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Top 35 Consumer Angel Investors in Africa (June 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
Justin Mateen
Angel
3 United States, Mexico, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, E-Commerce, Health Care $400k–$26M
Cem Garih
Angel
3 United States, India, Kenya Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Internet $460k–$38M
Kevin Ambrosini
Angel
2 United States, Egypt, Kenya Seed, Series B, Series A E-Commerce, Logistics, Fashion $2.5M–$60M
Olugbenga Agboola
Angel
2 Nigeria, Kenya, United States Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Finance $625k–$7.5M
Patricia Ithau
Angel
2 Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed Beauty, Retail, Fashion
Gregory Rockson
Angel
1 Kenya, Nigeria Seed, Pre-Seed FinTech, Finance, Consumer
Andrea Iannelli
Angel
1 Kenya Seed Beauty, Retail, Consumer
Peter anker
Angel
1 Kenya Seed Beauty, Retail, Consumer
Sean Mahsoul
Angel
1 Nigeria Seed FinTech, Computer, Software
Victoria van Lennep
Angel
1 United Kingdom, France, Spain Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed FinTech, Financial Services, Finance $637k–$23M
Oliver Merkel
Angel
1 Germany, South Africa, United States Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Fashion, Retail, Banking
Vikram Chopra
Angel
1 India, South Africa Seed, Series B Internet, Fashion, Training $1.3M–$9.5M
Kiprono Elvis Terigin
Angel
1 Kenya Seed Beauty, Retail, Consumer
Daniel Funk
Angel
1 South Africa Seed Retail, Fashion
Peter Njonjo
Angel
1 Kenya, United States Pre-Seed Fashion, Software, E-Commerce $1M–$3M
Jim Sorenson
Angel
1 United States, Kenya Seed Gaming, Banking, FinTech
Cheryl Heller
Angel
1 Kenya Seed Hardware, Telecommunications, Enterprise Software
Camilla Hagen Sørli
Angel
1 Kenya Seed Beauty, Retail, Consumer
Kanyi Maqubela
Angel
1 United States, Brazil, Canada Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Software, Artificial Intelligence $1.2M–$23M
Ugochukwu Aronu
Angel
1 Nigeria Pre-Seed Drones, Energy, Delivery
Gary Scheft
Angel
1 Kenya Seed Hardware, Telecommunications, Enterprise Software
Matt Kalish
Angel
1 United States, Kenya Seed, Series A Gaming, Online Games, Consumer Goods $1.5M–$5M
Wes Schwalje
Angel
1 India, United States, Mexico Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel FinTech, Financial Services, Information Technology $150k–$2M
Trond Riiber Knudsen
Angel
1 Norway, United States, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Software, SaaS, E-Commerce $300k–$3.5M
Pierre Martensson
Angel
1 Kenya Seed Beauty, Retail, Consumer
Chibuzo Ujam
Angel
1 Nigeria Angel Drones, Energy, Delivery
Matt Sutton
Angel
1 Kenya Seed Consumer Goods
Jean-Paul Zammitt
Angel
1 South Africa Seed Retail, Fashion
Shola Akinlade
Angel
1 Nigeria, Kenya, Rwanda Pre-Seed, Seed FinTech, Education, Financial Services $181k–$4M
Ashley Lewis
Angel
1 Egypt, Togo, Kenya Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, Financial Services, Retail $500k–$38M
Michael Vaughan
Angel
1 United States, Brazil, Germany Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Software $4M–$100M
Tushar Ahluwalia
Angel
1 Germany, Mexico, South Africa Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Retail, InsurTech, Insurance $3.3M–$50M
Echukwudi Daniel
Angel
1 Nigeria Angel Drones, Energy, Delivery
Leonard Stiegeler
Angel
1 Nigeria, South Africa, United States Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed FinTech, Financial Services, B2B $1.3M–$6M
Tony Nicalo
Angel
1 Kenya Pre-Seed FinTech, Advertising, Asset Management
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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 top10 tech entrepreneurs. Fast Company has listed him as one of the most creative people in business.Founded in 2012, Tinder is the highest grossing app on Apple's app store since 2017 and was valued at over $40 Billion dollars in 2021.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 144
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$10M; Pre-Seed $400k–$3.9M; Series A $6.8M–$26M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Whop — Create a business or unlock new streams of income.
  • Slash — Tens of thousands of online businesses use Slash to track their profits, earn cash back, and get faster payouts from platforms like GOAT and Amazon. No LLC required, no account fees, no minimum balance, and no credit checks.
  • Somethings — Somethings connects teens with a Certified Peer Specialist Mentor who provide a safe, trustworthy space to feel their best and combat loneliness.
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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, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, India, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 32
  • Round size: Seed $2.5M–$6M; Pre-Seed $460k–$1M; 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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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 — The Region's Leading Retailer Super App At MaxAB, we change how the supply chain works through our B2B food & grocery e-commerce platform At MaxAB, we change how the supply chain works through our B2B food
  • buywith — buywith is a video commerce platform enabling retailers and brands to transform their e-commerce into engaging shoppable videos and dynamic video-led experiences, including an AI-powered digital studio for creating video ads for retail media at scale.
  • Taager — Taager is a social e-commerce platform enabling online merchants with end-to-end logistics.
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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, 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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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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Gregory Rockson
Angel · Ghana, Ebonyi, Nigeria · 1 investments in Africa Consumer startups

