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Top 50 Payments VC Funds & Investors in South Africa (June 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
CRE Venture Capital
VC Fund
3 South Africa, Nigeria, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Software $250k–$25M
Everywhere Ventures
VC Fund
3 United States, United Kingdom, India Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, FinTech $350k–$20M
Launch Africa
VC Fund
3 Nigeria, South Africa, United States Seed, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology $200k–$4M
UW Ventures
VC Fund
3 South Africa Seed, Series A FinTech, Payments, Insurance $456k–$31M
Flourish Ventures
VC Fund
3 United States, India, Brazil Series A, Seed, Series B FinTech, Financial Services, Finance $2M–$65M
TLcom Capital Partners
VC Fund
3 Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Seed Software, Mobile, Information Technology $494k–$13M
Goodwell Investments
VC Fund
2 Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa Series A, Series B FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Norrsken22
VC Fund
2 South Africa, Egypt, Nigeria Seed, Series A, Series B Financial Services, Banking, Payments $2.4M–$55M
Musha Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, Nigeria, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Financial Services, FinTech $125k–$10M
Enza Capital
VC Fund
2 Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa Seed, Series A Financial Services, Finance, E-Commerce $238k–$31M
4Di Capital
VC Fund
2 South Africa, United States, Kenya Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Financial Services, Mobile $441k–$47M
Newtown Partners
VC Fund
2 South Africa, Ghana, Kenya Seed, Series A Logistics, Health Care, Pharmaceutical $1M–$27M
Speedinvest
VC Fund
2 Germany, United Kingdom, Austria Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, FinTech, Financial Services $406k–$38M
HAVAÍC
VC Fund
2 South Africa, United States, Kenya Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, FinTech $57k–$15M
Quona Capital
VC Fund
2 India, Brazil, Indonesia Series A, Seed, Series B Financial Services, FinTech, Finance $2.4M–$87M
Kalon Venture Partners
VC Fund
2 South Africa, Luxembourg, United States Seed, Series A Apps, Internet, Software $570k–$7M
Allan Gray
VC Fund
2 South Africa, United States Seed, Series A, Series C FinTech, Payments, Mobile Payments $456k–$100M
FSD Africa
VC Fund
2 Kenya, South Africa, United States Grant, Seed Financial Services, Energy, FinTech $98k–$6M
RaliCap
VC Fund
2 United States, Nigeria, Mexico Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Financial Services, FinTech, Payments $313k–$8.3M
Partech
VC Fund
2 United States, France, Germany Series A, Seed, Series B Software, E-Commerce, SaaS $1.1M–$55M
Industrial Development Corporation
VC Fund
1 South Africa, Canada, Sweden Debt Financing, Series A Renewable Energy, Mobile, Energy
Blockchain Founders Fund
VC Fund
1 United States, United Kingdom, Singapore Seed, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
GalloProvincialis
VC Fund
1 South Africa, The Netherlands Seed Payments, Software, Logistics $1.5M–$1.9M
Two Hop Ventures
VC Fund
1 The Netherlands, United States, Spain Seed, Series A Software, Blockchain, Bitcoin $125k–$2.2M
Two Culture Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, Mexico, India Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed FinTech, Financial Services, Information Technology $350k–$25M
Investment One
VC Fund
1 South Africa Series A FinTech, Payments, Mobile Apps
Montegray Capital
VC Fund
1 South Africa Seed Bitcoin, FinTech, Ethereum
Development Partners International
VC Fund
1 Egypt, Morocco, South Africa Private Equity, Series A Financial Services, Manufacturing, Retail $16M–$190M
54 Collective
VC Fund
