Top 50 Payments VC Funds & Investors in Kenya (July 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Digital Currency Group
VC Fund
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5 | United States, United Kingdom, Singapore | Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech | $650k–$48M |
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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, Finance | $625k–$30M |
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Pantera Capital
VC Fund
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4 | United States, Singapore, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services | $2M–$48M |
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P1 Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | Egypt, Kenya, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B | Financial Services, Software, Payments | $400k–$40M |
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Greycroft
VC Fund
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3 | United States, United Kingdom, Germany | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce | $1.5M–$79M |
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Kepple Africa Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt | Seed, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | $300k–$4.5M |
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Visa
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Canada, United Kingdom | Series B, Corporate Round | FinTech, Financial Services, Payments | $1M–$200M |
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Launch Africa
VC Fund
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2 | Nigeria, South Africa, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology | $200k–$4M |
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Apis Partners
VC Fund
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2 | India, Singapore, South Africa | Private Equity, Series B | Financial Services, FinTech, Payments | $5.4M–$175M |
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Adanian Labs
VC Fund
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2 | Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed | Developer Platform, Financial Services, Gaming | |
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AXIAN
VC Fund
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2 | Egypt, Kenya, Mali | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Financial Services, FinTech, Payments | $1M–$12M |
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FrontEnd Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Kenya | Pre-Seed, Seed | Travel, Software, Marketing | $1.1M–$1.3M |
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Musha Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Nigeria, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Financial Services, FinTech | $125k–$10M |
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Blockchain Capital
VC Fund
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2 | United States, United Kingdom, Singapore | Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services | $1M–$40M |
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Soma Capital
VC Fund
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2 | United States, India, Mexico | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech | $400k–$35M |
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Acadian Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United States, France, Germany | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Human Resources, SaaS | $1M–$25M |
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Saviu Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Côte d'Ivoire, Kenya, Senegal | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce | $165k–$5M |
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Plesion Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria | Seed, Pre-Seed | B2B, AgTech, Billing | $250k–$2M |
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GMC coLABS
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya, Tanzania | Seed, Pre-Seed | B2B, Mobile, Consumer | |
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Stephens Investment Management
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Kenya | Series A, Seed | Payments, Bitcoin, Finance | |
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Microsoft
VC Fund
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, India | Grant, Seed | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $1k–$4M |
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Microtraction
VC Fund
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1 | Nigeria, United States, Ghana | Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | $25k–$1.3M |
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Javelin Venture Partners
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada, India | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, E-Commerce, Enterprise Software | $1.2M–$75M |
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Zephyr Acorn
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya, India, Rwanda | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, Banking, FinTech | $1M–$10M |
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FSD Africa
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya, Ethiopia, South Africa | Grant, Seed, Series B | Financial Services, Energy, FinTech | $10k–$14M |
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Firestartr
VC Fund
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1 | United Kingdom, United States, Spain | Seed, Series A | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | $350k–$37M |
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SANAD Fund
VC Fund
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1 | Egypt, Jordan, Kenya | Series A, Pre-Seed, Series B | E-Commerce, Financial Services, FinTech | $2.2M–$13M |
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Reflect Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Pakistan, United States, Nigeria | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Logistics, Information Technology, E-Commerce | $120k–$37M |
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Right Side Capital Management
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note | Software, SaaS, Health Care | $18k–$2M |
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Proparco
VC Fund
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1 | India, Kenya, Nigeria | Debt Financing, Seed | Financial Services, Energy, Finance | $447k–$169M |
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True Capital Management
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Nigeria, Canada | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | FinTech, Financial Services, Software | $125k–$59M |
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Plug and Play Tech Center
VC Fund
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1 | United Kingdom, Kenya, Spain | Seed, Series A | Software, Medical, Payments | $1.3M–$13M |
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Draper Associates
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, FinTech, Information Technology | $1M–$50M |
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Colle Capital Partners
VC Fund
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence | $1.1M–$126M |
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VilCap Investments
VC Fund
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1 | United States, India, Kenya | Seed, Series A | Financial Services, Health Care, FinTech | $50k–$6M |
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Kara Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya, South Africa | Seed, Pre-Seed | Payments, Software, Compliance | |
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pani
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya | Pre-Seed | Billing, Software, Business Development | |
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Social Justice Fund
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya | Pre-Seed | Payments, Customer Service, Business Development | |
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Enviu
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya | Seed | B2B, Mobile, Internet | |
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Renew Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia | Pre-Seed, Seed | Mobile Apps, Financial Services, Finance | |
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Google Cloud
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Brazil, United Kingdom | Grant, Non-Equity Assistance, Seed | Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology | $2k–$595k |
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DOEN Participaties
VC Fund
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1 | The Netherlands, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Solar, Agriculture, Renewable Energy | $478k–$27M |
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Accion Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | India, United States, Mexico | Seed, Series A, Series B | Financial Services, FinTech, Finance | $500k–$30M |
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E3 Capital
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1 | Kenya, South Africa, United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | Energy, Solar, Renewable Energy | $900k–$40M |
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Aavishkaar Venture Capital
VC Fund
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1 | India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka | Series B, Series A | Financial Services, Manufacturing, Finance | $2M–$29M |
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Acasia Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Egypt, Nigeria, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Mobile | $532k–$2.5M |
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Norrsken22
VC Fund
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1 | South Africa, Egypt, Nigeria | Seed, Series A, Series B | Financial Services, Banking, Payments | $2.4M–$55M |
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KSK Angel Fund
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States, Hong Kong | Seed, Series A | E-Commerce, Software, SaaS | $850k–$100M |
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Verod-Kepple Africa Ventures
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1 | Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Retail, Payments, B2B | $1.3M–$52M |
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UNCOVERED FUND
VC Fund
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1 | Nigeria, Kenya, United States | Seed, Series A | FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce | $1.5M–$20M |
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- 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.
