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Top 50 Payments Startup Investors in South Africa in April 2025

Last updated: Apr 2025 A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Payments startups based in South africa. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Payments companies from South africa. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Payments Startup Investors in South Africa in April 2025

Investor	Payments South Africa investments
UW Ventures	3
Launch Africa	3
Everywhere Ventures	3
CRE Venture Capital	3
Everywhere Ventures	3
Flourish Ventures	2
Allan Gray	2
Newtown Partners	2
TLcom Capital Partners	2
Kalon Venture Partners	2
RaliCap	2
FSD Africa	2
Goodwell Investments	2
Speedinvest	2
4Di Capital	2
Musha Ventures	2
Quona Capital	2
Robby Hilkowitz	2
Harambeans	1
FMO	1
Circle	1
Imvelo Ventures	1
TotalEnergies Ventures	1
Fireball Capital	1
Velocity Capital Fintech Ventures	1
Skywell Capital Partners	1
Development Partners International	1
Bittrex Global	1
R-Ventures	1
Norrsken22	1
Alameda Research	1
Samsung Electronics	1
Jean-Pierre Mondalek	1
Gauss Ventures	1
First circle capital	1
10x Group	1
Investment One	1
Wissam Otaky	1
Montegray Capital	1
Calvin Ayre	1
Grindstone Ventures	1
Crossfin Technology	1
Ayre Group	1
Enza Capital	1
Two Hop Ventures	1
Blockchain Founders Fund	1
Beryl Group	1
Still Capital Partners	1
Nedbank	1
Invictus Capital	1

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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.

Investment focus

FinTech, Payments, Insurance
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
South Africa

Portfolio highlights

Pargo — Pargo is a convenient logistics solution that lets you collect and return parcels at Pargo parcel points throughout the country when it suits you best.
Synatic — Synatic is a unified platform that enables your business to integrate and automate systems and services without sacrificing enterprise features and security.
Peach Payments — Get Peach as your Payment Gateway and Grow your ecommerce. Process online payments with Visa, Mastercard, Debit Orders, EFT payments, and subscriptions. Plugins for Wix, Shopify, WooCommerce.

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

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Affinity — Affinity is a financial solutions company that provides financial inclusion, advisory, and literacy services.
ToumAI Analytics — ToumAI Analytics is a software development company providing voice analytics, real-time analytics, and reporting services.
PBR Life Sciences — A cloud-based real-world, non-observational pharmacy sell-out data

Everywhere Ventures (fka "The Fund") is a first-of-its-kind early-stage venture fund created by founders for founders to support the next generation of entrepreneurs.Everywhere Ventures is a community-powered venture investing platform that integrates the capital, expertise, and mentoring of experienced founders and operators acrossten micro funds. The Fund's $70M+ under management comes almost exclusively from the over 500 founders and operators who are its limited partners. Everywhere Ventures operates from the belief that those who have actually built successful companies are best suited to advise and support early-stage startups. Everywhere Ventures invests in pre-seed deals globally usually in the first financing round the company raises. Emphasis is placed on purpose-driven teams across money, health and work verticals.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

PlantBaby — We are developing a portfolio of clean-label, organic, plant-based foods and beverages to support families on the nutritional journey from infancy to adulthood.
Mesta — Mesta combines traditional banking with blockchain technology to provide seamless cross-border payments, enabling businesses to process global transactions efficiently and securely.
Starboard — Starboard revolutionize global trade by empowering SMB freight forwarders with cutting-edge AI tools.

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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
South Africa, Nigeria, United States

Portfolio highlights

Sabi Am — Sabi is Africa's largest B2B company, & we are digitising informal trade via our platform. We access markets hard to reach and ensure ease of distribution, & are the No 1 FCMG supplier in Africa.
Sukhiba — Sukhiba is a decentralized community-based commerce platform.
Stitch — One API integration for enterprise online payments across South Africa. Accept Pay by bank, debit + credit card, cash, manual EFT, debit order and crypto.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, FinTech
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
United States, Australia, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

PlantBaby — We are developing a portfolio of clean-label, organic, plant-based foods and beverages to support families on the nutritional journey from infancy to adulthood.
Mesta — Mesta combines traditional banking with blockchain technology to provide seamless cross-border payments, enabling businesses to process global transactions efficiently and securely.
Keebler Health — Keebler Health is an AI-first risk adjustment platform for providers and payers that are at risk for Medicare & Medicaid lives.

