# Ashley Thompson- MacCarthy

> Ashley Thompson- MacCarthy is a Series A investor at Good Soil VC backing Mobile and Retail. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Good Soil VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/good-soil-vc)
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: Jun 2021
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashley-thompson-maccarthy-29880261/?originalSubdomain=uk

Ashley Thompson- MacCarthy is a Series A investor at Good Soil VC focused on Mobile and Retail. Ashley Thompson-MacCarthy is the CEO at Obsidian Achernar. Ashley Thompson-MacCarthy attended Middlesex University.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Mobile | 1 | 100% |
| Retail | 1 | 100% |
| FinTech | 1 | 100% |
| Mobile Apps | 1 | 100% |
| Financial Services | 1 | 100% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Zeepay | Zeepay Ghana Limited is a wholly Ghanaian owned Mobile FinancialServices company focusing on providing integrated mobile payments services with mobile wallets targeting the unbanked and banked population with the objective of bringing the unbanked into the financial stream and easing payments and collections for the banked population.Zeepayfacilitates the processing of multiple mobile phone payment transactions, and operates as a aggregator that brings transaction of all players together on one single platform. The company’s core application runs on open source technology, and is designed to integrate all types of payment platforms, banks, merchants, Mobile Network Operators (MNOs), and other companies with subscriber based transactions. | $7.9M | Series A | Jun 30, 2021 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Absa Bank Ghana](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/absa-bank-ghana) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [ARK Holdings](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ark-holdings) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [First National Bank](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/first-national-bank-of-south-africa) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Good Soil VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/good-soil-vc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Investisseurs & Partenaires](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/investisseurs-and-partenaires) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Good Soil VC

VC Fund · London, United Kingdom

GOODsoil VC is an early stage venture capital firm. We partner with founders seeking to invent new market categories and transform large, existing industries.They aim to take risks on innovative and ambitious people and products; providing risk capital for new and early-stage start-up companies, in return for an equity share.

4 contacts available at Good Soil VC.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Ashley Thompson- MacCarthy | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ashley-thompson-maccarthy |
| Charmaine Hayden | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/charmaine-hayden |
| Orla Enright | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/orla-enright |
| Richard Mensah | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/richard-mensah |

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## FAQ

### What does Ashley Thompson- MacCarthy invest in?

Ashley Thompson- MacCarthy invests primarily in Mobile, Retail and FinTech startups, most often at Series A stage. Most of the 1 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Ghana. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Ashley Thompson- MacCarthy last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Ashley Thompson- MacCarthy closed in Jun 2021. Shizune tracks 1 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?

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