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Top 45 VC Funds & Investors in Zambia (June 2026)

The most active venture capital funds investing in Zambia startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Zambia startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Ground Squirrel Ventures
VC Fund
5 United States, Kenya, Zambia Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Finance $400k–$5M
EDFI ElectriFI
VC Fund
2 United States, Kenya, Nigeria Debt Financing, Series A Energy, Solar, Renewable Energy
Enygma Ventures
VC Fund
2 South Africa, Zambia, Swaziland Seed Financial Services, Lending, Education $120k–$1M
Vibe VC
VC Fund
2 United States, India, Zambia Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, EdTech, Retail $525k–$33M
UNDP
VC Fund
2 South Africa, India, Uganda Grant, Pre-Seed, Seed E-Commerce, Health Care, AgTech $7k–$200k
ACE & Company
VC Fund
2 United States, Switzerland, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Software, Financial Services, FinTech $1M–$24M
Alitheia IDF
VC Fund
2 South Africa, Nigeria, Ghana Series A, Seed Logistics, E-Commerce, Retail $3M–$13M
The Todd & Rahul Angel Fund
VC Fund
2 United States, Zambia, Nigeria Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce $500k–$30M
Runa Capital
VC Fund
2 United States, Germany, France Series A, Seed, Series B Software, SaaS, Financial Services $1M–$20M
Ventures Platform
VC Fund
2 Nigeria, United States, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Internet $100k–$4.4M
KFW DEG
VC Fund
2 India, Kenya, United States Debt Financing, Grant Financial Services, Energy, FinTech $100k–$570M
54 Collective
VC Fund
1 Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa Seed, Pre-Seed Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech $40k–$4M
Patrick J. McGovern Foundation
VC Fund
1 United States, Kenya, Switzerland Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed Non Profit, Education, Health Care $146k–$580k
Inoks Capital
VC Fund
1 Zambia Series A Marketplace, Financial Services
LoftyInc Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, Nigeria, Egypt Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Software $100k–$37M
TLG Capital
VC Fund
1 Nigeria, United Kingdom, Uganda Debt Financing, Private Equity Financial Services, Finance, Banking $1.4M–$15M
Tamboti Circle
VC Fund
1 Zambia Pre-Seed
Zenga Ventures
VC Fund
1 Zambia Seed Apps, Software, Business Information Systems
Zrosk Investment Management
VC Fund
1 Nigeria, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Finance $500k–$33M
Norfund
VC Fund
1 South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria Private Equity, Debt Financing Energy, Financial Services, Renewable Energy $2.6M–$156M
Jordan Engineering
VC Fund
1 Zambia Seed Agriculture, Financial Services
Tiger Global Management
VC Fund
1 United States, India, China Series B, Series A, Series C Software, FinTech, Financial Services $8M–$260M
Twilio
VC Fund
1 United States, Egypt, Brazil Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $195k–$15M
Acumen
VC Fund
1 United States, India, Kenya Seed, Series A Health Care, Agriculture, Financial Services
Inside Capital Partners
VC Fund
1 Zambia, Madagascar, United States Series A, Private Equity, Venture - Series Unknown mHealth, Education, Health Care
Not Boring Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, Canada, Zambia Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, FinTech, Cryptocurrency $400k–$32M
Private Infrastructure Development Group
VC Fund
1 Kenya, Zambia, Senegal Grant, Debt Financing, Series C Energy, Renewable Energy, Solar $66k–$50M
Blockchain Founders Fund
VC Fund
1 United States, United Kingdom, Singapore Seed, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech $200k–$6M
GreenTec Capital Partners
VC Fund
1 Kenya, Nigeria, Morocco Seed, Pre-Seed Information Technology, Retail, Computer $50k–$1M
FINCA Ventures
VC Fund
1 Kenya, Nigeria, Mexico Seed, Grant, Series A Financial Services, Agriculture, AgTech $40k–$4.2M
Opes Impact Fund
VC Fund
1 Italy, Kenya, India Seed, Series A Communities, Agriculture, Energy $219k–$910k
Johnson & Johnson Foundation
VC Fund
1 Brazil, Colombia, Argentina Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed Health Care, Medical, Medical Device $25k–$50k
Torrey Pines Investment
VC Fund
1 United States, Russian Federation, The Netherlands Seed, Pre-Seed Biotechnology, Health Care, Pharmaceutical $3M–$3.1M
Renew Capital
VC Fund
1 Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia Pre-Seed, Seed Mobile Apps, Financial Services, Finance
Earl Grey Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, India, Canada Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A SaaS, Information Technology, Software $1.5M–$15M
FMO
VC Fund
1 India, Kenya, The Netherlands Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt Financial Services, Finance, Renewable Energy $3M–$420M
InfraCo Africa
VC Fund
1 India, Kenya, France Seed Electric Vehicle, AgTech, Energy
Danish Investment Fund for Developing Countries
VC Fund
1 France, Zambia, Myanmar Private Equity Renewable Energy, Energy, Water
Goodwater Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, India, South Korea Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed FinTech, Financial Services, Software $500k–$31M
Shell Foundation
VC Fund
1 India, United States, Kenya Grant, Seed Energy, Solar, Finance $150k–$5.5M
EDFI Management Company
VC Fund
1 Ghana, India, Canada Series B, Debt Financing, Venture - Series Unknown Renewable Energy, Energy, Solar $2.6M–$4.2M
True Capital Management
VC Fund
1 United States, Nigeria, Canada Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed FinTech, Financial Services, Software $125k–$59M
Finnfund
VC Fund
1 Kenya, India, South Africa Debt Financing, Series B Financial Services, Energy, FinTech $2.7M–$135M
Goodwell Investments
VC Fund
1 Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya Series A, Series B FinTech, Financial Services, Banking $1.6M–$26M
Global Partnerships/Eleos Social Venture Fund
VC Fund
1 Uganda, Zambia Series A, Series B Logistics, Agriculture, Car Sharing $2.1M–$10M
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Ground Squirrel Ventures
VC Fund · Boston, Massachusetts, United States · 5 investments in Zambia startups

