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Top 50 Finance Angel Investors in Africa (June 2026)

The most active angel investors investing in Africa Finance startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Africa Finance startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Michael Seibel
Angel
3 United States, Nigeria, United Kingdom Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Artificial Intelligence, Software, FinTech $500k–$32M
Philippe Teixeira da Mota
Angel
3 United Kingdom, Germany, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed FinTech, Financial Services, Software $125k–$35M
Hesham Zreik
Angel
2 United States, India, Nigeria Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence $18k–$5M
Olugbenga Agboola
Angel
2 Nigeria, Kenya, United States Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Finance $625k–$7.5M
Idris Ayodeji Bello
Angel
2 Nigeria, United States, Egypt Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed Software, FinTech, Financial Services $100k–$5.1M
Babs Ogundeyi
Angel
2 Nigeria, Zambia, Pakistan Seed, Pre-Seed FinTech, Financial Services, Finance $780k–$5M
Olumide Soyombo
Angel
2 Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel Financial Services, FinTech, Finance $260k–$2.1M
Ham Serunjogi
Angel
2 Nigeria, United States, South Africa Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Finance, Mobile Apps $25k–$5.3M
Kyane Kassiri
Angel
1 Nigeria, Pakistan, United Kingdom Pre-Seed, Seed Retail, Finance, Software $425k–$3.2M
Damola Adegboyega
Angel
1 Nigeria Pre-Seed Finance, Health Care, Financial Services $240k–$257k
Olumide Ogunsanwo
Angel
1 Nigeria Pre-Seed Finance, Financial Services $240k–$700k
Youcef Es-skouri
Angel
1 United States, France, Nigeria Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Financial Services, FinTech $1.8M–$46M
Jim Chu
Angel
1 United States, Uganda, Nigeria Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Solar, Water, Energy
Larry RosenBerger
Angel
1 United States, Kenya Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed FinTech, Analytics, SaaS $256k–$5.6M
Edward Suh
Angel
1 United States, United Kingdom, Vietnam Seed, Series A, Series B Mobile Apps, FinTech, Financial Services $750k–$30M
Alan Rutledge
Angel
1 United States, India, Mexico Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B Financial Services, FinTech, Software $600k–$8M
Raffael Johnen
Angel
1 Nigeria, Germany, Australia Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Payments, Software $1.6M–$20M
Gbenga Oyebode
Angel
1 Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom Pre-Seed, Seed FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
Sajid Rahman
Angel
1 India, Nigeria, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Banking $150k–$6M
Tyler Scriven
Angel
1 United States, Nigeria Seed, Convertible Note FinTech, Financial Services, Finance $1M–$4M
Youcef Oudjidane
Angel
1 United States, Nigeria, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Payments $120k–$23M
David Chan
Angel
1 United States, Israel, Nigeria Seed, Series A Health Care, Medical, Women's $1.3M–$4.6M
Leonard Stiegeler
Angel
1 Nigeria, South Africa, United States Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed FinTech, Financial Services, B2B $1.3M–$6M
Sriram Krishnan
Angel
1 United States, India, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, SaaS $1M–$25M
Tom Stafford
Angel
1 United Kingdom, Germany, France Series A, Series B, Series C FinTech, Financial Services, Finance $8M–$450M
Eric Nadalin
Angel
1 United Kingdom, United States, Nigeria Seed, Pre-Seed Software, SaaS, Financial Services $1.3M–$4.2M
Eric Osiakwan
Angel
1 Uganda Pre-Seed Finance, Payments, Software
Victoria van Lennep
Angel
1 United Kingdom, France, Spain Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed FinTech, Financial Services, Finance $637k–$23M
Eric Glyman
Angel
1 United States, Canada, Mexico Seed, Series A, Series B Software, FinTech, Financial Services $2.2M–$250M
Ross Lipson
Angel
1 United States, Mexico, India Seed, Series A Logistics, E-Commerce, Internet $2M–$30M
Justin Kan
Angel
1 United States, Nigeria, India Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Financial Services, SaaS $808k–$23M
Sandy Kory
Angel
1 United States, Australia, Canada Seed, Series A, Convertible Note Software, Analytics, FinTech $1.2M–$14M
Justin Mateen
Angel
1 United States, Mexico, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, E-Commerce, Health Care $400k–$26M
Hakeem Belo-Osagie
Angel
1 Nigeria Seed FinTech, Finance, Financial Services
JEN-HAO CHENG
Angel
1 Mauritius Seed FinTech, Finance, Internet
Dale Mathias
Angel
1 Nigeria, The Netherlands Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Finance, Internet
Vishal Agarwal
Angel
1 Nigeria, South Africa Seed, Pre-Seed FinTech, Finance
Matilde Giglio
Angel
1 India, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, Software, FinTech $125k–$16M
Karim Atiyeh
Angel
1 United States, Canada, Nigeria Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech $2.2M–$250M
Bolaji Balogun
Angel
1 Kenya, Nigeria Seed Apps, FinTech, Finance $1.5M–$3M
Gregory Rockson
Angel
1 Kenya, Nigeria Seed, Pre-Seed FinTech, Finance, Consumer
Folabi Esan
Angel
1 Germany, Nigeria, United Kingdom Pre-Seed, Series A, Series B FinTech, Mobile Payments, AgTech
Chris Adelsbach
Angel
1 United Kingdom, United States, Ireland Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Software $120k–$20M
Bashar Hamood
Angel
1 United States, Nigeria, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
Ogundiran Kayode
Angel
1 Nigeria Pre-Seed Finance, Financial Services
Zach Lipson
Angel
1 Nigeria Seed FinTech, Finance, Financial Services
Olawale Ajayi
Angel
1 Nigeria Pre-Seed Apps, FinTech, Finance
Isaac Ewaleifoh
Angel
1 Nigeria, United States Pre-Seed FinTech, Finance, InsurTech $200k–$240k
Maijid Moujaled
Angel
1 Nigeria, South Africa Seed, Series A FinTech, Gaming, Mobile $3M–$5.3M
Neil Thanedar
Angel
1 United States, Mexico, Nigeria Seed Finance, Financial Services, Apps $125k–$1.3M
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Michael Seibel
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in Africa Finance startups

