Top 50 Payments VC Funds & Investors in Kenya (November 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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9 | United States, United Kingdom, Singapore | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services | $550k–$114M |
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Future Perfect Ventures
VC Fund
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9 | United States, Kenya, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Blockchain, Financial Services, Cryptocurrency | $650k–$30M |
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Pantera Capital
VC Fund
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8 | United States, Singapore, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services | $1.4M–$50M |
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Antler
VC Fund
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5 | United States, Singapore, Australia | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $100k–$29M |
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Musha Ventures
VC Fund
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5 | United States, Nigeria, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Financial Services, FinTech | $100k–$10M |
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Greycroft
VC Fund
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5 | United States, United Kingdom, Germany | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce | $1.5M–$79M |
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Blockchain Capital
VC Fund
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5 | United States, United Kingdom, Singapore | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services | $850k–$40M |
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Colle Capital Partners
VC Fund
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4 | United States, United Kingdom, Kenya | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence | $1.1M–$126M |
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Norrsken Evolve
VC Fund
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3 | Sweden, France, United States | Pre-Seed, Seed, Non-Equity Assistance | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $125k–$5.8M |
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Launch Africa
VC Fund
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3 | Nigeria, South Africa, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology | $200k–$4M |
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Microtraction
VC Fund
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3 | Nigeria, United States, Ghana | Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | $30k–$1.3M |
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Draper Associates
VC Fund
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3 | United States, Canada, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain | $700k–$41M |
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BnkToTheFuture
VC Fund
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3 | United States, United Kingdom, Kenya | Seed, Series A, Equity Crowdfunding | FinTech, Blockchain, Financial Services | $126k–$14M |
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P1 Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | Egypt, Kenya, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | $400k–$14M |
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4DX Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | Egypt, Kenya, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | FinTech, Financial Services, Information Technology | $50k–$40M |
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Visa
VC Fund
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3 | United States, Canada, United Kingdom | Series B, Grant, Series C | FinTech, Financial Services, Payments | $7.3k–$100M |
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Zephyr Acorn
VC Fund
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3 | Kenya, Rwanda, India | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, Banking, FinTech | $125k–$10M |
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FrontEnd Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Kenya | Pre-Seed, Seed | Travel, Software, Marketing | $675k–$1.3M |
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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 | $125k–$35M |
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Stephens Investment Management
VC Fund
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2 | Kenya, United States | Seed, Series A | Payments, Finance, Cryptocurrency | |
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Saviu Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Côte d'Ivoire, Kenya, Senegal | Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce | $174k–$5M |
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Flourish Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United States, India, Brazil | Series A, Seed, Series B | Financial Services, FinTech, Finance | $1.3M–$65M |
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Goodwater Capital
VC Fund
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2 | United States, India, South Korea | Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | $125k–$105M |
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Hustle Fund
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Singapore, Canada | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech | $100k–$25M |
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Sunu Capital
VC Fund
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2 | Kenya, United States, Nigeria | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Health Care, FinTech, Information Technology | $50k–$23M |
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AXIAN
VC Fund
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2 | Egypt, Kenya, Mauritius | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Financial Services, FinTech, Payments | $1M–$14M |
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Firestartr
VC Fund
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2 | United Kingdom, United States, Kenya | Seed, Series A | Financial Services, Software, FinTech | $400k–$37M |
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Adanian Labs
VC Fund
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2 | Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed | Developer Platform, Financial Services, Gaming | $60k–$100k |
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Ventures Platform
VC Fund
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2 | Nigeria, United States, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Internet | $100k–$4M |
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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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Kepple Africa Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | $100k–$23M |
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Apis Partners
VC Fund
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2 | India, Singapore, South Africa | Private Equity, Series B, Series C | Financial Services, FinTech, Payments | $10M–$120M |
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Flori Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United States, United Kingdom, Israel | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech | $100k–$11M |
