Top 5 Sports VC (Venture Capital) Funds in South Africa in January 2025

Last updated: Jan 2025 A list of 5 VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Sports startups based in South africa. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Sports companies from South africa. We update this investor list every month.

Top 5 Sports VC (Venture Capital) Funds in South Africa in January 2025

Investor	Sports South Africa investments
Seed South Capital	1
NEXT176	1
Knife Capital	1
Tofino Capital	1
4Di Capital	1

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Seed South Capital invest in early-stage companies, transforming these into B-BBEE compliant business enterprises, forging a new class of youthful entrepreneurs.

Investment focus

Sports, Content, Social Media
Seed
South Africa

Portfolio highlights

myFanPark — myFanPark is a South African celebrity engagement platform, to share videos.

Creating disruptive and sustainable businesses to positively impact 1 Billion lives.

Investment focus

Fitness, Software, Wellness
Seed
South Africa

Portfolio highlights

JOBJACK — JOBJACK: Entry-level hiring made easy. Find a once-off, part time or permanent job. Or request a demo and get connected to the most relevant staff.
Kena Health — Talk to a nurse, doctor or mental health professional on your smartphone with the Kena Health App. Affordable primary healthcare for South Africans. Download Now.

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Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
South Africa, United States, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

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.

Tofino Capital is an early stage investor in emerging market technology companies.

Investment focus

SaaS, B2B, Enterprise Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
South Africa, Egypt, Finland

Portfolio highlights

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Kena Health — Talk to a nurse, doctor or mental health professional on your smartphone with the Kena Health App. Affordable primary healthcare for South Africans. Download Now.
Circadian Technologies GmbH — Circadian Technologies accelerates the energy transition in frontier markets with a SaaS business model, empowering solar developers & energy service companies to reduce operating costs and grow revenue with a data driven platform and proprietary IoT hardware.Circadian transforms the entire value chain of its customers by uniquely providingan end-to-end solution to better design, finance, operate and maintain decentralized renewable energy systems for commercial & industrial sites.

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.