Top 20 Community Angel Investors in Africa (June 2026)

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

Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
Geography: Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

Total investments: 12
Round size: Seed $1.1M–$1.3M; Angel $260k–$1M; Pre-Seed $260k–$2.1M
Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

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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Manuela Raith

Investment focus

Industry: Communities, Point of Sale, Social Impact
Stage:Seed
Geography: Kenya

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

Mwingi — Everywhere for Everyone

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Hesham Zreik is the CEO of FasterCapital. He previously worked at DreamApps as a Project Manager. Hesham attended the University of Westminster.

Investment focus

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

Investor stats

Total investments: 478
Round size: Seed $50k–$1M; Pre-Seed $18k–$1.2M; Series A $50k–$5M
Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow

Portfolio highlights

EasyBusy — EasyBusy is a contractor-client matching platform designed to address key challenges in the GCC service and construction economy.
Manufacturing Electronics Cards — it is a startup built on the idea of putting advanced electronics engineering expertise at the service of local and regional businesses.
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Sean Fannan is the Founder of The Marcella Foundation. He attended UC Santa Barbara.

Investment focus

Industry: FinTech, Finance, Internet
Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Geography: United States, Nigeria

Investor stats

Total investments: 3
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

FranShares — Diversify your portfolio and potentially earn passive income through franchise investing.
Classify — Classify is a digital advertising company that offers smart contextual advertising.
Rent Small Small — New Zealand's Biggest most reliable Online Store for all your Phone Parts needs! Fast shipping, NZ owned and Operated and here to help. Shop Now!

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Gbite Oduneye is the Founder and Managing Partner of ODBA. He attended UWE Bristol and Said Business School, University of Oxford.

Investment focus

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

Investor stats

Total investments: 28
Round size: Seed $200k–$10M; Pre-Seed $180k–$3.5M
Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

Edukoya — Edukoya builds online education content and offers online tutoring for students and their parents.
Cashmere App — Helping millennials and Gen Z's save up for their favourite luxury goods and experiences
Kuda — Kuda is a full service digital only bank with a mission to bank every African on the planet. Kuda was founded in 2019 by Babs Ogundeyi and Musty Mustapha and is Headquartered in London

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Wemimo Abbey is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Esusu. He attended University of Cambridge.

Investment focus

Industry: SaaS, Legal, Advice
Stage:Seed
Geography: Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

Total investments: 3
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

Mirza — We help employers hire and retain working parents and caregivers. Our care now, pay later childcare loan helps you support your workforce
Rent Small Small — New Zealand's Biggest most reliable Online Store for all your Phone Parts needs! Fast shipping, NZ owned and Operated and here to help. Shop Now!
Flourish Fi — Creating a banking experience that people love. Enable banks and credit unions to strengthen relationships with a rewards system, financial literacy and savings journey.

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Yossi Hasson is the Co-Founder and CEO of Metaversal and a Venture Partner at 2048 Ventures. He is also a Non-Executive Director of WeThinkCode_. Prior to that, he was the Managing Director of Techstars. He attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business and the University of Pretoria/Universiteit van Pretoria.

Investment focus

Industry: Financial Services, Blockchain, Payments
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Geography: South Africa, United States, Ghana

Investor stats

Total investments: 29
Round size: Seed $120k–$551k; Pre-Seed $120k–$230k
Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow

Portfolio highlights

Howler — Howler, is the powerful event technology platform designed at the uppermost benchmarks of service and technology to help consumers and event organisers to make moments that matter.
WizzPass — WizzPass, a rapidly growing leader in the visitor management system and workplace management market is now FMS:Engage powered by FM:Systems.
The Sun Exchange — We finance, install, and maintain the solar system. You simply pay for the power it generates and save from day one.

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Michael is the San Diego based Senior VP Business Development for Cognician, a self coaching and behavior change platform based in San Francisco. He is also a shareholder and director. Michael also has array of investments in and advisory roles with a number of other start ups, including Gyft, Yola, ChessCube and Skyrove.

