Formative-stage African fund that backs market-creating, nonconsumption-solving painkiller businesses across infrastructural gaps, staffed by former operators delivering operational expertise and a repeatable exits established record. With a disciplined investment approach, the team drives value for both founders and investors.
Ranked by shared stages, industries, geography, cheque size and investor type. 400 related investors in the directory.
Pre-seed specialist backing pre-traction, pre-formation founders with $500k–$1M+ checks, issuing founder-name term sheets and running a Founder-in-Residence (including university) to ideate and form companies. With a disciplined investment approach, the team drives value for both founders and investors.
On one hand, prioritizes businesses addressing needs arising from massive demographic changes; on the other, differentiated by its thematic expertise in demographic-driven markets.
Seed investor making repeatable first institutional checks ($100K–$500K) into pre-vetted, capital-efficient tech-enabled startup ventures (biotech to industrial AI) via a proprietary curated deal network and Wall Street finance discipline. Through targeted capital deployment, the fund plays an active role in the startup ecosystem.
Earliest-stage investor targeting female founders in the friend-and-family gap, backing female scout-investors sourced via journalists and influencers, plus a remote 2024 digital security accelerator creating a proprietary security startup pipeline. Through targeted capital deployment, the fund plays an active role in the startup ecosystem.
Zeros in on unsexy, antiquated markets (warehousing, real estate, adult incontinence), avoids crypto/VR/drones, and runs alumni-focused Company builders Programs (Palantir, Rippling, Amazon) plus a Quit-by-Christmas support program.
Pre-seed firm (leads $500K–$2M rounds) guaranteeing funds in 10 business days via Pre-Seed Fast Track, providing serial-founder, operator, and Ph.D.-level technical expertise for biobanking, robotics, bio tooling. The firm continues to build its presence across the venture capital landscape.
