Top 50 Education VC Funds & Investors in Africa (October 2023)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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iHub
VC Fund
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10 | Kenya, South Africa | Seed | Education, E-Learning, EdTech | |
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Launch Africa
VC Fund
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7 | Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology | $200k–$3M |
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Proparco
VC Fund
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5 | India, Kenya, Mauritius | Debt Financing, Series B | Financial Services, Finance, Energy | $300k–$120M |
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Vumela Fund
VC Fund
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4 | South Africa, Brazil | Seed, Debt Financing | Education, Software, Primary Education | |
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Kepple Africa Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt | Seed, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | $100k–$4.5M |
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Investisseurs & Partenaires
VC Fund
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4 | France, Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire | Seed, Series A | Financial Services, Health Care, Food and Beverage | $11k–$7.5M |
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Ventures Platform
VC Fund
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4 | Nigeria, United States, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Internet | $50k–$4.4M |
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AngelHub Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | South Africa | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Education | $300k–$1.7M |
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Chinook Capital Limited
VC Fund
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3 | Nigeria | Seed | EdTech, Retail, Home Services | $120k–$575k |
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Consonance Investment Managers
VC Fund
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3 | Nigeria, United States, Kenya | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, FinTech | $50k–$2.5M |
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Flat6Labs Tunisia
VC Fund
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3 | Tunisia | Pre-Seed, Seed | E-Commerce, Retail, Education | $64k–$200k |
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ODBA
VC Fund
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3 | Nigeria, Rwanda, United States | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Financial Exchanges | $200k–$2M |
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LoftyInc Capital Management
VC Fund
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3 | United States, Nigeria, Egypt | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | FinTech, Financial Services, Software | $100k–$15M |
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Maroc Numeric Fund
VC Fund
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3 | Morocco, Canada, France | Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed | Online Portals, Enterprise Software, FinTech | $200k–$700k |
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Microtraction
VC Fund
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2 | Nigeria, United States, Canada | Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | $25k–$1.2M |
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pledges.com
VC Fund
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2 | Rwanda | Pre-Seed | Education | $1M–$1M |
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Ardent Capital
VC Fund
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2 | Nigeria, Indonesia, Thailand | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | E-Commerce, Internet, Software | $100k–$15M |
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FINCA Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Kenya, Mexico, Sweden | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, Education, Agriculture | $1.1M–$4.2M |
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Musha Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Nigeria, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, Software, FinTech | $50k–$10M |
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Knife Capital
VC Fund
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2 | South Africa, United States, Sweden | Series A, Seed | Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing | $2M–$6M |
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Future Africa
VC Fund
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2 | Nigeria, United States, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology | $40k–$20M |
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Savannah Fund
VC Fund
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2 | Kenya, United States, South Africa | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, FinTech, Information Technology | $25k–$8M |
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Acumen
VC Fund
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2 | United States, India, Kenya | Seed, Series A | Financial Services, Health Care, Agriculture | $300k–$13M |
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TLcom Capital Partners
VC Fund
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2 | Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom | Series A, Series B | Software, Mobile, Information Technology | $3.5M–$27M |
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LocalGlobe
VC Fund
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2 | United Kingdom, United States, France | Seed, Series A | Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce | $1.3M–$27M |
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DOB Equity
VC Fund
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2 | Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania | Private Equity, Seed | Food and Beverage, Farming, Health Care | $1M–$4M |
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Nestcoin
VC Fund
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2 | Rwanda, Nigeria, United States | Pre-Seed | Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Education | $1M–$1M |
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elea Foundation for Ethics in Globalization
VC Fund
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1 | India, Kenya, Tanzania | Series A | E-Commerce, Health Care, Logistics | $2M–$2.8M |
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UM6P Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Morocco, Israel, South Africa | Pre-Seed, Seed | Food Processing, Apps, Agriculture | $110k–$3.6M |
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Partech
VC Fund
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1 | United States, France, Germany | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services | $1M–$54M |
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D3 Jubilee
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, United States, Kenya | Seed, Series A | Information Technology, Software, Health Care | $153k–$4.6M |
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Techstars Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, Canada | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $500k–$10M |
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FM Capital Group
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Nigeria | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series C | Software, Big Data, EdTech | |
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DH Venture Holdings
