Top 50 VC Funds & Investors in Zambia (September 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Amano Capital
VC Fund
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9 | Zambia, South Africa, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Logistics, Agriculture | |
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Ground Squirrel Ventures
VC Fund
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6 | United States, Kenya, Zambia | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Finance | $125k–$48M |
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EDFI ElectriFI
VC Fund
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3 | United States, Kenya, France | Debt Financing, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A | Energy, Solar, Renewable Energy | $114k–$30M |
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Enygma Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | South Africa, Zambia, Swaziland | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, Lending, Beauty | $150k–$1M |
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Tiger Global Management
VC Fund
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2 | United States, India, China | Series B, Series A, Series C | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | $9M–$255M |
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Vibe VC
VC Fund
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2 | United States, India, Zambia | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, Finance, Software | $250k–$33M |
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AgDevCo
VC Fund
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2 | Zambia, Kenya, Ethiopia | Debt Financing, Venture - Series Unknown | Farming, Agriculture, AgTech | $15k–$10M |
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Goneke Investment Group
VC Fund
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2 | Zambia | Seed, Private Equity | Energy, Oil and Gas, Project Management | |
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KFW DEG
VC Fund
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2 | India, Kenya, United States | Debt Financing, Grant, Private Equity | Financial Services, Energy, FinTech | $100k–$350M |
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The Todd & Rahul Angel Fund
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Zambia, Nigeria | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence | $500k–$30M |
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Inoks Capital
VC Fund
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2 | Zambia | Series A | Marketplace, Financial Services | $8.3M–$11M |
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Alitheia IDF
VC Fund
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2 | Nigeria, South Africa, Ghana | Venture - Series Unknown, Series A, Seed | E-Commerce, Retail, Logistics | $2.8M–$13M |
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Runa Capital
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Germany, France | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence | $1.2M–$20M |
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Catalytic Africa
VC Fund
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2 | Zambia, Cameroon, Tanzania | Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed | Apps, Online Portals, Financial Services | $22k–$2M |
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Silverbacks Holdings
VC Fund
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2 | Nigeria, United States, Egypt | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A | FinTech, Financial Services, Finance | $100k–$32M |
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ACE & Company
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Switzerland, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Software, Financial Services, FinTech | $687k–$24M |
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Ventures Platform
VC Fund
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2 | Nigeria, United States, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Internet | $100k–$4M |
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UNDP
VC Fund
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2 | South Africa, United States, Egypt | Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed | AgTech, E-Commerce, Agriculture | $7k–$100k |
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Blockchain Founders Fund
VC Fund
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, Singapore | Seed, Pre-Seed | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech | $200k–$6M |
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U.S. International Development Finance Corp
VC Fund
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1 | India, Kenya, United States | Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Venture - Series Unknown | Financial Services, Finance, FinTech | $1M–$1B |
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LoftyInc Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Nigeria, Egypt | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | $100k–$37M |
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TLG Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Nigeria, United Kingdom, Uganda | Debt Financing, Private Equity | Financial Services, Finance, Banking | $4M–$15M |
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Zrosk Investment Management
VC Fund
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1 | Nigeria, United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | FinTech, Financial Services, Finance | $200k–$33M |
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Goodwell Investments
VC Fund
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1 | Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya | Series A, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown | FinTech, Financial Services, Banking | $140k–$26M |
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Torrey Pines Investment
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Russian Federation, The Netherlands | Seed, Pre-Seed | Biotechnology, Health Care, Pharmaceutical | $3M–$3.1M |
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Growth Investment Partners
VC Fund
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1 | Ghana, Zambia | Debt Financing, Private Equity | Mining, Farming, Mineral | |
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Launch Africa
VC Fund
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1 | Nigeria, South Africa, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology | $200k–$4M |
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Twilio
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Egypt, Brazil | Series A, Seed, Series B | Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning | $195k–$40M |
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Inside Capital Partners
VC Fund
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1 | Zambia, Mauritius, Madagascar | Private Equity, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A | Manufacturing, Plastics and Rubber Manufacturing, Hotel | $1.5M–$15M |
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Not Boring Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada, Zambia | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, FinTech, Cryptocurrency | $400k–$32M |
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Earl Grey Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United States, India, Canada | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Information Technology, SaaS, Software | $1M–$14M |
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Global Partnerships/Eleos Social Venture Fund
VC Fund
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1 | Uganda, Zambia, United States | Series A, Series B, Seed | Logistics, Agriculture, Car Sharing | $2.1M–$10M |
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FINCA Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya, Nigeria, United States | Seed, Grant, Series A | Financial Services, Agriculture, AgTech | $40k–$4.2M |
