Top 50 Startup Investors in Senegal in October 2023
Top 50 Startup Investors in Senegal 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.
Proparco is devoted to private sector funding in the sustainable development sector.
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- Financial Services, Finance, Energy
- Funding Round, Debt Financing, Series B
- India, Kenya, Mauritius
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- Nuru — Nuru is a solar hybrid site. Nuru (Swahili for "light") is a company dedicated to enhancing connectivity in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Nuru deployed Congo's first solar-based mini-grid in 2017 and is currently constructing a 1.3MW solar hybrid site in Goma, the largest off-grid mini-grid in sub-Saharan Africa.Nuru is arenewable and environment company that specializes in the fields of storage micro-grids and solar energy. The company deployed Congo's first solar-based mini-grid in 2017 and is currently constructing a 1.3MW solar hybrid site in Goma.Nuru was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Goma, Nord-Kivu, Congo.
- Sabesp — Sabesp is a Brazilian company that engages in providing basic sanitation services such as distribution of treated water, collection, and treatment of sewage. It is currently responsible for supplying water and collecting and treating sewage in the 367 municipalities of São Paulo state. It supplies 27.9 million people with water and provides sewagecollection services to 21.5 million people.Sabesp was founded in 1973 and is headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
- Complete Farmer — We are providing cutting-edge technological farming protocols and innovations with a unique business model and logistics that are revolutionizing...
Saviu is a venture capital fund focusing on African early-stage startups.
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- E-Commerce, Financial Services, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Côte d'Ivoire, Kenya, Senegal
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- Julaya — Julaya is a fintech providing African businesses with a digital account to make payments : disbursing mobile money transactions to their employees, suppliers, and owning their own virtual and physical prepaid cards.
- Tajiri — Tajiri is a SaaS application that designs and improves restaurant management to get profits.
- Workpay — Looking for the best payroll software in Kenya? Workpay provides the best payroll software and hr software for your business in Kenya, Nigeria and for Africa
Faced with the financing difficulties often encountered by Senegalese small and medium-sized enterprises, TERANGA CAPITAL aims to provide an innovative financing solution specifically designed to meet the needs of SMEs . TERANGA CAPITAL is aimed at SMEs with high growth potential from all sectors and regions of Senegal, whose financing needsare between 50 and 200 million FCFA . TERANGA CAPITAL strengthens its equity and becomes a minority shareholder of SMEs over a time horizon of around 5 years, and ensures active and personalized support according to the specific needs of each company in the portfolio. Accompanied companies aim to be supported in formalizing their management, strengthening their organization, increasing their skills and accelerating their commercial development.
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- Delivery, Logistics, E-Commerce
- Seed, Funding Round
- Senegal
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- Afrikamart — Afrikamart is a west African distribution platform for fresh produce that offers its marketing services to producers - suppliers - and operates as a digital purchasing center for retailers, hotels and restaurants - customers.We combine extensive use of digital with its experience in the food value chain to: - Facilitate information exchangebetween suppliers and customers (purchase price, sale price, product availability, harvest and purchase forecasts) - Organize end-to-end logistics with a network of transporters - Optimize financial and product flows according to different purchase and payment termsOur team includes experienced technology driven individuals with a strong experience in food commodity trading. Afrikamart brings pragmatic solutions to solve food value chain inefficiencies in West Africa while empowering hundreds of underprivileged women and young people with economic opportunities.
- Socium Job — Socium Job these are companies that recruit and offer real career opportunities to all those who share their values and wish to invest in their development.
- Golden Nuts and Grain — Golden Nuts and Grain is a producer of natural juices based in Senegal. The company specializes in food processing, specifically in the production of natural juices made with local products such as bouye, the bissap and ginger that help consumers maintain their health and well-being while enjoying authentic taste and flavors of a natural, healthyand delicious juice.
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.
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- Financial Services, Health Care, Food and Beverage
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- France, Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire
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- iProcure — iProcure is a Nairobi-based start-up working to optimize the agriculture input supply chain in rural Kenya. iProcure’s web and mobile technology solution improves agriculture retailers’ operations. It lets them manage ordering based on inventory, point of sale activities, and client profiles along with geo-located purchasing patterns, real-timeagent performance and transaction analysis, and built-in mobile payments. As a result, retailers can better predict demand with business intelligence data, improve inventory management, and streamline distribution efficiency.
- Trackbit — Trackbit is a cryptocurrency exchange platform.
- Afrikamart — Afrikamart is a west African distribution platform for fresh produce that offers its marketing services to producers - suppliers - and operates as a digital purchasing center for retailers, hotels and restaurants - customers.We combine extensive use of digital with its experience in the food value chain to: - Facilitate information exchangebetween suppliers and customers (purchase price, sale price, product availability, harvest and purchase forecasts) - Organize end-to-end logistics with a network of transporters - Optimize financial and product flows according to different purchase and payment termsOur team includes experienced technology driven individuals with a strong experience in food commodity trading. Afrikamart brings pragmatic solutions to solve food value chain inefficiencies in West Africa while empowering hundreds of underprivileged women and young people with economic opportunities.
