Investors backing African startups
Soma Ventures
No description available.
United States
Sozo Ventures
No description available.
United States
Spark+ Africa Fund
Spark+ Africa Fund finances businesses and projects providing modern cooking solutions in sub-Saharan Africa. Its financing includes debt, quasi-equity and project finance, complemented by technical assistance, carbon-market expertise and portfolio support.
Kenya
Spatialedge
Bringing together siloed information, creating fit-for-purpose data assets and building highly performant feature stores for data scientists
South Africa
Sportradar
Sportradar is a sports technology company serving betting operators, media businesses, sports organisations and regulators. Its services include sports data, streaming, trading tools, marketing technology and support for sporting integrity.
Switzerland
Spring Ventures
Spring Ventures combines deep technology investment with technology development and business support. It works with a selected group of founders over the long term, contributing capital, experience and commercial connections.
Global
Stage 2 Capital
Stage 2 Capital is a venture capital firm backed by sales and market-development professionals. It invests in early-stage business technology companies and helps founders develop commercial strategy, recruit teams and build revenue operations.
United States
Stanbic IBTC Bank
Stanbic IBTC Bank provides banking and lending services in Nigeria. Its products serve individuals and businesses, including bank accounts, cards, asset financing, personal loans and corporate and investment banking services.
Nigeria
Startup Tunisia
Startup Tunisia is a national startup support initiative combining legal frameworks, ecosystem programmes and investment support. Its activities include the Startup Act, entrepreneur support programmes and initiatives intended to develop venture capital.
Tunisia
STEMeIn
No description available.
Global
Still Capital
No description available.
Global
Stillmark
Stillmark is a venture capital firm focused on businesses developing Bitcoin-related products and technology. Its published portfolio and research cover areas including financial services, infrastructure, mining and applications using the Lightning Network.
Global
Strat-Tech
No description available.
Global
Strawhat Investment
No description available.
Nigeria
Streamlined Ventures
Streamlined Ventures invests in seed-stage companies and supports founders as their businesses develop. Its approach includes assistance with operating plans, organisational execution and business decisions informed by its team’s investment experience.
United States
STV
STV is a venture capital and growth equity firm investing in technology businesses in the Middle East and North Africa. Its activities include investment strategies focused on regional digital companies and artificial intelligence.
Global
Sufishent
No description available.
United States
SVNV Global
No description available.
Global
Swiss Founders Fund
Swiss Founders Fund is an early-stage venture capital firm based in St. Gallen, Switzerland. Founded by entrepreneurs, it invests in and builds companies internationally, supporting pre-seed and seed businesses across industries.
Switzerland
Synergie
No description available.
Global
Syntax Ventures
No description available.
Global
Tana Africa Capital
Tana Africa Capital is an evergreen investment company focused on Africa. Founded in 2011 by the Oppenheimer family and Temasek Holdings, it invests in and supports the development of African businesses.
South Africa
Taureon
Taureon is an investment management and consulting firm focused on distributed ledger technology. It combines technical expertise with corporate relationships to support businesses and projects developing decentralised systems and applications.
United States
Terramax Ventures
No description available.
Global
Tess Ventures
No description available.
United States
The Conscious Fund
The Conscious Fund invests in businesses developing psychedelic medicine and advanced therapeutics. Established in 2018, it identifies pre-seed and seed investments as its focus within healthcare and treatments affecting mental states.
Global
The Currency Exchange Fund (TCX)
The Currency Exchange Fund, known as TCX, provides currency hedging for emerging and frontier markets. It helps international lenders manage local-currency exposure and supports the development of local financial markets.
Netherlands
The Oak Capital
No description available.
Nigeria
The Spruce House Partnership
No description available.
United States
the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC)
No description available.
Global
The Untours Foundation
No description available.
Global
Three Arrows Capital (3AC)
No description available.
Singapore
TO Ventures (CH)
No description available.
Switzerland
TQ Ventures
TQ Ventures is an early-stage venture investment firm led by Schuster Tanger and Andrew Marks. It works with founders on building companies and describes its approach as grounded in independent investment analysis.
United States
TradeDepot
B2B eCommerce platform for consumer goods
Nigeria
Transcend Network
Transcend Network is an international community supporting founders building businesses in education and the future of work. Its activities include a founder fellowship, exploration programme and investment fund connected to the network.
United States
Triodos Bank
Triodos Bank finances businesses and projects with social and environmental objectives. Its activities include supporting sustainable energy and entrepreneurs, alongside banking services intended to advance a more sustainable financial system.
Netherlands
True Capital Fund
No description available.
United Kingdom
TrueLayer
TrueLayer provides open banking payment technology for businesses. Its network enables customers to make account-to-account payments, while merchants use its tools to accept payments and manage bank-based payment experiences.
United Kingdom
Trueventures.org
True Ventures provides early-stage capital to founders building new companies. Established in 2005, the firm works with entrepreneurs from initial products through company growth and maintains a broad portfolio of businesses.
United States
TymeBank
Multi-country digital bank
South Africa
uAfrica
No description available.
South Africa
Ulu Ventures
Ulu Ventures is a seed-stage venture capital firm with connections to Stanford and Silicon Valley. It actively seeks diverse founding teams, including women entrepreneurs, and invests in the development of new businesses.
United States
Umba
Digital bank, offering free bank accounts and financial services
United States
Unbound
Unbound is an investment and company-building firm working alongside entrepreneurs. Its approach emphasises long-term involvement, operational support and access to international markets, customers and networks as businesses develop and expand.
United Kingdom
Unicorn Capital Partners
No description available.
Global
USTDA
USTDA is the United States Trade and Development Agency, a government agency supporting overseas infrastructure development. Its work spans digital infrastructure, energy, transport and critical minerals across several international regions.
United States
V Square Capital
No description available.
United States