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Top 50 Marketplace VC Funds & Investors in Africa (October 2023)

The most active venture capital funds investing in Africa Marketplace startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Africa Marketplace startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Launch Africa
VC Fund
15 Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology $200k–$3M
Future Africa
VC Fund
11 Nigeria, United States, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology $40k–$20M
LoftyInc Capital Management
VC Fund
8 United States, Nigeria, Egypt Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Software $100k–$15M
Consonance Investment Managers
VC Fund
8 Nigeria, United States, Kenya Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, FinTech $50k–$2.5M
Kepple Africa Ventures
VC Fund
8 Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt Seed, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Software $100k–$4.5M
Musha Ventures
VC Fund
7 United States, Nigeria, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, Software, FinTech $50k–$10M
Savannah Fund
VC Fund
7 Kenya, United States, South Africa Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, FinTech, Information Technology $25k–$8M
Microtraction
VC Fund
7 Nigeria, United States, Canada Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel Financial Services, FinTech, Software $25k–$1.2M
Chandaria Capital
VC Fund
7 Kenya, United States, Egypt Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, FinTech, Software $200k–$37M
4DX Ventures
VC Fund
6 Egypt, United States, Kenya Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed FinTech, Information Technology, Financial Services $40k–$20M
Flat6Labs Tunisia
VC Fund
6 Tunisia Pre-Seed, Seed E-Commerce, Retail, Education $64k–$200k
Ventures Platform
VC Fund
5 Nigeria, United States, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Internet $50k–$4.4M
HoaQ
VC Fund
5 Nigeria, United Kingdom, Togo Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel Financial Services, Internet, E-Commerce $100k–$2M
EchoVC Partners
VC Fund
5 United States, Nigeria, Kenya Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Information Technology, E-Commerce, Software $200k–$30M
Maroc Numeric Fund
VC Fund
5 Morocco, Canada, France Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed Online Portals, Enterprise Software, FinTech $200k–$700k
CRE Venture Capital
VC Fund
5 South Africa, Nigeria, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Software $250k–$20M
Soma Capital
VC Fund
5 United States, India, Mexico Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, FinTech, Financial Services $150k–$22M
Flat6Labs
VC Fund
5 Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia Seed, Pre-Seed Software, E-Commerce, Apps $15k–$300k
Saviu Ventures
VC Fund
5 Côte d'Ivoire, Kenya, Senegal Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Financial Services, FinTech $161k–$2.7M
Partech
VC Fund
4 United States, France, Germany Series A, Seed, Series B Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services $1M–$54M
GreenTec Capital Partners
VC Fund
4 Kenya, Nigeria, Côte d'Ivoire Seed, Pre-Seed Information Technology, Agriculture, Computer
Kube VC
VC Fund
4 United States, India, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed FinTech, Financial Services, Software $50k–$18M
GreenHouse Capital
VC Fund
4 Nigeria, Kenya, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Payments $300k–$20M
Orange Ventures
VC Fund
4 France, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series B, Series C Software, FinTech, Financial Services $214k–$75M
Golden Palm Investments
VC Fund
4 Nigeria, Egypt, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Information Technology, FinTech, Health Care $30k–$15M
Loyal VC
VC Fund
4 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Pre-Seed, Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce $78k–$2.5M
1776 Ventures
VC Fund
4 United States, Kenya, Brazil Seed, Series A, Convertible Note Education, EdTech, Software $500k–$10M
Enza Capital
VC Fund
4 Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Logistics, E-Commerce, B2B $1M–$13M
Hustle Fund
VC Fund
4 United States, Singapore, Canada Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, FinTech, Financial Services $77k–$40M
Oui Capital
VC Fund
4 Kenya, Nigeria, United States Pre-Seed, Seed Transportation, Information Technology, B2B $40k–$1.1M
Lynett Capital
VC Fund
3 United States, Kenya, Nigeria Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed FinTech, Wireless, Mobile $120k–$10M
DOB Equity
VC Fund
3 Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania Private Equity, Seed Food and Beverage, Farming, Health Care $1M–$4M
Alumni Ventures
VC Fund
3 United States, United Kingdom, Canada Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Health Care $850k–$45M
FJ Labs
VC Fund
3 United States, United Kingdom, Brazil Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services $1.1M–$107M
Speedinvest
VC Fund
3 Germany, United Kingdom, Austria Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, FinTech, Financial Services $396k–$50M
JAM Fund
VC Fund
3 United States, Mexico, India Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, FinTech, Logistics $460k–$27M
Apis Partners
VC Fund
3 India, Singapore, South Africa Private Equity, Series B Financial Services, Payments, FinTech $5M–$120M
E4EAfrica
VC Fund
3 South Africa, France, The Netherlands Seed, Series A, Series B Internet, Logistics, E-Commerce $1M–$5.3M
Kalon Venture Partners
VC Fund
3 South Africa, Luxembourg, United States Seed, Series A Apps, Mobile Apps, Software $539k–$3M
U.S. International Development Finance Corp
VC Fund
3 India, United States, Kenya Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt Financial Services, Finance, FinTech $8.8M–$765M
Chinook Capital Limited
VC Fund
3 Nigeria Seed EdTech, Retail, Home Services $120k–$575k
Outlierz Ventures
VC Fund
3 Morocco, Egypt, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Information Services $1.5M–$6.2M
Proparco
VC Fund
3 India, Kenya, Mauritius Debt Financing, Series B Financial Services, Finance, Energy $300k–$120M
Susa Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, SaaS $1.9M–$65M
MVI (MENA Venture Investments)
VC Fund
2 United States, Jordan, United Arab Emirates Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Internet, Software $15k–$11M
TBD Angels
VC Fund
2 United States, Kenya, Hong Kong Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence $53k–$6M
Vumela Fund
VC Fund
2 South Africa, Brazil Seed, Debt Financing Education, Software, Primary Education
VestedWorld
VC Fund
2 Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana Seed, Series A, Series B Agriculture, E-Commerce, Financial Services $1.6M–$4.4M
Nordea
VC Fund
2 Finland, Sweden, Norway Debt Financing, Seed FinTech, Financial Services, Banking $107k–$94M
Afore Capital
VC Fund
2 United States, Canada, India Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Health Care, Internet $900k–$23M
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Launch Africa
VC Fund · Ebène, Plaines Wilhems, Mauritius · 15 investments in Africa Marketplace startups, 18 in the past 12 months