Seed round investment in frontier markets and clean energy

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Kenya, Zambia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 70
  • Round size: Seed $400k–$3M; Series A $1.8M–$5M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Grapevine — Grapevine makes it possible for groups to invite members, collect and distribute donations, establish a community and connect with nonprofits.
  • MindMics — Discover MindMics. The world's most accurate personal heart health monitor and well-being platform. Look after your heart health to live longer and better.
  • Untapped Global — Untapped connects global investors, and foreign capital to opportunities in emerging markets. Delivering competitive returns, and measurable impact for global investors.
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EDFI ElectriFI
VC Fund · Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium · 2 investments in Zambia startups

Impact investment in sustainable energy

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Energy, Solar, Renewable Energy
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Kenya, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 56
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • WeLight — WeLight deploys sustainable and accessible solutions to accelerate energy inclusion in rural areas of Africa.
  • Solarise Africa — Solarise Africa is a pan African energy leasing company for solar PV and other energy assets focusing on Commercial and Industrial (C&I) clients. Its business model is designed for scalability. Solarise Africa focuses on providing smart financing through close collaboration with a selected group of partners across solar and other renewableenergy technologies. For solar PV it is focusing on captive rooftop and ground mounted solar projects ranging from 100kW to 3MW. It is currently active in Kenya, looking to open in South Africa and has plans to expand into East, Southern and West Africa.
  • Amped Innovation — At Amped Innovation, we design breakthrough products for people living on less than four dollars per day. Our first product, the Blossom, is a solar home power system which is the lowest-cost and highest-performance product in its class, at one third the price and twice the power handling of competing systems. We built the Blossom with asoftware-enabled Pay-As-You-Go interface, which allows customers to purchase it in payment installments that are equivalent to what they currently spend on kerosene, while providing much more light, cell-phone charging, and ability to run appliances like televisions and sewing machines.
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Enygma Ventures
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 2 investments in Zambia startups

Enygma Ventures is an investment fund for female entrepreneurs and women founders, focused on Southern Africa or SADC. Unlike traditional private equity, venture capital, and banks our team is full of award winning entrepreneurs who understand the same struggles you face first hand.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Lending, Education
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: South Africa, Zambia, Swaziland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Seed $120k–$1M
  • Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Adbot — Adbot makes Google ads easy. Start a Google Ad Campaign and get results!
  • Koa Academy — Koa Academy is on the cutting edge of online schooling in South Africa! We offer small classes, quality educators, and individualized, engaged online learning.
  • Brown and Ayo — Brown and Ayo have provided customers with an extensive online marketplace of natural hair extensions created to mimic black natural hair textures. The company prides itself in bringing innovative and well-loved products to the SA black woman consumer.
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Vibe VC
VC Fund · 2 investments in Zambia startups

We were told no one would take us seriously as investors without a website, so here's our website.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, EdTech, Retail
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, India, Zambia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Seed $3M–$12M; Pre-Seed $525k–$4.5M; Series A $20M–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Carry — Ocho is everything you need to build wealth as a business owner.
  • Hone Health — Hone Health provides telehealth services that support hormone health and longevity, including testosterone replacement therapy (TRT)
  • Disco — Co-op commerce is a network of the world's best brands partnering together to grow.
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UNDP
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in Zambia startups

UNDP works to eradicate poverty and reduce inequalities through the sustainable development of nations, in more than 170 countries and territories.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Health Care, AgTech
  • Stage:Grant, Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: South Africa, India, Uganda

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Round size: Grant $25k–$200k; Pre-Seed $7k–$40k
  • Lead/follow: 54% lead, 46% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Medtech Africa — Medtech Africa is a Nigerian-based startup leveraging Artificial Intelligence and Apps to enable Cardiologists to treat and manage patients living with Cardiovascular Disease using the Patient's own data.The App, Forcardio, is a smart mobile & web application that seamlessly connects FDA-approved Bluetooth-enabled Cardiovascular devicesused by Patients through a mobile app to physician's tablet/device.Forcardio, eliminates the need for Cardiologists to use hundreds of apps to manage CVD. Forcardio App connects all CVD devices.We provide features such as AI analytics and Planning tools for Patient data for Cardiologist, emergency warning systems, on-demand video/voice call and management tools for CVD Patients.
  • Kee Farms Foundation — The Kee Farms Foundation is a non-profit organization that works to mitigate climate change through regenerative ocean and land agriculture.
  • Saint James School of Medicine — One of the top Caribbean medical schools. USMLE-ready in 5 Semesters. US clinical rotations. Accredited. Low tuition. No MCAT required
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ACE & Company
VC Fund · Geneva, Geneve, Switzerland · 2 investments in Zambia startups

ACE offers three core investment strategies across the stages of private investment: Secondaries, Buyout, and Venture. Our portfolio construction guidelines ensure that our investors access the necessary customization to achieve their risk and return requirements.ACE aims to drive returns by managing risks and strategically adjusting investmentexposure to the stage of a company’s development. We strongly believe that diversification and sizing of investments according to the risk profile are the most effective approaches to investing private capital.ACE’s specialized investment teams provide the support to create long-term and sustainable investment results.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 184
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$6.4M; Series A $3.4M–$24M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Roofr — The complete sales toolbox for roofers. From roof measurement reports to project-winning proposals.
  • Vennre — Build wealth through vetted private market opportunities from $5k. GCC-first, globally accessible. Regulated, Sharia-compliant, digital-first.
  • PatientPoint — Discover how PatientPoint delivers content that drives better health decisions and outcomes for healthcare providers, brands, and patients.
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Alitheia IDF
VC Fund · Moka, Moka, Mauritius · 2 investments in Zambia startups

