BM Prime Capital, founded in 2019 and based in New York, is a venture capital firm and venture studio that invests in seed- and early-stage startups across sectors such as business products and services, consumer products and services, healthcare, financial services, and technology in the United States and Africa. It operates as a hybrid venture capital and studio, creating and scaling U.S. startups toward exits while funding Francophone West African startups.

IFU is a venture capital and private equity firm based in Copenhagen, Denmark, that specializes in providing equity, mezzanine financing, loans, and guarantees to projects in developing countries. Established in 1967, IFU focuses on creating and financing new businesses, joint ventures between Danish companies and local partners, and acquiring existing ventures. The firm primarily invests in sectors such as commercial services, biofuels, renewable energy, and irrigation systems, with a particular emphasis on climate and agribusiness. Investments are targeted at countries with a low gross national income per capita, as defined by specific criteria, and include regions across Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America. IFU typically invests between DKK 0.5 million and DKK 100 million and often seeks co-investment opportunities with Danish firms. The firm also supports small and medium-sized enterprises and provides advisory services for business investments in developing markets. With a preference for board membership, IFU aims to exit investments within five to seven years, ensuring a positive return for its stakeholders.

Reflect Ventures is a Boston-based venture capital firm founded in 2021 that backs early-stage companies. It focuses on logistics, supply chain distribution, transportation, and fintech rails, and targets seed and Series A/B+ rounds. With a global outlook, Reflect Ventures seeks opportunities across mature and emerging markets, supporting founders to scale innovative solutions in critical infrastructure and related financial technologies.

Launch Africa Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Ebene, Mauritius, founded in 2020. It invests in early-stage technology and platform-enabled businesses across Africa, with a focus on fintech, healthtech, climate tech, agritech, edtech, transportation, logistics, mobility, e-commerce, software as a service, artificial intelligence, big data, and analytics, spanning both business-to-business and business-to-consumer models.

Ventures Platform is a venture capital firm based in Abuja, Nigeria, founded in 2015. It invests in technology companies across Africa, focusing on early-stage and growth opportunities, and operates an accelerator program to support portfolio companies. The firm backs mission-driven founders building capital-efficient platforms that aim to democratise prosperity by addressing infrastructural gaps and improving livelihoods. It has a pan-African footprint with additional presence in Lagos and broad sector exposure, including information technology, fintech, health tech, edtech, and SaaS. Ventures Platform typically invests using personal capital and pursues a hands-on approach to working with a select portfolio, commonly supporting a cohort of 10–15 companies during an accelerated program of roughly 16 weeks.

Alumni Ventures Group is a venture capital firm based in Manchester, New Hampshire, established in 2013. It targets individual accredited investors who previously had limited access to venture capital by enabling alumni from top entrepreneurial schools to invest together in ventures led by fellow alumni. The firm backs companies with an alumni connection and an institutional lead investor with sector expertise. It offers focused funds that provide accredited investors access to a diversified venture portfolio by type, sector, stage, and geography. The organization engages in seed, early-stage, and late-stage pre-IPO investments across technology, consumer, financial services, health care, life sciences, and other sectors.

Oui Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on African technology startups. It aims to bridge the gap between high-growth ventures in sub-Saharan Africa and available smart capital to support their scale. Headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria, the firm backs early-stage companies across sectors including e-commerce, mobility, logistics, enterprise software, health tech, edtech, and fintech on the African continent.

Seedstars is a Geneva-based venture capital and accelerator firm focused on emerging and frontier markets. It funds and accelerates high-growth technology ventures at the pre-seed and seed stages and operates programs to support entrepreneurship across regions including Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, Europe, and Asia. The firm targets sectors such as financial services, healthcare, education, energy, information technology, and other technology-enabled solutions, and it runs initiatives and events to help startups scale, create impact, and access global networks.

Ring Capital is a Paris-based private equity and venture capital firm founded in 2017. It invests in technology and digital companies across seed, startup, early, mid-stage, and growth rounds, including software, internet services and internet consumer businesses. The firm seeks opportunities worldwide with a focus on France, and prefers to take minority or majority stakes while acting as lead investor or co-lead with international funds. Typical investments range from about €0.5 million to €36.65 million, targeting enterprises valued roughly from €10 million to €100 million. Ring Capital aims to support European tech companies that address social and environmental challenges and help entrepreneurs grow their businesses.

