Fund Profiles

"Cost of Trust 2.0": the largest outcomes accrue to networks that compress the cost of establishing trust, roughly 35% of the US labor market by 1kx's own estimate. Focuses on onchain finance, stablecoin-driven trade finance corridors, real-world assets moving onchain, and security infrastructure for agentic AI.

212 Founders (CDG Invest)

The first Moroccan investment and support programme aimed at bringing out world-class startups in connection with Morocco.

Belief in the potential of Africa, relentless drive for innovation, and unwavering commitment to impact.

3IF Ventures

Backing technology-enabled insurance businesses to close Africa's insurance protection gap for over one billion uninsured people.

4DX Ventures

Connect people, ideas, and capital to create a thriving African continent and a vibrant global community

We invest early, we invest globally.

A thesis-driven crypto investment firm backing "N of 1" founders building "N of 1" companies, not pedigree, with a Solana-heavy lean across consumer, infrastructure, stablecoins, DeFi, DePIN and gaming.

A15

We partner with exceptional founders building category-defining companies across the Middle East and Africa.

Backs founders turning new crypto infrastructure into products people use every day: stablecoins and cross-border payments, onchain finance and capital markets, tokenized real-world assets, creator platforms, and AI agents and autonomous networks.

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)

Software is eating the world. We back bold, technical founders building category-defining companies.

Investing in innovative companies in Africa that achieve sustainable economic growth and solve social issues, with a focus on healthcare.

We partner with exceptional founders from inception through all phases of growth.

Acumen (ARAF)

We invest in pioneering agribusinesses that enhance the climate resilience of smallholder farmers in Africa.

Backing entrepreneurs bringing innovative and inclusive technologies to Africa.

Leveraging responsible profit to drive African development forward through innovative, scalable businesses solving social and environmental challenges.

The right kind of innovation doesn't just build companies, it builds countries. Investing in pre-seed and seed-stage African startups by mapping 300+ proven business models to Africa's infrastructure gaps.

Al Mada Ventures

We invest in scalable, sustainable, and innovative companies that have the power to reshape industries across the African continent.

In-kind infrastructure credits and hands-on engineering support for teams building on any of the 100+ chains Alchemy supports, not a cash grant.

Algebra Ventures

Empowering entrepreneurs to improve people's lives at scale

Alitheia Capital

True profit with a purpose: deploying capital into SMEs generating financial returns while addressing business, social, or environmental community needs.

All On

Increasing access to commercial energy products and services for underserved and unserved off-grid energy markets in Nigeria.

Anara Impact Capital

Backing technology founders in the MENA region who are building a more prosperous, healthy, and sustainable world across learning, wellbeing, and climate.

Antler

We invest in exceptional people building the defining companies of tomorrow.

Investing in essential financial infrastructure businesses with proven unit economics across growth markets and Europe.

Non-dilutive support for Arbitrum One, Nova and Orbit-chain builders, delivered mostly as in-kind credits (audits, gas, infrastructure) rather than cash, plus DAO-run milestone grants through Questbook.

DAO-governed milestone grants, elected Domain Allocators reviewing proposals in public, sized to fund a scoped deliverable rather than a company.

An early-stage venture firm focused on accelerating the decentralized future, backing founders who disrupt the status quo, create entirely new markets, and are maniacally dedicated to their craft.

Investing in essential goods and services for Africa's next billion people.

Atlantica Ventures

Investing in technology and technology-enabled companies driving inclusive and sustainable growth across Africa.

Avalanche Foundation-run pre-seed incubator combining $250K across two SAFEs, a $50K non-dilutive stipend and a 10-week program for teams committing to build natively on Avalanche for 24 months, with Blizzard Fund as the natural follow-on for graduates.

Two-tier Foundation grants for Avalanche builders: an open Mini Grant application for a tight one-to-two-month deliverable, and a committee-nominated Accelerator Grant for teams that prove out with a strong mini-grant.

Backing high-potential Moroccan startups that align with national strategic priorities and possess technology-driven growth prospects.

Backs renegades and pioneers building the next generation of open internet infrastructure, making concentrated, research-driven investments and supporting teams from idea to scale.

Backs early Web3 teams as the venture arm of Bankless, the largest Ethereum media brand, run by GPs Ben Lakoff, Ryan Sean Adams and David Hoffman, offering portfolio companies podcast and newsletter distribution alongside capital.

