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Top 30 InsurTech Angel Investors in Africa in April 2025

Last updated: Apr 2025 A list of 30 angel investors that invest in Insurtech startups based in Africa. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Insurtech companies from Africa. We update this investor list every month.

Top 30 InsurTech Angel Investors in Africa in April 2025

Investor	InsurTech Africa investments
Dr Kiran C Patel	3
Christian Angermayer	2
Sudeep Ramnani	2
Babs Ogundeyi	2
Jai Mahtani	2
Richard Aseme	2
Christian Faes	2
Charles Delingpole	2
Olugbenga Agboola	2
Olugbenga Agboola	2
Manuel Coser	1
Shola Akinlade	1
Klemens Hallmann	1
Peter Bruce-Clark	1
Chris Adelsbach	1
Honey Ogundeyi	1
Emilian Popa	1
Lionel Dorie	1
Caribou Honig	1
Ed Robinson	1
Opeyemi Awoyemi	1
Oliver Jung	1
Brandon Krieg	1
Kyle Daley	1
Leo Stigler	1
Leonard Stiegeler	1
James Park	1
Henry Allard	1
Musty Mustapha	1
Tom Blomfield	1

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Kiran C. Patel is an Indian-American philanthropist, cardiologist and businessman.

Investment focus

FinTech, Medical, InsurTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
India, Botswana, United States

Portfolio highlights

Alpha Direct — Alpha Direct is a Botswana-HQ, Africa-focused risk carrying Insurtech that is focused on using cloud, big data and AI to deliver compelling insurance products for Africa’s growing consumer market.The insurance sector in Africa is underpenetrated vs most of the World. Given affordability, accessibility and inflexibility, insurance is seen asbeing a product “that is only available to the rich”.The company has become the fifth largest short-term insurance underwriter in their home market in under 5 years, and is now focused on regional and continental expansion across Africa as well as entering the long-term insurance market. The company has a strong stable of intellectual property including software, trademarks and patents. The company recently won The African Insurance Award for Innovation of the Year, for their insurance in a box product sold through retail outlets (with a cloud-based activation and policy management platform) where they have acquired thousands of customers and are scaling up rapidly. Over the next 5 years Alpha Direct plans to expand its product offering to include long-term insurance products as well to expand its footprint to include South Africa, Kenya, Egypt and Nigeria. Alpha Direct plans to license its products and technology in 10 African countries outside those where it has a physical presence.
Magenta Mobility — Magenta is in business of 'Enabling electric mobility and Making electricity clean'. Magenta has four business divisions: 1. Magenta ChargeGrid - EV Charging Solutions 1. Magenta Power - Clean Energy Systems 3. Magenta Infomatics - Information Technology for clean energy 4. Magenta EVET - Electric Vehicle based transport solutions
Concept Medical — Concept Medical is driving innovation in medical devices, with a focus on developing technologies for drug delivery with a strong emphasis on intellectual property. Based in Tampa, Florida; Concept Medical has always striven to find solutions to improve and elevate health. With the attribute of being the first in class to take care of well-being ina natural way, it has committed itself to the fields of coronary artery disease and peripheral artery disease.

Christian Angermayer - Founder & CEO @ Apeiron Investment Group

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Blockchain
Seed, Series A, Series B
Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

TRIP — TRIP is the UK's most trusted CBD Oils and CBD Drinks Supplier. Shop the UK's best CBD oils available online with FREE UK Shipping.
Plasma — Plasma is an operational setting that supports payments, real-world assets, and DeFi, with trustless settlement on Bitcoin.
Enhanced Games — Welcome to the Enhanced Games, the ultimate demonstration of what the human body is capable of. The world's best athletes, enhanced.

Sudeep Ramnani is a Technology Entrepreneur and Investor

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Chowdeck — Chowdeck is a food delivery service and marketplace to buy meals from a wide range of restaurants.
Finclusion Group — Enhancing financial inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa through data driven lending.

Cofounder and CEO of Kuda

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Nigeria, Zambia, Pakistan

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.

