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Top 50 Retail VC Funds & Investors in Africa (June 2026)

The most active venture capital funds 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
Reflect Ventures
VC Fund
4 Pakistan, United States, Nigeria Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Logistics, Information Technology, E-Commerce $120k–$37M
Future Africa
VC Fund
4 Nigeria, United States, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology $100k–$20M
Aruwa Capital
VC Fund
3 Nigeria, United States, France Seed, Series A Retail, FinTech, Big Data $100k–$20M
GreenTec Capital Partners
VC Fund
3 Kenya, Nigeria, Morocco Seed, Pre-Seed Information Technology, Retail, Computer $50k–$1M
Flourish Ventures
VC Fund
3 United States, India, Brazil Series A, Seed, Series B FinTech, Financial Services, Finance $2M–$65M
Chandaria Capital
VC Fund
3 Kenya, United States, Nigeria Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, Retail, FinTech $250k–$37M
Musha Ventures
VC Fund
3 United States, Nigeria, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Financial Services, FinTech $125k–$10M
International Finance Corporation
VC Fund
3 India, Brazil, United States Debt Financing, Series B Financial Services, Finance, FinTech $6M–$333M
UM6P Ventures
VC Fund
3 Morocco, Israel, United States Seed, Pre-Seed Agriculture, Apps, Retail $110k–$4M
SOSV
VC Fund
3 United States, India, United Kingdom Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
Orange Ventures
VC Fund
3 France, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series B, Series A Software, FinTech, Information Technology $600k–$33M
Acumen
VC Fund
2 United States, India, Kenya Seed, Series A Agriculture, Health Care, Financial Services $300k–$13M
Good Soil VC
VC Fund
2 Ghana, United Kingdom, Rwanda Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Retail $35k–$940k
Goodwell Investments
VC Fund
2 Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya Series A, Series B FinTech, Financial Services, Banking $1.6M–$26M
Hi2 Venture Fund
VC Fund
2 United States, Nigeria, Pakistan Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Software $150k–$37M
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
U.S. International Development Finance Corp
VC Fund
2 India, United States, Kenya Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt Financial Services, Finance, Banking $5M–$500M
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
Raba Partnership
VC Fund
2 United States, South Africa, Egypt Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Finance $635k–$32M
Flying Doctors Nigeria
VC Fund
2 Nigeria Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Health Care, Retail, Medical $225k–$1.5M
Creadev
VC Fund
2 France, United States, Kenya Series B, Series C Agriculture, Health Care, Food and Beverage $5.5M–$55M
WIC Capital
VC Fund
2 Senegal Seed Retail, B2B, Nutrition $450k–$700k
StartUp Health
VC Fund
2 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Health Care, Wellness, Medical $20k–$4M
Consonance Investment Managers
VC Fund
2 Nigeria, United States, Kenya Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, FinTech $50k–$10M
Samata Capital
VC Fund
2 Kenya, Nigeria Seed, Series A Beauty, Retail, Consumer $1M–$1.4M
First circle capital
VC Fund
2 Nigeria, Egypt, United States Pre-Seed, Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Finance $100k–$4M
igniteXL Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, South Korea, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed Beauty, Fashion, Software $226k–$8.1M
Microtraction
VC Fund
2 Nigeria, United States, Ghana Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel Financial Services, FinTech, Software $25k–$1.3M
Kepple Africa Ventures
VC Fund
2 Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt Seed, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Software $300k–$4.5M
Partech
VC Fund
2 United States, France, Germany Series A, Seed, Series B Software, E-Commerce, SaaS $1.1M–$55M
Unseen Capital
VC Fund
2 United States, Nigeria Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B Health Care, Medical, Wellness $225k–$5M
Antler
VC Fund
2 Singapore, Australia, United Kingdom Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $101k–$29M
AfricInvest
VC Fund
2 Tunisia, Kenya, Morocco Private Equity, Series A Financial Services, Manufacturing, FinTech
Haskè Ventures
VC Fund
1 Senegal Seed, Pre-Seed B2B, Retail, Banking
Beyond Capital Ventures
VC Fund
1 Kenya, India, Ghana Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Retail, Health Care
Actions Capital (fka K50 Ventures)
VC Fund
1 United States, Colombia, Brazil Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Health Care, Software, FinTech $300k–$22M
Loyal VC
VC Fund
1 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Pre-Seed, Seed Artificial Intelligence, Software, E-Commerce $78k–$3.1M
Pipeline Angels
VC Fund
1 United States, Nigeria Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Health Care, Education, Software $25k–$3M
FMO
VC Fund
1 India, Kenya, The Netherlands Debt Financing, Series B Financial Services, Finance, Renewable Energy $1.7M–$159M
Wefunder
VC Fund
1 United States, Kenya, France Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding Software, SaaS, E-Commerce $51k–$2.7M
SVG Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, Canada, Ireland Pre-Seed, Seed AgTech, Agriculture, Farming $50k–$4.7M
Soma Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, India, Mexico Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech $200k–$40M
Atacama Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, Nigeria Seed, Series A Retail, Fashion, FinTech $125k–$18M
Vumela Fund
VC Fund
1 South Africa, Brazil Seed, Debt Financing Education, Software, E-Commerce $600k–$1.4M
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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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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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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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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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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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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: 185
  • 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.
  • SalarySe — SalarySe offers Credit-on-UPI platform exclusively for Salaried Employees.
  • 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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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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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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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: 465
  • Round size: Series B $6M–$45M; Debt Financing $20M–$333M
  • Lead/follow: 58% lead, 42% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Moglix — Moglix is India's leading online store for industrial tools and equipment. Shop now for latest range of industrial products including safety shoes, power tools and more. Free shipping & COD available.
  • Banco Agricola — Banco Agricola is a Financial services provider. They work in: -Digital: channels, products and services with digital access.
  • iBus Networks & Infrastructure — IBus Network was founded in 2013, born of a vision to connect people, places and things by providing next generation in-building solutions to deliver high quality, secure connectivity & provide first party hyper–local data intelligence.With a proven business model and scalability with profitability since inception, we have maintained aconsistent growth, with a customer base 24 sites of 10 M. sq.ft. and a user base of 100,000. We focus on large scale impact connectivity technologies and are also well entrenched in the ecosystem to provide passive ‘Distributed Antenna System’ (DAS) solutions.We operate under a unique business model that is defined by service and revenue partnership with leading builders, top 3 hospitality operators and leading property management firms. While our hands-on technology expertise helps us solve complex multi-dimensional problems, it is our speed and flawless execution that has won us several leading Telcos as strategic clients.
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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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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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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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Investment focus

