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Top 50 Payments VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Nigeria in May 2025

A list of 50 VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Payments startups based in Nigeria. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Payments companies from Nigeria. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Payments VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Nigeria in May 2025

Investor Payments Nigeria investments
Ventures Platform 8
Golden Palm Investments 6
Lateral Frontiers 5
Microtraction 5
GreenHouse Capital 4
Ingressive Capital 4
LoftyInc Capital 4
Tencent 4
Musha Ventures 4
Flori Ventures 3
Kepple Africa Ventures 3
Entrée Capital 3
Voltron Capital 3
Berrywood Capital 3
VentureSouq 3
The Chrysalis Capital 2
Greenhouse Capital Partners 2
Unpopular Ventures 2
CRE Venture Capital 2
Cadenza Ventures 2
Flourish Ventures 2
Digital Currency Group 2
TLcom Capital Partners 2
RaliCap 2
TRANSSION 2
Nordea 2
MediaTek 2
VilCap Investments 2
Blockwall 1
CrossFund 1
Yolo Investments 1
Ground Squirrel Ventures 1
Seas Capital 1
True Capital Management 1
Century Oak Capital 1
Endeavor Catalyst 1
Heirloom 1
Blackwell Capital Group 1
Launch Africa 1
Seedcamp 1
Dunbar Capital 1
Yunshi Capital 1
African Capital Alliance 1
Lightning Ventures 1
Orbit Startups 1
White Hibiscus Capital 1
Thrive Africa 1
Accion Venture Lab 1
Adlevo Capital 1
AWS FinTech Africa Accelerator 1
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Ventures Platform VC Fund · Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria · 2 investments in the past 12 months
We back founders building the future of Africa. We invest in companies that solve for non-consumption, plug infrastructural gaps and democratise prosperity in Africa, by eliminating the barriers for access and reducing the costs of delivering goods and services.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Internet
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • Nigeria, United States, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
  • Raenest — Access Virtual Accounts, Invoicing, Multi-Currency Payouts, Auto Payroll, Accounting Integrations, and Virtual & Physical cards within minutes.
  • Maad — Maad is Francophone Africa's fastest-growing B2B marketplace, based in Dakar, Senegal. Our tech-driven solution allows retailers to order products from our one-stop shop and benefit from working capital loans
  • Juicyway — Juice is a developer of a payment network platform for cross-border business payments for businesses and individuals. It facilitates financial transactions between parties regardless of location to allow enterprises to participate in international trade and the exchange of goods and services.
Golden Palm Investments VC Fund · Accra, Greater Accra, Ghana
Golden Palm Investments is an investment holding and advisory company.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, FinTech, Logistics
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Nigeria, Egypt, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
  • Sabipay — Pastel supports African businesses by offering tools that help manage their businesses and maximize efficiency.
  • Maplerad — Maplerad is a fast, safe and easy way to send and receive money with friends, family or others you trust. You can receive and send money directly into any Nigerian bank account in minutes using Bitcoin, US Dollars, and Naira.
  • Jetstream Africa — Jetstream monitors inventory and goods-in-transit for trade creditors and banks.
Lateral Frontiers VC Fund · New York, New York, United States
Lateral Capital is a mission driven venture fund investing in early and growth stage opportunities in Africa. We back companies that provide foundational technologies for the continent. We make debt and equity investments technology-enabled businesses that profitably solve significant pain points across financial services, healthcare, education,energy, agriculture, housing, logistics, mobility and more.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Nigeria, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
  • CNote — CNote makes impact investing easy for corporations, foundations, and individuals. Align your financial goals with your values and drive change in communities.
  • Rhaeos — Rhaeos, the world's first wearable shunt monitor, aims to improve the quality care for patients with hydrocephalus through a novel, thermal biosensor. Developed within Northwestern University with collaboration between Dr. John Rogers, McCormick School of Engineering, Feinberg School of Medicine and Kellogg School of Management, Rhaeosrepresents a unique multidisciplinary translational effort for an important clinical need.
  • Wattnow — Wattnow is a real-time monitoring solution that provides a breakdown of energy spending to identify wasteful trends.
Microtraction VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 3 investments in the past 12 months
We invest in Africa's most remarkable teams with technical founders at the earliest stage of their venture
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Software
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
  • Nigeria, United States, Ghana
Portfolio highlights
  • Juicyway — Juice is a developer of a payment network platform for cross-border business payments for businesses and individuals. It facilitates financial transactions between parties regardless of location to allow enterprises to participate in international trade and the exchange of goods and services.
  • Intron Health — Intron provides clinical speech recognition for 200+ accents spoken in developing countries starting with Africa, reducing documentation time by 6x so doctors can spend more time with patients
  • PBR Life Sciences — A cloud-based real-world, non-observational pharmacy sell-out data
GreenHouse Capital VC Fund · Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria
GreenHouse Capital’s Founding Partners took their own fintech company Venture Garden Group (VGG) from a 7 employee, ₦30 million revenue startup to a 200 employees, ₦2 billion power house in just 4 years and raised an attention grabbing Series A round from Convergence Partners of South Africa. The uniqueness of their position was not lost on thefounders who then cultivated Garden Institute of Business Entrepreneurs (GIBE) to identify, incubate, and invest in young and innovative tech startups solving global challenges in Emerging Markets. GIBE was created to build a world class talent management hub for young and passionate entrepreneurs while creating a pool of technology inclined businesses and innovation oriented leaders.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • Nigeria, Kenya, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Credpal — Buy now, pay later. Split in 6.