Haskè Ventures is a venture builder based in Dakar and focused on transforming the startup landscape.
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- B2B, Retail, Banking
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Senegal
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- Kwely — Kwely is a dynamic and fast-growing startup. We are always looking for passionate, dynamic, fun and hard-working individuals to join our team.
- ProXalys — ProXalys is an african digital bank or neobank for the financial inclusion and empowerment of african women (entrepreneurs and self-employed entrepreneurs, startups, SMEs, and startups).
WIC Capital is the first mechanism to provide suitable financing and support to women-owned MSMEs in Senegal and West Africa.
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- Retail, B2B, Food Processing
- Seed
- Senegal
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- Kwely — Kwely is a dynamic and fast-growing startup. We are always looking for passionate, dynamic, fun and hard-working individuals to join our team.
- Mburu — Mburu specializes in the production and marketing of bread, pastries, and pastries made from local raw materials (millet, corn, sorghum, seasonal fruits, etc.).
Impact investment in sustainable energy
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- Energy, Solar, Renewable Energy
- Debt Financing, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Kenya, Nigeria
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- WeLight — WeLight deploys sustainable and accessible solutions to accelerate energy inclusion in rural areas of Africa.
- Okra Solar — Okra Solar is an IoT technology solution that enables solar generating communities to share and utilize more energy. It is a plug-and-play smart grid technology that enables rapid electrification for last-mile communities. Using mobile payments, modular grid design, and remote monitoring, they provide utility companies with a low-cost, data-drivensolution to operate solar networks in hard to reach communities. They are on a mission to connect off-grid communities to the modern economy.Okra Solar was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Sydney, Australia.
- Solarise Africa — Solarise Africa is a pan African energy leasing company for solar PV and other energy assets focusing on Commercial and Industrial (C&I) clients. Its business model is designed for scalability. Solarise Africa focuses on providing smart financing through close collaboration with a selected group of partners across solar and other renewableenergy technologies. For solar PV it is focusing on captive rooftop and ground mounted solar projects ranging from 100kW to 3MW. It is currently active in Kenya, looking to open in South Africa and has plans to expand into East, Southern and West Africa.
British International Investment is the UK's development finance institution. We've been at the forefront of supporting companies in developing countries for more than 70 years.
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- Financial Services, Banking, Finance
- Series B, Debt Financing, Funding Round
- India, Egypt, Kenya
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- Battery Smart — Battery Smart provides advanced Li-ion batteries to e-rickshaws. Battery Smart develops a retrofittable 48V Li-ion twin battery system that is compatible with all major electric rickshaw (e3w) models.
- Dashen Bank — Dashen Bank is the banking firm that offers deposit, international trade and services, loan, and gurantees.
- Indifi Technologies — Indifi Technologies is a digital lending platform that offers loans to those that have potential and intent.Indifi believes in helping small businesses grow by offering loans to those that have potential and intent. Most such businesses have little or no access to financing from traditional institutions such as banks or lack either collateral orfinance data trail to access a loan.Indifi is a technology platform that gathers and analyzes data of businesses from various sources and draws insights to judge their creditworthiness, their past and current performance in the context of the industry they are operating in. This differentiated approach helps find businesses that are low on risk and high on promise thus opening up possibilities for those who earlier had no access to short or long term business funding.Indifi takes the relevant applications to multiple lenders, increasing the chances to secure a loan and creates choice for lenders to pick the ones they wish to back.
Newfund is a $300M entrepreneurial VC firm dedicated to pre-seed and seed investments in France and North America, in companies driving global change. The company is always looking for founders who are driven to realize a vision that will significantly alter the world in which we live. In order to appreciate what entrepreneurs are creating andutilize their strengths, Newfund aims to comprehend entrepreneurs as unique individuals.
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- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- France, United States, Canada
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- REEV — REEV motorizes medical orthoses to help millions of people affected by gait disorders to walk, stand, sit and climb stairs with greater ease every day.
- Greenscope — Greenscope is a company and investor-focused ESG management solution. Greenscope has enabled us to implement a new process for collecting and analyzing ESG data.
- Umiami — Umiami Technologies is a leader in plant-based meat. Our proprietary technology allows us to create clean-label and incredibly tasty foods.
4DX Ventures is a Pan-Africa Focused Venture Capital Firm. Our mission is to connect people, ideas, and capital to create a vibrant African community.
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- FinTech, Information Technology, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Egypt, United States, Kenya
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- Tactyc — Tactyc is an easy-to-use portfolio construction, forecasting and management software for venture funds.
- Zoie Health — Zoie is a digital health firm for women that provides family planning, fertility, and maternity care services.
- Money Fellows — MoneyFellows digitizes the ROSCA model, enabling group lending and savings.
Kepple Africa Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm.
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt
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- Chari — Chari is an e-commerce and fintech app for traditional retailers in French-Speaking Africa allowing them to order any consumer goods they sell and get delivered for free in less than 24 hours. Chari is also a financial services provider for these retailers, offering them microloans
- Carry1st — Carry1st develops and publishes enriching mobile games and content apps for African consumers.
