Top 50 Software Startup Investors in Nigeria (October 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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LoftyInc Capital
VC Fund
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28 | United States, Nigeria, Egypt | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | $100k–$37M |
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Microtraction
VC Fund
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24 | Nigeria, United States, Ghana | Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | $30k–$1.3M |
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Ventures Platform
VC Fund
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22 | Nigeria, United States, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Internet | $100k–$4M |
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TLcom Capital Partners
VC Fund
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13 | Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom | Series A, Seed | Mobile, Software, Information Technology | $1.9M–$20M |
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CRE Venture Capital
VC Fund
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11 | Nigeria, South Africa, United States | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, Software, FinTech | $250k–$21M |
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Golden Palm Investments
VC Fund
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10 | Nigeria, United States, Egypt | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Information Technology, Financial Services, Payments | $30k–$15M |
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Musha Ventures
VC Fund
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10 | United States, Nigeria, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Financial Services, FinTech | $100k–$10M |
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Hustle Fund
VC Fund
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9 | United States, Singapore, Canada | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech | $100k–$25M |
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Lateral Frontiers
VC Fund
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9 | United States, Nigeria, Kenya | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | FinTech, Financial Services, Energy | $500k–$15M |
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Launch Africa
VC Fund
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9 | Nigeria, South Africa, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology | $200k–$4M |
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Enza Capital
VC Fund
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8 | Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Financial Services, E-Commerce, FinTech | $1M–$31M |
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Kepple Africa Ventures
VC Fund
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8 | Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | $100k–$23M |
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HoaQ
VC Fund
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8 | Nigeria, United Kingdom, United States | Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel | FinTech, Financial Services, Internet | $100k–$3.3M |
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Consonance Investment Managers
VC Fund
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8 | Nigeria, United States, Kenya | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Financial Services, Information Technology | $50k–$10M |
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Future Africa
VC Fund
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8 | Nigeria, United States, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology | $100k–$40M |
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Resilience17
VC Fund
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8 | Nigeria, United States, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | FinTech, Financial Services, Payments | $100k–$12M |
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Leadpath Nigeria
VC Fund
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8 | Nigeria | Seed | E-Commerce, Retail, Software | $35k–$1.1M |
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Kairos Angels
VC Fund
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8 | United States, Nigeria, Mexico | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | FinTech, Financial Services, B2B | $150k–$20M |
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Ingressive Capital
VC Fund
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8 | Nigeria, United States, Egypt | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology | $25k–$15M |
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Kaleo Ventures
VC Fund
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7 | Nigeria, United States, Kenya | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Financial Services, Information Technology, Software | $25k–$15M |
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Women Entrepreneurship for Africa
VC Fund
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6 | Nigeria, Uganda, Cameroon | Pre-Seed, Grant | Health Care, Agriculture, Food and Beverage | |
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Chinook Capital Limited
VC Fund
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6 | Nigeria, Germany | Seed, Pre-Seed | EdTech, Software, Retail | $56k–$1M |
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Berrywood Capital
VC Fund
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6 | Nigeria, United States, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed | FinTech, Financial Services, Payments | $100k–$3.7M |
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Tofino Capital
VC Fund
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6 | United States, Nigeria, Egypt | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | $100k–$131M |
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Unpopular Ventures
VC Fund
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6 | United States, India, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services | $500k–$34M |
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Voltron Capital
VC Fund
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6 | Nigeria, United States, Senegal | Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel | Financial Services, FinTech, Payments | $120k–$3M |
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Silverbacks Holdings
VC Fund
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5 | Nigeria, United States, Egypt | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A | FinTech, Financial Services, Finance | $100k–$32M |
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SOSV
VC Fund
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5 | United States, China, Canada | Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed | Biotechnology, Health Care, Software | $50k–$5M |
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Everywhere Ventures
VC Fund
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5 | United States, United Kingdom, Australia | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence | $250k–$20M |
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True Capital Management
VC Fund
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5 | United States, Nigeria, Canada | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | FinTech, Financial Services, Software | $125k–$555M |
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Hesham Zreik
Angel
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5 | United States, India, Nigeria | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce | $10k–$5M |
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First circle capital
VC Fund
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5 | Nigeria, Egypt, United States | Pre-Seed, Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Payments | $100k–$4M |
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Partech
VC Fund
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5 | France, United States, Germany | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce | $1M–$56M |
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VentureSouq
VC Fund
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5 | United States, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia | Seed, Series A, Series B | FinTech, Financial Services, Software | $225k–$50M |
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Atlantica Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | Nigeria, United States, South Africa | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, FinTech, Information Technology | $450k–$3.7M |
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Prosper Otemuyiwa
Angel
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4 | Nigeria, Canada, United States | Pre-Seed, Angel | FinTech, Software, CRM | $200k–$1M |
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Olugbenga Agboola
Angel
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4 | Nigeria, Kenya, United States | Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel | FinTech, Financial Services, Payments | $625k–$7.5M |
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GreenHouse Capital
VC Fund
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4 | Nigeria, Kenya, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Payments | |
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Rising Tide Africa
VC Fund
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4 | Nigeria, United Kingdom, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | FinTech, Health Care, Financial Services | $75k–$3M |
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Injini
VC Fund
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4 | South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya | Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed | Education, EdTech, E-Learning | $7k–$500k |
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8VC
VC Fund
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4 | United States, United Kingdom, Canada | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care | $2.5M–$181M |
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Tayo Oviosu
Angel
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4 | Nigeria, Brazil, United States | Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, SaaS, Credit | $1.4M–$3.6M |
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Blockchain Founders Fund
VC Fund
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4 | United States, United Kingdom, Singapore | Seed, Pre-Seed | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech | $200k–$6M |
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Idris Ayodeji Bello
Angel
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4 | Nigeria, United States, Egypt | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | FinTech, Software, Financial Services | $425k–$5.1M |
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Tencent
VC Fund
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4 | China, United States, United Kingdom | Series B, Series A, Series C | Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce | $3M–$418M |
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EchoVC Partners
VC Fund
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4 | United States, Nigeria, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Information Technology, Financial Services, FinTech | $200k–$22M |
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RaliCap
VC Fund
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3 | United States, Mexico, Nigeria | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | FinTech, Financial Services, Payments | $300k–$5.5M |
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Flori Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | United States, United Kingdom, Israel | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech | $100k–$11M |
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Village Global
VC Fund
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3 | United States, United Kingdom, India | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services | $250k–$22M |
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Global Founders Capital
VC Fund
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3 | United States, Germany, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, Software, FinTech | $575k–$30M |
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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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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 187
- Round size: Seed $100k–$5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2.4M; Series A $250k–$37M
- Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $43M in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Cauridor — Cauridor is a Financial Services company.
