Top 50 Mobile Apps Startup Investors in South Africa (September 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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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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Launch Africa
VC Fund
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3 | Nigeria, South Africa, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology | $200k–$4M |
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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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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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Musha Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Nigeria, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Financial Services, FinTech | $100k–$10M |
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CRE Venture Capital
VC Fund
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2 | Nigeria, South Africa, United States | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, Software, FinTech | $250k–$21M |
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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 | $1.4M–$26M |
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Lateral Frontiers
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Nigeria, Kenya | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | FinTech, Financial Services, Energy | $500k–$15M |
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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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Chandaria Capital
VC Fund
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2 | Kenya, Nigeria, United States | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, Financial Services, FinTech | $200k–$37M |
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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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AlphaCode Venture Partners
VC Fund
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2 | South Africa, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates | Grant, Seed, Series B | Financial Services, FinTech, Finance | $30k–$17M |
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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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Bose Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United States, India, Denmark | Venture - Series Unknown, Series B, Series A | Software, Mobile, Hardware | $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 | $2.3M–$62M |
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Konvoy
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Canada, Sweden | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Gaming, Video Games, Software | $1M–$25M |
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I’M IN
VC Fund
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2 | South Africa | Seed, Pre-Seed | Mobile Apps, Apps, Big Data | $40k–$120k |
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Fireball Capital
VC Fund
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2 | South Africa, Australia, Nigeria | Series A, Venture - Series Unknown, Seed | Software, Information Technology, Mobile Apps | $473k–$40M |
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HAVAÍC
VC Fund
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2 | South Africa, United States, Kenya | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A | Software, Health Care, FinTech | $83k–$15M |
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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 | $363k–$8.7M |
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Wuri Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Kenya, Ghana | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | $500k–$30M |
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Sphere Holdings
VC Fund
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1 | South Africa | Series A, Private Equity | Software, Web Apps, Education | |
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Yield Guild Games
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Singapore, Australia | Seed, Initial Coin Offering, Series A | Gaming, Blockchain, Web3 | $2M–$20M |
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Maijid Moujaled
Angel
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1 | Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | FinTech, Financial Services, Gaming | $3M–$5.3M |
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P1 Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Egypt, Kenya, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B | Financial Services, Software, Payments | $400k–$40M |
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NuState Capital
VC Fund
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1 | South Africa | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A | Education, Software, SaaS | |
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Brian Corrigan
Angel
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1 | United States, Estonia, South Africa | Series A, Seed, Angel | Gaming, Internet, SaaS | $13M–$20M |
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Omidyar Network
VC Fund
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1 | United States, India, Brazil | Series A, Seed, Series B | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | $738k–$35M |
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AngelHub Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | South Africa, Mexico, Colombia | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Education | $300k–$2.3M |
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Vumela Fund
VC Fund
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1 | South Africa, Brazil | Seed, Debt Financing | Education, Software, E-Commerce | $600k–$1.4M |
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Two Hop Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | The Netherlands, United States, Spain | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Blockchain, Bitcoin | $114k–$2.2M |
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Harambeans
VC Fund
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1 | Nigeria, Kenya, Morocco | Seed, Angel, Grant | Information Technology, B2B, FinTech | $100k–$3.1M |
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Sky Mavis
VC Fund
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, Canada | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Gaming, Blockchain, Web3 | $500k–$5.4M |
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Smollan
VC Fund
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1 | South Africa | Series A, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Apps, SaaS, Mobile | |
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Google
VC Fund
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1 | United States, India, United Kingdom | Grant, Seed | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $50k–$9.3M |
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TotalEnergies Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, France, United Kingdom | Series B, Series C | Energy, Renewable Energy, Transportation | $5M–$175M |
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Andreessen Horowitz
VC Fund
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, Brazil | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $1.6M–$112M |
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Justin Stanford
Angel
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1 | South Africa | Seed, Angel, Series A | FinTech, Security, Financial Services | $3.5M–$6.4M |
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Calvin Ayre
Angel
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, Canada | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A | Blockchain, Information Technology, Bitcoin | $363k–$4.4M |
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Virgin Group
VC Fund
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, Germany | Series A, Series B, Series C | Software, Health Care, FinTech | $3M–$92M |
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Avenir
VC Fund
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1 | United States, India, France | Series C, Series B, Series A | Software, E-Commerce, FinTech | $18M–$200M |
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Knife Capital
VC Fund
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1 | South Africa, United States, United Kingdom | Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Information Technology, Education | $1M–$15M |
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4DX Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Egypt, South Africa, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | FinTech, Financial Services, Logistics | $50k–$40M |
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Ingressive Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Nigeria, United States, Egypt | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology | $25k–$15M |
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Industrial Development Corporation
VC Fund
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1 | South Africa, Australia, Luxembourg | Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Series A | Renewable Energy, Mining, Mobile | $6M–$509M |
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CIG Spectrum Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Germany, Singapore | Seed, Series A, Series B | Agriculture, Cyber Security, Financial Services | $2.3M–$75M |
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Investment One
VC Fund
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1 | Nigeria, South Africa | Series A, Debt Financing | FinTech, Payments, Logistics | |
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Conservation International Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Chile, Egypt | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed | Aquaculture, Farming, Software | $250k–$19M |
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E2 Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | South Africa, The Netherlands | Seed | Mobile Apps, Automotive, Telecommunications | |
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AET Fund
VC Fund
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1 | India, United States, Japan | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Internet, E-Commerce, Gaming | $700k–$10M |
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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.
