Top 50 Transportation VC Funds & 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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20 | Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology | $200k–$3M |
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Golden Palm Investments
VC Fund
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12 | Nigeria, Egypt, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Information Technology, FinTech, Health Care | $30k–$15M |
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4DX Ventures
VC Fund
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11 | Egypt, United States, Kenya | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | FinTech, Information Technology, Financial Services | $40k–$20M |
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EchoVC Partners
VC Fund
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9 | United States, Nigeria, Kenya | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Information Technology, E-Commerce, Software | $200k–$30M |
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Kepple Africa Ventures
VC Fund
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8 | Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt | Seed, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | $100k–$4.5M |
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Musha Ventures
VC Fund
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7 | United States, Nigeria, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, Software, FinTech | $50k–$10M |
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Future Africa
VC Fund
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7 | Nigeria, United States, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology | $40k–$20M |
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LoftyInc Capital Management
VC Fund
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6 | United States, Nigeria, Egypt | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | FinTech, Financial Services, Software | $100k–$15M |
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Novastar Ventures
VC Fund
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6 | Kenya, Nigeria, United States | Series A, Series B | Agriculture, Internet, Clean Energy | $660k–$50M |
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VestedWorld
VC Fund
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6 | Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana | Seed, Series A, Series B | Agriculture, E-Commerce, Financial Services | $1.6M–$4.4M |
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Unpopular Ventures
VC Fund
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5 | United States, Mexico, Colombia | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | $370k–$30M |
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Ventures Platform
VC Fund
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5 | Nigeria, United States, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Internet | $50k–$4.4M |
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Outlierz Ventures
VC Fund
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5 | Morocco, Egypt, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Information Services | $1.5M–$6.2M |
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Flat6Labs Tunisia
VC Fund
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5 | Tunisia | Pre-Seed, Seed | E-Commerce, Retail, Education | $64k–$200k |
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Harambeans
VC Fund
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5 | Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa | Seed, Angel, Grant | Supply Chain Management, Transportation, Information Technology | $100k–$3.1M |
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Oui Capital
VC Fund
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5 | Kenya, Nigeria, United States | Pre-Seed, Seed | Transportation, Information Technology, B2B | $40k–$1.1M |
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Factor[e] Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | United States, India, Kenya | Seed, Series A, Angel | Energy, Renewable Energy, Agriculture | $500k–$10M |
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Kalon Venture Partners
VC Fund
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4 | South Africa, Luxembourg, United States | Seed, Series A | Apps, Mobile Apps, Software | $539k–$3M |
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Interswitch
VC Fund
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4 | Nigeria, Kenya, United States | Seed, Series A | Transportation, Logistics, Apps | $1.5M–$2.6M |
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Saviu Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | Côte d'Ivoire, Kenya, Senegal | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | E-Commerce, Financial Services, FinTech | $161k–$2.7M |
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Blockchain Founders Fund
VC Fund
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4 | United States, United Kingdom, Canada | Seed, Pre-Seed | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services | $15k–$6M |
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FJ Labs
VC Fund
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4 | United States, United Kingdom, Brazil | Seed, Series A, Series B | E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services | $1.1M–$107M |
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TLcom Capital Partners
VC Fund
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4 | Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom | Series A, Series B | Software, Mobile, Information Technology | $3.5M–$27M |
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CDG Invest
VC Fund
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4 | Morocco, France, Switzerland | Pre-Seed, Seed, Convertible Note | Apps, Software, Internet | $200k–$4M |
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Village Global
VC Fund
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4 | United States, United Kingdom, India | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $246k–$18M |
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Flexport
VC Fund
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4 | United States, Pakistan, Egypt | Series A, Seed, Series B | Logistics, Software, E-Commerce | $1.8M–$13M |
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Proparco
VC Fund
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4 | India, Kenya, Mauritius | Debt Financing, Series B | Financial Services, Finance, Energy | $300k–$120M |
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Consonance Investment Managers
VC Fund
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4 | Nigeria, United States, Kenya | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, FinTech | $50k–$2.5M |
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Enza Capital
VC Fund
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4 | Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Logistics, E-Commerce, B2B | $1M–$13M |
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Alumni Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | United States, United Kingdom, Canada | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $850k–$45M |
