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Top 35 Media (Entertainment) VC Funds & Investors in South Africa (June 2026)

The most active venture capital funds investing in South Africa Media (entertainment) startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in South Africa Media (entertainment) startup companies. Find investors to raise a Seed, Series A or Series B round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Proparco
VC Fund
2 India, Kenya, Mauritius Debt Financing, Seed Financial Services, Energy, Finance
Investisseurs & Partenaires
VC Fund
2 France, Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire Seed, Series A Financial Services, Health Care, Food and Beverage
Knife Capital
VC Fund
2 South Africa, United States, Sweden Series A, Seed Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
AngelHub Ventures
VC Fund
2 South Africa, Mexico, Colombia Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Education
Goldman Sachs
VC Fund
1 United States, India, China Series C, Series B Software, Financial Services, FinTech $13M–$150M
Lavender Capital
VC Fund
1 South Africa Seed Gaming, Metaverse, Blockchain $400k–$3.3M
Savannah Fund
VC Fund
1 Kenya, United States, South Africa Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, FinTech, Software $25k–$8M
Alpha Moon Capital
VC Fund
1 South Africa Seed Gaming, Metaverse, Blockchain
Oikocredit International
VC Fund
1 India, Nigeria, Kenya Debt Financing, Series B Financial Services, Finance, FinTech $1.1M–$273M
Robertson Stephens Partners
VC Fund
1 United States, South Africa Series B, Series A Software, Internet, Manufacturing $12M–$80M
Avalon Wealth Club
VC Fund
1 United States, Singapore, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming $1.1M–$21M
Fairum Ventures
VC Fund
1 Estonia, Grenada, Malaysia Seed Cryptocurrency, Gaming, Online Games $715k–$4.5M
TotalEnergies Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, France, United Kingdom Series B, Series C Energy, Renewable Energy, Transportation $9.3M–$175M
Fish Dao
VC Fund
1 Germany, South Africa, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Blockchain, Gaming, Software $1.7M–$4.6M
Ignition Partners
VC Fund
1 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Series B, Series A, Series C Software, Enterprise Software, SaaS $1.8M–$54M
Harambeans
VC Fund
1 Nigeria, Kenya, Morocco Seed, Angel Information Technology, B2B, Big Data $100k–$3.1M
Lowenthal Capital Partners
VC Fund
1 South Africa Software, Logistics, Media and Entertainment
Technology Innovation Agency
VC Fund
1 South Africa Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed Information Technology, Software, Health Care $22k–$1M
Seed South Capital
VC Fund
1 South Africa Seed Sports, Content, Social Media
Vumela Fund
VC Fund
1 South Africa, Brazil Seed, Debt Financing Education, Software, E-Commerce $600k–$1.4M
Legion Ventures
VC Fund
1 Italy, Spain, Panama Seed, Pre-Seed, Initial Coin Offering Gaming, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency $300k–$4.5M
Icon Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, Israel, Canada Series C, Series B, Series D Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software $6M–$90M
Hasso Plattner Ventures
VC Fund
1 Germany, United States, South Africa Series A, Seed Software, Information Technology, Internet $55k–$8.6M
KNF Ventures
VC Fund
1 South Africa Series A SaaS, EBooks, EdTech
Dain Rauscher Wessels
VC Fund
1 United States, South Africa Series C, Series B Software, Information Technology, Internet
Snap
VC Fund
1 United States, India, Taiwan Seed, Pre-Seed, Series E Media and Entertainment, Internet, Video
Unanimous Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, Sweden, Hong Kong Seed, Series A, Series B Blockchain, Software, Gaming
Brandtech Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, United Kingdom, Canada Seed, Series B, Series A Software, Advertising, Artificial Intelligence
LoftyInc Capital
VC Fund
1 Nigeria, United States, Egypt Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Software
2CrazyNFT
VC Fund
1 South Africa, United Arab Emirates Seed Gaming, Metaverse, Blockchain
Hlayisani Growth Fund
VC Fund
1 South Africa Seed Education, Apps, SaaS
iHub
VC Fund
1 Kenya, South Africa Seed Education, E-Learning, EdTech
Launch Africa
VC Fund
1 Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
African Infrastructure Investment Managers
VC Fund
1 Nigeria, South Africa Private Equity, Debt Financing Solar, Energy, Renewable Energy $92M–$130M
Hlayisani Capital
VC Fund
1 South Africa, Mauritius Seed, Series A Software, Education, Information Technology
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Proparco
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 2 investments in South Africa Media (entertainment) startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Energy, Finance
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Seed
  • Geography: India, Kenya, Mauritius

