Top 40 Travel VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Africa in November 2024
A list of 40 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 40 Travel VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Africa in November 2024
Investor | Travel Africa investments |
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SEEK | 4 |
Microtraction | 2 |
4 Decades Capital | 2 |
CRE Venture Capital | 2 |
LoftyInc Capital | 2 |
Launch Africa | 2 |
ODBA | 2 |
Orbit Startups | 1 |
BKR Capital | 1 |
EchoVC Partners | 1 |
Artha Group | 1 |
Niche Capital | 1 |
Maroc Numeric Fund | 1 |
Mo Angels | 1 |
SOSV | 1 |
Flat6Labs Tunisia | 1 |
AngelHub Ventures | 1 |
Kalon Venture Partners | 1 |
FrontEnd Ventures | 1 |
Tritech Global | 1 |
Jonomi Ventures | 1 |
Change Com | 1 |
Unpopular Ventures | 1 |
Jedar Capital | 1 |
Gullit | 1 |
XA Network | 1 |
GIIG Africa Fund | 1 |
Digital Currency Group | 1 |
Five35 Ventures | 1 |
Ventures Platform | 1 |
daba | 1 |
Ajim Capital | 1 |
Renew Capital | 1 |
M & Y Growth Partners | 1 |
Blanford Capital | 1 |
Hlayisani Growth Fund | 1 |
Norfund | 1 |
Savannah Fund | 1 |
UNCOVERED FUND | 1 |
Roselake Ventures | 1 |
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.
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Investment focus
- Human Resources, Recruiting, Software
- Funding Round, Series A, Series B
- Australia, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Go1 — GO1 provides a platform that allows companies to upscale their workforce with on-demand training and a dynamic content-driven platform for companies that are Open to Learn. The funding follows an integration with Microsoft Teams, which enables organizations using Teams to learn directly within their workplace ecosystem. Individuals can now find,consume, share, and discuss learning resources from its library of online learning resources.
- Employment Hero — Employment Hero is Australia's top cloud-based HR, payroll and benefits platform for employers & employees. FREE trial for...
- Talespin — Talespin is building the XR platform to power knowledge transfer and skill alignment for the future of employment
We invest in Africa's most remarkable teams with technical founders at the earliest stage of their venture
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Nigeria, United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Pennee — Yana Finance provides up to 50 million Naira for ambitious business owners, with NDIC insured accounts. Yana Finance aims to simplify financial operations for businesses, ensuring they never run out of money and can manage cash flows efficiently.
- 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.
- 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.
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 — See All Your Vehicles, All The Time | Go Metro
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.
LoftyInc Capital Management empowers Afropreneurs to build a prosperous and equitable future in Africa. We deliver value to both founders and investors.........
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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 fund with the primary objective of unlocking the capital constraints of Seed Stage tech startups.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Bosso — Bosso projects and realizes automation and robotic solutions for the growth of your business.
- Kredete — Kredete is a digital lending platform that provides free credit scores and reports to underserved individuals and small businesses in Africa to help them gain access to formal credit and improve their financial health. The platform connects borrowers with lenders and enterprises in Africa and is designed to simplify the lending process and makecredit more accessible by leveraging cutting-edge technology. Kredete offers a user-friendly platform that guides borrowers, lenders, and enterprises through the process of offering loans, making it simple for them to provide the right loan products for their needs.One of the key features of Kredete is its instant approval process, which is made possible by advanced algorithms and artificial intelligence. The platform offers flexible lending options by partnering with a variety of lenders and enterprises, enabling borrowers to choose the best option for their specific situation.Kredete is committed to protecting the privacy and security of all users' personal and financial information. It uses robust encryption and security measures to ensure that sensitive data remains safe and secure. Additionally, the platform maintains transparency throughout the loan process, providing lenders, enterprises, and borrowers with clear information about loan terms and associated fees.Kredete believes in empowering its users with the knowledge and resources they need to make informed financial decisions. To this end, the platform offers financial education, tools, and resources to help users better understand and manage their finances. Kredete also works closely with businesses and institutions to provide tailored financial solutions for their unique needs.Through its focus on accessibility, convenience, and transparency, Kredete is transforming the lending landscape in Africa and helping to bridge the financial inclusion gap. The platform remains dedicated to its mission of empowering lenders, enterprises, and borrowers across the continent to access the funds they need to achieve their financial goals.
