# Yellowwoods

> Yellowwoods is a VC fund backing Financial Services, FinTech and Security. See 3 investments, round sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Total investments: 3
- Last investment: Jun 2022
- Lead investor: 100%
- Last updated: Aug 2026

Yellowwoods is a VC fund focused on Financial Services and FinTech. Yellowwoods

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Financial Services | 2 | 67% |
| FinTech | 1 | 33% |
| Security | 1 | 33% |
| InsurTech | 1 | 33% |
| Insurance | 1 | 33% |

9 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 1 | 33% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 33% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 33% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| South Africa | 2 | 67% |
| India | 1 | 33% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Round size | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Lumkani | Lumkani is a social enterprise known for its fire detector and system designed to overcome the shack-fire challenge in urban slums in South Africa and across the globe with the use of a heat detection technology. It measures the incidence of harmful fires and alert families inside the shack of the danger, using the rate-of-rise of temperaturetechnology. Its devices are networked using transmission technology which connects each device within a 60 meter radius of each other. In the event of a fire, devices within this range ring creating a community-wide response to the danger.Lumkani is based in Cape Town, South Africa. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Jun 03, 2022 | http://lumkani.com/ |
| Toffee Insurance | Toffee Insurance is an insurance services company. They provide insurance services in Insurance, Insurtech, Mobile Insurance, Online Insurance, Health Insurance, Home Insurance, Travel Insurance, Fintech, Finance, Micro Insurance, Startup, Indian Startup, and Cycle Insurance | $5.5M | Series A | Dec 18, 2019 | http://www.toffeeinsurance.com |
| Simply | Simply protects people's financial futures. To satisfy people's needs, they provide life, disability, and funeral insurance. They promote, offer service for, and distribute long-term insurance products. |  |  | Oct 16, 2018 | http://www.simply.co.za |

3 of 3 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Kalaari Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kalaari-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Flourish Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/flourish-venture) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Hollard Insurance](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hollard-insurance) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Omidyar Network](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/omidyar-network) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Omidyar Network India](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/omidyar-network-india-050e) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Accion Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/venture-lab) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Yellowwoods invest in?

Yellowwoods invests primarily in Financial Services, FinTech and Security startups, most often at Series A and Funding Round stage. Most of the 3 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in South Africa. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Yellowwoods last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Yellowwoods closed in Jun 2022. Shizune tracks 3 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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