Top 50 Mobile Apps Startup Investors in Africa (October 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Everywhere Ventures
VC Fund
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10 | United States, United Kingdom, Australia | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence | $250k–$20M |
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Antler
VC Fund
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9 | United States, Singapore, Australia | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $100k–$29M |
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Musha Ventures
VC Fund
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9 | United States, Nigeria, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Financial Services, FinTech | $100k–$10M |
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Microtraction
VC Fund
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7 | Nigeria, United States, Ghana | Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | $30k–$1.3M |
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F6 Ventures
VC Fund
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6 | Tunisia, France, United Arab Emirates | Pre-Seed, Seed | E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology | $62k–$174k |
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Launch Africa
VC Fund
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5 | Nigeria, South Africa, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology | $200k–$4M |
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Unpopular Ventures
VC Fund
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5 | United States, India, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services | $500k–$34M |
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CRE Venture Capital
VC Fund
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4 | Nigeria, South Africa, United States | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, Software, FinTech | $250k–$21M |
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Chandaria Capital
VC Fund
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4 | Kenya, Nigeria, United States | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, Financial Services, FinTech | $200k–$37M |
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4DX Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | Egypt, South Africa, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | FinTech, Financial Services, Logistics | $50k–$40M |
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Renew Capital
VC Fund
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4 | Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia | Pre-Seed, Seed | Mobile Apps, Financial Services, Finance | |
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LoftyInc Capital
VC Fund
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4 | United States, Nigeria, Egypt | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | $100k–$37M |
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Streamlined
VC Fund
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4 | United States, Mexico, Colombia | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $1M–$68M |
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IDF Capital SA
VC Fund
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4 | South Africa | Seed, Series A | E-Commerce, Mobile Apps, Retail | $81k–$1.3M |
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Lateral Frontiers
VC Fund
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4 | United States, Nigeria, Kenya | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | FinTech, Financial Services, Energy | $500k–$15M |
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HAVAÍC
VC Fund
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4 | South Africa, United States, Kenya | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A | Software, Health Care, FinTech | $83k–$15M |
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Silverbacks Holdings
VC Fund
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3 | Nigeria, United States, Egypt | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A | FinTech, Financial Services, Finance | $100k–$32M |
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Orbit Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | China, United States, India | Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note | E-Commerce, Software, Artificial Intelligence | $30k–$20M |
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Kalon Venture Partners
VC Fund
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3 | South Africa, Luxembourg, United States | Seed, Series A | Artificial Intelligence, Apps, Internet | $715k–$11M |
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Digital Strategies
VC Fund
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3 | United States, Singapore, Canada | Seed, Initial Coin Offering | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services | $2M–$34M |
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Act Venture Capital
VC Fund
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3 | Ireland, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $1M–$13M |
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Aristarichus Weru
Angel
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3 | Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed | Mobile Apps, Financial Services, Billing | |
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Hustle Fund
VC Fund
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3 | United States, Singapore, Canada | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech | $100k–$25M |
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Verdant Capital
VC Fund
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3 | Kenya, South Africa, Ghana | Debt Financing, Venture - Series Unknown, Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Finance | $2M–$30M |
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Idris Ayodeji Bello
Angel
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2 | Nigeria, United States, Egypt | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | FinTech, Software, Financial Services | $425k–$5.1M |
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Nicholas Brathwaite
Angel
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2 | United States, India, Japan | Series A, Series B, Seed | Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data | $1.5M–$55M |
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Perivoli Innovations
VC Fund
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2 | United Kingdom, Kenya, South Africa | Seed, Series A, Series B | Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical Device | $1.3M–$26M |
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Golden Palm Investments
VC Fund
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2 | Nigeria, United States, Egypt | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Information Technology, Financial Services, Payments | $30k–$15M |
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Valia Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United States, United Kingdom, Egypt | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Health Care, FinTech | $750k–$30M |
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Bose Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United States, India, Denmark | Venture - Series Unknown, Series B, Series A | Software, Health Care, Consumer Electronics | $27k–$55M |
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Raine Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United States, United Kingdom, Israel | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, Gaming, Mobile | $2M–$62M |
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TTV Capital
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Canada, Ireland | Series A, Seed, Series B | FinTech, Financial Services, Software | $3M–$54M |
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Futuregrowth Asset Management
VC Fund
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2 | South Africa, France, United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Transportation, Financial Services | $1.8M–$22M |
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Riot Games
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Germany, China | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Gaming, Video Games, Software | $1.2M–$55M |
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Ayre Group
VC Fund
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2 | United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland | Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Bitcoin, Video Streaming | $393k–$8.7M |
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Takuma Terakubo
Angel
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2 | Kenya, Nigeria, Togo | Seed, Pre-Seed | Big Data, Software, Mobile Apps | $50k–$2M |
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Backroom Capital
VC Fund
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2 | Nigeria | Pre-Seed, Angel | Delivery, Internet, Lifestyle | |
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Cadenza Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Singapore, Canada | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Financial Services | $1M–$28M |
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Good Soil VC
VC Fund
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2 | Ghana, United Kingdom, Rwanda | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | FinTech, Financial Services, Retail | $35k–$940k |
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ODBA
VC Fund
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2 | Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | FinTech, Financial Services, Health Care | $43k–$10M |
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Bloom Equity
VC Fund
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2 | Ireland, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, SaaS, Local | $439k–$1.4M |
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Resilience17
VC Fund
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2 | Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana | Seed, Pre-Seed | Sports, Finance, Outdoors | $195k–$8.5M |
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Costanoa Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Brazil, Mexico | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $2.5M–$60M |
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Ground Squirrel Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Kenya, Zambia | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Finance | $125k–$48M |
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Asymmetry Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United States, India, Canada | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Health Care, Biotechnology | $125k–$21M |
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Banana Capital
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Canada, France | Seed, Series A, Series B | E-Commerce, Financial Services, Health Care | $2M–$260M |
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Kua Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | EdTech, Retail, Grocery | $58k–$94k |
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Winsten Ltd
VC Fund
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2 | Nigeria, United States | Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel | PaaS, Delivery, Software | $100k–$100k |
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Sajid Rahman
Angel
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2 | India, Nigeria, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Finance | $150k–$6M |
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Enagwolor Johnny
Angel
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2 | Nigeria | Angel, Pre-Seed | Delivery, Logistics, Mobile Apps | |
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1304
- Round size: Seed $1M–$6.5M; Pre-Seed $250k–$2.5M; Series A $6M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $4.4M in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- Donna — Meet Donna, the AI assistant built for field sales teams. Save time, cut admin, and close more deals with less effort.
