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Top 20 Real Estate Angel Investors in Africa in January 2026

Last updated: Jan 2026 A list of 20 angel investors that invest in Real estate startups based in Africa. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Real estate companies from Africa. We update this investor list every month.

Top 20 Real Estate Angel Investors in Africa in January 2026

Investor	Real Estate Africa investments
Vinny Lingham	3
Edmond Nonie	3
Sebastian Stoddart	2
Justin Stanford	2
Daniel Guasco	2
Olumide Soyombo	2
Wayne Gosling	2
Yossi Hasson	1
Idris Ayodeji Bello	1
Olugbenga Agboola	1
Olugbenga Agboola	1
Samir Goel	1
Bashar Hamood	1
Hesham Zreik	1
Eduardo Campos	1
Polo Leteka	1
Jorn Lyseggen	1
Guilherme Steinbruch	1
Jonathan Wasserstrum	1
Samuel Z. Alemayehu	1

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Vinny Lingham is the Co-Founder and CEO of Rumi.ai(Waitroom). He previously worked at YPO as a Member. Vinny Lingham attended Harvard Business School Executive Education.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Internet, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
United States, South Africa, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Sweatcoin — Sweatcoin is a digital currency backed by physical movement. They verify and convert movement into currency. Users can then donate it to charity, transfer to other users or spend on products, services, and experiences provided by Sweatcoin vendors and user community.Sweatcoin tackles Present Bias by moving the future benefits of exercise into thehere and now- immediately converting movement into a digital currency and changing the perception of physical movement.
Afterparty — Afterparty is a technology company behind the new Web3 platform enabling creators to directly monetize and manage NFT collector relationships
Decent Labs — We are rebuilding trust in technology. Decent Labs is developing a more transparent and equitable society by creating startups at the cross-section of financial technology and digital rights.

Edmond Nonie

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Construction
Pre-Seed, Debt Financing
Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Track Your Build — We provide sustainable and innovative solutions for a better world.

Sebastian Stoddart after working for 10 years as a product design consultant for top design consultancies in the US, Netherlands and UK, working for clients such as Samsung, Philips, Smith & Nephew, Compaq and Hewlett Packard, Sebastian formed his own company, albooto.com, to bring innovative products to market.

Investment focus

Rental, Internet, Analytics
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, South Africa

Portfolio highlights

8bit — 8Bit is localised content discovery and analytics platform dedicated to the distribution of high-quality content across their network of indie publishers.
Ekaya.com — Ekaya exists to make renting simpler, safer and more connected - for everyone.
Boost Technology — Enabling informal small businesses to thrive in Africa's emerging digital economy

Justin is a 31-year old entrepreneur, angel investor and venture capitalist from Cape Town, South Africa. He is founder, MD, board member, advisor, or investor to a wide variety of companies in the global technology sector.Having grown up on a farm, he decided not to complete high-school and instead made the move to the city of Cape Town, topursue his dreams of being an Internet entrepreneur.Despite years of struggles and false starts in the wake of the dotcom crash in 2001, he ultimately went on to successfully launch and grow a pan-African Internet based software company from a garage in the suburbs of Cape Town.Have founded his first startup attempt at the age of 18, Justin has been involved in tech startups and entrepreneurial endeavours ever since.He is today the co-founder and MD of 4Di Group, a diversified investment management group and family office, and co-founding General Partner of early-stage technology venture capital firm 4Di Capital, as well as an active angel investor.As co-founder and Steering Committee Chairman of the Silicon Cape Initiative in 2009, designed to highlight and foster South Africa's nascent emerging tech startup ecosystem, Justin fully believes in South Africa’s potential as a global technology innovation hub.In 2011, he was listed by the Mail & Guardian for the 'Top 200 Young South Africans', and in 2013, listed by Forbes for '30 Under 30: Africa's Best Young Entrepreneurs'.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Security
Seed, Angel, Series A
South Africa

