Top 50 Payments VC Funds & Investors in South Africa (October 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Everywhere Ventures
VC Fund
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10 | United States, United Kingdom, Australia | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence | $250k–$20M |
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CRE Venture Capital
VC Fund
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8 | Nigeria, South Africa, United States | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, Software, FinTech | $250k–$21M |
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TLcom Capital Partners
VC Fund
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7 | Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom | Series A, Seed | Software, Mobile, Information Technology | $1.9M–$20M |
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Launch Africa
VC Fund
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5 | Nigeria, South Africa, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology | $200k–$4M |
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Raba Partnership
VC Fund
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4 | United States, South Africa, Egypt | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Finance | $600k–$32M |
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Speedinvest
VC Fund
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3 | United Kingdom, Germany, Austria | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence | $411k–$33M |
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Village Global
VC Fund
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3 | United States, United Kingdom, India | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services | $250k–$22M |
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Alameda Research
VC Fund
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3 | United States, Singapore, United Kingdom | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services | $250k–$40M |
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Imvelo Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | South Africa | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series B | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | $302k–$5M |
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UW Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | South Africa | Seed, Series A | FinTech, Payments, Mobile Payments | $563k–$31M |
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Flourish Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | United States, India, Brazil | Series A, Seed, Series B | Financial Services, FinTech, Finance | $1.3M–$65M |
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Kalon Venture Partners
VC Fund
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3 | South Africa, Luxembourg, United States | Seed, Series A | Artificial Intelligence, Apps, Internet | $715k–$11M |
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FSD Africa
VC Fund
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3 | Kenya, Ethiopia, United States | Grant, Venture - Series Unknown, Seed | Financial Services, Energy, Finance | $10k–$10M |
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Allan Gray
VC Fund
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3 | South Africa, United States | Seed, Series A, Series C | FinTech, Payments, Health Care | $563k–$100M |
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Firstminute Capital
VC Fund
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3 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $650k–$30M |
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Crossfin Technology
VC Fund
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3 | South Africa, Singapore, United States | Seed, Series A | Payments, FinTech, Financial Services | |
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Musha Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | United States, Nigeria, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Financial Services, FinTech | $100k–$10M |
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Two Culture Capital
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Mexico, India | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | FinTech, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence | $350k–$25M |
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Norrsken VC
VC Fund
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2 | Sweden, United Kingdom, Germany | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Food and Beverage, Artificial Intelligence | $893k–$156M |
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HAVAÍC
VC Fund
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2 | South Africa, United States, Kenya | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A | Software, Health Care, FinTech | $83k–$15M |
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Enza Capital
VC Fund
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2 | Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Financial Services, E-Commerce, FinTech | $1M–$31M |
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Norrsken22
VC Fund
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2 | South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria | Seed, Series A, Series B | Financial Services, Payments, Banking | $2.4M–$55M |
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Nedbank
VC Fund
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2 | South Africa, Australia, United States | Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Mining | $2M–$700M |
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Invictus Capital
VC Fund
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2 | Italy, South Africa | Seed, Series A, Series B | SaaS, Internet, Software | |
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Technology Innovation Agency
VC Fund
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2 | South Africa | Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed | Information Technology, Software, Electronics | $25k–$1.3M |
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RaliCap
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Mexico, Nigeria | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | FinTech, Financial Services, Payments | $300k–$5.5M |
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Partech
VC Fund
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2 | France, United States, Germany | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce | $1M–$56M |
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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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Newtown Partners
VC Fund
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2 | United States, South Africa, Ghana | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Logistics, Software, Health Care | $600k–$30M |
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FMO
VC Fund
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2 | India, Kenya, The Netherlands | Debt Financing, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown | Financial Services, Finance, Renewable Energy | $1.5M–$200M |
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Bittrex Global
VC Fund
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2 | South Africa | Seed, Series A, Series B | Bitcoin, FinTech, Ethereum | |
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Goodwell Investments
VC Fund
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2 | Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya | Series A, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown | FinTech, Financial Services, Banking | $140k–$26M |
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Future Africa
VC Fund
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2 | Nigeria, United States, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology | $100k–$40M |
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Zip
VC Fund
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2 | India, South Africa, Czech Republic | Series C, Seed | FinTech, Payments, E-Commerce | $22M–$50M |
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Quona Capital
VC Fund
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2 | India, Brazil, Indonesia | Series A, Seed, Series B | Financial Services, FinTech, Finance | $3M–$87M |
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500 Fintech
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Vietnam, South Africa | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | FinTech, Financial Services, Payments | $500k–$11M |
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PayPal Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United States, United Kingdom, India | Series B, Series A, Series C | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | $11M–$260M |
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EchoVC Partners
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Nigeria, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Information Technology, Financial Services, FinTech | $200k–$22M |
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Rou Capital
VC Fund
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2 | South Africa | Pre-Seed | FinTech, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency | $50k–$460k |
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4Di Capital
VC Fund
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2 | South Africa, United States, Kenya | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Financial Services, Mobile | $677k–$47M |
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Integrity Seed Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | South Africa | Seed | FinTech, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency | |
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Ayre Group
VC Fund
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2 | United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland | Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Bitcoin, Video Streaming | $363k–$8.7M |
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54 Collective
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa | Seed, Pre-Seed | Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech | $40k–$4M |
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Beryl Group
VC Fund
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1 | South Africa | Banking, FinTech, Finance | ||
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Samsung Electronics
VC Fund
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1 | United States, South Korea, Brazil | Grant, Series B | Software, Manufacturing, Artificial Intelligence | |
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First circle capital
VC Fund
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1 | Nigeria, Egypt, United States | Pre-Seed, Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Finance | |
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GalloProvincialis
VC Fund
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1 | South Africa, The Netherlands | Seed | Payments, Software, Logistics | $1.5M–$1.8M |
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Skywell Capital Partners
VC Fund
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1 | Israel, United States, Canada | Seed, Series A | Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning | $250k–$35M |
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Sequoia Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United States, China, India | Series A, Series B, Series C | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $6M–$200M |
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NuState Capital
VC Fund
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1 | South Africa | Seed, Series A | Education, Software, SaaS | |
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Everywhere Ventures is a global pre-seed venture capital fund for founders, by founders. Click to read Everywhere VC, by Everywhere Ventures, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1304
- Round size: Seed $1M–$6.5M; Pre-Seed $250k–$2.5M; Series A $6M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $4.4M in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- Donna — Meet Donna, the AI assistant built for field sales teams. Save time, cut admin, and close more deals with less effort.