  • Encore Pay — Encore Pay is a UAE-based FinTech and Payment solutions provider.
  • MarketForce — MarketForce connects Africa’s informal retail outlets and consumers directly to suppliers of consumer goods and financial services by digitizing orders, delivery, and payments with the aim of solving the last mile distribution challenge.
Ingressive Capital VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
Ingressive Capital they provide services in business development, partnerships, and financial support.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Nigeria, United States, Ghana
Portfolio highlights
  • MNZL — MNZL is on a mission to expand access to capital for Egyptians.Every person who owns an asset has accumulated wealth in it. When they want liquidity for their projects and needs, they should be able to tap into it as easily as withdrawing from a bank.With an innovative digital platform and products, we are working on making digital access tocapital a reality, and building the future of asset-backed financing in Africa.
  • Gwala — Gwala is a benefits platform that aims to improve the financial health and well-being of African employees. Gwala offers financial products that help employees make better decisions, reduce financial stress, and stay on track with their finances.
  • Startbutton — Startbutton provides your business with the right connections to streamline payment processes and collections in various countries in Africa, eliminating bothersome overheads on local regulations so you can focus on increasing productivity and potential.
LoftyInc Capital VC Fund · Carmel, California, United States
LoftyInc Capital Management empowers Afropreneurs to build a prosperous and equitable future in Africa. We deliver value to both founders and investors.........
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Nigeria, United States, Egypt
Portfolio highlights
  • Mtor — Mtor is an online marketplace that is reshaping the automotive aftermarket and provides sophisticated technology solutions.
  • EMTECH — EMTECH provides solutions for Digital Currency regulatory compliance, development and management to help Central Banks and FinTechs build, run and manage modern financial systems.
  • Terragon Group — Terragon is a leading Data and Marketing Technology company that uses data and analytics to help companies focused in Africa, intelligently connect at scale to their customers. We use an aggregation of online and offline data, and predictive scoring to help brands, marketing agencies and platforms accurately target people across channels anddevices. Headquartered in Lagos; Nigeria, we also have a presence in Kenya, South Africa, Ghana and India.
Tencent VC Fund · Shenzhen, Guangdong, China · 29 investments in the past 12 months
Tencent is an internet service portal offering value-added internet, mobile, telecom, and online advertising services. Its communications and social platforms Weixin and QQ connect users with each other, with digital content and daily life services in just a few clicks. Tencent has maintained steady growth under its user-oriented operatingstrategies. It provides value-added internet, mobile, and telecom services, as well as online advertising under the strategic goal of providing users with "one-stop online lifestyle services." Tencent’s Internet platforms in China – QQ (QQ Instant Messenger), WeChat, QQ.com, QQ Games, Qzone, 3g.QQ.com, SoSo, PaiPai, and Tenpay – aim to address the various needs of internet users, including communication, information, entertainment, e-commerce, and others.In September 2013, Tencent's market valuation rose to $101 billion, and as of November 21, 2013, QQ had 2 billion active users and WeChat had 650 million monthly active users. The numbers of active users for QQ mail, Qzone, Tencent Weibo, and QQ news were 274 million, 626 million, 220 million, and 150 million, respectively.Tencent was founded in November of 1998. In April 2000, the IDG and PCCW invested a total of $2.2 million dollars in the company. Tencent was listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (SEHK) on June 16, 2004. Baidu, Alibaba, and Netease are Tencent's major competitors.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce
  • Series B, Series A, Series C
  • China, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Utaite — Utaite is an operator of an entertainment platform that focuses on planning, production, and development of entertainment content.
  • Manus AI — Manus is a general AI agent that turns your thoughts into actions. It excels at various tasks in work and life, getting everything done while you rest.
  • OnlinePajak — Kelola Pajak Online dengan Hitung, Setor & Lapor secara terintegrasi dalam 1 Aplikasi Pajak Online kami. Praktis & gratis Selamanya, Coba Sekarang!
Musha Ventures VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Seed capital for technology startups globally.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, Software, FinTech
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, Nigeria, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
  • Regfyl — Powered by AI, Regfyl is the all-in-one fraud and compliance platform for financial institutions and fintechs. Regfyl allows these businesses to reduce costs and focus on higher value activities.
  • Sukhiba — Sukhiba is a decentralized community-based commerce platform.
  • Orca Fraud — Orca empowers fraud fighters with effective tools to combat fraud
Flori Ventures VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States
More than a seed-stage fund and a portfolio of startups: Our community of founders taps into the power of financial innovation to collaborate around global problems and unlock prosperity for all.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, FinTech, Cryptocurrency
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • United States, United Kingdom, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Mento Labs — Mento Labs is a decentralized EVM platform for launching and managing multi-currency stable assets.
  • Learn.xyz — Learn.xyz’s is a mixture of Duolingo and Wikipedia, powered by AI, creating bite-sized “Curiosities” which feature slides and a quiz, in mere seconds just from taking in a user’s question. Find the app on iOS and Android.
  • Thrive Protocol — Thrive Protocol's vision is to maximize value creation for all people and communities.