- WafR — WafR is a reward-based loyalty startup that allows users to earn phone recharges while shopping at retail shops.
- Nucleon Security — Nucleon Smart Endpoint, AI and Zero-trust powered EDR platform.
We invest in Africa's most remarkable teams with technical founders at the earliest stage of their venture
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Ghana
Investor stats
- Total investments: 106
- Round size: Seed $30k–$1.3M; Angel $30k–$50k; Pre-Seed $50k–$1.1M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $15M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Growwr — Tell Growwr who you need. Our AI hiring agent finds relevant talent, evaluates candidates, and helps you move from hiring brief to interview.
- Paycrest — Unifying fiat and stablecoin payments globally, with speed, transparency, and built-in compliance.
- Cr3dentials — Cr3dentials lets neobanks offer credit inside their app. We handle income verification, underwriting, capital, and collections. You keep the customer.
We back founders building the future of Africa. We invest in companies that solve for non-consumption, plug infrastructural gaps and democratise prosperity in Africa, by eliminating the barriers for access and reducing the costs of delivering goods and services.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 173
- Round size: Seed $100k–$4M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $84M in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Myka.Insure — Myka is a insurance sales platform that enables individuals to sell insurance policies to their family, friends, colleagues, and community while earning income . It operates as a micro-entrepreneurship program where anyone (students, gadget sellers, car dealers, parents, retirees) can start their own insurance business with zero investment,flexible hours, and free training . The company is licensed by the National Insurance Commission of Nigeria and provides instant payouts to its partners .
- Cybervergent — Start with your industry and see how Cybervergent delivers Digital Trust, from posture to proof, written for your context.
- Traction Apps — Traction apps provide businesses end to end tools they need to run and grow their businesses.
TLCOM finds and funds exceptional founders building technology companies across Africa. Seed to Series C. Lagos, Nairobi, London.
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- Industry: Mobile, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 78
- Round size: Seed $1.9M–$8.5M; Series A $3.8M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 55% lead, 45% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $150M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Satlyt — Satlyt helps satellites run software and work together in orbit.
- Myka.Insure — Myka is a insurance sales platform that enables individuals to sell insurance policies to their family, friends, colleagues, and community while earning income . It operates as a micro-entrepreneurship program where anyone (students, gadget sellers, car dealers, parents, retirees) can start their own insurance business with zero investment,flexible hours, and free training . The company is licensed by the National Insurance Commission of Nigeria and provides instant payouts to its partners .
- LittleFish — Full stack enterprise platform that extends your infrastructure, instead of replacing it.
Founded in 2015, CRE Venture Capital invests in early stage tech companies that are levered to Africa. CRE is headquartered in the New York metro area, with a regional office in Lagos, Nigeria.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Software, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, South Africa, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 66
- Round size: Seed $250k–$4M; Pre-Seed $250k–$3.3M; Series A $1.1M–$21M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Flood — Flood is a marketplace platforms that provides merchant solution, self services and big data solution.
- Letly — Letly is developing an AI‑driven platform for the rental property market that automates tasks related to managing rental listings and tenant interactions. It aims to use intelligent agents to handle tasks such as scheduling viewings, responding to inquiries, and optimizing property management workflows. The platform is currently in a waitlistphase, signaling ongoing development and private access only.
- Cutstruct — Cutstruct is your one source for bulk construction materials purchase. Get the best prices for cement, steel, granite, sharp sand wood, and more.
Golden Palm Investments is an investment holding and advisory company.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Financial Services, Payments
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 87
- Round size: Seed $230k–$6M; Pre-Seed $30k–$6.5M; Series A $3M–$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.
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: 215
- Round size: Seed $120k–$7.5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3M; Series A $2.5M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% 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.
Hustle Fund is a seed fund that invests in early-stage startups operating in software, business-to-business, fintech, and digital health sectors.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Singapore, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 546
- Round size: Seed $750k–$6M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2.5M; Series A $4M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $33M in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- O-ID — Modular Humanoids, Made in Japan
- BON Credit — BON Credit is an AI-powered credit platform that helps customers understand, manage, and improve credit intelligently.
- Charter Space — Charter is developing a collaborative platform for satellite mission logistics and program management available via web app and API that provides satellite operators with intuitive information architecture to streamline missions and reduce wasted engineering hours so they can get to the launchpad faster.Charter's platform usesdesign-focused UI/UX and automation to reduce friction through intuitive dashboarding, improved information sharing, and optimized compute and data resource efficiency. For satellite companies, ATLAS streamlines processes, automates manual tasks, and provides engineers with communications and information infrastructure to seamlessly interface both across teams and organisations. reduces wasted engineering hours and lead times, and minimizes upfront technical debt, CapEx, and long-run OpEx.In other words, Charter is building a logistics solution that will be to satellite logistics what the graphical user interface was to command-line interfaces.
Lateral Capital is a mission driven venture fund investing in early and growth stage opportunities in Africa. We back companies that provide foundational technologies for the continent. We make debt and equity investments technology-enabled businesses that profitably solve significant pain points across financial services, healthcare, education,energy, agriculture, housing, logistics, mobility and more.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Energy
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 55
- Round size: Seed $1M–$6M; Pre-Seed $500k–$3.5M; Series A $558k–$15M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $28M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Rhaeos — Rhaeos, the world's first wearable shunt monitor, aims to improve the quality care for patients with hydrocephalus through a novel, thermal biosensor. Developed within Northwestern University with collaboration between Dr. John Rogers, McCormick School of Engineering, Feinberg School of Medicine and Kellogg School of Management, Rhaeosrepresents a unique multidisciplinary translational effort for an important clinical need.
- Wattnow — Wattnow's smart meters and AI show every machine's consumption live and flag waste in time to stop it. Plants cut energy costs by up to 30%.
- Octavia Carbon — Reversing Climate Change | Ending the Fossil Fuel Age | In Kenya.
