Top 50 Wellness Startup Investors in Africa (October 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Women Entrepreneurship for Africa
VC Fund
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5 | Nigeria, Uganda, Cameroon | Pre-Seed, Grant | Health Care, Agriculture, Food and Beverage | |
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54 Collective
VC Fund
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3 | Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa | Seed, Pre-Seed | Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech | $40k–$2M |
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U.S. International Development Finance Corp
VC Fund
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2 | India, Kenya, United States | Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Venture - Series Unknown | Financial Services, Finance, FinTech | $1M–$1B |
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Antler
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Singapore, Australia | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $100k–$29M |
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Hesham Zreik
Angel
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2 | United States, India, Nigeria | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce | $10k–$5M |
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F6 Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Tunisia, France, United Arab Emirates | Pre-Seed, Seed | E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology | $62k–$174k |
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Proparco
VC Fund
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2 | Kenya, India, Nigeria | Debt Financing, Private Equity, Venture - Series Unknown | Financial Services, Energy, Finance | $400k–$206M |
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Vumela Fund
VC Fund
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2 | South Africa, Brazil | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Debt Financing | Education, Hospital, Software | $500k–$1.7M |
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Bathurst Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Rwanda | Pre-Seed | Wellness, Insurance, Health Care | |
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AMV Private
VC Fund
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1 | Poland, South Africa, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Health Care, Continuing Education | $578k–$1.7M |
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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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The IFSP Group
VC Fund
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1 | Seed | |||
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Bashar Hamood
Angel
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1 | United States, India, Nigeria | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce | $6k–$5M |
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Agence Française de Développement
VC Fund
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1 | India, Kenya, Brazil | Grant, Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt | Banking, Finance, Waste Management | $13k–$351M |
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RippleWorks
VC Fund
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1 | Ghana, Kenya, South Africa | Debt Financing, Corporate Round | Mobile, FinTech, Fitness | $1.7M–$6.5M |
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Norrsken Foundation
VC Fund
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1 | Nigeria, United States, Rwanda | Pre-Seed, Seed, Grant | Financial Services, FinTech, Health Care | $100k–$4M |
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Pfizer
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Israel, France | Series A, Post-IPO Equity, Seed | Biotechnology, Health Care, Pharmaceutical | $800k–$320M |
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Nour Nouf Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Saudi Arabia, United States, Egypt | Seed, Series A | Information Technology, Financial Services, Health Care | $300k–$25M |
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Africa Health Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Nigeria | Seed, Pre-Seed | Health Care, Speech Recognition, Electronic Health Record (EHR) | $1.5M–$5.2M |
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WZ Capital
VC Fund
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1 | South Africa | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed | Medical, Health Care, Information Technology | |
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Blue Leaf Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Kenya, Ireland | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Artificial Intelligence, Health Care, FinTech | $1.1M–$23M |
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Eight Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada, United Kingdom | Pre-Seed, Seed, Post-IPO Equity | Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology | $500k–$85M |
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UNICEF Innovation Fund
VC Fund
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1 | India, Kenya, Argentina | Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain | $14k–$101k |
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Acacia Venture Capital Partners
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Mexico, Colombia | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B | Software, FinTech, E-Commerce | $125k–$8.2M |
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Tofino Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Nigeria, Egypt | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | $100k–$131M |
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AAIC Investment
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya, Egypt, Nigeria | Series A, Seed, Series B | Health Care, Medical, E-Commerce | $450k–$51M |
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Novastar Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya, Nigeria, United States | Series A, Series B | Agriculture, Health Care, FinTech | $1M–$42M |
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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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4Di Capital
VC Fund
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1 | South Africa, United States, Kenya | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Financial Services, Mobile | $677k–$47M |
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From Here VC
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | FinTech, Marketing, E-Commerce | |
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Enygma Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | South Africa, Zambia, Swaziland | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, Lending, Beauty | $150k–$1M |
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4DX Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Egypt, South Africa, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | FinTech, Financial Services, Logistics | $50k–$40M |
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OnDeck Venture
VC Fund
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1 | Nigeria, United States | Pre-Seed, Seed | Financial Services, Credit, Artificial Intelligence | $100k–$5.5M |
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Jaza Rift Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya | Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed, Seed | Health Care, Health Diagnostics, Information Technology | |
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Click Labs
VC Fund
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1 | India, South Africa | Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed | Health Care, Apps, Mobile | |
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Beyond Capital Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | India, Kenya, Ghana | Series A, Venture - Series Unknown, Series B | Health Care, Wellness, Insurance | $2M–$12M |
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Team Ignite Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada, India | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Artificial Intelligence, Software, SaaS | $300k–$25M |
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Jozi Angels
VC Fund
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1 | South Africa, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Health Care, B2B, Apps | $188k–$1.6M |
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Newtown Partners
VC Fund
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1 | United States, South Africa, Ghana | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Logistics, Software, Health Care | $600k–$30M |
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Gray Matters Capital
VC Fund
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1 | India, United States, Kenya | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Education, E-Learning, Health Care | $50k–$30M |
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27four Investment Managers
VC Fund
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1 | South Africa | Private Equity, Seed, Secondary Market | Health Care, Fitness, Payments | |
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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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i-Cubed Capital
VC Fund
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1 | South Africa | Seed, Pre-Seed, Private Equity | Medical, Health Care, Personal Health | $200k–$569k |
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Full Circle Africa
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya, United States, Mexico | Seed | FinTech, Banking, Wellness | $600k–$4M |
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iKineo
VC Fund
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1 | South Africa, United Kingdom | Venture - Series Unknown, Seed | Marketing, Advertising, Apps | |
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Finnfund
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya, India, Nigeria | Debt Financing, Venture - Series Unknown, Series B | Financial Services, Energy, FinTech | $2.1M–$137M |
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NEXT176
VC Fund
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1 | South Africa, Hong Kong | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | FinTech, Software, Financial Services | $400k–$15M |
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The Steele Foundation For Hope
VC Fund
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1 | Seed | |||
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Halocare
VC Fund
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1 | South Africa | Seed | Wellness, Health Care | |
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SAVANT
VC Fund
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1 | Seed | |||
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Women Entrepreneurship for Africa
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- Industry: Health Care, Agriculture, Food and Beverage
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Grant
- Geography: Nigeria, Uganda, Cameroon
Investor stats
- Total investments: 116
- Lead/follow: 99% lead, 1% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ORIKI — ORIKI is a luxury skin and hair care brand that fuses all-natural ingredients primarily sourced from the continent of Africa with scientific research to create extraordinary products.
