Get 250+ investors tailored to your startup

Invest in your industry and stage
Emails & contact info included
Excel and CSV export
Automatically

Trusted by 3,000+ startups

Top 50 Travel Startup Investors in Africa in April 2025

Last updated: Apr 2025 A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Travel startups based in Africa. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Travel companies from Africa. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Travel Startup Investors in Africa in April 2025

Investor	Travel Africa investments
SEEK	4
LoftyInc Capital	2
Launch Africa	2
CRE Venture Capital	2
4 Decades Capital	2
Microtraction	2
ODBA	2
Federico Pirzio-Biroli	2
Mobility 54	1
Jim Villanueva	1
Roselake Ventures	1
Axel Peyriere	1
Kalon Venture Partners	1
Change Com	1
GIIG Africa Fund	1
Goodwater Capital	1
Gullit	1
Mo Angels	1
UNCOVERED FUND	1
Artha Group	1
XA Network	1
FrontEnd Ventures	1
Blanford Capital	1
Digital Currency Group	1
Helena Riese Harstad	1
Tritech Global	1
Ethical Toy Program	1
Norfund	1
SOSV	1
Darshan Chandaria	1
Niche Capital	1
Ventures Platform	1
Hlayisani Growth Fund	1
Five35 Ventures	1
Flat6Labs Tunisia	1
Savannah Fund	1
M & Y Growth Partners	1
MNF Ventures	1
AfricInvest	1
AngelHub Ventures	1
Unpopular Ventures	1
daba	1
EchoVC Partners	1
Ajim Capital	1
Jedar Capital	1
Renew Capital	1
Jonomi Ventures	1
BKR Capital	1
Klister Credit	1
Ian McCaig	1

Find investors that fund startups like yours. Automatically.

Our algorithm will find investors that invest in your industry, stage, and geography.

Investor list

SEEK is a diverse group of companies that have a unified purpose to help people live more fulfilling and productive working lives and help organizations succeed. The Group encompasses a strong portfolio of employment, education, and volunteer businesses which span across Australia, New Zealand, China, South East Asia, Brazil, Mexico, Africa, andBangladesh. SEEK makes a positive impact on a truly global scale, operating in a total of 18 countries with market-leading positions in 14 countries. It creates world-class product technology solutions to address the needs of job seekers and hirers and facilitate the matching between job seekers and hirers across our online employment marketplaces. Online Education Services (‘OES’) offers leading online education and SEEK Learning offers trusted advice in relation to career-related education. SEEK’s commitment to having a positive impact on society is reflected through the diverse range of initiatives which its businesses across the globe partake in to support the communities they operate within. In Australia and New Zealand SEEK Volunteer is each country’s largest single source of volunteering opportunities offering not-for-profit organizations free access to post volunteer opportunities. This free marketplace is something SEEK is exceptionally proud of. Over its 20 years of operation, SEEK continues to innovate within the markets it operates in. It provides a culture of excellence and acceptance in our workplaces and celebrates the diversity of employees that contribute to the success of the organization.

Investment focus

Human Resources, Recruiting, Software
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
Australia, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Go1 — Go1 offers training content from 250+ industry-leading providers, delivered seamlessly through any HR tech stack.
Employment Hero — Employment Hero operates as an online human resource platform for small and medium-sized businesses. Its cloud-based HR platform combines HR software, financial services, scheduling, and payroll tools, as well as employee benefits, providing growing companies with an intuitive, affordable way to manage essential employee information and HRprocesses. The company aims to become the employment platform of choice for employers and employees in Australia and beyond, by providing free, easy-to-use HR software that employers love to use, and access to far greater benefits for all employees.Employment Hero was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Sydney New South Wales.
Talespin — Talespin is building the XR platform to power knowledge transfer and skill alignment for the future of employment

LoftyInc Capital Management empowers Afropreneurs to build a prosperous and equitable future in Africa. We deliver value to both founders and investors.........

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Nigeria, United States, Egypt

Portfolio highlights

Mtor — Mtor is an online marketplace that is reshaping the automotive aftermarket and provides sophisticated technology solutions.
EMTECH — EMTECH provides solutions for Digital Currency regulatory compliance, development and management to help Central Banks and FinTechs build, run and manage modern financial systems.
Terragon Group — Terragon is a leading Data and Marketing Technology company that uses data and analytics to help companies focused in Africa, intelligently connect at scale to their customers. We use an aggregation of online and offline data, and predictive scoring to help brands, marketing agencies and platforms accurately target people across channels anddevices. Headquartered in Lagos; Nigeria, we also have a presence in Kenya, South Africa, Ghana and India.

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

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Affinity — Affinity is a financial solutions company that provides financial inclusion, advisory, and literacy services.
ToumAI Analytics — ToumAI Analytics is a software development company providing voice analytics, real-time analytics, and reporting services.
PBR Life Sciences — A cloud-based real-world, non-observational pharmacy sell-out data

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.