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

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, India, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

minu — In minu, we are revolutionizing the financial health of Mexican employees, offering them access to their already worked salary when they need it, instead of having to wait for payroll. We work with HR areas of companies that offer the provision of minu to improve satisfaction, retention, and attraction of talent. minu is supported by FinTech'sleading institutional investors globally, including QED.
MoneyHash — MoneyHash provides access to payment and fintech services across the Middle East & Africa with one simple integration.
Morada Uno — Morada Uno underwrites and insures house rentals by equipping real estate professionals with tools and technology. The company aims to simplify and create trust and security in real estate transactions, promoting fairness in every interaction, and promoting a positive change in the mentality and way of doing things in Mexico.

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

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
Seed, Series A, Series C
South Africa, United States

Portfolio highlights

Mobiz — Supercharge your SMS marketing with dynamic, high-converting landing pages sent directly into the hands of your customers.
onafriq — MFS Africa is the largest mobile money inter-operability hub in Africa, which connects mobile network operators across the continent through a single API. In addition to mobile remittance services, the MFS Africa API enables merchant payment, bulk payment, bank-to-wallet transfers, and an array of other cross border digital payments services.
Sendmarc — Maximize your email security and domain protection with DMARC to safeguard your business against email impersonation, phishing, and spoofing.

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

Investment focus

Logistics, Health Care, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
South Africa, Ghana, Kenya

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
Waspito — We are the platform that engages Africa into the conversation and action to drive affordable and accessible quality healthcare across the continent.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Information Technology
Series A, Funding Round, Seed
Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Hub2.Io — Welcome to HUB2, the leading FINTECH startup in interoperability and payment infrastructure in Francophone Africa. We are proud to work with all financial industry players in Africa who need stable and high-performing infrastructure, and contribute to their success.
Educatly — We help you get into the University of your dreams. We are the only platform with all the information you need to Study Abroad
littlefishapp — Littlefish is a comprehensive commerce platform that empowers banks to serve small business with tools to streamline operations, drive growth, and enhance customer engagement.

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.

Investment focus

Apps, Mobile Apps, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
South Africa, Luxembourg, United States

Portfolio highlights

Talk360 — Talk360 is an easy-to-use calling app that helps people make affordable international calls to any mobile and landline number. They believe that reliable communication and digital services must be affordable and accessible to everyone, regardless of someone's background. Especially people in emerging countries in Africa, who often need theseservices the most, do not always have the necessary banking possibilities. To bridge this distance, Talk360 will launch the world's first single checkout platform for Africa. This platform will combine all locally available payment methods and currencies across Africa, together with over 1.25 million cash points of sales, and will eventually be available to other companies as well. This means that 500 million Africans will be able to purchase digital services they never had access to before.
Sendmarc — Maximize your email security and domain protection with DMARC to safeguard your business against email impersonation, phishing, and spoofing.
visionAI — visionAI augments existing CCTV cameras with computer vision AI to drive improved operational outcomes in manufacturing.

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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Mexico, Nigeria, United States

Portfolio highlights

Regfyl — Powered by AI, Regfyl is the all-in-one fraud and compliance platform for financial institutions and fintechs. Regfyl allows these businesses to reduce costs and focus on higher value activities.
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.
Stay — Stay is a long-term incentive platform. We are working to decomplicate the task of investing in the future: both for companies and for their collaborators.

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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
Seed, Series B, Funding Round
South Africa, United States, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Cavex — Cavex uses digital finance and innovative technologies to drive environmental and socio-economic benefits for the people and communities most in need.
WIC Capital — Capital investissement - Gender investing - Gender initiative - Impact investing - Early stage - PME - SME - Equity - Fund manager - Empower women
Dhamana Guarantee — An East African focused credit guarantee company whose principal business is to guarantee local currency debt obligations in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Rwanda.