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Tamboti Circle
VC Fund
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1 | Zambia | Pre-Seed | ||
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Zenga Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Zambia | Seed | Apps, Software, Business Information Systems | |
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Jordan Engineering
VC Fund
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1 | Zambia | Seed | Agriculture, Financial Services | |
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Atom CTO
VC Fund
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1 | Zambia | Seed | Apps, Education, E-Learning | |
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bettervest GmbH
VC Fund
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1 | Zambia | Debt Financing | Energy, Information Technology, Social Entrepreneurship | |
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Oikocredit International
VC Fund
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1 | India, Nigeria, Kenya | Debt Financing, Series B | Financial Services, Finance, FinTech | $1.5M–$24M |
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True Capital Management
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Nigeria, Canada | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | FinTech, Financial Services, Software | $125k–$555M |
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54 Collective
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa | Seed, Pre-Seed | Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech | $40k–$2M |
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Acumen
VC Fund
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1 | United States, India, Kenya | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Agriculture, Solar, Financial Services | $300k–$10M |
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Private Infrastructure Development Group
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya, Zambia, Senegal | Grant, Debt Financing, Series C | Energy, Renewable Energy, Solar | $66k–$50M |
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Patrick J. McGovern Foundation
VC Fund
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland | Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed | Non Profit, Education, Health Care | $100k–$750k |
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Norfund
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya, South Africa, Nigeria | Private Equity, Venture - Series Unknown | Financial Services, Energy, Renewable Energy | $7.4M–$125M |
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Finnfund
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya, India, South Africa | Debt Financing, Venture - Series Unknown, Series B | Financial Services, Energy, FinTech | $2.1M–$137M |
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Johnson & Johnson Foundation
VC Fund
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1 | Brazil, United States, Colombia | Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed | Health Care, Medical, Health Diagnostics | $25k–$50k |
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FMO
VC Fund
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1 | India, Kenya, The Netherlands | Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Series B | Financial Services, Finance, Renewable Energy | $5M–$420M |
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Renew Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia | Pre-Seed, Seed | Mobile Apps, Financial Services, Finance | |
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Danish Investment Fund for Developing Countries
VC Fund
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1 | France, Zambia, Myanmar | Venture - Series Unknown, Private Equity | Energy, Renewable Energy, Water | $5M–$16M |
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An advisory-brokerage firm that bridges the gap between opportunity and capital in the SME market in Zambia.
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- Industry: Software, Logistics, Agriculture
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Zambia, South Africa, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
Portfolio highlights
- EduPay — Edupay provides affordable education loans with flexible repayment, ensuring uninterrupted learning.
- Explorer School — Explorer School is an online primary and secondary school that offers educational programs.
- Likota Furniture — Proudly Zambian business specialized in handcrafted, sustainable furniture.
Seed round investment in frontier markets and clean energy
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
- Geography: United States, Kenya, Zambia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 71
- Round size: Seed $400k–$3M; Series A $1.8M–$5M; Venture - Series Unknown $125k–$48M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Grapevine — Grapevine makes it possible for groups to invite members, collect and distribute donations, establish a community and connect with nonprofits.
- Untapped Global — Untapped connects global investors, and foreign capital to opportunities in emerging markets. Delivering competitive returns, and measurable impact for global investors.
- Necessary Ventures — We invest in what the world needs.
Impact investment in sustainable energy
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- Industry: Energy, Solar, Renewable Energy
- Stage:Debt Financing, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
- Geography: United States, Kenya, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 68
- Round size: Series A $2.2M–$30M; Debt Financing $114k–$10M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.6M–$16M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
Portfolio highlights
- BURN — Experience clean, safe, and affordable cooking with BURN's innovative cookstoves. Impact lives, reduce emissions, and enjoy delicious meals. Shop now!
- GOGO Electric — Bodawerk is an innovations and engineering company. Our products are created to serve the needs of people at the bottom of the pyramid.
- MyJouleBox — MyJouleBox offers a solution for solar professionals in Africa to offer leased solar installations to their customers.
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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- Industry: Financial Services, Lending, Beauty
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed
- Geography: South Africa, Zambia, Swaziland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Round size: Seed $150k–$1M; Venture - Series Unknown $230k–$457k
- Lead/follow: 86% lead, 14% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Pranary — The practical business school for entrepreneurs
- The Good Mineral — The Good Mineral is award-winning, vegan makeup designed for acne prone, sensitive skin - enjoy natural glowing lightweight coverage - free from preservatives, fragrance, talc, oils, waxes and dyes.
- PremierCredit Zambia — PremierCredit is an international financial technology company that operates an online microlending and investment platform in Sub-Saharan Africa's emerging markets. The Financial Services Commission (FSC) has licensed and regulated the company, allowing them to provide inclusive financial services throughout Africa.
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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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
- Geography: United States, India, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1348
- Round size: Series A $9M–$50M; Series B $20M–$125M; Series C $30M–$255M
- Lead/follow: 58% lead, 42% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Kavak — KAVAK is an innovative company in the automotive industry that helps people acquire their own car, offering a wide range of guaranteed and certified cars.
