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Top 50 Payments Startup Investors in South Africa (July 2026)

The most active venture capital funds and angel investors investing in South Africa Payments startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in South Africa Payments startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Everywhere Ventures
VC Fund
7 United States, Australia, India Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, FinTech $550k–$60M
TLcom Capital Partners
VC Fund
7 Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Seed Software, Mobile, Information Technology $1.9M–$15M
Speedinvest
VC Fund
3 United Kingdom, Germany, Austria Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, FinTech, Financial Services $549k–$33M
Flourish Ventures
VC Fund
3 United States, India, Brazil Series A, Seed, Series B FinTech, Financial Services, Finance $2M–$65M
CRE Venture Capital
VC Fund
3 Nigeria, South Africa, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, Software, FinTech $250k–$25M
Launch Africa
VC Fund
3 Nigeria, South Africa, United States Seed, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology $200k–$4M
UW Ventures
VC Fund
3 South Africa Seed, Series A FinTech, Payments, Mobile Payments $456k–$31M
Allan Gray
VC Fund
3 South Africa, United States Seed, Series A, Series C FinTech, Payments, Mobile Payments $456k–$100M
Robby Hilkowitz
Angel
2 Israel, Hong Kong, Singapore Series A, Seed FinTech, Financial Services, Payments $1M–$4M
Norrsken22
VC Fund
2 South Africa, Egypt, Nigeria Seed, Series A, Series B Financial Services, Banking, Payments $2.4M–$55M
Newtown Partners
VC Fund
2 South Africa, United States, Ghana Seed, Series A Logistics, Health Care, Transportation $1M–$27M
Partech
VC Fund
2 United States, France, Germany Series A, Seed, Series B Software, E-Commerce, SaaS $1.1M–$55M
Integrity Seed Ventures
VC Fund
2 South Africa Seed FinTech, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
Enza Capital
VC Fund
2 Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, Finance, E-Commerce $100k–$31M
Apis Partners
VC Fund
2 India, Singapore, South Africa Private Equity, Series B Financial Services, FinTech, Payments $5.4M–$175M
Musha Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, Nigeria, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Financial Services, FinTech $125k–$10M
FSD Africa
VC Fund
2 Kenya, Ethiopia, South Africa Grant, Seed, Series B Financial Services, Energy, FinTech $10k–$14M
Goodwell Investments
VC Fund
2 Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa Series A, Series B FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Ayre Group
VC Fund
2 United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland Seed, Series A Blockchain, Bitcoin, Video Streaming $393k–$8.7M
HAVAÍC
VC Fund
2 South Africa, United States, Kenya Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, FinTech $100k–$15M
Crossfin Technology
VC Fund
2 South Africa, Singapore, United States Seed, Series A Payments, FinTech, Financial Services
Quona Capital
VC Fund
2 India, Brazil, Indonesia Series A, Seed, Series B Financial Services, FinTech, Finance $3M–$87M
Kalon Venture Partners
VC Fund
2 South Africa, Luxembourg, United States Seed, Series A Artificial Intelligence, Apps, Internet $570k–$11M
4Di Capital
VC Fund
2 South Africa, United States, Kenya Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Financial Services, Mobile $527k–$47M
RaliCap
VC Fund
2 United States, Mexico, Nigeria Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Financial Services, FinTech, Payments $313k–$5.5M
NuState Capital
VC Fund
1 South Africa Seed, Series A Education, Software, SaaS
Imvelo Ventures
VC Fund
1 South Africa Seed, Series B Software, FinTech, Financial Services $570k–$2M
LeapFrog Investments
VC Fund
1 India, Nigeria, United Kingdom Private Equity, Series C Financial Services, Finance, Insurance $9.3M–$110M
Invictus Capital
VC Fund
1 Italy, South Africa Seed, Series A, Series B SaaS, Internet, Software
Grindstone Ventures
VC Fund
1 South Africa Seed Payments, Software, Analytics
Sequoia Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, China, India Series A, Series B, Series C Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Bittrex Global
VC Fund
1 South Africa Series A Bitcoin, FinTech, Ethereum
Two Culture Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, Mexico, India Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed FinTech, Financial Services, Information Technology
Jean-Pierre Mondalek
Angel
1 South Africa Seed FinTech, Payments, Point of Sale
Circle
VC Fund
1 United States, United Kingdom, Singapore Seed, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Velocity Capital Fintech Ventures
VC Fund
1 The Netherlands, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Series B, Seed FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
First circle capital
VC Fund
1 Nigeria, Egypt, United States Pre-Seed, Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Nedbank
VC Fund
1 South Africa, Australia, United States Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Series A Information Technology, Software, Mining
54 Collective
VC Fund
1 Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa Seed, Pre-Seed Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech $40k–$4M
Michael Jordaan
Angel
1 South Africa Seed, Series A, Series B SaaS, EBooks, EdTech
Two Hop Ventures
VC Fund
1 The Netherlands, United States, Spain Seed, Series A Software, Blockchain, Bitcoin $114k–$2.2M
Technology Innovation Agency
VC Fund
1 South Africa Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed Information Technology, Software, Health Care $22k–$1M
Harambeans
VC Fund
1 Nigeria, Kenya, Morocco Seed, Angel Information Technology, B2B, Big Data $100k–$3.1M
TotalEnergies Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, France, United Kingdom Series B, Series C Energy, Renewable Energy, Transportation $9.3M–$175M
Investment One
VC Fund
1 South Africa Series A FinTech, Payments, Mobile Apps
Skywell Capital Partners
VC Fund
1 Israel, United States, Canada Seed, Series A Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning $250k–$35M
Crucis Venture Capital
VC Fund
1 South Africa Seed Payments, Financial Services
GalloProvincialis
VC Fund
1 South Africa, The Netherlands Seed Payments, Software, Logistics $1.5M–$1.9M
Nexus Ventures
VC Fund
1 Turkey, United States, India Seed, Angel, Series A Software, Internet, SaaS $1k–$53M
Fireball Capital
VC Fund
1 South Africa Series A Email, Internet, Payments
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Everywhere Ventures
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 7 investments in South Africa Payments startups

