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Top 50 Payments VC Funds & Investors in Africa (July 2026)

The most active venture capital funds investing in Africa Payments startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in 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
Ingressive Capital
VC Fund
11 Nigeria, United States, Egypt Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology $25k–$15M
Ventures Platform
VC Fund
10 Nigeria, United States, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Internet $100k–$4.4M
Digital Currency Group
VC Fund
10 United States, United Kingdom, Singapore Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech $650k–$48M
TLcom Capital Partners
VC Fund
9 Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Seed Software, Mobile, Information Technology $1.9M–$15M
Launch Africa
VC Fund
9 Nigeria, South Africa, United States Seed, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology $200k–$4M
Musha Ventures
VC Fund
9 United States, Nigeria, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Financial Services, FinTech $125k–$10M
LoftyInc Capital
VC Fund
9 United States, Nigeria, Egypt Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Software $100k–$37M
Golden Palm Investments
VC Fund
7 Nigeria, Egypt, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Information Technology, FinTech, Payments $125k–$15M
Microtraction
VC Fund
7 Nigeria, United States, Ghana Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel Financial Services, FinTech, Software $25k–$1.3M
Everywhere Ventures
VC Fund
7 United States, Australia, India Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, FinTech $550k–$60M
GreenHouse Capital
VC Fund
6 Nigeria, Kenya, United States Seed, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
Flourish Ventures
VC Fund
6 United States, India, Brazil Series A, Seed, Series B FinTech, Financial Services, Finance $2M–$65M
Lateral Frontiers
VC Fund
6 United States, Nigeria, Kenya Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Software $500k–$15M
Pantera Capital
VC Fund
6 United States, Singapore, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services $2M–$48M
Partech
VC Fund
5 United States, France, Germany Series A, Seed, Series B Software, E-Commerce, SaaS $1.1M–$55M
Kepple Africa Ventures
VC Fund
5 Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt Seed, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Software $300k–$4.5M
Berrywood Capital
VC Fund
5 Nigeria, United States, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Payments $125k–$8.5M
Future Perfect Ventures
VC Fund
5 United States, Kenya, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Financial Services, Finance $625k–$30M
CRE Venture Capital
VC Fund
5 Nigeria, South Africa, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, Software, FinTech $250k–$25M
54 Collective
VC Fund
4 Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa Seed, Pre-Seed Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech $40k–$4M
First circle capital
VC Fund
4 Nigeria, Egypt, United States Pre-Seed, Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Finance $100k–$4M
Tiger Global Management
VC Fund
4 United States, India, China Series B, Series A, Series C Software, FinTech, Financial Services $6.5M–$260M
Alameda Research
VC Fund
4 United States, Singapore, Canada Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services $1.3M–$35M
True Capital Management
VC Fund
4 United States, Nigeria, Canada Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed FinTech, Financial Services, Software $125k–$59M
Apis Partners
VC Fund
4 India, Singapore, South Africa Private Equity, Series B Financial Services, FinTech, Payments $5.4M–$175M
Entrée Capital
VC Fund
4 United States, Israel, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, FinTech, Financial Services $1.4M–$60M
VentureSouq
VC Fund
4 United States, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia Seed, Series A, Series B FinTech, Financial Services, Software $250k–$50M
Tencent
VC Fund
4 China, United States, United Kingdom Series B, Series A, Series C Software, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence $3.9M–$400M
P1 Ventures
VC Fund
4 Egypt, Kenya, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B Financial Services, Software, Payments $400k–$40M
Norrsken22
VC Fund
4 South Africa, Egypt, Nigeria Seed, Series A, Series B Financial Services, Banking, Payments $2.4M–$55M
Flori Ventures
VC Fund
4 United States, United Kingdom, India Seed, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech $100k–$11M
RaliCap
VC Fund
4 United States, Mexico, Nigeria Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Financial Services, FinTech, Payments $313k–$5.5M
Acumen
VC Fund
3 United States, India, Kenya Seed, Series A Agriculture, Solar, Health Care $300k–$12M
Shima Capital
VC Fund
3 United States, Singapore, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming $1.2M–$12M
Kingsway Capital
VC Fund
3 United States, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates Seed, Series A, Series B Financial Services, FinTech, Blockchain $1.8M–$120M
Renew Capital
VC Fund
3 Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia Pre-Seed, Seed Mobile Apps, Financial Services, Finance
Voltron Capital
VC Fund
3 Nigeria, United States, Senegal Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel Financial Services, FinTech, Payments $195k–$3M
FSD Africa
VC Fund
3 Kenya, Ethiopia, South Africa Grant, Seed, Series B Financial Services, Energy, FinTech $10k–$14M
ACE & Company
VC Fund
3 United States, Switzerland, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Software, Financial Services, FinTech $1M–$24M
Proparco
VC Fund
3 India, Kenya, Nigeria Debt Financing, Seed Financial Services, Energy, Finance $447k–$169M
Zrosk Investment Management
VC Fund
3 Nigeria, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Finance $200k–$33M
Allan Gray
VC Fund
3 South Africa, United States Seed, Series A, Series C FinTech, Payments, Mobile Payments $456k–$100M
Speedinvest
VC Fund
3 United Kingdom, Germany, Austria Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, FinTech, Financial Services $549k–$33M
CV VC
VC Fund
3 United States, Switzerland, Germany Seed, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Software, FinTech $125k–$4M
Visa
VC Fund
3 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Series B, Corporate Round FinTech, Financial Services, Payments $1M–$200M
UW Ventures
VC Fund
3 South Africa Seed, Series A FinTech, Payments, Mobile Payments $456k–$31M
Future Africa
VC Fund
3 Nigeria, United States, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology $100k–$20M
F6 Ventures
VC Fund
3 Tunisia, France Pre-Seed, Seed E-Commerce, Retail, FinTech $65k–$200k
VilCap Investments
VC Fund
3 United States, India, Kenya Seed, Series A Financial Services, Health Care, FinTech $50k–$6M
Greycroft
VC Fund
3 United States, United Kingdom, Germany Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce $1.5M–$79M
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Ingressive Capital
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 11 investments in Africa Payments startups

