Top 50 Payments Startup Investors in Nigeria (November 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Ingressive Capital
VC Fund
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12 | Nigeria, United States, Egypt | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology | $25k–$15M |
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Golden Palm Investments
VC Fund
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11 | Nigeria, United States, Egypt | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Information Technology, Financial Services, Payments | $30k–$15M |
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Ventures Platform
VC Fund
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10 | Nigeria, United States, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Internet | $100k–$4M |
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LoftyInc Capital
VC Fund
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10 | United States, Nigeria, Egypt | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | $100k–$37M |
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Lateral Frontiers
VC Fund
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8 | United States, Nigeria, Kenya | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | FinTech, Financial Services, Energy | $500k–$15M |
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Voltron Capital
VC Fund
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7 | Nigeria, United States, Senegal | Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel | Financial Services, FinTech, Payments | $120k–$3M |
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Berrywood Capital
VC Fund
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6 | Nigeria, United States, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed | FinTech, Financial Services, Payments | $100k–$3.7M |
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Resilience17
VC Fund
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6 | Nigeria, United States, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | FinTech, Financial Services, Payments | $100k–$12M |
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VentureSouq
VC Fund
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6 | United States, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia | Seed, Series A, Series B | FinTech, Financial Services, Software | $225k–$50M |
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Musha Ventures
VC Fund
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5 | United States, Nigeria, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Financial Services, FinTech | $100k–$10M |
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Microtraction
VC Fund
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5 | Nigeria, United States, Ghana | Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | $30k–$1.3M |
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Tencent
VC Fund
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5 | China, United States, United Kingdom | Series B, Series A, Series C | Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce | $3M–$400M |
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GreenHouse Capital
VC Fund
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4 | Nigeria, Kenya, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Payments | |
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Entrée Capital
VC Fund
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4 | Israel, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | $1.3M–$54M |
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Kepple Africa Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | $100k–$23M |
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Unpopular Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | United States, India, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services | $500k–$34M |
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Kairos Angels
VC Fund
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4 | United States, Nigeria, Mexico | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | FinTech, Financial Services, B2B | $150k–$20M |
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Olugbenga Agboola
Angel
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3 | Nigeria, Kenya, United States | Pre-Seed, Seed | FinTech, Financial Services, Payments | $625k–$7.5M |
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Flori Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | United States, United Kingdom, Israel | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech | $100k–$11M |
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Youcef Es-skouri
Angel
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3 | United States, France, Nigeria | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services | $125k–$46M |
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Babs Ogundeyi
Angel
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3 | Nigeria, Zambia, Pakistan | Seed, Pre-Seed | FinTech, Financial Services, Finance | $780k–$6M |
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Kinfolk Venture Capital
VC Fund
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3 | Nigeria, Algeria | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B | Payments, FinTech, Software | |
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RaliCap
VC Fund
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3 | United States, Mexico, Nigeria | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | FinTech, Financial Services, Payments | $300k–$5.5M |
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Flourish Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | United States, India, Brazil | Series A, Seed, Series B | Financial Services, FinTech, Finance | $1.3M–$65M |
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Michael Seibel
Angel
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3 | United States, Nigeria, United Kingdom | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology | $500k–$21M |
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Silverbacks Holdings
VC Fund
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3 | Nigeria, United States, Egypt | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A | FinTech, Financial Services, Finance | $100k–$32M |
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Soma Capital
VC Fund
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3 | United States, India, Mexico | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech | $125k–$35M |
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Allen and Ollys International Limited -
Angel
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3 | Nigeria | Seed, Convertible Note | FinTech, Insurance, Blockchain | $1.1k–$4.2k |
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Digital Currency Group
VC Fund
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2 | United States, United Kingdom, Singapore | Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech | $650k–$48M |
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BYLD
VC Fund
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2 | United States, United Kingdom, Nigeria | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, Payments, FinTech | $120k–$6.5M |
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Nordea
VC Fund
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2 | Finland, Sweden, Norway | Debt Financing, Seed | FinTech, Financial Services, Banking | |
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Heirloom
VC Fund
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2 | United States, France, Nigeria | Seed, Series A | FinTech, Fashion, Payments | $2M–$16M |
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Zrosk Investment Management
VC Fund
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2 | Nigeria, United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Finance | $200k–$33M |
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Lightning Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Canada, France | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency, FinTech | $250k–$6.1M |
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CardinalStone Capital Advisers
VC Fund
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2 | Nigeria | Private Equity, Series A, Debt Financing | Retail, Banking, Payments | $3M–$357M |
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CFV Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Canada, Japan | Pre-Seed, Seed | FinTech, Financial Services, Software | $20k–$5.4M |
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Constant Capital
VC Fund
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2 | Nigeria | Seed, Series A | Banking, FinTech, Payments | |
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MediaTek
VC Fund
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2 | United States, China, Taiwan | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, Semiconductor, Hardware | $5M–$200M |
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SBI Investment
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, United States, South Korea | Series B, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Information Technology, Financial Services | $1.3M–$62M |
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TRANSSION
VC Fund
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2 | China, Singapore, Uganda | Series A, Venture - Series Unknown, Seed | Manufacturing, Apps, FinTech | $15M–$200M |
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TLcom Capital Partners
VC Fund
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2 | Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom | Series A, Seed | Mobile, Software, Information Technology | $1.9M–$20M |
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Abdul Hassan
Angel
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2 | Nigeria | Pre-Seed, Seed | FinTech, Financial Services, Payments | $780k–$1.3M |
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Oui Capital
VC Fund
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2 | Nigeria, United States, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, Finance, Apps | $40k–$4.9M |
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Cristina Santin
Angel
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2 | Nigeria | Seed | FinTech, Insurance, Blockchain | $1.2k–$2.2k |
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MyAsia VC
VC Fund
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2 | United States, India, Nigeria | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | FinTech, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence | $592k–$24M |
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Odun Eweniyi
Angel
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2 | Nigeria | Pre-Seed | Payments, SaaS, FinTech | $670k–$3.7M |
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GHC Partners
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Nigeria, Norway | Series B, Series A, Seed | Software, Financial Services, Manufacturing | $500k–$39M |
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VilCap Investments
VC Fund
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2 | United States, India, Kenya | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Financial Services, Health Care, FinTech | $50k–$2.5M |
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Stripe
VC Fund
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2 | United States, United Kingdom, India | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | $500k–$102M |
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Future Africa
VC Fund
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2 | Nigeria, United States, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology | $100k–$40M |
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Ingressive Capital is a renowned $50M Pan-African Venture Capital Fund that invests in indigenous founders and startups across Africa, with focus on Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Morocco, and Nigeria. Specializing in early-stage investments, particularly Pre-Seed and Seed stages, it targets technology companies led by top-tier talent driving transformativegrowth in Africa's GDP. The firm's thesis focuses on B2C solutions that cater to the explosive growth within the tech-enabled, decentralized-learning youth demographic, as well as B2B solutions that increase Africa’s value chain ownership from resource extraction to end-product sale. Its goal is to become becoming a highly valuable VC partner on the founders' cap tables, and being at the forefront of supporting and enabling entrepreneurial success across Africa.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 78
- Round size: Seed $600k–$3.7M; Pre-Seed $25k–$2M; Series A $500k–$15M
- Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $50M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- SehaTech — Welcome to SehaTech, the groundbreaking company revolutionizing the health insurance market with our innovative solutions!