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

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa

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...

Speedinvest is one of Europe’s most active early-stage investors, with more than €1bn AUM, 40 investors, and offices in Berlin, London, Munich, Paris, Vienna and San Francisco. Your success is our priority, so we don’t just send some money and "check in" at board meetings. Our mission is to empower you with game-changing support throughevery stage of your journey. Our focused investment teams know your industry inside and out. Their Deep Tech, Fintech, Industrial Tech, Network Effects, Digital Health and Subscriptions experience, know-how and deep networks are yours from day one. You also have full access to our in-house Platform+ team of operational experts who can provide tailored growth marketing, people (HR), US business development, and networking support throughout every stage of your journey.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Germany, United Kingdom, Austria

Portfolio highlights

Gigs — Gigs is building Stripe for SIM cards. Providing platforms custom phone & data plans through an easy to use API in 180+ countries.
GetVocal AI — GetVocal AI is help companies automate customer service processes with the most advanced Conversational AI phone agent.
Astral Systems — Our compact multi-state fusion reactors offer high particle flux and exceptional lifetime performance, unlocking a wide variety of critical medical, industrial, and research applications today.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Series B
South Africa, United States, Uganda

Portfolio highlights

Maxe AI — AI investment Assistant for all investors. AI Portfolios tracker of stocks bonds exchanges futures. all in one to track mutual funds.
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.
Happy Pay — Happy Pay is a credit scoring system developing company. The company integrates an autonomous artificial intelligence technology system with the merchant's platform to increase their average basket size and customer conversion metrics, providing users with buy now, and pay later services.

Seed capital for technology startups globally.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Nigeria, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Regfyl — Powered by AI, Regfyl is the all-in-one fraud and compliance platform for financial institutions and fintechs. Regfyl allows these businesses to reduce costs and focus on higher value activities.
Sukhiba — Sukhiba is a decentralized community-based commerce platform.
Orca Fraud — Orca empowers fraud fighters with effective tools to combat fraud

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

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Series A, Seed, Series B
India, Brazil, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Kanastra — Asset-management-as-a-service
Prima — Reliable manufacturing & supply chain partner for custom parts, metal fabrication & efficient sourcing from Mexico. Manage design, production & delivery
Bureau — Bureau is trust network that facilitates end-to-end identity verification, compliance, and fraud prevention for new-age businesses.

Robby Hilkowitz is an angel investor.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Israel, Hong Kong, Singapore

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.

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.

Investment focus

Supply Chain Management, Transportation, Information Technology
Seed, Angel, Grant
Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa

Portfolio highlights

Releaf — We are industrializing food processing in Africa. We've led 1000+ smallholder farmers to provide food factories with >7.5 million kilograms of quality crops.
MarketForce — MarketForce connects Africa’s informal retail outlets and consumers directly to suppliers of consumer goods and financial services by digitizing orders, delivery, and payments with the aim of solving the last mile distribution challenge.
SHYFT Power Solutions — SHYFT builds industrial-grade IoT and integrated software to connect and intelligently manage distributed energy resources (DERs) in markets that struggle with resiliency. SHYFT is pioneering the development of integrated decentralized power systems in emerging markets like Nigeria, leapfrogging over traditional central infrastructure and enablingDERs to scale and support existing but unreliable grids.

FMO is a financial investment firm that specializes in financing businesses and projects FMO invests across the agribusiness value chain to enhance food security, support sustainability and promoting inclusive development.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Finance, Renewable Energy
Debt Financing, Funding Round, Series B
India, The Netherlands, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Paymob — Paymob runs millions of transactions for different business sizes across the Middle East and Africa. Start using Paymob’s solutions and API’s to accept and send payments for your online business now.
Sistema.bio — Sistema.bio is a biodigester with biogas appliances. High efficiency biodigesters transform organic waste into renewable biogas.
Trans-Oil Group of Companies — TRANS-OIL GROUP is an agro-industrial holding with oilseeds crushing, grain handling, commodities trading, and exports. It produces vegetable oil, flour.

