Top 50 Education VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Africa in October 2023
Top 50 Education VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Africa in October 2023
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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.
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- Education, E-Learning, EdTech
- Seed
- Kenya, South Africa
Portfolio highlights
- SILABU — Make every mind curious! Silabu is a new skill-learning, social networking app that allows Africa's 700 million youths learn academic subjects and new skills from their peers online, attend live group classes from the top 1% tutors with a fee being 10x cheaper than traditional tuition services and to request the top tutors on-demand.
- ntemata — ntemata enables you automate assessment processes for teachers and holistically analyse competency learning
- LoHo Learning — Loho Learning is an e-Learning platform that provides customized and interactive education to the schooling generation in a variety of digital formats.
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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- Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya
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- 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.
Proparco is devoted to private sector funding in the sustainable development sector.
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- Financial Services, Finance, Energy
- Funding Round, Debt Financing, Series B
- India, Kenya, Mauritius
Portfolio highlights
- Nuru — Nuru is a solar hybrid site. Nuru (Swahili for "light") is a company dedicated to enhancing connectivity in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Nuru deployed Congo's first solar-based mini-grid in 2017 and is currently constructing a 1.3MW solar hybrid site in Goma, the largest off-grid mini-grid in sub-Saharan Africa.Nuru is arenewable and environment company that specializes in the fields of storage micro-grids and solar energy. The company deployed Congo's first solar-based mini-grid in 2017 and is currently constructing a 1.3MW solar hybrid site in Goma.Nuru was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Goma, Nord-Kivu, Congo.
- Sabesp — Sabesp is a Brazilian company that engages in providing basic sanitation services such as distribution of treated water, collection, and treatment of sewage. It is currently responsible for supplying water and collecting and treating sewage in the 367 municipalities of São Paulo state. It supplies 27.9 million people with water and provides sewagecollection services to 21.5 million people.Sabesp was founded in 1973 and is headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
- Complete Farmer — We are providing cutting-edge technological farming protocols and innovations with a unique business model and logistics that are revolutionizing...
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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- Financial Services, FinTech, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Nigeria, United States, Kenya
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.
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.
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- Education, Software, Primary Education
- Funding Round, Seed, Debt Financing
- South Africa, Brazil
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- Inoxico — Inoxico is a provider of business-to-business credit risk solutions. We combine quality data and cutting edge technology to deliver predictive analytics.
- Kombo King — Kombo King Ventless Fryer Tech removes the need for plumes of steam & the constant eye of an inconsistent employee to Revolutionize & solve the frying industry!
- Kusini Water — Kusini Water builds water treatment systems from nanotechnology and macadamia nut shells.
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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- Software, Information Technology, Education
- Seed, Series A
- South Africa
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- 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!
Kepple Africa Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm.
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt
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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- Financial Services, Health Care, Food and Beverage
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- France, Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire
Portfolio highlights
- iProcure — iProcure is a Nairobi-based start-up working to optimize the agriculture input supply chain in rural Kenya. iProcure’s web and mobile technology solution improves agriculture retailers’ operations. It lets them manage ordering based on inventory, point of sale activities, and client profiles along with geo-located purchasing patterns, real-timeagent performance and transaction analysis, and built-in mobile payments. As a result, retailers can better predict demand with business intelligence data, improve inventory management, and streamline distribution efficiency.
- Trackbit — Trackbit is a cryptocurrency exchange platform.
- Afrikamart — Afrikamart is a west African distribution platform for fresh produce that offers its marketing services to producers - suppliers - and operates as a digital purchasing center for retailers, hotels and restaurants - customers.We combine extensive use of digital with its experience in the food value chain to: - Facilitate information exchangebetween suppliers and customers (purchase price, sale price, product availability, harvest and purchase forecasts) - Organize end-to-end logistics with a network of transporters - Optimize financial and product flows according to different purchase and payment termsOur team includes experienced technology driven individuals with a strong experience in food commodity trading. Afrikamart brings pragmatic solutions to solve food value chain inefficiencies in West Africa while empowering hundreds of underprivileged women and young people with economic opportunities.
We invest in people and stories, which are at the heart of everything we do.
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Financial Exchanges
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Nigeria, Rwanda, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Zazuu — Zazuu is a platform for sending money across the border.
- Bitmama — Bitmama is the best cryptocurrency trading platform that lets you buy, sell Bitcoin, ETH, Celo, USDT, XRP, and more. Available in Nigeria & over 100 countries.
- GetFundedAfrica — GetFundedAfrica's mission is to help Africa’s most promising startups find funding, grow & solve society’s greatest challenges. We do this through a media portal - GetFundedAfrica News; a learning portal - REMSANA; and an investment arm - GFA Ventures
Chinook Capital is focused on investments in seed- and pre-stage companies in internet software, services, and media sectors.
