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Top 50 Software Startup Investors in Africa in October 2023

A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Software startups based in Africa. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Software companies from Africa. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Software Startup Investors in Africa in October 2023

Investor Software Africa investments
Launch Africa 28
LoftyInc Capital Management 28
Kepple Africa Ventures 16
Musha Ventures 15
Ventures Platform 15
Microtraction 15
Future Africa 13
CRE Venture Capital 11
Savannah Fund 11
TLcom Capital Partners 10
Flat6Labs Tunisia 9
iHub 9
Maroc Numeric Fund 8
Kalon Venture Partners 8
4Di Capital 8
HAVAÍC 7
Flat6Labs 7
Consonance Investment Managers 7
Golden Palm Investments 7
Soma Capital 7
AngelHub Ventures 7
Knife Capital 7
VentureSouq 6
Ingressive Capital 6
Partech 6
HoaQ 6
Unpopular Ventures 6
Quona Capital 5
Oui Capital 5
Orange Ventures 5
Acumen 5
Alumni Ventures 5
Lateral Frontiers 5
GreenTec Capital Partners 5
Proparco 5
Tencent 5
CDG Invest 5
Hustle Fund 5
Enza Capital 5
Ground Squirrel Ventures 5
Chinook Capital Limited 4
Blockchain Founders Fund 4
Tayo Oviosu 4
Idris Ayodeji Bello 4
Novastar Ventures 4
MaC Venture Capital 4
P1 Ventures 4
UNCOVERED FUND 4
The Fintech Fund 4
Century Oak Capital 4

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Launch Africa
VC Fund · Ebène, Plaines Wilhems, Mauritius · 18 investments in the past 12 months

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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Investment focus

  • Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

  • Lengo — Lengo is an AI based intelligence platform that offers a large database on consumer goods for companies in the FMCG sector.
  • Zanifu — The zanifu platform, allows small retailers in Sub Saharan Africa, to procure inventory from their suppliers & pay later.
  • Fixit45 — Your best ever automobile service experience awaits you.
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LoftyInc Capital Management
VC Fund · Carmel, California, United States · 5 investments in the past 12 months

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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Investment focus

  • FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, Nigeria, Egypt

Portfolio highlights

  • Craydel — Get Professional career guidance based on Psychometric Assessments and get scholarships to the best MBA, Engineering, Medical, Education online and on campus courses in Africa and Abroad.
  • EMTECH — For Modern Central Banking
  • Terragon Group — Terragon is a leading Data and Marketing Technology company that uses data and analytics to help companies focused in Africa, intelligently connect at scale to their customers. We use an aggregation of online and offline data, and predictive scoring to help brands, marketing agencies and platforms accurately target people across channels anddevices. Headquartered in Lagos; Nigeria, we also have a presence in Kenya, South Africa, Ghana and India.
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Kepple Africa Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in the past 12 months

Kepple Africa Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm.

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Investment focus

  • Financial Services, FinTech, Software
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt

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.
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Musha Ventures
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in the past 12 months

Seed capital for technology startups globally.

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Investment focus

  • Financial Services, Software, FinTech
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, Nigeria, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

  • Terraa — Terraa is a B2B distribution platform in Moroccan.
  • OmniBiz — Omnibiz is a digital platform for small businesses willing to attract new customers.
  • Revivo — Revivo is an online marketplace for electronics spare parts, tools & accessories.
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Ventures Platform
VC Fund · Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria · 15 investments in the past 12 months

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.

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Investment focus

  • Financial Services, FinTech, Internet
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • Nigeria, United States, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

  • Lengo — Lengo is an AI based intelligence platform that offers a large database on consumer goods for companies in the FMCG sector.
  • Traction Apps — Traction apps provide businesses end to end tools they need to run and grow their businesses.
  • Remedial Health — We improve business to business access to medicines by providing such medicines from manufactures/registered distributors direct to large and small healthcare retail businesses (large pharmacies and remote chemist/PPMVs (Patent and Proprietary Medicine Vendors)) using technology to deliver just-in-time stock and provide financing and awide selection of inventory to such retail business.
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Microtraction
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 4 investments in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

  • Financial Services, FinTech, Software
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
  • Nigeria, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • Famasi — Famasi is a digital health platform that helps people access their medications, schedule doorstep delivery, and automate monthly refills.
  • Pennee — Pennee supports small businesses to grow with low interest loans and data optimization.
  • Clafiya — Discover Clafiya: Your trusted digital health platform, uniting in-person care and virtual solutions for a personalized and caring healthcare experience. Embrace a healthier, happier you, with us by your side.
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Future Africa
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 10 investments in the past 12 months

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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Investment focus

  • Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Nigeria, United States, Kenya

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.
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CRE Venture Capital
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in the past 12 months

Founded in 2015, CRE Venture Capital invests in early stage tech companies that are levered to Africa. CRE is headquartered in the New York metro area, with a regional office in Lagos, Nigeria.