Automatic, no-application weekly ETH rewards for the builders shipping the most verifiable onchain and open-source activity on Base.

Equity or token investment, not a grant, for pre-seed and seed founders building enduring onchain primitives and businesses on Base, with a fast four-field application and hands-on distribution support from Coinbase.

Beltone Venture Capital

Providing sustainable funding for early-stage tech and tech-enabled startups across Africa and the MEA region, with a focus on inclusion for underserved, untapped customer segments.

We invest in the courage of the founder.

Backs conviction and radical ideas at the intersection of intelligence, autonomy and infrastructure. A family-office-style holding company, not a classic fund, with 120+ portfolio companies and LP positions in 60+ other funds.

The UK's development finance institution, deploying growth capital, debt, and guarantees to democratise access to financial services and other essential infrastructure across Africa and South Asia.

Backs category-defining companies building on Avalanche, the blockchain purpose-built for business, finance and global scale, with an institutional, RWA and enterprise bias.

Partners to crypto builders since 2013, investing across the stack from decentralized infrastructure and DeFi through consumer and CeFi, at every stage from seed to growth.

Generalist pre-seed deep-tech fund aiming to "make 1 billion lives better." Not a crypto-exclusive fund, but a high-volume, fully public, cold-friendly pitch form and a crypto heritage (an early Coinbase seed check) make it a genuine on-ramp for pre-seed founders working at the intersection of crypto and physical-world deep tech.

Advancing the decentralized world through early-stage crypto investments, with named themes of decentralized AI, agentic finance, MEV and AI infrastructure frameworks. Founded by Jed Breed, a former Partner at Arena Capital and Head of Digital Assets at Circle.

Camel Ventures

The pioneering venture debt and venture capital partner for fintech and fintech-enabling startups in Egypt.

Catalyst Fund

Investing in climate adaptation and resilience solutions across Africa.

Non-dilutive grants funding builders on the Celo blockchain, with a sustained, named African cohort spanning stablecoin payments, USSD-based crypto access, developer education, and MSME credit.

Chandaria Capital

Backing scalable, high-impact businesses with unique competitive advantages across Sub-Saharan Africa, powered by one of the continent's largest industrial family networks.

Backs exceptional entrepreneurs working to advance the crypto and Web3 ecosystem, investing broadly across the cryptoeconomy rather than concentrating on one layer or one theme.

Closing the digital divide across sub-Saharan Africa by investing in the critical digital infrastructure that connects people to education, financial services, and healthcare.

Backing founders at the frontier to help catalyze the emergence of an AI-native, cybernetic world. Runs Monastery, "The First Monastery for AI-native Founders," a 12-week residency offering a $2M uncapped SAFE to very small, technically extraordinary teams.

A thesis-driven, high-conviction firm allocating across three core themes it believes will define the next decade: Trustless Infrastructure, Digital Intelligence and Atomic Breakthroughs, treating crypto as "freedom technology" alongside AI and deep tech.

Delta40 / Factor[e] Ventures

Supporting early-stage entrepreneurs through risk capital and world-class technical resources to solve energy, agriculture, and mobility challenges across Africa.

Den VC

Backing early-stage startups that blend impact with strong unit economics in emerging markets.

Digital Africa / Fuzé

We propel African tech entrepreneurs by simplifying access to financing with fast, transparent steps.

Investing in disruptive fintech and tech-enabled startups transforming financial services across Egypt and the region.

Taking direct stakes in innovative, scalable, and impactful companies solving problems for the poorest people in East Africa.

Backing high-growth, impact-driven, and innovation-led companies across Africa through its African Development Partners (ADP) fund series, with a bias toward profitable, market-leading businesses over early-stage bets.

A team of deeply technical crypto-natives backing teams tackling big, wicked problems and building generational companies and products in crypto, across sectors and stages.

E Squared Investments

Entrepreneurship for the common good, empowering responsible entrepreneurs to create employment and address poverty in South Africa.

E3 Capital

Championing entrepreneurs pursuing bold solutions in climate technology to drive a Digitised, Decentralised and Decarbonised future across Africa.

E4E Africa

Entrepreneurs investing in entrepreneurs -- backing high-impact technology companies across sub-Saharan Africa that create jobs and drive inclusive economic growth.

