Enygma Ventures is an investment fund for female entrepreneurs and women founders, focused on Southern Africa.

Enygma Ventures is a unique purpose driven investment fund, led by award winning entrepreneurs with 40 years of combined experience growing and scaling businesses in Africa, US & Europe. We understand the struggles and challenges of building big businesses, having built big businesses ourselves. We wholeheartedly believe in win/win scenarios for the investor and entrepreneur and therefore have the ability to create flexible financial solutions with efficient & strategic deployment of

Arigo Investments Africa is an advisory and diversified investments company. Our services are geared toward start-ups, strategic-growth and high-potential companies in Sub-Sahara Africa across a myriad of industry verticals.

Our investments are driven by entrepreneurial passion to solve societal challenges. We pioneer new ventures and invest in founders and their businesses, preferring active participation in growing the operations we partner in. We are expanding our base of diversified investments into larger listed and unlisted corporates in Africa.

 

Our current portfolio consists of

BEDCO is a parastatal of the Government of Lesotho, with a mandate to support entrepreneurial capacity building programmes, startup incubation, business advisory and technical training as well as develop Basotho enterprises by assisting in their establishment, promotion and growth. 

Key priority areas under the strategic plan include enterprise development; financial sustainability, stakeholder collaborations' organisational effectiveness; and human capital development.Under enterprise development; BEDCO develops and implements entrepreneurship programmes in the priority sectors namely

Subtropico Limited is a public investment holding company with a focus on the agricultural services sector and related value chains.

We acquire meaningful interests in companies with the potential to generate strong cash returns and growth.

As a well-established and respected investment holding company, our strategy is guided by our vision for the future of the South African market. Subtropico’s investments are highly diversified, yet we keep a strong focus on investing in future-proof industries.

Food is and always will be a fundamental need, and the strong growth of the South African

Venture Partners Botswana (VPB) is a professional private equity fund management company established in 2002 in Gaborone, Botswana. The firm focuses on growth capital investments in the Southern Africa region and firm targets a range of industries, including financial services, communications, and consumer products. The Private Equit(PE) fund management firm specialises in health care funding and also goes by Temo Capital.

Lago Medical Supplies is a growing medical supplies company that was founded by Julia Nambinga in 2018. It is a female-led start-up company that aims to provide affordable and high- quality healthcare wear and equipment to health professionals in Namibia. The CEO, saw a niche in catering for the growing population of Medical Students in Namibia as well as all health professionals alike. Accessibility and affordability is of great importance at Lago Medical Supplies (LMS). The company is run and administered by medical students, this aids in allowing a clear understanding of the needs of

NatProx cc is combining food production with insurance (risk management) and FinTech, in rural communities, and is touching the lives of many farmers by solving multiple challenges which they are facing in the Southern African Development Community (SADC). These challenges include hunger, drought - which is killing livestock, and data collection. 

These three entrepreneurial challenges are managed under one roof, and this is transforming farming in Sub-Saharan Africa. We have our headquarters in Northern Namibia, and we have vast lands where everyone operates together and all depend on each

We are a profit-for impact beauty brand that creates cruelty-free and paraben-free makeup products for all womxn and skin tones. Our goal is to design products that make our community more confident in their skin and empower womxn by making beauty more accessible to all. Womxn Beauty is designed and formulated in Johannesburg South Africa and uses ethically sourced ingredients that are expertly crafted to match all womxn's beauty needs.

Superhumed is a medical consultancy founded with a vision to revolutionise primary healthcare in Southern Africa and Africa eventually. Early disease detection, personalisation in care and appropriate distribution of resources and ensuring equitable healthcare are things that Sperhumed is passionate about and their necessity has become more apparent amidst them the COVID19 pandemic. 

 

We produce health, beauty, and cosmetic products on a small scale. Artxss Investments is based in Pietermaritzburg and currently has one product line; the 2in1 Moisturising hand sanitizer and lotion in one. This product is being introduced to the market to assist consumers in preventing hand dryness and skin irritation.