- Mukuru Clean Stoves — Mukuru Clean Stoves is a social enterprise The company is engaged in designing, producing and distributing improved, reliable and affordable cook stoves for low income households. The company's stoves are produced using locally sourced recycled waste metal enabling them to reduce production costs and make affordable products in the market.The company distributes its products through networks of local women business owners and microfinance institutions.
- Loom Craft Chocolate — Loom Craft Chocolate is a artisanal cocoa processor with a strong focus on the quality of our products and the sustainability of our processes.
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
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) is America’s development bank. DFC partners with the private sector to finance solutions to the most critical challenges facing the developing world today. We invest in projects that create jobs in emerging markets in sectors including energy, healthcare, critical infrastructure, telecommunications, and financing for small businesses and women entrepreneurs. DFC investments adhere to high standards and respect the environment, human rights, and worker rights.
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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: 133
- Round size: Post-IPO Debt $18M–$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
- DTEK — DTEK Group is a diversified energy holding that includes six businesses and Academy DTEK, our corporate university. DTEK Group is the largest private investor in the energy sector in Ukraine, with over €12 billion in invested capital since 2005, employing 55,000 people.
- WIOCC Group — WIOCC Group serves as a provider of interconnected, carrier-scale digital infrastructure and managed network services, operating exclusively as a wholesaler to hyperscalers, cloud operators, content providers, and telcos.
- Global Atomic Corporation — The Dasa Uranium Project scheduled to begin production in 2026 is the highest-grade uranium project in Africa; the Turkish Zinc JV provides positive cash flow.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Singapore, Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2387
- Round size: Seed $158k–$4.6M; Pre-Seed $100k–$600k; Series A $4.1M–$29M
- Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $7.5M in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- iiba — Iiba is a geospatial platform that specializes in providing location information related to child-rearing.
- Obud — Obud is a wellness reservation systems that is designed for holistic health and lifestyle management purposes. The company's systems offer a comprehensive suite of tools for booking wellness activities, managing schedules, and accessing curated wellness programs, enabling wellness centers to streamline their operations, enhance userengagement, and promote a balanced and healthy lifestyle.
- Plouton AI —
Hesham Zreik is the CEO of FasterCapital. He previously worked at DreamApps as a Project Manager. Hesham attended the University of Westminster.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, India, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1176
- Round size: Seed $20k–$2M; Pre-Seed $10k–$1M; Series A $170k–$5M
- Lead/follow: 53% lead, 47% follow
Portfolio highlights
- EasyBusy — EasyBusy is a contractor-client matching platform designed to address key challenges in the GCC service and construction economy.
- Excel And Impact Agro — Excel And Impact Agro aims to tackle the chronic shortage of vegetable production in Côte d'Ivoire.
- JLC Industry Of Tomato Paste Sarl U — JLC Industry is a Togolese agro-industrial startup dedicated to the production, processing, and commercialization of tomato concentrate.
Flat6Labs is the MENA region’s leading seed and early stage venture capital firm, currently running the most renowned startup programs in the region. Annually, Flat6Labs invests in more than 100 innovative and technology-driven startups enabling thousands of passionate entrepreneurs to achieve their daring ambitions and ultimately becoming theirinstitutional co-founders.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Tunisia, France, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 81
- Round size: Seed $70k–$174k; Pre-Seed $62k–$100k
- Lead/follow: 51% lead, 49% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $10M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Datasphera — Customer service is our #1 priority. Get a premium domain for your website today. Financing available.
- True Delta — True Delta is a data management and processing company. They are document recognition and data reconciliation processes. They offer data extraction from documents using ocr techniques, fast onboarding and data integration,and efficient data reconciliation with intelligent matching tools and less coding .
- Bako Motors SAS — Bako Motors SAS is a motor vehicle manufacturing company that develops solar electric vehicles. manufacturer of electric vehicles with the goal of creating long-term fixes for rural areas' transportation issues with regard to people, cargo, and machinery. The business makes electric cars as well as solutions for clean energy generation andstorage that are infinitely scalable, providing users with inexpensive and environmentally friendly e-mobility.
