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FSD Africa

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Total investments 12
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$1M
Portfolio companies 10
Rounds per year 1.00
Lead investments 7
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.17
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Areas of investment

  • Financial Services
  • FinTech
  • Mobile Payments
  • Payments
  • Information Technology
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

clinicpesa

Financial Services
FinTech
Health Care
Information Technology
$350K19 May 2020 Kampala, Central Region, Uganda

onafriq

$1M20 Jan 2020 Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

MFS Africa

Financial Services
FinTech
Mobile Payments
Payments
$14M31 Oct 2018 Gauteng

MFS Africa

Financial Services
FinTech
Mobile Payments
Payments
$3M30 Oct 2018 South Africa, Gauteng, South Africa

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Total investments 12
Average round size 1M
Rounds per year 1.00
Peak activity year 2024
Lead investments 7
Follow on index 0.17
Group Appearance index 0.33

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

clinicpesa

Financial Services
FinTech
Health Care
Information Technology
$350K19 May 2020 Kampala, Central Region, Uganda

onafriq

$1M20 Jan 2020 Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

MFS Africa

Financial Services
FinTech
Mobile Payments
Payments
$14M31 Oct 2018 Gauteng

MFS Africa

Financial Services
FinTech
Mobile Payments
Payments
$3M30 Oct 2018 South Africa, Gauteng, South Africa
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