Top 40 Transportation VC (Venture Capital) Funds in South Africa in July 2025
A list of 40 VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Transportation startups based in South africa. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Transportation companies from South africa. We update this investor list every month.Top 40 Transportation VC (Venture Capital) Funds in South Africa in July 2025
Investor | Transportation South Africa investments |
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54 Collective | 6 |
E4EAfrica | 4 |
Kalon Venture Partners | 4 |
IDF Capital SA | 3 |
AlphaCode Club | 3 |
Standard Chartered Bank | 2 |
HAVAÍC | 2 |
Launch Africa | 2 |
4 Decades Capital | 2 |
Digital Africa Ventures | 2 |
IBM | 1 |
Capaci.Tech | 1 |
Goldman Sachs | 1 |
GalloProvincialis | 1 |
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation | 1 |
CRE Venture Capital | 1 |
TotalEnergies Ventures | 1 |
Emso Asset Management | 1 |
Bolt | 1 |
elea Foundation for Ethics in Globalization | 1 |
Endeavor | 1 |
i-Cubed Capital | 1 |
Enza Capital | 1 |
Hlayisani Growth Fund | 1 |
Vumela Fund | 1 |
KNF Ventures | 1 |
Standard Bank of South Africa | 1 |
Newtown Partners | 1 |
Microsoft | 1 |
Naspers | 1 |
Tritech Global | 1 |
Endeavor South Africa | 1 |
Tsing Capital | 1 |
AngelHub Ventures | 1 |
UW Ventures | 1 |
Dain Rauscher Wessels | 1 |
SAAD Investment Holdings | 1 |
Futuregrowth Asset Management | 1 |
Lowenthal Capital Partners | 1 |
Jozi Angels | 1 |
Building and scaling African tech startups with catalytic capital, value-add support and our global network.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa
Portfolio highlights
- Billboxx — Empowering SMEs to pay and get paid on time, every time.
- Yeah — Yeah is a financial technology company that offers payment processing services while building a credit profile for the banked and unbanked.
- 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.
E4E (“Entrepreneurs for Entrepreneurs”) specializes in supporting early stage ventures in South Africa from very early stage (pre-series A) to scale up.E4E focus on smart entrepreneurs and business ideas that are great businesses and make a significant contribution to a better (South) Africa.
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Investment focus
- Logistics, Internet, Supply Chain Management
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- South Africa, France, The Netherlands
Portfolio highlights
- Hohm Energy — We make the process of going solar simple. Generate your free, custom solar proposal and get matched with an accredited solar provider in under 5 mins.
- 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.
- Conservio — Discover and Book South Africa's best nature accommodations with Conservio. Book vetted accommodations, easy and safe to book online.
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
- Apps, Mobile Apps, Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- South Africa, Luxembourg, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Talk360 — Talk360 is an easy-to-use calling app that helps people make affordable international calls to any mobile and landline number. They believe that reliable communication and digital services must be affordable and accessible to everyone, regardless of someone's background. Especially people in emerging countries in Africa, who often need theseservices the most, do not always have the necessary banking possibilities. To bridge this distance, Talk360 will launch the world's first single checkout platform for Africa. This platform will combine all locally available payment methods and currencies across Africa, together with over 1.25 million cash points of sales, and will eventually be available to other companies as well. This means that 500 million Africans will be able to purchase digital services they never had access to before.
- Sendmarc — Maximize your email security and domain protection with DMARC to safeguard your business against email impersonation, phishing, and spoofing.
- visionAI — visionAI augments existing CCTV cameras with computer vision AI to drive improved operational outcomes in manufacturing.
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
- Automotive, Mobile Apps
- Seed, Funding Round
- South Africa
Portfolio highlights
- Carscan — cARscan is an Augmented Reality app with an embedded visual recognition AI to track the visual condition of every motor vehicle during its life-stage.
We are an African venture capital fund, for world-class African entrepreneurs run by seasoned African investors.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Automotive
- Grant, Funding Round, Debt Financing
- South Africa, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- BriefCo — BriefCo is South Africa's first and only legal cost consultancy leveraging technology. We utilize our own secure online platform to allow for the digital delivery and storage of all documents, thereby reducing the significant costs associated with printing, delivery, and file preparation.
- Vocalysd.ai — Vocalysd is a customer-centric, AI-powered insights tool. Vocalysd unlocks usable, easy-to-digest insights from your conversational data. These insights are key to optimising client interactions and enhancing your customers' experience.
