# Top 10 Fashion Startup Investors in Africa in October 2023

## Farfetch
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Corporate Round, Convertible Note, Seed
- Focus: Fashion, E-Commerce, Software

Farfetch operates an e-commerce website that unites various independent fashion boutiques. It offers bags, coats, dresses, jackets, jewellery, swimwear, trouser, shoes, knitwear, suits, shorts, and accessories. They operate a modular end-to-end technology platform purpose built to connect the luxury fashion ecosystem worldwide. Their vision wasto create a single operating system that could address the complex demands of consumers and luxury sellers alike. Their platform is built on an API-enabled proprietary technology stack, which provides the foundation for the three main components: applications, services and data. Farfetch serves women, men, and kids. Jose Neves founded the company in 2008, with its headquarters in London, United Kingdom.

## Umoja Rubber Products
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Sports, Fashion, Outdoors

Umoja Rubber Products is an investment Firm.

## Mizizi Africa Consumer Holdings
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Sports, Fashion, Outdoors

A world-class house of African-inspired lifestyle brands

## Microtraction
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software

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

## Talanton
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Retail, Sports, Fashion

Talanton helps you combat poverty in developing countries by creating jobs. You can free those in poverty by coming alongside them through investments in growth-stage businesses.

## J.P. Morgan Asset Management
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Private Equity, Series B, Series D
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, Renewable Energy

J.P. Morgan Asset Management is a leading asset manager for individuals, advisors and institutions. Their investment professionals are located around the world, providing strategies that span the full spectrum of asset classes.As one of the largest asset and wealth managers in the world, with assets under management of $1.7 trillion (as ofDecember 31, 2014), they provide global market insights and a range of investment capabilities that few other firms can match.

## Pipeline Angels
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Education, Software

Pipeline Angels is changing the face of angel investing and creating capital for women and non-binary femme social entrepreneurs. Our members serve as the friends and family round for entrepreneurs who may not already have support at that critical stage.

## Ventures Platform
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Internet

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

## CDG Invest
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Rabat, Rabat-Sale-Zemmour-Zaer, Morocco
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: Apps, Software, Internet

CDG Invest is the investment branch of the CDG group. CDG Invest acts both as an investment manager for its own account following both financial and strategic logic, as well as as a fund manager for third parties. CDG Invest intervenes in various key sectors of the Moroccan economy: industry, agro-food, digital/digital, renewable energy, andterritorial PPP and with various segments of companies.

## Flat6Labs Tunisia
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Retail, Education

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

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