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Top 50 Payments Angel Investors in Africa (November 2026)

The most active angel investors investing in Africa Payments startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Africa Payments startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Babs Ogundeyi
Angel
5 Nigeria, Zambia, Pakistan Seed, Pre-Seed FinTech, Financial Services, Finance $780k–$6M
Aristarichus Weru
Angel
3 Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed Mobile Apps, Financial Services, Billing
Olugbenga Agboola
Angel
3 Nigeria, Kenya, United States Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel FinTech, Financial Services, Payments $625k–$7.5M
Wes Schwalje
Angel
3 India, United States, Mexico Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Information Technology $150k–$7.5M
Youcef Es-skouri
Angel
3 United States, France, Nigeria Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services $125k–$46M
Michael Seibel
Angel
3 United States, Nigeria, United Kingdom Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology $500k–$21M
Allen and Ollys International Limited -
Angel
3 Nigeria Seed, Convertible Note FinTech, Insurance, Blockchain $1.1k–$4.2k
Peter Sandberg
Angel
2 Denmark, Kenya, Estonia Angel, Pre-Seed, Secondary Market Internet, SaaS, FinTech $150k–$1.1M
Oknha Sorn Sokna
Angel
2 Seychelles Seed Bitcoin, FinTech, Lending $35k–$600k
Sandeep Nailwal
Angel
2 United States, India, Singapore Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services $450k–$40M
Michael Vaughan
Angel
2 United States, Brazil, Germany Seed, Series A, Series B FinTech, Financial Services, Software $3M–$100M
Robby Hilkowitz
Angel
2 Hong Kong, Israel, Singapore Series A, Seed FinTech, Financial Services, Payments $1M–$4M
Sergei Kovalev
Angel
2 United Arab Emirates, India, Spain Seed, Angel, Series A Cryptocurrency, Web3, Bitcoin $370k–$10M
Cristina Santin
Angel
2 Nigeria Seed FinTech, Insurance, Blockchain $1.2k–$2.2k
Nagata Tetsuji
Angel
2 Seychelles Seed Bitcoin, FinTech, Lending $35k–$600k
Vasiliy Shapovalov
Angel
2 Kenya, United States, Cayman Islands Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Cryptocurrency, Decentralized Finance (DeFi), B2B $50k–$4.9M
Odun Eweniyi
Angel
2 Nigeria Pre-Seed Payments, SaaS, FinTech $670k–$3.7M
Vijay Shankar
Angel
2 United States, India, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series C FinTech, Financial Services, Software $10k–$50M
Charles Delingpole
Angel
2 United Kingdom, United States, Spain Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Payments $398k–$20M
Abdul Hassan
Angel
2 Nigeria Pre-Seed, Seed FinTech, Financial Services, Payments $780k–$1.3M
Raj Kulasingam
Angel
2 Togo, India, Nigeria Seed, Pre-Seed Banking, FinTech, Internet $153k–$3M
Olumide Soyombo
Angel
2 Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel FinTech, Financial Services, Payments $260k–$2.1M
Bunmi Akinyemiju
Angel
2 Nigeria, Kenya, United Arab Emirates Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel Financial Services, FinTech, Payments $10k–$1.5M
James Waugh
Angel
2 Kenya Seed B2B, FinTech, Payments $50k–$4.9M
Tom Stafford
Angel
2 United Kingdom, Germany, France Series A, Series B, Seed FinTech, Financial Services, Finance $1.7M–$150M
Wissam Otaky
Angel
1 South Africa Seed FinTech, Payments, Point of Sale
Jesper Drescher
Angel
1 Kenya, Denmark Seed, Angel SaaS, Gaming, Content $800k–$1.2M
Karnika Yashwant
Angel
1 China, Singapore, United States Initial Coin Offering, Seed, Angel Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech $1M–$18M
Adeniyi Adesuyi
Angel
1 Nigeria Seed FinTech, Insurance, Blockchain
Timi Aboyeji
Angel
1 Nigeria Pre-Seed Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
Oluchi Enebeli
Angel
1 Nigeria Pre-Seed Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
Gbenga Oyebode
Angel
1 Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom Pre-Seed, Seed FinTech, Financial Services, Finance $458k–$3M
Benjamin Fernandes
Angel
1 Kenya, United Kingdom Pre-Seed Billing, Software, Business Development
Neil Thanedar
Angel
1 United States, Mexico, Nigeria Seed, Pre-Seed Finance, Wellness, Financial Services $125k–$11M
Mato Perić
Angel
1 Germany, India, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce $2M–$100M
Olawale Ajayi
Angel
1 Nigeria Pre-Seed Apps, FinTech, Finance
Richmond Bassey
Angel
1 Nigeria Pre-Seed Payments, Financial Services
Piers Kicks
Angel
1 United States, Canada, Liberia Seed, Series A, Angel Blockchain, Web3, Gaming $1.3M–$22M
Benjamin Chemla
Angel
1 France, Cameroon Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, Web3, Rental $348k–$2.1M
Charles-Edouard Bouee
Angel
1 United States, France, Vietnam Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel Biotechnology, Natural Resources, AgTech $348k–$1.2M
Damien Guermonprez
Angel
1 France, India, Cameroon Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, Internet, FinTech $134k–$2.4M
Charley Ma
Angel
1 United States, Canada, South Africa Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Financial Services, FinTech $3.5M–$30M
Marc Bhargava
Angel
1 United States, Canada, France Seed, Series A, Series B Artificial Intelligence, Software, FinTech $3.2M–$600M
Sima Gandhi
Angel
1 United States, Indonesia, South Africa Seed, Series A FinTech, Software, Financial Services $4M–$27M
Matt Robinson
Angel
1 United Kingdom, United States, France Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, FinTech, Financial Services $650k–$50M
Idris Ayodeji Bello
Angel
1 Nigeria, United States, Egypt Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed FinTech, Software, Financial Services $425k–$5.1M
Didier Valet
Angel
1 France, United Kingdom, Israel Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Software $558k–$21M
Thibault Poutrel
Angel
1 France, Cameroon, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Financial Services, Enterprise Software $348k–$3.7M
Sam Altman
Angel
1 United States, Canada, Ghana Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $1.2M–$100M
Niklas Adalberth
Angel
1 Sweden, South Africa, United Kingdom Series A, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Financial Services, FinTech, Apps $242k–$800M
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Babs Ogundeyi
Angel · Yaba, Lagos, Nigeria · 5 investments in Africa Payments startups