- Noise — Noise makes finding UGC creators easy. Work smarter with personalized AI guidance to make your next UGC creator campaign go viral.
- Axo Longevity — Axo Longevity offers membership-based biomarker testing and digital health plans for preventive wellness and longevity optimization.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Singapore, Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2382
- Round size: Seed $158k–$4.6M; Pre-Seed $100k–$600k; Series A $4.1M–$29M
- Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $7.5M in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- Obud — Obud is a wellness reservation systems that is designed for holistic health and lifestyle management purposes. The company's systems offer a comprehensive suite of tools for booking wellness activities, managing schedules, and accessing curated wellness programs, enabling wellness centers to streamline their operations, enhance userengagement, and promote a balanced and healthy lifestyle.
- myluigi.ai — Luigi is an AI-Powered Full-Stack Game Growth-as-a-Service platform designed to help mobile game studios scale user acquisition, engagement and lifetime value without adding headcount. Its dual-engine architecture automates and operates everything from ad campaign creation and real-time creative optimization to personalized in-game offers and LTVforecasting—delivered through a single, easy-to-integrate and unified dashboard. With a flexible per-title pricing model and powerful machine-learning insights, Luigi empowers mid-sized and indie developers to reduce CPI, boost retention and chart a clear path toward sustainable growth and seven-figure ARR.
- RubiLabs — RubiLabs Inc provides a platform for unifying, monitoring, and analyzing organizational data. RubiLabs software enables analysts and operators across risk, compliance, and security teams to collaborate and interpret large volumes of information in real time. The company’s platform is designed to help institutions make sense of complex, fragmenteddata by transforming it into a coherent operational picture for risk detection, continuous monitoring, and investigative workflows.
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 215
- Round size: Seed $120k–$7.5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3M; Series A $2.5M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
Portfolio highlights
- HoneyCoin — HoneyCoin is a web3/web2 ecosystem of products built in a way that abstracts complexity and brings all the value of web3 and web2 to the forefront.
- Zeno — Zeno is a climate conscious motor company that offers eco-friendly motorcycles.
- Lori Systems — Lori Systems is revolutionizing African logistics through innovative technology solutions. We connect shippers, transporters, and drivers to create efficient, reliable, and transparent supply chains across Africa.
We invest in Africa's most remarkable teams with technical founders at the earliest stage of their venture
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Ghana
Investor stats
- Total investments: 106
- Round size: Seed $30k–$1.3M; Angel $30k–$50k; Pre-Seed $50k–$1.1M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $15M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Growwr — Growwr is an AI-native workforce infrastructure platform building the operating system for global work.Its flagship product, Growwr AI, acts as an intelligent hiring agent that helps companies source, screen, evaluate, and hire talent through conversational workflows instead of manual recruiting processes. Companies can describe a role, definehiring priorities, and automatically receive ranked candidates based on verified skills, work history, and performance data.Beyond hiring, Growwr provides integrated global payment infrastructure that enables companies to pay talent across 180+ countries through cards, bank transfers, mobile money, and local payment rails.Because hiring, work, and payments happen inside one system, Growwr continuously generates verified workforce data around earnings, productivity, reliability, and work consistency. The company is leveraging this infrastructure to build workforce financial services including payroll, invoicing, credit scoring, and access to financial products for professionals in emerging markets.Growwr supports 90,000+ users across 15 countries, has processed over millions in payouts, and serves businesses across Africa, the UK, and the US.The company is building the AI and financial infrastructure layer powering the future of global work.
- Paycrest — Decentralized routing protocol for instant, secure, zero-fee payments in emerging markets.
- Cr3dentials — Cr3dentials provides a verification platform for digital earners, confirming income, reputation, and work history. The service links user accounts from marketplaces, creator networks, ecommerce systems, and crypto exchanges, including Upwork, YouTube, Shopify, and Binance. Aggregated data is transformed into verifiable credentials that captureearnings, activity, and tenure. These credentials are designed for sharing with platforms or institutions that need evidence of online work and revenue. The approach reduces manual document exchange and supports consistent proofs for digital workers. Offerings include account linking, data aggregation, and shareable verification profiles.
Flat6Labs is the MENA region’s leading seed and early stage venture capital firm, currently running the most renowned startup programs in the region. Annually, Flat6Labs invests in more than 100 innovative and technology-driven startups enabling thousands of passionate entrepreneurs to achieve their daring ambitions and ultimately becoming theirinstitutional co-founders.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Tunisia, France, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 81
- Round size: Seed $70k–$174k; Pre-Seed $62k–$100k
- Lead/follow: 51% lead, 49% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $10M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Datasphera — Customer service is our #1 priority. Get a premium domain for your website today. Financing available.
- True Delta — True Delta is a data management and processing company. They are document recognition and data reconciliation processes. They offer data extraction from documents using ocr techniques, fast onboarding and data integration,and efficient data reconciliation with intelligent matching tools and less coding .
- Bako Motors SAS — Bako Motors SAS is a motor vehicle manufacturing company that develops solar electric vehicles. manufacturer of electric vehicles with the goal of creating long-term fixes for rural areas' transportation issues with regard to people, cargo, and machinery. The business makes electric cars as well as solutions for clean energy generation andstorage that are infinitely scalable, providing users with inexpensive and environmentally friendly e-mobility.
