# Renew Capital: portfolio, investments and team > Renew Capital is a vc firm based in Ethiopia. 10 investments on record, latest Aug 2025. Portfolio, stages, co-investors and team. Source: https://millionrounds.com/fund/renew-capital (Millionrounds; every figure on the page links to its filing or article) Ethiopia · [Investor](https://millionrounds.com/investors) # Renew Capital Filed with the SEC to raise a fund in Dec 2023, closing $0M. Last cheque observed Aug 2025. Email VC firm Quiet Last fund $471K, Dec 2023 Seed Pre-seed Pre-Series A Technology Follow Renew Capital and see its new cheques in your feed. [Start following](https://millionrounds.com/login?join=1&why=follow&next=%2Ffund%2Frenew-capital) Cheques on record **0%** of best year **0** **cheques in 12 months**, 10 on record Since the last cheque **436** days **00** hrs **00** min **00** sec Median round **$5.0M** Rounds led **2 of 10** Sole investor **5 rounds** Mostly in **Morocco, 40%** Pitch Renew Capital ## Renew Capital highlights - 01 10 rounds on record - 02 Mostly Seed and Pre-seed: 75% of its rounds - 03 Sole investor in 5 rounds, median undisclosed ## What they do > Renew Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in Africa’s tech-enabled startups From their own website - **Type:** VC firm - **Cheque size:** Not stated - **Sectors:** Technology - **Based in:** Addis Ababa, Ethiopia - **Cold pitches:** Accepted ## The record Every round we can evidence, newest first **10 appearances** - **2025** 5 rounds - **Aug** **[Hypeo Ai](https://millionrounds.com/company/hypeo-ai)** MA · Disrupt Africa **Undisclosed** Sole investor - **May** **[Tendo](https://millionrounds.com/company/tendo)** GH · Disrupt Africa **Undisclosed** Sole investor - **Feb** **[Dabchy](https://millionrounds.com/company/dabchy)** Pre-Series A · TN · Disrupt Africa **Undisclosed** With 2 others - **Feb** **[Affinity Africa](https://millionrounds.com/company/affinity-africa)** Seed · GH · Disrupt Africa **$8.0M** With 8 others - **Jan** **[Sevi](https://millionrounds.com/company/sevi)** KE · Disrupt Africa **Undisclosed** Sole investor - **2024** 5 rounds - **Dec** **[Talaty](https://millionrounds.com/company/talaty)** MA · Disrupt Africa **Undisclosed** With 1 other - **Dec** **[Konnect](https://millionrounds.com/company/konnect)** TN · Disrupt Africa **Undisclosed** *Led* - **Dec** **[Enakl](https://millionrounds.com/company/enakl)** Pre-seed · MA · Disrupt Africa **$1.4M** With 4 others - **Oct** **[Agenz](https://millionrounds.com/company/agenz)** MA · Disrupt Africa **Undisclosed** *Led* - **Oct** **[Octavia Carbon](https://millionrounds.com/company/octavia-carbon)** Seed · KE · Disrupt Africa **$5.0M** With 7 others 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 Named by the firm itself, on a filing, its Form ADV or its company registration **2 named** LD **Laura Davis** Managing member i Filing they signed MD **Matthew Davis** Managing member i Filing they signed We also hold **2** 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. ## What they claim to have backed From their own portfolio page (on their website) **2** of 5 we have independently watched raise [Telegram](https://millionrounds.com/company/telegram)[hypeo.ai](https://millionrounds.com/company/hypeo-ai) Funding Application Investor Portal Training Portal 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. Latest fund on file **$471K** raised in Dec 2023 From its SEC filing. Nothing newer is on file yet. ## The cheque Seed Pre-seed Pre-Series A Median round joined **$5.0M** the round, not its cheque Alone, median **-** Led 2 of 10 rounds **20%** - **Sole investor:** 5 rounds - **Last cheque:** Aug 2025 Rounds by stage said on their site - Seed *2* - Pre-seed *1* - Pre-Series A *1* Cheques by month Led Joined Dec 2023 Nov 2026 Often in the room with - [Launch Africa](https://millionrounds.com/fund/launch-africa-ventures) 2 **Pitching Renew Capital?** Put them on your fundraising board with this record on the card, and follow them to hear when they write a new cheque. Add to your CRM *→* ## Who they invest alongside The investors most often in the same rounds as Renew Capital. A count of rooms they were both in, not a relationship either has claimed. [**Launch Africa** VC firm **2** rounds together](https://millionrounds.com/fund/launch-africa-ventures) ## Recently backed The latest companies Renew Capital put money into. [**Dabchy** Feb 2025](https://millionrounds.com/company/dabchy)[**Affinity Africa** $8.0M · Feb 2025](https://millionrounds.com/company/affinity-africa)[**Talaty** Dec 2024](https://millionrounds.com/company/talaty)[**Enakl** $1.4M · Dec 2024](https://millionrounds.com/company/enakl)[**Agenz** Oct 2024](https://millionrounds.com/company/agenz)[**Octavia Carbon** $5.0M · Oct 2024](https://millionrounds.com/company/octavia-carbon) ## Quick answers about Renew Capital ### What does Renew Capital invest in? Renew Capital invests most often at Seed and Pre-seed (75% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Technology. ### How active is Renew Capital? 10 investments on record, 0 of them in the last 12 months, and it led 2. The most recent was in Aug 2025. ### What has Renew Capital invested in recently? Its most recent investments on record: Hypeo Ai (Aug 2025), Tendo (May 2025) and Dabchy (Pre-Series A, Feb 2025). ### How big are Renew Capital's cheques? The median round it joins is $5.0M. ### Does Renew Capital lead rounds? Yes: it led 2 of its 10 investments on record (20%). ### Where does Renew Capital invest? Most of the companies it backs are in Morocco (40%), Ghana (20%) and Tunisia (20%). ### Is Renew Capital investing now? No investments in the last 12 months; the latest was in Aug 2025. ### Who does Renew Capital invest alongside? Most often Launch Africa (2 rounds together). ## Raising now? Find the investors who back rounds like yours, and keep every conversation on one fundraising board. Find similar investorsOpen your CRM Built from the rounds we watched, its filings and its own website, refreshed every night. [How we count](https://millionrounds.com/methodology) · [Report a correction](https://millionrounds.com/corrections?slug=renew-capital) · [Is this your firm? Claim it](https://millionrounds.com/claim?org=renew-capital)