Cofounder and CEO of Kuda

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, Zambia, Pakistan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$6M; Pre-Seed $780k–$4M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Zazuu — Zazuu is a platform for sending money across the border.
  • Curacel — Curacel creates APIs & tools that enable businesses to embed insurance in digital channels and to administer claims cost-effectively.
  • Maplerad — Global payment infrastructure for businesses.
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Aristarichus Weru
Angel · 3 investments in Africa Payments startups

Founder & CEO @ The Kueq Limited

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile Apps, Financial Services, Billing
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Kenya

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • UbaPesa — UbaPesa is the best peer to peer lending app in Kenya which allows you to lend and borrow money in real-time.
  • The Kueq Limited — The kueq is a Virtual Bank mobile based user initiated Automated & manual lending & borrowing app providing a platform for Individual funders to loan to individual borrowers on 10 days & 20 days, World major currencies FX trading (USD/KES, EUR/KES, GBP/KES) Have a physical and or virtual prepaid card, credit card& or debit card, Make RTGS & international TT using SWIFT Pesa linked – local payment gateway Pay water, electricity, cable bills. Buy government treasury bond and treasury bills, Buy insurance covers both life & general insurance covers et al. Crowd funding of it’s own shares, (Buy shares of The kueq limited on it’s own app. The next level crowd funding) based on real time company performance information e.g toplines, PAT, EBITDA, D/E, EPS, DPS, statutory ratios; cash ratios, core capital, Business accounts, Bid bond & invoice discounting
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Olugbenga Agboola
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in Africa Payments 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, Payments
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 30
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$7.5M; Pre-Seed $625k–$3.7M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Lagos Life — Lagos Life a massively popular browser-based life-simulation game modeled after Nigeria's commercial capital. Within nine days of launch, the game attracted over 4.7 million players, featuring fully simulated career tracks, social hubs, local virtual economies, and real-time multiplayer functionality directly inside web browsers.
  • Terra Industries — Terra Industries develops and supplies autonomous security and defense technology systems that help monitor and safeguard critical infrastructure such as power plants, mines, refineries, and other industrial assets. The company creates unmanned aerial drones, autonomous ground vehicles, surveillance towers, and maritime monitoring systems that operate with its proprietary ArtemisOS platform for real-time threat detection, autonomous mission planning, and coordinated response across land, air, and sea environments. Its offerings support infrastructure operators and government agencies in detecting and responding to security risks with integrated hardware and software solutions. Terra Industries focuses on delivering systems that integrate data intelligence and autonomy to enhance wide-area surveillance and operational awareness across large or remote facilities.
  • Lorum Finance — Lorum is the correspondent institution for banks and fintechs: programmable access to global clearing, named custody, and treasury on a 100% reserve model.
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Wes Schwalje
Angel · 3 investments in Africa Payments startups

Operator at nexus of policy, tech, and dev, investor, advised 8 unicorns on MENAP entry/scale-up, support Big Tech / startups to get along with govt

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: India, United States, Mexico

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 46
  • Round size: Seed $150k–$2.5M; Pre-Seed $360k–$1M; Series A $5M–$7.5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Finerio Connect — Finerio is an automated and free personal finance platform in Mexico. Finerio allows users to link debit and credit accounts of the most important banks in Mexico while providing them insights on how to financially plan and save money.
  • PowerCred — PowerCred is a one-stop API suite for clients to access alternate data from SMEs. Our integrated system provides real time connectivity which allows financial institutions to build better products to suit small business requirements. We have a network of data partners across categories which help us to build a robust and comprehensive intelligence system, allowing FIs to make more confident decisions, and empowering small businesses to focus on business growth.
  • Chhotastock — SAUDARATOTO adalah daftar situs toto slot dan bandar togel resmi 4D & 5D terpercaya yang menawarkan layanan aman, transaksi cepat, serta peluang menang besar setiap hari. Nikmati permainan lengkap dengan sistem stabil dan akses mudah kapan saja.
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Youcef Es-skouri
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in Africa Payments startups

Youcef Es-skouri

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, France, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 33
  • Round size: Seed $125k–$9.8M; Series A $6.2M–$46M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Tana — Tana is the agentic meeting platform for teams. Bring your own Claude or ChatGPT into the meeting: it gets the live transcript and the shared screen, and the work gets done while you talk. No bot joins the call.
  • Hypercubic — Hypercubic is agentic AI for mainframe modernization, helping enterprises and governments preserve institutional knowledge and modernize COBOL.
  • Default — The command center for modern sales teams.
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Michael Seibel
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in Africa Payments startups

