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Top 50 Transportation VC Funds & Investors in South Africa (September 2026)

The most active venture capital funds investing in South Africa Transportation startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in South Africa Transportation startup companies. Find investors to raise a Seed, Series A or Series B round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
E4EAfrica
VC Fund
6 South Africa, The Netherlands, France Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Logistics, Internet, Supply Chain Management $1M–$8.4M
54 Collective
VC Fund
6 Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa Seed, Pre-Seed Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech $40k–$2M
Kalon Venture Partners
VC Fund
5 South Africa, Luxembourg, United States Seed, Series A Artificial Intelligence, Apps, Internet $715k–$11M
IDF Capital SA
VC Fund
4 South Africa Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Mobile Apps, Retail $81k–$1.3M
Launch Africa
VC Fund
4 Nigeria, South Africa, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology $200k–$4M
Simple.capital
VC Fund
3 South Africa, United States, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Software, Retail $100k–$11M
CRE Venture Capital
VC Fund
3 Nigeria, South Africa, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, Software, FinTech $250k–$21M
HAVAÍC
VC Fund
3 South Africa, United States, Kenya Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A Software, Health Care, FinTech $83k–$15M
AlphaCode Venture Partners
VC Fund
3 South Africa, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates Grant, Seed, Series B Financial Services, FinTech, Finance $30k–$17M
Standard Bank South Africa
VC Fund
3 South Africa, United Kingdom, United States Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Payments $1M–$301M
4 Decades Capital
VC Fund
3 South Africa Seed, Series A Apps, Travel, Big Data
Newtown Partners
VC Fund
3 United States, South Africa, Ghana Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Logistics, Health Care, Software $600k–$30M
Endeavor South Africa
VC Fund
2 South Africa, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Internet, Payments, Software $2.5M–$48M
Standard Chartered Bank
VC Fund
2 India, Singapore, United Kingdom Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt Financial Services, Energy, Finance $70M–$3.4B
Vumela Fund
VC Fund
2 South Africa, Brazil Seed, Debt Financing, Venture - Series Unknown Education, Hospital, Software $500k–$1.7M
Silvertree Internet Holdings
VC Fund
2 South Africa Seed, Venture - Series Unknown E-Commerce, Pet, Advice
Digital Africa Ventures
VC Fund
2 South Africa, Tunisia, The Netherlands Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Logistics, Supply Chain Management $1.8M–$5M
Fireball Capital
VC Fund
2 South Africa, Australia, Nigeria Series A, Venture - Series Unknown, Seed Software, Information Technology, Mobile Apps $473k–$40M
SAAD Investment Holdings
VC Fund
2 South Africa Private Equity, Venture - Series Unknown, Seed E-Commerce, Retail, SaaS $1.2M–$4M
Tritech Global
VC Fund
2 South Africa Seed, Series A Apps, Travel, Big Data
Futuregrowth Asset Management
VC Fund
2 South Africa, France, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Transportation, Financial Services $1.8M–$22M
Capaci.Tech
VC Fund
2 South Africa, Kenya, United States Seed Apps, Software, B2B $10k–$4M
Jozi Angels
VC Fund
2 South Africa, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown B2B, Legal, Travel $188k–$1.6M
Hlayisani Capital
VC Fund
2 South Africa, Mauritius Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Series A Software, Education, Information Technology $2M–$11M
Triodos Bank
VC Fund
1 India, Germany, Kenya Debt Financing, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A Financial Services, Energy, FinTech $759k–$365M
Tsing Capital
VC Fund
1 China, United States, Canada Series A, Series B, Series C Electronics, Energy, Manufacturing $2.8M–$187M
Harambeans
VC Fund
1 Nigeria, Kenya, Morocco Seed, Angel, Grant Information Technology, B2B, FinTech $100k–$3.1M
Lowenthal Capital Partners
VC Fund
1 South Africa Software, Logistics, Media and Entertainment
IBM
VC Fund
1 United States, United Kingdom, India Seed, Grant, Series A Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $1.6k–$55M
i-Cubed Capital
VC Fund
1 South Africa Seed, Pre-Seed, Private Equity Medical, Health Care, Personal Health $200k–$569k
Standard Bank of South Africa
VC Fund
1 South Africa Seed Software, Logistics, Transportation
elea Foundation for Ethics in Globalization
VC Fund
1 India, Kenya, Mexico Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Agriculture, Food and Beverage $100k–$4.5M
Emso Asset Management
VC Fund
1 Mexico, Nigeria, South Africa Seed, Series A, Debt Financing FinTech, Automotive, Financial Services
Robertson Stephens Partners
VC Fund
1 United States, South Africa Series B, Series A Software, Internet, Manufacturing $12M–$80M
Naspers
VC Fund
1 South Africa, India, Brazil Series B, Private Equity, Series A E-Commerce, Internet, Retail $510k–$421M
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
VC Fund
1 United States, United Kingdom, India Grant, Series A, Series B Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical $500k–$85M
GalloProvincialis
VC Fund
1 South Africa, The Netherlands Seed Payments, Apps, Software $1.5M–$1.8M
Goldman Sachs
VC Fund
1 United States, India, China Series C, Series B Software, Financial Services, FinTech $13M–$145M
UW Ventures
VC Fund
1 South Africa Seed, Series A FinTech, Payments, Mobile Payments $563k–$31M
Norrsken22
VC Fund
1 South Africa, Egypt, Nigeria Seed, Series A, Series B Financial Services, Banking, Payments $2.4M–$55M
KNF Ventures
VC Fund
1 South Africa Series A, Venture - Series Unknown SaaS, EBooks, EdTech
Tremis Capital
VC Fund
1 India, South Africa Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Apps, Toys, Video $500k–$4M
Assemble49-Global
VC Fund
1 South Africa Seed Transportation
VNV Global
VC Fund
1 United Kingdom, Sweden, Russian Federation Series B, Series A Health Care, E-Commerce, Marketplace $1M–$85M
Microsoft
VC Fund
1 United States, United Kingdom, India Grant, Seed Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $5k–$4M
TotalEnergies Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, France, United Kingdom Series B, Series C Energy, Renewable Energy, Transportation $5M–$175M
Endeavor
VC Fund
1 Brazil, United States, Malaysia Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Financial Services $4.8M–$50M
Dain Rauscher Wessels
VC Fund
1 United States, South Africa Series C, Series B Software, Information Technology, Internet $8.4M–$102M
Bolt
VC Fund
1 Ghana, Germany, South Africa Seed Transportation, Electric Vehicle, FinTech $4.3M–$10M
AAIC
VC Fund
1 South Africa Seed Logistics, Transportation, Supply Chain Management
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E4EAfrica
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 6 investments in South Africa Transportation startups