Egypt Ventures

Empowering Egyptian startups by providing strategic, financial, operational, and network support that enables them to scale and thrive.

Invests in builders of frontier technologies, including AI, cryptography and distributed systems, that reduce reliance on intermediaries. Every investor on the team is an engineer who codes, and the firm publishes the industry-standard annual Developer Report.

Fostering the development of a dynamic early-stage tech ecosystem in North and Francophone West Africa.

Investing in impact-driven early-stage startups in Africa, with a selective approach to investing in growth-stage startups globally.

Enza Capital

We invest in companies organizing the offline online and digitizing key African industries.

We back scalable ventures that solve problems at the intersection of climate and commerce in Africa.

The tokenization of money, data, identity, energy and intelligence will reshape the world's most important industries. Backs pre-seed and seed teams building decentralized physical infrastructure, machine data networks, liquidity rails and attention platforms, underwriting people before there is revenue, users or product.

Non-dilutive funding for free, open-source, non-commercial work that strengthens Ethereum itself, now routed through a curated Wishlist and RFPs instead of open-ended proposals.

Backs disruptive crypto projects at the early stage that deliver real utility and push the frontier, investing across the stack from Layer 0 to applications and across sectors from DeFi to consumer, as the independent crypto arm affiliated with Lightspeed.

Fireball Capital

Impact-driven venture capital backing early-stage African startups at the intersection of technology and transformation, with a focus on financial inclusion, healthcare access, education, and food security.

First Circle Capital

Seeding the next generation of fintech companies shaping the future of Africa.

Accelerating the future — MEA's leading entrepreneurship platform in emerging markets

Investing in fair finance globally, backing fintech that expands access, affordability, and quality of financial services for underserved consumers and small businesses across Africa, India, Latin America, and Southeast Asia.

Backing exceptional teams building industry-defining companies in Egypt and Africa.

Growing Africa's startup economy by building and scaling startups via tailored expert support, corporate partnerships, and access to a global network.

A high-conviction lead investor across emerging technology, including blockchain, AI, robotics, fintech and energy, that builds alongside its portfolio through its own Framework Labs operating arm rather than investing passively.

We back technical founders who implement their insights, execute without noise, and build with precision. Capital is a commodity; Frictionless gets in the trenches with founders from day one, exclusively on Solana.

Future Africa

Build for the 94% -- technology-driven solutions that address significant challenges faced by the African majority.

Backs early-stage companies developing critical infrastructure and applications for the onchain economy, with priority areas in stablecoins, payments, tokenization and the infrastructure that supports them.

Quadratic funding rounds that turn many small individual donations into amplified matching-pool payouts, structurally favouring broad community support over a few large donors, for open-source and public-goods projects across ecosystems.

Goodwell Investments

We finance motivated entrepreneurs solving everyday issues within their communities, focusing on scalable, early-growth companies delivering social and financial returns.

Non-dilutive cash grants and Google Cloud credits for Black-founded African startups, designed to close the funding gap Black founders face versus peers, deployed via annual cohorts across the continent.

A thesis-driven venture capital firm for crypto, AI and frontier tech, writing sizeable seed and Series A lead checks into AI x crypto, DeFi and infrastructure teams willing to build a real token model.

Backs founders building autonomous networks, decentralized applications, games, tools and infrastructure across AI, crypto and frontier tech, from day zero to global scale.

We build scalable, sustainable, and profitable businesses in Francophone Africa from ideation to Series A.

Believes decentralized technology is the foundation for a more efficient, transparent and accessible financial system, and backs founders rearchitecting global commerce, with the heaviest recent conviction in stablecoins and cross-border payments.

HAVAÍC

Investing in innovative, post-revenue African-born technology businesses with local relevance and international scalability.

Helios Digital Ventures

Capturing the final digital frontier: Africa -- backing the continent's emerging digital champions across fintech, AI, and blockchain.

Hlayisani Capital

Scaling high-growth, technology-enabled South African businesses beyond Series A, bridging the gap between early-stage venture capital and traditional private equity.

HoaQ Fund

Backing founders leveraging technology to build the economic infrastructure of Africa and for Africans, from pre-seed through Series A.

