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Top 50 Mobile Startup Investors in South Africa in July 2025

Last updated: Jul 2025 A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Mobile startups based in South africa. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Mobile companies from South africa. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Mobile Startup Investors in South Africa in July 2025

Investor	Mobile South Africa investments
CRE Venture Capital	4
Launch Africa	4
4Di Capital	4
IDF Capital SA	3
UW Ventures	3
Kalon Venture Partners	3
HAVAÍC	3
Bose Ventures	2
TLcom Capital Partners	2
Riot Games	2
Konvoy	2
Raine Ventures	2
Lateral Frontiers	2
Ground Squirrel Ventures	2
Robby Hilkowitz	2
TTV Capital	2
Chandaria Capital	2
AlphaCode Club	2
Goodwell Investments	2
Perivoli Innovations	2
Quona Capital	2
AngelHub Ventures	2
Flourish Ventures	2
Musha Ventures	2
Industrial Development Corporation	2
Allan Gray	2
FSD Africa	2
Andreas von Blottnitz	1
Skywell Capital Partners	1
Yield Guild Games	1
Avenir	1
Connectivity Ventures Fund	1
Michael Greve	1
Accion	1
Investment One	1
Nasir Jones	1
Sphere Holdings	1
Virgin Group	1
Andrea Bohmert	1
Tim Parsonson	1
Maijid Moujaled	1
Knife Capital	1
Brian Corrigan	1
Omidyar Network	1
54 Collective	1
Enza Capital	1
Velocity Capital Fintech Ventures	1
E2 Ventures	1
Geoffrey D Fink	1
Ham Serunjogi	1

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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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
South Africa, Nigeria, United States

Portfolio highlights

Sabi Am — Sabi is Africa's largest B2B company, & we are digitising informal trade via our platform. We access markets hard to reach and ensure ease of distribution, & are the No 1 FCMG supplier in Africa.
Sukhiba — Sukhiba is a decentralized community-based commerce platform.
Stitch — One API integration for enterprise online payments across South Africa. Accept Pay by bank, debit + credit card, cash, manual EFT, debit order and crypto.

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

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

PayTic — PayTic enables payments issuers to manage their card programs by providing dedicated back-office solutions that streamline the end-to-end operations in customer support, chargebacks, fraud, AML, reporting, and reconciliation. Our proprietary solutions are unique in automating and centralizing the program management processes, regardless of thenumber of processors and the payment networks involved in the payments products. We impact payments providers by eliminating the defragmented and manual processes and replacing them with a SaaS platform that increases proactivity, mitigates risks, and delivers value. It reduces the burn rate to near 0 in operational costs and offers an unprecedented competitive advantage. PayTic is introducing the Zero Ops model in managing payments.
Affinity — Join over 70,000 who trust the Affinity mobile app to manage your personal banking needs and qualify for an Affinity Instant Loan
Liquify Digital — Liquify is an invoice marketplace that transforms invoices from SMEs in emerging markets into an investable asset class for financiers seeking reliable yield

4Di Capital is an independent seed- and early-stage technology venture capital firm based in Cape Town, South Africa.Nurture capital is the term that best describes 4Di Capitalâ€:tm:s purpose and philosophy.We understand that in the early days of any business, support, mentoring and access to networks is just as important as seed capital.Using tried and tested international venture capital best practices, adapted for local use, we believe in entrepreneur-friendly finance without frills, and in working as a team with our investments to achieve their true potential.4Di Capital Early-Stage Technology Fund 1 targets startup investment opportunities with high growth potential at the seed- and early-stages in the mobile, enterprise software and web sectors.We look for founder teams with hungry passion, commitment, domain expertise and deep insights into the large market problems they wish to solve with their technology solutions.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
South Africa, United States, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Maxe AI — AI investment Assistant for all investors. AI Portfolios tracker of stocks bonds exchanges futures. all in one to track mutual funds.
Cloudline — The all-in-one cloud platform helping leisure businesses sell more, reduce costs & personalize experiences.
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.

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

Investment focus

Automotive, Mobile Apps
Seed, Funding Round
South Africa

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.

UW is a multi-stage investor that provides growth and replacement capital across the equity-cycle. Its activities span from high-growth venture to mid-market private equity opportunities.

