Top 50 Mobile Apps VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Africa in October 2023
Top 50 Mobile Apps VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Africa in October 2023
| Investor | Mobile Apps Africa investments |
|---|---|
| LoftyInc Capital Management | 4 |
| Microtraction | 4 |
| Musha Ventures | 4 |
| Launch Africa | 4 |
| CRE Venture Capital | 3 |
| Kalon Venture Partners | 3 |
| IDF Capital SA | 3 |
| ODBA | 2 |
| Raine Ventures | 2 |
| Cadenza Ventures | 2 |
| HAVAÍC | 2 |
| Good Soil VC | 2 |
| Picus Capital | 2 |
| AlphaCode Club | 2 |
| Riot Games | 2 |
| Bose Ventures | 2 |
| Flat6Labs | 2 |
| TTV Capital | 2 |
| Konvoy | 2 |
| Loyal VC | 1 |
| Andreessen Horowitz | 1 |
| Blackwell Capital Group | 1 |
| Yield Guild Games | 1 |
| Rise Capital | 1 |
| 1 | |
| Harambeans | 1 |
| Adventure Capital Global | 1 |
| IC Global Partners | 1 |
| VentureSouq | 1 |
| TotalEnergies Ventures | 1 |
| Unpopular Ventures | 1 |
| First Midwest Group | 1 |
| E2 Ventures | 1 |
| Jump Capital | 1 |
| Investment One | 1 |
| Ayre Group | 1 |
| Blockwall | 1 |
| Health54 | 1 |
| Asymmetry Ventures | 1 |
| BKR Capital | 1 |
| Mo Angels | 1 |
| GIIG Africa Fund | 1 |
| Roselake Ventures | 1 |
| Perivoli Innovations | 1 |
| AAIC Investment | 1 |
| PayPal | 1 |
| Omidyar Network | 1 |
| Foreign & Commonwealth Office - UK | 1 |
| Goodwater Capital | 1 |
| JPMorgan Chase & Co. | 1 |
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LoftyInc Capital Management empowers Afropreneurs to build a prosperous and equitable future in Africa. We deliver value to both founders and investors.........
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- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Nigeria, Egypt
Portfolio highlights
- Craydel — Get Professional career guidance based on Psychometric Assessments and get scholarships to the best MBA, Engineering, Medical, Education online and on campus courses in Africa and Abroad.
- EMTECH — For Modern Central Banking
- Terragon Group — Terragon is a leading Data and Marketing Technology company that uses data and analytics to help companies focused in Africa, intelligently connect at scale to their customers. We use an aggregation of online and offline data, and predictive scoring to help brands, marketing agencies and platforms accurately target people across channels anddevices. Headquartered in Lagos; Nigeria, we also have a presence in Kenya, South Africa, Ghana and India.
We invest in Africa's most remarkable teams with technical founders at the earliest stage of their venture
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Nigeria, United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Famasi — Famasi is a digital health platform that helps people access their medications, schedule doorstep delivery, and automate monthly refills.
- Pennee — Pennee supports small businesses to grow with low interest loans and data optimization.
- Clafiya — Discover Clafiya: Your trusted digital health platform, uniting in-person care and virtual solutions for a personalized and caring healthcare experience. Embrace a healthier, happier you, with us by your side.
Seed capital for technology startups globally.
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- Financial Services, Software, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Nigeria, Kenya
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.
Launch Africa is a leading Pan-African VC fund solving the significant funding gap in the Seed and pre-Series A investment landscape in Africa.
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya
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.
Founded in 2015, CRE Venture Capital invests in early stage tech companies that are levered to Africa. CRE is headquartered in the New York metro area, with a regional office in Lagos, Nigeria.
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- South Africa, Nigeria, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Sava — Sava is a multi-management platform that provides an unlimited number of virtual cards as well as automated accounting reconciliation.
- Stitch — One API integration for all online payments across South Africa. Accept Instant EFT, debit + credit card, cash, direct deposit and debits. Manage + reconcile digital payments and send payouts.
- Bettr — Bettr is a digital banking app for creator. Download the app to get your zero monthly fee digital bank account and virtual card. Join our community of creators, gamers, influencers, freelancers, tiktokkers, streamers, YouTubers and digital gig workers.
A growing number of South Africans are investing in venture capital companies that operate under Section 12J of the Income Tax Act. Contact us now.
