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Top 25 Education Angel Investors in Africa (June 2026)

The most active angel investors investing in Africa Education startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Africa Education startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Miles Morland
Angel
5 Mozambique Pre-Seed Internet, Education, Publishing $7k–$12k
Olugbenga Agboola
Angel
3 Nigeria, Kenya, United States Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Finance $625k–$7.5M
Hesham Zreik
Angel
3 United States, Nigeria, India Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence $50k–$5M
Shola Akinlade
Angel
3 Nigeria, Kenya, Rwanda Pre-Seed, Seed FinTech, Education, Financial Services $181k–$4M
Folarin Falana
Angel
2 Rwanda Pre-Seed Education $1M–$1M
Akitoye Balogun
Angel
2 Rwanda Pre-Seed Education $1M–$1M
Youcef Oudjidane
Angel
1 United States, Nigeria, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Payments $120k–$23M
Musty Mustapha
Angel
1 Nigeria Pre-Seed Education, InsurTech, Insurance $3.5M–$4M
Isaac Oates
Angel
1 United States, France, South Africa Seed, Grant Health Care, B2B, DIY $570k–$4.2M
Fejiro Hanu Agbodje
Angel
1 Rwanda, United States Pre-Seed, Seed Education, Blockchain, Communities $1M–$2.1M
Nate Lipscomb
Angel
1 United States, India, Kenya Seed, Angel Education, EdTech, FinTech $1.2M–$10M
Alan Rutledge
Angel
1 United States, India, Mexico Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B Financial Services, FinTech, Software $600k–$8M
Ed Robinson
Angel
1 Nigeria, United States Pre-Seed, Seed, Series B InsurTech, Insurance, Banking $3.5M–$4M
Cheikh Brahim Sidi Mohamed Sidi Ali
Angel
1 Mauritania Angel EdTech, E-Learning, Content Marketing
Babs Ogundeyi
Angel
1 Nigeria, Zambia, Pakistan Seed, Pre-Seed FinTech, Financial Services, Finance $780k–$5M
Iyinoluwa Aboyeji
Angel
1 United States, Nigeria, South Africa Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Information Technology, FinTech, Software $172k–$30M
Melvyn Lubega
Angel
1 Kenya Seed E-Learning, Information Technology
Paul Kokoricha
Angel
1 Mauritius, Nigeria Private Equity, Seed Internet, B2B, Software $20M–$200M
Bas Hochstenbach
Angel
1 South Africa, The Netherlands Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed B2C, Travel, Tourism $28k–$55k
Gbite Oduneye
Angel
1 Nigeria, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Education $180k–$10M
Raffael Johnen
Angel
1 Nigeria, Germany, Australia Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Payments, Software $1.6M–$20M
Bashar Hamood
Angel
1 United States, Nigeria, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce $5k–$5M
Malek Meslemani
Angel
1 United Kingdom, Tunisia, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Artificial Intelligence, Health Care, SaaS $500k–$10M
Odunayo Eweniyi
Angel
1 South Africa, United States Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel EdTech, Facebook, Education $115k–$1M
Lawko Juste Davy DALA
Angel
1 Burkina Faso Pre-Seed Logistics, E-Commerce, Incubators
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Miles Morland
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 5 investments in Africa Education startups

Miles co-founded DPI in 2007 after having become non-executive Chairman of Blakeney Management (Blakeney) in July 2006 by which time the firm was considered to be one of the largest portfolio investors in many African stock markets. Blakeney was set up by Miles in 1990, first as a consultancy and, since 1994, as an asset management firm, investingin Africa and the Middle East. Blakeney was one of the first investors in many African markets and Miles played an active role in the development of markets in countries such as Ghana, Morocco, Egypt, Kenya and Tunisia.Before starting Blakeney, Miles spent 22 years in money management and investment banking in London and on Wall Street.Miles is also on the boards of SABMiller plc, the world’s second largest brewer and SouthWest Energy (BVI) Ltd, an Ethiopian oil exploration company. He was the founder and chairman for five years of the London Business School’s Africa Board. He read Law at the University of Oxford. Miles is a British citizen.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Education, Publishing
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Mozambique

