Investors / South Africa / Alphawave Group
Alphawave Group
Venture capital · Stellenbosch, South Africa · Middle East and Africa
Alphawave is a technology investment group that builds and backs deep tech businesses in electronics, software and data, staying involved from incubation through scaling to profitability. It has a portfolio of 15 tech businesses, many of which sell internationally, and it also founds companies out of internal innovation units.
Invests inAI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareHealthcare & Biotech
In its own wordsdeep techelectronicssoftwaredatamachine learningartificial intelligence
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Or find every investor that fitsAlphawave Group lists 23 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 8 funding rounds, 3 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Series B, 43% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (37%), Enterprise Software (19%) and Healthcare & Biotech (19%). 39% of its companies are based in South Africa. It invests most often alongside Khosla Ventures, 8VC and Altimeter.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Alphawave Group, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Round figures show recent activity, not Alphawave Group's whole history. Rounds on record name 8 companies; its own site lists 23. Funding rounds are complete from mid-2025, so counts and the yearly trend undercount a firm that invested before then. The portfolio, themes and places come from its own site and are not affected.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 14% |
| Series A | 0% |
| Series B | 43% |
| Growth | 43% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 0 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 1 | 1 |
| '24 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 1 | 0 |
| '26 | 6 | 2 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 57th | 23 companies |
| Recent activity | 89th | 6 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 56th | 14% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 52th | 0% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 68th | 37% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 78th | 5 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 37% | 18% |
| Enterprise Software | 19% | 8% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 19% | 15% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 7% | 7% |
| Legal & Compliance | 2% | 2% |
| Food & Agriculture | 2% | 3% |
| Education | 2% | 7% |
| Media & Entertainment | 2% | 4% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Khosla Ventures | 3 |
| 8VC | 2 |
| Altimeter | 2 |
| Bessemer Venture Partners | 2 |
| Founders Fund | 2 |
| Qualcomm Ventures | 2 |
| Sanofi Ventures | 2 |
| 137 Ventures | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers23100%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company00%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare Alphawave Group head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Recent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with Alphawave Group| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 8 Sept 2026 | Series B Led | |
| 8 Sept 2026 | Series C+ | |
| 1 Sept 2026 | Series C+ | |
| 15 Jul 2026 | Series C+ Led | |
| 18 Jun 2026 | Series B | |
| 6 Jan 2026 | Round | |
| 30 Sept 2025 | Series B | |
| 15 Jun 2023 | Seed Led |
Round details for Alphawave Group
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Alphawave Group's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
23 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AdvanCell is a clinical-stage radiopharmaceutical company developing targeted alpha therapies for cancer treatment. | Healthcare & Biotech | Jul 2026Series C+ | Funding round | |
| Bytefuse is an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research and Development company that builds bespoke AI solutions for businesses | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Callbi provides speech analytics and artificial intelligence solutions for contact centers | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Cerebras develops and provides artificial intelligence technology and infrastructure | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Sept 2025Series B | Funding round | |
| Cognition operates an autonomous software engineer called Devin that helps human engineers with repetitive work and focuses on problem solving and designing systems. | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Sept 2026Series C+ | Funding round | |
| COUR Pharma develops targeted therapies for autoimmune diseases | Healthcare & Biotech | Jun 2026Series B | Funding round | |
| The company designs, develops and manufactures communication systems for satellites | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Deepchecks provides an enterprise-grade AI testing, observability and monitoring platform for evaluating AI progress | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Jun 2023Seed | Funding round | |
| The company designs and produces highly sensitive radio receivers and related equipment for radio astronomy | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides health insurance services, including doctor consultations, diagnostic tests, and cashless insurance, to individuals and families. | Healthcare & BiotechFintech | Jan 2026Round | Funding round | |
| FarmRanger produces and sells livestock security collars with GPS tracking and alarm functions for farmers. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Farmtrack provides a GPS tracking system for farm vehicle tracking and monitoring | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| FieldSENSE provides personal RF monitors to protect workers from RF overexposure | Healthcare & BiotechIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Hawktivity turns existing CCTV into a real-time operations engine using AI vision | AI & Machine LearningIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Inrange Golf provides range technology for golf facilities | Legal & ComplianceEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| IXUS RF provides software for assessing and managing RF safety compliance for mobile network operators and other companies | Healthcare & BiotechIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Moonwalk Biosciences is developing first-in-class, adipose-targeted RNA therapies that address the biology of cardiometabolic diseases | Healthcare & Biotech | Sept 2026Series B | Funding round | |
| Neurozone provides assessments, masterclasses, and coaching to help people understand and develop the factors that influence their performance, adaptability, recovery, and growth. | Healthcare & BiotechEducation | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides labor and stock forecasting services for restaurants and retail businesses. | AI & Machine LearningFood & Agriculture | Portfolio page | ||
| Saigen enables industries with extensive voice data to affordably implement advanced speech-to-text software solutions | AI & Machine LearningMedia & Entertainment | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- alphawave.co.za
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 15 Jun 2023
- Companies checked
- 23
Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.
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