Leonard Stiegeler
Advisor @ Ringier
Lagos, Nigeria
Leonard Stiegeler is an entrepreneur & investor in projects unlocking potential. Educated in Europe, he founded companies across EMEA and is now investing globally. He is passionate to develop opportunities with & for others. The companies he co-founded include Jumia, now a leading eCommerce company in Africa and Pulse, now a leading mediacompany in Africa. His investments include Paystack, Flutterwave, Scalable Capital, Conversion and many more. Dedicated to creating trusted connections to enable potential, he founded two networks - Africa Collective, focused on elevating the continent's role globally, and Counder, focused on enabling visionary leaders embrace emerging trends & regions collectively.
- Total investments:
- 8
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 25%
Last updated:
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Industries Leonard Stiegeler invests in
Stages Leonard Stiegeler invests in
Countries Leonard Stiegeler invests in
Round sizes
Round size
- Seed
- $1.3M–$6M
Investment Focus
Industry
- FinTech 2 (25%)
- Financial Services 2 (25%)
- B2B 1 (13%)
- SMS 1 (13%)
- Credit 1 (13%)
Stage
- Seed 5 (63%)
- Angel 1 (13%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (13%)
- Series A 1 (13%)
Country
- Nigeria 2 (25%)
- South Africa 2 (25%)
- United States 2 (25%)
- Kenya 1 (13%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Faro
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Faro provides inexpensive apparel through re-commerce, collaborating with fashion companies to reduce textile waste and dumping at the manufacturing and consumption levels. | $6M / Seed / Jan 15, 2025 | |
Finclusion Group
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Finclusion is a FinTech accelerating company that provides financial services and credit products using AI-powered and data-driven lending for fraud prevention and credit granting. The company also offers buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) services, salary advance schemes, loan services, and transactional banking to individuals and SMEs across 5countries—South Africa, Eswatini, Namibia, Kenya, and Tanzania. | $2M / Seed / Dec 07, 2022 | |
Bamba
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Bamba is an android application allowing micro-merchants across Africa to run their entire business utilizing their phones. It focuses on simple tools for merchants to manage their customers, get paid, payout as well as takeout cash advances against their future cash flow. | $3.2M / Seed / May 18, 2022 | |
Bamba
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Today, organizations spend a lot of money on physical data gathering exercises using old-fashioned paper-based methods. These methods result in expensive, severely delayed and incomplete data . With Bamba, a client can launch a data collection exercise anywhere in the world simply from the comfort of their web browser and the client can ensureindividuals respond with complete answers by paying those individuals for that data with mobile airtime in 122 different countries thus far. | $3.2M / Seed / May 18, 2022 | |
Kwik
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Your parcels delivered on-demand, safer, cheaper - Soon in Lagos | $2M / Series A / Mar 24, 2022 | |
Klas
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Klas is building the next-gen online teaching platform. We make it easy for creators to schedule, monetize, and host live classes. Our mission is to unlock the power of knowledge sharing. | $130K / Angel / Mar 21, 2022 | |
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Klas
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Klas is building the next-gen online teaching platform. We make it easy for creators to schedule, monetize, and host live classes. Our mission is to unlock the power of knowledge sharing. | $115K / Pre-Seed / Feb 05, 2022 | |
Paystack
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Paystack lets businesses in Africa accept payments by anyone, anywhere in the world via credit card, debit card, money transfer, and mobile money on their websites or mobile apps. It specializes in the fields of financial services, the internet, and payments. The company was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Ikeja, Lagos. | $1.3M / Seed / Dec 19, 2016 |
Co-Investors
About Ringier
Ringier AG is the largest internationally operating Swiss media company, producing over 120 newspapers and magazines. It also runs printing plants, several radio and TV stations and well over 80 web and mobile platforms with a worldwide staff of approximately 8,000 employees. With its 180-year history, Ringier stands for apioneering spirit and individuality as well as independence, freedom of expression and diversity of information. The company’s hallmarks are excellence in products, journalistic quality and exceptional entertainment. Founded in Switzerland in 1833, Ringier has been family run for five generations. Located in the heart of Zurich, the Pressehaus on Dufourstrasse has served as Ringier AG headquarters since 1978. More than 1,000 employees visit this location every day. In 1833 Johann Rudolf Ringier purchased a printing works facility in the Swiss town of Zofingen and began by printing regional gazettes and school curriculums. The small workshop soon evolved into a national newspaper-publishing house. Schweizer Illustrierte was first published in 1911 using letterpress. It was Switzerland's most successful people magazine and remains so to this day. In 1959 Ringier took the Swiss public by surprise launching the country's first tabloid, Blick. The concept of the publication’s style prompted violent controversy among readers but proved very successful. Ringier first ventured into the television business in 1984, founding the local TV programming company, Zürivision. In 1987, Ringier expanded abroad for the first time, to Asia. The company's first activities in Eastern Europe took place in 1990. Although the Internet only began gaining momentum as a mass medium towards the end of the 1990s, Ringier recognized its potential as early as 1996, and began to conquer the electronic media with the Blick Online and CASH Online websites. Ringier adopted a corporate strategy based on three areas of business: publishing, digital business and entertainment in 2009. Launching a joint venture unique to the company’s history in 2010, Ringier partnered with German publisher Axel Springer to found Ringier Axel Springer Media AG to boost business in Central Europe.
Ringier Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
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Marc Walder
Founder ,CEO Ringier AG and Chairman of the Group Executive Board
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Alain Kunz
Wein-Kolumnist; Reporter Fussball
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Laura Crimmons
Acting Group Chief Marketing Officer
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Leonard Stiegeler
Advisor
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Nicola Imfeld
Teamlead Wirtschaft-Desk Blick, Handelszeitung, Bilanz
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FAQ
What does Leonard Stiegeler invest in?
Leonard Stiegeler invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and B2B startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Nigeria. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Leonard Stiegeler's check size?
Leonard Stiegeler typically joins rounds of $1.3M–$6M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Leonard Stiegeler participates in.
When did Leonard Stiegeler last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Leonard Stiegeler closed in Jan 2025. 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.
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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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