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Venture Capital Intelligence
Firms, funds, partners, companies and rounds from sworn filings, firm sites and announcements, kept as a graph with a date and a source on every edge. Facts, inferences and estimates are labelled as such. A fund target is never a close, GAV is never dry powder, and a round size is never an investor’s check.
Firms / African Renaissance Partners, LLC
African Renaissance Partners, LLC
Micro VC · probableUSafrican-renaissance.comSEC exempt reporting adviseremerging managerfundraising evidence
African Renaissance Ventures backs visionary founders transforming East Africa
venture manager, reported GAV $1.1M across 3 vehicles
Importance
14
low
Active deployment
79
high
Emerging
62
high
Completeness
69
high
Freshness
100
high
Research priority
37
elevated
Identity and regulatory footprint
- Headquarters
- unknown
- Office address
- unknown
- Business phone
- 202-299-4402adviserinfo.sec.gov
- SEC adviser type
- exempt reporting adviseradviserinfo.sec.gov
- SEC exemption claimed
- unknown
- Latest Form ADV
- Feb 12, 2024
- Private funds reported
- 1 (1 venture capital funds)adviserinfo.sec.gov
- Private fund gross assets
- $1.1Madviserinfo.sec.govreported GAV of the funds, the adviser's own number; not fund size, not dry powder
- business phone
- 202-299-4402adviserinfo.sec.govpublished by the subject
Stated thesis versus observed behaviour
5 observed deals
Stated (the firm’s website)
- Sectors
- ai, fintech, healthcare, climate, energy, agtech, media
- Stages
- early
- Geography
- africa, global, globally, washington dc
- Check size
- not stated; DFX does not estimate checks from round sizes
Observed (from deals on record)
Stage at participation: no observed deals yet
Stage at first entry: no observed deals yet
Sectors
unknown 100%
lead rate n/afollow-on rate n/anew logos, 12 months 5
Funds and vehicles
3 reported
| Vehicle | Type | Vintage | Lifecycle | Reported GAV | Owners | Form D sold | Latest Form D |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Charis SPV, a series of Decile SPV, LLC | SPV or co-invest vehicle | 2024 form d first sale | Newly closed | unknown | unknown | $315,000 of $315,000 | Dec 16, 2024 |
| Kubik SPV, a series of Decile SPV, LLC | SPV or co-invest vehicle | 2024 form d first sale | Early deployment | unknown | unknown | $510,000 of $510,000 | Feb 6, 2025 |
| Horn of Africa Fund I LP | Fund | 2023 form d first sale | Fundraising | $1.1M Feb 12, 2024 | 13 | $1.6M of $10.0M | Jul 1, 2025 |
GAV is the gross asset value the adviser reported on Form ADV for the vehicle, never the fund’s committed size and never dry powder. Form D sold is the amount sold as of the latest filing, never a final close.
Investment team
12 current, 0 departed
Lexi Lei
AssociateVenture Associate
Meraf Girma
AssociateVenture Associate
Lofton Holder
Board or advisoryStrategic Advisor
Pierre Guislain
Board or advisoryStrategic Advisor
Atul Mehta
Founder or executiveChair, Investment Committee
Henok Assefa
General partnerGeneral Partner
Henok Assefa
Managing partnerManaging Partner · since May 1, 2023
Magdi Amin
Managing partnerManaging Partner
Magdi Amin
Managing partnerManaging Partner · since May 1, 2023
Amanuel Alemu
Venture partnerVenture Partner
Maya Zein
Venture partnerVenture Partner
Nemo Semret
Venture partnerVenture Partner
Investments on record
5 edges, 5 companies, 0 partner-attributed
| Company | Round | Role | Partner | Round size | This investor | Date | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Charis | portfolio listing | unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown | Sep 16, 2026 | Fact Venture organization websites (about, team, portfolio, thesis, news pages) |
| Emata | portfolio listing | unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown | Sep 16, 2026 | Fact Venture organization websites (about, team, portfolio, thesis, news pages) |
| Kapsule | portfolio listing | unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown | Sep 16, 2026 | Fact Venture organization websites (about, team, portfolio, thesis, news pages) |
| Kubik | portfolio listing | unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown | Sep 16, 2026 | Fact Venture organization websites (about, team, portfolio, thesis, news pages) |
| Tembo | portfolio listing | unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown | Sep 16, 2026 | Fact Venture organization websites (about, team, portfolio, thesis, news pages) |
“This investor” is the amount disclosed for this investor alone; it is unknown unless a source said it. The round size is the whole round.
Co-investors
1 relationships from shared deals, counted for the whole firm
Limited partners
0 disclosed
No LP commitment on record. An LP edge needs a public disclosure with a quote: a pension report (see Limited partners for the plans read), a fund announcement naming the LP, or a Form ADV owner. The fund page carries the LP’s reported performance.
Timeline
2 dated events
- Aug 23, 2023African Renaissance Partners, LLC first filed Form ADV (ERA, venture capital fund adviser exemption)First SEC adviser filingOrganizationFactSEC Form ADV filing data 2011 to 2024 (every filing, Schedule D 7.B.(1) private funds, Schedules A/B)
- Aug 23, 2023Horn of Africa Fund I LP first reported on Form ADV by African Renaissance Partners, LLC (Venture Capital Fund), GAV $1,060,000Fund first reported on Form ADVFundsFactHorn of Africa Fund I LPSEC Form ADV filing data 2011 to 2024 (every filing, Schedule D 7.B.(1) private funds, Schedules A/B)
Classification history
- Sep 12, 2026Micro VC (probable, 80%, cls-1)venture manager, reported GAV $1.1M across 3 vehicles
- Sep 12, 2026Micro VC (probable, 80%, cls-1)venture manager, reported GAV $1.1M across 1 vehicles
Evidence
28 observations from 2 sources