- Chat Cash — Turn conversations into commerce. The unified operating system for payments, inventory, and AI sales on WhatsApp & USSD.
- REasy — Top up locally, pay suppliers globally, and manage international shipments with REasy. Fast, secure, and designed for African businesses expanding worldwide.
Golden Palm Investments is an investment holding and advisory company.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Financial Services, Payments
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 87
- Round size: Seed $230k–$6M; Pre-Seed $30k–$6.5M; Series A $3M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2014
Portfolio highlights
- Talstack — Talstack is an all-in-one platform for employee growth and development
- MAKA — MAKA is a community commerce platform for fashion and beauty, enabling everyone to discover their style, feel represented.
- Renda — At Renda, we are passionate about revolutionizing the logistics and mobility sectors with cutting-edge technology that enables businesses and operators to seamlessly scale in emerging markets.
We back founders building the future of Africa. We invest in companies that solve for non-consumption, plug infrastructural gaps and democratise prosperity in Africa, by eliminating the barriers for access and reducing the costs of delivering goods and services.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 173
- Round size: Seed $100k–$4M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $84M in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Myka.Insure — Myka is a insurance sales platform that enables individuals to sell insurance policies to their family, friends, colleagues, and community while earning income . It operates as a micro-entrepreneurship program where anyone (students, gadget sellers, car dealers, parents, retirees) can start their own insurance business with zero investment,flexible hours, and free training . The company is licensed by the National Insurance Commission of Nigeria and provides instant payouts to its partners .
- Cybervergent — Start with your industry and see how Cybervergent delivers Digital Trust, from posture to proof, written for your context.
- Traction Apps — Traction apps provide businesses end to end tools they need to run and grow their businesses.
LoftyInc Capital Management empowers Afropreneurs to build a prosperous and equitable future in Africa. We deliver value to both founders and investors.........
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 187
- Round size: Seed $100k–$5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2.4M; Series A $250k–$37M
- Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $43M in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Cauridor — Cauridor is a Financial Services company.
- WafR — WafR is a reward-based loyalty startup that allows users to earn phone recharges while shopping at retail shops.
- Nucleon Security — Nucleon Smart Endpoint, AI and Zero-trust powered EDR platform.
Lateral Capital is a mission driven venture fund investing in early and growth stage opportunities in Africa. We back companies that provide foundational technologies for the continent. We make debt and equity investments technology-enabled businesses that profitably solve significant pain points across financial services, healthcare, education,energy, agriculture, housing, logistics, mobility and more.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Energy
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 55
- Round size: Seed $1M–$6M; Pre-Seed $500k–$3.5M; Series A $558k–$15M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $28M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Rhaeos — Rhaeos, the world's first wearable shunt monitor, aims to improve the quality care for patients with hydrocephalus through a novel, thermal biosensor. Developed within Northwestern University with collaboration between Dr. John Rogers, McCormick School of Engineering, Feinberg School of Medicine and Kellogg School of Management, Rhaeosrepresents a unique multidisciplinary translational effort for an important clinical need.
- Wattnow — Wattnow's smart meters and AI show every machine's consumption live and flag waste in time to stop it. Plants cut energy costs by up to 30%.
- Octavia Carbon — Reversing Climate Change | Ending the Fossil Fuel Age | In Kenya.
On a mission to back the most extraordinary entrepreneurs out of Africa solving important problems in large markets.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Senegal
Investor stats
- Total investments: 68
- Round size: Seed $120k–$3M; Pre-Seed $200k–$1.2M
- Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Lingawa — Speak your native language with pride! Learn Yoruba and Igbo with fun, immersive online lessons for adults and kids (ages 5+).
- Maad — Maad is Francophone Africa's fastest-growing B2B marketplace, based in Dakar, Senegal. Our tech-driven solution allows retailers to order products from our one-stop shop and benefit from working capital loans
- ZeroComplex AI — ZeroComplex AI develops Artificial Intelligence workflow that intends to revolutionize business operations with simplified AI integration.
Berrywood Capital is an investment firm.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 22
- Round size: Seed $100k–$2.7M; Pre-Seed $125k–$3.7M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Caliza — Give your users access to the digital dollar economy. Get early access!
- Workpay — Looking for the best payroll software in Kenya? Workpay provides the best payroll software and hr software for your business in Kenya, Nigeria and for Africa
- Koa — Empower your business with our cutting-edge digital payments platform! Lotus simplifies your business banking tasks and offers tailored financial solutions to boost your business growth. Take control of your business finances by exploring Lotus today!
A testament to the continent's unyielding spirit, and a crucible where ambitious ideas are forged into reality through code, capital, and conviction.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 53
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$12M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Vatar — Vatar is building safety infrastructure for Africa — a small device and on-device AI (Ogbon) that turns the CCTV cameras a home or business already owns into intelligent systems that understand what's happening, act on it in real time, and dispatch help when it matters.
- Lagos Life — Lagos Life a massively popular browser-based life-simulation game modeled after Nigeria's commercial capital. Within nine days of launch, the game attracted over 4.7 million players, featuring fully simulated career tracks, social hubs, local virtual economies, and real-time multiplayer functionality directly inside web browsers.