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- EdTech, Retail, Home Services
- Seed, Funding Round
- Nigeria
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- Edves — Edves automates the brick and mortal School operations from Student enrollment, Fee Collection, Lesson Note up to Transcript Generation.
- Youverify — Youverify helps businesses and individuals confirm identity and physical addresses. Using AI, Youverify confirms a user’s identity document and compares it with their facial biometrics. This information can be cross-checked against more than 300 databases locally and globally.Youverify in partnership with over 20,000 field verification officersverifies physical addresses all over Sub-Sahara Africa in less than 48 hours.Youverify fills the gap in Africa's digital industry by providing one API for identity and physical address verification.
- Lifestores Pharmacy — Lifestores is a retail pharmacy start-up bringing disruptive innovation to the pharmaceutical sector in Nigeria by democratizing quality medicines and pharmaceutical services.
We are an investment company focused on helping early and growth-stage entrepreneurs build successful companies in Africa.
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- Software, Information Technology, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Nigeria, United States, Kenya
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- Releaf — We are industrializing food processing in Africa. We've led 1000+ smallholder farmers to provide food factories with >7.5 million kilograms of quality crops.
- Tripesa — Tripesa offers payment solutions for Africa's travel and tourism industry.
- Norebase — Norebase knows that there's an opportunity to grow successful businesses in Africa. It also understands the complexities of the market, and so is using technology to make doing business in Africa worthwhile. With Norebase get to operate in Africa with no hassle and with minimum risk.
LoftyInc Capital Management empowers Afropreneurs to build a prosperous and equitable future in Africa. We deliver value to both founders and investors.........
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- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Nigeria, Egypt
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- Craydel — Get Professional career guidance based on Psychometric Assessments and get scholarships to the best MBA, Engineering, Medical, Education online and on campus courses in Africa and Abroad.
- EMTECH — For Modern Central Banking
- Terragon Group — Terragon is a leading Data and Marketing Technology company that uses data and analytics to help companies focused in Africa, intelligently connect at scale to their customers. We use an aggregation of online and offline data, and predictive scoring to help brands, marketing agencies and platforms accurately target people across channels anddevices. Headquartered in Lagos; Nigeria, we also have a presence in Kenya, South Africa, Ghana and India.
Maroc Numeric Fund is a tech VC fund investing in Morocco.
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- Online Portals, Enterprise Software, FinTech
- Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Morocco, Canada, France
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- Cypherleak — Cypherleak is an automated cyber risk monitoring and scoring solution that uses an organisation's domain name only to map their risk exposure across leaked passwords, attack surface, vulnerabilities and dark web data leakage. Additionally, Cypherleak supports global insurances by powering their cyber insurance products with reliable andaccurate cyber risk modeling and monitoring.
- Damanesign — Damanesign operates as a digital trust solutions startup. Damanesign is a startup that is seizing new legislation opportunities on digital trust in Morocco to provide users with the utmost safety in documentation.
- Aza Petrosolutions — Aza Petrosolutions provides services, solutions, and superior software and hardware for fuel management.
Flat6Labs is the MENA region’s leading seed and early stage venture capital firm, currently running the most renowned startup programs in the region. Annually, Flat6Labs invests in more than 100 innovative and technology-driven startups enabling thousands of passionate entrepreneurs to achieve their daring ambitions and ultimately becoming theirinstitutional co-founders.
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- E-Commerce, Retail, Education
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Tunisia
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- Ahkili — Ahkili is a health tech mobile application for appointment booking that connects patients to psychologists.
- WeMove — WeMove is a fitness marketplace for daily gym passes. They develop innovative solutions that meet your sports issues.
- LAMMA — Lamma is a web and mobile platform reinventing urban movement for package delivery through an extended carpooling network.
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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- E-Commerce, FinTech, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Kenya, United States, South Africa
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- 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.
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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- Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Nigeria, United States, Kenya
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- 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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- Education
- Pre-Seed
- Rwanda
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- AltSchool Africa — Let's invest in your Future. Learn highly sought after tech skills without hassle. A program designed to arm you with the skills and knowledge required to boldly launch your tech career.
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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- Food and Beverage, Farming, Health Care
- Private Equity, Funding Round, Seed
- Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania
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- 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.
Nestcoin is a web3 application company that builds, operates, and invests in crypto-native products.
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- Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Education
- Pre-Seed
- Rwanda, Nigeria, United States
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- Stakefair — Stakefair is an ecosystem of blockchain, crypto and DeFi products.
- Nandi Labs — Nandi Labs, Home of Nandi Cowry, Digital FESTAC and MoveMint Magazine
- AltSchool Africa — Let's invest in your Future. Learn highly sought after tech skills without hassle. A program designed to arm you with the skills and knowledge required to boldly launch your tech career.