Ingressive Capital is a renowned $50M Pan-African Venture Capital Fund that invests in indigenous founders and startups across Africa, with focus on Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Morocco, and Nigeria. Specializing in early-stage investments, particularly Pre-Seed and Seed stages, it targets technology companies led by top-tier talent driving transformativegrowth in Africa's GDP. The firm's thesis focuses on B2C solutions that cater to the explosive growth within the tech-enabled, decentralized-learning youth demographic, as well as B2B solutions that increase Africa’s value chain ownership from resource extraction to end-product sale. Its goal is to become becoming a highly valuable VC partner on the founders' cap tables, and being at the forefront of supporting and enabling entrepreneurial success across Africa.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 73
  • Round size: Seed $400k–$3.7M; Pre-Seed $25k–$2.1M; Series A $500k–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $5M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • SehaTech — Welcome to SehaTech, the groundbreaking company revolutionizing the health insurance market with our innovative solutions!
  • REasy — Top up locally, pay suppliers globally, and manage international shipments with REasy. Fast, secure, and designed for African businesses expanding worldwide.
  • Eduflexx AI — EduFlexAI is an AI-driven ed-tech platform that personalizes learning by adapting school curriculums to individual student needs. Using advanced machine learning, real-time analytics, and AI-powered tools, EduFlexAI enhances engagement, improves academic performance, and optimizes teacher efficiency. Our mission is to make quality education morepersonalized, inclusive, and accessible for students worldwide.
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Ventures Platform
VC Fund · Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria · 10 investments in Africa Payments startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 148
  • Round size: Seed $325k–$4.4M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Brass — Get started with a modern current account
  • 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.
  • 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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Digital Currency Group
VC Fund · Stamford, Connecticut, United States · 10 investments in Africa Payments startups

We are the capital engine supporting emerging talent & crypto technology. On its mission to accelerate the development of a better financial system.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 298
  • Round size: Seed $650k–$8.5M; Series A $3M–$48M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Zabo — Zabo is an API for connecting to any crypto exchange, wallet, protocol or account. Sign up for access to free API keys at Zabo.com
  • Joystream — Joystream is a block chain-based, decentralized video platform.
  • Ceramic Network — Ceramic Network is a provider of protocols for decentralized and composable data applications. The network decentralizes application databases, making data universally composable and reusable across applications. It consists of three core parts: a highly-scalable, decentralized infrastructure for data availability and consensus, a marketplace ofcommunity-created data models, and a suite of standard APIs for storing, updating, and retrieving data from those models.
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TLcom Capital Partners
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 9 investments in 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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Launch Africa
VC Fund · Ebène, Plaines Wilhems, Mauritius · 9 investments in 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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Musha Ventures
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 9 investments in 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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LoftyInc Capital
VC Fund · Carmel, California, United States · 9 investments in Africa Payments startups

LoftyInc Capital Management empowers Afropreneurs to build a prosperous and equitable future in Africa. We deliver value to both founders and investors.........

