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Top 50 Payments VC Funds & Investors in South Africa (November 2026)

The most active venture capital funds investing in South Africa Payments startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in South Africa Payments startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Everywhere Ventures
VC Fund
10 United States, United Kingdom, Australia Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence $250k–$20M
CRE Venture Capital
VC Fund
8 Nigeria, South Africa, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, Software, FinTech $250k–$21M
TLcom Capital Partners
VC Fund
7 Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Seed Mobile, Software, Information Technology $1.9M–$20M
Launch Africa
VC Fund
5 Nigeria, South Africa, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology $200k–$4M
Raba Partnership
VC Fund
4 United States, South Africa, Egypt Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Finance $600k–$32M
Allan Gray
VC Fund
3 South Africa, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series C FinTech, Payments, Health Care $563k–$100M
Musha Ventures
VC Fund
3 United States, Nigeria, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Financial Services, FinTech $100k–$10M
UW Ventures
VC Fund
3 South Africa Seed, Series A FinTech, Payments, Mobile Payments $563k–$31M
Flourish Ventures
VC Fund
3 United States, India, Brazil Series A, Seed, Series B Financial Services, FinTech, Finance $1.3M–$65M
Kalon Venture Partners
VC Fund
3 South Africa, Luxembourg, United States Seed, Series A Artificial Intelligence, Apps, Internet $715k–$11M
FSD Africa
VC Fund
3 Kenya, Ethiopia, United States Grant, Venture - Series Unknown, Seed Financial Services, Energy, Finance $10k–$10M
Crossfin Technology
VC Fund
3 South Africa, Singapore, United States Seed, Series A Payments, FinTech, Financial Services
Speedinvest
VC Fund
3 United Kingdom, Germany, Austria Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence $411k–$32M
Village Global
VC Fund
3 United States, United Kingdom, India Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services $250k–$23M
Alameda Research
VC Fund
3 United States, Singapore, United Kingdom Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services $250k–$40M
Firstminute Capital
VC Fund
3 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $650k–$21M
Imvelo Ventures
VC Fund
3 South Africa Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series B Financial Services, FinTech, Software $302k–$5M
Invictus Capital
VC Fund
2 Italy, South Africa Seed, Series A, Series B SaaS, Internet, Software
RaliCap
VC Fund
2 United States, Mexico, Nigeria Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel FinTech, Financial Services, Payments $300k–$5.5M
Partech
VC Fund
2 France, United States, Germany Seed, Series A, Series B Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence $800k–$56M
Newtown Partners
VC Fund
2 United States, South Africa, Ghana Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Logistics, Software, Health Care $600k–$30M
FMO
VC Fund
2 India, Kenya, The Netherlands Debt Financing, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown Financial Services, Finance, Renewable Energy $1.5M–$200M
Goodwell Investments
VC Fund
2 Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya Series A, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown FinTech, Financial Services, Banking $140k–$26M
Zip
VC Fund
2 India, South Africa, Czech Republic Series C, Seed FinTech, Payments, E-Commerce $22M–$50M
PayPal Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, United Kingdom, India Series B, Series A, Series C Financial Services, FinTech, Software $11M–$260M
Quona Capital
VC Fund
2 India, Brazil, Indonesia Series A, Seed, Series B Financial Services, FinTech, Finance $3M–$87M
EchoVC Partners
VC Fund
2 United States, Nigeria, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Information Technology, Financial Services, FinTech $200k–$22M
Integrity Seed Ventures
VC Fund
2 South Africa Seed FinTech, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
Ayre Group
VC Fund
2 United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland Seed, Series A Blockchain, Bitcoin, Video Streaming $363k–$8.7M
Technology Innovation Agency
VC Fund
2 South Africa Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed Information Technology, Software, Electronics $25k–$1.3M
Rou Capital
VC Fund
2 South Africa Pre-Seed FinTech, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency $50k–$460k
Innovus
VC Fund
2 South Africa Seed, Venture - Series Unknown DRM, SaaS, Bitcoin $125k–$1.3M
Bittrex Global
VC Fund
2 South Africa Seed, Series A, Series B Bitcoin, FinTech, Ethereum
Future Africa
VC Fund
2 Nigeria, United States, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology $100k–$40M
500 Fintech
VC Fund
2 United States, Vietnam, South Africa Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed FinTech, Financial Services, Payments $500k–$11M
Apis Partners
VC Fund
2 India, Singapore, South Africa Private Equity, Series B, Series C Financial Services, FinTech, Payments $10M–$120M
Enza Capital
VC Fund
2 Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, E-Commerce, FinTech $120k–$31M
4Di Capital
VC Fund
2 South Africa, United States, Kenya Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Financial Services, Mobile $677k–$47M
Two Culture Capital
VC Fund
2 United States, Mexico, India Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence $350k–$25M
Norrsken VC
VC Fund
2 Sweden, United Kingdom, Germany Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care $893k–$156M
HAVAÍC
VC Fund
2 South Africa, United States, Kenya Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A Software, Health Care, FinTech $83k–$15M
Norrsken22
VC Fund
2 South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria Seed, Series A, Series B Financial Services, Payments, Banking $2.4M–$55M
Nedbank
VC Fund
2 South Africa, Australia, United States Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Series A Software, Information Technology, Mining $2M–$700M
54 Collective
VC Fund
1 Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa Seed, Pre-Seed Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech $40k–$4M
Beryl Group
VC Fund
1 South Africa Banking, FinTech, Finance
Samsung Electronics
VC Fund
1 United States, South Korea, Brazil Grant, Series B Software, Manufacturing, Artificial Intelligence
First circle capital
VC Fund
1 Nigeria, Egypt, United States Pre-Seed, Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
GalloProvincialis
VC Fund
1 South Africa, The Netherlands Seed Payments, Software, Logistics $1.5M–$1.8M
Skywell Capital Partners
VC Fund
1 Israel, United States, Canada Seed, Series A Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning $250k–$35M
Sequoia Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, China, India Series A, Series B, Series C Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $6M–$200M
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Everywhere Ventures
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 10 investments in South Africa Payments startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Australia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1308
  • 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.
  • Netsec — Professional cybersecurity and managed IT services to protect your business 24/7.
  • Electric Plant Company — We are a plant intelligence company transforming plant care today and accelerating the techno-biophillic future of tomorrow.
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CRE Venture Capital
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 8 investments in South Africa Payments startups