Michael Seibel is the Managing Director and Group Partner of Y Combinator. He previously worked at Socialcam as a CEO. Michael Seibel attended Yale University.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 176
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$7.1M; Pre-Seed $500k–$500k; Series A $5.9M–$32M
  • Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Dripos — Dripos was crafted by restaurant operators like yourself to do it all. We aren't joking, everything from payroll & accounting to mobile ordering & marketing.
  • Retell AI — RetellAI is an API for creating human-like conversational voice AI. Developers can build a voice AI similar to JARVIS in just a day — with an ~800ms response time and the ability to handle interruptions.
  • Golden — Golden is a developer of a self-constructing knowledge database used to accelerate discovery and education. The company uses and leverages human effort by using machine intelligence to make the process of gathering and communicating knowledge simpler.It combines a powerful search across several entities with fine-grain alerts to stay on top ofchanges, and semi-automatic research assistance for gaps in knowledge that enable people in organizations to stay current, understand and leverage the latest trends in their industry.
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Philippe Teixeira da Mota
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in Africa Finance startups

Co-founder of Shapers. Previously Partner at Hedosophia.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 59
  • Round size: Seed $2.5M–$14M; Pre-Seed $125k–$7.7M; Series A $8.8M–$35M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • BoomFi — All-in-one solution to send, accept and convert crypto payments. Fast multi-chain crypto and fiat settlement. Get started today.
  • Flatpay — Flatpay's fair, flat-rate pricing simplifies payments & cuts costs. Benefit from our comprehensive solution & superior customer service. Join us now!
  • Kontigo — We help underbanked gig workers in Latam build credit and access group financing where small groups of family or friends lend and save money together. Users can validate their income from multiple sources such as gig apps, catalog sales, and open finance (Uber, Rappi, Didi, Indriver, Avon, and all major banks). After verifying the income wedirectly offer them group savings and group loans, without leaving WhatsApp, their primary messaging app.
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Hesham Zreik
Angel · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 2 investments in Africa Finance 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, India, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 478
  • Round size: Seed $50k–$1M; Pre-Seed $18k–$1.2M; Series A $50k–$5M
  • Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • EasyBusy — EasyBusy is a contractor-client matching platform designed to address key challenges in the GCC service and construction economy.
  • 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.
  • JLC Industry Of Tomato Paste Sarl U
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Olugbenga Agboola
Angel · 2 investments in Africa Finance startups

Olugbenga Agboola is the Co-Founder and CEO of Flutterwave. He previously worked at Africa Fintech Foundry as a Senior Entrepreneur In Residence. Olugbenga Agboola attended MIT Sloan School of Management.

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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: 23
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$7.5M; Pre-Seed $625k–$3.7M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Sipay — Sipay is a next-generation financial technology company offering a comprehensive all-in-one financial services platform. It enables B2B, B2C, and Sipay as a Service (Embedded Finance) customers to address all their banking and financial needs without requiring any other partners.
  • Curacel — Curacel creates APIs & tools that enable businesses to embed insurance in digital channels and to administer claims cost-effectively.
  • 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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Idris Ayodeji Bello
Angel · 2 investments in Africa Finance startups

