Top 15 Internet Angel Investors in South Africa (June 2026)

Vinny Lingham is the Co-Founder and CEO of Rumi.ai(Waitroom). He previously worked at YPO as a Member. Vinny Lingham attended Harvard Business School Executive Education.

Investment focus

Industry: Blockchain, Internet, Software
Stage:Seed, Angel
Geography: United States, South Africa, United Kingdom

Investor stats

Total investments: 39
Round size: Seed $2.5M–$5.6M; Angel $125k–$500k
Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

Glif — Interoperable tools for the Filecoin network
Decent Labs — We are rebuilding trust in technology. Decent Labs is developing a more transparent and equitable society by creating startups at the cross-section of financial technology and digital rights.
Spexi — An intuitive and collaborative platform for drone-based data

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Yossi Hasson is the Co-Founder and CEO of Metaversal and a Venture Partner at 2048 Ventures. He is also a Non-Executive Director of WeThinkCode_. Prior to that, he was the Managing Director of Techstars. He attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business and the University of Pretoria/Universiteit van Pretoria.

Investment focus

Industry: Financial Services, Blockchain, Payments
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Geography: South Africa, United States, Ghana

Investor stats

Total investments: 29
Round size: Seed $120k–$551k; Pre-Seed $120k–$230k
Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow

Portfolio highlights

Howler — Howler, is the powerful event technology platform designed at the uppermost benchmarks of service and technology to help consumers and event organisers to make moments that matter.
WizzPass — WizzPass, a rapidly growing leader in the visitor management system and workplace management market is now FMS:Engage powered by FM:Systems.
The Sun Exchange — We finance, install, and maintain the solar system. You simply pay for the power it generates and save from day one.

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Sebastian Stoddart after working for 10 years as a product design consultant for top design consultancies in the US, Netherlands and UK, working for clients such as Samsung, Philips, Smith & Nephew, Compaq and Hewlett Packard, Sebastian formed his own company, albooto.com, to bring innovative products to market.

Investment focus

Industry: Rental, Internet, Analytics
Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Geography: United Kingdom, South Africa

Investor stats

Total investments: 4
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

8bit — Shop a wide selection of domains at HugeDomains.com. Find the right domain name today.
Ekaya.com — Ekaya exists to make renting simpler, safer and more connected - for everyone.
Boost Technology — Enabling informal small businesses to thrive in Africa's emerging digital economy

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Wayne Gosling - COO @ Twangoo South Africa

Investment focus

Industry: Rental, Internet, Analytics
Stage:Seed, Angel
Geography: South Africa, United Kingdom

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

8bit — Shop a wide selection of domains at HugeDomains.com. Find the right domain name today.
Ekaya.com — Ekaya exists to make renting simpler, safer and more connected - for everyone.

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Innovation. Leadership. Technology. Africa.

Investment focus

Industry: Rental, Internet, Analytics
Stage:Seed, Angel
Geography: South Africa, United Kingdom

Investor stats

Total investments: 4
Round size: Seed $60k–$110k
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

8bit — Shop a wide selection of domains at HugeDomains.com. Find the right domain name today.
Ekaya.com — Ekaya exists to make renting simpler, safer and more connected - for everyone.
intelworld —

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Justin is a 31-year old entrepreneur, angel investor and venture capitalist from Cape Town, South Africa. He is founder, MD, board member, advisor, or investor to a wide variety of companies in the global technology sector.Having grown up on a farm, he decided not to complete high-school and instead made the move to the city of Cape Town, topursue his dreams of being an Internet entrepreneur.Despite years of struggles and false starts in the wake of the dotcom crash in 2001, he ultimately went on to successfully launch and grow a pan-African Internet based software company from a garage in the suburbs of Cape Town.Have founded his first startup attempt at the age of 18, Justin has been involved in tech startups and entrepreneurial endeavours ever since.He is today the co-founder and MD of 4Di Group, a diversified investment management group and family office, and co-founding General Partner of early-stage technology venture capital firm 4Di Capital, as well as an active angel investor.As co-founder and Steering Committee Chairman of the Silicon Cape Initiative in 2009, designed to highlight and foster South Africa's nascent emerging tech startup ecosystem, Justin fully believes in South Africa’s potential as a global technology innovation hub.In 2011, he was listed by the Mail & Guardian for the 'Top 200 Young South Africans', and in 2013, listed by Forbes for '30 Under 30: Africa's Best Young Entrepreneurs'.

