Baobab Ventures — Pre-Seed & Seed VC Firm ($250K–$2.0M Checks)
Baobab Ventures is a Pre-Seed, Seed venture capital firm based in Johannesburg, South Africa investing in Fintech, Other. The firm typically writes $250K–$2.0M checks.
- Check size
- $250K–$2.0M
- Partners
- 1 listed
- Stage
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Sectors
- Fintech, Other
- HQ
- Johannesburg, South Africa
- AUM
- Not in our records
Last verified: 2026-09-22
Pre-Seed, Seed
$250K – $2.0M
1 partner
Investment Thesis
Invests in South African and broader African fintech startups, creating solutions that enhance credit access and infrastructure.
How Baobab Ventures invests
Baobab Ventures is a vc firm based in Johannesburg, South Africa. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages, with a focus on Fintech, Other. It does not invest in Consumer Goods.
Baobab Ventures typically writes checks of $250K–$2.0M per investment.
Partners & Team
Thabo Maleka
Partner
Industry Focus
Invests In
Does Not Invest In
- •Raising at Pre-Seed, Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
- •Lead with your fit in Fintech, Other — the sectors they actively back.
- •Size your ask to their typical $250K – $2.0M check.
- •warm intro preferred
- •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Thabo Maleka, Partner.
- •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.
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