Investment focus

FinTech, Payments, Insurance
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
South Africa

Portfolio highlights

Pargo — Pargo is a convenient logistics solution that lets you collect and return parcels at Pargo parcel points throughout the country when it suits you best.
Synatic — Synatic is a unified platform that enables your business to integrate and automate systems and services without sacrificing enterprise features and security.
Peach Payments — Get Peach as your Payment Gateway and Grow your ecommerce. Process online payments with Visa, Mastercard, Debit Orders, EFT payments, and subscriptions. Plugins for Wix, Shopify, WooCommerce.

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.

Investment focus

Apps, Mobile Apps, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
South Africa, Luxembourg, United States

Portfolio highlights

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.
Sendmarc — Maximize your email security and domain protection with DMARC to safeguard your business against email impersonation, phishing, and spoofing.
visionAI — visionAI augments existing CCTV cameras with computer vision AI to drive improved operational outcomes in manufacturing.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, FinTech
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
South Africa, United States, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

NjiaPay — Payments-as-a-Service platform that will streamline your operations and elevate your online payments across the African continent.
Talk360 — Talk360 is an easy-to-use calling app that helps people make affordable international calls to any mobile and landline number. They believe that reliable communication and digital services must be affordable and accessible to everyone, regardless of someone's background. Especially people in emerging countries in Africa, who often need theseservices the most, do not always have the necessary banking possibilities. To bridge this distance, Talk360 will launch the world's first single checkout platform for Africa. This platform will combine all locally available payment methods and currencies across Africa, together with over 1.25 million cash points of sales, and will eventually be available to other companies as well. This means that 500 million Africans will be able to purchase digital services they never had access to before.
Right Now Response — The future of repairs starts soon. Counting down to smarter tracking in 2025! There are perks to working 24/7, 365 days a year... Like launching the future of repairs ahead of schedule!

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

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Music
Funding Round, Series B, Series A
United States, India, Denmark

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.

TLcom Capital, is an Africa focused tech VC, with offices in Lagos, Nairobi and London. TLcom had been investing since 1999 in Tech, Media, Mobil and Internet companies across Europe, US and Africa, which is the exclusive focus of its most recent TLcom TIDE Africa funds. TLcom manages total commitments of approximately 300 million USD in thesesectors via a series of dedicated investment vehicles. Our investment strategy is to identify, back and assist world class entrepreneurs and management teams with disruptive technologies and business models, compelling intellectual property and deep market knowledge. We primarily target companies focused on Africa as a prime market, in the following investment themes: Access to Data Service; Financial Services; eCommerce; B2C applications (including but not limited to: health, education, energy, media and entertainment); and Software solutions to corporates and SMEs.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Information Technology
Series A, Funding Round, Seed
Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Hub2.Io — Welcome to HUB2, the leading FINTECH startup in interoperability and payment infrastructure in Francophone Africa. We are proud to work with all financial industry players in Africa who need stable and high-performing infrastructure, and contribute to their success.
Educatly — We help you get into the University of your dreams. We are the only platform with all the information you need to Study Abroad
littlefishapp — Littlefish is a comprehensive commerce platform that empowers banks to serve small business with tools to streamline operations, drive growth, and enhance customer engagement.

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.

Investment focus

Gaming, Video Games, Mobile Apps
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Germany, China

Portfolio highlights

Stoke Games — Stoke Games operates as an independent gaming studio.
Wicked Saints Studios — We used behavioral technology to create interactive media that is wickedly fun and actively good. Wicked Saints emerged from Niantic’s incubator last fall (CNBC article) with a prototype of the world’s first adventure activism game, World Reborn. At its simplest, World Reborn is an interactive story game with real-life quests facilitated byaugmented reality (AR). It not only defies genres between narrative and AR games but blends the digital and real world. Wicked Saints sees AR as a bridge between fantasy and reality, with untapped potential to offer players immersive experiences that change them and their world for good.
The Believer Company — Join the journey We are building a world-class team to serve players for years to come. If you believe in games, we believe in you.

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

Investment focus

Gaming, Video Games, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

k-ID — At k-ID, we specialize in integrating safety and privacy by design compliance solutions for digital platforms, focusing on creating a safer, more responsible online environment for children and teenagers.
Afference — Powering the sense of touch in the digital world. Feel digital objects in AR, VR, and XR with our groundbreaking haptic feedback device, the Phantom.
Root — Root is a next-generation social platform that combines communication tools with a customizable app framework, allowing communities to organize, coordinate, and extend their functionality through apps.

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.