1 Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa Seed, Pre-Seed Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech $40k–$4M
Sequoia Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, China, India Series A, Series B, Series C Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $5.4M–$180M
Grindstone Ventures
VC Fund
1 South Africa Seed Payments, Software, Analytics
Hlayisani Capital
VC Fund
1 South Africa, Mauritius Seed, Series A Software, Education, Information Technology
Fireball Capital
VC Fund
1 South Africa, United Kingdom Series A Email, Energy, Internet $5.7M–$40M
NuState Capital
VC Fund
1 South Africa Seed, Series A Education, Software, SaaS
Skywell Capital Partners
VC Fund
1 Israel, United States, Canada Seed, Series A Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning $250k–$35M
Technology Innovation Agency
VC Fund
1 South Africa Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed Information Technology, Health Care, Renewable Energy $22k–$1M
Boost VC
VC Fund
1 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Blockchain, Virtual Reality $75k–$6.1M
Velocity Capital Fintech Ventures
VC Fund
1 The Netherlands, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Series B, Seed FinTech, Financial Services, Payments $1.1M–$25M
LeapFrog Investments
VC Fund
1 India, Nigeria, United Kingdom Private Equity, Series D Financial Services, Finance, Insurance $4.3M–$175M
Crossfin Technology
VC Fund
1 South Africa, United States, Russian Federation Series A, Private Equity Payments, Financial Services, Software
10x Group
VC Fund
1 United States, Germany, India Seed, Series A, Series B Software, SaaS, Information Technology $849k–$42M
Invictus Capital
VC Fund
1 South Africa Seed Internet, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
Bittrex Global
VC Fund
1 South Africa Series A Bitcoin, FinTech, Ethereum
Imvelo Ventures
VC Fund
1 South Africa Seed FinTech, Software, Financial Services $570k–$2M
TotalEnergies Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, France, United Kingdom Series B, Series C Energy, Renewable Energy, Transportation $9.3M–$175M
FMO
VC Fund
1 India, Kenya, The Netherlands Debt Financing, Series B Financial Services, Finance, Renewable Energy $3M–$159M
Ayre Group
VC Fund
1 United States, United Kingdom, South Africa Seed, Series A Blockchain, Video Streaming, Information Technology
Alameda Research
VC Fund
1 United States, Singapore, Switzerland Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Apis Partners
VC Fund
1 India, Singapore, South Africa Private Equity, Series B Financial Services, Payments, FinTech
EchoVC Partners
VC Fund
1 United States, Nigeria, Kenya Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
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CRE Venture Capital
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 3 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, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: South Africa, Nigeria, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 56
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$4M; Pre-Seed $250k–$3.3M; Series A $1.1M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Andela — Unlock the power of global tech talent with Andela. Hire experienced professionals quickly and cost-effectively. Build your team from our robust network of skilled specialists spanning 175 countries. Our AI-powered platform ensures a 96% talent match success rate. Get started now and hire with confidence.
  • Matta — Matta is a B2B platform offering a comprehensive, detailed marketplace for sourcing chemicals and materials efficiently and reliably
  • 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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Everywhere Ventures
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 3 investments in South Africa Payments startups, 6 in the past 12 months