VC Fund
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1 | India, Kenya, Spain | Pre-Seed, Corporate Round | Management Consulting, Consulting, Software | |
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Logos Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed | B2B, FinTech, Logistics | |
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Niche Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Nigeria, Kenya | Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel | Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce | |
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KNF Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | South Africa | Series A | SaaS, EBooks, EdTech | |
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African Infrastructure Investment Managers
VC Fund
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1 | Nigeria, South Africa | Private Equity, Debt Financing | Solar, Energy, SaaS | |
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Toyota Tsusho
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, United States, Kenya | Corporate Round, Series A | Automotive, Manufacturing, Software | $1.4M–$6.5B |
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Ceniarth
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya, Ghana, India | Debt Financing, Seed, Series B | Agriculture, Social Entrepreneurship, Energy | $1.7M–$45M |
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Wamda
VC Fund
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1 | United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Tunisia | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Information Technology, Logistics, EdTech | |
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Orange Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | France, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series B, Series C | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | $214k–$75M |
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Five35 Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria | Pre-Seed, Seed | Information Technology, Health Care, Marketplace | $1M–$1.6M |
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Cathay Innovation
VC Fund
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1 | United States, France, China | Series B, Series A, Series C | Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech | $3M–$380M |
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IFC Venture Capital Group
VC Fund
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1 | United States, India, Brazil | Series B, Series C | E-Commerce, Financial Services, Internet | $8M–$156M |
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Calvert Impact Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United States, India, Kenya | Debt Financing, Series A | Financial Services, Finance, Energy | $2.9M–$175M |
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Oakley Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United Kingdom, Spain, Italy | Private Equity, Secondary Market, Seed | Internet, Consulting, Real Estate | $14M–$188M |
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Development Partners International
VC Fund
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1 | Egypt, Morocco, South Africa | Private Equity, Series A | Financial Services, Manufacturing, Retail | $20M–$165M |
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Oikocredit International
VC Fund
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1 | India, Nigeria, Ghana | Debt Financing, Series B | Financial Services, Finance, FinTech | $1.1M–$16M |
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Hlayisani Growth Fund
VC Fund
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1 | South Africa | Seed | Education, Apps, SaaS | |
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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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- Industry: Education, E-Learning, EdTech
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Kenya, South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
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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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 131
- Round size: Seed $200k–$3M; Pre-Seed $200k–$1M
- Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $36M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Lengo — Lengo is an AI based intelligence platform that offers a large database on consumer goods for companies in the FMCG sector.
- Zanifu — The zanifu platform, allows small retailers in Sub Saharan Africa, to procure inventory from their suppliers & pay later.
- Fixit45 — Your best ever automobile service experience awaits you.
Proparco is devoted to private sector funding in the sustainable development sector.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Finance, Energy
- Stage:Debt Financing, Series B
- Geography: India, Kenya, Mauritius
Investor stats
- Total investments: 63
- Round size: Series B $8M–$40M; Debt Financing $300k–$120M
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
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...
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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- Industry: Education, Software, Primary Education
- Stage:Seed, Debt Financing
- Geography: South Africa, Brazil
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Lead/follow: 79% lead, 21% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $12M in 2015
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
Kepple Africa Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 74
- Round size: Seed $500k–$4.5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3.7M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Chari — Chari is an e-commerce and fintech app for traditional retailers in French-Speaking Africa allowing them to order any consumer goods they sell and get delivered for free in less than 24 hours. Chari is also a financial services provider for these retailers, offering them microloans
- Carry1st — Carry1st develops and publishes enriching mobile games and content apps for African consumers.
- Beacon Power Services — Beacon Power Services is a utility company that provides energy management software and analytics for utilities.
Investisseurs et Partenaires
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- Industry: Financial Services, Health Care, Food and Beverage
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: France, Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire
Investor stats
- Total investments: 102
- Round size: Seed $11k–$3.2M; Series A $750k–$7.5M
- Lead/follow: 73% lead, 27% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019
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.
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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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 127
- Round size: Seed $325k–$4.4M; Pre-Seed $50k–$1.1M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $46M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Lengo — Lengo is an AI based intelligence platform that offers a large database on consumer goods for companies in the FMCG sector.
- Traction Apps — Traction apps provide businesses end to end tools they need to run and grow their businesses.
- Remedial Health — We improve business to business access to medicines by providing such medicines from manufactures/registered distributors direct to large and small healthcare retail businesses (large pharmacies and remote chemist/PPMVs (Patent and Proprietary Medicine Vendors)) using technology to deliver just-in-time stock and provide financing and awide selection of inventory to such retail business.
