# Saviu Ventures

> Saviu Ventures is a VC fund in Ebène backing FinTech and Financial Services. See 43 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Ebène, Mauritius
- Total investments: 43
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 47%
- Fund size: $14M
- Last fund: Nov 2023
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/saviuventures
- Website: https://www.saviu.vc/

Saviu Ventures is a VC fund in Ebène focused on FinTech and Financial Services. Saviu is a venture capital fund focusing on African early-stage startups.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $550k–$5M |
| Pre-Seed | $165k–$817k |
| Series A | $2M–$5M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 7 | 16% |
| Financial Services | 7 | 16% |
| E-Commerce | 5 | 12% |
| Software | 4 | 9% |
| Payments | 3 | 7% |

47 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 18 | 42% |
| Pre-Seed | 7 | 16% |
| Series A | 3 | 7% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 5% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 2% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Côte d'Ivoire | 7 | 16% |
| Kenya | 4 | 9% |
| Senegal | 3 | 7% |
| France | 2 | 5% |
| Ghana | 1 | 2% |

13 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Arthur Thuet | Co-founder & Managing Partner | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arthur-thuet |
| Cedric Mangaud | Co founder and Limited Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cedric-mangaud |
| CYNTHIA MANDJEK | Investment Manager | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cynthia-mandjek |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Agenz | Agenz was founded to deliver credible real estate market data that is updated in real time, allowing individuals to make faster and more informed real estate decisions at the right time. | $5M | Seed | Jun 11, 2026 |  |
| POZI | POZI app is an innovative tracking and geolocation solution primarily designed for fleet monitoring and management. | $761.1K | Seed | Oct 06, 2025 |  |
| Userguest.com | Userguest is a Travel SaaS company that provides technology to hotels in order to improve their online revenue. Our smart tool applies RevMarketing Automation to hotel website, by matching a user’s booking intent with the hotel’s inventory priorities. We display personalized incentives to boost hotel revenue where it counts. | $2.4M | Seed | Sep 11, 2024 |  |
| Workpay | Workpay is a Payroll, Benefits, Compliance software company with embedded finance for local and remote teams in Africa. We empower teams to hire local and remote teams across Africa while staying compliant and without the hustle of having local entities. | $5M | Series A | Aug 22, 2024 |  |
| Doo.africa | Doo.africa partners with Mobile Money agents to provide essential services in the region. |  | Seed | Aug 13, 2024 |  |
| Waribei | Waribei is a payment tool connecting banks, wholesalers, and retailers. For retailers, it formalizes access to working capital financing to purchase goods, fostering business growth. For wholesalers, it provides a platform to manage payment terms within traditional distribution channels, all supported by liquidity from banks. | $817.4K | Pre-Seed | Jul 21, 2024 |  |
| Strong by Form | Strong by Form bonds nature and technology to build a sustainable future. Our Woodflow technology allows to produce high-performance lightweight biocomposites that are strong enough to become an alternative to materials such as aluminum or fiber reinforced plastics on vehicles and steel and concrete used on buildings. Emulating trees’ structuralefficiency, we’ve developed a design-to fabrication technology that combines the latest optimization tools and AI with a proprietary additive manufacturing process. This allows us to create timberbased composites capable of matching the performance other structural materials at a fraction of their weight and environmental impact.We tackle the sustainable lightweight materials market. These enable vehicles to reach longer distances and buildings to use less raw material. We expect Woodflow’s combination of high-performance, sustainability and productivity to become a game changer for the new generation of sustainable construction and mobility. | $5.2M | Seed | Dec 05, 2023 |  |
| Waspito | Waspito is a healthcare platform and app that offers services like online consultation, medicine delivery, specialist doctors, and others. | $2.5M | Seed | Nov 22, 2023 |  |
| Djoli | Djoli is a goods procurement platform for restaurants, hotels, and cafes. | $250K | Pre-Seed | Aug 08, 2023 |  |
| Tajiri | Tajiri is a SaaS application that designs and improves restaurant management to get profits. | $250K | Pre-Seed | Aug 04, 2023 |  |

10 of 43 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Launch Africa](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/launch-africa) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Orange Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/orange-digital-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Mstudio](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mstudio) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Plug and Play](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/plug-and-play-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [50 Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/50-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [9Yards Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/9yards-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Saviu Ventures invest in?

Saviu Ventures invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and E-Commerce startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 43 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Côte d'Ivoire. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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

Saviu Ventures typically joins rounds of $550k–$5M at Seed, $165k–$817k at Pre-Seed and $2M–$5M 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 Saviu Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Saviu Ventures?

Public channels for Saviu 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 Saviu Ventures?

The team at Saviu Ventures includes Arthur Thuet (Co-founder & Managing Partner), Cedric Mangaud (Co founder and Limited Partner) and CYNTHIA MANDJEK (Investment Manager). 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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