# Youcef Oudjidane

> Youcef Oudjidane is a seed investor at BYLD backing FinTech and Financial Services. See 22 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [BYLD](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/byld-ventures)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 22
- Last investment: May 2026
- Lead investor: 5%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/youcef-oudjidane-78886345/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/YoucefOudjidane
- Website: https://www.oudji.com

Youcef Oudjidane is a seed investor at BYLD in San Francisco focused on FinTech and Financial Services. Youcef Oudjidane is the Founder and Managing Partner of BYLD and the Co-Founder and Chairman of Elevate (YC W22).

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $200k–$10M |
| Pre-Seed | $120k–$5M |
| Series A | $23M–$23M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 6 | 27% |
| Financial Services | 5 | 23% |
| Payments | 4 | 18% |
| Organic Food | 3 | 14% |
| Food Processing | 3 | 14% |

28 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 10 | 45% |
| Pre-Seed | 6 | 27% |
| Series A | 2 | 9% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 4 | 18% |
| Nigeria | 2 | 9% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 9% |
| Egypt | 1 | 5% |
| Georgia | 1 | 5% |

12 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Stream | Stream is a company that helps make payments simpler, faster, and reliable. | $5.2M | Seed | May 12, 2026 |  |
| Stream | Stream is a company that helps make payments simpler, faster, and reliable. | $4M | Seed | Nov 02, 2025 |  |
| Waza | Waza is a web platform with APIs. It helps startups and emerging market businesses manage their cash flow issues, invoicing needs, and international payment requirements. | $3M | Seed | Aug 19, 2024 |  |
| Waza | Waza is a web platform with APIs. It helps startups and emerging market businesses manage their cash flow issues, invoicing needs, and international payment requirements. | $120K | Pre-Seed | Jan 26, 2023 |  |
| FloatPays | FloatPays provides payroll integration, employee access, financial education, effective reporting, payment, and training services. Through access, budgeting, and training, the company is enabling its team to achieve financial well-being and moving them from debt to savings. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Cape Town, Western Cape. | $4M | Seed | Jan 26, 2022 |  |
| Theneo | Next-Gen API Documentation with AI Brilliance. Generate Stripe-like API docs in just a few seconds | $500K | Pre-Seed | Dec 01, 2021 |  |
| Sundial Foods | Sundial Foods utilizes a macro and microstructural engineering approach to create plant-based meat alternatives for conscious consumers.The company is passionate about making the affordable, accessible, and nutritional value of plant-based meats, made from ingredients that customers know and created using simple processes.It is headquartered inBerkeley, California in 2019. | $127K | Seed | Nov 19, 2021 |  |
| Juicy Marbles | Juicy marbles make thick juicy and marbled plant-based steaks. They are a food-tech company. They developed proprietary protein texturing technology that enables us to produce plant-based whole cuts. Our vision is to produce a variety of meat products and match animal-derived counterparts by taste, price and convenience. We want to acceleratetransition of meat industry into a more sustainable future - by 2030 we want to cut meat consumption in half. | $4.5M | Seed | Nov 01, 2021 |  |
| Dash | Mobile payments, Mobile payment network, Mobile money, payments, African payments, super app, financial super app, payment-led super app. | $5.5M | Seed | Sep 22, 2021 |  |
| Kaso | Kaso is an all-in-one AI-powered platform and growth suite for the foodservice industry. It's digital procurement and ordering platform uses data-driven tools and AI-powered automation to connect restaurants with suppliers - streamlining orders, reducing errors and food waste, and enabling smarter, more sustainable supply chains. | $2.1M | Pre-Seed | Sep 14, 2021 |  |

10 of 22 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [BYLD](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/byld-ventures) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Global Founders Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/global-founders-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Kepple Africa Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kepple-africa-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Everywhere Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/everywhere-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Goodwater Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/goodwater-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About BYLD

VC Fund · London, United Kingdom

Byld Ventures is a corporate venture capital firm focusing on early-stage technology investments.

1 contacts available at BYLD.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Youcef Oudjidane | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/youcef-oudjidane |

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## FAQ

### What does Youcef Oudjidane invest in?

Youcef Oudjidane invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Payments startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 22 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Youcef Oudjidane's check size?

Youcef Oudjidane typically joins rounds of $200k–$10M at Seed, $120k–$5M at Pre-Seed and $23M–$23M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Youcef Oudjidane participates in.

### When did Youcef Oudjidane last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Youcef Oudjidane closed in May 2026. Shizune tracks 22 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?

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