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Top 45 B2B Angel Investors in Africa (October 2026)

The most active angel investors investing in Africa B2B startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Africa B2B startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Vasiliy Shapovalov
Angel
2 Kenya, United States, Cayman Islands Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Cryptocurrency, Decentralized Finance (DeFi), B2B $50k–$4.9M
James Waugh
Angel
2 Kenya Seed B2B, FinTech, Payments $50k–$4.9M
Vijay Shankar
Angel
2 United States, India, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series C FinTech, Financial Services, Software $10k–$50M
Stephen Pagliuca
Angel
2 United States, India, Israel Series B, Series A, Series C Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $10M–$250M
Michael Seibel
Angel
2 United States, Nigeria, United Kingdom Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology $500k–$21M
Michael Lahyani
Angel
2 Egypt, Morocco, Colombia Seed, Series A, Series B B2B, SaaS, Beauty $5M–$42M
Justin Kan
Angel
2 United States, Nigeria, India Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Financial Services, Information Technology $890k–$23M
Abdul Hassan
Angel
1 Nigeria Pre-Seed, Seed FinTech, Financial Services, Payments $780k–$1.3M
Julian Shapiro
Angel
1 United States, Bangladesh, Pakistan Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, SaaS $500k–$36M
Khalid Zitouni
Angel
1 France, United States, Morocco Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence $1M–$11M
Pascal Levy-Garboua
Angel
1 United States, Morocco, Portugal Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel FinTech, Financial Services, Marketplace $125k–$7.2M
Abdulhamid Hassan
Angel
1 Nigeria Seed B2B, FinTech, Payments
Jude Gomila
Angel
1 United States, United Kingdom, India Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $70k–$4.7M
Youcef Es-skouri
Angel
1 United States, France, Nigeria Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services $125k–$46M
Yago Arbeloa
Angel
1 Spain, United States, Kenya Seed, Angel, Convertible Note Apps, E-Commerce, Internet
Michael Novogratz
Angel
1 United States, India, Germany Seed, Series A, Series B Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech $1.1M–$150M
Arash Ferdowsi
Angel
1 United States, India, Brazil Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $930k–$30M
Maneesh Arora
Angel
1 United States, Japan, Nigeria Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Mobile, Internet, Mobile Apps $450k–$1.7M
Hamza Abu hassan Ibn Faycal AlMALIKI
Angel
1 Morocco Series A B2B, Retail, Software
Zach Lipson
Angel
1 Nigeria Seed B2B, Banking, FinTech
Jeffrey Ubben
Angel
1 United States, Nigeria Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A Agriculture, AgTech, Farming $403k–$3.3M
Sahil Lavingia
Angel
1 United States, India, Canada Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, FinTech $750k–$30M
Olugbenga Agboola
Angel
1 Nigeria, Kenya, United States Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Payments $625k–$7.5M
Sandy Kory
Angel
1 United States, Australia, Canada Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, B2B, Artificial Intelligence $1M–$16M
Ross Lipson
Angel
1 United States, Mexico, India Seed, Series A E-Commerce, FinTech, Software $2M–$30M
Youcef Oudjidane
Angel
1 United States, Nigeria, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Payments $120k–$23M
Paul Kokoricha
Angel
1 Nigeria, Mauritius Private Equity, Seed Internet, Financial Services, B2B $20M–$200M
Justin Mateen
Angel
1 United States, Mexico, India Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, E-Commerce, Health Care $400k–$30M
Augustine Anokye-Wusu
Angel
1 Ghana Seed B2B, SaaS, Software
Karim Atiyeh
Angel
1 United States, Brazil, Canada Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech $2.2M–$250M
Alan Rutledge
Angel
1 United States, India, Mexico Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Software $600k–$9.5M
Darshan Chandaria
Angel
1 Kenya, United States Seed, Pre-Seed Software, B2B, SMS $73k–$285k
Mato Perić
Angel
1 Germany, India, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce $2M–$100M
Joshua Olulana
Angel
1 Nigeria Angel B2B, SaaS, Logistics
Atlas Benjelloun
Angel
1 United States, Morocco, United Kingdom Series A, Seed, Series C Software, Information Technology, FinTech $3M–$118M
Leonard Stiegeler
Angel
1 Nigeria, South Africa, United States Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed FinTech, Financial Services, B2B $1.3M–$6M
Jonathan Smit
Angel
1 South Africa, The Netherlands Seed, Pre-Seed B2B, Travel, Tourism
Thomas Stafford
Angel
1 Kenya, South Africa Seed B2B, SMS, Mobile $3.2M–$3.2M
Patrick Spaulding Ryan
Angel
1 United States, Mexico, Canada Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel Information Technology, FinTech, Software $89k–$10M
Laurin Hainy
Angel
1 Kenya, South Africa Seed B2B, SMS, Mobile $3.2M–$3.2M
Gregory Rockson
Angel
1 Kenya, Germany, Nigeria Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed FinTech, Financial Services, B2B
Winshall Walt
Angel
1 United States, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Mobile, B2B, SMS $1.1M–$2.2M
Tristan Walker
Angel
1 United States, Nigeria Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B Beauty, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence $200k–$24M
Brett Kopf
Angel
1 Nigeria Pre-Seed B2B, FinTech, Mobile Payments
Eric Glyman
Angel
1 United States, Canada, Mexico Seed, Series A, Series B Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence $2.2M–$250M
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Vasiliy Shapovalov
Angel · Peyia, Paphos, Cyprus · 2 investments in Africa B2B startups

