# BESTSELLER Foundation

> BESTSELLER Foundation is a VC fund backing Waste Management, Art and SaaS. See 6 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Total investments: 6
- Last investment: Jan 2022
- Lead investor: 50%
- Last updated: Aug 2026

BESTSELLER Foundation is a VC fund focused on Waste Management and Art. BESTSELLER Foundation

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Waste Management | 2 | 33% |
| Art | 1 | 17% |
| SaaS | 1 | 17% |
| Fashion | 1 | 17% |
| Handmade | 1 | 17% |

16 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Debt Financing | 3 | 50% |
| Seed | 1 | 17% |
| Series A | 1 | 17% |
| Series B | 1 | 17% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| India | 1 | 17% |
| Kenya | 1 | 17% |
| Uganda | 1 | 17% |
| United States | 1 | 17% |
| Côte d'Ivoire | 1 | 17% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| ANKA | 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 | 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 |  |
| Sama | 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 | 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 |  |
| Gjenge |  |  | Debt Financing |  |  |
| Yo-Waste | 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 |  | Debt Financing |  |  |

6 of 6 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Lightrock india (Aspada)](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aspada) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Enigmo](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/enigmo) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Id4 ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/id4-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Investisseurs & Partenaires](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/investisseurs-and-partenaires) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Kepple Africa Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kepple-africa-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- Lofty Ventures — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does BESTSELLER Foundation invest in?

BESTSELLER Foundation invests primarily in Waste Management, Art and SaaS startups, most often at Debt Financing and Seed stage. Most of the 6 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did BESTSELLER Foundation last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for BESTSELLER Foundation closed in Jan 2022. Shizune tracks 6 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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