- Sizanani — Collaboration is at the centre of everything we do. We partner with like-minded organisations to help our users find the best financial products in the market. We are the first WhatsApp-first stokvel solution because we believe that technology is fundamentally meant to create value, not apps.
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
- Financial Services, Internet, FinTech
- Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Funding Round
- Singapore, India, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Singtel — The Singtel Group, Asia's leading communications group provides a diverse range of services including fixed, mobile, data, internet, TV, infocomms technology (ICT) and digital solutions.
- Shriram Finance — Shriram Finance: Your choice for FD, FIP, General & Life Insurance, Personal, Business, and Vehicle Loans, along with easy BBPS and UPI payment services. India's leading NBFC for diverse financial needs.
- Sandfire Resources NL — Sandfire Resources NL is a dynamic mid-tier Australian mining and exploration company which is listed on the Australian Securities Exchange.
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
- Software, Health Care, FinTech
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- South Africa, United States, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- NjiaPay — Payments-as-a-Service platform that will streamline your operations and elevate your online payments across the African continent.
- Talk360 — Talk360 is an easy-to-use calling app that helps people make affordable international calls to any mobile and landline number. They believe that reliable communication and digital services must be affordable and accessible to everyone, regardless of someone's background. Especially people in emerging countries in Africa, who often need theseservices the most, do not always have the necessary banking possibilities. To bridge this distance, Talk360 will launch the world's first single checkout platform for Africa. This platform will combine all locally available payment methods and currencies across Africa, together with over 1.25 million cash points of sales, and will eventually be available to other companies as well. This means that 500 million Africans will be able to purchase digital services they never had access to before.
- Right Now Response — The future of repairs starts soon. Counting down to smarter tracking in 2025! There are perks to working 24/7, 365 days a year... Like launching the future of repairs ahead of schedule!
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
- Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- PayTic — PayTic enables payments issuers to manage their card programs by providing dedicated back-office solutions that streamline the end-to-end operations in customer support, chargebacks, fraud, AML, reporting, and reconciliation. Our proprietary solutions are unique in automating and centralizing the program management processes, regardless of thenumber of processors and the payment networks involved in the payments products. We impact payments providers by eliminating the defragmented and manual processes and replacing them with a SaaS platform that increases proactivity, mitigates risks, and delivers value. It reduces the burn rate to near 0 in operational costs and offers an unprecedented competitive advantage. PayTic is introducing the Zero Ops model in managing payments.
- Affinity — Join over 70,000 who trust the Affinity mobile app to manage your personal banking needs and qualify for an Affinity Instant Loan
- Liquify Digital — Liquify is an invoice marketplace that transforms invoices from SMEs in emerging markets into an investable asset class for financiers seeking reliable yield
4 Decades Capital is a venture capital firm based in Cape Town, South Africa.
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Investment focus
- Apps, Travel, Big Data
- Seed
- South Africa
Portfolio highlights
- GoMetro — Fleet management simplified with GoMetro. Integrate telematics, gain real-time visibility, and optimize operations with a secure, scalable platform,
African Digital Ventures centered on assisting African digital technology start-ups in their early stages.
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Investment focus
- Software, Logistics, Supply Chain Management
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- South Africa
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.
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
- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Funding Round, Seed, Grant
- United States, United Kingdom, India
Portfolio highlights
- AuthMind — AuthMind, an innovator in identity security, prevents identity-related cyberattacks. It's an Identity SecOps Platform including Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) and Identity Security Posture Management (ISPM). It works anywhere and deploys in minutes.
- NetBox Labs — NetBox Labs makes the management of complex networks easier for operators by delivering open and composable products. The company's product NetBox Cloud offers an enterprise-grade, SaaS version of open-source NetBox.
- Ceramic — Next generation AI training systems for better models with less compute, less time, and lower costs.
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
- SMS, Apps, SaaS
- Seed
- South Africa, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Mobiz — Supercharge your SMS marketing with dynamic, high-converting landing pages sent directly into the hands of your customers.
- HomeFarm — Homefarm provides smart, indoor gardens to homes and businesses. It is a group of modern farmers, designers, engineers, and researchers. It breaks new ground and innovates in the agricultural technology space.
- 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!
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
- Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Funding Round, Series C, Series B
- United States, India, China
Portfolio highlights
- Anthropic — An AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
- Trackunit — Trackunit is the SaaS-based IoT solution and machine insights provider to the global construction equipment industry. With telematics they can detect and collect an incredible amount of data, They are dedicated to challenging the status quo by creating services that connect the entire ecosystem within construction.
