A dedicated initiative for stellar tech entrepreneurs serving the Middle East and Africa

By leveraging Orange Group's expertise, networks & capital on the continent - we accelerate growth and expansion of businesses, nurturing them into global success.
A benchmark VC investor in Africa, with 50m€ under management and a dedicated team based in Cairo, Orange Ventures Africa invests via two distinct streams: Middle East & Africa Champions and Middle East & Africa Seed.

Middle East & Africa Growth

The stream focuses on supporting unique founders with amazing execution capabilities building category-defining businesses in areas of Orange group expertise and beyond in Africa and Middle East.

For tech startups raising from Series A onwards, with pan African or global scaling potential, working in tech sectors including but not limited to Networks & IT, Digital enterprise, Cybersecurity, Fintech, Consumer, Gaming, Edtech, E-commerce



Middle East & Africa Seed

To support the visionary entrepreneurs of Africa's booming tech ecosystem at earlier stages, we launched a special initiative for seed stage companies working in one of the 18 countries of Orange Middle East & Africa fooprint
Cameroon, Madagascar, Egypt, Ivory Coast, Jordan, Morocco, Senegal, Tunisia, Mali, Bissau, Guinea Conakry, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Centrafrique, DR of Congo, Botswana

For entrepreneurs working on innovative tech projects having raised under 1m€ in total funding

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Our news

Orange Ventures MEA Seed invests in Nucleon Security

  • Investment

12/09/2025

Orange Ventures MEA Seed invests in Nucleon Security

Nucleon Security

Socium

  • Investment

19/11/2024

Orange Ventures MEA Seed Fund invests in Socium

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Sayna

  • Investment

28/04/2022

Learn to code and find your first job

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Middle East & Africa Seed Challenge

  • News

17/11/2020

Announcing results

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Youverify joins our portfolio

  • Investment

10/03/2020

Orange Ventures leads $1.5m investment round in Youverify

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Gebeya joins our portfolio

  • Investment

10/02/2020

OV co-leads pre series A of the Pan African Ed Tech & online Marketplace

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Africa’s tech growth

  • Report

01/07/2019

Our take on today’s ecosystem & key driving forces behind it

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Chain

Chain enables to create, manages and transfers digital assets through the Blockchain’s technology. The company’s platform includes also a whole set of tools for developers to create pilot services over the Blockchain (SDK, API, sandbox).

http://www.chain.com/

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If your startup
- matches one of our investment streams
- is tackling fundamental challenges using technology
- has reached its market fit and secured revenues
- has a large addressable market and high growth potential on an international scale

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