E4E Africa Backing category-defining emerging market businesses. We invest in businesses that drive economic opportunity and sustainable growth.Learn MoreE4E specializes ... Read More

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Logistics, Internet, Supply Chain Management
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Africa, The Netherlands, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 27
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$7.5M; Pre-Seed $1M–$2M; Series A $1M–$8.4M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Kuunda — Kuunda provides consulting, liquidity management, data insight tools enabling users to fulfill financial needs through a digital platform.
  • Jem — We give employers the ability to send company-wide communications, deliver payslips, manage leave & give employees access to their earnings, via WhatsApp.
  • Ridge — Ridge structures natural assets into regulated, ISIN-listed financial products accessible through existing banking infrastructure.
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54 Collective
VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 6 investments in South Africa Transportation 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: 112
  • Round size: Seed $40k–$2M; Pre-Seed $40k–$1.3M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Yeah — Yeah is a financial technology company that offers payment processing services while building a credit profile for the banked and unbanked.
  • 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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Kalon Venture Partners
VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 5 investments in South Africa Transportation 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: 21
  • Round size: Seed $715k–$3M; Series A $2.5M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 62% lead, 38% 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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IDF Capital SA
VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 4 investments in South Africa Transportation 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: E-Commerce, Mobile Apps, Retail
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $81k–$1.3M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Droppa — Droppa is a delivery hub that makes it easier and safer to transport your parcels, goods and furniture using our mobile app and website.
  • 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.
  • 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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Launch Africa
VC Fund · Ebène, Plaines Wilhems, Mauritius · 4 investments in South Africa Transportation 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: 218
  • 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 — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Zazu — Zazu is an all-in-one financial platform for African SMEs, helping businesses manage payments, automate cash flow, and access real-time financial insights from one simple dashboard.
  • 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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Simple.capital
VC Fund · Englefield Green, Surrey, United Kingdom · 3 investments in South Africa Transportation startups

Made with Softr, the easiest way to turn your data into internal tools and client portals. No coding required.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 23
  • Round size: Seed $665k–$5.5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Momint — Momint is the Web3 investment platform of the future. The safest and easiest to use NFT marketplace in the world. Discover the real-world potential of NFTs.
  • Rabbit — At Rabbit, we plan to change how the world shops.Retail has witnessed one revolution before with the introduction of E-Commerce that changed how customers order stuff and the second revolution is here! We are proud to be among the pioneers, a handful of global entrepreneurs that are leading and shaping the retail's second revolutionWe arefunded by amazing VCs that are helping us build the next big thingYou feel it is vague? that's intended as we are still building in stealth. but trust us, it is COOL!
  • Beeline Learn — Enjoy Learning Effectively. Beta version is now LIVE!
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CRE Venture Capital
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 3 investments in South Africa Transportation 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: 66
  • Round size: Seed $250k–$4M; Pre-Seed $250k–$3.3M; Series A $1.1M–$21M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

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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HAVAÍC
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 3 investments in South Africa Transportation 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, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
  • Geography: South Africa, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 49
  • Round size: Seed $83k–$4M; Series A $1.9M–$15M; Venture - Series Unknown $318k–$632k
  • Lead/follow: 65% lead, 35% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $50M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • NjiaPay — Payments-as-a-Service platform that will streamline your operations and elevate your online payments across the African continent.
  • SwiftVee — SwiftVEE is a livestock trading mobile app. They support live webcast livestock auctions and silent auctions. Their platform facilitates the discovery and viewing of livestock auctions.They provide webcast advertising, online auctions, and online livestock insurance services and data products for financial institutions.
  • Tanda — As a Tanda Agent, you can sell Kenya's favorite digital products, and grow your duka while you're at it
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AlphaCode Venture Partners
VC Fund · Gauteng, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 3 investments in South Africa Transportation startups

We are an African venture capital fund, for world-class African entrepreneurs run by seasoned African investors.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Stage:Grant, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: South Africa, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 43
  • Round size: Seed $77k–$7.2M; Grant $30k–$130k; Series B $2.3M–$17M
  • Lead/follow: 58% lead, 42% 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.
  • AgrigateOne — Shining a light on every stage of the fresh produce supply chain, ensuring transparency for growers & buyers. Agritech | Software | Technology
  • Moment — Africa is entering a transformative period of economic and technological growth driven by rapid digital adoption, expanding mobile connectivity, and a young, increasingly connected population. With approximately 1.5 billion people and one of the world’s fastest-growing youth demographics, the continent is experiencing a significant shift towardelectronic payments, mobile-first services, and broader digital transformation.Although widespread internet access and traditional banking infrastructure developed later in many African markets compared to other regions, this delayed adoption has accelerated innovation in mobile technology and financial services. Mobile money platforms, digital banking solutions, fintech ecosystems, and e-commerce adoption are reshaping how consumers and businesses interact across the continent.This youth-driven wave of innovation is creating substantial opportunities in sectors such as fintech, telecommunications, logistics, e-commerce, renewable energy, education technology, and digital services. Both global corporations and emerging local enterprises are actively investing in Africa’s rapidly evolving digital economy, competing to unlock new markets and address underserved populations.The continent’s ongoing transformation is expected to play a major role in global economic growth over the next two decades, positioning Africa as a significant center for innovation, entrepreneurship, and digital commerce.
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Standard Bank South Africa
VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 3 investments in South Africa Transportation startups, 13 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, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 53
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$2M; Post-IPO Debt $46M–$301M; Debt Financing $13M–$300M
  • Lead/follow: 55% lead, 45% 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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4 Decades Capital
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 3 investments in South Africa Transportation 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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Newtown Partners
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 3 investments in South Africa Transportation 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, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United States, South Africa, Ghana

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 34
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$5.5M; Series A $3.3M–$30M; Venture - Series Unknown $2M–$2.5M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% 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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Endeavor South Africa
VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 2 investments in South Africa Transportation startups

Endeavor South Africa is a non-profit entity and the leading supporter of high-impact entrepreneurs around the world.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Payments, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: South Africa, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Round size: Seed $2.5M–$4.6M; Series B $11M–$48M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $14M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Plentify — Plentify connects home appliances with cheaper cleaner energy. It does this with an intelligent residential load management platform which matches demand with clean energy supply for 75% cheaper than batteries. Plentify combines advanced hardware, AI, and user-centric design to create smart home products that delight customers while alsostrengthening electricity systems.
  • Sendmarc — Manage your organization's DMARC, SPF, and DKIM with world-class implementation services and support. All in one easy-to-use platform.
  • Yebo Fresh — Yebofresh is a new online shopping service, delivering popular groceries straight into areas that are generally unserved by most formal retailers. Our unique business model and partnerships with manufacturers allow us to deliver top quality products and A-brands at extremely competitive prices. Yebofresh serves Imizamo Yethu, Langa, Khayelitsha,Mfuleni and Gugulethu and following recent seed funding, is rapidly expanding across the greater Cape Town area.
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Standard Chartered Bank
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in South Africa Transportation startups, 23 in the past 12 months

