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Top 15 Payments Startup Investors in Zambia in January 2026

Last updated: Jan 2026 A list of 15 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Payments startups based in Zambia. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Payments companies from Zambia. We update this investor list every month.

Top 15 Payments Startup Investors in Zambia in January 2026

Investor	Payments Zambia investments
Babs Ogundeyi	2
ACE & Company	2
Vibe VC	2
Ventures Platform	2
The Todd & Rahul Angel Fund	2
Runa Capital	2
Not Boring Capital	1
54 Collective	1
True Capital Management	1
Earl Grey Capital	1
Blockchain Founders Fund	1
Zrosk Investment Management	1
Gbenga Ajayi	1
Goodwater Capital	1
Tiger Global Management	1

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Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Nigeria, Zambia, Pakistan

Portfolio highlights

Zazuu — Zazuu is a platform for sending money across the border.
Curacel — Curacel creates APIs & tools that enable businesses to embed insurance in digital channels and to administer claims cost-effectively.
24SEVEN — 24seven.pk is using tech and data to digitize and disrupt the fresh food and FMCG verticals in one of the fastest-growing and rapidly evolving consumer markets in the world.

ACE offers three core investment strategies across the stages of private investment: Secondaries, Buyout, and Venture. Our portfolio construction guidelines ensure that our investors access the necessary customization to achieve their risk and return requirements.ACE aims to drive returns by managing risks and strategically adjusting investmentexposure to the stage of a company’s development. We strongly believe that diversification and sizing of investments according to the risk profile are the most effective approaches to investing private capital.ACE’s specialized investment teams provide the support to create long-term and sustainable investment results.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Roofr — The complete sales toolbox for roofers. From roof measurement reports to project-winning proposals.
DePoly — DePoly is a spin off out of the LSMO lab at EPFL- Valais that has developed a novel technology allowing for the chemical recycling of PET plastic back to its main two components ethylene glycol (EG) and terephthalic acid (TPA). Our approach turns low valued materials (PET waste) into high-valued chemicals like TPA creating a circular economy. Weexpect this process to generate revenue from chemically recycling PET to TPA/EG, which can be sold back to industry to make new virgin PET plastic and allowing for a sustainable source of TPA and EG on the market.
PatientPoint — Discover how PatientPoint delivers content that drives better health decisions and outcomes for healthcare providers, brands, and patients.

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Investment focus

Financial Services, EdTech, Education
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, Zambia

Portfolio highlights

RipenHQ — A venture studio creating products and services that ripen the internet.
DealCart — DealCart enables users to buy their favorite products in groups by allowing users to buy in groups and sharing deals on WhatsApp and other social media platforms.
Carry — Ocho is everything you need to build wealth as a business owner.

We back founders building the future of Africa. We invest in companies that solve for non-consumption, plug infrastructural gaps and democratise prosperity in Africa, by eliminating the barriers for access and reducing the costs of delivering goods and services.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Nigeria, United States, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Raenest — Access Virtual Accounts, Invoicing, Multi-Currency Payouts, Auto Payroll, Accounting Integrations, and Virtual & Physical cards within minutes.
Juicyway — Juice is a developer of a payment network platform for cross-border business payments for businesses and individuals. It facilitates financial transactions between parties regardless of location to allow enterprises to participate in international trade and the exchange of goods and services.
ThankUCash — ThankUCash is a technology company powering rewards and loyalty for African banks and businesses. ThankUCash helps merchants grow revenue by connecting them to customers within and outside of their locations while retaining acquired customers using a data analytics-powered reward system where customers earn cash rewards for every transaction madeboth offline and online.

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Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Zambia, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Loyal — Loyal is a clinical-stage veterinary medicine company working on giving dogs longer, healthier lives.
Merkle Manufactory — Merkle Manufactory is a software company contributing to the Farcaster protocol and working on clients.
Meez Culinary Solutions — Organize, Train, Cost, Iterate, Collaborate, and Share your recipes and process.

Runa Capital is a global venture capital firm built by serial entrepreneurs that invests in early-stage software startups around the world...

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Financial Services
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Germany, France

Portfolio highlights

Ubitium — Ubiquitous computing, universal RISC-V microprocessor
Akhetonics — Creating the first all-optical RISC Processor
Twenty — Twenty builds the modern salesforce, powered by the open source community.

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Investment focus

Software, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Canada, Zambia

Portfolio highlights

Ambrook — Manage your finances, improve your margins, and stay independent.
Convoke — Convoke is curating high-quality datasets, automating workflows, and building a software platform.
Daylight — Anode Labs is leveraging web3 infrastructure to build the world's largest virtual power plant.

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

Investment focus

Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa

Portfolio highlights

Billboxx — Empowering SMEs to pay and get paid on time, every time.
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.