Vasiliy Shapovalov

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Cryptocurrency, Decentralized Finance (DeFi), B2B
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, United States, Cayman Islands

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Seed $50k–$4.9M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Drop — Breathing new life into the Interchain through liquid staking. Proud member of the @LidoFinance Alliance. https://t.co/P4rK2hzcTd
  • HoneyCoin — HoneyCoin is a web3/web2 ecosystem of products built in a way that abstracts complexity and brings all the value of web3 and web2 to the forefront.
  • OneBalance — Connecting institutions to next generation financial markets
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James Waugh
Angel · 2 investments in Africa B2B startups

James Waugh - Head of Business Development @ CanYa

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Investment focus

  • Industry: B2B, FinTech, Payments
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Round size: Seed $50k–$4.9M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • HoneyCoin — HoneyCoin is a web3/web2 ecosystem of products built in a way that abstracts complexity and brings all the value of web3 and web2 to the forefront.
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Vijay Shankar
Angel · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · 2 investments in Africa B2B startups

Vijay Shankar

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 29
  • Round size: Seed $10k–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Winvesta — Receive international payments in India from 180+ countries. Save up to 80% in collection costs.
  • Wander — Never book a bad vacation home again. Every Wander comes with hotel-grade amenities, inspiring views, pristine cleaning and 24/7 concierge service.
  • Delight — Delight is a dating service where users only date one person at a time. Founded in 2022 and is based in San Francisco.
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Stephen Pagliuca
Angel · Boston, Massachusetts, United States · 2 investments in Africa B2B startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
  • Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: United States, India, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 24
  • Round size: Series A $13M–$250M; Series B $10M–$160M; Series C $32M–$70M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Lula — Making Mobility Viable and Profitable
  • Liquid AI — Liquid AI is an MIT spin-off with a presence in Boston, MA, and Palo Alto, CA. Our mission is to build state-of-the-art, general-purpose AI systems from first principles and deploy capable, efficient, highly aligned, and trustworthy AI for all.
  • MaintainX — MaintainX helps you track your reactive maintenance, preventive maintenance, and control the daily operations of your business. Get started for Free!
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Michael Seibel
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Africa B2B startups

Michael Seibel is the Managing Director and Group Partner of Y Combinator. He previously worked at Socialcam as a CEO. Michael Seibel attended Yale University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 212
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$7.2M; Pre-Seed $500k–$500k; Series A $5.9M–$21M
  • Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kira — The first agentic layer for cross-border payments.
  • Recall.ai — Recall.ai provides a single API for meeting bots on every platform like Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams and more.
  • Arena — Arena accelerates testing, debugging, and optimization for the world’s most advanced hardware. Atlas is an AI hardware engineer grounded in applied physics with an understanding of the real-world environment.
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Michael Lahyani
Angel · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 2 investments in Africa B2B startups

Michael Lahyani is based out of Dubai, Dubai, and is the CEO and Founder of Property Finder. Michael Lahyani attended HEC Lausanne.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: B2B, SaaS, Beauty
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Egypt, Morocco, Colombia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $5M–$5.1M; Series B $42M–$42M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Aptuno — Aptuno - Busco apartamento o casa en arriendo
  • Fresha — Find the best salons and spa in your area with Fresha salon booking software. Book now!
  • Chari — Chari is an e-commerce and fintech app for traditional retailers in French-Speaking Africa allowing them to order any consumer goods they sell and get delivered for free in less than 24 hours. Chari is also a financial services provider for these retailers, offering them microloans
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Justin Kan
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Africa B2B startups

Justin Kan is the Co-Founder of Stash. He previously worked at Atrium as a CEO. Justin Kan attended Yale University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Financial Services, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 117
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$7M; Pre-Seed $890k–$20M; Series A $7.5M–$23M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Convex — All gas, no breakages. Convex is the reactive backend platform that keeps up with you and your agents.
  • FLORA — FLORA is an applied AI HCI company building creative tools.
  • Samepage — Building your second brain for product leaders
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Abdul Hassan
Angel · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 1 investments in Africa B2B startups

Abdul Hassan

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $780k–$1.3M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Duplo — We enable businesses across Africa to simplify their payment flows.
  • Klump — Use Klump to buy now and pay later in instalments for up to 12 months! Businesses accept payments, increase conversion rates, and boost revenue. The Easy Life! Try it now.
  • Topship — Topship is the easiest for African businesses to import/export parcels, cargo and freight to their customers, distributors and suppliers across the World. We use technology to drive transparency and delight, making it easy for African businesses to connect with customers, suppliers and distributors across the World.
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Julian Shapiro
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Africa B2B startups

Julian Shapiro is a deeptech seed investor at Julian.capital. He previously worked as the Founder of Demand Curve, a Columnist — Growth Marketing at TechCrunch, and VP of Marketing at Webflow. Julian attended Y Combinator.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Bangladesh, Pakistan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 23
  • Round size: Seed $4M–$11M; Pre-Seed $500k–$4.5M; Series A $14M–$36M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • DealCart — DealCart enables users to buy their favorite products in groups by allowing users to buy in groups and sharing deals on WhatsApp and other social media platforms.
  • Agroshift — Agroshift helps farmers sell their produce to businesses and consumers by providing a tech-enabled supply chain.
  • Owner — Owner gives you the same tools that major national brands use to drive sales. Online ordering proven to grow sales. Mobile app with rewards. And more.
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Khalid Zitouni
Angel · Chicago, Illinois, United States · 1 investments in Africa B2B startups