Standard Chartered Bank offers personal and business banking services. Their solutions for companies include transaction banking and financial markets solutions. They also offer current accounts, savings accounts, credit cards, loans, and mortgage services.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Energy, Finance
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt
  • Geography: India, Singapore, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 136
  • Round size: Post-IPO Debt $100M–$3.4B; Debt Financing $70M–$1.3B
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Asaka bank — Aksaka bank is a financial organization that provides curated banking solutions to meet the personal, business, and corporate needs in the vicinity. The organization also offers personal loans and commercial credit facilities for individuals and local businesses.
  • Key Capture Energy — Building large-scale energy storage projects today that will transition us to the grid of tomorrow. #energystorage #renewables #cleanenergy
  • Round-the-Clock renewable energy project — Round-the-Clock renewable energy project is a hybrid power system to deliver uninterrupted electricity 24/7.
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Vumela Fund
VC Fund · Hyde Park, Newtownabbey, United Kingdom · 2 investments in South Africa Transportation 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, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: South Africa, Brazil

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 25
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$910k; Debt Financing $1.1M–$1.7M; Venture - Series Unknown $500k–$1M
  • Lead/follow: 80% lead, 20% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $20M 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 — Mia Healthcare is a Hospitals and Health Care firm offering dental services and orthodontic products.
  • 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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Silvertree Internet Holdings
VC Fund · 2 investments in South Africa Transportation startups

Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Pet, Advice
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Aumax — Aumax is a social-first direct to consumer brand.
  • UCook — UCOOK is a food and beverage platform that offers meal kit delivery service. It was founded in August 2014 and is headquartered in Cape Town.
  • Faithful to Nature
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Digital Africa Ventures
VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 2 investments in South Africa Transportation startups

Backing the Bold. Creating African success stories, one founder at a time.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Logistics, Supply Chain Management
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: South Africa, Tunisia, The Netherlands

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Tripplo — Tripplo is a platform to automate and optimise operations for transporters, cargo owners and cargo brokers.
  • TUNL — Ship globally with ease. TUNL offers affordable, transparent international shipping built for South African brands. Up to 91% cheaper. No surprises.
  • 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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Fireball Capital
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 2 investments in South Africa Transportation startups

Fireball Capital operates as a venture capital firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Mobile Apps
  • Stage:Series A, Venture - Series Unknown, Seed
  • Geography: South Africa, Australia, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Seed $473k–$1M; Series A $5.7M–$40M; Venture - Series Unknown $500k–$4M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Plentify — Plentify connects home appliances with cheaper cleaner energy. It does this with an intelligent residential load management platform which matches demand with clean energy supply for 75% cheaper than batteries. Plentify combines advanced hardware, AI, and user-centric design to create smart home products that delight customers while alsostrengthening electricity systems.
  • Immobazyme — Immobazyme provides pioneering the biotechnology industry. Using innovative technologies, along with an environmentally responsible outlook.the company aims to develop an analytical laboratory platform as well as serve the industrial sector through the production of high-value products by organic synthesis and environmental remediationtechnologies.
  • Contactable — Digital Identity Orchestration platform - used extensively by corporates across all sectors for digital onboarding, e-KYC, Self-RICA and identity proofing.
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SAAD Investment Holdings
VC Fund · 2 investments in South Africa Transportation startups

We specialise in buying, building, and growing businesses in key industries, driving long-term sustainability with our innovative approach at SAAD.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Retail, SaaS
  • Stage:Private Equity, Venture - Series Unknown, Seed
  • Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Venture - Series Unknown $1.2M–$4M
  • Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% 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.
  • FinMeUp — FinMeUp is a tech startup that provides financial education to its users via an online platform. The startup aims to empower individuals with financial knowledge all in one innovative app.
  • Float — At Float, we believe in a world where credit works for shoppers and not against them.Float offers shoppers a smarter way to pay with their credit card – by splitting big purchases in up to 24 bite-size, interest-free monthly payments. It’s all the perks of credit cards, but none of the cons. No extra debt, no applications, no credit checks – andno catch. Just shopping joy on their terms.At the same time, Float merchants enjoy more than 80% bigger orders and radically improved conversions. They also get direct access to 5 million pre-approved shoppers. Float’s instalment offering is fully customisable, giving merchants more control and flexibility than ever before. It’s all made possible by Float’s innovative technology, built on what we call ‘head-in-the-sky, feet-on-the-ground’ thinking.By giving their shoppers the most flexible, frictionless and financially responsible way to shop, merchants are partnering with us to build a new economy - where buying BIG, means paying small.Welcome to Float.
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Tritech Global
VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 2 investments in South Africa Transportation startups

Tritech Global is a technology investment holding company spanning a number of market leading business verticals in multiple geographic jurisdictions around the world.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% 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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Futuregrowth Asset Management
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 2 investments in South Africa Transportation 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, Series B
  • Geography: South Africa, France, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 22
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$5.3M; Series A $3.4M–$11M; Series B $11M–$22M
  • Lead/follow: 68% lead, 32% 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.
  • Jem — We give employers the ability to send company-wide communications, deliver payslips, manage leave & give employees access to their earnings, via WhatsApp.
  • 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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Capaci.Tech
VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 2 investments in South Africa Transportation startups

CapaciTech operates as a South African holding company that consists of an advisory business and special purposes vehicles that house shareholdings in various entrepreneurial ventures.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Software, B2B
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: South Africa, Kenya, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Seed $10k–$4M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • TUNL — Ship globally with ease. TUNL offers affordable, transparent international shipping built for South African brands. Up to 91% cheaper. No surprises.
  • Marquee Group — Marquee Group is a sports management focused on Golf and train athletes to achieve goals.
  • 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!
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Jozi Angels
VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 2 investments in South Africa Transportation startups

Jozi Angels is an angel network based in Johannesburg, South Africa. We exist to grow the startup ecosystem and facilitate the growth of innovative startups.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: B2B, Legal, Travel
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: South Africa, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$1.6M; Pre-Seed $188k–$1M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Jahazii — Jahazii helps employers offer on-demand access to earned wages, giving employees financial flexibility without loans while reducing pressure on HR and payroll teams. Funds on M-PESA in seconds, at no cost to you.
  • TUNL — Ship globally with ease. TUNL offers affordable, transparent international shipping built for South African brands. Up to 91% cheaper. No surprises.
  • The Awareness Company — We use data to tell stories that are useful to humans.
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Hlayisani Capital
VC Fund · Fourways, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 2 investments in South Africa Transportation 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: 21
  • Round size: Series A $3M–$11M; Venture - Series Unknown $2M–$3.2M
  • Lead/follow: 71% lead, 29% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $24M 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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Triodos Bank
VC Fund · Zeist, Utrecht, The Netherlands · 1 investments in South Africa Transportation startups