Investment focus

Gaming, Mobile, Internet
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Filed — Filed renders digital marketing, social marketing, campaign optimization, retargeting, facebook advertising and social media services.
Perlego — Perlego is an online library subscription service for textbooks and non-fiction titles. Having partnered with over 3,000 of the world's best 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 isheadquartered in London, England.
MusicInfra — Helping creators and copyright owners getting paid faster and more accurately than ever

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.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Nigeria, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

CNote — CNote makes impact investing easy for corporations, foundations, and individuals. Align your financial goals with your values and drive change in communities.
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.

Seed round investment in frontier markets and clean energy

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Kenya, Zambia

Portfolio highlights

Grapevine — Grapevine makes it possible for groups to invite members, collect and distribute donations, establish a community and connect with nonprofits.
MindMics — Discover MindMics. The world's most accurate personal heart health monitor and well-being platform. Look after your heart health to live longer and better.
Untapped Global — Untapped connects global investors, and foreign capital to opportunities in emerging markets. Delivering competitive returns, and measurable impact for global investors.

Robby Hilkowitz is an angel investor.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Israel, Hong Kong, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Neat — Built for entrepreneurs, by entrepreneursAs entrepreneurs our businesses are always in motion: starting from an idea, to making a first sale, to expanding globally. We need a financial experience that evolves with us – an experience that’s still stable and secure, but adaptive too. Banks were built for a different era of business, not for thenew economy – where borders are disappearing and it’s easier than ever to start a global business. Neat believes in making international business a reality for entrepreneurs around the world. Today, Neat is a modern alternative to a bank, designed to support you wherever you go. Tomorrow, we’re a platform for doing business: building a dynamic and frictionless economy.
Bambu — Bambu is a leading global digital wealth technology provider for financial institutions. We enable companies to make saving and investing simple and intelligent for their clients. The cloud-based platform is powered by our proprietary algorithms and machine learning tools. The company serves over 20 financial institutions globally. Founded in 2016,Bambu is headquartered in Singapore with a subsidiary in the United Kingdom and the United States and EMEA representatives.
Moneyhub — Moneyhub is a data and payments fintech that provides open banking, open finance, and open data solutions.

TTV Capital is a venture capital firm that funds and supports the businesses that shape the financial future of the world.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Canada, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Grifin — Automatically buy stock where you shop. When you buy a cup of coffee at Starbucks, you invest $1 into Starbucks stock. Shop on Amazon? You now own $1 of Amazon stock.
Payabli — Payabli delivers payment infrastructure through a single unified API, enabling software platforms to embed, manage, and scale payments.
Lumion — Connecting students and schools to the future of fair education payments through income-based payment plans, zero-interest payment plans, hybrids, and more innovative tuition solutions.

Chandaria Capital operates as a venture capital Fund. We believe that innovative ideas will transform Africa. We invest, mentor, and work together with incredible entrepreneurs to create impactful companies that can change the continent.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Retail, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Kenya, United States, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Leta — Leta Technology is a software development company that creates supply chain and logistics software to enable the efficient and automated movement of goods.
UTU Technologies — Trust infrastructure for the sharing economy.
Dastgyr Technologies — Simplifying Global Trade

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

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Automotive
Grant, Funding Round, Debt Financing
South Africa, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

BriefCo — BriefCo is South Africa's first and only legal cost consultancy leveraging technology. We utilize our own secure online platform to allow for the digital delivery and storage of all documents, thereby reducing the significant costs associated with printing, delivery, and file preparation.
Vocalysd.ai — Vocalysd is a customer-centric, AI-powered insights tool. Vocalysd unlocks usable, easy-to-digest insights from your conversational data. These insights are key to optimising client interactions and enhancing your customers' experience.
Sizanani — Collaboration is at the centre of everything we do. We partner with like-minded organisations to help our users find the best financial products in the market. We are the first WhatsApp-first stokvel solution because we believe that technology is fundamentally meant to create value, not apps.

Goodwell Investments is a pioneering investment firm focused on financial inclusion, fintech and inclusive growth in sectors providing

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa

Portfolio highlights

MFS Africa — MFS Africa is the largest mobile money inter-operability hub in Africa, which connects mobile network operators across the continent through a single API. In addition to mobile remittance services, the MFS Africa API enables merchant payment, bulk payment, bank-to-wallet transfers, and an array of other cross border digital payments services.
SOUK Farms — SOUK Farms is a fresh horticulture supply grower and exporter that pioneers innovation to improve agricultural sustainability and stimulate economic and social development.
Complete Farmer — We are providing cutting-edge technological farming protocols and innovations with a unique business model and logistics that are revolutionizing...

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.

