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Top 50 Media (Entertainment) VC Funds & Investors in South Africa (October 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 Venture - Series Unknown round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Blue Label Ventures
VC Fund
3 South Africa, United States Seed, Venture - Series Unknown SaaS, Mobile, Hardware $207k–$1M
Travel Capitalist Ventures
VC Fund
2 Brazil, South Africa Seed News, Travel, Tourism $250k–$1M
KNF Ventures
VC Fund
2 South Africa Series A, Venture - Series Unknown SaaS, EBooks, EdTech
Proparco
VC Fund
2 India, Kenya, Mauritius Debt Financing, Seed Financial Services, Energy, Finance
Hlayisani Capital
VC Fund
2 South Africa, Mauritius Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Series A Software, Education, Information Technology $2M–$11M
Belgian Investment Company for Developing Countries
VC Fund
2 India, Kenya, Ecuador Debt Financing, Non-Equity Assistance, Venture - Series Unknown Financial Services, Finance, Banking $16k–$18M
AngelHub Ventures
VC Fund
2 South Africa, Mexico, Colombia Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Education $300k–$2.3M
Sekunjalo Group
VC Fund
2 South Africa, Sweden, United States Seed, Post-IPO Equity, Venture - Series Unknown Media and Entertainment, News, Music
Launch Africa
VC Fund
2 Nigeria, South Africa, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology $200k–$4M
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
Clifftop Colony Capital Partners
VC Fund
2 South Africa Seed, Angel, Series A Audio, Podcast, Software
NuState Capital
VC Fund
1 South Africa Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A Education, Software, SaaS
African Infrastructure Investment Managers
VC Fund
1 South Africa, Nigeria, Ghana Private Equity, Venture - Series Unknown, Debt Financing Energy, Renewable Energy, Solar $2M–$420M
Goldman Sachs
VC Fund
1 United States, India, China Debt Financing, Series C, Series B Software, Financial Services, FinTech $12M–$1.6B
Lavender Capital
VC Fund
1 China, Spain, Vietnam Seed, Initial Coin Offering Gaming, Blockchain, Bitcoin $400k–$4M
Legion Ventures
VC Fund
1 Israel, Italy, Spain Seed, Pre-Seed, Initial Coin Offering Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency $300k–$4.5M
Brandtech Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, United Kingdom, Canada Seed, Series B, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Advertising $1.6M–$200M
Avalon Wealth Club
VC Fund
1 United States, Singapore, United Kingdom Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming $810k–$50M
LoftyInc Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, Nigeria, Egypt Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Software $100k–$37M
Action Hero Ventures
VC Fund
1 South Africa, Singapore, United States Seed Marketplace, Baby, Mobile
iHub
VC Fund
1 Kenya, South Africa Seed Education, E-Learning, EdTech
TruePNL
VC Fund
1 Singapore, India, Panama Seed, Initial Coin Offering Gaming, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency $75k–$3.7M
Dain Rauscher Wessels
VC Fund
1 United States, South Africa Series C, Series B Software, Information Technology, Internet $8.4M–$102M
Unanimous Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, Sweden, Hong Kong Seed, Series A, Series B Blockchain, Software, Gaming
Harambeans
VC Fund
1 Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa Seed, Angel Supply Chain Management, Transportation, Information Technology
Vumela Fund
VC Fund
1 South Africa, Brazil Seed, Debt Financing Education, Software, Primary Education
Hasso Plattner Ventures
VC Fund
1 Germany, United States, South Africa Series A, Seed Software, Information Technology, Internet
Oikocredit International
VC Fund
1 India, Nigeria, Kenya Debt Financing, Series B Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
Hlayisani Growth Fund
VC Fund
1 South Africa Seed Education, Apps, SaaS
Ignition Partners
VC Fund
1 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Series B, Series A, Series C Software, Enterprise Software, SaaS $2.1M–$40M
TotalEnergies Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, France, United Kingdom Series B, Series C Energy, Renewable Energy, Transportation $5M–$175M
WZ Capital
VC Fund
1 South Africa Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed Medical, Health Care, Information Technology
Fish Dao
VC Fund
1 United Kingdom, Estonia, Germany Seed, Series A Blockchain, Gaming, Web3 $1.7M–$8M
BullPerks
VC Fund
1 Lithuania, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates Seed, Initial Coin Offering, Series A Gaming, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency $75k–$12M
Naspers
VC Fund
1 South Africa, India, Brazil Series B, Private Equity, Series A E-Commerce, Internet, Retail $510k–$421M
Alpha Moon Capital
VC Fund
1 Vietnam, Singapore, United States Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A Gaming, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency $400k–$2.6M
Snap
VC Fund
1 United States, India, Taiwan Seed, Pre-Seed, Series E Apps, Video, Internet $150k–$4M
I’M IN
VC Fund
1 South Africa Seed, Pre-Seed Mobile Apps, Information Technology, Apps $40k–$120k
2CrazyNFT
VC Fund
1 South Africa, United Arab Emirates Seed Gaming, Metaverse, Blockchain
Platform45
VC Fund
1 South Africa Venture - Series Unknown Sales, Events, Ticketing
Fairum Ventures
VC Fund
1 United Kingdom, Israel, Estonia Seed Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Information Technology $715k–$21M
Lowenthal Capital Partners
VC Fund
1 South Africa Software, Logistics, Media and Entertainment
Crossfin Technology
VC Fund
1 South Africa, Singapore, United States Seed, Series A Payments, FinTech, Financial Services
Adanian Labs
VC Fund
1 Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed Developer Platform, Financial Services, Gaming $60k–$100k
Savannah Fund
VC Fund
1 Kenya, United States, South Africa Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, E-Commerce, FinTech $25k–$12M
Robertson Stephens Partners
VC Fund
1 United States, South Africa Series B, Series A Software, Internet, Manufacturing $12M–$80M
MiH Ventures
VC Fund
1 India, Saint Kitts and Nevis Venture - Series Unknown FinTech, Finance, Cryptocurrency
Icon Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, Israel, Canada Series C, Series B, Series D Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
Technology Innovation Agency
VC Fund
1 South Africa Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed Information Technology, Renewable Energy, Health Care
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Blue Label Ventures
VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 3 investments in South Africa Media (entertainment) startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

