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Top 50 Software Startup Investors in South Africa (August 2026)

The most active venture capital funds and angel investors investing in South Africa Software startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in South Africa Software startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Knife Capital
VC Fund
13 South Africa, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Seed Software, Information Technology, Education $2M–$15M
HAVAÍC
VC Fund
11 South Africa, United States, Kenya Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, FinTech $100k–$15M
Launch Africa
VC Fund
11 Nigeria, South Africa, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology $200k–$4M
Kalon Venture Partners
VC Fund
9 South Africa, Luxembourg, United States Seed, Series A Artificial Intelligence, Apps, Internet $570k–$11M
Imvelo Ventures
VC Fund
8 South Africa Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series B Financial Services, FinTech, Software $659k–$5M
4Di Capital
VC Fund
7 South Africa, United States, Kenya Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Financial Services, Mobile $527k–$47M
AngelHub Ventures
VC Fund
7 South Africa, Mexico, Colombia Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Education $300k–$2.3M
TLcom Capital Partners
VC Fund
7 Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Seed Software, Mobile, Information Technology $1.9M–$15M
54 Collective
VC Fund
7 Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa Seed, Pre-Seed Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech $40k–$4M
Everywhere Ventures
VC Fund
6 United States, Australia, India Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, FinTech $500k–$20M
UW Ventures
VC Fund
6 South Africa Seed, Series A FinTech, Payments, Mobile Payments $456k–$31M
Vumela Fund
VC Fund
5 South Africa, Brazil Seed, Debt Financing Education, Hospital, Software $600k–$1.4M
Industrial Development Corporation
VC Fund
5 South Africa, Australia, Luxembourg Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Series A Renewable Energy, Mining, Mobile $6M–$509M
Standard Bank South Africa
VC Fund
4 South Africa, United Kingdom, Ghana Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Payments $1M–$767M
Futuregrowth Asset Management
VC Fund
4 South Africa, France, United States Seed, Series A Software, Transportation, Financial Services $1.8M–$11M
Technology Innovation Agency
VC Fund
4 South Africa Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed Information Technology, Software, Electronics $22k–$1.3M
CRE Venture Capital
VC Fund
4 Nigeria, South Africa, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, Software, FinTech $250k–$25M
Allan Gray
VC Fund
4 South Africa, United States Seed, Series A, Series C FinTech, Payments, Mobile Payments $456k–$100M
LoftyInc Capital
VC Fund
3 United States, Nigeria, Egypt Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Financial Services, FinTech, Software $100k–$10M
Flourish Ventures
VC Fund
3 United States, India, Brazil Series A, Seed, Series B FinTech, Financial Services, Finance $2M–$65M
Speedinvest
VC Fund
3 United Kingdom, Germany, Austria Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, FinTech, Financial Services $713k–$33M
Phillip Sebole Masango
Angel
3 South Africa Seed, Series A, Private Equity Information Technology, Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence $700k–$14M
Injini
VC Fund
3 South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya Grant, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Education, EdTech, E-Learning $55k–$500k
Quona Capital
VC Fund
3 India, Brazil, Indonesia Series A, Seed, Series B Financial Services, FinTech, Finance $3M–$87M
Naspers Foundry
VC Fund
3 South Africa, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Financial Services, Software, Farming $940k–$15M
Future Africa
VC Fund
3 Nigeria, United States, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology $100k–$40M
Savannah Fund
VC Fund
3 Kenya, United States, South Africa Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, E-Commerce, FinTech $25k–$8M
4 Decades Capital
VC Fund
3 South Africa Seed, Series A Apps, Travel, Big Data
Venture Capital Studio
VC Fund
3 South Africa Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Information Technology, Venture Capital, Software Engineering $262k–$14M
Hlayisani Capital
VC Fund
3 South Africa, Mauritius Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Series A Software, Education, Information Technology $3M–$11M
Base Capital
VC Fund
3 Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa Seed, Series B E-Commerce, Food Delivery, Banking $2M–$55M
IDF Capital SA
VC Fund
3 South Africa Seed, Series A Retail, FinTech, Internet
Old Mutual Investment Group
VC Fund
3 South Africa, Malawi, Australia Private Equity, Series A, Seed Retail, FinTech, Finance $5.4M–$15M
Newtown Partners
VC Fund
3 South Africa, United States, Ghana Seed, Series A Logistics, Health Care, Transportation $1M–$30M
Sequoia Capital
VC Fund
3 United States, China, India Series A, Series B, Series C Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $6.4M–$230M
Soma Capital
VC Fund
3 United States, India, Mexico Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech $125k–$35M
Musha Ventures
VC Fund
3 United States, Nigeria, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Financial Services, FinTech $100k–$10M
Alameda Research
VC Fund
3 United States, Singapore, United Kingdom Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services $250k–$40M
Oui Capital
VC Fund
3 Nigeria, United States, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed Financial Services, Finance, Apps $40k–$4.9M
Goodwell Investments
VC Fund
2 Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa Series A, Series B FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Bose Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, India, Denmark Series B, Series A Software, Mobile, Hardware $1.5M–$80M
Alumni Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, United Kingdom, Canada Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $1.5M–$79M
Ground Squirrel Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, Kenya, Zambia Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Financial Services, FinTech, Finance $125k–$48M
Nedbank
VC Fund
2 South Africa, Australia, United States Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Series A Information Technology, Software, Mining
NuState Capital
VC Fund
2 South Africa Seed, Series A Education, Software, SaaS
Yossi Hasson
Angel
2 South Africa, United States, Ghana Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, Blockchain, Payments $120k–$551k
Konvoy
VC Fund
2 United States, Canada, Sweden Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Gaming, Video Games, Software $1M–$25M
Edge Growth
VC Fund
2 South Africa Seed, Debt Financing Software, Education, Accounting
Raine Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, United Kingdom, Israel Series A, Series B, Seed Gaming, Mobile, Software $2.3M–$62M
Riot Games
VC Fund
2 United States, Germany, China Seed, Series A Gaming, Video Games, Software $2M–$55M
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Knife Capital
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 13 investments in South Africa Software startups