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, 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.
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: 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 —
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: 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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- 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
- Danvas — Danvas is advancing screens that will possess a fully dimensional interactive design that brings NFT art to life and will reinforce the authentic ownership of the artwork. Its premium, luxury digital art canvas aims to accelerate the world’s appreciation of digital artists and their artwork, and introduce art collectors to the value, andpossibilities of the next wave of digital art.
- Instantly — Buy Instagram followers from Techcrunch50 for as little as $1. Fast delivery, real active followers and friendly 24/7 customer support. Try us today.
- Bamboo — Bamboo is a digital investment platform that provides real-time access to buy, hold, or sell stocks. The investment platform is accessible on both computers and mobile phones.
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- 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.
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, 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.
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
- 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.
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: 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 —
Adanian Labs Africa, is a venture building studio with a mission to build tech powered impact driven startups across Africa. We are a smart tech hub powered by smart technologies like blockchain and AI to ensure that the solutions built are scalable and sustainable. www.adanianlabs.io
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- Industry: Developer Platform, Financial Services, Gaming
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Savabyte — Savabyte is a capacity builder and tech talent enricher with a pool of quality software engineers trained and mentored across our African ecosystem. It aims to empower more women to join the tech space and access the technical skills
- Jungopharm — Jungopharm is a developer of a pharma and healthcare platform that aims to make health care understandable, accessible & affordable for all.
- Ngamea Games — Ngamea Games is a cross platform African inspired and focused gaming company. With six aims: Asset Creation, Development, Incubation, Collaboration, Training, and Publishing. In addition to game development and gamification as a service.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Egypt, Kenya, Mali
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Seed $1M–$12M; Series A $5M–$8.5M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% 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.
- Hub2.Io — Welcome to HUB2, the leading FINTECH startup in interoperability and payment infrastructure in Francophone Africa. We are proud to work with all financial industry players in Africa who need stable and high-performing infrastructure, and contribute to their success.
- WeLight — WeLight deploys sustainable and accessible solutions to accelerate energy inclusion in rural areas of Africa.
FrontEnd is a strategic partner for innovative ventures offering support to diverse leaders with high market potential, proven traction...
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- Industry: Travel, Software, Marketing
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Pre-Seed $1.1M–$1.3M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Buupass — BuuPass is Kenya's market leader for online bus booking. We enable travelers to reserve seats and make payments in a convenient and timely way. Try BuuPass today!
- Lukhu Inc. — Lukhu provides merchants with tools to manage and grow their businesses such as inventory management, customer management, secure payments, analytics, and fulfilment while enabling consumers to discover, purchase, and get their clothing and footwear delivered in a convenient and affordable manner.
- OKOA Rescue — OKOA Rescue is a provider of maintenance and repair services intended for the freight and logistics sectors in East Africa,
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: 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.
Partners to crypto builders since 2013.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 184
- Round size: Seed $1M–$15M; Series A $5M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $580M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- RedotPay — RedotPay is a leading crypto fintech bridging Web3 and traditional finance through innovative, cost-efficient blockchain solutions. Our intuitive crypto payment products enable millions of users globally to easily spend and send digital assets. We foster financial inclusion for the unbanked and serve crypto enthusiasts, advancing global adoption offast, accessible crypto payments.
- EigenLabs — Eigen Labs is an engineering and research organization that contributes to protocols like EigenLayer and EigenDA
- Fabric Cryptography — Fabric develops a custom cryptography hardware to accelerate cryptography algorithms. The chips, whose components exclusively serve cryptographic purposes, are based on Verifiable Processing Units (VPUs) which incorporate features of GPUs and ASICs to improve the speed and cost of advanced cryptographic workloads.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, India, Mexico
Investor stats
- Total investments: 699
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$8.5M; Pre-Seed $400k–$4M; Series A $8M–$35M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kredi — Kredi is Rocket Mortgage for LatAm. Customers can easily secure a mortgage online.
