Top 50 Retail Startup Investors in Africa (October 2023)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Launch Africa
VC Fund
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5 | Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology | $200k–$3M |
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1776 Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | United States, Kenya, Brazil | Seed, Series A, Convertible Note | Education, EdTech, Software | $500k–$10M |
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Flat6Labs Tunisia
VC Fund
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3 | Tunisia | Pre-Seed, Seed | E-Commerce, Retail, Education | $64k–$200k |
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Orange Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | France, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series B, Series C | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | $214k–$75M |
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Chandaria Capital
VC Fund
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3 | Kenya, United States, Egypt | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, FinTech, Software | $200k–$37M |
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Future Africa
VC Fund
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3 | Nigeria, United States, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology | $40k–$20M |
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GreenTec Capital Partners
VC Fund
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3 | Kenya, Nigeria, Côte d'Ivoire | Seed, Pre-Seed | Information Technology, Agriculture, Computer | |
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Musha Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | United States, Nigeria, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, Software, FinTech | $50k–$10M |
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Creadev
VC Fund
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2 | France, United States, China | Series B, Series C | Health Care, Food and Beverage, Agriculture | $5.4M–$55M |
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Unseen Capital
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Nigeria | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B | Health Care, Wellness, Medical | |
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Acumen
VC Fund
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2 | United States, India, Kenya | Seed, Series A | Financial Services, Health Care, Agriculture | $300k–$13M |
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Good Soil VC
VC Fund
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2 | Ghana, Nigeria | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | FinTech, Human Resources, Financial Services | $35k–$940k |
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Reflect Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Pakistan, United States, Peru | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Information Technology, Logistics, E-Commerce | $100k–$37M |
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WIC Capital
VC Fund
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2 | Senegal | Seed | Retail, B2B, Food Processing | |
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TLcom Capital Partners
VC Fund
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2 | Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom | Series A, Series B | Software, Mobile, Information Technology | $3.5M–$27M |
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Raba Partnership
VC Fund
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2 | South Africa, United States, Egypt | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Finance | $1M–$40M |
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Flying Doctors Nigeria
VC Fund
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2 | Nigeria | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Health Care, Retail, Medical | |
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Vinny Lingham
Angel
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2 | United States, South Africa, United Kingdom | Seed, Angel | Blockchain, Internet, Cryptocurrency | $125k–$3.3M |
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Consonance Investment Managers
VC Fund
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2 | Nigeria, United States, Kenya | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, FinTech | $50k–$2.5M |
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International Finance Corporation
VC Fund
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2 | India, Brazil, United States | Debt Financing, Series B | Financial Services, FinTech, Finance | $5M–$300M |
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Chinook Capital Limited
VC Fund
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2 | Nigeria | Seed | EdTech, Retail, Home Services | $120k–$575k |
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U.S. International Development Finance Corp
VC Fund
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2 | India, United States, Kenya | Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt | Financial Services, Finance, FinTech | $8.8M–$765M |
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Kepple Africa Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt | Seed, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | $100k–$4.5M |
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Farfetch
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Spain, Nigeria | Corporate Round, Convertible Note, Seed | Fashion, E-Commerce, Software | $32k–$790k |
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Afropreneur Angels
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya, Senegal | Seed | B2B, Retail, Social Network | |
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Hamza Abu hassan Ibn Faycal AlMALIKI
Angel
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1 | Morocco | Series A | B2B, Retail, Software | |
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Niche Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Nigeria, Kenya | Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel | Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce | |
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Andrea Iannelli
Angel
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1 | Kenya | Seed | Beauty, Retail, Consumer | |
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Khosla Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, India, United Kingdom | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence | $1.5M–$60M |
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Crossfin Technology
VC Fund
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1 | South Africa, United States, Russian Federation | Series A, Private Equity | Payments, Financial Services, Information Technology | |
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Aruwa Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Nigeria, United States, France | Seed, Series A | FinTech, Big Data, Financial Services | $1.7M–$3M |
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Icon Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Israel, Canada | Series C, Series B, Series D | Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software | $5M–$60M |
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GAIA Impact Fund
VC Fund
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1 | Singapore, France, Uganda | Series A, Seed | Solar, Energy, Renewable Energy | $1.1M–$3.8M |
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Endeavor Catalyst
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Brazil, Mexico | Series B, Series A, Series C | E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology | $5.3M–$150M |
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Blue Haven Initiative
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya, United States, Ghana | Series A, Series B, Seed | Solar, Energy, Financial Services | $2M–$22M |
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Haskè Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Senegal | Seed, Pre-Seed | B2B, Retail, Banking | |
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Flat6Labs
VC Fund
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1 | Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, E-Commerce, Apps | $15k–$300k |
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UM6P Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Morocco, Israel, South Africa | Pre-Seed, Seed | Food Processing, Apps, Agriculture | $110k–$3.6M |
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Health54
VC Fund
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1 | Nigeria, Kenya | Seed | Health Care, Pharmaceutical, Retail | $3M–$3M |
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Réseau Entreprendre
VC Fund
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1 | France, Morocco | Seed, Angel | Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce | $10k–$696k |
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Polo Leteka
Angel
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1 | South Africa | Seed, Series B | Retail, Internet, Logistics | |
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Orbit Startups
VC Fund
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1 | India, Singapore, Pakistan | Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, Internet, Software | $150k–$2M |
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Partech
VC Fund
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1 | United States, France, Germany | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services | $1M–$54M |
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Trond Riiber Knudsen
Angel
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1 | Norway, United States, Kenya | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Software, Construction, SaaS | $300k–$3.5M |
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Adebowale Martins
Angel
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1 | Nigeria | Pre-Seed | Retail, Software, E-Commerce | |
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Victoria Commercial Bank
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya | Debt Financing | Retail, Furniture, Manufacturing | |
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Hi2 Global Venture Fund
VC Fund
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1 | Pakistan, United States, Indonesia | Seed, Series A | Financial Services, E-Commerce, FinTech | $3.6M–$37M |
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DNA Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Brazil, China | Seed, Series A, Series B | Health Care, Medical, Wellness | $1M–$30M |
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FirstCheck Africa
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya | Seed | Beauty, Retail, Consumer | |
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Plug & Play
VC Fund
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1 | Seed | $737k–$6.3M | ||
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Launch Africa is a leading Pan-African VC fund solving the significant funding gap in the Seed and pre-Series A investment landscape in Africa.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 131
- Round size: Seed $200k–$3M; Pre-Seed $200k–$1M
- Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $36M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Lengo — Lengo is an AI based intelligence platform that offers a large database on consumer goods for companies in the FMCG sector.