Jai Mahtani

Investment focus

Credit, FinTech, InsurTech
Seed, Angel
United States

Portfolio highlights

Finclusion Group — Enhancing financial inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa through data driven lending.

Richard Aseme is the VP, International Marketing and Distribution, EMEA at Paramount Pictures. He attended Oxford University (Jesus College) oct 1996 - June 2000.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Axis — axis for Business enables small businesses to seamlessly manage employee payroll, salary advances, and expenses - all from one place.
Octo — Experience infinite possibilities with financial solutions tailored to fit your lifestyle. From swift payments to personalized credit options, Octo is here to make every transaction seamless.
Finclusion Group — Enhancing financial inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa through data driven lending.

Christian Faes was previously co-founder and CEO of LendInvest, which is a technology driven mortgage lender and a leading Fintech company. The company has over £3.5 billion of Funds Under Management, and is one of the largest non-bank mortgage lenders in the UK. Now building Faes & Co.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United Kingdom, Australia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Knoma — Search hundreds of courses from leading schools and bootcamps. Learn now and pay later with Knoma and spread the cost with ethical finance
Volume — Payment Infrastructure for the Internet
Finclusion Group — Enhancing financial inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa through data driven lending.

Charles Delingpole is Founder and CEO of ComplyAdvantage, a technology company focused on wiping out financial crime using Machine Learning. As CEO, Charles leads the product development and growth of the company. His passion for the issue came from his time as the MLRO of a previous startup he founded when he realized how inefficient processesaround money laundering are. Charles previously worked at The Student Room as a Founder and CEO. He attended the University of Cambridge and The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).Over 99% of money laundering is successful, ComplyAdvantage is working to stop it completely. Founded in 2014 with offices in London, New York, Singapore, and Cluj, ComplyAdvantage work with over 350 firms across 45 countries. Charles set up his first company, The Student Room Group, now the world’s largest student discussion forum when he was 16. After completing his MA in Politics at Trinity College Cambridge, and then an MSc in Management, Strategy, and Finance from the LSE, he became an associate at J.P. Morgan Cazenove.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Firenze — Firenze aims to expand financial services by extending investment-backed lending to a wider audience, recognizing its importance in wealth creation and preservation. The founding team aims to democratize Lombard lending, making it accessible to all, while focusing on mass affluent clients.
Stackfix — Stackfix operates as a software comparison platform.
Juniper — Juniper is a reproductive healthcare insurance provider.

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.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Internet
Pre-Seed, Seed
Nigeria, Kenya, United States

Portfolio highlights

tushop — Tushop is a community group buying platform where members can sell groceries to those in their social networks and communities.
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.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Nigeria, Kenya, United States

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.

Manuel Coser has an extensive practice in the journalistic, TV, and film industry fields both as director, author, and camera operator; his work is specifically focused on citizens activism, political participation, human rights, and environmental issues.

Investment focus

Credit, FinTech, InsurTech
Angel
United States

Portfolio highlights

Finclusion Group — Enhancing financial inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa through data driven lending.

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 — Chowdeck is a food delivery service and marketplace to buy meals from a wide range of restaurants.
Earnipay — Earnipay enables employers to offer employees access to their earned salaries instantly at any time without making changes to their existing payment process.
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.

Klemens Hallmann is an Austrian entrepreneur and investor. He is founder and sole owner of Hallmann Corporate Group, one of the larger Austrian groups of companies, specializing in sales, renovation, and development of real estate projects, in addition to a wide-ranging portfolio of investments including finance and film production

Investment focus

Credit, FinTech, InsurTech
Angel
United States

Portfolio highlights

Finclusion Group — Enhancing financial inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa through data driven lending.