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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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GreenHouse Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Nigeria, Kenya, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Payments | |
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Viktoria Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Egypt | Seed | Medical, Software, Health Care | |
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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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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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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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Kara Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya, South Africa | Seed, Pre-Seed | Payments, Software, Compliance | |
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Google Cloud
VC Fund
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, Brazil | Grant, Non-Equity Assistance, Seed | Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning | $2k–$595k |
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Enviu
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya | Seed | B2B, Mobile, Internet | |
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Proparco
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya, India, Nigeria | Debt Financing, Private Equity, Venture - Series Unknown | Financial Services, Energy, Finance | $400k–$206M |
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Khosla Impact
VC Fund
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1 | India, United States, Kenya | Series A, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Financial Services, FinTech, Finance | $1.9M–$15M |
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UNCOVERED FUND
VC Fund
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1 | Nigeria, Kenya, United States | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce | $700k–$40M |
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Microsoft
VC Fund
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, Canada | Grant, Non-Equity Assistance, Seed | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $5k–$18M |
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VilCap Investments
VC Fund
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1 | United States, India, Kenya | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Financial Services, Health Care, FinTech | $50k–$2.5M |
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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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SANAD Fund
VC Fund
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1 | Egypt, Jordan, Kenya | Series A, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, Financial Services, FinTech | $4M–$17M |
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FSD Africa
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya, Ethiopia, United States | Grant, Venture - Series Unknown, Seed | Financial Services, Energy, Finance | $10k–$10M |
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 397
- Round size: Seed $550k–$8.5M; Series A $3M–$48M; Venture - Series Unknown $1M–$114M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
Portfolio highlights
- AntSeed — AntSeed operates a peer-to-peer protocol and open marketplace for AI services, connecting buyers with independent providers for model inference, agents, and routing. The network uses BitTorrent DHT for discovery and WebRTC for transport, while payments settle in USDC on the Base blockchain through non-custodial smart contracts. Providers define their own services and pricing, and on-chain settlement data is used to build verifiable performance and reputation metrics. AntSeed exposes OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible APIs via a local proxy so existing tools, frameworks, and autonomous agents can route requests through the network. For non-technical users, the AntStation desktop application offers a chat interface that selects providers based on factors such as model type, cost, latency, and privacy. The ecosystem also includes the ANTS utility token, which underpins emissions and incentive programs tied to real network activity.
- Umia — Umia is an onchain venture-creation platform for token-native projects. It provides a legal wrapper, token minting, community fundraising through public token auctions, a noncustodial treasury, and governance through onchain “decision markets.”
- SafeWorld — SafeWorld is a safety testing platform for companies deploying robots around people, helping them assess and improve the safety.
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: 70
- Round size: Seed $650k–$7M; 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+.
- CapStack Technologies — Discover Capstack, the leading bank-to-bank marketplace driving banking digital transformation. Join the innovation wave and transform your banking experience now!
- Bagel Labs — Bagel Labs is a physical AI research lab developing world models and world action models for robot learning and control.
Pantera is a technology investment firm investing at the intersection of money, markets, and machines, backing multi-stage founders at the frontier.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 400
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$18M; Series A $3.5M–$48M; Venture - Series Unknown $3.1M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Evernorth — Evernorth is a purpose-built digital asset treasury that gives investors exposure to tomorrow’s markets. The company focuses on XRP, using XRP Ledger infrastructure, DeFi, liquidity, and yield strategies. The company also develops treasury strategies to generate returns from its digital asset holdings.
- Fission Labs — 24/7 liquidity, atomic settlement, institutional market infrastructure for tokenized funds.
- Solana Company — Solana Company (Nasdaq: HSDT) is a listed digital asset treasury dedicated to acquiring Solana (SOL), created in partnership with Pantera and Summer Capital.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Singapore, Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2394
- Round size: Seed $159k–$4.6M; Pre-Seed $100k–$611k; Series A $4.1M–$29M
- Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $7.5M in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- Praktiki — Praktiki is the AI platform for medical education: expert-led, case-based 5-minute modules HCPs love, built in hours and measured for behaviour change.
- ReportsAI — ReportsAI is an impact operating system that automates data collection and reporting for NGOs and industry to ensure audit-ready compliance.
- Plouton AI —
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 215
- Round size: Seed $120k–$7.5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3M; 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.
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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: 1031
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$8.5M; Series A $3.2M–$24M; Series B $6.2M–$79M
- Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $451M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Axiom — Axiom is an AI technology company that builds next-generation AI mathematicians.
- Sapphire Digital — UFABRO situs judi bola dengan keamanan maksimal, enkripsi SSL, transaksi stabil, lisensi terverifikasi, dan layanan yang transparan. Mudah digunakan dan sangat andal.