- Zanifu — The zanifu platform, allows small retailers in Sub Saharan Africa, to procure inventory from their suppliers & pay later.
- Fixit45 — Your best ever automobile service experience awaits you.
1776 Ventures is a global seed fund investing in companies in the following sectors: education, energy, smart cities, transportation, food/agriculture, fintech, and healthcare.
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- Industry: Education, EdTech, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
- Geography: United States, Kenya, Brazil
Investor stats
- Total investments: 95
- Round size: Seed $850k–$4M; Series A $2.2M–$10M; Convertible Note $500k–$2M
- Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Swiftly — Harness your public transit data with Swiftly's urban mobility solutions to make your city's mass transportation move more efficiently.
- HopSkipDrive — Arranging safe, dependable transportation or children ages 6+ with qualified caregivers
- MPOWER Financing — Apply for international student loans through MPOWER Financing. Our student loans to study in the USA & Canada don't require a cosigner or credit history.
Flat6Labs is the MENA region’s leading seed and early stage venture capital firm, currently running the most renowned startup programs in the region. Annually, Flat6Labs invests in more than 100 innovative and technology-driven startups enabling thousands of passionate entrepreneurs to achieve their daring ambitions and ultimately becoming theirinstitutional co-founders.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Retail, Education
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Tunisia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 22
- Round size: Seed $64k–$200k; Pre-Seed $65k–$79k
- Lead/follow: 73% lead, 27% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $10M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Ahkili — Ahkili is a health tech mobile application for appointment booking that connects patients to psychologists.
- WeMove — WeMove is a fitness marketplace for daily gym passes. They develop innovative solutions that meet your sports issues.
- LAMMA — Lamma is a web and mobile platform reinventing urban movement for package delivery through an extended carpooling network.
Orange Ventures is the Venture Capital Fund of the Orange Group, with 350m euros under management
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series B, Series C
- Geography: France, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 65
- Round size: Seed $214k–$4.8M; Series B $11M–$32M; Series C $24M–$75M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- CorralData — Experience the power of AI-generated metrics and insights with CorralData. Get one month free and seamlessly integrate with 200+ data sources with no upfront costs.
- Epoca — Epoca prepare the health solution of your dreams .
- Terragon Group — Terragon is a leading Data and Marketing Technology company that uses data and analytics to help companies focused in Africa, intelligently connect at scale to their customers. We use an aggregation of online and offline data, and predictive scoring to help brands, marketing agencies and platforms accurately target people across channels anddevices. Headquartered in Lagos; Nigeria, we also have a presence in Kenya, South Africa, Ghana and India.
Chandaria Capital operates as a venture capital Fund. We believe that innovative ideas will transform Africa. We invest, mentor, and work together with incredible entrepreneurs to create impactful companies that can change the continent.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Kenya, United States, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 28
- Round size: Seed $200k–$6M; Pre-Seed $1M–$3M; Series A $2M–$37M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Leta — Leta Technology is a software development company that creates supply chain and logistics software to enable the efficient and automated movement of goods.
- Jumba — Jumba is a construction technology platform that streamlines B2B construction material purchase and financing.
- UTU Technologies — Trust infrastructure for the sharing economy.
Future Africa is a collective of mission-driven founders and funders building unicorns to solve Africa’s biggest challenges. They are build a future where purpose and prosperity are within everyone’s reach.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 80
- Round size: Seed $500k–$3.7M; Pre-Seed $40k–$3.7M; Series A $7M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Balad — Balad is Egyptian Cross Border Payout Network primarily serving Money Transfer Operators (MTOs), fintechs and mobile wallets. Targeting sending markets including GCC, EU, US, Canada, and UK
- Anchor — Anchor is a Lagos-based banking-as-a-service platform for African businesses. Anchor provides APIs and infrastructure to build, embed and launch powerful financial products in a secure and scalable way.
- Itana — Talent City’s mission is to build a network of charter cities that focuses on creating technology-enabled jobs within a free trade zone with its own regulation and bylaws.
GreenTec Capital Partners is Germany's premier investor into African start-ups and SMEs. GreenTec invests through its unique Results4Equity model, acting as a co-founding partner that is only compensated on business success.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Agriculture, Computer
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, Côte d'Ivoire
Investor stats
- Total investments: 21
- Lead/follow: 90% lead, 10% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.1M in 2017
Portfolio highlights
- Asilimia — Asilimia is a simple, fun mobile app for sending money through M-PESA quickly and without any transaction fees. Simply deposit money to your M-PESA, download Asilimia and send money for free to any other M-PESA account.
- freshbag — freshbag is a wellness nutrition turnkey solution that supports corporate wellness programs by making it easy and convenient to live - and eat! - healthier.
- ShapShap — ShapShap enhances delivery experience through its commission-based marketplace by assigning efficient orders to drivers to ensure their sustainability and scalability.
Seed capital for technology startups globally.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Software, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 131
- Round size: Seed $120k–$3M; Pre-Seed $50k–$3.8M; Series A $2.5M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Terraa — Terraa is a B2B distribution platform in Moroccan.
- OmniBiz — Omnibiz is a digital platform for small businesses willing to attract new customers.
- Revivo — Revivo is an online marketplace for electronics spare parts, tools & accessories.
Creadev is an evergreen investment company believe that shareholders' timing should match with the entrepreneur's vision, up to an unlimited amount of time. Creadev invest in and support companies able to scale-up and become worldwide best players in their sector.
