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Top 50 Retail Startup Investors in Africa (June 2026)

The most active venture capital funds and angel investors investing in Africa Retail startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Africa Retail startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
F6 Ventures
VC Fund
5 Tunisia, France Pre-Seed, Seed E-Commerce, Retail, FinTech $65k–$200k
Launch Africa
VC Fund
5 Nigeria, South Africa, United States Seed, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology $200k–$4M
TLcom Capital Partners
VC Fund
5 Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Seed Software, Mobile, Information Technology $1.9M–$13M
1776 Ventures
VC Fund
4 United States, Kenya, Brazil Seed, Series A, Convertible Note Education, EdTech, Software $500k–$23M
Future Africa
VC Fund
4 Nigeria, United States, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology $100k–$20M
Reflect Ventures
VC Fund
4 Pakistan, United States, Nigeria Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Logistics, Information Technology, E-Commerce $120k–$37M
Musha Ventures
VC Fund
3 United States, Nigeria, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Financial Services, FinTech $125k–$10M
Chandaria Capital
VC Fund
3 Kenya, United States, Nigeria Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, Retail, FinTech $250k–$37M
International Finance Corporation
VC Fund
3 India, Brazil, United States Debt Financing, Series B Financial Services, Finance, FinTech $6M–$400M
Flourish Ventures
VC Fund
3 United States, India, Brazil Series A, Seed, Series B FinTech, Financial Services, Finance $2M–$65M
GreenTec Capital Partners
VC Fund
3 Kenya, Nigeria, Morocco Seed, Pre-Seed Information Technology, Retail, Computer $50k–$1M
SOSV
VC Fund
3 United States, India, United Kingdom Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
UM6P Ventures
VC Fund
3 Morocco, Israel, United States Seed, Pre-Seed Agriculture, Apps, Retail $110k–$4M
Orange Ventures
VC Fund
3 France, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series B, Series A Software, FinTech, Information Technology $600k–$33M
Aruwa Capital
VC Fund
3 Nigeria, United States, France Seed, Series A Retail, FinTech, Big Data $100k–$20M
U.S. International Development Finance Corp
VC Fund
2 India, United States, Kenya Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt Financial Services, Finance, Banking $5M–$500M
StartUp Health
VC Fund
2 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Health Care, Wellness, Medical $20k–$4M
AfricInvest
VC Fund
2 Tunisia, Kenya, Morocco Private Equity, Series A Financial Services, Manufacturing, FinTech
WIC Capital
VC Fund
2 Senegal Seed Retail, B2B, Nutrition $450k–$700k
Samata Capital
VC Fund
2 Kenya, Nigeria Seed, Series A Beauty, Retail, Consumer $1M–$1.4M
Unseen Capital
VC Fund
2 United States, Nigeria Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B Health Care, Wellness, Medical $225k–$5M
Creadev
VC Fund
2 France, United States, Kenya Series B, Series C Health Care, Agriculture, Food and Beverage $5.5M–$55M
Hi2 Venture Fund
VC Fund
2 United States, Nigeria, Pakistan Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Software $150k–$37M
igniteXL Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, South Korea, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed Beauty, Fashion, Software $226k–$8.1M
Acumen
VC Fund
2 United States, India, Kenya Seed, Series A Agriculture, Health Care, Financial Services $300k–$13M
Flying Doctors Nigeria
VC Fund
2 Nigeria Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Health Care, Retail, Medical $225k–$1.5M
Good Soil VC
VC Fund
2 Ghana, United Kingdom, Rwanda Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Retail $35k–$940k
Raba Partnership
VC Fund
2 United States, South Africa, Egypt Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Finance $635k–$32M
Consonance Investment Managers
VC Fund
2 Nigeria, United States, Kenya Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, FinTech $50k–$10M
Partech
VC Fund
2 United States, France, Germany Series A, Seed, Series B Software, E-Commerce, SaaS $1.1M–$55M
LoftyInc Capital
VC Fund
2 United States, Nigeria, Egypt Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Software $100k–$37M
Alphamundi
VC Fund
2 Kenya, Colombia, Ghana Debt Financing, Series A, Series B Agriculture, Renewable Energy, Financial Services $1.7M–$16M
First circle capital
VC Fund
2 Nigeria, Egypt, United States Pre-Seed, Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Finance $100k–$4M
Goodwell Investments
VC Fund
2 Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya Series A, Series B FinTech, Financial Services, Banking $1.6M–$26M
Microtraction
VC Fund
2 Nigeria, United States, Ghana Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel Financial Services, FinTech, Software $25k–$1.3M
Chinook Capital Limited
VC Fund
2 Nigeria Seed, Pre-Seed EdTech, Retail, Software $120k–$575k
P1 Ventures
VC Fund
2 Egypt, Kenya, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B Financial Services, Software, Payments $400k–$40M
Vinny Lingham
Angel
2 United States, South Africa, United Kingdom Seed, Angel Blockchain, Internet, Software $125k–$5.6M
Kepple Africa Ventures
VC Fund
2 Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt Seed, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Software $300k–$4.5M
Michael Lahyani
Angel
2 Egypt, Morocco, Colombia Seed, Series A, Series B B2B, SaaS, Beauty $5M–$42M
Antler
VC Fund
2 Singapore, Australia, United Kingdom Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $104k–$29M
Réseau Entreprendre
VC Fund
1 France, Morocco Seed, Angel Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Dakar Network Angels
VC Fund
1 Nigeria, Tunisia, Côte d'Ivoire Seed, Pre-Seed SaaS, Retail, Computer
Plug & Play
VC Fund
1 Seed
Uma Ventures
VC Fund
1 Senegal Seed B2B, Retail
Kiprono Elvis Terigin
Angel
1 Kenya Seed Beauty, Retail, Consumer
Symbiotics Group
VC Fund
1 India, Kenya, Senegal Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Niche Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, Nigeria, Kenya Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce
Chui Ventures
VC Fund
1 Kenya, United States Pre-Seed Fashion, Software, E-Commerce
CDG Invest Growth
VC Fund
1 Morocco Retail, Shopping
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F6 Ventures
VC Fund · Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia · 5 investments in Africa Retail startups