- Aeon Cyber Defense — Aeon is a cybersecurity company focused on securing cloud, code, runtime, and AI environments,Aeon platform appears to help organizations identify and manage security risks across modern, cloud-native technology stacks.AeonSec positions itself around integrated security visibility and protection for rapidly evolving software and AI infrastructure
VentureSouq (VSQ) is a MENA-based venture capital fund manager with a global portfolio. VSQ manages thematic funds, with a current focus on FinTech and ClimateTech.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 222
- Round size: Seed $225k–$9M; Series A $6M–$37M; Series B $300k–$50M
- Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $50M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Orbii AI — Our AI enriches & analyses borrower data, helping you make credit decisions in minutes. Accelerate your business loan Underwriting decisons.
- Siin — E-commerce Marketplace
- MilkStraw AI — Saving companies up to 75% on AWS
Seed capital for technology startups globally.
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 215
- Round size: Seed $120k–$7.5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3M; Series A $2.5M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
Portfolio highlights
- HoneyCoin — HoneyCoin is a web3/web2 ecosystem of products built in a way that abstracts complexity and brings all the value of web3 and web2 to the forefront.
- Zeno — Zeno is a climate conscious motor company that offers eco-friendly motorcycles.
- Lori Systems — Lori Systems is revolutionizing African logistics through innovative technology solutions. We connect shippers, transporters, and drivers to create efficient, reliable, and transparent supply chains across Africa.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Ghana
Investor stats
- Total investments: 106
- Round size: Seed $30k–$1.3M; Angel $30k–$50k; Pre-Seed $50k–$1.1M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $15M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Growwr — Tell Growwr who you need. Our AI hiring agent finds relevant talent, evaluates candidates, and helps you move from hiring brief to interview.
- Paycrest — Unifying fiat and stablecoin payments globally, with speed, transparency, and built-in compliance.
- Cr3dentials — Cr3dentials lets neobanks offer credit inside their app. We handle income verification, underwriting, capital, and collections. You keep the customer.
Tencent is an internet service portal offering value-added internet, mobile, telecom, and online advertising services. Its communications and social platforms Weixin and QQ connect users with each other, with digital content and daily life services in just a few clicks. Tencent has maintained steady growth under its user-oriented operating strategies. It provides value-added internet, mobile, and telecom services, as well as online advertising under the strategic goal of providing users with "one-stop online lifestyle services." Tencent’s Internet platforms in China – QQ (QQ Instant Messenger), WeChat, QQ.com, QQ Games, Qzone, 3g.QQ.com, SoSo, PaiPai, and Tenpay – aim to address the various needs of internet users, including communication, information, entertainment, e-commerce, and others. In September 2013, Tencent's market valuation rose to $101 billion, and as of November 21, 2013, QQ had 2 billion active users and WeChat had 650 million monthly active users. The numbers of active users for QQ mail, Qzone, Tencent Weibo, and QQ news were 274 million, 626 million, 220 million, and 150 million, respectively. Tencent was founded in November of 1998. In April 2000, the IDG and PCCW invested a total of $2.2 million dollars in the company. Tencent was listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (SEHK) on June 16, 2004. Baidu, Alibaba, and Netease are Tencent's major competitors.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
- Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
- Geography: China, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 918
- Round size: Series A $3M–$157M; Series B $15M–$256M; Series C $23M–$400M
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- BYJU'S — BYJU’S is a global ed-tech company that provides highly adaptive, engaging, and effective learning solutions to more than 150 million students around the world. Founded in India in 2011, BYJU's mission is to make high-quality learning accessible to students everywhere.The BYJU's family of brands includes Disney-BYJU's Early Learn,BYJU's FutureSchool, Epic!, Osmo, Tynker, Toppr, and WhiteHat Jr., along with the company’s beloved flagship product, BYJU's: The Learning App. Together, BYJU's solutions support pre-K–12 education and a wide range of competitive exams.BYJU’S delivers a world-class learning experience with tools that sit at the crossroads of mobile, interactive content, and personalized learning methodologies. Byju's geography-agnostic solutions and 12,000+ teachers make learning engaging with visual and contextual programs that adapt to the unique learning style, skill level, and pace of each student. In addition, BYJU’S has innovative partnerships with some of the world's largest companies, including Disney and Google, to drive engagement and help even more students become active and lifelong learners.BYJU’S is backed by blue-chip investors including the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative, Sequoia Capital, Bond Capital, Silver Lake, BlackRock, Sands Capital Management, Alkeon Capital Management, Sofina, Verlinvest, Tencent, Prosus (previously Naspers Ventures), CPPIB, General Atlantic, Tiger Global, Qatar Investment Authority, Owl Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Times Internet, Aarin Capital, and IFC. Since 2017, BYJU’S has completed more than 15 acquisitions, including companies in the U.S., UK, Austria, India, and Singapore. A 2021 Time 100 Most Influential Company, BYJU’S is headquartered in India, with operations in more than 21 countries globally and learning programs in more than 8 languages.
- VIPKID — VIPKid is a global education technology company that connects children with the world’s best teachers for real-time online English immersion learning.VIPKid’s mission is to inspire and empower every child for the future. VIPKid envisions a global classroom that empowers students and teachers through personalized learning, connection of culturesacross the world and the passion for lifelong learning. It believes that education is not one-size-fits-all, rather, all students are unique and the world is within their reach when connected with great teachers capable of personalizing learning and sparking curiosity.Founded in 2013 and formally launched in 2014, VIPKid has become China’s market-leading online education startup, attracting investment from Tencent, Coatue Management, Sequoia Capital, Sinovation Ventures, Yunfeng Capital, Matrix Partners, Learn Capital, Northern Light VC and Bryant Stibel, among others. The VIPKid platform currently connects over 500,000 paying students with over 60,000 teachers in the US and Canada.
- Z.ai — Z.ai develops artificial intelligence models and services built upon large-scale pretrained architectures. The company offers ChatGLM, a dialogue-focused language model series designed for smooth conversation and easy integration. It also provides Ying, a text-to-video model capable of generating short video clips from text or images, and AutoGLM,a voice-driven AI agent that performs smartphone tasks based on complex user instructions. Z.ai supports integration through an API platform and offers migration assistance for developers moving from other AI ecosystems. The company’s technology stems from research at Tsinghua University’s KEG lab and emphasizes general-purpose cognitive intelligence models.
