Top 15 Platforms Angel Investors in Africa (October 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Marcus Swanepoel
Angel
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1 | South Africa | Seed | Chatbot, Facebook, Education | |
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James Beshara
Angel
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1 | United States, India, France | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Apps | $1M–$21M |
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Amadou Daffe
Angel
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1 | Ethiopia | Pre-Seed | SMS, Android, FinTech | |
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Rowland Eno
Angel
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1 | Nigeria | Pre-Seed | Chatbot, Facebook, Shopping | |
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Frank Fumarola
Angel
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1 | Nigeria, Colombia | Pre-Seed, Series A | Apps, Banking, FinTech | |
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Immad Akhund
Angel
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1 | United States, India, Canada | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence | $500k–$22M |
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Iyinoluwa Aboyeji
Angel
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1 | United States, Nigeria, South Africa | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Information Technology, FinTech, Software | $172k–$30M |
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Odunayo Eweniyi
Angel
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1 | South Africa, United States | Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel | EdTech, Chatbot, Facebook | $115k–$1M |
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Ankur Nagpal
Angel
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1 | United States, India, France | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Apps, FinTech | $400k–$21M |
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Isaac Oates
Angel
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1 | United States, France, South Africa | Seed, Grant | Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, B2B | $750k–$4.2M |
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Ahmed Al Alola
Angel
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1 | United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Ethiopia | Seed, Pre-Seed | Information Technology, SMS, Rental | $200k–$2M |
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Karim Atiyeh
Angel
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1 | United States, Brazil, Canada | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech | $2.2M–$250M |
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Saad Rizvi
Angel
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1 | Nigeria | Pre-Seed | Apps, Banking, Operating Systems | |
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Conor Walsh
Angel
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1 | Nigeria, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed | Apps, Banking, FinTech | |
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Faisal Alabdelsalam
Angel
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1 | Egypt, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Information Technology, E-Commerce, Mobile Apps | $150k–$2M |
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Marcus previously worked for Standard Chartered in Singapore and before that 3i and Morgan Stanley in London.He holds an MBA from INSEAD, is a qualified Chartered Accountant and a CFA charterholder. He is a South African citizen and a Singapore Permanent Resident.
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- Industry: Chatbot, Facebook, Education
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- FoondaMate — Foondamate brings the internet through messaging applications so students with limited internet access can study online.
James Beshara is based out of San Francisco, California and is the Founder of Magic Mind. James previously worked at Airbnb as a Director. James Beshara attended the Wake Forest University. James Beshara has been awarded Forbes "30 under 30" issued by Forbes Magazine.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, India, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 52
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$8.3M; Pre-Seed $1M–$3.8M; Series A $8M–$21M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Zalos — Automate repetitive Finance workflows without changing your Finance systems. AI agents that connect, act, and audit across ERPs, banks, and invoicing platforms.
- OuterSignal — OuterSignal provides AI-driven data enrichment and customer intelligence tailored to ecommerce and digital brands. The platform attaches 100+ demographic, professional, and behavioral signals to each customer record, drawing from publicly available sources such as social profiles, employment data, and online presence. OuterSignal builds detailed personas from this enriched data to help brands segment audiences, identify high-value buyers, and tailor messaging. The product integrates with tools like Slack and Klaviyo so sales, marketing, and lifecycle teams receive alerts and profiles directly in their existing workflows. Use cases include enhancing email lists, personalizing campaigns, prioritizing outreach, and refining lookalike audiences based on real customer attributes.
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Amadou Daffe is the co-founder and current CEO of Gebeya. He also co-founded CODERS4AFRICA.
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- Industry: SMS, Android, FinTech
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Ethiopia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- EPhone — EPhone is a dialer and SMS application. They offer features like managing user SMS and calls, saving money, and smart notifications. They instantly updated the package list.
Investment focus
- Industry: Chatbot, Facebook, Shopping
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Provider — When you send us your food shopping list via Facebook Messenger, provider helps you shop with your budget and same day delivery. Powered by natural language understanding, we want to make food and condiments market more conversational, flexible and convenient. We're one of the first conversational food market players and we'll help tochange the future of mobile food market!Our goal is to make food and condiments available through messaging and we use bots (chatbots, voice assistants) and existing channels to enable instant and sustainable 1-to-1 communication.
Frank Fumarola is Chief Product Officer at He was formerly a VP of Product & General Manager at banking. Prior to Nubank, he was the VP of Product and Product Marketing for ads and shopping at
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- Industry: Apps, Banking, FinTech
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Nigeria, Colombia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Treinta — Treinta powers 7 million SMBs across the US and Latin America with simple finance, inventory, and sales tools.
- Prospa — Prospa is a technology company building the operating system for African entrepreneurs and businesses.
Immad Akhund is the CEO and Founder of Mercury.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, India, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 105
- Round size: Seed $2M–$12M; Pre-Seed $500k–$4M; Series A $9M–$22M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Vorflux — Cloud agents that ship production code. An opinionated harness that runs the full SDLC on dedicated machines.
- Aseon Labs — Aseon Labs builds robotic pitstops for self-driving cars that provide charging, cleaning, and inspection for autonomous fleets directly in operating zones. The company develops modular robotic vehicle stations, referred to as Aseon Pods, that function as depots in a box rather than centralized facilities. These stations are designed to supportautonomous vehicles with routine turnaround tasks so that vehicles can remain near demand instead of traveling to distant depots. Aseon Labs focuses on the operational infrastructure layer for autonomous mobility, offering hardware and software systems that manage robotic station operation. Its products are intended for autonomous fleet operators and mobility companies that need distributed, always-on infrastructure to keep vehicles available. The company positions its technology for use across urban operating areas where autonomous vehicles run continuous services.