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, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Nigeria, South Africa, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 218
- Round size: Seed $200k–$4M; Pre-Seed $200k–$1.8M; Venture - Series Unknown $200k–$500k
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Zazu — Manza is an all-in-one financial platform for African SMEs, helping businesses manage payments, automate cash flow, and access real-time financial insights from one simple dashboard.
- Fincart — Fincart is a leading shipping platform in Egypt, connecting your business with top courier services, automating operations, and helping you scale your eCommerce logistics.
- Udu Technologies — Explore GPU cloud and hardware through AGH Cloud, UduTech's flagship product, and AI advisory for teams in the United States, Africa, the Caribbean and beyond.
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- Industry: Financial Services, E-Commerce, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 54
- Round size: Seed $1M–$8M; Series A $3.6M–$31M; Venture - Series Unknown $2.6M–$17M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $58M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Satlyt — Satlyt helps satellites run software and work together in orbit.
- Orca Fraud — Orca empowers fraud fighters with effective tools to combat fraud
- Aethex — End to end voice agents localized for your market
Kepple Africa Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 85
- Round size: Seed $500k–$4.5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3.4M; Series A $1.1M–$23M
- Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Chari — Chari is an e-commerce and fintech app for traditional retailers in French-Speaking Africa allowing them to order any consumer goods they sell and get delivered for free in less than 24 hours. Chari is also a financial services provider for these retailers, offering them microloans
- 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.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Internet
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Geography: Nigeria, United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 29
- Round size: Seed $1.7M–$3.3M; Angel $100k–$130k; Pre-Seed $115k–$1M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Chowdeck — Order food, groceries, drinks, medicines & everyday essentials from top restaurants, pharmacies, local markets, and stores near you. Fast delivery with Chowdeck.
- Klas — Anyone, anywhere can teach online. Create & sell your ebooks, courses, and live classes- all on Klas.
- La Ruche Health Inc. — LaRuche Health offers inclusive apps that simplify care delivery and improve patient access to preventive healthcare services.
We are an investment company focused on helping early and growth-stage entrepreneurs build successful companies in Africa.
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 45
- Round size: Seed $550k–$4M; Pre-Seed $185k–$1M; Series A $50k–$10M
- Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Releaf Earth — We are industrializing food processing in Africa. We've led 1000+ smallholder farmers to provide food factories with >7.5 million kilograms of quality crops.
- Tripesa — Control what AI coding assistants can install. Approve libraries, MCP servers, and extensions before they enter your codebase.
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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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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 92
- Round size: Seed $500k–$4M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3.7M; Series A $7M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- STEM Cafe — STEMCafe by RVRB is a fun out of school learning centre for kids
- Juicyway — Juicyway moves money across borders for people and businesses. Send, receive, hold, and exchange multiple currencies from one account. | NG
- 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.
A testament to the continent's unyielding spirit, and a crucible where ambitious ideas are forged into reality through code, capital, and conviction.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 53
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$12M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Vatar — Vatar is building safety infrastructure for Africa — a small device and on-device AI (Ogbon) that turns the CCTV cameras a home or business already owns into intelligent systems that understand what's happening, act on it in real time, and dispatch help when it matters.
- Lagos Life — Lagos Life a massively popular browser-based life-simulation game modeled after Nigeria's commercial capital. Within nine days of launch, the game attracted over 4.7 million players, featuring fully simulated career tracks, social hubs, local virtual economies, and real-time multiplayer functionality directly inside web browsers.
- Aeon Cyber Defense — Aeon is a cybersecurity company focused on securing cloud, code, runtime, and AI environments,Aeon platform appears to help organizations identify and manage security risks across modern, cloud-native technology stacks.AeonSec positions itself around integrated security visibility and protection for rapidly evolving software and AI infrastructure
The Ultimate Information Hub
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Retail, Software
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Round size: Seed $35k–$1.1M
- Lead/follow: 57% lead, 43% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Fashpa — Welcome to Nigeria’s leading online fashion destination! Shopping online at Fashpa.com in Nigeria means the days of looking through endless boutiques and car boot sales to find that perfect fashion item and buying it at an expensive price when you do are long gone. Whether you are searching for the latest trends, clothing items, shoes,accessories or beauty products, FASHPA.COM brings you a huge collection of brands from which to choose the very best and latest. From shoes, such as heels, espadrilles, flats, sandals for women, wedges, down to clothes, like, swimwear, shorts, underwear or lingerie, and fashion jewelry. Our extensive range of international and local brands and designers such as Topshop, New look, Asos and Zara are literally at your fingertips. Our Mission is simple, the latest trends, hottest brands and best prices all delivered to your doorstep.At FASHPA Nigeria, we believe your online shopping experience should be fantastic and enjoyed as if you visited the best fashion store in Nigeria in person.This is why we have the latest collections and we remove all the stress and make sure you are able to receive your FASHPA order as quickly as possible - in major cities that's usually 1-3 working days. Enjoy free delivery in Lagos or a low shipping rate outside lagos with multiple payment options such as Pay Online, Bank Deposit and cash on delivery. Getting your fashion fix has never been easier and more secure.
- Piggyvest — Piggyvest is a very secure online savings platform that makes saving possible by combining discipline plus flexibility to make you grow your savings.
- FrontDesk — Frontdesk.ng helps you easily open a simple website or online shop, drive traffic and grow your business online.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, B2B
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, Mexico
Investor stats
- Total investments: 32
- Round size: Seed $150k–$5M; Pre-Seed $500k–$3.7M; Series A $4.2M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Nestcoin — Nestcoin is a web3 application company that builds, operates, and invests in crypto-native products.
- Belong — Belong is a personal finance platform for people who are ready to play the long game.
- Cleva — For anyone with global financial needs, A US-based dollar account in your name to receive, hold, and save USD.
Ingressive Capital is a renowned $50M Pan-African Venture Capital Fund that invests in indigenous founders and startups across Africa, with focus on Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Morocco, and Nigeria. Specializing in early-stage investments, particularly Pre-Seed and Seed stages, it targets technology companies led by top-tier talent driving transformativegrowth in Africa's GDP. The firm's thesis focuses on B2C solutions that cater to the explosive growth within the tech-enabled, decentralized-learning youth demographic, as well as B2B solutions that increase Africa’s value chain ownership from resource extraction to end-product sale. Its goal is to become becoming a highly valuable VC partner on the founders' cap tables, and being at the forefront of supporting and enabling entrepreneurial success across Africa.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 78
- Round size: Seed $600k–$3.7M; Pre-Seed $25k–$2M; Series A $500k–$15M
- Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $50M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- SehaTech — Welcome to SehaTech, the groundbreaking company revolutionizing the health insurance market with our innovative solutions!
