Top 50 Marketplace VC Funds & Investors in Kenya (May 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Chandaria Capital
VC Fund
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5 | Kenya, United States, Egypt | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, FinTech, Software | $200k–$37M |
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1776 Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | United States, Kenya, Brazil | Seed, Series A, Convertible Note | Education, EdTech, Software | $500k–$10M |
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Savannah Fund
VC Fund
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3 | Kenya, United States, South Africa | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, FinTech, Information Technology | $25k–$8M |
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JAM Fund
VC Fund
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3 | United States, Mexico, India | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, FinTech, Logistics | $460k–$27M |
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Golden Palm Investments
VC Fund
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3 | Nigeria, Egypt, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Information Technology, FinTech, Health Care | $30k–$15M |
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Launch Africa
VC Fund
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3 | Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology | $200k–$3M |
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U.S. International Development Finance Corp
VC Fund
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3 | India, United States, Kenya | Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt | Financial Services, Finance, FinTech | $8.8M–$765M |
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Future Africa
VC Fund
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3 | Nigeria, United States, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology | $40k–$20M |
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Musha Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | United States, Nigeria, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, Software, FinTech | $50k–$10M |
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Saviu Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | Côte d'Ivoire, Kenya, Senegal | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | E-Commerce, Financial Services, FinTech | $161k–$2.7M |
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4DX Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | Egypt, United States, Kenya | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | FinTech, Information Technology, Financial Services | $40k–$20M |
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Consonance Investment Managers
VC Fund
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3 | Nigeria, United States, Kenya | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, FinTech | $50k–$2.5M |
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Susa Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Canada, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Information Technology, SaaS | $1.9M–$65M |
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Lynett Capital
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Kenya, Nigeria | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | FinTech, Wireless, Mobile | $120k–$10M |
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Village Global
VC Fund
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2 | United States, United Kingdom, India | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $246k–$18M |
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Outlierz Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Morocco, Egypt, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Information Services | $1.5M–$6.2M |
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TBD Angels
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Kenya, Hong Kong | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence | $53k–$6M |
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Apis Partners
VC Fund
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2 | India, Singapore, South Africa | Private Equity, Series B | Financial Services, Payments, FinTech | $5M–$120M |
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Talanton
VC Fund
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2 | Kenya | Seed, Series A, Series B | Retail, Sports, Fashion | |
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Creadev
VC Fund
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2 | France, United States, China | Series B, Series C | Health Care, Food and Beverage, Agriculture | $5.4M–$55M |
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Logos Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Kenya, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed | B2B, FinTech, Logistics | |
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Enza Capital
VC Fund
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2 | Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Logistics, E-Commerce, B2B | $1M–$13M |
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Blue Haven Initiative
VC Fund
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2 | Kenya, United States, Ghana | Series A, Series B, Seed | Solar, Energy, Financial Services | $2M–$22M |
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DOB Equity
VC Fund
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2 | Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania | Private Equity, Seed | Food and Beverage, Farming, Health Care | $1M–$4M |
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Golden Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Canada, United States, Japan | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $1.2M–$40M |
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Norrsken VC
VC Fund
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1 | Sweden, United Kingdom, Germany | Seed, Series A | Software, Food and Beverage, Health Care | $599k–$21M |
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Blink
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya | Series A, Series B | Retail, Furniture, Manufacturing | |
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Wamda Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Turkey | Seed, Series A, Series B | E-Commerce, Internet, Financial Services | $500k–$47M |
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Chui Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya, United States | Pre-Seed | Fashion, Software, E-Commerce | |
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AE Ventures
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Novastar Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya, Nigeria, United States | Series A, Series B | Agriculture, Internet, Clean Energy | $660k–$50M |
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Raven One Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Kenya | Seed, Series A | mHealth, Wellness, Insurance | |
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Giant Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Denmark, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | FinTech, Health Care, Financial Services | $2.4M–$19M |
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Altos Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, United States, Indonesia | Series A, Series B, Series C | Software, E-Commerce, Internet | $2M–$50M |
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LocalGlobe
VC Fund
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1 | United Kingdom, United States, France | Seed, Series A | Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce | $1.3M–$27M |
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Samata Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya, Nigeria | Seed, Series A | Beauty, Retail, Consumer | |
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Lundin Foundation
