# Top 50 Blockchain Startup Investors in Africa in October 2023 ## Blockchain Founders Fund - Type: VC Fund - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services We Focus Exclusively On Adding Value To Blockchain & Emerging Technology Projects With Real World Applications. ## CV VC - Type: VC Fund - Location: Zug, Zug, Switzerland - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Blockchain, Software, Information Technology We invest in blockchain ## Allen and Ollys International Limited - - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Convertible Note - Focus: FinTech, Insurance, Blockchain Allen and Ollys International Limited - ## Kepple Africa Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software Kepple Africa Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm. ## Nordea - Type: VC Fund - Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Debt Financing, Seed - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Banking Nordea Bank is Denmark's second-largest bank and counts every fourth Dane among its customers. Through their nationwide network of some 340 branch offices and a broad range of self-service facilities, they are able to offer you a full scale of financial products and services, including Netbank, Online Investment, telephone banking and cashdispensers. ## Flat6Labs Tunisia - Type: VC Fund - Location: Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, Retail, Education 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. ## Bixin Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech Bixin Ventures invests in early-stage infrastructure projects that cultivate and facilitate mass adoption of open finance through permissionless and decentralized networks. ## Musha Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, Software, FinTech Seed capital for technology startups globally. ## Future Africa - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology Future Africa is a collective of mission-driven founders and funders building unicorns to solve Africa’s biggest challenges. They are build a future where purpose and prosperity are within everyone’s reach. ## Launch Africa - Type: VC Fund - Location: Ebène, Plaines Wilhems, Mauritius - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology 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. ## Hashkey - Type: VC Fund - Location: Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services Hashkey they offers investment opportunities and solutions to institutions, family offices, funds, and professional accredited investors across the digital asset and blockchain ecosystem. ## Newtown Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Logistics, Health Care, Information Technology Newtown Partners is a venture capital firm that actively invests in emerging, disruptive technology startups. ## Meridian Capital - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, FinTech, Cryptocurrency We are focusing on projects in early and growth stages, helping entrepreneurs develop world-class projects on blockchain technology ## Cristina Santin - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed - Focus: FinTech, Insurance, Blockchain Cristina Santin ## Flori Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, FinTech, Cryptocurrency More than a seed-stage fund and a portfolio of startups: Our community of founders taps into the power of financial innovation to collaborate around global problems and unlock prosperity for all. ## Chandaria Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, FinTech, Software Chandaria Capital operates as a venture capital Fund. We believe that innovative ideas will transform Africa. We invest, mentor, and work together with incredible entrepreneurs to create impactful companies that can change the continent. ## Kola Aina - Type: Angel - Location: Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Internet Kola Aina is an entrepreneur, technology operator and investor with vast experience working in Africa’s largest economic market. His prior entrepreneurial experience spans several sectors including venture capital, technology, media, agriculture, infrastructure, publishing and real estate. As an angel investor and while leading the early stageAfrican VC firm Ventures Platform. Venture Platform is a leading early stage African VC fund that provides founder friendly capital and support to early stage companies in a framework that is buoyed by corporate governance and hands-on support. Kola has lead investment in about 28 companies including Payments company; Paystack, Connectivity company; Tizeti, Healthcare company; MDaaS and the Agric-tech company; Thrive Agric.Kola, founded the enterprise technology company Emerging Platforms Limited, 9 years ago, quickly growing it to become one of the leading technology service delivery companies and leaders in the e-learning space in West Africa providing services to over 100,000 students. Emerging Platforms Limited is a software and technology firm that specializes in developing innovative technology solutions in education, national security and enterprise sectors.Prior to focusing on full time entrepreneurship, Kola worked in corporate finance, administration, corporate turn-around and strategy. He led strategy and finance for one of the largest publishing companies in Nigeria up till 2009. Before that he worked in corporate finance proving financial analysis at Fifth Third Bank in the USA.Kola is a leader in the African startup and