The 'Afropreneur' (entrepreneur with an African focus), as he self-describes, Idris Ayodeji Bello is a Partner at LoftyInc Allied Partners Limited and co-founder of The Wennovation Hub, an innovation platform based in Nigeria, that has successfully accelerated the launch of several technology start-ups in social impact sectors. He isalso a Founding Partner at Loftyinc Capital Management, owners of the Afropreneurs Fund (I&II)The 'Afropreneur' (entrepreneur with an African focus), as he self-describes, Idris Bello is a Partner at LoftyInc Allied Partners Limited and co-founder of The Wennovation Hub, an innovation platform based in Nigeria, that has successfully accelerated the launch of several technology start-ups in social impact sectors. He is also a Founding Partner at Loftyinc Capital Management, owners of the Afropreneurs Fund (I&II)A first class honors graduate of Computer Engineering from Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria, he has an M.Sc in Computer Science & Data Mining from the University of Houston; an MBA in Entrepreneurship & Strategy from Rice University in Houston and an M.Sc in Global Health Science from the University of Oxford, where he was a 2011 recipient of The Lord Weidenfeld Scholarship for demonstrating remarkable potential as a future leader from an emerging economy.Idris spent the greater part of a decade working at Chevron Corporation and ExxonMobil USA, where he led several large upstream technology projects across the USA and Sub-Saharan Africa. Idris has also worked with the Clinton Foundation Health Access Initiative where he played a major role in the deployment and evaluation of Swaziland’s first mobile health patient appointment reminder system as part of the country’s National AIDS Program. Listed among CNN’s Top Ten African Technology Voices, he is a Singularity University Impact Fellow, Harambe Entrepreneur Alliance Associate, Clinton Global Initiative University Fellow, MIT Global Start-up Fellow, SAP Ashoka Global Changemakers Award Winner, Dell Technology Award Winner, StartingBloc Innovation Fellow and a Nigeria Leadership Initiative Future Leader.As a leader, Idris has mentored and catalyzed scores of contributors across the growing African landscape and is an angel investor and advisor to several African startups including Andela, Flutterwave, RelianceHMO, among others. He continues to devote his efforts to the development of innovation-driven, technology-enabled social enterprises that empower the underserved and develop transformative ideas to change lives on the African continent.He spends most of his time between Lagos, Cairo, or airport lounges.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 36
  • Round size: Seed $700k–$5.1M; Pre-Seed $100k–$1.1M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Bypa-ss — Bypa-ss is working on creating a world-class SaaS healthcare environment and revolutionizing healthcare in Egypt, Join Us
  • SimpliFi — We power the cards behind your brand. Instantly issue and manage virtual or physical cards, enable payments in multiple currencies, and scale globally through one secure API platform.
  • ORDA — Process orders, accept payments, connect to logistic providers, engage with your customers + more. We equip you with everything you need to grow your business.
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Babs Ogundeyi
Angel · Yaba, Lagos, Nigeria · 2 investments in Africa Finance 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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Olumide Soyombo
Angel · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 2 investments in Africa Finance startups

Olumide Soyombo holds a BSc in Systems Engineering from University of Lagos, Nigeria and an MSc (Distinction) in Business and Information Technology from the Aston Business School, Birmingham, England; earning membership into the Beta Gamma Sigma Society for his high scholastic achievement.Olumide co–founded Bluechip Technologies Ltd in 2008 andhas grown the organisation from an organization with two employees to an organization with over 80 consultants spread across Lagos, Accra and Lusaka, Zambia.In 2014, Olumide setup Leadpath as a seed fund investing in local tech startups. He has invested in startups like Pushcv.com, Paystack, Piggybank.ng, Fashpa, Heels.com.ng , Delivery Science, Gloo.ng, and Cosign.co.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$1.3M; Angel $260k–$1M; Pre-Seed $260k–$2.1M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Wealth8 — Wealth8 is a black-owned investment platform that provides a simple and affordable way for the black community to save & invest in globally managed funds.
  • JADA — JADA focuses on both technical expertise and soft skill development and is designed to upskill experienced professionals in data analytics, machine learning, and generative AI.
  • 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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Ham Serunjogi
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Africa Finance startups

Ham Serunjogi is a co-founder and CEO at Chipper Cash.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Finance, Mobile Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $25k–$5.3M; Pre-Seed $240k–$3.7M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Caliza — Give your users access to the digital dollar economy. Get early access!
  • Sudo — Sudo is an open API platform that enables businesses to embed powerful financial features into their products. Build in minutes, launch in days.
  • CreditChek — Bridging the trust gap between global credit businesses and underserved African consumers.
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Kyane Kassiri
Angel · 1 investments in Africa Finance startups

Emerging market investor. Partner @ RaliCap.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Retail, Finance, Software
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, Pakistan, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $425k–$3.2M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kippa — ## Build Setup
  • Simulon — Studio-quality VFX on a mobile. Sign up to the Simulon beta.
  • Markaz Technologies — Markaz provides an online reselling platform to help anyone in Pakistan source wholesale products from across the country and sell with a profit through their own social media stores on WhatsApp and Facebook without investing any money, from the comfort of their home.Markaz is on a mission to supercharge the rails of ecommerce and make itaccessible to masses in Pakistan by enabling and empowering micro-entrepreneurs.
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Damola Adegboyega
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Africa Finance startups

Damola Adegboyega is an Assembly Investors.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Finance, Health Care, Financial Services
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $240k–$257k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • CreditChek — Bridging the trust gap between global credit businesses and underserved African consumers.
  • Intron Health — Voice AI Built for How Africa Speaks Our next-generation intelligent voice model built from the ground up for AfricaUnlike Global systems retrofitted for the continent Sahara v-2 understands how Africa actually sounds Build with Sahara Try Sahara Built for African SpeechFrom Lagos Call Centers, to Hospitals in Nairobi, Boardrooms in Cape Town, and Courtrooms in
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Olumide Ogunsanwo
Angel · Miami, Florida, United States · 1 investments in Africa Finance startups

Olumide Ogunsanwo is a Investor (Adamantium fund -> African startups), Podcaster (Afrobility) & Advisor (Google Bizops) | Oxford, MIT & McKinsey alum.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $240k–$700k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Raenest — Access Virtual Accounts, Invoicing, Multi-Currency Payouts, Auto Payroll, Accounting Integrations, and Virtual & Physical cards within minutes.
  • CreditChek — Bridging the trust gap between global credit businesses and underserved African consumers.
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Youcef Es-skouri
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Africa Finance startups