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $7k–$12k
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ethale Books App — The Ethale Books App by Ethale Publishing is the first-ever East African multilingual book app featuring local content. It is one of the first in the developing world to be specifically designed for android mobile phones and not e-readers. The trilingual app will make books available in Portuguese, Swahili and English for free, with revenuesustained via a mobile advertising strategy.
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Olugbenga Agboola
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in Africa Education 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

  • Klump — Use Klump to buy now and pay later in instalments for up to 12 months! Businesses accept payments, increase conversion rates, and boost revenue. The Easy Life! Try it now.
  • Curacel — Curacel creates APIs & tools that enable businesses to embed insurance in digital channels and to administer claims cost-effectively.
  • Lorum Finance
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Hesham Zreik
Angel · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 3 investments in Africa Education 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, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 619
  • Round size: Seed $53k–$2M; Pre-Seed $50k–$1M; Series A $170k–$5M
  • Lead/follow: 53% lead, 47% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • UrbanFarmers — UrbanFarmers is a platform that connects city dwellers with local urban farms and community gardens.
  • Ensure Petroleum Pvt Ltd — Ensure Petroleum Fuel & Refinery is a Pakistan-focused energy venture founded by Muhammad Irfan Younas, a former executive.
  • Manufacturing Electronics Cards — it is a startup built on the idea of putting advanced electronics engineering expertise at the service of local and regional businesses.
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Shola Akinlade
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in Africa Education 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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Folarin Falana
Angel · 2 investments in Africa Education startups

Folarin Falana

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Education
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Rwanda

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • AltSchool Africa — Let's invest in your Future. Learn highly sought after tech skills without hassle. A program designed to arm you with the skills and knowledge required to boldly launch your tech career.
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Akitoye Balogun
Angel · 2 investments in Africa Education startups

Akitoye Balogun

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Education
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Rwanda

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • AltSchool Africa — Let's invest in your Future. Learn highly sought after tech skills without hassle. A program designed to arm you with the skills and knowledge required to boldly launch your tech career.
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Youcef Oudjidane
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Africa Education startups

Youcef Oudjidane is the Founder and Managing Partner of BYLD and the Co-Founder and Chairman of Elevate (YC W22).

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$10M; Pre-Seed $120k–$5M; Series A $23M–$23M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Waza — Waza is a web platform with APIs. It helps startups and emerging market businesses manage their cash flow issues, invoicing needs, and international payment requirements.
  • Kaso — Elkaso is the leading Order and Procurement Management Tool for Restaurants and Suppliers in the Middle East.
  • Next Gen Foods — Next Gen Foods is a food-tech startup that offers plant-based meat products. They use plants to create a delicious and satisfying meat experience that will make forget animal meat even exists.
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Musty Mustapha
Angel · 1 investments in Africa Education startups

Musty Mustapha - Co-Founder and CTO @ Kuda

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Education, InsurTech, Insurance
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $3.5M–$4M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Casava — Casava is a financial services company that offers insurance and life microinsurance. Casava uses technology to provide world-class, trusted, and affordable insurance to everyone.
  • Edukoya — Edukoya builds online education content and offers online tutoring for students and their parents.
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Isaac Oates
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Africa Education startups

Isaac Oates is the Founder and Executive Chair at Justworks. He attended the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Cornell University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, B2B, DIY
  • Stage:Seed, Grant
  • Geography: United States, France, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $570k–$4.2M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Osium AI — Speed up your materials and chemicals innovation with AI.
  • Lately — Lately uses AI to create your social media content and manage your social media marketing and social selling programs.
  • FoondaMate — Foondamate brings the internet through messaging applications so students with limited internet access can study online.
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Fejiro Hanu Agbodje
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Africa Education startups

Hanu is the Founder/CEO of Patricia, a User-experience expert with a deep understanding of user-centered designs (USD) and strong skills for conducting user research and surveys, and translating them into sitemaps, user flows, customer journey maps, wireframes, mockups and prototypes. He is a graduate of mathematics and statistics