was a SARS-approved section 12J Venture Capital Company

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Amartha — Amartha Mikro Fintech - P2P Lending Indonesia. Alternatif investasi dengan modal terjangkau mulai 100Rb. Tedaftar OJK, Imbal hasil 15%* & Berdampak Sosial.
  • Coris Holding — Coris Holding is a financial institution that was established with the motive to provide support to SMEs and SMIs.
  • Orchidia Pharmaceutical — Orchidia Pharmaceutical is a manufacturing company that provides ophthalmic drugs, food supplements, and cosmeceutical products.
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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, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: South Africa, Mexico, Colombia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$2.3M; Series A $300k–$1.7M
  • Lead/follow: 71% lead, 29% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2014

Portfolio highlights

  • Motai —
  • 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.
  • Velocity — Velocity is a micro fulfillment dark store that delivers through digital channels.
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Sekunjalo Group
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 2 investments in South Africa Media (entertainment) startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Saab — Saab serves the global market of governments, authorities and corporations with products, services and solutions ranging from military defence to civil security.
  • Magic 828 — Magic 828 is a medium-wave commercial music radio station and was officially launched on 1 October 2015, broadcasting to Cape Town and the greater Western Cape region. Their studios are situated in Pinelands, Cape Town with a transmitter sited at the centre of a geographic triangle with Paarl, Durbanville and Malmesbury as the three corner points.Magic 828 radiates a 25 000 watt (25 kW) signal to major suburban areas of the Cape, unrestricted by mountainous terrain and operates on the AM wavelength. The essential broadcast format of the radio station is one of golden oldies music, mixed with less talk, sport, and news and community information.
  • African News Agency — The African News Agency (ANA) is Africa’s first syndicated multimedia news service and strives to be the continent’s single source of reliable and credible news on government, politics, economies, markets, business, sports, and lifestyle.We are committed to accurate and balanced coverage 24 hours a day; to report what is in the public interest,and to meet the information needs of our readers and subscribers. Whether you are a broadcaster, newspaper, digital customer, business, government or civil society organization, we can provide you with relevant and compelling content for your specific requirements.When news breaks, we will know and we will tell you immediately, helping you to make better decisions faster. We aim to provide news you can use: information that is helpful and relevant to decision-makers, investors and ordinary people.
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Launch Africa
VC Fund · Ebène, Plaines Wilhems, Mauritius · 2 investments in South Africa Media (entertainment) startups, 6 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Investisseurs et Partenaires