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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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Education
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Series A $300k–$1.7M
- Lead/follow: 83% lead, 17% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2014
Portfolio highlights
- Syscap — Syscap is a financial technology company that offers cutting-edge solutions to financial institutions to have a better administration and management of their funding sources. It connects the leaders of financial and real estate institutions with their funders. For institutions, the company ensures the optimization of their funding source managementprocesses, but also the strengthening of the relationship with their funders. To funders, Syscap guarantees the transparency and timely monitoring of its funds for the safety and growth of its resources.
- Godochurch — GoDoChurch is a cloud-based church administration software which is designed to assist Christian churches and ministries with managing members, Sunday services, events, communications, and more. The system is made up of a base package, covering messaging, news, ministries, lists, church roles, services, events, and growth paths, with additionalmodules for managing follow-ups, groups, and Kids church.
- Ikeja Wireless — Welcome to your Ikeja. We are a home-grown tech company that builds services enabling affordable internet access to Ekasi. We may have coverage in your area!
Chinook Capital is focused on investments in seed- and pre-stage companies in internet software, services, and media sectors.
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- Industry: EdTech, Retail, Home Services
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $120k–$575k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 30
- Round size: Seed $550k–$2.5M; Pre-Seed $450k–$1M; Series A $50k–$1.3M
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
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Browse database — It's Free!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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- Industry: E-Commerce, Retail, Education
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Tunisia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 22
- Round size: Seed $64k–$200k; Pre-Seed $65k–$79k
- Lead/follow: 73% lead, 27% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $10M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
We invest in people and stories, which are at the heart of everything we do.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Financial Exchanges
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Nigeria, Rwanda, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Seed $200k–$2M; Pre-Seed $200k–$1M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
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
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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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 111
- Round size: Seed $100k–$3.2M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2M; Series A $250k–$15M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- 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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- Industry: Online Portals, Enterprise Software, FinTech
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Morocco, Canada, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 24
- Round size: Seed $200k–$400k; Series A $250k–$700k
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $20M in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
We invest in Africa's most remarkable teams with technical founders at the earliest stage of their venture
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 57
- Round size: Seed $25k–$1.2M; Pre-Seed $50k–$1M
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $15M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
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- Industry: Education
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Rwanda
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Pre-Seed $1M–$1M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
Leading Venture Capital & Builder in Southeast Asia | Experts in E-Commerce, B2B, B2C, Fulfilment Startups | Seed, Series A Funding
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Nigeria, Indonesia, Thailand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 37
- Round size: Seed $100k–$2.5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$350k; Series A $1.1M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $13M in 2014
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
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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- Industry: Financial Services, Education, Agriculture
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Kenya, Mexico, Sweden
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$4M; Series A $1.1M–$4.2M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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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- Industry: Financial Services, Software, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 131
- Round size: Seed $120k–$3M; Pre-Seed $50k–$3.8M; Series A $2.5M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Terraa — Terraa is a B2B distribution platform in Moroccan.
- OmniBiz — Omnibiz is a digital platform for small businesses willing to attract new customers.
- Revivo — Revivo is an online marketplace for electronics spare parts, tools & accessories.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: South Africa, United States, Sweden
Investor stats
- Total investments: 23
- Round size: Series A $2M–$6M
- Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $10M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
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Browse database — It's Free!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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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 80
- Round size: Seed $500k–$3.7M; Pre-Seed $40k–$3.7M; Series A $7M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Balad — Balad is Egyptian Cross Border Payout Network primarily serving Money Transfer Operators (MTOs), fintechs and mobile wallets. Targeting sending markets including GCC, EU, US, Canada, and UK
- Anchor — Anchor is a Lagos-based banking-as-a-service platform for African businesses. Anchor provides APIs and infrastructure to build, embed and launch powerful financial products in a secure and scalable way.
- Itana — Talent City’s mission is to build a network of charter cities that focuses on creating technology-enabled jobs within a free trade zone with its own regulation and bylaws.
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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- Industry: E-Commerce, FinTech, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Kenya, United States, South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 36
- Round size: Seed $25k–$3M; Pre-Seed $200k–$2.1M; Series A $750k–$8M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $25M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Oze — OZÉ brings African small businesses into the digital era. It is an app that makes it easy for businesses to track sales, expenses, and customer information. The data is analyzed to provide tailored recommendations, reports, and business education. If the entrepreneur needs a little extra support, an OZÉ Coach is just a click away. As they are usingOZÉ to manage their business and learn how to run it better, we are learning about them. Using this data and machine learning, we can predict their credit risk and provide them with affordable capital from our banking partners. With over 20,000 registered users, OZÉ is the largest online community of SMEs in Ghana. The most exciting thing is that OZÉ works; 97% of businesses that have used OZE for at least 9 months are growing or profitable or both!
