Top 50 Software Startup Investors in Kenya (July 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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iHub
VC Fund
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10 | Kenya, South Africa | Seed | Education, E-Learning, EdTech | |
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54 Collective
VC Fund
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7 | Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa | Seed, Pre-Seed | Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech | $40k–$4M |
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Musha Ventures
VC Fund
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6 | United States, Nigeria, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Financial Services, FinTech | $125k–$10M |
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Antler
VC Fund
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6 | Singapore, Australia, United Kingdom | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $108k–$28M |
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DOB Equity
VC Fund
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5 | Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda | Private Equity, Seed | Food and Beverage, Farming, Agriculture | $1M–$4M |
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TLcom Capital Partners
VC Fund
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4 | Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom | Series A, Seed | Software, Mobile, Information Technology | $1.9M–$15M |
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Kua Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | EdTech, Retail, Grocery | $58k–$94k |
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U.S. International Development Finance Corp
VC Fund
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4 | India, Kenya, United States | Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Grant | Financial Services, Finance, FinTech | $328k–$500M |
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QuantumSavanna VC
VC Fund
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4 | Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed | Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Analytics | $200k–$300k |
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FrontEnd Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | Kenya | Pre-Seed, Seed | Travel, Software, Marketing | $1.1M–$1.3M |
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MaC Venture Capital
VC Fund
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3 | United States, Nigeria, Kenya | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $770k–$40M |
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P1 Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | Egypt, Kenya, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B | Financial Services, Software, Payments | $400k–$40M |
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Safaricom
VC Fund
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3 | Kenya | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Information Technology, Apps | |
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Adanian Labs
VC Fund
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3 | Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed | Developer Platform, Financial Services, Gaming | |
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Novastar Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | Kenya, Nigeria, United Kingdom | Series A, Series B | Agriculture, Health Care, Internet | $1.7M–$42M |
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Kepple Africa Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt | Seed, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | $300k–$4.5M |
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Chandaria Capital
VC Fund
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3 | Kenya, United States, Nigeria | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | FinTech, E-Commerce, Retail | $250k–$37M |
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Launch Africa
VC Fund
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3 | Nigeria, South Africa, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology | $200k–$4M |
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Savannah Fund
VC Fund
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3 | Kenya, United States, South Africa | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, FinTech, Software | $25k–$8M |
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Accion Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | India, United States, Mexico | Seed, Series A, Series B | Financial Services, FinTech, Finance | $500k–$30M |
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Betatron Venture Group
VC Fund
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3 | Hong Kong, Singapore, India | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce | $30k–$10M |
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GreenTec Capital Partners
VC Fund
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3 | Kenya, Nigeria, Morocco | Seed, Pre-Seed | Information Technology, Retail, Computer | $50k–$1M |
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Untapped Global
VC Fund
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3 | Kenya, South Africa, United Kingdom | Seed, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown | Transportation, FinTech, Financial Services | $1.2M–$3M |
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Social Capital
VC Fund
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3 | United States, Canada, India | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, SaaS, FinTech | $1M–$45M |
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Save the Children
VC Fund
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2 | Kenya | Seed, Series A | Women's, Education, E-Learning | |
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Rus Newton
Angel
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2 | Kenya, Canada, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed | IaaS, SaaS, Mining | $285k–$1.5M |
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British International Investment
VC Fund
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2 | India, Kenya, Nigeria | Debt Financing, Series B | Financial Services, Banking, Finance | |
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Interswitch
VC Fund
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2 | Nigeria, Kenya, United States | Seed, Series A | Logistics, Transportation, Apps | $1.5M–$2.6M |
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Acadian Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United States, France, Germany | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Human Resources, SaaS | $1M–$25M |
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Golden Palm Investments
VC Fund
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2 | Nigeria, Egypt, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Information Technology, FinTech, Payments | $125k–$15M |
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Mercy Corps Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Kenya, United States, Nigeria | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Agriculture | $100k–$35M |
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Chapel Hill Denham
VC Fund
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2 | Kenya, United States | Seed, Debt Financing | Apps, Solar, Energy | $1.5M–$24M |
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AAIC Investment
VC Fund
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2 | Kenya, Egypt, Nigeria | Series A, Seed, Series B | Health Care, Medical, E-Commerce | $450k–$794M |
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Saviu Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Côte d'Ivoire, Kenya, Senegal | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce | $165k–$5M |
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Sherpa Africa Partners
VC Fund
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2 | Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa | Pre-Seed, Seed | Financial Services, Finance, FinTech | $50k–$6M |
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Kapor Capital
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Kenya, Japan | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Education, Health Care | $1M–$50M |
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Finnfund
VC Fund
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2 | Kenya, India, South Africa | Debt Financing, Series B | Financial Services, Energy, FinTech | $2.7M–$135M |
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HAVAÍC
VC Fund
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2 | South Africa, United States, Kenya | Seed, Series A | Software, Health Care, FinTech | $100k–$15M |
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Invested Development
VC Fund
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2 | Kenya, India, United States | Seed, Convertible Note | Software, Analytics, SaaS | $520k–$1.2M |
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Peter Sandberg
Angel
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2 | Denmark, Kenya, Estonia | Angel, Pre-Seed, Secondary Market | Internet, SaaS, FinTech | $150k–$212k |
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Soma Capital
VC Fund
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2 | United States, India, Mexico | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech | $400k–$35M |
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VilCap Investments
VC Fund
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2 | United States, India, Kenya | Seed, Series A | Financial Services, Health Care, FinTech | $50k–$6M |
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Fondation Botnar
VC Fund
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2 | India, Kenya, Nigeria | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Logistics, EdTech | $327k–$3.9M |
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Berrywood Capital
VC Fund
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2 | Nigeria, United States, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Payments | $125k–$8.5M |
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Philips Foundation Impact Investments
VC Fund
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2 | Kenya | Seed | Software, Health Care, Medical Device | $2.5M–$2.5M |
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AXIAN
VC Fund
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2 | Egypt, Kenya, Mali | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Financial Services, FinTech, Payments | $1M–$12M |
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Zephyr Acorn
VC Fund
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2 | Kenya, India, Rwanda | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, Banking, FinTech | $1M–$10M |
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International Finance Corporation
VC Fund
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2 | India, Brazil, United States | Debt Financing, Series B | Financial Services, Finance, FinTech | |
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Kiva
VC Fund
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2 | Kenya, United States, Ghana | Debt Financing, Seed, Series A | Energy, Software, Agriculture | $15k–$18M |
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Renew Capital
VC Fund
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2 | Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia | Pre-Seed, Seed | Mobile Apps, Financial Services, Finance | |
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iHub is a globally recognized organization that is deeply steeped in the local tech innovation culture. It is fair to say that the iHub has been both the main catalyst for regional tech acceleration and a role model for tech hubs across emerging markets. We are nurturing the best innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem; one that constantlychallenges and influences technology; one that can be replicated across the continent, as we believe that African innovation will play a critical role in shaping future technology globally.
