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Top 15 Food and Beverage Angel Investors in Africa

Last updated: Aug 2024 A list of 15 angel investors that invest in Food and beverage startups based in Africa. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Food and beverage companies from Africa. We update this investor list every month.

Top 15 Food and Beverage Angel Investors in Africa

Investor	Food and Beverage Africa investments
Tayo Oviosu	2
Michael Chow	1
Karthik Ramakrishnan	1
Tyler Scriven	1
Tim Draper	1
John Obaro	1
Shola Akinlade	1
Simon Borrero	1
Sudeep Ramnani	1
Enagwolor Johnny	1
Abdo Achkar	1
Bhavik Bajaj	1
Michael Cohn	1
Samson Larsson	1
Ryan Bethencourt	1

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Tayo is the Founder & Group CEO of Paga (www.paga.com), Nigeria’s leading mobile money service. Prior to Paga, Tayo was Vice-President at Travant Capital Partners, a private equity fund in West Africa. Prior to joining Travant, Tayo was a Manager, Corporate Development, at Cisco Systems in San Jose California. Tayo’s work at Paga has beenrecognized globally - in 2014 CNBC selected Tayo as the Entrepreneur of the Year West Africa, and in 2015 the African Leadership Network selected Paga as the outstanding growing company of the year in Africa. Tayo is also the co-founder of Kairos Angels, an angel investment club.Tayo earned his Bachelors of Science degree in Electrical Engineering, cum laude, from the University of Southern California, and also has a Masters in Business Administration from the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
Nigeria, Brazil, United States

Portfolio highlights

RELAYTO Content Experience Platform — RELAYTO converts your PDFs & presentations to interactive web experiences with instant branding, analytics & more
Tyms — Tyms online accounting software for your business connects you to your bank, accountant, bookkeeper, and other business apps. Start a free trial today. Also available in Nigeria, Ghana, Mauritius and South Africa.
Venco Platforms — Venco automates visitor management, billing, and collections, as well as smart utility vending for communities across Africa.

Michael Chow is the Founder and CEO of Dart Technologies.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Rental Property
Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed
United States, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Teamble — Teamble dramatically improves how managers coach their people and how employees learn and up-skill. Teamble uniquely combines continuous feedback, performance, employee engagement, and learning & development in one AI-based platform, built to drive higher performance.
Boom — Boom is the easiest way to build credit credit with your rent. With Boom, report your rent payments to all three credit bureaus for as little as $2 per month. Enroll in minutes.
Tembo Health — Seniors deserve the very best care, no matter where they live. Tembo Health partners with nursing homes to provide residents with high quality telemedicine appointments in specialties like psychiatry, cardiology, and more.

Karthik Ramakrishnan is an Engineering Executive @ Amazon Alexa.

Investment focus

EdTech, Banking, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed
Nigeria, India

Portfolio highlights

Chowdeck — Enjoy fast delivery from best restaurants near you. Order African food, Asian food, Pizza, fit-fam, Drinks from restaurants near you in Ikeja, Yaba, Surulere, Ogudu, Lekki.
Grey — Open international bank accounts for free to receive and make foreign payments instantly or convert currencies - all in one place.
Augmend — Create documentation and an AI assistant from any video.

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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Food Processing
Seed, Funding Round, Convertible Note
United States, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Sequr — Cloud-based access control for a new era. Access control portal built for managing credentials, assigning mobile keys, & monitoring activity.
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.

Tim Draper is the Founding Partner of Draper Associates. He attended Harvard Business School.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Buupass — BuuPass is Kenya's market leader for online bus booking. We enable travelers to reserve seats and make payments in a convenient and timely way. Try BuuPass today!
SUN ZU Lab — SUN ZU Lab is a leading independent provider of Quantitative Analytics for Crypto Professionals.
Zest Protocol — Zest Protocol enables users to put their Bitcoin to work. Earn more BTC, or borrow against your BTC.

John Obaro is a distinguished alumnus of both Ahmadu Bello University, University of Lagos, and the Chief Executive Program (CEP3) of Lagos Business School. He has served at various times on the Boards of the Ministerial Advisory Council on Information and Communication Technology, Institute of Software Practitioners of Nigeria, ComputerProfessionals Registration Council of Nigeria (CPN), Governing Council of the National ICT Incubation Program (iDea), and many more.He is a fellow of the Center for African Policy Development and Research, Glasgow, Scotland; a Fellow of Nigeria Computer Society (NCS); an ex-member of the Governing Council of Computers Professionals (Registration Council) of Nigeria (CPN) – the highest industry practice regulatory body; and immediate past 1st Vice President of the Institute of Software Practitioners of Nigeria (ISPON). John Obaro was recently recognised with the honour of Leadership in Technology at the 2016 African Achievement Awards in Scotland and also recognised as the ICT Software Personality of the Year 2016 at the Beacon of ICT (BoICT) Award, in addition to other numerous indigenous and international awards he has received over the years.John Obaro’s successful entrepreneurial adventure in software development architecture has attracted and continues to attract attention from both local and international quarters. The prestigious Lagos Business School (LBS) of the Pan-Atlantic University has written two case studies on SystemSpecs while many newspapers, magazines and journals have also featured him at one time or the other.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Marketplace, Food and Beverage
Seed
Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Vendease — Grow your business with access to meal costing, inventory, and restaurant management tools. Make payments easily and get the data you need to scale faster.

