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Top 50 Consumer VC Funds & Investors in Africa (October 2023)

The most active venture capital funds investing in Africa Consumer startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Africa Consumer startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Future Africa
VC Fund
6 Nigeria, United States, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology $40k–$20M
Golden Palm Investments
VC Fund
5 Nigeria, Egypt, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Information Technology, FinTech, Health Care $30k–$15M
U.S. International Development Finance Corp
VC Fund
3 India, United States, Kenya Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt Financial Services, Finance, FinTech $8.8M–$765M
JAM Fund
VC Fund
3 United States, Mexico, India Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, FinTech, Logistics $460k–$27M
Musha Ventures
VC Fund
3 United States, Nigeria, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, Software, FinTech $50k–$10M
Savannah Fund
VC Fund
3 Kenya, United States, South Africa Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, FinTech, Information Technology $25k–$8M
4DX Ventures
VC Fund
3 Egypt, United States, Kenya Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed FinTech, Information Technology, Financial Services $40k–$20M
4Di Capital
VC Fund
3 South Africa, United States, Uganda Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Mobile, Financial Services $431k–$6.4M
Ventures Platform
VC Fund
3 Nigeria, United States, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Internet $50k–$4.4M
Village Global
VC Fund
3 United States, United Kingdom, India Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $246k–$18M
DOB Equity
VC Fund
2 Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania Private Equity, Seed Food and Beverage, Farming, Health Care $1M–$4M
Voltron Capital
VC Fund
2 Nigeria, United States, Kenya Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel Financial Services, FinTech, Cryptocurrency $70k–$2.3M
TBD Angels
VC Fund
2 United States, Kenya, Hong Kong Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence $53k–$6M
Susa Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, SaaS $1.9M–$65M
Golden Ventures
VC Fund
2 Canada, United States, Japan Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $1.2M–$40M
KFW DEG
VC Fund
2 India, Kenya, Nigeria Debt Financing, Grant Financial Services, Finance, Banking $100k–$105M
Outlierz Ventures
VC Fund
2 Morocco, Egypt, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Information Services $1.5M–$6.2M
GreenTec Capital Partners
VC Fund
2 Kenya, Nigeria, Côte d'Ivoire Seed, Pre-Seed Information Technology, Agriculture, Computer
Lynett Capital
VC Fund
2 United States, Kenya, Nigeria Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed FinTech, Wireless, Mobile $120k–$10M
Lion’s Head Global Partners
VC Fund
2 Kenya, France, Senegal Debt Financing Renewable Energy, Solar, Energy $2.1M–$11M
Blue Haven Initiative
VC Fund
2 Kenya, United States, Ghana Series A, Series B, Seed Solar, Energy, Financial Services $2M–$22M
SunFunder
VC Fund
2 The Netherlands, Kenya, Mauritius Debt Financing, Series C Solar, Energy, Renewable Energy $1.5M–$60M
Accion Venture Lab
VC Fund
2 United States, India, Brazil Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Finance $500k–$7.5M
HoaQ
VC Fund
2 Nigeria, United Kingdom, Togo Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel Financial Services, Internet, E-Commerce $100k–$2M
Thelatest.ventures
VC Fund
2 Nigeria, The Netherlands Series A FinTech, Finance, Financial Services $23M–$65M
Left Lane Capital
VC Fund
2 United States, Germany, Israel Series A, Series B, Series D FinTech, Financial Services, Finance $9M–$90M
Speedinvest
VC Fund
2 Germany, United Kingdom, Austria Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, FinTech, Financial Services $396k–$50M
Kepple Africa Ventures
VC Fund
2 Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt Seed, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Software $100k–$4.5M
Partech
VC Fund
2 United States, France, Germany Series A, Seed, Series B Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services $1M–$54M
Novastar Ventures
VC Fund
2 Kenya, Nigeria, United States Series A, Series B Agriculture, Internet, Clean Energy $660k–$50M
AfricInvest
VC Fund
2 Tunisia, Morocco, Nigeria Private Equity, Series A Manufacturing, Financial Services, FinTech $1.7M–$65M
Launch Africa
VC Fund
2 Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology $200k–$3M
Norfund
VC Fund
1 Kenya, South Africa, United Kingdom Private Equity, Debt Financing Energy, Financial Services, Renewable Energy $4.5M–$227M
Synergy Growth
VC Fund
1 Kenya, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Solar, Energy, Hardware
Lightrock
VC Fund
1 India, Brazil, United States Series C, Series B, Series E Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology $6.3M–$400M
Strattech Partners
VC Fund
1 United States, South Africa Seed, Series C Software, E-Commerce, B2B
Chui Ventures
VC Fund
1 Kenya, United States Pre-Seed Fashion, Software, E-Commerce
Next Chymia Consulting
VC Fund
1 Kenya, Ghana, Romania Seed Blockchain, FinTech, Medical $580k–$2M
Acumen
VC Fund
1 United States, India, Kenya Seed, Series A Health Care, Financial Services, Agriculture $300k–$13M
Acuity Ventures
VC Fund
1 Nigeria, Togo, Egypt Seed, Pre-Seed FinTech, Information Technology, Financial Services $725k–$1M
Sherpa Africa Partners
VC Fund
1 Togo, South Africa, United States Pre-Seed, Seed Emerging Markets, Financial Services, Credit
Triple Jump
VC Fund
1 India, Senegal, Mauritius Debt Financing, Series A FinTech, Finance, Financial Services
Oikocredit International
VC Fund
1 India, Nigeria, Ghana Debt Financing, Series B Financial Services, Finance, FinTech $1.1M–$16M
E4EAfrica
VC Fund
1 South Africa, France, The Netherlands Seed, Series A, Series B Internet, Logistics, E-Commerce $1M–$5.3M
Satgana
VC Fund
1 Germany, United States, The Netherlands Pre-Seed Energy, Software, CleanTech $600k–$1.4M
Altos Ventures
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, Indonesia Series A, Series B, Series C Software, E-Commerce, Internet $2M–$50M
CDC Group
VC Fund
1 India, Nigeria, Kenya Debt Financing, Series B Financial Services, Banking, Finance $2M–$93M
Esas Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, Kenya, Canada Seed, Series A Health Care, E-Commerce, Software $125k–$17M
AngelHub Ventures
VC Fund
1 South Africa Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Education $300k–$1.7M
Lundin Foundation
VC Fund
1 Kenya, Mauritius Series A, Series D Mobile, Apps, Energy
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Future Africa
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 6 investments in Africa Consumer startups, 10 in the past 12 months

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 80
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$3.7M; Pre-Seed $40k–$3.7M; Series A $7M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Balad — Balad is Egyptian Cross Border Payout Network primarily serving Money Transfer Operators (MTOs), fintechs and mobile wallets. Targeting sending markets including GCC, EU, US, Canada, and UK
  • Anchor — Anchor is a Lagos-based banking-as-a-service platform for African businesses. Anchor provides APIs and infrastructure to build, embed and launch powerful financial products in a secure and scalable way.
  • Itana — Talent City’s mission is to build a network of charter cities that focuses on creating technology-enabled jobs within a free trade zone with its own regulation and bylaws.
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Golden Palm Investments
VC Fund · Accra, Greater Accra, Ghana · 5 investments in Africa Consumer startups

Golden Palm Investments is an investment holding and advisory company.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, FinTech, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Nigeria, Egypt, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 54
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$13M; Pre-Seed $30k–$6.5M; Series A $2M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2014

