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Top 10 Sports VC Funds & Investors in South Africa (August 2026)

The most active venture capital funds investing in South Africa Sports startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in South Africa Sports startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Seed South Capital
VC Fund
1 South Africa Seed Sports, Content, Social Media
Nour Nouf Ventures
VC Fund
1 Saudi Arabia, United States, Egypt Seed, Series A Information Technology, Financial Services, Health Care $300k–$25M
iKineo
VC Fund
1 South Africa, United Kingdom Venture - Series Unknown, Seed FinTech, Fitness, Wellness
27four Investment Managers
VC Fund
1 South Africa Private Equity, Seed, Secondary Market Health Care, Fitness, Payments
Tofino Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, Nigeria, Egypt Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $100k–$131M
4DX Ventures
VC Fund
1 Egypt, South Africa, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Logistics $50k–$40M
Jaza Rift Ventures
VC Fund
1 Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed, Seed Health Care, Health Diagnostics, Information Technology
4Di Capital
VC Fund
1 South Africa, United States, Kenya Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Financial Services, Mobile $527k–$47M
Knife Capital
VC Fund
1 South Africa, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Seed Software, Information Technology, Education $2M–$15M
NEXT176
VC Fund
1 South Africa, Hong Kong Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown FinTech, Software, Financial Services $400k–$2.5M
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Seed South Capital
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in South Africa Sports startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Sports, Content, Social Media
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • myFanPark — myFanPark is a South African celebrity engagement platform, to share videos.
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Nour Nouf Ventures
VC Fund · Jeddah, Makkah, Saudi Arabia · 1 investments in South Africa Sports startups

We inspire to build societies where knowledge empowers every individual to realize their full potential to contribute to the greater good and to be responsible for future generations. Investment in startup business, Community Services, Shared Offices.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Financial Services, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Saudi Arabia, United States, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 31
  • Round size: Seed $300k–$8M; Series A $5M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Logexa — We are the first Saudi on-demand warehousing platform that provides different storage options within multiple locations. With Logexa’s services, warehouses can increase their utilization rate. On the other hand, businesses can benefit from flexible, dispersed storage and not worry about scalability issues with their inventory.
  • Hala — Hala offers a payment and wallet solution for individuals and point-of-sale (PoS) services that enable merchants to accept credit card payments.
  • Squadio — Tech Teams as a service platform (TaaS) ready to take over your project and transform it digitally.
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iKineo
VC Fund · 1 investments in South Africa Sports startups

Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Fitness, Wellness
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Seed
  • Geography: South Africa, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Adbot — Award-winning AI that manages your Google Ads 24/7 using six years of South African market intelligence. Better results, less cost.
  • 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.
  • Lettuce — Lettuce is an app that lets you keep track of your investments. Just add the assets you own, and we'll keep track of what they're worth right now.
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27four Investment Managers
VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in South Africa Sports startups

27four Investment Managers a leading independent South African-based multi-manager focused on understanding and addressing the evolving needs of retirement funds and individual investors through the provision of unique product solutions and portfolio customisation options. Through ongoing value-add, by way of product differentiation and thedelivery of consistent and superior returns, 27four has earned its position as a leading provider of multi-manager solutions to South African and international investors.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Fitness, Payments
  • Stage:Private Equity, Seed, Secondary Market
  • Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ctrack — Ctrack is the vehicle tracking provider with more than 24 years' experience of developing effective fleet solutions. Ctrack is a part of DigiCore Holdings, a global company listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, whose advanced Ctrack technology is fitted to almost 430,000 vehicles operating in 32 countries across 5 continents.
  • 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.
  • Barracuda Holdings — Barracuda Holdings (Pty) Ltd. is an owner-driven company established in 2010 by the founding partners, each of whom has over 20 years of experience. Barracuda Holdings provides manufacturing expertise across multiple sectors, including Automotive accessories, diagnostic tools, and fleet management.
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Tofino Capital
VC Fund · Washington, District of Columbia, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Sports startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 25
  • Round size: Seed $2.2M–$22M; Pre-Seed $100k–$1M; Series A $25M–$131M
  • Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Vultron — Compress proposal production timeframes from weeks into days with Generative AI.
  • Terra Industries — Terra Industries develops autonomous security systems and software platforms that support the monitoring and protection of physical assets, infrastructure, and operational environments across land, air, and maritime domains. The company provides unmanned vehicles, autonomous towers, and sensor-based surveillance hardware that collect and transmitdata for continuous situational awareness. Its software layer, built around an integrated operating system, processes sensor inputs, applies artificial intelligence models, and coordinates automated responses to detected events. Terra Industries designs its systems to support functions such as perimeter security, infrastructure monitoring, asset tracking, and threat detection within complex operational settings. The company’s platforms enable operators to manage multiple autonomous devices through a unified interface that supports mission planning, data visualization, and system control. Its technology is used by organizations that require coordinated security, monitoring, and response capabilities for facilities, remote sites, and distributed operations.
  • Irreversible — Irreversible designs next-generation analog AI chips that enable meaningful intelligence anywhere — from sensors to robots.
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4DX Ventures
VC Fund · Brooklyn, New York, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Sports startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 93
  • Round size: Seed $456k–$8M; Pre-Seed $50k–$6.5M; Series A $3M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $60M in 2021

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
  • Aether Bio — Aether uses its state of the art platform to rapidly engineer enzymes, enabling our customers to manufacture complex and novel products at fractional cost.
  • Aethex — End to end voice agents localized for your market.
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Jaza Rift Ventures
VC Fund · Mombasa, Coast, Kenya · 1 investments in South Africa Sports startups

Jaza Rift Ventures invests in the most innovative and invention-based healthcare firms at the pre-seed, seed, and series A stages. Jaza Rift Ventures is a healthcare venture capital firm that invests in innovative early-stage entrepreneurs including healthtech, medtech, and biotech businesses.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Health Diagnostics, Information Technology
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Plateaumed — Level up your medical practice with our world-class EHR
  • 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.
  • Intron Health — Voice AI Built for How Africa Speaks Our next-generation intelligent voice model built from the ground up for AfricaUnlike Global systems retrofitted for the continent Sahara v-2 understands how Africa actually sounds Build with Sahara Try Sahara Built for African SpeechFrom Lagos Call Centers, to Hospitals in Nairobi, Boardrooms in Cape Town, and Courtrooms in
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4Di Capital
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in South Africa Sports 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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Knife Capital
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in South Africa Sports 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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NEXT176
VC Fund · 1 investments in South Africa Sports startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $400k–$2.5M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Pumpkn — Need reliable funding? We provide quick loans and capital tailored for Agriculture businesses in South Africa. Grow your business with Pumpkn. Apply now!
  • Jem — We give employers the ability to send company-wide communications, deliver payslips, manage leave & give employees access to their earnings, via WhatsApp.
  • The Awareness Company — We use data to tell stories that are useful to humans.
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Sports VC funding in South Africa at a glance

Stats across 4 deals from 5 investors.

5
investors
in South Africa Sports startups
4
deals
in South Africa Sports startups
60%
lead investors
lead at least one round
75%
Seed
most common funding stage

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