Triodos Investment Management focuses on investments in various areas, including renewable energy, microfinance, and real estate.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Energy, FinTech
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
  • Geography: India, Germany, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 49
  • Round size: Series A $12M–$12M; Debt Financing $6.9M–$365M; Venture - Series Unknown $759k–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • MyJouleBox — MyJouleBox offers a solution for solar professionals in Africa to offer leased solar installations to their customers.
  • Storm — Storm is een producent van hernieuwbare energie. Samen met ons team ontwikkelen, bouwen en exploiteren we duurzame energieprojecten over het hele land: van wind- en zonneparken tot snellaadstations en batterijopslag. Dit telkens tegen een zo laag mogelijke maatschappelijke kost.
  • GIGA Storage — Grootschalige energieopslag is de ontbrekende schakel in de energie transitie. Als de wind niet waait en de zon niet schijnt levert GIGA Storage duurzame
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Tsing Capital
VC Fund · Beijing, Beijing, China · 1 investments in South Africa Transportation startups

Tsing Capital is a private equity and venture capital arm of Tsinghua Holdings Co., Ltd. specializing in growth capital.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Electronics, Energy, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: China, United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 38
  • Round size: Series A $2.8M–$50M; Series B $10M–$65M; Series C $14M–$187M
  • Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $5M in 2017

Portfolio highlights

  • 3D Medicines — 3D Medicines, we use individual’s genetic information to prevent, diagnose, and treat cancer. We develop personalized medicines according to target population’s genetic background, to increase efficacy and safety.
  • Ionova Life Science — Ionova Life Science is an anti-tumor drug developer dedicated to the development of innovative types of tumor-targeted drugs and tumor immunomodulatory drugs, including oncology, immuno-oncology, and cardiac metabolic diseases. Force contact
  • Stemirna — Stemirna Therapeutics is a RNA technology based drug development company designed to maximize the potential of RNA science. The company currently has more than a dozen of independently-developed mRNA drug projects, focusing on the fields of mRNA-based personalized cancer vaccines, mRNA vaccines for infectious disease, protein defects diseases, andgenetic diseases, providing cure and solutions for cancer and infectious diseases, better serving patients.
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Harambeans
VC Fund · 1 investments in South Africa Transportation startups

Harambeans are African innovators who have pledged to “work together as one” to build Africa’s future. Over the last decade, Harambeans has spawned a series of tech-enabled ventures such as Andela, Flutterwave, and Yoco, which have collectively generated over 3000 jobs, and raised over $700m from Google Ventures, CRE Ventures and Accel.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, B2B, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Grant
  • Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, Morocco

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$3.1M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow

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.
  • ZSystems — ZSystems is a transformative super app designed to redefine B2B trade.
  • MarketForce — MarketForce is a US, Kenya and Nigeria-based technology company that is building the SuperApp for Africa's 100 million merchants. MarketForce provides an all-inclusive B2B Commerce and Fintech platform (dubbed “RejaReja” – Swahili for ‘retail’) that empowers merchants in Africa to source, order and pay for inventory digitally and conveniently,access financing, collect digital payments and make extra money by reselling digital financial services such as airtime, electricity tokens and bill payments. Launched in 2018, MarketForce is a fast-growing YC backed company running an asset-light business model and is currently operational in 5 markets in Sub-Saharan Africa, with over 200,000 merchants and 50 consumer brands trading on the platform.
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Lowenthal Capital Partners
VC Fund · Davis, California, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Transportation startups

Lowenthal Capital Partners fills this need through its subscription newsletter service which offers a myriad of stock picks.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Logistics, Media and Entertainment
  • Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Vision Software PTY — Vision was founded in 1990. It is the leader in entertainment and edutainment software sales in South Africa and has 16 full-time employees. The company has regional offices in Durban and Cape Town and is rapidly building export sales into Kenya and four neighboring countries (Zimbabwe, Namibia, Botswana and Swaziland). In addition to ElectronicArts products, Vision distributes software for other leading publishers.
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IBM
VC Fund · Armonk, New York, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Transportation startups

For more than a century, IBM has been a global technology innovator, leading advances in AI, automation and hybrid cloud solutions that help businesses grow.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 92
  • Round size: Seed $1.6k–$34M; Grant $34k–$55M; Series A $100k–$26M
  • Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $500M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Akka — Akka is a platform to build and run apps that are elastic, agile, and resilient. Industry titans and disruptors rely on Akka when application responsiveness must be guaranteed. Engineering teams use a simple SDK and powerful libraries to build transactional, durable, and real-time services that distribute logic and data together. Operations arefully automated in serverless and BYOC environments, and a self-hosted option is available.
  • Anima App — Anima is the design-aware AI agent that bridges creativity and code. From Figma files, URLs, or prompts, Anima generates real, production-ready apps, for product teams building directly, or coding platforms integrating via API. Powers Bolt.new and Replit.
  • Chicago Quantum Exchange — Home | Chicago Quantum Exchange
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i-Cubed Capital
VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in South Africa Transportation startups

i-Cubed Capital provide a bouquet of funds for clients, ranging from unit trusts to investment funds for retiremen, including savings plans with tax incentives.i-Cubed provide a bouquet of funds for clients, ranging from unit trusts to investment funds for retirement, including savings plans with tax incentives. We assess fund managerperformances by reviewing fact sheets and provide our clients with a variety of options to meet their investment objectives.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Medical, Health Care, Personal Health
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Private Equity
  • Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $200k–$569k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Yebo Fresh — Yebofresh is a new online shopping service, delivering popular groceries straight into areas that are generally unserved by most formal retailers. Our unique business model and partnerships with manufacturers allow us to deliver top quality products and A-brands at extremely competitive prices. Yebofresh serves Imizamo Yethu, Langa, Khayelitsha,Mfuleni and Gugulethu and following recent seed funding, is rapidly expanding across the greater Cape Town area.
  • Cape Doctors — CA Cape Doctors is a trusted private medical practice in Cape Town dedicated to providing high-quality primary healthcare services for individuals and families. With modern facilities located in Rondebosch and Claremont, the practice offers convenient access to professional medical care in a welcoming and patient-focused environment. Theexperienced team of doctors and healthcare professionals are committed to delivering safe, reliable, and comprehensive treatment for a wide range of medical needs.The practice provides a full spectrum of general practitioner services, including routine medical consultations, health screenings, chronic disease management, and treatment for acute illnesses. Patients can also access services such as blood tests, pathology, X-rays, minor procedures, and medical examinations for travel or visa requirements. CA Cape Doctors focuses on preventative healthcare, early diagnosis, and personalised treatment plans to help patients maintain long-term health and wellbeing.With flexible appointment scheduling, online booking options, and availability on weekends and public holidays, CA Cape Doctors aims to make quality healthcare accessible and convenient. The practice combines modern medical technology with compassionate care, ensuring that every patient receives professional attention and support tailored to their individual health needs.
  • NewForm Foods — We are leveraging a continent-spanning R&D network to help food producers develop and scale cultivated animal products, fast & affordably.
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Standard Bank of South Africa
VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in South Africa Transportation startups

