# Top 50 Mobile Apps Startup Investors in Africa in October 2023

## Microtraction
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software

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

## LoftyInc Capital Management
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Carmel, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software

LoftyInc Capital Management empowers Afropreneurs to build a prosperous and equitable future in Africa. We deliver value to both founders and investors.........

## Musha Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, Software, FinTech

Seed capital for technology startups globally.

## Launch Africa
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Ebène, Plaines Wilhems, Mauritius
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology

Launch Africa is a leading Pan-African VC fund solving the significant funding gap in the Seed and pre-Series A investment landscape in Africa.

## Kalon Venture Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Apps, Mobile Apps, Software

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.

## IDF Capital SA
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Automotive, Mobile Apps

IDF Capital is an established financier, that invests in high growth SMEs and entrepreneurial businesses. Specialist Entrepreneurial Financing Institution

## CRE Venture Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software

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.

## HAVAÍC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Financial Services, Software

HAVAÍC is an investment and advisory firm that specialises in early-stage, high-growth African businesses with proven concepts and global prospects, offering investment opportunities to sophisticated investors and international venture capital companies with an interest in Africa. As a complementary offering, HAVAÍC provides corporate advisory andcapital raising services to emerging, internationally scalable businesses.

## Good Soil VC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Human Resources, Financial Services

GOODsoil VC is an early stage venture capital firm. We partner with founders seeking to invent new market categories and transform large, existing industries.They aim to take risks on innovative and ambitious people and products; providing risk capital for new and early-stage start-up companies, in return for an equity share.

## Konvoy
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Denver, Colorado, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Gaming, Video Games, Software

Konvoy Ventures is a thesis driven venture capital firm. We invest in the platforms and technologies at the frontier of gaming.

## Picus Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software

Picus Capital is an early-stage technology investment firm with a long-term investment philosophy. We work together with daring technology companies to build successful, global companies challenging the status quo and shaping tomorrow.

## Riot Games
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Gaming, Video Games, Mobile Apps

Riot Games is the most player-focused game developer and publisher in the world. We published League of Legends in 2009, and have since released Teamfight Tactics, Legends of Runeterra, VALORANT, and League of Legends: Wild Rift.

## Flat6Labs
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Gîza, Al Jizah, Egypt
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Apps

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.

## TTV Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Atlanta, Georgia, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software

TTV Capital is a venture capital firm that funds and supports the businesses that shape the financial future of the world.

## Raine Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Mobile, Gaming, Internet

Raine Ventures is an early stage fund managed by The Raine Group. The firm has offices in San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, London and Shanghai. With a global reach, Raine focuses on investment and advisory opportunities where its deep industry experience and unique network of strategic relationships can create value for portfolio companies andclients.

## Bose Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Framingham, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series B, Series A
- Focus: Software, Wearables, Artificial Intelligence

Bose Ventures is looking for startups that are pushing the envelope of AR to help build some of these new experiences. They are investing in startups that are developing apps, services, and technology that leverage and extend the Bose AR platform. If you are one of these innovative startups

## AlphaCode Club
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Gauteng, NA - South Africa, South Africa
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Grant, Debt Financing
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Automotive

AlphaCode is a club for next generation financial services entrepreneurs. They are building a world-class financial services eco-system that brings together entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs, industry experts, thought leaders and partner organisations. By connecting, sharing knowledge and developing unique insights, AlphaCode aims to transform thefinancial services industry.

## ODBA
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Port Louis, Port Louis, Mauritius
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Financial Exchanges

We invest in people and stories, which are at the heart of everything we do.