Khalid Zitouni

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: France, United States, Morocco

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$11M; Pre-Seed $1.1M–$2.6M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • biped.ai — biped is an AI copilot for blind and visually impared people, worn as a harness, that captures the surroundings with 3d cameras, maps & filters the environment in real-time using AI to help understand the environment using intuitive sounds
  • Handled — Automating finance and ops for consumer brands so teams can identify issues early and focus on growth, not busywork
  • Pluto.markets — Pluto is the modern investment app for the 100m Europeans living in countries without the EUR.
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Pascal Levy-Garboua
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Africa B2B startups

Pascal Levy-Garboua is an angel investor, founder, and operator. He is currently VP. Business Development at Checkr, where he joined as their first executive and Employee #9.Previously, he was CEO/Cofounder at SixDoors, Cofounder at VirtuOz (acquired by Nuance Communications) and VP Product at IQ Engines (Acquired by Yahoo). He started hiscareer at eBay in France.Pascal invested in 85+ Companies including Checkr, Wag, Womply, Origin, RealtyShares, and Caviar (Acquired by Square).

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Marketplace
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Morocco, Portugal

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 30
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$6.3M; Pre-Seed $125k–$7.2M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Wave Sports + Entertainment — Wave Sports + Entertainment is a media company building brands, original content, talent, and products for the next generation of digital super fans.
  • Litehaus — Find investors for your real estate project and institutional buyers for buildings, hotels and development sites. Explore Scout and Land Reports in a personalised demo.
  • Base64 — Base64.ai is a document processing automation startup from New York. Our AI extracts the document type, data, text, photos, and signatures from all kinds of documents via over 700 prebuilt models for IDs, driver licenses, passports, visas, invoices, and forms. It can even process document types it has never seen before. The service may run in thecloud and air-gapped (offline) data centers. The integration is via no-code forms, a single API call, or third parties such as our UiPath activity and takes only a few minutes.
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Abdulhamid Hassan
Angel · 1 investments in Africa B2B startups

Abdul "AB" Hassan is the Founder and CEO of Mono, an open banking platform facilitating secure access to customers' financial accounts for financial data, direct bank payments, and identity verification. With a decade of experience in technology and payments, he has held roles in product management and entrepreneurship. In 2016,Abdul founded Hyphen.AI, a chatbot platform later sold in 2017. He then initiated OyaPay, an offline mobile payment collection service via QR codes before joining Paystack in 2019.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: B2B, FinTech, Payments
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Bujeti — Bujeti is the finance control centre for African businesses. Manage expenses, automate payments, and issue corporate cards for total control and visibility.
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Jude Gomila
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Africa B2B startups

Jude Gomila is currently CEO and Founder of the startup Golden.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 67
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$4.7M; Angel $70k–$1.3M; Pre-Seed $1M–$2.9M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Clara — Clara is an AI-powered primary care doctor.
  • Dirac Labs — Universal Navigation Powered by Quantum Sensing & AI
  • Farmako — Install Farmako app, get a free health ID and get all your medical records safe and secure in one place!
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Youcef Es-skouri
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Africa B2B startups

Youcef Es-skouri

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, France, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 33
  • Round size: Seed $125k–$9.8M; Series A $6.2M–$46M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Tana — Tana is an agentic meeting platform. Work gets done in the meeting, not after. Agents create documents, file issues, and update your context graph while you talk. And each meeting makes future meetings smarter.
  • Hypercubic — Hypercubic is agentic AI for mainframe modernization, helping enterprises and governments preserve institutional knowledge and modernize COBOL.
  • Default — The command center for modern sales teams.
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Yago Arbeloa
Angel · Madrid, Madrid, Spain · 1 investments in Africa B2B startups

Yago Arbeloa - President @ MIOGROUP

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, E-Commerce, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Convertible Note
  • Geography: Spain, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Balio — Personal Finance Manager and Investing
  • Gloop — Gloop manufactures edible and 100% sustainable cutlery by providing environment friendly alternative for single-use plastic.
  • Luda Partners — Luda Partners is a neural network of pharmacies generating new sources of income and reducing shortages.
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Michael Novogratz
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Africa B2B startups

Michael E. Novogratz is based out of New York, New York, and is the Founder and CEO of Galaxy Digital. Michael previously served at Partner and President of Fortress Investment Group. Michael E. Novogratz attended Princeton University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, India, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 34
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$8M; Series A $11M–$38M; Series B $15M–$150M
  • Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Curative — Get on-the-go COVID-19 testing and other essential health services, wherever you are.
  • Verandah — Verandah is story based conscious luxury resort brand retailing amongst the top 100 in the global luxury resort wear space with design roots strongly based in India. Verandah also has a line of 100% Italian made sustainable swimwear to compliment the season-less ready to wear line.
  • Mansa — Built by Black creators with a passion for making culture-positive content, Mansa is the only place to stream the best in Global Black stories
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Arash Ferdowsi
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Africa B2B startups, 8 in the past 12 months