A crypto-native investment platform designed to partner with early-stage and public blockchain networks, seeking asymmetric opportunities across private venture and public digital-asset markets, with roots in the Polkadot ecosystem and a heavy interoperability and infrastructure lean.

Financing, supporting, and promoting entrepreneurs and SMEs in Sub-Saharan Africa to contribute to the emergence of 500 champions of entrepreneurship by 2030.

The World Bank Group's private-sector investment arm, deploying equity, debt, and risk-sharing facilities into financial institutions and fintech infrastructure to expand financial inclusion across Africa.

Injaro Investments

Building sustainable African businesses that create both social and economic value.

Janngo Capital

We build and invest in pan-African tech-for-good champions with proven business models and inclusive social impact.

Kalon Venture Partners

Backing South Africa's best technology entrepreneurs building solutions that are 10X better, faster, or cheaper than existing alternatives.

Accelerating climate tech and sustainable agriculture startups at the intersection of technology and planetary resilience across Africa.

Knife Capital

We accelerate the international expansion of African innovation-driven businesses by leveraging Knowledge, Networks, and Funding.

Lateral Frontiers

Building digital infrastructure for the next 3 billion users through fintech rails and cleantech across the Global South.

Open markets beat closed ones, open-source software compounds faster than private networks, and money should move as quickly as information. Backs pre-seed to Series A founders building open markets, open-source infrastructure and faster money, globally.

Investing, growing, and scaling the next generation of African technology startups. We back startups across multiple sectors, regions, and products that tackle the most meaningful challenges on the continent.

Operator-led, Web3-native capital for founders building the financial and trust infrastructure of frontier markets.

LeapFrog Investments

Profit with Purpose -- scaling extraordinary companies in Africa and Asia that reach underserved consumers with essential financial services, healthcare, and climate solutions.

LoftyInc Capital

We back early-stage Afropreneurs building tech-enabled solutions for the everyday economy.

Going back to how early-stage venture capital began: founders investing in other founders and supporting them through the journey.

A crypto-native fund that partners with brave outliers challenging the status quo by redefining ownership, investing bold and early into modular infrastructure, rollups and DeFi credit.

Backing bold entrepreneurs building climate-resilient futures in emerging markets, from adaptive agriculture and inclusive fintech to anticipatory tech that protects vulnerable communities.

Microtraction

Pre-seed capital for smart, relentlessly resourceful founders building globally relevant technology businesses from Africa.

Backs New Financial Infrastructure where finance, blockchain and AI converge, programmable money, tokenized capital markets and open infrastructure, as the venture arm aligned with Bybit and the Mantle ecosystem.

A fundamental and thesis-driven investment firm backing DePIN, data, DeFi, infrastructure, RWA, AI and DeSci across a chain-agnostic set of ecosystems, spanning Cosmos/IBC, Ethereum L2s and DePIN networks.

Thesis-driven crypto fund built around three macro bets: the Open Finance Renaissance (making every asset class interoperable, programmable and composable on distributed ledgers), the Web3 vision of self-sovereign data, and global, state-free money that expands what "digital gold" can absorb.

Musha Ventures

Early-stage global fund with deep African roots, backing seed-stage founders across fintech, SaaS, and infrastructure plays.

Back early-stage crypto founders creating products and primitives for an open financial world. A builder-first, Ethereum-heavy fund that publishes its own code and expects technical credibility from the founders it backs.

Building a strong multilayered tech stack for the Egyptian fintech ecosystem through portfolio companies that collaborate and reinforce each other.

AI-focused incubation on NEAR offering compute credits, mentorship and ecosystem access rather than a disclosed cash cheque, paired with NEAR Protocol Rewards for monthly, metric-based cash payouts to any team building on NEAR.

Blockchain increases trust and improves security across markets, cutting costs and friction, and enables new applications and business models built on decentralized structures. Invests in novel networks and infrastructure enabling new types of use-cases.

Norrsken22

We are backing entrepreneurs building Africa's next tech giants, for entrepreneurs, by entrepreneurs.

Novastar Ventures

Partnering with the bold, for people and planet, for good. We see in Africa an unmatched opportunity to reimagine industries in ways that signal a new, sustainable, inclusive development path for the world.

Investing in phenomenal African businesses, driven by a commitment to creating a positive impact on the continent's future.