Proparco is devoted to private sector funding in the sustainable development sector. Proparco participates in the financing and support of companies and financial institutions in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. Its action focuses on the key sectors of development: infrastructures with a focus on renewable energies, agro-industry, financial institutions, health, education ... Its interventions are aimed at strengthening the contribution of private actors the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted by the international community in 2015. Proparco finances companies whose activity contributes to the creation of jobs and decent incomes, the supply of essential goods and services, and the fight against climate change.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Energy, Finance
- Stage:Debt Financing, Private Equity, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Kenya, India, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 142
- Round size: Debt Financing $400k–$206M; Private Equity $10M–$60M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.9M–$72M
- Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow
Portfolio highlights
- BasiGo — BasiGo is an early-stage e-mobility start-up looking to revolutionize the public transportation sector by providing matatu owners with a cost-effective electric alternative to diesel buses.
- Ecoener — Ecoener is a renewable energy company that develops, builds, operates, and maintains electricity generation projects based on clean energy sources. The company works across hydropower, wind, and solar photovoltaic technologies, managing the full lifecycle of energy facilities from early development and engineering to construction and long-termoperation. It also engages in energy commercialization activities that support the sale and distribution of electricity generated from its assets. Ecoener handles project planning, permitting, environmental assessment, and technical design as part of its infrastructure development process. The company operates and expands renewable energy plants across multiple international markets while integrating maintenance and operational management services for its facilities. It also participates in storage-related and hybrid energy projects that combine different renewable technologies to support grid stability and energy supply efficiency.
- CarbonFarm Technology — Decarbonise rice farming, transparently. CarbonFarm harnesses satellites and AI to monitor and certify decarbonisation projects at scale.
Vumela was established in 2009 by FNB Business Banking and Edge Growth. The objective was to create an innovative model for the development of a sustainable and a financially and operationally independent investment business which invests in high growth small, medium and micro size enterprises with good economic and impact returns. Vumela was capitalised in 2010. Within the first four years, we’d invested R90 million into eight high growth SMEs, and created a total of 400 jobs. They launched their second fund in 2015, after a further investment of R100 million from FirstRand and R127 million from the Jobs Fund. Within the first year of launching this second fund, we’ve committed R43 million to five investments that are expected to create over 1800 new jobs. The first fund of its kind in South Africa, Vumela’s main goals are to invest in and develop entrepreneurial companies in order to help alleviate poverty in South Africa by creating jobs, and to generate a return for its beneficiaries: the Shalamuka Foundation and the FirstRand Group.
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- Industry: Education, Hospital, Software
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Debt Financing
- Geography: South Africa, Brazil
Investor stats
- Total investments: 26
- Round size: Seed $600k–$910k; Debt Financing $1.1M–$1.7M; Venture - Series Unknown $500k–$1M
- Lead/follow: 81% lead, 19% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $20M in 2015
Portfolio highlights
- Trade Shield — Trade Shield's aim is to increase access to trade credit facilities for those companies that most need them and will benefit the most from them.
- Breaze Delivery — Optimize your last-mile delivery in SA. Breaze offers same-day delivery, easy Shopify/WooCommerce integration, and live WhatsApp tracking for your brand.
- Iris Fresh Pty Ltd — Iris Fresh exports fresh produce from Southern Africa to international buyers.
Bathurst Capital is an investment firm.
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- Industry: Wellness, Insurance, Health Care
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Rwanda
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Eden Care Medical — Eden Care Medical is a mobile application that provides medical and health insurance as well as financial services.
Investments
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Continuing Education
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Poland, South Africa, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $578k–$1.7M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Strove — Healthier people. Stronger businesses. Your employees are your greatest asset. Taking care of their physical and mental health has never been more important.
- EnviSync — EnviSync is a Large Language Model Operations (LLMops) platform specifically designed to empower global enterprises, particularly in regulated sectors such as finance, healthcare, and legal tech. The platform facilitates the deployment, monitoring, and optimization of LLM applications with high precision. Developed by experts from technology andinstitutional finance, EnviSync addresses critical challenges, including regulatory compliance with standards like GDPR and MiFID II, performance drift detection, and managing inference costs that can impact operational efficiency.
- InfiniNest — InfiniNest is an innovative Adaptive Learning Companion designed to revolutionize education for special children. Leveraging advanced Large Language Models and deep learning, InfiniNest tailors learning materials to each child's unique needs, from dyslexia to autism spectrum disorder. It offers interactive, multimodal content and real-timefeedback, making learning accessible and engaging. InfiniNest also integrates assistive technologies and provides continuous assessment, helping educators and parents track progress and identify areas for support. By fostering collaborative learning and emotional well-being, InfiniNest ensures every child has the tools to succeed and thrive in their educational journey.
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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
For individuals who expect more than off-the-shelf financial advice, iFSP delivers bespoke, specialist solutions through focused firms.
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- Stage:Seed
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- AI Diagnostics — AI Diagnostics is a medical technology company that provides tuberculosis diagnostics.
Bashar Hamood is a Venture Partner at FasterCapital. He previously worked as an Associate Director at Logica. He attended Heriot-Watt University.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, India, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 634
- Round size: Seed $13k–$1.8M; Pre-Seed $6k–$413k; Series A $33k–$5M
- Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
Portfolio highlights
- EcoBites — EcoBites is a subscription service that delivers sustainably sourced and eco-friendly packaged snacks and meals to consumers doorsteps.
- Lawyeree — A platform offering AI legal advice to clients and allowing clients to be connected with the best lawyers.
- ZohoOptimizer AI — ZohoOptimizer AI is a platform designed to enhance Zoho’s suite of business applications by providing AI-driven process automation.
AFD is France’s inclusive public development bank. We commit financing and technical assistance to projects that genuinely improve everyday life, both in developing and emerging countries and in the French overseas provinces.