- Noise — Noise makes finding UGC creators easy. Work smarter with personalized AI guidance to make your next UGC creator campaign go viral.
- Axo Longevity — Axo Longevity offers membership-based biomarker testing and digital health plans for preventive wellness and longevity optimization.
Founded in 2015, CRE Venture Capital invests in early stage tech companies that are levered to Africa. CRE is headquartered in the New York metro area, with a regional office in Lagos, Nigeria.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Software, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, South Africa, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 66
- Round size: Seed $250k–$4M; Pre-Seed $250k–$3.3M; Series A $1.1M–$21M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Flood — Flood is a marketplace platforms that provides merchant solution, self services and big data solution.
- Letly — Letly is developing an AI‑driven platform for the rental property market that automates tasks related to managing rental listings and tenant interactions. It aims to use intelligent agents to handle tasks such as scheduling viewings, responding to inquiries, and optimizing property management workflows. The platform is currently in a waitlistphase, signaling ongoing development and private access only.
- Cutstruct — Cutstruct is your one source for bulk construction materials purchase. Get the best prices for cement, steel, granite, sharp sand wood, and more.
TLCOM finds and funds exceptional founders building technology companies across Africa. Seed to Series C. Lagos, Nairobi, London.
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- Industry: Software, Mobile, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 77
- Round size: Seed $1.9M–$8.5M; Series A $3.8M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $150M in 2022
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.
- 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 .
- LittleFish — Full stack enterprise platform that extends your infrastructure, instead of replacing it.
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.
The Raba Partnership, Raba Capital, Raba
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, South Africa, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 59
- Round size: Seed $600k–$6M; Pre-Seed $635k–$6.5M; Series A $10M–$32M
- Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $60M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Thndr — Egypt's #1 investing platform by active users. Stocks, gold and mutual funds in one app, licensed and regulated by the FRA. Start with what you have.
- Ezeebit — Ezeebit is a payment solutions provider that enables African merchants to accept cryptocurrency payments both in-store and online. The platform processes transactions quickly and automatically converts the cryptocurrency into stablecoins to eliminate volatility risk. Funds are then settled into the merchant's local currency account, typicallySouth African Rand (ZAR), on the next business day. The company offers multi-currency support for popular cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum and maintains compliance with financial regulatory bodies.
- Letly — Letly is developing an AI‑driven platform for the rental property market that automates tasks related to managing rental listings and tenant interactions. It aims to use intelligent agents to handle tasks such as scheduling viewings, responding to inquiries, and optimizing property management workflows. The platform is currently in a waitlistphase, signaling ongoing development and private access only.
Speedinvest is a globally active European venture capital firm built on a simple belief: many move more. From six offices across EMEA, our sector-focused investment teams back relentless founders from pre–Seed to Growth with long-term conviction, providing day-one access to our global network of corporate customers, experts, industry leaders, andtop-tier follow-on investors to scale smarter and faster. Building lasting companies like Bitpanda (Austria), Moove (Nigeria), Gigs (U.S.), Tide (UK), ARX Robotics (Germany), Wayflyer (Ireland), GoStudent (Austria), Seqera Labs (Spain), and Cylib (Germany) — together. Big ideas may start with one. But scaling and winning take The Power of More.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 674
- Round size: Seed $797k–$7.9M; Pre-Seed $411k–$3.8M; Series A $4.1M–$33M
- Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $372M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Findery — Find and leave notes anywhere in the world, discover local knowledge, hidden secrets, and exciting stories. Share your travel knowledge, geoblog, or local news!
- GAMINSIDE — GAMINSIDE revolutionizes your relationship with your customers. As European full service provider, we deliver the complete package with solutions, services and software for gamified loyalty that is tailor-made and unique to your products, brands and customers. Integrate the best ideas from gamification and customer loyalty in your business areato exceed your commercial targets with GAMINSIDE.
- Polaron — Material Design. Supercharged with AI.
Early stage venture capital backed by some of the world's best entrepreneurs.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 514
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$10M; Pre-Seed $250k–$3.5M; Series A $7M–$22M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $125M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- microagi — Accelerating embodied AGI
- Legato Audio — Legato Hearing develops stylish glasses with built-in hearing technology, offering a discreet alternative to traditional hearing aids.
