# Vunani Capital Partners > Vunani Capital Partners is a VC fund backing FinTech, Payments and InsurTech. See 5 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026. - Type: VC Fund - Total investments: 5 - Last investment: Jan 2023 - Lead investor: 0% - Last updated: Aug 2026 - Website: https://vunanicapitalpartners.co.za/ Vunani Capital Partners is a VC fund focused on FinTech and Payments. Vunani Capital Partners has identified seven investment themes/sectors and will focus on these sectors. ## Round sizes | Stage | Round size | | --- | --- | | Seed | $330k–$9M | ## Investment focus ### Industry | Industry | Investments | Share | | --- | --- | --- | | FinTech | 2 | 40% | | Payments | 1 | 20% | | InsurTech | 1 | 20% | | Insurance | 1 | 20% | | Mobile Apps | 1 | 20% | 10 industries tracked in total. ### Stage | Stage | Investments | Share | | --- | --- | --- | | Seed | 3 | 60% | | Series A | 1 | 20% | ### Country | Country | Investments | Share | | --- | --- | --- | | South Africa | 3 | 60% | | United Kingdom | 1 | 20% | ## Investments | Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Flow | Flow is a property marketing platform that automates social media marketing for estate agents and property developers. Flow takes hundreds of property listings and agent profiles and creates hundreds of ads on Facebook, Instagram and Google instantly and automatically, driving leads straight to agents' phones. Visithttps://flowliving.com. | $4.6M | Seed | Jan 17, 2023 | | | PawaPay | PawaPay is a payments company that provides mobile payment solutions to African consumers or businesses. The company takes the technical integrations from telecom operators like AirtelTigo, Econet, MTN, Safaricom, Orange, and Vodafone and collapses them into one API for businesses.Founded in 2020, pawaPay is focused on the mobile moneyinfrastructure provided by telecommunications companies (telco) in Africa. Each telco in each country provides its own unique mobile money product, which makes the mobile money infrastructure as a whole - across borders and telcos - highly fragmented and opaque. For merchants, this fragmentation means that it is unnecessarily expensive to use and frustratingly unstable. Through pawaPay’s simple API, merchants can access more than 300 million customers in more than ten markets and enjoy seamless, transparent, and highly reliable payments. | $9M | Seed | Aug 26, 2021 | | | PawaPay | PawaPay is a payments company that provides mobile payment solutions to African consumers or businesses. The company takes the technical integrations from telecom operators like AirtelTigo, Econet, MTN, Safaricom, Orange, and Vodafone and collapses them into one API for businesses.Founded in 2020, pawaPay is focused on the mobile moneyinfrastructure provided by telecommunications companies (telco) in Africa. Each telco in each country provides its own unique mobile money product, which makes the mobile money infrastructure as a whole - across borders and telcos - highly fragmented and opaque. For merchants, this fragmentation means that it is unnecessarily expensive to use and frustratingly unstable. Through pawaPay’s simple API, merchants can access more than 300 million customers in more than ten markets and enjoy seamless, transparent, and highly reliable payments. | $9M | Seed | Aug 26, 2021 | | | Pineapple | In short, Pineapple see the traditional insurance model, user journey and products as lacking and set out to remedy these by doing the following: 1) Changing the business model to align incentives, show people how premiums are used and award members leftover premium back 2) Making insuring as easy as snapping a picture where AI does the rest andcover is issued in under 60 seconds 3) Allowing per-item insurance and new product innovation to address cover not currently offered or accessible to manyPineapple launched in South Africa in 2018 with their "My Stuff" per-item insurance and have since launched their auto offering "My Ride". They have also partnered with Travelers in the US and have white-labeled their platform in the US. | $5.4M | Series A | Jul 26, 2021 | | | Pulse | Pulse is the simplest way to publish or broadcast content from the GoPro is through Pulse. Geospatial and telemetry data are fully supported as you connect, stream, and sync directly from Pulse. Realtime tracking, 3D mapping, and support for connecting several streams can all be added to the current movie to enhance it. | $329.9K | Seed | Jun 16, 2021 | | 5 of 5 investments shown. ## Co-investors - [88mph.ac](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/88mph-ac) — VC Fund, 2 deals together - [Grouport Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/grouport-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together - [Kepple Africa Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kepple-africa-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together - [Zagadat Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/zagadat-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together - [Buffet Investments](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/buffet-investments) — VC Fund, 1 deal together - [E4EAfrica](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/e4eafrica) — VC Fund, 1 deal together ## Similar investors ### Similar industry - [MS&AD Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ms-ad-ventures) — VC Fund - [Anthemis](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anthemis-group) — VC Fund - [Everywhere Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/everywhere-ventures) — VC Fund ### Similar stage - [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 country - [Launch Africa](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/launch-africa) — VC Fund - [Knife Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/knife-capital) — VC Fund - [4Di Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/4di-capital) — VC Fund ## Featured in investor lists - [Mobile Apps Investors in United Kingdom](https://shizune.co/investors/mobile-apps-investors-united-kingdom) - [Mobile Apps VC Funds in United Kingdom](https://shizune.co/investors/mobile-apps-vc-funds-united-kingdom) - [Financial Services VC Funds in South Africa](https://shizune.co/investors/financial-services-vc-funds-south-africa) - [InsurTech Investors in Africa](https://shizune.co/investors/insurtech-investors-africa) - [InsurTech Investors in South Africa](https://shizune.co/investors/insurtech-investors-south-africa) - [InsurTech VC Funds in South Africa](https://shizune.co/investors/insurtech-vc-funds-south-africa) ## FAQ ### What does Vunani Capital Partners invest in? Vunani Capital Partners invests primarily in FinTech, Payments and InsurTech startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 5 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in South Africa. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio. ### What is Vunani Capital Partners's check size? Vunani Capital Partners typically joins rounds of $330k–$9M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Vunani Capital Partners participates in. ### When did Vunani Capital Partners last invest? The most recent investment recorded for Vunani Capital Partners closed in Jan 2023. Shizune tracks 5 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? 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