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- Industry: Education, E-Learning, EdTech
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Kenya, South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- SILABU — Silabu is a platform that links students with skilled teachers to help them achieve their learning objectives, offering an alternative to traditional education.
- ntemata — ntemata an Edtech platform that allows you to automate teacher assessment processes and analyze competence-based learning holistically.
- LoHo Learning — Loho Learning is an e-Learning platform that provides customized and interactive education to the schooling generation in a variety of digital formats.
Building and scaling African tech startups with catalytic capital, value-add support and our global network.
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- Industry: Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 108
- Round size: Seed $40k–$4M; Pre-Seed $40k–$1.3M
- Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Yeah — Yeah is a financial technology company that offers payment processing services while building a credit profile for the banked and unbanked.
- 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.
Seed capital for technology startups globally.
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 156
- Round size: Seed $125k–$6M; Pre-Seed $300k–$3.2M; Series A $2.5M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Zeno — Zeno is a climate conscious motor company that offers eco-friendly motorcycles.
- Lori Systems — Lori Systems is revolutionizing African logistics through innovative technology solutions. We connect shippers, transporters, and drivers to create efficient, reliable, and transparent supply chains across Africa.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Singapore, Australia, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1820
- Round size: Seed $186k–$4.6M; Pre-Seed $108k–$750k; Series A $4.6M–$28M
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $72M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Agentio — Agentio's patent-pending ad platform empowers marketers to finally unlock scalable, creator-led advertising. Programmatically buy the highest quality creator and influencer ad reads to deliver unprecedented efficiency and performance.
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- Quantflo — Options market intelligence and structured trade planning for Indian markets.
DOB Equity is a private equity firm specializing in growth capital and buy-and-build strategies in small and medium companies.
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- Industry: Food and Beverage, Farming, Agriculture
- Stage:Private Equity, Seed
- Geography: Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda
Investor stats
- Total investments: 51
- Round size: Seed $1M–$4M
- Lead/follow: 59% lead, 41% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kentaste — Virgin coconut oil, Coconut Cream, and Coconut Milk
- MazaoHub — MazaoHub is a AI-powered end-to-end farm management company.
- FarmWorks — FarmWorks is an agricultural technology company that gives farmers access to farm inputs as well as a market for the produce .FarmWork is to unlock agricultural potential by building clusters of mid-sized farms while working with thousands of small-holder farmers and establishing direct linkage to local and global markets.
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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- Industry: Software, Mobile, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 68
- Round size: Seed $1.9M–$8.5M; Series A $3.8M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $150M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
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- 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.
- Ilara Health — Ilara Health helps primary care clinics across Africa deliver better care.
Kua Ventures provides inexpensive finance, mentoring, and community to faith-driven, social entrepreneurs that are creating great employment and changing lives while simultaneously demonstrating Christ's love.
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- Industry: EdTech, Retail, Grocery
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Venture - Series Unknown $58k–$94k
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Twiva — Twiva is a creator-first, tech-enabled platform that serves as an end-to-end ecosystem. Our purpose is to equip creators with the skills, tools, resources, and access they need to succeed as online entrepreneurs.
- Taimba Limited — Taimba is a B2B mobile-based platform connecting farmers to urban traders with aim of reducing food wastage and to stabilize market prices.
- Seven Twenty Holdings — Seven Twenty Holdings specializes in the manufacturing of curtain rods and curtain rods accessories and manufactures paints.
U.S. International Development Finance Corp is America’s development bank.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
- Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Grant
- Geography: India, Kenya, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 126
- Round size: Grant $328k–$5M; Post-IPO Debt $18M–$500M; Debt Financing $5.5M–$410M
- Lead/follow: 78% lead, 22% 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.
- Pela Global — Pela Global Limited is an Australian company focused on critical and precious metals mining, primarily advancing projects in North Macedonia's Tethyan Belt. It specializes in antimony and gold resources, emphasizing sustainable development and global supply chain contributions.
QuantumSavanna VC is an Africa-first venture capital firm investing in GPU-native deeptech startups addressing infrastructure-scale challenges across energy systems, climate modeling, industrial digital twins, advanced agriculture, and AI infrastructure. The firm focuses on accelerated computing platforms, physics-informed machine learning, andedge-to-cluster AI architectures that deliver measurable performance advantages in real-world infrastructure environments. QuantumSavanna backs technical founders building defensible, compute-intensive systems companies designed for emerging markets and globally scalable deployment across LATAM, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East. The fund invests from Pre-Seed to Series A and partners closely with teams on architecture strategy, infrastructure deployment pathways, and institutional fundraising readiness.