Everywhere Ventures is a global pre-seed venture capital fund for founders, by founders. Click to read Everywhere VC, by Everywhere Ventures, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, FinTech
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Australia, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 711
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$7.2M; Pre-Seed $550k–$2.6M; Series A $10M–$60M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Donna — Meet Donna, the AI assistant built for field sales teams. Save time, cut admin, and close more deals with less effort.
  • VAMA — VAMA is a one-stop virtual platform that provides easy access to e-pujas, e-darshans, and astrology services, to devotees from across India and the world.
  • Suma Wealth — SUMA is a revolutionary financial wellness company with the mission to engage, educate, and empower the Latinx community via a holistic approach of Digital Media, Experiences, and FinTech. By creating culturally relevant content, virtual experiences, and providing financial tools that demystify and reimagine financial wellness throughentertainment, we aim to become the trusted source to help Latinos own their economic power, overcome financial challenges, and better prepare for a more prosperous future.
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TLcom Capital Partners
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 7 investments in South Africa Payments startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 68
  • Round size: Seed $1.9M–$8.5M; Series A $3.8M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $150M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Autochek — Welcome To Autochek Group's Homepage. Read About The Company's Vision And Mission. Select A Country And Apply For Car Loans
  • 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.
  • Ilara Health — Ilara Health helps primary care clinics across Africa deliver better care.
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Speedinvest
VC Fund · Vienna, Wien, Austria · 3 investments in South Africa Payments startups

Speedinvest is a globally active European venture capital firm built on a simple belief: many move more. From six offices across EMEA, our sector-focused investment teams back relentless founders from pre–Seed to Growth with long-term conviction, providing day-one access to our global network of corporate customers, experts, industry leaders, andtop-tier follow-on investors to scale smarter and faster. Building lasting companies like Bitpanda (Austria), Moove (Nigeria), Gigs (U.S.), Tide (UK), ARX Robotics (Germany), Wayflyer (Ireland), GoStudent (Austria), Seqera Labs (Spain), and Cylib (Germany) — together. Big ideas may start with one. But scaling and winning take The Power of More.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, Austria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 549
  • Round size: Seed $980k–$8M; Pre-Seed $549k–$4.1M; Series A $4M–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $384M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Facility — Flexkeeping is a Hotel Operations Platform designed to help teams automate and collaborate like never before.
  • ForTunes — ForTunes puts comprehensive data analytics at the fingertips of millions of music creators. Serving the new generation of artists, producers & their representatives.
  • GAMINSIDE — GAMINSIDE revolutionizes your relationship with your customers. As European full service provider, we deliver the complete package with solutions, services and software for gamified loyalty that is tailor-made and unique to your products, brands and customers. Integrate the best ideas from gamification and customer loyalty in your business areato exceed your commercial targets with GAMINSIDE.
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Flourish Ventures
VC Fund · Redwood City, California, United States · 3 investments in South Africa Payments startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 192
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$14M; Series A $5.2M–$33M; Series B $8.3M–$65M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Ringkas — Ajukan KPR mu di Platform Ringkas via Digital dan Online, Telah Bekerjasama dengan 25+ Bank Partner
  • Akua — Akua is an acquiring-as-a-service platform that offers scalable, secure, and efficient payment processing solutions for Latin America. Our platform leverages advanced technology to provide superior transaction processing, fraud prevention, and comprehensive regional integration. Problem Latin America's acquiring card payment markets aredominated by a few incumbents using outdated systems, hindering the adoption of new payment technologies and increasing fraud risks.
  • Stream — Stream is a company that helps make payments simpler, faster, and reliable.
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CRE Venture Capital
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 3 investments in South Africa Payments startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 60
  • Round size: Seed $300k–$5M; Pre-Seed $250k–$3.3M; Series A $1.1M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Flood — Flood is a marketplace platforms that provides merchant solution, self services and big data solution.
  • Letly — Letly is developing an AI‑driven platform for the rental property market that automates tasks related to managing rental listings and tenant interactions. It aims to use intelligent agents to handle tasks such as scheduling viewings, responding to inquiries, and optimizing property management workflows. The platform is currently in a waitlistphase, signaling ongoing development and private access only.
  • Cutstruct — Cutstruct is your one source for bulk construction materials purchase. Get the best prices for cement, steel, granite, sharp sand wood, and more.
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Launch Africa
VC Fund · Ebène, Plaines Wilhems, Mauritius · 3 investments in South Africa Payments startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 178
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$4M; Pre-Seed $200k–$1.8M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $36M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Yamify — Yamify is an AI platform where intelligent agents reliably run mission-critical business workflows in Africa. Founded by Silicon Valley engineers, our platform automates complex operations by integrating humans, systems, and infrastructure reliably, even under connectivity, latency, and compliance challenges. Starting with on-prem deployments,Yamify is evolving into a full AI automation infrastructure for African enterprises.
  • Shopstar — A place for makers and creators to start, manage and grow successful online stores. Our built-in design, payment and shipping methods provide you with an all in one solution. Get started with a free 14-day trial.
  • Kashat — The region's first nano financial service provider, offering small productive loans, and serving as the entry point to financial inclusion for the un- and underbanked population in Egypt.
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UW Ventures
VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 3 investments in South Africa Payments startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Round size: Seed $456k–$2.5M; Series A $1.6M–$31M
  • Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Pargo — Pargo is a convenient logistics solution that lets you collect and return parcels at Pargo parcel points throughout the country when it suits you best.
  • Rather.chat — Rather.chat offers a platform that facilitates meaningful connections between businesses and their customers through WhatsApp. This service is designed to make customer interactions more personal and efficient, allowing for real-time communication. By leveraging the widespread use of WhatsApp, Rather.chat aims to enhance the customer serviceexperience, making it easier for businesses to address inquiries, resolve issues, and maintain engagement with their audience. The focus is on creating a seamless bridge for dialogue that respects the convenience and preferences of the modern consumer, who increasingly favors instant messaging over traditional forms of communication.
  • Manholes 4 Africa — m4a (Pty) Ltd specializes in the manufacturing of composite and plastics products designed for the utilities networks industry. As an Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM), the company offers a comprehensive range of products including access chambers, microducts, bundled microducts (multiducts), sub ducts, corrugated pipes, axsCHAMBERS™,cnktCLOSURES™, fibreDUCT™, and fibreCABLE™. These products cater to the telecommunications sector, providing end-to-end solutions for infrastructure needs. m4a (Pty) Ltd is recognized for its innovative approach in developing polymer and composite civil infrastructure solutions. The company holds ISO9001 certification, ensuring high standards in quality management systems.
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Allan Gray
VC Fund · Alfred, New York, United States · 3 investments in South Africa Payments startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Round size: Seed $456k–$4M; Series A $1.6M–$31M; Series C $70M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • Peach Payments — Get Peach as your Payment Gateway and Grow your ecommerce. Process online payments with Visa, Mastercard, Debit Orders, EFT payments, and subscriptions. Plugins for Wix, Shopify, WooCommerce.
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Robby Hilkowitz
Angel · 2 investments in South Africa Payments startups

