# Top 50 Education Startup Investors in Africa in October 2023

## iHub
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya
- Relevant deals: 10
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Education, E-Learning, EdTech

iHub is a globally recognized organization that is deeply steeped in the local tech innovation culture. It is fair to say that the iHub has been both the main catalyst for regional tech acceleration and a role model for tech hubs across emerging markets. We are nurturing the best innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem; one that constantlychallenges and influences technology; one that can be replicated across the continent, as we believe that African innovation will play a critical role in shaping future technology globally.

## Launch Africa
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Ebène, Plaines Wilhems, Mauritius
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology

Launch Africa is a leading Pan-African VC fund solving the significant funding gap in the Seed and pre-Series A investment landscape in Africa.

## Miles Morland
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Internet, Education, Publishing

Miles co-founded DPI in 2007 after having become non-executive Chairman of Blakeney Management (Blakeney) in July 2006 by which time the firm was considered to be one of the largest portfolio investors in many African stock markets. Blakeney was set up by Miles in 1990, first as a consultancy and, since 1994, as an asset management firm, investingin Africa and the Middle East. Blakeney was one of the first investors in many African markets and Miles played an active role in the development of markets in countries such as Ghana, Morocco, Egypt, Kenya and Tunisia.Before starting Blakeney, Miles spent 22 years in money management and investment banking in London and on Wall Street.Miles is also on the boards of SABMiller plc, the world’s second largest brewer and SouthWest Energy (BVI) Ltd, an Ethiopian oil exploration company. He was the founder and chairman for five years of the London Business School’s Africa Board. He read Law at the University of Oxford. Miles is a British citizen.

## Proparco
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Debt Financing, Series B
- Focus: Financial Services, Finance, Energy

Proparco is devoted to private sector funding in the sustainable development sector.

## AngelHub Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Stellenbosch, NA - South Africa, South Africa
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Education

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.

## Investisseurs & Partenaires
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, Health Care, Food and Beverage

Investisseurs et Partenaires

## Ventures Platform
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Internet

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.

## Kepple Africa Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software

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

## Vumela Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Hyde Park, Newtownabbey, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Debt Financing
- Focus: Education, Software, Primary Education

Vumela was established in 2009 by FNB Business Banking and Edge Growth. The objective was to create an innovative model for the development of a sustainable and a financially and operationally independent investment business which invests in high growth small, medium and micro size enterprises with good economic and impact returns.Vumela wascapitalised in 2010. Within the first four years, we’d invested R90 million into eight high growth SMEs, and created a total of 400 jobs. They launched their second fund in 2015, after a further investment of R100 million from FirstRand and R127 million from the Jobs Fund. Within the first year of launching this second fund, we’ve committed R43 million to five investments that are expected to create over 1800 new jobs.The first fund of its kind in South Africa, Vumela’s main goals are to invest in and develop entrepreneurial companies in order to help alleviate poverty in South Africa by creating jobs, and to generate a return for its beneficiaries: the Shalamuka Foundation and the FirstRand Group.

## Olugbenga Agboola
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Internet

Olugbenga Agboola is the Co-Founder and CEO of Flutterwave. He previously worked at Africa Fintech Foundry as a Senior Entrepreneur In Residence. Olugbenga Agboola attended MIT Sloan School of Management.

## Flat6Labs Tunisia
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Retail, Education

Flat6Labs is the MENA region’s leading seed and early stage venture capital firm, currently running the most renowned startup programs in the region. Annually, Flat6Labs invests in more than 100 innovative and technology-driven startups enabling thousands of passionate entrepreneurs to achieve their daring ambitions and ultimately becoming theirinstitutional co-founders.

## Consonance Investment Managers
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, FinTech

We are an investment company focused on helping early and growth-stage entrepreneurs build successful companies in Africa.

## ODBA
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Port Louis, Port Louis, Mauritius
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Financial Exchanges

We invest in people and stories, which are at the heart of everything we do.

## LoftyInc Capital Management
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Carmel, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software

LoftyInc Capital Management empowers Afropreneurs to build a prosperous and equitable future in Africa. We deliver value to both founders and investors.........

## Chinook Capital Limited
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: EdTech, Retail, Home Services

Chinook Capital is focused on investments in seed- and pre-stage companies in internet software, services, and media sectors.

## Maroc Numeric Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Casablanca, Grand Casablanca, Morocco
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Online Portals, Enterprise Software, FinTech

Maroc Numeric Fund is a tech VC fund investing in Morocco.