Gregory Rockson is Co-Founder & CEO at mPharma.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Finance, Consumer
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, Nigeria

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Float — Float helps you manage cashflow and gives you the credit your business needs to cover operational costs like payroll, inventory, or even marketing expenses.
  • 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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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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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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Sean Mahsoul
Angel · 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 — Maplerad is a fast, safe and easy way to send and receive money with friends, family or others you trust. You can receive and send money directly into any Nigerian bank account in minutes using Bitcoin, US Dollars, and Naira.
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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: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, France, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$4.8M; Pre-Seed $637k–$2M; Series A $16M–$23M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Virgil — Virgil is the trusted partner of all those who want to become owners but whose personal contribution is insufficient to buy the apartment they want.
  • 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 !
  • Framework — Framework is the world’s first on-demand business school, radically reimagined for them. Born out of Founders Forum, a private network of the world's top tech entrepreneurs, we’ve worked with over 100+ operators—across product, growth, ops, people, data, engineering & design, from some of the world's most innovative companiesincluding Monzo, Babylon, Bulb & Depop—to pioneer a new model of lifelong learning.
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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: Fashion, Retail, Banking
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Germany, South Africa, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Karla — karla gives you the absolute superpower over the delivery of your online orders, It develop the delivery options for your online orders that you have never dared to dream of!
  • 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.
  • Heat — Discover the new, immersive way to shop designer fashion and high end streetwear for both men and women on HEAT. Off-White, Palm Angels and more may be included in the HEAT mystery box.
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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, Fashion, Training
  • 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 — Cautio is a Visual Telematics company that provides safety and security to drivers and passengers.
  • 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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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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Peter Njonjo
Angel · 1 investments in Africa Consumer startups

Peter Njonjo is the current CEO and Co-founder of Twiga Foods. He previously worked at Coca-Cola West Africa as a President. Peter Njonjo attended Harvard Business School.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Fashion, Software, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $1M–$3M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Leta — Leta Technology is a software development company that creates supply chain and logistics software to enable the efficient and automated movement of goods.
  • 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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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
  • Geography: United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • 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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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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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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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: FinTech, Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Brazil, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 26
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$5.6M; Pre-Seed $1.8M–$3.2M; Series A $10M–$23M
  • Lead/follow: 65% lead, 35% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Qwili — Qwili makes smartphones with a voice-guided, local language onboarding experience for new users.
  • Mediachain — Mediachain automatically connects media to its creator and information about it, and is a protocol for registering, identifying, and tracking creative works online. It automatically resolves media to who made it, what its about, and where it originated using content indentification technologyMediachain also lets creators, organizations, anddevelopers collaborate on metadata in an open, universal media library and allows participants to retain control over their data while broadening their reach using a decentralized architecture
  • 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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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: Drones, Energy, Delivery
  • Stage: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 — Gamic is a community communication/collaboration app for gamers, creators, and web3 enthusiasts.The platform combines the advantages of blockchain technology with the conventional web2 community setup, creating a seamless environment where users can interact and enjoy the benefits of web3 advancements. This simplifies the process for web2communities to access and leverage the latest blockchain technology innovations, eliminating the need to navigate across various platforms.Today, the user experience is poor for online communities trying to engage with Web3 products and services because users are required to jump across different platforms. Sharing, trading, or managing Web3 assets on most traditional communication and social apps is hard. Addressing this is crucial because Web3 access means financial freedom and opportunity for many all around the world, especially in Africa. Gamic’s central mission is to encourage blockchain adoption as a means to improve the socio-economic opportunities available to global communities. We enable users to communicate and operate in the same place, with increased security and better monetisation opportunities.
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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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Matt 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, Online Games, Consumer Goods
  • Stage:Seed, 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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Wes Schwalje
Angel · 1 investments in Africa Consumer startups

