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Top 50 Financial Services Startup Investors in South Africa in October 2023

A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Financial services startups based in South africa. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Financial services companies from South africa. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Financial Services Startup Investors in South Africa in October 2023

Investor Financial Services South Africa investments
CRE Venture Capital 7
Naspers Foundry 6
4Di Capital 6
Raba Partnership 5
Martin Villig 4
Launch Africa 4
Goodwell Investments 4
Merrill Lynch 4
Future Africa 4
Ragnar Sass 4
Quona Capital 4
Change Ventures 4
Kalon Venture Partners 3
Imvelo Ventures 3
Maven 11 Capital 3
Firstminute Capital 3
Markus Villig 3
Oui Capital 3
1kx 3
Norrsken VC 2
Phillip Sebole Masango 2
AlphaCode Club 2
Technology Innovation Agency 2
Scalar Capital 2
PayPal Ventures 2
Allan Gray 2
Wes Schwalje 2
Musha Ventures 2
4DX Ventures 2
Accion Venture Lab 2
Kleiner Perkins 2
500 Fintech 2
UW Ventures 2
Boost VC 2
Yossi Hasson 2
Newid capital 2
Village Global 2
Sound Ventures 2
Hustle Fund 2
LoftyInc Capital Management 2
Soma Capital 2
Newtown Partners 2
DCG Expeditions 2
Crossfin Technology 2
The Fintech Fund 1
Michael Vaughan 1
Old Mutual Investment Group 1
E4EAfrica 1
Century Oak Capital 1
Knife Capital 1

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CRE Venture Capital
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in the past 12 months

Founded in 2015, CRE Venture Capital invests in early stage tech companies that are levered to Africa. CRE is headquartered in the New York metro area, with a regional office in Lagos, Nigeria.

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Investment focus

  • Financial Services, FinTech, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • South Africa, Nigeria, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Sava — Sava is a multi-management platform that provides an unlimited number of virtual cards as well as automated accounting reconciliation.
  • Stitch — One API integration for all online payments across South Africa. Accept Instant EFT, debit + credit card, cash, direct deposit and debits. Manage + reconcile digital payments and send payouts.
  • Bettr — Bettr is a digital banking app for creator. Download the app to get your zero monthly fee digital bank account and virtual card. Join our community of creators, gamers, influencers, freelancers, tiktokkers, streamers, YouTubers and digital gig workers.
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Naspers Foundry
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa

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

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Investment focus

  • Financial Services, Insurance, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series B, Series A
  • South Africa, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • Nile.ag — Nile connects fresh produce buyers and producers by providing a platform for direct and secure transactions
  • LifeCheq — LifeCheq is a startup offering digitized, and holistic personal finance.
  • SweepSouth — Book a home cleaning online from your mobile, tablet or computer. SweepSouth connects you with a cleaner in minutes. Cleaners are experienced, reliable, efficient and insured.
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4Di Capital
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 2 investments in the past 12 months

4Di Capital is a Cape Town-based venture capital fund management firm focused on early-stage technology investments in sub-Saharan Africa.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Mobile, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • South Africa, United States, Uganda

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.
  • Leta — Leta Technology is a software development company that creates supply chain and logistics software to enable the efficient and automated movement of goods.
  • Numida — Growing African small businesses with affordable, convenient, and fair credit.
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Raba Partnership
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 5 investments in the past 12 months

The Raba Partnership, Raba Capital, Raba

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Investment focus

  • Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • South Africa, United States, Egypt

Portfolio highlights

  • Cloudline — Cloudline leverages lighter-than-air technology and the latest developments in unmanned aerial vehicles to deliver essential goods and services to the 1 billion people without direct access to roads and runways.
  • Revivo — Revivo is an online marketplace for electronics spare parts, tools & accessories.
  • Stitch — One API integration for all online payments across South Africa. Accept Instant EFT, debit + credit card, cash, direct deposit and debits. Manage + reconcile digital payments and send payouts.
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Martin Villig
Angel · Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Martin is co-founder of Bolt.eu, Estonian Founders Society, Garage48.org, Good Deed Education Foundation and kood/Jõhvi coding school. Read more from http://martinvillig.com

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Investment focus

  • Software, Information Technology, Education
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Estonia, Spain, South Africa

Portfolio highlights

  • Planet42 — Having your own car has never been easier. Planet42 is a vehicle rental company offering rent-to-buy car service for private clients.
  • Mentornaut — Mentornaut is a new online tutoring platform is aiming to increase inclusion in personalized education and counts Super angel, United Angels VC, and a list of EdTech advocates like Bolt co-founder Martin Villig, and Clanbeat co-founder Kadri Tuisk among its investors.
  • StudentFinance — Catapult your career with leading re-skilling and up-skilling bootcamps. Study now and pay us back once you land a job & start earning!
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Launch Africa
VC Fund · Ebène, Plaines Wilhems, Mauritius · 18 investments in the past 12 months

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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Investment focus

  • Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

  • Lengo — Lengo is an AI based intelligence platform that offers a large database on consumer goods for companies in the FMCG sector.
  • 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.
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Goodwell Investments
VC Fund · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands · 2 investments in the past 12 months