Kepple Africa Ventures VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Kepple Africa Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt
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.
  • Carry1st — Carry1st develops and publishes enriching mobile games and content apps for African consumers.
Entrée Capital VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 18 investments in the past 12 months
We're a team of former serial founders managing over $1.25B across a number of funds, with offices in Tel Aviv, London, and New York.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Israel, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Cynomi — Cynomi addresses a critical gap in mid-market cyber protection - creating and executing a cyber and compliance strategy .
  • Classiq Technologies — A software platform that helps users create scalable complex quantum computer algorithms, software, and circuits for any gate-based quantum computer
  • Blue Onion Labs — Accounting at the Speed of Ecommerce. Blue Onion provides the financial data foundation so you can do your most meaningful work.
Voltron Capital VC Fund
On a mission to back the most extraorordinary entreprenuers out of Africa solving important problems in large markets.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
  • Nigeria, United States, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
  • Lengo — Lengo is an AI based intelligence platform that offers a large database on consumer goods for companies in the FMCG sector.
  • Bujeti — Number #1 Spend management in Nigeria. Discover an all-in-one finance solution that helps businesses manage expenses, budget, issue corporate cards, invoice clients, reimburse employees, and more. Book a free demo!
  • Maad — Maad is Francophone Africa's fastest-growing B2B marketplace, based in Dakar, Senegal. Our tech-driven solution allows retailers to order products from our one-stop shop and benefit from working capital loans
Berrywood Capital VC Fund
Berrywood Capital is an investment firm.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Nigeria, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Sudo — Sudo is an open API platform that enables businesses to embed powerful financial features into their products. Build in minutes, launch in days.
  • Flex Finance — Flex Finance is a simple, accessible mobile platform that allows SMEs manage and track their expenses, with little-to-no financial knowledge required. Using our inbuilt AI, business owners also receive insights that help them stop waste, save money and make smarter spending decisions. Flex is committed to enabling more SMEs make it past their thirdbirthday, so they can continue to provide the income and jobs that sustain the vast majority of Nigerians.
  • Bridgecard — Issue physical or virtual cards that carry a MasterCard or Visa logo to your users with our card issuing APIs. Get started in a week.
VentureSouq VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 8 investments in the past 12 months
VentureSouq (VSQ) is a MENA-based venture capital fund manager with a global portfolio. VSQ manages thematic funds, with a current focus on FinTech and ClimateTech.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia
Portfolio highlights
  • Erad — erad provides growth capital to online businesses. Connect your analytics and receive funding offers, for non-dilutive capital within 48 hours
  • Mala Inc. — This is meta description
  • SILQ — SILQ is a platform dedicated to bridging economies and empowering businesses to trade, grow, and navigate new frontiers. By enabling seamless commerce, logistics, and finance, SILQ unlocks opportunities in emerging economies, fueling ambitions and redefining global trade.The name SILQ is a modern tribute to the legendary Silk Road—reimagined forthe digital age. The distinctive “Q” comes from Souq, the Arabic word for marketplace, symbolizing our commitment to fast, accessible, authentic, and reliable commerce.SILQ aspires to transform local products and manufacturers into global brands by connecting them with entrepreneurs in emerging markets across the Gulf, South Asia, and beyond.
The Chrysalis Capital VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
The Chrysalis Capital is a venture capital firm focuses on early-stage tech companies.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Bitcoin
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Nigeria, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Bankly — Bankly is a digital savings and peer to peer transfer product where users fund their wallet using tokens available on Bankly vouchers nationwide in a “Recharge to save” model. This cash digitisation system is similar to the telco mobile airtime top up and is currently available on MTN and 9mobile networks in Nigeria.Financial services has to beseen through the lenses of a fast moving consumer product in order to reach the last mile and the use of vouchers has been proven to be a successful cash digitisation system by the telecoms industry. Leveraging this existing consumer behaviour to drive financial inclusion, reduce cost of financial services and create a foundation to provide other financial services is where Bankly identifies huge potential and is poised to make an impact.
  • 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.
  • Bitmama — Bitmama is the best cryptocurrency trading platform that lets you buy, sell Bitcoin, ETH, Celo, USDT, XRP, and more. Available in Nigeria & over 100 countries.
Greenhouse Capital Partners VC Fund · Sausalito, California, United States
Greenhouse Capital Partners invests in B2B technology solutions that improve resource efficiency, drive climate change resiliency and unlock new value streams across legacy industrial supply chains and infrastructure.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Financial Services, Manufacturing
  • Series B, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Nigeria, Mauritius
Portfolio highlights
  • Fido Tech — FIDO AI provides innovative water leak detection and management solutions using cutting-edge technology to drive sustainability and efficiency in water systems.
  • Bitmama — Bitmama is the best cryptocurrency trading platform that lets you buy, sell Bitcoin, ETH, Celo, USDT, XRP, and more. Available in Nigeria & over 100 countries.
  • Impact Laboratories — Impact Laboratories collaborates with labs in the commercial, biotech, pharmaceutical, and academic sectors.
Unpopular Ventures VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 10 investments in the past 12 months
The best companies, off the beaten path.