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- Industry: Health Care, Food and Beverage, Agriculture
- Stage:Series B, Series C
- Geography: France, United States, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 39
- Round size: Series B $5.4M–$33M; Series C $10M–$55M
- Lead/follow: 62% lead, 38% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Ouihelp — Ouihelp is a developer of an online residential assistance platform designed to help seniors in their regular activities at home. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Paris, France.
- Everytable — Everytable aims to redefine the food landscape the same way McDonald’s did fifty years ago. But this time, instead of burgers and fries, they are selling nutritious, fresh, made-from-scratch food, at fast-food prices.
- InnovaFeed — InnovaFeed is a biotech company that produces a new source of protein from insect rearing (Hermetia illucens) for animal feed and aquaculture in particular.Their model is based on a unique technological expertise that allows us to place the insect at the heart of their agri-food system and restore it to its natural place in their ecosystem: thatof recycling nutrients to then feed fish, birds or small mammals.In the context of a fast-growing world population, InnovaFeed’s activity responds concretely and competitively to an increase in protein demand while contributing to the development of a more sustainable food system, in particular through the development of quality aquaculture.
Unseen Capital created by racially diverse and historically underrepresented business leaders that is intended to identify, fund and support underrepresented founders of early-stage healthcare companies and those building solutions for marginalized communities.
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- Industry: Health Care, Wellness, Medical
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Rezilient Health — Reimagine primary care services with Rezilient Health. Every doctor available at every location & 24/7 virtual care with our tele-health techonology.
- CareAcademy — CareAcademy is an online training platform used by thousands of caregivers across the US.
- Trial Library — At Trial Library, we partner with the oncology community to enable the discoverability of clinical trials for anyone, anywhere.
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Browse database — It's Free!Acumen is a nonprofit venture fund that invests in early-stage companies bringing critical services like agriculture, clean energy, education, financial inclusion, healthcare and workforce development to low-income communities in 14 countries across East and West Africa, South Asia, Latin America, and the United States. Since 2001, Acumeninvested $128 million in 128 companies that have transformed the lives of over 308 million low-income people.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Health Care, Agriculture
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, India, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 131
- Round size: Seed $300k–$2.3M; Series A $1M–$13M
- Lead/follow: 59% lead, 41% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- GramVaani — Gram Vaani [meaning 'voice of the village'] is a social tech company based at IIT-Delhi. Their objective is to reverse the flow of information, that is, to make it bottom-up instead of top-down, by helping connect communities with companies/governments/dev agencies. Using simple technologies and social context to design tools,Gram Vaani has been able to impact communities- more than 2 million users in over 15 Indian States, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Namibia and South Africa.
- Haqdarshak — Haqdarshak is a technology-enabled platform working to transform how Indian citizens learn about, apply for, and benefit from, government schemes. The company is composed of a group of passionate social entrepreneurs using technology to impact the next billion. The team comprises of individuals from diverse background who have come together out ofcommon interest and passion. The investor community represents individuals holding prestigious positions in different companies across various sectors.
- ReCircle — They are a Waste Management service that provides a free doorstep pick-up service for offices, institutions, households and schools to dispose their recyclable waste (Raddi). They further supply this recycled waste to authorized recycling centres, ensuring safety and sustainability.
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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- Industry: FinTech, Human Resources, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Ghana, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $35k–$940k
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
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.
Reflect Ventures makes venture capital investments in high-potential startups at the seed and series A/B+ stages. We identify extraordinary founders, companies and opportunities around the world, including in emerging and frontier markets. Our LPs comprise family offices, institutional investors and HNWIs on six continents, along withrecognized sector experts who are instrumental to our portfolio companies' future growth.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Logistics, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Pakistan, United States, Peru
Investor stats
- Total investments: 26
- Round size: Seed $100k–$12M; Pre-Seed $200k–$1M; Series A $4M–$37M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Truckistan — Truckistan is developing a logistics platform to make shipping faster and cheaper. The company provides real-time tracking, a customer dashboard, account management, and guaranteed transit time, as well as SaaS tools for routing, vehicle loading, and RFID implementation throughout the supply chain.
- 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.
- 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.
WIC Capital is the first mechanism to provide suitable financing and support to women-owned MSMEs in Senegal and West Africa.
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- Industry: Retail, B2B, Food Processing
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Senegal
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kwely — Kwely is a dynamic and fast-growing startup. We are always looking for passionate, dynamic, fun and hard-working individuals to join our team.
- Mburu — Mburu specializes in the production and marketing of bread, pastries, and pastries made from local raw materials (millet, corn, sorghum, seasonal fruits, etc.).
TLcom Capital, is an Africa focused tech VC, with offices in Lagos, Nairobi and London. TLcom had been investing since 1999 in Tech, Media, Mobil and Internet companies across Europe, US and Africa, which is the exclusive focus of its most recent TLcom TIDE Africa funds. TLcom manages total commitments of approximately 300 million USD in thesesectors via a series of dedicated investment vehicles. Our investment strategy is to identify, back and assist world class entrepreneurs and management teams with disruptive technologies and business models, compelling intellectual property and deep market knowledge. We primarily target companies focused on Africa as a prime market, in the following investment themes: Access to Data Service; Financial Services; eCommerce; B2C applications (including but not limited to: health, education, energy, media and entertainment); and Software solutions to corporates and SMEs.
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- Industry: Software, Mobile, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 51
- Round size: Series A $3.5M–$13M; Series B $10M–$27M
- Lead/follow: 49% lead, 51% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $150M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Sabipay — Pastel is a leader in Artificial Intelligence. We build products targeted at individuals (SwiftMoney) and enterprises (Sigma) in emerging markets
- Talstack — Talstack is an all-in-one platform for employee growth and development
- 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.
The Raba Partnership, Raba Capital, Raba
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: South Africa, United States, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 37
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$8.3M; Pre-Seed $1M–$6.5M; Series A $9.2M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $60M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Cloudline — Cloudline leverages lighter-than-air technology and the latest developments in unmanned aerial vehicles to deliver essential goods and services to the 1 billion people without direct access to roads and runways.
- Revivo — Revivo is an online marketplace for electronics spare parts, tools & accessories.
