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Top 50 Mobile Apps Startup Investors in Africa (July 2026)

The most active venture capital funds and angel investors investing in Africa Mobile Apps startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Africa Mobile Apps startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Musha Ventures
VC Fund
6 United States, Nigeria, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Financial Services, FinTech $125k–$10M
Microtraction
VC Fund
5 Nigeria, United States, Ghana Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel Financial Services, FinTech, Software $25k–$1.3M
LoftyInc Capital
VC Fund
4 United States, Nigeria, Egypt Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Software $100k–$37M
Renew Capital
VC Fund
4 Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia Pre-Seed, Seed Mobile Apps, Financial Services, Finance
CRE Venture Capital
VC Fund
4 Nigeria, South Africa, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, Software, FinTech $250k–$25M
Launch Africa
VC Fund
4 Nigeria, South Africa, United States Seed, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology $200k–$4M
HAVAÍC
VC Fund
4 South Africa, United States, Kenya Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, FinTech $100k–$15M
Kalon Venture Partners
VC Fund
3 South Africa, Luxembourg, United States Seed, Series A Artificial Intelligence, Apps, Internet $570k–$11M
Verdant Capital
VC Fund
3 Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria Debt Financing, Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Finance $2M–$30M
IDF Capital SA
VC Fund
3 South Africa Seed Automotive, Mobile Apps
Lateral Frontiers
VC Fund
3 United States, Nigeria, Kenya Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Software $500k–$15M
Idris Ayodeji Bello
Angel
2 Nigeria, United States, Egypt Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed Software, FinTech, Financial Services $100k–$5.1M
Cadenza Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, Canada, Singapore Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Financial Services $1M–$28M
Resilience17
VC Fund
2 Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana Seed, Pre-Seed Sports, Finance, Outdoors $195k–$8.5M
Picus Capital
VC Fund
2 Germany, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, Software, FinTech $500k–$33M
GreenHouse Capital
VC Fund
2 Nigeria, Kenya, United States Seed, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
Konvoy
VC Fund
2 United States, Canada, Sweden Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Gaming, Video Games, Software $1M–$25M
Perivoli Innovations
VC Fund
2 United Kingdom, Kenya, South Africa Seed, Series A, Series B Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical Device $1.3M–$26M
Good Soil VC
VC Fund
2 Ghana, United Kingdom, Rwanda Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Retail $35k–$940k
ODBA
VC Fund
2 Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Education $43k–$3.5M
Bose Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, India, Denmark Series B, Series A Software, Music, Mobile $1.5M–$80M
Ground Squirrel Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, Kenya, Zambia Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Finance $400k–$5M
TTV Capital
VC Fund
2 United States, Canada, Ireland Series A, Seed, Series B FinTech, Financial Services, Software $2M–$45M
Sherpa Africa Partners
VC Fund
2 Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa Pre-Seed, Seed Financial Services, Finance, FinTech $50k–$6M
Ayre Group
VC Fund
2 United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland Seed, Series A Blockchain, Bitcoin, Video Streaming $393k–$8.7M
Chandaria Capital
VC Fund
2 Kenya, United States, Nigeria Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed FinTech, E-Commerce, Retail $250k–$37M
Antler
VC Fund
2 Singapore, Australia, United Kingdom Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $108k–$28M
F6 Ventures
VC Fund
2 Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia Seed, Pre-Seed Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology $14k–$1.3M
Riot Games
VC Fund
2 United States, Germany, China Seed, Series A Gaming, Video Games, Software $2M–$55M
AlphaCode Club
VC Fund
2 South Africa, United Kingdom Grant, Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Finance $26k–$7.2M
Kua Ventures
VC Fund
2 Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown EdTech, Retail, Grocery $58k–$94k
Raine Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, United Kingdom, Israel Series A, Series B, Seed Gaming, Mobile, Software $2.3M–$62M
Blockwall
VC Fund
1 United States, Germany, France Seed, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Software, Information Technology
Sky Mavis
VC Fund
1 United States, Canada, Portugal Seed, Series A Gaming, Web3, Blockchain
Karim Beguir
Angel
1 Tunisia, France, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Energy
Abdo Achkar
Angel
1 United States, Lebanon, Japan Pre-Seed, Seed, Series B E-Commerce, Marketplace, Software
Harambeans
VC Fund
1 Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa Seed, Angel Supply Chain Management, Transportation, Information Technology
Omidyar Network
VC Fund
1 United States, India, Brazil Series A, Series B, Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Education
Ashley Thompson- MacCarthy
Angel
1 Ghana Series A Mobile, Retail, FinTech
E2 Ventures
VC Fund
1 South Africa, The Netherlands Seed Mobile Apps, Automotive, Telecommunications
VentureSouq
VC Fund
1 United States, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia Seed, Series A, Series B FinTech, Financial Services, Software
GIIG Africa Fund
VC Fund
1 Kenya, Nigeria, United States Seed Environmental Engineering, Health Care, Ride Sharing
Jump Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, Singapore, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Blockchain, Software, Financial Services
Maijid Moujaled
Angel
1 Nigeria, South Africa Seed, Series A FinTech, Gaming, Mobile
Al Mada Ventures
VC Fund
1 France Wellness, Health Care, Health Insurance
AngelHub Ventures
VC Fund
1 South Africa, Mexico, Colombia Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Education
Unpopular Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, Mexico, India Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Family & Friends
Angel
1 United States, The Netherlands, Egypt Pre-Seed, Seed Mobile Apps, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Brian Corrigan
Angel
1 United States, Estonia, South Africa Series A, Seed, Angel Gaming, Internet, SaaS
Knife Capital
VC Fund
1 South Africa, United States, Sweden Series A, Seed Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
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Musha Ventures
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 6 investments in Africa Mobile Apps startups

