Top 50 Gaming VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Africa in October 2023
Top 50 Gaming VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Africa in October 2023
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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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- Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya
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- 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.
Seed capital for technology startups globally.
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- Financial Services, Software, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Nigeria, Kenya
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- 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.
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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- Education, EdTech, Software
- Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
- United States, Kenya, Brazil
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- 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.
Kube VC is a global venture capital firm that invests in exceptional founders and category-defining companies.
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- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, India, United Kingdom
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- 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
Maroc Numeric Fund is a tech VC fund investing in Morocco.
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- Online Portals, Enterprise Software, FinTech
- Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Morocco, Canada, France
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- 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.
SFV backs globally early-stage founders building leading Future of Food companies that are: #Cell-based #Plant-based #Recombinant
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- Food and Beverage, Biotechnology, Food Processing
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- United States, India, Germany
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- 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
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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- E-Commerce, FinTech, Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Kenya, United States, Egypt
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- 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.
CULT Food Science is an investment company focused on supporting and advancing the technology behind the future of food.
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- Food and Beverage, Biotechnology, Food Processing
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, South Africa, Canada
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- 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.
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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- Food and Beverage, Farming, Health Care
- Private Equity, Funding Round, Seed
- Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania
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- 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.
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.
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- Education, Software, Primary Education
- Funding Round, Seed, Debt Financing
- South Africa, Brazil
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- Inoxico — Inoxico is a provider of business-to-business credit risk solutions. We combine quality data and cutting edge technology to deliver predictive analytics.
- Kombo King — Kombo King Ventless Fryer Tech removes the need for plumes of steam & the constant eye of an inconsistent employee to Revolutionize & solve the frying industry!
- Kusini Water — Kusini Water builds water treatment systems from nanotechnology and macadamia nut shells.
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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- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Series C
- United States, Belgium, Nigeria
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- 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.
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.
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- Mobile, Gaming, Internet
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, Israel, Sweden
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- Material Bank — Material Bank International
- Rock The Bells — Rock The Bells is an online store for hip-hop culture merchandise.
- East Asian Super League — EASL creates a premier basketball league while elevating the sport in Asia as the region’s first professional intra-club basketball league. EASL is the premier regional championship competition for club basketball in East Asia.
Kale United offers a portfolio of over 75+ plant-based game changers
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- Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Biotechnology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, Sweden, India
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- 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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- Financial Services, Banking, Finance
- Debt Financing, Series A, Series B
- Turkey, United States, Russian Federation
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- 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
Accion Venture Lab is an investment initiative that provides startups with seed capital and support.
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, India, Brazil
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- 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.
Konvoy Ventures is a thesis driven venture capital firm. We invest in the platforms and technologies at the frontier of gaming.
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- Gaming, Video Games, Software
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, Sweden
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- Afference — Powering the sense of touch in the digital world. Feel digital objects in AR, VR, and XR with our groundbreaking haptic feedback device, the Phantom.
- Proxima — At Proxima, we aim to push the boundaries of interactive entertainment by blending innovative technology with deep artistry. We believe in the magic of exploration, the power of creativity, and the strength of human connection that form the very foundation of our gaming experiences.
- CANOPUS Networks — Understand exactly what is happening on your network at all times. CANOPUS indexes terabit-scale traffic in real-time to provide actionable insights and forensic analysis.
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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- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Singapore, Canada
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- 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.
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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- Software, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Singapore, Israel
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- 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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- Agriculture, Internet, Clean Energy
- Series A, Funding Round, Series B
- Kenya, Nigeria, United States
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- 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?
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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- E-Commerce, Internet, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Turkey
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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.
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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- Health Care, Food and Beverage, Agriculture
- Series B, Series C, Funding Round
- France, United States, China
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- 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.
TTV Capital is a venture capital firm that funds and supports the businesses that shape the financial future of the world.
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- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Canada, Ireland
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- Payabli — Payment infrastructure for your software platform. Accept payments from customers and make payouts to vendors and contractors with our API's.
- Foro — We help your business connect, compare, and choose between top business lenders. Get started to see the best loan options for your business.
- Carry1st — Carry1st develops and publishes enriching mobile games and content apps for African consumers.
Hashkey they offers investment opportunities and solutions to institutions, family offices, funds, and professional accredited investors across the digital asset and blockchain ecosystem.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Singapore, Switzerland
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- Aethir — Power Ultra-Low Latency Gaming & AI Experiences.
- SupraOracles — We're supercharging oracles to provide blockchains better, faster, accurate, and more secure off-chain data.
- Xixiang Ecological Chain Collection — Xixiang Ecological Chain Collection is a Web3 digital collection platform that includes encrypted art production, promotion, and collecting, as well as IP permission.
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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- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Nigeria, Egypt
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- 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.
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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- Financial Services, Health Care, Agriculture
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, India, Kenya
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- 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.
UM6P Ventures is a venture capital investment firm that invests in Science & Innovation.