Robby Hilkowitz is an angel investor.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Neat — Built for entrepreneurs, by entrepreneursAs entrepreneurs our businesses are always in motion: starting from an idea, to making a first sale, to expanding globally. We need a financial experience that evolves with us – an experience that’s still stable and secure, but adaptive too. Banks were built for a different era of business, not for thenew economy – where borders are disappearing and it’s easier than ever to start a global business. Neat believes in making international business a reality for entrepreneurs around the world. Today, Neat is a modern alternative to a bank, designed to support you wherever you go. Tomorrow, we’re a platform for doing business: building a dynamic and frictionless economy.
  • Bambu — Bambu is a leading global digital wealth technology provider for financial institutions. We enable companies to make saving and investing simple and intelligent for their clients. The cloud-based platform is powered by our proprietary algorithms and machine learning tools. The company serves over 20 financial institutions globally. Founded in 2016,Bambu is headquartered in Singapore with a subsidiary in the United Kingdom and the United States and EMEA representatives.
  • Moneyhub — Moneyhub is a data and payments fintech that provides open banking, open finance, and open data solutions.
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Norrsken22
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 2 investments in South Africa Payments startups

Norrsken22 is a tech growth fund, backed by an international network of tech founders, partnering with exceptional African entrepreneurs in scaling disruptive businesses.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Banking, Payments
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: South Africa, Egypt, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 22
  • Round size: Seed $2.4M–$5.8M; Series A $5M–$40M; Series B $6.8M–$55M
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $110M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Lua — Lua provides AI-powered virtual agents for sales, support, and bookings across channels like WhatsApp, Messenger, and email.
  • Shiprazor — Shiprazor is an innovative shipping aggregator that revolutionizes the logistics industry by providing seamless solutions for businesses.
  • Orca Fraud — Orca empowers fraud fighters with effective tools to combat fraud
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Newtown Partners
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 2 investments in South Africa Payments startups

Newtown Partners is a venture capital firm that actively invests in emerging, disruptive technology startups.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Logistics, Health Care, Transportation
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Africa, United States, Ghana

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 27
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$5.5M; Series A $3.6M–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • MDaaS Global — At MDaaS Global, we build and operate modern, tech-enabled diagnostic centres in clinically-underserved communities, starting in Nigeria. Our big goal is to create affordable healthcare solutions for Africa's next billion.
  • Chefaa — Chefaa is a GPS-enabled pharmacy benefits platform connecting patients & pharmacies nation-wide to help patients manage all their pharmacy needs. Chefaa uses big data, data ming & machine learning
  • Fulfillment Bridge
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Partech
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 2 investments in South Africa Payments startups

