Top 50 Marketplace Angel Investors in Africa (August 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Hesham Zreik
Angel
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6 | United States, Nigeria, India | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce | $12k–$5M |
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Vinny Lingham
Angel
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4 | United States, South Africa, United Kingdom | Seed, Angel | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Internet | $125k–$5.6M |
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Yves Guillemot
Angel
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4 | Nigeria | Seed, Series A | Logistics, E-Commerce Platforms, Location Based Services | $500k–$2M |
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Idris Ayodeji Bello
Angel
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4 | Nigeria, United States, Egypt | Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed | FinTech, Software, Financial Services | $425k–$5.1M |
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Bhavik Bajaj
Angel
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4 | United States, Switzerland, United Kingdom | Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel | Software, Information Technology, SaaS | $15k–$5M |
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Bashar Hamood
Angel
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4 | United States, India, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce | $7k–$5M |
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Justin Mateen
Angel
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3 | United States, Mexico, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, E-Commerce, Health Care | $400k–$27M |
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Allen and Ollys International Limited -
Angel
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3 | Nigeria | Seed, Convertible Note | FinTech, Insurance, Blockchain | $1k–$4k |
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Cem Garih
Angel
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3 | United States, India, Kenya | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence | $460k–$38M |
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Robby Hilkowitz
Angel
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2 | Israel, Hong Kong, Singapore | Series A, Seed | FinTech, Financial Services, Payments | $1M–$4M |
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Rus Newton
Angel
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2 | Kenya, Canada, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed | IaaS, SaaS, Mining | $285k–$1.5M |
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Peter Sandberg
Angel
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2 | Denmark, Kenya, Estonia | Angel, Pre-Seed, Secondary Market | Internet, SaaS, FinTech | $150k–$212k |
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Bunmi Akinyemiju
Angel
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2 | Nigeria, Kenya, United Arab Emirates | Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel | Financial Services, FinTech, Payments | $10k–$1.5M |
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Kevin Ambrosini
Angel
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2 | United States, Egypt, Kenya | Seed, Series B, Series A | E-Commerce, Logistics, Fashion | $2.5M–$60M |
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John Obaro
Angel
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2 | Nigeria | Seed | E-Commerce, Marketplace, Food and Beverage | $3.2M–$3.2M |
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Leonard Stiegeler
Angel
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2 | Nigeria, South Africa, United States | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | FinTech, Financial Services, B2B | $1.3M–$6M |
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Youcef Es-skouri
Angel
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2 | United States, France, Nigeria | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence | $1M–$46M |
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Mato Perić
Angel
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2 | Germany, India, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce | $2M–$100M |
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Daniel Guasco
Angel
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2 | South Africa, United Kingdom | Seed, Angel | Rental, Internet, Analytics | $60k–$110k |
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Olugbenga Agboola
Angel
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2 | Nigeria, Kenya, United States | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | FinTech, Financial Services, Payments | $625k–$7.5M |
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Cristina Santin
Angel
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2 | Nigeria | Seed | FinTech, Insurance, Blockchain | $1k–$2k |
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Patricia Ithau
Angel
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2 | Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed | Beauty, Retail, Fashion | |
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Manuela Raith
Angel
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2 | Kenya | Seed | Communities, Point of Sale, Social Impact | |
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Olumide Soyombo
Angel
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2 | Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom | Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel | FinTech, Financial Services, Finance | $260k–$2.1M |
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Justin Stanford
Angel
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2 | South Africa | Seed, Angel, Series A | FinTech, Security, Financial Services | $3.4M–$6.4M |
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Michael Lahyani
Angel
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2 | Egypt, Morocco, Colombia | Seed, Series A, Series B | B2B, SaaS, Beauty | $5M–$42M |
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Stefano Piotti
Angel
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2 | Nigeria | Seed, Series A | Logistics, E-Commerce Platforms, Location Based Services | |
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Osema Kassim
Angel
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2 | Ethiopia | Seed | E-Commerce | $2M–$3M |
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Tayo Oviosu
Angel
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2 | Nigeria, Brazil, United States | Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, SaaS, Credit | $1.4M–$3.6M |
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Sebastian Stoddart
Angel
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2 | United Kingdom, South Africa | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Rental, Internet, Analytics | |
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Wayne Gosling
Angel
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2 | South Africa, United Kingdom | Seed, Angel | Rental, Internet, Analytics | |
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Ashwin Ravichandran
Angel
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1 | Ghana, South Africa | Pre-Seed, Seed | Retail, E-Commerce, Mobile Apps | |
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Biz Stone
Angel
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, India | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet | |
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Pascal Levy-Garboua
Angel
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1 | United States, Morocco, Portugal | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | FinTech, Financial Services, Marketplace | $1.2M–$7.2M |
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Yossi Hasson
Angel
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1 | South Africa, United States, Ghana | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, Blockchain, Payments | $120k–$551k |
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Lars Fjeldsoe-Nielsen
Angel
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, Denmark | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $1.8M–$125M |
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Sebastien Breteau
Angel
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1 | United States, France, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Angel | FinTech, Software, Apps | $500k–$150M |
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Paul Mears
Angel
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1 | United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Angel | Mobile, E-Commerce, SaaS | $22k–$902k |
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Joe Caruso
Angel
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1 | United States, France, Israel | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, SaaS, Internet | $420k–$2.2M |
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Frederik Gerner
Angel
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1 | South Africa, Germany, The Netherlands | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | B2C, Energy, FinTech | $28k–$55k |
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Michael Greve
Angel
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1 | South Africa | Angel | Mobile, Shopping, E-Commerce | |
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Victoria van Lennep
Angel
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1 | United Kingdom, France, Spain | Series A, Pre-Seed, Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, EdTech | $686k–$23M |
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Guilherme Steinbruch
Angel
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1 | Mexico, United States, Brazil | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Financial Services, FinTech | $1M–$39M |
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Llew Claasen
Angel
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1 | Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria | Seed, Series A, Corporate Round | Logistics, Transportation, Retail | $2.3M–$5.5M |
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Michael Seibel
Angel
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1 | United States, Nigeria, United Kingdom | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology | $500k–$21M |
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Justin Caldbeck
Angel
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1 | United States, India, Kenya | Seed, Series A, Series B | E-Commerce, Mobile, iOS | $300k–$18M |
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Jude Gomila
Angel
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, India | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Software, Information Technology, Biotechnology | $70k–$5M |
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Jean-Pierre Mondalek
Angel
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1 | South Africa | Seed | FinTech, Payments, Point of Sale | |
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Varsha Rao
Angel
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1 | United States, India, France | Seed, Series A, Series B | Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, Software | $2M–$63M |
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Michael Jordaan
Angel
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1 | South Africa, Mauritius | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Education | |
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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.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 888
- Round size: Seed $50k–$2.1M; Pre-Seed $12k–$1M; Series A $170k–$5M
- Lead/follow: 53% lead, 47% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Book Your Own — Book Your Own is building an integrated travel ecosystem designed to unify India’s fragmented travel market.