Portfolio highlights

FitKey — FitKey is about helping you find and manage the fitness life that makes you happy, through discovering new classes, studios, and fitness activities. With easy online and mobile booking, FitKey keeps your routine interesting.
TaxTim — Originally funded by Google in 2011, TaxTim is Africa's answer to Making Tax Easy. Answer simple questions one-by-one, in a friendly automated chat, and your tax return is done in minutes. TaxTim has 40% market share of the tax base in South Africa (~4.5m), and has deployed localised versions in Namibia and Nigeria as JVs with PwC previously.TaxTim is integrated with the local revenue service (SARS) for instant electronic tax submissions, and partners with some of SA's largest consumer brands - Airbnb, Momentum, Sanlam, Old Mutual, FNB eBucks - to provide tax services for free or at discount. TaxTim has several business models including B2C, B2B and B2B2C. TaxTim is a compelling and popular consumer brand, with a fully-developed, profitable broker/financial product leads ecosystem.
Ekaya.com — Ekaya exists to make renting simpler, safer and more connected - for everyone.

Innovation. Leadership. Technology. Africa.

Investment focus

Rental, Internet, Analytics
Seed, Angel
South Africa, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

8bit — 8Bit is localised content discovery and analytics platform dedicated to the distribution of high-quality content across their network of indie publishers.
Ekaya.com — Ekaya exists to make renting simpler, safer and more connected - for everyone.
intelworld —

Olumide Soyombo holds a BSc in Systems Engineering from University of Lagos, Nigeria and an MSc (Distinction) in Business and Information Technology from the Aston Business School, Birmingham, England; earning membership into the Beta Gamma Sigma Society for his high scholastic achievement.Olumide co–founded Bluechip Technologies Ltd in 2008 andhas grown the organisation from an organization with two employees to an organization with over 80 consultants spread across Lagos, Accra and Lusaka, Zambia.In 2014, Olumide setup Leadpath as a seed fund investing in local tech startups. He has invested in startups like Pushcv.com, Paystack, Piggybank.ng, Fashpa, Heels.com.ng , Delivery Science, Gloo.ng, and Cosign.co.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Wealth8 — Wealth8 is a black-owned investment platform that provides a simple and affordable way for the black community to save & invest in globally managed funds.
JADA — JADA focuses on both technical expertise and soft skill development and is designed to upskill experienced professionals in data analytics, machine learning, and generative AI.
Afropolitan — Afropolitan is building a Network State to unleash the maximum potential of Africans around the world. Are you interested? Join us with your email.

Wayne Gosling - COO @ Twangoo South Africa

Investment focus

Rental, Internet, Analytics
Seed, Angel
South Africa, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

8bit — 8Bit is localised content discovery and analytics platform dedicated to the distribution of high-quality content across their network of indie publishers.
Ekaya.com — Ekaya exists to make renting simpler, safer and more connected - for everyone.

Yossi Hasson is the Co-Founder and CEO of Metaversal and a Venture Partner at 2048 Ventures. He is also a Non-Executive Director of WeThinkCode_. Prior to that, he was the Managing Director of Techstars. He attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business and the University of Pretoria/Universiteit van Pretoria.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Blockchain, Payments
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
South Africa, United States, Ghana

Portfolio highlights

Howler — Howler, is the powerful event technology platform designed at the uppermost benchmarks of service and technology to help consumers and event organisers to make moments that matter.
WizzPass — WizzPass, a rapidly growing leader in the visitor management system and workplace management market is now FMS:Engage powered by FM:Systems.
The Sun Exchange — We finance, install, and maintain the solar system. You simply pay for the power it generates and save from day one.

