Top 50 Payments VC Funds & Investors in Africa (August 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Ventures Platform
VC Fund
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14 | Nigeria, United States, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Internet | $100k–$4.4M |
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LoftyInc Capital
VC Fund
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13 | United States, Nigeria, Egypt | Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | $100k–$10M |
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Launch Africa
VC Fund
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13 | Nigeria, South Africa, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology | $200k–$4M |
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Musha Ventures
VC Fund
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13 | United States, Nigeria, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Financial Services, FinTech | $100k–$10M |
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Ingressive Capital
VC Fund
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12 | Nigeria, United States, Egypt | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Payments | $25k–$15M |
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Digital Currency Group
VC Fund
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10 | United States, United Kingdom, Singapore | Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech | $650k–$48M |
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TLcom Capital Partners
VC Fund
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10 | Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom | Series A, Seed | Software, Mobile, Information Technology | $1.9M–$15M |
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Everywhere Ventures
VC Fund
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10 | United States, Australia, India | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Software, Health Care, FinTech | $500k–$20M |
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Golden Palm Investments
VC Fund
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10 | Nigeria, United States, Egypt | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Information Technology, Financial Services, Payments | $100k–$15M |
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Microtraction
VC Fund
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9 | Nigeria, United States, Ghana | Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | $30k–$1.3M |
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CRE Venture Capital
VC Fund
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9 | Nigeria, South Africa, United States | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, Software, FinTech | $250k–$25M |
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Flourish Ventures
VC Fund
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8 | United States, India, Brazil | Series A, Seed, Series B | FinTech, Financial Services, Finance | $2M–$65M |
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Lateral Frontiers
VC Fund
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7 | United States, Nigeria, Kenya | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | FinTech, Financial Services, Energy | $500k–$15M |
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Resilience17
VC Fund
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7 | Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana | Seed, Pre-Seed | Sports, Finance, Outdoors | $100k–$12M |
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Voltron Capital
VC Fund
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7 | Nigeria, United States, Senegal | Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel | Financial Services, FinTech, Payments | $120k–$3M |
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Berrywood Capital
VC Fund
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7 | Nigeria, United States, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Payments | $100k–$3.7M |
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Future Africa
VC Fund
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6 | Nigeria, United States, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology | $100k–$40M |
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Pantera Capital
VC Fund
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6 | United States, Singapore, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services | $2M–$50M |
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Alameda Research
VC Fund
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6 | United States, Singapore, United Kingdom | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services | $250k–$40M |
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Partech
VC Fund
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6 | United States, France, Germany | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, E-Commerce, SaaS | $1.1M–$55M |
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Flori Ventures
VC Fund
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6 | United States, United Kingdom, Israel | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech | $100k–$11M |
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Kepple Africa Ventures
VC Fund
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6 | Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | $100k–$23M |
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VentureSouq
VC Fund
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6 | United States, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia | Seed, Series A, Series B | FinTech, Financial Services, Software | $589k–$50M |
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Tiger Global Management
VC Fund
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6 | United States, India, China | Series B, Series A, Series C | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | $9M–$284M |
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Africa Venture Labs
VC Fund
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6 | Cameroon, Nigeria, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Mobile Payments | $200k–$3M |
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GreenHouse Capital
VC Fund
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6 | Nigeria, Kenya, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Payments | |
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RaliCap
VC Fund
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5 | United States, Mexico, Nigeria | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | FinTech, Financial Services, Payments | $300k–$5.5M |
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Antler
VC Fund
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5 | Singapore, Australia, United Kingdom | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $100k–$29M |
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Raba Partnership
VC Fund