Youcef Es-skouri

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 26
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$14M; Series A $6.2M–$46M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Treinta — Treinta is a digital ledger app for Latin American microbusinesses. Through Treinta, users can easily record transactions by assigning products from their inventory and see how their business metrics evolve in real time. The app helps owners save up to 30 minutes a day in bookkeeping related tasks and improve efficiency by over 30%. Out of the 50million microbusinesses in LATAM, today 90% still track their sales and expenses by using pen and paper.
  • Prepared — We are harnessing the power of everyday technology to enhance the way that people communicate during emergencies.
  • Exponential DeFi — Exponential is now powering the YO Risk Engine. The risk graph that powers YO will soon be published.
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Jim Chu
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Africa Finance startups

Jim Chu is the Founder & CEO at Untapped Global.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Solar, Water, Energy
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Uganda, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • OnePipe — OnePipe aggregates APIs from banks and fintechs into a standardized gateway that is easy to integrate and makes partnerships seamless.
  • dloHaiti — dloHaiti is a Market Based Solution for Clean Water in Haiti. Sustainable and impactful, it provides clean drinking water to underserved areas of Haiti, areas where access to clean, safe drinking water is unreliable, expensive, or simply unavailable.
  • Onelamp Uganda — Distributing solar fishing lanterns and solar lights in Uganda.
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Larry RosenBerger
Angel · San Quentin, California, United States · 1 investments in Africa Finance startups

Larry Rosenberger was named FICO's first Research Fellow in 2007, following more than 33 years of service to the company. In this capacity, he continues to pursue research projects that advance FICO's analytic science. From 1999 to 2007, he led FICO’s Research Unit, focused on early stage innovation in such areas as decisionanalytics/Strategy Science and Consumer Capacity Index. From 1991 to 1999, he served as President and CEO. During that time, FICO experienced consecutive years of record growth, with annual revenues increasing from $31 million to over $276 million. Prior to that position, he managed the Engineering, Research, and Development Division. In that capacity, he was responsible for the technical development, production and marketing of the company's most advanced products. Mr. Rosenberger holds a B.S. in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an MS in physics and operations research from the University of California, Berkeley. He is also chairman of the board of directors of the Marin Education Fund and board member of the Marin Community Foundation.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Analytics, SaaS
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$1.7M; Pre-Seed $256k–$700k; Series A $4.2M–$5.6M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • MeasureOne — Our consumer-permissioned data exchange platform provides verifications, credit decision and more. See how it works. Request a demo today!
  • Nudge Money — Nudge Money is an AI financial guidance platform leveraging behavioral economics and financial planning to infuse timely and personalized advice into automated marketing channels at community financial institutions and fintechs, increasing conversion 7x while building loyalty.
  • Fenris — The single best API for data and insight used to streamline customer acquisition and improve retention for insurance products. Our clients (agencies, carriers, financial services providers) leverage our APIs to inject insights and data into their workflows, to increase conversions, and deliver killer Amazon-like customer journeys.Developer-first in our approach, it's the easy, secure way to access external data and custom algorithms that identify your best customer and ease the way. Our suite of APIs covers 95% of the US (255m adults, 130m households, 99% properties (residential and commercial), 35m small businesses, and 40m new life events annually). Machine learning analytics engine that consistently hones our predictive scores to deliver more results right at the point of quotesignals and scoring that streamline work flows and improve turn around time in traditional and embedded purchase pathways.
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Edward Suh
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Africa Finance startups

Edward Suh

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  • Industry: Mobile Apps, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Vietnam

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 46
  • Round size: Seed $750k–$9.8M; Series A $4.7M–$30M; Series B $8M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kippa — ## Build Setup
  • Pushas — Buy & Sell Authentic, Brand-New Sneakers From Australia's Favourite Sneaker Store. Widest selection of hype, exclusive sneakers: Air Jordans, Yeezys, Nike, Adidas, Off-Whites & more. AfterPay, Klarna, ZipPay & Laybuy available. 'Authenticity' guarantee on every sneaker purchase or your money back.
  • Mio App — Depo 25 bonus 25 adalah cara paling mudah untuk klaim promo bonus new member 100 hanya mendaftar di situs slot online terpercaya terbesar di indonesia bonus langsung di awal cuma dengan syarat turnover to kecil hanya 2x serta sudah memiliki lisensi resmi untuk kemenangan besar, Daftar dan klaim sekarang untuk nikmati peluang menang jackpot maxwin dengan modal kecil.
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Alan Rutledge
Angel · 1 investments in Africa Finance 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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Raffael Johnen
Angel · Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 1 investments in Africa Finance 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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Gbenga Oyebode
Angel · 1 investments in Africa Finance startups

Gbenga Oyebode serves as an Of Counsel of Aluko and Oyebode. He attended the University of Pennsylvania and the Ekiti State University.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Mono — Mono helps businesses link their customers accounts for financial data, bank payments and identity verification across Africa.
  • Wealth8 — Wealth8 is a black-owned investment platform that provides a simple and affordable way for the black community to save & invest in globally managed funds.
  • Juicyway — Juice is a developer of a payment network platform for cross-border business payments for businesses and individuals. It facilitates financial transactions between parties regardless of location to allow enterprises to participate in international trade and the exchange of goods and services.
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Sajid Rahman
Angel · Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia · 1 investments in Africa Finance startups

