Top 5 Community Angel Investors in South Africa (July 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Tom Berckt
Angel
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1 | South Africa | Angel | Apps, Events, Printing | |
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Yossi Hasson
Angel
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1 | South Africa, United States, Ghana | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, Blockchain, Payments | $120k–$551k |
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Vinny Lingham
Angel
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1 | United States, South Africa, United Kingdom | Seed, Angel | Blockchain, Internet, Software | $125k–$5.6M |
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Michael Leeman
Angel
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1 | United States, South Africa | Angel, Seed | Apps, Software, Publishing | $125k–$590k |
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Hesham Zreik
Angel
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1 | United States, Nigeria, India | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence | $20k–$5M |
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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)
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- Industry: Apps, Events, Printing
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
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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.
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- 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.
Vinny Lingham is the Co-Founder and CEO of Rumi.ai(Waitroom). He previously worked at YPO as a Member. Vinny Lingham attended Harvard Business School Executive Education.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Internet, Software
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: United States, South Africa, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 39
- Round size: Seed $2.5M–$5.6M; Angel $125k–$500k
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Glif — Interoperable tools for the Filecoin network
- Sweatcoin — Sweatcoin is a digital currency backed by physical movement. They verify and convert movement into currency. Users can then donate it to charity, transfer to other users or spend on products, services, and experiences provided by Sweatcoin vendors and user community.Sweatcoin tackles Present Bias by moving the future benefits of exercise into thehere and now- immediately converting movement into a digital currency and changing the perception of physical movement.
- Shield USDT — Shield is the first B2B cryptocurrency exchange designed for international businesses. Access a US-based virtual bank account to buy, sell, and transfer crypto.
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.
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- 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.
Hesham Zreik is the CEO of FasterCapital. He previously worked at DreamApps as a Project Manager. Hesham attended the University of Westminster.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 755
- Round size: Seed $50k–$2.1M; Pre-Seed $20k–$1M; Series A $170k–$5M
- Lead/follow: 55% lead, 45% follow
Portfolio highlights
- FellowMe — FellowMe is a social media platform that allows users to meet new people with a search experience, segmented by interests and location.
- Exnus Protocol — Exnus Protocol is a next-generation decentralized ecosystem built on the Solana blockchain.
- UrbanFarmers — UrbanFarmers is a platform that connects city dwellers with local urban farms and community gardens.
Community Angel investor funding in South Africa at a glance
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