Top 50 Mobile VC (Venture Capital) Funds in South Africa in May 2026
Top 50 Mobile VC (Venture Capital) Funds in South Africa in May 2026
| Investor | Mobile South Africa investments |
|---|---|
| Launch Africa | 4 |
| 4Di Capital | 4 |
| CRE Venture Capital | 4 |
| UW Ventures | 3 |
| Kalon Venture Partners | 3 |
| IDF Capital SA | 3 |
| HAVAÍC | 3 |
| AngelHub Ventures | 2 |
| Raine Ventures | 2 |
| Lateral Frontiers | 2 |
| TLcom Capital Partners | 2 |
| TTV Capital | 2 |
| Konvoy | 2 |
| Allan Gray | 2 |
| Riot Games | 2 |
| Industrial Development Corporation | 2 |
| Bose Ventures | 2 |
| Quona Capital | 2 |
| Flourish Ventures | 2 |
| Perivoli Innovations | 2 |
| Chandaria Capital | 2 |
| Ground Squirrel Ventures | 2 |
| FSD Africa | 2 |
| AlphaCode Club | 2 |
| Goodwell Investments | 2 |
| Musha Ventures | 2 |
| Atreyu | 1 |
| Two Hop Ventures | 1 |
| Investment One | 1 |
| AET Fund | 1 |
| Connectivity Ventures Fund | 1 |
| Accion | 1 |
| Harambeans | 1 |
| Knife Capital | 1 |
| Sphere Holdings | 1 |
| Smollan | 1 |
| Ingressive Capital | 1 |
| The MasterCard Foundation | 1 |
| FMO | 1 |
| Calculus Capital | 1 |
| P1 Ventures | 1 |
| Yield Guild Games | 1 |
| Wuri Ventures | 1 |
| Globivest | 1 |
| 54 Collective | 1 |
| Apis Partners | 1 |
| TotalEnergies Ventures | 1 |
| Andreessen Horowitz | 1 |
| E2 Ventures | 1 |
| International Finance Corporation | 1 |
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Find investors — It's Free!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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- Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Zazuu — Zazuu is a platform for sending money across the border.
- 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.
- REasy — Top up locally, pay suppliers globally, and manage international shipments with REasy. Fast, secure, and designed for African businesses expanding worldwide.
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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- Software, Financial Services, Mobile
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- South Africa, United States, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Aerobotics — Powerful insights for precision growing and crop insurance
- CompariSure — Custom, built-for-purpose service and sales chatbot solutions for financial services providers.
- 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.
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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- Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- South Africa, Nigeria, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Andela — Unlock the power of global tech talent with Andela. Hire experienced professionals quickly and cost-effectively. Build your team from our robust network of skilled specialists spanning 175 countries. Our AI-powered platform ensures a 96% talent match success rate. Get started now and hire with confidence.
- Matta — Matta is a B2B platform offering a comprehensive, detailed marketplace for sourcing chemicals and materials efficiently and reliably
- Cutstruct — Cutstruct is your one source for bulk construction materials purchase. Get the best prices for cement, steel, granite, sharp sand wood, and more.
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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- 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.
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- Apps, Internet, 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 — 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!
IDF Capital is an established financier, investing in high growth SMEs/Entrepreneurial businesses. We invest with a gender lens strategy
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- 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.
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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- 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!
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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- 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.
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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- Gaming, Mobile, Internet
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, Israel
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.
- talkshoplive — talkshoplive is the leading live stream commerce network and distribution vehicle with a patent-pending embeddable video player containing sales execution, allowing transactions to be processed within the video player anywhere it exists. The network and app offer a full range of services for both buyers and sellers - from live show creation toorder processing, to ease of shipping and payouts.
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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- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Nigeria, Kenya
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- 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.
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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- 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.
- Talstack — Talstack is an all-in-one platform for employee growth and development
- littlefishapp — Full stack enterprise platform that extends your infrastructure, instead of replacing it.
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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- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, Ireland
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- OneAM — OneAM is revolutionizing cash flow management with cutting-edge solutions tailored for Business Owners and Capital Providers. Transform an account receivable into cash in just a few days.
- SamCart — Create an eCommerce storefront with SamCart, an easy shopping cart software and 1-page funnel system, making it simple to sell online.
- Exactuals — Optimizing the payments of residuals, royalties and other complex payments. Exactuals' suite of products optimizes metadata, calculates and processes payments ensuring money gets sent quickly and accurately.