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 131
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$3M; Pre-Seed $200k–$1M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $36M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
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Future Africa
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 11 investments in Africa Marketplace startups, 10 in the past 12 months

Future Africa is a collective of mission-driven founders and funders building unicorns to solve Africa’s biggest challenges. They are build a future where purpose and prosperity are within everyone’s reach.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 80
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$3.7M; Pre-Seed $40k–$3.7M; Series A $7M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Balad — Balad is Egyptian Cross Border Payout Network primarily serving Money Transfer Operators (MTOs), fintechs and mobile wallets. Targeting sending markets including GCC, EU, US, Canada, and UK
  • Anchor — Anchor is a Lagos-based banking-as-a-service platform for African businesses. Anchor provides APIs and infrastructure to build, embed and launch powerful financial products in a secure and scalable way.
  • Itana — Talent City’s mission is to build a network of charter cities that focuses on creating technology-enabled jobs within a free trade zone with its own regulation and bylaws.
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LoftyInc Capital Management
VC Fund · Carmel, California, United States · 8 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 111
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$3.2M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2M; Series A $250k–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • 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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Consonance Investment Managers
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 8 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

We are an investment company focused on helping early and growth-stage entrepreneurs build successful companies in Africa.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 30
  • Round size: Seed $550k–$2.5M; Pre-Seed $450k–$1M; Series A $50k–$1.3M
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Releaf — We are industrializing food processing in Africa. We've led 1000+ smallholder farmers to provide food factories with >7.5 million kilograms of quality crops.
  • Tripesa — Tripesa offers payment solutions for Africa's travel and tourism industry.
  • Norebase — Norebase knows that there's an opportunity to grow successful businesses in Africa. It also understands the complexities of the market, and so is using technology to make doing business in Africa worthwhile. With Norebase get to operate in Africa with no hassle and with minimum risk.
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Kepple Africa Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 8 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

Kepple Africa Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 74
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$4.5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3.7M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
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Musha Ventures
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 7 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

Seed capital for technology startups globally.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Software, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 131
  • Round size: Seed $120k–$3M; Pre-Seed $50k–$3.8M; Series A $2.5M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Terraa — Terraa is a B2B distribution platform in Moroccan.
  • OmniBiz — Omnibiz is a digital platform for small businesses willing to attract new customers.
  • Revivo — Revivo is an online marketplace for electronics spare parts, tools & accessories.
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Savannah Fund
VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya · 7 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

Savannah Fund is a seed capital fund specializing in US$25,000-US$500,000 investments in early stage high growth technology (web and mobile) startups in sub-Saharan Africa. Initially focused on East Africa, the fund aims to bridge the early stage/angel and venture capital investment gap that currently exists in Africa. The Fund expects toachieve this objective by combining capital with mentor networks both in the region and from Silicon Valley via an accelerator program and a follow-on independent seed fund.The fund is managed by an experienced and technology savvy team that have founded companies or are actively involved in angel investing or having run successful accelerator programs in past but also understand the unique Subsaharan African environment. They are backed and supported by both local, regional and international networks of angels,venture capitalists whose expertise we can draw on to help startups succeed and scale to fully fledged regional or global companies.They believe in the potential for Africa to become a global technology innovator by creating sustainable for profit companies that create jobs and make an impact.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, United States, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 36
  • Round size: Seed $25k–$3M; Pre-Seed $200k–$2.1M; Series A $750k–$8M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $25M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Oze — OZÉ brings African small businesses into the digital era. It is an app that makes it easy for businesses to track sales, expenses, and customer information. The data is analyzed to provide tailored recommendations, reports, and business education. If the entrepreneur needs a little extra support, an OZÉ Coach is just a click away. As they are usingOZÉ to manage their business and learn how to run it better, we are learning about them. Using this data and machine learning, we can predict their credit risk and provide them with affordable capital from our banking partners. With over 20,000 registered users, OZÉ is the largest online community of SMEs in Ghana. The most exciting thing is that OZÉ works; 97% of businesses that have used OZE for at least 9 months are growing or profitable or both!
  • Root — Programmable insurance that you can integrate into your product or service with ease
  • 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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Microtraction
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 7 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

We invest in Africa's most remarkable teams with technical founders at the earliest stage of their venture

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 57
  • Round size: Seed $25k–$1.2M; Pre-Seed $50k–$1M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $15M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Famasi — Famasi is a digital health platform that helps people access their medications, schedule doorstep delivery, and automate monthly refills.
  • Pennee — Pennee supports small businesses to grow with low interest loans and data optimization.
  • Clafiya — Discover Clafiya: Your trusted digital health platform, uniting in-person care and virtual solutions for a personalized and caring healthcare experience. Embrace a healthier, happier you, with us by your side.
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Chandaria Capital
VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya · 7 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