- UrbanFarmers — UrbanFarmers is a platform that connects city dwellers with local urban farms and community gardens.
- Excel And Impact Agro — Excel And Impact Agro aims to tackle the chronic shortage of vegetable production in Côte d'Ivoire.
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.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Internet
- 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
- Afterparty — Useful guides, stories, and updates
- Shield USDT — US bank accounts built for international wholesalers and distributors. Same-day USD wires, USDT payments, escrow, and business credit cards.
Yves Guillemot is based out of Saint-Mandé and is the co-founder and chief executive officer of Ubisoft. Yves Guillemot attended the Institut de la PME.
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- Industry: Logistics, E-Commerce Platforms, Location Based Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $500k–$1.7M; Series A $915k–$2M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kwik — Your parcels delivered on-demand, safer, cheaper - Soon in Lagos
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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- Industry: FinTech, Software, Financial Services
- Stage:Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 37
- Round size: Seed $700k–$5.1M; Pre-Seed $425k–$1.1M
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ScholarX — ScholarX enables you to study a variety of skills online, receive money for your education, upskill your employees, and expand your business. The company provides low-income Africans with digital and affordable education.
- 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.
Bhavik Bajaj
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Geography: United States, Switzerland, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 77
- Round size: Seed $100k–$5M; Angel $15k–$1.6M; Pre-Seed $46k–$1.4M
- Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
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
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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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 477
- Round size: Seed $15k–$2M; Pre-Seed $7k–$500k; Series A $33k–$5M
- Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
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.
- ZohoOptimizer AI — ZohoOptimizer AI is a platform designed to enhance Zoho’s suite of business applications by providing AI-driven process automation.
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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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Mexico, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 170
- Round size: Seed $1M–$10M; Pre-Seed $400k–$3.9M; Series A $8M–$27M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Mason America, Inc. — Mason is the device innovation platform for product leaders who dare to deliver the next innovation in their field.
- Estate Media — Real Estate's Biggest Personalities Under one Roof
- Subquadratic — AI lab leading the subquadratic LLM revolution.
Allen and Ollys International Limited -
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- Industry: FinTech, Insurance, Blockchain
- Stage:Seed, Convertible Note
- Geography: Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Seed $1k–$4k
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Get It Done Now — GIDN is a Nigerian Fintech Company targeting medium and low income population for Loans and Financial products. GIDN has in addition a cashless, mobile based community marketplace, with more than 5k members, and aims to regulate the informal economy and facilitate the purchase of Services and Digital Products.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, India, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 34
- Round size: Seed $2.5M–$11M; Pre-Seed $460k–$1M; Series A $5M–$38M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- TuMeke Ergonomics — Computer vision joint tracking for ergonomic risk assessments. Automate assessments so you can focus on implementing solutions.
- Troop — Troop is an app for retail investors to vote, organize shareholder resolutions and activist campaigns. Sign up for early access today.
- Moment — Engineering the future of fixed income with the world's leading financial institutions.
Robby Hilkowitz is an angel investor.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Israel, Hong Kong, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Series A $1M–$4M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Neat — Built for entrepreneurs, by entrepreneursAs entrepreneurs our businesses are always in motion: starting from an idea, to making a first sale, to expanding globally. We need a financial experience that evolves with us – an experience that’s still stable and secure, but adaptive too. Banks were built for a different era of business, not for thenew economy – where borders are disappearing and it’s easier than ever to start a global business. Neat believes in making international business a reality for entrepreneurs around the world. Today, Neat is a modern alternative to a bank, designed to support you wherever you go. Tomorrow, we’re a platform for doing business: building a dynamic and frictionless economy.
- Bambu — Bambu is a leading global digital wealth technology provider for financial institutions. We enable companies to make saving and investing simple and intelligent for their clients. The cloud-based platform is powered by our proprietary algorithms and machine learning tools. The company serves over 20 financial institutions globally. Founded in 2016,Bambu is headquartered in Singapore with a subsidiary in the United Kingdom and the United States and EMEA representatives.