Goodwell Investments is a pioneering investment firm focused on financial inclusion, fintech and inclusive growth in sectors providing

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Investment focus

  • FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Series A, Series B, Funding Round
  • Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa

Portfolio highlights

  • MFS Africa — MFS Africa is the largest mobile money inter-operability hub in Africa, which connects mobile network operators across the continent through a single API. In addition to mobile remittance services, the MFS Africa API enables merchant payment, bulk payment, bank-to-wallet transfers, and an array of other cross border digital payments services.
  • SOUK Farms — SOUK Farms is a fresh horticulture supply grower and exporter that pioneers innovation to improve agricultural sustainability and stimulate economic and social development.
  • Complete Farmer — We are providing cutting-edge technological farming protocols and innovations with a unique business model and logistics that are revolutionizing...
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Merrill Lynch
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Merrill Lynch Wealth Management has the financial advisors and expertise to help you achieve your goals at any stage of your life or career.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Information Technology, Internet
  • Funding Round, Series B, Series C
  • United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • ITM Power — ITM Power manufacture PEM electrolysers. A pioneering technology that generates green hydrogen enabling customers to decarbonise.
  • Pharmacierge — Pharmacierge is the digital e-prescribing service chosen by private clinicians to deliver medication to their patients throughout the UK and worldwide. Clinicians create and transfer e-prescriptions to our pharmacy near London's Harley Street, for free delivery to their patients either the same day or next weekday
  • The Boeing Company — The Boeing Company is an American multinational corporation that designs, manufactures and sells fixed-wing aircraft, rotorcraft, rockets and satellites and provides leasing and product support services. Boeing is among the largest global aircraft manufacturers, is the second-largest aerospace & defense contractor in the world based on 2012revenue and is the US' largest exporter by dollar value. Boeing stock is a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.The Boeing Company's corporate headquarters are located in Chicago and the company is led by Chairman and CEO James McNerney. Boeing is organized into five primary divisions: Boeing Commercial Airplanes (BCA), Boeing Defense, Space & Security (BDS), Engineering, Operations & Technology, Boeing Capital and Boeing Shared Services Group.Boeing is the world's largest aerospace company and leading manufacturer of commercial jetliners and defense, space and security systems. A top U.S. exporter, the company supports airlines and U.S. and allied government customers in 150 countries. Boeing products and tailored services include commercial and military aircraft, satellites, weapons, electronic and defense systems, launch systems, advanced information and communication systems, and performance-based logistics and training.Boeing has a long tradition of aerospace leadership and innovation. The company continues to expand its product line and services to meet emerging customer needs. Its broad range of capabilities includes creating new, more efficient members of its commercial airplane family; integrating military platforms, defense systems and the warfighter through network-enabled solutions; creating advanced technology solutions; and arranging innovative customer-financing options.With corporate offices in Chicago, Boeing employs more than 170,000 people across the United States and in 70 countries. This represents one of the most diverse, talented and innovative workforces anywhere. More than 140,000 employees hold college degrees -- including nearly 35,000 advanced degrees -- in virtually every business and technical field from approximately 2,700 colleges and universities worldwide. Our enterprise also leverages the talents of hundreds of thousands more skilled people working for Boeing suppliers worldwide.Boeing is organized into two business units: Boeing Commercial Airplanes and Boeing Defense, Space & Security. Supporting these units are Boeing Capital Corporation, a global provider of financing solutions; the Shared Services Group, which provides a broad range of services to Boeing worldwide; and Boeing Engineering, Operations & Technology, which helps develop, acquire, apply and protect innovative technologies and processes.Divisions:- - - - -
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Future Africa
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 10 investments in the past 12 months

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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Investment focus

  • Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Nigeria, United States, Kenya

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.
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Ragnar Sass
Angel · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Ragnar Sass has strongest skill is to find the best people and keep them rocking in speed of 200 km/h. He has organized 20+ Hack-a-thons Garage48 in Eastern Europe + West & East-Africa. He advise other founders and share experience where it could help.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
  • Estonia, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • Alvin — Highly accurate, automated column-level lineage, powering your data workflows.
  • BeTRITON — 100% electric recreational vehicle - revolution in sustainable travel. BeTRITON (formerly known as Z-Triton) offers extraordinary experience and freedom to travel both over land and water.
  • Around — The largest network of workspaces on flexible terms. We are a savvy team from Latin America providing fast-growing companies with on-demand access to flexible office space. Everywhere.We believe work at its best is always creative and collaborative, expressed with freedom, autonomy, and purpose; and the space surrounding us should help us achieveit, anywhere & everywhere.We are shaping the future of work today by improving workspaces and the rules around them, and helping innovative teams find their ideal space to make their best work every day — our first step on a journey to change the way we work and think about work.Our best work. Anywhere. Everywhere. We are Around.
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Quona Capital
VC Fund · Washington, District of Columbia, United States · 17 investments in the past 12 months

Quona Capital invests in fintech innovators that are advancing inclusion in emerging markets. Through our investments, Quona aims to deliver outstanding financial returns while making a lasting and positive impact on the world.

