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Top 50 Payments VC (Venture Capital) Funds in South Africa in April 2025

Last updated: Apr 2025 A list of 50 VC (Venture Capital) 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 (Venture Capital) Funds in South Africa in April 2025

Investor	Payments South Africa investments
CRE Venture Capital	3
Everywhere Ventures	3
UW Ventures	3
Launch Africa	3
Everywhere Ventures	3
TLcom Capital Partners	2
Allan Gray	2
Speedinvest	2
RaliCap	2
Newtown Partners	2
Goodwell Investments	2
4Di Capital	2
Quona Capital	2
Musha Ventures	2
Flourish Ventures	2
Kalon Venture Partners	2
FSD Africa	2
Globivest	1
Ayre Group	1
Alameda Research	1
Nedbank	1
Imvelo Ventures	1
Norrsken22	1
Crossfin Technology	1
Two Culture Capital	1
Harambeans	1
Samsung Electronics	1
Boost VC	1
Invictus Capital	1
TotalEnergies Ventures	1
Velocity Capital Fintech Ventures	1
10x Group	1
Beryl Group	1
UNCOVERED FUND	1
Two Hop Ventures	1
EchoVC Partners	1
Enza Capital	1
Investment One	1
Still Capital Partners	1
Zip	1
Gauss Ventures	1
Hlayisani Growth Fund	1
LeapFrog Investments	1
Sequoia Capital	1
Nexus Ventures	1
NuState Capital	1
FMO	1
Kara Ventures	1
Fireball Capital	1
Crucis Venture Capital	1

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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 enterprise online payments across South Africa. Accept Pay by bank, debit + credit card, cash, manual EFT, debit order and crypto.

Everywhere Ventures (fka "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 acrossten micro funds. The Fund's $70M+ 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, Health Care, FinTech
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
United States, Australia, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

PlantBaby — We are developing a portfolio of clean-label, organic, plant-based foods and beverages to support families on the nutritional journey from infancy to adulthood.
Mesta — Mesta combines traditional banking with blockchain technology to provide seamless cross-border payments, enabling businesses to process global transactions efficiently and securely.
Keebler Health — Keebler Health is an AI-first risk adjustment platform for providers and payers that are at risk for Medicare & Medicaid lives.

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

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

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Affinity — Affinity is a financial solutions company that provides financial inclusion, advisory, and literacy services.
ToumAI Analytics — ToumAI Analytics is a software development company providing voice analytics, real-time analytics, and reporting services.
PBR Life Sciences — A cloud-based real-world, non-observational pharmacy sell-out data

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

PlantBaby — We are developing a portfolio of clean-label, organic, plant-based foods and beverages to support families on the nutritional journey from infancy to adulthood.
Mesta — Mesta combines traditional banking with blockchain technology to provide seamless cross-border payments, enabling businesses to process global transactions efficiently and securely.
Starboard — Starboard revolutionize global trade by empowering SMB freight forwarders with cutting-edge AI tools.

TLcom Capital, is an Africa focused tech VC, with offices in Lagos, Nairobi and London. TLcom had been investing since 1999 in Tech, Media, Mobil and Internet companies across Europe, US and Africa, which is the exclusive focus of its most recent TLcom TIDE Africa funds. TLcom manages total commitments of approximately 300 million USD in thesesectors via a series of dedicated investment vehicles. Our investment strategy is to identify, back and assist world class entrepreneurs and management teams with disruptive technologies and business models, compelling intellectual property and deep market knowledge. We primarily target companies focused on Africa as a prime market, in the following investment themes: Access to Data Service; Financial Services; eCommerce; B2C applications (including but not limited to: health, education, energy, media and entertainment); and Software solutions to corporates and SMEs.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Information Technology
Series A, Funding Round, Seed
Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Hub2.Io — Welcome to HUB2, the leading FINTECH startup in interoperability and payment infrastructure in Francophone Africa. We are proud to work with all financial industry players in Africa who need stable and high-performing infrastructure, and contribute to their success.
Educatly — We help you get into the University of your dreams. We are the only platform with all the information you need to Study Abroad
littlefishapp — Littlefish is a comprehensive commerce platform that empowers banks to serve small business with tools to streamline operations, drive growth, and enhance customer engagement.

