Investing & Venture Capital in Africa

9 investing & venture capital providers across Africa, publishing 7 APIs.

9 providers 7 published APIs 26 indexed documents

Investing & Venture Capital across Africa — 9 providers on the APIs.io network sit in both cohorts, and between them they publish 7 indexed APIs.

4 of the 9 publish at least one machine-readable API; 5 publish nothing indexed at all. That split is the first thing worth reading here — a vertical can be well represented in a market and still have almost no programmable surface.

By Kin Score band: 4 minimal, 3 emerging, and 2 thin.

Leading by rating: Bamboo Invest, Cowrywise, Acumen Software, PiggyVest, Prudential, Thndr, and 3 more.

Region membership is derived from three explicit signals — a provider tag, a provider-name pattern, or a stated headquarters in the provider’s own description. This is a map of stated headquarters, not of markets served.

Providers (9)

Provider Description APIs Rating
Bamboo Invest Bamboo is an African investment platform providing REST APIs for fractional stock investing, dollar investments, portfolio management, and access to US and Nigerian capital mark... 2 thin
Cowrywise Cowrywise is a Nigerian wealth management platform and SEC-licensed fund manager offering savings plans, investment portfolios, dollar accounts, and financial goal tracking for ... 1 thin
Acumen Software Acumen Software is a Johannesburg, South Africa software company founded in 2006 that builds highly configurable mobile SaaS for work, workforce and asset management. Its flagsh... 3 emerging
PiggyVest PiggyVest is a Lagos-based Nigerian fintech (operated by Piggytech Global Limited, RC 1405222) running the country's largest online savings and investment platform, with 6M+ reg... 1 emerging
Prudential Prudential plc is a life and health insurance and asset management group incorporated in England and Wales and listed on the London, Hong Kong, Singapore and New York exchanges,... 0 emerging
Thndr Thndr is an Egyptian investment and brokerage mobile app that lets retail users open a regulated brokerage account and invest in Egyptian Exchange (EGX) stocks, US equities, mut... 0 minimal
Chipper Cash Chipper Cash is a pan-African fintech (legal entities Critical Ideas, Inc. and Voyse Technologies US, Inc.) operating a mobile-first cross-border money transfer, digital payment... 0 minimal
MNT-Halan MNT-Halan is a Cairo, Egypt-headquartered fintech holding company and Egypt's first private fintech unicorn, founded in 2017 by Mounir Nakhla (CEO) and Ahmed Mohsen (CTO). MNT-H... 0 minimal
Ejara Ejara is a Cameroon-based, regulated fintech platform giving people across Francophone Africa and its diaspora access to digital savings and investment products through a mobile... 0 minimal

Indexed API documents (26)

Two numbers, both real: these providers publish 7 APIs as their own documents, which the catalog indexes split one-per-resource into 26 documents.

Bamboo Invest Account Management API

Account creation enables users to invest on Bamboo. Ensure KYC has been completed and each user’s identity verified before creating a bro...

Bamboo Invest Authentication API

Before you start making requests, you’ll need to generate an access token. Every request to the API must be authenticated using access to...

Bamboo Invest Deposits API

Deposits fund user brokerage accounts for stock purchases. All deposits require verification through your webhook endpoint before funds a...

Bamboo Invest Exchange Rate API

The exchange rate section provides you with an endpoint that fetches real-time exchange rates effortlessly, enabling accurate currency co...

Bamboo Invest Featured Themes API

Stocks are grouped into various categories which help users explore and filter stocks based on common themes, sectors, or other criteria....

Bamboo Invest Financial Documents API

Access various financial documents required for user account management, tax reporting, and regulatory compliance through secure document...

Bamboo Invest Https: API

The Https: API from Bamboo Invest — 1 operation(s) for https:.

Bamboo Invest Lsx API

The Lsx API from Bamboo Invest — 1 operation(s) for lsx.

Bamboo Invest Market Activity API

The market activity section provides you with endpoints that return the opening and closing times for markets we support, allowing you to...

Bamboo Invest NG Deposits API

The NG Deposits API from Bamboo Invest — 2 operation(s) for ng deposits.

Bamboo Invest NG Securities API

The section provides us endpoints that allows a client to fetch all the information pertaining to the NG stocks available on Bamboo.

Bamboo Invest NG Stock Portfolio API

This section provides all the information a tenant needs to know about a user's investment portfolio values and general user performance.

Bamboo Invest NG Stock Trading API

The stock trading section details all the endpoints needed to calculate and make trade orders for all NG stock available on Bamboo. Pleas...

Bamboo Invest NG Withdrawals API

The NG Withdrawals API from Bamboo Invest — 2 operation(s) for ng withdrawals.

Bamboo Invest One Step Registration API

The One Step Registration API from Bamboo Invest — 1 operation(s) for one step registration.

Bamboo Invest Portfolio Reporting API

The user's portfolio provides comprehensive views of investment performance, cash positions, and account status. Understanding the differ...

Bamboo Invest Stock Trading API

The Stock Trading API from Bamboo Invest — 1 operation(s) for stock trading.

Bamboo Invest Tenant API

The Tenant API from Bamboo Invest — 1 operation(s) for tenant.

Bamboo Invest US Securities API

The section provides comprehensive information about available US stocks, including real-time pricing, company details, and market data. ...

Bamboo Invest US Stock Trading API

Users can buy and sell US securities, with support for multiple order types and fractional shares. Understanding order calculations, exec...

Bamboo Invest Withdrawals API

Withdrawals allow users to extract funds from their brokerage accounts after successful trades. Understanding the settlement timeline is ...

Cowrywise Embed API

Investment-as-a-service REST API that allows developers to embed regulated investment products (savings, mutual funds, treasury bills, Eu...

Forcelink REST API

Authenticated REST surface behind the Forcelink mobile field-service ERP, served from the vendor-hosted za2.forcelink.net tenant alongsid...

My Smart City REST API

Authenticated REST surface consumed by the My Smart City citizen web app at app.mysmart.city. The web client's own JavaScript bundle name...

Acumen Software Site MCP

Anonymous, remote MCP endpoint served on each of the three Acumen Software marketing domains. It is the Wix platform's Site MCP, not a fi...

PiggyVest Business API

The PiggyVest Business API is a Bearer-token-authenticated REST API hosted at api.piggyvest.business that lets Nigerian businesses progra...

Other industries in Africa

Financial Technology 86 Payments & Money Movement 71 Financial Services 30 E-Commerce Platform 29 Banking & Open Banking 22 Supply Chain & Procurement 21 Logistics 16 Mobility & Fleet 16 Retail 14 Accounting & Finance Operations 11 Artificial Intelligence 11 Human Resources & Payroll 9 All of Africa →

Investing & Venture Capital elsewhere

North America 149 Europe 85 United Kingdom & Ireland 33 Latin America 30 DACH (Germany · Austria · Switzerland) 27 India & South Asia 26 Southeast Asia 24 Middle East 14 France & Iberia 12 Japan & Korea 11 Greater China 10 Australia & New Zealand 4 All of Investing & Venture Capital →

This page is the intersection of two independently computed cohorts: Africa and Investing & Venture Capital. A provider appears here only when it is already a member of both. Africa membership is matched on tag, name pattern, stated HQ, so this is a floor rather than a census — coverage gaps show up here as small numbers, not as absent pages.

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