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Sonatel — The Sonatel group offers global telecommunications solutions in the fields of fixed, mobile, Internet, television and data serving individuals and businesses. Leader in Senegal, present in Mali since 2002, in Guinea Conakry and Guinea Bissau since 2007, Sonatel is the global and sub-regional operator of reference.Sonatel has built a modernnetwork, fully digitized by transmission loops and international connections using high-speed optical fiber submarine cables. Sonatel has one of Africa's largest Internet bandwidths of 6.5 Gbps.Sonatel is a structuring company for the economy of his country and has made Senegal a hub of traffic and a major player in the development of telecommunications in Africa and in the world.Through its Orange brand, the Sonatel Group provides its millions of consumers with the best opportunities for convergence between mobile, internet and television technologies.
  • Almouneer — Healthcare, Diabetes, Practice Management, Technology
  • NCBA Group — NCBA Group Plc, is a financial services conglomerate in East and West Africa.
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Investisseurs & Partenaires
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 2 investments in South Africa Media (entertainment) startups

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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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Knife Capital
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 2 investments in South Africa Media (entertainment) startups

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: South Africa, United States, Sweden

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Octiv — Octiv is a well-known platform for 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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AngelHub Ventures
VC Fund · Stellenbosch, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 2 investments in South Africa Media (entertainment) startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Syscap — Syscap is a financial technology company that offers cutting-edge solutions to financial institutions to have a better administration and management of their funding sources. It connects the leaders of financial and real estate institutions with their funders. For institutions, the company ensures the optimization of their funding source managementprocesses, but also the strengthening of the relationship with their funders. To funders, Syscap guarantees the transparency and timely monitoring of its funds for the safety and growth of its resources.
  • Godochurch — GoDoChurch is a cloud-based church administration software which is designed to assist Christian churches and ministries with managing members, Sunday services, events, communications, and more. The system is made up of a base package, covering messaging, news, ministries, lists, church roles, services, events, and growth paths, with additionalmodules for managing follow-ups, groups, and Kids church.
  • Velocity — Velocity is a micro fulfillment dark store that delivers through digital channels.
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Goldman Sachs
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Media (entertainment) startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 700
  • Round size: Series B $13M–$150M; Series C $14M–$145M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Highview Power — Home | We help balance the grid by providing true long-duration energy storage.
  • ReNew — ReNew(NASDAQ: RNW),a global renewable company offering clean & green energy with a portfolio of 13.7 GW including Wind, Solar, Hybrid & Hydro Power.
  • Apollo Spectra — Nova Specialty Hospitals (formerly Nova Specialty Surgery) is a fully equipped medical facility located conveniently in your neighborhood. It brings cutting edge medical technology and internationally trained physicians under one roof to give patients easy access to quality, affordable healthcare.Nova's medical services are based on theout-patient care model that enables quicker diagnosis and reduces patients' recovery time. This healthcare delivery system optimizes our staff's efficiency while reducing operational costs, thereby providing incomparable value and convenience to our patients.
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Lavender Capital
VC Fund · 1 investments in South Africa Media (entertainment) startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $400k–$3.3M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

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

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 38
  • Round size: Seed $25k–$3M; Pre-Seed $200k–$2.1M; Series A $750k–$8M
  • Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $25M in 2021