Flat6Labs is the MENA region’s leading seed and early stage venture capital firm, currently running the most renowned startup programs in the region. Annually, Flat6Labs invests in more than 100 innovative and technology-driven startups enabling thousands of passionate entrepreneurs to achieve their daring ambitions and ultimately becoming theirinstitutional co-founders.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Retail, FinTech
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: Tunisia, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 42
  • Round size: Seed $65k–$200k; Pre-Seed $65k–$81k
  • Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $10M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • WeMove — WeMove is a fitness marketplace for daily gym passes. They develop innovative solutions that meet your sports issues.
  • Bako Motors SAS — Bako Motors SAS is a motor vehicle manufacturing company that develops solar electric vehicles. manufacturer of electric vehicles with the goal of creating long-term fixes for rural areas' transportation issues with regard to people, cargo, and machinery. The business makes electric cars as well as solutions for clean energy generation andstorage that are infinitely scalable, providing users with inexpensive and environmentally friendly e-mobility.
  • Insight Plus — Insight Plus is a foreign exchange platform that specializes in interconnecting global exchanges into one eco system.
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Launch Africa
VC Fund · Ebène, Plaines Wilhems, Mauritius · 5 investments in Africa Retail startups

Launch Africa is a leading Pan-African VC fund solving the significant funding gap in the Seed and pre-Series A investment landscape in Africa

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, South Africa, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 162
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$4M; Pre-Seed $200k–$1.7M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $36M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Fixit45 — Fixit45 also provides fleet management, auto parts sourcing and delivery, auto care, refurbishment and upgrades, repair financing, and mechanic workshop software as well as pre-purchase inspections, underlying these with moderation for compliance and accountability.
  • Gigmile — Gigmile provides financial services. They provide gig workers with core services and an affordable lease on productive assets that is tailored to their earnings to enable them to succeed in the mobility industry as entrepreneurs.
  • HomecomingEx — Homecoming Revolution is a pan-African recruitment firm for global African professionals. We specialise in headhunting & placing global African talent.
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TLcom Capital Partners
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 5 investments in Africa Retail startups

TLcom Capital, is an Africa focused tech VC, with offices in Lagos, Nairobi and London. TLcom had been investing since 1999 in Tech, Media, Mobil and Internet companies across Europe, US and Africa, which is the exclusive focus of its most recent TLcom TIDE Africa funds. TLcom manages total commitments of approximately 300 million USD in thesesectors via a series of dedicated investment vehicles. Our investment strategy is to identify, back and assist world class entrepreneurs and management teams with disruptive technologies and business models, compelling intellectual property and deep market knowledge. We primarily target companies focused on Africa as a prime market, in the following investment themes: Access to Data Service; Financial Services; eCommerce; B2C applications (including but not limited to: health, education, energy, media and entertainment); and Software solutions to corporates and SMEs.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Mobile, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 59
  • Round size: Seed $1.9M–$8.5M; Series A $3.8M–$13M
  • Lead/follow: 51% lead, 49% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $150M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Hub2.Io — Welcome to HUB2, the leading FINTECH startup in interoperability and payment infrastructure in Francophone Africa. We are proud to work with all financial industry players in Africa who need stable and high-performing infrastructure, and contribute to their success.
  • Talstack — Talstack is an all-in-one platform for employee growth and development
  • HoneyCoin — HoneyCoin is a web3/web2 ecosystem of products built in a way that abstracts complexity and brings all the value of web3 and web2 to the forefront.
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1776 Ventures
VC Fund · Washington, District of Columbia, United States · 4 investments in Africa Retail startups

1776 Ventures is a global seed fund investing in companies in the following sectors: education, energy, smart cities, transportation, food/agriculture, fintech, and healthcare.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Education, EdTech, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
  • Geography: United States, Kenya, Brazil

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 97
  • Round size: Seed $750k–$4M; Series A $2.2M–$23M; Convertible Note $500k–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Swiftly — Harness your public transit data with Swiftly's urban mobility solutions to make your city's mass transportation move more efficiently.
  • HopSkipDrive — Arranging safe, dependable transportation or children ages 6+ with qualified caregivers
  • Clarametyx Biosciences — Clarametyx Biosciences is a late preclinical stage biotechnology company developing targeted, immune-enabling biologic therapies to counter persistent infections associated with biofilms.
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Future Africa
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 4 investments in Africa Retail startups

Future Africa is a collective of mission-driven founders and funders building unicorns to solve Africa’s biggest challenges. They are build a future where purpose and prosperity are within everyone’s reach.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 88
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$4M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3.7M; Series A $7M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Edves — Edves automates the brick and mortal School operations from Student enrollment, Fee Collection, Lesson Note up to Transcript Generation.
  • Releaf Earth — We are industrializing food processing in Africa. We've led 1000+ smallholder farmers to provide food factories with >7.5 million kilograms of quality crops.
  • Nexford University — Transform your career with affordable, flexible degrees and job skills designed for today's workforce. Skip debt and learn at your own pace with Nexford.
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Reflect Ventures
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 4 investments in Africa Retail startups

Reflect Ventures makes venture capital investments in high-potential startups at the seed and series A/B+ stages. We identify extraordinary founders, companies and opportunities around the world, including in emerging and frontier markets. Our LPs comprise family offices, institutional investors and HNWIs on six continents, along withrecognized sector experts who are instrumental to our portfolio companies' future growth.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Logistics, Information Technology, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Pakistan, United States, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 56
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$12M; Pre-Seed $120k–$3.3M; Series A $4M–$37M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Appload — Appload provides an online solution for logistics services. They connect logistics companies with customers looking for cargo transport. The app offers a secure scheduling and electronic payment system and the ability to secure shipments through an industry partner. They serve in the B2B space in transportation and logistics technology. They alsoprovides customer services.
  • Gigmile — Gigmile provides financial services. They provide gig workers with core services and an affordable lease on productive assets that is tailored to their earnings to enable them to succeed in the mobility industry as entrepreneurs.
  • VIVAN Therapeutics — VIVAN Therapeutics, a company pioneering personalized cancer therapeutics using a new assay technology. MPT licensed technology from the Center for Personalized Cancer Therapeutics at Mt Sinai New York and is launching the world’s most comprehensive, personal genomics-based, block-chain enabled drug screening service. All recommended treatmentcombinations will include a cancer drug and a non cancer drug, making treatments less toxic and more affordable. Intelligently designed personalized treatment. Revolutionary cancer care.
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Musha Ventures
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 3 investments in Africa Retail startups

