Top 10 Big Data Angel Investors in Africa in May 2026

O.D. Kobo is an accomplished entrepreneur with over twenty-years of demonstrated history working in the financial services and technology sector.

Investment focus

Internet, Video, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Series B
China, Israel, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Kobo360 — Kobo360 is Africa's leading supply chain technology platform. We are simplifying the supply chain ecosystem with end-to-end tech products, providing a 360-degree view to all stakeholders.
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Cofounder and CEO of Kuda

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Nigeria, Zambia, Pakistan

Portfolio highlights

Zazuu — Zazuu is a platform for sending money across the border.
Curacel — Curacel creates APIs & tools that enable businesses to embed insurance in digital channels and to administer claims cost-effectively.
24SEVEN — 24seven.pk is using tech and data to digitize and disrupt the fresh food and FMCG verticals in one of the fastest-growing and rapidly evolving consumer markets in the world.

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Co-Founder of Global Advisors & CoinShares. Previously JP Morgan, Salomon Brothers & Shell International

Investment focus

IaaS, Mining, Bitcoin
Seed
Kenya, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Mintgreen — MintGreen specializes in heat recovery from Bitcoin mining. Our proprietary Digital Boilers heat communities sustainably.
UTU Technologies — Trust infrastructure for the sharing economy.

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Micky Malka (born Meyer Malka Rais) is an entrepreneur by design and investor at heart, focused on the utilization of technology to disrupt consumer financial services. He is based in Palo Alto, California where he is the Managing Director of Ribbit Capital. Micky is also the CEO and a founding member of MECK Partners, an investment partnershipfocused on investing and building businesses in financial services, energy and agribusiness, and the Co-Founder and Chairman of Lemon, Inc. He currently serves on the Board of Wonga, a company transforming the credit market by offering small, short term loans with more transparency, speed, convenience and flexibility than banks, high street lenders and other websites. Micky also serves on the Board of Peixe Urbano, the first and largest Latin-American local commerce website.Micky grew up in Venezuela where he learned the impact of devaluation and hyperinflation at a very young age. Living with hyperinflation allowed him to develop a skill he is still well known for; accurately and quickly running numbers in his head. He also saw first hand how technology could transform businesses. In 1993, at the age of 19, Micky, co-founded Heptagon Group, a securities and investment broker dealer servicing the Venezuelan and US markets.In 1996, he graduated with a degree in Economics from the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello in Caracas, Venezuela and was one of the founders of the Wendy’s Hamburger’s franchise for Venezuela. It was one of the fastest growing food businesses worldwide with over 70 new store locations in the first 3 years.In 1998, Micky developed the online brokerage, Patagon by merging with Heptagon local operations. Patagon became Latin America’s first comprehensive Internet based financial services portal and dealer. The company expanded its online services to the United States and the rest of South America and was later acquired by the Spanish bank Banco Santander (NYSE: STD) for US$ 750 million.In 2000 Micky was the interim CEO for Banco Patagon the leader for online banking in Spain and Germany.In 2002, he co-founded Banco Lemon, a Brazilian retail bank serving the underbanked population) which became the largest private microfinance institution in Brazil. In 2009 it was acquired by Banco do Brasil, Latin America’s largest bank. Micky was also involved with Classified Media Group, an online classified company focusing on Colombia, Venezuela and Central America. The group was acquired in 2007 by MercadoLibre (NASDAQ:MELI). In 2011 he co-founded Banco Bracce a Brazilian financial institution positioned as the merchant bank of choice for mid-cap companies in Brazil. In 2011 Meyer co-founded Lemon a service to help individuals keep track of their expenses.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Series C, Seed
United States, Brazil, India

Portfolio highlights

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unico IDtech — unico IDtech is a developer of facial recognition and identification technology created to solve document and process management. The company's solutions operate on biometric authentication, digital onboarding and paperless verticals with a focus to transform relevant business processes, making the workflow between the company, government, andthe client to be simple and controlled.unico IDtech was established in 2007 and is based in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Wildlife Studios — "Play Tennis Clash for an exciting game of tennis! Try Zooba for a unique Battle Royale experience. Join Wildlife Studios for a career in game development."

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Jackson Moses is the Founder and Managing Partner of Silent Ventures. He previously worked at ThinkOrbital as an Advisor. Jackson attended the University of California, Berkeley, where he took a Bachelor of Arts in Economics with a focus on Monetary Policy and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science with a focus on Game Theory.

