Top 50 Software VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Africa in May 2026
Top 50 Software VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Africa in May 2026
| Investor | Software Africa investments |
|---|---|
| LoftyInc Capital | 35 |
| Launch Africa | 28 |
| Microtraction | 26 |
| 54 Collective | 20 |
| F6 Ventures | 19 |
| Musha Ventures | 17 |
| Kepple Africa Ventures | 16 |
| Ventures Platform | 15 |
| Ingressive Capital | 14 |
| Future Africa | 14 |
| CRE Venture Capital | 13 |
| TLcom Capital Partners | 13 |
| HAVAÍC | 11 |
| Savannah Fund | 11 |
| 4Di Capital | 10 |
| Enza Capital | 10 |
| iHub | 9 |
| MNF Ventures | 9 |
| Kalon Venture Partners | 8 |
| HoaQ | 8 |
| F6 Ventures | 8 |
| Golden Palm Investments | 8 |
| Ground Squirrel Ventures | 8 |
| Partech | 8 |
| Consonance Investment Managers | 7 |
| Knife Capital | 7 |
| Saviu Ventures | 7 |
| UW Ventures | 7 |
| AngelHub Ventures | 7 |
| Soma Capital | 7 |
| Acumen | 7 |
| Unpopular Ventures | 7 |
| Orange Ventures | 6 |
| Hustle Fund | 6 |
| DOB Equity | 6 |
| Flourish Ventures | 6 |
| UNCOVERED FUND | 6 |
| First circle capital | 6 |
| Factor E | 6 |
| GreenHouse Capital | 6 |
| VentureSouq | 6 |
| Quona Capital | 6 |
| Lateral Frontiers | 6 |
| Proparco | 6 |
| Newtown Partners | 6 |
| GreenTec Capital Partners | 6 |
| Alumni Ventures | 6 |
| Chinook Capital Limited | 5 |
| Tencent | 5 |
| CDG Invest | 5 |
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Nigeria, Egypt
Portfolio highlights
- Aku — Aku is a financial technology to drive financial inclusion on one mobile device. They provide payments and bring financial services to the doorstep. They support the new business owner in need of the right tools. They offer low-cost, accessible financial services that serve their customers. They radically democratized access to banking and digitalpayment channels.
- AlumUnite — AlumUnite is a purpose-built platform to connect all educated Africans to develop Africa's human capital through alumni groups. We crowd-resource education.
- TechAdvance — Get the Bet9ja app today! Download and install to place bets, play casino games, and enjoy seamless, secure betting on mobile.
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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- Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Zazuu — Zazuu is a platform for sending money across the border.
- Gigmile — Gigmile provides financial services. They provide gig workers with core services and an affordable lease on productive assets that is tailored to their earnings to enable them to succeed in the mobility industry as entrepreneurs.
- REasy — Top up locally, pay suppliers globally, and manage international shipments with REasy. Fast, secure, and designed for African businesses expanding worldwide.
We invest in Africa's most remarkable teams with technical founders at the earliest stage of their venture
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Nigeria, United States, Ghana
Portfolio highlights
- Paycrest — Paycrest decentralized payment routing protocol enabling secure conversion and settlement between stablecoins and fiat.
- Accounteer — Accounteer is a cloud accounting platform for small businesses. Business owner can create invoices, track expenses and follow up on their finances with ease. Accounteer integrates with external services like banks, e-invoicing platforms and e-commerce. Future proof your business today by subscribing for a free Accounteer trial account.
- LemFi — Send money to India, China, Pakistan, Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya and 30 other countries. Receive and manage your money without stress
Building and scaling African tech startups with catalytic capital, value-add support and our global network.
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- Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa
Portfolio highlights
- Billboxx — Manage payables, receivables, financing and banking in one platform.
- mTek — mTek is a digital online insurance platform that provides an entirely paperless ecosystem for the insurance industry.
- REasy — Top up locally, pay suppliers globally, and manage international shipments with REasy. Fast, secure, and designed for African businesses expanding worldwide.
Flat6Labs is the MENA region’s leading seed and early stage venture capital firm, currently running the most renowned startup programs in the region. Annually, Flat6Labs invests in more than 100 innovative and technology-driven startups enabling thousands of passionate entrepreneurs to achieve their daring ambitions and ultimately becoming theirinstitutional co-founders.
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- E-Commerce, Retail, FinTech
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Tunisia, France
Portfolio highlights
- WeMove — WeMove is a fitness marketplace for daily gym passes. They develop innovative solutions that meet your sports issues.
- Bako Motors SAS — Bako Motors SAS is a motor vehicle manufacturing company that develops solar electric vehicles. manufacturer of electric vehicles with the goal of creating long-term fixes for rural areas' transportation issues with regard to people, cargo, and machinery. The business makes electric cars as well as solutions for clean energy generation andstorage that are infinitely scalable, providing users with inexpensive and environmentally friendly e-mobility.