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 — Zazu 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 — Udu Technologies is an AI infrastructure company that offers GPU systems, AI platform integration, and technical support services.
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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- 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.
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–$25M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% 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.
Seed capital for technology startups globally.
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 213
- 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.
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: 64
- Round size: Seed $250k–$5M; Pre-Seed $250k–$3.3M; Series A $1.1M–$21M
- Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% 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.
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: 31
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$4.3M; Series A $1.4M–$12M; Series B $2.8M–$26M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% 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 measures land at scale to help businesses monitor risk, build resilience and prove progress through trusted digital soil data.
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: 53
- Round size: Seed $1M–$6M; Pre-Seed $500k–$3.5M; Series A $558k–$15M
- Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% 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.
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.
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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: 51
- 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.
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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.
We are an African venture capital fund, for world-class African entrepreneurs run by seasoned African investors.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Stage:Grant, Seed, Series B
- Geography: South Africa, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 43
- Round size: Seed $77k–$7.2M; Grant $30k–$130k; Series B $2.3M–$17M
- Lead/follow: 58% lead, 42% 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 — Shining a light on every stage of the fresh produce supply chain, ensuring transparency for growers & buyers. Agritech | Software | Technology
- Moment — Africa is entering a transformative period of economic and technological growth driven by rapid digital adoption, expanding mobile connectivity, and a young, increasingly connected population. With approximately 1.5 billion people and one of the world’s fastest-growing youth demographics, the continent is experiencing a significant shift towardelectronic payments, mobile-first services, and broader digital transformation.Although widespread internet access and traditional banking infrastructure developed later in many African markets compared to other regions, this delayed adoption has accelerated innovation in mobile technology and financial services. Mobile money platforms, digital banking solutions, fintech ecosystems, and e-commerce adoption are reshaping how consumers and businesses interact across the continent.This youth-driven wave of innovation is creating substantial opportunities in sectors such as fintech, telecommunications, logistics, e-commerce, renewable energy, education technology, and digital services. Both global corporations and emerging local enterprises are actively investing in Africa’s rapidly evolving digital economy, competing to unlock new markets and address underserved populations.The continent’s ongoing transformation is expected to play a major role in global economic growth over the next two decades, positioning Africa as a significant center for innovation, entrepreneurship, and digital commerce.
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: 186
- 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
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Quantizr — Quantizr develops an AI-powered business management and financial intelligence platform for the live entertainment industry. The platform centralizes contracts, deal memos, budgets, settlements, expenses, and tour performance data, converting documents into structured data for analysis and decision-making. Its features include AI-powered documentparsing, tour budgeting, show forecasting, performance analytics, real-time settlement management, commission tracking, contract generation, and client reporting. Quantizr serves artist managers, booking agents, business managers, and tour teams, helping them manage touring operations, forecast profitability, and collaborate across teams.
- Cashboard — Cashboard facilitates collaboration between finance departments and internal executives. Founded in 2021 and is based in New York, New York.
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, Mobile, Hardware
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Series B, Series A
- Geography: United States, India, Denmark
Investor stats
- Total investments: 23
- Round size: Series A $1.5M–$10M; Series B $2M–$55M; Venture - Series Unknown $27k–$18M
- Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% 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.
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 $2.3M–$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.
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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- Industry: Gaming, Video Games, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Canada, Sweden
Investor stats
- Total investments: 66
- Round size: Seed $1M–$8.3M; Pre-Seed $1.5M–$4.5M; Series A $4M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 58% lead, 42% 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.
- Lux Aeterna — New Album Echoes From Silence out September 2013
- Magic Potion Games — Magic Potion Games is a computer gaming company that offers an online space for social gaming.
I’M IN is a pre-investment readiness program that believes in making a sustainable impact on the entrepreneurial ecosystem. It helps tech startups access seed investment and achieve business sustainability by providing an effective eco-system which offers business and technical support. I’M IN is an IDF Capital initiative that gives start-upentrepreneurs an opportunity to present their innovative ideas to a group of high-net-worth investors. Entrepreneurs with an exceptional business concept, who have an early stage market-viable product or service, are invited to apply to participate in the program.
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- Industry: Mobile Apps, Apps, Big Data
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $40k–$120k
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Jobox — Jobox is a student recruitment platform, built to connect employers, students and graduate career offices. Our focus is to improve graduate employability by ensuring all students have the skills they need to enter, stay in, and progress in the world of work.Jobox’s ecosystem provides employers with access to the best diverse & youthfultalent, students with more employment opportunities and universities with data-driven insights aimed at driving graduate employability forward.
