# Equitable Ventures

> Equitable Ventures is a VC fund backing Financial Services. See 24 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Calebasses, Mauritius
- Total investments: 24
- Last investment: Mar 2026
- Lead investor: 17%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/equitable-ventures
- Website: https://www.equitable.ventures

Equitable Ventures is a venture funding firm that focuses on financial inclusion in Africa. It provide opportunity to help Africa's most promising early-stage fintech firms, with both financial rewards and impact.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $100k–$2.6M |
| Pre-Seed | $80k–$1.8M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Financial Services | 5 | 21% |
| Information Technology | 4 | 17% |
| AgTech | 3 | 13% |
| FinTech | 3 | 13% |
| Farming | 2 | 8% |

40 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 17 | 71% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 4 | 17% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 8% |
| Series A | 1 | 4% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Nigeria | 6 | 25% |
| South Africa | 4 | 17% |
| Ghana | 2 | 8% |
| Mali | 1 | 4% |
| India | 1 | 4% |

13 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Fabrice Boulle | Founder & Managing Partner | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fabrice-boulle |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Happy Pay | Happy Pay is a credit scoring system developing company. The company integrates an autonomous artificial intelligence technology system with the merchant's platform to increase their average basket size and customer conversion metrics, providing users with buy now, and pay later services. | $5M | Seed | Mar 23, 2026 |  |
| Startbutton | Startbutton empowers businesses to sell awesome products and services in more African countries. We provide businesses with the right connections to streamline payment processes and collections in various countries and eliminate bothersome overheads on local regulations, currencies, payment methods, compliance, etc so they can focus on increasingbusiness productivity and potential. | $100K | Seed | Oct 31, 2025 |  |
| Forti Foods | The mission of Forti Foods is to enhance communities and change lives beyond the plate by fostering resilience and dignity via sustainable food innovation. | $100K | Seed | Oct 01, 2025 |  |
| Cubbes | Cubbes enables better learning, productivity and collaboration for the next generation. | $100K | Seed | Oct 01, 2025 |  |
| Raba | Raba offers lease-to-own equipment financing solutions tailored for small and medium businesses. Its platform enables companies to access essential equipment such as industrial kitchen appliances, sewing machines, bakery tools, and laundry systems, without large upfront payments or collateral. Services include payment plans, approvals, and directvendor partnerships, helping businesses scale operations while maintaining healthy cash flow. | $100K | Seed | Oct 01, 2025 |  |
| TurnStay | TurnStay helps travel industry to radically reduce payment costs and improve conversion. | $1.9M | Seed | Aug 05, 2025 |  |
| Hub2.Io | B2B solution for e-merchant in WEST AFRICA, that allows payment trough Mobile Banking, Credit Card. | $8.5M | Series A | Dec 02, 2024 |  |
| Happy Pay | Happy Pay is a credit scoring system developing company. The company integrates an autonomous artificial intelligence technology system with the merchant's platform to increase their average basket size and customer conversion metrics, providing users with buy now, and pay later services. | $1.8M | Pre-Seed | Sep 17, 2024 |  |
| Crop2Cash | Farmers, especially smallholder farmers, have always had trouble accessing financing as banks are wary of fund mismanagement. Crop2Cash makes formal financing a 100% transparent process for banks while providing much-needed capital to responsible farmers. | $350K | Seed | Apr 10, 2024 |  |
| Figorr | Figorr is a provider of cold chain solutions that specializes in temperature-controlled products, temperature monitoring solutions, and cold chain services. Figorr focuses on understanding the unique challenges that each of the markets it serves faces. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Dec 25, 2023 |  |

10 of 24 investments shown.

## Co-investors
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## FAQ

### What does Equitable Ventures invest in?

Equitable Ventures invests primarily in Financial Services, Information Technology and AgTech startups, most often at Seed and Venture - Series Unknown stage. Most of the 24 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Nigeria. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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

Equitable Ventures typically joins rounds of $100k–$2.6M at Seed and $80k–$1.8M 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 Equitable Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Equitable Ventures?

Public channels for Equitable Ventures include LinkedIn and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Equitable Ventures?

The team at Equitable Ventures includes Fabrice Boulle (Founder & Managing Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### 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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