- 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.
Flying Doctors Nigeria is an ambulance service company that provides medical emergency services. The company also provides medical solutions such as air ambulance and medical evacuation and ground ambulance services. They offer rapid transfer and the highest standards of care to patients in acute medical need, serving both states and privatecompanies on a yearly retainer basis.Flying Doctors Nigeria operates stations manned by specially trained medical doctors across the country from where real-time responses are affected. It was founded in 2009 and is based in Lagos, Nigeria.
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- Industry: Health Care, Retail, Medical
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- GetEquity — GetEquity is a NASDAQ for venture capital. We provide an exchange and liquidity for private companies, and an infrastructure for different cadres of venture capital around investing, founder liquidity, and shareholder management
- Healthtracka — Healthtracka is a digital health platform that allows consumer direct access to lab tests bookings, at-home sample collection and digital results in 1-3days
- Helium Health — Helium Health empowers healthcare providers in Africa with digital tools, financing solutions, and data partnerships. Learn more about our innovative solutions.
Vinny Lingham is Co-Founder & CEO at Civic. He was the founder and CEO of Gyft, a mobile gift card app that allows customers to buy, store, send and redeem gift cards conveniently from their mobile device. He is also the founder of Yola.com, a web development and hosting company that enables users without prior programming knowledge to developwebsites. Vinny is the recipient of numerous awards, including Top Young ICT Entrepreneur in Africa (2006) and was also a finalist for Men’s Health Best Man (2009) and ICT Personality of the Year in South Africa (2008). He also previously founded Clicks2Customers, which also won the Top Technology Company award in South Africa in 2006. He has previously served on marketing advisory boards for Nasdaq listed Valueclick and Yahoo, was also selected as an Endeavor “High Impact Entrepreneur” in 2006. Vinny studied a B.Com (Information Systems) at the University of Cape Town.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Internet, Cryptocurrency
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: United States, South Africa, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 34
- Round size: Seed $600k–$3.3M; Angel $125k–$500k
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
Portfolio highlights
- TipLink — TipLink helps send crypto with a link. Someone with crypto can create a account and send that link to anyone over any platform. It’s like buying a gift card, connect the client's crypto wallet of choice and create a account by depositing how much they want to send.
- Afterparty — Your favorite creators are here! Get 1 on 1 unfiltered experiences with creators through Afterparty livestreams or chat 24/7 through AI powered conversations
- Collectibles.com — Collectibles.com is a Web3 community and marketplace for collectors and the worldwide collectibles sector.
We are an investment company focused on helping early and growth-stage entrepreneurs build successful companies in Africa.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 30
- Round size: Seed $550k–$2.5M; Pre-Seed $450k–$1M; Series A $50k–$1.3M
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Releaf — We are industrializing food processing in Africa. We've led 1000+ smallholder farmers to provide food factories with >7.5 million kilograms of quality crops.
- Tripesa — Tripesa offers payment solutions for Africa's travel and tourism industry.
- Norebase — Norebase knows that there's an opportunity to grow successful businesses in Africa. It also understands the complexities of the market, and so is using technology to make doing business in Africa worthwhile. With Norebase get to operate in Africa with no hassle and with minimum risk.
A strong and engaged private sector is indispensible to ending extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity. That's where IFC comes in - we have more than 60 years experience in unlocking private investment, creating markets and opportunities where they are needed most.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Stage:Debt Financing, Series B
- Geography: India, Brazil, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 255
- Round size: Series B $5M–$30M; Debt Financing $20M–$300M
- Lead/follow: 53% lead, 47% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2016
Portfolio highlights
- SteinCares — SteinCares is a supplier of specialty healthcare products, such as complex generics, biosimilars, and cutting-edge pharmaceuticals.
- Veritas Finance — Veritas Finance focuses on meeting the financial needs of the micro, small, and medium enterprises. Veritas Finance Private Limited is an organization started with the primary intention of reaching out to the customers who either have no access or inadequate access to financial services in the informal sector. 'Veritas' in Latin meanstruth. True to its name, Veritas is focused on making a true impact through inclusive access to financial services on the customers engaged in informal activities.The company is run by professionals with rich experience in the financial services industry that aims to make availing credit easy to this segment and make a positive impact on the lives of millions of Indians engaged in informal activities and who actually build the nation.
- Mahindra Last Mile Mobility — Mile Mobility is a division of M&M that is in charge of the company's well-known mix of petrol, CNG, diesel, and electric last mile mobility 3- and 4-wheelers - passenger and freight vehicles.
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Browse database — It's Free!Chinook Capital is focused on investments in seed- and pre-stage companies in internet software, services, and media sectors.
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- Industry: EdTech, Retail, Home Services
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $120k–$575k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Edves — Edves automates the brick and mortal School operations from Student enrollment, Fee Collection, Lesson Note up to Transcript Generation.
- Youverify — Youverify helps businesses and individuals confirm identity and physical addresses. Using AI, Youverify confirms a user’s identity document and compares it with their facial biometrics. This information can be cross-checked against more than 300 databases locally and globally.Youverify in partnership with over 20,000 field verification officersverifies physical addresses all over Sub-Sahara Africa in less than 48 hours.Youverify fills the gap in Africa's digital industry by providing one API for identity and physical address verification.
- Lifestores Pharmacy — Lifestores is a retail pharmacy start-up bringing disruptive innovation to the pharmaceutical sector in Nigeria by democratizing quality medicines and pharmaceutical services.
U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) is America’s development bank. DFC partners with the private sector to finance solutions to the most critical challenges facing the developing world today. We invest in projects that create jobs in emerging markets in sectors including energy, healthcare, critical infrastructure,telecommunications, and financing for small businesses and women entrepreneurs. DFC investments adhere to high standards and respect the environment, human rights, and worker rights.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
- Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt
- Geography: India, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 55
- Round size: Post-IPO Debt $34M–$765M; Debt Financing $8.8M–$200M
- Lead/follow: 75% lead, 25% follow
Portfolio highlights
- TerraPay — Accelerating business growth with uninterrupted global payouts and collections
- TechMet — TechMet Ltd backs world-class teams and makes direct investments into companies and assets across the value chain.