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5 | United States, South Africa, Egypt | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Finance | $635k–$32M |
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Future Perfect Ventures
VC Fund
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5 | United States, Kenya, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Blockchain, Financial Services, Cryptocurrency | $650k–$30M |
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First circle capital
VC Fund
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5 | Nigeria, Egypt, United States | Pre-Seed, Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Payments | $100k–$4M |
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Silverbacks Holdings
VC Fund
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5 | Nigeria, United States, Egypt | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A | FinTech, Financial Services, Finance | $100k–$32M |
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Soma Capital
VC Fund
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5 | United States, India, Mexico | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech | $125k–$35M |
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True Capital Management
VC Fund
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4 | United States, Nigeria, Canada | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | FinTech, Financial Services, Software | $125k–$555M |
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54 Collective
VC Fund
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4 | Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa | Seed, Pre-Seed | Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech | $40k–$4M |
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Entrée Capital
VC Fund
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4 | United States, Israel, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | $1.5M–$60M |
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Apis Partners
VC Fund
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4 | India, Singapore, South Africa | Private Equity, Series B | Financial Services, FinTech, Payments | $10M–$120M |
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Tencent
VC Fund
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4 | China, United States, United Kingdom | Series B, Series A, Series C | Software, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence | $4M–$400M |
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Visa
VC Fund
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4 | United States, Canada, United Kingdom | Series B, Grant | FinTech, Financial Services, Payments | $7.3k–$60M |
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P1 Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | Egypt, Kenya, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B | Financial Services, Software, Payments | $400k–$40M |
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Norrsken22
VC Fund
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4 | South Africa, Egypt, Nigeria | Seed, Series A, Series B | Financial Services, Banking, Payments | $2.4M–$55M |
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F6 Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | Tunisia, France | Seed, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, Information Technology, Retail | $62k–$200k |
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The Fintech Fund
VC Fund
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4 | United States, United Kingdom, India | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | $30k–$40M |
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Unpopular Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | United States, Mexico, India | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech | $500k–$34M |
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Renew Capital
VC Fund
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3 | Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia | Pre-Seed, Seed | Mobile Apps, Financial Services, Finance | |
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Shima Capital
VC Fund
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3 | United States, Singapore, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming | $1.2M–$12M |
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Kingsway Capital
VC Fund
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3 | United States, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates | Seed, Series A, Series B | Financial Services, FinTech, Blockchain | $1.8M–$120M |
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Acumen
VC Fund
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3 | United States, India, Kenya | Seed, Series A | Agriculture, Solar, Health Care | $300k–$12M |
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FSD Africa
VC Fund
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3 | Kenya, Ethiopia, South Africa | Grant, Seed, Series B | Financial Services, Energy, FinTech | $10k–$14M |
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Proparco
VC Fund
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3 | India, Kenya, Nigeria | Debt Financing, Seed | Financial Services, Energy, Finance | $447k–$169M |
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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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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 160
- Round size: Seed $120k–$4.4M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Traction Apps — Traction apps provide businesses end to end tools they need to run and grow their businesses.
- MarketForce — MarketForce is a US, Kenya and Nigeria-based technology company that is building the SuperApp for Africa's 100 million merchants. MarketForce provides an all-inclusive B2B Commerce and Fintech platform (dubbed “RejaReja” – Swahili for ‘retail’) that empowers merchants in Africa to source, order and pay for inventory digitally and conveniently,access financing, collect digital payments and make extra money by reselling digital financial services such as airtime, electricity tokens and bill payments. Launched in 2018, MarketForce is a fast-growing YC backed company running an asset-light business model and is currently operational in 5 markets in Sub-Saharan Africa, with over 200,000 merchants and 50 consumer brands trading on the platform.
- 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.
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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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 170
- Round size: Seed $100k–$5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2.4M; Venture - Series Unknown $200k–$10M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $14M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Cauridor — Cauridor is a Financial Services company.
- WafR — WafR is a reward-based loyalty startup that allows users to earn phone recharges while shopping at retail shops.