- Mudafy — Mudafy is a tech-enabled real estate broker for LatAm.
- Lenk — Lenk powers the process mortgage origination in Latin America
Acadian Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in the new architecture of work. Founded in 2019 and led by executives from Cornerstone, SAP SuccessFactors, and Workday, Acadian is the world’s leading firm focused at the intersection of work and technology, on a mission to make work better and meaningful, creating a progressiveapproach to human productivity. For more information, visit acadianventures.com.
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- Industry: Software, Human Resources, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, France, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 38
- Round size: Seed $2.2M–$10M; Pre-Seed $1M–$4.2M; Series A $5M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $30M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Linc — Linc is a platform that delivers data retrieval and analysis services tailored to business needs. The company offers solutions supporting bookkeeping and payroll workflows alongside information management capabilities. Linc offerings streamline data management processes and enable organizations to operationalize their data more effectively.
- Kombo — One unified API for HRIS, Payroll & ATS
- Origin — Origin delivers AI-powered global benefits intelligence to streamline HR, optimize spend, ensure compliance, and simplify employee benefits management.
Saviu is a venture capital fund focusing on African early-stage startups.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Côte d'Ivoire, Kenya, Senegal
Investor stats
- Total investments: 38
- Round size: Seed $550k–$5M; Pre-Seed $165k–$817k; Series A $2M–$5M
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $14M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- POZI — POZI app is an innovative tracking and geolocation solution primarily designed for fleet monitoring and management.
- Agenz — Agenz was founded to deliver credible real estate market data that is updated in real time, allowing individuals to make faster and more informed real estate decisions at the right time.
- Userguest.com — Userguest is a Travel SaaS company that provides technology to hotels in order to improve their online revenue. Our smart tool applies RevMarketing Automation to hotel website, by matching a user’s booking intent with the hotel’s inventory priorities. We display personalized incentives to boost hotel revenue where it counts.
Plesion Capital is a venture capital firm.
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- Industry: B2B, AgTech, Billing
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $250k–$2M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Chpter — Chpter is a software development company that offers fast billing and checkout to help start, run, and grow a business.
- Releaf Earth — We are industrializing food processing in Africa. We've led 1000+ smallholder farmers to provide food factories with >7.5 million kilograms of quality crops.
- Jackfruit Finance — Fast, flexible school financing in Kenya. Get working capital, projects, and asset loans designed around school fee cycles and growth needs.
Investment focus
- Industry: B2B, Mobile, Consumer
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Kenya, Tanzania
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Taimba Limited — Taimba is a B2B mobile-based platform connecting farmers to urban traders with aim of reducing food wastage and to stabilize market prices.
- WomenChoice Industries — WomenChoice Industries is a manufacturer and distributor of low-cost, affordable, reusable sanitary towels.
Partners to crypto builders since 2013.
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- Industry: Payments, Bitcoin, Finance
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 23andMe — 23andMe is a saliva-based DNA service. We provide genetic reports on your ancestry, family history and help you connect with your DNA relatives.
- AZA Finance — AZA Finance is a digital foreign exchange and payment platform that leverages blockchain settlement to significantly lower the cost and increase the speed of business payments to and from frontier markets. AZA Group is a market-maker in every major African currency and opens corridors for business payments and trade between frontier markets andthe rest of the world. AZA Group was the first blockchain company to be licensed by the UK's Financial Conduct Authority and follows stringent KYC practices. AZA Group services frontier market businesses and multinationals paying suppliers as far as China and UAE, as well as cryptocurrency traders. Our API also enables international remittance companies to send white-label payments to dozens of bank networks and mobile money operators across Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, Uganda, Tanzania, Senegal, and the DRC.
- Bitnet Technologies — Bitnet provides a digital commerce platform enabling enterprise-scale merchants to accept bitcoin payments. Bitnet’s engineering, product, and business development team help in building and managing the world’s largest payment gateway, CyberSource (NASDAQ: CYBS), which was sold to the world’s largest payment network, Visa (NYSE: V), for $2billion in 2010.
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Browse database — It's Free!Microsoft is an American multinational corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.Microsoft’s devices and consumer (D&C) licensing segment licenses the Windows operating system and related software, Microsoft Office for consumers, and the Windows Phone operating system. Thecompany’s computing and gaming hardware segment provides Xbox gaming and entertainment consoles and accessories, second-party and third-party video games, and Xbox Live subscriptions; surface devices and accessories; and Microsoft PC accessories. Its phone hardware segment offers Lumia smartphones and other non-Lumia phones. Its D&C segment provides Windows Store, Xbox Live transactions, and Windows phone store; search advertising; display advertising; Office 365 Home and Office 365 Personal; first-party video games; and other consumer products and services as well as operating retail stores.Microsoft’s commercial licensing segments license server products, including Windows Server, Microsoft SQL Server, Visual Studio, System Center, and related Client Access Licenses (CALs); Windows Embedded; Windows operating system; Microsoft Office for business, including Office, Exchange, SharePoint, Lync, and related CALs; Microsoft Dynamics business solutions; and Skype. Its commercial segment offers enterprise services, including premier support services and Microsoft consulting services; commercial cloud comprising Office 365 Commercial, other Microsoft Office online offerings, Dynamics CRM Online, and Microsoft Azure; and other commercial products and online services.The company markets and distributes its products through original equipment manufacturers, distributors, and resellers, as well as online.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Grant, Seed
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 240
- Round size: Seed $1k–$4M; Grant $18k–$2.5M
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $1M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Bellame — Bellame is a style beauty company that is expanding daily. The company currently has 4 products cleanser, serum, eye cream, and moisture. They are on a transformational mission because beauty is more than skin-deep.