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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- Financial Services, Health Care, Agriculture
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, India, Kenya
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- GramVaani — Gram Vaani [meaning 'voice of the village'] is a social tech company based at IIT-Delhi. Their objective is to reverse the flow of information, that is, to make it bottom-up instead of top-down, by helping connect communities with companies/governments/dev agencies. Using simple technologies and social context to design tools,Gram Vaani has been able to impact communities- more than 2 million users in over 15 Indian States, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Namibia and South Africa.
- Haqdarshak — Haqdarshak is a technology-enabled platform working to transform how Indian citizens learn about, apply for, and benefit from, government schemes. The company is composed of a group of passionate social entrepreneurs using technology to impact the next billion. The team comprises of individuals from diverse background who have come together out ofcommon interest and passion. The investor community represents individuals holding prestigious positions in different companies across various sectors.
- ReCircle — They are a Waste Management service that provides a free doorstep pick-up service for offices, institutions, households and schools to dispose their recyclable waste (Raddi). They further supply this recycled waste to authorized recycling centres, ensuring safety and sustainability.
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- Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
- Funding Round, Series A, Seed
- South Africa, United States, Sweden
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- Octiv — Octiv is a well-known platform for gym management software.
- wamly — Streamline your hiring process and save 70% of your hiring hours with Wamly's our one-way video interview software.
- VoxCroft — VoxCroft is making the world a better, safer place with population-centric intelligence.
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.
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- Software, Mobile, Information Technology
- Series A, Funding Round, Series B
- Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom
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- Sabipay — Pastel is a leader in Artificial Intelligence. We build products targeted at individuals (SwiftMoney) and enterprises (Sigma) in emerging markets
- Talstack — Talstack is an all-in-one platform for employee growth and development
- Terragon Group — Terragon is a leading Data and Marketing Technology company that uses data and analytics to help companies focused in Africa, intelligently connect at scale to their customers. We use an aggregation of online and offline data, and predictive scoring to help brands, marketing agencies and platforms accurately target people across channels anddevices. Headquartered in Lagos; Nigeria, we also have a presence in Kenya, South Africa, Ghana and India.
Seeding ambitious founders at places like @citymapper, @improbableio,@teamkano, @moo, @songkick,@seedcamp, @transferwise and @zoopla since 1999. Who's next?
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- Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, United States, France
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- CYCLE — GetHenry is a rapidly growing subscription service for market-leading delivery companies. We make sure that thousands of couriers are on the move safely, quickly and comfortably every day. In this way, we not only create added value for delivery services, but also help to reduce transport-related CO2 emissions on the last mile.
- 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.
- Translucent — Translucent is next-gen accounting software.
Leading Venture Capital & Builder in Southeast Asia | Experts in E-Commerce, B2B, B2C, Fulfilment Startups | Seed, Series A Funding
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- E-Commerce, Internet, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Nigeria, Indonesia, Thailand
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- Laborhack — LaborHack offers a select network of tested and certified carpenters, plumbers, electricians, masons, welders, and other tradespeople. It provides cleaning, plumbing, electrical, and HVAC services.
- Trade Lenda — With Trade Lenda, get quick finance in Nigeria without collateral.
- Feather Africa — Feather Africa provides money transaction services, such as enabling users to send and receive money from anyone using the application. It offers withdrawals of cash without ATM cards by sending money to the nearest cash vendors.
We invest in Africa's most remarkable teams with technical founders at the earliest stage of their venture
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Nigeria, United States, Canada
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- Famasi — Famasi is a digital health platform that helps people access their medications, schedule doorstep delivery, and automate monthly refills.
- Pennee — Pennee supports small businesses to grow with low interest loans and data optimization.
- 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.
FINCA Ventures is an impact investing initiative of FINCA International that provides patient capital and support to early-stage social enterprises.
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- Financial Services, Education, Agriculture
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Kenya, Mexico, Sweden
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- Kwara — Kwara turns analog credit unions into modern digital banks.
- FloatPays — Floatpays help your employees achieve financial wellbeing by giving them early access to earned wages.
- Bamba — We help large companies that want to help their affinity users to solve unforeseen events fast, by minimizing costs, through a smart digital agent embedded in any company’s interface
Seed capital for technology startups globally.
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- Financial Services, Software, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Nigeria, Kenya
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- 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.
Toyota Tsusho is the trading arm of the Toyota Group. It enriches society by creating value by the company as Metals; Global Production Parts; Logistics; Automotive; Machinery; Energy; Project; Chemicals; Electronics; Food and Agribusiness; Consumer Products and Services;.
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- Automotive, Manufacturing, Software
- Funding Round, Corporate Round, Series A
- Japan, United States, Kenya
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- Moova — Moova is a technological platform that captures idle last mile logistic capacity and transforms it into high efficiency and low cost shipping solutions. The platform connects E-Commerce and retail businesses with a fleet of "Moovers" who complete deliveries on their bicycle, motorcycle, car or van to generate an additional source ofincome. Through route optimization software, real-time traceability, flexible warehousing, and analytics, Moova is propelling the nascent E-Commerce industry in Latin America by reimagining the last mile for a sustainable world.