Chandaria Capital operates as a venture capital Fund. We believe that innovative ideas will transform Africa. We invest, mentor, and work together with incredible entrepreneurs to create impactful companies that can change the continent.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, United States, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 28
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$6M; Pre-Seed $1M–$3M; Series A $2M–$37M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Leta — Leta Technology is a software development company that creates supply chain and logistics software to enable the efficient and automated movement of goods.
  • Jumba — Jumba is a construction technology platform that streamlines B2B construction material purchase and financing.
  • UTU Technologies — Trust infrastructure for the sharing economy.
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4DX Ventures
VC Fund · Brooklyn, New York, United States · 6 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Information Technology, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Egypt, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 66
  • Round size: Seed $431k–$13M; Pre-Seed $40k–$6.5M; Series A $3M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
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Flat6Labs Tunisia
VC Fund · Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia · 6 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

Flat6Labs is the MENA region’s leading seed and early stage venture capital firm, currently running the most renowned startup programs in the region. Annually, Flat6Labs invests in more than 100 innovative and technology-driven startups enabling thousands of passionate entrepreneurs to achieve their daring ambitions and ultimately becoming theirinstitutional co-founders.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Retail, Education
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: Tunisia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 22
  • Round size: Seed $64k–$200k; Pre-Seed $65k–$79k
  • Lead/follow: 73% lead, 27% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $10M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Ahkili — Ahkili is a health tech mobile application for appointment booking that connects patients to psychologists.
  • WeMove — WeMove is a fitness marketplace for daily gym passes. They develop innovative solutions that meet your sports issues.
  • LAMMA — Lamma is a web and mobile platform reinventing urban movement for package delivery through an extended carpooling network.
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Ventures Platform
VC Fund · Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria · 5 investments in Africa Marketplace startups, 15 in the past 12 months

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 127
  • Round size: Seed $325k–$4.4M; Pre-Seed $50k–$1.1M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $46M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
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HoaQ
VC Fund · 5 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

Startup Investment Club

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Internet, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Nigeria, United Kingdom, Togo

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Seed $1.7M–$2M; Angel $100k–$130k; Pre-Seed $115k–$780k
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Clafiya — Discover Clafiya: Your trusted digital health platform, uniting in-person care and virtual solutions for a personalized and caring healthcare experience. Embrace a healthier, happier you, with us by your side.
  • Kunda Kids — Kunda Kids is helping kids around the world fall in love with reading through our storybooks and activity books. Browse our range of storybooks for kids. Perfect for kids ages 3 to 8 years
  • ChekkitApp — Chekkit is a DAG blockchain powered anti-counterfeiting solution for food and drug supply chain tracking and customer insights platform. It helps producers protect their brands, track supply chain activities, and collect last-mile consumer insights in real-time.
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EchoVC Partners
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 5 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

EchoVC Partners is a seed and early-stage venture capital firm focused on financing and cross-pollinating leading technologies, teams, business models, and knowledge across North America, Africa, and SE Asia. The average investment size ranges from $25,000 to several million dollars depending on the stage of opportunity and capital needs of thebusiness.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, E-Commerce, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 47
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$4M; Pre-Seed $400k–$1.6M; Series A $4.3M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $8M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Shuttlers — Shuttlers is a platform that offers mobility solutions by providing scheduled bus-sharing services for the professionals within the region.
  • Snowstorm — Snowflake is decentralized and is deployed as a pluggable transport for Tor.
  • Senga Technologies — Welcome to Senga, custom-built, with love, for businesses shipping in Africa.
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Maroc Numeric Fund
VC Fund · Casablanca, Grand Casablanca, Morocco · 5 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Online Portals, Enterprise Software, FinTech
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Morocco, Canada, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 24
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$400k; Series A $250k–$700k
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $20M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Cypherleak — Cypherleak is an automated cyber risk monitoring and scoring solution that uses an organisation's domain name only to map their risk exposure across leaked passwords, attack surface, vulnerabilities and dark web data leakage. Additionally, Cypherleak supports global insurances by powering their cyber insurance products with reliable andaccurate cyber risk modeling and monitoring.
  • Damanesign — Damanesign operates as a digital trust solutions startup. Damanesign is a startup that is seizing new legislation opportunities on digital trust in Morocco to provide users with the utmost safety in documentation.
  • Aza Petrosolutions — Aza Petrosolutions provides services, solutions, and superior software and hardware for fuel management.
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CRE Venture Capital
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 5 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

Founded in 2015, CRE Venture Capital invests in early stage tech companies that are levered to Africa. CRE is headquartered in the New York metro area, with a regional office in Lagos, Nigeria.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: South Africa, Nigeria, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 49
  • Round size: Seed $300k–$5M; Pre-Seed $250k–$3.3M; Series A $1.1M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Sava — Sava is a multi-management platform that provides an unlimited number of virtual cards as well as automated accounting reconciliation.
  • 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.
  • 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.
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Soma Capital
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 5 investments in Africa Marketplace startups, 46 in the past 12 months

Soma Capital is venture capital fund that focuses on investing in software to automate the world across all sectors and geographies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, India, Mexico

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 324
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$6M; Pre-Seed $150k–$3.6M; Series A $2.1M–$22M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • 0xPass — Frictionless auth and login for your dapp
  • Arkifi — Arkifi is an artificial intelligence company that develops AI-powered financial analyst tools. Arkifi's framework generates consistent results that avoid fabricating factual details (referred to as "hallucination"), instilling enterprises with an unmatched level of confidence in the outcomes.
  • Gradia Health — Gradia is an integrated, concierge care platform designed for clinics to support patients with chronic conditions.
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Flat6Labs
VC Fund · Gîza, Al Jizah, Egypt · 5 investments in Africa Marketplace startups, 8 in the past 12 months

