Future Africa
VC Fund
San Francisco, United States
Future Africa is a collective of mission-driven founders and funders building unicorns to solve Africa’s biggest challenges. They are build a future where purpose and prosperity are within everyone’s reach.
- Total investments:
- 92
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 14%
Last updated:
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Industries Future Africa invests in
Stages Future Africa invests in
Countries Future Africa invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $500k–$4M
- Pre-Seed
- $100k–$3.7M
- Series A
- $7M–$40M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Financial Services 24 (26%)
- FinTech 20 (22%)
- Information Technology 13 (14%)
- Software 10 (11%)
- Finance 6 (7%)
Stage
- Seed 34 (37%)
- Pre-Seed 32 (35%)
- Series A 5 (5%)
- Funding Round 4 (4%)
- Series B 3 (3%)
Country
- Nigeria 26 (28%)
- United States 16 (17%)
- Kenya 10 (11%)
- South Africa 3 (3%)
- United Kingdom 3 (3%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Andy Volk
Limited Partner
|
Limited Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Caleb Zipperstein
Venture Partner
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Venture Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Ifeoluwa Adepoju
Head, legal & Compliance
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Head, legal & Compliance | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Iretimipo Kukoyi
Entrepreneur In Residence
|
Entrepreneur In Residence | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
Iyinoluwa Aboyeji
Founder & General Partner
|
Founder & General Partner | Total investments: 20 | Find email | |
| See all 7 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Lori Systems
|
Lori is a venture-backed start-up building cutting-edge logistics infrastructure for trucking in Africa. The start-up is tackling a massive issue - $180 billion is spent annually on haulage across Africa, which means that up to 75% of a product’s cost is due to logistics (compared to 6% in the US).Lori’s tech-enabled and operations-drivenmarketplace efficiently connects transport to cargo. The supply chain management system brings transparency and has pushed for significantly improved flexibility, reliability, and cost savings (savings of upwards of 18%).The company has experienced 30% month-over-month compounded growth since its product launch in May 2017. The market demand for Lori’s platform is increasing exponentially. To continue this pace of growth, Lori recently closed a landmark raise from globally leading institutional and strategic investors. The company won Techcrunch Battlefield Africa. | $2M / Venture - Series Unknown / Apr 21, 2025 | |
STEM Cafe
|
STEM Cafe is a non-linear learning center where kids and young adults (5-18 years) can learn about the great world of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) through exciting interactive activities. | Pre-Seed / Mar 10, 2025 | |
Juicyway
|
Juice is a developer of a payment network platform for cross-border business payments for businesses and individuals. It facilitates financial transactions between parties regardless of location to allow enterprises to participate in international trade and the exchange of goods and services. | $3M / Pre-Seed / Dec 16, 2024 | |
Moove
|
Moove is a mobility fintech that provides revenue-based vehicle financing to mobility entrepreneurs, democratizing vehicle ownership across Africa. The company embeds its alternative credit-scoring technology onto ride-hailing, logistics, and last-mile/instant delivery platforms, which allows access to proprietary performance and revenueanalytics of mobility entrepreneurs to underwrite loans. | $100M / Series B / Mar 19, 2024 | |
Filmmakers Mart
|
FilmmakersMart is Africa’s first film and entertainment marketplace where entertainment businesses and creatives find verified services seamlessly for their video productions while democratizing entry into the film and entertainment industry for emerging creatives. We’re building the operations system for the film and entertainment industry inAfrica. | $336.5K / Pre-Seed / Oct 26, 2023 | |
Itana
|
Talent City’s mission is to build a network of charter cities that focuses on creating technology-enabled jobs within a free trade zone with its own regulation and bylaws. | $2M / Pre-Seed / Sep 06, 2023 | |
Anchor
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Anchor is a Lagos-based banking-as-a-service platform for African businesses. Anchor provides APIs and infrastructure to build, embed and launch powerful financial products in a secure and scalable way. | $2.4M / Seed / Sep 04, 2023 | |
Balad
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Balad is a financial technology firm offering prepaid card solutions to the underbanked relatives of Egyptian migrants living overseas. | Pre-Seed / May 08, 2023 | |
Sytemap
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We are building a blockchain-based property record to help home buyers and financial companies access, view and verify properties starting from digitizing Estate project layouts (Sytemap) Sytemap is a first step that allows us access to a large pool of property data. The end goal can really be described as building Zillow for Africa. | $400K / Seed / Mar 27, 2023 | |
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Sytemap
|
We are building a blockchain-based property record to help home buyers and financial companies access, view and verify properties starting from digitizing Estate project layouts (Sytemap) Sytemap is a first step that allows us access to a large pool of property data. The end goal can really be described as building Zillow for Africa. | $400K / Pre-Seed / Mar 27, 2023 | |
| See all 92 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Future Africa invest in?
Future Africa invests primarily in Financial Services, FinTech and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 92 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Nigeria. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Future Africa's check size?
Future Africa typically joins rounds of $500k–$4M at Seed, $100k–$3.7M at Pre-Seed and $7M–$40M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Future Africa participates in.
How do I contact Future Africa?
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Who are the partners at Future Africa?
The team at Future Africa includes Andy Volk (Limited Partner), Caleb Zipperstein (Venture Partner) and Ifeoluwa Adepoju (Head, legal & Compliance), among 7 team members tracked by Shizune. 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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