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • iProcure — iProcure is a Nairobi-based start-up working to optimize the agriculture input supply chain in rural Kenya. iProcure’s web and mobile technology solution improves agriculture retailers’ operations. It lets them manage ordering based on inventory, point of sale activities, and client profiles along with geo-located purchasing patterns, real-timeagent performance and transaction analysis, and built-in mobile payments. As a result, retailers can better predict demand with business intelligence data, improve inventory management, and streamline distribution efficiency.
  • Trackbit — Trackbit is a cryptocurrency exchange platform.
  • Lapaire — Discover a wide range of high-quality & affordable eyeglasses at Lapaire Glasses. Book a free vision test with our professional optometrists to help you find your perfect pair of glasses to enhance your vision and style. Shops in 7 african countries: Benin, Ivory Coast, Togo, Burkina Faso, Mali, Kenya and Uganda.
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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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Clifftop Colony Capital Partners
VC Fund · 2 investments in South Africa Media (entertainment) startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • iono.fm — iono.fm is an online audio platform providing podcasting, radio live-streaming, audio advertising and ancillary value-added audio services to radio stations and other content providers. The company has developed it’s own unique device-agnostic technology catering for both developed and emerging markets, allowing audio content providers and ownersof audio content to migrate into the digital age.iono.fm’s proprietary technology package is changing the way people access audio entertainment, moving from traditional analogue to digital, allowing for more efficient and targeted programmatic advertising campaigns.In developed markets, iono.fm offers a fully enabled platform for the latest PC’s and iOS and Android tablets and mobile phones whereas in emerging markets iono.fm is the only platform accessible on feature phones, a popular method of accessing radio content in Africa and other emerging countries. As such the platform is globally unique in that it does considered to be both market- and device-agnostic.Founded in Cape Town, iono.fm has achieved a dominant position in the South African market hosting and distributing audio content from radio stations, educational content providers, interest groups, professional associations and religious organisations. Having proven the business model and consolidated the home market, iono.fm is now well-positioned to drive its global expansion into other markets.
  • Wyzetalk — Wyzetalk is the secure social business platform that accelerates the performance of organizations that believe in the power of engaging communities to collaborate. A cloud-based software solution developed by a South African team, Wyzetalk enables companies and communities to speed up the decision-making process, enable large-scale collaboration,improve all-round communication, encourage idea generation and facilitate an open innovation environment to drive critical business success.Available as a web service, desktop, mobile and tablet app, Wyzetalk is more feature-rich than other products and offers unrivaled pricing, branding, and integration capabilities suited to local companies.The system does not restrict community participation on the basis of domains and conversations can be triggered from events created from a company's internal systems (financial, production, customer, sales) and public triggers (news sites, customer queries).
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NuState Capital
VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in South Africa Media (entertainment) startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Sticitt — Sticitt is a cashless payment platform. Sticitt services schools, lifestyle and golf estates, as well as events and is assisting one utility company to get clients to pay for water bills using its cashless payments system.
  • d6 — SCHOOLS Schools Communication Platforms and School Management Software COMMUNITIES Community & Internal Business Communication Platforms MEDIA Let your brand be seen Advertise on
  • Principal Software(d6 education) — d6 is a school management software application that helps you manage your school's curriculum, administration, communication and finance.
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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: Energy, Renewable Energy, Solar
  • Stage:Private Equity, Venture - Series Unknown, Debt Financing
  • Geography: South Africa, Nigeria, Ghana