Voltron Capital is a Lagos-based venture capital firm founded in 2021 that concentrates on seed and early-stage investments across Africa. It supports startups across a broad range of sectors, including software as a service, logistics, financial services, legal services, supply chain, artificial intelligence, cryptocurrency, healthcare, telecommunications, e-commerce, automotive, real estate, media, customer success, and education, with a pan-African focus.

Investisseurs & Partenaires is an impact investment firm focused on African small and medium enterprises. Founded in 2002, it provides capital, technical and strategic support to portfolio companies to foster growth, job creation, and local value, while pursuing social, environmental and governance impact. The organization supports a network of pan-African funds and sponsors several Africa-facing impact funds, including initiatives in electricity access, with a team of about 30–40 professionals based in Europe and Africa. The firm emphasizes long-term partnerships and hands-on assistance to help entrepreneurs strengthen strategy, governance and operations across sectors such as health, transport and microfinance.

Sarama Resources is an exploration company focused on discovering gold deposits in West Africa. It holds exploration licenses in Burkina Faso, Liberia, and Mali.

Kalys Ventures is a Moroccan venture capital firm based in Casablanca-Settat, Morocco. Founded in 2020, it focuses on early-stage and pre-Series A African startups, typically investing between $50,000 and $200,000. The firm targets companies in the healthcare, logistics, and education sectors across Africa, supporting growth and regional development across the continent.

Techmind is a venture capital firm based in Paris, France, founded in 2018. It focuses on seed- and early-stage investments in information technology, business-to-business payments, big data, virtual reality, and other technology-based sectors within the TMT field.

Teranga Capital is a principal investment firm based in Dakar, Senegal, focused on providing financial solutions to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) across various sectors in Senegal and Gambia. Established in 2015, the firm specializes in start-up, venture capital, and growth capital investments, typically targeting businesses with sales between $0.1 million and $0.5 million. Teranga Capital invests amounts ranging from FCFA 50 million to FCFA 300 million, usually taking minority stakes and maintaining these investments for approximately five years. The firm emphasizes social and environmental impact, aiming to support high-growth potential SMEs while offering personalized assistance to enhance their management and commercial development. In addition to equity investments, Teranga Capital can provide financing through loans and may also take board seats in its portfolio companies.

Founded in 2019, Wuri Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Dakar, Senegal. It focuses on innovating solutions for market failures such as information asymmetry and fragmentation, supporting world-class entrepreneurs in Africa's technology, financial services, health tech, and beverage sectors.

4DX Ventures is a Brooklyn-based early-stage venture capital firm that concentrates on technology companies across Africa. The firm partners with ambitious African founders to build transformative businesses, seeking entrepreneurs who are laser-focused, creative, growth-oriented, and gritty. Through Pan-African investments, 4DX Ventures supports startups at the forefront of Africa's tech sector and aims to help launch and scale companies that shape the continent's technological future.

Centamin is a gold mining company with its flagship Sukari Gold Mine in Egypt, operating both open-pit and underground mining to supply ore feed. The company engages in exploration, development, and production of precious metals across multiple regions, including Egypt and projects in Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Jersey, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Centamin emphasizes responsible mining practices and aims to build long-term value through partnerships with local communities and stakeholders. Based in Saint Helier, Jersey, the firm has a history dating to 1970 and focuses on expanding its resource base while maintaining safety and environmental standards.

Admaius Capital Partners is an impact investing firm headquartered in Kigali, Rwanda, founded in 2021. The firm focuses on making investments in companies across several sectors, including digital infrastructure, financial services, fast-moving consumer goods, healthcare, and education, with an emphasis on opportunities within Africa. Admaius Capital Partners aims to generate positive social and economic outcomes through its investment strategies.

Citigroup is a diversified financial services company providing a broad range of financial products and services to consumers, corporations, governments, and institutions worldwide. It operates through two main segments: Global Consumer Banking, which includes retail banking, Citi-branded cards, and consumer finance, and Institutional Clients Group, which covers wholesale banking, investment banking, fixed income and equity sales and trading, foreign exchange, prime brokerage, research, corporate lending, cash management, trade finance, and securities services. The company maintains a global footprint across regions including Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, North and Latin America, and emphasizes sustainability and social responsibility initiatives.

Beyond Capital Fund is an impact investment organization based in New York, established in 2009. It makes for-profit, early-stage investments in startups in East Africa and India, targeting health care access, sanitation, clean energy, agriculture and food security, and financial inclusion to improve the lives of people in low-income communities. The fund seeks market-rate returns but is structured as a nonprofit, which allows it to emphasize its social mission alongside its financial mandate.

