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Top 50 Consumer Angel Investors in Africa (October 2026)

The most active angel investors investing in Africa Consumer startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Africa Consumer startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Cem Garih
Angel
3 United States, India, Kenya Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence $460k–$38M
Justin Mateen
Angel
3 United States, Mexico, India Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, E-Commerce, Health Care $400k–$30M
Olugbenga Agboola
Angel
2 Nigeria, Kenya, United States Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel FinTech, Financial Services, Payments $625k–$7.5M
Lars Fjeldsoe-Nielsen
Angel
2 United States, United Kingdom, Denmark Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $1.8M–$125M
Patricia Ithau
Angel
2 Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed Beauty, Retail, Fashion
Kevin Ambrosini
Angel
2 United States, Egypt, Kenya Seed, Series B, Series A E-Commerce, Logistics, Fashion $2.5M–$60M
Anthony Nicalo
Angel
1 Kenya Pre-Seed Banking, FinTech, Embedded Software
Vikram Chopra
Angel
1 India, South Africa Seed, Series B Internet, Retail, Fashion $1.3M–$9.5M
Jean-Paul Zammitt
Angel
1 South Africa Seed Retail, Fashion
Victoria van Lennep
Angel
1 United Kingdom, France, Spain Series A, Pre-Seed, Seed Financial Services, FinTech, EdTech $686k–$23M
Jared Leto
Angel
1 United States, Nigeria Series A, Series B, Seed Software, FinTech, Financial Services $1.5M–$80M
Pierre Martensson
Angel
1 Kenya Seed Beauty, Retail, Consumer
Mato Perić
Angel
1 Germany, India, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce $2M–$100M
Frank Smit
Angel
1 South Africa Seed Fashion
Sumit Bhasin
Angel
1 Kenya Pre-Seed Fashion, E-Commerce, Information Services
Kendall Tang
Angel
1 Kenya Pre-Seed Fashion, E-Commerce, Information Services
Michael Vaughan
Angel
1 United States, Brazil, Germany Seed, Series A, Series B FinTech, Financial Services, Software $3M–$100M
Sean Mahsoul
Angel
1 Nigeria Seed FinTech, Computer, Software
Kiprono Elvis Terigin
Angel
1 Kenya Seed Beauty, Retail, Consumer
Daniel Funk
Angel
1 South Africa Seed Retail, Fashion
Babatunde Soyoye
Angel
1 United Kingdom, Kenya Seed, Grant, Series A Apps, SaaS, Legal
Jordan Nel
Angel
1 Nigeria Seed Drones, Big Data, Cyber Security
Cheryl Heller
Angel
1 Kenya Seed Hardware, Telecommunications, Enterprise Software
Trond Riiber Knudsen
Angel
1 Norway, United States, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Software, SaaS, Machine Learning $300k–$3.5M
Jim Sorenson
Angel
1 United States, Kenya Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Gaming, Banking, FinTech $1.8M–$3.3M
Ashley Lewis
Angel
1 Egypt, Togo, Kenya Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, Financial Services, Retail $500k–$38M
Sebastien Breteau
Angel
1 United States, France, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Angel FinTech, Software, Apps $500k–$150M
Tushar Ahluwalia
Angel
1 Germany, Mexico, South Africa Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Retail, InsurTech, Insurance $3.4M–$50M
Matthew Kalish
Angel
1 United States, Kenya Seed, Angel, Series A Gaming, Web3, Retail $1.5M–$5M
Leonard Stiegeler
Angel
1 Nigeria, South Africa, United States Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed FinTech, Financial Services, B2B $1.3M–$6M
Kwehnui Tawah
Angel
1 Kenya Seed Beauty, Retail, Consumer
Rajesh Sawhney
Angel
1 India, United States, Singapore Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence $11k–$2.1M
Joe Caruso
Angel
1 United States, France, Israel Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, SaaS, Internet $420k–$2.2M
Gregory Rockson
Angel
1 Kenya, Germany, Nigeria Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed FinTech, Financial Services, B2B
Chibuzo Ujam
Angel
1 Nigeria Angel Drones, Energy, Delivery
Ashwin Ravichandran
Angel
1 Ghana, Nigeria, United States Non-Equity Assistance, Pre-Seed, Seed Education, Health Care, Information Technology $100k–$1.2M
Kanyi Maqubela
Angel
1 United States, Brazil, Canada Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Artificial Intelligence, FinTech, Software $1.2M–$108M
Echukwudi Daniel
Angel
1 Nigeria Angel Drones, Energy, Delivery
Matt Sutton
Angel
1 Kenya, Singapore, United States Seed Retail, eSports, Software
Shola Akinlade
Angel
1 Nigeria, Kenya, Rwanda Pre-Seed, Seed FinTech, Education, Insurance $192k–$4M
Oliver Merkel
Angel
1 Germany, South Africa, United States Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Retail, Fashion, Banking $6M–$9.8M
Meyer Malka
Angel
1 United States, Brazil, India Series A, Series C, Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence $1M–$133M
Hesham Zreik
Angel
1 United States, India, Nigeria Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce $10k–$5M
Dr Ritesh Malik
Angel
1 India, United States, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology $160k–$5M
Gary Scheft
Angel
1 Kenya Seed Hardware, Telecommunications, Enterprise Software
Ugochukwu Aronu
Angel
1 Nigeria Seed, Pre-Seed Web3, Drones, Energy
Andrea Iannelli
Angel
1 Kenya Seed Beauty, Retail, Consumer
Ben Munoz
Angel
1 Kenya Pre-Seed Fashion, E-Commerce, Information Services
Peter anker
Angel
1 Kenya Seed Beauty, Retail, Consumer
Camilla Hagen Sørli
Angel
1 Kenya Seed Beauty, Retail, Consumer
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Cem Garih
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in Africa Consumer startups

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, India, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 36
  • Round size: Seed $2.4M–$11M; Pre-Seed $460k–$2M; Series A $5M–$38M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • TuMeke Ergonomics — Computer vision joint tracking for ergonomic risk assessments. Automate assessments so you can focus on implementing solutions.
  • Troop — Troop is an app for retail investors to vote, organize shareholder resolutions and activist campaigns. Sign up for early access today.
  • Moment — Engineering the future of fixed income with the world's leading financial institutions.
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Justin Mateen
Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States · 3 investments in Africa Consumer startups

