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Top 50 Food and Beverage VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Africa in October 2023

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

Top 50 Food and Beverage VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Africa in October 2023

Investor Food and Beverage Africa investments
1776 Ventures 4
Musha Ventures 3
Launch Africa 3
Cult Food Science 3
Sustainable Food Ventures 3
Kube VC 3
Creadev 2
Standard Chartered Bank 2
UM6P Ventures 2
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development 2
Novastar Ventures 2
Chandaria Capital 2
Maroc Numeric Fund 2
Hack VC 2
DOB Equity 2
VestedWorld 2
Kale United 2
Accion Venture Lab 2
Wamda Capital 2
Cox Enterprises 2
Hustle Fund 2
Twynam Agricultural Group 1
Gray Matters Capital 1
LoftyInc Capital Management 1
VentureSouq 1
Oxfam’s Enterprise Development Programme 1
AV Ventures 1
Outlierz Ventures 1
Partech 1
Norfund 1
AlphaCode Club 1
Foreign & Commonwealth Office - UK 1
GFR Fund 1
Triodos Investment Management 1
Global Founders Capital 1
KFW DEG 1
Ampifi VC 1
Holland George Capital Management 1
Plug & Play 1
Cordaid Investment Management 1
DEG 1
Livelihood Impact Fund 1
Afri Mobility 1
GSMA Ecosystem Accelerator 1
Naspers 1
Seedstars Africa Ventures 1
Savannah Fund 1
Ajayi Solutions 1
Liquid 2 Ventures 1
Aruwa Capital 1

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1776 Ventures
VC Fund · Washington, District of Columbia, United States

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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Investment focus

  • Education, EdTech, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
  • United States, Kenya, Brazil

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.
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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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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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Cult Food Science
VC Fund

CULT Food Science is an investment company focused on supporting and advancing the technology behind the future of food.

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Investment focus

  • Food and Beverage, Biotechnology, Food Processing
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • United States, South Africa, Canada

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.
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Sustainable Food Ventures
VC Fund · Raleigh, North Carolina, United States · 5 investments in the past 12 months

SFV backs globally early-stage founders building leading Future of Food companies that are: #Cell-based #Plant-based #Recombinant

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Investment focus

  • Food and Beverage, Biotechnology, Food Processing
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
  • United States, India, Germany

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
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Kube VC
VC Fund · 5 investments in the past 12 months

Kube VC is a global venture capital firm that invests in exceptional founders and category-defining companies.

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Investment focus

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

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
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Creadev
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France

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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Investment focus

  • Health Care, Food and Beverage, Agriculture
  • Series B, Series C, Funding Round
  • France, United States, China

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.
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Standard Chartered Bank
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 12 investments in the past 12 months

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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Investment focus

  • Financial Services, FinTech, Internet
  • Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Funding Round
  • India, United Kingdom, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
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UM6P Ventures
VC Fund · Benguerir, Marrakech-Tensift-Al Haouz, Morocco · 4 investments in the past 12 months

UM6P Ventures is a venture capital investment firm that invests in Science & Innovation.

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Investment focus

  • Food Processing, Apps, Agriculture
  • Funding Round, Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Morocco, Israel, South Africa

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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European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 6 investments in the past 12 months

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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Investment focus

  • Financial Services, Banking, Finance
  • Debt Financing, Series A, Series B
  • Turkey, United States, Russian Federation

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
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Novastar Ventures
VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya · 2 investments in the past 12 months

For the many, not just the few. For good.

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Investment focus

  • Agriculture, Internet, Clean Energy
  • Series A, Funding Round, Series B
  • Kenya, Nigeria, United States

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?
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Chandaria Capital
VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya · 2 investments in the past 12 months

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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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, FinTech, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Kenya, United States, Egypt

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.
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Maroc Numeric Fund
VC Fund · Casablanca, Grand Casablanca, Morocco · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Maroc Numeric Fund is a tech VC fund investing in Morocco.