- Root — Programmable insurance that you can integrate into your product or service with ease
- Afropolitan — Afropolitan is building a Network State to unleash the maximum potential of Africans around the world. Are you interested? Join us with your email.
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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- Industry: Financial Services, Health Care, Agriculture
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, India, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 131
- Round size: Seed $300k–$2.3M; Series A $1M–$13M
- Lead/follow: 59% lead, 41% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
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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- Industry: Software, Mobile, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 51
- Round size: Series A $3.5M–$13M; Series B $10M–$27M
- Lead/follow: 49% lead, 51% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $150M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- 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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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 252
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$8M; Series A $3M–$27M
- Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
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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- Industry: Food and Beverage, Farming, Health Care
- Stage:Private Equity, Seed
- Geography: Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania
Investor stats
- Total investments: 41
- Round size: Seed $1M–$4M
- Lead/follow: 61% lead, 39% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kwara — Kwara turns analog credit unions into modern digital banks.
- Power — Putting individuals on the path towards financial health
- Eden Care Medical — Eden Care Medical is a mobile application that provides medical and health insurance as well as financial services.
Nestcoin is a web3 application company that builds, operates, and invests in crypto-native products.
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- Industry: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Education
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Rwanda, Nigeria, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Pre-Seed $1M–$1M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
elea Foundation for Ethics in Globalization
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Health Care, Logistics
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: India, Kenya, Tanzania
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Series A $2M–$2.8M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Yebo Fresh — Powering South Africa's Township Economy.
- Kwanza Tukule — Kwanza Tukule is a cashless B2B business that offers food supply services to local food vendors.
- 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.
UM6P Ventures is a venture capital investment firm that invests in Science & Innovation.
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- Industry: Food Processing, Apps, Agriculture
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Morocco, Israel, South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Seed $265k–$3.6M; Pre-Seed $110k–$250k
- Lead/follow: 60% lead, 40% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Terraa — Terraa is a B2B distribution platform in Moroccan.
- NitroFix — NitroFix aims to lower the global carbon footprint by generating ammonia with no carbon emissions. NitroFix created an innovative manufacturing technology that generates 0% CO2. The method is based on an electrochemical reaction, which is aided by a new catalyst.
- Smartprof — Smartprof is a B2C educational platform based in North Africa. It's a platform that links students of primary, secondary and Highschool, with students of universities, business, and engineering schools that are able to teach and dispense coaching sessions. Smartprof helps match easily the supply and demand in the learning sphere in Morocco. Itthen creates a differenciated and innovative offer of teaching and learning, as the teachers and coachs are freshly young graduates that are molded to teaching. Finally, Smartprof aspires to become the reference of online courses and e-learning in the Northern African market and on the long term the Asian one.
Partech is a global venture capital firm with offices in San Francisco, Paris, Berlin and Dakar. Partech invests in Internet and information technology startups at seed, venture and growth stages.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, France, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 423
- Round size: Seed $1M–$5.6M; Series A $2.5M–$25M; Series B $8M–$54M
- Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Nomba — Nomba Makes Money Easy. Improving access to financial tools for the banked, underbanked and unbanked.
- Enter — baupal seeks to democratize sustainable and customized architecture, making design, energy assessments, permitting and cost evaluations more accessible and straightforward for private builders and smaller construction projects. baupal is an online building application service that takes advantage of digital processes and efficient team structuresto streamline design, planning and permitting processes for a range of small-scale projects.baupal was established in December, 2020 in Berlin, Germany.
- SustainCERT — SustainCERT is the leading global carbon emissions accounting and verification platform for carbon markets and corporate value chains.
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Browse database — It's Free!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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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 100
- Round size: Seed $153k–$2M; Series A $1.1M–$4.6M
- Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 215
- Round size: Seed $585k–$3.2M; Pre-Seed $500k–$2.5M; Series A $1.2M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2017
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
FM Capital Group LLC is a California registered investment advisory firm operating since August 20, 2014.
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- Industry: Software, Big Data, EdTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series C
- Geography: United States, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Tekion — Tekion is a next gen, cloud-native platform with the power of Big data, Internet of Things (IoT) and ML/AI for the automotive retail industry.
- SHYFT Power Solutions — SHYFT builds industrial-grade IoT and integrated software to connect and intelligently manage distributed energy resources (DERs) in markets that struggle with resiliency. SHYFT is pioneering the development of integrated decentralized power systems in emerging markets like Nigeria, leapfrogging over traditional central infrastructure and enablingDERs to scale and support existing but unreliable grids.