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Investment focus

  • Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • India, Brazil, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

  • Caliza — Give your users access to the digital dollar economy. Get early access!
  • ZestMoney — Enjoy the convenience of shopping for electronic gadgets, fashion, travel, education on EMI without credit card. No debit card or credit score required!
  • Bureau — Bureau is trust network that facilitates end-to-end identity verification, compliance, and fraud prevention for new-age businesses.
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Change Ventures
VC Fund · Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia · 7 investments in the past 12 months

We are a seed stage venture capital fund based in the Baltic states, backing ambitious Baltic founders anywhere in the world.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Information Technology, Apps
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Estonia, Lithuania, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Algori — Improving FMCG growth with the fastest and most granular insights from 45,000 shoppers in Spain
  • Aerones — Robotic wind turbine service company offering maintenance, inspection and repairs worldwide. Reduce downtime and improve the efficiency of your wind park
  • Trace.Space — Engineers develop complex products 10x faster with Trace.Space. Requirements management for the next generation
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Kalon Venture Partners
VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investment in the past 12 months

A growing number of South Africans are investing in venture capital companies that operate under Section 12J of the Income Tax Act. Contact us now.

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Investment focus

  • Apps, Mobile Apps, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • South Africa, Luxembourg, United States

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.
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Imvelo Ventures
VC Fund · Sandown, NA - South Africa, South Africa

Imvelo Ventures is a venture capital and growth equity firm in South Africa managed by Capitec Bank.

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Investment focus

  • Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Seed, Funding Round
  • South Africa

Portfolio highlights

  • BancX — bancX is a modular, as-a-service platform for banks, fintechs, lenders, and retailers to build or extend their offering to meet market demand.
  • Lipa Payments — Lipa [ lee-puh ] Payments is a payment software solution for banks and fintech's that allows small merchants to perform digital transactions using NFC and Bluetooth technology. We remove the need for additional payment terminal hardware. Start transacting in less than hour with our SDK.
  • The Cape Town Stock Exchange — The Cape Town Stock Exchange is a south Africa’s stock exchange for small- and medium-sized businesses.
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Maven 11 Capital
VC Fund · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands · 12 investments in the past 12 months

Maven 11 is a global blockchain and digital asset investment firm. The teams we partner with are on a rigorous quest to solve most exciting problems and make the necessary shift towards decentralised tomorrow.

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Investment focus

  • Blockchain, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

  • Hook — Hook provides an NFT-native options protocol that enables active traders to earn more with less. For active traders, options allow them to earn multiples of buying the floor for the best trades.
  • Risc Zero. — RISC Zero is revolutionizing the internet by creating the infrastructure & tooling for Web3 developers around the globe to build zero-proof software.
  • Essential — Essential is building intent-based infrastructure & tooling to accelerate the transition from value extraction to intent satisfaction.
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Firstminute Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 10 investments in the past 12 months

firstminute is a seed fund backed by over 120 unicorn founders and a world-class community.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Information Technology, Machine Learning
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

  • Axis — axis for Business enables small businesses to seamlessly manage employee payroll, salary advances, and expenses - all from one place.
  • Quench.ai — Quench is a tech infrastructure for video creators to deliver exclusive content, engage and reward their true fans.
  • Roadie — Easier, scalable and zero-maintenance. With security, scorecards and customizability built-in.
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Markus Villig
Angel · Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia · 3 investments in the past 12 months

Markus Villig is founder and CEO of Taxify. He attended University of Tartu.

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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Seed, Funding Round, Angel
  • Estonia, Poland, Ukraine

Portfolio highlights

  • Yaga — Yaga is designed for everyone who wants to sell items online in a convenient and secure manner.
  • Adam — Adam connects you with verified painters and decorators across whole Europe. Get an instant price estimate and book a painter for the next day already!
  • Fuelfinance — We do your spreadsheets, graphs, and automations. You get P&L, CF, Financial Projections , Plan/Fact , Unit Economics, and finally, peace of mind. All in familiar to you Google Spreadsheets. Forget about months of integrations and insane setup costs. Starting from $999/month.
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Oui Capital
VC Fund · Belmont, Massachusetts, United States

Oui Capital is an Africa-focused VC firm backing tech-enabled businesses at the pre-seed & seed stage.

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Investment focus

  • Transportation, Information Technology, B2B
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
  • Kenya, Nigeria, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Duplo — We enable businesses across Africa to simplify their payment flows.
  • Ndovu — Secure your investments in both local and global financial markets on ndovu - a secure, affordable, hassle-free online investment platform in Africa designed to work your money
  • Maad — Maad is Francophone Africa's fastest-growing B2B marketplace, based in Dakar, Senegal. Our tech-driven solution allows retailers to order products from our one-stop shop and benefit from working capital loans
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1kx
VC Fund · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands · 18 investments in the past 12 months

1kx is an early-stage investment firm focused on ecosystem growth.