Portfolio highlights

  • Sabipay — Pastel is a leader in Artificial Intelligence. We build products targeted at individuals (SwiftMoney) and enterprises (Sigma) in emerging markets
  • Maplerad — Maplerad is a fast, safe and easy way to send and receive money with friends, family or others you trust. You can receive and send money directly into any Nigerian bank account in minutes using Bitcoin, US Dollars, and Naira.
  • Jetstream Africa — Jetstream is a supply chain platform that powers freight forwarding and global exports for African suppliers. With tracking and consolidated (LCL) shipping Jetstream levels the playing field for access to international trade for African SMEs with the click of a button.
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U.S. International Development Finance Corp
VC Fund · Washington, District of Columbia, United States · 3 investments in Africa Consumer startups, 14 in the past 12 months

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt
  • Geography: India, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 55
  • Round size: Post-IPO Debt $34M–$765M; Debt Financing $8.8M–$200M
  • Lead/follow: 75% lead, 25% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • TerraPay — Accelerating business growth with uninterrupted global payouts and collections
  • TechMet — TechMet Ltd backs world-class teams and makes direct investments into companies and assets across the value chain.
  • Kentegra Biotechnology Holdings LLC — Kentegra Biotechnology Holdings is a leading U.S-Kenyan company that supports a Kenyan-based biopesticide processing business that aggregates, extracts, and refines pale refine extract (PRE) from the pyrethrum flower, and sells the PRE to formulators across the world. Kentegra is committed to improving farmer’s livelihoods by investing in thecommunities where we are working to help farmers and their families have a more stable income and better quality of life.Grants: Norad 2021, AgriFi 2020, USAID 2020, USAID 2019, DEG 2020, DEG 2019
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JAM Fund
VC Fund · Las Vegas, Nevada, United States · 3 investments in Africa Consumer startups, 6 in the past 12 months

JAM Fund operates as a venture capital firm investing in visionary founders disrupting large spaces. It is Tinder Founder Justin Mateen's venture capital firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, FinTech, Logistics
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Mexico, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 97
  • Round size: Seed $1.7M–$9.1M; Pre-Seed $460k–$3.7M; Series A $8M–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Usage AI — Usage AI's automated cloud management tools help companies save time and money in the cloud.
  • Vesto — Fintech
  • Syncfy — LATAM's leading financial API.
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Musha Ventures
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 3 investments in Africa Consumer startups

Seed capital for technology startups globally.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Software, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 131
  • Round size: Seed $120k–$3M; Pre-Seed $50k–$3.8M; Series A $2.5M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Terraa — Terraa is a B2B distribution platform in Moroccan.
  • OmniBiz — Omnibiz is a digital platform for small businesses willing to attract new customers.
  • Revivo — Revivo is an online marketplace for electronics spare parts, tools & accessories.
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Savannah Fund
VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya · 3 investments in Africa Consumer startups

Savannah Fund is a seed capital fund specializing in US$25,000-US$500,000 investments in early stage high growth technology (web and mobile) startups in sub-Saharan Africa. Initially focused on East Africa, the fund aims to bridge the early stage/angel and venture capital investment gap that currently exists in Africa. The Fund expects toachieve this objective by combining capital with mentor networks both in the region and from Silicon Valley via an accelerator program and a follow-on independent seed fund.The fund is managed by an experienced and technology savvy team that have founded companies or are actively involved in angel investing or having run successful accelerator programs in past but also understand the unique Subsaharan African environment. They are backed and supported by both local, regional and international networks of angels,venture capitalists whose expertise we can draw on to help startups succeed and scale to fully fledged regional or global companies.They believe in the potential for Africa to become a global technology innovator by creating sustainable for profit companies that create jobs and make an impact.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, United States, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 36
  • Round size: Seed $25k–$3M; Pre-Seed $200k–$2.1M; Series A $750k–$8M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $25M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Oze — OZÉ brings African small businesses into the digital era. It is an app that makes it easy for businesses to track sales, expenses, and customer information. The data is analyzed to provide tailored recommendations, reports, and business education. If the entrepreneur needs a little extra support, an OZÉ Coach is just a click away. As they are usingOZÉ to manage their business and learn how to run it better, we are learning about them. Using this data and machine learning, we can predict their credit risk and provide them with affordable capital from our banking partners. With over 20,000 registered users, OZÉ is the largest online community of SMEs in Ghana. The most exciting thing is that OZÉ works; 97% of businesses that have used OZE for at least 9 months are growing or profitable or both!
  • Root — Programmable insurance that you can integrate into your product or service with ease
  • Afropolitan — Afropolitan is building a Network State to unleash the maximum potential of Africans around the world. Are you interested? Join us with your email.
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4DX Ventures
VC Fund · Brooklyn, New York, United States · 3 investments in Africa Consumer startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Information Technology, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Egypt, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 66
  • Round size: Seed $431k–$13M; Pre-Seed $40k–$6.5M; Series A $3M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Tactyc — Tactyc is an easy-to-use portfolio construction, forecasting and management software for venture funds.
  • Zoie Health — Zoie is a digital health firm for women that provides family planning, fertility, and maternity care services.
  • Money Fellows — MoneyFellows digitizes the ROSCA model, enabling group lending and savings.
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4Di Capital
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 3 investments in Africa Consumer 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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Ventures Platform
VC Fund · Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria · 3 investments in Africa Consumer startups, 15 in the past 12 months

Ventures Platform Fund is a discovery fund that invests early in mission-driven founders that are building capital-efficient platforms that democratise prosperity, plug infrastructural gaps, connect underrepresented communities, solve for non-consumption, and improve livelihoods in Africa.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 127
  • Round size: Seed $325k–$4.4M; Pre-Seed $50k–$1.1M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $46M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Lengo — Lengo is an AI based intelligence platform that offers a large database on consumer goods for companies in the FMCG sector.
  • Traction Apps — Traction apps provide businesses end to end tools they need to run and grow their businesses.
  • Remedial Health — We improve business to business access to medicines by providing such medicines from manufactures/registered distributors direct to large and small healthcare retail businesses (large pharmacies and remote chemist/PPMVs (Patent and Proprietary Medicine Vendors)) using technology to deliver just-in-time stock and provide financing and awide selection of inventory to such retail business.
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Village Global
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in Africa Consumer startups, 30 in the past 12 months

Early stage venture capital backed by some of the world's best entrepreneurs.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 229
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$9.3M; Pre-Seed $246k–$3.5M; Series A $5.5M–$18M
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $125M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Atmosfy — Atmosfy lets you explore dining through video. Easily browse 10-second, engaging videos from customers who recently dined there.
  • OpenCover — Cover $5,000 from $1.14 per week on leading protocols including Curve, Uniswap, Aave and more. As seen on CoinDesk, Decrypt, The Block, Coin Telegraph.
  • Boost Capital — Boost Capital is a fintech company that offers online microfinance services at lower rates. It uses innovative technology to pre-qualify customers within minutes of applying for a loan based on ability and probability to repay. Boost Capital enables both collateralized and uncollateralized loans, with loan size across the small business spectrum(from $100 to $10,000). Its platform automates the loan application for MFI partners and allows customers to hear back on their loan applications 100x faster than through traditional paper-based loan applications.The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Singapore.
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DOB Equity
VC Fund · Veessen, Gelderland, The Netherlands · 2 investments in Africa Consumer startups