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

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Shinami — Tools to build the next wave of decentralized applications
Huma Finance — Huma is an Income backed DeFi.
Skyfire Systems — Skyfire, a financial stack designed to enable autonomous agentic AI commerce, is to establish the first fully autonomous, open agentic AI economy in history.

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

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Funding Round
South Africa

Portfolio highlights

BancX — bancX is a modular, as-a-service platform for banks, fintechs, lenders, and retailers to build or extend their offering to meet market demand.
Lipa Payments — Lipa [ lee-puh ] Payments is a payment software solution for banks and fintech's that allows small merchants to perform digital transactions using NFC and Bluetooth technology (Tap on Phone). We remove the need for additional payment terminal hardware. Start transacting in less than hour with our SDK.
The Cape Town Stock Exchange — The Cape Town Stock Exchange is a south Africa’s stock exchange for small- and medium-sized businesses.

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.

Investment focus

Energy, Renewable Energy, Transportation
Series B, Funding Round, Series C
United States, France, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Autogrid — Building a Resilient and Sustainable Grid with Distributed Energy Resources. Enabling a smarter, cleaner, more distributed electric power grid.
45-8 ENERGY — 45-8 ENERGY is exploring eco-friendly helium for uses in many industries.
Zola Electric — ZOLA Electric designs renewable energy solutions based on the latest in solar, battery and power electronics technology. Adaptable to energy need and income, ZOLA Electric’s solar systems can be bought over time using PAYGo micro-finance leasing and mobile money payments. ZOLA Electric powers more than 180,000 homes and businesses across Tanzania,Rwanda, Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana. Investors include Tesla, Vulcan Capital, DBL Partners, Helios Investment Partners, EDF, Total and GE Ventures. ZOLA Electric is a recipient of the UN Momentum for Change Award, the Zayed Future Energy Prize and is a member of the Global Cleantech 100.

Fireball Capital operates as a venture capital firm.

Investment focus

Email, Internet, Payments
Series A
South Africa

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 — Maximize your email security and domain protection with DMARC to safeguard your business against email impersonation, phishing, and spoofing.
Insight Terra — Insight Terra supports data driven risk management in critical situations where business operations, people and the environment all come together.

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

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Series A, Series B, Seed
The Netherlands, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Yoco — Yoco is a point-of-sale payments provider for small businesses in Africa. Yoco helps 100,000 small businesses in South Africa get paid in-store, online, and on the go. Yoco was named one of the top 250 most promising fintech companies by CB Insights for the last 3 years running.The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Cape Town, SouthAfrica.
Gotrade — Making investing fun, fair and simple. Join over 500,000 investors investing in fractions of companies like Google, Apple & Netflix from as little as $1.
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.

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.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Series A
Israel, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Lendai — Are you a foreign investor that needs a loan? Lendai offers the best rates for US mortgages tailored to foreign investors! Apply now.
Swish.ai — Unlock the power of AI hyperautomation for your ITSM with our platform. Integrate with any existing tool and gain real-time insights to resolve tickets faster and reduce costs. Revolutionize the way you manage IT service delivery.
PicUP — PicUP is an AI-powered optimization and personalization platform for outbound sales and customer service calls

Development Partners International (“DPI”) is a leading Pan-African private equity firm, with strong local knowledge and an established track record of investing in Africa.DPI was established in 2007 by co-founders Miles Morland and Runa Alam, both pioneers of African investment, with a vision to build a leading pan-African private equity firm.Today, DPI manages over US$1.1bn of assets across two private equity funds.Through its world class team with over 100 years of aggregate African investment experience, DPI has invested in 19 portfolio companies operating across 27 countries.The investment team is 100% African and over 40% of the DPI team is made up of women. They possess the local network, knowledge and language skills to source and invest in transactions throughout the continent.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Manufacturing, Retail
Private Equity, Funding Round, Series A
Egypt, Morocco, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Kazyon — Kazyon is the largest Egyptian discount supermarket chain with over 450 stores in 17 governorates.
Moniepoint — Moniepoint provides an all-in-one payments, banking and operations platform for businesses and their customers.
Pan African Towers — Pan African Towers Limited, is a telecommunications infrastructure and wireless service facilitator.