Everywhere Ventures is a first-of-its-kind early-stage venture fund created ​by founders for founders​ to support the next generation of entrepreneurs.Everywhere Ventures is a community-powered venture investing platform that integrates the capital, expertise, and mentoring of experienced founders and operators across ten micro funds. TheFund'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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 216
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$6M; Pre-Seed $350k–$2.4M; Series A $4M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • VOW — Meet Quick, a purpose-built Webflow template to promote SaaS and software apps without writing code. Its pre-built content will help you get your website up and running in no time at all.
  • Fusepay — Modern Finance & Payments for Indian Ocean Islands
  • Outfox Health — AI copilots answer benefits questions instantly. Lower costs without changing carriers. Launch in under 30 days.
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Launch Africa
VC Fund · Ebène, Plaines Wilhems, Mauritius · 3 investments in South Africa Payments startups

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
  • Geography: Nigeria, South Africa, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 162
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$4M; Pre-Seed $200k–$1.7M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $36M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Fixit45 — Fixit45 also provides fleet management, auto parts sourcing and delivery, auto care, refurbishment and upgrades, repair financing, and mechanic workshop software as well as pre-purchase inspections, underlying these with moderation for compliance and accountability.
  • Gigmile — Gigmile provides financial services. They provide gig workers with core services and an affordable lease on productive assets that is tailored to their earnings to enable them to succeed in the mobility industry as entrepreneurs.
  • HomecomingEx — Homecoming Revolution is a pan-African recruitment firm for global African professionals. We specialise in headhunting & placing global African talent.
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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, Insurance
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Round size: Seed $456k–$2.5M; Series A $1.6M–$31M
  • Lead/follow: 54% lead, 46% 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.
  • 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.
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Flourish Ventures
VC Fund · Redwood City, California, United States · 3 investments in South Africa Payments startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 180
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$8.5M; Series A $5.5M–$35M; Series B $8.3M–$65M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Spade — Providing AI merchant extraction, brand logos, merchant locations, and categorization as a service to fin-techs.
  • Spry — Simplify your physical therapy practice with SPRY. Our all-in-one software streamlines billing, EMR, documentation, and insurance verification. Experience the SPRY difference today.
  • Hummingbird — Hummingbird is a platform for managing anti-money laundering (AML) operations. Compliance professionals use Hummingbird to collect case information, conduct investigations, and report on unusual or suspicious behaviors. The platform dramatically reduces paperwork and improves efficiency, enabling AML investigators to refocus on fighting financialcrime.Hummingbird’s founding team brings together product and regulatory experience from organizations like Square, IDEO, the Department of the Treasury, and the OCC. Hummingbird is using data and design to modernize regulatory compliance in finance.
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TLcom Capital Partners
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in South Africa Payments startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 57
  • Round size: Seed $494k–$13M; Series A $3.8M–$13M
  • Lead/follow: 53% lead, 47% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $150M in 2022

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.
  • Talstack — Talstack is an all-in-one platform for employee growth and development
  • LittleFish — Full stack enterprise platform that extends your infrastructure, instead of replacing it.
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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, Software
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 35
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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...
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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, Banking, Payments
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: South Africa, Egypt, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Seed $2.4M–$5.8M; Series A $5M–$40M; Series B $6.8M–$55M
  • Lead/follow: 53% lead, 47% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $110M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Nala — A new kind of mobile money transfer for Africans worldwide! Make safe, affordable, and reliable international payments to Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda.
  • Orca Fraud — Orca empowers fraud fighters with effective tools to combat fraud
  • Smile ID — Smile ID provides the best onboarding, identity verification, and user authentication service for fast growing businesses and startups in Africa.
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Musha Ventures
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 2 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: 138
  • Round size: Seed $125k–$4.2M; Pre-Seed $300k–$3.2M; Series A $2.5M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • nGrow.ai — Boost revenue and engagement
  • Orca Fraud — Orca empowers fraud fighters with effective tools to combat fraud
  • SkillMagic — SkillMagic's AI finds the best technical content, delivers it directly to junior engineers, and helps you track progress.
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Enza Capital
VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya · 2 investments in South Africa Payments startups