Alitheia IDF is investing in dynamic and growing businesses throughout Africa. By investing in teams that recognize the importance of gender diversity the firm generates superior financial returns and impact.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Logistics, E-Commerce, Retail
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: South Africa, Nigeria, Ghana

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Seed $3M–$13M; Series A $3M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 80% lead, 20% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $100M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Lupiya — Lupiya is an online marketplace for microloans. It is a branch-less, innovative digital microfinance platform that leverages technology to make the process of borrowing simpler and easier so that people and businesses located across the country even in rural, remote areas can access financial services.
  • SweepSouth — Book a home cleaning online from your mobile, tablet or computer. SweepSouth connects you with a cleaner in minutes. Cleaners are experienced, reliable, efficient and insured.
  • Alma Clinics
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The Todd & Rahul Angel Fund
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Zambia startups

Backed by 110+ world-class founders and operators. We help you find product/market fit faster, supercharge your distribution, and raise from the best investors.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Zambia, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 18
  • Round size: Seed $3M–$30M; Pre-Seed $500k–$3.8M; Series A $6M–$21M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $24M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Loyal — Loyal is a clinical-stage veterinary medicine company working on giving dogs longer, healthier lives.
  • Vulture Labs — Vulture Labs, Inc. is a deep-tech company founded in July 2025 to close the critical data gap between digital "systems of record" and the physical "system of work." The company's flagship platform, Vulture Vision, is a Spatial Operations Intelligence system that transforms a client's existing CCTV infrastructure into aproactive, queryable asset. Through a single, on-premise edge appliance that processes all video locally, the platform creates a real-time, 3D understanding of an environment, enabling users to perform natural language searches, receive predictive alerts, and generate reports on operational trends. This approach eliminates the need for new cameras or sensors while guaranteeing absolute data sovereignty, a critical requirement for its target enterprise verticals in manufacturing, logistics, and retail. Vulture Labs is a Delaware C-Corporation headquartered in San Francisco.
  • TRIC Robotics — TRIC Robotics develops an autonomous, non-chemical pesticide alternative for strawberry farms. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Newark, DE.
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Runa Capital
VC Fund · Palo Alto, California, United States · 2 investments in Zambia startups

Runa Capital is a global venture capital firm built by serial entrepreneurs that invests in early-stage software startups around the world...

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Financial Services
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Germany, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 147
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$10M; Series A $1.5M–$15M; Series B $2.5M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $69M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • getquin — Check out a getquin investor portfolio, its positions, dividends and real-time performance.
  • Spectrm — charles is the Conversational Marketing AI and CRM platform for brands to attract, convert, and retain customers via AI agents and marketing automations.
  • Lace Lithography — Lace is building the patterning technology that will power the next 100 years of semiconductor manufacturing.
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Ventures Platform
VC Fund · Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria · 2 investments in Zambia startups

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

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 143
  • Round size: Seed $325k–$4.4M; Pre-Seed $100k–$1.3M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • MDaaS Global — At MDaaS Global, we build and operate modern, tech-enabled diagnostic centres in clinically-underserved communities, starting in Nigeria. Our big goal is to create affordable healthcare solutions for Africa's next billion.
  • Brass — Get started with a modern current account
  • LemFi — Send money to India, China, Pakistan, Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya and 30 other countries. Receive and manage your money without stress
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KFW DEG
VC Fund · Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 2 investments in Zambia startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Energy, FinTech
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Grant
  • Geography: India, Kenya, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 111
  • Round size: Grant $100k–$1.1M; Debt Financing $10M–$570M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Etana — PT Etana Biotechnologies Indonesia (Etana) is an emerging producer of high-quality, affordable and innovative biopharmaceuticals to treat a range of metabolic, autoimmune and other major life-threatening diseases, including cancer. Nathan Tirtana. Legend Capital. UOB Venture Management. Innovent Bio
  • 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.
  • Fourth Partner Energy — Top renewable energy company in India offering solar, wind, and hybrid solutions for commercial & industrial sectors.
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54 Collective
VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in Zambia startups

Building and scaling African tech startups with catalytic capital, value-add support and our global network.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 107
  • Round size: Seed $40k–$4M; Pre-Seed $40k–$1.3M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • mTek — mTek is a digital online insurance platform that provides an entirely paperless ecosystem for the insurance industry.
  • REasy — Top up locally, pay suppliers globally, and manage international shipments with REasy. Fast, secure, and designed for African businesses expanding worldwide.
  • Konnect — Konnect provides a cross borders payment solution intended to simplify complex financial flows allowing companies of any scale and size to send and receive payments in a practical, secure, and low-cost way.
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Patrick J. McGovern Foundation
VC Fund · Boston, Massachusetts, United States · 1 investments in Zambia startups

Patrick J McGovern Foundation advances AI and data innovation for global social impact. Supporting changemakers with technology solutions for equity and sustainability.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Non Profit, Education, Health Care
  • Stage:Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Kenya, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 67
  • Round size: Grant $146k–$580k
  • Lead/follow: 69% lead, 31% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • HelpMum — HelpMum is a social enterprise with the mission to reduce maternal and infant mortality in Africa.
  • Dawa Health — DawaMom is a standardized mobile clinic that delivers maternal and neonatal health through a digital health platform leveraging a wide network of trained 1st level clinicians and community health workers (CHWs) for emerging markets.
  • Climate Policy Radar — Climate Policy Radar is a UK-based nonprofit, building open databases and AI-powered research tools to accelerate climate action
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Inoks Capital
VC Fund · Geneva, Geneve, Switzerland · 1 investments in Zambia startups

Inoks Capital specializes in credit, investment, financial, consulting, asset, and fund management services.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Marketplace, Financial Services
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: Zambia