Sajid currently works as Managing Partner at MyAsiaVC He attended London Business School.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Banking
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: India, Nigeria, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Round size: Seed $150k–$5.5M; Pre-Seed $385k–$6M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • ImaliPay — ImaliPay is a financial health platform offering financial products to freelancers and blue collar gig workers in partnership with gig platforms.
  • EquityList — Equity management with online cap table management and employee stock option programs (ESOP) administration. Available free for Indian startups
  • 10 Minute School — 10 Minute School is the largest online educational platform in Bangladesh. Through our website, app, and social media, more than 10 Million+ students are accessing quality education each day to accelerate their learning.
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Tyler Scriven
Angel · Atlanta, Georgia, United States · 1 investments in Africa Finance startups

Tyler is an entrepreneur and early-stage technology investor. He currently serves as a Managing Director of Techstars Atlanta. Prior to joining Techstars, Tyler was a member of the senior leadership team at Palantir Technologies in Silicon Valley, where he served as Chief of Staff and Head of Operations. During his tenure with Palantir, he wasbroadly engaged in scaling the operations of the business from 100 to nearly 2,000 employees.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
  • Stage:Seed, Convertible Note
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$4M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Sequr — Genea Security Mobile Access Control software puts the power in your hands. Instantly grant or revoke access. Use mobile phone to unlock doors with a tap.
  • Landed — We help education, healthcare, and government employees buy homes by providing access to funds, trusted partners and guidance.
  • Farmcrowdy — Farmcrowdy is an agric-tech platform that gives Nigerians the opportunity to participate in Agriculture by selecting the kind of farms they want to sponsor. They use the sponsor’s funds to secure the land, engage the farmer, plant the seeds, insure the farmers and farm produce, complete the full farming cycle, sell the harvest and then pay the farmsponsor a return on their sponsorship. While this farm process is ongoing, the farm sponsors are able to keep track of the full-cycle by getting updates in text, pictures and videos.
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Youcef Oudjidane
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Africa Finance 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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David Chan
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Africa Finance startups

Mr. David Chan, CFA is an Advisor at ROBO Global Ventures. He graduated with a B.A. in Biochemistry from Harvard University in 1983 and received an M.B.A. from Columbia University in 1989.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Medical, Women's
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Israel, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$4.6M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Wellthy — Wellthy is a family care concierge service bringing relief to families managing complex or ongoing care situations. The company's solution brings relief to families managing aging-related concerns, childcare, special needs, health conditions, and other complex or ongoing care situations. Wellthy connects families with a dedicated CareCoordinator to help tackle the logistical and administrative tasks of caring for the ones they love, including themselves.Through Wellthy’s online platform, families can keep track of appointments, save contacts, organize tasks by type, store important documents, and revisit past conversations.The company was founded in 2014 by Lindsay Jurist-Rosner and Kevin Roche and is headquartered in New York, United States.
  • BillionToOne — We are a team at the forefront of disease detection focused on moving Prenatal Screening and Liquid Biopsy forward.
  • StarkWare Industries — StarkWare is using STARK proofs to bringing scalability, security and privacy to a blockchain near you
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Leonard Stiegeler
Angel · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 1 investments in Africa Finance 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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Sriram Krishnan
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Africa Finance startups

Sriram Krishnan is based out of Washington, District of Columbia and is the Senior Policy Advisor of The White House. Sriram previously worked at Andreessen Horowitz as a general partner. Sriram attended the SRM Engineering College.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 55
  • Round size: Seed $2.5M–$20M; Pre-Seed $1M–$4.5M; Series A $7.5M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kippa — ## Build Setup
  • Juno — On-ramp to more than 20 chains with no holding period on crypto withdrawals
  • Practice — Sell your expertise online, and manage your business, all in one place.
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Tom Stafford
Angel · Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong · 1 investments in Africa Finance startups

Tom is a Co-Founder at DST Global, an internet-focused investment firm with a global focus.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 72
  • Round size: Series A $8M–$24M; Series B $15M–$150M; Series C $40M–$450M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Habito — We're the Treating Customers Fairly Champion of 2023 as voted for in the British Bank Awards. We're here to make mortgages easier - no paperwork, no stress and no fees.
  • Fuse Energy — Fuse Energy is building the future of energy with cheaper tariffs, better service, and greener goals. Switch to Fuse Energy today
  • Surfboard — Get Dialpad Workforce Management (WFM) software for accurate forecasting, demand-driven scheduling, fair shift planning, and more.
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Eric Nadalin
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Africa Finance startups

Eric Nadalin has entrepreneurship experiences in both the payments and telecoms spaces for over 20+ years. He cofounded Nexmo and worked as a CTO managing product and engineering teams. The company was acquired by Vonage in May 2016. During the dotcom era, he was based in San Francisco and cofounded iPIN, which was later on acquired by Valista andwas integrated with major mobile operators around the globe. Eric holds several patents in telecommunication, a Bachelors and Masters Degree in Computer Science from Université Paul Sabatier in Toulouse, France.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$4.2M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Cledara — Manage, control and automate your Company's cloud software so that you can scale your operational processes, comply with regulations and save money.
  • Northflank — Northflank is the comprehensive developer platform designed for scale. Seamlessly deploy and release any project on our cloud or in yours.
  • Oyster — Hire, pay, manage, and take care of your globally distributed team with confidence. Try Oyster for free today!
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Eric Osiakwan
Angel · Accra, Greater Accra, Ghana · 1 investments in Africa Finance startups