- Moneyhub — Moneyhub is a data and payments fintech that provides open banking, open finance, and open data solutions.
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- Industry: IaaS, SaaS, Mining
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Kenya, Canada, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Seed $285k–$1.5M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Arcube — We make sure all travellers, frequent and infrequent, make the most of travel loyalty programs, using our data-driven approach, airlines can understand their customers and provide hyper-personalised offerings to boost value and retention.Arcube uses a data-driven approach to make the most of airline loyalty programs for both frequent andinfrequent flyers. Our software allows airlines to understand their customers and provide hyper-personalised offerings to boost value and retention at no extra cost to the airline.
- UTU Technologies — Trust infrastructure for the sharing economy.
- MARAMOJA transport — Find the transport you need through the people you trust. Download MARAMOJA IOS : https://t.co/sgWCdBSTin Android:https://t.co/XSrGFWg2z6
Peter Sandberg is a Co-Founder of Nordic Secondary Fund, and a venture partner at Startup Wise Guys. He has extensive experience as a Business Angel, Asset Management and Wealth Management
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- Industry: Internet, SaaS, FinTech
- Stage:Angel, Pre-Seed, Secondary Market
- Geography: Denmark, Kenya, Estonia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 17
- Round size: Pre-Seed $150k–$212k
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Eupry — Be in full control of your temperature compliance at all times. Collect temperature monitoring, mapping, and calibration in one GxP-compliant solution.
- Tiimo — Tiimo helps you manage your daily life and improve your wellbeing. Visualize your day. Improve your routines. Stress less.
- TRAPMINE — TRAPMINE Endpoint Protection Platform provides fool-proof defense against malware, exploit attempts, file-less malware, ransomware and other forms of targeted attacks.Unlike traditional detection-based approaches like legacy antivirus, TRAPMINE combines proven and innovative technologies such as deep learning, behavior monitoring, endpointdeception and anti-exploit techniques to block cyber threats dead in their tracks. TRAPMINE's easy-deploy and lightweight solution comes with a comfortable built-in security console, at a price/performance ratio unmatchable even by the biggest names in Palo Alto.Why TRAPMINE?Cyber criminals target companies of all sizes from every industry, seeking anything that might be of value. Antivirus and other traditional security solutions are no longer efficient to protect organizations from attacks by today’s modern cyber threat actors. That’s why we founded TRAPMINE. TRAPMINE is created to solve the malware problem for all organizations at a reasonable price.
Bunmi is a graduate of Computer Science from the Michigan State University, USA. An execution focused executive with over 16 years entrepreneurial experience in high-tech sales, solutions development and management, Bunmi has developed over 20 proprietary technologies in Aviation, Government, Education, Oil & Gas and Banking sector globally.Bunmi has built more than five companies till date – each a potential billion dollar company and has substantial experience/relationships in the areas of Software development, Technology Consulting, Revenue Collection Strategies, Software Project Management, Business Startups, Internet Technology & Business Development. Bunmi is the Founder, MD/CEO of Venture Garden Nigeria.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Seed $300k–$1.5M; Pre-Seed $10k–$425k
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- GetEquity — GetEquity is a NASDAQ for venture capital. We provide an exchange and liquidity for private companies, and an infrastructure for different cadres of venture capital around investing, founder liquidity, and shareholder management
- SureGroup — Commerce in Africa is deeply facilitated by cash, but cash-based transactions are expensive, unsafe, and difficult to track. Suregifts identified an opportunity to take advantage of the growth and adoption of the internet and all things digital in Africa by creating a simple, yet safe alternative currency to be utilised for specific purposes;Vouchers.At the core of what SureGifts does, is selling and maintaining an inventory of vouchers, which can be exchanged between two or more parties, and spent at a closed but extensive network of merchants across Africa for a near-unlimited assortment of goods and services.
- Encore Pay — Encore Pay is a UAE-based FinTech and Payment solutions provider.
Kevin Ambrosini is Chief Strategy Officer at Payoneer, a publicly-traded fintech with $80bn volume (+21% year-over-year), $1bn revenue and 28% adj EBITDA margins [2024]. Previously, Kevin was the Head of Global Strategy & GM, North America at Alibaba.com, where he helped take the business from revenue of $800m and 4% annual growth to $3bn and30% annual growth over 4 years. Kevin join Alibaba through its acquisition of OpenSky, where he was Co-founder and CFO. Kevin graduated from the University of California, Berkeley.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Logistics, Fashion
- Stage:Seed, Series B, Series A
- Geography: United States, Egypt, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $2.5M–$7.5M; Series B $39M–$60M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- MaxAB — The Region's Leading Retailer Super App At MaxAB, we change how the supply chain works through our B2B food & grocery e-commerce platform At MaxAB, we change how the supply chain works through our B2B food
- buywith — buywith is an online shopping Livestream marketplace for retailers & brands, where influencers and experts can broadcast online shopping sessions with their followers & make them buy via a highly engaging experience. We help brands generate more revenues from their e-commerce activity and increase their ROI.
- Passport — Passport is the modern shipping carrier for international ecommerce that helps direct-to-consumer brands ship their products internationally.
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.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Marketplace, Food and Beverage
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Seed $3.2M–$3.2M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Vendease — VendEase is a marketplace that lets restaurants in Africa, order supplies directly from farms and food manufacturers. Think of us as Amazon, but for food businesses.
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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- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- Finclusion Group — Enhancing financial inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa through data driven lending.