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Investment focus
  • Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, India, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
  • WiseLayer — WiseLayer's AI empowers finance teams to improve profitability & efficiency in minutes per week
  • Acre — Fundamentally redesigning homeownership
  • Wise Layer — WiseLayer makes AI-powered digital workers for finance and accounting teams.It's AI digital workforce includes: - Angela, the AI agent for Accruals & Rev Rec (hire her at www.accruals.ai) - Dennis, the AI agent for Discrepancies & Financial Anomalies (hire him at www.discrepancies.ai) - … with the 4 newest AI agents eachspecializingin the following tasks: (1) bank reconciliations, (2) fixed asset depreciation & amortization, (3) lease accounting, and (4) prepaid expenses.
CRE Venture Capital VC Fund · New York, New York, United States
Founded in 2015, CRE Venture Capital invests in early stage tech companies that are levered to Africa. CRE is headquartered in the New York metro area, with a regional office in Lagos, Nigeria.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • South Africa, Nigeria, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Sabi Am — Sabi is Africa's largest B2B company, & we are digitising informal trade via our platform. We access markets hard to reach and ensure ease of distribution, & are the No 1 FCMG supplier in Africa.
  • Sukhiba — Sukhiba is a decentralized community-based commerce platform.
  • Stitch — One API integration for enterprise online payments across South Africa. Accept Pay by bank, debit + credit card, cash, manual EFT, debit order and crypto.
Cadenza Ventures VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Global Investors in Transformative Technologies
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Investment focus
  • Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Financial Services
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • United States, Nigeria, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Hata — Hata is a regulated platform where businesses & consumers can transact and access cryptocurrencies with fiat currency such as the US Dollar & Malaysia Ringgit. Our vision is to enable safe & effortless access to cryptocurrency for all. We're committed to achieve that by providing a reliable platform for all to accesscryptocurrency easily, through our commitment to customers and compliance with regulations. Hata is regulated by the Securities Commission of Malaysia as a Recognised Market Operator (Digital Asset Exchange & Digital Broker) , and the Labuan Financial Services Authority (Malaysia) as a Licensed Money Broker & Payment System Operator. Learn more at : https://hata.io
  • Roxom — Roxom is the first Bitcoin Stock, Commodities and Crypto Exchange in human history.
  • Ribbon — Transform your hiring process with our Voice AI Recruiter. Automate candidate screening, conduct AI interviews, and easily find top talent for high volume hiring - with human-sounding AI that delivers instant insights and flexible scheduling. See our recruitment case studies.
Flourish Ventures VC Fund · Redwood City, California, United States · 9 investments in the past 12 months
We are an early-stage global venture capital firm investing in fintech founders.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • United States, India, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
  • minu — In minu, we are revolutionizing the financial health of Mexican employees, offering them access to their already worked salary when they need it, instead of having to wait for payroll. We work with HR areas of companies that offer the provision of minu to improve satisfaction, retention, and attraction of talent. minu is supported by FinTech'sleading institutional investors globally, including QED.
  • MoneyHash — MoneyHash provides access to payment and fintech services across the Middle East & Africa with one simple integration.
  • Morada Uno — Morada Uno underwrites and insures house rentals by equipping real estate professionals with tools and technology. The company aims to simplify and create trust and security in real estate transactions, promoting fairness in every interaction, and promoting a positive change in the mentality and way of doing things in Mexico.
Digital Currency Group VC Fund · Stamford, Connecticut, United States · 13 investments in the past 12 months
We are the capital engine supporting emerging talent & crypto technology. On its mission to accelerate the development of a better financial system.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, United Kingdom, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Stakpak — Stakpak is a DevOps IDE powered by AI, helps software developers build and maintain production-ready infrastructure.
  • Cinch Tech — Cinch Tech is a subscription service that offers technology products like computers, phones, tablets, and gaming equipment. Users can choose from different payment plans. The service includes damage cover for the devices. It is intended to help users access and maintain technology without paying full price upfront. The service provides analternative way to obtain and use tech devices.
  • Slingshot DAO — Bet on the next billion dollar games! Slingshot is the AI Roblox Game Launcher, powered by the $SLING Token and home to Game Factory.
TLcom Capital Partners VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in the past 12 months
TLcom Capital, is an Africa focused tech VC, with offices in Lagos, Nairobi and London. TLcom had been investing since 1999 in Tech, Media, Mobil and Internet companies across Europe, US and Africa, which is the exclusive focus of its most recent TLcom TIDE Africa funds. TLcom manages total commitments of approximately 300 million USD in thesesectors via a series of dedicated investment vehicles. Our investment strategy is to identify, back and assist world class entrepreneurs and management teams with disruptive technologies and business models, compelling intellectual property and deep market knowledge. We primarily target companies focused on Africa as a prime market, in the following investment themes: Access to Data Service; Financial Services; eCommerce; B2C applications (including but not limited to: health, education, energy, media and entertainment); and Software solutions to corporates and SMEs.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Mobile, Information Technology
  • Series A, Funding Round, Seed
  • Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
  • Educatly — We help you get into the University of your dreams. We are the only platform with all the information you need to Study Abroad
  • littlefishapp — Littlefish is a comprehensive commerce platform that empowers banks to serve small business with tools to streamline operations, drive growth, and enhance customer engagement.
RaliCap VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 5 investments in the past 12 months
Rally Cap is a global community of tech folks investing in an exclusive portfolio of top-tier early stage venture funds in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Mexico, Nigeria, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Divibank — Divibank is a financing platform offering businesses access to growth capital.