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 36
  • Round size: Debt Financing $9.4M–$10M; Private Equity $31M–$420M; Venture - Series Unknown $2M–$90M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $50M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • SolarAfrica — Our integrated solutions are designed to reduce electricity costs, provide energy security and improve the carbon footprint of your business.
  • NOA Group — NOA Group offers a vertically integrated energy platform to provide net zero-oriented renewable energy solutions to customers in the commercial and industrial sectors.
  • The Logistics Group — The Logistics Group is a provider of logistics and warehousing services to serve the mining, agricultural, trading, manufacturing, and shipping sectors.
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Goldman Sachs
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Media (entertainment) startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 992
  • Round size: Series B $12M–$139M; Series C $20M–$145M; Debt Financing $60M–$1.6B
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $43M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • SugarAI — SugarAI (formerly SugarCRM) helps sellers sell by spotting issues and opportunities hiding in CRM and ERP data, then presenting them as actionable next steps.
  • 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.
  • Riverbed Technology — Unlocking the full potential of your digital experiences has never been more accessible. Illuminate, accelerate and fully leverage the full breadth of possibilities with Riverbed.
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Lavender Capital
VC Fund · 1 investments in South Africa Media (entertainment) startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • FreeBnk — FreeBnk's stablecoin payment API, global accounts and crypto acceptance for fintechs, PSPs and merchants. Pay in and pay out in 70+ countries, settled in local currency.
  • 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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Legion Ventures
VC Fund · Miami, Florida, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Media (entertainment) startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Blacktag — Blacktag is a global platform for Black content and creators.
  • Provenance — Provenance is a software solution for sustainability communications and supply chain transparency.
  • Griffin Gaming Partners — Griffin Gaming Partners is a venture capital firm focused exclusively on the gaming industry The firm invests across the broad gaming ecosystem, including content, software, and platforms.
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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, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 64
  • Round size: Seed $810k–$21M; Venture - Series Unknown $5.8M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • OpenPad AI — OpenPad - The 1st AI Decentralized Launchpad
  • Stabble — Stabble is the first frictionless exchange protocol on Solana that eliminates financial losses for all DeFi users.
  • 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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LoftyInc Capital
VC Fund · Carmel, California, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Media (entertainment) startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Cauridor — Cauridor is a Financial Services company.
  • WafR — WafR is a reward-based loyalty startup that allows users to earn phone recharges while shopping at retail shops.
  • Nucleon Security — Nucleon Smart Endpoint, AI and Zero-trust powered EDR platform.
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Action Hero Ventures
VC Fund · Stellenbosch, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in South Africa Media (entertainment) startups

Action Hero Ventures is a private early stage angel fund, looking to invest in innovative startups. The company was founded in 2013 by Ernst Hertzog (M.Eng, MBA) who has professional experience in the telecommunications and healthcare industries. Action heroes are characters that portray bravery, strength, integrity, perseverance, adventure and imagination. These are all elements that feature strongly in the ethos of Action Hero Ventures and they are looking to invest in entrepreneurs that also carry these traits. They draw on the knowledge and support of a range of experts during the various phases of funding and growing new ventures. They are also continuously looking for co-investment opportunities with other angel investors and venture capital firms. The company is based in Stellenbosch, South Africa.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Marketplace, Baby, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: South Africa, Singapore, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • myFanPark — myFanPark is a South African celebrity engagement platform, to share videos.
  • Flood — Flood is a marketplace platforms that provides merchant solution, self services and big data solution.
  • Thula Baba Project — Sign up, lace up and run with purpose - join our Running to Equip Mothers campaign and turn every kilometre into an opportunity for a child
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iHub
VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya · 1 investments in South Africa Media (entertainment) startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

TruePNL is a public trading platform for retail investors.It focuses on building investing products for users with any background and knowledge in crypto. Our products include a Robo-Trading Marketplace with a variety of proven trading bots, easily connected by API; and a Launchpad application for a safe and profitable way to invest in newpromising blockchain startups.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
  • Stage:Seed, Initial Coin Offering
  • Geography: Singapore, India, Panama

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 18
  • Round size: Seed $75k–$3.7M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Altava Group — Altava Group, a virtual fashion pioneer partnered with LVMH, delivers 3D assets, NFT solutions, and metaverse-ready designs for global brands and platforms.
  • UNO.farm — UNO.farm is a unique cross-chain autofarming solution with transparent automated strategies and beautiful analytics. Enter best DeFi yield sources.
  • De.Fi — Your gateway to Decentralized Finance | Manage assets across blockchains, generate returns from cryptocurrencies, access the best token swap rates and more
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Dain Rauscher Wessels
VC Fund · Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Media (entertainment) startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Releaf — 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.
  • 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.
  • SHYFT Power Solutions — SHYFT builds industrial-grade IoT and integrated software to connect and intelligently manage distributed energy resources (DERs) in markets that struggle with resiliency. SHYFT is pioneering the development of integrated decentralized power systems in emerging markets like Nigeria, leapfrogging over traditional central infrastructure and enablingDERs to scale and support existing but unreliable grids.
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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, Primary Education
  • Stage:Seed, Debt Financing
  • Geography: South Africa, Brazil

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Rentoza — We champion giving you access, affordability and flexibility to explore tech on your own terms
  • Kombo King — Kombo King Ventless Fryer Tech removes the need for plumes of steam & the constant eye of an inconsistent employee to Revolutionize & solve the frying industry!
  • Kusini Water — Kusini Water builds water treatment systems from nanotechnology and macadamia nut shells.
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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
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Artory — Artory connects the art market with the digital-first, financial ecosystem. Combining our leading technology, art expertise, digital certification, and tokenization, Artory secures on the blockchain verified artwork information from expert partners.
  • Likeminded — Likeminded developed a digital platform for mental health that gives people fast, low-threshold access to psychological support.
  • Robin.io — Automate deployment of complex 5G & enterprise apps to improve productivity and reduce cost with cloud native Kubernetes storage on the Robin platform.
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Oikocredit International
VC Fund · Amersfoort, Utrecht, The Netherlands · 1 investments in South Africa Media (entertainment) startups