Investment focus

Aerospace, National Security, Military
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
United States, Canada, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Neatleaf — Sustainable agriculture with optimal yields through data-driven understanding and comprehensive automation for everyone.
Solestial — Delivering cost-effective, reliable and safe solutions to power the new space economy.
Starfish Space — Starfish Space: We're developing the first on-demand fleet of versatile and efficient space tugs prepared to service on-orbit satellites. --- Active life extension, debris removal, autonomous transportation

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Olumide Soyombo holds a BSc in Systems Engineering from University of Lagos, Nigeria and an MSc (Distinction) in Business and Information Technology from the Aston Business School, Birmingham, England; earning membership into the Beta Gamma Sigma Society for his high scholastic achievement.Olumide co–founded Bluechip Technologies Ltd in 2008 andhas grown the organisation from an organization with two employees to an organization with over 80 consultants spread across Lagos, Accra and Lusaka, Zambia.In 2014, Olumide setup Leadpath as a seed fund investing in local tech startups. He has invested in startups like Pushcv.com, Paystack, Piggybank.ng, Fashpa, Heels.com.ng , Delivery Science, Gloo.ng, and Cosign.co.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Wealth8 — Wealth8 is a black-owned investment platform that provides a simple and affordable way for the black community to save & invest in globally managed funds.
JADA — JADA focuses on both technical expertise and soft skill development and is designed to upskill experienced professionals in data analytics, machine learning, and generative AI.
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.

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Gbenga Oyebode serves as an Of Counsel of Aluko and Oyebode. He attended the University of Pennsylvania and the Ekiti State University.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
Pre-Seed, Seed
Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Mono — Mono helps businesses link their customers accounts for financial data, bank payments and identity verification across Africa.
Wealth8 — Wealth8 is a black-owned investment platform that provides a simple and affordable way for the black community to save & invest in globally managed funds.
Juicyway — Juice is a developer of a payment network platform for cross-border business payments for businesses and individuals. It facilitates financial transactions between parties regardless of location to allow enterprises to participate in international trade and the exchange of goods and services.

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Varsha Rao is an Executive Partner at Flare Capital Partners, former Head of Global Operations at Airbnb, CEO of Nurx and COO at Clover Health. She was the Co-Founder of Eve.com. Rao received her BS/BA in Economics/Math from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from Harvard Business School.She is an active angel investors withsuccessful investments in AI-Infra, Healthcare, Vertical AI, Consumer Tech and more.

Investment focus

Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, India, France

Portfolio highlights

MatX — We make the best chips physically possible for the large model needs of frontier labs.
knownwell — Whether you need primary care or are focused on obesity medicine, we are here to serve you with warmth and expertise. No shame. No blame. Just care.
Affiniti — Overcome cash flow challenges with our tailored financial solutions for small businesses. Discover industry-specific tools that drive success.

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The 'Afropreneur' (entrepreneur with an African focus), as he self-describes, Idris Ayodeji Bello is a Partner at LoftyInc Allied Partners Limited and co-founder of The Wennovation Hub, an innovation platform based in Nigeria, that has successfully accelerated the launch of several technology start-ups in social impact sectors. He isalso a Founding Partner at Loftyinc Capital Management, owners of the Afropreneurs Fund (I&II)The 'Afropreneur' (entrepreneur with an African focus), as he self-describes, Idris Bello is a Partner at LoftyInc Allied Partners Limited and co-founder of The Wennovation Hub, an innovation platform based in Nigeria, that has successfully accelerated the launch of several technology start-ups in social impact sectors. He is also a Founding Partner at Loftyinc Capital Management, owners of the Afropreneurs Fund (I&II)A first class honors graduate of Computer Engineering from Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria, he has an M.Sc in Computer Science & Data Mining from the University of Houston; an MBA in Entrepreneurship & Strategy from Rice University in Houston and an M.Sc in Global Health Science from the University of Oxford, where he was a 2011 recipient of The Lord Weidenfeld Scholarship for demonstrating remarkable potential as a future leader from an emerging economy.Idris spent the greater part of a decade working at Chevron Corporation and ExxonMobil USA, where he led several large upstream technology projects across the USA and Sub-Saharan Africa. Idris has also worked with the Clinton Foundation Health Access Initiative where he played a major role in the deployment and evaluation of Swaziland’s first mobile health patient appointment reminder system as part of the country’s National AIDS Program. Listed among CNN’s Top Ten African Technology Voices, he is a Singularity University Impact Fellow, Harambe Entrepreneur Alliance Associate, Clinton Global Initiative University Fellow, MIT Global Start-up Fellow, SAP Ashoka Global Changemakers Award Winner, Dell Technology Award Winner, StartingBloc Innovation Fellow and a Nigeria Leadership Initiative Future Leader.As a leader, Idris has mentored and catalyzed scores of contributors across the growing African landscape and is an angel investor and advisor to several African startups including Andela, Flutterwave, RelianceHMO, among others. He continues to devote his efforts to the development of innovation-driven, technology-enabled social enterprises that empower the underserved and develop transformative ideas to change lives on the African continent.He spends most of his time between Lagos, Cairo, or airport lounges.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
Nigeria, United States, Egypt

Portfolio highlights

Bypa-ss — Bypa-ss is working on creating a world-class SaaS healthcare environment and revolutionizing healthcare in Egypt, Join Us
SimpliFi — We power the cards behind your brand. Instantly issue and manage virtual or physical cards, enable payments in multiple currencies, and scale globally through one secure API platform.
ORDA — Process orders, accept payments, connect to logistic providers, engage with your customers + more. We equip you with everything you need to grow your business.

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