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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- 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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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 622
- Round size: Seed $500k–$8M; Pre-Seed $500k–$2.6M; Series A $6M–$34M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $13k in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Sourcepulse — Your early warning system for software delivery (YC S23)
- Morphic — The Sovereign AI platform for organizations to own their tribal knowledge
- NORDA Dynamics — NORDA Dynamics is an autonomous UAV piloting system for carrying out missions in areas with limited connectivity.
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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- Industry: Financial Services, Software, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, South Africa, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 66
- Round size: Seed $250k–$4M; Pre-Seed $250k–$3.3M; Series A $1.1M–$21M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Flood — Flood is a marketplace platforms that provides merchant solution, self services and big data solution.
- Letly — Letly is developing an AI‑driven platform for the rental property market that automates tasks related to managing rental listings and tenant interactions. It aims to use intelligent agents to handle tasks such as scheduling viewings, responding to inquiries, and optimizing property management workflows. The platform is currently in a waitlistphase, signaling ongoing development and private access only.
- Cutstruct — Cutstruct is your one source for bulk construction materials purchase. Get the best prices for cement, steel, granite, sharp sand wood, and more.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Financial Services, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 53
- Round size: Seed $250k–$6M; Pre-Seed $200k–$3M; Series A $2M–$37M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Klub — India's leading Revenue Based Financing platform with a vision to revolutionize growth capital. Join the Klub for fast, fair & flexible funding.
- Nuzo — Nuzo offers cheaper payments and crypto rewards and ways to save and earn with staking and bill pay options.
- African Originals — African Originals food and beverage company that offers authentic African craft beverages using traditional reciepies.
4DX Ventures is a Pan-Africa Focused Venture Capital Firm. Our mission is to connect people, ideas, and capital to create a vibrant African community.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Logistics
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Egypt, South Africa, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 99
- Round size: Seed $456k–$8M; Pre-Seed $50k–$6.5M; Series A $3M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $49M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Anda Africa — Anda is Angola’s leading mobility fintech platform, providing asset financing, ride hailing, and delivery services to empower mobility entrepreneurs. Built for emerging markets, Anda bridges the credit gap by financing productive assets such as motorcycles, tricycles, and cars, enabling drivers to own their vehicles, increase their earnings, andenter the formal economy. Through technology driven credit profiling and fully digitized payments, Anda creates financial identities for people who were previously underserved and unlocks responsible access to financial services. As an impact driven company, Anda brings together mobility, financing, and digital payments to deliver safe, affordable, and inclusive transportation while enabling a new generation of financially empowered entrepreneurs.
- Aether Bio — Aether uses its state of the art platform to rapidly engineer enzymes, enabling our customers to manufacture complex and novel products at fractional cost.
- Aethex — End to end voice agents localized for your market.
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- Industry: Mobile Apps, Financial Services, Finance
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 26
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Bosso — Bosso projects and realizes automation and robotic solutions for the growth of your business.
- Chpter — Chpter is a software development company that offers fast billing and checkout to help start, run, and grow a business.
- Level Africa — Digital Investment Marketplace for Africa
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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- 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 — Zero-Trust and ML-based Endpoint Detection and Response Platform #EDR #FDR #EndpointSecurity
We partner with seed-stage founders to build exceptional companies.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Mexico, Colombia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 386
- Round size: Seed $1M–$9M; Series A $5M–$24M; Series B $7M–$68M
- Lead/follow: 49% lead, 51% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $20M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- a1Mobile — Your carrier, now AI-native.
- Fun — Fun offers the highest converting rails to execute blockchain actions. Optimize your funding rails, reach new customers, and reduce costs.
- Flagler Health — Flagler Health is the AI-native operating system for musculoskeletal (MSK) care. Flagler seamlessly coordinates clinical and administrative workflows across the full patient lifecycle inside providers' existing EMRs.
IDF Capital is an established financier, investing in high growth SMEs/Entrepreneurial businesses. We invest with a gender lens strategy
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Mobile Apps, Retail
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $81k–$1.3M
- Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Droppa — Droppa is a delivery hub that makes it easier and safer to transport your parcels, goods and furniture using our mobile app and website.
- Carscan — cARscan is an Augmented Reality app with an embedded visual recognition AI to track the visual condition of every motor vehicle during its life-stage.
- Mortgage Market — Mortgage Market is a fintech startup that has created an online marketplace for home loans. Users are able to access a home loan easily via its online platform.
Lateral Capital is a mission driven venture fund investing in early and growth stage opportunities in Africa. We back companies that provide foundational technologies for the continent. We make debt and equity investments technology-enabled businesses that profitably solve significant pain points across financial services, healthcare, education,energy, agriculture, housing, logistics, mobility and more.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Energy
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 55
- Round size: Seed $1M–$6M; Pre-Seed $500k–$3.5M; Series A $558k–$15M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $28M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Rhaeos — Rhaeos, the world's first wearable shunt monitor, aims to improve the quality care for patients with hydrocephalus through a novel, thermal biosensor. Developed within Northwestern University with collaboration between Dr. John Rogers, McCormick School of Engineering, Feinberg School of Medicine and Kellogg School of Management, Rhaeosrepresents a unique multidisciplinary translational effort for an important clinical need.
- Wattnow — Wattnow's smart meters and AI show every machine's consumption live and flag waste in time to stop it. Plants cut energy costs by up to 30%.
- Octavia Carbon — Reversing Climate Change | Ending the Fossil Fuel Age | In Kenya.
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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- Industry: Software, Health Care, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
- Geography: South Africa, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 49
- Round size: Seed $83k–$4M; Series A $1.9M–$15M; Venture - Series Unknown $318k–$632k
- Lead/follow: 65% lead, 35% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $50M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- NjiaPay — Payments-as-a-Service platform that will streamline your operations and elevate your online payments across the African continent.
- SwiftVee — SwiftVEE is a livestock trading mobile app. They support live webcast livestock auctions and silent auctions. Their platform facilitates the discovery and viewing of livestock auctions.They provide webcast advertising, online auctions, and online livestock insurance services and data products for financial institutions.
