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Top 50 Retail Startup Investors in Africa (October 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
9 Tunisia, France, United Arab Emirates Pre-Seed, Seed E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology $62k–$174k
TLcom Capital Partners
VC Fund
9 Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Seed Software, Mobile, Information Technology $1.9M–$20M
Women Entrepreneurship for Africa
VC Fund
8 Nigeria, Uganda, Cameroon Pre-Seed, Grant Health Care, Agriculture, Food and Beverage
Launch Africa
VC Fund
8 Nigeria, South Africa, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology $200k–$4M
Chandaria Capital
VC Fund
6 Kenya, Nigeria, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, Financial Services, FinTech $200k–$37M
Musha Ventures
VC Fund
6 United States, Nigeria, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Financial Services, FinTech $100k–$10M
HAVAÍC
VC Fund
4 South Africa, United States, Kenya Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A Software, Health Care, FinTech $83k–$15M
Reflect Ventures
VC Fund
4 United States, Pakistan, Nigeria Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Logistics, Information Technology, E-Commerce $120k–$40M
Future Africa
VC Fund
4 Nigeria, United States, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology $100k–$40M
Acumen
VC Fund
4 United States, India, Kenya Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Agriculture, Solar, Farming $300k–$7.4M
Orange Ventures
VC Fund
4 France, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series B, Series A Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence $500k–$33M
Antler
VC Fund
4 United States, Singapore, Australia Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $100k–$29M
1776 Ventures
VC Fund
4 United States, Kenya, Brazil Seed, Series A, Convertible Note Education, EdTech, Software $400k–$23M
Newtown Partners
VC Fund
3 United States, South Africa, Ghana Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Logistics, Software, Health Care $600k–$30M
Flourish Ventures
VC Fund
3 United States, India, Brazil Series A, Seed, Series B Financial Services, FinTech, Finance $1.3M–$65M
Samata Capital
VC Fund
3 Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria Seed, Series A Retail, Solar, Beauty $1M–$1.4M
Consonance Investment Managers
VC Fund
3 Nigeria, United States, Kenya Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Financial Services, Information Technology $50k–$10M
Leadpath Nigeria
VC Fund
3 Nigeria Seed E-Commerce, Retail, Software $35k–$1.1M
CRE Venture Capital
VC Fund
3 Nigeria, South Africa, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, Software, FinTech $250k–$21M
Hi2 Venture Fund
VC Fund
3 United States, Nigeria, Pakistan Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Cryptocurrency $150k–$37M
Aruwa Capital
VC Fund
3 Nigeria, United States, France Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A Health Care, Retail, FinTech $100k–$20M
SOSV
VC Fund
3 United States, India, United Kingdom Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
Verdant Capital
VC Fund
3 Kenya, South Africa, Ghana Debt Financing, Venture - Series Unknown, Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Finance $2M–$30M
Raba Partnership
VC Fund
3 United States, South Africa, Egypt Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Finance $600k–$32M
Partech
VC Fund
3 France, United States, Germany Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce $1M–$56M
UM6P Ventures
VC Fund
3 Morocco, Israel, United States Seed, Pre-Seed Apps, FinTech, Agriculture $110k–$3.6M
GreenTec Capital Partners
VC Fund
3 Kenya, Nigeria, Morocco Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed Logistics, Information Technology, Retail $50k–$1M
Kepple Africa Ventures
VC Fund
3 Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Software $100k–$23M
Chui Ventures
VC Fund
3 Nigeria, Kenya, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Retail, FinTech, E-Commerce $250k–$5M
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
CDG Invest
VC Fund
2 Morocco, France, United Arab Emirates Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Apps, Financial Services $200k–$19M
FJ Labs
VC Fund
2 United States, Brazil, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services $1.4M–$68M
Michael Lahyani
Angel
2 Egypt, Morocco, Colombia Seed, Series A, Series B B2B, SaaS, Beauty $5M–$42M
Verod-Kepple Africa Ventures
VC Fund
2 Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Retail, Payments, B2B $1.3M–$52M
Good Soil VC
VC Fund
2 Ghana, United Kingdom, Rwanda Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Retail $35k–$940k
igniteXL Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, South Korea, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown E-Commerce, Beauty, Fashion $226k–$8.1M
LoftyInc Capital
VC Fund
2 United States, Nigeria, Egypt Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Financial Services, FinTech, Software $100k–$10M
Microtraction
VC Fund
2 Nigeria, United States, Ghana Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel Financial Services, FinTech, Software $30k–$1.3M
Susa Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Health Care $2M–$70M
Asymmetry Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, India, Canada Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, Biotechnology $125k–$21M
54 Collective
VC Fund
2 Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa Seed, Pre-Seed Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech $40k–$4M
Goodwell Investments
VC Fund
2 Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya Series A, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown FinTech, Financial Services, Banking $200k–$26M
U.S. International Development Finance Corp
VC Fund
2 India, Kenya, United States Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Venture - Series Unknown Financial Services, Finance, FinTech $1M–$1B
International Finance Corporation
VC Fund
2 India, Brazil, United States Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Venture - Series Unknown Financial Services, Finance, Banking $5M–$420M
Vumela Fund
VC Fund
2 South Africa, Brazil Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Debt Financing Education, Hospital, Software $500k–$1.7M
Western Technology Investment
VC Fund
2 United States, Canada, Nigeria Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Health Care, Information Technology $1M–$40M
Kaleo Ventures
VC Fund
2 Nigeria, Kenya, United States Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Information Technology, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence $25k–$15M
Vinny Lingham
Angel
2 United States, South Africa, United Kingdom Seed, Angel Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Internet $125k–$5.6M
DOB Equity
VC Fund
2 Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania Private Equity, Seed Food and Beverage, Farming, Agriculture $1M–$3.8M
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F6 Ventures
VC Fund · Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia · 9 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, Software, Information Technology
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: Tunisia, France, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 81
  • Round size: Seed $70k–$174k; Pre-Seed $62k–$100k
  • Lead/follow: 51% lead, 49% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $10M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Datasphera — Customer service is our #1 priority. Get a premium domain for your website today. Financing available.
  • True Delta — True Delta is a data management and processing company. They are document recognition and data reconciliation processes. They offer data extraction from documents using ocr techniques, fast onboarding and data integration,and efficient data reconciliation with intelligent matching tools and less coding .
  • 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.
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TLcom Capital Partners
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 9 investments in Africa Retail startups