## Cadenza Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, FinTech

Global Investors in Transformative Technologies

## Idris Ayodeji Bello
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Software, Financial Services

The 'Afropreneur' (entrepreneur with an African focus), as he self-describes, Idris Ayodeji Bello is a Partner at LoftyInc Allied Partners Limited and co-founder of The Wennovation Hub, an innovation platform based in Nigeria, that has successfully accelerated the launch of several technology start-ups in social impact sectors. He isalso a Founding Partner at Loftyinc Capital Management, owners of the Afropreneurs Fund (I&II)The 'Afropreneur' (entrepreneur with an African focus), as he self-describes, Idris Bello is a Partner at LoftyInc Allied Partners Limited and co-founder of The Wennovation Hub, an innovation platform based in Nigeria, that has successfully accelerated the launch of several technology start-ups in social impact sectors. He is also a Founding Partner at Loftyinc Capital Management, owners of the Afropreneurs Fund (I&II)A first class honors graduate of Computer Engineering from Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria, he has an M.Sc in Computer Science & Data Mining from the University of Houston; an MBA in Entrepreneurship & Strategy from Rice University in Houston and an M.Sc in Global Health Science from the University of Oxford, where he was a 2011 recipient of The Lord Weidenfeld Scholarship for demonstrating remarkable potential as a future leader from an emerging economy.Idris spent the greater part of a decade working at Chevron Corporation and ExxonMobil USA, where he led several large upstream technology projects across the USA and Sub-Saharan Africa. Idris has also worked with the Clinton Foundation Health Access Initiative where he played a major role in the deployment and evaluation of Swaziland’s first mobile health patient appointment reminder system as part of the country’s National AIDS Program. Listed among CNN’s Top Ten African Technology Voices, he is a Singularity University Impact Fellow, Harambe Entrepreneur Alliance Associate, Clinton Global Initiative University Fellow, MIT Global Start-up Fellow, SAP Ashoka Global Changemakers Award Winner, Dell Technology Award Winner, StartingBloc Innovation Fellow and a Nigeria Leadership Initiative Future Leader.As a leader, Idris has mentored and catalyzed scores of contributors across the growing African landscape and is an angel investor and advisor to several African startups including Andela, Flutterwave, RelianceHMO, among others. He continues to devote his efforts to the development of innovation-driven, technology-enabled social enterprises that empower the underserved and develop transformative ideas to change lives on the African continent.He spends most of his time between Lagos, Cairo, or airport lounges.

## VentureSouq
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software

VentureSouq operates a large co-investment platform with a global investment portfolio.

## TotalEnergies Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: La Défense, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series C
- Focus: Energy, Renewable Energy, Transportation

TotalEnergies Ventures is the venture capital arm of Total.As part of Total's commitment to a better energy future, TotalEnergies Ventures is focused on finding, funding and fostering high-potential start-ups which will contribute to creating a low carbon future.Current areas of interest include Renewables, Distributed Energy, NewMobility, Energy Access, Energy Storage, Bio-Plastics, Circular Economy, Carbon Capture and Hydrogen.

## Ayre Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Video Streaming, Information Technology

Ayre Group is a venture capital firm that has been disrupting industries and creating iconic brands for decades, from technology, real estate, and Bitcoin, to media & publishing.

## Oui Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Belmont, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Transportation, Information Technology, B2B

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

## PayPal
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Jose, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Grant
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Marketplace

PayPal has remained at the forefront of the digital payment revolution for more than 20 years. By leveraging technology to make financial services and commerce more convenient, affordable, and secure, the PayPal platform is empowering more than 375 million consumers and merchants in more than 200 markets to join and thrive in the global economy.

## DCG Expeditions
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Blockchain

Luno Expeditions is a global early-stage investor supporting fintech & crypto founders on their journeys to build the next generation of financial services.

## AngelHub Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Stellenbosch, NA - South Africa, South Africa
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Education

Operating out of Stellenbosch in South Africa and backed by two family offices Angelhub Ventures's team is passionate about early stage investments in (South) Africa. Being entrepreneurial ourselves, we thoroughly understand the challenges and changes our founders face – which is why we back them in any way we can. Most importantly, we believein building great businesses and we are in it for the long haul.

## Yield Guild Games
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Quezon, Quezon City, Philippines
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Initial Coin Offering
- Focus: Gaming, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency

Explore the best crypto games, meet people who love the same games you do. Play for free, go on adventures, and win rewards with your crew!

## IC Global Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Apps, Internet, Software

IC Global Partners is an international venture capital firm focused on seed- and early-stage venture investments.

## Health54
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Pharmaceutical, Retail

Health54 is the Corporate Venture Capital of CFAO Group in Healthcare.

## Blockwall
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Software, Information Technology

Thesis-driven, industry-focused and independent blockchain investment firm funding the development of Web 3.0 and decentralized technologies from the heart of Europe, Frankfurt - Germany

## First Midwest Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Rockford, Illinois, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Apps, Internet, Software

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## Renew Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Addis Ababa, Adis Abeba, Ethiopia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Baby, Reservations

RENEW and the Impact Angel Network are one of the most active private equity investors in Ethiopia and recently expanded to Uganda. RENEW and the IAN seek to become the most successful SME investment firm in Sub-Saharan Africa, investing in hundreds of companies across twenty countries. Their mission is to find, invest and help grow great companiesled by visionary leaders.

## Unpopular Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

The best companies, off the beaten path.

## Brian Corrigan
- Type: Angel
- Location: Saratoga Springs, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Angel
- Focus: Gaming, Internet, SaaS

Brian Corrigan is the VP and Head of Americas at PUBG Corporation. He attended Clarkson University and the University at Albany, SUNY.
(This website is horribly out of date, probably best to hit my website or LinkedIn)

## Google
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Mountain View, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Grant, Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Internet

Google is a multinational technology company focusing on search engine technology, online advertising, cloud computing, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, artificial intelligence, and consumer electronics. Their products address a wide range of use cases, including email, navigation, cloud computing, web browsing, video sharing,productivity, operating systems, cloud storage, language translation, photo storage, video calling, smart home, smartphones, wearable technology, music streaming, and more.