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya, Mauritius | Series A, Series D | Mobile, Apps, Energy | |
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igniteXL Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Kenya, Brazil | Seed, Pre-Seed | Fashion, Beauty, Consumer Electronics | $224k–$8.1M |
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Lightrock
VC Fund
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1 | India, Brazil, United States | Series C, Series B, Series E | Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology | $6.3M–$400M |
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Goodwell Investments
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa | Series A, Series B | FinTech, Financial Services, Software | $1.5M–$14M |
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Acumen
VC Fund
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1 | United States, India, Kenya | Seed, Series A | Financial Services, Health Care, Agriculture | $300k–$13M |
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cFund
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Kenya, Canada | Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Financial Services, Cryptocurrency | $500k–$60M |
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Victoria Commercial Bank
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya | Debt Financing | Retail, Furniture, Manufacturing | |
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Jedar Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Delivery | $340k–$6M |
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Ventures Platform
VC Fund
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1 | Nigeria, United States, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Internet | $50k–$4.4M |
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FirstCheck Africa
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya | Seed | Beauty, Retail, Consumer | |
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Speedinvest
VC Fund
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1 | Germany, United Kingdom, Austria | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | $396k–$50M |
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Antler
VC Fund
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1 | Singapore, United Kingdom, Australia | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, SaaS | $100k–$29M |
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Esas Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Kenya, Canada | Seed, Series A | Health Care, E-Commerce, Software | $125k–$17M |
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AAIC Investment
VC Fund
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1 | Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria | Series A, Seed, Series B | Health Care, Medical, E-Commerce | $450k–$4.4M |
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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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- 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.
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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- 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.
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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- 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.
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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- 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.
Golden Palm Investments is an investment holding and advisory company.
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- 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.
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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- 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.
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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- 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
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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- 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.
Seed capital for technology startups globally.
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- 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.
Saviu is a venture capital fund focusing on African early-stage startups.
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- 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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- 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.
We are an investment company focused on helping early and growth-stage entrepreneurs build successful companies in Africa.
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- 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.
A seed-stage VC fund investing in founders building value & defensibility through data, network effects, & economies of scale.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 213
- 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
- Harmonya — The all-in-one AI-powered product data enrichment, categorization, and insights platform for CPGs and retailers
- 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.
Lynett Capital is an early stage investment firm dedicated to the empowering technology companies.
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- 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.
Early stage venture capital backed by some of the world's best entrepreneurs.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 229
- Round size: Seed $1.8M–$9.3M; Pre-Seed $246k–$3.5M; Series A $5.5M–$18M
- Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $125M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Atmosfy — Atmosfy lets you explore dining through video. Easily browse 10-second, engaging videos from customers who recently dined there.
- OpenCover — Cover $5,000 from $1.14 per week on leading protocols including Curve, Uniswap, Aave and more. As seen on CoinDesk, Decrypt, The Block, Coin Telegraph.
- Boost Capital — Boost Capital is a fintech company that offers online microfinance services at lower rates. It uses innovative technology to pre-qualify customers within minutes of applying for a loan based on ability and probability to repay. Boost Capital enables both collateralized and uncollateralized loans, with loan size across the small business spectrum(from $100 to $10,000). Its platform automates the loan application for MFI partners and allows customers to hear back on their loan applications 100x faster than through traditional paper-based loan applications.The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Singapore.
We provide smart capital to grow investable startups in Africa
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- 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.
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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- 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
Apis Partners LLP backs growth financial services innovators who create transformative impact in their communities.
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- 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.
Talanton helps you combat poverty in developing countries by creating jobs. You can free those in poverty by coming alongside them through investments in growth-stage businesses.
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- Industry: Retail, Sports, Fashion
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Pezesha — Digital Financial Ecosystem for connecting MSMEs to Capital.
- Enda Sportswear — Kenyan running shoes that reward a natural midfoot landing and match the way runners train. Proudly made in Kenya and certified Climate Neutral. The most socially conscious running shoes in the world.
- MoKo Home + Living — MoKo Home is Kenya's one-stop furniture company specializing in comfort & smiles, having served over 10000 smiley homes to date. Will yours be next?