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical Device
Seed, Series A, Series B
United Kingdom, Kenya, South Africa

Portfolio highlights

Adaptavate — Adaptavate is leading the carbon change in the construction industry
Ilara Health — Ilara Health helps primary care clinics across Africa deliver better care.
Greenspark — Turn your e-commerce business into a force for good, increase sales and engage your customers in climate action with Greenspark.

Quona Capital invests in fintech innovators that are advancing financial inclusion around the globe. Through our investments, Quona aims to deliver outstanding financial returns while making a lasting and positive impact on the world.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Series A, Seed, Series B
India, Brazil, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

enza — Our focus on providing the richest possible API environment means that enza clients can concentrate on solving business challenges and not waste valuable time and effort on technical integrations.
Belvo — Belvo is the leading Open Banking API platform in Latin America and the easiest way for users to connect their account to an app
Ideem — Manual 2FA (SMS/WhatsApp One Time Passcodes, Authenticator Apps and Soft Tokens) are plagued with friction, fraud, and costs. Ideem cryptographically binds to the device to replace traditional possession factor 2FA and device fingerprinting solutions. Ideem's drop-in SDK works across all browsers and native apps. No user interaction isrequired - no effort, no permissions, no exceptions. Just an easy and invisible 2FA that reduces friction, fraud and costs.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Education
Seed, Series A
South Africa, Mexico, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

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

We are an early-stage global venture capital firm investing in fintech founders.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, India, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

minu — In minu, we are revolutionizing the financial health of Mexican employees, offering them access to their already worked salary when they need it, instead of having to wait for payroll. We work with HR areas of companies that offer the provision of minu to improve satisfaction, retention, and attraction of talent. minu is supported by FinTech'sleading institutional investors globally, including QED.
MoneyHash — MoneyHash provides access to payment and fintech services across the Middle East & Africa with one simple integration.
Morada Uno — Morada Uno underwrites and insures house rentals by equipping real estate professionals with tools and technology. The company aims to simplify and create trust and security in real estate transactions, promoting fairness in every interaction, and promoting a positive change in the mentality and way of doing things in Mexico.

Seed capital for technology startups globally.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Nigeria, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Regfyl — Powered by AI, Regfyl is the all-in-one fraud and compliance platform for financial institutions and fintechs. Regfyl allows these businesses to reduce costs and focus on higher value activities.
Sukhiba — Sukhiba is a decentralized community-based commerce platform.
Orca Fraud — Orca empowers fraud fighters with effective tools to combat fraud

The Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa Ltd (IDC) is a national development finance institution set up to promote economic growth and industrial development.

Investment focus

Renewable Energy, Mobile, Energy
Debt Financing, Series A, Funding Round
South Africa, Canada, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

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.
Pele Energy Group — Pele Energy Group owns and runs renewable energy infrastructure in addition to providing economic and community development consulting services.
Pele Green Energy — Pele Green Energy is an Independent Power Producer that develops, owns, procures, builds, and operates renewable energy power projects, including Small Scale Embedded Generation and utility scale power plants, and is the leading South African Independent Power Producer in the Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement, REIPPPProgramme.

Allan Gray is privately owned investment management company focused on generating long-term wealth for investors.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
Seed, Series A, Series C
South Africa, United States

Portfolio highlights

Mobiz — Supercharge your SMS marketing with dynamic, high-converting landing pages sent directly into the hands of your customers.
onafriq — MFS Africa is the largest mobile money inter-operability hub in Africa, which connects mobile network operators across the continent through a single API. In addition to mobile remittance services, the MFS Africa API enables merchant payment, bulk payment, bank-to-wallet transfers, and an array of other cross border digital payments services.
Sendmarc — Maximize your email security and domain protection with DMARC to safeguard your business against email impersonation, phishing, and spoofing.

Created in 2012, FSD Africa is a £30 million financial sector development programme or ‘FSD’ based in Nairobi. It is funded by UK aid from the UK Government. FSD Africa aims to reduce poverty across sub-Saharan Africa by building financial markets that are efficient, robust and inclusive.FSD Africa is a market facilitator or catalyst. It appliesa combination of resources, expertise and research to address financial market failures and deliver a lasting impact. FSD Africa has a mandate to work across sub-Saharan Africa on issues that relate to both ‘financial inclusion’ and ‘finance for growth.’FSD Africa is also a regional platform. It fosters collaboration, best practice transfer, economies of scale and coherence between development agencies, donors, financial institutions, practitioners and government entities with a role in financial market development in sub-Saharan Africa. In particular, FSD Africa provides strategic and operational support to the FSD Network.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
Seed, Series B, Funding Round
South Africa, United States, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Cavex — Cavex uses digital finance and innovative technologies to drive environmental and socio-economic benefits for the people and communities most in need.
WIC Capital — Capital investissement - Gender investing - Gender initiative - Impact investing - Early stage - PME - SME - Equity - Fund manager - Empower women
Dhamana Guarantee — An East African focused credit guarantee company whose principal business is to guarantee local currency debt obligations in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Rwanda.

