Recently Added Investors – Africa

Kleiner Perkins is a Silicon Valley venture capital firm. They were early investors in many significant companies, including Amazon, AOL, Compaq, Electronic Arts, Google, Intuit, Macromedia, Netscape, Segway, and Sun Microsystems.For five decades, Kleiner Perkins has partnered with some of the most ingenious founders in technology and life sciences, helping them make history with their bold ideas. Through twenty venture funds and four growth funds, we’ve invested $10 billion in hundreds of companies including pioneers such as Amazon, Genentech, and Google. Today, Kleiner Perkins continues to help founders and their bold ideas make history investing in companies like Desktop Metal, IronNet, Ring, Spotify, Slack, and Peloton.The firm's four founding partners were Eugene Kleiner, Tom Perkins, Frank J. Caufield, and Brook Byers.

Kleiner Perkins is a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm that recently secured $3.5 billion in new capital across two distinct vehicles: KP21, an early-stage venture fund, and Select III, a late-stage growth fund. The firm has raised 20 venture funds and four growth funds to date, deploying over $10 billion into technology and life sciences companies globally. Recent investment activity focuses on sectors such as artificial intelligence, enterprise software, and consumer technology across Seed through Series B and growth stages.

Siparex Group, an independent French private equity specialist, has €3.7 billion of capital under management. Siparex enjoys strong organic growth and has carried out significant acquisitions allowing it to work to support companies in their growth and transformation. From start-ups to ISEs, it finances and provides backing for great entrepreneurial adventures thanks to its different business lines: Private Equity: Private Equity (Tilt, Entrepreneurs, Territoires, Midcap, and ETI), Venture Capital (XAnge), and Private Debt. The Group can count on its significant presence around the country, with six offices in France (Paris, Lyon, Nantes, Lille, Strasbourg and Toulouse), and abroad, with three sites in Europe (Milan, Berlin and Brussels), and partnerships in Africa and North America.

Siparex Group is a French private equity firm managing 3.7 billion EUR in assets across venture capital, private debt, and mid-cap equity. The firm focuses on seed through growth-stage investments in Western Europe, North America, and Africa, recently securing 220 million EUR in commitments for its Siparex ETI 5 mid-cap fund. This fund identifies and supports the transformation of intermediate-sized enterprises (ISEs) from its core offices in France, Italy, Germany, and Belgium.

Change Ventures is a venture capital fund that backs ambitious Baltic founders at pre-seed and seed stages. They focus on local Baltic founders in Estonia, Latvia, or Lithuania, as well as Baltic diaspora globally, aiming to support companies building global-scale businesses.

Change Ventures is a seed-stage venture capital firm targeting a EUR 20 million final close for its third fund by mid-2024. The firm focuses on Baltic founders located in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, or within the global diaspora, providing pre-seed and seed capital to scalable startups. Its investment scope encompasses Northern and Western Europe, Southern and Eastern Europe, and Africa.

a16z crypto is a venture capital fund that invests in crypto and blockchain startups. It recently raised a new $2.2 billion fund, bringing its total raised to date to $9.8 billion.

a16z crypto is a global venture capital firm focusing on seed- through Series B-stage investments in the cryptocurrency and blockchain sectors. The firm recently closed a $2.2 billion fund, increasing its total capital raised to $9.8 billion. Its geographic mandate spans North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, and Africa.