Creadev is an evergreen investment company believe that shareholders' timing should match with the entrepreneur's vision, up to an unlimited amount of time. Creadev invest in and support companies able to scale-up and become worldwide best players in their sector.
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- Industry: Health Care, Food and Beverage, Agriculture
- Stage:Series B, Series C
- Geography: France, United States, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 39
- Round size: Series B $5.4M–$33M; Series C $10M–$55M
- Lead/follow: 62% lead, 38% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Ouihelp — Ouihelp is a developer of an online residential assistance platform designed to help seniors in their regular activities at home. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Paris, France.
- Everytable — Everytable aims to redefine the food landscape the same way McDonald’s did fifty years ago. But this time, instead of burgers and fries, they are selling nutritious, fresh, made-from-scratch food, at fast-food prices.
- InnovaFeed — InnovaFeed is a biotech company that produces a new source of protein from insect rearing (Hermetia illucens) for animal feed and aquaculture in particular.Their model is based on a unique technological expertise that allows us to place the insect at the heart of their agri-food system and restore it to its natural place in their ecosystem: thatof recycling nutrients to then feed fish, birds or small mammals.In the context of a fast-growing world population, InnovaFeed’s activity responds concretely and competitively to an increase in protein demand while contributing to the development of a more sustainable food system, in particular through the development of quality aquaculture.
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- Industry: B2B, FinTech, Logistics
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Kenya, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- ImaliPay — ImaliPay is a financial health platform offering financial products to freelancers and blue collar gig workers in partnership with gig platforms.
- Zeraki — Zeraki is to use technology to address some of the obstacles learners encounter in accessing quality education. We use technology to enhance the quality of education students get at each level of education and use technology to help students transition from one level of education to the next, and ultimately from education into employment.
- Jumba — Jumba is a construction technology platform that streamlines B2B construction material purchase and financing.
Venture investor in high-growth Founders and Teams using technology to solve large and meaningful problems across Africa
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- 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.
Blue Haven Initiative is an innovative family office dedicated to putting wealth to work for market returns and positive social and environmental change.
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- Industry: Solar, Energy, Financial Services
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: Kenya, United States, Ghana
Investor stats
- Total investments: 22
- Round size: Series A $2M–$11M; Series B $12M–$22M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
Portfolio highlights
- M-KOPA — M-KOPA is the global leader for “pay-as-you-go” energy services for off-grid customers. M-KOPA was established in 2011. Following 2 years of piloting and development, M-KOPA began commercial sales in Kenya in October 2012. M-KOPA expanded to Uganda in 2013 and commences operations in Tanzania in late 2014. Their team includes over 500 staff andwe sell our product through more than 1000 retail agents and shops. The founders of the company are experienced mobile technology innovators who believe in the huge potential of transformative, affordable products designed for underserved consumers. While excellent technology is a pre-requisite, technology alone does not solve for customer needs. Success comes when smart technology is combined with a commitment to on-going, on-the-ground delivery. To that end, M-KOPA is beginning to license its technology to experienced and reputable third parties in markets outside of East Africa (licensing queries should be sent to licensing@m-kopa.com). M-KOPA has developed a proprietary, patented technology platform that combines embedded GSM + mobile payments to revolutionize asset financing in emerging markets. The M-KOPAnet platform has been designed and built from the ground up by our talented team of software engineers, who continue to innovate and improve the system every day. It offers the powerful combination of accounting + customer relationship management + inventory tracking in one complete system. Aside from enabling our business operations to scale at record speed, the M-KOPAnet™ platform captures and processes huge volumes of data, enabling us to improve our proposition, customer service, and security in real-time.
- TIBU Health — TIBU Health is a disruptive HealthTech logistics company that provides high-quality healthcare services.
- Field — Health supply chain technology and services across Africa
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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- 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.
Golden Ventures is a leading seed-stage venture capital fund, based in Toronto and investing across North America. We back bold teams and their transformative ideas.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Canada, United States, Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 146
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$6M; Series A $3.5M–$32M; Series B $1.2M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- BenchSci — BenchSci is the world leader in AI-Assisted Reagent Selection and Experiment Design. Our preclinical R&D SaaS platform uses machine learning to help pharmaceutical companies increase their research velocity.
