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Since 2021, 1984 Ventures has backed 3 African startups across 4 disclosed funding rounds totaling $29.1M, most heavily in Egypt and E-commerce & Retail.
1984 Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests at the pre seed and seed stages and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. The firm focuses on founders using software and AI to solve urgent, real world problems, with a strong emphasis on B2B, healthcare, and infrastructure or open source startups. In Africa, 1984 Ventures has participated in three early stage rounds across Nigeria and Egypt, aligned with its focus on technology enabled businesses. The firm has backed Cleva in Nigeria, a fintech company that enables users to open US dollar accounts to receive global USD payments, at the seed stage. It has also invested in Egypt based Sylndr at the pre seed stage, supporting an online platform for buying, selling, and financing certified used cars, and ShipBlu at the seed stage, a logistics and supply chain company providing AI powered shipping, tracking, and cash cycle solutions for ecommerce merchants. Across these African investments, 1984 Ventures has shown interest in seed and pre seed opportunities in fintech, ecommerce and retail, and logistics and supply chain, partnering with both local and international investors to support technology driven companies in Nigeria and Egypt.
Data updated · Jul 29, 2026
1984 Ventures has backed 3 African startups across 4 disclosed funding rounds tracked on Liners, totaling $29.1M since 2021.
Mostly Seed: 3 of its 4 tracked rounds are at that stage, followed by Pre-Seed (1).
Its tracked rounds lean toward E-commerce & Retail (2), Fintech (1), Logistics & Supply Chain (1).
1984 Ventures most often shares rounds with Raed Ventures (2 shared deals), Algebra Ventures (2 shared deals), Nuwa capital (2 shared deals).
1984 Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests at the pre seed and seed stages and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. The firm focuses on founders using software and AI to solve significant real world problems and predominantly backs B2B, healthcare, and infrastructure or open source startups.
1984 Ventures has backed Cleva in Nigeria, a fintech company offering US dollar accounts for global USD payments, and Sylndr and ShipBlu in Egypt. Sylndr operates an online platform for buying, selling, and financing certified used cars, while ShipBlu focuses on AI powered shipping, tracking, and cash cycle solutions for ecommerce.