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- Industry: Banking, Finance, Waste Management
- Stage:Grant, Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt
- Geography: India, Kenya, Brazil
Investor stats
- Total investments: 26
- Round size: Grant $13k–$1M; Post-IPO Debt $80M–$286M; Debt Financing $1.5M–$351M
- Lead/follow: 69% lead, 31% follow
Portfolio highlights
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- Caixa Econômica Federal — A Caixa é uma instituição financeira, sob a forma de empresa pública do governo federal brasileiro.
- Empresas Públicas de Medellín (EPM) — Empresas Públicas de Medellín provides Public utility service company.
RippleWorks pairs the most promising social ventures with Silicon Valley expertise to jointly identify and address immediate and critical scaling challenges. RippleWorks' volunteer program provides a high-skilled opportunity for tech executives and successful entrepreneurs to apply their domains of expertise and drive meaningful impact aroundthe world. RippleWorks is a non-profit that operates with a heightened sense of urgency to drive business results faster, which in turn will accelerate social and economic impact.
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- Industry: Mobile, FinTech, Fitness
- Stage:Debt Financing, Corporate Round
- Geography: Ghana, Kenya, South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Debt Financing $1.7M–$6.5M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Zoona — Zoona is an interoperable payments business that enables the drive of young entrepreneurs and the power of cutting-edge technology to bring a large variety of safe and reliable financial services to underserved communities in Zambia.
- Farmerline — The Farmerline vision is to see an Africa where Agriculture NGO’s are not a functioning force in the market. Farmerline provides paid services that allow farmers to have the information and access they need to employ an entrepreneurial method of farming. Input dealers and traders pay for more efficient communication channels to farmers andfarmers pay for information packages and services. In this vision, more food is produce, more food gets to market, and GDP from cash crop export soars.
- Penda Health — With medical centres throughout Nairobi, Penda provides healthcare you can trust.
Norrsken Foundation is non-profit organization solving problems such as poverty, famine, environmental issues and mental health.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Health Care
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Grant
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Rwanda
Investor stats
- Total investments: 19
- Round size: Seed $100k–$4M; Pre-Seed $125k–$1.1M
- Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
Portfolio highlights
- RYE — RYE is a members-only, low-cost green energy supplier built for businesses with no time to deal with energy suppliers. Always accurate energy or it's free
- Eden Care Medical — Eden Care Medical is a mobile application that provides medical and health insurance as well as financial services.
- ORDA — Process orders, accept payments, connect to logistic providers, engage with your customers + more. We equip you with everything you need to grow your business.
Pfizer provides access to safe and effective and affordable medicines and health care services. They have a portfolio of products and medicines that support wellness and prevention, as well as treatment and cures for diseases across a broad range of therapeutic areas; and they have an industry-leading pipeline of promising new products that havethe potential to challenge some of the most feared diseases of their time, like Alzheimer's disease and cancer.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Pharmaceutical
- Stage:Series A, Post-IPO Equity, Seed
- Geography: United States, Israel, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 58
- Round size: Seed $800k–$11M; Series A $4M–$310M; Post-IPO Equity $10M–$320M
- Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
Portfolio highlights
- CellCentric — CellCentric’s primary programme targets a deubiquitinase (DUB) enzyme which is strongly associated with prostate cancer, a leading cause of mortality among men. The target modulates the androgen receptor pathway and can potentially combat the multiple resistance mechanisms seen with recently approved prostate cancer drugs such Xtandi and Zytiga.The programme also has potential clinical utility in non-small cell lung, breast and colon cancer.
- Promise Bio — Promise Bio develops a virtual AI platform that helps to identify multiple Post-Translational Modifications in proteins from a single blood sample. It helps to cure chronic diseases.
- RNT Health Insights — RNT Health Insights is developing an AI assisted detection tool, that aids endoscopists in the real-time detection of debilitating upper gastrointestinal lesions, including early gastric cancer and associated malignant lesions, having received the US FDA Breakthrough Device Designation for their product.
We inspire to build societies where knowledge empowers every individual to realize their full potential to contribute to the greater good and to be responsible for future generations. Investment in startup business, Community Services, Shared Offices.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Financial Services, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Saudi Arabia, United States, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 31
- Round size: Seed $300k–$8M; Series A $5M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Logexa — We are the first Saudi on-demand warehousing platform that provides different storage options within multiple locations. With Logexa’s services, warehouses can increase their utilization rate. On the other hand, businesses can benefit from flexible, dispersed storage and not worry about scalability issues with their inventory.
- Hala — Hala offers a payment and wallet solution for individuals and point-of-sale (PoS) services that enable merchants to accept credit card payments.
- Squadio — Ibtikar Technologies Co was born in Saudi Arabia in 2010 at the hands of a group of visionaries working with a simple motto; helping business to digitally transform. The few years since our birth have been a joy ride to fill the gap in the Saudi market and contribute to it with scalable and reliable solutions.Ibtikar Technologies is one of themost experienced mobile applications development providers in the region. We believe in delivering credibility, integrity, reliability and good will with the products and solutions we provide to our clients using our enhanced knowledge and amazing work environment.
An emerging markets venture fund investing in high-growth businesses to improve health for the next billion. We back seed founders across Africa.
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- Industry: Health Care, Speech Recognition, Electronic Health Record (EHR)
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$5.2M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Reme-D — WELCOME TO REME-D A better, healthier, tomorrow for everyone. At the core of everything that we do is our dedication to enhancing the quality of care that we provide to patients by providing answers that are both more timely and accurate. Let's Talk ABOUT US Increased accuracy and robustness Affordable diagnosis for everyone Enabling testing
- Intron Health — Intron provides clinical speech recognition for 200+ accents spoken in developing countries starting with Africa, reducing documentation time by 6x so doctors can spend more time with patients
- AI Diagnostics — AI Diagnostics is a medical technology company that provides tuberculosis diagnostics.
