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Top 50 Mobile Startup Investors in South Africa (June 2026)

The most active venture capital funds and angel investors investing in South Africa Mobile startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in South Africa Mobile startup companies. Find investors to raise a Seed, Series A or Series B round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
4Di Capital
VC Fund
4 South Africa, United States, Kenya Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Financial Services, Mobile $441k–$47M
Launch Africa
VC Fund
4 Nigeria, South Africa, United States Seed, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology $200k–$4M
HAVAÍC
VC Fund
4 South Africa, United States, Kenya Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, FinTech $57k–$15M
CRE Venture Capital
VC Fund
4 Nigeria, South Africa, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, Software, FinTech $250k–$25M
UW Ventures
VC Fund
3 South Africa Seed, Series A FinTech, Payments, Insurance $456k–$31M
TLcom Capital Partners
VC Fund
3 Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Seed Software, Mobile, Information Technology $1.9M–$13M
IDF Capital SA
VC Fund
3 South Africa Seed Automotive, Mobile Apps
Flourish Ventures
VC Fund
3 United States, India, Brazil Series A, Seed, Series B FinTech, Financial Services, Finance $2M–$65M
Kalon Venture Partners
VC Fund
3 South Africa, Luxembourg, United States Seed, Series A Apps, Internet, Software $570k–$7M
Ayre Group
VC Fund
2 United States, United Kingdom, South Africa Seed, Series A Blockchain, Video Streaming, Information Technology $393k–$4.4M
Musha Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, Nigeria, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Financial Services, FinTech $125k–$10M
AngelHub Ventures
VC Fund
2 South Africa, Mexico, Colombia Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Education $300k–$2.3M
Chandaria Capital
VC Fund
2 Kenya, United States, Nigeria Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, Retail, FinTech $250k–$37M
Lateral Frontiers
VC Fund
2 United States, Nigeria, Kenya Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed FinTech, Financial Services, Software $500k–$15M
Bose Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, India, Denmark Series B, Series A Software, Music, Mobile $1.5M–$80M
Industrial Development Corporation
VC Fund
2 South Africa, Australia, Canada Post-IPO Debt, Debt Financing, Series A Renewable Energy, Mobile, Sustainability $1.1M–$315M
Perivoli Innovations
VC Fund
2 United Kingdom, Kenya, South Africa Seed, Series A, Series B Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical $1.3M–$26M
Raine Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, United Kingdom, Israel Series A, Series B, Seed Gaming, Mobile, Internet $2.3M–$62M
Quona Capital
VC Fund
2 India, Brazil, Indonesia Series A, Seed, Series B Financial Services, FinTech, Finance $2.4M–$87M
Goodwell Investments
VC Fund
2 Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa Series A, Series B FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Ground Squirrel Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, Kenya, Zambia Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Finance $400k–$5M
Konvoy
VC Fund
2 United States, Canada, Sweden Seed, Series A, Series B Gaming, Video Games, Software $1M–$56M
Riot Games
VC Fund
2 United States, Germany, China Seed, Series A Gaming, Video Games, Software $2M–$55M
Robby Hilkowitz
Angel
2 Israel, Hong Kong, Singapore Series A, Seed FinTech, Financial Services, Payments $1M–$4M
AlphaCode Club
VC Fund
2 South Africa, United Kingdom Grant, Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Finance $26k–$7.2M
TTV Capital
VC Fund
2 United States, Canada, Ireland Series A, Seed, Series B FinTech, Financial Services, Software $3M–$45M
FSD Africa
VC Fund
2 Kenya, South Africa, United States Grant, Seed Financial Services, Energy, FinTech $98k–$6M
Allan Gray
VC Fund
2 South Africa, United States Seed, Series A, Series C FinTech, Payments, Mobile Payments $456k–$100M
Ingressive Capital
VC Fund
1 Nigeria, United States, Egypt Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
LeapFrog Investments
VC Fund
1 India, Nigeria, United States Private Equity, Series D Financial Services, Finance, Insurance
Bloc Smart Africa Fund
VC Fund
1 Senegal, Cameroon, South Africa Seed Apps, Internet, Wireless
CIG Spectrum Capital
VC Fund
1 Singapore, United States Seed, Series A Gaming, Farming, Blockchain
Wuri Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, Kenya, Ghana Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
Skywell Capital Partners
VC Fund
1 Israel, United States, Canada Seed, Series A Artificial Intelligence, Software, Financial Services
Avenir
VC Fund
1 United States, India, France Series A, Series C, Series B Financial Services, E-Commerce, FinTech
Connectivity Ventures Fund
VC Fund
1 United States, South Africa Series A, Seed Software, SaaS, Health Care
Accion
VC Fund
1 India, United States, Mexico Series A, Seed FinTech, Financial Services, Credit
Andrea Bohmert
Angel
1 South Africa, United States Series A, Angel Manufacturing, Artificial Intelligence, Mobile
Tim Parsonson
Angel
1 South Africa Angel Mobile, Shopping, E-Commerce
Knife Capital
VC Fund
1 South Africa, United States, Sweden Series A, Seed Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
Omidyar Network
VC Fund
1 United States, India, Kenya Series A, Seed, Series B Financial Services, FinTech, Education
54 Collective
VC Fund
1 Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa Seed, Pre-Seed Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech
Enza Capital
VC Fund
1 Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa Seed, Series A Financial Services, Finance, E-Commerce
Velocity Capital Fintech Ventures
VC Fund
1 The Netherlands, United Kingdom, United States Series A, Series B, Seed FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Geoffrey D Fink
Angel
1 South Africa Seed FinTech, Payments, Point of Sale
Ham Serunjogi
Angel
1 Nigeria, United States, South Africa Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Mobile Apps, Financial Services, FinTech
Sky Mavis
VC Fund
1 United States, Canada, Portugal Seed, Series A Gaming, Web3, Blockchain
International Finance Corporation
VC Fund
1 India, Brazil, United States Debt Financing, Series B Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
Investment One
VC Fund
1 South Africa Series A FinTech, Payments, Mobile Apps
Maijid Moujaled
Angel
1 Nigeria, South Africa Seed, Series A FinTech, Gaming, Mobile
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4Di Capital
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 4 investments in South Africa Mobile startups