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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Alpha Moon Capital
VC Fund · 1 investments in South Africa Media (entertainment) startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Zuki Moba — The First E-Sports Game Empowering Gamers | Zuki Moba
  • Billionaire Plus — Billionaire Plus is a board game that combine NFT, Defi, collectibles and your journey.
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Oikocredit International
VC Fund · Amersfoort, Utrecht, The Netherlands · 1 investments in South Africa Media (entertainment) startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 48
  • Round size: Series B $3.5M–$8.8M; Debt Financing $1.1M–$273M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

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

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Series B, Series A
  • Geography: United States, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Round size: Series A $12M–$18M; Series B $38M–$80M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • PowerDsine — Microsemi Corporation (Nasdaq: MSCC) offers a comprehensive portfolio of semiconductor and system solutions for communications, defense & security, aerospace and industrial markets. Products include high-performance, radiation-hardened and highly reliable analog mixed-signal integrated circuits, FPGAs, SoCs and ASICs; power management products;timing and voice processing devices; RF solutions; discrete components; security technologies and scalable anti-tamper products; Power-over-Ethernet ICs and midspans; as well as custom design capabilities and services. Microsemi is headquartered in Aliso Viejo, Calif., and has approximately 3,000 employees globally.
  • SunBasket — Get healthy meal delivery featuring fresh, organic produce & clean ingredients delivered to your door.
  • Lara Networks — Lara Technology is a fabless semiconductor manufacturer that designs, develops and markets memory-intensive ASICs for the networking and communications industries.
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Avalon Wealth Club
VC Fund · Helmshore, Lancashire, United Kingdom · 1 investments in South Africa Media (entertainment) startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 63
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$21M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • OpenPad AI — OpenPad - The 1st AI Decentralized Launchpad
  • Stabble — stabble is a protocol revolutionizing liquidity pools by introducing protocol-managed and arbitrage pools. This allows stabble to tackle critical inefficiencies prevalent within Solana's decentralized exchanges.
  • AI Cross Matrix — AI Cross Matrix is a DeFi platform that makes the crypto economy simple by streamlining the exchange process with useful solutions.
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Fairum Ventures
VC Fund · 1 investments in South Africa Media (entertainment) startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Cryptocurrency, Gaming, Online Games
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Estonia, Grenada, Malaysia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $715k–$4.5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Solak — Solak is an AI browser and DeFi platform that is transforming the digital world.
  • Graviton Zero — Graviton Zero multi-Chain Play to Earn NFT Game - In a Universe ravaged by War
  • Billionaire Plus — Billionaire Plus is a board game that combine NFT, Defi, collectibles and your journey.
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TotalEnergies Ventures
VC Fund · La Défense, Ile-de-France, France · 1 investments in South Africa Media (entertainment) startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 93
  • Round size: Series B $9.3M–$175M; Series C $12M–$65M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow

Portfolio highlights

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

Fish Dao

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Gaming, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, South Africa, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Seed $1.7M–$4.6M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ajuna Network — Ajuna Network is a decentralized ecosystem for gamers and creators.
  • OMNIA Protocol — OMNIA Protocol offers a secure and private infrastructure for accessing blockchain technology. It provides high availability RPC endpoints for Ethereum, ensuring users can connect to the blockchain without being traced or monitored. The company focuses on delivering a compliant environment for handling personal data, including blockchain addressesand transactional information. OMNIA Protocol aims to democratize access to blockchain infrastructure, challenging the current concentration of this access among a few corporations. It supports various blockchains, including Bitcoin, Binance, Avalanche, Polygon, Arbitrum, and Optimism, through its platform, offering secure Arbitrum RPC Nodes features.
  • Cumulus Encrypted Storage System (CESS) — CESS revolutionizes AI, DeSci, RWA, Enterprise, and more with secure, transparent, and traceable data solutions. Delivering AI computing and data infrastructure, CESS enables data privacy and sovereignty with a focus on AI Agent applications and frameworks.
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Ignition Partners
VC Fund · Los Altos, California, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Media (entertainment) startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 215
  • Round size: Series A $1.8M–$13M; Series B $6M–$25M; Series C $8.5M–$54M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $200M in 2015

