Top 50 Marketplace Angel Investors in Africa (October 2023)

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• TipLink — TipLink helps send crypto with a link. Someone with crypto can create a account and send that link to anyone over any platform. It’s like buying a gift card, connect the client's crypto wallet of choice and create a account by depositing how much they want to send.
• Afterparty — Your favorite creators are here! Get 1 on 1 unfiltered experiences with creators through Afterparty livestreams or chat 24/7 through AI powered conversations
• Collectibles.com — Collectibles.com is a Web3 community and marketplace for collectors and the worldwide collectibles sector.

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• Jem — We give employers the ability to send company-wide communications, deliver payslips, manage leave & give employees access to their earnings, via WhatsApp.
• SimpliFi — SimpliFi is on a mission to democratize payments by building the leading Cards as a Service (CaaS) platform for MENA and Pakistan.
• ORDA — Process orders, accept payments, connect to logistic providers, engage with your customers + more. We equip you with everything you need to grow your business.

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• Whop — One-stop-shop for all the latest and greatest digital products to help you earn online. From trading software to reselling communities, we've got you.
• Slash — Tens of thousands of online businesses use Slash to track their profits, earn cash back, and get faster payouts from platforms like GOAT and Amazon. No LLC required, no account fees, no minimum balance, and no credit checks.
• Somethings — We connect your teen with a professional, trained 20-28 year old mentor who supports your teen via text and video call whenever they need. Start today.

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• Get It Done Now — GIDN is a Nigerian Fintech Company targeting medium and low income population for Loans and Financial products. GIDN has in addition a cashless, mobile based community marketplace, with more than 5k members, and aims to regulate the informal economy and facilitate the purchase of Services and Digital Products.

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• Troop — Troop is an app for retail investors to vote, organize shareholder resolutions and activist campaigns. Sign up for early access today.
• Moment — Quickly deploy a full suite of fixed income investing tools to your clients in no time via our modern APIs. Trusted by firms representing over $100B in assets.
• TradeX — TradeX lets you take positions on future events. Predict the outcome using data, earn money and learn something new. Earn Money online with online trading. Download the app & get FREE signup bonus.

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• Kwik — Kwik Delivery is the fastest and most affordable delivery service for your businesses in Lagos, Abuja, and Ibadan. We deliver under 2 hours.

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• Wealth8 — Wealth8 is a black-owned investment platform that provides a simple and affordable way for the black community to save & invest in globally managed funds.
• Afropolitan — Afropolitan is building a Network State to unleash the maximum potential of Africans around the world. Are you interested? Join us with your email.
• The Gradient Boost — The Gradient Boost is an online mentor guided data science school. The Gradient Boost focus on delivering an online data science education from both a theoretical and practical perspective.

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• 8bit — 8Bit is localised content discovery and analytics platform dedicated to the distribution of high-quality content across their network of indie publishers.
• Ekaya.com — Ekaya exists to make renting simpler, safer and more connected - for everyone.
• Boost Technology — Enabling informal small businesses to thrive in Africa's emerging digital economy

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• Get It Done Now — GIDN is a Nigerian Fintech Company targeting medium and low income population for Loans and Financial products. GIDN has in addition a cashless, mobile based community marketplace, with more than 5k members, and aims to regulate the informal economy and facilitate the purchase of Services and Digital Products.

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• tushop — Enabling communities to reduce the cost of living together
• Curacel — Curacel creates APIs & tools that enable businesses to embed insurance in digital channels and to administer claims cost-effectively.
• Afropolitan — Afropolitan is building a Network State to unleash the maximum potential of Africans around the world. Are you interested? Join us with your email.

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• AjoMoney — AjoMoney is making access to finance easy and flexible for the financially underserved individuals and SMEs willing to cover urgent needs, by digitizing the community financing rotating savings and credit association (ROSCA) model.With the AjoMoney technology-driven platform, individuals can save and access interest-free to low-interest credits,businesses can sell credit securely to customers who are saving with them under a cooperative model.
• Tyms Africa — Tyms is a financial management platform for businesses. Tyms Book is the ideal accounting solution for businesses interested in streamlining financial processes, facilitating collaboration, and optimizing workflows.
• Venco Platforms — VENCO automates visitor management, billing, and collections, as well as smart utility vending for communities across Africa.

