# Top 15 Agriculture (agtech) Angel Investors in Africa in June 2026 ## Stephen Pagliuca - Type: Angel - Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Sports Stephen G. Pagliuca has served as a director from July 1990 (except for a six month hiatus beginning in late 2009 when he entered the Massachusetts U.S. Senate race).Mr. Pagliuca is a Managing Director of Bain Capital Partners, LLC and is also a Managing Partner and an owner of the Boston Celtics basketball franchise. Mr. Pagliuca joined Bain& Company in 1982, and founded the Information Partners private equity fund for Bain Capital in 1989.Prior to joining Bain, Mr. Pagliuca worked as a senior accountant and international tax specialist for Peat Marwick Mitchell & Company in the Netherlands. ## Justin Kan - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Financial Services, SaaS Justin Kan is the Co-Founder of Stash. He previously worked at Atrium as a CEO. Justin Kan attended Yale University. ## Hesham Zreik - Type: Angel - Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A - Focus: Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence Hesham Zreik is the CEO of FasterCapital. He previously worked at DreamApps as a Project Manager. Hesham attended the University of Westminster. ## Robert Herjavec - Type: Angel - Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Health Care, Food and Beverage, Pet Robert Herjavec is based out of Arlington, Virginia, and is the Board of Directors of Lovelytics. Robert previously worked at CYDERES as the CEO. Robert Herjavec attended the University of Toronto. Robert Herjavec has been awarded an Emmy award. ## Paul Liberman - Type: Angel - Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Gaming, Agriculture, Oil and Gas Paul Liberman is a co-founder and the chief operating officer of DraftKings, a knowledge-based daily fantasy sports website. Previously, he served the same company as CMO and CTO. ## Bashar Hamood - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce Bashar Hamood is a Venture Partner at FasterCapital. He previously worked as an Associate Director at Logica. He attended Heriot-Watt University. ## Marcus Boström - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel - Focus: Email, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence Marcus Boström ## Michael Chow - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Rental Property Michael Chow is the Founder and CEO of Dart Technologies. ## Michael Cohn - Type: Angel - Location: Atlanta, Georgia, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Farming, Information Technology Michael Cohn serves as a Managing Partner at Overline VC. He attended Emory University - Goizueta Business School. ## Guillaume Leenhardt - Type: Angel - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: AgTech, InsurTech, Mobile Payments Guillaume Leenhardt CEO chez Gentle Finance ## Joe Caruso - Type: Angel - Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Internet, SaaS For the last 20 years Joe has served as mentor, coach, and personal advisor to CEO’s and entrepreneurs. In recent years, he has served as investor, advisor and active director with dozens of companies, public and private.Joe is currently a member of Launchpad Venture Group and was previously a member of Walnut Ventures, Common Angels, eCoastAngels and a principal of Brookwood Partners, all investment groups for early stage companies. He also maintains an active consulting practice dealing with structuring and negotiation of acquisitions, strategic partnerships and financings, and issues related to dispute resolution.He has served on dozens of boards over the years and is recipient of the Leadership in Private Corporate Governance award from the National Association of Corporate Directors New England Chapter. He is a graduate of Northeastern University (BSEE with honors) and the Harvard Business School (MBA) He has served as advisor to Northeastern’s School of Technological Entrepreneurship, and serves as a mentor for Boston University's entrepreneurship program, the Boston TechStars program, and Mass Challenge.Previously, Joe served as interim CEO for companies in need of strategic change - running businesses ranging from 5 to 1,000 employees. Early in his career, he worked at Teradyne and Autex, Inc., and was CEO at Cyborg Corporation, a venture-funded company that was a pioneer in the use of PC’s in laboratory and factory automation. He also has served as an arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association.Former board memberships include: ACT Medical, Acumenta, Adhesive Technologies, American Fantasy Sports, Audiofile, Boston Restaurant Associates, Boston University's Photonics Center (advisory director), Coffee Connection, Colonial Mills, Common Angels, Corion, Cyborg Corporation, General Analysis, Haymarket Bank, Iconics, i2Chem, Laser Science, Metrisa, MicroE, Nimbit, Qiave Technologies, QD Vision, Quant Funds (trustee); Tytronics, Wwwhoosh, Zentox, the Turnaround Management Association (founding director, New England Chapter), the National Association of Corporate Directors (New England Chapter), the Association for Corporate Growth (New England Chapter) and WEST (Women Entrepreneurs in Science and Technology). Joe has also served as an arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association. ## Henry Allard - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: AgTech, InsurTech, Mobile Payments Henry Allard CEO of Filhet-Allard Maritime. ## Ndubuisi Ekekwe - Type: Angel - Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: FinTech, AgTech, Internet Ndubuisi Ekekwe is the Co-Founder of Vetifly. ## Tyler Scriven - Type: Angel - Location: Atlanta, Georgia, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Convertible Note - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance Tyler is an entrepreneur and early-stage technology investor. He currently serves as a Managing Director of Techstars Atlanta. Prior to joining Techstars, Tyler was a member of the senior leadership team at Palantir Technologies in Silicon Valley, where he served as Chief of Staff and Head of Operations. During his tenure with Palantir, he wasbroadly engaged in scaling the operations of the business from 100 to nearly 2,000 employees. ## Lionel Dorie - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: AgTech, InsurTech, Mobile Payments Lionel Dorie founding partner of Augusta Energy Group.