- AppNexus — Microsoft Invest is a demand side platform built for the future of video advertising.
- GuidenAI — We specialize in developing innovative AI-powered products that enhance and simplify everyday experiences through intelligent automation and advanced technology.
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: 104
- Round size: Seed $25k–$1.3M; Angel $30k–$50k; Pre-Seed $50k–$1.1M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
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- 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.
Javelin Venture Partners invests in early-stage tech companies with incredible potential, managed by teams of energetic, trustworthy, and capable leaders. Javelin looks for advanced bleeding-edge innovations, where the addressable market size is substantial, and strong competitive advantages exist. A typical investment is between $1 to $6million, with reserves for follow-on investments. In addition, Javelin also considers smaller seed investments for unique companies just getting started. Located in downtown San Francisco, while invests throughout the world. Javelin is a very active investor with a long-term outlook and the objective of creating substantial value.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Enterprise Software
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 150
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$9M; Series A $4M–$19M; Series B $8M–$75M
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- CloudX — CloudX is a supply side platform for mobile and AI publishers. Boost revenue with AI workflows and a liquid marketplace.
- Resemble AI — AI voice generator with voice cloning for text to speech.
- Nexenta Systems — Nexenta is the global leader in Open Source-driven Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS) with 6,000+ customers, 400+ partners, 46,000+ community members, 40+ patents, and 2,000+ petabytes of storage capacity under management. Nexenta has redefined the storage industry via its unique dual leadership in Open Source community collaboration andSoftware-Defined Storage innovation. Nexenta OpenSDS solutions are "100% Software." Nexenta supports any app-, cloud-, protocol-, and hardware-platform; providing organizations with the "Total Freedom" to fight against predatory vendor lock-in. Nexenta provides organizations with the benefits of Software-Defined Everything-centric Cloud Computing – from data centers to end users; from the infrastructure to apps. Nexenta enables the widest variety of legacy, Windows, web, virtual, and cloud-native apps; supporting any rich media-driven Mobile and Social Living, Internet of Things, Big Data-driven Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) and/or Do-It-Yourself (DIY) Cloud deployment – from Private and Public to Hybrid Clouds. Founded around an "Open Source” platform and industry-disrupting vision, Nexenta delivers its award-winning "software-only unified storage management" solutions with 24x7 consulting, service, support, and a global partner network, including Cisco, Citrix, Dell, Docker, HP, Micron, Openstack, Quanta, SanDisk, Seagate, Supermicro, VMware, Western Digital, Wipro, and many others. Nexenta: 100% Software. Total Freedom. All Love.For more information visit, www.nexenta.com
Zephyr Management is a global emerging markets investment manager, specializing in the creation and management of highly focused private equity and venture capital funds.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Banking, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Kenya, India, Rwanda
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Round size: Seed $1M–$3M; Series A $2M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Arifu — Home About Us Impact Gender Dynamics of Using Mobile Technology Informed Consumers Improve Financial Service Utilization Digital training benefits farmers and agricultural institutions Resources Careers Contact Us X DEMO SCHEDULE A DEMO About Arifu https://vimeo.com/531804968Arifu is an education technology company established in 2015 in Kenya. We offer a content marketplace that brings together subject matter
- Emata — Emata brings digital and affordable financial products to farmers in East Africa.
- Power — Putting individuals on the path towards financial health
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.
Firestartr helps the most promising digital entrepreneurs take their companies from seed stage to Series A and beyond. Beyond providing capital, they draw on their entrepreneurial successes and senior operational experience with leading technology companies to support sustainable growth in their portfolio. Their deep domain expertise, combinedwith an unrivalled network of advisors, enable us to make meaningful connections at the right time and propel companies with hands-on support.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Spain
Investor stats
- Total investments: 52
- Round size: Seed $350k–$4.2M; Series A $3.3M–$37M
- Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Banked — Banked : Real time payments for consumers, businesses and banks.
- Qori — Accept a wide variety of cryptocurrencies on your POS terminal or iOS or Android device without handling crypto yourself.
