Top 25 VC Funds & Investors in Ethiopia (June 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Finnfund
VC Fund
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3 | Kenya, India, South Africa | Debt Financing, Series B | Financial Services, Energy, FinTech | $2.7M–$99M |
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Renew Capital
VC Fund
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3 | Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia | Pre-Seed, Seed | Mobile Apps, Financial Services, Finance | |
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Newgen Venture Partners
VC Fund
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2 | China, United States, Ethiopia | Angel, Seed, Series A | Software, Health Care, Information Technology | $22k–$5M |
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Consonance Investment Managers
VC Fund
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2 | Nigeria, United States, Kenya | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, FinTech | $50k–$10M |
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Goodwater Capital
VC Fund
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2 | United States, India, South Korea | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | FinTech, Financial Services, Software | $500k–$31M |
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KFW DEG
VC Fund
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2 | India, Kenya, United States | Debt Financing, Grant | Financial Services, Energy, FinTech | $100k–$350M |
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Novastar Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Kenya, Nigeria, United States | Series A, Series B | Agriculture, Health Care, Internet | $1.7M–$42M |
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Team Ignite Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada, India | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $125k–$6.7M |
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British International Investment
VC Fund
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1 | India, Kenya, Nigeria | Debt Financing, Series B | Financial Services, Banking, Finance | $10M–$100M |
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CBC Group
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, Ethiopia, United States | Series A, Seed | Manufacturing, Apps, News | $4.3M–$8M |
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For Seasons
VC Fund
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1 | Ethiopia | Series A | Manufacturing, Electric Vehicle | |
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Nagase & Co
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States, Ethiopia | Series A, Corporate Round | Manufacturing, Software, Cloud Computing | $2.4M–$2.8B |
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Oxfam’s Enterprise Development Programme
VC Fund
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1 | Tunisia, Ethiopia | Grant, Series A | Retail, Blockchain, E-Commerce | |
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Nissay Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States, Ethiopia | Seed, Series A | Health Care, Information Technology, Medical | $709k–$77M |
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European Investment Bank
VC Fund
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1 | France, Germany, The Netherlands | Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt | Biotechnology, Health Care, Energy | $7.7M–$658M |
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Norfund
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya, South Africa, Nigeria | Private Equity, Debt Financing | Financial Services, Energy, Renewable Energy | $2.6M–$130M |
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DEG
VC Fund
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1 | India, South Africa, Ghana | Debt Financing, Grant | Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce | $100k–$33M |
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Orange Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | France, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series B, Series A | Software, FinTech, Information Technology | $600k–$33M |
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Partech
VC Fund
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1 | United States, France, Germany | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, E-Commerce, SaaS | $1.1M–$55M |
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Verdant Frontiers
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya, Italy, Ethiopia | Seed, Pre-Seed | Travel, FinTech, Finance | $1.8M–$6M |
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IFC Venture Capital Group
VC Fund
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1 | United States, India, China | Series B, Series C | E-Commerce, Energy, Internet | $9.1M–$60M |
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MiraclePlus
VC Fund
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1 | China, United States, Singapore | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology | |
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Nigerian Exchange Group
VC Fund
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1 | Ethiopia | Series A | Financial Services | |
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Impact Angel Group
VC Fund
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1 | Ethiopia | Seed | Food Delivery, Food and Beverage | |
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Musashi Seimitsu Industry
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States, Israel | Series A, Series C, Pre-Seed | Electric Vehicle, Analytics, Electronics | $2.3M–$610M |
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Finnfund is a Finnish development finance company that provides long-term risk capital for private projects in developing countries. Apart from co-investing with Finnish companies they can finance ventures that use Finnish technology, cooperate with Finnish partners on a long-term basis or generate major environmental or social benefits.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Energy, FinTech
- Stage:Debt Financing, Series B
- Geography: Kenya, India, South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 66
- Round size: Series B $5M–$41M; Debt Financing $2.7M–$99M
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
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- Mobisol — We transform lives through solar energy access. Our solar home systems and mini-grids benefit millions of people in Sub-Saharan Africa.
- IPT PowerTech — IPT PowerTech coverage, coupled with our extensive expertise in supply chain management, field implementation, and power systems, has made us one of the most capable companies in handling the most complicated and versatile projects in the MEA region and its neighboring countries.
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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- Industry: Mobile Apps, Financial Services, Finance
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 26
- Lead/follow: no public data
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.