- DriveMe.ng — DriveMe is a mobility technology company that provides access to verified and professional drivers; through a one-stop platform aggregating product and service providers within the mobility space across Africa. Our platform provides ease of access for individuals and businesses to connect with verified drivers, driving instructors, buy motorinsurance, renew vehicle documents and other mobility operations services.
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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- Industry: Management Consulting, Consulting, Software
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Corporate Round
- Geography: India, Kenya, Spain
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- 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
Logos Ventures is a venture capital investment firm.
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- Industry: B2B, FinTech, Logistics
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Kenya, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
Venture Capital firm
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- 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
was a SARS-approved section 12J Venture Capital Company
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- Industry: SaaS, EBooks, EdTech
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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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- Industry: Solar, Energy, SaaS
- Stage:Private Equity, Debt Financing
- Geography: Nigeria, South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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
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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- Industry: Automotive, Manufacturing, Software
- Stage:Corporate Round, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 35
- Round size: Series A $7.5M–$31M; Corporate Round $1.4M–$6.5B
- Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
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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- Industry: Agriculture, Social Entrepreneurship, Energy
- Stage:Debt Financing, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Kenya, Ghana, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Round size: Seed $1.7M–$1.7M; Debt Financing $2M–$45M
- Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
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Browse database — It's Free!Wamda is a platform of programs and networks that aims to accelerate entrepreneurship ecosystems across MENA.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Logistics, EdTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Tunisia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
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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.
Orange Ventures is the Venture Capital Fund of the Orange Group, with 350m euros under management
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series B, Series C
- Geography: France, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 59
- Round size: Seed $214k–$4.8M; Series B $11M–$32M; Series C $24M–$75M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2021
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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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- Industry: Information Technology, Health Care, Marketplace
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Seed $1M–$1.6M
- Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
A Global Venture Capital Platform Connecting Innovators Everywhere
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
- Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
- Geography: United States, France, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 119
- Round size: Series A $3M–$40M; Series B $10M–$53M; Series C $32M–$380M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
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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
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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- Industry: E-Commerce, Financial Services, Internet
- Stage:Series B, Series C
- Geography: United States, India, Brazil
Investor stats
- Total investments: 59
- Round size: Series B $8M–$156M; Series C $9.1M–$60M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
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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.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Finance, Energy
- Stage:Debt Financing, Series A
- Geography: United States, India, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Debt Financing $2.9M–$175M
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
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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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- Industry: Internet, Consulting, Real Estate
- Stage:Private Equity, Secondary Market, Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, Spain, Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Round size: Private Equity $14M–$188M
- Lead/follow: 60% lead, 40% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $3.1B in 2023
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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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- Industry: Financial Services, Manufacturing, Retail
- Stage:Private Equity, Series A
- Geography: Egypt, Morocco, South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 23
- Round size: Private Equity $20M–$165M
- Lead/follow: 57% lead, 43% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018
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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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- Industry: Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
- Stage:Debt Financing, Series B
- Geography: India, Nigeria, Ghana
Investor stats
- Total investments: 39
- Round size: Series B $4.1M–$8.9M; Debt Financing $1.1M–$16M
- Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kaleidofin — Kaleidofin is a fintech platform that provides complete financial solutions for excluded individuals and households. The platform propels under-banked customers towards meeting their real life goals by providing intuitive and tailored financial solutions. Their solutions take into account the financial roadblocks and vulnerability that thesesegments, such as volatile income streams and limited understanding of the fine print in financial products.Kaleidofin creates individual profiles of households based on several sources and uses that information to tailor its services for each customer. It also provides curated, goal-based financial solutions to people in the underbanked segments. It will leverage the full India stack, existing networks, analytics, structuring, and user-centered design to drive outcomes for customers, in the processKaleidofin was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
- Prestamype — Prestamype was launched in 2017 with the aim of providing a broader access to funding to micro and small businesses, with better credit conditions. With its first product, a secured working capital loan with a real estate collateral, it has lent over USD 24 million to 750 Peruvian entrepreneurs (as of 1st of October 2021). In 2019, Prestamypelaunched its online FX platform called Cambio Seguro. In 2020, the company launched its digital factoring product. In 2021, INCA Ventures and Angel Ventures Peru (AVP), two leading funds in Peru, invested in the company.
- Annapurna Finance — Annapurna Finance operates as a micro finance company. We offer agricultural loans, money loans, small business loans, insurance and home improvement loans at their doorstep.
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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- Industry: Education, Apps, SaaS
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: South Africa
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- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
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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.
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