- Kentegra Biotechnology Holdings LLC — Kentegra Biotechnology Holdings is a leading U.S-Kenyan company that supports a Kenyan-based biopesticide processing business that aggregates, extracts, and refines pale refine extract (PRE) from the pyrethrum flower, and sells the PRE to formulators across the world. Kentegra is committed to improving farmer’s livelihoods by investing in thecommunities where we are working to help farmers and their families have a more stable income and better quality of life.Grants: Norad 2021, AgriFi 2020, USAID 2020, USAID 2019, DEG 2020, DEG 2019
Kepple Africa Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 74
- Round size: Seed $500k–$4.5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3.7M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Chari — Chari is an e-commerce and fintech app for traditional retailers in French-Speaking Africa allowing them to order any consumer goods they sell and get delivered for free in less than 24 hours. Chari is also a financial services provider for these retailers, offering them microloans
- Carry1st — Carry1st develops and publishes enriching mobile games and content apps for African consumers.
- Beacon Power Services — Beacon Power Services is a utility company that provides energy management software and analytics for utilities.
Farfetch operates an e-commerce website that unites various independent fashion boutiques. It offers bags, coats, dresses, jackets, jewellery, swimwear, trouser, shoes, knitwear, suits, shorts, and accessories. They operate a modular end-to-end technology platform purpose built to connect the luxury fashion ecosystem worldwide. Their vision wasto create a single operating system that could address the complex demands of consumers and luxury sellers alike. Their platform is built on an API-enabled proprietary technology stack, which provides the foundation for the three main components: applications, services and data. Farfetch serves women, men, and kids. Jose Neves founded the company in 2008, with its headquarters in London, United Kingdom.
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- Industry: Fashion, E-Commerce, Software
- Stage:Corporate Round, Convertible Note, Seed
- Geography: United States, Spain, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Round size: Convertible Note $32k–$790k
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Decommerce — Decommerce provides a Community Building Solution for brands to build strong and engaging communities. Host your own Data and reduce marketing spend through rewarding your loyal customers using web3 and blockchain based solutions
- Neiman Marcus Group — Shop fashion's top names for women, men, and kids. Plus, check out beauty's best brands, designer jewelry, luxurious decor, and distinctive gifts for any occasion.
- Colvin — At The Colvin Co we aim to change the way people buy flowers online by offering intermediary-free bouquets selected by our floral gurus through an optimised platform that delivers best-in-class user experience.
Afropreneur Angels provides funding and assistance to aspiring businesses. It houses multiple entrepreneurs from various industries. Afropreneur Angels was founded in 2012.
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- Industry: B2B, Retail, Social Network
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Kenya, Senegal
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Kwely — Kwely is a dynamic and fast-growing startup. We are always looking for passionate, dynamic, fun and hard-working individuals to join our team.
- Wowzi — Access influencer marketing and intelligence with Africa's most trusted software platform.
Hamza Abu hassan Ibn Faycal AlMALIKI
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- Industry: B2B, Retail, Software
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Morocco
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Evollume.com — Introducing a revolutionary new website that combines the best features of two of the world's largest e-commerce platforms to create an unparalleled product sourcing experience. With this website, wholesalers, manufacturers, and retailers can easily find the products they need from a single dashboard.The website features an intuitiveinterface that allows users to search for products by category, brand, price, and other criteria. Users can also view product reviews and ratings, compare prices from multiple suppliers, and place orders directly through the platform.One of the key advantages of this website is that it caters to all types of businesses, whether they are large enterprises or small startups. Wholesalers can easily find manufacturers who can provide them with the bulk quantities they need, while manufacturers can connect with retailers who are looking for specific products to sell. Retailers can also benefit from the website's extensive inventory and competitive pricing, making it easier for them to source the products they need to stock their stores.Another unique feature of this website is its ability to handle international transactions, including currency conversion and shipping. This means that businesses from all over the world can connect and do business with each other, opening up new markets and opportunities for growth.Overall, this website represents a game-changing innovation in the world of e-commerce, making it easier than ever for businesses of all sizes to source the products they need from a single, easy-to-use platform.
Venture Capital firm
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Anchor — Anchor is a Lagos-based banking-as-a-service platform for African businesses. Anchor provides APIs and infrastructure to build, embed and launch powerful financial products in a secure and scalable way.
- Blossom.team — Powered by AI, Blossom's science-backed professional coaching brings together experienced coaches & ML to show actual growth on key topics: productivity, communications, leadership, stress management, career development, interpersonal skills, and more. Subscribe and see why it's the successful professional's secret superpower!
- evaluate.xyz — NFT Valuation Platform and Community
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- Industry: Beauty, Retail, Consumer
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Uncover — Experience nourishing and rejuvenating Uncover Skincare products in Kenya. Made just for you, using the finest ingredients to offer innovative & effective solutions.
Khosla Ventures invests in companies that are bold, early and impactful. The firm was started in 2004 by Vinod Khosla, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, to provide venture assistance to entrepreneurs. Headquartered in Menlo Park, Calif., Khosla Ventures invests in a range of areas including AI, climate, sustainability, enterprise, consumer, fintech,digital health, medtech and diagnostics, therapeutics and frontier technology.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 763
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$7M; Series A $4.3M–$26M; Series B $8M–$60M
- Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- CellFE — CellFE is a company developing a microfluidics based device to deliver gene-editing molecules. CellFE developed microfluidic device and process that can efficiently deliver gene-editing molecules into the human cells.
- rabbit — Revolutionizing human-machine interaction
- Vayu Robotics — Vayu Robotics is an AI robotics company that develops and commercializes automotive sensing, autonomous vehicles, and robotics technology.
Crossfin invests in FINTECH solutions to enable growth for economies in Africa and beyond. Crossfin invests in high growth and established cash generative businesses, offering investors a blended exposure to technology investments in Fintech.