investing ecosystem, a Ted speaker and volunteers his time advising founders, speaking at events and serves on the Presidential Committee for Job Creation and Youth Employment as well as the Private Sector Advisory Group to the Presidency on Creativity and Technology. Kola studied Electrical Engineering and then secured a Master in Business Administration degree with a specialization in Finance from Bowling Green State University, Ohio. He has received further education from Berkley University, Harvard University and the Lagos Business School. ## Rene Reinsberg - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Software Rene Reinsberg is the Co-Founder and President of Celo. ## Boost VC - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Mateo, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Virtual Reality, Blockchain Boost VC: The Pre-Seed Fund Making Sci-FI a Reality. Investing in crypto, virtual reality, augmented reality, AI, Ocean Tech, Space Tech, human augmentation, exoskeletons and more. ## Network Society Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Solar, Blockchain, Crowdfunding Blockchain Investors Consortium (BIC) is a 50-member strong (crypto funds and a handful of individuals) who have over $1 billion of digital assets under management. The purpose of BIC is to allow its members to share due diligence and to co-invest in the most promising blockchain ventures. BIC is t ## Rus Newton - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: IaaS, Mining, Bitcoin Co-Founder of Global Advisors & CoinShares. Previously JP Morgan, Salomon Brothers & Shell International ## gumi Cryptos Capital (gCC) - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services gCC (gumi Cryptos Capital) is a blockchain and cryptographic asset fund that invests in the crypto native stack from L1 to the application layer, as well as in traditional businesses supporting the ecosystem. ## Saturn Blockchain Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency Saturn Blockchain Ventures is an investment firm. ## Blockwall - Type: VC Fund - Location: Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Blockchain, Software, Information Technology Thesis-driven, industry-focused and independent blockchain investment firm funding the development of Web 3.0 and decentralized technologies from the heart of Europe, Frankfurt - Germany ## AE Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 ## Tomiwa Olaosebikan - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency Tomiwa Olaosebikan ## AFF - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Gaming, Blockchain AFF ## Peter Kisadha - Type: Angel - Location: Kampala, Kampala, Uganda - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency Peter Kisadha - Founder and CEO @ Digest Africa ## RTA - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Internet, Logistics, Blockchain RTA is an Investment firm. ## Blackwell Capital Group - Type: VC Fund - Location: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series B - Focus: Blockchain, Mobile Apps, Mobile Payments "Uncovering & Building Value" ## Active Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Antonio, Texas, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology Active Capital is a venture firm focused on leading seed rounds for B2B SaaS companies outside of Silicon Valley. ## ARCH Emerging Markets Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series D, Debt Financing, Private Equity - Focus: Solar, Finance, Consumer 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. ## Pnyx Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Blockchain, Financial Services, FinTech PNYX Ventures is a digital asset management firm specialising in blockchain capital markets. ## Susquehanna International Group (SIG) - Type: VC Fund - Location: Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Financial Services, Cryptocurrency Discover Susquehanna, a global quantitative trading firm built on a rigorous, analytical foundation in financial markets. ## LD Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Shanghai, Shanghai, China - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Initial Coin Offering - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming LD Capital is one of Asia's earliest organizations focusing on value investing in blockchain field. Owing to industrial resource advantages and professional investment research teams, LD Capital has successively discovered and invested in projects such as Qtum, Vechain and Eos which all achieved over 100 times return.Their teams spread overChina, the United States, Europe, Singapore, Japan, and South Korea, and have accumulated rich experience in areas of traditional internet, Fintech, and advanced blockchain technology. They are committed to the globalization of blockchain and quality investment in the entire industry.LD Capital focuses on blockchain innovation projects within finance, games, content publishing, Internet of Things and other circuits, and we have been propelling broad layout of blockchain technology and infrastructure construction to facilitate the comprehensive development of the global blockchain ecosystem. ## CMT Digital Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech An exciting new iteration of our website is coming soon. CMT Digital is a blockchain and digital assets focused subsidiary of the CMT Group, a 24 year-old trading and investments firm. The CMT Group has operated as a valued partner to entrepreneurs, traders, and