Investment focus

Industry: Apps, Software, Publishing
Stage:Angel, Seed
Geography: United States, South Africa

Investor stats

Total investments: 6
Round size: Angel $125k–$590k
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

Personera — Talk to AI characters, challenge them in debates, and earn tokens. Socrates, Elon Musk, Shakespeare and 50+ more await you. Try free now.
Swiftly — Harness your public transit data with Swiftly's urban mobility solutions to make your city's mass transportation move more efficiently.
Appstores.com — Appstores is making it easier for consumers to find apps by giving small and large niche publishers and API/platform companies the tools to showcase apps most relevant to their users.

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Tayo is the Founder & Group CEO of Paga (www.paga.com), Nigeria’s leading mobile money service. Prior to Paga, Tayo was Vice-President at Travant Capital Partners, a private equity fund in West Africa. Prior to joining Travant, Tayo was a Manager, Corporate Development, at Cisco Systems in San Jose California. Tayo’s work at Paga has beenrecognized globally - in 2014 CNBC selected Tayo as the Entrepreneur of the Year West Africa, and in 2015 the African Leadership Network selected Paga as the outstanding growing company of the year in Africa. Tayo is also the co-founder of Kairos Angels, an angel investment club.Tayo earned his Bachelors of Science degree in Electrical Engineering, cum laude, from the University of Southern California, and also has a Masters in Business Administration from the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University.

Investment focus

Industry: Financial Services, SaaS, Credit
Stage:Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
Geography: Nigeria, Brazil, United States

Investor stats

Total investments: 10
Round size: Seed $1.4M–$3.6M
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

RELAYTO Content Experience Platform — RELAYTO converts your PDFs & presentations to interactive web experiences with instant branding, analytics & more
Tyms — Tyms online accounting software for your business connects you to your bank, accountant, bookkeeper, and other business apps. Start a free trial today. Also available in Nigeria, Ghana, Mauritius and South Africa.
Venco Platforms — Venco automates visitor management, billing, and collections, as well as smart utility vending for communities across Africa.

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Samir is a social entrepreneur, writer, and connector committed to bridging the public and private sectors by bringing together diverse communities to eliminate the access gap.In 2015, Samir Co-Founded Esusu, a platform designed to empower users to better save, access capital, and build credit through community savings. Prior to Esusu, SamirCo-Founded Transfernation, a nationally recognized 501(c)3 non-profit which uses technology to ensure excess food from events goes toward underserved communities across New York City. To-date Transfernation has rescued over 300,000 thousand pounds of food and impacted 250,000 lives. For his entrepreneurial endeavors Samir has been recognized as a WEF Global Shaper, Global Good Fund Fellow, Dalai Lama Fellow, Resolution Fellow and was the recipient of the Jefferson Awards Foundation National Public Service Award.In addition to his work as a social entrepreneur, Samir has had the opportunity to build a robust skillset over his time at LinkedIn working across 5 offices in Customer Success Consulting, Talent Acquisition, and Sales Strategy & Operations focused on Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Previously Samir worked at The United Nations, Venture for America, and various non-profits in the New York City areaSamir is an avid writer and contributes for LinkedIn, The Daily Muse, Influencive, Mogul, and Quartz. Samir supplements his entrepreneurship and writing with public speaking engagements, which have ranged from The United Nations to the Clinton Global Initiative's Final Annual Meeting.Samir received his Bachelor's of Science from New York University's Stern School of Business. Samir enjoy's baking & cooking, staying active, travel, writing, and spending time with his family and 4 younger siblings.

