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.

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.

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.

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.

EchoVC Partners is a Lagos, Nigeria–headquartered venture capital firm that concentrates on seed and early-stage technology investments. The firm pursues opportunities across North America, Africa and Southeast Asia, including underserved markets in Africa and Southeast Asia. It backs ideas in internet platforms and services, consumer internet (social, mobile, commerce, local, media and entertainment), smart data (machine learning, computer vision, predictive analytics, search and discovery), semantic technology and ambient sensing, as well as enterprise software, cloud infrastructure and decision support. Sectors of interest include e-commerce, digital media, content, advertising, software, fintech, health tech, energy, sustainable mobility, and connectivity, with a preference for women entrepreneurs and underserved geographies. Investment sizes vary widely, from tens of thousands to several million dollars, depending on stage and needs. EchoVC Partners focuses on cross-border tech opportunities and aims to support growth through resources and networks in its target regions.

Ventures Platform is a venture capital firm based in Abuja, Nigeria, founded in 2015. It invests in technology companies across Africa, focusing on early-stage and growth opportunities, and operates an accelerator program to support portfolio companies. The firm backs mission-driven founders building capital-efficient platforms that aim to democratise prosperity by addressing infrastructural gaps and improving livelihoods. It has a pan-African footprint with additional presence in Lagos and broad sector exposure, including information technology, fintech, health tech, edtech, and SaaS. Ventures Platform typically invests using personal capital and pursues a hands-on approach to working with a select portfolio, commonly supporting a cohort of 10–15 companies during an accelerated program of roughly 16 weeks.

Uncovered Fund is a venture capital firm founded in 2019 and based in Tokyo, Japan. It targets early-stage startups and concentrates its investments in Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa, spanning sectors such as retail, fintech, health tech, logistics, mobility as a service, agritech, and smart city initiatives.

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.

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.

GreenHouse Capital is the corporate venture capital arm of Venture Garden Group, based in Ikeja, Nigeria. It targets investments in fintech and big data startups in sub-Saharan Africa as well as foreign startups seeking the African market.

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.

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.

Inspired Evolution Investment Management is a Cape Town-based private equity and venture capital firm focused on sustainable energy and environmental technologies in Sub-Saharan Africa. Founded in 2007, the firm targets growth-oriented opportunities across clean energy, energy efficiency, water treatment, waste management, sustainable agriculture, and related infrastructure. It provides equity capital across multiple stages, often acting as a lead investor and taking board seats in portfolio companies. The firm emphasizes both financial returns and measurable development outcomes, and it generally targets markets in Southern Africa with broader engagement across Africa. In addition to capital deployment, Inspired Evolution offers advisory services to support growth and sustainability strategies. The firm operates offices in Mauritius, Ivory Coast, Kenya, and London, enabling cross-border collaboration and sourcing opportunities.

Kaleo Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2023 and based in Dallas, Texas, that invests in early-stage technology companies across Africa, including pre-seed opportunities.

Synergy Capital Managers is a Lagos-based private equity and growth equity firm focused on investing in small- and mid-sized enterprises across West Africa. Founded in 2010, it targets high-growth SMEs across a range of sectors, including business services, consumer products and services, energy, financial services, healthcare, information technology, e-commerce, and manufacturing. The firm leverages local teams and capital to help build industry champions that contribute to regional economic growth and job creation, and it manages over US$100 million in assets.

Founder Collective is a seed- and early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2009 by entrepreneurs who have built and exited technology companies. Headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with an office in New York, the firm makes early investments across the United States and globally. It is industry-agnostic but prefers ventures with an information technology component, including software and TMT-enabled businesses. The firm focuses on supporting founders at the seed and early stages, drawing on the experience of its partners who have firsthand startup experience.

UNICORN MAKING is an accelerator and venture capital firm that focuses on startups and early‑stage companies in technology and technology‑enabled sectors across Africa. It offers education, training, mentorship, infrastructure and long‑term capital, and connects portfolio companies with co‑investors after commercialization. The firm is headquartered in Nigeria and has offices in South Africa, Kenya, Mexico and the United States.

TBL Mirror Fund is a venture capital and private equity investment firm based in Nairobi, Kenya, with an additional office in the Netherlands. It backs small and medium enterprises in East Africa and Nigeria, focusing on information and communications technology, healthcare, and consumer goods, along with related commercial services. The firm primarily invests in equity or quasi-equity, often taking a minority stake and a board seat to help guide growth. It targets early to mid‑stage companies and seeks partnerships with strategic investors, typically engaging in mid-sized funding rounds. The firm emphasizes ethical norms, environmental responsibility, and good labor practices in its portfolio. Beyond providing capital, it supplies governance and operational know‑how from its managers and investors to help portfolio companies scale, with attention to software, telecom infrastructure, healthcare services, and consumer goods logistics and distribution across East Africa and Nigeria.