Arash Ferdowsi is the Co-Founder & CTO at Dropbox. After studying at MIT, Arash Ferdowsi founded Dropbox with Drew Houston. Dropbox was a TechCrunch50 finalist in 2008.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, India, Brazil

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 111
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$10M; Pre-Seed $930k–$3.6M; Series A $13M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Warp — Warp is a payroll and compliance tool that makes it easy for founders to hire, onboard, and pay their employees.
  • Meticulous — Meticulous auto-generates and auto-maintains visual frontend browser tests, providing a level of coverage that is unattainable with manually written tests.
  • Gamgee — n of 1 mrna cancer vaccines
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Maneesh Arora
Angel · San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States · 1 investments in Africa B2B startups

Maneesh Arora is CEO & co-founder of MightyText. He is a product builder who previously worked at Google and Zynga.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile, Internet, Mobile Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Japan, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 23
  • Round size: Seed $450k–$1.7M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Circa — More and more people are relying on mobile as their primary source of news yet the content itself continues to be produced in a format that translates very poorly to mobile devices. Rather than trying to shoehorn existing content into a new environment, Circa is creating the first born-on-mobile news experience. It will deliver news in a uniqueformat – native to mobile devices with an experience intuitive to mobile users. Through comprehensive yet to-the-point news updates paired with an engrossing mobile experience, Circa redefines how news is produced, delivered and consumed. Circa is news reimagined.Circa was founded by
  • CloudPeeps — CloudPeeps is a community, marketplace and platform that empowers freelancers and businesses to do their best work. Hire a team of quality professional freelancers to get the job done. Work the way you want, wherever you are!
  • Flex Finance — Flex Finance is a simple, accessible mobile platform that allows SMEs manage and track their expenses, with little-to-no financial knowledge required. Using our inbuilt AI, business owners also receive insights that help them stop waste, save money and make smarter spending decisions. Flex is committed to enabling more SMEs make it past their thirdbirthday, so they can continue to provide the income and jobs that sustain the vast majority of Nigerians.
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Hamza Abu hassan Ibn Faycal AlMALIKI
Angel · 1 investments in Africa B2B startups

Hamza Abu hassan Ibn Faycal AlMALIKI

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Investment focus

  • Industry: B2B, Retail, Software
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: Morocco

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Evollume.com — Introducing a revolutionary new website that combines the best features of two of the world's largest e-commerce platforms to create an unparalleled product sourcing experience. With this website, wholesalers, manufacturers, and retailers can easily find the products they need from a single dashboard.The website features an intuitiveinterface that allows users to search for products by category, brand, price, and other criteria. Users can also view product reviews and ratings, compare prices from multiple suppliers, and place orders directly through the platform.One of the key advantages of this website is that it caters to all types of businesses, whether they are large enterprises or small startups. Wholesalers can easily find manufacturers who can provide them with the bulk quantities they need, while manufacturers can connect with retailers who are looking for specific products to sell. Retailers can also benefit from the website's extensive inventory and competitive pricing, making it easier for them to source the products they need to stock their stores.Another unique feature of this website is its ability to handle international transactions, including currency conversion and shipping. This means that businesses from all over the world can connect and do business with each other, opening up new markets and opportunities for growth.Overall, this website represents a game-changing innovation in the world of e-commerce, making it easier than ever for businesses of all sizes to source the products they need from a single, easy-to-use platform.
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Zach Lipson
Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States · 1 investments in Africa B2B startups

Zach Lipson is the Co-Founder and previous CPO at Dutchie. Prior to that, he co-founded and served as Head of Product at RepPro.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: B2B, Banking, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Float — Float helps you manage cashflow and gives you the credit your business needs to cover operational costs like payroll, inventory, or even marketing expenses.
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Jeffrey Ubben
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Africa B2B startups

Jeffrey Ubben is the Co-Founder and Chairman of ValueAct Capital.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Agriculture, AgTech, Farming
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $403k–$3.3M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Releaf Earth — We are industrializing food processing in Africa. We've led 1000+ smallholder farmers to provide food factories with >7.5 million kilograms of quality crops.
  • Vault Comics — Vault Comics actively develops its library across a wide range of media, including film, television, audio productions, and video games.
  • Growers Edge — Growers Edge leverages data science to build grower-relevant risk management solutions to meet ever-changing agricultural demands.
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Sahil Lavingia
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Africa B2B startups

Sahil is the founder and CEO of Gumroad.Gumroad exists to help every creative earn a living selling the stuff they make directly to their audience.Previously, he was early at Pinterest — a service that lets users collect, organize, and share the things they are into — and worked on turntable's mobile apps.He designs and buildsproducts for fun and profit.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, India, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 55
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$9M; Pre-Seed $750k–$2M; Series A $6M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • BackerKit — BackerKit simplifies the post-campaign fulfillment process by helping project creators handle all the realities of crowdfunding. It allows its clients to survey, collect data, accept pre-orders, and process pledges for fulfillment. BackerKit was founded in 2012 by Rosanna Yau and Maxwell Salzberg and is based in San Francisco, California.
  • Monumental Labs — Monumental Labs is building a robot stone-sculpting factory to unleash a renaissance. Our robot artisans complete commissions in days that previously took months, with all the precision of traditional sculpting, at a fraction of the cost.
  • PierSight Space — PierSight builds application-specific SAR satellite and drone systems for persistent maritime surveillance, EEZ monitoring, IUU fishing detection, and defense reconnaissance.
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Olugbenga Agboola
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Africa B2B startups