Founded in 2015, CRE Venture Capital invests in early stage tech companies that are levered to Africa. CRE is headquartered in the New York metro area, with a regional office in Lagos, Nigeria.

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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TLcom Capital Partners
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 7 investments in South Africa Payments startups

TLCOM finds and funds exceptional founders building technology companies across Africa. Seed to Series C. Lagos, Nairobi, London.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile, Software, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 78
  • Round size: Seed $1.9M–$8.5M; Series A $3.8M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 55% lead, 45% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $150M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Satlyt — Satlyt helps satellites run AI and applications onboard, process data in orbit and work together as a network.
  • 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.
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Launch Africa
VC Fund · Ebène, Plaines Wilhems, Mauritius · 5 investments in South Africa Payments startups, 6 in the past 12 months

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Nigeria, South Africa, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 218
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$4M; Pre-Seed $200k–$1.8M; Venture - Series Unknown $200k–$500k
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Zazu — Manza is an all-in-one financial platform for African SMEs, helping businesses manage payments, automate cash flow, and access real-time financial insights from one simple dashboard.
  • Fincart — Fincart is a leading shipping platform in Egypt, connecting your business with top courier services, automating operations, and helping you scale your eCommerce logistics.
  • Udu Technologies — Explore GPU cloud and hardware through AGH Cloud, UduTech's flagship product, and AI advisory for teams in the United States, Africa, the Caribbean and beyond.
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Raba Partnership
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 4 investments in South Africa Payments startups