Justin Mateen is the Cofounder and former CMO of Tinder, the world's largest dating platform. In 2021, and 2022 Business Insider ranked Mateen as the best early stage investor in the US, placing him at the number 1 spot on the top 100 list of US Seed Investors both years. In 2020, Forbes included Mateen on their list of the decade's top 10 tech entrepreneurs. Fast Company has listed him as one of the most creative people in business. Founded in 2012, Tinder is the highest grossing app on Apple's app store since 2017 and was valued at over $40 Billion dollars in 2021.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Estate Media — Real Estate's Biggest Personalities Under one Roof
  • Subquadratic — Subquadratic is a frontier AI research and infrastructure company building a new class of LLMs.
  • Hidden Studios — Hidden Studios develops and advertises Fortnite Creative games, with 100M+ plays monthly. The company collaborated with prominent brands and creators, including Skydance, Snoop Dogg, and CaseOh, to deliver engaging gaming experiences. Hidden Studios maintains an active presence on YouTube, sharing content related to their Fortnite Creativeendeavors.
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Olugbenga Agboola
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Africa Consumer startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 30
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$7.5M; Pre-Seed $625k–$3.7M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Lagos Life — Lagos Life a massively popular browser-based life-simulation game modeled after Nigeria's commercial capital. Within nine days of launch, the game attracted over 4.7 million players, featuring fully simulated career tracks, social hubs, local virtual economies, and real-time multiplayer functionality directly inside web browsers.
  • Terra Industries — Terra Industries develops and supplies autonomous security and defense technology systems that help monitor and safeguard critical infrastructure such as power plants, mines, refineries, and other industrial assets. The company creates unmanned aerial drones, autonomous ground vehicles, surveillance towers, and maritime monitoring systems that operate with its proprietary ArtemisOS platform for real-time threat detection, autonomous mission planning, and coordinated response across land, air, and sea environments. Its offerings support infrastructure operators and government agencies in detecting and responding to security risks with integrated hardware and software solutions. Terra Industries focuses on delivering systems that integrate data intelligence and autonomy to enhance wide-area surveillance and operational awareness across large or remote facilities.
  • Lorum Finance — Lorum is the correspondent institution for banks and fintechs: programmable access to global clearing, named custody, and treasury on a 100% reserve model.
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Lars Fjeldsoe-Nielsen
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in Africa Consumer startups

Lars Fjeldsoe-Nielsen grew up across Africa, from Angola and Guinea-Bissau to Tanzania and Libya, after his family fled the Angolan Civil War as refugees. Those early experiences instilled in him a belief that education, technology, and social innovation can transform lives and continue to anchor his career and philanthropic activities to this day.Today, Lars is a General Partner at Owl Ventures ($2.2 billion AUM), the world’s leading venture capital firm focused exclusively on education technology. He leads Owl’s expansion across Europe, Africa, and global markets, backing founders who harness AI and breakthrough technologies to make learning more accessible and impactful.Before joining Owl, Lars co-founded 2xN, an early-stage fund at the frontier of deeptech and quantum innovation, with standout investments including Quantinuum (valued above $10 billion), Oxford Ionics (acquired by IonQ in a $1 billion deal), QSimulate, and Sparrow Quantum. Prior to that, he was a General Partner at Balderton Capital in London during which time the firm led the Seed and Series A rounds in Revolut. His investments also span education (Labster, uLesson, StudySmarter, Kukua), mobility (Yassir, Voi, Monta, NoTraffic), and mobile and frontier tech (Hiya, Monarch Money, Rahko, Pocket, Colossal, Celus, Octant Bio, Vivino, OpenSea, Blue Bottle Coffee).Lars previously spent a decade in Silicon Valley, shaping some of tech’s most iconic growth stories. At Uber, he joined when it operated in fewer than 20 cities and, as Vice President, forged global alliances with Verizon and América Móvil that fueled its international expansion. Before Uber, as Head of Mobile at Dropbox, he was among the first 25 employees and helped the company reach its first 100 million users through partnerships with Samsung and other OEMs.Despite his career in technology and venture capital, Africa has never left Lars’s journey. After his father’s passing, he returned to Angola to trace his family’s history, discovering that his sister had died of malaria as a child. That revelation transformed a personal loss into a mission. A technologist turned humanitarian innovator, Lars filed a patent for genetically modified mosquitoes that light up when carrying malaria and began funding malaria-research projects in Angola through partnerships with global nonprofits. In 2024, he climbed Mount Kilimanjaro to raise funds for malaria research, following earlier campaigns such as climbing the Matterhorn and crossing the Sahara by motorbike.A Danish-Portuguese national who served with the Royal Danish Guards, Lars holds an MBA from London Business School, where he was a member of the Board of Governors and Chairman of the Endowment Fund, an MSc from Oxford University (Keble College), and a BSc from King’s College London. Across every chapter, from refugee to technologist to investor, his purpose endures: advancing education, health, and innovation as catalysts for social change.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Denmark

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 103
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$10M; Series A $6.4M–$48M; Series B $15M–$125M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Blue — An Operating System for your Personal Health. Join the waitlist here.
  • UrbanKisaan — Smart growing rooms and AI that reads plant DNA. Breed and grow crops faster, all year, in any climate.
  • Colossal Biosciences — The science of genetics. The business of discovery.
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Patricia Ithau
Angel · 2 investments in Africa Consumer startups

Patricia Ithau

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Beauty, Retail, Fashion
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Kenya

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Shop Zetu — Shop the latest trendy fashion, beauty and accessory brands in Kenya online! Discover affordable clothing, footwear, accessories, beauty products and more. Order today from Shop Zetu.
  • Uncover — Dermatologist-tested K-Beauty formulas powered by African botanicals for melanin-rich skin. Shop SPF 50 sunscreen, serums & kits with free Kenya shipping.
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Kevin Ambrosini
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in Africa Consumer startups

