# Kresten Buch > Kresten Buch is a seed investor at 88mph.ac backing Advertising. See 9 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Oct 2026. - Type: Angel Investor - Fund: [88mph.ac](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/88mph-ac) - Total investments: 9 - Last investment: Aug 2021 - Lead investor: 44% - Last updated: Oct 2026 - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/krestenbuch - X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/Krestenbuch Kresten Buch is a seed investor at 88mph.ac focused on Advertising and Financial Services. Kresten Buch is the Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer & Vice President of Growth at betPawa. ## Contacts 5 contacts available for Kresten Buch: work email, personal email, work phone, personal phone and socials. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-email/kresten-buch?utm_source=investor_profile ## Investment focus ### Industry | Industry | Investments | Share | | --- | --- | --- | | Advertising | 2 | 22% | | Financial Services | 2 | 22% | | Music | 1 | 11% | | FinTech | 1 | 11% | | Funerals | 1 | 11% | 11 industries tracked in total. ### Stage | Stage | Investments | Share | | --- | --- | --- | | Seed | 5 | 56% | | Funding Round | 2 | 22% | | Pre-Seed | 1 | 11% | ### Country | Country | Investments | Share | | --- | --- | --- | | United Kingdom | 2 | 22% | | Kenya | 1 | 11% | | South Africa | 1 | 11% | ## Investments | Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | PawaPay | PawaPay is a payments company that provides mobile payment solutions to African consumers or businesses. The company takes the technical integrations from telecom operators like AirtelTigo, Econet, MTN, Safaricom, Orange, and Vodafone and collapses them into one API for businesses.Founded in 2020, pawaPay is focused on the mobile moneyinfrastructure provided by telecommunications companies (telco) in Africa. Each telco in each country provides its own unique mobile money product, which makes the mobile money infrastructure as a whole - across borders and telcos - highly fragmented and opaque. For merchants, this fragmentation means that it is unnecessarily expensive to use and frustratingly unstable. Through pawaPay’s simple API, merchants can access more than 300 million customers in more than ten markets and enjoy seamless, transparent, and highly reliable payments. | $9M | Seed | Aug 26, 2021 | https://www.pawapay.co.uk | | 8bit | 8Bit is localised content discovery and analytics platform dedicated to the distribution of high-quality content across their network of indie publishers. | $30K | Seed | Feb 01, 2014 | http://www.get8bit.com | | Byte Money | Byte Money services the South African funeral parlor market by providing cash receipting and auditing services. It specializes in the receipting and allocation of funeral policies using a mobile POS terminal and a scalable PYP platform. Driven by its service level agreement, it operates with diligence in respect of allocating premiums and more.Byte Money also provides quality German thermal-paper, suited to the rural environment.Byte Money makes use of the PYP platform, which is already integrated with multiple policy administration systems. In terms of the industry, the platform can be extended, with ease, to any system of its users choosing. It provides its users with continuous updates, improvements, and refinements to all its systems.Byte Money was launched in 2008 by Craig Peacock and is based in Gauteng, N.A. | | Seed | | http://www.bytemoney.co.za/ | | Mdundo | Mdundo is a music service providing Africa with easy and affordable access of music. According to PwC, 38% of the 300m smartphone users in Africa in 2017, listens to music on their phone every month. We collect rights to an increasingly popular unique Africa music catalogue. The customer can download and stream the music legally from our mobilewebsite and android app free of charge and we tab in to Africa’s growing digital advertisement industry. | | | | http://mdundo.com | | M-PEPEA | | | | | | | Gamsole | | | Seed | | | | Closet49 | | | Pre-Seed | | | | Manyatta rent | | | Seed | | | 8 of 9 investments shown. ## Co-investors - [Kepple Africa Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kepple-africa-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together - [Vunani Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/vunani-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together - [Zagadat Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/zagadat-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together - [MSA Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/msacap) — VC Fund, 1 deal together - [MSA Novo](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/msa-novo) — VC Fund, 1 deal together ## About 88mph.ac VC Fund · Nairobi, Kenya 88mph provides early-stage web/mobile companies with up to $100K in funding through their 3-month startup accelerator program.They are a private seed fund with vibrant work spaces in Nairobi and Cape Town, and a talented network of startup founders, investors, corporate partners, and local business professionals. They add value to startupsduring the accelerator program by providing advice on products, go-to-market, sales, company structure, hiring, funding options, and scalability, as well as bringing in experienced individuals from around the world to fill in the gaps. 5 contacts available at 88mph.ac. | Name | Title | Profile | | --- | --- | --- | | Chris Steyn | Executive Board Member | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chris-steyn | | Dan Bowyer | Program Manager Cape Town | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dan-bowyer | | Hannah Clifford | Master Organiser | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hannah-clifford-2 | | Jura Sidorenko | CTO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jura-sidorenko | | Kresten Buch | Managing Partner & Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kresten-buch | ## Similar investors ### Similar stage - [Antler](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/antler-be9c) — VC Fund - [Right Side Capital Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/right-side-capital-management) — VC Fund - [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund ## FAQ ### What does Kresten Buch invest in? Kresten Buch invests primarily in Advertising, Financial Services and Music startups, most often at Seed and Funding Round stage. Most of the 9 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio. ### How do I contact Kresten Buch? Public channels for Kresten Buch include LinkedIn and X (Twitter). 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 Kresten Buch last invest? The most recent investment recorded for Kresten Buch closed in Aug 2021. Shizune tracks 9 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? 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