- Insight Plus — Insight Plus is a foreign exchange platform that specializes in interconnecting global exchanges into one eco system.
Seed capital for technology startups globally.
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- Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Nigeria, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Regfyl — Powered by AI, Regfyl is the all-in-one fraud and compliance platform for financial institutions and fintechs. Regfyl allows these businesses to reduce costs and focus on higher value activities.
- Flowcart — Sukhiba is a decentralized community-based commerce platform.
- Orca Fraud — Orca empowers fraud fighters with effective tools to combat fraud
We back exceptional founders in and from Africa who are addressing deep gaps between the status quo and the ideal.
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt
Portfolio highlights
- Paps — Paps is a transport and logistics company that offers innovative distribution and delivery solutions to companies and merchants.The company's e-commerce platform helps companies and traders with scheduling and tracking deliveries on a real-time basis. It offers the distribution of documents and parcels, storage of goods in a secure warehousethat meets standards, and delivery of insured parcels in relay point or last mile. It also provides professional services such as management and repayment of cash on delivery, provision of couriers, management of returns, collection, and periodic reporting.The Dakar, Dakar, Senegal-based company was founded in 2016
- Mvxchange — MVX makes freight shipping easier and more coordinated for companies of any size by bringing the whole booking and deployment process online. We simplify Africa’s end-to-end import and export trade transactions by aggregating and organizing 7+ services through 1 digital channel.
- Intmax — INTMAX has developed significant innovations in ZK implementation making it a unique Layer2 rollup network that offers low cost, security, tunable privacy, and above all, scalability.
We back founders building the future of Africa. We invest in companies that solve for non-consumption, plug infrastructural gaps and democratise prosperity in Africa, by eliminating the barriers for access and reducing the costs of delivering goods and services.
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Nigeria, United States, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Raenest — Access Virtual Accounts, Invoicing, Multi-Currency Payouts, Auto Payroll, Accounting Integrations, and Virtual & Physical cards within minutes.
- SEND — SEND manages the entire process of moving freight by air, ocean and road to and from Africa - including customs processes, trucking and warehousing. Our application provides instant quotes & bookings, document management, cost transparency, notifications and tracking for your cargo.
- Remedial Health — We improve business to business access to medicines by providing such medicines from manufactures/registered distributors direct to large and small healthcare retail businesses (large pharmacies and remote chemist/PPMVs (Patent and Proprietary Medicine Vendors)) using technology to deliver just-in-time stock and provide financing and awide selection of inventory to such retail business.
Ingressive Capital is a renowned $50M Pan-African Venture Capital Fund that invests in indigenous founders and startups across Africa, with focus on Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Morocco, and Nigeria. Specializing in early-stage investments, particularly Pre-Seed and Seed stages, it targets technology companies led by top-tier talent driving transformativegrowth in Africa's GDP. The firm's thesis focuses on B2C solutions that cater to the explosive growth within the tech-enabled, decentralized-learning youth demographic, as well as B2B solutions that increase Africa’s value chain ownership from resource extraction to end-product sale. Its goal is to become becoming a highly valuable VC partner on the founders' cap tables, and being at the forefront of supporting and enabling entrepreneurial success across Africa.
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Nigeria, United States, Egypt
Portfolio highlights
- Nowlun — Search for cheap & fast freight prices from all shipping lines.
- REasy — Top up locally, pay suppliers globally, and manage international shipments with REasy. Fast, secure, and designed for African businesses expanding worldwide.
- Complete Farmer — Complete Farmer connects growers, buyers, and vendors with technology, support, and market access across Ghana and beyond.
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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- Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Nigeria, United States, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Edves — Edves automates the brick and mortal School operations from Student enrollment, Fee Collection, Lesson Note up to Transcript Generation.
- Finclusion Group — Enhancing financial inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa through data driven lending.
- Nexford University — Transform your career with affordable, flexible degrees and job skills designed for today's workforce. Skip debt and learn at your own pace with Nexford.
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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- Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- South Africa, Nigeria, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Andela — Unlock the power of global tech talent with Andela. Hire experienced professionals quickly and cost-effectively. Build your team from our robust network of skilled specialists spanning 175 countries. Our AI-powered platform ensures a 96% talent match success rate. Get started now and hire with confidence.
- Matta — Matta is a B2B platform offering a comprehensive, detailed marketplace for sourcing chemicals and materials efficiently and reliably
- Cutstruct — Cutstruct is your one source for bulk construction materials purchase. Get the best prices for cement, steel, granite, sharp sand wood, and more.
TLcom Capital, is an Africa focused tech VC, with offices in Lagos, Nairobi and London. TLcom had been investing since 1999 in Tech, Media, Mobil and Internet companies across Europe, US and Africa, which is the exclusive focus of its most recent TLcom TIDE Africa funds. TLcom manages total commitments of approximately 300 million USD in thesesectors via a series of dedicated investment vehicles. Our investment strategy is to identify, back and assist world class entrepreneurs and management teams with disruptive technologies and business models, compelling intellectual property and deep market knowledge. We primarily target companies focused on Africa as a prime market, in the following investment themes: Access to Data Service; Financial Services; eCommerce; B2C applications (including but not limited to: health, education, energy, media and entertainment); and Software solutions to corporates and SMEs.
