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Top 50 Payments VC Funds in South Africa

Last updated: Apr 2024 A list of 50 VC funds that invest in Payments startups based in South africa. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Payments companies from South africa. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Payments VC Funds in South Africa

Investor	Payments South Africa investments
Launch Africa	3
CRE Venture Capital	3
UW Ventures	3
Everywhere Ventures (The Fund)	2
Goodwell Investments	2
FSD Africa	2
Quona Capital	2
Kalon Venture Partners	2
Allan Gray	2
4Di Capital	2
Newtown Partners	2
RaliCap	2
Speedinvest	2
Everywhere Ventures (The Fund)	2
Nedbank	1
Two Hop Ventures	1
Fireball Capital	1
TotalEnergies Ventures	1
Sequoia Capital	1
UNCOVERED FUND	1
Ayre Group	1
LeapFrog Investments	1
Gauss Ventures	1
Bittrex Global	1
Alameda Research	1
Two Culture Capital	1
Circle	1
NuState Capital	1
EchoVC Partners	1
Skywell Capital Partners	1
GalloProvincialis	1
Beryl Group	1
Still Capital Partners	1
Zip	1
Invictus Capital	1
Realm Digital	1
Musha Ventures	1
Grindstone Ventures	1
Boost VC	1
Samsung Electronics	1
10x Group	1
Development Partners International	1
R-Ventures	1
Hlayisani Growth Fund	1
Harambeans	1
Apis Partners	1
Velocity Capital Fintech Ventures	1
Crossfin Technology	1
Imvelo Ventures	1
Nexus Ventures	1

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Launch Africa is a fund with the primary objective of unlocking the capital constraints of Seed Stage tech startups.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Susu — Susu is a dynamic and innovative company that offers a wide range of health services for families in the African diaspora. Susu provides a complete offer on Preventive care, Medical treatments, Management of chronic diseases, and Authentic drugs.
Lengo — Lengo is an AI based intelligence platform that offers a large database on consumer goods for companies in the FMCG sector.
Fixit45 — Fixit45 also provides fleet management, auto parts sourcing and delivery, auto care, refurbishment and upgrades, repair financing, and mechanic workshop software as well as pre-purchase inspections, underlying these with moderation for compliance and accountability.

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.

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 all online payments across South Africa. Accept Pay by bank, debit + credit card, cash, manual EFT, debit order and crypto. Orchestrate + reconcile digital payments across methods and send payouts

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.

Investment focus

FinTech, Payments, Insurance
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
South Africa

Portfolio highlights

Synatic — Synatic is a unified platform that enables your business to integrate and automate systems and services without sacrificing enterprise features and security.
MFS Africa — 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.
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.

Everywhere Ventures (The Fund) is a first-of-its-kind early-stage venture fund created by founders for founders to support the next generation of entrepreneurs.Everywhere Ventures is a community-powered venture investing platform that integrates the capital, expertise, and mentoring of experienced founders and operators across ten micro funds.The Fund's $50M+ under management comes almost exclusively from the over 500 founders and operators who are its limited partners. Everywhere Ventures operates from the belief that those who have actually built successful companies are best suited to advise and support early-stage startups. Everywhere Ventures invests in pre-seed deals globally usually in the first financing round the company raises. Emphasis is placed on purpose-driven teams across money, health and work verticals.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Health Care
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
United States, Australia, India

Portfolio highlights

Khyaal — Khyaal is a full-stack digital solution for senior citizens designed and developed to improve their quality of life. We facilitate on-demand services and organise fun and engaging activities for seniors. Being a part of the Khyaal family means making a difference in the world by enriching the lives of the elderly. If selflessness and empathy is atrait that you carry and would want to put at work, then you will find Khyaal as the perfect place to invest your valuable time.At Khyaal, we value your individuality and the skills that you bring to the table. We also believe in the power of collective consciousness to serve others and make their lives easier and wholesome. We want all members of the Khyaal family to feel respected personally and professionally. Our working environment will always make way for new ideas, ownership and collective growth.
Segwise — Segwise is an AI powered observability platform for Product Growth teams.
Century Health — Accelerating access to breakthrough treatments, with the power of AI. Century Health does the heavy lifting to rapidly get you the insight you need, all while supporting the research community and protecting patient privacy.

