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Top 50 Marketplace Angel Investors in Africa (July 2026)

The most active angel investors investing in Africa Marketplace startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Africa Marketplace startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Bhavik Bajaj
Angel
4 United States, Switzerland, United Kingdom Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel Information Technology, Software, FinTech $15k–$5M
Yves Guillemot
Angel
4 Nigeria Seed, Series A Logistics, E-Commerce Platforms, Location Based Services $500k–$2M
Vinny Lingham
Angel
4 United States, South Africa, United Kingdom Seed, Angel Blockchain, Internet, Software $125k–$5.6M
Idris Ayodeji Bello
Angel
4 Nigeria, United States, Egypt Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed Software, FinTech, Mobile Apps $100k–$5.1M
Justin Mateen
Angel
3 United States, Mexico, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, E-Commerce, Health Care $400k–$26M
Allen and Ollys International Limited -
Angel
3 Nigeria Seed, Convertible Note FinTech, Insurance, Blockchain $1k–$4k
Cem Garih
Angel
3 United States, India, Kenya Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Internet $460k–$38M
Hesham Zreik
Angel
3 United States, Nigeria, India Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence $20k–$5M
Olugbenga Agboola
Angel
3 Nigeria, Kenya, United States Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Finance $625k–$7.5M
Leonard Stiegeler
Angel
2 Nigeria, South Africa, United States Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed FinTech, Financial Services, B2B $1.3M–$6M
Youcef Es-skouri
Angel
2 United States, France, Nigeria Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Mato Perić
Angel
2 Germany, India, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce $2M–$100M
Daniel Guasco
Angel
2 South Africa, United Kingdom Seed, Angel Rental, Internet, Analytics $60k–$110k
Bashar Hamood
Angel
2 United States, United Kingdom, India Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce $7k–$5M
Stefano Piotti
Angel
2 Nigeria Seed, Series A Logistics, E-Commerce Platforms, Location Based Services
Robby Hilkowitz
Angel
2 Israel, Hong Kong, Singapore Series A, Seed FinTech, Financial Services, Payments $1M–$4M
Cristina Santin
Angel
2 Nigeria Seed FinTech, Insurance, Blockchain $1k–$2k
Rus Newton
Angel
2 Kenya, Canada, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed IaaS, SaaS, Mining $285k–$1.5M
Sebastian Stoddart
Angel
2 United Kingdom, South Africa Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Rental, Internet, Analytics
Tayo Oviosu
Angel
2 Nigeria, Brazil, United States Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed Financial Services, SaaS, Credit $1.4M–$3.6M
Michael Lahyani
Angel
2 Egypt, Morocco, Colombia Seed, Series A, Series B B2B, SaaS, Beauty $5M–$42M
Manuela Raith
Angel
2 Kenya Seed Communities, Point of Sale, Social Impact
Patricia Ithau
Angel
2 Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed Beauty, Retail, Fashion
Justin Stanford
Angel
2 South Africa Seed, Angel, Series A FinTech, Security, Financial Services $3.4M–$6.4M
Kevin Ambrosini
Angel
2 United States, Egypt, Kenya Seed, Series B, Series A E-Commerce, Logistics, Fashion $2.5M–$60M
Olumide Soyombo
Angel
2 Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel FinTech, Financial Services, Finance $260k–$2.1M
Peter Sandberg
Angel
2 Denmark, Kenya, Estonia Angel, Pre-Seed, Secondary Market Internet, SaaS, FinTech $150k–$212k
Wayne Gosling
Angel
2 South Africa, United Kingdom Seed, Angel Rental, Internet, Analytics
Bunmi Akinyemiju
Angel
2 Nigeria, United Arab Emirates Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Payments $10k–$1.5M
Andrea Bohmert
Angel
1 South Africa, United States Series A, Angel Manufacturing, Artificial Intelligence, Mobile
Sanjeev Barnwal
Angel
1 India, Kenya, Vietnam Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Internet, Apps, Financial Services
Peter anker
Angel
1 Kenya Seed Beauty, Retail, Consumer
Bas Hochstenbach
Angel
1 South Africa Angel, Seed B2C, Shopping, Software
Juan Pablo Ortega
Angel
1 Brazil, Nigeria, Colombia Seed, Series A Restaurants, Financial Services, Banking
Peter Kenevan
Angel
1 Kenya Seed Automotive, Marketplace
Matt Sutton
Angel
1 Kenya Seed Consumer Goods
Ashley Thompson- MacCarthy
Angel
1 Ghana Series A Mobile, Retail, FinTech
Atlas Benjelloun
Angel
1 United States, Morocco, United Kingdom Series A, Seed, Series C Software, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Hamza Abu hassan Ibn Faycal AlMALIKI
Angel
1 Morocco Series A B2B, Retail, Software
Hiroaki Ohta
Angel
1 Japan, Kenya Seed, Series A, Convertible Note Information Technology, Quantum Computing, Energy
Addis Alemayehou
Angel
1 Ethiopia Seed E-Commerce
Gregory Rockson
Angel
1 Kenya, Germany, Nigeria Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
Florian Resatsch
Angel
1 Germany, Nigeria Seed Apps, FinTech, Internet
Pierre Martensson
Angel
1 Kenya Seed Beauty, Retail, Consumer
Kiprono Elvis Terigin
Angel
1 Kenya Seed Beauty, Retail, Consumer
Jorn Lyseggen
Angel
1 Ghana, United States Seed Retail, Software, E-Commerce
Camilla Hagen Sørli
Angel
1 Kenya Seed Beauty, Retail, Consumer
Luciano Freitas
Angel
1 Kenya Seed E-Commerce
Michael Novogratz
Angel
1 United States, Nigeria Series A, Seed B2B, Retail, Social
Trond Riiber Knudsen
Angel
1 Norway, United States, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Software, Construction, SaaS
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Bhavik Bajaj
Angel · 4 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