- Beacon Power Services — Beacon Power Services is a utility company that provides energy management software and analytics for utilities.
A global investment banking, asset management and advisory firm focused on delivering value to our clients in emerging and frontier markets
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- Renewable Energy, Solar, Energy
- Debt Financing, Funding Round
- Kenya, France, Senegal
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- Baobab+ — Baobab+ is a social business committed to providing access to energy and digital. We commercialize innovative products with financing solutions that meet the needs of local populations.
- Yellow — Yellow enables a distributed network of sales agents to serve rural households with life-changing products and services through a digital technology platform called Ofeefee.
- Decentral Energy — Decentral develops, owns, and manages clean energy assets in South Africa. We offer risk-free and fully financed solar energy solutions for our clients.
Acasia Ventures is a leading venture capital firm that invests in early-stage companies throughout the Middle East and Africa. With a focus on being a first believer in innovation and entrepreneurship, the firm strives to support the growth of the next generation of market leaders through their unique and scalable solutions. Its Tech Fund I iscurrently targeting investments in tech-driven and tech-enabled startups at the pre-Seed to pre-Series A stages.
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- Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Egypt, Nigeria, 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.
- Menthum — Saving Made Simple
- Precision Cardiovascular — Precision Cardiovascular is a unique sensor system for remote monitoring of patients with acute heart failure that provides unbiased data to improve long-term health outcomes and reduce the expenses of emergency situations.
Ventures Platform Fund is a discovery fund that invests early in mission-driven founders that are building capital-efficient platforms that democratise prosperity, plug infrastructural gaps, connect underrepresented communities, solve for non-consumption, and improve livelihoods in Africa.
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Nigeria, United States, 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.
- Traction Apps — Traction apps provide businesses end to end tools they need to run and grow their businesses.
- Remedial Health — We improve business to business access to medicines by providing such medicines from manufactures/registered distributors direct to large and small healthcare retail businesses (large pharmacies and remote chemist/PPMVs (Patent and Proprietary Medicine Vendors)) using technology to deliver just-in-time stock and provide financing and awide selection of inventory to such retail business.
Wefunder is a crowd investing platform that offers capital raising services. The company's online platform offers investment services to startups through its investors' userbase and disruptive companies can receive amount as small as hundred dollars, enabling companies to grow and develop their businesses.
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- Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
- United States, Israel, Senegal
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- Sensate — Wearable technology using science to help you relax, reduce stress and anxiety and improve your mental health. Learn more about Sensate and our mission.
- Terraseed — Terraseed is the most sustainable and complete vegan vitamin, featuring 9 ethically-sourced nutrients in a fully compostable bottle.
- Savvos Health — Savvos Health is a marketplace of affordable cash prices for shoppable medical care, including imaging, outpatient surgery, labs, and more.
R-Ventures is a global investor in high-impact tech startups driving change and economic growth through emerging market investments.
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- Banking, FinTech, Finance
- Seed, Funding Round
- Senegal, South Africa
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- Bettr — Bettr is a digital banking app for creator. Download the app to get your zero monthly fee digital bank account and virtual card. Join our community of creators, gamers, influencers, freelancers, tiktokkers, streamers, YouTubers and digital gig workers.
- Yobante Express — Yobante Express offers a web & mobile platform that connects retailers, businesses & individuals with carriers for point-to-point delivery.
Blue Haven Initiative is an innovative family office dedicated to putting wealth to work for market returns and positive social and environmental change.
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- Solar, Energy, Financial Services
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- Kenya, United States, Ghana
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- M-KOPA — M-KOPA is the global leader for “pay-as-you-go” energy services for off-grid customers. M-KOPA was established in 2011. Following 2 years of piloting and development, M-KOPA began commercial sales in Kenya in October 2012. M-KOPA expanded to Uganda in 2013 and commences operations in Tanzania in late 2014. Their team includes over 500 staff andwe sell our product through more than 1000 retail agents and shops. The founders of the company are experienced mobile technology innovators who believe in the huge potential of transformative, affordable products designed for underserved consumers. While excellent technology is a pre-requisite, technology alone does not solve for customer needs. Success comes when smart technology is combined with a commitment to on-going, on-the-ground delivery. To that end, M-KOPA is beginning to license its technology to experienced and reputable third parties in markets outside of East Africa (licensing queries should be sent to licensing@m-kopa.com). M-KOPA has developed a proprietary, patented technology platform that combines embedded GSM + mobile payments to revolutionize asset financing in emerging markets. The M-KOPAnet platform has been designed and built from the ground up by our talented team of software engineers, who continue to innovate and improve the system every day. It offers the powerful combination of accounting + customer relationship management + inventory tracking in one complete system. Aside from enabling our business operations to scale at record speed, the M-KOPAnet™ platform captures and processes huge volumes of data, enabling us to improve our proposition, customer service, and security in real-time.
- TIBU Health — TIBU Health is a disruptive HealthTech logistics company that provides high-quality healthcare services.
- Field — Health supply chain technology and services across Africa
to.org is a Civic & Social Organization.
