Seed

Series A

Pre-Seed

Grant

Non-Equity Assistance

Unknown Series Round

Nairobi

Maelis Carraro

Maxime Bayen

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Catalyst Fund

The Catalyst Fund is an early-stage VC fund and venture builder investing for a climate-resilient future in Africa. We partner with founders building tech solutions for climate adaptation and resilience.

San Francisco

Series C

Chipper Cash

Fintech

Mobile Apps

Payment

Chipper Cash is a fintech platform that offers mobile, cross-border money transfer services.

Series B

Wasoko

Logistics & Storage

Consumer Goods

Logistics

Supply Chain Management

Marketing/Sales

Supply Chain

Internet Marketplace Platforms

Wasoko is transforming communities across Africa by revolutionizing access to essential goods and services.

London

Addionics

Manufacturing

3D Printing Technology

Addionics is a growing, progressive startup based in Israel, the UK and the US that provides specialised improved rechargeable batteries by redesigning their architecture.

Stellenbosch

Debt Financing

Paymenow Group

Financial Services

Paymenow is a financial wellness and inclusion platform that allows employees to have early access to a percentage of their already earned wages.

Cape Town

Paymenow

Payments

Payroll

Since its inception, Paymenow has emerged as a leading pioneer in Africa's Earned Wage Access (EWA) sector.

Kampala

Asaak

Lending

Asaak is a fintech company that provides asset financing to mobility workers across emerging markets.

Accra

Jetstream Africa

Transportation

Jetstream is an e-logistics company for cross-border trade that provides technology-enabled freight forwarding, trade financing, and cargo tracking tools for businesses in Africa.

Turaco

Finance

Insurance

Insurtech

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.

PayGo Energy

Energy

Oil and Gas

CleanTech

Software

PayGo Energy is a distribution service that harnesses the power of pay-as-you-go-technology to unlock clean energy for the next billion.

Lagos

Indicina

Credit

Analytics

BNPL

Indicina drives economic inclusion in Africa with tech that helps lenders turn data into insights and power growth.

Lami

Lami is an end-to-end digital insurance platform enabling insurance agents and brokers to digitize their insurance processes.

Octavia Carbon

Carbon Capture

Geothermal Energy

Environmental Engineering

Environmental Services

Octavia Carbon is Global South's first Direct Air Capture (DAC) company. We aim to leverage Kenya’s geothermal energy, geology, and talent to accelerate DAC down the cost curve radically. We strive to make Kenya the world’s most cost-effective hub to build and deploy DAC machines by 2025.

Oze is a habit-forming mobile app that makes it easy for SMEs in Africa to keep digital records, make better decisions and access capital.

Casablanca

ENAKL

Mobility

Public Transportation

Ride Sharing

ENAKL offers collective transport solutions enabled by technology for reliable, safe, available, comfortable and sustainable urban transportation options in emerging countries.

Wilmington, Delaware

Power

Banking

Power is a platform dedicated to enabling holistic financial services to the online informal economy and the poorly served formal economy.

Pre-Series A

Cowrywise

Wealth Management

Investment

Cowrywise is an investment company and wealth manager for a thriving generation of young Nigerians.

Koa is an online savings and financial services platform designed to help consumers set, track, and achieve personal financial goals with ease. The platform provides a goal-based savings experience, enabling users to create customized savings targets and automate saving on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis. There's an intuitive dashboard, users can monitor their savings progress and investment performance in real time.

Dar es Salaam

MazaoHub

Agriculture

Agritech

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Farming

MazaoHub empowers smallholder farmers with AI and climate data, enabling them to prosper and regenerate our planet for a food-secure future.

AquaRech

Trading Platform

Aquarech is Kenya's first fish farming platform that enable fish farmers, fish feed manufacturers, and fish Traders to trade and build trusting long-lasting partnerships.

Keep IT Cool

Enterprise Software

Food and Beverages

Keep IT Cool is a Kenya-based cold chain logistics company under Raino Tech4Impact that uses technology and solar-powered cooling to reduce post-harvest losses and improve market access for farmers and fishers in East Africa.

Johannesburg

The Awareness Company

Data Visualization

Data Integration

Information Technology

SaaS

The Awareness Company is a situational awareness platform that helps organizations address sustainability issues through HYDRA, an AI-powered software that enables instant data creation and automated high-quality insights in one easy-to-use system.

