88mph.ac
VC Fund
Nairobi, Kenya
88mph.ac is a VC fund in Nairobi focused on Financial Services and FinTech. 88mph provides early-stage web/mobile companies with up to $100K in funding through their 3-month startup accelerator program.They are a private seed fund with vibrant work spaces in Nairobi and Cape Town, and a talented network of startup founders, investors, corporate partners, and local business professionals. They add value to startupsduring the accelerator program by providing advice on products, go-to-market, sales, company structure, hiring, funding options, and scalability, as well as bringing in experienced individuals from around the world to fill in the gaps.
- Total investments:
- 11
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 36%
Last updated:
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Industries 88mph.ac invests in
Stages 88mph.ac invests in
Countries 88mph.ac invests in
Contacts
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Chris Steyn
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Hannah Clifford
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Jura Sidorenko
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Kresten Buch
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Financial Services 3 (27%)
- FinTech 2 (18%)
- Analytics 2 (18%)
- Advertising 2 (18%)
- Music 1 (9%)
Stage
- Seed 7 (64%)
- Funding Round 2 (18%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (9%)
Country
- South Africa 2 (18%)
- United Kingdom 2 (18%)
- Kenya 1 (9%)
- Singapore 1 (9%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
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Chris Steyn
Executive Board Member
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Executive Board Member | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Dan Bowyer
Program Manager Cape Town
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Program Manager Cape Town | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
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Hannah Clifford
Master Organiser
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Master Organiser | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Jura Sidorenko
CTO
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CTO | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Kresten Buch
Managing Partner & Investor
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Managing Partner & Investor | Total investments: 9 | Find email | |
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Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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PawaPay
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PawaPay is a payments company that provides mobile payment solutions to African consumers or businesses. The company takes the technical integrations from telecom operators like AirtelTigo, Econet, MTN, Safaricom, Orange, and Vodafone and collapses them into one API for businesses.Founded in 2020, pawaPay is focused on the mobile moneyinfrastructure provided by telecommunications companies (telco) in Africa. Each telco in each country provides its own unique mobile money product, which makes the mobile money infrastructure as a whole - across borders and telcos - highly fragmented and opaque. For merchants, this fragmentation means that it is unnecessarily expensive to use and frustratingly unstable. Through pawaPay’s simple API, merchants can access more than 300 million customers in more than ten markets and enjoy seamless, transparent, and highly reliable payments. | $9M / Seed / Aug 26, 2021 | |
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PawaPay
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PawaPay is a payments company that provides mobile payment solutions to African consumers or businesses. The company takes the technical integrations from telecom operators like AirtelTigo, Econet, MTN, Safaricom, Orange, and Vodafone and collapses them into one API for businesses.Founded in 2020, pawaPay is focused on the mobile moneyinfrastructure provided by telecommunications companies (telco) in Africa. Each telco in each country provides its own unique mobile money product, which makes the mobile money infrastructure as a whole - across borders and telcos - highly fragmented and opaque. For merchants, this fragmentation means that it is unnecessarily expensive to use and frustratingly unstable. Through pawaPay’s simple API, merchants can access more than 300 million customers in more than ten markets and enjoy seamless, transparent, and highly reliable payments. | $9M / Seed / Aug 26, 2021 | |
Graphflow
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Our company was ignited by the simple idea that a customer’s own preferences should drive their retail experience. Our ultimate goal is to create a seamless sense of ‘flow’ for your customer as they move from one set of relevant content to another. We obsess over creating the most streamlined, intuitive experience for each and every customer,providing them with only the most personalized recommendations.We are also passionate about small business and believe that even the smallest store should have access to the same technology the big guys are using. That’s why we created a tool that allows them to get the edge over the competition by plugging into the power of Machine Learning and Big Data technologies. | $225K / Seed / Jan 20, 2014 | |
ApexPeak
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ApexPeak is a new capital provider to small and medium size enterprises directly and those transacting on electronic invoicing networks.Their simple and innovative solution helps ease the cash flow problems faced by most SME owners today by offering them early payments on their invoices.By offering a fast, flexible and affordable service,ApexPeak removes the lengthy, manual and restrictive processes required by banks. As a result, their customers no longer need to worry about cash flow problems and can instead focus on growing their businesses. | $1.8M / Seed / Sep 26, 2013 | |
Byte Money
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Byte Money services the South African funeral parlor market by providing cash receipting and auditing services. It specializes in the receipting and allocation of funeral policies using a mobile POS terminal and a scalable PYP platform. Driven by its service level agreement, it operates with diligence in respect of allocating premiums and more.Byte Money also provides quality German thermal-paper, suited to the rural environment.Byte Money makes use of the PYP platform, which is already integrated with multiple policy administration systems. In terms of the industry, the platform can be extended, with ease, to any system of its users choosing. It provides its users with continuous updates, improvements, and refinements to all its systems.Byte Money was launched in 2008 by Craig Peacock and is based in Gauteng, N.A. | Seed | |
8bit
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8Bit is localised content discovery and analytics platform dedicated to the distribution of high-quality content across their network of indie publishers. | Seed | |
Mdundo
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Mdundo is a music service providing Africa with easy and affordable access of music. According to PwC, 38% of the 300m smartphone users in Africa in 2017, listens to music on their phone every month. We collect rights to an increasingly popular unique Africa music catalogue. The customer can download and stream the music legally from our mobilewebsite and android app free of charge and we tab in to Africa’s growing digital advertisement industry. | ||
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M-PEPEA
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Gamsole
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Seed | ||
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Closet49
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Pre-Seed | ||
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FAQ
What does 88mph.ac invest in?
88mph.ac invests primarily in Financial Services, FinTech and Analytics startups, most often at Seed and Funding Round stage. Most of the 11 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in South Africa. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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Who are the partners at 88mph.ac?
The team at 88mph.ac includes Chris Steyn (Executive Board Member), Dan Bowyer (Program Manager Cape Town) and Hannah Clifford (Master Organiser), among 7 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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