AfriGloCal Venture Capital
AfriGloCal Venture Capital
Invest in pre-seed & seed stage startups with at least one female founder

Investing in Pre-Seed & Seed Stage Fintech and Digital Infrastructure Startups

AfriGloCal Venture Capital invests in pre-seed to seed-stage startups founded by visionary diverse founders. We add value by investing in founders including women entrepreneurs to accelerate returns by building a new business ecosystem. We are an early-stage fund focused on Fintech and Digital Infrastructure startups that are building great companies in underserved markets but with Global appeal and markets. We are focused on industries where we can add value, that are exploding with growth, and target companies that are developing cutting-edge technology to disrupt industries and innovations that create impact for future societies.

About the Firm

We have a vision to accelerate & invest in 100 high-growth tech enabled startups over 10 years

Uniquely, our early-stage investments leverage the successes of startups from our strategically aligned (non-equity investing) accelerator Knight Ventures that primes winning startups via Incubation and acceleration offerings. We provide founders who are thesis-aligned with capital that drives growth, impact, and GloCal exposure opportunities across the African continent. We apply a Gender Balance Lens investment approach in our investment strategy towards promoting women's entrepreneurship.

AfriGloCal provides venture capital investments into technology-enabled African startups driven by visionary entrepreneurial teams and connects them to an ecosystem that accelerates their scalability and growth towards follow-on investments. We have a mission to invest in 100 high-growth tech enabled startups to scale and profitability. 


We identify most overlooked opportunities in the venture capital and startup community. Currently, very little investment goes into fund managers that Invest in female founders, building great startups. We particularly look for intersections where FinTech and digital infrastructure are enabling the productivity of future societies and has large opportunities for profitability and wealth creation. Our Gender Balance Lens investment approach identifies skill sets that bring diversity and innovation driven by local understanding capable of solving global needs.  

Our focus areas
  • Fintech
  • Digital Infrastructure

Meet Our Team

Mope Abudu

Managing Partner
   

Jamil Akhtar

General Partner
   

Bolaji Sofoluwe

Venture Partner

Sara Haq

Advisor
We are a Female Led Venture Capital Firm applying a gender balance lens approach towards investing in startup solutions for the emerging future society

We aim to increase the amount of capital going into female founded startups and gender balanced teams. We particularly invest in overlooked opportunities driven by underrepresented teams that highlight contributions of women either as the founder or impacting women via value chains

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