Flat6Labs is the MENA region’s leading seed and early stage venture capital firm, currently running the most renowned startup programs in the region. Annually, Flat6Labs invests in more than 100 innovative and technology-driven startups enabling thousands of passionate entrepreneurs to achieve their daring ambitions and ultimately becoming theirinstitutional co-founders. Flat6Labs manages a number of seed funds with a total AUM in excess of $85M. More than 25 leading institutions have invested into the Flat6Labs managed funds; believing in the asset class and Flat6Labs’ proven track record as the market leader.. Flat6Labs provides a wide range of investment ticket sizes ranging from $50K to $500k, supporting startups through their early journeys from Pre-Seed all the way to Pre-Series A stages. Alongside to the investments, Flat6Labs’ exceptional startup programs, executed to cater specifically for the needs of the innovative entrepreneurs, helps them accelerate their growth by providing them with a plethora of support services and connecting them to unparalleled opportunities with an expansive network comprising hundreds of business mentors, investors and corporates. Launched and headquartered in Cairo since 2011, Flat6Labs has multiple offices across the region; with ongoing plans to expand into other emerging markets.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 123
  • Round size: Seed $15k–$300k; Pre-Seed $32k–$230k
  • Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Midient — We help restaurants collect, analyze, and act on their customer data to increase customer satisfaction and increase revenue.
  • Growdash — Growdash is a business intelligence and analytics tool built specifically for restaurants to support profitable growth strategic decisions across online sales channels.
  • Agel — Agel aim at reshaping the traditional financial services business model, operational model and customer experience to unlock a unique finance avenue for (“MSMEs”), with a core preposition of availing industry-agnostic merchandise credit limit for Merchants within Agel network in a manner that is Digital, Cashless and Sharia compliant, aligning withthe UN Global (“SDG”) goals, and Egypt’s 2030 plan towards financial inclusion and sustainability.our goals are: - Empowering MSMEs growth, - Accelerating Financial Inclusion, - Eradicating Informal Economy, - Raising Financial literacy
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Saviu Ventures
VC Fund · Ebène, Plaines Wilhems, Mauritius · 5 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

Saviu is a venture capital fund focusing on African early-stage startups.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Côte d'Ivoire, Kenya, Senegal

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 26
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$2.7M; Pre-Seed $161k–$214k
  • Lead/follow: 54% lead, 46% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • 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
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Partech
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 4 investments in Africa Marketplace startups, 29 in the past 12 months

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, France, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 432
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$5.6M; Series A $2.5M–$25M; Series B $8M–$54M
  • Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
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GreenTec Capital Partners
VC Fund · Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany · 4 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

GreenTec Capital Partners is Germany's premier investor into African start-ups and SMEs. GreenTec invests through its unique Results4Equity model, acting as a co-founding partner that is only compensated on business success.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Agriculture, Computer
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, Côte d'Ivoire

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 21
  • Lead/follow: 90% lead, 10% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.1M in 2017

Portfolio highlights

  • Asilimia — Asilimia is a simple, fun mobile app for sending money through M-PESA quickly and without any transaction fees. Simply deposit money to your M-PESA, download Asilimia and send money for free to any other M-PESA account.
  • freshbag — freshbag is a wellness nutrition turnkey solution that supports corporate wellness programs by making it easy and convenient to live - and eat! - healthier.
  • ShapShap — ShapShap enhances delivery experience through its commission-based marketplace by assigning efficient orders to drivers to ensure their sustainability and scalability.
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Kube VC
VC Fund · 4 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 95
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$6.1M; Pre-Seed $50k–$2.1M; Series A $3M–$18M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Entre — Entrepreneur, Entrepreneur Network, Entrepreneur Community, Startup network, startup community, Creator Economy, Creator Community, Freelancers, Venture Capitalists, Angel Investors, Start a business, How to start a business, Startup jobs, Startup events, Cofounder, Find a cofounder, Find a mentor, Find an Investor, meet entrepreneurs, host virtual event, host virtual meeting, entrepreneur events, tech events, entrepreneurship, find gigs, freelancing jobs, online business
  • Soptle — Founded in Sep 2021, Soptle started to establish an integrated technology to the neglected regional FMCG Manufacturers in India with a B2B Retail Commmerce App. It uses tech and data to distribute at scale and use necessary components (existing Distributor/Wholesaler) in the FMCG Supply Chain to build a high growth and profitable business.
  • Cloudbankin — Habile offers a complete spectrum of web solutions, software development and services. Habile provides innovative solutions through research. We have always put the customer in front on all considerations. Technology, Thought and Thorough Research are our key to success. We bring with us over 25 man years of experience in the Software industrywith wide expertise on Retail, Tax, Educational and Banking & Finance domains. We also compliment our technology offerings with strong graphics/GUI design capabilities, QA / QC teams and strong project management capabilities. We understand the customers more as we follow a customer centric approach. We focus on quality and this has always been striking force our development
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GreenHouse Capital
VC Fund · Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria · 4 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

GreenHouse Capital’s Founding Partners took their own fintech company Venture Garden Group (VGG) from a 7 employee, ₦30 million revenue startup to a 200 employees, ₦2 billion power house in just 4 years and raised an attention grabbing Series A round from Convergence Partners of South Africa. The uniqueness of their position was not lost on thefounders who then cultivated Garden Institute of Business Entrepreneurs (GIBE) to identify, incubate, and invest in young and innovative tech startups solving global challenges in Emerging Markets. GIBE was created to build a world class talent management hub for young and passionate entrepreneurs while creating a pool of technology inclined businesses and innovation oriented leaders.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 18
  • Round size: Seed $300k–$12M; Pre-Seed $300k–$1.5M; Series A $15M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Credpal — Buy now, pay later. Split in 6.
  • Yep! — Yep! is a financial super app leveraging technology to deliver seamless financial services and solutions to all Africans.
  • Encore Pay — Encore Pay is a UAE-based FinTech and Payment solutions provider.
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Orange Ventures
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 4 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