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- Industry: Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Analytics
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $200k–$300k
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- FlockVoice — FlockVoice is an AI-powered poultry health intelligence platform that detects respiratory diseases 3–5 days before visible symptoms by analyzing chicken vocal patterns in real time. The company uses GPU-accelerated acoustic AI to reduce mortality, improve farm profitability, and enable predictive biosecurity.
- SteelCheck — SteelCheck is an AI-powered construction compliance platform that verifies steel reinforcement and structural steel installations in real time. Using GPU-accelerated computer vision and spatial analysis, the platform detects rebar sizes, spacing, and placement on construction sites and validates them against engineering drawings and BIMspecifications before concrete placement.The platform helps contractors, structural engineers, inspectors, and infrastructure developers prevent costly structural errors, reduce rework, and ensure compliance with building standards and safety regulations. SteelCheck integrates mobile inspection tools, edge AI devices powered by NVIDIA Jetson, and cloud-based analytics to deliver instant compliance alerts and automated inspection reports.Backed by Techstars pre-seed funding and QuantumSavanna VC seed investment, SteelCheck is building the intelligence layer for construction verification, transforming manual inspection into real-time structural compliance for the global construction industry.
- MetraEstate — MentraEstate is an AI-driven real estate intelligence platform designed to optimize property investment, valuation, and development decisions across emerging markets. The platform leverages machine learning, predictive analytics, and infrastructure-scale data modeling to provide investors, developers, and financial institutions with actionableinsights for portfolio optimization and risk management. MentraEstate focuses on emerging urban markets where data fragmentation limits investment efficiency, delivering structured intelligence tools that enhance transparency, forecasting accuracy, and capital allocation decisions.
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- Industry: Travel, Software, Marketing
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Pre-Seed $1.1M–$1.3M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Buupass — BuuPass is Kenya's market leader for online bus booking. We enable travelers to reserve seats and make payments in a convenient and timely way. Try BuuPass today!
- Lukhu Inc. — Lukhu provides merchants with tools to manage and grow their businesses such as inventory management, customer management, secure payments, analytics, and fulfilment while enabling consumers to discover, purchase, and get their clothing and footwear delivered in a convenient and affordable manner.
- OKOA Rescue — OKOA Rescue is a provider of maintenance and repair services intended for the freight and logistics sectors in East Africa,
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Browse database — It's Free!MaC Venture Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on finding ideas, technology, and products that can become infectious. The firm invests in technology companies that benefit from shifts in cultural trends and behaviors in an increasingly diverse global marketplace.MaC VC is the result of the merger between successful LosAngeles and Bay Area-based Seed funds, Cross Culture Ventures, and M Ventures.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 260
- Round size: Seed $1.9M–$9.1M; Pre-Seed $770k–$4.3M; Series A $6M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Skurt — Get an affordable pre-owned vehicle from right where you are and for as long as you choose.
- Remezcla — Founded in 2006, Remezcla is a Latin Culture company founded in the US. Remezcla operates as a digital publisher, creative agency, and entertainment company. Our deep cultural expertise and operational structure allow us to provide valuable insights and tactics for companies looking to effectively communicate and engage with US Latinomillennials.As a digital publisher Remezcla is considered the leading authority on emerging Latin culture and music. As a creative agency Remezcla leverages its deep expertise on culture, audience, and storytelling to offer major brands a unique perspective on how to approach US Hispanic millennial consumers. Remezcla specializes on strategy, creative and execution of projects ranging from strategic rebranding, digital content creation, branded experientials platforms and tune-in campaigns. Remezcla’s creative agency has recently worked with brands such as ESPN, HBO, Netflix, Heineken, Tecate and Dos Equis Our work has received national recognition from the Webbys, Clios, ANA, and The One Show to name a few.
- Lend Street Financial — LendStreet mission is simple help people get out of debt, rebuild their credit, and get a fresh start. They have partnerships within the financial sector which allow them to negotiate discounts on debts, which means they can pass on the discount to our customers and they in turn can get out of debt sooner, rebuild their credit and get on withtheir lives.
P1 Ventures works as a venture capital firm. They specialize in early-stage industrial technology firms in Africa.
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- 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–$3M; Series B $7.5M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- 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.
Safaricom is a mobile network operator that offers internet connectivity solutions, information management solutions, voice solutions, and communication solutions. It serves small businesses, medium businesses, and large corporates.The company’s services and offerings include international calls and roaming; data storage, recovery, and backup;online information storage and archiving; mobile banking services; wide area networks, managed Wi-Fi solutions, point-to-point connectivity, 4G connection, and Fiber to Buildings; IT consultancy; virtual collaboration, voice conferencing, and video conferencing; messaging services and voice services; music services; and more.Safaricom was founded in 1997 and is based in Nairobi, Kenya.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- mSURVEY — Start your first business web-page in minutes. Easily power online transactions, Buy Ads with your Airtime on Facebook, Instagram, and Google. Get ratings and reviews to build your business credibility, and enlarge your customer base.
- iProcure — iProcure is a Nairobi-based start-up working to optimize the agriculture input supply chain in rural Kenya. iProcure’s web and mobile technology solution improves agriculture retailers’ operations. It lets them manage ordering based on inventory, point of sale activities, and client profiles along with geo-located purchasing patterns, real-timeagent performance and transaction analysis, and built-in mobile payments. As a result, retailers can better predict demand with business intelligence data, improve inventory management, and streamline distribution efficiency.
- Lynk Jobs — Lynk solves the problems faced by informal workers and the households and businesses seeking their services. Lynk’s digital platform connects informal workers with customers who require services such as housekeeping, plumbing, electrical work and carpentry. Lynk’s systems enable the effective recruitment of workers, smart matching of the workers tojobs and a customer rating system that helps workers to build the skills profile.