WZ Capital is a boutique venture capital firm investing in early-stage tech startups.
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- Industry: Medical, Health Care, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed
- Geography: South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Contro — See a licensed online doctor in South Africa for treatment, advice and prescriptions delivered to your door. Fast, private, doctor-guided care with Zapmed.
- RecoMed — Find the best doctors and dentists. Search by location or by speciality, and find the right doctor for you.
- SigmaX — SigmaX is an e-learning platform that help the students to learn visualize math and learn it a fun way via online application.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Health Care, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United States, Kenya, Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 16
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$5.1M; Series A $6.3M–$23M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Bookelicious — Browse children's books for all ages recommended by teachers & librarians with personalization enabled by AI to match your kid with books they'd be interested in.
- Buzz Solutions — Buzz Solutions provides a software platform powered by Artificial Intelligence, Actionable Insights, and Predictive Analytics for faults and anomaly detection for the power line inspection process for power utilities. The company's platform automates the process of storing and organizing visual data (captured in the field through drones andhelicopters), analyzing for faults using its AI algorithms, mapping the data and providing heat maps as well as predictive insights for when, where and what kind of faults are happening on power line and assets. Using its solutions, power utilities save over 50% of cost and time to analyze data which makes condition-based maintenance efforts easier and time-efficient, thus, preventing wildfires, power outages, and other climate change effects on the physical infrastructure of the grid.
- Leda Health — Our mission is to empower survivors of sexual assault in an effort to end sexual violence.
At Eight Capital, we leverage Y Combinator heritage to support tech startups through innovative funding strategies, deep market insights, and a global network, propelling them to success
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Post-IPO Equity
- Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 130
- Round size: Seed $500k–$5M; Pre-Seed $500k–$1.2M; Post-IPO Equity $5.5M–$85M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Lemma — Surface silent failures, pull context across traces, improve your agent before users churn.
- TesterArmy — TesterArmy provides an AI-powered QA testing platform for websites and mobile applications. The product uses agent-based testing to launch real browsers, navigate interfaces like a user, and evaluate results based on test instructions written in plain language. It supports web, mobile web, iOS, and Android builds, handling authentication flows such as stored credentials, OAuth, and one-time passwords. Teams can connect GitHub and other CI pipelines to run checks on pull requests, schedule production monitoring, or trigger tests via webhooks. Each run produces screenshots, recordings, and structured bug reports that are accessible in a dashboard, via CLI, or directly on pull requests. The platform also offers integrations with tools like Slack, Discord, Vercel, and Expo and provides APIs and documentation for development workflows.
- Crimson — Crimson understands the whole case and helps litigators analyze case files, build chronologies, draft briefs, and stay on top of correspondence and deadlines.
The UNICEF Innovation Fund is a pooled funding vehicle to quickly assess, fund and grow open-source solutions that have been developed in new and emerging markets.UNICEF's Innovation (Venture) Fund is a newly established, non-thematic, pooled fund which has been specifically designed to finance early stage, open-source technology that canbenefit children. The core motivation of the Innovation Fund is to identify "clusters" or portfolios of initiatives around emerging technology - so that UNICEF can both shape markets and also learn about and guide these technologies to benefit children. They invest in solutions that can impact the lives of the most vulnerable children. They find these solutions clustered around $100billion industries in frontier technology spaces, such as: blockchain, UAVs, virtual and augmented reality, 3D printing, machine learning, quantum computing, genetic engineering, Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, nano-satellites and human dynamics.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain
- Stage:Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: India, Kenya, Argentina
Investor stats
- Total investments: 33
- Round size: Seed $14k–$100k; Grant $82k–$101k
- Lead/follow: 76% lead, 24% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Esheria — Citation-backed research across 30 case-law jurisdictions, a legal operating system for African teams, and a global regulatory intelligence API.
- VivaMama — VivaMama is a digital postpartum recovery platform that is reinventing maternal care in metropolitan areas.
- KAIROS — KAIROS is a health-focused corporation formed by professionals in health training, engineering, and protection. KAIROS creates educational solutions that anticipate hazards and empower individuals in prevention.
Acacia is a cross border investment manager, specialising in private market investments. The team is composed of a diverse and international group that is primarily based in Shanghai.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, Mexico, Colombia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 26
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$8.2M; Pre-Seed $125k–$500k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Menza — We'll share the full story soon. Thank you to every customer, investor, and friend who built this with us.
- Modelence — Modelence runs your app in production for you: managed database, auth, backups, scaling and AI-monitored infrastructure from the first deploy. Start free.
- Karumi — Karumi is an AI agent that joins a live video call with your prospects to deliver personalized product demos, 24/7, in any language.
Tofino Capital is an early stage investor in emerging market technology companies.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 25
- Round size: Seed $150k–$22M; Pre-Seed $100k–$1M; Series A $25M–$131M
- Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $10M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Vultron — Compress proposal production timeframes from weeks into days with Generative AI.