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, Finance, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 48
  • Round size: Seed $238k–$12M; Series A $3.6M–$31M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Craydel — Craydel is transforming the way students and working professionals in Africa discover, compare and apply to higher education. Our online platform has thousands of quality undergraduate, postgraduate and vocational programs offering degrees, diplomas and degrees, certificates from leading universities and colleges in 15 countries around the world.Many of these programs are even available online from the comfort of your home.Craydel makes it easy for you to compare and select the programs and institutions that best fit your career goals, personality, grades and budget.
  • Tugende — Tugende helps motorcycle taxi drivers own their own motorcycles in eighteen months or less instead of renting indefinitely. Ownership significantly increases income, job security and road safety.
  • Quro Medical — Quro Medical is an innovative digital health company pioneering premium hospital-at-home services.
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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: 40
  • Round size: Seed $441k–$6M; Pre-Seed $3M–$4M; Series A $2M–$47M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Lumkani — AFFORDABLE ALARM SYSTEMS & INSURANCE FOR YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS Whether you are in a township, informal settlement, or suburb, we have the right protection for you. AFFORDABLE ALARM SYSTEMS & INSURANCE FOR YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS Whether you are in a township, informal settlement, or suburb ...
  • Investsure — InvestSure is a technology company that uses its software to enable partner investment platforms to sell its unique Investment Indemnity (insurance) product to their clients. InvestSure provides a full set of APIs that trading platform developers can use to integrate the Investure Investment Indemnity product seamlessly and easily into theirwebsites and mobile applications. Once InvestSure technology is added to a trading platform, it enables users to buy insurance on their shares with a single click. The full process from buying to insurance to settling claims is fully automated.The Investment Indemnity product itself is a unique innovation; it is designed to protect to protect shareholders against any losses in share value caused by actual or perceived fraud committed by management. This enables investors to secure their investments. The cost of the product is low enough to not significantly reduce returns of investors where no insurance event occurs, but to provide significant downside protection where an insured event does occur.
  • CompariSure — Custom, built-for-purpose service and sales chatbot solutions for financial services providers.
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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, Health Care, Pharmaceutical
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Africa, Ghana, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 25
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$5.5M; Series A $3.6M–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% 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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Speedinvest
VC Fund · Vienna, Wien, Austria · 2 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, andtop-tier follow-on investors to scale smarter and faster. Building lasting companies like Bitpanda (Austria), Moove (Nigeria), Gigs (U.S.), Tide (UK), ARX Robotics (Germany), Wayflyer (Ireland), GoStudent (Austria), Seqera Labs (Spain), and Cylib (Germany) — together. Big ideas may start with one. But scaling and winning take The Power of More.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 518
  • Round size: Seed $823k–$8M; Pre-Seed $406k–$3.8M; Series A $3.7M–$38M
  • Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $384M 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!
  • MinersAI — Unlock valuable insights from intricate geological data with Miners AI. Our AI-driven platform empowers exploration teams to make informed decisions and optimize mining operations.
  • Primer — Primer is the first open automation platform for payments, enabling you to build end-to-end payment flows with no code, and a checkout developers love.
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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, Series A
  • Geography: South Africa, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 43
  • Round size: Seed $57k–$4M; Series A $1.9M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 60% lead, 40% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • MPost — MPost means Mobile Post office.It enables any mobile phone user to have his or her phone act like a mobile post office. It allows you to make your mobile number be a formal postal address. With it, you get access to Postal Services through your mobile phone.
  • RecoMed — Find the best doctors and dentists. Search by location or by speciality, and find the right doctor for you.
  • AURA — A South African cloud-based security and safety startup .
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Quona Capital
VC Fund · Washington, District of Columbia, United States · 2 investments in South Africa Payments startups

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: 182
  • Round size: Seed $2.4M–$10M; Series A $3.6M–$30M; Series B $8M–$87M
  • Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $332M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Addi — Addi is a technology company that provides credit and banking solutions. Addi is headquartered in Bogota, Colombia.
  • Klar — Klar is a FinTech challenger bank that provides deposit and credit services for Mexican customers.Using the Klar card rewards users with cash of up to 4% cashback for each purchase, not points without confusing conversions or expiration dates. Clients can also send and receive payments and collections money instantly to Klar accounts and otherbanks. The Klar card is linked to an app where users can see all their movements in real-time.Stefan Moller, Daniel Autrique, Jeronimo Riefkohl, and Gianluigi Davassi established the company in Mexico City, Distrito Federal in 2018.
  • Konfio — Konfio provides digital banking, payments, and software tools designed to boost small and mid-size enterprise's growth and productivity. It offers working capital loans, a corporate credit card, a loyalty program, and business productivity software tools.The company was founded in 2013 by David Arana and Francisco Padilla and isheadquartered in Mexico City.
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Kalon Venture Partners
VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 2 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: Apps, Internet, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Africa, Luxembourg, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 17
  • Round size: Seed $570k–$3M; Series A $2M–$7M
  • Lead/follow: 71% lead, 29% follow

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 — Manage your organization's DMARC, SPF, and DKIM with world-class implementation services and support. All in one easy-to-use platform.
  • visionAI — Enhance factory efficiency with visionAI by using existing cameras to uncover inefficiencies and eliminate your production blindspots. Book a demo now!
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Allan Gray
VC Fund · Alfred, New York, United States · 2 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, Mobile Payments
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: South Africa, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Round size: Seed $456k–$4M; Series A $1.6M–$7M; Series C $70M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow