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Education, Blockchain, Communities
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: Rwanda, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $1M–$2.1M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Rooomxix
  • AltSchool Africa — Let's invest in your Future. Learn highly sought after tech skills without hassle. A program designed to arm you with the skills and knowledge required to boldly launch your tech career.
  • 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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Nate Lipscomb
Angel · Menlo Park, California, United States · 1 investments in Africa Education startups

Nate Lipscomb

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Education, EdTech, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United States, India, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kredi — Kredi is Rocket Mortgage for LatAm. Customers can easily secure a mortgage online.
  • Ziina — Pay and get paid fast. Ziina is the easiest way to send and receive money in the UAE. Accept cashless payments anywhere with Apple Pay, Google Pay, or card.
  • Codingal — Codingal offers engaging & fun online coding & AI classes for kids & teens using the K12 Computer Science Framework. Sign up today to get a free class!
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Alan Rutledge
Angel · 1 investments in Africa Education startups

Alan Rutledge

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, India, Mexico

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 46
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$8M; Pre-Seed $600k–$2.5M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • FlexDesk — FlexDesk is creating a new evolution of the flexible workspace model. Remote workers use the platform to discover and book a dedicated desk or private office by the day. FlexDesk unlocks this inventory by partnering with office landlords and coworking operators that have furnished, underutilized space.
  • Fello — Fello is a savings and investment platform that helps to save, invest and earn higher returns than a traditional savings account.
  • Double — Double is a software platform that helps users to build, automate, and analyze investment portfolio for retail investors.
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Ed Robinson
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Africa Education startups

Ed Robison is a Co-Founder of Stash. He attended the University of Sydney from 2002 to 2004.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: InsurTech, Insurance, Banking
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $3.5M–$4M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Casava — Casava is a financial services company that offers insurance and life microinsurance. Casava uses technology to provide world-class, trusted, and affordable insurance to everyone.
  • Edukoya — Edukoya builds online education content and offers online tutoring for students and their parents.
  • Jerry — Jerry simplifies the expensive, frustrating, and time-consuming aspects of car ownership.
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Cheikh Brahim Sidi Mohamed Sidi Ali
Angel · 1 investments in Africa Education startups

Cheikh Brahim Sidi Ali is the founder of Help Writers and Ultimate Guide. English language teacher, writer and a web developer. When it comes to founding businesses online and thriving in this business model, Cheikh Brahim is the one.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: EdTech, E-Learning, Content Marketing
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: Mauritania

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • HelpWriters — HelpWriters, your content marketing partner! Based in Mauritania, we are your solution for startups and businesses looking to amplify growth without hefty costs or paid advertising.Elevate your brand with our strategic content, bridging gaps and building connections.Why Choose Us? Cost-effective excellence, results-driven approach and smartoutsourcing. Connect with HelpWriters for growth, visibility and of course, saving marketing resources.
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Babs Ogundeyi
Angel · Yaba, Lagos, Nigeria · 1 investments in Africa Education startups

Cofounder and CEO of Kuda

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, Zambia, Pakistan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$5M; Pre-Seed $780k–$4M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Zazuu — Zazuu is a platform for sending money across the border.
  • Curacel — Curacel creates APIs & tools that enable businesses to embed insurance in digital channels and to administer claims cost-effectively.
  • 24SEVEN — 24seven.pk is using tech and data to digitize and disrupt the fresh food and FMCG verticals in one of the fastest-growing and rapidly evolving consumer markets in the world.
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Iyinoluwa Aboyeji
Angel · 1 investments in Africa Education startups

Iyinoluwa Aboyeji is the Founding Partner of Future Africa. He previously worked at Oby Ezekwesili Presidential Campaign as a Deputy Director General. Iyinoluwa Aboyeji attended the University of Waterloo - St. Jerome's University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$20M; Pre-Seed $172k–$2.1M; Series A $14M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Rapport — The smart solution for building superhuman teams. Rapport distills decades of research on high performing teams down to a few smart, simple steps that integrate seamlessly into your workflow.
  • Stitch — One API integration for enterprise online payments across South Africa. Accept Pay by bank, debit + credit card, cash, manual EFT, debit order and crypto.
  • 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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Melvyn Lubega
Angel · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in Africa Education startups