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Investment focus

  • Financial Services, FinTech, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • South Africa, Nigeria, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Sava — Sava is a multi-management platform that provides an unlimited number of virtual cards as well as automated accounting reconciliation.
  • Stitch — One API integration for all online payments across South Africa. Accept Instant EFT, debit + credit card, cash, direct deposit and debits. Manage + reconcile digital payments and send payouts.
  • Bettr — Bettr is a digital banking app for creator. Download the app to get your zero monthly fee digital bank account and virtual card. Join our community of creators, gamers, influencers, freelancers, tiktokkers, streamers, YouTubers and digital gig workers.
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Savannah Fund
VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya

Savannah Fund is a seed capital fund specializing in US$25,000-US$500,000 investments in early stage high growth technology (web and mobile) startups in sub-Saharan Africa. Initially focused on East Africa, the fund aims to bridge the early stage/angel and venture capital investment gap that currently exists in Africa. The Fund expects toachieve this objective by combining capital with mentor networks both in the region and from Silicon Valley via an accelerator program and a follow-on independent seed fund.The fund is managed by an experienced and technology savvy team that have founded companies or are actively involved in angel investing or having run successful accelerator programs in past but also understand the unique Subsaharan African environment. They are backed and supported by both local, regional and international networks of angels,venture capitalists whose expertise we can draw on to help startups succeed and scale to fully fledged regional or global companies.They believe in the potential for Africa to become a global technology innovator by creating sustainable for profit companies that create jobs and make an impact.

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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Kenya, United States, South Africa

Portfolio highlights

  • Oze — OZÉ brings African small businesses into the digital era. It is an app that makes it easy for businesses to track sales, expenses, and customer information. The data is analyzed to provide tailored recommendations, reports, and business education. If the entrepreneur needs a little extra support, an OZÉ Coach is just a click away. As they are usingOZÉ to manage their business and learn how to run it better, we are learning about them. Using this data and machine learning, we can predict their credit risk and provide them with affordable capital from our banking partners. With over 20,000 registered users, OZÉ is the largest online community of SMEs in Ghana. The most exciting thing is that OZÉ works; 97% of businesses that have used OZE for at least 9 months are growing or profitable or both!
  • Root — Programmable insurance that you can integrate into your product or service with ease
  • Afropolitan — Afropolitan is building a Network State to unleash the maximum potential of Africans around the world. Are you interested? Join us with your email.
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TLcom Capital Partners
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in the past 12 months

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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Investment focus

  • Software, Mobile, Information Technology
  • Series A, Funding Round, Series B
  • Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom

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.
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Flat6Labs Tunisia
VC Fund · Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia

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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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, Retail, Education
  • Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Tunisia

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.
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iHub
VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya · 11 investments in the past 12 months

iHub is a globally recognized organization that is deeply steeped in the local tech innovation culture. It is fair to say that the iHub has been both the main catalyst for regional tech acceleration and a role model for tech hubs across emerging markets. We are nurturing the best innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem; one that constantlychallenges and influences technology; one that can be replicated across the continent, as we believe that African innovation will play a critical role in shaping future technology globally.

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Investment focus

  • Education, E-Learning, EdTech
  • Seed
  • Kenya, South Africa

Portfolio highlights

  • SILABU — Make every mind curious! Silabu is a new skill-learning, social networking app that allows Africa's 700 million youths learn academic subjects and new skills from their peers online, attend live group classes from the top 1% tutors with a fee being 10x cheaper than traditional tuition services and to request the top tutors on-demand.
  • ntemata — ntemata enables you automate assessment processes for teachers and holistically analyse competency learning
  • LoHo Learning — Loho Learning is an e-Learning platform that provides customized and interactive education to the schooling generation in a variety of digital formats.
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Maroc Numeric Fund
VC Fund · Casablanca, Grand Casablanca, Morocco · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Maroc Numeric Fund is a tech VC fund investing in Morocco.