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: Software, Logistics, Transportation
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Tripplo — Tripplo is a platform to automate and optimise operations for transporters, cargo owners and cargo brokers.
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elea Foundation for Ethics in Globalization
VC Fund · 1 investments in South Africa Transportation startups

elea Foundation for Ethics in Globalization

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Agriculture, Food and Beverage
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: India, Kenya, Mexico

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 23
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$4.5M; Series A $2M–$4.2M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • BukaPO — BukaPO is a food and beverage company that provides pulses, rice bowls, and various other snack food services.
  • Toroto — Toroto neutralizes greenhouse gas emissions through nature-based solutions and carbon management. They provide a science-based way for companies and organizations to move closer to carbon-neutral operations. They support companies by measuring and reducing their environmental footprint. They also design forestry and regenerative agricultureprojects that make carbon offsetting possible.
  • MazaoHub — AI-first SaaS connecting soil, farmers, inputs, agronomy care, field operations, traceability and markets through real last-mile intelligence.
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Emso Asset Management
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in South Africa Transportation startups

Kirkoswald is a multinational investment management group, operating across a wide range of asset classes and geographies. Our expertise includes Global Macro, Emerging Local Markets and External Debt, and Private Credit, including both asset-backed and direct lending capabilities. Decades of investment experience and a disciplined risk management approach make Kirkoswald a partner of choice to capital allocators globally.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Automotive, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Debt Financing
  • Geography: Mexico, Nigeria, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: 75% lead, 25% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Moove — Moove is a mobility fintech that provides revenue-based vehicle financing to mobility entrepreneurs, democratizing vehicle ownership across Africa. The company embeds its alternative credit-scoring technology onto ride-hailing, logistics, and last-mile/instant delivery platforms, which allows access to proprietary performance and revenueanalytics of mobility entrepreneurs to underwrite loans.
  • 123 Lease — 123 Lease provides automobile leasing services and bespoke solutions for productive assets.
  • MyNextCar — MyNextCar promotes equal access to car ownership and supports individuals in the process to earn an income and drive for Bolt to improve their lives.
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Robertson Stephens Partners
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Transportation startups

Founded in 1978, Robertson Stephens was a San Francisco-based boutique investment bank that focused primarily on technology companies. It was among the most active investment banks in the technology sector at the height of the internet boom.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Series B, Series A
  • Geography: United States, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Round size: Series A $12M–$18M; Series B $38M–$80M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • PowerDsine — Microsemi Corporation (Nasdaq: MSCC) offers a comprehensive portfolio of semiconductor and system solutions for communications, defense & security, aerospace and industrial markets. Products include high-performance, radiation-hardened and highly reliable analog mixed-signal integrated circuits, FPGAs, SoCs and ASICs; power management products;timing and voice processing devices; RF solutions; discrete components; security technologies and scalable anti-tamper products; Power-over-Ethernet ICs and midspans; as well as custom design capabilities and services. Microsemi is headquartered in Aliso Viejo, Calif., and has approximately 3,000 employees globally.
  • SunBasket — Get healthy meal delivery featuring fresh, organic produce & clean ingredients delivered to your door.
  • Lara Networks — Lara Technology is a fabless semiconductor manufacturer that designs, develops and markets memory-intensive ASICs for the networking and communications industries.
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Naspers
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in South Africa Transportation startups

Naspers is a global internet group that empowers people and enrich communities. Naspers companies operate and invest in countries and markets across the world with long-term growth potential. 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 thegreatest growth potential. The company was founded on May 12, 1915, and is based in Cape Town, South Africa.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Retail
  • Stage:Series B, Private Equity, Series A
  • Geography: South Africa, India, Brazil

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 53
  • Round size: Series A $510k–$20M; Series B $1.7M–$100M; Private Equity $70M–$421M
  • Lead/follow: 55% lead, 45% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Abaguquli — Abaguquli is a non-profit organisation. aims to improve people's lives through education and innovation.
  • PharmEasy — PharmEasy is one of India's most trusted online pharmacy & medical stores offering pharmaceutical and healthcare products at a FLAT 20% OFF*. Used by 50 lakhs+ customers in India in 1.2K+ cities like Bangalore, Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Gurgaon, Noida, Pune, etc.
  • 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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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Transportation startups

We are a nonprofit fighting poverty, disease, and inequity around the world

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
  • Stage:Grant, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 401
  • Round size: Grant $500k–$15M; Series A $5M–$60M; Series B $7.2M–$85M
  • Lead/follow: 77% lead, 23% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $50M in 2017

Portfolio highlights

  • SeamlessHR — Africa's Leading HR & Payroll Software - Empowering African Businesses for Productivity and Profitability Through Technology.
  • Readily Diagnostics — Readily Diagnostics develops speedy and accurate diagnostic tests for respiratory disorders, enabling faster and more effective therapy at the point of care.
  • ProFound Therapeutics — ProFound Therapeutics is creating profound impacts on the understanding of biology and disease and the ability to create therapeutics that would not have previously been possible.
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GalloProvincialis
VC Fund · 1 investments in South Africa Transportation startups

GalloProvincialis

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Payments, Apps, Software
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: South Africa, The Netherlands

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$1.8M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Maholla — Our apps power consumer engagement & insights for Fortune 500 companies and top gaming publishers in over 30 countries. Using advanced data models, we match users with the best earning opportunities while ensuring fraud protection and user integrity—so they can share opinions, play games, and earn real cash with confidence.
  • 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.
  • Tripplo — Tripplo is a platform to automate and optimise operations for transporters, cargo owners and cargo brokers.
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Goldman Sachs
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Transportation startups