Olugbenga Agboola is based out of San Francisco, California, and is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Flutterwave. Olugbenga previously worked at Access Bank as a Head of Digital Factory and Innovation. Olugbenga Agboola attended EC-Council University. Olugbenga Agboola has been a Certified Ethical Hacker and a Security Analyst.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 29
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$7.5M; Pre-Seed $625k–$3.7M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Terra Industries — Terra Industries develops autonomous security systems and software platforms that support the monitoring and protection of physical assets, infrastructure, and operational environments across land, air, and maritime domains. The company provides unmanned vehicles, autonomous towers, and sensor-based surveillance hardware that collect and transmitdata for continuous situational awareness. Its software layer, built around an integrated operating system, processes sensor inputs, applies artificial intelligence models, and coordinates automated responses to detected events. Terra Industries designs its systems to support functions such as perimeter security, infrastructure monitoring, asset tracking, and threat detection within complex operational settings. The company’s platforms enable operators to manage multiple autonomous devices through a unified interface that supports mission planning, data visualization, and system control. Its technology is used by organizations that require coordinated security, monitoring, and response capabilities for facilities, remote sites, and distributed operations.
  • Lorum Finance — Lorum is the correspondent institution for banks and fintechs: programmable access to global clearing, named custody, and treasury on a 100% reserve model.
  • Fuse Financial Technologies — Financial APIs for building products in the Middle East.
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Sandy Kory
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Africa B2B startups

Prior to MVP, he was Vice President at Arbor Advisors, leading their highly successful entry into the digital media and interactive marketing industries. He advised clients in a number of industry-leading transactions, such as the sale of WorldClass Strategy to EducationDynamics, the sale of ReliableRemodeler.com to Quinstreet, the sale ofInvestopedia.com to Forbes Media, and the sale of Interest.com to Bankrate.Sandy is a regular speaker at industry conferences, including Ad-Tech and LeadsCon. He received his B.A. in Psychology and M.S. in Management Science & Engineering from Stanford University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, B2B, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Australia, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 23
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$7M; Series A $8.6M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Float — Float helps you manage cashflow and gives you the credit your business needs to cover operational costs like payroll, inventory, or even marketing expenses.
  • Mindset Health — Clinically validated programs for the chronic conditions drugs weren't built for. Built with Monash, Baylor, and 20,000+ providers.
  • Arkham Technologies — Unify your data and transform your operations with our Data & AI Platform
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Ross Lipson
Angel · Bend, Oregon, United States · 1 investments in Africa B2B startups

Ross Lipson is the Co-Founder and CEO of Dutchie, a leading cannabis technology platform that powers dispensary operations, provides consumers with safe and easy access to products, and supports the societal change that cannabis is bringing to the world. Founded in 2017, Dutchie works with over 5000 dispensaries across North America, facilitatingover $14b in annual sales. Prior to founding Dutchie, Ross was the Co-Founder and CEO of GrubCanada, Canada’s first online food ordering service. GrubCanada was acquired by Just Eat in 2012.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Mexico, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$14M; Series A $18M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Klinic — Cutting-Edge Addiction, Mental Health & Psychiatry Treatment From a Specialist Near You
  • Float — Float helps you manage cashflow and gives you the credit your business needs to cover operational costs like payroll, inventory, or even marketing expenses.
  • Filo — Filo, Edtech, transactional learning model by online tutors available for students in less than 60 seconds. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.filo.student&hl=en&gl=US
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Youcef Oudjidane
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Africa B2B startups

Youcef Oudjidane is the Founder and Managing Partner of BYLD and the Co-Founder and Chairman of Elevate (YC W22).

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 22
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$10M; Pre-Seed $120k–$5M; Series A $6.5M–$23M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Waza — Waza is a web platform with APIs. It helps startups and emerging market businesses manage their cash flow issues, invoicing needs, and international payment requirements.
  • Theneo — Generate Stripe-like API docs in just a few clicks. We support OpenAPI, Postman, GraphQL and much more
  • FloatPays — Floatpays help your employees achieve financial wellbeing by giving them early access to earned wages.
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Paul Kokoricha
Angel · Ikoyi, Lagos, Nigeria · 1 investments in Africa B2B startups

Paul Kokoricha

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Financial Services, B2B
  • Stage:Private Equity, Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, Mauritius

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Private Equity $20M–$200M
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • WIOCC — Operating exclusively as a connectivity wholesaler in Africa, we deliver interconnected, carrier-scale digital infrastructure and technical services...
  • Decagon — Build faster with vetted remote software engineering talent
  • Accelerex Holdings — Accelerex Holdings specializes in the fields of financial services and investments.
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Justin Mateen
Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States · 1 investments in Africa B2B startups