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Investment focus

  • Online Portals, Enterprise Software, FinTech
  • Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Morocco, Canada, France

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.
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Hack VC
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 22 investments in the past 12 months

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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Investment focus

  • Software, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Singapore, Israel

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.
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DOB Equity
VC Fund · Veessen, Gelderland, The Netherlands · 4 investments in the past 12 months

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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Investment focus

  • Food and Beverage, Farming, Health Care
  • Private Equity, Funding Round, Seed
  • Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania

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.
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VestedWorld
VC Fund · Chicago, Illinois, United States · 7 investments in the past 12 months

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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Investment focus

  • Agriculture, E-Commerce, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana

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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Kale United
VC Fund · Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Kale United offers a portfolio of over 75+ plant-based game changers

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Investment focus

  • Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Biotechnology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • United Kingdom, Sweden, India

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.
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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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Wamda Capital
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 2 investments in the past 12 months

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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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, Internet, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Turkey

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
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Cox Enterprises
VC Fund · Atlanta, Georgia, United States · 8 investments in the past 12 months

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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Investment focus

  • Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Seed, Series A, Series C
  • United States, Belgium, Nigeria

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.
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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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Twynam Agricultural Group
VC Fund · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · 3 investments in the past 12 months

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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Investment focus

  • Agriculture, Food Processing, Seafood
  • Series A, Seed, Funding Round
  • United States, Australia, Singapore

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.
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Gray Matters Capital
VC Fund · Atlanta, Georgia, United States

We are an impact investor in the global south. Our deep roots in microfinance and education finance have demonstrated profit with purpose. We focus on self-development and skilling technology for women to find meaningful work.

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Investment focus

  • Education, Health Care, E-Learning
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • India, United States, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

  • Shamba Pride — Shamba Pride is a revolutionary Rural Distribution system for African Farmers, it provides online-to-offline DigiShop marketplace.
  • Applied Cognition — Applied Cognition is developing a novel medical device and platform for translational measurement of a newly discovered biology of the brain whose failure has been shown to cause neurodegeneration in preclinical models. We will be the first to non-invasively, continuously measure this biology in humans enabling us to develop treatments that stop or reverse the progression of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.
  • Indian School Finance Company — ISFC is a Non-Banking Finance Company engaged in the business of lending to educational institutions and entrepreneurs managing such institutions. The company started its operations in December 2008 from Hyderabad and has expanded since to other cities.
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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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VentureSouq
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 3 investments in the past 12 months

VentureSouq operates a large co-investment platform with a global investment portfolio.

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Investment focus

  • FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia

Portfolio highlights

  • D3 — D3 - DNS Domains for Web3
  • Silkhaus — A seamless, sophisticated experience you can rely on. Choose from the wide variety of furnished Boutique Flats and apartments for short and long-term stays from Silkhaus.
  • Metriport — Metriport helps digital health companies access and manage patient health and medical data, through an open-source and universal API.
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Oxfam’s Enterprise Development Programme
VC Fund · Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

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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Investment focus

  • Retail, Blockchain, E-Commerce
  • Grant, Series A
  • Tunisia, Ethiopia

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.
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AV Ventures
VC Fund · Washington, District of Columbia, United States

AV Ventures is ACDI/VOCA’s for-profit subsidiary. AV Ventures provides innovative, catalytic financing to agribusiness small and medium enterprises (SMEs).