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Investment focus

  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Germany, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

  • IYK — IYK inspires people to live in the moment by bridging immersive physical and digital experiences.
  • fxhash — fxhash is an open platform to mint and collect Generative Tokens on the Tezos blockchain
  • Spearbit — Web3 Security At Scale
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Norrsken VC
VC Fund · Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden · 15 investments in the past 12 months

We are a venture capital fund investigating in Start-Ups solving the worlds biggest problems while building massive businesses.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Food and Beverage, Health Care
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Sweden, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

  • LanguifyAI — Languify is an AI based language learning assistant which analyses, corrects, and tracks a user's spoken and written English across all platforms. The AI assistant prompts feedback and nudges that improve conversations in real-time that enable improvisation on the spot without any delay. It also enables users to learn at their own pace throughpersonalized learning plans and games designed to minimize repetition of errors.
  • Granular Energy — Granular Energy provides solutions for managing and trading clean energy. Our tools have been developed to support the recent emergence of 24/7 time-stamped energy certificates as well as traditional "annual" certificates.
  • Material Evolution — Material Evolution uses patented geopolymer technology and proprietary algorithms to create the most sustainable materials on the planet.Material Evolution’s first product is a cement mix made from 95% waste using its algorithm technology. Its smart concrete mix is 10X stronger, 5X more durable, and reduces carbon consumption by 85%. Mostimportantly, it’s economically viable for construction companies.
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Phillip Sebole Masango
Angel · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Phillip Sebole Masango is a Mentor at Allan Gray Orbis Foundation, the Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Eclipde Hub and Black Silver Capital, a Strategic Intelligence Member of World Economic Forum, a Member of Norval Foundation, Heavy Chef, Startup Grind Stellenbosch, The Silicon Cape Initiative, DueDash, and SimplyBiz_SA, and an ExecutiveDirector and Founder of Aesthetic Prosthetic Bionics Co.

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Investment focus

  • Information Technology, Robotics, Aerospace
  • Series A, Seed, Private Equity
  • South Africa

Portfolio highlights

  • Black Silver Capital — Black Silver Capital invests in and builds a portfolio of high growth companies and businesses with innovative business models, geared to existing and emerging institutions and their customers. We invest growth capital in the form of equity to be used to assist established, but still high-risk ventures in expanding activity such as creatingadditional traction launching products into diverse markets as well as creating new products & technology lines.
  • Cyrrix Cybersecurity — At Cyrrix Cybersecurity, we understand the importance of protecting your business from online threats. Our team provides a full range of cybersecurity services to help safeguard your company's sensitive information and systems. We offer comprehensive risk assessments, penetration testing, and incident response planning to identify and addressvulnerabilities in your network. Our managed security services provide ongoing monitoring and threat detection to keep your business protected around the clock. With our help, you can rest easy knowing that your company's valuable assets are secure.
  • Aesthetic Prosthetic Bionics — Biological Engineering, Bionics, Biomimetics, Hydraulics, Prosthetics, Neuroprosthetics, Exoskeleton Suits, Dynamics, Kinematics Robotics, Human-Robot Interaction, Artificial Organs, Artificial Intelligence, Quantum Computing, Knowledge Reasoning, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision, Robotics, Artificial GeneralIntelligence, Deep Learning, Bayesian Networks, Evolutionary Algorithms, Computational Neuroscience, Neurocybernetics, Cybernetics, Cognitive Science, Source Coding, Channel Coding, Algorithmic Complexity Theory, Algorithmic Information Theory, Information-Theoretic Security, Grey System Theory & Biotechnology
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AlphaCode Club
VC Fund · Gauteng, NA - South Africa, South Africa

AlphaCode is a club for next generation financial services entrepreneurs. They are building a world-class financial services eco-system that brings together entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs, industry experts, thought leaders and partner organisations. By connecting, sharing knowledge and developing unique insights, AlphaCode aims to transform thefinancial services industry.

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Investment focus

  • Financial Services, FinTech, Automotive
  • Grant, Funding Round, Debt Financing
  • South Africa, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • Abela — Abela is a mobile payments platform that allows the underserved to make and receive payments.
  • Vocalysd.ai — Vocalysd is a customer-centric, AI-powered insights tool. Vocalysd unlocks usable, easy-to-digest insights from your conversational data. These insights are key to optimising client interactions and enhancing your customers' experience.
  • Welo Health — Welo Health is an innovative Healthtech Company. It to provide at-home health services.
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Technology Innovation Agency
VC Fund · Pretoria, NA - South Africa, South Africa

TIA is an initiative of the Department of Science & Technology (DST) in South Africa, to enable and support technological innovation.

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Investment focus

  • Information Technology, Renewable Energy, Health Care
  • Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • South Africa

Portfolio highlights

  • Jobox — Jobox is a student recruitment platform, built to connect employers, students and graduate career offices. Our focus is to improve graduate employability by ensuring all students have the skills they need to enter, stay in, and progress in the world of work.Jobox’s ecosystem provides employers with access to the best diverse & youthfultalent, students with more employment opportunities and universities with data-driven insights aimed at driving graduate employability forward.
  • Aviro Health — We believe that empowering and supporting people to manage their own health benefits everybody.We built the Aviro Pocket Clinic to support self-care and provide access to services. We give people what they need to perform important health checks like regular HIV self-testing and connect them to experts and services who can offer hands-on and supported care when needed.
  • Ownedby Technologies — Ownedby is an interactive asset management solution for business and household assets, focused on appliances and devices, giving these unique identity that is traceable online, yet linked to and controlled by owners.
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Scalar Capital
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 5 investments in the past 12 months

Crypto investment firm. Austin, TX.