TLCOM finds and funds exceptional founders building technology companies across Africa. Seed to Series C. Lagos, Nairobi, London.

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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: 77
  • Round size: Seed $1.9M–$8.5M; Series A $3.8M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $150M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • Myka.Insure — Myka is a insurance sales platform that enables individuals to sell insurance policies to their family, friends, colleagues, and community while earning income . It operates as a micro-entrepreneurship program where anyone (students, gadget sellers, car dealers, parents, retirees) can start their own insurance business with zero investment,flexible hours, and free training . The company is licensed by the National Insurance Commission of Nigeria and provides instant payouts to its partners .
  • LittleFish — Full stack enterprise platform that extends your infrastructure, instead of replacing it.
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Women Entrepreneurship for Africa
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 8 investments in Africa Retail startups

Women Entrepreneurship for Africa

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Agriculture, Food and Beverage
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Grant
  • Geography: Nigeria, Uganda, Cameroon

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 116
  • Lead/follow: 99% lead, 1% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • ORIKI — A wellness + farm to skin brand that creates pampering experiences and luxurious natural personal grooming products. Sharing Africa!
  • Mukuru Clean Stoves — Earthshot Prize Winner 2022. We use recycled metal to manufacture improved, efficient and affordable cookstoves.
  • Loom Craft Chocolate — Loom Craft Chocolate is a artisanal cocoa processor with a strong focus on the quality of our products and the sustainability of our processes.
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Launch Africa
VC Fund · Ebène, Plaines Wilhems, Mauritius · 8 investments in Africa Retail startups, 6 in the past 12 months

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, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Nigeria, South Africa, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 218
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$4M; Pre-Seed $200k–$1.8M; Venture - Series Unknown $200k–$500k
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Zazu — Manza is an all-in-one financial platform for African SMEs, helping businesses manage payments, automate cash flow, and access real-time financial insights from one simple dashboard.
  • Fincart — Fincart is a leading shipping platform in Egypt, connecting your business with top courier services, automating operations, and helping you scale your eCommerce logistics.
  • Udu Technologies — Explore GPU cloud and hardware through AGH Cloud, UduTech's flagship product, and AI advisory for teams in the United States, Africa, the Caribbean and beyond.
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Chandaria Capital
VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya · 6 investments in Africa Retail startups

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 53
  • Round size: Seed $250k–$6M; Pre-Seed $200k–$3M; Series A $2M–$37M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Klub — India's leading Revenue Based Financing platform with a vision to revolutionize growth capital. Join the Klub for fast, fair & flexible funding.
  • Nuzo — Nuzo offers cheaper payments and crypto rewards and ways to save and earn with staking and bill pay options.
  • African Originals — African Originals food and beverage company that offers authentic African craft beverages using traditional reciepies.
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Musha Ventures
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 6 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: 215
  • Round size: Seed $120k–$7.5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3M; Series A $2.5M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • Zeno — Zeno is a climate conscious motor company that offers eco-friendly motorcycles.
  • Lori Systems — Lori Systems is revolutionizing African logistics through innovative technology solutions. We connect shippers, transporters, and drivers to create efficient, reliable, and transparent supply chains across Africa.
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HAVAÍC
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 4 investments in Africa Retail startups