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- Apps, Mobile Apps, Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- South Africa, Luxembourg, United States
Portfolio highlights
- GoMetro — GoMetro designs deploy and operate flexible mobility platforms. Their proprietary technology stack empowers city leaders, transport managers, corporates, retail centres, property developers, airports and downtown to introduce bold new mobility strategies. Their connected transport digital platform equips transport planners to respond to thechallenges of increased congestion, aged infrastructure, disruptive mobility players, self-driving vehicles and a lack of quality public transport services.
- Talk360 — Talk360 is an easy-to-use calling app that helps people make affordable international calls to any mobile and landline number. They believe that reliable communication and digital services must be affordable and accessible to everyone, regardless of someone's background. Especially people in emerging countries in Africa, who often need theseservices the most, do not always have the necessary banking possibilities. To bridge this distance, Talk360 will launch the world's first single checkout platform for Africa. This platform will combine all locally available payment methods and currencies across Africa, together with over 1.25 million cash points of sales, and will eventually be available to other companies as well. This means that 500 million Africans will be able to purchase digital services they never had access to before.
- Sendmarc — Stop cyber criminals from sending emails using your domain and protect your customers, suppliers and employees from cyber attacks with DMARC Security.
IDF Capital is an established financier, that invests in high growth SMEs and entrepreneurial businesses. Specialist Entrepreneurial Financing Institution
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- Automotive, Mobile Apps
- Seed, Funding Round
- South Africa
Portfolio highlights
- Carscan — cARscan is an Augmented Reality app with an embedded visual recognition AI to track the visual condition of every motor vehicle during its life-stage.
We invest in people and stories, which are at the heart of everything we do.
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Financial Exchanges
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Nigeria, Rwanda, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Zazuu — Zazuu is a platform for sending money across the border.
- Bitmama — Bitmama is the best cryptocurrency trading platform that lets you buy, sell Bitcoin, ETH, Celo, USDT, XRP, and more. Available in Nigeria & over 100 countries.
- GetFundedAfrica — GetFundedAfrica's mission is to help Africa’s most promising startups find funding, grow & solve society’s greatest challenges. We do this through a media portal - GetFundedAfrica News; a learning portal - REMSANA; and an investment arm - GFA Ventures
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.
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- Mobile, Gaming, Internet
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, Israel, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Material Bank — Material Bank International
- Rock The Bells — Rock The Bells is an online store for hip-hop culture merchandise.
- East Asian Super League — EASL creates a premier basketball league while elevating the sport in Asia as the region’s first professional intra-club basketball league. EASL is the premier regional championship competition for club basketball in East Asia.
Global Investors in Transformative Technologies
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- Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Singapore, Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- Dapi — Dapi is a fintech API play that is aimed at facilitating payments between consumer bank accounts and companies. That Dapi has managed to make its service work in seven countries with deep bank support is impressive and Dapi has found demand for its service, with $400,000 in ARR and growth of more than 50% per month as of its presentation.
- Lemon Cash — Lemon Cash is digital wallet with FIAT and crypto capabilities. End to end digital ecosystem for Latin America.
- Moon Mortgage — Crypto backed mortgage provider
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.
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- Health Care, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- South Africa, United States, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Talk360 — Talk360 is an easy-to-use calling app that helps people make affordable international calls to any mobile and landline number. They believe that reliable communication and digital services must be affordable and accessible to everyone, regardless of someone's background. Especially people in emerging countries in Africa, who often need theseservices the most, do not always have the necessary banking possibilities. To bridge this distance, Talk360 will launch the world's first single checkout platform for Africa. This platform will combine all locally available payment methods and currencies across Africa, together with over 1.25 million cash points of sales, and will eventually be available to other companies as well. This means that 500 million Africans will be able to purchase digital services they never had access to before.
- FinAccess — FinAccess is a banking software for microfinance organisations.
- Right Now Response — Your go-to for expert breakdown assistance. Our dedicated team ensures you're back on the road swiftly and safely. Contact us for reliable support today!
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.
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- FinTech, Human Resources, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Ghana, Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- Zeepay — Zeepay Ghana Limited is a wholly Ghanaian owned Mobile FinancialServices company focusing on providing integrated mobile payments services with mobile wallets targeting the unbanked and banked population with the objective of bringing the unbanked into the financial stream and easing payments and collections for the banked population.Zeepayfacilitates the processing of multiple mobile phone payment transactions, and operates as a aggregator that brings transaction of all players together on one single platform. The company’s core application runs on open source technology, and is designed to integrate all types of payment platforms, banks, merchants, Mobile Network Operators (MNOs), and other companies with subscriber based transactions.