- Wahu Mobility — Wahu Mobility is an open e-mobility platform that connects drivers, passengers, and goods in a simple, inclusive, transparent, nationwide, and multimodal manner.
We invest in people and stories, which are at the heart of everything we do.
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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
Orbit Startups helps companies scaling breakthrough technologies across emerging and frontier markets to the regions with the most aggressive growth.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Information Technology, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- India, Singapore, Pakistan
Portfolio highlights
- TAPPI — TAPPI is the leading association for the worldwide pulp, paper, packaging, and converting industries and publisher of Paper360º.
- Braingaze — Braingaze solves major challenges around cognitive disorders of the brain. We use a patented neuro-biomarker based on small involuntary eye movements. These are triggered by functional games, the resulting signal is analysed using algorithms trained by Deep Learning based on actual real patient / control cases. We adress pre-symptomatic stagesof Alzheimer's disease and the most common child cognitive disorder ADHD. Our tools are on the market and covered by a CE Mark as a medical device. Our pipeline includes detection / diagnostic tools as well as digital therapy solutions that have shown to reduce symtoms by over 50%.
- Tappi — Convert one-time customers into loyal ones by getting discovered, growing leads and building your business reputation.
BKR Capital, a venture firm capital built with the objective of investing in promising Black founders in the technology space.
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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.
- Protexxa — Protexxa is a B2B SaaS cybersecurity startup that links the dots between individual cyber hygiene and company risk.
- Treepz — Treepz Inc. (formerly Plentywaka) is building the largest shared mobility platform in West Africa with over 500,000 satisfied customers.
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.
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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 — Snowstorm is a decentralized microproxy network. Already proven in crisis zones, it must now evolve into a next-generation system and internet freedom tool.
- Senga Technologies — Welcome to Senga, custom-built, with love, for businesses shipping in Africa.
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.
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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.
Venture Capital firm
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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!
Maroc Numeric Fund is a tech VC fund investing in Morocco.
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Investment focus
- Online Portals, Enterprise Software, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Morocco, Canada, United States
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.
- Cypherleak — Cypherleak is an automated cyber risk monitoring and scoring solution that uses an organisation's domain name only to map their risk exposure across leaked passwords, attack surface, vulnerabilities and dark web data leakage. Additionally, Cypherleak supports global insurances by powering their cyber insurance products with reliable andaccurate cyber risk modeling and monitoring.
- Aza Petrosolutions — Aza Petrosolutions provides services, solutions, and superior software and hardware for fuel management.
First Syndicated Angel Investment Group in Mauritius
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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.
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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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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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.
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 — Stop cyber criminals from sending emails using your domain and protect your customers, suppliers and employees from cyber attacks with DMARC Security.
- visionAI — visionAI augments existing CCTV cameras with computer vision AI to drive improved operational outcomes in manufacturing.
FrontEnd is a strategic partner for innovative ventures offering support to diverse leaders with high market potential, proven traction...
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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!
Tritech Global is a technology investment holding company spanning a number of market leading business verticals in multiple geographic jurisdictions around the world.
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Investment focus
- Apps, Travel, Big Data
- Seed
- South Africa
Portfolio highlights
- GoMetro — See All Your Vehicles, All The Time | Go Metro
Jonomi Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on emerging markets particularly Middle East, Africa and Asia.
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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.
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.
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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
The best companies, off the beaten path.
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Mexico, India
Portfolio highlights
- UnVale — UnVale will change how people develop, explore, and express their identities online.
- Farmako — Install Farmako app, get a free health ID and get all your medical records safe and secure in one place!
- Omnic.AI — The way to be a professional in esports. Omnic Data uses computer vision and a deep learning network to provide virtual coaching for the aspiring esports gamer.
VC venture capital investing in early stage startups from seed to series A in fintech, insurtech, marketplaces, foodtech, SaaS, healthtech and agritech
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Delivery
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- Julaya — Julaya is a fintech providing African businesses with a digital account to make payments : disbursing mobile money transactions to their employees, suppliers, and owning their own virtual and physical prepaid cards.
