We invest in bold and visionary leaders who are fearless champions for change on the continent.
Our team has helped build some of Africa’s most impactful, category-defining businesses. In less than a decade of investing, we’ve tracked outsized impact beyond financial returns.
Our track record goes beyond financial returns
direct jobs created by our porfolio companies
of our portfolio have an African founder
of our companies have a female founder
countries in Africa where our portfolio companies operate
Landlord Heaven is a property technology company dedicated to transforming the landlord experience in Nigeria. They provide services such as guaranteed annual rent, ensuring landlords receive consistent income without defaults. Their property management services include quarterly inspections and tenant vetting to maintain property standards and secure reliable tenants. Additionally, they offer renovation financing to upgrade properties, increasing their value and appeal. By addressing common challenges like financial leakages and tenant issues, My Landlord Heaven aims to maximize rental income and protect landlords' investments.
JuiceMe is an innovative platform that streamlines human resources and payroll processes by leveraging the widespread use of WhatsApp. Employers can manage hiring, onboarding, payroll, benefits, shift management, earned wage access, leave management, and employee engagement through a secure and robust suite of tools. The platform facilitates accurate time attendance tracking, instant payslip distribution, and seamless internal communication, all within the familiar WhatsApp environment. A standout feature is the Earned Wage Access, allowing employees to access a portion of their earned wages before the traditional payday, thereby reducing financial stress and enhancing productivity. This service is financed by JuiceMe and automatically deducted from the employee's paycheck during payroll, with no cost or hassle to the employer. By integrating HR and payroll solutions with WhatsApp, JuiceMe simplifies processes, reduces costs, and fosters a more engaged and satisfied workforce.
Juicyway is a financial technology company that provides businesses with a robust platform to handle various financial operations seamlessly. Their services include multi-currency accounts, allowing businesses to manage local and foreign currencies for smooth transactions. The platform facilitates international transfers to over 50 countries, supporting multiple currencies such as USD, EUR, GBP, and more. Additionally, Juicyway offers currency exchange services with real-time rates, enabling businesses to switch between currencies like NGN, CAD, USD, USDT, and USDC effortlessly. The platform also supports bulk disbursements and payroll management, simplifying mass payments to vendors, partners, and contractors. With a focus on security and compliance, Juicyway ensures that all transactions are protected with end-to-end encryption and adhere to regulatory standards.
HouseAfrica is a property technology firm committed to improving the real estate industry's efficiency and trust through innovative solutions. Their flagship product, Sytemap, is a blockchain-based platform that digitizes land titles and property records, providing a transparent and secure system for property verification and transactions. By addressing challenges such as fraud and lack of transparency, HouseAfrica aims to make real estate investment more accessible and reliable for individuals and businesses across the continent.
Alvin is a Kenyan fintech solution that empowers users to efficiently manage, save, and grow their finances. The app offers features such as automated expense tracking, personalized budgeting based on individual savings goals and income, and insightful analytics comparing current spending to past trends. By providing daily budget alerts and categorizing transactions automatically, Alvin assists users in building sustainable spending habits, making it easier to achieve significant financial objectives like purchasing land or a car. Currently available in Kenya, Alvin plans to expand its services to other African countries, aiming to become the continent's leading personal finance companion.
Akili Network is dedicated to becoming Africa's most trusted family brand by creating and distributing engaging content for children and youth. Their flagship initiative, Akili Kids!, is Kenya's first free-to-air children's television channel, offering a diverse range of educational programs that parents can trust and children enjoy. Broadcasting via terrestrial TV, satellite, mobile apps, and online platforms, Akili Kids! has become the leading channel in Kenya for households with children under 18 during daytime hours. By focusing on 24/7 educational programming, Akili Network aims to foster learning and imagination among young audiences, positively impacting families across the continent.
We are a community-built skincare brand that believes no woman should lose confidence over her skin. We celebrate every blemish, every stretch mark, every woman, and every body and encourage U to wear your skin with pride. We believe in patience, consistency, and self-love inspired through healthy, effective, nourishing products and lifestyle.
Tripesa presents a solution through a customized no-code platform to enable small businesses to build and manage a commercial online presence. This means a small business that typically waited for a large destination management company to deliver customers to them can build their own custom-branded and e-commerce-enabled website to package products, acquire customers and manage the conversion process themselves. They can accept payments online, distribute to different sales channels and manage social media marketing and customer relationship management without the need for complex technical skills.
Through its Business to Business Marketplace, Jumba seamlessly integrates the construction materials supply chain through on one hand providing an integrated market for manufacturers and suppliers of construction materials and on the other hand providing a a one stop, reliable source of all construction materials for hardware stores and construction companies. By solving the inefficiencies in the construction supply chain, Jumba is making it easier and more affordable for people to own homes.
We're enabling communication globally. Fostering efficient communication between businesses and their clients globally is what keeps us going. At Termii, we are on a mission to redefine communication by creating robust connections between businesses and their clients. Our goal is to empower businesses to not only thrive but also lead in their industries.
At Stitch, our mission is to provide seamless and open access to the financial system. We help businesses accept and send payments, streamline financial operations and delight their customers – so they can reach peak performance, faster. We build using the latest technologies and offer a superior developer experience, so tech teams can integrate faster and utilise fewer resources. Today Stitch enables businesses to accept payments via Pay by bank, Card, Cash, Manual transfer and Debit Order; to reconcile and orchestrate payments via PayOS; and to send Payouts.
We leverage technology to provide subscription-based data and insight to global businesses and professionals. Founded in the London School of Economics, Stears’ mission is to become the world’s most trusted provider of African insight and data. Our data helps clients understand the disruptive trends, transformations and technologies shaping Africa, the world's fastest-growing continent.We use macroeconomic and financial data, analytical models, and data collection tools to answer research questions on the future of Africa. We provide historical and real-time data, indices, reports, whitepapers and briefs to inform investment and policy decisions. Our intelligence assesses how economics, public policy, disruptive technologies and regulation affect the digital and real economy, including financial services & fintech, digital commerce, transport, energy and agriculture.
54gene is an African genomics research, services and development company addressing the need to include under-represented African genomic data in research, which could lead to medical breakthroughs and new healthcare solutions worldwide. Through its research collaborations and commercial partnerships, it will enable the study of African genetics to learn the underlying genetic drivers of disease affecting everyone globally. Additionally, 54gene strives to understand the genetic impact on disease penetrance and risk in Africans, with a goal of developing better diagnostic and risk assessment tests to inform a more targeted approach to healthcare.
At SmileID we are developing tools and software that will revolutionise the way millions of Africans prove and authenticate their identities online. Our artificial intelligence and identity verification tools have been specially designed for African faces and have a 99.8 percent accuracy rate. Our technology is used by fast growing companies in a wide range of industries across Africa including Chipper Cash, Paga, Paystack, YellowCard and many more. In addition, we have completed over 60M+ verifications so far, raised over $30M, and have diverse team across 5 offices, 10 countries and 8 time zones.
ShipShap streamlines the order fulfillment process for customers shipping from Africa by providing best-in-class shipping options from importing, to labelling and tracking