Seed capital for technology startups globally.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 140
  • Round size: Seed $125k–$4.9M; Pre-Seed $300k–$3.2M; Series A $2.5M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • nGrow.ai — Boost revenue and engagement
  • HoneyCoin — HoneyCoin is a web3/web2 ecosystem of products built in a way that abstracts complexity and brings all the value of web3 and web2 to the forefront.
  • Orca Fraud — Orca empowers fraud fighters with effective tools to combat fraud
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Chandaria Capital
VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya · 3 investments in Africa Retail startups

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Retail, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, United States, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 29
  • Round size: Seed $250k–$6M; Pre-Seed $1M–$3M; Series A $2M–$37M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Leta — Leta Technology is a software development company that creates supply chain and logistics software to enable the efficient and automated movement of goods.
  • Savannah Brands — Savannah Brands is a food & beverage company.
  • UTU Technologies — Trust infrastructure for the sharing economy.
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International Finance Corporation
VC Fund · Washington, District of Columbia, United States · 3 investments in Africa Retail startups

A strong and engaged private sector is indispensible to ending extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity. That's where IFC comes in - we have more than 60 years experience in unlocking private investment, creating markets and opportunities where they are needed most.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Series B
  • Geography: India, Brazil, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 499
  • Round size: Series B $6M–$45M; Debt Financing $20M–$400M
  • Lead/follow: 59% lead, 41% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Altobridge — AltoBridge.com is a bold and dynamic domain name that exudes sophistication and innovation. This sleek and memorable name evokes a sense of elevation and connection, making it perfect for a wide range of industries looking to establish a st
  • PasarPolis — PasarPolis is an insurtech startup that provides an online insurance comparison platform for individuals. The company offers quotes for health insurance, life insurance, car insurance, personal insurance, property insurance, and claims processing services.The company was founded by Cleosent Randing in 2015 and is headquartered in Jakarta,Indonesia.
  • Salmon — Money is too important a part of people’s lives to be left in the hands of habit and tradition: to high-street banks, to petty street lenders, to pawn brokers, and the like. Every customer of financial services often feels that they deserve better, be it advantaged or disadvantaged, novice or expert, farmer, teacher, jeepney driver or officeworker.We — a team of finance professionals and entrepreneurs backed by world-class investors — come with the vision and capabilities to provide better and more inclusive service through a combination of technology, product design, security, data analytics and relentless focus on customer care.Managing one’s finances doesn’t need to be complex, frightening, boring or off-putting, it doesn’t have to be a chore. We aim to liberate our customers from the mundane and to quell their fears — providing our customers with more financial freedom while also saving their time and energy to focus on what truly matters to them in their daily lives.We are united by our experiences of building leading financial services and tech companies in various parts of the world — and by desire to apply our experience and modern technology for the benefit of millions of Filipinos.Not only have we built great financial and tech businesses, transforming industries in the process, but we also led large companies and banks through many economic cycles, keeping customers’ and investors’ money safe.We are building a financial technology business that works impeccably 24x365, creating thousands of jobs and provides easy access to finance for millions of Filipinos — and would love you see joining us in this journey, as a partner, vendor, employee, or a customer.
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Flourish Ventures
VC Fund · Redwood City, California, United States · 3 investments in Africa Retail startups

We are an early-stage global venture capital firm investing in fintech founders.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, India, Brazil

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 187
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$8.5M; Series A $5.2M–$35M; Series B $8.3M–$65M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Spade — Providing AI merchant extraction, brand logos, merchant locations, and categorization as a service to fin-techs.
  • Spry — Simplify your physical therapy practice with SPRY. Our all-in-one software streamlines billing, EMR, documentation, and insurance verification. Experience the SPRY difference today.
  • Hummingbird — Hummingbird is a platform for managing anti-money laundering (AML) operations. Compliance professionals use Hummingbird to collect case information, conduct investigations, and report on unusual or suspicious behaviors. The platform dramatically reduces paperwork and improves efficiency, enabling AML investigators to refocus on fighting financialcrime.Hummingbird’s founding team brings together product and regulatory experience from organizations like Square, IDEO, the Department of the Treasury, and the OCC. Hummingbird is using data and design to modernize regulatory compliance in finance.
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GreenTec Capital Partners
VC Fund · Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany · 3 investments in Africa Retail startups

GreenTec Capital Partners is Germany's premier investor into African start-ups and SMEs. GreenTec invests through its unique Results4Equity model, acting as a co-founding partner that is only compensated on business success.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Retail, Computer
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, Morocco

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 24
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $50k–$1M
  • Lead/follow: 83% lead, 17% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.2M in 2017

Portfolio highlights

  • Ecodudu — Ecodudu is a waste-to-value company. It uses a proprietary innovation to recycle organic waste into high-protein animal feed and organic fertilizer using the black soldier fly. It harnesses insects (nature’s recycling agents) to address global issues which include waste management, demand for protein, and environmental conservation.
  • Asilimia — Asilimia is a simple, fun mobile app for sending money through M-PESA quickly and without any transaction fees. Simply deposit money to your M-PESA, download Asilimia and send money for free to any other M-PESA account.
  • ShapShap — ShapShap enhances delivery experience through its commission-based marketplace by assigning efficient orders to drivers to ensure their sustainability and scalability.
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SOSV
VC Fund · Princeton, New Jersey, United States · 3 investments in Africa Retail startups, 75 in the past 12 months

SOSV is a global, deep tech venture capital firm that operates the HAX and IndieBio startup development programs focused on human and planetary health. SOSV invests $500,000 in startups at their inception as they onboard either HAX or IndieBio for a 4-6 month period designed to accelerate the raise of their next institutional round. SOSV joins thelater rounds of HAX and IndieBio graduates. HAX, based in a 35,000 sq ft facility in Newark, NJ, is equipped with machine tools, 3D printers, chemical, electrical and mechanical engineering labs, as well as on-staff engineering and design experts. SOSV's IndieBio has locations in NYC and San Francisco, both of which offer extensive services and facilities to founders including on-site BSL-2 labs, well equipped lab benches and hoods, and advanced lab equipment, such as chromatography equipment.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1482
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • MixRift — MIXRIFT - game developers specialized in Mixed Reality
  • unspun — From 3D scan to perfect fitting custom jeans. unspun makes each pair of jeans unique to your actual body and design. On a mission to reduce global carbon emissions by 1%. As seen in Fast Company's World Changing Ideas, Time's Best Inventions, and PopSci's Best of What's New. Welcome to the future of apparel.
  • Mesa Quantum — Unlock the potential of chip-scale quantum sensing for enhanced Position, Navigation, And Timing capabilities. Explore Mesa Quantum's practical solutions.
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UM6P Ventures
VC Fund · Benguerir, Marrakech-Tensift-Al Haouz, Morocco · 3 investments in Africa Retail startups

UM6P Ventures is a venture capital investment firm that invests in Science & Innovation.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Agriculture, Apps, Retail
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Morocco, Israel, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Round size: Seed $275k–$4M; Pre-Seed $110k–$1.5M
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Hsabati — Une vision à 360° de votre entreprise
  • 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
  • WafR — WafR is a reward-based loyalty startup that allows users to earn phone recharges while shopping at retail shops.
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Orange Ventures
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 3 investments in Africa Retail startups

Orange Ventures is a venture fund investing in areas of Orange expertise and beyond, with financial objectives in line with VC industry standards. With 350m€ assets under management, Orange Ventures is in the top 10 corporate ventures in Europe with an investment strategy focused on helping future global tech champions, fostering innovation in theMiddle East and Africa, and supporting new sustainable and responsible business models.