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 — Manage your organization's DMARC, SPF, and DKIM with world-class implementation services and support. All in one easy-to-use platform.
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FSD Africa
VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya · 2 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, FinTech
  • Stage:Grant, Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, South Africa, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Round size: Seed $3.9M–$6M; Grant $98k–$134k
  • Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% 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 — An East African focused credit guarantee company whose principal business is to guarantee local currency debt obligations in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Rwanda.
  • Africa Renewables Katalyst — Africa Renewables Katalyst is an environmental firm that supports renewable energy projects.
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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: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria, Mexico

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 54
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$8.3M; Pre-Seed $313k–$3.7M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Frain technologies — We're passionate about the product delivery value chain.
  • Moffin — Moffin is an integration platform of KYC data providers that enables customers to collect and evaluate data. It can be used via API or no code.
  • Revio — Subscription billing and payments made easy.
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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, SaaS
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, France, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 520
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$9M; Series A $4.2M–$30M; Series B $9M–$55M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Yampa — Discover yampa's autonomous AI agents and revolutionize your customer experience. Elevate your service with the most advanced AI technology.
  • Shohoz — Shohoz.com, owned and operated by Shohoj Limited, is a premium online travel service provider which aims to make long distance travel in Bangladesh easy and convenient. Driven by the passion to serve you better, Shohoz.com went on to pioneer the online travel industry by offering bus tickets and launch tickets. In entertainment sector, movietickets, event tickets as well as cricket match tickets are also available on Shohoz.com. Their team of energetic and young professionals with deep expertise in eCommerce and travel domains, leave no stone unturned to provide you the best of services at minimal costs through their user friendly website, Android App, Partner network all over Bangladesh and a multi-lingual call center.
  • AURA — A South African cloud-based security and safety startup .
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Industrial Development Corporation
VC Fund · Sandown, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in South Africa Payments startups

The Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa Ltd (IDC) is a national development finance institution set up to promote economic growth and industrial development.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Renewable Energy, Mobile, Energy
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Series A
  • Geography: South Africa, Canada, Sweden

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • AMEA Power — Founded in 2016, AMEA Power has assembled a leading team of global industry experts to deliver clean energy projects across Africa, the Middle East and other emerging markets.
  • Pele Energy Group — Pele Energy Group owns and runs renewable energy infrastructure in addition to providing economic and community development consulting services.
  • Pele Green Energy — Pele Green Energy is an Independent Power Producer that develops, owns, procures, builds, and operates renewable energy power projects, including Small Scale Embedded Generation and utility scale power plants, and is the leading South African Independent Power Producer in the Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement, REIPPPProgramme.
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Blockchain Founders Fund
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 1 investments in South Africa Payments startups

We Focus Exclusively On Adding Value To Blockchain & Emerging Technology Projects With Real World Applications.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 200
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • KINO — KINO is a film production company that brings fans behind the scenes of their favorite hollywood films.
  • Renaissance — Renaissance allows artists to amplify their streaming traction and tap into a community of their super fans.
  • Virtualtech Frontier — Virtualtech Frontier develops business processes through virtual reality technology. It operates virtual event platforms, metaverse services, and virtual reality solutions. Virtualtech Frontier was founded in 2021 and is based in Selangor, Malaysia.
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GalloProvincialis
VC Fund · 1 investments in South Africa Payments startups

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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–$1.9M
  • 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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Two Hop Ventures
VC Fund · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands · 1 investments in South Africa Payments startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Blockchain, Bitcoin
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: The Netherlands, United States, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $125k–$2.2M
  • Lead/follow: 63% lead, 37% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $3.2M in 2019

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 — The infrastructure layer where enterprises and governments share, verify, and act on data without losing control. 50M+ daily transactions.
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Two Culture Capital
VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 1 investments in South Africa Payments startups