HAVAÍC is an investment and advisory firm that specialises in early-stage, high-growth African businesses with proven concepts and global prospects, offering investment opportunities to sophisticated investors and international venture capital companies with an interest in Africa. As a complementary offering, HAVAÍC provides corporate advisory andcapital raising services to emerging, internationally scalable businesses.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
  • Geography: South Africa, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 49
  • Round size: Seed $83k–$4M; Series A $1.9M–$15M; Venture - Series Unknown $318k–$632k
  • Lead/follow: 65% lead, 35% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $50M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • NjiaPay — Payments-as-a-Service platform that will streamline your operations and elevate your online payments across the African continent.
  • SwiftVee — SwiftVEE is a livestock trading mobile app. They support live webcast livestock auctions and silent auctions. Their platform facilitates the discovery and viewing of livestock auctions.They provide webcast advertising, online auctions, and online livestock insurance services and data products for financial institutions.
  • Tanda — As a Tanda Agent, you can sell Kenya's favorite digital products, and grow your duka while you're at it
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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: United States, Pakistan, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 57
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$12M; Pre-Seed $120k–$3.3M; Series A $4M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Jelt — HealthTech B2B Marketplace
  • PulseTech — Bangladesh's licensed digital pharmaceutical distributor serving 14,000+ pharmacies.
  • Moneco — Moneco is a financial application that aims to provide financial products.
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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: 92
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$4M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3.7M; Series A $7M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • STEM Cafe — STEMCafe by RVRB is a fun out of school learning centre for kids
  • Juicyway — The new shape of money? Fluid. Access global currencies with Juicyway. Buy, sell, hold, and pay globally using our fast APIs, web, or mobile apps. Download now.
  • Lori Systems — Lori Systems is revolutionizing African logistics through innovative technology solutions. We connect shippers, transporters, and drivers to create efficient, reliable, and transparent supply chains across Africa.
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Acumen
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 4 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, Solar, Farming
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United States, India, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 209
  • Round size: Seed $300k–$2.5M; Venture - Series Unknown $1000k–$7.4M
  • Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $123M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • PrePex — Non Surgical Male Circumcision for HIV Prevention and social enterprise, offering innovative, affordable and scalable public healthcare solutions
  • Orb Energy — Orb Energy is a vertically integrated solar company that manufactures solar panels, design, install, and services complete system, and finance C&I customers.
  • Gramalaya Urban And Rural Development Initiatives And Network — Gramalaya Urban And Rural Development Initiatives And Network (GUARDIAN) is addressing the complex water and sanitation problems faced by low-income communities in India through its innovative water credit solution. GUARDIAN provides microloans to low-income families seeking to install water and sanitation facilities in their households.
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Orange Ventures
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 4 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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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 87
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$5M; Series A $2.8M–$22M; Series B $11M–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $426M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Semeia — Semeia provides software that helps in medical follow-up and consultation.
  • Biolevate — Elevate human : Accelerating life sciences, empowering people
  • Multiverse Computing — World leaders in quantum computing for the financial industry. The first quantum & quantum-inspired toolbox for finance.
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Antler
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 4 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: United States, Singapore, Australia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2382
  • Round size: Seed $158k–$4.6M; Pre-Seed $100k–$600k; Series A $4.1M–$29M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $7.5M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Obud — Obud is a wellness reservation systems that is designed for holistic health and lifestyle management purposes. The company's systems offer a comprehensive suite of tools for booking wellness activities, managing schedules, and accessing curated wellness programs, enabling wellness centers to streamline their operations, enhance userengagement, and promote a balanced and healthy lifestyle.
  • myluigi.ai — Luigi is an AI-Powered Full-Stack Game Growth-as-a-Service platform designed to help mobile game studios scale user acquisition, engagement and lifetime value without adding headcount. Its dual-engine architecture automates and operates everything from ad campaign creation and real-time creative optimization to personalized in-game offers and LTVforecasting—delivered through a single, easy-to-integrate and unified dashboard. With a flexible per-title pricing model and powerful machine-learning insights, Luigi empowers mid-sized and indie developers to reduce CPI, boost retention and chart a clear path toward sustainable growth and seven-figure ARR.
  • RubiLabs — RubiLabs Inc provides a platform for unifying, monitoring, and analyzing organizational data. RubiLabs software enables analysts and operators across risk, compliance, and security teams to collaborate and interpret large volumes of information in real time. The company’s platform is designed to help institutions make sense of complex, fragmenteddata by transforming it into a coherent operational picture for risk detection, continuous monitoring, and investigative workflows.
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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: 106
  • Round size: Seed $400k–$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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Newtown Partners
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 3 investments in Africa Retail startups

Newtown Partners is a venture capital firm that actively invests in emerging, disruptive technology startups.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Logistics, Software, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United States, South Africa, Ghana

