Lateral Frontiers
VC Fund
New York, United States
Lateral Frontiers is a VC fund in New York focused on FinTech and Financial Services. Lateral Capital is a mission driven venture fund investing in early and growth stage opportunities in Africa. We back companies that provide foundational technologies for the continent. We make debt and equity investments technology-enabled businesses that profitably solve significant pain points across financial services, healthcare, education,energy, agriculture, housing, logistics, mobility and more.
- Total investments:
- 55
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 29%
- Fund size:
- $28M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Lateral Frontiers invests in
Stages Lateral Frontiers invests in
Countries Lateral Frontiers invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 6 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Seed
- $1M–$6M
- Pre-Seed
- $500k–$3.5M
- Series A
- $558k–$15M
Investment Focus
Industry
- FinTech 7 (13%)
- Financial Services 7 (13%)
- Energy 4 (7%)
- Software 4 (7%)
- SaaS 3 (5%)
Stage
- Seed 22 (40%)
- Series A 11 (20%)
- Pre-Seed 3 (5%)
- Funding Round 3 (5%)
- Series B 1 (2%)
Country
- United States 8 (15%)
- Nigeria 7 (13%)
- Kenya 5 (9%)
- South Africa 2 (4%)
- Egypt 1 (2%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Ochuwa Akhigbe-Ogionwo
Operating Principal
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Operating Principal | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Samakab Hashi
Partner
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Partner | Total investments: 4 | Find email | |
Hayden Simmons
Venture Partner
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Venture Partner | Total investments: 8 | Find email | |
Kyane Kassiri
Senior Associate
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Senior Associate | Total investments: 4 | Find email | |
Rob Eloff
Co-Founder & Venture Partner
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Co-Founder & Venture Partner | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
| See all 6 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Octavia Carbon is the Global South’s first Direct Air Capture (DAC) company. It designs, builds and deploys patented technology to filter CO2 from the atmosphere to reverse climate change and to end the fossil fuel age. Its approach uniquely leverages Kenya’s amazing geothermal energy, geology & talent to drastically accelerate DAC technologydown the cost curve. | $3.9M / Seed / Oct 16, 2024 | ||
| Wattnow is a real-time monitoring solution that provides a breakdown of energy spending to identify wasteful trends. | Series A / Aug 15, 2024 | ||
| Rhaeos, the world's first wearable shunt monitor, aims to improve the quality care for patients with hydrocephalus through a novel, thermal biosensor. Developed within Northwestern University with collaboration between Dr. John Rogers, McCormick School of Engineering, Feinberg School of Medicine and Kellogg School of Management, Rhaeosrepresents a unique multidisciplinary translational effort for an important clinical need. | $10.5M / Series A / Feb 16, 2023 | ||
| Carry1st is a full-stack publisher of social games and interactive content with a focus on frontier markets like Africa. Founded in 2018 by Cordel Robbin-Coker, Lucy Hoffman, and Tino Mundangepfupfu, Carry1st employs a team of 29 people across 14 countries hailing from top companies like Carlyle, King, Jumia, Rovio, Socialpoint, and Wargaming. Ithas raised over $10m to date including a recent $7m Series A headlined by Riot Games, Konvoy Ventures, Raine, and Akatsuki. Carry1st will use the funding to launch and scale its existing portfolio, secure new partnerships with global gaming studios, and expand its team. | $27M / Series B / Jan 17, 2023 | ||
| Vibra is an online crypto-currency application that specializes in investments, blockchain, and funding services. | Seed / Jan 01, 2023 | ||
| Ejara is an app for Africa and its diasporas to access various investment offers fractional shares, commodities, cryptocurrency, and more. | $8M / Series A / Nov 28, 2022 | ||
| CNote is an investment platform that earns a better return while investing in the causes and communities that matters.CNote rewards great savers with alternative financial vehicles that earn more - safely and simply. Their first product, CNote Savings, helps good savers earn up to 2.5% annual return -- that's 35x more than a traditionalsavings account.The was founded in 2016 by two women with decades of experience working in finance, venture capital, and private equity. CNote is headquartered in Oakland, California. | $7.3M / Series A / Sep 19, 2022 | ||
| Masa Finance seeks to disrupt traditional centralized credit infrastructure by providing individuals, businesses, and developers with the tools to access credit and enable untapped wealth creation for 4.95B people globally. | $3.5M / Pre-Seed / May 04, 2022 | ||
| Kashier is a payment management platform for commerce and retail businesses that provide tools used for running a business. The toolkit covers subscriptions to invoices and online payments and is built with the capability to meet the rapidly evolving needs of today’s fast-growing businesses, from small startups to large enterprises. | $3.1M / Seed / Mar 01, 2022 | ||
| LipaLater is a lending marketplace that provides postpaid payments at e-commerce stores. They are making technology affordable for you. Get the electronic of your choice today and pay for it in comfortable monthly installments. | $12M / Seed / Jan 13, 2022 | ||
| See all 55 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Lateral Frontiers invest in?
Lateral Frontiers invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Energy startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 55 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Lateral Frontiers invest in?
Lateral Frontiers typically joins rounds of $1M–$6M at Seed, $500k–$3.5M at Pre-Seed and $558k–$15M at Series A. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Lateral Frontiers's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Lateral Frontiers took part in.
How do I contact Lateral Frontiers?
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Who are the partners at Lateral Frontiers?
The team at Lateral Frontiers includes Ochuwa Akhigbe-Ogionwo (Operating Principal), Samakab Hashi (Partner) and Hayden Simmons (Venture Partner), among 6 team members tracked by Shizune. 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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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