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 147
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2.4M; Series A $250k–$37M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $14M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Aku — Aku is a financial technology to drive financial inclusion on one mobile device. They provide payments and bring financial services to the doorstep. They support the new business owner in need of the right tools. They offer low-cost, accessible financial services that serve their customers. They radically democratized access to banking and digitalpayment channels.
  • AlumUnite — AlumUnite is a purpose-built platform to connect all educated Africans to develop Africa's human capital through alumni groups. We crowd-resource education.
  • Reliance Health — Reliance Health Global. Improve the lives of your staff with innovative company healthcare benefits fit for any business. You can rely on us.
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Golden Palm Investments
VC Fund · Accra, Greater Accra, Ghana · 7 investments in Africa Payments startups

Golden Palm Investments is an investment holding and advisory company.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, FinTech, Payments
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Nigeria, Egypt, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 59
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$6M; Pre-Seed $125k–$6.5M; Series A $2M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2014

Portfolio highlights

  • Talstack — Talstack is an all-in-one platform for employee growth and development
  • MAKA — MAKA is a community commerce platform for fashion and beauty, enabling everyone to discover their style, feel represented.
  • Renda — At Renda, we are passionate about revolutionizing the logistics and mobility sectors with cutting-edge technology that enables businesses and operators to seamlessly scale in emerging markets.
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Microtraction
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 7 investments in Africa Payments startups

We invest in Africa's most remarkable teams with technical founders at the earliest stage of their venture

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 104
  • Round size: Seed $25k–$1.3M; Angel $30k–$50k; Pre-Seed $50k–$1.1M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Spring in Africa — Wallets Africa helps Africans and African-owned businesses send money, receive money, make card payments, and access overdrafts.
  • Allpro Technologies — Their mission is to Facilitate the free flow of finance and data in the school ecosystem.
  • 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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Everywhere Ventures
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 7 investments in 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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GreenHouse Capital
VC Fund · Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria · 6 investments in Africa Payments startups

GreenHouse Capital’s Founding Partners took their own fintech company Venture Garden Group (VGG) from a 7 employee, ₦30 million revenue startup to a 200 employees, ₦2 billion power house in just 4 years and raised an attention grabbing Series A round from Convergence Partners of South Africa. The uniqueness of their position was not lost on thefounders who then cultivated Garden Institute of Business Entrepreneurs (GIBE) to identify, incubate, and invest in young and innovative tech startups solving global challenges in Emerging Markets. GIBE was created to build a world class talent management hub for young and passionate entrepreneurs while creating a pool of technology inclined businesses and innovation oriented leaders.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 32
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Credpal — Buy now, pay later. Split in 6.
  • Encore Pay — Encore Pay is a UAE-based FinTech and Payment solutions provider.
  • MarketForce — MarketForce connects Africa’s informal retail outlets and consumers directly to suppliers of consumer goods and financial services by digitizing orders, delivery, and payments with the aim of solving the last mile distribution challenge.
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Flourish Ventures
VC Fund · Redwood City, California, United States · 6 investments in 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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Lateral Frontiers
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 6 investments in Africa Payments startups

Lateral Capital is a mission driven venture fund investing in early and growth stage opportunities in Africa. We back companies that provide foundational technologies for the continent. We make debt and equity investments technology-enabled businesses that profitably solve significant pain points across financial services, healthcare, education,energy, agriculture, housing, logistics, mobility and more.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 42
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$12M; Pre-Seed $500k–$3.5M; Series A $558k–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $50M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Rhaeos — Rhaeos, the world's first wearable shunt monitor, aims to improve the quality care for patients with hydrocephalus through a novel, thermal biosensor. Developed within Northwestern University with collaboration between Dr. John Rogers, McCormick School of Engineering, Feinberg School of Medicine and Kellogg School of Management, Rhaeosrepresents a unique multidisciplinary translational effort for an important clinical need.
  • Wattnow — Wattnow is a real-time monitoring solution that provides a breakdown of energy spending to identify wasteful trends.
  • Octavia Carbon — Reversing Climate Change | Ending the Fossil Fuel Age | In Kenya.
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Pantera Capital
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 6 investments in Africa Payments startups