- May Mobility — May Mobility is a leader in autonomous vehicle technology development and deployment. With more than 275,000 autonomous rides to date, May Mobility is committed to delivering safe, efficient and sustainable shuttle solutions designed to complement today's public transportation options. The company's ultimate goal is to realize a worldwhere self-driving systems make transportation more accessible and reliable, the roads safer, and encourage better land use in order to foster more green, vibrant, and livable spaces.
- PD AeroSpace — PD AeroSpace is a space development of a "fully reusable sub-orbital spacecraft" that can reach an altitude of 100km Use for space travel, experiments using the space environment, etc.PD AeroSpace provide technical support for customer's new product development and new business development.
DH Venture Holdings (DHHL) is a private investment arm of a group of partnering family offices and is an alternative investment firm of a new generation, focused on three core private assets - Venture Capital, Private Credit, and Special Opportunities. DHHL invests in innovative and disruptive solutions globally, with a focus on fin- and urbantechand impact. We invest on sound governance, scalable business models & competitive technology assets startups, we provide capital, networks & advisory.
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- Management Consulting, Consulting, Software
- Funding Round, Pre-Seed, Corporate Round
- India, Kenya, Spain
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- StageWorks — StageWorks is a high-end content management agency. We’re a global team of writers, editors, and content managers that enable companies to create content at scale without compromising quality.We help industry-leading enterprises, agencies, and SMBs with their content needs. Our clientele includes International & Domestic businesses.Starting from social media blogs, SEO Articles to Website Content, and academic writings, we live and breathe content.
- Pots and Plates — Pots and Plates is an Indian restaurant company which operates 4 cloud kitchen brands in the Eastern India.
- Datalogiq Analytics — Datalogiqs Home Page
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.
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- Agriculture, Social Entrepreneurship, Energy
- Debt Financing, Seed, Series B
- Kenya, Ghana, India
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- Kheyti — Kheyti helps small farmers battle income variability by providing low cost technologies bundled with services.
- iProcure — iProcure is a Nairobi-based start-up working to optimize the agriculture input supply chain in rural Kenya. iProcure’s web and mobile technology solution improves agriculture retailers’ operations. It lets them manage ordering based on inventory, point of sale activities, and client profiles along with geo-located purchasing patterns, real-timeagent performance and transaction analysis, and built-in mobile payments. As a result, retailers can better predict demand with business intelligence data, improve inventory management, and streamline distribution efficiency.
- Farmerline — The Farmerline vision is to see an Africa where Agriculture NGO’s are not a functioning force in the market. Farmerline provides paid services that allow farmers to have the information and access they need to employ an entrepreneurial method of farming. Input dealers and traders pay for more efficient communication channels to farmers andfarmers pay for information packages and services. In this vision, more food is produce, more food gets to market, and GDP from cash crop export soars.
Wamda is a platform of programs and networks that aims to accelerate entrepreneurship ecosystems across MENA.
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- Information Technology, Logistics, EdTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Tunisia
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- GoMyCode — GOMYCODE: Learn digital skills! | GOMYCODE Empower people by upskilling and reskilling them on digital skills through instructor-assisted trainings.
- Dukkantek — Dukkantek aims to empower and enable traditional merchants to be able to compete in the modern world or the digital world through digital transformation. It is a technology partner that improves and provides so many solutions to your business. Dukkantek has what every store needs to manage their business easily and efficiently. With Dukkantek, you will have an end-to-end technology companion that improves all your processes.
- FreshSource — FreshSource is revolutionizing the agriculture value chain through a tech-based B2B platform that is disrupting the distribution model of horticulture produce.
Logos Ventures is a venture capital investment firm.
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- B2B, FinTech, Logistics
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Kenya, United States
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- ImaliPay — ImaliPay is a financial health platform offering financial products to freelancers and blue collar gig workers in partnership with gig platforms.
- 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.
- Jumba — Jumba is a construction technology platform that streamlines B2B construction material purchase and financing.
Orange Ventures is the Venture Capital Fund of the Orange Group, with 350m euros under management
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- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Series B, Series C
- France, United States, United Kingdom
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- Julaya — Julaya is a fintech providing African businesses with a digital account to make payments : disbursing mobile money transactions to their employees, suppliers, and owning their own virtual and physical prepaid cards.
- Semeia — Semeia provides software that helps in medical follow-up and consultation.
