# Samurai Incubate Africa

> Samurai Incubate Africa is a VC fund backing Financial Services and FinTech. See 14 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Japan
- Total investments: 14
- Last investment: Dec 2023
- Lead investor: 29%
- Fund size: $19M
- Last fund: Apr 2021
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/samurai-incubate-africa
- Website: https://samurai-incubate-africa.asia/

Samurai Incubate Africa is a VC fund in Tokyo focused on Financial Services and FinTech. Samurai Incubate Africa invests in early-stage start-ups and provides support in management, marketing, sales and HR.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Financial Services | 3 | 21% |
| FinTech | 2 | 14% |
| Finance | 2 | 14% |
| Payments | 2 | 14% |
| Software | 2 | 14% |

33 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 7 | 50% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 14% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 7% |
| Series A | 1 | 7% |
| Series B | 1 | 7% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Japan | 3 | 21% |
| Nigeria | 3 | 21% |
| United States | 2 | 14% |
| Egypt | 1 | 7% |
| Kenya | 1 | 7% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Kentaro Sakakibara | Founder & CEO | 5 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kentaro-sakakibara |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Hakki Africa | HAKKI AFRICA provides microfinance services for SMEs. | $2.2M | Series B | Dec 19, 2023 |  |
| Releaf Earth | Releaf is a supply chain technology firm that sources ingredients for African food factories. It aims to create climate-adaptive supply chains as Africa's population grows by 3 billion people. Releaf also provides extension services to smallholders, acts as a buyer of their products, and converts the raw material into factory-grade inputs forvegetable oil factories. Releaf uses digital technologies such as USSD and open banking, in addition to hardware, to work seamlessly with its network of over 2,000 smallholder farmers, who have supplied over 15 million kilograms of quality palm kernel nuts to food factories. | $3.3M | Seed | Jan 09, 2023 |  |
| Your Parts | Your Parts offers one-stop-shop offering a wide range of autoparts and services for service centers embedded by on demand delivery and financial solutions. | $200K |  | Sep 01, 2022 |  |
| Your Parts | Your Parts offers one-stop-shop offering a wide range of autoparts and services for service centers embedded by on demand delivery and financial solutions. | $200K | Seed | Jun 01, 2022 |  |
| Norebase | Norebase knows that there's an opportunity to grow successful businesses in Africa. It also understands the complexities of the market, and so is using technology to make doing business in Africa worthwhile. With Norebase get to operate in Africa with no hassle and with minimum risk. | $1M | Pre-Seed | May 04, 2022 |  |
| Eden Life | Eden Life is a tech-enabled service that puts your home's chores on autopilot. | $1.4M | Seed | Oct 13, 2021 |  |
| Releaf Earth | Releaf is a supply chain technology firm that sources ingredients for African food factories. It aims to create climate-adaptive supply chains as Africa's population grows by 3 billion people. Releaf also provides extension services to smallholders, acts as a buyer of their products, and converts the raw material into factory-grade inputs forvegetable oil factories. Releaf uses digital technologies such as USSD and open banking, in addition to hardware, to work seamlessly with its network of over 2,000 smallholder farmers, who have supplied over 15 million kilograms of quality palm kernel nuts to food factories. | $2.7M | Seed | Sep 15, 2021 |  |
| SHYFT Power Solutions | SHYFT builds industrial-grade IoT and integrated software to connect and intelligently manage distributed energy resources (DERs) in markets that struggle with resiliency. SHYFT is pioneering the development of integrated decentralized power systems in emerging markets like Nigeria, leapfrogging over traditional central infrastructure and enablingDERs to scale and support existing but unreliable grids. | $3.1M | Seed | Apr 01, 2021 |  |
| FMG | FMG is providing fleet management services in African countries. |  | Seed | Oct 25, 2020 |  |
| Eden Life | Eden Life is a tech-enabled service that puts your home's chores on autopilot. |  | Seed | Jul 10, 2020 |  |

10 of 14 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [LoftyInc Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/loftyinc-capital-management) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Consonance Investment Managers](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/consonance-investment-managers) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Future Africa](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/future-africa) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Saviu Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/saviu-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Village Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/village-global-2) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [9Yards Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/9yards-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Samurai Incubate Africa invest in?

Samurai Incubate Africa invests primarily in Financial Services, FinTech and Finance startups, most often at Seed and Funding Round stage. Most of the 14 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Japan. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Samurai Incubate Africa?

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### Who are the partners at Samurai Incubate Africa?

The team at Samurai Incubate Africa includes Kentaro Sakakibara (Founder & CEO). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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