DOB Equity is a private equity firm specializing in growth capital and buy-and-build strategies in small and medium companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Food and Beverage, Farming, Health Care
  • Stage:Private Equity, Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 41
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$4M
  • Lead/follow: 61% lead, 39% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kwara — Kwara turns analog credit unions into modern digital banks.
  • Power — Putting individuals on the path towards financial health
  • 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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Voltron Capital
VC Fund · 2 investments in Africa Consumer startups

Voltron Capital operates as a venture capital firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Cryptocurrency
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 23
  • Round size: Seed $1.7M–$2.3M; Pre-Seed $70k–$1M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Lengo — Lengo is an AI based intelligence platform that offers a large database on consumer goods for companies in the FMCG sector.
  • Clafiya — Discover Clafiya: Your trusted digital health platform, uniting in-person care and virtual solutions for a personalized and caring healthcare experience. Embrace a healthier, happier you, with us by your side.
  • Kunda Kids — Kunda Kids is helping kids around the world fall in love with reading through our storybooks and activity books. Browse our range of storybooks for kids. Perfect for kids ages 3 to 8 years
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TBD Angels
VC Fund · Boston, Massachusetts, United States · 2 investments in Africa Consumer startups

TBD Angels is a group of like-minded angel investors who thrive on sharing advice, guidance, and capital with talented entrepreneurs. TBD Angels provide critical advice and connections to jumpstart the companies it invests in.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Kenya, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 56
  • Round size: Seed $53k–$6M; Angel $54k–$195k; Pre-Seed $200k–$1.8M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Magnomer — Magnomer is a manufacturer of novel magnetic inks for plastic packaging for the circular economy. It introduces Design2Recycle™, a revolutionary way of thinking about production. Central to their innovation are printable magnetizable inks: a design tool which allows consumer brands and manufacturers to enable better packaging recyclability withoutchanges to manufacturing. It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.
  • High Time Foods — Discover delicious and nutritious shelf-stable plant-based meat alternatives at High Time Foods. Our cuisine-agnostic products are perfect for every chef, every cuisine, in every corner of the world. Join us in creating a better food system that's good for people and the planet.
  • Powered by People — Powered by People is a values-driven wholesale platform featuring handmade, ethical products from makers in over 40 countries. Sign up now for pre-approved credit and net 60 terms at poweredbypeople.com
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Susa Ventures
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Africa Consumer startups, 22 in the past 12 months

A seed-stage VC fund investing in founders building value & defensibility through data, network effects, & economies of scale.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 213
  • Round size: Seed $1.9M–$5.3M; Series A $6.3M–$20M; Series B $11M–$65M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Harmonya — The all-in-one AI-powered product data enrichment, categorization, and insights platform for CPGs and retailers
  • Ambient — Swap cryptocurrencies like a pro with Ambient. Decentralized trading is now better than ever.
  • Volition — Volition is the largest marketplace of industrial components, built just for hardware teams. We make it easy to find and purchase off-the-shelf parts.
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Golden Ventures
VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 2 investments in Africa Consumer startups, 8 in the past 12 months

Golden Ventures is a leading seed-stage venture capital fund, based in Toronto and investing across North America. We back bold teams and their transformative ideas.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Canada, United States, Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 146
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$6M; Series A $3.5M–$32M; Series B $1.2M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • BenchSci — BenchSci is the world leader in AI-Assisted Reagent Selection and Experiment Design. Our preclinical R&D SaaS platform uses machine learning to help pharmaceutical companies increase their research velocity.
  • Ideogram — Ideogram: Helping people become more creative.
  • Shakudo — Shakudo unites all of the data tools and services you need into a single comprehensive data platform, allowing your team to develop and deploy analytics-based solutions with ease.
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KFW DEG
VC Fund · Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 2 investments in Africa Consumer startups, 15 in the past 12 months

KFW DEG offers financing, advice and support to private sector enterprises operating in developing and emerging-market countries. Their customers can rely on their expertise: They can benefit from their market knowledge, their 21 locations worldwide, and their international network. For entrepreneurial success and development.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Finance, Banking
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Grant
  • Geography: India, Kenya, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 50
  • Round size: Grant $100k–$1.1M; Debt Financing $4M–$105M
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Etana — PT Etana Biotechnologies Indonesia (Etana) is an emerging producer of high-quality, affordable and innovative biopharmaceuticals to treat a range of metabolic, autoimmune and other major life-threatening diseases, including cancer. Nathan Tirtana. Legend Capital. UOB Venture Management. Innovent Bio
  • BUA Cement — BUA Cement Plc is engaged in the production and marketing of cement under the brand name “BUA Cement”. Presently the company produces CEM II type of cement in accordance with the Nigerian Industrial Standards. BUA Cement is ideal for all construction purposes in Nigeria. Its unique quality makes it the cement of choice for block-making, plasteringand concrete works. Its high early strength, rapid setting and low heat of hydration are all distinct features that characterize our high quality production process.
  • Stima — Premium electric motorcycles and battery swapping technologies to better serve moto-taxi and delivery riders in Africa - Starting in Kenya
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Outlierz Ventures
VC Fund · Casablanca, Grand Casablanca, Morocco · 2 investments in Africa Consumer startups

We provide smart capital to grow investable startups in Africa

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Information Services
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Morocco, Egypt, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$6.2M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • PayTic — PayTic enables payments issuers to manage their card programs by providing dedicated back-office solutions that streamline the end-to-end operations in customer support, chargebacks, fraud, AML, reporting, and reconciliation. Our proprietary solutions are unique in automating and centralizing the program management processes, regardless of thenumber of processors and the payment networks involved in the payments products. We impact payments providers by eliminating the defragmented and manual processes and replacing them with a SaaS platform that increases proactivity, mitigates risks, and delivers value. It reduces the burn rate to near 0 in operational costs and offers an unprecedented competitive advantage. PayTic is introducing the Zero Ops model in managing payments.
  • Suplyd — Suplyd is a comprehensive digital solution that bridges the gap between restaurant operators and their suppliers in order to disrupt an untouched market with extreme fragmentation and resolve the problem end-to-end.
  • Terraa — Terraa is a B2B distribution platform in Moroccan.
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GreenTec Capital Partners
VC Fund · Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany · 2 investments in Africa Consumer startups

GreenTec Capital Partners is Germany's premier investor into African start-ups and SMEs. GreenTec invests through its unique Results4Equity model, acting as a co-founding partner that is only compensated on business success.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Agriculture, Computer
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, Côte d'Ivoire

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 21
  • Lead/follow: 90% lead, 10% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.1M in 2017

Portfolio highlights

  • Asilimia — Asilimia is a simple, fun mobile app for sending money through M-PESA quickly and without any transaction fees. Simply deposit money to your M-PESA, download Asilimia and send money for free to any other M-PESA account.
  • freshbag — freshbag is a wellness nutrition turnkey solution that supports corporate wellness programs by making it easy and convenient to live - and eat! - healthier.
  • ShapShap — ShapShap enhances delivery experience through its commission-based marketplace by assigning efficient orders to drivers to ensure their sustainability and scalability.
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Lynett Capital
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Africa Consumer startups

Lynett Capital is an early stage investment firm dedicated to the empowering technology companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Wireless, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Kenya, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 22
  • Round size: Seed $120k–$3M; Series A $3M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • OpenYield — OpenYield is the modern bond exchange for retail. Equity-like liquidity for corporates and treasures.
  • Notabene — Crypto Compliance for VASPs & Regulators made simple! Notabene is a platform designed to bridge crypto markets with traditional financial systems. Book a demo today.
  • ABL Space Systems — ABL Space Systems is a company based in El Segundo, California, focused on launch vehicle and launch systems technology development.
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Lion’s Head Global Partners
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in Africa Consumer startups