- Cast Insights — Cast Insights is an AI-powered platform that turns global spoken content—TV, radio, podcasts, livestreams—into structured, searchable real-time intelligence for investors, policy teams, strategists, and newsrooms.
Alameda Research is a quantitative cryptocurrency trading firm that provides liquidity in cryptocurrency and digital assets markets. It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Central and Western, Hong Kong.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
- Geography: United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 327
- Round size: Seed $1M–$8M; Series A $2.7M–$35M; Venture - Series Unknown $250k–$40M
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 3Commas — 3Commas develops a crypto-asset management tool for tracking investments and exchanges in a unified platform. It provides access to a unified dashboard as the central hub for trading and portfolio management execution.
- Fuel Labs — At Fuel, we are building the fastest execution layer for the modular blockchain stack.
- Optim Finance — Optim Finance provides investment tools that optimize yield on digital assets. Their financial primitives enable users to rent ADA delegation rights to power novel use cases such as SPO loans, leverage into ISOs, and initial bonds.
Imvelo Ventures is a venture capital and growth equity firm in South Africa managed by Capitec Bank.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series B
- Geography: South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 19
- Round size: Seed $659k–$2M; Venture - Series Unknown $302k–$5M
- Lead/follow: 63% lead, 37% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Botlhale AI — Botlhale AI allows to build, train, test, and deploy multilingual conversational AI. Botlhale AI is a research and innovation start-up that specializes in conversational AI. Computer systems have become an integral part of everyday lives and as a result, natural spoken language is the desired form of human-computer interaction.
- Acumen Software — Acumen Software develops configurable SaaS solutions for enterprise work management, asset management, field service, smart city engagement and AIoT solutions.
- The Cape Town Stock Exchange — The Cape Town Stock Exchange is a south Africa’s stock exchange for small- and medium-sized businesses.
UW is a multi-stage investor that provides growth and replacement capital across the equity-cycle. Its activities span from high-growth venture to mid-market private equity opportunities.
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- Industry: FinTech, Payments, Mobile Payments
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 20
- Round size: Seed $563k–$2.5M; Series A $1.3M–$31M
- Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Pargo — Pargo is a convenient logistics solution that lets you collect and return parcels at Pargo parcel points throughout the country when it suits you best.
- Rather.chat — Rather.chat offers a platform that facilitates meaningful connections between businesses and their customers through WhatsApp. This service is designed to make customer interactions more personal and efficient, allowing for real-time communication. By leveraging the widespread use of WhatsApp, Rather.chat aims to enhance the customer serviceexperience, making it easier for businesses to address inquiries, resolve issues, and maintain engagement with their audience. The focus is on creating a seamless bridge for dialogue that respects the convenience and preferences of the modern consumer, who increasingly favors instant messaging over traditional forms of communication.
- Manholes 4 Africa — m4a (Pty) Ltd specializes in the manufacturing of composite and plastics products designed for the utilities networks industry. As an Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM), the company offers a comprehensive range of products including access chambers, microducts, bundled microducts (multiducts), sub ducts, corrugated pipes, axsCHAMBERS™,cnktCLOSURES™, fibreDUCT™, and fibreCABLE™. These products cater to the telecommunications sector, providing end-to-end solutions for infrastructure needs. m4a (Pty) Ltd is recognized for its innovative approach in developing polymer and composite civil infrastructure solutions. The company holds ISO9001 certification, ensuring high standards in quality management systems.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, India, Brazil
Investor stats
- Total investments: 256
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$8.5M; Series A $3.5M–$25M; Series B $8.6M–$65M
- Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $350M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Cauridor — Cauridor is a Financial Services company.
- Stream — Stream is a company that helps make payments simpler, faster, and reliable.
- Jurisphere — Jurisphere.ai is an enterprise-grade AI platform tailored for law firms and in-house legal teams, integrating document review, legal research, drafting, and workflow automation into a unified workspace. The company's platform uses attorney verified AI workflows to surface relevant cases and insights from large volumes of legal documents,generate and refine contract drafts.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Apps, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: South Africa, Luxembourg, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 21
- Round size: Seed $715k–$3M; Series A $2.5M–$11M
- Lead/follow: 62% lead, 38% follow
Portfolio highlights
- GoMetro — Fleet management simplified with GoMetro. Integrate telematics, gain real-time visibility, and optimize operations with a secure, scalable platform,
- Sendmarc — Manage your organization's DMARC, SPF, and DKIM with world-class implementation services and support. All in one easy-to-use platform.
- visionAI — Discover how AI MES software enhances factory efficiency and reduces blindspots to minimize equipment downtime and boost productivity.
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 — ARK (Africa Renewables Katalyst Ltd) a Kenyan based company focused on helping Africa realize its full renewable energy potential through I-RECs
Allan Gray is Africa's largest privately owned investment management company focused on generating long-term wealth for investors..
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- Industry: FinTech, Payments, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series C
- Geography: South Africa, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Seed $563k–$4M; Series A $1.3M–$31M; Series C $70M–$100M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
Portfolio highlights
- onafriq — MFS Africa is the largest mobile money inter-operability hub in Africa, which connects mobile network operators across the continent through a single API. In addition to mobile remittance services, the MFS Africa API enables merchant payment, bulk payment, bank-to-wallet transfers, and an array of other cross border digital payments services.
- Sendmarc — Manage your organization's DMARC, SPF, and DKIM with world-class implementation services and support. All in one easy-to-use platform.
