Top 10 Angel Investors in Tanzania in May 2025
A list of 10 angel investors that invest in startups based in Tanzania. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in companies from Tanzania. We update this investor list every month.Top 10 Angel Investors in Tanzania in May 2025
Investor | Tanzania investments |
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Vlad Tenev | 2 |
Peeyush Ranjan | 1 |
Jared Schrieber | 1 |
Jonas Huckestein | 1 |
Aaron Fu | 1 |
Laura Spiekerman | 1 |
Sajid Rahman | 1 |
Alex Bouaziz | 1 |
Andrew Vigneault | 1 |
Ryan King | 1 |
Vlad Tenev is the current Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of HarmonicHarmonic. Vlad Tenev attended Stanford University.
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, India, Tanzania
Portfolio highlights
- Ezra AI — Ezra provides full-body MRI screening for potential early cancer and abnormalities in up to 13 organs. Book a scan today.
- Nala — A new kind of mobile money transfer for Africans worldwide! Make safe, affordable, and reliable international payments to Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda.
- Parafin — Parafin provides you with an end-to-end solution to offer one-click financing to your sellers.
Peeyush Ranjan is the GM and VP of Google Pay, Fintech, and Next Billion Users at Google. He attended the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur.
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Internet, Software
- Seed, Series B, Series A
- United States, India, Tanzania
Portfolio highlights
- Koji — Koji is the world’s most powerful Link in Bio platform. With hundreds of free apps created by Koji and its community of independent developers, the Koji Link in Bio gives leading Creators on TikTok, Instagram, Twitch, and other social media platforms new ways to engage audiences, connect with supporters, and monetize.
- Hatica — Hatica aggregates activity from all your work apps to power software engineering dashboards and gen AI-driven insights to help teams drive velocity, alignment and well-being.
- Nala — A new kind of mobile money transfer for Africans worldwide! Make safe, affordable, and reliable international payments to Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda.
Jared Schrieber - Co-Founder & Board Member @ Numerator
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Hospitality
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Hungary, United States, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- PastPay — Give your customers the opportunity to purchase now, but pay later with PastPay's payment solution, tailored to the needs of B2B merchants!
- Captiwate — Drive more qualified demos by leveraging video calls with high-value prospects. Capture intent at the opportune moment to enhance effectiveness and optimize conversions. Empower your SDRs.
- Loop Golf — Search less, golf more with Loop Golf. We make it effortless to search and book tee times at popular local golf courses near you. Used by golfers across the nation, we're committed to simplifying your golf experience. Discover a range of golf courses and effortlessly secure your ideal tee time. With Loop Golf, embracing the joy of golfing has never been more accessible.
Jonas Huckestein creates great products from scratch. After moving to the US from Germany in 2010 he was the first engineer at Campfire Labs (acquired by Groupon), founding CTO of Ark.com, and is a Director at the StartupBus. He got a Mathematics degree at 18, Computer Science at 21 and is on leave from technology management grad school. Beforemoving here he worked in management consulting.
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Investment focus
- Banking, Logistics, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Tanzania, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Packfleet — We serve millions of Londoners, combining a top-notch delivery service with advanced technology to offer a carbon-neutral delivery experience like no other.
- Nala — A new kind of mobile money transfer for Africans worldwide! Make safe, affordable, and reliable international payments to Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda.
- Gradient Labs — Our AI agent resolves complex financial queries end-to-end, guaranteeing quality, efficiency and compliance at every step.
Aaron has 10+ years of global experience building, scaling and investing in technology products in corporate and startup environments. He has co-founded both B2B & B2C businesses, in Africa - he has led seed stage equity investments in 20+ startups (totaling $2m+), driven the exit of 3 startups in Africa, he also sits on the board of ofstartups ranging from AgriTech to Transport and has worked with 100s through partners like Visa, MTN, Airbus, Société Générale and the World Bank.Prior to the Catalyst Fund, he was the Managing Director of MEST, Africa’s Largest Pre-Seed Incubator, and Managing Partner for Africa at Nest.vc, a Hong Kong based fund, which he joined after a career in financial services.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Software, Apps
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Kenya, Nigeria, Egypt
Portfolio highlights
- OkHi — Smart addressing for emerging markets. Enabling businesses to collect an accurate address, navigate to it without getting lost and verity it remotely.
