Problem Statement: Globally startups receive $300billion+ per year in funding with Africa getting less that 1% of the total funding, let's join hands to change that.

Africa is the next growth story leveraging our demographic dividend. Check our Funding Tracker 'Hall of Fame' for startup deals shaping our ecosystem.

1. Optimise

2. Fund

3. Scale

Love Money | Pre-Seed

We invest in early-stage tech related startups with a working prototype

Reimagine your minicorn journey

We provide early-stage momentum to your startup with our Love Money and Pre-Seed funding for founders across Africa, working hand in hand with angel investors and venture capital firms across the continent. This is what an average path to success for your startup looks like, although it will be a tough, we will walk with you. Make use of our funding tracker, to understand pathways for other successful startups across the continent.

What we look for in Outliers

You must be a tech startup modelled for regional or global success to submit your Pitch Deck, below are some of the key aspects we review in your startup. Our early-stage board advisory and funding from our angel investors will help you perfect some of the key issues to stand out from the crowd for regional or global success! To get insights on our thought process when we review your pitch deck, simply download our seed stage Airbnb Pitch Deck Review.

Impact! Foundation for a strong startup ecosystem is to develop talent early on and one way we are doing this, is by ensuring that 1 in every 100 university students in Africa is able to draft a world-class pitch deck. If you are a final year university student you can participate by simply looking for another team member 'student from a different degree class i.e if you are studying commerce find someone studying sciences or vice versa' to draft a pitch deck [in english] for any startup listed on our Funding Tracker and send it to us through Submit Pitch Deck 'simply select student when uploading,' we will give you a cerficate of competence if you score 50%+ on your pitch deck review and if you score 80%+, we will give you some gifts i.e pocket money for your graduation, books or tech gadgets depening on your score - thanks to our sponsor Kupfuma. Simply follow the instructions to participate as a final year university student, anytime and anywhere in Africa.

If you are a startup founder, the icons below are a guide to help you develop a pitch deck for your startup. Click on each icon to flip it and view more details.

A startup is an early-stage business that is designed to bring efficiency to your market and grow exponentially leveraging technology to be at the forefront of market changes, right on time but ahead of the current competition in your market. If your business doesn’t fit out startup definition, you can apply for high growth SME funding through the Kupfuma platform. In simple terms startups create value whilst SMEs extract value.

Talent is equally distributed, but opportunity is not! Love Money

Our Investment Thesis

In 2050 Africa’s population will be over 2.5billion accounting for at least 25% of world’s population meaning more complex problems which need to be solved by talented individuals in Africa, however most of the talent in Africa come from humble backgrounds to access funding to solve the complex problems at scale, hence we are building this platform to be the extended family to support these founders by providing them with advice and love money at an early stage. Some of the solutions to Africa’s problems have gone to the global stage for example Logan Green and a couple of friends during their college break in 2006, visited Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe which was facing a transportation crisis due to fuel shortages hence passengers were waving down cars with spare space on the side of the road. When Logan went back to the USA, he reflected on the observation he had made in Zimbabwe as Santa Barbara the town which he lived had mad traffic jams and more cars than Victoria Falls, he started working on his startup 'Zimride.' At the same time John Zimmer was working on a similar idea and they combined forces to execute on their startup idea. Over time Zimride evolved into Lyft which is current valued more than $5billion, this also gave inspiration to various ride sharing startups across the globe including Uber which is now valued at $150billion+. There are many talented individuals in Africa trying to solve our everyday challenges however struggle to raise patient capital to see through their breakthrough ideas unlike in developed markets where founders can easily access angel investors to support their ideas early on.

On the other hand, most of our angel investors are Africans in Diaspora. The reality being that most Africans in Diaspora are excluded from wealth creating opportunities both in Diaspora and back home due to various factors such as being secondary citiziens in Diaspora, not being on the ground back home, lack of network, and limited early stage investing knowledge hence most end up investing in the usual traditional businesses such as corner shops, small farming projects through relatives and friends with limited management experience resulting in perennial loss making entities and strained relationships. In most cases some passively invest in building mansions for funds preservation than wealth creation, these also end up deteriorating before retiring back home and constantly needing cash injection to spruce them up. Mostly their network is only limited to family members who are not on value creating tables back home hence will remain excluded from wealth creation despite having access to funding in Diaspora due to high margin propensity to save and access to cheap global funding options which are usually tapped by foreign investors who then learn new culture, new environment to invest in Africa when possibly Africans in Diaspora are better positioned to bring foreign investors as co-investors leveraging their local knowledge back home.

Our platform help you get networked to wealth creating opportunities back home by co-investing at pre-seed stage in startups which we have supported through our advisory and/or love money.

We are building the bridge between capital in Diaspora and wealth creating opportunities in startups back home. Welcome to the right table at the right time for wealth creation. We see problems back home as opportunities to create wealth by simply helping fix the problems leveraging tech and we are democratising access to tech investment opportunities in Africa.

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