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.

4 Decades Capital is a venture capital firm based in Cape Town, South Africa.

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,

We invest in Africa's most remarkable teams with technical founders at the earliest stage of their venture

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Software
Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
Nigeria, United States, Ghana

Portfolio highlights

Juicyway — Juice is a developer of a payment network platform for cross-border business payments for businesses and individuals. It facilitates financial transactions between parties regardless of location to allow enterprises to participate in international trade and the exchange of goods and services.
Intron Health — Intron is the future of clinical documentation with real-time clinical speech-to-text for 200+ African accents, easing the transition to digitized care.
PBR Life Sciences — A cloud-based real-world, non-observational pharmacy sell-out data

We invest in people and stories, which are at the heart of everything we do.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Financial Exchanges
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Nigeria, Rwanda, United States

Portfolio highlights

Zazuu — Zazuu is a platform for sending money across the border.
Bitmama — Bitmama is the best cryptocurrency trading platform that lets you buy, sell Bitcoin, ETH, Celo, USDT, XRP, and more. Available in Nigeria & over 100 countries.
GetFundedAfrica — GetFundedAfrica's mission is to help Africa’s most promising startups find funding, grow & solve society’s greatest challenges. We do this through a media portal - GetFundedAfrica News; a learning portal - REMSANA; and an investment arm - GFA Ventures

Fede started out as an angel investor in 2010. His portfolio quickly grew, so he built a team around him and thus Playfair Capital was born. We have since gone on to become one of Europe’s most active and well-known early-stage VC funds. Before becoming a technology investor Fede worked for several NGOs in Africa, with a particular focus on aidtransparency. He recently renewed his focus on Africa by relocating to Kenya and becoming an angel investor in East Africa’s burgeoning startup ecosystem. He maintains an active role at Playfair and continues to lead our investment team.

Investment focus

Software, Venture Capital, Non Profit
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, Kenya, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Bibblio — Conversion optimization, powered by AI. Increase user engagement, grow revenues and drive new audiences, for stronger site metrics and ROI.
Brewbot — Brewbot is a multidisciplinary team of designers and developers based in Belfast, N. Ireland. They come from different backgrounds and experiences — music, design, code, and fine art — but they all share a common passion for brewing.
Purple Elephant Ventures — We are Africa's first venture studio focusing on the travel & tourism sector. Our aim is to build businesses that will lead Africa's tourism industry to a greener future

Mobility 54 is a joint venture among Toyota Tsusho Corporation and CFAO.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Transportation, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Kenya, Nigeria, Côte d'Ivoire

Portfolio highlights

BasiGo — BasiGo is an early-stage e-mobility start-up looking to revolutionize the public transportation sector by providing matatu owners with a cost-effective electric alternative to diesel buses.
Tugende — Tugende helps motorcycle taxi drivers own their own motorcycles in eighteen months or less instead of renting indefinitely. Ownership significantly increases income, job security and road safety.
ETAP — ETAP is a digital insurance application that allows you to set up your car insurance in just 90 seconds.

Jim Villanueva - Investment Director, Managing Director, Global Partnerships Social Venture Fund @ Global Partnerships

Investment focus

Agriculture, Energy, Travel
Series A, Series B, Seed
Kenya, Uganda, Zambia

Portfolio highlights

Treasure8 — Through our commercial partnerships and USDA-patented dehydration technologies, Treasure8 transforms food streams and food waste into nutrient-dense elements that can be enhanced, shaped, shipped, and enjoyed almost anywhere and when needed most.
Good Nature Agro — Their priority is to generate lasting income with small-scale farmers. They build local community leaders into qualified Private Extension Agents (PEAs) who oversee and train farmers throughout the growing season. They support PEAs to provide frequent trainings and personalized recommendations on how their growers can make their field healthier andmore productive. PEAs promote improved farm practices and deliver a farmer-friendly loan of seeds and additional inputs. At harvest, Good Nature is a guaranteed market for the certified legume seed that their growers produce. Choosing to produce these high-value crops over traditional cash crops - maize and cotton - more than doubles their income.
Purple Elephant Ventures — We are Africa's first venture studio focusing on the travel & tourism sector. Our aim is to build businesses that will lead Africa's tourism industry to a greener future

An early-stage venture fund, Roselake invests in tech companies in emerging markets across Africa and Asia.

Investment focus

Transportation, SaaS, Travel
Seed, Pre-Seed
Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Treepz — Treepz Inc. (formerly Plentywaka) is building the largest shared mobility platform in West Africa with over 500,000 satisfied customers.
T40 Technologies — Founded in 2019, T40’s mission is to challenge the status quo on behalf of small and medium-sized intercity transport service operators in Nigeria. We are doing so by building an open technology infrastructure that would enable transport operators of all sizes to transition from manual and analog operations to a digital system that is guaranteed todeliver revenue growth and increased productivity to their businesses. Our digital channels has also helped many operators offer improved services to their travelers hence increasing their NPS in the process.