Seed capital for technology startups globally.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 156
  • Round size: Seed $125k–$6M; Pre-Seed $300k–$3.2M; Series A $2.5M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% 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.
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Microtraction
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 5 investments in Africa Mobile Apps startups

We invest in Africa's most remarkable teams with technical founders at the earliest stage of their venture

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, Ghana

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 104
  • Round size: Seed $25k–$1.3M; Angel $30k–$50k; Pre-Seed $50k–$1.1M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Spring in Africa — Wallets Africa helps Africans and African-owned businesses send money, receive money, make card payments, and access overdrafts.
  • Allpro Technologies — Their mission is to Facilitate the free flow of finance and data in the school ecosystem.
  • ThankUCash — ThankUCash is a technology company powering rewards and loyalty for African banks and businesses. ThankUCash helps merchants grow revenue by connecting them to customers within and outside of their locations while retaining acquired customers using a data analytics-powered reward system where customers earn cash rewards for every transaction madeboth offline and online.
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LoftyInc Capital
VC Fund · Carmel, California, United States · 4 investments in Africa Mobile Apps startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 147
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2.4M; Series A $250k–$37M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $14M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Aku — Aku is a financial technology to drive financial inclusion on one mobile device. They provide payments and bring financial services to the doorstep. They support the new business owner in need of the right tools. They offer low-cost, accessible financial services that serve their customers. They radically democratized access to banking and digitalpayment channels.
  • AlumUnite — AlumUnite is a purpose-built platform to connect all educated Africans to develop Africa's human capital through alumni groups. We crowd-resource education.
  • Reliance Health — Reliance Health Global. Improve the lives of your staff with innovative company healthcare benefits fit for any business. You can rely on us.
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Renew Capital
VC Fund · Addis Ababa, Adis Abeba, Ethiopia · 4 investments in Africa Mobile Apps startups, 11 in the past 12 months

Renew Capital is an Africa-focused investment firm that addresses critical gaps for Africa’s growing businesses and connects them to a global network of impact investors.

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Investment focus

  • 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
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CRE Venture Capital
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 4 investments in Africa Mobile Apps startups

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

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 60
  • Round size: Seed $300k–$5M; Pre-Seed $250k–$3.3M; Series A $1.1M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow

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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Launch Africa
VC Fund · Ebène, Plaines Wilhems, Mauritius · 4 investments in Africa Mobile Apps startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 178
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$4M; Pre-Seed $200k–$1.8M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $36M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Yamify — Yamify is an AI platform where intelligent agents reliably run mission-critical business workflows in Africa. Founded by Silicon Valley engineers, our platform automates complex operations by integrating humans, systems, and infrastructure reliably, even under connectivity, latency, and compliance challenges. Starting with on-prem deployments,Yamify is evolving into a full AI automation infrastructure for African enterprises.
  • Shopstar — A place for makers and creators to start, manage and grow successful online stores. Our built-in design, payment and shipping methods provide you with an all in one solution. Get started with a free 14-day trial.
  • Kashat — The region's first nano financial service provider, offering small productive loans, and serving as the entry point to financial inclusion for the un- and underbanked population in Egypt.
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HAVAÍC
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 4 investments in Africa Mobile Apps startups