GreenHouse Capital’s Founding Partners took their own fintech company Venture Garden Group (VGG) from a 7 employee, ₦30 million revenue startup to a 200 employees, ₦2 billion power house in just 4 years and raised an attention grabbing Series A round from Convergence Partners of South Africa. The uniqueness of their position was not lost on thefounders who then cultivated Garden Institute of Business Entrepreneurs (GIBE) to identify, incubate, and invest in young and innovative tech startups solving global challenges in Emerging Markets. GIBE was created to build a world class talent management hub for young and passionate entrepreneurs while creating a pool of technology inclined businesses and innovation oriented leaders.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 32
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Credpal — Buy now, pay later. Split in 6.
- Encore Pay — Encore Pay is a UAE-based FinTech and Payment solutions provider.
- 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.
We are a team of former serial founders managing $1.5Bn across a number of funds, with offices in Tel Aviv, London, and New York. We back the next generation of category-defining companies with conviction of founders who have built companies themselves. We back founders with a partnership built on trust, fairness and real operating experience. We stand with founders through every challenge, and help them grow with clarity, resilience and purpose.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Israel, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 316
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$16M; Series A $5M–$30M; Series B $17M–$54M
- Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $175M in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Chamelio — Chamelio builds intelligent technology for in-house legal teams. We understand that every in-house legal team operates uniquely - shaped by their industry context, company culture, and strategic priorities. Our platform adapts to these distinct characteristics, delivering hyper-personalized workflows that evolve with your team's specific needs.
- Undecimal Bio — Undecimal Bio operates as a platform biotechnology company that develops targeted delivery mechanisms for small interfering RNA (siRNA) therapeutics. The company utilizes a proprietary platform that combines combinatorial chemistry libraries with transformer-based artificial intelligence to discover molecular conjugates capable of guiding genetic medicines to specified cells outside of the liver. This approach aims to circumvent traditional delivery constraints to expand the reach of RNA therapeutics into a broader range of therapeutic areas and human organs.
- Ultra Security — Ultra Security protects AI agents by monitoring actions, enforcing security policies, preventing threats, and safeguarding sensitive data.
Kepple Africa Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 85
- Round size: Seed $500k–$4.5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3.4M; Series A $1.1M–$23M
- Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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
- Intmax — INTMAX has developed significant innovations in ZK implementation making it a unique Layer2 rollup network that offers low cost, security, tunable privacy, and above all, scalability.
- TIBU Health — TIBU Health is a disruptive HealthTech logistics company that provides high-quality healthcare services.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 622
- Round size: Seed $500k–$8M; Pre-Seed $500k–$2.6M; Series A $6M–$34M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $13k in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Sourcepulse — Sourcepulse empowers engineering leaders to spot delays early, fix process bottlenecks, and confidently commit to deadlines.
- Morphic — Morphic is the sovereign AI platform for organizations to capture and own their tribal knowledge. The Morphic Revenue Agent is the first agent we're launching - a proactive AI agent for sales teams that connects to their existing software and helps to tighten pipeline discipline, so you can close faster and more predictably. The Morphic Workspace is an agentic platform for any team, technical and non-technical, to build an AI operating system for your business. Connect any software tool in your stack, and embedded agents help to automate work while maintaining unified context across all your work tools. The Morphic Workspace comes with: > Knowledge base > Project management > Meeting recorder > Custom tables/records > Embedded agents that live on the workspace and platforms like Slack, WhatsApp, Telegram etc.
- NORDA Dynamics — NORDA Dynamics is an autonomous UAV piloting system for carrying out missions in areas with limited connectivity.
An investment club partnering with visionary entrepreneurs to create disruptive and innovative companies that have the potential to be come regional leaders and global challengers. ideas@kairosangels.com
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, B2B
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, Mexico
Investor stats
- Total investments: 32
- Round size: Seed $150k–$5M; Pre-Seed $500k–$3.7M; Series A $4.2M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Nestcoin — Nestcoin is a web3 application company that builds, operates, and invests in crypto-native products.
- Belong — Belong is a personal finance platform for people who are ready to play the long game.
- Cleva — For anyone with global financial needs, A US-based dollar account in your name to receive, hold, and save USD.
Olugbenga Agboola is the Co-Founder and CEO of Flutterwave. He previously worked at Africa Fintech Foundry as a Senior Entrepreneur In Residence. Olugbenga Agboola attended MIT Sloan School of Management.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 21
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$7.5M; Pre-Seed $625k–$3.7M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
Portfolio highlights
- tushop — Shop wholesale groceries, market fresh produce, local brands, and affordable preloved finds on Tushop. Secure checkout, friendly support and fast 90 minute delivery across Nairobi.
- Curacel — Curacel creates APIs & tools that enable businesses to embed insurance in digital channels and to administer claims cost-effectively.
- Afropolitan — Afropolitan is building a Network State to unleash the maximum potential of Africans around the world. Are you interested? Join us with your email.
More than a seed-stage fund and a portfolio of startups: Our community of founders taps into the power of financial innovation to collaborate around global problems and unlock prosperity for all.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 106
- Round size: Seed $250k–$11M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3.5M; Series A $2.8M–$11M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Mento Labs — Mento Labs' mission is to enable real-world adoption of digital assets by providing transparent and reliable technological primitives to our partners around the world.
- Learn.xyz — Learn.xyz’s is a mixture of Duolingo and Wikipedia, powered by AI, creating bite-sized “Curiosities” which feature slides and a quiz, in mere seconds just from taking in a user’s question. Find the app on iOS and Android.
- Thrive Protocol — Thrive Protocol's vision is to maximize value creation for all people and communities.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, France, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 33
- Round size: Seed $125k–$9.8M; Series A $6.2M–$46M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Tana — Tana is the agentic meeting platform for teams. Bring your own Claude or ChatGPT into the meeting: it gets the live transcript and the shared screen, and the work gets done while you talk. No bot joins the call.
- Hypercubic — Hypercubic is agentic AI for mainframe modernization, helping enterprises and governments preserve institutional knowledge and modernize COBOL.
- Default — The command center for modern sales teams.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, Zambia, Pakistan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Seed $2M–$6M; Pre-Seed $780k–$4M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Zazuu — Zazuu is a platform for sending money across the border.
- Curacel — Curacel creates APIs & tools that enable businesses to embed insurance in digital channels and to administer claims cost-effectively.
- Maplerad — Global payment infrastructure for businesses.