Farm to Feed

Service Industry

Farm to Feed Kenya is an agritech platform that connects smallholder farmers with off-takers, buyers, and supply chain services to improve market access and income.

Garki

Wella Health

Healthcare

Pharmaceutical

Healthtech

Telemedicine

Wellahealth Technologies was born out of a need to provide quality and affordable healthcare to every African.

Flex Finance

Flex is a Spend management and corporate cards platform for businesses in Africa

Ibadan

Crop2Cash

Agribusiness

Farmers, especially smallholder farmers, have always had trouble accessing financing as banks are wary of fund mismanagement. Crop2Cash makes formal financing a 100% transparent process for banks while providing much-needed capital to responsible farmers.

Meerkat

Debt Management

Meerkat is a South African company focused on empowering consumers with financial tools for debt management, savings, and insurance.

Cairo

Bekia

Waste Management

Sustainability

Climate Tech

Recycle

Green Tech

Thola

Energy Management

Asset Management

Thola offers a simple way to track energy use, manage maintenance, and stay compliant, all in one platform

Scrapays

Scrapays empowers individuals to thrive in recycling through our digital infrastructure, fostering efficiency, traceability, and profitability.

HealthDart

Hospitals and Health Care

Apps

HealthDart is a South African startup that uses a digital-first approach to helping African middle-market consumers find the quickest and cheapest way to solve basic health issues.

Medikea

Wellness

We make primary care accessible and affordable to over 500 million Africans who today struggle to access even basic healthcare services.

Medikea Health

Medical

Health Care

Dakar

Assuraf

Insurance Technology

Assuraf is a leading Pan-African InsurTech based out of Dakar (Senegal) with focus in Francophone Africa. Building the much needed infrastructure and products that drive insurance inclusion and address and meet the needs of each individual across emerging markets

Giza

VAIS

Software Dev/Test

Machine Learning

Visual and AI Solutions (VAIS) is a leading DeepTech/AgriTech company that revolutionizes precision and climate-smart agriculture with its innovative, sensor-free, AI-based approach.

PaddyCover

PaddyCover works with established insurers and customer aggregators to design and offer a multi-channel platform that facilitates flexible and convenient payment for insurance packages

Spoon Money

Spoon Money is a financial platform that empowers women-run informal businesses by providing savings and credit solutions based on stokvel principles to help them grow and build thriving communities.

Tulix

Mobile Payments

Tulix helps Africans globally to share money, budget and manage finances without losing visibility over how and where money is used.

Kandua

Marketplace

Home Services

Internet

South Africa’s #1 online marketplace for home services. Kandua is a mission-driven tech start up. Our vision is to make home job fulfilment simple, intuitive and equitable for service providers and the customers they serve.

Abalobi

IT Consulting

Abalobi is a co-designed and fisher-driven mobile app suite to transform small-scale fisheries governance from hook to cook. It is aimed at social justice and poverty alleviation in the small-scale fisheries chain, transformation in the way knowledge is produced, stewardship of its marine resources, and resilience-building in the face of climatechange.

MobiLife

MobiLife is a South African insurtech company that provides a future-ready insurance Platform-as-a-Service, enabling banks, insurers, and retail brands to launch innovative, customer-friendly products efficiently and cost-effectively.

Eight Medical

8Medical is a Nigerian health-tech startup that connects users to emergency care responders via a network of pre-hospital professionals, enabling urgent medical services on demand.

Flowigo

Predictive Analytics

IT Services

Solar Engineering

Data Analytics

Flowigo (formerly Grafica) is a data analytics company enabling smarter solar financing by using payment and usage data to power predictive models that reduce default risk and improve transparency for PAYG providers, banks, and lenders.

PesaKit

PesaKit is a last-mile Fintech and Digital commerce start-up building the future of money and commerce in step with the way people live and work in Africa.

NoorNation

Renewables

Semiconductor Manufacturing

Water

NoorNation is a renewable energy startup that empowers underserved communities by harnessing solar power to provide clean electricity, safe water, and innovative products that foster sustainable development and economic growth.

Owerri

ColdHubs

ColdHubs is at the forefront of innovation in cold storage and logistics, leveraging advanced technology to ensure the highest standards of efficiency, reliability, and food safety.

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