  • Akua — Akua is an acquiring-as-a-service platform that offers scalable, secure, and efficient payment processing solutions for Latin America. Our platform leverages advanced technology to provide superior transaction processing, fraud prevention, and comprehensive regional integration. Problem Latin America's acquiring card payment markets aredominated by a few incumbents using outdated systems, hindering the adoption of new payment technologies and increasing fraud risks.
  • Stay — Stay is a long-term incentive platform. We are working to decomplicate the task of investing in the future: both for companies and for their collaborators.
TRANSSION VC Fund · Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
TRANSSION HOLDINGS, the company formerly known as TECNO TELECOM LIMITED, established in July 2006, is a high-tech company specializing in the R&D, production, sale and service of mobile communication products. After years of development, TRANSSION has become an important part of the mobile phone industry and one of the major mobile phonemanufacturers in the world. Currently, it has full ownership of three famous mobile phone brands TECNO, itel and Infinix, and an after-sales service brand Carlcare.The company has set up offices in many countries and regions, such as Dubai, Nigeria, Kenya, Tanzania, Cameroon and Bengal, and even has built a factory in Ethiopia, which has provided great support for all its brands.
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Investment focus
  • Apps, FinTech, Payments
  • Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • China, Uganda, Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
  • PalmPay — An intuitive digital wallet with account opening, money transfer and bill payments in one. Earn as you spend.
  • Safeboda — At the click of a button, SafeBoda provides a safe, more convenient, mobile-first alternative to urban transportation for Africa’s booming young population. They are working to improve the industry for both drivers and passengers by increasing the number of safe trips taken per day and by making travel around cities convenient andstress-free.Founded in the heart of Kampala Uganda, they are truly an African business, designed for the African context.
  • Ganfeng lithium battery — Ganfeng Lithium Battery is a research and development manufacturer of lithium-ion power batteries.
Nordea VC Fund · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
Nordea Bank is Denmark's second-largest bank and counts every fourth Dane among its customers. Through their nationwide network of some 340 branch offices and a broad range of self-service facilities, they are able to offer you a full scale of financial products and services, including Netbank, Online Investment, telephone banking and cashdispensers.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Financial Services, Banking
  • Funding Round, Debt Financing, Seed
  • Finland, Sweden, Norway
Portfolio highlights
  • Tibber — Tibber is a digital electricity supplier that offers smart solutions to minimize their customers’ consumption and costs. Its vision is to make sustainable energy consumption simple and affordable for all households. Tibber's mission is to reduce the residential electricity consumption for European households by 20 %. Founded in Norway andSweden in 2016, the company has expanded its offer to Sweden and Germany where it powers hundreds of thousands of homes. Tibber replaces traditional utilities with smart technology, supplying its customers with renewable energy at fair and transparent prices. In addition, its app provides real-time analytics into energy usage, and pairs with a variety of smart home devices to reduce electricity consumption at home. The company sells tech-gadgets in their online store and recently was licensed to balance the main power grid in Sweden with EVs.
  • Statzon — Make data-driven plans & faster decisions with a simple access to +1M datasets & market reports about 8,000 topics from +200 trusted data providers.
  • Get It Done Now — GIDN is a Nigerian Fintech Company targeting medium and low income population for Loans and Financial products. GIDN has in addition a cashless, mobile based community marketplace, with more than 5k members, and aims to regulate the informal economy and facilitate the purchase of Services and Digital Products.
MediaTek VC Fund · Hsinchu, T'ai-wan, Taiwan · 2 investments in the past 12 months
MediaTek is another name for incredible innovation that powers the brands you love. From smartphones to smart homes, we are always by your side.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Hardware
  • Series A, Series B, Series D
  • China, Taiwan, Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • Rivos — Rivos is a high-performance RISC-V system startup targeting integrated system solutions for enterprises.
  • Path Robotics — We create manufacturing robots that autonomously scan, position, and weld your parts without the need for skilled welders or robot programmers.
  • InfiniLink — Empowering Hyperscale Datacenters Building Energy-Efficient Ultra-High-Speed Connectivity Solutions
VilCap Investments VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States
VilCap Investments is an early-stage impact investing fund, backing companies addressing the most pressing social and environmental challenges.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, Health Care, FinTech
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • United States, India, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
  • Vexi — Vexi issues, operates and processes credit cards for 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.
Blockwall VC Fund · Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Thesis-driven, industry-focused and independent blockchain investment firm funding the development of Web 3.0 and decentralized technologies from the heart of Europe, Frankfurt - Germany
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Software, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • United States, France, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
  • Rainmaker Games — The free global platform to play hundreds of play-to-earn games - connecting gamers, games, and guilds worldwide.
  • Collectibles.com — Collectibles.com is a Web3 community and marketplace for collectors and the worldwide collectibles sector.
  • Validation Cloud — Validation Cloud is a Web3 data streaming and infrastructure company that connects organizations into Web3 through a fast, scalable, and intelligent platform. Headquartered in Zug, Switzerland, Validation Cloud offers highly performant and customizable products in staking, node, and data-as-a-service. Its team brings extensive experience acrossWeb2 and Web3 from the likes of Coinbase, Kraken, Workday, Accenture, Crypto.com, Voyager, and more. Learn more at Validationcloud.io
CrossFund VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
For Angels, By Angels
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Payments, B2B
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Nigeria, Vietnam, Australia
Portfolio highlights
  • Hello Clever — Hello Clever is a global fintech platform revolutionising real-time payments with embedded loyalty, driving engagement and impactful connections for businesses and consumers alike.