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  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series B, Series A
  • Geography: France, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 79
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$5M; Series A $2.7M–$12M; Series B $11M–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • SAYNA — Sayna is to provide high-quality training in the digital sector and provide professional chances to young people by bridging the gap between the growing demand and supply for digital talent in Africa.
  • Traace — Traace is a software that allows companies to measure and manage their carbon footprint. Carry out your carbon assessment. Follow your action plan easily and precisely.
  • Gebeya — Gebeya is building a-self-sustainable ecosystem that trains, hires, and nurtures the best of African talent. Our mission is to be the premier software engineering and IT training academy in Africa, while becoming the number one global IT services workplace that matches African IT talent with clients across Africa and the rest of the world.
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Aruwa Capital
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 3 investments in Africa Retail startups

Aruwa Capital Management is a Lagos-based, female-founded and led growth equity impact fund.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Retail, FinTech, Big Data
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$3M; Series A $11M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 80% lead, 20% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $20M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • AgroEknor — AgroEknor provides agricultural research, integration, technology based optimization & global delivery of the agro superfoods.
  • Fastizers — Fastizers Food and Confectionery Limited is a newly formed food production firm in Nigeria that has been approved by the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC).
  • OmniRetail — OmniRetail is a consumer goods distribution platform that solves the inefficiencies of traditional trade by digitizing key stakeholders through its products.
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U.S. International Development Finance Corp
VC Fund · Washington, District of Columbia, United States · 2 investments in Africa Retail startups

U.S. International Development Finance Corp is America’s development bank.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Finance, Banking
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt
  • Geography: India, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 95
  • Round size: Post-IPO Debt $33M–$500M; Debt Financing $5M–$468M
  • Lead/follow: 74% lead, 26% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $300M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Kodak — A global technology company providing industry-leading products and services for commercial print, packaging, publishing, manufacturing and entertainment.
  • Bayport Management — Bayport Management Limited, through its subsidiaries, provides retail financial services in the Republic of Mauritius and internationally.
  • Freshtohome — Freshtohome is an online grocery store that sells a range of seafood and meat to its users.The website’s range of products include fish, poultry, mutton, steaks, and fillet. Fish consists of shell, freshwater, and marine. Furthermore, it enables suppliers to supply their seafood and meat to the website.Freshtohome was launched in 2015 by ShanKadavil and is based in Bangalore.
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StartUp Health
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in Africa Retail startups

Organizing and investing in a global army of entrepreneurs committed to achieving health moonshots

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Wellness, Medical
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 194
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$4M; Pre-Seed $20k–$800k
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Jiseki Health — Jiseki is built on the belief that families and communities need and deserve a safety net, and to have peace of mind when things go wrong. We provide access and delivery of key advice, help, products and services through highly scalable SMS technology, powered by a combination of professionals and AI, and sold as a portable life benefit package..Text #help to 543210, to discover Jiseki services.
  • Biome Analytics — Biome is an analytic applications that help cardiovascular teams do their best work. It helps forward thinking hospitals profitably transition and thrive in the new world of healthcare. During COVID-19, Biome has focused on assessing hospital capacity.
  • NEXT Life Sciences — NEXT Life Sciences is developing the revolutionary Plan A™ procedure to bring the only scientifically proven technology in the category - Vasalgel® - to market.
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AfricInvest
VC Fund · Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia · 2 investments in Africa Retail startups, 6 in the past 12 months

AfricInvest was founded in 1994 and is part of Integra Group, an investment and financial services company based in Tunisia.Uniquely positioned as one of the most experienced private equity investors on the continent, AfricInvest has dedicated investment teams focused on North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa, and employs 66 professionals based inseven offices.AfricInvest manages USD1 billion across 16 funds and benefits from strong, long-term support from both local and international investors, including leading development finance institutions in the United States and Europe.Having co-founded the African Venture Capital Association (AVCA) as well as the Middle East North Africa Private Equity Association (MENAPEA) and the Euromed Capital Forum, the firm is an active promotor of the private equity industry in the region.Since 1994, AfricInvest has invested in 135 companies across 25 African countries in a variety of high growth sectors and maintains a broad network of high quality executives across Africa, offering extensive expertise in key growth industries, including financial services, agribusiness, consumer/retail, education and healthcare.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Manufacturing, FinTech
  • Stage:Private Equity, Series A
  • Geography: Tunisia, Kenya, Morocco

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 99
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Nile.ag — Nile.ag provides a platform for farmers to trade fresh produce with multiple producers across a number of African countries. Its digital solutions address inherent issues relating to food trading, quality verification, payments and traceability.
  • Hewatele — Hewatele is a social enterprise that provides affordable quality medical oxygen to all needy patients together with its affiliates CPHD and Mediquip Global.
  • Unisystem Group — Unisystem Group is a Moroccan company specializing in the distribution of electronic security equipment and the integration of security solutions aiming at the protection of people and assets. Created in 2004, the firm progressively oriented its activity from a simple distributor of equipment to an added value player thanks to the development ofcompetencies in the integration of custom-made solutions and the maintenance of the electronic security systems.
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WIC Capital
VC Fund · Dakar, Dakar, Senegal · 2 investments in Africa Retail startups

Capital investissement - Gender investing - Gender initiative - Impact investing - Early stage - PME - SME - Equity - Fund manager - Empower women

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Retail, B2B, Nutrition
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Senegal

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $450k–$700k
  • Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kwely — Kwely is a dynamic and fast-growing startup. We are always looking for passionate, dynamic, fun and hard-working individuals to join our team.
  • Mburu — Mburu specializes in the production and marketing of bread, pastries, and pastries made from local raw materials (millet, corn, sorghum, seasonal fruits, etc.).
  • Acasen — Acasen is an agri-food company that valorizes locally grown agricultural raw resources such as cereals, cashew nuts, peanuts, and potatoes.
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Samata Capital
VC Fund · 2 investments in Africa Retail startups

CREATING a More Inclusive Future Samata Capital accelerates equal access to capital and opportunity for talented entrepreneurs in emerging markets. We inten ...