  • 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

  • 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.
  • LAMMA — Lamma is a web and mobile platform reinventing urban movement for package delivery through an extended carpooling network.
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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: 162
  • Round size: Seed $300k–$4.2M; 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

  • AgroEknor — AgroEknor provides agricultural research, integration, technology based optimization & global delivery of the agro superfoods.
  • 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.
  • RDG Africa — Empowering the Future, one solar system at a time
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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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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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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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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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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: 91
  • Round size: Post-IPO Debt $33M–$500M; Debt Financing $5M–$410M
  • 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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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

  • 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
  • Root — Launch digital and embedded insurance solutions with omni-channel distribution.
  • Traction Apps — Traction apps provide businesses end to end tools they need to run and grow their businesses.
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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: 55
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$6M; Pre-Seed $635k–$6.5M; Series A $9.2M–$32M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% 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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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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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: Agriculture, Health Care, Food and Beverage
  • Stage:Series B, Series C
  • Geography: France, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 44
  • Round size: Series B $5.5M–$34M; Series C $10M–$55M
  • Lead/follow: 61% lead, 39% 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.
  • The Jackfruit Company — The Jackfruit Company (TJC) is the producing convenient, whole food, plant-based products.
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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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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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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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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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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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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: 17
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$8.1M; Pre-Seed $226k–$1.3M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% 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.
  • Lion Pose — Daily Skincare Products for People of Color
  • 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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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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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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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: 523
  • 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.
  • Digitail — Grow your practice, offer a modern client experience, and automate routine practice tasks with the proven all-in-one veterinary software.
  • 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.
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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, Medical, Wellness
  • 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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Antler
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 2 investments in Africa Retail startups

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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: 1090
  • Round size: Seed $371k–$5.8M; Pre-Seed $101k–$1.1M; Series A $4.6M–$29M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $72M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • not8 — not8 is a SaaS platform that helps digital agencies and IT companies save those hours and increase employee productivity by up to 15% by moving all the conversations "inside the product".
  • Peckish — Enabling sustainable growth for F&B business by automating inventory management and optimising the supply chain
  • Cloud Cycle — Globally we produce over 10 billion tons of concrete each year, its the second most consumed material on the planet behind wate and is responsible for upto 10% of global CO2 emissions. Around 5% of all concrete produced goes to waste, this waste in the UK alone costs around £400 million.Cloud Cycle has developed an on-truck device and sensorarray which feeds our cloud platform to ensure concrete meets specification & prevents waste. Even when surplus does still occur, our marketplace for the local on-sale of surplus concrete will find a buyer. We aim to save industry billions whilst reducing global CO2 by 1%.We are using advanced technology & the circular economy to transform the concrete industry.
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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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Haskè Ventures
VC Fund · Dakar, Dakar, Senegal · 1 investments in Africa Retail startups