Justin Mateen is the Cofounder and former CMO of Tinder, the world's largest dating platform. In 2021, and 2022 Business Insider ranked Mateen as the best early stage investor in the US, placing him at the number 1 spot on the top 100 list of US Seed Investors both years. In 2020, Forbes included Mateen on their list of the decade's top10 tech entrepreneurs. Fast Company has listed him as one of the most creative people in business.Founded in 2012, Tinder is the highest grossing app on Apple's app store since 2017 and was valued at over $40 Billion dollars in 2021.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Mexico, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 213
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$9.5M; Pre-Seed $400k–$3.9M; Series A $6.8M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Estate Media — Real Estate's Biggest Personalities Under one Roof
  • Subquadratic — AI lab leading the subquadratic LLM revolution.
  • Hidden Studios — Hidden Studios develops and advertises Fortnite Creative games, with 100M+ plays monthly. The company collaborated with prominent brands and creators, including Skydance, Snoop Dogg, and CaseOh, to deliver engaging gaming experiences. Hidden Studios maintains an active presence on YouTube, sharing content related to their Fortnite Creativeendeavors.
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Augustine Anokye-Wusu
Angel · 1 investments in Africa B2B startups

Executive @ Market Click (Click Apps)

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Investment focus

  • Industry: B2B, SaaS, Software
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Ghana

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Market Click (Click Apps) — Customers have been deprived quality services because organisations have not received enough support to optimise the use of the internet and other technologies in enhancing their service delivery. We assist organisations to serve their customers better, using technology.
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Karim Atiyeh
Angel · Brooklyn, New York, United States · 1 investments in Africa B2B startups, 15 in the past 12 months

Karim Atiyeh is the Co-Founder and CTO of Ramp, the fastest growing spend management platform and corporate card. Launched in 2020, Ramp gives Finance leaders an edge with powerful software that helps them save time and control spend before it happens. A Lebanese entrepreneur, Karim previously built and sold YCombinator-backed Paribus to CapitalOne in 2016.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Brazil, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 68
  • Round size: Seed $2.2M–$9.8M; Series A $8.5M–$88M; Series B $43M–$250M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Pilgrim — Pioneering a biologically enhanced future for humanity.
  • Augustus — Building the clearing bank for the AI era
  • Prime Intellect — Prime Intellect democratizes AI development at scale. Our platform makes it easy to find global compute resources and train state-of-the-art models through distributed training across clusters. Collectively own the resulting open AI innovations, from language models to scientific breakthroughs.
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Alan Rutledge
Angel · 1 investments in Africa B2B startups

Alan Rutledge

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, India, Mexico

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 47
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$9.5M; Pre-Seed $600k–$2.5M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Cekura AI — Cekura AI is an AI based Software Development firm offering Developer Tool to observe and test AI voice agents.
  • Mentra — Exploring ideas with @Mentraglass. Follow for future updates.
  • Cosmoserve Space — Cosmoserve Space is developing autonomous robotic spacecraft to mitigate the rapidly growing problem of orbital debris.
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Darshan Chandaria
Angel · 1 investments in Africa B2B startups

Darshan Chandaria is the Group CEO and Director of Chandaria Industries. He previously worked at Pentland Brands Plc as a Graduate Trainee. Darshan Chandaria attended Harvard Business School.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, B2B, SMS
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $73k–$285k
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Leta — Leta Technology is a software development company that creates supply chain and logistics software to enable the efficient and automated movement of goods.
  • Bamba — Today, organizations spend a lot of money on physical data gathering exercises using old-fashioned paper-based methods. These methods result in expensive, severely delayed and incomplete data . With Bamba, a client can launch a data collection exercise anywhere in the world simply from the comfort of their web browser and the client can ensureindividuals respond with complete answers by paying those individuals for that data with mobile airtime in 122 different countries thus far.
  • Cloud9 - Africa's Lifestyle Network — Cloud9xp.com is a online marketplace and booking service for leisure experiences.We believe that everyone deserves to have fun, feel good and be happy. We believe happiness starts with a drop, becomes a ripple and creates a wave. We believe happiness is amplified when shared.Put simply, Cloud9 is in the business of happiness and are passionateabout giving people more #HighOnLIfe moments.All of our products; across apparel, consumer electronics and lifestyle items are authentic, and we only work with the most upstanding, and energetic brands in the world to bring you the best possible products.
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Mato Perić
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Africa B2B startups

Mato invests in technology companies globally. His portfolio companies have raised over US$ 5 billion in capital, employ >15,000 people and have operations in 35 countries across six continents.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Germany, India, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 55
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$10M; Pre-Seed $3M–$6M; Series A $8M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Faro — Every garment deserves to be worn. Leveraging technology and a specialised supply chain, FARO enables brands to offload obsolete inventory through stores in non-core markets, ensuring complete traceability throughout the process.
  • Tern Group — Tern Group is an AI Platform to hire and relocate top healthcare talents globally, faster and cheaper. TERN is a full-stack solution to source and relocate top-tier medical and engineering talent from India, North Africa, South Africa, and Central Asia and the approach ensures a seamless, ethical, and transparent migration process, drasticallycutting complexity and shaving costs for healthcare systems.
  • Bamba — Today, organizations spend a lot of money on physical data gathering exercises using old-fashioned paper-based methods. These methods result in expensive, severely delayed and incomplete data . With Bamba, a client can launch a data collection exercise anywhere in the world simply from the comfort of their web browser and the client can ensureindividuals respond with complete answers by paying those individuals for that data with mobile airtime in 122 different countries thus far.
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Joshua Olulana
Angel · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands · 1 investments in Africa B2B startups