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- FinTech, Delivery, Logistics
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Kenya, Senegal
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- Paps — Paps is a transport and logistics company that offers innovative distribution and delivery solutions to companies and merchants.The company's e-commerce platform helps companies and traders with scheduling and tracking deliveries on a real-time basis. It offers the distribution of documents and parcels, storage of goods in a secure warehousethat meets standards, and delivery of insured parcels in relay point or last mile. It also provides professional services such as management and repayment of cash on delivery, provision of couriers, management of returns, collection, and periodic reporting.The Dakar, Dakar, Senegal-based company was founded in 2016
- Wowzi — Access influencer marketing and intelligence with Africa's most trusted software platform.
- Fuse Financial Technologies — Financial APIs for building products in the Middle East.
Triple Jump is an impact-focused investment manager.
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- FinTech, Finance, Financial Services
- Debt Financing, Series A, Funding Round
- India, Senegal, Mauritius
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- Baobab+ — Baobab+ is a social business committed to providing access to energy and digital. We commercialize innovative products with financing solutions that meet the needs of local populations.
- Yellow — Yellow enables a distributed network of sales agents to serve rural households with life-changing products and services through a digital technology platform called Ofeefee.
- Light Microfinance — We are one of the top Microfinance companies in India. Light Microfinance head office is located in Ahmedabad.
Afropreneur Angels provides funding and assistance to aspiring businesses. It houses multiple entrepreneurs from various industries. Afropreneur Angels was founded in 2012.
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- B2B, Retail, Social Network
- Seed
- Kenya, Senegal
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- Kwely — Kwely is a dynamic and fast-growing startup. We are always looking for passionate, dynamic, fun and hard-working individuals to join our team.
- Wowzi — Access influencer marketing and intelligence with Africa's most trusted software platform.
Janngo supports entrepreneurs who leverage technology to massify three impacts on the continent: 1/ Essential services & products for African consumers, 2/ Growth acceleration of African SMEs, and 3/ Job creation, in particular for women & youth
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- B2B, Logistics, E-Commerce
- Seed
- Nigeria, Senegal
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- Fleeti — Smart fleet management & geotracking solutions
- Sabi Am — Sabi is Africa's largest B2B company, & we are digitising informal trade via our platform. We access markets hard to reach and ensure ease of distribution, & are the No 1 FCMG supplier in Africa.
- Twende — Twende is a platform that offers reliable shared transport
BLOC Smart Africa is a finance technology fund, managed by Bamboo Capital Partners.
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- Apps, Internet, Wireless
- Seed
- Senegal, Cameroon, South Africa
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- Waspito — We are the platform that engages Africa into the conversation and action to drive affordable and accessible quality healthcare across the continent.
- Afrikamart — Afrikamart is a west African distribution platform for fresh produce that offers its marketing services to producers - suppliers - and operates as a digital purchasing center for retailers, hotels and restaurants - customers.We combine extensive use of digital with its experience in the food value chain to: - Facilitate information exchangebetween suppliers and customers (purchase price, sale price, product availability, harvest and purchase forecasts) - Organize end-to-end logistics with a network of transporters - Optimize financial and product flows according to different purchase and payment termsOur team includes experienced technology driven individuals with a strong experience in food commodity trading. Afrikamart brings pragmatic solutions to solve food value chain inefficiencies in West Africa while empowering hundreds of underprivileged women and young people with economic opportunities.
- TooMuchWifi — TooMuchWifi is known to be the Best and most Reliable Wifi provider. Ideal for your home or business!
Worldline is the platform that provides payments and transactional services.
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- Financial Services, Payments, Mobile Payments
- Seed, Corporate Round
- Senegal, The Netherlands
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- Touch Group — Touch Group is a financial aggregator which provides payments and digital services through mobile application, web and API.
- Online Payment Platform — Online Payment Platform offers everything your platform needs to process payments. Read more about our solution for platforms and marketplaces.
SunFunder is a specialist financing company dedicated to pioneering and scaling clean energy and climate investments in emerging markets.
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- Solar, Energy, Renewable Energy
- Debt Financing, Series C
- The Netherlands, Kenya, Mauritius
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- Yellow — Yellow enables a distributed network of sales agents to serve rural households with life-changing products and services through a digital technology platform called Ofeefee.
- d.light — Founded in 2007 as a for-profit social enterprise, d.light manufactures and distributes award-winning solar lighting and power products designed to serve the more than 2 billion people globally without access to reliable electricity. Through five distribution hubs in East Africa, West Africa, India, Southeast Asia, and the United States, d.lighthas impacted over 65 million lives with its products. d.light is dedicated to providing the most reliable, affordable, and accessible solar lighting and power systems for the developing world, with the goal of reaching 100 million people by 2020. For more information, visit www.dlight.com.
- Zola Electric — ZOLA Electric designs renewable energy solutions based on the latest in solar, battery and power electronics technology. Adaptable to energy need and income, ZOLA Electric’s solar systems can be bought over time using PAYGo micro-finance leasing and mobile money payments. ZOLA Electric powers more than 180,000 homes and businesses across Tanzania,Rwanda, Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana. Investors include Tesla, Vulcan Capital, DBL Partners, Helios Investment Partners, EDF, Total and GE Ventures. ZOLA Electric is a recipient of the UN Momentum for Change Award, the Zayed Future Energy Prize and is a member of the Global Cleantech 100.