- StrongDM — Manage access to any server, database, or Kubernetes instance in minutes. Fully auditable, replayable, secure, and drag-and-drop easy.
- OfBusiness — OFB Tech (OfBusiness) is a tech-enabled platform that facilitates raw material procurement and credit for SMEs with a focus on the manufacturing and infrastructure sectors. It integrates technology to SME's buying behavior to make available better products, at better prices, in better timelines to customers with comprehensive online andoffline support. Key raw materials include metals, chemicals, polymers, Agri commodities, petrochemicals, and building materials. OfBusiness provides SMEs access to cash flow-based financing for buying raw materials through its NBFC 'Oxyzo Financial Services'. The Company also offers a host of tech services for SMEs including BidAssist for new growth opportunities.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Finance, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, India, Zambia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Seed $3M–$12M; Pre-Seed $250k–$4.5M; Series A $8M–$33M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $7.8M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Carry — Ocho is everything you need to build wealth as a business owner.
- Qene Games — Qene Games is an award-winning software development firm operating from Addis Abeba, Ethiopia. Founded in 2017, the company has been focused on developing and publishing video games while providing game development outsourcing, game art outsourcing, and other software development services.
- Hone Health — Hone Health is a telehealth clinic that helps people improve healthspan through advanced biomarker testing, clinician-guided care, and personalized protocols.
AgDevCo is a social impact investor and agribusiness project developer, incorporated as a non-for-profit distribution, limited companyin.
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- Industry: Farming, Agriculture, AgTech
- Stage:Debt Financing, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Zambia, Kenya, Ethiopia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 19
- Round size: Debt Financing $15k–$10M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.1M–$3M
- Lead/follow: 84% lead, 16% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Victory Farms — Victory Farms is an aquaculture farm for tilapia fish comprising of hatcheries, nursery ponds and deep-water cages for farming.
- Planting Naturals — Planting Naturals is a group of companies focused to the long-term production of organic products. Planting Naturals was founded by Kevin Godlington.
- Hybrid Poultry Farm — Welcome to our Hybrid Poultry Farm. We breed high quality, robust and pre-vaccinated day old chicks making us Zambia's number one chick supplier. Talk to us.
Pioneering a century-long initiative to finance, build, and secure the critical industries that define national strength.
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- Industry: Energy, Oil and Gas, Project Management
- Stage:Seed, Private Equity
- Geography: Zambia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Saharan Oil & Gas Company — Saharan Oil & Gas Company Limited (formerly Hume Energy) is a conglomerate of project managers that provide energy solutions in Sub-Saharan Africa. Through our global network of partners we develop and apply Next Generation Technologies to help safely and responsibly address Africa’s growing energy deficit. Energy access influences comfort,safety, security, and human progress, touching every aspect of our lives. SOGCOL aims to evolve from a regional marketer to an advanced energy innovator and a global energy solutions provider. We aspire to be an industry leader in all aspects of energy production, transportation, distribution, and marketing. Our operations encompass identifying energy projects and facilitation of financing from research and development to promotion, marketing, and execution.
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, Private Equity
- Geography: India, Kenya, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 126
- Round size: Grant $100k–$1.1M; Debt Financing $15M–$350M; Private Equity $10M–$274M
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Fibra Nova — Fibra Nova is a real estate investment trust that specializes in the acquisition, management, and development of properties for leasing.
- Combio Energia — ComBio Energia Provide energy generation solutions with renewable sources, creating, growing, and long-term economic value. They develop projects for steam generation and cogeneration of electricity with biomass, which promote environmental improvements and significant cost reductions for customers in the industrial segment. They offer, based on adetailed analysis of the needs of each customer, a dedicated energy solution, adapted to their consumption profile.
- MSU Green Energy — MSU Green Energy is a solar investment company that develops renewable energy and solar projects.
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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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Zambia, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 19
- Round size: Seed $3M–$30M; Pre-Seed $500k–$3.8M; Series A $6M–$21M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $29M in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Vulture Labs — Transforming your existing CCTV into your Most Powerful Operational Tool.
- 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.
- Pilot Protocol — Network OS for AI Agents
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- Industry: Marketplace, Financial Services
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Zambia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Series A $8.3M–$11M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Lupiya — Lupiya is a financial technology company that provides digital lending services designed to help individuals and small businesses access short-term credit and installment financing. The platform offers mobile-accessible loans that can be used for expenses such as personal needs, business cash flow, or emergency payments, using an online applicationprocess that evaluates creditworthiness through alternative data and behavioral indicators. Lupiya’s services include flexible repayment schedules, automated disbursement, and electronic account management so users can monitor balances and repayment activity within the app or web interface. The company also offers tools for budgeting and payment reminders to support borrowers in managing their credit obligations. Through integrations with local payment networks and banking partners, Lupiya facilitates secure fund transfers and compliance with financial regulations. Its lending infrastructure is tailored to expand access to credit for underserved populations and small enterprises that may have limited access to traditional banking services.
