Top 10 Medical Device Startup Investors in South Africa in May 2025
A list of 10 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Medical device startups based in South africa. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Medical device companies from South africa. We update this investor list every month.Top 10 Medical Device Startup Investors in South Africa in May 2025
Investor | Medical Device South Africa investments |
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54 Collective | 2 |
HAVAÍC | 2 |
Futuregrowth Asset Management | 2 |
Bose Ventures | 2 |
SAB Foundation | 1 |
Technology Innovation Agency | 1 |
Sphere Holdings | 1 |
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation | 1 |
Launch Africa | 1 |
Five35 Ventures | 1 |
Building and scaling African tech startups with catalytic capital, value-add support and our global network.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa
Portfolio highlights
- Billboxx — Enabling businesses pay and get paid twice as fast
- Yeah — Yeah is a financial technology company that offers payment processing services while building a credit profile for the banked and unbanked.
- Konnect — Konnect provides a cross borders payment solution intended to simplify complex financial flows allowing companies of any scale and size to send and receive payments in a practical, secure, and low-cost way.
HAVAÍC is an investment and advisory firm that specialises in early-stage, high-growth African businesses with proven concepts and global prospects, offering investment opportunities to sophisticated investors and international venture capital companies with an interest in Africa. As a complementary offering, HAVAÍC provides corporate advisory andcapital raising services to emerging, internationally scalable businesses.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, FinTech
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- South Africa, United States, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- NjiaPay — Payments-as-a-Service platform that will streamline your operations and elevate your online payments across the African continent.
- Talk360 — Talk360 is an easy-to-use calling app that helps people make affordable international calls to any mobile and landline number. They believe that reliable communication and digital services must be affordable and accessible to everyone, regardless of someone's background. Especially people in emerging countries in Africa, who often need theseservices the most, do not always have the necessary banking possibilities. To bridge this distance, Talk360 will launch the world's first single checkout platform for Africa. This platform will combine all locally available payment methods and currencies across Africa, together with over 1.25 million cash points of sales, and will eventually be available to other companies as well. This means that 500 million Africans will be able to purchase digital services they never had access to before.
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Futuregrowth manages the full range of fixed interest and developmental impact funds on behalf of our clients. We are committed to managing and investing our clients' funds in a responsible manner.
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Investment focus
- Software, Logistics, Medical Device
- Seed, Series B, Funding Round
- South Africa, France, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Tripplo — Tripplo is a platform to automate and optimise operations for transporters, cargo owners and cargo brokers.
- Pineapple — In short, Pineapple see the traditional insurance model, user journey and products as lacking and set out to remedy these by doing the following: 1) Changing the business model to align incentives, show people how premiums are used and award members leftover premium back 2) Making insuring as easy as snapping a picture where AI does the rest andcover is issued in under 60 seconds 3) Allowing per-item insurance and new product innovation to address cover not currently offered or accessible to manyPineapple launched in South Africa in 2018 with their "My Stuff" per-item insurance and have since launched their auto offering "My Ride". They have also partnered with Travelers in the US and have white-labeled their platform in the US.
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Bose Ventures is looking for startups that are pushing the envelope of AR to help build some of these new experiences. They are investing in startups that are developing apps, services, and technology that leverage and extend the Bose AR platform. If you are one of these innovative startups
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Music
- Funding Round, Series B, Series A
- United States, India, Denmark
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- Vesper — Vesper is an electrical and electronic manufacturing company that specializes in microphones, piezoelectric, and audio. The company is driven by a mission is to deliver voice-powered products to every market, around the world. Vesper was founded in 2009 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.
- Medrhythms — Pioneering Next-Generation Digital Therapeutics to Improve Walking
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The SAB Foundation invests in entrepreneurs and social innovation. Its priority focus in on businesses and innovations that benefit women and youth, people in rural areas and people living with a disability.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Manufacturing, Medical Device
- Funding Round
- South Africa
Portfolio highlights
- LIQID Medical — Glaucoma Implants in South Africa. Liqid Medical is a medical device company focusing on addressing the need for effective, long-rerm solutions for glaucoma treatment.
TIA is an initiative of the Department of Science & Technology (DST) in South Africa, to enable and support technological innovation.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Renewable Energy, Health Care
- Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed
- South Africa
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.
Founded in 2003, Sphere is a high performing investment holding company driven to create value for funders, shareholders and business partners. With a solid track record shaped over a decade, They actively seek out investment partnerships with high quality privately owned businesses across a range of strategic sectors.Their success is drivenby an experienced team, Their own capital, a disciplined investment process, and broad business networks. Passionate about partnerships, They commit for the long term and actively work with Their portfolio companies to build great businesses.Majority black controlled and managed and boasting 71% black ownership, including 31% women ownership, Sphere has the necessary credentials to advance the broad based Black Economic Empowerment goals of South African businesses. As the focus turns to the rest of the continent, They actively support Their investments in their pan-African ambitions.Their strong belief in the principles of broad based empowerment means that approximately 15% of the shares in Sphere are held by charitable organisations. Over the years, more than five million worthy beneficiaries in nine provinces across South Africa have benefited from Their track record of delivery.
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Investment focus
- Software, Web Apps, Health Care
- Series A
- South Africa
Portfolio highlights
- hearX Group — hearX is an award-winning start-up with the mission of providing affordable access to hearing healthcare using smart digital solutions. With a strong research and engineering background, we aim to democratize and decentralize hearing care, obliterating the traditional audiology model and market, which was never built to scale, instead providinghearing care to millions by leveraging our smart tech, big data and artificial intelligence expertise.The hearX Group four categories of solutions: Lead Generation and Remote Care solutions, Clinical solutions, Preventative Solutions as well as Direct to Consumer intervention solutions.We have had more than 1 000 000 tests and screenings done using our products across 39 countries. Our innovative solutions are as accurate, but faster, cheaper and easier to use than traditional methods. We pride ourselves in offering a fully managed service, providing an entirely new way to overcome traditional barriers to the detection and diagnosis of disabling hearing loss.
We are a nonprofit fighting poverty, disease, and inequity around the world
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
- Grant, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, India
Portfolio highlights
- Synvect — Synvect is a CRISPR-based mosquito control solution that leverages the power of biology to eradicate disease and nuisance. Its solutions are eco-friendly, cost-efficient, and effective.
- SeamlessHR — Africa's Leading HR & Payroll Software - Empowering African Businesses for Productivity and Profitability Through Technology.
- Leinco Technologies — Custom development and manufacturing of antibodies and proteins plus a extensive range of products for life science research and diagnostics. Click here.
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
- Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Affinity — Affinity is a financial solutions company that provides financial inclusion, advisory, and literacy services.
- ToumAI Analytics — ToumAI Analytics is a software development company providing voice analytics, real-time analytics, and reporting services.
- PBR Life Sciences — A cloud-based real-world, non-observational pharmacy sell-out data
With a decade-long track record of venture building alongside some of the smartest female-led founding teams in Africa, we back female-focused startups across
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Health Care, Wellness
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- Susu — Susu is a dynamic and innovative company that offers a wide range of health services for families in the African diaspora. Susu provides a complete offer on Preventive care, Medical treatments, Management of chronic diseases, and Authentic drugs.
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