Michael Seibel is the Partner Emeritus of Y Combinator. He previously worked at Socialcam as CEO. Michael Seibel attended Yale University, where he took a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 212
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$7.2M; Pre-Seed $500k–$500k; Series A $5.9M–$21M
  • Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kira — The first agentic layer for cross-border payments. USD accounts, stablecoin conversion and payments for platforms, OTC desks and global trade.
  • Recall.ai — Recall.ai provides a single API for meeting bots on every platform like Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams and more.
  • Arena — Arena accelerates testing, debugging, and optimization for the world’s most advanced hardware. Atlas is an AI hardware engineer grounded in applied physics with an understanding of the real-world environment.
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Allen and Ollys International Limited -
Angel · 3 investments in Africa Payments 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 $1.1k–$4.2k
  • 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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Peter Sandberg
Angel · Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark · 2 investments in Africa Payments 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: 18
  • Round size: Angel $260k–$1.1M; Pre-Seed $150k–$226k
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Simporter — See what AI assistants recommend and why, then test the fix. AI-powered research for brands.
  • Cavea — CAVEA.IO is providing AI based sponsorship and advertising measurement for esports and brands. We help companies make better and more informed decisions based on insights by analyzing the impact of marketing in streaming and social media. We offer authentic and lightning-fast customer support smoother than you ever expected. Working with giantslike FNATIC, ASTRALIS, and DREAMHACK - we continuously strive to become better and deliver more than anyone expects.
  • Hive.id — Proactively prevent fraud, build secure experiences for your customers and drive your revenue growth.
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Oknha Sorn Sokna
Angel · 2 investments in Africa Payments startups

Board of Director @ Micromoney International

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Bitcoin, FinTech, Lending
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Seychelles

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Round size: Seed $35k–$600k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Micromoney International — Old account got terminated MicroMoney Socials: Telegram: https://t.co/Df54en9Kav Discord: https://t.co/znYtPjgJdm
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Sandeep Nailwal
Angel · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · 2 investments in Africa Payments startups

Sandeep Nailwal is based out of United States and is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Polygon. Sandeep previously worked at Scopeweaver as a Co-Founder and CEO. Sandeep Nailwal attended the Indian Institute of Management.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, India, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 198
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$9M; Pre-Seed $450k–$6M; Series A $8M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Tria — Threely is onboarding billions onto Web3 with universal identities. Threely addresses are blockchain-agnostic identities that can be used across Web3 as a profile, chain-agnostic payment endpoints, logins, zkKYCs, and more. Threely is doing the crucial work of helping the top blockchain protocols, wallets, and dApps cast a wider net to onboard abroader part of the internet to Web3.
  • Self Protocol — Future-proof your organization with identity and agent infrastructure already accessible to billions of people across 180+ countries and trusted by companies like Google.
  • Multiplier — Multiplier helps institutional investors research stocks and manage their portfolios. We're live with six hedge funds, and our users spend 4+ hours a day in the platform.Investors who try "nearly every tool on the market," to quote a client of ours, "wind up with an unwieldy collection of fragmented point solutions."Those who focus on building a great setup with general agents are instead "signing up for a full-time job." So we deploy a platform called Multiplier that unifies structured data, unstructured data, AI work, human work, and tacit firm knowledge in one secure, governed, customized application.Our first vertical: independent equity funds with $250M-$5B of assets. They know AI is essential for staying relevant, but they don't have the time or talent to figure out what to do about it. But once we deploy Multiplier––"We used to spend 80% of our time gathering information and 20% of our time acting on it," said one customer. "Multiplier has flipped those percentages."
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Michael Vaughan
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in Africa Payments startups

Michael Vaughan is based out of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and is the Chief Executive Officer of North America of IG Group. Michael Vaughan previously worked at Stem Disintermedia as a Board Member. Michael Vaughan attended The Wharton School.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Brazil, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 28
  • Round size: Seed $3M–$10M; Series A $12M–$100M; Series B $28M–$61M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Flip — Transfer uang, top up e-wallet & kirim uang ke luar negeri lebih mudah dengan Flip. Bayar pulsa, listrik, BPJS, PDAM, dan pembayaran lainnya bisa lebih hemat.
  • Kick — Daily bookkeeping for the modern business owner. Minimize your audit risk and only pay when you save. Join now and get your first $5,000 in Savings Credits.
  • Maplerad — Global payment infrastructure for businesses.
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Robby Hilkowitz
Angel · , , Israel · 2 investments in Africa Payments startups

Robby Hilkowitz is an angel investor.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Hong Kong, Israel, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$2.4M; 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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Sergei Kovalev
Angel · 2 investments in Africa Payments startups

entrepreneur, innovator, fundraiser, is an investor in blockchain​, fintech, "Web3", biotechnology and artificial intelligence, raising capital, selling companies and "M&A transactions".​Consulting professional with over 15 years of experience in the financial, marketing and IT industries, he has competencies inblockchain, DeFi, BioTech and AI investments and innovation.Advised and tested 139 niches and over 200 products. Helped launch dozens of successful startups - from cryptography to cloning.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Cryptocurrency, Web3, Bitcoin
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates, India, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $370k–$10M; Series A $2.3M–$8M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • UNO.farm — UNO.farm is a unique cross-chain autofarming solution with transparent automated strategies and beautiful analytics. Users can easily enter best DeFi yield opportunities and leave their farms for a several months, without need to do recompounding manually.
  • Yalla!Market — YallaMarket / Fast grocery delivery from 15 minutes
  • ThunderLands — Thunder Lands - a project that unites classic MMORPG gameplay with blockchain technology and p2e mechanics. It is a gaming metaverse set in the dark fantasy genre and built on Unreal Engine 5.Thunder Lands is a string of dark worlds, where a player takes on the role of mercenaries, treasure seekers or squad commanders in order to travel touncharted lands full of danger to gain wealth and glory. We provide a unique gaming experience through a combination of traditional meta-game and blockchain mechanics.The project has strategic cooperation with YGGSEA, IVC, Shima Capital, Vespertine Capital, CGU, and others.Thunder Lands successfully closed the first private round (Pre-Sale) in January and second private round (Round 1) at the end of May. INO (Initial NFT Offering) will happen in the middle of June instead of the IDO. First gaming mechanic is set to release alongside INO and TGE.
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Cristina Santin
Angel · 2 investments in Africa Payments 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 $1.2k–$2.2k
  • 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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Nagata Tetsuji
Angel · 2 investments in Africa Payments startups