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.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 41
  • Round size: Seed $441k–$7.3M; Pre-Seed $3M–$4M; Series A $2M–$47M
  • Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Lumkani — AFFORDABLE ALARM SYSTEMS & INSURANCE FOR YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS Whether you are in a township, informal settlement, or suburb, we have the right protection for you. AFFORDABLE ALARM SYSTEMS & INSURANCE FOR YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS Whether you are in a township, informal settlement, or suburb ...
  • Investsure — InvestSure is a technology company that uses its software to enable partner investment platforms to sell its unique Investment Indemnity (insurance) product to their clients. InvestSure provides a full set of APIs that trading platform developers can use to integrate the Investure Investment Indemnity product seamlessly and easily into theirwebsites and mobile applications. Once InvestSure technology is added to a trading platform, it enables users to buy insurance on their shares with a single click. The full process from buying to insurance to settling claims is fully automated.The Investment Indemnity product itself is a unique innovation; it is designed to protect to protect shareholders against any losses in share value caused by actual or perceived fraud committed by management. This enables investors to secure their investments. The cost of the product is low enough to not significantly reduce returns of investors where no insurance event occurs, but to provide significant downside protection where an insured event does occur.
  • CompariSure — Custom, built-for-purpose service and sales chatbot solutions for financial services providers.
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Launch Africa
VC Fund · Ebène, Plaines Wilhems, Mauritius · 4 investments in South Africa Mobile startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 162
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$4M; Pre-Seed $200k–$1.7M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $36M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Fixit45 — Fixit45 also provides fleet management, auto parts sourcing and delivery, auto care, refurbishment and upgrades, repair financing, and mechanic workshop software as well as pre-purchase inspections, underlying these with moderation for compliance and accountability.
  • Gigmile — Gigmile provides financial services. They provide gig workers with core services and an affordable lease on productive assets that is tailored to their earnings to enable them to succeed in the mobility industry as entrepreneurs.
  • HomecomingEx — Homecoming Revolution is a pan-African recruitment firm for global African professionals. We specialise in headhunting & placing global African talent.
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HAVAÍC
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 4 investments in South Africa Mobile startups