Orange Ventures is the Venture Capital Fund of the Orange Group, with 350m euros under management

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: France, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 65
  • Round size: Seed $214k–$4.8M; Series B $11M–$32M; Series C $24M–$75M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • CorralData — Experience the power of AI-generated metrics and insights with CorralData. Get one month free and seamlessly integrate with 200+ data sources with no upfront costs.
  • Epoca — Epoca prepare the health solution of your dreams .
  • 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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Golden Palm Investments
VC Fund · Accra, Greater Accra, Ghana · 4 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

Golden Palm Investments is an investment holding and advisory company.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, FinTech, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Nigeria, Egypt, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 54
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$13M; Pre-Seed $30k–$6.5M; Series A $2M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2014

Portfolio highlights

  • Sabipay — Pastel is a leader in Artificial Intelligence. We build products targeted at individuals (SwiftMoney) and enterprises (Sigma) in emerging markets
  • Maplerad — Maplerad is a fast, safe and easy way to send and receive money with friends, family or others you trust. You can receive and send money directly into any Nigerian bank account in minutes using Bitcoin, US Dollars, and Naira.
  • Jetstream Africa — Jetstream is a supply chain platform that powers freight forwarding and global exports for African suppliers. With tracking and consolidated (LCL) shipping Jetstream levels the playing field for access to international trade for African SMEs with the click of a button.
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Loyal VC
VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 4 investments in Africa Marketplace startups, 11 in the past 12 months

Loyal runs a global venture fund with quarterly redemptions and a proprietary gate-stage process, reducing investment bias and unlocking greater returns. Partnered with INSEAD, Founder Institute, and 500+ advisors, we are Loyal to the world with 250+ investments in 50+ countries.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 129
  • Round size: Seed $78k–$2.5M; Pre-Seed $110k–$900k
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • InSyBio — A disruptor to Precision Medicine and Nutrition through biomarker discovery.
  • ZestIOT — ZestIOT is an IoT & AI enabled aviation platform to integrate passenger, baggage, aircraft, ground & airport operations.
  • Wellx — Turn your health into currency. At Wellx, we're focused on making you healthier. Insurance helps us make it happen.
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1776 Ventures
VC Fund · Washington, District of Columbia, United States · 4 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Education, EdTech, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
  • Geography: United States, Kenya, Brazil

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 95
  • Round size: Seed $850k–$4M; Series A $2.2M–$10M; Convertible Note $500k–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Swiftly — Harness your public transit data with Swiftly's urban mobility solutions to make your city's mass transportation move more efficiently.
  • HopSkipDrive — Arranging safe, dependable transportation or children ages 6+ with qualified caregivers
  • MPOWER Financing — Apply for international student loans through MPOWER Financing. Our student loans to study in the USA & Canada don't require a cosigner or credit history.
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Enza Capital
VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya · 4 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

Venture investor in high-growth Founders and Teams using technology to solve large and meaningful problems across Africa

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Logistics, E-Commerce, B2B
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 18
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$13M; Pre-Seed $1M–$1M; Series A $3.6M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
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Hustle Fund
VC Fund · San Carlos, California, United States · 4 investments in Africa Marketplace startups, 35 in the past 12 months

Hustle Fund is a seed fund that seeks to invest in early-stage startups operating in software, business to business, fintech, and digital health sectors.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 205
  • Round size: Seed $958k–$5.4M; Pre-Seed $77k–$1.5M; Series A $2.1M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Deskree — Generate a complete and scalable back-end infrastructure with tons of features via a web interface. Infinitely scalable & truly independent.
  • EquityList — Equity management with online cap table management and employee stock option programs (ESOP) administration. Available free for Indian startups
  • Series — Series provides full-stack enterprise financial services designed for institutions & enterprises.
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Oui Capital
VC Fund · Belmont, Massachusetts, United States · 4 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

Oui Capital is an Africa-focused VC firm backing tech-enabled businesses at the pre-seed & seed stage.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Transportation, Information Technology, B2B
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 22
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $40k–$1.1M
  • Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • 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
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Lynett Capital
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

Lynett Capital is an early stage investment firm dedicated to the empowering technology companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Wireless, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Kenya, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 22
  • Round size: Seed $120k–$3M; Series A $3M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • OpenYield — OpenYield is the modern bond exchange for retail. Equity-like liquidity for corporates and treasures.
  • Notabene — Crypto Compliance for VASPs & Regulators made simple! Notabene is a platform designed to bridge crypto markets with traditional financial systems. Book a demo today.
  • ABL Space Systems — ABL Space Systems is a company based in El Segundo, California, focused on launch vehicle and launch systems technology development.
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DOB Equity
VC Fund · Veessen, Gelderland, The Netherlands · 3 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Food and Beverage, Farming, Health Care
  • Stage:Private Equity, Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 41
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$4M
  • Lead/follow: 61% lead, 39% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kwara — Kwara turns analog credit unions into modern digital banks.
  • Power — Putting individuals on the path towards financial health
  • Eden Care Medical — Eden Care Medical is a mobile application that provides medical and health insurance as well as financial services.
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Alumni Ventures
VC Fund · Manchester, New Hampshire, United States · 3 investments in Africa Marketplace startups, 102 in the past 12 months

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 729
  • Round size: Seed $850k–$7.5M; Series A $1.7M–$26M; Series B $11M–$45M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
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FJ Labs
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 3 investments in Africa Marketplace startups, 51 in the past 12 months

FJ Labs is a stage-agnostic investment firm that focuses on marketplaces and consumer facing startups.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Brazil

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 491
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$8.6M; Series A $3.5M–$23M; Series B $7.1M–$107M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2016