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Investment focus

  • Credit, FinTech, Finance
  • Seed
  • Mauritius, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Plentina — Plentina is a fintech startup accelerating access to credit in emerging markets. We enable consumers to build their credit history while making easier payments to their favorite merchants.
  • AgroCenta — AgroCenta is an online platform that connects the smallholder farmer in the staple food (rice, maize, millet and soybean) value chain to a wider online market to trade
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Outlierz Ventures
VC Fund · Casablanca, Grand Casablanca, Morocco · 2 investments in the past 12 months

We provide smart capital to grow investable startups in Africa

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Investment focus

  • Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Information Services
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Morocco, Egypt, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

  • PayTic — PayTic enables payments issuers to manage their card programs by providing dedicated back-office solutions that streamline the end-to-end operations in customer support, chargebacks, fraud, AML, reporting, and reconciliation. Our proprietary solutions are unique in automating and centralizing the program management processes, regardless of thenumber of processors and the payment networks involved in the payments products. We impact payments providers by eliminating the defragmented and manual processes and replacing them with a SaaS platform that increases proactivity, mitigates risks, and delivers value. It reduces the burn rate to near 0 in operational costs and offers an unprecedented competitive advantage. PayTic is introducing the Zero Ops model in managing payments.
  • Suplyd — Suplyd is a comprehensive digital solution that bridges the gap between restaurant operators and their suppliers in order to disrupt an untouched market with extreme fragmentation and resolve the problem end-to-end.
  • Terraa — Terraa is a B2B distribution platform in Moroccan.
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Partech
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 29 investments in the past 12 months

Partech is a global venture capital firm with offices in San Francisco, Paris, Berlin and Dakar. Partech invests in Internet and information technology startups at seed, venture and growth stages.

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Investment focus

  • Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • United States, France, Germany

Portfolio highlights

  • CO2 AI — Empowering decision-makers to sustain our world via advanced software that shifts carbon emissions reduction from the theoretical to the impactful.
  • UpSlide — Produce high-quality reports and presentations faster in PowerPoint, Excel and Word. Save up to 8h each month in just a few clicks!
  • Commsignia — Commsignia specializes in the research and development, manufacturing and distribution of cooperative intelligent transportation systems. Its product line includes a V2X Communication Software Stack and Commsignia’s own security stack implementation, Hybrid V2X/ADAS Safety Applications, a V2X Simulator, On-Board Units (OBU) and Roadside Units(RSU).The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.
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Norfund
VC Fund · Oslo, Oslo, Norway · 5 investments in the past 12 months

Norfund is the Norwegian Investment Fund for developing countries with 24.9 bill. NOK in total commitments (2019).

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Investment focus

  • Energy, Financial Services, Renewable Energy
  • Funding Round, Private Equity, Debt Financing
  • Kenya, South Africa, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • Miniplast — Miniplast Limited is one of the leading manufacturers of Industrial and Household products in Ghana with over 25 years of experience in the sector.
  • Hela Clothing — Hela Clothing is a clothing manufacturer. From design to delivery, the firm collaborates closely with brands in the intimate, sleepwear, and children's product lines. With design centers in major markets, they can watch and predict customer preferences. This enables us to provide their customers with unique design options that fit theirrequirements.
  • OH Ecosystems — OH Ecosystems is a confectionary company that produces and operates cocoa processing and confectioneries.
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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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Foreign & Commonwealth Office - UK
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom

Foreign & Commonwealth Office is a government organization that provides tourists and travellers with travel alerts, tips, and advice. It promotes the United Kingdom's interests overseas supporting its citizens and businesses around the globe.Foreign & Commonwealth Office has a worldwide network of embassies and consulates thatemploys over 14,000 people in nearly 270 diplomatic offices. It works with international organizations to promote British interests and global security, including the EU, NATO, Foreign & Commonwealth Office was founded on January 1, 1936 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

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Investment focus

  • Medical, Logistics, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Kenya, Mauritius, South Africa

Portfolio highlights

  • Ziada — Ziada is a mobile application that connects you to service providers near you and vice versa. Download Ziada today from the Google Playstore to start experiencing convenience.
  • AgroCenta — AgroCenta is an online platform that connects the smallholder farmer in the staple food (rice, maize, millet and soybean) value chain to a wider online market to trade
  • HealthDart — Consult with a doctor, nurse or pharmacist, order medicines or get health advice - at a price you can afford
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GFR Fund
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 11 investments in the past 12 months

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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Investment focus

  • Software, Video Games, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, United Kingdom, Canada

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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Triodos Investment Management
VC Fund · Zeist, Utrecht, The Netherlands · 2 investments in the past 12 months

Triodos is a global pioneer of sustainable banking. Their mission is to make money work for positive social, environmental and cultural change.