- Rocker — Rocker develops a secure, cloud-deployed AI assistant designed to integrate into corporate environments to automate tasks, manage project workflows, and enhance internal collaboration across teams.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 228
- Round size: Seed $850k–$14M; Series A $5M–$32M; Venture - Series Unknown $4M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $580M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- NG.CASH — NG.CASH is a digital bank designed to help the new generations (ages 12 to 30) achieve financial independence. It lets users take charge of their money through solutions like PIX (Brazil’s instant-payment system), prepaid and virtual cards, allowance management, and now credit products tailored for young adults. As a financial hub, NG.CASH is builtto grow with its clients, boosting financial literacy and supporting them at every stage of life.
- PhotonPay — Founded in 2015, PhotonPay is a digital financial infrastructure provider offering global payment solutions to businesses. Our innovative core products include Global Accounts, Card Issuing, Online Payments, Payouts, FX Management and Embedded Finance. PhotonPay has become a Mastercard issuer in Hong Kong and the fintech card issuer in the GreaterChina region of Discover® Network. With a strong compliance culture and technological innovation capabilities, PhotonPay is building a digital payment network to take the friction out of global payments and enhance operational efficiency for businesses operating on a global scale. Headquartered in Hong Kong and providing localized services through nine international offices, PhotonPay partners with a network of top-tier banks and global financial institutions and serves more than 200,000 customers globally.
- Predicate — Define transaction rules to secure financial products.
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, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 109
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$8M; Series A $2.5M–$21M; Series B $3.7M–$126M
- Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $72M in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- Coast — Coast is the simple, all-in-one fleet and fuel card that helps businesses easily pay for and track vehicle expenses. It's quick to set up, easy-to-use, and full of rewards.
- Itera — Instantly reconfigurable circuits turning months of work into moments of progress.
- Sensydia — The Sensydia Cardiac Performance System (CPS) enables the rapid assessment of critical care and heart failure patients by non-invasively measuring key hemodynamic metrics.
Norrsken Evolve is a pre-seed fund that supports the founders who are creating the future of Europe by offering funding,a top-notch in-person sprint, and an exceptional network.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Non-Equity Assistance
- Geography: Sweden, France, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 50
- Round size: Seed $1M–$5.8M; Pre-Seed $125k–$2M
- Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $67M in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Volve — AI for construction tendering: contract review, quantity take-off, scope review, bid development and offer comparison. Every finding traced to source.
- Motion — Motion provides a Humanoids-as-a-Service platform that supports the deployment and operation of humanoid robots across industrial, warehouse, and logistics environments. The platform enables businesses to select and deploy OEM-agnostic humanoid robots based on operational requirements. It manages data collection, task-specific robot training, ITintegration, fleet management, financing, insurance, compliance, and maintenance through a subscription-based model. Motion also supports the integration of humanoid robots into existing workflows and operational systems. Its services cover the lifecycle of deployed robotic fleets, from robot selection and initial configuration to ongoing management and maintenance. The platform is designed to help organizations manage robotic automation without being tied to a single robot manufacturer.
- Matter Machine — Matter Machine is an AI-driven materials discovery company that creates technologies that use materials chemistry, machine learning, and automated experimentation to speed up the discovery and optimization of next-generation materials.
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: 218
- 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 — fund raised in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Zazu — Manza is an all-in-one financial platform for African SMEs, helping businesses manage payments, automate cash flow, and access real-time financial insights from one simple dashboard.
- 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 — Explore GPU cloud and hardware through AGH Cloud, UduTech's flagship product, and AI advisory for teams in the United States, Africa, the Caribbean and beyond.
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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
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $15M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Growwr — Tell Growwr who you need. Our AI hiring agent finds relevant talent, evaluates candidates, and helps you move from hiring brief to interview.
- Paycrest — Unifying fiat and stablecoin payments globally, with speed, transparency, and built-in compliance.
- Cr3dentials — Cr3dentials lets neobanks offer credit inside their app. We handle income verification, underwriting, capital, and collections. You keep the customer.
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, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 536
- Round size: Seed $700k–$7.7M; Series A $2.5M–$25M; Series B $3.6M–$41M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $200M in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Wisecut AI — Wisecut is an automatic video editor based on voice recognition
- mogul club — Mogul is a real estate investment company specializing in crowdfunded commercial property investment and acquisition. Mogul can help you buy rental property and expand your investment portfolio.