- Clarisights — Clarisights is the leading marketing analytics platform for Enterprises on G2. Connect, visualize and explore all your marketing data in one place. From questions to insights in minutes.
The SANAD* Fund for MSME views the micro, small and medium enterprise sector as an engine of economic development, job creation and prosperity in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). This also makes it a vast and as yet untapped investment opportunity.To realize this potential, SANAD provides debt and equity financing to local partnerinstitutions for on-lending to micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) and fueling their growth.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Financial Services, FinTech
- Stage:Series A, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Geography: Egypt, Jordan, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Round size: Series A $2.2M–$13M
- Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Blnk — Blnk is a fintech firm that provides lending, financing, affordability, commission, reporting and settlement, and e-commerce services.
- Capital Bank Group — Capital Bank of Jordan they are specialized in serving corporate, SME, and high-end retail customers, combining the service range of commercial and investment banking.
- Beltone Leasing and Factoring — Beltone Leasing and Factoring platform enables companies to unlock critical growth capital and accelerate cashflows through tailored, convenient solutions, and advisory service with confidence that supports long term relationships
Reflect Ventures makes venture capital investments in high-potential startups at the seed and series A/B+ stages. We identify extraordinary founders, companies and opportunities around the world, including in emerging and frontier markets. Our LPs comprise family offices, institutional investors and HNWIs on six continents, along withrecognized sector experts who are instrumental to our portfolio companies' future growth.
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- Industry: Logistics, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Pakistan, United States, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 56
- Round size: Seed $200k–$12M; Pre-Seed $120k–$3.3M; Series A $4M–$37M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Appload — Appload provides an online solution for logistics services. They connect logistics companies with customers looking for cargo transport. The app offers a secure scheduling and electronic payment system and the ability to secure shipments through an industry partner. They serve in the B2B space in transportation and logistics technology. They alsoprovides customer services.
- Gigmile — Gigmile provides financial services. They provide gig workers with core services and an affordable lease on productive assets that is tailored to their earnings to enable them to succeed in the mobility industry as entrepreneurs.
- VIVAN Therapeutics — VIVAN Therapeutics, a company pioneering personalized cancer therapeutics using a new assay technology. MPT licensed technology from the Center for Personalized Cancer Therapeutics at Mt Sinai New York and is launching the world’s most comprehensive, personal genomics-based, block-chain enabled drug screening service. All recommended treatmentcombinations will include a cancer drug and a non cancer drug, making treatments less toxic and more affordable. Intelligently designed personalized treatment. Revolutionary cancer care.
Systematic Pre-Seed Startup Capital
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 721
- Round size: Seed $18k–$2M; Pre-Seed $50k–$450k; Convertible Note $50k–$500k
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Cohley — Cohley is a content marketing platform focusing on user generated content, visual asset creation, and text review generation. Streamline your content generation today!
- HelloHero — Quality pediatric therapy for children with developmental, behavioral, emotional & physical challenges. Learn more here.
- Dealpad — Transform your sales team with our cutting-edge AI Buyer Enablement Platform. Win more deals, repeatedly.
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.
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- 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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- 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
Plug and Play is the ultimate innovation platform.
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- Industry: Software, Medical, Payments
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, Kenya, Spain
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$4.2M; Series A $5M–$13M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Biorce — Biorce is an innovating HealthAI startup committed to transforming drug development through the use of artificial intelligence.
- Hata — Your crypto gateway to global opportunities. Regulated by the Labuan Financial Services Authority. Buy, sell, and trade crypto securely.
- MintNeuro — MintNeuro is pioneering the use of semiconductor technology in next-generation neural implants.
Draper Associates, founded in 1985, is a seed-stage venture capital firm that helps entrepreneurs to drive their businesses to greatness. We understand that a great company takes time to build and we'd like to ensure that entrepreneurs are in for the long haul.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 402
- Round size: Seed $1M–$8.3M; Series A $2.3M–$23M; Series B $5M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
Portfolio highlights
- CryptoMove — Buy a perfect domain name from Sudos.com. Discover thousands of domain names available for sale. Sudos.com keeps you safe.
- Peer Robotics — Discover the latest cutting-edge robotics solutions at Peer Robotics. We offer innovative products and services to revolutionize industries.
- Picnic — The Picnic Pizza System is a modular, easy-to-use, automated pizza assembly system that saves time, money, and labor without compromising quality.
Colle Capital Partners is a global, opportunistic, early stage technology venture fund. Managers have dealt in various verticals and across capital structures.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 94
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$8M; Series A $5M–$21M; Series B $3.7M–$126M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2015
Portfolio highlights
- Itera — Itera provides digital consulting, AI, cloud, software development and technology services for businesses across industries.
- Bread Financial — Bread Financial offers personalized payment, lending, and savings solutions. They provide customers and partners with a wide range of digitally enabled options that are easy, empowered, and flexible financially. Their service includes credit card facility, loan options, and flexible payment options.