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Investment focus

  • Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

  • Sound — Sound connects artists and listeners to take ownership over the culture they create together.
  • Connext — Bridge tokens and data across 11+ chains. Earn and build on the most secure interoperability network.
  • Connext Labs — Connext is the most secure interoperability protocol, allowing users to bridge funds and developers to build asynchronous Solidity for the first time!
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PayPal Ventures
VC Fund · San Jose, California, United States · 14 investments in the past 12 months

PayPal Ventures is PayPal's venture capital arm, investing in PayPal's strategic interest fields for return.Leveraging PayPal Venture's expertise and experience, PayPal – and the companies in which it invests – are helping to bring innovative solutions to market more quickly, scale them faster, and build a global financial systemthat is more transparent, personalized, inclusive and customer-focused. PayPal Venture's investments reinforce its commitment to leading the financial technology industry and supporting entrepreneurship.

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Investment focus

  • FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Series B, Series C, Series A
  • United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

  • Magic — Onboard users to your dApp with just an email, phone number, or social login. Multi-chain, highly scalable, and battle-tested.
  • Stitch — One API integration for all online payments across South Africa. Accept Instant EFT, debit + credit card, cash, direct deposit and debits. Manage + reconcile digital payments and send payouts.
  • Finanzguru — Finanzguru is an AI based financial assistant.
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Allan Gray
VC Fund · Alfred, New York, United States · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Allan Gray is privately owned investment management company focused on generating long-term wealth for investors.

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Investment focus

  • Insurance, Health Care, SaaS
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • South Africa, United States

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.
  • MFS Africa — MFS Africa is the largest mobile money inter-operability hub in Africa, which connects mobile network operators across the continent through a single API. In addition to mobile remittance services, the MFS Africa API enables merchant payment, bulk payment, bank-to-wallet transfers, and an array of other cross border digital payments services.
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Wes Schwalje
Angel

Operator at nexus of policy, tech, and dev, investor, advised 8 unicorns on MENAP entry/scale-up, support Big Tech / startups to get along with govt

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Investment focus

  • FinTech, Information Technology, Financial Services
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • India, United States, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

  • Finerio Connect — Finerio is an automated and free personal finance platform in Mexico. Finerio allows users to link debit and credit accounts of the most important banks in Mexico while providing them insights on how to financially plan and save money.
  • PowerCred — PowerCred is a one-stop API suite for clients to access alternate data from SMEs. Our integrated system provides real time connectivity which allows financial institutions to build better products to suit small business requirements. We have a network of data partners across categories which help us to build a robust and comprehensive intelligence system, allowing FIs to make more confident decisions, and empowering small businesses to focus on business growth.
  • Chhotastock — ChhotaStock :Invest and Grow more.India's first small ticket size investment platform.
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Musha Ventures
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in the past 12 months

Seed capital for technology startups globally.

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Investment focus

  • Financial Services, Software, FinTech
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, Nigeria, Kenya

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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4DX Ventures
VC Fund · Brooklyn, New York, United States · 5 investments in the past 12 months

4DX Ventures is a Pan-Africa Focused Venture Capital Firm. Our mission is to connect people, ideas, and capital to create a vibrant African community.

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Investment focus

  • FinTech, Information Technology, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Egypt, United States, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

  • Tactyc — Tactyc is an easy-to-use portfolio construction, forecasting and management software for venture funds.
  • Zoie Health — Zoie is a digital health firm for women that provides family planning, fertility, and maternity care services.
  • Money Fellows — MoneyFellows digitizes the ROSCA model, enabling group lending and savings.
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Accion Venture Lab
VC Fund · Washington, District of Columbia, United States · 9 investments in the past 12 months

Accion Venture Lab is an investment initiative that provides startups with seed capital and support.

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Investment focus

  • Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, India, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

  • Licify — Licify, a procurement cloud-based platform specialized in the construction industry, has redefined interactions between developers, contractors, sub-contractors and suppliers. It creates a community developing transparent and efficient realtionships allthrough the value chain. This improves the procurement and supply processes, generating savingsand increasing profitability.
  • Bababos — Bababos is a platform that allows SME manufacturers to quickly access a variety of high-quality raw materials, from polymers and chemicals to steel and other metal products. This eliminates the need to handle numerous suppliers. The company's platform streamlines the buying process by digitizing administrative duties. Additionally, Bababosprovides manufacturers with flexible payment options that lessen their financial burden and enable them to concentrate on what they do best—producing high-quality products. Bababos enhances the SME producers' supply chains.
  • Channel19 — Channel19 is building a platform for small truckers to aggregate freight from all of their digital broker and load board relationships in one place and find the best freight to move for their business. Truckers using Channel19 earn up to 20% more revenue and can save over $3,000 per truck per year in dispatch.
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Kleiner Perkins
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 14 investments in the past 12 months

