Top 50 Medical VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Africa in November 2024
A list of 50 VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Medical startups based in Africa. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Medical companies from Africa. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Medical VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Africa in November 2024
We back founders building the future of Africa. We invest in companies that solve for non-consumption, plug infrastructural gaps and democratise prosperity in Africa, by eliminating the barriers for access and reducing the costs of delivering goods and services.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Nigeria, United States, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Lengo — Lengo is an AI based intelligence platform that offers a large database on consumer goods for companies in the FMCG sector.
- Shekel Mobility — B2B marketplace for auto dealers to grow their dealerships leveraging on flexible inventory financing and management solutions. Available on web and mobile.
- Maad — Maad is Francophone Africa's fastest-growing B2B marketplace, based in Dakar, Senegal. Our tech-driven solution allows retailers to order products from our one-stop shop and benefit from working capital loans
VentureSouq operates a large co-investment platform with a global investment portfolio.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia
Portfolio highlights
- Mala Inc. — Mala provides a buy now, pay later (BNPL) solution specifically designed for B2B transactions in the MENA region. The platform enables businesses to manage their cash flow more effectively while making purchases.
- LayerPixel — LayerPixel uses a modular design to overcome TON's asynchronous limitations and leverage its sharding benefits.
- PostEx — PostEx is a hybrid of receivables factoring solutions and courier services that pay invoice values upfront to e-commerce companies offering Cash on Delivery as one of their modes of payment.
Tencent is an internet service portal offering value-added internet, mobile, telecom, and online advertising services. Its communications and social platforms Weixin and QQ connect users with each other, with digital content and daily life services in just a few clicks. Tencent has maintained steady growth under its user-oriented operatingstrategies. It provides value-added internet, mobile, and telecom services, as well as online advertising under the strategic goal of providing users with "one-stop online lifestyle services." Tencent’s Internet platforms in China – QQ (QQ Instant Messenger), WeChat, QQ.com, QQ Games, Qzone, 3g.QQ.com, SoSo, PaiPai, and Tenpay – aim to address the various needs of internet users, including communication, information, entertainment, e-commerce, and others.In September 2013, Tencent's market valuation rose to $101 billion, and as of November 21, 2013, QQ had 2 billion active users and WeChat had 650 million monthly active users. The numbers of active users for QQ mail, Qzone, Tencent Weibo, and QQ news were 274 million, 626 million, 220 million, and 150 million, respectively.Tencent was founded in November of 1998. In April 2000, the IDG and PCCW invested a total of $2.2 million dollars in the company. Tencent was listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (SEHK) on June 16, 2004. Baidu, Alibaba, and Netease are Tencent's major competitors.
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- China, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Ualá — Ualá is a fintech company whose mission is to bring Latin American financial services into the 21st century. Through an app and an international Mastercard card, it offers an innovative and integrated experience. It also brings the unbanked into the financial system by offering cheaper and more convenient services than any other alternative.Itwas founded by the Argentine entrepreneur Pierpaolo Barbieri and launched in October 2017 in Argentina and in September 2020 in Mexico.Ualá offers an international Mastercard card and is the first free card on the market, with no issuance, renewal, maintenance, and closing costs. It can be used to make purchases on any website or store in the world that accepts Mastercard. In addition, it offers the possibility of carrying out a wide variety of financial transactions through the app such as transferring money, paying bills, and topping up cell phones and transportation cards. Users can also track expenses through an analysis tool, apply for loans and invest in mutual funds.With more than 3.100 million cards issued, it is available throughout Argentina for anyone above 13 and Mexico for anyone above 18, both for Android and iOS.
- TrueLayer — We power faster and safer online payments with our open banking payments network. Onboard users, accept payments & make payouts in seconds. Learn more today.
- Insighta — Insighta is an early cancer detection company that focuses on developing tests and clinical trials for additional cancer types using technological advancements. It is a joint venture between Prenetics and scientist, Prof. Dennis Lo.
K50 Ventures is a purpose-driven, early-stage venture capital firm. We are the first institutional check and long-term partner to founders who believe technology has the potential to unlock access and affordability for the world’s working class across health, finance, and work. Since 2016, we’ve invested in over 150 companies that have generatedtop-decile venture returns for our investors and material impact for millions of people and small businesses.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Software, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Colombia, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Arvo — Arvo is a healthcare technology startup that uses artificial intelligence to secure the integrity of healthcare transactions.
- Tivita — Operating System for Healthcare Providers
- Auxa Health — Best-in-class social care coordination platform for Medicare Advantage plans to improve utilization, delivery, and management of their Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) services. We offer a payer-first solution including data analytics, care coordination, and an engagement infrastructure that i
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
- Health Care, Software, Financial Services
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- South Africa, United States, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Sportable — Sportable is a sports data company that changes the game for teams and audiences. With Rugby being their primary focus, they are working with a number of teams and manufacturers to create and develop hardware and wearable devices that enable sport specific data to be collated in real time. Their technology gives the viewer, the team, and thebroadcaster unprecedented insight into the decision making of players.Sportable was founded in 2015 and is based in London, England.