Incofin Investment Management is an impact investment manager focused on financial inclusion in developing countries. The firm manages funds that invest in microfinance institutions and aims to reach rural populations and smallholder farmers by providing access to credit, savings and insurance through MFIs and related financial services. It also invests in rural and agricultural SMEs, cooperatives and intermediaries servicing the agricultural value chain, using debt, guarantees and equity to support growth. Headquartered in Antwerp, Belgium, with offices in Bogota, Chennai, Nairobi, Luxembourg and Phnom Penh, it seeks to deploy capital in regions including Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, Asia and Eastern Europe, prioritizing rural and underserved markets. The firm partners with MFIs and other funds, sometimes taking board seats, to promote financial inclusion while maintaining a focus on sustainable development.

GAIA Impact Fund is a venture capital firm that specializes in renewable energy and builds long-term partnerships with startups operating in Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia. It emphasizes environmental and social impact and backs businesses that enable sustainable and affordable energy provision to local communities. In regions with carbon-intensive energy mixes, the firm supports technological innovations and viable business models that enable cost-efficient, large-scale diffusion of renewable energy.

Great Quest Fertilizer is a Canadian mineral exploration company focused on advancing the Tilemsi phosphate project in Mali. Since 2009, it has acquired several phosphate concessions, defining an initial resource of 32.6 million tonnes at a grade of 23.4% P2O5.

CIBC is a Canadian multinational bank offering a full range of financial services to individuals, small businesses, corporations, and institutions. Its activities span commercial banking, wealth management, asset management, and investment banking, including corporate and investment banking, equity and debt financing, advisory services, and cross-border banking. The organization operates through divisions such as CIBC Bank (providing retail and commercial banking), CIBC Bank USA (Americas-based commercial banking), CIBC World Markets and CIBC Capital Markets (investment banking and capital markets), and asset management units including CIBC Asset Management and CIBC Global Asset Management. CIBC serves clients across North America with offices in Toronto, Chicago and other international locations, and focuses on serving mid-market companies, high net worth individuals, pension plans, and financial institutions. The bank emphasizes long-standing client relationships, community investment, and a broad geographic footprint in Canada and the United States.

Lanai Ventures is a Barcelona-based venture capital firm, founded in 2016, that backs early-stage startups in Spain with a sector-agnostic approach focused on pre-seed and seed rounds. It leverages a network of prominent founders who participate as investors, providing strategic guidance and connections to portfolio companies across information technology, financial services, consumer products and services, and related sectors.

Moxxie Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2019 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. The team comprises former operators and founders with backgrounds in engineering, product, and marketing who back founders building companies across climate, financial technology, health technology, enterprise software and consumer sectors. The firm focuses on seed and early-stage investments and supports diverse entrepreneurship, including investments in minority and women-owned enterprises.

Novastar Ventures is a Kenya-headquartered venture capital firm focused on early to growth capital for businesses that serve Africa’s mass market. Founded in 2014, it operates from Nairobi with additional offices in Lagos and London, and partners with entrepreneurs to develop innovative business models that improve outcomes in healthcare, education, agriculture, energy, housing and sanitation, financial services, information technology, and consumer products. The firm concentrates on bottom-of-the-pyramid markets across East and West Africa and beyond, emphasizing solutions that drive value for the many rather than the few. It positions itself as a venture catalyst rather than a traditional fund manager, providing hands-on support to entrepreneurs to bring ideas to life and scale impact. Typical investments range from about $0.25 million up to $8 million, and the firm pursues investments that combine commercial returns with ESG and social impact.

Polychain Capital is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco, founded in 2016, that invests in blockchain technologies, protocols, and companies to advance global adoption of cryptocurrencies. The firm supports the development of the blockchain ecosystem and provides capital to projects across the space. It operates as a registered investment adviser (RIA).

Swedfund is a government development finance institution based in Stockholm, with an office in Nairobi, established in 1979. It mobilizes capital and expertise for investments in private markets across Africa, Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe, including direct investments and fund of funds activities. It finances a range of instruments, from equity to loans and other debt-like structures, and supports knowledge transfer and equipment upgrades, including depreciation loans to Swedish small and medium-sized enterprises. It pursues minority investments, typically in the range of 5 to 100 million SEK, with board seats and participation in investment committees, and aims for exits in five to ten years. It operates as a bilateral development financier within the European Development Finance Institutions network.