- Nucleon Security — Zero-Trust and ML-based Endpoint Detection and Response Platform #EDR #FDR #EndpointSecurity
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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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Nigeria, South Africa, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 217
- Round size: Seed $200k–$4M; Pre-Seed $200k–$1.8M; Venture - Series Unknown $200k–$500k
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $36M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Zazu — Zazu is a neobank for African SMEs, offering seamless banking tools, cash flow automation, and real-time insights. Zazu simplifies finance management in one all-in-one solution.
- Fincart — Fincart is a leading shipping platform in Egypt, connecting your business with top courier services, automating operations, and helping you scale your eCommerce logistics.
- Udu Technologies — Udu Technologies is an AI infrastructure company that offers GPU systems, AI platform integration, and technical support services.
Seed capital for technology startups globally.
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 203
- Round size: Seed $125k–$7.5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3.2M; Series A $2.5M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% 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.
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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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 77
- Round size: Seed $600k–$3.7M; Pre-Seed $25k–$2.1M; Series A $500k–$15M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% 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.
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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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 323
- Round size: Seed $650k–$8.5M; Series A $3.4M–$48M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
Portfolio highlights
- TurboFlow — Trading, made simple. Everyone gets a seat at TurboFlow.
- DePay — DePay is an Argentina-based real-time payments infrastructure startup.
- Ceramic Network — We've joined @textileio to build the first open intelligence network for AI agents. Follow us there.
TLCOM finds and funds exceptional founders building technology companies across Africa. Seed to Series C. Lagos, Nairobi, London.
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- Industry: Software, Mobile, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 75
- 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.
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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- Industry: Software, Health Care, FinTech
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Australia, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1093
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$6.5M; Pre-Seed $500k–$2.6M; Series A $8M–$20M
- 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.
- Suma Wealth — Meet Charlie, your AI financial coach inside the SUMA app. Get personalized budgeting, savings, and investing advice in English or Spanish.
- Journey Live — Journey is shifting the way modern companies prioritize mental health. Our proactive, inclusive tools engage every employee, every day.
Golden Palm Investments is an investment holding and advisory company.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Financial Services, Payments
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 76
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$6M; Pre-Seed $100k–$6.5M; Series A $3M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% 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.
We invest in Africa's most remarkable teams with technical founders at the earliest stage of their venture
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Ghana
Investor stats
- Total investments: 106
- Round size: Seed $30k–$1.3M; Angel $30k–$50k; Pre-Seed $50k–$1.1M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Accounteer — Accounteer is a cloud accounting platform for small businesses. Business owner can create invoices, track expenses and follow up on their finances with ease. Accounteer integrates with external services like banks, e-invoicing platforms and e-commerce. Future proof your business today by subscribing for a free Accounteer trial account.
- Spring in Africa — Wallets Africa helps Africans and African-owned businesses send money, receive money, make card payments, and access overdrafts.
- 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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Browse database — It's Free!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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- Industry: Financial Services, Software, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, South Africa, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 63
- Round size: Seed $300k–$5M; Pre-Seed $250k–$3.3M; Series A $1.1M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% 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.
We are an early-stage global venture capital firm investing in fintech founders.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, India, Brazil
Investor stats
- Total investments: 199
- Round size: Seed $2M–$8.5M; Series A $5.2M–$33M; Series B $10M–$65M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Cauridor — Cauridor is a Financial Services company.
- Akua — Transformative payments infrastructure, Akua's cloud-native platform offers acquiring-as-a-service for all payment rails
- Stream — Stream is a company that helps make payments simpler, faster, and reliable.
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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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Energy
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 48
- Round size: Seed $1M–$12M; Pre-Seed $500k–$3.5M; Series A $558k–$15M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% 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's smart meters and AI show every machine's consumption live and flag waste in time to stop it. Plants cut energy costs by up to 30%.
- Octavia Carbon — Reversing Climate Change | Ending the Fossil Fuel Age | In Kenya.
Resilience17 is an Investment firm.
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- Industry: Sports, Finance, Outdoors
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana
Investor stats
- Total investments: 49
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$12M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Glouse — Glouse is an online application that provides groceries at the lowest prices with the same day deliveries.