Pantera Capital is an investment firm focused exclusively on Bitcoin, other digital currencies, and companies in the space. The company believes that Bitcoin has the potential to transform the way people use money and that it will do for payments what the Internet has done for communications and commerce.Until 2014, Pantera focused on globalmacro hedge fund investments. The firm was founded in 2003 by Dan Morehead, who was a chief financial officer and head of Macro Trading at Tiger Management. The firm has since shifted its investment advisory services to focus exclusively on Bitcoin, other digital currencies, and companies in the space.Shareholders include Benchmark, Fortress Investment Group, and Ribbit Capital.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 302
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$20M; Series A $5.5M–$48M
  • Lead/follow: 49% lead, 51% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Perion — Win Crypto Questing in AAA Games.
  • Polkadot — Polkadot is a dedicated community that envisions a web where users own their digital identities and data, restoring their authority.
  • Solana Company
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Partech
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 5 investments in 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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Kepple Africa Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 5 investments in Africa Payments startups

We back exceptional founders in and from Africa who are addressing deep gaps between the status quo and the ideal.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 78
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$4.5M; Pre-Seed $300k–$3.4M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Intmax — INTMAX has developed significant innovations in ZK implementation making it a unique Layer2 rollup network that offers low cost, security, tunable privacy, and above all, scalability.
  • TIBU Health — TIBU Health is a disruptive HealthTech logistics company that provides high-quality healthcare services.
  • Onboard — Onboard helps hardware companies transform their text manuals to 3D, intelligent manuals with instant customer support capabilities.
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Berrywood Capital
VC Fund · 5 investments in Africa Payments startups

Berrywood Capital is an investment firm.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $295k–$8.5M; Pre-Seed $125k–$3.7M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Caliza — Give your users access to the digital dollar economy. Get early access!
  • Workpay — Looking for the best payroll software in Kenya? Workpay provides the best payroll software and hr software for your business in Kenya, Nigeria and for Africa
  • Koa — Koa provides savings-as-a-service by embedding financial services through API
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Future Perfect Ventures
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 5 investments in Africa Payments startups

Future\Perfect Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm 2014 to invest globally in blockchain technology and crypto assets. FPV was founded by Jalak Jobanputra.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Financial Services, Finance
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Kenya, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 63
  • Round size: Seed $625k–$5.8M; Pre-Seed $1M–$6M; Series A $2.5M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $25M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Rilla — Demonstrating 90% reduction in cost-to-serve for live-streaming, Rilla is rewiring the content economy, directing the value generated back to creators and their communities.By leveraging audience bandwidth and rewarding them with ownership in the network, the savings are equivalent to a free month subscription every year for a moderate level ofviewership.Founded by the technical founders behind Altered State Machine, acquired for 214m. Together for 5+ ventures, collectively raising 130m+ and valued at 1b+.
  • Everledger — Everledger is a global technology enterprise specializing in addressing real-world economic, environmental, and societal challenges through their solutions that create ecosystems of trust. It is an ecosystem of trust is where all stakeholders within a network, are able to collaborate through a trusted data protocol. This trust is created throughthe ability to transparently trace and manage assets throughout their lifetime journey, across different touchpoints within the ecosystem.The company's breakthrough solutions harness the latest in emerging technologies including smart contracts, machine vision, and IoT, together with their proven and scalable blockchain-enabled platform. They combine a rich forensic approach to identify and track asset provenance to provide confidence in the transparency driven across global supply chains. This brings disparate stakeholders together with the trust that has been built.Everledger is independently committed to deploying scalable solutions for its clients’ needs today while having the freedom to lead with breakthrough solutions that tackle the challenges they face.
  • Bagel Labs — Open protocol for humans and autonomous AI agents to collectively build, trade, and license Machine Learning datasets.
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CRE Venture Capital
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 5 investments in 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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54 Collective
VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 4 investments in 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: 108
  • Round size: Seed $40k–$4M; Pre-Seed $40k–$1.3M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Yeah — Yeah is a financial technology company that offers payment processing services while building a credit profile for the banked and unbanked.
  • 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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First circle capital
VC Fund · Casablanca, Grand Casablanca, Morocco · 4 investments in 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
  • Round size: Seed $455k–$4M; Pre-Seed $100k–$780k
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow

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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Tiger Global Management
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 4 investments in Africa Payments startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: United States, India, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 903
  • Round size: Series A $6.5M–$50M; Series B $17M–$130M; Series C $26M–$260M
  • Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $2.2B in 2024