Startups - Mentoring - Advising - Emerging Markets. I am a enthusiastic entrepreneur and angel investor working with startups all around the world. Have worked / mentored / coached / partnered / invested in more than 200 startups around the world. Specially keen on online marketplaces and emerging and frontier markets.

Investment focus

Delivery, E-Commerce, Retail
Seed, Series A
Egypt, Nepal, Myanmar

Portfolio highlights

Appetito — Buy all your groceries and household essentials from your online supermarket. Order from the comfort of your home at your finger tips.
FreshGora — Food and Grocery delivery in Yangon, Myanmar.
Treepz — Treepz Inc. (formerly Plentywaka) is building the largest shared mobility platform in West Africa with over 500,000 satisfied customers.

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.

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.

Change Com AS is an Oslo-based advisory and investment company,founded by long-term Telenor research scientist, business developer and senior project manager Endre Skolt.

Investment focus

Travel, FinTech, Software
Pre-Seed, Seed
Kenya, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Bosso — Bosso projects and realizes automation and robotic solutions for the growth of your business.
Buupass — BuuPass is Kenya's market leader for online bus booking. We enable travelers to reserve seats and make payments in a convenient and timely way. Try BuuPass today!
Aerotruth — Aerotruth is a B2B SaaS solution which automates the document on-boarding process for banks, financial institutions and fintechs

GIIG invest in seed, growth and late stage companies.

Investment focus

Environmental Engineering, Health Care, Ride Sharing
Seed
Kenya, Nigeria, United States

Portfolio highlights

BioBuu — BioBuu focuses on the development of manufacturing capacity and environmentally sustainable production.
Treepz — Treepz Inc. (formerly Plentywaka) is building the largest shared mobility platform in West Africa with over 500,000 satisfied customers.
EnvisionIt Deep AI — Envisionit Deep AI is an innovative medical technology company that utilizes AI to streamline and improve medical imaging diagnosis for radiologists.

Goodwater empowers exceptional entrepreneurs everywhere to change the world for the better. They believe consumer technology is a force on earth, shaping culture and transforming the global economy at unprecedented speed and scale. They invest in promising entrepreneurs to solve pressing problems. As a combined force, Goodwater companies are aglobal force for change, poised to measurably improve billions of lives.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, India, South Korea

Portfolio highlights

welevel — Building games with attitude
Wrtn Technologies — Wrtn Technologies develops an AI-powered writing assistant through NLP-based AI.
Liminal Experiences — Liminal is a new UGC game for creating narrative action role-playing games with the vision of making the world a more creative place. By fusing two interconnected game modes—a joyful creation experience and socially immersive adventure gameplay—they hope to inspire creativity and storytelling.

Gullit advises and finances scalable early-stage tech firms in Africa. Additionally, Gullit provides funding for startups during the seed, pre-seed, debt acquisition, and restructuring phases.

Investment focus

Travel, Shipping, Logistics
Seed, Pre-Seed
Kenya, Morocco

Portfolio highlights

Buupass — BuuPass is Kenya's market leader for online bus booking. We enable travelers to reserve seats and make payments in a convenient and timely way. Try BuuPass today!
Logidoo — Logidoo is a digital logistics marketplace-designed company that markets shuttles through smart logistics. The company's platform, which provides rapid, dependable, secure, and economical logistics, allows users to compare offers for sending and receiving items and to track parcels in real-time.

First Syndicated Angel Investment Group in Mauritius

Investment focus

Travel, Car Sharing, Mobile Apps
Seed
Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Treepz — Treepz Inc. (formerly Plentywaka) is building the largest shared mobility platform in West Africa with over 500,000 satisfied customers.

UNCOVERED FUND is a venture capital firm that leads the creation of industries in Africa and other emerging countries.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Nigeria, Kenya, United States

Portfolio highlights

Mecho — Mecho is an on-demand auto repair and maintenance platform for individuals and businesses in Africa.
MarketForce — MarketForce connects Africa’s informal retail outlets and consumers directly to suppliers of consumer goods and financial services by digitizing orders, delivery, and payments with the aim of solving the last mile distribution challenge.
Termii — Termii is an online platform that helps teams secure repeat customers by sending personalized emails and SMS through multiple.Termii helps African businesses communicate with customers across SMS, email, voice, and instant messaging channels. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Lagos, Nigeria.