Peter is Founder, Managing Partner, and General Partner of Kalytix Ventures, as global, impact-focused venture capital firm focused on adaptation, resiliency, and survival.Prior to Kalytx, was Partner at Social Impact Capital, a global impact-focused VC firm based in New York City. A top-decile fund producing competitive venture returns, SICinvests in the “Best Ideas in Impact” by deploying an “Impact Arbitrage” strategy across geographies, sectors, and challenge domains. SIC is backed by legacy VCs including Marc Andreessen & Chris Dixon, Peter Thiel, Phil Black, David Sacks, Rob Hayes, Matt Ocko & Zachary Bogue, along with family offices, RIAs, and fund-of-funds.Prior to joining the firm Peter was Head of Business Development at Real Capital Innovation (acquired by Addepar), an investment technology platform backed by 8VC and Soros Fund Management. Peter started his career in Silicon Valley by creating an early-stage venture capital firm focused on high-impact areas of AI application, and institutional investor strategy consultancy, Kalytix Partners (acquired).In his spare time Peter is an advisor to global funds focused on the environment, health, and sustainability, such as Extantia in Berlin, Andon Okapi in Africa, and Brace VC in Greece. Peter is also an active angel investor in +30 global impact startups. A leading theorist on private market impact investments, Peter has led research over the last decade on impact finance, collaborating with Oxford University, Stanford University, Planet Heritage, and White Sand Investor Group (Donnelley family). His publications include Impact investments: a call for (re)orientation (2021), widely endorsed by organizations such as the SEC and G7, and Sovereign Development Funds: The Governance and Management of Strategic Investment Institutions (2018), which was published in The Oxford Handbook of Sovereign Wealth Funds.In addition to his work, Peter is a volunteering Ambassador to the Rockefeller family’s BankFWD initiative, which is focused on climate justice in global banking, and a Counsel Member of the Saïd family’s (Saïd Business School) Toucan Project, which cultivates future leaders from across the world. He is also a member of Rebalance VC, Impact Capital Managers, TTI and GBx.

Investment focus

InsurTech, Financial Services
Seed
Kenya

Portfolio highlights

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

Chris Adelsbach - Founding Partner @ Outrun Ventures

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Alfa AI — Alfa AI is a recruitment technology company specializing in AI-driven hiring solutions.
WealthOS — WealthOS is an cloud-native, enterprise, core wealth management platform. Launch and run superior digital wealth management value propositions faster and cheaper.
Camion — Empowering real estate to lead the energy transition with data and insights.

Honey Ogundeyi - Founder and CEO @ Edukoya

Investment focus

Bitcoin, FinTech, Ethereum
Pre-Seed
Nigeria, United States

Portfolio highlights

Casava — Casava is a financial services company that offers insurance and life microinsurance. Casava uses technology to provide world-class, trusted, and affordable insurance to everyone.
Bitmama — Bitmama is the best cryptocurrency trading platform that lets you buy, sell Bitcoin, ETH, Celo, USDT, XRP, and more. Available in Nigeria & over 100 countries.

Investor and Entrepreneur with 10+ years of successful launching, fund raising, growing, and exiting more than 20 technology ventures in Africa, Asia, Middle East, and Russia. Present focus on Africa. Extensive process and strategy consulting experience with leading consulting firm in Europe, US, Africa. Joint MBA Columbia Business School /London Business School.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Apps, Travel
Seed, Series A, Series B
Egypt, South Africa, United States

Portfolio highlights

Swvl — Swvl | Book Your Daily Ride or Make Money Driving Now
Curve — Curve is a banking platform that consolidates cards and accounts into one smart card and app.It allows customers to supercharge their legacy banks to the 21st century without leaving their bank or topping-up. Curve offers a host of benefits to its customers; it makes cards fee-free when spending abroad, get instant notifications andcategorization of spend, earn an instant 1% cashback at the likes of Amazon, Uber, Netflix and Sainsbury’s and Time Travel enables customers to swap spend to a different card in the app for up to two weeks after the purchase was made. Curve also offers Curve Customer Protection, a policy that covers all credit and debit card payments made via the Curve card up to £100,000, giving cardholders an extra layer of protection for disputes with merchants and any unauthorised use of their Curve card. IDC Ventures backs Curve with Fuel Venture Capital, Vulcan Capital, OneMain Financial, and Novum Capital backs Curve.Shachar Bialick, Anna Mostyn Williams, and Tom Foster-Carter established the company in London, England in 2015.
Click2Sure — We provide cloud-based Insurance SaaS solutions for omnichannel distribution, which can save costs & support data-driven decision making. Contact us today.