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.
  • 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.
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Alameda Research
VC Fund · Central and Western, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong · 4 investments in Africa Payments startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 211
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$9.1M; Series A $2.5M–$35M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Perion — Win Crypto Questing in AAA Games.
  • Farmington State Bank — Do more with a Moonstone FDIC insured bank account and manage your non-traditional assets from the same place.
  • 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.
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True Capital Management
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 4 investments in Africa Payments startups

Achieve your financial goals & build generational wealth with our entertainer & athlete wealth management services. Offering comprehensive financial planning.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 134
  • Round size: Seed $917k–$4.4M; Pre-Seed $125k–$725k; Series A $9.1M–$59M
  • Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $18M in 2012

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.
  • Milano Vice — Milano Vice is building a new virtual food brand by working with professional kitchens to prepare and deliver delicious pizzas to home.
  • Kapital — Kapital empowers SMBs with a tech-banking platform giving visibility and control of their treasury, and their employees
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Apis Partners
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 4 investments in Africa Payments startups

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

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Investment focus

  • 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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Entrée Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 4 investments in Africa Payments startups

We are a team of former serial founders managing $1.5Bn across a number of funds, with offices in Tel Aviv, London, and New York. We back the next generation of category-defining companies with conviction of founders who have built companies themselves.We back founders with a partnership built on trust, fairness and real operating experience. Westand with founders through every challenge, and help them grow with clarity, resilience and purpose.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Israel, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 267
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$15M; Series A $5M–$30M; Series B $14M–$60M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $300M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Cypago — Enterprise-grade Cyber GRC Automation Platform Enterprise-grade Cyber GRC solution for any security and compliance standard, across hybrid and multi cloud environments
  • Classiq Technologies — A software platform that helps users create scalable complex quantum computer algorithms, software, and circuits for any gate-based quantum computer
  • Identiq — Identiq's network members fight fraud and improve user experience by validating new users and vouching for ones they already know without sharing any personal user data at all.
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VentureSouq
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 4 investments in Africa Payments startups

VentureSouq (VSQ) is a MENA-based venture capital fund manager with a global portfolio. VSQ manages thematic funds, with a current focus on FinTech and ClimateTech.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 171
  • Round size: Seed $250k–$9M; Series A $6M–$37M; Series B $6M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $50M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Orbii AI — Our AI enriches & analyses borrower data, helping you make credit decisions in minutes. Accelerate your business loan Underwriting decisons.
  • Siin — E-commerce Marketplace
  • MilkStraw AI — Saving companies up to 75% on AWS
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Tencent
VC Fund · Shenzhen, Guangdong, China · 4 investments in Africa Payments startups

Tencent is an internet service portal offering value-added internet, mobile, telecom, and online advertising services. Its communications and social platforms Weixin and QQ connect users with each other, with digital content and daily life services in just a few clicks. Tencent has maintained steady growth under its user-oriented operatingstrategies. It provides value-added internet, mobile, and telecom services, as well as online advertising under the strategic goal of providing users with "one-stop online lifestyle services." Tencent’s Internet platforms in China – QQ (QQ Instant Messenger), WeChat, QQ.com, QQ Games, Qzone, 3g.QQ.com, SoSo, PaiPai, and Tenpay – aim to address the various needs of internet users, including communication, information, entertainment, e-commerce, and others.In September 2013, Tencent's market valuation rose to $101 billion, and as of November 21, 2013, QQ had 2 billion active users and WeChat had 650 million monthly active users. The numbers of active users for QQ mail, Qzone, Tencent Weibo, and QQ news were 274 million, 626 million, 220 million, and 150 million, respectively.Tencent was founded in November of 1998. In April 2000, the IDG and PCCW invested a total of $2.2 million dollars in the company. Tencent was listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (SEHK) on June 16, 2004. Baidu, Alibaba, and Netease are Tencent's major competitors.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: China, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 559
  • Round size: Series A $3.9M–$230M; Series B $15M–$283M; Series C $35M–$400M
  • Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Reddit — Homepage - Reddit
  • XtalPi — XtalPi is a pharmaceutical technology company that is reinventing the industry’s approach to drug research and development with its Intelligent Digital Drug Discovery and Development (ID4) platform. Through its tightly interwoven quantum mechanics, artificial intelligence, and high-performance cloud computing algorithms, the ID4 platform enablespharmaceutical companies to increase their efficiency, accuracy, and success rate at critical stages of drug R&D. By accelerating the pace of drug discovery and development, XtalPi aims to contribute to a healthier society worldwide.Founded in 2014 by a group of quantum physicists at MIT, XtalPi has since grown into an elite team of researchers with multi-disciplinary expertise in physics, chemistry, pharmaceutical R&D, and algorithm design. XtalPi has received much recognition for its cutting-edge technologies, its innovative solutions, and the breadth of potential applications of its offerings across the pharmaceutical value chain, which has allowed it to gain industry approval and establish strategic partnerships with several top international pharmaceutical companies.
  • PolicyBazaar — Compare insurance policies offered by various insurers in India & buy insurance policy online. Get instant quotes & save huge on premiums.
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P1 Ventures
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 4 investments in Africa Payments startups