Artha India Ventures' league of member Angel Investors mentor and invest in nascent ventures with business ideas that create value by participating in the entrepreneurial process. AIV have invested in more than 47 start-ups and has diversified portfolio ranging from last minute hotel bookings (HotelsAroundYou.com), to classes aggregators(FindUrClass.com), cosmetic ecommerce (Purplle.com) and at home salon services (The Home Salon). From microfinance credit rating platforms (Inventure) to online interview platforms (Talview), electronic repair & insurance companies (PickMeIndia.com), Cloud Telephone (Exotel.com) and Cab Aggregators (BookMyCab.com) the portfolio has it all.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Internet, E-Commerce
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
India, United States, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Futwork — With Futwork, learn for free and get a telecaller job. Find Work from Home jobs in India. Flexi hours & work suitable for freshers and women. Earn from home now!
GetWork — Looking to hire top talent for your organization? GetWork is the platform for you! With a candidate pool of 1.9M+ job seekers, you can easily post your job and find the perfect candidate for your needs. Sign up today and start hiring with GetWork.
KarmaLifeAI — KarmaLifeAI is an AI-powered digital solution for the financial well being of blue-collar gig workers and micro-business. The company allows the user to pay directly for key expenditures and smoothen their consumption patterns. It offers real-time access to credit for gig workers, based on their payroll account, through partnerships with thedigital platforms they work for. It operates an interest-free subscription model in which the platform or the gig worker can pay a flat fee and access credit equalling up to one-third of their monthly income. The company analyzes alternative data points and payment behavior over time to unlock higher credit lines for the workers.

The investment network that fosters inclusive innovation by empowering the tech community in Southeast Asia. Our tech leaders help talented founders to build exceptional companies.

Investment focus

FinTech, Information Technology, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam

Portfolio highlights

GORO — Easy property investing from IDR10,000 and earn up to 10% return per year paid monthly at GORO.
HeyMax — Heymax.ai gives you a free trip every year by rewarding you with Max Miles. Heymax.ai doubles your favorite miles! heymax helps you find the best credit card to use anywhere you shop, and double dip to earn your preferred loyalty points and miles at 20+ airlines and hotels by shopping with our partners like Shopee, Lazada, Amazon, Apple,Trip.com, Singapore Airlines and so many more.For businesses, heymax.ai is a simple and efficient way to convert high-spending customers who like rewards on their terms.
Beep Technologies — Beep is creating a universal, modular platform bridging the physical and digital divide, powering smart, contextual & interoperable connectivity across physical touchpoints whilst ensuring true customer privacy by leveraging on decentralised technology.

FrontEnd is a strategic partner for innovative ventures offering support to diverse leaders with high market potential, proven traction...

Investment focus

Travel, Reservations, Public Transportation
Pre-Seed
Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Buupass — BuuPass is Kenya's market leader for online bus booking. We enable travelers to reserve seats and make payments in a convenient and timely way. Try BuuPass today!

Blanford Capital is a global investment company.

Investment focus

Travel, Car Sharing, Mobile Apps
Seed
Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Treepz — Treepz Inc. (formerly Plentywaka) is building the largest shared mobility platform in West Africa with over 500,000 satisfied customers.

We are the capital engine supporting emerging talent & crypto technology. On its mission to accelerate the development of a better financial system.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Stakpak — Stakpak is a DevOps IDE powered by AI, helps software developers build and maintain production-ready infrastructure.
FLock.io — FLock.io aims to build a decentralised privacy-preserving solution for Artificial Intelligence.
Slingshot DAO — Bet on the next billion dollar games! Slingshot is the AI Roblox Game Launcher, powered by the $SLING Token and home to Game Factory.

Helena Riese Harstad is the Co-Founder and Chairman of Optimizer Foundation. She previously worked at SBAB Bank as a Project Specialist. Helena Riese attended Stockholm University.

Investment focus

Travel, Tourism, Venture Capital
Pre-Seed
Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Purple Elephant Ventures — We are Africa's first venture studio focusing on the travel & tourism sector. Our aim is to build businesses that will lead Africa's tourism industry to a greener future

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

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,

We offer a one-stop ethical sourcing platform for your supply chain via Factory Certification, Social Impact Assessment, Environmental Assessment, and worker well-being initiatives

Investment focus

Travel, Automotive, Communities
Series A
Mali

Portfolio highlights

Teliman — Teliman has launched the very first on-demand taxi-moto service in Bamako, connecting urban commuters with professional drivers (trained, equipped and fully insured) in Africa’s fastest growing capital (Bamako). Rather than “disrupting” the local eco-system, Teliman aims at developing innovative solutions to create shared value for a communitywhere public transportation is highly insufficient and 600,000+ passengers struggle every day to commute. Having gained the trust of Toyota Tsusho Corporation (via CFAO) and local investors in pre-seed, Teliman aims to provide a safe, convenient and affordable solution for Mali and West-Africa.

Norfund is the Norwegian Investment Fund for developing countries with 24.9 bill. NOK in total commitments (2019).