- Tanda — As a Tanda Agent, you can sell Kenya's favorite digital products, and grow your duka while you're at it
- Right Now Response — Your go-to for expert breakdown assistance. Our dedicated team ensures you're back on the road swiftly and safely. Contact us for reliable support today!
Chrysalis Capital is an investment management firm focused on scaling early-stage tech companies in Africa and the diaspora.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Bitcoin
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Nigeria, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Bankly — Bankly is a digital savings and peer to peer transfer product where users fund their wallet using tokens available on Bankly vouchers nationwide in a “Recharge to save” model. This cash digitisation system is similar to the telco mobile airtime top up and is currently available on MTN and 9mobile networks in Nigeria.Financial services has to beseen through the lenses of a fast moving consumer product in order to reach the last mile and the use of vouchers has been proven to be a successful cash digitisation system by the telecoms industry. Leveraging this existing consumer behaviour to drive financial inclusion, reduce cost of financial services and create a foundation to provide other financial services is where Bankly identifies huge potential and is poised to make an impact.
- Bamboo — Bamboo is a digital investment platform that provides real-time access to buy, hold, or sell stocks. The investment platform is accessible on both computers and mobile phones.
- Bitmama — Bitmama is the best cryptocurrency trading platform that lets you buy, sell Bitcoin, ETH, Celo, USDT, XRP, and more. Available in Nigeria & over 100 countries.
ACE & Company (“ACE”), founded in 2005, is a global investment group specialized in private investments with total assets of over $1.6 bn across three investment strategies and investment solutions. With headquarters in Geneva and offices in London, New York, and Cairo, ACE’s global presence brings the company in direct contact with sourcingpartners, investment firms, as well as entrepreneurs and provides investors unparalleled access to a network of opportunities. ACE’s passion is for finding investment opportunities where we have an advantage through many years of relationship building, a carefully developed position of knowledge in the sectors which we are active, and a culture of efficiency to gain first mover’s advantage.
ACE’s purpose is to offer investors a long-term and collaborative investment approach that values honesty, transparency and rigorous execution, so that our strategies not only provide unique access to value accretive, risk-managed deals, but fosters what we consider our bedrock—trust.ACE’s progress has been marked by a globally respected track record since the Company was founded in 2005. In the last four years we have increased our total assets by fivefold and in 2017 received the Swiss Financial Supervisory Authority (FINMA) authorization.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Switzerland, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Roofr — The complete sales toolbox for roofers. From roof measurement reports to project-winning proposals.
- DePoly — DePoly is a spin off out of the LSMO lab at EPFL- Valais that has developed a novel technology allowing for the chemical recycling of PET plastic back to its main two components ethylene glycol (EG) and terephthalic acid (TPA). Our approach turns low valued materials (PET waste) into high-valued chemicals like TPA creating a circular economy. Weexpect this process to generate revenue from chemically recycling PET to TPA/EG, which can be sold back to industry to make new virgin PET plastic and allowing for a sustainable source of TPA and EG on the market.
- PatientPoint — PatientPoint is a leading digital health company that connects patients, healthcare providers and life sciences with health information at key moments of care.
Guardian
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Investment focus
- Medical, Health Care
- Seed
- Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- CribMD — 1,397 Followers, 48 Following, 284 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from CribMD (@cribmd)
Create new business models with multidisciplinary blockchain professionals. Next Chymia Consulting has an international network of Blockchain technology and financial services. We are a group which make use of international networks and provide consulting services worldwide.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Software, Blockchain
- Seed, Funding Round
- Kenya, Ghana, Romania
Portfolio highlights
- Qwili — Qwili makes smartphones with a voice-guided, local language onboarding experience for new users.
- IPOR Labs — Enter the Credit Hub of DeFi. Lend and borrow at the best defi rates and earn a competitive yield on your crypto, fixed with on-chain interest rate derivatives.
- Zuvy Technologies — Zuvy is a free invoice management software that enables your business to get cash today for unpaid invoices. Get started sending invoices via WhatsApp
Foreign & Commonwealth Office is a government organization that provides tourists and travellers with travel alerts, tips, and advice. It promotes the United Kingdom's interests overseas supporting its citizens and businesses around the globe.Foreign & Commonwealth Office has a worldwide network of embassies and consulates thatemploys over 14,000 people in nearly 270 diplomatic offices. It works with international organizations to promote British interests and global security, including the EU, NATO, Foreign & Commonwealth Office was founded on January 1, 1936 and is based in London, United Kingdom.
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Investment focus
- Medical, Logistics, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Kenya, Mauritius, South Africa
Portfolio highlights
- Ziada — Ziada is a mobile application that connects you to service providers near you and vice versa. Download Ziada today from the Google Playstore to start experiencing convenience.