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Newgen Venture Partners focuses on early-stage startup companies with innovative ideas and revolutionary technologies. Since its establishment in 2012, Newgen has invested in more than 100 enterprises, the accumulated valuation of which has exceeded RMB 50 billion. It is the first investor in several unicorn enterprises, such as GrubMarket,HotMaxx, LePure, and WePie.Newgen Capital is the brand of Newgen's investment in early-stage venture capital funds. As an L.P. actively engaged in early-stage venture capital, Newgen Capital collaborates with renowned institutions such as ZPARK VENTURE, L.P. Fund I, and GSR Ventures (Suzhou Jinshajiang Chaohua Phase IV Venture Capital Partnership (L.P.). In 2022, Newgen also invested in LiquidMetal Ventures. Together with these partners, Newgen is committed to discovering and investing in early-stage V.C. funds with innovation and growth potential, making investments that create value for the ecosystem.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Stage:Angel, Seed, Series A
- Geography: China, United States, Ethiopia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 44
- Round size: Seed $22k–$5M; Angel $62k–$425k; Series A $67k–$1.5M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Intelligence At Work — Intelligence At Work specializes in providing specialized B2B small but efficient combination of derministic and small generative models to automate complex, repetitive business processes. We create efficient, reliable workflows that integrate seamlessly with existing digital tools, helping organizations enhance productivity and reduce manualworkload. Intelliatwork's technology is designed to adapt to various industries, including supply chain, financial services, and healthcare, by automating tasks like data extraction, system updates, and application processing. Our AI models are built to be accurate, reliable, and adaptable to changes, ensuring long-term efficiency and effectiveness.
- Gongji Technology — Gongji Technology is an idle computing power sharing platform that combines distributed computing power with leading scheduling techniques to address elastic computing power requirements.
- Zhulong Technology — The “Anti-Fraud Hub” of the AI era
We are an investment company focused on helping early and growth-stage entrepreneurs build successful companies in Africa.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 31
- Round size: Seed $550k–$3.3M; Pre-Seed $450k–$1M; Series A $50k–$10M
- Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Releaf Earth — We are industrializing food processing in Africa. We've led 1000+ smallholder farmers to provide food factories with >7.5 million kilograms of quality crops.
- Tripesa — Tripesa offers payment solutions for Africa's travel and tourism industry.
- Plural — Smarter, Faster, Future-Ready Policy Strategy. Plural transforms how enterprises and organizations anticipate and act on legislation. Our AI-powered platform delivers accurate bill analysis, policy insights, and stakeholder intelligence so you can stay ahead of risk, seize opportunity, and shape outcomes. See How It Works Book A Demo Trusted By Deepen Your State & Federal Legislative
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, India, South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 473
- Round size: Seed $1M–$8M; Pre-Seed $500k–$3M; Series A $4.5M–$31M
- Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
Portfolio highlights
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- Jerry — Jerry simplifies the expensive, frustrating, and time-consuming aspects of car ownership.
- Class101 — Class101 is an online platform where people can make and enjoy hobbies.
KFW DEG offers financing, advice and support to private sector enterprises operating in developing and emerging-market countries. Their customers can rely on their expertise: They can benefit from their market knowledge, their 21 locations worldwide, and their international network. For entrepreneurial success and development.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Energy, FinTech
- Stage:Debt Financing, Grant
- Geography: India, Kenya, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 105
- Round size: Grant $100k–$1.1M; Debt Financing $10M–$350M
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
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!
- Atome Energy — Atome Energy is the green hydrogen and ammonia project development company to create a greener, cleaner environment.
- IPT PowerTech — IPT PowerTech coverage, coupled with our extensive expertise in supply chain management, field implementation, and power systems, has made us one of the most capable companies in handling the most complicated and versatile projects in the MEA region and its neighboring countries.
For the many, not just the few. For good.
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- Industry: Agriculture, Health Care, Internet
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 59
- Round size: Series A $1.7M–$13M; Series B $3.5M–$42M
- Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $108M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Soko — SOKO produces innovative, ethical jewelry and accessories from sustainable materials in Nairobi, Kenya
- Komaza — Komaza is a tech-driven sustainable forestry company revolutionizing the wood industry in Africa with its farmer platform. It combines technology, training, and service to create a new sustainable wood supply for Africa at an 80% cost disruption over traditional plantations. The company was founded in 2006 by Tevis Howard.
- Sanergy — The Sanergy Collaborative is a partnership of 3 independent companies, who are united by a common vision. Explore more about our vision here!
