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Top 50 Payments Angel Investors in Africa (August 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
Olugbenga Agboola
Angel
3 Nigeria, Kenya, United States Pre-Seed, Seed 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–$2M
Youcef Es-skouri
Angel
3 United States, France, Nigeria Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence $1M–$46M
Allen and Ollys International Limited -
Angel
3 Nigeria Seed, Convertible Note FinTech, Insurance, Blockchain $1k–$4k
Michael Vaughan
Angel
2 United States, Brazil, Germany Seed, Series A, Series B FinTech, Financial Services, Software $4M–$100M
Odun Eweniyi
Angel
2 Nigeria Pre-Seed Payments, SaaS, FinTech $670k–$3.7M
Raj Kulasingam
Angel
2 Togo, India, Nigeria Seed, Pre-Seed Banking, FinTech, Internet $1.3M–$3M
Cristina Santin
Angel
2 Nigeria Seed FinTech, Insurance, Blockchain $1k–$2k
Abdul Hassan
Angel
2 Nigeria Pre-Seed, Seed FinTech, Financial Services, Payments $780k–$1.3M
Olumide Soyombo
Angel
2 Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel FinTech, Financial Services, Finance $260k–$2.1M
Vijay Shankar
Angel
2 United States, India, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series C FinTech, Financial Services, Software $10k–$50M
Michael Seibel
Angel
2 United States, Nigeria, United Kingdom Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology $500k–$21M
James Waugh
Angel
2 Kenya Seed B2B, FinTech, Payments $50k–$4.9M
Vasiliy Shapovalov
Angel
2 Kenya, United States, Cayman Islands Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Cryptocurrency, Decentralized Finance (DeFi), B2B $50k–$4.9M
Sandeep Nailwal
Angel
2 United States, India, Singapore Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services $450k–$40M
Sergei Kovalev
Angel
2 United Arab Emirates, Spain, Estonia Seed, Angel, Series A Cryptocurrency, Web3, Bitcoin $370k–$10M
Peter Sandberg
Angel
2 Denmark, Kenya, Estonia Angel, Pre-Seed, Secondary Market Internet, SaaS, FinTech $150k–$212k
Bunmi Akinyemiju
Angel
2 Nigeria, Kenya, United Arab Emirates Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel Financial Services, FinTech, Payments $10k–$1.5M
Tom Stafford
Angel
2 United Kingdom, Germany, France Series A, Series B, Seed FinTech, Financial Services, Finance $1.6M–$150M
Robby Hilkowitz
Angel
2 Israel, Hong Kong, Singapore Series A, Seed FinTech, Financial Services, Payments $1M–$4M
Charles Delingpole
Angel
2 United Kingdom, United States, Spain Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Payments $382k–$20M
Shadi Abdulhadi
Angel
1 Nigeria Seed FinTech, Mobile Payments
Tristan Walker
Angel
1 United States, Nigeria Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B Beauty, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
Benjamin Fernandes
Angel
1 Kenya, United Kingdom Pre-Seed Billing, Software, Business Development
Youcef Oudjidane
Angel
1 United States, Nigeria, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
Rene Reinsberg
Angel
1 United States, Canada, Israel Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Software
Kola Aina
Angel
1 Nigeria, United States, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed FinTech, Financial Services, Internet
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
Neil Thanedar
Angel
1 United States, Mexico, Nigeria Seed, Pre-Seed Finance, Wellness, Financial Services $125k–$11M
Timi Aboyeji
Angel
1 Nigeria Pre-Seed Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
Oluchi Enebeli
Angel
1 Nigeria Pre-Seed Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
Olawale Ajayi
Angel
1 Nigeria Pre-Seed Apps, FinTech, Finance
Richmond Bassey
Angel
1 Nigeria Pre-Seed Payments, Financial Services
Mato Perić
Angel
1 Germany, India, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce $2M–$100M
Iyinoluwa Aboyeji
Angel
1 United States, Nigeria, South Africa Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Information Technology, FinTech, Software $172k–$30M
Ken Njoroge
Angel
1 Kenya, United States Pre-Seed, Series A, Convertible Note Software, Billing, Web Development
Abdulhamid Hassan
Angel
1 Nigeria Seed B2B, FinTech, Payments
Iqram Magdon-Ismail
Angel
1 United States, South Africa, United Kingdom Seed, Angel, Series A Information Technology, Software, Social Media $50k–$16M
Sahil Lavingia
Angel
1 United States, India, Canada Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, FinTech $750k–$30M
Damien Guermonprez
Angel
1 France, India, Cameroon Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, Internet, FinTech $122k–$2.4M
Yossi Hasson
Angel
1 South Africa, United States, Ghana Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, Blockchain, Payments $120k–$551k
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
Emilie Choi
Angel
1 United States, Mexico, Singapore Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed FinTech, Software, Financial Services $1.2M–$25M
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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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Olugbenga Agboola
Angel · 3 investments in Africa Payments startups