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 37
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$5.5M; Series A $3.3M–$30M; Venture - Series Unknown $2M–$2.5M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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
  • Waspito — We are the platform that engages Africa into the conversation and action to drive affordable and accessible quality healthcare across the continent.
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Flourish Ventures
VC Fund · Redwood City, California, United States · 3 investments in Africa Retail startups, 13 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 256
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$8.5M; Series A $3.5M–$25M; Series B $8.6M–$65M
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $350M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Cauridor — Cauridor is a Financial Services company.
  • Stream — Stream is a company that helps make payments simpler, faster, and reliable.
  • Jurisphere — Jurisphere.ai is an enterprise-grade AI platform tailored for law firms and in-house legal teams, integrating document review, legal research, drafting, and workflow automation into a unified workspace. The company's platform uses attorney verified AI workflows to surface relevant cases and insights from large volumes of legal documents,generate and refine contract drafts.
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Samata Capital
VC Fund · 3 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: Retail, Solar, Beauty
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • 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.
  • Solar Taxi Ghana — Solar Taxi Ghana app provides various electronic vehicles that are powered by solar energy.
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Consonance Investment Managers
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 3 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, Financial Services, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 45
  • Round size: Seed $550k–$4M; Pre-Seed $185k–$1M; Series A $50k–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% 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 — Control what AI coding assistants can install. Approve libraries, MCP servers, and extensions before they enter your codebase.
  • EMTECH — Cari pragmatic slot gacor? Cek info RTP slot Pragmatic Play terupdate di AkongCuan. Mulai modal slot depo 5K sekarang, mainkan, dan raih cuan maksimal!
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Leadpath Nigeria
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 3 investments in Africa Retail startups

The Ultimate Information Hub

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Retail, Software
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Round size: Seed $35k–$1.1M
  • Lead/follow: 57% lead, 43% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Fashpa — Welcome to Nigeria’s leading online fashion destination! Shopping online at Fashpa.com in Nigeria means the days of looking through endless boutiques and car boot sales to find that perfect fashion item and buying it at an expensive price when you do are long gone. Whether you are searching for the latest trends, clothing items, shoes,accessories or beauty products, FASHPA.COM brings you a huge collection of brands from which to choose the very best and latest. From shoes, such as heels, espadrilles, flats, sandals for women, wedges, down to clothes, like, swimwear, shorts, underwear or lingerie, and fashion jewelry. Our extensive range of international and local brands and designers such as Topshop, New look, Asos and Zara are literally at your fingertips. Our Mission is simple, the latest trends, hottest brands and best prices all delivered to your doorstep.At FASHPA Nigeria, we believe your online shopping experience should be fantastic and enjoyed as if you visited the best fashion store in Nigeria in person.This is why we have the latest collections and we remove all the stress and make sure you are able to receive your FASHPA order as quickly as possible - in major cities that's usually 1-3 working days. Enjoy free delivery in Lagos or a low shipping rate outside lagos with multiple payment options such as Pay Online, Bank Deposit and cash on delivery. Getting your fashion fix has never been easier and more secure.
  • Piggyvest — Piggyvest is a very secure online savings platform that makes saving possible by combining discipline plus flexibility to make you grow your savings.
  • Leadspace — We provide reliable and flexible coworking/office spaces for entrepreneurs or founders of small and medium-sized businesses. A @p_incubator Company
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CRE Venture Capital
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 3 investments in Africa Retail startups

Founded in 2015, CRE Venture Capital invests in early stage tech companies that are levered to Africa. CRE is headquartered in the New York metro area, with a regional office in Lagos, Nigeria.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 66
  • Round size: Seed $250k–$4M; Pre-Seed $250k–$3.3M; Series A $1.1M–$21M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Flood — Flood is a marketplace platforms that provides merchant solution, self services and big data solution.
  • Letly — Letly is developing an AI‑driven platform for the rental property market that automates tasks related to managing rental listings and tenant interactions. It aims to use intelligent agents to handle tasks such as scheduling viewings, responding to inquiries, and optimizing property management workflows. The platform is currently in a waitlistphase, signaling ongoing development and private access only.
  • Cutstruct — Cutstruct is your one source for bulk construction materials purchase. Get the best prices for cement, steel, granite, sharp sand wood, and more.
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Hi2 Venture Fund
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 3 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, Cryptocurrency
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria, Pakistan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 52
  • Round size: Seed $150k–$6.4M; Pre-Seed $150k–$2M; Series A $5.2M–$37M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • iPNOTE — The iPNOTE AI paralegal manages the entire IP registration workflow: answers attorney questions, reviews deliverables, summarizes documents, tracks deadlines, sends follow-ups to providers, monitors progress from filing to grant, and processes payments. Your team interacts with one intelligent agent that smoothly coordinates with patent attorneysworldwide - turning weeks of manual work into automated efficiency.
  • 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.
  • 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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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: Health Care, Retail, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 23
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$3M; Series A $11M–$20M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.5M–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 78% lead, 22% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $35M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Koolboks — Koolboks: solar-powered, financially accessible fridges with an integrated pay-as-you-go platform dedicated to making cooling accessible to all of Sub-Saharan Africa. Get a Koolboks refrigerator for as little as 25k Naira down payment today!
  • Sika — Sika Box offers a comprehensive solution for global payment processing, focusing on bridging the payment divide between global enterprises and emerging markets. Utilizing blockchain and modern technologies, Sika Box re-engineers the payment process from customer acquisition to settlement. The platform enables merchants to offer alternate and localpayment options, facilitating seamless transactions. With a unified payment infrastructure named STASH, Sika Box allows merchants to consolidate payments from across the globe through a single payment gateway integration, simplifying the global commerce landscape for businesses.
  • Yikodeen — Yikodeen is a well-known and established footwear manufacturing company.
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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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Verdant Capital
VC Fund · Port Louis, Port Louis, Mauritius · 3 investments in Africa Retail startups