Goodwell Investments is a pioneering investment firm focused on financial inclusion, fintech and inclusive growth in sectors providing

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa

Portfolio highlights

MFS Africa — 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.
SOUK Farms — SOUK Farms is a fresh horticulture supply grower and exporter that pioneers innovation to improve agricultural sustainability and stimulate economic and social development.
Complete Farmer — We are providing cutting-edge technological farming protocols and innovations with a unique business model and logistics that are revolutionizing...

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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
Seed, Series B, Funding Round
South Africa, United States, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Cavex — Cavex provides Carbon credits made transparent and efficiency.
WIC Capital — Capital investissement - Gender investing - Gender initiative - Impact investing - Early stage - PME - SME - Equity - Fund manager - Empower women
Africa Climate Ventures — We build climate unicorns in Africa Our Thesis Climate action is reshaping the global economy Consumers are shifting towards climate-friendly products.Governments, aiming for net-zero, are shifting policy and committing billions of dollars to climate action.New technologies, processes, and energy sources are being developed, revolutionizing markets and redefining country resource endowments.Carbon markets are flourishing, fostering new business

Quona Capital invests in fintech innovators that are advancing inclusion in emerging markets. Through our investments, Quona aims to deliver outstanding financial returns while making a lasting and positive impact on the world.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Series A, Series B, Seed
India, Brazil, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Addi — Addi is a technology company that provides credit and banking solutions. Addi is headquartered in Bogota, Colombia.
Solvento — The smart factoring solution for truckers.
Pave Bank — The world's first multi-asset and programmable bank

A growing number of South Africans are investing in venture capital companies that operate under Section 12J of the Income Tax Act. Contact us now.

Investment focus

Apps, Mobile Apps, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
South Africa, Luxembourg, United States

Portfolio highlights

GoMetro — GoMetro designs deploy and operate flexible mobility platforms. Their proprietary technology stack empowers city leaders, transport managers, corporates, retail centres, property developers, airports and downtown to introduce bold new mobility strategies. Their connected transport digital platform equips transport planners to respond to thechallenges of increased congestion, aged infrastructure, disruptive mobility players, self-driving vehicles and a lack of quality public transport services.
Talk360 — Talk360 is an easy-to-use calling app that helps people make affordable international calls to any mobile and landline number. They believe that reliable communication and digital services must be affordable and accessible to everyone, regardless of someone's background. Especially people in emerging countries in Africa, who often need theseservices the most, do not always have the necessary banking possibilities. To bridge this distance, Talk360 will launch the world's first single checkout platform for Africa. This platform will combine all locally available payment methods and currencies across Africa, together with over 1.25 million cash points of sales, and will eventually be available to other companies as well. This means that 500 million Africans will be able to purchase digital services they never had access to before.
Sendmarc — Stop cyber criminals from sending emails using your domain and protect your customers, suppliers and employees from cyber attacks with DMARC Security.

Allan Gray is privately owned investment management company focused on generating long-term wealth for investors.

Investment focus

Insurance, Health Care, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
South Africa, United States

Portfolio highlights

Mobiz — Supercharge your SMS marketing with dynamic, high-converting landing pages sent directly into the hands of your customers.
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 — Stop cyber criminals from sending emails using your domain and protect your customers, suppliers and employees from cyber attacks with DMARC Security.

4Di Capital is a Cape Town-based venture capital fund management firm focused on early-stage technology investments in sub-Saharan Africa.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
South Africa, United States, Uganda

Portfolio highlights

Maxe AI — AI investment Assistant for all investors. AI Portfolios of stocks bonds exchanges futures. all in one to track mutual funds.
Sendmarc — Stop cyber criminals from sending emails using your domain and protect your customers, suppliers and employees from cyber attacks with DMARC Security.
Leta — Leta Technology is a software development company that creates supply chain and logistics software to enable the efficient and automated movement of goods.

Newtown Partners is a venture capital firm that actively invests in emerging, disruptive technology startups.

Investment focus

Logistics, Health Care, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
South Africa, Ghana, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

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.
Complete Farmer — We are providing cutting-edge technological farming protocols and innovations with a unique business model and logistics that are revolutionizing...

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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Mexico, Nigeria, United States

Portfolio highlights

Zenpli — Zenpli makes it easy for enterprises and startups in LatAm to manage KYC and fraud complexity through a single modular API, no matter the use case.
Revio — Subscription billing and payments made easy.
Circadian Technologies GmbH — Circadian Technologies accelerates the energy transition in frontier markets with a SaaS business model, empowering solar developers & energy service companies to reduce operating costs and grow revenue with a data driven platform and proprietary IoT hardware.Circadian transforms the entire value chain of its customers by uniquely providingan end-to-end solution to better design, finance, operate and maintain decentralized renewable energy systems for commercial & industrial sites.