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.

Investment focus

Bitcoin, FinTech, Ethereum
Series A
South Africa

Portfolio highlights

VALR — Buy and sell bitcoin, ethereum & more | Pay anyone for free with VALR Pay

R-Ventures is a global investor in high-impact tech startups driving change and economic growth through emerging market investments.

Investment focus

Banking, FinTech, Finance
Seed, Funding Round
Senegal, South Africa

Portfolio highlights

Bettr — Bettr is a digital banking app for creator. Download the app to get your zero monthly fee digital bank account and virtual card. Join our community of creators, gamers, influencers, freelancers, tiktokkers, streamers, YouTubers and digital gig workers.
Yobante Express — Yobante Express offers a web & mobile platform that connects retailers, businesses & individuals with carriers for point-to-point delivery.

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

Investment focus

Financial Services, Banking, B2B
Series B, Series C, Pre-Seed
South Africa, Egypt, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Taager — Taager is a social e-commerce platform enabling online merchants with end-to-end logistics.
Raenest — Access Virtual Accounts, Invoicing, Multi-Currency Payouts, Auto Payroll, Accounting Integrations, and Virtual & Physical cards within minutes.
TymeBank — TymeBank is a subsidiary of the Tyme Group, which focuses on financial technology and banking solutions. TymeBank focuses on providing accessible financial services to the lower-income market. It emphasizes digital banking and minimal fees. Customers can open secure personal and business accounts online, benefiting from low banking charges and highsavings interest rates through their digital platform.

Alameda Research is a quantitative cryptocurrency trading firm that provides liquidity in cryptocurrency and digital assets markets. It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Central and Western, Hong Kong.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Singapore, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

3Commas — 3Commas develops a crypto-asset management tool for tracking investments and exchanges in a unified platform. It provides access to a unified dashboard as the central hub for trading and portfolio management execution.
Fuel Labs — At Fuel, we are building the fastest execution layer for the modular blockchain stack.
Optim Finance — Optim Finance provides investment tools that optimize yield on digital assets. Their financial primitives enable users to rent ADA delegation rights to power novel use cases such as SPO loans, leverage into ISOs, and initial bonds.

Discover the latest in electronic & smart appliance technology with Samsung. Find the next big thing from smartphones & tablets to laptops & tvs & more.

Investment focus

Software, Manufacturing, Artificial Intelligence
Funding Round, Grant, Series B
United States, South Korea, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Coframe — Transform your website with AI-driven optimization and personalization that boosts engagement and conversions. Coframe automates growth 24/7.
Protect AI — Protect AI builds cybersecurity solutions for AI systems and ML models, helping ML developers and enterprises embrace MLSecOps.
Spline — Spline is a free 3D design software with real-time collaboration to create web interactive experiences in the browser. Easy 3d modeling, animation, textures, and more.

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

Investment focus

FinTech, Payments, Point of Sale
Seed
South Africa

Portfolio highlights

Yoco — Trusted by 200,000+ businesses, Yoco simplifies payments with integrated POS systems, card machines, seamless transactions, and 7-day support. Enjoy low rates, fast processing, and a 30-day money-back guarantee.

Backing high-impact technologies that reshape industries Building growth

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Banking
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United Kingdom, Malta, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Capitalise.com — We've partnered with 100+ UK lenders to offer business loans and cash flow solutions to SMEs. Find the funding that best matches your needs today.
Bettr — Bettr is a digital banking app for creator. Download the app to get your zero monthly fee digital bank account and virtual card. Join our community of creators, gamers, influencers, freelancers, tiktokkers, streamers, YouTubers and digital gig workers.
Zilch — Buy now, pay later with Zilch. Shop thousands of brands online or in store and pay off your purchase over 6 weeks in 4 instalments.