Verdant Capital is a specialist corporate finance firm with exception experience transacting across the African continent. Verdant Capital operates in two segments, Financial Institutions and Corporate Finance. It operates from offices in Johannesburg, Mauritius and Accra.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Venture - Series Unknown, Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, South Africa, Ghana

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Debt Financing $2M–$30M; Venture - Series Unknown $3M–$13M
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $1.3M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • BFree — BFree focuses its collection processes on sustainably leading customers out of debt by giving them back control over their finances.
  • GoCab — GoCab is fintech solution providing Drive-to-own option for vehicle purchase in Emerging markets, helping to bridge the gap between mobility entrepreneurs and financial services.
  • 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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Raba Partnership
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 3 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: 59
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$6M; Pre-Seed $635k–$6.5M; Series A $10M–$32M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $60M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Thndr — Egypt's #1 investing platform by active users. Stocks, gold and mutual funds in one app, licensed and regulated by the FRA. Start with what you have.
  • Ezeebit — Ezeebit is a payment solutions provider that enables African merchants to accept cryptocurrency payments both in-store and online. The platform processes transactions quickly and automatically converts the cryptocurrency into stablecoins to eliminate volatility risk. Funds are then settled into the merchant's local currency account, typicallySouth African Rand (ZAR), on the next business day. The company offers multi-currency support for popular cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum and maintains compliance with financial regulatory bodies.
  • Letly — Letly is developing an AI‑driven platform for the rental property market that automates tasks related to managing rental listings and tenant interactions. It aims to use intelligent agents to handle tasks such as scheduling viewings, responding to inquiries, and optimizing property management workflows. The platform is currently in a waitlistphase, signaling ongoing development and private access only.
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Partech
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 3 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, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: France, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 694
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$8.8M; Series A $4.5M–$28M; Series B $9M–$56M
  • Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $345M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Modeinspect — acreom is the integrated markdown knowledge base with tasks. Your personal daily driver for your dev workflow.
  • TeamToolz — TeamToolz creates and implements user-friendly applications that simplify and streamline the creation, management and archiving of marketing communications. Addressing the urgency of time to market, our web-based tools better enable entire brand launches by coordinating the workflow of multiple outside agencies and internal groups, for moreintegrated worldwide brand management.
  • Revibe — Buy refurbished & used electronics (Smartphones, Laptops) in UAE at Revibe. Free delivery & 12 months warranty. Certified tech by our experts. Order Now!
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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: Apps, FinTech, Agriculture
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Morocco, Israel, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 30
  • Round size: Seed $278k–$3.6M; Pre-Seed $110k–$1.5M
  • Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% 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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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: Logistics, Information Technology, Retail
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, Morocco

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 25
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $50k–$1M
  • Lead/follow: 80% lead, 20% 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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Kepple Africa Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Africa Retail startups

Kepple Africa Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 85
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$4.5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3.4M; Series A $1.1M–$23M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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
  • 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.
  • TIBU Health — TIBU Health is a disruptive HealthTech logistics company that provides high-quality healthcare services.
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Chui Ventures
VC Fund · Delaware, Ohio, United States · 3 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: Retail, FinTech, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $250k–$5M; Pre-Seed $1M–$3M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $17M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • PaidHR — PaidHR works with organizations to streamline how they manage their staff. Our precisely created solutions enable them to create the ideal place to work.
  • Socium — Socium these are companies that recruit and offer real career opportunities to all those who share their values ​​and wish to invest in their development.
  • Tuteria — Get Home Tutoring Matched to Your Child's Needs. Prepare for IELTS, Common Entrance, IGCSE, GRE & JAMB. Book Lessons in 150+ Subjects Including Music, Coding & Languages.
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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: 21
  • Round size: Series A $10M–$12M; Series B $3.5M–$16M; Debt Financing $1.7M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% 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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CDG Invest
VC Fund · Rabat, Rabat-Sale-Zemmour-Zaer, Morocco · 2 investments in Africa Retail startups