- ImaliPay — ImaliPay is a financial health platform offering financial products to freelancers and blue collar gig workers in partnership with gig platforms.
- Bumpa — The easiest way to set-up and manage your online store. Bumpa helps businesses sell on Instagram, Whatsapp, Facebook, and offline in-store.
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.
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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.
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.
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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.ai — 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.
GIIG invest in seed, growth and late stage companies.
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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.
We are the capital engine supporting emerging talent & crypto technology. On its mission to accelerate the development of a better financial system.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Regfyl — Powered by AI, Regfyl is the all-in-one fraud and compliance platform for financial institutions and fintechs. Regfyl allows these businesses to reduce costs and focus on higher value activities.
- aviva — Aviva is building an AI-powered digital bank for Latin America’s underserved communities. While determined to fuel Latin America’s ongoing emergence of a new middle class with a fully-fledged portfolio of inclusive financial services, Aviva’s initial go-to-market concentrates on unsecured credit products for individuals and nano-businesses inMexico.As most of the underbanked 40+ million Mexicans live in small and medium-sized towns, Aviva builds a bridge to those living in remote communities with its physical onboarding kiosks. These nano-branches provide a documentless 3-minute video onboarding for everyone in need of liquidity. Novel AI-based technology, including natural language processing, allows Aviva to match customers’ spoken word to the fields of a comprehensive real-time credit application. Transforming speech to text and inferring emotions and personality from the visual layer of the application video gives Aviva an edge in scoring thin-file customers. Leveraging these novel risk models, Aviva aims to provide the lowest interest rates available to today’s underserved.
- Spire — Spire a zk appchain system with atomic adaptability.
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
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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
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.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Nigeria, United States, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Lengo — Lengo is an AI based intelligence platform that offers a large database on consumer goods for companies in the FMCG sector.
- Shekel Mobility — B2B marketplace for auto dealers to grow their dealerships leveraging on flexible inventory financing and management solutions. Available on web and mobile.
- 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
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.
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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.
We are investing in the next generation of exceptional African founders.
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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.
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.
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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
m&y growth partners is the hands-on VC fund focusing on IT/Mobile investments in any stage in any country.
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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 — SEO, Speed, WordPress and Question Answers for Experts.
Blanford Capital is a global investment company.
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- Travel, Car Sharing, Mobile Apps
- Seed
- Nigeria
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- Treepz — Treepz Inc. (formerly Plentywaka) is building the largest shared mobility platform in West Africa with over 500,000 satisfied customers.
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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- Education, Apps, SaaS
- Seed, Funding Round
- South Africa
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- GoMetro — See All Your Vehicles, All The Time | Go Metro
- 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
Norfund is the Norwegian Investment Fund for developing countries with 24.9 bill. NOK in total commitments (2019).
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- Energy, Financial Services, Renewable Energy
- Funding Round, Private Equity, Debt Financing
- Kenya, South Africa, United Kingdom
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- SAEL — SAEL is the brand for an end-to-end solution for agro-energy products and services. They have successfully forayed into procurement, processing, refining, warehousing, and distribution of rice, rice by-products, solvent extraction, and renewable energy solutions. They are into technological innovation, sustainable energy creation, conversion, andutilization, powering sustainable and scalable farming practices, and promoting and safeguarding the interests of producer-consumer interests. They have rice mills, and the main product is different varieties of rice. They also have biomass and solar-based power plants and are expanding solar and biomass power plants. They also have a warehouse for food storage.
- 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.
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.
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- E-Commerce, FinTech, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Kenya, United States, South Africa
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- 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.
UNCOVERED FUND is a venture capital firm that leads the creation of industries in Africa and other emerging countries.
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- FinTech, Financial Services, Banking
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Nigeria, Kenya, United States
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- Mecho — Mecho is an on-demand auto repair and maintenance platform for individuals and businesses in Africa.
- Bettr — Bettr is a digital banking app for creator. Download the app to get your zero monthly fee digital bank account and virtual card. Join our community of creators, gamers, influencers, freelancers, tiktokkers, streamers, YouTubers and digital gig workers.
- 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.
An early-stage venture fund, Roselake invests in tech companies in emerging markets across Africa and Asia.
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- Transportation, SaaS, Travel
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Nigeria
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- 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.
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