Kevin Ambrosini is Chief Strategy Officer at Payoneer, a publicly-traded fintech with $80bn volume (+21% year-over-year), $1bn revenue and 28% adj EBITDA margins [2024]. Previously, Kevin was the Head of Global Strategy & GM, North America at Alibaba.com, where he helped take the business from revenue of $800m and 4% annual growth to $3bn and30% annual growth over 4 years. Kevin join Alibaba through its acquisition of OpenSky, where he was Co-founder and CFO. Kevin graduated from the University of California, Berkeley.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Logistics, Fashion
  • Stage:Seed, Series B, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Egypt, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $2.5M–$7.5M; Series B $39M–$60M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • MaxAB — At Maxab, we change how retailers run their business by bringing E-commerce, marketplace, and fintech together in one platform.
  • buywith — buywith is an online shopping Livestream marketplace for retailers & brands, where influencers and experts can broadcast online shopping sessions with their followers & make them buy via a highly engaging experience. We help brands generate more revenues from their e-commerce activity and increase their ROI.
  • Passport — Passport is the modern shipping carrier for international ecommerce that helps direct-to-consumer brands ship their products internationally.
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Anthony Nicalo
Angel · Valencia, Comunidad Valenciana, Spain · 1 investments in Africa Consumer startups

Anthony Nicalo

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Banking, FinTech, Embedded Software
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Kenya

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Alvin — Alvin is a powerful mobile app that automatically creates and adjusts your budget to help you meet your goals.
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Vikram Chopra
Angel · Gurgaon, Haryana, India · 1 investments in Africa Consumer startups

Vikram Chopra is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of CARS24. He is a former Co-FOunder of FabFurnish and Investment Analyst of Sequoia Capital and was Business Analyst at McKinsey & Company.Mr. Chopra received a BTech and MTech in Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, and earned an MBA in Finance at the Universityof Pennsylvania - The Wharton School.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Retail, Fashion
  • Stage:Seed, Series B
  • Geography: India, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$9.5M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Cautio — The future of road safety starts here.
  • Ninecamp — Ninecamp is a food and beverage company. They anticipate creating new and unique brands with a strong emphasis on high-quality offerings in product, service, and design.
  • 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.
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Jean-Paul Zammitt
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Africa Consumer startups

Jean-Paul Zammitt

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Retail, Fashion
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% 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.
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Victoria van Lennep
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Africa Consumer startups

Victoria van Lennep - Co-Founder @ Lendable

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, EdTech
  • Stage:Series A, Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, France, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$5.5M; Pre-Seed $686k–$1.9M; Series A $16M–$23M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • GoodCourse — GoodCourse is where TikTok-style content meets expert-made learning paths - to build safer and bias-free cultures.
  • Virgil — Virgil provides a financial solution to assist individuals in purchasing a home. For the buyer, Virgil is a dormant partner: in exchange for an investment of 10% of the price, Virgil buys 15% of the apartment and is paid at the time of resale, at the latest 10 years after the purchase. Virgil allows young working people to become owners on average7 years earlier than the average first-time buyer, i.e. as much rent saved. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Paris, France.
  • Defacto — Never fall behind with defacto's instant financing solution. We also integrate with your accounting systems & scale to your needs. Join our wait list !
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Jared Leto
Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States · 1 investments in Africa Consumer startups

Jared Leto is a musician, actor, director, entrepreneur, and artist.His two decades of work as an actor have encompassed a host of intense and transformative performances. Leto’s recent performance as the transgender AIDS patient Rayon in Dallas Buyers Club earned him both an Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor, aswell as honors from nearly 60 critics’ organizations. Leto is set to play legendary villain, The Joker, in the upcoming supervillain film Suicide Squad (2016). Leto was honored with a Gotham Independent Film Award and Toronto International Film Festival's People's Choice Award for his debut documentary feature, Artifact. Mr. Leto directed Artifact under the pseudonym Bartholomew Cubbins, the same alias under which he directs the award winning music videos for the multi-platinum-selling rock band, Thirty Seconds to Mars. Leto is the singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist for the band, which has released four albums, including the recent Love Lust Faith + Dreams (2013). Notorious for their relentless touring, they have circled the globe playing sold-out arenas since 1998 and in support of the album This Is War, they played over 300 shows in nearly 60 countries on six continents to 3 million people, thereby breaking the Guinness World Record for the longest-ever concert tour by a rock band.Thirty Seconds to Mars has sold over ten million albums worldwide and their music videos have received more than a billion views on YouTube. The group has received numerous awards worldwide, including over a dozen MTV Awards; a Billboard Music Award; and honors from NME, Kerrang!, and Fuse. They were nominated for three 2013 MTV VMAs, including best rock video, which they won.Additionally he is deeply entrenched in tech as both an investor and founder. Leto has made over fifty tech investments (Uber, Nest, Airbnb, Stripe, Slack, Zenefits) and serves as advisor for several start-ups. He is the founder of Adventures In Wonderland, The Hive, VyRT, and A Sharp Knife.

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  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 48
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$28M; Series A $3.8M–$50M; Series B $14M–$80M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Replit — Replit is a simple yet powerful online IDE, Editor, Compiler, Interpreter, and REPL. Code, compile, run, and host in 50+ programming languages.
  • Moonlake AI — Vibe code games and worlds into existence.
  • Terra Industries — Terra Industries develops and supplies autonomous security and defense technology systems that help monitor and safeguard critical infrastructure such as power plants, mines, refineries, and other industrial assets. The company creates unmanned aerial drones, autonomous ground vehicles, surveillance towers, and maritime monitoring systems that operate with its proprietary ArtemisOS platform for real-time threat detection, autonomous mission planning, and coordinated response across land, air, and sea environments. Its offerings support infrastructure operators and government agencies in detecting and responding to security risks with integrated hardware and software solutions. Terra Industries focuses on delivering systems that integrate data intelligence and autonomy to enhance wide-area surveillance and operational awareness across large or remote facilities.
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Pierre Martensson
Angel · 1 investments in Africa Consumer startups