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm that provides a wide range of financial services to a substantial and diversified client base.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Stage:Series C, Series B
  • Geography: United States, India, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 958
  • Round size: Series B $13M–$140M; Series C $20M–$145M
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $43M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • XIFIN — XiFin is the leading provider of SaaS-based healthcare revenue cycle management (RCM) and workflow automation solutions
  • Judi Health — Capital Rx is a health technology company that engages in managing pharmacy benefit plans. The company is redefining the way prescriptions are priced and administered in the U.S. Through its Clearinghouse Model, it unlocks the pharmacy supply chain and reduces prescription costs for employer groups. By establishing a competitive marketplace fordrug pricing, Capital Rx focuses its resources on deploying actionable strategies that improve plan performance and patient outcomes.
  • Riverbed Technology — Unlocking the full potential of your digital experiences has never been more accessible. Illuminate, accelerate and fully leverage the full breadth of possibilities with Riverbed.
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UW Ventures
VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in South Africa Transportation 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: 20
  • Round size: Seed $563k–$2.5M; Series A $1.3M–$31M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% 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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Norrsken22
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in South Africa Transportation startups

Norrsken22 is a tech growth fund, backed by an international network of tech founders, partnering with exceptional African entrepreneurs in scaling disruptive businesses.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Banking, Payments
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: South Africa, Egypt, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 23
  • Round size: Seed $2.4M–$13M; Series A $5M–$40M; Series B $6.8M–$55M
  • Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $110M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Lua — Build, deploy, and scale enterprise-grade AI agents. Ship your first agent without touching infrastructure.
  • Shiprazor — Shiprazor is an innovative shipping aggregator that revolutionizes the logistics industry by providing seamless solutions for businesses.
  • Orca Fraud — Orca empowers fraud fighters with effective tools to combat fraud
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KNF Ventures
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in South Africa Transportation startups

was a SARS-approved section 12J Venture Capital Company

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, EBooks, EdTech
  • Stage:Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Quicket — Quicket is a cloud-based and self-managed ticketing solution which allows anyone to instantly start selling tickets, marketing and managing their own event within minutes. Being user-friendly and self-managed allows Quicket to cater for the countless smaller event organisers that, before Quicket, had no viable solution in South Africa and currentlyhave no solution in Africa. Quicket also caters for larger events, integrating into the various payment solutions required for event management across Africa.
  • Snapplify — Snapplify is at the forefront of edtech solutions in Africa, and specialises in enabling digital learning for individuals and institutions via the largest digital educational marketplace in Africa. As a global edtech company, Snapplify strives for radical inclusion to level the playing field and equip individuals across emerging markets with theworld-class tools they need to collaborate, innovate and thrive. Snapplify’s technology is used in other educational products to facilitate collaboration throughout the educational community.Snapplify for Education’s award-winning platform is already a top choice for institutions integrating digital education into their classrooms. From software to support, Snapplify provides institutions with everything they need to create a secure, collaborative e-learning environment for students. Snapplify’s robust 24-hour-access digital-library solution offers thousands of free ebooks and widely applicable, curriculum-approved educational content supplied by partner publishers from across the globe. Snapplify’s diversity of device integration allows schools to use its products on the devices that they already have access to, without having to invest in costly digital infrastructure upgrades. Snapplify’s solutions are industry celebrated and globally recognised for their innovation in technology.In order to achieve its educational goals, Snapplify has built strong relationships with diverse partners around the growth of its ebook, e-textbook, and device catalogue, and partnered with international publishers and other key stakeholders to meet the demand for widely relevant, curriculum-compliant digital educational content. As a socially minded company, Snapplify is committed to supporting others and creating sustainable change through collaboration and innovation. Snapplify empowers, inspires, and uplifts teachers via Teacha! (a media hub, resource marketplace, and careers portal for educators); is the digital content partner on a project that delivers technology and e-learning to public schools in South Africa’s Gauteng province, and runs impact programmes through the Snapplify Foundation.Snapplify originated in South Africa, focusing initially on the South African education and digital content industries. Since its establishment in 2012, the company has grown and expanded into new markets in Africa and the United States, with offices across South Africa, as well as in Nairobi, London, Amsterdam and New Jersey. Snapplify is backed by AngelHub Ventures, a venture capital company backed by former First National Bank CEO Michael Jordaan and the Harris family, as well as international investors. In 2019, Snapplify secured $2 million expansion capital from venture capital firm Knife Capital, and empowered African investment manager Hlayisani Capital’s Hlayisani Growth Fund.Snapplify for Education’s award-winning platform is already a top choice for institutions integrating digital education into their classrooms. From software to support, Snapplify provides institutions with everything they need to create a secure, collaborative e-learning environment for students. Through Snapplify’s e-learning and digital library solution, Engage, educators can share teacher-created, multimedia resource materials with students; administrators can manage the access and permissions for multiple student and staff accounts; schools can host their own 24-hour access digital content library (which comes with over 50 000 free resources including study guides, e-textbooks, past exam papers for multiple curricula, children’s books in African languages and more); and students and parents can purchase prescribed e-textbooks. Snapplify’s diversity of device integration allows schools to use its products on the devices that they already have access to, without having to invest in costly digital infrastructure upgrades. Snapplify’s solutions are industry celebrated and globally recognised for their innovation in technology.
  • GraniteWMS — GraniteWMS is a powerful warehouse management system designed to streamline inventory, boost efficiency, and simplify warehouse operations.
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Tremis Capital
VC Fund · New Delhi, Delhi, India · 1 investments in South Africa Transportation startups

We help startups raise capital. Our secondary offerings are early-stage investments, financial analysis, and sale of secondary shares.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Toys, Video
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: India, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 17
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$3M; Pre-Seed $500k–$930k; Series A $2.4M–$4M
  • Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • ONO — ONO is an agri-tech product company that provides end-to-end data driven tech solutions across the agricultural industry, was founded in 2021.We are building an array of innovative products that help various agri-stakeholders for economic growth opportunities. We connect all the dots across the spectrum to drive transparency and efficiencythrough digitization, data authenticity, accessibility and awareness. This helps us to unlock opportunities from, to and beyond the ecosystem.
  • Shiprazor — Shiprazor is an innovative shipping aggregator that revolutionizes the logistics industry by providing seamless solutions for businesses.
  • The Wedding Company — The Wedding Company provides the best wedding services in India. Book end-to-end wedding planning services online with us and grab the best deals for your wedding, engagement, reception, and other events.
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Assemble49-Global
VC Fund · St. Peter Port, NA - Guernsey, Guernsey · 1 investments in South Africa Transportation startups

Assemble49-Global is an investment firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Transportation
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • MyNextCar — MyNextCar promotes equal access to car ownership and supports individuals in the process to earn an income and drive for Bolt to improve their lives.
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VNV Global
VC Fund · Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden · 1 investments in South Africa Transportation startups

VNV Global is an investment company with the business concept of using experience, expertise and a widespread network to identify and invest in assets with considerable potential for value appreciation. The company has a special focus on online marketplaces and businesses with strong network effects. The common shares of VNV Global are listed onNasdaq Stockholm, Mid Cap segment, with the ticker VNV.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, E-Commerce, Marketplace
  • Stage:Series B, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Sweden, Russian Federation