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CRE Venture Capital
VC Fund
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3 | South Africa, Nigeria, United States | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | $250k–$20M |
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Lynett Capital
VC Fund
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3 | United States, Kenya, Nigeria | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | FinTech, Wireless, Mobile | $120k–$10M |
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Yamaha Motor
VC Fund
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3 | Japan, India, Brazil | Corporate Round, Series A, Series B | Transportation, Robotics, Logistics | $1.9M–$1.6B |
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Loyal VC
VC Fund
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3 | United States, Canada, United Kingdom | Pre-Seed, Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce | $78k–$2.5M |
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Ground Squirrel Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | United States, Zambia, Madagascar | Seed, Series A | Renewable Energy, Solar, Energy | $1.8M–$5M |
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Ingressive Capital
VC Fund
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3 | Nigeria, United States, Ghana | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology | $400k–$15M |
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Microtraction
VC Fund
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3 | Nigeria, United States, Canada | Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | $25k–$1.2M |
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IDF Capital SA
VC Fund
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3 | South Africa | Seed | Automotive, Mobile Apps | |
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Betatron Venture Group
VC Fund
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3 | Hong Kong, India, China | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce | $30k–$1.5M |
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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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Raba Partnership
VC Fund
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3 | South Africa, United States, Egypt | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Finance | $1M–$40M |
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Mobility 54
VC Fund
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3 | Kenya, Nigeria, Côte d'Ivoire | Seed, Series A | Financial Services, Transportation, Information Technology | $3.2M–$13M |
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AlphaCode Club
VC Fund
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3 | South Africa, United Kingdom | Grant, Debt Financing | Financial Services, FinTech, Automotive | $24k–$655k |
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Investisseurs & Partenaires
VC Fund
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2 | France, Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire | Seed, Series A | Financial Services, Health Care, Agriculture | $11k–$7.5M |
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Swiss Founders Fund
VC Fund
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2 | Switzerland, Singapore, Germany | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | E-Commerce, Internet, Information Technology | $210k–$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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Two Culture Capital
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Mexico, India | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | FinTech, Financial Services, Information Technology | $350k–$11M |
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Dynamo
VC Fund
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2 | United States, United Kingdom, Brazil | Seed, Series A | Software, Logistics, Supply Chain Management | $125k–$25M |
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TotalEnergies Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United States, France, United Kingdom | Series B, Series C | Energy, Renewable Energy, Transportation | $5M–$60M |
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Five35 Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria | Pre-Seed, Seed | Information Technology, Health Care, Marketplace | $1M–$1.6M |
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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.
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.
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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- Industry: FinTech, Information Technology, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Egypt, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 66
- Round size: Seed $431k–$13M; Pre-Seed $40k–$6.5M; Series A $3M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Tactyc — Tactyc is an easy-to-use portfolio construction, forecasting and management software for venture funds.
- Zoie Health — Zoie is a digital health firm for women that provides family planning, fertility, and maternity care services.
- Money Fellows — MoneyFellows digitizes the ROSCA model, enabling group lending and savings.
EchoVC Partners is a seed and early-stage venture capital firm focused on financing and cross-pollinating leading technologies, teams, business models, and knowledge across North America, Africa, and SE Asia. The average investment size ranges from $25,000 to several million dollars depending on the stage of opportunity and capital needs of thebusiness.
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- Industry: Information Technology, E-Commerce, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 47
- Round size: Seed $200k–$4M; Pre-Seed $400k–$1.6M; Series A $4.3M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $8M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Shuttlers — Shuttlers is a platform that offers mobility solutions by providing scheduled bus-sharing services for the professionals within the region.
- Snowstorm — Snowflake is decentralized and is deployed as a pluggable transport for Tor.
- Senga Technologies — Welcome to Senga, custom-built, with love, for businesses shipping in Africa.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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- 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.
For the many, not just the few. For good.
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- Industry: Agriculture, Internet, Clean Energy
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 48
- Round size: Series A $1M–$9.9M; Series B $660k–$50M
- Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $108M in 2020
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?
VestedWorld is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in emerging markets companies that have the potential to generate competitive financial returns while contributing towards the growth and development of the markets in which they are located. The firm supports these businesses through the infusion of capital, active involvement incorporate governance, and by providing direct strategic and operational assistance.