- BezoMoney — Bezomoney is a social saving platform for low-income earners that helps them save effectively, access bulk capital through group savings and boost their creditworthiness. The platform features a personal wallet with a lock feature allowing users to save over a period of time. It features a machine learning model allowing users to accumulate pointsbased on the consistency of their savings which translates into benefits on the platform such as discounts on purchase, acquisition of property and investment options. There is also a group wallet which allows users to participate in rotational group savings with people inside their network.
- Zuberi Technologies Limited — Zuberi Pay is an on-demand mobile employee benefits app in Africa. As an interest free mobile alternative to digital loans for employees, salaried workers have the opportunity to access their salary on a daily basis rather than wait for the month end. The platform is available to African companies via partnerships who value their employees and wantto increase financial wellbeing within the workplace.
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.
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Germany, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Vega — The comprehensive wealth creation platform for high-net-worth individuals and their advisors. Vega bridges the gap between the institutional and private wealth management worlds.
- Komet Games — A casual gaming platform powered by intelligent AI agents. Explore puzzle, battle, and hyper casual games with friends, all under one roof.
- Spot My Energy — Spot My Energy increases the value of smart power by increasing transparency in energy flows and handling metering, asset optimization, and trading.
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.
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Automotive
- Grant, Funding Round, Debt Financing
- South Africa, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Abela — Abela is a mobile payments platform that allows the underserved to make and receive payments.
- Vocalysd.ai — Vocalysd is a customer-centric, AI-powered insights tool. Vocalysd unlocks usable, easy-to-digest insights from your conversational data. These insights are key to optimising client interactions and enhancing your customers' experience.
- Welo Health — Welo Health is an innovative Healthtech Company. It to provide at-home health services.
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.
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- Gaming, Video Games, Mobile Apps
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- United States, Germany, China
Portfolio highlights
- Longjiang Network — Longjiang Network is an AR mobile game developer, dedicated to the development and IP operation of AR games.
- Wicked Saints Studios — We used behavioral technology to create interactive media that is wickedly fun and actively good. Wicked Saints emerged from Niantic’s incubator last fall (CNBC article) with a prototype of the world’s first adventure activism game, World Reborn. At its simplest, World Reborn is an interactive story game with real-life quests facilitated byaugmented reality (AR). It not only defies genres between narrative and AR games but blends the digital and real world. Wicked Saints sees AR as a bridge between fantasy and reality, with untapped potential to offer players immersive experiences that change them and their world for good.
- The Believer Company — Join the journey We are building a world-class team to serve players for years to come. If you believe in games, we believe in you.
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
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- Software, Wearables, Artificial Intelligence
- Funding Round, Series B, Series A
- United States, Denmark, South Africa
Portfolio highlights
- Pison — Pison is a human performance company optimizing cognitive and physiological capability through gesture control. It's a full-stack solution combine hardware, software, machine learning, and UX for AR industries and drones. Investors and partners include Special Forces, Air Force, Harris, First Round DRF, MIT, Draper, and NASA.
- Vesper — Vesper is an electrical and electronic manufacturing company that specializes in microphones, piezoelectric, and audio. The company is driven by a mission is to deliver voice-powered products to every market, around the world. Vesper was founded in 2009 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.
- Medrhythms — Pioneering Next-Generation Digital Therapeutics to Improve Walking
Flat6Labs is the MENA region’s leading seed and early stage venture capital firm, currently running the most renowned startup programs in the region. Annually, Flat6Labs invests in more than 100 innovative and technology-driven startups enabling thousands of passionate entrepreneurs to achieve their daring ambitions and ultimately becoming theirinstitutional co-founders. Flat6Labs manages a number of seed funds with a total AUM in excess of $85M. More than 25 leading institutions have invested into the Flat6Labs managed funds; believing in the asset class and Flat6Labs’ proven track record as the market leader.. Flat6Labs provides a wide range of investment ticket sizes ranging from $50K to $500k, supporting startups through their early journeys from Pre-Seed all the way to Pre-Series A stages. Alongside to the investments, Flat6Labs’ exceptional startup programs, executed to cater specifically for the needs of the innovative entrepreneurs, helps them accelerate their growth by providing them with a plethora of support services and connecting them to unparalleled opportunities with an expansive network comprising hundreds of business mentors, investors and corporates. Launched and headquartered in Cairo since 2011, Flat6Labs has multiple offices across the region; with ongoing plans to expand into other emerging markets.
