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Fireball Capital
Venture capital · Cape Town, South Africa · Middle East and Africa
Fireball Capital partners with South African fund managers and institutional investors to back local businesses and help them scale internationally. It provides capital, strategic guidance and global networks to founders, and also backs top-tier venture fund managers.
Invests inFintech
In its own wordsfintechhealthtechedtechdata platformssouth africafund of funds
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Or find every investor that fitsFireball Capital lists 46 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 3 funding rounds. Its most frequent entry is Series A, 100% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are Fintech (24%), AI & Machine Learning (15%) and E-commerce & Marketplaces (14%). 61% of its companies are based in South Africa. It invests most often alongside HAVAÍC, 4Di Capital and Kalon Venture Partners.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Fireball Capital, 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 Fireball Capital's whole history. Rounds on record name 3 companies; its own site lists 46. 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 roundFireball Capital does not state its stages on its site, so only what it does is shown.
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| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 0% |
| Series A | 100% |
| Series B | 0% |
| Growth | 0% |
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 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 2 | 0 |
| '26 | 1 | 0 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 81th | 46 companies |
| Recent activity | 59th | 1 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 54th | 0% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 61th | 4% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 29th | 24% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 91th | 8 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Fintech | 24% | 12% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 15% | 18% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 14% | 6% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 11% | 15% |
| Cybersecurity | 7% | 4% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 6% | 7% |
| Education | 5% | 7% |
| Legal & Compliance | 3% | 2% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| HAVAÍC | 10 |
| 4Di Capital | 6 |
| Kalon Venture Partners | 5 |
| E4E Africa | 3 |
| Launch Africa | 3 |
| simple.Capital | 3 |
| E3 Capital | 2 |
| Secha Capital | 2 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers4598%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company12%
- 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 Fireball Capital 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 Fireball Capital| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 17 Feb 2026 | Round | |
| 1 Nov 2025 | Series A | |
| 18 Sept 2025 | Round |
Round details for Fireball Capital
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Fireball Capital's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
46 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AgrigateOne provides software products for the fresh produce trade, covering packhouse automation, quality inspection, export and import operations, market analytics, and trade transactions. | Space & DefenseSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | |||
| AURA provides on-demand security and medical response services through its platform. | Healthcare & BiotechCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Clickatell provides chat commerce, SMS APIs and other platform solutions. | AI & Machine LearningE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| Contactable provides an integrated identity platform for enterprises in Africa | FintechCybersecurity | Sept 2025Round | Page + round | |
| Cubespace develops and provides control systems for satellites | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| DataProphet builds and runs custom machine learning for financial services, manufacturing, and other businesses. | AI & Machine LearningFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| EFT Corp provides payment and banking services. | FintechFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Entersekt powers authentication, payments, and risk intelligence from a unified foundation | FintechCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| FairMoney provides financial services including loans and savings products | FintechLegal & Compliance | Portfolio page | ||
| FlexClub offers prepaid long term car rental services | Robotics & HardwareMobility & Logistics | Portfolio page | ||
| Flow provides a commerce media marketplace for advertisers to access exclusive audiences built on real behavior and proven results | Media & EntertainmentE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| Mobiz brings together a personalization engine and a suite of marketing tools to help businesses capture sales and convert leads | Enterprise SoftwareE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| Go1 provides an AI-powered learning and development solution for employee training | EducationAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Jabu provides real-time cash digitisation and payments for merchants and banks in Africa. | FintechFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| HAVAÍC invests in early-stage, high-growth and impactful technology businesses | Fintech | Feb 2026Round | Funding round | |
| The company provides biometric identity solutions for fraud prevention through facial verification and liveness detection. | FintechCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Immobazyme specializes in precision fermentation | Food & AgricultureHealthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Insight Terra builds and runs the Insight Platform, a real-time data platform for mining and oil and gas operations. | Industrial & ManufacturingE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| Kasha provides digital commerce and last mile health access solutions | Healthcare & BiotechE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 10 Nov 2026- Site
- fireballcapital.co.za
- Last read
- 10 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 8 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 18 Sept 2025
- Companies checked
- 46
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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