- HealthDart — Consult with a doctor, nurse or pharmacist, order medicines or get health advice - at a price you can afford
- Raino Tech4Impact — Raino Tech4Impact is a social enterprise that leverages technology as an enabler to empower African communities. We have been deploying technology-driven solutions in agriculture and health, powered by renewable energy to achieve sustainability.
We guide transformative ventures from inception to IPO and beyond, shaping the landscape of industries across diverse sectors. Through strategic partnerships and visionary leadership, we assert our influence in driving meaningful change.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Medical, Software
- Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Nigeria, United States
Portfolio highlights
- ZELF — Zelf is a neobank targeting Gen Z to bring financial services to where they live – in messengers. This is the lightest bank with the easiest onboarding process taking up to 60 sec to issue a card, receive and send money without leaving the messenger. We are uniquely offering AI-powered voice control over the most of financial operations, whichmakes us first voice-enabled banking for Gen Z who prefers voice interactions with their devices.
- Healthlane — Understand, Track and Improve Your Health Experience better health with interactive tools that help you manage your lifestyle, giving you personalised insights to achieve your health and fitness goals. Get started Move From Sick Care to Preventive Care Over 70 in depth tests designed to detect diseases before they strike. Results in 45 minutes! No
Ohara Pharmaceuticals is a pharmaceutical business involved in the development, manufacture, and distribution of pharmaceutical products.
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Investment focus
- Medical, Biotechnology, Nursing and Residential Care
- Series A, Funding Round, Series B
- Japan, Kenya, Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- HACARUS — We make AI work, where common Big Data aproaches fail. Get explainable results, even from small data amounts. Available on the cloud or as embedded devices.
- Helium Health — Helium Health empowers healthcare providers in Africa with digital tools, financing solutions, and data partnerships. Learn more about our innovative solutions.
- Revital Healthcare — Revital Healthcare is a manufacturer of medical devices and disposables for hospitals and other medical laboratories. It offers single-use syringes, needles, re-use prevention syringes and auto-disable syringes which helps in reducing the transmission of HIV and other blood-borne diseases along with infusion sets, blood transfusion sets and bloodcollection tubesThe company was established in 2006 and is headquartered in Kilifi, Kenya.
Ping An Health Internet is a wholly owned subsidiary of China Ping An Group, an important member of the Internet business segment/. It was established in August 2014 with 350 million yuan registered capital and is headquartered in Shanghai, China.Companies around the network of doctors, drug network and information network formed threeproduct lines, involving online inquiry, a plurality of segments of the doctor-patient health care management, drug O2O, electronic health records, chronic disease management, child health services. Chinese company to the mobile Internet era medical wisdom of the leader as the goal, to create a user-stop health management solutions provider, China's largest Internet to build a healthy industry ecosystem.Ping An Health Internet also developed a children's health management and chronic disease management, and other vertical applications, to meet the needs of market segments. Reform the health care system combined with the trend, the company vigorously promote the integration of physician resources.
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Investment focus
- Medical, Software, Health Care
- Convertible Note
- Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- Healthlane — Understand, Track and Improve Your Health Experience better health with interactive tools that help you manage your lifestyle, giving you personalised insights to achieve your health and fitness goals. Get started Move From Sick Care to Preventive Care Over 70 in depth tests designed to detect diseases before they strike. Results in 45 minutes! No
Founded in 2015, CRE Venture Capital invests in early stage tech companies that are levered to Africa. CRE is headquartered in the New York metro area, with a regional office in Lagos, Nigeria.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- South Africa, Nigeria, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Sabi Am — Sabi is Africa's largest B2B company, & we are digitising informal trade via our platform. We access markets hard to reach and ensure ease of distribution, & are the No 1 FCMG supplier in Africa.
- Sukhiba — Sukhiba is a decentralized community-based commerce platform.
- Stitch — One API integration for enterprise online payments across South Africa. Accept Pay by bank, debit + credit card, cash, manual EFT, debit order and crypto.
GreenTec Capital Partners is Germany's premier investor into African start-ups and SMEs. GreenTec invests through its unique Results4Equity model, acting as a co-founding partner that is only compensated on business success.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Agriculture, Computer
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Kenya, Nigeria, Morocco
Portfolio highlights
- Ecodudu — Ecodudu is a waste-to-value company. It uses a proprietary innovation to recycle organic waste into high-protein animal feed and organic fertilizer using the black soldier fly. It harnesses insects (nature’s recycling agents) to address global issues which include waste management, demand for protein, and environmental conservation.
- Asilimia — Asilimia is a simple, fun mobile app for sending money through M-PESA quickly and without any transaction fees. Simply deposit money to your M-PESA, download Asilimia and send money for free to any other M-PESA account.
- ShapShap — ShapShap enhances delivery experience through its commission-based marketplace by assigning efficient orders to drivers to ensure their sustainability and scalability.
ASISA Enterprise Development Fund
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Investment focus
- Medical, E-Commerce, Health Care
- Funding Round
- South Africa
Portfolio highlights
- RecoMed — Find the best doctors and dentists. Search by location or by speciality, and find the right doctor for you.