- Ideogram — Ideogram: Helping people become more creative.
- Shakudo — Shakudo unites all of the data tools and services you need into a single comprehensive data platform, allowing your team to develop and deploy analytics-based solutions with ease.
We are a venture capital fund investigating in Start-Ups solving the worlds biggest problems while building massive businesses.
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- Industry: Software, Food and Beverage, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Sweden, United Kingdom, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 65
- Round size: Seed $599k–$7.6M; Series A $1.1M–$21M
- Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- LanguifyAI — Languify is an AI based language learning assistant which analyses, corrects, and tracks a user's spoken and written English across all platforms. The AI assistant prompts feedback and nudges that improve conversations in real-time that enable improvisation on the spot without any delay. It also enables users to learn at their own pace throughpersonalized learning plans and games designed to minimize repetition of errors.
- Granular Energy — Granular Energy provides solutions for managing and trading clean energy. Our tools have been developed to support the recent emergence of 24/7 time-stamped energy certificates as well as traditional "annual" certificates.
- Material Evolution — Material Evolution uses patented geopolymer technology and proprietary algorithms to create the most sustainable materials on the planet.Material Evolution’s first product is a cement mix made from 95% waste using its algorithm technology. Its smart concrete mix is 10X stronger, 5X more durable, and reduces carbon consumption by 85%. Mostimportantly, it’s economically viable for construction companies.
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- Industry: Retail, Furniture, Manufacturing
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- MoKo Home + Living — MoKo Home is Kenya's one-stop furniture company specializing in comfort & smiles, having served over 10000 smiley homes to date. Will yours be next?
Wamda Capital is the MENA region's leading venture capital firm investing in exceptional entrepreneurs building the region's most promising high growth technology businesses. We invest both at the growth and seed stages with the aim of taking portfolio companies through successive rounds of financing through to exit.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 100
- Round size: Seed $500k–$3M; Series A $2M–$6.5M; Series B $3.5M–$47M
- Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- BitOasis — BitOasis is MENA's leading platform that allows you to securely buy, sell and trade crypto assets like Bitcoin, Ether, XRP and Bitcoin Cash at the best rates. Currently available in UAE, KSA, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Jordan, Egypt and Morocco.
- Believe — Believe Pte Ltd. is a global, Singapore-based FMCG conglomerate that provides market-ready solutions for customers by listening to their needs and designing products that suit their culture and life choices. From breakthrough personal care essentials to beauty products surpassing global standards, our worldwide team of experts use cutting-edgetechnology, scientifically proven methodologies and ancient knowledge to gift our customers
- Wafeq وافق — Send invoices or purchase orders, manage your inventory and your payroll, and get over 30 reports to manage your company, all in one software.
Investing in Africa | Chui Ventures is an investment company that seeks to back exceptional African companies at the early stage of their growth.
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- Industry: Fashion, Software, E-Commerce
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Kenya, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% 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.
- Shop Zetu — Shop the latest trendy fashion, beauty and accessory brands in Kenya online! Discover affordable clothing, footwear, accessories, beauty products and more. Order today from Shop Zetu.
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- AMPnet — AMPnet is a set of white-label crowdinvesting platforms with a central P2P marketplace for renewable energy shares. Through our platform, renewable energy communities all over Europe are providing much-needed liquidity to their investments and connecting directly to large financers of renewables such as NGOs, carbon offseting schemes, etc...
- UTU Technologies — Trust infrastructure for the sharing economy.
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- Industry: Agriculture, Internet, Clean Energy
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 48
- Round size: Series A $1M–$9.9M; Series B $660k–$50M
- Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $108M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- BasiGo — BasiGo is an early-stage e-mobility start-up looking to revolutionize the public transportation sector by providing matatu owners with a cost-effective electric alternative to diesel buses.
- Turaco — Turaco develops simplified insurance and credit solutions through mobile technology to solve the healthcare financing needs. Turaco has simplified insurance products and also provides on-demand health loans, allowing customers to get healthcare at affordable monthly premiums.
- MoKo Home + Living — MoKo Home is Kenya's one-stop furniture company specializing in comfort & smiles, having served over 10000 smiley homes to date. Will yours be next?