Kinfolk Capital is an investment firm focused on Africa's private and public markets.
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- Industry: Payments, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Geography: Nigeria, Algeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Dukka — Dukka provides easy-to-use technology that supercharges over 90,000+ small merchants in Africa to sell goods and services anywhere, accept any form of digital payment, and manage their daily operations. Dukka combines in-person and online payment processing with a full suite of mobile, retail and online sales and business management tools,all-in-one streamlined package.Small merchants who never had any technology exposure or had very little of it can now thrive in the digital age. For most users, the cost of using Dukka to manage daily operations is free. The cost of using Dukka's payment processing solution is transparent; free business banking, flat-rate payment processing fees, monthly maintenance fees, and complimentary technical support.For business owners looking to move from informal to formalised industry, Dukka Launchpad offers quick business formalisation tools that help them incorporate their businesses with the corporate affairs commission in a matter of days, contrary to the 3 months long wait period.
- Yassir — Access on-demand daily services like ride-hailing, food and grocery delivery, and payments with Yassir, your super app.
- Norebase — Norebase knows that there's an opportunity to grow successful businesses in Africa. It also understands the complexities of the market, and so is using technology to make doing business in Africa worthwhile. With Norebase get to operate in Africa with no hassle and with minimum risk.
Rally Cap is a global community of tech folks investing in an exclusive portfolio of top-tier early stage venture funds in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: United States, Mexico, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 64
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$5.5M; Pre-Seed $300k–$3.7M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $2.5M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Fronte — Fronte is a cross-border financial platform designed to help families manage shared finances, recurring payments, and expenses across different countries.
- Cata — Launch your branded mobile app for ordering, CRM & loyalty. Increase order frequency & basket size. Learn how Cata can scale your business!
- Pago ASAP — Asap optimizes every process with speed, security, and efficiency by facilitating cross-border payments targeted at resource banking. Pago ASAP's payment infrastructure enables banks, fintechs, digital wallets, remittance companies, and businesses to transmit and receive payments.
We are an early-stage global venture capital firm investing in fintech founders.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, India, Brazil
Investor stats
- Total investments: 260
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$8.5M; Series A $3.3M–$25M; Series B $10M–$65M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $350M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Spiko — Cash management for companies and individuals. Open your account in under 5 minutes, earn daily yield on your treasury and access cash anytime.
- Madica — Home for Africa's pre-seed stage ventures
- Parallel Loop — Parallel Loop is a software engineering company that builds AI solutions, and custom software for startups and enterprises.
Michael Seibel is the Partner Emeritus of Y Combinator. He previously worked at Socialcam as CEO. Michael Seibel attended Yale University, where he took a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 212
- Round size: Seed $500k–$7.2M; Pre-Seed $500k–$500k; Series A $5.9M–$21M
- Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kira — The first agentic layer for cross-border payments. USD accounts, stablecoin conversion and payments for platforms, OTC desks and global trade.
- Recall.ai — Recall.ai provides a single API for meeting bots on every platform like Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams and more.
- Arena — Arena accelerates testing, debugging, and optimization for the world’s most advanced hardware. Atlas is an AI hardware engineer grounded in applied physics with an understanding of the real-world environment.
Silverbacks Holdings is a Mauritius-based private investment firm established in 2019, focusing on Africa-related companies in underserved industries such As technology, sports, entertainment, and the creative economy. The firm aims for returns averaging 2x to 5x on its investments and has achieved 9 profitable exits since its inception. Its portfolio includes over 240 companies across Africa, collectively valued at over $10 billion. Landmark investments include the Cape Town Tigers (2024 BAL semi-finalists), Forever7 Entertainment (Netflix content deals), and Moove (a global mobility fintech backed by Uber), and Wave (a mobile money and global remittance focused fintech backed by Stripe).
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 65
- Round size: Seed $200k–$8.3M; Series A $1.4M–$32M; Venture - Series Unknown $100k–$26M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Vanhu Vamwe — Vanhu Vamwe is a luxury accessory brand that creates handcrafted, sustainable handbags using traditional African crafts and eco-friendly materials.
- The Rad Black Kids — The Rad Black Kids are the Anti-Monolith Crusaders use design to tell stories. All our products are now made in Portugal. Sustainability and reduction of carbon emissions are paramount to us. We design longboards, clothing, and sneakers Free Shipping on all Domestic Orders.
- African Warriors Fighting Championship — African Warriors Fighting Championship is Africa's leading promoter of traditional combat sports: Dambe and Wrestling.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, India, Mexico
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1093
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$8.5M; Pre-Seed $125k–$3.8M; Series A $5M–$35M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $37M in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- Rebill — Rebill.com is the payments and subscriptions platform specifically designed for digital businesses and global companies scaling in Latin America.With our platform and API, companies can integrate over 100 local payment methods from the region, including cards, bank transfers, cash, and even wallets. In addition, they always receive the best humansupport with fair pricing and utmost transparency, enabling them to scale across the region 10 times faster.We are backed and have received investment from some of the world's leading funds such as Tiger Global Management, Soma Capital, SV Angel, Y Combinator, as well as incredible angel investors like Guillermo Rauch (Vercel), Arash Ferdowsi (Dropbox), among others.
- FirstWork — Applied AI for frontline enterprises. Forward-deployed AI agents that automate workforce operations inside your existing systems.
- Ramp — Join thousands of forward-thinking businesses using Ramp to control spend, save time, and automate busywork.
Allen and Ollys International Limited -
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- Industry: FinTech, Insurance, Blockchain
- Stage:Seed, Convertible Note
- Geography: Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Seed $1.1k–$4.2k
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Get It Done Now — GIDN is a Nigerian Fintech Company targeting medium and low income population for Loans and Financial products. GIDN has in addition a cashless, mobile based community marketplace, with more than 5k members, and aims to regulate the informal economy and facilitate the purchase of Services and Digital Products.
We are the capital engine supporting emerging talent & crypto technology. On its mission to accelerate the development of a better financial system.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 298
- Round size: Seed $650k–$8.5M; Series A $3M–$48M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Zabo — Zabo is an API for connecting to any crypto exchange, wallet, protocol or account. Sign up for access to free API keys at Zabo.com
- Joystream — Joystream is a block chain-based, decentralized video platform.