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 104
  • Round size: Series A $1M–$30M; Series B $3M–$85M
  • Lead/follow: 52% lead, 48% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • YUV — The world's first smart hair colour lab for salons and freelancers.
  • All3 — All3 uses AI and robotics to design, manufacture, and assemble buildings through a unified system. The company provides an end-to-end system that combines AI-driven architectural design, robotic off-site manufacturing, and automated on-site assembly for residential and commercial structures. Its platform enables customized building components to beproduced and assembled with software-controlled workflows, reducing reliance on manual processes and fragmented supply chains.All3 also offers vertically integrated services that cover planning, engineering, fabrication, and construction delivery, allowing developers to manage projects within a single system. Its technology supports complex building designs and constrained urban sites by adapting production and assembly processes to specific project requirements.
  • VOI Technology — Voi is a micromobility company operating e-bikes and e-scooters in 150+ cities. EBIT-profitable since 2024.
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Microsoft
VC Fund · Redmond, Washington, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Transportation startups

Microsoft is an American multinational corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.Microsoft’s devices and consumer (D&C) licensing segment licenses the Windows operating system and related software, Microsoft Office for consumers, and the Windows Phone operating system. Thecompany’s computing and gaming hardware segment provides Xbox gaming and entertainment consoles and accessories, second-party and third-party video games, and Xbox Live subscriptions; surface devices and accessories; and Microsoft PC accessories. Its phone hardware segment offers Lumia smartphones and other non-Lumia phones. Its D&C segment provides Windows Store, Xbox Live transactions, and Windows phone store; search advertising; display advertising; Office 365 Home and Office 365 Personal; first-party video games; and other consumer products and services as well as operating retail stores.Microsoft’s commercial licensing segments license server products, including Windows Server, Microsoft SQL Server, Visual Studio, System Center, and related Client Access Licenses (CALs); Windows Embedded; Windows operating system; Microsoft Office for business, including Office, Exchange, SharePoint, Lync, and related CALs; Microsoft Dynamics business solutions; and Skype. Its commercial segment offers enterprise services, including premier support services and Microsoft consulting services; commercial cloud comprising Office 365 Commercial, other Microsoft Office online offerings, Dynamics CRM Online, and Microsoft Azure; and other commercial products and online services.The company markets and distributes its products through original equipment manufacturers, distributors, and resellers, as well as online.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Grant, Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 299
  • Round size: Seed $5k–$4M; Grant $25k–$2.5M
  • Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $1B in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Meta — At Meta, they work on landmark AI challenges that have the power to transform how scientific knowledge is experienced and consumed. Meta provides innovators throughout the scientific ecosystem with powerful views of the current and future trajectories of science and technology with the goal of making all scientific knowledge computable. Meta’smission is to unlock all of the world’s scientific and technical insights using artificial intelligence.
  • AppNexus — Microsoft Invest is a demand side platform built for the future of video advertising.
  • GuidenAI — GuidenAI is an AI-focused innovation lab building Broxi AI, a no-code AI agent builder, and Genpio, an AI livestream selling platform.
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TotalEnergies Ventures
VC Fund · La Défense, Ile-de-France, France · 1 investments in South Africa Transportation startups

TotalEnergies Ventures is the venture capital arm of Total.As part of Total's commitment to a better energy future, TotalEnergies Ventures is focused on finding, funding and fostering high-potential start-ups which will contribute to creating a low carbon future.Current areas of interest include Renewables, Distributed Energy, NewMobility, Energy Access, Energy Storage, Bio-Plastics, Circular Economy, Carbon Capture and Hydrogen.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Energy, Renewable Energy, Transportation
  • Stage:Series B, Series C
  • Geography: United States, France, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 100
  • Round size: Series B $9.3M–$175M; Series C $5M–$65M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Autogrid — AutoGrid Systems organizes energy data and employs big data analytics to generate real-time predictions that create actionable data.The company’s suite of flexibility management applications allows utilities, electricity retailers, renewable energy project developers and energy service providers to deliver cheap, clean and reliable energy bymanaging networked distributed energy resources (DERs) in real time and at scale. AutoGrid applications utilize petabytes of smart meter, sensor and third-party data, along with powerful data science and high-performance computing algorithms, to monitor, predict, optimize and control the operations of millions of assets connected across global energy networks.Established at Stanford University in 2011, they have assembled a team of world-class software architects, electrical and computer engineers, data scientists and energy experts who apply cutting-edge analytics and in-depth energy data science to solve the world’s most critical energy problems.
  • 45-8 ENERGY — 45-8 ENERGY is exploring eco-friendly helium for uses in many industries.
  • Ampersand — Ampersand catalyzes and power mass-market electric mobility. By supplying the battery swap network and operating system the company makes sustainable mobility rapidly accessible and affordable for developing markets, to improve livelihoods and the environment. With over a million km already covered by e-motorcycles in Africa using our plug-and-playpowertrain and energy network.
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Endeavor
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Transportation startups, 6 in the past 12 months

About EndeavorEndeavor is the world’s leading community of high-impact entrepreneurs. Today, Endeavor’s network spans nearly 40 countries and supports more than 2,000 entrepreneurs, whose companies generate combined revenues of over $28 billion US, have created more than 3.9 million jobs, and, in 2020, raised over $4 billion US in capital.Endeavor’s unique entrepreneur-first model and network of trust provide a platform for founders to dream big, scale up, and pay it forward to the next generation of entrepreneurs.
About Endeavor CatalystEndeavor Catalyst is the rules-based, co-investment fund of Endeavor, set up to invest exclusively in Endeavor Entrepreneur-led companies and to sustain Endeavor’s long-term operations in a mission-aligned way. Launched in 2012, Endeavor Catalyst has ~$250M+ AUM across three funds and has made 200+ investments to date in 32+ different markets. Today The Endeavor Catalyst portfolio has 37 companies valued at $1B+, including 29 unicorns. Investments include Globant (NYSE:GLOB), Rappi, and Creditas in Latin America; Yemeksepeti.com and Careem in MENA; and Bukalapak and Carro in Indonesia.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Brazil, United States, Malaysia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 79
  • Round size: Series A $4.8M–$25M; Series B $9M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $292M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Jusfy — Jusfy offers legal services and consulting for individuals and business organizations.
  • aviva — Aviva is building an AI-powered digital bank for Latin America’s underserved communities. While determined to fuel Latin America’s ongoing emergence of a new middle class with a fully-fledged portfolio of inclusive financial services, Aviva’s initial go-to-market concentrates on unsecured credit products for individuals and nano-businesses inMexico.As most of the underbanked 40+ million Mexicans live in small and medium-sized towns, Aviva builds a bridge to those living in remote communities with its physical onboarding kiosks. These nano-branches provide a documentless 3-minute video onboarding for everyone in need of liquidity. Novel AI-based technology, including natural language processing, allows Aviva to match customers’ spoken word to the fields of a comprehensive real-time credit application. Transforming speech to text and inferring emotions and personality from the visual layer of the application video gives Aviva an edge in scoring thin-file customers. Leveraging these novel risk models, Aviva aims to provide the lowest interest rates available to today’s underserved.
  • Lunar Outpost — Lunar Outpost is redefining our relationship with the Moon and space by building the robotic infrastructure for future exploration and commerce. Our mission: make the Moon accessible, sustainable, and open for innovation.
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Dain Rauscher Wessels
VC Fund · Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Transportation startups