HAVAÍC is an investment and advisory firm that specialises in early-stage, high-growth African businesses with proven concepts and global prospects, offering investment opportunities to sophisticated investors and international venture capital companies with an interest in Africa. As a complementary offering, HAVAÍC provides corporate advisory andcapital raising services to emerging, internationally scalable businesses.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 44
  • Round size: Seed $57k–$4M; Series A $1.9M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 61% lead, 39% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • MPost — MPost means Mobile Post office.It enables any mobile phone user to have his or her phone act like a mobile post office. It allows you to make your mobile number be a formal postal address. With it, you get access to Postal Services through your mobile phone.
  • RecoMed — Find the best doctors and dentists. Search by location or by speciality, and find the right doctor for you.
  • AURA — A South African cloud-based security and safety startup .
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CRE Venture Capital
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 4 investments in South Africa Mobile startups

Founded in 2015, CRE Venture Capital invests in early stage tech companies that are levered to Africa. CRE is headquartered in the New York metro area, with a regional office in Lagos, Nigeria.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 58
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$4M; Pre-Seed $250k–$3.3M; Series A $1.1M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

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.
  • Flood — Flood is a marketplace platforms that provides merchant solution, self services and big data solution.
  • Asoko Insight — The most comprehensive database of African private companies for due diligence and business development
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UW Ventures
VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 3 investments in South Africa Mobile startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Payments, Insurance
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Round size: Seed $456k–$2.5M; Series A $1.6M–$31M
  • Lead/follow: 54% lead, 46% follow

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.
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TLcom Capital Partners
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in South Africa Mobile startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Mobile, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 59
  • Round size: Seed $1.9M–$8.5M; Series A $3.8M–$13M
  • Lead/follow: 51% lead, 49% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $150M in 2022

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.
  • Talstack — Talstack is an all-in-one platform for employee growth and development
  • 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.
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IDF Capital SA
VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 3 investments in South Africa Mobile startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Carscan — cARscan is an Augmented Reality app with an embedded visual recognition AI to track the visual condition of every motor vehicle during its life-stage.
  • SweepSouth — Book a home cleaning online from your mobile, tablet or computer. SweepSouth connects you with a cleaner in minutes. Cleaners are experienced, reliable, efficient and insured.
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Flourish Ventures
VC Fund · Redwood City, California, United States · 3 investments in South Africa Mobile startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 187
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$8.5M; Series A $5.2M–$35M; Series B $8.3M–$65M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Spade — Providing AI merchant extraction, brand logos, merchant locations, and categorization as a service to fin-techs.
  • Spry — Simplify your physical therapy practice with SPRY. Our all-in-one software streamlines billing, EMR, documentation, and insurance verification. Experience the SPRY difference today.
  • Hummingbird — Hummingbird is a platform for managing anti-money laundering (AML) operations. Compliance professionals use Hummingbird to collect case information, conduct investigations, and report on unusual or suspicious behaviors. The platform dramatically reduces paperwork and improves efficiency, enabling AML investigators to refocus on fighting financialcrime.Hummingbird’s founding team brings together product and regulatory experience from organizations like Square, IDEO, the Department of the Treasury, and the OCC. Hummingbird is using data and design to modernize regulatory compliance in finance.
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Kalon Venture Partners
VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 3 investments in South Africa Mobile startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 17
  • Round size: Seed $570k–$3M; Series A $2M–$7M
  • Lead/follow: 71% lead, 29% follow

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 — Manage your organization's DMARC, SPF, and DKIM with world-class implementation services and support. All in one easy-to-use platform.
  • visionAI — Enhance factory efficiency with visionAI by using existing cameras to uncover inefficiencies and eliminate your production blindspots. Book a demo now!
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Ayre Group
VC Fund · St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada · 2 investments in South Africa Mobile startups