Investment focus

Industry: FinTech, Security, Financial Services
Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

Total investments: 8
Round size: Series A $3.4M–$6.4M
Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow

Portfolio highlights

FitKey — FitKey is about helping you find and manage the fitness life that makes you happy, through discovering new classes, studios, and fitness activities. With easy online and mobile booking, FitKey keeps your routine interesting.
TaxTim — Originally funded by Google in 2011, TaxTim is Africa's answer to Making Tax Easy. Answer simple questions one-by-one, in a friendly automated chat, and your tax return is done in minutes. TaxTim has 40% market share of the tax base in South Africa (~4.5m), and has deployed localised versions in Namibia and Nigeria as JVs with PwC previously.TaxTim is integrated with the local revenue service (SARS) for instant electronic tax submissions, and partners with some of SA's largest consumer brands - Airbnb, Momentum, Sanlam, Old Mutual, FNB eBucks - to provide tax services for free or at discount. TaxTim has several business models including B2C, B2B and B2B2C. TaxTim is a compelling and popular consumer brand, with a fully-developed, profitable broker/financial product leads ecosystem.
Ekaya.com — Ekaya exists to make renting simpler, safer and more connected - for everyone.

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Nas, byname of Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones, also called Nasty Nas, (born September 14, 1973, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.), American rapper and songwriter who became a dominant voice in 1990s East Coast hip-hop. Nas built a reputation as an expressive chronicler of inner-city street life.Nasir Jones, the son of a jazz musician, grew up in public housingin Queens, New York. He dropped out of school in the eighth grade and searched for a creative outlet, finally settling on hip-hop. His breakthrough came in 1992, when his song “Half Time” (credited to Nasty Nas) appeared on the sound track to the film Zebrahead. Columbia Records soon signed him to a contract. His debut recording as Nas, Illmatic (1994), drew widespread acclaim for its poetic narration of hard-edged inner-city life.The more pop-oriented approach of It Was Written (1996) helped that album reach an even wider audience than its predecessor but ignited a recurring tension in Nas’s career between the appetite of the pop audience and the demands of hip-hop purists. He maintained his commercial appeal with I Am... (1999), although by that time he had also become embroiled in a public feud with fellow rapper Jay-Z over which of the two was the preeminent voice in East Coast hip-hop. The schism inspired Stillmatic (2001), which many fans considered a return to form. The two rappers publicly settled their differences in 2005, and shortly thereafter Nas signed with Def Jam, of which Jay-Z was president at the time.Nas’s penchant for provocation marked Hip Hop Is Dead (2006) and an untitled follow-up (2008), while Life Is Good (2012) struck an introspective tone. He also notably collaborated with reggae musician Damian Marley (the youngest son of Bob Marley) on the album Distant Relatives (2010).Nas also made occasional film appearances, notably in Belly (1998), a crime drama in which he starred opposite rapper DMX, and Black Nativity (2013), an adaptation of Langston Hughes’s gospel play.

Investment focus

Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Mobile
Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
Geography: United States, Canada, Brazil

Investor stats

Total investments: 64
Round size: Seed $650k–$5.6M; Series A $4M–$60M; Series B $7M–$40M
Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

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Brian Corrigan is the VP and Head of Americas at PUBG Corporation. He attended Clarkson University and the University at Albany, SUNY. (This website is horribly out of date, probably best to hit my website or LinkedIn)

Investment focus

Industry: Gaming, Internet, SaaS
Stage:Series A, Seed, Angel
Geography: United States, Estonia, South Africa

Investor stats

Total investments: 4
Round size: Series A $13M–$20M
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

Powerspike — Powerspike is a new type of advertising network based on content creators - where any marketer can make their brand famous in a few clicks. Our Endorsement Serving technology automatically buys, executes, and optimizes content creator endorsements - replacing the traditionally lengthy process of RFP’s, human negotiations, and insertion orders.
Ready Player Me — The Ready Player Me platform leverages AI, ML , and a suite of developer-first tools to empower developers to integrate avatars into their games and apps to launch faster, improve user adoption, and grow revenue through asset monetization.
Carry1st — Carry1st develops and publishes enriching mobile games and content apps for African consumers.

