Top 50 Food and Beverage Startup Investors in Africa (October 2023)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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1776 Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | United States, Kenya, Brazil | Seed, Series A, Convertible Note | Education, EdTech, Software | $500k–$10M |
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Sustainable Food Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | United States, India, Germany | Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel | Food and Beverage, Biotechnology, Food Processing | $100k–$4M |
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Musha Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | United States, Nigeria, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, Software, FinTech | $50k–$10M |
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Cult Food Science
VC Fund
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3 | United States, South Africa, Canada | Seed, Pre-Seed | Food and Beverage, Biotechnology, Food Processing | $275k–$12M |
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Launch Africa
VC Fund
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3 | Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology | $200k–$3M |
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Kube VC
VC Fund
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3 | United States, India, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | FinTech, Financial Services, Software | $50k–$18M |
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Creadev
VC Fund
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2 | France, United States, China | Series B, Series C | Health Care, Food and Beverage, Agriculture | $5.4M–$55M |
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Hustle Fund
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Singapore, Canada | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | $77k–$40M |
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Tayo Oviosu
Angel
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2 | Nigeria, Brazil, United States | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $1.4M–$3.6M |
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VestedWorld
VC Fund
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2 | Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana | Seed, Series A, Series B | Agriculture, E-Commerce, Financial Services | $1.6M–$4.4M |
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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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Maroc Numeric Fund
VC Fund
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2 | Morocco, Canada, France | Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed | Online Portals, Enterprise Software, FinTech | $200k–$700k |
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Kale United
VC Fund
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2 | United Kingdom, Sweden, India | Seed, Pre-Seed | Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Biotechnology | $100k–$1.4M |
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European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
VC Fund
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2 | Turkey, United States, Russian Federation | Debt Financing, Series A, Series B | Financial Services, Banking, Finance | $3.2M–$88M |
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Hack VC
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Singapore, Israel | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain | $850k–$30M |
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Novastar Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Kenya, Nigeria, United States | Series A, Series B | Agriculture, Internet, Clean Energy | $660k–$50M |
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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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Cox Enterprises
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Belgium, Nigeria | Seed, Series A, Series C | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $100k–$55M |
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Accion Venture Lab
VC Fund
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2 | United States, India, Brazil | Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Finance | $500k–$7.5M |
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UM6P Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Morocco, Israel, South Africa | Pre-Seed, Seed | Food Processing, Apps, Agriculture | $110k–$3.6M |
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Wamda Capital
VC Fund
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2 | United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Turkey | Seed, Series A, Series B | E-Commerce, Internet, Financial Services | $500k–$47M |
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Standard Chartered Bank
VC Fund
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2 | India, United Kingdom, Singapore | Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt | Financial Services, FinTech, Internet | $10M–$3B |
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Chandaria Capital
VC Fund
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2 | Kenya, United States, Egypt | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, FinTech, Software | $200k–$37M |
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Kinnevik
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Germany, Sweden | Series B, Series C | E-Commerce, Health Care, Financial Services | $10M–$550M |
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Seedstars Africa Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya, France, Nigeria | Seed, Series A | Energy, FinTech, Software | |
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VentureSouq
VC Fund
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1 | United States, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia | Seed, Series A, Series B | FinTech, Financial Services, Software | $250k–$50M |
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John Obaro
Angel
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1 | Nigeria | Seed | E-Commerce, Marketplace, Food and Beverage | |
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Omidyar Network
VC Fund
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1 | United States, India, Brazil | Series A, Seed, Series B | Financial Services, FinTech, Education | $750k–$29M |
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Blue Haven Initiative
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya, United States, Ghana | Series A, Series B, Seed | Solar, Energy, Financial Services | $2M–$22M |
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GFR Fund
VC Fund
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, Canada | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Video Games, Information Technology | $1.1M–$30M |
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Michael Chow
Angel
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1 | United States, Kenya | Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Rental Property | |
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Acumen Resilient Agriculture Fund
VC Fund
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1 | Ghana, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed | Agriculture, Farming, Social Entrepreneurship | |
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Investisseurs & Partenaires
VC Fund
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1 | France, Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire | Seed, Series A | Financial Services, Health Care, Food and Beverage | $11k–$7.5M |
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Ampifi VC
VC Fund
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1 | Nigeria | Seed | Payments, Software, Ride Sharing | |
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Liquid 2 Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Mexico, Canada | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, FinTech | $1M–$50M |
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Global Founders Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Germany, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, Software, FinTech | $725k–$30M |
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Livelihood Impact Fund
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya | Seed | Farming, Agriculture, Farmers Market | |
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AfricInvest
VC Fund
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1 | Tunisia, Morocco, Nigeria | Private Equity, Series A | Manufacturing, Financial Services, FinTech | $1.7M–$65M |
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Plug & Play
VC Fund
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1 | Seed | $737k–$6.3M | ||
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AU21 Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Singapore, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Initial Coin Offering | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services | $1.2M–$14M |
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Afri Mobility
VC Fund
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1 | Morocco, France | Seed, Convertible Note | B2B, Apps, Retail | |
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U.S. International Development Finance Corp
VC Fund
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1 | India, United States, Kenya | Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt | Financial Services, Finance, FinTech | $8.8M–$765M |
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Aruwa Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Nigeria, United States, France | Seed, Series A | FinTech, Big Data, Financial Services | $1.7M–$3M |
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AlphaCode Club
VC Fund
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1 | South Africa, United Kingdom | Grant, Debt Financing | Financial Services, FinTech, Automotive | $24k–$655k |
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Cordaid Investment Management
VC Fund
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1 | Sierra Leone | Debt Financing | Manufacturing, Consumer Goods, Food Processing | |
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Flourish Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, India, Brazil | Series A, Series B, Seed | FinTech, Financial Services, Finance | $1.3M–$65M |
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Oxfam’s Enterprise Development Programme
VC Fund
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1 | Tunisia, Ethiopia | Grant, Series A | Retail, Blockchain, E-Commerce | |
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Naspers
VC Fund
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1 | South Africa, India, Brazil | Series B, Series A, Private Equity | E-Commerce, Internet, Retail | $431k–$421M |
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Twynam Agricultural Group
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Australia, Singapore | Series A, Seed | Agriculture, Food Processing, Seafood | $1.9M–$33M |
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Khulisani Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | South Africa | Farming, Livestock, Farmers Market | ||
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1776 Ventures is a global seed fund investing in companies in the following sectors: education, energy, smart cities, transportation, food/agriculture, fintech, and healthcare.