## Shola Akinlade
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Education, InsurTech

Shola Akinlade is the Co-founder and CEO at Paystack.

## Future Africa
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology

Future Africa is a collective of mission-driven founders and funders building unicorns to solve Africa’s biggest challenges. They are build a future where purpose and prosperity are within everyone’s reach.

## DOB Equity
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Veessen, Gelderland, The Netherlands
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Private Equity, Seed
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Farming, Health Care

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

## Acumen
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, Health Care, Agriculture

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.

## Folarin Falana
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Education

Folarin Falana

## FINCA Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, Education, Agriculture

FINCA Ventures is an impact investing initiative of FINCA International that provides patient capital and support to early-stage social enterprises.

## Akitoye Balogun
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Education

Akitoye Balogun

## pledges.com
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Education

Start a US charity in minutes, without filing any paperwork

## Nestcoin
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tórtola, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Education

Nestcoin is a web3 application company that builds, operates, and invests in crypto-native products.

## Ardent Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bangkok, Krung Thep, Thailand
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Software

Leading Venture Capital & Builder in Southeast Asia | Experts in E-Commerce, B2B, B2C, Fulfilment Startups | Seed, Series A Funding

## Musha Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, Software, FinTech

Seed capital for technology startups globally.

## TLcom Capital Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Mobile, Information Technology

TLcom Capital, is an Africa focused tech VC, with offices in Lagos, Nairobi and London. TLcom had been investing since 1999 in Tech, Media, Mobil and Internet companies across Europe, US and Africa, which is the exclusive focus of its most recent TLcom TIDE Africa funds.
TLcom manages total commitments of approximately 300 million USD in thesesectors via a series of dedicated investment vehicles. Our investment strategy is to identify, back and assist world class entrepreneurs and management teams with disruptive technologies and business models, compelling intellectual property and deep market knowledge.
We primarily target companies focused on Africa as a prime market, in the following investment themes: Access to Data Service; Financial Services; eCommerce; B2C applications (including but not limited to: health, education, energy, media and entertainment); and Software solutions to corporates and SMEs.

## Savannah Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, FinTech, Information Technology

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.

## Knife Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing

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## LocalGlobe
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce

Seeding ambitious founders at places like @citymapper, @improbableio,@teamkano, @moo, @songkick,@seedcamp, @transferwise and @zoopla since 1999. Who's next?

## Microtraction
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software

We invest in Africa's most remarkable teams with technical founders at the earliest stage of their venture

## Rise Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Health Care

Rise Capital is a leading global venture capital firm focused on Emerging Markets

## Finnfund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Debt Financing, Series B
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Renewable Energy

Finnfund is a Finnish development finance company that provides long-term risk capital for private projects in developing countries. Apart from co-investing with Finnish companies they can finance ventures that use Finnish technology, cooperate with Finnish partners on a long-term basis or generate major environmental or social benefits.

## African Infrastructure Investment Managers
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Private Equity, Debt Financing
- Focus: Solar, Energy, SaaS

African Infrastructure Investment Managers (AIIM) develops and manages private equity infrastructure funds designed to invest long-term institutional unlisted equity in African infrastructure projects.

## Verdant Frontiers
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Austin, Texas, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Travel, FinTech, Finance

Verdant Frontiers designs and builds large-scale businesses to deliver compelling returns for investors and life-changing jobs in Africa.

## Growth Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: EdTech, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)

We are Nigeria's first social innovation fund aimed at creating an unprecedented path to scale for outliers driving social change in Nigeria.

## Autodesk Foundation
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Energy, Solar, Aerospace

Autodesk Foundation is the first foundation to focus investment exclusively on the people and organizations using design for impact.

## Educas
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Education, Non Profit, Environmental Consulting

Educas is a global investment firm focused on the education sector. Educas has two platforms: an international premium K-12 group of 42 schools educating over 31,000 students from Nursery to Grade 12 and a tertiary platform launched in 2017.

## Ceniarth
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Debt Financing, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Agriculture, Social Entrepreneurship, Energy

Ceniarth is a single-family office focused on funding market-based solutions that benefit underserved communities. Through their investing activity, they provide capital to accelerate the deployment of products and services that directly impact underserved communities. They aim to support enterprises in ways that lead to long term commercialsustainability.They organize their work around program areas that aim to think systematically about sector development and the obstacles to growth. They endeavor to support market ecosystems in ways that attract ongoing private investment or public sector support.Ceniarth began operations in 2013 and works in conjunction with the Isenberg Family Charitable Foundation. Their ability to leverage grants and program-related investments, in addition to return-seeking capital, allows us to think flexibly and creatively to address funding gaps. Their goal is to apply the right, most efficient form of capital for a given need in order to produce meaningful impacts for communities.

