# Acuity Ventures

> Acuity Ventures is a VC fund in San Jose backing Financial Services and FinTech. See 14 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Jose, United States
- Total investments: 14
- Last investment: Nov 2022
- Lead investor: 7%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: http://www.acuityventures.com

Acuity Ventures is a Silicon Valley-based family of venture capital funds that provide investment capital and strategic guidance to early stage and emerging growth companies. The Fund currently investing is Acuity Ventures III LP, formed in 2004. Acuity provides capital through convertible preferred debt, direct equity investments and otherinvestment participations.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $500k–$6M |
| Pre-Seed | $725k–$1M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Financial Services | 6 | 43% |
| FinTech | 5 | 36% |
| Finance | 3 | 21% |
| Banking | 2 | 14% |
| Software | 2 | 14% |

28 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 36% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 21% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 14% |
| Series A | 1 | 7% |
| Secondary Market | 1 | 7% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Nigeria | 3 | 21% |
| United States | 2 | 14% |
| Togo | 1 | 7% |
| Egypt | 1 | 7% |
| Kenya | 1 | 7% |

9 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Fulfillment Bridge | Fulfillment Bridge is a leading global logistics and order fulfillment solutions provider. We offer comprehensive, fast, and affordable supply chain management solutions to facilitate your e-commerce business. From packing and picking to the management of inventory and final delivery, our simple yet powerful order fulfillment solutions give youre-commerce business an edge over your competitors. As we have developed a global warehousing and logistics network across more than fourteen countries, you can easily connect your multiple shops even at different marketplaces, like Amazon, eBay, Shopify, Prestashop and others by using our logistics software. Our client-centered solution provides a complete logistics solution from warehousing to last-mile shipping of products to end-users.We are also the first 3PL to enable payment on delivery in Morocco and to facilitate market expansion in the region. By partnering with key stakeholders Cronodiali & Cashplus in Morocco, our custom-made solution announces the beginning of a new era in the African leading country in terms of customer demand. Additionally, our MEA Bridge solution fosters selling across the region mainly in Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait & Egypt by offering non-biding marketplace listing, so e-commerce sellers can start selling on Amazon or Noon without having an obligation to open a local bank account or legal entity! Multiple Sales Channels: Integrate your sales channels hassle-free, import your orders, and start selling worldwide. IOR & Custom Clearance: We take care of IOR & customer clearance, including handling VAT, Tax obligations, and compliance! Warehousing Network: Leverage the power of a global network with more than 15 strategically-located fulfillment centers. Order Management System: Sync and manage orders across multiple channels seamlessly from one central portal. Inventory Management: Streamline, monitor, and automate most of the tedious time-consuming inventory tasks. Shipping: Save time and money, earn better margins, and expand your business with comprehensive global shipping options. Fulfillment By Merchant: Save time, cut shipping costs, and speed up your Amazon deliveries with Fulfillment Bridge Amazon FBM service. Returns Management: Handle returns with ease. Inspect, evaluate, and repurpose sellable items to active inventory. Shopify Fulfillment: Integrate your Shopify store to Fulfillment Bridge. Get all the tools you need to ship out your goods swiftly and efficiently. Prestashop Order Fulfillment: Reduce operational complexity and sell to international customers effortlessly with Fulfillment Bridge Prestashop fulfillment. |  | Seed | Nov 10, 2022 |  |
| MIA Group | MIA Group is a consumer internet company in Francophone Africa. We are on a mission to make commerce easy through a digital ecosystem fulfilling the everyday needs of consumers online and offline.Our businesses include Miaplenou.com: The largest online retail platform operating in Togo, Benin, Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso. Launched 2012.Kiosk: online reselling App that enables anyone to start a business without investment. Launched 2021.MiaPay: QR code payment and lifestyle services |  | Pre-Seed | Mar 27, 2022 |  |
| Tribal | Tribal is a payments and financing platform using the latest emerging technologies to provide small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in emerging markets with better access to financial services. Tribal offers these SMBs access to modern payment methods like multi-currency physical and ​virtual business credit cards​, local and internationalwires, along with short-term financing, and a powerful ​spend management platform​ to track and control their expenses—all in one seamless interface. Tribal has raised from SoftBank Latin America Fund, QED Investors, BECO Capital, Stellar Development Foundation, and Coinbase Ventures. The company is also among an elite group of companies chosen as part of the Visa FinTech Fast Track program. |  | Secondary Market | Feb 03, 2022 |  |
| Baloon Assurance | Baloon is a digital insurance broker. They offer online insurance brokerage services intended to help facilitate the purpose of meeting the insurance demands. Their services include providing insurance in the areas of automobile and health, enabling consumers to reimburse their insurance online. | $2.5M | Venture - Series Unknown | Dec 02, 2021 |  |
| Bypa-ss | Bypa-ss is health-tech startup digitizing health information exchange in Egypt, empowering care providers and patients with better quality care. Our current main product is HealthTag, a multi-sided product that serves individuals, physicians, pharmacies, labs and radiology centers. More about HealthTag here: www.htag.health More about Bypa-sshere: www.bypa-ss.com | $1M | Pre-Seed | Nov 01, 2021 |  |
| LemFi | Lemonade Finance is a digital bank for the African diaspora. Lemonade provides users with accounts in their country of residence and country of origin for personal and business banking needs. | $725K | Pre-Seed | Nov 01, 2021 |  |
| Brass | Brass is a digital bank that provides small and medium businesses with a suite of products and tools designed to help them grow. | $1.7M | Seed | Oct 21, 2021 |  |
| Mono | Mono creates API financial platform that helps companies in collecting and managing bank transfer payments. The company was founded in 2020 by Abdulhamid Hassan and Prakhar Singh and is headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria. | $15M | Series A | Oct 11, 2021 |  |
| Mono | Mono creates API financial platform that helps companies in collecting and managing bank transfer payments. The company was founded in 2020 by Abdulhamid Hassan and Prakhar Singh and is headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria. | $15M | Series A | Oct 11, 2021 |  |
| Shara | Shara is a social trust network with financial features built in that allows SMEs to extend loans to their most reliable customers. | $6M | Seed | Sep 01, 2021 |  |

10 of 14 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Acuity Ventures invest in?

Acuity Ventures invests primarily in Financial Services, FinTech and Finance startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 14 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Nigeria. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Acuity Ventures's check size?

Acuity Ventures typically joins rounds of $500k–$6M at Seed and $725k–$1M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Acuity Ventures participates in.

### When did Acuity Ventures last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Acuity Ventures closed in Nov 2022. Shizune tracks 14 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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