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Investment focus

  • Online Portals, Enterprise Software, FinTech
  • Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Morocco, Canada, France

Portfolio highlights

  • Cypherleak — Cypherleak is an automated cyber risk monitoring and scoring solution that uses an organisation's domain name only to map their risk exposure across leaked passwords, attack surface, vulnerabilities and dark web data leakage. Additionally, Cypherleak supports global insurances by powering their cyber insurance products with reliable andaccurate cyber risk modeling and monitoring.
  • Damanesign — Damanesign operates as a digital trust solutions startup. Damanesign is a startup that is seizing new legislation opportunities on digital trust in Morocco to provide users with the utmost safety in documentation.
  • Aza Petrosolutions — Aza Petrosolutions provides services, solutions, and superior software and hardware for fuel management.
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Kalon Venture Partners
VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investment in the past 12 months

A growing number of South Africans are investing in venture capital companies that operate under Section 12J of the Income Tax Act. Contact us now.

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Investment focus

  • Apps, Mobile Apps, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • South Africa, Luxembourg, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • GoMetro — GoMetro designs deploy and operate flexible mobility platforms. Their proprietary technology stack empowers city leaders, transport managers, corporates, retail centres, property developers, airports and downtown to introduce bold new mobility strategies. Their connected transport digital platform equips transport planners to respond to thechallenges of increased congestion, aged infrastructure, disruptive mobility players, self-driving vehicles and a lack of quality public transport services.
  • Talk360 — Talk360 is an easy-to-use calling app that helps people make affordable international calls to any mobile and landline number. They believe that reliable communication and digital services must be affordable and accessible to everyone, regardless of someone's background. Especially people in emerging countries in Africa, who often need theseservices the most, do not always have the necessary banking possibilities. To bridge this distance, Talk360 will launch the world's first single checkout platform for Africa. This platform will combine all locally available payment methods and currencies across Africa, together with over 1.25 million cash points of sales, and will eventually be available to other companies as well. This means that 500 million Africans will be able to purchase digital services they never had access to before.
  • Sendmarc — Stop cyber criminals from sending emails using your domain and protect your customers, suppliers and employees from cyber attacks with DMARC Security.
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4Di Capital
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 2 investments in the past 12 months

4Di Capital is a Cape Town-based venture capital fund management firm focused on early-stage technology investments in sub-Saharan Africa.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Mobile, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • South Africa, United States, Uganda

Portfolio highlights

  • Sendmarc — Stop cyber criminals from sending emails using your domain and protect your customers, suppliers and employees from cyber attacks with DMARC Security.
  • Leta — Leta Technology is a software development company that creates supply chain and logistics software to enable the efficient and automated movement of goods.
  • Numida — Growing African small businesses with affordable, convenient, and fair credit.
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HAVAÍC
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investment in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

  • Health Care, Financial Services, Software
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • South Africa, United States, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

  • Talk360 — Talk360 is an easy-to-use calling app that helps people make affordable international calls to any mobile and landline number. They believe that reliable communication and digital services must be affordable and accessible to everyone, regardless of someone's background. Especially people in emerging countries in Africa, who often need theseservices the most, do not always have the necessary banking possibilities. To bridge this distance, Talk360 will launch the world's first single checkout platform for Africa. This platform will combine all locally available payment methods and currencies across Africa, together with over 1.25 million cash points of sales, and will eventually be available to other companies as well. This means that 500 million Africans will be able to purchase digital services they never had access to before.
  • FinAccess — FinAccess is a banking software for microfinance organisations.
  • Right Now Response — Your go-to for expert breakdown assistance. Our dedicated team ensures you're back on the road swiftly and safely. Contact us for reliable support today!
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Flat6Labs
VC Fund · Gîza, Al Jizah, Egypt · 8 investments in the past 12 months

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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Investment focus

  • Software, E-Commerce, Apps
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia

Portfolio highlights

  • Midient — We help restaurants collect, analyze, and act on their customer data to increase customer satisfaction and increase revenue.
  • Growdash — Growdash is a business intelligence and analytics tool built specifically for restaurants to support profitable growth strategic decisions across online sales channels.
  • Agel — Agel aim at reshaping the traditional financial services business model, operational model and customer experience to unlock a unique finance avenue for (“MSMEs”), with a core preposition of availing industry-agnostic merchandise credit limit for Merchants within Agel network in a manner that is Digital, Cashless and Sharia compliant, aligning withthe UN Global (“SDG”) goals, and Egypt’s 2030 plan towards financial inclusion and sustainability.our goals are: - Empowering MSMEs growth, - Accelerating Financial Inclusion, - Eradicating Informal Economy, - Raising Financial literacy
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Consonance Investment Managers
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 1 investment in the past 12 months

We are an investment company focused on helping early and growth-stage entrepreneurs build successful companies in Africa.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Information Technology, FinTech
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Nigeria, United States, Kenya

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.
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Golden Palm Investments
VC Fund · Accra, Greater Accra, Ghana · 2 investments in the past 12 months

Golden Palm Investments is an investment holding and advisory company.

