabilitation, palliative care and long-term care while investing in world-class research and education.
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XA Network
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 1 investments in Africa Media (entertainment) startups

The investment network that fosters inclusive innovation by empowering the tech community in Southeast Asia. Our tech leaders help talented founders to build exceptional companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Information Technology, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 49
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • GORO — Easy property investing from IDR10,000 and earn up to 10% return per year paid monthly at GORO.
  • heymax.ai — Heymax.ai gives you a free trip every year by rewarding you with Max Miles. Heymax.ai doubles your favorite miles! heymax helps you find the best credit card to use anywhere you shop, and double dip to earn your preferred loyalty points and miles at 20+ airlines and hotels by shopping with our partners like Shopee, Lazada, Amazon, Apple,Trip.com, Singapore Airlines and so many more.For businesses, heymax.ai is a simple and efficient way to convert high-spending customers who like rewards on their terms.
  • Beep Technologies — Beep is creating a universal, modular platform bridging the physical and digital divide, powering smart, contextual & interoperable connectivity across physical touchpoints whilst ensuring true customer privacy by leveraging on decentralised technology.
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Verdant Capital
VC Fund · Port Louis, Port Louis, Mauritius · 1 investments in Africa Media (entertainment) startups

Verdant Capital is a specialist corporate finance firm with exception experience transacting across the African continent. Verdant Capital operates in two segments, Financial Institutions and Corporate Finance. It operates from offices in Johannesburg, Mauritius and Accra.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Finance, Marketplace
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Kenya

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Pezesha — Digital Financial Ecosystem for connecting MSMEs to Capital.
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cFund
VC Fund · 1 investments in Africa Media (entertainment) startups

Digital asset capital management with Wave Digital Assets. Our early-stage crypto investment fund has been investing in blockchain companies, protocols, and cryptocurrencies since 2018. The fund takes a thesis-driven

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Financial Services, Cryptocurrency
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Kenya, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Pezesha — Digital Financial Ecosystem for connecting MSMEs to Capital.
  • EigenLabs — EigenLayer a platform to leverage Ethereum security through the innovative method of restaking.
  • Liqwid Labs — Liqwid is a non-custodial liquidity market protocol for lending and borrowing on Cardano, offering fast, affordable, and transparent liquidity solutions.
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YUYANG INVESTMENT CO., LTD. (Ma's Family)
VC Fund · Taipei, T'ai-pei, Taiwan · 1 investments in Africa Media (entertainment) startups

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Finance, Internet
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Mauritius

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • 101 financial.app — 101financial.app membantu investor pemula memasuki pasar keuangan dengan teknologi pemrograman yang terbaik dan berbagai fitur sosial. Semua pengguna dapat dengan cepat menjelajahi beragam saham, mata uang Kripto, dan menerapkan perdagangan margin untuk mencapai tujuan keuangan dengan modal kecil.
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Unanimous Capital
VC Fund · San Mateo, California, United States · 1 investments in 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: 16
  • 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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Toyota Tsusho
VC Fund · Nagoya, Aichi, Japan · 1 investments in Africa Media (entertainment) startups

Toyota Tsusho is the trading arm of the Toyota Group. It enriches society by creating value by the company as Metals; Global Production Parts; Logistics; Automotive; Machinery; Energy; Project; Chemicals; Electronics; Food and Agribusiness; Consumer Products and Services;.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Manufacturing, Automotive
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 42
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • TradeWaltz — TradeWaltz is an information platform that maintains the integrity of electronic trade documents.
  • Aurora Labs — Aurora Labs is pioneering the use of Software Intelligence to solve the challenge of automotive software development. Created using Aurora Labs' Line-Of-Code Intelligence™, the Automotive Software Intelligence (ASI) solution collects granular and actionable data from complex automotive systems, applying AI to enable software transparency andmanagement. Aurora Labs' ASI solution detects and validates changes in the software lines-of-code for OTA updates, and analyses dependencies and software behaviour to enable predictive software maintenance throughout the vehicle lifecycle. Aurora Labs provides automotive development teams unique tools to roll out new technologies and services on time and on budget.Aurora Labs, founded in 2016, has raised $34m and has been granted dozens of patents. Aurora Labs has customers around the world and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel, with offices in Germany, North Macedonia, and the US.
  • Electra — Electra is decarbonizing ironmaking for green steel production using intermittent renewable energy and low-grade iron ores.
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Western Technology Investment
VC Fund · Portola Valley, California, United States · 1 investments in Africa Media (entertainment) startups

