Top 15 Payments Startup Investors in Zambia in May 2026
Top 15 Payments Startup Investors in Zambia in May 2026
| Investor | Payments Zambia investments |
|---|---|
| ACE & Company | 2 |
| Vibe VC | 2 |
| Ventures Platform | 2 |
| The Todd & Rahul Angel Fund | 2 |
| Runa Capital | 2 |
| Babs Ogundeyi | 2 |
| Tiger Global Management | 1 |
| Not Boring Capital | 1 |
| Gbenga Ajayi | 1 |
| 54 Collective | 1 |
| True Capital Management | 1 |
| Earl Grey Capital | 1 |
| Blockchain Founders Fund | 1 |
| Zrosk Investment Management | 1 |
| Goodwater Capital | 1 |
Reach every investor
Get a list of investors who already back your industry, stage, and country. Emails & phones included.
Find investors — It's Free!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.
Show more...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.
- Vennre — Build wealth through vetted private market opportunities from $5k. GCC-first, globally accessible. Regulated, Sharia-compliant, digital-first.
- PatientPoint — Discover how PatientPoint delivers content that drives better health decisions and outcomes for healthcare providers, brands, and patients.
We were told no one would take us seriously as investors without a website, so here's our website.
Show more...Investment focus
- Financial Services, EdTech, Retail
- 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.
Show more...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.
- SEND — SEND manages the entire process of moving freight by air, ocean and road to and from Africa - including customs processes, trucking and warehousing. Our application provides instant quotes & bookings, document management, cost transparency, notifications and tracking for your cargo.
- Remedial Health — We improve business to business access to medicines by providing such medicines from manufactures/registered distributors direct to large and small healthcare retail businesses (large pharmacies and remote chemist/PPMVs (Patent and Proprietary Medicine Vendors)) using technology to deliver just-in-time stock and provide financing and awide selection of inventory to such retail business.
Backed by 110+ world-class founders and operators. We help you find product/market fit faster, supercharge your distribution, and raise from the best investors.
Show more...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...
Show more...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
- Lace Lithography — Lace is building the patterning technology that will power the next 100 years of semiconductor manufacturing.
Cofounder and CEO of Kuda
Show more...Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, 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.
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.
Show more...Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- United States, India, China
Portfolio highlights
- MoonPay — MoonPay offers a fast and simple way to buy and sell cryptocurrencies. Buy crypto with credit card, bank transfers or Apple Pay today.
- Progcap — Progcap is revolutionising the way financial access is delivered to underserved segments of the Indian retail economy, through specialized financing and technology products that empower small and medium businesses (SMBs) to progress without obstacles.
- G.O.A.T Brand Labs — Purpose G.O.A.T is mono-maniacally focussed on the audacious goal of Making Indian D2C brands world...
Behind-the-Scenes of Raising a Fund to Invest in Companies with Stories to Tell
Show more...Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Canada, Zambia
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Ceramic Network — Ceramic Network is a provider of protocols for decentralized and composable data applications. The network decentralizes application databases, making data universally composable and reusable across applications. It consists of three core parts: a highly-scalable, decentralized infrastructure for data availability and consensus, a marketplace ofcommunity-created data models, and a suite of standard APIs for storing, updating, and retrieving data from those models.
Gbenga Ajayi of Kanza Ventures.
Show more...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.
Building and scaling African tech startups with catalytic capital, value-add support and our global network.
Show more...Investment focus
- Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa
Portfolio highlights
- Billboxx — Manage payables, receivables, financing and banking in one platform.
- 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.
Achieve your financial goals & build generational wealth with our entertainer & athlete wealth management services. Offering comprehensive financial planning.
Show more...Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Nigeria, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- MoonPay — MoonPay offers a fast and simple way to buy and sell cryptocurrencies. Buy crypto with credit card, bank transfers or Apple Pay today.
- 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.
Show more...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.
We Focus Exclusively On Adding Value To Blockchain & Emerging Technology Projects With Real World Applications.
Show more...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.
- DeepNode AI — DeepNode connects researchers, data scientists, and enterprises into one transparent, verifiable network for building real-world AI. DeepNode AI a technology service provider focusing on decentralized AI infrastructure,
- Renaissance — Renaissance allows artists to amplify their streaming traction and tap into a community of their super fans.
Alternative investment solutions: private credit, discretionary portfolios, and the Magna Specialized Fund.
Show more...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 — Speak your native language with pride! Learn Yoruba and Igbo with fun, immersive online lessons for adults and kids (ages 5+).
- Definely — Definely creates legal tech solutions to free lawyers from frustration, saving them time when understanding, drafting and reviewing legal documents.
Consumer Tech Investors - We empower exceptional entrepreneurs everywhere to change the world for good.
Show more...Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, India, South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- Posh — Event marketing made easy.
- Zepto — India's fastest grocery delivery service.
- Payhere — Payhere is a fintech company that provides card terminals and online payment gateway services for multiple industries.
Contact investors today
Find who invests in your industry, stage, and country in 5 minutes.
Find investors — It's Free!