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Top 10 Blockchain VC Funds & Investors in South Africa (May 2026)

The most active venture capital funds investing in South Africa Blockchain startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in South Africa Blockchain startup companies. Find investors to raise a Seed, Series A or Grant round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Newtown Partners
VC Fund
2 South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria Seed, Series A Logistics, Health Care, Information Technology $600k–$7M
4Di Capital
VC Fund
1 South Africa, United States, Uganda Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Mobile, Financial Services $431k–$6.4M
Technology Innovation Agency
VC Fund
1 South Africa Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed Information Technology, Renewable Energy, Health Care $20k–$1M
ARCH Emerging Markets Partners
VC Fund
1 Kenya, South Africa, United States Series D, Debt Financing, Private Equity Solar, Finance, Consumer
Alphabit Fund
VC Fund
1 United States, United Kingdom, Singapore Seed, Initial Coin Offering Blockchain, FinTech, Cryptocurrency $500k–$50M
10x Group
VC Fund
1 United States, Germany, India Seed, Series A Software, SaaS, Information Technology $643k–$16M
Bittrex Global
VC Fund
1 South Africa Series A Bitcoin, FinTech, Ethereum
Montegray Capital
VC Fund
1 South Africa Seed Bitcoin, FinTech, Ethereum
IBM
VC Fund
1 United States, United Kingdom, Ireland Grant, Series A Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $34k–$23M
Invictus Capital
VC Fund
1 South Africa Seed Internet, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
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Newtown Partners
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 2 investments in South Africa Blockchain startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Logistics, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$5.5M; Series A $3.6M–$7M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • BeyondTrucks — Vertical SaaS
  • Lami — Lami is an end-to-end digital insurance platform and API that enables companies across sectors to offer insurance products. Its API allows underwriters to connect with consumer-facing companies that can provide embedded insurance as a value add for existing customers, many of whom are uninsured.
  • Complete Farmer — We are providing cutting-edge technological farming protocols and innovations with a unique business model and logistics that are revolutionizing...
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4Di Capital
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in South Africa Blockchain startups

4Di Capital is a Cape Town-based venture capital fund management firm focused on early-stage technology investments in sub-Saharan Africa.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Mobile, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: South Africa, United States, Uganda

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 27
  • Round size: Seed $431k–$1.7M; Series A $3.4M–$6.4M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Sendmarc — Stop cyber criminals from sending emails using your domain and protect your customers, suppliers and employees from cyber attacks with DMARC Security.
  • Leta — Leta Technology is a software development company that creates supply chain and logistics software to enable the efficient and automated movement of goods.
  • Numida — Growing African small businesses with affordable, convenient, and fair credit.
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Technology Innovation Agency
VC Fund · Pretoria, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in South Africa Blockchain startups

TIA is an initiative of the Department of Science & Technology (DST) in South Africa, to enable and support technological innovation.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Renewable Energy, Health Care
  • Stage:Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Round size: Seed $46k–$318k; Grant $20k–$1M
  • Lead/follow: 92% lead, 8% follow

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.
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ARCH Emerging Markets Partners
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in South Africa Blockchain startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Solar, Finance, Consumer
  • Stage:Series D, Debt Financing, Private Equity
  • Geography: Kenya, South Africa, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • CrossBoundary — CrossBoundary Energy's renewable energy solutions help decarbonize enterprise by providing cleaner, cheaper and more reliable power.
  • Sun King — Sun King solar lanterns and home systems enables underserved communities to achieve more with inclusive distribution and flexible financing options.
  • The Sun Exchange — The Sun Exchange is the peer-to-peer solar leasing marketplace. We leverage financial innovation and the power of the crowd to drive sustainable energy development and make the environmental, social and economic benefits of solar accessible and affordable for all. Through the Sun Exchange online platform, anyone, anywhere in the world, can buyremotely-located solar cells and then lease them to power businesses and organisations in sunny emerging markets. Solar cell owners earn income from the electricity that’s generated, while schools, businesses, clinics and other organisations gain access to affordable clean energy, reducing electricity costs and carbon emissions.
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Alphabit Fund
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Blockchain startups

Alphabit Digital Currency Fund.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, FinTech, Cryptocurrency
  • Stage:Seed, Initial Coin Offering
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 37
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$7M; Initial Coin Offering $1.8M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Championfy — Championfy's mission is to empower and unleash everyone's inner champion through Esports and ignite the region with hope, inspiration, respect, strengths, and friendship.
  • MetaVersus World — MetaVersus combines gaming with Web3 to provide a hyper-realistic digital environment for brands to build in and for users to discover as MetaCitizens
  • REV3AL — Linktree. Make your link do more.
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10x Group
VC Fund · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 1 investments in South Africa Blockchain startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 92
  • Round size: Seed $643k–$5M; Series A $2.3M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • enmacc — The enmacc OTC platform is a energy trading platform for the future of the global energy markets. We are building a next-generation trading platform, powered digital RFQ technology, that will help you to trade smarter, faster and better.
  • 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.
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Bittrex Global
VC Fund · Vaduz, Vaduz, Liechtenstein · 1 investments in South Africa Blockchain startups

Trade crypto with Bittrex Global, the world's most secure regulated digital asset exchange. Join millions of users worldwide.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Bitcoin, FinTech, Ethereum
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • VALR — Buy and sell bitcoin, ethereum & more | Pay anyone for free with VALR Pay
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Montegray Capital
VC Fund · 1 investments in South Africa Blockchain startups

Investment focus

  • Industry: Bitcoin, FinTech, Ethereum
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • VALR — Buy and sell bitcoin, ethereum & more | Pay anyone for free with VALR Pay
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IBM
VC Fund · Armonk, New York, United States · 1 investments in South Africa Blockchain startups, 12 in the past 12 months

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Grant, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 65
  • Round size: Grant $34k–$240k; Series A $100k–$23M
  • Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Hugging Face — Hugging Face is an open-source & platform provider of machine learning technologies. Hugging Face was launched in 2016 and is headquartered in New York.
  • University of Chicago — University of Chicago is a private research university that focuses on sciences, medicine, economics, law, business, and others. In addition to providing a dynamic education based on critical thinking and interdisciplinary exposure, the university sponsors hundreds of art and cultural events open to the public free of charge. Venues such as theCourt Theatre, the Oriental Institute, and the Smart Museum often host these events for local residents and students. The university’s retail development initiatives also help strengthen the economic health of the city.Academics include more than 50 areas of specialized undergraduate and graduate study, including some interdisciplinary programs like Big Problems, which tackles matters of global and universal concern that do not belong to one discipline or interest group, scientific fields like Biological Chemistry, and more.Experiential programs known as “Chicago Careers In” provide students with research, internships, and advising in fields like business and health professions.
  • 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.
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Invictus Capital
VC Fund · George Town, Midland, Cayman Islands · 1 investments in South Africa Blockchain startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Ovex — OVEX is a cryptocurrency exchange company.
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Blockchain VC funding in South Africa at a glance

Stats across 15 deals from 27 investors.

27
investors
in South Africa Blockchain startups
15
deals
in South Africa Blockchain startups
$409k
median round
in South Africa Blockchain startups
44%
lead investors
lead at least one round
40%
Seed
most common funding stage

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