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

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
Nigeria, Egypt, United States

Portfolio highlights

Pumpkn — Need reliable funding? We provide quick loans and capital tailored for Agriculture businesses in South Africa. Grow your business with Pumpkn. Apply now!
Orca Fraud — Orca empowers fraud fighters with effective tools to combat fraud
Scale — Scale accelerates market entry and revenue for fintechs with a people-first approach.

10x Group is a group of serial entrepreneurs and founders investing in founders of digital start-ups in Europe and Silicon Valley.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Germany, India

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enmacc — enmacc, the OTC energy trading platform, offers innovative solutions for efficient trading of energy commodities in today's dynamic market.
finway — finway provides financial guidence to SMEs, plan & control all expenses and budgets in one tool.
Quantum Systems — Our vision is to become the global leader in providing aerial data for decision making by the use of our drones.

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

Investment focus

FinTech, Payments, Mobile Apps
Series A
South Africa

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PayCode Inc — Paycode is a South African fintech that combines biometric digital identity and payments in one platform. By offering these two solutions, users are able to access financial services that include cash pay-outs, mobile money, remittances, insurance, microloans, airtime, electricity, and social grants.

Wissam Otaky - Co-Founder & Director @ HATCHER+

Investment focus

FinTech, Payments, Point of Sale
Seed
South Africa

Portfolio highlights

Yoco — Yoco is a point-of-sale payments provider for small businesses in Africa. Yoco helps 100,000 small businesses in South Africa get paid in-store, online, and on the go. Yoco was named one of the top 250 most promising fintech companies by CB Insights for the last 3 years running.The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Cape Town, SouthAfrica.

Investment focus

Bitcoin, FinTech, Ethereum
Seed
South Africa

Portfolio highlights

VALR — Buy and sell bitcoin, ethereum & more | Pay anyone for free with VALR Pay

Calvin Ayre (born May 25, 1961, in Lloydminster, Saskatchewan, Canada) is the founder of the Bodog online gaming and entertainment brand, which he developed and launched in 1994.Ayre received a Bachelor of Sciences (BSc) in General Sciences from the University of Waterloo in 1984. In 1989, Ayre earned an MBA in Management Finance from CityUniversity of Seattle.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Information Technology, Bitcoin
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, Spain

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Mijem — Mijem is the buy sell marketplace app to tap into your campus community. Save money. Earn cash. Connect with students. Download the free app.
Centi — Unlocking Financial Potential with Blockchain Empowering businesses and individuals with innovative solutions that bridge traditional...
Transmira — Augmented and Virtual Reality Solutions

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.

Investment focus

Payments, Software, Analytics
Seed, Funding Round
South Africa

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.

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.

Investment focus

Payments, Financial Services, Information Technology
Funding Round, Series A, Private Equity
South Africa, United States, Russian Federation

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Adumo — We are your expert partner in payments, enabling you to seamlessly and securely accept payments in-store and online with our true omni-channel experience. Never miss a sale with South Africa's largest independent payments processor.
VantagePay — VantagePay provides white-label payment and technology solutions to the Banking, Telco, Financial Services, and Consumer Product Industries.
Momint — Momint is the Web3 investment platform of the future. The safest and easiest to use NFT marketplace in the world. Discover the real-world potential of NFTs.

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.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Video Streaming, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, South Africa

Portfolio highlights

ROW8 — ROW8 is a subscription-free streaming service that gives moviegoers access to new hollywood films straight from theatres, as well as a curated selection of the best hit movies of all time.
Centbee — Discover secure and simple Bitcoin transactions with Centbee. Get started today to easily buy, store, and spend Bitcoin.
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.