- Austin Sensing Company — Austin Sensing Company develops sensing systems and autonomy software for airspace awareness, drone operations, and defense applications. The company designs and manufactures radar, passive RF, and acoustic sensors to detect and track aircraft and drones.
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- Industry: FinTech, Blockchain, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Equity Crowdfunding
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 23
- Round size: Seed $126k–$3M; Series A $2.5M–$8M; Equity Crowdfunding $1.1M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $3M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Bitwage — Payroll, invoicing & benefits for digital assets. Bitwage offers services for companies and direct to workers. Workers can sign up and get direct deposit accounts to get paid from any company or client. Workers locally receive unique digital asset benefits. Workers internationally get paid faster & cheaper than traditional wires.
- FV Bank — FV Bank is a US licensed bank and a digital asset custodian that provides banking, payments, digital asset custody, and Visa cards to the U.S. and international customers.
- Hexa Wallet — Own HexaWallet.io today. Secure checkout and guided transfer support. No hidden fees.
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, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Egypt, Kenya, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 45
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$5M; Pre-Seed $400k–$3M; Series A $10M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $35M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- 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
- Lua — Put agent teams to work on your goals. Lua gets your agents and your team working together in one place, shaped around your business.
- Traction Apps — Traction apps provide businesses end to end tools they need to run and grow their businesses.
4DX Ventures is a Pan-Africa Focused Venture Capital Firm. Our mission is to connect people, ideas, and capital to create a vibrant African community.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Egypt, Kenya, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 99
- Round size: Seed $200k–$6.4M; Pre-Seed $50k–$6.5M; Series A $3M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $49M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Anda Africa — Anda is Angola’s leading mobility fintech platform, providing asset financing, ride hailing, and delivery services to empower mobility entrepreneurs. Built for emerging markets, Anda bridges the credit gap by financing productive assets such as motorcycles, tricycles, and cars, enabling drivers to own their vehicles, increase their earnings, andenter the formal economy. Through technology driven credit profiling and fully digitized payments, Anda creates financial identities for people who were previously underserved and unlocks responsible access to financial services. As an impact driven company, Anda brings together mobility, financing, and digital payments to deliver safe, affordable, and inclusive transportation while enabling a new generation of financially empowered entrepreneurs.
- Aether Bio — Aether uses its state of the art platform to rapidly engineer enzymes, enabling our customers to manufacture complex and novel products at fractional cost.
- Aethex — End to end voice agents localized for your market
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, Series C
- Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 147
- Round size: Grant $7.3k–$80k; Series B $6.5M–$60M; Series C $4M–$100M
- 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.
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, Rwanda, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 20
- Round size: Seed $125k–$3M; Series A $2M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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
FrontEnd Ventures backs early-stage African founders with strategic capital, hands-on guidance, and long-term partnership to build lasting companies.
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- Industry: Travel, Software, Marketing
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Pre-Seed $675k–$1.3M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $5M in 2022
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,
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, India, Mexico
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1093
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$8.5M; Pre-Seed $125k–$3.8M; Series A $5M–$35M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $37M in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- Rebill — Rebill.com is the payments and subscriptions platform specifically designed for digital businesses and global companies scaling in Latin America.With our platform and API, companies can integrate over 100 local payment methods from the region, including cards, bank transfers, cash, and even wallets. In addition, they always receive the best humansupport with fair pricing and utmost transparency, enabling them to scale across the region 10 times faster.We are backed and have received investment from some of the world's leading funds such as Tiger Global Management, Soma Capital, SV Angel, Y Combinator, as well as incredible angel investors like Guillermo Rauch (Vercel), Arash Ferdowsi (Dropbox), among others.
- FirstWork — Applied AI for frontline enterprises. Forward-deployed AI agents that automate workforce operations inside your existing systems.
- Ramp — Join thousands of forward-thinking businesses using Ramp to control spend, save time, and automate busywork.
Partners to crypto builders since 2013.
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- Industry: Payments, Finance, Cryptocurrency
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Kenya, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- AZA Finance — Supporting Businesses In 115 Countries, Aza Finance Makes It Easier To Do Business In Africa. Contact AZA Finance Now.
