BESTSELLER Foundation
VC Fund
BESTSELLER Foundation is a VC fund focused on E-Commerce and Waste Management. BESTSELLER Foundation
- Total investments:
- 7
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 57%
Last updated:
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Industries BESTSELLER Foundation invests in
Stages BESTSELLER Foundation invests in
Countries BESTSELLER Foundation invests in
Round sizes
Round size
- Debt Financing
- $100k–$100k
Investment Focus
Industry
- E-Commerce 2 (29%)
- Waste Management 2 (29%)
- Art 1 (14%)
- SaaS 1 (14%)
- Retail 1 (14%)
Stage
- Debt Financing 3 (43%)
- Seed 1 (14%)
- Series A 1 (14%)
- Series B 1 (14%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 1 (14%)
Country
- Kenya 3 (43%)
- India 1 (14%)
- Uganda 1 (14%)
- United States 1 (14%)
- Côte d'Ivoire 1 (14%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Powered by People is a mobile-first, distributed manufacturing system offering online tools, financing solutions, and a B2B marketplace to the small and mid-sized enterprises in the creative manufacturing and handmade sector. | Venture - Series Unknown / Aug 20, 2026 | ||
| ANKA is a platform to discover, buy, and sell African fashion, arts, and crafts. ANKA’s goal is to allow African creation lovers to live their passion while allowing the creators to live from theirs. ANKA facilitates transactions and exchanges directly between buyers and sellers on both sides of the world, in a user-friendly and secure way. | $6.1M / Seed / Jan 11, 2022 | ||
| Zijani is dedicated to the recycling of waste cooking oil to more sustainable and renewable products. We have a firm principle of conserving our environment and the belief that waste has a value and humanity has a responsibility and knowhow to identify that value. Zijani has invested in facilities and personnel to add value to the waste from thehospitality industry and provide products back into the industry. | $100K / Debt Financing / Sep 21, 2020 | ||
| Gjenge is a community-based organization. The mission is to address the need for sustainable and affordable alternative construction materials. The first products are innovations made from recycled plastics, such as paving blocks, paving tiles, and manhole covers. Thy team proposed the establishment of a plastics collection company that would sortand sell plastic waste to other recycling businesses. | $100K / Debt Financing / Sep 21, 2020 | ||
| The Yo-Waste cloud platform helps government & private garbage collection companies and municipal authorities to manage garbage collection logistics such as maximizing garbage collection locations while lowering operating costs in terms of fuel expenses and others. This is all achieved through our hauler app and garbage collection andscheduling mobile applications.Our core objectives as a company include; To create a full waste & recycling company focussed on sustainability To work with customers and recycling firms to divert wastes from landfills To develop new & innovative technologies focussed on waste management & recycling To disrupt the waste management industry in Africa To connect haulers & recyclers with businesses & households to reduce unnecessary waste transportation costs and save both environmental & economic resources. To help haulers & recyclers get more clients and earn extra income | $100K / Debt Financing / Sep 21, 2020 | ||
| Sama is a globally recognized leader in data annotation solutions for enterprise AI models that require the highest accuracy. As an industry pioneer with 15-years of experience, Sama’s expertise and solutions are trusted by leading companies such as GM, Ford, Continental, Google, and many more. Sama specializes in image, video, language, lidar, andsensor data annotation and validation for complex machine learning algorithms. As a leader in ethical AI and as a Certified B-Corp, we’ve pioneered an impact model that harnesses the power of markets for social good, and has been proven to meaningfully improve employment and income outcomes for those with the greatest barriers to formal work. So far, helping more than 60,000 people lift themselves out of poverty. | $14.8M / Series A / Nov 20, 2019 | ||
| Lawrencedale Agro Processing is an end-to-end service provider in the fruit and vegetable industry. The company is dedicated to the betterment of agro-processing and has evolved an integrated approach encompassing farming practices providing genetically superior planting materials, offering technical support to reduce post-harvest loss, providingcold storage facilities and deploying state-of-the-art facilities for processing, packaging and transporting the commodity to end-user. Lawrencedale Agro Processing is engaged in community farming and distribution of vegetables and fruits to retailers. It also offers beetroot, tomato, potatoes, banana, carrots, garlic, okra, cabbages, and other food products. It works with farmers to enrich the soil, leading to substantial, and engage them on bio-alternate inputs increase in the quality of the fresh produce.Lawrencedale Agro Processing was founded in 2009 and is based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. | $8M / Series B / Sep 18, 2016 |
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FAQ
What does BESTSELLER Foundation invest in?
BESTSELLER Foundation invests primarily in E-Commerce, Waste Management and Art startups, most often at Debt Financing and Seed stage. Most of the 7 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Kenya. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is BESTSELLER Foundation's check size?
BESTSELLER Foundation typically joins rounds of $100k–$100k at Debt Financing. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds BESTSELLER Foundation participates in.
When did BESTSELLER Foundation last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for BESTSELLER Foundation closed in Aug 2026. Shizune tracks 7 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 Sep 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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