Partech is a global venture capital firm with offices in San Francisco, Paris, Berlin and Dakar. Partech invests in Internet and information technology startups at seed, venture and growth stages.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, France, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 537
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$9M; Series A $4.2M–$27M; Series B $9M–$55M
  • Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Shippeo — A global leader, and European specialist, in supply chain visibility, giving companies instant access to predictive and real-time information for all their deliveries.
  • Billogram — Since its start in 2011, Billogram has revitalized the outdated invoicing process by offering companies with recurring payments an intelligent digital platform. Using smart technology, we help companies strengthen their customer relations while also automating payment processes in a way that lowers costs, increases revenue, and reduces churn. Theresult is a payment that pays off for everyone.
  • Diamond — Setup an entire backend system for your online business in a few clicks.
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Integrity Seed Ventures
VC Fund · 2 investments in South Africa Payments startups

Venture Capital Fund

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ivorypay — Ivorypay is a crypto payment gateway that enables businesses to get paid in stable cryptocurrency and leverage Defi and NFT for growth.Our goal is simply to create a blockchain based payment solution that powers seamless and cheap cross-border transactions in Africa without FX restrictions and also create better spend use cases for theexponentially growing base of crypto adopters on the continent.
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Enza Capital
VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya · 2 investments in South Africa Payments startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 53
  • Round size: Seed $617k–$8M; Pre-Seed $100k–$4M; Series A $3.6M–$31M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Djamo — Djamo is a Provider of financial applications to allow customers to use their cards with zero fees in a wide range of services.
  • Tugende — Tugende helps motorcycle taxi drivers own their own motorcycles in eighteen months or less instead of renting indefinitely. Ownership significantly increases income, job security and road safety.
  • Quro Medical — Quro Medical is an innovative digital health company pioneering premium hospital-at-home services.
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Apis Partners
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in South Africa Payments startups

Apis Partners LLP backs growth financial services innovators who create transformative impact in their communities.

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  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
  • Stage:Private Equity, Series B
  • Geography: India, Singapore, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 66
  • Round size: Series B $5.4M–$110M; Private Equity $10M–$175M
  • Lead/follow: 68% lead, 32% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $550M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Xoxoday — Loyalty program is crucial for big companies. We can help you engage and reward your customers online, discover our loyalty programs
  • Tutuka — Paymentology's card issuing & processing platform helps banks & Fintechs to launch innovative, secure, and flexible card payment products in weeks.
  • Paymentology
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Musha Ventures
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in South Africa Payments startups

Seed capital for technology startups globally.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 156
  • Round size: Seed $125k–$6M; Pre-Seed $300k–$3.2M; Series A $2.5M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% 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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FSD Africa
VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya · 2 investments in South Africa Payments startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Energy, FinTech
  • Stage:Grant, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Kenya, Ethiopia, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 22
  • Round size: Seed $3.9M–$6M; Grant $10k–$134k; Series B $14M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 77% lead, 23% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Miarakap — Miarakap is the first impact investment company dedicated to financing and supporting Small and Medium Enterprises with high potential in Madagascar.
  • Dhamana Guarantee — An East African focused credit guarantee company whose principal business is to guarantee local currency debt obligations in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Rwanda.
  • Africa Renewables Katalyst — Africa Renewables Katalyst is an environmental firm that supports renewable energy projects.
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Goodwell Investments
VC Fund · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands · 2 investments in South Africa Payments startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • MFS Africa — MFS Africa is the largest mobile money inter-operability hub in Africa, which connects mobile network operators across the continent through a single API. In addition to mobile remittance services, the MFS Africa API enables merchant payment, bulk payment, bank-to-wallet transfers, and an array of other cross border digital payments services.
  • SOUK Farms — SOUK Farms is a fresh horticulture supply grower and exporter that pioneers innovation to improve agricultural sustainability and stimulate economic and social development.
  • Complete Farmer — We are providing cutting-edge technological farming protocols and innovations with a unique business model and logistics that are revolutionizing...
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Ayre Group
VC Fund · St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada · 2 investments in South Africa Payments startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Bitcoin, Video Streaming
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Seed $393k–$8.7M
  • Lead/follow: 79% lead, 21% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Centbee — Centbee is a B2C payment company providing cross-border remittances and digital wallet. Founded in 2017, we provide an easy-to-use app that enables financially excluded customers to buy a wide range of important digital goods; and send money to family and friends quickly and cheaply.
  • Vaionex — Next Generation Blockchain Applications. We are building the infrastructure and services that will power the new internet and economic system.
  • Buzzmint — Buzzmint is a BSV tech platform that enables brands, creators, media specific businesses and individuals to simply and quickly ideate, create and deploy utility led NFT/Token projects.
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HAVAÍC
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 2 investments in South Africa Payments startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 47
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$4M; Series A $1.9M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 64% lead, 36% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • SwiftVee — SwiftVEE is a livestock trading mobile app. They support live webcast livestock auctions and silent auctions. Their platform facilitates the discovery and viewing of livestock auctions.They provide webcast advertising, online auctions, and online livestock insurance services and data products for financial institutions.
  • Tanda — As a Tanda Agent, you can sell Kenya's favorite digital products, and grow your duka while you're at it
  • Digital Cabinet — Digital Cabinet makes your business paperless. Security is the topmost priority for the Digital Cabinet, so save time and money with the Digital Cabinet.
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Crossfin Technology
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 2 investments in South Africa Payments startups