JPMorgan Chase & Co. provides innovative financial solutions for consumers, small businesses, corporations, governments, and institutions. The firm is serving customers, helping small businesses, or putting its skills to work with partners, they strive to identify issues and propose solutions that will propel the future and strengthen both itsclients and communities.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Higher Education
- Debt Financing, Funding Round, Grant
- United States, Brazil, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- 10X Banking — Put the world's most powerful and comprehensive cloud native banking platform at the core of your bank.
- Endeavor Miami — Endeavor Miami is leading the high-impact entrepreneurship movement to drive economic growth and job creation in Florida.
- Quinn Residences — A leading institutionally backed real estate operating company driven by a vision of exceptional living in the Southeastern United States.
Investing in the Near Frontier
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Software, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Salient Motion — A next-generation supplier for aerospace and defense, specializing in advanced electric propulsion.
- The Lumber Manufactory — Enabling timberland owners to get the most out of their land.
- Intramotev — Intramotev Autonomous Rail manufactures autonomous zero-emissions rail vehicles to advance the future of freight movement. Intramotev's vehicles provide efficient and cost-effective movement of materials across specialized private railroads for mines, manufacturing facilities, ports, and more that is autonomous and fully battery-electric,enabling rail and mining industries to get lower emissions than diesel-electric locomotives and diesel trucks, shorter stopping distance, and steeper grade capability than existing trains.
Picus Capital is an early-stage technology investment firm with a long-term investment philosophy. We work together with daring technology companies to build successful, global companies challenging the status quo and shaping tomorrow.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Germany, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Jet HR — Jet HR makes managing people incredibly simple: payroll, benefits, devices, compliance and much more. We re-thought the HR function, removing anything that is cumbersome and simplifying any action on employees. We are funded by the best Italian VCs (Exor Ventures, Italian Founders Fund and 6 more) and by the best Italian founders (founders ofCasavo, Satispay, Scalapay, Bending Spoons, Musixmatch, Talent Garden, Oyster HR, etc).
- terralayr — At terralayr, we're not just offering storage and batteries; we're pioneering a new era of energy flexibility. In a world where renewable energy is on the rise, the need for flexibility in energy storage has never been more crucial. That's where we come in.
- Morada Uno — Morada Uno underwrites and insures house rentals by equipping real estate professionals with tools and technology. The company aims to simplify and create trust and security in real estate transactions, promoting fairness in every interaction, and promoting a positive change in the mentality and way of doing things in Mexico.
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
- Software, Information Technology, Education
- Seed, Series A
- South Africa, Mexico, Colombia
Portfolio highlights
- Syscap — Syscap is a financial technology company that offers cutting-edge solutions to financial institutions to have a better administration and management of their funding sources. It connects the leaders of financial and real estate institutions with their funders. For institutions, the company ensures the optimization of their funding source managementprocesses, but also the strengthening of the relationship with their funders. To funders, Syscap guarantees the transparency and timely monitoring of its funds for the safety and growth of its resources.
- Godochurch — GoDoChurch is a cloud-based church administration software which is designed to assist Christian churches and ministries with managing members, Sunday services, events, communications, and more. The system is made up of a base package, covering messaging, news, ministries, lists, church roles, services, events, and growth paths, with additionalmodules for managing follow-ups, groups, and Kids church.
- Velocity — Velocity is a micro fulfillment dark store that delivers through digital channels.
Goodwater empowers exceptional entrepreneurs everywhere to change the world for the better. They believe consumer technology is a force on earth, shaping culture and transforming the global economy at unprecedented speed and scale. They invest in promising entrepreneurs to solve pressing problems. As a combined force, Goodwater companies are aglobal force for change, poised to measurably improve billions of lives.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, India, South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- Read AI — Read AI enables better meetings through shared measurement. Read AI is a provider of a real-time shared dashboard that measures engagement and sentiment for meeting attendees.
- Buddy.ai — Buddy lets children practice spoken English by talking with a virtual AI-powered cartoon character in a mobile app. With its engaging virtual character, speech technology, and adaptive learning, Buddy is making speaking practice affordable for 500 million children around the globe by automating the mundane part of tutoring work at a fraction ofthe cost. This enables teachers and parents to give kids unlimited speaking practice, essential for mastering English.
- Magic Potion Games — Magic Potion Games is a computer gaming company that offers an online space for social gaming.
Founded in 2010, TSVC (formerly TEEC Angel Fund) is proud to be a leading early-stage venture capital fund in Silicon Valley.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, China, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- MyShell — The first AI consumer layer - build, share, and own AI Apps.
- eBots — EBots is a collaborative robotics startup devoted to the development and manufacturing of intelligent robotics for industrial applications. They develop autonomous robotics designed for use in industrial applications and their platform combines machine learning with physical models, enabling users to realize intuitive human-machine interface,dexterous manipulation, and precise assembly. The company's platform combines machine learning with physical models, enabling users to realize an intuitive-human machine interface, dexterous manipulation, and precise assembly.EBots was founded in 2016 and is based in Fremont, CA, USA.
