# Top 50 Gaming VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Africa in October 2023 ## 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. ## 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. ## 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. ## 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. ## 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. ## 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. ## 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. ## 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. ## 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. ## 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 ## 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. ## 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. ## 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. ## 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. ## 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. ## 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. ## 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. ## 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. ## 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. ## 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......... ## Acumen - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, Health Care, Agriculture 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. ## 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. ## 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. ## 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. ## 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. ## 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. ## Impact Angel Group - Type: VC Fund - Location: Boulder, Colorado, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Food Delivery, Food and Beverage The Impact Angel Group operates as a network of angel investors. It focuses on deal sourcing, investment screening, and due diligence. The Impact Angel Group was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Boulder, Colorado. ## Soma Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services Soma Capital is venture capital fund that focuses on investing in software to automate the world across all sectors and geographies. ## Acumen Resilient Agriculture Fund - Type: VC Fund - Location: Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Agriculture, Farming, Social Entrepreneurship Acumen Resilient Agriculture Fund is an equity fund designed to build the climate resilience of smallholder farmers. ## Invenfin - Type: VC Fund - Location: Stellenbosch, NA - South Africa, South Africa - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series B - Focus: Food and Beverage, Information Technology, Financial Services Invenfin is a growth capital investor operating in the technology, food & beverage sectors. ## 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. ## Microtraction - Type: VC Fund - Location: Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software We invest in Africa's most remarkable teams with technical founders at the earliest stage of their venture ## 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. ## Microsoft - Type: VC Fund - Location: Redmond, Washington, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Grant, Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Internet 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. ## Triodos Investment Management - Type: VC Fund - Location: Zeist, Utrecht, The Netherlands - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Debt Financing, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Energy Triodos is a global pioneer of sustainable banking. Their mission is to make money work for positive social, environmental and cultural change. ## 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. ## Renew Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Addis Ababa, Adis Abeba, Ethiopia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Food and Beverage, Baby, Reservations 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. ## 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. ## U.S. International Development Finance Corp - Type: VC Fund - Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt - Focus: Financial Services, Finance, FinTech 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. ## Naspers Foundry - Type: VC Fund - Location: Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series B, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, Insurance, Information Technology 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. ## 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. ## 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. ## DEG - Type: VC Fund - Location: Overland Park, Kansas, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Debt Financing, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, Banking, B2B 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. ## Yield Guild Games - Type: VC Fund - Location: Quezon, Quezon City, Philippines - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Initial Coin Offering - Focus: Gaming, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency 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. ## Plug & Play - Type: VC Fund - Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed We connect the largest corporations to the world's best startups through industry-focused accelerator programs in Silicon Valley and beyond. ## 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). ## 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. # About Shizune Shizune.co is an investor database. 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