Melvyn Lubega is the head of strategic partnership at Go1.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Learning, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Kenya

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Zeraki — Zeraki is to use technology to address some of the obstacles learners encounter in accessing quality education. We use technology to enhance the quality of education students get at each level of education and use technology to help students transition from one level of education to the next, and ultimately from education into employment.
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Paul Kokoricha
Angel · Ikoyi, Lagos, Nigeria · 1 investments in Africa Education startups

Paul Kokoricha

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, B2B, Software
  • Stage:Private Equity, Seed
  • Geography: Mauritius, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Private Equity $20M–$200M
  • Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • WIOCC — WIOCC is revolutionising the delivery of high-capacity connectivity between Africa and the rest of the world. As a result, it is now widely recognised as Africa’s carriers’ carrier, offering a one stop-shop and end-to-end service between more than 30 African countries and the world’s key global financial and commercial centres. As a specialist inthe wholesale market, WIOCC’s unique, flexible, bandwidth packages have been designed to enable carriers, mobile operators and internet service providers (ISPs) to take full advantage of Africa’s rapidly developing markets for fixed and mobile broadband and international corporate networking. WIOCC recognises that customers differ, and tailors many of its solutions to specific customer requirements.
  • Decagon — Build faster with vetted remote software engineering talent
  • Accelerex Holdings — Accelerex Holdings specializes in the fields of financial services and investments.
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Bas Hochstenbach
Angel · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in Africa Education startups

Bas Hochstenbach is the Co-Founder of Conservation Club. He attended Leiden University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: B2C, Travel, Tourism
  • Stage:Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: South Africa, The Netherlands

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Angel $28k–$55k
  • Lead/follow: 80% lead, 20% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • DX Digital Africa — DX Digital Africa specializes in automotive intelligence to build capabilities for vehicles of the future. Optimizing processes and reducing maintenance costs throughout the lifecycle of vehicles from the factory floor to scrap yard.
  • Yebo Fresh — Yebofresh is a new online shopping service, delivering popular groceries straight into areas that are generally unserved by most formal retailers. Our unique business model and partnerships with manufacturers allow us to deliver top quality products and A-brands at extremely competitive prices. Yebofresh serves Imizamo Yethu, Langa, Khayelitsha,Mfuleni and Gugulethu and following recent seed funding, is rapidly expanding across the greater Cape Town area.
  • Zelda Learning — Zelda provides free online career guidance for students looking to enter university and then links them to bursary and study opportunities.
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Gbite Oduneye
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Africa Education startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Edukoya — Edukoya builds online education content and offers online tutoring for students and their parents.
  • Cashmere App — Helping millennials and Gen Z's save up for their favourite luxury goods and experiences
  • Kuda — Kuda is a full service digital only bank with a mission to bank every African on the planet. Kuda was founded in 2019 by Babs Ogundeyi and Musty Mustapha and is Headquartered in London
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Raffael Johnen
Angel · Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 1 investments in Africa Education startups

Raffael Johnen is CEO and founding partner of auxmoney. Already during his business studies, Raffael Johnen founded his first startup company. He later worked for six years at Investmentbank Rothschild in Frankfurt in the Mergers & Acquisitions and Debt Advisory areas, most recently as Vice President. Raffael Johnen is also the founder ofExcellion Capital, a successful company in corporate finance consulting and investment, based in London. As a writer, he made a name for himself when he wrote the chapter on leveraged buyouts in the "Praxishandbuch Unternehmensbewertung".