The art and science of entrepreneurship

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 77
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$10M; Pre-Seed $350k–$7.9M; Series A $7M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • OnePipe — OnePipe aggregates APIs from banks and fintechs into a standardized gateway that is easy to integrate and makes partnerships seamless.
  • AscendArc — AscendArc develops and manufactures small geostationary communication satellites for commercial and military applications
  • Relativity Space — Building Humanity's Multi-Planetary Future
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Investment One
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 1 investments in South Africa Payments startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Payments, Mobile Apps
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow

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.
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Montegray Capital
VC Fund · 1 investments in South Africa Payments startups

Investment focus

  • Industry: Bitcoin, FinTech, Ethereum
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • VALR — Buy and sell bitcoin, ethereum & more | Pay anyone for free with VALR Pay
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Development Partners International
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in South Africa Payments startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Manufacturing, Retail
  • Stage:Private Equity, Series A
  • Geography: Egypt, Morocco, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 37
  • Round size: Series A $16M–$40M; Private Equity $30M–$190M
  • Lead/follow: 62% lead, 38% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.2B in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Sylndr — Sylndr is an automotive focused e-commerce marketplace bringing innovation to the used-cars market, where customers can reliably and transparently sell and buy used cars. The company is aiming to build trust in the used-car market by becoming the go-to place for customers seeking to sell and buy their cars, through an extensive range ofhigh-quality used vehicles accessible across a diverse set of financing solutions.
  • Moniepoint — Moniepoint provides an all-in-one payments, banking and operations platform for businesses and their customers.
  • Alameda Health Care — Alameda Healthcare: Your ideal choice for the best medical care in Egypt. Our group includes leading hospitals that offer various specialties and health services to meet the needs of you and your family.
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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: 107
  • Round size: Seed $40k–$4M; Pre-Seed $40k–$1.3M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • mTek — mTek is a digital online insurance platform that provides an entirely paperless ecosystem for the insurance industry.
  • 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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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: 1594
  • Round size: Series A $5.4M–$40M; Series B $10M–$100M; Series C $10M–$180M
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $65M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • RobCo — Easily automate the repetitive tasks in your production facility with modular industrial robots from RobCo.
  • Rillet — Rillet automates majority of month-end close and offers powerful GAAP and SaaS reporting. The software has built-in revenue recognition, invoicing, and AI-powered accounting.
  • Nevis — Nevis is the world's first AI-powered platform designed specifically for wealth management. It automates operational tasks that consume as much as 80% of a financial advisor's day, such as meeting preparation, document management, opening custodian accounts, and client onboarding. This allows advisors to focus more on deliveringpersonalized client service and growing their businesses.
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Grindstone Ventures
VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in South Africa Payments startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Payments, Software, Analytics
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Locstat — Locstat is a unique and first of its kind Graph Analytics Platform, with customer driven industry and point solutions, incorporating Graph-based AI, Analytics and Event Processing, that enables organisations to rapidly scale next generation data intelligence solutions.
  • 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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Hlayisani Capital
VC Fund · Fourways, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in South Africa Payments startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Education, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Africa, Mauritius

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Lead/follow: 62% lead, 38% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • GoMetro — Fleet management simplified with GoMetro. Integrate telematics, gain real-time visibility, and optimize operations with a secure, scalable platform,
  • Spatialedge — Empowering Businesses to Make the Right Data-driven Decisions. We specialise in building and operationalising cutting-edge analytical solutions that deliver business value through a suite of decision tools.
  • Tractor Outdoor — Specialising in connecting brands to consumers through its network of traditional OOH, digital advertising technology, transit networks and ambient platforms
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Fireball Capital
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in South Africa Payments startups

Fireball Capital operates as a venture capital firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Email, Energy, Internet
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: South Africa, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Series A $5.7M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