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Investment focus

  • Information Technology, FinTech, Health Care
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Nigeria, Egypt, Kenya

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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Soma Capital
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 46 investments in the past 12 months

Soma Capital is venture capital fund that focuses on investing in software to automate the world across all sectors and geographies.

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Investment focus

  • Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, India, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

  • 0xPass — Frictionless auth and login for your dapp
  • Arkifi — Arkifi is an artificial intelligence company that develops AI-powered financial analyst tools. Arkifi's framework generates consistent results that avoid fabricating factual details (referred to as "hallucination"), instilling enterprises with an unmatched level of confidence in the outcomes.
  • Gradia Health — Gradia is an integrated, concierge care platform designed for clinics to support patients with chronic conditions.
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AngelHub Ventures
VC Fund · Stellenbosch, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investment in the past 12 months

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

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  • Software, Information Technology, Education
  • Seed, Series A
  • South Africa

Portfolio highlights

  • Syscap — Syscap is a financial technology company that offers cutting-edge solutions to financial institutions to have a better administration and management of their funding sources. It connects the leaders of financial and real estate institutions with their funders. For institutions, the company ensures the optimization of their funding source managementprocesses, but also the strengthening of the relationship with their funders. To funders, Syscap guarantees the transparency and timely monitoring of its funds for the safety and growth of its resources.
  • Godochurch — GoDoChurch is a cloud-based church administration software which is designed to assist Christian churches and ministries with managing members, Sunday services, events, communications, and more. The system is made up of a base package, covering messaging, news, ministries, lists, church roles, services, events, and growth paths, with additionalmodules for managing follow-ups, groups, and Kids church.
  • Ikeja Wireless — Welcome to your Ikeja. We are a home-grown tech company that builds services enabling affordable internet access to Ekasi. We may have coverage in your area!
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Knife Capital
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa

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Investment focus

  • Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
  • Funding Round, Series A, Seed
  • South Africa, United States, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

  • Octiv — Octiv is a well-known platform for gym management software.
  • wamly — Streamline your hiring process and save 70% of your hiring hours with Wamly's our one-way video interview software.
  • VoxCroft — VoxCroft is making the world a better, safer place with population-centric intelligence.
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VentureSouq
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 3 investments in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

  • FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia

Portfolio highlights

  • D3 — D3 - DNS Domains for Web3
  • Silkhaus — A seamless, sophisticated experience you can rely on. Choose from the wide variety of furnished Boutique Flats and apartments for short and long-term stays from Silkhaus.
  • Metriport — Metriport helps digital health companies access and manage patient health and medical data, through an open-source and universal API.
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Ingressive Capital
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 1 investment in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

  • Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Nigeria, United States, Ghana

Portfolio highlights

  • Gamp — Gamp is an IT services provider that offers device protection plans and repair support for tech users and businesses.
  • 54gene — 54gene is a healthcare startup unlocking the African genome to fuel genetic research and development that may lead to new discoveries and benefit all populations.54gene was founded in 2019 by Dr. Abasi Ene-Obong to address the significant gap in the global genomics market: Nearly 90% of genetic material used in pharmaceutical research iscaucasian. Only 2% is African, despite the fact that Africans and people of African ancestry are more genetically diverse than all other world populations combined. As a result, pharmaceutical research and development is lacking the diverse data that may hold the key to medical discoveries and new healthcare solutions.
  • Subsbase — Discover the future of recurring revenue management with Subsbase. Streamline your operations, boost growth, and elevate customer experiences with our cutting-edge platform.
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Partech
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 29 investments in the past 12 months

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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Investment focus

  • Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • United States, France, Germany

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.
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HoaQ
VC Fund · 4 investments in the past 12 months

Startup Investment Club

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Investment focus

  • Financial Services, Internet, E-Commerce
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
  • Nigeria, United Kingdom, Togo

Portfolio highlights

  • Clafiya — Discover Clafiya: Your trusted digital health platform, uniting in-person care and virtual solutions for a personalized and caring healthcare experience. Embrace a healthier, happier you, with us by your side.
  • Kunda Kids — Kunda Kids is helping kids around the world fall in love with reading through our storybooks and activity books. Browse our range of storybooks for kids. Perfect for kids ages 3 to 8 years
  • ChekkitApp — Chekkit is a DAG blockchain powered anti-counterfeiting solution for food and drug supply chain tracking and customer insights platform. It helps producers protect their brands, track supply chain activities, and collect last-mile consumer insights in real-time.
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Unpopular Ventures
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 19 investments in the past 12 months

The best companies, off the beaten path.

