Top 10 Social Network Startup Investors in Africa
A list of 10 angel investors and VC funds that invest in Social network startups based in Africa. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Social network companies from Africa. We update this investor list every month.Top 10 Social Network Startup Investors in Africa
| Investor | Social Network Africa investments |
|---|---|
| Jessica Chervin | 1 |
| 4DX Ventures | 1 |
| Justin Ziegler | 1 |
| Golden Palm Investments | 1 |
| Johnny Falla | 1 |
| Afropreneur Angels | 1 |
| Christina Sass | 1 |
| Future Africa | 1 |
| LoftyInc Capital | 1 |
| to.org | 1 |
Jessica Chervin
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Investment focus
- Social Network
- Seed
- Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Wowzi — Access influencer marketing and intelligence with Africa's most trusted software platform.
4DX Ventures is a Pan-Africa Focused Venture Capital Firm. Our mission is to connect people, ideas, and capital to create a vibrant African community.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Information Technology, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Egypt, United States, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- MAKA — MAKA is a community commerce platform for fashion and beauty, enabling everyone to discover their style, feel represented.
- Hohm Energy — We make the process of going solar simple. Generate your free, custom solar proposal and get matched with an accredited solar provider in under 5 mins.
- Zoie Health — Zoie is a digital health firm for women that provides family planning, fertility, and maternity care services.
Justin Ziegler - Strategic Partnerships @ DoubleGDP
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Investment focus
- Social Network
- Seed
- Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Wowzi — Access influencer marketing and intelligence with Africa's most trusted software platform.
Golden Palm Investments is an investment holding and advisory company.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, FinTech, Logistics
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Nigeria, Egypt, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Sabipay — Pastel is a leader in Artificial Intelligence. We build products targeted at individuals (SwiftMoney) and enterprises (Sigma) in emerging markets
- Maplerad — Maplerad is a fast, safe and easy way to send and receive money with friends, family or others you trust. You can receive and send money directly into any Nigerian bank account in minutes using Bitcoin, US Dollars, and Naira.
- Jetstream Africa — Jetstream is a supply chain platform that powers freight forwarding and global exports for African suppliers. With tracking and consolidated (LCL) shipping Jetstream levels the playing field for access to international trade for African SMEs with the click of a button.
Johnny Falla
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Investment focus
- Social Network
- Seed
- Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Wowzi — Access influencer marketing and intelligence with Africa's most trusted software platform.
Afropreneur Angels provides funding and assistance to aspiring businesses. It houses multiple entrepreneurs from various industries. Afropreneur Angels was founded in 2012.
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Investment focus
- B2B, Retail, Social Network
- Seed
- Kenya, Senegal
Christina Sass is the co-founder and COO of Andela, a company that recruits the most talented software engineers on the African continent and pairs them with global tech companies as full-time, distributed team members. Founded on the premise that brilliance is evenly distributed but opportunity is not, Andela has built one of the most selectiveengineering institutions in the world, with headquarters in Lagos, Nairobi, and NYC.Christina has built education and employment programs in China, Gaza and the West Bank, Kenya, and Nigeria. Prior to co-founding Andela, she directed the Program department of the Clinton Global Initiative and advised the President and CEO of The MasterCard Foundation, a $9B global foundation working to advance education and financial inclusion for youth in Africa.Christina serves on the Advisory Council of the NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights and on the board of the non-profit Global Give Back Circle. She also serves as education topic expert for the Clinton Global Initiative University annual meeting. Christina’s work has been mentioned by Forbes, CNN, The New Yorker, NBC, and WIRED. She has a BA in Ancient Philosophy from the University of Georgia (Go Dawgs) and a MA in International Law and Diplomacy from The Fletcher School from Tufts University.
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Investment focus
- Medical, Health Care, Social Network
- Seed
- Kenya, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Wowzi — Access influencer marketing and intelligence with Africa's most trusted software platform.
- Journey Clinical — Journey Clinical is a platform that provides services to member psychotherapy practices that are independently owned and operated, and in no way owns, directs, or controls the mental healthcare clinicians providing care.
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
- Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Nigeria, United States, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Moove — Moove is a mobility fintech that provides revenue-based vehicle financing to mobility entrepreneurs, democratizing vehicle ownership globally. The company embeds its alternative credit-scoring technology onto ride-hailing, logistics, and last-mile/instant delivery platforms, which allows access to proprietary performance and revenue analyticsof mobility entrepreneurs to underwrite loans.
- Anchor — Anchor is building the infrastructure needed for businesses to build, launch, and scale banking and payment solutions.
- Itana — Talent City’s mission is to build a network of charter cities that focuses on creating technology-enabled jobs within a free trade zone with its own regulation and bylaws.
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 — For Modern Central Banking
- 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.
to.org is a Civic & Social Organization.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Delivery, Logistics
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Kenya, Senegal
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
- Hohm Energy — We make the process of going solar simple. Generate your free, custom solar proposal and get matched with an accredited solar provider in under 5 mins.
- Fuse Financial Technologies — Financial APIs for building products in the Middle East.
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