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- Industry: Developer Platform, Financial Services, Gaming
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Savabyte — Savabyte is a capacity builder and tech talent enricher with a pool of quality software engineers trained and mentored across our African ecosystem. It aims to empower more women to join the tech space and access the technical skills
- Jungopharm — Jungopharm is a developer of a pharma and healthcare platform that aims to make health care understandable, accessible & affordable for all.
- Ngamea Games — Ngamea Games is a cross platform African inspired and focused gaming company. With six aims: Asset Creation, Development, Incubation, Collaboration, Training, and Publishing. In addition to game development and gamification as a service.
For the many, not just the few. For good.
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- Industry: Agriculture, Health Care, Internet
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 67
- Round size: Series A $1.7M–$24M; Series B $3.5M–$42M
- Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $108M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Soko — SOKO produces innovative, ethical jewelry and accessories from sustainable materials in Nairobi, Kenya
- Turaco — Turaco develops simplified insurance and credit solutions through mobile technology to solve the healthcare financing needs. Turaco has simplified insurance products and also provides on-demand health loans, allowing customers to get healthcare at affordable monthly premiums.
- Moniepoint — Moniepoint provides an all-in-one payments, banking and operations platform for businesses and their customers.
We back exceptional founders in and from Africa who are addressing deep gaps between the status quo and the ideal.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 78
- Round size: Seed $500k–$4.5M; Pre-Seed $300k–$3.4M
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- TIBU Health — TIBU Health is a disruptive HealthTech logistics company that provides high-quality healthcare services.
- Onboard — Onboard helps hardware companies transform their text manuals to 3D, intelligent manuals with instant customer support capabilities.
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- Industry: FinTech, E-Commerce, Retail
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Kenya, United States, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 35
- Round size: Seed $250k–$6M; Pre-Seed $1M–$3M; Series A $2M–$37M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Savannah Brands — Savannah Brands is a food & beverage company.
- UTU Technologies — Trust infrastructure for the sharing economy.
- African Originals — African Originals food and beverage company that offers authentic African craft beverages using traditional reciepies.
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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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, South Africa, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 178
- Round size: Seed $200k–$4M; Pre-Seed $200k–$1.8M
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $36M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Yamify — Yamify is an AI platform where intelligent agents reliably run mission-critical business workflows in Africa. Founded by Silicon Valley engineers, our platform automates complex operations by integrating humans, systems, and infrastructure reliably, even under connectivity, latency, and compliance challenges. Starting with on-prem deployments,Yamify is evolving into a full AI automation infrastructure for African enterprises.
- Shopstar — A place for makers and creators to start, manage and grow successful online stores. Our built-in design, payment and shipping methods provide you with an all in one solution. Get started with a free 14-day trial.
- Kashat — The region's first nano financial service provider, offering small productive loans, and serving as the entry point to financial inclusion for the un- and underbanked population in Egypt.
Savannah Fund is a seed capital fund specializing in US$25,000-US$500,000 investments in early stage high growth technology (web and mobile) startups in sub-Saharan Africa. Initially focused on East Africa, the fund aims to bridge the early stage/angel and venture capital investment gap that currently exists in Africa. The Fund expects toachieve this objective by combining capital with mentor networks both in the region and from Silicon Valley via an accelerator program and a follow-on independent seed fund.The fund is managed by an experienced and technology savvy team that have founded companies or are actively involved in angel investing or having run successful accelerator programs in past but also understand the unique Subsaharan African environment. They are backed and supported by both local, regional and international networks of angels,venture capitalists whose expertise we can draw on to help startups succeed and scale to fully fledged regional or global companies.They believe in the potential for Africa to become a global technology innovator by creating sustainable for profit companies that create jobs and make an impact.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Kenya, United States, South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 41
- Round size: Seed $25k–$3.3M; Pre-Seed $200k–$2.1M; Series A $750k–$8M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $25M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Aya Data — Aya Data provides high-quality data annotation, AI training data, 3D annotations, machine learning solutions and also specialises in geospatial, NLP and computer vision projects.
- Kubik — Kubik makes low-carbon buildings from plastic waste. Bringing environmental dignity to how countries grow.
- 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.
Accion Ventures is an investment strategy that today pursues early-stage investments as part of Accion Impact Management.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: India, United States, Mexico
Investor stats
- Total investments: 133
- Round size: Seed $500k–$6.4M; Series A $2.6M–$17M; Series B $8M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Billpocket — Billpocket convierte tu smartphone o tablet en una terminal punto de venta. Ya no tienes que esperar al banco y pagar exageradas cuotas de mantenimiento, fianzas y papel para poder cobrar con tarjeta. Simplemente necesitas una cuenta bancaria a donde puedas recibir tus cobros con tarjeta de débito y crédito.
- Cashinvoice — Cashinvoice connects supply chain stakeholders and digitises invoice-to-cash processes to unlock working capital trapped within supply chains and accelerate business growth
- Pintek — Pintek is a financial technology company aiming to democratise access to education in Indonesia through affordable and flexible credit.
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Browse database — It's Free!Betatron Venture Group is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage companies.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Hong Kong, Singapore, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 50
- Round size: Seed $30k–$4.1M; Pre-Seed $30k–$150k; Series A $2.1M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $15M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
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- SHIPNEXT — SHIPNEXT is a blockchain-driven Digital Shipping Platform. It uses Natural language processing, machine learning, Linear programing, AI and Big Data analysis for instant and to generate the best Shipping and Transport solutions. SHIPNEXT is patented solution, that uses unique algorithms, as well as data and real-time information from over 85data-bases for instant Cargo-to-Ship matching and integration in door-to-door delivery. Each day SHIPNEXT continues to expand and improve through interconnectivity and interoperatibility with Shipping companies, Ports & Terminals, Exporters & Importers, Digital Solution providers, Banking platforms, and transport related infrastructure. While being automated, SHIPNEXT can literally provide thousand freight quotes for a thousand requests each minute. This allows integration of SHIPNEXT in any trade or supply chain, for further digitalization and increased efficiency.