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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- Industry: E-Commerce, Retail, Logistics
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Series A, Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, South Africa, Ghana
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Seed $2.8M–$13M; Series A $3M–$11M; Venture - Series Unknown $4.5M–$5M
- Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $100M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Lupiya — Lupiya is a financial technology company that provides digital lending services designed to help individuals and small businesses access short-term credit and installment financing. The platform offers mobile-accessible loans that can be used for expenses such as personal needs, business cash flow, or emergency payments, using an online applicationprocess that evaluates creditworthiness through alternative data and behavioral indicators. Lupiya’s services include flexible repayment schedules, automated disbursement, and electronic account management so users can monitor balances and repayment activity within the app or web interface. The company also offers tools for budgeting and payment reminders to support borrowers in managing their credit obligations. Through integrations with local payment networks and banking partners, Lupiya facilitates secure fund transfers and compliance with financial regulations. Its lending infrastructure is tailored to expand access to credit for underserved populations and small enterprises that may have limited access to traditional banking services.
- Seamfix — Seamfix’s end-to-end electronic ID and credentials software solutions address the lack of digital ID systems for 30+ African countries and over 250M individuals, providing access to credit, banking, and other essential services for large parts of populations.
- Alma Clinics — ALMA CLINICS Primary Healthcare with Advanced Blockchain, AI technology. BEST Clinic providing affordable healthcare, Soweto, Johannesburg, South Africa.
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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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, Germany, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 159
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$10M; Series A $1.5M–$15M; Series B $2.5M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $69M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Enlightra — Extreme-bandwidth data transmission enabled by light
- Axiom Trust — Axiom Trust is an AI-powered trust startup that modernises professional trust administration during the "Great Wealth Transfer" of over $100 trillion in assets.
- Lace Lithography — Lace is building the patterning technology that will power the next 100 years of semiconductor manufacturing.
Co-matching fund platform supporting startups and angel networks across Africa.
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- Industry: Apps, Online Portals, Financial Services
- Stage:Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Zambia, Cameroon, Tanzania
Investor stats
- Total investments: 22
- Round size: Seed $65k–$2M; Angel $22k–$90k; Pre-Seed $60k–$1.5M
- Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Figorr — Figorr is your go-to, for accessing reliable information on temperature, humidity, and location. Experience the next generation of data-driven insights with Figorr today.
- Sumet Technologies — Sumet is a transforming the distribution of essential goods across the african continent.
- TileGreen — TileGreen transforms plastic waste into eco-friendly circular building materials. Our innovative technology creates sustainable solutions for construction industry.
Silverbacks Holdings is a Mauritius-based private investment firm established in 2019, focusing on Africa-related companies in underserved industries such As technology, sports, entertainment, and the creative economy. The firm aims for returns averaging 2x to 5x on its investments and has achieved 9 profitable exits since its inception. Its portfolio includes over 240 companies across Africa, collectively valued at over $10 billion. Landmark investments include the Cape Town Tigers (2024 BAL semi-finalists), Forever7 Entertainment (Netflix content deals), and Moove (a global mobility fintech backed by Uber), and Wave (a mobile money and global remittance focused fintech backed by Stripe).
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 65
- Round size: Seed $200k–$8.3M; Series A $1.4M–$32M; Venture - Series Unknown $100k–$26M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Vanhu Vamwe — Vanhu Vamwe is a luxury accessory brand that creates handcrafted, sustainable handbags using traditional African crafts and eco-friendly materials.
- The Rad Black Kids — The Rad Black Kids is a lifestyle and apparel company that specializes in fashion. The company’s main business includes selling clothing items such as hoodies, caps, t-shirts, and etc. It also offers a range of skate boards and vintage guitars. The Rad Black Kids was founded by Thulani Ngazimbi.
- African Warriors Fighting Championship — African Warriors Fighting Championship is Africa's leading promoter of traditional combat sports: Dambe and Wrestling.
ACE & Company is a Geneva-based private equity and venture capital firm with more than $2.0 billion in assets under management and over 20 years of experience.
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Switzerland, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 190
- Round size: Seed $687k–$6.4M; Series A $3.4M–$24M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $143M in 2026
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.
- DiPonio Contracting — DiPonio Contracting is an infrastructure maintenance and construction company. It offers new and replacement upgrades for aged and existing water, wastewater, and storm sewer systems.