- Ceramic Network — Ceramic Network is a provider of protocols for decentralized and composable data applications. The network decentralizes application databases, making data universally composable and reusable across applications. It consists of three core parts: a highly-scalable, decentralized infrastructure for data availability and consensus, a marketplace ofcommunity-created data models, and a suite of standard APIs for storing, updating, and retrieving data from those models.
Byld Ventures is a corporate venture capital firm focusing on early-stage technology investments.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Payments, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 25
- Round size: Seed $200k–$6.5M; Pre-Seed $120k–$2.1M
- Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Munify — Fast, secure, and cost-efficient cross-border payments powered by stablecoins. Send and receive money globally without delays, high fees, or the complexity
- Bluerails — Bluerails is a fintech firm that has created an on-chain treasury platform to improve cross-border payments and treasury management for businesses, family offices, and high-net-worth individuals.
- Stream — Stream is a company that helps make payments simpler, faster, and reliable.
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Browse database — It's Free!Nordea Bank is Denmark's second-largest bank and counts every fourth Dane among its customers. Through their nationwide network of some 340 branch offices and a broad range of self-service facilities, they are able to offer you a full scale of financial products and services, including Netbank, Online Investment, telephone banking and cashdispensers.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Banking
- Stage:Debt Financing, Seed
- Geography: Finland, Sweden, Norway
Investor stats
- Total investments: 23
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Tibber — Tibber is a digital electricity supplier that offers smart solutions to minimize their customers’ consumption and costs. Its vision is to make sustainable energy consumption simple and affordable for all households. Tibber's mission is to reduce the residential electricity consumption for European households by 20 %. Founded in Norway andSweden in 2016, the company has expanded its offer to Sweden and Germany where it powers hundreds of thousands of homes. Tibber replaces traditional utilities with smart technology, supplying its customers with renewable energy at fair and transparent prices. In addition, its app provides real-time analytics into energy usage, and pairs with a variety of smart home devices to reduce electricity consumption at home. The company sells tech-gadgets in their online store and recently was licensed to balance the main power grid in Sweden with EVs.
- Statzon — Make data-driven plans & faster decisions with a simple access to +1M datasets & market reports about 8,000 topics from +200 trusted data providers.
- Get It Done Now — GIDN is a Nigerian Fintech Company targeting medium and low income population for Loans and Financial products. GIDN has in addition a cashless, mobile based community marketplace, with more than 5k members, and aims to regulate the informal economy and facilitate the purchase of Services and Digital Products.
Heirloom specializes in niche alternatives to help investors diversify their portfolios. Their alternative funds and co-investment opportunities are uncorrelated to the market and traditional asset classes and are designed to enable investors to better de-risk their portfolios while also earning stable and strong returns. They also offer otherbespoke investment services to help investors strengthen their portfolios. They offer heirloom funds, co-investment pools, and bespoke services.
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- Industry: FinTech, Fashion, Payments
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, France, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $2M–$3M; Series A $15M–$16M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Waza — Waza is a web platform with APIs. It helps startups and emerging market businesses manage their cash flow issues, invoicing needs, and international payment requirements.
- Faircraft — A sustainable, lab-grown alternative to animal leather.
- Confido — Confido is a software company that provides financial operations automation for consumer packaged goods brands. Confido helps CPG brands save time and money by automating cash applications, fighting deductions, and tracking trade costs in a platform. The company is based in New York, New York.
Alternative investment solutions: private credit, discretionary portfolios, and the Magna Specialized Fund.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Nigeria, United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 30
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$5M; Pre-Seed $200k–$2.5M; Series A $7M–$33M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
Portfolio highlights
- PaidHR — PaidHR works with organizations to streamline how they manage their staff. Our precisely created solutions enable them to create the ideal place to work.
- Lingawa — Speak your native language with pride! Learn Yoruba and Igbo with fun, immersive online lessons for adults and kids (ages 5+).
- Definely — Definely creates legal tech solutions to free lawyers from frustration, saving them time when understanding, drafting and reviewing legal documents.
Lightning Ventures is an exclusively Bitcoin focused network of investors, operators, and developers, dedicated to supporting Lightning Network adoption worldwide
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- Industry: Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Canada, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 58
- Round size: Seed $1M–$6M; Pre-Seed $250k–$620k; Series A $6M–$6.1M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
Portfolio highlights
- JAN3 — JAN3 provides technologies and solutions for individuals, enterprises, and nation-states to prepare for the future built on Bitcoin.
- Vida — Vida is the AI Agent Operating System for enterprises. Build, deploy, and manage AI agents that call, text, email, and chat at scale with no-code tools.
- OrdinalsBot — We make it easy to inscribe ordinals. Like, really easy.
CardinalStone Partners Limited is a boutique investment banking firm that offers financial advisory services. The firm provides mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, leveraged buyout arrangements, balance sheet optimization, capital restructuring, and competitor strategies advisory services. Additionally, it offers private placements, equity capital markets and debt financing, and information services.
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- Industry: Retail, Banking, Payments
- Stage:Private Equity, Series A, Debt Financing
- Geography: Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Series A $6M–$10M; Debt Financing $3M–$357M
- Lead/follow: 80% lead, 20% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $64M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Nomba — Open a Nomba business account in 3 minutes. POS terminals, online checkout, wire transfers, multi-currency wallets, trusted by 600,000+ Nigerian businesses.
- Arnergy — Arnergy is a trusted solar energy company that provides clean, reliable, and affordable solar power solutions for homes and businesses, helping you save money while enjoying uninterrupted energy.
- Nigeria Bulk Electricity Trading — NBET is a government body that manages electricity trading by purchasing from generators and supplying distribution companies.
Early stage venture capital firm focused on Fintech
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: United States, Canada, Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 86
- Round size: Seed $20k–$5.4M; Pre-Seed $20k–$1.2M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $5.7M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- AleFi — AleFi is a social investing app that connects retail investors interested in the financial world to know where and when to invest. Users can connect with other investors on the platform, as well as view other users' investments, profitability, and portfolio composition. It aims to provide its users with a way to follow and view the portfoliosof credible investors. Customers will pay $5 per month to gain access to successful investors' trading portfolios through AleFi's service. The company and the investor split the fees 20/80.
