Top 10 Web3 VC Funds in South Africa

Last updated: Aug 2024 A list of 10 VC funds that invest in Web3 startups based in South africa. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Web3 companies from South africa. We update this investor list every month.

Top 10 Web3 VC Funds in South Africa

Investor	Web3 South Africa investments
Newtown Partners	2
Bittrex Global	1
Technology Innovation Agency	1
IBM	1
10x Group	1
Invictus Capital	1
Alphabit Fund	1
ARCH Emerging Markets Partners	1
4Di Capital	1
Montegray Capital	1

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Newtown Partners is a venture capital firm that actively invests in emerging, disruptive technology startups.

Investment focus

Logistics, Health Care, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
South Africa, Ghana, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Chefaa — Chefaa is a GPS-enabled pharmacy benefits platform connecting patients & pharmacies nation-wide to help patients manage all their pharmacy needs. Chefaa uses big data, data ming & machine learning
Waspito — We are the platform that engages Africa into the conversation and action to drive affordable and accessible quality healthcare across the continent.
Complete Farmer — We are providing cutting-edge technological farming protocols and innovations with a unique business model and logistics that are revolutionizing...

Bittrex operates as a digital asset trading platform. Bittrex is the premier U.S.-based digital asset trading platform, providing lightning-fast trade execution, dependable digital wallets and industry-leading security practices.

Investment focus

Bitcoin, FinTech, Ethereum
Series A
South Africa

Portfolio highlights

VALR — Buy and sell bitcoin, ethereum & more | Pay anyone for free with VALR Pay

WELCOME TO TIA Innovating Tomorrow Together TIA is a national public entity that serves as the key institutional intervention to bridge the innovation chasm between research and development from higher education institutions, science councils, public entities, and private sector, and commercialisation. Who we are Indigenous Knowledge-based Technology Innovations TIA is calling for the submission of

Investment focus

Information Technology, Renewable Energy, Health Care
Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed
South Africa

Portfolio highlights

Jobox — Jobox is a student recruitment platform, built to connect employers, students and graduate career offices. Our focus is to improve graduate employability by ensuring all students have the skills they need to enter, stay in, and progress in the world of work.Jobox’s ecosystem provides employers with access to the best diverse & youthfultalent, students with more employment opportunities and universities with data-driven insights aimed at driving graduate employability forward.
Aviro Health — We believe that empowering and supporting people to manage their own health benefits everybody.We built the Aviro Pocket Clinic to support self-care and provide access to services. We give people what they need to perform important health checks like regular HIV self-testing and connect them to experts and services who can offer hands-on and supported care when needed.
Ownedby Technologies — Ownedby is an interactive asset management solution for business and household assets, focused on appliances and devices, giving these unique identity that is traceable online, yet linked to and controlled by owners.

For more than a century, IBM has been a global technology innovator, leading advances in AI, automation and hybrid cloud solutions that help businesses grow.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, FinTech
Funding Round, Grant, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Hugging Face — Hugging Face is an open-source and platform provider of machine learning technologies. Their aim is to democratize good machine learning, one commit at a time. Hugging Face was launched in 2016 and is headquartered in New York City.
Ghost Kitchens — Join the fastest growing restaurant company in the country
The University of Tokyo — Official website of the University of Tokyo. Features an introduction to UTokyo, its research and international activities, admissions and other information.

10x Group is a group of serial entrepreneurs and founders investing in founders of digital start-ups in Europe and Silicon Valley.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Germany, India

Portfolio highlights

enmacc — enmacc is Europe’s fastest growing digital, OTC energy trading platform. Our platform digitalises the end-to-end professional energy trading process. Using enmacc allows participants to gain speed, efficiency and security when trading in energy markets. More than 340 companies, with over 1.600 active traders, are already taking advantage of enmaccand are utilising our continuously growing network of energy suppliers, industrial companies, energy trading houses and municipal utilities for trading in power & gas. All of our clients can benefit from increased market access, additional liquidity and other business development opportunities. enmacc customers can use three different trading screens: entender (sales trading) & entender pro (professional trading) – the world-leading Request-For-Quote (RFQ) technology for energy markets; enmarket – the OTC price screen and marketplace for one-click trading; and engreen – the state-of-the-art trading screen for Guarantees of Origin (GoOs). Complete documentation and audit-proof archiving of all trading activities on the platform take place automatically. The real-time credit check guarantees secure trading and processes for all participants. Complete documentation and audit-proof archiving of all trading activities on the platform take place automatically. The real-time credit check guarantees secure trading and processes for all participants. We do everything we can to make the daily work of energy traders and portfolio managers easier by enabling them to focus on the things that really matter.
finway — finway provides financial guidence to SMEs, plan & control all expenses and budgets in one tool.
Quantum Systems — Our vision is to become the global leader in providing aerial data for decision making by the use of our drones.

Invictus Capital leverages existing public blockchain rails and the hundreds of thousands of onramps and offramps that exist globally to democratize access to investment products in emerging and developed markets. We believe investing should be convenient, transparent and low-cost.

Investment focus

Internet, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
Seed
South Africa

Portfolio highlights

Ovex — OVEX is a cryptocurrency exchange company.

Alphabit Digital Currency Fund.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
United States, United Kingdom, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

ThirdFi — ThirdFi specializes in providing a comprehensive suite of tools and services designed to facilitate the development, trading, investment, and management of decentralized finance (DeFi) applications. With a focus on multi-chain interoperability, ThirdFi offers an API, SDK, and developer tools aimed at enhancing the DeFi ecosystem. The platformsupports liquidity provision and token reward earning through its Earn API, catering to developers looking to build in the Web3 space. ThirdFi's infrastructure is tailored for the evolving needs of web3 finance, enabling seamless integration and operation across various blockchain networks.
Atomiq DeFi — Atomiq DeFi is a decentralized finance (DeFi) product suite built on the Mintlayer protocol.
RECRD — RECRD is a video community, where users engage content with video responses, Creators monetise immediately through ad revenues and advertisers connect with their audience at no risk.

ARCH is a specialist emerging markets investment advisor with deep experience of emerging markets, private equity, asset management and legal and governance matters over many decades.