A global investment banking, asset management and advisory firm focused on delivering value to our clients in emerging and frontier markets

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Renewable Energy, Solar, Energy
  • Stage:Debt Financing
  • Geography: Kenya, France, Senegal

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Debt Financing $2.1M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 64% lead, 36% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Baobab+ — Baobab+ is a social business committed to providing access to energy and digital. We commercialize innovative products with financing solutions that meet the needs of local populations.
  • Yellow — Yellow enables a distributed network of sales agents to serve rural households with life-changing products and services through a digital technology platform called Ofeefee.
  • Decentral Energy — Decentral develops, owns, and manages clean energy assets in South Africa. We offer risk-free and fully financed solar energy solutions for our clients.
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Blue Haven Initiative
VC Fund · Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States · 2 investments in Africa Consumer startups

Blue Haven Initiative is an innovative family office dedicated to putting wealth to work for market returns and positive social and environmental change.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Solar, Energy, Financial Services
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, United States, Ghana

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 22
  • Round size: Series A $2M–$11M; Series B $12M–$22M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • M-KOPA — M-KOPA is the global leader for “pay-as-you-go” energy services for off-grid customers. M-KOPA was established in 2011. Following 2 years of piloting and development, M-KOPA began commercial sales in Kenya in October 2012. M-KOPA expanded to Uganda in 2013 and commences operations in Tanzania in late 2014. Their team includes over 500 staff andwe sell our product through more than 1000 retail agents and shops. The founders of the company are experienced mobile technology innovators who believe in the huge potential of transformative, affordable products designed for underserved consumers. While excellent technology is a pre-requisite, technology alone does not solve for customer needs. Success comes when smart technology is combined with a commitment to on-going, on-the-ground delivery. To that end, M-KOPA is beginning to license its technology to experienced and reputable third parties in markets outside of East Africa (licensing queries should be sent to licensing@m-kopa.com). M-KOPA has developed a proprietary, patented technology platform that combines embedded GSM + mobile payments to revolutionize asset financing in emerging markets. The M-KOPAnet platform has been designed and built from the ground up by our talented team of software engineers, who continue to innovate and improve the system every day. It offers the powerful combination of accounting + customer relationship management + inventory tracking in one complete system. Aside from enabling our business operations to scale at record speed, the M-KOPAnet™ platform captures and processes huge volumes of data, enabling us to improve our proposition, customer service, and security in real-time.
  • TIBU Health — TIBU Health is a disruptive HealthTech logistics company that provides high-quality healthcare services.
  • Field — Health supply chain technology and services across Africa
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SunFunder
VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya · 2 investments in Africa Consumer startups

SunFunder is a specialist financing company dedicated to pioneering and scaling clean energy and climate investments in emerging markets.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Solar, Energy, Renewable Energy
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Series C
  • Geography: The Netherlands, Kenya, Mauritius

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 18
  • Round size: Series C $20M–$60M; Debt Financing $1.5M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Yellow — Yellow enables a distributed network of sales agents to serve rural households with life-changing products and services through a digital technology platform called Ofeefee.
  • d.light — Founded in 2007 as a for-profit social enterprise, d.light manufactures and distributes award-winning solar lighting and power products designed to serve the more than 2 billion people globally without access to reliable electricity. Through five distribution hubs in East Africa, West Africa, India, Southeast Asia, and the United States, d.lighthas impacted over 65 million lives with its products. d.light is dedicated to providing the most reliable, affordable, and accessible solar lighting and power systems for the developing world, with the goal of reaching 100 million people by 2020. For more information, visit www.dlight.com.
  • Zola Electric — ZOLA Electric designs renewable energy solutions based on the latest in solar, battery and power electronics technology. Adaptable to energy need and income, ZOLA Electric’s solar systems can be bought over time using PAYGo micro-finance leasing and mobile money payments. ZOLA Electric powers more than 180,000 homes and businesses across Tanzania,Rwanda, Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana. Investors include Tesla, Vulcan Capital, DBL Partners, Helios Investment Partners, EDF, Total and GE Ventures. ZOLA Electric is a recipient of the UN Momentum for Change Award, the Zayed Future Energy Prize and is a member of the Global Cleantech 100.
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Accion Venture Lab
VC Fund · Washington, District of Columbia, United States · 2 investments in Africa Consumer startups, 9 in the past 12 months

Accion Venture Lab is an investment initiative that provides startups with seed capital and support.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, India, Brazil

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 104
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$6.4M; Series A $2.5M–$7.5M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Licify — Licify, a procurement cloud-based platform specialized in the construction industry, has redefined interactions between developers, contractors, sub-contractors and suppliers. It creates a community developing transparent and efficient realtionships allthrough the value chain. This improves the procurement and supply processes, generating savingsand increasing profitability.
  • Bababos — Bababos is a platform that allows SME manufacturers to quickly access a variety of high-quality raw materials, from polymers and chemicals to steel and other metal products. This eliminates the need to handle numerous suppliers. The company's platform streamlines the buying process by digitizing administrative duties. Additionally, Bababosprovides manufacturers with flexible payment options that lessen their financial burden and enable them to concentrate on what they do best—producing high-quality products. Bababos enhances the SME producers' supply chains.
  • Channel19 — Channel19 is building a platform for small truckers to aggregate freight from all of their digital broker and load board relationships in one place and find the best freight to move for their business. Truckers using Channel19 earn up to 20% more revenue and can save over $3,000 per truck per year in dispatch.
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HoaQ
VC Fund · 2 investments in Africa Consumer startups

Startup Investment Club

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Internet, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Nigeria, United Kingdom, Togo

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Seed $1.7M–$2M; Angel $100k–$130k; Pre-Seed $115k–$780k
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Clafiya — Discover Clafiya: Your trusted digital health platform, uniting in-person care and virtual solutions for a personalized and caring healthcare experience. Embrace a healthier, happier you, with us by your side.
  • Kunda Kids — Kunda Kids is helping kids around the world fall in love with reading through our storybooks and activity books. Browse our range of storybooks for kids. Perfect for kids ages 3 to 8 years
  • ChekkitApp — Chekkit is a DAG blockchain powered anti-counterfeiting solution for food and drug supply chain tracking and customer insights platform. It helps producers protect their brands, track supply chain activities, and collect last-mile consumer insights in real-time.
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Thelatest.ventures
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 2 investments in Africa Consumer startups

thelatest.ventures partners with the leading investment firms across the globe to localise, launch or scale intuitively exceptional growth businesses. To create superior investment and societal impact returns.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Finance, Financial Services
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: Nigeria, The Netherlands

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Series A $23M–$65M
  • Lead/follow: 60% lead, 40% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Moove — Moove is a mobility fintech that provides revenue-based vehicle financing to mobility entrepreneurs, democratizing vehicle ownership globally. The company embeds its alternative credit-scoring technology onto ride-hailing, logistics, and last-mile/instant delivery platforms, which allows access to proprietary performance and revenue analyticsof mobility entrepreneurs to underwrite loans.
  • Moove — Moove is a mobility fintech that provides revenue-based vehicle financing to mobility entrepreneurs, democratizing vehicle ownership across Africa.The company embeds its alternative credit-scoring technology onto ride-hailing and e-logistics platforms, which allows access to proprietary performance and revenue analytics of mobility entrepreneurs tounderwrite loans.Moove was founded by Ladi Delano and Jide Odunsi in 2019.
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Left Lane Capital
VC Fund · Brooklyn, New York, United States · 2 investments in Africa Consumer startups, 25 in the past 12 months