- Konduit — Connecting consumers with 300+ local lenders that are hard-to-find online and offer better deal on loans
- Konduit — Konduit is a no-code fintech infrastructure allowing banks quickly onboard and adopts third-party fintech solutions. It connects banks, fintechs, and other technology in a seamless, no-code platform for financial institutions. The platform delivers real-time pre-qualified rates for consumer loans at a fraction of the cost. Lenders can use theKonduit platform to combine individual fintech solutions to solve end-to-end business use cases.Konduit was founded in 2021 and is based in Reston, Virginia.
Constant Capital is a leading private Pan-African financial services company that specializes in Corporate Finance Advisory Services and Principal Investing in Private Equity and Real Estate. The firm provides top quality services to privately-held and publicly-traded companies in Africa and to domestic and international institutional investors.Constant Capital has offices in Accra, Ghana, Lagos, Nigeria, Johannesburg, South Africa and the Seychelles.Constant Capital provides a full range of financial advisory services, including corporate finance and M&A advisory services, restructuring and reorganizations, private placements and public offerings of equity and debt securities.Constant Capital’s Principal Investing utilizes the firm’s proactive deal originating capabilities to make Private Equity investments in unique investment opportunities in a broad range of sectors and in Real Estate.
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- Industry: Banking, FinTech, Payments
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Appzone Group — We are now Zone; a blockchain enabled payment infrastructure company. Our original business is now a separate stand-alone company called Qore.
MediaTek is another name for incredible innovation that powers the brands you love. From smartphones to smart homes, we are always by your side.
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- Industry: Software, Semiconductor, Hardware
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: United States, China, Taiwan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 46
- Round size: Seed $10M–$40M; Series A $7M–$200M; Series B $5M–$83M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Ayar Labs — Ayar Labs develops a monolithic in-package optical I/O (MIPO) solution for applications that require high bandwidth, low latency, and power-efficient short-reach interconnects.The company disrupts the traditional performance, cost, and efficiency curves of the semiconductor and computing industries by driving improvement in interconnectbandwidth density at lower power. Its patented approach uses industry-standard cost-effective silicon processing techniques to develop high speed, high density, low power optical-based interconnect “chiplets” and lasers to replace traditional electrical-based I/O. Ayar’s flagship product is a chip called TeraPhy that implements its optical technology on compact silicon die. The chip can be integrated directly into a central processing unit, graphics card, or another processor to give it optical data transmission capabilities.The Emeryville, California-headquartered company was established in 2015 by Alex Wright-Gladstein, Vladimir Stojanovic, Chen Sun, and Mark Wade.
- Oxmiq Labs — Licensable GPU IP and a unified runtime for the age of inference. OXMIQ Labs is re-architecting the GPU stack from atoms to agents.
- ChipAgents — Agentic AI for semiconductor design and verification. Explore ChipAgents, customer results, research, and the latest company news.
SBI Investment supports the business development and growth of private venture companies through fund investment. It manages and manages venture capital funds under the management philosophy of becoming a leading company responsible for the creation and development of core industries in the 21st century as a "new industry creator". SBI Investment has invested in a total of 986 companies in the past, of which 169 (17.1% of investment companies) have exited through IPO or M & A.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
- Stage:Series B, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Japan, United States, South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 457
- Round size: Series A $1.9M–$28M; Series B $4.5M–$62M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.3M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $77M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- LQUOM — QWAVE offers cryptography communication technology.
- Alxtal — Alxtal is a tech company who optimize the development, design, and manufacturing processes of the manufacturing industry with IT and AI.
- Zerodoor HD — Zerodoor HD specializes in digital transformation in constructing industry.
TRANSSION HOLDINGS, the company formerly known as TECNO TELECOM LIMITED, established in July 2006, is a high-tech company specializing in the R&D, production, sale and service of mobile communication products. After years of development, TRANSSION has become an important part of the mobile phone industry and one of the major mobile phone manufacturers in the world. Currently, it has full ownership of three famous mobile phone brands TECNO, itel and Infinix, and an after-sales service brand Carlcare. The company has set up offices in many countries and regions, such as Dubai, Nigeria, Kenya, Tanzania, Cameroon and Bengal, and even has built a factory in Ethiopia, which has provided great support for all its brands.
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- Industry: Manufacturing, Apps, FinTech
- Stage:Series A, Venture - Series Unknown, Seed
- Geography: China, Singapore, Uganda
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Seed $40M–$200M; Series A $15M–$100M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Today AI — Today is a company that develops an AI-powered assistant app integrated with user data, third-party integrations, and health tracking systems.
- Sharpa — Sharpa builds dexterous humanoid robots with human-like, tactile robotic hands with 22 DoF, as well as foundation models for contact-rich manipulation tasks. ROS2-compatible. Trusted by leading robotics labs globally.
- Zhilun Ultra-Pure — Zhilun Ultra-Pure is a high-tech firm that combines high-quality resources, works autonomously, and is distinguished by "specialization, precision, and special innovation" by three technology-based new material companies. It is dedicated to ultra-high-purity electronic-grade epoxy. The Electronic Chemical New Material IndustryAlliance's governing unit is R&D and production and sales resin.
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Browse database — It's Free!TLCOM finds and funds exceptional founders building technology companies across Africa. Seed to Series C. Lagos, Nairobi, London.
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- Industry: Mobile, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 78
- Round size: Seed $1.9M–$8.5M; Series A $3.8M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 55% lead, 45% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $150M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Satlyt — Satlyt helps satellites run AI and applications onboard, process data in orbit and work together as a network.
- Myka.Insure — Myka is a insurance sales platform that enables individuals to sell insurance policies to their family, friends, colleagues, and community while earning income . It operates as a micro-entrepreneurship program where anyone (students, gadget sellers, car dealers, parents, retirees) can start their own insurance business with zero investment,flexible hours, and free training . The company is licensed by the National Insurance Commission of Nigeria and provides instant payouts to its partners .
- LittleFish — Full stack enterprise platform that extends your infrastructure, instead of replacing it.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Pre-Seed $780k–$1.3M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Duplo — We enable businesses across Africa to simplify their payment flows.
- Klump — Use Klump to buy now and pay later in instalments for up to 12 months! Businesses accept payments, increase conversion rates, and boost revenue. The Easy Life! Try it now.
- Topship — Topship is the easiest for African businesses to import/export parcels, cargo and freight to their customers, distributors and suppliers across the World. We use technology to drive transparency and delight, making it easy for African businesses to connect with customers, suppliers and distributors across the World.