- Peach Payments — Get Peach as your Payment Gateway and Grow your ecommerce. Process online payments with Visa, Mastercard, Debit Orders, EFT payments, and subscriptions. Plugins for Wix, Shopify, WooCommerce.
firstminute is a seed fund backed by over 130 unicorn founders and a world-class community.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 220
- Round size: Seed $2.5M–$10M; Pre-Seed $650k–$5.5M; Series A $6M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $100M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Benford — Benford is a modern, licensed audit firm that provides technology-driven statutory audit services using its custom software, AuditOS.
- StandardX — StandardX is a deep-tech company building the isotope refinery powered by a scalable, compact particle accelerator platform.
- Pilgrim — Pioneering a biologically enhanced future for humanity.
Crossfin invests in FINTECH solutions to enable growth for economies in Africa and beyond. Crossfin invests in high growth and established cash generative businesses, offering investors a blended exposure to technology investments in Fintech.
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- Industry: Payments, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: South Africa, Singapore, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 23
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Ask Gogo — Ask Gogo develops data free application designed to facilitate buying, selling, renting, and job searching without using mobile data.
- DigiSquad — DigiSquad is a team of entrepreneurs in the payments industry striving to expand the reach of digital payment platforms in underserved regions.
- AKELO Group — AKELO Group provides a marketplace for embedded financial services and solutions for corporates, retailers and SME merchants.
Seed capital for technology startups globally.
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 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: FinTech, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Mexico, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 88
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$11M; Pre-Seed $350k–$8.3M; Series A $7M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Captur — Captur helps companies make smarter decisions, at the speed of capturing a photo. We use expert triaging and visual AI to identify and action tasks instantly for companies managing in-field operations.
- AscendArc — Discover innovative, cost-effective small geostationary satellites that enhance bandwidth and deployment speed, revolutionizing satellite communications.
- LGND — We make Earth data accessible and useful for people and AI.
We are a venture capital fund investigating in Start-Ups solving the worlds biggest problems while building massive businesses.
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- Industry: Software, Food and Beverage, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Sweden, United Kingdom, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 108
- Round size: Seed $893k–$14M; Series A $4.4M–$56M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.1M–$156M
- Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $346M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Biorce — Meet the world's first AI clinical trials assistant! We bring innovative technologies to revolutionize healthcare and drug development faster & more efficiently
- Verse — Define & achieve your financial and emissions reduction goals with Aria, a software platform that helps companies buy and manage clean power.
- Endra — Endra is a purpose-built platform for modern MEP engineering. Generate 3D models and drawings, sync with Revit and enjoy coordinated design workflows.
HAVAÍC is an investment and advisory firm that specialises in early-stage, high-growth African businesses with proven concepts and global prospects, offering investment opportunities to sophisticated investors and international venture capital companies with an interest in Africa. As a complementary offering, HAVAÍC provides corporate advisory andcapital raising services to emerging, internationally scalable businesses.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
- Geography: South Africa, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 49
- Round size: Seed $83k–$4M; Series A $1.9M–$15M; Venture - Series Unknown $318k–$632k
- Lead/follow: 65% lead, 35% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $50M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- NjiaPay — Payments-as-a-Service platform that will streamline your operations and elevate your online payments across the African continent.
- SwiftVee — SwiftVEE is a livestock trading mobile app. They support live webcast livestock auctions and silent auctions. Their platform facilitates the discovery and viewing of livestock auctions.They provide webcast advertising, online auctions, and online livestock insurance services and data products for financial institutions.
- Tanda — As a Tanda Agent, you can sell Kenya's favorite digital products, and grow your duka while you're at it
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- Industry: Financial Services, E-Commerce, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 53
- Round size: Seed $1M–$8M; Series A $3.6M–$31M; Venture - Series Unknown $2.6M–$17M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $58M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Yakeey — Yakeey is an end-to-end transactional marketplace that radically simplifies the experience of buying, selling and renting real estate.We leverage on data and technology to connect all real estate market players through a state of the art platform, create a chain of trust and powerful network effects and accelerate transactions.Yakeey is builton a community of real estate advisors, YakeeyPRO, to deliver a continuous professional and tailored service at every step of the transaction.
- Orca Fraud — Orca empowers fraud fighters with effective tools to combat fraud
- Aethex — End to end voice agents localized for your market.
Norrsken22 is a tech growth fund, backed by an international network of tech founders, partnering with exceptional African entrepreneurs in scaling disruptive businesses.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Payments, Banking
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 24
- Round size: Seed $2.4M–$13M; Series A $5M–$40M; Series B $6.8M–$55M
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $110M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- ARC Ride — Leading the emobility revolution in East Africa - starting with Kenya #emobilityrevolution
- Lua — Build, deploy, and scale enterprise-grade AI agents. Ship your first agent without touching infrastructure.
- Shiprazor — Shiprazor is an innovative shipping aggregator that revolutionizes the logistics industry by providing seamless solutions for businesses.
Nedbank is a one of the largest banks in South Africa.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Mining
- Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Series A
- Geography: South Africa, Australia, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 25
- Round size: Series A $2M–$7.5M; Post-IPO Debt $150M–$700M; Debt Financing $39M–$509M
- Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kuunda — Kuunda provides consulting, liquidity management, data insight tools enabling users to fulfill financial needs through a digital platform.
- Ivanhoe Mines — Things interesting about Ivanhoe Ltd. and Mr. Robert Friedland
- PayInc — PayInc connects the South African payments system as the largest automated clearing house in Africa.
