Injaro Investments Limited is a venture capital firm established in 2009 and headquartered in Port Louis, Mauritius, with additional offices in Accra, Ghana, and Abidjan, Ivory Coast. The firm specializes in seed and startup investments, focusing on small and medium-sized enterprises within the agricultural value chain in West Africa. Injaro Investments seeks to provide support through various investment forms, including debt, quasi-equity, and equity, to enhance the operations of companies involved in agriculture. This encompasses a wide range of activities from input suppliers to farmers and ultimately to consumers, aiming to strengthen the agricultural sector in designated countries across the region.

Ingressive Capital is a Lagos-based venture capital firm that focuses on early-stage technology companies across Africa. It pursues pre-seed to seed investments in fintech, SaaS and cloud, internet, health tech, and agritech, with a pan-African footprint including investments in Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Morocco, and Nigeria. The firm backs indigenous founders and aims to be a strategic partner on founders' cap tables, supporting growth through transformational tech-enabled solutions and contributing to Africa's value-chain development and GDP growth. By prioritizing B2C solutions for Africa's youth and B2B platforms that enhance value-chain ownership, Ingressive Capital seeks to accelerate entrepreneurial success across the continent.

Norrsken22 is a technology growth investment firm based in Cape Town, founded in 2016, that partners with exceptional entrepreneurs to build Africa's next tech giants. It pursues growth and expansion investments across Africa, with a focus on medtech, edtech and fintech, and broader technology-enabled sectors such as information technology, business products and services, and health tech. The firm targets opportunities across key African hubs including Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa and Ghana, supporting portfolio companies through scalable expansion and strategic growth.

Africa Media Ventures Fund is a venture capital firm headquartered in Almere, Netherlands, that invests in media-focused ventures and small to mid-sized African media companies, providing capital and business development support, with investments typically between 20,000 and 200,000. It focuses on sub-Saharan Africa, particularly Kenya and Ghana, and its investors are experienced media entrepreneurs who participate in the management of portfolio companies through visits and board roles.

IFU is a venture capital and private equity firm based in Copenhagen, Denmark, that specializes in providing equity, mezzanine financing, loans, and guarantees to projects in developing countries. Established in 1967, IFU focuses on creating and financing new businesses, joint ventures between Danish companies and local partners, and acquiring existing ventures. The firm primarily invests in sectors such as commercial services, biofuels, renewable energy, and irrigation systems, with a particular emphasis on climate and agribusiness. Investments are targeted at countries with a low gross national income per capita, as defined by specific criteria, and include regions across Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America. IFU typically invests between DKK 0.5 million and DKK 100 million and often seeks co-investment opportunities with Danish firms. The firm also supports small and medium-sized enterprises and provides advisory services for business investments in developing markets. With a preference for board membership, IFU aims to exit investments within five to seven years, ensuring a positive return for its stakeholders.

Goodwell Investments is an Amsterdam-headquartered impact investment firm that provides early through growth-stage equity and hands-on support to inclusive businesses serving the majority world. The firm targets financially sustainable, scalable ventures in Africa and India, with emphasis on sectors such as financial services, agriculture, mobility and transport, education, health, and basic services. It pursues minority stakes and partners with entrepreneurs to expand access, inclusion, and livelihoods in underserved communities while seeking solid financial returns. Goodwell operates from Amsterdam with additional offices in Cape Town and Nairobi, reflecting its regional focus on Sub-Saharan Africa and India. By combining capital with strategic guidance, it supports portfolio companies to scale and improve access to essential goods and services across emerging markets.

Beyond Capital Fund is an impact investment organization based in New York, established in 2009. It makes for-profit, early-stage investments in startups in East Africa and India, targeting health care access, sanitation, clean energy, agriculture and food security, and financial inclusion to improve the lives of people in low-income communities. The fund seeks market-rate returns but is structured as a nonprofit, which allows it to emphasize its social mission alongside its financial mandate.

Kepple Africa Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2019 and based in Tokyo, Japan, that provides seed-, early-, and later-stage financing to African startups, with a focus on information technology, fintech, and consumer sectors.

VestedWorld is a Chicago-based early-stage venture capital firm that invests in agribusinesses, consumer products and services, and technology-enabled businesses across Sub-Saharan Africa. Founded in 2014, the firm targets emerging-market companies and supports them with capital, active involvement in governance, and strategic and operational assistance to foster growth and development in the markets it serves.