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- Software, E-Commerce, Apps
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia
Portfolio highlights
- Midient — We help restaurants collect, analyze, and act on their customer data to increase customer satisfaction and increase revenue.
- Growdash — Growdash is a business intelligence and analytics tool built specifically for restaurants to support profitable growth strategic decisions across online sales channels.
- Agel — Agel aim at reshaping the traditional financial services business model, operational model and customer experience to unlock a unique finance avenue for (“MSMEs”), with a core preposition of availing industry-agnostic merchandise credit limit for Merchants within Agel network in a manner that is Digital, Cashless and Sharia compliant, aligning withthe UN Global (“SDG”) goals, and Egypt’s 2030 plan towards financial inclusion and sustainability.our goals are: - Empowering MSMEs growth, - Accelerating Financial Inclusion, - Eradicating Informal Economy, - Raising Financial literacy
TTV Capital is a venture capital firm that funds and supports the businesses that shape the financial future of the world.
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- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Canada, Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- Payabli — Payment infrastructure for your software platform. Accept payments from customers and make payouts to vendors and contractors with our API's.
- Foro — We help your business connect, compare, and choose between top business lenders. Get started to see the best loan options for your business.
- Carry1st — Carry1st develops and publishes enriching mobile games and content apps for African consumers.
Konvoy Ventures is a thesis driven venture capital firm. We invest in the platforms and technologies at the frontier of gaming.
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- Gaming, Video Games, Software
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Afference — Powering the sense of touch in the digital world. Feel digital objects in AR, VR, and XR with our groundbreaking haptic feedback device, the Phantom.
- Proxima — At Proxima, we aim to push the boundaries of interactive entertainment by blending innovative technology with deep artistry. We believe in the magic of exploration, the power of creativity, and the strength of human connection that form the very foundation of our gaming experiences.
- CANOPUS Networks — Understand exactly what is happening on your network at all times. CANOPUS indexes terabit-scale traffic in real-time to provide actionable insights and forensic analysis.
Loyal runs a global venture fund with quarterly redemptions and a proprietary gate-stage process, reducing investment bias and unlocking greater returns. Partnered with INSEAD, Founder Institute, and 500+ advisors, we are Loyal to the world with 250+ investments in 50+ countries.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- InSyBio — A disruptor to Precision Medicine and Nutrition through biomarker discovery.
- ZestIOT — ZestIOT is an IoT & AI enabled aviation platform to integrate passenger, baggage, aircraft, ground & airport operations.
- Wellx — Turn your health into currency. At Wellx, we're focused on making you healthier. Insurance helps us make it happen.
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, California, investing in bold founders, innovators, and entrepreneurs building the future through technology.
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- Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Castelion — We are a modern defense production company building the next generation of military hypersonic, vehicle, and strike systems to deter future wars.
- Headway — Headway is a mental healthcare system provider based in New York. It develops a health insurance advisory platform designed to connect patients with therapists and provides administrative support to therapists who don’t typically accept insurance. The company was founded by Andrew Adams, Jake Sussman, Dan Ross, and Kevin Chan in 2019.
- Blackbird — We believe the next great hospitality technology platform should connect restaurants and their customers directly, in meaningful and ongoing ways. Blackbird is founded by a team with a passion for restaurants and a track record of using technology to solve problems.
"Uncovering & Building Value"
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- Blockchain, Mobile Apps, Mobile Payments
- Seed, Series B
- Nigeria, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Busha — Buy, Sell, Trade your BTC, ETH, USDT, Tron to NGN on Busha the simplest, safest, and most trusted platform to manage your cryptocurrency portfolio.
- 24 Exchange — 24 Exchange renders multi-asset trading platform for professional quants and active traders.
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!
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- Gaming, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
- United States, Vietnam, Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Stems Labs — community and platform for collaborative creativity
- Thirdverse — Thirdverse (formerly known as Yomuneco Inc) is engaged in Virtual Reality content and services planning, development, sales and management.
- Avalon — Avalon is an Orlando, Florida-based platform to create games and virtual experiences.
