Top 20 Internet Angel Investors in South Africa (July 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
Sweatcoin — Sweatcoin is a digital currency backed by physical movement. They verify and convert movement into currency. Users can then donate it to charity, transfer to other users or spend on products, services, and experiences provided by Sweatcoin vendors and user community.Sweatcoin tackles Present Bias by moving the future benefits of exercise into thehere and now- immediately converting movement into a digital currency and changing the perception of physical movement.
Shield USDT — Shield is the first B2B cryptocurrency exchange designed for international businesses. Access a US-based virtual bank account to buy, sell, and transfer crypto.

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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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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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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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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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Sina Afra is a serial entrepreneur and early-stage investor with over two decades of experience building, scaling, and exiting technology-driven companies.He is best known as the founder of Markafoni, one of Turkey’s first large-scale digital commerce companies and a defining success of the country’s early internet economy. In 2011, Naspers Groupacquired a majority stake in Markafoni in one of the landmark transactions of the Turkish internet sector.Over the course of his career, Sina has founded more than 20 companies, completed 12 exits, and angel-invested in over 60 early-stage startups across Europe, Africa, and the United States.He is a Founding Partner at Founder One, an impact venture capital fund, and the Founder and Chairman of the Entrepreneurship Foundation (Girişimcilik Vakfı), which focuses on developing entrepreneurial talent and strengthening the long-term infrastructure of the startup ecosystem in Turkey.Earlier in his career, Sina worked at KPMG and held leadership roles at eBay, where he gained first-hand experience in operating and scaling global internet platforms.His work has been recognized with more than 20 international awards and honors, including being named Internet Entrepreneur of the Year, Business Angel of the Year, and Forbes’ Brightest Minds Alive in Turkey, with features in Wired and Forbes.Sina holds a degree from the University of Münster and is an alumnus of Harvard Business School. He speaks five languages and is actively engaged in the European and Turkish technology and venture ecosystems.

Investment focus

Industry: E-Commerce, Fashion, Internet
Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
Geography: Turkey, United States, Germany

Investor stats

Total investments: 46
Round size: Seed $100k–$4.2M; Angel $15k–$1.5M; Series A $2M–$11M
Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

Odeal — Oedeal is a online payment service company, dedicated in providing wide range of financial solutions to entrepreneurs.
MARS — MARS provides digital financial services with unique card options and rewards programs.
Temizlikyolda — Get professional Home Cleaning Service from our referenced professionals for your home cleaning needs.

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

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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Will Herman is an active angel investor, corporate director, author, and startup mentor. He was previously a serial entrepreneur, having started five companies, taking two of them public. Will is an adviser at the hardware incubator, Bolt, and a mentor at TechStars. He lives and works mostly in the Boston area.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Mobile, Enterprise Software
Stage:Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
Geography: United States, South Africa, United Kingdom

Investor stats

Total investments: 60
Round size: Seed $100k–$2.8M; Series A $557k–$8.8M
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

VueBox — VueBox places interactive content in rideshare vehicles
Pristeem — The laundry & dry cleaning services industry has seen no hardware innovation in a long time resulting in 24 hr+ turnarounds, insanely expensive prices, and a complete lack of reliability. Pristēm has built a magical new clothing care experience that's 150x faster, 10x cheaper, and hassle free. Our smart hardware and consumable cleansyour outfit exactly when you need it, not 24 hours later.Our nationwide network of smart hardware products can be accessed through your mobile phone and a monthly subscription. Pristēm provides the best customer experience that's a faster, greener, and more enjoyable alternative to the laundry and dry cleaning services available today.
Looking Glass Factory — Introducing Looking Glass Portrait, your first personal holographic display. Designed for people, real and imagined. Available for pre-order today.

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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.
Cata — Launch your branded mobile app for ordering, CRM & loyalty. Increase order frequency & basket size. Learn how Cata can scale your business!
Ekaya.com — Ekaya exists to make renting simpler, safer and more connected - for everyone.

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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, Mobile Apps
Stage:Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
Geography: Nigeria, United States, Egypt

Investor stats

Total investments: 35
Round size: Seed $700k–$5.1M; Pre-Seed $100k–$1.1M
Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

ScholarX — ScholarX is a Social Enterprise that supports education by helping students access scholarships
TORA Africa — TORA Africa an academy that recruits, trains, verifies, insures and provides background-checked drivers for individuals and businesses.
Bata Shoe Organization — Discover a diverse selection of stylish footwear and accessories for the entire family at Bata's online store. From athletic sneakers to elegant designs, find the latest trends and comfortable options in one place. Shop now to experience unmatched style and comfort with our extensive collection.

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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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Step — Build credit, bank smarter, and grow your money with Step. No hidden fees, no minimums. Join 7M+ users taking control of their finances. Start free today.

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Polo Leteka is the Founder and Chairman of IDF Capital SA. She previously worked at Standard Bank of South Africa. Polo Leteka attended the University of South Africa/Universiteit van Suid-Afrika.

Investment focus

Industry: Retail, Internet, Logistics
Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
Geography: Zambia, South Africa

Investor stats

Total investments: 6
Round size: Series A $8.3M–$11M
Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow

Portfolio highlights

Lupiya — Lupiya is an online marketplace for microloans. It is a branch-less, innovative digital microfinance platform that leverages technology to make the process of borrowing simpler and easier so that people and businesses located across the country even in rural, remote areas can access financial services.
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.
Alma Clinics — Alma Clinics is a company that provides primary healthcare services using a digital clinical decision support. Alma Clinics provides a range of services, all of which are intended to be easy and reasonably priced while offering customers a thorough medical experience.

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Hesham Zreik is the CEO of FasterCapital. He previously worked at DreamApps as a Project Manager. Hesham attended the University of Westminster.

Investment focus

Industry: Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Geography: United States, Nigeria, India

Investor stats

Total investments: 755
Round size: Seed $50k–$2.1M; Pre-Seed $20k–$1M; Series A $170k–$5M
Lead/follow: 55% lead, 45% follow

Portfolio highlights

FellowMe — FellowMe is a social media platform that allows users to meet new people with a search experience, segmented by interests and location.
Exnus Protocol — Exnus Protocol is a next-generation decentralized ecosystem built on the Solana blockchain.
UrbanFarmers — UrbanFarmers is a platform that connects city dwellers with local urban farms and community gardens.

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Greg Fury

Investment focus

Industry: Apps, Travel, Big Data
Stage:Series A
Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

GoMetro — Fleet management simplified with GoMetro. Integrate telematics, gain real-time visibility, and optimize operations with a secure, scalable platform,

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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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