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- Industry: Agriculture, E-Commerce, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana
Investor stats
- Total investments: 24
- Round size: Seed $1.6M–$2.5M; Series A $4.2M–$4.4M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- FarmWorks — FarmWorks is an agricultural technology company that gives farmers access to farm inputs as well as a market for the produce .FarmWork is to unlock agricultural potential by building clusters of mid-sized farms while working with thousands of small-holder farmers and establishing direct linkage to local and global markets.
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- 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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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Mexico, Colombia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 129
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$6M; Pre-Seed $370k–$5.5M; Series A $6.8M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
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
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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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 127
- Round size: Seed $325k–$4.4M; Pre-Seed $50k–$1.1M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $46M 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.
- 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.
We provide smart capital to grow investable startups in Africa
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- Industry: Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Information Services
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Morocco, Egypt, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$6.2M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
Portfolio highlights
- PayTic — PayTic enables payments issuers to manage their card programs by providing dedicated back-office solutions that streamline the end-to-end operations in customer support, chargebacks, fraud, AML, reporting, and reconciliation. Our proprietary solutions are unique in automating and centralizing the program management processes, regardless of thenumber of processors and the payment networks involved in the payments products. We impact payments providers by eliminating the defragmented and manual processes and replacing them with a SaaS platform that increases proactivity, mitigates risks, and delivers value. It reduces the burn rate to near 0 in operational costs and offers an unprecedented competitive advantage. PayTic is introducing the Zero Ops model in managing payments.
- Suplyd — Suplyd is a comprehensive digital solution that bridges the gap between restaurant operators and their suppliers in order to disrupt an untouched market with extreme fragmentation and resolve the problem end-to-end.
- Terraa — Terraa is a B2B distribution platform in Moroccan.
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.
Harambeans are African innovators who have pledged to “work together as one” to build Africa’s future. Over the last decade, Harambeans has spawned a series of tech-enabled ventures such as Andela, Flutterwave, and Yoco, which have collectively generated over 3000 jobs, and raised over $700m from Google Ventures, CRE Ventures and Accel.
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- Industry: Supply Chain Management, Transportation, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Grant
- Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $100k–$3.1M
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% 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.
- MarketForce — MarketForce connects Africa’s informal retail outlets and consumers directly to suppliers of consumer goods and financial services by digitizing orders, delivery, and payments with the aim of solving the last mile distribution challenge.
- SHYFT Power Solutions — SHYFT builds industrial-grade IoT and integrated software to connect and intelligently manage distributed energy resources (DERs) in markets that struggle with resiliency. SHYFT is pioneering the development of integrated decentralized power systems in emerging markets like Nigeria, leapfrogging over traditional central infrastructure and enablingDERs to scale and support existing but unreliable grids.
Oui Capital is an Africa-focused VC firm backing tech-enabled businesses at the pre-seed & seed stage.
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- Industry: Transportation, Information Technology, B2B
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 22
- Round size: Pre-Seed $40k–$1.1M
- Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
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
Impact venture builders dedicated to supporting the people and ideas that turn challenges in energy, agriculture, mobility, and waste into de-carbonized solutions for emerging and frontier markets.
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- Industry: Energy, Renewable Energy, Agriculture
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: United States, India, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 25
- Round size: Seed $500k–$5M; Series A $1.3M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
Portfolio highlights
- SunFi — SunFi tech solution help people access solar energy with installation and payment plans.
- Gateway.fm — GatewayFM is the first truly decentralized blockchain infra/node provider, with globally distributed, multichain infrastructure
- Beacon Power Services — Beacon Power Services is a utility company that provides energy management software and analytics for utilities.
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- Industry: Apps, Mobile Apps, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: South Africa, Luxembourg, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Seed $539k–$3M
- Lead/follow: 73% lead, 27% follow
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.
Interswitch is an Africa-focused integrated digital payments and commerce company that facilitates the electronic circulation of money as well as the exchange of value between individuals and organisations on a timely and consistent basis. The company started operations in 2002 as a transaction switching and electronic payments processingcompany that builds and manages payment infrastructure as well as deliver innovative payment products and transactional services throughout the African continent.
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- Industry: Transportation, Logistics, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$2.6M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $10M in 2015
Portfolio highlights
- OkHi — Smart addressing for emerging markets. Enabling businesses to collect an accurate address, navigate to it without getting lost and verity it remotely.
