# Anton Gaylard

> Anton Gaylard is a seed investor at Emerge Mobile backing FinTech and Financial Services. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Emerge Mobile](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/emerge-mobile)
- Location: Cape Town, South Africa
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Apr 2025
- Lead investor: 75%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anton-gaylard-a1529a5/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/warriormanag
- Website: https://x.com/warriormanag

Anton Gaylard is a seed investor at Emerge Mobile in Cape Town focused on FinTech and Financial Services. Anton Gaylard - Director @ Emerge Mobile

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 3 | 38% |
| Financial Services | 2 | 25% |
| Retail | 1 | 13% |
| Banking | 1 | 13% |
| Lending | 1 | 13% |

11 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 25% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 25% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 25% |
| Series A | 1 | 13% |
| Private Equity | 1 | 13% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| South Africa | 5 | 63% |
| Singapore | 1 | 13% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| DigiSquad | DigiSquad is a team of entrepreneurs in the payments industry striving to expand the reach of digital payment platforms in underserved regions. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Apr 23, 2025 |  |
| Troygold | Troygold digitizes gold bullion and Krugerrands and then allows customers to buy, sell, spend and borrow against their gold. |  | Seed | Apr 13, 2021 |  |
| Troygold | Troygold digitizes gold bullion and Krugerrands and then allows customers to buy, sell, spend and borrow against their gold. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Apr 13, 2021 |  |
| truID | truID is provides a single API to access identity data, balance and transactions from your user’s bank account. Connect with multiple institutions, save months of development and stay compliant. |  |  | Jun 10, 2020 |  |
| truID | truID is provides a single API to access identity data, balance and transactions from your user’s bank account. Connect with multiple institutions, save months of development and stay compliant. |  | Seed | Jun 10, 2020 |  |
| Atura | Atura is an automated chatbot for asset management companies |  | Series A | Sep 14, 2018 |  |
| My-iMali | My-iMali is a Mobile Wallet Solution and Mobile Wallet Platform Provider that provides businesses the opportunity to sign up as a Virtual Enterprise with the capability of targeted funding by means of bulk fund distributions as well as targeted spending. |  |  |  |  |
| Retail Capital | In January 2011, Retail Capital was established to provide businesses with an accessible, flexible and convenient alternative to traditional business loans. In a survey sent to over 20,000 businesses, access to working capital and cash flow was identified as the single biggest challenge that they faced. As small to medium sized business contributeover 65% of South Africa’s employment and 50% of the country’s GDP, this is a very significant problem for the South African economy, inhibiting job creation and growth. | $1M | Private Equity |  |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Investec](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/investec) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Emerge Mobile

VC Fund · Durban, South Africa

Emerge Mobile is a services and technology provider that serves SME's through mobile innovation. the company also seeks to enable Acquirers / Telco’s / MNO’s and other potential market players with the ability to rapidly compete in the MPOS space through providing their turnkey Mobile Point of Sale (MPOS) solution.Throughleveraging the in-group mature mobile payments platform, the company can provide a broad offering of peripheral value adds, that empower the merchant base and unlock additional revenue streams for their clientele. With a culture of clear communication, customer centric operations, commercial flexibility and business transparency Emerge Mobile is ready to work closely with your company to find the ideal strategy and deployment for specific MPOS and market needs.

2 contacts available at Emerge Mobile.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Anton Gaylard | Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anton-gaylard |
| Ramsay Daly | Managing Director, Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ramsay-daly |

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## FAQ

### What does Anton Gaylard invest in?

Anton Gaylard invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Retail startups, most often at Seed and Funding Round stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in South Africa. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Anton Gaylard last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Anton Gaylard closed in Apr 2025. Shizune tracks 8 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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