Speedinvest is one of Europe’s most active early-stage investors, with more than €1bn AUM, 40 investors, and offices in Berlin, London, Munich, Paris, Vienna and San Francisco. Your success is our priority, so we don’t just send some money and "check in" at board meetings. Our mission is to empower you with game-changing support throughevery stage of your journey. Our focused investment teams know your industry inside and out. Their Deep Tech, Fintech, Industrial Tech, Network Effects, Digital Health and Subscriptions experience, know-how and deep networks are yours from day one. You also have full access to our in-house Platform+ team of operational experts who can provide tailored growth marketing, people (HR), US business development, and networking support throughout every stage of your journey.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Germany, United Kingdom, Austria

Portfolio highlights

Lapse — The new social camera for friends, not followers
Inkitt — Publish stories online, join our author subscription program, and read books online for free. Join the Inkitt community for writers and readers today.
Necture — Ubiq enables mobility sharing operators to become profitable. Through demand prediction, demand fullfillment, predictive charging, dynamic pricing and policy compliance we provide tools for operational excellence.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

Indemn — Buy insurance online
Khyaal — Khyaal is a full-stack digital solution for senior citizens designed and developed to improve their quality of life. We facilitate on-demand services and organise fun and engaging activities for seniors. Being a part of the Khyaal family means making a difference in the world by enriching the lives of the elderly. If selflessness and empathy is atrait that you carry and would want to put at work, then you will find Khyaal as the perfect place to invest your valuable time.At Khyaal, we value your individuality and the skills that you bring to the table. We also believe in the power of collective consciousness to serve others and make their lives easier and wholesome. We want all members of the Khyaal family to feel respected personally and professionally. Our working environment will always make way for new ideas, ownership and collective growth.
Segwise — Segwise is an AI powered observability platform for Product Growth teams.

Imperial Bank combines the collective skills, relationships and resources of Nedbank Limited and Imperial Holdings Limited to bring you an innovative finance partner. We are a focused, entrepreneurial team that is managed in accordance with sound banking and risk management principles.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Mining
Series A, Debt Financing, Seed
South Africa, Australia, United States

Portfolio highlights

KTO Digital — J-Cred is a solution developed by KTO Digital to help organisations make informed decisions driven by digital access to data and aiding in business risk management. The solution is a data aggregation platform that is applicable to multiple business units such as; procurement, HR, finance, forensic auditing, governance and compliance.
Ukheshe Technologies — Ukheshe Technologies is a technology company with a single API to integrate our fully digital financial services, including wallets, payment innovations and card issuing.
Airports Company South Africa — Airports Company of South Africa Limited operates nine of South Africa’s airports. Its head office is in the Maples Office Park.

Two Hop is a VC fund focusing exclusively on startups providing the infrastructure for the next generation secure internet. While the Web 2.0 democratized many power structures and created new opportunities, the economic engine is largely privatized and monopolized. Facebook, Uber and AirBnB have created private networks for public infrastructurewhich they dominate. Web 3 is the antithesis and promises to return the internet to the hands of users through the combination of blockchain and internet. It’s about multiple profit centers sharing value across an open network. Two Hop believes the BSV blockchain is best suited for becoming the backbone of Web 3.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Software, Bitcoin
Seed, Series A
The Netherlands, United States, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Vaionex — Next Generation Blockchain Applications. We are building the infrastructure and services that will power the new internet and economic system.
BikeFair — BikeFair is an online marketplace for comfortable buying and selling verified non-stolen bicycles.The idea of BikeFair arose from our personal need to buy a cheap (yet usable) bike for everyday use in the Netherlands. That felt like an extremely hard & annoying thing to do with the existent tools. We are also fed up by the number of bikes weand our friends have already lost to theft, and we realized there is a way out of this: we can cut the demand for stolen bikes by creating a nice and easy-to-use alternative.Designed to prevent trading stolen bikes, BikeFair offers an easy and fun to use service alternative to the shady dude trying to sell you an obviously stolen bike on the corner at midnight.
mintBlue — Tailored for ambitious organisations, our enterprise-first solutions notarise data for auditability, access controls, timestamping and secure sharing.