- Klasha — At Klasha, we're simplifying borderless payments for commerce in Africa. We help merchants worldwide sell online to Africa and receive payments in local African currencies while enjoying super fast last-mile delivery to customers across the continent.
- Terra Industries — Terra Industries develops autonomous security systems and software platforms that support the monitoring and protection of physical assets, infrastructure, and operational environments across land, air, and maritime domains. The company provides unmanned vehicles, autonomous towers, and sensor-based surveillance hardware that collect and transmitdata for continuous situational awareness. Its software layer, built around an integrated operating system, processes sensor inputs, applies artificial intelligence models, and coordinates automated responses to detected events. Terra Industries designs its systems to support functions such as perimeter security, infrastructure monitoring, asset tracking, and threat detection within complex operational settings. The company’s platforms enable operators to manage multiple autonomous devices through a unified interface that supports mission planning, data visualization, and system control. Its technology is used by organizations that require coordinated security, monitoring, and response capabilities for facilities, remote sites, and distributed operations.
On a mission to back the most extraordinary entrepreneurs out of Africa solving important problems in large markets.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Senegal
Investor stats
- Total investments: 68
- Round size: Seed $120k–$3M; Pre-Seed $200k–$1.2M
- Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Lingawa — Speak your native language with pride! Learn Yoruba and Igbo with fun, immersive online lessons for adults and kids (ages 5+).
- Maad — Maad is Francophone Africa's fastest-growing B2B marketplace, based in Dakar, Senegal. Our tech-driven solution allows retailers to order products from our one-stop shop and benefit from working capital loans
- ZeroComplex AI — Transform your Business with AI. Click the Link below to get started!
Berrywood Capital is an investment firm.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 19
- Round size: Seed $100k–$2.7M; Pre-Seed $125k–$3.7M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% 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 — Empower your business with our cutting-edge digital payments platform! Lotus simplifies your business banking tasks and offers tailored financial solutions to boost your business growth. Take control of your business finances by exploring Lotus today!
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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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 91
- Round size: Seed $500k–$4M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3.7M; Series A $7M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
Portfolio highlights
- STEM Cafe — STEMCafe by RVRB is a fun out of school learning centre for kids
- Juicyway — The new shape of money? Fluid. Access global currencies with Juicyway. Buy, sell, hold, and pay globally using our fast APIs, web, or mobile apps. Download now.
- 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.
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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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 335
- Round size: Seed $2M–$19M; Series A $5.5M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Polkadot — Products for People.
- World Foundation — World is a new standard of trust for the internet - private proof of human, powerful financial infrastructure & the human-first experiences they enable.
- Solana Company — Building the Preeminent Solana Treasury $HSDT
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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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
- Geography: United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 321
- Round size: Seed $1M–$8M; Series A $2.7M–$35M; Venture - Series Unknown $250k–$40M
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 3Commas — 3Commas develops a crypto-asset management tool for tracking investments and exchanges in a unified platform. It provides access to a unified dashboard as the central hub for trading and portfolio management execution.
- Fuel Labs — At Fuel, we are building the fastest execution layer for the modular blockchain stack.
- Optim Finance — Optim Finance provides investment tools that optimize yield on digital assets. Their financial primitives enable users to rent ADA delegation rights to power novel use cases such as SPO loans, leverage into ISOs, and initial bonds.
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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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, France, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 559
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$10M; Series A $4.2M–$28M; Series B $9M–$55M
- Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Prysm Systems — An interactive video wall is a powerful digital display option that sees your message. touch screen display designed for application commercial grade retail.
- EcoVadis — Ratings platform to assess corporate social responsibility and sustainable procurement. Solutions include risk monitoring, audit management and sustainability ratings.