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- Software, Mobile, Information Technology
- Series A, Funding Round, Seed
- Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Hub2.Io — Welcome to HUB2, the leading FINTECH startup in interoperability and payment infrastructure in Francophone Africa. We are proud to work with all financial industry players in Africa who need stable and high-performing infrastructure, and contribute to their success.
- Talstack — Talstack is an all-in-one platform for employee growth and development
- littlefishapp — Full stack enterprise platform that extends your infrastructure, instead of replacing it.
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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- Software, Health Care, FinTech
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- South Africa, United States, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- NjiaPay — Payments-as-a-Service platform that will streamline your operations and elevate your online payments across the African continent.
- Talk360 — Talk360 is an easy-to-use calling app that helps people make affordable international calls to any mobile and landline number. They believe that reliable communication and digital services must be affordable and accessible to everyone, regardless of someone's background. Especially people in emerging countries in Africa, who often need theseservices the most, do not always have the necessary banking possibilities. To bridge this distance, Talk360 will launch the world's first single checkout platform for Africa. This platform will combine all locally available payment methods and currencies across Africa, together with over 1.25 million cash points of sales, and will eventually be available to other companies as well. This means that 500 million Africans will be able to purchase digital services they never had access to before.
- Right Now Response — The future of repairs starts soon. Counting down to smarter tracking in 2025! There are perks to working 24/7, 365 days a year... Like launching the future of repairs ahead of schedule!
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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- E-Commerce, FinTech, Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Kenya, United States, South Africa
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- Oze — OZÉ brings African small businesses into the digital era. It is an app that makes it easy for businesses to track sales, expenses, and customer information. The data is analyzed to provide tailored recommendations, reports, and business education. If the entrepreneur needs a little extra support, an OZÉ Coach is just a click away. As they are usingOZÉ to manage their business and learn how to run it better, we are learning about them. Using this data and machine learning, we can predict their credit risk and provide them with affordable capital from our banking partners. With over 20,000 registered users, OZÉ is the largest online community of SMEs in Ghana. The most exciting thing is that OZÉ works; 97% of businesses that have used OZE for at least 9 months are growing or profitable or both!
- Root — Launch digital and embedded insurance solutions with omni-channel distribution.
- Afropolitan — Afropolitan is building a Network State to unleash the maximum potential of Africans around the world. Are you interested? Join us with your email.
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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- Software, Financial Services, Mobile
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- South Africa, United States, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Aerobotics — Powerful insights for precision growing and crop insurance
- CompariSure — Custom, built-for-purpose service and sales chatbot solutions for financial services providers.
- 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.
Venture investor in high-growth Founders and Teams using technology to solve large and meaningful problems across Africa
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- Financial Services, Finance, E-Commerce
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa
Portfolio highlights
- Yakeey — Yakeey is an end-to-end transactional marketplace that radically simplifies the experience of buying, selling and renting real estate.We leverage on data and technology to connect all real estate market players through a state of the art platform, create a chain of trust and powerful network effects and accelerate transactions.Yakeey is builton a community of real estate advisors, YakeeyPRO, to deliver a continuous professional and tailored service at every step of the transaction.
- Hub2.Io — Welcome to HUB2, the leading FINTECH startup in interoperability and payment infrastructure in Francophone Africa. We are proud to work with all financial industry players in Africa who need stable and high-performing infrastructure, and contribute to their success.
- Affinity — Join over 125,000 who trust the Affinity mobile app to manage their banking needs, from savings to payments, as well as instant loans
iHub is a globally recognized organization that is deeply steeped in the local tech innovation culture. It is fair to say that the iHub has been both the main catalyst for regional tech acceleration and a role model for tech hubs across emerging markets. We are nurturing the best innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem; one that constantlychallenges and influences technology; one that can be replicated across the continent, as we believe that African innovation will play a critical role in shaping future technology globally.
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- Education, E-Learning, EdTech
- Seed
- Kenya, South Africa
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- SILABU — Silabu is a platform that links students with skilled teachers to help them achieve their learning objectives, offering an alternative to traditional education.
- ntemata — ntemata an Edtech platform that allows you to automate teacher assessment processes and analyze competence-based learning holistically.
- LoHo Learning — Loho Learning is an e-Learning platform that provides customized and interactive education to the schooling generation in a variety of digital formats.
MNF Ventures is a venture capital fund based in Morocco, investing in Seed, Pre-Series A and Series A startups. Tickets size can go up to USD 1M. We invest in tech startups operating in Fintech/Insurtech, EdTech, Regtech, HealthTech, Biotech, EnergyTech Cybersecurity, SaaS... Startups have either to be based in Morocco, or be based worldwideif at least one of the founders is a Moroccan citizen. MNF Ventures manages Maroc Numeric Fund and Maroc Numeric Fund II.
