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ANKA: Funding, Investors & Team (Oct 2026)

ANKA is a platform to discover, buy, and sell African fashion, arts, and crafts. ANKA’s goal is to allow African creation lovers to live their passion while allowing the creators to live from theirs. ANKA facilitates transactions and exchanges directly between buyers and sellers on both sides of the world, in a user-friendly and secure way.

www.anka.africa LinkedIn Abidjan, Ivory Coast 11-50 employees
Art E-Commerce Fashion Handmade
Total raised
$6.2M
Rounds
1
Latest
Seed
Jan 2022

ANKA has raised $6.2M across 1 funding round on record, the most recent a Seed of $6.2M announced in Jan 2022.

That round is above the $3.4M median round size for Clothing and Apparel companies tracked on FundedIQ over the last two years.

ANKA Company Profile and Key Stats

Total funding raised
$6.2M
across 1 round on record
Funding rounds on record
1
Latest funding round
Seed
$6.2M in Jan 2022
Employees
11-50
reported band
Headquarters
Abidjan, Ivory Coast

Latest funding round on record: Jan 2022.

ANKA Funding Rounds

Date
Round
Amount
Seed
$6.2M

ANKA Founders and Leadership Team

Name
Role
Contact
Moulaye Taboure
CEO
—

No contact details are on record for this team yet.

ANKA Funding Compared to Other Clothing and Apparel Startups

Segment
Companies
Median round
17,054
$3.1M

ANKA's latest round of $6.2M is above the median round in Clothing and Apparel. Medians cover the last 24 months of disclosed rounds.

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ANKA Funding FAQs

What does ANKA do?

ANKA is a platform to discover, buy, and sell African fashion, arts, and crafts. ANKA’s goal is to allow African creation lovers to live their passion while allowing the creators to live from theirs. ANKA facilitates transactions and exchanges directly between buyers and sellers on both sides of the world, in a user-friendly and secure way.

How much funding has ANKA raised?

ANKA has raised $6.2M across 1 round on record. The most recent is a Seed of $6.2M announced in Jan 2022.

When did ANKA last raise funding?

ANKA's most recent funding round on record is a Seed of $6.2M, announced in Jan 2022.

Who is the CEO of ANKA?

Moulaye Taboure is listed as CEO at ANKA.

Where is ANKA headquartered?

ANKA is based in Abidjan, Lagunes, Ivory Coast.

How many employees does ANKA have?

ANKA is in the 11-50 employee band.

How does ANKA's funding compare to other Clothing and Apparel startups?

ANKA's latest round of $6.2M is above the $3.4M median round size for Clothing and Apparel companies on FundedIQ across 584 tracked companies over the last two years.

About FundedIQ's ANKA Funding Data

FundedIQ tracks announced funding rounds and refreshes this profile every week. Round dates, stages and amounts are normalised to a single format, converted to US dollars, and de-duplicated: two records of the same round announced days apart are merged, and two genuinely different rounds are kept apart on the amounts they disclose. Amounts shown are the disclosed figures only — a round announced without a number is listed and excluded from the total rather than estimated.

Employee counts are reported bands, not exact headcounts. Founder and executive names carry the job title on record. Anything we do not hold for ANKA is left off this page rather than filled in.

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