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• FitKey — FitKey is about helping you find and manage the fitness life that makes you happy, through discovering new classes, studios, and fitness activities. With easy online and mobile booking, FitKey keeps your routine interesting.
• TaxTim — Originally funded by Google in 2011, TaxTim is Africa's answer to Making Tax Easy. Answer simple questions one-by-one, in a friendly automated chat, and your tax return is done in minutes. TaxTim has 40% market share of the tax base in South Africa (~4.5m), and has deployed localised versions in Namibia and Nigeria as JVs with PwC previously.TaxTim is integrated with the local revenue service (SARS) for instant electronic tax submissions, and partners with some of SA's largest consumer brands - Airbnb, Momentum, Sanlam, Old Mutual, FNB eBucks - to provide tax services for free or at discount. TaxTim has several business models including B2C, B2B and B2B2C. TaxTim is a compelling and popular consumer brand, with a fully-developed, profitable broker/financial product leads ecosystem.
• Ekaya.com — Ekaya exists to make renting simpler, safer and more connected - for everyone.

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• BFree — BFree focuses its collection processes on sustainably leading customers out of debt by giving them back control over their finances.
• SureGroup — Commerce in Africa is deeply facilitated by cash, but cash-based transactions are expensive, unsafe, and difficult to track. Suregifts identified an opportunity to take advantage of the growth and adoption of the internet and all things digital in Africa by creating a simple, yet safe alternative currency to be utilised for specific purposes;Vouchers.At the core of what SureGifts does, is selling and maintaining an inventory of vouchers, which can be exchanged between two or more parties, and spent at a closed but extensive network of merchants across Africa for a near-unlimited assortment of goods and services.
• Encore Pay — Encore Pay is a UAE-based FinTech and Payment solutions provider.

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• laiout — We are a team of entrepreneurs tasked with reducing the time and frustration involved when designing early stage floor plans for large developments and existing properties.With support from world's biggest early-stage VC and several of our international future clients our team is helping to optimize this tedious architectural design phasesaving up to 20 weeks of time while providing more and better solutions.
• Pratexo — Pratexo is the intelligent edge computing and distributed cloud platform for industry 4.0 accelerating time to design, test, and provision.
• Uncover — Experience nourishing and rejuvenating Uncover Skincare products in Kenya. Made just for you, using the finest ingredients to offer innovative & effective solutions.

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• Uncover — Experience nourishing and rejuvenating Uncover Skincare products in Kenya. Made just for you, using the finest ingredients to offer innovative & effective solutions.

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• DX Digital Africa — DX Digital Africa specializes in automotive intelligence to build capabilities for vehicles of the future. Optimizing processes and reducing maintenance costs throughout the lifecycle of vehicles from the factory floor to scrap yard.
• Yebo Fresh — Powering South Africa's Township Economy.
• Zelda Learning — Zelda is a mobile platform that provides career guidance to students in high-school and university, linking them to opportunities that are right for them.

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• Simporter — Make better products with more confidence, in just a fraction of the time.
• Cavea — Adlab connects brands with streamers to empower collaboration in the new creator economy. We bring creative, engaging ad campaigns to streams across the globe through automated sponsorship campaigns, which allows brands to reach specific audiences, and streamers to effortlessly monetize their content.
• Hive.id — Proactively prevent fraud, build secure experiences for your customers and drive your revenue growth.

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• Foundshopping.com — Found (formerly Pashash) is the app that lets you Share Real-World Shopping.Finding a great buy is something worth sharing. Found lets you take a picture, tag your buy and share it on Facebook and Twitter. Express yourself, start a trend, or just help somebody find a great deal.Have it with you when you're out shopping - in the realworld. Discover the best buys at your location and see the Found things your friends have found.

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• Kapu — We are an online shopping community that helps you save even more on your everyday essentials when you buy together with your friends.
• Ellis — Ellis is the first all-in-one solution made for international students.
• Pluto Card — Unlimited corporate cards with spend controls, petty cash management and automated receipt collection built for businesses in MENA (UAE, Saudi Arabia & more).

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• Mintgreen — MintGreen specializes in heat recovery from Bitcoin mining. Our proprietary Digital Boilers heat communities sustainably.
• UTU Technologies — Trust infrastructure for the sharing economy.

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• Cordless — Bridging the gap between voice and text
• Meadow — Meadow's financial aid software is the fastest way for higher education to boost enrollment. Deliver affordability with our modern Net Price Calculator.
• StudentFinance — Catapult your career with leading re-skilling and up-skilling bootcamps. Study now and pay us back once you land a job & start earning!

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• Bamba — Smart, simple, digital
• Enter — Enter's Revenue Cycle Management & Medical Billing service makes healthcare Providers' and Patients' lives better. Increase revenue and delight patients with 100% transparency.
• Bamba — Today, organizations spend a lot of money on physical data gathering exercises using old-fashioned paper-based methods. These methods result in expensive, severely delayed and incomplete data . With Bamba, a client can launch a data collection exercise anywhere in the world simply from the comfort of their web browser and the client can ensureindividuals respond with complete answers by paying those individuals for that data with mobile airtime in 122 different countries thus far.