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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- 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.
Allan Gray is Africa's largest privately owned investment management company focused on generating long-term wealth for investors..
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- FinTech, Payments, Mobile Payments
- Seed, Series A, Series C
- South Africa, United States
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- 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.
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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- Gaming, Video Games, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Germany, China
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- 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.
- 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 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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- 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.
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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- Software, Music, Mobile
- Funding Round, Series B, Series A
- United States, India, Denmark
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- 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.
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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- Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- India, Brazil, Indonesia
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- Bureau — Bureau is trust network that facilitates end-to-end identity verification, compliance, and fraud prevention for new-age businesses.
- Kamino — Kamino Finance is a Solana DeFi protocol for capital-efficient lending, borrowing, and yield generation.
- GKN - GloboKasNet — GloboKasNet is a multibank payment network based in Peru. The company offers transaction, processing, and settlement services to low income urban and rural clients of banks, microfinance institutions and commercial wholesalers. GloboKasNet was launched in 2007.
We are an early-stage global venture capital firm investing in fintech founders.
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- FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, India, Brazil
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- CurbWaste — A software by haulers, for haulers
- Reserv — We are a premier claims platform, born from state-of-the-art data intelligence and talent management technology.
- CipherOwl Inc — CipherOwl delivers AI-powered digital asset intelligence and automation tools for institutions, helping banks, exchanges, and crypto teams manage risk, ensure compliance, and operate with confidence.
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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- Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United Kingdom, Kenya, South Africa
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- 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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- E-Commerce, Retail, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Kenya, United States, Nigeria
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- 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.
Seed round investment in frontier markets and clean energy
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Kenya, Zambia
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- 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.
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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- Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
- Seed, Series B, Funding Round
- South Africa, United States, Kenya
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- 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.
We are an African venture capital fund, for world-class African entrepreneurs run by seasoned African investors.
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Grant, Funding Round, Debt Financing
- South Africa, United Kingdom
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- 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
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- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Series A, Series B, Funding Round
- Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa
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- 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...
Seed capital for technology startups globally.
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- Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Nigeria, Kenya
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- 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.
- Flowcart — Sukhiba is a decentralized community-based commerce platform.
- Orca Fraud — Orca empowers fraud fighters with effective tools to combat fraud
Atreyu identifies and works together with investee companies to build and grow their presence. We do this by sharing our expertise and networks, and by investing our own capital alongside that of selected investors.
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- Women's, Internet, Wellness
- Seed
- Germany, South Africa
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- TooMuchWifi — TooMuchWifi is known to be the Best and most Reliable Wifi provider. Ideal for your home or business!
- Femna Health — Femna Health offers virtual access to diagnostics and therapeutic solutions for women's health.
- Elucid Social — Elucid Social integrates businesses with the social good movement through a data-driven strategy that yields measurable results. Elucid Social develops and deploys technologies to assess, report, and minimize human rights risks linked with the sourcing of products and services.
Two Hop is a VC fund focusing exclusively on startups providing the infrastructure for the next generation secure internet. While the Web 2.0 democratized many power structures and created new opportunities, the economic engine is largely privatized and monopolized. Facebook, Uber and AirBnB have created private networks for public infrastructurewhich they dominate. Web 3 is the antithesis and promises to return the internet to the hands of users through the combination of blockchain and internet. It’s about multiple profit centers sharing value across an open network. Two Hop believes the BSV blockchain is best suited for becoming the backbone of Web 3.
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- Software, Blockchain, Bitcoin
- Seed, Series A
- The Netherlands, United States, Spain
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- Vaionex — Next Generation Blockchain Applications. We are building the infrastructure and services that will power the new internet and economic system.
- BikeFair — BikeFair is an online marketplace for comfortable buying and selling verified non-stolen bicycles.The idea of BikeFair arose from our personal need to buy a cheap (yet usable) bike for everyday use in the Netherlands. That felt like an extremely hard & annoying thing to do with the existent tools. We are also fed up by the number of bikes weand our friends have already lost to theft, and we realized there is a way out of this: we can cut the demand for stolen bikes by creating a nice and easy-to-use alternative.Designed to prevent trading stolen bikes, BikeFair offers an easy and fun to use service alternative to the shady dude trying to sell you an obviously stolen bike on the corner at midnight.
