Investors in South Africa

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

South Park Commons (SPC) is a community designed to help technologists, builders, and domain experts transition from the ideation phase to launching their next venture. Founded by individuals from companies like Facebook, Dropbox, Meraki, and Stripe, SPC offers a supportive environment for those exploring startup ideas, validating research pathways, or building conviction in new endeavors. The community emphasizes open-ended exploration, learning, idea testing, and relationship-building, providing a platform for members to discover impactful ways to contribute to the world. SPC operates on a no-membership-fee model, expecting members to actively participate and engage with the community.

With over 100 years of collective professional experience, South Suez offers a unique, diversified investment platform that provides access to African primary, secondary and co-investment markets. A flexible approach to investing, teamwork and information-sharing across these strategies is critical in ensuring sustainable investment success.

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.

FUZÉ by Digital Africa is a venture capital firm specializing in pre-seed and startup investments. The firm is a sector agnostic. It focuses to invest in Africa region. The firm invest between $0.02 million (€0.02 million) and $0.10 million (€0.1 million) in companies. FUZÉ by Digital Africa was founded in 2018 and is based in South Africa with an additional office in Paris, France.

Launch Africa is a leading Pan-African VC fund solving the significant funding gap in the Seed and pre-Series A investment landscape in Africa. With a decade-long track record of venture building alongside some of the smartest founding teams in Africa, we back startups across multiple sectors, regions, and products that tackle the most meaningful challenges on the continent.

We partner with the most ambitious, dedicated, hard-working and brave teams that dare to build great companies and disturb the status quo.STRAIGHT TO THE BESTFinancing tech companies on their mission to change the world.With offices in Ljubljana, Zagreb, Belgrade and Skopje, South Central Ventures (SCV) focuses on tech companies in the SE Europe.Our investment strategy is targeted primarily to early stage and growth investments in technology companies. The main purpose of the invested capital is to facilitate the international business expansion and growth of the most promising tech startups that can show traction and prove their potential to “make it big”.

Founders Factory is a global venture studio and accelerator that builds and funds startups from idea to seed and beyond, providing capital, operational support, and corporate partnerships.

We are the most largest early stage investors and most committed incubator in Japan. Investing in more than 120 startups. We manage 5 funds and 2 co-working spaces in Japan & Israel. Our HQ is in Tokyo, Japan and our newest branch in Tel-Aviv, Israel. We help startups in building up their dev plan, HR, fundraising strategies etc'​ but more important is that we empowering the entrepreneurs by being hands on with them and giving them the tools that they need. We provide service such as; Incubation with PC/mobile media・SaaS related companies. Incubation with Executive/Management/Marketing/Sales/Head of Personnel Department. Incubation with Management Unit / Marketing Division / Sales Department / Human Resource Division. Incubation with investment. Our 1st branch outside of Japan is Israel: https://www.samurai-incubate-israel.asia/ Africa: https://samurai-incubate-africa.asia/

Africa's Business Heroes (ABH) is the Jack Ma Foundation's flagship philanthropic program in Africa to support entrepreneurs. Our mission is to showcase and grow local talent who are creating positive impact in their communities and beyond, and inspire a movement of African entrepreneurship. Over a ten-year period, the program will recognize 100 African entrepreneurs and provide grant funding, training programs, and broader support for the broad African entrepreneurial ecosystem.

eVentures Africa Fund BV is a venture capital firm specializing in seed/startup, early venture, mid venture, growth capital, and late venture investments. It seeks to invest in small and medium sized internet and/or digital media, mobile applications, platforms, information and communication technologies, digital media, e-commerce and solution-providers i.e. not in infrastructure and hardware companies. It seeks to invest in transactions between $1 million and $10 million. The firm seeks to invest in companies based in sub-Saharan Africa with a focus on Kenya and Ghana. The firm invests between $34,931 and $346,144 in its portfolio companies. It seeks to exit business with a track record of 2 to 5 years. eVentures Africa Fund BV was founded in January 2010 and is based in Bussum, Netherlands.

Fairfax Africa Fund, LLC is a principal investment firm. It invests in infrastructure, mining, energy, agro-industry, manufacturing, and hotels and resorts. Within infrastructure it invests in Real estate, construction, technology, mobile banking, telecom and health care. Within mining the firm focuses on mines, finished products, oil & gas and precious metals. Within energy it invests in hydro power and renewable energy . Within agro-industry the firm focuses on farming to value added agro processing. Within manufacturing it invests in consumer products and building materials. The firm also provides transaction advisory services. Fairfax Africa Fund, LLC is based in McLean, Virginia.

We invest in early-stage entrepreneurs active in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Africa Media Ventures Fund is a venture capital firm specializing in investments in late startup companies. The firm typically invests in small and medium companies in the media and information sector with a focus on travel and leisure, entertainment, jobs, parenting, automobile, real estate, food and shopping. It seeks to invest in companies in Sub-Saharan Africa, excluding South Africa, and focuses on Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, and Ghana. The firm prefers to invest between $0.02 million and $ 0.2 million in its portfolio companies. It typically invests in the form of equity or quasi equity in companies requiring funding between $0.05 million and $0.3 million and late startup companies requiring funding between $0.02 million and $0.1 million. Africa Media Ventures Fund was founded in 2010 and is based in Bussum, the Netherlands.

North Africa Holding Company is a principal investment firm specializing in growth stage investments. The firm invests in private equity ventures, pre-IPO stages, post-IPO stages, listed securities, leveraged buyouts, greenfield, early stage, privatizations, and late stage. It seeks to invest in banking services, energy, financial services, insurance, logistics, healthcare, multimedia, telecommunications, media, industry, pharmaceutical, oil gas, mining, and real estate sectors. The firm primarily invests in North Africa with a focus on Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria, Egypt, and Libya. It invests up to $15 million in its portfolio companies and co-invests for larger investments. The firm exits its investments through a strategic management buyout or an IPO. It acquires controlling stakes or minority stakes with significant shareholding in its portfolio companies and seeks to take a board seat. The firm invests for a period of two to three years and holds the investments for five to seven years and up to ten years in special cases. North Africa Holding Company was founded in September 2006 and is based in Dasman, Kuwait. North Africa Holding Company operates as a subsidiary of Kuwait Projects Company Holding K.S.C.P.

China-Africa Development Fund is a private equity and venture capital investment arm of China Development Bank specializing in expansion stage, mature stage and buyout investments. The firm typically invests in agriculture and manufacturing industry sectors; research, capacity cooperation, infrastructure sectors, which include electric power and other energy facilities, harbour construction, transportation, telecommunications, and urban water supply and drainage; natural resources sectors, which include oil, gas, and solid mineral resources; and industrial perks set up by Chinese enterprise in Africa. It primarily invests in companies based in Africa specifically in Ghana, West and Central Africa, which Chinese enterprises also participate. The firm can invest in new projects, co-invest or acquire enterprise directly. It does not take majority stake in its portfolio companies nor participate in its daily management and limits its holdings between 10% to 50%. It only requires active participation such as naming directors, supervisors, and financial management staff to projects and exercises its shareholder's rights. It also invests in stocks, convertible bonds and other quasi-equity type investments. The firm exits through IPO, transfer agreement, buyout by original stockholders or by the management. It also invests in fund of funds. China-Africa Development Fund was founded in June 2007 and is based in Beijing, China with additional offices in South Africa, Zambia, Ethiopia, Ghana and Kenya.