Haskè Ventures is a venture builder based in Dakar and focused on transforming the startup landscape.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: B2B, Retail, Banking
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Senegal

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Kwely — An African Wholesale Marketplace, promoting the richness, authenticity and quality of Made in Africa products by making them accessible to the world.
  • ProXalys — ProXalys is an african digital bank or neobank for the financial inclusion and empowerment of african women (entrepreneurs and self-employed entrepreneurs, startups, SMEs, and startups).
  • ProXalys — ProXalys is an online marketplace for agricultural products, offering assured payments and deferred payment options for merchants.
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Beyond Capital Ventures
VC Fund · 1 investments in Africa Retail startups

Beyond Capital Ventures is a venture capital firm, offering a diversified portfolio of companies in "need-to-have" sectors, led by conscious leaders.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Retail, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Kenya, India, Ghana

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Fasal — Fasal offers smart irrigation automation and fertigation automation system, soil moisture & temperature sensors, weather stations for precision irrigation
  • 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.
  • Lapaire — Get the best affordable eyeglasses in Africa with Lapaire. Book your free vision test today at our locations across Benin, Ivory Coast, Togo, Burkina Faso, Mali, Kenya & Uganda. Quality glasses, professional optometrists, unbeatable prices.
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Actions Capital (fka K50 Ventures)
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Africa Retail startups

Actions Capital is a seasoned pre-seed venture capital firm, that works alongside founders from Day 0.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Software, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Colombia, Brazil

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 165
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$6.1M; Pre-Seed $300k–$6.4M; Series A $5.7M–$22M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Arvo — Arvo is a healthcare technology startup that uses artificial intelligence to secure the integrity of healthcare transactions.
  • Eezee — Singapore’s first & largest industrial marketplace that connects local suppliers to corporate clients, leveraging technology to help both parties make informed decisions.The company offers a secure platform for buyers and sellers to transact.Our aim is to improve the efficiency of business to business (B2B) transactions. We do this byensuring that the process of selecting and purchasing your supplies becomes quicker, more convenient and transparent. We support local suppliers in establishing their presence online, enabling them to be discovered by corporate organisations.
  • Petal Surgical — Petal is a surgical technology company pioneering incisionless surgery through Acoustic Sculpting, a proprietary form of boiling histotripsy. Our platform uses focused sound waves to precisely destroy harmful tissue without cuts, heat, or toxicity offering gentler alternative to traditional surgery.
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Loyal VC
VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 1 investments in Africa Retail startups

Loyal runs a global venture fund with quarterly redemptions and a proprietary gate-stage process, reducing investment bias and unlocking greater returns. Partnered with INSEAD, Founder Institute, and 500+ advisors, we are Loyal to the world with 250+ investments in 50+ countries.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 146
  • Round size: Seed $78k–$3.1M; Pre-Seed $110k–$1M
  • Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Peerby Classic — Borrow and rent goods from others nearby - affordable, convenient and green. Tools, bikes, party equipment, electronics and more. Try it now.
  • Zobi — Zobi’s not just Artificial Intelligence, it’s Home Intelligence. Our smart, brand-agnostic solutions take a holistic view of homes - people, devices, networks, habits. They build an anonymous profile for each home, then use that intel to spot unusual behaviour and stop cybercriminals.
  • Finverity — Finverity provides technology, working capital and expertise to give banks, NBFIs, financiers and companies a strategic advantage in supply chain finance
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Pipeline Angels
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Africa Retail startups

Pipeline Angels is changing the face of angel investing and creating capital for women and non-binary femme social entrepreneurs. Our members serve as the friends and family round for entrepreneurs who may not already have support at that critical stage.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Education, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 107
  • Round size: Seed $60k–$3M; Angel $25k–$1.6M; Pre-Seed $235k–$1.1M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Mahmee — Mahmee is an integrated care delivery platform for maternal and infant health. Our team is building the digital infrastructure needed to connect patients, independent health professionals, and enterprise healthcare organizations together to ensure that moms and babies do not fall through the cracks of the U.S. healthcare system, which has thehighest maternity costs and mortality rates of all developed nations. Mahmee increases access to comprehensive care prenatal and postpartum care and reduces severe disparities in mortality and morbidity for Black mothers and infants. We power digital maternity initiatives for some of the largest public and private health systems in the country by connecting those enterprises to community-based perinatal health providers who use Mahmee EHR SaaS to manage their practices. Mahmee's marketplace helps new and expecting parents discover those providers and get fast access to care, in-person and virtually.
  • CarpeDM — CarpeDM app is an exclusive member-only dating community created for singles seeking meaningful relationships with professional Black women.
  • Givepact — Donate crypto or cash to the causes that matter. Givepact is a crypto fundraising platform for nonprofits.
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FMO
VC Fund · The Hague, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands · 1 investments in Africa Retail startups