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

Investment focus

Financial Services, Finance, E-Commerce
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa

Portfolio highlights

MNZL — MNZL is on a mission to expand access to capital for Egyptians.Every person who owns an asset has accumulated wealth in it. When they want liquidity for their projects and needs, they should be able to tap into it as easily as withdrawing from a bank.With an innovative digital platform and products, we are working on making digital access tocapital a reality, and building the future of asset-backed financing in Africa.
Hub2.Io — Welcome to HUB2, the leading FINTECH startup in interoperability and payment infrastructure in Francophone Africa. We are proud to work with all financial industry players in Africa who need stable and high-performing infrastructure, and contribute to their success.
Affinity — Affinity is a financial solutions company that provides financial inclusion, advisory, and literacy services.

Two Hop is a VC fund focusing exclusively on startups providing the infrastructure for the next generation secure internet. While the Web 2.0 democratized many power structures and created new opportunities, the economic engine is largely privatized and monopolized. Facebook, Uber and AirBnB have created private networks for public infrastructurewhich they dominate. Web 3 is the antithesis and promises to return the internet to the hands of users through the combination of blockchain and internet. It’s about multiple profit centers sharing value across an open network. Two Hop believes the BSV blockchain is best suited for becoming the backbone of Web 3.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Software, Bitcoin
Seed, Series A
The Netherlands, United States, Spain

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 — Enterprise infrastructure for decentralised storage and authentication at scale. SDKs and APIs built for absolute data ownership.

We Focus Exclusively On Adding Value To Blockchain & Emerging Technology Projects With Real World Applications.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Singapore

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Unit — Unit Network DAO is a sovereign layer 1 blockchain built using the Substrate framework by the Web3 Foundation, Polkadot and Parity Technologies. It provides the technological and economic infrastructure for mainstream adoption of the token economy. A near-future in which millions of tokens fuel borderless communities to empower the globe.
M10 — Material10 is an international game studio and publisher with a vision to build the future of massively multiplayer games, leveraging cutting edge technology and creating truly open virtual economies.
Validation Cloud — Discover enterprise-grade staking and node infrastructure: Ethereum, Polygon, and more. Enjoy secure, fast, and reliable staking and node services with Validation Cloud.

Beryl Group is a proprietary investments company with equity holdings in logistics, energy, mining, and financial sector companies.

Investment focus

Banking, FinTech, Finance
Funding Round
South Africa

Portfolio highlights

Bettr — Bettr is a digital banking app for creator. Download the app to get your zero monthly fee digital bank account and virtual card. Join our community of creators, gamers, influencers, freelancers, tiktokkers, streamers, YouTubers and digital gig workers.

Still Capital Partners is an investment firm.

Investment focus

FinTech, Banking, Finance
Funding Round, Series A
United States, South Africa

Portfolio highlights

BrightPlan — BrightPlan's financial wellness solution is built to lead all employees to financial success on their own terms at every stage of life.
Bettr — Bettr is a digital banking app for creator. Download the app to get your zero monthly fee digital bank account and virtual card. Join our community of creators, gamers, influencers, freelancers, tiktokkers, streamers, YouTubers and digital gig workers.
Uncle Nearest — The best whiskey maker the world never knew. Uncle Nearest 1856 Premium Whiskey. Visit one of these locations or buy online. Enjoy responsibly.

Imperial Bank combines the collective skills, relationships and resources of Nedbank Limited and Imperial Holdings Limited to bring you an innovative finance partner. We are a focused, entrepreneurial team that is managed in accordance with sound banking and risk management principles.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Mining
Series A, Debt Financing, Seed
South Africa, Australia, United States

Portfolio highlights

KTO Digital — J-Cred is a solution developed by KTO Digital to help organisations make informed decisions driven by digital access to data and aiding in business risk management. The solution is a data aggregation platform that is applicable to multiple business units such as; procurement, HR, finance, forensic auditing, governance and compliance.
Ukheshe Technologies — Ukheshe Technologies is a technology company with a single API to integrate our fully digital financial services, including wallets, payment innovations and card issuing.
Airports Company South Africa — Airports Company of South Africa Limited operates nine of South Africa’s airports. Its head office is in the Maples Office Park.

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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