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Beauty, Retail, Consumer
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Kenya, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$1.4M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • ReelFruit — On a mission to inspire delightfulness by offering the tastiest snacks in town.
  • 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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Unseen Capital
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in Africa Retail startups

Unseen Capital created by racially diverse and historically underrepresented business leaders that is intended to identify, fund and support underrepresented founders of early-stage healthcare companies and those building solutions for marginalized communities.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Wellness, Medical
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Seed $225k–$5M; Pre-Seed $1M–$1.3M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Allswell — Allswell is a queer-founded mental health platform dedicated to making affirming, accessible care available to the LGBTQ+ community, covered by Medicaid & major insurance.
  • Magnolia — Magnolia is a creative force to change how we support and dignify the work of family caregivers and ensure more people in more places can age with ease.
  • Trial Library — At Trial Library, we partner with the oncology community to enable the discoverability of clinical trials for anyone, anywhere.
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Creadev
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 2 investments in Africa Retail startups

Creadev is an evergreen investment company believe that shareholders' timing should match with the entrepreneur's vision, up to an unlimited amount of time. Creadev invest in and support companies able to scale-up and become worldwide best players in their sector.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Agriculture, Food and Beverage
  • Stage:Series B, Series C
  • Geography: France, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 45
  • Round size: Series B $5.5M–$34M; Series C $10M–$55M
  • Lead/follow: 62% lead, 38% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Mydawa — MYDAWA is here to ensure that every Kenyan can get quality, secure and affordable medicine and wellness products online
  • Nxtfood — Nxtfood is a specialist in vegetable alternatives to meat.
  • DAMAE Medical — Damae Medical is a Paris, France-based medtech company. It has developed a medical device capable of seeing biological tissues in depth, at a cellular level and in vivo. This innovative optical imaging technology will especially allow dermatologists to evaluate in a precise, efficient and rapid way malignancy of tumors by a simple contact with thesurface of the skin. DAMAE Medical’s mission is to put the great power of bio-photonics at the service of opening new opportunities in medical imaging and diagnosis.
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Hi2 Venture Fund
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in Africa Retail startups

Hi2 Venture Fund is an early-stage venture capital fund managed by Hi2 Global. The fund invests in seed stage innovative early-stage companies in emerging sectors including fintech, AI, consumer-tech, clean-tech and health-tech in United States, Asia, Africa, and LATAM.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria, Pakistan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 45
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$6.4M; Pre-Seed $150k–$2M; Series A $5.2M–$37M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Fineksi — Finskor memiliki misi untuk menjadi penyedia terkemuka layanan penilaian kredit yang akurat dan andal, membantu bank dan lembaga keuangan lainnya untuk membuat keputusan kredit berdasarkan analisis data yang komprehensif.
  • PennyWorks — Earn up to 8% APY on US dollars with no lock ups through collateralized digital asset lending. Start earning today!
  • Kontigo — We help underbanked gig workers in Latam build credit and access group financing where small groups of family or friends lend and save money together. Users can validate their income from multiple sources such as gig apps, catalog sales, and open finance (Uber, Rappi, Didi, Indriver, Avon, and all major banks). After verifying the income wedirectly offer them group savings and group loans, without leaving WhatsApp, their primary messaging app.
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igniteXL Ventures
VC Fund · Palo Alto, California, United States · 2 investments in Africa Retail startups

WELLNESS TO THE WORLD igniteXL Ventures is a global seed fund investing in game-changing founders at the intersection of technology, beauty

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Beauty, Fashion, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, South Korea, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 18
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$8.1M; Pre-Seed $226k–$1.8M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $10M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • buywith — buywith is a video commerce platform enabling retailers and brands to transform their e-commerce into engaging shoppable videos and dynamic video-led experiences, including an AI-powered digital studio for creating video ads for retail media at scale.
  • Maeva — Maeva is a science-backed metabolic wellness brand built for people on GLP-1 medications — and anyone committed to a smarter weight-loss journey. Founded by Steven and Dean Neiger after Steven's own firsthand experience with GLP-1 therapy, Maeva was created to solve a real gap: when you're eating less, your body still needs completenutrition. Muscle loss, energy dips, hair thinning, and digestive discomfort shouldn't be the price of progress. Our Daily Nutrition Shakes — formulated separately for women and men — deliver 20–25g of plant protein, clinically dosed functional ingredients, and zero sugar, dairy, soy, or maltodextrin. Every product in our lineup is made in an NSF-certified, cGMP, FDA-registered U.S. facility and third-party tested for heavy metals and microbial safety. We don't believe in fairy-dust dosing or empty promises. Every ingredient is included at a level that actually works — so you can stay strong, energized, and feeling like yourself while you slim down.
  • 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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Acumen
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in Africa Retail startups

Acumen is a nonprofit venture fund that invests in early-stage companies bringing critical services like agriculture, clean energy, education, financial inclusion, healthcare and workforce development to low-income communities in 14 countries across East and West Africa, South Asia, Latin America, and the United States. Since 2001, Acumeninvested $128 million in 128 companies that have transformed the lives of over 308 million low-income people.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Agriculture, Health Care, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, India, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 167
  • Round size: Seed $300k–$2.5M; Series A $1.6M–$13M
  • Lead/follow: 52% lead, 48% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $2.8M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Haqdarshak — Made with Framer
  • BharatRohan — Nurturing empathy, tech, and impact for a revitalised agri value chain.
  • Promethean Power Systems — Promethean Power Systems designs and manufactures rural refrigeration systems for commercial cold-storage applications in off-grid.Dairy processors who have not been able to collect enough quality milk to meet demand, which is growing at 6% annually. Milk producers whose milk gets spoiled because it is not collected in time are alsobeneficiaries, though they cannot afford the purchase price of the chillers.The system preserves milk at the village level, which reduces spoilage and transportation costs for processors, leading to increased farmer incomes. <BR/> The chillers enable processors to collect milk that has been chilled at the source, which improves the quality of milk and enables them to collect from isolated dairy villages. <BR/> The system is powered by the grid and by a generator when the grid is down, but will in future use a thermal battery backup to store grid energy.
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Flying Doctors Nigeria
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 2 investments in Africa Retail startups

