Top 35 Retail Angel Investors in Africa (October 2026)

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• Fresha — Find the best salons and spa in your area with Fresha salon booking software. Book now!
• Chari — Chari is an e-commerce and fintech app for traditional retailers in French-Speaking Africa allowing them to order any consumer goods they sell and get delivered for free in less than 24 hours. Chari is also a financial services provider for these retailers, offering them microloans

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• Alex AI — Alex is the AI recruiter that puts sourcing, screening, and scheduling on autopilot. Fast-track vetting so you interview the best in days.
• TextQL — TextQL is you personal virtual data analyst, built for enterprise and powered by AI. Ask in natural english and Ana can build insightful analysis, stunning charts, and powerful models, all with enterprise-grade security.
• Raindrop — Trace every run. Auto-fix silent failures. Simulate before shipping.

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• Glif — Interoperable tools for the Filecoin network
• Afterparty — Afterparty is a technology company behind the new Web3 platform enabling creators to directly monetize and manage NFT collector relationships
• Shield USDT — US bank accounts built for international wholesalers and distributors. Same-day USD wires, USDT payments, escrow, and business credit cards.

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• Faro — Every garment deserves to be worn. Leveraging technology and a specialised supply chain, FARO enables brands to offload obsolete inventory through stores in non-core markets, ensuring complete traceability throughout the process.
• Bamba — Today, organizations spend a lot of money on physical data gathering exercises using old-fashioned paper-based methods. These methods result in expensive, severely delayed and incomplete data . With Bamba, a client can launch a data collection exercise anywhere in the world simply from the comfort of their web browser and the client can ensureindividuals respond with complete answers by paying those individuals for that data with mobile airtime in 122 different countries thus far.
• Finclusion Group — Enhancing financial inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa through data driven lending.

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• Uncover — Dermatologist-tested K-Beauty formulas powered by African botanicals for melanin-rich skin. Shop SPF 50 sunscreen, serums & kits with free Kenya shipping.

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• Tanda — As a Tanda Agent, you can sell Kenya's favorite digital products, and grow your duka while you're at it
• Remedial Health — We improve business to business access to medicines by providing such medicines from manufactures/registered distributors direct to large and small healthcare retail businesses (large pharmacies and remote chemist/PPMVs (Patent and Proprietary Medicine Vendors)) using technology to deliver just-in-time stock and provide financing and awide selection of inventory to such retail business.

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• Uncover — Dermatologist-tested K-Beauty formulas powered by African botanicals for melanin-rich skin. Shop SPF 50 sunscreen, serums & kits with free Kenya shipping.

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• Faro — Every garment deserves to be worn. Leveraging technology and a specialised supply chain, FARO enables brands to offload obsolete inventory through stores in non-core markets, ensuring complete traceability throughout the process.

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• Shop Zetu — Shop the latest trendy fashion, beauty and accessory brands in Kenya online! Discover affordable clothing, footwear, accessories, beauty products and more. Order today from Shop Zetu.
• Uncover — Dermatologist-tested K-Beauty formulas powered by African botanicals for melanin-rich skin. Shop SPF 50 sunscreen, serums & kits with free Kenya shipping.

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• Khoyn — Khoyn is adding a much needed layer to the development of Africa's digital trade ecosystem. It functions as a Social Point of Sale (sPOS) that allows new age businesses to advertise and sell products directly from within any chat app. We are pioneering a new space of seamless commerce transactions for emerging communities.

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• VALR — Buy and sell bitcoin, ethereum & more | Pay anyone for free with VALR Pay
• OfferZen — On OfferZen, Dutch tech companies reach out to you with upfront role and salary info so you can make the right career move.
• Real Time Wine — Share your wine moments. Real Time Wine is the social wine discovery app for everyone who enjoys wine, not just those who understand it. [In App Stores NOW!]