Board of Director @ Micromoney International

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Bitcoin, FinTech, Lending
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Seychelles

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Round size: Seed $35k–$600k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Micromoney International — Old account got terminated MicroMoney Socials: Telegram: https://t.co/Df54en9Kav Discord: https://t.co/znYtPjgJdm
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Vasiliy Shapovalov
Angel · Peyia, Paphos, Cyprus · 2 investments in Africa Payments startups

Vasiliy Shapovalov

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Cryptocurrency, Decentralized Finance (DeFi), B2B
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, United States, Cayman Islands

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Seed $50k–$4.9M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Drop — Breathing new life into the Interchain through liquid staking. Proud member of the @LidoFinance Alliance. https://t.co/P4rK2hzcTd
  • HoneyCoin — HoneyCoin is a web3/web2 ecosystem of products built in a way that abstracts complexity and brings all the value of web3 and web2 to the forefront.
  • OneBalance — Tokenization is rewriting the institutional balance sheet. Next generation markets offer speed and capital efficiency, yet rarely meet the standards institutions require.
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Odun Eweniyi
Angel · 2 investments in Africa Payments startups

Odun Eweniyi

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Payments, SaaS, FinTech
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $670k–$3.7M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Sudo — Sudo is an open API platform that enables businesses to embed powerful financial features into their products. Build in minutes, launch in days.
  • Venco Platforms — Venco automates visitor management, billing, and collections, as well as smart utility vending for communities across Africa.
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Vijay Shankar
Angel · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · 2 investments in Africa Payments startups

Vijay Shankar

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 29
  • Round size: Seed $10k–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Winvesta — Receive international payments in India from 180+ countries. Save up to 80% in collection costs.
  • Wander — Exceptional vacation homes, direct from trusted operators, at the best prices. No middleman between you and your stay, so you get better homes and better service for less.
  • Delight — Delight is a dating service where users only date one person at a time. Founded in 2022 and is based in San Francisco.
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Charles Delingpole
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in Africa Payments startups

Charles Delingpole is Founder and CEO of ComplyAdvantage, a technology company focused on wiping out financial crime using Machine Learning. As CEO, Charles leads the product development and growth of the company. His passion for the issue came from his time as the MLRO of a previous startup he founded when he realized how inefficient processesaround money laundering are. Charles previously worked at The Student Room as a Founder and CEO. He attended the University of Cambridge and The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).Over 99% of money laundering is successful, ComplyAdvantage is working to stop it completely. Founded in 2014 with offices in London, New York, Singapore, and Cluj, ComplyAdvantage work with over 350 firms across 45 countries. Charles set up his first company, The Student Room Group, now the world’s largest student discussion forum when he was 16. After completing his MA in Politics at Trinity College Cambridge, and then an MSc in Management, Strategy, and Finance from the LSE, he became an associate at J.P. Morgan Cazenove.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 42
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$10M; Pre-Seed $398k–$2.3M; Series A $6.3M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ascendx Cloud — Agentic CRM needs trusted data and reliable workflows. We provide both, as one system of record and one system of work built for people and agents.
  • Firenze — Firenze aims to expand financial services by extending investment-backed lending to a wider audience, recognizing its importance in wealth creation and preservation. The founding team aims to democratize Lombard lending, making it accessible to all, while focusing on mass affluent clients.
  • Isembard — Isembard has experience from the military, government, large enterprises, and a successfully exited technology business.
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Abdul Hassan
Angel · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 2 investments in Africa Payments startups

Abdul Hassan

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $780k–$1.3M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Duplo — We enable businesses across Africa to simplify their payment flows.
  • Klump — Use Klump to buy now and pay later in instalments for up to 12 months! Businesses accept payments, increase conversion rates, and boost revenue. The Easy Life! Try it now.
  • Topship — Topship is the easiest for African businesses to import/export parcels, cargo and freight to their customers, distributors and suppliers across the World. We use technology to drive transparency and delight, making it easy for African businesses to connect with customers, suppliers and distributors across the World.
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Raj Kulasingam
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in Africa Payments startups