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- Industry: Payments, Financial Services, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Private Equity
- Geography: South Africa, United States, Russian Federation
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Adumo — We are your expert partner in payments, enabling you to seamlessly and securely accept payments in-store and online with our true omni-channel experience. Never miss a sale with South Africa's largest independent payments processor.
- My-iMali — My-iMali is a mobile wallet solution used for safe and secure transactions. Pay any number of people for only R1.25, including Staff & Students.
- VantagePay — VantagePay provides white-label payment and technology solutions to the Banking, Telco, Financial Services, and Consumer Product Industries.
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Browse database — It's Free!Aruwa Capital Management is a Lagos-based, female-founded and led growth equity impact fund.
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- Industry: FinTech, Big Data, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 13
- Round size: Seed $1.7M–$3M
- Lead/follow: 85% lead, 15% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- OmniBiz — Omnibiz is a digital platform for small businesses willing to attract new customers.
- AgroEknor — AgroEknor provides agricultural research, integration, technology based optimization & global delivery of the agro superfoods.
- Fastizers — Fastizers Food and Confectionery Limited is a newly formed food production firm in Nigeria that has been approved by the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC).
The road to success is long. Re-defining an industry requires passion, perseverance, and true grit. At Icon Ventures, we help entrepreneurs with true grit navigate the journey to become icons of tomorrow.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
- Stage:Series C, Series B, Series D
- Geography: United States, Israel, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 162
- Round size: Series B $11M–$30M; Series C $8M–$35M; Series D $5M–$60M
- Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- Alation — Lead your business fearlessly with data using Alation's industry-leading data intelligence platform. Discover, understand, & trust your data like never before.
- Midi Health — Expert care for women 40+. Made for midlife. Delivered by experienced clinicians. Covered by insurance. Book a visit today.
- Maven Clinic — Maven helps companies retain diverse talent, improve health outcomes, and reduce maternity and fertility costs. We support every path to parenthood: Pregnancy, Fertility, Egg Freezing, Adoption, Surrogacy, Infant Care, Breastmilk Shipping, and Manager Training.
Gaia Impact Fund is a venture capital firm specializing in renewable energy that builds long-term partnerships with startups operating in Sub-Saharan Africa and South-East Asia with a strong environmental and social focus. The firm supports businesses enabling sustainable and affordable energy provision to local communities. In regions where energymixes are highly carbonized, it supports technological innovations and business models enabling a cost-efficient diffusion of renewable energy on a large scale.
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- Industry: Solar, Energy, Renewable Energy
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Singapore, France, Uganda
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Series A $1.1M–$3.8M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Candi — Combining the best of its roots in Switzerland, and extensive local presence, candi offers companies of all sizes the simplest, most efficient way to take advantage of solar power for their business.
- Agros — Agros exist to make farming economically viable and environmentally sustainable. The company provides farmers with carbon-reducing and income-increasing products and services, from input to market. Their unique ecosystem approach aggregates different low-carbon technologies, bundled with affordable finance, insurance, advisory and market access.Agros’ mission is to double the income of millions of farmers while reducing 100 megatons of annual carbon emissions.
- MyJouleBox — MyJouleBox offers a solution for solar professionals in Africa to offer leased solar installations to their customers.
Endeavor Catalyst is the rules-based, co-investment fund of Endeavor, set up to invest exclusively in Endeavor Entrepreneur-led companies and to sustain Endeavor’s long-term operations in a mission-aligned way. Launched in 2012, Endeavor Catalyst has ~$500M+ AUM across four funds and has made 260+ investments to date in 35+ different markets. TodayThe Endeavor Catalyst portfolio has 53 companies valued at $1B+. Investments include Globant (NYSE:GLOB), Rappi, and Creditas in Latin America; Yemeksepeti.com and Careem in MENA; and Bukalapak and Carro in Indonesia.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
- Geography: United States, Brazil, Mexico
Investor stats
- Total investments: 264
- Round size: Series A $5.3M–$35M; Series B $8M–$107M; Series C $12M–$150M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Sami — Sami is a Brazil-based health plan startup that provides a technology-based solution intended to be used in the healthcare sector. The company focuses on making health care simpler, more efficient, and friendlier by using simplified solutions, thus, providing patients with reduced costs for their medical care needs. Their mission is to transformBrazilian health into something simple, easy, reliable, and accessible, which helps each person to be their best version.Founded by Vitor Asseituno and Luiz Guilherme Berardo in 2018 and is based in São Paulo, Brazil.
- Thunes — Payment infrastructure for a connected world.
- InvGate — InvGate is the solution to build a modern service desk and empower IT with total visibility of your IT estate.
Blue Haven Initiative is an innovative family office dedicated to putting wealth to work for market returns and positive social and environmental change.
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- Industry: Solar, Energy, Financial Services
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: Kenya, United States, Ghana
Investor stats
- Total investments: 22
- Round size: Series A $2M–$11M; Series B $12M–$22M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
Portfolio highlights
- M-KOPA — M-KOPA is the global leader for “pay-as-you-go” energy services for off-grid customers. M-KOPA was established in 2011. Following 2 years of piloting and development, M-KOPA began commercial sales in Kenya in October 2012. M-KOPA expanded to Uganda in 2013 and commences operations in Tanzania in late 2014. Their team includes over 500 staff andwe sell our product through more than 1000 retail agents and shops. The founders of the company are experienced mobile technology innovators who believe in the huge potential of transformative, affordable products designed for underserved consumers. While excellent technology is a pre-requisite, technology alone does not solve for customer needs. Success comes when smart technology is combined with a commitment to on-going, on-the-ground delivery. To that end, M-KOPA is beginning to license its technology to experienced and reputable third parties in markets outside of East Africa (licensing queries should be sent to licensing@m-kopa.com). M-KOPA has developed a proprietary, patented technology platform that combines embedded GSM + mobile payments to revolutionize asset financing in emerging markets. The M-KOPAnet platform has been designed and built from the ground up by our talented team of software engineers, who continue to innovate and improve the system every day. It offers the powerful combination of accounting + customer relationship management + inventory tracking in one complete system. Aside from enabling our business operations to scale at record speed, the M-KOPAnet™ platform captures and processes huge volumes of data, enabling us to improve our proposition, customer service, and security in real-time.