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Investment focus

  • Financial Services, FinTech, Energy
  • Debt Financing, Funding Round, Series A
  • India, Germany, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

  • Sunvigo — Sunvigo provides you with cheap solar power from your roof and real green power from the grid.
  • 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!
  • EINHUNDERT Energy — EINHUNDERT Energy develops smart services around green and digital energy supply, with the complete package of tenant electricity and transparent energy billing for tenants and entrepreneurs who want to benefit from green electricity, solar energy, and consistent cost transparency. The company offers the complete package for tenant electricityincluding planning, installation, operation, and maintenance of a photovoltaic system, supplying the tenants on site with low-cost solar energy and monthly bill on the real power consumption.The company monitors the power consumption from buildings through its app. Through the app, tenants can have their consumption transparent and under control. Property managers have the general stream in mind. The digital billing solution via app can seamlessly integrate vast range of technologies, from heat and water billing through smoke detectors to heat pumps and e-charging stations.EINHUNDERT Energy was founded on 2017 and is headquartered in Cologne, Germany.
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Global Founders Capital
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 36 investments in the past 12 months

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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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Kaso — Elkaso is the leading Order and Procurement Management Tool for Restaurants and Suppliers in the Middle East.
  • Momento — Momento is an insurtech company with the objective of revolutionizing the insurance industry in Latin America, starting with car insurance. We want to make insurance easy and accessible for the underserved population in LATAM.
  • Equilibrium Energy — Equilibrium Energy operates at the intersection of grid variability, market volatility, economic optimization, commercial structuring, trading, and risk management, across the end-to-end power value chain. Their ambition is to become a next-generation clean power company that reshapes the energy industry. They address inquiries through onlineapplications.
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KFW DEG
VC Fund · Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 15 investments in the past 12 months

KFW DEG offers financing, advice and support to private sector enterprises operating in developing and emerging-market countries. Their customers can rely on their expertise: They can benefit from their market knowledge, their 21 locations worldwide, and their international network. For entrepreneurial success and development.

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Investment focus

  • Financial Services, Finance, Banking
  • Debt Financing, Funding Round, Grant
  • India, Kenya, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

  • Etana — PT Etana Biotechnologies Indonesia (Etana) is an emerging producer of high-quality, affordable and innovative biopharmaceuticals to treat a range of metabolic, autoimmune and other major life-threatening diseases, including cancer. Nathan Tirtana. Legend Capital. UOB Venture Management. Innovent Bio
  • BUA Cement — BUA Cement Plc is engaged in the production and marketing of cement under the brand name “BUA Cement”. Presently the company produces CEM II type of cement in accordance with the Nigerian Industrial Standards. BUA Cement is ideal for all construction purposes in Nigeria. Its unique quality makes it the cement of choice for block-making, plasteringand concrete works. Its high early strength, rapid setting and low heat of hydration are all distinct features that characterize our high quality production process.
  • Stima — Premium electric motorcycles and battery swapping technologies to better serve moto-taxi and delivery riders in Africa - Starting in Kenya
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Ampifi VC
VC Fund

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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Investment focus

  • Payments, Software, Ride Sharing
  • Seed
  • Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
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Holland George Capital Management
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States

Holland George Capital Management is an investment company. It is located in New York and London

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Investment focus

  • Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Seed, Series A, Series C
  • United States, Canada, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

