# Valerie Hayter

> Valerie Hayter is a seed investor at Lireas Holdings (Johannesburg) backing FinTech and InsurTech. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Lireas Holdings](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lireas-holdings)
- Location: Johannesburg, South Africa
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: Mar 2019
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/valerie-hayter-01243835/

Valerie Hayter is a seed investor at Lireas Holdings in Johannesburg focused on FinTech and InsurTech. Valerie Hayter

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 1 | 100% |
| InsurTech | 1 | 100% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Investsure | InvestSure is a technology company that uses its software to enable partner investment platforms to sell its unique Investment Indemnity (insurance) product to their clients. InvestSure provides a full set of APIs that trading platform developers can use to integrate the Investure Investment Indemnity product seamlessly and easily into theirwebsites and mobile applications. Once InvestSure technology is added to a trading platform, it enables users to buy insurance on their shares with a single click. The full process from buying to insurance to settling claims is fully automated.The Investment Indemnity product itself is a unique innovation; it is designed to protect to protect shareholders against any losses in share value caused by actual or perceived fraud committed by management. This enables investors to secure their investments. The cost of the product is low enough to not significantly reduce returns of investors where no insurance event occurs, but to provide significant downside protection where an insured event does occur. | $527K | Seed | Mar 05, 2019 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [4Di Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/4di-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Lireas Holdings

VC Fund · Johannesburg, South Africa

Lireas Holdings is an investment company with a specific focus on insurance and insurance technology investments. Lireas Holdings focuses on investing in start-ups and existing businesses requiring growth funding or new partners. Lireas Holdings was founded in 1988 and was headquartered in Johannesburg, South Africa.

1 contacts available at Lireas Holdings.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Valerie Hayter | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/valerie-hayter-0d2a |

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## FAQ

### What does Valerie Hayter invest in?

Valerie Hayter invests primarily in FinTech and InsurTech startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 1 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 Valerie Hayter last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Valerie Hayter closed in Mar 2019. Shizune tracks 1 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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