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- Industry: Education, EdTech, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
- Geography: United States, Kenya, Brazil
Investor stats
- Total investments: 95
- Round size: Seed $850k–$4M; Series A $2.2M–$10M; Convertible Note $500k–$2M
- Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Swiftly — Harness your public transit data with Swiftly's urban mobility solutions to make your city's mass transportation move more efficiently.
- HopSkipDrive — Arranging safe, dependable transportation or children ages 6+ with qualified caregivers
- MPOWER Financing — Apply for international student loans through MPOWER Financing. Our student loans to study in the USA & Canada don't require a cosigner or credit history.
SFV backs globally early-stage founders building leading Future of Food companies that are: #Cell-based #Plant-based #Recombinant
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- Industry: Food and Beverage, Biotechnology, Food Processing
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Geography: United States, India, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 32
- Round size: Seed $845k–$4M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2.1M
- Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Farmless — A farmless fermentation platform has the potential to create an entirely new food repertoire, producing proteins, carbohydrates, beneficial fats, vitamins, and minerals from the ground up," explained Oner. "We are creating a new interface between food and electricity by domesticating microbes chosen for their food properties and abilityto grow on renewable energy-based feedstocks.
- Daisy Lab — Daisy Lab pioneers precision fermentation technology in New Zealand
- Atlantic Fish Co — Developing sustainable, cultivated seafood using cellular agriculture
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.
CULT Food Science is an investment company focused on supporting and advancing the technology behind the future of food.
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- Industry: Food and Beverage, Biotechnology, Food Processing
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, South Africa, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 23
- Round size: Seed $300k–$12M; Pre-Seed $275k–$2.4M
- Lead/follow: 52% lead, 48% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Novel Farms — Novel Farms uses microbial fermentation to develop cruelty-free, inexpensive and tunable bioscaffolds for the production of cell-based meat products. Novel Farms mission is to craft the taste and texture of the gourmet meats and transform cell-based meat consumption into a sought-after culinary experience for the next generation of consciouseaters.
- Minus — A sustainable coffee alternative, combining the taste, look, and smell of coffee with a smaller footprint to ensure a brighter future for coffee and the planet.
- Unicorn Biotechnologies — Unicorn Biotechnologies is developing a fully automated manufacturing platform to enable cellular agriculture producers to seamlessly scale products from the lab bench to supermarket shelves. Our full stack platform combines hardware, software and analytics to completely automate cellular agriculture manufacturing, reducing costs and increasingproduct quality. By providing a clear path to scale cellular agriculture from grams to tons, we will improve human and planetary health and drive the transition to animal free agriculture.
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.
Kube VC is a global venture capital firm that invests in exceptional founders and category-defining companies.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 95
- Round size: Seed $500k–$6.1M; Pre-Seed $50k–$2.1M; Series A $3M–$18M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Entre — Entrepreneur, Entrepreneur Network, Entrepreneur Community, Startup network, startup community, Creator Economy, Creator Community, Freelancers, Venture Capitalists, Angel Investors, Start a business, How to start a business, Startup jobs, Startup events, Cofounder, Find a cofounder, Find a mentor, Find an Investor, meet entrepreneurs, host virtual event, host virtual meeting, entrepreneur events, tech events, entrepreneurship, find gigs, freelancing jobs, online business
- Soptle — Founded in Sep 2021, Soptle started to establish an integrated technology to the neglected regional FMCG Manufacturers in India with a B2B Retail Commmerce App. It uses tech and data to distribute at scale and use necessary components (existing Distributor/Wholesaler) in the FMCG Supply Chain to build a high growth and profitable business.
- Cloudbankin — Habile offers a complete spectrum of web solutions, software development and services. Habile provides innovative solutions through research. We have always put the customer in front on all considerations. Technology, Thought and Thorough Research are our key to success. We bring with us over 25 man years of experience in the Software industrywith wide expertise on Retail, Tax, Educational and Banking & Finance domains. We also compliment our technology offerings with strong graphics/GUI design capabilities, QA / QC teams and strong project management capabilities. We understand the customers more as we follow a customer centric approach. We focus on quality and this has always been striking force our development
Creadev is an evergreen investment company believe that shareholders' timing should match with the entrepreneur's vision, up to an unlimited amount of time. Creadev invest in and support companies able to scale-up and become worldwide best players in their sector.