- 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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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Côte d'Ivoire, Kenya, Senegal
Investor stats
- Total investments: 45
- Round size: Seed $550k–$5M; Pre-Seed $174k–$817k; Venture - Series Unknown $200k–$1.4M
- Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised 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.
- SORAM Afrique — Soram Afrique is a company focused on providing professional services and solutions to meet its customers’ needs.It aims to deliver quality, reliability, and customer satisfaction through its business activities.For accurate details about its specific services and offerings, the website content would need to be reviewed
We are an early-stage global venture capital firm investing in fintech founders.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, India, Brazil
Investor stats
- Total investments: 260
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$8.5M; Series A $3.3M–$25M; Series B $10M–$65M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $350M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Spiko — Cash management for companies and individuals. Open your account in under 5 minutes, earn daily yield on your treasury and access cash anytime.
- Madica — Home for Africa's pre-seed stage ventures
- Parallel Loop — Parallel Loop is a software engineering company that builds AI solutions, and custom software for startups and enterprises.
Consumer Tech Investors - We empower exceptional entrepreneurs everywhere to change the world for good.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United States, India, South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 915
- Round size: Seed $850k–$7.5M; Pre-Seed $125k–$2.1M; Venture - Series Unknown $481k–$105M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $5M in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Kaon — Discover prompts and AI apps built by a global community, or publish your own. FlowGPT is an open platform for building and sharing with AI.
- Egoist Machines — Egoist Machines builds efficient full-stack ML infrastructure for reliable AI systems, from model serving and evaluation to secure deployment and operations.
- Wrtn Technologies — Bring AGI Close to People
Hustle Fund is a seed fund that invests in early-stage startups operating in software, business-to-business, fintech, and digital health sectors.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Singapore, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 549
- Round size: Seed $750k–$6M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2.5M; Series A $4M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $33M in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Mintive — Mintive provides an enterprise governance platform for managing and securing AI agents and Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers. The platform acts as a gateway that turns local or containerized MCP servers into production-ready services with OAuth protection, centralized authentication, and audit logging. It offers real-time monitoring, anomaly detection, and role-based access controls for AI tool usage. MintMCP connects assistants such as ChatGPT, Claude, and other AI clients to internal data, databases, and SaaS systems while maintaining SOC 2-aligned security and compliance controls. It targets engineering, security, and operations teams deploying AI agents in regulated and enterprise environments.
- BON Credit — BON Credit is an AI-powered credit platform that helps customers understand, manage, and improve credit intelligently.
- Medikea Health — Feeling sick but don't want to leave your home or work? Video consult or Chat with trusted doctors from your phone.
SUNU Capital is an early-stage venture capital fund investing in companies that are creating a more prosperous, inclusive, and self-sustaining future across the global south.SUNU makes tailored investments to help companies pursue game-changing opportunities and realize their vision. Post-investment, we draw upon our network to offer additionalcapacity and capital that helps businesses grow and prepare to access follow-on investments. We move swiftly and responsively. They commit long-term. We love a good challenge.
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- Industry: Health Care, FinTech, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Kenya, United States, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 16
- Round size: Seed $50k–$23M; Pre-Seed $50k–$2M; Series A $3.6M–$18M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Thepeer — API infrastructure for businesses
- Nandi Labs — Nandi Labs, Home of Nandi Cowry, Digital FESTAC and MoveMint Magazine
- Hohm Energy — We make the process of going solar simple. Generate your free, custom solar proposal and get matched with an accredited solar provider in under 5 mins.
AXIAN is a pan-African Group active in 5 key sectors: telecoms, real estate, energy, financial services and fintech, across Africa.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Egypt, Kenya, Mauritius
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Seed $1M–$12M; Series A $5M–$14M
- 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 — B2B solution for e-merchant in WEST AFRICA, that allows payment trough Mobile Banking, Credit Card.
- WeLight — WeLight deploys sustainable and accessible solutions to accelerate energy inclusion in rural areas of Africa.
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, combined with 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: Financial Services, Software, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 57
- Round size: Seed $400k–$3.8M; Series A $3.3M–$37M
- Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Banked — Banked provides an account-to-account payment software platform that lets consumers, businesses and banks process payments in real-time, more securely. To leverage the Banked checkout system, businesses need to embed the company’s API and this can be done across mobile apps, customer portals, emailed invoices or even text messages.