Raj Kulasingam

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Banking, FinTech, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Togo, India, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$3M; Pre-Seed $153k–$532k
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • OMA Mind — Connect with qualified mental health practitioners, ready and available round the clock.
  • Momint — Momint is the Web3 investment platform of the future. The safest and easiest to use NFT marketplace in the world. Discover the real-world potential of NFTs.
  • NeuralGarage — VisualDub brings cinematic-grade AI lip-sync and visual dubbing to film studios, OTT platforms, and advertisers worldwide.
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Olumide Soyombo
Angel · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 2 investments in Africa Payments 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, Payments
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 24
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$1.3M; Angel $260k–$1M; Pre-Seed $260k–$2.1M
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • JADA — Looking for Agentic AI solutions? JADA develops and manages custom AI Agents to help organizations work smarter and faster. Talk to our experts today!
  • Myka.Insure — Myka is a insurance sales platform that enables individuals to sell insurance policies to their family, friends, colleagues, and community while earning income . It operates as a micro-entrepreneurship program where anyone (students, gadget sellers, car dealers, parents, retirees) can start their own insurance business with zero investment,flexible hours, and free training . The company is licensed by the National Insurance Commission of Nigeria and provides instant payouts to its partners .
  • Spleet — Fintech Spleet Provides Tenant verification, Rent collection solutions for landlords and rent financing (Rent now, pay later) for Tenants
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Bunmi Akinyemiju
Angel · 2 investments in Africa Payments 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:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Seed $300k–$1.5M; Pre-Seed $10k–$425k
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • GetEquity — GetEquity is a NASDAQ for venture capital. We provide an exchange and liquidity for private companies, and an infrastructure for different cadres of venture capital around investing, founder liquidity, and shareholder management
  • SureGroup — Commerce in Africa is deeply facilitated by cash, but cash-based transactions are expensive, unsafe, and difficult to track. Suregifts identified an opportunity to take advantage of the growth and adoption of the internet and all things digital in Africa by creating a simple, yet safe alternative currency to be utilised for specific purposes;Vouchers.At the core of what SureGifts does, is selling and maintaining an inventory of vouchers, which can be exchanged between two or more parties, and spent at a closed but extensive network of merchants across Africa for a near-unlimited assortment of goods and services.
  • Encore Pay — Encore Pay is a UAE-based FinTech and Payment solutions provider.
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James Waugh
Angel · 2 investments in Africa Payments startups

James Waugh - Head of Business Development @ CanYa

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Investment focus

  • Industry: B2B, FinTech, Payments
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Round size: Seed $50k–$4.9M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • HoneyCoin — HoneyCoin is a web3/web2 ecosystem of products built in a way that abstracts complexity and brings all the value of web3 and web2 to the forefront.
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Tom Stafford
Angel · Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong · 2 investments in Africa Payments startups

Tom is a Co-Founder at DST Global, an internet-focused investment firm with a global focus.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 75
  • Round size: Seed $1.7M–$22M; Series A $8M–$79M; Series B $15M–$150M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Noah — API-first stablecoin payments, enterprise-grade compliance and real-time settlements, powered by stablecoin technology.
  • 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.
  • Red Bull KTM Tech3 — Red Bull KTM Tech3 is a motorcycle racing team that competes in the MotoGP and Moto3 World Championships. The team fields riders on KTM machinery across the premier and lightweight Grand Prix classes. It participates in the full world championship calendar, racing at circuits such as Sachsenring, Assen, Silverstone, MotorLand Aragón, Misano, andothers. Red Bull KTM Tech3 manages rider development, technical preparation, and race operations for each Grand Prix round.
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Wissam Otaky
Angel · Miami, Florida, United States · 1 investments in Africa Payments startups

Wissam Otaky - Co-Founder & Director @ HATCHER+

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Payments, Point of Sale
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Yoco — Save time, money and guesswork. Yoco helps 200,000+ SA businesses run point of sale, take payments and access flexible business funding from one account.
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Jesper Drescher
Angel · Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark · 1 investments in Africa Payments startups

Jesper Drescher

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Gaming, Content
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Kenya, Denmark

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $800k–$1.2M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Sky.Garden — With Sky.Garden you can upload products and start selling your products immediately via your own free mobile webshop. No cost upon entry. No hidden fees. Fully automated payment and shipping options are integrated out-of-the-box. 100% Safe and secure.
  • GamerzClass — A new beginning for GamerzClass
  • ReFlow - engineering a circular economy —
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Karnika Yashwant
Angel · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · 1 investments in Africa Payments startups

Mr. KEY is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Chief Investment Officer at Utopian Capital. He is also the Chairman and Managing Director at KEY Difference Media. He is an award-winning speaker, best selling author, and content marketing pioneer since 2007.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
  • Stage:Initial Coin Offering, Seed, Angel
  • Geography: China, Singapore, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 21
  • Round size: Initial Coin Offering $1M–$18M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • HTX — HTX serves its 10 million+ users worldwide with secure and stable trading services. Here at HTX, you can buy Bitcoin, Ethereum, Dogecoin, SHIB, and over 500 quality cryptocurrencies anywhere, anytime.
  • OriginTrail — Discover OriginTrail's ecosystem, organizing knowledge in a Decentralized Knowledge Graph to enable trustworthy, verifiable AI with humans in the loop.
  • Dusk — Dusk is a regulated and decentralised network build for institutions, businesses and users.
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Adeniyi Adesuyi
Angel · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 1 investments in Africa Payments startups

Adeniyi Adesuyi

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Insurance, Blockchain
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • 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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Timi Aboyeji
Angel · 1 investments in Africa Payments startups

Timi Aboyeji

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Stakefair — Stakefair is an ecosystem of blockchain, crypto and DeFi products.
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Oluchi Enebeli
Angel · 1 investments in Africa Payments startups

Oluchi Enebeli

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Stakefair — Stakefair is an ecosystem of blockchain, crypto and DeFi products.
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Gbenga Oyebode
Angel · 1 investments in Africa Payments startups

Gbenga Oyebode serves as an Of Counsel of Aluko and Oyebode. He attended the University of Pennsylvania and the Ekiti State University.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $458k–$3M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Mono — Mono helps businesses link their customers accounts for financial data, bank payments and identity verification across Africa.
  • 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.
  • Juicyway — Juice is a developer of a payment network platform for cross-border business payments for businesses and individuals. It facilitates financial transactions between parties regardless of location to allow enterprises to participate in international trade and the exchange of goods and services.
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Benjamin Fernandes
Angel · Stanford, California, United States · 1 investments in Africa Payments startups