- Tanda — As a Tanda Agent, you can sell Kenya's favorite digital products, and grow your duka while you're at it
Silverbacks Holdings is a Mauritius-based private investment firm established in 2019, focusing on Africa-related companies in underserved industries such As technology, sports, entertainment, and the creative economy. The firm aims for returns averaging 2x to 5x on its investments and has achieved 9 profitable exits since its inception. Its portfolio includes over 240 companies across Africa, collectively valued at over $10 billion. Landmark investments include the Cape Town Tigers (2024 BAL semi-finalists), Forever7 Entertainment (Netflix content deals), and Moove (a global mobility fintech backed by Uber), and Wave (a mobile money and global remittance focused fintech backed by Stripe).
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 65
- Round size: Seed $200k–$8.3M; Series A $1.4M–$32M; Venture - Series Unknown $100k–$26M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Vanhu Vamwe — Vanhu Vamwe is a luxury accessory brand that creates handcrafted, sustainable handbags using traditional African crafts and eco-friendly materials.
- The Rad Black Kids — The Rad Black Kids is a lifestyle and apparel company that specializes in fashion. The company’s main business includes selling clothing items such as hoodies, caps, t-shirts, and etc. It also offers a range of skate boards and vintage guitars. The Rad Black Kids was founded by Thulani Ngazimbi.
- African Warriors Fighting Championship — African Warriors Fighting Championship is Africa's leading promoter of traditional combat sports: Dambe and Wrestling.
Orbit helps scale breakthrough startups from around the globe across emerging and frontier markets.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Geography: China, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 577
- Round size: Seed $100k–$2M; Pre-Seed $100k–$1M; Convertible Note $30k–$20M
- Lead/follow: 73% lead, 27% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- i4TECH — Modular, scalable, fully managed manufacturing digital solutions that enable your AI adoption. Moving Industry 4.0 forwards with a unified, comprehensive data driven approach
- Qanary — Qanary is a digital second-opinion platform designed to help radiologists detect cancer at its earliest, most treatable stages.
- openmed — OpenMed provides digital healthcare services, telemedicine, pharmacy products, diagnostics, and medication delivery.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Apps, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: South Africa, Luxembourg, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 21
- Round size: Seed $715k–$3M; Series A $2.5M–$11M
- Lead/follow: 62% lead, 38% follow
Portfolio highlights
- GoMetro — Fleet management simplified with GoMetro. Integrate telematics, gain real-time visibility, and optimize operations with a secure, scalable platform,
- Sendmarc — Manage your organization's DMARC, SPF, and DKIM with world-class implementation services and support. All in one easy-to-use platform.
- visionAI — Discover how AI MES software enhances factory efficiency and reduces blindspots to minimize equipment downtime and boost productivity.
Blockchain investments & value-add advisory for frontier technologies.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Initial Coin Offering
- Geography: United States, Singapore, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 32
- Round size: Seed $2M–$10M; Initial Coin Offering $5.5M–$34M
- Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
Portfolio highlights
- XRADERS — Powering informed decision making for investors XRADERS
- Root Protocol — ISME is building an operating system with the composition of an intent-centric aggregator of digital identity, virtual accounts, social graphs, and more to enable unified access to Web3.
- TON Strategy Company — VERB Technology Company is a software-as-a-Service, or SaaS, applications platform developer. Its platform is comprised of sales enablement business software products marketed on a subscription basis. The applications are available in both mobile and desktop versions. It includes verbCRM, Customer Relationship Management application, verbLEARN,Learning Management System application, and verbLIVE, its Live Broadcast Video Webinar application.
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Browse database — It's Free!Technology-focused, investing capital and expertise to fuel growth in the most promising ideas and companies. Raised c.€600m across multiple funds and invest from seed to growth.We look for companies with potentially cutting-edge, category-defining businesses in markets including application software, IT infrastructure, communications, Internetand mobile. We help founders create and scale businesses globally. We work as a small team with diverse strengths accessing a community of over 200 founders. The teams and companies we back scale their investor base as they scale their business execution and ambition. We work closely with them in this process. Over the past 25 years have built a broad network of US and European investors and founders that share our vision and approach.Act is based in Dublin, Ireland.Our most recent funds are supported by the European Investment Fund.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Ireland, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 165
- Round size: Seed $1M–$5M; Series A $2.3M–$13M
- Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $146M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Ubotica — AI-powered maritime surveillance and intelligence that predicts risk, tasks satellites and delivers verified insights to protect critical infrastructure and detect dark vessels.
- Entity — Entity's purpose is shape the future of web gaming by leveraging emerging technologies and maximizing the browser's capabilities. Our next-generation gaming hub, scheduled to arrive in 2027, will be a global place for players to discover, connect, and play together.
- Fresco — Fresco powers connected cooking experiences for appliance brands, enabling faster launches, lower R&D costs, and continuous innovation.
Founder & CEO @ The Kueq Limited
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- Industry: Mobile Apps, Financial Services, Billing
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- UbaPesa — UbaPesa is the best peer to peer lending app in Kenya which allows you to lend and borrow money in real-time.
- The Kueq Limited — The kueq is a Virtual Bank mobile based user initiated Automated & manual lending & borrowing app providing a platform for Individual funders to loan to individual borrowers on 10 days & 20 days, World major currencies FX trading (USD/KES, EUR/KES, GBP/KES) Have a physical and or virtual prepaid card, credit card& or debit card, Make RTGS & international TT using SWIFT Pesa linked – local payment gateway Pay water, electricity, cable bills. Buy government treasury bond and treasury bills, Buy insurance covers both life & general insurance covers et al. Crowd funding of it’s own shares, (Buy shares of The kueq limited on it’s own app. The next level crowd funding) based on real time company performance information e.g toplines, PAT, EBITDA, D/E, EPS, DPS, statutory ratios; cash ratios, core capital, Business accounts, Bid bond & invoice discounting
Hustle Fund is a seed fund that invests in early-stage startups operating in software, business-to-business, fintech, and digital health sectors.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Singapore, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 546
- Round size: Seed $750k–$6M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2.5M; Series A $4M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $33M in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- O-ID — Modular Humanoids, Made in Japan
- BON Credit — AI powered financial assistant from Bon Credit helps uncover savings, manage finances, and make smarter money decisions with AI. Start saving smarter today!