Crossfin invests in FINTECH solutions to enable growth for economies in Africa and beyond. Crossfin invests in high growth and established cash generative businesses, offering investors a blended exposure to technology investments in Fintech.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Payments, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Africa, Singapore, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 22
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Atura — Automated support that helps financial services do better business
  • truID — truID is provides a single API to access identity data, balance and transactions from your user’s bank account. Connect with multiple institutions, save months of development and stay compliant.
  • My-iMali — My-iMali is a mobile wallet solution used for safe and secure transactions. Pay any number of people for only R1.25, including Staff & Students.
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Quona Capital
VC Fund · Washington, District of Columbia, United States · 2 investments in South Africa Payments startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 192
  • Round size: Seed $3M–$10M; Series A $3.6M–$25M; Series B $8M–$87M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $332M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • AllLife — AllLife is the only South African insurer of people living with HIV/AIDs. Sadly, prior to AllLife, many HIV patients would be told their lives were un-insurable. Now AllLife tells that they can lead long, productive lives – so much so that they’ll insure it.
  • Franq — Hyperlocal and phygital marketplace that connects financial products to retail & SME customers with the support of a baking agent.
  • Twinco Capital — Twinco Capital provides suppliers, both large and small, with access to affordable funding and helps buyers build a competitive and socially responsible supply chain. Twinco Capital is the first company to have successfully launched this type of supply chain financing, offering to finance as early as the time of issuance of purchase orders.purchase.
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Kalon Venture Partners
VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 2 investments in South Africa Payments startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Seed $570k–$4.6M; Series A $2M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 63% lead, 37% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • GoMetro — Fleet management simplified with GoMetro. Integrate telematics, gain real-time visibility, and optimize operations with a secure, scalable platform,
  • Sendmarc — Manage your organization's DMARC, SPF, and DKIM with world-class implementation services and support. All in one easy-to-use platform.
  • visionAI — Enhance factory efficiency with visionAI by using existing cameras to uncover inefficiencies and eliminate your production blindspots. Book a demo now!
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4Di Capital
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 2 investments in South Africa Payments startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 41
  • Round size: Seed $527k–$7.3M; Pre-Seed $1.8M–$4M; Series A $2M–$47M
  • Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • VALR — Buy and sell bitcoin, ethereum & more | Pay anyone for free with VALR Pay
  • Investsure — InvestSure is a technology company that uses its software to enable partner investment platforms to sell its unique Investment Indemnity (insurance) product to their clients. InvestSure provides a full set of APIs that trading platform developers can use to integrate the Investure Investment Indemnity product seamlessly and easily into theirwebsites and mobile applications. Once InvestSure technology is added to a trading platform, it enables users to buy insurance on their shares with a single click. The full process from buying to insurance to settling claims is fully automated.The Investment Indemnity product itself is a unique innovation; it is designed to protect to protect shareholders against any losses in share value caused by actual or perceived fraud committed by management. This enables investors to secure their investments. The cost of the product is low enough to not significantly reduce returns of investors where no insurance event occurs, but to provide significant downside protection where an insured event does occur.
  • CompariSure — Custom, built-for-purpose service and sales chatbot solutions for financial services providers.
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RaliCap
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in South Africa Payments startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Mexico, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 61
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$5.5M; Pre-Seed $313k–$3.7M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Moffin — Moffin is an integration platform of KYC data providers that enables customers to collect and evaluate data. It can be used via API or no code.
  • Cata — Launch your branded mobile app for ordering, CRM & loyalty. Increase order frequency & basket size. Learn how Cata can scale your business!
  • Gangkhar Inc
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NuState Capital
VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in South Africa Payments startups

NuState Capital as private equity investor is to generate attractive returns through positive social transformation.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Education, Software, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Sticitt — Sticitt is a cashless payment platform. Sticitt services schools, lifestyle and golf estates, as well as events and is assisting one utility company to get clients to pay for water bills using its cashless payments system.
  • d6 — SCHOOLS Schools Communication Platforms and School Management Software COMMUNITIES Community & Internal Business Communication Platforms MEDIA Let your brand be seen Advertise on
  • Principal Software(d6 education) — d6 is a school management software application that helps you manage your school's curriculum, administration, communication and finance.
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Imvelo Ventures
VC Fund · Sandown, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in South Africa Payments startups

Imvelo Ventures is a venture capital and growth equity firm in South Africa managed by Capitec Bank.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series B
  • Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $570k–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 86% lead, 14% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Botlhale AI — Botlhale AI allows to build, train, test, and deploy multilingual conversational AI. Botlhale AI is a research and innovation start-up that specializes in conversational AI. Computer systems have become an integral part of everyday lives and as a result, natural spoken language is the desired form of human-computer interaction.
  • Acumen Software
  • The Cape Town Stock Exchange — The Cape Town Stock Exchange is a south Africa’s stock exchange for small- and medium-sized businesses.
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LeapFrog Investments
VC Fund · Port Louis Town, Port Louis, Mauritius · 1 investments in South Africa Payments startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 74
  • Round size: Series C $20M–$90M; Private Equity $9.3M–$110M
  • Lead/follow: 54% lead, 46% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Fidelity Bank Ghana — Fidelity Bank Limited provides banking products and services. The company offers current and savings accounts.
  • Global Care Medical Center — Global Care Medical Center is a network of hospitals and clinics that provides multi specialty inpatient and outpatient healthcare services.
  • ARM Pension Managers PFA — ARM Pension Managers PFA Limited (“ARM Pensions”), a subsidiary of ARM. ARM Pensions is Nigeria’s largest independent pension fund manager.
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Invictus Capital
VC Fund · George Town, Midland, Cayman Islands · 1 investments in South Africa Payments startups