We're experienced operators helping to ignite and scale startups
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Canada, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 136
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$6.7M; Pre-Seed $125k–$2M
- Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow
Portfolio highlights
- instaHOP — We inspire you to craft personal travel plans... and create unforgettable experiences. Adventure awaits - lets make it happen!
- Herd Security — Herd Security is a cybersecurity company focused on protecting banking customers from the rising threat of AI-driven voice phishing (vishing) and social engineering scams. Leveraging advanced voice detection and AI technologies, Herd Security provides banks with real-time insights into potential vishing attacks, including those targeting high-risktransactions like wire fraud and elderly fraud. Designed to defend against the growing sophistication of AI-generated deepfake voice fraud, Herd Security offers security teams the tools and intelligence they need to safeguard customers’ sensitive information and financial assets. The platform integrates seamlessly with existing security infrastructures, empowering organizations to stay one step ahead of evolving social engineering threats.
- Hyperbound — Hyperbound AI analyzes thousands of calls, uncovers why your top reps win, and builds AI roleplays to help you scale fast and reinforce your playbooks.
British International Investment is the UK's development finance institution. We've been at the forefront of supporting companies in developing countries for more than 70 years.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Banking, Finance
- Stage:Debt Financing, Series B
- Geography: India, Kenya, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 187
- Round size: Series B $12M–$70M; Debt Financing $10M–$100M
- Lead/follow: 51% lead, 49% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Ecom Express — Ecom Express is an end-to-end technology-enabled logistics solutions provider to the Indian e-commerce industry. It provides logistics services in over 2,650 towns across 27,000+ pin codes in India, covering 95%+ of India’s population. Its clients include India's largest e-commerce players, with the Company delivering almost 1 millionshipments per day via 2,800 delivery centers. This team has a varied and rich experience of over 100 years in the Indian Express Industry. The Company is formed for catering to the dynamic needs of the electronic commerce industry which is growing by leaps and bounds. There is no single Company currently equipped completely to cater to the needs of this fast-growing industry which is seeing changes every day.It was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in New Delhi, India.
- SunCulture — At SunCulture, we strive to solve the biggest daily challenges of smallholder farmers. We use off-grid solar technology to provide our customers with reliable access to water, irrigation, lighting, and mobile charging, and we can do all of that with a single system.
- Solon Capital Holdings — Solon Capital Partners is a West-Africa focused investment manager that is pioneering a new approach to economic development and poverty reduction in fragile and post-conflict states.
CBC Group imports and exports synthetic resins, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, foods, electronics components, and optical equipments.
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- Industry: Manufacturing, Apps, News
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Japan, Ethiopia, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Series A $4.3M–$8M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Dodai — Dodai manufactures and assembles the electric motorcycles.
- 3DC — 3DC develops and manufactures a new carbon material, graphene meso sponge (GMS), for electrodes in next-generation batteries, capacitors, fuel cells and other energy storage and generation devices.
- FiscalNote — The #1 most trusted partner for government relations & public affairs software. Track policy, manage stakeholders, act fast.
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- Industry: Manufacturing, Electric Vehicle
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Ethiopia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Dodai — Dodai manufactures and assembles the electric motorcycles.
Nagase & Co., Ltd. engages in the manufacture, import/export, and sale of chemicals, plastics, electronics materials, cosmetics, and health foods worldwide. It offers colors and imaging products that comprise dyestuffs, dyeing auxiliaries, finishing agents, textile processing resins, adhesives for textiles, pigments, pigment dispersingagents, plastic additives, UV cured and toner resins, silicones, dyes and related chemicals, chemicals for paper manufacturing, and additives for paints and inks; and performance chemicals consisting of plastic materials, plastics and pigments, solvents, urethane materials, flame retardants, plastic additives, plasticizers, and polymer filters. The company also provides specialty chemicals, such as petrochemical products, raw materials for household products, cosmetic ingredients, surfactants and surfactant raw materials, fluorochemicals, materials for silicones, and electronics chemicals; advanced polymers and automotive solutions; and polymer products, including resin materials, film sheet products, and molded plastic and construction products. In addition, Nagase offers electronic chemicals comprising photoresist developer production equipment, chemical management equipment for liquid crystal preprocessing, chemicals for the production of semiconductors and liquid crystals, and formulated epoxy resins. Further, it provides liquid crystal displays (LCDs), manufacturing devices and optical films for LCDs and organic light-emitting diodes, and processed aluminum and glass products; pharmaceuticals, in vitro diagnostics, hard disk related products, medical equipment, agricultural chemicals, household insecticides, animal health products, enzymes, fermentation products, functional food ingredients, nutritional supplements, and feed additives; and cosmetics and health foods. Additionally, Nagase provides logistics, information processing, and professional services. The company was founded in 1832 and is headquartered in Osaka, Japan.
