Mar 20th, 2024 - Investor highlight

World Bank's IFC allocates $5m to P1 Ventures

The IFC becomes P1 Ventures' first public institutional partner.

Feb 28th, 2024 - Web Summit Qatar

Chari is selected as breakout company

P1 Ventures GP proudly representing Chari's founder on stage in Doha.

Nov 27th, 2023 - Fortune Global Conference

African founders can build global businesses 

P1 Ventures' Co-Founder & GP Hisham Halbouny shares how African founders built global businesses such as Gameball, Instabug or Instadeep that can be best positioned for valuable exit opportunities.

Sept 13th, 2023 - WWBA Assembly insight

African gender lens investing delivers superior returns

P1 Ventures shared at the WWBA Assembly in Nairobi that its portfolio companies cofounded by an African female over-performed their peers on average over the past few years.

Sept 5th, 2023 - portfolio company highlight

Kotani Pay closes $2m Pre-Seed & acquires Fuhlstack

Kotani allows sending money home without internet and acquired Fuhlstack to do a lot more.

Aug 1st, 2023 - portfolio company highlight

Multiply Partners leads $6m Seed in Traction

“Square of Nigeria” Traction to accelerate growth, launch new products and expand regionally

Feb 9th, 2023 - portfolio company highlight

Delivery Hero Ventures leads $16m Series B in Yodawy

Egyptian healthtech Yodawy to scale up with embedded insurance and pharmacy benefit platform and launch in GCC

Feb 6th, 2023 - portfolio company highlight

Gameball closes $3.5m Seed to scale up globally

Egypt-based customer retention and gamified loyalty SaaS markets its product to >1,500 eCommerce and consumer brands across 70+ countries and plans to accelerate growth

Nov 24th, 2022  - portfolio company highlight 

ParTech leads $14m Series A in Djamo 

YC-backed Ivorian consumer FinTech to expand in Francophone and launch new products

Nov 7th, 2022 - portfolio company highlight

BOND leads $150m Series B in Soonicorn Yassir    

YC-backed Algerian Consumer Super App raises mega round to accelerate growth

Oct 31st, 2022 - portfolio company highlight

CommerzVentures  leads $31m Series B in MoneyFellows

Egyptian consumer FinTech raises growth capital to scale

Sept 30th, 2022 - press release

Egyptian startups face headwinds

French broadsheet Les Echos quotes P1 Ventures on recent macro-economic challenges that affect the Egyptian tech ecosystem

Aug 25th 2022 - portfolio company highlight

SubsBase closes its $2.4m Seed

Leading Recurring Payments Management System SaaS has enterprise accounts such as OLX, Clackett or Mermaid and is ready to scale.

Aug 2nd 2022 - portfolio company highlight

Harlem Capital leads $3.7m Pre-Series A in Lami

Leading Kenyan InsurTech is growing fast and announces closing of a Seed extension led by Harlem Capital.

Jul 11th 2022 - portfolio company highlight

Paymee wraps up its Pre-Seed

Tunisian FinTech has onboarded enterprise accounts such as Shopify, Aramex or Decathlon and secured fresh growth capital.

Jun 10th 2022 - portfolio company highlight

Chari completes its third acquisition

The Diago bolt-on acquisition will help Chari accelerate its expansion in Francophone Africa and enter the Cote d'Ivoire market.

Mar 28th 2022 - portfolio company highlight

Egyptian fantasy football announces $3m Seed

Africa is home to the world's youngest and largest number of football fans and Eksab built one of the very best consumer products to "make football more exciting for every football fan".

Feb 23rd 2022 - portfolio company highlight

Kenyan Dapp builds infrastructure for lower cost-remittances

Kotani Pay built on the blockchain a payment infrastructure to lower the cost of cross-border remittance inflow in Kenya integrating with crypto exchanges such as Paxful.

Feb 7th 2022 - portfolio company highlight

Nigerian InsurTech announces $40m Series B round

Reliance Health expands in Egypt with its integrated model delivering lower cost and higher quality of health insurance service.

Nov 11th 2021 - portfolio company highlight

South African InsurTech announces $3m Seed round

Root is set to scale-up beyond its borders leveraging world-leading insurance carriers client base including Sanlam, Guardrisk and Metropolitan.

Oct 6th 2021 - portfolio company highlight

Chari closes largest Seed in Morocco

YC-backed B2B ecommerce Chari raises $5m to expand regionally and launch FinTech product.

Oct 5th 2021 - portfolio company highlight

Amenli annouces a $2.3m Seed

YC-backed Amenli raises the largest InsurTech round in Northern Africa..

Sep 30th 2021 - portfolio company highlight

Verto raises a $10m Series A

Cross-border payment and FX marketplace Verto raises a Series A to scale up operations.

Jul 20th 2021 - press release

Africa InsurTech is poised for growth

Outside of South Africa, Africa's insurance penetration stands below 3% of GDP despite strong market tailwinds.

Jul 5th 2021 - webinar

Africa blockchain opportunities beyond the crypto hype

From digital identity to enterprise payments, blockchain can address some of Africa's infrastructure gaps.

Jun 18th 2021 - podcast

African InsurTech market trends and opportunities

Tunde Salako from AIR and Mikael Hajjar from P1 discuss the rapidly changing African InsurTech market landscape and some of the short-term opportunities it offers.

May 5th 2021 - portfolio company highlight

Lami raises $1.8m round led by Accion

InsurTech Startup Lami to scale up insurance distribution API and grow partnership with WorkPay.

Mar 30th 2021 - portfolio company highlight

Mobile-first InsurTech is poised for growth in Africa

Francophone Africa InsurTech market leader Baloon has benefitted from mobile adoption tailwind

Feb 4th 2021 - portfolio company highlight

Digitizing Africa's Informal Trade

MarketForce’s SaaS manages informal trade's field sales agents and distribution that remains 90% of African economy

Jan 21st 2021 - portfolio company highlight

Lami’s insurance-as-a-service model expected to drive mass adoption

Jihan Abass, Founder and CEO of Lami, explains how its distribution API enables insurers, banks, and other partners to offer digital and flexible insurance to African consumers.

Dec 12th 2020 - portfolio company highlight

OnePipe raises $950k

Nigerian FinTech Startup OnePipe raises $950k in funding from TechStars, Atlantica Ventures, Raba Capital, Ingressive Capital and P1 Ventures.

Oct 14th 2020 - portfolio company highlight

Yassir goes live in Paris & Marseille

Yassir is expanding in France to double-down on its super-app play.

Aug 24th 2020 - portfolio company highlight

MarketForce pitches on YC S’20 Demo Day

When we first met Tesh Mbaabu and his team, we were impressed about how MarketForce has been able to secure a partnership with Safaricom in just a couple of years. 

Aug 19th 2020 - portfolio company highlight

WorkPay raises $2.1m

Kenyan start-up WorkPay, a digital human resource management and payroll solution provider, has raised $2.1m in funding from Kepple African Ventures, Y Combinator, Soma Capital, Musha Ventures, P1 Ventures and other angel investors.

Aug 6th, 2020 - webinar

The Nest investment Pitches

THE NEST connects emerging market entrepreneurs and global business angels. In this episode, we hear about Riby, a cooperative banking platform for SMEs, and Eden, a tech-enabled service that puts your home's chores on autopilot.

Jul 27th 2020 - webinar

Opportunities in the fast-growing tech ecosystem

The University of California at Berkeley and Stanford University have the highest number of graduates that pursue entrepreneurship among US academic institutions. Both universities also have a growing number of African students with only a few of them every year yet who choose to go back and found a tech venture on the continent.