Maven 11 Capital is a venture capital firm based in Amsterdam, Netherlands, founded in 2015. The firm concentrates on blockchain and distributed ledger technology, including cryptocurrency and digital assets, and invests in ventures that utilize these technologies.

Lattice Capital is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm founded in 2017 that invests in early-stage cryptocurrency and web3 sectors.

LoftyInc Capital is a venture capital firm based in Victoria Island, Lagos, focused on Africa's growth enterprises. Over the past decade it has invested over $25 million in more than 150 companies, including several unicorns, and attracted over $1.5 billion in follow-on funding to its portfolio. It has built an ecosystem of tech hubs, angel networks, and talent platforms to support portfolio companies. The firm has achieved multiple exits and delivered strong returns across its Afropreneurs funds.

PostScriptum Ventures is a Luxembourg-based private equity and venture capital firm that makes direct investments across seed to growth stages, including early and middle-market opportunities. The firm focuses on renewable energy and related technology sectors, while also engaging in business products, business services, information technology, and other technology-driven opportunities. It seeks to invest outside Western Europe and the United States, targeting international markets and development of new businesses. By combining capital with sector expertise, PostScriptum Ventures aims to support startups and growth companies in realizing scalable, long-term value in the energy and technology landscape.

Silverbacks Holdings is a venture capital firm based in Cybercity Ebene, Mauritius, founded in 2019. It invests in sports, technology, and entertainment sectors across Africa, supporting portfolio companies with capital and strategic guidance to scale within the continent.

Founded in London in 2009, TLG Capital is a private investment firm focused on empowering entrepreneurs in frontier markets, particularly Sub-Saharan Africa. The company invests in sectors such as healthcare, finance, consumer goods, and real estate, aiming to create significant social, environmental, and developmental impact.

SOSV is a global venture capital firm based in Princeton, New Jersey, founded in 1995, that focuses on seed to growth investments in deep technology across health, environmental tech, hardware, robotics, and cross border software, with a particular emphasis on Asia. The company runs accelerator style startup development programs, including HAX and IndieBio, which provide facilities, engineering resources, and lab equipment to help founders accelerate product development, acquire customers, and attract later stage funding. SOSV pursues a limited number of high potential startups, offering extensive hands on support to speed commercialization and scale, and aims to back innovations that improve human and planetary health.

Intercept Ventures is a California-based venture capital firm focused on investing in growth-stage technology companies in the United States, with emphasis on fintech, mobility, cloud technology, data, and cybersecurity sectors.

ValueStream Ventures is a New York-based venture capital firm and accelerator founded in 2013. It focuses on early-stage investments in B2B platforms underpinned by high-value data, including B2B software, data analytics, enterprise data, SaaS, and fintech. The firm typically supports seed to early growth rounds, including Series A, pursuing opportunities where revenue and product/market fit exist but scale is still unfolding. Its thesis-driven approach combines disciplined deal sourcing with hands-on involvement, offering business development support and platform strategies powered by core data assets to accelerate growth. With a track record since 2013, the team emphasizes building defensible, data-centric products and scalable infrastructure, while helping portfolio companies access growth financing and strategic partnerships.

TLcom Capital is an Africa-focused technology investment firm with offices in Lagos, Nairobi and London. Founded in 1999, it makes venture capital and growth investments in technology companies across Europe, Israel, the United States and Sub-Saharan Africa, with Africa as a primary focus. The firm has managed commitments of around 300 million USD and targets themes including data services, financial services, e-commerce, consumer applications, and software solutions for corporates and SMEs, supporting entrepreneurs with disruptive technologies and deep market knowledge.

Investisseurs & Partenaires is an impact investment firm focused on African small and medium enterprises. Founded in 2002, it provides capital, technical and strategic support to portfolio companies to foster growth, job creation, and local value, while pursuing social, environmental and governance impact. The organization supports a network of pan-African funds and sponsors several Africa-facing impact funds, including initiatives in electricity access, with a team of about 30–40 professionals based in Europe and Africa. The firm emphasizes long-term partnerships and hands-on assistance to help entrepreneurs strengthen strategy, governance and operations across sectors such as health, transport and microfinance.

Newtown Partners is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Cape Town, South Africa, that actively invests in emerging technology startups. Founded and led by Vinny Lingham and Llew Claasen, the firm combines entrepreneurial experience with a global outlook and operates offices in Cape Town and Sunnyvale, California. It emphasizes hands-on involvement and guidance beyond funding, drawing on the founders' track records of launching, growing and exiting technology ventures to support portfolio companies worldwide.