Eric Osiakwan, Managing Partner of Chanzo Capital is an Entrepreneur and Investor with 15 years of ICT industry leadership across Africa and the world. He has worked in 32 African countries setting up ISPs, ISPAs, IXPs and high-tech startups. He Co-Founded Angel Africa List,Angel Fair Africa and currently serves on the board of Farmerline, SMS GH,Forhey, Teranga Solutions, SeeSayDo, Oasis Websoft, Siqueries, Amp.it, SameLogic, Bisa app, Wanjo Foods,Ghana Cyber City and WABco – some of which are his investments. He was part of the team that built the TEAMS submarine cable in East Africa and an ICT Consultant for the WorldBank, Soros Foundations, UNDP, USAID, USDoJ, USDoS as well as African governments and private firms.He authored “The KINGS of Africa’s Digital Economy”, co-authored the “Open Access Model”, adopted globally by the telecommunications industry, “Negotiating the Net” – the politics of Internet Diffusion in Africa and “The Internet in Ghana” with the Mosaic Group. He was invited to contribute ideas to Prime Minister Tony Blair’s Commission for Africa. Eric is a TED, Stanford, MIT and Harvard fellow.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Finance, Payments, Software
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Uganda

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Tripesa — Tripesa offers payment solutions for Africa's travel and tourism industry.
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Victoria van Lennep
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Africa Finance 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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Eric Glyman
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Africa Finance startups

Eric Glyman is co-founder and CEO of Ramp, the ultimate platform for modern finance teams. Ramp powers the fastest-growing corporate card and bill payment platform in America, and enables tens of billions of dollars in purchases each year. 15,000+ businesses on Ramp have collectively saved more than $600 million and over 8.5 million hours ofemployee time by controlling spend and automating manual tasks. Prior to Ramp, Eric co-founded Paribus, a price-tracking app to help consumers save money on their everyday online purchases. Paribus was acquired by Capital One in 2016. Born and raised in Las Vegas, Eric now lives in New York City.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 36
  • Round size: Seed $2.2M–$9.8M; Series A $11M–$35M; Series B $25M–$250M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • Natural — Payments for AI agents.
  • Cognition — Cognition is an applied artificial intelligence lab that focuses on reasoning and code.
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Ross Lipson
Angel · Bend, Oregon, United States · 1 investments in Africa Finance startups

Ross Lipson is the Co-Founder and CEO of Dutchie, a leading cannabis technology platform that powers dispensary operations, provides consumers with safe and easy access to products, and supports the societal change that cannabis is bringing to the world. Founded in 2017, Dutchie works with over 5000 dispensaries across North America, facilitatingover $14b in annual sales. Prior to founding Dutchie, Ross was the Co-Founder and CEO of GrubCanada, Canada’s first online food ordering service. GrubCanada was acquired by Just Eat in 2012.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Logistics, E-Commerce, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Mexico, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$14M; Series A $18M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kyte — Kyte delivers rental cars straight to your door. We deliver and pick up the vehicle. No lines, no paperwork, freedom to explore. Fully flexible. Book today!
  • 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.
  • Filo — Filo, Edtech, transactional learning model by online tutors available for students in less than 60 seconds. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.filo.student&hl=en&gl=US
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Justin Kan
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Africa Finance startups

Justin Kan is the Co-Founder of Stash. He previously worked at Atrium as a CEO. Justin Kan attended Yale University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Financial Services, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 105
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$6.7M; Pre-Seed $808k–$20M; Series A $7.5M–$23M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Blue — An Operating System for your Personal Health. Join the waitlist here.
  • FLORA — FLORA is an applied AI HCI company building creative tools.
  • Thrive Protocol — Thrive Protocol's vision is to maximize value creation for all people and communities.
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Sandy Kory
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Africa Finance startups

Prior to MVP, he was Vice President at Arbor Advisors, leading their highly successful entry into the digital media and interactive marketing industries. He advised clients in a number of industry-leading transactions, such as the sale of WorldClass Strategy to EducationDynamics, the sale of ReliableRemodeler.com to Quinstreet, the sale ofInvestopedia.com to Forbes Media, and the sale of Interest.com to Bankrate.Sandy is a regular speaker at industry conferences, including Ad-Tech and LeadsCon. He received his B.A. in Psychology and M.S. in Management Science & Engineering from Stanford University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Analytics, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
  • Geography: United States, Australia, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 17
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$7M; Series A $8.6M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% 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.
  • Mindset Health — Mindset Health is a digital therapeutics company that helps people manage chronic health issues like irritable bowel syndrome and anxiety with app-based hypnotherapy.
  • Enable Us — Buyer & seller enablement with one single link. Enable's digital salesroom has everything B2B buyers and sellers need to close deals quickly
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Justin Mateen
Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States · 1 investments in Africa Finance 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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Hakeem Belo-Osagie
Angel · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 1 investments in Africa Finance startups

‘Keem holds an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School, a law degree from Cambridge University and an M.A. in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from Oxford University. He is a member of the Nigerian Bar. He started his career as a petroleum economist and a lawyer. For over three decades, he has been a key player in the Nigerian economy through hisparticipation in several businesses in the private sector particularly in the energy, finance and telecommunications sectors.‘Keem started his career in the service of the Federal Government of Nigeria working in various capacities in the energy sector ranging from Special Assistant to the Presidential Adviser on petroleum and energy, to Secretary of the Oil Policy Review and LNG Committees. He also served as Special Assistant to the Minister of Petroleum and Energy. He subsequently worked in the Petrochemicals Division of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation. He resigned his appointment in 1986 to set up CTIC, which became a leading energy consulting firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Finance, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Rivy — Access flexible financing for solar energy projects with Rivy. Power homes, businesses, and communities with clean, affordable energy.
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JEN-HAO CHENG
Angel · 1 investments in Africa Finance startups