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• Kapu — We are an online shopping community that helps you save even more on your everyday essentials when you buy together with your friends.
• Droppe — Order work equipment directly from manufacturers. Support small businesses and source more responsibly from local and European manufacturers. Order from several suppliers at the same time with one shopping cart. Test samples for free and order products for your workplaces without extra hassle. Find nitrile gloves, protective clothing, work gloves, work accessories, disposable gloves, disinfectants, sanitizers and other supplies in one place.
• Nord Security — Nord Security is the leader in the field of online privacy and security. Our security tools have earned praise from respected experts and tech outlets.

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• Khazna — Khazna is an Egyptian company that aims to improve and expand financial services for Egyptians through the mobile application.
• MIA Group — MIA Group is a consumer internet company in Francophone Africa. We are on a mission to make commerce easy through a digital ecosystem fulfilling the everyday needs of consumers online and offline.Our businesses include Miaplenou.com: The largest online retail platform operating in Togo, Benin, Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso. Launched 2012.Kiosk: online reselling App that enables anyone to start a business without investment. Launched 2021.MiaPay: QR code payment and lifestyle services

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• Bamba — Smart, simple, digital
• Finclusion Group — Enhancing financial inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa through data driven lending.
• Kwik — Kwik Delivery is the fastest and most affordable delivery service for your businesses in Lagos, Abuja, and Ibadan. We deliver under 2 hours.

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• beU delivery — Food delivery service

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• Ayazona — Are you on a budget? Ayazona delivers affordable breakfast, lunch, dinner, drinks and more from the best local farmers, brands and stores right to your door.

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• Karat Financial — Karat is the best card for creators, helping you save money, earn rewards, and grow your channel faster - because content IS a business.
• Config — Config combines engineering, operations, and manufacturing to simplify the large-scale shipment of high-quality hardware.
• Ristretto — Ristretto electric bikes - representing the pinacle of superior riding performance - the 512 combines design with sustainable luxury

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• Uncover — Experience nourishing and rejuvenating Uncover Skincare products in Kenya. Made just for you, using the finest ingredients to offer innovative & effective solutions.

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• Uncover — Experience nourishing and rejuvenating Uncover Skincare products in Kenya. Made just for you, using the finest ingredients to offer innovative & effective solutions.

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• Hazina — Hazina provides technology and distribution for Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) brands to improve the quality of insights and engagements from their product sampling campaigns. Hazina matches consumers to product samples from CPGs, delivers directly to consumers at home, and aggregates the feedback and engagements as insights back to the brand.

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• Evollume.com — Introducing a revolutionary new website that combines the best features of two of the world's largest e-commerce platforms to create an unparalleled product sourcing experience. With this website, wholesalers, manufacturers, and retailers can easily find the products they need from a single dashboard.The website features an intuitiveinterface that allows users to search for products by category, brand, price, and other criteria. Users can also view product reviews and ratings, compare prices from multiple suppliers, and place orders directly through the platform.One of the key advantages of this website is that it caters to all types of businesses, whether they are large enterprises or small startups. Wholesalers can easily find manufacturers who can provide them with the bulk quantities they need, while manufacturers can connect with retailers who are looking for specific products to sell. Retailers can also benefit from the website's extensive inventory and competitive pricing, making it easier for them to source the products they need to stock their stores.Another unique feature of this website is its ability to handle international transactions, including currency conversion and shipping. This means that businesses from all over the world can connect and do business with each other, opening up new markets and opportunities for growth.Overall, this website represents a game-changing innovation in the world of e-commerce, making it easier than ever for businesses of all sizes to source the products they need from a single, easy-to-use platform.

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• Alerzo — Alerzo is a B2B e-commerce retail company providing a technology and services platform that transforms how informal retail stores operate. It offers on-demand inventory distribution and financial services for small informal stores while also providing real-time market trends, customer feedback, and other consumer purchasing data to brands andmanufacturers.The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Ibadan, Nigeria.
• Mansa — Built by Black creators with a passion for making culture-positive content, Mansa is the only place to stream the best in Global Black stories
• Candy Digital — Fandom, reimagined. Only at Candy.com

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• Foundshopping.com — Found (formerly Pashash) is the app that lets you Share Real-World Shopping.Finding a great buy is something worth sharing. Found lets you take a picture, tag your buy and share it on Facebook and Twitter. Express yourself, start a trend, or just help somebody find a great deal.Have it with you when you're out shopping - in the realworld. Discover the best buys at your location and see the Found things your friends have found.
• VoxCroft — VoxCroft is making the world a better, safer place with population-centric intelligence.
• DataProphet — We optimize your manufacturing performance and boost your plant teams' digital skills, achieving best-of-best results via prescriptive AI.