- Droppa — Droppa is a delivery hub that makes it easier and safer to transport your parcels, goods and furniture using our mobile app and website.
- 3DIMO — 3DIMO provides solutions to monitor the health and pattern of animal movements to detect abnormalities.
Fireball Capital operates as a venture capital firm.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Mobile Apps
- Stage:Series A, Venture - Series Unknown, Seed
- Geography: South Africa, Australia, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 19
- Round size: Seed $473k–$1M; Series A $5.7M–$40M; Venture - Series Unknown $500k–$4M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Plentify — Plentify connects home appliances with cheaper cleaner energy. It does this with an intelligent residential load management platform which matches demand with clean energy supply for 75% cheaper than batteries. Plentify combines advanced hardware, AI, and user-centric design to create smart home products that delight customers while alsostrengthening electricity systems.
- Immobazyme — Immobazyme provides pioneering the biotechnology industry. Using innovative technologies, along with an environmentally responsible outlook.the company aims to develop an analytical laboratory platform as well as serve the industrial sector through the production of high-value products by organic synthesis and environmental remediationtechnologies.
- Contactable — Digital Identity Orchestration platform - used extensively by corporates across all sectors for digital onboarding, e-KYC, Self-RICA and identity proofing.
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
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: 28
- Round size: Seed $363k–$8.7M
- Lead/follow: 61% lead, 39% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Libraro — Libraro operates on blockchain technology to modernise the book publishing sector.
- Gate2Chain — Research lab phase in data integrity and tokenization completed.
- Rad — Stream thousands of shows free, publish your own videos and earn with memberships and tips, and play your own files on mobile, TV, console and VR.
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Browse database — It's Free!Wuri Ventures focuses on innovating the spectrum between market-based solutions and pure public goods. It realizes that much successful innovation in Africa has occurred in this space, where innovation around market failures such as information asymmetry (data), fragmentation (platforms) and public goods (electricity, mobility) can solve previouslyintractable problems. Its unique mathematical properties, from cellular automata and emergence to numerical methods, studied by researchers, links ancient African culture to modern technology. It supports world-class entrepreneurs in solving Africa’s biggest challenges using innovation.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Kenya, Ghana
Investor stats
- Total investments: 19
- Round size: Seed $634k–$13M; Pre-Seed $500k–$1M; Series A $15M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Kwely — Kwely is a dynamic and fast-growing startup. We are always looking for passionate, dynamic, fun and hard-working individuals to join our team.
- Cauri Money — Collect funds locally in EUR and GBP and settle in hard currency via SWIFT. Infrastructure designed for banks in emerging markets.
- Fig Finance — We're closing the credit gap. We connect global and local lenders, with the strongest emerging market businesses.
Founded in 2003, Sphere is a high performing investment holding company driven to create value for funders, shareholders and business partners. With a solid track record shaped over a decade, They actively seek out investment partnerships with high quality privately owned businesses across a range of strategic sectors.Their success is drivenby an experienced team, Their own capital, a disciplined investment process, and broad business networks. Passionate about partnerships, They commit for the long term and actively work with Their portfolio companies to build great businesses.Majority black controlled and managed and boasting 71% black ownership, including 31% women ownership, Sphere has the necessary credentials to advance the broad based Black Economic Empowerment goals of South African businesses. As the focus turns to the rest of the continent, They actively support Their investments in their pan-African ambitions.Their strong belief in the principles of broad based empowerment means that approximately 15% of the shares in Sphere are held by charitable organisations. Over the years, more than five million worthy beneficiaries in nine provinces across South Africa have benefited from Their track record of delivery.
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- Industry: Software, Web Apps, Education
- Stage:Series A, Private Equity
- Geography: South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $40M in 2006
Portfolio highlights
- hearX Group — hearX is an award-winning start-up with the mission of providing affordable access to hearing healthcare using smart digital solutions. With a strong research and engineering background, we aim to democratize and decentralize hearing care, obliterating the traditional audiology model and market, which was never built to scale, instead providinghearing care to millions by leveraging our smart tech, big data and artificial intelligence expertise.The hearX Group four categories of solutions: Lead Generation and Remote Care solutions, Clinical solutions, Preventative Solutions as well as Direct to Consumer intervention solutions.We have had more than 1 000 000 tests and screenings done using our products across 39 countries. Our innovative solutions are as accurate, but faster, cheaper and easier to use than traditional methods. We pride ourselves in offering a fully managed service, providing an entirely new way to overcome traditional barriers to the detection and diagnosis of disabling hearing loss.