Bhavik Bajaj

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, FinTech
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 74
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$5M; Angel $15k–$1.6M; Pre-Seed $46k–$1.3M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% 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
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Yves Guillemot
Angel · Saint-mandé, Ile-de-France, France · 4 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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
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Vinny Lingham
Angel · San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States · 4 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

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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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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Idris Ayodeji Bello
Angel · 4 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

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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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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Justin Mateen
Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States · 3 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Mexico, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 144
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$9.5M; Pre-Seed $400k–$3.9M; Series A $6.8M–$26M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% 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
  • Subquadratic
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Allen and Ollys International Limited -
Angel · 3 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

Allen and Ollys International Limited -

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Investment focus

  • 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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Cem Garih
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

Investor

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, India, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 33
  • 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.
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Hesham Zreik
Angel · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 3 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

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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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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Olugbenga Agboola
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 28
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$7.5M; Pre-Seed $625k–$3.7M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% 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
  • Fuse Financial Technologies — Financial APIs for building products in the Middle East.
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Leonard Stiegeler
Angel · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 2 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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

  • Bamba — Bamba is an android application allowing micro-merchants across Africa to run their entire business utilizing their phones. It focuses on simple tools for merchants to manage their customers, get paid, payout as well as takeout cash advances against their future cash flow.
  • Paystack — Over 60,000 businesses of all sizes use Paystack to collect payments with a modern, secure payment gateway.
  • 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.
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Youcef Es-skouri
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

Youcef Es-skouri

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, France, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 23
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Tana — Tana is a software development company that reinvents how humans, teams, and computers work together. Tana was founded in 2020 and was headquartered in Oslo, Norway.
  • Journify — Activate trustworthy data for your business with Journify - the leading data activation platform for top data-driven companies. Sign up free!
  • SwingVision — Real-Time Automated Video Analysis for Tennis
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Mato Perić
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Daniel Guasco
Angel · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 2 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

Innovation. Leadership. Technology. Africa.

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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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Bashar Hamood
Angel · 2 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 387
  • Round size: Seed $14k–$2M; Pre-Seed $7k–$500k; Series A $33k–$5M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% 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.
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Stefano Piotti
Angel · 2 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

Stefano Piotti CEO/MD at Stephano Integrated Services Ltd.

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Investment focus

  • 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
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Robby Hilkowitz
Angel · 2 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

Robby Hilkowitz is an angel investor.