## D3 Jubilee
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Health Care

D3 is headquartered in Seoul and San Francisco, pioneering the domestic and global impact investment areas. D3 redefines the role of capital by investing in entrepreneurial innovation that improves the lives of low-income families, women, and immigrants, and creates an environmentally sustainable world.Invest in ICT start-ups with highsocio-environmental value in low-income countries such as Korea, USA and South America, Africa and India.

## Techstars Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Boulder, Colorado, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

Techstars Ventures (formerly Bullet Time Ventures) is the venture capital arm of Techstars. Bullet Time Ventures is a $150 million fund based in Boulder, Colorado.

## IFC Venture Capital Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series C
- Focus: E-Commerce, Financial Services, Internet

IFC supports technology ventures that are creating new opportunities in emerging markets, transforming industries, and driving inclusive growth while realizing strong returns.

## Idris Ayodeji Bello
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Information Technology

The 'Afropreneur' (entrepreneur with an African focus), as he self-describes, Idris Ayodeji Bello is a Partner at LoftyInc Allied Partners Limited and co-founder of The Wennovation Hub, an innovation platform based in Nigeria, that has successfully accelerated the launch of several technology start-ups in social impact sectors. He isalso a Founding Partner at Loftyinc Capital Management, owners of the Afropreneurs Fund (I&II)The 'Afropreneur' (entrepreneur with an African focus), as he self-describes, Idris Bello is a Partner at LoftyInc Allied Partners Limited and co-founder of The Wennovation Hub, an innovation platform based in Nigeria, that has successfully accelerated the launch of several technology start-ups in social impact sectors. He is also a Founding Partner at Loftyinc Capital Management, owners of the Afropreneurs Fund (I&II)A first class honors graduate of Computer Engineering from Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria, he has an M.Sc in Computer Science & Data Mining from the University of Houston; an MBA in Entrepreneurship & Strategy from Rice University in Houston and an M.Sc in Global Health Science from the University of Oxford, where he was a 2011 recipient of The Lord Weidenfeld Scholarship for demonstrating remarkable potential as a future leader from an emerging economy.Idris spent the greater part of a decade working at Chevron Corporation and ExxonMobil USA, where he led several large upstream technology projects across the USA and Sub-Saharan Africa. Idris has also worked with the Clinton Foundation Health Access Initiative where he played a major role in the deployment and evaluation of Swaziland’s first mobile health patient appointment reminder system as part of the country’s National AIDS Program. Listed among CNN’s Top Ten African Technology Voices, he is a Singularity University Impact Fellow, Harambe Entrepreneur Alliance Associate, Clinton Global Initiative University Fellow, MIT Global Start-up Fellow, SAP Ashoka Global Changemakers Award Winner, Dell Technology Award Winner, StartingBloc Innovation Fellow and a Nigeria Leadership Initiative Future Leader.As a leader, Idris has mentored and catalyzed scores of contributors across the growing African landscape and is an angel investor and advisor to several African startups including Andela, Flutterwave, RelianceHMO, among others. He continues to devote his efforts to the development of innovation-driven, technology-enabled social enterprises that empower the underserved and develop transformative ideas to change lives on the African continent.He spends most of his time between Lagos, Cairo, or airport lounges.

## Nate Lipscomb
- Type: Angel
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Education, EdTech, FinTech

Nate Lipscomb

## Oakley Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Private Equity, Secondary Market, Seed
- Focus: Internet, Consulting, Real Estate

Oakley Capital partners with ambitious founders and management teams to build successful businesses across three sectors: technology, consumer, education.

## Naspers Foundry
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series B, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, Insurance, Information Technology

Naspers Foundry is a global internet group and invests in technology-based companies. The company believes in the power of local backed by global scale and they look for opportunities to address big societal needs in markets where they see the greatest growth potential.

## Calvert Impact Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bethesda, Maryland, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Debt Financing, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, Finance, Energy

Investing in a more sustainable & equitable world

## Orange Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

Orange Ventures is the Venture Capital Fund of the Orange Group, with 350m euros under management

## Hlayisani Growth Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Fourways, NA - South Africa, South Africa
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Education, Apps, SaaS

Hlayisani Growth Fund is focussed on mid-market, high growth private equity investments focussed on South Africa with an allowance for Sub-Saharan Africa and East African countries.

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