Rise Capital is a leading global venture capital firm focused on Emerging Markets
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- E-Commerce, Internet, Health Care
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- Mexico, Egypt, India
Portfolio highlights
- Facily — Facily is a social commerce marketplace in Latin America. The platform focuses on low-ticket items, delivering great prices and differentiated logistics to lower income neighbourhoods, leveraging learnings from China. Facily offers a unique experience by bringing the opportunity to buy together with friends directly from producers andmanufacturers, having fun playing with freemium features. Facily also promotes community buying by leveraging local leaders and influencers.
- SaveIN — SaveIN, as the name suggests, is a financial services platform made exclusively for Indians, with an aim to revolutionize their experience across banking and daily financial transactions.We aim to offer, the full suite of traditional banking products and experiences, but in a never seen before avatar, thereby making it fun, simple, secure, andunbelievably rewarding experience. All this and more at just the click of a button, in a 100% digital and paperless, mobile first ecosystem.
- Homzmart — Homzmart is an e-commerce platform that sells home furniture, home décor, lighting, and home supplies. The company specializes in the fields of home improvement, eCommerce, home directory, technology, and home shopping. It was founded in 2019 and headquartered in Cairo, Al Qahirah.
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.
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- Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Grant, Funding Round, Seed
- United States, India, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- AI21 Labs — AI21 Labs is an AI lab & product company whose mission is to reimagine the way we read and write by making the machine a thought partner to humans.
- Aifficient.Tech — AIfficient.Tech is a revolutionary platform designed to empower small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) through the power of artificial intelligence. With a focus on enhancing productivity, efficiency, and innovation, AIfficient.Tech offers a wide range of AI-driven services tailored to meet the unique needs of businesses across variousindustries. Our mission is to level the playing field for SMEs by providing them with AI solutions that were previously accessible only to industry giants. We aim to help businesses work smarter, not harder, by automating routine tasks and providing real-time data and predictive analytics for informed decision-making. What sets AIfficient.Tech apart is our extensive library of 1,500 predefined and trained Autonomous AI Agents, classified using ONET codes, that cater to a wide array of functions and industries. These roles act as intelligent virtual employees, known as Cognitive Autonomous Agents, that integrate seamlessly into existing workflows.
- RAD-AID International — RAD-AID International is dedicated to improve radiology services in the developing world and poor areas.
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.
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- Supply Chain Management, Transportation, Information Technology
- Seed, Angel, Grant
- Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa
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.
- MarketForce — MarketForce connects Africa’s informal retail outlets and consumers directly to suppliers of consumer goods and financial services by digitizing orders, delivery, and payments with the aim of solving the last mile distribution challenge.
- SHYFT Power Solutions — SHYFT builds industrial-grade IoT and integrated software to connect and intelligently manage distributed energy resources (DERs) in markets that struggle with resiliency. SHYFT is pioneering the development of integrated decentralized power systems in emerging markets like Nigeria, leapfrogging over traditional central infrastructure and enablingDERs to scale and support existing but unreliable grids.
Adventure Capital is a unique mix of incubator and venture fund focused in frontier markets. Our team provides extensive operational, technical, and financial support to each of our portfolio companies. These next-generation platforms are improving the lives of millions and generating jobs through more efficient markets.
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- Apps, Internet, Software
- Series A
- Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- Gokada — Gokada is the largest last-mile courier delivery solution in Nigeria. Send your parcels and packages with Gokada.
IC Global Partners is an international venture capital firm focused on seed- and early-stage venture investments.
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- Apps, Internet, Software
- Series A
- Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- Gokada — Gokada is the largest last-mile courier delivery solution in Nigeria. Send your parcels and packages with Gokada.
VentureSouq operates a large co-investment platform with a global investment portfolio.
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- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia
Portfolio highlights
- D3 — D3 - DNS Domains for Web3
- Silkhaus — A seamless, sophisticated experience you can rely on. Choose from the wide variety of furnished Boutique Flats and apartments for short and long-term stays from Silkhaus.
- Metriport — Metriport helps digital health companies access and manage patient health and medical data, through an open-source and universal API.
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.
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- Energy, Renewable Energy, Transportation
- Series B, Funding Round, Series C
- United States, France, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Autogrid — Building a Resilient and Sustainable Grid with Distributed Energy Resources. Enabling a smarter, cleaner, more distributed electric power grid.
- 45-8 ENERGY — 45-8 ENERGY is exploring eco-friendly helium for uses in many industries.