Knife Capital is an independent growth equity investment firm focusing on innovation-driven ventures with proven traction. By leveraging knowledge, networks & funding, Knife accelerates the international expansion of entrepreneurial businesses that achieved a product/market fit in a beachhead market. Knife have offices in Cape Town andLondon.Knife invests via a consortium of funding partnerships, including SARS section 12J Venture Capital Company KNF Ventures and select family offices. Knife facilitated lucrative exits of local technology companies to the likes of General Electric, Visa, Garmin and Uber.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Education
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: South Africa, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 39
  • Round size: Series A $2M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 69% lead, 31% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $10M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Cue — Cue is a customer service software company that empowers you with WhatsApp Business solutions to boost customer satisfaction, and drive growth.
  • Pura Soda — Discover PURA's refreshing beverages and live a little PURA.
  • Optique Optometrists — Optique Optometrists provides comprehensive eye care services, including eye tests, prescription glasses, and contact lenses. The company offers affordable eye care solutions and has multiple branches across South Africa. Customers can book appointments online and access a wide range of eyewear options. Optique Optometrists focuses on deliveringquality vision care and ensuring customer satisfaction through professional services and convenient booking options.
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HAVAÍC
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 11 investments in South Africa Software startups

HAVAÍC is an investment and advisory firm that specialises in early-stage, high-growth African businesses with proven concepts and global prospects, offering investment opportunities to sophisticated investors and international venture capital companies with an interest in Africa. As a complementary offering, HAVAÍC provides corporate advisory andcapital raising services to emerging, internationally scalable businesses.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Africa, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 47
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$4M; Series A $1.9M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 64% lead, 36% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • MPost — MPost means Mobile Post office.It enables any mobile phone user to have his or her phone act like a mobile post office. It allows you to make your mobile number be a formal postal address. With it, you get access to Postal Services through your mobile phone.
  • AURA — A South African cloud-based security and safety startup .
  • Digital Cabinet — Digital Cabinet makes your business paperless. Security is the topmost priority for the Digital Cabinet, so save time and money with the Digital Cabinet.
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Launch Africa
VC Fund · Ebène, Plaines Wilhems, Mauritius · 11 investments in South Africa Software startups, 7 in the past 12 months

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Nigeria, South Africa, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 217
  • 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 — raised $36M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Zazu — Zazu is a neobank for African SMEs, offering seamless banking tools, cash flow automation, and real-time insights. Zazu simplifies finance management in one all-in-one solution.
  • 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 — Udu Technologies is an AI infrastructure company that offers GPU systems, AI platform integration, and technical support services.
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Kalon Venture Partners
VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 9 investments in South Africa Software startups

A growing number of South Africans are investing in venture capital companies that operate under Section 12J of the Income Tax Act. Contact us now.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Apps, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Africa, Luxembourg, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Seed $570k–$4.6M; Series A $2.5M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 63% lead, 37% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • GoMetro — Fleet management simplified with GoMetro. Integrate telematics, gain real-time visibility, and optimize operations with a secure, scalable platform,
  • Sendmarc — Manage your organization's DMARC, SPF, and DKIM with world-class implementation services and support. All in one easy-to-use platform.
  • visionAI — Discover how AI MES software enhances factory efficiency and reduces blindspots to minimize equipment downtime and boost productivity.
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Imvelo Ventures
VC Fund · Sandown, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 8 investments in South Africa Software startups

Imvelo Ventures is a venture capital and growth equity firm in South Africa managed by Capitec Bank.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series B
  • Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Seed $659k–$2M; Venture - Series Unknown $5M–$5M
  • Lead/follow: 63% lead, 37% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Botlhale AI — Botlhale AI allows to build, train, test, and deploy multilingual conversational AI. Botlhale AI is a research and innovation start-up that specializes in conversational AI. Computer systems have become an integral part of everyday lives and as a result, natural spoken language is the desired form of human-computer interaction.
  • MoneyWorks — MoneyWorks is a provider of a digital supply chain finance platform for businesses. The company's platform connects buyers seeking supply chain financing with lenders. It also provides SMEs access to invoice financing on the back of their buyer's credit record, thus reducing the late payment and cash flow shortage risk faced by startupsand helps clients have an early payment program for the benefit of their supply chain.
  • The Cape Town Stock Exchange — The Cape Town Stock Exchange is a south Africa’s stock exchange for small- and medium-sized businesses.
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4Di Capital
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 7 investments in South Africa Software startups

4Di Capital is an independent seed- and early-stage technology venture capital firm based in Cape Town, South Africa.Nurture capital is the term that best describes 4Di Capitalâ€:tm:s purpose and philosophy.We understand that in the early days of any business, support, mentoring and access to networks is just as important as seed capital.Using tried and tested international venture capital best practices, adapted for local use, we believe in entrepreneur-friendly finance without frills, and in working as a team with our investments to achieve their true potential.4Di Capital Early-Stage Technology Fund 1 targets startup investment opportunities with high growth potential at the seed- and early-stages in the mobile, enterprise software and web sectors.We look for founder teams with hungry passion, commitment, domain expertise and deep insights into the large market problems they wish to solve with their technology solutions.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Financial Services, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: South Africa, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 41
  • Round size: Seed $527k–$7.5M; Pre-Seed $1.8M–$4M; Series A $2M–$47M
  • Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • FireID — FireID is a venture builder that helps makers, with unique skills and passion, build businesses to solve meaningful problems.
  • Kuunda — Kuunda provides consulting, liquidity management, data insight tools enabling users to fulfill financial needs through a digital platform.
  • Aerobotics — Powerful insights for precision growing and crop insurance
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AngelHub Ventures
VC Fund · Stellenbosch, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 7 investments in South Africa Software startups

Operating out of Stellenbosch in South Africa and backed by two family offices Angelhub Ventures's team is passionate about early stage investments in (South) Africa. Being entrepreneurial ourselves, we thoroughly understand the challenges and changes our founders face – which is why we back them in any way we can. Most importantly, we believein building great businesses and we are in it for the long haul.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Education
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: South Africa, Mexico, Colombia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$2.3M; Series A $300k–$1.7M
  • Lead/follow: 71% lead, 29% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2014

Portfolio highlights

  • Motai
  • Syscap — Syscap is a financial technology company that offers cutting-edge solutions to financial institutions to have a better administration and management of their funding sources. It connects the leaders of financial and real estate institutions with their funders. For institutions, the company ensures the optimization of their funding source managementprocesses, but also the strengthening of the relationship with their funders. To funders, Syscap guarantees the transparency and timely monitoring of its funds for the safety and growth of its resources.
  • Velocity — Velocity is a micro fulfillment dark store that delivers through digital channels.
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TLcom Capital Partners
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 7 investments in South Africa Software startups