  • Hello Clever — Hello Clever is a global fintech platform revolutionising real-time payments with embedded loyalty, driving engagement and impactful connections for businesses and consumers alike.
  • Sehat Kahani — Book online video appointments with the best Doctors and Specialists, such as Skin Specialists, General Physician, Child Specialists, etc in Pakistan.
Yolo Investments VC Fund · Tallin, Harjumaa, Estonia · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Yolo Investments is focusing on late seed & series A stage investments in igaming, fintech and crypto.
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Investment focus
  • Cryptocurrency, FinTech, Sports
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Australia, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
  • Dfns — Supercharge your platform with keyless custody as a service. One API to generate secure wallets, manage your crypto, sign transactions, set up business rules, monitor security, and more.
  • Bitblox Games — Offer innovative and engaging blockchain-based games on your platform and attract a new wave of players with Bitblox.
  • Mesh — Mesh enables safer, easier crypto transfers and payments from 300+ leading exchanges and wallets, all without leaving your platform
Ground Squirrel Ventures VC Fund · Boston, Massachusetts, United States · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Seed round investment in frontier markets and clean energy
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • United States, Kenya, Zambia
Portfolio highlights
  • Grapevine — Grapevine makes it possible for groups to invite members, collect and distribute donations, establish a community and connect with nonprofits.
  • MindMics — Discover MindMics. The world's most accurate personal heart health monitor and well-being platform. Look after your heart health to live longer and better.
  • Untapped Global — Untapped connects global investors, and foreign capital to opportunities in emerging markets. Delivering competitive returns, and measurable impact for global investors.
Seas Capital VC Fund · Zhuhai, Guangdong, China · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Founded in 2019, Seas Capital is a thematic venture capital focusing on structural innovation opportunities. Based on three investment themes including Globalization, Sustainable Development and Interdisciplinary Application, we aim to gain unique insights through in-depth research, and seek long-term value of our time.
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Investment focus
  • Manufacturing, Enterprise, Information Technology
  • Series A, Seed, Angel
  • China, Nigeria, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
  • MetaLenX — MetaLenX is a technology-based enterprise focusing on the design, manufacture and application of superlenses.
  • Wire Control Technology — Wire Control Technology is a wire-controlled robot developer committed to the industrial application of wire-controlled robot products as well as their research and development.
  • Qingwei Rufeng Technology — Qingwei Rufeng Technology is an autonomous vehicle company that offers solutions for unmanned and digitalized airport logistics transportation.
True Capital Management VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States
Achieve your financial goals & build generational wealth with our entertainer & athlete wealth management services. Offering comprehensive financial planning.
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Investment focus
  • Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Series C
  • United States, Nigeria, Peru
Portfolio highlights
  • Pivo — Pivo is an all-in-one financial services platform for businesses in the supply chain. Set up accounts, access credit and manage your finances in one simple application.
  • Remedial Health — We improve business to business access to medicines by providing such medicines from manufactures/registered distributors direct to large and small healthcare retail businesses (large pharmacies and remote chemist/PPMVs (Patent and Proprietary Medicine Vendors)) using technology to deliver just-in-time stock and provide financing and awide selection of inventory to such retail business.
  • Kapital — Kapital empowers SMBs with a tech-banking platform giving visibility and control of their treasury, and their employees
Century Oak Capital VC Fund · Vaduz, Vaduz, Liechtenstein
Century Oak Capital GmbH is a venture capital firm specializing in early-stage investments in Europe and Emerging Markets.
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Investment focus
  • Retail, E-Commerce, Software
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Pakistan, Kenya, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Unbox — Unbox is the branded commerce operating system for SMEs helping them to sell online and increase their sales. We provide a ready to sell platform that allows entrepreneurs to digitize their business in less than 5 minutes - fully integrated with social commerce channels and our payment and shipping solutions, helping SMEs to save costs andcentralizing sales into a single platform.
  • SnappRetail — SnappRetail aims to create the largest virtual retail franchise across Pakistan, through deployment of its POS hardware/software, focusing on:1. Traditional trade Analytics for brands and retailers 2. Order Aggregation for manufacturers and distributors 3. Payment Solution for customers 4. Fintech enablement for small merchantsTheSnappRetail POS application has been carefully curated keeping the retailer in mind, the application focuses on digitizing his shop operations and cash flow and creating a real-time tertiary sales data lake.
  • Dastgyr Technologies — Simplifying Global Trade
Endeavor Catalyst VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 17 investments in the past 12 months
Endeavor Catalyst is the rules-based, co-investment fund of Endeavor, set up to invest exclusively in Endeavor Entrepreneur-led companies and to sustain Endeavor’s long-term operations in a mission-aligned way. Launched in 2012, Endeavor Catalyst has ~$500M+ AUM across four funds and has made 260+ investments to date in 35+ different markets. TodayThe Endeavor Catalyst portfolio has 53 companies valued at $1B+. Investments include Globant (NYSE:GLOB), Rappi, and Creditas in Latin America; Yemeksepeti.com and Careem in MENA; and Bukalapak and Carro in Indonesia.