Benjamin Fernandes is the Founder & Chief Eating Officer of NALA. He previously worked at TING - Tanzania Integrated Network Group as a Technical and operations manager. Benjamin Fernandes attended Stanford Graduate School of Business.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Billing, Software, Business Development
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, United Kingdom

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Chpter — Chpter is a software development company that offers fast billing and checkout to help start, run, and grow a business.
  • Kunda Kids — Kunda Kids brings African stories to life! Award-winning books, music & media that make early learning joyful, empowering & proudly cultural.
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Neil Thanedar
Angel · Flint, Michigan, United States · 1 investments in Africa Payments startups

Neil Thanedar is the Founder and GP of Utopic Ventures and the Founder and Chairman of Labdoor and Air to All.Previously, Neil was the Founder and President of Avomeen Analytical Services, a chemical analysis and product development laboratory.He has also served as Senior Advisor to his father Shri Thanedar in his campaigns for Governor, StateRepresentative, and US Congress in Michigan.Neil graduated from the University of Michigan in 2010 with degrees in Molecular Biology and Business Administration.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Finance, Wellness, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Mexico, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $125k–$11M; Pre-Seed $125k–$190k
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Beek — Beek is building the top audio platform in Latin America. 10/10 people you see on the streets with headphones, will be listening on Beek to the best audiobooks, podcasts, meditations, and any audio content that they like. There will be a Netflix for Spoken word audio for the 480M+ native Spanish Speakers, and Beek is the team building it.
  • Paystack — Over 60,000 businesses of all sizes use Paystack to collect payments with a modern, secure payment gateway.
  • Biophysical Therapeutics — Longevity (anti-aging) therapeutics/drug company that uses computational biology. Treating cancer, the diseases of aging (age-related diseases) such as neurodegenerative diseases (e.g., Alzheimers and Parkinson's diseases), and aging (ageing). Michael Forrest. Michael David Forrest. George Church. Longevity. Drug to slow aging. Drug to reverse aging. Longevity drug. Artificial intelligence. AI. Drug. Biotechnology. Biotech. Start-up. Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD), Patent. Investment.
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Mato Perić
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Africa Payments 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 $8M–$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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Olawale Ajayi
Angel · 1 investments in Africa Payments startups

Olawale Ajayi

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, FinTech, Finance
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Skye Wallet — Africa’s Simplest Cryptocurrency Wallet & Exchange App (Mobile & Web): Launched on the 12th of April 2021, transacted N500M+ ($1M)+ volume in the first 16 weeks of launch and figure keeps growing. Access to over 10 top Cryptocurrency (Coins/Tokens) and have infrastructure to integrate up to 100 more tokens in few months.
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Richmond Bassey
Angel · Lekki, Lagos, Nigeria · 1 investments in Africa Payments startups

Richmond Bassey is the Co-founder and CEO at Bamboo. He served as the Chief Of Staff for Helium Health prior to that.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Payments, Financial Services
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Klump — Use Klump to buy now and pay later in instalments for up to 12 months! Businesses accept payments, increase conversion rates, and boost revenue. The Easy Life! Try it now.
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Piers Kicks
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Africa Payments startups

Investing in crypto x gaming at BITKRAFT & Delphi Digital.Piers acquired his first bitcoin at 13 years old in exchange for virtual currency in a video game. After reaching 69 global in Rainbow Six Siege (over 50 million players), being a first generation virtual reality user, and growing up with crypto, he leverages his unique insight intothe undercurrents of the web to cross the digital divide.Computer science and philosophy background, entrepreneurial with a global digital asset network.Hunting asymmetric crypto/venture investment opportunities in early stage projects that seek to advance and support the emergence of synthetic reality.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Web3, Gaming
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Liberia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 21
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$7.5M; Series A $4M–$22M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Legion — Legion makes on-chain fundraising accessible to ordinary investors by ensuring regulatory compliance and investor accountability.
  • Cambria — Cambria is a massively multiplayer online game (MMO) project. It builds a Runescape-inspired game with onchain stakes.
  • Beam — We are a decentralized autonomous organization on a mission to revolutionize gaming. Join us as we build the metaverse by empowering people to be a part of it.
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Benjamin Chemla
Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 1 investments in Africa Payments startups

Ben has been building cohesive teams and companies from the ground up and scaling them fast across Europe and the US for 10+ years. He is a french serial entrepreneur and business angel "AMF certified" with a background in business law. Ben launched on-demand delivery platform Stuart right when the gig economy began its boom – sonavigating delicate regulatory environments is nothing new to him. The company raised €22M pre-launch and was acquired by La Poste. It now operates in 120+ cities with over 750 employees.At Shares.io, Ben is again creating a completely new community-based service that transforms the way people interact and live – and bringing together a bold team that knows how to keep pushing forward to bring a new vision to life. The company has raised $90m with great investors such as Valar Ventures (Peter Thiel), Singular, Global Founders Capital and Red Sea Ventures.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Web3, Rental
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: France, Cameroon

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$2M; Pre-Seed $348k–$2.1M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • PaySika — Un compte, une carte bancaire gratuite
  • Flowdesk — The new standard for market-making and crypto-financial technology. Market-making as a Service, brokerage, custody of cryptocurrencies.
  • MetaFight — MetaFight is the development of a video game for collecting NFT cards of MMA fighters.
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Charles-Edouard Bouee
Angel · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 1 investments in Africa Payments startups

