Top 40 B2B Angel Investors in Africa (August 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Michael Lahyani
Angel
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2 | Egypt, Morocco, Colombia | Seed, Series A, Series B | B2B, SaaS, Beauty | $5M–$42M |
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Justin Kan
Angel
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2 | United States, Nigeria, India | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence | $890k–$23M |
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Vasiliy Shapovalov
Angel
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2 | Kenya, United States, Cayman Islands | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Cryptocurrency, Decentralized Finance (DeFi), B2B | $50k–$4.9M |
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James Waugh
Angel
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2 | Kenya | Seed | B2B, FinTech, Payments | $50k–$4.9M |
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Michael Seibel
Angel
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2 | United States, Nigeria, United Kingdom | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology | $500k–$21M |
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Stephen Pagliuca
Angel
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2 | United States, India, Israel | Series B, Series A, Series C | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | $10M–$250M |
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Vijay Shankar
Angel
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2 | United States, India, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series C | FinTech, Financial Services, Software | $10k–$50M |
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Sandy Kory
Angel
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1 | United States, Australia, Canada | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, B2B, Analytics | $1.2M–$14M |
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Ross Lipson
Angel
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1 | United States, Mexico, India | Seed, Series A | E-Commerce, FinTech, Software | $2M–$30M |
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Karim Atiyeh
Angel
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1 | United States, Brazil, Canada | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech | $2.2M–$250M |
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Yago Arbeloa
Angel
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1 | Spain, United States, Kenya | Seed, Angel, Convertible Note | Apps, E-Commerce, Internet | |
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Gregory Rockson
Angel
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1 | Kenya, Germany, Nigeria | Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed | FinTech, Financial Services, B2B | |
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Winshall Walt
Angel
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1 | United States, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Mobile, B2B, SMS | $1.1M–$2.2M |
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Alan Rutledge
Angel
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1 | United States, India, Mexico | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | FinTech, Financial Services, Software | $600k–$9.5M |
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Darshan Chandaria
Angel
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1 | Kenya, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, B2B, SMS | $58k–$285k |
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Mato Perić
Angel
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1 | Germany, India, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce | $2M–$100M |
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Joshua Olulana
Angel
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1 | Nigeria | Angel | B2B, SaaS, Logistics | |
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Michael Novogratz
Angel
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1 | United States, India, Germany | Seed, Series A, Series B | Blockchain, FinTech, Cryptocurrency | $1.1M–$150M |
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Tristan Walker
Angel
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1 | United States, Nigeria | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B | Beauty, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence | $200k–$24M |
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Atlas Benjelloun
Angel
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1 | United States, Morocco, United Kingdom | Series A, Seed, Series C | Software, Information Technology, FinTech | $3M–$118M |
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Leonard Stiegeler
Angel
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1 | Nigeria, South Africa, United States | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | FinTech, Financial Services, B2B | $1.3M–$6M |
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Youcef Oudjidane
Angel
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1 | United States, Nigeria, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | FinTech, Financial Services, Payments | $120k–$23M |
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Arash Ferdowsi
Angel
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1 | United States, India, Brazil | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $930k–$30M |
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Maneesh Arora
Angel
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1 | United States, Japan, Nigeria | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Mobile, Internet, Mobile Apps | $450k–$1.7M |
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Hamza Abu hassan Ibn Faycal AlMALIKI
Angel
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1 | Morocco | Series A | B2B, Retail, Software | |
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Zach Lipson
Angel
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1 | Nigeria | Seed | B2B, Banking, FinTech | |
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Jonathan Smit
Angel
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1 | South Africa, The Netherlands | Seed, Pre-Seed | B2B, Travel, Tourism | |
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Paul Kokoricha
Angel
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1 | Nigeria, Mauritius | Private Equity, Seed | Internet, Financial Services, B2B | $20M–$200M |
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Brett Kopf
Angel
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1 | Nigeria | Pre-Seed | B2B, FinTech, Mobile Payments | |
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Justin Mateen
Angel
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1 | United States, Mexico, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, E-Commerce, Health Care | $400k–$27M |
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Eric Glyman
Angel
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1 | United States, Canada, Mexico | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence | $2.2M–$250M |
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Abdul Hassan
Angel
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1 | Nigeria | Pre-Seed, Seed | FinTech, Financial Services, Payments | $780k–$1.3M |