- Pearson South Africa — Pearson is the world's leading education company. With a presence in over 70 countries and 40 000 employees, Pearson provides learning solutions from early childhood learning to professional certification, Pearson curriculum-based materials, e-learning content and tools, as well as teacher training and testing programmes help to educatemillions of people worldwide.Pearson is also a leading provider of digital learning programmes and test development, processing and scoring services to educational institutions, corporations and professional bodies around the world.In order to provide unique learning solutions, Pearson creates content, technology, assessment tools and services.Partnering with stakeholders, Pearson creates innovative solutions to improve learner achievement and institutional effectiveness.South Africa’s best-known and most-respected names in publishing; Longman, Heinemann and Maskew Miller were merged to form Pearson South Africa in 2010. In 2013 alone, Pearson distributed over 23 million text books into schools across South Africa, and trained over 80 000 teachers. All this content is being converted into e-content.
Yield Guild Games (YGG) is a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) for investing in non fungible tokens (NFTs) used in virtual worlds and blockchain-based games. The organization’s mission is to create the biggest virtual world economy, optimizing its community-owned assets for maximum utility, and sharing its profits with its token holders.
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- Industry: Gaming, Blockchain, Web3
- Stage:Seed, Initial Coin Offering, Series A
- Geography: United States, Singapore, Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 79
- Round size: Seed $2M–$13M; Series A $5.2M–$20M; Initial Coin Offering $3M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Delabs Games — At Delabs Games, we want to create fun games that last a thousand years.
- PublicAI — PublicAI is a Web3 distributed AI training network that helps people to earn rewards by contributing data work.
- Power Protocol — The ecosystem for blockchain entertainment. Fueled by $POWER. Launch Partner: @Fableborne Power Up Your Play
Maijid Moujaled is based out of San Francisco, California and is the Co-Founder and President of Chipper Cash. Maijid previously worked at Yahoo as a iOS Software Engineer. Maijid Moujaled attended the Grinnell College.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Gaming
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $3M–$5.3M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Caliza — Give your users access to the digital dollar economy. Get early access!
- Carry1st — Carry1st develops and publishes enriching mobile games and content apps for African consumers.
- Hisa Inc — Seamless trading, and Borderless investment for Africa.
P1 Ventures works as a venture capital firm. They specialize in early-stage industrial technology firms in Africa.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Software, Payments
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Geography: Egypt, Kenya, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 45
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$5M; Pre-Seed $400k–$3M; Series B $7.5M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $35M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Lua — Build, deploy, and scale enterprise-grade AI agents. Ship your first agent without touching infrastructure.
- Salus Cloud — Empowering developers worldwide with seamless and secure application deployment and management. Join the revolution. #Salus_Cloud
- Traction Apps — Traction apps provide businesses end to end tools they need to run and grow their businesses.
NuState Capital as private equity investor is to generate attractive returns through positive social transformation.
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- Industry: Education, Software, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
- Geography: South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Sticitt — Sticitt is a cashless payment platform. Sticitt services schools, lifestyle and golf estates, as well as events and is assisting one utility company to get clients to pay for water bills using its cashless payments system.
- d6 — SCHOOLS Schools Communication Platforms and School Management Software COMMUNITIES Community & Internal Business Communication Platforms MEDIA Let your brand be seen Advertise on
- Principal Software(d6 education) — d6 is a school management software application that helps you manage your school's curriculum, administration, communication and finance.
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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- Industry: Gaming, Internet, SaaS
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Angel
- Geography: United States, Estonia, South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Series A $13M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
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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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, India, Brazil
Investor stats
- Total investments: 289
- Round size: Seed $738k–$4M; Series A $2M–$14M; Series B $5.3M–$35M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Wiom — Provides affordable and unlimited Internet to Middle and lower middle income households
- Hopelab — Hopelab is a researcher, investor, and convener that supports equity-centered solutions for the mental health and well-being of Black, Brown, and Queer young people.
- FinReach — FinReach Solutions is a company providing innovative credit guarantee programs to facilitate lending for underserved micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs), particularly those lacking collateral or formal credit history. Their solution enables financial institutions to extend credit to entrepreneurs, including women-led businesses andclimate-focused ventures, by de-risking loans through guarantees and leveraging data-driven borrower risk assessment. FinReach aims to expand financial inclusion in India’s lower-tier regions, helping thousands of borrowers access formal finance through partnerships with development finance institutions and global impact investors.
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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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Education
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: South Africa, Mexico, Colombia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Round size: Seed $2M–$2.3M; Series A $300k–$1.7M
- Lead/follow: 71% lead, 29% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2014
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- Syscap — Syscap is a financial technology company that offers cutting-edge solutions to financial institutions to have a better administration and management of their funding sources. It connects the leaders of financial and real estate institutions with their funders. For institutions, the company ensures the optimization of their funding source managementprocesses, but also the strengthening of the relationship with their funders. To funders, Syscap guarantees the transparency and timely monitoring of its funds for the safety and growth of its resources.
- Velocity — Velocity is a micro fulfillment dark store that delivers through digital channels.