Invictus Capital leverages existing public blockchain rails and the hundreds of thousands of onramps and offramps that exist globally to democratize access to investment products in emerging and developed markets. We believe investing should be convenient, transparent and low-cost.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Internet, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Italy, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ovex — OVEX is a cryptocurrency exchange company.
  • Contents — Contents.com is a tech company that developed an artificial intelligence platform based on a perfect cycle of interaction between data analysis and machine learning systems that makes access to data easier for everyone. Contents.com provides integrated solutions for every online business and customer. Through proprietary algorithm-basedsoftware, Contents.com guarantees specific advanced tools for any needs: all in one unique application platform. The platform provides advanced tools with specific functions: future trends prediction, content generation, user behavior analysis, website performance monitoring, detection of website’s position in search engines, and much more.Contents.com was founded in 2017, currently, the company is present in 4 countries: Italy, Spain, France, and the UK.
  • Serenis Health — Serenis is a mental health platform that provides psychotherapy with a strong focus on science & impact measurement
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Grindstone Ventures
VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in South Africa Payments startups

Grindstone is a structured entrepreneurship development programme that assists high-growth innovation-driven companies to get the fundamental building blocks in place to scale quickly and become sustainable and fundable.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Payments, Software, Analytics
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Locstat — Locstat is a unique and first of its kind Graph Analytics Platform, with customer driven industry and point solutions, incorporating Graph-based AI, Analytics and Event Processing, that enables organisations to rapidly scale next generation data intelligence solutions.
  • Sticitt — Sticitt is a cashless payment platform. Sticitt services schools, lifestyle and golf estates, as well as events and is assisting one utility company to get clients to pay for water bills using its cashless payments system.
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Sequoia Capital
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Payments startups

We help the daring build We help the daring build legendary companies from idea to IPO and beyond. companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: United States, China, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1523
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Freed — Join thousands of happy clinicians saving 2+ hours a day. Use Freed's AI medical scribe for instant clinical documentation.
  • Meter — Meter provides internet infrastructure for businesses. Its full-stack approach combines hardware, software, and operations so that any company can seamlessly run on a reliable and modern network. Its goal is to make secure enterprise-grade networks more accessible, and to help innovative organizations get and stay online seamlessly. Fullstacksambition is to turn Meter’s infrastructure into a turnkey utility––when a company moves into any commercial space, the internet and WiFi just works.
  • Sierra — Sierra helps businesses build better, more human customer experiences with AI.
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Bittrex Global
VC Fund · Vaduz, Vaduz, Liechtenstein · 1 investments in South Africa Payments startups

Bittrex operates as a digital asset trading platform. Bittrex is the premier U.S.-based digital asset trading platform, providing lightning-fast trade execution, dependable digital wallets and industry-leading security practices.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Bitcoin, FinTech, Ethereum
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • VALR — Buy and sell bitcoin, ethereum & more | Pay anyone for free with VALR Pay
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Two Culture Capital
VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 1 investments in South Africa Payments startups

The art and science of entrepreneurship

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 76
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Captur — Captur helps companies make smarter decisions, at the speed of capturing a photo. We use expert triaging and visual AI to identify and action tasks instantly for companies managing in-field operations.
  • Trebellar — Trebellar provides advanced data analytics for building occupancy, energy efficiency, and climate optimization. Maximize your workplace productivity with our intelligent building solutions.
  • Operant — Own OperantAi.com today. Secure checkout and guided transfer support. No hidden fees.
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Jean-Pierre Mondalek
Angel · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 1 investments in South Africa Payments startups

Jean-Pierre Mondalek - Head of Peak Events and XCM, MENA @ Amazon

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Yoco — Save time, money and guesswork. Yoco helps 200,000+ SA businesses run point of sale, take payments and access flexible business funding from one account.
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Circle
VC Fund · Boston, Massachusetts, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Payments startups

Circle helps businesses and developers harness the power of digital dollar stablecoins for payments and internet commerce worldwide. Learn more today!