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Lupiya — Lupiya is an online marketplace for microloans. It is a branch-less, innovative digital microfinance platform that leverages technology to make the process of borrowing simpler and easier so that people and businesses located across the country even in rural, remote areas can access financial services.
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LoftyInc Capital
VC Fund · Carmel, California, United States · 1 investments in Zambia startups

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

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 147
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2.4M; Series A $250k–$37M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $14M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Aku — Aku is a financial technology to drive financial inclusion on one mobile device. They provide payments and bring financial services to the doorstep. They support the new business owner in need of the right tools. They offer low-cost, accessible financial services that serve their customers. They radically democratized access to banking and digitalpayment channels.
  • AlumUnite — AlumUnite is a purpose-built platform to connect all educated Africans to develop Africa's human capital through alumni groups. We crowd-resource education.
  • Reliance Health — Reliance Health Global. Improve the lives of your staff with innovative company healthcare benefits fit for any business. You can rely on us.
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TLG Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Zambia startups

TLG Capital is an award-winning private investment firm dedicated to empowering frontier market entrepreneurs, with a focus on opportunities in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).TLG firmly believes that impact creation is crucial to sustained financial success. They are committed to tackling persistent challenges and better directing resources towardsimproving the lives for some of the world’s most vulnerable people. Their investments have had a significantly social, environmental and development impact across Sub-Saharan Africa.TLG Africa Limited is a permanent capital investment vehicle focusing on equity opportunities in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). TLG Africa invests in sectors underpinned by the ‘rise of the African consumer’, such as: healthcare, finance, consumer goods and real estate. These investments include direct minority/majority stake investments, secondary opportunities and distressed fund restructurings. TLG Africa always seeks board representation, along with other minority protections.Notable investments include WHO pre-approved pharmaceutical plant QCIL (Uganda) and healthcare facilities in West Africa. In recognition for their efforts, their deals have won multiple awards including ‘Landmark Deal of the Decade’ in 2012 and 'Frontier Deal of the Year' in 2014 from Private Equity Africa.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Finance, Banking
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Private Equity
  • Geography: Nigeria, United Kingdom, Uganda

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 29
  • Round size: Debt Financing $1.4M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 83% lead, 17% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • NMB Bank — NMB Bank is dedicated to providing premium financial services to all existing and potential customers. Since 1993, we have offered supreme corporate, retail and investment banking solutions.
  • VivaJets — VivaJets is a aviation company providing a full range of aircraft management services, fractional ownership opportunities, and aircraft sales and acquisition.
  • Shona Capital Zambia — SHONA ZAMBIA offers responsible, adaptable financing along with useful management assistance that goes beyond money. We strive to eliminate obstacles, enhance capacities, and promote long-term, sustainable growth by collaborating with clients, business leaders, and communities.
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Tamboti Circle
VC Fund · 1 investments in Zambia startups

Tamboti Circle is an investment firm.

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Investment focus

  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Zambia

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Duniya Healthcare — Duniya Healthcare helps retail pharmacies to source their medicines from wholesalers.
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Zenga Ventures
VC Fund · 1 investments in Zambia startups

Zenga Ventures is an investing firm for startups.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Software, Business Information Systems
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Zambia

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • ZPOS — ZPOS is a mobile application that speicalizes in shop management system which allows to record all transactions of the business.
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Zrosk Investment Management
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 1 investments in Zambia startups

Alternative investment solutions: private credit, discretionary portfolios, and the Magna Specialized Fund.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Nigeria, United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 29
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$5M; Pre-Seed $500k–$2.5M; Series A $7M–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • PaidHR — PaidHR works with organizations to streamline how they manage their staff. Our precisely created solutions enable them to create the ideal place to work.
  • Lingawa — Speak your native language with pride! Learn Yoruba and Igbo with fun, immersive online lessons for adults and kids (ages 5+).
  • Definely — Definely creates legal tech solutions to free lawyers from frustration, saving them time when understanding, drafting and reviewing legal documents.
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Norfund
VC Fund · Oslo, Oslo, Norway · 1 investments in Zambia startups

Norwegian investment fund for developing countries

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Energy, Financial Services, Renewable Energy
  • Stage:Private Equity, Debt Financing
  • Geography: South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 93
  • Round size: Debt Financing $2.6M–$156M; Private Equity $7.4M–$125M
  • Lead/follow: 61% lead, 39% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2009

Portfolio highlights

  • AgDevCo — AgDevCo is a social impact investor and agribusiness project developer, incorporated as a non-for-profit distribution, limited companyin.
  • 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.
  • CrossBoundary — CrossBoundary Energy's renewable energy solutions help decarbonize enterprise by providing cleaner, cheaper and more reliable power.
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Jordan Engineering
VC Fund · 1 investments in Zambia startups

Jordan Engineering

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Agriculture, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Zambia

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Rent To Own Africa — Rent To Own provides affordable financing to high capacity entrepreneurs in rural communities across Zambia. Rent To Own variety of rental arrangements helps business owners build assets and expand their own services. Beyond traditional asset financing, Rent To Own adapts its services and to the individual needs of each client, including guidedasset selection process, direct distribution and one-on one training for maintenance and proper equipment usage. The company unique six-step loan process mitigates repayment risk and ensures that the equipment is being used optimally.
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Tiger Global Management
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Zambia startups

