# Endeavor South Africa

> Endeavor South Africa is a VC fund in Johannesburg backing Internet and Payments. See 12 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Johannesburg, South Africa
- Total investments: 12
- Last investment: Nov 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Fund size: $7.9M
- Last fund: Nov 2021
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/endeavor-south-africa/about/
- Website: http://endeavor.co.za/

Endeavor South Africa is a non-profit entity and the leading supporter of high-impact entrepreneurs around the world.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2.5M–$4.6M |
| Series B | $11M–$48M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Internet | 3 | 25% |
| Payments | 3 | 25% |
| E-Commerce | 3 | 25% |
| Financial Services | 3 | 25% |
| SaaS | 2 | 17% |

25 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 33% |
| Series A | 2 | 17% |
| Series B | 2 | 17% |
| Series C | 2 | 17% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 8% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| South Africa | 9 | 75% |
| United States | 1 | 8% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 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. |  | Series A | Nov 19, 2025 |  |
| Sendmarc | Sendmarc is offers email protection from phishing attacks and email impersonation. | $7M | Series A | Feb 08, 2023 |  |
| Yebo Fresh | Yebofresh is a new online shopping service, delivering popular groceries straight into areas that are generally unserved by most formal retailers. Our unique business model and partnerships with manufacturers allow us to deliver top quality products and A-brands at extremely competitive prices. Yebofresh serves Imizamo Yethu, Langa, Khayelitsha,Mfuleni and Gugulethu and following recent seed funding, is rapidly expanding across the greater Cape Town area. | $4.4M |  | Jan 24, 2023 |  |
| Yebo Fresh | Yebofresh is a new online shopping service, delivering popular groceries straight into areas that are generally unserved by most formal retailers. Our unique business model and partnerships with manufacturers allow us to deliver top quality products and A-brands at extremely competitive prices. Yebofresh serves Imizamo Yethu, Langa, Khayelitsha,Mfuleni and Gugulethu and following recent seed funding, is rapidly expanding across the greater Cape Town area. | $4.5M | Seed | Jan 24, 2023 |  |
| Flow | Flow is a property marketing platform that automates social media marketing for estate agents and property developers. Flow takes hundreds of property listings and agent profiles and creates hundreds of ads on Facebook, Instagram and Google instantly and automatically, driving leads straight to agents' phones. Visithttps://flowliving.com. | $4.6M | Seed | Jan 17, 2023 |  |
| Synatic | Synatic is a modern data integration and automation platform that combines iPaaS, ESB, ETL and API Management into a simple yet powerful tool. Connect any system, whether through API (SOAP or REST), ODBC, flat file or SDK, all through drag and drop simplicity. Synatic also works with cloud, on-premise or hybrid systems. Overall, Synaticprovides a holistic integration solution that delivers value with incredible speed. With simple to use tools coupled with enterprise grade features, Synatic cuts data integration, automation and analytics time and cost by up to 80%. | $2.5M | Seed | Dec 05, 2022 |  |
| SweepSouth | Online home services platform that connects homeowners with trusted service professionals. SweepSouth aims to modernize home services and to be the African pioneers in bringing technology to the industry. With over seven thousand service provider and thousands of satisfied customers being served monthly across 4 countries, company is barely scratchthe surface when it comes to the addressable market. The mission is to create happy homes by providing dignified, flexible work at decent pay to their service providers. | $10.9M | Series B | Sep 26, 2022 |  |
| Mobiz | Mobiz is a saas mobile marketing platform that connects brands with their customers. They generate text links with content, landing pages, and deliver them through SMS's broad reach. They specialize in text marketing services. They also provide tools for post-click experiences through templates and MMS campaigns. | $4M | Seed | Nov 23, 2021 |  |
| Ozow | Ozow is the future of payment as we know it. An oh-so (or Ozow) easy, automated and ultra-secure pay-by-bank solution that helps customers pay in just a few seconds, merchants can initiate Ozow payments through a variety of payment platforms, such as SMS, eCommerce, eBilling, QR Code, and instore Point-of-Sale (POS). Through Ozow’s precise andsecure system (that reduces the risk of charge-backs), merchants get real-time payments with instant transaction notifications and automated bank reconciliations. As no card is required for payment, their products are also more widely available, resulting in fewer abandoned carts, increased sales, and more happy customers. Furthermore, merchants enjoy transaction fees as low as 1,5%, with no monthly costs, setup fees, or minimum charges, enabling them to save their money. As an added bonus, merchants processing up to R1m per month can use Ozow for free in their first year, no strings attached.Ozow is committed to financial inclusion on a continent where many people are disenfranchised by a lack of payments options. Furthermore, Ozow is committed to making it affordable for smaller businesses to take their trade to a wider audience, and to ensure that if traditional payment methods are unavailable, merchants don’t suffer. Ozow is bringing commerce to a wider audience, promoting financial inclusion, and innovating for our customers. Paying with us is Ozow easy, Ozow fast and Ozow trusted! | $48M | Series B | Nov 17, 2021 |  |
| 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. |  | Series C | Nov 10, 2021 |  |

10 of 12 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Endeavor Catalyst](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/endeavor-catalyst) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Allan Gray](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/allan-gray-6e30) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Bossa Invest](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bossanova-investimentos) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [E4EAfrica](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/e4eafrica) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [E Squared Investments](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/e-squared-investments) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Futuregrowth Asset Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/futuregrowth-asset-management) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Endeavor South Africa invest in?

Endeavor South Africa invests primarily in Internet, Payments and E-Commerce startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 12 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in South Africa. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Endeavor South Africa's check size?

Endeavor South Africa typically joins rounds of $2.5M–$4.6M at Seed and $11M–$48M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Endeavor South Africa participates in.

### When did Endeavor South Africa last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Endeavor South Africa closed in Nov 2025. Shizune tracks 12 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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