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Investment focus

  • Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, Mexico, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

  • Instock — Instock offers a gravity-defying ecommerce fulfillment.
  • ZipperTax — AI copilot for tax professionals and taxpayers
  • EquityList — Equity management with online cap table management and employee stock option programs (ESOP) administration. Available free for Indian startups
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Quona Capital
VC Fund · Washington, District of Columbia, United States · 17 investments in the past 12 months

Quona Capital invests in fintech innovators that are advancing inclusion in emerging markets. Through our investments, Quona aims to deliver outstanding financial returns while making a lasting and positive impact on the world.

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Investment focus

  • Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • India, Brazil, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

  • Caliza — Give your users access to the digital dollar economy. Get early access!
  • ZestMoney — Enjoy the convenience of shopping for electronic gadgets, fashion, travel, education on EMI without credit card. No debit card or credit score required!
  • Bureau — Bureau is trust network that facilitates end-to-end identity verification, compliance, and fraud prevention for new-age businesses.
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Oui Capital
VC Fund · Belmont, Massachusetts, United States

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

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Investment focus

  • Transportation, Information Technology, B2B
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
  • Kenya, Nigeria, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Duplo — We enable businesses across Africa to simplify their payment flows.
  • Ndovu — Secure your investments in both local and global financial markets on ndovu - a secure, affordable, hassle-free online investment platform in Africa designed to work your money
  • Maad — Maad is Francophone Africa's fastest-growing B2B marketplace, based in Dakar, Senegal. Our tech-driven solution allows retailers to order products from our one-stop shop and benefit from working capital loans
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Orange Ventures
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 5 investments in the past 12 months

Orange Ventures is the Venture Capital Fund of the Orange Group, with 350m euros under management

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Investment focus

  • Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series B, Series C
  • France, United States, United Kingdom

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.
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Acumen
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 5 investments in the past 12 months

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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Investment focus

  • Financial Services, Health Care, Agriculture
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • United States, India, Kenya

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.
  • SokoFresh — SokoFresh An Award winning social enterprise that is addressing post harvest loss issues through a cooling as a service proposition coupled with a market linkage service to small holder farmers and aggregators. SokoFresh An Award winning social enterprise that is addressing post harvest loss issues through a cooling as a service proposition coupled with a
  • 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.
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Alumni Ventures
VC Fund · Manchester, New Hampshire, United States · 102 investments in the past 12 months

Alumni Ventures offers diversified venture portfolios to accredited investors into highly competitive deals that individuals typically do not have access to on their own.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • SigNoz — SigNoz is an open-source observability tool to help you find issues in your deployed applications & solve them quickly. It provides logs, metrics, and traces under a single pane of glass. Built with ClickHouse as datastore, it is designed to handle enterprise scale.
  • teachme.to — Teachme.to is a community of learners discovering lessons for everything.
  • Canid — We believe vaccinating shouldn't be hard and it shouldn't be a distraction from what's most important: taking care of the kids.
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Lateral Frontiers
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Lakeland Dental Offers Family Dentistry, Teeth Whitening, Tooth Fillings, Dental Crowns, & Dental Implants. Call Us In Staples, Clarissa, Or Long Prairie, MN

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Investment focus

  • FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Nigeria, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

  • CNote — CNote created technology to streamline community-centered impact investing at scale. Further Racial Equity and Social Justice by investing with CNote.
  • Rhaeos — Rhaeos, the world's first wearable shunt monitor, aims to improve the quality care for patients with hydrocephalus through a novel, thermal biosensor. Developed within Northwestern University with collaboration between Dr. John Rogers, McCormick School of Engineering, Feinberg School of Medicine and Kellogg School of Management, Rhaeosrepresents a unique multidisciplinary translational effort for an important clinical need.
  • Masa — Masa Finance seeks to disrupt traditional centralized credit infrastructure by providing individuals, businesses, and developers with the tools to access credit and enable untapped wealth creation for 4.95B people globally.
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GreenTec Capital Partners
VC Fund · Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany

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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Investment focus

  • Information Technology, Agriculture, Computer
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • Kenya, Nigeria, Côte d'Ivoire

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.
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Proparco
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 15 investments in the past 12 months

Proparco is devoted to private sector funding in the sustainable development sector.

