# Leonard Stiegeler

> Leonard Stiegeler is a seed investor at Ringier (Lagos) backing FinTech and Financial Services. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Ringier](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ringier-ag)
- Location: Lagos, Nigeria
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Jan 2025
- Lead investor: 25%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/leonardstiegeler/

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.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.3M–$6M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 2 | 25% |
| Financial Services | 2 | 25% |
| B2B | 1 | 13% |
| SMS | 1 | 13% |
| Credit | 1 | 13% |

21 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 63% |
| Angel | 1 | 13% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 13% |
| Series A | 1 | 13% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Nigeria | 2 | 25% |
| South Africa | 2 | 25% |
| United States | 2 | 25% |
| Kenya | 1 | 13% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Faro | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | Your parcels delivered on-demand, safer, cheaper - Soon in Lagos | $2M | Series A | Mar 24, 2022 |  |
| Klas | 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 |  |
| Klas | 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 | 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 |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Presight Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/presight-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [468 Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/468-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [HoaQ](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hoaq) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Jigsaw VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jigsaw-vc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [MPGI](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mpgi-2) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Voltron Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/voltron-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Ringier

VC Fund · Zürich, Switzerland

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.

5 contacts available at Ringier.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Marc Walder | Founder ,CEO Ringier AG and Chairman of the Group Executive Board | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/marc-walder |
| Alain Kunz | Wein-Kolumnist; Reporter Fussball | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alain-kunz |
| Laura Crimmons | Acting Group Chief Marketing Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/laura-crimmons |
| Leonard Stiegeler | Advisor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/leonard-stiegeler |
| Nicola Imfeld | Teamlead Wirtschaft-Desk Blick, Handelszeitung, Bilanz | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nicola-imfeld |

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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.

### 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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