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What does HAVAÍC invest in?
HAVAÍC invests most often at Seed and Pre-seed (60% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Technology and Fintech.
HAVAÍC highlights
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2 cheques in the last 12 months
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Mostly Seed and Pre-seed: 60% of its rounds
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Led 3 rounds
What they do
HAVAÍC is a leading African venture capital firm with a proven track record of investing in, scaling, and exiting start-ups from across the continent.From their own website
- Type
- VC firm (from a list, unverified)
- Cheque size
- Not stated
- Stages
- Pre-seedSeedSeries ASeries B
- Sectors
- TechnologyFintech
- Based in
- Cape Town, South Africa
- Cold pitches
- Not stated
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first5 appearances
- 2026
1 round
- Feb
- 2025
3 rounds
- Dec
- Mar
- Jan
- 2022
1 round
- Oct
An announcement gives the size of the round, not the size of this investor's cheque: the only rounds that imply a cheque are those where they were the sole named investor.
The team
We hold 7 people at this firm from the lists this database was built from: a weaker source than the filings, since a list does not say when a title ended. Login to see them.
Who backs their funds
4 LPs on record in HAVAÍC's funds
- Funds
- 3
The institutions that put money into its funds, which the firm then invests in companies.Source: fund news.
Fireball Capital3 fundsFund Vintage Committed HAVAÍC African Innovation Fund 3 - - HAVAÍC Fund 3 - - HAVAÍC The African Innovation Fund 3 - - 
SA SME Fund3 fundsFund Vintage Committed HAVAÍC African Innovation Fund 3 - - HAVAÍC Fund 3 - - HAVAÍC The African Innovation Fund 3 - - 
E Squared Investments2 fundsFund Vintage Committed HAVAÍC African Innovation Fund 3 - - HAVAÍC Fund 3 - - 
Universum Wealth2 fundsFund Vintage Committed HAVAÍC African Innovation Fund 3 - - HAVAÍC Fund 3 - -
What they claim to have backed
From their own portfolio page (on their website)
6 of 21 we have independently watched raise
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Weaker than a round we watched, stronger than a list somebody sold us. A firm is far less willing to put a company on its own site that it never funded.