TLCOM finds and funds exceptional founders building technology companies across Africa. Seed to Series C. Lagos, Nairobi, London.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Mobile, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 75
  • Round size: Seed $1.9M–$8.5M; Series A $3.8M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $150M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Autochek — Welcome To Autochek Group's Homepage. Read About The Company's Vision And Mission. Select A Country And Apply For Car Loans
  • HoneyCoin — HoneyCoin is a web3/web2 ecosystem of products built in a way that abstracts complexity and brings all the value of web3 and web2 to the forefront.
  • Ilara Health — Ilara Health helps primary care clinics across Africa deliver better care.
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54 Collective
VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 7 investments in South Africa Software startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 111
  • Round size: Seed $40k–$4M; Pre-Seed $40k–$1.3M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • LipaLater — LipaLater is a lending marketplace that provides postpaid payments at e-commerce stores. They are making technology affordable for you. Get the electronic of your choice today and pay for it in comfortable monthly installments.
  • REasy — Top up locally, pay suppliers globally, and manage international shipments with REasy. Fast, secure, and designed for African businesses expanding worldwide.
  • Konnect — Konnect provides a cross borders payment solution intended to simplify complex financial flows allowing companies of any scale and size to send and receive payments in a practical, secure, and low-cost way.
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Everywhere Ventures
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 6 investments in South Africa Software startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, FinTech
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Australia, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1093
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$6.5M; Pre-Seed $500k–$2.6M; Series A $8M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Donna — Meet Donna, the AI assistant built for field sales teams. Save time, cut admin, and close more deals with less effort.
  • Suma Wealth — Meet Charlie, your AI financial coach inside the SUMA app. Get personalized budgeting, savings, and investing advice in English or Spanish.
  • Journey Live — Journey is shifting the way modern companies prioritize mental health. Our proactive, inclusive tools engage every employee, every day.
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UW Ventures
VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 6 investments in South Africa Software startups

UW is a multi-stage investor that provides growth and replacement capital across the equity-cycle. Its activities span from high-growth venture to mid-market private equity opportunities.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Payments, Mobile Payments
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 18
  • Round size: Seed $456k–$2.5M; Series A $1.3M–$31M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Pargo — Pargo is a convenient logistics solution that lets you collect and return parcels at Pargo parcel points throughout the country when it suits you best.
  • Rather.chat — Rather.chat offers a platform that facilitates meaningful connections between businesses and their customers through WhatsApp. This service is designed to make customer interactions more personal and efficient, allowing for real-time communication. By leveraging the widespread use of WhatsApp, Rather.chat aims to enhance the customer serviceexperience, making it easier for businesses to address inquiries, resolve issues, and maintain engagement with their audience. The focus is on creating a seamless bridge for dialogue that respects the convenience and preferences of the modern consumer, who increasingly favors instant messaging over traditional forms of communication.
  • Manholes 4 Africa — m4a (Pty) Ltd specializes in the manufacturing of composite and plastics products designed for the utilities networks industry. As an Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM), the company offers a comprehensive range of products including access chambers, microducts, bundled microducts (multiducts), sub ducts, corrugated pipes, axsCHAMBERS™,cnktCLOSURES™, fibreDUCT™, and fibreCABLE™. These products cater to the telecommunications sector, providing end-to-end solutions for infrastructure needs. m4a (Pty) Ltd is recognized for its innovative approach in developing polymer and composite civil infrastructure solutions. The company holds ISO9001 certification, ensuring high standards in quality management systems.
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Vumela Fund
VC Fund · Hyde Park, Newtownabbey, United Kingdom · 5 investments in South Africa Software startups

Vumela was established in 2009 by FNB Business Banking and Edge Growth. The objective was to create an innovative model for the development of a sustainable and a financially and operationally independent investment business which invests in high growth small, medium and micro size enterprises with good economic and impact returns.Vumela wascapitalised in 2010. Within the first four years, we’d invested R90 million into eight high growth SMEs, and created a total of 400 jobs. They launched their second fund in 2015, after a further investment of R100 million from FirstRand and R127 million from the Jobs Fund. Within the first year of launching this second fund, we’ve committed R43 million to five investments that are expected to create over 1800 new jobs.The first fund of its kind in South Africa, Vumela’s main goals are to invest in and develop entrepreneurial companies in order to help alleviate poverty in South Africa by creating jobs, and to generate a return for its beneficiaries: the Shalamuka Foundation and the FirstRand Group.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Education, Hospital, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Debt Financing
  • Geography: South Africa, Brazil

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 24
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$910k; Debt Financing $854k–$1.4M
  • Lead/follow: 83% lead, 17% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $14M in 2015

Portfolio highlights

  • Trade Shield — Trade Shield's aim is to increase access to trade credit facilities for those companies that most need them and will benefit the most from them.
  • Mia Healthcare — Clear aligners, mobile clinics, fixed practices, practice services and lab products designed to work better together than apart.
  • Breaze Delivery — Optimize your last-mile delivery in SA. Breaze offers same-day delivery, easy Shopify/WooCommerce integration, and live WhatsApp tracking for your brand.
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Industrial Development Corporation
VC Fund · Sandown, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 5 investments in South Africa Software startups

The Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa Ltd (IDC) is a national development finance institution set up to promote economic growth and industrial development.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Renewable Energy, Mining, Mobile
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Series A
  • Geography: South Africa, Australia, Luxembourg

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 23
  • Round size: Series A $6M–$26M; Post-IPO Debt $11M–$49M; Debt Financing $30M–$509M
  • Lead/follow: 61% lead, 39% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Fedgroup — Fedgroup offers financial solutions in South Africa & abroad, providing investments, asset-backed lending, group risk & fiduciary services
  • AMEA Power — Founded in 2016, AMEA Power has assembled a leading team of global industry experts to deliver clean energy projects across Africa, the Middle East and other emerging markets.
  • Minbos Resources — Minbos has to build a nutrient supply and distribution business that stimulates agricultural production and promotes food security. They provide nutrient supply and distribution business that stimulates agricultural production and promotes food security.
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Standard Bank South Africa
VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 4 investments in South Africa Software startups, 14 in the past 12 months

Open a bank account, get a personal or business loan, make offshore investments and sign up for Internet Banking.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Seed
  • Geography: South Africa, United Kingdom, Ghana

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 49
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$2M; Post-IPO Debt $46M–$301M; Debt Financing $13M–$767M
  • Lead/follow: 57% lead, 43% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Bridgement — Bridgement offers fast, flexible funding of up to R10,000,000 to help improve cash flow and grow your business. Visit our website to apply now or learn more.
  • Helios Towers — We are a market-leading independent telecom tower infrastructure company, operating in #TZ, #DRC, #CB, #GH, #SA #SN
  • Wilderness Holdings — Wilderness Holdings is a group of responsible ecotourism companies, such as Wilderness Safaris and Governors’ Camp Collection, that together use responsible tourism to build sustainable conservation economies in Africa. Wilderness Safaris and the Governors’ Camp Collection operate camps and safaris in some of Africa’s best wildlife and wildernessareas across seven different countries: Botswana, Kenya, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Recognising that conservation is as much about people as about the environment, the company has pursued important goals by supporting its non-profit partners, Children in the Wilderness and the Wilderness Wildlife Trust, which have helped change the face of nature-based tourism in southern Africa.
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Futuregrowth Asset Management
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 4 investments in South Africa Software startups