Joshua Olulana

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Investment focus

  • Industry: B2B, SaaS, Logistics
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Dora — Dora allows local logistics businesses to plan, create, assign, notify, track and organize customer delivery and fulfilment processes. It caters to the operational demands of local logistics operators, and supply chain managers who offer and manage end-to-end delivery operations for their customers. We are not a delivery company.
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Atlas Benjelloun
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Africa B2B startups

Atlas Benjelloun has been working as a Group Chairman, Atlas Finance at Atlas Holding for 13 years. Atlas Holding is part of the Holding Companies & Conglomerates industry, and located in San Francisco, United States.Atlas Benjelloun invest and support curious, mission-minded people who are committed to solving the Internet’s toughestchallenges.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, FinTech
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series C
  • Geography: United States, Morocco, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 94
  • Round size: Seed $3M–$50M; Series A $8M–$100M; Series C $19M–$118M
  • Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Atlys — Atlys is the world's leading visa platform with 99.5% on-time delivery for over 150 destinations.
  • Silo — Silo is a platform that automates the perishable supply chain. More time, more opportunity, less waste.
  • Atlas — Atlas builds cutting-edge generative 3D AI technology to enable the creation of assets & virtual worlds.
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Leonard Stiegeler
Angel · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 1 investments in Africa B2B startups

Leonard Stiegeler is an entrepreneur & investor in projects unlocking potential. Educated in Europe, he founded companies across EMEA and is now investing globally. He is passionate to develop opportunities with & for others. The companies he co-founded include Jumia, now a leading eCommerce company in Africa and Pulse, now a leading mediacompany in Africa. His investments include Paystack, Flutterwave, Scalable Capital, Conversion and many more. Dedicated to creating trusted connections to enable potential, he founded two networks - Africa Collective, focused on elevating the continent's role globally, and Counder, focused on enabling visionary leaders embrace emerging trends & regions collectively.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, B2B
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, South Africa, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$6M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Faro — Every garment deserves to be worn. Leveraging technology and a specialised supply chain, FARO enables brands to offload obsolete inventory through stores in non-core markets, ensuring complete traceability throughout the process.
  • Bamba — Today, organizations spend a lot of money on physical data gathering exercises using old-fashioned paper-based methods. These methods result in expensive, severely delayed and incomplete data . With Bamba, a client can launch a data collection exercise anywhere in the world simply from the comfort of their web browser and the client can ensureindividuals respond with complete answers by paying those individuals for that data with mobile airtime in 122 different countries thus far.
  • Finclusion Group — Enhancing financial inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa through data driven lending.
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Jonathan Smit
Angel · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in Africa B2B startups

A business owner and entrepreneur at heart, Jonathan started PayFast in 2007, personally developing the core platform and steering the company through more than a decade of hyper growth while maintaining a strong focus on financial return. Now a seasoned executive with strong technical roots and a keen understanding of the payments environment bothlocally and globally, he brings his unique combination of technical, operational and management expertise to bear in driving further growth within the business and across the larger group.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: B2B, Travel, Tourism
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: South Africa, The Netherlands

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • TUNL — Ship globally with ease. TUNL offers affordable, transparent international shipping built for South African brands. Up to 91% cheaper. No surprises.
  • Conservio — Discover and Book South Africa's best nature accommodations with Conservio. Book vetted accommodations, easy and safe to book online.
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Thomas Stafford
Angel · 1 investments in Africa B2B startups

Thomas Stafford

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Investment focus

  • Industry: B2B, SMS, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Round size: Seed $3.2M–$3.2M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Bamba — Bamba is an android application allowing micro-merchants across Africa to run their entire business utilizing their phones. It focuses on simple tools for merchants to manage their customers, get paid, payout as well as takeout cash advances against their future cash flow.
  • Bamba — Today, organizations spend a lot of money on physical data gathering exercises using old-fashioned paper-based methods. These methods result in expensive, severely delayed and incomplete data . With Bamba, a client can launch a data collection exercise anywhere in the world simply from the comfort of their web browser and the client can ensureindividuals respond with complete answers by paying those individuals for that data with mobile airtime in 122 different countries thus far.
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Patrick Spaulding Ryan
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Africa B2B startups

Patrick Spaulding Ryan is the Co-Founder, Fractional CFO and CLO of Always Blue Games. He previously worked at TikTok as a Lead Technical Program Manager, Security + Web3 R D. Patrick Spaulding Ryan attended Stanford University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Mexico, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 35
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$10M; Angel $222k–$300k; Pre-Seed $89k–$1.5M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Bitwage — Payroll, invoicing & benefits for digital assets. Bitwage offers services for companies and direct to workers. Workers can sign up and get direct deposit accounts to get paid from any company or client. Workers locally receive unique digital asset benefits. Workers internationally get paid faster & cheaper than traditional wires.
  • IpiNovyx Bio — Orange Grove Bio partners with leading research universities to advance preclinical biotech programs in the oncology space. The company leverages its venture capital and drug development expertise to help patients and build biotech ecosystems.
  • Pigeon — Pigeon Loans is a peer-to-peer lending platform that facilitates loans between family, friends, and loved ones. The platform provides their users the ability to generate legal contracts, make online payments, store loan documentation, enable automatic bank withdrawals, and make international transactions, all in an easy to use interface.PigeonLoans was founded by Brian Bristol and Anna Matilde Tanga in 2020 and is based in San Diego, CA, USA.
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Laurin Hainy
Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 1 investments in Africa B2B startups