The Raba Partnership, Raba Capital, Raba

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Investment focus

  • 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 — Accept cryptocurrency payments in your business with instant ePOS transactions under 0.5 seconds. Multi-currency support with stablecoin settlement to ZAR.
  • 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.
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Allan Gray
VC Fund · Alfred, New York, United States · 3 investments in South Africa Payments startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Payments, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: South Africa, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Round size: Seed $563k–$4M; Series A $1.3M–$31M; Series C $70M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • Pan African Resources — Pan African and its subsidiaries are a South African based gold mining group which produces in excess of 200,000oz of gold per annum. The group also produces 10,000oz of PGM’s and approximately 400,000t of saleable coal annually.
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Musha Ventures
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 3 investments in South Africa Payments startups

Seed capital for technology startups globally.

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Investment focus

  • 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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UW Ventures
VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 3 investments in South Africa Payments startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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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Flourish Ventures
VC Fund · Redwood City, California, United States · 3 investments in South Africa Payments startups, 13 in the past 12 months

We are an early-stage global venture capital firm investing in fintech founders.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, India, Brazil

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 260
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$8.5M; Series A $3.3M–$25M; Series B $10M–$65M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $350M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Spiko — Cash management for companies and individuals. Open your account in under 5 minutes, earn daily yield on your treasury and access cash anytime.
  • Madica — Home for Africa's pre-seed stage ventures
  • Parallel Loop — Parallel Loop is a software engineering company that builds AI solutions, and custom software for startups and enterprises.
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Kalon Venture Partners
VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 3 investments in South Africa Payments startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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FSD Africa
VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya · 3 investments in South Africa Payments startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Energy, Finance
  • Stage:Grant, Venture - Series Unknown, Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, Ethiopia, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 23
  • Round size: Seed $4M–$6M; Grant $10k–$134k; Venture - Series Unknown $4.5M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 78% lead, 22% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Miarakap — Miarakap is the first impact investment company dedicated to financing and supporting Small and Medium Enterprises with high potential in Madagascar.
  • Dhamana Guarantee — Dhamana provides guarantees that unlock local currency financing, mobilise domestic capital and support sustainable growth across East Africa.
  • Africa Renewables Katalyst — Helping African renewable energy projects monetize their clean power through international certification.
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Crossfin Technology
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 3 investments in South Africa Payments startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Speedinvest
VC Fund · Vienna, Wien, Austria · 3 investments in South Africa Payments startups

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, and top-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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, Austria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 684
  • Round size: Seed $798k–$7.9M; Pre-Seed $411k–$3.8M; Series A $4.1M–$32M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% 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 — Polaron connects process, structure, and performance using AI and image data to accelerate how materials are characterised, designed, and manufactured.
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Village Global
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in South Africa Payments startups, 14 in the past 12 months

Early stage venture capital backed by some of the world's best entrepreneurs.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 515
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$10M; Pre-Seed $250k–$3.5M; Series A $7M–$23M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $125M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • General Compute — General Compute provides an ASIC-based cloud inference platform focused on running AI inference workloads. The company offers an OpenAI-compatible API that allows users to access hosted large language models and switch from existing GPU-based providers by changing the base URL and API key. It supports deploying both its own supported models andcustomer-supplied models on its infrastructure, emphasizing high token throughput and low time to first token. General Compute also offers dedicated custom deployments with service-level agreements, custom scaling, and guaranteed capacity for production workloads. Its infrastructure targets use cases such as AI agents, coding assistants, and real-time voice applications that require low-latency, high-throughput inference.
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Alameda Research
VC Fund · Central and Western, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong · 3 investments in South Africa Payments startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Firstminute Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in South Africa Payments startups, 13 in the past 12 months