The 'Afropreneur' (entrepreneur with an African focus), as he self-describes, Idris Ayodeji Bello is a Partner at LoftyInc Allied Partners Limited and co-founder of The Wennovation Hub, an innovation platform based in Nigeria, that has successfully accelerated the launch of several technology start-ups in social impact sectors. He isalso a Founding Partner at Loftyinc Capital Management, owners of the Afropreneurs Fund (I&II)The 'Afropreneur' (entrepreneur with an African focus), as he self-describes, Idris Bello is a Partner at LoftyInc Allied Partners Limited and co-founder of The Wennovation Hub, an innovation platform based in Nigeria, that has successfully accelerated the launch of several technology start-ups in social impact sectors. He is also a Founding Partner at Loftyinc Capital Management, owners of the Afropreneurs Fund (I&II)A first class honors graduate of Computer Engineering from Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria, he has an M.Sc in Computer Science & Data Mining from the University of Houston; an MBA in Entrepreneurship & Strategy from Rice University in Houston and an M.Sc in Global Health Science from the University of Oxford, where he was a 2011 recipient of The Lord Weidenfeld Scholarship for demonstrating remarkable potential as a future leader from an emerging economy.Idris spent the greater part of a decade working at Chevron Corporation and ExxonMobil USA, where he led several large upstream technology projects across the USA and Sub-Saharan Africa. Idris has also worked with the Clinton Foundation Health Access Initiative where he played a major role in the deployment and evaluation of Swaziland’s first mobile health patient appointment reminder system as part of the country’s National AIDS Program. Listed among CNN’s Top Ten African Technology Voices, he is a Singularity University Impact Fellow, Harambe Entrepreneur Alliance Associate, Clinton Global Initiative University Fellow, MIT Global Start-up Fellow, SAP Ashoka Global Changemakers Award Winner, Dell Technology Award Winner, StartingBloc Innovation Fellow and a Nigeria Leadership Initiative Future Leader.As a leader, Idris has mentored and catalyzed scores of contributors across the growing African landscape and is an angel investor and advisor to several African startups including Andela, Flutterwave, RelianceHMO, among others. He continues to devote his efforts to the development of innovation-driven, technology-enabled social enterprises that empower the underserved and develop transformative ideas to change lives on the African continent.He spends most of his time between Lagos, Cairo, or airport lounges.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
Nigeria, United States, Egypt

Portfolio highlights

Bypa-ss — Bypa-ss is working on creating a world-class SaaS healthcare environment and revolutionizing healthcare in Egypt, Join Us
SimpliFi — We power the cards behind your brand. Instantly issue and manage virtual or physical cards, enable payments in multiple currencies, and scale globally through one secure API platform.
ORDA — Process orders, accept payments, connect to logistic providers, engage with your customers + more. We equip you with everything you need to grow your business.

Olugbenga Agboola is the Co-Founder and CEO of Flutterwave. He previously worked at Africa Fintech Foundry as a Senior Entrepreneur In Residence. Olugbenga Agboola attended MIT Sloan School of Management.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Nigeria, Kenya, United States

Portfolio highlights

SiPay — Sipay is a next-generation financial technology company offering a comprehensive all-in-one financial services platform. It enables B2B, B2C, and Sipay as a Service (Embedded Finance) customers to address all their banking and financial needs without requiring any other partners.
Curacel — Curacel creates APIs & tools that enable businesses to embed insurance in digital channels and to administer claims cost-effectively.
Afropolitan — Afropolitan is building a Network State to unleash the maximum potential of Africans around the world. Are you interested? Join us with your email.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Internet
Pre-Seed, Seed
Nigeria, Kenya, United States

Portfolio highlights

tushop — Tushop is a community group buying platform where members can sell groceries to those in their social networks and communities.
Curacel — Curacel creates APIs & tools that enable businesses to embed insurance in digital channels and to administer claims cost-effectively.
Afropolitan — Afropolitan is building a Network State to unleash the maximum potential of Africans around the world. Are you interested? Join us with your email.

