# Silverbacks Holdings

> Silverbacks Holdings is a VC fund in Ebène backing FinTech and Financial Services. See 61 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Ebène, Mauritius
- Total investments: 61
- Last investment: Sep 2025
- Lead investor: 3%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/silverbacks-holdings
- Website: https://silverbacks.holdings

Silverbacks Holdings is a venture capital firm that offers financial services.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $300k–$8.3M |
| Series A | $5M–$32M |
| Venture - Series Unknown | $100k–$26M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 14 | 23% |
| Financial Services | 12 | 20% |
| Finance | 9 | 15% |
| E-Commerce | 8 | 13% |
| Information Technology | 8 | 13% |

92 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 32 | 52% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 10 | 16% |
| Series A | 6 | 10% |
| Series B | 6 | 10% |
| Pre-Seed | 5 | 8% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Nigeria | 19 | 31% |
| United States | 9 | 15% |
| Egypt | 6 | 10% |
| United Kingdom | 6 | 10% |
| Kenya | 3 | 5% |

19 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Vanhu Vamwe | Vanhu Vamwe is a luxury accessory brand that creates handcrafted, sustainable handbags using traditional African crafts and eco-friendly materials. |  |  | Sep 17, 2025 |  |
| The Rad Black Kids | The Rad Black Kids is a lifestyle and apparel company that specializes in fashion. The company’s main business includes selling clothing items such as hoodies, caps, t-shirts, and etc. It also offers a range of skate boards and vintage guitars. The Rad Black Kids was founded by Thulani Ngazimbi. |  |  | Sep 17, 2025 |  |
| African Warriors Fighting Championship | The African Warriors Fighting Championship promotes indigenous African combat sports. Its aim is to provide chances for African athletes and promote Africa's combat traditions around the world. |  | Seed | Oct 28, 2024 |  |
| AMAKA Studio | AMAKA Studio is a Black-owned MediaTech company platforming Pan-African women's stories. | $2M | Seed | Oct 02, 2024 |  |
| NERGii | NERGii is a sports technology business that makes cutting-edge insoles for shoes that improve performance. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Aug 07, 2024 |  |
| Paps | Paps is a transport and logistics company that offers innovative distribution and delivery solutions to companies and merchants.The company's e-commerce platform helps companies and traders with scheduling and tracking deliveries on a real-time basis. It offers the distribution of documents and parcels, storage of goods in a secure warehousethat meets standards, and delivery of insured parcels in relay point or last mile. It also provides professional services such as management and repayment of cash on delivery, provision of couriers, management of returns, collection, and periodic reporting.The Dakar, Dakar, Senegal-based company was founded in 2016 |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Jun 25, 2024 |  |
| Moove | Moove is a mobility fintech that provides revenue-based vehicle financing to mobility entrepreneurs, democratizing vehicle ownership across Africa. The company embeds its alternative credit-scoring technology onto ride-hailing, logistics, and last-mile/instant delivery platforms, which allows access to proprietary performance and revenueanalytics of mobility entrepreneurs to underwrite loans. | $100M | Series B | Mar 19, 2024 |  |
| Pricepally | Pricepally provides access to affordable, nutritious, traceable and secure food items in Africa’s urban cities. Pricepally is a wholesale and sharing economy e-commerce platform that enables people to buy food in bulk or share bulk food items with others online to leverage their collective bargaining power. | $1.3M | Seed | Nov 17, 2023 |  |
| ANKA | ANKA is a platform to discover, buy, and sell African fashion, arts, and crafts. ANKA’s goal is to allow African creation lovers to live their passion while allowing the creators to live from theirs. ANKA facilitates transactions and exchanges directly between buyers and sellers on both sides of the world, in a user-friendly and secure way. | $5M | Seed | Sep 19, 2023 |  |
| Terragon Group | Terragon is a leading Data and Marketing Technology company that uses data and analytics to help companies focused in Africa, intelligently connect at scale to their customers. We use an aggregation of online and offline data, and predictive scoring to help brands, marketing agencies and platforms accurately target people across channels anddevices. Headquartered in Lagos; Nigeria, we also have a presence in Kenya, South Africa, Ghana and India. | $9M | Series B | Jul 27, 2023 |  |

10 of 61 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Launch Africa](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/launch-africa) — VC Fund, 12 deals together
- [LoftyInc Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/loftyinc-capital-management) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Suya Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/suya-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Goodwater Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/goodwater-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Acuity Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/acuity-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Century Oak Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/century-oak-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Silverbacks Holdings invest in?

Silverbacks Holdings invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Finance startups, most often at Seed and Venture - Series Unknown stage. Most of the 61 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Nigeria. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Silverbacks Holdings's check size?

Silverbacks Holdings typically joins rounds of $300k–$8.3M at Seed, $5M–$32M at Series A and $100k–$26M 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 Silverbacks Holdings participates in.

### When did Silverbacks Holdings last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Silverbacks Holdings closed in Sep 2025. Shizune tracks 61 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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