Ayre Group is a venture capital firm that has been disrupting industries and creating iconic brands for decades, from technology, real estate, and Bitcoin, to media & publishing.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Video Streaming, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Round size: Seed $393k–$4.4M
  • Lead/follow: 93% lead, 7% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Libraro — Libraro operates on blockchain technology to modernise the book publishing sector.
  • Vaionex — Next Generation Blockchain Applications. We are building the infrastructure and services that will power the new internet and economic system.
  • Gate2Chain
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Musha Ventures
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in South Africa Mobile startups

Seed capital for technology startups globally.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 140
  • Round size: Seed $125k–$4.9M; Pre-Seed $300k–$3.2M; Series A $2.5M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • nGrow.ai — Boost revenue and engagement
  • 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.
  • Orca Fraud — Orca empowers fraud fighters with effective tools to combat fraud
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AngelHub Ventures
VC Fund · Stellenbosch, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 2 investments in South Africa Mobile startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Education
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, 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

Portfolio highlights

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 29
  • Round size: Seed $250k–$6M; Pre-Seed $1M–$3M; Series A $2M–$37M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

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.
  • Savannah Brands — Savannah Brands is a food & beverage company.
  • UTU Technologies — Trust infrastructure for the sharing economy.
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Lateral Frontiers
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in South Africa Mobile startups

Lateral Capital is a mission driven venture fund investing in early and growth stage opportunities in Africa. We back companies that provide foundational technologies for the continent. We make debt and equity investments technology-enabled businesses that profitably solve significant pain points across financial services, healthcare, education,energy, agriculture, housing, logistics, mobility and more.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 37
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$3.1M; Pre-Seed $500k–$3.5M; Series A $558k–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $50M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • CNote — CNote makes initial Cash Deposits 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.
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Bose Ventures
VC Fund · Framingham, Massachusetts, United States · 2 investments in South Africa Mobile startups

Bose Ventures is looking for startups that are pushing the envelope of AR to help build some of these new experiences. They are investing in startups that are developing apps, services, and technology that leverage and extend the Bose AR platform. If you are one of these innovative startups

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 22
  • Round size: Series A $1.5M–$9.9M; Series B $2M–$80M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $50M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Vesper — Vesper is an electrical and electronic manufacturing company that specializes in microphones, piezoelectric, and audio. The company is driven by a mission is to deliver voice-powered products to every market, around the world. Vesper was founded in 2009 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.
  • Medrhythms — Pioneering Next-Generation Digital Therapeutics to Improve Walking  
  • Noise — Buy latest Noise smart watches, wireless earbuds, BT neckband earphones, wireless headphones, speakers and smart watch accessories online at best prices in India.
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Industrial Development Corporation
VC Fund · Sandown, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 2 investments in South Africa Mobile startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Renewable Energy, Mobile, Sustainability
  • Stage:Post-IPO Debt, Debt Financing, Series A
  • Geography: South Africa, Australia, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Series A $6M–$26M; Post-IPO Debt $1.1M–$49M; Debt Financing $30M–$315M
  • Lead/follow: 53% lead, 47% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Ann-Connect — Ann-Connect is an EdTech SaaS for learning, teaching, exams and assessments rolled into an all-in-one education platform.Founded in 2021 by Bonginkosi Mabaso, Nexa was born from a real problem: students missing exams and learning opportunities because of unreliable internet. Our mission is simple: make online education accessible to everystudent, regardless of connectivity or background. Today, Nexa is trusted by universities, training institutions, and professional bodies across South Africa, with partnerships that give access to more than 450,000 learners. One workspace. All your education tools: - Nexa ExamCore: Offline exam tool where students can access, write, and submit online exams even without internet. - Nexa Invigilator: Invigilation tool designed to monitor for online exams. - Nexa Invigilator Venue-based – Proctoring for physical/venue-based exams for schools, corporates & teams. - Nexa Room – Low-bandwidth video conferencing just like MS Teams but designed for teaching and learning, with AI-driven student engagement tracking. - Integrations – Seamless connection with Learning Management Systems (LMS), plagiarism checkers, and other education tools — all in one place. Recognised with awards from TIA, ABSA, and the Royal Academy of Engineering (UK), Nexa is shaping the future of global education by making it inclusive, resilient, and accessible everywhere. Ready to experience THE platform for inclusive learning? Visit ann-connect.com and join us in building education without limits.
  • 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.
  • Theta Gold Mines — Theta Gold Mines is an Australian Securities Exchange listed company. Through it’s controlling subsidiaries in the Republic of South Africa, TGM currently controls 62,000 hectares of gold Mining and Prospecting Rights which covers the majority of the Transvaal gold fields approximately 350km East of Johannesburg. The Project is named TGME GoldProject which currently has 5.8Moz of a combination of underground/open-cut gold resources.
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Perivoli Innovations
VC Fund · St. Helier, NA - Jersey, Jersey · 2 investments in South Africa Mobile startups