Investment focus

Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, SaaS
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
Geography: United States, Nigeria, United Kingdom

Investor stats

Total investments: 6
Round size: Seed $2M–$2.3M
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

Rent Small Small — New Zealand's Biggest most reliable Online Store for all your Phone Parts needs! Fast shipping, NZ owned and Operated and here to help. Shop Now!
Flourish Fi — Creating a banking experience that people love. Enable banks and credit unions to strengthen relationships with a rewards system, financial literacy and savings journey.
Reset Financial Technologies — Reset is an earned-wage access platform that offers employees financial wellness and increases employee retention across industries through mission-driven technology.

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Tom is currently a commercial executive at Clicks2customers.com, a global Search Engine Marketing company. His background is in (bio-) engineering but he has been involved in online companies for the past 10 years. Besides working at Clicks2customers, Tom is a part time lecturer at TSIBA (http://www.tsiba.org.za/) a South AfricanNGO providing tertiary education to economically disadvantaged children. He is also an angel investor in a number is technology startups and is an active member of the Silicon Cape initiative (www.siliconcape.com)

Investment focus

Industry: Apps, Events, Printing
Stage:Angel
Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

Personera — Talk to AI characters, challenge them in debates, and earn tokens. Socrates, Elon Musk, Shakespeare and 50+ more await you. Try free now.

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Wassim Jouini is a Co-Founder at Proservy. He attended CentraleSupélec.

Investment focus

Industry: Apps, Software, Communities
Stage:Seed
Geography: Tunisia

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

VYND — Vynd is revolutionizing North African food services market with a new integrated experience and better value proposition. It aims to provide a fully integrated digital platform to help venue owners better serve their customers and grow their businesses. Creating a Fully Integrated Venue Management System that offers booking, ordering and SPOSsystems, starting by a discovery app that connects customers to restaurants in Tunisia & North Africa.

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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.

Investment focus

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

Investor stats

Total investments: 28
Round size: Seed $1.5M–$7.5M; Pre-Seed $625k–$3.7M
Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

Curacel — Curacel creates APIs & tools that enable businesses to embed insurance in digital channels and to administer claims cost-effectively.
Lorum Finance —
Spleet — ProptechSpleet is an online marketplace for affordable residential rentals and rents financing in Africa. For the tenant, we simplify the rental process by providing flexible rental and payment options and eliminate bureaucracy and expediting the search process. For the landlords, we make renting quicker, safer and better by providing accurateinformation on the tenant and ensuring rental payments are made as and when due.

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Jonathan graduated from Columbia Business School in May 2012. Prior to business school, Jonathan worked in the International Capital Group at Jones Lang LaSalle where he advised foreign and domestic clients on more than $3 billion worth of transactions globally.

Investment focus

Industry: Real Estate, Software, FinTech
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Geography: United States, Canada, Mexico

Investor stats

Total investments: 34
Round size: Seed $1.1M–$8.2M; Pre-Seed $227k–$1.5M; Series A $4M–$18M
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

Parting Pro — Funeral home software dedicated to creating the best death care experience. Grow your business with online arrangements and digital case management.
Spleet — ProptechSpleet is an online marketplace for affordable residential rentals and rents financing in Africa. For the tenant, we simplify the rental process by providing flexible rental and payment options and eliminate bureaucracy and expediting the search process. For the landlords, we make renting quicker, safer and better by providing accurateinformation on the tenant and ensuring rental payments are made as and when due.
Fund That Flip — Fund That Flip offers customized lending for real estate investors. Partner with America's fastest-growing direct lender. Better than your hard money lender.

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Khaled Ben Jilani is a Senior Partner and a member of the ExCom of AfricInvest. He oversees investments early growth investments in Africa.