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

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Africa, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 47
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$4M; Series A $1.9M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 64% lead, 36% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • 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
  • 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.
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Kalon Venture Partners
VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 3 investments in Africa Mobile Apps startups

A growing number of South Africans are investing in venture capital companies that operate under Section 12J of the Income Tax Act. Contact us now.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Apps, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Africa, Luxembourg, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Seed $570k–$4.6M; Series A $2M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 63% lead, 37% 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 — Enhance factory efficiency with visionAI by using existing cameras to uncover inefficiencies and eliminate your production blindspots. Book a demo now!
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Verdant Capital
VC Fund · Port Louis, Port Louis, Mauritius · 3 investments in Africa Mobile Apps startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Debt Financing $2M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

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.
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IDF Capital SA
VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 3 investments in Africa Mobile Apps startups

IDF Capital is an established financier, investing in high growth SMEs/Entrepreneurial businesses. We invest with a gender lens strategy

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Automotive, Mobile Apps
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • SweepSouth — Book a home cleaning online from your mobile, tablet or computer. SweepSouth connects you with a cleaner in minutes. Cleaners are experienced, reliable, efficient and insured.
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Lateral Frontiers
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 3 investments in Africa Mobile Apps startups

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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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 42
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$12M; Pre-Seed $500k–$3.5M; Series A $558k–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $50M in 2020

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 is a real-time monitoring solution that provides a breakdown of energy spending to identify wasteful trends.
  • Octavia Carbon — Reversing Climate Change | Ending the Fossil Fuel Age | In Kenya.
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Idris Ayodeji Bello
Angel · 2 investments in Africa Mobile Apps startups

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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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 35
  • Round size: Seed $700k–$5.1M; Pre-Seed $100k–$1.1M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Bypa-ss — Bypa-ss is working on creating a world-class SaaS healthcare environment and revolutionizing healthcare in Egypt, Join Us
  • Simulon — Studio-quality VFX on a mobile. Sign up to the Simulon beta.
  • ORDA — Process orders, accept payments, connect to logistic providers, engage with your customers + more. We equip you with everything you need to grow your business.
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Cadenza Ventures
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Africa Mobile Apps startups

Global Investors in Transformative Technologies

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 66
  • Round size: Seed $1.6M–$6M; Pre-Seed $1M–$4.3M; Series A $3.5M–$28M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Oh — Oh is the decentralized and uncensored AI products can offer a range of benefits, such as enhancing privacy, encouraging innovation, and promoting freedom of information.
  • Miru — Miru is a cybersecurity company that provides AI tools to perform cybersecurity, trust and safety, and national security investigations.
  • 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.
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Resilience17
VC Fund · 2 investments in Africa Mobile Apps startups

Resilience17 is an Investment firm.

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Picus Capital
VC Fund · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 2 investments in Africa Mobile Apps startups

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

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 353
  • Round size: Seed $1.6M–$12M; Pre-Seed $500k–$4.4M; Series A $3.7M–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $140M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Nefta — One platform to build, launch and operate web3 games
  • Everstores — Everstores makes use of your store data to speed up the sales process and give you a reasonable and transparent offer.
  • Spot My Energy — The uptake of PV, EVs, home storage, and heat pumps leads to a gigantic need for digital and intelligent metering and for the integration of millions of...
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GreenHouse Capital
VC Fund · Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria · 2 investments in Africa Mobile Apps startups

GreenHouse Capital’s Founding Partners took their own fintech company Venture Garden Group (VGG) from a 7 employee, ₦30 million revenue startup to a 200 employees, ₦2 billion power house in just 4 years and raised an attention grabbing Series A round from Convergence Partners of South Africa. The uniqueness of their position was not lost on thefounders who then cultivated Garden Institute of Business Entrepreneurs (GIBE) to identify, incubate, and invest in young and innovative tech startups solving global challenges in Emerging Markets. GIBE was created to build a world class talent management hub for young and passionate entrepreneurs while creating a pool of technology inclined businesses and innovation oriented leaders.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, United States

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Credpal — Buy now, pay later. Split in 6.
  • Encore Pay — Encore Pay is a UAE-based FinTech and Payment solutions provider.
  • MarketForce — MarketForce connects Africa’s informal retail outlets and consumers directly to suppliers of consumer goods and financial services by digitizing orders, delivery, and payments with the aim of solving the last mile distribution challenge.
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Konvoy
VC Fund · Denver, Colorado, United States · 2 investments in Africa Mobile Apps startups