- mintBlue — The infrastructure layer where enterprises and governments share, verify, and act on data without losing control. 50M+ daily transactions.
Investment One is a financial firm that provides fund management, stockbroking, venture capital, pension and consulting services.
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- FinTech, Payments, Mobile Apps
- Series A
- South Africa
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- 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.
AET Fund envisions a Heart Driven World by making the world a colorful place through entertainment.
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- Internet, E-Commerce, Gaming
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- India, United States, Canada
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- Questt — School homework app by Questt helps teachers to assign homework to students. Download today on your smartphone.
- 3DC — 3DC develops and manufactures a new carbon material, graphene meso sponge (GMS), for electrodes in next-generation batteries, capacitors, fuel cells and other energy storage and generation devices.
- Stream Captain — Captain.tv makes games for streamers to play live with their viewers! Streamers are the hosts, and viewers play alongside them and each other live on sites like Twitch!
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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- Software, SaaS, FinTech
- 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!
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- 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.
Harambeans are African innovators who have pledged to “work together as one” to build Africa’s future. Over the last decade, Harambeans has spawned a series of tech-enabled ventures such as Andela, Flutterwave, and Yoco, which have collectively generated over 3000 jobs, and raised over $700m from Google Ventures, CRE Ventures and Accel.
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- Big Data, Transportation, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Angel
- Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa
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- Releaf Earth — We are industrializing food processing in Africa. We've led 1000+ smallholder farmers to provide food factories with >7.5 million kilograms of quality crops.
- MarketForce — MarketForce connects Africa’s informal retail outlets and consumers directly to suppliers of consumer goods and financial services by digitizing orders, delivery, and payments with the aim of solving the last mile distribution challenge.
- SHYFT Power Solutions — SHYFT builds industrial-grade IoT and integrated software to connect and intelligently manage distributed energy resources (DERs) in markets that struggle with resiliency. SHYFT is pioneering the development of integrated decentralized power systems in emerging markets like Nigeria, leapfrogging over traditional central infrastructure and enablingDERs to scale and support existing but unreliable grids.
Knife Capital is an independent growth equity investment firm focusing on innovation-driven ventures with proven traction. By leveraging knowledge, networks & funding, Knife accelerates the international expansion of entrepreneurial businesses that achieved a product/market fit in a beachhead market. Knife have offices in Cape Town andLondon.Knife invests via a consortium of funding partnerships, including SARS section 12J Venture Capital Company KNF Ventures and select family offices. Knife facilitated lucrative exits of local technology companies to the likes of General Electric, Visa, Garmin and Uber.
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- Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology
- Funding Round, Series A, Seed
- South Africa, United States, Sweden
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- 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.
Founded in 2003, Sphere is a high performing investment holding company driven to create value for funders, shareholders and business partners. With a solid track record shaped over a decade, They actively seek out investment partnerships with high quality privately owned businesses across a range of strategic sectors.Their success is drivenby an experienced team, Their own capital, a disciplined investment process, and broad business networks. Passionate about partnerships, They commit for the long term and actively work with Their portfolio companies to build great businesses.Majority black controlled and managed and boasting 71% black ownership, including 31% women ownership, Sphere has the necessary credentials to advance the broad based Black Economic Empowerment goals of South African businesses. As the focus turns to the rest of the continent, They actively support Their investments in their pan-African ambitions.Their strong belief in the principles of broad based empowerment means that approximately 15% of the shares in Sphere are held by charitable organisations. Over the years, more than five million worthy beneficiaries in nine provinces across South Africa have benefited from Their track record of delivery.
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- Software, Web Apps, Health Care
- Series A
- South Africa
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- 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.
Smollan drives retail growth at the point of purchase with expert merchandising, activation and tech solutions for brands.
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- SaaS, Mobile, Software
- Series A
- South Africa
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- wiGroup — Award-winning loyalty and rewards software powering South Africa's largest network. Bank card-linked loyalty, digital gift cards, and vouchers across 27,000+ stores.
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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- Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Nigeria, United States, Egypt
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- 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...
The Mastercard Foundation seeks a world where everyone has the opportunity to learn and prosper. Our focus is helping young people in Africa access opportunity by advancing education and financial inclusion.