Flying Doctors Nigeria is an ambulance service company that provides medical emergency services. The company also provides medical solutions such as air ambulance and medical evacuation and ground ambulance services. They offer rapid transfer and the highest standards of care to patients in acute medical need, serving both states and privatecompanies on a yearly retainer basis.Flying Doctors Nigeria operates stations manned by specially trained medical doctors across the country from where real-time responses are affected. It was founded in 2009 and is based in Lagos, Nigeria.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Retail, Medical
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $225k–$1.5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • GetEquity — GetEquity is a NASDAQ for venture capital. We provide an exchange and liquidity for private companies, and an infrastructure for different cadres of venture capital around investing, founder liquidity, and shareholder management
  • Healthtracka — Healthtracka is a digital health platform that allows consumer direct access to lab tests bookings, at-home sample collection and digital results in 1-3days
  • Helium Health — Helium Health empowers healthcare providers in Africa with digital tools, financing solutions, and data partnerships. Learn more about our innovative solutions.
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Good Soil VC
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in Africa Retail startups

We are a venture capital firm that partners with founders to build global, market-defying companies. We fund diverse teams across Sub-Saharan Africa and Europe.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Retail
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Ghana, United Kingdom, Rwanda

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Seed $35k–$940k
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Livoh — Livoh is a software firm offering live streaming platform so the content can reach its target market.
  • 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.
  • STEELO STYLE LTD — Join The Steelo Community
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Raba Partnership
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 2 investments in Africa Retail startups

The Raba Partnership, Raba Capital, Raba

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, South Africa, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 56
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$6M; Pre-Seed $635k–$6.5M; Series A $9.2M–$32M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $60M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Cloudline — Cloudline leverages lighter-than-air technology and the latest developments in unmanned aerial vehicles to deliver essential goods and services to the 1 billion people without direct access to roads and runways.
  • Cloudline — The all-in-one cloud platform helping leisure businesses sell more, reduce costs & personalize experiences.
  • Fuse Financial Technologies — Financial APIs for building products in the Middle East.
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Consonance Investment Managers
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 2 investments in Africa Retail startups

We are an investment company focused on helping early and growth-stage entrepreneurs build successful companies in Africa.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 31
  • Round size: Seed $550k–$3.3M; Pre-Seed $450k–$1M; Series A $50k–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Releaf Earth — We are industrializing food processing in Africa. We've led 1000+ smallholder farmers to provide food factories with >7.5 million kilograms of quality crops.
  • Tripesa — Tripesa offers payment solutions for Africa's travel and tourism industry.
  • Plural — Smarter, Faster, Future-Ready Policy Strategy. Plural transforms how enterprises and organizations anticipate and act on legislation. Our AI-powered platform delivers accurate bill analysis, policy insights, and stakeholder intelligence so you can stay ahead of risk, seize opportunity, and shape outcomes. See How It Works Book A Demo Trusted By Deepen Your State & Federal Legislative
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Partech
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 2 investments in Africa Retail startups

Partech is a global venture capital firm with offices in San Francisco, Paris, Berlin and Dakar. Partech invests in Internet and information technology startups at seed, venture and growth stages.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, France, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 524
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$9M; Series A $4.2M–$30M; Series B $9M–$55M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Yampa — Discover yampa's autonomous AI agents and revolutionize your customer experience. Elevate your service with the most advanced AI technology.
  • Privitar — Informatica is an Enterprise Cloud Data Management leader that brings data to life by empowering businesses to realize the transformative power of their most critical assets.
  • Jaspersoft — Enterprise reporting platform for delivering pixel perfect reports. Build custom reports and dashboards in minutes.
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LoftyInc Capital
VC Fund · Carmel, California, United States · 2 investments in Africa Retail startups

LoftyInc Capital Management empowers Afropreneurs to build a prosperous and equitable future in Africa. We deliver value to both founders and investors.........

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 147
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2.4M; Series A $250k–$37M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $14M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Aku — Aku is a financial technology to drive financial inclusion on one mobile device. They provide payments and bring financial services to the doorstep. They support the new business owner in need of the right tools. They offer low-cost, accessible financial services that serve their customers. They radically democratized access to banking and digitalpayment channels.
  • AlumUnite — AlumUnite is a purpose-built platform to connect all educated Africans to develop Africa's human capital through alumni groups. We crowd-resource education.
  • Reliance Health — Reliance Health Global. Improve the lives of your staff with innovative company healthcare benefits fit for any business. You can rely on us.
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Alphamundi
VC Fund · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland · 2 investments in Africa Retail startups

AlphaMundi Group Ltd is a commercial entity based in Switzerland and exclusively dedicated to Impact Investing: profitable investments that generate substantial net benefits to society. It was founded in 2007 by a group of partners with extensive experience in the financial industry as well as responsible investments, microfinance andphilanthropy.AlphaMundi provides debt and equity financing to scalable social ventures in strategic sustainable human development sectors such as microfinance, affordable education, fair trade agriculture and renewable energy. AlphaMundi is currently investing out of its impact debt fund, SocialAlpha Investment Fund (SAIF) - Bastion, domiciled in Luxembourg. AlphaMundi also manages co-investments for SAIF-Bastion investors and third parties.​AlphaMundi partners believe that Impact Investing is a new tool for development that can enhance more classical responsible investment approaches (which often lack impact ​measurability) and complement charitable solutions (which often lack financial viability). To this extent, the firm also contributes to the emergence of Impact Investing through education events, publications and industry associations. Impact investments are now being integrated by leading US and European banks, pension funds, foundations and family offices into traditional investment portfolios, as primarily decorrelated, illiquid and profitable financial assets.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Agriculture, Renewable Energy, Financial Services
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Kenya, Colombia, Ghana