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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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 171
- Round size: Seed $100k–$4M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $84M in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Myka.Insure — Myka is a insurance sales platform that enables individuals to sell insurance policies to their family, friends, colleagues, and community while earning income . It operates as a micro-entrepreneurship program where anyone (students, gadget sellers, car dealers, parents, retirees) can start their own insurance business with zero investment,flexible hours, and free training . The company is licensed by the National Insurance Commission of Nigeria and provides instant payouts to its partners .
- Cybervergent — Cybervergent is a technology company that specializes in providing top-notch cybersecurity solutions to businesses and organizations.
- Traction Apps — Traction apps provide businesses end to end tools they need to run and grow their businesses.
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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- Industry: AgTech, E-Commerce, Agriculture
- Stage:Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: South Africa, United States, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 17
- Round size: Grant $25k–$100k; Pre-Seed $7k–$40k
- Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Amanleek — Amanleek, aims to simplify insurance services and make it more accessible for a wider base of individual and business customers through leveraging transparency, trust and innovation to deliver an enhanced experience for all parties involved through tech based solutions.
- 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.
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We Focus Exclusively On Adding Value To Blockchain & Emerging Technology Projects With Real World Applications.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 267
- Round size: Seed $500k–$6M; Pre-Seed $200k–$2.5M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $75M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Rilla — Demonstrating 90% reduction in cost-to-serve for live-streaming, Rilla is rewiring the content economy, directing the value generated back to creators and their communities.By leveraging audience bandwidth and rewarding them with ownership in the network, the savings are equivalent to a free month subscription every year for a moderate level ofviewership.Founded by the technical founders behind Altered State Machine, acquired for 214m. Together for 5+ ventures, collectively raising 130m+ and valued at 1b+.
- Osmo — Osmo is a payment company that helps people to send and receive money immediately.
- Uniblock — Uniblock helps connect developers with Web3 using our APIs and services. Our developers use Uniblock because of how easy it is to integrate into exciting applications. Try it for free today!
U.S. International Development Finance Corp is America’s development bank.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
- Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: India, Kenya, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 129
- Round size: Post-IPO Debt $5M–$468M; Debt Financing $6.7M–$390M; Venture - Series Unknown $1M–$1B
- Lead/follow: 77% lead, 23% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $300M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Kodak — A global technology company providing industry-leading products and services for commercial print, packaging, publishing, manufacturing and entertainment.
- Bayport Management — Bayport Management Limited, through its subsidiaries, provides retail financial services in the Republic of Mauritius and internationally.
- Harena Rare Earths — Harena Rare Earths is a mineral exploration company. It focuses on the Ampasindava Ionic Clay Rare Earths Project in Madagascar, which contains 606,000 tonnes of Total Rare Earth Oxides (TREO). The company explores and develops critical magnet metals like neodymium, praseodymium, dysprosium, and terbium for use in clean energy, electronics, anddefense sectors.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 187
- Round size: Seed $100k–$5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2.4M; Series A $250k–$37M
- Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $43M in 2025
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- Cauridor — Cauridor is a Financial Services company.
- WafR — WafR is a reward-based loyalty startup that allows users to earn phone recharges while shopping at retail shops.
- Nucleon Security — Zero-Trust and ML-based Endpoint Detection and Response Platform #EDR #FDR #EndpointSecurity
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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- Industry: Financial Services, Finance, Banking
- Stage:Debt Financing, Private Equity
- Geography: Nigeria, United Kingdom, Uganda
Investor stats
- Total investments: 29
- Round size: Debt Financing $4M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 83% lead, 17% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $25M 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 Capital is a leading provider of SME finance in Zambia, offering flexible loans and hands-on business support to empower businesses to grow and succeed.
Alternative investment solutions: private credit, discretionary portfolios, and the Magna Specialized Fund.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Nigeria, United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 30
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$5M; Pre-Seed $200k–$2.5M; Series A $7M–$33M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% 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.
Goodwell Investments is a pioneering investment firm focused on financial inclusion, fintech and inclusive growth in sectors providing
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Banking
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 51
- Round size: Series A $1.5M–$12M; Series B $2M–$26M; Venture - Series Unknown $140k–$1.8M
- Lead/follow: 57% lead, 43% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $59M in 2026
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.
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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- 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.
- MAIR PHARMACEUTICALS — Mair Pharmaceutical creates innovative processes and produces well-known unique substances for pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical firms worldwide.
Welcome to Growth Investment Partners - A custom built investment model that meets the needs of the growing entrepreneur.
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- Industry: Mining, Farming, Mineral
- Stage:Debt Financing, Private Equity
- Geography: Ghana, Zambia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Springs & Bolts — SBLC manufactures U – Bolts, Leaf Springs, Trailer Suspensions & exports to the West Africa n Sub-Region and also sells on the Ghana market.
- Boxpack Zambia — Boxpack Zambia specialists in manufacturing Corrugated boxes.