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.
  • Insight Terra — Insight Terra supports data driven risk management in critical situations where business operations, people and the environment all come together.
  • 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.
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NuState Capital
VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in South Africa Payments startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Education, Software, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Sticitt — Sticitt is a cashless payment platform. Sticitt services schools, lifestyle and golf estates, as well as events and is assisting one utility company to get clients to pay for water bills using its cashless payments system.
  • d6 — SCHOOLS Schools Communication Platforms and School Management Software COMMUNITIES Community & Internal Business Communication Platforms MEDIA Let your brand be seen Advertise on
  • Principal Software(d6 education) — d6 is a school management software application that helps you manage your school's curriculum, administration, communication and finance.
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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: 10
  • Round size: Seed $250k–$35M; Series A $13M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Lendai — US mortgage financing designed for foreign investors. Simple, fast, and fully online US property loans for global investors.
  • 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
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Technology Innovation Agency
VC Fund · Pretoria, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in South Africa Payments startups

WELCOME TO TIA Innovating Tomorrow Together TIA is a national public entity that serves as the key institutional intervention to bridge the innovation chasm between research and development from higher education institutions, science councils, public entities, and private sector, and commercialisation. Who we are TIA Invitation for Call for Expression to Join External Expert Database

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Health Care, Renewable Energy
  • Stage:Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Round size: Seed $46k–$336k; Grant $22k–$1M
  • Lead/follow: 92% lead, 8% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Jobox — Jobox is a student recruitment platform, built to connect employers, students and graduate career offices. Our focus is to improve graduate employability by ensuring all students have the skills they need to enter, stay in, and progress in the world of work.Jobox’s ecosystem provides employers with access to the best diverse & youthfultalent, students with more employment opportunities and universities with data-driven insights aimed at driving graduate employability forward.
  • 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.
  • Ownedby Technologies — Ownedby is an interactive asset management solution for business and household assets, focused on appliances and devices, giving these unique identity that is traceable online, yet linked to and controlled by owners.
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Boost VC
VC Fund · San Mateo, California, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Payments startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Blockchain, Virtual Reality
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 224
  • Round size: Seed $455k–$6.1M; Pre-Seed $75k–$2.4M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $100M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • SKETCHAR.io — Sketchar is the ultimate AR drawing app for art creation, learning to draw, and collaborating with 12M people. Try now!
  • Candlestick.io — Advanced crypto trading with smart money tracking and DeFi analytics
  • Space DOTS — SKY-I, by SpaceDOTS, transforms fragmented space environmental data into unified, mission-critical intelligence that enables confident decision-making across the entire space mission lifecycle.
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Velocity Capital Fintech Ventures
VC Fund · Driebergen, Utrecht, The Netherlands · 1 investments in South Africa Payments startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: The Netherlands, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 27
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$1.2M; Series A $3M–$16M; Series B $5.5M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 52% lead, 48% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $123M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Yoco — Save time, money and guesswork. Yoco helps 200,000+ SA businesses run point of sale, take payments and access flexible business funding from one account.
  • Gotrade — Buy U.S. stocks with Gotrade! Investing is now easier, safer, and hassle-free. Access stocks like Google, Apple, Netflix, and more.
  • 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.
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LeapFrog Investments
VC Fund · Port Louis Town, Port Louis, Mauritius · 1 investments in South Africa Payments startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Finance, Insurance
  • Stage:Private Equity, Series D
  • Geography: India, Nigeria, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 70
  • Round size: Series D $4.3M–$175M; Private Equity $9.3M–$110M
  • Lead/follow: 54% lead, 46% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • ReNew — ReNew(NASDAQ: RNW),a global renewable company offering clean & green energy with a portfolio of 13.7 GW including Wind, Solar, Hybrid & Hydro Power.
  • Battery Smart — Battery Smart provides advanced Li-ion batteries to e-rickshaws. Battery Smart develops a retrofittable 48V Li-ion twin battery system that is compatible with all major electric rickshaw (e3w) models.
  • Shubham Housing Development Finance Company — Shubham.co is a leading housing finance company in India. We offer home loans, loans against property, Shubh Shakti Loans and more at affordable EMIs and interest rates. Apply online!
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Crossfin Technology
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 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, Financial Services, Software
  • Stage:Series A, Private Equity
  • Geography: South Africa, United States, Russian Federation

