Top 5 Social Startup Investors in Africa in April 2025
A list of 5 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Social startups based in Africa. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Social companies from Africa. We update this investor list every month.Top 5 Social Startup Investors in Africa in April 2025
Investor | Social Africa investments |
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Launch Africa | 1 |
British International Investment | 1 |
African Development Bank | 1 |
Foreign & Commonwealth Office - UK | 1 |
LoftyInc Capital | 1 |
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
- Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Affinity — Affinity is a financial solutions company that provides financial inclusion, advisory, and literacy services.
- ToumAI Analytics — ToumAI Analytics is a software development company providing voice analytics, real-time analytics, and reporting services.
- PBR Life Sciences — A cloud-based real-world, non-observational pharmacy sell-out data
British International Investment is the UK's development finance institution. We've been at the forefront of supporting companies in developing countries for more than 70 years.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Banking, FinTech
- Funding Round, Debt Financing, Series B
- India, Kenya, Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- Fasal — Fasal, an agri-tech platform, developed by Wolkus Technology Solutions, is an AI-powered platform for the Agriculture ecosystem that records a variety of growing conditions on the farm. It then uses artificial intelligence and data science to make on-farm predictions, before delivering the insights anywhere on any device including (iOS, Android,Tablet, and web).Its data-driven precision agriculture solution recommends real-time agronomic solutions to growers using on-farm and micro-climate data collected through agnostic sensors that helps farmers with cost savings in terms of water, energy, fertilizers, and pesticides.
- TymeBank — TymeBank is a subsidiary of the Tyme Group, which focuses on financial technology and banking solutions. TymeBank focuses on providing accessible financial services to the lower-income market. It emphasizes digital banking and minimal fees. Customers can open secure personal and business accounts online, benefiting from low banking charges and highsavings interest rates through their digital platform.
- ACWA Power — ACWA Power is a developer, investor, co-owner and operator of a portfolio of power generation, renewable energy and desalinated water production plants.
African Development Bank operates as a multilateral development finance institution in Africa. It finances development projects and programs in cooperation with other national and international development institutions; offers technical assistance in the selection, study, and preparation of projects; and promotes investments of public and privatecapital in projects and programs designed to contribute to the economic and social progress of the regional member states. The company also provides sovereign-guaranteed loans for the public sector and non-sovereign-guaranteed loans for the public and private sectors; lines of credit for trade finance; agency lines; guarantees such as partial credit and risk guarantees; equity and quasi-equity trade finance; and risk management products comprising interest rate swaps, currency swaps, commodity swaps, interest rate caps, and collars. In addition, it offers trade finance services consisting of risk participation agreements, trade finance lines of credit, and soft commodity finance facilities as well as technical assistance. African Development Bank was founded in 1964 and is headquartered in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Banking, Finance
- Debt Financing, Grant, Funding Round
- Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa
Portfolio highlights
- ACWA Power — ACWA Power is a developer, investor, co-owner and operator of a portfolio of power generation, renewable energy and desalinated water production plants.
- Dhamana Guarantee — An East African focused credit guarantee company whose principal business is to guarantee local currency debt obligations in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Rwanda.
- Institut Pasteur de Dakar — The Institut Pasteur de Dakar Foundation (IPD) is a non-profit association of public utility, concerned with promoting public health and well-being in West Africa. Since its founding in 1896 by one of Louis PASTEUR's disciples, Émile Marcoux, the IPD has been at the forefront of the fight against infectious diseases. Since 2009, the InstitutPasteur de Dakar has been a Senegalese foundation, jointly managed by the government of Senegal and the Institut Pasteur (Paris).
Foreign & Commonwealth Office is a government organization that provides tourists and travellers with travel alerts, tips, and advice. It promotes the United Kingdom's interests overseas supporting its citizens and businesses around the globe.Foreign & Commonwealth Office has a worldwide network of embassies and consulates thatemploys over 14,000 people in nearly 270 diplomatic offices. It works with international organizations to promote British interests and global security, including the EU, NATO, Foreign & Commonwealth Office was founded on January 1, 1936 and is based in London, United Kingdom.
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Investment focus
- Medical, Logistics, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Kenya, Mauritius, South Africa
Portfolio highlights
- Ziada — Ziada is a mobile application that connects you to service providers near you and vice versa. Download Ziada today from the Google Playstore to start experiencing convenience.
- HealthDart — Consult with a doctor, nurse or pharmacist, order medicines or get health advice - at a price you can afford
- Raino Tech4Impact — Raino Tech4Impact is a social enterprise that leverages technology as an enabler to empower African communities. We have been deploying technology-driven solutions in agriculture and health, powered by renewable energy to achieve sustainability.
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
- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Nigeria, United States, Egypt
Portfolio highlights
- Mtor — Mtor is an online marketplace that is reshaping the automotive aftermarket and provides sophisticated technology solutions.
- EMTECH — EMTECH provides solutions for Digital Currency regulatory compliance, development and management to help Central Banks and FinTechs build, run and manage modern financial systems.
- Terragon Group — Terragon is a leading Data and Marketing Technology company that uses data and analytics to help companies focused in Africa, intelligently connect at scale to their customers. We use an aggregation of online and offline data, and predictive scoring to help brands, marketing agencies and platforms accurately target people across channels anddevices. Headquartered in Lagos; Nigeria, we also have a presence in Kenya, South Africa, Ghana and India.
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