Maurizio Caio
Founder and Managing Partner @ TLcom Capital Partners
Nairobi, Kenya
Maurizio Caio is a funding round investor at TLcom Capital Partners in Nairobi focused on Retail and FinTech. Maurizio Caio is based out of Nairobi, Nairobi Area and is the Founder and Managing Partner of TLcom Capital. Maurizio previously worked at Bain & Company as a Director. Maurizio Caio attended the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
- Total investments:
- 16
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 50%
Last updated:
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Industries Maurizio Caio invests in
Stages Maurizio Caio invests in
Countries Maurizio Caio invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Retail 2 (13%)
- FinTech 2 (13%)
- Internet 2 (13%)
- Software 2 (13%)
- E-Commerce 2 (13%)
Stage
- Funding Round 4 (25%)
- Series A 3 (19%)
- Series B 3 (19%)
- Seed 1 (6%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (6%)
Country
- Italy 2 (13%)
- United States 2 (13%)
- Kenya 1 (6%)
- Sweden 1 (6%)
- Nigeria 1 (6%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| At LittleFish, we exist to inspire commerce being made more accessible, rewarding and always being practically relevant. Our partnerships with banks, insurers, fintechs, and other industry incumbents are key to our approach and delivery - we're the co-creators of a future where better ways of commerce are realised. | Seed / Oct 02, 2024 | ||
| At LittleFish, we exist to inspire commerce being made more accessible, rewarding and always being practically relevant. Our partnerships with banks, insurers, fintechs, and other industry incumbents are key to our approach and delivery - we're the co-creators of a future where better ways of commerce are realised. | $2.5M / Seed / Sep 01, 2022 | ||
| Twiga is a mobile-based supply platform for Africa’s retail outlets, kiosks, and market stalls. The company is using a mobile-based, cashless, business-to-business (B2B) supply platform to access distribution into the millions of small and medium-sized vendors in African urban markets. Founded in 2013, Twiga is based in Nairobi, Kenya. | $50M / Series C / Nov 01, 2021 | ||
| Pula is an insurance intermediary that implements data driven agricultural insurance. Pula assists hundreds of thousands of small-scale farmers across 6 countries in Africa. Farmers are able to safeguard their crops and invest in their farms through financial tools that take advantage of the rising use of mobile technology. | $6M / Series A / Jan 25, 2021 | ||
| Digitizing financial services for Africa. | $1M / Pre-Seed / Apr 27, 2020 | ||
| Twiga is a mobile-based supply platform for Africa’s retail outlets, kiosks, and market stalls. The company is using a mobile-based, cashless, business-to-business (B2B) supply platform to access distribution into the millions of small and medium-sized vendors in African urban markets. Founded in 2013, Twiga is based in Nairobi, Kenya. | $23.8M / Oct 28, 2019 | ||
| Twiga is a mobile-based supply platform for Africa’s retail outlets, kiosks, and market stalls. The company is using a mobile-based, cashless, business-to-business (B2B) supply platform to access distribution into the millions of small and medium-sized vendors in African urban markets. Founded in 2013, Twiga is based in Nairobi, Kenya. | $23.8M / Series B / Oct 28, 2019 | ||
| Twiga is a mobile-based supply platform for Africa’s retail outlets, kiosks, and market stalls. The company is using a mobile-based, cashless, business-to-business (B2B) supply platform to access distribution into the millions of small and medium-sized vendors in African urban markets. Founded in 2013, Twiga is based in Nairobi, Kenya. | $10M / Series B / Nov 15, 2018 | ||
| Twiga is a mobile-based supply platform for Africa’s retail outlets, kiosks, and market stalls. The company is using a mobile-based, cashless, business-to-business (B2B) supply platform to access distribution into the millions of small and medium-sized vendors in African urban markets. Founded in 2013, Twiga is based in Nairobi, Kenya. | $7M / Series B / Jul 03, 2018 | ||
| Cubeiq is a business intelligence company that provides its clients with consumer behavior and trend insights.The company offers its clients with marketing, retail, research, and publisher services. Its marketing platform offers audience targeting, offline campaign attribution, performance analytics, and location insights. Its retail platformoffers footfall analysis, site selection, and audience and geo-behavioral consumer insights. Its publisher platform offers audience segmentation, campaign attribution, and data monetization services.Cubeiq was founded in 2015 and is based in New York. | $27M / Series B / May 18, 2018 | ||
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Co-Investors
About TLcom Capital Partners
TLcom Capital, is an Africa focused tech VC, with offices in Lagos, Nairobi and London. TLcom had been investing since 1999 in Tech, Media, Mobil and Internet companies across Europe, US and Africa, which is the exclusive focus of its most recent TLcom TIDE Africa funds. TLcom manages total commitments of approximately 300 million USD in thesesectors via a series of dedicated investment vehicles. Our investment strategy is to identify, back and assist world class entrepreneurs and management teams with disruptive technologies and business models, compelling intellectual property and deep market knowledge. We primarily target companies focused on Africa as a prime market, in the following investment themes: Access to Data Service; Financial Services; eCommerce; B2C applications (including but not limited to: health, education, energy, media and entertainment); and Software solutions to corporates and SMEs.
TLcom Capital Partners Contacts
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Andreata Muforo
Partner
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Maurizio Caio
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Omobola Johnson
Senior Partner
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What does Maurizio Caio invest in?
Maurizio Caio invests primarily in Retail, FinTech and Internet startups, most often at Funding Round and Series A stage. Most of the 16 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Italy. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The most recent investment recorded for Maurizio Caio closed in Oct 2024. Shizune tracks 16 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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