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- Education, Information Technology, E-Learning
- Grant, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- South Africa, Kenya, Ghana
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- UKC — The Government of Rwanda through the District and Sector gave my family a household cow. My dad was asked to establish a kraal and feeding garden to cultivate pasture. He did it. The Fresian cow given for free, gave us milk and dung, making us get milk for home use and surplus for sale.However, we were hit by the summertime and the pasture wasdepleted due to small plot cultivation we struggled to produce food crops and cow fodder. Our lovely cow started starving, prompting us to rise as early as 4 am and fetch thinny dry shrubs and grass along roadsides and river banks.Our milk production fell from 12 liters a day to 3 liters. The family got stressed with the unstoppable cow mows, rendering the neighborhood complaints about our darling cow noise nuisance due to undernutrition.“Daddy, I will find a way, I am in a country of solutions, not setbacks and regrets. Internet surfing led me to a new technology called Hydroponics Fodder”. Liaising with the external expert made the technology knock at our door, in Rwanda". The UKC member and vision bearer said.
- Yarp foods — YARP Foods is an agri processing startup that specializes in producing cost-effective all-purpose cassava flour for the flour user industries.
- 54 Collective — Building and scaling African tech startups with catalytic capital, value-add support and our global network.
FMO is a financial investment firm that specializes in financing businesses and projects FMO invests across the agribusiness value chain to enhance food security, support sustainability and promoting inclusive development.
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- Financial Services, Finance, Renewable Energy
- Debt Financing, Funding Round, Series B
- India, Kenya, The Netherlands
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- SeA Bank — SeA Bank is a banking institution that provides services like preferential loans, tax service, online transaction solutions and more.
- Ace International — ACE International manufactures and distributes dairy powders, milk proteins, and other food grade components.
- QNB Finansleasing — QNB Finansleasing company provides domestic and international financial leasing.
At Calculus Capital they are specialists in creating and managing tax efficient private equity funds for the individual. Funds that are ideal for today's market - offering generous tax benefits, and significant growth potential within a sensible risk profile.They look to make £2-5 million investments in established companies with provenmanagement teams and a successful product or service. Their entrepreneurial flair, combined with their experience and sound commercial judgement has resulted in a diversified investment portfolio and an impressive track record. In June 2013 Calculus Capital was top ranked in the prestigious Martin Churchill Tax Efficient Review for the 6th year in a row. The Government has recently shown its support for EIS funds, by maintaining the five generous tax benefits and widening the scope of EIS investments. These changes benefit Calculus Capital's rigorous and proven strategy. As a result they are experiencing their strongest pipeline of prospective investments yet.
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- Biotechnology, Software, Health Care
- Funding Round, Series A, Seed
- United Kingdom, United States, Ireland
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- EnsiliTech — EnsiliTech is a biotechnology start-up developing ensilication, a platform technology, to remove the need for refrigeration when transporting and storing vaccines and biologicals
- Grateful — Grateful provides cashless tipping and trunk management software that integrates QR/NFC, EPOS systems, and compliance reporting.
- Laverock Therapeutics — Laverock Therapeutics is developing a gene silencing platform for the creation of programmable, allogeneic cell therapies.
P1 Ventures works as a venture capital firm. They specialize in early-stage industrial technology firms in Africa.
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- Financial Services, Software, Payments
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Egypt, Kenya, United States
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- Chari — Chari is an e-commerce and fintech app for traditional retailers in French-Speaking Africa allowing them to order any consumer goods they sell and get delivered for free in less than 24 hours. Chari is also a financial services provider for these retailers, offering them microloans
- Paymee — Paymee offers a solution to facilitate payments.
- Reliance Health — Reliance Health Global. Improve the lives of your staff with innovative company healthcare benefits fit for any business. You can rely on us.
Yield Guild Games (YGG) is a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) for investing in non fungible tokens (NFTs) used in virtual worlds and blockchain-based games. The organization’s mission is to create the biggest virtual world economy, optimizing its community-owned assets for maximum utility, and sharing its profits with its token holders.
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- Gaming, Blockchain, Video Games
- Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
- United States, Singapore, Australia
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- IndiGG — IndiGG is an NFT based play-to-earn game in the web3 frontier. IndiGG is the India sub-decentralized autonomous organization(subDAO) of YGG.
- Shards — Shards is a free-to-use SDK for game studios that boosts in-game engagement and revenue by allowing players to create, fractionalize and trade in-game guilds.
- Delabs Games — At Delabs Games, we want to create fun games that last a thousand years.