Fireball Capital operates as a venture capital firm.

Investment focus

Email, Internet, Payments
Series A
South Africa

Portfolio highlights

Sendmarc — Stop cyber criminals from sending emails using your domain and protect your customers, suppliers and employees from cyber attacks with DMARC Security.
Ukheshe Technologies — Ukheshe Technologies is a technology company with a single API to integrate our fully digital financial services, including wallets, payment innovations and card issuing.

TotalEnergies Ventures is the venture capital arm of Total.As part of Total's commitment to a better energy future, TotalEnergies Ventures is focused on finding, funding and fostering high-potential start-ups which will contribute to creating a low carbon future.Current areas of interest include Renewables, Distributed Energy, NewMobility, Energy Access, Energy Storage, Bio-Plastics, Circular Economy, Carbon Capture and Hydrogen.

Investment focus

Energy, Renewable Energy, Transportation
Series B, Funding Round, Series C
United States, France, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Autogrid — Building a Resilient and Sustainable Grid with Distributed Energy Resources. Enabling a smarter, cleaner, more distributed electric power grid.
45-8 ENERGY — 45-8 ENERGY is exploring eco-friendly helium for uses in many industries.
Ampersand — Ampersand catalyzes and power mass-market electric mobility. By supplying the battery swap network and operating system the company makes sustainable mobility rapidly accessible and affordable for developing markets, to improve livelihoods and the environment. With over a million km already covered by e-motorcycles in Africa using our plug-and-playpowertrain and energy network.

We help the daring build legendary companies.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, China, India

Portfolio highlights

Zafran Security — Zafran offers Risk Mitigation which leverages current security policies to protect enterprises during crucial exploitation periods.
Grow Therapy — Find a psychiatrist or therapist near you who takes your insurance. Finding the right therapist and scheduling your session is easy, safe, and secure. Book today!
Smiths International Group — a diverse conglomerate holding company founded and operated by me. It aims to acquire and manage a wide range of businesses with a focus on long-term growth and profitability. The company’s business model prioritizes sustainable value creation over short-term gains, and it seeks to invest in businesses with strong management teams, competitiveadvantages, and potent

UNCOVERED FUND is a venture capital firm that leads the creation of industries in Africa and other emerging countries.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Banking
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Nigeria, Kenya, United States

Portfolio highlights

Mecho — Mecho is an on-demand auto repair and maintenance platform for individuals and businesses in Africa.
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.
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.

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.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Video Streaming, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, South Africa

Portfolio highlights

ROW8 — ROW8 is a subscription-free streaming service that gives moviegoers access to new hollywood films straight from theatres, as well as a curated selection of the best hit movies of all time.
Centbee — Simple, friendly and a feature-packed Digital Cash wallet.
Buzzmint — Buzzmint is a BSV tech platform that enables brands, creators, media specific businesses and individuals to simply and quickly ideate, create and deploy utility led NFT/Token projects.

Scaling purpose-driven businesses to achieve leaps of growth, profitability and impact.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
Private Equity, Funding Round, Series D
India, Ghana, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

PasarPolis — PasarPolis is an insurtech startup that provides an online insurance comparison platform for individuals. The company offers quotes for health insurance, life insurance, car insurance, personal insurance, property insurance, and claims processing services.The company was founded by Cleosent Randing in 2015 and is headquartered in Jakarta,Indonesia.
MedGenome — MedGenome is a developer of sequencing genomics-based diagnostics and research platform intended to improve global health. The company's platform applies genomics technologies, bioinformatics, computing, and big data analytics to the genetically diverse and large population to understand the genetic basis of cancer, metabolic disorders, eyedisorders, and other rare diseases, enabling the healthcare industry to develop deep insights into diseases at the genetic and molecular level.
Shubham Housing Development Finance Company — Shubham Housing Development Finance Company was incorporated with a mission to provide Home loans and Home Improvement loans to customers who would normally fall outside the ambit of traditional lending institutions. Shubham is amongst the first organisations in the country focused on helping urban low-income and informal income families own a homeby providing formal credit. Shubham's operating model seeks to transcend document based underwriting and follow an interview based approach to understand the customer's income and expense flows.

Backing high-impact technologies that reshape industries Building growth

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Banking
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United Kingdom, Malta, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Capitalise.com — We've partnered with 100+ UK lenders to offer business loans and cash flow solutions to SMEs. Find the funding that best matches your needs today.
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.
Zilch — Buy now, pay later with Zilch. Shop thousands of brands online or in store and pay off your purchase over 6 weeks in 4 instalments.