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- Online Portals, FinTech, Enterprise Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Morocco, France, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Logidoo — Logidoo is a digital logistics marketplace-designed company that markets shuttles through smart logistics. The company's platform, which provides rapid, dependable, secure, and economical logistics, allows users to compare offers for sending and receiving items and to track parcels in real-time.
- ZSystems — ZSystems is a transformative super app designed to redefine B2B trade.
- Upfund — Upfund is a real estate company that provides reliable data on office, retail, and business premises. Upfund is a digital solution designed to respond to most commercial real estate business issues. They develop tools perfectly adapted to clients' requests in a remarkable time. Founded in 2022 and is located in Paris, France.
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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- Apps, Internet, Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- South Africa, Luxembourg, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Talk360 — Talk360 is an easy-to-use calling app that helps people make affordable international calls to any mobile and landline number. They believe that reliable communication and digital services must be affordable and accessible to everyone, regardless of someone's background. Especially people in emerging countries in Africa, who often need theseservices the most, do not always have the necessary banking possibilities. To bridge this distance, Talk360 will launch the world's first single checkout platform for Africa. This platform will combine all locally available payment methods and currencies across Africa, together with over 1.25 million cash points of sales, and will eventually be available to other companies as well. This means that 500 million Africans will be able to purchase digital services they never had access to before.
- Sendmarc — Manage your organization's DMARC, SPF, and DKIM with world-class implementation services and support. All in one easy-to-use platform.
- visionAI — Enhance factory efficiency with visionAI by using existing cameras to uncover inefficiencies and eliminate your production blindspots. Book a demo now!
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- FinTech, Financial Services, Internet
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Nigeria, United Kingdom, Togo
Portfolio highlights
- Clafiya — Clafiya connects patients to health practitioners to provide fast and affordable on-demand primary care services in Africa.
- Chowdeck — Order food, groceries, drinks, medicines & everyday essentials from top restaurants, pharmacies, local markets, and stores near you. Fast delivery with Chowdeck.
- Klas — Anyone, anywhere can teach online. Create & sell your ebooks, courses, and live classes- all on Klas.
F6 Ventures is a leading seed stage venture capital firm operating across emerging markets. We back exceptional founders from idea-stage all the way to Series A, combining early capital with strategic support and a commitment to long-term partnership. With deep ties across the Middle East, Africa, and beyond, we empower innovative startups to scalewith purpose and impact. We manage over $90M in AUM across more than 300 investments in seven countries. By investing early in Pre-Seed to Pre-Series A rounds, we help founders cover initial costs, develop their product, and take it to market. This early capital acts as a launchpad, enabling startups to hit key milestones like securing first customers, attracting follow-on funding, and making significant strides forward.
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- Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia
Portfolio highlights
- Phys — Phys is a mobile gaming startup that offers physical activity and entertainment using AR games.
- Emonovo — Best Study Abroad Partner in MENA to Find programs and universities around the world Emo was the 1st international student, now it is your turn to study abroad. Emonovo used to be named Marj3 which was highest reach scholarship portal in the MENA region.
- Let'sGrant — Let’sGrant is a point of sale lending platform, partnering with lenders and consumer goods stores to make the lending process fast, simple and flexible for everyone. With a vision to be internationally recognized as a driving force in personal and consumer loans in the MENA region, Let’sGrant will soon be launching the first online peer to peerlending platform for personal loans in the MENA region which connects individual investors directly to potential borrowers in search of funding through debt.
Golden Palm Investments is an investment holding and advisory company.
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- Information Technology, FinTech, Payments
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Nigeria, Egypt, Kenya
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- ILLA — ILLA Trucking for Logistics Solutions & Distribution
- Maplerad — Maplerad is a fast, safe and easy way to send and receive money with friends, family or others you trust. You can receive and send money directly into any Nigerian bank account in minutes using Bitcoin, US Dollars, and Naira.
- Jetstream Africa — Jetstream monitors inventory and goods-in-transit for trade creditors and banks.
Seed round investment in frontier markets and clean energy
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Kenya, Zambia
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- Grapevine — Grapevine makes it possible for groups to invite members, collect and distribute donations, establish a community and connect with nonprofits.
- MindMics — Discover MindMics. The world's most accurate personal heart health monitor and well-being platform. Look after your heart health to live longer and better.
- Untapped Global — Untapped connects global investors, and foreign capital to opportunities in emerging markets. Delivering competitive returns, and measurable impact for global investors.
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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- Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, France, Germany
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- Djamo — Djamo is a Provider of financial applications to allow customers to use their cards with zero fees in a wide range of services.
- Yampa — Discover yampa's autonomous AI agents and revolutionize your customer experience. Elevate your service with the most advanced AI technology.
- HostnFly — HostnFly develops algorithms to optimize the income from rented apartments on Airbnb. The company also offer Parisians to take care of their apartment rental by guaranteeing an income.