Dain Rauscher Wessels was a brokerage and investment banking firm based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Internet
  • Stage:Series C, Series B
  • Geography: United States, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 23
  • Round size: Series B $8.4M–$40M; Series C $24M–$102M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • ShoreTel — ShoreTel is a Sunnyvale, Calif. a seller of IP telecom systems to large businesses. ShoreTel, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the development and sale of Internet protocol (IP) communications systems for enterprises in the United States and internationally. The company’s systems are based on its distributed softwarearchitecture and switch-based hardware platform that enable multi-site enterprises to be served by a single telecommunications system. Its solutions include ShoreTel IP Phones; ShoreTel Voice Switches; ShoreTel Service Appliances; ShoreTel Director, which enables IT administrators to view and manage the entire system of the enterprise from any location using a single application; Unified Messaging solutions that enables users to obtain voice mail messages from various devices; Automated Attendant, which enables the enterprise to direct callers to appropriate individuals, workgroups, or messages; and Small Business Edition solution for smaller enterprises. The company also provides ShoreTel Communicator, which enables the integration of IP telephony solutions with instant messaging, desktop collaboration, and video; Microsoft Integration; ShoreTel Contact Center that enables organizations to route incoming contacts to appropriate agent in a multisite contact center; and ShoreTel Mobility for smartphone users that allows the user to communicate from any location, including office, home, or through Wi-Fi hotspots. In addition, it offers custom application development, integration, and implementation services for businesses; and post-contractual support, training, system design and installation, and professional services. The company sells its products to small, medium, and large companies, as well as public institutions in various markets, including the professional services, financial services, government, education, healthcare, manufacturing, non-profit organization, and technology through a network of distributors. ShoreTel, Inc. was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.
  • PowerDsine — Microsemi Corporation (Nasdaq: MSCC) offers a comprehensive portfolio of semiconductor and system solutions for communications, defense & security, aerospace and industrial markets. Products include high-performance, radiation-hardened and highly reliable analog mixed-signal integrated circuits, FPGAs, SoCs and ASICs; power management products;timing and voice processing devices; RF solutions; discrete components; security technologies and scalable anti-tamper products; Power-over-Ethernet ICs and midspans; as well as custom design capabilities and services. Microsemi is headquartered in Aliso Viejo, Calif., and has approximately 3,000 employees globally.
  • Chameleon Systems — Chameleon Systems is a privately held fabless semiconductor company that designs, markets and sells programmable system-on-a-chip solutions for the communications electronics markets. Headquartered in San Jose, California, the company has developed the industry´s first reconfigurable communications processor (RCP)--an ideal solution fordata-intensive Internet, DSP, wireless basestations, voice compression, software-defined radio, and other high-performance embedded telecom and datacom applications. The Chameleon RCP solution allows data and telecom equipment vendors to create customized communications signal processors to increase performance and channel count, more quickly adapt to new requirements and standards, reduce time-to-market, lower development costs and reduce risk.
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Bolt
VC Fund · Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia · 1 investments in South Africa Transportation startups

The smartest way to move around in cities. Forget expensive taxi rides or slow public transport. Get a ride in minutes. Download the Bolt app for iOS and Android.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Transportation, Electric Vehicle, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Ghana, Germany, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $4.3M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $11M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • MyNextCar — MyNextCar promotes equal access to car ownership and supports individuals in the process to earn an income and drive for Bolt to improve their lives.
  • WAYVE — Wayve, also known as Wayve Mobility, Wayve Africa, Wayve Drive to Own, Wayve Work & Pay or Wayve DTO, is an Africa-focused, EV-first mobility fintech and infrastructure platform enabling vehicle access and ownership for commercial drivers across the continent. Founded in Ghana, Wayve is designed to address the structural barriers that preventride-hailing, delivery, and logistics drivers from owning reliable vehicles, while supporting the transition to cleaner, more efficient urban transport systems.Wayve operates a drive-to-own (DTO) and Work & Pay model that aligns vehicle repayments with driver earnings, allowing drivers to progress toward ownership through structured weekly payments rather than traditional loans. The platform uses alternative credit signals such as driving activity, platform performance, and fleet data to broaden access to mobility assets for drivers who are underserved by conventional financial institutions.Beyond financing, Wayve provides integrated fleet operations and digital infrastructure, including vehicle management, insurance coordination, maintenance programs, charging access, and performance monitoring. While the company prioritizes electric vehicles as the foundation of its long-term strategy, it also supports approved low-emission vehicles where necessary to ensure operational reliability during early-stage infrastructure development.Wayve’s ecosystem includes WAYVE, a driver-facing platform that supports onboarding, payments, ownership tracking, and fleet operations; WAYVE Go, a passenger and commuter engagement layer designed to enhance the in-ride experience and enable future loyalty and content features; and MUVEO, Wayve’s mobility media network. MUVEO enables in-motion advertising and brand engagement through connected vehicles, creating an additional revenue layer that improves unit economics while offering advertisers targeted, high-attention urban media inventory.Positioned as a long-term mobility partner, Wayve works with ride-hailing platforms like Bolt, Uber and Yango, telcos like MTN, financial institutions, and global partners seeking to operate or expand within African cities. The company’s mission is to transform driving from a short-term income activity into a pathway for ownership, stability, and economic mobility, while building scalable infrastructure that supports the future of urban transport across Africa.
  • Cardino — Cardino - Verkaufen Sie Ihr E-Auto digital zum besten Preis. Entdecken Sie die einfache und bequeme Art, Ihr Elektroauto online zu verkaufen.
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AAIC
VC Fund · 1 investments in South Africa Transportation startups

AAIC is an investment firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Logistics, Transportation, Supply Chain Management
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Shiprazor — Shiprazor is an innovative shipping aggregator that revolutionizes the logistics industry by providing seamless solutions for businesses.
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Transportation VC funding in South Africa at a glance

Stats across 150 deals from 162 investors.

162
investors
in South Africa Transportation startups
150
deals
in South Africa Transportation startups
$1.3M
median round
in South Africa Transportation startups
58%
lead investors
lead at least one round
21%
Seed
most common funding stage

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