Charles-Edouard Bouée is the CEO of Roland Berger. He is a seasoned expert in reorganization, post-merger projects and integration programs, as well as performance improvement, and specializes in disruptive innovation, new technologies and digital transformation.Charles-Edouard Bouée joined Roland Berger in 2001 as Senior Partner in the Parisoffice, where he headed the Financial Services and Energy & Utility Competence Centers. He became the Managing Partner of Roland Berger’s China office in 2006 and Head of the Asia Leadership Team in 2009.He then assumed responsibility for France, Belgium, Italy, Spain and Morocco. He has since fulfilled consulting mandates for leading international companies and organizations based in Europe, Asia and elsewhere. Charles-Edouard Bouée was appointed COO in July 2013 and elected CEO of Roland Berger in June 2014.Charles-Edouard Bouée has authored various books on modern management and China, as well as Artificial Intelligence.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Natural Resources, AgTech
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United States, France, Vietnam

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $348k–$1.2M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • xRapid — xRapid is a mobile health diagnosis through disruptive solutions leveraging the use of artificial intelligence. xRapid is a Biotech startup based in Aix en Provence (France), London (Uk), and Las Vegas. xRapid saw its beginnings in a laboratory in Jakarta. Their CTO, Professor David Mendels, recognized that he was able to develop a mobilesolution for malaria diagnosis after attending a conference. Since then he has created xRapid, a powerful automated test that can be deployed anywhere in the field and has the potential to spot other diseases from tuberculosis to gonorrhea.
  • PaySika — Un compte, une carte bancaire gratuite
  • INTERSTELLAR LAB — Interstellar Lab is a biotech company founded in 2018 that develops, manufactures and operates advanced bio-farming platforms to help its customer produce the cleanest plant-based ingredients. Its bio-farming technology combines automated farms (Biopods), AI and bioscience with a unique data-driven approach. Its considerably accelerates plantgrowth while optimizing plant molecular composition. Interstellar Lab provides sustainable plant-based ingredient solutions to large health, beauty and F&B companies. Its bio-farming technology has also convinced NASA and ESA, which contracted with the company to adapt the system for space deployment. The company counts 45 engineers, scientists and researchers located between its flagship 65,000SF BioPod Facility and Plant Lab in Ivry-sur-Seine (France), its SpaceLab at NASA KSC Florida (USA) and its Business Hub in San Francisco (USA).
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Damien Guermonprez
Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 1 investments in Africa Payments startups

Damien Guermonprez is based out of Paris, Ile-de-France and is the Executive Chairman of Lemonway. Damien previously worked at Oney bank as the CEO. Damien attended the Harvard Business School.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Internet, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: France, India, Cameroon

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 27
  • Round size: Seed $237k–$2.4M; Pre-Seed $134k–$1.1M; Series A $893k–$1.6M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Dowgo — Dowgo provides financial and investment services. They provide insights and analysis for businesses. They provide investment for local and international markets. They provide customer inquiries through email.
  • Bitstack — It all started with an idea in 2021. Initially built to democratize Bitcoin in France, Bitstack has gone from a simple product that rounds up your everyday purchases and invests the spare change in bitcoin, to a dynamic app bringing a better way to manage all things money, with better money. Our mission is to empower people to better financetheir future by participating in a more open and inclusive financial system. We are rebuilding finance from the group up by building the first crypto-native bank that leverages Bitcoin and stablecoins to revolutionize consumer banking.
  • CINETPAY — CinetPay is a mobile money payment hub that federates mobile money payment methods in Africa.
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Charley Ma
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Africa Payments startups

Charley Ma is based out of New York City and is the Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Pathlight Ventures. Charley previously worked at Alloy as a Growth Advisor. Charley Ma attended the University of Pennsylvania.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Canada, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 23
  • Round size: Seed $3.5M–$11M; Series A $10M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Knot — Knot powerfully improves products for you and your users, adding revenue-generating features and connecting cardholders to thousands of merchants.
  • Series — Series provides full-stack enterprise financial services designed for institutions & enterprises.
  • Default — The command center for modern sales teams.
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Marc Bhargava
Angel · Miami, Florida, United States · 1 investments in Africa Payments startups

Marc Bhargava is the Managing Director at General Catalyst. He attended Harvard Business School.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 66
  • Round size: Seed $3.2M–$20M; Series A $14M–$235M; Series B $27M–$600M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Olympix — Olympix is a pioneering DevSecOps tool that puts security in the hands of the developer by proactively securing code from day one.
  • Superform Labs — THE UNIVERSAL INTERFACE FOR YIELD IS FORMING
  • Keep — Keep has higher credit limits, the highest cash back rewards in Canada, and absolutely no fees! Join the thousands of Canadian business owners making the switch to Keep.
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Sima Gandhi
Angel · San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States · 1 investments in Africa Payments startups

Sima Gandhi is Co-founder and CEO at Creative Juice.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Software, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Indonesia, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Seed $4M–$8.5M; Series A $14M–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Phyllo — Easily access verified, creator-consented data such as identity, income, and engagement across hundreds of platforms through our API
  • Brick — Brick builds financial APIs for fintech products. They give convenience to processing end-users' financial data digitally for every personalized need of fintech companies, with data such as transaction data spanning multiple platforms across telcos, e-wallets, e-commerce, and super apps.
  • Stitch — One API integration for enterprise online payments across South Africa. Accept Pay by bank, debit + credit card, cash, manual EFT, debit order and crypto.
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Matt Robinson
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Africa Payments startups