Raven One Ventures is an early-stage venture fund, focusing on innovative opportunities with significant disruptive abilities.
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- Industry: mHealth, Wellness, Insurance
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Yaysay — Yaysay is a first-of-its-kind shopping software that mixes AI-powered customization with gamification to enhance the off-price shopping experience.
- Danti — Danti is a search engine that focuses on allowing both novice and expert users to ask basic inquiries and discover the vast amount of information being generated throughout the world.
- Triumph — Triumph is a gaming monetization platform provider. They provide iPhone games on one line of code drop-in SDK. They handle the entire tournament stack by player matching, payment, arbitration, and compliance. They transform the game into money tournaments.
Giant Ventures Global is a multi-stage, thesis-driven firm seeking systemic change across four themes which include environment, cities, health and wellbeing, and financial inclusion. The firm backs purpose-driven technology founders solving the world’s biggest challenges. It focuses on creating a more sustainable, equitable, and resilientplanet.
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- Industry: FinTech, Health Care, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Denmark, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 47
- Round size: Seed $2.4M–$8M; Series A $12M–$19M
- Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Waterplan — Waterplan is a SaaS platform for companies to manage water availability in their facilities.
- Haven Energy — Haven Energy is a climate technology company that is accelerating home energy storage adoption. Haven walks homeowners through the process of selecting, quoting, and financing a home battery system, and then connects them with vetted, qualified electricians to complete the installation. Haven works with homeowners after installation to integratetheir batteries into an aggregated virtual power plant, allowing customers to monetize grid participation and significantly reduce their electricity costs.
- 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!
Altos Ventures was founded in 1996 to invest in early stage technology companies. After starting with $30 million in committed capital, we currently manage more than $8 billion in regulatory assets under management, supporting the full lifecycle of companies from inception to global growth and profitability. We have been the first and leadinstitutional investor in 100+ companies around the world. We invest in both consumer and enterprise tech companies, with particular interest in enterprise SaaS, FinTech, e-commerce, and consumer brands and services. We look to invest in high-growth, capital-efficient, founder-led companies. Initial investments can start as small as $500,000 while our follow-on investments can exceed $100 million in a single round, purchasing both primary and secondary shares.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Internet
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 218
- Round size: Series A $2M–$11M; Series B $3.1M–$24M; Series C $4.3M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $450M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- AiderX — AiderX is a technology startup that creates AI assistants for everyone. We believe that AI should be available to everyone and that it has the potential to change the way we live and work. Our goal is to make AI simple, intuitive, and simple to use.
- MathFLAT — MathFLAT is a B2B mobile solution for mathematics education.
- PlayList — PlayList is a web drama production company that produces dramas and music content. The company's two flagship web drama series, Love Playlist and A-Teen have gained huge popularity amongst the 18-24 age segment. Playlist dramas have over 10 million subscribers and 1.3 billion views.
Seeding ambitious founders at places like @citymapper, @improbableio,@teamkano, @moo, @songkick,@seedcamp, @transferwise and @zoopla since 1999. Who's next?
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 252
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$8M; Series A $3M–$27M
- Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
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- CYCLE — GetHenry is a rapidly growing subscription service for market-leading delivery companies. We make sure that thousands of couriers are on the move safely, quickly and comfortably every day. In this way, we not only create added value for delivery services, but also help to reduce transport-related CO2 emissions on the last mile.
- 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.
- Translucent — Translucent is next-gen accounting software.
CREATING a More Inclusive Future Samata Capital accelerates equal access to capital and opportunity for talented entrepreneurs in emerging markets. We inten ...
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- Industry: Beauty, Retail, Consumer
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Kenya, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- ReelFruit — On a mission to inspire delightfulness by offering the tastiest snacks in town.
- Uncover — Experience nourishing and rejuvenating Uncover Skincare products in Kenya. Made just for you, using the finest ingredients to offer innovative & effective solutions.
The Lundin Foundation is a philanthropic organization founded originally by the Lundin family. The Foundation is currently supported by a number of publicly traded natural resource companies committed to the highest standards of corporate responsibility. The Lundin Foundation embodies the entrepreneurial spirit of the Lundin family. TheFoundation provides risk capital in the form of investments into high potential small- and medium-sized businesses, with a view to generating wealth and employment needed to alleviate poverty on a sustained basis. It also provides strategic grants to early stage innovations and for technical and managerial assistance.