- 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.
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: 21
- Round size: Pre-Seed $60k–$100k
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- SeraPay — We are revolutionizing social commerce in Africa with SeraPay, ensuring the seamless buying and selling of goods on social media platforms. Our innovative service empowers businesses to access markets beyond their geographical borders, making social retail easier and more efficient.
- 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.
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: 173
- Round size: Seed $100k–$4M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $84M in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Myka.Insure — Myka is a insurance sales platform that enables individuals to sell insurance policies to their family, friends, colleagues, and community while earning income . It operates as a micro-entrepreneurship program where anyone (students, gadget sellers, car dealers, parents, retirees) can start their own insurance business with zero investment,flexible hours, and free training . The company is licensed by the National Insurance Commission of Nigeria and provides instant payouts to its partners .
- Cybervergent — Start with your industry and see how Cybervergent delivers Digital Trust, from posture to proof, written for your context.
- Traction Apps — Traction apps provide businesses end to end tools they need to run and grow their businesses.
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 progressive approach 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: 40
- Round size: Seed $2.3M–$10M; Pre-Seed $1M–$4.2M; Series A $6.7M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $30M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Colare — Colare is an AI-powered hiring platform that uses real engineering simulations to help hardtech companies assess and hire engineers faster and more accurately.
- 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.
- Palette — Palette is a model-agnostic operating system designed for AI-native teams to work collaboratively with AI agents.
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Browse database — It's Free!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: 85
- Round size: Seed $500k–$4.5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3.4M; Series A $1.1M–$23M
- Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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
- 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.
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, Series C
- Geography: India, Singapore, South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 79
- Round size: Series B $10M–$110M; Series C $45M–$78M; Private Equity $10M–$120M
- Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2026
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!
- 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.
- Paymentology — Paymentology's card issuing & processing platform helps banks & Fintechs to launch innovative, secure, and flexible card payment products in weeks.
More than a seed-stage fund and a portfolio of startups: Our community of founders taps into the power of financial innovation to collaborate around global problems and unlock prosperity for all.
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- 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 Labs' mission is to enable real-world adoption of digital assets by providing transparent and reliable technological primitives to our partners around the world.
- 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.
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.
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
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- 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.
A consulting & fund management firm, focused on entrepreneur finance in Africa. We do Valuation, Deal Structuring, Fund Management & Structuring Agreements
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- Industry: Medical, Software, Health Care
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: no public data
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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.
- Rology — AI-assisted On-demand Teleradiology Platform
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.
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.
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.
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
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning
- Stage:Grant, Non-Equity Assistance, Seed
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Brazil
Investor stats
- Total investments: 45
- Round size: Seed $100k–$595k; Grant $2k–$350k; Non-Equity Assistance $2k–$350k
- Lead/follow: 62% lead, 38% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Zomni AI — Zomni Solutions Private Ltd builds an agentic AI harness — a reusable engineering platform for designing, launching, and operating high‑impact AI products. The platform integrates large language models, proprietary orchestration workflows, behavioural feedback loops, and safety controls to power reliable AI companions and utilities. Cosmuna, Zomni’s flagship product, is now live and available for public use. Cosmuna is an AI transformation companion built on Zomni’s agentic architecture and Blueprint engine. It helps users clarify what matters, turn intentions into commitments, navigate timing and obstacles, and capture proof of real change in daily life. As a live product, Cosmuna generates recurring revenue and actively validates the underlying harness by demonstrating Zomni’s ability to ship mission‑driven AI products that increase human clarity, agency, and happiness. Cosmuna (Zomni’s flagship product) initial customers are digitally literate, growth‑oriented adults (22–40) seeking measurable life change rather than generic inspiration or prediction. They engage with self‑development, coaching, spirituality, or astrology but struggle to translate insight into consistent action. Cosmuna provides personalised timing guidance, commitment support, obstacle navigation, and a visible proof trail of progress. The company is launching first in the UK, using digital acquisition to refine positioning, pricing, retention, and transformation outcomes before expanding to wider English‑speaking markets. Because Cosmuna is fully digital and already live, Zomni can scale globally once the proposition is validated. Zomni’s current business model centres on digital subscriptions for Cosmuna, with premium tiers and add‑on experiences as transformation outcomes strengthen. Defensibility comes from its reusable agentic AI harness, the Cosmuna Blueprint engine, accumulated behavioural data loops, and a brand built around humane, evidence‑based transformation. Each new product built on the harness compounds Zomni’s technical infrastructure and speed of execution. Strategically, Zomni aims to: (1) help millions achieve evidence‑based transformation in self‑image, behaviour, and life outcomes; (2) prove and continually improve an agentic AI harness capable of powering a portfolio of humane, mission‑driven products; and (3) grow a sustainable, values‑led company advancing responsible AI engineering. Immediate priorities include scaling Cosmuna’s live experience, validating repeated engagement, collecting proof‑of‑change signals, and using these insights to refine the harness, acquisition strategy, and product roadmap. Zomni is seeking the resources and partnerships required to move from early launch to sustained growth while maintaining its commitment to responsible AI and measurable human benefit.