- Dandelion Health AI — Dandelion Health AI develops a clinical data and artificial intelligence platform that enables life sciences companies and researchers to analyze real-world patient data and accelerate drug development and clinical research. The company provides a precision medicine platform that aggregates multimodal healthcare data, including clinical notes,medical images, and physiological waveforms, into a unified dataset representing patient journeys over time. Its platform applies validated AI models to transform large volumes of unstructured clinical data into structured, research-ready datasets, allowing researchers to uncover insights into disease progression, treatment effectiveness, and patient outcomes. This capability enables more comprehensive analysis compared to traditional datasets that rely primarily on structured records such as claims or diagnostic codes.
VilCap Investments is an early-stage impact investing fund, backing companies addressing the most pressing social and environmental challenges.
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- 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
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- 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.
Kara Ventures is a passionate tech angels who decided to embark on a learning expedition.
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- Industry: Payments, Software, Compliance
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Kenya, South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- 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
- Orca Fraud — Orca empowers fraud fighters with effective tools to combat fraud
A village with a heart for Africa.
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- Industry: Billing, Software, Business Development
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
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- Chpter — Chpter is a software development company that offers fast billing and checkout to help start, run, and grow a business.
Social Justice Fund Northwest is a foundation working at the frontlines of social change
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- Industry: Payments, Customer Service, Business Development
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Kenya
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- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Tuma — Turn any Android phone into a contactless payment terminal. Built for Africa's merchants and operators.
We are Enviu. We kick-start impact-driven companies. Companies aimed at creating environmental and social impact. The products and services of our start-ups aim to improve the quality of life of as many people as possible in a sustainable way.VisionHow can we maintain our quality of life, end poverty and restore our planets eco-systems atthe same time? The world needs new models for production, distribution, education and how we do business. We believe that kick-starting impact-driven ventures is the key to do this. By starting impact-driven companies we give meaning to our vision The Economy of the Crowd; an inclusive economy where companies create value for people and planet. Through our work we aim to improve the quality of life of as many people as possible in a sustainable way.How we workEnviu has two core activities; Co-Creation and Business Development. Through Co-Creation we generate Business Concepts together with our community of entrepreneurs and innovators. We then act as risk taking partner with the entrepreneurs that have the most promising Concepts and make them investor ready. In short: issue > Business Concept > investor ready impact-driven company.Co-CreationTogether with our community, we identify environmental and societal issues around the world and analyse the needs of the people that are confronted with these problems. We start a Challenge on our online platform and invite entrepreneurs and innovators from all over the world to co-create on business concepts that aims to solve this issue. At the end of the Challenge, we deliver several business concepts ready for validation. Learn more about our Co-Creation Challenge.Business DevelopmentOur business development starts at a business concept, created at one of our Challenges or one that’s presented to us by an entrepreneur. We act as risk taking partner for the entrepreneur, validate the business model and make it investor ready. At the moment we mostly work in The Netherlands, India and Ghana. Learn more about our Business Development activities.Economy of the CrowdWe believe that the Economy of the Crowd is the economy of the future. A system where companies are the drivers for change and create more value than just financial profit. A system that’s all about relationships between living systems, human trust and technology with a human face. Where companies create positive impact for their employees, society and the environment. We see more and more people, entrepreneurs and organisations heading into this direction. This is the only way we can make this change, but we can’t do it alone. Will you join us?
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- Industry: B2B, Mobile, Internet
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Taimba Limited — Taimba is a B2B mobile-based platform connecting farmers to urban traders with aim of reducing food wastage and to stabilize market prices.
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
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- 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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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Grant, Non-Equity Assistance, Seed
- Geography: United States, Brazil, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 40
- Round size: Seed $100k–$595k; Grant $2k–$350k; Non-Equity Assistance $2k–$350k
- Lead/follow: 68% lead, 32% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Sow & Soul — Sow & Soul is building the decision-making infrastructure for livestock and crop farming. The platform integrates real-time data capture through hardware, predictive analytics, and a Dynamic Decision Engine to enable farmers to make the right decisions at the right time. By combining software, data, and future hardware integration, Sow &Soul addresses core inefficiencies in labour, animal and crop health monitoring, and farm productivity. The company is currently working with early-stage farm partners and preparing for pilot deployments in the UK, with a long-term vision to scale across Europe and global livestock markets.
- Alife Virtual — Alife Virtual Metaverse is a comprehensive platform, empowering you to create, trade, and thrive like never before! - Design Your Own World: Craft breathtaking virtual assets, from stunning landscapes to unique avatars. - Meet our AI Assistant! Get instant answers to any question. Chat in any language. Create scripts, textures, 3d objects, audio,video and so much more. - Local Coins: Built on robust, secure blockchain to ensure your assets and transactions are protected. - NFT Revolution: Mint NFTs effortlessly and sell them on our bustling marketplace. - User-Friendly Interface: Accessible and intuitive platform designed for both beginners and seasoned creators. - Vibrant Community: Join a thriving network of artists, developers, and entrepreneurs. Collaborate, learn, and grow together. - Support and Guidance: Round-the-clock customer service to assist you every step of the way. Embrace the future with Alife Virtual Metaverse Blockchain. Claim your space in the digital cosmos—where innovation meets opportunity. Learn. Create. Trade. Join Alife Today!