Konvoy Ventures is a thesis driven venture capital firm. We invest in the platforms and technologies at the frontier of gaming.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, Video Games, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Sweden

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 61
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$8.3M; Pre-Seed $1.5M–$4.5M; Series A $4M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 57% lead, 43% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $150M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • GoSats — Earn bitcoin rewards when you shop online at your favourite brands in India.
  • Seasats — Seasats autonomous ocean vehicles provide remote monitoring and data collection for defense and commercial customers at a fraction of the cost, logistics, and risk compared to traditional methods.
  • Lux Aeterna — Lux Aeterna is a space infrastructure company that focuses on orbital activities through reentry and reusability.
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Perivoli Innovations
VC Fund · St. Helier, NA - Jersey, Jersey · 2 investments in Africa Mobile Apps startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Good Soil VC
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in Africa Mobile Apps startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
  • STEELO STYLE LTD — Join The Steelo Community
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ODBA
VC Fund · Port Louis, Port Louis, Mauritius · 2 investments in Africa Mobile Apps startups

We invest in people and stories, which are at the heart of everything we do.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 22
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$2M; Pre-Seed $43k–$3.5M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow

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.
  • GetFundedAfrica — GetFundedAfrica's mission is to help Africa’s most promising startups find funding, grow & solve society’s greatest challenges. We do this through a media portal - GetFundedAfrica News; a learning portal - REMSANA; and an investment arm - GFA Ventures
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Bose Ventures
VC Fund · Framingham, Massachusetts, United States · 2 investments in Africa Mobile Apps startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Music, Mobile
  • Stage:Series B, Series A
  • Geography: United States, India, Denmark

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 22
  • Round size: Series A $1.5M–$10M; Series B $2M–$80M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% 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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Ground Squirrel Ventures
VC Fund · Boston, Massachusetts, United States · 2 investments in Africa Mobile Apps startups

Seed round investment in frontier markets and clean energy

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Kenya, Zambia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 70
  • Round size: Seed $400k–$3M; Series A $1.8M–$5M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% 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.
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TTV Capital
VC Fund · Atlanta, Georgia, United States · 2 investments in Africa Mobile Apps startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 178
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$10M; Series A $5M–$28M; Series B $5M–$45M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $250M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • PTO Exchange — PTO Exchange is the first benefits platform that allows employees to self-direct the value of their unused paid time off (PTO) for other needs and causes.
  • 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.
  • Exactuals — Optimizing the payments of residuals, royalties and other complex payments. Exactuals' suite of products optimizes metadata, calculates and processes payments ensuring money gets sent quickly and accurately.
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Sherpa Africa Partners
VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya · 2 investments in Africa Mobile Apps startups

A venture fund for pre-seed startups in Africa, led by Startup Operators, backed by Startup Operators.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Round size: Seed $300k–$6M; Pre-Seed $50k–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Novek — Novek builds IOT technology to completely eliminate single use plastic from FMCG Supply chains.
  • CashBackApp — An App that offers you Cash Discounts on a wide range of household essentials available at local supermarkets in Kenya.
  • Jackfruit Finance — Fast, flexible school financing in Kenya. Get working capital, projects, and asset loans designed around school fee cycles and growth needs.
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Ayre Group
VC Fund · St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada · 2 investments in Africa Mobile Apps startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Chandaria Capital
VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya · 2 investments in Africa Mobile Apps startups

KOITOTO merupakan akses login situs toto togel 4D resmi dan link slot gacor terpercaya menyediakan akses super cepat serta permainan terlengkap dengan tingkat kemenangan tinggi setiap hari.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, E-Commerce, Retail
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, United States, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 35
  • Round size: Seed $250k–$6M; Pre-Seed $1M–$3M; Series A $2M–$37M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Savannah Brands — Savannah Brands is a food & beverage company.
  • UTU Technologies — Trust infrastructure for the sharing economy.
  • African Originals — African Originals food and beverage company that offers authentic African craft beverages using traditional reciepies.
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Antler
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 2 investments in Africa Mobile Apps startups

Build your next company with Antler, a global day zero investor enabling exceptional founders to start great companies, from the very beginning. Apply now!