Mr. Andreas von Blottnitz is an angel investor and on the advisory board at e.ventures.Prior to his Venture Capital work, Mr. von Blottnitz was the President and Chief Executive Officer of Citrix Online, Inc following Citrix’s acquisition of Expertcity in February 2004. He served as the Chief Executive Officer and President at Expertcity from1999 until its acquisition by Citrix Systems.Mr. von Blottnitz also serves as a Director of AppFolio, RightScale, Eucalyptus, LogicMonitor, Lastline and Entersekt. He was a Director of Sonos, Inc.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
Seed, Angel, Series A
United States, South Africa

Portfolio highlights

ViQi — Cloud-based Image Visualization and Analysis Software for health, life, and earth science companies. Researchers and developers can view, analyze, share and store large-scale complex data and images to get results faster.
Foundshopping.com — Found (formerly Pashash) is the app that lets you Share Real-World Shopping.Finding a great buy is something worth sharing. Found lets you take a picture, tag your buy and share it on Facebook and Twitter. Express yourself, start a trend, or just help somebody find a great deal.Have it with you when you're out shopping - in the realworld. Discover the best buys at your location and see the Found things your friends have found.
Anchore — Protect your software supply chain with the first SBOM-powered platform for continuous visibility into software supply chain security risks.

Skywell Capital Partners is a multi-stage venture capital firm that invests in entrepreneurs with visionary ideas around the globe. We are looking for entrepreneurs who are building ground-breaking and sustainable businesses that are going to change the world.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Series A
Israel, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Lendai — Are you a foreign investor that needs a loan? Lendai offers the best rates for US mortgages tailored to foreign investors! Apply now.
Sedric.ai — Sedric is a compliance excellence platform for next-gen fintech companies. With AI-based real-time monitoring, detection and analysis of all customer interactions, Sedric ensures customer protection, minimizes risks, and expedites business growth. Sedric empowers compliance teams to quickly apply new laws and regulations across their growingbusinesses and enables them to focus on the events with the highest dollar value across all channels: voice, chat, email, social, and more.
PicUP — PicUP is an AI-powered optimization and personalization platform for outbound sales and customer service calls

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.

Investment focus

Gaming, Blockchain, Video Games
Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
United States, Singapore, Australia

Portfolio highlights

LOScoin — LOScoin is a web3 gaming and social application based on telegram bot. LOScoin is committed to profoundly combining Web3's novel interactive experience with the passion of LOScoin's MEME community, creating a highly engaging, entertaining, and economically active DAO community, and providing users with a completely new gaming and socialexperience.
Party Icons — Party Icons is a web3 mobile gaming platform. Its mission is to blend the social glue of party games with the intensity of extraction shooters.
Sapien — Sapien, established in 2023, is a data labeling company dedicated to enhancing AI model training through scalable, high-quality data labeling services. By combining advanced technology, blockchain rewards, human feedback, and domain expertise, Sapien enables AI model development across multiple industries, including healthcare, finance, andeducation technology, among many others. The company's approach to data labeling through gamification and positive reinforcement ensures superior data quality output and high retention rates from labelers, and cost-effectiveness for customers. Sapien's commitment to quality, scalability, and customer focus, along with its mission to foster ethical and impactful AI advancements, sets it apart as a leading trusted partner for businesses developing high-performance AI models.

A future-focused growth equity firm backing category-defining companies.

Investment focus

Financial Services, E-Commerce, FinTech
Series A, Series C, Series B
United States, India, France

Portfolio highlights

Inspiren — Inspiren uses machine learning and industrial design to help nurses keep track. Inspiren provides data about what actually goes on in hospital rooms. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Brooklyn, New York.
Rosebud — Rosebud's therapist-backed platform combines AI with interactive journaling, habit-building, and emotional support. See significant improvements in just 7 days.
Ramp — Join thousands of forward-thinking businesses using Ramp to control spend, save time, and automate busywork.