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• Ampverse — Ampverse is a creator-first gaming marketing and interactive media company connecting brands and publishers across Southeast Asia.
• Gamalon — Gamalon is a developer of an AI-based machine intelligence technology designed to write and rewrite their own Bayesian programs. The company's technology accelerates machine learning and converts streams of text paragraphs into structured data rows by linking, enabling e-commerce platforms and manufacturing companies to train the system on fewpieces of data and achieve the same level of accuracy as that of the exhaustively trained neural networks.
• Powered by People — Powered by People is a values-driven wholesale platform featuring handmade, ethical products from makers in over 40 countries. Sign up now for pre-approved credit and net 60 terms at poweredbypeople.com

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• Soolv — AI that turns messy application documents into structured data - so you can instantly score candidates and reveal early patterns of success.
• SportAI — SportAI is a B2B sports technology firm that is spearheading the revolution in sports technique coaching, commentary, and analysis using advanced AI and machine learning. The company aims to boost sports performance and make high-quality sports data more accessible. SportAI's SaaS platform, powered by Computer Vision and Machine Learning,delivers unbiased sports technique analysis and AI-generated sports data to different sectors in the sports industry. This technology can seamlessly integrate into broadcasting, training apps, simulators, sporting equipment brands, and product recommendation websites, offering significant benefits to the global sports industry.
• Starflow — Starflow goal is to create a scalable energy system that helps people achieve energy independence.

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• NUMOS — NUMOS is an insurance tech platform.
• Xaver — Xaver enables Financial Institutions to close Europe’s pension gap. By offering an advanced AI-driven B2B platform for life insurance and private pension sales, Xaver enhances the operational and sales efficiency of banks, insurers, and brokers by up to 65% and introduces a new era of white-labeled private pension products.With a leadership teamof experienced industry veterans - Max Bachem, Ole Breulmann, and Dr. Björn Holste - and backing from leading VC funds and a prominent group of former financial institution executives, fintech pioneers, and unicorn founders, Xaver is dedicated to improving the pension situation of Europeans through their B2B offering.
• Faro — Every garment deserves to be worn. Leveraging technology and a specialised supply chain, FARO enables brands to offload obsolete inventory through stores in non-core markets, ensuring complete traceability throughout the process.

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• Cautio — The future of road safety starts here.
• Ninecamp — Ninecamp is a food and beverage company. They anticipate creating new and unique brands with a strong emphasis on high-quality offerings in product, service, and design.
• Faro — Every garment deserves to be worn. Leveraging technology and a specialised supply chain, FARO enables brands to offload obsolete inventory through stores in non-core markets, ensuring complete traceability throughout the process.

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• Curative — Get on-the-go COVID-19 testing and other essential health services, wherever you are.
• Verandah — Verandah is story based conscious luxury resort brand retailing amongst the top 100 in the global luxury resort wear space with design roots strongly based in India. Verandah also has a line of 100% Italian made sustainable swimwear to compliment the season-less ready to wear line.
• Mansa — Built by Black creators with a passion for making culture-positive content, Mansa is the only place to stream the best in Global Black stories

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• Atlys — Atlys is the world's leading visa platform with 99.5% on-time delivery for over 150 destinations.
• Silo — Silo is a platform that automates the perishable supply chain. More time, more opportunity, less waste.
• Atlas — Atlas builds cutting-edge generative 3D AI technology to enable the creation of assets & virtual worlds.