Matt Robinson is the CEO and a co-founder at Nested, a property technology company. Prior to this, he founded GoCardless in 2010 and remains on the board of the recurring payment company.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 80
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$7.9M; Pre-Seed $650k–$3M; Series A $6M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Malga — Malga is an online payment platform that offers fraud protection and payment split services.
  • Feather — Feather gives you insurance advice for expats in Germany. Our digital insurance agent will help you get the right insurance policies for your need.
  • Malga — Instant access to multiple payment providers with a single integration
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Idris Ayodeji Bello
Angel · , , Nigeria · 1 investments in Africa Payments 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 is also 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: FinTech, Software, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 39
  • Round size: Seed $450k–$5.1M; Pre-Seed $425k–$1.1M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • ScholarX — ScholarX enables you to study a variety of skills online, receive money for your education, upskill your employees, and expand your business. The company provides low-income Africans with digital and affordable education.
  • Jem — We give employers the ability to send company-wide communications, deliver payslips, manage leave & give employees access to their earnings, via WhatsApp.
  • 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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Didier Valet
Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 1 investments in Africa Payments startups

Didier Valet

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: France, United Kingdom, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 67
  • Round size: Seed $760k–$10M; Pre-Seed $558k–$2.4M; Series A $6.7M–$21M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Grâce — Grâce offers innovative insurance solutions to enhance customer experience and improve process efficiency.
  • Celest Science — Understand, monitor and anticipate your exposure to extreme weather events in the context of climate change with our proprietary AI models. Risk Assessment | Subseasonal to seasonal forecast | CatNat modelling | Climate APIs.
  • Little John — Little John creates a platform using generative AI to empower insurance brokers.
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Thibault Poutrel
Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 1 investments in Africa Payments startups

Thibault Poutrel serves as a Manager of Access Consulting SARL. Mr. Poutrel serves as Chairman of Beaubourg Capital SAS, Internet Plc SAS and Diamond Minds Investments. He has been a Director of Come&Stay SA since December 13, 2001. He serves as a Director of Ingenico Corp. and Eat On Line SA. He has been a Director of Ingenico S.A., since February 6, 2002 and Nextedia Société Anonyme since December 13, 2001. He serves as Member of Advisory Board of WitchBird SAS. He serves as a Director of INGENICO Inc. He worked for ABN AMRO France prior to joining Rothschild & Cie. Bank. In 2001, he founded an investment vehicle, Diamond Minds, of which he is Trustee. In 2003, he founded Access Consulting, a firm providing Internet and software integration consulting services, and in 2008, Beaubourg Capital SAS, a venture capital firm. Mr. Poutrel is a co-founder of production company Update Productions and the press agency Antidote. He educated at Institut d’Etudes Politiques (IEP) in Paris and London School of Economics.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Financial Services, Enterprise Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: France, Cameroon, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$3.7M; Pre-Seed $348k–$2.8M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 10% — 10% is reshaping the future of consumer loyalty by empowering brands to take back control from retailers. We enable leading FMCG companies to build direct, data-rich relationships with their customers through a unified loyalty platform that works seamlessly across all channels. Shoppers are rewarded consistently for buying the brands they love, nomatter where they shop, while brands gain access to powerful first- and zero-party data, behavioral insights, and automated engagement tools. By combining loyalty, data, and media into one scalable ecosystem, 10% unlocks a new growth engine for brands ready to own their audience and outperform in a retail-dominated landscape.
  • PaySika — Un compte, une carte bancaire gratuite
  • Della AI — Thanks to the AI capabilities of Legisway Analyzer, lawyers can seamlessly leverage unique AI technology and deep learning capabilities to automate contract indexing
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Sam Altman
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Africa Payments startups

Sam Altman is the Co-Founder and CEO of OpenAI. Sam previously served as Board Chair at Helion Energy.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Ghana

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 200
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$9.3M; Series A $10M–$50M; Series B $17M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Exowatt — Modular full-stack renewable energy solutions for commercial and industrial customers.
  • Preventive — Preventive mission is to determine whether the newest generation of gene editing technologies can be used safely and responsibly to correct devastating genetic conditions for future children.
  • Red Queen Bio — Red Queen Bio is an AI biosecurity company. Think of us as the cybersecurity layer for biology. AI is making it dramatically easier to design powerful new drugs and therapies, which is extraordinary news for medicine. But the same tools are also lowering the barrier for bad actors to engineer dangerous pathogens, and opening up an entirely new category of threats, including viruses designed to evade human immunity.Defense has to keep pace with offense.
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Niklas Adalberth
Angel · Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden · 1 investments in Africa Payments startups

Niklas Adalberth is co-founder, Deputy CEO and board member of Klarna, the leading European payments company with investors such as Sequoia, Atomico, and General Atlantic. Niklas has a master’s degree in international business from the Stockholm School of Economics, where he founded Klarna together with his two co-founders, Sebastian Siemiatkowski, CEO, and Victor Jacobsson. Klarna is used by 50,000 retailers and 35 million people across Europe and launched in the UK in July 2014. During 2015, consumers in the US will also start buying with Klarna.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Apps
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Sweden, South Africa, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Round size: Seed $242k–$4M; Series A $12M–$27M; Venture - Series Unknown $10M–$800M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Klarna — Einkaufen, was du willst. Bezahlen, wie du willst. Klarna bietet dir verschiedene Zahlungsarten an. Du entscheidest, welche am besten zu dir passt.
  • ClimateView — ClimateView is a Swedish climate action technology company that helps cities transform climate planning into progress. We combine data, agent-based modelling and interface design to help cities successfully manage the transition to zero carbon economies.
  • Stitch — One API integration for enterprise online payments across South Africa. Accept Pay by bank, debit + credit card, cash, manual EFT, debit order and crypto.
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