- Terra Industries — Terra Industries develops and supplies autonomous security and defense technology systems that help monitor and safeguard critical infrastructure such as power plants, mines, refineries, and other industrial assets. The company creates unmanned aerial drones, autonomous ground vehicles, surveillance towers, and maritime monitoring systems that operate with its proprietary ArtemisOS platform for real-time threat detection, autonomous mission planning, and coordinated response across land, air, and sea environments. Its offerings support infrastructure operators and government agencies in detecting and responding to security risks with integrated hardware and software solutions. Terra Industries focuses on delivering systems that integrate data intelligence and autonomy to enhance wide-area surveillance and operational awareness across large or remote facilities.
- Irreversible — Irreversible designs next-generation analog AI chips that enable meaningful intelligence anywhere — from sensors to robots.
We will continue to invest and support the growth of innovative companies towards sustainable economic growth and solving social issues.
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- Industry: Health Care, Medical, E-Commerce
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Kenya, Egypt, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 25
- Round size: Seed $450k–$11M; Series A $3M–$51M; Series B $7M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Aumet — Aumet allows medical manufacturers and distributors increase their sales by sharing hospital inquiries, business news, search for products, and find potential clients.Manufacturers and distributors who work together connect and get verified so they share hospital inquiries, market business news between each other .Suppliers list their productsand connect with distributors who sell these products and select countries, where they are looking for distributors, in the meantime distributors, connects with their suppliers, search for new product and list their interests.
- Mydawa — MYDAWA is here to ensure that every Kenyan can get quality, secure and affordable medicine and wellness products online
- Chowdeck — Order food, groceries, drinks, medicines & everyday essentials from top restaurants, pharmacies, local markets, and stores near you. Fast delivery with Chowdeck.
For the many, not just the few. For good.
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- Industry: Agriculture, Health Care, FinTech
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 73
- Round size: Series A $1M–$23M; Series B $3.5M–$42M
- Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $147M in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- MAX — Make mobility accessible, safe, reliable, and sustainable for 1 billion Africans
- ARC Ride — Affordable, reliable and clean e-mobility solutions for rapidly growing African cities.
- Sistema.bio — Sistema.bio is a biodigester with biogas appliances. High efficiency biodigesters transform organic waste into renewable biogas.
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.
4Di Capital is an independent seed- and early-stage technology venture capital firm based in Cape Town, South Africa.Nurture capital is the term that best describes 4Di Capitalâ€:tm:s purpose and philosophy.We understand that in the early days of any business, support, mentoring and access to networks is just as important as seed capital.Using tried and tested international venture capital best practices, adapted for local use, we believe in entrepreneur-friendly finance without frills, and in working as a team with our investments to achieve their true potential.4Di Capital Early-Stage Technology Fund 1 targets startup investment opportunities with high growth potential at the seed- and early-stages in the mobile, enterprise software and web sectors.We look for founder teams with hungry passion, commitment, domain expertise and deep insights into the large market problems they wish to solve with their technology solutions.
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: South Africa, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 41
- Round size: Seed $677k–$7.5M; Pre-Seed $1.8M–$4M; Series A $2M–$47M
- Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $24M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- BFree — BFree focuses its collection processes on sustainably leading customers out of debt by giving them back control over their finances.
- FireID — FireID is a venture builder that helps makers, with unique skills and passion, build businesses to solve meaningful problems.
- Kuunda — Kuunda provides consulting, liquidity management, data insight tools enabling users to fulfill financial needs through a digital platform.
From Here ventures is an early-stage venture capital company that provides capital to entrepreneurs building transformative companies.
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- Industry: FinTech, Marketing, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Zemo — Zemo is a developer of a corporate expense management platform designed to do away with time-consuming expense reports and unnecessary spending in firms. Businesses can effectively manage their cashflow spending thanks to the company's spend management technology, which places controls on the cards issued to ensure spending is fully undercontrol and also provides administrators and accountants with visibility into the company's spending for every employee.
- Twiva — Twiva is a creator-first, tech-enabled platform that serves as an end-to-end ecosystem. Our purpose is to equip creators with the skills, tools, resources, and access they need to succeed as online entrepreneurs.
- Eden Care Medical — Eden Care Medical is a mobile application that provides medical and health insurance as well as financial services.
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Browse database — It's Free!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 — We help organisations across Africa deploy AI in real workflows through internal tools, AI agents and staff enablement.
- 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.
4DX Ventures is a Pan-Africa Focused Venture Capital Firm. Our mission is to connect people, ideas, and capital to create a vibrant African community.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Logistics
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Egypt, South Africa, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 99
- Round size: Seed $456k–$8M; Pre-Seed $50k–$6.5M; Series A $3M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $49M in 2024
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- Anda Africa — Anda is Angola’s leading mobility fintech platform, providing asset financing, ride hailing, and delivery services to empower mobility entrepreneurs. Built for emerging markets, Anda bridges the credit gap by financing productive assets such as motorcycles, tricycles, and cars, enabling drivers to own their vehicles, increase their earnings, andenter the formal economy. Through technology driven credit profiling and fully digitized payments, Anda creates financial identities for people who were previously underserved and unlocks responsible access to financial services. As an impact driven company, Anda brings together mobility, financing, and digital payments to deliver safe, affordable, and inclusive transportation while enabling a new generation of financially empowered entrepreneurs.
- Aether Bio — Aether uses its state of the art platform to rapidly engineer enzymes, enabling our customers to manufacture complex and novel products at fractional cost.
- Aethex — End to end voice agents localized for your market
OnDeck Venture operates as a venture capital firm.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Credit, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $100k–$5.5M; Pre-Seed $125k–$1.2M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
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- Salad — Financial wellness solutions for the improved lives of employees across Africa. Earned wage access, Payroll services, Financial education.