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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
  • Series B, Series A, Series C
  • United States, Brazil, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
  • Xocean — Using unmanned surface vessels (USVs), XOCEAN offers turnkey data collection services to Surveyors, Companies and Agencies.
  • Clip — Clip is changing card acceptance in Mexico, offering different models of portable card-reading hardware to accept all credit and debit cards as well as other solutions. More than a device to accept all cards, Clip is an ally focused on empowering Mexican businesses.
  • Harbor Lab — Designed to streamline the port cost management processes and optimize operational efficiency for cargo operations and husbandry services by leveraging technology and automation.
Heirloom VC Fund · Wilmington, Delaware, United States · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Heirloom specializes in niche alternatives to help investors diversify their portfolios. Their alternative funds and co-investment opportunities are uncorrelated to the market and traditional asset classes and are designed to enable investors to better de-risk their portfolios while also earning stable and strong returns. They also offer otherbespoke investment services to help investors strengthen their portfolios. They offer heirloom funds, co-investment pools, and bespoke services.
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Investment focus
  • Payments, Financial Services
  • Seed
  • Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
  • Waza — Waza is a web platform with APIs. It helps startups and emerging market businesses manage their cash flow issues, invoicing needs, and international payment requirements.
  • Faircraft — A sustainable, lab-grown alternative to animal leather.
Blackwell Capital Group VC Fund · Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
"Uncovering & Building Value"
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Mobile Apps, Mobile Payments
  • Seed, Series B
  • Nigeria, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Busha — Buy, Sell, Trade your BTC, ETH, USDT, Tron to NGN on Busha the simplest, safest, and most trusted platform to manage your cryptocurrency portfolio.
  • 24 Exchange — 24 Exchange renders multi-asset trading platform for professional quants and active traders.
Launch Africa VC Fund · Ebène, Plaines Wilhems, Mauritius · 7 investments in the past 12 months
Launch Africa is a fund with the primary objective of unlocking the capital constraints of Seed Stage tech startups.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
  • Bosso — Bosso projects and realizes automation and robotic solutions for the growth of your business.
  • Maad — Maad is Francophone Africa's fastest-growing B2B marketplace, based in Dakar, Senegal. Our tech-driven solution allows retailers to order products from our one-stop shop and benefit from working capital loans
  • Zuri — Zuri provides a variety of looks created by black women for black women. Zuri platform, brand, and finance solutions support Black women business owners' economic mobility.
Seedcamp VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 32 investments in the past 12 months
Seedcamp is Europe's seed fund, identifying and investing early in world-class founders attacking large, global markets and solving real problems using technology. The Seedcamp Nation includes over 400 startups building breakout businesses that change the way people live, interact and buy and includes publicly listed UiPath, Wise, and unicornsRevolut, Hopin, Sorare, Pleo, and wefox along with fast-growing businesses such as Grover, viz.ai and Ezra. Seedcamp fast-tracks a founder's vision and creates value through immediate access to smart capital, a lifelong community of support and a global network built upon more than a decade's experience backing exceptional talent.Seedcamp fast-tracks a founder's vision and creates value through immediate access to smart capital, a lifelong community of support, and a global network built upon more than a decade's experience backing exceptional talent.
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Investment focus
  • Software, FinTech, SaaS
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Sylvera — Sylvera Carbon offset ratings make offset quality and risks transparent. We make offsets auditable for offset sellers, intermediaries, buyers and investors.
  • Outverse — A community platform that's easier to use, better organised and designed for real interaction.
  • Dust — Dust is a platform for creating sophisticated processes based on large language models and semantic search.
Dunbar Capital VC Fund
Dunbar Capital is an investment firm.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Software, Financial Services
  • Seed
  • Nigeria, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Maplerad — Maplerad is a fast, safe and easy way to send and receive money with friends, family or others you trust. You can receive and send money directly into any Nigerian bank account in minutes using Bitcoin, US Dollars, and Naira.
  • Zuvy Technologies — Zuvy is a free invoice management software that enables your business to get cash today for unpaid invoices. Get started sending invoices via WhatsApp
Yunshi Capital VC Fund · Chengdu, Sichuan, China
Yunshi Capital is a private equity investment fund management organization.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Art, Health Care
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • China, Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
  • MetaLenX — MetaLenX is a technology-based enterprise focusing on the design, manufacture and application of superlenses.
  • Pinzhou Technology — Pinzhou Technology focuses on the manufacturing of ultra-high purity stainless steel pipe fittings and research and development.
  • 01 Life Science and Technology — Shenzhen is a high-tech firm dedicated to the application of human micro-ecological technology to develop solutions for a healthy life. It also offers solutions for clinical research and diagnosis and treatment of diseases. It was stablished in 2016 and is based in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China.
African Capital Alliance VC Fund · Grand Cayman, Midland, Cayman Islands
African Capital Alliance is a private equity firm specializing in growth capital, equity, equity-related investments, and buyout investments in small and medium sized companies. It also aims at investing in growth companies, as well as turnaround situations and regional cross-border expansion opportunities. The firm prefers to invest in oil andgas, media, healthcare, electric power supply, business services, power, infrastructure, logistics, energy sector, technology, telecommunications, manufacturing for export, financial services, internet retail, online services, publishing, outsourcing services sectors, FMCG, agriculture/agribusiness,
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Investment focus
  • Construction, Telecommunications, Financial Services
  • Private Equity, Funding Round
  • Nigeria, Mauritius, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • WIOCC — WIOCC is Africa's leading provider of comprehensive, integrated core digital infrastructure solutions and managed network services in Africa...