CDG Invest is the investment branch of the CDG group. CDG Invest acts both as an investment manager for its own account following both financial and strategic logic, as well as as a fund manager for third parties. CDG Invest intervenes in various key sectors of the Moroccan economy: industry, agro-food, digital/digital, renewable energy, andterritorial PPP and with various segments of companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Apps, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Morocco, France, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 54
  • Round size: Seed $306k–$4M; Pre-Seed $200k–$330k; Series A $10M–$19M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Klaim — Klaim is an InsureTech platform offering a SaaS medical claim management and financing platform all in one. They provide them with total visibility on their revenue cycle, increase their revenue through reduced claim processing time and errors, and faster payments.
  • Yakeey — Yakeey is an end-to-end transactional marketplace that radically simplifies the experience of buying, selling and renting real estate.We leverage on data and technology to connect all real estate market players through a state of the art platform, create a chain of trust and powerful network effects and accelerate transactions.Yakeey is builton a community of real estate advisors, YakeeyPRO, to deliver a continuous professional and tailored service at every step of the transaction.
  • MYCOPHYTO — Co-created in July 2016 by Justine LIPUMA, PhD in microbiology, and Christine PONCET-DOISE, Senior Research Engineer at INRA, MYCOPHYTO is the result of 30 years of experimentation in biological crop protection.
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FJ Labs
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in Africa Retail startups

FJ Labs is a stage-agnostic investment firm that focuses on marketplaces and consumer facing startups.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Brazil, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1423
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$10M; Series A $5M–$30M; Series B $12M–$68M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $5.5M in 2016

Portfolio highlights

  • HUNTY — HUNTY is a platform that help people find jobs by connecting them with world class mentors who prepare them for the job search process. And people only pay when they get hired.
  • Lastro — Lastro is building Lais, an autonomous AI worker for real estate agencies, starting in Brazil. Our AI agent initially automated lead engagement and qualification via WhatsApp, helping brokerages boost revenue and improve marketing ROI. In each brokerage, Lais acts as a personalized AI “team member” that engages with leads instantly, searches forproperties and answers common inquiries. Brokerages that have Lais in their teams are growing quickly and reporting up to 60% increases in lead conversion rates.
  • Revelo — Scale your development team with the top 1% of 1,000,000+ software engineers in Latin America. Get matched with senior remote developers who have strong technical and English-speaking skills & hire them without the overhead. We handle payroll, taxes, and HR. Flat monthly rate.
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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

  • 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!
  • 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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Verod-Kepple Africa Ventures
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 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: Retail, Payments, B2B
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$8.5M; Series A $5M–$52M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $43M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Nawy — The ultimate real estate broker in Egypt. Browse areas, compounds, and properties by price, location, and amenities to find the perfect place.
  • 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
  • Tagaddod — Tagaddod is a renewable Energy and Waste Management Egyptian company, started in February 2013 and operating in Cairo –Egypt. Currently focusing on clean fuels, Tagaddod is working on Biodiesel production from Vegetable Oils. Biodiesel is a fuel alternative that is produced from waste vegetable oils and used in conventional diesel engines, whichcan directly substitute for or extend supplies of traditional petroleum diesel.
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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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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: E-Commerce, Beauty, Fashion
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United States, South Korea, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 22
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$8.1M; Pre-Seed $226k–$1.8M; Venture - Series Unknown $2M–$2.5M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $10M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Musely — Musely offers prescription skincare products for your unique needs. Our certified dermatologists will create a custom routine for you. Browse treatments today!
  • Maeva — Fill the nutrition gaps cause by rapid weight loss when you're on GLP-1
  • 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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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, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 170
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2.4M; Venture - Series Unknown $200k–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $14M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Cauridor — Cauridor is a Financial Services company.
  • WafR — WafR is a reward-based loyalty startup that allows users to earn phone recharges while shopping at retail shops.
  • Nucleon Security — Zero-Trust and ML-based Endpoint Detection and Response Platform #EDR #FDR #EndpointSecurity
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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: 106
  • Round size: Seed $30k–$1.3M; Angel $30k–$50k; Pre-Seed $50k–$1.1M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $15M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Growwr — Growwr is an AI-native workforce infrastructure platform building the operating system for global work.Its flagship product, Growwr AI, acts as an intelligent hiring agent that helps companies source, screen, evaluate, and hire talent through conversational workflows instead of manual recruiting processes. Companies can describe a role, definehiring priorities, and automatically receive ranked candidates based on verified skills, work history, and performance data.Beyond hiring, Growwr provides integrated global payment infrastructure that enables companies to pay talent across 180+ countries through cards, bank transfers, mobile money, and local payment rails.Because hiring, work, and payments happen inside one system, Growwr continuously generates verified workforce data around earnings, productivity, reliability, and work consistency. The company is leveraging this infrastructure to build workforce financial services including payroll, invoicing, credit scoring, and access to financial products for professionals in emerging markets.Growwr supports 90,000+ users across 15 countries, has processed over millions in payouts, and serves businesses across Africa, the UK, and the US.The company is building the AI and financial infrastructure layer powering the future of global work.
  • Paycrest — Decentralized routing protocol for instant, secure, zero-fee payments in emerging markets.
  • Cr3dentials — Cr3dentials provides a verification platform for digital earners, confirming income, reputation, and work history. The service links user accounts from marketplaces, creator networks, ecommerce systems, and crypto exchanges, including Upwork, YouTube, Shopify, and Binance. Aggregated data is transformed into verifiable credentials that captureearnings, activity, and tenure. These credentials are designed for sharing with platforms or institutions that need evidence of online work and revenue. The approach reduces manual document exchange and supports consistent proofs for digital workers. Offerings include account linking, data aggregation, and shareable verification profiles.
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Susa Ventures
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Africa Retail startups, 23 in the past 12 months