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Singapore, Australia, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1818
  • Round size: Seed $186k–$4.6M; Pre-Seed $108k–$750k; Series A $4.6M–$28M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $72M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Sapyen — We take the fear out of infertility for men. Test for it at home, without stepping out to the hospital and get personalised health recommendations to improve sperm health and increase your chances of conceiving.
  • Visoid — Render your 3D models with ease! Quick and easy rendering software for architects, powered by AI. Try Visoid for free!
  • One Key Access — One Key Access is an interface to the world of couriers to enable 24/7 frictionless deliveries.
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F6 Ventures
VC Fund · Gîza, Al Jizah, Egypt · 2 investments in Africa Mobile Apps startups

F6 Ventures is a leading seed stage venture capital firm operating across emerging markets. We back exceptional founders from idea-stage all the way to Series A, combining early capital with strategic support and a commitment to long-term partnership. With deep ties across the Middle East, Africa, and beyond, we empower innovative startups to scalewith purpose and impact. We manage over $90M in AUM across more than 300 investments in seven countries. By investing early in Pre-Seed to Pre-Series A rounds, we help founders cover initial costs, develop their product, and take it to market. This early capital acts as a launchpad, enabling startups to hit key milestones like securing first customers, attracting follow-on funding, and making significant strides forward.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 268
  • Round size: Seed $14k–$1.3M; Pre-Seed $45k–$550k
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Lum!ere — Lum!ere is a designer and manufacturer of radical style brass, sterling silver, and gold plated jewelry.
  • ElSupplier.com — ElSupplier.com provides consumer goods. That product includes dairy products, olive oil, vinegar, and cheese. They allow consumers to directly buy goods or services from a seller over the internet using a web browser or a mobile app. Their products serve consumers.
  • The Baby Garage — The Baby Garage is a marketplace for kids products and services in e-commerce and consumer-to-consumer platforms. The platform offers parents a shopping marketplace that allows users to buy, sell, and donate. They provide products and services such as baby transport, nursing, feeding, bathing, skin care products, diapering, toys and activities,fashion, a baby room, and stationery.
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Riot Games
VC Fund · Los Angeles, California, United States · 2 investments in Africa Mobile Apps startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, Video Games, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Germany, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 28
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$12M; Series A $6M–$55M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Curse — The entertainment site where fans come first. Your daily source for all things TV, movies, and games, including Star Wars, Fallout, Marvel, DC and more.
  • 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.
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AlphaCode Club
VC Fund · Gauteng, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 2 investments in Africa Mobile Apps startups

We are an African venture capital fund, for world-class African entrepreneurs run by seasoned African investors.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Stage:Grant, Seed
  • Geography: South Africa, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 30
  • Round size: Seed $57k–$7.2M; Grant $26k–$114k
  • Lead/follow: 63% lead, 37% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Planet42 — Having your own car has never been easier. Planet42 is a vehicle rental company offering rent-to-buy car service for private clients.
  • AgrigateOne — AgrigateOne is an online platform that enables openness between growers and buyers and gets data about agriculture and marine logistics.
  • Naked Insurance — The new way to cover your stuff: savings & convenience through AI. Naked Insurance offers online insurance for car, home and contents. Get a quote in 90 seconds!
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Kua Ventures
VC Fund · Westlands, Nairobi Area, Kenya · 2 investments in Africa Mobile Apps startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Raine Ventures
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Africa Mobile Apps startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, Mobile, Software
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 90
  • Round size: Seed $2.3M–$7M; Series A $5M–$20M; 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

  • Whip Media — Discover how Whip Media is revolutionizing the business of content with AI-native solutions for smarter licensing.
  • 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.
  • Willow Wealth — Willow Wealth is an alternative investment platform focused on generating income streams for investors. Get exclusive access to private market investments.
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Blockwall
VC Fund · Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany · 1 investments in Africa Mobile Apps startups

Thesis-driven, industry-focused and independent blockchain investment firm funding the development of Web 3.0 and decentralized technologies from the heart of Europe, Frankfurt - Germany

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Software, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Germany, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 31
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Spiko — Spiko is a tokenization platform that offers to be the supplier of tokenized Money Market Funds.
  • Spherity — Streamline your business processes with our automated solution solution. Meet regulatory and other business requirements in a secure way using SSI technology.
  • Validation Cloud — Validation Cloud is a Web3 data streaming and infrastructure company that connects organizations into Web3 through a fast, scalable, and intelligent platform. Headquartered in Zug, Switzerland, Validation Cloud offers highly performant and customizable products in staking, node, and data-as-a-service. Its team brings extensive experience acrossWeb2 and Web3 from the likes of Coinbase, Kraken, Workday, Accenture, Crypto.com, Voyager, and more. Learn more at Validationcloud.io
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Sky Mavis
VC Fund · Ho Chi Minh City, NA - Vietnam, Vietnam · 1 investments in Africa Mobile Apps startups