Left Lane Capital is a venture capital and seed-growth equity firm that invests in high-growth internet and consumer technology businesses that are fundamental to the human condition and spirit – where customers maintain a long-term relationship with the product, platform, or service.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series D
  • Geography: United States, Germany, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 89
  • Round size: Series A $9M–$65M; Series B $33M–$90M
  • Lead/follow: 66% lead, 34% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Animaj — Explore the future of storytelling where AI meets creativity at Animaj Lab. Join us on a journey to revolutionize kids' entertainment, crafting captivating content that keeps the digital-first generation engaged and inspired.
  • HOLY Energy — Energy drink for gamers
  • League One Volleyball — One League. For Youth. For Pro. For Life.
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Speedinvest
VC Fund · Vienna, Wien, Austria · 2 investments in Africa Consumer startups, 53 in the past 12 months

Speedinvest is one of Europe’s most active early-stage investors, with more than €1bn AUM, 40 investors, and offices in Berlin, London, Munich, Paris, Vienna and San Francisco. Your success is our priority, so we don’t just send some money and "check in" at board meetings. Our mission is to empower you with game-changing support throughevery stage of your journey. Our focused investment teams know your industry inside and out. Their Deep Tech, Fintech, Industrial Tech, Network Effects, Digital Health and Subscriptions experience, know-how and deep networks are yours from day one. You also have full access to our in-house Platform+ team of operational experts who can provide tailored growth marketing, people (HR), US business development, and networking support throughout every stage of your journey.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Germany, United Kingdom, Austria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 390
  • Round size: Seed $536k–$6.5M; Pre-Seed $396k–$1.9M; Series A $1.4M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • autone — Autone is a SaaS operational platform enabling retail & CPG businesses to make optimal decisions easily and quickly
  • Genie — Genie is a productive web development framework in Julia. Build web applications, UIs, backends, integrate with databases, set up web services and APIs.
  • Purpose Green — Purpose Green operates as a climatetech company.
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Kepple Africa Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Africa Consumer startups

Kepple Africa Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 74
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$4.5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3.7M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Chari — Chari is an e-commerce and fintech app for traditional retailers in French-Speaking Africa allowing them to order any consumer goods they sell and get delivered for free in less than 24 hours. Chari is also a financial services provider for these retailers, offering them microloans
  • Carry1st — Carry1st develops and publishes enriching mobile games and content apps for African consumers.
  • Beacon Power Services — Beacon Power Services is a utility company that provides energy management software and analytics for utilities.
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Partech
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 2 investments in Africa Consumer startups, 29 in the past 12 months

Partech is a global venture capital firm with offices in San Francisco, Paris, Berlin and Dakar. Partech invests in Internet and information technology startups at seed, venture and growth stages.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, France, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 432
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$5.6M; Series A $2.5M–$25M; Series B $8M–$54M
  • Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • CO2 AI — Empowering decision-makers to sustain our world via advanced software that shifts carbon emissions reduction from the theoretical to the impactful.
  • UpSlide — Produce high-quality reports and presentations faster in PowerPoint, Excel and Word. Save up to 8h each month in just a few clicks!
  • Commsignia — Commsignia specializes in the research and development, manufacturing and distribution of cooperative intelligent transportation systems. Its product line includes a V2X Communication Software Stack and Commsignia’s own security stack implementation, Hybrid V2X/ADAS Safety Applications, a V2X Simulator, On-Board Units (OBU) and Roadside Units(RSU).The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.
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Novastar Ventures
VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya · 2 investments in Africa Consumer startups

For the many, not just the few. For good.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Agriculture, Internet, Clean Energy
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 48
  • Round size: Series A $1M–$9.9M; Series B $660k–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $108M in 2020

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.
  • Turaco — Turaco develops simplified insurance and credit solutions through mobile technology to solve the healthcare financing needs. Turaco has simplified insurance products and also provides on-demand health loans, allowing customers to get healthcare at affordable monthly premiums.
  • MoKo Home + Living — MoKo Home is Kenya's one-stop furniture company specializing in comfort & smiles, having served over 10000 smiley homes to date. Will yours be next?
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AfricInvest
VC Fund · Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia · 2 investments in Africa Consumer startups

AfricInvest was founded in 1994 and is part of Integra Group, an investment and financial services company based in Tunisia.Uniquely positioned as one of the most experienced private equity investors on the continent, AfricInvest has dedicated investment teams focused on North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa, and employs 66 professionals based inseven offices.AfricInvest manages USD1 billion across 16 funds and benefits from strong, long-term support from both local and international investors, including leading development finance institutions in the United States and Europe.Having co-founded the African Venture Capital Association (AVCA) as well as the Middle East North Africa Private Equity Association (MENAPEA) and the Euromed Capital Forum, the firm is an active promotor of the private equity industry in the region.Since 1994, AfricInvest has invested in 135 companies across 25 African countries in a variety of high growth sectors and maintains a broad network of high quality executives across Africa, offering extensive expertise in key growth industries, including financial services, agribusiness, consumer/retail, education and healthcare.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Stage:Private Equity, Series A
  • Geography: Tunisia, Morocco, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 66
  • Round size: Series A $1.7M–$65M; Private Equity $6.5M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 73% lead, 27% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Bizao — Bizao vous permet d'accepter les moyens de paiement en ligne en Afrique pour la commercialisation de vos services et/ou produits.
  • Turaco — Turaco develops simplified insurance and credit solutions through mobile technology to solve the healthcare financing needs. Turaco has simplified insurance products and also provides on-demand health loans, allowing customers to get healthcare at affordable monthly premiums.
  • MFS Africa — MFS Africa is the largest mobile money inter-operability hub in Africa, which connects mobile network operators across the continent through a single API. In addition to mobile remittance services, the MFS Africa API enables merchant payment, bulk payment, bank-to-wallet transfers, and an array of other cross border digital payments services.
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Launch Africa
VC Fund · Ebène, Plaines Wilhems, Mauritius · 2 investments in Africa Consumer startups, 18 in the past 12 months

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 131
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$3M; Pre-Seed $200k–$1M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $36M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Lengo — Lengo is an AI based intelligence platform that offers a large database on consumer goods for companies in the FMCG sector.
  • Zanifu — The zanifu platform, allows small retailers in Sub Saharan Africa, to procure inventory from their suppliers & pay later.
  • Fixit45 — Your best ever automobile service experience awaits you.
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Norfund
VC Fund · Oslo, Oslo, Norway · 1 investments in Africa Consumer startups

Norfund is the Norwegian Investment Fund for developing countries with 24.9 bill. NOK in total commitments (2019).