Invictus Capital leverages existing public blockchain rails and the hundreds of thousands of onramps and offramps that exist globally to democratize access to investment products in emerging and developed markets. We believe investing should be convenient, transparent and low-cost.
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- Industry: SaaS, Internet, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Italy, South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Lead/follow: 60% lead, 40% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Will Media — founder @will_ita Former @airbnb and @lime policy guy. Now fighting for the good cause of knowledge in democracy
- Contents — Create, localize and govern content at scale with an enterprise AI platform and digital agency for copy, blogs, SEO, translations, images, video and campaigns.
- Serenis Health — Serenis Health provides video-based psychotherapy, coaching, and psychological support courses. It believes that the internet is critical to increasing access to mental health care. It makes use of data and digital tools to improve the efficacy of therapies. But, unlike other platforms, it is also a medical center, which means it is responsible forcourse quality and must meet the same standards as any polyclinic.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Electronics
- Stage:Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 19
- Round size: Seed $46k–$1.3M; Grant $25k–$1M; Pre-Seed $50k–$188k
- Lead/follow: 79% lead, 21% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Ann-Connect — Ann-Connect is an EdTech SaaS for learning, teaching, exams and assessments rolled into an all-in-one education platform.Founded in 2021 by Bonginkosi Mabaso, Nexa was born from a real problem: students missing exams and learning opportunities because of unreliable internet. Our mission is simple: make online education accessible to everystudent, regardless of connectivity or background. Today, Nexa is trusted by universities, training institutions, and professional bodies across South Africa, with partnerships that give access to more than 450,000 learners. One workspace. All your education tools: - Nexa ExamCore: Offline exam tool where students can access, write, and submit online exams even without internet. - Nexa Invigilator: Invigilation tool designed to monitor for online exams. - Nexa Invigilator Venue-based – Proctoring for physical/venue-based exams for schools, corporates & teams. - Nexa Room – Low-bandwidth video conferencing just like MS Teams but designed for teaching and learning, with AI-driven student engagement tracking. - Integrations – Seamless connection with Learning Management Systems (LMS), plagiarism checkers, and other education tools — all in one place. Recognised with awards from TIA, ABSA, and the Royal Academy of Engineering (UK), Nexa is shaping the future of global education by making it inclusive, resilient, and accessible everywhere. Ready to experience THE platform for inclusive learning? Visit ann-connect.com and join us in building education without limits.
- Aviro Health — We believe that empowering and supporting people to manage their own health benefits everybody.We built the Aviro Pocket Clinic to support self-care and provide access to services. We give people what they need to perform important health checks like regular HIV self-testing and connect them to experts and services who can offer hands-on and supported care when needed.
- All Weather Roads Engineering — All Weather Roads Engineering is a building material manufacturing firm also offering supply of construction material.
Rally Cap is a global community of tech folks investing in an exclusive portfolio of top-tier early stage venture funds in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: United States, Mexico, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 63
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$5.5M; Pre-Seed $300k–$3.7M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $2.5M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Cata — Launch your branded mobile app for ordering, CRM & loyalty. Increase order frequency & basket size. Learn how Cata can scale your business!
- Pago ASAP — Asap optimizes every process with speed, security, and efficiency by facilitating cross-border payments targeted at resource banking. Pago ASAP's payment infrastructure enables banks, fintechs, digital wallets, remittance companies, and businesses to transmit and receive payments.
- Gangkhar — Gangkhar provides AI-native embedded insurance infrastructure for digital platforms, insurers, MGAs, and brokers to launch, optimize, and scale embedded protection.
Partech is a global venture capital firm with offices in San Francisco, Paris, Berlin and Dakar. Partech invests in Internet and information technology startups at seed, venture and growth stages.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: France, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 694
- Round size: Seed $1M–$8.8M; Series A $4.5M–$28M; Series B $9M–$56M
- Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $345M in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- Modeinspect — acreom is the integrated markdown knowledge base with tasks. Your personal daily driver for your dev workflow.
- TeamToolz — TeamToolz creates and implements user-friendly applications that simplify and streamline the creation, management and archiving of marketing communications. Addressing the urgency of time to market, our web-based tools better enable entire brand launches by coordinating the workflow of multiple outside agencies and internal groups, for moreintegrated worldwide brand management.
- Revibe — Buy refurbished & used electronics (Smartphones, Laptops) in UAE at Revibe. Free delivery & 12 months warranty. Certified tech by our experts. Order Now!
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 — In 2021, SaltPay acquired both Tutuka and Paymentology, resulting in a ‘payments and card processing powerhouse’ with CEO Rowan Brewer at the helm. The merger combined the ultra-advanced, multi-cloud platform of Paymentology with the global reach and experience of Tutuka to revolutionise cloud-based processing globally. Now, Paymentology is thefirst truly global issuer-processor, giving banks and fintechs the technology, team and experience to issue and process cards anywhere in the world, at scale. They currently have payments experts with deep, local market knowledge on the ground in 50 countries, across 14 time zones, guaranteeing 24/7 support. Their superior multi-cloud Platform, offering both shared and dedicated processing instances, vast global presence, and richer real-time data, set them apart as the leader in payments.
Newtown Partners is a venture capital firm that actively invests in emerging, disruptive technology startups.