Pierre Martensson

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  • Industry: Beauty, Retail, Consumer
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Kenya

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Uncover — Dermatologist-tested K-Beauty formulas powered by African botanicals for melanin-rich skin. Shop SPF 50 sunscreen, serums & kits with free Kenya shipping.
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Mato Perić
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Africa Consumer startups

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

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Frank Smit, an early-stage investor and startup mentor with experience in B2B software.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Fashion
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Kloset Klub — South Africa's 1st video-based resale fashion platform. Discover affordable second-hand clothes on WISI-Oi. Buy or sell effortlessly with ease!
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Sumit Bhasin
Angel · 1 investments in Africa Consumer startups

Sumit Bhasin is the Senior Vice President, Innovation, Product Development, Corp R&D at The Estée Lauder Companies Inc.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Fashion, E-Commerce, Information Services
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Kenya

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Shop Zetu — Shop the latest trendy fashion, beauty and accessory brands in Kenya online! Discover affordable clothing, footwear, accessories, beauty products and more. Order today from Shop Zetu.
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Kendall Tang
Angel · Pointe Aux Sables, Black River, Mauritius · 1 investments in Africa Consumer startups

Kendall Tang is the CEO of RT Knits. He attended HEI - Advanced Engineering Studies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Fashion, E-Commerce, Information Services
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Kenya

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Shop Zetu — Shop the latest trendy fashion, beauty and accessory brands in Kenya online! Discover affordable clothing, footwear, accessories, beauty products and more. Order today from Shop Zetu.
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Michael Vaughan
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Africa Consumer startups

Michael Vaughan is based out of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and is the Chief Executive Officer of North America of IG Group. Michael Vaughan previously worked at Stem Disintermedia as a Board Member. Michael Vaughan attended The Wharton School.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Brazil, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 28
  • Round size: Seed $3M–$10M; Series A $12M–$100M; Series B $28M–$61M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Flip — Transfer uang, top up e-wallet & kirim uang ke luar negeri lebih mudah dengan Flip. Bayar pulsa, listrik, BPJS, PDAM, dan pembayaran lainnya bisa lebih hemat.
  • Kick — Daily bookkeeping for the modern business owner. Minimize your audit risk and only pay when you save. Join now and get your first $5,000 in Savings Credits.
  • Maplerad — Global payment infrastructure for businesses.
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Sean Mahsoul
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Africa Consumer startups

Sean Mahsoul

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Computer, Software
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Maplerad — Global payment infrastructure for businesses.
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Kiprono Elvis Terigin
Angel · 1 investments in Africa Consumer startups

Kiprono Elvis Terigin

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Beauty, Retail, Consumer
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Kenya

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Uncover — Dermatologist-tested K-Beauty formulas powered by African botanicals for melanin-rich skin. Shop SPF 50 sunscreen, serums & kits with free Kenya shipping.
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Daniel Funk
Angel · 1 investments in Africa Consumer startups

Daniel Funk

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Retail, Fashion
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% 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.
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Babatunde Soyoye
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Africa Consumer startups

Mr. Soyoye holds a Master of Business Administration degree and Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering. He is a co-founder of Helios Investment Partners and a Board member of Africatel Holdings B.V.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, SaaS, Legal
  • Stage:Seed, Grant, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Kenya

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Wasoko — Increasing purchasing power across Africa. Making every retailer thrive, every shopper happy and every community shine! We are Wasoko.
  • Definely — Definely creates legal tech solutions to free lawyers from frustration, saving them time when understanding, drafting and reviewing legal documents.
  • The Medic App — Medic was formed to provide the go-to integrated solution for patients, clinicians and carers globally. In doing so we want to improve medication management, enhance healthcare services and ultimately improve patient prognosis.
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Jordan Nel
Angel · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in Africa Consumer startups

Jordan Nel

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Drones, Big Data, Cyber Security
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Terra Industries — Terra Industries develops and supplies autonomous security and defense technology systems that help monitor and safeguard critical infrastructure such as power plants, mines, refineries, and other industrial assets. The company creates unmanned aerial drones, autonomous ground vehicles, surveillance towers, and maritime monitoring systems that operate with its proprietary ArtemisOS platform for real-time threat detection, autonomous mission planning, and coordinated response across land, air, and sea environments. Its offerings support infrastructure operators and government agencies in detecting and responding to security risks with integrated hardware and software solutions. Terra Industries focuses on delivering systems that integrate data intelligence and autonomy to enhance wide-area surveillance and operational awareness across large or remote facilities.
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Cheryl Heller
Angel · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States · 1 investments in Africa Consumer startups

Cheryl is the Founding Chair of the first MFA program in Design for Social Innovation at SVA and the founder of the design lab CommonWise. She is a business strategist and communication designer who has founded two companies and taughtcreativity to leaders and organizations around the world, helped grow businesses from small regionalenterprises to multi-billion global market leaders, launched category-redefining divisions and products, reinvigorated moribund cultures, and designed strategies for hundreds of successful entrepreneurs. Cheryl received the prestigious AIGA medal for her contribution to the field of design in 2014.She is a Matrix Award winner for excellence in communication and has been profiled through articles in the New York Times, the Boston Globe, BusinessWeek and many others. Her work in included in the permanent collection of the Library of Congress.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Hardware, Telecommunications, Enterprise Software
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Kenya

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • BRCK — BRCK is an integrated hardware and software company based in Nairobi, Kenya that designs and engineers a rugged, self-powered, mobile WiFi device which connects people and things to the internet in areas of the world with poor infrastructure. Our vision is a world connected, where the last-mile of internet connectivity is as seamless for someoneliving in Africa as it is in Europe or the US. Ushahidi is a global organization that empowers people to make serious impact with open source technologies, cross-sector partnerships, and ground-breaking ventures.
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Trond Riiber Knudsen
Angel · Oslo, Oslo, Norway · 1 investments in Africa Consumer startups