- Chat Cash — Turn conversations into commerce. The unified operating system for payments, inventory, and AI sales on WhatsApp & USSD.
- REasy — Top up locally, pay suppliers globally, and manage international shipments with REasy. Fast, secure, and designed for African businesses expanding worldwide.
Kaleo Ventures is an investment firm that invests in pre-seed companies across Africa.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Information Technology, Software
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 58
- Round size: Seed $25k–$2.7M; Pre-Seed $100k–$1M; Series A $100k–$15M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $1.1M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
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- ChipMango — ChipMango is a semiconductor company that provides chip design and pre-manufacturing engineering services.
- Aeon Cyber Defense — Aeon is a cybersecurity company focused on securing cloud, code, runtime, and AI environments,Aeon platform appears to help organizations identify and manage security risks across modern, cloud-native technology stacks.AeonSec positions itself around integrated security visibility and protection for rapidly evolving software and AI infrastructure
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- Industry: Health Care, Agriculture, Food and Beverage
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Grant
- Geography: Nigeria, Uganda, Cameroon
Investor stats
- Total investments: 116
- Lead/follow: 99% lead, 1% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ORIKI — ORIKI is a luxury skin and hair care brand that fuses all-natural ingredients primarily sourced from the continent of Africa with scientific research to create extraordinary products.
- Mukuru Clean Stoves — Mukuru Clean Stoves is a social enterprise The company is engaged in designing, producing and distributing improved, reliable and affordable cook stoves for low income households. The company's stoves are produced using locally sourced recycled waste metal enabling them to reduce production costs and make affordable products in the market.The company distributes its products through networks of local women business owners and microfinance institutions.
- Loom Craft Chocolate — Loom Craft Chocolate is a artisanal cocoa processor with a strong focus on the quality of our products and the sustainability of our processes.
Chinook Capital is focused on investments in seed- and pre-stage companies in internet software, services, and media sectors.
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- Industry: EdTech, Software, Retail
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Round size: Seed $120k–$1M; Pre-Seed $56k–$350k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Edves — Edves automates the brick and mortal School operations from Student enrollment, Fee Collection, Lesson Note up to Transcript Generation.
- Propel — Propel is building an ecosystem for the future of work. The core offering is a CaaS (Community-as-a-Service) powered platform that helps fast-growing, post-raise companies across the world fill their critical tech hires with world-class African talent, either for full-time, remote or hybrid roles.With a talent focus on emerging markets with highgrowth potential, Propel is currently building the largest combined community of tech ecosystems in Africa, providing talent in these communities with access to work, embedded finance and other extended community benefits.
- Lifestores Pharmacy — Lifestores is a retail pharmacy start-up bringing disruptive innovation to the pharmaceutical sector in Nigeria by democratizing quality medicines and pharmaceutical services.
Berrywood Capital is an investment firm.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 22
- Round size: Seed $100k–$2.7M; Pre-Seed $125k–$3.7M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% 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 — Empower your business with our cutting-edge digital payments platform! Lotus simplifies your business banking tasks and offers tailored financial solutions to boost your business growth. Take control of your business finances by exploring Lotus today!
Tofino Capital is an early stage investor in emerging market technology companies.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 25
- Round size: Seed $150k–$22M; Pre-Seed $100k–$1M; Series A $25M–$131M
- Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $10M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Vultron — Compress proposal production timeframes from weeks into days with Generative AI.
- Terra Industries — Terra Industries develops and supplies autonomous security and defense technology systems that help monitor and safeguard critical infrastructure such as power plants, mines, refineries, and other industrial assets. The company creates unmanned aerial drones, autonomous ground vehicles, surveillance towers, and maritime monitoring systems that operate with its proprietary ArtemisOS platform for real-time threat detection, autonomous mission planning, and coordinated response across land, air, and sea environments. Its offerings support infrastructure operators and government agencies in detecting and responding to security risks with integrated hardware and software solutions. Terra Industries focuses on delivering systems that integrate data intelligence and autonomy to enhance wide-area surveillance and operational awareness across large or remote facilities.
- Irreversible — Irreversible designs next-generation analog AI chips that enable meaningful intelligence anywhere — from sensors to robots.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 622
- Round size: Seed $500k–$8M; Pre-Seed $500k–$2.6M; Series A $6M–$34M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $13k in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Sourcepulse — Sourcepulse empowers engineering leaders to spot delays early, fix process bottlenecks, and confidently commit to deadlines.
- Morphic — Morphic is the sovereign AI platform for organizations to capture and own their tribal knowledge. The Morphic Revenue Agent is the first agent we're launching - a proactive AI agent for sales teams that connects to their existing software and helps to tighten pipeline discipline, so you can close faster and more predictably. The Morphic Workspace is an agentic platform for any team, technical and non-technical, to build an AI operating system for your business. Connect any software tool in your stack, and embedded agents help to automate work while maintaining unified context across all your work tools. The Morphic Workspace comes with: > Knowledge base > Project management > Meeting recorder > Custom tables/records > Embedded agents that live on the workspace and platforms like Slack, WhatsApp, Telegram etc.
- NORDA Dynamics — NORDA Dynamics is an autonomous UAV piloting system for carrying out missions in areas with limited connectivity.
On a mission to back the most extraordinary entrepreneurs out of Africa solving important problems in large markets.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Senegal
Investor stats
- Total investments: 68
- Round size: Seed $120k–$3M; Pre-Seed $200k–$1.2M
- Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Lingawa — Speak your native language with pride! Learn Yoruba and Igbo with fun, immersive online lessons for adults and kids (ages 5+).
- Maad — Maad is Francophone Africa's fastest-growing B2B marketplace, based in Dakar, Senegal. Our tech-driven solution allows retailers to order products from our one-stop shop and benefit from working capital loans
- ZeroComplex AI — ZeroComplex AI develops Artificial Intelligence workflow that intends to revolutionize business operations with simplified AI integration.