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- Industry: Logistics, Software, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United States, South Africa, Ghana
Investor stats
- Total investments: 37
- Round size: Seed $600k–$5.5M; Series A $3.3M–$30M; Venture - Series Unknown $2M–$2.5M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
Portfolio highlights
- MDaaS Global — At MDaaS Global, we build and operate modern, tech-enabled diagnostic centres in clinically-underserved communities, starting in Nigeria. Our big goal is to create affordable healthcare solutions for Africa's next billion.
- Chefaa — Chefaa is a GPS-enabled pharmacy benefits platform connecting patients & pharmacies nation-wide to help patients manage all their pharmacy needs. Chefaa uses big data, data ming & machine learning
- Waspito — We are the platform that engages Africa into the conversation and action to drive affordable and accessible quality healthcare across the continent.
FMO is a financial investment firm that specializes in financing businesses and projects FMO invests across the agribusiness value chain to enhance food security, support sustainability and promoting inclusive development.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Finance, Renewable Energy
- Stage:Debt Financing, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: India, Kenya, The Netherlands
Investor stats
- Total investments: 204
- Round size: Series B $5.3M–$46M; Debt Financing $5M–$195M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.5M–$200M
- Lead/follow: 55% lead, 45% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Coris Holding — Coris Holding is a financial institution that was established with the motive to provide support to SMEs and SMIs.
- U Gro Capital — U Gro Capital is a fintech platform that provides lending services for SMEs. U GRO Capital is a BSE-listed, technology-focused, small business lending platform. The company is focused on addressing the capital needs of small businesses operating in select eight sectors by providing customized loan solutions.
- Yednist' Group — Yednist’ Group is one of the largest agri-processing holdings in Ukraine operating in the following segments: production of bulk feed, packaged feed, premixes and concentrates; veterinary drugs distribution; pet goods distribution. Yednist’ Group operates five production facilities with a total annual capacity of 600 thousand tonnes, including 30thousand tonnes of premixes and concentrates.
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Browse database — It's Free!Bittrex operates as a digital asset trading platform. Bittrex is the premier U.S.-based digital asset trading platform, providing lightning-fast trade execution, dependable digital wallets and industry-leading security practices.
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- Industry: Bitcoin, FinTech, Ethereum
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- VALR — Buy and sell bitcoin, ethereum & more | Pay anyone for free with VALR Pay
Goodwell Investments is a pioneering investment firm focused on financial inclusion, fintech and inclusive growth in sectors providing
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Banking
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 51
- Round size: Series A $1.5M–$12M; Series B $2M–$26M; Venture - Series Unknown $140k–$1.8M
- Lead/follow: 57% lead, 43% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $59M in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- OmniRetail — OmniRetail is a consumer goods distribution platform that solves the inefficiencies of traditional trade by digitizing key stakeholders through its products.
- Hinckley Recycling — Hinckley Recycling is dedicated to the responsibility of being a good steward of the environment and will in all circumstances aspire to constantly emphasize awareness of the natural environment, whilst maintaining a level of proficiency which demonstrates bona fide leadership in all spheres of the environment.
- Agent Banking Company — Agent Banking Company provides digital technology solutions that enable access to banking services through bank-approved agents.
Future Africa is a collective of mission-driven founders and funders building unicorns to solve Africa’s biggest challenges. They are build a future where purpose and prosperity are within everyone’s reach.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 92
- Round size: Seed $500k–$4M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3.7M; Series A $7M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- STEM Cafe — STEMCafe by RVRB is a fun out of school learning centre for kids
- Juicyway — The new shape of money? Fluid. Access global currencies with Juicyway. Buy, sell, hold, and pay globally using our fast APIs, web, or mobile apps. Download now.
- Lori Systems — Lori Systems is revolutionizing African logistics through innovative technology solutions. We connect shippers, transporters, and drivers to create efficient, reliable, and transparent supply chains across Africa.
Zip is a leading digital financial services company providing fair and seamless solutions that simplify how people pay.
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- Industry: FinTech, Payments, E-Commerce
- Stage:Series C, Seed
- Geography: India, South Africa, Czech Republic
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Series C $22M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 83% lead, 17% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Payflex — Shop smarter with Payflex's buy now pay later services - enjoy interest-free payments using Pay in 2, 3 or 4 options. Apply now and shop online or in-store.
- ZestMoney — ZestMoney is a growing consumer lending FinTech company that uses digital EMI, without the need for a credit card or a credit score. The company believes that being able to pay in EMI should be available to everyone and not only those who hold a credit card or have a credit score. With the use of mobile tech, digital banking, and AI, ZestMoney wasmade accessible to millions of Indian consumers.Founded in 2016 by digital finance and technology professionals, Priya Sharma, Lizzie Chapman, and Ashish Anantharaman, the company is backed by leading global digital financial services investors like PayU, Ribbit Capital, Omidiyar Networks among other.
- Twisto — Twisto is on a mission to challenge the status quo of everyday finances via exceptional customer experience by being at the forefront in delivering cutting edge technology. Pay simply, fast and securely.
Quona Capital invests in fintech innovators that are advancing financial inclusion around the globe. Through our investments, Quona aims to deliver outstanding financial returns while making a lasting and positive impact on the world.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: India, Brazil, Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 218
- Round size: Seed $3M–$10M; Series A $3.1M–$25M; Series B $8M–$87M
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $332M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Jusfy — Jusfy offers legal services and consulting for individuals and business organizations.
- Jem — We give employers the ability to send company-wide communications, deliver payslips, manage leave & give employees access to their earnings, via WhatsApp.