Having collectively spent decades in the investment banking and recruiting industries, the principals of CCP have developed a unique network that has proven vital to the success of many entrepreneurs. They are repeatedly told that their relationships are a true differentiator.In an effort to follow in the footsteps of their favoriteinnovator/entrepreneur Benjamin Franklin, they at CCP also strive to “do well by doing good.” This means that they prioritize working with clients whose goals go beyond commercial means, and tackle big societal issues such as those that encourage biotechnology innovation, entrepreneurship, and the advancement of women as a demographic.Beyond focusing on themes such as these, they apply a highly disciplined selection process that ensures they only work with a small number of teams at any one time. This allows us to apply laser-focus to each one’s needs which translates into a higher potential for success.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Health Care
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
United States, South Africa

Portfolio highlights

Teampay — Empower employees with software that requests, approves, and tracks company spending in real-time. Integrations with QBO, Intacct, Netsuite, Xero & Slack.
LeadMethod, Inc. — Drive distributor success with LeadMethod. Unlock actionable insights and real-time data to enhance your channel engagement.
TooMuchWifi — TooMuchWifi is known to be the Best and most Reliable Wifi provider. Ideal for your home or business!

Michael and his brother Matthias are probably two of the most successful founders in the German-speaking Internet industry. Among numerous ventures they founded Flug.de and grew the site into one of Germany´s most successful flight booking destinations. (Sold to Otto Group). They launched Lastminute.de and turned the service into the largestGerman last-minute travel site in Germany. (Sold to Lastminute.com). Most notably the brothers founded WEB.DE and, after successful IPO, grew the company to become one of Germany's largest Internet portals and online media businesses (sold to United Internet).

Investment focus

Mobile, Shopping, E-Commerce
Angel
South Africa

Portfolio highlights

Foundshopping.com — Found (formerly Pashash) is the app that lets you Share Real-World Shopping.Finding a great buy is something worth sharing. Found lets you take a picture, tag your buy and share it on Facebook and Twitter. Express yourself, start a trend, or just help somebody find a great deal.Have it with you when you're out shopping - in the realworld. Discover the best buys at your location and see the Found things your friends have found.

Featured Insights & Resources

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Credit
Series A, Funding Round, Seed
India, United States, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

FlexiLoans — FlexiLoans is an online lending platform started with an endeavour to solve the problem that SMEs face in accessing Quick, Flexible and Adequate funds for growing their Businesses. Over 80% of Loan proposals from SMEs currently are rejected by institutional channels on account of inadequate financial history or collaterals. With the fast andubiquitous digital adoption in India and increased avenues to leverage data analytics, they are standing on the verge of Banking transformation in this country which will help us efficiently cater to the large untapped and unserved demand. They wish to make the ‘social and alternative scoring’ of SMEs and Individuals a big opportunity for the economy that will far out place the limited insights that financial bureau provide. They believe our technology-powered online marketplace is the best model to meet the financial requirements of SME’s who do not have credit history and hence cannot avail loans from traditional banking channels.
First Circle — First Circle is an award-winning FinTech company that has been supporting SMEs since 2016. We help businesses increase sales, fund projects, manage payments, and ultimately overcome the biggest barriers to their growth.
Banco Contactar — Banco Contactar provides a wide range of financial products and services aimed at promoting economic growth and development. The company focuses on offering microcredit solutions to support small businesses, particularly in rural areas. Banco Contactar also provides tools for managing and mitigating social, environmental, and climate change risks.The company is committed to helping customers achieve their financial goals through various channels and contact methods.

Investment One is a financial firm that provides fund management, stockbroking, venture capital, pension and consulting services.

Investment focus

FinTech, Payments, Mobile Apps
Series A
South Africa

Portfolio highlights

PayCode Inc — Paycode - Financial Inclusion. We are a B2B technology provider with a unique digital payments platform, providing Last Mile solutions to the unbanked and undeserved.