firstminute is a seed fund backed by over 130 unicorn founders and a world-class community.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 223
  • Round size: Seed $2.5M–$10M; Pre-Seed $650k–$5.7M; Series A $6.4M–$21M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $100M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Vocca — Voice AI for healthcare: 1,500+ practices, 20+ specialties. Vocca answers every patient call, books into your software and follows up with patients, 24/7.
  • Clarity Care AI — Clarity Care AI develops healthcare artificial intelligence software that supports care delivery and operations. The platform assists clinicians and care teams with documentation, task management, and communication around patient needs. Features include note drafting, summarization of patient information, and notifications that flag items requiring follow-up. Integrations connect to existing tools to streamline handoffs and keep records consistent across teams. Analytics highlight trends in patient status and operational workload to inform daily decisions. Implementation services, training resources, and ongoing product support help healthcare organizations adopt and use the software.
  • Enact Intelligence — Enact Intelligence builds underlying technology for general-purpose robots, reimagining the entire robotic stack from the ground up to solve the ultimate bottleneck in robotics: dexterity. Rather than relying primarily on vision models, Enact builds proprietary actuators that measure force directly inside the joints. This creates a human-like "nervous system" and muscle feedback loop, allowing robots to efficiently learn and robustly execute highly precise, contact-rich physical tasks across industrial, retail, and manufacturing environments.
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Imvelo Ventures
VC Fund · Sandown, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 3 investments in South Africa Payments startups

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

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Investment focus

  • 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 — From call centre analytics to speech APIs, we help African businesses deliver smarter, more inclusive customer experiences
  • 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.
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Invictus Capital
VC Fund · George Town, Midland, Cayman Islands · 2 investments in South Africa Payments startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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 — Will Media is an online community aims to raise awareness of everyday facts and inspire change for a more sustainable world.
  • 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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RaliCap
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in South Africa Payments startups

Rally Cap is a global community of tech folks investing in an exclusive portfolio of top-tier early stage venture funds in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Mexico, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 64
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$5.5M; Pre-Seed $300k–$3.7M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $2.5M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Fronte — Fronte is a cross-border financial platform designed to help families manage shared finances, recurring payments, and expenses across different countries.
  • 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.
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Partech
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 2 investments in South Africa Payments startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: France, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 714
  • Round size: Seed $800k–$9M; Series A $4M–$28M; Series B $9M–$56M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% 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!
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Newtown Partners
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 2 investments in South Africa Payments startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Logistics, Software, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United States, South Africa, Ghana

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 38
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$5.3M; Series A $3.3M–$30M; Venture - Series Unknown $2M–$2.5M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% 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.
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FMO
VC Fund · The Hague, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands · 2 investments in South Africa Payments startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Finance, Renewable Energy
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: India, Kenya, The Netherlands

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 212
  • Round size: Series B $5.3M–$46M; Debt Financing $5M–$200M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.5M–$200M
  • Lead/follow: 55% lead, 45% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Nefer Menya — Nefer Menya is a joint venture between Infinity Power and HAU Energy B.V.
  • Coris Holding — Coris Holding is a financial institution that was established with the motive to provide support to SMEs and SMIs.
  • 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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Goodwell Investments
VC Fund · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands · 2 investments in South Africa Payments startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Banking
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 52
  • Round size: Series A $1.5M–$12M; Series B $2M–$26M; Venture - Series Unknown $140k–$1.8M
  • Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% 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.
  • East Africa Fruits — EA Fruits Farm is a business that engages in the large production and distribution of fruits and vegetables. As fruits are an essential part of a human's diet for maintenance of good health and wellbeing, the business will take part in providing the opportunity for Tanzanian citizens and other people overseas to get such fruits and motivatemore people to increase their intake of fruits whereby the company will strive to increase the supply to match the increased demand for fresh fruits and vegetables. The business envisions to be among the leading producers, distributors, and exporters of the fruits within the Country and overseas. The company is a highly profitable and viable business that expects to rise to about 5,000 USD from its current small-scaled operations, while more than 450,000 USD will be raised as a result of further expansion within a period of 2-4 years.
  • 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.
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Zip
VC Fund · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · 2 investments in South Africa Payments startups

Zip is a leading digital financial services company providing fair and seamless solutions that simplify how people pay.