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- Food Processing, Apps, Agriculture
- Funding Round, Pre-Seed, Seed
- Morocco, Israel, South Africa
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- 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.
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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- Financial Services, FinTech, Internet
- Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Funding Round
- India, United Kingdom, Singapore
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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.
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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- Agriculture, E-Commerce, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana
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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.
- 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...
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.
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- Gaming, Video Games, Mobile Apps
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- United States, Germany, China
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- Longjiang Network — Longjiang Network is an AR mobile game developer, dedicated to the development and IP operation of AR games.
- Wicked Saints Studios — We used behavioral technology to create interactive media that is wickedly fun and actively good. Wicked Saints emerged from Niantic’s incubator last fall (CNBC article) with a prototype of the world’s first adventure activism game, World Reborn. At its simplest, World Reborn is an interactive story game with real-life quests facilitated byaugmented reality (AR). It not only defies genres between narrative and AR games but blends the digital and real world. Wicked Saints sees AR as a bridge between fantasy and reality, with untapped potential to offer players immersive experiences that change them and their world for good.
- The Believer Company — Join the journey We are building a world-class team to serve players for years to come. If you believe in games, we believe in you.
We invest in Africa's most remarkable teams with technical founders at the earliest stage of their venture
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Nigeria, United States, Canada
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- Famasi — Famasi is a digital health platform that helps people access their medications, schedule doorstep delivery, and automate monthly refills.
- Pennee — Pennee supports small businesses to grow with low interest loans and data optimization.
- Clafiya — Discover Clafiya: Your trusted digital health platform, uniting in-person care and virtual solutions for a personalized and caring healthcare experience. Embrace a healthier, happier you, with us by your side.
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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- Financial Services, FinTech, Energy
- Debt Financing, Funding Round, Series A
- India, Germany, Kenya
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- 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.
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, California, investing in bold founders, innovators, and entrepreneurs building the future through technology.
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- Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
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- Castelion — We are a modern defense production company building the next generation of military hypersonic, vehicle, and strike systems to deter future wars.
- Headway — Headway is a mental healthcare system provider based in New York. It develops a health insurance advisory platform designed to connect patients with therapists and provides administrative support to therapists who don’t typically accept insurance. The company was founded by Andrew Adams, Jake Sussman, Dan Ross, and Kevin Chan in 2019.
- Blackbird — We believe the next great hospitality technology platform should connect restaurants and their customers directly, in meaningful and ongoing ways. Blackbird is founded by a team with a passion for restaurants and a track record of using technology to solve problems.
RENEW and the Impact Angel Network are one of the most active private equity investors in Ethiopia and recently expanded to Uganda. RENEW and the IAN seek to become the most successful SME investment firm in Sub-Saharan Africa, investing in hundreds of companies across twenty countries. Their mission is to find, invest and help grow great companiesled by visionary leaders.
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- Food and Beverage, Baby, Reservations
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Uganda, Ethiopia, Kenya
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- Inputi — Inputi is an online marketplace, aggregator, and distributor for farm supplies based in Kampala, Uganda.
- Buupass — BuuPass is Kenya's market leader for online bus booking. We enable travelers to reserve seats and make payments in a convenient and timely way. Try BuuPass today!
- AkelloBanker — AkelloBanker is a data-driven digital finance technology company. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Makerere, Kampala, Uganda.
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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- Manufacturing, Financial Services, FinTech
- Funding Round, Private Equity, Series A
- Tunisia, Morocco, Nigeria
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- 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.
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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- Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
- Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Funding Round
- India, United States, Kenya
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- 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
Naspers Foundry is a global internet group and invests in technology-based companies. The company believes in the power of local backed by global scale and they look for opportunities to address big societal needs in markets where they see the greatest growth potential.
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- Financial Services, Insurance, Information Technology
- Seed, Series B, Series A
- South Africa, United Kingdom
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- Nile.ag — Nile connects fresh produce buyers and producers by providing a platform for direct and secure transactions
- LifeCheq — LifeCheq is a startup offering digitized, and holistic personal finance.
- SweepSouth — Book a home cleaning online from your mobile, tablet or computer. SweepSouth connects you with a cleaner in minutes. Cleaners are experienced, reliable, efficient and insured.
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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- Manufacturing, Consumer Goods, Food Processing
- Debt Financing
- Sierra Leone
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- Capitol Foods — Capitol Foods is a food and beverage manufacturer of healthy fruit juices under the Sierra juice brand.
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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- Software, Information Technology, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Mexico, Canada
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- 8Flow — 8flow.ai - AI and automation for Customer Support Agents.
- NUVIEW — Explore NUVIEW's LiDAR satellite technology, revolutionizing Earth observation with annual global mapping, unrivaled coverage, and cutting-edge data.
- Standard Fleet — Software for electric vehicle owners
Afri Mobility is the venture capital arm of AKWA Group.
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- B2B, Apps, Retail
- Seed, Convertible Note
- Morocco, France
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- 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.