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Investment focus

  • 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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Cristina Santin
Angel · 2 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

Cristina Santin

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Rus Newton
Angel · 2 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

Co-Founder of Global Advisors & CoinShares. Previously JP Morgan, Salomon Brothers & Shell International

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Investment focus

  • 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

  • Mintgreen — MintGreen specializes in heat recovery from Bitcoin mining. Our proprietary Digital Boilers heat communities sustainably.
  • 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.
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Sebastian Stoddart
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

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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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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Tayo Oviosu
Angel · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 2 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, SaaS, Credit
  • Stage:Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, Brazil, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • 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.
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Michael Lahyani
Angel · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 2 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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

  • Swvl — Swvl | Book Your Daily Ride or Make Money Driving Now
  • 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!
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Manuela Raith
Angel · 2 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

Manuela Raith

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Communities, Point of Sale, Social Impact
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Mwingi — Everywhere for Everyone
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Patricia Ithau
Angel · 2 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

Patricia Ithau

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Justin Stanford
Angel · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 2 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

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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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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Kevin Ambrosini
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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 a video commerce platform enabling retailers and brands to transform their e-commerce into engaging shoppable videos and dynamic video-led experiences, including an AI-powered digital studio for creating video ads for retail media at scale.
  • Taager — Taager is a social e-commerce platform enabling online merchants with end-to-end logistics.
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Olumide Soyombo
Angel · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 2 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

Olumide Soyombo is the Co-Founder of Bluechip Technologies. Olumide Soyombo attended Aston University.

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Peter Sandberg
Angel · Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark · 2 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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

  • 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.
  • Colibo A/S — Use Colibo's intranet software as your enterprise collaboration platform to increase productivity, drive employee engagement and better internal communications.
  • November First — November First - Betalingsplatform til alle virksomheder
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Wayne Gosling
Angel · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 2 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

Wayne Gosling - COO @ Twangoo South Africa

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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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Bunmi Akinyemiju
Angel · 2 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • 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.
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Andrea Bohmert
Angel · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

Andrea has a successful track record in the corporate sector, as entrepreneur as well as investor. She headed up Corporate Strategy for Siemens Southern Africa followed by managing a software sales team for Dimension Data. Starting her own businesses led her into the investment space where she raised the R350m Hass Plattner Ventures Africa Fund.Passionate about developing the ecosystem she is involved in numerous business incubation initiatives, evangelizing Global Companies such as Google and IBM to get more involved in Africa. Andrea's life is a juggling act and she is currently working on the five-ball juggle: Her husband, two children, KnifeCap, Sundays on the beach with the Strand Lifesaving Club and life between two continents.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Artificial Intelligence, Mobile
  • Stage:Series A, Angel
  • Geography: South Africa, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
  • VoxCroft — VoxCroft is making the world a better, safer place with population-centric intelligence.
  • DataProphet — We optimize your manufacturing performance and boost your plant teams' digital skills, achieving best-of-best results via prescriptive AI.
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Sanjeev Barnwal
Angel · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · 1 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

Sanjeev Barnwal is Founder and CTO at Meesho.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Apps, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: India, Kenya, Vietnam

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 22
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Snabbit — Snabbit is a platform that connects people who want to help with housework. Snabbit provides an application for finding information on professionals in household duties, allowing users to acquire rapid and dependable domestic assistance in just a few minutes.
  • AlmaBetter — AlmaBetter provides risk-free education to students and helps them realize their potential.
  • Wishlink — Wishlink by promoting brands through its storefront enables social media content providers to monetise their influence.
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Peter anker
Angel · 1 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

Peter anker

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Beauty, Retail, Consumer
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Uncover — Learn your skin, Love your skin. K-Beauty Crafted for Melanin
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Bas Hochstenbach
Angel · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

Bas Hochstenbach is the Co-Founder of Conservation Club. He attended Leiden University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: B2C, Shopping, Software
  • Stage:Angel, Seed
  • Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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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Juan Pablo Ortega
Angel · Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico · 1 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

Juan Pablo Ortega is the Co-founder of Rappi. He previously worked as a Board Member at Viva Air. He attended Cornell University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Restaurants, Financial Services, Banking
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Brazil, Nigeria, Colombia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Bacu — Bacu provides restaurant technology and offer a comfort food concept.
  • Trully — Trully
  • Chowdeck — Enjoy fast delivery from best restaurants near you. Order African food, Asian food, Pizza, fit-fam, Drinks from restaurants near you in Ikeja, Yaba, Surulere, Ogudu, Lekki.
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Peter Kenevan
Angel · 1 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

Peter Kenevan, VP, Head of Japan at PayPal.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Automotive, Marketplace
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Peach Cars — Buy or sell your car in Nairobi-Kenya with ease. Browse a wide range of vehicles, connect with trusted sellers, and find the perfect car today. Simple, fast, and secure transactions.
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Matt Sutton
Angel · 1 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