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

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
Seed, Series A, Series C
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 — Maximize your email security and domain protection with DMARC to safeguard your business against email impersonation, phishing, and spoofing.

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

Gigs — Gigs is building Stripe for SIM cards. Providing platforms custom phone & data plans through an easy to use API in 180+ countries.
GetVocal AI — GetVocal AI is help companies automate customer service processes with the most advanced Conversational AI phone agent.
Astral Systems — Our compact multi-state fusion reactors offer high particle flux and exceptional lifetime performance, unlocking a wide variety of critical medical, industrial, and research applications today.

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

Regfyl — Powered by AI, Regfyl is the all-in-one fraud and compliance platform for financial institutions and fintechs. Regfyl allows these businesses to reduce costs and focus on higher value activities.
Akua — Akua is an acquiring-as-a-service platform that offers scalable, secure, and efficient payment processing solutions for Latin America. Our platform leverages advanced technology to provide superior transaction processing, fraud prevention, and comprehensive regional integration. Problem Latin America's acquiring card payment markets aredominated by a few incumbents using outdated systems, hindering the adoption of new payment technologies and increasing fraud risks.
Stay — Stay is a long-term incentive platform. We are working to decomplicate the task of investing in the future: both for companies and for their collaborators.

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

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.

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...

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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Maxe AI — AI investment Assistant for all investors. AI Portfolios tracker of stocks bonds exchanges futures. all in one to track mutual funds.
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.
Happy Pay — Happy Pay is a credit scoring system developing company. The company integrates an autonomous artificial intelligence technology system with the merchant's platform to increase their average basket size and customer conversion metrics, providing users with buy now, and pay later services.

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, Seed, Series B
India, Brazil, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Kanastra — Asset-management-as-a-service
Prima — Reliable manufacturing & supply chain partner for custom parts, metal fabrication & efficient sourcing from Mexico. Manage design, production & delivery
Bureau — Bureau is trust network that facilitates end-to-end identity verification, compliance, and fraud prevention for new-age businesses.

Seed capital for technology startups globally.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Regfyl — Powered by AI, Regfyl is the all-in-one fraud and compliance platform for financial institutions and fintechs. Regfyl allows these businesses to reduce costs and focus on higher value activities.
Sukhiba — Sukhiba is a decentralized community-based commerce platform.
Orca Fraud — Orca empowers fraud fighters with effective tools to combat fraud

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

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, India, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

minu — In minu, we are revolutionizing the financial health of Mexican employees, offering them access to their already worked salary when they need it, instead of having to wait for payroll. We work with HR areas of companies that offer the provision of minu to improve satisfaction, retention, and attraction of talent. minu is supported by FinTech'sleading institutional investors globally, including QED.
MoneyHash — MoneyHash provides access to payment and fintech services across the Middle East & Africa with one simple integration.
Morada Uno — Morada Uno underwrites and insures house rentals by equipping real estate professionals with tools and technology. The company aims to simplify and create trust and security in real estate transactions, promoting fairness in every interaction, and promoting a positive change in the mentality and way of doing things in Mexico.

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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 — Maximize your email security and domain protection with DMARC to safeguard your business against email impersonation, phishing, and spoofing.
visionAI — visionAI augments existing CCTV cameras with computer vision AI to drive improved operational outcomes in manufacturing.

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 uses digital finance and innovative technologies to drive environmental and socio-economic benefits for the people and communities most in need.
WIC Capital — Capital investissement - Gender investing - Gender initiative - Impact investing - Early stage - PME - SME - Equity - Fund manager - Empower women
Dhamana Guarantee — An East African focused credit guarantee company whose principal business is to guarantee local currency debt obligations in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Rwanda.