Samir is a social entrepreneur, writer, and connector committed to bridging the public and private sectors by bringing together diverse communities to eliminate the access gap.In 2015, Samir Co-Founded Esusu, a platform designed to empower users to better save, access capital, and build credit through community savings. Prior to Esusu, SamirCo-Founded Transfernation, a nationally recognized 501(c)3 non-profit which uses technology to ensure excess food from events goes toward underserved communities across New York City. To-date Transfernation has rescued over 300,000 thousand pounds of food and impacted 250,000 lives. For his entrepreneurial endeavors Samir has been recognized as a WEF Global Shaper, Global Good Fund Fellow, Dalai Lama Fellow, Resolution Fellow and was the recipient of the Jefferson Awards Foundation National Public Service Award.In addition to his work as a social entrepreneur, Samir has had the opportunity to build a robust skillset over his time at LinkedIn working across 5 offices in Customer Success Consulting, Talent Acquisition, and Sales Strategy & Operations focused on Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Previously Samir worked at The United Nations, Venture for America, and various non-profits in the New York City areaSamir is an avid writer and contributes for LinkedIn, The Daily Muse, Influencive, Mogul, and Quartz. Samir supplements his entrepreneurship and writing with public speaking engagements, which have ranged from The United Nations to the Clinton Global Initiative's Final Annual Meeting.Samir received his Bachelor's of Science from New York University's Stern School of Business. Samir enjoy's baking & cooking, staying active, travel, writing, and spending time with his family and 4 younger siblings.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, SaaS
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
United States, Nigeria, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Rent Small Small — New Zealand's Biggest most reliable Online Store for all your Phone Parts needs! Fast shipping, NZ owned and Operated and here to help. Shop Now!
Flourish Fi — Creating a banking experience that people love. Enable banks and credit unions to strengthen relationships with a rewards system, financial literacy and savings journey.
Reset Financial Technologies — Reset is an earned-wage access platform that offers employees financial wellness and increases employee retention across industries through mission-driven technology.

Bashar Hamood is a Venture Partner at FasterCapital. He previously worked as an Associate Director at Logica. He attended Heriot-Watt University.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Nigeria, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

EcoBites — EcoBites is a subscription service that delivers sustainably sourced and eco-friendly packaged snacks and meals to consumers doorsteps.
Lawyeree — A platform offering AI legal advice to clients and allowing clients to be connected with the best lawyers.
SafeNest — SafeNest offers a comprehensive home security system integrating smart technology with professional monitoring services.

Hesham Zreik is the CEO of FasterCapital. He previously worked at DreamApps as a Project Manager. Hesham attended the University of Westminster.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

ToyFlix — Toyflix is a pioneering subscription-based toy rental platform transforming India’s US$2 billion toy industry by making premium.
LocationBit — it is a community-driven global location encyclopedia designed to tackle the fragmented and inaccessible nature of local knowledge in 2025.
Kyamaganda Community Development Organisation — it is a community-based nonprofit organization founded to restore hope and dignity among vulnerable children, youth, and families in Uganda.

Eduardo Campos is a Co-founder and Partner at ONEVC. A former management consultant (Monitor Group), he has been an active operator and investor in the Brazilian tech ecosystem since 2012, backing companies like Gympass, Creditas, and QuintoAndar. Eduardo also founded Parafuzo ('14), an early Brazilian local services marketplace, and Yuca('19), a leading residential real estate operator. He is passionate about supporting early-stage entrepreneurs in software, marketplace, fintech, and internet/consumer businesses.

Investment focus

SaaS, Real Estate, Property Management
Seed
Brazil, United States, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Faster — Faster is a graphic design subscription service that unlocks the full potential of your marketing team!
idwall — Idwall develops software to help small and medium-sized businesses in the customer credentialing process. It is focused on providing businesses with document validation, background check, and identity verification solutions and services. The company offers a real-time alert system that enables its users to verify customers’ data in signups andpurchases. It also provides implementation and consulting services for its solutions.Idwall was founded in July 2016 and is headquartered in São Paulo, Sao Paulo.
Spleet — ProptechSpleet is an online marketplace for affordable residential rentals and rents financing in Africa. For the tenant, we simplify the rental process by providing flexible rental and payment options and eliminate bureaucracy and expediting the search process. For the landlords, we make renting quicker, safer and better by providing accurateinformation on the tenant and ensuring rental payments are made as and when due.

