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Top 50 Software Angel Investors in Africa

A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Software startups based in Africa. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Software companies from Africa. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Software Angel Investors in Africa

Investor Software Africa investments
Tayo Oviosu 4
Idris Ayodeji Bello 4
Olugbenga Agboola 3
Olugbenga Agboola 3
Prosper Otemuyiwa 3
Edmond Nonie 3
Allen and Ollys International Limited - 3
Mato Perić 3
Jai Mahtani 2
Sandeep Nailwal 2
Christian Angermayer 2
Wes Schwalje 2
Christian Faes 2
Edward Lando 2
Robby Hilkowitz 2
Matthias Hilpert 2
Leonard Stiegeler 2
Nadav Ben-Chanoch 2
Charles Delingpole 2
Babs Ogundeyi 2
Ayodeji Adewunmi 2
Shola Akinlade 2
Ire Aderinokun 2
Andrew Vigneault 2
Yossi Hasson 2
Ham Serunjogi 2
Richard Aseme 2
Sudeep Ramnani 2
Kola Aina 2
Cristina Santin 2
Echukwudi Daniel 1
Joachim Lecrivain 1
Khaled Ben Jilani 1
Tom Berckt 1
Nasir Jones 1
Jon Oringer 1
Nahla Chelly 1
Aaron Fu 1
Chibuzo Ujam 1
Santiago Roel Santos 1
Iyinoluwa Aboyeji 1
Ugochukwu Aronu 1
Christian Jantzen 1
Shakir Merali 1
Piers Kicks 1
Omar Darwazah 1
George Godula 1
Vinny Lingham 1
Wassim Jouini 1
Michael Leeman 1
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Tayo Oviosu Angel · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
Tayo is the Founder & Group CEO of Paga (www.paga.com), Nigeria’s leading mobile money service. Prior to Paga, Tayo was Vice-President at Travant Capital Partners, a private equity fund in West Africa. Prior to joining Travant, Tayo was a Manager, Corporate Development, at Cisco Systems in San Jose California. Tayo’s work at Paga has beenrecognized globally - in 2014 CNBC selected Tayo as the Entrepreneur of the Year West Africa, and in 2015 the African Leadership Network selected Paga as the outstanding growing company of the year in Africa. Tayo is also the co-founder of Kairos Angels, an angel investment club.Tayo earned his Bachelors of Science degree in Electrical Engineering, cum laude, from the University of Southern California, and also has a Masters in Business Administration from the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Nigeria, Brazil, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • AjoMoney — AjoMoney is making access to finance easy and flexible for the financially underserved individuals and SMEs willing to cover urgent needs, by digitizing the community financing rotating savings and credit association (ROSCA) model.With the AjoMoney technology-driven platform, individuals can save and access interest-free to low-interest credits,businesses can sell credit securely to customers who are saving with them under a cooperative model.
  • Tyms — Tyms online accounting software for your business connects you to your bank, accountant, bookkeeper, and other business apps. Start a free trial today. Also available in Nigeria, Ghana, Mauritius and South Africa.
  • Venco Platforms — Venco automates visitor management, billing, and collections, as well as smart utility vending for communities across Africa.
Idris Ayodeji Bello Angel
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.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Software, Financial Services
  • Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Nigeria, United States, Egypt
Portfolio highlights
  • Jem — We give employers the ability to send company-wide communications, deliver payslips, manage leave & give employees access to their earnings, via WhatsApp.
  • SimpliFi — SimpliFi is on a mission to democratize payments by building the leading Cards as a Service (CaaS) platform for MENA and Pakistan.
  • 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 Angel
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.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
  • 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.
Olugbenga Agboola Angel
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.
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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.
Prosper Otemuyiwa Angel
Prosper Otemuyiwa is a Co-founder of forLoop Africa. He attended Babcock University.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, CRM, Telecommunications
  • Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Nigeria, Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Frain technologies — We're passionate about the product delivery value chain.
  • Famasi — Famasi is a digital health platform that helps people access their medications, schedule doorstep delivery, and automate monthly refills.
  • Sendchamp — Messagebird For Africa: Sendchamp provides Communication APIs & CRM for developers & businesses to reach their customers via different messaging channels such as SMS, Email, Voice, Whatsapp, and other digital messaging channels. Our APIs and No code tools help businesses in Africa from the stage of Customer Onboarding, CustomerEngagement, Customer Service & Customer Retention.
Edmond Nonie Angel
Edmond Nonie
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Investment focus
  • SaaS, Software, Construction
  • Pre-Seed, Debt Financing
  • Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
  • Track Your Build — Track Your Build uses drones, satellites, cloud computing and analytics for smart engineering infrastructure management. We also do Land and Site Surveys
Allen and Ollys International Limited - Angel
Allen and Ollys International Limited -
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Insurance, Blockchain
  • Seed, Convertible Note
  • Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
  • Get It Done Now — GIDN is a Nigerian Fintech Company targeting medium and low income population for Loans and Financial products. GIDN has in addition a cashless, mobile based community marketplace, with more than 5k members, and aims to regulate the informal economy and facilitate the purchase of Services and Digital Products.