A seed-stage VC fund investing in founders building value & defensibility through data, network effects, & economies of scale.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 319
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$8.2M; Series A $6.9M–$30M; Series B $14M–$70M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $175M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Henry — Henry is a software company that develops AI-powered workflow automation tools for commercial real estate professionals. Its platform automates underwriting, market research, comparable property analysis, transaction tracking, buyer identification, and pitch deck creation. The platform also builds and maintains proprietary property and transactiondatabases, generates Excel-based underwriting models, and integrates with existing workflows to support investment sales, acquisitions, and brokerage teams throughout the deal process.
  • 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
  • Arkenstone Defense — Arkenstone Defense provides an operating infrastructure platform that integrates government contracting and regulatory compliance into a centralized system for commercial technology companies. The platform manages complex defense requirements, including cleared workforce payroll, personnel security, audit readiness, and technical accreditationframeworks like CMMC and FedRAMP. By embedding these back-office operational controls directly into client environments, the company eliminates the administrative barriers that prevent commercial innovators from selling to the federal market.
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Asymmetry Ventures
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Africa Retail startups

Asymmetry Ventures invests in scalable early-stage companies with exceptional defensibility.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, India, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 297
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$5M; Pre-Seed $125k–$2.4M; Series A $2M–$21M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Enlightra — Extreme-bandwidth data transmission enabled by light
  • Persist AI — Persist AI develops PLGA microspheres for long-acting injectable formulations 50% faster using automation and AI.
  • Coreshell Technologies — Battery Capacity Unlocked
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54 Collective
VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 2 investments in Africa Retail startups

Building and scaling African tech startups with catalytic capital, value-add support and our global network.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 111
  • Round size: Seed $40k–$4M; Pre-Seed $40k–$1.3M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • LipaLater — LipaLater is a lending marketplace that provides postpaid payments at e-commerce stores. They are making technology affordable for you. Get the electronic of your choice today and pay for it in comfortable monthly installments.
  • REasy — Top up locally, pay suppliers globally, and manage international shipments with REasy. Fast, secure, and designed for African businesses expanding worldwide.
  • Konnect — Konnect provides a cross borders payment solution intended to simplify complex financial flows allowing companies of any scale and size to send and receive payments in a practical, secure, and low-cost way.
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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, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 48
  • Round size: Series A $1.5M–$12M; Series B $2M–$26M; Venture - Series Unknown $200k–$1.8M
  • Lead/follow: 54% lead, 46% 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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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, FinTech
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: India, Kenya, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 129
  • Round size: Post-IPO Debt $5M–$468M; Debt Financing $6.7M–$390M; Venture - Series Unknown $1M–$1B
  • Lead/follow: 77% lead, 23% 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.
  • Harena Rare Earths — Harena Rare Earths is a mineral exploration company. It focuses on the Ampasindava Ionic Clay Rare Earths Project in Madagascar, which contains 606,000 tonnes of Total Rare Earth Oxides (TREO). The company explores and develops critical magnet metals like neodymium, praseodymium, dysprosium, and terbium for use in clean energy, electronics, anddefense sectors.
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International Finance Corporation
VC Fund · Washington, District of Columbia, United States · 2 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, Banking
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: India, Brazil, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 754
  • Round size: Post-IPO Debt $50M–$420M; Debt Financing $20M–$350M; Venture - Series Unknown $5M–$67M
  • Lead/follow: 63% lead, 37% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2016

Portfolio highlights

  • PSL — With a production capacity in excess of the 1 million ton mark, they are India’s largest producer/manufacturer of HSAW pipes - the line-pipe industry's preferred pipe.But their leadership in the pipe industry is not confined to the domestic market alone, though the market is huge and still growing - global recognition is reflected in thehuge orders already in hand from the US even before the commissioning of their 300,000 MT capacity plant in Missisipi not to mention the USD 45 million order of their pipe mills in Sharjah in the UAE.These facilities are backed by sound technology, state-of-the-art infrastructure, technical collaborations with leading Design & Engineering consultancies of Germany and Italy and most importantly, by a human resources pool that is amongst the best in the industry - ensuring that your project is completed on target, time after time.
  • Cube Highways Trust — Cube roadways Trust is utilizing the public-private partnership (PPP) model in the roadways sector to operate and manage highway projects in collaboration with the federal and state governments.
  • Fosun United Health Insurance — Fosun United Health Insurance provides a wide range of medical insurance, disease insurance, disability income loss insurance, nursing care insurance, and accident coverage. The company is dedicated to providing high-quality products throughout their lifecycle and developing a comprehensive service system to support them.
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Vumela Fund
VC Fund · Hyde Park, Newtownabbey, United Kingdom · 2 investments in Africa Retail startups

