Top 5 Recruiting VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Africa in January 2026

Last updated: Jan 2026 A list of 5 VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Recruiting startups based in Africa. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Recruiting companies from Africa. We update this investor list every month.

Top 5 Recruiting VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Africa in January 2026

Investor	Recruiting Africa investments
TheVentureCity	2
Technology Innovation Agency	1
Azur Partners	1
Zedcrest Capital Limited	1
TheVentureCity	1

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Investor list

Our ticket size ranges from $100-500k for Pre-seed/Seed and $1-4M for Series A companies. We're in search of promising-founders with product-driven mindsets who have a passion for building. Those who've fallen in love with data. For we believe in fit---both product and with the team here. Got a great idea? Come to TheVentureCity and give it the expertise to help it grow.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Spain, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Count — Explore, refactor, and share your data at warp speed.
Tansley — Tansley is a group of companies (Guaw, Milbby, Brand Story, Bookish) focused on fostering consumer ecosystems around hobbies and passions.
Passport — Passport is the modern shipping carrier for international ecommerce that helps direct-to-consumer brands ship their products internationally.

TIA is an initiative of the Department of Science & Technology (DST) in South Africa, to enable and support technological innovation.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Renewable Energy, Health Care
Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed
South Africa

Portfolio highlights

Jobox — Jobox is a student recruitment platform, built to connect employers, students and graduate career offices. Our focus is to improve graduate employability by ensuring all students have the skills they need to enter, stay in, and progress in the world of work.Jobox’s ecosystem provides employers with access to the best diverse & youthfultalent, students with more employment opportunities and universities with data-driven insights aimed at driving graduate employability forward.
Aviro Health — We believe that empowering and supporting people to manage their own health benefits everybody.We built the Aviro Pocket Clinic to support self-care and provide access to services. We give people what they need to perform important health checks like regular HIV self-testing and connect them to experts and services who can offer hands-on and supported care when needed.
Ownedby Technologies — Ownedby is an interactive asset management solution for business and household assets, focused on appliances and devices, giving these unique identity that is traceable online, yet linked to and controlled by owners.

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Investment focus

Logistics, Recruiting, Staffing Agency
Seed
Morocco, France

Portfolio highlights

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.
Jobop — Jobop connect companies with qualified employees with temporary work contracts.
CloudFret — Cloud Fret is a transport and logistics startup that connects loaders to transporters, optimizing every route and fleet resource between the two ends of the Mediterranean using artificial intelligence technology to detect empty cargo trucks and directing them to cargo which needs to be transported.

Zedcrest Capital is a full-service capital management firm, with core interests in fixed income securities trading, asset management and proprietary investments

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, Credit
Pre-Seed
Nigeria, Kenya, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

PaidHR — PaidHR works with organizations to streamline how they manage their staff. Our precisely created solutions enable them to create the ideal place to work.
Pade HCM — Hire, manage and pay your global team Hire anyone in Africa and automate onboarding, team management, payroll, compliance and much more.
Salus Cloud — Salus Cloud is an AI-native platform for engineers to develop and manage security.

TheVentureCity is a global early-stage venture fund, investing in product-centric startups across the US, Europe, and Latam. With more than $150M under management, the firm invests from pre-seed and seed with a ticket size from $100-500k to Series A with $1-4M.