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Energy, Financial Services, Renewable Energy
  • Stage:Private Equity, Debt Financing
  • Geography: Kenya, South Africa, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 55
  • Round size: Debt Financing $4.5M–$96M; Private Equity $6.6M–$227M
  • Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2009

Portfolio highlights

  • SAEL — SAEL is the brand for an end-to-end solution for agro-energy products and services. They have successfully forayed into procurement, processing, refining, warehousing, and distribution of rice, rice by-products, solvent extraction, and renewable energy solutions. They are into technological innovation, sustainable energy creation, conversion, andutilization, powering sustainable and scalable farming practices, and promoting and safeguarding the interests of producer-consumer interests. They have rice mills, and the main product is different varieties of rice. They also have biomass and solar-based power plants and are expanding solar and biomass power plants. They also have a warehouse for food storage.
  • SAMANU — SAMANU is a fast-moving consumer goods platform with well-established brands, including Tena Edible Oils, 555 and Aura Soap and Detergents, and Chef Luca Wheat Products.
  • Hela Clothing — Hela Clothing is a clothing manufacturer. From design to delivery, the firm collaborates closely with brands in the intimate, sleepwear, and children's product lines. With design centers in major markets, they can watch and predict customer preferences. This enables us to provide their customers with unique design options that fit theirrequirements.
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Synergy Growth
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Africa Consumer startups

Synergy Growth is a private tech investment fund, established in 2011 by Steve Brooks and Nat Billington. Their purpose is to make early stage investments in disruptive technologies that aim to change the way we live our lives for the better. They invest resources in exceptional entrepreneurs and teams to help accelerate their growth and bringto market their innovative ideas and products. Their current portfolio has a strong focus on clean energy production and storage, and transport, as climate change is the most pressing issue facing humanity today. They have also invested in start-ups that harness the latest technologies to alter the way they work, communicate, travel and learn, towards more efficiency and less waste.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Solar, Energy, Hardware
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Kenya, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Bboxx — Bboxx exists to solve energy poverty. We transform lives and unlock potential through energy access.
  • BRCK — BRCK is an integrated hardware and software company based in Nairobi, Kenya that designs and engineers a rugged, self-powered, mobile WiFi device which connects people and things to the internet in areas of the world with poor infrastructure. Our vision is a world connected, where the last-mile of internet connectivity is as seamless for someoneliving in Africa as it is in Europe or the US. Ushahidi is a global organization that empowers people to make serious impact with open source technologies, cross-sector partnerships, and ground-breaking ventures.
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Lightrock
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Africa Consumer startups, 9 in the past 12 months

Lightrock is a global private equity platform investing in sustainable businesses built by purpose-driven entrepreneurs, committed to innovation for systemic change at scale.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series C, Series B, Series E
  • Geography: India, Brazil, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 96
  • Round size: Series B $6.3M–$50M; Series C $7.2M–$100M; Series E $185M–$400M
  • Lead/follow: 57% lead, 43% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $834M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • M-KOPA — M-KOPA is the global leader for “pay-as-you-go” energy services for off-grid customers. M-KOPA was established in 2011. Following 2 years of piloting and development, M-KOPA began commercial sales in Kenya in October 2012. M-KOPA expanded to Uganda in 2013 and commences operations in Tanzania in late 2014. Their team includes over 500 staff andwe sell our product through more than 1000 retail agents and shops. The founders of the company are experienced mobile technology innovators who believe in the huge potential of transformative, affordable products designed for underserved consumers. While excellent technology is a pre-requisite, technology alone does not solve for customer needs. Success comes when smart technology is combined with a commitment to on-going, on-the-ground delivery. To that end, M-KOPA is beginning to license its technology to experienced and reputable third parties in markets outside of East Africa (licensing queries should be sent to licensing@m-kopa.com). M-KOPA has developed a proprietary, patented technology platform that combines embedded GSM + mobile payments to revolutionize asset financing in emerging markets. The M-KOPAnet platform has been designed and built from the ground up by our talented team of software engineers, who continue to innovate and improve the system every day. It offers the powerful combination of accounting + customer relationship management + inventory tracking in one complete system. Aside from enabling our business operations to scale at record speed, the M-KOPAnet™ platform captures and processes huge volumes of data, enabling us to improve our proposition, customer service, and security in real-time.
  • Lulalend — Financial provider for SME business banking accounts, business funding, and trade capital in South Africa. Do not delay. Click now to learn more and start today!
  • Combio Energia — ComBio Energia Provide energy generation solutions with renewable sources, creating, growing, and long-term economic value. They develop projects for steam generation and cogeneration of electricity with biomass, which promote environmental improvements and significant cost reductions for customers in the industrial segment. They offer, based on adetailed analysis of the needs of each customer, a dedicated energy solution, adapted to their consumption profile.
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Strattech Partners
VC Fund · Devon, Pennsylvania, United States · 1 investments in Africa Consumer startups

Strattech Partners, located in Devon, PA, is a consulting and venture capital firm that focuses on the development of growth stage companies. We offer CEO and CFO consulting services, operational consulting, and general financial consulting services, including treasury, general and strategic management services. Past engagements have includedacting CFO assignments as well as interim Controller/VP Finance assignments, turnaround and restructuring assistance, and other positions related to implementing change within organizations. Venture Capital investments are done through Strattech Partners I, LP and through our affiliate Zon Capital Partners, an SBIC venture fund.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, B2B
  • Stage:Seed, Series C
  • Geography: United States, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Qwili — Qwili makes smartphones with a voice-guided, local language onboarding experience for new users.
  • EcomXML — EcomXML is a leading e-commerce solution provider for business-to-business (B2B) enterprise integration. EcomXML provides companies with enterprise integration solutions to link their buyers, suppliers and e-commerce portals together to streamline their e-business in real-time through the Internet. EcomXML utilizes open XML technology to achieveboth inter-company and intra-company integration regardless their existing technology infrastructure.
  • StarCite — StarCite's online business-to-business software and services allow corporations to purchase and manage products and services related to their company meetings and events.
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Chui Ventures
VC Fund · Delaware, Ohio, United States · 1 investments in Africa Consumer startups

Investing in Africa | Chui Ventures is an investment company that seeks to back exceptional African companies at the early stage of their growth.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Fashion, Software, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Leta — Leta Technology is a software development company that creates supply chain and logistics software to enable the efficient and automated movement of goods.
  • Shop Zetu — Shop the latest trendy fashion, beauty and accessory brands in Kenya online! Discover affordable clothing, footwear, accessories, beauty products and more. Order today from Shop Zetu.
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Next Chymia Consulting
VC Fund · Sheung Wan, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong · 1 investments in Africa Consumer startups

Create new business models with multidisciplinary blockchain professionals. Next Chymia Consulting has an international network of Blockchain technology and financial services. We are a group which make use of international networks and provide consulting services worldwide.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, FinTech, Medical
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, Ghana, Romania

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Seed $580k–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Qwili — Qwili makes smartphones with a voice-guided, local language onboarding experience for new users.
  • IPOR Labs — IPOR Labs is developing a platform for interest rate swaps and allowing you to fix loans. IPOR - the heartbeat of Defi.
  • Afya Rekod — AfyaRekod is a digital health data platform that focuses on the patient and allows health facilities to capture, store, have real-time access and mobility of the patients' health data.
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Acumen
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Africa Consumer startups