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Investment focus

  • Financial Services, Finance, Energy
  • Funding Round, Debt Financing, Series B
  • India, Kenya, Mauritius

Portfolio highlights

  • Nuru — Nuru is a solar hybrid site. Nuru (Swahili for "light") is a company dedicated to enhancing connectivity in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Nuru deployed Congo's first solar-based mini-grid in 2017 and is currently constructing a 1.3MW solar hybrid site in Goma, the largest off-grid mini-grid in sub-Saharan Africa.Nuru is arenewable and environment company that specializes in the fields of storage micro-grids and solar energy. The company deployed Congo's first solar-based mini-grid in 2017 and is currently constructing a 1.3MW solar hybrid site in Goma.Nuru was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Goma, Nord-Kivu, Congo.
  • Sabesp — Sabesp is a Brazilian company that engages in providing basic sanitation services such as distribution of treated water, collection, and treatment of sewage. It is currently responsible for supplying water and collecting and treating sewage in the 367 municipalities of São Paulo state. It supplies 27.9 million people with water and provides sewagecollection services to 21.5 million people.Sabesp was founded in 1973 and is headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
  • Complete Farmer — We are providing cutting-edge technological farming protocols and innovations with a unique business model and logistics that are revolutionizing...
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Tencent
VC Fund · Shenzhen, Guangdong, China · 33 investments in the past 12 months

Tencent is an internet service portal offering value-added internet, mobile, telecom, and online advertising services. Its communications and social platforms Weixin and QQ connect users with each other, with digital content and daily life services in just a few clicks. Tencent has maintained steady growth under its user-oriented operatingstrategies. It provides value-added internet, mobile, and telecom services, as well as online advertising under the strategic goal of providing users with "one-stop online lifestyle services." Tencent’s Internet platforms in China – QQ (QQ Instant Messenger), WeChat, QQ.com, QQ Games, Qzone, 3g.QQ.com, SoSo, PaiPai, and Tenpay – aim to address the various needs of internet users, including communication, information, entertainment, e-commerce, and others.In September 2013, Tencent's market valuation rose to $101 billion, and as of November 21, 2013, QQ had 2 billion active users and WeChat had 650 million monthly active users. The numbers of active users for QQ mail, Qzone, Tencent Weibo, and QQ news were 274 million, 626 million, 220 million, and 150 million, respectively.Tencent was founded in November of 1998. In April 2000, the IDG and PCCW invested a total of $2.2 million dollars in the company. Tencent was listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (SEHK) on June 16, 2004. Baidu, Alibaba, and Netease are Tencent's major competitors.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce
  • Series B, Series A, Series C
  • China, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • CMR Surgical — Welcome to CMR Surgical. Transforming surgery. For good. Our aim is to make the benefits of minimal access surgery available to everyone who needs it.
  • Enflame — Suiyuan Technology is a provider of neural network solutions for artificial intelligence. Its products are deep learning high-end chips developed for cloud data centers, and are positioned on artificial intelligence training platforms. The chip will adopt a unique and innovative architecture independently developed, featuring high computing power,high energy efficiency ratio, programmable, low cost, and support for mainstream machine learning frameworks. It is designed and optimized for cloud AI training.
  • Broken String Biosciences — Our platform accelerates the characterisation of novel gene editing technologies to unlock the next wave of cell & gene therapies.
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CDG Invest
VC Fund · Rabat, Rabat-Sale-Zemmour-Zaer, Morocco · 3 investments in the past 12 months

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.

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Investment focus

  • Apps, Software, Internet
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Convertible Note
  • Morocco, France, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

  • Cathedis — Cathedis has been a partner of e-merchants, adapting to the evolutions of the e-commerce market. Taking into account the trends and needs of e-merchants and e-buyers, as the constraints of their business. Their offers are always more important, competitive, personalized, and innovative.
  • Oncorad groupe — Oncorad groupe is a health care organization that specializes in oncology and radiology services for the prevention and treatment of cancer.
  • Freshcut Morocco — Freshcut Morocco is an agro-industrial firm.
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Hustle Fund
VC Fund · San Carlos, California, United States · 35 investments in the past 12 months

Hustle Fund is a seed fund that seeks to invest in early-stage startups operating in software, business to business, fintech, and digital health sectors.

