# Seedstars

> Seedstars is a VC fund in Geneva backing Financial Services and FinTech. See 178 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Geneva, Switzerland
- Total investments: 178
- Last investment: Mar 2026
- Lead investor: 24%
- Fund size: $20M
- Last fund: Jul 2022
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/seedstars/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/seedstars
- Website: https://www.seedstars.com/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/seedstars/

Seedstars is an industry-agnostic investment firm dedicated to emerging and frontier markets. We’ve invested across Latam, Africa, MENA, CEE and Asia backing ventures working to solve key societal challenges such as access to financial services, healthcare, education or commerce.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Seedstars. Shizune tracks 14 team members at Seedstars. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/seedstars?utm_source=investor_profile

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Financial Services | 26 | 15% |
| FinTech | 24 | 13% |
| E-Commerce | 20 | 11% |
| Information Technology | 18 | 10% |
| Software | 15 | 8% |

141 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 76 | 43% |
| Pre-Seed | 31 | 17% |
| Grant | 17 | 10% |
| Series A | 6 | 3% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 2% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Egypt | 8 | 4% |
| Kenya | 8 | 4% |
| Mexico | 8 | 4% |
| Nigeria | 6 | 3% |
| Philippines | 6 | 3% |

44 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Charlie Graham-Brown | Chief Investment Officer & Partner | 33 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/charlie-graham-brown |
| Mohd Atasha Alias | Venture Partner & Ambassador in Malaysia | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mohd-atasha-alias |
| Alberto Garuccio | Business Mentor | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alberto-garuccio |
| Alexander Manolov | Startup Mentor | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alexander-manolov |
| Alisee Tonnac | Co-Founder & CEO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alisee-de-tonnac |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Gangkhar | Gangkhar is the first pure-play global embedded insurance Managing General Underwriter (MGU) digital platform. | $4.3M | Seed | Mar 10, 2026 |  |
| OneLot | OneLot appears to offer a comprehensive solution for used car sellers, combining an operating system with collateralized auto loans. OneLot could simplify the selling process by providing sellers with tools to manage their operations efficiently and offering financing options secured against the vehicles they sell. | $3.3M | Seed | Nov 11, 2025 |  |
| ROLO Robotics | ROLO Robotics is rethinking the kitchens of the future using robotics and automation. | $3.5M | Seed | Oct 31, 2025 |  |
| Suplyd | Suplyd mission is to organize and reform the F&B supply chain ecosystem with the help of digitization to disrupt an untouched market with extreme fragmentation and resolve the problem end-to-end. | $2M | Seed | Aug 04, 2025 |  |
| Cinch Tech | Cinch Tech is a subscription service that offers technology products like computers, phones, tablets, and gaming equipment. Users can choose from different payment plans. The service includes damage cover for the devices. It is intended to help users access and maintain technology without paying full price upfront. The service provides analternative way to obtain and use tech devices. |  | Series A | Apr 08, 2025 |  |
| Cinch Tech | Cinch Tech is a subscription service that offers technology products like computers, phones, tablets, and gaming equipment. Users can choose from different payment plans. The service includes damage cover for the devices. It is intended to help users access and maintain technology without paying full price upfront. The service provides analternative way to obtain and use tech devices. | $28.8M | Seed | Apr 08, 2025 |  |
| Courageous Land | Courageous Land is to counteract climate change while improving the health and abundance of all living things. Courageous Land designs and operates biodiverse multi-strata agroforestry systems, as well as develops technologies that are critical to our operations and beneficial to land stewards and buyers. | $300K | Seed | Feb 28, 2025 |  |
| Raenest | Raenest helps African talents get paid in minutes by clients and businesses globally while saving costs on fees by automating their invoicing and using foreign bank accounts with cards to localise their payments | $11M | Series A | Feb 11, 2025 |  |
| Pi-xcels | Pi-xcels develops a NFC-enabled POS device that enables the issuance of interactive e-receipts in stores through a contactless tap via a smartphone. The company's technology enables any POS to be linked to its platform, augmenting any existing retailer's POS infrastructure to issue paperless, interactive e-receipts via a single tap of aconsumer’s smartphone without the need for any pre-installed app or photo capture by the shopper. Pi-xcels' goal is to eliminate the use of wasteful, poisonous, and carbon-creating BPA/BPS lined thermal paper receipts while giving offline retailers the benefit of cost savings and a data advantage via a shopper data platform. | $2.7M | Seed | Nov 25, 2024 |  |
| Maad | Maad is Francophone Africa's fastest-growing B2B marketplace, based in Dakar, Senegal. Our tech-driven solution allows retailers to order products from our one-stop shop and benefit from working capital loans | $2.3M | Seed | May 13, 2024 |  |

10 of 178 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Vision Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/vision-ventures-2) — VC Fund, 15 deals together
- [500 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-startups) — VC Fund, 10 deals together
- [SOSV](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sosv) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [Hustle Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hustle-fund) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Southern Africa Innovation Support](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/southern-africa-innovation-support) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Accion Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/venture-lab) — VC Fund, 5 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Seedstars invest in?

Seedstars invests primarily in Financial Services, FinTech and E-Commerce startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 178 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Egypt. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Seedstars?

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### Who are the partners at Seedstars?

The team at Seedstars includes Charlie Graham-Brown (Chief Investment Officer & Partner), Mohd Atasha Alias (Venture Partner & Ambassador in Malaysia) and Alberto Garuccio (Business Mentor), among 14 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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