  • Food Concepts Plc — Food Concepts Pioneer Limited owns and operates bakeries which produce baked goods.
  • Accelerex Holdings — Accelerex Holdings specializes in the fields of financial services and investments.
Lightning Ventures VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 15 investments in the past 12 months
Lightning Ventures is an exclusively Bitcoin focused network of investors, operators, and developers, dedicated to supporting Lightning Network adoption worldwide
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Investment focus
  • Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, Canada, France
Portfolio highlights
  • Azteco — For every bit of life
  • OrdinalsBot — We make it easy to inscribe ordinals. Like, really easy.
  • Pnkfrg Studios — Pnkfrg Studios is a mobile gaming studio startup designing games for the Lightning Network on Bitcoin.
Orbit Startups VC Fund · Cork, Cork, Ireland · 27 investments in the past 12 months
Orbit Startups helps companies scaling breakthrough technologies across emerging and frontier markets to the regions with the most aggressive growth.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Information Technology, Software
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
  • India, Singapore, Pakistan
Portfolio highlights
  • TAPPI — TAPPI is the leading association for the worldwide pulp, paper, packaging, and converting industries and publisher of Paper360º.
  • esportsXO — esportsXO is a tournament discovery platform with largest pool of esports content creators and professional esports players. It owns several tournament IPs and country's largest, first of it's kind gaming house callee XOspace.
  • Tappi — Convert one-time customers into loyal ones by getting discovered, growing leads and building your business reputation.
White Hibiscus Capital VC Fund
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Investment focus
  • Lending, Payments, Risk Management
  • Seed
  • Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
  • Sycamore — Sycamore provides risk assessment, commercial lending, alternative analysis, real-time monitoring, ​payment, and asset financing services.
Thrive Africa VC Fund
​Thrive Africa is is an impact investment platform connecting global capital with impact opportunity
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin
  • Pre-Seed
  • Nigeria, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Stakefair — Stakefair is an ecosystem of blockchain, crypto and DeFi products.
  • Bitmama — Bitmama is the best cryptocurrency trading platform that lets you buy, sell Bitcoin, ETH, Celo, USDT, XRP, and more. Available in Nigeria & over 100 countries.
Accion Venture Lab VC Fund · Washington, District of Columbia, United States · 9 investments in the past 12 months
Accion Venture Lab is a leading early-stage investor in inclusive fintech, providing seed-first capital and strategic support to innovative startups that are meeting the financial needs of underserved people globally. Our global portfolio and local approach enable us to spot and respond to global trends faster, sharing learnings across geographies. Accion Venture Lab is an investment strategy of Accion and is managed by Accion Impact Management.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • India, United States, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
  • Semaai — Full-stack agri-tech solution for Indonesian farmers
  • AquaExchange — AquaExchange is a technology platform for shrimp and fish farmers.
  • Cashinvoice — Cashinvoice connects supply chain stakeholders and digitises invoice-to-cash processes to unlock working capital trapped within supply chains and accelerate business growth
Adlevo Capital VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
Adlevo Capital is a private equity firm that finances technology-enabled companies across sub-Saharan Africa. It develops market intelligence through a local presence and an understanding of the dynamics of the local market. Adlevo Capital maintains active local presence via its base in Lagos, Nigeria. It was founded by Yemi Lalude in 2009.
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Investment focus
  • Mobile, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Series A, Series B, Funding Round
  • Ghana, Nigeria, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Paga — Paga is a mobile payment company. We are building an ecosystem to enable people to digitally send and receive money, and creating simple financial access for everyone. Our mission is to make it simple for one billion people to access and use money. Our first market is Nigeria where Paga is the leading mobile payment company.
  • Interswitch — Interswitch is an Africa-focused integrated digital payments and commerce company that facilitates the electronic circulation of money as well as the exchange of value between individuals and organisations on a timely and consistent basis. The company started operations in 2002 as a transaction switching and electronic payments processingcompany that builds and manages payment infrastructure as well as deliver innovative payment products and transactional services throughout the African continent.
  • Rancard — Developer of Rendezvous social recommendations engine for online retail and places with an AI-powered Messenger bot. Rancard Inc., DE & CA (incorporated October 2016) is a startup subsidiary of Rancard Holdings, focused on Rendezvous, with its website socialrecommendations.com
AWS FinTech Africa Accelerator VC Fund
Join the online AWS FinTech Africa Accelerator powered by AWS Startup Loft Accelerator to take part in an equity-free program focused on supporting early stage startups with technology, product development, go-to-market advice and getting you funding ready.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Grant, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • Nigeria, Kenya, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • MAZAID — The fastest, simplest, and most comprehensive financial ecosystem, offering all services across Egypt. MazAid is a data-driven platform offering digitized access to finance for millions of unbanked Egyptian individuals and businesses.
  • Moya — Transforming Freelancer Management and Payments. Seamless payments for a new era. Stay tuned!
  • H28 Technologies — Know the home you can afford. Get the home you want
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