- Bluedot — Bluedot is a modern LMS that helps distributed teams across the company stay organized and connected. Baked by On Deck, Google Startup fund, and a fantastic team of angels.
Jaza Rift Ventures invests in the most innovative and invention-based healthcare firms at the pre-seed, seed, and series A stages. Jaza Rift Ventures is a healthcare venture capital firm that invests in innovative early-stage entrepreneurs including healthtech, medtech, and biotech businesses.
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- Industry: Health Care, Health Diagnostics, Information Technology
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Plateaumed — Level up your medical practice with our world-class EHR
- Kena Health — Talk to a nurse, doctor or mental health professional on your smartphone with the Kena Health App. Affordable primary healthcare for South Africans. Download Now.
- Intron Health — Intron provides clinical speech recognition for 200+ accents spoken in developing countries starting with Africa, reducing documentation time by 6x so doctors can spend more time with patients
Investment focus
- Industry: Health Care, Apps, Mobile
- Stage:Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: India, South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Prim-U — Prim-U is a beauty & wellness platform that connects professional service providers and brands with customers to provide salon experiences on demand. A technology platform that matches demand and supply for wellness services thereby maximizing capacity and usage by minimizing wasted space for professionals and speeding convenience forconsumers.
- galleri5 — Enabling tens of thousands of creators monetize their social media influence since 2017
- GyanDhan — Get financial assistance for pursuing higher studies in India and abroad. We are on a mission to equalize access to education and focus on providing high quality customer service to students.
Beyond Capital Ventures is a venture capital firm, offering a diversified portfolio of companies in "need-to-have" sectors, led by conscious leaders.
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- Industry: Health Care, Wellness, Insurance
- Stage:Series A, Venture - Series Unknown, Series B
- Geography: India, Kenya, Ghana
Investor stats
- Total investments: 18
- Round size: Series A $2M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.5M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Lissun — Lissun is an online counselling platform, which allows you to get expert advice and counselling for any mental health problem anytime and from the comfort of your own home.
- Alt Mobility — ALT Mobility is a full-stack EV leasing platform offering mobility as a service (MaaS) for commercial vehicle users.
- BimaKavach — Buy business insurance online from India's top 25 insurers in minutes with AI-powered risk analysis, policy comparison, and customised coverage for businesses in India
We're experienced operators helping to ignite and scale startups
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Canada, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 297
- Round size: Seed $1M–$6.3M; Pre-Seed $300k–$1.5M; Series A $17M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $760k in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- JustAI — An AI-first modern enterprise marketing stack that sets you in an always-on, set-and-forget motion. Increase your experimentation velocity and keep your team lean! Say goodbye to manual campaign management.
- Resolv — AI for the trades that follows through: one number for customer calls and texts, connected to organized jobs, proposals, rebates, permits, and warranties.
- Herd Security — Herd trains your people on the attacks actually reaching them, coaches the ones who need it, and reports how their risk level moved across the quarter. It runs inside Slack and Teams, built from your own policies.
Jozi Angels is an angel network based in Johannesburg, South Africa. We exist to grow the startup ecosystem and facilitate the growth of innovative startups.
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- Industry: Health Care, B2B, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: South Africa, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Round size: Seed $200k–$1.6M; Pre-Seed $188k–$1M
- Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Jahazii — Jahazii helps employers offer on-demand access to earned wages, giving employees financial flexibility without loans while reducing pressure on HR and payroll teams. Funds on M-PESA in seconds, at no cost to you.
- TUNL — Ship globally with ease. TUNL offers affordable, transparent international shipping built for South African brands. Up to 91% cheaper. No surprises.
- The Awareness Company — We use data to tell stories that are useful to humans.
Newtown Partners is a venture capital firm that actively invests in emerging, disruptive technology startups.
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- Industry: Logistics, Software, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United States, South Africa, Ghana
Investor stats
- Total investments: 37
- Round size: Seed $600k–$5.5M; Series A $3.3M–$30M; Venture - Series Unknown $2M–$2.5M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% 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.
- 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.
The foundation prioritizes activities and opportunities according to market demand and social impact. With an overwhelming desire to increase the number of children that have access to quality education, we aim to be both collaborative and catalytic in the education sector. GMC also seeks to identify social enterprise opportunities for explorative research and development. We employ our established understanding of the dynamics of emerging market environments to co-create programs and deploy early stage equity investments focused on improving the lives of underserved populations. We work closely with our investees and external partners to research and support new concepts and business models that will create positive social impact for these target communities.
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- Industry: Education, E-Learning, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: India, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 38
- Round size: Seed $50k–$2.3M; Series A $1.5M–$7M; Venture - Series Unknown $104k–$30M
- Lead/follow: 61% lead, 39% follow
Portfolio highlights
- PickMyWork — Have a product for Indian Users or merchants? - Leave the headache of scaling up your product to PickMyWork.
- HerSpace — HerSpace operates as an end-to-end industrial housing partner that fabricates turnkey modular worker dormitories, women's housing, and family units in a controlled factory environment. Its value proposition centers on transforming workforce accommodation into a corporate operational advantage by assuming full accountability for sitedeployment, regulatory compliance, and 24/7 hospitality management to reduce worker absenteeism and accelerate project timelines.
- Kreedo Early Childhood Solutions — Kreedo Preschool Non-Franchise Solution | education development partner that helps create your preschool brand | Promotes with strong ROI.