Futuregrowth manages the full range of fixed interest and developmental impact funds on behalf of our clients. We are committed to managing and investing our clients' funds in a responsible manner.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Transportation, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Africa, France, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 21
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$5.3M; Series A $3.4M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 71% lead, 29% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • CubeSpace — Industry-leading modular attitude determination and control (ADCS) products and solutions. Laser-focused on our customers' success. Your global ADCS partner.
  • SweepSouth — Book a home cleaning online from your mobile, tablet or computer. SweepSouth connects you with a cleaner in minutes. Cleaners are experienced, reliable, efficient and insured.
  • Happy Pay — Happy Pay is a credit scoring system developing company. The company integrates an autonomous artificial intelligence technology system with the merchant's platform to increase their average basket size and customer conversion metrics, providing users with buy now, and pay later services.
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Technology Innovation Agency
VC Fund · Pretoria, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 4 investments in South Africa Software startups

WELCOME TO TIA Innovating Tomorrow Together Welcome to our agency - where ideas are nurtured, innovation is enabled , and impact is realised Through our funding, support programmes, and partnerships, we help innovators move from concept to impact. Whether you are an innovator or a partner, you are welcome here Funding Solutions SUPPORT PROGRAMMES

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Electronics
  • Stage:Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 18
  • Round size: Seed $46k–$1.3M; Grant $22k–$1M; Pre-Seed $50k–$188k
  • Lead/follow: 78% lead, 22% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ann-Connect — Ann-Connect is an EdTech SaaS for learning, teaching, exams and assessments rolled into an all-in-one education platform.Founded in 2021 by Bonginkosi Mabaso, Nexa was born from a real problem: students missing exams and learning opportunities because of unreliable internet. Our mission is simple: make online education accessible to everystudent, regardless of connectivity or background. Today, Nexa is trusted by universities, training institutions, and professional bodies across South Africa, with partnerships that give access to more than 450,000 learners. One workspace. All your education tools: - Nexa ExamCore: Offline exam tool where students can access, write, and submit online exams even without internet. - Nexa Invigilator: Invigilation tool designed to monitor for online exams. - Nexa Invigilator Venue-based – Proctoring for physical/venue-based exams for schools, corporates & teams. - Nexa Room – Low-bandwidth video conferencing just like MS Teams but designed for teaching and learning, with AI-driven student engagement tracking. - Integrations – Seamless connection with Learning Management Systems (LMS), plagiarism checkers, and other education tools — all in one place. Recognised with awards from TIA, ABSA, and the Royal Academy of Engineering (UK), Nexa is shaping the future of global education by making it inclusive, resilient, and accessible everywhere. Ready to experience THE platform for inclusive learning? Visit ann-connect.com and join us in building education without limits.
  • Aviro Health — We believe that empowering and supporting people to manage their own health benefits everybody.We built the Aviro Pocket Clinic to support self-care and provide access to services. We give people what they need to perform important health checks like regular HIV self-testing and connect them to experts and services who can offer hands-on and supported care when needed.
  • All Weather Roads Engineering — All Weather Roads Engineering is a building material manufacturing firm also offering supply of construction material.
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CRE Venture Capital
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 4 investments in South Africa Software startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Software, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, South Africa, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 63
  • Round size: Seed $300k–$5M; Pre-Seed $250k–$3.3M; Series A $1.1M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

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.
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Allan Gray
VC Fund · Alfred, New York, United States · 4 investments in South Africa Software startups

Allan Gray is Africa's largest privately owned investment management company focused on generating long-term wealth for investors..

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Payments, Mobile Payments
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: South Africa, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Round size: Seed $456k–$4M; Series A $1.3M–$31M; Series C $70M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • onafriq — MFS Africa is the largest mobile money inter-operability hub in Africa, which connects mobile network operators across the continent through a single API. In addition to mobile remittance services, the MFS Africa API enables merchant payment, bulk payment, bank-to-wallet transfers, and an array of other cross border digital payments services.
  • Sendmarc — Manage your organization's DMARC, SPF, and DKIM with world-class implementation services and support. All in one easy-to-use platform.
  • Peach Payments — Get Peach as your Payment Gateway and Grow your ecommerce. Process online payments with Visa, Mastercard, Debit Orders, EFT payments, and subscriptions. Plugins for Wix, Shopify, WooCommerce.
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LoftyInc Capital
VC Fund · Carmel, California, United States · 3 investments in South Africa Software startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 170
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2.4M; Venture - Series Unknown $200k–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $14M in 2021

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 — Zero-Trust and ML-based Endpoint Detection and Response Platform #EDR #FDR #EndpointSecurity
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Flourish Ventures
VC Fund · Redwood City, California, United States · 3 investments in South Africa Software startups

We are an early-stage global venture capital firm investing in fintech founders.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, India, Brazil

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 199
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$8.5M; Series A $5.2M–$33M; Series B $10M–$65M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Cauridor — Cauridor is a Financial Services company.
  • Akua — Transformative payments infrastructure, Akua's cloud-native platform offers acquiring-as-a-service for all payment rails
  • Stream — Stream is a company that helps make payments simpler, faster, and reliable.
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Speedinvest
VC Fund · Vienna, Wien, Austria · 3 investments in South Africa Software startups

Speedinvest is a globally active European venture capital firm built on a simple belief: many move more. From six offices across EMEA, our sector-focused investment teams back relentless founders from pre–Seed to Growth with long-term conviction, providing day-one access to our global network of corporate customers, experts, industry leaders, andtop-tier follow-on investors to scale smarter and faster. Building lasting companies like Bitpanda (Austria), Moove (Nigeria), Gigs (U.S.), Tide (UK), ARX Robotics (Germany), Wayflyer (Ireland), GoStudent (Austria), Seqera Labs (Spain), and Cylib (Germany) — together. Big ideas may start with one. But scaling and winning take The Power of More.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, Austria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 603
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$8M; Pre-Seed $713k–$3.8M; Series A $4.1M–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $384M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Findery — Find and leave notes anywhere in the world, discover local knowledge, hidden secrets, and exciting stories. Share your travel knowledge, geoblog, or local news!
  • Facility — Flexkeeping is a Hotel Operations Platform designed to help teams automate and collaborate like never before.
  • Polaron — Material Design. Supercharged with AI.
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Phillip Sebole Masango
Angel · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 3 investments in South Africa Software startups