Olugbenga Agboola is the Co-Founder and CEO of Flutterwave. He previously worked at Africa Fintech Foundry as a Senior Entrepreneur In Residence. Olugbenga Agboola attended MIT Sloan School of Management.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 21
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$7.5M; Pre-Seed $625k–$3.7M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • tushop — Shop wholesale groceries, market fresh produce, local brands, and affordable preloved finds on Tushop. Secure checkout, friendly support and fast 90 minute delivery across Nairobi.
  • Curacel — Curacel creates APIs & tools that enable businesses to embed insurance in digital channels and to administer claims cost-effectively.
  • 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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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: 43
  • Round size: Seed $150k–$2M; Pre-Seed $360k–$1M
  • 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, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, France, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 29
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$9.8M; Series A $6.2M–$46M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Lakera — Lakera Guard empowers organizations to build GenAI applications without worrying about prompt injections, data loss, harmful content, and other LLM risks. Powered by the world's most advanced AI threat intelligence.
  • Tana — Tana is an agentic meeting platform. Work gets done in the meeting, not after. Agents create documents, file issues, and update your context graph while you talk. And each meeting makes future meetings smarter.
  • Default — The command center for modern sales teams.
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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 $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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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 $4M–$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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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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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
  • 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.
  • SEMOA — Founded in 2016, SEMOA have today an international footprint in 13 countries of Africa with the statement to bring something more to people's daily lives. SEMOA is a pioneering fintech company that is reshaping the financial landscape across Africa by specializing in two key areas: the digitalization of banking services and empowerment ofmobile transactions.As a software editor, SEMOA offers a suite of APIs platform and white-label SaaS tools designed to address financial inclusion challenges in Africa, where traditional banking systems often fall short. As a transaction enabler, SEMOA acts as a schema for mobile transaction allowing banks to create more value through a service layer.
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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 $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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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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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, Finance
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 22
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$1.3M; Angel $260k–$1M; Pre-Seed $260k–$2.1M
  • Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Mono — Mono helps businesses link their customers accounts for financial data, bank payments and identity verification across Africa.
  • Spleet — Fintech Spleet Provides Tenant verification, Rent collection solutions for landlords and rent financing (Rent now, pay later) for Tenants
  • The Gradient Boost — The Gradient Boost is an online mentor guided data science school. The Gradient Boost focus on delivering an online data science education from both a theoretical and practical perspective.
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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: 27
  • Round size: Seed $10k–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Winvesta — Receive international payments in India from 180+ countries. Save up to 80% in collection costs.
  • Wander — Never book a bad vacation home again. Every Wander comes with hotel-grade amenities, inspiring views, pristine cleaning and 24/7 concierge service.
  • 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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Michael Seibel
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Africa Payments startups, 12 in the past 12 months