- Zola Electric — ZOLA Electric designs renewable energy solutions based on the latest in solar, battery and power electronics technology. Adaptable to energy need and income, ZOLA Electric’s solar systems can be bought over time using PAYGo micro-finance leasing and mobile money payments. ZOLA Electric powers more than 180,000 homes and businesses across Tanzania,Rwanda, Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana. Investors include Tesla, Vulcan Capital, DBL Partners, Helios Investment Partners, EDF, Total and GE Ventures. ZOLA Electric is a recipient of the UN Momentum for Change Award, the Zayed Future Energy Prize and is a member of the Global Cleantech 100.
The best companies, off the beaten path.
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- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Mexico, Colombia
Portfolio highlights
- Instock — Instock offers a gravity-defying ecommerce fulfillment.
- ZipperTax — AI copilot for tax professionals and taxpayers
- EquityList — Equity management with online cap table management and employee stock option programs (ESOP) administration. Available free for Indian startups
Commercial Real Estate Development
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- Apps, Internet, Software
- Series A
- Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- Gokada — Gokada is the largest last-mile courier delivery solution in Nigeria. Send your parcels and packages with Gokada.
E2 Ventures is an investment firm.
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- Mobile Apps, Automotive, Telecommunications
- Seed, Funding Round
- South Africa, The Netherlands
Portfolio highlights
- Carscan — cARscan is an Augmented Reality app with an embedded visual recognition AI to track the visual condition of every motor vehicle during its life-stage.
- Talk360 — Talk360 is an easy-to-use calling app that helps people make affordable international calls to any mobile and landline number. They believe that reliable communication and digital services must be affordable and accessible to everyone, regardless of someone's background. Especially people in emerging countries in Africa, who often need theseservices the most, do not always have the necessary banking possibilities. To bridge this distance, Talk360 will launch the world's first single checkout platform for Africa. This platform will combine all locally available payment methods and currencies across Africa, together with over 1.25 million cash points of sales, and will eventually be available to other companies as well. This means that 500 million Africans will be able to purchase digital services they never had access to before.
Jump Capital is a thesis-led venture investor specializing in scalable software opportunities in fintech, crypto, IT and data infrastructure, the future of commerce, digital media, and vertical SaaS solutions. In addition to capital, Jump provides advocacy and support for entrepreneurs, complemented with institutional-level resources.
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- Blockchain, Software, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Osano — Osano simplifies privacy compliance by helping organizations build, manage, and scale their privacy program. Become compliant with the GDPR, CPRA, and more.
- Cypago — End-to-end intelligent compliance solution for any security standard including SOC 2, ISO 27001, SOX-ITGC, and HIPAA
- 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.
Investment One is a financial firm that provides fund management, stockbroking, venture capital, pension and consulting services.
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- FinTech, Payments, Mobile Apps
- Series A
- South Africa
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- PayCode Inc — Paycode is a South African fintech that combines biometric digital identity and payments in one platform. By offering these two solutions, users are able to access financial services that include cash pay-outs, mobile money, remittances, insurance, microloans, airtime, electricity, and social grants.
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.
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- Blockchain, Video Streaming, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, United Kingdom, South Africa
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- ROW8 — ROW8 is a subscription-free streaming service that gives moviegoers access to new hollywood films straight from theatres, as well as a curated selection of the best hit movies of all time.
- Centbee — Centbee is a B2C payment company providing cross-border remittances and digital wallet. Founded in 2017, we provide an easy-to-use app that enables financially excluded customers to buy a wide range of important digital goods; and send money to family and friends quickly and cheaply.
- Buzzmint — Buzzmint is a BSV tech platform that enables brands, creators, media specific businesses and individuals to simply and quickly ideate, create and deploy utility led NFT/Token projects.
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
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- Blockchain, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, France, Estonia
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- Rainmaker Games — The free global platform to play hundreds of play-to-earn games - connecting gamers, games, and guilds worldwide.
- Collectibles.com — Collectibles.com is a Web3 community and marketplace for collectors and the worldwide collectibles sector.
- Immortal Game — Immortal Game is a play-and-earn, free-to-play, Immortal game that introduces a layer of strategy to the most played board game.
Health54 is the Corporate Venture Capital of CFAO Group in Healthcare.
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- Health Care, Pharmaceutical, Retail
- Seed
- Nigeria, Kenya
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- Tibu Health — Tibu Health uses the most sophisticated health and logistics technology to provide patients with a convenient and coordinated end-to-end healthcare experience, resulting in improved health outcomes, healthier lifestyles, and more time to concentrate on the things that are important to our patients.