Kleiner Perkins is an American venture capital firm headquartered on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park in Silicon Valley.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Series B, Series A, Series C
  • United States, China, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • Series — Series provides full-stack enterprise financial services designed for institutions & enterprises.
  • Flagship — Flagship develops a SaaS data science solution that brings predictive machine-learning intelligence to retail. Its centralized platform helps businesses make timely, data-driven decisions across internal stakeholders and channels. Flagship enriches retail brands' first-party data with machine learning algorithms to optimize customer retention,inventory sell-through, and revenue.
  • Lightforce Orthodontics — LightForce Orthodontics, founded in 2015, makes the world’s first and only fully customized 3D-printed bracket system that is based on the anatomy and tooth morphology of each patient. The company’s mission is to apply modern technology and mass-customization to improve the orthodontic experience for both patients and doctors. LightForce’s platformunites the latest in digital treatment capabilities with cutting-edge, on-demand, 3D manufacturing to offer clinicians the first significant advancement in bracket-based treatment protocol in the past 50 years. A first-of-its-kind in the orthodontic space, Lightforce offers an unparalleled platform for orthodontists and LightForce technicians to collaborate on treatment plans for each individual patient. The company’s solution significantly reduces patient visits to the orthodontist and time spent wearing braces by providing 100 percent fully-customized solutions that improve both convenience and quality, ensuring patients receive the gold standard of care.
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500 Fintech
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States

500 Fintech

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Investment focus

  • FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, Vietnam, South Africa

Portfolio highlights

  • Kilo — Kilo develops a retail platform that provides retailers access to price, assortment, and inventory management. The platform is designed specifically to serve small and medium-sized retailers. The Kilo network effect creates a virtuous growth cycle for both supply and demand.
  • Stitch — One API integration for all online payments across South Africa. Accept Instant EFT, debit + credit card, cash, direct deposit and debits. Manage + reconcile digital payments and send payouts.
  • finally — Back Office is a technology-based company that helps small businesses by automating their bookkeeping and accounting. It is a one-stop source for building a strong and vital company back office. Small and medium-sized businesses looking for administrative and operations services, including on-demand experts and back-office personnel turn to themfor help succeeding with their businesses each and every day.Back Office.co was founded in 2018 and is based in West Palm Beach, Florida, United States.
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UW Ventures
VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa

UW is a multi-stage investor that provides growth and replacement capital across the equity-cycle. Its activities span from high-growth venture to mid-market private equity opportunities.

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Investment focus

  • FinTech, Payments, Insurance
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • South Africa

Portfolio highlights

  • Synatic — Synatic is a unified platform that enables your business to integrate and automate systems and services without sacrificing enterprise features and security.
  • MFS Africa — MFS Africa is the largest mobile money inter-operability hub in Africa, which connects mobile network operators across the continent through a single API. In addition to mobile remittance services, the MFS Africa API enables merchant payment, bulk payment, bank-to-wallet transfers, and an array of other cross border digital payments services.
  • Peach Payments — Get Peach as your Payment Gateway and Grow your ecommerce. Process online payments with Visa, Mastercard, Debit Orders, EFT payments, and subscriptions. Plugins for Wix, Shopify, WooCommerce.
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Boost VC
VC Fund · San Mateo, California, United States · 17 investments in the past 12 months

Boost VC: The Pre-Seed Fund Making Sci-FI a Reality. Investing in crypto, virtual reality, augmented reality, AI, Ocean Tech, Space Tech, human augmentation, exoskeletons and more.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Virtual Reality, Blockchain
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • ShapesXR — ShapesXR is a provider of a web-based platform for content creation and collaboration for VR applications.
  • Space DOTS — The first modular pico-labs for active in-space testing of advanced materials, from LEO to Cis-lunar and Interplanetary orbits.
  • Cascade Biocatalysts — Cascade Biocatalysts is built on a novel way to immobilize enzymes. Our technology keeps enzymes active and stable under difficult industrial conditions.
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Yossi Hasson
Angel · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa

Yossi Hasson is the Co-Founder and CEO of Metaversal and a Venture Partner at 2048 Ventures. He is also a Non-Executive Director of WeThinkCode_. Prior to that, he was the Managing Director of Techstars. He attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business and the University of Pretoria/Universiteit van Pretoria.

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Investment focus

  • Financial Services, Blockchain, Payments
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • South Africa, United States, Ghana

Portfolio highlights

  • Ozow — i-Pay is an instant EFT payment service in South Africa that allows your customer to make secure online payments directly into your bank account in real time.
  • Howler — Howler, is the powerful event technology platform designed at the uppermost benchmarks of service and technology to help consumers and event organisers to make moments that matter.
  • The Sun Exchange — The Sun Exchange is the peer-to-peer solar leasing marketplace. We leverage financial innovation and the power of the crowd to drive sustainable energy development and make the environmental, social and economic benefits of solar accessible and affordable for all. Through the Sun Exchange online platform, anyone, anywhere in the world, can buyremotely-located solar cells and then lease them to power businesses and organisations in sunny emerging markets. Solar cell owners earn income from the electricity that’s generated, while schools, businesses, clinics and other organisations gain access to affordable clean energy, reducing electricity costs and carbon emissions.
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Newid capital
VC Fund · Alexandria, Virginia, United States

Newid Capital invests internationally in growth-oriented financial services companies serving the underbanked.

