# Launch Africa

> Launch Africa is a VC fund in Ebène backing Financial Services and FinTech. See 217 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Ebène, Mauritius
- Total investments: 217
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 39%
- Fund size: $36M
- Last fund: Jun 2022
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/launch-africa
- Website: https://www.launchafrica.vc/

Launch Africa is a leading Pan-African VC fund solving the significant funding gap in the Seed and pre-Series A investment landscape in Africa

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $200k–$4M |
| Pre-Seed | $200k–$1.8M |
| Venture - Series Unknown | $200k–$500k |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Financial Services | 39 | 18% |
| FinTech | 31 | 14% |
| Information Technology | 24 | 11% |
| Software | 22 | 10% |
| E-Commerce | 20 | 9% |

163 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 106 | 49% |
| Pre-Seed | 35 | 16% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 30 | 14% |
| Funding Round | 20 | 9% |
| Series A | 4 | 2% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Nigeria | 21 | 10% |
| South Africa | 20 | 9% |
| United States | 19 | 9% |
| United Kingdom | 16 | 7% |
| Kenya | 14 | 6% |

32 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Fope Oluleye | Investor | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fope-oluleye |
| Janade Du Plessis | Co-Founder & Managing Partner | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/janade-du-plessis |
| Kartik Sharma | Portfolio Manager F1 | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kartik-sharma-49f3 |
| Margaret O'Connor | Investor and Advisor | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hiba-sharief-b1ce |
| Uwem Uwemakpan | Head of Investments, F2 | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/uwem-uwemakpan |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Udu Technologies | Udu Technologies is an AI infrastructure company that offers GPU systems, AI platform integration, and technical support services. | $300K | Venture - Series Unknown | Jul 31, 2026 |  |
| Fincart | Fincart helps e-commerce SMBs access working capital through streamlining their last-mile operations through multi-courier shipping platform. | $2.8M | Seed | Jul 27, 2026 |  |
| Zazu | Zazu's mission is to provide a financing solution that entrepreneurs adore, making banking seem less like a barrier and more like an engine for expansion. |  | Seed | Jul 21, 2026 |  |
| Yamify | Yamify is an AI platform where intelligent agents reliably run mission-critical business workflows in Africa. Founded by Silicon Valley engineers, our platform automates complex operations by integrating humans, systems, and infrastructure reliably, even under connectivity, latency, and compliance challenges. Starting with on-prem deployments,Yamify is evolving into a full AI automation infrastructure for African enterprises. |  | Pre-Seed | Jun 05, 2026 |  |
| Recital | Recital is an automated finance operations platform that empowers finance teams to efficiently handle complex financial tasks. |  | Seed | Apr 20, 2026 |  |
| Growwr | Growwr is an AI-native workforce infrastructure platform building the operating system for global work.Its flagship product, Growwr AI, acts as an intelligent hiring agent that helps companies source, screen, evaluate, and hire talent through conversational workflows instead of manual recruiting processes. Companies can describe a role, definehiring priorities, and automatically receive ranked candidates based on verified skills, work history, and performance data.Beyond hiring, Growwr provides integrated global payment infrastructure that enables companies to pay talent across 180+ countries through cards, bank transfers, mobile money, and local payment rails.Because hiring, work, and payments happen inside one system, Growwr continuously generates verified workforce data around earnings, productivity, reliability, and work consistency. The company is leveraging this infrastructure to build workforce financial services including payroll, invoicing, credit scoring, and access to financial products for professionals in emerging markets.Growwr supports 90,000+ users across 15 countries, has processed over millions in payouts, and serves businesses across Africa, the UK, and the US.The company is building the AI and financial infrastructure layer powering the future of global work. | $218K | Pre-Seed | Apr 17, 2026 |  |
| REasy | REasy is a B2B cross-border payments platform that eases financial transactions for African SMEs with the global suppliers and partners. | $1.8M | Pre-Seed | Oct 09, 2025 |  |
| Liquify Digital | Liquify is an invoice marketplace that transforms invoices from SMEs in emerging markets into an investable asset class for financiers seeking reliable yield | $2M | Seed | Jun 26, 2025 |  |
| PayTic | PayTic enables payments issuers to manage their card programs by providing dedicated back-office solutions that streamline the end-to-end operations in customer support, chargebacks, fraud, AML, reporting, and reconciliation. Our proprietary solutions are unique in automating and centralizing the program management processes, regardless of thenumber of processors and the payment networks involved in the payments products. We impact payments providers by eliminating the defragmented and manual processes and replacing them with a SaaS platform that increases proactivity, mitigates risks, and delivers value. It reduces the burn rate to near 0 in operational costs and offers an unprecedented competitive advantage. PayTic is introducing the Zero Ops model in managing payments. | $4M | Seed | Apr 08, 2025 |  |
| Affinity | Affinity is a financial solutions company that provides financial inclusion, advisory, and literacy services. | $8M | Seed | Feb 11, 2025 |  |

10 of 217 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Five35 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/five35-ventures) — VC Fund, 13 deals together
- [Century Oak Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/century-oak-capital) — VC Fund, 12 deals together
- [54 Collective](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/founders-factory-africa) — VC Fund, 12 deals together
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## FAQ

### What does Launch Africa invest in?

Launch Africa invests primarily in Financial Services, FinTech and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 217 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Nigeria. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Launch Africa's check size?

Launch Africa typically joins rounds of $200k–$4M at Seed, $200k–$1.8M at Pre-Seed and $200k–$500k at Venture - Series Unknown. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Launch Africa participates in.

### How do I contact Launch Africa?

Public channels for Launch Africa 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 Launch Africa?

The team at Launch Africa includes Fope Oluleye (Investor), Janade Du Plessis (Co-Founder & Managing Partner) and Kartik Sharma (Portfolio Manager F1), 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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