- Ridge Security — Ridge Security is a computer and network services company that offers web app and server testing, and network infrastructure solutions.
Venture investor in high-growth Founders and Teams using technology to solve large and meaningful problems across Africa
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Investment focus
- Logistics, Financial Services, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa
Portfolio highlights
- MNZL — MNZL is on a mission to expand access to capital for Egyptians.Every person who owns an asset has accumulated wealth in it. When they want liquidity for their projects and needs, they should be able to tap into it as easily as withdrawing from a bank.With an innovative digital platform and products, we are working on making digital access tocapital a reality, and building the future of asset-backed financing in Africa.
- Jumba — Jumba is a construction technology platform that streamlines B2B construction material purchase and financing.
- Yebo Fresh — Powering South Africa's Township Economy.
A global technology investment firm with a focus on category-defining technology companies with the potential to meaningfully impact humanity.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Information Technology
- Seed, Series C, Series B
- United States, India, China
Portfolio highlights
- xAI — XAI is an AI company that develops a platform to accelerate human scientific discovery. The company primarily focuses on developing advanced AI systems that are truthful, competent, and maximally beneficial for all of humanity. Its mission is to understand the true nature of the universe.
- Pomelo — Send money cross border with zero transfer fees. Use and build credit with Pomelo.
- Astuto Technologies — Continuous Cloud Cost Optimization | Anomaly Detection | Waste Prevention
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
- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Nigeria, United States, Egypt
Portfolio highlights
- Mtor — Mtor is an online marketplace that is reshaping the automotive aftermarket and provides sophisticated technology solutions.
- EMTECH — EMTECH provides solutions for Digital Currency regulatory compliance, development and management to help Central Banks and FinTechs build, run and manage modern financial systems.
- Terragon Group — Terragon is a leading Data and Marketing Technology company that uses data and analytics to help companies focused in Africa, intelligently connect at scale to their customers. We use an aggregation of online and offline data, and predictive scoring to help brands, marketing agencies and platforms accurately target people across channels anddevices. Headquartered in Lagos; Nigeria, we also have a presence in Kenya, South Africa, Ghana and India.
A strong and engaged private sector is indispensible to ending extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity. That's where IFC comes in - we have more than 60 years experience in unlocking private investment, creating markets and opportunities where they are needed most.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Debt Financing, Funding Round, Series B
- India, Brazil, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Ronesans Holding — Ronesans Holding offers construction, real estate development, energy, industrial facilities and health infrastructure development services.
- Datagroup-Volia and Lifecell — Datagroup-Volia and Lifecell is a leading fixed-mobile operator.
- Building Logistics Services (BLS) — Building Logistics Services (BLS) is a logistics services company that provides warehousing, transportation, light assembly services.
We are an impact investor in the global south. Our deep roots in microfinance and education finance have demonstrated profit with purpose. We focus on self-development and skilling technology for women to find meaningful work.
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Investment focus
- Education, Health Care, E-Learning
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- India, United States, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Shamba Pride — Shamba Pride is a revolutionary Rural Distribution system for African Farmers, it provides online-to-offline DigiShop marketplace.
- Applied Cognition — Applied Cognition is developing a novel medical device and platform for translational measurement of a newly discovered biology of the brain whose failure has been shown to cause neurodegeneration in preclinical models. We will be the first to non-invasively, continuously measure this biology in humans enabling us to develop treatments that stop or reverse the progression of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.
- Indian School Finance Company — ISFC is a Non-Banking Finance Company engaged in the business of lending to educational institutions and entrepreneurs managing such institutions. The company started its operations in December 2008 from Hyderabad and has expanded since to other cities.
We are an early-stage Venture Capital Firm investing in outstanding teams with convincing products and high growth potential.
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Investment focus
- Software, Apps, Health Care
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Austria, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- FERNRIDE — Fernride enables automated, sustainable logistics by combining the skills of remote drivers with autonomous technologies.
- Valutico — Valutico is the world‘s leading provider of web-based company valuation tools.Started in 2014 by a team of enthusiastic Corporate Finance professionals and web developers, the concept was born out of frustration with the status-quo in Corporate Finance practice: That professional company valuations used to be the domain of only the mostsophisticated of investors.At Valutico, it has been their mission from the outset to offer cutting-edge valuation tools to a much wider audience. Today they empower everybody to perform company valuations that meet and exceed the standards of even the leading investment banks and advisory firms.The company today is headquartered in Vienna/Austria and has an additional office in Frankfurt/Germany.
- Ohana — Ohana helps you to protect your child in the digital world. Limit screentime, get insights & guidance, block apps & websites and filter inappropriate content.
HOF Capital is a global technology investment firm that leverages its global limited partner network to help founders build massive businesses.
