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Top 10 Social Media VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Africa in May 2025

A list of 10 VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Social media startups based in Africa. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Social media companies from Africa. We update this investor list every month.

Top 10 Social Media VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Africa in May 2025

Investor Social Media Africa investments
Antler 2
54 Collective 2
Best Nights VC 1
Sherpa Africa Partners 1
RET Ventures 1
TLcom Capital Partners 1
Compass Venture Capital 1
Toyota Tsusho 1
Seed South Capital 1
YUYANG INVESTMENT CO., LTD. (Ma's Family) 1
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Antler VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 118 investments in the past 12 months
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • United Kingdom, Singapore, Australia
Portfolio highlights
  • GenPage — GenPage is a SaaS platform that supercharges outreach & account-based marketing (ABM) campaigns with personalized landing pages that captivate, engage, and close. We help our users create unique experiences at scale for every prospect with AI - and win more deals.
  • Lodgicl — Lodgicl streamlines the insurance supply chain to enhance the claims experience for policyholders, insurers, and partners.
  • FoodHealth — Your home for healthy eating made simple. Powered by a team of food lovers & Dietitians, we help you find the right food for your body. And then we deliver that food directly to your doorstep!
54 Collective VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 5 investments in the past 12 months
Building and scaling African tech startups with catalytic capital, value-add support and our global network.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa
Portfolio highlights
  • Billboxx — Enabling businesses pay and get paid twice as fast
  • Yeah — Yeah is a financial technology company that offers payment processing services while building a credit profile for the banked and unbanked.
  • 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.
Best Nights VC VC Fund · Wolfenbüttel, Niedersachsen, Germany · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Best Nights VC is the Venture Capital Investment Unit of Mast-Jägermeister SE. Teaming up with those who shape the future of nightlife today and tomorrow, BNVC’s mission is to partner with passionate, diverse entrepreneurs that challenge conventional ideas of live entertainment – creating joyful and meaningful interactions in a free and alwayschanging environment.
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Investment focus
  • Mobile, Apps, Dating
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • United States, United Kingdom, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
  • Plots — A social media app for live experiences.
  • Lex — Lex is a lo-fi, text-based social app for womxn, trans, genderqueer, intersex, two spirit, and non-binary people for meeting lovers and friends. Lex—short for lexicon—is the only social app where the text comes first and the selfies, second.
  • Hustle Sasa — Hustle Sasa is a mobile-first platform that allows entrepreneurs to start and develop businesses, both online and offline. They enable businesses to build and manage storefronts, integrate with third-party payment providers, and manage orders across various channels.
Sherpa Africa Partners VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya
A venture fund for pre-seed startups in Africa, led by Startup Operators, backed by Startup Operators.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
  • Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa
Portfolio highlights
  • Novek — Novek builds IOT technology to completely eliminate single use plastic from FMCG Supply chains.
  • CashBackApp — An App that offers you Cash Discounts on a wide range of household essentials available at local supermarkets in Kenya.
  • Jackfruit Finance — Jackfruit Finance provides money, technology, and rewards to enable low-cost African schools to expand access to education.
RET Ventures VC Fund · Park City, Utah, United States · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Real Estate Technology Ventures (RET Ventures) is the first industry-backed seed-stage venture fund focused on building innovative real estate technology companies with a focus on the multifamily and single-family rental industries. The Firm connects the smartest rent tech solutions with its strategic LP base which includes the large network ofrental units in North America. RET Ventures works with high-quality entrepreneurs to scale their businesses by leveraging the knowledge and expertise of its team and limited partners, who own close to one million units. In turn, these owners receive early access and insight into effective technology solutions.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Real Estate, Property Management
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Revyse — Revyse helps the multifamily real estate industry discover, buy, and manage the best software and services. Revyse Vendor Intelligence assists multifamily operators throughout the entire lifecycle–from initial vendor selection to contract renewal, helping property management companies visualize vendors, contracts, and spend throughout the residentlifecycle.
  • Parity — Parity remotely controls and optimizes HVAC systems 24/7/365 to deliver automatic energy savings and revenue to multifamily residential buildings and hotels.
  • SuiteSpot — SuiteSpot is an AI-powered multifamily centralization software that improves ROI by optimizing team productivity, protecting assets, and elevating the resident experience.
TLcom Capital Partners VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Software, Mobile, Information Technology
  • Series A, Funding Round, Seed
  • Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom
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.
  • Educatly — We help you get into the University of your dreams. We are the only platform with all the information you need to Study Abroad
  • littlefishapp — Littlefish is a comprehensive commerce platform that empowers banks to serve small business with tools to streamline operations, drive growth, and enhance customer engagement.
Compass Venture Capital VC Fund · Moka, Moka, Mauritius
Compass is a venture capital fund. We invest in start-ups with scalable business models and strong growth potential. We work with companies based in Mauritius, the Indian Ocean region and the African continent. Compass is wholly owned by and benefits from support from the ENL Group, one of Mauritius’ largest business conglomerates. Alongside theTurbine, our sister organisation and the region’s leading incubator and start-up accelerator, Compass is working to create a vibrant, sustainable start-up ecosystem in Mauritius and the Indian Ocean.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Financial Services, Big Data
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Mauritius, India, France
Portfolio highlights
  • Omnisient — Privacy-Preserving Data Collaboration platform enabling businesses to collaborate while ensuring consumer privacy and data protection.
  • FCB.ai — Boost business success with proven AI chatbot solutions. Enhance sales figures, customer satisfaction, improve premium collections & more.
  • Shortlist — Shortlist works in India and East Africa to help growing enterprises hire based on skills and potential, rather than pedigree. The Shortlist platform screens candidates using predictive chat-based interviews and online competency-based assessments, letting employers skips the most time-consuming and bias-prone phases of hiring.
Toyota Tsusho VC Fund · Nagoya, Aichi, Japan · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Toyota Tsusho is the trading arm of the Toyota Group. It enriches society by creating value by the company as Metals; Global Production Parts; Logistics; Automotive; Machinery; Energy; Project; Chemicals; Electronics; Food and Agribusiness; Consumer Products and Services;.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Manufacturing, Automotive
  • Funding Round, Series A, Series B
  • Japan, United States, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
  • PXP — PXP is a green tech development firm that develops clean energy using next-generation photoelectric conversion elements.
  • PowerX — PowerX strives to build a sustainable energy ecosystem to drive the world's transition to a decarbonized future.
  • Electra — Electra is decarbonizing ironmaking for green steel production using intermittent renewable energy and low-grade iron ores.
Seed South Capital VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa
Seed South Capital invest in early-stage companies, transforming these into B-BBEE compliant business enterprises, forging a new class of youthful entrepreneurs.
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Investment focus
  • Sports, Content, Social Media
  • Seed
  • South Africa
Portfolio highlights
  • myFanPark — myFanPark is a South African celebrity engagement platform, to share videos.
YUYANG INVESTMENT CO., LTD. (Ma's Family) VC Fund · Taipei, T'ai-pei, Taiwan
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Finance, Internet
  • Pre-Seed
  • Mauritius
Portfolio highlights
  • 101 financial.app — 101financial.app membantu investor pemula memasuki pasar keuangan dengan teknologi pemrograman yang terbaik dan berbagai fitur sosial. Semua pengguna dapat dengan cepat menjelajahi beragam saham, mata uang Kripto, dan menerapkan perdagangan margin untuk mencapai tujuan keuangan dengan modal kecil.
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