P1 Ventures works as a venture capital firm. They specialize in early-stage industrial technology firms in Africa.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Software, Payments
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Egypt, Kenya, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 43
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$5M; Pre-Seed $400k–$3M; Series B $7.5M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Root — Launch digital and embedded insurance solutions with omni-channel distribution.
  • Traction Apps — Traction apps provide businesses end to end tools they need to run and grow their businesses.
  • Reliance Health — Reliance Health Global. Improve the lives of your staff with innovative company healthcare benefits fit for any business. You can rely on us.
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Norrsken22
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 4 investments in 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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Flori Ventures
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 4 investments in Africa Payments startups

More than a seed-stage fund and a portfolio of startups: Our community of founders taps into the power of financial innovation to collaborate around global problems and unlock prosperity for all.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 102
  • Round size: Seed $250k–$11M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3.5M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Mento Labs — Mento Labs is a decentralized EVM platform for launching and managing multi-currency stable assets.
  • Learn.xyz — Learn.xyz’s is a mixture of Duolingo and Wikipedia, powered by AI, creating bite-sized “Curiosities” which feature slides and a quiz, in mere seconds just from taking in a user’s question. Find the app on iOS and Android.
  • Thrive Protocol — Thrive Protocol's vision is to maximize value creation for all people and communities.
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RaliCap
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 4 investments in 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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Acumen
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 3 investments in Africa Payments startups

Acumen is a nonprofit venture fund that invests in early-stage companies bringing critical services like agriculture, clean energy, education, financial inclusion, healthcare and workforce development to low-income communities in 14 countries across East and West Africa, South Asia, Latin America, and the United States. Since 2001, Acumeninvested $128 million in 128 companies that have transformed the lives of over 308 million low-income people.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Agriculture, Solar, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, India, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 178
  • Round size: Seed $300k–$2.5M; Series A $1.6M–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 51% lead, 49% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $2.8M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Bintix — Bintix averts landfill waste ... one household at a time.
  • EduBridge — EduBridge is an organization started by a group of alumni and professors from IIM Bangalore & Lucknow in 2009. EduBridge works towards transforming the lives of the unemployed youth in the country across urban, semi-urban and rural areas. EduBridge provides them with a commercially relevant training at their doorstep and arm them with thenecessary skill sets and mindset to succeed in their professional careers and thus help transform their lives.
  • Energy Assured Nigeria — Energy Assured is an energy and utility procurement market provider for smaller businesses ranging from independent retailers and local franchisees to affinity group members in any sector. Users and customers benefit from economies of scale, more agile energy purchasing, and consistently lower gas, electricity, and water costs. Their expertsunderstand the pressures that small and medium-sized businesses face: they work to provide clients with exactly what they require so that clients can use energy as an asset to propel their business forward.
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Shima Capital
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in Africa Payments startups

Shima Capital is an investment fund that focuses on supporting blockchain startups. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 260
  • Round size: Seed $1.7M–$12M; Pre-Seed $1.2M–$4.1M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Kapkap — Kapkap is a web3 platform that uses AI for attention based value distribution in gaming.
  • BullPerks — BullPerks is a community of like-minded individuals who want to leverage their power and invest together in the best projects on equal terms with VCs.
  • Faith Tribe — Faith Tribe is a open- source fashion design platform that focuses on NFT minting, P2P transactions.
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Kingsway Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in Africa Payments startups

Kingsway Capital is a investment management firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Blockchain
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 100
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$13M; Series A $7.5M–$120M; Series B $6M–$70M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Mesh
  • Mesh — Mesh enables safer, easier crypto transfers and payments from 300+ leading exchanges and wallets, all without leaving your platform
  • Open Campus — The Open Campus is a community-driven protocol that leverages the power of blockchain and invites all to build the future of education by putting the power of learning back in the hands of educators, students, and the community.
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Renew Capital
VC Fund · Addis Ababa, Adis Abeba, Ethiopia · 3 investments in Africa Payments startups, 11 in the past 12 months