Perivoli Innovations is a venture investment Trust established in 2016 by the Perivoli Trust. It donates profits to the Perivoli Foundation, a UK Charity, whose principal focus is Africa.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Kenya, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 26
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$4.6M; Series A $1.4M–$12M; Series B $2.8M–$26M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

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

Raine Ventures is an early stage fund managed by The Raine Group. The firm has offices in San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, London and Shanghai. With a global reach, Raine focuses on investment and advisory opportunities where its deep industry experience and unique network of strategic relationships can create value for portfolio companies andclients.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 89
  • Round size: Seed $2.3M–$7M; Series A $5M–$20M; Series B $10M–$62M
  • Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $100M in 2017

Portfolio highlights

  • Definely — Definely creates legal tech solutions to free lawyers from frustration, saving them time when understanding, drafting and reviewing legal documents.
  • Whip Media — Discover how Whip Media is revolutionizing the business of content with AI-native solutions for smarter licensing.
  • Rock The Bells — Rock The Bells is an online store for hip-hop culture merchandise.
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Quona Capital
VC Fund · Washington, District of Columbia, United States · 2 investments in South Africa Mobile startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: India, Brazil, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 183
  • Round size: Seed $2.4M–$10M; Series A $3.6M–$30M; Series B $8M–$87M
  • Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $332M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Addi — Addi is a technology company that provides credit and banking solutions. Addi is headquartered in Bogota, Colombia.
  • Klar — Klar is a FinTech challenger bank that provides deposit and credit services for Mexican customers.Using the Klar card rewards users with cash of up to 4% cashback for each purchase, not points without confusing conversions or expiration dates. Clients can also send and receive payments and collections money instantly to Klar accounts and otherbanks. The Klar card is linked to an app where users can see all their movements in real-time.Stefan Moller, Daniel Autrique, Jeronimo Riefkohl, and Gianluigi Davassi established the company in Mexico City, Distrito Federal in 2018.
  • Tiaxa — TIAXA provides innovative financial services to people across the globe, with a particular focus on financial inclusion through mobile technology. Each day, Tiaxa provides more than 2 million Nano-Credits through users'​ mobile Operators in 14 countries including Argentina, Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, and thePhilippines.Tiaxa also provides the mobile telecommunications market with infrastructure, clearinghouse and revenue enhancement services, improving the efficiency with which the current prepaid user base is managed, and increasing revenues for Operators around the world, including China Telecom, Telefónica Movistar, America Móvil and Smart Communications.
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Goodwell Investments
VC Fund · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands · 2 investments in South Africa Mobile startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 35
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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...
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Ground Squirrel Ventures
VC Fund · Boston, Massachusetts, United States · 2 investments in South Africa Mobile startups

Seed round investment in frontier markets and clean energy

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 70
  • Round size: Seed $400k–$3M; Series A $1.8M–$5M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Grapevine — Grapevine makes it possible for groups to invite members, collect and distribute donations, establish a community and connect with nonprofits.
  • 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.
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Konvoy
VC Fund · Denver, Colorado, United States · 2 investments in South Africa Mobile startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 57
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$8.3M; Series A $4M–$25M; Series B $15M–$56M
  • Lead/follow: 54% lead, 46% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $150M in 2022

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.
  • Gamefam — Gamefam creats an Amazing Experiences for an Amazing Community.
  • Carry1st — Carry1st develops and publishes enriching mobile games and content apps for African consumers.
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Riot Games
VC Fund · Los Angeles, California, United States · 2 investments in South Africa Mobile startups

