20 of Africa’s startup investment success stories from 2014 – Inspiration for 2015

The new VC4Africa 2015 Venture Finance in Africa report shows considerable progress made by startups across Africa. Below you’ll see some inspiring individual success stories we also managed to document over the past year.

Two exampleas of investors we profiled over the past year are the international business angel who invested in Karibu Solar & Soko via VC4Africa and the diaspora angel who found Njorku and Kiroo Games via VC4Africa’s mentorship Marketplace and went on to invest in them.

Below we’ve listed specific examples of entrepreneurs across Africa who found success, got funded and got profiled on the VC4Africa blog in 2014. For more on trends and general developments read the VC4Africa 2015 Report: Venture Finance in Africa.

We hope the examples listed below inspire you. Please add other investment success stories from the past year in the comments below, and be sure to let us know if you have a new investment success story to share with the VC4Africa community. We can’t wait to see what 2015 will bring. All the best wishes from the VC4Africa community of entrepreneurs and investors!

Nigeria’s social gaming platform ChopUp secured USD 100K from local & international investors	Tanzania’s green innovator Karibu Solar Power found investment via VC4Africa	Nigeria’s mobile payment startup IroFit found investment via VC4Africa	Ghanaian edu tech startup Revo secured 110K from Ghana Angel Investors
Nigeria’s fuel station app E-Pump secured more than USD 15K from investors	Africa’s payment venture SimplePay secured SeedStars World’s Best Startup prize money	Ghana’s messaging startup Saya acquired by US based mobile services company Kirusa	South Africa’s 8Bit raises USD 110K from local & international angels
Kenya’s BookNow secured USD 75k funding round from 10 angel investors	Kenya’s iProcure raised undisclosed amount to improve farming services	Ghana’s mobile payment company Everzero secured investment	Nigeria’s Green Energy & Biofuels secured over USD 1 million
South African mobile payment company Nomanini secured over USD 1 million (Series B)	… and USD 450k funding boost from South Africa’s tech venture capital fund IDC	Online marketplace MoboFree secured undisclosed growth investments	Egypt’s touch sticker innovation ViViFi secured USD 70K from investors
Cameroon based job portal Njorku found undisclosed investment via VC4Africa’s Mentorship Marketplace	Uganda’s clean energy company UpEnergy secured over USD 1 million