Mato Perić Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
Mato invests in technology companies globally. His portfolio companies have raised over US$ 5 billion in capital, employ >15,000 people and have operations in 35 countries across six continents.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Germany, India, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Bamba — Bamba is a small software development house building Android applications
  • Enter — Enter's Revenue Cycle Management & Medical Billing service makes healthcare Providers' and Patients' lives better. Increase revenue and delight patients with 100% transparency.
  • Bamba — Today, organizations spend a lot of money on physical data gathering exercises using old-fashioned paper-based methods. These methods result in expensive, severely delayed and incomplete data . With Bamba, a client can launch a data collection exercise anywhere in the world simply from the comfort of their web browser and the client can ensureindividuals respond with complete answers by paying those individuals for that data with mobile airtime in 122 different countries thus far.
Jai Mahtani Angel
Jai Mahtani
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Investment focus
  • Credit, FinTech, InsurTech
  • Seed, Angel
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Finclusion Group — Enhancing financial inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa through data driven lending.
Sandeep Nailwal Angel · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · 22 investments in the past 12 months
Sandeep Nailwal is the Co-Founder of Polygon. He is a former Co-Founder and CEO of Scopeweaver. He attended the National Institute of Industrial Engineering.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, India, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Succinct — The easiest way to discover, develop, and deploy ZK.
  • Mystiko.Network — Mystiko.Network enables users to trade on private DEX just like on Uniswap while users' financial privacy is protected. Users could transfer assets to a brand new secret and ultra-safe address with full privacy. Any wallet could provide its user's such features by implementing Mystiko Wallet SDK.
  • Ooga Booga — Ooga Booga is a liquidity aggregator designed to support the goal of becoming the most capital efficient blockchain.
Christian Angermayer Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Christian Angermayer - Founder & CEO @ Apeiron Investment Group
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Blockchain
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Germany, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • TRIP — TRIP is the UK's most trusted CBD Oils and CBD Drinks Supplier. Shop the UK's best CBD oils available online with FREE UK Shipping.
  • Enhanced Games — Enhanced Games Home
  • Finclusion Group — Enhancing financial inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa through data driven lending.
Wes Schwalje Angel
Operator at nexus of policy, tech, and dev, investor, advised 8 unicorns on MENAP entry/scale-up, support Big Tech / startups to get along with govt
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Information Technology, Financial Services
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • India, United States, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
  • Finerio Connect — Finerio is an automated and free personal finance platform in Mexico. Finerio allows users to link debit and credit accounts of the most important banks in Mexico while providing them insights on how to financially plan and save money.
  • PowerCred — PowerCred is a one-stop API suite for clients to access alternate data from SMEs. Our integrated system provides real time connectivity which allows financial institutions to build better products to suit small business requirements. We have a network of data partners across categories which help us to build a robust and comprehensive intelligence system, allowing FIs to make more confident decisions, and empowering small businesses to focus on business growth.
  • Chhotastock — ChhotaStock :Invest and Grow more.India's first small ticket size investment platform.
Christian Faes Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
Christian Faes was previously co-founder and CEO of LendInvest, which is a technology driven mortgage lender and a leading Fintech company. The company has over £3.5 billion of Funds Under Management, and is one of the largest non-bank mortgage lenders in the UK. Now building Faes & Co.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
  • Seed, Funding Round, Angel
  • United Kingdom, Australia, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Knoma — Search hundreds of courses from leading schools and bootcamps. Learn now and pay later with Knoma and spread the cost with ethical finance
  • Volume — Payment Infrastructure for the Internet
  • Finclusion Group — Enhancing financial inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa through data driven lending.
Edward Lando Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 7 investments in the past 12 months
Edward Lando is the Founder of Pareto Holdings. He previously worked at Horizons School of Technology as a Co-Founder. Edward Lando attended the Wharton School.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • United States, United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
  • micro1 — We help companies hire and manage the best software engineers easily.
  • Skedway — Every work experience should be great! Skedway is the complete platform to optimize the hybrid work experience.
  • NewHomesMate — Find, compare and buy a new construction home - all in one place.
Robby Hilkowitz Angel
Robby Hilkowitz is an angel investor.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
  • Series A, Seed, Funding Round
  • Israel, Hong Kong, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Neat — Built for entrepreneurs, by entrepreneursAs entrepreneurs our businesses are always in motion: starting from an idea, to making a first sale, to expanding globally. We need a financial experience that evolves with us – an experience that’s still stable and secure, but adaptive too. Banks were built for a different era of business, not for thenew economy – where borders are disappearing and it’s easier than ever to start a global business. Neat believes in making international business a reality for entrepreneurs around the world. Today, Neat is a modern alternative to a bank, designed to support you wherever you go. Tomorrow, we’re a platform for doing business: building a dynamic and frictionless economy.