Trond Riiber Knudsen is a Founder of TRK GROUP.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Machine Learning
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Norway, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Seed $320k–$3.5M; Angel $300k–$1.2M; Pre-Seed $368k–$1.8M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Soolv — AI that turns messy application documents into structured data - so you can instantly score candidates and reveal early patterns of success.
  • SportAI — SportAI is a B2B sports technology firm that is spearheading the revolution in sports technique coaching, commentary, and analysis using advanced AI and machine learning. The company aims to boost sports performance and make high-quality sports data more accessible. SportAI's SaaS platform, powered by Computer Vision and Machine Learning,delivers unbiased sports technique analysis and AI-generated sports data to different sectors in the sports industry. This technology can seamlessly integrate into broadcasting, training apps, simulators, sporting equipment brands, and product recommendation websites, offering significant benefits to the global sports industry.
  • Starflow — Starflow goal is to create a scalable energy system that helps people achieve energy independence.
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Jim Sorenson
Angel · 1 investments in Africa Consumer startups

Jim Sorenson a renowned entrepreneur, business leader, and social investor and has built multiple highly successful companies in industries ranging from technology and life sciences to real estate and private equity investment. Jim is the founder and former CEO of Sorenson Media and Sorenson Communications, with the latter sold in one of the mostlucrative private equity deals in Utah Unversity .

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, Banking, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$3.3M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Funium — Funium, a Provo, Utah-based Facebook games developer. The flagship game is Family Village, which is currently in Alpha testing. A limited beta test is planned for Q2 2011.
  • BRCK — BRCK is an integrated hardware and software company based in Nairobi, Kenya that designs and engineers a rugged, self-powered, mobile WiFi device which connects people and things to the internet in areas of the world with poor infrastructure. Our vision is a world connected, where the last-mile of internet connectivity is as seamless for someoneliving in Africa as it is in Europe or the US. Ushahidi is a global organization that empowers people to make serious impact with open source technologies, cross-sector partnerships, and ground-breaking ventures.
  • ImpactAlpha — Breaking news, data and analysis to sustain an edge in impact investing. Trusted insights. Climate. Policy. Sustainability. Finance.
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Ashley Lewis
Angel · Washington, District of Columbia, United States · 1 investments in Africa Consumer startups

Ashley Lewis - Director, Africa - Accion Venture Lab @ Accion Ventures

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Financial Services, Retail
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Egypt, Togo, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$1.8M; Series A $16M–$38M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Khazna — Khazna is an Egyptian company that aims to improve and expand financial services for Egyptians through the mobile application.
  • Sylndr — Sylndr is an automotive focused e-commerce marketplace bringing innovation to the used-cars market, where customers can reliably and transparently sell and buy used cars. The company is aiming to build trust in the used-car market by becoming the go-to place for customers seeking to sell and buy their cars, through an extensive range ofhigh-quality used vehicles accessible across a diverse set of financing solutions.
  • MIA Group — MIA Group is a consumer internet company in Francophone Africa. We are on a mission to make commerce easy through a digital ecosystem fulfilling the everyday needs of consumers online and offline.Our businesses include Miaplenou.com: The largest online retail platform operating in Togo, Benin, Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso. Launched 2012.Kiosk: online reselling App that enables anyone to start a business without investment. Launched 2021.MiaPay: QR code payment and lifestyle services
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Sebastien Breteau
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Africa Consumer startups

Sebastien Breteau is an entrepreneur, investor, avocado farmer & philanthropist. He is the founder and CEO of QIMA, a global quality and compliance solutions provider for the consumer goods, food, and life sciences industries. Founded in 2005, QIMA partners with 30,000 brands, retailers, manufacturers and food growers globally, helping themmake products consumers can trust with inspections, ESG audits, testing, and certification services. The company has become a leading player, employing over 5,000 people worldwide and operating in over 100 countries (www.qima.com). In 2013, Sebastien founded the Breteau Foundation, a NPO which aims at giving underprivileged children access to digital education. 180,000 children are now enrolled in its program (www.breteaufoundation.org). In 2019, Sebastien founded RayoVerde, and has built one of the biggest avocado farms in Europe (Andalucia, Spain), using the latest organic farming techniques and water needs optimization. Sebastien Breteau is also an active private investor in Europe, China & the US and has invested directly in over 70 start-ups globally.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Software, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: United States, France, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 21
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$3M; Series A $6.5M–$150M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ziwig — Ziwig helps to improve women's health through a holistic approach and the development of products, services, and a support ecosystem, guided by science and unique biology. of each person. Their approach, constantly supported by excellent research, is based on the close collaboration of medical experts and engineers specializing in cutting-edgetechnologies, such as artificial intelligence and high-throughput sequencing of human RNAs. Their ecosystem functioning, driven by meaning and centered on the person, using disruptive technologies contributes to the emergence of precision medicine, individualized, predictive and participatory, at the service of well-being and quality of life.
  • REWORTH — En Reworth conectamos a instituciones financieras y comercios para ofrecer a los consumidores el programa de cashback personalizado mas efectivo.
  • Sundayapp — Our solution is the world's fastest and easiest way to pay at restaurants. Your customers scan a QR code and pay in 10 seconds
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Tushar Ahluwalia
Angel · 1 investments in Africa Consumer startups

Tushar Ahluwalia is based out of Germany and is the CEO and Co-Founder of GeneralMind. Tushar previously worked at Razor Group as a Co-CEO and Co-Founder. Tushar Ahluwalia attended London Business School.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Retail, InsurTech, Insurance
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Germany, Mexico, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $6M–$50M; Pre-Seed $3.4M–$6.2M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • NUMOS — NUMOS is an insurance tech platform.
  • Xaver — Xaver enables Financial Institutions to close Europe’s pension gap. By offering an advanced AI-driven B2B platform for life insurance and private pension sales, Xaver enhances the operational and sales efficiency of banks, insurers, and brokers by up to 65% and introduces a new era of white-labeled private pension products.With a leadership teamof experienced industry veterans - Max Bachem, Ole Breulmann, and Dr. Björn Holste - and backing from leading VC funds and a prominent group of former financial institution executives, fintech pioneers, and unicorn founders, Xaver is dedicated to improving the pension situation of Europeans through their B2B offering.
  • 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.
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Matthew Kalish
Angel · Boston, Massachusetts, United States · 1 investments in Africa Consumer startups