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Investment focus

  • Financial Services, FinTech, Credit
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • India, Kenya, Turkey

Portfolio highlights

  • Lulalend — Financial provider for SME business banking accounts, business funding, and trade capital in South Africa. Do not delay. Click now to learn more and start today!
  • NOW Money — NOW Money is the UAE's first digital payroll and mobile bank service developed specifically for low income workers.
  • Apollo Agriculture — BRINGING COMMERCIAL FARMING TO EVERYONE Andrew, 3 acre maize farmer and Apollo customer
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Village Global
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 30 investments in the past 12 months

Early stage venture capital backed by some of the world's best entrepreneurs.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

  • Atmosfy — Atmosfy lets you explore dining through video. Easily browse 10-second, engaging videos from customers who recently dined there.
  • OpenCover — Cover $5,000 from $1.14 per week on leading protocols including Curve, Uniswap, Aave and more. As seen on CoinDesk, Decrypt, The Block, Coin Telegraph.
  • Boost Capital — Boost Capital is a fintech company that offers online microfinance services at lower rates. It uses innovative technology to pre-qualify customers within minutes of applying for a loan based on ability and probability to repay. Boost Capital enables both collateralized and uncollateralized loans, with loan size across the small business spectrum(from $100 to $10,000). Its platform automates the loan application for MFI partners and allows customers to hear back on their loan applications 100x faster than through traditional paper-based loan applications.The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Singapore.
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Sound Ventures
VC Fund · Beverly Hills, California, United States · 13 investments in the past 12 months

Sound Ventures is a venture capital firm that seeks to invest in the technology sector.

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Investment focus

  • Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

  • Matter. — We are an innovation company pioneering technology solutions for capturing, harvesting and recycling microplastics.
  • Hugging Face — Hugging Face is an open-source & platform provider of machine learning technologies. Hugging Face was launched in 2016 and is headquartered in New York.
  • Conductive.ai — Conductive.ai is an engagement platform for game developers to motivate players to increase player lifetime value.
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Hustle Fund
VC Fund · San Carlos, California, United States · 35 investments in the past 12 months

Hustle Fund is a seed fund that seeks to invest in early-stage startups operating in software, business to business, fintech, and digital health sectors.

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Investment focus

  • Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, Singapore, Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • Deskree — Generate a complete and scalable back-end infrastructure with tons of features via a web interface. Infinitely scalable & truly independent.
  • EquityList — Equity management with online cap table management and employee stock option programs (ESOP) administration. Available free for Indian startups
  • Series — Series provides full-stack enterprise financial services designed for institutions & enterprises.
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LoftyInc Capital Management
VC Fund · Carmel, California, United States · 5 investments in the past 12 months

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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Investment focus

  • FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, Nigeria, Egypt

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.
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Soma Capital
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 46 investments in the past 12 months

Soma Capital is venture capital fund that focuses on investing in software to automate the world across all sectors and geographies.

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Investment focus

  • Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, India, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

  • 0xPass — Frictionless auth and login for your dapp
  • Arkifi — Arkifi is an artificial intelligence company that develops AI-powered financial analyst tools. Arkifi's framework generates consistent results that avoid fabricating factual details (referred to as "hallucination"), instilling enterprises with an unmatched level of confidence in the outcomes.
  • Gradia Health — Gradia is an integrated, concierge care platform designed for clinics to support patients with chronic conditions.
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Newtown Partners
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Newtown Partners is a venture capital firm that actively invests in emerging, disruptive technology startups.

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Investment focus

  • Logistics, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

  • BeyondTrucks — Vertical SaaS
  • Lami — Lami is an end-to-end digital insurance platform and API that enables companies across sectors to offer insurance products. Its API allows underwriters to connect with consumer-facing companies that can provide embedded insurance as a value add for existing customers, many of whom are uninsured.
  • Complete Farmer — We are providing cutting-edge technological farming protocols and innovations with a unique business model and logistics that are revolutionizing...
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DCG Expeditions
VC Fund · Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Luno Expeditions is a global early-stage investor supporting fintech & crypto founders on their journeys to build the next generation of financial services.

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Investment focus

  • Financial Services, FinTech, Blockchain
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, India, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

  • Onmeta — Onmeta
  • 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.
  • Sealance Corp. — Sealance provides financial services, cryptography and other services.
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Crossfin Technology
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Crossfin invests in FINTECH solutions to enable growth for economies in Africa and beyond. Crossfin invests in high growth and established cash generative businesses, offering investors a blended exposure to technology investments in Fintech.