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Pivo — Pivo is an all-in-one financial services platform for businesses in the supply chain. Set up accounts, access credit and manage your finances in one simple application.
StackAI — Stack AI supercharges businesses. Deploy AI-powered applications in minutes, automate processes, and skyrocket productivity by connecting LLMs to data sources using Stack AI's no-code platform. Export your work with user-centric interfaces (chatbots and forms) and developer-friendly APIs.
Kapital — Kapital empowers SMBs with a tech-banking platform giving visibility and control of their treasury, and their employees

Founders funding founders at the earliest stages of company building.

Investment focus

SaaS, E-Learning, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Rubie — Rubie is a software solutions company that helps businesses with complex products streamline and accelerate customer onboarding.
CrewAI — CrewAI is a multi-agent automation platform for enterprises to automate complex tasks. With its automation platform, organizations can deploy and manage AI agents to automate complex tasks and to value across a wide range of use cases, from research and analysis to coding and reporting.The company also offers a range of advanced new featuresincluding self-iteration, performance evaluation, persistent memory, and a range of new agent collaboration structures.
Mino Games — Mino Games is a free-to-play mobile gaming studio that produced the top 50 grossing mobile game Mino Monsters, with over 13 million downloads. We create deeply engaging, widely appealing games for millions of fans. We’re currently building our world class development studio in Montreal.We are a small group of passionate engineers, artists andanalysts with a mission to create games that millions of people all around the world love to play for years. We are funded by the best angel investors, institutional investors, and gaming companies from across the world.Our third and latest game, Cat Game, has already hit the App Store’s Top 100 Grossing Chart in Canada. The game, currently in soft launch, is showing world class key metrics, and we are expecting it to be a global hit when we launch it by February 2019.We are looking today to grow the team and looking for world class ambitious talent to come join us on the journey, to develop and support this newest title into a global success on both iOS and Android, and help us with future projects as we rapidly grow.

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

KINO — KINO is a film production company that brings fans behind the scenes of their favorite hollywood films.
Renaissance — Renaissance allows artists to amplify their streaming traction and tap into a community of their super fans.
Virtualtech Frontier — Virtualtech Frontier develops business processes through virtual reality technology. It operates virtual event platforms, metaverse services, and virtual reality solutions. Virtualtech Frontier was founded in 2021 and is based in Selangor, Malaysia.

Zrosk Investment Management is an investment firm that invests in early-stage startups. We invest across the pre-seed to series A spectrum. We typically target at least 10% ownership in businesses we invest in and tend to maintain that position until series A providing much-needed early follow-on capital for our portfolio companies. Our commitmentis to provide more than just capital and to be one of the most prominent value-added investors on a company's cap table.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Nigeria, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

PaidHR — PaidHR works with organizations to streamline how they manage their staff. Our precisely created solutions enable them to create the ideal place to work.
Lingawa — Learn African languages online with expert tutors. Gain practical skills in Yoruba, Igbo, and more. Start your language journey today.
Definely — Definely creates legal tech solutions to free lawyers from frustration, saving them time when understanding, drafting and reviewing legal documents.

Gbenga Ajayi of Kanza Ventures.

Investment focus

FinTech, Payments, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
Egypt, Zambia, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Raenest — Access Virtual Accounts, Invoicing, Multi-Currency Payouts, Auto Payroll, Accounting Integrations, and Virtual & Physical cards within minutes.
Union54 — Union54 is a debit card issuing API for fintech and corporates.Union54 allows any software company to issue debit cards to their customers without needing any bank or credit card processor. It provides BIN sponsorship., transaction processing, and settlement.
Cedar Money — Cedar simplifies cross-border payments for businesses in Africa. We enable businesses send high-volume payments to their international suppliers at affordable rates and ZERO set-up fees.

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Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, South Korea

Portfolio highlights

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Jerry — Jerry simplifies the expensive, frustrating, and time-consuming aspects of car ownership.
Empowerly — We triple students' chances of getting into their top-choice colleges and universities. Get college counseling, essay editing, track university deadlines, and more. Learn more.

Founded in 2001, Tiger Global Management, LLC (“Tiger Global”) is a New York-based investment firm pursuing a long-term approach to investing in leading, global public and private companies that leverage technological innovation. Tiger Global’s public equity business includes fundamentally oriented long/short, long-focused and crossoverstrategies, targeting investments in high-quality, public growth companies. The private equity business invests in early through late stage companies that pursue innovative approaches to new and existing industries, building on over 20 years of experience investing in hundreds of businesses in more than 30 countries with more than 90 portfolio company IPOs. With a strong track record investing across sectors and stages, Tiger Global aims to be a thought partner to companies and their management teams across their lifecycle in public and private markets. The Firm’s mission is to generate world-class returns for its investors and to do so in a way that makes its employees, partners and portfolio companies proud.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, India, China

Portfolio highlights

Chaayos — Your one stop shop for all your Chai Cravings. Easy way to buy out Masala Tea, Instant Tea, Green Teas and Tea Gifts.
Gridware — Using remote telemetry and edge AI, Gridware wildfire prevention technology powers a grid that is smarter and more reliable than ever before.
Nothing — Nothing is a London-based company removing the barriers between people and technology to create a seamless digital future.

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