Cyril Collon
General Partner @ Partech
Cyril COLLON is a General Partner of Partech, co-leading Partech Africa Fund, Partech’s multi-stages tech fund exclusively dedicated to Africa digital markets. He joined in May 2016.Prior to joining Partech, Cyril held different executive positions at fast-paced mobile and internet solution companies, with a consistent focus on Africa where headditionally grew up until 18. Prior to Partech, Cyril was the Vice President, Sales and Business Development, for Europe & Africa at Verscom Solutions, a leading System Integrator’s pioneer in Cloud/SaaS Packet-voice transformation for Emerging markets. Prior to Verscom, Cyril worked for Genband, a global leader in real time communications software solutions, where he initiated and headed the Channel development organization for Europe, Africa and Middle East. Prior to Genband, Cyril opened the Africa region for UTStarcom, a global Wireless leader, where he deployed the first IP-based mobile networks on the continent taking part of the critical mobile revolution in Africa; he set-up and headed the two African subsidiaries (Cameroon, Mali) as Managing Director.
- Total investments:
- 19
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 63%
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Industries Cyril Collon invests in
Stages Cyril Collon invests in
Countries Cyril Collon invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- FinTech 3 (16%)
- Financial Services 3 (16%)
- Software 2 (11%)
- E-Commerce 2 (11%)
- B2B 1 (5%)
Stage
- Series A 6 (32%)
- Series B 5 (26%)
- Series C 2 (11%)
- Seed 1 (5%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 1 (5%)
Country
- Nigeria 4 (21%)
- United Arab Emirates 2 (11%)
- Egypt 1 (5%)
- Morocco 1 (5%)
- The Netherlands 1 (5%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| We are a team of French engineers on a mission to change the way we buy Tech Because devices don't have to be new to feel like new! | $17M / Series B / Nov 25, 2025 | ||
| Money Fellows is a financial technology company that offers digitized money circles, also known as rotating savings and credit associations (ROSCAs). Through its mobile application, users can join money circles with flexible durations of 6, 10, or 12 months. Participants make regular contributions and receive payouts according to a predeterminedschedule. The platform supports various payment methods, including the Money Fellows Card, credit/debit cards, pre-paid cards, bank transfers, Fawry, and e-wallets. Users can participate in multiple circles simultaneously, with payouts up to 1,200,000 EGP. The service includes features such as cashback on payouts and discounts on pay-ins. Money Fellows operates under the supervision of the Central Bank of Egypt's Regulatory Sandbox and collaborates with Banque Misr to monitor transactions and user payouts. | $13M / Series C / May 04, 2025 | ||
| Beacon Power Services is a utility company that provides energy management software and analytics for utilities. | $9.1M / Series A / Nov 06, 2024 | ||
| TerraPay, a mobile-first international payment network, has been founded with the vision to send money to any mobile. TerraPay interconnects financial services providers -- mobile wallet service providers, money transfer operators, banks and payment platforms – to create a “one network” for secure and seamless transnational movement of funds. Thenetwork facilitates a broad transaction set including interpersonal transfers, e-payments and government disbursements.TerraPay is platform agnostic and supports standard open APIs for integration with any mobile wallet provider. Through a single connection, partners gain access to a global payment network enabling rapid services up-scaling whilst minimizing Opex and Capex investments. As a fully regulated financial intermediary services network, TerraPay offers services beyond principal core transaction, routing and processing functions and assumes end-to-end responsibility for, regulatory compliance foreign exchange management and funds settlement. | $100.5M / Series B / Apr 04, 2023 | ||
| almentor.net is a cutting-edge continuous e-learning platform curating top-rated video-based training programs delivered by leading subject matter experts and accessible through B2C and B2B channels to serve the needs of Arabs across the world. The platform was officially launched in January 2018 and currently offers the biggest Arabic high qualitycontinuous learning video library in the world, including paid courses, free talks, crash courses and books, primarily in Arabic. | $10M / Series C / Mar 16, 2023 | ||
| Money Fellows is a financial technology company that offers digitized money circles, also known as rotating savings and credit associations (ROSCAs). Through its mobile application, users can join money circles with flexible durations of 6, 10, or 12 months. Participants make regular contributions and receive payouts according to a predeterminedschedule. The platform supports various payment methods, including the Money Fellows Card, credit/debit cards, pre-paid cards, bank transfers, Fawry, and e-wallets. Users can participate in multiple circles simultaneously, with payouts up to 1,200,000 EGP. The service includes features such as cashback on payouts and discounts on pay-ins. Money Fellows operates under the supervision of the Central Bank of Egypt's Regulatory Sandbox and collaborates with Banque Misr to monitor transactions and user payouts. | $31M / Series B / Oct 30, 2022 | ||
| VendEase is a marketplace that lets restaurants in Africa, order supplies directly from farms and food manufacturers. Think of us as Amazon, but for food businesses. | $20M / Series A / Sep 26, 2022 | ||
| Freterium is a predictive supply chain platform that delivers real-time visibility and optimized orchestration for logistics firms. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Grand Casablanca, Morocco. | $4M / Seed / Dec 24, 2021 | ||
| TradeDepot is an end-to-end distribution platform that connects the world's top consumer goods companies directly to retailers on the streets of Africa's cities. With its headquarters in Lagos, Nigeria, TradeDepot’s aim is to build the largest retail distribution network in Africa. The company was founded in 2016, with a mission toimprove milk distribution to smaller retailers on the continent, using technology. Today, the company is scaling the same technology to improve the distribution of food, beverages and personal care products to retailers, and to improve livelihoods for these retail store owners. | $42M / Series B / Dec 06, 2021 | ||
| almentor.net is a cutting-edge continuous e-learning platform curating top-rated video-based training programs delivered by leading subject matter experts and accessible through B2C and B2B channels to serve the needs of Arabs across the world. The platform was officially launched in January 2018 and currently offers the biggest Arabic high qualitycontinuous learning video library in the world, including paid courses, free talks, crash courses and books, primarily in Arabic. | $6.5M / Series B / May 31, 2021 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Partech
Partech is a global tech investment firm headquartered in Paris, with offices in Berlin, Dakar, Dubai, Nairobi, and San Francisco. We are a team made up of independent thinkers. We are unconstrained by hype, trend or fixed ways of working. We believe in the power of alliance in action, working together and side-by-side with the founders we back, in the shared pursuit of success. We bring together capital, operational experience and strategic support for the entrepreneurs we back from seed through to growth stage. Born in San Francisco 40 years ago, today we manage €2.5bn AUM and our current portfolio of 220 companies in 40 countries, across 4 continents.
Partech Contacts
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Alison Imbert
Senior Associate
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Andrew Whiting
Principal
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Cyril Collon
General Partner
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What does Cyril Collon invest in?
Cyril Collon invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Software startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 19 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Nigeria. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The most recent investment recorded for Cyril Collon closed in Nov 2025. Shizune tracks 19 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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