- Shuttlers — Shuttlers is a platform that offers mobility solutions by providing scheduled bus-sharing services for the professionals within the region.
- SlimTrader — SlimTrader is an e-commerce and mobile commerce firm. Its platform, MoBiashara, seeks to relieve the burdens associated with everyday transactions in developing countries by providing the missing link to completting these important activities: easy and affordable access. The company has developed the first platform in Africa that allows consumersto purchase services or shop for goods with their mobile devices.
Saviu is a venture capital fund focusing on African early-stage startups.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Financial Services, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Côte d'Ivoire, Kenya, Senegal
Investor stats
- Total investments: 26
- Round size: Seed $200k–$2.7M; Pre-Seed $161k–$214k
- Lead/follow: 54% lead, 46% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Julaya — Julaya is a fintech providing African businesses with a digital account to make payments : disbursing mobile money transactions to their employees, suppliers, and owning their own virtual and physical prepaid cards.
- Tajiri — Tajiri is a SaaS application that designs and improves restaurant management to get profits.
- Workpay — Looking for the best payroll software in Kenya? Workpay provides the best payroll software and hr software for your business in Kenya, Nigeria and for Africa
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Browse database — It's Free!We Focus Exclusively On Adding Value To Blockchain & Emerging Technology Projects With Real World Applications.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 123
- Round size: Seed $125k–$4M; Pre-Seed $15k–$6M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $75M in 2022
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- Freename — Redefining Web3 Naming System. Web3 Registrar: custom TLDs and Domains
- 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.
FJ Labs is a stage-agnostic investment firm that focuses on marketplaces and consumer facing startups.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Brazil
Investor stats
- Total investments: 491
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$8.6M; Series A $3.5M–$23M; Series B $7.1M–$107M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2016
Portfolio highlights
- Metaloop — Metaloop is a scrap trading company that helps businesses from the metal recycling industry to boost revenue without scaling.
- Cardino — Cardino - Verkaufen Sie Ihr E-Auto digital zum besten Preis. Entdecken Sie die einfache und bequeme Art, Ihr Elektroauto online zu verkaufen.
- Beckley Waves — Beckley Waves funds, supports, and mentors the emerging leaders, entrepreneurs, and partnerships working to create the operational infrastructure of a global psychedelic ecosystem.
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.
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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- Industry: Apps, Software, Internet
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Convertible Note
- Geography: Morocco, France, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 21
- Round size: Seed $294k–$4M; Pre-Seed $200k–$200k
- Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow
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.
Early stage venture capital backed by some of the world's best entrepreneurs.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 229
- Round size: Seed $1.8M–$9.3M; Pre-Seed $246k–$3.5M; Series A $5.5M–$18M
- Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $125M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Atmosfy — Atmosfy lets you explore dining through video. Easily browse 10-second, engaging videos from customers who recently dined there.
- OpenCover — Cover $5,000 from $1.14 per week on leading protocols including Curve, Uniswap, Aave and more. As seen on CoinDesk, Decrypt, The Block, Coin Telegraph.
- Boost Capital — Boost Capital is a fintech company that offers online microfinance services at lower rates. It uses innovative technology to pre-qualify customers within minutes of applying for a loan based on ability and probability to repay. Boost Capital enables both collateralized and uncollateralized loans, with loan size across the small business spectrum(from $100 to $10,000). Its platform automates the loan application for MFI partners and allows customers to hear back on their loan applications 100x faster than through traditional paper-based loan applications.The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Singapore.
Cut costs, automate workflows, reliably move goods, go carbon-neutral, and improve your supply chain from end to end. It all starts here.
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- Industry: Logistics, Software, E-Commerce
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, Pakistan, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 54
- Round size: Seed $1.8M–$5.3M; Series A $10M–$13M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Rybit — A leading technology platform that connects the last mile delivery industry, optimizing and simplifying day-to-day delivery operations.