- TIBU Health — TIBU Health is a disruptive HealthTech logistics company that provides high-quality healthcare services.
- Field — Health supply chain technology and services across Africa
Haskè Ventures is a venture builder based in Dakar and focused on transforming the startup landscape.
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- Industry: B2B, Retail, Banking
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Senegal
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kwely — Kwely is a dynamic and fast-growing startup. We are always looking for passionate, dynamic, fun and hard-working individuals to join our team.
- ProXalys — ProXalys is an african digital bank or neobank for the financial inclusion and empowerment of african women (entrepreneurs and self-employed entrepreneurs, startups, SMEs, and startups).
Flat6Labs is the MENA region’s leading seed and early stage venture capital firm, currently running the most renowned startup programs in the region. Annually, Flat6Labs invests in more than 100 innovative and technology-driven startups enabling thousands of passionate entrepreneurs to achieve their daring ambitions and ultimately becoming theirinstitutional co-founders. 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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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 123
- Round size: Seed $15k–$300k; Pre-Seed $32k–$230k
- Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Midient — We help restaurants collect, analyze, and act on their customer data to increase customer satisfaction and increase revenue.
- Growdash — Growdash is a business intelligence and analytics tool built specifically for restaurants to support profitable growth strategic decisions across online sales channels.
- Agel — Agel aim at reshaping the traditional financial services business model, operational model and customer experience to unlock a unique finance avenue for (“MSMEs”), with a core preposition of availing industry-agnostic merchandise credit limit for Merchants within Agel network in a manner that is Digital, Cashless and Sharia compliant, aligning withthe UN Global (“SDG”) goals, and Egypt’s 2030 plan towards financial inclusion and sustainability.our goals are: - Empowering MSMEs growth, - Accelerating Financial Inclusion, - Eradicating Informal Economy, - Raising Financial literacy
UM6P Ventures is a venture capital investment firm that invests in Science & Innovation.
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- Industry: Food Processing, Apps, Agriculture
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Morocco, Israel, South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Seed $265k–$3.6M; Pre-Seed $110k–$250k
- Lead/follow: 60% lead, 40% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Terraa — Terraa is a B2B distribution platform in Moroccan.
- NitroFix — NitroFix aims to lower the global carbon footprint by generating ammonia with no carbon emissions. NitroFix created an innovative manufacturing technology that generates 0% CO2. The method is based on an electrochemical reaction, which is aided by a new catalyst.
- Smartprof — Smartprof is a B2C educational platform based in North Africa. It's a platform that links students of primary, secondary and Highschool, with students of universities, business, and engineering schools that are able to teach and dispense coaching sessions. Smartprof helps match easily the supply and demand in the learning sphere in Morocco. Itthen creates a differenciated and innovative offer of teaching and learning, as the teachers and coachs are freshly young graduates that are molded to teaching. Finally, Smartprof aspires to become the reference of online courses and e-learning in the Northern African market and on the long term the Asian one.
Health54 is the Corporate Venture Capital of CFAO Group in Healthcare.
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- Industry: Health Care, Pharmaceutical, Retail
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Seed $3M–$3M
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
Réseau Entreprendre is a registered charity French association providing financial support to entrepreneurs.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: France, Morocco
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $10k–$696k
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Rewayz — Rewayz is operating a health platform connecting consumers with professional certified coaches and fun workshops and video exchanges.
- Vinidaily — Vinidaily is the application that helps you choose the wine 100% adapted to your tastes and the occasion, in your favorite supermarket and soon everywhere else.
- Evollume.com — Introducing a revolutionary new website that combines the best features of two of the world's largest e-commerce platforms to create an unparalleled product sourcing experience. With this website, wholesalers, manufacturers, and retailers can easily find the products they need from a single dashboard.The website features an intuitiveinterface that allows users to search for products by category, brand, price, and other criteria. Users can also view product reviews and ratings, compare prices from multiple suppliers, and place orders directly through the platform.One of the key advantages of this website is that it caters to all types of businesses, whether they are large enterprises or small startups. Wholesalers can easily find manufacturers who can provide them with the bulk quantities they need, while manufacturers can connect with retailers who are looking for specific products to sell. Retailers can also benefit from the website's extensive inventory and competitive pricing, making it easier for them to source the products they need to stock their stores.Another unique feature of this website is its ability to handle international transactions, including currency conversion and shipping. This means that businesses from all over the world can connect and do business with each other, opening up new markets and opportunities for growth.Overall, this website represents a game-changing innovation in the world of e-commerce, making it easier than ever for businesses of all sizes to source the products they need from a single, easy-to-use platform.
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Browse database — It's Free!Polo Leteka is the Founder and Chairman of IDF Capital SA. She previously worked at Standard Bank of South Africa. Polo Leteka attended the University of South Africa/Universiteit van Suid-Afrika.
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- Industry: Retail, Internet, Logistics
- Stage:Seed, Series B
- Geography: South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- SweepSouth — Book a home cleaning online from your mobile, tablet or computer. SweepSouth connects you with a cleaner in minutes. Cleaners are experienced, reliable, efficient and insured.
Orbit Startups helps companies scaling breakthrough technologies across emerging and frontier markets to the regions with the most aggressive growth.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Software
- Stage:Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
- Geography: India, Singapore, Pakistan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 78
- Round size: Seed $150k–$2M; Pre-Seed $180k–$1M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
Portfolio highlights
- medIQ — medIQ is integrated virtual care platform’ providing on-demand healthcare at the point of need in Pakistan.
- Truckistan — Truckistan is developing a logistics platform to make shipping faster and cheaper. The company provides real-time tracking, a customer dashboard, account management, and guaranteed transit time, as well as SaaS tools for routing, vehicle loading, and RFID implementation throughout the supply chain.