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

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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Llew is the Managing Partner of Newtown Partners, an early-stage venture capital firm that actively invests in emerging, disruptive technology startup businesses. Founded and run by internationally successful entrepreneurs, Vinny Lingham and Llew Claasen, Newtown Partners has an entrepreneurial focus that goes beyond investment. The team operatesout of offices in Cape Town, South Africa and Sunnyvale, California (Silicon Valley).Llew is a go-to-market strategist with almost two decades of senior management experience in cryptoassets (since 2012), digital product management and digital marketing.He co-founded Clicks2customers (rebranded to www.nmpidigital.com) with Vinny Lingham, now a global digital marketing agency with annual billings in excess of $100 million and Synthasite (rebranded to www.yola.com).Llew is also the former Executive Director of the Bitcoin Foundation, the original, the oldest and the largest Bitcoin advocacy organization globally, headquartered in San Francisco, U.S.Llew has a Masters degree in the Management of Technology & Innovation and lives in Cape Town, South Africa.

Investment focus

Industry: Logistics, Retail, Health Care
Stage:Seed, Series A
Geography: Egypt, Nigeria, South Africa

Investor stats

Total investments: 7
Round size: Seed $2.3M–$5.5M
Lead/follow: 57% lead, 43% follow

Portfolio highlights

MDaaS Global — At MDaaS Global, we build and operate modern, tech-enabled diagnostic centres in clinically-underserved communities, starting in Nigeria. Our big goal is to create affordable healthcare solutions for Africa's next billion.
Chefaa — Chefaa is a GPS-enabled pharmacy benefits platform connecting patients & pharmacies nation-wide to help patients manage all their pharmacy needs. Chefaa uses big data, data ming & machine learning
SweepSouth — Book a home cleaning online from your mobile, tablet or computer. SweepSouth connects you with a cleaner in minutes. Cleaners are experienced, reliable, efficient and insured.

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Michael is the San Diego based Senior VP Business Development for Cognician, a self coaching and behavior change platform based in San Francisco. He is also a shareholder and director. Michael also has array of investments in and advisory roles with a number of other start ups, including Gyft, Yola, ChessCube and Skyrove.

Investment focus

Industry: Apps, Software, Publishing
Stage:Angel, Seed
Geography: United States, South Africa

Investor stats

Total investments: 6
Round size: Angel $125k–$590k
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

Personera — Talk to AI characters, challenge them in debates, and earn tokens. Socrates, Elon Musk, Shakespeare and 50+ more await you. Try free now.
Swiftly — Harness your public transit data with Swiftly's urban mobility solutions to make your city's mass transportation move more efficiently.
Appstores.com — Appstores is making it easier for consumers to find apps by giving small and large niche publishers and API/platform companies the tools to showcase apps most relevant to their users.

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Tom is currently a commercial executive at Clicks2customers.com, a global Search Engine Marketing company. His background is in (bio-) engineering but he has been involved in online companies for the past 10 years. Besides working at Clicks2customers, Tom is a part time lecturer at TSIBA (http://www.tsiba.org.za/) a South AfricanNGO providing tertiary education to economically disadvantaged children. He is also an angel investor in a number is technology startups and is an active member of the Silicon Cape initiative (www.siliconcape.com)

Investment focus

Industry: Apps, Events, Printing
Stage:Angel
Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

Personera — Talk to AI characters, challenge them in debates, and earn tokens. Socrates, Elon Musk, Shakespeare and 50+ more await you. Try free now.

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Guilherme Steinbruch - Partner @ 468 Capital

Investment focus

Industry: Blockchain, Financial Services, FinTech
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Geography: Mexico, United States, Brazil

Investor stats

Total investments: 15
Round size: Seed $1M–$8M; Pre-Seed $1.5M–$4M; Series A $5.1M–$39M
Lead/follow: 60% lead, 40% follow

Portfolio highlights

WeDemand — The leading source brandable domain names. Competitive prices. Excellent service. Get your domain name today.
Ekaya.com — Ekaya exists to make renting simpler, safer and more connected - for everyone.
Niko Energy — Niko is a Mexico-based provider of residential solar electricity and solar power services for homeowners. It is the first solar company in the country offering rent-to-own financing products on top leasing and cash payments. Fully focused on customer experience, Niko provides a 5-star journey owning each step of the value chain in-house, ensuringquality, security and peace of mind for its customers.

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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.

Investment focus

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

Investor stats

Total investments: 36
Lead/follow: no public data

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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