- Charter Space — Charter is developing a collaborative platform for satellite mission logistics and program management available via web app and API that provides satellite operators with intuitive information architecture to streamline missions and reduce wasted engineering hours so they can get to the launchpad faster.Charter's platform usesdesign-focused UI/UX and automation to reduce friction through intuitive dashboarding, improved information sharing, and optimized compute and data resource efficiency. For satellite companies, ATLAS streamlines processes, automates manual tasks, and provides engineers with communications and information infrastructure to seamlessly interface both across teams and organisations. reduces wasted engineering hours and lead times, and minimizes upfront technical debt, CapEx, and long-run OpEx.In other words, Charter is building a logistics solution that will be to satellite logistics what the graphical user interface was to command-line interfaces.
Verdant Capital is a specialist corporate finance firm with exception experience transacting across the African continent. Verdant Capital operates in two segments, Financial Institutions and Corporate Finance. It operates from offices in Johannesburg, Mauritius and Accra.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Stage:Debt Financing, Venture - Series Unknown, Seed
- Geography: Kenya, South Africa, Ghana
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Debt Financing $2M–$30M; Venture - Series Unknown $3M–$13M
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $1.3M in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- BFree — BFree focuses its collection processes on sustainably leading customers out of debt by giving them back control over their finances.
- GoCab — GoCab is fintech solution providing Drive-to-own option for vehicle purchase in Emerging markets, helping to bridge the gap between mobility entrepreneurs and financial services.
- Zeepay — Zeepay Ghana Limited is a wholly Ghanaian owned Mobile FinancialServices company focusing on providing integrated mobile payments services with mobile wallets targeting the unbanked and banked population with the objective of bringing the unbanked into the financial stream and easing payments and collections for the banked population.Zeepayfacilitates the processing of multiple mobile phone payment transactions, and operates as a aggregator that brings transaction of all players together on one single platform. The company’s core application runs on open source technology, and is designed to integrate all types of payment platforms, banks, merchants, Mobile Network Operators (MNOs), and other companies with subscriber based transactions.
The 'Afropreneur' (entrepreneur with an African focus), as he self-describes, Idris Ayodeji Bello is a Partner at LoftyInc Allied Partners Limited and co-founder of The Wennovation Hub, an innovation platform based in Nigeria, that has successfully accelerated the launch of several technology start-ups in social impact sectors. He isalso a Founding Partner at Loftyinc Capital Management, owners of the Afropreneurs Fund (I&II)The 'Afropreneur' (entrepreneur with an African focus), as he self-describes, Idris Bello is a Partner at LoftyInc Allied Partners Limited and co-founder of The Wennovation Hub, an innovation platform based in Nigeria, that has successfully accelerated the launch of several technology start-ups in social impact sectors. He is also a Founding Partner at Loftyinc Capital Management, owners of the Afropreneurs Fund (I&II)A first class honors graduate of Computer Engineering from Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria, he has an M.Sc in Computer Science & Data Mining from the University of Houston; an MBA in Entrepreneurship & Strategy from Rice University in Houston and an M.Sc in Global Health Science from the University of Oxford, where he was a 2011 recipient of The Lord Weidenfeld Scholarship for demonstrating remarkable potential as a future leader from an emerging economy.Idris spent the greater part of a decade working at Chevron Corporation and ExxonMobil USA, where he led several large upstream technology projects across the USA and Sub-Saharan Africa. Idris has also worked with the Clinton Foundation Health Access Initiative where he played a major role in the deployment and evaluation of Swaziland’s first mobile health patient appointment reminder system as part of the country’s National AIDS Program. Listed among CNN’s Top Ten African Technology Voices, he is a Singularity University Impact Fellow, Harambe Entrepreneur Alliance Associate, Clinton Global Initiative University Fellow, MIT Global Start-up Fellow, SAP Ashoka Global Changemakers Award Winner, Dell Technology Award Winner, StartingBloc Innovation Fellow and a Nigeria Leadership Initiative Future Leader.As a leader, Idris has mentored and catalyzed scores of contributors across the growing African landscape and is an angel investor and advisor to several African startups including Andela, Flutterwave, RelianceHMO, among others. He continues to devote his efforts to the development of innovation-driven, technology-enabled social enterprises that empower the underserved and develop transformative ideas to change lives on the African continent.He spends most of his time between Lagos, Cairo, or airport lounges.
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- Industry: FinTech, Software, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 39
- Round size: Seed $450k–$5.1M; Pre-Seed $425k–$1.1M
- Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ScholarX — ScholarX enables you to study a variety of skills online, receive money for your education, upskill your employees, and expand your business. The company provides low-income Africans with digital and affordable education.
- Jem — We give employers the ability to send company-wide communications, deliver payslips, manage leave & give employees access to their earnings, via WhatsApp.
- Bata Shoe Organization — Discover a diverse selection of stylish footwear and accessories for the entire family at Bata's online store. From athletic sneakers to elegant designs, find the latest trends and comfortable options in one place. Shop now to experience unmatched style and comfort with our extensive collection.
Nicholas Brathwaite is the Founder and Managing Partner at Celesta Capital at Celesta Capital. He attended the University of Waterloo.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: United States, India, Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 42
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$8.5M; Series A $7.5M–$17M; Series B $10M–$55M
- Lead/follow: 64% lead, 36% follow
Portfolio highlights
- AJUA — Start your first business web-page in minutes. Easily power online transactions, Buy Ads with your Airtime on Facebook, Instagram, and Google. Get ratings and reviews to build your business credibility, and enlarge your customer base.
- BangDB — BangDB is an AI database platform with Graph and time-series data analysis. It is designed for modern use cases for edge computing.
- Normal Computing — Normal Computing was founded by former members of the Google Brain Team, Palantir, and X who unlocked AI for some of the largest-scale and most mission-critical production systems, and the industry leading ML frameworks for Probabilistic and Quantum AI.