Silverbacks Holdings is a Mauritius-based private investment firm established in 2019, focusing on Africa-related companies in underserved industries such As technology, sports, entertainment, and the creative economy. The firm aims for returns averaging 2x to 5x on its investments and has achieved 9 profitable exits since its inception. Its portfolio includes over 240 companies across Africa, collectively valued at over $10 billion. Landmark investments include the Cape Town Tigers (2024 BAL semi-finalists), Forever7 Entertainment (Netflix content deals), and Moove (a global mobility fintech backed by Uber), and Wave (a mobile money and global remittance focused fintech backed by Stripe).
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 65
- Round size: Seed $200k–$8.3M; Series A $1.4M–$32M; Venture - Series Unknown $100k–$26M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Vanhu Vamwe — Vanhu Vamwe is a luxury accessory brand that creates handcrafted, sustainable handbags using traditional African crafts and eco-friendly materials.
- The Rad Black Kids — The Rad Black Kids are the Anti-Monolith Crusaders use design to tell stories. All our products are now made in Portugal. Sustainability and reduction of carbon emissions are paramount to us. We design longboards, clothing, and sneakers Free Shipping on all Domestic Orders.
- African Warriors Fighting Championship — African Warriors Fighting Championship is Africa's leading promoter of traditional combat sports: Dambe and Wrestling.
SOSV offers pre-seed capital and follow-on financial support to startups focusing on deep technology and scientific innovation. Founders utilize purpose-built laboratory facilities and engineering spaces to accelerate product development and testing. The firm facilitates connections between entrepreneurs and a network of investors through structured matchmaking events and technology summits.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
- Stage:Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, China, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3729
- Round size: Seed $150k–$5M; Pre-Seed $50k–$1.6M; Convertible Note $50k–$3.6M
- Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $306M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Halla — Halla Intelligence is a digital solution that leverages over 100 billion shopper and product data points to recommend and promote what grocery items.
- Simply Good Jars — Simply Good Jars is a B-Corp company that delivers healthy meals in reusable + returnable packaging through use of smart refrigerated kiosks placed in offices, transit centers, universities and health-systems. Driven by purpose to change that way people think about consumption, SGJ introduces sustainable business practices into their everydayoperations with a zero-waste goal. For every jar returned back to the company for reuse, they will help feed someone in need and ensure that no packaging materials end up in landfills.
- Verdex Technologies — Verdex Technologies is an advanced materials platform technology that uses nanofibers to disrupt industries. Verdex doesn't just compete, it innovates and disrupts.
Everywhere Ventures is a global pre-seed venture capital fund for founders, by founders. Click to read Everywhere VC, by Everywhere Ventures, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1305
- Round size: Seed $1M–$6.5M; Pre-Seed $250k–$2.5M; Series A $6M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $4.4M in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- Donna — Meet Donna, the AI assistant built for field sales teams. Save time, cut admin, and close more deals with less effort.
- Noise — Noise makes finding UGC creators easy. Work smarter with personalized AI guidance to make your next UGC creator campaign go viral.
- Netsec — Professional cybersecurity and managed IT services to protect your business 24/7.
Achieve your financial goals & build generational wealth with our entertainer & athlete wealth management services. Offering comprehensive financial planning.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 168
- Round size: Seed $949k–$5M; Pre-Seed $125k–$725k; Series A $5.3M–$555M
- Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $672k in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- StackAI — Stack AI supercharges businesses. Deploy AI-powered applications in minutes, automate processes, and skyrocket productivity by connecting LLMs to data sources using Stack AI's no-code platform. Export your work with user-centric interfaces (chatbots and forms) and developer-friendly APIs.
- Milano Vice — Milano Vice is building a new virtual food brand by working with professional kitchens to prepare and deliver delicious pizzas to home.
- Kapital — Kapital empowers SMBs with a tech-banking platform giving visibility and control of their treasury, and their employees
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, India, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1176
- Round size: Seed $20k–$2M; Pre-Seed $10k–$1M; Series A $170k–$5M
- Lead/follow: 53% lead, 47% follow
Portfolio highlights
- EasyBusy — EasyBusy is a contractor-client matching platform designed to address key challenges in the GCC service and construction economy.
- Excel And Impact Agro — Excel And Impact Agro aims to tackle the chronic shortage of vegetable production in Côte d'Ivoire.
- JLC Industry Of Tomato Paste Sarl U — JLC Industry is a Togolese agro-industrial startup dedicated to the production, processing, and commercialization of tomato concentrate.
First Circle Capital is a venture capital firm seeding the next fintech generation in Africa.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, Egypt, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 35
- Round size: Seed $455k–$4M; Pre-Seed $100k–$780k
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% 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.
- Pumpkn — Need reliable funding? We provide quick loans and capital tailored for Agriculture businesses in South Africa. Grow your business with Pumpkn. Apply now!
- Scale — Scale accelerates market entry and revenue for fintechs with a people-first approach.
Partech is a global venture capital firm with offices in San Francisco, Paris, Berlin and Dakar. Partech invests in Internet and information technology startups at seed, venture and growth stages.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: France, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 699
- Round size: Seed $1M–$9M; Series A $4.5M–$28M; Series B $9M–$56M
- Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $345M in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- Modeinspect — acreom is the integrated markdown knowledge base with tasks. Your personal daily driver for your dev workflow.
- TeamToolz — TeamToolz creates and implements user-friendly applications that simplify and streamline the creation, management and archiving of marketing communications. Addressing the urgency of time to market, our web-based tools better enable entire brand launches by coordinating the workflow of multiple outside agencies and internal groups, for moreintegrated worldwide brand management.
- Revibe — Buy refurbished & used electronics (Smartphones, Laptops) in UAE at Revibe. Free delivery & 12 months warranty. Certified tech by our experts. Order Now!
VentureSouq (VSQ) is a MENA-based venture capital fund manager with a global portfolio. VSQ manages thematic funds, with a current focus on FinTech and ClimateTech.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 222
- Round size: Seed $225k–$9M; Series A $6M–$37M; Series B $300k–$50M
- Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $50M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Orbii AI — Our AI enriches & analyses borrower data, helping you make credit decisions in minutes. Accelerate your business loan Underwriting decisons.
- Siin — E-commerce Marketplace
- MilkStraw AI — Saving companies up to 75% on AWS
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 17
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$3.7M; Pre-Seed $450k–$2.1M
- Lead/follow: 65% lead, 35% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $50M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- ChipMango — ChipMango is a semiconductor company that provides chip design and pre-manufacturing engineering services.
- Salus Cloud — Salus Cloud is an AI-native platform for engineers to develop and manage security.