Laurin Hainy is the current CEO and Founder of FairMoney. He previously worked at Le Studio VC as a CEO - Early Stage Investor. Laurin Hainy attended Sciences Po.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: B2B, SMS, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Round size: Seed $3.2M–$3.2M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Bamba — Bamba is an android application allowing micro-merchants across Africa to run their entire business utilizing their phones. It focuses on simple tools for merchants to manage their customers, get paid, payout as well as takeout cash advances against their future cash flow.
  • Bamba — Today, organizations spend a lot of money on physical data gathering exercises using old-fashioned paper-based methods. These methods result in expensive, severely delayed and incomplete data . With Bamba, a client can launch a data collection exercise anywhere in the world simply from the comfort of their web browser and the client can ensureindividuals respond with complete answers by paying those individuals for that data with mobile airtime in 122 different countries thus far.
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Gregory Rockson
Angel · Ghana, Ebonyi, Nigeria · 1 investments in Africa B2B startups

Gregory Rockson is based out of United States and is the Co-Founder & CEO of mPharma. Gregory previously worked at Six Days of Peace as a Founder. Gregory Rockson attended the University of Ghana.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, B2B
  • Stage:Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, Germany, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Float — Float helps you manage cashflow and gives you the credit your business needs to cover operational costs like payroll, inventory, or even marketing expenses.
  • COMESO GmbH — Boosting revenue by ensuring secure, direct healthcare payments and improving patient access to services.
  • Caantin — Kibanda Topup digitizes the supply for micro, small and medium-sized restaurants. Kibanda Topup allows restaurant owners to order inventory such as grains, poultry, beverages, and beef by app through a simple SMS and get the orders the next day.
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Winshall Walt
Angel · 1 investments in Africa B2B startups

Winshall Walt

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile, B2B, SMS
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$2.2M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Voatz — Voatz uses cutting edge technology to enable secure and accessible mobile voting from anywhere.
  • StoryFit — StoryFit puts the power of artificial intelligence in the hands of publishers and studios.StoryFit is a technology company that delivers artificial intelligence insights and solutions for the book publishing, movie, and television production industries. The name StoryFit comes from that simple idea: know how your story fits in the landscape; finda story to fit your audience, and an audience that fits your story. It represents their motivation and their promise to their customers: to support creative decision-makers in their production of memorable stories by providing the smartest, most adaptable, and most dynamic machine learning insights to narrative content available.
  • Percent Pledge — Promote corporate philanthropy in your workplace with Percent Pledge. Learn about our Workplace Giving Platform, Employee Volunteer Programs, and impact reports.
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Tristan Walker
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Africa B2B startups

Tristan Walker is the Founder and CEO Walker and Company Brands. He attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business and Stony Brook University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Beauty, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$5M; Pre-Seed $200k–$1.7M; Series B $20M–$24M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Bujeti — Bujeti is the finance control centre for African businesses. Manage expenses, automate payments, and issue corporate cards for total control and visibility.
  • Greptile — Tabnam is an AI-powered product research tool that scrapes the internet for customer experience data about a product to help shoppers make more informed decisions.
  • AddGlow — Our AI-powered video generator turns your product photos into dynamic and captivating videos your customers will love. Each clip is reviewed and refined by human experts to ensure top quality, guaranteed.
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Brett Kopf
Angel · Denver, Colorado, United States · 1 investments in Africa B2B startups

Brett Kopf

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Investment focus

  • Industry: B2B, FinTech, Mobile Payments
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Flex Finance — Flex Finance is a simple, accessible mobile platform that allows SMEs manage and track their expenses, with little-to-no financial knowledge required. Using our inbuilt AI, business owners also receive insights that help them stop waste, save money and make smarter spending decisions. Flex is committed to enabling more SMEs make it past their thirdbirthday, so they can continue to provide the income and jobs that sustain the vast majority of Nigerians.
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Eric Glyman
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Africa B2B startups

Eric Glyman is co-founder and CEO of Ramp, the ultimate platform for modern finance teams. Ramp powers the fastest-growing corporate card and bill payment platform in America, and enables tens of billions of dollars in purchases each year. 15,000+ businesses on Ramp have collectively saved more than $600 million and over 8.5 million hours ofemployee time by controlling spend and automating manual tasks. Prior to Ramp, Eric co-founded Paribus, a price-tracking app to help consumers save money on their everyday online purchases. Paribus was acquired by Capital One in 2016. Born and raised in Las Vegas, Eric now lives in New York City.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Mexico

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 38
  • Round size: Seed $2.2M–$9.8M; Series A $11M–$35M; Series B $25M–$250M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Console — Console is the AI-native platform for IT service management (ITSM), built to help teams automate support and shift from doing the work to managing the system that does the work for them.
  • Natural — Natural powers agentic payments
  • Beacon Software — Beacon acquires and grows essential businesses. With our centralized platform, we empower founders with the technology and expertise to better serve their customers.
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