Founded in 2001, Tiger Global Management, LLC (“Tiger Global”) is a New York-based investment firm pursuing a long-term approach to investing in leading, global public and private companies that leverage technological innovation. Tiger Global’s public equity business includes fundamentally oriented long/short, long-focused and crossoverstrategies, targeting investments in high-quality, public growth companies. The private equity business invests in early through late stage companies that pursue innovative approaches to new and existing industries, building on over 20 years of experience investing in hundreds of businesses in more than 30 countries with more than 90 portfolio company IPOs. With a strong track record investing across sectors and stages, Tiger Global aims to be a thought partner to companies and their management teams across their lifecycle in public and private markets. The Firm’s mission is to generate world-class returns for its investors and to do so in a way that makes its employees, partners and portfolio companies proud.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 881
  • Round size: Series A $8M–$50M; Series B $17M–$130M; Series C $26M–$260M
  • Lead/follow: 57% lead, 43% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $2.2B in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Progcap — Progcap is revolutionising the way financial access is delivered to underserved segments of the Indian retail economy, through specialized financing and technology products that empower small and medium businesses (SMBs) to progress without obstacles.
  • Regrello — Regrello is an AI-powered platform designed to revolutionize supply chain and manufacturing operations. Traditional supply chains often rely on outdated methods like email and legacy enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, leading to inefficiencies and communication challenges. Regrello addresses these issues by offering intelligent verticalsolutions that streamline processes, centralize data, and enhance collaboration among internal and external teams. The platform's advanced AI capabilities enable rapid customization, allowing businesses to tailor solutions in hours rather than months. By automating workflows, Regrello reduces manual tasks by up to 45% and accelerates cycle times by 35%, resulting in increased productivity and cost savings. Trusted by over 150 leading manufacturing companies, including industry giants like Dell, Regrello provides enterprise-grade security and compliance, ensuring data integrity and protection. The platform's user-friendly interface facilitates seamless integration with existing systems, promoting efficient communication and data sharing across the supply chain. With a commitment to innovation and excellence, Regrello empowers businesses to optimize their operations, improve quality, and gain a competitive edge in the manufacturing sector.Regrello Corp. was founded in December - 2020 and Headquartered in San Francisco, California.
  • Avicena Tech — It has been known for decades that optical interconnects have the potential to provide significant benefits even at lengths down to 1 millimeter and below. Silicon photonics, plasmonics, and other high-volume commercial technologies have reached a tipping point where they can be used to address critical chip-to-chip interconnect needs.Avicena’sultra-dense, low-latency, low-cost, low-power optical interconnects revolutionize inter-chip communications and vastly improve the performance of systems that are hampered by legacy chip-to-chip interconnects.
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Twilio
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Zambia startups

Create amazing customer experiences with our Customer Engagement Platform (CEP) that combines communication APIs with AI. Build solutions for SMS, WhatsApp, voice, and email.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Egypt, Brazil

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 29
  • Round size: Seed $195k–$1.7M; Series A $7.6M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $50M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Deepgram — Deepgram helps enterprises unlock the potential of their audio data with custom-trained speech recognition for accuracy and scale. Deepgram's deep learning speech recognition system searches for keywords in transcripts by sound and text within audio and video files, used for transcribing calls, meetings, and voicemails for searchable notes,providing businesses with a fast, high accuracy speech-to-text on an easy-to-use API.The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
  • Nurdle AI — Get your AI into production Faster, Cheaper & Easier with Nurdle's privacy-safe lookalike data. Trusted by leading brands in gaming and social media.
  • Courier — Turn product signals into customer engagement. Build lifecycle journeys and deliver notifications across channels, with templates, routing, preferences, and observability included.
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Acumen
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Zambia startups, 7 in the past 12 months

Acumen is a nonprofit venture fund that invests in early-stage companies bringing critical services like agriculture, clean energy, education, financial inclusion, healthcare and workforce development to low-income communities in 14 countries across East and West Africa, South Asia, Latin America, and the United States. Since 2001, Acumeninvested $128 million in 128 companies that have transformed the lives of over 308 million low-income people.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Agriculture, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, India, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 144
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • BioMassters — Biomassers aim to replace charcoal production and charcoal cooking by providing modern, affordable, and low-carbon pellet fuel production and cooking solutions based on locally produced fuel from waste materials.
  • Reema Health — Transforming the way people navigate the gaps between health care and social care. Reema combines a 24/7 AI-based confidant with in-person community guides to help people meet their social needs.
  • Raino Tech4Impact — Raino Tech4Impact is a social enterprise that leverages technology as an enabler to empower African communities. We have been deploying technology-driven solutions in agriculture and health, powered by renewable energy to achieve sustainability.
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Inside Capital Partners
VC Fund · Ebène, Plaines Wilhems, Mauritius · 1 investments in Zambia startups

Inside Capital Partners (“Inside”) is an independent private equity manager aiming to invest through equity in strong potential opportunities in selected Southeast African countries.Inside believes that access to high level information, a strong focus on selected geographies and enterprises along with a strong network of operational andbusiness experts, are key to enhancing value creation.For this reason, the Inside team, which is composed of people with strong ties to the region, operates through its offices in Mauritius and Zambia, and from its network of partners in the other selected countries.Inside also works in close proactive partnerships with entrepreneurs, and leverages on its network of experts, to fast track the development of small and medium-sized enterprises.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: mHealth, Education, Health Care
  • Stage:Series A, Private Equity, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Zambia, Madagascar, United States

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Drive Health — Drive Health is a digital health startup that develops AI-powered health assistant technology.
  • RDG Africa — Empowering the Future, one solar system at a time
  • Hautes Études Pratiques Internationales — Hautes Études Pratiques Internationales is a private higher‑education platform that runs degree‑level programmes.
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Not Boring Capital
VC Fund · Seattle, Washington, United States · 1 investments in Zambia startups