Portfolio highlights

  • Swype — Swype creates text input technology for screens. The patented interface enables users to create words with one continuous finger motion across an on-screen keyboard. This approach provides a faster and easier way to write. Swype delivers single-tap, multi-tap, predictive and "swype" motions for both stylus and finger based input.In addition, the application is designed to work across a variety of devices such as phones, tablets, game consoles, kiosks, televisions, virtual screens and more.Seattle based Swype Inc. was founded by Cliff Kushler and Randy Marsden in 2003. Cliff is the co-inventor of T9, the standard predictive text-entry solution used on almost 3 billion mobile phones worldwide. Randy is the developer of the onscreen keyboard included in Windows, with an installed base of over 500 million units
  • SnapLogic — SnapLogic's iPaaS platform empowers enterprises by automating application, data and cloud integration. Reach digital business transformation with SnapLogic.
  • Integris Software — A new EU law, the General Data Protection Regulation, will fine companies up to 4% of WW revenue for violations of people’s privacy. This will have the same impact on all industries as SOX compliance had on the financial sector. Integris Software helps organizations meet rigid compliance mandates with the ability to visualize where all personalinformation is located across the enterprise, prove adherence to regulatory standards, and empower strategic decision making by bridging the gap between legal, business, and technology.
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Harambeans
VC Fund · 1 investments in South Africa Media (entertainment) startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, B2B, Big Data
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, Morocco

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$3.1M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% 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.
  • ZSystems — ZSystems is a transformative super app designed to redefine B2B trade.
  • MarketForce — MarketForce connects Africa’s informal retail outlets and consumers directly to suppliers of consumer goods and financial services by digitizing orders, delivery, and payments with the aim of solving the last mile distribution challenge.
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Lowenthal Capital Partners
VC Fund · Davis, California, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Media (entertainment) startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

WELCOME TO TIA Innovating Tomorrow Together 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 TIA Invitation for Call for Expression to Join External Expert Database

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Round size: Seed $46k–$336k; Grant $22k–$1M; Pre-Seed $39k–$50k
  • Lead/follow: 93% lead, 7% follow

Portfolio highlights

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

Seed South Capital invest in early-stage companies, transforming these into B-BBEE compliant business enterprises, forging a new class of youthful entrepreneurs.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Sports, Content, Social Media
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • myFanPark — myFanPark is a South African celebrity engagement platform, to share videos.
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Vumela Fund
VC Fund · Hyde Park, Newtownabbey, United Kingdom · 1 investments in South Africa Media (entertainment) startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Education, Software, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Debt Financing
  • Geography: South Africa, Brazil

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$822k; Debt Financing $854k–$1.4M
  • Lead/follow: 80% lead, 20% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $14M in 2015