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• Qwili — Qwili makes smartphones with a voice-guided, local language onboarding experience for new users.
• Wi-Flix —
• Shopa — Shopa is a digital platform that engages the gap between informal retailers and manufacturers for ordering and delivery services.

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• beU delivery — Food delivery service
• beU delivery — O2O service in Africa

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• Qwili — Qwili makes smartphones with a voice-guided, local language onboarding experience for new users.
• Parcha AI — Parcha is an AI-powered enterprise software that enables businesses to automate their scale compliance and operations.
• Mediachain — Mediachain automatically connects media to its creator and information about it, and is a protocol for registering, identifying, and tracking creative works online. It automatically resolves media to who made it, what its about, and where it originated using content indentification technologyMediachain also lets creators, organizations, anddevelopers collaborate on metadata in an open, universal media library and allows participants to retain control over their data while broadening their reach using a decentralized architecture

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• Peach Cars — Peach Cars building a solution for those looking to buy and sell vehicles whole information on vehicles and hassle-free transactions.

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• Arone — Arone pioneers technology that makes the world work more efficiently. 

In the air, Arone’s infrastructure enables hospitals access essential supplies on-demand for their patients. We also provide this infrastructure to logistics companies to enable a faster courier service for their customers. This infrastructure includes drones, dronedelivery stations (Avports), drone operators and license. For government institutions and organisations, Arone manufactures state of the art unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) saving lives and costs. For consumer electronics, Arone’s technology powers homes, offices and shops ensuring millions of people have access to electricity to live better lives.

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• Arone — Arone pioneers technology that makes the world work more efficiently. 

In the air, Arone’s infrastructure enables hospitals access essential supplies on-demand for their patients. We also provide this infrastructure to logistics companies to enable a faster courier service for their customers. This infrastructure includes drones, dronedelivery stations (Avports), drone operators and license. For government institutions and organisations, Arone manufactures state of the art unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) saving lives and costs. For consumer electronics, Arone’s technology powers homes, offices and shops ensuring millions of people have access to electricity to live better lives.

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• Uncover — Experience nourishing and rejuvenating Uncover Skincare products in Kenya. Made just for you, using the finest ingredients to offer innovative & effective solutions.

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• Kapu — We are an online shopping community that helps you save even more on your everyday essentials when you buy together with your friends.

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• ORA Technologies — E-Commerce, Super App

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• Uncover — Experience nourishing and rejuvenating Uncover Skincare products in Kenya. Made just for you, using the finest ingredients to offer innovative & effective solutions.

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• Uncover — Experience nourishing and rejuvenating Uncover Skincare products in Kenya. Made just for you, using the finest ingredients to offer innovative & effective solutions.

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• 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.

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• Cycle App — Cycle is a horizontal platform made of flexible building blocks that you can use in customizable workflows. Your way of working shouldn't depend on your tools, they built Cycle so that product teams could ship the way that works for them.
• Journify — Activate trustworthy data for your business with Journify - the leading data activation platform for top data-driven companies. Sign up free!
• Exponential DeFi — View risk assessment ratings and expert research for 500+ decentralized finance pools from Exponential DeFi.

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• Kapu — We are an online shopping community that helps you save even more on your everyday essentials when you buy together with your friends.
• BlueLearn — Find co-founders & teammates, apply to gigs, learn new skills, and meet passionate people.
• SolarSquare Energy — Visit Solarsquare, India's only UL-certified solar installation company for hassle-free commercial & residential solar panel installation at 0 cost EMI & PPA options.

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• Autify — Autify - Revolutionizing Software Testing with the most advanced AI-powered Software Testing Tool
• Peach Cars — Peach Cars building a solution for those looking to buy and sell vehicles whole information on vehicles and hassle-free transactions.
• AnotherBall — AnotherBall = Digital + Entertainment + Token economy

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• Retool — Retool is the fastest way to build effective business software. Use Retool's building blocks to develop apps and workflow automations that connect to your databases and APIs, instantly.
• ResortPass — Enjoy the pool, spa, and amenities at a luxury hotel for the day starting at only $25. Take a daycation and book a day pass or cabana at hotels and resorts near you!
• Column — We provide public notice software for publishers and the government agencies, law firms, businesses and individuals required to place public or legal notices.