# Sherif Nessim

> Sherif Nessim is a seed investor at Jedar Capital (New York) backing FinTech and E-Commerce. See 11 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Jedar Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jedar-capital)
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 11
- Last investment: Jan 2025
- Lead investor: 18%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/snessim/

Sherif Nessim is a seed investor at Jedar Capital in New York focused on FinTech and E-Commerce. Sherif Nessim is the Founder & Managing Partner at Jedar Capital.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 3 | 27% |
| E-Commerce | 2 | 18% |
| Financial Services | 2 | 18% |
| SaaS | 1 | 9% |
| Travel | 1 | 9% |

21 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 7 | 64% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 18% |
| Series A | 1 | 9% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Egypt | 3 | 27% |
| Kenya | 2 | 18% |
| Nigeria | 2 | 18% |
| France | 1 | 9% |
| United States | 1 | 9% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Fincart | Fincart helps e-commerce SMBs access working capital through streamlining their last-mile operations through multi-courier shipping platform. |  | Pre-Seed | Jan 28, 2025 |  |
| Bumpa | Bumpa builds an infrastructure that helps digital commerce for African sellers; empowering small business owners to start, manage and grow successful businesses from their mobile phones. | $4M | Seed | Oct 19, 2022 |  |
| Julaya | Julaya is a fintech providing African businesses with a digital account to make payments : disbursing mobile money transactions to their employees, suppliers, and owning their own virtual and physical prepaid cards. By digitizing their operations on the Julaya platform, businesses have access to digital loans. | $5M | Seed | Sep 21, 2022 |  |
| ImaliPay | ImaliPay is a financial health platform offering financial products to freelancers and blue collar gig workers in partnership with gig platforms. | $3M | Seed | Apr 07, 2022 |  |
| Otida | Otida is an app that acts as a nutritionist, a fitness coach and physician, among other roles, for patients with diabetes who struggle while navigating through their day-to-day lives. | $340K | Pre-Seed | Mar 23, 2022 |  |
| Caantin | Kibanda Topup digitizes the supply for micro, small and medium-sized restaurants. Kibanda Topup allows restaurant owners to order inventory such as grains, poultry, beverages, and beef by app through a simple SMS and get the orders the next day. | $1.7M | Seed | Mar 01, 2022 |  |
| Treepz | Treepz is using technology to help people move efficiently in Africa. Be it for daily, inter-city or corporate commutes, users can book predictable, reliable and comfortable trips through a world-class, demand-responsive app all at the tap of a button.Treepz was founded in 2019 and operates in 4 African countries including Nigeria, Ghana, Ugandaand Kenya. It is headquartered in Ontario, Canada. | $1.5M | Seed | Nov 23, 2021 |  |
| Appetito | Appetito delivers daily fresh baked products, grocery and a wide selection of irresistible savory and sweet snacks. | $2M | Series A | Nov 03, 2021 |  |
| Appetito | Appetito delivers daily fresh baked products, grocery and a wide selection of irresistible savory and sweet snacks. | $2M | Seed | Nov 02, 2021 |  |
| Odiggo | The company was founded in 2019. | $2.1M | Seed | Aug 20, 2021 |  |

10 of 11 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [DFS Lab](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dfs-lab) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [LoftyInc Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/loftyinc-capital-management) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Golden Palm Investments](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/golden-palm-investments) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Plug and Play](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/plug-and-play-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Chandaria Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chandaria-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [FirstCheck Africa](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/first-check-africa) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Jedar Capital

VC Fund · New York, United States

We invest in early stage startups in emerging and frontier markets: Middle East, Africa & Emerging Asia. Founded in 2021, based in New Jersey, United States with presence in Cairo & Cape Town

1 contacts available at Jedar Capital.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Sherif Nessim | Founder & Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sherif-nessim |

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## FAQ

### What does Sherif Nessim invest in?

Sherif Nessim invests primarily in FinTech, E-Commerce and Financial Services startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 11 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Egypt. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Sherif Nessim last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Sherif Nessim closed in Jan 2025. Shizune tracks 11 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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