- Altus Financial Services — Altus Financial Services operates as a non-bank microfinance institution focused on providing short- to medium-term financing solutions to underserved segments. Its core business model utilizes customized credit evaluation structures, such as a payroll-deduction system, to disperse capital to public sector workers, small business owners, andmicro-entrepreneurs. The value proposition centers on expanding financial inclusion by delivering rapid loan approvals and flexible terms that accommodate clients who do not fit traditional bank appraisal checklists. This structured underwriting enables capital allocation across diverse sectors including farming, retail, construction, and manufacturing.
Launch Africa is a leading Pan-African VC fund solving the significant funding gap in the Seed and pre-Series A investment landscape in Africa
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Nigeria, South Africa, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 217
- Round size: Seed $200k–$4M; Pre-Seed $200k–$1.8M; Venture - Series Unknown $200k–$500k
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $36M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Zazu — Zazu is a neobank for African SMEs, offering seamless banking tools, cash flow automation, and real-time insights. Zazu simplifies finance management in one all-in-one solution.
- Fincart — Fincart is a leading shipping platform in Egypt, connecting your business with top courier services, automating operations, and helping you scale your eCommerce logistics.
- Udu Technologies — Udu Technologies is an AI infrastructure company that offers GPU systems, AI platform integration, and technical support services.
Build amazing customer experiences on the Twilio platform with APIs for SMS, RCS, voice, and email, plus conversational AI for smarter engagement, and identity verification for trust.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, Egypt, Brazil
Investor stats
- Total investments: 38
- Round size: Seed $195k–$1.7M; Series A $8M–$24M; Series B $7.6M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $50M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Coval — Simulation and evaluation for AI agents (chat & voice agents)
- 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.
- Rime — AI voice models built for real-time conversations. 600+ voices, 50+ languages, sub-100ms latency. Trusted by global enterprise.
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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- Industry: Manufacturing, Plastics and Rubber Manufacturing, Hotel
- Stage:Private Equity, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
- Geography: Zambia, Mauritius, Madagascar
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Private Equity $3.1M–$7.5M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.5M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2017
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- Drive Health — Reduce administrative burden and support your care team. Avery is a clinical workflow automation engine that handles routine tasks like patient outreach and message triage under strict clinician oversight, returning time to the bedside.
- 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.
Behind-the-Scenes of Raising a Fund to Invest in Companies with Stories to Tell
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Cryptocurrency
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Canada, Zambia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 39
- 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
- Convoke — The AI-native operating system for drug development
- Daylight — Anode Labs is leveraging web3 infrastructure to build the world's largest virtual power plant.
- Somos Internet — Somos Internet is a network and telecommunications startup that provides latest generation internet with a fast, secure, stable connection. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia.
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Browse database — It's Free!Earl Grey Capital is a investment firm.
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- Industry: Information Technology, SaaS, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, India, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 20
- Round size: Seed $2.2M–$13M; Pre-Seed $1M–$5M; Series A $12M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $10M in 2022
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- CrewAI — A cutting-edge framework for orchestrating role-playing, autonomous AI agents that work together seamlessly to tackle complex tasks.
- Dreambase — AI-Native Analytics for @Supabase
- The Clearing Company — A new kind of prediction market.
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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- Industry: Logistics, Agriculture, Car Sharing
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: Uganda, Zambia, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Series A $2.1M–$6.3M; Series B $8.5M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- 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.
- YYTZ Agro-Processing — YYTZ Agro-Processing specializes in sourcing and processing cashew nuts.
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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- Industry: Financial Services, Agriculture, AgTech
- Stage:Seed, Grant, Series A
- Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 32
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$4M; Grant $40k–$100k; Series A $1.1M–$4.2M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% 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 — Offering innovative fruit preservation products! For the grower, the packer, and the retailer.
- Affinity — Join over 145,000 who trust the Affinity to manage their personal and business banking needs, from payments to savings, as well as loans
Tamboti Circle is an investment firm.
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- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Zambia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Duniya Healthcare — Duniya Healthcare helps retail pharmacies to source their medicines from wholesalers.
Zenga Ventures is an investing firm for startups.
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- Industry: Apps, Software, Business Information Systems
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Zambia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Industry: Agriculture, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Zambia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- 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.
Atom CTO specializes in providing expert Chief Technology Officer (CTO) guidance, software development, and technology due diligence services. The company focuses on empowering ideas and driving success for founders, businesses, and investors. Atom CTO offers a range of services aimed at non-technical founders and companies in need of technicalleadership and software development expertise. Through its podcast, Atom CTO shares insights, challenges, and triumphs of tech pioneers, aiming to spark innovation and support budding entrepreneurs. The company also engages in partnerships to blend technology expertise with industry-specific needs, such as the integration of blockchain and FinTech solutions.