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Singapore, India
Portfolio highlights
- xAI — XAI is an AI company that develops a platform to accelerate human scientific discovery. The company primarily focuses on developing advanced AI systems that are truthful, competent, and maximally beneficial for all of humanity. Its mission is to understand the true nature of the universe.
- Apriora — Conduct real-time interviews with your AI Interviewer
- Nala — A new kind of mobile money transfer for Africans worldwide! Make safe, affordable, and reliable international payments to Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda.
Since 1980, WTI has helped more than 1,300 companies across every innovation sector finance their growth while minimizing dilution.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- Joy — Joy is the creator of the first Smart Photo Album that allows you to curate and share your favorite photos with friends and family. Designed to live on your coffee table and sit comfortably in your lap, the Joy Album makes your most cherished moments instantly viewable in gorgeous layouts, finally modernizing the lost art of creating a physicalphoto album.The Joy team hails from Apple and Sonos and is building a premium all-in-one hardware and software photo solution for families to share memories with loved ones near and far.The company was founded in February 2016 and is backed by top investors including Obvious Ventures, David B. Heller, Maywic and The Chernin Group.Joy is headquartered in San Francisco, California. For more information, visit http://www.joy.co.
- Carbon Ridge — Modular onboard carbon capture for maritime shipping.
- Cosmos Innovation — Cosmos Innovation specialize in full stack software development, product design, cloud hosting, and MVP deployment.
MaC Venture Capital is a seed-stage venture capital firm that invests in technology startups leveraging shifts in cultural trends and behaviors.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Nigeria, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Swsh — Swsh is a social app that aims to strengthen true friendships rather than superficial relationships with followers.
- Shekel Mobility — B2B marketplace for auto dealers to grow their dealerships leveraging on flexible inventory financing and management solutions. Available on web and mobile.
- Cambium Carbon — Saving wood to save the planet. By revolutionizing supply chains, we introduce the world's first carbon smart material.
Flying Doctors Nigeria is an ambulance service company that provides medical emergency services. The company also provides medical solutions such as air ambulance and medical evacuation and ground ambulance services. They offer rapid transfer and the highest standards of care to patients in acute medical need, serving both states and privatecompanies on a yearly retainer basis.Flying Doctors Nigeria operates stations manned by specially trained medical doctors across the country from where real-time responses are affected. It was founded in 2009 and is based in Lagos, Nigeria.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Retail, Medical
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- GetEquity — GetEquity is a NASDAQ for venture capital. We provide an exchange and liquidity for private companies, and an infrastructure for different cadres of venture capital around investing, founder liquidity, and shareholder management
- Healthtracka — Healthtracka is a digital health platform that allows consumer direct access to lab tests bookings, at-home sample collection and digital results in 1-3days
- Helium Health — Helium Health empowers healthcare providers in Africa with digital tools, financing solutions, and data partnerships. Learn more about our innovative solutions.
Witamax One is an investment firm jointly created by the firm Southbridge A&I and AXXAM Family Office.
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- Software, SaaS, Finance
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Morocco
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- KONTA — KONTA is the end-to-end vendor spend management platform. They offer finance, accounting, software, artificial intelligence, purchasing, corporate finance, audit, reconciliation, collaboration, communication, accounting export, payment management, and reporting.
- Lacaisse.ma — Lacaisse.ma offers a digital solution for the management of physical points of sale (POS), serving the Casablanca catering market with a base of more than 250 points of sale.
- DataPathology — DataPathology is the Casablanca-based Medtech platform, providing remote pathology consultation.
WZ Capital is a boutique venture capital firm investing in early-stage tech startups.
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- Medical, Wellness, Health Care
- Pre-Seed
- South Africa
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- Contro — Get your health and confidence products prescribed online and delivered to your door for free without the waiting rooms!
Seed capital for technology startups globally.
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- Financial Services, Software, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Nigeria, Kenya
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- Regfyl — Powered by AI, Regfyl is the all-in-one fraud and compliance platform for financial institutions and fintechs. Regfyl allows these businesses to reduce costs and focus on higher value activities.
- Sukhiba — Sukhiba is a decentralized community-based commerce platform.
- Orca Fraud — Orca empowers fraud fighters with effective tools to combat fraud
Growth Grid Venture Capital Partners
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- Medical, Software, E-Commerce
- Funding Round
- South Africa
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- RecoMed — Find the best doctors and dentists. Search by location or by speciality, and find the right doctor for you.
- Digital Cabinet — Digital Cabinet makes your business paperless. Security is the topmost priority for the Digital Cabinet, so save time and money with the Digital Cabinet.
The Segal Family Foundation partners with outstanding individuals and organizations that improve the well-being of communities.
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- Financial Services, Apps, Water
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Uganda, United States
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- Tugende — Tugende helps motorcycle taxi drivers own their own motorcycles in eighteen months or less instead of renting indefinitely. Ownership significantly increases income, job security and road safety.