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Olugbenga Agboola
Angel
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1 | Nigeria, Kenya, United States | Pre-Seed, Seed | FinTech, Financial Services, Payments | $625k–$7.5M |
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Julian Shapiro
Angel
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1 | United States, Bangladesh, Pakistan | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, SaaS | $500k–$36M |
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Patrick Spaulding Ryan
Angel
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1 | United States, Mexico, Canada | Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel | Information Technology, FinTech, Software | $89k–$10M |
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Jeffrey Ubben
Angel
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1 | United States, Nigeria | Seed, Series A, Series B | Agriculture, AgTech, Farming | $403k–$3.3M |
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Khalid Zitouni
Angel
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1 | France, Morocco, Luxembourg | Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, E-Commerce, Apps | $1M–$2.6M |
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Abdulhamid Hassan
Angel
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1 | Nigeria | Seed | B2B, FinTech, Payments | |
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Sahil Lavingia
Angel
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1 | United States, India, Canada | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, FinTech | $750k–$30M |
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Pascal Levy-Garboua
Angel
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1 | United States, Morocco, Portugal | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | FinTech, Financial Services, Marketplace | $1.2M–$7.2M |
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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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- 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
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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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 111
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$7M; Pre-Seed $890k–$20M; Series A $7.5M–$23M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% 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
Vasiliy Shapovalov
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- 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 — We eliminate chains, bridges, and gas for your users with the OneBalance Toolkit. Abstracting leading EVM chains and Solana.
James Waugh - Head of Business Development @ CanYa
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- 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.
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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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 205
- Round size: Seed $500k–$7.2M; Pre-Seed $500k–$500k; Series A $5.9M–$21M
- Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kira — The easiest way for non-fintech enterprises to launch AI-powered, stablecoin-based financial products. Through a unified API platform, Kira enables businesses to embed remittances, payroll, wallets, and real-time 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.
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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- 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!
Vijay Shankar
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series C
- Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 27
- Round size: Seed $10k–$50M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% 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.
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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- Industry: Software, B2B, Analytics
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Australia, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 19
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$7M; Series A $8.6M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% 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
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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- 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
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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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Brazil, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 66
- Round size: Seed $2.2M–$9.8M; Series A $8.5M–$88M; Series B $43M–$250M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 1001 AI — 1001 is the AI-powered intelligence layer helping enterprises transform decisions, orchestrate actions, and accelerate outcomes.
- 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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- 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.
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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- 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.
Winshall Walt
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- 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 — Earlier audiences' insights empower your content and improve its performance. StoryFit's AI technology platform helps you understand the true value of your
- Percent Pledge — Promote corporate philanthropy in your workplace with Percent Pledge. Learn about our Workplace Giving Platform, Employee Volunteer Programs, and impact reports.
Alan Rutledge
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- 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.
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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- Industry: Software, B2B, SMS
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Kenya, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $58k–$285k
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Bamba — Today, organizations spend a lot of money on physical data gathering exercises using old-fashioned paper-based methods. These methods result in expensive, severely delayed and incomplete data . With Bamba, a client can launch a data collection exercise anywhere in the world simply from the comfort of their web browser and the client can ensureindividuals respond with complete answers by paying those individuals for that data with mobile airtime in 122 different countries thus far.
- Savannah Brands — Savannah Brands is a food & beverage company.
- Cloud9 - Africa's Lifestyle Network — Cloud9xp.com is a online marketplace and booking service for leisure experiences.We believe that everyone deserves to have fun, feel good and be happy. We believe happiness starts with a drop, becomes a ripple and creates a wave. We believe happiness is amplified when shared.Put simply, Cloud9 is in the business of happiness and are passionateabout giving people more #HighOnLIfe moments.All of our products; across apparel, consumer electronics and lifestyle items are authentic, and we only work with the most upstanding, and energetic brands in the world to bring you the best possible products.
