# Top 35 Software Startup Investors in Senegal in June 2026

## LoftyInc Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Carmel, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software

LoftyInc Capital Management empowers Afropreneurs to build a prosperous and equitable future in Africa. We deliver value to both founders and investors.........

## Worldline
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bezons, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Corporate Round
- Focus: Financial Services, Payments, Mobile Payments

Worldline is the platform that provides payments and transactional services.

## Saviu Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Ebène, Plaines Wilhems, Mauritius
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, E-Commerce, Financial Services

Saviu is a venture capital fund focusing on African early-stage startups.

## Proparco
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Debt Financing, Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, Finance, Energy

Proparco is devoted to private sector funding in the sustainable development sector.

## 4DX Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Brooklyn, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Logistics

4DX Ventures is a Pan-Africa Focused Venture Capital Firm. Our mission is to connect people, ideas, and capital to create a vibrant African community. 

## Enza Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, Finance, E-Commerce

Venture investor in high-growth Founders and Teams using technology to solve large and meaningful problems across Africa

## Kepple Africa Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software

We back exceptional founders in and from Africa who are addressing deep gaps between the status quo and the ideal.

## Yamaha Motor
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Iwata, Shizuoka, Japan
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Corporate Round
- Focus: Transportation, Software, Robotics

Corporate profile and facts about Yamaha Motor.

## Orange
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Grant, Seed
- Focus: Internet, Software, E-Commerce

Orange is a digital operator that offers mobile and internet services in Europe and Africa, and corporate telecommunication services worldwide. The group operates under the brand name Orange Business Services (OBS), both in France and internationally, in the business communication and IT services markets.Orange Business Services offers a range ofservices to large corporates, local authorities, and SMEs in France, as well as to multinationals around the world, supporting the implementation of their communication projects. To do so, OBS offers a full range of voice and data, IT, and integrated services.The Orange Fabs is an international network of startup drivers that provides startups in the digital space with advice, training, and events, as well as resources and expertise.Orange was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Paris, France with presence in 30 countries.

## Launch Africa
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Ebène, Plaines Wilhems, Mauritius
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology

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

## Founders Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology

Founders Fund is a San Francisco based venture capital firm investing in companies building revolutionary technologies.

## Karim Jouini
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: SMS, VoIP, Mobile

Karim Jouini is the Chief Product & Technology Officer of Medius. He previously worked at Microsoft Corporation as a Senior Software Development Engineer. Karim Jouini attended Western University.

## Ribbit Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance

It takes money to change money

## TotalEnergies
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Corporate Round, Post-IPO Equity
- Focus: Energy, Renewable Energy, Solar

TotalEnergies is a global integrated energy company that produces and markets energies: oil and biofuels, natural gas and green gases, renewables and electricity.

## Stripe
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

Stripe is a technology company that builds economic infrastructure for the Internet. Stripe is a platform for commercial finance infrastructure. Stripe is used by millions of businesses, ranging from the biggest corporations in the world to the most ambitious startups, to take payments, increase revenue, and open up new business prospects.

## Voltron Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments

On a mission to back the most extraordinary entrepreneurs out of Africa solving important problems in large markets.

## Jihed Othmani
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: SMS, VoIP, Mobile

Jihed is a Computer Science engineer, specialized in Web development technologies and Cloud Computing. He has worked among others for Atos - Airbus, BNP Paribas CIB, Credit Agricole CIB and Microsoft. Freelance for a few years, Jihed knows expense reports' torture and wants to see it disappear.

## Ventures Platform
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Internet

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.

## P1 Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Focus: Financial Services, Software, Payments

P1 Ventures works as a venture capital firm. They specialize in early-stage industrial technology firms in Africa.

## Emerge VC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Education, EdTech, E-Learning

Emerge is a $70m pre-seed fund backed by 100+ of the world’s best edtech and future of work founders and executives. Our vision is to democratise access to opportunity by being a catalytic partner for early-stage founders re-designing the future of learning and work.

## Sonatel’s Venture Innovation Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Training, Consulting, Outsourcing

Sonatel’s Venture Innovation Fund is an investment firm.

## GOODWILL Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Levittown, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Delivery, Logistics, E-Commerce

Goodwill Ventures is a micro venture fund created with the objective of providing start up funding to micro enterprises.

## Jules Olivier Koundé
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: SMS, VoIP, Mobile

Jules Olivier Koundé is a professional footballer who plays as a center-back or right-back for La Liga club Barcelona and the France national team.

## Mercy Corps Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Portland, Oregon, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology

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.

## Ciwara Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Nanterre, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: SMS, VoIP, Mobile

Ciwara Capital is an investment firm that focuses on African startups and small-to-medium enterprises. The company strives to promote sustainable development and innovation in Africa. With the help of investors from the Diaspora, Ciwara Capital provides support to businesses based in Africa. The company makes minority investments at the seed andpre-seed stages of equity.

## SouthBridge Investments
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Abidjan, Lagunes, Côte d'Ivoire
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: SMS, VoIP, Mobile

SouthBridge Investments provides capital and advisory support for Digital & innovation acceleration of SMEs.

## GreenHouse Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments

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.

## BICIS Groupe
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Dakar, Dakar, Senegal
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Debt Financing
- Focus: Manufacturing, Service Industry, Building Material

BICIS Groupe is a financial institution that provides personal and commercial banking services.

## Wuri Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Dakar, Dakar, Senegal
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology

Wuri Ventures focuses on innovating the spectrum between market-based solutions and pure public goods. It realizes that much successful innovation in Africa has occurred in this space, where innovation around market failures such as information asymmetry (data), fragmentation (platforms) and public goods (electricity, mobility) can solve previouslyintractable problems. Its unique mathematical properties, from cellular automata and emergence to numerical methods, studied by researchers, links ancient African culture to modern technology. It supports world-class entrepreneurs in solving Africa’s biggest challenges using innovation.

## Sequoia Heritage
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Health Care

We help the daring build legendary companies.

## Sam Altman
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet

Sam Altman is the CEO and co-founder of OpenAI. He is a Partner of Apollo Projects. Altman was the president of Y Combinator. Sam attended Stanford University.

## Aurelien Djani Tchouaméni
- Type: Angel
- Location: Rouen, Haute-Normandie, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Mobile, SMS, VoIP

Aurélien Djani Tchouaméni is a professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for La Liga club Real Madrid and the France national team.

## Family & Friends
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Focus: FinTech, Software, Education

Early Stage Investors

## Acasia Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cairo, Al Qahirah, Egypt
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Mobile

Acasia Ventures is a leading venture capital firm that invests in early-stage companies throughout the Middle East and Africa. With a focus on being a first believer in innovation and entrepreneurship, the firm strives to support the growth of the next generation of market leaders through their unique and scalable solutions. Its Tech Fund I iscurrently targeting investments in tech-driven and tech-enabled startups at the pre-Seed to pre-Series A stages.

## Partech
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS

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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