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Investment focus

  • 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 — Shop your favourite brands with ZestMoney. Enjoy easy EMIs, flexible payment options, and a seamless shopping experience across leading merchants.
  • 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.
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PayPal Ventures
VC Fund · San Jose, California, United States · 2 investments in South Africa Payments startups, 10 in the past 12 months

PayPal Ventures is the global corporate venture arm of PayPal.

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Investment focus

  • 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,They don’t issue a currency, operate a blockchain, or take principal custody. They keep your customers. Independent settlement operators complete delivery. Atum layer makes that coordination inspectable and verifiable from the start.
  • 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.
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Quona Capital
VC Fund · Washington, District of Columbia, United States · 2 investments in South Africa Payments startups, 10 in the past 12 months

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: India, Brazil, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 219
  • 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

  • JULO — JULO provides affordable unsecured personal loan (KTA) exclusively to smartphone users.They strive to provide low cost loan product to the masses while ensuring that it's economically viable to their lender partners. This is achieved by exercising prudent underwriting assessments to ensure that approved applicants are both able and willing topay back.They also reward positive behavior by giving cashback bonus and allowing good customers to borrow a higher amount at lower interest rate at loan maturity.
  • 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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EchoVC Partners
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 2 investments in South Africa Payments startups

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 the business.

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Investment focus

  • 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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Integrity Seed Ventures
VC Fund · 2 investments in South Africa Payments startups

Venture Capital Fund

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Ayre Group
VC Fund · St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada · 2 investments in South Africa Payments startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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 — Prove when your data existed and whether it has changed since registration. Independently verifiable, integrated into your existing workflows.
  • 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.
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Technology Innovation Agency
VC Fund · Pretoria, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 2 investments in South Africa Payments startups

WELCOME TO TIA Innovating Tomorrow Together Welcome to our agency - where ideas are nurtured, innovation is enabled , and impact is realised Through our funding, support programmes, and partnerships, we help innovators move from concept to impact. Whether you are an innovator or a partner, you are welcome here Funding Solutions SUPPORT PROGRAMMES

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Rou Capital
VC Fund · 2 investments in South Africa Payments startups

Fintech, AI, Blockchain

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Innovus
VC Fund · Stellenbosch, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 2 investments in South Africa Payments startups

Innovus is the university industry interaction and innovation company of Stellenbosch University. Innovus is responsible for technology transfer, entrepreneurial support and development, and innovation at the university. They manage the commercialisation of the University’s innovation and intellectual property portfolio through patenting, licensing and the formation of spin-out companies. Innovus is also responsible for all intellectual property and commercialisation aspects in research agreements. Through their LaunchLab business incubator, they offer various services to and opportunities for entrepreneurs. In addition to this their equity holding in the Innovus group of companies is a valuable asset for the university. The University’s Short Courses and Copyright division also falls under Innovus. The company has also been tasked with managing football at Stellenbosch University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: DRM, SaaS, Bitcoin
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $125k–$1.3M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Immobazyme — Immobazyme provides pioneering the biotechnology industry. Using innovative technologies, along with an environmentally responsible outlook.the company aims to develop an analytical laboratory platform as well as serve the industrial sector through the production of high-value products by organic synthesis and environmental remediationtechnologies.
  • Custos Media Technologies — Custos uses imperceptible watermarking technology and the blockchain to protect digital media files from online piracy. Our SaaS solution, Screenercopy.com, helps filmmakers and distributors to securely distribute their content. To date, over 120 000 movies have been distributed and protected with the technology, all without a single leak. Custosis already protecting ebooks too and is partnering with key market players to expand into music and sensitive document protection.
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Bittrex Global
VC Fund · Vaduz, Vaduz, Liechtenstein · 2 investments in South Africa Payments startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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
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Future Africa
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in South Africa Payments startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 93
  • 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
  • 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.
  • Talent Nation — Talent Nation trains and places AI engineers with businesses through its Learn2Earn academy.
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500 Fintech
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in South Africa Payments startups