- Lifestores Pharmacy — Lifestores is a retail pharmacy start-up bringing disruptive innovation to the pharmaceutical sector in Nigeria by democratizing quality medicines and pharmaceutical services.
- Lifestores Healthcare — Lifestores Healthcare is using technology to democratize access to quality and affordable primary healthcare.
Asymmetry Ventures invests in scalable early-stage companies with exceptional defensibility.
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- Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, India, United Kingdom
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- NewHomesMate (formerly Propertymate) — Find, compare and buy a new construction home - all in one place.
- Mate Fertility — Mate Fertility Is the Fastest Growing Fertility Network That Makes Care Affordable In A Warm Clinic Setting With Compassionate Providers.
- Rejuvenation Technologies — Rejuvenation Technologies is a biotechnology company that developed nucleoside-modified TERT mRNA to safely and rapidly extend telomeres. The company is headquartered in Mountain View, California.
BKR Capital, a venture firm capital built with the objective of investing in promising Black founders in the technology space.
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- Travel, Car Sharing, Mobile Apps
- Seed
- Canada, Nigeria
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- Protexxa — Protexxa is a B2B SaaS cybersecurity startup that links the dots between individual cyber hygiene and company risk.
- Treepz — Treepz Inc. (formerly Plentywaka) is building the largest shared mobility platform in West Africa with over 500,000 satisfied customers.
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.
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- Travel, Car Sharing, Mobile Apps
- Seed
- Nigeria
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- Treepz — Treepz Inc. (formerly Plentywaka) is building the largest shared mobility platform in West Africa with over 500,000 satisfied customers.
GIIG invest in seed, growth and late stage companies.
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- Environmental Engineering, Health Care, Ride Sharing
- Seed
- Kenya, Nigeria, United States
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- BioBuu — BioBuu focuses on the development of manufacturing capacity and environmentally sustainable production.
- Treepz — Treepz Inc. (formerly Plentywaka) is building the largest shared mobility platform in West Africa with over 500,000 satisfied customers.
- EnvisionIt Deep AI — Impacting the Healthcare Industry through Technology
An early-stage venture fund, Roselake invests in tech companies in emerging markets across Africa and Asia.
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- Transportation, SaaS, Travel
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Nigeria
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- Treepz — Treepz Inc. (formerly Plentywaka) is building the largest shared mobility platform in West Africa with over 500,000 satisfied customers.
- T40 Technologies — Founded in 2019, T40’s mission is to challenge the status quo on behalf of small and medium-sized intercity transport service operators in Nigeria. We are doing so by building an open technology infrastructure that would enable transport operators of all sizes to transition from manual and analog operations to a digital system that is guaranteed todeliver revenue growth and increased productivity to their businesses. Our digital channels has also helped many operators offer improved services to their travelers hence increasing their NPS in the process.
Perivoli Innovations is a venture investment Trust established in 2016 by the Perivoli Trust. It donates profits to the Perivoli Foundation, a UK Charity, whose principal focus is Africa.
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- Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical Device
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United Kingdom, Kenya, South Africa
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- Adaptavate — Our purpose is to help the construction industry adapt to change, by mainstreaming the production, manufacturing and availability of world leading low carbon building materials.
- Greenspark — Turn your e-commerce business into a force for good, increase sales and engage your customers in climate action with Greenspark.
- Cheesecake Energy — Cheesecake Energy is developing advanced thermal and compressed air energy systems to store energy from intermittent renewables, turning them into reliable power on-demand.
We will continue to invest and support the growth of innovative companies towards sustainable economic growth and solving social issues.
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- Health Care, Medical, E-Commerce
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria
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- 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.
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.
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Marketplace
- Seed, Grant, Funding Round
- United States, Ireland, Sweden
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- Fordefi — The MPC wallet platform and Web3 gateway from Fordefi allow institutions to connect to dApps across multiple chains while keeping digital assets secure. Fordefi is the first institutional MPC wallet and security platform designed for decentralised finance. It provides MPC key management, self-service DeFi policy controls, time-of-transaction smartcontract insights, transaction simulation, and risk alerts.
- CoPilot — CoPilot is pioneering Assisted Commerce for big-ticket purchases – starting with cars. You are the one spending the money - shouldn't you have an expert on your side? We founded CoPilot to make that a reality. For the average car buyer, who is not a car expert or enthusiast, car shopping can be a time consuming, frustrating process that leavespeople feeling alone and disadvantaged. CoPilot is changing this dynamic. Like a trusted friend who is knowledgeable about cars, knows where to look and what to buy, CoPilot provides car shoppers with an expert partner who empowers them to discover the perfect car at the best possible price with ease and confidence.