- Eezee — Singapore’s first & largest industrial marketplace that connects local suppliers to corporate clients, leveraging technology to help both parties make informed decisions.The company offers a secure platform for buyers and sellers to transact.Our aim is to improve the efficiency of business to business (B2B) transactions. We do this byensuring that the process of selecting and purchasing your supplies becomes quicker, more convenient and transparent. We support local suppliers in establishing their presence online, enabling them to be discovered by corporate organisations.
Five35 Ventures is committed to unlocking capital and growth opportunities for female-focused early-stage African technology startups.
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- Information Technology, Health Care, Marketplace
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
- South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria
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- LNKO — Trendy and affordable screen protection glasses, with or without prescription
- Buupass — BuuPass is Kenya's market leader for online bus booking. We enable travelers to reserve seats and make payments in a convenient and timely way. Try BuuPass today!
- LocumBase — Freedom and flexibility - Connecting freelance medical pros with practices, clinics and hospitals in real time.
Venture Capital firm
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- Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- United States, Nigeria, Kenya
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- 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.
- Blossom.team — Powered by AI, Blossom's science-backed professional coaching brings together experienced coaches & ML to show actual growth on key topics: productivity, communications, leadership, stress management, career development, interpersonal skills, and more. Subscribe and see why it's the successful professional's secret superpower!
- evaluate.xyz — NFT Valuation Platform and Community
A Global Venture Capital Platform Connecting Innovators Everywhere
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- United States, France, China
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- Inato — Inato matches the right sites to the right clinical research study, globally.
- Reebelo — Reebelo is APAC’s leading marketplace for pre-loved tech devices. Our vision is to reduce e-waste by building the circular economy for refurbished electronics. While doing so, we enable consumers to save up to 70% on their favorite brands and flexibly rent devices instead of buying them. Reebelo is based in Singapore with additional offices inAustralia, New Zeland & Malaysia. Get in touch if you want to be part of a high-growth, disruptive team working to make a positive impact!
- Ledger — Secure your crypto assets such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, Monero and more. Give yourself peace of mind by knowing that your cryptocurrencies are safe
was a SARS-approved section 12J Venture Capital Company
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- SaaS, EBooks, EdTech
- Series A, Funding Round
- South Africa
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- Snapplify — Snapplify is at the forefront of edtech solutions in Africa, and specialises in enabling digital learning for individuals and institutions via the largest digital educational marketplace in Africa. As a global edtech company, Snapplify strives for radical inclusion to level the playing field and equip individuals across emerging markets with theworld-class tools they need to collaborate, innovate and thrive. Snapplify’s technology is used in other educational products to facilitate collaboration throughout the educational community.Snapplify for Education’s award-winning platform is already a top choice for institutions integrating digital education into their classrooms. From software to support, Snapplify provides institutions with everything they need to create a secure, collaborative e-learning environment for students. Snapplify’s robust 24-hour-access digital-library solution offers thousands of free ebooks and widely applicable, curriculum-approved educational content supplied by partner publishers from across the globe. Snapplify’s diversity of device integration allows schools to use its products on the devices that they already have access to, without having to invest in costly digital infrastructure upgrades. Snapplify’s solutions are industry celebrated and globally recognised for their innovation in technology.In order to achieve its educational goals, Snapplify has built strong relationships with diverse partners around the growth of its ebook, e-textbook, and device catalogue, and partnered with international publishers and other key stakeholders to meet the demand for widely relevant, curriculum-compliant digital educational content. As a socially minded company, Snapplify is committed to supporting others and creating sustainable change through collaboration and innovation. Snapplify empowers, inspires, and uplifts teachers via Teacha! (a media hub, resource marketplace, and careers portal for educators); is the digital content partner on a project that delivers technology and e-learning to public schools in South Africa’s Gauteng province, and runs impact programmes through the Snapplify Foundation.Snapplify originated in South Africa, focusing initially on the South African education and digital content industries. Since its establishment in 2012, the company has grown and expanded into new markets in Africa and the United States, with offices across South Africa, as well as in Nairobi, London, Amsterdam and New Jersey. Snapplify is backed by AngelHub Ventures, a venture capital company backed by former First National Bank CEO Michael Jordaan and the Harris family, as well as international investors. In 2019, Snapplify secured $2 million expansion capital from venture capital firm Knife Capital, and empowered African investment manager Hlayisani Capital’s Hlayisani Growth Fund.Snapplify for Education’s award-winning platform is already a top choice for institutions integrating digital education into their classrooms. From software to support, Snapplify provides institutions with everything they need to create a secure, collaborative e-learning environment for students. Through Snapplify’s e-learning and digital library solution, Engage, educators can share teacher-created, multimedia resource materials with students; administrators can manage the access and permissions for multiple student and staff accounts; schools can host their own 24-hour access digital content library (which comes with over 50 000 free resources including study guides, e-textbooks, past exam papers for multiple curricula, children’s books in African languages and more); and students and parents can purchase prescribed e-textbooks. Snapplify’s diversity of device integration allows schools to use its products on the devices that they already have access to, without having to invest in costly digital infrastructure upgrades. Snapplify’s solutions are industry celebrated and globally recognised for their innovation in technology.