Acumen is a nonprofit venture fund that invests in early-stage companies bringing critical services like agriculture, clean energy, education, financial inclusion, healthcare and workforce development to low-income communities in 14 countries across East and West Africa, South Asia, Latin America, and the United States. Since 2001, Acumeninvested $128 million in 128 companies that have transformed the lives of over 308 million low-income people.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Financial Services, Agriculture
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, India, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 128
  • Round size: Seed $300k–$2.3M; Series A $1M–$13M
  • Lead/follow: 59% lead, 41% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Kentaste — Virgin coconut oil, Coconut Cream, and Coconut Milk
  • Zeraki — Zeraki is to use technology to address some of the obstacles learners encounter in accessing quality education. We use technology to enhance the quality of education students get at each level of education and use technology to help students transition from one level of education to the next, and ultimately from education into employment.
  • SokoFresh — SokoFresh An Award winning social enterprise that is addressing post harvest loss issues through a cooling as a service proposition coupled with a market linkage service to small holder farmers and aggregators. SokoFresh An Award winning social enterprise that is addressing post harvest loss issues through a cooling as a service proposition coupled with a
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Acuity Ventures
VC Fund · San Jose, California, United States · 1 investments in Africa Consumer startups

Acuity Ventures is a Silicon Valley-based family of venture capital funds that provide investment capital and strategic guidance to early stage and emerging growth companies. The Fund currently investing is Acuity Ventures III LP, formed in 2004. Acuity provides capital through convertible preferred debt, direct equity investments and otherinvestment participations.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Information Technology, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, Togo, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $725k–$1M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Bypa-ss — Bypa-ss is working on creating a world-class SaaS healthcare environment and revolutionizing healthcare in Egypt, Join Us
  • MIA Group — MIA Group is a consumer internet company in Francophone Africa. We are on a mission to make commerce easy through a digital ecosystem fulfilling the everyday needs of consumers online and offline.Our businesses include Miaplenou.com: The largest online retail platform operating in Togo, Benin, Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso. Launched 2012.Kiosk: online reselling App that enables anyone to start a business without investment. Launched 2021.MiaPay: QR code payment and lifestyle services
  • LemFi — Lemonade Finance is a digital bank for the African diaspora. Lemonade provides users with accounts in their country of residence and country of origin for personal and business banking needs.
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Sherpa Africa Partners
VC Fund · 1 investments in Africa Consumer startups

A venture fund for pre-seed startups in Africa, led by Startup Operators, backed by Startup Operators.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Emerging Markets, Financial Services, Credit
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: Togo, South Africa, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Sava — Sava is a multi-management platform that provides an unlimited number of virtual cards as well as automated accounting reconciliation.
  • MIA Group — MIA Group is a consumer internet company in Francophone Africa. We are on a mission to make commerce easy through a digital ecosystem fulfilling the everyday needs of consumers online and offline.Our businesses include Miaplenou.com: The largest online retail platform operating in Togo, Benin, Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso. Launched 2012.Kiosk: online reselling App that enables anyone to start a business without investment. Launched 2021.MiaPay: QR code payment and lifestyle services
  • Boost Technology — Enabling informal small businesses to thrive in Africa's emerging digital economy
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Triple Jump
VC Fund · 1 investments in Africa Consumer startups

Triple Jump is an impact-focused investment manager.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Finance, Financial Services
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Series A
  • Geography: India, Senegal, Mauritius

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Baobab+ — Baobab+ is a social business committed to providing access to energy and digital. We commercialize innovative products with financing solutions that meet the needs of local populations.
  • Yellow — Yellow enables a distributed network of sales agents to serve rural households with life-changing products and services through a digital technology platform called Ofeefee.
  • Light Microfinance — We are one of the top Microfinance companies in India. Light Microfinance head office is located in Ahmedabad.
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Oikocredit International
VC Fund · Amersfoort, Utrecht, The Netherlands · 1 investments in Africa Consumer startups

Oikocredit is guided by the principle of empowering people. Their experience proves that the most effective and sustainable means of assisting those in need is providing an opportunity to help themselves.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Series B
  • Geography: India, Nigeria, Ghana

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 39
  • Round size: Series B $4.1M–$8.9M; Debt Financing $1.1M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kaleidofin — Kaleidofin is a fintech platform that provides complete financial solutions for excluded individuals and households. The platform propels under-banked customers towards meeting their real life goals by providing intuitive and tailored financial solutions. Their solutions take into account the financial roadblocks and vulnerability that thesesegments, such as volatile income streams and limited understanding of the fine print in financial products.Kaleidofin creates individual profiles of households based on several sources and uses that information to tailor its services for each customer. It also provides curated, goal-based financial solutions to people in the underbanked segments. It will leverage the full India stack, existing networks, analytics, structuring, and user-centered design to drive outcomes for customers, in the processKaleidofin was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
  • Prestamype — Prestamype was launched in 2017 with the aim of providing a broader access to funding to micro and small businesses, with better credit conditions. With its first product, a secured working capital loan with a real estate collateral, it has lent over USD 24 million to 750 Peruvian entrepreneurs (as of 1st of October 2021). In 2019, Prestamypelaunched its online FX platform called Cambio Seguro. In 2020, the company launched its digital factoring product. In 2021, INCA Ventures and Angel Ventures Peru (AVP), two leading funds in Peru, invested in the company.
  • Annapurna Finance — Annapurna Finance operates as a micro finance company. We offer agricultural loans, money loans, small business loans, insurance and home improvement loans at their doorstep.
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E4EAfrica
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in Africa Consumer startups

E4E (“Entrepreneurs for Entrepreneurs”) specializes in supporting early stage ventures in South Africa from very early stage (pre-series A) to scale up.E4E focus on smart entrepreneurs and business ideas that are great businesses and make a significant contribution to a better (South) Africa.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Logistics, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: South Africa, France, The Netherlands

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Seed $3M–$5.3M; Series A $1M–$4.3M
  • Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Talk360 — Talk360 is an easy-to-use calling app that helps people make affordable international calls to any mobile and landline number. They believe that reliable communication and digital services must be affordable and accessible to everyone, regardless of someone's background. Especially people in emerging countries in Africa, who often need theseservices the most, do not always have the necessary banking possibilities. To bridge this distance, Talk360 will launch the world's first single checkout platform for Africa. This platform will combine all locally available payment methods and currencies across Africa, together with over 1.25 million cash points of sales, and will eventually be available to other companies as well. This means that 500 million Africans will be able to purchase digital services they never had access to before.
  • SweepSouth — Book a home cleaning online from your mobile, tablet or computer. SweepSouth connects you with a cleaner in minutes. Cleaners are experienced, reliable, efficient and insured.
  • Yebo Fresh — Powering South Africa's Township Economy.
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Satgana
VC Fund · Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg · 1 investments in Africa Consumer startups, 8 in the past 12 months

Satgana is a Climate Tech VC firm on a mission to invest in planet-positive startups building the Future of Earth.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Energy, Software, CleanTech
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Germany, United States, The Netherlands

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $600k–$1.4M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $32M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Loewi — Loewi allows you to sell your two-wheeled companion.
  • Revivo — Revivo is an online marketplace for electronics spare parts, tools & accessories.
  • Arda Biomaterials — Arda Biomaterials transforms waste feedstocks into smarter, circular biomaterials for fashion, home goods, automotive and more.
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Altos Ventures
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 1 investments in Africa Consumer startups, 19 in the past 12 months