Michael Seibel is the Managing Director and Group Partner of Y Combinator. He previously worked at Socialcam as a CEO. Michael Seibel attended Yale University.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 205
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$7.2M; Pre-Seed $500k–$500k; Series A $5.9M–$21M
  • Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kira — The easiest way for non-fintech enterprises to launch AI-powered, stablecoin-based financial products. Through a unified API platform, Kira enables businesses to embed remittances, payroll, wallets, and real-time cross-border payments.
  • Recall.ai — Recall.ai provides a single API for meeting bots on every platform like Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams and more.
  • Arena — Arena accelerates testing, debugging, and optimization for the world’s most advanced hardware. Atlas is an AI hardware engineer grounded in applied physics with an understanding of the real-world environment.
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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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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 — We eliminate chains, bridges, and gas for your users with the OneBalance Toolkit. Abstracting leading EVM chains and Solana.
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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: 195
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$9.5M; 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 — Self is spearheading a secure, human-first internet by allowing users to verify their identities while maintaining their privacy. Self Protocol is an identity and proof-of-humanity solution that uses zero-knowledge technology to confirm personhood and distinctive traits, like age and nationality, without revealing private information.
  • SuperGaming — At SuperGaming, we are putting India on the global gaming map.
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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, Spain, Estonia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Seed $370k–$10M; Series A $2.3M–$8M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • UNO.farm — Building next gen DeFi
  • 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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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: 17
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $150k–$212k
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Eupry — Be in full control of your temperature compliance at all times. Collect temperature monitoring, mapping, and calibration in one GxP-compliant solution.
  • Tiimo — Tiimo helps you manage your daily life and improve your wellbeing. Visualize your day. Improve your routines. Stress less.
  • TRAPMINE — TRAPMINE Endpoint Protection Platform provides fool-proof defense against malware, exploit attempts, file-less malware, ransomware and other forms of targeted attacks.Unlike traditional detection-based approaches like legacy antivirus, TRAPMINE combines proven and innovative technologies such as deep learning, behavior monitoring, endpointdeception and anti-exploit techniques to block cyber threats dead in their tracks. TRAPMINE's easy-deploy and lightweight solution comes with a comfortable built-in security console, at a price/performance ratio unmatchable even by the biggest names in Palo Alto.Why TRAPMINE?Cyber criminals target companies of all sizes from every industry, seeking anything that might be of value. Antivirus and other traditional security solutions are no longer efficient to protect organizations from attacks by today’s modern cyber threat actors. That’s why we founded TRAPMINE. TRAPMINE is created to solve the malware problem for all organizations at a reasonable price.
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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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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: 73
  • Round size: Seed $1.6M–$22M; Series A $8M–$79M; Series B $15M–$150M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Habito — We're the Treating Customers Fairly Champion of 2023 as voted for in the British Bank Awards. We're here to make mortgages easier - no paperwork, no stress and no fees.
  • 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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Robby Hilkowitz
Angel · 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: 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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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 $382k–$2.3M; Series A $6.3M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ascendx Cloud — Supercharge Salesforce with connected apps that streamline sales, automate data, and drive enterprise-scale growth - Salesforce Solutions By Ascendx
  • 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 — Faster, cheaper, greener manufacturing
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Shadi Abdulhadi
Angel · 1 investments in Africa Payments startups

Shadi Abdulhadi

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Mobile Payments
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • NowNow — NowNow aims to democratise the mobile wallet space in Nigeria and Sub-Saharan Africa. We provide a bank and MNO agnostic online platform to recharge any mobile, pay bills, and utilities, send/receive money and pay@shop directly to merchants. The amount consumers pay is returned in the form of cashback and coupons making the recharge almostfree. We are PCI-DSS compliant and are licensed by the Central Bank of Nigeria.NowNow also offers a unique agent platform that enables additional revenue streams for individuals and businesses and provides financial services to the unbanked – allowing them to offer p2p, bank transfers, cash out, mobile recharge, pay bills etc.
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Tristan Walker
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Africa Payments startups

Tristan Walker is the Founder and CEO Walker and Company Brands. He attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business and Stony Brook University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Beauty, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Bujeti — Bujeti is the finance control centre for African businesses. Manage expenses, automate payments, and issue corporate cards for total control and visibility.
  • Greptile — Tabnam is an AI-powered product research tool that scrapes the internet for customer experience data about a product to help shoppers make more informed decisions.
  • AddGlow — Our AI-powered video generator turns your product photos into dynamic and captivating videos your customers will love. Each clip is reviewed and refined by human experts to ensure top quality, guaranteed.
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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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Youcef Oudjidane
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Africa Payments startups

Youcef Oudjidane is the Founder and Managing Partner of BYLD and the Co-Founder and Chairman of Elevate (YC W22).