Investment focus

Industry: Apps, EdTech, FinTech
Stage:Series A, Angel
Geography: Tunisia, United States

Investor stats

Total investments: 3
Round size: Series A $8M–$22M
Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow

Portfolio highlights

VYND — Vynd is revolutionizing North African food services market with a new integrated experience and better value proposition. It aims to provide a fully integrated digital platform to help venue owners better serve their customers and grow their businesses. Creating a Fully Integrated Venue Management System that offers booking, ordering and SPOSsystems, starting by a discovery app that connects customers to restaurants in Tunisia & North Africa.
Kredete — Join 4.6M+ users managing money across 50+ markets. Send, spend, and save globally with AI-powered transfers, stablecoin cards, and instant payments.
GoMyCode — GoMyCode is changing the education market by training talents in a dynamic belnded environement on digital skills and connects them with tech opportunities around the world. Based on 4 Main Aspects: - Data based Assessment - Data based matching - Business Analytics - Learning Platform - Content EditorGoMyCode provides digital Skills Training forthe Future of Work. In 4 Different fields: - DATA - DEVELOPMENT - DESIGN - DIGITAL MARKETING

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Ire Aderinokun - Co-Founder , COO & VP of Engineering @ Buycoins

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Ticketing, E-Commerce
Stage:Pre-Seed
Geography: Nigeria, Germany

Investor stats

Total investments: 5
Round size: Pre-Seed $15k–$1.1M
Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

Prizeless.ng — Prizeless.ng is an online platform that compares product prices across online stores in one place. The service allows users to search for products and view listed prices from multiple sellers. Product categories include electronics, phones, laptops, groceries, gaming items, cameras, accessories, and home products. The platform shows trendingsearches and featured items based on search activity. Users can compare listings, review product details, and select a store to complete a purchase. The service also provides guides and articles that explain product choices and buying steps.
tix.africa — Tix is a refreshing approach to event ticketing in Africa. Create and sell your first ticket from your phone in under 10 minutes.
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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Souhail Ben Abdallah

Investment focus

Industry: Apps, Software, Communities
Stage:Seed
Geography: Tunisia

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

VYND — Vynd is revolutionizing North African food services market with a new integrated experience and better value proposition. It aims to provide a fully integrated digital platform to help venue owners better serve their customers and grow their businesses. Creating a Fully Integrated Venue Management System that offers booking, ordering and SPOSsystems, starting by a discovery app that connects customers to restaurants in Tunisia & North Africa.

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Markus Gemuend is the former Managing Director of Roche Africa.

Investment focus

Industry: Women's, mHealth, Health Care
Stage:Pre-Seed
Geography: Kenya

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

Malaica — Experience Obstetrician-gynaecologist led antenatal clinics, digital support, emergency access,and a community that walks with you.

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Eduardo Campos is a Co-founder and Partner at ONEVC. A former management consultant (Monitor Group), he has been an active operator and investor in the Brazilian tech ecosystem since 2012, backing companies like Gympass, Creditas, and QuintoAndar. Eduardo also founded Parafuzo ('14), an early Brazilian local services marketplace, and Yuca('19), a leading residential real estate operator. He is passionate about supporting early-stage entrepreneurs in software, marketplace, fintech, and internet/consumer businesses.

Investment focus

Industry: SaaS, Travel, Fitness
Stage:Seed
Geography: Brazil, United States, Nigeria

Investor stats

Total investments: 5
Round size: Seed $50k–$2.6M
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

Faster — Faster is a graphic design subscription service that unlocks the full potential of your marketing team!
idwall — Idwall develops software to help small and medium-sized businesses in the customer credentialing process. It is focused on providing businesses with document validation, background check, and identity verification solutions and services. The company offers a real-time alert system that enables its users to verify customers’ data in signups andpurchases. It also provides implementation and consulting services for its solutions.Idwall was founded in July 2016 and is headquartered in São Paulo, Sao Paulo.
Spleet — ProptechSpleet is an online marketplace for affordable residential rentals and rents financing in Africa. For the tenant, we simplify the rental process by providing flexible rental and payment options and eliminate bureaucracy and expediting the search process. For the landlords, we make renting quicker, safer and better by providing accurateinformation on the tenant and ensuring rental payments are made as and when due.

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