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.

Investment focus

Bitcoin, FinTech, Ethereum
Series A
South Africa

Portfolio highlights

VALR — Buy and sell bitcoin, ethereum & more | Pay anyone for free with VALR Pay

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.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

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.

The art and science of entrepreneurship

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Mexico, India

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.
Trebellar — Trebellar provides advanced data analytics for building occupancy, energy efficiency, and climate optimization. Maximize your workplace productivity with our intelligent building solutions.
Operant — Operant.AI is an intelligence platform for collection agents and customer success teams.

Circle helps businesses and developers harness the power of digital dollar stablecoins for payments and internet commerce worldwide. Learn more today!

Investment focus

Blockchain, Financial Services, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

zkMe — zkMe operates as a zero-knowledge Identity Oracle provider.
Hourglass — Our mission at the Hourglass Collective is to grow adoption of real-world blockchain utility by incubating projects that bridge the crypto space with mainstream entertainment, popular apps, major retail brands and large-scale events
Ambient — Swap cryptocurrencies like a pro with Ambient. Decentralized trading is now better than ever.

NuState Capital as private equity investor is to generate attractive returns through positive social transformation.

Investment focus

Payments, Financial Services
Seed
South Africa

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.

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.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Nigeria, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Shuttlers — Shuttlers is a platform that offers mobility solutions by providing scheduled bus-sharing services for the professionals within the region.
Snowstorm — Snowstorm is a decentralized microproxy network. Already proven in crisis zones, it must now evolve into a next-generation system and internet freedom tool.
Senga Technologies — Welcome to Senga, custom-built, with love, for businesses shipping in Africa.

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.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Series A
Israel, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Lendai — Are you a foreign investor that needs a loan? Lendai offers the best rates for US mortgages tailored to foreign investors! Apply now.
Swish.ai — Swish.ai provides a hyper-automation platform that works with any existing ITSM tool to uncover and act on insights in real-time, accelerating ticket resolution time and reducing costs.
PicUP — PicUP is an AI-powered optimization and personalization platform for outbound sales and customer service calls

GalloProvincialis

Investment focus

Payments, Financial Services
Seed
South Africa, The Netherlands

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.

Beryl Group is a proprietary investments company with equity holdings in logistics, energy, mining, and financial sector companies.

Investment focus

Banking, FinTech, Finance
Funding Round
South Africa

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.

Still Capital Partners is an investment firm.

Investment focus

FinTech, Banking, Finance
Series A, Funding Round
South Africa, United States

Portfolio highlights

BrightPlan — BrightPlan's financial wellness solution is built to lead all employees to financial success on their own terms at every stage of life.
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.
Uncle Nearest — The best whiskey maker the world never knew. Uncle Nearest 1856 Premium Whiskey. Visit one of these locations or buy online. Enjoy responsibly.

Zip is an online payments technology provider that offers consumers credit options for online shopping. The company was founded in 2013 by Larry Diamond, Niamh Mc Enaney, and Peter Gray and is headquartered in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Investment focus

FinTech, Payments, Mobile Payments
Series C, Funding Round, Corporate Round
India, South Africa, Czech Republic

Portfolio highlights

Payflex — Payflex offers an online payment gateway solution to South African merchants that allows shoppers to pay over 6 weeks, interest-free.
ZestMoney — Enjoy the convenience of shopping for electronic gadgets, fashion, travel, education on EMI without credit card. No debit card or credit score required!
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.

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.

Investment focus

Internet, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
Seed
South Africa

Portfolio highlights

Ovex — OVEX is a cryptocurrency exchange company.

Realm Digital is a digital strategy and software development company in Cape Town. We specialise in digital solutions with a focus on custom development.

Investment focus

Payments, Financial Services
Seed
South Africa

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.

Seed capital for technology startups globally.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Nigeria, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Terraa — Terraa is a B2B distribution platform in Moroccan.
OmniBiz — Omnibiz is a digital platform for small businesses willing to attract new customers.
Revivo — Revivo is an online marketplace for electronics spare parts, tools & accessories.

Grindstone is a structured entrepreneurship development programme that assists high-growth innovation-driven companies to get the fundamental building blocks in place to scale quickly and become sustainable and fundable.