Lionel Dorie founding partner of Augusta Energy Group.

Investment focus

AgTech, InsurTech, Mobile Payments
Seed
Mali

Portfolio highlights

OKO — New generation crop insurance designed for emerging markets Droughts and flood insurance available from any mobile phone in Mali

Caribou Honig enjoys pursuing harebrained ideas and supporting the creation of new businesses. He is Chairman and co-founder of the InsureTech Connect conference, the largest event of its type bringing together entrepreneurs, investors, and innovation executives. He is also co-founder of the HR Transform conference focused on the impact oftechnology on the workplace, and insurAPI.io, a catalog of insurance-related APIs. He previously cofounded QED Investors, a boutique venture capital firm focused on data-driven companies. Caribou and his wife live in Richmond, Virginia with their two children and two occasionally annoying dogs.

Investment focus

InsurTech, Insurance, EdTech
Seed, Series A
Kenya, Colombia, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

HUNTY — HUNTY is a platform that help people find jobs by connecting them with world class mentors who prepare them for the job search process. And people only pay when they get hired.
BriteCo — Their cloud-based BriteCo Appraisal Management System is the gateway to making the jeweler’s life easier and more productive—-and customers happier and more secure with immediate insurance coverage of their fine jewelry and watches.
Lami — Lami is an end-to-end digital insurance platform and API that enables companies across sectors to offer insurance products. Its API allows underwriters to connect with consumer-facing companies that can provide embedded insurance as a value add for existing customers, many of whom are uninsured.

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

Investment focus

InsurTech, Insurance, Banking
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series B
Nigeria, United States

Portfolio highlights

Casava — Casava is a financial services company that offers insurance and life microinsurance. Casava uses technology to provide world-class, trusted, and affordable insurance to everyone.
Edukoya — Edukoya builds online education content and offers online tutoring for students and their parents.
Jerry — Jerry simplifies the expensive, frustrating, and time-consuming aspects of car ownership.

Opeyemi Awoyemi is the Founder and Managing Partner of Fast Forward Venture Studio and Fund. He previously worked at Moneymie as a Co-Founder. Opeyemi Awoyemi attended The Wharton School.

Investment focus

Payments, Software, InsurTech
Pre-Seed, Seed
Nigeria, United States

Portfolio highlights

Klump — Use Klump to buy now and pay later in instalments for up to 12 months! Businesses accept payments, increase conversion rates, and boost revenue. The Easy Life! Try it now.
Casava — Casava is a financial services company that offers insurance and life microinsurance. Casava uses technology to provide world-class, trusted, and affordable insurance to everyone.
Remedial Health — We improve business to business access to medicines by providing such medicines from manufactures/registered distributors direct to large and small healthcare retail businesses (large pharmacies and remote chemist/PPMVs (Patent and Proprietary Medicine Vendors)) using technology to deliver just-in-time stock and provide financing and awide selection of inventory to such retail business.

Oliver is a global investor and entrepreneur based in Tel Aviv. Oliver is investing in US and China based companies and helps them to go international. Previous projects include airbnb, houzz and hoteltonight.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, FinTech, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Germany, India

Portfolio highlights

Repool — Repool makes it easy to create and manage hedge funds. Save time, delight investors, and focus on what matters.
Peakflo — Peakflo offers efficient account payable software, account receivable software, and cashflow management software to streamline your accounting automation. Get Free Trial Now!
Pillar Financial Technologies — All-in-one Financial Platform for Small Businesses

Brandon Krieg is the Co-Founder of Collective Returns, Inc. and has been its Chief Executive Officer since July 11, 2016. Brandon Krieg served as the President of Collective Returns, Inc. until July 11, 2016 and serves as its Executive Director.

Investment focus

InsurTech, Insurance, Banking
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series B
Nigeria, United States

Portfolio highlights

Casava — Casava is a financial services company that offers insurance and life microinsurance. Casava uses technology to provide world-class, trusted, and affordable insurance to everyone.
Edukoya — Edukoya builds online education content and offers online tutoring for students and their parents.
Jerry — Jerry simplifies the expensive, frustrating, and time-consuming aspects of car ownership.