Behind-the-Scenes of Raising a Fund to Invest in Companies with Stories to Tell

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Cryptocurrency
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Zambia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 37
  • Round size: Seed $3.3M–$25M; Pre-Seed $400k–$4.4M; Series A $7.5M–$32M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $30M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Jia — Small businesses drive the economy. They deserve to own a piece of it. Jia gives entrepreneurs anywhere in the world power to control their financial destiny. We provide blockchain-based financing to businesses in emerging markets and reward them with ownership, enabling them to create wealth and prosperity for themselves and their communities.
  • Fount — Health and Performance Coaching | Fount
  • Ceramic Network — Ceramic Network is a provider of protocols for decentralized and composable data applications. The network decentralizes application databases, making data universally composable and reusable across applications. It consists of three core parts: a highly-scalable, decentralized infrastructure for data availability and consensus, a marketplace ofcommunity-created data models, and a suite of standard APIs for storing, updating, and retrieving data from those models.
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Private Infrastructure Development Group
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Zambia startups

Private Infrastructure Development Group is an infrastructure development firm that offers finance and funds for economic growth.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Energy, Renewable Energy, Solar
  • Stage:Grant, Debt Financing, Series C
  • Geography: Kenya, Zambia, Senegal

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Grant $66k–$500k; Series C $50M–$50M; Debt Financing $2.5M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • LOCA — LOCA offers a ride-hailing app and LOCA PAY for QR payments, available 24/7.
  • Sanivation — Sanivation really has its beginnings from 2006, when Emory approached Georgia Tech looking for a toilet that would be more reliable in treating human fecal sludge. Ideas for a solar toilet were tossed around, and prototypes were built in Bolivia in 2007 and 2008. Work continued through GTRI and Engineers Without Boarders on various iterations ofthe prototypes. In 2011 a group of Georgia Tech and Emory students and recent graduates submitted an application to Start-Up Chile (a business incubator) to begin an organization based on solar sanitation. In July 2011, 5 Tech students moved to Chile to work full time on solar sanitation. Initial prototypes went well, and the team designed service models to create a more viable business model.
  • Dakar Mobilite — Dakar Mobilité is the Senegalese business that operates the Dakar BRT. The company is concerned with road safety, air pollution, and greenhouse gas emissions.
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Blockchain Founders Fund
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 1 investments in Zambia startups

We Focus Exclusively On Adding Value To Blockchain & Emerging Technology Projects With Real World Applications.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 206
  • Round size: Seed $570k–$6M; Pre-Seed $200k–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $75M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • KINO — KINO is a film production company that brings fans behind the scenes of their favorite hollywood films.
  • Tanssi Network — The Tanssi Network is a permissionless appchain infrastructure protocol designed for swift and effortless deployment of application-specific blockchains.
  • Virtualtech Frontier — Virtualtech Frontier develops business processes through virtual reality technology. It operates virtual event platforms, metaverse services, and virtual reality solutions. Virtualtech Frontier was founded in 2021 and is based in Selangor, Malaysia.
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GreenTec Capital Partners
VC Fund · Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany · 1 investments in Zambia startups

GreenTec Capital Partners is Germany's premier investor into African start-ups and SMEs. GreenTec invests through its unique Results4Equity model, acting as a co-founding partner that is only compensated on business success.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Retail, Computer
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, Morocco

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 24
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $50k–$1M
  • Lead/follow: 83% lead, 17% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.2M in 2017

Portfolio highlights

  • Ecodudu — Ecodudu is a waste-to-value company. It uses a proprietary innovation to recycle organic waste into high-protein animal feed and organic fertilizer using the black soldier fly. It harnesses insects (nature’s recycling agents) to address global issues which include waste management, demand for protein, and environmental conservation.
  • Asilimia — Asilimia is a simple, fun mobile app for sending money through M-PESA quickly and without any transaction fees. Simply deposit money to your M-PESA, download Asilimia and send money for free to any other M-PESA account.
  • ShapShap — ShapShap enhances delivery experience through its commission-based marketplace by assigning efficient orders to drivers to ensure their sustainability and scalability.
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FINCA Ventures
VC Fund · Washington, District of Columbia, United States · 1 investments in Zambia startups

FINCA Ventures is an impact investing initiative of FINCA International that provides patient capital and support to early-stage social enterprises.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Agriculture, AgTech
  • Stage:Seed, Grant, Series A
  • Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, Mexico

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 23
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$4M; Grant $40k–$100k; Series A $1.1M–$4.2M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Cladfy — Cladfy is a data analytics company that creates tools to assist lenders, merchants, and individuals in making informed loan, savings, and expenditure decisions.
  • Karpolax — Karpolax provides preservation technologies for agricultural companies that enable them to enhance the shelf life of fruits and vegetables.
  • 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.
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Opes Impact Fund
VC Fund · Milano, Lombardia, Italy · 1 investments in Zambia startups

Opes-Lcef is an impact investor that provides catalytic capital to early-stage social enterprises in emerging markets.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Communities, Agriculture, Energy
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Italy, Kenya, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 43
  • Round size: Seed $219k–$910k
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Refolo — Refolo is a type B social cooperative that sees social agriculture as having a dual impact: social and environmental. Refolo was created with the aim of creating an agro-ecological and social corridor that runs through the province of Brescia from north to south with the hope that administrations and other communities will come together to generatea positive impact on the environment and the community.Refolo operates in an area located between the municipalities of Brescia, Collebeato, Villa Carcina and Montirone, territories that share the presence of agricultural areas that over the years have been abandoned due to their unsuitability for intensive agriculture and lack of interest by new generations and that are now ready to start again.
  • Ecodudu — Ecodudu is a waste-to-value company. It uses a proprietary innovation to recycle organic waste into high-protein animal feed and organic fertilizer using the black soldier fly. It harnesses insects (nature’s recycling agents) to address global issues which include waste management, demand for protein, and environmental conservation.
  • Sistema.bio — Sistema.bio is a biodigester with biogas appliances. High efficiency biodigesters transform organic waste into renewable biogas.
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Johnson & Johnson Foundation
VC Fund · 1 investments in Zambia startups