Blockchain: Gamified - Games with real, player-owned economies will become places where we live, work, and play - True digital nations

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, Web3, Blockchain
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Portugal

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Moku — Worshipping a mischievous Moki with big balls and a small brain. 8887 NFTs, 900+ traits, 3 epic games.
  • Puffverse — A dreamland full of Puffs on Web 3, providing comprehensive products in the ecosystem.
  • Pixion Games — Pixion Games is a studio focused on building competitive esports games for mobile device.
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Karim Beguir
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Africa Mobile Apps startups

Co-Founder & CEO of InstaDeep and Google Developer Expert in Machine Learning, Karim helps companies get a grip on the latest AI advances and deploy them in practice. A graduate of France’s Ecole Polytechnique and former Program Fellow at NYU’s Courant Institute, Karim has a passion for teaching and using applied mathematics. This encouragedhim to launch InstaDeep, nominated at MWC17 in the top 20 global startup list by PCMAG. He is on a mission to democratize AI and make it accessible to a wider audience.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Energy
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Tunisia, France, United Kingdom

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Uptale — Uptale provides an enterprise solution that enhances employee learning through immersive experiences in 360° and virtual reality. The platform allows organizations to create, share, and analyze training modules without requiring technical expertise.
  • Wattnow — Wattnow is a real-time monitoring solution that provides a breakdown of energy spending to identify wasteful trends.
  • AlphaLoops — The future of Investors Relations or Investors Relations reinvented
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Abdo Achkar
Angel · Stanford, California, United States · 1 investments in Africa Mobile Apps startups

Abdo Achkar is the Founder & CEO at Sowlutions.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Marketplace, Software
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Lebanon, Japan

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • GoBEBA — GoBEBA is an on-demand e-commerce logistics platform operating in emerging Africa markets. We bring together local merchants, consumers and logistics service providers to enable efficient discovery and ordering of frequently purchased products and services in one platform. This combination delivers an asset-light convenient, multi-categoryon-demand ordering service for everyday essentials. We do this by aggregating demand for merchants through a curated digital marketplace which connects merchants directly to consumers and logistics service providers in an on-demand basis . GoBeba is an ‘everything’ app’ for a wide range of services including grocery shopping, food delivery, cargo, and many other on-demand services.
  • uPaint — Discover uPaint, premium paint by numbers kits for all ages. We craft all components in-house, ensuring top quality. Customize any image to create your own masterpiece. It's the perfect, thoughtful gift idea that's stress-free and easy for everyone. Experience a relaxing and joyful activity with stunning results.
  • Ur My Type — Ur My Type is an app that uses personality types to make dating and finding friends online more meaningful.
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Harambeans
VC Fund · 1 investments in Africa Mobile Apps startups

Harambeans are African innovators who have pledged to “work together as one” to build Africa’s future. Over the last decade, Harambeans has spawned a series of tech-enabled ventures such as Andela, Flutterwave, and Yoco, which have collectively generated over 3000 jobs, and raised over $700m from Google Ventures, CRE Ventures and Accel.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Supply Chain Management, Transportation, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Releaf Earth — We are industrializing food processing in Africa. We've led 1000+ smallholder farmers to provide food factories with >7.5 million kilograms of quality crops.
  • MarketForce — MarketForce connects Africa’s informal retail outlets and consumers directly to suppliers of consumer goods and financial services by digitizing orders, delivery, and payments with the aim of solving the last mile distribution challenge.
  • SHYFT Power Solutions — SHYFT builds industrial-grade IoT and integrated software to connect and intelligently manage distributed energy resources (DERs) in markets that struggle with resiliency. SHYFT is pioneering the development of integrated decentralized power systems in emerging markets like Nigeria, leapfrogging over traditional central infrastructure and enablingDERs to scale and support existing but unreliable grids.
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Omidyar Network
VC Fund · Redwood City, California, United States · 1 investments in Africa Mobile Apps startups

Omidyar Network is a philanthropy whose mission is to bend the arc of the digital revolution toward shared power, prosperity, and possibility.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Education
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: United States, India, Brazil

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 227
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Qoala — Asuransi online yang siap melindungi kamu dan orang tersayang, di mana aja, kapan aja. Premi murah, proses klaim mudah, dan 100% digital!
  • Anthropic — An AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
  • RailYatri — Indian Railways Train Enquiry, Insights & IRCTC eTicket booking - RailYatri
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Ashley Thompson- MacCarthy
Angel · 1 investments in Africa Mobile Apps startups

