VC firms, angels, accelerators, DFIs, and corporate venture arms backing African founders.
HEC Paris Innovation & Entrepreneurship Center
Venture Capital
HEC Paris Innovation & Entrepreneurship Center partners with organizations to run accelerator programs. These programs support early-stage entrepreneurs with resources, coaching, technical support, and access to networks. Focus areas include green entrepreneurship and AI in journalism. They provide coaching, business model support, access to experts, and networking opportunities.
HIM Angels
HIM Angels invests in early-stage startups, as demonstrated by their participation in Rology's pre-Series A funding round. They co-invest alongside other angel networks and venture capital firms, focusing on companies within the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.
HOF Capital
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HSBC
HSBC provides debt financing to companies in Africa. They are sector agnostic but have recently invested in cleantech. They provided debt financing to KarmSolar to fund the development of the company’s Farafra Solar Grid.
Hack VC
Hack VC invests in early-stage companies. They participated in the Series A funding round of Vendease, a Nigerian food procurement startup that provides food procurement and preservation services, as well as financial services like Buy-Now-Pay-Later (BNPL), to customers in Africa.
Haleakala Ventures
Haleakala Ventures invests in early-stage companies in Africa. They participated in Chowdeck's $2.5 million seed round, a Nigerian digital marketplace connecting consumers with food vendors and restaurants, to expand its operations within and outside Nigeria.
Golden Egg Check
Golden Egg Check participated in a seed funding round for Propel, a Nigerian HR tech startup. Propel focuses on providing tools and services tailored to tech talent communities and assists corporations in hiring remote workers from emerging markets. The investment will be used to scale Propel's community platform and expand its network.
Golden Palm
Golden Palm is an investor that participated in the pre-Series A funding round of Jetstream Africa, a logistics platform based in Ghana. Jetstream enables businesses to book and monitor logistics, financing, insurance, and other trade support services online. Golden Palm's investment will help Jetstream broaden its reach and improve its service offerings.
Golden Palm Investments
Golden Palm Investments is an Africa-focused venture capital firm that invests in early-stage startups. They focus on technology-driven companies across various sectors, including fintech, logistics, and e-commerce. The firm seeks to support innovative businesses with the potential for high growth and significant impact on the African continent.
GoldenTree Asset Management
GoldenTree Asset Management participated in a pre-seed funding round for Masa Finance, a hybrid credit protocol and decentralized credit bureau. The investment indicates an interest in early-stage fintech companies operating in emerging markets, specifically those involved in decentralized finance and credit solutions.
Goldentree
Goodwater Capital
Goodwater Capital invests in early-stage startups, as evidenced by their participation in seed rounds for companies like Chowdeck and Kippa. They focus on high-growth sectors and provide financial services to small businesses, as seen in their investment in Kippa. The firm's investments span across various African countries, including Nigeria and Kenya.
Goodwell
Goodwell invests in early-stage companies in Africa and India, focusing on sectors like financial inclusion, agriculture, and healthcare. They provide seed and growth capital to businesses that offer affordable and accessible basic goods and services to underserved populations. They invested in Haul247's $3 million seed round.
Goodwell Investments
Goodwell Investments focuses on early-stage investments in Africa, particularly in sectors like financial inclusion, agriculture, and healthcare. They aim to support companies that provide essential goods and services to underserved populations, driving social impact alongside financial returns. They invest in businesses that leverage technology to improve efficiency and accessibility in these sectors.
Google
Google invests in African tech companies across various sectors, including AI infrastructure, coding education, and clean energy. They provide funding through grants and equity investments, supporting companies that address challenges in the African tech landscape and contribute to sustainable development. Google's investments aim to empower African engineers, promote digital skills, and foster innovation in emerging markets.
Google Africa Investment Fund
Google Africa Investment Fund invests in African tech startups. They focus on companies driving innovation and addressing key challenges across the continent, as seen in their investments in fintech, infrastructure, and digital services. The fund supports startups with the potential for significant impact and scalability in the African market.
Google Black Founders Fund
Google News Initiative
The Google News Initiative supports journalism and media innovation, particularly focusing on the potential of artificial intelligence in newsrooms. It provides resources, training, and funding to help news organizations enhance their journalism through AI and other innovative approaches.
Google for Startups
Google for Startups invests in African tech startups, as evidenced by their participation in the pre-Series A funding round of TIBU Health, a Kenyan healthtech startup. They support startups across various sectors, including fintech, healthtech, and digital solutions, and provide mentorship and resources to help them scale.
Google for Startups Black Founders Fund
Google for Startups Black Founders Fund invests in African tech startups. Infiuss Health, for example, received funding from the fund in 2021 to connect researchers with clinical trial participants across Africa, addressing a critical gap in medical research and ensuring African populations are represented in global health studies.
Google.org
Google.org invests in African tech startups across various sectors, including health, fintech, and mobility. They support initiatives that leverage digital tools, operational upgrades, and new service models to scale operations, strengthen supply chains, and build solutions that meet rising regional demand. They back talent, AI skills, and women-led ventures.
Google’s Africa Investment Fund
Google's Africa Investment Fund invests in African tech startups. The fund focuses on startups that are using technology to solve local problems and create economic opportunity. They invested in logistics, AI, and other sectors. Stage focus is early to growth stage.
Google’s Black Founders Fund
Google's Black Founders Fund invests in early-stage African tech startups, particularly those in fintech. They support companies like Pezesha, WayaWaya, and Kwara, which are revolutionizing financial services in East Africa by providing digital lending platforms, facilitating cross-border transactions, and digitizing credit unions.