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- Industry: Health Care, Food and Beverage, Agriculture
- Stage:Series B, Series C
- Geography: France, United States, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 39
- Round size: Series B $5.4M–$33M; Series C $10M–$55M
- Lead/follow: 62% lead, 38% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Ouihelp — Ouihelp is a developer of an online residential assistance platform designed to help seniors in their regular activities at home. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Paris, France.
- Everytable — Everytable aims to redefine the food landscape the same way McDonald’s did fifty years ago. But this time, instead of burgers and fries, they are selling nutritious, fresh, made-from-scratch food, at fast-food prices.
- InnovaFeed — InnovaFeed is a biotech company that produces a new source of protein from insect rearing (Hermetia illucens) for animal feed and aquaculture in particular.Their model is based on a unique technological expertise that allows us to place the insect at the heart of their agri-food system and restore it to its natural place in their ecosystem: thatof recycling nutrients to then feed fish, birds or small mammals.In the context of a fast-growing world population, InnovaFeed’s activity responds concretely and competitively to an increase in protein demand while contributing to the development of a more sustainable food system, in particular through the development of quality aquaculture.
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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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Singapore, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 205
- Round size: Seed $958k–$5.4M; Pre-Seed $77k–$1.5M; Series A $2.1M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019
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.
Tayo is the Founder & Group CEO of Paga (www.paga.com), Nigeria’s leading mobile money service. Prior to Paga, Tayo was Vice-President at Travant Capital Partners, a private equity fund in West Africa. Prior to joining Travant, Tayo was a Manager, Corporate Development, at Cisco Systems in San Jose California. Tayo’s work at Paga has beenrecognized globally - in 2014 CNBC selected Tayo as the Entrepreneur of the Year West Africa, and in 2015 the African Leadership Network selected Paga as the outstanding growing company of the year in Africa. Tayo is also the co-founder of Kairos Angels, an angel investment club.Tayo earned his Bachelors of Science degree in Electrical Engineering, cum laude, from the University of Southern California, and also has a Masters in Business Administration from the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, Brazil, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$3.6M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- AjoMoney — AjoMoney is making access to finance easy and flexible for the financially underserved individuals and SMEs willing to cover urgent needs, by digitizing the community financing rotating savings and credit association (ROSCA) model.With the AjoMoney technology-driven platform, individuals can save and access interest-free to low-interest credits,businesses can sell credit securely to customers who are saving with them under a cooperative model.
- Tyms Africa — Tyms is a financial management platform for businesses. Tyms Book is the ideal accounting solution for businesses interested in streamlining financial processes, facilitating collaboration, and optimizing workflows.
- Venco Platforms — VENCO automates visitor management, billing, and collections, as well as smart utility vending for communities across Africa.
VestedWorld is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in emerging markets companies that have the potential to generate competitive financial returns while contributing towards the growth and development of the markets in which they are located. The firm supports these businesses through the infusion of capital, active involvement incorporate governance, and by providing direct strategic and operational assistance.
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- Industry: Agriculture, E-Commerce, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana
Investor stats
- Total investments: 24
- Round size: Seed $1.6M–$2.5M; Series A $4.2M–$4.4M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- FarmWorks — FarmWorks is an agricultural technology company that gives farmers access to farm inputs as well as a market for the produce .FarmWork is to unlock agricultural potential by building clusters of mid-sized farms while working with thousands of small-holder farmers and establishing direct linkage to local and global markets.
- EMTECH — For Modern Central Banking
- 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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Browse database — It's Free!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: 130
- 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.
- SokoFresh — SokoFresh An Award winning social enterprise that is addressing post harvest loss issues through a cooling as a service proposition coupled with a market linkage service to small holder farmers and aggregators. SokoFresh An Award winning social enterprise that is addressing post harvest loss issues through a cooling as a service proposition coupled with a
- 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.
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.
Kale United offers a portfolio of over 75+ plant-based game changers
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- Industry: Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Biotechnology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, Sweden, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 20
- Round size: Seed $330k–$1.4M; Pre-Seed $100k–$945k
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Loki Foods — We're producing sustainable, plant-based foods from the Arctic. Iceland’s first plant-based cod and seafood!
- THE PACK — Nutritionally complete vegan dog food. Grain-free & developed with food scientists & animal nutritionists, try our delicious vegan dog food now.
- Swedish Temptations — Swedish Temptations, founded in 2019 by CEO Pia Qvarnström, built a brand named Bärta for producing organic, vegan and fermented food. The ingredients include Swedish split peas.
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) invests in changing lives. Through our financial investments, business services and work on policy reform, we're doing more than ever before to build open, market economies across 3 continents.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Banking, Finance
- Stage:Debt Financing, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Turkey, United States, Russian Federation
Investor stats
- Total investments: 127
- Round size: Series A $3.2M–$10M; Series B $4M–$30M; Debt Financing $3.8M–$88M
- Lead/follow: 69% lead, 31% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Voltalia — The Investor Relations website contains information about Voltalia's business for stockholders, potential investors, and financial analysts.
- Masdar Capital — Masdar Capital is developing & deploying commercial-scale renewable energy projects.