- Axiom Trust — Axiom Trust is an AI-powered trust startup that modernises professional trust administration during the "Great Wealth Transfer" of over $100 trillion in assets.
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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- 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.
Odunayo Eweniyi is the Co-founder and COO at Piggybank and PushCV. Odunayo is a Co-Founder and General Partner at FirstCheck Africa and a Board Member at Village Capital. She was also a Writer atTechCabal. Odunayo attended SOAS University of London, freeCodeCamp, and Covenant University.
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- Industry: EdTech, Chatbot, Facebook
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Geography: South Africa, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Pre-Seed $115k–$1M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Raenest — Access Virtual Accounts, Invoicing, Multi-Currency Payouts, Auto Payroll, Accounting Integrations, and Virtual & Physical cards within minutes.
- Norebase — Norebase knows that there's an opportunity to grow successful businesses in Africa. It also understands the complexities of the market, and so is using technology to make doing business in Africa worthwhile. With Norebase get to operate in Africa with no hassle and with minimum risk.
- FoondaMate — Foondamate brings the internet through messaging applications so students with limited internet access can study online.
Ankur Nagpal Founder of Fedora and Co-Founder of Vibe VC. He attended University of California, Berkeley in 2006.
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- Industry: Software, Apps, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, India, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 61
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$8.5M; Pre-Seed $400k–$3.8M; Series A $5.2M–$21M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Enki — Enki is the most effective way to learn Looker, Tableau, SQL, Excel, and other data skills. Training fully customized by role and team. Use data in the highest impact way for your role.
- Oxygen — Oxygen is a digital banking platform. It is the first and only challenger in the US that offers both personal and business banking. The bank of the 21st-century economy, serving consumers, small businesses, and freelancers.Available on iOS and Android, Oxygen users enjoy no monthly fees, no paperwork, early direct deposit, simple transfers,cashback rewards, savings accounts, as well as retail and travel benefits. Businesses can easily control their finances with solutions that are elegant, simple, and secure.
- Willow Voice — Fast, accurate voice dictation for emails, documents, Cursor, note-taking, and messaging. Turn speech to text seamlessly, edit automatically, and stay secure with privacy. Boost productivity with context-aware AI and custom dictionaries. Get Willow Voice!
Isaac Oates is based out of New York city, New York and is the Founder & Director of Justworks. Isaac previously worked at Etsy as a VP, Special Projects. Isaac Oates attended the Cornell University. Isaac Oates has received Henry Crown Fellow award.
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- Industry: Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, B2B
- Stage:Seed, Grant
- Geography: United States, France, South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $750k–$4.2M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Osium AI — Speed up your materials and chemicals innovation with AI.
- Lately — Lately uses AI to create your social media content and manage your social media marketing and social selling programs.
- FoondaMate — Foondamate brings the internet through messaging applications so students with limited internet access can study online.
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- Industry: Information Technology, SMS, Rental
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Ethiopia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $450k–$2M; Pre-Seed $200k–$220k
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- EPhone — EPhone is a dialer and SMS application. They offer features like managing user SMS and calls, saving money, and smart notifications. They instantly updated the package list.
- invygo — Invygo is MENA's first & largest car subscription service creating accessible mobility options through an all-inclusive monthly subscription, all in a seamless app-based experience.For consumers: we provide them access to passenger cars without any financial burdens through a customizable month-to-month subscription through a mobile appFor Dealers: through our technology, they get access to a new business model that helps them generate revenue and reduce their depreciation and operational cost The company was founded in 2018 by Eslam Hussein and Pulkit Ganjoo in Dubai, UAE.
- Jalebi — An award-winning restaurant point of sale (POS) & inventory management system thathelps you save 5% on the cost of every order served.
Karim Atiyeh is based out of New York, New York, and is the Co-CEO and Co-Founder of Ramp. Karim previously worked at Paribus as a Founder and CTO. Karim Atiyeh attended Harvard University.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Brazil, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 68
- Round size: Seed $2.2M–$9.8M; Series A $8.5M–$88M; Series B $43M–$250M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Pilgrim — Pioneering a biologically enhanced future for humanity.
- Augustus — Dollar and euro accounts for global fintechs and banks.
- Prime Intellect — Prime Intellect democratizes AI development at scale. Our platform makes it easy to find global compute resources and train state-of-the-art models through distributed training across clusters. Collectively own the resulting open AI innovations, from language models to scientific breakthroughs.
Founder at Mentat and Delivery Associates. Author of An Avalanche is Coming and Oceans of Innovation.
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- Industry: Apps, Banking, Operating Systems
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Prospa — Prospa is a technology company building the operating system for African entrepreneurs and businesses.
Conor Walsh
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- Industry: Apps, Banking, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- LiveFlow — The easiest way to bring financial data into your spreadsheet. Automate your finances, consolidate your accounts and collaborate in real-time. Try LiveFlow for free today!
- Prospa — Prospa is a technology company building the operating system for African entrepreneurs and businesses.
Faisal Alabdelsalam is the Founder and CEO of Zetta Technologies. He previously worked at STC as a Database Manager. Faisal Alabdelsalam attended King Saud University.
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- Industry: Information Technology, E-Commerce, Mobile Apps
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Egypt, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 13
- Round size: Seed $150k–$2M; Pre-Seed $200k–$1.5M
- Lead/follow: 62% lead, 38% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Bekia — Bekia is on-demand recyclable waste collection that connects people who want to get rid of their recyclable waste with the local collectors
- SIDEUP — SIDEUP provides you with all the necessary tools to grow your business through a hassle-free experience from local and global logistics support, storage services, and innovative and real-time dashboards.
- T7D Gaming — Gaming infrastructure for 600M+ players across MENA. Home of Pulse.
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