Vumela was established in 2009 by FNB Business Banking and Edge Growth. The objective was to create an innovative model for the development of a sustainable and a financially and operationally independent investment business which invests in high growth small, medium and micro size enterprises with good economic and impact returns.Vumela wascapitalised in 2010. Within the first four years, we’d invested R90 million into eight high growth SMEs, and created a total of 400 jobs. They launched their second fund in 2015, after a further investment of R100 million from FirstRand and R127 million from the Jobs Fund. Within the first year of launching this second fund, we’ve committed R43 million to five investments that are expected to create over 1800 new jobs.The first fund of its kind in South Africa, Vumela’s main goals are to invest in and develop entrepreneurial companies in order to help alleviate poverty in South Africa by creating jobs, and to generate a return for its beneficiaries: the Shalamuka Foundation and the FirstRand Group.
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- Industry: Education, Software, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Debt Financing
- Geography: South Africa, Brazil
Investor stats
- Total investments: 22
- Round size: Seed $600k–$910k; Debt Financing $854k–$1.4M
- Lead/follow: 82% lead, 18% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $14M in 2015
Portfolio highlights
- Trade Shield — Trade Shield's aim is to increase access to trade credit facilities for those companies that most need them and will benefit the most from them.
- Mia Healthcare —
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Browse database — It's Free!Two Hop is a VC fund focusing exclusively on startups providing the infrastructure for the next generation secure internet. While the Web 2.0 democratized many power structures and created new opportunities, the economic engine is largely privatized and monopolized. Facebook, Uber and AirBnB have created private networks for public infrastructurewhich they dominate. Web 3 is the antithesis and promises to return the internet to the hands of users through the combination of blockchain and internet. It’s about multiple profit centers sharing value across an open network. Two Hop believes the BSV blockchain is best suited for becoming the backbone of Web 3.
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- Industry: Software, Blockchain, Bitcoin
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: The Netherlands, United States, Spain
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Round size: Seed $114k–$2.2M
- Lead/follow: 55% lead, 45% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $3.2M in 2019
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- Vaionex — Next Generation Blockchain Applications. We are building the infrastructure and services that will power the new internet and economic system.
- BikeFair — BikeFair is an online marketplace for comfortable buying and selling verified non-stolen bicycles.The idea of BikeFair arose from our personal need to buy a cheap (yet usable) bike for everyday use in the Netherlands. That felt like an extremely hard & annoying thing to do with the existent tools. We are also fed up by the number of bikes weand our friends have already lost to theft, and we realized there is a way out of this: we can cut the demand for stolen bikes by creating a nice and easy-to-use alternative.Designed to prevent trading stolen bikes, BikeFair offers an easy and fun to use service alternative to the shady dude trying to sell you an obviously stolen bike on the corner at midnight.
- mintBlue — Verifiable data infrastructure, built in Europe. Our work with the Dutch Tax Authority won the Ministry of Finance Innovation Award. Your keys, your data, no central database.
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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- Industry: Information Technology, B2B, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Grant
- Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, Morocco
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Round size: Seed $100k–$3.1M
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
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- 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.
- ZSystems — ZSystems is a transformative super app designed to redefine B2B trade.
- MarketForce — MarketForce is a US, Kenya and Nigeria-based technology company that is building the SuperApp for Africa's 100 million merchants. MarketForce provides an all-inclusive B2B Commerce and Fintech platform (dubbed “RejaReja” – Swahili for ‘retail’) that empowers merchants in Africa to source, order and pay for inventory digitally and conveniently,access financing, collect digital payments and make extra money by reselling digital financial services such as airtime, electricity tokens and bill payments. Launched in 2018, MarketForce is a fast-growing YC backed company running an asset-light business model and is currently operational in 5 markets in Sub-Saharan Africa, with over 200,000 merchants and 50 consumer brands trading on the platform.
Blockchain: Gamified - Games with real, player-owned economies will become places where we live, work, and play - True digital nations
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- Industry: Gaming, Blockchain, Web3
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $500k–$5.4M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Moku — Worshipping a mischievous Moki with big balls and a small brain. 8887 NFTs, 900+ traits, 3 epic games.
- Pixion Games — Pixion Games is a studio focused on building competitive esports games for mobile device.
- Power Protocol — The ecosystem for blockchain entertainment. Fueled by $POWER. Launch Partner: @Fableborne Power Up Your Play
Retail Growth Solutions | Merchandising, Activation & Data
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- Industry: Apps, SaaS, Mobile
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: 75% lead, 25% follow
Portfolio highlights
- wiGroup — Award-winning loyalty and rewards software powering South Africa's largest network. Bank card-linked loyalty, digital gift cards, and vouchers across 27,000+ stores.
- SNAPnSAVE — SNAPnSAVE is a shopping app that gives you cash back when you shop in-store. No paper coupons, no plastic cards and no loyalty points. Just real cash back on items that you buy everyday, leaving you with more to spend on the things you want. Ka ching!
- 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.