Since 1980, WTI has helped more than 1,300 companies across every innovation sector finance their growth while minimizing dilution.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 190
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Joy — Joy is the creator of the first Smart Photo Album that allows you to curate and share your favorite photos with friends and family. Designed to live on your coffee table and sit comfortably in your lap, the Joy Album makes your most cherished moments instantly viewable in gorgeous layouts, finally modernizing the lost art of creating a physicalphoto album.The Joy team hails from Apple and Sonos and is building a premium all-in-one hardware and software photo solution for families to share memories with loved ones near and far.The company was founded in February 2016 and is backed by top investors including Obvious Ventures, David B. Heller, Maywic and The Chernin Group.Joy is headquartered in San Francisco, California. For more information, visit http://www.joy.co.
  • Cosmos Innovation — Cosmos Innovation specialize in full stack software development, product design, cloud hosting, and MVP deployment.
  • Intuition Robotics — The AI care companion robot for older adults
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Symbiotics Group
VC Fund · Geneva, Geneve, Switzerland · 1 investments in Africa Media (entertainment) startups

Symbiotics is the leading market access platform for impact investing. Symbiotics offers investment, asset management and capacity building services.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt
  • Geography: India, Kenya, Senegal

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 27
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Varthana — With the availability of education & school loans, financing education has become easier. Apply for instant education loan with Varthana today.
  • Khan Bank — Khan Bank is a universal bank and a customer of FMO.
  • AMK Microfinance Institution — AMK’s commitment to social performance has been absolute. AMK has developed a comprehensive social performance management framework, which ensures that the organization stays focusing on its mission to assist large numbers of poor people. As of December 2016, over 2,300 staffs serve almost 600,000 clients in nearly 13,000 villages across Cambodia.This outreach represents 89% of all villages.
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Legion Ventures
VC Fund · Miami, Florida, United States · 1 investments in 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: Gaming, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Initial Coin Offering
  • Geography: Italy, Spain, Panama

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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 operates as a Trading Metaverse. Trading Metaverse is a new kind of social trading experience governed by its users.
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Lavender Capital
VC Fund · 1 investments in 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, Metaverse, Blockchain
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • FreeBnk — Ethical Crypto Banking for Next Generation
  • 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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Serena Ventures
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Africa Media (entertainment) startups

Serena Ventures focuses on early-stage companies and giving them the opportunity to be heard. Serena Ventures extends relationships, encourages collaboration among portfolio companies, and expands partnership opportunities across my vast network.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Health Care, Wellness
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 72
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Rebelstork — Rebelstork was born to make Parenting Lighter. We are the largest tech-driven marketplace for baby gear in North America - diverting overstock and retailer returned baby gear away from landfills and into the homes of customers at a fraction of the retail price.
  • KLIQ — Fitness Coaches, launch the app you've been dreaming of with no upfront costs. Build, manage and grow your community based business using our fully managed product.
  • Pixeltable — Open Source Python framework that enables AI Engineers to focus on modeling and experimentation.
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Talanton
VC Fund · Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, United States · 1 investments in Africa Media (entertainment) startups

Talanton helps you combat poverty in developing countries by creating jobs. You can free those in poverty by coming alongside them through investments in growth-stage businesses.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Retail, Sports, Fashion
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Pezesha — Digital Financial Ecosystem for connecting MSMEs to Capital.
  • Enda Sportswear — Kenyan running shoes that reward a natural midfoot landing and match the way runners train. Proudly made in Kenya and certified Climate Neutral. The most socially conscious running shoes in the world.
  • MoKo Home + Living — MoKo Home is Kenya's one-stop furniture company specializing in comfort & smiles, having served over 10000 smiley homes to date. Will yours be next?
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Vastly Valuable Ventures
VC Fund · Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates · 1 investments in Africa Media (entertainment) startups

Investing In Vanguard, Visionary, Valiant Founders

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Qardy — Qardy provide SMEs with a comprehensive array of financial services, such as factoring, leasing, long-term and short-term loans, and leasing. Our objectives are to empower SMEs, encourage financial inclusion, and close the loan financing gap.
  • Renda — At Renda, we are passionate about revolutionizing the logistics and mobility sectors with cutting-edge technology that enables businesses and operators to seamlessly scale in emerging markets.
  • Termii — Termii is an online platform that helps teams secure repeat customers by sending personalized emails and SMS through multiple.Termii helps African businesses communicate with customers across SMS, email, voice, and instant messaging channels. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Lagos, Nigeria.
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Five35 Ventures
VC Fund · Gauteng, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in Africa Media (entertainment) startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • ShareChat — ShareChat is India's own social network in 14 Indian languages Install ShareChat from Google Play Store for FREE!
  • 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 Holding — 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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