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Top 50 Marketplace Angel Investors in Africa (June 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
Idris Ayodeji Bello
Angel
4 Nigeria, United States, Egypt Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed Software, FinTech, Financial Services $100k–$5.1M
Vinny Lingham
Angel
4 United States, South Africa, United Kingdom Seed, Angel Blockchain, Internet, Software $125k–$5.6M
Bhavik Bajaj
Angel
4 United States, Switzerland, United Kingdom Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel Information Technology, Software, FinTech $15k–$3M
Yves Guillemot
Angel
3 Nigeria Seed, Series A Logistics, E-Commerce Platforms, Location Based Services $500k–$1.7M
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
Justin Mateen
Angel
3 United States, Mexico, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, E-Commerce, Health Care $400k–$26M
Olugbenga Agboola
Angel
3 Nigeria, Kenya, United States Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Finance $625k–$7.5M
Rus Newton
Angel
2 Kenya, Canada, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed IaaS, SaaS, Mining $285k–$1.5M
Wayne Gosling
Angel
2 South Africa, United Kingdom Seed, Angel Rental, Internet, Analytics
Youcef Es-skouri
Angel
2 United States, France, Nigeria Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Bunmi Akinyemiju
Angel
2 Nigeria, United Arab Emirates Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Payments $10k–$1.5M
Peter Sandberg
Angel
2 Denmark, Kenya, Estonia Angel, Pre-Seed, Secondary Market Internet, SaaS, FinTech $150k–$212k
Manuela Raith
Angel
2 Kenya Seed Communities, Point of Sale, Social Impact
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 Financial Services, FinTech, Finance $260k–$2.1M
Hesham Zreik
Angel
2 United States, India, Nigeria Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence $18k–$5M
Mato Perić
Angel
2 Germany, India, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce $2M–$100M
Robby Hilkowitz
Angel
2 Israel, Hong Kong, Singapore Series A, Seed FinTech, Financial Services, Payments $1M–$4M
Michael Lahyani
Angel
2 Egypt, Morocco, Colombia Seed, Series A, Series B B2B, SaaS, Beauty $5M–$42M
Cristina Santin
Angel
2 Nigeria Seed FinTech, Insurance, Blockchain $1k–$2k
Leonard Stiegeler
Angel
2 Nigeria, South Africa, United States Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed FinTech, Financial Services, B2B $1.3M–$6M
Sebastian Stoddart
Angel
2 United Kingdom, South Africa Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Rental, Internet, Analytics
Daniel Guasco
Angel
2 South Africa, United Kingdom Seed, Angel Rental, Internet, Analytics $60k–$110k
Patricia Ithau
Angel
2 Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed Beauty, Retail, Fashion
Bashar Hamood
Angel
2 United States, Nigeria, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce $5k–$5M
Tayo Oviosu
Angel
2 Nigeria, Brazil, United States Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed Financial Services, SaaS, Credit $1.4M–$3.6M
Lawko Juste Davy DALA
Angel
1 Burkina Faso Pre-Seed Logistics, E-Commerce, Incubators
Shola Akinlade
Angel
1 Nigeria, Kenya, Rwanda Pre-Seed, Seed FinTech, Education, Financial Services
Miki Kuusi
Angel
1 Finland, Kenya, Lithuania Seed, Angel, Series A E-Commerce, Gaming, Privacy
Adebowale Martins
Angel
1 Nigeria Pre-Seed Retail, Software, E-Commerce
Ilkka Paananen
Angel
1 Finland, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
Echukwudi Daniel
Angel
1 Nigeria Angel Drones, Energy, Delivery
Andre Pienaar
Angel
1 Luxembourg, South Africa, United States Series F Information Technology, Cyber Security, Delivery
Tom Blomfield
Angel
1 United States, United Kingdom, Canada Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Artificial Intelligence, Software, FinTech
Jonathan Shipman
Angel
1 United States, Nigeria, Singapore Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding eSports, Beauty, Internet
Jeremy Cai
Angel
1 United States, India, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
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
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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, Financial Services
  • Stage:Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 36
  • Round size: Seed $700k–$5.1M; Pre-Seed $100k–$1.1M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Bypa-ss — Bypa-ss is working on creating a world-class SaaS healthcare environment and revolutionizing healthcare in Egypt, Join Us
  • SimpliFi — We power the cards behind your brand. Instantly issue and manage virtual or physical cards, enable payments in multiple currencies, and scale globally through one secure API platform.
  • ORDA — Process orders, accept payments, connect to logistic providers, engage with your customers + more. We equip you with everything you need to grow your business.
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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
  • Decent Labs — We are rebuilding trust in technology. Decent Labs is developing a more transparent and equitable society by creating startups at the cross-section of financial technology and digital rights.
  • Spexi — An intuitive and collaborative platform for drone-based data
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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–$3M; Angel $15k–$1.6M; Pre-Seed $43k–$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 · 3 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