- Natilus — Natilus is a large scale drone manufacturing company. The company specializes in the manufacturing of Boeing 747 sized drones which provides inter-continental cargo delivery services and helps in reducing air freight costs. Natilus was founded by LZ Zhang, Anatoly Starikov and Aleksey Matyushev in 2016.First flight of their 2200 lbs / 30 ftdrone is scheduled for Summer 2018. At the end of 2018, Natilus completed a flight test of their 2200 lbs prototype.The first production vehicle scheduled for 2020 customer delivery underwent wind tunnel testing in April, 2019. Natilus currently holds an aircraft order book rumored to be in excess of $1B+.
- Saltbox — Saltbox makes the hardest parts of running an ecommerce business simple. Explore our logistics and warehouse solutions growing eCommerce companies
Proparco is devoted to private sector funding in the sustainable development sector.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Finance, Energy
- Stage:Debt Financing, Series B
- Geography: India, Kenya, Mauritius
Investor stats
- Total investments: 63
- Round size: Series B $8M–$40M; Debt Financing $300k–$120M
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
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...
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
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- 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.
Venture investor in high-growth Founders and Teams using technology to solve large and meaningful problems across Africa
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- Industry: Logistics, E-Commerce, B2B
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 18
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$13M; Pre-Seed $1M–$1M; Series A $3.6M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
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.
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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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 729
- Round size: Seed $850k–$7.5M; Series A $1.7M–$26M; Series B $11M–$45M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2021
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- 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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Browse database — It's Free!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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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: South Africa, Nigeria, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 49
- Round size: Seed $300k–$5M; Pre-Seed $250k–$3.3M; Series A $1.1M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
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.
Lynett Capital is an early stage investment firm dedicated to the empowering technology companies.
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- Industry: FinTech, Wireless, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Kenya, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 22
- Round size: Seed $120k–$3M; Series A $3M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018
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- OpenYield — OpenYield is the modern bond exchange for retail. Equity-like liquidity for corporates and treasures.
- Notabene — Crypto Compliance for VASPs & Regulators made simple! Notabene is a platform designed to bridge crypto markets with traditional financial systems. Book a demo today.
- ABL Space Systems — ABL Space Systems is a company based in El Segundo, California, focused on launch vehicle and launch systems technology development.
Corporate profile and facts about Yamaha Motor.
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- Industry: Transportation, Robotics, Logistics
- Stage:Corporate Round, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Japan, India, Brazil
Investor stats
- Total investments: 18
- Round size: Series A $7M–$1.6B; Corporate Round $1.9M–$27M
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Wassha — Wassha provide the rental device and charging service using clean energy. WASSHA lends all devices to start WASSHA business. Remote management and monitoration of every operation made possible with our innovative technology, so that we can check every transactions like sales, customer information, and power generation.We are looking for businesspartners to expand WASSHA to off-grid areas! s a power supplier for off-grid Africa.
- Skipperi — Skipper is a meeting place for boats and boaters. Private individuals and companies can announce their boat rent for free. The boat can hire everyone whose skills and experience are on the boat owner's behalf. The boat owner decides who to rent their boats.
- Arpac Drones — ARPAC delivers important results in pest control through their own research and development of their aircraft and application systems; as well as, performing services in locations where other vehicles can not reach.
Loyal runs a global venture fund with quarterly redemptions and a proprietary gate-stage process, reducing investment bias and unlocking greater returns. Partnered with INSEAD, Founder Institute, and 500+ advisors, we are Loyal to the world with 250+ investments in 50+ countries.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 129
- Round size: Seed $78k–$2.5M; Pre-Seed $110k–$900k
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018
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- InSyBio — A disruptor to Precision Medicine and Nutrition through biomarker discovery.
- ZestIOT — ZestIOT is an IoT & AI enabled aviation platform to integrate passenger, baggage, aircraft, ground & airport operations.
- Wellx — Turn your health into currency. At Wellx, we're focused on making you healthier. Insurance helps us make it happen.
Seed round investment in frontier markets and clean energy
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- Industry: Renewable Energy, Solar, Energy
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Zambia, Madagascar
Investor stats
- Total investments: 27
- Round size: Series A $1.8M–$5M
- Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
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
Ingressive Capital they provide services in business development, partnerships, and financial support.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Ghana
Investor stats
- Total investments: 25
- Round size: Seed $400k–$2.2M; Pre-Seed $500k–$2.1M; Series A $10M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2021
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- 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.