- Granite WMS — GraniteWMS is a barcode-based warehouse management software solution, enabling full traceability of all items in your warehouse and optimising warehouse processes and performance.
African Infrastructure Investment Managers (AIIM) develops and manages private equity infrastructure funds designed to invest long-term institutional unlisted equity in African infrastructure projects.
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- Solar, Energy, SaaS
- Private Equity, Funding Round, Debt Financing
- Nigeria, South Africa
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- Snapplify — Snapplify is at the forefront of edtech solutions in Africa, and specialises in enabling digital learning for individuals and institutions via the largest digital educational marketplace in Africa. As a global edtech company, Snapplify strives for radical inclusion to level the playing field and equip individuals across emerging markets with theworld-class tools they need to collaborate, innovate and thrive. Snapplify’s technology is used in other educational products to facilitate collaboration throughout the educational community.Snapplify for Education’s award-winning platform is already a top choice for institutions integrating digital education into their classrooms. From software to support, Snapplify provides institutions with everything they need to create a secure, collaborative e-learning environment for students. Snapplify’s robust 24-hour-access digital-library solution offers thousands of free ebooks and widely applicable, curriculum-approved educational content supplied by partner publishers from across the globe. Snapplify’s diversity of device integration allows schools to use its products on the devices that they already have access to, without having to invest in costly digital infrastructure upgrades. Snapplify’s solutions are industry celebrated and globally recognised for their innovation in technology.In order to achieve its educational goals, Snapplify has built strong relationships with diverse partners around the growth of its ebook, e-textbook, and device catalogue, and partnered with international publishers and other key stakeholders to meet the demand for widely relevant, curriculum-compliant digital educational content. As a socially minded company, Snapplify is committed to supporting others and creating sustainable change through collaboration and innovation. Snapplify empowers, inspires, and uplifts teachers via Teacha! (a media hub, resource marketplace, and careers portal for educators); is the digital content partner on a project that delivers technology and e-learning to public schools in South Africa’s Gauteng province, and runs impact programmes through the Snapplify Foundation.Snapplify originated in South Africa, focusing initially on the South African education and digital content industries. Since its establishment in 2012, the company has grown and expanded into new markets in Africa and the United States, with offices across South Africa, as well as in Nairobi, London, Amsterdam and New Jersey. Snapplify is backed by AngelHub Ventures, a venture capital company backed by former First National Bank CEO Michael Jordaan and the Harris family, as well as international investors. In 2019, Snapplify secured $2 million expansion capital from venture capital firm Knife Capital, and empowered African investment manager Hlayisani Capital’s Hlayisani Growth Fund.Snapplify for Education’s award-winning platform is already a top choice for institutions integrating digital education into their classrooms. From software to support, Snapplify provides institutions with everything they need to create a secure, collaborative e-learning environment for students. Through Snapplify’s e-learning and digital library solution, Engage, educators can share teacher-created, multimedia resource materials with students; administrators can manage the access and permissions for multiple student and staff accounts; schools can host their own 24-hour access digital content library (which comes with over 50 000 free resources including study guides, e-textbooks, past exam papers for multiple curricula, children’s books in African languages and more); and students and parents can purchase prescribed e-textbooks. Snapplify’s diversity of device integration allows schools to use its products on the devices that they already have access to, without having to invest in costly digital infrastructure upgrades. Snapplify’s solutions are industry celebrated and globally recognised for their innovation in technology.
- Starsight Energy — Starsight delivers comprehensive, end-to-end solar solutions that help businesses reduce energy costs and shrink their carbon footprints.
- Eastcastle Infrastructure — Track record of providing reliable and sustainable connectivity for consumers and communities in Africa
IFC supports technology ventures that are creating new opportunities in emerging markets, transforming industries, and driving inclusive growth while realizing strong returns.
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- E-Commerce, Financial Services, Internet
- Funding Round, Series B, Series C
- United States, India, Brazil
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- Figopara — Figopara is a solution that discounts companies' e-invoices before their due dates with the offers received by financial institutions. It provides secure information to the financial companies that the customer is associated with and wants to reach by providing them with printed invoice information.Figopara was established in 2017 to developfinancial technology applications and is headquartered in Istanbul, Turkey.
- Scanntech — Scanntech provides point-of-sale software to retail stores. The company offers tech solutions and connectivity in sales points to enables independent supermarkets to process transactions, run inventory management, and provide financial services to consumers through intelligence point of sale software.Scanntech was founded in 1992 and is based inMontevideo, Uruguay.
- Liquid Telecom — Liquid Intelligent Technologies, a business of Cassava Technologies is a pan-African technology group with capabilities across 14 countries, primarily in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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.