Renew Capital is an Africa-focused investment firm that addresses critical gaps for Africa’s growing businesses and connects them to a global network of impact investors.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile Apps, Financial Services, Finance
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 26
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Bosso — Bosso projects and realizes automation and robotic solutions for the growth of your business.
  • Chpter — Chpter is a software development company that offers fast billing and checkout to help start, run, and grow a business.
  • Level Africa — Digital Investment Marketplace for Africa
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Voltron Capital
VC Fund · 3 investments in Africa Payments startups

On a mission to back the most extraordinary entrepreneurs out of Africa solving important problems in large markets.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 52
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$3M; Pre-Seed $195k–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Allawee — Allawee is a corporate credit card with a credit line to help you spend smarter. We give you high credit limits, attractive cashback rewards and advanced spend management tools.
  • Raenest — Access Virtual Accounts, Invoicing, Multi-Currency Payouts, Auto Payroll, Accounting Integrations, and Virtual & Physical cards within minutes.
  • Woodcore Inc — Woodcore is a Cloud Enabled Core Banking System for Banks, Micro Financial Institutions and Neo Banks primarily for emerging markets. We provide them with the Core banking system to digitise their existing process from using excel or any manual ways of offering banking service and then provide them with the merchant payment platform which allowsthem to be technology ready for integrations from third parties.
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FSD Africa
VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya · 3 investments in 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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ACE & Company
VC Fund · Geneva, Geneve, Switzerland · 3 investments in Africa Payments startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 184
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$6.4M; Series A $3.4M–$24M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024

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.
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Proparco
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 3 investments in Africa Payments startups

Proparco is devoted to private sector funding in the sustainable development sector.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Energy, Finance
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Seed
  • Geography: India, Kenya, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 124
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$13M; Debt Financing $447k–$169M
  • Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Nuru — Nuru is a solar hybrid site. Nuru (Swahili for "light") is a company dedicated to enhancing connectivity in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Nuru deployed Congo's first solar-based mini-grid in 2017 and is currently constructing a 1.3MW solar hybrid site in Goma, the largest off-grid mini-grid in sub-Saharan Africa.Nuru is arenewable and environment company that specializes in the fields of storage micro-grids and solar energy. The company deployed Congo's first solar-based mini-grid in 2017 and is currently constructing a 1.3MW solar hybrid site in Goma.Nuru was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Goma, Nord-Kivu, Congo.
  • Ecoener
  • IPT PowerTech — IPT PowerTech coverage, coupled with our extensive expertise in supply chain management, field implementation, and power systems, has made us one of the most capable companies in handling the most complicated and versatile projects in the MEA region and its neighboring countries.
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Zrosk Investment Management
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 3 investments in Africa Payments startups

Alternative investment solutions: private credit, discretionary portfolios, and the Magna Specialized Fund.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 30
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$5M; Pre-Seed $200k–$2.5M; Series A $7M–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • PaidHR — PaidHR works with organizations to streamline how they manage their staff. Our precisely created solutions enable them to create the ideal place to work.
  • Lingawa — Speak your native language with pride! Learn Yoruba and Igbo with fun, immersive online lessons for adults and kids (ages 5+).
  • Definely — Definely creates legal tech solutions to free lawyers from frustration, saving them time when understanding, drafting and reviewing legal documents.
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Allan Gray
VC Fund · Alfred, New York, United States · 3 investments in 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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Speedinvest
VC Fund · Vienna, Wien, Austria · 3 investments in 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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CV VC
VC Fund · Zug, Zug, Switzerland · 3 investments in Africa Payments startups

We invest in blockchain

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Software, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Switzerland, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 61
  • Round size: Seed $150k–$4M; Pre-Seed $125k–$800k
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • TurnStay — Enjoy low transaction fees on card payments in ZAR, Euros or Dollars and fast payouts in your preferred currencies. Book a demo today
  • Orca Fraud — Orca empowers fraud fighters with effective tools to combat fraud
  • Reppo Labs — Blockchain Network that connect Data Owners with AI Developers and AI agents through Programmable IP Co-ownership
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Visa
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in Africa Payments startups, 9 in the past 12 months