Fresh out of business school, Yves Guillemot and his brothers embarked on an adventure in the nascent video game industry and founded Ubisoft in 1986. Early on, Yves understood that creating original content in-house and growing proprietary brands would be key to Ubisoft’s success. His vision to use technological breakthroughs as an opportunity toinnovate, create brands and win over market share proved hugely successful over the years. With a strong focus on organic growth and efficiency, he has developed an organization recognized for its unrivalled collaborative mindset and for being highly competitive, with over two thirds of production based in cost-competitive countries.Yves has led Ubisoft’s evolution over the years with player engagement at the core of the company’s development. Ubisoft is one of the pioneers and a leader of the open world genre, which has become one of the industry’s most popular gaming segments. Ubisoft also develops successful multiplayer games and delivers state-of-the-art live operations that engage fans in the long term.Under Yves’ tenure, Ubisoft launched three of the world’s four best new videogame brands of all time ─ with Tom Clancy’s The Division leading the way ─ a remarkable achievement. The company’s unique capacity as a creator of blockbuster entertainment franchises has created massive value for Ubisoft’s shareholders.As the owner of its brands, Ubisoft today is in a unique position to broaden its franchises’ reach to a much wider audience through movies, TV shows, theme parks and consumer products. Under Yves’ direction, the company is taking an innovative approach by keeping creative control over its major projects ─ a first in the industry ─ to ensure consistency with the franchises’ DNA.Over the past 30 years Yves has led Ubisoft in its evolution from a local video game distributor, to a global entertainment leader. Yves has grown alongside the industry and has a deep understanding of what it takes to survive in a fast-moving, high-risk environment, at the crossroads of creation and technological disruption. His strong business acumen is sought out by multinationals such as Lagardère and Rémy Cointreau whose boards he sits on. He was named Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst & Young in 2009, and Glassdoor elected him one of the Top 3 most beloved CEOs in France in 2015.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Logistics, E-Commerce Platforms, Location Based Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$1.7M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kwik — Your parcels delivered on-demand, safer, cheaper - Soon in Lagos
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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

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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: 32
  • Round size: Seed $2.5M–$6M; 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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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–$10M; Pre-Seed $400k–$3.9M; Series A $6.8M–$26M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Whop — Create a business or unlock new streams of income.
  • Slash — Tens of thousands of online businesses use Slash to track their profits, earn cash back, and get faster payouts from platforms like GOAT and Amazon. No LLC required, no account fees, no minimum balance, and no credit checks.
  • Somethings — Somethings connects teens with a Certified Peer Specialist Mentor who provide a safe, trustworthy space to feel their best and combat loneliness.
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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

  • Curacel — Curacel creates APIs & tools that enable businesses to embed insurance in digital channels and to administer claims cost-effectively.
  • Lorum Finance
  • 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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 holds a BSc in Systems Engineering from University of Lagos, Nigeria and an MSc (Distinction) in Business and Information Technology from the Aston Business School, Birmingham, England; earning membership into the Beta Gamma Sigma Society for his high scholastic achievement.Olumide co–founded Bluechip Technologies Ltd in 2008 andhas grown the organisation from an organization with two employees to an organization with over 80 consultants spread across Lagos, Accra and Lusaka, Zambia.In 2014, Olumide setup Leadpath as a seed fund investing in local tech startups. He has invested in startups like Pushcv.com, Paystack, Piggybank.ng, Fashpa, Heels.com.ng , Delivery Science, Gloo.ng, and Cosign.co.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$1.3M; Angel $260k–$1M; Pre-Seed $260k–$2.1M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% 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.
  • JADA — JADA focuses on both technical expertise and soft skill development and is designed to upskill experienced professionals in data analytics, machine learning, and generative AI.
  • 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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Hesham Zreik
Angel · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 2 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, India, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 478
  • Round size: Seed $50k–$1M; Pre-Seed $18k–$1.2M; Series A $50k–$5M
  • Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • EasyBusy — EasyBusy is a contractor-client matching platform designed to address key challenges in the GCC service and construction economy.
  • Manufacturing Electronics Cards — it is a startup built on the idea of putting advanced electronics engineering expertise at the service of local and regional businesses.
  • JLC Industry Of Tomato Paste Sarl U
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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 $3.3M–$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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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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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