Matt Kalish is the founder and CRO of DraftKings, a knowledge-based daily fantasy sports website.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, Web3, Retail
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$5M
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • FaZe Media — FaZe Media intends to return creative control to the personalities that created the brand in the first place.
  • Nifty League — A game studio at the cutting edge of Web3 with a mission to inspire other indie game developers to build a decentralized future with us.
  • Playtertainment — Playtertainment provides combination of classic arcade games and mobile technology and offers real live-streaming games with real prizes, enabling gamers to play live games directly from their phone.
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Leonard Stiegeler
Angel · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 1 investments in Africa Consumer startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Kwehnui Tawah is the Head of Platform Services + Special Projects at Sokowatch. He attended the University of Chicago.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Beauty, Retail, Consumer
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Kenya

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Uncover — Dermatologist-tested K-Beauty formulas powered by African botanicals for melanin-rich skin. Shop SPF 50 sunscreen, serums & kits with free Kenya shipping.
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Rajesh Sawhney
Angel · Gurgaon, Haryana, India · 1 investments in Africa Consumer startups

Rajesh is the co-founder and CEO of InnerChef and Super Angels. He holds a bachelor's degree in electronic engineering from Delhi University, and a master's degree in management from Mumbai University. He has also done a fellowship in 'Globalisation and Leadership' from the London School of Economics and Social Sciences.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: India, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 93
  • Round size: Seed $300k–$1.9M; Angel $160k–$414k; Pre-Seed $11k–$2.1M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • SIGN3 Technologies — Sign3 is an AI-powered customer intelligence platform combining device intelligence, digital footprint, and smart rules to solve fraud, underwriting, and growth challenges.
  • Arivihan — Learn about Arivihan's mission to provide high-quality, personalized online education in vernacular languages for K-12 students across India.
  • FlexifyMe — FlexifyMe is to achieve mental, physical, and spiritual harmony through live 1-on-1 and group sessions with our world-class yoga, meditation, and nutrition coaches.
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Joe Caruso
Angel · Boston, Massachusetts, United States · 1 investments in Africa Consumer startups

For the last 20 years Joe has served as mentor, coach, and personal advisor to CEO’s and entrepreneurs. In recent years, he has served as investor, advisor and active director with dozens of companies, public and private.Joe is currently a member of Launchpad Venture Group and was previously a member of Walnut Ventures, Common Angels, eCoastAngels and a principal of Brookwood Partners, all investment groups for early stage companies. He also maintains an active consulting practice dealing with structuring and negotiation of acquisitions, strategic partnerships and financings, and issues related to dispute resolution.He has served on dozens of boards over the years and is recipient of the Leadership in Private Corporate Governance award from the National Association of Corporate Directors New England Chapter. He is a graduate of Northeastern University (BSEE with honors) and the Harvard Business School (MBA) He has served as advisor to Northeastern’s School of Technological Entrepreneurship, and serves as a mentor for Boston University's entrepreneurship program, the Boston TechStars program, and Mass Challenge.Previously, Joe served as interim CEO for companies in need of strategic change - running businesses ranging from 5 to 1,000 employees. Early in his career, he worked at Teradyne and Autex, Inc., and was CEO at Cyborg Corporation, a venture-funded company that was a pioneer in the use of PC’s in laboratory and factory automation. He also has served as an arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association.Former board memberships include: ACT Medical, Acumenta, Adhesive Technologies, American Fantasy Sports, Audiofile, Boston Restaurant Associates, Boston University's Photonics Center (advisory director), Coffee Connection, Colonial Mills, Common Angels, Corion, Cyborg Corporation, General Analysis, Haymarket Bank, Iconics, i2Chem, Laser Science, Metrisa, MicroE, Nimbit, Qiave Technologies, QD Vision, Quant Funds (trustee); Tytronics, Wwwhoosh, Zentox, the Turnaround Management Association (founding director, New England Chapter), the National Association of Corporate Directors (New England Chapter), the Association for Corporate Growth (New England Chapter) and WEST (Women Entrepreneurs in Science and Technology). Joe has also served as an arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, France, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 26
  • Round size: Seed $420k–$2.2M; Pre-Seed $650k–$1.4M; Series A $1.6M–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • AceUp, Inc. — AceUp is the premier leadership development coaching solution, with unparalleled coaches, technology, and analytics.
  • Konnecto — Market Intelligence | Konnecto | Prescriptive Analytics Konnecto is a GTM Intelligence Platform that provides brands with an ongoing blueprint on how to increase online sales and improve marketing ROI
  • Surround Insurance — Helping consumers in their 20s and 30s get started with insurance that's fast, simple, and personalized for modern life.
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Gregory Rockson
Angel · Ghana, Ebonyi, Nigeria · 1 investments in Africa Consumer startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Float — Float helps you manage cashflow and gives you the credit your business needs to cover operational costs like payroll, inventory, or even marketing expenses.
  • COMESO GmbH — COMESO exists to make healthcare access in Africa fair, transparent, and reliable. We build digital payment infrastructure that allows families both abroad and within their home countries to directly pay for medical services for their loved ones. Our mission is to ensure that every payment sent for health, whether from across the world or acrosstown, reaches hospitals and clinics in full, improving lives and strengthening local health systems.We combine financial technology with community-based healthcare delivery, COMESO enables the domestication of payments from afar, turning everyday financial support into a trusted channel for health access. Our goal is to reduce out-of-pocket spending, empower underserved families, and create a scalable model for inclusive health financing across emerging markets.
  • Caantin — Kibanda Topup digitizes the supply for micro, small and medium-sized restaurants. Kibanda Topup allows restaurant owners to order inventory such as grains, poultry, beverages, and beef by app through a simple SMS and get the orders the next day.
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Chibuzo Ujam
Angel · 1 investments in Africa Consumer startups

Chibuzo Ujam

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Drones, Energy, Delivery
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: Nigeria