- Vultr — Vultr provides cloud infrastructure services that enable users to deploy and manage virtual servers. The platform offers a range of computing resources, including storage and networking options, designed for flexibility and scalability. Users can access data centers in various global locations to optimize performance and latency. Vultr servesindustries such as technology, e-commerce, gaming, and education.
GalloProvincialis
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Investment focus
- Payments, Software, Logistics
- Seed
- South Africa, The Netherlands
Portfolio highlights
- Maholla — Maholla is a consumer technology company focused on delivering value to millions of shoppers in Africa's emerging markets. Rewarding shoppers for any purchase from any store, Maholla is building a consumer rewards experience that is completely agnostic of any specific brand, retailer and payment mechanism.
- 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.
We are a nonprofit fighting poverty, disease, and inequity around the world
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
- Grant, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, India
Portfolio highlights
- Synvect — Synvect is a CRISPR-based mosquito control solution that leverages the power of biology to eradicate disease and nuisance. Its solutions are eco-friendly, cost-efficient, and effective.
- SeamlessHR — Africa's Leading HR & Payroll Software - Empowering African Businesses for Productivity and Profitability Through Technology.
- Leinco Technologies — Custom development and manufacturing of antibodies and proteins plus a extensive range of products for life science research and diagnostics. Click here.
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
- Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- South Africa, Nigeria, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Sabi Am — Sabi is Africa's largest B2B company, & we are digitising informal trade via our platform. We access markets hard to reach and ensure ease of distribution, & are the No 1 FCMG supplier in Africa.
- Sukhiba — Sukhiba is a decentralized community-based commerce platform.
- Stitch — One API integration for enterprise online payments across South Africa. Accept Pay by bank, debit + credit card, cash, manual EFT, debit order and crypto.
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
- Energy, Renewable Energy, Transportation
- Series B, Funding Round, Series C
- United States, France, United Kingdom
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.
Emso Asset Management is an alternative asset manager investing across emerging markets fixed income strategies.
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Investment focus
- Rental, FinTech, Finance
- Series A, Funding Round
- Mexico, Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- 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 and e-logistics platforms, which allows access to proprietary performance and revenue analytics of mobility entrepreneurs tounderwrite loans.Moove was founded by Ladi Delano and Jide Odunsi in 2019.
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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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.
elea Foundation for Ethics in Globalization
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Logistics, Health Care
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- South Africa, India, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Elucid Social — Elucid Social integrates businesses with the social good movement through a data-driven strategy that yields measurable results. Elucid Social develops and deploys technologies to assess, report, and minimize human rights risks linked with the sourcing of products and services.
- BluLever Educations — Join the artisans & apprentices who are building the future. At BluLever Education you can build your career, business, or the artisan ecosystem with an education partner that believes in artisans. Welcome to our digital home. We offer plumbing and electrical apprenticeships.
- Oorja Development Solutions — Oorja is a project developer of solar PV systems to power livelihoods in emerging markets.
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
- Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
- Funding Round, Series A, Seed
- Brazil, United States, Malaysia
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.
- Eden — Developer of non-invasive health technology designed to democratize access to early cancer risk assessment.
- UME Financial Services — Ume is a credit platform capable of reaching competitive prices and creating an economic environment to make credit simple and democratic.
We acquire equity in companies that are positioned for growth and create wealth for our shareholders. Our team of investment specialist and entrepreneurs evaluate business opportunities that provide medium to long term growth.
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Investment focus
- Medical, Wellness, Health Care
- Pre-Seed
- South Africa
Portfolio highlights
- Contro — Get your health and confidence products prescribed online and delivered to your door for free without the waiting rooms!
- 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.
Venture investor in high-growth Founders and Teams using technology to solve large and meaningful problems across Africa
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Finance, E-Commerce
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa
Portfolio highlights
- MNZL — MNZL is on a mission to expand access to capital for Egyptians.Every person who owns an asset has accumulated wealth in it. When they want liquidity for their projects and needs, they should be able to tap into it as easily as withdrawing from a bank.With an innovative digital platform and products, we are working on making digital access tocapital a reality, and building the future of asset-backed financing in Africa.
- Hub2.Io — Welcome to HUB2, the leading FINTECH startup in interoperability and payment infrastructure in Francophone Africa. We are proud to work with all financial industry players in Africa who need stable and high-performing infrastructure, and contribute to their success.
