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IDENTIFY. PARTNER.
GROW.EXCEPTIONAL
ENTREPRENEURS
Alphacode Venture Partners is a leading Africa focused venture capital firm run by experienced investors funding early-stage fintech and industry adjacent technology companies.
Our mission is clear: IDENTIFY. PARTNER. GROW. extraordinary entrepreneur-led businesses that leverage technology, data and innovative ideas to build scalable, sustainable businesses that demonstrate LOCAL EXCELLENCE and GLOBAL RELEVANCE.
About us
We don’t just invest; we immerse ourselves in the entrepreneurial journey by actively supporting our portfolio companies and partnering with management through various growth phases to achieve their business ambitions.
We provide strategic guidance, corporate finance and optimal structuring advice, market access, best practise governance, ESG and operational practices, follow-on growth capital (where required) and access to our extensive network for recruitment and domain experts.
We bring diverse thinking, deep industry expertise, and an entrepreneurial spirit to our partners.
Our team
We are an experienced team with deep and extensive industry expertise, leveraging our complementary skillsets. Our ambitions and philosophies align with the management partners we support. Our commitment to diversity is ingrained in our thinking, fostering an environment where different perspectives fuel success.
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What we look for
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Business life-stage
Early-stage businesses (focus on series A with flexibility to consider later stage rounds where appropriate), that are post-revenue, have demonstrated product-market fit, and are on a path for scale.
Established operational, governance, regulatory, and reporting frameworks, enabling the model to scale efficiently.
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Industry focus
Technology enabled financial services focuses on financial services (banking and payments, lending, insurance, savings and investments, asset management), and tangential industries (e.g. education, health, agriculture and climate), where there may be an embedded financial services value proposition or application.
Teams
Exceptional founder(s) and credible teams with deep experience, unique insights, aligned incentives, partnership mentality and tenacity to build an extraordinary business.
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Geography
South Africa (predominantly) and other select framework-driven, African markets that have either large or emerging, fast-growing financial services industries and enabling macro-economic and regulatory dynamics.
If you believe you meet these criteria please submit your pitch deck to [email protected] and we will respond within two weeks.
Our investment experience
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Our impact
AlphaCode Venture Partners is committed to helping create a more sustainable and equitable future through our strategy to IDENTIFY. PARTNER. GROW. companies that contribute to this shared goal.
160m banking transactions protected p/m
Entersekt’s technology across 20m bank accounts in Africa, a critical enabler of financial inclusion by
engendering trust in the financial services system
12k African SMEs funded
12k African SMEs funded and $250m of working capital loans provided by Merchant Capital, fuelling business growth and expansion
$1.2bn loans provided
Prodigy Finance has funded students from emerging markets to study at the world’s top universities
28k African diabetic patients served
The Guidepost platform served 28k African diabetic
patients marking a 19% reduction in hospitalisation costs with measurably improved health outcomes
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20k people access work opportunities
Of the thousands of people given work opportunities through SweepSouth, 71% were previously unemployed while 29% were underemployed
Mobility for 15,000 people
Planet42 has been able to buy vehicles for 15,000 people that would typically struggle to access traditional vehicle financing
Our partners and investors
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