Youcef Es-skouri
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, France, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 29
- Round size: Seed $1M–$9.8M; Series A $6.2M–$46M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Lakera — Lakera Guard empowers organizations to build GenAI applications without worrying about prompt injections, data loss, harmful content, and other LLM risks. Powered by the world's most advanced AI threat intelligence.
- Tana — Tana is an agentic meeting platform. Work gets done in the meeting, not after. Agents create documents, file issues, and update your context graph while you talk. And each meeting makes future meetings smarter.
- Default — The command center for modern sales teams.
Mato invests in technology companies globally. His portfolio companies have raised over US$ 5 billion in capital, employ >15,000 people and have operations in 35 countries across six continents.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Germany, India, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 55
- Round size: Seed $2M–$10M; Pre-Seed $3M–$6M; Series A $7.7M–$100M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Tern Group — Tern Group is an AI Platform to hire and relocate top healthcare talents globally, faster and cheaper. TERN is a full-stack solution to source and relocate top-tier medical and engineering talent from India, North Africa, South Africa, and Central Asia and the approach ensures a seamless, ethical, and transparent migration process, drasticallycutting complexity and shaving costs for healthcare systems.
- 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.
Innovation. Leadership. Technology. Africa.
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- 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 — 8Bit is localised content discovery and analytics platform dedicated to the distribution of high-quality content across their network of indie publishers.
- Ekaya.com — Ekaya exists to make renting simpler, safer and more connected - for everyone.
- intelworld — Welcome to the intelworld twitter feed. We are an IT solutions provider. We focus only on the customer experience
Olugbenga Agboola is based out of San Francisco, California, and is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Flutterwave. Olugbenga previously worked at Access Bank as a Head of Digital Factory and Innovation. Olugbenga Agboola attended EC-Council University. Olugbenga Agboola has been a Certified Ethical Hacker and a Security Analyst.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 29
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$7.5M; Pre-Seed $625k–$3.7M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Terra Industries — Terra Industries develops autonomous security systems and software platforms that support the monitoring and protection of physical assets, infrastructure, and operational environments across land, air, and maritime domains. The company provides unmanned vehicles, autonomous towers, and sensor-based surveillance hardware that collect and transmitdata for continuous situational awareness. Its software layer, built around an integrated operating system, processes sensor inputs, applies artificial intelligence models, and coordinates automated responses to detected events. Terra Industries designs its systems to support functions such as perimeter security, infrastructure monitoring, asset tracking, and threat detection within complex operational settings. The company’s platforms enable operators to manage multiple autonomous devices through a unified interface that supports mission planning, data visualization, and system control. Its technology is used by organizations that require coordinated security, monitoring, and response capabilities for facilities, remote sites, and distributed operations.
- Lorum Finance — Lorum is the correspondent institution for banks and fintechs: programmable access to global clearing, named custody, and treasury on a 100% reserve model.
- Fuse Financial Technologies — Financial APIs for building products in the Middle East.
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- Industry: FinTech, Insurance, Blockchain
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Seed $1k–$2k
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Get It Done Now — GIDN is a Nigerian Fintech Company targeting medium and low income population for Loans and Financial products. GIDN has in addition a cashless, mobile based community marketplace, with more than 5k members, and aims to regulate the informal economy and facilitate the purchase of Services and Digital Products.
Patricia Ithau
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- Industry: Beauty, Retail, Fashion
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Shop Zetu — Shop the latest trendy fashion, beauty and accessory brands in Kenya online! Discover affordable clothing, footwear, accessories, beauty products and more. Order today from Shop Zetu.
- Uncover — Dermatologist-tested K-Beauty formulas powered by African botanicals for melanin-rich skin. Shop SPF 50 sunscreen, serums & kits with free Kenya shipping.
Manuela Raith
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- Industry: Communities, Point of Sale, Social Impact
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Olumide Soyombo is the Co-Founder of Bluechip Technologies. Olumide Soyombo attended Aston University.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 22
- Round size: Seed $1M–$1.3M; Angel $260k–$1M; Pre-Seed $260k–$2.1M
- Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% 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.
- Spleet — ProptechSpleet is an online marketplace for affordable residential rentals and rents financing in Africa. For the tenant, we simplify the rental process by providing flexible rental and payment options and eliminate bureaucracy and expediting the search process. For the landlords, we make renting quicker, safer and better by providing accurateinformation on the tenant and ensuring rental payments are made as and when due.
- 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.
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'.
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- 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 — 29EMPIRE menghadirkan platform jejaring sosial modern dengan komunitas aktif, interaksi digital cepat, fitur komunikasi interaktif, dan koneksi online tanpa batas.
- TaxTim — TaxTim helps South African taxpayers file with confidence using a simple, step-by-step experience linked to SARS eFiling.
- Ekaya.com — Ekaya exists to make renting simpler, safer and more connected - for everyone.
Michael Lahyani is based out of Dubai, Dubai, and is the CEO and Founder of Property Finder. Michael Lahyani attended HEC Lausanne.
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- Industry: B2B, SaaS, Beauty
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Egypt, Morocco, Colombia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $5M–$5.1M; Series B $42M–$42M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Aptuno — Aptuno - Busco apartamento o casa en arriendo
- Fresha — Find the best salons and spa in your area with Fresha salon booking software. Book now!
- Chari — Chari is an e-commerce and fintech app for traditional retailers in French-Speaking Africa allowing them to order any consumer goods they sell and get delivered for free in less than 24 hours. Chari is also a financial services provider for these retailers, offering them microloans
Stefano Piotti CEO/MD at Stephano Integrated Services Ltd.
