# Top 50 Real Estate VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Africa in October 2023

## Future Africa
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology

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.

## Ventures Platform
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Internet

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.

## Logos Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: B2B, FinTech, Logistics

Logos Ventures is a venture capital investment firm.

## Enza Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Logistics, E-Commerce, B2B

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

## HoaQ
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Focus: Financial Services, Internet, E-Commerce

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## CRE Venture Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- 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.

## LoftyInc Capital Management
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Carmel, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- 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.........

## CV VC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Zug, Zug, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Software, Information Technology

We invest in blockchain

## Picus Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- 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.

## Azur Innovation Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Finance, Software

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## Moonshot Venture Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bangkok, Krung Thep, Thailand
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Lending, Internet, Communities

Moonshotvc is a venture capital firm that operates in Thailand. We invest in deep tech and industrial tech startup.

## InfraCo Africa
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Electric Vehicle, AgTech, Agriculture

InfraCo seeks to fund and develop projects in sectors or geographies where the private sector would not otherwise work at such an early stage, seeking to exit its projects to private sector developers/financiers once project viability has been demonstrated, normally at or shortly before financial close. InfraCo will not compete directly withthe private sector but seeks to mobilise private sector involvement by bearing the time and cost risk of front end project development in order to mobilise private sector investment.

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

Oyster Ventures invests in exceptional new-frontier technology companies.
We target companies that bring liquidity and efficiency to antiquated industries, companies that enable globalization, and with the leverage to massively scale.

## Zedcrest Capital Limited
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, Software, Credit

Zedcrest Capital is a full-service capital management firm, with core interests in fixed income securities trading, asset management and proprietary investments

## MaC Venture Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care

MaC Venture Capital is a seed-stage venture capital firm that invests in technology startups leveraging shifts in cultural trends and behaviors.

## Vakayi Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Harare, NA - Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Industrial, Real Estate

Vakayi Capital supports outstanding entrepreneurs providing essential services in Zimbabwe. Vakayi is uniquely positioned in Zimbabwe to tap into the exceptional investment opportunities in businesses with proven business models, strong growth prospects and the potential to significantly create jobs and impact the lives of low-income people. Theteam’s experience and extensive business network generates a robust deal flow for capital deployment in the clean energy, housing, education and healthcare sectors. Currently, Vakayi is the only fund in Zimbabwe focused on supporting small businesses.

## ENISA
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Debt Financing, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology

ENISA is a public company under the Ministry of Industry, Energy and Tourism, through the Directorate General of Industry and Small and medium-sized enterprises which, since 1982, actively participates in the financing of viable and innovative business projects.

## CDG Invest
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Rabat, Rabat-Sale-Zemmour-Zaer, Morocco
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: Apps, Software, Internet

CDG Invest is the investment branch of the CDG group. CDG Invest acts both as an investment manager for its own account following both financial and strategic logic, as well as as a fund manager for third parties. CDG Invest intervenes in various key sectors of the Moroccan economy: industry, agro-food, digital/digital, renewable energy, andterritorial PPP and with various segments of companies.

## Chandaria Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, FinTech, Software

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.

## Ardent Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bangkok, Krung Thep, Thailand
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Software

Leading Venture Capital & Builder in Southeast Asia | Experts in E-Commerce, B2B, B2C, Fulfilment Startups | Seed, Series A Funding

## Vumela Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Hyde Park, Newtownabbey, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Debt Financing
- Focus: Education, Software, Primary Education

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

## Chinook Capital Limited
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: EdTech, Retail, Home Services

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

## Emerging Capital Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Private Equity, Post-IPO Equity
- Focus: Telecommunications, Finance, Energy

ECP is a private equity group dedicated to investing in Africa.They are a pan-African private equity firm that has raised over US$2 billion for investment across the African continent, including the Francophone regions. They have put their investors’ capital to work in over 40 countries in all major regions of the continent, directly supportingover 50,000 jobs.

## Ingressive Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology

Ingressive Capital they provide services in business development, partnerships, and financial support.

## 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.

## Knife Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing

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## Accion Venture Lab
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance

Accion Venture Lab is an investment initiative that provides startups with seed capital and support.

## SunFunder
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Debt Financing, Series C
- Focus: Solar, Energy, Renewable Energy

SunFunder is a specialist financing company dedicated to pioneering and scaling clean energy and climate investments in emerging markets.

## Foundamental
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Construction, Software, Real Estate

The global investor in construction, mining and renovation technology.

## Kalon Venture Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa
- Relevant deals: 1
- 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.

## Asymmetry Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology

Asymmetry Ventures invests in scalable early-stage companies with exceptional defensibility.

## LocalGlobe
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce

Seeding ambitious founders at places like @citymapper, @improbableio,@teamkano, @moo, @songkick,@seedcamp, @transferwise and @zoopla since 1999. Who's next?

## Lundin Foundation
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series D
- Focus: Mobile, Apps, Energy

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.

## Wangara Green Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Accra, Greater Accra, Ghana
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Real Estate, Sustainability, Transportation

Wangara Green Ventures is a climate-focused impact investment asset manager in Ghana, West Africa.

## Shell Foundation
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Grant, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Energy, Agriculture, Solar

Shell Foundation is an independent charity established by the Shell Group in 2000 to create and scale new solutions to global development challenges. We apply business thinking to major social and environmental issues linked to the energy sector – and seek to leverage the skills and networks of Shell where possible to deliver greater developmentimpact.Over the years, learning from both success and failure, we have established a new enterprise-based model to deliver significant and lasting social and environmental outcomes. We now deploy a blend of financial and non-financial resources to accelerate social innovation and harness private markets to deliver public benefit at scale.

## Fedha Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, Gift, Real Estate

Fedha Capital is a venture capital firm for early-stage start-ups (Seed and Series A).

## Mercy Corps Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Portland, Oregon, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, AgTech

Our impact investing arm, Mercy Corps Ventures (MCV), invests in and fuels high-impact enterprises that increase the resilience of people and communities in frontier markets.

## Lateral Frontiers
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software

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## Newtown Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Logistics, Health Care, Information Technology

Newtown Partners is a venture capital firm that actively invests in emerging, disruptive technology startups.

## EchoVC Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Information Technology, E-Commerce, Software

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

## Golden Palm Investments
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Accra, Greater Accra, Ghana
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Information Technology, FinTech, Health Care

Golden Palm Investments is an investment holding and advisory company.

## Indigo 7 Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Energy, Software, Real Estate

I7V have a wealth of experience in building successful international businesses. More than capital, our support team can help you optimise key functions.

## VFD Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance

VFD Group is an investment organization that provides products and solutions that are accessible to everyday citizens and entrepreneurs.

## Speedinvest
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

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.

## Maris Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Logistics, Real Estate, Property Management

Maris Africa is a diversified investment holding company, committed to responsible, long-term growth in Africa's unique frontier markets.

## DOB Equity
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Veessen, Gelderland, The Netherlands
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Private Equity, Seed
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Farming, Health Care

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

## SKBR
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Financial Services, Food and Beverage

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## Blue Haven Initiative
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Solar, Energy, Financial Services

Blue Haven Initiative is an innovative family office dedicated to putting wealth to work for market returns and positive social and environmental change.

## Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: CleanTech, Smart Cities, Electric Vehicle

Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office is a government organization.

## Flat6Labs
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Gîza, Al Jizah, Egypt
- Relevant deals: 1
- 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.

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