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Top 10 Social Media VC Funds & Investors in Africa (June 2026)

The most active venture capital funds investing in Africa Social Media startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Africa Social Media startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
54 Collective
VC Fund
2 Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa Seed, Pre-Seed Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech $40k–$4M
Antler
VC Fund
2 Singapore, Australia, United Kingdom Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $104k–$29M
RET Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, Canada, Nigeria Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Real Estate, Property Management $1M–$37M
Toyota Tsusho
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States, Kenya Corporate Round, Series A Software, Manufacturing, Automotive $1.4M–$6.7B
Best Nights VC
VC Fund
1 United States, United Kingdom, Kenya Seed, Series A Mobile, Apps, Dating $2.2M–$8.5M
TLcom Capital Partners
VC Fund
1 Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Seed Software, Mobile, Information Technology $1.9M–$13M
Sherpa Africa Partners
VC Fund
1 Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa Pre-Seed, Seed Financial Services, Finance, FinTech $50k–$6M
YUYANG INVESTMENT CO., LTD. (Ma's Family)
VC Fund
1 Mauritius Pre-Seed FinTech, Finance, Internet
Compass Venture Capital
VC Fund
1 Mauritius, India, France Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, Information Technology, Big Data $30k–$2M
Seed South Capital
VC Fund
1 South Africa Seed Sports, Content, Social Media
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54 Collective
VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 2 investments in Africa Social Media startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 107
  • Round size: Seed $40k–$4M; Pre-Seed $40k–$1.3M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • mTek — mTek is a digital online insurance platform that provides an entirely paperless ecosystem for the insurance industry.
  • REasy — Top up locally, pay suppliers globally, and manage international shipments with REasy. Fast, secure, and designed for African businesses expanding worldwide.
  • Konnect — Konnect provides a cross borders payment solution intended to simplify complex financial flows allowing companies of any scale and size to send and receive payments in a practical, secure, and low-cost way.
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Antler
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 2 investments in Africa Social Media startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1197
  • Round size: Seed $196k–$5.8M; Pre-Seed $104k–$1.1M; Series A $4.6M–$29M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $72M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Sapyen — We take the fear out of infertility for men. Test for it at home, without stepping out to the hospital and get personalised health recommendations to improve sperm health and increase your chances of conceiving.
  • RubiLabs — RubiLabs Inc provides a platform for unifying, monitoring, and analyzing organizational data. RubiLabs software enables analysts and operators across risk, compliance, and security teams to collaborate and interpret large volumes of information in real time. The company’s platform is designed to help institutions make sense of complex, fragmenteddata by transforming it into a coherent operational picture for risk detection, continuous monitoring, and investigative workflows.
  • One Key Access — One Key Access is an interface to the world of couriers to enable 24/7 frictionless deliveries.
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RET Ventures
VC Fund · Park City, Utah, United States · 1 investments in Africa Social Media startups

Smarter Partners Drive Better Tech. Our Strategic Investors comprise the largest group of multifamily and single-family rental owner/operators ever amassed

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Real Estate, Property Management
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 64
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$9.2M; Series A $3M–$26M; Series B $10M–$37M
  • Lead/follow: 69% lead, 31% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Travtus — Automate property management with Adam. He is the leading digital employee for the Multifamily housing industry. Trusted by top NMHC50 managers and owners.
  • Parity — Parity remotely controls and optimizes HVAC systems 24/7/365 to deliver automatic energy savings and revenue to multifamily residential buildings and hotels.
  • Fitwel — The Center for Active Design is the leading non-profit organization using design to foster healthy and engaged communities.
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Toyota Tsusho
VC Fund · Nagoya, Aichi, Japan · 1 investments in Africa Social Media startups

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

  • Industry: Software, Manufacturing, Automotive
  • Stage:Corporate Round, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 45
  • Round size: Series A $7.5M–$340M; Corporate Round $1.4M–$6.7B
  • Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • HIGHRESO — GPUSOROBAN is a GPU cloud service that enables anyone to perform high-speed calculations on high-end GPUs with ease. Hi-Res, the running business, is the first GPU cloud operator in Japan to be accredited as a "NVIDIA Elite Partner," the program's highest level (CSP Compute field). Furthermore, it received the "Best CSP Partnerof the Year" award at the NVIDIA NPN Partner Award 2022. It is widely used by university research institutes, large corporations, and AI venture firms, with over 100 uses per year.
  • TradeWaltz — TradeWaltz is an information platform that maintains the integrity of electronic trade documents.
  • Yuantian Bio — Yuantian Bio is a biotechnology company specializing in enzymatic regeneration and commercial plastic PET applications. They have achieved low-cost fermentation preparation of over 10 enzyme preparations and large-scale biochemical product preparation.
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Best Nights VC
VC Fund · Wolfenbüttel, Niedersachsen, Germany · 1 investments in Africa Social Media startups

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

  • Industry: Mobile, Apps, Dating
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Round size: Seed $2.2M–$6.5M; Series A $5.5M–$8.5M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

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.
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TLcom Capital Partners
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Africa Social Media 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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Sherpa Africa Partners
VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya · 1 investments in Africa Social Media startups

A venture fund for pre-seed startups in Africa, led by Startup Operators, backed by Startup Operators.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Round size: Seed $300k–$6M; Pre-Seed $50k–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

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 — Fast, flexible school financing in Kenya. Get working capital, projects, and asset loans designed around school fee cycles and growth needs.
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YUYANG INVESTMENT CO., LTD. (Ma's Family)
VC Fund · Taipei, T'ai-pei, Taiwan · 1 investments in Africa Social Media startups

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Finance, Internet
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Mauritius

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow

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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Compass Venture Capital
VC Fund · Moka, Moka, Mauritius · 1 investments in Africa Social Media startups

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

  • Industry: Financial Services, Information Technology, Big Data
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Mauritius, India, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Seed $30k–$1.6M; Series A $1.1M–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Omnisient — Privacy-Preserving Data Collaboration platform enabling businesses to collaborate while ensuring consumer privacy and data protection.
  • FCB.ai — FCB.ai builds the conversational AI infrastructure to power the financial industry
  • Shortlist — Shortlist helps solve talent challenges for impactful and innovative organizations across Africa. We provide executive search and workforce innovation solutions.
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Seed South Capital
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in Africa Social Media startups

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

  • Industry: Sports, Content, Social Media
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • myFanPark — myFanPark is a South African celebrity engagement platform, to share videos.
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