Perivoli Innovations is a venture investment Trust established in 2016 by the Perivoli Trust. It donates profits to the Perivoli Foundation, a UK Charity, whose principal focus is Africa.
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- Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical Device
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United Kingdom, Kenya, South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 28
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$4.6M; Series A $1.4M–$12M; Series B $2.8M–$26M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Ilara Health — Ilara Health helps primary care clinics across Africa deliver better care.
- African Originals — African Originals food and beverage company that offers authentic African craft beverages using traditional reciepies.
- Downforce Technologies — Downforce Technologies is a pioneering leader in science-led, data-driven land management solutions focused on optimising soil health, soil organic carbon levels and biodiversity. With over 30% of the world's soil already degraded, urgent action is needed to address this pressing global challenge. Our platform offers a complete,high-resolution view of the land's carbon profile, enabling precise analysis and site-specific strategies for optimizing carbon levels.
Golden Palm Investments is an investment holding and advisory company.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Financial Services, Payments
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 87
- Round size: Seed $230k–$6M; Pre-Seed $30k–$6.5M; Series A $3M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2014
Portfolio highlights
- Talstack — Talstack is an all-in-one platform for employee growth and development
- MAKA — MAKA is a community commerce platform for fashion and beauty, enabling everyone to discover their style, feel represented.
- Renda — At Renda, we are passionate about revolutionizing the logistics and mobility sectors with cutting-edge technology that enables businesses and operators to seamlessly scale in emerging markets.
Valia is a venture capital firm backing founders building tomorrow's most iconic companies.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 78
- Round size: Seed $2.2M–$17M; Pre-Seed $750k–$1.8M; Series A $8M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $50M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- morph — morph is a physical AI and soft robotics company that launched the shapeshifting soft robotics cells platform.
- Inner Logic — The development infrastructure for the next generation of procedural devices.
- Apollo Atomics — Apollo is building the most power-dense pressurized-water nuclear reactor. (YC P26)
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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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Consumer Electronics
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Series B, Series A
- Geography: United States, India, Denmark
Investor stats
- Total investments: 24
- Round size: Series A $1.5M–$10M; Series B $2M–$55M; Venture - Series Unknown $27k–$18M
- Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $50M in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- 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
- Noise — Buy latest Noise smart watches, wireless earbuds, BT neckband earphones, wireless headphones, speakers and smart watch accessories online at best prices in India.
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Browse database — It's Free!Raine Ventures is an early stage fund managed by The Raine Group. The firm has offices in San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, London and Shanghai. With a global reach, Raine focuses on investment and advisory opportunities where its deep industry experience and unique network of strategic relationships can create value for portfolio companies andclients.
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- Industry: Software, Gaming, Mobile
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 96
- Round size: Seed $2M–$7M; Series A $5M–$16M; Series B $10M–$62M
- Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $100M in 2017
Portfolio highlights
- Filed — Meet your new AI tax preparer. Filed helps firms process more returns in less time by cutting prep, reducing review, and freeing teams for higher-value work.
- Perlego — Perlego is an online library subscription service for textbooks and non-fiction titles. Having partnered with over 3,000 publishers, it gives its users unlimited access to over 650,000 eBooks and publications via an affordable monthly subscription. It aims to make learning accessible to all. It was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in London,England.
- MusicInfra — Organizing connections between recordings, compositions, and rightsholder claims to reduce friction and enable monetization. AI-powered recognition and matching solutions for the music industry.
TTV Capital is a venture capital firm that funds and supports the businesses that shape the financial future of the world.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 188
- Round size: Seed $3M–$10M; Series A $5M–$28M; Series B $5M–$54M
- Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $86M in 2026
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- eWise — eWise is a leading international provider of Personal Financial Management and Account Aggregation solutions. eWise Money Manager is used by many of the worlds most innovative banks including HSBC, Westpac and First Direct. Founded in 2000 and headquartered in Switzerland, eWise has operations in Europe, Asia, America and Australia.
- Carputty — Carputty is a superior way to finance a car. Buying new, used, or refinancing? Carputty's flexible line of credit simplifies the process. Get started now!
- Outmarket AI — Outmarket AI offers an AI-driven platform to transform commercial insurance operations by enhancing efficiency and productivity. The platform integrates data to provide real-time insights, automate workflows, and streamline processes such as data analysis, submission generation, and market placement. It serves brokers, managing general agents(MGAs), and wholesalers, helping them to boost sales, improve strategic performance, and accelerate growth. Leveraging natural language processing, machine learning and knowledge graphs, it helps brokers and carriers identify cross-selling potential, optimize carrier placements, and maximize profitability.
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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- Industry: Software, Transportation, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: South Africa, France, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 22
- Round size: Seed $1.8M–$5.3M; Series A $3.4M–$11M; Series B $11M–$22M
- Lead/follow: 68% lead, 32% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- CubeSpace — Industry-leading modular attitude determination and control (ADCS) products and solutions. Laser-focused on our customers' success. Your global ADCS partner.
- Jem — We give employers the ability to send company-wide communications, deliver payslips, manage leave & give employees access to their earnings, via WhatsApp.
- Happy Pay — Happy Pay is a credit scoring system developing company. The company integrates an autonomous artificial intelligence technology system with the merchant's platform to increase their average basket size and customer conversion metrics, providing users with buy now, and pay later services.
Riot Games is the most player-focused game developer and publisher in the world. We published League of Legends in 2009, and have since released Teamfight Tactics, Legends of Runeterra, VALORANT, and League of Legends: Wild Rift.
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- Industry: Gaming, Video Games, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United States, Germany, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 30
- Round size: Seed $2M–$11M; Series A $6M–$55M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.2M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Forge — Playtest, market and sell great Steam Games
- Stoke Games — Stoke Games operates as an independent gaming studio.
- Liminal Experiences — Liminal is a new UGC game for creating narrative action role-playing games with the vision of making the world a more creative place. By fusing two interconnected game modes—a joyful creation experience and socially immersive adventure gameplay—they hope to inspire creativity and storytelling.