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- Industry: Logistics, E-Commerce Platforms, Location Based Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kwik — Your parcels delivered on-demand, safer, cheaper - Soon in Lagos
Osema is an angel investor and tech product, enthusiast. Passionate about building high-performance teams and growing businesses internationally.
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- Industry: E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Ethiopia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Seed $2M–$3M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- beU delivery — Food delivery service
- beU delivery — Food, groceries, parcels & pharmacy delivered across Addis Ababa in 59 minutes. 700K+ users.
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.
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- Industry: Financial Services, SaaS, Credit
- Stage:Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, Brazil, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$3.6M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- RELAYTO AI Regulated Content 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.
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.
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- 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 — 8Bit is localised content discovery and analytics platform dedicated to the distribution of high-quality content across their network of indie publishers.
- 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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- 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 — 8Bit is localised content discovery and analytics platform dedicated to the distribution of high-quality content across their network of indie publishers.
- Ekaya.com — Ekaya exists to make renting simpler, safer and more connected - for everyone.
Ashwin Ravichandran is the Co-Founder & Head of Operations at Spark. Ashwin attended Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham.
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- Industry: Retail, E-Commerce, Mobile Apps
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Ghana, South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Qwili — Qwili makes smartphones with a voice-guided, local language onboarding experience for new users.
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- Shopa — Shopa is a digital platform that engages the gap between informal retailers and manufacturers for ordering and delivery services.
Biz Stone is the Co-founder and CEO of Jelly Industries, Inc. He previously worked at The Obvious Corporation as a Co-founder and Chief Creative Officer. Biz Stone attended Northeastern University.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 56
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Yupp — Every AI for everyone
- Karat Financial — Karat is the best card for creators, helping you save money, earn rewards, and grow your channel faster - because content IS a business.
- Vantage Discovery — Vantage Discovery is a generative AI-powered SaaS platform that enables intelligent search, discovery, and personalized recommendations so apps can deliver breathtaking customer experiences.
Pascal Levy-Garboua is an angel investor, founder, and operator. He is currently VP. Business Development at Checkr, where he joined as their first executive and Employee #9.Previously, he was CEO/Cofounder at SixDoors, Cofounder at VirtuOz (acquired by Nuance Communications) and VP Product at IQ Engines (Acquired by Yahoo). He started hiscareer at eBay in France.Pascal invested in 85+ Companies including Checkr, Wag, Womply, Origin, RealtyShares, and Caviar (Acquired by Square).
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Marketplace
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: United States, Morocco, Portugal
Investor stats
- Total investments: 29
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$6.3M; Pre-Seed $1.7M–$7.2M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Wave Sports + Entertainment — Wave Sports + Entertainment is a media company building brands, original content, talent, and products for the next generation of digital super fans.
- Litehaus — Litehaus is your AI Team for Property Investment. We help investors, developers and asset managers find undervalued land, understand what can actually be built, and assess each opportunity faster.
- Base64 — Base64.ai is a document processing automation startup from New York. Our AI extracts the document type, data, text, photos, and signatures from all kinds of documents via over 700 prebuilt models for IDs, driver licenses, passports, visas, invoices, and forms. It can even process document types it has never seen before. The service may run in thecloud and air-gapped (offline) data centers. The integration is via no-code forms, a single API call, or third parties such as our UiPath activity and takes only a few minutes.
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.
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- 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 — The Sun Exchange is the peer-to-peer solar leasing marketplace. We leverage financial innovation and the power of the crowd to drive sustainable energy development and make the environmental, social and economic benefits of solar accessible and affordable for all. Through the Sun Exchange online platform, anyone, anywhere in the world, can buyremotely-located solar cells and then lease them to power businesses and organisations in sunny emerging markets. Solar cell owners earn income from the electricity that’s generated, while schools, businesses, clinics and other organisations gain access to affordable clean energy, reducing electricity costs and carbon emissions.
Lars Fjeldsoe-Nielsen grew up across Africa, from Angola and Guinea-Bissau to Tanzania and Libya, after his family fled the Angolan Civil War as refugees. Those early experiences instilled in him a belief that education, technology, and social innovation can transform lives and continue to anchor his career and philanthropic activities to this day.Today, Lars is a General Partner at Owl Ventures ($2.2 billion AUM), the world’s leading venture capital firm focused exclusively on education technology. He leads Owl’s expansion across Europe, Africa, and global markets, backing founders who harness AI and breakthrough technologies to make learning more accessible and impactful.Before joining Owl, Lars co-founded 2xN, an early-stage fund at the frontier of deeptech and quantum innovation, with standout investments including Quantinuum (valued above $10 billion), Oxford Ionics (acquired by IonQ in a $1 billion deal), QSimulate, and Sparrow Quantum. Prior to that, he was a General Partner at Balderton Capital in London during which time the firm led the Seed and Series A rounds in Revolut. His investments also span education (Labster, uLesson, StudySmarter, Kukua), mobility (Yassir, Voi, Monta, NoTraffic), and mobile and frontier tech (Hiya, Monarch Money, Rahko, Pocket, Colossal, Celus, Octant Bio, Vivino, OpenSea, Blue Bottle Coffee).Lars previously spent a decade in Silicon Valley, shaping some of tech’s most iconic growth stories. At Uber, he joined when it operated in fewer than 20 cities and, as Vice President, forged global alliances with Verizon and América Móvil that fueled its international expansion. Before Uber, as Head of Mobile at Dropbox, he was among the first 25 employees and helped the company reach its first 100 million users through partnerships with Samsung and other OEMs.Despite his career in technology and venture capital, Africa has never left Lars’s journey. After his father’s passing, he returned to Angola to trace his family’s history, discovering that his sister had died of malaria as a child. That revelation transformed a personal loss into a mission. A technologist turned humanitarian innovator, Lars filed a patent for genetically modified mosquitoes that light up when carrying malaria and began funding malaria-research projects in Angola through partnerships with global nonprofits. In 2024, he climbed Mount Kilimanjaro to raise funds for malaria research, following earlier campaigns such as climbing the Matterhorn and crossing the Sahara by motorbike.A Danish-Portuguese national who served with the Royal Danish Guards, Lars holds an MBA from London Business School, where he was a member of the Board of Governors and Chairman of the Endowment Fund, an MSc from Oxford University (Keble College), and a BSc from King’s College London. Across every chapter, from refugee to technologist to investor, his purpose endures: advancing education, health, and innovation as catalysts for social change.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Denmark
Investor stats
- Total investments: 98
- Round size: Seed $1.8M–$10M; Series A $6.4M–$48M; Series B $15M–$125M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Blue — An Operating System for your Personal Health. Join the waitlist here.