- International Payments Identity — iPiD provides a single global API for real-time payee validation, reducing fraud and ensuring seamless payments across borders. Discover our KYP solutions today.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Vietnam, South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Seed $500k–$7.7M; Series A $7M–$11M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kilo — Kilo develops a retail platform that provides retailers access to price, assortment, and inventory management. The platform is designed specifically to serve small and medium-sized retailers. The Kilo network effect creates a virtuous growth cycle for both supply and demand.
- 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.
- finally — Software + a dedicated bookkeeper for one flat price. First close in 30 days. $399 / month.
PayPal Ventures is PayPal's venture capital arm, investing in PayPal's strategic interest fields for return.Leveraging PayPal Venture's expertise and experience, PayPal – and the companies in which it invests – are helping to bring innovative solutions to market more quickly, scale them faster, and build a global financial systemthat is more transparent, personalized, inclusive, and customer-focused. PayPal Venture's investments reinforce its commitment to leading the financial technology industry and supporting entrepreneurship.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 149
- Round size: Series A $11M–$55M; Series B $14M–$100M; Series C $30M–$260M
- Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Forage — Forage is a third-party payment processor (TPP) and a pin provider that authenticates and processes EBT recipients and transactions. Forage makes it easier for grocers to accept SNAP EBT payments online. Forage guides merchants through the USDA application process and tech integration for merchants, taking most of the burden off retailers.Foragedemocratizes access to government benefits and helps underserved Americans easily access their benefits online. Forage works with multiple grocers and platforms such as Shopify and Flashfood to accept SNAP EBT payments online.
- Atum — Atum is the open payments network that coordinates those systems.
- Carro — Unlock a new sales channel and let Carro uncover the perfect brand partners on Shopify. Carro enables top brands on Shopify to sell each others products through cross-store selling.
EchoVC Partners is a seed and early-stage venture capital firm focused on financing and cross-pollinating leading technologies, teams, business models, and knowledge across North America, Africa, and SE Asia. The average investment size ranges from $25,000 to several million dollars depending on the stage of opportunity and capital needs of thebusiness.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Financial Services, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 74
- Round size: Seed $200k–$4M; Pre-Seed $200k–$2.2M; Series A $1.2M–$22M
- Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $2.5M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Rivy — Access flexible financing for solar energy projects with Rivy. Power homes, businesses, and communities with clean, affordable energy.
- Snowstorm — Official site of the Snowstorm Network
- Rana Energy — No. 1 Solar Community in Africa
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- Industry: FinTech, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Pre-Seed $50k–$460k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Ivorypay — Ivorypay is a crypto payment gateway that enables businesses to get paid in stable cryptocurrency and leverage Defi and NFT for growth.Our goal is simply to create a blockchain based payment solution that powers seamless and cheap cross-border transactions in Africa without FX restrictions and also create better spend use cases for theexponentially growing base of crypto adopters on the continent.
4Di Capital is an independent seed- and early-stage technology venture capital firm based in Cape Town, South Africa.Nurture capital is the term that best describes 4Di Capitalâ€:tm:s purpose and philosophy.We understand that in the early days of any business, support, mentoring and access to networks is just as important as seed capital.Using tried and tested international venture capital best practices, adapted for local use, we believe in entrepreneur-friendly finance without frills, and in working as a team with our investments to achieve their true potential.4Di Capital Early-Stage Technology Fund 1 targets startup investment opportunities with high growth potential at the seed- and early-stages in the mobile, enterprise software and web sectors.We look for founder teams with hungry passion, commitment, domain expertise and deep insights into the large market problems they wish to solve with their technology solutions.
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: South Africa, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 41
- Round size: Seed $677k–$7.5M; Pre-Seed $1.8M–$4M; Series A $2M–$47M
- Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $24M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- BFree — BFree focuses its collection processes on sustainably leading customers out of debt by giving them back control over their finances.
- FireID — FireID is a venture builder that helps makers, with unique skills and passion, build businesses to solve meaningful problems.
- Kuunda — Kuunda provides consulting, liquidity management, data insight tools enabling users to fulfill financial needs through a digital platform.
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- Industry: FinTech, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Ivorypay — Ivorypay is a crypto payment gateway that enables businesses to get paid in stable cryptocurrency and leverage Defi and NFT for growth.Our goal is simply to create a blockchain based payment solution that powers seamless and cheap cross-border transactions in Africa without FX restrictions and also create better spend use cases for theexponentially growing base of crypto adopters on the continent.
Ayre Group is a venture capital firm that has been disrupting industries and creating iconic brands for decades, from technology, real estate, and Bitcoin, to media & publishing.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Bitcoin, Video Streaming
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 28
- Round size: Seed $363k–$8.7M
- Lead/follow: 61% lead, 39% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Libraro — Libraro operates on blockchain technology to modernise the book publishing sector.
- Gate2Chain — Research lab phase in data integrity and tokenization completed.
- Rad — Stream thousands of shows free, publish your own videos and earn with memberships and tips, and play your own files on mobile, TV, console and VR.
Building and scaling African tech startups with catalytic capital, value-add support and our global network.
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- Industry: Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 108
- Round size: Seed $40k–$4M; Pre-Seed $40k–$1.3M
- Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Yeah — Yeah is a financial technology company that offers payment processing services while building a credit profile for the banked and unbanked.
- REasy — Top up locally, pay suppliers globally, and manage international shipments with REasy. Fast, secure, and designed for African businesses expanding worldwide.