- Deep Space Energy — Deep Space Energy is to become a commercial provider of radioisotope electricity for deep space science missions, the commercial lunar market, and scientific surface missions on the Moon and Mars.
As the impact investment arm of the DOEN Foundation, DOEN Participaties invests in innovative, early stage companies whose mission is to make an environmental and social impact.
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- Industry: Solar, Agriculture, Renewable Energy
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: The Netherlands, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 49
- Round size: Seed $478k–$2.4M; Series A $1.8M–$27M
- Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Orbisk — One-third of all food produced (worldwide) is wasted. Orbisk helps professional kitchens to get a grip on their food waste.
- PAKT — PAKT specializes in the industrial sorting and washing of glass packaging, offering large-scale cleaning services to support the reuse of glass containers. With a focus on sustainability, PAKT aims to contribute to a world without waste by promoting the circular economy. The company's services are designed to meet the needs of businesseslooking to reduce their environmental impact through the professional cleaning and reuse of glass pots and bottles. PAKT's approach combines technological innovation with a commitment to environmental responsibility, providing a solution that supports both the planet and the packaging needs of its clients.
- CrowdBuilding —
Accion Ventures is an investment strategy that today pursues early-stage investments as part of Accion Impact Management.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: India, United States, Mexico
Investor stats
- Total investments: 133
- Round size: Seed $500k–$6.4M; Series A $2.6M–$17M; Series B $8M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Billpocket — Billpocket convierte tu smartphone o tablet en una terminal punto de venta. Ya no tienes que esperar al banco y pagar exageradas cuotas de mantenimiento, fianzas y papel para poder cobrar con tarjeta. Simplemente necesitas una cuenta bancaria a donde puedas recibir tus cobros con tarjeta de débito y crédito.
- Cashinvoice — Cashinvoice connects supply chain stakeholders and digitises invoice-to-cash processes to unlock working capital trapped within supply chains and accelerate business growth
- Pintek — Pintek is a financial technology company aiming to democratise access to education in Indonesia through affordable and flexible credit.
E3 Capital invests in growing, entrepreneurial businesses in Sub-Saharan Africa addressing the lack of electrification in the region with new technology and innovative business models. The fund is backed by Schneider Electric, the leading energy management multinational, and a number of public-sector investors.
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- Industry: Energy, Solar, Renewable Energy
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Kenya, South Africa, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 49
- Round size: Seed $900k–$8M; Series A $1.8M–$7.5M; Series B $9M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 51% lead, 49% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- GoCab — GoCab is fintech solution providing Drive-to-own option for vehicle purchase in Emerging markets, helping to bridge the gap between mobility entrepreneurs and financial services.
- Plentify — Plentify connects home appliances with cheaper cleaner energy. It does this with an intelligent residential load management platform which matches demand with clean energy supply for 75% cheaper than batteries. Plentify combines advanced hardware, AI, and user-centric design to create smart home products that delight customers while alsostrengthening electricity systems.
- SolarX Africa — SolarX commercial and industrial (C&I) solar company that provides clean and efficient solar solutions, through leasing options in frontier markets.
AGIMDC invests in start ups, transforming NBFCs and mature MFIs. AGIMDC was sponsored by the Dutch fund Goodwell Microfinance Development Company. AGIMDCâ€:tm:s investment managers have extensive experience in private equity and microfinance.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Manufacturing, Finance
- Stage:Series B, Series A
- Geography: India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka
Investor stats
- Total investments: 96
- Round size: Series A $2.3M–$11M; Series B $2M–$29M
- Lead/follow: 58% lead, 42% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $130M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- AgroStar — AgroStar is India’s foremost AgTech start-up working on the mission of #HelpingFarmersWin by providing a complete range of agri solutions at the fingertips of farmers. AgroStar’s tech platform provides a combination of agronomy advice coupled with service and agri input products that enable farmers to significantly improve their productivity andincome.We use an extensive amount of data, technology and agronomy knowledge to give the right solutions (advice+products) to Indian farmers.AgroStar currently operates in the states of Gujarat, Maharashtra, and Rajasthan and has over 5 Lakh farmers on its digital platform. Farmers in these states can avail agri solutions for their entire crop life-cycle with a simple “missed call” or through its Android app, which is amongst the highest rated farming focused apps in the country.Over the next 5 years, we plan to continue to provide incremental value to farmers in terms of wide range of inputs delivered at their doorsteps, world-class agronomy guidance and also access to market linkages and credit.
