Top 5 Social Network VC Funds & Investors in Africa (October 2023)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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4DX Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Egypt, United States, Kenya | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | FinTech, Information Technology, Financial Services | $40k–$20M |
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Future Africa
VC Fund
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1 | Nigeria, United States, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology | $40k–$20M |
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to.org
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya, Senegal | Seed, Pre-Seed | FinTech, Delivery, Logistics | |
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LoftyInc Capital Management
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Nigeria, Egypt | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | FinTech, Financial Services, Software | $100k–$15M |
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Golden Palm Investments
VC Fund
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1 | Nigeria, Egypt, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Information Technology, FinTech, Health Care | $30k–$15M |
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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.
to.org is a Civic & Social Organization.
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- Industry: FinTech, Delivery, Logistics
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Kenya, Senegal
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Paps — Paps is a transport and logistics company that offers innovative distribution and delivery solutions to companies and merchants.The company's e-commerce platform helps companies and traders with scheduling and tracking deliveries on a real-time basis. It offers the distribution of documents and parcels, storage of goods in a secure warehousethat meets standards, and delivery of insured parcels in relay point or last mile. It also provides professional services such as management and repayment of cash on delivery, provision of couriers, management of returns, collection, and periodic reporting.The Dakar, Dakar, Senegal-based company was founded in 2016
- Wowzi — Access influencer marketing and intelligence with Africa's most trusted software platform.
- Fuse Financial Technologies — Financial APIs for building products in the Middle East.
LoftyInc Capital Management empowers Afropreneurs to build a prosperous and equitable future in Africa. We deliver value to both founders and investors.........
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 111
- Round size: Seed $100k–$3.2M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2M; Series A $250k–$15M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Craydel — Get Professional career guidance based on Psychometric Assessments and get scholarships to the best MBA, Engineering, Medical, Education online and on campus courses in Africa and Abroad.
- EMTECH — For Modern Central Banking
- Terragon Group — Terragon is a leading Data and Marketing Technology company that uses data and analytics to help companies focused in Africa, intelligently connect at scale to their customers. We use an aggregation of online and offline data, and predictive scoring to help brands, marketing agencies and platforms accurately target people across channels anddevices. Headquartered in Lagos; Nigeria, we also have a presence in Kenya, South Africa, Ghana and India.
Golden Palm Investments is an investment holding and advisory company.
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- Industry: Information Technology, FinTech, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Nigeria, Egypt, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 54
- Round size: Seed $2M–$13M; Pre-Seed $30k–$6.5M; Series A $2M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2014
Portfolio highlights
- Sabipay — Pastel is a leader in Artificial Intelligence. We build products targeted at individuals (SwiftMoney) and enterprises (Sigma) in emerging markets
- Maplerad — Maplerad is a fast, safe and easy way to send and receive money with friends, family or others you trust. You can receive and send money directly into any Nigerian bank account in minutes using Bitcoin, US Dollars, and Naira.
- Jetstream Africa — Jetstream is a supply chain platform that powers freight forwarding and global exports for African suppliers. With tracking and consolidated (LCL) shipping Jetstream levels the playing field for access to international trade for African SMEs with the click of a button.
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4DX Ventures is a Pan-Africa Focused Venture Capital Firm. Our mission is to connect people, ideas, and capital to create a vibrant African community.
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