Investors in Costa Rica

A venture capital fund of experienced entrepreneurs, aligned mentors and investors that reinvest their knowledge and wealth in a next generation of entrepreneurs, to create thriving businesses and impact at scale.

Established in 2008 as the non-profit arm of Meltwater, MEST is an Africa-wide technology entrepreneur training program, internal seed fund, and hub that provides training, investment, and mentorship to tech entrepreneurs.

African Lion Investment Holdings was formed with the sole purpose of developing and marketing technology solutionsAfrican Lion Limited specializes in early venture investments. It seeks to invest in the coal and consumable fuels, aluminum, copper ores, gold ores, and precious gemstone mining and production sectors.

Burke America is a private equity firm specializing in acquisitions, generational sales, corporate orphans, add-on acquisitions, and industry consolidation transactions of smaller middle market and under managed companies. The firm invests in companies in the niche manufacturing and services sector. It typically invests in companies with revenues between $8 million and $40 million. Burke America is based in Chicago, Illinois.

Future Africa is a pioneering venture capital firm dedicated to investing in bold and visionary leaders who are building global businesses to address Africa's most pressing challenges. The firm focuses on early-stage investments, providing both financial support and strategic guidance to startups that have the potential to create significant impact across the continent. Future Africa's portfolio includes a diverse range of companies spanning various sectors, all united by a common goal of driving sustainable development and economic growth in Africa. By partnering with entrepreneurs who are committed to innovation and excellence, Future Africa aims to foster a thriving ecosystem of businesses that contribute to the continent's future prosperity.

Aurica Capital is a venture capital company that invests in the capital expansion segment. One of the main characteristics of Aurica's investment profile is the taking of minority but significant holdings in companies with a clear vision of growth and expansion.

Villgro Africa is an incubator and impact investor that supports emerging healthcare and life science startups across Africa through seed funding, technical assistance, and business incubation.

We invest in Fintech, ConsumerTech, CleanTech, EdTech, SaaS

Innovate Africa is a venture capital firm specializing in early-stage and seed/startup investments. The firm seeks to be sector agnostic including investment in innovative technology. The firm seeks to invest in Africa region. Innovate Africa is based in Ikeja, Nigeria with additional office in Glen Allen, Virginia.

OceanHub Africa is an Accelerator specializing in water utilities, ocean minded incubation and startups. The firm prefers to invest potential non-dilutive funding of up to $10,000. OceanHub Africa was founded in 2019 and is based in Cape Town, South Africa.

We invest in B2B tech, Energy, Renewables, Water, Agtech and Fintech sector businesses in the pre to early growth phase with low to no product risk.

Costanoa Ventures is a boutique early-stage venture capital firm specializing in enterprise software and data infrastructure. Founded in 2012, the firm focuses on investing in Seed and Series A stages, particularly in sectors such as fintech, data and developer infrastructure, applied artificial intelligence, and security. With a team possessing extensive B2B experience, Costanoa Ventures supports founders in these areas with keen insight and sharp instinct. The firm emphasizes a hands-on approach, offering operational expertise in hiring, sales, marketing, and company building from Day One. Costanoa Ventures has a history of successful investments, including companies like AppOmni, Replicant, StackHawk, AKASA, Quizlet, Cyral, Noteable, Parallel Domain, Novel, Highnote, Vic.ai, Bigeye, Leap, Focal Systems, and Vannevar Labs. As of September 2024, the firm closed its fifth early-stage fund at $275 million and its third Opportunity Fund at nearly $120 million, bringing its total assets under management to over $2 billion.

We invest in early-stage technology startups in Africa with female or diverse co-founding teams.

The Mills Fabrica is an incubator and venture capital arm of Nan Fung International Holdings Limited specializing in investments in seed to Series B, early stage, and startup investments. The firm seeks to invest in the technology-lifestyle sector with a focus in agriculture & food and textiles & apparel industries. It also invests in circular production and supply chains, food and ingredient innovations, next-generation biomaterials, new ingredients, materials, product innovations, techstyle and agrifood platforms and products, and business models. The firm typically has a global mandate with a focus on startups with a Hong Kong connection. It prefers to invest up to a maximum of USD 3 million per start-up, and up to a maximum of USD 5 million from each fund. The firm offers tailor-made sustainable development solutions for organizations. The Mills Fabrica is based in Hong Kong with additional office in London.

Discovery Americas is a leading private equity fund in the evolution of industries, transforming companies into profitable growth platforms. We were born in 2003 with the clear purpose of promoting Mexico through the transformation of its most basic industries. We have created eight investment vehicles, with which we have invested in 24 companies within the transport and logistics, education, financial services and health sectors.

InfraCo Africa seeks to alleviate poverty by mobilising private sector expertise and finance to develop high quality infrastructure projects in sub-Saharan Africa.InfraCo Africa was established in 2004. Since then we have successfully developed 11 projects through to Financial Close, of which we have fully exited three. InfraCo Africa currently has twelve projects under development, five projects under construction and four operational assets. We are also exploring a range of new opportunities across sub-Saharan Africa. As a publicly funded company, we endeavour to recover our costs and recycle our funding. We therefore balance cost and risk across the projects that we are developing. We will not subsidise returns for the private sector or other investors in the project. We seek to exit a project once sufficient investment has been mobilised or an alternative source of financing has been secured: this may mean topping up or retaining early-stage risk capital through construction and during initial operations. To date we have fully exited three projects, the costs we’ve recovered are being reinvested into new projects in sub-Saharan Africa.