We are an investment company focused on helping early and growth-stage entrepreneurs build successful companies in Africa.
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- Software, Information Technology, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Nigeria, United States, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Releaf Earth — We are industrializing food processing in Africa. We've led 1000+ smallholder farmers to provide food factories with >7.5 million kilograms of quality crops.
- Tripesa — Tripesa offers payment solutions for Africa's travel and tourism industry.
- Plural — Smarter, Faster, Future-Ready Policy Strategy. Plural transforms how enterprises and organizations anticipate and act on legislation. Our AI-powered platform delivers accurate bill analysis, policy insights, and stakeholder intelligence so you can stay ahead of risk, seize opportunity, and shape outcomes. See How It Works Book A Demo Trusted By Deepen Your State & Federal Legislative
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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- Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology
- Funding Round, Series A, Seed
- South Africa, United States, Sweden
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- Octiv — Turbocharge your fitness business, grow your community and build your brand with Octiv's leading Gym Management Software.
- Outsized — Independent talent for enterprise clients and consulting firms in Asia-Pacific, Africa, and the Middle East.
- Simera Sense — Simera Sense develops camera control electronics for optical payload and Cubesat imager solutions.
Saviu is a venture capital fund focusing on African early-stage startups.
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- FinTech, E-Commerce, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Côte d'Ivoire, Kenya, Senegal
Portfolio highlights
- POZI — POZI app is an innovative tracking and geolocation solution primarily designed for fleet monitoring and management.
- Workpay — Looking for the best payroll software in Kenya? Workpay provides the best payroll software and hr software for your business in Kenya, Nigeria and for Africa
- Userguest.com — Userguest is a Travel SaaS company that provides technology to hotels in order to improve their online revenue. Our smart tool applies RevMarketing Automation to hotel website, by matching a user’s booking intent with the hotel’s inventory priorities. We display personalized incentives to boost hotel revenue where it counts.
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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- FinTech, Payments, Insurance
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- South Africa
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- 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.
- Synatic — Synatic is a unified platform that enables your business to integrate and automate systems and services without sacrificing enterprise features and security.
- 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.
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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- Software, Information Technology, Education
- Seed, Series A
- South Africa, Mexico, Colombia
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Godochurch — GoDoChurch is a cloud-based church administration software which is designed to assist Christian churches and ministries with managing members, Sunday services, events, communications, and more. The system is made up of a base package, covering messaging, news, ministries, lists, church roles, services, events, and growth paths, with additionalmodules for managing follow-ups, groups, and Kids church.
- Velocity — Velocity is a micro fulfillment dark store that delivers through digital channels.
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- Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, India, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Fasset — Fasset is an all-in-one financial super app that allows people and businesses to receive money, invest, earn, and make payments from anywhere in the world.
- Kontigo — We help underbanked gig workers in Latam build credit and access group financing where small groups of family or friends lend and save money together. Users can validate their income from multiple sources such as gig apps, catalog sales, and open finance (Uber, Rappi, Didi, Indriver, Avon, and all major banks). After verifying the income wedirectly offer them group savings and group loans, without leaving WhatsApp, their primary messaging app.
- Inventive AI — Inventive is an AI-powered RFP & Questionnaire Response Management platform that drives 70%+ efficiency in sales response workflows.
Acumen is a nonprofit venture fund that invests in early-stage companies bringing critical services like agriculture, clean energy, education, financial inclusion, healthcare and workforce development to low-income communities in 14 countries across East and West Africa, South Asia, Latin America, and the United States. Since 2001, Acumeninvested $128 million in 128 companies that have transformed the lives of over 308 million low-income people.
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- Health Care, Agriculture, Financial Services
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, India, Kenya
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- BioMassters — Biomassers aim to replace charcoal production and charcoal cooking by providing modern, affordable, and low-carbon pellet fuel production and cooking solutions based on locally produced fuel from waste materials.
- Reema Health — Transforming the way people navigate the gaps between health care and social care. Reema combines a 24/7 AI-based confidant with in-person community guides to help people meet their social needs.
- Raino Tech4Impact — Raino Tech4Impact is a social enterprise that leverages technology as an enabler to empower African communities. We have been deploying technology-driven solutions in agriculture and health, powered by renewable energy to achieve sustainability.
The best companies, off the beaten path.
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- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, India, Mexico
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- Foodology — Foodology creates and operates digital restaurant brands made for delivery.The company aims to be a delivery-focused restaurant group in Latam. With its portfolio of virtual brands operated through cloud kitchens, Foodology strives to create a best in class delivery experience for its customers.The company was founded in 2019 by HarvardBusiness School classmates Daniela Izquierdo and Juan Guillermo Azuero.
- Kyte — Kyte delivers rental cars straight to your door. We deliver and pick up the vehicle. No lines, no paperwork, freedom to explore. Fully flexible. Book today!