- Dios Dental Clinic — Dios dental is a network of dental clinics which aims to bring affordable quality dental care. Their transparent pricing policy allows its clients to know their budget, with standard treatment and sterilization protocol. It was founded on March 1, 2016, and is headquartered in Rubaga, Uganda.
- Numida — Growing African small businesses with affordable, convenient, and fair credit.
Jozi Angels is an angel network based in Johannesburg, South Africa. We exist to grow the startup ecosystem and facilitate the growth of innovative startups.
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- B2B, Medical, Wellness
- Pre-Seed
- South Africa
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- 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.
- Contro — Get your health and confidence products prescribed online and delivered to your door for free without the waiting rooms!
- TUNL — TUNL | Unlocking Exports
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- Financial Services, Software, FinTech
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, Israel
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- Sami — Sami is a Brazil-based health plan startup that provides a technology-based solution intended to be used in the healthcare sector. The company focuses on making health care simpler, more efficient, and friendlier by using simplified solutions, thus, providing patients with reduced costs for their medical care needs. Their mission is to transformBrazilian health into something simple, easy, reliable, and accessible, which helps each person to be their best version.Founded by Vitor Asseituno and Luiz Guilherme Berardo in 2018 and is based in São Paulo, Brazil.
- Desia — Desia provides advanced AI applications for productivity, automation, and analytics for financial services.
- Honeycomb — Honeycomb (fka Agilius) is the only place where you can buy a condo/apartment building master policy online in less than 3 minutes at a fraction of the cost! Instant, free, no hassle quotes, online everything and up to 40% savings. With all that we're bringing simplicity and transparency to the real estate insurance space for condoassociations (HOAs), building owners, property managers, and developers everywhere. This is what we do. This is all we do.
Supernode Ventures they invest in early stage technology companies including fintech, software, digital media, family offices, SaaS companies, and hedge funds.
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- Software, Health Care, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Mexico, Peru
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- Rising Team — Plug and play team sessions that lead to deeper connection, personal growth, and team effectiveness
- Remepy — Remepy is biotechnology research pioneering hybrid drugs. The company believes that in the future, software applications will become an integral part of treatments offered by Pharma companies in the form of Hybrid Drugs. These will include both a software component and a traditional drug component - influencing patients via Hybrid Mechanisms ofAction™.It was founded in 2022 and is located in Ramat Gan, Tel Aviv.
- Gradient Health — One of the biggest barriers to accelerating AI development is access to large datasets of labeled pathologies.
We back global-minded, growth-stage and technology-focused founders in emerging markets and the world.
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- Health Care, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United Arab Emirates, Egypt, United States
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- Iyris — Iyris Advanced Desert Greenhouses is the Middle East's premier agriculture glazing specialist, providing tailored solutions for increased desert crop output. iyris collaborates closely with the glass industry's greatest companies to provide ultra-clear glazing with the most advanced anti-reflective and light diffusive coatings.
- Maalexi — We are a deal-driven and buyer-focussed digital ecosystem for 'Wholesale Import and Finance of Food and Agriculture products into US, Europe, Africa, India and the UAE'. We make it faster, cheaper and safer to trade internationally, by standardizing and digitalizing trade processes, and have built key partnerships with globally renownedcompanies, that assure performance, finance, and mitigate transactional risks.We help local SME manufacturers and distributors to import and get finance for food and agricultural products directly from the source. Agricultural products can be imported by local manufacturers directly from small and medium co-operatives and processors, while food products can be imported directly by local distributors from manufacturers. We help buyers connect and transact with sellers by mitigating transactional risks in cross-border trade like : Counter-party, Price, Product Quality and Quantity, Delivery and Payment. We have partnerships that allow us to provide - digital contracting, end-to-end fulfillment, physical inspections, and secured payments. We are partnered with globally renowned - Distributed Ledger Technology platform, Logistics Service companies, Insurance providers, an Inspection Agency, and Financial Service fin-tech firms. We work 24x7, 365 days to 'simplify cross-border trade', and we invite you to join us in this endeavor.
- Zinc Money — A suite of comprehensive solutions to help families navigate international education for their children and ensure a sound financial foundation for their academic journey.
AAIC Holdingsis engages in nurturing investments in emerging countries, consulting and M&A, management outsourcing and human capital.
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- Medical, Health Care, Apps
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Nigeria, Togo, South Africa
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- Gozem — Gozem is a transport technology platform for Francophone West and Central Africa.
- CrowdForce — We empower businesses to drive mass adoption of digital, and financial services to underserved population in their communities.
- RelianceHMO — Our next-generation business health plans are accessible, customer-focused and tech-driven. We champion preventive healthcare for your teams.
