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Since 2018, Nedbank has backed 5 African startups across 7 disclosed funding rounds totaling $61.1M, most heavily in South Africa and AI & Analytics.
Nedbank is a diversified financial services group headquartered in South Africa, operating across retail, business, corporate and investment banking, as well as wealth management. Through its Corporate and Investment Banking division, Nedbank provides financing, advisory, and investment solutions to corporates and institutional clients. In Africa, Nedbank has been an active equity and venture investor in technology enabled businesses, participating in at least seven funding rounds between July 2018 and October 2025. Based on disclosed transactions, Nedbank has backed companies at seed, Series A and venture stages, with a strong focus on South Africa and selected investments in Tanzania. Its portfolio activity in this period includes investments in AI and analytics, fintech, health technology and agricultural technology, reflecting an emphasis on data driven and scalable digital solutions. Within this activity, Nedbank has participated in funding rounds for Aerobotics in agricultural AI, LifeQ in health insights from wearables, Omnisient in privacy preserving consumer data collaboration, and Kuunda in embedded liquidity and growth financing for agents and micro, small and medium enterprises. These transactions illustrate Nedbank’s role as a strategic capital provider to high growth African technology ventures that are building infrastructure for financial inclusion, advanced analytics and real economy productivity gains.
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Nedbank has backed 5 African startups across 7 disclosed funding rounds tracked on Liners, totaling $61.1M since 2018.
Mostly Seed: 4 of its 7 tracked rounds are at that stage, followed by Series A (2).
Companies Nedbank has backed operate in South Africa (7), Côte d'Ivoire (1), Kenya (1), and 5 more markets. Each figure counts the rounds behind companies serving that market, so a company operating in several markets counts in each of them.
Its tracked rounds lean toward AI & Analytics (4), Fintech (2), Health Tech (1), and 1 more sector.
Nedbank most often shares rounds with Compass Venture Capital (4 shared deals), 4Di Capital (3 shared deals), Kepple Africa Ventures (2 shared deals).
Nedbank has invested in several technology driven African companies such as Omnisient, which focuses on secure consumer data collaboration, LifeQ, which develops health insights from wearables, Aerobotics, which offers AI powered fruit yield forecasting, and Kuunda, which provides embedded liquidity and growth financing for agents and MSMEs in Tanzania.
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