Marula Square Management B.V.
marulasquare.com Direct investor
Marula Square runs an Africa-focused venture capital fund investing in technology-driven ventures in private healthcare, agriculture and education across Sub-Saharan Africa. Its pilot fund is fully deployed and it is raising a larger fund, aiming to resume deploying capital in the first half of 2027.
Marula Square Management B.V. is a venture capital firm. It invests directly in companies, in private healthcare, agriculture, education and education-technology. Its stated cheque size is up to USD 1.000.000 each.
“We invest in ambitious entrepreneurs building innovative, scalable and sustainable businesses in Sub-Saharan Africa. Our focus is on technology driven ventures in three sectors: private healthcare, agriculture, and education.”
— Marula Square Management B.V., own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Stage
- Not stated
- Invests in
- Sub-Saharan Africa, South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya
- Sectors
- private healthcare, agriculture, education, education-technology, agri-processing, healthtech
- Cheque size
- up to USD 1.000.000 each
Team, as Marula Square Management B.V. publishes it
- Elvira de Jong Co-Founder & Managing Partner
- Xueming Zhao Co-Founder & Non-executive Board Member
- Michael Delefes Co-Founder & Non-executive Board Member
- Jon Almond Investment Committee Chair
- Jean-Jacques Maïkere Investment Committee Member
Names and roles exactly as listed on marulasquare.com. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Most shared portfolio companies with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 16 investors with a shared portfolio company. A shared company is not proof they invested together in the same round.
- Founders Factory Africa 3 shared companies: winichfarms.com, tibu.africa, zuri.health
- Co-creation Hub 2 shared companies: onehealthng.com, crop2cash.com.ng
- BakerBridge Capital 1 shared company: intron.io
- InvAscent 1 shared company: intron.io
- Microtraction 1 shared company: intron.io
- Pi Campus 1 shared company: intron.io
- Catalyst Fund 1 shared company: farmtofeedkenya.com
- Delta40 1 shared company: farmtofeedkenya.com
- Prosper Global Ventures 1 shared company: farmtofeedkenya.com
- Chui Ventures Management Co, LLC 1 shared company: onehealthng.com
and 6 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Marula Square Management B.V. publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://marulasquare.com/name, is_investor, layer, type, invests_in_geographies, sectors, thesis_quote, description, people, status, cheque_size
Record 21517 · added 2026-11-12 · link last verified 2026-11-12 · confidence high
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