Ecosystem Integrity Fund is a California-based venture capital firm founded in 2010 that finances early-stage companies advancing environmental sustainability. The firm seeks to demonstrate that sustainable practices can coexist with solid financial returns and targets investments in sectors including energy, transportation, clean tech, climate resilience, agriculture and food, water, and waste management, with emphasis on resource efficiency, biodiversity, and environmental remediation. It pursues impact investments aligned with ESG goals and often supports companies across North America, with later vintages expanding to Canada and Europe. Investments typically occur at the early growth stage, with capital deployed to help portfolio companies scale solutions that reduce environmental impacts and strengthen ecosystem integrity.

F-Prime Capital is a venture capital investment firm based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1969 with roots in Fidelity Investments, it backs entrepreneurs across technology and life sciences, investing in sectors such as crypto, enterprise information technology, fintech, frontier technologies, health information technology and services, medtech and therapeutics, with a global reach across the Americas, Europe and Asia.

Eight Roads Ventures is a global venture capital firm and the corporate venture capital arm of Fidelity International, with offices in the United Kingdom, China, India, Japan and the United States. It manages a substantial asset base and has backed hundreds of companies across technology, healthcare, financial services and consumer technologies, including software, SaaS, enterprise tech and fintech. The firm typically makes early to growth‑stage investments, often takes minority stakes and seeks board representation in its portfolio companies. With an international footprint, Eight Roads Ventures supports growth across Europe, Asia and North America, including Greater China, and collaborates with associated funds to back technology‑driven businesses.

Singtel Innov8 is the corporate venture capital arm of Singtel Group. Established in 2010 and based in Singapore with offices in San Francisco and Tel Aviv, it invests in early-stage technology startups worldwide and partners with them to apply innovations across Singtel’s business. The focus is on software and technology sectors that can drive quantum changes in network capabilities, next-generation devices, and digital services, ultimately improving customer experience. Beyond funding, Singtel Innov8 serves as a gateway to the Singtel Group’s resources and expertise, helping startups scale internationally while giving the Group access to emerging technologies.

European Investment Fund (EIF) is a public institution established in 1994 to improve access to finance for Europe's small and medium-sized businesses. It designs and develops venture capital and guarantee instruments to support SMEs and to catalyse private investment, aiming to build a robust European equity ecosystem. EIF engages in venture capital, growth capital, and guarantee operations, backing innovative entrepreneurs primarily in technology and life sciences, as well as across other sectors. Through cornerstone investments and fund participation, EIF seeks to crowd in private investors and stimulate venture activity across Europe. Its equity portfolio has grown substantially, with assets under management exceeding EUR 14 billion, reflecting its broad role in strengthening SME finance and supporting entrepreneurship and growth.

Trucks Venture Capital is a California‑based early‑stage venture capital firm focused on the transportation sector and related technologies. Based in San Francisco, the firm backs startups advancing the future of mobility, including autonomous, connected and shared vehicle solutions.

AlphaMundi is a Swiss-based impact investing company that provides debt and equity financing to profitable, scalable ventures across sectors such as fintech, rural microfinance, smallholder agriculture, renewable energy access, and affordable housing and education for low-income communities. It is exclusively dedicated to impact investing, seeking financial returns together with measurable social and environmental benefits. The firm supports development-focused ventures through dedicated investment programs and co-investments, aiming to broaden the integration of impact considerations into traditional investment portfolios. AlphaMundi also engages in education, publications, and industry initiatives to advance the field of impact investing and to promote sustainable development within financial markets.

Kepple Africa Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2019 and based in Tokyo, Japan, that provides seed-, early-, and later-stage financing to African startups, with a focus on information technology, fintech, and consumer sectors.

Ground Squirrel Ventures is a Boston-based venture capital firm founded in 2018 that focuses on early-stage opportunities addressing climate change. The firm prioritizes frontier-market investments and clean energy initiatives, seeking to fund companies that advance climate mitigation and sustainable development. Its activity spans regions including Africa, with additional investments in Haiti, Asia, and Latin America, reflecting a global approach to deploying capital where climate-related challenges and growth potential intersect. Ground Squirrel aims to support seed-stage ventures that can scale impact in frontier markets and contribute to energy transition and environmental sustainability.