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 45
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Codex — Codex is a peer-to-peer version of electronic cash allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution.
  • Octane — A developer-first platform to stress-test your smart contracts with cutting-edge AI. One-click install. Save time and money on security.
  • Lens Protocol — Lens Protocol is a composable and decentralized social graph, ready for you to build on so you can focus on creating a great experience, not scaling your users.
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Velocity Capital Fintech Ventures
VC Fund · Driebergen, Utrecht, The Netherlands · 1 investments in South Africa Payments startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Yoco — Save time, money and guesswork. Yoco helps 200,000+ SA businesses run point of sale, take payments and access flexible business funding from one account.
  • Gotrade — Buy U.S. stocks with Gotrade! Investing is now easier, safer, and hassle-free. Access stocks like Google, Apple, Netflix, and more.
  • The Social Handshake — With Payroll Giving you make it easier and more financially attractive for your employees to give to charity. Directly from their salary.
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First circle capital
VC Fund · Casablanca, Grand Casablanca, Morocco · 1 investments in South Africa Payments startups

First Circle Capital is a venture capital firm seeding the next fintech generation in Africa.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, Egypt, United States

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • PayTic — PayTic enables payments issuers to manage their card programs by providing dedicated back-office solutions that streamline the end-to-end operations in customer support, chargebacks, fraud, AML, reporting, and reconciliation. Our proprietary solutions are unique in automating and centralizing the program management processes, regardless of thenumber of processors and the payment networks involved in the payments products. We impact payments providers by eliminating the defragmented and manual processes and replacing them with a SaaS platform that increases proactivity, mitigates risks, and delivers value. It reduces the burn rate to near 0 in operational costs and offers an unprecedented competitive advantage. PayTic is introducing the Zero Ops model in managing payments.
  • Pumpkn — Need reliable funding? We provide quick loans and capital tailored for Agriculture businesses in South Africa. Grow your business with Pumpkn. Apply now!
  • Scale — Scale accelerates market entry and revenue for fintechs with a people-first approach.
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Nedbank
VC Fund · Sandown, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in South Africa Payments startups

Nedbank is a one of the largest banks in South Africa.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Mining
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Series A
  • Geography: South Africa, Australia, United States

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Pele Energy Group — Pele Energy Group owns and runs renewable energy infrastructure in addition to providing economic and community development consulting services.
  • WhereIsMyTransport — WhereIsMyTransport is a leading mobility technology company and central source of complete public transport data for emerging-market megacities. Working on the ground in Africa, Latin America, Southeast Europe and South and Southeast Asia, we digitalise network information from all modes of public transport and maintain data accuracy as thesedynamic systems change. Our products and data services improve the public transport experience, and inform industry-leading clients.
  • Sandfire Resources NL — Sandfire has grown to be a global copper producer of significance and continues to make strong progress toward its goal of being a sustainable mining company.
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54 Collective
VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in South Africa Payments startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 107
  • Round size: Seed $40k–$4M; Pre-Seed $40k–$1.3M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • Konnect — Konnect provides a cross borders payment solution intended to simplify complex financial flows allowing companies of any scale and size to send and receive payments in a practical, secure, and low-cost way.
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Michael Jordaan
Angel · Stellenbosch, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in South Africa Payments startups

Michael Jordaan, the former banker now heads up a private investment company, Montegray Capital and lends a strategic-hand to various businesses, including as Chairman of Wines of South Africa (WoSA), Chairman of consumer data buro, Compuscan and as Director on the JSE. Michael also actively invests as a partner in AngelHub Ventures, a SouthAfrican based Venture Capital Fund.In 2014 he co-founded a coding apprenticeship program, ProjectcodeX, to grow highly skilled software developers to fuel the digital economy.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, EBooks, EdTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • VALR — Buy and sell bitcoin, ethereum & more | Pay anyone for free with VALR Pay
  • OfferZen — On OfferZen, Dutch tech companies reach out to you with upfront role and salary info so you can make the right career move.
  • Real Time Wine — Share your wine moments. Real Time Wine is the social wine discovery app for everyone who enjoys wine, not just those who understand it. [In App Stores NOW!]
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Two Hop Ventures
VC Fund · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands · 1 investments in South Africa Payments startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Blockchain, Bitcoin
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: The Netherlands, United States, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Seed $114k–$2.2M
  • Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $3.2M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
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Technology Innovation Agency
VC Fund · Pretoria, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in South Africa Payments startups

WELCOME TO TIA Innovating Tomorrow Together TIA is a national public entity that serves as the key institutional intervention to bridge the innovation chasm between research and development from higher education institutions, science councils, public entities, and private sector, and commercialisation. Who we are TIA Invitation for Call for Expression to Join External Expert Database

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Health Care
  • Stage:Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Round size: Seed $46k–$336k; Grant $22k–$1M; Pre-Seed $39k–$50k
  • Lead/follow: 93% lead, 7% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ann-Connect — Ann-Connect is an EdTech SaaS for learning, teaching, exams and assessments rolled into an all-in-one education platform.Founded in 2021 by Bonginkosi Mabaso, Nexa was born from a real problem: students missing exams and learning opportunities because of unreliable internet. Our mission is simple: make online education accessible to everystudent, regardless of connectivity or background. Today, Nexa is trusted by universities, training institutions, and professional bodies across South Africa, with partnerships that give access to more than 450,000 learners. One workspace. All your education tools: - Nexa ExamCore: Offline exam tool where students can access, write, and submit online exams even without internet. - Nexa Invigilator: Invigilation tool designed to monitor for online exams. - Nexa Invigilator Venue-based – Proctoring for physical/venue-based exams for schools, corporates & teams. - Nexa Room – Low-bandwidth video conferencing just like MS Teams but designed for teaching and learning, with AI-driven student engagement tracking. - Integrations – Seamless connection with Learning Management Systems (LMS), plagiarism checkers, and other education tools — all in one place. Recognised with awards from TIA, ABSA, and the Royal Academy of Engineering (UK), Nexa is shaping the future of global education by making it inclusive, resilient, and accessible everywhere. Ready to experience THE platform for inclusive learning? Visit ann-connect.com and join us in building education without limits.
  • Aviro Health — We believe that empowering and supporting people to manage their own health benefits everybody.We built the Aviro Pocket Clinic to support self-care and provide access to services. We give people what they need to perform important health checks like regular HIV self-testing and connect them to experts and services who can offer hands-on and supported care when needed.
  • Ownedby Technologies — Ownedby is an interactive asset management solution for business and household assets, focused on appliances and devices, giving these unique identity that is traceable online, yet linked to and controlled by owners.
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Harambeans
VC Fund · 1 investments in South Africa Payments startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, B2B, Big Data
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, Morocco