Providing risk capital to entrepreneurial businesses delivering essential services across Africa.

Invests across blockchain infrastructure, Layer 2 scaling, trading and financial protocols, established ecosystems (Polkadot, Solana, NEAR, Polygon, Avalanche), consumer applications and Web3 tooling, backed by a $100M initial fund and OKX's exchange distribution.

Upfront OP-token grants for apps that grow usage on the Superchain, the live path for Optimism non-dilutive funding since Retro Funding was paused for at least 12 months, but seasonal: the Season 9 window closed May 20, 2026 and Season 10 has not yet opened.

Oui Capital

Backing bold entrepreneurs reimagining an African future through technology.

We are contrarian investors backing early-stage technology companies across Africa, with emphasis on underserved and Francophone markets.

Actively managed, multi-stage exposure to companies and tokens building the blockchain ecosystem, spanning infrastructure, DeFi, stablecoin payments, RWA tokenization and AI x crypto.

Research-driven frontier technology firm that builds and invests in crypto, AI and robotics from the earliest stages, and ships open-source infrastructure alongside its portfolio.

Investing in strong entrepreneurs using technology and operations to address large opportunities on the continent.

Invests in decentralized information networks, applying a published thesis on cryptonetwork governance and value capture to back roughly 75 early-stage companies and networks since 2017, with a heavy Solana infrastructure and DeFi lean.

Plus VC

Investing early and often in emerging market entrepreneurs across the MENA region.

Blockchain-based digital assets represent a new asset class secured by cryptography and game theory. Polychain combines venture-style early positions with active hedge-fund portfolio management to capture both protocol-level upside and liquid market opportunities.

POL-denominated, milestone-based grants for builders on Polygon or migrating to it, split between a themed Domain Allocator track and an open Direct Track, as part of a stated 1 billion POL commitment over a decade.

The venture investment arm of Prosus/Naspers, a South African-rooted global technology group, deploying corporate venture capital into consumer internet and fintech businesses including several with African operations.

The code we create can be sustainable while being generative to the broader communities it serves. An open-source ecosystem fund focused on constructing essential public infrastructure through decentralized systems, as an alternative to centralized institutions.

Backing businesses and teams tackling real problems in financial services, built on durable unit economics rather than solutions chasing a market.

Fintech for inclusion in emerging markets, backing companies that serve underserved businesses and consumers profitably across Latin America, India, Southeast Asia, and Africa.

We partner with founders building software and internet-first companies that facilitate the efficient movement of capital and essential products across Africa.

Unlocking latent global capital for fintech infrastructure across Africa, Latin America, and South Asia.

Blockchain networks are upgrading the internet and capital markets. Reciprocal positions itself as a day 0 partner to crypto founders, investing across blockchain infrastructure, payments, DeFi and adjacent fintech, AI and enterprise software.

Backing exceptional founders who will shape Africa's economic future through technology.

Focused on crafting generational companies and protocols. A New York fund built by former Digital Currency Group and Blockchain Capital investors, offering hands-on help with community, business model and marketing alongside a $20M Fund One.

Robots Never Sleep. Run by Robert Leshner (Compound founder) and Tarun Chitra (Gauntlet founder), Robot Ventures moves at solo-GP speed on very early, very technical crypto bets, biasing toward DeFi market structure, MEV and research-grade infrastructure.

Invests in and accelerates transformative technologies at the intersection of blockchain, AI and digital infrastructure, with an explicit "Local Insights, Global Impact" emerging-markets orientation across 150-plus investments in 30-plus countries.

Investing in high-growth, commercially attractive agricultural SMEs that improve value chain efficiency, drive import substitution, and meet the growing food demand of West Africa's urbanising population.

Saviu Ventures

Backing early-stage tech and tech-enabled companies in Francophone Africa, prioritizing sustainable growth over unicorn-chasing.

Sawari Ventures

We believe the best way to tackle these transformations is to pair the best talent with smart capital.

Deploying execution capital -- combining growth funding with embedded operational expertise -- into high-growth South African SMEs across essential sectors of the real economy.

Backs early-stage founders building at the intersection of web3 and community, toward a community-owned internet. A DAO-structured vehicle of 60-plus investors drawn from the Seed Club network.