- Affinity — Join over 70,000 who trust the Affinity mobile app to manage your personal banking needs and qualify for an Affinity Instant Loan
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
- Education, Apps, SaaS
- Seed, Funding Round
- South Africa
Portfolio highlights
- GoMetro — Fleet management simplified with GoMetro. Integrate telematics, gain real-time visibility, and optimize operations with a secure, scalable platform,
- Sticitt — Sticitt is a cashless payment platform. Sticitt services schools, lifestyle and golf estates, as well as events and is assisting one utility company to get clients to pay for water bills using its cashless payments system.
- d6 group — SCHOOLS Schools Communication Platforms and School Management Software COMMUNITIES Community & Internal Business Communication Platforms MEDIA Let your brand be seen Advertise on
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
- Education, Software, Primary Education
- Funding Round, Seed, Debt Financing
- South Africa, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Rentoza — We champion giving you access, affordability and flexibility to explore tech on your own terms
- Kusini Water — Kusini Water builds water treatment systems from nanotechnology and macadamia nut shells.
- Trade Shield — Automated trade credit risk management. Discover opportunities & reduce bad debt with always-on risk evaluation, credit scoring & recommended credit limits.
was a SARS-approved section 12J Venture Capital Company
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Investment focus
- SaaS, EBooks, EdTech
- Series A, Funding Round
- South Africa
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Granite WMS — GraniteWMS is a barcode-based warehouse management software solution, enabling full traceability of all items in your warehouse and optimising warehouse processes and performance.
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
- Software, Logistics, Transportation
- Seed
- South Africa
Portfolio highlights
- Tripplo — Tripplo is a platform to automate and optimise operations for transporters, cargo owners and cargo brokers.
Newtown Partners is a venture capital firm that actively invests in emerging, disruptive technology startups.
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Investment focus
- Logistics, Health Care, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- South Africa, Ghana, Kenya
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.
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
- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Grant, Funding Round, Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, India
Portfolio highlights
- OpenAI — Introducing Sora: Creating video from text
- Regulate — REGULATE is an AI-powered SaaS platform transforming CPG innovation with predictive analytics, real-time compliance, and data-driven product validation. Our Insight Suite integrates consumer sentiment analysis, qualitative conceptual validation, and digital twin quantitative analytics to refine ideas before launch. It takes validated concepts andgenerates product formulations using ingredients and manufacturers from our database, fast-tracking development with accurate cost modeling to bring viable, market-ready products to shelves faster.Unlike legacy compliance tools, Regulate integrates insights and workflows traditionally siloed across platforms like TraceGains, Trustwell, Centric, and Mintel, while enabling flexible, real-time decision-making akin to tools like NotCo, Tastewise, SPINS, SymphonyAI Retail CPG, and Prevedere.Built to bridge the gap between data intelligence and agile formulation, Regulate draws inspiration from modern scientific and product development platforms like Benchling and Flavor Studio.Regulate is used by early-stage brands and innovation hubs like Mista, and is being adopted as a teaching tool at Cal Poly Pomona and Oregon State University to modernize product development education.
- Meter — Meter provides internet infrastructure for businesses. Its full-stack approach combines hardware, software, and operations so that any company can seamlessly run on a reliable and modern network. Its goal is to make secure enterprise-grade networks more accessible, and to help innovative organizations get and stay online seamlessly. Fullstacksambition is to turn Meter’s infrastructure into a turnkey utility––when a company moves into any commercial space, the internet and WiFi just works.
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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- E-Commerce, Internet, Retail
- Private Equity, Series B, Series A
- South Africa, India, Brazil
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- Otodom — Otodom allows users to view & post ads for the sale & rental of real estate, in particular apartments, houses.
- Jem — We give employers the ability to send company-wide communications, deliver payslips, manage leave & give employees access to their earnings, via WhatsApp.
- 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.
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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- Apps, Travel, Big Data
- Seed
- South Africa
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- GoMetro — Fleet management simplified with GoMetro. Integrate telematics, gain real-time visibility, and optimize operations with a secure, scalable platform,
Endeavor South Africa is a non-profit entity and the leading supporter of high-impact entrepreneurs around the world.
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- Financial Services, Internet, Payments
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- South Africa, United States
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- Mobiz — Supercharge your SMS marketing with dynamic, high-converting landing pages sent directly into the hands of your customers.
- Sendmarc — Maximize your email security and domain protection with DMARC to safeguard your business against email impersonation, phishing, and spoofing.