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• Evollume.com — Introducing a revolutionary new website that combines the best features of two of the world's largest e-commerce platforms to create an unparalleled product sourcing experience. With this website, wholesalers, manufacturers, and retailers can easily find the products they need from a single dashboard.The website features an intuitiveinterface that allows users to search for products by category, brand, price, and other criteria. Users can also view product reviews and ratings, compare prices from multiple suppliers, and place orders directly through the platform.One of the key advantages of this website is that it caters to all types of businesses, whether they are large enterprises or small startups. Wholesalers can easily find manufacturers who can provide them with the bulk quantities they need, while manufacturers can connect with retailers who are looking for specific products to sell. Retailers can also benefit from the website's extensive inventory and competitive pricing, making it easier for them to source the products they need to stock their stores.Another unique feature of this website is its ability to handle international transactions, including currency conversion and shipping. This means that businesses from all over the world can connect and do business with each other, opening up new markets and opportunities for growth.Overall, this website represents a game-changing innovation in the world of e-commerce, making it easier than ever for businesses of all sizes to source the products they need from a single, easy-to-use platform.

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• Kobo360 — Kobo360 is Africa's leading supply chain technology platform. We are simplifying the supply chain ecosystem with end-to-end tech products, providing a 360-degree view to all stakeholders.
• GiveHope — Voted the #1 Most Reliable Fundraising Website for Personal Causes #GiveHope
• Totally Bored — Totally Bored is a trivia-style app designed to provide light-hearted amusement.

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• Faro — Every garment deserves to be worn. Leveraging technology and a specialised supply chain, FARO enables brands to offload obsolete inventory through stores in non-core markets, ensuring complete traceability throughout the process.
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• Augustus — Building the clearing bank for the AI era

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• KUNE — Kune is a foodtech start-up based in Nairobi. We produce quality take-away meals at an affordable price and distribute it to individuals, retails, and corporate. Following a pre-seed round, Kune is building a 5000 meals-a-day food factory and hiring its founding team.
• BFree — BFree focuses its collection processes on sustainably leading customers out of debt by giving them back control over their finances.
• 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.

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• Zeepay — Zeepay Ghana Limited is a wholly Ghanaian owned Mobile FinancialServices company focusing on providing integrated mobile payments services with mobile wallets targeting the unbanked and banked population with the objective of bringing the unbanked into the financial stream and easing payments and collections for the banked population.Zeepayfacilitates the processing of multiple mobile phone payment transactions, and operates as a aggregator that brings transaction of all players together on one single platform. The company’s core application runs on open source technology, and is designed to integrate all types of payment platforms, banks, merchants, Mobile Network Operators (MNOs), and other companies with subscriber based transactions.

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• Hazina — Hazina provides technology and distribution for Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) brands to improve the quality of insights and engagements from their product sampling campaigns. Hazina matches consumers to product samples from CPGs, delivers directly to consumers at home, and aggregates the feedback and engagements as insights back to the brand.

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• Uncover — Dermatologist-tested K-Beauty formulas powered by African botanicals for melanin-rich skin. Shop SPF 50 sunscreen, serums & kits with free Kenya shipping.

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• Lupiya — Lupiya is a financial technology company that provides digital lending services designed to help individuals and small businesses access short-term credit and installment financing. The platform offers mobile-accessible loans that can be used for expenses such as personal needs, business cash flow, or emergency payments, using an online applicationprocess that evaluates creditworthiness through alternative data and behavioral indicators. Lupiya’s services include flexible repayment schedules, automated disbursement, and electronic account management so users can monitor balances and repayment activity within the app or web interface. The company also offers tools for budgeting and payment reminders to support borrowers in managing their credit obligations. Through integrations with local payment networks and banking partners, Lupiya facilitates secure fund transfers and compliance with financial regulations. Its lending infrastructure is tailored to expand access to credit for underserved populations and small enterprises that may have limited access to traditional banking services.
• SweepSouth — Book a home cleaning online from your mobile, tablet or computer. SweepSouth connects you with a cleaner in minutes. Cleaners are experienced, reliable, efficient and insured.
• Alma Clinics — ALMA CLINICS Primary Healthcare with Advanced Blockchain, AI technology. BEST Clinic providing affordable healthcare, Soweto, Johannesburg, South Africa.

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• Small Hurry — Small Hurry is a quick commerce store focused on enhancing consumer’s convenience by offering a convenient way of buying groceries and on-demand food delivery from the comfort of one’s home, workplace or any other point.