- TBC Bank Uzbekistan — The first next-generation greenfield digital bank in Uzbekistan, established by TBC Group - FTSE 250 constituent financial services group
Hack VC is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in the cryptocurrency, fintech, and marketplaces sectors. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
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- Industry: Software, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Singapore, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 141
- Round size: Seed $2M–$10M; Pre-Seed $850k–$2.7M; Series A $5M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $200M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- GRVT — Trade on the next-gen hybrid derivatives exchange 100% self-custody. 0% counterparty risk. Traditional finance meets the power of blockchain.
- Fhenix — End-to-End Encrypted Web3 Fhenix is the first blockchain powered by fully homomorphic encryption to bring Computation Over Encrypted Data to EVM smart contracts Join us Learn more A new, encrypted web is waiting for you Truly functional markets require end-to-end encryption. Fhenix rises to the challenge by unlocking unprecedented encryption capabilities in the public blockchain
- Florida Street — PIXEL GG INC.
For the many, not just the few. For good.
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- Industry: Agriculture, Internet, Clean Energy
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 48
- Round size: Series A $1M–$9.9M; Series B $660k–$50M
- Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $108M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- BasiGo — BasiGo is an early-stage e-mobility start-up looking to revolutionize the public transportation sector by providing matatu owners with a cost-effective electric alternative to diesel buses.
- Turaco — Turaco develops simplified insurance and credit solutions through mobile technology to solve the healthcare financing needs. Turaco has simplified insurance products and also provides on-demand health loans, allowing customers to get healthcare at affordable monthly premiums.
- MoKo Home + Living — MoKo Home is Kenya's one-stop furniture company specializing in comfort & smiles, having served over 10000 smiley homes to date. Will yours be next?
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.
Empower to build. The story of Cox Enterprises is one of hard work, respect for employees, entrepreneurship and making bold decisions.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series C
- Geography: United States, Belgium, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 59
- Round size: Seed $100k–$3.4M; Series A $4.3M–$27M; Series C $27M–$55M
- Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Axios HQ — Axios HQ is AI-powered communication software that helps organizations in management information systems.
- Wheels Up — Wheels Up is a membership-based private aviation company that focuses on reducing the upfront cost to fly privately, providing flexibility, service, and safety. Its mobile app enables members to book flights, manage their accounts, and participate in ride-share opportunities. Its members also have given access to the Wheels Down program.
- Bending Spoons — Bending Spoons is a fast-growing tech company focused on building and marketing mobile applications. Despite being such a young company, we've already achieved notable results, with tens of millions of downloads of our apps, and millions of users active every month. Our goal? Becoming the #1 app developer and publisher in the world. And ourambitions don't end there!We invest immensely in our team, and we couldn't be more proud of each other. We are a group of extremely young, talented, and ambitious software engineers, data scientists, and graphic designers, with among our ranks entrepreneurs that raised money from prestigious VCs, ex-CERN, ex-Google, and ex-McKinsey. We work from our amazing headquarters in Milan, but also support remote work.We're always on the lookout for people that want to be part of our über-challenging journey to build one of the greatest tech companies in the world. If that sounds exciting to you, don't hesitate to apply at http://bendingspoons.com/careers.html.
Accion Venture Lab is an investment initiative that provides startups with seed capital and support.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, India, Brazil
Investor stats
- Total investments: 104
- Round size: Seed $500k–$6.4M; Series A $2.5M–$7.5M
- Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019
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.
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.
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Browse database — It's Free!Wamda Capital is the MENA region's leading venture capital firm investing in exceptional entrepreneurs building the region's most promising high growth technology businesses. We invest both at the growth and seed stages with the aim of taking portfolio companies through successive rounds of financing through to exit.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 100
- Round size: Seed $500k–$3M; Series A $2M–$6.5M; Series B $3.5M–$47M
- Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018
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- BitOasis — BitOasis is MENA's leading platform that allows you to securely buy, sell and trade crypto assets like Bitcoin, Ether, XRP and Bitcoin Cash at the best rates. Currently available in UAE, KSA, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Jordan, Egypt and Morocco.
- Believe — Believe Pte Ltd. is a global, Singapore-based FMCG conglomerate that provides market-ready solutions for customers by listening to their needs and designing products that suit their culture and life choices. From breakthrough personal care essentials to beauty products surpassing global standards, our worldwide team of experts use cutting-edgetechnology, scientifically proven methodologies and ancient knowledge to gift our customers
- Wafeq وافق — Send invoices or purchase orders, manage your inventory and your payroll, and get over 30 reports to manage your company, all in one software.
Standard Chartered Bank offers personal and business banking services. Their solutions for companies include transaction banking and financial markets solutions. They also offer current accounts, savings accounts, credit cards, loans, and mortgage services.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Internet
- Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt
- Geography: India, United Kingdom, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 57
- Round size: Post-IPO Debt $114M–$3B; Debt Financing $10M–$2B
- Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
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- Netomnia — Netomnia are investing in and building a new full-fibre network right across the UK. Future-proofing homes and businesses with a reliable, high-quality, and high-speed internet connection.
- AdaniConneX — AdaniConneX is the largest Hyperscale Data Center provider. Avail the maximum uptime, highest energy efficiency, full scalability and security to your business and customers.
- Reliance Industries — Reliance Industries is engaged in the exploration, development, and production of crude oil and natural gas in India and internationally. Reliance Industries is the second-largest publicly traded company in India by market capitalization and is the second-largest company in India by revenue after the state-run Indian Oil Corporation.