Portfolio highlights

  • Rentoza — We champion giving you access, affordability and flexibility to explore tech on your own terms
  • Mia Healthcare
  • ProfitShare Partners — Business funding solutions with ProfitShare Partners. We specialise in Short Term Asset Finance to help empower SMEs.
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Legion Ventures
VC Fund · Miami, Florida, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Media (entertainment) startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Seed $300k–$4.5M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Coinzix — Coinzix - one of the most convenient and reliable crypto platforms with guaranteed liquidity and low commissions. Come in and make sure.
  • VisionGame — VisionGame brings the traditional game publishing experience, boosted for the blockchain. VisionGame provides unique products, technical and creative services, all to support the ever-growing gaming blockchain industry, raising the bar one game at a time.
  • MetaFi — MetaFi operates as a Trading Metaverse. Trading Metaverse is a new kind of social trading experience governed by its users.
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Icon Ventures
VC Fund · Palo Alto, California, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Media (entertainment) startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 180
  • Round size: Series B $12M–$45M; Series C $10M–$50M; Series D $6M–$90M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $375M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Thanx — Drive revenue with personalized guest engagement, loyalty programs, and data-driven marketing. The #1 software for restaurants.
  • TuneIn — From live sports & local radio to news, music & podcasts, TuneIn has the perfect thing to “hear” wherever “here” might be.With 75 million monthly active users, TuneIn is one of the most widely used streaming audio platforms in the world. TuneIn broadcasts over 100,000 owned & operated and partner radio stations, in addition toboasting more than 5.7 million podcasts. TuneIn Premium subscribers unlock exclusive access to live commercial-free news from top networks like CNBC, CNN, FOX News Radio and MSNBC, commercial-free music channels for every mood and activity, and less ads throughout the platform. TuneIn can be accessed in 197 countries and on more than 200 different major platforms and connected devices, including voice assistants like Siri, Alexa, Google Assistant, Samsung Bixby and Cortana, and key integrations with Sonos, Bose and Tesla. With venture funding from Sequoia Capital, Comcast Ventures, IVP, Innovation Endeavors, Causeway, General Catalyst Partners, Icon Ventures and Marker LLC, TuneIn is headquartered in San Francisco, California. We are currently working and hiring remotely across the United States, as well as in parts of Europe and South America. Come join us in reinventing radio for a connected world!
  • Zephyr Health — Zephyr Health operates as an insights-as-a-service solution built specifically for life sciences companies addressing critical business and patient needs. Zephyr Illuminate™ helps pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device companies make confident decisions faster across the entire lifecycle with precise and predictive data insights.
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Hasso Plattner Ventures
VC Fund · Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany · 1 investments in South Africa Media (entertainment) startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Internet
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Germany, United States, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 98
  • Round size: Seed $55k–$4M; Series A $1.1M–$8.6M
  • Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2013

Portfolio highlights

  • Conatix — Conatix is reinventing business research, helping companies to do market, investment and strategic research better, faster and cheaper. Conatix is building a semi-automated business intelligence system based on recent advances in machine learning to enable companies to discover, source, structure and share previously unstructured data andinformation from outside their organizations. The system will be licensed to companies to use for all of their research work on a per-month, per-seat online knowledge management as a service (KaaS) basis.Conatix disrupts the business research value chain: rethinking online search and discovery, organizing the research process, creating a system that learns, and iterating the process to create knowledge that scales. Companies need to do more than one-off keyword searches using an advertising-driven consumer search tool. Conatix does not just sell a technical solution to the narrow problem of internet search, or a search engine. Conatix sells an end-to-end business system solving a business problem to a business customer, developed in response to a real business need.
  • Likeminded — Likeminded developed a digital platform for mental health that gives people fast, low-threshold access to psychological support.
  • VersionEye — Open Source Security & License Compliance
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KNF Ventures
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in South Africa Media (entertainment) startups

was a SARS-approved section 12J Venture Capital Company

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

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

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 23
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

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

Snap is a privately-owned multinational 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.

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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 — A leading global enabler of digital advertising in emerging countries
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Unanimous Capital
VC Fund · San Mateo, California, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Media (entertainment) startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 32
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • EVRYTHNG — EVRYTHNG is the internet of things smart products platform connecting consumer products to the Web and managing real-time data to drive applications and analytics throughout the product lifecycle. Its a consumer product manufacturers work with EVRYTHNG to manage billions of intelligent identities in the cloud for their products. This enables brandsto deliver digital services directly to end-users through their products, manage supply chains more effectively using real-time data, and operate smart products connected to the broader ecosystem of applications and services on the Web and in the enterprise.It was founded in 2011 and is based in London, Greater London.
  • Blacktag — Blacktag is a global platform for Black content and creators.
  • Provenance — Provenance is a software solution for sustainability communications and supply chain transparency.
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LoftyInc Capital
VC Fund · Carmel, California, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Media (entertainment) startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: 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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2CrazyNFT
VC Fund · Sliema, NA - Malta, Malta · 1 investments in South Africa Media (entertainment) startups

