# Digicel

> Digicel is a VC fund in Kingston backing Mobile and FinTech. See 6 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Kingston, Jamaica
- Total investments: 6
- Last investment: Dec 2017
- Lead investor: 17%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/digicel
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/digicelgroup
- Website: http://www.digicelgroup.com/en
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Digicelinternational

Digicel is a VC fund in Kingston focused on Mobile and FinTech. Digicel was founded in 2001 by Irish businessman Denis O'Brien. Digicel's networks provide reliable, high-speed communications technology to millions of customers in over 32 markets throughout the Caribbean, Asia Pacific and Central America. Digicel grew quickly in the Caribbean after launching in Jamaica in April 2001. Within fiveyears, the company had set up services in 13 countries, including St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Aruba, Grenada, and Antigua. During this time, Digicel also acquired Curacao Telecom, Cingular's operations in the Caribbean and Bermuda, and Bouygues Telecom Caraibe. Digicel began diversifying its business in the mid-2010s with the acquisition of Caribbean Cable Communications Holding Limited and the purchase of the Caribbean Submarine Fibre Network. The company continued to acquire internet and television companies and relaunch them under the Digicel brand throughout the decade. In September 2016, Digicel launched the Play Go streaming app in Jamaica. Digicel has earned several awards for its services, including the Avaya Award for Best Project of The Year in 2016 and the World Communications Award for Best Operator in an Emerging Market in 2019. In October 2019, Netflix ranked Digicel as the best streaming experience in Jamaica. In October 2020, the company launched itself as a Digital Operator. Digicel would deliver powerful digital experiences for customers through a suite of eight apps that offer sports, music, news, local radio, podcasts, and messaging on the go.Digicel is committed to the countries and communities where it operates and gives back through promotions and educational opportunities. The Digicel Foundation was established in Jamaica in 2004 and currently has sister foundations in Haiti, Papua New Guinea and Trinidad and Tobago. The Digicel Foundation has built almost 200 schools in Haiti since the 2010 earthquake, delivers programmes and infrastructure projects for those with special needs in Jamaica, provides mobile health clinics to citizens in Papua New Guinea, and supports social entrepreneurship programmes in Trinidad and Tobago.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Digicel. Shizune tracks 5 team members at Digicel. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/digicel?utm_source=investor_profile

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Mobile | 3 | 50% |
| FinTech | 2 | 33% |
| Financial Services | 2 | 33% |
| CRM | 1 | 17% |
| Apps | 1 | 17% |

18 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series C | 2 | 33% |
| Seed | 1 | 17% |
| Series B | 1 | 17% |
| Series D | 1 | 17% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 17% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 3 | 50% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 17% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| David Lomas | Group CFO | 0 | — |
| Denis O'Brien | Owner & Board Chair | 0 | — |
| Ennis Reid | People Experience Director | 0 | — |
| Jean-Yves Charlier | Chief Executive Officer | 0 | — |
| Oliver Coughlan | Chief Executive Officer, Caribbean and Central America | 0 | — |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| BIMA | BIMA is an insurtech player using mobile technology to provide insurance and health services to emerging markets. To serve its customers, the company has developed a proprietary technology platform, established exclusive partnerships with mobile operators, and built relationships with international insurers. BIMA utilizes its technology platform toserve customers in 13 countries across Asia, Africa, and Latin America and has reached to date 31 million subscribers. | $36.2M | Series D | Dec 19, 2017 |  |
| BIMA | BIMA is an insurtech player using mobile technology to provide insurance and health services to emerging markets. To serve its customers, the company has developed a proprietary technology platform, established exclusive partnerships with mobile operators, and built relationships with international insurers. BIMA utilizes its technology platform toserve customers in 13 countries across Asia, Africa, and Latin America and has reached to date 31 million subscribers. | $20M | Series C | Jul 01, 2015 |  |
| Altocloud | Altocloud is a Customer Journey Analytics platform that combines Artificial Intelligence and real time communications to deliver a seamless customer experience and better outcomes for business. Delivered through an easy-to-deploy SaaS platform, the Altocloud software integrates with leading CRM, Marketing Automation and Contact Center products. Thecompany is based in Mountain View, California and Galway, Ireland. See http://altocloud.com | $2M | Seed | Mar 16, 2015 |  |
| Flint | Flint is a mobile payment service that enables users to easily take credit cards on the spot by scanning, via invoice or online.Flint Mobile can also send invoices for online bill payment, handle cash and checks and manage customized coupons with Apple Passbook integration. Other features include automatic syncing of all transactions as wellas line item information and customer information with QuickBooks accounts. Flint is also a payment service provider and offers quick setup without needing a merchant account.Flint was launched in 2011 by Greg Goldfarb and Andrew Laszlo. | $6M | Series B | Oct 25, 2013 |  |
| Boom Financial | Boom Financial (formerly m-Via) was founded in 2008 on the premise that immigrants are being taken advantage of by traditional cash service providers in the remittance, check cashing and payday loan worlds.Their first consumer service is the world's first cross border mobile banking service. Boom helps families share their money quickly,safely and economically. Members can load cash at one of 15,000 Boom load partner and send money via text message directly from their Boom account. The service automatically creates a new Boom account for the recipient of p2p transfers, regardless of location.Boom offers a lot of amazing benefits:* Send money anywhere (globally), at any time, as many times you need and as much as you want. It's easy; everything is done from your cell phone. No charges for sending money. ENOUGH with the expensive fees every time you want to send.* Skip boring, tedious long lines at the stores. Just use your cell phone.* Send the receiver any amount you want. Boom allows you to send as little or as much as you want to anyone you want.* Send $5 today, $50 tomorrow, $75 a week, $300 a month. Whatever. No restrictions except the legal ones.* Recipients of Boom transfers are notified via text message and can immediately access their updated Boom balance. The Boom Debit Card makes withdrawals easy. Or for recipients in remote or rural locations they have a large Boom agent network for withdrawing funds directly via text message.* The annual membership is only $25.00, yeah.. only 25! It costs nothing to send money from one Boom member to another. ....and if you send money to someone not yet a Boom member they will waive their annual membership fee for the first year. Boom account holders get 3 free ATM transactions per month anywhere in the world - in over 200 countries. Bottom line is that Boom customers can save hundreds of dollars per year vs competing money transfer services and banks.Boom is the most effortless, reliable and innovative money transfer and banking service out there.No more worrying about carrying cash around. Your money is secure. Take it or send it as you need it. | $17M |  | Jul 18, 2012 |  |
| Flint | Flint is a mobile payment service that enables users to easily take credit cards on the spot by scanning, via invoice or online.Flint Mobile can also send invoices for online bill payment, handle cash and checks and manage customized coupons with Apple Passbook integration. Other features include automatic syncing of all transactions as wellas line item information and customer information with QuickBooks accounts. Flint is also a payment service provider and offers quick setup without needing a merchant account.Flint was launched in 2011 by Greg Goldfarb and Andrew Laszlo. | $9.4M | Series C |  |  |

6 of 6 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Kinnevik](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/investment-ab-kinnevik) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- Millicom (Tigo) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Storm Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/storm-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [SVG Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/svg-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [SVG Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/thrive-agtech-accelerator) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [True Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/true-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Digicel invest in?

Digicel invests primarily in Mobile, FinTech and Financial Services startups, most often at Series C and Seed stage. Most of the 6 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Digicel?

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### Who are the partners at Digicel?

The team at Digicel includes David Lomas (Group CFO), Denis O'Brien (Owner & Board Chair) and Ennis Reid (People Experience Director). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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