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- Industry: Manufacturing, Software, Cloud Computing
- Stage:Series A, Corporate Round
- Geography: Japan, United States, Ethiopia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 20
- Round size: Series A $2.4M–$340M; Corporate Round $1.7B–$2.8B
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Dodai — Dodai manufactures and assembles the electric motorcycles.
- A10 Lab — A10 Lab is a company that aims to makes people happy with technology that is independent of Sony's new business creation program. It provides Google Play an app that allows users to do things that they have never been able to do with the custom app 'Min Chale' selected for two consecutive years. It is a company that brings profits tocompanies by improving lifetime value (sales) through the habitation of users that companies have.
- Rapidus — Rapidus is an Electronic component research, development, design, production, and sales that includes semiconductor elements and integrated circuits. Environmentally friendly, energy-saving semiconductors and semiconductor manufacturing technology are being researched and developed. Human resource development and training for the semiconductorsector.
Oxfam’s Enterprise Development Programme (EDP) is an innovative model that provides support to entrepreneurs in some of the world’s poorest countries to help them create and build viable, sustainable businesses. The resulting jobs and associated opportunities provide benefits for both the employees and the wider communities around them, liftingsome of the world’s poorest families out of poverty.
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- Industry: Retail, Blockchain, E-Commerce
- Stage:Grant, Series A
- Geography: Tunisia, Ethiopia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Farm Trust — Farm Trust is an E-commerce platform for fruits and vegetables that provide traceability through blockchain.
- GreenPath Food — Greenpath Food is a worldwide food supplier of the highest quality organic, regeneratively-grown produce from small-scale East African Farms.
Nissay Capital is a venture capital Company specializing in seed, start-up, growth capital, middle stage, and later stage investment.
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- Industry: Health Care, Information Technology, Medical
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States, Ethiopia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 223
- Round size: Seed $709k–$43M; Series A $2.7M–$77M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Todoker — Todoker is a baggage delivery convenient service providing company.
- CREO Bioscience — Cleo Bioscience is a Biotechnology company.
- Fabric Tokyo — FABRIC TOKYO is a Japanese startup provides a direct-to-consumer custom-made apparel brand. (former-company name Lifestyle Design Co., Ltd.). It enables customers to save their sizes, idea fabrics, and favorite designs, allowing them to make their original clothing later.FABRIC TOKYO was founded in 2012 by Yuichiro Mori and is based in Tokyo,Japan.
The European Investment Bank (EIB) offers lending, borrowing, and treasury services primarily within the European Union. It provides project loans for public and private sectors, loans to banks and intermediaries, structured finance products, guarantees, and securitization instruments for debts. Additionally, EIB offers equity and fund investmentproducts, including infrastructure and environmental funds, as well as venture capital funds. EIB also supports microfinance and risk-sharing finance for research and innovation, and provides technical expertise for sustainable energy projects. Its services include infrastructure advisory, urban development support, guarantees for transport infrastructure, and funding for public-private partnerships and small- to medium-sized enterprises. The bank serves various sectors, including transportation, energy, health, education, and agriculture.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Energy
- Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt
- Geography: France, Germany, The Netherlands
Investor stats
- Total investments: 294
- Round size: Post-IPO Debt $7.7M–$658M; Debt Financing $13M–$400M
- Lead/follow: 78% lead, 22% follow
Portfolio highlights
- IPT PowerTech — IPT PowerTech coverage, coupled with our extensive expertise in supply chain management, field implementation, and power systems, has made us one of the most capable companies in handling the most complicated and versatile projects in the MEA region and its neighboring countries.
- Interconnect Malta — Interconnect Malta is a government organization that develops and implements energy infrastructure projects.
- NVision Imaging Technologies — NVision Imaging Technologies is leveraging advances in quantum physics to enable the first routine, convenient and affordable use of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) for assessing early patient response to cancer treatment at the metabolic level.