Ayre Group is a venture capital firm that has been disrupting industries and creating iconic brands for decades, from technology, real estate, and Bitcoin, to media & publishing.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Bitcoin, Video Streaming
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 19
- Round size: Seed $393k–$8.7M
- Lead/follow: 79% lead, 21% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Centbee — Centbee is a B2C payment company providing cross-border remittances and digital wallet. Founded in 2017, we provide an easy-to-use app that enables financially excluded customers to buy a wide range of important digital goods; and send money to family and friends quickly and cheaply.
- Vaionex — Next Generation Blockchain Applications. We are building the infrastructure and services that will power the new internet and economic system.
- Buzzmint — Buzzmint is a BSV tech platform that enables brands, creators, media specific businesses and individuals to simply and quickly ideate, create and deploy utility led NFT/Token projects.
Takuma Terakubo is the CEO & General Partner at UNCOVERED FUND INC.
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- Industry: Big Data, Software, Mobile Apps
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, Togo
Investor stats
- Total investments: 13
- Round size: Seed $50k–$2M
- Lead/follow: 77% lead, 23% follow
Portfolio highlights
- MPost — MPost means Mobile Post office.It enables any mobile phone user to have his or her phone act like a mobile post office. It allows you to make your mobile number be a formal postal address. With it, you get access to Postal Services through your mobile phone.
- RxAll — RxAll is a drug checking technology that solves drug counterfeiting by providing a proprietary AI platform- nanoscanners and a mobile app to test drugs- prescription & recreational- in real time without destroying the sample
- Treepz — Treepz is using technology to help people move efficiently in Africa. Be it for daily, inter-city or corporate commutes, users can book predictable, reliable and comfortable trips through a world-class, demand-responsive app all at the tap of a button.Treepz was founded in 2019 and operates in 4 African countries including Nigeria, Ghana, Ugandaand Kenya. It is headquartered in Ontario, Canada.
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- Industry: Delivery, Internet, Lifestyle
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Jise — Jise provides restaurant food delivery services, connecting customers with local businesses.We are extremely passionate about transforming local businesses and dedicated to enabling new ways of working, earning, and living. By building the last-mile delivery infrastructure for local cities, Jise is bringing communities closer, one door at a time.It connects customers with their favorite local and national restaurants within Lekki Phase 1 for now. Marvelous Gbenro, Osazuwa Agbonze Jeremiah, Ibukun Olasupo, and Majid Tokurah came together to found the company in 2021. It is headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria.
- Rent Small Small — New Zealand's Biggest most reliable Online Store for all your Phone Parts needs! Fast shipping, NZ owned and Operated and here to help. Shop Now!
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- Industry: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Singapore, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 72
- Round size: Seed $1.6M–$6M; Pre-Seed $1M–$4.3M; Series A $3.5M–$28M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $50M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Rime — AI voice models built for real-time conversations. 600+ voices, 50+ languages, sub-100ms latency. Trusted by global enterprise.
- Pangram Labs — The most accurate technology to detect AI-generated content. Detects ChatGPT, Gemini, Meta AI, Claude, and more. Supports 20+ languages with 99.98%+ accuracy.
- Quantum Bridge — Quantum Bridge is a pioneer in Distributed Symmetric Key Exchange (DSKE) technology. It offers quantum-safe cybersecurity products and services. Quantum-safe product and services, Quantum-safe roadmap and quantum-safe solutions implementation.
We are a venture capital firm that partners with founders to build global, market-defying companies. We fund diverse teams across Sub-Saharan Africa and Europe.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Retail
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Ghana, United Kingdom, Rwanda
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Round size: Seed $35k–$940k
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Livoh — Livoh is a software firm offering live streaming platform so the content can reach its target market.
- Zeepay — Zeepay Ghana Limited is a wholly Ghanaian owned Mobile FinancialServices company focusing on providing integrated mobile payments services with mobile wallets targeting the unbanked and banked population with the objective of bringing the unbanked into the financial stream and easing payments and collections for the banked population.Zeepayfacilitates the processing of multiple mobile phone payment transactions, and operates as a aggregator that brings transaction of all players together on one single platform. The company’s core application runs on open source technology, and is designed to integrate all types of payment platforms, banks, merchants, Mobile Network Operators (MNOs), and other companies with subscriber based transactions.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 27
- Round size: Seed $200k–$10M; Pre-Seed $43k–$1.7M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Hopea Pay — Hopea Pay provides payment plans for healthcare services that comply with Shariah financial standards. The platform allows patients to split bills into monthly installments from three to twenty-four months. Payments are sent directly to healthcare providers while patients manage their schedules digitally through a mobile app. The system meetsglobal standards for security and privacy, including HIPAA, PCI DSS, and SOC2. It works with healthcare providers to make services accessible through managed payment solutions.
- TUNL — Ship globally with ease. TUNL offers affordable, transparent international shipping built for South African brands. Up to 91% cheaper. No surprises.
- Kunda Kids — Kunda Kids brings African stories to life! Award-winning books, music & media that make early learning joyful, empowering & proudly cultural.
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Browse database — It's Free!Bloom Equity is a group of experienced entrepreneurs who invest as a type of angel network in early stage Irish Technology companies.The members of the group have already successfully founded, developed and exited from technology companies and try to bring this experience as a value add to their investee companies often in the form of a boardseat.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Local
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Ireland, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $439k–$1.4M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Umba — With an Umba account, you have everything you need from your bank. Spend, pay bills, get loans, and cashback all from your phone.
- Payslip — Payslip is a Global Payroll Management Platform, leveraging AI-powered automation to harmonize payroll operations for multinational organizations.
- Iconic Translation Machines — Iconic Translation Machines is a language technology software company. Iconic specialises in developing best-in-class Neural Machine Translation solutions.
Resilience17 is an Investment firm.