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Payments, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Nigeria, Germany, Australia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Seed $1.6M–$14M; Pre-Seed $3.2M–$3.5M; Series A $15M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Weel — Weel is the all-in-one platform for finance teams. Issue smart corporate cards, automate accounts payable, and control company spend, all in one place.
  • Weel — Weel is the all-in-one platform for finance teams. Issue smart corporate cards, automate accounts payable, and control company spend, all in one place.
  • Edukoya — Edukoya builds online education content and offers online tutoring for students and their parents.
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Bashar Hamood
Angel · 1 investments in Africa Education startups

Bashar Hamood is a Venture Partner at FasterCapital. He previously worked as an Associate Director at Logica. He attended Heriot-Watt University.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 326
  • Round size: Seed $10k–$780k; Pre-Seed $5k–$500k; Series A $15k–$5M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • SafeNest — SafeNest offers a comprehensive home security system integrating smart technology with professional monitoring services.
  • G Super Races — G Super Races aims to revolutionize the global horse racing scene with its premier league.
  • ZohoOptimizer AI — ZohoOptimizer AI is a platform designed to enhance Zoho’s suite of business applications by providing AI-driven process automation.
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Malek Meslemani
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Africa Education startups

Malek Meslemani is the Chief Executive at Ancora Investment Limited. Malek Meslemani attended CentraleSupélec.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Health Care, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Tunisia, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$1.3M; Series A $7M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • GoMyCode — GoMyCode is changing the education market by training talents in a dynamic belnded environement on digital skills and connects them with tech opportunities around the world. Based on 4 Main Aspects: - Data based Assessment - Data based matching - Business Analytics - Learning Platform - Content EditorGoMyCode provides digital Skills Training forthe Future of Work. In 4 Different fields: - DATA - DEVELOPMENT - DESIGN - DIGITAL MARKETING
  • Isla Health — Scale clinical capacity with Isla Health. The digital pathway & remote patient monitoring platform trusted by 30+ NHS Trusts.
  • Wise Systems — Wise Systems provides the best in fleet management software for last-mile delivery optimization. Schedule a demo of our software today.
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Odunayo Eweniyi
Angel · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 1 investments in Africa Education startups

Odunayo Eweniyi is the Co-founder and COO at Piggybank and PushCV. Odunayo is a Co-Founder and General Partner at FirstCheck Africa and a Board Member at Village Capital. She was also a Writer atTechCabal. Odunayo attended SOAS University of London, freeCodeCamp, and Covenant University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: EdTech, Facebook, Education
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
  • Geography: South Africa, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $115k–$1M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Raenest — Access Virtual Accounts, Invoicing, Multi-Currency Payouts, Auto Payroll, Accounting Integrations, and Virtual & Physical cards within minutes.
  • Norebase — Norebase knows that there's an opportunity to grow successful businesses in Africa. It also understands the complexities of the market, and so is using technology to make doing business in Africa worthwhile. With Norebase get to operate in Africa with no hassle and with minimum risk.
  • FoondaMate — Foondamate brings the internet through messaging applications so students with limited internet access can study online.
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Lawko Juste Davy DALA
Angel · 1 investments in Africa Education startups

Lawko Juste Davy DALA

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Logistics, E-Commerce, Incubators
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Burkina Faso

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • NAYAMAX — NAYAMAX is a pan-African e-commerce ecosystem empowering SMEs to thrive in the digital economy through integrated solutions. Combining a SaaS platform for easy online store creation, OUCEST (a geolocation and digital addressing system for optimized logistics), and E-commerce Connect (an advocacy network for regulatory harmonization), NAYAMAXbridges the gap between informal commerce and modern digital infrastructure.Key Offerings: 1- SaaS Platform: Enables SMEs to build and manage online stores without technical skills. 2- OUCEST: Streamlines last-mile delivery with AI-powered addressing, adopted by multinationals. 3- E-commerce Connect: Advocates for standardized e-commerce policies across Africa via partnerships with institutions like the Association of e-commerce actors of Burkina FasoBacked by Founder Institute.Vision: Democratize e-commerce access for 100,000 African SMEs by 2030 and position OUCEST as the continent’s addressing standard.Key Differentiators: 1- All-in-One Ecosystem: Unifies SaaS, logistics, and policy advocacy. 2- Offline-First Approach: Mobile app with SMS sync for low-connectivity regions. 3- Community-Driven: Locally adapted solutions co-built with SMEs.
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