Norwegian investment fund for developing countries
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- Industry: Financial Services, Energy, Renewable Energy
- Stage:Private Equity, Debt Financing
- Geography: Kenya, South Africa, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 86
- Round size: Debt Financing $2.6M–$130M; Private Equity $7.4M–$125M
- Lead/follow: 60% lead, 40% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2009
Portfolio highlights
- Wecyclers — Wecyclers gives households a chance to capture value from their waste while providing a reliable supply of materials to the local recycling industry.Wecyclers works in partnership with the Lagos Waste Management Authority (LAWMA) and collects recyclable waste, including plastic bottles, plastic bags, and aluminum cans, at the household levelusing low-cost bicycle-powered collection vehicles called “wecycles”.Wecyclers rewards households with redeemable points based on the volume and quality of recyclables that they give us. Wecyclers sort and aggregate the materials and then sells it to Nigerian recyclers.
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- CrossBoundary — CrossBoundary Energy's renewable energy solutions help decarbonize enterprise by providing cleaner, cheaper and more reliable power.
DEG, a Merkle Company is a full-service digital agency purpose-built to meet clients in the moment with data-driven marketing, commerce, and collaboration solutions.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
- Stage:Debt Financing, Grant
- Geography: India, South Africa, Ghana
Investor stats
- Total investments: 25
- Round size: Grant $100k–$800k; Debt Financing $6.5M–$33M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
Portfolio highlights
- SUN Energy — SUN Energy - Pengembang Proyek PLTS Terkemuka untuk Mendukung Perjalanan Keberlanjutan Perusahaan Anda.
- Turnkey Lender — Turnkey Lender is a Commercial lending software that can improve efficiency and reduce costs for financial services companies.
- Naked Insurance — The new way to cover your stuff: savings & convenience through AI. Naked Insurance offers online insurance for car, home and contents. Get a quote in 90 seconds!
Orange Ventures is a venture fund investing in areas of Orange expertise and beyond, with financial objectives in line with VC industry standards. With 350m€ assets under management, Orange Ventures is in the top 10 corporate ventures in Europe with an investment strategy focused on helping future global tech champions, fostering innovation in theMiddle East and Africa, and supporting new sustainable and responsible business models.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series B, Series A
- Geography: France, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 77
- Round size: Seed $600k–$5M; Series A $2.7M–$12M; Series B $11M–$33M
- Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
Portfolio highlights
- SAYNA — Sayna is to provide high-quality training in the digital sector and provide professional chances to young people by bridging the gap between the growing demand and supply for digital talent in Africa.
- Veniam — Transfer 10x more data for your video telematics, fleet operations, industrial IoT or connected vehicles.
- Gebeya — Gebeya is building a-self-sustainable ecosystem that trains, hires, and nurtures the best of African talent. Our mission is to be the premier software engineering and IT training academy in Africa, while becoming the number one global IT services workplace that matches African IT talent with clients across Africa and the rest of the world.
Partech is a global venture capital firm with offices in San Francisco, Paris, Berlin and Dakar. Partech invests in Internet and information technology startups at seed, venture and growth stages.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, France, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 520
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$9M; Series A $4.2M–$30M; Series B $9M–$55M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Yampa — Discover yampa's autonomous AI agents and revolutionize your customer experience. Elevate your service with the most advanced AI technology.
- Shohoz — Shohoz.com, owned and operated by Shohoj Limited, is a premium online travel service provider which aims to make long distance travel in Bangladesh easy and convenient. Driven by the passion to serve you better, Shohoz.com went on to pioneer the online travel industry by offering bus tickets and launch tickets. In entertainment sector, movietickets, event tickets as well as cricket match tickets are also available on Shohoz.com. Their team of energetic and young professionals with deep expertise in eCommerce and travel domains, leave no stone unturned to provide you the best of services at minimal costs through their user friendly website, Android App, Partner network all over Bangladesh and a multi-lingual call center.
- AURA — A South African cloud-based security and safety startup .
Verdant Frontiers is a venture capital firm specializing in start-up and early-stage investments. The firm builds portfolios of large-scale businesses that deliver compelling returns for investors and create life-changing jobs in Africa.
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- Industry: Travel, FinTech, Finance
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Kenya, Italy, Ethiopia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $1.8M–$6M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Pezesha — Digital Financial Ecosystem for connecting MSMEs to Capital.
- Zeraki — Zeraki is to use technology to address some of the obstacles learners encounter in accessing quality education. We use technology to enhance the quality of education students get at each level of education and use technology to help students transition from one level of education to the next, and ultimately from education into employment.