Chandaria Capital operates as a venture capital Fund. We believe that innovative ideas will transform Africa. We invest, mentor, and work together with incredible entrepreneurs to create impactful companies that can change the continent.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Kenya, United States, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 28
- Round size: Seed $200k–$6M; Pre-Seed $1M–$3M; Series A $2M–$37M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Leta — Leta Technology is a software development company that creates supply chain and logistics software to enable the efficient and automated movement of goods.
- Jumba — Jumba is a construction technology platform that streamlines B2B construction material purchase and financing.
- UTU Technologies — Trust infrastructure for the sharing economy.
Kinnevik is an industry-focused investment company with an entrepreneurial spirit. Its purpose is to build digital consumer businesses that provide more and better choices. The company does this by working in partnership with talented founders and management teams to create, invest in, and lead fast-growing businesses in developed and emergingmarkets.Kinnevik believes in delivering both shareholder and social value by building well-governed companies that contribute positively to society. Kinnevik was founded in 1936 by the Stenbeck, Klingspor, and von Horn families. Kinnevik's shares are listed on Nasdaq Stockholm's list for large-cap companies under the ticker codes KINV A and KINV B.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Health Care, Financial Services
- Stage:Series B, Series C
- Geography: United States, Germany, Sweden
Investor stats
- Total investments: 134
- Round size: Series B $10M–$75M; Series C $20M–$550M
- Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Instabee — Delivery when it suits you who shop online
- TravelPerk — TravelPerk offers the freedom travelers want, and the control companies need. Enjoy the world's largest travel inventory, 24/7 support and easy booking.
- H2 Green Steel — H2 Green Steel will be a fully integrated, digitalized and automated greenfield steel plant. By bringing together raw materials, renewable energy, local expertise, and artificial intelligence, we aim to bring emissions down to zero.
Seedstars Africa Ventures is an early-stage venture capital fund investing in high-growth companies active across Sub-Saharan Africa.
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- Industry: Energy, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Kenya, France, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Bizao — Bizao vous permet d'accepter les moyens de paiement en ligne en Afrique pour la commercialisation de vos services et/ou produits.
- Shamba Pride — Shamba Pride is a revolutionary Rural Distribution system for African Farmers, it provides online-to-offline DigiShop marketplace.
- Beacon Power Services — Beacon Power Services is a utility company that provides energy management software and analytics for utilities.
VentureSouq operates a large co-investment platform with a global investment portfolio.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 138
- Round size: Seed $250k–$6.5M; Series A $6M–$30M; Series B $5M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Silkhaus — A seamless, sophisticated experience you can rely on. Choose from the wide variety of furnished Boutique Flats & Apartments for short and long-term stays in UAE from Silkhaus
- Vendease — Grow your business with access to meal costing, inventory, and restaurant management tools. Make payments easily and get the data you need to scale faster.
- Metriport — Metriport helps digital health companies access and manage patient health and medical data, through an open-source and universal API.
John Obaro is a distinguished alumnus of both Ahmadu Bello University, University of Lagos, and the Chief Executive Program (CEP3) of Lagos Business School. He has served at various times on the Boards of the Ministerial Advisory Council on Information and Communication Technology, Institute of Software Practitioners of Nigeria, ComputerProfessionals Registration Council of Nigeria (CPN), Governing Council of the National ICT Incubation Program (iDea), and many more.He is a fellow of the Center for African Policy Development and Research, Glasgow, Scotland; a Fellow of Nigeria Computer Society (NCS); an ex-member of the Governing Council of Computers Professionals (Registration Council) of Nigeria (CPN) – the highest industry practice regulatory body; and immediate past 1st Vice President of the Institute of Software Practitioners of Nigeria (ISPON). John Obaro was recently recognised with the honour of Leadership in Technology at the 2016 African Achievement Awards in Scotland and also recognised as the ICT Software Personality of the Year 2016 at the Beacon of ICT (BoICT) Award, in addition to other numerous indigenous and international awards he has received over the years.John Obaro’s successful entrepreneurial adventure in software development architecture has attracted and continues to attract attention from both local and international quarters. The prestigious Lagos Business School (LBS) of the Pan-Atlantic University has written two case studies on SystemSpecs while many newspapers, magazines and journals have also featured him at one time or the other.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Marketplace, Food and Beverage
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Vendease — Grow your business with access to meal costing, inventory, and restaurant management tools. Make payments easily and get the data you need to scale faster.
Pierre Omidyar, the founder of eBay, and his wife, Pam, established Omidyar Network based on the belief that every person has the potential to make a difference. Since 2004, they have worked with their partners to create opportunities for people to tap that potential, enabling them to improve their lives and make powerful contributions to theircommunities.They support, scale, and champion the work of their partners in order to maximize social impact. As a philanthropic investment firm, they make both investments and grants, identifying like-minded organizations that they support, help scale, and collaborate with to help realize their full potential. Their efforts are organized around two investment initiatives Access to Capital, and Media, Markets and Transparency.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Education
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, India, Brazil
Investor stats
- Total investments: 210
- Round size: Seed $750k–$3.7M; Series A $2.2M–$15M; Series B $4.5M–$29M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Vyng — Vyng has built a next-generation Caller ID platform that visualizes every call. Vyng is helping start better conversations between friends, family, and businesses for the next half billion smartphone users in India and beyond.Vyng boasts 4 billion videos played across 170 countries since its launch in 2018. The company has raised $7MM and isbacked by March Capital, Omidyar Network, a Sequoia Capital partner, and the founders of Giphy and GroupMe.