Zrosk Investment Management is a venture capital firm based in Lagos, Nigeria, focused on early‑stage investments and small and medium‑sized enterprises. It typically participates in pre‑seed to Series A rounds and aims to own a meaningful stake in portfolio companies, while providing more than capital as a value‑added partner. The firm supports growth across a broad range of sectors, including fintech, software as a service, entertainment technology, Web3, mobility and logistics, business services, e‑commerce, agriculture, mining, manufacturing, and the creative industries. By combining strategic guidance, network access, and operational support, Zrosk seeks to accelerate early development and scale for its portfolio companies.

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.

European Investment Fund (EIF) is a public institution established in 1994 to improve access to finance for Europe's small and medium-sized businesses. It designs and develops venture capital and guarantee instruments to support SMEs and to catalyse private investment, aiming to build a robust European equity ecosystem. EIF engages in venture capital, growth capital, and guarantee operations, backing innovative entrepreneurs primarily in technology and life sciences, as well as across other sectors. Through cornerstone investments and fund participation, EIF seeks to crowd in private investors and stimulate venture activity across Europe. Its equity portfolio has grown substantially, with assets under management exceeding EUR 14 billion, reflecting its broad role in strengthening SME finance and supporting entrepreneurship and growth.

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.

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.

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.

Omidyar Network is an impact investing firm founded in 2004 by Pierre and Pam Omidyar. It supports social entrepreneurs through both investments and grants, aiming to improve lives and communities by funding organizations that harness technology and innovation. The firm operates as a philanthropic investment organization, focusing on catalyzing social impact across areas such as access to capital, media, markets and transparency, governance, citizen engagement, and information access. It backs both for profit and non-profit ventures, spanning seed to growth stages, and emphasizes responsible tech, digital inclusion, and strengthening institutions and democratic processes. The organization seeks to empower individuals and communities through investments that promote better governance, informed citizenship, and thriving communities worldwide.

Golden Palm Investments is an investment firm based in Accra, Ghana, founded in 2008. It engages in early-stage, venture and growth capital investments across Africa, providing investment management and advisory services. The firm targets opportunities in real estate, agribusiness and technology, and also backs financial technology, digital health and tech-enabled marketplaces, with a focus on investments that create impact across the African continent.

Reflect Ventures is a Boston-based venture capital firm founded in 2021 that backs early-stage companies. It focuses on logistics, supply chain distribution, transportation, and fintech rails, and targets seed and Series A/B+ rounds. With a global outlook, Reflect Ventures seeks opportunities across mature and emerging markets, supporting founders to scale innovative solutions in critical infrastructure and related financial technologies.

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.

Partech is a global tech investment firm headquartered in Paris, with offices in Berlin, Dakar, Dubai, Nairobi and San Francisco. It provides capital, operational experience and strategic support to entrepreneurs from seed through growth, helping them scale through multiple stages. Founded in San Francisco about 40 years ago, Partech currently manages €2.5 billion in assets and backs a portfolio of roughly 220 companies across 40 countries and four continents.

Lanai Ventures is a Barcelona-based venture capital firm, founded in 2016, that backs early-stage startups in Spain with a sector-agnostic approach focused on pre-seed and seed rounds. It leverages a network of prominent founders who participate as investors, providing strategic guidance and connections to portfolio companies across information technology, financial services, consumer products and services, and related sectors.

Lateral Frontiers is a New York-based venture capital firm focused on sub-Saharan Africa. It invests in early and growth-stage technology-enabled companies, providing debt and equity financing to support businesses that address key African needs. The firm backs sectors such as financial services, healthcare, education, energy, agriculture, housing, logistics, and mobility, aiming to back foundational technologies and scalable solutions that deliver profitable growth across the continent.

Expert DOJO is a venture capital firm and accelerator based in Santa Monica, California, that supports early-stage startups through funding and acceleration programs. It focuses on pre-seed and seed companies worldwide, prioritizing visionary technology ventures and minority or female-founded teams. The firm engages with a global portfolio, providing capital typically in the range of tens of thousands to around one million dollars, with follow-on support to scale. Its programs aim to help startups gain traction and accelerate growth beyond what they could achieve independently.

Tiger Global Management is an investment firm founded in 2001 by Charles (Chase) Coleman. It allocates capital across public and private markets worldwide, with a focus on technology-enabled growth opportunities. The firm pursues public equity strategies, including long/short and growth investments, and private equity across early- to late-stage companies in multiple industries, seeking high-quality growth opportunities and guiding portfolio companies through their lifecycle.

KdT Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Austin, Texas, founded in 2017 by Cain McClary. It backs startups across data, engineering, and biology, with emphasis on life sciences, healthcare technology systems, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, agriculture, chemicals, and gases, as well as frontier science, chemistry, and related technologies.

