Musha Ventures

Musha Ventures is a venture capital firm based in New York that focuses on early-stage investments in Africa. Established in 2011, the firm operates as a micro VC and angel fund, targeting sectors such as education, healthcare, fintech, agriculture, and supply chain. Musha Ventures aims to support innovative startups and entrepreneurs in these critical areas, contributing to the growth and development of the African economy.

Aadil Mamujee

Founder

Past deals in Africa

Startbutton

Angel Round in 2024
Startbutton is a transaction gateway platform that facilitates payment processing for businesses operating in multiple African countries. By offering services such as tax compliance, local currency support, and vendor payouts, Startbutton helps organizations navigate the complexities of local regulations and payment methods. This enables businesses to concentrate on enhancing productivity and expanding their market potential without being burdened by overheads related to payment processing. Through its solutions, Startbutton aims to empower companies to sell their products and services more effectively across the continent.

Hohm Energy

Seed Round in 2024
Hohm Energy is an online marketplace that connects customers with accredited solar providers, product suppliers, and financiers. It provides clients with an evolving solar purchasing experience by utilizing scalable technology that manages their entire solar transition journey from scoping for the solution, installation, ongoing operations, and maintenance. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Gauteng, South Africa.

Terraa

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Terraa is a B2B distribution platform in Moroccan.

Omnibiz

Seed Round in 2022
Omnibiz is a B2B e-commerce platform based in Lagos, Nigeria, that focuses on fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) manufacturers, distributors, and retailers. Founded in 2019, the company aims to support local businesses by digitizing the supply chain and enhancing operational efficiency. Its unified distribution platform offers tools that improve reliability, visibility, and financial capabilities for businesses. Key features include order tracking and integrated payment options, all designed to facilitate a seamless supply chain experience. By providing these resources, Omnibiz helps local enterprises navigate the complexities of the modern market and achieve their business objectives effectively.

Hohm Energy

Seed Round in 2022
Hohm Energy is an online marketplace that connects customers with accredited solar providers, product suppliers, and financiers. It provides clients with an evolving solar purchasing experience by utilizing scalable technology that manages their entire solar transition journey from scoping for the solution, installation, ongoing operations, and maintenance. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Gauteng, South Africa.

Lazerpay

Seed Round in 2021
Lazerpay is a company focused on simplifying cryptocurrency payments for individuals and businesses in Africa. It develops blockchain-based payment gateway software that facilitates cryptocurrency payment processing services. The company offers a robust payment infrastructure that enables global acceptance of various cryptocurrencies and supports businesses in managing their revenue investments in crypto assets. Additionally, Lazerpay provides customer retention support, helping merchants navigate the evolving landscape of digital payments and explore new opportunities within the cryptocurrency space.

Sendbox

Seed Round in 2021
Sendbox is a platform that offers infrastructure for shipping and escrow payments, specifically designed to support e-commerce activities on social media platforms such as Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp. The service enables merchants and customers in North America, Europe, and Africa to engage in secure online transactions. By identifying trustworthy merchants and utilizing an escrow system for payments, Sendbox ensures a safe purchasing environment. Additionally, the platform provides shipping solutions that allow users to send items to both domestic and international destinations at discounted rates through partnerships with various delivery services. This comprehensive approach facilitates convenient e-commerce operations for businesses and consumers alike.

Alsoug

Seed Round in 2021
Alsoug operates as a digital marketplace and payments platform in Sudan, designed to streamline the buying, selling, and renting of products. By offering a user-friendly website, Alsoug allows individuals to list their products and access a range of classified services without the hassle of navigating social media. The platform includes a financial wallet feature that facilitates secure transactions, making it easier for users to manage their purchases and sales. By centralizing various marketplace activities, Alsoug aims to save time and effort for its users, providing a modern and organized space for e-commerce in Sudan.

Omnibiz

Seed Round in 2021
Omnibiz is a B2B e-commerce platform based in Lagos, Nigeria, that focuses on fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) manufacturers, distributors, and retailers. Founded in 2019, the company aims to support local businesses by digitizing the supply chain and enhancing operational efficiency. Its unified distribution platform offers tools that improve reliability, visibility, and financial capabilities for businesses. Key features include order tracking and integrated payment options, all designed to facilitate a seamless supply chain experience. By providing these resources, Omnibiz helps local enterprises navigate the complexities of the modern market and achieve their business objectives effectively.