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- Industry: Mobile, Apps, Energy
- Stage:Series A, Series D
- Geography: Kenya, Mauritius
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
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- Esoko Networks — Esoko is an information and communication service for agricultural markets in Africa. We provide advice directly to farmers (market prices, weather forecasts, and growing tips) to help them increase yields and profits. We also provide solutions to businesses to help them connect with farmers (marketing products, monitoring activities, and sourcinggoods). Esoko uniquely provides an entire ecosystem to make this work; including the content, software and field support.Esoko equips businesses, NGOs, Mobile Operators and Governments with a unique series of specialized apps to help manage information to and from the field. Farmers sell better and grow more. Businesses source differently, and market more effectively. Mobile operators increase market share through bundled services for rural communities, and governments track realtime market trends. No platform connects so many in such a powerful way.Esoko makes communication easier. You can send personalized messages to thousands. You can ask questions and get answers from the field. It?s the first time anyone can affordably and effectively reach people in remote rural communities. Organizations can reduce their operational costs, improve their monitoring of market trends, track field activities -- all for a fraction of the cost of traditional field operations. Esoko can transform African markets into more efficient value opportunities for both the business and the individual, simply by promoting market transparency through mobile devices.
- M-KOPA — M-KOPA is the global leader for “pay-as-you-go” energy services for off-grid customers. M-KOPA was established in 2011. Following 2 years of piloting and development, M-KOPA began commercial sales in Kenya in October 2012. M-KOPA expanded to Uganda in 2013 and commences operations in Tanzania in late 2014. Their team includes over 500 staff andwe sell our product through more than 1000 retail agents and shops. The founders of the company are experienced mobile technology innovators who believe in the huge potential of transformative, affordable products designed for underserved consumers. While excellent technology is a pre-requisite, technology alone does not solve for customer needs. Success comes when smart technology is combined with a commitment to on-going, on-the-ground delivery. To that end, M-KOPA is beginning to license its technology to experienced and reputable third parties in markets outside of East Africa (licensing queries should be sent to licensing@m-kopa.com). M-KOPA has developed a proprietary, patented technology platform that combines embedded GSM + mobile payments to revolutionize asset financing in emerging markets. The M-KOPAnet platform has been designed and built from the ground up by our talented team of software engineers, who continue to innovate and improve the system every day. It offers the powerful combination of accounting + customer relationship management + inventory tracking in one complete system. Aside from enabling our business operations to scale at record speed, the M-KOPAnet™ platform captures and processes huge volumes of data, enabling us to improve our proposition, customer service, and security in real-time.
- Umati Capital — We specialize in online gaming All games are secure, and the payouts are fast. Everyone will find an experience that fits them here. Read More Top Gaming Community Feel The Thrill Games comprise table and card games that are dominant in today's gambling lifestyle and activity. Play in the palm of your hand.A classic that
WELLNESS TO THE WORLD igniteXL Ventures is a global seed fund investing in game-changing founders at the intersection of technology, beauty
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- Industry: Fashion, Beauty, Consumer Electronics
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Kenya, Brazil
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Seed $1M–$8.1M; Pre-Seed $224k–$1.3M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $10M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- buywith — buywith is an online shopping Livestream marketplace for retailers & brands, where influencers and experts can broadcast online shopping sessions with their followers & make them buy via a highly engaging experience. We help brands generate more revenues from their e-commerce activity and increase their ROI.
- Lion Pose — Daily Skincare Products for People of Color
- Uncover — Experience nourishing and rejuvenating Uncover Skincare products in Kenya. Made just for you, using the finest ingredients to offer innovative & effective solutions.
