Top 5 Non Profit VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Africa in January 2025
A list of 5 VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Non profit startups based in Africa. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Non profit companies from Africa. We update this investor list every month.Top 5 Non Profit VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Africa in January 2025
Investor | Non Profit Africa investments |
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Praxis | 2 |
Oakley Capital | 1 |
Vumela Fund | 1 |
Oikocredit International | 1 |
Educas | 1 |
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Investment focus
- Non Profit, Social Assistance, Education
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Malawi, Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
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Oakley Capital partners with ambitious founders and management teams to build successful businesses across three sectors: technology, consumer, education.
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- Internet, Rental, Real Estate
- Private Equity, Secondary Market, Seed
- United Kingdom, Spain, Italy
Portfolio highlights
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- ProductLife Group — In our life science consulting expertise, we offer pharmaceutical consulting services during all the regulatory lifecycle of medical products.
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Vumela was established in 2009 by FNB Business Banking and Edge Growth. The objective was to create an innovative model for the development of a sustainable and a financially and operationally independent investment business which invests in high growth small, medium and micro size enterprises with good economic and impact returns.Vumela wascapitalised in 2010. Within the first four years, we’d invested R90 million into eight high growth SMEs, and created a total of 400 jobs. They launched their second fund in 2015, after a further investment of R100 million from FirstRand and R127 million from the Jobs Fund. Within the first year of launching this second fund, we’ve committed R43 million to five investments that are expected to create over 1800 new jobs.The first fund of its kind in South Africa, Vumela’s main goals are to invest in and develop entrepreneurial companies in order to help alleviate poverty in South Africa by creating jobs, and to generate a return for its beneficiaries: the Shalamuka Foundation and the FirstRand Group.
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Investment focus
- Education, Software, Primary Education
- Funding Round, Seed, Debt Financing
- South Africa, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Rentoza — We champion giving you access, affordability and flexibility to explore tech on your own terms
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- Kusini Water — Kusini Water builds water treatment systems from nanotechnology and macadamia nut shells.
Oikocredit is guided by the principle of empowering people. Their experience proves that the most effective and sustainable means of assisting those in need is providing an opportunity to help themselves.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
- Debt Financing, Series B, Funding Round
- India, Nigeria, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Kaleidofin — Kaleidofin provides a scalable and adaptable platform dedicated to democratizing finance through responsible fintech, empowering every customer. Our name, 'Kaleidofin', symbolizes the transformative power of financial solutions with a digital ecosystem that ensures finance for everyone, everywhere.
- Access Bank — Access Bank provides banking products and services to individual and business customers in Ghana. It offers standard savings and current, access advantage, solo, and premier accounts. The company also provides online banking services that include ATM, online access, and point-of-sale terminal services; and bills payment and Western Union moneytransfer services.
- Avanti Finance — Avanti Platform is an open-access digital financial spine, flexible enough for users and partners to create, curate and deploy the financial products
Educas is a global investment firm focused on the education sector. Educas has two platforms: an international premium K-12 group of 42 schools educating over 31,000 students from Nursery to Grade 12 and a tertiary platform launched in 2017.
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Investment focus
- Education, Non Profit, Environmental Consulting
- Seed
- South Africa
Portfolio highlights
- Inspired — Inspired is a co-educational, non-denominational, independent school group designed to inspire students to achieve their maximum potential in a nurturing, progressive academic environment from ages 1 to 18.
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