- Cybervergent — Start with your industry and see how Cybervergent delivers Digital Trust, from posture to proof, written for your context.
Prosper Otemuyiwa is a Co-founder of forLoop Africa. He attended Babcock University.
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- Industry: FinTech, Software, CRM
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: Nigeria, Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Round size: Pre-Seed $200k–$1M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Frain technologies — We're passionate about the product delivery value chain.
- Famasi — Find, Order & Refill medications across 1000+ pharmacies in Nigeria. Delivered in 1 hour. Compare prices, get the best offers, and enjoy free monthly delivery on recurring orders.
- Sendchamp — Messagebird For Africa: Sendchamp provides Communication APIs & CRM for developers & businesses to reach their customers via different messaging channels such as SMS, Email, Voice, Whatsapp, and other digital messaging channels. Our APIs and No code tools help businesses in Africa from the stage of Customer Onboarding, CustomerEngagement, Customer Service & Customer Retention.
Olugbenga Agboola is based out of San Francisco, California, and is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Flutterwave. Olugbenga previously worked at Access Bank as a Head of Digital Factory and Innovation. Olugbenga Agboola attended EC-Council University. Olugbenga Agboola has been a Certified Ethical Hacker and a Security Analyst.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 30
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$7.5M; Pre-Seed $625k–$3.7M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Lagos Life — Lagos Life a massively popular browser-based life-simulation game modeled after Nigeria's commercial capital. Within nine days of launch, the game attracted over 4.7 million players, featuring fully simulated career tracks, social hubs, local virtual economies, and real-time multiplayer functionality directly inside web browsers.
- Terra Industries — Terra Industries develops and supplies autonomous security and defense technology systems that help monitor and safeguard critical infrastructure such as power plants, mines, refineries, and other industrial assets. The company creates unmanned aerial drones, autonomous ground vehicles, surveillance towers, and maritime monitoring systems that operate with its proprietary ArtemisOS platform for real-time threat detection, autonomous mission planning, and coordinated response across land, air, and sea environments. Its offerings support infrastructure operators and government agencies in detecting and responding to security risks with integrated hardware and software solutions. Terra Industries focuses on delivering systems that integrate data intelligence and autonomy to enhance wide-area surveillance and operational awareness across large or remote facilities.
- Lorum Finance — Lorum is the correspondent institution for banks and fintechs: programmable access to global clearing, named custody, and treasury on a 100% reserve model.
GreenHouse Capital’s Founding Partners took their own fintech company Venture Garden Group (VGG) from a 7 employee, ₦30 million revenue startup to a 200 employees, ₦2 billion power house in just 4 years and raised an attention grabbing Series A round from Convergence Partners of South Africa. The uniqueness of their position was not lost on thefounders who then cultivated Garden Institute of Business Entrepreneurs (GIBE) to identify, incubate, and invest in young and innovative tech startups solving global challenges in Emerging Markets. GIBE was created to build a world class talent management hub for young and passionate entrepreneurs while creating a pool of technology inclined businesses and innovation oriented leaders.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 32
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Credpal — Buy now, pay later. Split in 6.
- Encore Pay — Encore Pay is a UAE-based FinTech and Payment solutions provider.
- MarketForce — MarketForce connects Africa’s informal retail outlets and consumers directly to suppliers of consumer goods and financial services by digitizing orders, delivery, and payments with the aim of solving the last mile distribution challenge.
Rising Tide Africa is a women-led angel network empowering female investors and entrepreneurs through mentorship, investments, and partnerships across Africa.
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- Industry: FinTech, Health Care, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: Nigeria, United Kingdom, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 26
- Round size: Seed $75k–$3M; Pre-Seed $100k–$600k
- Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Figorr — Figorr is your go-to, for accessing reliable information on temperature, humidity, and location. Experience the next generation of data-driven insights with Figorr today.
- Amayi Foods — Amayi Foods is a Nigerian company and one of core beliefs is ensuring that have a positive impact on operating environment.
- Ororo Waste Management — Ororo Waste is an environmental management firm that aggregates, processes, and recycles used cooking oil (UCO). The company collects hazardous kitchen waste from commercial and residential generators to prevent it from clogging drainage systems or polluting water bodies. Once collected, the UCO is processed and converted into clean biofuel feedstocks, which are used to manufacture sustainable biodiesel. Their core operation focuses on diverted waste management to support renewable energy production and lower carbon emissions.
Injini's EdTech Accelerator and Think Tank aims to support founders of African startups with a mission to improve educational outcomes across the region.
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- Industry: Education, EdTech, E-Learning
- Stage:Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 56
- Round size: Seed $39k–$500k; Grant $55k–$132k; Pre-Seed $7k–$40k
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Book Village — Together Let's End The Reading Crisis In South Africa Tutor Young South African Learners From Anywhere with Book Village. Sign up now to hear first...
- Buddy Learning — Explore educational resources for families with Buddy Learning in the United States. Join us today!
- The Marking App — The Marking App provides a data-free application that automatically marks handwritten school assessments while also automating school administration.
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Browse database — It's Free!8VC focuses its investment activities on industries such as life sciences, healthcare, logistics, manufacturing, enterprise software, and defense. Its portfolio support model aids founders in scaling transformational technologies intended to create long-term economic and societal value. The firm actively finances breakthroughs ranging from medical innovations and zero-emission transit models to security compliance and infrastructure automation.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 678
- Round size: Seed $2.5M–$13M; Series A $7.7M–$55M; Series B $17M–$181M
- Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $45M in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- Harbor — Harbor is a specialized platform designed to provide insurance and risk management for the AI agentic economy. As AI agents increasingly take over autonomous decision-making tasks within enterprise environments, they introduce unique operational, security, and regulatory risks that traditional safety controls are not built to handle.
- Hello Patient — Healthcare AI that gets your team off the phone & in front of patients
- Sirona Medical — Sirona Medical is revolutionizing radiology by delivering a cloud-native platform that unifies the worklist, viewer, reporter, archive, and AI into a single, intuitive workspace. Designed specifically for radiologists, Sirona’s platform simplifies complex workflows, enhances productivity, and empowers practitioners to work as fast as they think.Founded in San Francisco, CA, Sirona combines deep expertise in the practice and business of radiology to create purpose-built solutions that address the evolving needs of the field. By streamlining radiology workflows and integrating cutting-edge AI, Sirona enables radiologists to deliver better, faster, and more efficient care.