Vumela was established in 2009 by FNB Business Banking and Edge Growth. The objective was to create an innovative model for the development of a sustainable and a financially and operationally independent investment business which invests in high growth small, medium and micro size enterprises with good economic and impact returns.Vumela wascapitalised in 2010. Within the first four years, we’d invested R90 million into eight high growth SMEs, and created a total of 400 jobs. They launched their second fund in 2015, after a further investment of R100 million from FirstRand and R127 million from the Jobs Fund. Within the first year of launching this second fund, we’ve committed R43 million to five investments that are expected to create over 1800 new jobs.The first fund of its kind in South Africa, Vumela’s main goals are to invest in and develop entrepreneurial companies in order to help alleviate poverty in South Africa by creating jobs, and to generate a return for its beneficiaries: the Shalamuka Foundation and the FirstRand Group.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Education, Hospital, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Debt Financing
  • Geography: South Africa, Brazil

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 26
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$910k; Debt Financing $1.1M–$1.7M; Venture - Series Unknown $500k–$1M
  • Lead/follow: 81% lead, 19% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $20M in 2015

Portfolio highlights

  • Trade Shield — Trade Shield's aim is to increase access to trade credit facilities for those companies that most need them and will benefit the most from them.
  • Breaze Delivery — Optimize your last-mile delivery in SA. Breaze offers same-day delivery, easy Shopify/WooCommerce integration, and live WhatsApp tracking for your brand.
  • Iris Fresh Pty Ltd — Iris Fresh exports fresh produce from Southern Africa to international buyers.
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Western Technology Investment
VC Fund · Portola Valley, California, United States · 2 investments in Africa Retail startups

Since 1980, WTI has helped more than 1,300 companies across every innovation sector finance their growth while minimizing dilution.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 352
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$10M; Series A $3M–$21M; Venture - Series Unknown $2M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $375M in 2013

Portfolio highlights

  • Meta — At Meta, they work on landmark AI challenges that have the power to transform how scientific knowledge is experienced and consumed. Meta provides innovators throughout the scientific ecosystem with powerful views of the current and future trajectories of science and technology with the goal of making all scientific knowledge computable. Meta’smission is to unlock all of the world’s scientific and technical insights using artificial intelligence.
  • DASH Dog Food — DASH Dog Food provides subscription-based dog food focused on fresh slow-cooked meals and dry kibble made with humanely raised meats. The company offers frozen sous-vide style recipes using grass-fed beef, free-range organic chicken, and crate-free pork, combined with whole food ingredients and added vitamins and minerals. Its formulas aredeveloped by veterinary and nutritional experts to meet AAFCO standards for complete and balanced diets across life stages. Customers complete an online quiz to create custom meal plans based on their dog’s size, age, activity level, and dietary needs. Food is shipped directly to consumers in portioned pouches or bags on adjustable delivery schedules, and can be used as a full diet or mixed with existing food. DASH Dog Food also offers single-ingredient and freeze-dried meat treats as add-ons for training and enrichment.
  • Prosper Medical — Prosper Medical is a telemedicine platform that connects members with physicians for personalized healthcare services.
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Kaleo Ventures
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 2 investments in Africa Retail startups

Kaleo Ventures is an investment firm prefers to invest in early-stage companies across Africa.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 37
  • Round size: Seed $25k–$2.3M; Pre-Seed $119k–$1.1M; Series A $9.1M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Cuoral — Cuoral is an AI-native platform that helps businesses proactively detect and resolve customer issues before they escalate. We unify support, feedback, and engagement tools into one intelligent layer, transforming reactive customer service into a proactive growth engine. With real-time diagnostics, actionable insights, and automation, Cuoralempowers teams to deliver exceptional experiences at scale.
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  • PowerLabs — PowerLabs is an energy and climate technology research and implementation company whose goal is to use intelligent energy to build a world where human output is boundless.
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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, Cryptocurrency, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United States, South Africa, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 40
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$5.6M; Angel $125k–$500k
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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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DOB Equity
VC Fund · Veessen, Gelderland, The Netherlands · 2 investments in Africa Retail startups

DOB Equity is a private equity firm specializing in growth capital and buy-and-build strategies in small and medium companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Food and Beverage, Farming, Agriculture
  • Stage:Private Equity, Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 59
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$3.8M
  • Lead/follow: 63% lead, 37% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • MazaoHub — AI-first SaaS connecting soil, farmers, inputs, agronomy care, field operations, traceability and markets through real last-mile intelligence.
  • FarmWorks — FarmWorks is an agricultural technology company that gives farmers access to farm inputs as well as a market for the produce .FarmWork is to unlock agricultural potential by building clusters of mid-sized farms while working with thousands of small-holder farmers and establishing direct linkage to local and global markets.
  • Irrisol Engineering — Irrisol Engineering is an impact-driven social enterprise dedicated to providing affordable, socially inclusive, and environmentally sustainable water supply and irrigation systems for underserved rural communities.
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