Oikocredit is guided by the principle of empowering people. Their experience proves that the most effective and sustainable means of assisting those in need is providing an opportunity to help themselves.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 41
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • Access Bank — Access Bank provides banking products and services to individual and business customers in Ghana. It offers standard savings and current, access advantage, solo, and premier accounts. The company also provides online banking services that include ATM, online access, and point-of-sale terminal services; and bills payment and Western Union moneytransfer services.
  • Good Nature Agro — Their priority is to generate lasting income with small-scale farmers. They build local community leaders into qualified Private Extension Agents (PEAs) who oversee and train farmers throughout the growing season. They support PEAs to provide frequent trainings and personalized recommendations on how their growers can make their field healthier andmore productive. PEAs promote improved farm practices and deliver a farmer-friendly loan of seeds and additional inputs. At harvest, Good Nature is a guaranteed market for the certified legume seed that their growers produce. Choosing to produce these high-value crops over traditional cash crops - maize and cotton - more than doubles their income.
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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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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's partners 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: 242
  • Round size: Series A $2.1M–$13M; Series B $6M–$25M; Series C $7.4M–$40M
  • 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
  • PaxVax — PaxVax is a vaccine start-up company developing candidate oral vaccines for influenza, and key infectious diseases. It has developed a proprietary oral vaccine technology based on a common virus called adenovirus. The technology removes the delivery hurdles of traditional injectable vaccines, namely the need for cold storage, needles, andadministration by medical personnel.PaxVax was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Gaithersburg, Maryland.
  • Docusign — DocuSign ensures the security & mobility to digitally transform businesses. Sign docs for free.
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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, New Mobility, Energy Access, Energy Storage, Bio-Plastics, Circular Economy, Carbon Capture and Hydrogen.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Contro — See a licensed online doctor in South Africa for treatment, advice and prescriptions delivered to your door. Fast, private, doctor-guided care with Zapmed.
  • RecoMed — Find the best doctors and dentists. Search by location or by speciality, and find the right doctor for you.
  • SigmaX — SigmaX is an e-learning platform that help the students to learn visualize math and learn it a fun way via online application.
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Fish Dao
VC Fund · 1 investments in South Africa Media (entertainment) startups

Fish Dao

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • CESS — CESS 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.
  • Ajuna Network — Ajuna Network is a decentralized ecosystem for gamers and creators.
  • Cumulus Encrypted Storage System (CESS) — CESS revolutionizes AI, DeSci, RWA, Enterprise, and more with secure, transparent, and traceable data solutions. Delivering AI computing and data infrastructure, CESS enables data privacy and sovereignty with a focus on AI Agent applications and frameworks.
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BullPerks
VC Fund · 1 investments in South Africa Media (entertainment) startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • BugsCoin — BugsCoin is a Web3-based platform designed for investment education and simulated trading experiences.
  • TrendX — TrendX is an AI-driven Web3 trend tracking and intelligent trading tool that uses massive language models and AI technologies to identify market trends.
  • The Game Company — The Game Company is to revolutionizing the gaming industry by providing a Cloud-based platform that is accessible, inclusive, and innovative.
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Naspers
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in South Africa Media (entertainment) startups

Naspers is a global internet group that empowers people and enrich communities. Naspers companies operate and invest in countries and markets across the world with long-term growth potential. The company believes in the power of local backed by global scale and they look for opportunities to address big societal needs in markets where they see the greatest growth potential. The company was founded on May 12, 1915, and is based in Cape Town, South Africa.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