- EQUIP — In the region, SMB construction companies, which represent 90% of the market buy supplies manually at local hardware stores or retailers at high markup prices, which affects access to housing in LatAm. EQUIP’s platform offers a more efficient and cost-effective alternative, allowing construction companies to buy all the materials they need, get thedelivery and credit, all in one place.Our founding team has strong tech and construction backgrounds. Our investors include Pareto VC, Unpopular VC, GG Capital and angels from Rappi, Mercado Libre, and Amazon.
Orange Ventures is a venture fund investing in areas of Orange expertise and beyond, with financial objectives in line with VC industry standards. With 350m€ assets under management, Orange Ventures is in the top 10 corporate ventures in Europe with an investment strategy focused on helping future global tech champions, fostering innovation in theMiddle East and Africa, and supporting new sustainable and responsible business models.
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- Software, FinTech, Information Technology
- Seed, Series B, Series A
- France, United States, United Kingdom
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- SAYNA — Sayna is to provide high-quality training in the digital sector and provide professional chances to young people by bridging the gap between the growing demand and supply for digital talent in Africa.
- Chari — Chari is an e-commerce and fintech app for traditional retailers in French-Speaking Africa allowing them to order any consumer goods they sell and get delivered for free in less than 24 hours. Chari is also a financial services provider for these retailers, offering them microloans
- Gebeya — Gebeya is building a-self-sustainable ecosystem that trains, hires, and nurtures the best of African talent. Our mission is to be the premier software engineering and IT training academy in Africa, while becoming the number one global IT services workplace that matches African IT talent with clients across Africa and the rest of the world.
Hustle Fund is a seed fund that invests in early-stage startups operating in software, business-to-business, fintech, and digital health sectors.
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- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Singapore, Canada
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- EquityList — Equity management with online cap table management and employee stock option programs (ESOP) administration. Available free for Indian startups
- CompScience — Kinetic Eye's ground-breaking technology allows for detection of risk within hours rather than days. Protecting your bottom-line and more importantly, your employees.
- FutureMoney — Introducing FutureMoney: the only investing app designed for parents. FutureMoney helps you give your kids more by growing your money, effortlessly. Start investing in your kids today with unlimited accounts, contributions and deposits, tax optimization, and fully-managed custom portfolios.
DOB Equity is a private equity firm specializing in growth capital and buy-and-build strategies in small and medium companies.
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- Food and Beverage, Farming, Health Care
- Private Equity, Funding Round, Seed
- Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda
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- FarmWorks — FarmWorks is an agricultural technology company that gives farmers access to farm inputs as well as a market for the produce .FarmWork is to unlock agricultural potential by building clusters of mid-sized farms while working with thousands of small-holder farmers and establishing direct linkage to local and global markets.
- Ilara Health — Ilara Health helps primary care clinics across Africa deliver better care.
- Spouts of Water — SPOUTS mission is to manufacture and distribute ceramic water filters to provide everyone in Uganda with safe water.
We are an early-stage global venture capital firm investing in fintech founders.
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- FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, India, Brazil
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- CurbWaste — A software by haulers, for haulers
- Reserv — We are a premier claims platform, born from state-of-the-art data intelligence and talent management technology.
- CipherOwl Inc — CipherOwl delivers AI-powered digital asset intelligence and automation tools for institutions, helping banks, exchanges, and crypto teams manage risk, ensure compliance, and operate with confidence.
UNCOVERED FUND is a venture capital firm that leads the creation of industries in Africa and other emerging countries.
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- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Nigeria, Kenya, United States
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- Chari — Chari is an e-commerce and fintech app for traditional retailers in French-Speaking Africa allowing them to order any consumer goods they sell and get delivered for free in less than 24 hours. Chari is also a financial services provider for these retailers, offering them microloans
- Mecho — Mecho is an on-demand auto repair and maintenance platform for individuals and businesses in Africa.
- Termii — Termii is an online platform that helps teams secure repeat customers by sending personalized emails and SMS through multiple.Termii helps African businesses communicate with customers across SMS, email, voice, and instant messaging channels. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Lagos, Nigeria.
First Circle Capital is a venture capital firm seeding the next fintech generation in Africa.
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
- Nigeria, Egypt, United States
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- PayTic — PayTic enables payments issuers to manage their card programs by providing dedicated back-office solutions that streamline the end-to-end operations in customer support, chargebacks, fraud, AML, reporting, and reconciliation. Our proprietary solutions are unique in automating and centralizing the program management processes, regardless of thenumber of processors and the payment networks involved in the payments products. We impact payments providers by eliminating the defragmented and manual processes and replacing them with a SaaS platform that increases proactivity, mitigates risks, and delivers value. It reduces the burn rate to near 0 in operational costs and offers an unprecedented competitive advantage. PayTic is introducing the Zero Ops model in managing payments.
- Pumpkn — Need reliable funding? We provide quick loans and capital tailored for Agriculture businesses in South Africa. Grow your business with Pumpkn. Apply now!