Google provides the Android operating system, the Chrome web browser, and a search engine to support global connectivity. Its software suite includes productivity tools such as Gmail, Docs, and Calendar, alongside media platforms like YouTube and Google Play. The firm designs hardware, including the Pixel line of smartphones, tablets, and wearabledevices integrated with Wear OS. Through its research divisions, the company creates generative models and tools such as Gemini 3.1 and Veo 3.1 for image creation, video generation, and conversational assistance. Current features include Agentic Vision for visual reasoning and Personal Intelligence, which utilizes Google Photos for contextual content creation.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Grant, Seed
- Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 382
- Round size: Seed $300k–$9.3M; Grant $50k–$6M
- Lead/follow: 57% lead, 43% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $120M in 2024
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- Sylica LLC — Infin8t.tech provides state-of-the-art AI-powered customer support infrastructure for businesses of all sizes. Create, deploy, and manage intelligent chatbots trained on your specific content for personalized and efficient customer interactions that scale with your business needs.
- Fervo Energy — Fervo Energy delivers 24/7 carbon-free energy through development of next-generation geothermal projects.
- Commonwealth Fusion Systems — The fastest path to clean, limitless fusion energy.
TotalEnergies Ventures is the venture capital arm of Total.As part of Total's commitment to a better energy future, TotalEnergies Ventures is focused on finding, funding and fostering high-potential start-ups which will contribute to creating a low carbon future.Current areas of interest include Renewables, Distributed Energy, NewMobility, Energy Access, Energy Storage, Bio-Plastics, Circular Economy, Carbon Capture and Hydrogen.
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- Industry: Energy, Renewable Energy, Transportation
- Stage:Series B, Series C
- Geography: United States, France, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 99
- Round size: Series B $9.3M–$175M; Series C $5M–$65M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Autogrid — AutoGrid Systems organizes energy data and employs big data analytics to generate real-time predictions that create actionable data.The company’s suite of flexibility management applications allows utilities, electricity retailers, renewable energy project developers and energy service providers to deliver cheap, clean and reliable energy bymanaging networked distributed energy resources (DERs) in real time and at scale. AutoGrid applications utilize petabytes of smart meter, sensor and third-party data, along with powerful data science and high-performance computing algorithms, to monitor, predict, optimize and control the operations of millions of assets connected across global energy networks.Established at Stanford University in 2011, they have assembled a team of world-class software architects, electrical and computer engineers, data scientists and energy experts who apply cutting-edge analytics and in-depth energy data science to solve the world’s most critical energy problems.
- 45-8 ENERGY — 45-8 ENERGY is exploring eco-friendly helium for uses in many industries.
- Ampersand — Ampersand catalyzes and power mass-market electric mobility. By supplying the battery swap network and operating system the company makes sustainable mobility rapidly accessible and affordable for developing markets, to improve livelihoods and the environment. With over a million km already covered by e-motorcycles in Africa using our plug-and-playpowertrain and energy network.
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, California, investing in bold founders, innovators, and entrepreneurs building the future through technology.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Brazil
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2033
- Round size: Seed $1.6M–$16M; Series A $9M–$55M; Series B $17M–$112M
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $1.2B in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- Waymo — Waymo stands for a new way forward in mobility. it is a self-driving technology company with a mission to make it safe and easy for people and things to move around.Waymo improves transportation by building software and sensor technology developed in Google’s labs since 2009. In October 2015, they achieved the world’s first fully self-drivingtrip on public roads, in a car without a steering wheel or pedals. They refine Waymo technology through one billion miles of simulation testing each year, and the cars have self-driven over two million miles on public roads across four U.S. cities.It was founded in 2009 and is located in Mountain View, California.
- GoodData.AI — GoodData is a leading composable data and analytics platform. Build, embed, and scale analytics on demand, with zero vendor lock-in.
- Apex — Apex manufactures ESPA-class satellites, ranging from 40 to 400kg. Our first spacecraft bus platform, Aries, is built for LEO missions for earth observation, communications, and more. Configure the Aries bus to meet your specific mission profile.
Justin is a 31-year old entrepreneur, angel investor and venture capitalist from Cape Town, South Africa. He is founder, MD, board member, advisor, or investor to a wide variety of companies in the global technology sector.Having grown up on a farm, he decided not to complete high-school and instead made the move to the city of Cape Town, topursue his dreams of being an Internet entrepreneur.Despite years of struggles and false starts in the wake of the dotcom crash in 2001, he ultimately went on to successfully launch and grow a pan-African Internet based software company from a garage in the suburbs of Cape Town.Have founded his first startup attempt at the age of 18, Justin has been involved in tech startups and entrepreneurial endeavours ever since.He is today the co-founder and MD of 4Di Group, a diversified investment management group and family office, and co-founding General Partner of early-stage technology venture capital firm 4Di Capital, as well as an active angel investor.As co-founder and Steering Committee Chairman of the Silicon Cape Initiative in 2009, designed to highlight and foster South Africa's nascent emerging tech startup ecosystem, Justin fully believes in South Africa’s potential as a global technology innovation hub.In 2011, he was listed by the Mail & Guardian for the 'Top 200 Young South Africans', and in 2013, listed by Forbes for '30 Under 30: Africa's Best Young Entrepreneurs'.