Investment focus

Energy, Financial Services, Renewable Energy
Funding Round, Private Equity, Debt Financing
Kenya, South Africa, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Xurya — Xurya is a renewable energy platform in providing commercial and industrial rooftop owners access to solar lease product on one side. And investors access to a stable and safe investment in rooftop solar plants on the other side. Both are achieved by maintenance service which enables both parties peace of mind.
Access Bank — Access Bank provides banking products and services to individual and business customers in Ghana. It offers standard savings and current, access advantage, solo, and premier accounts. The company also provides online banking services that include ATM, online access, and point-of-sale terminal services; and bills payment and Western Union moneytransfer services.
India Grid Trust — IndiGrid was established on October 21, 2016 by our Sponsor, Sterlite Power Grid Ventures Limited, and is registered with SEBI pursuant to the InvIT Regulations.Their Sponsor is one of the leading independent power transmission companies operating in the private sector, with extensive experience in bidding, designing, financing, constructing andmaintaining power transmission projects across India.

SOSV is a global, deep tech venture capital firm that operates the HAX and IndieBio startup development programs focused on human and planetary health. SOSV invests $500,000 in startups at their inception as they onboard either HAX or IndieBio for a 4-6 month period designed to accelerate the raise of their next institutional round. SOSV joins thelater rounds of HAX and IndieBio graduates. HAX, based in a 35,000 sq ft facility in Newark, NJ, is equipped with machine tools, 3D printers, chemical, electrical and mechanical engineering labs, as well as on-staff engineering and design experts. SOSV's IndieBio has locations in NYC and San Francisco, both of which offer extensive services and facilities to founders including on-site BSL-2 labs, well equipped lab benches and hoods, and advanced lab equipment, such as chromatography equipment.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

MixRift — MIXRIFT - game developers specialized in Mixed Reality
unspun — From 3D scan to perfect fitting custom jeans. unspun makes each pair of jeans unique to your actual body and design. On a mission to reduce global carbon emissions by 1%. As seen in Fast Company's World Changing Ideas, Time's Best Inventions, and PopSci's Best of What's New. Welcome to the future of apparel.
Mesa Quantum — Unlock the potential of chip-scale quantum sensing for enhanced Position, Navigation, And Timing capabilities. Explore Mesa Quantum's practical solutions.

Darshan Chandaria is the Group CEO and Director of Chandaria Industries. He previously worked at Pentland Brands Plc as a Graduate Trainee. Darshan Chandaria attended Harvard Business School.

Investment focus

Software, B2B, Marketplace
Seed, Pre-Seed
Kenya, United States

Portfolio highlights

Leta — Leta Technology is a software development company that creates supply chain and logistics software to enable the efficient and automated movement of goods.
Bamba — Today, organizations spend a lot of money on physical data gathering exercises using old-fashioned paper-based methods. These methods result in expensive, severely delayed and incomplete data . With Bamba, a client can launch a data collection exercise anywhere in the world simply from the comfort of their web browser and the client can ensureindividuals respond with complete answers by paying those individuals for that data with mobile airtime in 122 different countries thus far.
Cloud9 - Africa's Lifestyle Network — Cloud9xp.com is a online marketplace and booking service for leisure experiences.We believe that everyone deserves to have fun, feel good and be happy. We believe happiness starts with a drop, becomes a ripple and creates a wave. We believe happiness is amplified when shared.Put simply, Cloud9 is in the business of happiness and are passionateabout giving people more #HighOnLIfe moments.All of our products; across apparel, consumer electronics and lifestyle items are authentic, and we only work with the most upstanding, and energetic brands in the world to bring you the best possible products.

Venture Capital firm

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce
Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
United States, Nigeria, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Bemi — Bemi is an automatic audit trail for Postgres that tracks data changes reliably without the engineering complexity and costly infrastructure: Bemi Captures and stores data changes with 100% reliability and accuracy.
Anchor — Anchor is building the infrastructure needed for businesses to build, launch, and scale banking and payment solutions.
Blossom.team — Powered by AI, Blossom's science-backed professional coaching brings together experienced coaches & ML to show actual growth on key topics: productivity, communications, leadership, stress management, career development, interpersonal skills, and more. Subscribe and see why it's the successful professional's secret superpower!

We back founders building the future of Africa. We invest in companies that solve for non-consumption, plug infrastructural gaps and democratise prosperity in Africa, by eliminating the barriers for access and reducing the costs of delivering goods and services.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Nigeria, United States, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Raenest — Access Virtual Accounts, Invoicing, Multi-Currency Payouts, Auto Payroll, Accounting Integrations, and Virtual & Physical cards within minutes.
Maad — Maad is Francophone Africa's fastest-growing B2B marketplace, based in Dakar, Senegal. Our tech-driven solution allows retailers to order products from our one-stop shop and benefit from working capital loans
Juicyway — Juice is a developer of a payment network platform for cross-border business payments for businesses and individuals. It facilitates financial transactions between parties regardless of location to allow enterprises to participate in international trade and the exchange of goods and services.