Oui Capital is an Africa-focused VC firm backing tech-enabled businesses at the pre-seed & seed stage.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Finance, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 37
- Round size: Seed $600k–$4.9M; Pre-Seed $40k–$1.3M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $30M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Cauridor — Cauridor is a Financial Services company.
- Herconomy (Ex AGS Tribe) — Herconomy is a platform that allows women build their finances, capacity, collaborate and access opportunities.
- Alliance Chemicals Global — Alliance Chemicals Global supplies raw materials, commodities, and specialty chemicals to manufacturers across sectors such as home and personal care, food and nutrition, plastics, polymers, construction, coatings, and industrial applications. The company supports chemical distribution, sourcing, and logistics, including local currency invoicingand dedicated transport. It focuses on compliant, sustainable supply, working with global manufacturers and African clients. Its projects include plastic chemical recycling and development of a shea butter value chain. The organization serves customers mainly across African markets.
Cristina Santin
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- Industry: FinTech, Insurance, Blockchain
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Seed $1.2k–$2.2k
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Get It Done Now — GIDN is a Nigerian Fintech Company targeting medium and low income population for Loans and Financial products. GIDN has in addition a cashless, mobile based community marketplace, with more than 5k members, and aims to regulate the informal economy and facilitate the purchase of Services and Digital Products.
MyAsiaVC is a sector-agnostic fund that seeks opportunities to disrupt established companies in order to build category-defining businesses. They also invest in businesses that benefit from the second- or third-order effects of these developments.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, India, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 36
- Round size: Seed $800k–$6M; Pre-Seed $592k–$2M; Series A $4M–$24M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $1M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Ocular AI — Encoding Human Expertise into Machines
- Sensesemi — Explore Sensesemi's cutting-edge System-on-a-Chip (SoC) solutions, revolutionizing Connected Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) and Internet of Things (IoT). With advanced technology, ultra-low energy consumption, and embedded AI.
- Gecko Robotics — To collect and make useful physical data in order to protect civilization's most critical infrastructure
Odun Eweniyi
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- Industry: Payments, SaaS, FinTech
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Pre-Seed $670k–$3.7M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Sudo — Sudo is an open API platform that enables businesses to embed powerful financial features into their products. Build in minutes, launch in days.
- Venco Platforms — Venco automates visitor management, billing, and collections, as well as smart utility vending for communities across Africa.
Greenhouse Capital Partners invests in B2B technology solutions that improve resource efficiency, drive climate change resiliency and unlock new value streams across legacy industrial supply chains and infrastructure.
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, Manufacturing
- Stage:Series B, Series A, Seed
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, Norway
Investor stats
- Total investments: 42
- Round size: Seed $750k–$7M; Series A $500k–$12M; Series B $500k–$39M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Völur — Ensuring optimal use of every single animal through cutting and processing.
- Lifefactory — Lifefactory designs healthy housewares solutions for modern life. The Company brings the purity of glass, the protection of silicone, and the power of color to a full line of products designed for everyday use by healthy families. The Lifefactory line began with baby bottles, and has grown to include iconic adult water bottles, wine and beverageglasses and oven-friendly food storage. All components are made in North America or Europe. The Company is privately held and headquartered in Sausalito, CA. Learn more at http://www.lifefactory.com.
- Linkage Biosciences — Linkage Biosciences is a molecular diagnostics company developing products that hope to improve and expedite complex genetic testing. Their initial focus is on diagnostic products for solid organ and hematopoietic stem cell transplantation where their proprietary technology will have an impact. The company offers human leukocyte antigen testingproducts used in solid organ and hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, as well as provides pharmacogenomic and autoimmune disease testing and research and genetic marker tests.Lingkage Biosciences was founded in 2004 and is based in
VilCap Investments is an early-stage impact investing fund, backing companies addressing the most pressing social and environmental challenges.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Health Care, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United States, India, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 98
- Round size: Seed $50k–$2.5M; Venture - Series Unknown $50k–$1.6M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $294k in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Vexi — Vexi issues, operates, and processes credit cards for the young underbanked population on a mission to make credit accessible, through a 100% digital onboarding and unparalleled customer experience.
- SatSure — SatSure, they are on a mission to evolve crop insurance products and provide accurate risk assessment of crop yield by integrating climatic variables with geospatial and economic datasets.
- Altro (fka Perch) — Perch Credit (also known as Perch), is a fin-tech mobile app that allows users to take common recurring expenses, such as their subscriptions & rent, and turn these into creditworthy data points. Perch is currrently live on iOS and plans to be on Android in the coming months.Perch recently graduated YC (S20) and closed 2.5M in their mostrecent round.
Stripe provides financial infrastructure and software that supports online and in-person payments, billing, money movement, and financial services. Its products include Payments, Checkout, Billing, Invoicing, Connect, Issuing, Treasury, Tax, Radar, and Stripe Terminal, serving businesses with different payment and revenue models. The company also provides tools for subscriptions, fraud prevention, identity verification, financial reporting, embedded finance, and cryptocurrency transactions. Stripe offers APIs, SDKs, integrations, and developer tools that enable businesses to incorporate payment and financial functions into websites, applications, and platforms.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 107
- Round size: Seed $500k–$13M; Series A $10M–$38M; Series B $30M–$102M
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Supabase — The Open Source Alternative to Firebase.
- Rocker — Rocker develops a secure, cloud-deployed AI assistant designed to integrate into corporate environments to automate tasks, manage project workflows, and enhance internal collaboration across teams.
- Archive — Archive App automatically detects & saves Instagram posts your brand gets tagged in. Yes, Instagram Stories as well, not just feed posts.
Future Africa is a collective of mission-driven founders and funders building unicorns to solve Africa’s biggest challenges. They are build a future where purpose and prosperity are within everyone’s reach.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 91
- Round size: Seed $500k–$4M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3.7M; Series A $7M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
Portfolio highlights
- STEM Cafe — STEMCafe by RVRB is a fun out of school learning centre for kids
- Juicyway — The new shape of money? Fluid. Access global currencies with Juicyway. Buy, sell, hold, and pay globally using our fast APIs, web, or mobile apps. Download now.
- Lori Systems — Lori Systems is revolutionizing African logistics through innovative technology solutions. We connect shippers, transporters, and drivers to create efficient, reliable, and transparent supply chains across Africa.
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