  • 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
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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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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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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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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.
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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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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, Nigeria, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 326
  • Round size: Seed $10k–$780k; Pre-Seed $5k–$500k; Series A $15k–$5M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • SafeNest — SafeNest offers a comprehensive home security system integrating smart technology with professional monitoring services.
  • G Super Races — G Super Races aims to revolutionize the global horse racing scene with its premier league.
  • 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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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 Content Experience 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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Lawko Juste Davy DALA
Angel · 1 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

Lawko Juste Davy DALA

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Logistics, E-Commerce, Incubators
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Burkina Faso

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • NAYAMAX — NAYAMAX is a pan-African e-commerce ecosystem empowering SMEs to thrive in the digital economy through integrated solutions. Combining a SaaS platform for easy online store creation, OUCEST (a geolocation and digital addressing system for optimized logistics), and E-commerce Connect (an advocacy network for regulatory harmonization), NAYAMAXbridges the gap between informal commerce and modern digital infrastructure.Key Offerings: 1- SaaS Platform: Enables SMEs to build and manage online stores without technical skills. 2- OUCEST: Streamlines last-mile delivery with AI-powered addressing, adopted by multinationals. 3- E-commerce Connect: Advocates for standardized e-commerce policies across Africa via partnerships with institutions like the Association of e-commerce actors of Burkina FasoBacked by Founder Institute.Vision: Democratize e-commerce access for 100,000 African SMEs by 2030 and position OUCEST as the continent’s addressing standard.Key Differentiators: 1- All-in-One Ecosystem: Unifies SaaS, logistics, and policy advocacy. 2- Offline-First Approach: Mobile app with SMS sync for low-connectivity regions. 3- Community-Driven: Locally adapted solutions co-built with SMEs.
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Shola Akinlade
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

Shola Akinlade is the Co-founder and CEO at Paystack.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Education, Financial Services
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, Rwanda

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • Earnipay — Earnipay simplifies business operations with a single dashboard. From high-yield accounts and flexible credit options to efficient payments, payroll processing, and on-demand pay, streamline your financial operations and drive your business growth.
  • 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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Miki Kuusi
Angel · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland · 1 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

Miki Kuusi is the Co-Founder and CEO at Wolt. He previously worked as the Founder, Creative Director and Board Member of the Helsinki-based tech conference, Slush. In 2011-2014, he led the event’s growth as its CEO from a local, 150-person event to become one of the leading startup events in the world, reaching 14,000 attendees from 80 countries in2014. Kuusi has been a driving force in the Nordic startup ecosystem. Prior to Slush, he served as the Founder & CEO of Startup Sauna, which was awarded as the leading young accelerator program in the world by UBI Index in spring 2013. Aside from Slush, Kuusi currently focuses on his new company Wolt, which raised half a million in seed funding in fall 2014.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Gaming, Privacy
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: Finland, Kenya, Lithuania

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Droppe — Order work equipment directly from manufacturers. Support small businesses and source more responsibly from local and European manufacturers. Order from several suppliers at the same time with one shopping cart. Test samples for free and order products for your workplaces without extra hassle. Find nitrile gloves, protective clothing, work gloves, work accessories, disposable gloves, disinfectants, sanitizers and other supplies in one place.
  • Taito.ai — Meet the AI-native performance management software. Turn heavy reviews into continuous feedback, goals, and coaching directly in Slack with Taito.ai.
  • Noice — Join the team build an awesome combo of social x playful x platform.
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Adebowale Martins
Angel · 1 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

Adebowale Martins

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Retail, Software, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Hazina — Hazina provides technology and distribution for Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) brands to improve the quality of insights and engagements from their product sampling campaigns. Hazina matches consumers to product samples from CPGs, delivers directly to consumers at home, and aggregates the feedback and engagements as insights back to the brand.
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Ilkka Paananen
Angel · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland · 1 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

Ilkka Paananen, is the CEO and co-founder of Supercell, the Helsinki-based mobile games developer behind Clash of Clans, Hay Day, Boom Beach, Clash Royale and Brawl Stars. Since its founding in 2010, Supercell's five games have amassed 100m daily players and remain in the global top 10 years after launch. In June 2016, Supercell became thefirst European technology start-up to reach a valuation of $10 billion.In addition to his role at Supercell, Ilkka helps other entrepreneurs as both an investor and as an active member of the Nordic startup community where he mentors and coaches other founders. Alongside his co-founder Mikko Kodisoja, he has established the We Foundation to fight social inequality and help disadvantaged children in Finland.Prior to founding Supercell, he was the CEO & co-founder of Finnish games developer Sumea, which was later acquired by Digital Chocolate, where he worked as President until 2010. Ilkka holds a Master of Science degree from the Helsinki University of Technology.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Finland, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 56
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Gradium — Gradium.ai provides audio language models that enable natural, expressive, ultra-low latency voice interactions at scale, unifying speech generation, transcription, voice transformation, and dialogue in a single neural architecture.The platform acts as an audio-native counterpart to text-based large language models, processing tasks like real-timespeech-to-speech with delays under 200 milliseconds through optimized architectures, efficient tokenization, and hardware-aware deployments. It supports multilingual capabilities in English, French, German, Spanish, and Portuguese, with plans for expansion.
  • IXI — Discover adaptive glasses with autofocus lenses that adjust to your viewing needs, providing seamless clarity at any distance.
  • Lovable — Lovable is an AI app and website builder that turns ideas into production-ready software without coding. Launch faster with AI.
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Echukwudi Daniel
Angel · 1 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