- EVENT SENTINEL AI — Event Sentinel AI is a technology company that provides AI-based monitoring and predictive analytics solutions for enterprise infrastructure. It focuses on detecting early warning signals in system and operational data to help prevent downtime and infrastructure failures. The platform supports real-time monitoring, risk identification, andperformance optimization to improve operational resilience and decision-making.
- Cloud Guardian — Next-generation, cyber-focused Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP) and autonomous threat intelligence engine combining managed IT, 24/7 SOC capabilities, and real-time AI incident intervention. Industries: Information Technology, Cybersecurity, Cloud Computing, Managed Services, Artificial Intelligence. Industry Groups: B2B Enterprise Software, IT Services & Consulting, Cyber Defense.
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
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.
Proparco is devoted to private sector funding in the sustainable development sector. Proparco participates in the financing and support of companies and financial institutions in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. Its action focuses on the key sectors of development: infrastructures with a focus on renewable energies, agro-industry, financial institutions, health, education ... Its interventions are aimed at strengthening the contribution of private actors the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted by the international community in 2015. Proparco finances companies whose activity contributes to the creation of jobs and decent incomes, the supply of essential goods and services, and the fight against climate change.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Energy, Finance
- Stage:Debt Financing, Private Equity, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Kenya, India, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 145
- Round size: Debt Financing $400k–$206M; Private Equity $10M–$60M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.9M–$72M
- Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow
Portfolio highlights
- BasiGo — BasiGo is an early-stage e-mobility start-up looking to revolutionize the public transportation sector by providing matatu owners with a cost-effective electric alternative to diesel buses.
- Ecoener — Ecoener is a renewable energy company that develops, builds, operates, and maintains electricity generation projects based on clean energy sources. The company works across hydropower, wind, and solar photovoltaic technologies, managing the full lifecycle of energy facilities from early development and engineering to construction and long-termoperation. It also engages in energy commercialization activities that support the sale and distribution of electricity generated from its assets. Ecoener handles project planning, permitting, environmental assessment, and technical design as part of its infrastructure development process. The company operates and expands renewable energy plants across multiple international markets while integrating maintenance and operational management services for its facilities. It also participates in storage-related and hybrid energy projects that combine different renewable technologies to support grid stability and energy supply efficiency.
- SOGUIPAL — SOGUIPAL is a prominent food processing company. The company is the primary agro-industrial subsidiary of the Comptoir Commercial Général group.
Khosla Impact's mission is to assist great entrepreneurs developing products and services for the three billion people at the bottom of the world’s economic pyramid. Khosla Impact assists high-impact entrepreneurs who open up markets, increase productivity, and improve standards of living for the bottom half of the world economy. We invest in world-class entrepreneurs who are passionate about solving challenging, often intractable socio-economic problems through careful application of science, technology, and design or through creative business models. We believe in experimentation and encourage this approach among our entrepreneurs. We evaluate a wide range of opportunities but are primarily focused on for-profit enterprises serving people at the bottom half of the world’s economic pyramid: low-income laborers, farmers and families, as well as small businesses in emerging markets. Given our experience, South Asia is our initial, but not exclusive, geography of focus. We welcome entrepreneurs and business plans from all countries and regions.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: India, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 26
- Round size: Series A $1.9M–$9.2M; Venture - Series Unknown $2.4M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $30M in 2012
Portfolio highlights
- iMerit — iMerit's end-to-end data labeling solutions combined with Ango Hub data annotation tool is a best-in-class platform to scale your AI and machine learning data pipelines.