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Waza — Waza is a web platform with APIs. It helps startups and emerging market businesses manage their cash flow issues, invoicing needs, and international payment requirements.
  • 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
  • Next Gen Foods — Next Gen Foods is a food-tech startup that offers plant-based meat products. They use plants to create a delicious and satisfying meat experience that will make forget animal meat even exists.
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Rene Reinsberg
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Africa Payments startups

Rene Reinsberg is the Co-Founder and President of Celo.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 24
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • ValuesCo — Socialstack is a community of creative leaders, creators, & developers co-creating community-driven economies that run on carbon negative blockchain infrastructure.
  • Fountain — Fountain operates in the finance industry, providing a wallet platform specifically designed for teams. The platform allows users to create permission-controlled wallets in a matter of seconds, offering a centralized location for managing all transactions and treasury. In addition to its wallet services, Fountain also offers a unique way to enjoypodcasts, further diversifying its product offerings. With a team of six, Fountain continues to innovate in the realm of finance and entertainment.
  • Capsule Wallets — At Capsule, we thrive on challenging the design of products we use every day. In doing so, we hope to introduce you to a simpler way of living.
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Kola Aina
Angel · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 1 investments in Africa Payments startups

Kola Aina is an entrepreneur, technology operator and investor with vast experience working in Africa’s largest economic market. His prior entrepreneurial experience spans several sectors including venture capital, technology, media, agriculture, infrastructure, publishing and real estate. As an angel investor and while leading the early stageAfrican VC firm Ventures Platform. Venture Platform is a leading early stage African VC fund that provides founder friendly capital and support to early stage companies in a framework that is buoyed by corporate governance and hands-on support. Kola has lead investment in about 28 companies including Payments company; Paystack, Connectivity company; Tizeti, Healthcare company; MDaaS and the Agric-tech company; Thrive Agric.Kola, founded the enterprise technology company Emerging Platforms Limited, 9 years ago, quickly growing it to become one of the leading technology service delivery companies and leaders in the e-learning space in West Africa providing services to over 100,000 students. Emerging Platforms Limited is a software and technology firm that specializes in developing innovative technology solutions in education, national security and enterprise sectors.Prior to focusing on full time entrepreneurship, Kola worked in corporate finance, administration, corporate turn-around and strategy. He led strategy and finance for one of the largest publishing companies in Nigeria up till 2009. Before that he worked in corporate finance proving financial analysis at Fifth Third Bank in the USA.Kola is a leader in the African startup and investing ecosystem, a Ted speaker and volunteers his time advising founders, speaking at events and serves on the Presidential Committee for Job Creation and Youth Employment as well as the Private Sector Advisory Group to the Presidency on Creativity and Technology. Kola studied Electrical Engineering and then secured a Master in Business Administration degree with a specialization in Finance from Bowling Green State University, Ohio. He has received further education from Berkley University, Harvard University and the Lagos Business School.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 52
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Partna — We're democratising access to crypto by providing tools that help businesses build user-friendly crypto products.
  • Coinprofile — Coinprofile allows anyone, anywhere in the world send money to Africa. It's fast, seamless and free!
  • Cutstruct — Cutstruct is your one source for bulk construction materials purchase. Get the best prices for cement, steel, granite, sharp sand wood, and more.
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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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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
  • 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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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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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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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 $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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Iyinoluwa Aboyeji
Angel · 1 investments in Africa Payments startups

Iyinoluwa Aboyeji is the Founding Partner of Future Africa. He previously worked at Oby Ezekwesili Presidential Campaign as a Deputy Director General. Iyinoluwa Aboyeji attended the University of Waterloo - St. Jerome's University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$20M; Pre-Seed $172k–$2.1M; Series A $14M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • FoondaMate — Foondamate brings the internet through messaging applications so students with limited internet access can study online.
  • Rapport — Rapport understands how your people are doing, coaches everyone in your company's own language, and shows you it's working. Launches in Slack or Teams in days.
  • 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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Ken Njoroge
Angel · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya · 1 investments in Africa Payments startups