Portfolio highlights

  • Metaloop — Metaloop is a scrap trading company that helps businesses from the metal recycling industry to boost revenue without scaling.
  • Cardino — Cardino - Verkaufen Sie Ihr E-Auto digital zum besten Preis. Entdecken Sie die einfache und bequeme Art, Ihr Elektroauto online zu verkaufen.
  • Beckley Waves — Beckley Waves funds, supports, and mentors the emerging leaders, entrepreneurs, and partnerships working to create the operational infrastructure of a global psychedelic ecosystem.
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Speedinvest
VC Fund · Vienna, Wien, Austria · 3 investments in Africa Marketplace startups, 53 in the past 12 months

Speedinvest is one of Europe’s most active early-stage investors, with more than €1bn AUM, 40 investors, and offices in Berlin, London, Munich, Paris, Vienna and San Francisco. Your success is our priority, so we don’t just send some money and "check in" at board meetings. Our mission is to empower you with game-changing support throughevery stage of your journey. Our focused investment teams know your industry inside and out. Their Deep Tech, Fintech, Industrial Tech, Network Effects, Digital Health and Subscriptions experience, know-how and deep networks are yours from day one. You also have full access to our in-house Platform+ team of operational experts who can provide tailored growth marketing, people (HR), US business development, and networking support throughout every stage of your journey.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Germany, United Kingdom, Austria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 390
  • Round size: Seed $536k–$6.5M; Pre-Seed $396k–$1.9M; Series A $1.4M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • autone — Autone is a SaaS operational platform enabling retail & CPG businesses to make optimal decisions easily and quickly
  • Genie — Genie is a productive web development framework in Julia. Build web applications, UIs, backends, integrate with databases, set up web services and APIs.
  • Purpose Green — Purpose Green operates as a climatetech company.
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JAM Fund
VC Fund · Las Vegas, Nevada, United States · 3 investments in Africa Marketplace startups, 6 in the past 12 months

JAM Fund operates as a venture capital firm investing in visionary founders disrupting large spaces. It is Tinder Founder Justin Mateen's venture capital firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, FinTech, Logistics
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Mexico, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 97
  • Round size: Seed $1.7M–$9.1M; Pre-Seed $460k–$3.7M; Series A $8M–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Usage AI — Usage AI's automated cloud management tools help companies save time and money in the cloud.
  • Vesto — Fintech
  • Syncfy — LATAM's leading financial API.
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Apis Partners
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

Apis Partners LLP backs growth financial services innovators who create transformative impact in their communities.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Payments, FinTech
  • Stage:Private Equity, Series B
  • Geography: India, Singapore, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 33
  • Round size: Series B $5.4M–$110M; Private Equity $5M–$120M
  • Lead/follow: 70% lead, 30% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $550M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • TymeBank — TymeBank is a fully black-owned and controlled investment company based in South Africa. It is an exclusively digital retail bank that aims to provide every South African accessible and affordable banking so that they can take part in, grow and benefit from the country’s economy.
  • Money View — Money View is an application that is able to track and organize expenses, bills, and account balances. It is able to derive finance information from SMSs.Money View enables its users to set and follow budgets, view their bank account balance, obtain reminders about bills, and spit bills with the other users. It also facilitates Savings+ andTaxSaver+ that allows its users to save money.Money View was founded in April 2014 by Sanjay Aggarwal and Puneet Agarwal. It is based in Bangalore, Karnataka.
  • Peach Payments — Get Peach as your Payment Gateway and Grow your ecommerce. Process online payments with Visa, Mastercard, Debit Orders, EFT payments, and subscriptions. Plugins for Wix, Shopify, WooCommerce.
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E4EAfrica
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 3 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

E4E (“Entrepreneurs for Entrepreneurs”) specializes in supporting early stage ventures in South Africa from very early stage (pre-series A) to scale up.E4E focus on smart entrepreneurs and business ideas that are great businesses and make a significant contribution to a better (South) Africa.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Logistics, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: South Africa, France, The Netherlands

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Seed $3M–$5.3M; Series A $1M–$4.3M
  • Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Talk360 — Talk360 is an easy-to-use calling app that helps people make affordable international calls to any mobile and landline number. They believe that reliable communication and digital services must be affordable and accessible to everyone, regardless of someone's background. Especially people in emerging countries in Africa, who often need theseservices the most, do not always have the necessary banking possibilities. To bridge this distance, Talk360 will launch the world's first single checkout platform for Africa. This platform will combine all locally available payment methods and currencies across Africa, together with over 1.25 million cash points of sales, and will eventually be available to other companies as well. This means that 500 million Africans will be able to purchase digital services they never had access to before.
  • 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.
  • Yebo Fresh — Powering South Africa's Township Economy.
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Kalon Venture Partners
VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 3 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

A growing number of South Africans are investing in venture capital companies that operate under Section 12J of the Income Tax Act. Contact us now.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Mobile Apps, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Africa, Luxembourg, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Round size: Seed $539k–$3M
  • Lead/follow: 73% lead, 27% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • GoMetro — GoMetro designs deploy and operate flexible mobility platforms. Their proprietary technology stack empowers city leaders, transport managers, corporates, retail centres, property developers, airports and downtown to introduce bold new mobility strategies. Their connected transport digital platform equips transport planners to respond to thechallenges of increased congestion, aged infrastructure, disruptive mobility players, self-driving vehicles and a lack of quality public transport services.
  • Talk360 — Talk360 is an easy-to-use calling app that helps people make affordable international calls to any mobile and landline number. They believe that reliable communication and digital services must be affordable and accessible to everyone, regardless of someone's background. Especially people in emerging countries in Africa, who often need theseservices the most, do not always have the necessary banking possibilities. To bridge this distance, Talk360 will launch the world's first single checkout platform for Africa. This platform will combine all locally available payment methods and currencies across Africa, together with over 1.25 million cash points of sales, and will eventually be available to other companies as well. This means that 500 million Africans will be able to purchase digital services they never had access to before.
  • Sendmarc — Stop cyber criminals from sending emails using your domain and protect your customers, suppliers and employees from cyber attacks with DMARC Security.
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U.S. International Development Finance Corp
VC Fund · Washington, District of Columbia, United States · 3 investments in Africa Marketplace startups, 14 in the past 12 months

