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Pacer Ventures partners Founder Institute, Launches a $3M Fund for Early-Stage African Startups

TechBuild.Africa by TechBuild.Africa
12th November 2020
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Pacer Ventures today announced a $3M fund for early-stage African startups that are solving some of the most critical problems on the continent.

The focus will be on verticals expedient to the African continent including healthcare, financial inclusion, education and agriculture.

The United Nations has projected that Africa will have a population of 1.68 billion people by 2030, while the GSMA Mobile Economy Report states that 84% of Africa’s population will have access to a sim connection by 2025.

This high mobile penetration has and will continue to enable the continent to leapfrog technology consumption, as Africa is expected to account for up to 30% of global consumption of technology and technology-driven solutions within the same period.

Gbemi Akande, Managing General Partner at Pacer Ventures, commented:

“We see a huge opportunity to support early-stage founders making meaningful contributions to their local economies and communities.”

“We are providing much-needed funds to founders leveraging mobile penetration to solve problems at the ‘bottom of the pyramid’ across the continent,” he concluded.

The investment company has already begun to support early-stage founders by participating in seed rounds, including VPD.Money and others.

With an average cheque size of $100k, Pacer VC is positioned to add substantial value to its portfolio companies.

According to Antoinia Norman, Pacer General Partner in charge of Southern Africa,

“We won’t just write a cheque, we will enable founders to work in and on their business, by supporting them every step of their journey, with technical and financial skills, team building, access to markets, resources, and our networks.”

The General Partners of Pacer VC have over 40 years of combined experience in consulting, marketing, entrepreneurship, deal flow sourcing and ecosystem development.

Pacer VC’s differentiator is the fund’s focus on sourcing high potential early-stage African startups, while leveraging its strategic partnership with Founder Institute chapters all over Africa to identify and recommend winning teams with solutions that meet market needs.

Chukwuemeka Agbata, Regional Director of Founder Institute in Africa, Co-founder, techbuild.africa, commented:

“Our partnership with Founder Institute gives us an undeniable edge particularly with quality deal-flow at an early stage, which we will leverage to strategically expand Pacer VC’s footprint across multiple African Markets,”

Speaking on the Pacer VC Investment thesis, Geoffrey Weli-Wosu, a General Partner at Pacer VC and Co-Founder at VoguePay and Domineum, stated:

“We are leveraging our in-depth experience in startups, deal flow sourcing and ecosystem development to take advantage of the early-stage funding gap in Africa.

Our target is seed-stage founders and companies who are usually under the radar of a lot of investors.

We know the markets, have access to the founders and our investment team is well qualified to execute this thesis.”

About Pacer Ventures

Pacer Ventures has a strategic relationship with the Founder Institute, the world’s premier pre-seed startup accelerator, providing investment thesis support, structure, templates, tools, deal flow, potential seed, and support across all segments of the funding operation. It has a similar partnership with techbuild.africa to provide media support to portfolio companies.


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