Fund Profiles

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.

A15

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Future Africa

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

Goodwell Investments

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Musha Ventures

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

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

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.

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.

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

Plus VC

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.