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Investment focus

  • Payments, Financial Services, Information Technology
  • Funding Round, Series A, Private Equity
  • South Africa, United States, Russian Federation

Portfolio highlights

  • Adumo — We are your expert partner in payments, enabling you to seamlessly and securely accept payments in-store and online with our true omni-channel experience. Never miss a sale with South Africa's largest independent payments processor.
  • My-iMali — My-iMali is a mobile wallet solution used for safe and secure transactions. Pay any number of people for only R1.25, including Staff & Students.
  • VantagePay — VantagePay provides white-label payment and technology solutions to the Banking, Telco, Financial Services, and Consumer Product Industries.
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The Fintech Fund
VC Fund · 10 investments in the past 12 months

We support the best teams in fintech and defi today.

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Investment focus

  • Financial Services, FinTech, Software
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

  • Paytrix — Access the best payments infrastructure around the world, all through a single platform.
  • TrueBiz — TrueBiz claims to enable financial services providers to onboard their business customers faster and eliminate churn caused by verification delays.
  • Ansa — The closed loop platform built for your customers.
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Michael Vaughan
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Michael Vaughan is the Operating Partner at Stripes.

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Investment focus

  • Financial Services, FinTech, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Brazil, Germany

Portfolio highlights

  • Flip — Transfer antar bank gratis dengan Flip! Transfer beda bank, top up e-wallet, kirim uang ke luar negeri, dan beli produk digital, semua lebih terjangkau!
  • Market — Trust Software builds payment products for the marketing ecosystem. We are backed by Lerer Hippeau, Lightspeed, Manta Ray, Sapphire Sport, Upfront, and Upper90. You can learn more about our products at http://TrustSoftware.co
  • Maplerad — Maplerad is a fast, safe and easy way to send and receive money with friends, family or others you trust. You can receive and send money directly into any Nigerian bank account in minutes using Bitcoin, US Dollars, and Naira.
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Old Mutual Investment Group
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa

As a leading African investment manager, we aim to deliver sustainable long-term returns for clients via our comprehensive range of investment capabilities.

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Investment focus

  • Retail, FinTech, Finance
  • Private Equity, Series A, Funding Round
  • South Africa, Malawi, Australia

Portfolio highlights

  • CoverGo — CoverGo is the ultimate no-code insurance platform helping insurance companies build and launch products at record speed and configured for every product line.
  • Gala Macs — Gala Macs is an agricultural company engaged in the production of macadamia nuts.
  • Pineapple — In short, Pineapple see the traditional insurance model, user journey and products as lacking and set out to remedy these by doing the following: 1) Changing the business model to align incentives, show people how premiums are used and award members leftover premium back 2) Making insuring as easy as snapping a picture where AI does the rest andcover is issued in under 60 seconds 3) Allowing per-item insurance and new product innovation to address cover not currently offered or accessible to manyPineapple launched in South Africa in 2018 with their "My Stuff" per-item insurance and have since launched their auto offering "My Ride". They have also partnered with Travelers in the US and have white-labeled their platform in the US.
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E4EAfrica
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investment in the past 12 months

E4E (“Entrepreneurs for Entrepreneurs”) specializes in supporting early stage ventures in South Africa from very early stage (pre-series A) to scale up.E4E focus on smart entrepreneurs and business ideas that are great businesses and make a significant contribution to a better (South) Africa.

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Investment focus

  • Internet, Logistics, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • South Africa, France, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • SweepSouth — Book a home cleaning online from your mobile, tablet or computer. SweepSouth connects you with a cleaner in minutes. Cleaners are experienced, reliable, efficient and insured.
  • Yebo Fresh — Powering South Africa's Township Economy.
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Century Oak Capital
VC Fund · Vaduz, Vaduz, Liechtenstein · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Century Oak Capital GmbH is a venture capital firm specializing in early-stage investments in Europe and Emerging Markets.

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Investment focus

  • Retail, E-Commerce, Software
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Pakistan, Kenya, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

  • Unbox — Unbox is the branded commerce operating system for SMEs helping them to sell online and increase their sales. We provide a ready to sell platform that allows entrepreneurs to digitize their business in less than 5 minutes - fully integrated with social commerce channels and our payment and shipping solutions, helping SMEs to save costs andcentralizing sales into a single platform.
  • SnappRetail — SnappRetail aims to create the largest virtual retail franchise across Pakistan, through deployment of its POS hardware/software, focusing on:1. Traditional trade Analytics for brands and retailers 2. Order Aggregation for manufacturers and distributors 3. Payment Solution for customers 4. Fintech enablement for small merchantsTheSnappRetail POS application has been carefully curated keeping the retailer in mind, the application focuses on digitizing his shop operations and cash flow and creating a real-time tertiary sales data lake.
  • Dastgyr Technologies — Making trade and capital seamless and reliable
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Knife Capital
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investment in the past 12 months

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Investment focus

  • Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
  • Funding Round, Series A, Seed
  • South Africa, United States, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

  • Octiv — Octiv is a well-known platform for gym management software.
  • wamly — Wamly helps the world hire better people faster. Streamline your hiring process and save 70% of your hiring hours with our one-way video interview software.
  • VoxCroft — VoxCroft is making the world a better, safer place with population-centric intelligence.
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