# Sherpa Africa Partners

> Sherpa Africa Partners is a VC fund in Nairobi backing Financial Services and FinTech. See 16 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Nairobi, Kenya
- Total investments: 16
- Last investment: Sep 2024
- Lead investor: 13%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sherpa-africa/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/sherpafund
- Website: https://www.sherpa.africa/

Sherpa Africa Partners is a VC fund in Nairobi focused on Financial Services and FinTech. Sherpa Africa Partners focuses on early stage tech and tech-enabled startups in Africa providing funding and expertise to scale up business.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $300k–$6M |
| Pre-Seed | $50k–$2M |
| Venture - Series Unknown | $200k–$300k |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Financial Services | 7 | 44% |
| FinTech | 5 | 31% |
| Finance | 5 | 31% |
| Mobile Apps | 3 | 19% |
| E-Commerce | 2 | 13% |

26 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | 8 | 50% |
| Seed | 6 | 38% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 13% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kenya | 6 | 38% |
| Nigeria | 3 | 19% |
| South Africa | 2 | 13% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 13% |
| Togo | 1 | 6% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Jackfruit Finance | Jackfruit Finance provides money, technology, and rewards to enable low-cost African schools to expand access to education. |  | Seed | Sep 04, 2024 |  |
| CashBackApp | CashBackApp helps fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) companies create customer loyalty by allowing them to earn cashback via M-Pesa on their routine purchases. | $50K | Pre-Seed | Oct 31, 2022 |  |
| Novek | Novek builds IOT technology to completely eliminate single use plastic from FMCG Supply chains. | $300K | Seed | Jul 01, 2022 |  |
| Sava | Sava is a multi-management platform that provides an unlimited number of virtual cards as well as automated accounting reconciliation. | $2M | Pre-Seed | Jun 30, 2022 |  |
| MIA Group | MIA Group is a consumer internet company in Francophone Africa. We are on a mission to make commerce easy through a digital ecosystem fulfilling the everyday needs of consumers online and offline.Our businesses include Miaplenou.com: The largest online retail platform operating in Togo, Benin, Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso. Launched 2012.Kiosk: online reselling App that enables anyone to start a business without investment. Launched 2021.MiaPay: QR code payment and lifestyle services |  | Pre-Seed | Mar 27, 2022 |  |
| Shara | Shara is a social trust network with financial features built in that allows SMEs to extend loans to their most reliable customers. | $6M | Seed | Sep 01, 2021 |  |
| ZUMI | ZUMI connects apparel wholesalers and retailers in a transparent, affordable marketplace. It empowers women retailers with the technology, logistics, and financial services to scale. Through ZUMI, customers order via SMS, call, or with a ZUMI Agent. It collects orders from suppliers early each morning. Its logistics partners deliver to customerswithin 18 hours of ordering then customers pay with mobile money.ZUMI was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya. | $300K | Venture - Series Unknown | Jul 19, 2021 |  |
| GetEquity | GetEquity is a NASDAQ for venture capital. We provide an exchange and liquidity for private companies, and an infrastructure for different cadres of venture capital around investing, founder liquidity, and shareholder management |  | Pre-Seed | Jul 12, 2021 |  |
| Rivy | PayHippo is making it easier to finance small and medium sized businesses in Africa. There is a need for financing of $158 bn for SMEs in Nigeria alone. To start, PayHippo helps SMEs access and spend lender capital effectively. During their first full operational year in 2020, the PayHippo co--founders leveraged their domain expertise and foundingexperience to beat their 2020 goal by 50%. | $1.1M | Pre-Seed | Jul 01, 2021 |  |
| Boost Technology | Enabling informal small businesses to thrive in Africa's emerging digital economy | $1M | Seed | Jun 01, 2021 |  |

10 of 16 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Future Africa](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/future-africa) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [DFS Lab](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dfs-lab) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Musha Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/musha-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Acuity Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/acuity-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Chandaria Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chandaria-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Enza Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/enza-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Sherpa Africa Partners invest in?

Sherpa Africa Partners invests primarily in Financial Services, FinTech and Finance startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 16 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Kenya. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Sherpa Africa Partners's check size?

Sherpa Africa Partners typically joins rounds of $300k–$6M at Seed, $50k–$2M at Pre-Seed and $200k–$300k 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 Sherpa Africa Partners participates in.

### When did Sherpa Africa Partners last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Sherpa Africa Partners closed in Sep 2024. Shizune tracks 16 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### 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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