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Series A $10M–$12M; Series B $3.5M–$16M; Debt Financing $1.7M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Finaktiva — Finaktiva is the number one financial ally of Colombian entrepreneurs. We offer flexible and agile online financial solutions (loans in various forms, factoring and confirming) adjusted to the requirements of the companies. We also offer a range of non-financial tools through our platform to help SMEs´ grow. Our customers are typically businesseswith innovative business models, double-digit growth rates that have a positive impact in their communities.
  • AgriCapital — AgriCapital is a financial service firm that provides store credit, productive credit, credit installments, and accompaniment services.
  • Ampersand — Ampersand catalyzes and power mass-market electric mobility. By supplying the battery swap network and operating system the company makes sustainable mobility rapidly accessible and affordable for developing markets, to improve livelihoods and the environment. With over a million km already covered by e-motorcycles in Africa using our plug-and-playpowertrain and energy network.
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First circle capital
VC Fund · Casablanca, Grand Casablanca, Morocco · 2 investments in Africa Retail startups

First Circle Capital is a venture capital firm seeding the next fintech generation in Africa.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, Egypt, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 35
  • Round size: Seed $455k–$4M; Pre-Seed $100k–$780k
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • PayTic — PayTic enables payments issuers to manage their card programs by providing dedicated back-office solutions that streamline the end-to-end operations in customer support, chargebacks, fraud, AML, reporting, and reconciliation. Our proprietary solutions are unique in automating and centralizing the program management processes, regardless of thenumber of processors and the payment networks involved in the payments products. We impact payments providers by eliminating the defragmented and manual processes and replacing them with a SaaS platform that increases proactivity, mitigates risks, and delivers value. It reduces the burn rate to near 0 in operational costs and offers an unprecedented competitive advantage. PayTic is introducing the Zero Ops model in managing payments.
  • Pumpkn — Need reliable funding? We provide quick loans and capital tailored for Agriculture businesses in South Africa. Grow your business with Pumpkn. Apply now!
  • Scale — Scale accelerates market entry and revenue for fintechs with a people-first approach.
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Goodwell Investments
VC Fund · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands · 2 investments in Africa Retail startups

Goodwell Investments is a pioneering investment firm focused on financial inclusion, fintech and inclusive growth in sectors providing

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Banking
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 47
  • Round size: Series A $1.6M–$12M; Series B $2M–$26M
  • Lead/follow: 53% lead, 47% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • OmniRetail — OmniRetail is a consumer goods distribution platform that solves the inefficiencies of traditional trade by digitizing key stakeholders through its products.
  • Hinckley Recycling — Hinckley Recycling is dedicated to the responsibility of being a good steward of the environment and will in all circumstances aspire to constantly emphasize awareness of the natural environment, whilst maintaining a level of proficiency which demonstrates bona fide leadership in all spheres of the environment.
  • Agent Banking Company — Agent Banking Company provides digital technology solutions that enable access to banking services through bank-approved agents.
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Microtraction
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 2 investments in Africa Retail startups

We invest in Africa's most remarkable teams with technical founders at the earliest stage of their venture

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, Ghana

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 103
  • Round size: Seed $25k–$1.3M; Angel $30k–$50k; Pre-Seed $50k–$1.1M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Accounteer — Accounteer is a cloud accounting platform for small businesses. Business owner can create invoices, track expenses and follow up on their finances with ease. Accounteer integrates with external services like banks, e-invoicing platforms and e-commerce. Future proof your business today by subscribing for a free Accounteer trial account.
  • LemFi — Send money to India, China, Pakistan, Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya and 30 other countries. Receive and manage your money without stress
  • ThankUCash — ThankUCash is a technology company powering rewards and loyalty for African banks and businesses. ThankUCash helps merchants grow revenue by connecting them to customers within and outside of their locations while retaining acquired customers using a data analytics-powered reward system where customers earn cash rewards for every transaction madeboth offline and online.
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Chinook Capital Limited
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 2 investments in Africa Retail startups

Chinook Capital is focused on investments in seed- and pre-stage companies in internet software, services, and media sectors.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: EdTech, Retail, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $120k–$575k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Edves — Edves automates the brick and mortal School operations from Student enrollment, Fee Collection, Lesson Note up to Transcript Generation.
  • Youverify — Youverify helps businesses and individuals confirm identity and physical addresses. Using AI, Youverify confirms a user’s identity document and compares it with their facial biometrics. This information can be cross-checked against more than 300 databases locally and globally.Youverify in partnership with over 20,000 field verification officersverifies physical addresses all over Sub-Sahara Africa in less than 48 hours.Youverify fills the gap in Africa's digital industry by providing one API for identity and physical address verification.
  • Lifestores Pharmacy — Lifestores is a retail pharmacy start-up bringing disruptive innovation to the pharmaceutical sector in Nigeria by democratizing quality medicines and pharmaceutical services.
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P1 Ventures
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Africa Retail startups

P1 Ventures works as a venture capital firm. They specialize in early-stage industrial technology firms in Africa.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Software, Payments
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Egypt, Kenya, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 43
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$5M; Pre-Seed $400k–$2M; Series B $7.5M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Salus Cloud — Salus Cloud is an AI-native platform for engineers to develop and manage security.
  • Traction Apps — Traction apps provide businesses end to end tools they need to run and grow their businesses.
  • Reliance Health — Reliance Health Global. Improve the lives of your staff with innovative company healthcare benefits fit for any business. You can rely on us.
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Vinny Lingham
Angel · San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States · 2 investments in Africa Retail startups

Vinny Lingham is the Co-Founder and CEO of Rumi.ai(Waitroom). He previously worked at YPO as a Member. Vinny Lingham attended Harvard Business School Executive Education.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Internet, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United States, South Africa, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 39
  • Round size: Seed $2.5M–$5.6M; Angel $125k–$500k
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Glif — Interoperable tools for the Filecoin network
  • Decent Labs — We are rebuilding trust in technology. Decent Labs is developing a more transparent and equitable society by creating startups at the cross-section of financial technology and digital rights.
  • Spexi — An intuitive and collaborative platform for drone-based data
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Kepple Africa Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Africa Retail startups

We back exceptional founders in and from Africa who are addressing deep gaps between the status quo and the ideal.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 77
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$4.5M; Pre-Seed $300k–$3.4M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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
  • Mvxchange — MVX makes freight shipping easier and more coordinated for companies of any size by bringing the whole booking and deployment process online. We simplify Africa’s end-to-end import and export trade transactions by aggregating and organizing 7+ services through 1 digital channel.
  • Intmax — INTMAX has developed significant innovations in ZK implementation making it a unique Layer2 rollup network that offers low cost, security, tunable privacy, and above all, scalability.
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Michael Lahyani
Angel · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 2 investments in Africa Retail startups

Michael Lahyani is based out of Dubai, Dubai, and is the CEO and Founder of Property Finder. Michael Lahyani attended HEC Lausanne.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: B2B, SaaS, Beauty
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Egypt, Morocco, Colombia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $5M–$5.1M; Series B $42M–$42M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Swvl — Swvl | Book Your Daily Ride or Make Money Driving Now
  • Aptuno — Aptuno - Busco apartamento o casa en arriendo
  • Fresha — Find the best salons and spa in your area with Fresha salon booking software. Book now!
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Antler
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 2 investments in Africa Retail startups

Build your next company with Antler, a global day zero investor enabling exceptional founders to start great companies, from the very beginning. Apply now!