Phillip Sebole Masango, is a South African C-Siute Executive and Venture Capitalist, a visionary who seamlessly navigates the intersections of Technology, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Business Development, Business Intelligence (BI), Design, Web, Blockchain, Cloud Computing, Cybersecurity, IoT, Digital Strategy, Creativity, and Innovation. With aproven track record of assuming CEO, CTO, and other top executive roles, he brings a rare fusion of technical expertise, business acumen, and strategic foresight to every venture he leads. Phillip doesn’t just build companies—he drives innovation, scales businesses, and redefines industries.A Mission Rooted in Empowerment and Progress: With extensive experience in the Startup Ecosystem, Technology Industry, Creative Industry, Digital Innovation, Management Consulting, and Venture Capital, Phillip thrives in environments where innovation flourishes. His mission is to empower individuals, startups, businesses, and organizations by delivering cutting-edge technology and digital solutions that drive exponential growth. However, his work extends beyond personal ambition—it is a devotion to serving humanity. Phillip is committed to creating a world where technology democratizes and decentralizes industries, enabling individuals and businesses to innovate, lead, and thrive. He envisions a future where technology not only liberates but also elevates and inspires—enabling companies to reach new heights and igniting a wave of global prosperity.A Legacy of Meaningful Success: For Phillip, success is not defined by accolades or financial gain—it is measured by the profound impact he creates. He refuses to chase success in pursuits that lack meaning, believing that true success comes from doing what one loves—better than anyone else—driven by passion, joy, and self-mastery. His approach to business and innovation is holistic, tackling challenges from multiple angles to fuel transformative change. He thrives in collaborative environments where boundaries are pushed, industries are reshaped, and new possibilities emerge.Yet beyond business, Phillip understands that life is a journey of emotions and meaning. He embraces every experience—both triumphs and challenges—as stepping stones toward a greater purpose. With unwavering dedication and a heart set on impact, he continues to push forward, leaving a legacy that will resonate for generations to come.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Private Equity
  • Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Seed $700k–$11M; Series A $1.6M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 82% lead, 18% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • TRVL CAPE — Your Cape Town travel companion App. Your gateway to Cape Town! Quickly book flights, hotels, shuttles, and rental cars. Enjoy real-time updates, exclusive deals on our app! Let our travel experts help you plan the perfect trip to Cape Town. Let our skilled advisors craft a flawless itinerary for your journey.
  • The AI Studio — The AI Studio is an advanced artificial intelligence research and innovation hub operating under Amani Creative Studios. It is designed to enhance and integrate AI capabilities into our existing services, spanning Web2, Web3, cybersecurity, branding, and software development. Every solution we offer at Amani Creative Studios and Web3 Studio willnow be AI-powered and AI-enhanced, unlocking new capabilities in automation, prediction, personalization, and efficiency.AI-Powered Web3 Solutions – AI-driven smart contracts, blockchain forensics, and decentralized automation., AI-Driven Branding & Marketing – Intelligent content creation, data-driven strategies, and hyper-personalization, AI-Powered SaaS & Software Development – Automated workflows, predictive analytics, and intelligent decision-making, AI-Optimized UI/UX & Product Design – AI-powered design systems, adaptive interfaces, and automated A/B testing.
  • Cyrrix Cybersecurity — At Cyrrix Cybersecurity, we understand the importance of protecting your business from online threats. Our team provides a full range of cybersecurity services to help safeguard your company's sensitive information and systems. We offer comprehensive risk assessments, penetration testing, and incident response planning to identify and addressvulnerabilities in your network. Our managed security services provide ongoing monitoring and threat detection to keep your business protected around the clock. With our help, you can rest easy knowing that your company's valuable assets are secure.
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Injini
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 3 investments in South Africa Software startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Education, EdTech, E-Learning
  • Stage:Grant, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 37
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$500k; Grant $55k–$132k
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • Ubuntu Education — Ubuntu Education is an EdTech company focusing on leveling education by championing and empowering teachers.
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Quona Capital
VC Fund · Washington, District of Columbia, United States · 3 investments in South Africa Software startups

Quona Capital invests in fintech innovators that are advancing financial inclusion around the globe. Through our investments, Quona aims to deliver outstanding financial returns while making a lasting and positive impact on the world.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: India, Brazil, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 205
  • Round size: Seed $3M–$10M; Series A $4M–$25M; Series B $8M–$87M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $332M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Jusfy — Jusfy offers legal services and consulting for individuals and business organizations.
  • AllLife — AllLife is the only South African insurer of people living with HIV/AIDs. Sadly, prior to AllLife, many HIV patients would be told their lives were un-insurable. Now AllLife tells that they can lead long, productive lives – so much so that they’ll insure it.
  • Cordant — A single operational picture across every system money moves through. Your team acts on what's happening, not what already happened.
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Naspers Foundry
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 3 investments in South Africa Software startups

Naspers Foundry is a global internet group and invests in technology-based companies. The company believes in the power of local backed by global scale and they look for opportunities to address big societal needs in markets where they see the greatest growth potential.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Software, Farming
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: South Africa, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 17
  • Round size: Seed $989k–$6M; Series A $3.4M–$15M; Series B $940k–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 94% lead, 6% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Planet42 — Having your own car has never been easier. Planet42 is a vehicle rental company offering rent-to-buy car service for private clients.
  • LifeCheq — LifeCheq partners with insurers and advisory firms to deliver AI-enabled distribution, boost adviser productivity, and transform how financial advice is delivered.
  • SweepSouth — Book a home cleaning online from your mobile, tablet or computer. SweepSouth connects you with a cleaner in minutes. Cleaners are experienced, reliable, efficient and insured.
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Future Africa
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in South Africa Software startups

Future Africa is a collective of mission-driven founders and funders building unicorns to solve Africa’s biggest challenges. They are build a future where purpose and prosperity are within everyone’s reach.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 91
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$4M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3.7M; Series A $7M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • STEM Cafe — STEMCafe by RVRB is a fun out of school learning centre for kids
  • Juicyway — The new shape of money? Fluid. Access global currencies with Juicyway. Buy, sell, hold, and pay globally using our fast APIs, web, or mobile apps. Download now.
  • Lori Systems — Lori Systems is revolutionizing African logistics through innovative technology solutions. We connect shippers, transporters, and drivers to create efficient, reliable, and transparent supply chains across Africa.
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Savannah Fund
VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya · 3 investments in South Africa Software startups