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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- Financial Services, Banking, B2B
- Funding Round, Debt Financing, Series A
- India, Ghana, China
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- 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
Microsoft is an American multinational corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.Microsoft’s devices and consumer (D&C) licensing segment licenses the Windows operating system and related software, Microsoft Office for consumers, and the Windows Phone operating system. Thecompany’s computing and gaming hardware segment provides Xbox gaming and entertainment consoles and accessories, second-party and third-party video games, and Xbox Live subscriptions; surface devices and accessories; and Microsoft PC accessories. Its phone hardware segment offers Lumia smartphones and other non-Lumia phones. Its D&C other segment provides Windows Store, Xbox Live transactions, and Windows phone store; search advertising; display advertising; Office 365 Home and Office 365 Personal; first-party video games; and other consumer products and services as well as operating retail stores.Microsoft’s commercial licensing segments licenses server products, including Windows Server, Microsoft SQL Server, Visual Studio, System Center, and related Client Access Licenses (CALs); Windows Embedded; Windows operating system; Microsoft Office for business, including Office, Exchange, SharePoint, Lync, and related CALs; Microsoft Dynamics business solutions; and Skype. Its commercial other segment offers enterprise services, including premier support services and Microsoft consulting services; commercial cloud comprising Office 365 Commercial, other Microsoft Office online offerings, Dynamics CRM Online, and Microsoft Azure; and other commercial products and online services.The company markets and distributes its products through original equipment manufacturers, distributors, and resellers, as well as online. Microsoft Corporation was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in 1974. It is based in Redmond, Washington.
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- Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Grant, Funding Round, Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, India
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- AdMob — Earn more from your mobile apps using in-app ads to generate revenue, gain actionable insights, and grow your app with easy-to-use tools.
- WeavAir — Proactive Air Insights
- Inflection AI — We are an AI studio creating a personal AI for everyone.
Yield Guild Games (YGG) is a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) for investing in non fungible tokens (NFTs) used in virtual worlds and blockchain-based games. The organization’s mission is to create the biggest virtual world economy, optimizing its community-owned assets for maximum utility, and sharing its profits with its token holders.
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- Gaming, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
- United States, Vietnam, Australia
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- Stems Labs — community and platform for collaborative creativity
- Thirdverse — Thirdverse (formerly known as Yomuneco Inc) is engaged in Virtual Reality content and services planning, development, sales and management.
- Avalon — Avalon is an Orlando, Florida-based platform to create games and virtual experiences.
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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- 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.
Invenfin is a growth capital investor operating in the technology, food & beverage sectors.
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- Food and Beverage, Information Technology, Financial Services
- Funding Round, Seed, Series B
- South Africa, Chad, Egypt
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- Root — Programmable insurance that you can integrate into your product or service with ease
- Money Fellows — MoneyFellows digitizes the ROSCA model, enabling group lending and savings.
- Dynamic Commodities — Dynamic Commodities is a specialist producer and exporter of a range of frozen fruit delicacies.Dynamic Commodities is exporter of an innovative, value-added range of frozen fruit products, including fruit sorbets and various cut frozen fruits, to countries such as the US, Canada, Japan and South Korea.
Norfund is the Norwegian Investment Fund for developing countries with 24.9 bill. NOK in total commitments (2019).
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- Energy, Financial Services, Renewable Energy
- Funding Round, Private Equity, Debt Financing
- Kenya, South Africa, United Kingdom
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- 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.
Aruwa Capital Management is a Lagos-based, female-founded and led growth equity impact fund.
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- FinTech, Big Data, Financial Services
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Nigeria, United States, France
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- 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).
IndiGG is an NFT based play-to-earn game in the web3 frontier. IndiGG is the India sub-decentralized autonomous organization(subDAO) of YGG.
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- Fnatic — Fnatic is the world's leading esports organisation, with a winning legacy of 17 years and counting in over 28 different titles.
- Metaverse Magna — Battle friends & frenemies in fun casual games like candy crush, temple run, wordler to win $1K in daily prize pools. Download Hyper
- One World Nation — One World Nation is a Cryptoverse set on the planet Crypton, inhabited by clans of species called Cryptonites - each clan representing a Crypto.
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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- Retail, Blockchain, E-Commerce
- Grant, Series A
- Tunisia, Ethiopia
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- 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.
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.
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- Gaming, Blockchain, Information Technology
- Seed, Corporate Round, Funding Round
- South Korea, Singapore, Nigeria
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- HwikGo — HwikGo a MaaS platform has created a one-of-a-kind integrated platform that provides a transfer connection between public transportation and shared smart mobility via a traffic card.
- Planetarium — Planetarium is a company that wants to return the sovereignty of online games to users through blockchain technology.
- Metaverse Magna — Battle friends & frenemies in fun casual games like candy crush, temple run, wordler to win $1K in daily prize pools. Download Hyper
Holland George Capital Management is an investment company. It is located in New York and London
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Seed, Series A, Series C
- United States, Canada, Nigeria
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- 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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