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Browse database — It's Free!27four Investment Managers a leading independent South African-based multi-manager focused on understanding and addressing the evolving needs of retirement funds and individual investors through the provision of unique product solutions and portfolio customisation options. Through ongoing value-add, by way of product differentiation and thedelivery of consistent and superior returns, 27four has earned its position as a leading provider of multi-manager solutions to South African and international investors.
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- Industry: Health Care, Fitness, Payments
- Stage:Private Equity, Seed, Secondary Market
- Geography: South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
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- Ctrack — Ctrack is the vehicle tracking provider with more than 24 years' experience of developing effective fleet solutions. Ctrack is a part of DigiCore Holdings, a global company listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, whose advanced Ctrack technology is fitted to almost 430,000 vehicles operating in 32 countries across 5 continents.
- Peach Payments — Get Peach as your Payment Gateway and Grow your ecommerce. Process online payments with Visa, Mastercard, Debit Orders, EFT payments, and subscriptions. Plugins for Wix, Shopify, WooCommerce.
- Barracuda Holdings — Barracuda Holdings (Pty) Ltd. is an owner-driven company established in 2010 by the founding partners, each of whom has over 20 years of experience. Barracuda Holdings provides manufacturing expertise across multiple sectors, including Automotive accessories, diagnostic tools, and fleet management.
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: 218
- 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 — fund raised in 2023
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- Zazu — Manza is an all-in-one financial platform for African SMEs, helping businesses manage payments, automate cash flow, and access real-time financial insights from one simple dashboard.
- 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 — Explore GPU cloud and hardware through AGH Cloud, UduTech's flagship product, and AI advisory for teams in the United States, Africa, the Caribbean and beyond.
i-Cubed Capital provide a bouquet of funds for clients, ranging from unit trusts to investment funds for retiremen, including savings plans with tax incentives.i-Cubed provide a bouquet of funds for clients, ranging from unit trusts to investment funds for retirement, including savings plans with tax incentives. We assess fund managerperformances by reviewing fact sheets and provide our clients with a variety of options to meet their investment objectives.
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- Industry: Medical, Health Care, Personal Health
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Private Equity
- Geography: South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Pre-Seed $200k–$569k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Yebo Fresh — Yebofresh is a new online shopping service, delivering popular groceries straight into areas that are generally unserved by most formal retailers. Our unique business model and partnerships with manufacturers allow us to deliver top quality products and A-brands at extremely competitive prices. Yebofresh serves Imizamo Yethu, Langa, Khayelitsha,Mfuleni and Gugulethu and following recent seed funding, is rapidly expanding across the greater Cape Town area.
- Cape Doctors — Doctor Near Me, Doctor in Rondebosch / Doctors in Claremont, Same Day Appointments, Open every day from 9h00 to 17h00.
- NewForm Foods — NewForm Foods aims to reinvent food systems for planet, health, and animal welfare. The company offers innovative technology for food producers to create sustainable, animal-friendly products.
Full Circle is a proprietary investment firm, based in Africa, investing in Venture capital, Commercial Real Estate and Hospitality.
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- Industry: FinTech, Banking, Wellness
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Kenya, United States, Mexico
Investor stats
- Total investments: 50
- Round size: Seed $600k–$4M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Laylo — Laylo is a boxed wine brand.
- Badili — Badili is a one-stop shop for buying and selling used and refurbished phones. Founded in 2021 and is based in Nairobi.
- Incredible — Pay off credit cards faster, reduce your interest payments and reclaim your financial freedom.
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- Industry: Marketing, Advertising, Apps
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Seed
- Geography: South Africa, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Adbot — Award-winning AI that manages your Google Ads 24/7 using six years of South African market intelligence. Better results, less cost.
- Kena Health — Talk to a nurse, doctor or mental health professional on your smartphone with the Kena Health App. Affordable primary healthcare for South Africans. Download Now.
- Lettuce — Track your entire portfolio of crypto, stocks, mutual funds, and other investments all in one place with Lettuce.
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, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 75
- Round size: Series B $5M–$41M; Debt Financing $9.4M–$137M; Venture - Series Unknown $2.1M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 52% lead, 48% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $93M in 2025
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- Bisedge — Bisedge provides outsourcing solutions for material handling equipment including forklifts and other MHE, maintenance packages as well as the operators. Bisedge is offering this solution as a “Product-As-A-Service” for a monthly fee.
- 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.
- EVF General Finance Joint Stock Company — EVF provides a wide range of financial services, including credit lines for micro, small, and medium-sized firms (MSMEs).
Creating disruptive and sustainable businesses to positively impact 1 Billion lives.
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- Industry: FinTech, Software, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: South Africa, Hong Kong
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $400k–$2.5M; Series A $8.4M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Pumpkn — Need reliable funding? We provide quick loans and capital tailored for Agriculture businesses in South Africa. Grow your business with Pumpkn. Apply now!
- Jem — We give employers the ability to send company-wide communications, deliver payslips, manage leave & give employees access to their earnings, via WhatsApp.
- The Awareness Company — We use data to tell stories that are useful to humans.
The Steele Foundation For Hope is an investment firm.
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- Stage:Seed
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- AI Diagnostics — AI Diagnostics is a medical technology company that provides tuberculosis diagnostics.
HaloCare provides comprehensive disease management services to funder beneficiaries and employees living with the chronic disease
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- Industry: Wellness, Health Care
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Syked — Destigmatize mental health assistance for the African population by making it more affordable and accessible
SAVANT is a venture capital firm.
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- Stage:Seed
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- AI Diagnostics — AI Diagnostics is a medical technology company that provides tuberculosis diagnostics.
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