Lightrock is a global private equity platform investing in sustainable businesses built by purpose-driven entrepreneurs, committed to innovation for systemic change at scale.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Stage:Series C, Series B, Series E
- Geography: India, Brazil, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 91
- Round size: Series B $6.3M–$50M; Series C $7.2M–$100M; Series E $185M–$400M
- Lead/follow: 58% lead, 42% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- M-KOPA — M-KOPA is the global leader for “pay-as-you-go” energy services for off-grid customers. M-KOPA was established in 2011. Following 2 years of piloting and development, M-KOPA began commercial sales in Kenya in October 2012. M-KOPA expanded to Uganda in 2013 and commences operations in Tanzania in late 2014. Their team includes over 500 staff andwe sell our product through more than 1000 retail agents and shops. The founders of the company are experienced mobile technology innovators who believe in the huge potential of transformative, affordable products designed for underserved consumers. While excellent technology is a pre-requisite, technology alone does not solve for customer needs. Success comes when smart technology is combined with a commitment to on-going, on-the-ground delivery. To that end, M-KOPA is beginning to license its technology to experienced and reputable third parties in markets outside of East Africa (licensing queries should be sent to licensing@m-kopa.com). M-KOPA has developed a proprietary, patented technology platform that combines embedded GSM + mobile payments to revolutionize asset financing in emerging markets. The M-KOPAnet platform has been designed and built from the ground up by our talented team of software engineers, who continue to innovate and improve the system every day. It offers the powerful combination of accounting + customer relationship management + inventory tracking in one complete system. Aside from enabling our business operations to scale at record speed, the M-KOPAnet™ platform captures and processes huge volumes of data, enabling us to improve our proposition, customer service, and security in real-time.
- Aerones — Robotic wind turbine service company offering maintenance, inspection and repairs worldwide. Reduce downtime and improve the efficiency of your wind park
- Lulalend — Financial provider for SME business banking accounts, business funding, and trade capital in South Africa. Do not delay. Click now to learn more and start today!
Goodwell Investments is a pioneering investment firm focused on financial inclusion, fintech and inclusive growth in sectors providing
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 35
- Round size: Series A $1.5M–$7.5M; Series B $2M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
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- MFS Africa — MFS Africa is the largest mobile money inter-operability hub in Africa, which connects mobile network operators across the continent through a single API. In addition to mobile remittance services, the MFS Africa API enables merchant payment, bulk payment, bank-to-wallet transfers, and an array of other cross border digital payments services.
- SOUK Farms — SOUK Farms is a fresh horticulture supply grower and exporter that pioneers innovation to improve agricultural sustainability and stimulate economic and social development.
- 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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Browse database — It's Free!Acumen is a nonprofit venture fund that invests in early-stage companies bringing critical services like agriculture, clean energy, education, financial inclusion, healthcare and workforce development to low-income communities in 14 countries across East and West Africa, South Asia, Latin America, and the United States. Since 2001, Acumeninvested $128 million in 128 companies that have transformed the lives of over 308 million low-income people.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Health Care, Agriculture
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, India, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 130
- Round size: Seed $300k–$2.3M; Series A $1M–$13M
- Lead/follow: 59% lead, 41% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019
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- GramVaani — Gram Vaani [meaning 'voice of the village'] is a social tech company based at IIT-Delhi. Their objective is to reverse the flow of information, that is, to make it bottom-up instead of top-down, by helping connect communities with companies/governments/dev agencies. Using simple technologies and social context to design tools,Gram Vaani has been able to impact communities- more than 2 million users in over 15 Indian States, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Namibia and South Africa.
- SokoFresh — SokoFresh An Award winning social enterprise that is addressing post harvest loss issues through a cooling as a service proposition coupled with a market linkage service to small holder farmers and aggregators. SokoFresh An Award winning social enterprise that is addressing post harvest loss issues through a cooling as a service proposition coupled with a
- Haqdarshak — Haqdarshak is a technology-enabled platform working to transform how Indian citizens learn about, apply for, and benefit from, government schemes. The company is composed of a group of passionate social entrepreneurs using technology to impact the next billion. The team comprises of individuals from diverse background who have come together out ofcommon interest and passion. The investor community represents individuals holding prestigious positions in different companies across various sectors.
Digital asset capital management with Wawe Financial. Our early-stage crypto investment fund has been investing in blockchain companies, protocols, and cryptocurrencies since 2018. The fund takes a thesis-driven
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- Industry: Blockchain, Financial Services, Cryptocurrency
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Kenya, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 16
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$6M; Series A $500k–$60M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Pezesha — Digital Financial Ecosystem for connecting MSMEs to Capital.
