We back what
others overlook.
Africa's deep tech and robotics fund. We find technical founders early and stay forever.
Portfolio
14 Companies.
One Conviction.
Deep tech, robotics, and spatial computing. Building what Africa needs next.
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Companies Backed
Sectors
Vintage Years
Testimonials
From our Network
Words from the founders we've partnered with.
“They believed in Tirometric before we did. First check in, first call when things got hard. That early conviction shaped everything.”
FAVOUR AMARACHI
Founder, Tirometric
“Earliest backers. Best network in the room. Antique VC doesn't just invest — they open doors you didn't know existed.”
Emmanuel
Founder & CEO, IGREEN REPUBLIC
“Their talent team was in the trenches with us weekly — building our recruiting function from scratch, making intros at the exact right time.”
Nnamdi Chukwudebelu
Founder & CEO, Iride
“From early days through pivots and scaling — their network and operational knowledge changed our trajectory completely.”
Charles Eke
Founder & CEO, JENSON
“They believed in Tirometric before we did. First check in, first call when things got hard. That early conviction shaped everything.”
FAVOUR AMARACHI
Founder, Tirometric
“Earliest backers. Best network in the room. Antique VC doesn't just invest — they open doors you didn't know existed.”
Emmanuel
Founder & CEO, IGREEN REPUBLIC
“Their talent team was in the trenches with us weekly — building our recruiting function from scratch, making intros at the exact right time.”
Nnamdi Chukwudebelu
Founder & CEO, Iride
“From early days through pivots and scaling — their network and operational knowledge changed our trajectory completely.”
Charles Eke
Founder & CEO, JENSON
Our Conviction
The hard problems are the good ones.
Most funds chase software margins. We write checks for hardware, robotics, and deep tech — the sectors that actually build infrastructure. Our capital is patient. Our bar is high.
Africa needs factories, power grids, and logistics networks. The founders building them need a partner who understands hardware timelines and manufacturing complexity. That's us.
Philosophy
Our Theory
Deep tech will reshape African industry. We built our thesis around three non-negotiables.
Thesis-Driven
Every check we write maps to a specific conviction about Africa's infrastructure future. No spray-and-pray.
Permanent Partners
We don't flip positions. We stay on the cap table, in the trenches, through every pivot and production run.
Technical First
Our team evaluates hardware specs, not just pitch decks. We underwrite technology risk because we understand it.
Convictions
The Four Pillars.
Vision
Be Africa's first call for technical founders building critical infrastructure. By 2035, our portfolio companies define categories in manufacturing, energy, logistics, and healthcare. Thousands of engineering jobs. Billions in follow-on capital.
Strategy
Concentrated capital. Proprietary deal flow from technical communities. Manufacturing expertise that turns prototypes into production. We win because no one else combines all three in one fund.
Thesis
Africa will build more physical infrastructure in the next decade than it built in the past fifty years. Most of it will be robotic, automated, and AI-optimized. The founders solving this are already here.
Team
Investors who read spec sheets. Operators who've scaled hardware companies. Technologists who know what's actually buildable. We evaluate what generalists can't.
Our Edge
What Sets Us Apart
Three things no other fund on the continent can claim simultaneously.
Only Deep Tech Fund in Africa
Generalist VCs can't evaluate robotics. International funds can't access the deal flow. We do both.
Built Inside Technical Communities
We don't source from LinkedIn. Our pipeline comes from the labs, hackathons, and engineering teams we're embedded in.
We Ship With You
Capital alone doesn't build hardware. We bring manufacturing partnerships, pilot deployments, and operational muscle.
Principles
What we See
Depth Over Speed
We spend months in diligence because hardware doesn't forgive shortcuts. Understanding the problem fully is the edge.
Straight Talk
We tell founders what's broken before it costs them. No politics. No hedging. Transparency is non-negotiable.
Decade-Scale Conviction
Hardware companies take time. We invest for 10+ year outcomes, not fund cycle pressure.
Portfolio
Active Positions
Companies we back and build alongside.
Accorto VR
Praxis Protocol
Tirometric
Everyone told us to pivot to SaaS. Antique VC said build the hardware. They backed the hard version of the vision when no one else would.
— Emmanuel, CEO of Igreen Republic
$9.8M
Capital Deployed
25
Portfolio Companies
06
Years Active
02
Offices