Tayo is the Founder & Group CEO of Paga (www.paga.com), Nigeria’s leading mobile money service. Prior to Paga, Tayo was Vice-President at Travant Capital Partners, a private equity fund in West Africa. Prior to joining Travant, Tayo was a Manager, Corporate Development, at Cisco Systems in San Jose California. Tayo’s work at Paga has beenrecognized globally - in 2014 CNBC selected Tayo as the Entrepreneur of the Year West Africa, and in 2015 the African Leadership Network selected Paga as the outstanding growing company of the year in Africa. Tayo is also the co-founder of Kairos Angels, an angel investment club.Tayo earned his Bachelors of Science degree in Electrical Engineering, cum laude, from the University of Southern California, and also has a Masters in Business Administration from the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University.
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- Industry: Financial Services, SaaS, Credit
- Stage:Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, Brazil, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$3.6M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- RELAYTO AI Regulated Content Platform — RELAYTO converts your PDFs & presentations to interactive web experiences with instant branding, analytics & more
- Tyms — Tyms online accounting software for your business connects you to your bank, accountant, bookkeeper, and other business apps. Start a free trial today. Also available in Nigeria, Ghana, Mauritius and South Africa.
- Venco Platforms — Venco automates visitor management, billing, and collections, as well as smart utility vending for communities across Africa.
We Focus Exclusively On Adding Value To Blockchain & Emerging Technology Projects With Real World Applications.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 267
- Round size: Seed $500k–$6M; Pre-Seed $200k–$2.5M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $75M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Rilla — Demonstrating 90% reduction in cost-to-serve for live-streaming, Rilla is rewiring the content economy, directing the value generated back to creators and their communities.By leveraging audience bandwidth and rewarding them with ownership in the network, the savings are equivalent to a free month subscription every year for a moderate level ofviewership.Founded by the technical founders behind Altered State Machine, acquired for 214m. Together for 5+ ventures, collectively raising 130m+ and valued at 1b+.
- Osmo — Osmo is a payment company that helps people to send and receive money immediately.
- Uniblock — Uniblock helps connect developers with Web3 using our APIs and services. Our developers use Uniblock because of how easy it is to integrate into exciting applications. Try it for free today!
The 'Afropreneur' (entrepreneur with an African focus), as he self-describes, Idris Ayodeji Bello is a Partner at LoftyInc Allied Partners Limited and co-founder of The Wennovation Hub, an innovation platform based in Nigeria, that has successfully accelerated the launch of several technology start-ups in social impact sectors. He isalso a Founding Partner at Loftyinc Capital Management, owners of the Afropreneurs Fund (I&II)The 'Afropreneur' (entrepreneur with an African focus), as he self-describes, Idris Bello is a Partner at LoftyInc Allied Partners Limited and co-founder of The Wennovation Hub, an innovation platform based in Nigeria, that has successfully accelerated the launch of several technology start-ups in social impact sectors. He is also a Founding Partner at Loftyinc Capital Management, owners of the Afropreneurs Fund (I&II)A first class honors graduate of Computer Engineering from Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria, he has an M.Sc in Computer Science & Data Mining from the University of Houston; an MBA in Entrepreneurship & Strategy from Rice University in Houston and an M.Sc in Global Health Science from the University of Oxford, where he was a 2011 recipient of The Lord Weidenfeld Scholarship for demonstrating remarkable potential as a future leader from an emerging economy.Idris spent the greater part of a decade working at Chevron Corporation and ExxonMobil USA, where he led several large upstream technology projects across the USA and Sub-Saharan Africa. Idris has also worked with the Clinton Foundation Health Access Initiative where he played a major role in the deployment and evaluation of Swaziland’s first mobile health patient appointment reminder system as part of the country’s National AIDS Program. Listed among CNN’s Top Ten African Technology Voices, he is a Singularity University Impact Fellow, Harambe Entrepreneur Alliance Associate, Clinton Global Initiative University Fellow, MIT Global Start-up Fellow, SAP Ashoka Global Changemakers Award Winner, Dell Technology Award Winner, StartingBloc Innovation Fellow and a Nigeria Leadership Initiative Future Leader.As a leader, Idris has mentored and catalyzed scores of contributors across the growing African landscape and is an angel investor and advisor to several African startups including Andela, Flutterwave, RelianceHMO, among others. He continues to devote his efforts to the development of innovation-driven, technology-enabled social enterprises that empower the underserved and develop transformative ideas to change lives on the African continent.He spends most of his time between Lagos, Cairo, or airport lounges.
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- Industry: FinTech, Software, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 39
- Round size: Seed $450k–$5.1M; Pre-Seed $425k–$1.1M
- Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ScholarX — ScholarX enables you to study a variety of skills online, receive money for your education, upskill your employees, and expand your business. The company provides low-income Africans with digital and affordable education.
- Jem — We give employers the ability to send company-wide communications, deliver payslips, manage leave & give employees access to their earnings, via WhatsApp.
- Bata Shoe Organization — Discover a diverse selection of stylish footwear and accessories for the entire family at Bata's online store. From athletic sneakers to elegant designs, find the latest trends and comfortable options in one place. Shop now to experience unmatched style and comfort with our extensive collection.