Medsaf

Seed Round in 2021
Medsaf is a pharmaceutical platform based in Lagos, Nigeria, that facilitates the delivery of medications to hospitals, pharmacies, and clinics. Founded in 2014, the company offers a wide range of products, including antacids, antiviral drugs, anaemia treatments, antiseptics, and vitamins. Medsaf aims to enhance the accessibility of affordable, quality medications through an integrated suite of technologies designed to improve efficiency and transparency in the supply chain. Its services include online product distribution, quality control as a service, and a marketplace that connects healthcare providers with vetted suppliers and logistics partners. Additionally, Medsaf features an embedded finance platform that provides buy-now-pay-later solutions for medication procurement, streamlining the financial aspects of the pharmaceutical supply process.

ZUMI

Venture Round in 2021
ZUMI, founded in 2016 and headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, operates as an online magazine and a retail platform focused on fashion, beauty, food, and living. The company connects wholesalers and retailers within a transparent marketplace, empowering women retailers through technology, logistics, and financial services that facilitate business growth. Customers can place orders via SMS, phone calls, or through ZUMI Agents. ZUMI collects orders from suppliers early each morning, ensuring fast delivery to customers, typically within 18 hours. Payment is made conveniently through mobile money, allowing for a seamless shopping experience.

Nash

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Nash enables finance teams to manage all their finance flows in one place and craft their money flow experiences globally. Our ledger-based operating system allows your borderless business to connect all your money accounts, accounting systems, payment service providers, treasury operations, spend management in one place. Our mission is to enable borderless commerce in Africa. We achieve this initially by providing your team with all the finance tools needed to build, scale, and grow your borderless business without the need for a costly and complex in-house infrastructure.

Bypa-ss

Convertible Note in 2021
Bypa-ss is a health-tech startup based in Egypt focused on digitizing health information exchange to improve the quality of care for patients and healthcare providers. Its primary product, HealthTag, serves as a comprehensive platform for individuals, physicians, pharmacies, laboratories, and radiology centers. By facilitating the sharing of healthcare experiences, feedback, and knowledge, the platform empowers patients to make informed decisions about their medical care. Through this innovative approach, Bypa-ss aims to enhance communication and collaboration within the healthcare ecosystem, ultimately leading to better health outcomes.

Ramani

Seed Round in 2021
Ramani is a Tanzanian company founded in 2020, specializing in software development for sales operations. The company's application enables salespeople to effectively track inventory, register customers, and record sales transactions in real time. By providing a financial infrastructure platform, Ramani helps organizations capture essential supply chain data, enhancing sales visibility and supporting resellers in accessing financial services. This functionality allows clients to improve their revenue and expand their market share. Based in Dar es Salaam, Ramani aims to streamline sales processes for businesses across various sectors.

Sendbox

Seed Round in 2021
Sendbox is a platform that offers infrastructure for shipping and escrow payments, specifically designed to support e-commerce activities on social media platforms such as Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp. The service enables merchants and customers in North America, Europe, and Africa to engage in secure online transactions. By identifying trustworthy merchants and utilizing an escrow system for payments, Sendbox ensures a safe purchasing environment. Additionally, the platform provides shipping solutions that allow users to send items to both domestic and international destinations at discounted rates through partnerships with various delivery services. This comprehensive approach facilitates convenient e-commerce operations for businesses and consumers alike.

Stitch

Seed Round in 2021
Stitch is a payments infrastructure company that helps businesses seamlessly connect to the financial system, so they can deliver a better user experience and optimize operations. Headquartered in Cape Town, South Africa, Stitch launched in February 2021 and has global staff. Stitch offers all popular online payment methods and operates as a Payments Service Provider. Its platform supports a variety of pay-in methods and solutions; financial and payment management solutions; and Payouts. Learn more at stitch.money.

Bypa-ss

Seed Round in 2021
Bypa-ss is a health-tech startup based in Egypt focused on digitizing health information exchange to improve the quality of care for patients and healthcare providers. Its primary product, HealthTag, serves as a comprehensive platform for individuals, physicians, pharmacies, laboratories, and radiology centers. By facilitating the sharing of healthcare experiences, feedback, and knowledge, the platform empowers patients to make informed decisions about their medical care. Through this innovative approach, Bypa-ss aims to enhance communication and collaboration within the healthcare ecosystem, ultimately leading to better health outcomes.

Nash

Seed Round in 2021
Nash enables finance teams to manage all their finance flows in one place and craft their money flow experiences globally. Our ledger-based operating system allows your borderless business to connect all your money accounts, accounting systems, payment service providers, treasury operations, spend management in one place. Our mission is to enable borderless commerce in Africa. We achieve this initially by providing your team with all the finance tools needed to build, scale, and grow your borderless business without the need for a costly and complex in-house infrastructure.