Echukwudi Daniel

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Drones, Energy, Delivery
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: Nigeria

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Arone — Arone pioneers technology that makes the world work more efficiently. 

In the air, Arone’s infrastructure enables hospitals access essential supplies on-demand for their patients. We also provide this infrastructure to logistics companies to enable a faster courier service for their customers. This infrastructure includes drones, dronedelivery stations (Avports), drone operators and license. For government institutions and organisations, Arone manufactures state of the art unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) saving lives and costs. For consumer electronics, Arone’s technology powers homes, offices and shops ensuring millions of people have access to electricity to live better lives.
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Andre Pienaar
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

André Pienaar is Managing Partner, Founder and Executive Chairman of C5 Capital, a specialist venture capital firm focused on cloud computing, big data analytics, artifial intelligence and cyber security. He is also a Mentor for C5 Nebula which aims to empower women aspiring to engage in the tech space.André founded C5 in 2014, to providelong-term support, private equity and venture capital to innovative cyber security companies. The firm is made up of a varied international team of investors and entrepreneurs and has offices in Washington, London, Munich, Luxembourg and Bahrain.A recognised expert on cyber law and cybercrime, André Pienaar started his career with Kroll in 1996 where he went on to hold the position of the company’s youngest ever Managing Director and also built and lead Kroll’s Africa & Natural Resources Division out of London prior to Kroll’s sale in 2004.Following this success, André Pienaar went on to launch G3 (which stands for Good Governance Group), an advisory consultancy which provided advice on regulatory compliance, risk mitigation and cyber security to its global client base.André is also a member of: • USIP (United States Institute of Peace) International Advisory Council • The National Council on White House History

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Cyber Security, Delivery
  • Stage:Series F
  • Geography: Luxembourg, South Africa, United States

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Parcelninja — ParcelNinja is an outsourced warehousing & fulfilment cloud service, aimed at providing ecommerce business owners a turnkey solution.
  • Cassava Technologies — Cassava Technologies is an innovative technology company encompassing fiber networks, data centers, renewable energy, cloud & cybersecurity.
  • Haven Cyber Technologies — Haven Cyber Technologies is an industrial holding which is focused on creating a European champion in Managed Security Solution Providers (MSSP) for enterprise customers. Haven brings together a network of organisations onto its platform, enabling it to offer a bespoke product suite to each client. Companies within Haven maintain their own brandsand management and benefit from innovation across the platform, which focuses on cloud computing, machine learning and automation and also provides companies with world-class talent and mentorship.
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Tom Blomfield
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, FinTech
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 166
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • 1Bstories — Helping publishers and brands increase engagement and conversions using AI. Mobile, vertical, 60 second video formats made in an instant. Tell your story today!
  • Prosper — Prosper's offering includes fee-free investments in public market index funds, including fund fees, as well as SIPP and ISA wrappers.
  • Gradient Labs — Our AI agent resolves complex customer service queries end-to-end. Delivering quality, efficiency and compliance at every step.
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Jonathan Shipman
Angel · San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States · 1 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

Jonathan Shipman is a VP, Strategy (Product & Marketing) at Lantronix.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: eSports, Beauty, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria, Singapore

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • NEWNESS — Newness is focused on building differentiated tools and features that work well for the beauty streamer market in particular.
  • MAKA — MAKA is a community commerce platform for fashion and beauty, enabling everyone to discover their style, feel represented.
  • Riley — Grapevine AI is the first AI powered personal assistant that captures, organizes, and easily retrieves the details that build better relationships. Learn more!
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Jeremy Cai
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Africa Marketplace startups

Jeremy Cai is the Founder and CEO at Italic . Jeremy Cai attended Babson College.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United States, India, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Kapu — Your favorite supermarket on every street.
  • Ellis — Ellis is the first all-in-one solution made for international students.
  • Pluto — Unlimited corporate cards with spend controls, petty cash management and automated receipt collection built for businesses in MENA (UAE, Saudi Arabia & more).
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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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