Savannah Fund is a seed capital fund specializing in US$25,000-US$500,000 investments in early stage high growth technology (web and mobile) startups in sub-Saharan Africa. Initially focused on East Africa, the fund aims to bridge the early stage/angel and venture capital investment gap that currently exists in Africa. The Fund expects toachieve this objective by combining capital with mentor networks both in the region and from Silicon Valley via an accelerator program and a follow-on independent seed fund.The fund is managed by an experienced and technology savvy team that have founded companies or are actively involved in angel investing or having run successful accelerator programs in past but also understand the unique Subsaharan African environment. They are backed and supported by both local, regional and international networks of angels,venture capitalists whose expertise we can draw on to help startups succeed and scale to fully fledged regional or global companies.They believe in the potential for Africa to become a global technology innovator by creating sustainable for profit companies that create jobs and make an impact.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, United States, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 44
  • Round size: Seed $25k–$3.3M; Pre-Seed $200k–$2.1M; Series A $750k–$8M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $25M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Aya Data — Aya Data provides high-quality data annotation, AI training data, 3D annotations, machine learning solutions and also specialises in geospatial, NLP and computer vision projects.
  • Kubik — Kubik makes low-carbon buildings from plastic waste. Bringing environmental dignity to how countries grow.
  • Hohm Energy — We make the process of going solar simple. Generate your free, custom solar proposal and get matched with an accredited solar provider in under 5 mins.
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4 Decades Capital
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 3 investments in South Africa Software startups

4 Decades Capital is a venture capital firm based in Cape Town, South Africa.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Travel, Big Data
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • GoMetro — Fleet management simplified with GoMetro. Integrate telematics, gain real-time visibility, and optimize operations with a secure, scalable platform,
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Venture Capital Studio
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 3 investments in South Africa Software startups

36 Followers, 31 Following, 1 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Black Silver Capital (@blacksilvercapital)

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Venture Capital, Software Engineering
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Seed $928k–$10M; Pre-Seed $262k–$3.7M; Series A $2.7M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 90% lead, 10% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Accrual Software — We are a Software Development Company
  • Cyrrix Cybersecurity — At Cyrrix Cybersecurity, we understand the importance of protecting your business from online threats. Our team provides a full range of cybersecurity services to help safeguard your company's sensitive information and systems. We offer comprehensive risk assessments, penetration testing, and incident response planning to identify and addressvulnerabilities in your network. Our managed security services provide ongoing monitoring and threat detection to keep your business protected around the clock. With our help, you can rest easy knowing that your company's valuable assets are secure.
  • Aesthetic Prosthetic Bionics — Biological Engineering, Bionics, Biomimetics, Hydraulics, Prosthetics, Neuroprosthetics, Exoskeleton Suits, Dynamics, Kinematics Robotics, Human-Robot Interaction, Artificial Organs, Artificial Intelligence, Quantum Computing, Knowledge Reasoning, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision, Robotics, Artificial GeneralIntelligence, Deep Learning, Bayesian Networks, Evolutionary Algorithms, Computational Neuroscience, Neurocybernetics, Cybernetics, Cognitive Science, Source Coding, Channel Coding, Algorithmic Complexity Theory, Algorithmic Information Theory, Information-Theoretic Security, Grey System Theory & Biotechnology
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Hlayisani Capital
VC Fund · Fourways, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 3 investments in South Africa Software startups

Hlayisani Growth Fund is focussed on mid-market, high growth private equity investments focussed on South Africa with an allowance for Sub-Saharan Africa and East African countries.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Education, Information Technology
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Africa, Mauritius

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Series A $3M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 75% lead, 25% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • wamly — Wamly is the recruitment software, It has given us time back to focus on transformational work.
  • GoMetro — Fleet management simplified with GoMetro. Integrate telematics, gain real-time visibility, and optimize operations with a secure, scalable platform,
  • Spatialedge — Empowering Businesses to Make the Right Data-driven Decisions. We specialise in building and operationalising cutting-edge analytical solutions that deliver business value through a suite of decision tools.
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Base Capital
VC Fund · 3 investments in South Africa Software startups

Base Capital is an investment firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Food Delivery, Banking
  • Stage:Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$8M; Series B $12M–$55M
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kapu — Your favorite supermarket on every street.
  • Nitex — Nitex is a B2B platform for sustainable garments supply chain allowing fashion retailers to manage product design, developments, compliance, order tracking, and insurance in one platform.
  • Swoop — Swoop operates as an internet marketplace platform that provides food delivery services while building a broader consumer super-app ecosystem. The company connects users with restaurants through a mobile and digital platform, enabling customers to browse menus, place orders, and receive deliveries via an independent rider network. Its deliverymodel relies on third-party couriers who fulfill orders, while the platform coordinates transactions, routing, and customer interactions. The company generates revenue through restaurant commissions and service fees applied to customer orders, rather than directly employing delivery personnel.
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IDF Capital SA
VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 3 investments in South Africa Software startups

IDF Capital is an established financier, investing in high growth SMEs/Entrepreneurial businesses. We invest with a gender lens strategy

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Retail, FinTech, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Carscan — cARscan is an Augmented Reality app with an embedded visual recognition AI to track the visual condition of every motor vehicle during its life-stage.
  • SweepSouth — Book a home cleaning online from your mobile, tablet or computer. SweepSouth connects you with a cleaner in minutes. Cleaners are experienced, reliable, efficient and insured.
  • Mortgage Market — Mortgage Market is a fintech startup that has created an online marketplace for home loans. Users are able to access a home loan easily via its online platform.
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Old Mutual Investment Group
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 3 investments in South Africa Software startups

As a leading African investment manager, we aim to deliver sustainable long-term returns for clients via our comprehensive range of investment capabilities.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Retail, FinTech, Finance
  • Stage:Private Equity, Series A, Seed
  • Geography: South Africa, Malawi, Australia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Round size: Series A $5.4M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • CoverGo — Looking for an enterprise AI insurance platform? CoverGo automates workflows across distribution, policy servicing, and claims.
  • Gala Macs — Gala Macs is an agricultural company engaged in the production of macadamia nuts.
  • Pineapple — In short, Pineapple see the traditional insurance model, user journey and products as lacking and set out to remedy these by doing the following: 1) Changing the business model to align incentives, show people how premiums are used and award members leftover premium back 2) Making insuring as easy as snapping a picture where AI does the rest andcover is issued in under 60 seconds 3) Allowing per-item insurance and new product innovation to address cover not currently offered or accessible to manyPineapple launched in South Africa in 2018 with their "My Stuff" per-item insurance and have since launched their auto offering "My Ride". They have also partnered with Travelers in the US and have white-labeled their platform in the US.
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Newtown Partners
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 3 investments in South Africa Software startups