We invest in Africa's most remarkable teams with technical founders at the earliest stage of their venture
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 57
- Round size: Seed $25k–$1.2M; Pre-Seed $50k–$1M
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $15M in 2022
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- 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.
IDF Capital is an established financier, that invests in high growth SMEs and entrepreneurial businesses. Specialist Entrepreneurial Financing Institution
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- Industry: Automotive, Mobile Apps
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: South Africa
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- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Carscan — cARscan is an Augmented Reality app with an embedded visual recognition AI to track the visual condition of every motor vehicle during its life-stage.
Betatron Venture Group is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage companies.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Hong Kong, India, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 37
- Round size: Seed $30k–$1.5M; Pre-Seed $30k–$150k
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $15M in 2022
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- Toku — At Toku, we help businesses in APAC build better customer experiences that drive more customer engagement. Headquartered in Singapore, we’re Asia Pacific’s bespoke cloud communications provider helping businesses overcome the complexity of digital transformation in the region, enhance their customer experience and cater to the growing demandfor hybrid work. As a channel-agnostic provider, Toku combines the most robust carrier-grade connectivity in APAC with local expertise and in-country infrastructure into bespoke CPaaS, CCaaS and UCaaS solutions that adapt to your business needs. Since its inception in 2018, Toku has worked with organisations as diverse as Gojek, JCDecaux, Public Utilities Board Singapore and foodpanda. Whether you are a sophisticated fully digital business or just starting your digital transformation journey, we have products to suit your internal collaboration and customer engagement needs.
- Sinay — Use the full potential of your data with intelligent solutions. Become more efficient on a daily basis and reduce your environmental impact.
- Baskit — baskit | Empowering wholesalers and distributors with the world's first cloud-native all-in-one app
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
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- 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.
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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.
Mobility 54 is a joint venture among Toyota Tsusho Corporation and CFAO.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Transportation, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, Côte d'Ivoire
Investor stats
- Total investments: 13
- Round size: Seed $3.2M–$13M; Series A $6.1M–$6.3M
- Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
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- 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.
- Tugende — Tugende helps motorcycle taxi drivers own their own motorcycles in eighteen months or less instead of renting indefinitely. Ownership significantly increases income, job security and road safety.
- ETAP — ETAP is a digital insurance application that allows you to set up your car insurance in just 90 seconds.
AlphaCode is a club for next generation financial services entrepreneurs. They are building a world-class financial services eco-system that brings together entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs, industry experts, thought leaders and partner organisations. By connecting, sharing knowledge and developing unique insights, AlphaCode aims to transform thefinancial services industry.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Automotive
- Stage:Grant, Debt Financing
- Geography: South Africa, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 26
- Round size: Grant $24k–$108k; Debt Financing $131k–$655k
- Lead/follow: 73% lead, 27% follow
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- Abela — Abela is a mobile payments platform that allows the underserved to make and receive payments.
- Vocalysd.ai — Vocalysd is a customer-centric, AI-powered insights tool. Vocalysd unlocks usable, easy-to-digest insights from your conversational data. These insights are key to optimising client interactions and enhancing your customers' experience.
- Welo Health — Welo Health is an innovative Healthtech Company. It to provide at-home health services.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Health Care, Agriculture
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: France, Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire
Investor stats
- Total investments: 100
- Round size: Seed $11k–$3.2M; Series A $750k–$7.5M
- Lead/follow: 73% lead, 27% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019
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- ANKA — ANKA is a platform to discover, buy, and sell African fashion, arts, and crafts. ANKA’s goal is to allow African creation lovers to live their passion while allowing the creators to live from theirs. ANKA facilitates transactions and exchanges directly between buyers and sellers on both sides of the world, in a user-friendly and secure way.
- iProcure — iProcure is a Nairobi-based start-up working to optimize the agriculture input supply chain in rural Kenya. iProcure’s web and mobile technology solution improves agriculture retailers’ operations. It lets them manage ordering based on inventory, point of sale activities, and client profiles along with geo-located purchasing patterns, real-timeagent performance and transaction analysis, and built-in mobile payments. As a result, retailers can better predict demand with business intelligence data, improve inventory management, and streamline distribution efficiency.
- Enko Education — [mk_page_section bg_image="https://enkoeducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/cnp-enko-399.jpg" blend_mode="darken" bg_position="center center" bg_repeat="no-repeat" bg_stretch="true" video_color_mask="#0a0a0a" video_opacity="0.3" min_height="0" pa...