- UrbanKisaan — UrbanKisaan builds vertical farms in India and sells the produce directly to consumers via subscription based app. The farms create a positive change at every step from seed to store ensuring quality and traceability. They grow fresh veggies locally produced which are grown without using soil using 95% less water. It aims to create a sustainablefuture for farming and feed the world in a way that is good for both people and the planet.It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India.
- Colossal Biosciences — The science of genetics. The business of discovery.
Sebastien Breteau is an entrepreneur, investor, avocado farmer & philanthropist. He is the founder and CEO of QIMA, a global quality and compliance solutions provider for the consumer goods, food, and life sciences industries. Founded in 2005, QIMA partners with 30,000 brands, retailers, manufacturers and food growers globally, helping themmake products consumers can trust with inspections, ESG audits, testing, and certification services. The company has become a leading player, employing over 5,000 people worldwide and operating in over 100 countries (www.qima.com). In 2013, Sebastien founded the Breteau Foundation, a NPO which aims at giving underprivileged children access to digital education. 180,000 children are now enrolled in its program (www.breteaufoundation.org). In 2019, Sebastien founded RayoVerde, and has built one of the biggest avocado farms in Europe (Andalucia, Spain), using the latest organic farming techniques and water needs optimization. Sebastien Breteau is also an active private investor in Europe, China & the US and has invested directly in over 70 start-ups globally.
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- Industry: FinTech, Software, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: United States, France, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 21
- Round size: Seed $500k–$3M; Series A $6.5M–$150M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Ziwig — Ziwig helps to improve women's health through a holistic approach and the development of products, services, and a support ecosystem, guided by science and unique biology. of each person. Their approach, constantly supported by excellent research, is based on the close collaboration of medical experts and engineers specializing in cutting-edgetechnologies, such as artificial intelligence and high-throughput sequencing of human RNAs. Their ecosystem functioning, driven by meaning and centered on the person, using disruptive technologies contributes to the emergence of precision medicine, individualized, predictive and participatory, at the service of well-being and quality of life.
- REWORTH — En Reworth conectamos a instituciones financieras y comercios para ofrecer a los consumidores el programa de cashback personalizado mas efectivo.
- Sundayapp — Our solution is the world's fastest and easiest way to pay at restaurants. Your customers scan a QR code and pay in 10 seconds
Advocate of the token economy, blockchain use and crypto currencies with a focus on health, communications, social media and entertainment sectors. UK qualified CPA with 30 years of experience working in a wide range of finance and operational finance roles in UK, Amsterdam, Hong Kong, Vancouver, Long Island and Monaco in the Telco, Construction,Asset Management and Payments sectors. Portfolio of angel equity of UK, Skandinavian and French companies including stem cells, medical devices, social applications, data storage solutions, peptide manufacturing processes and others. Become a crypto convert and have worked with Humaniq, Howdoo, Modex, Jointogo, Virtual Rehab, SID and am co-founder of Meridian DLT and Travalian. #blockchain #cryptocurrency #tokens #initialcoinofferings #communication #connectivity
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- Industry: Mobile, E-Commerce, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Angel
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Round size: Seed $22k–$314k; Angel $302k–$334k; Equity Crowdfunding $154k–$902k
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Travalian — Travalian is an open source, free leisure, and travel social media resource, where members are encouraged to participate in the content, can add, edit, review and rate all categories, including any location, based on personal experiences as a visitor or local. Members can express their own detailed insight into every aspect of travel and fun forevery community, combining local information with experiences, images and video on each location, giving perspective views from local communities and visitors alike. Where everyone can rate and review villages, towns, cities and countries, showing the world how different locations compare in popularity by visitors and the local communities giving unique perspectives that can be used by locals to promote where they live and the attractions and activities that visitors can enjoy, while visitors can supply invaluable perspective to what they most like.
- Moneymailme — Download now from Google Play: https://t.co/sRr9IHlgpR Download now from App Store: https://t.co/7AkCDtnMkX
- Dopecard Holdings Limited — Dope provides financial services. Their services include mobile banking, fintech, e-commerce, africa, innovation, social media, onboarding, ecobank, technology, and education.