JEN-HAO CHENG

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Finance, Internet
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Mauritius

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • 101 financial.app — 101financial.app membantu investor pemula memasuki pasar keuangan dengan teknologi pemrograman yang terbaik dan berbagai fitur sosial. Semua pengguna dapat dengan cepat menjelajahi beragam saham, mata uang Kripto, dan menerapkan perdagangan margin untuk mencapai tujuan keuangan dengan modal kecil.
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Dale Mathias
Angel · 1 investments in Africa Finance startups

Dale Mathias

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Finance, Internet
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Nigeria, The Netherlands

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Kosa — Domain name KOSA.ai is a powerful tech-driven brand with a sleek, modern appeal. The name KOSA conveys a sense of intelligence and sophistication, making it perfect for AI-focused startups or businesses in the technology sector. As a short,
  • Octamile — Octamile is Africa's best Embedded Insurance & Claims Automation solution for Insurers & B2C businesses. Get a quote today...
  • Paystack — Over 60,000 businesses of all sizes use Paystack to collect payments with a modern, secure payment gateway.
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Vishal Agarwal
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Africa Finance startups

Vishal Agarwal serves as a Founder & CEO at ItsaCheckmate.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Finance
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, South Africa

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • OnePipe — OnePipe aggregates APIs from banks and fintechs into a standardized gateway that is easy to integrate and makes partnerships seamless.
  • Momint — Momint is the Web3 investment platform of the future. The safest and easiest to use NFT marketplace in the world. Discover the real-world potential of NFTs.
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Matilde Giglio
Angel · Bangalore, Karnataka, India · 1 investments in Africa Finance startups

Matilde Giglio is the Co-Founder of Even and an angel investor in over 30 companies globally https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/10/even-healthcare-lands-additional-capital-to-advance-primary-care-adoption-in-india/

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$6M; Pre-Seed $125k–$125k; Series A $6.5M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Turno — Turno Finance makes owning EV very affordable. Turno Club is a community around commercial EVs. Turno Battery Future is our solution to keeping batteries on the road for longer.
  • Circular — We are making subscriptions the best way to experience tech. Circular aims to accelerate the circular economy and maximise the useful lives of each tech device to its fullest potential.
  • Hubble Network — Connect a Bluetooth device to a global satellite network, delivering affordable, low-power tracking and monitoring for diverse industrial and commercial applications.
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Karim Atiyeh
Angel · Brooklyn, New York, United States · 1 investments in Africa Finance startups

Karim Atiyeh is the Co-Founder and CTO of Ramp, the fastest growing spend management platform and corporate card. Launched in 2020, Ramp gives Finance leaders an edge with powerful software that helps them save time and control spend before it happens. A Lebanese entrepreneur, Karim previously built and sold YCombinator-backed Paribus to CapitalOne in 2016.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 55
  • Round size: Seed $2.2M–$9.8M; Series A $11M–$35M; Series B $43M–$250M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Miravoice — Miravoice builds precision AI voice agents to automate phone surveys and interviews. Collect more data, faster, for less.
  • Natural — Payments for AI agents.
  • Campfire — Campfire is the AI-native ERP built for high-growth finance teams. Automate reconciliations, close faster, and scale revenue without adding headcount.
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Bolaji Balogun
Angel · 1 investments in Africa Finance startups

Bolaji Balogun CEO at Chapel Hill Denham

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, FinTech, Finance
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$3M
  • Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • OkHi — Smart addressing for emerging markets. Enabling businesses to collect an accurate address, navigate to it without getting lost and verity it remotely.
  • Rivy — Access flexible financing for solar energy projects with Rivy. Power homes, businesses, and communities with clean, affordable energy.
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Gregory Rockson
Angel · Ghana, Ebonyi, Nigeria · 1 investments in Africa Finance 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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Folabi Esan
Angel · 1 investments in Africa Finance startups

Folabi Esan has been a partner at Adlevo Capital since it was founded in 2007.Prior to joining Adlevo Capital, Folabi was the founder and Managing Consultant of Catalyst TDC, a Nigeria-based consulting firm that advises clients on technology adoption issues within their companies. Prior to founding Catalyst TDC, Folabi was the Managing Directorof SAP Nigeria, the Nigerian subsidiary of the leading enterprise software company, for five years. He successfully drove the company to profitability within three years and was instrumental in building the company up to its current position as the leading provider of enterprise software to large corporations in the region.Before he joined SAP, Folabi managed Heureka Consulting, a marketing consulting firm that provided consulting services to small and mid-sized IT Companies in Nigeria. He started Heureka Consulting after founding and running Wood Products Limited, a Nigeria-based manufacturer of wood products. Folabi’s previous experience also includes positions with Bain & Company in the US and Andersen Consulting in Nigeria.Folabi received a B. Eng. in Mechanical Engineering (First Class Division) from Ahmadu Bello University, an M.S. in Manufacturing Systems Engineering from Stanford University, and an M.Sc. in Innovation Management and Technology Policy from University of London.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Mobile Payments, AgTech
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Germany, Nigeria, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • OnePipe — OnePipe aggregates APIs from banks and fintechs into a standardized gateway that is easy to integrate and makes partnerships seamless.
  • COOKO — Source premium, traceable cocoa directly from smallholder farmers. COOKO ensures EU-compliant, source-fermented quality with full supply-chain transparency. Source Fermented Cacao, only from COOKO.
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Chris Adelsbach
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Africa Finance startups