- Newtrace — NewTrace is building the next generation of electrolyzers to help fulfil the vision of affordable green hydrogen
- NEPRA Resource Management — NEPRA Resource Management provides waste management solutions in India. It offers dry waste management and recycling; waste pick up; and waste handling and reporting. NEPRA Resource Management collects and processes a range of materials, including commercial and industrial waste, paper and cardboard, metal, glass, plastic, E-waste, and wood. Itoffers services for waste-pickers/society cleaners/building care takers/malls/residential societies/commercial establishments or any other type of waste generator. NEPRA Resource Management serves hotel, IT, telecom, and research industries; retail sectors, multi brand outlets, residential associations, individual households, and townships; and Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation. It began operation in 2006, with its headquarters in Ahmedabad in India as a subsidiary of Nepra Group.
Acasia Ventures is a leading venture capital firm that invests in early-stage companies throughout the Middle East and Africa. With a focus on being a first believer in innovation and entrepreneurship, the firm strives to support the growth of the next generation of market leaders through their unique and scalable solutions. Its Tech Fund I iscurrently targeting investments in tech-driven and tech-enabled startups at the pre-Seed to pre-Series A stages.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Egypt, Nigeria, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 17
- Round size: Seed $750k–$2.5M; Pre-Seed $532k–$1M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Lengo — Lengo is an AI based intelligence platform that offers a large database on consumer goods for companies in the FMCG sector.
- Menthum — Grow your wealth with Egypt's leading fintech platform. Earn up to 2x traditional bank returns with FRA-licensed security.
- Bluworks.io — Smart HR system for Smart Businesses | Start Today Automate payroll, shift scheduling, and attendance for your blue-collar workforce. Bluworks is the HR system trusted by all.
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: 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
KSK Angel Fund is a venture capital firm that offers data about the technology for services sectors.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Software, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States, Hong Kong
Investor stats
- Total investments: 41
- Round size: Seed $850k–$41M; Series A $2.2M–$100M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Buy&Ship — Buyandship provides cross-border eCommerce solution focusing on Marketing and Logistics. At Buyandship, is redefining the experience of E-Commerce without changing the sites, disrupting the underlying infrastructure, we provide consolidate, aggregate and load-balance shipments across the world to the consumer's doorstep. Our technologyfocuses on connecting the fragmented existing logistics infrastructure to create a seamless experience for both merchants and consumers, and the benefit is that they get a solution that is 30-50% less than other carriers. We also work with merchants, marketplaces, and platforms to create a channel to reach an audience across our geographies (9 Countries currently) and reaching over 1.5M+ people per month whilst growing. We envision our members being able to purchase from any site around the world and have it seamlessly be shipped home. No more geographical restrictions, No more price monopolies, No more ambiguous shipping situations. We are building towards a transparent system, where both buyers and sellers just focus on the product.
- Piece — Piece is a digital real estate platform offering the easiest and most transparent way to participate in income-producing real estate in Europe. Our mission is to make real estate ownership inclusive and more accessible.
- Infobox — Infobox is a sales data platform that includes every detail from market research to creating a list of companies and contacting decision-makers.
We back exceptional founders in and from Africa who are addressing deep gaps between the status quo and the ideal.
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- Industry: Retail, Payments, B2B
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$8.5M; Series A $5M–$52M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $43M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Nawy — The ultimate real estate broker in Egypt. Browse areas, compounds, and properties by price, location, and amenities to find the perfect place.
- Chari — Chari is an e-commerce and fintech app for traditional retailers in French-Speaking Africa allowing them to order any consumer goods they sell and get delivered for free in less than 24 hours. Chari is also a financial services provider for these retailers, offering them microloans
- Tagaddod — Tagaddod is a renewable Energy and Waste Management Egyptian company, started in February 2013 and operating in Cairo –Egypt. Currently focusing on clean fuels, Tagaddod is working on Biodiesel production from Vegetable Oils. Biodiesel is a fuel alternative that is produced from waste vegetable oils and used in conventional diesel engines, whichcan directly substitute for or extend supplies of traditional petroleum diesel.
UNCOVERED FUND is a venture capital firm that leads the creation of industries in Africa and other emerging countries.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 29
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$3.7M; Series A $2.2M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $15M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Sylndr — Sylndr is an automotive focused e-commerce marketplace bringing innovation to the used-cars market, where customers can reliably and transparently sell and buy used cars. The company is aiming to build trust in the used-car market by becoming the go-to place for customers seeking to sell and buy their cars, through an extensive range ofhigh-quality used vehicles accessible across a diverse set of financing solutions.
- Chari — Chari is an e-commerce and fintech app for traditional retailers in French-Speaking Africa allowing them to order any consumer goods they sell and get delivered for free in less than 24 hours. Chari is also a financial services provider for these retailers, offering them microloans
- Mecho — Mecho is an on-demand auto repair and maintenance platform for individuals and businesses in Africa.
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