- Neogrowth — Best loan offer for your small business. Apply for Collateral Free Business Loan online & get instant loan disbursal. For more details call us at 18004195565.
- Smile ID — At Smile Identity they believe anyone should be able to prove their identity easily, anywhere in the world. Their team is made up of American and African engineers and financial services professionals with experience across global markets in highly regulated environments. They have built encryption, authentication and security solutions. They havedeveloped image processing technology from the chip level up. They have been part of security investigations and have pursued fraudsters.Having worked with, or for, telecoms, lenders, banks and startups, they know the challenges of building world class technology and they understand the needs of the African consumer and enterprise customer. They are backed by leading Silicon Valley & African investors and they have pan-African reach, with representation in the United States, South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana and Rwanda.
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, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 30
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$3.7M; Pre-Seed $700k–$2.1M; Series A $4M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% 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.
Microsoft manufactures personal computers and accessories under the Surface line, alongside engineering the Windows operating system family for computing devices. Its product architecture incorporates the Microsoft 365 cloud productivity suite, which packages digital tools for database administration, internal communications, and electronic mailing. For corporate infrastructure, the organization supplies cloud computing capabilities via Microsoft Azure, enterprise optimization software through Dynamics 365, and cybersecurity automation applications. The firm also oversees the Xbox video gaming brand, managing subscription services, hardware consoles, and digital entertainment storefronts.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Grant, Non-Equity Assistance, Seed
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 314
- Round size: Seed $5k–$4M; Grant $25k–$2.5M; Non-Equity Assistance $5k–$18M
- Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $1B in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Meta — Meta is a social-technology company that offers a wide ecosystem of applications and hardware. Its Family of Apps includes platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp, and Threads, which allow people to communicate, share content, and form communities. On the hardware side, Meta’s Reality Labs develops virtual and augmented reality devices, including Meta Quest headsets and smart glasses. Meta also builds artificial intelligence tools, notably Meta AI, powered by its Llama large language models, and envisions long-term digital spaces in the form of a metaverse.
- GuidenAI — GuidenAI Inc. makes Genpio, an AI livestream platform, and Broxi AI, custom AI agents built and run for you. Offices in San Francisco and Ho Chi Minh City.
- NotchPixel — NotchPixel brings a dynamic island to Windows. It sits at the top of the screen as a small black pill and grows when something happens: the song that's playing, a volume or brightness change, a call timer with a one-click mic mute, a download finishing, or a notification you can open with a click. Open it and you get a set of panels you choose yourself. There's a widgets board with the date, calendar, timer, weather and system stats, a clipboard history, a file shelf that can send files to your phone over Wi-Fi, a screen recorder that captures your voice too, and a small browser drawer that stays on top of games without pulling you out of them. Streamers can show their Twitch or YouTube chat in an overlay. Everything runs on your own PC. There's no account, no ads and no tracking, and recordings and clipboard text never leave the machine. It also has full accessibility settings: larger text, higher contrast and reduced motion. NotchPixel launched on the Microsoft Store in September 2026 and is built by an independent developer.
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, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United States, India, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 98
- Round size: Seed $50k–$2.5M; Venture - Series Unknown $50k–$1.6M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $294k in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Vexi — Vexi issues, operates, and processes credit cards for the young underbanked population on a mission to make credit accessible, through a 100% digital onboarding and unparalleled customer experience.
- SatSure — SatSure, they are on a mission to evolve crop insurance products and provide accurate risk assessment of crop yield by integrating climatic variables with geospatial and economic datasets.
- 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.
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
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Tuma — Turn any Android phone into a contactless payment terminal. Built for Africa's merchants and operators.
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, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Egypt, Jordan, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Round size: Series A $4M–$13M; Venture - Series Unknown $5M–$17M
- Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $15M in 2017
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
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, Finance
- Stage:Grant, Venture - Series Unknown, Seed
- Geography: Kenya, Ethiopia, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 23
- Round size: Seed $4M–$6M; Grant $10k–$134k; Venture - Series Unknown $4.5M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 78% lead, 22% 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 — Dhamana provides guarantees that unlock local currency financing, mobilise domestic capital and support sustainable growth across East Africa.
- Africa Renewables Katalyst — Helping African renewable energy projects monetize their clean power through international certification.
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