Polo Leteka is the Founder and Chairman of IDF Capital SA. She previously worked at Standard Bank of South Africa. Polo Leteka attended the University of South Africa/Universiteit van Suid-Afrika.

Investment focus

Retail, Internet, Logistics
Seed, Series B
South Africa

Portfolio highlights

SweepSouth — Book a home cleaning online from your mobile, tablet or computer. SweepSouth connects you with a cleaner in minutes. Cleaners are experienced, reliable, efficient and insured.

Jorn Lyseggen, a serial entrepreneur and philanthropist, is the Founder & CEO of Meltwater. Launched in his home country of Norway in 2001 with just a $15,000 investment, Jorn and his team have grown the company to become a global leader in media intelligence. Today, Meltwater has more than 1,500 employees in 55 offices across six continents,with more than 30,000 clients worldwide.Jorn released his first book, Outside Insight: Navigating a World Drowning in Data, in October 2017. The book describes the emergence of a new software category that will leverage insights gleaned from the vast amount of external information available on the web to transform corporate decision-making.

Investment focus

Retail, Software, E-Commerce
Seed
Ghana, United States

Portfolio highlights

Kudobuzz — Kudobuzz is the all-in-one reviews, UGC and CRO platform that turns customer trust into measurable revenue.
MeQasa Ltd — Find the home or office you deserve from a wide range at meQasa, your real estate marketplace. Post your property today to reach genuine buyers and tenants

Guilherme Steinbruch - Partner @ 468 Capital

Investment focus

Financial Services, Music, Real Estate
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Mexico, Ireland, Philippines

Portfolio highlights

OneLot — Quick inventory financing and digital tools for your car dealership in the Philippines. Grow with flexible loans and dealership management solutions.
WeDemand — The leading source brandable domain names. Competitive prices. Excellent service. Get your domain name today.
Ekaya.com — Ekaya exists to make renting simpler, safer and more connected - for everyone.

Jonathan graduated from Columbia Business School in May 2012. Prior to business school, Jonathan worked in the International Capital Group at Jones Lang LaSalle where he advised foreign and domestic clients on more than $3 billion worth of transactions globally.

Investment focus

Real Estate, Software, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Canada, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Jome — On our platform, you can search for and tour thousands of new construction homes and communities near you. Our new home experts are ready to guide you through the entire home-buying process and will help you turn your dream home into a reality
BuyWander — BuyWander is a platform connecting consumers with returned products. The company appears to operate across various categories, including automotive, beauty & health, clothing, electronics, food & grocery, and home & kitchen.
NewHomesMate — Find, compare and buy a new construction home - all in one place.

Samuel Z. Alemayehu is the Founder and Chairman Of The Board Of Directors of Cambridge Industries.

Investment focus

SMS, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Seed, Series B
Cameroon, Ethiopia, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

SantéPhone — SantéPhone is a mobile-based health prevention platform founded in partnership with leading health insurance companies across West Africa. The application was powered by 4Afri Mobile.
Nextbillion.ai — Nextbillion.ai aims to deliver a wide range of AI-powered hyperlocal solutions starting with the area of mapping. Nb.ai is working on building the geospatial infrastructure needed for enabling location-based experiences for the next billion users. The complexities in markets like India, Indonesia, and Nigeria are far greater than the traditionaldeveloped countries and we are building the future of location technology. Underdeveloped infrastructure, the rise of megacities, complex addresses, and an ever-changing road network make things even more challenging and we are trying to solve these extremely complex problems using a combination of data, AI, platform, and people.
Cambridge Industries — Cambridge Industries pioneers sustainable waste-to-energy, recycling, and urban mining solutions worldwide.

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