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- Information Technology, Software, Health Care
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- South Korea, United States, Kenya
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- Green Mineral — Green Mineral specializes in recycling metals in an environmentally friendly and cost-effective manner using microalgae. Green Mineral has developed technology to recycle lithium in an environmentally friendly manner by extracting lithium using a bio-mineralization technique rather than an existing organic solvent.
- RTBP ALLIANCE — RTBP ALLIANCE focuses on creating co-working spaces and modernize old places for local communities.
- Skycool Systems — At SkyCool Systems, our mission is to deliver sustainable, energy-efficient cooling solutions to customers interested in reducing energy costs and carbon footprint. We’ve pioneered radiative cooling as a technology, and shown that specially designed optical films can enable this passive approach to cooling throughout the day. These optical filmsare highly reflective to sunlight but also emit thermal radiation exceptionally well to the cold of space through our atmosphere, enabling daytime operation during the hottest hours of the day. Our core innovation is a rooftop cooling panel. We apply the radiative film to rooftop panels and integrate them with air conditioning and refrigeration systems. The panels can be used as an add-on to air conditioning and refrigeration systems and in some circumstances even replace an air condensing unit. Our technology is accelerating the transition to a cleaner and more sustainable future.
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.
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- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
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- LunarCrush — Smarter crypto, NFT, and stock investing with insights from millions of conversations happening across social.
- In-Seam — IN-SEAM. LUXURY, CONNECTED.
- AltSchool Africa — Let's invest in your Future. Learn highly sought after tech skills without hassle. A program designed to arm you with the skills and knowledge required to boldly launch your tech career.
Investing in a more sustainable & equitable world
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- Financial Services, Finance, Energy
- Debt Financing, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, India, Kenya
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- Northern Arc — Northern Arc Capital is a non-banking finance company that provides access to debt for under-served investors and businesses. Northern Arc Capita connects originators so that they may deepen their presence and provide access to financial services to millions of under-served households. Northern Arc Capital formerly Known as IFMR Capital. It wasfounded in 2008 and is headquartered in Chennai, India.
- Accial Capital — Accial Capital is an impact-focused, tech-enabled investor in small business and consumer loan portfolios in Latin America and South East Asia. Accial Capital combines data, technology, capital and credit expertise to contribute to a world of widespread credit access and financial health.
- Sunwealth Power — Sunwealth is a clean energy investment firm who curates high-performance commercial solar projects that deliver clean energy and boast exceptional return potential for our investors.
Oakley Capital partners with ambitious founders and management teams to build successful businesses across three sectors: technology, consumer, education.
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- Internet, Consulting, Real Estate
- Private Equity, Secondary Market, Seed
- United Kingdom, Spain, Italy
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- vLex — Founded over 20 years ago, vLex provides a first-class and comprehensive service for lawyers, law firms, governments and law schools.
- Facile.it — Facile has built a leading market position in the fast-growing Italian online price comparison market particularly in car insurance. They recently launched several new price comparison product verticals to broaden its revenue base including gas and electricity, broadband, bank accounts and mobile phones. Today, Facile helps 2.2 million Italians amonth compare prices on key elements of their household expenditure.
- Wishcard Technologies Group — Wishcard Technologies Group is a gift voucher-related technology company. The company's distinctive multi-brand gift vouchers are sold in retail locations. They also offer B2B gifting solutions to corporate partners.
Development Partners International (“DPI”) is a leading Pan-African private equity firm, with strong local knowledge and an established track record of investing in Africa.DPI was established in 2007 by co-founders Miles Morland and Runa Alam, both pioneers of African investment, with a vision to build a leading pan-African private equity firm.Today, DPI manages over US$1.1bn of assets across two private equity funds.Through its world class team with over 100 years of aggregate African investment experience, DPI has invested in 19 portfolio companies operating across 27 countries.The investment team is 100% African and over 40% of the DPI team is made up of women. They possess the local network, knowledge and language skills to source and invest in transactions throughout the continent.
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- Financial Services, Manufacturing, Retail
- Private Equity, Funding Round, Series A
- Egypt, Morocco, South Africa
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- Kazyon — Kazyon is the largest Egyptian discount supermarket chain with over 450 stores in 17 governorates.
- Ukheshe Technologies — Ukheshe Technologies is a technology company with a single API to integrate our fully digital financial services, including wallets, payment innovations and card issuing.
- Marcyrl Pharmaceutical — Life is our Vision - Health is our Mission
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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- Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
- Debt Financing, Funding Round, Series B
- India, Nigeria, Ghana
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- 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.
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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- Education, Apps, SaaS
- Seed, Funding Round
- South Africa
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- GoMetro — GoMetro designs deploy and operate flexible mobility platforms. Their proprietary technology stack empowers city leaders, transport managers, corporates, retail centres, property developers, airports and downtown to introduce bold new mobility strategies. Their connected transport digital platform equips transport planners to respond to thechallenges of increased congestion, aged infrastructure, disruptive mobility players, self-driving vehicles and a lack of quality public transport services.