- 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.
Tsing Capital is a private equity and venture capital arm of Tsinghua Holdings Co., Ltd. specializing in growth capital.
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- Electronics, Energy, Manufacturing
- Series A, Funding Round, Series B
- China, United States, Canada
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- 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.
Operating out of Stellenbosch in South Africa and backed by two family offices Angelhub Ventures's team is passionate about early stage investments in (South) Africa. Being entrepreneurial ourselves, we thoroughly understand the challenges and changes our founders face – which is why we back them in any way we can. Most importantly, we believein building great businesses and we are in it for the long haul.
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- Software, Information Technology, Education
- Seed, Series A
- South Africa, Mexico, Colombia
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- Syscap — Syscap is a financial technology company that offers cutting-edge solutions to financial institutions to have a better administration and management of their funding sources. It connects the leaders of financial and real estate institutions with their funders. For institutions, the company ensures the optimization of their funding source managementprocesses, but also the strengthening of the relationship with their funders. To funders, Syscap guarantees the transparency and timely monitoring of its funds for the safety and growth of its resources.
- Godochurch — GoDoChurch is a cloud-based church administration software which is designed to assist Christian churches and ministries with managing members, Sunday services, events, communications, and more. The system is made up of a base package, covering messaging, news, ministries, lists, church roles, services, events, and growth paths, with additionalmodules for managing follow-ups, groups, and Kids church.
- Velocity — Velocity is a micro fulfillment dark store that delivers through digital channels.
UW is a multi-stage investor that provides growth and replacement capital across the equity-cycle. Its activities span from high-growth venture to mid-market private equity opportunities.
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- FinTech, Payments, Insurance
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- South Africa
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- Pargo — Pargo is a convenient logistics solution that lets you collect and return parcels at Pargo parcel points throughout the country when it suits you best.
- Synatic — Synatic is a unified platform that enables your business to integrate and automate systems and services without sacrificing enterprise features and security.
- Peach Payments — Get Peach as your Payment Gateway and Grow your ecommerce. Process online payments with Visa, Mastercard, Debit Orders, EFT payments, and subscriptions. Plugins for Wix, Shopify, WooCommerce.
Dain Rauscher Wessels was a brokerage and investment banking firm based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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- Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Series C, Series B, Funding Round
- United States, South Africa
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- 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.
Saad are active investors that buy, build and grow businesses in key focus industries for long-term sustainability and the benefit of all stakeholders.
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- Delivery, Logistics, Last Mile Transportation
- Funding Round
- South Africa
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- Pargo — Pargo is a convenient logistics solution that lets you collect and return parcels at Pargo parcel points throughout the country when it suits you best.
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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- Software, Logistics, Medical Device
- Seed, Series B, Funding Round
- South Africa, France, United States
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- Tripplo — Tripplo is a platform to automate and optimise operations for transporters, cargo owners and cargo brokers.
- Pineapple — In short, Pineapple see the traditional insurance model, user journey and products as lacking and set out to remedy these by doing the following: 1) Changing the business model to align incentives, show people how premiums are used and award members leftover premium back 2) Making insuring as easy as snapping a picture where AI does the rest andcover is issued in under 60 seconds 3) Allowing per-item insurance and new product innovation to address cover not currently offered or accessible to manyPineapple launched in South Africa in 2018 with their "My Stuff" per-item insurance and have since launched their auto offering "My Ride". They have also partnered with Travelers in the US and have white-labeled their platform in the US.
- Sourcefin — Explore Sourcefin's purchase order funding and invoice discounting solutions. Achieve financial stability with Sourcefin's expert services.
Lowenthal Capital Partners fills this need through its subscription newsletter service which offers a myriad of stock picks.
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- Software, Logistics, Media and Entertainment
- Funding Round
- South Africa
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- 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.
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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- B2B, Medical, Wellness
- Pre-Seed
- South Africa
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- Jobox — Jobox is a student recruitment platform, built to connect employers, students and graduate career offices. Our focus is to improve graduate employability by ensuring all students have the skills they need to enter, stay in, and progress in the world of work.Jobox’s ecosystem provides employers with access to the best diverse & youthfultalent, students with more employment opportunities and universities with data-driven insights aimed at driving graduate employability forward.
- Contro — Get your health and confidence products prescribed online and delivered to your door for free without the waiting rooms!
- TUNL — Ship globally with ease. TUNL offers affordable, transparent international shipping built for South African brands. Up to 91% cheaper. No surprises.
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