Sahara Ventures
Sahara Ventures is a Pre-Seed, Seed venture capital firm based in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania investing in Other, Marketplace, Consumer. The firm typically writes $100K–$1.5M checks and has 5 portfolio companies in our records.
- Check size
- $100K–$1.5M
- Portfolio
- 5 companies on record
- Partners
- 15 listed
- Stage
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Sectors
- Other, Marketplace, Consumer, Enterprise, SaaS, Healthcare, EdTech, AI / ML
- HQ
- Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
- AUM
- Not in our records
Last verified: 2026-08-11
Pre-Seed, Seed
$100K – $1.5M
5+ companies
15 partners
Investment Thesis
Sahara Ventures invests in logistics and marketplace tech solutions that enhance supply chain efficiency in East Africa.
How Sahara Ventures invests
Sahara Ventures is a vc firm based in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages, with a focus on Other, Marketplace, Consumer, Enterprise, SaaS. It does not invest in Media.
Sahara Ventures typically writes checks of $100K–$1.5M per investment.
Sahara Ventures has backed 5 companies in our records, including Twiga Foods, Neurotech Africa, Medikea.
Partners & Team
Electric BodaBoda Value Chain East Africa
Publication
A publication detailing the electric bodaboda sector in East Africa.
Ayubu Jafari
Managing Partner
Andrej Karpathy
Founder
A founding member of OpenAI and former head of AI at Tesla, posted an observation on X that would reverberate through the technology industry with unusual velocity.
Victoria Noble
CEO
CEO of Sahara Ventures
Islamic Financial Tanzania
Publication
A publication detailing the transformation of Tanzania’s Islamic finance sector.
Carbon Trading and Carbon Markets in Tanzania
Publication
A publication detailing carbon trading and carbon markets in Tanzania.
How CEOs and Top Management Are Using AI Agents
Publication
A publication detailing how CEOs and top management are using AI agents.
State of EdTech Adoption in Tanzania
Publication
A publication detailing the state of EdTech adoption in Tanzania.
The Absent Continent: Africa and Artificial Intelligence
Publication
A publication detailing the exclusion of Africa in the AI era.
Tanzania ICT Budget 2026 27 Analysis
Publication
A publication detailing the Tanzania ICT Budget 2026 27 Analysis.
Geospatial data, GeoAI and the location technologies landscape and employment market in Tanzania
Publication
A publication detailing geospatial data, GeoAI, and the location technologies landscape and employment market in Tanzania.
Industry Focus
Invests In
Does Not Invest In
Portfolio Companies (5)
Other
Twiga Foods
Neurotech Africa
A conversational AI startup that builds natural language processing (NLP) solutions in local African languages.
Medikea
A digital health platform that allows patients to search for doctors, book appointments, and consult with medical professionals online.
Sheria Kiganjani
A digital legal-tech platform that provides citizens with access to legal information and connections to lawyers.
SmartClass
An online marketplace that connects students and parents with qualified local tutors for personalized learning.
- •Raising at Pre-Seed, Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
- •Lead with your fit in Other, Marketplace, Consumer — the sectors they actively back.
- •Size your ask to their typical $100K – $1.5M check.
- •cold outreach ok
- •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Electric BodaBoda Value Chain East Africa, Publication.
- •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.
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