  • Yummy — Superapp of Venezuela & Quick Commerce for LATAM
  • Varo Money — Get access to personal banking services including no monthly fee checking, high-yield savings, cash advances up to $250 and more with Varo Bank.
  • Airlift Technologies — Founded in 2019, Airlift is on a mission to build a world of self-empowerment using technology-backed logistics solutions that enable safe, reliable and affordable access to necessities. Airlift scaled Pakistan's largest decentralized transportation network to change the way people move, shifting away from private vehicles towards sharedmobility and affordable mass transport. In 2020, Airlift diversified into last-mile delivery through Airlift Express, delivering essentials across households in 30 minutes across Lahore, Karachi, Islamabad and Rawalpindi. Airlift Express spans across food supplies, household supplies, pharmacy, stationery, pet food, fresh fruits and vegetables, small electronics and more. On this mission to enable self-empowerment in the region, Airlift is backed by First Round Capital and has recently raised over $24m in financing.
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Plug & Play
VC Fund · Munich, Bayern, Germany

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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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.
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Cordaid Investment Management
VC Fund · The Hague, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands

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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Investment focus

  • Manufacturing, Consumer Goods, Food Processing
  • Debt Financing
  • Sierra Leone

Portfolio highlights

  • Capitol Foods — Capitol Foods is a food and beverage manufacturer of healthy fruit juices under the Sierra juice brand.
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DEG
VC Fund · Overland Park, Kansas, United States · 1 investment in the past 12 months

DEG, a Merkle Company is a full-service digital agency purpose-built to meet clients in the moment with data-driven marketing, commerce, and collaboration solutions.

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Investment focus

  • Financial Services, Banking, B2B
  • Funding Round, Debt Financing, Series A
  • India, Ghana, China

Portfolio highlights

  • Laprophan — Laprophan gives people access to cutting-edge treatments and therapies. As a result, we are committed to researching, developing, and bringing new, innovative goods to market. dedication to patient-centered care pervades everything we do, from product creation to service delivery.
  • Turnkey Lender — Turnkey Lender is a Commercial lending software that can improve efficiency and reduce costs for financial services companies.
  • Dastgyr Technologies — Making trade and capital seamless and reliable
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Livelihood Impact Fund
VC Fund · 1 investment in the past 12 months

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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Investment focus

  • Farming, Agriculture, Farmers Market
  • Seed
  • Kenya

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.
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Afri Mobility
VC Fund · 3 investments in the past 12 months

Afri Mobility is the venture capital arm of AKWA Group.

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Investment focus

  • B2B, Apps, Retail
  • Seed, Convertible Note
  • Morocco, France

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.
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GSMA Ecosystem Accelerator
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom

Our mission is to build synergies between start-ups and mobile operators, with the aim to scale innovative and sustainable mobile services in emerging markets.

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Investment focus

  • Information Technology, Software, Mobile
  • Grant, Seed
  • Kenya, Indonesia, Senegal

Portfolio highlights

  • Koolboks — Koolboks provides a reliable and alternative storage technique due to the superior insulation and ice battery technology employed in the design.
  • Taskmoby — Taskmoby is a digital marketplace that connects people with home service professionals like cleaners, plumbers, and electricians in Ethiopia
  • AgroCenta — AgroCenta is an online platform that connects the smallholder farmer in the staple food (rice, maize, millet and soybean) value chain to a wider online market to trade
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Naspers
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa

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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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, Internet, Marketplace
  • Series B, Series A, Series C
  • India, Brazil, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

  • VTEX — VTEX is a developer of a cloud-based eCommerce platform used to help companies future-proof their businesses and free them from software updates. It offers an end-to-end omnichannel commerce platform that allows users to increase sales and reduce overhead by uniting with partners, suppliers, and even competitors to eliminate channel conflict toseamlessly serve customers, enabling retailers, brands, and B2B manufacturers to collaborate with third-party suppliers and grow their business by launching their own marketplaces.
  • ZestMoney — Enjoy the convenience of shopping for electronic gadgets, fashion, travel, education on EMI without credit card. No debit card or credit score required!
  • The Student Hub
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Seedstars Africa Ventures
VC Fund · 2 investments in the past 12 months

Seedstars Africa Ventures is an early-stage venture capital fund investing in high-growth companies active across Sub-Saharan Africa.