Ken is a co-founder and the group CEO of Cellulant. A mobile commerce evangelist and career entrepreneur, Ken previously served as co-founder and Solution Design Director of 3Mice Interactive Media. The company grew from a two-man team to a leading web development firm in East Africa. 3Mice was later acquired by Africa Online- the largestPan-African Internet Service Provider.Ken is unwavering in his pursuit of seeing Cellulant achieve its mission of building a world class, values-driven $1B business for Africa, by Africans, in Africa. Ken has led the company from an idea sketched on a serviette in 2003 with his co-founder Bolaji Akinboro, to a reputable payments company in Africa. Cellulant currently has more than 300 employees across 11 markets; servicing 34 countries in Africa. Over the past couple of years, Ken has invested time in training and advising the next generation of entrepreneurs, and contributing to the growth of the entrepreneurship ecosystem in Africa. In recognition of this, in 2017, Ken was selected as the first Sub-Saharan and Kenyan Global Endeavor Entrepreneur for his commitment to advancing an ecosystem of entrepreneurship in Africa.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Billing, Web Development
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
  • Geography: Kenya, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • 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.
  • Leta — Leta Technology is a software development company that creates supply chain and logistics software to enable the efficient and automated movement of goods.
  • MarketForce — MarketForce connects Africa’s informal retail outlets and consumers directly to suppliers of consumer goods and financial services by digitizing orders, delivery, and payments with the aim of solving the last mile distribution challenge.
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Abdulhamid Hassan
Angel · 1 investments in Africa Payments startups

Abdul "AB" Hassan is the Founder and CEO of Mono, an open banking platform facilitating secure access to customers' financial accounts for financial data, direct bank payments, and identity verification. With a decade of experience in technology and payments, he has held roles in product management and entrepreneurship. In 2016,Abdul founded Hyphen.AI, a chatbot platform later sold in 2017. He then initiated OyaPay, an offline mobile payment collection service via QR codes before joining Paystack in 2019.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Bujeti — Bujeti is the finance control centre for African businesses. Manage expenses, automate payments, and issue corporate cards for total control and visibility.
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Iqram Magdon-Ismail
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Africa Payments startups

Iqram Magdon-Ismail is based out of New York and is the Co-Founder of JellyJelly. Iqram previously worked at Venmo as a Co-Founder. Iqram Magdon-Ismail attended the University of Pennsylvania.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Social Media
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: United States, South Africa, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Seed $50k–$4M; Angel $500k–$785k; Series A $14M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Clyx — Clyx is the next-generation friendship platform built for Gen Z, using curated IRL events, game-based discovery, and behavioral science to create real relationships. Guided by neuroscience and led by a Gen Z founder Alyx Van Der Vorm, Clyx turns online curiosity into community. Clyx is on a mission to reverse-engineer the disconnection of socialmedia. Where platforms once brought relationships online, Clyx helps turn those online signals into meaningful real-world interaction.
  • Hatz AI — Hatz AI provides a partner-focused platform for MSPs and resellers to offer AI-as-a-Service, unlocking new business opportunities. Our solution supports MSPs in adopting AI internally and guiding AI adoption for their clients, featuring a secure multi-tenant AI platform, a no-code AI workflows, and Adel, an AI phone agent.
  • Modal Labs — Modal develops machine learning software to help run code in the cloud. The software enables users to run or deploy machine learning models, massively parallel compute jobs, task queues, web apps, and more. It also writes the code to launch hundreds of custom containers and runs scripts in the cloud faster than on the local machine.
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Sahil Lavingia
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Africa Payments startups

Sahil is the founder and CEO of Gumroad.Gumroad exists to help every creative earn a living selling the stuff they make directly to their audience.Previously, he was early at Pinterest — a service that lets users collect, organize, and share the things they are into — and worked on turntable's mobile apps.He designs and buildsproducts for fun and profit.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, India, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 55
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$9M; Pre-Seed $750k–$2M; Series A $6M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • BackerKit — BackerKit simplifies the post-campaign fulfillment process by helping project creators handle all the realities of crowdfunding. It allows its clients to survey, collect data, accept pre-orders, and process pledges for fulfillment. BackerKit was founded in 2012 by Rosanna Yau and Maxwell Salzberg and is based in San Francisco, California.
  • Monumental Labs — Monumental Labs is building a robot stone-sculpting factory to unleash a renaissance. Our robot artisans complete commissions in days that previously took months, with all the precision of traditional sculpting, at a fraction of the cost.
  • PierSight Space — PierSight is building a constellation of SAR satellites to provide persistent monitoring for the maritime industry.
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Damien Guermonprez
Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 1 investments in Africa Payments startups

