# Prosus Ventures

> Prosus Ventures is a VC fund backing Software and Financial Services. See 183 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cape Town, South Africa
- Total investments: 183
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 46%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/prosusventures/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/Prosus_Ventures
- Website: https://www.prosus.com/ventures

Prosus Ventures is a venture investing arm of Prosus that invests in technology startups. They identify companies and founders with high potential and the ambition to scale globally correctly. Their goal is to help companies quickly impact the communities where they operate and provide them with tailored support that enables them to be leaders intheir chosen markets.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Prosus Ventures. Shizune tracks 8 team members at Prosus Ventures. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/prosus-ventures?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $3.3M–$19M |
| Series A | $10M–$37M |
| Series B | $15M–$104M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 22 | 12% |
| Financial Services | 18 | 10% |
| E-Commerce | 16 | 9% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 16 | 9% |
| Information Technology | 14 | 8% |

156 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 36 | 20% |
| Series A | 32 | 17% |
| Seed | 21 | 11% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 13 | 7% |
| Series C | 12 | 7% |

19 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| India | 29 | 16% |
| United States | 19 | 10% |
| Singapore | 8 | 4% |
| Brazil | 7 | 4% |
| Australia | 7 | 4% |

24 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Sachin Bhanot | Head of Investments, SEA & ANZ | 19 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sachin-bhanot |
| Apoorve Goyal | Managing Director | 5 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/apoorve-goyal-5542 |
| Carolyn Ryan | VP, Global Head of Strategy and Business Development | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/carolyn-ryan-0014 |
| Eoin Ryan | Head Of Investor Relations | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eoin-ryan |
| Fabricio Bloisi | CEO | 8 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fabricio-bloisi |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| QOSMIC | QOSMIC designs and deploys optical ground stations that use laser beams to communicate with satellites, enabling data rates that the company advertises as “100x faster than RF” for satellite downlink, at a target cost of around $1 per gigabyte. | $3.3M | Seed | Jun 24, 2026 |  |
| Equal AI | Equal Identity operates as an ID-sharing platform. | $30M | Series B | Jun 12, 2026 |  |
| Equal AI | Equal Identity operates as an ID-sharing platform. | $30M | Series B | Jun 12, 2026 |  |
| Equal AI | Equal Identity operates as an ID-sharing platform. | $30M | Series B | Jun 12, 2026 |  |
| Deccan AI | Deccan AI specializes in providing high-quality, human-labeled data for AI model training and evaluation. | $25M | Series A | Mar 25, 2026 |  |
| Zapia AI | Zapia, an AI personal assistant that uses WhatsApp to complete tasks, is how Latin Americans get through the day. | $7M | Seed | Mar 03, 2026 |  |
| BeConfident | Practice English with AI on WhatsApp and video-calling | $15.8M | Series A | Feb 05, 2026 |  |
| Qureos | Qureos is a UAE-based AI recruitment and career-matching platform that helps employers automate candidate sourcing, screening, and hiring while providing job seekers with personalized job matching, resume feedback, and career support tools. Founded in 2021, the company operates across the GCC and MENA regions and has expanded into internationalmarkets. Its platform combines recruitment automation, AI-driven candidate matching, and talent management features through its AI recruiter assistant, Iris, which streamlines hiring workflows for businesses and recruitment teams. | $5M | Seed | Feb 03, 2026 |  |
| Emergent | Emergent is a platform for agentic vibe-coding. | $70M | Series B | Jan 20, 2026 |  |
| EtherealX | EtherealX designs develops, and manufactures next-generation launch vehicles and spacecraft. | $20.5M | Series A | Dec 21, 2025 |  |

10 of 183 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Accel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accel) — VC Fund, 27 deals together
- [Peak XV Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sequoia-india-2) — VC Fund, 21 deals together
- [Tiger Global Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tiger-global) — VC Fund, 15 deals together
- [Temasek](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/temasek) — VC Fund, 11 deals together
- [Elevation Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/elevation-capital-6e8a) — VC Fund, 10 deals together
- [Z47](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/matrix-partners-india) — VC Fund, 10 deals together

## Similar investors

### Similar industry
- [Antler](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/antler-be9c) — VC Fund
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund
- [Right Side Capital Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/right-side-capital-management) — VC Fund

### Similar stage
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund
- [General Catalyst](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/general-catalyst-partners) — VC Fund
- [FJ Labs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fj-labs) — VC Fund

### Similar country
- [Wamda Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/wamda) — VC Fund
- [F6 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/flat6labs) — VC Fund
- [Shorooq Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shorooq-partners) — VC Fund

## Featured in investor lists
- [Community Investors in Indonesia](https://shizune.co/investors/community-investors-indonesia)
- [Community VC Funds in Indonesia](https://shizune.co/investors/community-vc-funds-indonesia)
- [Video Games Investors in India](https://shizune.co/investors/video-games-investors-india)
- [Video Games VC Funds in India](https://shizune.co/investors/video-games-vc-funds-india)
- [Fashion VC Funds in India](https://shizune.co/investors/fashion-vc-funds-india)
- [Finance VC Funds in Middle East](https://shizune.co/investors/finance-vc-funds-middle-east)

## FAQ

### What does Prosus Ventures invest in?

Prosus Ventures invests primarily in Software, Financial Services and E-Commerce startups, most often at Series B and Series A stage. Most of the 183 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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

Prosus Ventures typically joins rounds of $3.3M–$19M at Seed, $10M–$37M at Series A and $15M–$104M 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 Prosus Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Prosus Ventures?

Public channels for Prosus Ventures include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) 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 Prosus Ventures?

The team at Prosus Ventures includes Sachin Bhanot (Head of Investments, SEA & ANZ), Apoorve Goyal (Managing Director) and Carolyn Ryan (VP, Global Head of Strategy and Business Development), among 8 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.

# About Shizune
Shizune.co is an investor database. Core features:
- 48,091 startup investors (angels, VCs, accelerators, and others)
- Email, phone, LinkedIn (for intros), socials, and other contact data
- Updated daily from public funding news
- CSV and Excel export

The User can access the full database FOR FREE after signing up: shizune.co