Seedstars Africa Ventures

Investing in early-stage companies leveraging digital technologies to address basic needs across Sub-Saharan Africa.

Sequoia Capital

We help the daring build legendary companies.

Non-dilutive, milestone-based funding for public goods on Solana, plus convertible grants for commercial projects that need to build before venture money is available, and RFPs for Foundation priorities.

Affiliated with Solana Labs (structured as Solana Technology Services LLC per the site footer; the corporate relationship is not stated in detail on the site). Invests in ambitious teams using Solana to accelerate innovation and drive onchain adoption, using capital as an ecosystem growth lever tied to a single chain rather than as a chain-agnostic financial return vehicle.

Advises, invests and builds with the best entrepreneurs in Web3 across three arms (Advisory, Capital, Labs), with Spartan Capital backing DeFi, gaming and metaverse, and infrastructure across four funds and $500M in AUM.

Onboard the next wave of builders and users into web3 through identity and credentials, developer tools, data indexing and search, scaling and privacy. A Singapore-rooted fund with offices also in New York and Boston.

Equity-free microgrants, paid out fast, to get an early Solana builder from idea to a shipped first version.

People-driven web3 investing, founded by Sandeep Nailwal (Polygon co-founder) and Kenzi Wang. Backs infrastructure, AI x crypto and DeFi founders, with an Asia and India distribution lens, and runs the Nailwal Fellowship for pre-company builders.

Techstars

Investing in the world's best entrepreneurs.

Teranga Capital

Impact-first equity investor backing SMEs and high-potential startups across Senegal, Gambia, and expanding into Mauritania, Guinea-Bissau, and Cape Verde.

The Baobab Network

Investing early in Africa's best startups, providing funding, hands-on venture support, and global network access to help African founders become industry leaders.

Investing in companies that use technology to reshape markets across sub-Saharan Africa.

Backing exceptional founders advancing individual sovereignty through novel financial and cryptographic primitives. A European, pre-seed and seed fund that funds self-custody, non-custodial derivatives and privacy-preserving compliance over custodial consumer apps.

TLcom Capital

Partnering with African entrepreneurs addressing complex challenges on the continent.

UM6P Ventures

Advancing entrepreneurship and accelerating scientific innovation in Morocco and Africa through the investment arm of Mohammed VI Polytechnic University.

Uncovered Fund

Investing in early-stage tech startups across Africa and providing long-term growth support alongside connections to Japanese corporate partners.

Invests in technology that expands human autonomy: markets, infrastructure and applications that increase user agency and let users own the upside they create. Grew out of Jesse Walden's "ownership economy" thesis and a 2021 merger with Li Jin's Atelier Ventures.

Ventures Platform

We invest in companies that solve for non-consumption, plug infrastructural gaps, and democratise prosperity in Africa, by eliminating the barriers to access and reducing the costs of delivering goods and services.

Verod-Kepple Africa Ventures

We back exceptional founders in and from Africa who are addressing deep gaps between the status quo and the ideal.

VestedWorld

Investing in early-stage companies across high-growth African industries, drawing from Asia's development model.

Village Capital

Reinventing how venture capital works so that entrepreneurs solving the world's biggest problems have access to the resources they need to succeed.

Category-defining technologies underpinning the machine economy. Backs pre-seed and seed founders building the infrastructure, payments rails and AI-native tooling that machines and agents will use as end customers.

Founders-first investing: backing exceptional African tech entrepreneurs at the earliest stage regardless of sector, with access to both local ecosystem depth and US capital networks.

WIC Capital

Gender-lens investing in women-led businesses across Francophone West Africa, providing equity, quasi-equity, and hands-on operational support.

We fund startups at the earliest stages and help them grow into large companies.

An investment vehicle fueling impact in Web3, AI and biotech, investing directly at growth stages and running the EASY Residency for pre-seed, AI-native founders.

Dev Fund-financed grants for wallets, SDKs, core development, interoperability, dApps, infrastructure and education that grow shielded usage or developer capability on Zcash, reviewed by an elected committee in public.

The future of Africa's growth will depend not only on access to capital but on the institutions that can structure, deploy and manage that capital effectively.

Forged in the depths of the cypherpunk era, a flexible long-term capital firm backing early-stage founders using blockchain and AI to solve real problems. Known for contrarian, long-form public research rather than a standard pitch process.