Gradient Ventures
Gradient Ventures is a venture capital firm that participated in an $8.5 million seed round for Cerebrium, a South African AI infrastructure company. The investment aims to support Cerebrium's expansion of its engineering team and development of advanced tools for AI development in emerging markets. Gradient Ventures focuses on early-stage investments in software infrastructure.
Grand Challenges Canada
Grand Challenges Canada invests in health-focused startups in Africa. They participated in a $20 million funding round for Hewatele, a Kenyan startup producing and delivering medical oxygen to patients across Kenya and East Africa. The funding will be used to develop a new liquid oxygen manufacturing facility in Nairobi and double existing capacity at hospital-based sites.
Graph Ventures
Graticule Asset Management Asia
Graticule Asset Management Asia is an investor in the Web3 space in Africa. They participated in the $30 million Series A funding round of Jambo, a Congolese startup building a Web 3 user acquisition platform.
Grazia Equity
Greater Impact Foundation
Greater Impact Foundation participated in the $12.9 million pre-Series A funding round of Farmerline, a Ghanian ag-tech startup that develops solutions to increase access to farmers and simplify transactions throughout the agricultural value chain.
Green Climate Fund
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) invests in climate solutions with the potential to have meaningful climate, economic, and gender impacts while accelerating Sub-Saharan Africa’s energy transition. They focus on sectors critical to Africa’s sustainable development, including climate resilience, energy access, and food systems.
GreenHouse Capital
GreenHouse Capital invests in early-stage African tech startups. They participated in a funding round for Bfree, a company providing financial support services with tech solutions and risk management tools incorporating AI for financial service providers. The firm seems to focus on companies leveraging technology to improve financial services and risk management.
Grenfell holdings
Grenfell Holdings invests in early-stage startups in Africa. They participated in a pre-seed funding round for Badili, a smartphone recommerce startup based in Kenya, indicating an interest in the recommerce and online marketplace sectors. The investment suggests a focus on startups with operations in multiple African countries.
Greycroft
Grindstone Ventures
Grindstone Ventures invests in innovative, high-growth potential South African SMEs. They provide capital, mentorship, and strategic support to help companies scale and expand their operations. Grindstone focuses on businesses with strong leadership teams and scalable business models, across various sectors.
Grooming Centre
Grooming Centre, through the Grooming Endowment Trust (GET), is a non-profit that provides grants and investments to social enterprises in Nigeria. The GET Compass program supports small and medium-scale businesses with grants up to 2 million Naira, focusing on scaling up businesses and improving business processes. The trust focuses on initiatives in education, health, enterprise, and community development.
Grooming Endowment Trust
Grooming Endowment Trust (GET) is a nonprofit established in August 2020. It focuses on promoting sustainable social initiatives within education, health, enterprise, and community development. GET provides grants and investments to social enterprises that are creating impact in their communities through the GET Compass program, which supports small and medium-scale businesses.
Group Mutuel
Group Mutuel partners with international collaborations to offer pilot projects to startups. They focus on FemTech companies developing innovative solutions to improve technologies relating to women’s health with international reach.
Groupe Industriel Babahoum Algérie
Groupe Industriel Babahoum Algérie invests in African tech startups. They participated in the $5M Series A round of VOLZ, a travel technology platform for international flight booking based in Algeria. VOLZ plans to use the funding to grow its technical team, strengthen partnerships with airlines, and expand across North and West Africa.
Growth Investment Partners (GIP)
Growth Investment Partners (GIP) invests in companies like Fido, a financial services and solutions company providing digital financial products in Ghana. GIP's investment supports Fido's expansion plans and goal to disburse $1 billion by 2025. The firm seems to focus on growth-stage companies in Africa.
GrowthAfrica
GuarantCo
GuarantCo provides guarantees to local currency debt financing for infrastructure projects and businesses in low-income countries. They aim to mobilize private sector capital to support sustainable economic growth and poverty reduction. They provided debt to Spiro, a sustainable transportation provider in Africa.
Gulf Capital
Gulf Capital is a private equity firm that invests in growth capital and buyout transactions in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, including Egypt. They focus on various sectors and provide capital to help companies expand their operations and market presence. They participated in the $20 million seed round of Telda, an Egyptian fintech company.
Gullit
Gullit invests in early-stage African tech startups, as evidenced by their participation in a $1.3 million pre-seed round for BuuPass, a Kenyan transportation booking platform. The firm focuses on growth activities and increasing market share in East Africa, particularly in Kenya and Uganda.
Gullit VC
Gullit VC invests in early-stage African tech startups. They focus on companies building innovative solutions for the African market, with a particular interest in logistics and supply chain solutions. They participated in a $1.5 million seed round for Logidoo.
HALA Ventures
HALA Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in tech startups across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. They focus on sectors such as fintech, e-commerce, and enterprise software, providing seed and pre-Series A funding to help startups scale and expand their operations. HALA Ventures aims to support innovative companies that are addressing key challenges and opportunities in the region.
HAVAC
HAVAC is a venture capital firm that invests in African tech startups. They participated in a seed round for Talk360, a South African VoIP startup. They focus on early-stage companies with high growth potential and a strong social impact.
HAVAÍC
HAVAÍC is an investment firm that backs African tech startups. They focus on providing capital and support to help these companies scale their operations and expand into new markets. They have invested in various sectors, including agri-tech and digital platforms, aiming to improve market access and efficiency.
HBAN
HBAN is an angel syndicate that invests in early-stage startups. They participated in the $2.5 million funding round of Educatly, an Egyptian edtech company that helps students find study abroad opportunities. The syndicate focuses on supporting innovative companies with the potential for growth in Africa and the Middle East.