Riot Games is the most player-focused game developer and publisher in the world. We published League of Legends in 2009, and have since released Teamfight Tactics, Legends of Runeterra, VALORANT, and League of Legends: Wild Rift.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 27
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$12M; Series A $6M–$55M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Curse — The entertainment site where fans come first. Your daily source for all things TV, movies, and games, including Star Wars, Fallout, Marvel, DC and more.
  • Stoke Games — Stoke Games operates as an independent gaming studio.
  • Liminal Experiences — Liminal is a new UGC game for creating narrative action role-playing games with the vision of making the world a more creative place. By fusing two interconnected game modes—a joyful creation experience and socially immersive adventure gameplay—they hope to inspire creativity and storytelling.
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Robby Hilkowitz
Angel · 2 investments in South Africa Mobile startups

Robby Hilkowitz is an angel investor.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Israel, Hong Kong, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Series A $1M–$4M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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.
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AlphaCode Club
VC Fund · Gauteng, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 2 investments in South Africa Mobile startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 27
  • Round size: Seed $57k–$7.2M; Grant $26k–$114k
  • Lead/follow: 70% lead, 30% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Abela — Abela is a mobile payments platform that allows the underserved to make and receive payments.
  • 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. ​
  • AgrigateOne — AgrigateOne is an online platform that enables openness between growers and buyers and gets data about agriculture and marine logistics.
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TTV Capital
VC Fund · Atlanta, Georgia, United States · 2 investments in South Africa Mobile startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 170
  • Round size: Seed $3M–$10M; Series A $5M–$28M; Series B $5M–$45M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $250M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Payabli — Payabli delivers payment infrastructure through a single unified API, enabling software platforms to embed, manage, and scale payments.
  • When Insurance — Discover affordable COBRA health insurance alternatives for organizations seeking to minimize COBRA expenses and simplify offboarding.
  • Monit — Monit is an award-winning cash flow analysis, forecasting and guidance platform that banks provide to their business customers. So both can work smarter and power the success of the other.
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FSD Africa
VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya · 2 investments in South Africa Mobile startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Energy, FinTech
  • Stage:Grant, Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, South Africa, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Round size: Seed $3.9M–$6M; Grant $98k–$134k
  • Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Miarakap — Miarakap is the first impact investment company dedicated to financing and supporting Small and Medium Enterprises with high potential in Madagascar.
  • 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.
  • Africa Renewables Katalyst — Africa Renewables Katalyst is an environmental firm that supports renewable energy projects.
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Allan Gray
VC Fund · Alfred, New York, United States · 2 investments in South Africa Mobile startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Payments, Mobile Payments
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: South Africa, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Round size: Seed $456k–$4M; Series A $1.6M–$7M; Series C $70M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow

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 — Manage your organization's DMARC, SPF, and DKIM with world-class implementation services and support. All in one easy-to-use platform.
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Ingressive Capital
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 1 investments in South Africa Mobile startups

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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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 70
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Nowlun — Search for cheap & fast freight prices from all shipping lines.
  • REasy — Top up locally, pay suppliers globally, and manage international shipments with REasy. Fast, secure, and designed for African businesses expanding worldwide.
  • Complete Farmer — We are providing cutting-edge technological farming protocols and innovations with a unique business model and logistics that are revolutionizing...
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LeapFrog Investments
VC Fund · Port Louis Town, Port Louis, Mauritius · 1 investments in South Africa Mobile startups