Matt Sutton is an entrepreneur-in-residence at INSEAD.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Consumer Goods
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Powered by People — Powered by People is a values-driven wholesale platform featuring handmade, ethical products from makers in over 40 countries. Sign up now for pre-approved credit and net 60 terms at poweredbypeople.com
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Ashley Thompson- MacCarthy
Angel · 1 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

Ashley Thompson-MacCarthy is the CEO at Obsidian Achernar. Ashley Thompson-MacCarthy attended Middlesex University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile, Retail, FinTech
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: Ghana

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Zeepay — Zeepay Ghana Limited is a wholly Ghanaian owned Mobile FinancialServices company focusing on providing integrated mobile payments services with mobile wallets targeting the unbanked and banked population with the objective of bringing the unbanked into the financial stream and easing payments and collections for the banked population.Zeepayfacilitates the processing of multiple mobile phone payment transactions, and operates as a aggregator that brings transaction of all players together on one single platform. The company’s core application runs on open source technology, and is designed to integrate all types of payment platforms, banks, merchants, Mobile Network Operators (MNOs), and other companies with subscriber based transactions.
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Atlas Benjelloun
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

Atlas Benjelloun invest and support curious, mission-minded people who are committed to solving the Internet’s toughest challenges.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series C
  • Geography: United States, Morocco, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 75
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Retool — Retool is the fastest way to build effective business software. Use Retool's building blocks to develop apps and workflow automations that connect to your databases and APIs, instantly.
  • ResortPass — Enjoy the pool, spa, and amenities at a luxury hotel for the day starting at only $25. Take a daycation and book a day pass or cabana at hotels and resorts near you!
  • Column — We provide public notice software for publishers and the government agencies, law firms, businesses and individuals required to place public or legal notices.
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Hamza Abu hassan Ibn Faycal AlMALIKI
Angel · 1 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

Hamza Abu hassan Ibn Faycal AlMALIKI

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Investment focus

  • Industry: B2B, Retail, Software
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: Morocco

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Evollume.com — Introducing a revolutionary new website that combines the best features of two of the world's largest e-commerce platforms to create an unparalleled product sourcing experience. With this website, wholesalers, manufacturers, and retailers can easily find the products they need from a single dashboard.The website features an intuitiveinterface that allows users to search for products by category, brand, price, and other criteria. Users can also view product reviews and ratings, compare prices from multiple suppliers, and place orders directly through the platform.One of the key advantages of this website is that it caters to all types of businesses, whether they are large enterprises or small startups. Wholesalers can easily find manufacturers who can provide them with the bulk quantities they need, while manufacturers can connect with retailers who are looking for specific products to sell. Retailers can also benefit from the website's extensive inventory and competitive pricing, making it easier for them to source the products they need to stock their stores.Another unique feature of this website is its ability to handle international transactions, including currency conversion and shipping. This means that businesses from all over the world can connect and do business with each other, opening up new markets and opportunities for growth.Overall, this website represents a game-changing innovation in the world of e-commerce, making it easier than ever for businesses of all sizes to source the products they need from a single, easy-to-use platform.
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Hiroaki Ohta
Angel · 1 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

Hiroaki Ohta is the Chief Technology Officer, Co-Founder and Board Member of Blue Laser Fusion. He previously worked at ACSL Ltd. as a Representative Director, President, CEO, Chiarman, Board Member. Hiroaki Ohta attended Kyoto University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Quantum Computing, Energy
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
  • Geography: Japan, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Quanmatic — Quanmatic is an information and technology company that provides algorithms development and solutions to bridge quantum technologies.
  • Peach Cars — Buy or sell your car in Nairobi-Kenya with ease. Browse a wide range of vehicles, connect with trusted sellers, and find the perfect car today. Simple, fast, and secure transactions.
  • Power Diamond Systems — Power Diamond Systems is a research and development firm that focuses on diamond semiconductor devices.
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Addis Alemayehou
Angel · Addis Ababa, Adis Abeba, Ethiopia · 1 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

Addis Alemayehou is managing partner at 251 Communications.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Ethiopia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • beU delivery — Food delivery service
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Gregory Rockson
Angel · Ghana, Ebonyi, Nigeria · 1 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