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.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

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

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • SILABU — Silabu is a platform that links students with skilled teachers to help them achieve their learning objectives, offering an alternative to traditional education.
  • ntemata — ntemata enables you automate assessment processes for teachers and holistically analyse competency learning
  • LoHo Learning — Loho Learning is an e-Learning platform that provides customized and interactive education to the schooling generation in a variety of digital formats.
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Launch Africa
VC Fund · Ebène, Plaines Wilhems, Mauritius · 1 investments in South Africa Media (entertainment) startups, 6 in the past 12 months

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

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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: 139
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Bosso — Bosso projects and realizes automation and robotic solutions for the growth of your business.
  • Kredete — Kredete is a digital lending platform that provides free credit scores and reports to underserved individuals and small businesses in Africa to help them gain access to formal credit and improve their financial health. The platform connects borrowers with lenders and enterprises in Africa and is designed to simplify the lending process and makecredit more accessible by leveraging cutting-edge technology. Kredete offers a user-friendly platform that guides borrowers, lenders, and enterprises through the process of offering loans, making it simple for them to provide the right loan products for their needs.One of the key features of Kredete is its instant approval process, which is made possible by advanced algorithms and artificial intelligence. The platform offers flexible lending options by partnering with a variety of lenders and enterprises, enabling borrowers to choose the best option for their specific situation.Kredete is committed to protecting the privacy and security of all users' personal and financial information. It uses robust encryption and security measures to ensure that sensitive data remains safe and secure. Additionally, the platform maintains transparency throughout the loan process, providing lenders, enterprises, and borrowers with clear information about loan terms and associated fees.Kredete believes in empowering its users with the knowledge and resources they need to make informed financial decisions. To this end, the platform offers financial education, tools, and resources to help users better understand and manage their finances. Kredete also works closely with businesses and institutions to provide tailored financial solutions for their unique needs.Through its focus on accessibility, convenience, and transparency, Kredete is transforming the lending landscape in Africa and helping to bridge the financial inclusion gap. The platform remains dedicated to its mission of empowering lenders, enterprises, and borrowers across the continent to access the funds they need to achieve their financial goals.
  • Wahu Mobility — Wahu Mobility is an open e-mobility platform that connects drivers, passengers, and goods in a simple, inclusive, transparent, nationwide, and multimodal manner.
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African Infrastructure Investment Managers
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in South Africa Media (entertainment) startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Private Equity $92M–$130M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • SolarAfrica — Our integrated solutions are designed to reduce electricity costs, provide energy security and improve the carbon footprint of your business.
  • Starsight Energy — Starsight Energy provides premier clean on-grid and off-grid energy services to commercial and industrial clients in Africa. We make clean energy a smart bottom-line decision for clients by eliminating all up-front costs. Clients pay an all-inclusive monthly fee for end-to-end service.
  • Eastcastle Infrastructure — Track record of providing reliable and sustainable connectivity for consumers and communities in Africa.
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Hlayisani Capital
VC Fund · Fourways, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in South Africa Media (entertainment) startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Lead/follow: 62% lead, 38% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • GoMetro — Fleet management simplified with GoMetro. Integrate telematics, gain real-time visibility, and optimize operations with a secure, scalable platform,
  • Spatialedge — Empowering Businesses to Make the Right Data-driven Decisions. We specialise in building and operationalising cutting-edge analytical solutions that deliver business value through a suite of decision tools.
  • Tractor Outdoor — Specialising in connecting brands to consumers through its network of traditional OOH, digital advertising technology, transit networks and ambient platforms
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Media (Entertainment) VC funding in South Africa at a glance

Stats across 44 deals from 53 investors.

53
investors
in South Africa Media (entertainment) startups
44
deals
in South Africa Media (entertainment) startups
$1.1M
median round
in South Africa Media (entertainment) startups
58%
lead investors
lead at least one round
23%
Seed
most common funding stage

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