- Doubtnut — Doubt solutions for Maths, Science, CBSE, NCERT, IIT JEE, NEET & Class 6 to 12. Click, type question to get instant video answers solved by Doubtnut team.
- 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.
Blue Haven Initiative is an innovative family office dedicated to putting wealth to work for market returns and positive social and environmental change.
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- Industry: Solar, Energy, Financial Services
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: Kenya, United States, Ghana
Investor stats
- Total investments: 22
- Round size: Series A $2M–$11M; Series B $12M–$22M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
Portfolio highlights
- M-KOPA — M-KOPA is the global leader for “pay-as-you-go” energy services for off-grid customers. M-KOPA was established in 2011. Following 2 years of piloting and development, M-KOPA began commercial sales in Kenya in October 2012. M-KOPA expanded to Uganda in 2013 and commences operations in Tanzania in late 2014. Their team includes over 500 staff andwe sell our product through more than 1000 retail agents and shops. The founders of the company are experienced mobile technology innovators who believe in the huge potential of transformative, affordable products designed for underserved consumers. While excellent technology is a pre-requisite, technology alone does not solve for customer needs. Success comes when smart technology is combined with a commitment to on-going, on-the-ground delivery. To that end, M-KOPA is beginning to license its technology to experienced and reputable third parties in markets outside of East Africa (licensing queries should be sent to licensing@m-kopa.com). M-KOPA has developed a proprietary, patented technology platform that combines embedded GSM + mobile payments to revolutionize asset financing in emerging markets. The M-KOPAnet platform has been designed and built from the ground up by our talented team of software engineers, who continue to innovate and improve the system every day. It offers the powerful combination of accounting + customer relationship management + inventory tracking in one complete system. Aside from enabling our business operations to scale at record speed, the M-KOPAnet™ platform captures and processes huge volumes of data, enabling us to improve our proposition, customer service, and security in real-time.
- TIBU Health — TIBU Health is a disruptive HealthTech logistics company that provides high-quality healthcare services.
- Field — Health supply chain technology and services across Africa
GFR Fund is a San Francisco-based venture capital fund that invests in early-stage startups that are disrupting the consumer entertainment industry. GFR Fund is managed by GREE VR Capital, an affiliate of GREE Inc., a global leader in the mobile gaming industry.With over a decade of experience driving innovators in multi-platform entertainment,we see emerging technologies such as VR, AR, AI, Video Streaming and Blockchain as powerful tools that will propel the entertainment industry into a new generation of consumable content. We are looking for talented entrepreneurs who share our passion and values to help realize their vision and expand their businesses globally.
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- Industry: Software, Video Games, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 57
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$10M; Pre-Seed $1.1M–$2.1M; Series A $7M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Yodayo — Explore AI generated anime art, find best prompts, create beautiful images with our free AI art generator, and share it with other anime fans!
- GEEIQ — GEEIQ enables businesses of every shape and size to navigate and engage the metaverse. Our platform helps identify opportunities and create data-led virtual strategies in Web3, gaming and virtual environments.
- RedKangaroo — RedKangaroo is a marketing platform for organic growth provides food, beverage, cosmetics, and pet food brands with the opportunity to promote word-of-mouth by rewarding clients.
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Browse database — It's Free!Michael Chow is the Founder and CEO of Dart Technologies.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Rental Property
- Stage:Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Teamble — Teamble dramatically improves how managers coach their people and how employees learn and up-skill. Teamble uniquely combines continuous feedback, performance, employee engagement, and learning & development in one AI-based platform, built to drive higher performance.
- Boom — Boom is the easiest way to build credit credit with your rent. With Boom, report your rent payments to all three credit bureaus for as little as $2 per month. Enroll in minutes.
- Tembo Health — Seniors deserve the very best care, no matter where they live. Tembo Health partners with nursing homes to provide residents with high quality telemedicine appointments in specialties like psychiatry, cardiology, and more.
Acumen Resilient Agriculture Fund is an equity fund designed to build the climate resilience of smallholder farmers.
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- Industry: Agriculture, Farming, Social Entrepreneurship
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Ghana, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- FarmWorks — FarmWorks is an agricultural technology company that gives farmers access to farm inputs as well as a market for the produce .FarmWork is to unlock agricultural potential by building clusters of mid-sized farms while working with thousands of small-holder farmers and establishing direct linkage to local and global markets.
- Stable Foods — Stable Foods has built an integrated solution to provide inputs and offtake contracts, Irrigation-as-a-Service (IaaS), and training on best practises for regenerative agriculture.
- 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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- 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.
Amplifi was formed by a group of early crypto adopters turned private investors. We have a strong belief in the long-term survival of blockchain ecosystem, which is set to disrupt the world as we know it.
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- Industry: Payments, Software, Ride Sharing
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- XEND — Backed by Binance and Google Launchpad, Xend Finance is a global crypto bank offering up to 15% interest, with an open Web3 infrastructure for developers.
Liquid2 Ventures provides technology startups with seed-stage investments and is based in San Francisco, California. The firm was founded in 2015 by Joe Montana, Mike Miller, and Michael Ma.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Mexico, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 264
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$6M; Pre-Seed $1M–$6.4M; Series A $4.7M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- PowerX — PowerX's Home Energy Monitoring system allows your to control your utilities like never before. Discover more information on our smart home solutions and energy monitors here.
- 8Flow.ai — 8flow.ai - AI and automation for Customer Support Agents.