Gregory Rockson is based out of United States and is the Co-Founder & CEO of mPharma. Gregory previously worked at Six Days of Peace as a Founder. Gregory Rockson attended the University of Ghana.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
  • Stage:Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, Germany, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Float — Float helps you manage cashflow and gives you the credit your business needs to cover operational costs like payroll, inventory, or even marketing expenses.
  • COMESO GmbH — COMESO exists to make healthcare access in Africa fair, transparent, and reliable. We build digital payment infrastructure that allows families both abroad and within their home countries to directly pay for medical services for their loved ones. Our mission is to ensure that every payment sent for health, whether from across the world or acrosstown, reaches hospitals and clinics in full, improving lives and strengthening local health systems.We combine financial technology with community-based healthcare delivery, COMESO enables the domestication of payments from afar, turning everyday financial support into a trusted channel for health access. Our goal is to reduce out-of-pocket spending, empower underserved families, and create a scalable model for inclusive health financing across emerging markets.
  • Caantin — Kibanda Topup digitizes the supply for micro, small and medium-sized restaurants. Kibanda Topup allows restaurant owners to order inventory such as grains, poultry, beverages, and beef by app through a simple SMS and get the orders the next day.
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Florian Resatsch
Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 1 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

Florian Resatsch

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, FinTech, Internet
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Germany, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • myEGO — Decentralized Identity Solutions We provide the full layer infrastructure for the next generation of digital identity: Decentralized & Self Sovereign (SSI) Contact us Our Solution Centralised solutions facing increasing regulations for individuals, businesses & goods. Data silos are often based on legacy systems and can lead to data security and privacy risk as well as
  • TopCheck — TopCheck.com.ng is a platform for comparing financial services like insurance, credit cards or loans. It was founded in January 2015 and is headquartered in Lagos.
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Pierre Martensson
Angel · 1 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

Pierre Martensson

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Beauty, Retail, Consumer
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Uncover — Learn your skin, Love your skin. K-Beauty Crafted for Melanin
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Kiprono Elvis Terigin
Angel · 1 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

Kiprono Elvis Terigin

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Beauty, Retail, Consumer
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Uncover — Learn your skin, Love your skin. K-Beauty Crafted for Melanin
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Jorn Lyseggen
Angel · San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States · 1 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

Jorn Lyseggen, a serial entrepreneur and philanthropist, is the Founder & CEO of Meltwater. Launched in his home country of Norway in 2001 with just a $15,000 investment, Jorn and his team have grown the company to become a global leader in media intelligence. Today, Meltwater has more than 1,500 employees in 55 offices across six continents,with more than 30,000 clients worldwide.Jorn released his first book, Outside Insight: Navigating a World Drowning in Data, in October 2017. The book describes the emergence of a new software category that will leverage insights gleaned from the vast amount of external information available on the web to transform corporate decision-making.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Retail, Software, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Ghana, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Kudobuzz — Kudobuzz helps more than 20,000 businesses increase their organic traffic & sales with ratings, photo reviews and social proof.
  • MeQasa Ltd — Find the home or office you deserve from a wide range at meQasa, your real estate marketplace. Post your property today to reach genuine buyers and tenants
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Camilla Hagen Sørli
Angel · 1 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

Camilla Hagen Sørli

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Beauty, Retail, Consumer
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Uncover — Learn your skin, Love your skin. K-Beauty Crafted for Melanin
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Luciano Freitas
Angel · São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil · 1 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

Head Trainer, entrepreneur and consumer-reaction driven professional with 10+ years of experience creating business opportunities all around the world. Strong teamwork background and #madly in love with people and technology.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Kapu — Your favorite supermarket on every street.
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Michael Novogratz
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

Mike Novogratz is the Founder, CEO and Chairman at Galaxy Digital.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: B2B, Retail, Social
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Alerzo — Alerzo is a B2B e-commerce retail company providing a technology and services platform that transforms how informal retail stores operate. It offers on-demand inventory distribution and financial services for small informal stores while also providing real-time market trends, customer feedback, and other consumer purchasing data to brands andmanufacturers.The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Ibadan, Nigeria.
  • Mansa — Built by Black creators with a passion for making culture-positive content, Mansa is the only place to stream the best in Global Black stories
  • Candy Digital — Fandom, reimagined. Only at Candy.com
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Trond Riiber Knudsen
Angel · Oslo, Oslo, Norway · 1 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

Trond Riiber Knudsen is a Founder of TRK GROUP.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Construction, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Norway, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 17
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • OTee — OTee's Industrial Automation platform makes it possible to create and manage industrial-grade virtual control systems, based on open standards and architecture!
  • Ciloo — The global brand management platform for local, on-demand production of branded products. Reduce costs, waste + shipping distances. Full brand control.
  • Starflow — Starflow goal is to create a scalable energy system that helps people achieve energy independence.
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