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Arone — Idebet ialah situs slot ternama di indonesia resmi hadirkan slot gacor terbaru dengan inovasi perkalian x1000 gampang menang hari ini. Cobain sekarang juga!
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Ashwin Ravichandran
Angel · Accra, Greater Accra, Ghana · 1 investments in Africa Consumer startups

Ashwin Ravichandran is the Co-Founder & Head of Operations at Spark. Ashwin attended Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Education, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Stage:Non-Equity Assistance, Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: Ghana, Nigeria, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 35
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$1.2M; Pre-Seed $100k–$110k
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Qwili — Qwili makes smartphones with a voice-guided, local language onboarding experience for new users.
  • Wi-Flix — Wi-flix is a streaming service that offers 30,000+ hours of African drama series, telenovelas, movies, sports, and more.
  • Craft Education — Craft Education is a social enterprise offering teletherapy platform for children, providing behavioral therapy and live support via mobile.
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Kanyi Maqubela
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Africa Consumer startups

Kanyi is a Managing Partner at Kindred Ventures, an early stage venture fund investing in mission-driven technology companies at the earliest stages. Previously, he served as a Partner at Collaborative Fund. Kanyi is a co-founder at Heartbeat Health, and previously ran growth at One Block Off the Grid (acquired by $NRG) and was an early employeeat Doostang (acquired by Universum Global). Kanyi has also served as a Lecturer and Adjunct at New York University Tisch School of the Arts, a curriculum adapted from his time in undergrad at Stanford University, where he studied Philosophy.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 30
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$5.6M; Pre-Seed $1.8M–$3.5M; Series A $10M–$108M
  • Lead/follow: 57% lead, 43% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Brale — One regulated system for stablecoin issuance, custody, payments, and compliance. 75+ programs in production across 45 US jurisdictions. SOC 2 Type II. Book a demo.
  • Qwili — Qwili makes smartphones with a voice-guided, local language onboarding experience for new users.
  • Sandbar — Sandbar provides an interface platform that enables users to extend their cognitive and creative workflows by integrating voice, gesture, and haptic interactions. The company develops the core product Stream, which functions as a conversational extension of thought, capturing ideas, organizing notes, and facilitating hands-free music controlthrough gestures. In addition, it offers the Stream Ring, a wearable device that pairs with Stream to enable voice-activated control, capturing and organizing information in real time. The technology bridges the gap between internal thinking and external action, aiming to make idea generation and expression more fluid. Its services include product design, software integration, and support for gesture- and voice-based interfaces tailored to individual workflows.
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Echukwudi Daniel
Angel · 1 investments in Africa Consumer startups

Echukwudi Daniel

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Drones, Energy, Delivery
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: Nigeria

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Arone — Idebet ialah situs slot ternama di indonesia resmi hadirkan slot gacor terbaru dengan inovasi perkalian x1000 gampang menang hari ini. Cobain sekarang juga!
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Matt Sutton
Angel · 1 investments in Africa Consumer startups

Matt Sutton is an entrepreneur-in-residence at INSEAD.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Retail, eSports, Software
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, Singapore, United States

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Ampverse — Ampverse is a creator-first gaming marketing and interactive media company connecting brands and publishers across Southeast Asia.
  • Gamalon — Gamalon is a developer of an AI-based machine intelligence technology designed to write and rewrite their own Bayesian programs. The company's technology accelerates machine learning and converts streams of text paragraphs into structured data rows by linking, enabling e-commerce platforms and manufacturing companies to train the system on fewpieces of data and achieve the same level of accuracy as that of the exhaustively trained neural networks.
  • Powered by People — Powered by People is a values-driven wholesale platform featuring handmade, ethical products from makers in over 40 countries. Sign up now for pre-approved credit and net 60 terms at poweredbypeople.com
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Shola Akinlade
Angel · Sunnyvale, California, United States · 1 investments in Africa Consumer startups

Shola Akinlade s based out of Sunnyvale, California and currently works as the CEO for Paystack.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Education, Insurance
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, Rwanda

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $2.5M–$4M; Pre-Seed $192k–$4M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Chowdeck — Order food, groceries, drinks, medicines & everyday essentials from top restaurants, pharmacies, local markets, and stores near you. Fast delivery with Chowdeck.
  • Myka.Insure — Myka is a insurance sales platform that enables individuals to sell insurance policies to their family, friends, colleagues, and community while earning income . It operates as a micro-entrepreneurship program where anyone (students, gadget sellers, car dealers, parents, retirees) can start their own insurance business with zero investment,flexible hours, and free training . The company is licensed by the National Insurance Commission of Nigeria and provides instant payouts to its partners .
  • 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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Oliver Merkel
Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 1 investments in Africa Consumer startups

Oliver Merkel is the Co-Founder of Flink Food.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Retail, Fashion, Banking
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Germany, South Africa, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Seed $6M–$9.8M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% 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.
  • NutriUnited —
  • Augustus — Dollar and euro accounts for global fintechs and banks.
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Meyer Malka
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Africa Consumer startups

Meyer Malka is based out of Palo Alto, California and is the Founder of Ribbit Capital. Meyer previously worked at Bling Nation as a Co Founder and was Co Chief Executive Officer. Meyer Malka attended the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series A, Series C, Seed
  • Geography: United States, Brazil, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 48
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$12M; Series A $6.8M–$90M; Series C $65M–$133M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Vigil Labs — Machine intelligence for live markets.
  • NeoSpace AI — Neospace is a B2B Global AI startup utilizing Large Finance Models to assist financial services enterprises in reimagining, enhacing, and implementing credit scoring and allocation dollars saved.
  • Terra Industries — Terra Industries develops and supplies autonomous security and defense technology systems that help monitor and safeguard critical infrastructure such as power plants, mines, refineries, and other industrial assets. The company creates unmanned aerial drones, autonomous ground vehicles, surveillance towers, and maritime monitoring systems that operate with its proprietary ArtemisOS platform for real-time threat detection, autonomous mission planning, and coordinated response across land, air, and sea environments. Its offerings support infrastructure operators and government agencies in detecting and responding to security risks with integrated hardware and software solutions. Terra Industries focuses on delivering systems that integrate data intelligence and autonomy to enhance wide-area surveillance and operational awareness across large or remote facilities.
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Hesham Zreik
Angel · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 1 investments in Africa Consumer startups