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$3.1M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • ZSystems — ZSystems is a transformative super app designed to redefine B2B trade.
  • 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.
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TotalEnergies Ventures
VC Fund · La Défense, Ile-de-France, France · 1 investments in South Africa Payments startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Energy, Renewable Energy, Transportation
  • Stage:Series B, Series C
  • Geography: United States, France, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 93
  • Round size: Series B $9.3M–$175M; Series C $12M–$65M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
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Investment One
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 1 investments in South Africa Payments startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • PayCode Inc — Paycode - Financial Inclusion. We are a B2B technology provider with a unique digital payments platform, providing Last Mile solutions to the unbanked and undeserved.
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Skywell Capital Partners
VC Fund · Nicosia, Nicosia, Cyprus · 1 investments in South Africa Payments startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Seed $250k–$35M; Series A $13M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Sedric — Sedric is a compliance excellence platform for next-gen fintech companies. With AI-based real-time monitoring, detection and analysis of all customer interactions, Sedric ensures customer protection, minimizes risks, and expedites business growth. Sedric empowers compliance teams to quickly apply new laws and regulations across their growingbusinesses and enables them to focus on the events with the highest dollar value across all channels: voice, chat, email, social, and more.
  • PicUP — PicUP is an AI-powered optimization and personalization platform for outbound sales and customer service calls
  • OFFROAD — Offroad assists enterprises in transitioning from identity visibility to identity resolution.
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Crucis Venture Capital
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in South Africa Payments startups

Crucis Venture Capital

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Payments, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Sticitt — Sticitt is a cashless payment platform. Sticitt services schools, lifestyle and golf estates, as well as events and is assisting one utility company to get clients to pay for water bills using its cashless payments system.
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GalloProvincialis
VC Fund · 1 investments in South Africa Payments startups

GalloProvincialis

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Payments, Software, Logistics
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: South Africa, The Netherlands

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$1.9M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Maholla — Maholla is a consumer technology company focused on delivering value to millions of shoppers in Africa's emerging markets. Rewarding shoppers for any purchase from any store, Maholla is building a consumer rewards experience that is completely agnostic of any specific brand, retailer and payment mechanism.
  • Sticitt — Sticitt is a cashless payment platform. Sticitt services schools, lifestyle and golf estates, as well as events and is assisting one utility company to get clients to pay for water bills using its cashless payments system.
  • Tripplo — Tripplo is a platform to automate and optimise operations for transporters, cargo owners and cargo brokers.
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Nexus Ventures
VC Fund · Ankara, Ankara, Turkey · 1 investments in South Africa Payments startups

Nexus Ventures is an investment firm that invests in transformational businesses and creates meaningful partnerships with entrepreneurs. They support these ventures through its mentorship, business and technical know-how, vast network, and capital. The firm was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Ankara, Turkey.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 27
  • Round size: Seed $1k–$4.7M; Angel $45k–$250k; Series A $6.2M–$53M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Smartstaff — Manage your workforce's attendance & payroll while using our powerful automation tools to optimize & improve their productivity
  • Iambic — Iambic has created a cutting-edge AI-driven platform to tackle the most challenging design problems in drug discovery and address unmet patient need.
  • Moneyview — Money View is an application that is able to track and organize expenses, bills, and account balances. It is able to derive finance information from SMSs.Money View enables its users to set and follow budgets, view their bank account balance, obtain reminders about bills, and spit bills with the other users. It also facilitates Savings+ andTaxSaver+ that allows its users to save money.Money View was founded in April 2014 by Sanjay Aggarwal and Puneet Agarwal. It is based in Bangalore, Karnataka.
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Fireball Capital
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in South Africa Payments startups

Fireball Capital operates as a venture capital firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Email, Internet, Payments
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Plentify — Plentify connects home appliances with cheaper cleaner energy. It does this with an intelligent residential load management platform which matches demand with clean energy supply for 75% cheaper than batteries. Plentify combines advanced hardware, AI, and user-centric design to create smart home products that delight customers while alsostrengthening electricity systems.
  • Sendmarc — Manage your organization's DMARC, SPF, and DKIM with world-class implementation services and support. All in one easy-to-use platform.
  • Insight Terra — Insight Terra supports data driven risk management in critical situations where business operations, people and the environment all come together.
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Payments Investor funding in South Africa at a glance

Stats across 89 deals from 115 investors.

115
investors
in South Africa Payments startups
89
deals
in South Africa Payments startups
$2.5M
median round
in South Africa Payments startups
47%
lead investors
lead at least one round
18%
Seed
most common funding stage
94/6
VC / Angel
share of investor count

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