Mbwana Alliy
Managing Partner & Founder @ Savannah Fund
Mbwana Alliy is a seed investor at Savannah Fund focused on Software and AgTech. Mbwana is the Managing Partner of Savannah Fund.Hehas worked in a variety of roles in Silicon Valley, UK and Africa from startups to corporations, most recently as a Entrepreneur in Residence EIR at i/o ventures where he founded Savannah Fund. Mbwana has worked as an aerospace systems engineer & software developer at QinetiQ(formerly the UK’s Defense Evaluation Research Agency) in flight testing with clients such as Airbus. He has also served a Product Manager in the Microsoft Office and Business Intelligence Group responsible for Excel and Access product line. He has since worked and advised at 2 US startups in social networking & gaming (AppPrizes and PixPulse) and worked as a founder of the first East Africa online travel portal, Yellowmasai.In Africa, he is an advisor and blogger/author at Afrinnovator.com, a technology innovations media company focusing on Africa and was an advisor of the Dar es Salaam Teknohama Business Incubator via the President’s Office. He was accepted to the Kauffman Foundation Global Partners program in 2012.He has a bachelor’s degree in Electrical & Communications Engineering from the University of Bristol, and an MBA from Stanford (2007).
- Total investments:
- 7
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 43%
Last updated:
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Industries Mbwana Alliy invests in
Stages Mbwana Alliy invests in
Countries Mbwana Alliy invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 2 (29%)
- AgTech 1 (14%)
- Drones 1 (14%)
- Rental 1 (14%)
- Farming 1 (14%)
Stage
- Seed 4 (57%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (14%)
- Series A 1 (14%)
Country
- South Africa 2 (29%)
- United States 2 (29%)
- Kenya 1 (14%)
- The Netherlands 1 (14%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Afropolitan
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Afropolitan is creating a Digital Nation to enable all Africans to build abundant lives. The internet enables people to organize around shared values at scales that were previously unthinkable before the turn of the century. If it were a country, Facebook would be the largest one in the world. With the advent of cryptocurrency, the next Facebookwill not be a social network with a passive online community, but rather a full-blown digital country with its own native currency and shared purpose. We are building the first-ever internet country. | $2.1M / Pre-Seed / Jun 20, 2022 | |
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Afropolitan
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Afropolitan is creating a Digital Nation to enable all Africans to build abundant lives. The internet enables people to organize around shared values at scales that were previously unthinkable before the turn of the century. If it were a country, Facebook would be the largest one in the world. With the advent of cryptocurrency, the next Facebookwill not be a social network with a passive online community, but rather a full-blown digital country with its own native currency and shared purpose. We are building the first-ever internet country. | $2.1M / Pre-Seed / Jun 20, 2022 | |
Moringa School
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Moringa School is a full-time, immersive coding school in Nairobi, Kenya. | Seed / Mar 10, 2021 | |
Orbit Health
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They believe a healthy society is the foundation of a productive society. However, in sub-Saharan Africa, healthcare resources are scarce and a living a healthy life is often treated as a luxury. As the founders of Orbit Health, they lived through those circumstances theirselves and decided to help strengthen this weak healthcare infrastructurethrough innovative technology solutions. There are two major contributing factors that are affecting the nation’s healthcare frame work, delayed access to healthcare & delayed care delivery. | Seed / Dec 03, 2019 | |
FlexClub
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FlexClub is a mobility platform that enables customers to easily build their own car subscription plan. Customers can subscribe to a car for a minimum of one month and cancel or change their plan anytime without penalties. | $1.2M / Seed / Mar 19, 2019 | |
Aerobotics
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Aerobotics provides intelligent tools for optimal perennial crop farming practices. | $441K / Seed / Aug 01, 2017 | |
Wyzetalk
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Wyzetalk is the secure social business platform that accelerates the performance of organizations that believe in the power of engaging communities to collaborate. A cloud-based software solution developed by a South African team, Wyzetalk enables companies and communities to speed up the decision-making process, enable large-scale collaboration,improve all-round communication, encourage idea generation and facilitate an open innovation environment to drive critical business success.Available as a web service, desktop, mobile and tablet app, Wyzetalk is more feature-rich than other products and offers unrivaled pricing, branding, and integration capabilities suited to local companies.The system does not restrict community participation on the basis of domains and conversations can be triggered from events created from a company's internal systems (financial, production, customer, sales) and public triggers (news sites, customer queries). | $750K / Series A / Jun 02, 2014 |
Co-Investors
About Savannah Fund
Savannah Fund is a seed capital fund specializing in US$25,000-US$500,000 investments in early stage high growth technology (web and mobile) startups in sub-Saharan Africa. Initially focused on East Africa, the fund aims to bridge the early stage/angel and venture capital investment gap that currently exists in Africa. The Fund expects toachieve this objective by combining capital with mentor networks both in the region and from Silicon Valley via an accelerator program and a follow-on independent seed fund.The fund is managed by an experienced and technology savvy team that have founded companies or are actively involved in angel investing or having run successful accelerator programs in past but also understand the unique Subsaharan African environment. They are backed and supported by both local, regional and international networks of angels,venture capitalists whose expertise we can draw on to help startups succeed and scale to fully fledged regional or global companies.They believe in the potential for Africa to become a global technology innovator by creating sustainable for profit companies that create jobs and make an impact.
Savannah Fund Contacts
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Mbwana Alliy
Managing Partner & Founder
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Olufunbi Falayi
Principal, West Africa
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Paul Bragiel
Founding Partner
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Tommy Chia
Venture Partner
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What does Mbwana Alliy invest in?
Mbwana Alliy invests primarily in Software, AgTech and Drones startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 7 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in South Africa. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
When did Mbwana Alliy last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Mbwana Alliy closed in Jun 2022. Shizune tracks 7 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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