- Brevo — Brevo is a developer of a cloud-based digital marketing platform used to meet the demand of businesses to engage with customers. Its platform encompasses the entire chain, from the creation of a newsletter to analysis and reporting tools to targeting modules that enable businesses, eCommerce sellers, and agencies to build customer relationshipsthrough digital marketing campaigns, transactional messaging, and marketing automation.Unlike other marketing solutions built for enterprise-level budgets and expertise, Sendinblue tailors its all-in-one suite to suit the marketing needs of growing SMBs in tough markets.The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Paris, France.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 106
- Round size: Seed $250k–$11M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3.5M; Series A $2.8M–$11M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Mento Labs — Mento is bringing FX onchain. We provide institutions with access to onchain FX at real-world rates.
- 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.
Kepple Africa Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 84
- Round size: Seed $500k–$4.5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3.4M; Series A $1.1M–$23M
- Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% 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.
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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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 192
- Round size: Seed $589k–$8.4M; Series A $6M–$37M; Series B $6M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% 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 — Save 53% on your AWS bill in 5 minutes!
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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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
- Geography: United States, India, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1234
- Round size: Series A $9M–$54M; Series B $20M–$130M; Series C $30M–$284M
- Lead/follow: 58% lead, 42% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $2.2B in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Kavak — KAVAK is an innovative company in the automotive industry that helps people acquire their own car, offering a wide range of guaranteed and certified cars.
- StrongDM — Manage access to any server, database, or Kubernetes instance in minutes. Fully auditable, replayable, secure, and drag-and-drop easy.
- OfBusiness — Get latest raw materials prices, news and instant quotes for 500+ Categories across Steel, Aluminium, Agri and more
AfricaVentureLabs partners with visionary entrepreneurs building the next generation of fintech and healthtech solutions across Africa, driving financial inclusion and healthcare accessibility.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Mobile Payments
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Cameroon, Nigeria, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 16
- Round size: Seed $500k–$3M; Pre-Seed $200k–$2.5M
- Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Monetbil — Monetbil is an IT company that provides secure solutions to optimize e-commerce payment processes for users.
- DOHONE SA — DOHONE est le carrefour des portemonnaies électroniques qui donne une vie à votre argent, et qui vous accompagne partout.
- Smobilpay — Smobilpay is a payment solutions platform connected to a network of third-party collector companies such as banks.
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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- 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.
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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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: United States, Mexico, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 62
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$5.5M; Pre-Seed $300k–$3.7M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Cata — Launch your branded mobile app for ordering, CRM & loyalty. Increase order frequency & basket size. Learn how Cata can scale your business!
- Upper — Transforming cross-border e-commerce in Latin America
- Gangkhar — Gangkhar provides AI-native embedded insurance infrastructure for digital platforms, insurers, MGAs, and brokers to launch, optimize, and scale embedded protection.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Singapore, Australia, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2215
- Round size: Seed $159k–$4.6M; Pre-Seed $100k–$645k; Series A $4.1M–$29M
- Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $72M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- iiba — Iiba is a geospatial platform that specializes in providing location information related to child-rearing.
- Two — Buy Now, Pay Later for your business customers. Two makes it easy and safe to offer invoice as a payment method on your e-commerce site.
- Homethings — Single-use plastic is bonkers. Homethings makes cleaning products that make sense. No more shipping water in plastic bottles. We send non toxic cleaning tabs so that you can refill over and over again using your tap.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, South Africa, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 58
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$6M; Pre-Seed $635k–$6.5M; Series A $9.2M–$32M
- Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $60M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Thndr — Thndr is a financial services company that operates an app-based investment platform.It comes with 0% commission, no account minimum, access to market data, easy account setup, and funding processes. Users can also get access to the latest news, market data, and other educational tools. Seif Amr established the company in 2020 in Cairo, AlQahirah, Egypt.
- Ezeebit — Ezeebit is a payment solutions provider that enables African merchants to accept cryptocurrency payments both in-store and online. The platform processes transactions quickly and automatically converts the cryptocurrency into stablecoins to eliminate volatility risk. Funds are then settled into the merchant's local currency account, typicallySouth African Rand (ZAR), on the next business day. The company offers multi-currency support for popular cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum and maintains compliance with financial regulatory bodies.