Newtown Partners is a venture capital firm that actively invests in emerging, disruptive technology startups.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Logistics, Health Care, Transportation
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Africa, United States, Ghana

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 27
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$5.5M; Series A $3.6M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • MDaaS Global — At MDaaS Global, we build and operate modern, tech-enabled diagnostic centres in clinically-underserved communities, starting in Nigeria. Our big goal is to create affordable healthcare solutions for Africa's next billion.
  • Chefaa — Chefaa is a GPS-enabled pharmacy benefits platform connecting patients & pharmacies nation-wide to help patients manage all their pharmacy needs. Chefaa uses big data, data ming & machine learning
  • Waspito — We are the platform that engages Africa into the conversation and action to drive affordable and accessible quality healthcare across the continent.
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Sequoia Capital
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 3 investments in South Africa Software startups

We help the daring build We help the daring build legendary companies from idea to IPO and beyond. companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: United States, China, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2067
  • Round size: Series A $6.4M–$50M; Series B $11M–$100M; Series C $12M–$230M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $65M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Medallion — Provider credentialing and enrollment reimagined. Accelerate time-to-revenue, stay compliant, and scale provider operations, without adding headcount, through automated credentialing and enrollment.
  • Faire — Faire helps local stores discover and try thousands of unique items risk-free.
  • Faire — A wholesale technology platform empowering brands and retailers to strengthen the unique character of local communities.
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Soma Capital
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in South Africa Software startups

Welcome to Soma Capital

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, India, Mexico

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 928
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$9M; Pre-Seed $125k–$3.8M; Series A $6.5M–$35M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Mason America, Inc. — Mason is the device innovation platform for product leaders who dare to deliver the next innovation in their field.
  • Mudafy — Mudafy is a tech-enabled real estate broker for LatAm.
  • Gecko Robotics — To collect and make useful physical data in order to protect civilization's most critical infrastructure
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Musha Ventures
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 3 investments in South Africa Software startups

Seed capital for technology startups globally.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 203
  • Round size: Seed $125k–$7.5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3.2M; 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.
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Alameda Research
VC Fund · Central and Western, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong · 3 investments in South Africa Software startups

Alameda Research is a quantitative cryptocurrency trading firm that provides liquidity in cryptocurrency and digital assets markets. It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Central and Western, Hong Kong.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 321
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$8M; Series A $2.7M–$35M; Venture - Series Unknown $250k–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 3Commas — 3Commas develops a crypto-asset management tool for tracking investments and exchanges in a unified platform. It provides access to a unified dashboard as the central hub for trading and portfolio management execution.
  • Fuel Labs — At Fuel, we are building the fastest execution layer for the modular blockchain stack.
  • Optim Finance — Optim Finance provides investment tools that optimize yield on digital assets. Their financial primitives enable users to rent ADA delegation rights to power novel use cases such as SPO loans, leverage into ISOs, and initial bonds.
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Oui Capital
VC Fund · Belmont, Massachusetts, United States · 3 investments in South Africa Software startups

Oui Capital is an Africa-focused VC firm backing tech-enabled businesses at the pre-seed & seed stage.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Finance, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 32
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$4.9M; Pre-Seed $40k–$1.3M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Cauridor — Cauridor is a Financial Services company.
  • 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
  • Herconomy (Ex AGS Tribe) — Herconomy is a platform that allows women build their finances, capacity, collaborate and access opportunities.
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Goodwell Investments
VC Fund · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands · 2 investments in South Africa Software startups

Goodwell Investments is a pioneering investment firm focused on financial inclusion, fintech and inclusive growth in sectors providing

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 35
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • MFS Africa — MFS Africa is the largest mobile money inter-operability hub in Africa, which connects mobile network operators across the continent through a single API. In addition to mobile remittance services, the MFS Africa API enables merchant payment, bulk payment, bank-to-wallet transfers, and an array of other cross border digital payments services.
  • SOUK Farms — SOUK Farms is a fresh horticulture supply grower and exporter that pioneers innovation to improve agricultural sustainability and stimulate economic and social development.
  • Complete Farmer — We are providing cutting-edge technological farming protocols and innovations with a unique business model and logistics that are revolutionizing...
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Bose Ventures
VC Fund · Framingham, Massachusetts, United States · 2 investments in South Africa Software startups

Bose Ventures is looking for startups that are pushing the envelope of AR to help build some of these new experiences. They are investing in startups that are developing apps, services, and technology that leverage and extend the Bose AR platform. If you are one of these innovative startups

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Mobile, Hardware
  • Stage:Series B, Series A
  • Geography: United States, India, Denmark

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 23
  • Round size: Series A $1.5M–$10M; Series B $2M–$80M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $50M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Vesper — Vesper is an electrical and electronic manufacturing company that specializes in microphones, piezoelectric, and audio. The company is driven by a mission is to deliver voice-powered products to every market, around the world. Vesper was founded in 2009 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.
  • Medrhythms — Pioneering Next-Generation Digital Therapeutics to Improve Walking  
  • Noise — Buy latest Noise smart watches, wireless earbuds, BT neckband earphones, wireless headphones, speakers and smart watch accessories online at best prices in India.
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Alumni Ventures
VC Fund · Manchester, New Hampshire, United States · 2 investments in South Africa Software startups

Access curated startup investment opportunities and diversified venture capital exposure designed for accredited investors.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2214
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$10M; Series A $5.5M–$35M; Series B $12M–$79M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • WINN.AI — WINN.AI helps revenue teams run better sales calls and win more deals by automating admin work and guiding reps live, during the call.
  • Car Body Lab — The easy way, online.
  • Perennial — Cloud Agronomics is the platform for soil carbon management.
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Ground Squirrel Ventures
VC Fund · Boston, Massachusetts, United States · 2 investments in South Africa Software startups

Seed round investment in frontier markets and clean energy

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United States, Kenya, Zambia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 70
  • Round size: Seed $400k–$3M; Venture - Series Unknown $125k–$48M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Grapevine — Grapevine makes it possible for groups to invite members, collect and distribute donations, establish a community and connect with nonprofits.
  • Untapped Global — Untapped connects global investors, and foreign capital to opportunities in emerging markets. Delivering competitive returns, and measurable impact for global investors.
  • Necessary Ventures — We invest in what the world needs.
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Nedbank
VC Fund · Sandown, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 2 investments in South Africa Software startups