FMO is a financial investment firm that specializes in financing businesses and projects FMO invests across the agribusiness value chain to enhance food security, support sustainability and promoting inclusive development.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Finance, Renewable Energy
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Series B
  • Geography: India, Kenya, The Netherlands

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 145
  • Round size: Series B $4.5M–$41M; Debt Financing $1.7M–$159M
  • Lead/follow: 51% lead, 49% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • Ecofy — Ecofy is a green-only NBFC in India, offering financial solutions for eco-friendly initiatives, including loans, leases, and insurance.
  • Ace International — ACE International manufactures and distributes dairy powders, milk proteins, and other food grade components.
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Wefunder
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Africa Retail startups

Wefunder is a crowd investing platform that offers capital raising services. The company's online platform offers investment services to startups through its investors' userbase and disruptive companies can receive amount as small as hundred dollars, enabling companies to grow and develop their businesses.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
  • Geography: United States, Kenya, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 84
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$2.7M; Pre-Seed $89k–$1M; Equity Crowdfunding $51k–$1M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $25k in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Kombuchery — Establish the leading health and lifestyle brand in the beverage industry. We aim to establish a socially-responsible, healthier, and more affordable alternative to conventional beverages in the market, while disrupting the traditional beverage value chain by leveraging direct-to-consumer subscription and digital marketing channels.
  • Trace
  • Firesale — Firesale is an AI-powered resale marketplace built for people with too much stuff and zero time. Sellers record a 2-second video, and Firesale’s AI instantly generates the title, description, photos, and price. No typing, no pricing games, no endless messages — just tap, record, and sell. Designed to feel like a digital yard sale, Firesale makes iteffortless to turn clutter into cash locally, with Uber-powered pickup and delivery options.
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SVG Ventures
VC Fund · Los Gatos, California, United States · 1 investments in Africa Retail startups

We are a Venture & Innovation Platform Advancing the Food & Agriculture Industries We work with leading corporations, startups, universities, and growers to solve the biggest challenges facing the food and agriculture industries.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: AgTech, Agriculture, Farming
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 125
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$4.7M; Pre-Seed $50k–$100k
  • Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Mycro Harvest
  • Cellar Insights — Maximize the value of your potato crop with smart remote monitoring. Monitor storage conditions and prevent crop loss with Cellar Insights.
  • Clean Valley Bio-filtration Technologies — Clean Valley Bio-filtration Technologies CIC builds sustainable aquaculture technology to create the future of seafood production.
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Soma Capital
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Africa Retail startups

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, India, Mexico

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 515
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$7.6M; Pre-Seed $200k–$4M; Series A $7.5M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Metaspectral — Compression.ai is an information technology company that specializes in the fields of machine learning and web services. The company has developed encoding and decoding capability for images using machine learning, which achieves on-average about 95% compression rates of a raw image without significantly losing its quality.
  • Lenk — Lenk powers the process mortgage origination in Latin America
  • Cambium — Saving wood to save the planet. By revolutionizing supply chains, we introduce the world's first carbon smart material.
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Atacama Ventures
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Africa Retail startups

We are an early stage venture fund supporting big ideas, future brands, and the next generation of fund managers. We like Big Thinkers. Founders who have the dreams and courage to believe that high risk equals high reward.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Retail, Fashion, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $125k–$6.2M; Series A $10M–$18M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Suplias — Suplias is an application that connects retail outlets to consumer goods manufacturers. The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Opebi, Lagos.
  • Syrup Tech — Syrup helps you plan, buy, and allocate with confidence. Use pinpoint-accurate demand signals and intelligent optimization recommendations, all powered by AI, to increase margins while growing your brand.
  • Sika Health — Sika Health provides payment solutions for the healthcare sector. It enables users to integrate health wallets via tools. Users can use health wallets for expenses such as medical bills, dental, medicines, and more. The company was founded in 2021 and is based in New York, New York.
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Vumela Fund
VC Fund · Hyde Park, Newtownabbey, United Kingdom · 1 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, Software, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Debt Financing
  • Geography: South Africa, Brazil

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$822k; Debt Financing $854k–$1.4M
  • Lead/follow: 80% lead, 20% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $14M in 2015

Portfolio highlights

  • Rentoza — We champion giving you access, affordability and flexibility to explore tech on your own terms
  • Mia Healthcare
  • ProfitShare Partners — Business funding solutions with ProfitShare Partners. We specialise in Short Term Asset Finance to help empower SMEs.
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