For the last 20 years Joe has served as mentor, coach, and personal advisor to CEO’s and entrepreneurs. In recent years, he has served as investor, advisor and active director with dozens of companies, public and private.Joe is currently a member of Launchpad Venture Group and was previously a member of Walnut Ventures, Common Angels, eCoastAngels and a principal of Brookwood Partners, all investment groups for early stage companies. He also maintains an active consulting practice dealing with structuring and negotiation of acquisitions, strategic partnerships and financings, and issues related to dispute resolution.He has served on dozens of boards over the years and is recipient of the Leadership in Private Corporate Governance award from the National Association of Corporate Directors New England Chapter. He is a graduate of Northeastern University (BSEE with honors) and the Harvard Business School (MBA) He has served as advisor to Northeastern’s School of Technological Entrepreneurship, and serves as a mentor for Boston University's entrepreneurship program, the Boston TechStars program, and Mass Challenge.Previously, Joe served as interim CEO for companies in need of strategic change - running businesses ranging from 5 to 1,000 employees. Early in his career, he worked at Teradyne and Autex, Inc., and was CEO at Cyborg Corporation, a venture-funded company that was a pioneer in the use of PC’s in laboratory and factory automation. He also has served as an arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association.Former board memberships include: ACT Medical, Acumenta, Adhesive Technologies, American Fantasy Sports, Audiofile, Boston Restaurant Associates, Boston University's Photonics Center (advisory director), Coffee Connection, Colonial Mills, Common Angels, Corion, Cyborg Corporation, General Analysis, Haymarket Bank, Iconics, i2Chem, Laser Science, Metrisa, MicroE, Nimbit, Qiave Technologies, QD Vision, Quant Funds (trustee); Tytronics, Wwwhoosh, Zentox, the Turnaround Management Association (founding director, New England Chapter), the National Association of Corporate Directors (New England Chapter), the Association for Corporate Growth (New England Chapter) and WEST (Women Entrepreneurs in Science and Technology). Joe has also served as an arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, France, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 26
- Round size: Seed $420k–$2.2M; Pre-Seed $650k–$1.4M; Series A $1.6M–$2M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Konnecto — Market Intelligence | Konnecto | Prescriptive Analytics Konnecto is a GTM Intelligence Platform that provides brands with an ongoing blueprint on how to increase online sales and improve marketing ROI
- Mylestone — The pictures of your greatest memories are likely stored somewhere just out of reach. Maybe in an old photo album lost in the basement - or maybe indiscernible from the 3,000 other pictures on your phone, buried in streams on Facebook, or auto saved to a massive photo storage account.But what if you could access stories generated from thosepictures simply by talking to Alexa?With Mylestone, all you have to do is say “Alexa, tell me a story about Mom.” and voila, memories of loved ones at your beck and call.
- HomeBinder — HomeBinder is a residential home management platform that reduces complexity in partnership with the businesses who serve them, improving client relationships and increasing referrals, bringing effortless homeownership to all.
Frederik Gerner
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- Industry: B2C, Energy, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: South Africa, Germany, The Netherlands
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Angel $28k–$55k
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
Portfolio highlights
- DX Digital Africa — DX Digital Africa specializes in automotive intelligence to build capabilities for vehicles of the future. Optimizing processes and reducing maintenance costs throughout the lifecycle of vehicles from the factory floor to scrap yard.
- Yebo Fresh — Yebofresh is a new online shopping service, delivering popular groceries straight into areas that are generally unserved by most formal retailers. Our unique business model and partnerships with manufacturers allow us to deliver top quality products and A-brands at extremely competitive prices. Yebofresh serves Imizamo Yethu, Langa, Khayelitsha,Mfuleni and Gugulethu and following recent seed funding, is rapidly expanding across the greater Cape Town area.
- Zelda Learning — Zelda provides free online career guidance for students looking to enter university and then links them to bursary and study opportunities.
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Browse database — It's Free!Michael and his brother Matthias are probably two of the most successful founders in the German-speaking Internet industry. Among numerous ventures they founded Flug.de and grew the site into one of Germany´s most successful flight booking destinations. (Sold to Otto Group). They launched Lastminute.de and turned the service into the largestGerman last-minute travel site in Germany. (Sold to Lastminute.com). Most notably the brothers founded WEB.DE and, after successful IPO, grew the company to become one of Germany's largest Internet portals and online media businesses (sold to United Internet).
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- Industry: Mobile, Shopping, E-Commerce
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Foundshopping.com — Found (formerly Pashash) is the app that lets you Share Real-World Shopping.Finding a great buy is something worth sharing. Found lets you take a picture, tag your buy and share it on Facebook and Twitter. Express yourself, start a trend, or just help somebody find a great deal.Have it with you when you're out shopping - in the realworld. Discover the best buys at your location and see the Found things your friends have found.
Victoria van Lennep - Co-Founder @ Lendable
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, EdTech
- Stage:Series A, Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, France, Spain
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $2M–$5.5M; Pre-Seed $686k–$2M; Series A $16M–$23M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- GoodCourse — GoodCourse is where TikTok-style content meets expert-made learning paths - to build safer and bias-free cultures.
- Virgil — Virgil provides a financial solution to assist individuals in purchasing a home. For the buyer, Virgil is a dormant partner: in exchange for an investment of 10% of the price, Virgil buys 15% of the apartment and is paid at the time of resale, at the latest 10 years after the purchase. Virgil allows young working people to become owners on average7 years earlier than the average first-time buyer, i.e. as much rent saved. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Paris, France.
- 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 !
