Maru Ventures — Pre-Seed & Seed VC Firm ($75K–$250K Checks)
Maru Ventures is a Pre-Seed, Seed venture capital firm based in Cape Town, South Africa investing in Fintech, Other, Healthcare. The firm typically writes $75K–$250K checks and has 36 portfolio companies in our records.
- Check size
- $75K–$250K
- Portfolio
- 36 companies on record
- Partners
- 1 listed
- Stage
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Sectors
- Fintech, Other, Healthcare, Food / AgTech, Consumer, EdTech, AI / ML, SaaS, Developer Tools
- HQ
- Cape Town, South Africa
- AUM
- Not in our records
Last verified: 2026-08-10
Pre-Seed, Seed
$75K – $250K
36+ companies
1 partner
Investment Thesis
Maru Ventures invests in early-stage African fintech startups solving payments and remittance problems, with a focus on underbanked and informal economies.
How Maru Ventures invests
Maru Ventures is a vc firm based in Cape Town, South Africa. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages, with a focus on Fintech, Other, Healthcare, Food / AgTech, Consumer. It does not invest in Healthcare.
Maru Ventures typically writes checks of $75K–$250K per investment.
Maru Ventures has backed 36 companies in our records, including Pocket Fintech, SendWave, Maru/Usurv.
Partners & Team
Zanele Moyo
GP
Industry Focus
Invests In
Does Not Invest In
Portfolio Companies (36)
Other
Pocket Fintech
SendWave
Maru/Usurv
Provides research, insight, and advisory services powered by technology.
Maru/edr
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Maru/Matchbox
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Fortel My Health
Health-focused startup; likely delivering health services / tech
Notifly
Startup (likely notification / communications platform)
Greneta
Early stage startup, possibly in tech or consumer / e-commerce area
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Grou
Startup selected into MARU residential cohort; various fields including education, healthcare, finance, content etc.
- •Raising at Pre-Seed, Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
- •Lead with your fit in Fintech, Other, Healthcare — the sectors they actively back.
- •Size your ask to their typical $75K – $250K check.
- •warm intro preferred
- •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Zanele Moyo, GP.
- •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.
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