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.

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

With a decade-long track record of venture building alongside some of the smartest female-led founding teams in Africa, we back female-focused startups across

Investment focus

Information Technology, Health Care, Wellness
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Susu — Susu is a dynamic and innovative company that offers a wide range of health services for families in the African diaspora. Susu provides a complete offer on Preventive care, Medical treatments, Management of chronic diseases, and Authentic drugs.
Kasha — Health products and household goods you want, delivered to where you are.
Zuri Health — .ts-banner-image-1:hover .overlay{background-color:#ffffff} .ts-banner-image-2:hover .overlay{background-color:#ffffff} Popular categories Pharmacy Doctor at home Covid Labs & Diagonstics Wellness Telemed Show all Our Services PharmacyBuy both OTC and prescription medication and have it delivered to your doorstepLabs & DiagnosticsBook labs and Diagnostic tests and get your samples collected from the comfort of your home, hotel

Flat6Labs is the MENA region’s leading seed and early stage venture capital firm, currently running the most renowned startup programs in the region. Annually, Flat6Labs invests in more than 100 innovative and technology-driven startups enabling thousands of passionate entrepreneurs to achieve their daring ambitions and ultimately becoming theirinstitutional co-founders.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Retail, Education
Pre-Seed, Seed
Tunisia, France

Portfolio highlights

Yaz — Yaz is a B2B wholesale e-Commerce web and mobile app that offers branded goods and services top up for retailers.
Birdhouce — Birdhouce is a direct to consumer furniture startup that provides home storage. They develop an online 3d product configurator that makes the customer a designer from the comfort of their home. Their design categories include a dining room, living room, bedroom, hallway, office, kitchen, and kids room.
Tiktak PRO — Tiktak PRO provides back office management services. They also provide hosting, updating, and certificate services. Additionally, they also provide commercial activity and technical support services.

Savannah Fund is a seed capital fund specializing in US$25,000-US$500,000 investments in early stage high growth technology (web and mobile) startups in sub-Saharan Africa. Initially focused on East Africa, the fund aims to bridge the early stage/angel and venture capital investment gap that currently exists in Africa. The Fund expects toachieve this objective by combining capital with mentor networks both in the region and from Silicon Valley via an accelerator program and a follow-on independent seed fund.The fund is managed by an experienced and technology savvy team that have founded companies or are actively involved in angel investing or having run successful accelerator programs in past but also understand the unique Subsaharan African environment. They are backed and supported by both local, regional and international networks of angels,venture capitalists whose expertise we can draw on to help startups succeed and scale to fully fledged regional or global companies.They believe in the potential for Africa to become a global technology innovator by creating sustainable for profit companies that create jobs and make an impact.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, FinTech, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Kenya, United States, South Africa

Portfolio highlights

Oze — OZÉ brings African small businesses into the digital era. It is an app that makes it easy for businesses to track sales, expenses, and customer information. The data is analyzed to provide tailored recommendations, reports, and business education. If the entrepreneur needs a little extra support, an OZÉ Coach is just a click away. As they are usingOZÉ to manage their business and learn how to run it better, we are learning about them. Using this data and machine learning, we can predict their credit risk and provide them with affordable capital from our banking partners. With over 20,000 registered users, OZÉ is the largest online community of SMEs in Ghana. The most exciting thing is that OZÉ works; 97% of businesses that have used OZE for at least 9 months are growing or profitable or both!
Root — Launch digital and embedded insurance solutions with omni-channel distribution.
Afropolitan — Afropolitan is building a Network State to unleash the maximum potential of Africans around the world. Are you interested? Join us with your email.

m&y growth partners is the hands-on VC fund focusing on IT/Mobile investments in any stage in any country.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Hospitality, Internet
Series A, Seed, Angel
United States, Ghana, India

Portfolio highlights

Binded — Binded lets creators claim their copyrights on the blockchain and protect them for free. A creator uploads their art or photos to Binded via our website or integrations with creative tools like Instagram. We create a timestamp in the Bitcoin blockchain and give a certificate as proof. We are developing technology to create uniquefingerprints for all copyrighted works and store them on the blockchain. Like Youtube’s Content ID system for the entire internet. For every copyright claimed, we scan the web and show matches for possible copyright infringement. In 5 years we hope to be the main way copyrights are registered and utilized.
Mishtag — 22 Ricky Casino is one of the prominent online gambling platforms available for Australian players. Known for its extensive selection of games, user-friendly interface, and lucrative bonus offerings, 22 Ricky Casino has quickly gained popularity among both novice and seasoned gamblers. The casino is designed to provide a seamless and enjoyable gaming experience, with a
Omg Digital — Emailsearch.io is the leading solution to find, verify and enrich professional email addresses. Start using for free and connect with the people that matter for your business.