Guilherme Steinbruch - Partner @ 468 Capital
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- 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 — WeDemand is a digital platform that powers fan driven live events across the world.The platform empowers fans to Demand a Show in their cityIt provides artists with a direct communication channel to fans and uses data to predict attendance and identify the best tour routesOnce the event dates are set, WeDemand helps promoters market andsell tickets directly to fans that demanded the event
- 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.
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.
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- Industry: Logistics, Transportation, Retail
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Corporate Round
- Geography: Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Seed $2.3M–$5.5M
- Lead/follow: 60% lead, 40% 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.
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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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 205
- Round size: Seed $500k–$7.2M; Pre-Seed $500k–$500k; Series A $5.9M–$21M
- Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kira — The easiest way for non-fintech enterprises to launch AI-powered, stablecoin-based financial products. Through a unified API platform, Kira enables businesses to embed remittances, payroll, wallets, and real-time cross-border payments.
- Recall.ai — Recall.ai provides a single API for meeting bots on every platform like Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams and more.
- Arena — Arena accelerates testing, debugging, and optimization for the world’s most advanced hardware. Atlas is an AI hardware engineer grounded in applied physics with an understanding of the real-world environment.
Justin Caldbeck is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Binary Capital since July 2014. In June 2017, Justin announced an indefinite leave of absence from Binary Capital.Previously, Justin was a Managing Director at Lightspeed Venture Partners from January 2011 to June 2014. Justin invested primarily in the Internet and mobile sectors with afocus on social media, e-commerce and enterprise software. Justin’s past investments include Bloomreach, GrubHub, PetFlow and TaskRabbit. Justin has also been a Board Member or Board Observer for numerous successful companies including TheFind, INRIX, Adready, Magazine Radar, Oyster.com and DNA Games. Before joining Lightspeed, Justin was a Partner at Bain Capital Ventures and was responsible for launching the firm’s West Coast office. Justin was both a Member of the Board of Directors and Board Observer for a wide variety of consumer internet, enterprise software, and business services companies, including BloomReach, TheFind, Adready, INRIX, DNA Games, Oyster.com, and Magazine Radar. Before Bain Capital Ventures, Justin was at McKinsey and Co. where he served consumer and media companies in a wide range of capacities. Justin holds a B.A. in Economics from Duke University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Mobile, iOS
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, India, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 24
- Round size: Seed $300k–$6.5M; Series A $4.8M–$10M; Series B $4M–$18M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Flippy — Flippy is a financial platform that simplifies crypto investments through thematic investments.
- Finsire — Finsire Modern finances to embrace your financial desires
- HydraDB — The Brain Behind Your Company's AI
Jude Gomila is currently CEO and Founder of the startup Golden.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Biotechnology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 64
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$5M; Angel $70k–$1.3M; Pre-Seed $660k–$2.9M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Vaire — Conventional chips waste all their energy as heat. Vaire's groundbreaking technology will recover and recycle most of its energy, delivering low energy, high performance compute for the AI era.
- Clara — Clara is an AI-powered primary care doctor.
- Farmako — Install Farmako app, get a free health ID and get all your medical records safe and secure in one place!
Jean-Pierre Mondalek - Head of Peak Events and XCM, MENA @ Amazon
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- Industry: FinTech, Payments, Point of Sale
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Yoco — Yoco is a point-of-sale payments provider for small businesses in Africa. Yoco helps 100,000 small businesses in South Africa get paid in-store, online, and on the go. Yoco was named one of the top 250 most promising fintech companies by CB Insights for the last 3 years running.The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Cape Town, SouthAfrica.
Varsha Rao is an Executive Partner at Flare Capital Partners, former Head of Global Operations at Airbnb, CEO of Nurx and COO at Clover Health. She was the Co-Founder of Eve.com. Rao received her BS/BA in Economics/Math from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from Harvard Business School.She is an active angel investors withsuccessful investments in AI-Infra, Healthcare, Vertical AI, Consumer Tech and more.
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- Industry: Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, India, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 60
- Round size: Seed $2M–$15M; Series A $5M–$46M; Series B $9.4M–$63M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Alex AI — Alex is the AI recruiter that puts sourcing, screening, and scheduling on autopilot. Fast-track vetting so you interview the best in days.
- TextQL — TextQL is you personal virtual data analyst, built for enterprise and powered by AI. Ask in natural english and Ana can build insightful analysis, stunning charts, and powerful models, all with enterprise-grade security.
- Raindrop — Monitor your AI Agent the right way. Get alerted when your agent fails in production, trace exactly what went wrong, and prove your fix worked.
Michael Jordaan, the former banker now heads up a private investment company, Montegray Capital and lends a strategic-hand to various businesses, including as Chairman of Wines of South Africa (WoSA), Chairman of consumer data buro, Compuscan and as Director on the JSE. Michael also actively invests as a partner in AngelHub Ventures, a SouthAfrican based Venture Capital Fund.In 2014 he co-founded a coding apprenticeship program, ProjectcodeX, to grow highly skilled software developers to fuel the digital economy.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Education
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
- Geography: South Africa, Mauritius
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow
Portfolio highlights
- VALR — Buy and sell bitcoin, ethereum & more | Pay anyone for free with VALR Pay
- OfferZen — On OfferZen, Dutch tech companies reach out to you with upfront role and salary info so you can make the right career move.
- Real Time Wine — Share your wine moments. Real Time Wine is the social wine discovery app for everyone who enjoys wine, not just those who understand it. [In App Stores NOW!]
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