Hello HR

Pre Seed Round in 2021
HelloHR provides a cloud-based payroll solution connecting accountants, organizations, and employees, and works closely with the Xero cloud-based accounting software in South Africa.

Ramani

Seed Round in 2021
Ramani is a Tanzanian company founded in 2020, specializing in software development for sales operations. The company's application enables salespeople to effectively track inventory, register customers, and record sales transactions in real time. By providing a financial infrastructure platform, Ramani helps organizations capture essential supply chain data, enhancing sales visibility and supporting resellers in accessing financial services. This functionality allows clients to improve their revenue and expand their market share. Based in Dar es Salaam, Ramani aims to streamline sales processes for businesses across various sectors.

SeamlessHR

Seed Round in 2020
SeamlessHR Limited is a human resource technology software company based in Lagos, Nigeria, founded in 2013. It offers a comprehensive, cloud-based HR platform tailored for medium to large-sized organizations, facilitating the automation and optimization of HR processes from recruitment to retirement. The company's product suite includes a Recruitment Management System, HR Management System, Learning Management System, Payroll Management, Leave Management, and Performance and Competency Management tools. Additionally, SeamlessHR provides HR analytics and embedded finance solutions aimed at enhancing financial security for both employers and employees. Through its technology, SeamlessHR enables businesses to streamline various HR functions, ensuring efficient management of their workforce.

Eden Life

Seed Round in 2020
Eden Life, Inc. is a technology-enabled service provider based in Lagos, Nigeria, that specializes in housekeeping and related services for busy individuals. The company simplifies household management by offering a variety of services, including laundry, meal preparation, cleaning, equipment maintenance, and beauty services. Eden Life operates through an online platform and a mobile application, allowing users to conveniently book and access these services. Additionally, the company creates a diverse marketplace by partnering with various vendors, ensuring that customers can meet their household needs efficiently in both Nigeria and Kenya.

ZUMI

Seed Round in 2020
ZUMI, founded in 2016 and headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, operates as an online magazine and a retail platform focused on fashion, beauty, food, and living. The company connects wholesalers and retailers within a transparent marketplace, empowering women retailers through technology, logistics, and financial services that facilitate business growth. Customers can place orders via SMS, phone calls, or through ZUMI Agents. ZUMI collects orders from suppliers early each morning, ensuring fast delivery to customers, typically within 18 hours. Payment is made conveniently through mobile money, allowing for a seamless shopping experience.

Yoco

Series B in 2020
Yoco Technologies (Pty) Ltd. is a South African technology company based in Cape Town that focuses on providing a seamless mobile point-of-sale experience for small businesses and entrepreneurs. By creating a unified platform, Yoco enables businesses to accept secure payments both online and in-person, while simplifying operational processes. The company offers a diverse product ecosystem that includes payment solutions, lending options, and business management software. It serves over 300,000 small businesses, processing billions of dollars annually, and aims to enhance the commerce experience for both buyers and sellers by minimizing time spent on transactions and administrative tasks.

Dash

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Dash is building a unified, modern, and accessible alternative payment network for African consumers and businesses. The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in New York, United States.

BuyPower

Seed Round in 2019
BuyPower is a utility payment platform in Nigeria. Their website offers pre-paid electricity recharging service available for customers in AEDC & JED PLC States.

Kobo360

Seed Round in 2018
Kobo360 is a tech-enabled digital logistics platform that aggregates end-to-end haulage operations to help cargo owners, truck owners, and drivers, and cargo recipients to achieve an efficient supply chain framework. Through an all-in-one robust logistics ecosystem, Kobo uses big data and technology to reduce logistics frictions, empowering rural farmers to earn more by reducing farm wastages and helping manufacturers of all sizes to find new markets. Kobo enables unprecedented efficiency and cost reduction in the supply chain, providing 360-visibility while delivering products of all sizes safely, on time and in full. The Kobo mission is to build the Global Logistics Operating System that will power trade and commerce across Africa and Emerging Markets. The company is also preparing to enter the agro-trading space by creating a marketplace that links farmers with buyers all over the world. The marketplace will effectively eliminate the high cost of middlemen for smallholder farmers and significantly improve profits. Ife Oyedele ll and Obi Ozor founded it in 2017 and is headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria.