Damien Guermonprez is the Executive Chairman of Lemonway and an equity investor in Financial Services and FinTech, sectors in which he has spent the major part of his career. As a passionate about innovation in financial services, he is co-leading the pan European payment institution Lemonway. In 2014, he sold to a hedge fund the former Belgiansubsidiary of BNP Paribas Personal Finance he had bought 4 years before with Apax Partners. Previously, he founded and led 14 credit institutions, leasing and insurance companies, during the last 20 years. He was CEO at Oney Bank, the Auchan banking division. Prior to Oney Bank, he was the CEO and founder of Case Credit Europe. Earlier in his career he was a Finance Manager at RCI Banque, the bank of Renault. Former board member of BUT and Iéseg Management School. Damien received his MBA from Harvard Business School and his Ms in Finance from Essec.

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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 $219k–$2.4M; Pre-Seed $122k–$1.1M; Series A $849k–$1.5M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Dowgo — 24/7 trading and settlement for European capital markets. French authorization under review (ACPR)
  • Julaya — Julaya is a fintech providing African businesses with a digital account to make payments : disbursing mobile money transactions to their employees, suppliers, and owning their own virtual and physical prepaid cards. By digitizing their operations on the Julaya platform, businesses have access to digital loans.
  • 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.
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Yossi Hasson
Angel · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in Africa Payments startups

Yossi Hasson is the Co-Founder and CEO of Metaversal and a Venture Partner at 2048 Ventures. He is also a Non-Executive Director of WeThinkCode_. Prior to that, he was the Managing Director of Techstars. He attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business and the University of Pretoria/Universiteit van Pretoria.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Blockchain, Payments
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Africa, United States, Ghana

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 29
  • Round size: Seed $120k–$551k; Pre-Seed $120k–$230k
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Howler — Howler, is the powerful event technology platform designed at the uppermost benchmarks of service and technology to help consumers and event organisers to make moments that matter.
  • WizzPass — WizzPass, a rapidly growing leader in the visitor management system and workplace management market is now FMS:Engage powered by FM:Systems.
  • The Sun Exchange — The Sun Exchange is the peer-to-peer solar leasing marketplace. We leverage financial innovation and the power of the crowd to drive sustainable energy development and make the environmental, social and economic benefits of solar accessible and affordable for all. Through the Sun Exchange online platform, anyone, anywhere in the world, can buyremotely-located solar cells and then lease them to power businesses and organisations in sunny emerging markets. Solar cell owners earn income from the electricity that’s generated, while schools, businesses, clinics and other organisations gain access to affordable clean energy, reducing electricity costs and carbon emissions.
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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: 64
  • Round size: Seed $3.2M–$20M; Series A $14M–$115M; 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: 78
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$7.9M; Pre-Seed $650k–$3M; Series A $6M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% 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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Emilie Choi
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Africa Payments startups

Emilie Choi is the President and Chief Operating Officer at Coinbase. She attended the Johns Hopkins University and the Wharton School.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 25
  • Round size: Seed $1.9M–$11M; Pre-Seed $1.2M–$2M; Series A $11M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • dub — The first Copy-Trading platform for stocks. Copy anyone's investments. For free. Regulated Broker-Dealer member FINRA and SIPC & FDIC insured.
  • Fragment — Fragment develops a ledger database application programming interface platform to build finance applications. Its platform helps users to build compliant fintech apps without having to worry about infrastructure where they can embed financial features into their app, without requiring prior accounting, finance, or compliance expertise to build theledger that runs it and integrate with money moving stack.The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.
  • Dot Product — AI coworkers for operations teams.
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