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• Uncover — Dermatologist-tested K-Beauty formulas powered by African botanicals for melanin-rich skin. Shop SPF 50 sunscreen, serums & kits with free Kenya shipping.

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• Uncover — Dermatologist-tested K-Beauty formulas powered by African botanicals for melanin-rich skin. Shop SPF 50 sunscreen, serums & kits with free Kenya shipping.

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• biped.ai — biped is an AI copilot for blind and visually impared people, worn as a harness, that captures the surroundings with 3d cameras, maps & filters the environment in real-time using AI to help understand the environment using intuitive sounds
• Handled — Automating finance and ops for consumer brands so teams can identify issues early and focus on growth, not busywork
• Pluto.markets — Pluto is the modern investment app for the 100m Europeans living in countries without the EUR.

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• Flyland Group — Flyland Group is a diversified and professional trading company, mainly engaged in agriculture, manufacturing, and food processing. With years of efforts, Flyland Group has deployed an environment-friendly product chain from the source to customer fulfilment. Within it's mainland in Uganda, the company has developed its trading branches acrossmore than 20 provinces and cities. In abroad, the business has covered more than 10 countries and districts, including the Middle East, Central Asia and Southeast Asia. Fresh vegetables & Organic Produces are the best seller among other products, which has earned great reputation both in domestic and overseas

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• Faro — Every garment deserves to be worn. Leveraging technology and a specialised supply chain, FARO enables brands to offload obsolete inventory through stores in non-core markets, ensuring complete traceability throughout the process.

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• FaZe Media — FaZe Media intends to return creative control to the personalities that created the brand in the first place.
• Nifty League — A game studio at the cutting edge of Web3 with a mission to inspire other indie game developers to build a decentralized future with us.
• Playtertainment — Playtertainment provides combination of classic arcade games and mobile technology and offers real live-streaming games with real prizes, enabling gamers to play live games directly from their phone.

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• MDaaS Global — At MDaaS Global, we build and operate modern, tech-enabled diagnostic centres in clinically-underserved communities, starting in Nigeria. Our big goal is to create affordable healthcare solutions for Africa's next billion.
• Chefaa — Chefaa is a GPS-enabled pharmacy benefits platform connecting patients & pharmacies nation-wide to help patients manage all their pharmacy needs. Chefaa uses big data, data ming & machine learning
• SweepSouth — Book a home cleaning online from your mobile, tablet or computer. SweepSouth connects you with a cleaner in minutes. Cleaners are experienced, reliable, efficient and insured.

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• Waza — Waza is a web platform with APIs. It helps startups and emerging market businesses manage their cash flow issues, invoicing needs, and international payment requirements.
• Theneo — Generate Stripe-like API docs in just a few clicks. We support OpenAPI, Postman, GraphQL and much more
• FloatPays — Floatpays help your employees achieve financial wellbeing by giving them early access to earned wages.

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• Faro — Every garment deserves to be worn. Leveraging technology and a specialised supply chain, FARO enables brands to offload obsolete inventory through stores in non-core markets, ensuring complete traceability throughout the process.
• Tern Group — Tern Group is an AI Platform to hire and relocate top healthcare talents globally, faster and cheaper. TERN is a full-stack solution to source and relocate top-tier medical and engineering talent from India, North Africa, South Africa, and Central Asia and the approach ensures a seamless, ethical, and transparent migration process, drasticallycutting complexity and shaving costs for healthcare systems.
• Bamba — Today, organizations spend a lot of money on physical data gathering exercises using old-fashioned paper-based methods. These methods result in expensive, severely delayed and incomplete data . With Bamba, a client can launch a data collection exercise anywhere in the world simply from the comfort of their web browser and the client can ensureindividuals respond with complete answers by paying those individuals for that data with mobile airtime in 122 different countries thus far.