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
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
We provide merchants quick access to funds to finance their business with No Hidden Charges or Guarantors involved, offering our Merchants consistent access to recurrent loans and will continue to do so as long as they repay on-time. We are committed to the providing our Credit Communities with personalized business support services all year round.
Sety.io provides the platform for abstracting the current manual, analog, reactive, unintelligent response management systems into the 21st century predictive, ultra-intelligent, automated, asset light and data-driven capability required for delivering physical and psychological safety to all persons, enterprise, and Governments. As a digital platform, we aim to deliver an interactive and emotive customer experience We solve the friction of enterprises and individuals entering and managing a fragmented emergency architecture by providing a single point of contact with guaranteed response services.
People in Africa need access to affordable, accessible and safe medicines. Backed by unique technologies, industry experience, and science, our team helps healthcare companies gain access to high-quality medicines, helps patients make the right choices, and creates a safer world.
At Rise Capital, we believe in the power of technology to positively transform lives. We believe that the biggest potential for this to occur lies in Emerging Markets like Latin America, Africa, MENA, India, and Southeast Asia - where most of the world's people, GDP, internet users, and growth come from. In Emerging Markets, technology can break barriers and create enormous opportunity for people and enterprises to thrive. At Rise Capital, we back the brightest and most ambitious technology entrepreneurs from these markets as they build tomorrow's most successful, iconic companies in the world's largest and fastest-growing economies.
Releaf’s commitment to sustainable agriculture is unwavering across the different crops and value chains that we play in. Our Approach Focuses On Models That Protect The Environment While Contributing To The Economic Growth And Resilience Of Farmers.We work closely with smallholder farmers, without taking ownership of their land and enforcing mono-cropping. We’re working to ensure that the smallholders adopt the best agricultural practices & making investments in their processing equipment. This helps to increase yield while reducing the chances of environmental degradation and potential wildfires.
Reflective Learning Finds and Fixes Knowledge Gaps in Students. Our tools are specifically designed to accurately identify each student's knowledge gaps and address them by providing personalized learning materials tailored to their exact needs.