- Nala — A new kind of mobile money transfer for Africans worldwide! Make safe, affordable, and reliable international payments to Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda.
- Stitch — One API integration for enterprise online payments across South Africa. Accept Pay by bank, debit + credit card, cash, manual EFT, debit order and crypto.
Laura Spiekerman is a co-founder and serves as CRO at Alloy. Prior to Alloy, Laura served as the head of business development and strategic partnerships at a payments company and a research/investments analyst in emerging markets at Imprint Capital Advisors.Laura holds a degree in political science from Barnard College and ColumbiaUniversity.
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Banking, Software
- Seed, Series A
- United States, Tanzania
Portfolio highlights
- Nala — A new kind of mobile money transfer for Africans worldwide! Make safe, affordable, and reliable international payments to Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda.
- Vergo — Vergo is a financial technology company and is not a bank. Banking services provided by Blue Ridge Bank, N.A.; Member FDIC.
- LaunchNotes — Thousands of leading companies use LaunchNotes to launch new products, announce new features, share product roadmaps, collect customer feedback, and more.
Sajid currently works as Managing Partner at
MyAsiaVC He attended London Business School.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- India, Nigeria, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- ImaliPay — ImaliPay is a financial health platform offering financial products to freelancers and blue collar gig workers in partnership with gig platforms.
- EquityList — Equity management with online cap table management and employee stock option programs (ESOP) administration. Available free for Indian startups
- 10 Minute School — 10 Minute School is the largest online educational platform in Bangladesh. Through our website, app, and social media, more than 10 Million+ students are accessing quality education each day to accelerate their learning.
Alex Bouaziz co-founded Deel in 2018 where he now currently serves as chief executive officer. Earlier in his career, Alex has helped build startups such as Sarona Ventures, Lifeslice, and Cryptofighters.Alex is an MIT alumnus holding a master's degree in civil and environmental engineering. He also holds a BSc in civil and environmentalengineering from Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Mexico, Colombia
Portfolio highlights
- Slope — We handle the lending, underwriting, debt collection and fully pay out to you immediately once the product or service ships.
- The Network — A people search engine by The Network
- The Wild Ventures — A house of sustainable brands, designed for disruption, differentiated by creativity, and supercharged by AI.
Andrew is a successful entrepreneur as well as investor and advisor to more than 100 early-stage startups across enterprise SaaS and fintech. He founded and served as CEO of ClearGraph (acquired by Tableau (NYSE: DATA)). Andrew is a top .5% contributor to Stanford StartX (2k+ entrepreneurs). Earlier in his career, he served multiple roles inventure and investment banking, and holds a B.S. in Finance, summa cum laude, from the Gabelli School of Business.
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, India, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Nav.it — Uniting behavioral science and health tracking, Nav.it's financial app is the first of its kind to create daily financial habits that reduce financial stress and create lasting behavioral change, using the power of prescriptive analytics.
- Helicone — LLM-Observability for Developers
- Synthpop — Streamlining healthcare, one workflow at a time. Automate 80% of your healthcare business processes with AI. Learn more.
Ryan is the Co-founder and CTO of Chime. Previously, Ryan was the VP of Engineering of Plaxo, an early professional social networking pioneer which was acquired by Comcast Interactive Media. Prior to Plaxo, Ryan worked at Liberate Technologies and Microsoft.Ryan earned a M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University and a B.S. in ComputerScience & Engineering from UCLA.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Finance, Software
- Series A, Series B
- United States
Portfolio highlights
- Unit21 — Unit21 helps protect businesses against adversaries through a simple API and dashboard for detecting and managing money laundering, fraud, and other sophisticated risks across multiple industries.
- Nala — A new kind of mobile money transfer for Africans worldwide! Make safe, affordable, and reliable international payments to Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda.
- Parafin — Parafin provides you with an end-to-end solution to offer one-click financing to your sellers.
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