Nas, byname of Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones, also called Nasty Nas, (born September 14, 1973, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.), American rapper and songwriter who became a dominant voice in 1990s East Coast hip-hop. Nas built a reputation as an expressive chronicler of inner-city street life.Nasir Jones, the son of a jazz musician, grew up in public housingin Queens, New York. He dropped out of school in the eighth grade and searched for a creative outlet, finally settling on hip-hop. His breakthrough came in 1992, when his song “Half Time” (credited to Nasty Nas) appeared on the sound track to the film Zebrahead. Columbia Records soon signed him to a contract. His debut recording as Nas, Illmatic (1994), drew widespread acclaim for its poetic narration of hard-edged inner-city life.The more pop-oriented approach of It Was Written (1996) helped that album reach an even wider audience than its predecessor but ignited a recurring tension in Nas’s career between the appetite of the pop audience and the demands of hip-hop purists. He maintained his commercial appeal with I Am... (1999), although by that time he had also become embroiled in a public feud with fellow rapper Jay-Z over which of the two was the preeminent voice in East Coast hip-hop. The schism inspired Stillmatic (2001), which many fans considered a return to form. The two rappers publicly settled their differences in 2005, and shortly thereafter Nas signed with Def Jam, of which Jay-Z was president at the time.Nas’s penchant for provocation marked Hip Hop Is Dead (2006) and an untitled follow-up (2008), while Life Is Good (2012) struck an introspective tone. He also notably collaborated with reggae musician Damian Marley (the youngest son of Bob Marley) on the album Distant Relatives (2010).Nas also made occasional film appearances, notably in Belly (1998), a crime drama in which he starred opposite rapper DMX, and Black Nativity (2013), an adaptation of Langston Hughes’s gospel play.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Magic Spoon — Magic Spoon cereal is high-protein, low-sugar, keto-friendly, and gluten-free. Available in Cocoa, Frosted, Fruity, Blueberry, Peanut Butter, and Cinnamon.
Everyrealm — Leaders in metaverse innovation and development.
Altered State Machine — Altered State Machine, aims to be a platform and protocol which any developer can build on it; can create, own, and compete with AI-based agents (bots) and upgrade and train their AI, buy, and sell them as NFTs. This will bring an evolution for NFTS.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Web Apps, Health Care
Series A
South Africa

Portfolio highlights

hearX Group — hearX is an award-winning start-up with the mission of providing affordable access to hearing healthcare using smart digital solutions. With a strong research and engineering background, we aim to democratize and decentralize hearing care, obliterating the traditional audiology model and market, which was never built to scale, instead providinghearing care to millions by leveraging our smart tech, big data and artificial intelligence expertise.The hearX Group four categories of solutions: Lead Generation and Remote Care solutions, Clinical solutions, Preventative Solutions as well as Direct to Consumer intervention solutions.We have had more than 1 000 000 tests and screenings done using our products across 39 countries. Our innovative solutions are as accurate, but faster, cheaper and easier to use than traditional methods. We pride ourselves in offering a fully managed service, providing an entirely new way to overcome traditional barriers to the detection and diagnosis of disabling hearing loss.

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.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Internet
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

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.
Lightyear — Lightyear is a simple and approachable way to invest your money globally without unnecessary barriers and fees.
Virgin Voyages — Ahoy Sailor! Welcome to Virgin Voyages: our adult only cruise ships redefine luxury cruise vacations to the Caribbean, Mediterranean, Europe, and beyond.

Andrea has a successful track record in the corporate sector, as entrepreneur as well as investor. She headed up Corporate Strategy for Siemens Southern Africa followed by managing a software sales team for Dimension Data. Starting her own businesses led her into the investment space where she raised the R350m Hass Plattner Ventures Africa Fund.Passionate about developing the ecosystem she is involved in numerous business incubation initiatives, evangelizing Global Companies such as Google and IBM to get more involved in Africa. Andrea's life is a juggling act and she is currently working on the five-ball juggle: Her husband, two children, KnifeCap, Sundays on the beach with the Strand Lifesaving Club and life between two continents.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Artificial Intelligence, Mobile
Series A, Angel, Funding Round
South Africa, United States

Portfolio highlights

Foundshopping.com — Found (formerly Pashash) is the app that lets you Share Real-World Shopping.Finding a great buy is something worth sharing. Found lets you take a picture, tag your buy and share it on Facebook and Twitter. Express yourself, start a trend, or just help somebody find a great deal.Have it with you when you're out shopping - in the realworld. Discover the best buys at your location and see the Found things your friends have found.
VoxCroft — VoxCroft is making the world a better, safer place with population-centric intelligence.
DataProphet — DataProphet is a developer of machine learning and AI technology to serve the manufacturing industry. The company specializes in optimizing the complex manufacturing processes of key industrial verticals with state-of-the-art machine learning. Its AI-driven solutions leverage the existing data streams from the plant’s production line equipment toidentify process efficiencies.

Tim Parsonson is the Non-Executive Chairman at Undo. Tim Parsonson attended University of Cambridge.