I’M IN is a pre-investment readiness program that believes in making a sustainable impact on the entrepreneurial ecosystem. It helps tech startups access seed investment and achieve business sustainability by providing an effective eco-system which offers business and technical support. I’M IN is an IDF Capital initiative that gives start-upentrepreneurs an opportunity to present their innovative ideas to a group of high-net-worth investors. Entrepreneurs with an exceptional business concept, who have an early stage market-viable product or service, are invited to apply to participate in the program.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile Apps, Information Technology, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $40k–$120k
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Jobox — Jobox is a student recruitment platform, built to connect employers, students and graduate career offices. Our focus is to improve graduate employability by ensuring all students have the skills they need to enter, stay in, and progress in the world of work.Jobox’s ecosystem provides employers with access to the best diverse & youthfultalent, students with more employment opportunities and universities with data-driven insights aimed at driving graduate employability forward.
  • Droppa — Discover the courier & moving company that makes nationwide delivery easy. Droppa offers a wide range of delivery services & fleet solutions. Contact us today!
  • 3DIMO — 3DIMO provides solutions to monitor the health and pattern of animal movements to detect abnormalities.
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2CrazyNFT
VC Fund · Sliema, NA - Malta, Malta · 1 investments in South Africa Media (entertainment) startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Katana Inu — Katana Inu promotes gaming innovation by merging gaming and blockchain. As an all-encompassing ecosystem for gamers and traders, powered by Defi and NFT, Katana Inu's objective is to create a system where gamers can earn from their playtime.
  • Billionaire Plus — Billionaire Plus is a board game that combine NFT, Defi, collectibles and your journey.
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Platform45
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in South Africa Media (entertainment) startups

We build digital experiences for leading companies and start-ups around the world.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Sales, Events, Ticketing
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Howler — Howler, is the powerful event technology platform designed at the uppermost benchmarks of service and technology to help consumers and event organisers to make moments that matter.
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Fairum Ventures
VC Fund · 1 investments in South Africa Media (entertainment) startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • SeraPay — We are revolutionizing social commerce in Africa with SeraPay, ensuring the seamless buying and selling of goods on social media platforms. Our innovative service empowers businesses to access markets beyond their geographical borders, making social retail easier and more efficient.
  • Savabyte — Savabyte is a capacity builder and tech talent enricher with a pool of quality software engineers trained and mentored across our African ecosystem. It aims to empower more women to join the tech space and access the technical skills
  • Jungopharm — Jungopharm is a developer of a pharma and healthcare platform that aims to make health care understandable, accessible & affordable for all.
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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 to achieve this objective by combining capital with mentor networks both in the region and from Silicon Valley via an accelerator program and a follow-on independent seed fund. The fund is managed by an experienced and technology savvy team that have founded companies or are actively involved in angel investing or having run successful accelerator programs in past but also understand the unique Subsaharan African environment. They are backed and supported by both local, regional and international networks of angels,venture capitalists whose expertise we can draw on to help startups succeed and scale to fully fledged regional or global companies. They believe in the potential for Africa to become a global technology innovator by creating sustainable for profit companies that create jobs and make an impact.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 17
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Picipo — Picipo is an online platform that provides NFT management solutions for smooth financial transactions and content creation.
  • NodeOps — NodeOps is the agentic operating system. Build, run, and scale AI agents in production on one platform, with enterprise-grade compute underneath. Home of CreateOS.
  • Selfchain — Modular Intent-Centric Access Layer 1 Blockchain and Keyless Wallet Infrastructure Service That Uses MPC-TSS/AA for Multi-Chain WEB3 Access.
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Icon Ventures
VC Fund · Palo Alto, California, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Media (entertainment) startups, 7 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Eppo — Hypothesis-centered A/B experimentation, built for today's product and data teams.
  • Revefi — Revefi builds the next generation of enterprise data observability and monitoring space. The company's product is aimed at helping cloud enterprises get the right data to business delivered on time, detect and fix data issues before they impact downstream users, and reduce data warehouse spending. Revefi has offices in Redmond, Washington andSan Mateo, California.
  • Nomad Health — Search travel nurse jobs nationwide. Earn more money, haggle-free. Receive expert support without the pushy tactics of a traditional recruiter.
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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 Indigenous Knowledge-based Technology Innovations TIA is calling for the submission of

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Jobox — Jobox is a student recruitment platform, built to connect employers, students and graduate career offices. Our focus is to improve graduate employability by ensuring all students have the skills they need to enter, stay in, and progress in the world of work.Jobox’s ecosystem provides employers with access to the best diverse & youthfultalent, students with more employment opportunities and universities with data-driven insights aimed at driving graduate employability forward.
  • 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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Media (Entertainment) VC funding in South Africa at a glance

Stats across 111 deals from 114 investors.

114
investors
in South Africa Media (entertainment) startups
111
deals
in South Africa Media (entertainment) startups
$288k
median round
in South Africa Media (entertainment) startups
55%
lead investors
lead at least one round
30%
Seed
most common funding stage

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