Orange is a leading digital operator that provides mobile and internet services in Europe and Africa, with a global corporate telecommunications arm that serves large enterprises, local authorities and SMEs worldwide. Through Orange Business Services, the group offers integrated voice and data, IT and cloud solutions, data center and network management, security, and unified communications designed to manage international operations. It supports complex projects across industries with end-to-end services, including IP voice, WAN-LAN design, application management and managed services. The company also maintains an innovation network and startup ecosystem through initiatives like Orange Fabs. Founded in 1991 and headquartered in Paris, France, Orange operates in around 30 countries and serves hundreds of millions of customers globally.

Unpopular Ventures is a San Francisco, California-based venture capital firm founded in 2019 that focuses on technology companies. It makes active investments across a broad range of startups, supporting companies through various growth stages. Since inception it has deployed approximately 75 million dollars across roughly 500 startups, including Zepto, Jeeves, and Yassir, reflecting a high level of ongoing deal activity.

Microtraction is a Lagos-based venture capital firm that funds early-stage technology startups across Africa, with a focus on Nigeria. Founded in 2017, the firm backs software, fintech, SaaS, and other tech ventures, typically providing seed capital and, in some cases, convertible instruments to support early progress. It helps portfolio companies reach subsequent rounds by adding strategic support, introductions to accelerators, and access to later-stage investors. Microtraction concentrates on technically strong teams and aims to build enduring companies that can scale and attract follow-on funding across the African tech ecosystem.

Goodwater Capital is a California-based venture capital firm founded in 2014 and headquartered in Burlingame. It focuses on early-stage investments in consumer technology and related sectors, including housing, financial services, software, healthcare, education, and entertainment. The firm seeks to empower exceptional entrepreneurs solving pressing problems and believes consumer technology can reshape culture and the global economy. By backing founders who create products and platforms that consumers love, Goodwater aims to drive significant, scalable impact and improve billions of lives.

Established in 2021, ShockVentures is a venture capital firm based in Williamsburg, Virginia. It focuses on investing in early-stage startups within the mobility vertical, leveraging community power to create lasting value.

Future Africa is a Lagos, Nigeria-based venture capital firm and collective of mission-driven founders and funders dedicated to supporting Africa’s startups. The organization invests across a broad range of sectors including technology, software, data and artificial intelligence, agriculture and environment, e-commerce and consumer goods, education, finance and blockchain, health and wellness, mobility and logistics, media and entertainment, real estate, food and hospitality, and infrastructure. It seeks to build unicorns and advance purpose-driven prosperity across the continent, aiming to solve Africa’s biggest challenges by backing innovative ventures with strong growth potential. Through its network and capital, Future Africa supports entrepreneurs at various stages, fostering scalable businesses that can contribute to economic development and job creation.

Costanoa Ventures is a Palo Alto-based venture capital firm founded in 2012 by Greg Sands. It focuses on early-stage technology companies, investing primarily in seed and Series A rounds across B2B sectors, including enterprise software, data and analytics, developer infrastructure, fintech, cybersecurity, and national security. The firm positions itself as a long-term partner to entrepreneurs, helping portfolio companies with go-to-market strategy, product-market fit, and growth. It supports startups aiming to build durable, data-driven businesses and strives to back companies that transform how enterprises operate.

Western Technology Investment is a venture debt firm founded in 1980 and based in Portola Valley, California. It specializes in providing debt and lease financing to revenue-generating, VC-backed technology and life sciences companies, including acquisition financing and fully usable growth capital. Typical financings range from $250,000 to $30 million, and in selected cases may include equity through warrants or a combined debt-and-equity structure. The firm targets companies with substantial scale, aiming for at least $25 million in annual sales within five years. As a registered investment adviser, Western Technology Investment structures its financing to support early through mid-stage growth, across North America. The firm emphasizes venture lending and has historically supported a broad range of technology and life sciences ventures.

Launch Africa Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Ebene, Mauritius, founded in 2020. It invests in early-stage technology and platform-enabled businesses across Africa, with a focus on fintech, healthtech, climate tech, agritech, edtech, transportation, logistics, mobility, e-commerce, software as a service, artificial intelligence, big data, and analytics, spanning both business-to-business and business-to-consumer models.

Founded in 2020, Five35 Ventures is a South Africa-based venture capital firm dedicated to investing in early-stage African technology startups with a focus on female-led businesses.