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Investment focus

  • Energy, FinTech, Software
  • Seed, Series A
  • Kenya, France, Nigeria

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.
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Savannah Fund
VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya

Savannah Fund is a seed capital fund specializing in US$25,000-US$500,000 investments in early stage high growth technology (web and mobile) startups in sub-Saharan Africa. Initially focused on East Africa, the fund aims to bridge the early stage/angel and venture capital investment gap that currently exists in Africa. The Fund expects toachieve this objective by combining capital with mentor networks both in the region and from Silicon Valley via an accelerator program and a follow-on independent seed fund.The fund is managed by an experienced and technology savvy team that have founded companies or are actively involved in angel investing or having run successful accelerator programs in past but also understand the unique Subsaharan African environment. They are backed and supported by both local, regional and international networks of angels,venture capitalists whose expertise we can draw on to help startups succeed and scale to fully fledged regional or global companies.They believe in the potential for Africa to become a global technology innovator by creating sustainable for profit companies that create jobs and make an impact.

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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Kenya, United States, South Africa

Portfolio highlights

  • Oze — OZÉ brings African small businesses into the digital era. It is an app that makes it easy for businesses to track sales, expenses, and customer information. The data is analyzed to provide tailored recommendations, reports, and business education. If the entrepreneur needs a little extra support, an OZÉ Coach is just a click away. As they are usingOZÉ to manage their business and learn how to run it better, we are learning about them. Using this data and machine learning, we can predict their credit risk and provide them with affordable capital from our banking partners. With over 20,000 registered users, OZÉ is the largest online community of SMEs in Ghana. The most exciting thing is that OZÉ works; 97% of businesses that have used OZE for at least 9 months are growing or profitable or both!
  • Root — Programmable insurance that you can integrate into your product or service with ease
  • Afropolitan — Afropolitan is building a Network State to unleash the maximum potential of Africans around the world. Are you interested? Join us with your email.
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Ajayi Solutions
VC Fund

Ajayi Solutions seeks to participate in the development of the local economy in regions across Africa by investing in small to large scale privately-held businesses. The ratification of the Africa Continental Free Trade Agreement [AfCFTA] has opened a new chapter in trade across Africa and we seek to participate. We seek to invest in promisingentrepreneurs who create tech-enabled solutions to enable local production in Africa as well as facilitate intra- and inter-continental trade.

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Investment focus

  • Farming, Agriculture, Food Processing
  • Seed
  • Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

  • Farmcrowdy — Farmcrowdy is an agric-tech platform that gives Nigerians the opportunity to participate in Agriculture by selecting the kind of farms they want to sponsor. They use the sponsor’s funds to secure the land, engage the farmer, plant the seeds, insure the farmers and farm produce, complete the full farming cycle, sell the harvest and then pay the farmsponsor a return on their sponsorship. While this farm process is ongoing, the farm sponsors are able to keep track of the full-cycle by getting updates in text, pictures and videos.
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Liquid 2 Ventures
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 29 investments in the past 12 months

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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Investment focus

  • Software, Information Technology, FinTech
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Mexico, Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • Topkey — Topkey is an app that tracks expenses by property, sync transactions across systems, and save tons of money on bookkeeping. Topkey was founded in 2020 and was headquartered in San Francisco, USA.
  • KittyCAD — Infrastructure for hardware design tools.
  • Parcha AI — Parcha is an AI-powered enterprise software that enables businesses to automate their scale compliance and operations.
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Aruwa Capital
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 6 investments in the past 12 months

Aruwa Capital Management is a Lagos-based, female-founded and led growth equity impact fund.

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Investment focus

  • FinTech, Big Data, Financial Services
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Nigeria, United States, France

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).
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