- Sticitt — Sticitt is a cashless payment platform. Sticitt services schools, lifestyle and golf estates, as well as events and is assisting one utility company to get clients to pay for water bills using its cashless payments system.
- d6 group — SCHOOLS Schools Communication Platforms and School Management Software COMMUNITIES Community & Internal Business Communication Platforms MEDIA Let your brand be seen Advertise on
Owl Ventures is a venture capital fund that invests in education technology companies.The firm has invested in 24 companies across the education spectrum encompassing early childhood, K-12, higher education, and career mobility/professional learning. Owl leverages its deep domain expertise and takes an active hands-on approach to helpentrepreneurs scale their businesses into transformative category-leading companies.The firm was founded in 2014 and has over $600 million in assets under management.
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- Education, EdTech, E-Learning
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- United States, India, Germany
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- DeepHow — DeepHow uses machine learning to capture real-time technical expertise in the form of smart how-to videos generated in record time.
- Workera — Workera is the precision upskilling platform helping enterprises, governments and individuals upskill and reskill to meet the critical demand for key technological capabilities including data science, machine learning and artificial intelligence. The Workera platform provides AI-driven mentorship at scale with its adaptive assessments andpersonalized learning plans that drive measurable results to close the skills gap.
- Fizz — Fizz is a authorized platform created to transform community social structures, beginning with institutions.
Finnfund is a Finnish development finance company that provides long-term risk capital for private projects in developing countries. Apart from co-investing with Finnish companies they can finance ventures that use Finnish technology, cooperate with Finnish partners on a long-term basis or generate major environmental or social benefits.
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Renewable Energy
- Debt Financing, Funding Round, Series B
- Kenya, India, South Africa
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- Kasha — Kasha is an innovative e-commerce platform based in East Africa, built for women's health, personal care and beauty products accessibility within urban and rural areas.
- Satya MicroCapital — Satya MicroCapital is an NBFC-MFI that offers collateral-free credit to micro enterprises on the basis of strong credit assessment and a centralised approval system.SATYA started its microfinance operations by adopting the “Joint Liability Group (JLG) Model” with adequate use of technology and new adaptations. JLGs of SATYA means implementationsof Joint Liability of group members which exists up to 10 instalments in Bi-Weekly collections. The Company believes in the ideology to bring social touch and high technology in the Indian microfinance industry.The JLG lending operation mainly focuses on a woman (in case of SATYA, her husband acts as co-borrower) through a credit product that allows her to start a new business or enhance her existing business as well. SATYA provides prompt, convenient and affordable collateral-free credit to people at the bottom of the pyramid through a strong credit assessment and centralized approval.The Company started its microfinance operation from Sikandrabad Branch, Bulandshar District of Uttar Pradesh and the first token disbursement was done in November 2016. SATYA utilized demonetization as an opportunity to rework on the business strategy through cashless transactions. SATYA is an institution build with a vision of change, transformation and will be a differentiator in financial inclusion space and its approach is well recognized by industry experts and professionals across different sectors. SATYA is committed to being a socially responsible organization with a focus on Health, Education, Financial Literacy, Nasha-Mukt Samaaj, Gender Equality, and Swachh Bharat. The Company is spreading social awareness messages in its area of operations.
- 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
Autodesk Foundation is the first foundation to focus investment exclusively on the people and organizations using design for impact.
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- Energy, Solar, Aerospace
- Seed, Series A
- United States, Australia
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- Okra Solar — Okra Solar is an IoT technology solution that enables solar generating communities to share and utilize more energy. It is a plug-and-play smart grid technology that enables rapid electrification for last-mile communities. Using mobile payments, modular grid design, and remote monitoring, they provide utility companies with a low-cost, data-drivensolution to operate solar networks in hard to reach communities. They are on a mission to connect off-grid communities to the modern economy.Okra Solar was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Sydney, Australia.
- BluLever Educations — Join the artisans & apprentices who are building the future. At BluLever Education you can build your career, business, or the artisan ecosystem with an education partner that believes in artisans. Welcome to our digital home. We offer plumbing and electrical apprenticeships.
- Vartega — Vartega is a technology development company specializing in the carbon fiber-reinforced plastic recycling process. We have developed alternative technology, processes, and equipment to provide low-cost carbon fiber for use in mass market applications.
We are Nigeria's first social innovation fund aimed at creating an unprecedented path to scale for outliers driving social change in Nigeria.
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- EdTech, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
- Seed
- Nigeria
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- Edves — Edves automates the brick and mortal School operations from Student enrollment, Fee Collection, Lesson Note up to Transcript Generation.
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