Investment focus

Payments, Software, Analytics
Seed, Funding Round
South Africa

Portfolio highlights

Locstat — We illuminate the concealed risks and opportunities in the dark spaces of your digital environment
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.

Boost VC: The Pre-Seed Fund Making Sci-FI a Reality. Investing in crypto, virtual reality, augmented reality, AI, Ocean Tech, Space Tech, human augmentation, exoskeletons and more.

Investment focus

Software, Virtual Reality, Blockchain
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

forml — Discover how our platform can help your business harness the power of Machine Learning and drive growth. Get started today!
AstroBeam — AstroBeam is focused on creating more comfortable, more accessible, and more human ways to hangout and have fun with friends in VR!
Taxa Technologies — Designer probiotics for personal care

Discover the latest in electronic & smart appliance technology with Samsung. Find the next big thing from smartphones & tablets to laptops & tvs & more.

Investment focus

Software, Manufacturing, Artificial Intelligence
Funding Round, Grant, Series B
United States, Brazil, China

Portfolio highlights

SnapAds — SnapAds platform enables SMB businesses to effectively and economically target customers within a 4-mile radius by offering standardized cash rewards across all participating businesses. Customers benefit from a clear understanding of what they can earn and where they can earn it.
Perplexity AI — Perplexity is a search engine platform that uses artificial intelligence to provide large language models and search engines. The company's platform enables the development of beneficial artificial general intelligence, as well as an open-source environment that is accessible to the public, allowing clients to develop skills and knowledge inartificial intelligence.
Hammerspace — Hammerspace helps unify data access across data center clusters and clouds. Any application, any user, any data center, any clou service, anywhere.

10x Group is a group of serial entrepreneurs and founders investing in founders of digital start-ups in Europe and Silicon Valley.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Germany, India

Portfolio highlights

enmacc — The enmacc OTC platform is a energy trading platform for the future of the global energy markets. We are building a next-generation trading platform, powered digital RFQ technology, that will help you to trade smarter, faster and better.
finway — finway provides financial guidence to SMEs, plan & control all expenses and budgets in one tool.
Quantum Systems — Our vision is to become the global leader in providing aerial data for decision making by the use of our drones.

Development Partners International (“DPI”) is a leading Pan-African private equity firm, with strong local knowledge and an established track record of investing in Africa.DPI was established in 2007 by co-founders Miles Morland and Runa Alam, both pioneers of African investment, with a vision to build a leading pan-African private equity firm.Today, DPI manages over US$1.1bn of assets across two private equity funds.Through its world class team with over 100 years of aggregate African investment experience, DPI has invested in 19 portfolio companies operating across 27 countries.The investment team is 100% African and over 40% of the DPI team is made up of women. They possess the local network, knowledge and language skills to source and invest in transactions throughout the continent.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Manufacturing, Retail
Private Equity, Funding Round, Series A
Egypt, Morocco, South Africa

Portfolio highlights

Kazyon — Kazyon is the largest Egyptian discount supermarket chain with over 450 stores in 17 governorates.
Pan African Towers — Pan African Towers Limited, is a telecommunications infrastructure and wireless service facilitator.
Marcyrl Pharmaceutical — Life is our Vision - Health is our Mission

R-Ventures is a global investor in high-impact tech startups driving change and economic growth through emerging market investments.

Investment focus

Banking, FinTech, Finance
Seed, Funding Round
Senegal, South Africa

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.
Yobante Express — Yobante Express offers a web & mobile platform that connects retailers, businesses & individuals with carriers for point-to-point delivery.

Hlayisani Growth Fund is focussed on mid-market, high growth private equity investments focussed on South Africa with an allowance for Sub-Saharan Africa and East African countries.

Investment focus

Education, Apps, SaaS
Seed, Funding Round
South Africa

Portfolio highlights

GoMetro — GoMetro designs deploy and operate flexible mobility platforms. Their proprietary technology stack empowers city leaders, transport managers, corporates, retail centres, property developers, airports and downtown to introduce bold new mobility strategies. Their connected transport digital platform equips transport planners to respond to thechallenges of increased congestion, aged infrastructure, disruptive mobility players, self-driving vehicles and a lack of quality public transport services.
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 group — SCHOOLS Schools Communication Platforms and School Management Software COMMUNITIES Community & Internal Business Communication Platforms MEDIA Let your brand be seen Advertise on

Harambeans are African innovators who have pledged to “work together as one” to build Africa’s future. Over the last decade, Harambeans has spawned a series of tech-enabled ventures such as Andela, Flutterwave, and Yoco, which have collectively generated over 3000 jobs, and raised over $700m from Google Ventures, CRE Ventures and Accel.