- Scale — Scale accelerates market entry and revenue for fintechs with a people-first approach.
Factor E is a finance company that impacts venture builders, dedicated to supporting the people and ideas that will turn the tables in the global battle for sustainable solutions to energy, agriculture, mobility, and waste challenges in emerging and frontier markets. It serves as a conduit between philanthropic and commercial investors throughmarket-driven forces.
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- Energy, Renewable Energy, Agriculture
- Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
- Kenya, United States, India
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- Roam — The Standard for Electric Mobility in Africa.
- Ferntech — Take control of your decentralized power system with Odyssey's FernTech software and hardware. Get real-time insights and automate operations with our reliable data collection, system automation, and range of controllers and IoT gateways. Explore the FernTech product suite and see how it works in action. Contact us to learn more.
- 60Hertz Energy — Unify asset management with asset monitoring, enhance scheduling, and facile communication. Book a Demo Now!
GreenHouse Capital’s Founding Partners took their own fintech company Venture Garden Group (VGG) from a 7 employee, ₦30 million revenue startup to a 200 employees, ₦2 billion power house in just 4 years and raised an attention grabbing Series A round from Convergence Partners of South Africa. The uniqueness of their position was not lost on thefounders who then cultivated Garden Institute of Business Entrepreneurs (GIBE) to identify, incubate, and invest in young and innovative tech startups solving global challenges in Emerging Markets. GIBE was created to build a world class talent management hub for young and passionate entrepreneurs while creating a pool of technology inclined businesses and innovation oriented leaders.
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Nigeria, Kenya, United States
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- Credpal — Buy now, pay later. Split in 6.
- Encore Pay — Encore Pay is a UAE-based FinTech and Payment solutions provider.
- MarketForce — MarketForce connects Africa’s informal retail outlets and consumers directly to suppliers of consumer goods and financial services by digitizing orders, delivery, and payments with the aim of solving the last mile distribution challenge.
VentureSouq (VSQ) is a MENA-based venture capital fund manager with a global portfolio. VSQ manages thematic funds, with a current focus on FinTech and ClimateTech.
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- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia
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- Inovat — Travellers have to stand hours in the queues and get charged hidden fees to receive Tax refund that they are entitled to. They change that. With Inovat, get the best Tax Free experience that you deserve.
- Tradoor — Tradoor protects traders, LPs, and the protocol against unforeseen market fluctuations by using clever math and safety measures to enable traders to trade with confidence.
- Orbii AI — Our AI enriches & analyses borrower data, helping you make credit decisions in minutes. Accelerate your business loan Underwriting decisons.
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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- Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- India, Brazil, Indonesia
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- Bureau — Bureau is trust network that facilitates end-to-end identity verification, compliance, and fraud prevention for new-age businesses.
- Kamino — Kamino Finance is a Solana DeFi protocol for capital-efficient lending, borrowing, and yield generation.
- GKN - GloboKasNet — GloboKasNet is a multibank payment network based in Peru. The company offers transaction, processing, and settlement services to low income urban and rural clients of banks, microfinance institutions and commercial wholesalers. GloboKasNet was launched in 2007.
Lateral Capital is a mission driven venture fund investing in early and growth stage opportunities in Africa. We back companies that provide foundational technologies for the continent. We make debt and equity investments technology-enabled businesses that profitably solve significant pain points across financial services, healthcare, education,energy, agriculture, housing, logistics, mobility and more.
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- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Nigeria, Kenya
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- CNote — CNote makes initial Cash Deposits easy for corporations, foundations, and individuals. Align your financial goals with your values and drive change in communities.
- Rhaeos — Rhaeos, the world's first wearable shunt monitor, aims to improve the quality care for patients with hydrocephalus through a novel, thermal biosensor. Developed within Northwestern University with collaboration between Dr. John Rogers, McCormick School of Engineering, Feinberg School of Medicine and Kellogg School of Management, Rhaeosrepresents a unique multidisciplinary translational effort for an important clinical need.
- Wattnow — Wattnow is a real-time monitoring solution that provides a breakdown of energy spending to identify wasteful trends.
Proparco is devoted to private sector funding in the sustainable development sector.
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- Financial Services, Energy, Finance
- Funding Round, Debt Financing, Seed
- India, Kenya, Mauritius
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- Moniepoint — Moniepoint provides an all-in-one payments, banking and operations platform for businesses and their customers.
- IPT PowerTech — IPT PowerTech coverage, coupled with our extensive expertise in supply chain management, field implementation, and power systems, has made us one of the most capable companies in handling the most complicated and versatile projects in the MEA region and its neighboring countries.
- Delta Holdings — Delta Holdings specialises in strategic global investments and active management of subsidiaries in the speciality chemicals business.
Newtown Partners is a venture capital firm that actively invests in emerging, disruptive technology startups.
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- Logistics, Health Care, Pharmaceutical
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- South Africa, Ghana, Kenya
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- 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.