Operator at nexus of policy, tech, and dev, investor, advised 8 unicorns on MENAP entry/scale-up, support Big Tech / startups to get along with govt

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: India, United States, Mexico

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 39
  • Round size: Seed $150k–$2M; Pre-Seed $360k–$740k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • VC Lab — We help idea-stage entrepreneurs and pre-seed startups get funding, build a team, get into seed-accelerators, generate traction, and launch impactful businesses.
  • HelpNow — HelpNow Corporate Site
  • OlaClick (YC W21) — Create electronic menu boards for your restaurant or store. It is totally free. QR codes menu or digital menu boards. Digitalize your menu in an instant and start receiving orders !
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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, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Norway, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 17
  • Round size: Seed $320k–$3.5M; Angel $300k–$933k; Pre-Seed $672k–$1.8M
  • Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • OTee — OTee's Industrial Automation platform makes it possible to create and manage industrial-grade virtual control systems, based on open standards and architecture!
  • Ciloo — The global brand management platform for local, on-demand production of branded products. Reduce costs, waste + shipping distances. Full brand control.
  • Starflow — Starflow goal is to create a scalable energy system that helps people achieve energy independence.
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Pierre Martensson
Angel · 1 investments in Africa Consumer startups

Pierre Martensson

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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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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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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: Consumer Goods
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Kenya

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • 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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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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Shola Akinlade
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Africa Consumer startups

Shola Akinlade is the Co-founder and CEO at Paystack.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Seed $2.5M–$4M; Pre-Seed $181k–$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.
  • Earnipay — Earnipay is Nigeria's trusted e-invoicing partner. As an accredited NRS and NITDA systems integrator, we deliver secure, compliant invoicing for every business.
  • 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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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

  • 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
  • Lami — Lami is an end-to-end digital insurance platform and API that enables companies across sectors to offer insurance products. Its API allows underwriters to connect with consumer-facing companies that can provide embedded insurance as a value add for existing customers, many of whom are uninsured.
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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
  • Geography: United States, Brazil, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 27
  • Round size: Seed $4M–$21M; Series A $11M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Whym — Conversational commerce makes shopping online easy. Whym, allows you to use your mobile number to pay, share and checkout with your favorite brands.
  • Jerry — Jerry simplifies the expensive, frustrating, and time-consuming aspects of car ownership.
  • 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.
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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 $3.3M–$6.3M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • NUMOS — NUMOS is an insurance tech platform.
  • Opontia — Opontia was founded by e-commerce experts, to provide a fast and fair way for small e-commerce business owners to sell their companies.
  • Valoreo — Valoreo acquires, operates, and scales outstanding e-commerce brands with superstar products. We focus on brands with excellent customer reviews and merchants that have proven success by being top-seller in niche categories with high-growth potential.
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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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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

  • Bamba — Bamba is an android application allowing micro-merchants across Africa to run their entire business utilizing their phones. It focuses on simple tools for merchants to manage their customers, get paid, payout as well as takeout cash advances against their future cash flow.
  • Paystack — Over 60,000 businesses of all sizes use Paystack to collect payments with a modern, secure payment gateway.
  • 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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Tony Nicalo
Angel · 1 investments in Africa Consumer startups

Tony Nicalo

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Advertising, Asset Management
  • 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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