Investment focus

Supply Chain Management, Transportation, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa

Portfolio highlights

Releaf — We are industrializing food processing in Africa. We've led 1000+ smallholder farmers to provide food factories with >7.5 million kilograms of quality crops.
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.
SHYFT Power Solutions — SHYFT builds industrial-grade IoT and integrated software to connect and intelligently manage distributed energy resources (DERs) in markets that struggle with resiliency. SHYFT is pioneering the development of integrated decentralized power systems in emerging markets like Nigeria, leapfrogging over traditional central infrastructure and enablingDERs to scale and support existing but unreliable grids.

Apis Partners LLP backs growth financial services innovators who create transformative impact in their communities.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Payments, FinTech
Private Equity, Series B, Funding Round
India, Singapore, South Africa

Portfolio highlights

TymeBank — TymeBank is a fully black-owned and controlled investment company based in South Africa. It is an exclusively digital retail bank that aims to provide every South African accessible and affordable banking so that they can take part in, grow and benefit from the country’s economy.
Money View — Money View is an application that is able to track and organize expenses, bills, and account balances. It is able to derive finance information from SMSs.Money View enables its users to set and follow budgets, view their bank account balance, obtain reminders about bills, and spit bills with the other users. It also facilitates Savings+ andTaxSaver+ that allows its users to save money.Money View was founded in April 2014 by Sanjay Aggarwal and Puneet Agarwal. It is based in Bangalore, Karnataka.
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.

We are a venture capital firm that invests in fintech companies with unstoppable founders. We provide early stage (no seed) capital funding.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Series A, Series B, Seed
The Netherlands, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Yoco — Yoco is a point-of-sale payments provider for small businesses in Africa. Yoco helps 100,000 small businesses in South Africa get paid in-store, online, and on the go. Yoco was named one of the top 250 most promising fintech companies by CB Insights for the last 3 years running.The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Cape Town, SouthAfrica.
Gotrade — Making investing fun, fair and simple. Join over 500,000 investors investing in fractions of companies like Google, Apple & Netflix from as little as $1.
The Social Handshake — With Payroll Giving you make it easier and more financially attractive for your employees to give to charity. Directly from their salary.

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.

Investment focus

Payments, Financial Services, Information Technology
Funding Round, Series A, Private Equity
South Africa, United States, Russian Federation

Portfolio highlights

Adumo — We are your expert partner in payments, enabling you to seamlessly and securely accept payments in-store and online with our true omni-channel experience. Never miss a sale with South Africa's largest independent payments processor.
VantagePay — VantagePay provides white-label payment and technology solutions to the Banking, Telco, Financial Services, and Consumer Product Industries.
Momint — Momint is the Web3 investment platform of the future. The safest and easiest to use NFT marketplace in the world. Discover the real-world potential of NFTs.

Imvelo Ventures is a venture capital and growth equity firm in South Africa managed by Capitec Bank.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Funding Round
South Africa

Portfolio highlights

BancX — bancX is a modular, as-a-service platform for banks, fintechs, lenders, and retailers to build or extend their offering to meet market demand.
Lipa Payments — Lipa [ lee-puh ] Payments is a payment software solution for banks and fintech's that allows small merchants to perform digital transactions using NFC and Bluetooth technology (Tap on Phone). We remove the need for additional payment terminal hardware. Start transacting in less than hour with our SDK.
The Cape Town Stock Exchange — The Cape Town Stock Exchange is a south Africa’s stock exchange for small- and medium-sized businesses.

Nexus Ventures is an investment firm that invests in transformational businesses and creates meaningful partnerships with entrepreneurs. They support these ventures through its mentorship, business and technical know-how, vast network, and capital. The firm was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Ankara, Turkey.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, SaaS
Seed, Angel, Series A
Turkey, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Rapido — Rapido bike taxi provides the best intra-city commuting services and is currently operating in 100+ cities. It is considered as the most affordable choice.
Iambic Therapeutics — Iambic has created a cutting-edge AI-driven platform to tackle the most challenging design problems in drug discovery and address unmet patient need.
Liminal — Create Multisig wallets for Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ripple using hardware wallets. We make it extremely easy and secure for individuals and businesses to manage their digital assets without giving up control and ownership.

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