GreenTec Capital Partners is Germany's premier investor into African start-ups and SMEs. GreenTec invests through its unique Results4Equity model, acting as a co-founding partner that is only compensated on business success.
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- Information Technology, Retail, Computer
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Kenya, Nigeria, Morocco
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- Ecodudu — Ecodudu is a waste-to-value company. It uses a proprietary innovation to recycle organic waste into high-protein animal feed and organic fertilizer using the black soldier fly. It harnesses insects (nature’s recycling agents) to address global issues which include waste management, demand for protein, and environmental conservation.
- Asilimia — Asilimia is a simple, fun mobile app for sending money through M-PESA quickly and without any transaction fees. Simply deposit money to your M-PESA, download Asilimia and send money for free to any other M-PESA account.
- ShapShap — ShapShap enhances delivery experience through its commission-based marketplace by assigning efficient orders to drivers to ensure their sustainability and scalability.
Access curated startup investment opportunities and diversified venture capital exposure designed for accredited investors.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
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- LOLIWARE — LOLIWARE is rewriting the story of destructive packaging. By harnessing the power of seaweed to replace plastic at scale, LOLIWARE is tapping into its potential to regenerate our ocean and decarbonize our planet.
- Kolors — Kolors is a technological platform that focuses on providing intelligent intercity mobility of bus transportation in the region.
- ARRIS — Using next-gen advanced manufacturing technologies, ARRIS Composites produces smarter, lighter, stronger, and more sustainable products at scale.
Chinook Capital is focused on investments in seed- and pre-stage companies in internet software, services, and media sectors.
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- EdTech, Retail, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Nigeria
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- Edves — Edves automates the brick and mortal School operations from Student enrollment, Fee Collection, Lesson Note up to Transcript Generation.
- Youverify — Youverify helps businesses and individuals confirm identity and physical addresses. Using AI, Youverify confirms a user’s identity document and compares it with their facial biometrics. This information can be cross-checked against more than 300 databases locally and globally.Youverify in partnership with over 20,000 field verification officersverifies physical addresses all over Sub-Sahara Africa in less than 48 hours.Youverify fills the gap in Africa's digital industry by providing one API for identity and physical address verification.
- Lifestores Pharmacy — Lifestores is a retail pharmacy start-up bringing disruptive innovation to the pharmaceutical sector in Nigeria by democratizing quality medicines and pharmaceutical services.
Tencent is an internet service portal offering value-added internet, mobile, telecom, and online advertising services. Its communications and social platforms Weixin and QQ connect users with each other, with digital content and daily life services in just a few clicks. Tencent has maintained steady growth under its user-oriented operatingstrategies. It provides value-added internet, mobile, and telecom services, as well as online advertising under the strategic goal of providing users with "one-stop online lifestyle services." Tencent’s Internet platforms in China – QQ (QQ Instant Messenger), WeChat, QQ.com, QQ Games, Qzone, 3g.QQ.com, SoSo, PaiPai, and Tenpay – aim to address the various needs of internet users, including communication, information, entertainment, e-commerce, and others.In September 2013, Tencent's market valuation rose to $101 billion, and as of November 21, 2013, QQ had 2 billion active users and WeChat had 650 million monthly active users. The numbers of active users for QQ mail, Qzone, Tencent Weibo, and QQ news were 274 million, 626 million, 220 million, and 150 million, respectively.Tencent was founded in November of 1998. In April 2000, the IDG and PCCW invested a total of $2.2 million dollars in the company. Tencent was listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (SEHK) on June 16, 2004. Baidu, Alibaba, and Netease are Tencent's major competitors.
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- Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- China, United States, United Kingdom
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- Uzum — Uzum is a digital services ecosystem to facilitate business growth, online shopping, convenient payments, and help with other day-to-day household tasks.
- Cosminde — Cosminde is a developer of gastroenterology soft electronic endoscope products.
- Unitree Robotics — Unitree focus on the development of four-legged robot mobile platform and related power system components
CDG Invest is the investment branch of the CDG group. CDG Invest acts both as an investment manager for its own account following both financial and strategic logic, as well as as a fund manager for third parties. CDG Invest intervenes in various key sectors of the Moroccan economy: industry, agro-food, digital/digital, renewable energy, andterritorial PPP and with various segments of companies.
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- Apps, Software, Internet
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
- Morocco, France, Switzerland
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- VelyVelo — Discover VelyVelo, the specialist in the rental, servicing and maintenance of electric bicycles for professionals in Paris, Lyon, Bordeaux and Marseille.
- Userguest.com — Userguest is a Travel SaaS company that provides technology to hotels in order to improve their online revenue. Our smart tool applies RevMarketing Automation to hotel website, by matching a user’s booking intent with the hotel’s inventory priorities. We display personalized incentives to boost hotel revenue where it counts.
- Strapack Morocco — Strapack Morocco offers packaging and industrial packaging solutions. It provides an extensive range of machinery, materials, and consumables to ensure efficiency in packaging activities.
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