# Gbenga Ajayi

> Gbenga Ajayi is a seed investor at QED Investors (London) backing Financial Services and FinTech. See 14 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [QED Investors](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/qed-investors)
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 14
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 64%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gbengaajayi/

Gbenga Ajayi is a Partner at QED Investors.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $3M–$34M |
| Series A | $8M–$38M |
| Series B | $33M–$55M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Financial Services | 8 | 57% |
| FinTech | 6 | 43% |
| Payments | 5 | 36% |
| Banking | 4 | 29% |
| Insurance | 2 | 14% |

17 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 36% |
| Series A | 3 | 21% |
| Series B | 3 | 21% |
| Series C | 2 | 14% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| South Africa | 2 | 14% |
| United States | 2 | 14% |
| Egypt | 1 | 7% |
| Kenya | 1 | 7% |
| Israel | 1 | 7% |

9 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Velocity | Velocity provides a unified platform for efficiently moving and managing funds across both traditional banks and blockchains. | $38M | Series A | Jul 14, 2026 |  |
| Stitch | Stitch is a payments infrastructure company that helps businesses seamlessly connect to the financial system, so they can deliver a better user experience and optimize operations. Headquartered in Cape Town, South Africa, Stitch launched in February 2021 and has global staff. Stitch offers all popular online payment methods and operates as aPayments Service Provider. Its platform supports a variety of pay-in methods and solutions; financial and payment management solutions; and Payouts. Learn more at stitch.money. | $55M | Series B | Apr 11, 2025 |  |
| NymCard | NymCard is a full-stack, API-first embedded finance platform that provides payment infrastructure for banks, fintechs, enterprises, and telecom providers. The platform enables seamless card issuance, transaction processing, digital lending, and real-time money movement through its proprietary nCore system. Operating across multiple countries,NymCard owns its processing and switching technology, offering greater control and flexibility without reliance on third-party providers.The company is licensed by the Central Bank of the UAE, ensuring compliance with financial regulations while helping institutions scale their financial services. By integrating with global and regional payment networks, NymCard supports businesses in launching and managing payment products efficiently. | $33M | Series B | Mar 18, 2025 |  |
| Raenest | Raenest helps African talents get paid in minutes by clients and businesses globally while saving costs on fees by automating their invoicing and using foreign bank accounts with cards to localise their payments | $11M | Series A | Feb 11, 2025 |  |
| Cedar Money | Cedar Money is a payment platform that offers transaction, fraud detection, real-time exchange rates, and enabling businesses cashfree. | $9.9M | Seed | Jan 30, 2025 |  |
| FlapKap | FlapKap is a company revolutionizing e-commerce and SaaS growth in the MEA region. | $34M | Seed | Sep 09, 2024 |  |
| Revio | Revio was founded in 2020 to help businesses collect more revenue, through reducing payment failures and recovering lost revenue. Through a single API, we optimise merchants’ payment stacks with locally-optimised payment methods and smart payment routing, failover, and retries.We understand that there is more to getting paid than acceptingpayments, and believe that how you engage customers when trying to collect a failed payment is as important as when you are trying to acquire them. Our Recovery solution builds on this insight, empowering businesses with data-driven omnichannel interaction workflows to recover at-risk revenue from their customers. Today, we’re helping some of Africa's largest brands and fastest-growing startups increase their revenue through increased payment success rates, customer retention, and lifetime value. Locally grounded but globally relevant, we aim to be the go-to revenue recovery and growth partner for businesses across emerging markets. | $5.2M | Seed | Sep 26, 2023 |  |
| Remedial Health | We improve business to business access to medicines by providing such medicines from manufactures/registered distributors direct to large and small healthcare retail businesses (large pharmacies and remote chemist/PPMVs (Patent and Proprietary Medicine Vendors)) using technology to deliver just-in-time stock and provide financing and awide selection of inventory to such retail business. | $8M | Series A | Aug 01, 2023 |  |
| Power | Power is a platform that provides financial services to employees and gig workers across sub-Saharan Africa. They enable individuals to access earned wages, loans, insurance, payments, and savings so they can live with dignity, reduce financial-related stress, and take control of their financial well-being. | $3M | Seed | Dec 20, 2022 |  |
| FlapKap | FlapKap is a company revolutionizing e-commerce and SaaS growth in the MEA region. | $3.6M | Seed | Oct 12, 2022 |  |

10 of 14 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Bossa Invest](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bossanova-investimentos) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Everywhere Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/everywhere-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Lightrock](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lightrock) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Novastar Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/novastar-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Ventures Platform](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ventures-platform) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [A15](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/a-15) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About QED Investors

VC Fund · Alexandria, United States

QED Investors is an investment firm that supports high-growth companies and businesses. The firm typically provides a combination of both capital and capability. But common to all the firm's partnerships is a shared conviction that information plays a decisive role in the success of the company, a mutual desire for a high degree of directengagement, and a shared enthusiasm for experimentation and learning.

5 contacts available at QED Investors.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Bill Cilluffo | Partner and Head of Early Stage Investments | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bill-cilluffo |
| Lauren Connolley | Partner at QED Investors | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lauren-connolley |
| Matthew Risley | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/matt-burton-f8b4 |
| Matt Risley | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/matthew-risley-42ea |
| Miles Reidy | Partner and Emeritus | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/j-miles-reldy |

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## FAQ

### What does Gbenga Ajayi invest in?

Gbenga Ajayi invests primarily in Financial Services, FinTech and Payments startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 14 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in South Africa. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Gbenga Ajayi's check size?

Gbenga Ajayi typically joins rounds of $3M–$34M at Seed, $8M–$38M at Series A and $33M–$55M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Gbenga Ajayi participates in.

### When did Gbenga Ajayi last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Gbenga Ajayi closed in Jul 2026. Shizune tracks 14 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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