Ashley Thompson-MacCarthy is the CEO at Obsidian Achernar. Ashley Thompson-MacCarthy attended Middlesex University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile, Retail, FinTech
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: Ghana

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • 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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E2 Ventures
VC Fund · 1 investments in Africa Mobile Apps startups

E2 Ventures is an investment firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile Apps, Automotive, Telecommunications
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: South Africa, The Netherlands

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • Talk360 — Talk360 is an easy-to-use calling app that helps people make affordable international calls to any mobile and landline number. They believe that reliable communication and digital services must be affordable and accessible to everyone, regardless of someone's background. Especially people in emerging countries in Africa, who often need theseservices the most, do not always have the necessary banking possibilities. To bridge this distance, Talk360 will launch the world's first single checkout platform for Africa. This platform will combine all locally available payment methods and currencies across Africa, together with over 1.25 million cash points of sales, and will eventually be available to other companies as well. This means that 500 million Africans will be able to purchase digital services they never had access to before.
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VentureSouq
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 1 investments in Africa Mobile Apps startups, 8 in the past 12 months

VentureSouq (VSQ) is a MENA-based venture capital fund manager with a global portfolio. VSQ manages thematic funds, with a current focus on FinTech and ClimateTech.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 160
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Erad — erad provides growth capital to online businesses. Connect your analytics and receive funding offers, for non-dilutive capital within 48 hours
  • Mala Inc. — This is meta description
  • SILQ — SILQ is a platform dedicated to bridging economies and empowering businesses to trade, grow, and navigate new frontiers. By enabling seamless commerce, logistics, and finance, SILQ unlocks opportunities in emerging economies, fueling ambitions and redefining global trade.The name SILQ is a modern tribute to the legendary Silk Road—reimagined forthe digital age. The distinctive “Q” comes from Souq, the Arabic word for marketplace, symbolizing our commitment to fast, accessible, authentic, and reliable commerce.SILQ aspires to transform local products and manufacturers into global brands by connecting them with entrepreneurs in emerging markets across the Gulf, South Asia, and beyond.
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GIIG Africa Fund
VC Fund · Port Louis, Port Louis, Mauritius · 1 investments in Africa Mobile Apps startups

GIIG invest in seed, growth and late stage companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Environmental Engineering, Health Care, Ride Sharing
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • BioBuu — BioBuu focuses on the development of manufacturing capacity and environmentally sustainable production.
  • Treepz — Treepz Inc. (formerly Plentywaka) is building the largest shared mobility platform in West Africa with over 500,000 satisfied customers.
  • EnvisionIt Deep AI — Envisionit Deep AI is an innovative medical technology company that utilizes AI to streamline and improve medical imaging diagnosis for radiologists.
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Jump Capital
VC Fund · Chicago, Illinois, United States · 1 investments in Africa Mobile Apps startups

Jump Capital is a founder-focused, low-ego early-stage venture firm investing in Fintech, application software, and infrastructure. We’re currently investing out of our $350M seventh fund.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Software, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 207
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Busha — Buy, Sell, Trade your BTC, ETH, USDT, Tron to NGN on Busha the simplest, safest, and most trusted platform to manage your cryptocurrency portfolio.
  • AcreTrader — AcreTrader is the farmland real estate investment company offering low minimum, passive farm investments. Invest in minutes and we will handle all of the details from farm management to paperwork and payments. Create your free account to start diversifying your portfolio today.
  • The Small Exchange — The Small Exchange is making futures markets more accessible to more people. Our innovative futures products are small, standard, and simple.
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Maijid Moujaled
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Africa Mobile Apps startups

Maijid Moujaled is a co-founder and president at Chipper Cash.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Gaming, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Nigeria, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Caliza — Give your users access to the digital dollar economy. Get early access!
  • Rivy — Access flexible financing for solar energy projects with Rivy. Power homes, businesses, and communities with clean, affordable energy.
  • Carry1st — Carry1st develops and publishes enriching mobile games and content apps for African consumers.
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Al Mada Ventures
VC Fund · 1 investments in Africa Mobile Apps startups

Al Mada Ventures is an investment firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Wellness, Health Care, Health Insurance
  • Geography: France

