Justin Stanford
Co-founding General Partner & Co-founder @ 4Di Capital
Cape Town, South Africa
Justin Stanford is a seed investor at 4Di Capital in Cape Town focused on FinTech and Security. Justin is a 31-year old entrepreneur, angel investor and venture capitalist from Cape Town, South Africa. He is founder, MD, board member, advisor, or investor to a wide variety of companies in the global technology sector.Having grown up on a farm, he decided not to complete high-school and instead made the move to the city of Cape Town, topursue his dreams of being an Internet entrepreneur.Despite years of struggles and false starts in the wake of the dotcom crash in 2001, he ultimately went on to successfully launch and grow a pan-African Internet based software company from a garage in the suburbs of Cape Town.Have founded his first startup attempt at the age of 18, Justin has been involved in tech startups and entrepreneurial endeavours ever since.He is today the co-founder and MD of 4Di Group, a diversified investment management group and family office, and co-founding General Partner of early-stage technology venture capital firm 4Di Capital, as well as an active angel investor.As co-founder and Steering Committee Chairman of the Silicon Cape Initiative in 2009, designed to highlight and foster South Africa's nascent emerging tech startup ecosystem, Justin fully believes in South Africa’s potential as a global technology innovation hub.In 2011, he was listed by the Mail & Guardian for the 'Top 200 Young South Africans', and in 2013, listed by Forbes for '30 Under 30: Africa's Best Young Entrepreneurs'.
- Total investments:
- 8
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 38%
Last updated:
For AI agents: llms.txt
Industries Justin Stanford invests in
Stages Justin Stanford invests in
Countries Justin Stanford invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Type | Contact | Validation |
|---|---|---|
| Work email | ||
| Personal email | ||
| Work phone | ||
| Personal phone | ||
| Socials |
Round size
- Series A
- $3.5M–$6.4M
Investment Focus
Industry
- FinTech 2 (25%)
- Security 2 (25%)
- Financial Services 2 (25%)
- Apps 1 (13%)
- Mobile 1 (13%)
Stage
- Seed 2 (25%)
- Angel 2 (25%)
- Series A 2 (25%)
- Series B 1 (13%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| VALR.com is a digital asset trading platform where you can buy, sell, store and transfer cryptocurrencies seamlessly and securely. We offer one of the widest selections of digital assets. We‘re helping to build a financial system that recognises the oneness of humanity. | $50M / Series B / Mar 01, 2022 | ||
| VALR.com is a digital asset trading platform where you can buy, sell, store and transfer cryptocurrencies seamlessly and securely. We offer one of the widest selections of digital assets. We‘re helping to build a financial system that recognises the oneness of humanity. | $3.5M / Series A / Jul 21, 2020 | ||
| Lumkani is a social enterprise known for its fire detector and system designed to overcome the shack-fire challenge in urban slums in South Africa and across the globe with the use of a heat detection technology. It measures the incidence of harmful fires and alert families inside the shack of the danger, using the rate-of-rise of temperaturetechnology. Its devices are networked using transmission technology which connects each device within a 60 meter radius of each other. In the event of a fire, devices within this range ring creating a community-wide response to the danger.Lumkani is based in Cape Town, South Africa. | Seed / Jun 08, 2018 | ||
| Ekaya is a renting platform where users can list, find properties, and collect rent on the same website. Ekaya was founded in 2013 and was headquartered in Cape Town, South Africa. | Angel / Jun 01, 2015 | ||
| Ekaya is a renting platform where users can list, find properties, and collect rent on the same website. Ekaya was founded in 2013 and was headquartered in Cape Town, South Africa. | $77K / Angel / Sep 17, 2014 | ||
| FitKey is about helping you find and manage the fitness life that makes you happy, through discovering new classes, studios, and fitness activities. With easy online and mobile booking, FitKey keeps your routine interesting. | Seed | ||
| Originally funded by Google in 2011, TaxTim is Africa's answer to Making Tax Easy. Answer simple questions one-by-one, in a friendly automated chat, and your tax return is done in minutes. TaxTim has 40% market share of the tax base in South Africa (~4.5m), and has deployed localised versions in Namibia and Nigeria as JVs with PwC previously.TaxTim is integrated with the local revenue service (SARS) for instant electronic tax submissions, and partners with some of SA's largest consumer brands - Airbnb, Momentum, Sanlam, Old Mutual, FNB eBucks - to provide tax services for free or at discount. TaxTim has several business models including B2C, B2B and B2B2C. TaxTim is a compelling and popular consumer brand, with a fully-developed, profitable broker/financial product leads ecosystem. | Angel | ||
| FireID is a technology incubator based in Stellenbosch, South Africa.We focus on the development and commercialisation of innovative and disruptive technologies. We operate across a number of industries where we help our clients to take advantage of new technology trends. Our success is driven by a committed and dynamic team who are passionateaboutcreating products that have major impact. | $6.4M / Series A |
Co-Investors
About 4Di Capital
4Di Capital is an independent seed- and early-stage technology venture capital firm based in Cape Town, South Africa.Nurture capital is the term that best describes 4Di Capitalâ€:tm:s purpose and philosophy.We understand that in the early days of any business, support, mentoring and access to networks is just as important as seed capital.Using tried and tested international venture capital best practices, adapted for local use, we believe in entrepreneur-friendly finance without frills, and in working as a team with our investments to achieve their true potential.4Di Capital Early-Stage Technology Fund 1 targets startup investment opportunities with high growth potential at the seed- and early-stages in the mobile, enterprise software and web sectors.We look for founder teams with hungry passion, commitment, domain expertise and deep insights into the large market problems they wish to solve with their technology solutions.
4Di Capital Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Anton van Vlaanderen
Partner
|
|||
Erik van Vlaanderen
Executive Chairman
|
|||
|
Justin Stanford
Co-founding General Partner & Co-founder
|
|||
Laurence (Laurie) Olivier
Partner
|
|||
Access 48,091 investors
822 industries, 177 countries. Updated daily. Emails and phones included.
Browse database — It's Free!
Find investors for your startup
Search 48,091 investors by industry and country. Emails and phones included.
Similar Investors
Similar industry
Similar country
Featured in Investor Lists
Recommended lists
FAQ
What does Justin Stanford invest in?
Justin Stanford invests primarily in FinTech, Security and Financial Services startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 8 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 Justin Stanford's check size?
Justin Stanford typically joins rounds of $3.5M–$6.4M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Justin Stanford participates in.
How do I contact Justin Stanford?
Public channels for Justin Stanford include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) 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.
When did Justin Stanford last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Justin Stanford closed in Mar 2022. Shizune tracks 8 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 Sep 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
Contact your first 100 investors today
Find who invests in your industry, stage, and country. Download investor list with emails in 5 minutes.
Find investors — It's Free!
Continue with Google
Continue with LinkedIn