Unis Venture Fund
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- Medical, Software, Health Care
- Convertible Note
- Nigeria
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- Healthlane — Understand, Track and Improve Your Health Experience better health with interactive tools that help you manage your lifestyle, giving you personalised insights to achieve your health and fitness goals. Get started Move From Sick Care to Preventive Care Over 70 in depth tests designed to detect diseases before they strike. Results in 45 minutes! No
EchoVC Partners is a seed and early-stage venture capital firm focused on financing and cross-pollinating leading technologies, teams, business models, and knowledge across North America, Africa, and SE Asia. The average investment size ranges from $25,000 to several million dollars depending on the stage of opportunity and capital needs of thebusiness.
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- Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Nigeria, Kenya
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- Shuttlers — Shuttlers is a platform that offers mobility solutions by providing scheduled bus-sharing services for the professionals within the region.
- Snowstorm — Snowstorm is a decentralized microproxy network. Already proven in crisis zones, it must now evolve into a next-generation system and internet freedom tool.
- Senga Technologies — Welcome to Senga, custom-built, with love, for businesses shipping in Africa.
Golden Palm Investments is an investment holding and advisory company.
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- Information Technology, FinTech, Logistics
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Nigeria, Egypt, Kenya
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- Sabipay — Pastel supports African businesses by offering tools that help manage their businesses and maximize efficiency.
- Maplerad — Maplerad is a fast, safe and easy way to send and receive money with friends, family or others you trust. You can receive and send money directly into any Nigerian bank account in minutes using Bitcoin, US Dollars, and Naira.
- Jetstream Africa — Jetstream Africa is world class logistic company. We use our technology, networks, and systems to enable African businesses to quickly finance, manage and monitor their regional supply chains.
We acquire equity in companies that are positioned for growth and create wealth for our shareholders. Our team of investment specialist and entrepreneurs evaluate business opportunities that provide medium to long term growth.
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- Medical, Wellness, Health Care
- Pre-Seed
- South Africa
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- Contro — Get your health and confidence products prescribed online and delivered to your door for free without the waiting rooms!
Partech is a global venture capital firm with offices in San Francisco, Paris, Berlin and Dakar. Partech invests in Internet and information technology startups at seed, venture and growth stages.
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- Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, France, Germany
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- Formality — Formality provides intelligent contract management services to manage legal documents.
- La Solive — La Solive provides professional course training services. They offer courses for energy renovation, vocational training, professional retraining, ecological transition, professions of the future, and concrete professions.
- Pydantic Services — The team behind Pydantic are build developer tools that put developers first.
PayPal has remained at the forefront of the digital payment revolution for more than 20 years. By leveraging technology to make financial services and commerce more convenient, affordable, and secure, the PayPal platform is empowering more than 375 million consumers and merchants in more than 200 markets to join and thrive in the global economy.
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Marketplace
- Seed, Grant, Funding Round
- United States, Ireland, Sweden
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- Fordefi — The MPC wallet platform and Web3 gateway from Fordefi allow institutions to connect to dApps across multiple chains while keeping digital assets secure. Fordefi is the first institutional MPC wallet and security platform designed for decentralised finance. It provides MPC key management, self-service DeFi policy controls, time-of-transaction smartcontract insights, transaction simulation, and risk alerts.
- CoPilot — CoPilot is pioneering Assisted Commerce for big-ticket purchases – starting with cars. You are the one spending the money - shouldn't you have an expert on your side? We founded CoPilot to make that a reality. For the average car buyer, who is not a car expert or enthusiast, car shopping can be a time consuming, frustrating process that leavespeople feeling alone and disadvantaged. CoPilot is changing this dynamic. Like a trusted friend who is knowledgeable about cars, knows where to look and what to buy, CoPilot provides car shoppers with an expert partner who empowers them to discover the perfect car at the best possible price with ease and confidence.
- Lava Network — Lava Network aims to be a marketplace for blockchain data.
Kiva is the world's first online lending platform. For as little as $25 you can lend to an entrepreneur around the world. Learn more here.
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- Social Entrepreneurship, Agriculture, Energy
- Debt Financing, Seed, Series A
- Ghana, Kenya, Uganda
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- I2B — At I2B, we specialize in providing versatile no-code and AI services to streamline creation, automation, and scaling for businesses and organizations of all sizes. Our mission is to make advanced technology accessible, efficient, and scalable.
- Farmerline — The Farmerline vision is to see an Africa where Agriculture NGO’s are not a functioning force in the market. Farmerline provides paid services that allow farmers to have the information and access they need to employ an entrepreneurial method of farming. Input dealers and traders pay for more efficient communication channels to farmers andfarmers pay for information packages and services. In this vision, more food is produce, more food gets to market, and GDP from cash crop export soars.
- Altech Group — Altech Group aims at expanding access to clean, renewable, and affordable energy both for poor-grid and off-grid households.
We help the daring build legendary companies.
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- Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- United States, China, India
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- Tola — Tola offers a simple and easy way for businesses to pay and get paid, however and whenever they want. Sign up today!
- Stem Lingo — LINGO coding kits are designed to teach youth aged 13+ about the fundamentals of hardware and software design.
- Decart — Decart is an AI platform significantly improves the training and inference of large generative models.
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