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| Date | Name | Website | Total Raised | Location |
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| Kwara | spleet.africa | $2.6M | Kenya | |
| getmigomoney | migo.ng | |||
| Engage | engage.so | |||
| Trove Finance | troveapp.co | Nigeria, Lagos, Lekki | ||
| PiggyVest | piggyvest.com | $1.1M | Nigeria, Lagos | |
| Gbedu | gbedu.live | |||
| Mono | mono.co | $147.88M | Nigeria | |
| Brass ∙ Business Banking | trybrass.com | Mali, Bamako |
Mentions in press and media 9
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| May 30, 2023 | Applications Open for 2023 ARM Labs Lagos Techstars Accelerator Program with a focus on FinTech, Mobility, E-commerce and TalentTech TechCabal’s 2021 Year-End report Success! | The program will invest up to $120,000 in early-stage startups based in Africa focused on FinTech, Mobility, E-commerce and TalentTech Techstars, the most active pre-seed investor in the world that provides access to capital, programming an... |
| Mar 29, 2023 | Payday secures $3M seed round to power the future of work for Africa | Payday, the leading Pan-African neobank issuing global (USD, EUR & GBP) accounts to Africans, has announced a $3M seed round, led by Moniepoint Inc, with participation from HoaQ, DFS Lab’s Stellar Africa Fund, Ingressive Capital Fund II... |
| Feb 9, 2023 | After a record 2022, 8 investors explain why it’s ‘still just Day 1’ for Africa’s startup ecosystem | Last year was a good 12 months of firsts for African tech startups. For the first time, the sector attracted over 1,100 unique investors in 2022, which in turn resulted in a record fundraising haul of $6.5 billion, according to data from Pa... |
| Mar 9, 2022 | Allawee gets backed by Voltron Capital & ODX to scale credit infrastructure across Africa. | Allawee joins the growing list of fintech players in Africa; with their infrastructure play, they aim to become enablers, not competitors. The developer-friendly platform which was launched in December 2021, already has over 100,000 API cal... |
| Jan 19, 2022 | 0.1% default: How Moni Africa leverages social trust to finance mobile money agents | Over the past few years, the agency banking industry in Nigeria has grown by leaps and bounds, driven by a group of fintech players—including OPay, TeamApt, and Paga—that dominate the landscape as well as commercial banks. The latter boasts... |
| Dec 8, 2021 | Techpoint Awards 2021: And the nominees are… | Share this article: [Updated on December 15, 2021]: Payourse requested to be removed as a finalist in The Most Outstanding Crypto Exchange category. [Updated on December 14, 2021]: The Most Outstanding Logistics Startup 2021 was renamed Mos... |
| Dec 1, 2021 | Nigeria’s Payourse secures $600k pre-seed to accelerate crypto adoption across Africa | By creating more secure saving and trading options as well as frictionless cross-border payment and instant local remittance, crypto continues to solve the persistent inefficiencies in Africa’s conventional financial systems. But as good as... |
| Aug 5, 2021 | Olumide Soyombo: The journey from startup founder to investment mogul | “What turns me off is when someone just tells me they have this idea and they haven’t done anything but want me to invest. I always say you have to take a risk on yourself before anybody can take a risk on you.” Up until October 2020 when N... |
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FAQ about Voltron Capital
How many startups has Voltron Capital invested in?
Voltron Capital has 9 portfolio companies on Parsers VC, among them Kwara, getmigomoney and Engage.
What has the press written about Voltron Capital?
Parsers VC has collected 9 articles mentioning Voltron Capital, among them “Applications Open for 2023 ARM Labs Lagos Techstars Accelerator Program with a focus on FinTech, Mobility, E-commerce and TalentTech TechCabal’s 2021 Year-En...” (May 30, 2023) and “Payday secures $3M seed round to power the future of work for Africa” (Mar 29, 2023).
Is Voltron Capital still active?
Yes, Voltron Capital is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Jun 28, 2022.