- Happioh Inc — Almost one in five people waste more than a third of their time at work. We care about freeing up people's time at work so they can spend more time on deep work and what makes them happy. Happioh is the only platform-and language agnostic SaaS meeting intelligence product in the market - born to safeguard and protect people againstlow-quality meeting hours. Happioh was nominated for the 2022 Product Award and 100 Most Promising Technology Companies. Semi-finalist at the Startup World Cup Silicon Valley, 2022, and WEF Technology Pioneer, 2023.The Scandinavian UX and design make it delightful and super easy to use. Happioh turns complex and manual meeting processes at work into simple automated solutions. A side-effect of Happioh is it helps you improve your attention, and memory, and lower your cognitive stress. Please contact us if you are interested in investing in our future rounds or learning more.
Partech is a global venture capital firm with offices in San Francisco, Paris, Berlin and Dakar. Partech invests in Internet and information technology startups at seed, venture and growth stages.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, France, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 432
- Round size: Seed $1M–$5.6M; Series A $2.5M–$25M; Series B $8M–$54M
- Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- CO2 AI — Empowering decision-makers to sustain our world via advanced software that shifts carbon emissions reduction from the theoretical to the impactful.
- UpSlide — Produce high-quality reports and presentations faster in PowerPoint, Excel and Word. Save up to 8h each month in just a few clicks!
- Commsignia — Commsignia specializes in the research and development, manufacturing and distribution of cooperative intelligent transportation systems. Its product line includes a V2X Communication Software Stack and Commsignia’s own security stack implementation, Hybrid V2X/ADAS Safety Applications, a V2X Simulator, On-Board Units (OBU) and Roadside Units(RSU).The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.
Trond Riiber Knudsen is a Founder of TRK GROUP.
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- Industry: Software, Construction, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Norway, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Seed $320k–$3.5M; Angel $300k–$899k; Pre-Seed $647k–$1.1M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
Portfolio highlights
- laiout — We are a team of entrepreneurs tasked with reducing the time and frustration involved when designing early stage floor plans for large developments and existing properties.With support from world's biggest early-stage VC and several of our international future clients our team is helping to optimize this tedious architectural design phasesaving up to 20 weeks of time while providing more and better solutions.
- Pratexo — Pratexo is the intelligent edge computing and distributed cloud platform for industry 4.0 accelerating time to design, test, and provision.
- Uncover — Experience nourishing and rejuvenating Uncover Skincare products in Kenya. Made just for you, using the finest ingredients to offer innovative & effective solutions.
Adebowale Martins
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- Industry: Retail, Software, E-Commerce
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Hazina — Hazina provides technology and distribution for Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) brands to improve the quality of insights and engagements from their product sampling campaigns. Hazina matches consumers to product samples from CPGs, delivers directly to consumers at home, and aggregates the feedback and engagements as insights back to the brand.
Victoria Commercial Bank is a leading commercial bank providing quality financial services with a focus on client orientation, integrity and professionalism
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- Industry: Retail, Furniture, Manufacturing
- Stage:Debt Financing
- Geography: Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- MoKo Home + Living — MoKo Home is Kenya's one-stop furniture company specializing in comfort & smiles, having served over 10000 smiley homes to date. Will yours be next?
Haitou Global is a global asset allocation platform providing asset management, investment banking, digital technology product, and services. Haitou Global manages a Registered Investment Advisor and a Broker-dealer in the U.S., with headquarters in New York and Beijing and operations in San Francisco, Hangzhou, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Jakarta.
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- Industry: Financial Services, E-Commerce, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Pakistan, United States, Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 18
- Round size: Seed $3.6M–$6.4M; Series A $5.2M–$37M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Finku — Aplikasi manajemen keuangan yang membantu mengelola transaksi keuangan kamu secara otomatis. Pelajari semua insight yang dipersonalisasi khusus untuk kamu! Download aplikasi beta nya sekarang !
- Trukkr — Trukkr is Pakistan's First and Largest Online Logistics Platform. They make the process of booking commercial cargo fast by linking a shipper with transporters over a secure, intuitive and powerful platform. We ensure that shippers have complete transparency in price discovery, visibility, flexibility, and choice while at the same time givetransporters easy access to more jobs, whenever they want them. Founded in 2019, Trukkr is committed to reinventing the old school trucking industry in Pakistan by making it easier for millions of truckers to book a load and move at capacity, while ensuring shippers have access to the right truck, at the right time.
- Dastgyr Technologies — Making trade and capital seamless and reliable
DNA Capital is an investment partnership specializing in multi-stage investments in the healthcare sector.
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- Industry: Health Care, Medical, Wellness
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Brazil, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 35
- Round size: Seed $1M–$1.6M; Series A $3.6M–$30M; Series B $22M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 51% lead, 49% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Piwi — Hi there, we are Piwi®. Like a broker, only easier. We didn’t create the company because we were in love with the market. It was exactly the opposite. With an easy to use and intuitive digital benefit managing platform we replaced the old school brokerage changing the way in which companies research, buy and manage their health plans and benefits.That’s evolution coming around!
- Inspirali — Inspirali is an education institute providing post graduate training in health sector.
- Sanar — 26K Followers, 709 Following, 489 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Sanar (@sanar)
FirstCheck Africa is an early believer for a generation of African women in tech. We invest early, with high conviction, in high-growth female-led startups with category-leadership potential.
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- Industry: Beauty, Retail, Consumer
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Uncover — Experience nourishing and rejuvenating Uncover Skincare products in Kenya. Made just for you, using the finest ingredients to offer innovative & effective solutions.
We connect the largest corporations to the world's best startups through industry-focused accelerator programs in Silicon Valley and beyond.
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- Stage:Seed
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $737k–$6.3M
- Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Pipra — PIPRA AG (Pre-Interventional Preventive Risk assessment) is developing a cutting-edge AI-based pre-operative test to assess a patient's risk of suffering from cognitive disorders after surgery.
- Prismpop — Prismpop is a shopping community where users share their favorite products, shopping advice, product reviews, beauty secrets, fashion tips, food ideas and more.
- Steady Technologies, Inc. — Steady Rent offers property managers solutions that share the same goal: Remove risk for property owners, boost profits for property managers, and save time with automation.
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