MNF Ventures is a venture capital fund based in Morocco, investing in Seed, Pre-Series A and Series A startups. Tickets size can go up to USD 1M. We invest in tech startups operating in Fintech/Insurtech, EdTech, Regtech, HealthTech, Biotech, EnergyTech Cybersecurity, SaaS... Startups have either to be based in Morocco, or be based worldwideif at least one of the founders is a Moroccan citizen. MNF Ventures manages Maroc Numeric Fund and Maroc Numeric Fund II.

Investment focus

Online Portals, FinTech, Enterprise Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Morocco, France, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Logidoo — Logidoo is a digital logistics marketplace-designed company that markets shuttles through smart logistics. The company's platform, which provides rapid, dependable, secure, and economical logistics, allows users to compare offers for sending and receiving items and to track parcels in real-time.
ZSystems — ZSystems is a transformative super app designed to redefine B2B trade.
Upfund — Upfund is a real estate company that provides reliable data on office, retail, and business premises. Upfund is a digital solution designed to respond to most commercial real estate business issues. They develop tools perfectly adapted to clients' requests in a remarkable time. Founded in 2022 and is located in Paris, France.

AfricInvest was founded in 1994 and is part of Integra Group, an investment and financial services company based in Tunisia.Uniquely positioned as one of the most experienced private equity investors on the continent, AfricInvest has dedicated investment teams focused on North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa, and employs 66 professionals based inseven offices.AfricInvest manages USD1 billion across 16 funds and benefits from strong, long-term support from both local and international investors, including leading development finance institutions in the United States and Europe.Having co-founded the African Venture Capital Association (AVCA) as well as the Middle East North Africa Private Equity Association (MENAPEA) and the Euromed Capital Forum, the firm is an active promotor of the private equity industry in the region.Since 1994, AfricInvest has invested in 135 companies across 25 African countries in a variety of high growth sectors and maintains a broad network of high quality executives across Africa, offering extensive expertise in key growth industries, including financial services, agribusiness, consumer/retail, education and healthcare.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Manufacturing, FinTech
Funding Round, Private Equity, Series A
Tunisia, Morocco, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Bizao — Bizao helps companies accept all local payment methods across Africa. We build powerful APIs and smart financial flows wich greatly simplify the challenge of accepting Mobile Money, Visa/Mastercard and Airtime payment. We power all types of businesses: local retailers, online merchants, international digital content providers, money transferoperators, microfinance institutions. Our objective: accelerate mobile payment adoption in order to support economic development across the continent
Turaco — Turaco develops simplified insurance and credit solutions through mobile technology to solve the healthcare financing needs. Turaco has simplified insurance products and also provides on-demand health loans, allowing customers to get healthcare at affordable monthly premiums.
Moove — Moove is a mobility fintech that provides revenue-based vehicle financing to mobility entrepreneurs, democratizing vehicle ownership globally. 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 revenue analyticsof mobility entrepreneurs to underwrite loans.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Education
Seed, Series A
South Africa, Mexico, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Syscap — Syscap is a financial technology company that offers cutting-edge solutions to financial institutions to have a better administration and management of their funding sources. It connects the leaders of financial and real estate institutions with their funders. For institutions, the company ensures the optimization of their funding source managementprocesses, but also the strengthening of the relationship with their funders. To funders, Syscap guarantees the transparency and timely monitoring of its funds for the safety and growth of its resources.
Godochurch — GoDoChurch is a cloud-based church administration software which is designed to assist Christian churches and ministries with managing members, Sunday services, events, communications, and more. The system is made up of a base package, covering messaging, news, ministries, lists, church roles, services, events, and growth paths, with additionalmodules for managing follow-ups, groups, and Kids church.
Velocity — Velocity is a micro fulfillment dark store that delivers through digital channels.

The best companies, off the beaten path.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Mexico, India

Portfolio highlights

WiseLayer — WiseLayer's AI empowers finance teams to improve profitability & efficiency in minutes per week
Acre — Fundamentally redesigning homeownership
Wise Layer — WiseLayer makes AI-powered digital workers for finance and accounting teams.It's AI digital workforce includes: - Angela, the AI agent for Accruals & Rev Rec (hire her at www.accruals.ai) - Dennis, the AI agent for Discrepancies & Financial Anomalies (hire him at www.discrepancies.ai) - … with the 4 newest AI agents eachspecializingin the following tasks: (1) bank reconciliations, (2) fixed asset depreciation & amortization, (3) lease accounting, and (4) prepaid expenses.

Provider of a fintech platform intended to access investment analysis and build wealth by investing in the African private and public capital markets. The company's platform offers an application for investing and trading the best African startups, stocks, and digital assets at once, enabling users to get all the latest news and curatedupdates in one place to maximize their investments.

