Top 5 Video Games Startup Investors in Africa in October 2023

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

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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Samuel Z. Alemayehu is the Founder and Chairman Of The Board Of Directors of Cambridge Industries.

Investment focus

SMS, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Seed, Series B
Cameroon, Ethiopia, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

SantéPhone — SantéPhone is a mobile-based health prevention platform founded in partnership with leading health insurance companies across West Africa. The application was powered by 4Afri Mobile.
Nextbillion.ai — Build and scale your applications with ease using NextBillion ai's route optimization and navigation APIs. Deliver high performance and maximize ROI with NextBillion ai's navigation APIs, SDKs and tools. Try now.
Cambridge Industries — Designing, constructing and operating extremely cost-competitive and scalable waste-to-energy facilities customised for Sub-Saharan Africa Cambridge Industries is a holistic waste management and renewable energy generation company, delivering leading technologies to address waste and energy deficiencies in Africa. They produce clean/greenenergy while solving waste-related problems by reducing the amount of waste going to landfills. Their goal is to turn one of Africa's most challenging social problems, the management of waste, into a source of new wealth. Cambridge’s 'Green Vision' is a comprehensive, sustainable, clean, and renewable power generation and waste management system designed specifically for African cities. Effective power generation and waste management are among the principal challenges faced throughout Africa, particularly in its rapidly urbanizing cities. Cambridge Industries provides local governments with an efficient, cost-effective solution to resolving power deficits while managing municipal waste, from garbage collection to the treatment and ultimate conversion of the waste to low-emission, renewable electricity and useful byproducts, such as recycled metals and building materials.

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emPawa Africa provides publishing administration and marketing solutions to independent music entrepreneurs.

Investment focus

Gaming, Video Games, Media and Entertainment
Seed
Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Gamr — Gamr is an online subscription platform that allows gamers to interact with each other and enables tournament organizers to host events. It also organises its own e-sports tournaments, including Techplus e-sports, which hosts over 4,000 gamers annually.

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

Investment focus

Logistics, Health Care, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

BeyondTrucks — Vertical SaaS
Lami — Lami is an end-to-end digital insurance platform and API that enables companies across sectors to offer insurance products. Its API allows underwriters to connect with consumer-facing companies that can provide embedded insurance as a value add for existing customers, many of whom are uninsured.
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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