- Bookairfreight — Save more than 20% on international door-to-door shipping. We're a one-stop freight solution for SMEs, ecommerce, and Amazon Merchants. Get a quote now!
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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- 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.
Untapped connects global investors, and foreign capital to opportunities in emerging markets. Delivering competitive returns, and measurable impact for global investors.
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- Industry: Transportation, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Kenya, South Africa, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 17
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$3M
- Lead/follow: 71% lead, 29% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Paga — Paga is the premier financial services infrastructure for Africa. Infrastructure for fiat, stablecoins, crypto, hosted accounts, payments orchestration and biller aggregation.
- OX Delivers — Our objective is to deliver affordable transport in emerging markets, creating a self-reinforcing cycle of economic growth and social impact. To achieve this, we are developing the world's first clean-transport ecosystem that combines goods shipment with financial, trading & marketing services. This OX ecosystem will be enabled by ourunique zero-emissions OX truck; the only purpose-designed electric vehicle for emerging markets.
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At Social Capital, we make big bets on transformational ideas, technology, and people.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 380
- Round size: Seed $1M–$6.5M; Series A $3.5M–$15M; Series B $10M–$45M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $600M in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- Athos — The Athos mission is to help athletes train more effectively and reach their performance goals faster. Athos does this by bringing together the most relevant data and exercise science to deliver simple, actionable insights that allow coaches and athletes to get the most out of their training.
- Mason America, Inc. — Mason is the device innovation platform for product leaders who dare to deliver the next innovation in their field.
- Early is Good — Multi-omic diagnostics that analyze DNA, RNA, and Protein from a single sample for unprecedented cancer clarity.
Save the Children invests in childhood – every day, in times of crisis and for their future. In the United States and around the world, they give children a healthy start, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. By transforming children's lives now, they change the course of their future and ours.
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- Industry: Women's, Education, E-Learning
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Zeraki — Zeraki is to use technology to address some of the obstacles learners encounter in accessing quality education. We use technology to enhance the quality of education students get at each level of education and use technology to help students transition from one level of education to the next, and ultimately from education into employment.
- TotoRegister — TotoRegister is a transformative educational technology platform driven by a mission to protect and empower children while fostering enhanced educational outcomes. With a dedication to improving child protection, attendance monitoring, and data-driven decision-making, TotoRegister represents an innovative and holistic solution for educationalinstitutions and organizations. At its core, TotoRegister offers a hybrid digital attendance platform that not only simplifies attendance management but also leverages data analysis to ensure children's well-being. By promoting regular school attendance, TotoRegister takes significant strides toward fulfilling its vision of a world where every child can access a safe and high-quality education.Beyond attendance tracking, TotoRegister is actively involved in the development of new features, including a growth monitoring system. This initiative aligns with the company's commitment to advancing child protection, educational quality, and data-driven insights. TotoRegister stands firmly behind the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals, particularly focusing on Goal 4 (Quality Education) and Goal 5 (Gender Equality). By harnessing technology as a catalyst for change, TotoRegister is at the forefront of innovation in education, passionately committed to transforming educational experiences for children globally.
Co-Founder of Global Advisors & CoinShares. Previously JP Morgan, Salomon Brothers & Shell International
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- Industry: IaaS, SaaS, Mining
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Kenya, Canada, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Seed $285k–$1.5M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Mintgreen — MintGreen specializes in heat recovery from Bitcoin mining. Our proprietary Digital Boilers heat communities sustainably.
- Arcube — We make sure all travellers, frequent and infrequent, make the most of travel loyalty programs, using our data-driven approach, airlines can understand their customers and provide hyper-personalised offerings to boost value and retention.Arcube uses a data-driven approach to make the most of airline loyalty programs for both frequent andinfrequent flyers. Our software allows airlines to understand their customers and provide hyper-personalised offerings to boost value and retention at no extra cost to the airline.
- UTU Technologies — Trust infrastructure for the sharing economy.
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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- Industry: Financial Services, Banking, Finance
- Stage:Debt Financing, Series B
- Geography: India, Kenya, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 171
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Xurya — Xurya is a renewable energy platform in providing commercial and industrial rooftop owners access to solar lease product on one side. And investors access to a stable and safe investment in rooftop solar plants on the other side. Both are achieved by maintenance service which enables both parties peace of mind.
- Grow Indigo — Let's start the transformative movement towards carbon farming in India with expertise of Mahyco and Indigo Ag.
- BRAC Bank — BRAC Bank Limited provides various commercial banking products and services in Bangladesh. The company offers retail, wholesale, small and medium enterprises (SME), and Probashi banking products and services. It provides various deposit products, such as current accounts, fixed deposits, SME deposits, savings accounts, and term deposits. Thecompany also offers loan portfolio comprising personal loans, auto loans, home loans, and secured loans/overdrafts.
Interswitch is a leading pan-African digital payments and commerce company, enabling secure, reliable transactions across multiple African markets.
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- Industry: Logistics, Transportation, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$2.6M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $10M in 2015
Portfolio highlights
- OkHi — Smart addressing for emerging markets. Enabling businesses to collect an accurate address, navigate to it without getting lost and verity it remotely.
- Shuttlers — Commute better with Shuttlers. Join 100k+ professionals using our safe, affordable bus sharing, vehicle rental, and employee transport services across Nigeria.
- SlimTrader — SlimTrader is an e-commerce and mobile commerce firm. Its platform, MoBiashara, seeks to relieve the burdens associated with everyday transactions in developing countries by providing the missing link to completting these important activities: easy and affordable access. The company has developed the first platform in Africa that allows consumersto purchase services or shop for goods with their mobile devices.
