Top 10 Payments Startup Investors in Cameroon (August 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Africa Venture Labs
VC Fund
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6 | Cameroon, Nigeria, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Mobile Payments | $200k–$3M |
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Google Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United States, United Kingdom, Israel | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, Health Care, Biotechnology | $1.1M–$125M |
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Damien Guermonprez
Angel
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1 | France, India, Cameroon | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, Internet, FinTech | $122k–$2.4M |
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Charles Delingpole
Angel
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1 | United Kingdom, United States, Spain | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | FinTech, Financial Services, Payments | $382k–$20M |
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Oliver Tilloy
Angel
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1 | France, Senegal, Cameroon | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Information Technology, Information Services, SaaS | $549k–$16M |
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Thibault Poutrel
Angel
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1 | France, Cameroon, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Financial Services, Enterprise Software | $348k–$3.7M |
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Benjamin Chemla
Angel
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1 | France, Cameroon | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, Web3, Rental | $348k–$2.2M |
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Didier Valet
Angel
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1 | France, United Kingdom, Israel | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | $558k–$21M |
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Kalys Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Morocco, France, Cameroon | Seed, Pre-Seed | B2B, SaaS, Water | |
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Charles-Edouard Bouee
Angel
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1 | United States, France, Vietnam | Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel | Biotechnology, Natural Resources, AgTech | $348k–$1M |
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Mobile Payments
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Cameroon, Nigeria, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 16
- Round size: Seed $500k–$3M; Pre-Seed $200k–$2.5M
- Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Monetbil — Monetbil is an IT company that provides secure solutions to optimize e-commerce payment processes for users.
- DOHONE SA — DOHONE est le carrefour des portemonnaies électroniques qui donne une vie à votre argent, et qui vous accompagne partout.
- Smobilpay — Smobilpay is a payment solutions platform connected to a network of third-party collector companies such as banks.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1231
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$17M; Series A $6M–$101M; Series B $16M–$125M
- Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $100M in 2014
Portfolio highlights
- Gusto — Gusto develops web-based payroll solution for small- and medium-sized businesses. It operates an online platform that provides payroll, benefits, human resources, and integration services for employers and employees in the United States.Gusto offers health benefits and workers’ compensation benefits that include medical insurance, commuterbenefits, and 401(k) contributions as well as workers’ compensation insurance plans, time tracking, and integration services, and access to employees for processing payroll from web-enabled devices such as smartphones and tablets. It also provides access to employees and contractors to browse their previous pay stubs, review their payroll forms, verify their personal details, and statistics about their pay, tax payments and federal forms filing services, and security and support services.Gusto serves startups, coffee shops, doctors, creative agencies, lawyers, and boutiques. Edward Kim, Joshua Reeves, and Tomer London founded ZenPayRoll in 2011 that became Gusto, with its headquarters in San Francisco in California with an additional office in Denver in Colorado.
- SolveAI —
- Smarterer — Individuals and Fortune 500 companies use Smarterer to help close the gap between the skills they have and the skills they need. Their dynamic assessment engine leverages the freshest crowdsourced tests around, to rapidly pinpoint skill level with a credible score. In November 2014, Pluralsight, the global leader in online learning for serioussoftware developers, IT specialists and creative technologists, acquired Smarterer. As the world's largest curated e-learning library for professionals, the company offers instant access to more than 3,500 courses authored by top experts. Smarterer will continue to power crowdsourced assessments for freelancer marketplaces, e-learning providers and enterprise companies anywhere people need to prove their skills to connect with professional opportunities. The Smarterer community has answered over 56 million during 1.7 million test sessions, across hundreds of tests.
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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- 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.
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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- 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
Oliver Tilloy, Founder of Techmind.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Information Services, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: France, Senegal, Cameroon
Investor stats
- Total investments: 17
- Round size: Seed $549k–$5M; Series A $5.4M–$16M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
Portfolio highlights
- PaySika — Un compte, une carte bancaire gratuite
- Zicplace — Zicplace is a B2C and B2B online Music eCommerce Marketplace to buy and sell new and used instruments.
- Alice & Bob — At Alice & Bob, we're building the first universal quantum computer. This is humanity's next challenge.
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., sinceFebruary 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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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, Enterprise Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- 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.
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- 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
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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- 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–$2.2M
- 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.
Didier Valet
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: France, United Kingdom, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 65
- Round size: Seed $760k–$10M; Pre-Seed $558k–$2.4M; Series A $6.4M–$21M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% 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.
Moroccan VC fund investing in early stage and pre-series A african startups tickets from $50K et $200K.
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- Industry: B2B, SaaS, Water
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Morocco, France, Cameroon
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Logidoo — Logidoo is a digital logistics marketplace-designed company that markets shuttles through smart logistics. The company's platform, which provides rapid, dependable, secure, and economical logistics, allows users to compare offers for sending and receiving items and to track parcels in real-time.
- ZSystems — ZSystems is a transformative super app designed to redefine B2B trade.
- Userguest.com — Userguest is a Travel SaaS company that provides technology to hotels in order to improve their online revenue. Our smart tool applies RevMarketing Automation to hotel website, by matching a user’s booking intent with the hotel’s inventory priorities. We display personalized incentives to boost hotel revenue where it counts.
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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- 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–$1M
- 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.
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- 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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