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- Industry: FinTech, Security, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Series A $3.5M–$6.4M
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
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- FitKey — SENGTOTO menghadirkan login alternatif game online dengan akses mudah pilihan permainan menarik hadiah beragam tampilan nyaman dan pengalaman seru setiap hari.
- TaxTim — TaxTim helps South African taxpayers file with confidence using a simple, step-by-step experience linked to SARS eFiling.
- Ekaya.com — Ekaya exists to make renting simpler, safer and more connected - for everyone.
Calvin Ayre (born May 25, 1961, in Lloydminster, Saskatchewan, Canada) is the founder of the Bodog online gaming and entertainment brand, which he developed and launched in 1994.Ayre received a Bachelor of Sciences (BSc) in General Sciences from the University of Waterloo in 1984. In 1989, Ayre earned an MBA in Management Finance from CityUniversity of Seattle.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Information Technology, Bitcoin
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 31
- Round size: Seed $363k–$4.4M; Series A $1M–$1.3M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.5M–$3M
- Lead/follow: 77% lead, 23% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Mijem — Mijem is the buy sell marketplace app to tap into your campus community. Save money. Earn cash. Connect with students. Download the free app.
- Centi — Centi is a system that enables merchants to accept digital currency payments through existing Point of Sale (POS) infrastructure.
- Transmira — Augmented and Virtual Reality Solutions
Learn about the Virgin Group, the home of Virgin, supporting the Branson family and growing of the brand by developing and nurturing valuable Virgin businesses.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, FinTech
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 60
- Round size: Series A $5M–$47M; Series B $14M–$92M; Series C $3M–$61M
- Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
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- OOVA — OOVA is a fertility diagnostic company that spun out from Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. Using patent pending biochemistry and artificial intelligence, OOVA learns a woman’s fertility profile by accurately measuring key hormones over time through daily urine samples. By monitoring this critical balance of hormones, OOVA can help a woman getpregnant, identify reasons she is having trouble getting pregnant, and even expose reproductive health issues like PCOS.
- Virgin Voyages — Ahoy Sailor! Welcome to Virgin Voyages: our adult only cruise ships redefine luxury cruise vacations to the Caribbean, Mediterranean, Europe, and beyond.
- Marker Learning — Marker is the trusted platform for special education teams to manage their caseloads and write high quality psychoeducational reports, in a fraction of the time.
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Browse database — It's Free!A future-focused growth equity firm backing category-defining companies.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, FinTech
- Stage:Series C, Series B, Series A
- Geography: United States, India, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 83
- Round size: Series A $18M–$52M; Series B $30M–$125M; Series C $50M–$200M
- Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $49M in 2026
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- ShopMy — ShopMy is the affiliate marketing and collaboration tool used by the top content creators and brands in the world.
- Current — Current is a leading consumer fintech banking platform transforming financial access for everyday Americans. We're focused on building integrated solutions to solve needs that stand between Americans and their financial goals, making it easier for everyone to build the future they deserve. To learn more about us, visithttp://www.current.com or download our app on the App Store or Google Play.Current is backed by investments from Andreessen Horowitz, Tiger Global Management, Avenir, Wellington Management, General Catalyst, Cross River, Foundation Capital and QED Investors.
- Solana Company — Building the Preeminent Solana Treasury $HSDT
Knife Capital is an independent growth equity investment firm focusing on innovation-driven ventures with proven traction. By leveraging knowledge, networks & funding, Knife accelerates the international expansion of entrepreneurial businesses that achieved a product/market fit in a beachhead market. Knife have offices in Cape Town andLondon.Knife invests via a consortium of funding partnerships, including SARS section 12J Venture Capital Company KNF Ventures and select family offices. Knife facilitated lucrative exits of local technology companies to the likes of General Electric, Visa, Garmin and Uber.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Education
- Stage:Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: South Africa, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 40
- Round size: Series A $2M–$15M; Venture - Series Unknown $1M–$2M
- Lead/follow: 70% lead, 30% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $50M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- wamly — Wamly is the recruitment software, It has given us time back to focus on transformational work.
- Cue — Cue is a customer service software company that empowers you with WhatsApp Business solutions to boost customer satisfaction, and drive growth.
- Optique Optometrists — Optique Optometrists provides comprehensive eye care services, including eye tests, prescription glasses, and contact lenses. The company offers affordable eye care solutions and has multiple branches across South Africa. Customers can book appointments online and access a wide range of eyewear options. Optique Optometrists focuses on deliveringquality vision care and ensuring customer satisfaction through professional services and convenient booking options.
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.
Ingressive Capital is a renowned $50M Pan-African Venture Capital Fund that invests in indigenous founders and startups across Africa, with focus on Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Morocco, and Nigeria. Specializing in early-stage investments, particularly Pre-Seed and Seed stages, it targets technology companies led by top-tier talent driving transformativegrowth in Africa's GDP. The firm's thesis focuses on B2C solutions that cater to the explosive growth within the tech-enabled, decentralized-learning youth demographic, as well as B2B solutions that increase Africa’s value chain ownership from resource extraction to end-product sale. Its goal is to become becoming a highly valuable VC partner on the founders' cap tables, and being at the forefront of supporting and enabling entrepreneurial success across Africa.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 78
- Round size: Seed $600k–$3.7M; Pre-Seed $25k–$2M; Series A $500k–$15M
- Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $50M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- SehaTech — Welcome to SehaTech, the groundbreaking company revolutionizing the health insurance market with our innovative solutions!