Globivest is a private investment firm with a diversified portfolio of assets. Our primary focus is on innovative and scalable early stage start-ups. We seek to establish long-term relationships with visionary entrepreneurs while adding clear value in strategy and execution.

Investment focus

FinTech, Biotechnology, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

Iyris — Iyris Advanced Desert Greenhouses is the Middle East's premier agriculture glazing specialist, providing tailored solutions for increased desert crop output. iyris collaborates closely with the glass industry's greatest companies to provide ultra-clear glazing with the most advanced anti-reflective and light diffusive coatings.
Kwara — Kwara turns analog credit unions into modern digital banks.
Vibrant Planet — Data-driven science and cloud-based technology to help make communities and ecosystems more resilient in the face of climate change.

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 — Discover secure and simple Bitcoin transactions with Centbee. Get started today to easily buy, store, and spend Bitcoin.
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.

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, Switzerland

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.

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.

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 Payments is a payment software solution that allows businesses to perform transactions using NFC. We remove the need for additional payment hardware.
The Cape Town Stock Exchange — The Cape Town Stock Exchange is a south Africa’s stock exchange for small- and medium-sized businesses.

Norrsken22 is a tech growth fund, backed by an international network of tech founders, partnering with exceptional African entrepreneurs in scaling disruptive businesses.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Banking, B2B
Series B, Series C, Pre-Seed
South Africa, Egypt, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Taager — Taager is a social e-commerce platform enabling online merchants with end-to-end logistics.
Raenest — Access Virtual Accounts, Invoicing, Multi-Currency Payouts, Auto Payroll, Accounting Integrations, and Virtual & Physical cards within minutes.
TymeBank — TymeBank is a subsidiary of the Tyme Group, which focuses on financial technology and banking solutions. TymeBank focuses on providing accessible financial services to the lower-income market. It emphasizes digital banking and minimal fees. Customers can open secure personal and business accounts online, benefiting from low banking charges and highsavings interest rates through their digital platform.

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.

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.

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 Earth — We are industrializing food processing in Africa. We've led 1000+ smallholder farmers to provide food factories with >7.5 million kilograms of quality crops.
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.

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, South Korea, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Coframe — Transform your website with AI-driven optimization and personalization that boosts engagement and conversions. Coframe automates growth 24/7.
Protect AI — Protect AI builds cybersecurity solutions for AI systems and ML models, helping ML developers and enterprises embrace MLSecOps.
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.

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!
nunu.ai — nunu.ai is the frontier of artificial intelligence in gaming by creating the first multi-modal AI agents designed to test and play any game.
Sinn Studio Inc. — Swordsman is a physics-based combat game designed for virtual reality. Slash your way through medieval Earth to become the ultimate Swordsman.

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.

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 — AutoGrid Systems organizes energy data and employs big data analytics to generate real-time predictions that create actionable data.The company’s suite of flexibility management applications allows utilities, electricity retailers, renewable energy project developers and energy service providers to deliver cheap, clean and reliable energy bymanaging networked distributed energy resources (DERs) in real time and at scale. AutoGrid applications utilize petabytes of smart meter, sensor and third-party data, along with powerful data science and high-performance computing algorithms, to monitor, predict, optimize and control the operations of millions of assets connected across global energy networks.Established at Stanford University in 2011, they have assembled a team of world-class software architects, electrical and computer engineers, data scientists and energy experts who apply cutting-edge analytics and in-depth energy data science to solve the world’s most critical energy problems.
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 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 — Trusted by 200,000+ businesses, Yoco simplifies payments with integrated POS systems, card machines, seamless transactions, and 7-day support. Enjoy low rates, fast processing, and a 30-day money-back guarantee.
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.

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 — enmacc, the OTC energy trading platform, offers innovative solutions for efficient trading of energy commodities in today's dynamic market.
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.

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.

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

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Nigeria, Kenya, United States

Portfolio highlights

Mecho — Mecho is an on-demand auto repair and maintenance platform for individuals and businesses in Africa.
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.
Termii — Termii is an online platform that helps teams secure repeat customers by sending personalized emails and SMS through multiple.Termii helps African businesses communicate with customers across SMS, email, voice, and instant messaging channels. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Lagos, Nigeria.