SafeBoda

Seed Round in 2018
Safeboda is a community-based urban transportation network operating primarily in Africa, focusing on providing a safe and convenient alternative to traditional urban transport. Founded in Kampala, Uganda, the platform leverages mobile technology to connect passengers with motorcycle taxi drivers, enhancing urban mobility for the continent's growing young population. Safeboda emphasizes safety and quality by offering training for drivers in areas such as road safety, first aid, and customer care. This approach aims to increase the number of safe trips while ensuring a stress-free travel experience for users, ultimately modernizing the informal transportation sector in Africa.

Kudi

Seed Round in 2018
KUDI is a financial service provider focused on providing access to electronic banking and financial services by leveraging conversational interfaces, natural language processing and artificial intelligence to provider faster access, frictionless experience, and ultimately boost financial inclusion in emerging markets. KUDI is enabling secured financial transactions via Facebook, Telegram, Slack and Skype. KUDI's focus is the African market with a primary focus on the Nigerian Payment ecosystem and the company does this in partnership with e-payment regulators, a leading commercial bank, and an international payment processor.

Medsaf

Seed Round in 2017
Medsaf is a pharmaceutical platform based in Lagos, Nigeria, that facilitates the delivery of medications to hospitals, pharmacies, and clinics. Founded in 2014, the company offers a wide range of products, including antacids, antiviral drugs, anaemia treatments, antiseptics, and vitamins. Medsaf aims to enhance the accessibility of affordable, quality medications through an integrated suite of technologies designed to improve efficiency and transparency in the supply chain. Its services include online product distribution, quality control as a service, and a marketplace that connects healthcare providers with vetted suppliers and logistics partners. Additionally, Medsaf features an embedded finance platform that provides buy-now-pay-later solutions for medication procurement, streamlining the financial aspects of the pharmaceutical supply process.

Wasoko

Seed Round in 2017
Wasoko is an e-commerce platform designed to connect small shops with the digital economy across Africa. By facilitating access to essential goods and services, it enhances sales and market reach for companies in emerging markets. The platform allows informal retailers to conveniently order products anytime through SMS or a mobile app, ensuring free same-day delivery to their stores. This service simplifies the sourcing process for shopkeepers while helping manufacturers maintain consistent product availability for consumers. Overall, Wasoko plays a significant role in fostering trade and economic growth in the region.

Twiga Foods

Seed Round in 2016
Twiga Foods Ltd. operates a mobile-based business-to-business supply platform that serves retail outlets, kiosks, and market stalls across Africa. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, the company facilitates the ordering of various supplies, including bananas, pineapples, and tomatoes, through its platform. By leveraging a cashless system, Twiga connects millions of small and medium-sized vendors in urban markets, streamlining the supply chain and enhancing access to essential goods.

Segovia

Venture Round in 2016
Segovia Technology Co. operates an online platform that facilitates critical payments in challenging environments, particularly for relief and anti-poverty programs. Established in 2014 and based in New York, the company specializes in providing payment solutions across Africa and Asia, supporting both corporate transactions and social programs. Segovia's platform integrates various payment providers and employs advanced technologies such as satellite imaging, machine learning, biometric identification, and adaptive fraud detection to streamline the payment process. This innovative approach addresses the unique challenges faced by clients in emerging markets, ensuring fast, secure, and accessible payment solutions. Segovia's technology has been instrumental in assisting refugees in Europe, aiding communities in recovery from crises like Ebola in Liberia, and supporting gig economy workers in East Africa. The team is composed of experienced professionals, including co-founders of GiveDirectly and former technical leaders from major technology companies.

Lidya

Seed Round in 2016
Lidya is a financial services platform based in Lagos, Nigeria, focused on improving access to credit and finance for small and medium enterprises. Founded in 2016, Lidya enables businesses to open accounts online, manage funds, and access credit within 15 minutes using mobile-first technology and proprietary credit scoring algorithms. The platform offers a range of banking services, including invoice financing and working capital, designed to help business owners build credit profiles and secure affordable financing. Additionally, it provides tools and dashboards for managing receivables and cash flow, allowing businesses to enhance their credit scores and unlock higher credit limits.

Taptap Send

Series A in 2016
Taptap Send is a financial platform that enables immigrants to send money back home to African countries quickly and at low costs. Launched in the summer of 2018, the app has facilitated the transfer of hundreds of millions of dollars and serves hundreds of thousands of customers. It operates in seven European countries and supports payments to various nations, including Ivory Coast, Senegal, Mali, Ghana, Guinea, Cameroon, Bangladesh, Kenya, Madagascar, Zambia, Vietnam, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with plans to expand to more countries. The platform allows users to make fast transfers to mobile money wallets by simply using a debit card, streamlining the process and eliminating the need for physical deposits.
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