Backing the
boldest founders
Staunch is a cross-border venture platform linking Africa with the US, Europe and Asia. Capital, execution and global market access for high-growth founders and investors.
- Markets
- 4
- Partners
- 10
Connecting Africa to the world
Four markets. One platform.
We open doors, share deals, and invest.
Staunch Ventures runs the venture studio and the co-investment network. Staunch Capital is our fund.
Cofounding as a service.
Staunch acts as an institutional cofounder: providing key routes to market, stakeholders, customers and investors.
Featured venture
From our portfolio.
Bag Learning
Bag Learning helps South African university students study more effectively and efficiently, building an all-in-one platform that enhances personalised learning.
Global deals, Seed to Pre-IPO.
Members co-invest deal by deal alongside us. You see the opportunities we source and back, and invest only in the ones you choose.
Sourced across four markets
African companies we back, and international opportunities we source in the US, Europe and Asia, from Seed through Pre-IPO.
Deal by deal
We facilitate the deal flow; you choose exactly what you back, one opportunity at a time. Onboard once and every future deal reaches you.
By invitation
Opportunities are shared privately with network members, never listed publicly.
We've invested alongside
Bill Ackman
Drake
Ron Conway
Thiel Macro
Thomas Wolf
New to the portfolio
An AI-native physics lab. Human scientists set the direction and virtual physicists carry out the research, starting with the physical infrastructure that AI runs on.
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The market for compute. An exchange and a price index that let GPU capacity be priced, financed and hedged like any other commodity.
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future of Africa?
Whether you're backing Africa's next chapter or building it. Let's talk.