Mato invests in technology companies globally. His portfolio companies have raised over US$ 5 billion in capital, employ >15,000 people and have operations in 35 countries across six continents.
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- 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 $7.7M–$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.
Joshua Olulana
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- 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.
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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- Industry: Blockchain, FinTech, Cryptocurrency
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, India, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 32
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$8.5M; Series A $11M–$38M; Series B $15M–$150M
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Curative — Get on-the-go COVID-19 testing and other essential health services, wherever you are.
- 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
- Galaxy Digital — Galaxy is a digital asset and blockchain leader helping institutions, startups, and individuals shape a changing economy.
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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- 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.
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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- 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–$13M; 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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Browse database — It's Free!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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- 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.
Youcef Oudjidane is the Founder and Managing Partner of BYLD and the Co-Founder and Chairman of Elevate (YC W22).
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 21
- Round size: Seed $200k–$10M; Pre-Seed $120k–$5M; Series A $23M–$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.
- FloatPays — Floatpays help your employees achieve financial wellbeing by giving them early access to earned wages.
- KarmaCheck — Speed up placements with innovative tech, live expert support, and a mobile-first candidate experience. Run every check you need in KarmaCheck.
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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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, India, Brazil
Investor stats
- Total investments: 110
- Round size: Seed $2M–$10M; Pre-Seed $930k–$3.6M; Series A $13M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Crafting — The safest validation layer for enterprise agents. Give agents and engineers secure, controlled access to real infrastructure, real data, and real dependencies. Multi-cloud, multi-region, and multi-agent by default.
- 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.
Maneesh Arora is CEO & co-founder of MightyText. He is a product builder who previously worked at Google and Zynga.
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- 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.
Hamza Abu hassan Ibn Faycal AlMALIKI
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- 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.
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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- 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.
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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- 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.
Paul Kokoricha
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- 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.
Brett Kopf
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- 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.
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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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Mexico, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 170
- Round size: Seed $1M–$10M; Pre-Seed $400k–$3.9M; Series A $8M–$27M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Mason America, Inc. — Mason is the device innovation platform for product leaders who dare to deliver the next innovation in their field.
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- Subquadratic — AI lab leading the subquadratic LLM revolution.
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Browse database — It's Free!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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- 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 permanent capital and a centralized operating platform.
Abdul Hassan
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- 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.
Olugbenga Agboola is the Co-Founder and CEO of Flutterwave. He previously worked at Africa Fintech Foundry as a Senior Entrepreneur In Residence. Olugbenga Agboola attended MIT Sloan School of Management.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 21
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$7.5M; Pre-Seed $625k–$3.7M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
Portfolio highlights
- tushop — Shop wholesale groceries, market fresh produce, local brands, and affordable preloved finds on Tushop. Secure checkout, friendly support and fast 90 minute delivery across Nairobi.
- Curacel — Curacel creates APIs & tools that enable businesses to embed insurance in digital channels and to administer claims cost-effectively.
- Afropolitan — Afropolitan is building a Network State to unleash the maximum potential of Africans around the world. Are you interested? Join us with your email.
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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- 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.
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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- 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.
Jeffrey Ubben is the Co-Founder and Chairman of ValueAct Capital.
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- Industry: Agriculture, AgTech, Farming
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- 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.
Khalid Zitouni
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: France, Morocco, Luxembourg
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Round size: Seed $1M–$2M; Pre-Seed $1.2M–$2.6M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Pluto.markets — Pluto is the modern investment app for the 100m Europeans living in countries without the EUR.
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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- 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.
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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- 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 is building a constellation of SAR satellites to provide persistent monitoring for the maritime industry.
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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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Marketplace
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: United States, Morocco, Portugal
Investor stats
- Total investments: 29
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$6.3M; Pre-Seed $1.7M–$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 — Litehaus is your AI Team for Property Investment. We help investors, developers and asset managers find undervalued land, understand what can actually be built, and assess each opportunity faster.
- 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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