- Openlayer — The most advanced platform for building high-quality, trustworthy models from the ground up.
Over the past two decades, GFC have backed over five hundred entrepreneurs worldwide, e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, and Away Travel.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Software, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 730
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$7.2M; Pre-Seed $725k–$5M; Series A $3.3M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- Aibidia — Discover the Aibidia TXM Platform and our digital transfer pricing applications, eliminating billions of euros in tax inefficiencies and risks.
- Bastion — Bastion is a cloud-based cyber security platform that is built to scale with security, compliance, insurance, and risk management needs.
- StepChange — Discover StepChange, India's best platform for ESG management. Measure, analyse, report, and reduce emissions. Request a free demo to get started!
Livelihood Impact Fund work to strengthen people's capacity to sustain themselves and their families by giving them access to opportunities, resources, and skills.
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- Industry: Farming, Agriculture, Farmers Market
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- FarmWorks — FarmWorks is an agricultural technology company that gives farmers access to farm inputs as well as a market for the produce .FarmWork is to unlock agricultural potential by building clusters of mid-sized farms while working with thousands of small-holder farmers and establishing direct linkage to local and global markets.
AfricInvest was founded in 1994 and is part of Integra Group, an investment and financial services company based in Tunisia.Uniquely positioned as one of the most experienced private equity investors on the continent, AfricInvest has dedicated investment teams focused on North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa, and employs 66 professionals based inseven offices.AfricInvest manages USD1 billion across 16 funds and benefits from strong, long-term support from both local and international investors, including leading development finance institutions in the United States and Europe.Having co-founded the African Venture Capital Association (AVCA) as well as the Middle East North Africa Private Equity Association (MENAPEA) and the Euromed Capital Forum, the firm is an active promotor of the private equity industry in the region.Since 1994, AfricInvest has invested in 135 companies across 25 African countries in a variety of high growth sectors and maintains a broad network of high quality executives across Africa, offering extensive expertise in key growth industries, including financial services, agribusiness, consumer/retail, education and healthcare.
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- Industry: Manufacturing, Financial Services, FinTech
- Stage:Private Equity, Series A
- Geography: Tunisia, Morocco, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 66
- Round size: Series A $1.7M–$65M; Private Equity $6.5M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 73% lead, 27% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Bizao — Bizao vous permet d'accepter les moyens de paiement en ligne en Afrique pour la commercialisation de vos services et/ou produits.
- Turaco — Turaco develops simplified insurance and credit solutions through mobile technology to solve the healthcare financing needs. Turaco has simplified insurance products and also provides on-demand health loans, allowing customers to get healthcare at affordable monthly premiums.
- 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.
We connect the largest corporations to the world's best startups through industry-focused accelerator programs in Silicon Valley and beyond.
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- Stage:Seed
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $737k–$6.3M
- Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Pipra — PIPRA AG (Pre-Interventional Preventive Risk assessment) is developing a cutting-edge AI-based pre-operative test to assess a patient's risk of suffering from cognitive disorders after surgery.
- Prismpop — Prismpop is a shopping community where users share their favorite products, shopping advice, product reviews, beauty secrets, fashion tips, food ideas and more.
- Steady Technologies, Inc. — Steady Rent offers property managers solutions that share the same goal: Remove risk for property owners, boost profits for property managers, and save time with automation.
A fund dedicated to backing the most brilliant minds in the blockchain space
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Initial Coin Offering
- Geography: Singapore, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 120
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$5.8M; Initial Coin Offering $1.2M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Nillion — The Secure Processing Layer of Web3
- The Unfettered — The Unfettered is a blockchain PC game.
- Cryption Network — Cryption Network is crypto company. Its can swap, farm, Invest and predict with cryption's unique and user-friendly DeFi 2.0 products. Bringing mass adoption to DeFi. PolyDEX is cryption's flagship product, which is completely gasless, instant, cross-chain AMM DEX with yield farming.
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Browse database — It's Free!Afri Mobility is the venture capital arm of AKWA Group.
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- Industry: B2B, Apps, Retail
- Stage:Seed, Convertible Note
- Geography: Morocco, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Cathedis — Cathedis has been a partner of e-merchants, adapting to the evolutions of the e-commerce market. Taking into account the trends and needs of e-merchants and e-buyers, as the constraints of their business. Their offers are always more important, competitive, personalized, and innovative.
- VotreColis — VotreColis.ma is a 100% b2b online solution that will help you streamline your delivery service. Facilitate merchant-customer relationships by providing them with a team of deliverers in all Moroccan cities, as well as a platform for managing and optimizing deliveries.
- VotreChauffeur — VotreChauffeur is a transport and mobility company. They provide vehicles with private drivers. They provide water bottles, Wifi, phone chargers, and magazines in their vehicles. They serve customers.
U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) is America’s development bank. DFC partners with the private sector to finance solutions to the most critical challenges facing the developing world today. We invest in projects that create jobs in emerging markets in sectors including energy, healthcare, critical infrastructure,telecommunications, and financing for small businesses and women entrepreneurs. DFC investments adhere to high standards and respect the environment, human rights, and worker rights.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
- Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt
- Geography: India, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 55
- Round size: Post-IPO Debt $34M–$765M; Debt Financing $8.8M–$200M
- Lead/follow: 75% lead, 25% follow
Portfolio highlights
- TerraPay — Accelerating business growth with uninterrupted global payouts and collections
- TechMet — TechMet Ltd backs world-class teams and makes direct investments into companies and assets across the value chain.