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- Industry: Apps, Education, E-Learning
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Zambia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
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- Koloso — Koloso is a digital assessment app that gives teachers the real-time, reliable, individual learning insights they need to get the best out of every child.
bettervest is a crowdinvesting platform that enables people to jointly invest individual sums of money – from as little as 50€ onward – in renewable energy, energy and resource efficiency projects initiated by established enterprises, NGOs and local municipalities. In return, investors benefit financially from the resulting cost and energy savings.The bettervest platform has thus opened up the energy efficiency market to private investors. With these targeted investments ecologically and economically viable energy efficiency measures are able to be implemented, leading to cost, energy and CO2 reductions.
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- Industry: Energy, Information Technology, Social Entrepreneurship
- Stage:Debt Financing
- Geography: Zambia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Emerging Cooking Solutions — Emerging Cooking Solutions manufactures and distributes SupaMoto® clean-burning stoves and biomass cooking fuel for low-income urban families in Zambia, improving air conditions and reducing the need for fossil fuels.Emerging Cooking Solutions seeks to serve the 850,000 low-income urban households in Zambia that are in need of a cheaperalternative to charcoal for their cooking needs as well as the 150,000 higher-income households that are in need of a higher-performing alternative to charcoal that is more reliable during power cuts.Emerging Cooking Solutions manufactures and distributes SupaMoto® stoves and densifies waste biomass into fuel pellets, which together create an improved cooking solution that is a cheaper and healthier alternative than charcoal and other fossil fuels. Use of the stove and fuel reduces the incidence of diseases caused by indoor air pollution and strengthens local economics through the use of sustainable fuels.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
- Stage:Debt Financing, Series B
- Geography: India, Nigeria, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 63
- Round size: Series B $3.5M–$24M; Debt Financing $1.5M–$18M
- Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Djamo — Djamo is a Provider of financial applications to allow customers to use their cards with zero fees in a wide range of services.
- Prestamype — Prestamype was launched in 2017 with the aim of providing a broader access to funding to micro and small businesses, with better credit conditions. With its first product, a secured working capital loan with a real estate collateral, it has lent over USD 24 million to 750 Peruvian entrepreneurs (as of 1st of October 2021). In 2019, Prestamypelaunched its online FX platform called Cambio Seguro. In 2020, the company launched its digital factoring product. In 2021, INCA Ventures and Angel Ventures Peru (AVP), two leading funds in Peru, invested in the company.
- Sindhuja Microcredit — Sindhuja Microcredit is a new generation digital and rural-focused Micro Finance Institution (MFI) providing financial services to the bottom of the pyramid self-employed women entrepreneurs.
Achieve your financial goals & build generational wealth with our entertainer & athlete wealth management services. Offering comprehensive financial planning.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 168
- Round size: Seed $949k–$5M; Pre-Seed $125k–$725k; Series A $5.3M–$555M
- Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $672k in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- StackAI — Stack AI supercharges businesses. Deploy AI-powered applications in minutes, automate processes, and skyrocket productivity by connecting LLMs to data sources using Stack AI's no-code platform. Export your work with user-centric interfaces (chatbots and forms) and developer-friendly APIs.
- 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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Browse database — It's Free!Building and scaling African tech startups with catalytic capital, value-add support and our global network.
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- Industry: Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 112
- Round size: Seed $40k–$2M; Pre-Seed $40k–$1.3M
- Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
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- Yeah — Yeah is a financial technology company that offers payment processing services while building a credit profile for the banked and unbanked.
- 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.
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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- Industry: Agriculture, Solar, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United States, India, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 201
- Round size: Seed $300k–$2.5M; Venture - Series Unknown $1000k–$10M
- Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $123M in 2025
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- Bintix — Bintix averts landfill waste ... one household at a time.
- My Ecohome — Ecohome develops ecological bioproducts for home and garden use, focusing on environmental protection and sustainable living solutions.
- Global Easy Water Products — Global Easy Water Products (GEWP) distributes low-cost irrigation technology that raises the income of smallholder famers by an average of 400 USD a year, increases crop yields by 30 to 70 percent, and delivers water savings of 30 to 50 percent. And now, through an innovative technology transfer, GEWP’s products are also being used by small-scalefarmers in Pakistan.
Private Infrastructure Development Group is an infrastructure development firm that offers finance and funds for economic growth.
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- Industry: Energy, Renewable Energy, Solar
- Stage:Grant, Debt Financing, Series C
- Geography: Kenya, Zambia, Senegal
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Grant $66k–$17M; Series C $50M–$50M; Debt Financing $2.5M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow
Portfolio highlights
- SupaMoto — Supamoto is a social enterprise that aims to provide clean energy solutions. The company's main product is the Supamoto cookstove, a pellet gasifier stove designed for field testing in multiple African locations. This stove is part of the company's commitment to renewable home energy. Supamoto also offers opportunities for individuals toinvest in Zambia's renewable energy sector, further promoting the use of clean energy. The company has a significant impact on the renewable energy industry, as evidenced by its various campaigns and initiatives.