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 — Enterprise Blockchain Solutions For Immutable Storage and Identity Authentication

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 — Official site of the Snowstorm Network
Senga Technologies — Welcome to Senga, custom-built, with love, for businesses shipping in Africa.

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

Investment focus

Financial Services, Finance, E-Commerce
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa

Portfolio highlights

MNZL — MNZL is on a mission to expand access to capital for Egyptians.Every person who owns an asset has accumulated wealth in it. When they want liquidity for their projects and needs, they should be able to tap into it as easily as withdrawing from a bank.With an innovative digital platform and products, we are working on making digital access tocapital a reality, and building the future of asset-backed financing in Africa.
Hub2.Io — Welcome to HUB2, the leading FINTECH startup in interoperability and payment infrastructure in Francophone Africa. We are proud to work with all financial industry players in Africa who need stable and high-performing infrastructure, and contribute to their success.
Affinity — Affinity is a financial solutions company that provides financial inclusion, advisory, and literacy services.

Investment One is a financial firm that provides fund management, stockbroking, venture capital, pension and consulting services.

Investment focus

FinTech, Payments, Mobile Apps
Series A
South Africa

Portfolio highlights

PayCode Inc — Paycode - Financial Inclusion. We are a B2B technology provider with a unique digital payments platform, providing Last Mile solutions to the unbanked and undeserved.

Still Capital Partners is an investment firm.

Investment focus

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

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 is an online payment product that enables shoppers to shop now and pay in 4 equal installments.
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.

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.

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

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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Paid — Paid is a business platform for AI agents.
The Open Network Foundation — A decentralized and open internet designed to onboard 500M people on-chain, built by the community using technology developed by Telegram.
Neros Technologies — Neros is vertically integrating production of unmanned defense systems in the United States, securing the autonomous supply chain. Are you with us?

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

Smartstaff — Manage your workforce's attendance & payroll while using our powerful automation tools to optimize & improve their productivity
Iambic — Iambic has created a cutting-edge AI-driven platform to tackle the most challenging design problems in drug discovery and address unmet patient need.
Moneyview — 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.

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.

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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Finance, Renewable Energy
Debt Financing, Funding Round, Series B
India, The Netherlands, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Paymob — Paymob runs millions of transactions for different business sizes across the Middle East and Africa. Start using Paymob’s solutions and API’s to accept and send payments for your online business now.
Sistema.bio — Sistema.bio is a biodigester with biogas appliances. High efficiency biodigesters transform organic waste into renewable biogas.
Trans-Oil Group of Companies — TRANS-OIL GROUP is an agro-industrial holding with oilseeds crushing, grain handling, commodities trading, and exports. It produces vegetable oil, flour.

Kara Ventures is a passionate tech angels who decided to embark on a learning expedition.

Investment focus

Payments, Software, Compliance
Seed, Pre-Seed
Kenya, South Africa

Portfolio highlights

Workpay — Looking for the best payroll software in Kenya? Workpay provides the best payroll software and hr software for your business in Kenya, Nigeria and for Africa
Orca Fraud — Orca empowers fraud fighters with effective tools to combat fraud

Fireball Capital operates as a venture capital firm.

Investment focus

Email, Internet, Payments
Series A
South Africa

Portfolio highlights

Plentify — Plentify connects home appliances with cheaper cleaner energy. It does this with an intelligent residential load management platform which matches demand with clean energy supply for 75% cheaper than batteries. Plentify combines advanced hardware, AI, and user-centric design to create smart home products that delight customers while alsostrengthening electricity systems.
Sendmarc — Maximize your email security and domain protection with DMARC to safeguard your business against email impersonation, phishing, and spoofing.
Insight Terra — Insight Terra supports data driven risk management in critical situations where business operations, people and the environment all come together.

Crucis Venture Capital

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.

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