The Johnson & Johnson Foundation is a registered charitable organization that reflects the commitment of the Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies to keeping people well at every age and every stage of life by blending heart, science, and ingenuity to profoundly change the trajectory of health for humanity.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Medical, Medical Device
  • Stage:Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Brazil, Colombia, Argentina

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Round size: Grant $25k–$50k
  • Lead/follow: 69% lead, 31% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Sofya — Sofya AI is a healthcare AI platform that uses NLP and voice tech to boost patient engagement and streamline clinical workflows.
  • Kintsu — Kintsu operates as a healthtech platform that bridges the gap between patients, healthcare professionals, and institutions.
  • Salva Health — Salva Health is a healthcare solutions provider company that develops products to enable the prevention and early detection of diseases.
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Torrey Pines Investment
VC Fund · San Diego, California, United States · 1 investments in Zambia startups

Torrey Pines Investment, founded in 2002, is a specialty life-science investment company located in San Diego.Torrey Pines has a team of investment professionals with extensive experience in entrepreneurship, venture capital and operations. Our firm has created biopharma incubators investing in early development stage assets from internationalpharma and biotech partners in CNS, oncology, and virology areas to bring them to commercial success through pharma partnering and M&A.We are committed to capitalizing on the unique opportunities in biotech and pharma, where we can add value in development or regulatory strategy by utilizing resources of our portfolio CRO companies. We seek to leverage our industry knowledge, network of industry and financial contacts, and internal resources to assist our portfolio management in developing and executing their business strategy. Our bottom line is to help our companies achieve growth, build value and realize wealth.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Pharmaceutical
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Russian Federation, The Netherlands

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 32
  • Round size: Seed $3M–$3.1M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $60M in 2017

Portfolio highlights

  • Mondego Bio — Headquartered in Portugal’s main biotech park, Biocant, Mondego Bio is developing best-in-class protein tyrosine phosphatase non-receptor type 2 (PTPN2) inhibitors, providing a potential immuno-oncological therapy with an improved safety and tolerability profile.
  • BIMINI Biotech — BIMINI Biotech is a startup that develops innovative therapeutic strategies for oncology. It is developing therapeutic strategies that target the growth hormone receptor (GHR) and its interaction with insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1) for oncology, metabolic diseases, and aging.The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Leiden, TheNetherlands.
  • Avelas Biosciences — At Avelas Biosciences, their mission is to advance a new standard-of-care in cancer surgery by providing a real time luminous map for oncologic surgeons, leading to improved surgical results and better outcome for patients.
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Renew Capital
VC Fund · Addis Ababa, Adis Abeba, Ethiopia · 1 investments in Zambia startups, 11 in the past 12 months

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

  • 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.
  • Level Africa — Digital Investment Marketplace for Africa
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Earl Grey Capital
VC Fund · 1 investments in Zambia startups

Founders funding founders at the earliest stages of company building.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Information Technology, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, India, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 17
  • Round size: Seed $2.2M–$15M; Pre-Seed $1.5M–$5M; Series A $12M–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • CrewAI — CrewAI is a multi-agent automation platform for enterprises to automate complex tasks. With its automation platform, organizations can deploy and manage AI agents to automate complex tasks and to value across a wide range of use cases, from research and analysis to coding and reporting.The company also offers a range of advanced new featuresincluding self-iteration, performance evaluation, persistent memory, and a range of new agent collaboration structures.
  • Dreambase — Dreambase develops AI-powered analytics software that enables organizations to generate insights, dashboards, and reports directly from their database without requiring traditional data infrastructure. The platform connects to data sources such as Supabase or PostgreSQL and analyzes schema, relationships, and usage patterns to automatically producemetrics and visualizations. Its system uses AI agents to perform tasks typically handled by data teams, including querying databases, identifying trends, building pipelines, and delivering recommendations based on real-time data. The platform eliminates the need for external data warehouses or manual event tracking by treating the database as the primary source of truth and generating insights directly from it.
  • The Clearing Company — The Clearing Company is an on-chain prediction market that aims to build an on-chain, permissionless prediction market that is compliant with regulatory standards and friendly to retail users.
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FMO
VC Fund · The Hague, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands · 1 investments in Zambia startups

FMO is a financial investment firm that specializes in financing businesses and projects FMO invests across the agribusiness value chain to enhance food security, support sustainability and promoting inclusive development.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Finance, Renewable Energy
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt
  • Geography: India, Kenya, The Netherlands

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 153
  • Round size: Post-IPO Debt $25M–$420M; Debt Financing $3M–$178M
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Tagaddod — Tagaddod is a renewable Energy and Waste Management Egyptian company, started in February 2013 and operating in Cairo –Egypt. Currently focusing on clean fuels, Tagaddod is working on Biodiesel production from Vegetable Oils. Biodiesel is a fuel alternative that is produced from waste vegetable oils and used in conventional diesel engines, whichcan directly substitute for or extend supplies of traditional petroleum diesel.
  • SolarSaver — SolarSaver offers customized solar photovoltaic and solar-battery hybrid solutions.
  • Coris Holding
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InfraCo Africa
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Zambia startups

InfraCo seeks to fund and develop projects in sectors or geographies where the private sector would not otherwise work at such an early stage, seeking to exit its projects to private sector developers/financiers once project viability has been demonstrated, normally at or shortly before financial close. InfraCo will not compete directly withthe private sector but seeks to mobilise private sector involvement by bearing the time and cost risk of front end project development in order to mobilise private sector investment.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Electric Vehicle, AgTech, Energy
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: India, Kenya, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Zembo — Discover Zembo - The African Electric Motorcycle. High-performance electric bikes designed for sustainability.
  • Africa GreenCo — Our mission - addressing creditworthiness to increase generation and growth of renewable energy markets through partnerships and innovative solutions.
  • Mobility for Africa — Mobility for Africa produces electric tricycles, bicycles, and other small vehicles that are affordable, high-quality, and sustainable.
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Danish Investment Fund for Developing Countries
VC Fund · 1 investments in Zambia startups