500 Fintech

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Apis Partners
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in South Africa Payments startups, 11 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
  • Stage:Private Equity, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: India, Singapore, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 79
  • Round size: Series B $10M–$110M; Series C $45M–$78M; Private Equity $10M–$120M
  • Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • BIPO — Streamline your global workforce with BIPO's award-winning HR solutions. HRMS, payroll outsourcing & EOR services across 170+ countries. Get a free demo today!
  • Moneybox — Moneybox is the simple way to save, invest, buy your first home, and combine your old pensions - all with one award-winning app. Download now.
  • Paymentology — Paymentology's card issuing & processing platform helps banks & Fintechs to launch innovative, secure, and flexible card payment products in weeks.
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Enza Capital
VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya · 2 investments in South Africa Payments startups, 7 in the past 12 months

Venture investor in high-growth Founders and Teams using technology to solve large and meaningful problems across Africa

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, E-Commerce, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 55
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$8M; Pre-Seed $120k–$4M; Series A $3.6M–$31M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $58M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Satlyt — Satlyt helps satellites run AI and applications onboard, process data in orbit and work together as a network.
  • Aethex — End to end voice agents localized for your market
  • Talent Nation — Talent Nation trains and places AI engineers with businesses through its Learn2Earn academy.
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4Di Capital
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 2 investments in South Africa Payments startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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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Two Culture Capital
VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 2 investments in South Africa Payments startups

The art and science of entrepreneurship

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Investment focus

  • 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 — Turn decades of satellite and aerial imagery into instant insights. LGND delivers fast, scalable Earth intelligence through intuitive apps, embeddings, and APIs.
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Norrsken VC
VC Fund · Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden · 2 investments in South Africa Payments startups

We are a venture capital fund investigating in Start-Ups solving the worlds biggest problems while building massive businesses.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Sweden, United Kingdom, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 110
  • Round size: Seed $893k–$14M; Series A $4.4M–$52M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.1M–$156M
  • Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% 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
  • Endra — Endra is a purpose-built platform for modern MEP engineering. Generate 3D models and drawings, sync with Revit and enjoy coordinated design workflows.
  • Sava Technology — SAVA is reinventing health monitoring with a novel biosensing platform enabling real-time, affordable, and painless molecular monitoring.
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HAVAÍC
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 2 investments in South Africa Payments startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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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Norrsken22
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 2 investments in South Africa Payments startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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 — Affordable, reliable and clean e-mobility solutions for rapidly growing African cities.
  • Lua — Put agent teams to work on your goals. Lua gets your agents and your team working together in one place, shaped around your business.
  • Shiprazor — Shiprazor is an innovative shipping aggregator that revolutionizes the logistics industry by providing seamless solutions for businesses.
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Nedbank
VC Fund · Sandown, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 2 investments in South Africa Payments startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • 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 — Mining with a greater purpose.
  • PayInc — A purpose-driven payments provider in South Africa for over 50 years.
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54 Collective
VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in South Africa Payments startups

Building and scaling African tech startups with catalytic capital, value-add support and our global network.

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Beryl Group
VC Fund · Sandown, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in South Africa Payments startups

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

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Samsung Electronics
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in South Africa Payments startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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First circle capital
VC Fund · Casablanca, Grand Casablanca, Morocco · 1 investments in South Africa Payments startups

First Circle Capital is a venture capital firm seeding the next fintech generation in Africa.

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Investment focus

  • 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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GalloProvincialis
VC Fund · 1 investments in South Africa Payments startups

GalloProvincialis

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Skywell Capital Partners
VC Fund · Nicosia, Nicosia, Cyprus · 1 investments in South Africa Payments startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Sequoia Capital
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Payments startups

We help the daring build We help the daring build legendary companies from idea to IPO and beyond. companies.

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Payments VC funding in South Africa at a glance

Stats across 117 deals from 153 investors.

153
investors
in South Africa Payments startups
117
deals
in South Africa Payments startups
$2.4M
median round
in South Africa Payments startups
46%
lead investors
lead at least one round
24%
Seed
most common funding stage

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