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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- Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Kenya, Ghana
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- Kwely — Kwely is a dynamic and fast-growing startup. We are always looking for passionate, dynamic, fun and hard-working individuals to join our team.
- Cauri Money — 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.
Globivest is a private investment firm with a diversified portfolio of assets. Our primary focus is on innovative and scalable early stage start-ups. We seek to establish long-term relationships with visionary entrepreneurs while adding clear value in strategy and execution.
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- FinTech, Software, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, France
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- Iyris — iyris develops advanced additives for films, coatings, and composites
- Kwara — Kwara turns analog credit unions into modern digital banks.
- Vibrant Planet — Data-driven science and cloud-based technology to help make communities and ecosystems more resilient in the face of climate change.
Building and scaling African tech startups with catalytic capital, value-add support and our global network.
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- Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa
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- Billboxx — Manage payables, receivables, financing and banking in one platform.
- 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.
Apis Partners LLP backs growth financial services innovators who create transformative impact in their communities.
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- Financial Services, Payments, FinTech
- Private Equity, Funding Round, Series B
- India, Singapore, South Africa
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- Xoxoday — Loyalty program is crucial for big companies. We can help you engage and reward your customers online, discover our loyalty programs
- Thunes — bn Mobile and Stablecoin Wallets, Bank Accounts and Cards 0 Countries 0 Fiat and Stablecoin Currencies 0 Payment Methods 0 + Licences Unlock superior cross-border payments. Connect to our network and enable your customers to send instant payments to 120 mobile wallet brands and 3 billion mobile wallet accounts worldwide. Pay-to-Banks Enable reliable real-time payments
- RenewBuy — Simplest way to renew your car insurance. Get quote and insure your car in couple of minutes - no pesky calls/ salesmen...And avail best deals too..
TotalEnergies Ventures is the venture capital arm of Total.As part of Total's commitment to a better energy future, TotalEnergies Ventures is focused on finding, funding and fostering high-potential start-ups which will contribute to creating a low carbon future.Current areas of interest include Renewables, Distributed Energy, NewMobility, Energy Access, Energy Storage, Bio-Plastics, Circular Economy, Carbon Capture and Hydrogen.
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- Energy, Renewable Energy, Transportation
- Series B, Funding Round, Series C
- United States, France, United Kingdom
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- Autogrid — AutoGrid Systems organizes energy data and employs big data analytics to generate real-time predictions that create actionable data.The company’s suite of flexibility management applications allows utilities, electricity retailers, renewable energy project developers and energy service providers to deliver cheap, clean and reliable energy bymanaging networked distributed energy resources (DERs) in real time and at scale. AutoGrid applications utilize petabytes of smart meter, sensor and third-party data, along with powerful data science and high-performance computing algorithms, to monitor, predict, optimize and control the operations of millions of assets connected across global energy networks.Established at Stanford University in 2011, they have assembled a team of world-class software architects, electrical and computer engineers, data scientists and energy experts who apply cutting-edge analytics and in-depth energy data science to solve the world’s most critical energy problems.
- 45-8 ENERGY — 45-8 ENERGY is exploring eco-friendly helium for uses in many industries.
- Ampersand — Ampersand catalyzes and power mass-market electric mobility. By supplying the battery swap network and operating system the company makes sustainable mobility rapidly accessible and affordable for developing markets, to improve livelihoods and the environment. With over a million km already covered by e-motorcycles in Africa using our plug-and-playpowertrain and energy network.
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, California, investing in bold founders, innovators, and entrepreneurs building the future through technology.
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- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Brazil
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- Revolut — Join 40+ million customers globally using Revolut to send money to 160+ countries, hold up-to 36 currencies in app, spend in 150+ currencies, and manage their money.
- Platfora — Platfora’s mission is to empower customers to transform their businesses into fact-based enterprises. Platfora's Big Data Analytics Platform masks the complexity of Hadoop, making it easy for customers to understand all the facts in their business across events, actions, behaviors and time.
- Lead — Lead Bank is a community-minded, independent commercial bank with a national client base recognized for its imaginative approach to community banking.
E2 Ventures is an investment firm.
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- Mobile Apps, Automotive, Telecommunications
- Seed, Funding Round
- South Africa, The Netherlands
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- 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.
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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- Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
- Debt Financing, Funding Round, Series B
- India, Brazil, United States
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- 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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