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • inyad — We're on a mission to move the Offline Business to the Online World in Africa & the Middle East
  • YoLa Fresh — At YoLaFresh, our mission is to revolutionize the fresh produce supply chain in Africa by leveraging technology and data to disrupt traditional distribution models. We strive to create a more efficient and transparent system that benefits all stakeholders, from farmers to retailers and consumers. Our vision is to create a world where access tofresh, high-quality produce is a universal right. We believe that by empowering farmers and retailers with innovative technology solutions, we will improve their livelihoods and make a positive impact on their communities.
  • Userguest.com — Userguest is a Travel SaaS company that provides technology to hotels in order to improve their online revenue. Our smart tool applies RevMarketing Automation to hotel website, by matching a user’s booking intent with the hotel’s inventory priorities. We display personalized incentives to boost hotel revenue where it counts.
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AngelHub Ventures
VC Fund · Stellenbosch, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in Africa Mobile Apps startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Syscap — Syscap is a financial technology company that offers cutting-edge solutions to financial institutions to have a better administration and management of their funding sources. It connects the leaders of financial and real estate institutions with their funders. For institutions, the company ensures the optimization of their funding source managementprocesses, but also the strengthening of the relationship with their funders. To funders, Syscap guarantees the transparency and timely monitoring of its funds for the safety and growth of its resources.
  • Godochurch — GoDoChurch is a cloud-based church administration software which is designed to assist Christian churches and ministries with managing members, Sunday services, events, communications, and more. The system is made up of a base package, covering messaging, news, ministries, lists, church roles, services, events, and growth paths, with additionalmodules for managing follow-ups, groups, and Kids church.
  • Velocity — Velocity is a micro fulfillment dark store that delivers through digital channels.
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Unpopular Ventures
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Africa Mobile Apps startups, 18 in the past 12 months

The best companies, off the beaten path.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 164
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Bujeti — Corporate Credit Cards, Spend Management software built for your African realities. It empowers your people to do more. It combines virtual, smart physical credit cards, payments and expenses into one experience powered by Visa Cards, dedicated NUBANs, Mobile Wallets and Faster Payments.
  • Khyaal — Khyaal is a full-stack digital solution for senior citizens designed and developed to improve their quality of life. We facilitate on-demand services and organise fun and engaging activities for seniors. Being a part of the Khyaal family means making a difference in the world by enriching the lives of the elderly. If selflessness and empathy is atrait that you carry and would want to put at work, then you will find Khyaal as the perfect place to invest your valuable time.At Khyaal, we value your individuality and the skills that you bring to the table. We also believe in the power of collective consciousness to serve others and make their lives easier and wholesome. We want all members of the Khyaal family to feel respected personally and professionally. Our working environment will always make way for new ideas, ownership and collective growth.
  • Pippin Title — Learn about how Pippin Title's technology and nationwide network of title searchers provides a seamless title report ordering process. Contact us today.
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Family & Friends
Angel · 1 investments in Africa Mobile Apps startups

Family & Friends

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile Apps, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: United States, The Netherlands, Egypt

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • thrie — Transportation
  • Alphunt — Login to LinkedIn to keep in touch with people you know, share ideas, and build your career.
  • Bite - build your social circle — Bite is a social app focused on creating and facilitating hangouts. So you can build or maintain your social circle
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Brian Corrigan
Angel · Saratoga Springs, New York, United States · 1 investments in Africa Mobile Apps startups

Brian Corrigan is the VP and Head of Americas at PUBG Corporation. He attended Clarkson University and the University at Albany, SUNY. (This website is horribly out of date, probably best to hit my website or LinkedIn)

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, Internet, SaaS
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Estonia, South Africa

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Powerspike — Powerspike is a new type of advertising network based on content creators - where any marketer can make their brand famous in a few clicks. Our Endorsement Serving technology automatically buys, executes, and optimizes content creator endorsements - replacing the traditionally lengthy process of RFP’s, human negotiations, and insertion orders.
  • Ready Player Me — The Ready Player Me platform leverages AI, ML , and a suite of developer-first tools to empower developers to integrate avatars into their games and apps to launch faster, improve user adoption, and grow revenue through asset monetization.
  • Carry1st — Carry1st develops and publishes enriching mobile games and content apps for African consumers.
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Knife Capital
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in Africa Mobile Apps startups

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 26
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Octiv — Turbocharge your fitness business, grow your community and build your brand with Octiv's leading Gym Management Software.
  • Outsized — Independent talent for enterprise clients and consulting firms in Asia-Pacific, Africa, and the Middle East.
  • Simera Sense — Simera Sense develops camera control electronics for optical payload and Cubesat imager solutions.
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