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow

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.
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10x Group
VC Fund · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 1 investments in South Africa Payments startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Germany, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 95
  • Round size: Seed $849k–$5.7M; Series A $2.8M–$25M; Series B $3.3M–$42M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • LÜK Network — LÜK is a talent marketplace for the fashion and entertainment industries (models, photographers, stylists, hair and makeup artists, etc.). LÜK has assembled the top talent agencies into one location for clients to easily book talent for photo/video shoots. Think Expedia, but for professional talent. Now, LÜK is becoming the payments platformfor the entire industry. Currently, it takes talent agencies 60-150 days to get paid. LÜK is factoring the receivables of the 150 talent agencies in their network to get them paid out same day.
  • enmacc — enmacc, the OTC energy trading platform, offers innovative solutions for efficient trading of energy commodities in today's dynamic market.
  • Customs4trade (C4T) — Customs4trade simplifies Global Customs Management and Trade Compliance with a user-friendly software solution, CAS, which offers end-to-end automation.
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Invictus Capital
VC Fund · George Town, Midland, Cayman Islands · 1 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: Internet, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ovex — OVEX is a cryptocurrency exchange company.
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Bittrex Global
VC Fund · Vaduz, Vaduz, Liechtenstein · 1 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:Series A
  • Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • VALR — Buy and sell bitcoin, ethereum & more | Pay anyone for free with VALR Pay
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Imvelo Ventures
VC Fund · Sandown, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 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: FinTech, Software, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Seed $570k–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow

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.
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TotalEnergies Ventures
VC Fund · La Défense, Ile-de-France, France · 1 investments in South Africa Payments startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Energy, Renewable Energy, Transportation
  • Stage:Series B, Series C
  • Geography: United States, France, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 93
  • Round size: Series B $9.3M–$175M; Series C $12M–$65M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow

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.
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FMO
VC Fund · The Hague, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands · 1 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
  • Geography: India, Kenya, The Netherlands

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 139
  • Round size: Series B $4.5M–$41M; Debt Financing $3M–$159M
  • Lead/follow: 52% lead, 48% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ecofy — Ecofy is a green-only NBFC in India, offering financial solutions for eco-friendly initiatives, including loans, leases, and insurance.
  • Atome Energy — Atome Energy is the green hydrogen and ammonia project development company to create a greener, cleaner environment.
  • Ace International — ACE International manufactures and distributes dairy powders, milk proteins, and other food grade components.
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Ayre Group
VC Fund · St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada · 1 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, Video Streaming, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
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Alameda Research
VC Fund · Central and Western, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong · 1 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, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 208
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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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Apis Partners
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in South Africa Payments startups, 6 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, Payments, FinTech
  • Stage:Private Equity, Series B
  • Geography: India, Singapore, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 49
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Xoxoday — Loyalty program is crucial for big companies. We can help you engage and reward your customers online, discover our loyalty programs
  • Thunes — bn Mobile and Stablecoin Wallets, Bank Accounts and Cards 0 Countries 0 Fiat and Stablecoin Currencies 0 Payment Methods 0 + Licences Unlock superior cross-border payments. Connect to our network and enable your customers to send instant payments to 120 mobile wallet brands and 3 billion mobile wallet accounts worldwide. Pay-to-Banks Enable reliable real-time payments
  • RenewBuy — Simplest way to renew your car insurance. Get quote and insure your car in couple of minutes - no pesky calls/ salesmen...And avail best deals too..
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EchoVC Partners
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 1 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 thebusiness.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 49
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Rivy — Access flexible financing for solar energy projects with Rivy. Power homes, businesses, and communities with clean, affordable energy.
  • Printivo — Design & print Business Cards, flyers, mugs and other print products online and we will deliver your doorstep. Get instant quotes.
  • Snowstorm — Official site of the Snowstorm Network
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Payments VC funding in South Africa at a glance

Stats across 76 deals from 93 investors.

93
investors
in South Africa Payments startups
76
deals
in South Africa Payments startups
$3M
median round
in South Africa Payments startups
48%
lead investors
lead at least one round
13%
Series A
most common funding stage

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