Acadian Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in the new architecture of work. Founded in 2019 and led by executives from Cornerstone, SAP SuccessFactors, and Workday, Acadian is the world’s leading firm focused at the intersection of work and technology, on a mission to make work better and meaningful, creating a progressiveapproach to human productivity. For more information, visit acadianventures.com.
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- Industry: Software, Human Resources, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, France, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 38
- Round size: Seed $2.2M–$10M; Pre-Seed $1M–$4.2M; Series A $5M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $30M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Linc — Linc is a platform that delivers data retrieval and analysis services tailored to business needs. The company offers solutions supporting bookkeeping and payroll workflows alongside information management capabilities. Linc offerings streamline data management processes and enable organizations to operationalize their data more effectively.
- Kombo — One unified API for HRIS, Payroll & ATS
- Origin — Origin delivers AI-powered global benefits intelligence to streamline HR, optimize spend, ensure compliance, and simplify employee benefits management.
Golden Palm Investments is an investment holding and advisory company.
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- Industry: Information Technology, FinTech, Payments
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Nigeria, Egypt, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 59
- Round size: Seed $1.8M–$6M; Pre-Seed $125k–$6.5M; Series A $2M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2014
Portfolio highlights
- Talstack — Talstack is an all-in-one platform for employee growth and development
- MAKA — MAKA is a community commerce platform for fashion and beauty, enabling everyone to discover their style, feel represented.
- Renda — At Renda, we are passionate about revolutionizing the logistics and mobility sectors with cutting-edge technology that enables businesses and operators to seamlessly scale in emerging markets.
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Browse database — It's Free!Mercy Corps Ventures invests in and catalyzes venture-led solutions to increase the resilience of underserved individuals and communities. Founded in 2015 as the impact investing arm of global development agency, Mercy Corps, supports over 57 early-stage ventures to scale and raise over $515 million in follow-on capital. Their portfolio centersaround resilience-building solutions in adaptive agriculture and food systems, inclusive climate fintech, and climate-smart technologies so that those living in frontier markets can withstand disruption and plan for the future. Through capital and support, piloting new approaches, action-oriented insights, and rigorously managing impact, they catalyze the ecosystem toward smarter, more impactful investments.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Agriculture
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Kenya, United States, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 70
- Round size: Seed $330k–$5.3M; Pre-Seed $100k–$7M; Series A $2.5M–$35M
- Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Turaco — Turaco develops simplified insurance and credit solutions through mobile technology to solve the healthcare financing needs. Turaco has simplified insurance products and also provides on-demand health loans, allowing customers to get healthcare at affordable monthly premiums.
- Meridia — De-risk the sourcing, procurement, trading & compliance of commodities under the EUDR.
- PowerLabs — PowerLabs is an energy and climate technology research and implementation company whose goal is to use intelligent energy to build a world where human output is boundless.
Chapel Hill Denham is a leading independent investment banking, securities trading and investment management firm.
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- Industry: Apps, Solar, Energy
- Stage:Seed, Debt Financing
- Geography: Kenya, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$1.5M; Debt Financing $7.4M–$24M
- Lead/follow: 75% lead, 25% follow
Portfolio highlights
- OkHi — Smart addressing for emerging markets. Enabling businesses to collect an accurate address, navigate to it without getting lost and verity it remotely.
- Falcon — Falcon Corporation is an indigenous company operating in Nigeria's oil and gas sector. The company engages in natural gas distribution, pipeline construction, and fabrication services. Additionally, Falcon Corporation is involved in liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) trading, offering storage and distribution solutions. The company providestechnical procurement and project management services to support various energy projects. Falcon Corporation aims to deliver energy solutions through operational excellence, people, and partnerships.
- d.light — Founded in 2007 as a for-profit social enterprise, d.light manufactures and distributes award-winning solar lighting and power products designed to serve the more than 2 billion people globally without access to reliable electricity. Through five distribution hubs in East Africa, West Africa, India, Southeast Asia, and the United States, d.lighthas impacted over 65 million lives with its products. d.light is dedicated to providing the most reliable, affordable, and accessible solar lighting and power systems for the developing world, with the goal of reaching 100 million people by 2020. For more information, visit www.dlight.com.
We will continue to invest and support the growth of innovative companies towards sustainable economic growth and solving social issues.
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- Industry: Health Care, Medical, E-Commerce
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Kenya, Egypt, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 25
- Round size: Seed $450k–$11M; Series A $3M–$794M; Series B $16M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Aumet — Aumet allows medical manufacturers and distributors increase their sales by sharing hospital inquiries, business news, search for products, and find potential clients.Manufacturers and distributors who work together connect and get verified so they share hospital inquiries, market business news between each other .Suppliers list their productsand connect with distributors who sell these products and select countries, where they are looking for distributors, in the meantime distributors, connects with their suppliers, search for new product and list their interests.
- Mydawa — MYDAWA is here to ensure that every Kenyan can get quality, secure and affordable medicine and wellness products online
- Chowdeck — Order food, groceries, drinks, medicines & everyday essentials from top restaurants, pharmacies, local markets, and stores near you. Fast delivery with Chowdeck.
Saviu is a venture capital fund focusing on African early-stage startups.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Côte d'Ivoire, Kenya, Senegal
Investor stats
- Total investments: 38
- Round size: Seed $550k–$5M; Pre-Seed $165k–$817k; Series A $2M–$5M
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $14M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- POZI — POZI app is an innovative tracking and geolocation solution primarily designed for fleet monitoring and management.
- Agenz — Agenz was founded to deliver credible real estate market data that is updated in real time, allowing individuals to make faster and more informed real estate decisions at the right time.
- Userguest.com — Userguest is a Travel SaaS company that provides technology to hotels in order to improve their online revenue. Our smart tool applies RevMarketing Automation to hotel website, by matching a user’s booking intent with the hotel’s inventory priorities. We display personalized incentives to boost hotel revenue where it counts.
A venture fund for pre-seed startups in Africa, led by Startup Operators, backed by Startup Operators.