Scaling purpose-driven businesses to achieve leaps of growth, profitability and impact.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Finance, Insurance
  • Stage:Private Equity, Series D
  • Geography: India, Nigeria, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 65
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Zepz — Zepz is an online service that lets people send money to friends and family living abroad, using a computer, smartphone, or tablet. It is a convenient, low-cost alternative to traditional money transfer companies that use high street agents and charge high fees. Money can be received as a bank deposit, cash pick-up, Mobile Money, or mobile airtimetop-up.Zepz's service is available to senders in 50 countries. They offer transfers to more than 140+ destinations across Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and the Americas.
  • HealthifyMe — HealthifyMe is an application that allows its users to achieve their fitness and weight loss goals from their computers and smartphones.The application enables its users to track their calories, nutrition, and fitness activities; track their weight and determine if they are healthy; set healthy goals and work toward meeting them; share theirdata with experts; and get expert advice and suggestions on their lifestyles.HealthifyMe was developed and launched by a team of doctors, nutritionists, and fitness trainers in 2012. It is based in Bangalore, India.
  • Redcliffe Labs — Redcliffe LifetechRedcliffe Lifesciences specializes in reproductive health testing, rare diseases, and cancer genetic diagnostics. The company offers a wide range of advanced products and services for healthcare companies, research institutions, and other public and private partnerships, such as testing using molecular and gene-based diagnostics,therapeutic molecules and advanced therapies, next-generation sequencing, and all bioinformatics services.
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Bloc Smart Africa Fund
VC Fund · 1 investments in South Africa Mobile startups

BLOC Smart Africa is a finance technology fund, managed by Bamboo Capital Partners.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Internet, Wireless
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Senegal, Cameroon, South Africa

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Waspito — We are the platform that engages Africa into the conversation and action to drive affordable and accessible quality healthcare across the continent.
  • Afrikamart — Afrikamart is a west African distribution platform for fresh produce that offers its marketing services to producers - suppliers - and operates as a digital purchasing center for retailers, hotels and restaurants - customers.We combine extensive use of digital with its experience in the food value chain to: - Facilitate information exchangebetween suppliers and customers (purchase price, sale price, product availability, harvest and purchase forecasts) - Organize end-to-end logistics with a network of transporters - Optimize financial and product flows according to different purchase and payment termsOur team includes experienced technology driven individuals with a strong experience in food commodity trading. Afrikamart brings pragmatic solutions to solve food value chain inefficiencies in West Africa while empowering hundreds of underprivileged women and young people with economic opportunities.
  • TooMuchWifi — TooMuchWifi is known to be the Best and most Reliable Wifi provider. Ideal for your home or business!
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CIG Spectrum Capital
VC Fund · 1 investments in South Africa Mobile startups

CIG Spectrum is an investment firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, Farming, Blockchain
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Singapore, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
  • Oasys — The Dedicated Gaming Blockchain. Oasys is an eco-friendly blockchain built for the gaming community, offering the best user experience with fast transactions and zero gas fees.
  • Avalanche — Avalanche is the fastest smart contracts platform in the blockchain industry, as measured by time-to-finality, and has the most validators securing its activity of any proof-of-stake protocol.
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Wuri Ventures
VC Fund · Dakar, Dakar, Senegal · 1 investments in South Africa Mobile startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Kenya, Ghana

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 18
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • 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 — Cauri Money specializes in financial technology with a wide range of digital banking solutions via app for fund transfer.
  • Fig Finance — We're closing the credit gap. We connect global and local lenders, with the strongest emerging market businesses.
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Skywell Capital Partners
VC Fund · Nicosia, Nicosia, Cyprus · 1 investments in South Africa Mobile startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Israel, United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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
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Avenir
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Mobile startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, E-Commerce, FinTech
  • Stage:Series A, Series C, Series B
  • Geography: United States, India, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 65
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Air — From raw file to final deliverable, Air is the command center of your creative process. More than a digital asset manager (DAM), Air is a visual workspace where creative and marketing teams collect, approve, and share content.
  • Inspiren — Transform senior care with Inspiren's AI ecosystem. Reduce falls by 68%, increase occupancy 22%, and improve care planning. Trusted by leading communities.
  • Kargo — Command your freight.
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Connectivity Ventures Fund
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Mobile startups

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.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 21
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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!
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Accion
VC Fund · Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Mobile startups

Featured Insights & Resources

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 28
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
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Andrea Bohmert
Angel · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in South Africa Mobile startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Artificial Intelligence, Mobile
  • Stage:Series A, Angel
  • Geography: South Africa, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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 offers production intelligence solutions for manufacturers. By combining human ingenuity with production data, we supercharge manufacturing excellence. Explore our Connect platform and expert services, trusted by industry leaders.
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Tim Parsonson
Angel · Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom · 1 investments in South Africa Mobile startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile, Shopping, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