U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) is America’s development bank. DFC partners with the private sector to finance solutions to the most critical challenges facing the developing world today. We invest in projects that create jobs in emerging markets in sectors including energy, healthcare, critical infrastructure,telecommunications, and financing for small businesses and women entrepreneurs. DFC investments adhere to high standards and respect the environment, human rights, and worker rights.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt
  • Geography: India, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 55
  • Round size: Post-IPO Debt $34M–$765M; Debt Financing $8.8M–$200M
  • Lead/follow: 75% lead, 25% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • TerraPay — Accelerating business growth with uninterrupted global payouts and collections
  • TechMet — TechMet Ltd backs world-class teams and makes direct investments into companies and assets across the value chain.
  • Kentegra Biotechnology Holdings LLC — Kentegra Biotechnology Holdings is a leading U.S-Kenyan company that supports a Kenyan-based biopesticide processing business that aggregates, extracts, and refines pale refine extract (PRE) from the pyrethrum flower, and sells the PRE to formulators across the world. Kentegra is committed to improving farmer’s livelihoods by investing in thecommunities where we are working to help farmers and their families have a more stable income and better quality of life.Grants: Norad 2021, AgriFi 2020, USAID 2020, USAID 2019, DEG 2020, DEG 2019
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Chinook Capital Limited
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 3 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

Chinook Capital is focused on investments in seed- and pre-stage companies in internet software, services, and media sectors.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: EdTech, Retail, Home Services
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $120k–$575k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Edves — Edves automates the brick and mortal School operations from Student enrollment, Fee Collection, Lesson Note up to Transcript Generation.
  • Youverify — Youverify helps businesses and individuals confirm identity and physical addresses. Using AI, Youverify confirms a user’s identity document and compares it with their facial biometrics. This information can be cross-checked against more than 300 databases locally and globally.Youverify in partnership with over 20,000 field verification officersverifies physical addresses all over Sub-Sahara Africa in less than 48 hours.Youverify fills the gap in Africa's digital industry by providing one API for identity and physical address verification.
  • Lifestores Pharmacy — Lifestores is a retail pharmacy start-up bringing disruptive innovation to the pharmaceutical sector in Nigeria by democratizing quality medicines and pharmaceutical services.
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Outlierz Ventures
VC Fund · Casablanca, Grand Casablanca, Morocco · 3 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

We provide smart capital to grow investable startups in Africa

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Information Services
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Morocco, Egypt, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$6.2M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • PayTic — PayTic enables payments issuers to manage their card programs by providing dedicated back-office solutions that streamline the end-to-end operations in customer support, chargebacks, fraud, AML, reporting, and reconciliation. Our proprietary solutions are unique in automating and centralizing the program management processes, regardless of thenumber of processors and the payment networks involved in the payments products. We impact payments providers by eliminating the defragmented and manual processes and replacing them with a SaaS platform that increases proactivity, mitigates risks, and delivers value. It reduces the burn rate to near 0 in operational costs and offers an unprecedented competitive advantage. PayTic is introducing the Zero Ops model in managing payments.
  • Suplyd — Suplyd is a comprehensive digital solution that bridges the gap between restaurant operators and their suppliers in order to disrupt an untouched market with extreme fragmentation and resolve the problem end-to-end.
  • Terraa — Terraa is a B2B distribution platform in Moroccan.
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Proparco
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 3 investments in Africa Marketplace startups, 15 in the past 12 months

Proparco is devoted to private sector funding in the sustainable development sector.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Finance, Energy
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Series B
  • Geography: India, Kenya, Mauritius

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 63
  • Round size: Series B $8M–$40M; Debt Financing $300k–$120M
  • Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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...
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Susa Ventures
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Africa Marketplace startups, 25 in the past 12 months

A seed-stage VC fund investing in founders building value & defensibility through data, network effects, & economies of scale.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 212
  • Round size: Seed $1.9M–$5.3M; Series A $6.3M–$20M; Series B $11M–$65M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Modelbit — Modelbit is the fastest way for data scientists to deploy ML models. Deploy models from Jupyter notebooks with one line of code.
  • Ambient — Swap cryptocurrencies like a pro with Ambient. Decentralized trading is now better than ever.
  • Volition — Volition is the largest marketplace of industrial components, built just for hardware teams. We make it easy to find and purchase off-the-shelf parts.
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MVI (MENA Venture Investments)
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 2 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

Mena Venture Investments (MVI) is an angel fund that invests in early stage startups with strong growth potential in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region and beyond. We work with entrepreneurs to build solid, scalable businesses and ensure access to capital at early stages of a venture to fuel their growth. Beyond financial investment,MVI offers support through mentorship, access to markets, networks, and clients, as well as cross-border operational support.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Jordan, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 68
  • Round size: Seed $15k–$2M; Series A $800k–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2010

