Launch Africa Ventures

Launch Africa is a venture capital firm founded in 2020 and based in Ebene, Mauritius. The firm focuses on addressing the capital constraints faced by seed stage tech startups across the African continent. By investing in companies at the seed and pre-series A stages, Launch Africa aims to support the growth and development of innovative businesses in the region, fostering a vibrant entrepreneurial ecosystem.

Mohamed Karar

Venture Partner F1 and F2

Michael Mutie

VC Associate

Janade Du Plessis

Co-Founder and Managing Partner

Hannah Subayi

Partner, Board Member and Member of the Investment Committee

Janade Plessis Ph.D

Co-Founder and Managing Partner

Past deals in Egypt

Gameball

Seed Round in 2023
Gameball is a developer of a marketing and customer relationship management platform focused on enhancing customer retention and engagement. The platform utilizes gamification to provide customizable loyalty and rewards programs, along with behavior-based notifications and referral management systems. By tailoring experiences to align with customer actions and interests, Gameball aims to help businesses retain and expand their customer base. Its tools are designed to evoke strong emotional responses, guiding customers through their journey and maintaining engagement at every stage.

Pharmacy Mart

Seed Round in 2022
Pharmacy Marts is an online platform that enables pharmacists to get their daily prescriptions and medications from a variety of suppliers. Pharmacy Marts was founded in 2021 and is located in Cairo, Egypt.

Orcas

Seed Round in 2022
Orcas Solutions Limited is an online marketplace based in Cairo, Egypt, that connects parents and students with experienced private tutors and babysitters. Founded in 2014, the platform focuses on providing high-quality educational support and childcare services, ensuring that users can find reliable and skilled professionals to meet their needs. Through its services, Orcas aims to facilitate learning and enhance the childcare experience for families across the region.

1Trolley

Venture Round in 2021
1Trolley digitises neighbourhoods, malls and key strategic partners enabling retailers to compete in a digitised world while meeting increased consumer demand for immediate delivery. We are an end to end solution from digital marketing and order picking to last mile delivery, enabling retailers to sell online.

Kashat

Convertible Note in 2021
Kashat, is a mobile financial services company aimed at serving the financial needs of the unbanked and underbanked in Egypt. Through its mobile app, Kashat, instantly lends small loans to the financially excluded. The service uses alternative cellular data to underwrite thin file(people who have never had access to credit before) customers to cultivate a financial identity by building a credit history with Kashat. Once customers have signed up and been approved for a loan, they hcan withdraw their loans through mobile wallets and other digital payment services. The entire process is enabled digitally, through Kashat's user friendly mobile app. Kashat is regulated by the Financial Regulatory Authority in Egypt.

ElMetr

Venture Round in 2021
Elmetr aspires to become the biggest lead-generation hub for all lawyers in Egypt, and the Middle-East. Its positive impact on the legal community shall be foreseen in better transparency of legal case handling, positive client reviews, more specialization and sub specialization, clear lawyer profiles, better reach for law offices and higher quality service.

Bypa-ss

Convertible Note in 2021
Bypa-ss is digitizing healthcare information exchange between healthcare providers who want to deliver best quality of care to their patients. Connecting care providers and creating a single digital identity for a patient with their all medical data on them all the time dramatically enhance quality of care cutting down time waste, redundant costs and medical errors while providing pool of data for further development of operations, marketing, investments and even medical procedures.

Alpha Direct

Seed Round in 2021
Alpha Direct is a Botswana-HQ, Africa-focused risk carrying Insurtech that is focused on using cloud, big data and AI to deliver compelling insurance products for Africa’s growing consumer market. The insurance sector in Africa is underpenetrated vs most of the World. Given affordability, accessibility and inflexibility, insurance is seen as being a product “that is only available to the rich”. The company has become the fifth largest short-term insurance underwriter in their home market in under 5 years, and is now focused on regional and continental expansion across Africa as well as entering the long-term insurance market. The company has a strong stable of intellectual property including software, trademarks and patents. The company recently won The African Insurance Award for Innovation of the Year, for their insurance in a box product sold through retail outlets (with a cloud-based activation and policy management platform) where they have acquired thousands of customers and are scaling up rapidly. Over the next 5 years Alpha Direct plans to expand its product offering to include long-term insurance products as well to expand its footprint to include South Africa, Kenya, Egypt and Nigeria. Alpha Direct plans to license its products and technology in 10 African countries outside those where it has a physical presence.
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