Less time sorting
Move quickly from a broad market view to startups aligned with your focus.
SHow Seed Works
For investors
Good decisions begin with better context.
Seed helps you move from a broad search to a thoughtful shortlist. Explore African startups through consistent profiles, follow the teams that interest you, and ask for more when the time is right.
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Dashboard
Explore
Bookmarks
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Investor workspace
Discover your next company
Search startups, sectors or markets
FintechSeedNigeria
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Tranqbay
Fintech · Seed
Rank 8View profile
PX
Paypaxe
Payments · Growth
Rank 14View profile
Live workspace
Profiles, signals and next steps
A consistent way to compare
Read company, team, market and traction details in a familiar structure.
A clear next step
Save a company, contact its founder or request deeper information when ready.
The idea
Discovery should invite a closer read.
It is easier to spot an interesting company when its story has room to unfold. A name and industry are a starting point; the team, market, product, and progress give that starting point meaning.
Seed organizes those details into startup profiles you can browse at your own pace. Begin with the public information, keep track of companies worth revisiting, and connect with founders with a clearer picture of their work.
Inside the platform
From search to conversation.
See how the main parts of Seed work together, from the first profile view to the next useful action.
01 / Find your focus
Search with a point of view.
Browse startups across the platform and narrow your search by industry, stage, and location. Instead of working through an undifferentiated list, you can start with the markets and kinds of companies you already care about.
An investor account lets you keep your interests together. Set preferences and return to Seed with a clearer path into the ecosystem, whether you are exploring a new sector or following an existing thesis.
Browse African startupsFilter by industry, stage, and locationSet investor preferences
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Curated discovery
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02 / Read the company
Look beyond the headline.
Open a profile to understand what a startup is building, the problem it addresses, and the people behind it. Where founders have shared them, you can also see traction, milestones, media, and updates that give the story a sense of movement.
Seed reviews listings before they appear publicly, and presents company information in a consistent structure. That makes it easier to read across opportunities while leaving room for each founder to explain what makes their company different.
Company, market, and stageTeam and progressMedia and founder updates when shared
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A complete company story
Market · Team · Traction · Updates
Read traction
Clear context in a consistent profile.
Meet the builders
Clear context in a consistent profile.
03 / Follow through
Turn interest into a next step.
Bookmark startups you want to revisit so promising teams do not disappear into a browser tab. Your investor dashboard keeps that shortlist close when you are ready to compare companies or follow up on an earlier discovery.
When a profile gives you enough reason to go deeper, reach out to the founder or request access to their Data Room. Supporting documents are shared only after the founder approves your request, so the next stage of the conversation happens with their knowledge.
Bookmark companiesReturn from your dashboardContact founders or request Data Room access
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Next step
Keep the conversation moving
Pitch deck
Request access
Saved startup
Added to shortlist
Updates
Stay informed
Built into Seed
What a closer look gives you.
Use Seed to narrow the field, understand a company, and keep promising teams within reach.
Focused filters
Use industry, stage, and location to find companies that match the areas you are following, then explore beyond them when your interests change.
Structured profiles
Read the company story, team, market, and traction in a familiar format while hearing each founder's own account of the business.
Saved startups
Bookmark teams that deserve another look and build a shortlist you can revisit from your investor workspace.
Requested access
Ask the founder for supporting documents when you are ready for more detail. Data Room access remains their decision.
How access works
From a public view to a private conversation.
You can browse public profiles to form an initial view. When you want deeper material from a particular company, the founder controls the next layer of access.
Open to explore
Public profile
Understand a company's purpose and progress before deciding whether to get in touch.
- Company overview and market
- Team, stage, and traction details
- Media and updates when shared
Shared by request
Startup Data Room
Ask for supporting documents when a startup has an active Data Room.
- Send an access request from the profile
- Founder reviews the request
- View documents after approval
Availability
African startup discovery, open to the world.
Global accessInvestors can join Seed globally. Whether you invest from within Africa or from another financial and technology hub, you can explore the same founder profiles, build a shortlist, and request deeper access.
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EUEurope
NANorth America
SASouth America
ASAsia
MEMiddle East
OCOceania
🌍Worldwide
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