Emerging and frontier markets are our focus.
We’ve invested in over 30 countries across Latam, Africa, MENA, CEE and Asia (excluding China).
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SEEDSTARS INTERNATIONAL VENTURES
We invest in pre-seed & seed stage startups across emerging & frontier markets.
Submit your pitchSeedstars International Ventures is the world’s first seed stage venture capital fund dedicated to global emerging and frontier markets. We’ve invested in over 30 countries across Latam, Africa, MENA, CEE and Asia.
Since 2013, we’ve nurtured a global network of founders, experts and investors, all driven to make an impact in emerging markets through technology and entrepreneurship.
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High Impact Venture Capital
Venture capital works best when you can pair technology to a massive market inefficiency or unmet demand. The emerging markets represent 85% of the world’s population and have an average internet penetration of 65%, higher than the global average. Yet these markets lack coverage to many fundamental needs such as financial services, healthcare, education or energy.
Despite this massive market opportunity, these countries pull in just 5.4% of global venture capital dollars. We want to change that. Scaling a venture backed company is an incredible achievement but doing so while positively impacting the lives of millions of individuals and businesses is another story. This is not just venture capital. This is high impact venture capital.
If we invest in you it won’t just be the capital. We’ll transfer knowledge, tools and processes to your team so that you can take your venture to the next level.
The Growth Track takes place twice a year, lasts 3 months, is run virtually and is unique for our portfolio companies. We don’t just coach the CEO, the full growth team is involved in the process that is designed to help early stage ventures build a growth team and implement a growth methodology.
The track includes a personal growth mentor, exclusive webinars and fireside chats, proprietary tools and frameworks, networking with other growth teams and more.
You can expect guidance on the fundraising process, hands-on support on designing fundraising strategy, revision of documentation and introductions to investors in our network.
We have a network of 250,000 stakeholders in 90 countries. We can connect you to almost anyone - mentors, investors, corporates, like minded entrepreneurs. Our portfolio is carefully constructed so that you’re likely to find peers working on a similar challenge in a different region. This unique peer network combined with a global community of experts and investors is made for you.
We will support you with recruiting growth talents as well as help you build the right company culture.
We will support you with drafting your press-release, forming your press-kit and targeting the right media outlets.
$200K free or discounted services provided by companies like AWS, Microsoft, Hubspot, Rebump, Segment, Copper, Segment, Xero, etc.
Emerging and frontier markets are our focus.
We’ve invested in over 30 countries across Latam, Africa, MENA, CEE and Asia (excluding China).
Our sweet spot is at the pre-seed and seed.
Seedstars International Ventures invests in a broad range of sectors including B2B, B2C, marketplaces, Fintech, Edtech, Healthtech and Agritech. We don’t invest in biotech, hardware or capital intensive businesses.
Stage: pre-seed, seed, pre-series A
Traction: ±6 months of consistent growth
Sector: all sectors with asset light business models
Core market: any emerging or frontier market (excluding China)
Our first ticket is $150- 250K for pre-seed/seed stage. Our follow-on ticket is up to $500k.