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- Sanivation — Delivering fecal sludge treatment plants and sanitation services to secondary cities and #refugeecamps in #Kenya. #socent #waste2fuel
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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- Industry: Non Profit, Education, Health Care
- Stage:Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 210
- Round size: Grant $100k–$750k
- Lead/follow: 89% lead, 11% follow
Portfolio highlights
- AI4ALL — AI4ALL opens doors to artificial intelligence for historically excluded talent through education and mentorship.
- AImpower.org — AImpower.org is a non-profit organization that enhances the ability of automatic speech recognition models to recognize stuttering speech.
- STEMarts Labs — STEMarts Labs creates interactive experiences that empower youth and communities via the intersection of art, science, and technology.
Norwegian investment fund for developing countries
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- Industry: Financial Services, Energy, Renewable Energy
- Stage:Private Equity, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Kenya, South Africa, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 105
- Round size: Private Equity $7.4M–$125M; Venture - Series Unknown $8M–$70M
- Lead/follow: 63% lead, 37% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2009
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- Erco Energía — We build Solar PV, EV infrastructure and Electric Energy Storage systems. Erco was founded in 2012 and is based in Medellín,Colombia with offices in Cali and Bogotá.
- CrossBoundary — CrossBoundary Energy's energy solutions help decarbonize enterprise by providing cleaner, cheaper, and more reliable power.
- mopo — Mobile Power's innovative pay-per-use battery sharing network unlocks clean energy for households, businesses and electric transport in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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, Venture - Series Unknown, Series B
- Geography: Kenya, India, South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 73
- Round size: Series B $5M–$41M; Debt Financing $4M–$137M; Venture - Series Unknown $2.1M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 51% lead, 49% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $93M in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Bank Respublika — Bank Respublika builds its relations with customers on the principle of maximum benefit to them. It is to constantly improve the quality of customer service, expand services and improve conditions. It cooperates with various international and foreign financial institutions, and one of the main directions of this cooperation is the implementationof various programs for business lending and trade finance.
- Transvolt Mobility — Transvolt Mobility is an early-stage, technology-driven EV fleet operator, enabling India’s transition to sustainable, zero-emission transport by providing a scalable, multi-partner platform for commercial electric mobility across urban and industrial segments.
- ETG — ETG, established in 1967, is one of the largest and fastest growing integrated agricultural conglomerates in sub-Saharan Africa, importing and exporting soft commodities to and from 48 countries including Tanzania, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria and South Africa. It also has supply chain operations in China, India, America, Middle East, andSouth East Asia; merchandising desks in Europe, and; treasury companies in Singapore, Mauritius and UAE. Globally, ETG is present across 48 countries. ETG runs its business under five business verticals: 1. Fertilizer and Farm Inputs: ETG is one of the largest importers and distributors of fertilizers and farm inputs in sub-saharan africa 2. Cash traded products: Pulses, Sesame seed, Cashew and Rice are key commodities in this vertical. ETG is the world largest trader and processor of Pulses as well as world largest trader for raw cashew nuts. 3. Exchange traded commodities: Grains & oilseeds, sugar, coffee, cocoa, maize and soybean are key products in this segment. ETG is one of the major players for maize and soybean in sub-shara africa 4. Consumer Branded (Vamara): ETG operates multiple processing plants across 14 countries to manufacture products that are targeted to African consumers. ETG has 22 brands in its portfolio that offers products from vegetable cooking oil, condiments, and spreads, etc. 5. Logistics: ETG operates a very successful and integrated Logistics platform. ETG has a network of more than 400+ warehouses across 32 countries and a fleet of more than 900 trucks. ETG provided end-to-end Logistics services across sub-Sahara Africa.
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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- Industry: Health Care, Medical, Health Diagnostics
- Stage:Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Brazil, United States, Colombia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 18
- Round size: Grant $25k–$50k
- Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% 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.
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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- Industry: Financial Services, Finance, Renewable Energy
- Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Series B
- Geography: India, Kenya, The Netherlands
Investor stats
- Total investments: 201
- Round size: Series B $5.3M–$46M; Post-IPO Debt $30M–$420M; Debt Financing $5M–$195M
- Lead/follow: 55% lead, 45% 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 — We provide customised rooftop solar PV solutions to corporate, industrial customers in Namibia & SA through its proprietary zero-capital financing model.
- Coris Holding — Coris Holding is a financial institution that was established with the motive to provide support to SMEs and SMIs.
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.
- Level Africa — Digital Investment Marketplace for Africa
Danish Investment Fund for Developing Countries
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- Industry: Energy, Renewable Energy, Water
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Private Equity
- Geography: France, Zambia, Myanmar
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Venture - Series Unknown $5M–$16M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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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