SBI Investment is the corporate venture capital arm of SBI Holdings, based in Tokyo, Japan. It specializes in venture capital and growth capital investments, supporting the development and growth of private companies through fund investments and management of venture funds. The firm targets technology-driven sectors including information technology, artificial intelligence, fintech, blockchain, security, e-commerce, biotechnology and healthcare, life sciences, environmental energy, and related areas, with selective cross-border opportunities in China and Southeast Asia. Since its founding in 1996, it has invested in hundreds of companies, and many investments have exited through IPOs or mergers and acquisitions. The firm seeks long-term value creation by partnering with entrepreneurs at various stages and by providing strategic and financial support to scale operations.

Silverbacks Holdings is a venture capital firm based in Cybercity Ebene, Mauritius, founded in 2019. It invests in sports, technology, and entertainment sectors across Africa, supporting portfolio companies with capital and strategic guidance to scale within the continent.

The Raba Partnership is a venture capital firm based in Cape Town, South Africa, focused on African technology companies in logistics, supply chains, and financial services. It partners with founders building technology companies that tackle hard problems in emerging African ecosystems and is backed by a select group of venture capitalists, technology entrepreneurs, and families with global business experience.

Castle Island Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Boston that focuses on public blockchains, their infrastructure, and related applications. The firm backs companies creating infrastructure and application solutions to enable blockchain protocols to power scalable services for a broad user base.

Third Prime is a New York-based venture capital firm, founded in 2016, focused on seed and early-stage investments in technology-enabled companies across sectors such as business services, financial services, IT services, software, healthcare, consumer products and services, and real estate services. It operates from a New York headquarters with an additional office in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, and pursues opportunities in the United States and Canada, supporting startups with growth-stage capital and strategic guidance.

Orange is a leading digital operator that provides mobile and internet services in Europe and Africa, with a global corporate telecommunications arm that serves large enterprises, local authorities and SMEs worldwide. Through Orange Business Services, the group offers integrated voice and data, IT and cloud solutions, data center and network management, security, and unified communications designed to manage international operations. It supports complex projects across industries with end-to-end services, including IP voice, WAN-LAN design, application management and managed services. The company also maintains an innovation network and startup ecosystem through initiatives like Orange Fabs. Founded in 1991 and headquartered in Paris, France, Orange operates in around 30 countries and serves hundreds of millions of customers globally.

Saviu Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, established in 2018. It pursues minority investments across seed, early, and later stages in Africa, focusing on commercial products and services in sectors such as retail, e-commerce, fintech, and mobility.

Future Africa is a Lagos, Nigeria-based venture capital firm and collective of mission-driven founders and funders dedicated to supporting Africa’s startups. The organization invests across a broad range of sectors including technology, software, data and artificial intelligence, agriculture and environment, e-commerce and consumer goods, education, finance and blockchain, health and wellness, mobility and logistics, media and entertainment, real estate, food and hospitality, and infrastructure. It seeks to build unicorns and advance purpose-driven prosperity across the continent, aiming to solve Africa’s biggest challenges by backing innovative ventures with strong growth potential. Through its network and capital, Future Africa supports entrepreneurs at various stages, fostering scalable businesses that can contribute to economic development and job creation.

ValueStream Ventures is a New York-based venture capital firm and accelerator founded in 2013. It focuses on early-stage investments in B2B platforms underpinned by high-value data, including B2B software, data analytics, enterprise data, SaaS, and fintech. The firm typically supports seed to early growth rounds, including Series A, pursuing opportunities where revenue and product/market fit exist but scale is still unfolding. Its thesis-driven approach combines disciplined deal sourcing with hands-on involvement, offering business development support and platform strategies powered by core data assets to accelerate growth. With a track record since 2013, the team emphasizes building defensible, data-centric products and scalable infrastructure, while helping portfolio companies access growth financing and strategic partnerships.

Intercept Ventures is a California-based venture capital firm focused on investing in growth-stage technology companies in the United States, with emphasis on fintech, mobility, cloud technology, data, and cybersecurity sectors.

SOSV is a global venture capital firm based in Princeton, New Jersey, founded in 1995, that focuses on seed to growth investments in deep technology across health, environmental tech, hardware, robotics, and cross border software, with a particular emphasis on Asia. The company runs accelerator style startup development programs, including HAX and IndieBio, which provide facilities, engineering resources, and lab equipment to help founders accelerate product development, acquire customers, and attract later stage funding. SOSV pursues a limited number of high potential startups, offering extensive hands on support to speed commercialization and scale, and aims to back innovations that improve human and planetary health.