Intro

The top 5 investors according to the total amount of funding rounds. These are VC funds and corporate investors in Sub-Saharan Africa that have invested in Early stage over the last 4 years. They are actively investing in Financial Services industry. Financial services are provided to people and companies. It includes accounting, audit, and tax services, as well as asset management, investment and financing advisory, and brokerage.

Amount of funding rounds in Sub-Saharan Africa is 10, which is 0.2% of the total amount of Early rounds in the Financial Services industry over the last 4 years.

Top 5 investors in Sub-Saharan Africa that took part in the most Early funding rounds in Financial Services industry over the recent years
data provided by Unicorn Nest

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Key takeaways

  • Funds Geography - The most common country among the top VCs is South Africa which hosts 3 funds. There are also funds from Nigeria and Mauritius. All funds are based in different cities. No city grouping tendencies were found in this sample. There is no investment geofocus for VCs in the sample. All of them invest in startups from different countries. For the majority of the funds, the country of the funds’ establishment and the country of their most frequent investments coincide.
  • Industry Focus - The funds’ most common field for investments is Finance. They also invest in Banking, Telecommunications and Mobile/Apps.
  • Investments - All funds have different average numbers of rounds per year.
  • Typical Rounds - No grouping tendencies in the amount of investors in the funding rounds were found in this sample. Average round size for all funds is different. Funds in the sample usually have an average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation of 0.0. 0.97 is less common.