CommerzVentures is a Frankfurt-based venture capital firm backed by Commerzbank that invests in early- and growth-stage financial services, fintech and insurtech companies. Founded in 2014, the firm focuses on Series A and later rounds, targeting opportunities in Europe, Israel, and the United States, with initial investments typically between two and ten million euros. It supports portfolio companies by providing access to decision makers in banking and insurance, and operates as an independent investment management entity since 2019, with a geographic emphasis on Europe, Israel, and the USA in collaboration with entrepreneurs who have vision.

Endeavor is a nonprofit organization that supports high‑impact entrepreneurs through a global network spanning nearly 40 countries. It backs more than 2,000 entrepreneurs whose companies generate over $28 billion in combined revenues, employ more than 3.9 million people, and attracted more than $4 billion in capital in 2020. The organization offers an entrepreneur‑first model that connects founders with mentors, peers, and opportunities to scale and pay it forward. Its global ecosystem includes affiliates such as Endeavor Miami, which focuses on early‑stage technology firms and reflects the network’s regional and sectoral reach.

ODBA is a London-based venture capital firm established in 2021. The company focuses on investing in founders who have a proven track record of starting, operating, and scaling businesses. ODBA prioritizes the individuals behind ventures, believing that strong teams, driven by shared passion, vision, and commitment, are essential for success. The firm emphasizes investing in people rather than merely in ventures, products, or ideas, aligning with the belief that real founders are best suited to identify and develop business opportunities. Through its approach, ODBA seeks to foster and support innovative entrepreneurs in their endeavors.

Canaan Partners is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm founded in 1987 that operates globally with offices in Israel and India. It focuses on early-stage investments in technology and healthcare, including software, fintech, enterprise/cloud, marketplaces, digital health, biopharma, and medtech, and it has a history of backing startups that achieve exits.

Slow Ventures is a generalist early-stage venture capital firm based in San Francisco with additional presence in Boston and New York. Founded in 2011, it invests in technology‑driven startups and ventures at the intersection of science, society, and culture, supporting companies across sectors such as software, fintech, cryptocurrency, e-commerce, mobile, consumer and commercial services, financial services, pharmaceuticals, and biotechnology. The firm emphasizes helping founders through capital, resources, and industry connections to build sustainable, scalable businesses. It operates as a registered investment adviser.

Breyer Capital is a global venture capital and private equity investor founded by Jim Breyer in 2006. The firm pursues long-term, idea-driven strategic investments across core technology sectors, including social media, entertainment and media, digital health, and financial technologies, with broader interest in quantum, artificial intelligence, health tech, consumer software, media and gaming, enterprise data, security, and climate-related opportunities. It partners with early-stage startups, fast-growing companies, and established corporations to catalyze high-impact entrepreneurship in the United States and China and beyond. The team draws on a network of investors and founder/operator insights to frame investments and believes advances in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and virtual reality will transform technology and investment opportunities globally.

Alitheia Capital is a Lagos-based impact investing firm established in 2007 that focuses on opportunities in Nigeria’s financial services sector. It backs businesses that improve access to essential goods and services for small and growing businesses and low-income households across Nigeria, aiming to deliver both social impact and financial returns.

AlphaMundi is a Swiss-based impact investing company that provides debt and equity financing to profitable, scalable ventures across sectors such as fintech, rural microfinance, smallholder agriculture, renewable energy access, and affordable housing and education for low-income communities. It is exclusively dedicated to impact investing, seeking financial returns together with measurable social and environmental benefits. The firm supports development-focused ventures through dedicated investment programs and co-investments, aiming to broaden the integration of impact considerations into traditional investment portfolios. AlphaMundi also engages in education, publications, and industry initiatives to advance the field of impact investing and to promote sustainable development within financial markets.

Katapult Group is an Oslo-based accelerator and venture firm founded in 2016 that invests in early-stage technology startups, with a focus on climate and ocean-related initiatives. The company operates Katapult Accelerator, a program that supports startups in environmental, societal, and exponential technologies, and Katapult Ocean, an ocean-focused venture initiative. Together, these platforms aim to steward capital and innovation toward sustainable development, aligning impact with technology and fostering multi-stakeholder collaboration.

Founders Factory builds and funds startups by pairing capital with hands-on support. Founded in 2015 in London, it operates as an accelerator and venture builder, investing in fintech, health, climate, and deeptech. The firm collaborates with entrepreneurs and leading corporate partners to develop ideas, technologies, and business models, providing capital and tailored operational support from a team of specialists and a broad network. It has backed hundreds of technology companies worldwide through its accelerator and venture-building programs.