- Chat Cash — Turn conversations into commerce. The unified operating system for payments, inventory, and AI sales on WhatsApp & USSD.
- REasy — Top up locally, pay suppliers globally, and manage international shipments with REasy. Fast, secure, and designed for African businesses expanding worldwide.
The Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa Ltd (IDC) is a national development finance institution set up to promote economic growth and industrial development.
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- Industry: Renewable Energy, Mining, Mobile
- Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Series A
- Geography: South Africa, Australia, Luxembourg
Investor stats
- Total investments: 23
- Round size: Series A $6M–$26M; Post-IPO Debt $11M–$49M; Debt Financing $30M–$509M
- Lead/follow: 61% lead, 39% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $68M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Fedgroup — Fedgroup offers financial solutions in South Africa & abroad, providing investments, asset-backed lending, group risk & fiduciary services
- AMEA Power — Founded in 2016, AMEA Power has assembled a leading team of global industry experts to deliver clean energy projects across Africa, the Middle East and other emerging markets.
- Minbos Resources — Minbos has to build a nutrient supply and distribution business that stimulates agricultural production and promotes food security. They provide nutrient supply and distribution business that stimulates agricultural production and promotes food security.
CIG Spectrum is an investment firm.
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- Industry: Agriculture, Cyber Security, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Germany, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 27
- Round size: Seed $2.3M–$20M; Series A $5M–$75M; Series B $28M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Uviquity — Uviquity is a firm that wants to encourage safety for their clients. The company is based in Raleigh, North Carolina, in the United States.
- ETCH — ETCH commercializes a chemical process that generates low-cost hydrogen by splitting natural gas into hydrogen and solid carbon. The process can be powered by either natural gas, hydrogen, or electricity. Carbon generated by the process is pure and can be stored in environmentally benign facilities.
- Maximum Fidelity Surgical Simulations — The most realistic surgical and trauma simulations for surgeons, forward field operators, medics and medical device development.
Investment One is a financial firm that provides fund management, stockbroking, venture capital, pension and consulting services.
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- Industry: FinTech, Payments, Logistics
- Stage:Series A, Debt Financing
- Geography: Nigeria, South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Haul247 — Haul247 delivers structured haulage, warehouse management, and port logistics across Africa. 3310+ trucks, 70+ warehouses.
- Paycode — Paycode - Financial Inclusion. We are a B2B technology provider with a unique digital payments platform, providing Last Mile solutions to the unbanked and undeserved.
Conservation International Ventures LLC ("CI Ventures") is an impact-first investment vehicle
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- Industry: Aquaculture, Farming, Software
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Chile, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 13
- Round size: Seed $250k–$2.8M; Venture - Series Unknown $14M–$19M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Abalobi — Abalobi is a co-designed and fisher-driven mobile app suite to transform small-scale fisheries governance from hook to cook. It is aimed at social justice and poverty alleviation in the small-scale fisheries chain, transformation in the way knowledge is produced, stewardship of its marine resources, and resilience-building in the face of climatechange. Promoting traceable, storied seafood by empowered small-scale fishers from hook to cook, in a manner that is not only ecologically responsible but also socially fair.
- BIRD NEST — BIRD NEST is a Co-Living Startup that provides a holistic living experience that drives personal & professional development.
- Wittaya Aqua — Most aquaculture farms around the world use outdated paper- or spreadsheet-based production management systems to run their farm. This means that the data generated by farms is not being effectively used for benchmarking, forecasting and optimization. Although it is the standard in the agriculture, dairy and swine industries, data-driven decisionmaking has not yet become commonplace in aquaculture. Aquaculture is the fastest growing food sector in the world; as the industry continues to grow, farmers need tools to help them track, measure and optimize their operations.
E2 Ventures is an investment firm.
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- Industry: Mobile Apps, Automotive, Telecommunications
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: South Africa, The Netherlands
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% 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.
- Talk360 — Make international calls to any mobile and landline in the world with the Talk360 international calling app. Experience the best quality for the lowest price
AET Fund envisions a Heart Driven World by making the world a colorful place through entertainment.
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- Industry: Internet, E-Commerce, Gaming
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: India, United States, Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 38
- Round size: Seed $700k–$4.2M; Series A $2M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $50M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Questt — School homework app by Questt helps teachers to assign homework to students. Download today on your smartphone.
- 3DC — 3DC develops and manufactures a new carbon material, graphene meso sponge (GMS), for electrodes in next-generation batteries, capacitors, fuel cells and other energy storage and generation devices.
- Stream Captain — Captain.tv makes games for streamers to play live with their viewers! Streamers are the hosts, and viewers play alongside them and each other live on sites like Twitch!
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