## Nasir Jones
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Software

Nas, byname of Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones, also called Nasty Nas, (born September 14, 1973, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.), American rapper and songwriter who became a dominant voice in 1990s East Coast hip-hop. Nas built a reputation as an expressive chronicler of inner-city street life.Nasir Jones, the son of a jazz musician, grew up in public housingin Queens, New York. He dropped out of school in the eighth grade and searched for a creative outlet, finally settling on hip-hop. His breakthrough came in 1992, when his song “Half Time” (credited to Nasty Nas) appeared on the sound track to the film Zebrahead. Columbia Records soon signed him to a contract. His debut recording as Nas, Illmatic (1994), drew widespread acclaim for its poetic narration of hard-edged inner-city life.The more pop-oriented approach of It Was Written (1996) helped that album reach an even wider audience than its predecessor but ignited a recurring tension in Nas’s career between the appetite of the pop audience and the demands of hip-hop purists. He maintained his commercial appeal with I Am... (1999), although by that time he had also become embroiled in a public feud with fellow rapper Jay-Z over which of the two was the preeminent voice in East Coast hip-hop. The schism inspired Stillmatic (2001), which many fans considered a return to form. The two rappers publicly settled their differences in 2005, and shortly thereafter Nas signed with Def Jam, of which Jay-Z was president at the time.Nas’s penchant for provocation marked Hip Hop Is Dead (2006) and an untitled follow-up (2008), while Life Is Good (2012) struck an introspective tone. He also notably collaborated with reggae musician Damian Marley (the youngest son of Bob Marley) on the album Distant Relatives (2010).Nas also made occasional film appearances, notably in Belly (1998), a crime drama in which he starred opposite rapper DMX, and Black Nativity (2013), an adaptation of Langston Hughes’s gospel play.

## Harambeans
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Grant
- Focus: Supply Chain Management, Transportation, Information Technology

Harambeans are African innovators who have pledged to “work together as one” to build Africa’s future. Over the last decade, Harambeans has spawned a series of tech-enabled ventures such as Andela, Flutterwave, and Yoco, which have collectively generated over 3000 jobs, and raised over $700m from Google Ventures, CRE Ventures and Accel.

## Virgin Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Internet

Learn about the Virgin Group, the home of Virgin, supporting the Branson family and growing of the brand by developing and nurturing valuable Virgin businesses.

## Goodwater Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Burlingame, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce

Goodwater empowers exceptional entrepreneurs everywhere to change the world for the better. They believe consumer technology is a force on earth, shaping culture and transforming the global economy at unprecedented speed and scale. They invest in promising entrepreneurs to solve pressing problems. As a combined force, Goodwater companies are aglobal force for change, poised to measurably improve billions of lives.

## Mo Angels
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Moka, Moka, Mauritius
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Travel, Car Sharing, Mobile Apps

Mo Angels is the first Angel Investment Group in Mauritius. We source and screen startups, allowing you to focus on adding value to your portfolio companies.

## Smollan
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Gauteng, NA - South Africa, South Africa
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: SaaS, Mobile, Software

Smollan is a global business that connects people, brands and opportunities.

## Roselake Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Wan Chai, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Transportation, SaaS, Travel

An early-stage venture fund, Roselake invests in tech companies in emerging markets across Africa and Asia.

## Rise Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Health Care

Rise Capital is a leading global venture capital firm focused on Emerging Markets

## UGFS
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, Marketplace, Mobile Apps

United Gulf Financial Services-North Africa, established on November 2008, is an asset management company licensed by and working under the control of Tunisian Capital Market Authorities CMF.They offer a comprehensive access to the Tunisian financial market. They provide services through their different business platforms: private equity, assetmanagement, advisory and corporate finance.Their clients are investors such as individuals, corporations and financial institutions.

## Investment One
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Payments, Mobile Apps

Investment One is a financial firm that provides fund management, stockbroking, venture capital, pension and consulting services.

## Niche Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce

Venture Capital firm

## BKR Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Travel, Car Sharing, Mobile Apps

BKR Capital, a venture firm capital built with the objective of investing in promising Black founders in the technology space.

## E2 Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Mobile Apps, Automotive, Telecommunications

E2 Ventures is an investment firm.

## Mozilla
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Mountain View, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Internet, Apps

Mozilla is the not-for-profit behind the lightning fast Firefox browser. We put people over profit to give everyone more power online.

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