Oikocredit is guided by the principle of empowering people. Their experience proves that the most effective and sustainable means of assisting those in need is providing an opportunity to help themselves.
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- Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
- Debt Financing, Funding Round, Series B
- India, Nigeria, Ghana
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- Kaleidofin — Kaleidofin is a fintech platform that provides complete financial solutions for excluded individuals and households. The platform propels under-banked customers towards meeting their real life goals by providing intuitive and tailored financial solutions. Their solutions take into account the financial roadblocks and vulnerability that thesesegments, such as volatile income streams and limited understanding of the fine print in financial products.Kaleidofin creates individual profiles of households based on several sources and uses that information to tailor its services for each customer. It also provides curated, goal-based financial solutions to people in the underbanked segments. It will leverage the full India stack, existing networks, analytics, structuring, and user-centered design to drive outcomes for customers, in the processKaleidofin was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
- Annapurna Finance — Annapurna Finance operates as a micro finance company. We offer agricultural loans, money loans, small business loans, insurance and home improvement loans at their doorstep.
- Credit Mutuel du Senegal — Credit Mutuel du Senegal is a microfinance institution that offers banking services such as loans and savings.
Founders Fund is a San Francisco based venture capital firm investing in companies building revolutionary technologies.
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- Software, Health Care, Internet
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Germany
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- Layer N — Layer N is a layer 2 network designed to hyper-scale financial applications on Ethereum.
- Roam — Roam is the platform for affordable home ownership. Roam helps homebuyers purchase their next home with a low-interest rate mortgage included.
- Regent — We build all-electric, passenger-carrying, wing-in-ground-effect vehicles to service coastal routes with technology available today.
Corporate profile and facts about Yamaha Motor.
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- Transportation, Robotics, Logistics
- Corporate Round, Series A, Series B
- Japan, India, Brazil
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- Wassha — Wassha provide the rental device and charging service using clean energy. WASSHA lends all devices to start WASSHA business. Remote management and monitoration of every operation made possible with our innovative technology, so that we can check every transactions like sales, customer information, and power generation.We are looking for businesspartners to expand WASSHA to off-grid areas! s a power supplier for off-grid Africa.
- Skipperi — Skipper is a meeting place for boats and boaters. Private individuals and companies can announce their boat rent for free. The boat can hire everyone whose skills and experience are on the boat owner's behalf. The boat owner decides who to rent their boats.
- Arpac Drones — ARPAC delivers important results in pest control through their own research and development of their aircraft and application systems; as well as, performing services in locations where other vehicles can not reach.
Orange Ventures is the Venture Capital Fund of the Orange Group, with 350m euros under management
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- FinTech, Banking, Payments
- Seed, Series C, Funding Round
- Egypt, France, Senegal
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- Amanleek — All insurance companies in one place - Now you can easily compare and buy health, car, travel and life insurance in Egypt online
- Mooncard — Mooncard was created with an ambition: to put the new payment technologies at the service of the day-to-day management of all companies to enable them to gain in simplicity, efficiency and therefore profitability. Currently, many purchasing and spending processes remain manual and complex, ranging from routine purchases and expenses to expenseclaims. Businesses of any size, and often the small ones, lose valuable time to make and manage these payments. Mooncard completely transforms this situation by proposing an innovative payment solution, piloted in real time, secure and deployable very easily. Thanks to the most modern technologies (web, big data, IA ...) the payment and management circuit is completely automated.Mooncard supports all companies to enable them to take full advantage of the revolution of means of payment.
- Afrikamart — Afrikamart is a west African distribution platform for fresh produce that offers its marketing services to producers - suppliers - and operates as a digital purchasing center for retailers, hotels and restaurants - customers.We combine extensive use of digital with its experience in the food value chain to: - Facilitate information exchangebetween suppliers and customers (purchase price, sale price, product availability, harvest and purchase forecasts) - Organize end-to-end logistics with a network of transporters - Optimize financial and product flows according to different purchase and payment termsOur team includes experienced technology driven individuals with a strong experience in food commodity trading. Afrikamart brings pragmatic solutions to solve food value chain inefficiencies in West Africa while empowering hundreds of underprivileged women and young people with economic opportunities.
Dimitri Farber Garcia - Co-Founder @ Tiller Systems
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- Real Estate, Residential, Sharing Economy
- Seed
- France, Senegal
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- Roof — Roof provides private co-living studios for students with common areas.
- Socium Job — Socium Job these are companies that recruit and offer real career opportunities to all those who share their values and wish to invest in their development.
We help the daring build legendary companies.