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Investment focus

  • Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, Singapore, Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • Deskree — Generate a complete and scalable back-end infrastructure with tons of features via a web interface. Infinitely scalable & truly independent.
  • EquityList — Equity management with online cap table management and employee stock option programs (ESOP) administration. Available free for Indian startups
  • Series — Series provides full-stack enterprise financial services designed for institutions & enterprises.
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Enza Capital
VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya · 3 investments in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

  • Logistics, E-Commerce, B2B
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa

Portfolio highlights

  • Djamo — Djamo is a Provider of financial applications to allow customers to use their cards with zero fees in a wide range of services.
  • Jumba — Jumba is a construction technology platform that streamlines B2B construction material purchase and financing.
  • Yebo Fresh — Powering South Africa's Township Economy.
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Ground Squirrel Ventures
VC Fund · Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Seed round investment in frontier markets and clean energy

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Investment focus

  • Renewable Energy, Solar, Energy
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • United States, Zambia, Madagascar

Portfolio highlights

  • Oze — OZÉ brings African small businesses into the digital era. It is an app that makes it easy for businesses to track sales, expenses, and customer information. The data is analyzed to provide tailored recommendations, reports, and business education. If the entrepreneur needs a little extra support, an OZÉ Coach is just a click away. As they are usingOZÉ to manage their business and learn how to run it better, we are learning about them. Using this data and machine learning, we can predict their credit risk and provide them with affordable capital from our banking partners. With over 20,000 registered users, OZÉ is the largest online community of SMEs in Ghana. The most exciting thing is that OZÉ works; 97% of businesses that have used OZE for at least 9 months are growing or profitable or both!
  • Twende — Twende connect people traveling in the same direction - drivers offer the empty seats in their car to other travelers going the same way.
  • 4G Capital — Financial Services, Small Business Loans, Unsecured Loans, Microfinance, Credit Solutions, Working Capital, Flexible Repayment Options, Quick Loan Disbursements, Collateral-free Loans. banking 4G Capital. Kuza. Kawi, Upia, NXTGEN, africa bank. kenya bank. uganda bank. Green Investment, Sustainable returns. funding. impact
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Chinook Capital Limited
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria

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

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Investment focus

  • EdTech, Retail, Home Services
  • Seed, Funding Round
  • Nigeria

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.
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Blockchain Founders Fund
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 18 investments in the past 12 months

We Focus Exclusively On Adding Value To Blockchain & Emerging Technology Projects With Real World Applications.

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Investment focus

  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • BoomFi — All-in-one solution to send, accept and convert crypto payments. Fast multi-chain crypto and fiat settlement. Get started today.
  • LunarCrush — Smarter crypto, NFT, and stock investing with insights from millions of conversations happening across social.
  • SuperSight — SuperSight (https://supersight.xyz/), a UK-based start-up, is building crypto-specific Large Language Models (LLMs) to revolutionise the way we interact with crypto data. With 420 million crypto users but only 30,000 able to code for onchain insights, SuperSight bridges the gap, enabling easy access to information from a range ofboth on-chain and off-chain sources like Discord, Telegram, Twitter, Mirror, Podcast Transcripts, and news sites. Beyond just collecting data, SuperSight uses AI to improve the search experience, making it personalised, accurate, and ultimately, more insightful.
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Tayo Oviosu
Angel · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Tayo is the Founder & Group CEO of Paga (www.paga.com), Nigeria’s leading mobile money service. Prior to Paga, Tayo was Vice-President at Travant Capital Partners, a private equity fund in West Africa. Prior to joining Travant, Tayo was a Manager, Corporate Development, at Cisco Systems in San Jose California. Tayo’s work at Paga has beenrecognized globally - in 2014 CNBC selected Tayo as the Entrepreneur of the Year West Africa, and in 2015 the African Leadership Network selected Paga as the outstanding growing company of the year in Africa. Tayo is also the co-founder of Kairos Angels, an angel investment club.Tayo earned his Bachelors of Science degree in Electrical Engineering, cum laude, from the University of Southern California, and also has a Masters in Business Administration from the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University.

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Investment focus

  • Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Nigeria, Brazil, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • AjoMoney — Tyms is a platform for cash flow management, bookkeeping, and financing used by African (Nigeria, Ghana, Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya) small businesses. Tyms bookkeeping tool will automate the process by connecting their bank accounts and payment gateways, or sources like POS terminals, to pull and reconcile cash flow in real-time.
  • Tyms Africa — Tyms is a platform for cash flow management, bookkeeping, and financing used by African (Nigeria, Ghana, Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya) small businesses. Tyms bookkeeping tool will automate the process by connecting their bank accounts and payment gateways, or sources like POS terminals, to pull and reconcile cash flow in real-time.
  • Venco Platforms — VENCO automates visitor management, billing, and collections, as well as smart utility vending for communities across Africa.
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Idris Ayodeji Bello
Angel