BlackPeak Capital is a growth equity and private equity firm based in Sofia, Bulgaria, with offices in Bucharest, Ljubljana and Vienna. It targets high-growth SMEs in Southeast Europe and parts of the EU, investing equity, mezzanine and other hybrid forms of capital, as well as follow-on rounds. The firm operates as a generalist investor across niche manufacturing, FMCG, information technology, industrials and healthcare, favouring export-oriented companies or those with unique technology or strong local market positions. Typical ticket sizes are in the low to mid single-digit millions of euros per transaction, with the potential for significant minority or majority stakes and co-investments. Investments can involve early and mid-venture, small buyouts and inorganic growth through acquisitions, and exits are pursued via trade sales or IPOs. The firm was founded in 2014 and focuses on Southeast Europe, including Romania, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Croatia and Serbia.

Story Ventures is a New York City-based venture capital firm founded in 2016 that backs early-stage technology companies. The firm focuses on investments in sectors including sensory systems, data infrastructure, and intelligent software, supporting entrepreneurs who leverage technology and data to transform how people interact with the world.

Khosla Ventures is a California-based venture capital firm founded in 2004 by Vinod Khosla. The firm backs entrepreneurs with venture assistance, strategic guidance, and capital, focusing on bold, early-stage technology companies. It invests across sectors including AI, climate and sustainability, enterprise software, consumer technologies, fintech, digital health, medtech and diagnostics, therapeutics, and frontier technologies. Based in Menlo Park, the firm manages several funds to support startups across stages, prioritizing ventures that address large markets and have potential for significant social and economic impact.

CRE Venture Capital is a venture capital firm founded in 2015 that invests in early-stage technology companies with exposure to Africa. It is headquartered in the New York metropolitan area, with a base in Franklin Lakes, New Jersey, and maintains a regional office in Lagos, Nigeria, to support opportunities across the continent.

BKR Capital is a Toronto, Canada-based venture capital firm established in 2021. The firm concentrates on early-stage technology companies led by Black founders, seeking to back promising Black entrepreneurship in the tech sector. It was formerly known as Black Innovation Capital.

Commerce Ventures is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm that focuses on commerce-related technology. The firm invests across mobile, retail/e-commerce, payments, fintech, and insurtech, as well as related financial services. It provides capital and active support to portfolio companies to help scale innovations in the commerce space, drawing on a network of entrepreneurs, senior executives, and corporate partners from its focus sectors.

Latitude Ventures is a London-based venture capital firm that backs seed, early, and later-stage startups. It partners with ambitious founders to help them scale, drawing on a track record of backing emerging breakout companies and notable exits. The firm has supported early investors in prominent companies such as Transferwise, Zoopla, Improbable, Robinhood, Citymapper, and Secret Escapes, and continues to invest in high-potential teams across software, insurance, and TMT sectors. Latitude operates as the series B+ sister fund to LocalGlobe, positioning itself within a wider UK startup ecosystem and leveraging a collaborative network to identify and grow ambitious ventures. The firm emphasizes practical value beyond capital, offering strategic guidance, networks, and hands-on support to founders aiming for rapid growth and geographic expansion.

Courtside Ventures is a New York-based venture capital firm that invests in early-stage companies at the intersection of sports, technology, media, and related sectors such as lifestyle, esports, gaming, and information technology. Founded in 2015, the firm concentrates on startups that leverage sports and media to drive innovation, using its network of specialized sports and media entrepreneurs and investors to provide strategic value. Courtside Ventures supports portfolio companies through long-term partnerships with management and ongoing operational guidance across functions, helping founders navigate growth, scale products, and build market presence. By pairing capital with deep domain knowledge and industry connections, the firm aims to accelerate development and create value for entrepreneurs operating in dynamic, tech-forward environments.

Singularity Investments is a venture capital firm based in Lagos, Nigeria, that targets early and growth-stage companies in disruptive technology, media, and telecommunications sectors. It focuses on Africa and North America, particularly the United States and Canada, and seeks to support mobile and web-based services, technology and software, digital infrastructure, and digital media. The firm typically makes equity or equity-linked investments ranging from about $0.2 million to $2 million, often taking a board seat and acting as lead investor in its deals. It emphasizes strategic value through its network and experience to help portfolio companies scale.