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- FinTech, Software, Pet
- Series A, Series C, Series B
- United States, Japan, Senegal
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- PingPod — Network of autonomous table tennis pods based in NYC
- Wave Mobile Money — Wave Mobile Money provides an app-based financial solution to save, transfer, and borrow money. Wave Mobile Money is on a mission to make Africa the first cashless continent. On a continent where less than 10% of the population has a bank account, Wave is building the first modern financial network — no account fees, instantly available, andaccepted everywhere! It is building life-changing financial infrastructure. When mobile money succeeded in Kenya, it lifted about a million people out of poverty. And yet, over 10 years later, most Africans still lack access to affordable ways to save, transfer or borrow the money they need to build businesses or provide for their families. Wave is solving this problem by using technology to build a radically inclusive and extremely affordable financial network.
- Veterinary Emergency Group — Veterinary Emergency Group is open nights, weekends, and holidays to help when your regular animal hospital is closed. Find a VEG location near you!
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- FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
- Series B, Series C, Series A
- United States, India, Brazil
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- PhonePe — PhonePe is a Digital Wallet & Online Payment App that allows you to make instant Money Transfers with UPI. Recharge Mobile, DTH, Pay Utility Bills, Buy/Invest in Gold, Mutual Funds, Insurance & much more.
- Stitch — One API integration for all online payments across South Africa. Accept Instant EFT, debit + credit card, cash, direct deposit and debits. Manage + reconcile digital payments and send payouts.
- Juniper Square — Juniper Square is the leading provider of investment management software and solutions for real estate and private equity fundraising, investor reporting, and more.
Venture investor in high-growth Founders and Teams using technology to solve large and meaningful problems across Africa
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- Logistics, E-Commerce, B2B
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa
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- Djamo — Djamo is a Provider of financial applications to allow customers to use their cards with zero fees in a wide range of services.
- Jumba — Jumba is a construction technology platform that streamlines B2B construction material purchase and financing.
- Yebo Fresh — Powering South Africa's Township Economy.
Aguila Investments is an investment branch of Libertad.
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- Logistics, Transportation, Supply Chain Management
- Seed
- Senegal
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- Yobante Express — Yobante Express offers a web & mobile platform that connects retailers, businesses & individuals with carriers for point-to-point delivery.
Goodwill Ventures is a micro venture fund created with the objective of providing start up funding to micro enterprises.
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- Delivery, Logistics, E-Commerce
- Seed
- Senegal
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- Paps — Paps is a transport and logistics company that offers innovative distribution and delivery solutions to companies and merchants.The company's e-commerce platform helps companies and traders with scheduling and tracking deliveries on a real-time basis. It offers the distribution of documents and parcels, storage of goods in a secure warehousethat meets standards, and delivery of insured parcels in relay point or last mile. It also provides professional services such as management and repayment of cash on delivery, provision of couriers, management of returns, collection, and periodic reporting.The Dakar, Dakar, Senegal-based company was founded in 2016
Energy Access Ventures invests in growing, entrepreneurial businesses in Sub-Saharan Africa addressing the lack of electrification in the region with new technology and innovative business models. The fund is backed by Schneider Electric, the leading energy management multinational, and a number of public-sector investors.
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- Solar, Energy, Renewable Energy
- Series A, Seed, Convertible Note
- Kenya, United States, Ghana
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- InspiraFarms — InspiraFarms provides on-and-near farm, grid & solar powered Cold Rooms & Packhouses for agribusinesses & distributors. Reduce energy costs & food losses!
- SunCulture — At SunCulture, we strive to solve the biggest daily challenges of smallholder farmers. We use off-grid solar technology to provide our customers with reliable access to water, irrigation, lighting, and mobile charging, and we can do all of that with a single system.
- Solarise Africa — Solarise Africa is a pan African energy leasing company for solar PV and other energy assets focusing on Commercial and Industrial (C&I) clients. Its business model is designed for scalability. Solarise Africa focuses on providing smart financing through close collaboration with a selected group of partners across solar and other renewableenergy technologies. For solar PV it is focusing on captive rooftop and ground mounted solar projects ranging from 100kW to 3MW. It is currently active in Kenya, looking to open in South Africa and has plans to expand into East, Southern and West Africa.
British International Investment is the UK's development finance institution. We've been at the forefront of supporting companies in developing countries for more than 70 years.
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- Financial Services, Banking, Finance
- Funding Round, Debt Financing, Series B
- India, Nigeria, Kenya
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- Paymob — Paymob runs millions of transactions for different business sizes across the Middle East and Africa. Start using Paymob’s solutions and API’s to accept and send payments for your online business now.
- Ecom Express — Get express delivery courier services from Ecom Express, the best courier companies in India, and deliver your packages safely and on time to your customers.
- Jingsil Intelligent — Jingsil Intelligent is dedicated to digital power distribution switches and intelligent power distribution management software systems.
Evolem is an evergreen fund sponsored by an entrepreneur with net worth > 850m€ (Bruno Rousset, Founder of April, listed insurance broker with 1B€ market cap). No external LP's, quick process and no exit deadline. We invest from 100k to 3M€ in french startup raising 500k€ to 10M€.
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- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- France, Italy, Senegal
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- Riverse — The impact monetization platform enabling European green-techs finance their growth by valorizing their impact
- Fairlyne — Fairlyne is a software company that specializes in resale SaaS for travel brands. The company was founded in 2021 and is based in Paris, France.