Tencent is an internet service portal offering value-added internet, mobile, telecom, and online advertising services. Its communications and social platforms Weixin and QQ connect users with each other, with digital content and daily life services in just a few clicks. Tencent has maintained steady growth under its user-oriented operating strategies. It provides value-added internet, mobile, and telecom services, as well as online advertising under the strategic goal of providing users with "one-stop online lifestyle services." Tencent’s Internet platforms in China – QQ (QQ Instant Messenger), WeChat, QQ.com, QQ Games, Qzone, 3g.QQ.com, SoSo, PaiPai, and Tenpay – aim to address the various needs of internet users, including communication, information, entertainment, e-commerce, and others. In September 2013, Tencent's market valuation rose to $101 billion, and as of November 21, 2013, QQ had 2 billion active users and WeChat had 650 million monthly active users. The numbers of active users for QQ mail, Qzone, Tencent Weibo, and QQ news were 274 million, 626 million, 220 million, and 150 million, respectively. Tencent was founded in November of 1998. In April 2000, the IDG and PCCW invested a total of $2.2 million dollars in the company. Tencent was listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (SEHK) on June 16, 2004. Baidu, Alibaba, and Netease are Tencent's major competitors.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
- Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
- Geography: China, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 901
- Round size: Series A $3M–$157M; Series B $15M–$213M; Series C $23M–$418M
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- BYJU'S — BYJU’S is a global ed-tech company that provides highly adaptive, engaging, and effective learning solutions to more than 150 million students around the world. Founded in India in 2011, BYJU's mission is to make high-quality learning accessible to students everywhere.The BYJU's family of brands includes Disney-BYJU's Early Learn,BYJU's FutureSchool, Epic!, Osmo, Tynker, Toppr, and WhiteHat Jr., along with the company’s beloved flagship product, BYJU's: The Learning App. Together, BYJU's solutions support pre-K–12 education and a wide range of competitive exams.BYJU’S delivers a world-class learning experience with tools that sit at the crossroads of mobile, interactive content, and personalized learning methodologies. Byju's geography-agnostic solutions and 12,000+ teachers make learning engaging with visual and contextual programs that adapt to the unique learning style, skill level, and pace of each student. In addition, BYJU’S has innovative partnerships with some of the world's largest companies, including Disney and Google, to drive engagement and help even more students become active and lifelong learners.BYJU’S is backed by blue-chip investors including the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative, Sequoia Capital, Bond Capital, Silver Lake, BlackRock, Sands Capital Management, Alkeon Capital Management, Sofina, Verlinvest, Tencent, Prosus (previously Naspers Ventures), CPPIB, General Atlantic, Tiger Global, Qatar Investment Authority, Owl Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Times Internet, Aarin Capital, and IFC. Since 2017, BYJU’S has completed more than 15 acquisitions, including companies in the U.S., UK, Austria, India, and Singapore. A 2021 Time 100 Most Influential Company, BYJU’S is headquartered in India, with operations in more than 21 countries globally and learning programs in more than 8 languages.
- VIPKID — VIPKid is a global education technology company that connects children with the world’s best teachers for real-time online English immersion learning.VIPKid’s mission is to inspire and empower every child for the future. VIPKid envisions a global classroom that empowers students and teachers through personalized learning, connection of culturesacross the world and the passion for lifelong learning. It believes that education is not one-size-fits-all, rather, all students are unique and the world is within their reach when connected with great teachers capable of personalizing learning and sparking curiosity.Founded in 2013 and formally launched in 2014, VIPKid has become China’s market-leading online education startup, attracting investment from Tencent, Coatue Management, Sequoia Capital, Sinovation Ventures, Yunfeng Capital, Matrix Partners, Learn Capital, Northern Light VC and Bryant Stibel, among others. The VIPKid platform currently connects over 500,000 paying students with over 60,000 teachers in the US and Canada.
- Z.ai — Z.ai develops artificial intelligence models and services built upon large-scale pretrained architectures. The company offers ChatGLM, a dialogue-focused language model series designed for smooth conversation and easy integration. It also provides Ying, a text-to-video model capable of generating short video clips from text or images, and AutoGLM,a voice-driven AI agent that performs smartphone tasks based on complex user instructions. Z.ai supports integration through an API platform and offers migration assistance for developers moving from other AI ecosystems. The company’s technology stems from research at Tsinghua University’s KEG lab and emphasizes general-purpose cognitive intelligence models.
EchoVC Partners is a seed and early-stage venture capital firm focused on financing and cross-pollinating leading technologies, teams, business models, and knowledge across North America, Africa, and SE Asia. The average investment size ranges from $25,000 to several million dollars depending on the stage of opportunity and capital needs of the business.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Financial Services, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 74
- Round size: Seed $200k–$4M; Pre-Seed $200k–$2.2M; Series A $1.2M–$22M
- Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $2.5M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Rivy — Access flexible financing for solar energy projects with Rivy. Power homes, businesses, and communities with clean, affordable energy.
- Snowstorm — Official site of the Snowstorm Network
- Rana Energy — No. 1 Solar Community in Africa
Rally Cap is a global community of tech folks investing in an exclusive portfolio of top-tier early stage venture funds in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: United States, Mexico, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 62
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$5.5M; Pre-Seed $300k–$3.7M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Cata — Launch your branded mobile app for ordering, CRM & loyalty. Increase order frequency & basket size. Learn how Cata can scale your business!
- Upper — Transforming cross-border e-commerce in Latin America
- Gangkhar — Gangkhar provides AI-native embedded insurance infrastructure for digital platforms, insurers, MGAs, and brokers to launch, optimize, and scale embedded protection.
More than a seed-stage fund and a portfolio of startups: Our community of founders taps into the power of financial innovation to collaborate around global problems and unlock prosperity for all.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 106
- Round size: Seed $250k–$11M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3.5M; Series A $2.8M–$11M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Mento Labs — Mento Labs' mission is to enable real-world adoption of digital assets by providing transparent and reliable technological primitives to our partners around the world.
- Learn.xyz — Learn.xyz’s is a mixture of Duolingo and Wikipedia, powered by AI, creating bite-sized “Curiosities” which feature slides and a quiz, in mere seconds just from taking in a user’s question. Find the app on iOS and Android.
- Thrive Protocol — Thrive Protocol's vision is to maximize value creation for all people and communities.
Early stage venture capital backed by some of the world's best entrepreneurs.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 514
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$10M; Pre-Seed $250k–$3.5M; Series A $7M–$22M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $125M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- microagi — microagi is a data research lab working on end-to-end physical AGI, with a focus on reliable real-world deployments.
- Legato Audio — Legato Hearing develops stylish glasses with built-in hearing technology, offering a discreet alternative to traditional hearing aids.
- Cast Insights — Cast Insights is an AI-powered platform that turns global spoken content—TV, radio, podcasts, livestreams—into structured, searchable real-time intelligence for investors, policy teams, strategists, and newsrooms.
Over the past two decades, GFC have backed over five hundred entrepreneurs worldwide, e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, and Away Travel.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Software, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1121
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$8.8M; Pre-Seed $575k–$5M; Series A $5M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $2B in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- Benford — Benford is a modern, licensed audit firm that provides technology-driven statutory audit services using its custom software, AuditOS.
- Primo — A birdseye view of your IT.
- sevDesk — Deutschlands beliebteste Buchhaltungssoftware: Rechnungen& Angebote erstellen, Buchhaltung erledigen, Kunden- &Lagerverwaltung u.v.m.
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