Danish Investment Fund for Developing Countries

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Renewable Energy, Energy, Water
  • Stage:Private Equity
  • Geography: France, Zambia, Myanmar

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Eranove — The Eranove group counts more than 9000 employees all engaged in developping hydroelectric solutions to allow all the pan african citizens to access electricity and drinking water
  • Africa GreenCo — Our mission - addressing creditworthiness to increase generation and growth of renewable energy markets through partnerships and innovative solutions.
  • Alliance for Microfinance in Myanmar — Microfinance in Myanmar
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Goodwater Capital
VC Fund · Burlingame, California, United States · 1 investments in Zambia startups

Consumer Tech Investors - We empower exceptional entrepreneurs everywhere to change the world for good.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, India, South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 486
  • 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.
  • Kinderpass — With Kinderpass you can skip the travel, and access therapy online. KinderPass has a large team of specialists who can help a child across areas of development all under the same roof. Their holistic approach ensures that they focus on building not just academic skills but also essential life skills. Sessions are designed to make learning enjoyablefor the child, in a language they are comfortable in. With online sessions, you can access therapy from the comfort of your home and at a time of your convenience.
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Shell Foundation
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Zambia startups

Shell Foundation is a philanthropic foundation that enables millions of people in Africa and Asia to increase their incomes with clean energy solutions.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Energy, Solar, Finance
  • Stage:Grant, Seed
  • Geography: India, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 28
  • Round size: Seed $790k–$1.1M; Grant $150k–$5.5M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kofa — Kofa is an automotive company that utilizes the latest electric battery and motor technology. The company aims to develop an affordable, sustainable and customer driven electric network in transformative energy, transport, and climate change around the globe. Kofa was founded in Ghana and is headquartered in Accra.
  • Sistema.bio — Sistema.bio is a biodigester with biogas appliances. High efficiency biodigesters transform organic waste into renewable biogas.
  • Mufin Green Finance — Mufin Green Finance is an NBFC that specialises in the electric vehicle (EV) market.
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EDFI Management Company
VC Fund · Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium · 1 investments in Zambia startups

EDFI Management Company (EDFI MC) is a multilaterally owned impact asset manager which delivers innovative development finance solutions that enable European DFIs, development banks and private sector investors to increase the scale and impact of their work. The company focuses on business models, technologies and geographies where other investorshave not been able to operate at the desired scale given their resources and investment criteria. To learn more visit www.edfimc.eu.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Renewable Energy, Energy, Solar
  • Stage:Series B, Debt Financing, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Ghana, India, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Venture - Series Unknown $2.6M–$4.2M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Gebana
  • Sawa Energy — Sawa energy is an affordable, predictable solar electricity solution to power Rwandan businesses with clean and renewable energy.
  • Freyr Energy — We are a full-service Solar systems integration and solutions company. We help you with Solar System Installations for your home and business.
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True Capital Management
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Zambia startups

Achieve your financial goals & build generational wealth with our entertainer & athlete wealth management services. Offering comprehensive financial planning.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 132
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$5M; Pre-Seed $125k–$725k; Series A $9.1M–$59M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $18M in 2012

Portfolio highlights

  • MoonPay — MoonPay offers a fast and simple way to buy and sell cryptocurrencies. Buy crypto with credit card, bank transfers or Apple Pay today.
  • Milano Vice — Milano Vice is building a new virtual food brand by working with professional kitchens to prepare and deliver delicious pizzas to home.
  • Kapital — Kapital empowers SMBs with a tech-banking platform giving visibility and control of their treasury, and their employees
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Finnfund
VC Fund · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland · 1 investments in Zambia startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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–$135M
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Igloo — As a top insurtech company, Igloo makes insurance easy across Southeast Asia by working with reputable insurers and distribution partners.
  • Mobisol — We transform lives through solar energy access. Our solar home systems and mini-grids benefit millions of people in Sub-Saharan Africa.
  • Cassava Technologies — Cassava Technologies is an innovative technology company encompassing fiber networks, data centers, renewable energy, cloud & cybersecurity.
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Goodwell Investments
VC Fund · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands · 1 investments in Zambia startups

Goodwell Investments is a pioneering investment firm focused on financial inclusion, fintech and inclusive growth in sectors providing

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Banking
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 47
  • Round size: Series A $1.6M–$12M; Series B $2M–$26M
  • Lead/follow: 53% lead, 47% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • OmniRetail — OmniRetail is a consumer goods distribution platform that solves the inefficiencies of traditional trade by digitizing key stakeholders through its products.
  • Hinckley Recycling — Hinckley Recycling is dedicated to the responsibility of being a good steward of the environment and will in all circumstances aspire to constantly emphasize awareness of the natural environment, whilst maintaining a level of proficiency which demonstrates bona fide leadership in all spheres of the environment.
  • Agent Banking Company — Agent Banking Company provides digital technology solutions that enable access to banking services through bank-approved agents.
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Global Partnerships/Eleos Social Venture Fund
VC Fund · Seattle, Washington, United States · 1 investments in Zambia startups

Global Partnerships' Social Venture Fund bridges the pioneer gap in sub-Saharan Africa by providing impact-led funding to early-stage social enterprises.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Logistics, Agriculture, Car Sharing
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Uganda, Zambia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Series A $2.1M–$6.3M; Series B $8.5M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • 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.
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VC funding in Zambia at a glance

Stats across 69 deals from 78 investors.

78
investors
in Zambia startups
69
deals
in Zambia startups
$2.6M
median round
in Zambia startups
50%
lead investors
lead at least one round
25%
Seed
most common funding stage

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