Visa is an American multinational financial services company that facilitates electronic payment systems throughout the world. The company operates the retail electronic payments network through the transfer of value and information among financial institutions, merchants, consumers, businesses, and government entities.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
  • Stage:Series B, Corporate Round
  • Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 139
  • Round size: Series B $6.5M–$62M; Corporate Round $1M–$200M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • SCORE — SCORE is the Network of Volunteer Expert Business Mentors.
  • Replit — Replit is a simple yet powerful online IDE, Editor, Compiler, Interpreter, and REPL. Code, compile, run, and host in 50+ programming languages.
  • Astrada — Astrada is a software company that provides financial infrastructure, payments, and automation services.
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UW Ventures
VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 3 investments in 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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Future Africa
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in Africa Payments startups

Future Africa is a collective of mission-driven founders and funders building unicorns to solve Africa’s biggest challenges. They are build a future where purpose and prosperity are within everyone’s reach.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 89
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$4M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3.7M; Series A $7M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • STEM Cafe — STEMCafe by RVRB is a fun out of school learning centre for kids
  • 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.
  • 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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F6 Ventures
VC Fund · Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia · 3 investments in Africa Payments startups

Flat6Labs is the MENA region’s leading seed and early stage venture capital firm, currently running the most renowned startup programs in the region. Annually, Flat6Labs invests in more than 100 innovative and technology-driven startups enabling thousands of passionate entrepreneurs to achieve their daring ambitions and ultimately becoming theirinstitutional co-founders.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Retail, FinTech
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: Tunisia, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 42
  • Round size: Seed $65k–$200k; Pre-Seed $65k–$81k
  • Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $10M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • WeMove — WeMove is a fitness marketplace for daily gym passes. They develop innovative solutions that meet your sports issues.
  • Bako Motors SAS — Bako Motors SAS is a motor vehicle manufacturing company that develops solar electric vehicles. manufacturer of electric vehicles with the goal of creating long-term fixes for rural areas' transportation issues with regard to people, cargo, and machinery. The business makes electric cars as well as solutions for clean energy generation andstorage that are infinitely scalable, providing users with inexpensive and environmentally friendly e-mobility.
  • Insight Plus — Insight Plus is a foreign exchange platform that specializes in interconnecting global exchanges into one eco system.
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VilCap Investments
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in Africa Payments startups

VilCap Investments is an early-stage impact investing fund, backing companies addressing the most pressing social and environmental challenges.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Health Care, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, India, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 90
  • Round size: Seed $50k–$2.5M; Series A $2M–$6M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • SatSure — Premium domain available for purchase
  • Altro (fka Perch) — Perch Credit (also known as Perch), is a fin-tech mobile app that allows users to take common recurring expenses, such as their subscriptions & rent, and turn these into creditworthy data points. Perch is currrently live on iOS and plans to be on Android in the coming months.Perch recently graduated YC (S20) and closed 2.5M in their mostrecent round.
  • Advocatia Solutions — Advocatia simplifies how uninsured patients identify financial assistance programs and enroll into coverage.
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Greycroft
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 3 investments in Africa Payments startups

Venture capital and technology investments

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 720
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$10M; Series A $3.2M–$25M; Series B $6.2M–$79M
  • Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $378M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Billie — Billie is a wellness company that offers shaving supplies and body products. Billie is committed to designing products that are uniquely built to provide women everyday TLC from top to toe. Billie believes that women shouldn't be an afterthought in the shaving category and that they deserve to have a great shave without having to pay more forit.Billie was founded in 2017 and is based in New York.
  • Leena AI — Leena AI is an autonomous conversational AI-backed platform that helps enterprises better employee experience. The platform is powerful, flexible, and made to meets the needs of any enterprise. With Leena AI, companies can eliminate the need for HR staff to work on tasks such as answering policy-related questions, knowledge management,generating employee documents on demand, and managing employee tickets so they can focus on high-value activities.Leena AI plays well with 20 plus platforms, including SAP SuccessFactors, ADP, Oracle, Workday, and Microsoft Office 365. It is trusted by 1M employees across companies like Nestle, Puma, AirAsia, Coca-cola, Lafarge Holcim, and Abbott.The platform is capable of handling every aspect of employee experience across the employee lifecycle. From FAQ automation and employee engagement right up to employee onboarding, the platform aims to help organizations streamline all HR workflows.
  • WorldWide Biggies — Worldwide Biggies, Inc. operates as a digital entertainment studio. It provides films and T.V, gametoons, games, and Webisodes for kids, families, and young adults through online. The company was founded in 2005 and is based in New York, New York.
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