- Kentegra Biotechnology Holdings LLC — Kentegra Biotechnology Holdings is a leading U.S-Kenyan company that supports a Kenyan-based biopesticide processing business that aggregates, extracts, and refines pale refine extract (PRE) from the pyrethrum flower, and sells the PRE to formulators across the world. Kentegra is committed to improving farmer’s livelihoods by investing in thecommunities where we are working to help farmers and their families have a more stable income and better quality of life.Grants: Norad 2021, AgriFi 2020, USAID 2020, USAID 2019, DEG 2020, DEG 2019
Aruwa Capital Management is a Lagos-based, female-founded and led growth equity impact fund.
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- Industry: FinTech, Big Data, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 13
- Round size: Seed $1.7M–$3M
- Lead/follow: 85% lead, 15% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- OmniBiz — Omnibiz is a digital platform for small businesses willing to attract new customers.
- AgroEknor — AgroEknor provides agricultural research, integration, technology based optimization & global delivery of the agro superfoods.
- Fastizers — Fastizers Food and Confectionery Limited is a newly formed food production firm in Nigeria that has been approved by the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC).
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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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Automotive
- Stage:Grant, Debt Financing
- Geography: South Africa, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 26
- Round size: Grant $24k–$108k; Debt Financing $131k–$655k
- Lead/follow: 73% lead, 27% follow
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.
We are one of the few social impact investors committed to deploying capital to the most underserved markets in the world.
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- Industry: Manufacturing, Consumer Goods, Food Processing
- Stage:Debt Financing
- Geography: Sierra Leone
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Capitol Foods — Capitol Foods is a food and beverage manufacturer of healthy fruit juices under the Sierra juice brand.
We are an early-stage global venture capital firm investing in fintech founders.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: United States, India, Brazil
Investor stats
- Total investments: 126
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$15M; Series A $4.3M–$35M; Series B $7.2M–$65M
- Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
Portfolio highlights
- TrueBiz — TrueBiz claims to enable financial services providers to onboard their business customers faster and eliminate churn caused by verification delays.
- Summer — Summer partners with employers help their populations navigate and reduce student loan debt. Summer is a certified B-Corp.
- Staging Labs — Staging Labs builds software to secure the future of crypto, starting with Saferoot.
Oxfam’s Enterprise Development Programme (EDP) is an innovative model that provides support to entrepreneurs in some of the world’s poorest countries to help them create and build viable, sustainable businesses. The resulting jobs and associated opportunities provide benefits for both the employees and the wider communities around them, liftingsome of the world’s poorest families out of poverty.
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- Industry: Retail, Blockchain, E-Commerce
- Stage:Grant, Series A
- Geography: Tunisia, Ethiopia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Farm Trust — Farm Trust is an E-commerce platform for fruits and vegetables that provide traceability through blockchain.
- GreenPath Food — Greenpath Food is a worldwide food supplier of the highest quality organic, regeneratively-grown produce from small-scale East African Farms.
Naspers is a global internet group that empowers people and enrich communities. Naspers companies operate and invest in countries and markets across the world with long-term growth potential. 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 thegreatest growth potential. The company was founded on May 12, 1915, and is based in Cape Town, South Africa.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Retail
- Stage:Series B, Series A, Private Equity
- Geography: South Africa, India, Brazil
Investor stats
- Total investments: 41
- Round size: Series A $431k–$20M; Series B $2.5M–$25M; Private Equity $52M–$421M
- Lead/follow: 59% lead, 41% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Jem — We give employers the ability to send company-wide communications, deliver payslips, manage leave & give employees access to their earnings, via WhatsApp.
- Captain Fresh — Captain Fresh is a freshwater fish and seafood supply chain platform. Captain Fresh is a B2B marketplace leveraging technology to deliver the fastest harvest-to-retail in the industry. The company focuses on aggregating the fragmented retail demand across the country and linking them to the small fishermen and farmers throughout the Indian coast.The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Bengaluru, India.
- The Student Hub — Advancement through technology
Twynam Group is a leading Australian Funds Manager investing in early-stage climate tech. We also operate an agricultural and property portfolio.
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- Industry: Agriculture, Food Processing, Seafood
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: United States, Australia, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Seed $1.9M–$3.6M; Series A $3.4M–$33M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Voltpost — The lamppost electric vehicle charger.
- Earthodic — Earthodic is an Australian materials science company creating functional biobased coatings. Paperbarc by Earthodic is a biobased water-resistant coating for pulped or paper products. It has better water-resistance than wax coatings, more sustainable and circular than plastic coatings. Repulpable. Re
- Ocean Rainforest — Ocean Rainforest offer a collection of premium fully-traceable seaweed products, mostly for food and cosmetic producers.
Khulisani Ventures is Mineworkers Investment Company’s early-stage investment vehicle, providing capital for businesses that are ready to aggressively expand and increase their market footprint.
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- Industry: Farming, Livestock, Farmers Market
- Geography: South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Livestock Wealth — Livestock Wealth is a crowdfarmingTM company that allows people to invest in livestock and earn from sale of the offspring.Their unique CrowdFarmingTM concept allows individuals to share the facilities of a commercial livestock farm while our experts look after their cows on a day to day basis.Cows have been a source of pride and a store ofwealth in Africa for centuries. The wealth in cows is based on something real – beef. The company enables anyone to be an organic beef farmer.
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