Investment focus

Mobile, Shopping, E-Commerce
Angel
South Africa

Portfolio highlights

Foundshopping.com — Found (formerly Pashash) is the app that lets you Share Real-World Shopping.Finding a great buy is something worth sharing. Found lets you take a picture, tag your buy and share it on Facebook and Twitter. Express yourself, start a trend, or just help somebody find a great deal.Have it with you when you're out shopping - in the realworld. Discover the best buys at your location and see the Found things your friends have found.

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

Investment focus

FinTech, Gaming, Mobile
Seed, Series A
Nigeria, South Africa

Portfolio highlights

Caliza — Give your users access to the digital dollar economy. Get early access!
PayHippo — PayHippo is making it easier to finance small and medium sized businesses in Africa. There is a need for financing of $158 bn for SMEs in Nigeria alone. To start, PayHippo helps SMEs access and spend lender capital effectively. During their first full operational year in 2020, the PayHippo co--founders leveraged their domain expertise and foundingexperience to beat their 2020 goal by 50%.
Carry1st — Carry1st develops and publishes enriching mobile games and content apps for African consumers.

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Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
South Africa, United States, Sweden

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.

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)

Investment focus

Gaming, Internet, SaaS
Series A, Seed, Angel
United States, Estonia, South Africa

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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Education
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, India, Brazil

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

Building and scaling African tech startups with catalytic capital, value-add support and our global network.

Investment focus

Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa

Portfolio highlights

Billboxx — Empowering SMEs to pay and get paid on time, every time.
Yeah — Yeah is a financial technology company that offers payment processing services while building a credit profile for the banked and unbanked.
Konnect — Konnect provides a cross borders payment solution intended to simplify complex financial flows allowing companies of any scale and size to send and receive payments in a practical, secure, and low-cost way.

Venture investor in high-growth Founders and Teams using technology to solve large and meaningful problems across Africa

Investment focus

Financial Services, Finance, E-Commerce
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa

Portfolio highlights

MNZL — MNZL is on a mission to expand access to capital for Egyptians.Every person who owns an asset has accumulated wealth in it. When they want liquidity for their projects and needs, they should be able to tap into it as easily as withdrawing from a bank.With an innovative digital platform and products, we are working on making digital access tocapital a reality, and building the future of asset-backed financing in Africa.
Hub2.Io — Welcome to HUB2, the leading FINTECH startup in interoperability and payment infrastructure in Francophone Africa. We are proud to work with all financial industry players in Africa who need stable and high-performing infrastructure, and contribute to their success.
Affinity — Join over 70,000 who trust the Affinity mobile app to manage your personal banking needs and qualify for an Affinity Instant Loan

We are a venture capital firm that invests in fintech companies with unstoppable founders. We provide early stage (no seed) capital funding.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Series A, Series B, Seed
The Netherlands, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Yoco — Trusted by 200,000+ businesses, Yoco simplifies payments with integrated POS systems, card machines, seamless transactions, and 7-day support. Enjoy low rates, fast processing, and a 30-day money-back guarantee.
Gotrade — Making investing fun, fair and simple. Join over 500,000 investors investing in fractions of companies like Google, Apple & Netflix from as little as $1.
The Social Handshake — With Payroll Giving you make it easier and more financially attractive for your employees to give to charity. Directly from their salary.

E2 Ventures is an investment firm.

Investment focus

Mobile Apps, Automotive, Telecommunications
Seed, Funding Round
South Africa, The Netherlands

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.

Geoffrey Fink is the Founder and Chairman of Investment Committee of Incentrum Group. He previously worked at Neuronix Medical as the Chairman. He attended The Fletcher School at Tufts University.

Investment focus

FinTech, Payments, Point of Sale
Seed
South Africa

Portfolio highlights

Yoco — Yoco is a point-of-sale payments provider for small businesses in Africa. Yoco helps 100,000 small businesses in South Africa get paid in-store, online, and on the go. Yoco was named one of the top 250 most promising fintech companies by CB Insights for the last 3 years running.The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Cape Town, SouthAfrica.

Ham Serunjogi is a co-founder and CEO at Chipper Cash.

Investment focus

Mobile Apps, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Nigeria, United States, South Africa

Portfolio highlights

Caliza — Give your users access to the digital dollar economy. Get early access!
Sudo — Sudo is an open API platform that enables businesses to embed powerful financial features into their products. Build in minutes, launch in days.
CreditChek — Bridging the trust gap between global credit businesses and underserved African consumers.

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