technologists ## Cipholio Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services Cipholio Ventures is a research-driven investment firm specializing in cryptocurrencies, tokens, and blockchain projects that have the potential to reshape the trillion-dollar markets. ## Block Dream Fund - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Gaming, Financial Services OKX Blockdream Ventures is a fund focused on exploring high quality projects. This fund will invest in blockchain basic infrastructure, layer 2, Polkadot ecosystem, Defi, Filecoin ecosystem etc. ## HoaQ - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel - Focus: Financial Services, Internet, E-Commerce Startup Investment Club ## Thrive Africa - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin ​Thrive Africa is is an impact investment platform connecting global capital with impact opportunity ## Ingressive Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology Ingressive Capital they provide services in business development, partnerships, and financial support. ## Polygon Studios - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Grant - Focus: Blockchain, Gaming, Software Polygon is the most proven way to build and scale your decentralized application and projects on Ethereum, the world's largest blockchain ecosystem. ## IBM - Type: VC Fund - Location: Armonk, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Grant, Series A - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence IBM is a technology and innovation company that offers a wide range of technology and consulting services; a broad portfolio of middleware for collaboration, predictive analytics, software development, and systems management. ## Casper Johansen - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Gaming, Blockchain Casper Johansen is a lawyer turned investment banker turned entrepreneur. He spent over 7 years in the investment banking division of Goldman Sachs doing mergers & acquisitions, equity and debt financings, leveraged buyouts and advisory work for the world's leading companies and private equity funds. During his time at GS, Casperworked in the London and Hong Kong offices. He left as an Executive Director in mid-2008 to scratch his entrepreneurial itch. While at GS, Casper co-founded a Turkish furniture company and a China-based e-learning company. He also made angel investments in a Hong Kong based communications company and a Cambodia-based real estate fund. Casper continues to be an active angel investor in the Asian region. His most recent investments include a childrens' learning platform and a discotech.Casper is currently the CFO and COO of Seravia. Seravia was founded by Casper and his partners in 2008 in Hong Kong, and re-located to Beijing in March 2009. Seravia is the simplest way for anyone in the world to understand and create business records.Casper has a background as a First Lieutenant (R) in the Royal Danish Air Force and holds a BA in Law and a Master of Laws, LL.M. (magna cum laude) from Aarhus University, Denmark. He lives in Beijing with his wife and two children. ## Timi Aboyeji - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency Timi Aboyeji ## Hacked Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services Hacked Capital invests in the next generation of startups and digital assets. ## Wemade - Type: VC Fund - Location: Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Corporate Round - Focus: Gaming, Blockchain, Information Technology WeMade Games dedicated to serving gamers with a portfolio of entertaining, high quality PC and Mobile games. Established in 2000, WeMade Entertainment Co., Ltd. (KOSDAQ: 112040) is an international game developer publisher that has grown from a handful of passionate game pioneers to a group of over 1,000 game enthusiasts. Starting with itsfirst and a hit title "Legend of Mir 2", which has garnered over 200 million online PC gamers internationally, WeMade Entertainment has continued to develop and service dozens of PC and Mobile based games for fun loving gamers since its inception. ## Ali Rampurwala - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Blockchain, FinTech, Cryptocurrency 15 years of experience in private equity, venture capital, investment banking, corporate strategy, angel investing, and business development having an MBA from the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University, USA and being a CAIA Charterholder. ## Voltron Capital - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Cryptocurrency Voltron Capital operates as a venture capital firm. ## Standard Bank - Type: VC Fund - Location: Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Debt Financing, Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Mobile Standard Bank Group is a global bank with African roots. It is South Africa's largest bank, distinguished by its extensive operations in 17 African countries. Outside the African continent, Standard Bank Group operations span to 16 countries, with an emerging market focus. Their customers benefit from their knowledge and expertise in emergingmarkets, coupled with their global outlook. # About Shizune Shizune.co is an investor database. Core features: - 48,091 startup investors (angels, VCs, accelerators, and others) - Email, phone, LinkedIn (for intros), socials, and other contact data - Updated daily from public funding news - CSV and Excel export The User can access the full database FOR FREE after signing up: shizune.co