Chris Adelsbach - Founding Partner @ Outrun Ventures

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 226
  • Round size: Seed $120k–$6.1M; Pre-Seed $120k–$2M; Series A $4.3M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Capsa AI — Providing next-generation investors with a competitive edge.
  • FinCrime Dynamics — Our mission is to help make the world’s financial system safer through rapid deployment of effective AI for financial crime analytics, enabled by enriched synthetic data that captures the dynamics of fraud and money laundering and loads them into tailor-made scenarios that explore diverse threats that financial organisations are exposed to.Thisgoal has taken us to the forefront of Synthetic Data and Fincrime Analytics, and we are proud to have in our team people that have helped shape the state-of-the-art of these fields.Keywords: Finacial services, AML, Synthetic Data, Fintech, Machine learning, Big data, Simulation, Fraud Analytics, Compliance
  • Applied Computing — Applied Computing delivers industrial AI to the energy industry including oil and gas, refineries, and petrochemical plants, helping critical operations harness 100% of their data and optimise in real time for safer, faster, higher-performing decisions
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Bashar Hamood
Angel · 1 investments in Africa Finance startups, 9 in the past 12 months

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: 323
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • EcoBites — EcoBites is a subscription service that delivers sustainably sourced and eco-friendly packaged snacks and meals to consumers doorsteps.
  • Lawyeree — A platform offering AI legal advice to clients and allowing clients to be connected with the best lawyers.
  • SafeNest — SafeNest offers a comprehensive home security system integrating smart technology with professional monitoring services.
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Ogundiran Kayode
Angel · 1 investments in Africa Finance startups

Ogundiran Kayode is an individual investor.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • CreditChek — Bridging the trust gap between global credit businesses and underserved African consumers.
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Zach Lipson
Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States · 1 investments in Africa Finance startups

Zach Lipson is the co-founder and CPO at Dutchie. Prior to that, he co-founded and served as head of product at RepPro.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Finance, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • 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.
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Olawale Ajayi
Angel · 1 investments in Africa Finance startups

Olawale Ajayi

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Skye Wallet — Africa’s Simplest Cryptocurrency Wallet & Exchange App (Mobile & Web): Launched on the 12th of April 2021, transacted N500M+ ($1M)+ volume in the first 16 weeks of launch and figure keeps growing. Access to over 10 top Cryptocurrency (Coins/Tokens) and have infrastructure to integrate up to 100 more tokens in few months.
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Isaac Ewaleifoh
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Africa Finance startups

Isaac Ewaleifoh is an Angel Investor | SDGs Ambassador.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Finance, InsurTech
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $200k–$240k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Fleri — Better healthcare for your family back home - Give your loved ones back home in Africa the gift of a better life with a healthcare coverage plan that works.
  • Famasi — Find, Order & Refill medications across 1000+ pharmacies in Nigeria. Delivered in 1 hour. Compare prices, get the best offers, and enjoy free monthly delivery on recurring orders.
  • CreditChek — Bridging the trust gap between global credit businesses and underserved African consumers.
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Maijid Moujaled
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Africa Finance startups

Maijid Moujaled is a co-founder and president at Chipper Cash.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Gaming, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Nigeria, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $3M–$5.3M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Caliza — Give your users access to the digital dollar economy. Get early access!
  • Rivy — Access flexible financing for solar energy projects with Rivy. Power homes, businesses, and communities with clean, affordable energy.
  • Carry1st — Carry1st develops and publishes enriching mobile games and content apps for African consumers.
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Neil Thanedar
Angel · Flint, Michigan, United States · 1 investments in Africa Finance startups

Neil Thanedar is the Founder and GP of Utopic Ventures and the Founder and Chairman of Labdoor and Air to All.Previously, Neil was the Founder and President of Avomeen Analytical Services, a chemical analysis and product development laboratory.He has also served as Senior Advisor to his father Shri Thanedar in his campaigns for Governor, StateRepresentative, and US Congress in Michigan.Neil graduated from the University of Michigan in 2010 with degrees in Molecular Biology and Business Administration.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Finance, Financial Services, Apps
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: United States, Mexico, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $125k–$1.3M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Beek — Beek is building the top audio platform in Latin America. 10/10 people you see on the streets with headphones, will be listening on Beek to the best audiobooks, podcasts, meditations, and any audio content that they like. There will be a Netflix for Spoken word audio for the 480M+ native Spanish Speakers, and Beek is the team building it.
  • Paystack — Over 60,000 businesses of all sizes use Paystack to collect payments with a modern, secure payment gateway.
  • MatterFab — MatterFab offers a production 3D metal printer solution that removes the limitations of industrial fabrication. Final part production is the fastest growing segment of 3D printing built on equipment designed for prototyping that is not designed to scale. MatterFab provides a scalable production additive manufacturing solution with printers,material supply, traceable powder cartridges, training, education, maintenance services, and application engineering support to accelerate the adoption of additive manufacturing in our client's organizations. Manufacturing has the power to shape the world and MatterFab has the power to reshape manufacturing.
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