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

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.
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Knife Capital
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in South Africa Mobile startups

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Octiv — Turbocharge your fitness business, grow your community and build your brand with Octiv's leading Gym Management Software.
  • Outsized — Independent talent for enterprise clients and consulting firms in Asia-Pacific, Africa, and the Middle East.
  • Simera Sense — Simera Sense develops camera control electronics for optical payload and Cubesat imager solutions.
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Omidyar Network
VC Fund · Redwood City, California, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Mobile startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 237
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • RailYatri — Indian Railways Train Enquiry, Insights & IRCTC eTicket booking - RailYatri
  • Agenda Edu — Agenda Edu offers a SaaS communication management and engagement in educational environments assisting educators, caregivers and students.
  • SafeTraces — Delivering veriDART, the first field diagnostic platform leveraging aerosol tracers that safely simulate airborne pathogen mobility and exposure levels.
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54 Collective
VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in South Africa Mobile startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 107
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Billboxx — Empowering SMEs to pay and get paid on time, every time.
  • mTek — mTek is a digital online insurance platform that provides an entirely paperless ecosystem for the insurance industry.
  • REasy — Top up locally, pay suppliers globally, and manage international shipments with REasy. Fast, secure, and designed for African businesses expanding worldwide.
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Enza Capital
VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya · 1 investments in South Africa Mobile startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Finance, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 42
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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 100,000 who trust the Affinity mobile app to manage their banking needs, from savings to payments, as well as instant loans
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Velocity Capital Fintech Ventures
VC Fund · Driebergen, Utrecht, The Netherlands · 1 investments in South Africa Mobile startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: The Netherlands, United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 27
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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 — Buy U.S. stocks with Gotrade! Investing is now easier, safer, and hassle-free. Access stocks like Google, Apple, Netflix, and more.
  • 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.
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Geoffrey D Fink
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in South Africa Mobile startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Payments, Point of Sale
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Yoco — Save time, money and guesswork. Yoco helps 200,000+ SA businesses run point of sale, take payments and access flexible business funding from one account.
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Ham Serunjogi
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Mobile startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

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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Sky Mavis
VC Fund · Ho Chi Minh City, NA - Vietnam, Vietnam · 1 investments in South Africa Mobile startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Moku — Worshipping a mischievous Moki with big balls and a small brain. 8887 NFTs, 900+ traits, 3 epic games.
  • Puffverse — A dreamland full of Puffs on Web 3, providing comprehensive products in the ecosystem.
  • Pixion Games — Pixion Games is a studio focused on building competitive esports games for mobile device.
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International Finance Corporation
VC Fund · Washington, District of Columbia, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Mobile startups

A strong and engaged private sector is indispensible to ending extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity. That's where IFC comes in - we have more than 60 years experience in unlocking private investment, creating markets and opportunities where they are needed most.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Series B
  • Geography: India, Brazil, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 379
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • WIOCC — Africa's Digital Backbone
  • Kanastra — Asset-management-as-a-service
  • An Binh Commercial Joint Stock Bank (ABBANK) — An Binh Commercial Joint Stock Bank, a commercial bank, provides consumer and corporate banking services in Vietnam. The company offers consumer banking services, such as term and non-term savings, demand, and accumulated savings deposits; and unsecured consumption, home erection/renovation, secured consumption, business and production, car,home, listed and non-listed securities, overseas study, savings account book/account balance mortgage, and business and production supplementary loans. It provides corporate banking services, including commercial financing, import financing, pre-shipment export financing, SME financing, and co-financing loans; supplementary installment loans for business.
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Investment One
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 1 investments in South Africa Mobile startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Payments, Mobile Apps
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

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

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.
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Maijid Moujaled
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Mobile startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Caliza — Give your users access to the digital dollar economy. Get early access!
  • 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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Mobile Investor funding in South Africa at a glance

Stats across 51 deals from 81 investors.

81
investors
in South Africa Mobile startups
51
deals
in South Africa Mobile startups
$4M
median round
in South Africa Mobile startups
40%
lead investors
lead at least one round
16%
Seed
most common funding stage
86/14
VC / Angel
share of investor count

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