- Konnect — Konnect provides a cross borders payment solution intended to simplify complex financial flows allowing companies of any scale and size to send and receive payments in a practical, secure, and low-cost way.
Beryl Group is a proprietary investments company with equity holdings in logistics, energy, mining, and financial sector companies.
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- Industry: Banking, FinTech, Finance
- Geography: South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Bettr — Bettr is a digital banking app for creator. Download the app to get your zero monthly fee digital bank account and virtual card. Join our community of creators, gamers, influencers, freelancers, tiktokkers, streamers, YouTubers and digital gig workers.
Discover the latest in electronic & smart appliance technology with Samsung. Find the next big thing from smartphones & tablets to laptops & tvs & more.
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- Industry: Software, Manufacturing, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Grant, Series B
- Geography: United States, South Korea, Brazil
Investor stats
- Total investments: 65
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Coframe — Transform your website with AI-driven optimization and personalization that boosts engagement and conversions. Coframe automates growth 24/7.
- Notch — Building AI-powered tools to make marketing predictable and delightful again.
- Spline — Spline is a free 3D design software with real-time collaboration to create web interactive experiences in the browser. Easy 3d modeling, animation, textures, and more.
First Circle Capital is a venture capital firm seeding the next fintech generation in Africa.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, Egypt, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 35
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- PayTic — PayTic enables payments issuers to manage their card programs by providing dedicated back-office solutions that streamline the end-to-end operations in customer support, chargebacks, fraud, AML, reporting, and reconciliation. Our proprietary solutions are unique in automating and centralizing the program management processes, regardless of thenumber of processors and the payment networks involved in the payments products. We impact payments providers by eliminating the defragmented and manual processes and replacing them with a SaaS platform that increases proactivity, mitigates risks, and delivers value. It reduces the burn rate to near 0 in operational costs and offers an unprecedented competitive advantage. PayTic is introducing the Zero Ops model in managing payments.
- Pumpkn — Need reliable funding? We provide quick loans and capital tailored for Agriculture businesses in South Africa. Grow your business with Pumpkn. Apply now!
- Scale — Scale accelerates market entry and revenue for fintechs with a people-first approach.
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- Industry: Payments, Software, Logistics
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: South Africa, The Netherlands
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$1.8M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Maholla — Maholla is a consumer technology company focused on delivering value to millions of shoppers in Africa's emerging markets. Rewarding shoppers for any purchase from any store, Maholla is building a consumer rewards experience that is completely agnostic of any specific brand, retailer and payment mechanism.
- Sticitt — Sticitt is a cashless payment platform. Sticitt services schools, lifestyle and golf estates, as well as events and is assisting one utility company to get clients to pay for water bills using its cashless payments system.
- Tripplo — Tripplo is a platform to automate and optimise operations for transporters, cargo owners and cargo brokers.
Skywell Capital Partners is a multi-stage venture capital firm that invests in entrepreneurs with visionary ideas around the globe. We are looking for entrepreneurs who are building ground-breaking and sustainable businesses that are going to change the world.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Israel, United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Round size: Seed $250k–$35M; Series A $13M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Sedric — Sedric is a compliance excellence platform for next-gen fintech companies. With AI-based real-time monitoring, detection and analysis of all customer interactions, Sedric ensures customer protection, minimizes risks, and expedites business growth. Sedric empowers compliance teams to quickly apply new laws and regulations across their growingbusinesses and enables them to focus on the events with the highest dollar value across all channels: voice, chat, email, social, and more.
- PicUP — PicUP is an AI-powered optimization and personalization platform for outbound sales and customer service calls
- OFFROAD — Offroad assists enterprises in transitioning from identity visibility to identity resolution.
We help the daring build We help the daring build legendary companies from idea to IPO and beyond. companies.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
- Geography: United States, China, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1820
- Round size: Series A $6M–$54M; Series B $11M–$100M; Series C $12M–$200M
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $65M in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- Semgrep — An extensible developer-friendly application security platform that scans source code to surface true and actionable security issues with AI-assisted SAST, SCA, and Secrets Detection solutions.
- Pony.ai — Pony.ai is a startup that builds full-stack autonomous driving solutions. It is a pioneer in autonomous mobility technologies and services across the US and China, spearheading public-facing Robotaxi pilots in both markets. Pony.ai is committed to creating a safe and sustainable mobility future by delivering autonomous mobility everywhere.Thecompany was founded by James Peng and Tiancheng Lou in 2016 and is headquartered in Fremont, California, United States.
- Observable — Observable provides a data visualization platform for developers, data scientists, journalists, and educators to explore, analyze, and visualize data on the web together. It enables users to create complex graphs, charts, and other visual representations of data. The platform empowers creators to further their learning through data visualizationand gain deep insights. The company is helping organizations make decisions with data, including teams at Stitch Fix and classes at MIT that are working in Observable every day.
NuState Capital as private equity investor is to generate attractive returns through positive social transformation.
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- Industry: Education, Software, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Sticitt — Sticitt is a cashless payment platform. Sticitt services schools, lifestyle and golf estates, as well as events and is assisting one utility company to get clients to pay for water bills using its cashless payments system.
- d6 — SCHOOLS Schools Communication Platforms and School Management Software COMMUNITIES Community & Internal Business Communication Platforms MEDIA Let your brand be seen Advertise on
- Principal Software(d6 education) — d6 is a school management software application that helps you manage your school's curriculum, administration, communication and finance.
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