- Virgil — Virgil is the trusted partner of all those who want to become owners but whose personal contribution is insufficient to buy the apartment they want.
Oui Capital is an Africa-focused VC firm backing tech-enabled businesses at the pre-seed & seed stage.
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- Transportation, Information Technology, B2B
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
- Kenya, Nigeria, United States
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- Duplo — We enable businesses across Africa to simplify their payment flows.
- Ndovu — Secure your investments in both local and global financial markets on ndovu - a secure, affordable, hassle-free online investment platform in Africa designed to work your money
- Maad — Maad is Francophone Africa's fastest-growing B2B marketplace, based in Dakar, Senegal. Our tech-driven solution allows retailers to order products from our one-stop shop and benefit from working capital loans
Alumni Ventures offers diversified venture portfolios to accredited investors into highly competitive deals that individuals typically do not have access to on their own.
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- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
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- SigNoz — SigNoz is an open-source observability tool to help you find issues in your deployed applications & solve them quickly. It provides logs, metrics, and traces under a single pane of glass. Built with ClickHouse as datastore, it is designed to handle enterprise scale.
- teachme.to — Teachme.to is a community of learners discovering lessons for everything.
- Canid — We believe vaccinating shouldn't be hard and it shouldn't be a distraction from what's most important: taking care of the kids.
TotalEnergies is a multi-energy company that produces and markets energies on a global scale: oil and biofuels, natural gas and green gases, renewables and electricity.
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- Renewable Energy, Big Data, Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Germany, Senegal, United States
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- Circulor — Circulor is a leader in bringing traceability to complex industrial supply chains. We help customers to demonstrate responsible sourcing, to monitor inherited emissions from the supply chain and to underpin their circular economy ambitions. We help procurement and sustainability professionals see and manage what was previously invisible.
- Chargetrip — Chargetrip is the world's leading Smart EV Routing platform. We make EV-driving and -charging seamless, reduce operational costs, and unlock new business models. Our customers are CPOs (e.g. EnBW, Recharge, EDP, Iberdrola), Fleet Operators (e.g. Total), OEMs (e.g. Porsche), Telematics providers (e.g. Autosense), and Mobility ServiceProviders (e.g. Elbil, ANWB). They use our Routing-API to power solutions for individual EV-drivers and EV-fleets; owned, leased, rented, shared, and autonomous.Our routing engine uses over 15 different (dynamic) variables to calculate the real-time range of any EV (currently 260+ EV models). Proprietary algorithms then compute the best route from A, to B (to C, to D) with the optimal charge stations in between; specific to that vehicle, to that journey, business logic, and fleet specs. Build-in predictive models optimize for total travel-time and travel-costs. Chargetrip’s API is easy to integrate into existing charge-, navigation-, Fleet operating, and telematics applications. On average, over 175.000 EV drivers use our software every month; equal to 10% of all EV’s in Europe.
- H2 MOBILITY — H2 MOBILITY is a hydrogen filling station operator that offers consulting, planning, and construction services for hydrogen stations.
Stripe is a global technology company that builds economic infrastructure for the Internet.Businesses of every size, from new startups to public companies like Salesforce and Facebook, use the company’s software to accept online payments and run complex global operations. The company combines economic infrastructure with a set of applications fornew business models like crowdfunding and marketplaces, fraud prevention, analytics, and more. Stripe navigates global regulatory uncertainty and partners closely with internet leaders like Apple, Google, Alipay, Tencent, Facebook, and Twitter to launch new capabilities.It was founded in 2010 by John and Patrick Collison and has its headquarters in San Francisco, California.
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- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, India
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- Upollo — Upollo helps you land, expand and avoid costly churn.
- Complete — Plan, communicate and manage compensation for candidates and employees.
- Ramp — Join thousands of forward-thinking businesses using Ramp to control spend, save time, and automate busywork.
Investo is a seed capital firm that invests both financial and intellectual capital in technology startups. The firm offers founders 24/7 access to advice and helps scale businesses, as well as provide key talent that may be needed. Inveseto provides guidance, talent and capital so game-changing companies can scale.
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- E-Commerce, Internet, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- United States, Mexico, Chile
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- Cuéntame — Cuéntame develops tools designed for employees' emotional wellbeing.
- Holacasa — Holacasa te ayuda a conseguir tu hipoteca, comparando +11 bancos. Sin costo ni compromiso.
- Konta — Konta offers an online accounting service for micro and small businesses in México. Their company vision is to make running a small company easy. They are helping freelancers and small entrepreneurs by implementing a cost-effective, automated online accounting service. José Menéndez and Pablo Icaza founded the company in September 2019, with itsheadquarters in Monterrey, México.
VCs use all sorts of tricks to attract the best companies. We do too. But as founders, we know that the main reason you choose an investor to be a part of your journey is because you like them. You trust them. Their values align with yours.
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- FinTech, Software, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- France, United Kingdom, United States
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- Kovalee — Kovalee is a mobile app publisher. They empower app creators. They partner with app owners through a publishing model and bring their apps to the top of the charts. They provide product enhancement, monetization boost, user acquisition, and app store optimization services.
