Lateral Frontiers

What they do

Lateral Capital is a mission driven venture fund investing in early and growth stage opportunities in Africa. We back companies that provide foundational technologies for the continent. We make debt and equity investments technology-enabled businesses that profitably solve significant pain points across financial services, healthcare, education, energy, agriculture, housing, logistics, mobility and more.

What they look for

At Lateral, our investment philosophy is centered on building efficient frontiers, where scalable businesses can thrive even in the most complex markets, servicing the next 3 billion customers. We focus on Africa and the Global South, backing resourceful founders.

Stage

Seed

Sectors

AI, Climate, Consumer, Fintech, Healthcare, HR and recruiting, Marketplace, Proptech

Based

New York, US