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Singapore, Australia, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1193
  • Round size: Seed $196k–$5.8M; Pre-Seed $104k–$1.1M; Series A $4.6M–$29M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $72M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Carble — We provide carbon insetting technology to tropical commodity buyers and cash incentives to farmers that protect the forest. Our satellite-powered platform monitors carbon emissions, allowing for deforestation-free farming to be rewarded at scale.
  • Sapyen — We take the fear out of infertility for men. Test for it at home, without stepping out to the hospital and get personalised health recommendations to improve sperm health and increase your chances of conceiving.
  • One Key Access — One Key Access is an interface to the world of couriers to enable 24/7 frictionless deliveries.
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Réseau Entreprendre
VC Fund · Roubaix, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France · 1 investments in Africa Retail startups

Réseau Entreprendre is a registered charity French association providing financial support to entrepreneurs.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: France, Morocco

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Rewayz — Rewayz is operating a health platform connecting consumers with professional certified coaches and fun workshops and video exchanges.
  • Vinidaily — Vinidaily is the application that helps you choose the wine 100% adapted to your tastes and the occasion, in your favorite supermarket and soon everywhere else.
  • Stern Tech — We created a revolutionary SaaS platform for human behavior analysis. We use AI and cognitive sciences to interpret human behavior in real time. Use cases: Automotive, Health, Marketing, Training, Politics. See our partnership with Renault and STMicroelectronics : https://stern.consulting/sterntech-h1stvision.mp4
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Dakar Network Angels
VC Fund · Dakar, Dakar, Senegal · 1 investments in Africa Retail startups

Dakar Network Angels (DNA) is an angel investor network based in Dakar, Senegal, investing in early stage companies throughout the WAEMU region and contiguous countries.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Retail, Computer
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, Tunisia, C&ocirc;te d'Ivoire

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Kamioun — Kamioun is a mobile platform that connects FMCG manufacturers to local retail shops by fast free delivery of inventory.
  • REasy — Top up locally, pay suppliers globally, and manage international shipments with REasy. Fast, secure, and designed for African businesses expanding worldwide.
  • Venco Platforms — Venco automates visitor management, billing, and collections, as well as smart utility vending for communities across Africa.
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Plug & Play
VC Fund · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 1 investments in Africa Retail startups

We connect the largest corporations to the world's best startups through industry-focused accelerator programs in Silicon Valley and beyond.

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Investment focus

  • Stage:Seed

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Pipra — PIPRA AG (Pre-Interventional Preventive Risk assessment) is developing a cutting-edge AI-based pre-operative test to assess a patient's risk of suffering from cognitive disorders after surgery.
  • Prismpop — Prismpop is a shopping community where users share their favorite products, shopping advice, product reviews, beauty secrets, fashion tips, food ideas and more.
  • Steady Technologies, Inc. — Steady Rent offers property managers solutions that share the same goal: Remove risk for property owners, boost profits for property managers, and save time with automation.
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Uma Ventures
VC Fund · Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong · 1 investments in Africa Retail startups

Uma Ventures is a venture capital firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: B2B, Retail
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Senegal

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Kwely — Kwely is a dynamic and fast-growing startup. We are always looking for passionate, dynamic, fun and hard-working individuals to join our team.
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Kiprono Elvis Terigin
Angel · 1 investments in Africa Retail startups

Kiprono Elvis Terigin

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Beauty, Retail, Consumer
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Uncover — Experience nourishing and rejuvenating Uncover Skincare products in Kenya. Made just for you, using the finest ingredients to offer innovative & effective solutions.
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Symbiotics Group
VC Fund · Geneva, Geneve, Switzerland · 1 investments in Africa Retail startups

Symbiotics is the leading market access platform for impact investing. Symbiotics offers investment, asset management and capacity building services.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt
  • Geography: India, Kenya, Senegal

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 27
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Varthana — With the availability of education & school loans, financing education has become easier. Apply for instant education loan with Varthana today.
  • Khan Bank — Khan Bank is a universal bank and a customer of FMO.
  • AMK Microfinance Institution — AMK’s commitment to social performance has been absolute. AMK has developed a comprehensive social performance management framework, which ensures that the organization stays focusing on its mission to assist large numbers of poor people. As of December 2016, over 2,300 staffs serve almost 600,000 clients in nearly 13,000 villages across Cambodia.This outreach represents 89% of all villages.
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Niche Capital
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 1 investments in Africa Retail startups

Venture Capital firm

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Bemi — Bemi is an automatic audit trail for Postgres that tracks data changes reliably without the engineering complexity and costly infrastructure: Bemi Captures and stores data changes with 100% reliability and accuracy.
  • Anchor — Anchor is building the infrastructure needed for businesses to build, launch, and scale banking and payment solutions.
  • Blossom.team — Powered by AI, Blossom's science-backed professional coaching brings together experienced coaches & ML to show actual growth on key topics: productivity, communications, leadership, stress management, career development, interpersonal skills, and more. Subscribe and see why it's the successful professional's secret superpower!
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Chui Ventures
VC Fund · Delaware, Ohio, United States · 1 investments in Africa Retail startups

Investing in Africa | Chui Ventures is an investment company that seeks to back exceptional African companies at the early stage of their growth.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Fashion, Software, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • Socium — Socium Job these are companies that recruit and offer real career opportunities to all those who share their values ​​and wish to invest in their development.
  • Uncover — Learn your skin, Love your skin. K-Beauty Crafted for Melanin
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CDG Invest Growth
VC Fund · Casablanca, Grand Casablanca, Morocco · 1 investments in Africa Retail startups

CDG Invest Growth (CIG) is a private equity firm, based in Casablanca, Morocco. We provide capital to medium-sized enterprises across Africa.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Retail, Shopping
  • Geography: Morocco

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Retail Holding — Retail Holding is a Retailer business.
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