# DotExe Ventures

> DotExe Ventures is a VC fund backing Debt Collections and Service Industry. See 10 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Port Louis, Mauritius
- Total investments: 10
- Last investment: May 2026
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/dotexe-ventures
- Website: https://dotexe.vc/

DotExe Ventures is a venture capital firm. It carries out the goal of the IBL Group, the biggest Mauritian conglomerate, to accelerate its expansion in Eastern Africa. It is about mentoring and help from teams dedicated to maximizing the potential of young firms. And it's about collaborating with investors who have the same fundamental goal.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | $1.8M–$4M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Debt Collections | 1 | 10% |
| Service Industry | 1 | 10% |
| Financial Services | 1 | 10% |

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 10% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 10% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Nigeria | 1 | 10% |
| South Africa | 1 | 10% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Laurent Fayolle | Founder & Managing Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/laurent-fayolle-f98a |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| BFree | BFree focuses its collection processes on sustainably leading customers out of debt by giving them back control over their finances. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | May 06, 2026 |  |
| Happy Pay | Happy Pay is a credit scoring system developing company. The company integrates an autonomous artificial intelligence technology system with the merchant's platform to increase their average basket size and customer conversion metrics, providing users with buy now, and pay later services. | $1.8M | Pre-Seed | Sep 17, 2024 |  |
| Tagmarshal | Tagmarshal is a B2B SaaS Golf Course Optimization system. As global leaders in course traffic and flow of play management, the company’s solution uses IoT, predictive analytics and actionable data to deliver a solution that ensures golf courses operate more efficiently, save costs and generate material revenue while delivering exceptional playerexperiences. Working with 30 of the top 100 clubs (Pebble Beach, Winged Foot, Kiawah Ocean, Valhalla, Whistling Straits etc.) Tagmarshal has built market-leading traction, having rapidly scaled into the middle tier of what is a 34 000 strong B2B market. |  | Series A | Sep 11, 2024 |  |
| BFree | BFree focuses its collection processes on sustainably leading customers out of debt by giving them back control over their finances. | $3M | Seed | Feb 05, 2024 |  |
| Cloudline | Cloudline leverages lighter-than-air technology and solar power to bring emissions free aviation to every part of the world. | $4M | Pre-Seed | Aug 17, 2023 |  |
| Sendmarc | Sendmarc is offers email protection from phishing attacks and email impersonation. | $7M | Series A | Feb 08, 2023 |  |
| Leta | Leta Technology is a software development company that creates supply chain and logistics software to enable the efficient and automated movement of goods. | $3M | Pre-Seed | Nov 22, 2022 |  |
| Numida | Numida is a rapidly growing digital financial institution in East Africa serving micro- and small businesses. Thanks to our proprietary credit score, and digital credit operations we provide unsecured growth and working capital to businesses, resulting in high portfolio yields and a high impact on our borrowers’ livelihoods. | $12.3M | Seed | Sep 28, 2022 |  |
| Talk360 | Talk360 is an easy-to-use calling app that helps people make affordable international calls to any mobile and landline number. They believe that reliable communication and digital services must be affordable and accessible to everyone, regardless of someone's background. Especially people in emerging countries in Africa, who often need theseservices the most, do not always have the necessary banking possibilities. To bridge this distance, Talk360 will launch the world's first single checkout platform for Africa. This platform will combine all locally available payment methods and currencies across Africa, together with over 1.25 million cash points of sales, and will eventually be available to other companies as well. This means that 500 million Africans will be able to purchase digital services they never had access to before. | $4M | Seed | Jun 01, 2022 |  |
| LifeQ | Our Dream is to empower everyone to delay aging, optimize your health, harness more energy, reduce the probability of disease, and understand why and how your body is changing, right now! It is in your power to be your biologically younger self.Our Missions is to enable consumers to make better decisions to live healthier lives through optimizinghealth, and be in a position to make smarter, informed, health decisions.We will do this by giving you a 360-degree personalized health mirror, along with the tools, tailored recommendations, and business partners that cover every aspect of your health. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Jan 01, 2022 |  |

10 of 10 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [4Di Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/4di-capital) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Launch Africa](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/launch-africa) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
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## FAQ

### What does DotExe Ventures invest in?

DotExe Ventures invests primarily in Debt Collections, Service Industry and Financial Services startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Venture - Series Unknown stage. Most of the 10 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Nigeria. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is DotExe Ventures's check size?

DotExe Ventures typically joins rounds of $1.8M–$4M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds DotExe Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact DotExe Ventures?

Public channels for DotExe Ventures include LinkedIn and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at DotExe Ventures?

The team at DotExe Ventures includes Laurent Fayolle (Founder & Managing Director). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### 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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