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

Investment focus

FinTech, Education, Financial Services
Pre-Seed, Seed
Nigeria, Kenya, Rwanda

Portfolio highlights

Chowdeck — Enjoy fast delivery from best restaurants near you. Order African food, Asian food, Pizza, fit-fam, Drinks from restaurants near you in Ikeja, Yaba, Surulere, Ogudu, Lekki.
Earnipay — Gain access, consolidate, and manage all your financial needs in one place.
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.

Simón Borrero is a Co-Founder & CEO at Rappi. He attended MIT Sloan School of Management.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Mobile Apps, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Colombia, Brazil, United States

Portfolio highlights

Bacu — Bacu provides restaurant technology and offer a comfort food concept.
Wizzer — Wizzer is an AI-driven parenting copilot that provides guidance through highly personalized multi-modal conversations.
Chowdeck — Enjoy fast delivery from best restaurants near you. Order African food, Asian food, Pizza, fit-fam, Drinks from restaurants near you in Ikeja, Yaba, Surulere, Ogudu, Lekki.

Sudeep Ramnani is a Technology Entrepreneur and Investor

Investment focus

Credit, FinTech, InsurTech
Seed, Angel
Nigeria, United States

Portfolio highlights

Chowdeck — Enjoy fast delivery from best restaurants near you. Order African food, Asian food, Pizza, fit-fam, Drinks from restaurants near you in Ikeja, Yaba, Surulere, Ogudu, Lekki.
Finclusion Group — Enhancing financial inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa through data driven lending.

Enagwolor Johnny is the co founder and president at Treepz. He attended University of Benin.

Investment focus

Delivery, Logistics, Mobile Apps
Pre-Seed
Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Jise — Jise provides restaurant food delivery services, connecting customers with local businesses.We are extremely passionate about transforming local businesses and dedicated to enabling new ways of working, earning, and living. By building the last-mile delivery infrastructure for local cities, Jise is bringing communities closer, one door at a time.It connects customers with their favorite local and national restaurants within Lekki Phase 1 for now. Marvelous Gbenro, Osazuwa Agbonze Jeremiah, Ibukun Olasupo, and Majid Tokurah came together to found the company in 2021. It is headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria.

Abdo Achkar is the Founder & CEO at Sowlutions.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Marketplace, Software
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series B
United States, Lebanon, Japan

Portfolio highlights

GoBEBA — GoBEBA is an on-demand e-commerce logistics platform operating in emerging Africa markets. We bring together local merchants, consumers and logistics service providers to enable efficient discovery and ordering of frequently purchased products and services in one platform. This combination delivers an asset-light convenient, multi-categoryon-demand ordering service for everyday essentials. We do this by aggregating demand for merchants through a curated digital marketplace which connects merchants directly to consumers and logistics service providers in an on-demand basis . GoBeba is an ‘everything’ app’ for a wide range of services including grocery shopping, food delivery, cargo, and many other on-demand services.
uPaint — Discover uPaint, premium paint by numbers kits for all ages. We craft all components in-house, ensuring top quality. Customize any image to create your own masterpiece. It's the perfect, thoughtful gift idea that's stress-free and easy for everyone. Experience a relaxing and joyful activity with stunning results.
Ur My Type — Ur My Type is an app that uses personality types to make dating and finding friends online more meaningful.

Bhavik Bajaj

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, SaaS
Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Asepha — Asepha is an AI clinical decision support (CDS) tool to help healthcare professionals make faster clinical decisions.
ORA Technologies — E-Commerce, Super App
THIRUMALS PAPER ARIZONA PVT. LTD. — TRADING PLATFORM OF PULP , PAPER & PACKAGING

Michael Cohn serves as a Managing Partner at Overline VC. He attended Emory University - Goizueta Business School.

Investment focus

Software, Farming, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Israel, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

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.
Monetizr — Turn gamers' attention into revenue for your brand through targeted in-game mobile ads. Partner with Monetizr and get access to audiences across the globe.
LEAF — LEAF is the first smartphone controlled, automated home grow system for medical plants and food. Learn more about Leaf and buy here.

Samson Larsson is the founder of Ayazona, a high-impact organisation in Kenya, enabling low-income households to access food and household essentials. Larsson is also the founder of Gretol, a startup connecting SMEs in EMEA to the blockchain infrastructure based on Hyperledger technology.

Investment focus

Delivery, Logistics, E-Commerce
Pre-Seed
Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Ayazona — Are you on a budget? Ayazona delivers affordable breakfast, lunch, dinner, drinks and more from the best local farmers, brands and stores right to your door.

Ryan is a co-founder and CEO at Wild Earth and a co-founder and Partner at Sustainable Food Ventures, bringing years of experience in leading, building and advising high-growth food and biotechnology companies. Ryan is a biotech entrepreneur, investor, and one of the founders of the biohacker movement. He’s a co-founder and former Program Directorat IndieBio and has invested in over 130 early stage biotech startups and served as the head of life sciences at the XPRIZE Foundation. As an ethical vegan, Ryan is passionate about the future of biology as a technology, applied across all industries to solve some of humanity’s most intractable problems. Ryan fosters dogs for Rocket Dog Rescue and is passionate about mindfulness, meditation, and mentoring. His work at the interface of science, food, and business has been covered by many major publications.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Food Processing, Food and Beverage
Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
United States, Chile, India

Portfolio highlights

WTH Foods — WTH Foods is a plant-based alternative protein company based in Manila, Philippines. Using local and sustainable ingredients, we create plant-based versions of processed meat products that Southeast Asian love
Sobo Foods — Sobo Foods is a plant based comfort food provider.
Libre Foods — MEAT, BUT MAKE IT MUSHROOMS. GET READY TO TASTE THE POWER OF FUNGI

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