# Top 50 Gaming Startup Investors in Africa in October 2023

## Launch Africa
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Ebène, Plaines Wilhems, Mauritius
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology

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.

## 1776 Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
- Focus: Education, EdTech, Software

1776 Ventures is a global seed fund investing in companies in the following sectors: education, energy, smart cities, transportation, food/agriculture, fintech, and healthcare. 

## Musha Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, Software, FinTech

Seed capital for technology startups globally.

## Cult Food Science
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Biotechnology, Food Processing

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

## Maroc Numeric Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Casablanca, Grand Casablanca, Morocco
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Online Portals, Enterprise Software, FinTech

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

## Sustainable Food Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Biotechnology, Food Processing

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

## Kube VC
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software

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

## Tayo Oviosu
- Type: Angel
- Location: Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

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.

## Chandaria Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, FinTech, Software

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.

## Hashkey
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services

Hashkey they offers investment opportunities and solutions to institutions, family offices, funds, and professional accredited investors across the digital asset and blockchain ecosystem.

## Vumela Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Hyde Park, Newtownabbey, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Debt Financing
- Focus: Education, Software, Primary Education

Vumela was established in 2009 by FNB Business Banking and Edge Growth. The objective was to create an innovative model for the development of a sustainable and a financially and operationally independent investment business which invests in high growth small, medium and micro size enterprises with good economic and impact returns.Vumela wascapitalised in 2010. Within the first four years, we’d invested R90 million into eight high growth SMEs, and created a total of 400 jobs. They launched their second fund in 2015, after a further investment of R100 million from FirstRand and R127 million from the Jobs Fund. Within the first year of launching this second fund, we’ve committed R43 million to five investments that are expected to create over 1800 new jobs.The first fund of its kind in South Africa, Vumela’s main goals are to invest in and develop entrepreneurial companies in order to help alleviate poverty in South Africa by creating jobs, and to generate a return for its beneficiaries: the Shalamuka Foundation and the FirstRand Group.

## Novastar Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Agriculture, Internet, Clean Energy

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

## Accion Venture Lab
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance

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

## Wamda Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Financial Services

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.

## TTV Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Atlanta, Georgia, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software

TTV Capital is a venture capital firm that funds and supports the businesses that shape the financial future of the world.

## Creadev
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series B, Series C
- Focus: Health Care, Food and Beverage, Agriculture

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.

## DOB Equity
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Veessen, Gelderland, The Netherlands
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Private Equity, Seed
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Farming, Health Care

DOB Equity is a private equity firm specializing in growth capital and buy-and-build strategies in small and medium companies.

## Kale United
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Biotechnology

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

## VestedWorld
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Agriculture, E-Commerce, Financial Services

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.

## Konvoy
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Denver, Colorado, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Gaming, Video Games, Software

Konvoy Ventures is a thesis driven venture capital firm. We invest in the platforms and technologies at the frontier of gaming.

## LoftyInc Capital Management
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Carmel, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software

LoftyInc Capital Management empowers Afropreneurs to build a prosperous and equitable future in Africa. We deliver value to both founders and investors.........

## Hack VC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain

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.

## Cox Enterprises
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Atlanta, Georgia, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care

Empower to build. The story of Cox Enterprises is one of hard work, respect for employees, entrepreneurship and making bold decisions. 

## UM6P Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Benguerir, Marrakech-Tensift-Al Haouz, Morocco
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Food Processing, Apps, Agriculture

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

## Riot Games
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Gaming, Video Games, Mobile Apps

Riot Games is the most player-focused game developer and publisher in the world. We published League of Legends in 2009, and have since released Teamfight Tactics, Legends of Runeterra, VALORANT, and League of Legends: Wild Rift.

## Hustle Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Carlos, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

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.

## European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Debt Financing, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Financial Services, Banking, Finance

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.

## Standard Chartered Bank
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Internet

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.

## Raine Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Mobile, Gaming, Internet

Raine Ventures is an early stage fund managed by The Raine Group. The firm has offices in San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, London and Shanghai. With a global reach, Raine focuses on investment and advisory opportunities where its deep industry experience and unique network of strategic relationships can create value for portfolio companies andclients.

## Livelihood Impact Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Farming, Agriculture, Farmers Market

Livelihood Impact Fund work to strengthen people's capacity to sustain themselves and their families by giving them access to opportunities, resources, and skills.

## Savannah Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, FinTech, Information Technology

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.

## Andreessen Horowitz
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Internet

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, California, investing in bold founders, innovators, and entrepreneurs building the future through technology.

## Perivoli Innovations
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical Device

Perivoli Innovations is a venture investment Trust established in 2016 by the Perivoli Trust. It donates profits to the Perivoli Foundation, a UK Charity, whose principal focus is Africa.

## Afri Mobility
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: B2B, Apps, Retail

Afri Mobility is the venture capital arm of AKWA Group.

## Cordaid Investment Management
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: The Hague, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Debt Financing
- Focus: Manufacturing, Consumer Goods, Food Processing

We are one of the few social impact investors committed to deploying capital to the most underserved markets in the world.

## IndiGG
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1

IndiGG is an NFT based play-to-earn game in the web3 frontier. IndiGG is the India sub-decentralized autonomous organization(subDAO) of YGG.

## Wemade
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Corporate Round
- Focus: Gaming, Blockchain, Information Technology

WeMade Games dedicated to serving gamers with a portfolio of entertaining, high quality PC and Mobile games. Established in 2000, WeMade Entertainment Co., Ltd. (KOSDAQ: 112040) is an international game developer publisher that has grown from a handful of passionate game pioneers to a group of over 1,000 game enthusiasts. Starting with itsfirst and a hit title "Legend of Mir 2", which has garnered over 200 million online PC gamers internationally, WeMade Entertainment has continued to develop and service dozens of PC and Mobile based games for fun loving gamers since its inception.

## GFR Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Video Games, Information Technology

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.

## Michael Chow
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Rental Property

Michael Chow is the Founder and CEO of Dart Technologies.

## Ham Serunjogi
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Finance, Financial Services, Mobile Apps

Ham Serunjogi is a co-founder and CEO at Chipper Cash.

## Liquid 2 Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, FinTech

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.

## Tim Draper
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

Tim Draper is the Founder of Draper Associates. He was a Member of the Advisory Board at Mode Media. He attended Harvard Business School.

## AfricInvest
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Private Equity, Series A
- Focus: Manufacturing, Financial Services, FinTech

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.

## Twynam Agricultural Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Agriculture, Food Processing, Seafood

Twynam Group is a leading Australian Funds Manager investing in early-stage climate tech. We also operate an agricultural and property portfolio.

## Yield Guild Games
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Quezon, Quezon City, Philippines
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Initial Coin Offering
- Focus: Gaming, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency

Explore the best crypto games, meet people who love the same games you do. Play for free, go on adventures, and win rewards with your crew!

## Holland George Capital Management
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance

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

## Norfund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Private Equity, Debt Financing
- Focus: Energy, Financial Services, Renewable Energy

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

## Maijid Moujaled
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Gaming, Mobile, FinTech

Maijid Moujaled is a co-founder and president at Chipper Cash.

## Omidyar Network
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Redwood City, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Education

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.

## Samson Larsson
- Type: Angel
- Location: Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Delivery, Logistics, E-Commerce

Samson Larsson is the founder of Ayazona, a high-impact organisation in Kenya, enabling low-income households to access food and household essentials. Larsson is also the founder of Gretol, a startup connecting SMEs in EMEA to the blockchain infrastructure based on Hyperledger technology.

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