- EyeLights — EyeLights is a Head Up Display GPS. It allows motobikers to truly experience the ride by keeping their eyes on the road. Eyelights is the first universal motorcycle accessory that projects guidance, danger zones and traffic directly into your field of vision. A dangerous bend, a nearby stopper or speed over limitations, EyeLights warns you. Simple,uncluttered, they adapted the display for motorcycle riding.The EyeLights product installs in less than 5 minutes on your full-face, convertible or jet helmet. Their compact optical technology allows you to view your GPS more than 2 meters away while enjoying audio functions for more than 8 hours. The product is compatible with sun visors, insensitive to rain or fog and weighs less than 100g.
- PIXmania.com — PIXmania is a pan-European electrical e-tailer operating in 26 countries. PIXmania has been growing its market positions across Europe while leveraging the benefits of being part of the Dixons Retail Group. Pixmania now serves more than 7 million customers over Europe with a wide range of product categories.
Partech is a global venture capital firm with offices in San Francisco, Paris, Berlin and Dakar. Partech invests in Internet and information technology startups at seed, venture and growth stages.
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- Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, France, Germany
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- CO2 AI — Empowering decision-makers to sustain our world via advanced software that shifts carbon emissions reduction from the theoretical to the impactful.
- UpSlide — Produce high-quality reports and presentations faster in PowerPoint, Excel and Word. Save up to 8h each month in just a few clicks!
- Commsignia — Commsignia specializes in the research and development, manufacturing and distribution of cooperative intelligent transportation systems. Its product line includes a V2X Communication Software Stack and Commsignia’s own security stack implementation, Hybrid V2X/ADAS Safety Applications, a V2X Simulator, On-Board Units (OBU) and Roadside Units(RSU).The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.
Venture Capital investors
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- SaaS, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- France, Senegal
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- Pongo — Pongo has created for you the first intelligent marketing assistant that communicates with your customers and increases your Google referencing, without you having to lift a finger
- Hyperplan — Hyperplan is a SaaS company whose mission is to assist industrial companies in dealing with crop production's increasing volatility. Hyperplan is a live, real-time software platform for crop and harvest management for all crops.
- XXII GROUP — With more than 50 employees, XXII designs, develops and markets a SaaS platform for deploying and configuring algorithms for video stream analysis: XXIICORE. Our solution has already convinced companies in many sectors and local authorities, whose teams measure the benefits of video analysis assisted by our algorithms every day.
Grenfell Holdings is an investment company based in Hong Kong.
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- Internet, Logistics, Consulting
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Kenya, Uganda, Senegal
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- Badili — Badili is a one-stop shop for buying and selling used and refurbished phones. Founded in 2021 and is based in Nairobi.
- Yobante Express — Yobante Express offers a web & mobile platform that connects retailers, businesses & individuals with carriers for point-to-point delivery.
- Rocket Health Africa — Rocket Health is a bundled service of The Medical Concierge Group, a licensed and registered clinic, laboratory, and pharmacy. Rocket Health offers telemedicine healthcare services such as doctor consultations, laboratory sample pickups, and medicine delivery.
Upon graduation of the Hero Program at Draper University, alumni get a chance to pitch their business ideas for venture capital. Submit your business plan.
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- Software, Biotechnology, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Argentina, Germany
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- Juna — STI rates have hit record numbers for six consecutive years but testing and care options are unaffordable and inconvenient for most at-risk populations: Gen Z and the LGBTQ+ community. Juna's telehealth platform offers personalized clinical support, at-home sexual health testing, and medication with insurance coverage. Our payor-centric modelallows for end-to-end clinical support where you need it most.
- LuckyTruck — LuckyTruck | We're here to help! Buy commercial trucking insurance and manage it through one seamless platform. Get started now
- VeGrow — VeGrow is an automated vertical farming system for greener, healthier, and fresher produce.
Kima Ventures is one of the world's most active early-stage investors, investing in 2 to 3 startups per week all over the world; providing founders with funding, network, and support for them to reach the next steps of their journey.The firm invests from seed to Series A, mostly as lead investor but also working alongside other investors;backing ambitious founders who work hard to build awesome things that more and more people use everyday. The company helps them to build a great team, to learn very quickly, to keep the right focus and execute towards growth.Kima takes pride of itself in working side-by-side with entrepreneurs. They claim to understand that fundraising is only one step in the company’s journey, that’s why they take quick decisions and make the fundraising process as smooth as possible so the founders can get back to the work of building their business. Kima considers itself not only an investor, but a network of founders and experts sharing a pay it forward mindset.Headquartered in Paris with an office in London, the company was founded and backed by Xavier Niel, founder of Iliad and supporter of entrepreneurs through such projects as 42, Station F and 101projets. Over the last 5 years Kima has invested in over 400 startups in 24 different countries.
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- Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- France, United States, United Kingdom
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- Mimbi — Mimbi provides brands and agencies with a platform that allows them to better measure & optimize the impact of retail media campaigns
- OnlyDust — OnlyDust is a contribute to the best StarkNet projects, and get paid in USDC or Tokens.
- Depot — The fastest place to build Docker images.
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