Swiss Founders Fund is a seed and early stage investment fund based in St.Gallen, Switzerland. SFF invests in and builds companies globally.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Switzerland, Singapore, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 34
- Round size: Seed $800k–$3.5M; Pre-Seed $210k–$860k; Series A $2.1M–$5M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Hybr1d — Manage everything from onboarding, procurement, devices, payroll, leave and attendance to employee offboarding.
- Orderli — Orderli is the platform for restaurants, we help you sell more and efficiently through our QR based ordering solution.
- Careloop — Berlin-based HR-tech and EduTech startup with a focus on the German healthcare industry.
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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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Mexico, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 72
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$10M; Pre-Seed $350k–$7.7M; Series A $6.9M–$11M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Figuro — Figuro is reshaping the brokerage channel for insurance companies in LATAM by transforming how insurance is bought, sold and designed. That means no more photocopies, no printed forms, no waiting for hours or days to get a quote or a policy. Today, more than 60% of insurance sales in the region are made through a channel that hasn't changed in50 years, that relies mostly on human activity, paper or Excel -for the innovators-. We are more effective and efficient than any other traditional broker in the market for individuals and families.
- Trebellar — Trebellar provides advanced data analytics for building occupancy, energy efficiency, and climate optimization. Maximize your workplace productivity with our intelligent building solutions.
- Operant — Operant.AI is an intelligence platform for collection agents and customer success teams.
We invest in extraordinary founders building startups in supply chain and mobility. We are equipped to support founders through the seed stage in their effort to transform global trade and commerce.
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- Industry: Software, Logistics, Supply Chain Management
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Brazil
Investor stats
- Total investments: 72
- Round size: Seed $125k–$5.6M; Series A $6M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Improvin' — Improvin' is a sustainability performance platform that helps agri-food companies measure, report and reduce greenhouse gas emissions in their own value chain.
- Raft — Remove the roadblocks to amazing operations. Vector uses real-time content to drive seriously-streamlined workflows in Freight-Forwarding, Customs Brokerage, Logistics and Trade Finance.
- Manna Drone Delivery — Drone delivery made simple
TotalEnergies Ventures is the venture capital arm of Total.As part of Total's commitment to a better energy future, TotalEnergies Ventures is focused on finding, funding and fostering high-potential start-ups which will contribute to creating a low carbon future.Current areas of interest include Renewables, Distributed Energy, NewMobility, Energy Access, Energy Storage, Bio-Plastics, Circular Economy, Carbon Capture and Hydrogen.
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- Industry: Energy, Renewable Energy, Transportation
- Stage:Series B, Series C
- Geography: United States, France, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 90
- Round size: Series B $9.3M–$38M; Series C $5M–$60M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Autogrid — Work with the Leader in Energy Internet. 50+ Customers. 10+ Countries.Regulated and Deregulated Energy Companies.
- 45-8 ENERGY — 45-8 ENERGY is exploring eco-friendly helium for uses in many industries.
- Zola Electric — ZOLA Electric designs renewable energy solutions based on the latest in solar, battery and power electronics technology. Adaptable to energy need and income, ZOLA Electric’s solar systems can be bought over time using PAYGo micro-finance leasing and mobile money payments. ZOLA Electric powers more than 180,000 homes and businesses across Tanzania,Rwanda, Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana. Investors include Tesla, Vulcan Capital, DBL Partners, Helios Investment Partners, EDF, Total and GE Ventures. ZOLA Electric is a recipient of the UN Momentum for Change Award, the Zayed Future Energy Prize and is a member of the Global Cleantech 100.
Five35 Ventures is committed to unlocking capital and growth opportunities for female-focused early-stage African technology startups.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Health Care, Marketplace
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Seed $1M–$1.6M
- Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
Portfolio highlights
- LNKO — Trendy and affordable screen protection glasses, with or without prescription
- Buupass — BuuPass is Kenya's market leader for online bus booking. We enable travelers to reserve seats and make payments in a convenient and timely way. Try BuuPass today!
- LocumBase — Freedom and flexibility - Connecting freelance medical pros with practices, clinics and hospitals in real time.
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