Sunu Capital

SUNU Capital is an early-stage venture capital fund investing in companies that are creating a more prosperous, inclusive, and self-sustaining future across the global south.SUNU makes tailored investments to help companies pursue game-changing opportunities and realize their vision. Post-investment, we draw upon our network to offer additional capacity and capital that helps businesses grow and prepare to access follow-on investments. We move swiftly and responsively. They commit long-term. We love a good challenge. ​

Benjamin Schmerler

Co-Founder, Partner and Managing Director

12 past transactions

Thepeer

Seed Round in 2022
Thepeer creates a technology infrastructure that allows businesses to integrate and support cross-business transactions. It enables businesses to allow their customers to perform transactions, direct charges, and other functions from their platform to any business wallet.

Carepoint Hospitals

Series A in 2021
CarePoint Hospitals is a chain of healthcare facilities that provides optimized and patient-centered services to patients. They provide services that include outpatient care, inpatient care, mother and child care, specialist care, general surgery, lab and diagnosis, obstetrics and gynecology, pharmacy, urology, ambulance services, and more.
Africa Health Holdings cultivates a work-environment that motivates professionals to strive to exceed their expectations. It offers a variety of exciting and challenging careers across Africa and North America. It values teamwork and the enthusiasm to become a contributor to the development and success of local communities across Africa. It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Accra, Ghana with offices in Nigeria and New York.

Mara

Seed Round in 2021
Mara is a platform for Africans to learn through, while leveraging, blockchain technology to build digital wealth. The company empowers Africans to develop financial literacy so they can take the greatest possible advantage of the numerous opportunities available in the digital economy. The Mara wallet allows users to easily buy, sell, earn, withdraw, and protect their assets - including cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Mara Token - in real time. Mara was founded in 2021 and is located in Nairobi, Kenya.

Tazah Technologies

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Tazah's mission is to improve the lives of producers, businesses and consumers by building a tech-enabled OS for food and agri supply chain of Pakistan

HoneyCoin

Pre Seed Round in 2021
HoneyCoin is a cryptographic payment and monetization platform. They make peer-to-peer transactions and connect with users' friends and family from anywhere at anytime. They send and receive payments instantly.

OmniBiz

Seed Round in 2021
Omnibiz is a B2B e-commerce platform for FMCG manufacturers, distributors, and retailers. It aims to support local businesses and help them navigate the modern market. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Lagos, Nigeria.

Guidewheel

Series A in 2021
As simple as a smartwatch to clip on, Guidewheel's AI-powered FactoryOps platform empowers manufacturers to swiftly improve productivity and profit across their entire operations—every machine, in every factory. Totally non-intrusive, like a smartwatch measuring a pulse, Guidewheel’s AI and software detect from the machine’s electrical heartbeat how fast any machine is running, the second it started or stopped, and even when it’s starting to get stressed out and might have a problem soon. Then, layers of additional sensors and functionality provide more and more value towards profits and even sustainability goals—while keeping the user experience simple, modular, and scalable. And with every machine, user, and factory added to the system, Guidewheel’s FactoryOps platform gets smarter and more valuable for everyone else. Guidewheel was founded out of Stanford University and is already successful with hundreds of manufacturers—reporting an average of 40% runtime improvement—with results featured in IndustryWeek and selection by the World Economic Forum as a Tech Pioneer, one of the companies most likely to have a significant impact on business and society. Guidewheel’s vision is to become the real-time intelligence layer and platform that empowers all the world’s 10 million factories to reach sustainable peak performance. And by doing so it will not only be a generational, category-defining company, but also have a significant global impact on climate change.

Field Intelligence

Series A in 2020
Field Intelligence manages the asset ecosystem for agricultural, energy, heavy equipment, and infrastructure verticals.

Sendy

Series B in 2020
Sendy offers a logistics platform to make delivery processes simple, transparent, and secure. Sendy provides an easy way for businesses to move goods, with thousands of companies using its platforms and APIs to sell and deliver goods to their consumers. Sendy's mission is to empower people and businesses by making it easier to trade.

Neopenda

Seed Round in 2019
Neopenda innovates needs-based medical technologies for high-growth emerging markets. Their solution reduces response time to newborns in distress and helps healthcare workers to save more lives.

FarmDrive

Venture Round in 2019
FarmDrive is a technology company that applies data science and machine learning to build software that increases access to meaningful financial services - loans, digital payments insurance, savings. FarmDrive’s mission is to drive capital to underserved rural clients and transform them into sustainable and profitable businesses.
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