Portfolio highlights

  • liwwa — liwwa connects small businesses in need of capital with people who want to invest in them. The company’s peer-to-peer lease-to-own model addresses the capital access and interest-free investor return opportunities. Liwwa conducts in-house reviews of a small business's creditability and enables them to pay a monthly fee to investors. Foundedin 2013, Liwwa raised seed funding with DASH Ventures, al Etihad, and MENA Venture Investments, which it plans to use to hire several new team members, including an underwriting team and to support a new product offering.
  • Shippify — Shippify is an innovative logistics service that connects businesses with a diverse network of drivers & 3PLs to provide same day delivery . Shippify is backed by strategic leading venture capital and angel investors. Currently available in Brasil, Mexico, Chile and Ecuador. The company was founded in 2014.
  • Connecterra — Connecterra is a developer of software for the dairy industry. Connecterra is building an Artificial Intelligence that will grow food sustainably to feed future generations. Connecterra exists to give people a previously impossible understanding of the world around them so they can make more productive, humane and sustainable use of Earth’s naturalresources. They use machine learning to turn raw data into insight-driven efficiencies for the benefit of people, companies, and the natural habitats in which they operate
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TBD Angels
VC Fund · Boston, Massachusetts, United States · 2 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

TBD Angels is a group of like-minded angel investors who thrive on sharing advice, guidance, and capital with talented entrepreneurs. TBD Angels provide critical advice and connections to jumpstart the companies it invests in.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Kenya, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 56
  • Round size: Seed $53k–$6M; Angel $54k–$195k; Pre-Seed $200k–$1.8M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Magnomer — Magnomer is a manufacturer of novel magnetic inks for plastic packaging for the circular economy. It introduces Design2Recycle™, a revolutionary way of thinking about production. Central to their innovation are printable magnetizable inks: a design tool which allows consumer brands and manufacturers to enable better packaging recyclability withoutchanges to manufacturing. It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.
  • High Time Foods — Discover delicious and nutritious shelf-stable plant-based meat alternatives at High Time Foods. Our cuisine-agnostic products are perfect for every chef, every cuisine, in every corner of the world. Join us in creating a better food system that's good for people and the planet.
  • Powered by People — Powered by People is a values-driven wholesale platform featuring handmade, ethical products from makers in over 40 countries. Sign up now for pre-approved credit and net 60 terms at poweredbypeople.com
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Vumela Fund
VC Fund · Hyde Park, Newtownabbey, United Kingdom · 2 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Education, Software, Primary Education
  • Stage:Seed, Debt Financing
  • Geography: South Africa, Brazil

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Lead/follow: 79% lead, 21% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $12M in 2015

Portfolio highlights

  • Inoxico — Inoxico is a provider of business-to-business credit risk solutions. We combine quality data and cutting edge technology to deliver predictive analytics.
  • Kombo King — Kombo King Ventless Fryer Tech removes the need for plumes of steam & the constant eye of an inconsistent employee to Revolutionize & solve the frying industry!
  • Kusini Water — Kusini Water builds water treatment systems from nanotechnology and macadamia nut shells.
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VestedWorld
VC Fund · Chicago, Illinois, United States · 2 investments in Africa Marketplace startups, 6 in the past 12 months

VestedWorld is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in emerging markets companies that have the potential to generate competitive financial returns while contributing towards the growth and development of the markets in which they are located. The firm supports these businesses through the infusion of capital, active involvement incorporate governance, and by providing direct strategic and operational assistance.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Agriculture, E-Commerce, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 23
  • Round size: Seed $1.6M–$2.5M; Series A $4.2M–$4.4M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • FarmWorks — FarmWorks is an agricultural technology company that gives farmers access to farm inputs as well as a market for the produce .FarmWork is to unlock agricultural potential by building clusters of mid-sized farms while working with thousands of small-holder farmers and establishing direct linkage to local and global markets.
  • EMTECH — For Modern Central Banking
  • 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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Nordea
VC Fund · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland · 2 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

Nordea Bank is Denmark's second-largest bank and counts every fourth Dane among its customers. Through their nationwide network of some 340 branch offices and a broad range of self-service facilities, they are able to offer you a full scale of financial products and services, including Netbank, Online Investment, telephone banking and cashdispensers.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Banking
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Seed
  • Geography: Finland, Sweden, Norway

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 23
  • Round size: Seed $182k–$3.5M; Debt Financing $107k–$94M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Tibber — Tibber is a digital electricity supplier that offers smart solutions to minimize their customers’ consumption and costs. Its vision is to make sustainable energy consumption simple and affordable for all households. Tibber's mission is to reduce the residential electricity consumption for European households by 20 %. Founded in Norway andSweden in 2016, the company has expanded its offer to Sweden and Germany where it powers hundreds of thousands of homes. Tibber replaces traditional utilities with smart technology, supplying its customers with renewable energy at fair and transparent prices. In addition, its app provides real-time analytics into energy usage, and pairs with a variety of smart home devices to reduce electricity consumption at home. The company sells tech-gadgets in their online store and recently was licensed to balance the main power grid in Sweden with EVs.
  • Statzon — Make data-driven plans & faster decisions with a simple access to +1M datasets & market reports about 8,000 topics from +200 trusted data providers.
  • 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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Afore Capital
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Africa Marketplace startups, 13 in the past 12 months

Afore Capital backs product-centric founders at the pre-seed stage exclusively. The investment team brings 16 years of founding product experience (Android and Twitter) and 7 years of institutional investing experience (Founder Collective and Foundation Capital). Their sweet spot is the ~$1M pre-seed round, where they can lead the round as aninstitutional investor alongside high value angels.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Canada, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 123
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$7.5M; Pre-Seed $900k–$2.2M; Series A $7M–$23M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Inngest — Easily develop serverless workflows in your current codebase, without any new infrastructure. Using Inngest, your entire team can ship reliable products.
  • Florida Street — PIXEL GG INC.
  • Develop Health — Develop Health synthesizes patient data to automatically fill medication prior authorization forms. Save time and boost approval rates.
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