FSD Africa

Total investments

6

Average round size

3M

Portfolio companies

4

Rounds per year

0.50

Lead investments

2

Follow on index

0.33

Areas of investment
Financial ServicesFinTechInformation TechnologyPaymentsFinanceHealth CareMobile PaymentsRenewable EnergySolarEnvironmental Engineering

Summary

In 2012 was created FSD Africa, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The fund was located in Africa if to be more exact in Kenya. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Nairobi.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Mobile Payments, Financial Services. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight MFS Africa. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - South Africa.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are LUN Partners Group, Goodwell Investments, Equator Capital Partners.

The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The top activity for fund was in 2018. Deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars are the general things for fund.

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Analytics

Total investments
6
Lead investments
2
Rounds per year
0.50
Follow on index
0.33
Investments by industry
  • Financial Services (4)
  • FinTech (4)
  • Mobile Payments (2)
  • Payments (2)
  • Information Technology (2)
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Investments by region
  • South Africa (3)
  • United States (1)
  • Uganda (2)
Peak activity year
2018

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
10
Group Appearance index
0.50

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