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- 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.
Kapor Capital is an investment firm that invests in early-stage tech-enabled startups. They are an Oakland-based fund that understands that startup companies have the ability to transform entire industries and to address urgent social needs as they do so. It was founded in 1999 and headquartered in Oakland, California.
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- Industry: Software, Education, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Kenya, Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 210
- Round size: Seed $1M–$5.8M; Series A $3M–$20M; Series B $10M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $126M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Parento — Parento is a pioneering national insurance-based solution for paid parental empowering companies to support working parents with proactive, tangible paid leave coverage and employee resources.
- Reportwell — An easy-to-use compliance & reporting platform saving your team hundreds of hours and headaches. From smart report templates to streamlined performance framework dashboards, simple has arrived for compliance & reporting to governmental agencies.
- Hamlet — Hamlet transforms local information into accessible insights you can use and shares it via newsletter.
Finnfund is a Finnish development finance company that provides long-term risk capital for private projects in developing countries. Apart from co-investing with Finnish companies they can finance ventures that use Finnish technology, cooperate with Finnish partners on a long-term basis or generate major environmental or social benefits.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Energy, FinTech
- Stage:Debt Financing, Series B
- Geography: Kenya, India, South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 68
- Round size: Series B $5M–$41M; Debt Financing $2.7M–$135M
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Mobisol — We transform lives through solar energy access. Our solar home systems and mini-grids benefit millions of people in Sub-Saharan Africa.
- TPL Insurance — TPL Insurance is a Pakistan's first direct insurance company that take care of all insurance related matters.
- Transvolt Mobility — Transvolt Mobility is an early-stage, technology-driven EV fleet operator, enabling India’s transition to sustainable, zero-emission transport by providing a scalable, multi-partner platform for commercial electric mobility across urban and industrial segments.
HAVAÍC is an investment and advisory firm that specialises in early-stage, high-growth African businesses with proven concepts and global prospects, offering investment opportunities to sophisticated investors and international venture capital companies with an interest in Africa. As a complementary offering, HAVAÍC provides corporate advisory andcapital raising services to emerging, internationally scalable businesses.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: South Africa, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 47
- Round size: Seed $100k–$4M; Series A $1.9M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 64% lead, 36% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- SwiftVee — SwiftVEE is a livestock trading mobile app. They support live webcast livestock auctions and silent auctions. Their platform facilitates the discovery and viewing of livestock auctions.They provide webcast advertising, online auctions, and online livestock insurance services and data products for financial institutions.
- Tanda — As a Tanda Agent, you can sell Kenya's favorite digital products, and grow your duka while you're at it
- Digital Cabinet — Digital Cabinet makes your business paperless. Security is the topmost priority for the Digital Cabinet, so save time and money with the Digital Cabinet.
Invested Development (ID) is an investment management company founded in Boston, MA in 2009 and now based in Atlanta, GA. ID launched the BSP Fund in 2011 which was fully vested across 19 companies in 2020. Exits include: Simpa (India) acquired by Engie (France); OnFarm (US) acquired by SWIIM (US); iHub (Kenya) acquired by ccHub (Nigeria), and GELI(US) acquired by Hanwha Q-Cells (Korea).
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- Industry: Software, Analytics, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Convertible Note
- Geography: Kenya, India, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $520k–$1.2M
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Angani — Angani offers cutting-edge & affordable solutions in cloud infrastructure, backup & disaster recovery, media streaming, cloud PABX and data analytics. Enjoy local support, low latencies, and faster response times.
- BRCK — BRCK is an integrated hardware and software company based in Nairobi, Kenya that designs and engineers a rugged, self-powered, mobile WiFi device which connects people and things to the internet in areas of the world with poor infrastructure. Our vision is a world connected, where the last-mile of internet connectivity is as seamless for someoneliving in Africa as it is in Europe or the US. Ushahidi is a global organization that empowers people to make serious impact with open source technologies, cross-sector partnerships, and ground-breaking ventures.
- iProcure — iProcure is a Nairobi-based start-up working to optimize the agriculture input supply chain in rural Kenya. iProcure’s web and mobile technology solution improves agriculture retailers’ operations. It lets them manage ordering based on inventory, point of sale activities, and client profiles along with geo-located purchasing patterns, real-timeagent performance and transaction analysis, and built-in mobile payments. As a result, retailers can better predict demand with business intelligence data, improve inventory management, and streamline distribution efficiency.
Peter Sandberg is a Co-Founder of Nordic Secondary Fund, and a venture partner at Startup Wise Guys. He has extensive experience as a Business Angel, Asset Management and Wealth Management
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- Industry: Internet, SaaS, FinTech
- Stage:Angel, Pre-Seed, Secondary Market
- Geography: Denmark, Kenya, Estonia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 17
- Round size: Pre-Seed $150k–$212k
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
Portfolio highlights
- TRAPMINE — TRAPMINE Endpoint Protection Platform provides fool-proof defense against malware, exploit attempts, file-less malware, ransomware and other forms of targeted attacks.Unlike traditional detection-based approaches like legacy antivirus, TRAPMINE combines proven and innovative technologies such as deep learning, behavior monitoring, endpointdeception and anti-exploit techniques to block cyber threats dead in their tracks. TRAPMINE's easy-deploy and lightweight solution comes with a comfortable built-in security console, at a price/performance ratio unmatchable even by the biggest names in Palo Alto.Why TRAPMINE?Cyber criminals target companies of all sizes from every industry, seeking anything that might be of value. Antivirus and other traditional security solutions are no longer efficient to protect organizations from attacks by today’s modern cyber threat actors. That’s why we founded TRAPMINE. TRAPMINE is created to solve the malware problem for all organizations at a reasonable price.