- EigenLayer — EigenLayer a platform to leverage Ethereum security through the innovative method of restaking.
- Liqwid Labs — Liqwid Labs is an on-chain lending protocol on Cardano.
Victoria Commercial Bank is a leading commercial bank providing quality financial services with a focus on client orientation, integrity and professionalism
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- Industry: Retail, Furniture, Manufacturing
- Stage:Debt Financing
- Geography: Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
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- MoKo Home + Living — MoKo Home is Kenya's one-stop furniture company specializing in comfort & smiles, having served over 10000 smiley homes to date. Will yours be next?
VC venture capital investing in early stage startups from seed to series A in fintech, insurtech, marketplaces, foodtech, SaaS, healthtech and agritech
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Delivery
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Seed $450k–$2.1M; Pre-Seed $340k–$6M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
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.
- ImaliPay — ImaliPay is a financial health platform offering financial products to freelancers and blue collar gig workers in partnership with gig platforms.
- Bumpa — The easiest way to set-up and manage your online store. Bumpa helps businesses sell on Instagram, Whatsapp, Facebook, and offline in-store.
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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- 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.
FirstCheck Africa is an early believer for a generation of African women in tech. We invest early, with high conviction, in high-growth female-led startups with category-leadership potential.
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- Industry: Beauty, Retail, Consumer
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Uncover — Experience nourishing and rejuvenating Uncover Skincare products in Kenya. Made just for you, using the finest ingredients to offer innovative & effective solutions.
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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- 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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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Singapore, United Kingdom, Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 363
- Round size: Seed $510k–$7.5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$1M; Series A $600k–$29M
- Lead/follow: 55% lead, 45% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- FitFlo — FitFlo brings to life the connected gym experience for Operators, Trainers and Members.
- Mole — Mole is a digital business card and mobile website software. Connect with your clients, promote your business online and much more. Comes with free customised NFC business card.
- Optacloud — Fostering a global AI powered ecosystem to achieve 100% cloud efficacy-> effortlessly, economically and eco-consciously. Dev tools stack for automating the entire development lifecycle of cloud apps across- Build, Deploy & Optimize.
Esas Ventures is the venture capital arm of Esas Holding, one of the largest family-owned investment firms in Turkey and is backed by the first and second generation family members of Şevket Sabancı, one of the founding members of Sabancı Holding, a leading Turkish conglomerate.With offices in Istanbul and London, Esas Ventures invests in earlystage companies globally.
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- Industry: Health Care, E-Commerce, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Kenya, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 29
- Round size: Seed $125k–$9M; Series A $6.1M–$17M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Procol — Reliable, flexible and simple-to-adopt spend management platform that drives sourcing and procurement excellence.
- Flora — Flora is the only sustainable brand platform acquiring and growing Amazon FBA brands with a world-class team of professionals.
- Gowit Technology — GoWit is a leading AdTech company, specializing in a multi-channel Retail Media Ads platform for online retailers. Our main objective is to empower businesses with comprehensive advertising solutions and maximize ad monetization. To reach a broader audience, we offer a variation of on-site & off-site advertising options such as SponsoredProducts, Sponsored Brands, Display, Video and In-Store Ads. With a clear focus on transparency, we are committed to helping our partners establish a powerful presence in the ever-growing world of retail.
We will continue to invest and support the growth of innovative companies towards sustainable economic growth and solving social issues.
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- Industry: Health Care, Medical, E-Commerce
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 18
- Round size: Seed $450k–$2.5M; Series A $3M–$4.4M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Aumet — Aumet allows medical manufacturers and distributors increase their sales by sharing hospital inquiries, business news, search for products, and find potential clients.Manufacturers and distributors who work together connect and get verified so they share hospital inquiries, market business news between each other .Suppliers list their productsand connect with distributors who sell these products and select countries, where they are looking for distributors, in the meantime distributors, connects with their suppliers, search for new product and list their interests.
- Zanifu — The zanifu platform, allows small retailers in Sub Saharan Africa, to procure inventory from their suppliers & pay later.
- Credable — Credable is the Digital Banking Platform that is driving the future of banking by embedding financial services in businesses across emerging markets.
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