- Leta — Leta Technology is a software development company that creates supply chain and logistics software to enable the efficient and automated movement of goods.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Energy, Internet
- Stage:Series B, Series C
- Geography: United States, India, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 60
- Round size: Series B $10M–$43M; Series C $9.1M–$60M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Loggi — Loggi is connecting Brazil, using technology to reinvent logistics with a fast, cost-efficient, and reliable network across e-commerce, wholesale food delivery, and courier services. Loggi is unlocking the growth of the on-demand economy, supporting new commerce for Brazil’s large, young, urban population.The company was founded in 2013 and isbased in São Paulo, Brazil.
- Coursera — Coursera is an online education company that serves over 20 million registered learners by partnering with 140 of the world’s best universities and education institutions. On Coursera, anyone, anywhere can access over 1,000 online courses and Specializations in dozens of fields in order to achieve meaningful career, educational, and personalenrichment goals throughout their lives.The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California.
- TradeDepot — TradeDepot is an end-to-end distribution platform that connects the world's top consumer goods companies directly to retailers on the streets of Africa's cities. With its headquarters in Lagos, Nigeria, TradeDepot’s aim is to build the largest retail distribution network in Africa. The company was founded in 2016, with a mission toimprove milk distribution to smaller retailers on the continent, using technology. Today, the company is scaling the same technology to improve the distribution of food, beverages and personal care products to retailers, and to improve livelihoods for these retail store owners.
MiraclePlus invests in and accelerates early-stage startups. MiraclePlus assists startups in developing products that are good enough to succeed in the market. MiraclePlus' acceleration program works with the founders to get each team in top shape so that they can present to thousands of investors on Demo Day.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: China, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 76
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- TestSprite — AI powered fully automated end-to-end testing solutions to help enterprises launch their products faster.
- Excellent Vision — Excellent Vision is a spatial intelligence company focused to transforming video creation into a 4D world model, enabling AI big models to grasp, generate, and reason about 4D space.
- Gongji Technology — Gongji Technology is an idle computing power sharing platform that combines distributed computing power with leading scheduling techniques to address elastic computing power requirements.
Nigerian Exchange Group focuses on listing and trading securities, licensing, market data solutions, and ancillary technology services.
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- Industry: Financial Services
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Ethiopia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Ethiopian Securities Exchange — Ethiopia's first organized securities exchange.
The Impact Angel Group operates as a network of angel investors. It focuses on deal sourcing, investment screening, and due diligence. The Impact Angel Group was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Boulder, Colorado.
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- Industry: Food Delivery, Food and Beverage
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Ethiopia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Deliver Addis — Ethiopia's #1 online delivery service featuring some of the best spots in town.
This is the official website of Musashi Seimitsu Kogyo Co. Musashi Seimitsu Kogyo develops, manufactures, and sells differentials, transmission gears, ball joints, and other products for automobiles and motorcycles. While promoting the development of products such as powertrains, suspensions, and steering systems for next-generation vehicles such as electric vehicles and automated driving, we are also focusing on the creation and expansion of a wide range of new businesses, including the promotion of Industry 4.0 through the development of advanced AI technology and the development of open innovation to contribute to the achievement of the SDGs in a wide range of areas. We are also focusing on the creation and expansion of new businesses.
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- Industry: Electric Vehicle, Analytics, Electronics
- Stage:Series A, Series C, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Japan, United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Series A $2.3M–$20M; Series C $25M–$610M
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Dodai — Dodai manufactures and assembles the electric motorcycles.
- TANAAKK — TANAAKK provides “HITSERIES”, Growth-as-a-Service especially for Fortune Global 500 in-house startups to migrate R&D fruits into cloud-native scalable SaaS. HITSERIES delivers reference architecture, platform and related DevOps, RevOps, EquityOps services. There is annually US$190 R&D expenditure solely in Japan. TANAAKK find growth optionin R&D, selecting right cloud business scheme and enabling liquidity for discounted intellectual assets. Usually supporting conglomerate to achieve new $100M SaaS revenue in 5 years.
- Monarch Tractor — Monarch Tractor offers a tractor platform that combines mechanization, automation, and data analysis to enhance farmer’s existing operations, alleviate labor shortages, and maximize yields.The company is dedicated to eliminating diesel fuel and replaces harmful chemicals with mechanical solutions, so its tractor impacts the environment exactly asintended, without side effects. Its platform utilizes hardware and machine learning to identify and eliminates plant ailments and estimate yields.
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