Top 5 Email Startup Investors in Africa (October 2023)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Kalon Venture Partners
VC Fund
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2 | South Africa, Luxembourg, United States | Seed, Series A | Apps, Mobile Apps, Software | $539k–$3M |
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Fireball Capital
VC Fund
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1 | South Africa | Series A | Email, Internet, Payments | |
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Endeavor South Africa
VC Fund
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1 | South Africa, United States | Seed, Series A | Financial Services, Internet, Payments | |
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Endeavor Catalyst
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Brazil, Mexico | Series B, Series A, Series C | E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology | $5.3M–$150M |
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Atlantica Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Internet, B2B, Health Insurance | $450k–$2.1M |
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- Industry: Apps, Mobile Apps, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: South Africa, Luxembourg, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Seed $539k–$3M
- Lead/follow: 73% lead, 27% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Talk360 — Talk360 is an easy-to-use calling app that helps people make affordable international calls to any mobile and landline number. They believe that reliable communication and digital services must be affordable and accessible to everyone, regardless of someone's background. Especially people in emerging countries in Africa, who often need theseservices the most, do not always have the necessary banking possibilities. To bridge this distance, Talk360 will launch the world's first single checkout platform for Africa. This platform will combine all locally available payment methods and currencies across Africa, together with over 1.25 million cash points of sales, and will eventually be available to other companies as well. This means that 500 million Africans will be able to purchase digital services they never had access to before.
- Sendmarc — Stop cyber criminals from sending emails using your domain and protect your customers, suppliers and employees from cyber attacks with DMARC Security.
Fireball Capital operates as a venture capital firm.
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- Industry: Email, Internet, Payments
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Sendmarc — Stop cyber criminals from sending emails using your domain and protect your customers, suppliers and employees from cyber attacks with DMARC Security.
- 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.
Endeavor South Africa is a non-profit entity and the leading supporter of high-impact entrepreneurs around the world.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Internet, Payments
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: South Africa, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $7M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Mobiz — Supercharge your SMS marketing with dynamic, high-converting landing pages sent directly into the hands of your customers.
- Sendmarc — Stop cyber criminals from sending emails using your domain and protect your customers, suppliers and employees from cyber attacks with DMARC Security.
- Yebo Fresh — Powering South Africa's Township Economy.
Endeavor Catalyst is the rules-based, co-investment fund of Endeavor, set up to invest exclusively in Endeavor Entrepreneur-led companies and to sustain Endeavor’s long-term operations in a mission-aligned way. Launched in 2012, Endeavor Catalyst has ~$500M+ AUM across four funds and has made 260+ investments to date in 35+ different markets. TodayThe Endeavor Catalyst portfolio has 53 companies valued at $1B+. Investments include Globant (NYSE:GLOB), Rappi, and Creditas in Latin America; Yemeksepeti.com and Careem in MENA; and Bukalapak and Carro in Indonesia.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
- Geography: United States, Brazil, Mexico
Investor stats
- Total investments: 264
- Round size: Series A $5.3M–$35M; Series B $8M–$107M; Series C $12M–$150M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Sami — Sami is a Brazil-based health plan startup that provides a technology-based solution intended to be used in the healthcare sector. The company focuses on making health care simpler, more efficient, and friendlier by using simplified solutions, thus, providing patients with reduced costs for their medical care needs. Their mission is to transformBrazilian health into something simple, easy, reliable, and accessible, which helps each person to be their best version.Founded by Vitor Asseituno and Luiz Guilherme Berardo in 2018 and is based in São Paulo, Brazil.
- Thunes — Payment infrastructure for a connected world.
- InvGate — InvGate is the solution to build a modern service desk and empower IT with total visibility of your IT estate.
Are you looking for start-up funding for your business? Get in touch with Atlantica Ventures to get the kick-start your start-up needs.
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- Industry: Internet, B2B, Health Insurance
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Pre-Seed $450k–$2.1M
- Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $50M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- OnePipe — OnePipe aggregates APIs from banks and fintechs into a standardized gateway that is easy to integrate and makes partnerships seamless.
- Sendmarc — Stop cyber criminals from sending emails using your domain and protect your customers, suppliers and employees from cyber attacks with DMARC Security.
- Afropolitan — Afropolitan is building a Network State to unleash the maximum potential of Africans around the world. Are you interested? Join us with your email.
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