Altos Ventures was founded in 1996 to invest in early stage technology companies. After starting with $30 million in committed capital, we currently manage more than $8 billion in regulatory assets under management, supporting the full lifecycle of companies from inception to global growth and profitability. We have been the first and leadinstitutional investor in 100+ companies around the world. We invest in both consumer and enterprise tech companies, with particular interest in enterprise SaaS, FinTech, e-commerce, and consumer brands and services. We look to invest in high-growth, capital-efficient, founder-led companies. Initial investments can start as small as $500,000 while our follow-on investments can exceed $100 million in a single round, purchasing both primary and secondary shares.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Internet
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 215
  • Round size: Series A $2M–$11M; Series B $3.1M–$24M; Series C $4.3M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $450M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • AiderX — AiderX is a technology startup that creates AI assistants for everyone. We believe that AI should be available to everyone and that it has the potential to change the way we live and work. Our goal is to make AI simple, intuitive, and simple to use.
  • MathFLAT — MathFLAT is a B2B mobile solution for mathematics education.
  • PlayList — PlayList is a web drama production company that produces dramas and music content. The company's two flagship web drama series, Love Playlist and A-Teen have gained huge popularity amongst the 18-24 age segment. Playlist dramas have over 10 million subscribers and 1.3 billion views.
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CDC Group
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Africa Consumer startups

British International Investment is the UK's development finance institution. We've been at the forefront of supporting companies in developing countries for more than 70 years.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Banking, Finance
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Series B
  • Geography: India, Nigeria, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 111
  • Round size: Series B $2M–$93M; Debt Financing $4M–$90M
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2009

Portfolio highlights

  • Paymob — Paymob runs millions of transactions for different business sizes across the Middle East and Africa. Start using Paymob’s solutions and API’s to accept and send payments for your online business now.
  • Ecom Express — Get express delivery courier services from Ecom Express, the best courier companies in India, and deliver your packages safely and on time to your customers.
  • Jingsil Intelligent — Jingsil Intelligent is dedicated to digital power distribution switches and intelligent power distribution management software systems.
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Esas Ventures
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Africa Consumer startups

Esas Ventures is the venture capital arm of Esas Holding, one of the largest family-owned investment firms in Turkey and is backed by the first and second generation family members of Şevket Sabancı, one of the founding members of Sabancı Holding, a leading Turkish conglomerate.With offices in Istanbul and London, Esas Ventures invests in earlystage companies globally.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, E-Commerce, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Kenya, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 29
  • Round size: Seed $125k–$9M; Series A $6.1M–$17M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Procol — Reliable, flexible and simple-to-adopt spend management platform that drives sourcing and procurement excellence.
  • Flora — Flora is the only sustainable brand platform acquiring and growing Amazon FBA brands with a world-class team of professionals.
  • Gowit Technology — GoWit is a leading AdTech company, specializing in a multi-channel Retail Media Ads platform for online retailers. Our main objective is to empower businesses with comprehensive advertising solutions and maximize ad monetization. To reach a broader audience, we offer a variation of on-site & off-site advertising options such as SponsoredProducts, Sponsored Brands, Display, Video and In-Store Ads. With a clear focus on transparency, we are committed to helping our partners establish a powerful presence in the ever-growing world of retail.
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AngelHub Ventures
VC Fund · Stellenbosch, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in Africa Consumer startups

Operating out of Stellenbosch in South Africa and backed by two family offices Angelhub Ventures's team is passionate about early stage investments in (South) Africa. Being entrepreneurial ourselves, we thoroughly understand the challenges and changes our founders face – which is why we back them in any way we can. Most importantly, we believein building great businesses and we are in it for the long haul.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Education
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Series A $300k–$1.7M
  • Lead/follow: 83% lead, 17% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2014

Portfolio highlights

  • Syscap — Syscap is a financial technology company that offers cutting-edge solutions to financial institutions to have a better administration and management of their funding sources. It connects the leaders of financial and real estate institutions with their funders. For institutions, the company ensures the optimization of their funding source managementprocesses, but also the strengthening of the relationship with their funders. To funders, Syscap guarantees the transparency and timely monitoring of its funds for the safety and growth of its resources.
  • Godochurch — GoDoChurch is a cloud-based church administration software which is designed to assist Christian churches and ministries with managing members, Sunday services, events, communications, and more. The system is made up of a base package, covering messaging, news, ministries, lists, church roles, services, events, and growth paths, with additionalmodules for managing follow-ups, groups, and Kids church.
  • Ikeja Wireless — Welcome to your Ikeja. We are a home-grown tech company that builds services enabling affordable internet access to Ekasi. We may have coverage in your area!
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Lundin Foundation
VC Fund · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada · 1 investments in Africa Consumer startups

The Lundin Foundation is a philanthropic organization founded originally by the Lundin family. The Foundation is currently supported by a number of publicly traded natural resource companies committed to the highest standards of corporate responsibility. The Lundin Foundation embodies the entrepreneurial spirit of the Lundin family. TheFoundation provides risk capital in the form of investments into high potential small- and medium-sized businesses, with a view to generating wealth and employment needed to alleviate poverty on a sustained basis. It also provides strategic grants to early stage innovations and for technical and managerial assistance.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile, Apps, Energy
  • Stage:Series A, Series D
  • Geography: Kenya, Mauritius

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Esoko Networks — Esoko is an information and communication service for agricultural markets in Africa. We provide advice directly to farmers (market prices, weather forecasts, and growing tips) to help them increase yields and profits. We also provide solutions to businesses to help them connect with farmers (marketing products, monitoring activities, and sourcinggoods). Esoko uniquely provides an entire ecosystem to make this work; including the content, software and field support.Esoko equips businesses, NGOs, Mobile Operators and Governments with a unique series of specialized apps to help manage information to and from the field. Farmers sell better and grow more. Businesses source differently, and market more effectively. Mobile operators increase market share through bundled services for rural communities, and governments track realtime market trends. No platform connects so many in such a powerful way.Esoko makes communication easier. You can send personalized messages to thousands. You can ask questions and get answers from the field. It?s the first time anyone can affordably and effectively reach people in remote rural communities. Organizations can reduce their operational costs, improve their monitoring of market trends, track field activities -- all for a fraction of the cost of traditional field operations. Esoko can transform African markets into more efficient value opportunities for both the business and the individual, simply by promoting market transparency through mobile devices.
  • M-KOPA — M-KOPA is the global leader for “pay-as-you-go” energy services for off-grid customers. M-KOPA was established in 2011. Following 2 years of piloting and development, M-KOPA began commercial sales in Kenya in October 2012. M-KOPA expanded to Uganda in 2013 and commences operations in Tanzania in late 2014. Their team includes over 500 staff andwe sell our product through more than 1000 retail agents and shops. The founders of the company are experienced mobile technology innovators who believe in the huge potential of transformative, affordable products designed for underserved consumers. While excellent technology is a pre-requisite, technology alone does not solve for customer needs. Success comes when smart technology is combined with a commitment to on-going, on-the-ground delivery. To that end, M-KOPA is beginning to license its technology to experienced and reputable third parties in markets outside of East Africa (licensing queries should be sent to licensing@m-kopa.com). M-KOPA has developed a proprietary, patented technology platform that combines embedded GSM + mobile payments to revolutionize asset financing in emerging markets. The M-KOPAnet platform has been designed and built from the ground up by our talented team of software engineers, who continue to innovate and improve the system every day. It offers the powerful combination of accounting + customer relationship management + inventory tracking in one complete system. Aside from enabling our business operations to scale at record speed, the M-KOPAnet™ platform captures and processes huge volumes of data, enabling us to improve our proposition, customer service, and security in real-time.
  • Umati Capital — We specialize in online gaming All games are secure, and the payouts are fast. Everyone will find an experience that fits them here. Read More Top Gaming Community Feel The Thrill Games comprise table and card games that are dominant in today's gambling lifestyle and activity. Play in the palm of your hand.A classic that
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