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- Industry: Sports, Finance, Outdoors
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana
Investor stats
- Total investments: 24
- Round size: Seed $2M–$8.5M; Pre-Seed $195k–$1.5M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Glouse — Glouse is an online application that provides groceries at the lowest prices with the same day deliveries.
- Klasha — At Klasha, we're simplifying borderless payments for commerce in Africa. We help merchants worldwide sell online to Africa and receive payments in local African currencies while enjoying super fast last-mile delivery to customers across the continent.
- Terra Industries — Terra Industries develops autonomous security systems and software platforms that support the monitoring and protection of physical assets, infrastructure, and operational environments across land, air, and maritime domains. The company provides unmanned vehicles, autonomous towers, and sensor-based surveillance hardware that collect and transmitdata for continuous situational awareness. Its software layer, built around an integrated operating system, processes sensor inputs, applies artificial intelligence models, and coordinates automated responses to detected events. Terra Industries designs its systems to support functions such as perimeter security, infrastructure monitoring, asset tracking, and threat detection within complex operational settings. The company’s platforms enable operators to manage multiple autonomous devices through a unified interface that supports mission planning, data visualization, and system control. Its technology is used by organizations that require coordinated security, monitoring, and response capabilities for facilities, remote sites, and distributed operations.
Costanoa Ventures is a Seed and Series A venture firm founded in 2012, backing applied AI, cybersecurity, fintech, and national security companies with ~$2.8B AUM.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Brazil, Mexico
Investor stats
- Total investments: 286
- Round size: Seed $2.5M–$10M; Series A $5.6M–$25M; Series B $12M–$60M
- Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $2M in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Sela AI — The Market Leading Voice AI for Mortgage.
- Muon Space — Earth intelligence for a Safe and Resilient World.
- Onos Health — Turning behavioral health noise into clarity and action
Seed round investment in frontier markets and clean energy
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
- Geography: United States, Kenya, Zambia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 71
- Round size: Seed $400k–$3M; Series A $1.8M–$5M; Venture - Series Unknown $125k–$48M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Grapevine — Grapevine makes it possible for groups to invite members, collect and distribute donations, establish a community and connect with nonprofits.
- Untapped Global — Untapped connects global investors, and foreign capital to opportunities in emerging markets. Delivering competitive returns, and measurable impact for global investors.
- Necessary Ventures — We invest in what the world needs.
Asymmetry Ventures invests in scalable early-stage companies with exceptional defensibility.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, India, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 298
- Round size: Seed $500k–$5M; Pre-Seed $125k–$2.4M; Series A $2M–$21M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Enlightra — Extreme-bandwidth data transmission enabled by light
- Persist AI — Persist AI develops PLGA microspheres for long-acting injectable formulations 50% faster using automation and AI.
- Coreshell Technologies — Battery Capacity Unlocked
Banana Capital is an early stage investment firm
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Financial Services, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 62
- Round size: Seed $2M–$12M; Series A $8M–$110M; Series B $25M–$260M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $1.3M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- BinStar — BinStar is an e-commerce and retail company that offers users a shopping experience in the form of treasure hunt.
- Bee — The wearable AI that understands you.
- Artie — Leverage change data capture to replicate data from databases to your data warehouse or data lake with low latency and no impact to database performance.
Kua Ventures provides inexpensive finance, mentoring, and community to faith-driven, social entrepreneurs that are creating great employment and changing lives while simultaneously demonstrating Christ's love.
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- Industry: EdTech, Retail, Grocery
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Venture - Series Unknown $58k–$94k
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Twiva — Twiva is a creator-first, tech-enabled platform that serves as an end-to-end ecosystem. Our purpose is to equip creators with the skills, tools, resources, and access they need to succeed as online entrepreneurs.
- Taimba Limited — Taimba is a B2B mobile-based platform connecting farmers to urban traders with aim of reducing food wastage and to stabilize market prices.
- Seven Twenty Holdings — Seven Twenty Holdings specializes in the manufacturing of curtain rods and curtain rods accessories and manufactures paints.
Winsten Ltd invests in early stage pre-seed technologies. The company's current directors Leonard Lynch and Bill Lynch
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- Industry: PaaS, Delivery, Software
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Geography: Nigeria, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Pre-Seed $100k–$100k
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Jise — Jise provides restaurant food delivery services, connecting customers with local businesses.We are extremely passionate about transforming local businesses and dedicated to enabling new ways of working, earning, and living. By building the last-mile delivery infrastructure for local cities, Jise is bringing communities closer, one door at a time.It connects customers with their favorite local and national restaurants within Lekki Phase 1 for now. Marvelous Gbenro, Osazuwa Agbonze Jeremiah, Ibukun Olasupo, and Majid Tokurah came together to found the company in 2021. It is headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria.
- Qbrics, Inc — traceable, immutable, auditable, business process management, blockchain bpm,
Sajid currently works as Managing Partner at MyAsiaVC He attended London Business School.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: India, Nigeria, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 17
- Round size: Seed $150k–$5.5M; Pre-Seed $385k–$6M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ImaliPay — ImaliPay is a financial health platform offering financial products to freelancers and blue collar gig workers in partnership with gig platforms.
- EquityList — Equity management with online cap table management and employee stock option programs (ESOP) administration. Available free for Indian startups
- 10 Minute School — 10 Minute School is the largest online educational platform in Bangladesh. Through our website, app, and social media, more than 10 Million+ students are accessing quality education each day to accelerate their learning.
Enagwolor Johnny is the co founder and president at Treepz. He attended University of Benin.
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- Industry: Delivery, Logistics, Mobile Apps
- Stage:Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Jise — Jise provides restaurant food delivery services, connecting customers with local businesses.We are extremely passionate about transforming local businesses and dedicated to enabling new ways of working, earning, and living. By building the last-mile delivery infrastructure for local cities, Jise is bringing communities closer, one door at a time.It connects customers with their favorite local and national restaurants within Lekki Phase 1 for now. Marvelous Gbenro, Osazuwa Agbonze Jeremiah, Ibukun Olasupo, and Majid Tokurah came together to found the company in 2021. It is headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria.
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