Pioneer Fund is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm established in 2017. It operates as an early-stage investor backed by a network of over 420 Y Combinator alumni, and it seeks to back top YC startups. The firm maintains a broad sector scope, investing in consumer products and services, information technology, financial technology, artificial intelligence and machine learning, blockchain, life sciences, healthcare technology, real estate technology, ride-sharing, and SaaS and supply chain technologies, among others. Pioneer Fund positions itself as a generalist, technology-focused investor with activity across consumer, enterprise and emerging tech sectors.

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.

Remapped Ventures is a Toronto-based venture capital firm founded in 2020 that provides early-stage funding to startups across sectors including work tech, fintech, edtech, food tech, housing tech, health tech, and artificial intelligence.

Seedstars Africa Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm based in South Africa that invests in high-growth companies across Sub-Saharan Africa. Founded in 2020, it concentrates on supporting startups at the early stage throughout the region.

Vertex Ventures is a global network of operator-investors and venture capital firms that supports technology and healthcare startups across the United States, China, Israel, India and Southeast Asia. It partners with entrepreneurs by offering hands-on operating experience and broad access to capital, talent, partners and customers to help build global businesses. The firm focuses on early to growth-stage investments in software infrastructure, developer tools, data, security, vertical SaaS, enterprise software and healthcare technologies, drawing on a wide international footprint that includes the US, Israel, Singapore and China. Vertex Ventures emphasizes active portfolio involvement and leverages the broader Vertex network to create value for portfolio companies through strategic guidance and partnerships.

Bossa Invest is a venture capital firm based in Sao Paulo, Brazil, founded in 2011, that manages investment portfolios and provides asset management services to clients across sectors, with a focus on software as a service companies, and analyzes market trends to inform its investment decisions while operating in finance, technology, and real estate.

KawiSafi Ventures is a venture capital firm.

VentureSouq is a venture capital firm headquartered in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, with a global portfolio. Founded in 2013, it backs early-stage technology companies across sectors including fintech, software as a service, edtech, gaming, legaltech, and climate technology. The firm operates with a regional focus on the Middle East and North Africa and seeks scalable, innovative solutions, supporting portfolio companies through strategic guidance and capital.

Act Venture Capital is a Dublin, Ireland-based technology-focused venture capital firm that backs ideas and companies from seed to growth. It concentrates on software, IT infrastructure, communications, Internet and mobile sectors, seeking potentially category-defining businesses with ambitious growth plans. The firm manages multiple funds and has raised hundreds of millions of euros to support portfolio companies, providing capital and strategic guidance to help founders scale globally. Act maintains a broad network of US and European investors and founders, and collaborates with institutions such as the European Investment Fund to support its investments.

Swedfund is a government development finance institution based in Stockholm, with an office in Nairobi, established in 1979. It mobilizes capital and expertise for investments in private markets across Africa, Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe, including direct investments and fund of funds activities. It finances a range of instruments, from equity to loans and other debt-like structures, and supports knowledge transfer and equipment upgrades, including depreciation loans to Swedish small and medium-sized enterprises. It pursues minority investments, typically in the range of 5 to 100 million SEK, with board seats and participation in investment committees, and aims for exits in five to ten years. It operates as a bilateral development financier within the European Development Finance Institutions network.

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.

Magic Fund is a venture investment firm focused on early-stage startups. Founded in 2017 and based in Los Angeles, United States, the firm pursues global opportunities across Africa, Europe, Latin America, North America, and Southeast Asia. It typically writes checks ranging from 0.1 to 0.3 million dollars to support early-stage companies across various sectors, leveraging founders with deep expertise in their fields.

Streamlined Ventures is a seed-stage venture capital firm based in Palo Alto, California. It backs early-stage software companies that transform data science, artificial intelligence, software automation, APIs, blockchain and related technologies across the Web, mobile, social and enterprise domains. The firm targets ventures building technology infrastructure for developers and applications, new human-computer interfaces such as wearable devices, and AI-enabled solutions, with a geographic focus on the United States.

TEN13 is a venture capital firm and syndicated investment platform based in Fortitude Valley, Australia. Founded in 2019, it targets early-stage startups across financial technology, product-led growth, creator tools, health and wellbeing, and API infrastructure, providing funding and support to founders through a coordinated investment approach.

Frontline Ventures is a venture capital firm headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, with offices in London and San Francisco, that backs globally ambitious business-to-business software companies across the United States and Europe. Founded in 2012, it supports startups from inception to growth through its early-stage and growth programs, leveraging a team of entrepreneur-investors to help portfolio companies navigate cross-border expansion. The firm emphasizes value-added support over capital quantity, drawing on a global network of experienced operators and advisors to assist founders at pivotal moments and drive scalable growth in B2B software businesses.