Kyle Daley - Product and Founding Team Member @ Chime

Investment focus

Payments, InsurTech, Insurance
Seed, Pre-Seed
Canada, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Octamile — Octamile is Africa's best Embedded Insurance & Claims Automation solution for Insurers & B2C businesses. Get a quote today...
Sleek — Sleek is a FREE browser extension that offers seamless checkout from every store on the internet AND gives you up to 25% cash back when shopping online.

Leo Stigler is an investor.

Investment focus

Credit, FinTech, InsurTech
Angel
United States

Portfolio highlights

Finclusion Group — Enhancing financial inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa through data driven lending.

Leonard Stiegeler is the Founder of Pulse, the leading innovative media company in Africa. He is backing & investing in media-/art-/technology- & -enabled ventures/assets. Some of his interests include Business Insider Africa, Art News Africa and Digital News Africa. Prior, he was the General Manager of Swiss Ringier AfricaAG since 2016 – responsible for buiding up the group's business on the continent. Ringier is today active in 8 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and through its ROAM-holding leads brands such as Jobberman, Cheki, Private Property, BuyRentKenya, Pigiame, ZoomTanzania, and many more. Prior to his work with Ringier since 2013, Leo helped to establish Rocket Internet and other German investors in Africa. Leo is originally from Germany and has been based in different African countries since 2011.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Credit
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Nigeria, South Africa, United States

Portfolio highlights

Bamba — Bamba is a small software development house building Android applications
Faro — Every garment deserves to be worn. Leveraging technology and a specialised supply chain, FARO enables brands to offload obsolete inventory through stores in non-core markets, ensuring complete traceability throughout the process.
Finclusion Group — Enhancing financial inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa through data driven lending.

James is our Co-founder and has served as our Chairman since May 2015, as a member of our board of directors since March 2007, and as our President and CEO since September 2007. Previously, James served as a Director of Product Development at CNET Networks, as the President and a Co-founder of Wind-Up Labs, Inc. (an online photo-sharing companyacquired by CNET Networks in April 2005). He was also CTO and Co-Founder of Epesi Technologies, Inc., a software company. James attended Harvard College where he studied Computer Science. He was selected to serve as a member of our board of directors due to the perspective and experience he brings as our Co-Founder, President, and CEO.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, Chile

Portfolio highlights

Curacel — Curacel creates APIs & tools that enable businesses to embed insurance in digital channels and to administer claims cost-effectively.
HoyTrabajas — We are a C.Vs information exchange platform for candidates, employers, and recruiters, that get people access to low-skilled jobs in the Latin-American markets, enables recruiters to share job-seekers and job openings in real-time, and supports SMEs in the recruiting of their low-skilled jobs.
Positive Food Co. — Delicious, fresh food

Henry Allard CEO of Filhet-Allard Maritime.

Investment focus

AgTech, InsurTech, Mobile Payments
Seed
Mali

Portfolio highlights

OKO — New generation crop insurance designed for emerging markets Droughts and flood insurance available from any mobile phone in Mali

Musty Mustapha - Co-Founder and CTO @ Kuda

Investment focus

Education, InsurTech, Insurance
Pre-Seed
Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Casava — Casava is a financial services company that offers insurance and life microinsurance. Casava uses technology to provide world-class, trusted, and affordable insurance to everyone.
Edukoya — Edukoya builds online education content and offers online tutoring for students and their parents.

Tom Blomfield is based out of San Francisco, California and is currently works as a Group Partner for Y Combinator. Tom previously worked at Monzo Bank as a President. Tom Blomfield attended the University of Oxford.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, FinTech
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Happl — Happl provides benefits that enable employees to choose what's right for them and tools for managers to support their teams, whilst taking care of the admin.
Feather — Feather gives you insurance advice for expats in Germany. Our digital insurance agent will help you get the right insurance policies for your need.
Gradient Labs — Gradient Labs is an AI firm developing an operating system for AI agents to automate manual, repetitive tasks.

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