Investment focus

Travel, Lending, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed
Kenya, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Buupass — BuuPass is Kenya's market leader for online bus booking. We enable travelers to reserve seats and make payments in a convenient and timely way. Try BuuPass today!
Spleet — ProptechSpleet is an online marketplace for affordable residential rentals and rents financing in Africa. For the tenant, we simplify the rental process by providing flexible rental and payment options and eliminate bureaucracy and expediting the search process. For the landlords, we make renting quicker, safer and better by providing accurateinformation on the tenant and ensuring rental payments are made as and when due.

EchoVC Partners is a seed and early-stage venture capital firm focused on financing and cross-pollinating leading technologies, teams, business models, and knowledge across North America, Africa, and SE Asia. The average investment size ranges from $25,000 to several million dollars depending on the stage of opportunity and capital needs of thebusiness.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Nigeria, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Shuttlers — Shuttlers is a platform that offers mobility solutions by providing scheduled bus-sharing services for the professionals within the region.
Snowstorm — Official site of the Snowstorm Network
Senga Technologies — Welcome to Senga, custom-built, with love, for businesses shipping in Africa.

We are investing in the next generation of exceptional African founders.

Investment focus

Travel, Lending, Hospital
Pre-Seed, Seed
Nigeria, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Buupass — BuuPass is Kenya's market leader for online bus booking. We enable travelers to reserve seats and make payments in a convenient and timely way. Try BuuPass today!
Clafiya — Discover Clafiya: Your trusted digital health platform, uniting in-person care and virtual solutions for a personalized and caring healthcare experience. Embrace a healthier, happier you, with us by your side.
Spleet — ProptechSpleet is an online marketplace for affordable residential rentals and rents financing in Africa. For the tenant, we simplify the rental process by providing flexible rental and payment options and eliminate bureaucracy and expediting the search process. For the landlords, we make renting quicker, safer and better by providing accurateinformation on the tenant and ensuring rental payments are made as and when due.

VC venture capital investing in early stage startups from seed to series A in fintech, insurtech, marketplaces, foodtech, SaaS, healthtech and agritech

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Delivery, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Chaldal — Order grocery and food online with same-day home delivery. Save money, save time
Paismo Inc — Paismo HR & Payroll is the Next-Gen Human Capital Management software giving you access to Schedule Management, Time Off, Timesheets, Payroll, etc.
Fincart — Fincart helps e-commerce SMBs access working capital through streamlining their last-mile operations through multi-courier shipping platform.

Renew Capital is an Africa-focused investment firm that addresses critical gaps for Africa’s growing businesses and connects them to a global network of impact investors.

Investment focus

Mobile Apps, Financial Services, Finance
Pre-Seed, Funding Round, Seed
Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia

Portfolio highlights

Bosso — Bosso projects and realizes automation and robotic solutions for the growth of your business.
Chpter — Chpter is a software development company that offers fast billing and checkout to help start, run, and grow a business.
Level Africa — Digital Investment Marketplace for Africa

Jonomi Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on emerging markets particularly Middle East, Africa and Asia.

Investment focus

Travel, Car Sharing, Mobile Apps
Seed
Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Treepz — Treepz Inc. (formerly Plentywaka) is building the largest shared mobility platform in West Africa with over 500,000 satisfied customers.

BKR Capital, a venture firm capital built with the objective of investing in promising Black founders in the technology space.

Investment focus

Travel, Car Sharing, Mobile Apps
Seed
Canada, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Woveo — Woveo has created a digital community wallet to assist groups of individuals in improving their financial well-being through communal rotating savings.
Cauridor — Cauridor is a Financial Services company.
Treepz — Treepz Inc. (formerly Plentywaka) is building the largest shared mobility platform in West Africa with over 500,000 satisfied customers.

Klister Credit is an investment and consulting corporation.

Investment focus

Analytics, SaaS, Infrastructure
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Canada

Portfolio highlights

WatrHub — WatrHub is a data and intelligence company that delivers predictive intelligence on infrastructure opportunities in the US and Canada. WatrHub is the only source of predictive market information on how, when, and why these water infrastructure investments will be made. Its AI engine transforms millions of public documents into actionable salesleads and market insights. Manufacturers subscribe to WatrHub to secure their next water utility clients and bring their advanced, efficient technologies to aging water infrastructure.It was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.
Sparrow BioAcoustics — Sparrow BioAcoustics ,developers of a smartphone stethoscope designed to gather and collaborate on medical-grade cardiac and pulmonary data.
Purple Elephant Ventures — We are Africa's first venture studio focusing on the travel & tourism sector. Our aim is to build businesses that will lead Africa's tourism industry to a greener future

Ian McCaig is the CEO of lastminute.com.

Investment focus

Travel, Tourism, Venture Capital
Seed
Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Purple Elephant Ventures — We are Africa's first venture studio focusing on the travel & tourism sector. Our aim is to build businesses that will lead Africa's tourism industry to a greener future

Investors by industry