Top 5 Facebook Startup Investors in South Africa
A list of 5 angel investors and VC funds that invest in Facebook startups based in South africa. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Facebook companies from South africa. We update this investor list every month.Top 5 Facebook Startup Investors in South Africa
Investor | Facebook South Africa investments |
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Isaac Oates | 1 |
Iyinoluwa Aboyeji | 1 |
LoftyInc Capital | 1 |
LocalGlobe | 1 |
Odunayo Eweniyi | 1 |
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
- Health Care, B2B, Telehealth
- Seed, Grant
- United States, France, South Africa
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.
Iyinoluwa Aboyeji is the Founder and former CEO of HOF portfolio company Flutterwave, a business building payments technology and infrastructure to connect Africa to the global economy. Under his leadership, the company has become one of the fastest growing payments technology businesses of all-time, processing over $2B across over 50Mtransactions, and attracted significant investment from experienced players in the space, including Y Combinator (investors in Stripe), Greycroft (investors in Braintree), Greenvisor Capital (led by the Former CEO of Visa), and Mastercard.Previously, Iyinoluwa Co-Founded Andela, Africa's largest engineering organization with over 1000 software engineers that has received investment from Mark Zuckerberg and Google Ventures.Iyinoluwa holds a B.A. in Legal Studies from the University of Waterloo, and sits on the board of several institutions including Paris’ Share Africa Project, Rainbow Educational Services Limited, and Filmo Realty. He served as the Deputy Director General for Madam Oby Ezekwesili’s 2019 Presidential Campaign, is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, a Forbes 30 under 30 honoree, and a member of Nigeria's Industrial Policy and Competitiveness Advisory Council.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Nigeria, South Africa
Portfolio highlights
- FoondaMate — Foondamate brings the internet through messaging applications so students with limited internet access can study online.
- 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.
- 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.
LoftyInc Capital Management empowers Afropreneurs to build a prosperous and equitable future in Africa. We deliver value to both founders and investors.........
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Nigeria, United States, Egypt
Portfolio highlights
- Mtor — Mtor is an online marketplace that is reshaping the automotive aftermarket and provides sophisticated technology solutions.
- EMTECH — For Modern Central Banking
- Terragon Group — Terragon is a leading Data and Marketing Technology company that uses data and analytics to help companies focused in Africa, intelligently connect at scale to their customers. We use an aggregation of online and offline data, and predictive scoring to help brands, marketing agencies and platforms accurately target people across channels anddevices. Headquartered in Lagos; Nigeria, we also have a presence in Kenya, South Africa, Ghana and India.
Seeding ambitious founders at places like @citymapper, @improbableio,@teamkano, @moo, @songkick,@seedcamp, @transferwise and @zoopla since 1999. Who's next?
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, United States, France
Portfolio highlights
- Qogita — A leading global wholesale supplier that offers a wide variety of products, brands, and categories across geographies.
- Catalog — Catalog is the first plug-and-play tool exclusively designed to digitise small-to-medium B2B merchants ordering process. With Catalog, B2B SMBs are equipped with the tool they need to reclaim their time, engage with buyers in meaningful ways and boost growth.
- Victory League — The virtual home for football fandom.
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
- EdTech, Facebook, Education
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- South Africa, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Raenest — Access Virtual Accounts, Invoicing, Multi-Currency Payouts, Auto Payroll, Accounting Integrations, and Virtual & Physical cards within minutes.
- FoondaMate — Foondamate brings the internet through messaging applications so students with limited internet access can study online.
- Klas — Free Online Teaching Tool: Live Classes, Community | Klas
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