- 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.
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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- Industry: Blockchain, Financial Services, Cryptocurrency
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Kenya, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 63
- Round size: Seed $650k–$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 — Bagel Labs is a physical AI research lab based in San Francisco and Toronto. It has developed an architecture that uses dramatically less data and compute to train while delivering a state-of-the-art model-size/performance tradeoff.
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Browse database — It's Free!First Circle Capital is a venture capital firm seeding the next fintech generation in Africa.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
- 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.
Silverbacks Holdings is a Mauritius-based private investment firm established in 2019, focusing on Africa-related companies in underserved industries such As technology, sports, entertainment, and the creative economy. The firm aims for returns averaging 2x to 5x on its investments and has achieved 9 profitable exits since its inception. Its portfolio includes over 240 companies across Africa, collectively valued at over $10 billion. Landmark investments include the Cape Town Tigers (2024 BAL semi-finalists), Forever7 Entertainment (Netflix content deals), and Moove (a global mobility fintech backed by Uber), and Wave (a mobile money and global remittance focused fintech backed by Stripe).
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 61
- Round size: Seed $300k–$8.3M; Series A $5M–$32M; Venture - Series Unknown $100k–$26M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Vanhu Vamwe — Vanhu Vamwe is a luxury accessory brand that creates handcrafted, sustainable handbags using traditional African crafts and eco-friendly materials.
- The Rad Black Kids — The Rad Black Kids is a lifestyle and apparel company that specializes in fashion. The company’s main business includes selling clothing items such as hoodies, caps, t-shirts, and etc. It also offers a range of skate boards and vintage guitars. The Rad Black Kids was founded by Thulani Ngazimbi.
- African Warriors Fighting Championship — African Warriors Fighting Championship is Africa's leading promoter of traditional combat sports: Dambe and Wrestling.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, India, Mexico
Investor stats
- Total investments: 928
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$9M; Pre-Seed $125k–$3.8M; Series A $6.5M–$35M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Mason America, Inc. — Mason is the device innovation platform for product leaders who dare to deliver the next innovation in their field.
- Mudafy — Mudafy is a tech-enabled real estate broker for LatAm.
- Gecko Robotics — To collect and make useful physical data in order to protect civilization's most critical infrastructure
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 151
- Round size: Seed $949k–$4.4M; Pre-Seed $125k–$725k; Series A $9.1M–$555M
- Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $18M in 2012
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- 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
Building and scaling African tech startups with catalytic capital, value-add support and our global network.
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- Industry: Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 111
- Round size: Seed $40k–$4M; Pre-Seed $40k–$1.3M
- Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
Portfolio highlights
- LipaLater — LipaLater is a lending marketplace that provides postpaid payments at e-commerce stores. They are making technology affordable for you. Get the electronic of your choice today and pay for it in comfortable monthly installments.
- 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.
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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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Israel, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 278
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$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
- 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.
- IRP Systems — IRP Systems delivers high performance electric vehicle systems, EVVER e-powertrains and TrueDRIVE control software for fast integration.
Apis Partners LLP backs growth financial services innovators who create transformative impact in their communities.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
- Stage:Private Equity, Series B
- Geography: India, Singapore, South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 78
- Round size: Series B $10M–$110M; Private Equity $10M–$120M
- Lead/follow: 68% lead, 32% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $550M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- BIPO — Streamline your global workforce with BIPO's award-winning HR solutions. HRMS, payroll outsourcing & EOR services across 170+ countries. Get a free demo today!
- Tutuka — Paymentology's card issuing & processing platform helps banks & Fintechs to launch innovative, secure, and flexible card payment products in weeks.
- Moneybox — Moneybox is the simple way to save, invest, buy your first home, and combine your old pensions - all with one award-winning app. Download now.