Nedbank is a one of the largest banks in South Africa.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Mining
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Series A
  • Geography: South Africa, Australia, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 21
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Pele Energy Group — Pele Energy Group owns and runs renewable energy infrastructure in addition to providing economic and community development consulting services.
  • WhereIsMyTransport — WhereIsMyTransport is a leading mobility technology company and central source of complete public transport data for emerging-market megacities. Working on the ground in Africa, Latin America, Southeast Europe and South and Southeast Asia, we digitalise network information from all modes of public transport and maintain data accuracy as thesedynamic systems change. Our products and data services improve the public transport experience, and inform industry-leading clients.
  • Sandfire Resources NL — Sandfire has grown to be a global copper producer of significance and continues to make strong progress toward its goal of being a sustainable mining company.
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NuState Capital
VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 2 investments in South Africa Software startups

NuState Capital as private equity investor is to generate attractive returns through positive social transformation.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Education, Software, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Sticitt — Sticitt is a cashless payment platform. Sticitt services schools, lifestyle and golf estates, as well as events and is assisting one utility company to get clients to pay for water bills using its cashless payments system.
  • d6 — SCHOOLS Schools Communication Platforms and School Management Software COMMUNITIES Community & Internal Business Communication Platforms MEDIA Let your brand be seen Advertise on
  • Principal Software(d6 education) — d6 is a school management software application that helps you manage your school's curriculum, administration, communication and finance.
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Yossi Hasson
Angel · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 2 investments in South Africa Software startups

Yossi Hasson is the Co-Founder and CEO of Metaversal and a Venture Partner at 2048 Ventures. He is also a Non-Executive Director of WeThinkCode_. Prior to that, he was the Managing Director of Techstars. He attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business and the University of Pretoria/Universiteit van Pretoria.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Blockchain, Payments
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Africa, United States, Ghana

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 29
  • Round size: Seed $120k–$551k; Pre-Seed $120k–$230k
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Howler — Howler, is the powerful event technology platform designed at the uppermost benchmarks of service and technology to help consumers and event organisers to make moments that matter.
  • WizzPass — WizzPass, a rapidly growing leader in the visitor management system and workplace management market is now FMS:Engage powered by FM:Systems.
  • The Sun Exchange — The Sun Exchange is the peer-to-peer solar leasing marketplace. We leverage financial innovation and the power of the crowd to drive sustainable energy development and make the environmental, social and economic benefits of solar accessible and affordable for all. Through the Sun Exchange online platform, anyone, anywhere in the world, can buyremotely-located solar cells and then lease them to power businesses and organisations in sunny emerging markets. Solar cell owners earn income from the electricity that’s generated, while schools, businesses, clinics and other organisations gain access to affordable clean energy, reducing electricity costs and carbon emissions.
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Konvoy
VC Fund · Denver, Colorado, United States · 2 investments in South Africa Software startups

Konvoy Ventures is a thesis driven venture capital firm. We invest in the platforms and technologies at the frontier of gaming.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, Video Games, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Sweden

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 61
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$8.3M; Pre-Seed $1.5M–$4.5M; Series A $4M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 57% lead, 43% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $150M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • GoSats — Earn bitcoin rewards when you shop online at your favourite brands in India.
  • Seasats — Seasats autonomous ocean vehicles provide remote monitoring and data collection for defense and commercial customers at a fraction of the cost, logistics, and risk compared to traditional methods.
  • Lux Aeterna — Lux Aeterna is a space infrastructure company that focuses on orbital activities through reentry and reusability.
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Edge Growth
VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 2 investments in South Africa Software startups

We are SME Development Solutionists, co-creating innovative solutions that combat business growth constraints.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Education, Accounting
  • Stage:Seed, Debt Financing
  • Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $21M in 2013

Portfolio highlights

  • I-G3N — I-G3N is a South African developer of lithium-ion batteries. The company’s core market is on stationary storage in conjunction with Solar PV and focuses on superior products and on the incorporation of the latest technologies to battery functionality. One of the key focus areas is on exporting to the SADC region and the rest of Africa, asextraordinary opportunities exist on the rest of the continent, especially in the development of mini and micro-grids to impact development.
  • Syafunda — Trying something new
  • ProfitShare Partners — Business funding solutions with ProfitShare Partners. We specialise in Short Term Asset Finance to help empower SMEs.
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Raine Ventures
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in South Africa Software startups

Raine Ventures is an early stage fund managed by The Raine Group. The firm has offices in San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, London and Shanghai. With a global reach, Raine focuses on investment and advisory opportunities where its deep industry experience and unique network of strategic relationships can create value for portfolio companies andclients.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, Mobile, Software
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 90
  • Round size: Seed $2.3M–$7M; Series A $5M–$20M; Series B $10M–$62M
  • Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $100M in 2017

Portfolio highlights

  • Whip Media — Discover how Whip Media is revolutionizing the business of content with AI-native solutions for smarter licensing.
  • MusicInfra — Organizing connections between recordings, compositions, and rightsholder claims to reduce friction and enable monetization. AI-powered recognition and matching solutions for the music industry.
  • Willow Wealth — Willow Wealth is an alternative investment platform focused on generating income streams for investors. Get exclusive access to private market investments.
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Riot Games
VC Fund · Los Angeles, California, United States · 2 investments in South Africa Software startups

Riot Games is the most player-focused game developer and publisher in the world. We published League of Legends in 2009, and have since released Teamfight Tactics, Legends of Runeterra, VALORANT, and League of Legends: Wild Rift.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, Video Games, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Germany, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 28
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$12M; Series A $6M–$55M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Curse — The entertainment site where fans come first. Your daily source for all things TV, movies, and games, including Star Wars, Fallout, Marvel, DC and more.
  • Stoke Games — Stoke Games operates as an independent gaming studio.
  • Liminal Experiences — Liminal is a new UGC game for creating narrative action role-playing games with the vision of making the world a more creative place. By fusing two interconnected game modes—a joyful creation experience and socially immersive adventure gameplay—they hope to inspire creativity and storytelling.
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Software Investor funding in South Africa at a glance

Stats across 198 deals from 236 investors.

236
investors
in South Africa Software startups
198
deals
in South Africa Software startups
$900k
median round
in South Africa Software startups
48%
lead investors
lead at least one round
33%
Seed
most common funding stage
89/11
VC / Angel
share of investor count

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