Mid-America Angels Investments, LLC is a business angel group specializing in funding start-up and early stage businesses. The firm seeks to invest in the Kansas-Missouri Region and in locations within a 150-mile radius of Kansas City but will only consider investments beyond that geographic region if it is a syndication opportunity with another angel network or investment organization. It seeks to invest between $250,000 to $1,500,000. The firm was founded in 2006 and is based in Fairway, Kansas; with an additional office in Lenexa, Kansas and Lawrence, Kansas.

American Securities is a leading U.S. private equity firm with approximately $26 billion under management. Based in New York with offices in Shanghai, the firm invests in market-leading North American companies with annual revenues generally ranging from $200 million to $2 billion. Our mission is to generate superior returns by making investments in great businesses and helping management better them.

We invest in the people and products that are reshaping the American economy to work for everyone. Low and moderate income communities of color have been underserved, undervalued, and underfunded for generations. We invest in founders who recognize their value and are building companies that serve large markets while creating lasting systems change.

American Growth Fund, Inc. was organized and incorporated in the State of Maryland in 1958. Series Two was established in February 2011 as a diversified, open- end, mutual fund. On July 29, 2016 Series Two reorganized into a diversified mutual fund focused on the cannabis industry.

Symmetrical Ventures was founded in late 2015, with the vision of partnering with creative innovators who are looking to transform traditional business models through disruptive technology. Symmetrical Ventures is a privately-held investment firm, focused on placing investments in early stage startups.We are firm believers in companies that have elements of social good to them. We like to see founders that are driven by the positive difference that their product or service can make in people's lives, while at the same time building a successful business in the process.This is not your typical investment firmAt Symmetrical Ventures, we take a unique approach to every investment opportunity and work alongside entrepreneurs to support their needs, expanding growth opportunities.Since its inception, Symmetrical Ventures had carried out an average of 1 investment per month. Investments include both direct investments in US-based startups, and limited partnership stakes in venture capital funds.

Work America Capital is a Houston-based venture capital firm and incubator dedicated to investing in Houstonians and Houston-based businesses by partnering with high-potential leaders.

Africa Angels Network invests in Africa and Philippines-focused startups, primarily in the Tech sector. Our mission is to fuel economic growth in Africa and Philippines by identifying and investing in high potential startups. Furthermore, we match the entrepreneurs with highly qualified mentors specifically related to their industries. Our new partner that we invest in. Philippines personal loans company:

At Ascent, we have a bold mission. Over the coming years, we are developing and nurturing a league of “enterprise champions” that sets the bar for business standards in Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda, and the Greater Eastern Africa region.

Gen Cap America, Inc. is a private equity firm specializing in management buyouts, acquisitions, recapitalizations, division spinoffs, corporate divestitures, and family succession investments in lower middle market and middle market companies. The firm does not consider investments in turnarounds and start up transactions and in real estate and high technology companies. It typically invests in energy, manufacturing, distribution, and basic service companies, and prefers to invest in privately held businesses or subsidiaries and divisions of larger corporations in energy; materials; industrials; consumer discretionary; consumer staples; healthcare; information technology with a focus on manufacturing services; telecommunication services; and utilities. Within energy, the firm invests in energy equipment and services, oil, gas and consumable fuels. Within materials, it invests in chemicals, diversifies chemicals, fertilizers, and agricultural chemicals, industrial gases, specialty chemicals, construction material, containers and packaging, metals and mining, aluminum foundries and castings, rolling, drawing and extruding of aluminum, diversifies metals and mining-coating, engraving, and allied services, diversifies metal ores, fabricated structural metal products, rolling, drawing and extruding of diversifies metals, precious metals and minerals, iron and steel forgings, paper and forest products, forestry services, lumber manufacturing , drying and finishing timber, lumber products, paper products. Within Industrials, it invests in capital goods, aerospace and defense, building products, construction and engineering, construction, construction support services, heavy construction, prefabricated buildings and components, specialty contract work, electrical equipment, electrical components and equipment, heavy electrical equipment, machinery, construction machinery and heavy trucks, industrial machinery, trading companies and distributors, commercial and professional services, professional services, transportation, air freight and logistics, air courier services, charter freight air transportation, ground courier services, local ground courier services, world ground courier services, postal and courier delivery services, national postal delivery services, private mail centers and mail box rental, services incidental to road transportation of freight, freight loading and unloading, freight packing and crating, marine, road and rail, railroad transportation of freight, railroad transportation of passengers, trucking, transportation infrastructure. Within consumer discretionary, the firm invests in media, advertising, advertising specialty goods, conference services, direct mail advertising services, marketing services, point of sale advertising, print advertising, telemarketing and telephone soliciting services, movies and entertainment, entertainment equipment, entertainment services, entertainment venues, publishing, retailing, distributors, internet and direct marketing retail, multiline retail, used merchandise stores, variety stores, specialty retail, apparel retail, accessory stores, formal wear and costume rental, computer and electronics retail, home improvement retail, specialty stores, automotive retail, home furnishing retail. Within consumer staples, the firm invests in food and staples retailing, food distributors, food, beverage, and tobacco, beverages, food products, tobacco, household and personal products. Within health care, it invests in healthcare equipment and services, healthcare equipment and supplies, healthcare distributors, healthcare services, healthcare facilities, veterinary services and animal hospitals, assisted living facilities and services, automobiles, health care technology, life sciences tools and services. The firm typically invests in companies located in Canada and the United States with a focus on companies with headquarters or operations located in or near the Southeastern region of America. It seeks to provide equity and invests in companies with revenues between $10 million and $200 million, enterprise value between $3 million and $50 million, and EBITDA between $2 million and $15 million. The firm prefers to take a majority stake and hold a board seat in its portfolio companies. Gen Cap America, Inc. was founded in 1988 and is based in Nashville, Tennessee.