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

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Investment focus

  • FinTech, Software, Financial Services
  • Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Nigeria, United States, Egypt

Portfolio highlights

  • Jem — We give employers the ability to send company-wide communications, deliver payslips, manage leave & give employees access to their earnings, via WhatsApp.
  • SimpliFi — SimpliFi is on a mission to democratize payments by building the leading Cards as a Service (CaaS) platform for MENA and Pakistan.
  • ORDA — Process orders, accept payments, connect to logistic providers, engage with your customers + more. We equip you with everything you need to grow your business.
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Novastar Ventures
VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya · 2 investments in the past 12 months

For the many, not just the few. For good.

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Investment focus

  • Agriculture, Internet, Clean Energy
  • Series A, Funding Round, Series B
  • Kenya, Nigeria, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • BasiGo — BasiGo is an early-stage e-mobility start-up looking to revolutionize the public transportation sector by providing matatu owners with a cost-effective electric alternative to diesel buses.
  • Turaco — Turaco develops simplified insurance and credit solutions through mobile technology to solve the healthcare financing needs. Turaco has simplified insurance products and also provides on-demand health loans, allowing customers to get healthcare at affordable monthly premiums.
  • 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?
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MaC Venture Capital
VC Fund · Los Angeles, California, United States · 27 investments in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

  • Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Kenya, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

  • Gradia Health — Gradia is an integrated, concierge care platform designed for clinics to support patients with chronic conditions.
  • Exponential Exchange — Exponential Exchange is designing contemporary commodities and brokered financial products.
  • Stoke Space — STOKE Space Technologies seamlessly connecting earth and space.
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P1 Ventures
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 11 investments in the past 12 months

P1 Ventures works as a venture capital firm. They specialize in early-stage industrial technology firms in Africa.

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Investment focus

  • Financial Services, Payments, FinTech
  • Seed, Series B, Pre-Seed
  • Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

  • Lengo — Lengo is an AI based intelligence platform that offers a large database on consumer goods for companies in the FMCG sector.
  • Nkoloso — Nkoloso is a company that uses advanced AI and robotics for agriculture, forestry, and infrastructure industries.
  • Kotani Pay — Kotani Pay is a technology stack that enables blockchain protocols, dapps, and blockchain fintech companies to integrate seamlessly to local payment channels providing them with a reliable on ramp and off ramp service to reach a wider customer base in Africa.
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UNCOVERED FUND
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in the past 12 months

UNCOVERED FUND is a venture capital firm that leads the creation of industries in Africa and other emerging countries.

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Investment focus

  • FinTech, Banking, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Kenya, Nigeria, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Thepeer — API infrastructure for businesses
  • Bettr — Bettr is a digital banking app for creator. Download the app to get your zero monthly fee digital bank account and virtual card. Join our community of creators, gamers, influencers, freelancers, tiktokkers, streamers, YouTubers and digital gig workers.
  • 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.
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The Fintech Fund
VC Fund · 9 investments in the past 12 months

We support the best teams in fintech and defi today.

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Investment focus

  • Financial Services, FinTech, Software
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

  • Paytrix — Access the best payments infrastructure around the world, all through a single platform.
  • Ansa — The closed loop platform built for your customers.
  • Rainforest — Rainforest focuses on providing software platforms for payment processing. Rainforest is headquartered in Atlanta, United States.
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Century Oak Capital
VC Fund · Vaduz, Vaduz, Liechtenstein

Century Oak Capital GmbH is a venture capital firm specializing in early-stage investments in Europe and Emerging Markets.

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Investment focus

  • Retail, E-Commerce, Software
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Pakistan, Kenya, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

  • Unbox — Unbox is the branded commerce operating system for SMEs helping them to sell online and increase their sales. We provide a ready to sell platform that allows entrepreneurs to digitize their business in less than 5 minutes - fully integrated with social commerce channels and our payment and shipping solutions, helping SMEs to save costs andcentralizing sales into a single platform.
  • SnappRetail — SnappRetail aims to create the largest virtual retail franchise across Pakistan, through deployment of its POS hardware/software, focusing on:1. Traditional trade Analytics for brands and retailers 2. Order Aggregation for manufacturers and distributors 3. Payment Solution for customers 4. Fintech enablement for small merchantsTheSnappRetail POS application has been carefully curated keeping the retailer in mind, the application focuses on digitizing his shop operations and cash flow and creating a real-time tertiary sales data lake.
  • Dastgyr Technologies — Making trade and capital seamless and reliable
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