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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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1176
  • Round size: Seed $20k–$2M; Pre-Seed $10k–$1M; Series A $170k–$5M
  • Lead/follow: 53% lead, 47% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • EasyBusy — EasyBusy is a contractor-client matching platform designed to address key challenges in the GCC service and construction economy.
  • Excel And Impact Agro — Excel And Impact Agro aims to tackle the chronic shortage of vegetable production in Côte d'Ivoire.
  • JLC Industry Of Tomato Paste Sarl U — JLC Industry is a Togolese agro-industrial startup dedicated to the production, processing, and commercialization of tomato concentrate.
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Dr Ritesh Malik
Angel · Delhi, Delhi, India · 1 investments in Africa Consumer startups

Doctor turned Entrepreneur, Investor, Speaker & Philanthropist.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: India, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 43
  • Round size: Seed $293k–$5M; Angel $261k–$295k; Pre-Seed $160k–$2.1M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Crowwd — Crowwd operates as a social network tailored for both new and professional investors, focusing on the financial services sector. It aims to enhance the trust, quality, and relevance of online financial discussions. Users can share their opinions and analyses on investment ideas, learning from a community of like-minded individuals. Crowwd's platform facilitates a space where investors can exchange insights, fostering a knowledgeable and engaged investment community. The company emphasizes the importance of community-driven financial dialogue to inform investment decisions.
  • Kidbea — Kidbea is Asia's first Spill-proof & sustainable fashion-tech brand exclusively for kids. We make "certified organic, spill-proof, anti-bacterial, breathable, and softest" kids products. We aim to provide non-toxic sustainable products to the children and a relaxed parenting to every toddler's parent.
  • Nava — AI-native cloud infrastructure designed for intelligent workloads. Deploy, scale, and manage your AI systems with autonomous cloud computing.
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Gary Scheft
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Africa Consumer startups

Gary is the co-founder of Accounting for Everything, and a serial entrepreneur with decades of experience in a variety of industries including healthcare, fashion, real estate, and communications. He is also a survivor of Wall Street.Gary’s is dedicated to helping small businesses and individuals organize and see the big picture of theirfinancial health, including relationships with partners, investors and customers.He brings experience in business management, marketing, human resources, and communication to client engagements, and many have benefited from his generosity and insight. Gary epitomizes the concept of wisdom, defined as experience, knowledge and the right action.Wise beyond his years, Gary is knowledgable about human issues as well as financial ones.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Hardware, Telecommunications, Enterprise Software
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Kenya

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • BRCK — BRCK is an integrated hardware and software company based in Nairobi, Kenya that designs and engineers a rugged, self-powered, mobile WiFi device which connects people and things to the internet in areas of the world with poor infrastructure. Our vision is a world connected, where the last-mile of internet connectivity is as seamless for someoneliving in Africa as it is in Europe or the US. Ushahidi is a global organization that empowers people to make serious impact with open source technologies, cross-sector partnerships, and ground-breaking ventures.
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Ugochukwu Aronu
Angel · 1 investments in Africa Consumer startups

Ugochukwu Aronu is the Co-Founder And CEO of Xend.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Web3, Drones, Energy
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Arone — Idebet ialah situs slot ternama di indonesia resmi hadirkan slot gacor terbaru dengan inovasi perkalian x1000 gampang menang hari ini. Cobain sekarang juga!
  • Gamic — Africa's biggest gaming guild.
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Andrea Iannelli
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Africa Consumer startups

Andrea Iannelli

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Beauty, Retail, Consumer
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Kenya

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Uncover — Dermatologist-tested K-Beauty formulas powered by African botanicals for melanin-rich skin. Shop SPF 50 sunscreen, serums & kits with free Kenya shipping.
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Ben Munoz
Angel · Austin, Texas, United States · 1 investments in Africa Consumer startups

I am an e-commerce entrepreneur, social entrepreneur, and patient advocate.NADINE WEST CLOTHING SUBSCRIPTION Nadine West is Stitch Fix for the Everyday Woman. Nadine West sends every customer an individually curated, affordable, surprise outfit every month. Customers keep what they love and return what they don't. Nadine West is now the #1rated fashion box for women: http://boxes.mysubscriptionaddiction.com/box/nadine-westBENSFRIENDS PATIENT COMMUNITIES (501c3) In 2007, after I survived a near-fatal brain hemorrhage, my friend Scott Orn and I started BensFriends.org, a healthcare non-profit that provides patient-to-patient support communities for people with by rare diseases. Our first month (Dec 2007), Ben's Friend Patient Communities helped 100 patients. 10 years later, our communities help 100,000+ patients per month in need of support. Read about us on Forbes via the article "Community is the Best Medicine" below or at http://onforb.es/1fAnCzeBEFORE NADINE WEST Before Nadine West, I was a medical student at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, TX. I also have an MBA from Kellogg and worked as a software engineer for 6 years.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Fashion, E-Commerce, Information Services
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Kenya

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Shop Zetu — Shop the latest trendy fashion, beauty and accessory brands in Kenya online! Discover affordable clothing, footwear, accessories, beauty products and more. Order today from Shop Zetu.
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Peter anker
Angel · 1 investments in Africa Consumer startups

Peter anker

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Beauty, Retail, Consumer
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Kenya

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Uncover — Dermatologist-tested K-Beauty formulas powered by African botanicals for melanin-rich skin. Shop SPF 50 sunscreen, serums & kits with free Kenya shipping.
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Camilla Hagen Sørli
Angel · 1 investments in Africa Consumer startups

Camilla Hagen Sørli

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Beauty, Retail, Consumer
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Kenya

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Uncover — Dermatologist-tested K-Beauty formulas powered by African botanicals for melanin-rich skin. Shop SPF 50 sunscreen, serums & kits with free Kenya shipping.
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