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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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
- Geography: China, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 659
- Round size: Series A $4M–$230M; Series B $15M–$200M; Series C $30M–$400M
- Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Fenda — Fenda is an app where users can set their own price for answering questions in a field they are good at, and others can ask questions and pay for answers. Additionally, users can pay to listen to other questions and answers in the app
- 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.
- Full Truck Alliance — Full Truck Alliance is a platform that connects shippers with truckers to facilitate shipments across distance ranges and cargo weights. its revenues principally from shippers' and truckers' use of its platforms in connection with freight matching services.
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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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
- Stage:Series B, Grant
- Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 146
- Round size: Grant $7.3k–$52k; Series B $6.5M–$60M
- Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
Portfolio highlights
- SCORE — Since 1964, SCORE has helped more than 20 million entrepreneurs start, grow or successfully exit a business through expert mentoring, resources and education.
- Replit — Replit is a simple yet powerful online IDE, Editor, Compiler, Interpreter, and REPL. Code, compile, run, and host in 50+ programming languages.
- P-Agro Minerals — P-Agro Minerals develops chemical-free solutions for wastewater treatment plants, addressing phosphorus pollution.
P1 Ventures works as a venture capital firm. They specialize in early-stage industrial technology firms in Africa.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Software, Payments
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Geography: Egypt, Kenya, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 45
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$5M; Pre-Seed $400k–$3M; Series B $7.5M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Lua — Build, deploy, and scale enterprise-grade AI agents. Ship your first agent without touching infrastructure.
- Salus Cloud — Empowering developers worldwide with seamless and secure application deployment and management. Join the revolution. #Salus_Cloud
- Traction Apps — Traction apps provide businesses end to end tools they need to run and grow their businesses.
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Browse database — It's Free!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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- Industry: Financial Services, Banking, Payments
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: South Africa, Egypt, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 23
- Round size: Seed $2.4M–$13M; Series A $5M–$40M; Series B $6.8M–$55M
- Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $110M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Lua — Build, deploy, and scale enterprise-grade AI agents. Ship your first agent without touching infrastructure.
- 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
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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- Industry: E-Commerce, Information Technology, Retail
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Tunisia, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 62
- Round size: Seed $72k–$200k; Pre-Seed $62k–$100k
- Lead/follow: 60% lead, 40% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $10M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- WaterSec — WaterSec is a manufacturer of internet of things devices intended to communicate with gateways and send water usage data to application dashboards. They enable the customer to keep track of their water consumption. The monitoring of consumption was the solution to initiate the project. The water consumption and an optimized water-use efficiencyratio of all citizens and businesses.
- True Delta — True Delta is a data management and processing company. They are document recognition and data reconciliation processes. They offer data extraction from documents using ocr techniques, fast onboarding and data integration,and efficient data reconciliation with intelligent matching tools and less coding .
- 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.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 64
- Round size: Seed $250k–$24M; Pre-Seed $30k–$5.7M; Series A $15M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Rhythmic — Rhythmic landing page implementation with high-fidelity design and refined scroll motion.
- Axiom Trust — Axiom Trust is an AI-powered trust startup that modernises professional trust administration during the "Great Wealth Transfer" of over $100 trillion in assets.
- The Better Money Company — Stablecoin infrastructure built for the next era of money. https://t.co/W2rE9J4tms
The best companies, off the beaten path.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Mexico, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 596
- Round size: Seed $500k–$8M; Pre-Seed $500k–$2.6M; Series A $6M–$34M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Sourcepulse — Your early warning system for software delivery (YC S23)
- Giant — The Giant app turns screen time into personalized, interactive stories starring your child. Safe, ad-free, and designed to spark imagination.
- NORDA Dynamics — NORDA Dynamics is an autonomous UAV piloting system for carrying out missions in areas with limited connectivity.
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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- 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
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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- 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.
Kingsway Capital is a investment management firm.
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- 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.
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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- 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.
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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- 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.
Proparco is devoted to private sector funding in the sustainable development sector.
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- 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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