- Lava Network — Lava Network aims to be a marketplace for blockchain data.
Pierre Omidyar, the founder of eBay, and his wife, Pam, established Omidyar Network based on the belief that every person has the potential to make a difference. Since 2004, they have worked with their partners to create opportunities for people to tap that potential, enabling them to improve their lives and make powerful contributions to theircommunities.They support, scale, and champion the work of their partners in order to maximize social impact. As a philanthropic investment firm, they make both investments and grants, identifying like-minded organizations that they support, help scale, and collaborate with to help realize their full potential. Their efforts are organized around two investment initiatives Access to Capital, and Media, Markets and Transparency.
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Education
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, India, Brazil
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- Vyng — Vyng has built a next-generation Caller ID platform that visualizes every call. Vyng is helping start better conversations between friends, family, and businesses for the next half billion smartphone users in India and beyond.Vyng boasts 4 billion videos played across 170 countries since its launch in 2018. The company has raised $7MM and isbacked by March Capital, Omidyar Network, a Sequoia Capital partner, and the founders of Giphy and GroupMe.
- Doubtnut — Doubt solutions for Maths, Science, CBSE, NCERT, IIT JEE, NEET & Class 6 to 12. Click, type question to get instant video answers solved by Doubtnut team.
- Kaleidofin — Kaleidofin is a fintech platform that provides complete financial solutions for excluded individuals and households. The platform propels under-banked customers towards meeting their real life goals by providing intuitive and tailored financial solutions. Their solutions take into account the financial roadblocks and vulnerability that thesesegments, such as volatile income streams and limited understanding of the fine print in financial products.Kaleidofin creates individual profiles of households based on several sources and uses that information to tailor its services for each customer. It also provides curated, goal-based financial solutions to people in the underbanked segments. It will leverage the full India stack, existing networks, analytics, structuring, and user-centered design to drive outcomes for customers, in the processKaleidofin was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
Foreign & Commonwealth Office is a government organization that provides tourists and travellers with travel alerts, tips, and advice. It promotes the United Kingdom's interests overseas supporting its citizens and businesses around the globe.Foreign & Commonwealth Office has a worldwide network of embassies and consulates thatemploys over 14,000 people in nearly 270 diplomatic offices. It works with international organizations to promote British interests and global security, including the EU, NATO, Foreign & Commonwealth Office was founded on January 1, 1936 and is based in London, United Kingdom.
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- Medical, Logistics, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Kenya, Mauritius, South Africa
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- Ziada — Ziada is a mobile application that connects you to service providers near you and vice versa. Download Ziada today from the Google Playstore to start experiencing convenience.
- AgroCenta — AgroCenta is an online platform that connects the smallholder farmer in the staple food (rice, maize, millet and soybean) value chain to a wider online market to trade
- HealthDart — Consult with a doctor, nurse or pharmacist, order medicines or get health advice - at a price you can afford
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.
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- FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, India, South Korea
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- Ello — Ello is an app-based reading coach that listens to your child read from real books, teaches and motivates them, and transforms them into enthusiastic readers.
- Brine.fi — The best onchain spot trading crypto exchange
- Automat AI — Robotic process automation for Chrome using GPT3 guided Computer Vision
JPMorgan Chase & Co. provides innovative financial solutions for consumers, small businesses, corporations, governments, and institutions. The firm is serving customers, helping small businesses, or putting its skills to work with partners, they strive to identify issues and propose solutions that will propel the future and strengthen both itsclients and communities.
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Enterprise Software
- Debt Financing, Seed, Grant
- United States, Brazil, United Kingdom
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- Quinn Residences — Quinn Residences offers newly-built houses for rent located in the best neighborhoods with professional management, modern amenities and fantastic community perks for a maintenance-free lifestyle.
- Ribbon Communications — Ribbon offers innovative IP and optical networking solutions and cloud-to-edge communications solutions.
- Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation — The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Chicago runs two programs that invests in UChicago-affiliated teams: the Edward L. Kaplan, '71, New Venture Challenge (NVC) program and the Polsky Center Accelerator Program. For more information and details on how to apply, please visit: http://chicagonvc.comor http://polskycenter.com/accelerator/
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