- Colibo A/S — Use Colibo's intranet software as your enterprise collaboration platform to increase productivity, drive employee engagement and better internal communications.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, India, Mexico
Investor stats
- Total investments: 700
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$8.6M; Pre-Seed $400k–$4M; Series A $8M–$35M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Mason America, Inc. — Mason is the device innovation platform for product leaders who dare to deliver the next innovation in their field.
- Mudafy — Mudafy is a tech-enabled real estate broker for LatAm.
- Gecko Robotics — To collect and make useful physical data in order to protect civilization's most critical infrastructure
VilCap Investments is an early-stage impact investing fund, backing companies addressing the most pressing social and environmental challenges.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Health Care, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, India, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 90
- Round size: Seed $50k–$2.5M; Series A $2M–$6M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- SatSure — Premium domain available for purchase
- Altro (fka Perch) — Perch Credit (also known as Perch), is a fin-tech mobile app that allows users to take common recurring expenses, such as their subscriptions & rent, and turn these into creditworthy data points. Perch is currrently live on iOS and plans to be on Android in the coming months.Perch recently graduated YC (S20) and closed 2.5M in their mostrecent round.
- Advocatia Solutions — Advocatia simplifies how uninsured patients identify financial assistance programs and enroll into coverage.
Fondation Botnar is a charitable foundation established with the core purpose to support children’s basic needs throughout the world. It was founded in Basel in 2003 to continue the philanthropic work of the Botnar family. Their focus is health, nutrition and education.They have supported many compelling projects over the years and are now in aprocess to establish a new strategy. They are currently developing a fresh investment and organisational framework to sustainably manage the capital base.
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- Industry: Software, Logistics, EdTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: India, Kenya, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 17
- Round size: Seed $1M–$3.9M; Pre-Seed $327k–$1.1M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Brisil — Brisil specializes in producing silica and precipitated silica for various applications.
- Ekko — Ekko offers Earned Wage Access (EWA), allowing employees to access their earned wages at any time, rather than waiting for a certain payday.
- Dash Electric — Democratizes access to driver as a fleet solutions. Provides a crucial delivery infrastructure for business by leveraging the power of EV.
Berrywood Capital is an investment firm.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Seed $295k–$8.5M; Pre-Seed $125k–$3.7M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Caliza — Give your users access to the digital dollar economy. Get early access!
- Workpay — Looking for the best payroll software in Kenya? Workpay provides the best payroll software and hr software for your business in Kenya, Nigeria and for Africa
- Koa — Koa provides savings-as-a-service by embedding financial services through API
Philips Foundation partners with mission-driven ventures that strengthen healthcare systems in underserved communities.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Medical Device
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Seed $2.5M–$2.5M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Ilara Health — Ilara Health helps primary care clinics across Africa deliver better care.
AXIAN is a pan-African group that specializes in real estate, telecom, financial services, energy, and innovation.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Egypt, Kenya, Mali
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Seed $1M–$12M; Series A $5M–$8.5M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% 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.
- 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.
- WeLight — WeLight deploys sustainable and accessible solutions to accelerate energy inclusion in rural areas of Africa.
Zephyr Management is a global emerging markets investment manager, specializing in the creation and management of highly focused private equity and venture capital funds.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Banking, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Kenya, India, Rwanda
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Round size: Seed $1M–$3M; Series A $2M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Arifu — Home About Us Impact Gender Dynamics of Using Mobile Technology Informed Consumers Improve Financial Service Utilization Digital training benefits farmers and agricultural institutions Resources Careers Contact Us X DEMO SCHEDULE A DEMO About Arifu https://vimeo.com/531804968Arifu is an education technology company established in 2015 in Kenya. We offer a content marketplace that brings together subject matter
- Emata — Emata brings digital and affordable financial products to farmers in East Africa.
- Power — Putting individuals on the path towards financial health
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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- Industry: Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
- Stage:Debt Financing, Series B
- Geography: India, Brazil, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 386
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Revelo — Scale your development team with the top 1% of 1,000,000+ software engineers in Latin America. Get matched with senior remote developers who have strong technical and English-speaking skills & hire them without the overhead. We handle payroll, taxes, and HR. Flat monthly rate.
- iyzico — iyzico was founded with the aim of providing a secure payment management platform to online companies of different sizes operating in different industries. Currently it offers iyziPos (secure virtualPOS solution with automated fraud prevention and high authorization-rate bank integrations) , iyziBazaar (manage marketplace payments), iyziLink (payby link, without the need of a shopping site), and Buyer Protection (secure shopping experience) as the flagship products.
- Candela — We build electric hydrofoil boats and ferries for leisure and commercial use. Explore the Candela C-8 and the Candela P-12.
Kiva is the world's first online lending platform. For as little as $25 you can lend to an entrepreneur around the world. Learn more here.
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- Industry: Energy, Software, Agriculture
- Stage:Debt Financing, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Kenya, United States, Ghana
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Debt Financing $15k–$18M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Nilus — Nilus is an impact-driven company that aims to eradicate malnutrition by applying technology to deliver affordable and healthy food to low income people. Nilus is creating a new value chain for the base of the pyramid, based on food rescue, disintermediation and inclusive design. Our vision is to become the largest and most impactful food companyin the Americas, by servicing the more than 360 million people living in poverty.
- Ilara Health — Ilara Health helps primary care clinics across Africa deliver better care.
- Let Me Snack — Let Me Snack is a Houston-based specialty snack company producing popped water lily seed snacks with clean ingredients.
Renew Capital is an Africa-focused investment firm that addresses critical gaps for Africa’s growing businesses and connects them to a global network of impact investors.
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- Industry: Mobile Apps, Financial Services, Finance
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 26
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Bosso — Bosso projects and realizes automation and robotic solutions for the growth of your business.
- Chpter — Chpter is a software development company that offers fast billing and checkout to help start, run, and grow a business.
- Level Africa — Digital Investment Marketplace for Africa
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