  • Bambu — Bambu is a leading global digital wealth technology provider for financial institutions. We enable companies to make saving and investing simple and intelligent for their clients. The cloud-based platform is powered by our proprietary algorithms and machine learning tools. The company serves over 20 financial institutions globally. Founded in 2016,Bambu is headquartered in Singapore with a subsidiary in the United Kingdom and the United States and EMEA representatives.
  • Moneyhub — Moneyhub is a data and payments fintech that provides open banking, open finance, and open data solutions.
Matthias Hilpert Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Matthias Hilpert - CEO @ MH2 Capital
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Germany, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Oze — OZÉ brings African small businesses into the digital era. It is an app that makes it easy for businesses to track sales, expenses, and customer information. The data is analyzed to provide tailored recommendations, reports, and business education. If the entrepreneur needs a little extra support, an OZÉ Coach is just a click away. As they are usingOZÉ to manage their business and learn how to run it better, we are learning about them. Using this data and machine learning, we can predict their credit risk and provide them with affordable capital from our banking partners. With over 20,000 registered users, OZÉ is the largest online community of SMEs in Ghana. The most exciting thing is that OZÉ works; 97% of businesses that have used OZE for at least 9 months are growing or profitable or both!
  • Workbounce — Workbounce is the co-pilot for customer-facing team connecting tools like Google Drive, Notion, Slack with intelligent search and analytics.
  • Atlas Metrics — The single source of truth for your ESG data
Leonard Stiegeler Angel · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
Leonard Stiegeler is the Founder of Pulse, the leading innovative media company in Africa. He is backing & investing in media-/art-/technology- & -enabled ventures/assets. Some of his interests include Business Insider Africa, Art News Africa and Digital News Africa. Prior, he was the General Manager of Swiss Ringier AfricaAG since 2016 – responsible for buiding up the group's business on the continent. Ringier is today active in 8 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and through its ROAM-holding leads brands such as Jobberman, Cheki, Private Property, BuyRentKenya, Pigiame, ZoomTanzania, and many more. Prior to his work with Ringier since 2013, Leo helped to establish Rocket Internet and other German investors in Africa. Leo is originally from Germany and has been based in different African countries since 2011.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Credit
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Nigeria, United States, South Africa
Portfolio highlights
  • Bamba — Bamba is a small software development house building Android applications
  • Finclusion Group — Enhancing financial inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa through data driven lending.
  • Kwik — Kwik Delivery is the fastest and most affordable delivery service for your businesses in Lagos, Abuja, and Ibadan. We deliver under 2 hours.
Nadav Ben-Chanoch Angel · Miami, Florida, United States · 5 investments in the past 12 months
Nadav Ben-Chanoch - Partner @ Pareto Holdings
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • United States, United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
  • Swaap — We build the market-neutral AMM protocol.
  • micro1 — We help companies hire and manage the best software engineers easily.
  • Skedway — Every work experience should be great! Skedway is the complete platform to optimize the hybrid work experience.
Charles Delingpole Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 6 investments in the past 12 months
Charles Delingpole is Founder and CEO of ComplyAdvantage, a technology company focused on wiping out financial crime using Machine Learning. As CEO, Charles leads the product development and growth of the company. His passion for the issue came from his time as the MLRO of a previous startup he founded when he realized how inefficient processesaround money laundering are. Charles previously worked at The Student Room as a Founder and CEO. He attended the University of Cambridge and The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).Over 99% of money laundering is successful, ComplyAdvantage is working to stop it completely. Founded in 2014 with offices in London, New York, Singapore, and Cluj, ComplyAdvantage work with over 350 firms across 45 countries. Charles set up his first company, The Student Room Group, now the world’s largest student discussion forum when he was 16. After completing his MA in Politics at Trinity College Cambridge, and then an MSc in Management, Strategy, and Finance from the LSE, he became an associate at J.P. Morgan Cazenove.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United Kingdom, United States, Spain
Portfolio highlights
  • Prosper — Prosper's offering includes fee-free investments in public market index funds, including fund fees, as well as SIPP and ISA wrappers.
  • Morphoses — Unlocking Potential: Empowering 6-17 Year-Old Learners with Future-Focused Soft Skills for Education and Employability
  • Juniper — Juniper is the radically accessible new way to offer your whole team reproductive health cover. Simple, affordable and built for every body.
Babs Ogundeyi Angel · Yaba, Lagos, Nigeria
Cofounder and CEO of Kuda
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • Nigeria, Zambia, Pakistan
Portfolio highlights
  • Zazuu — Zazuu is a platform for sending money across the border.
  • Curacel — Curacel creates APIs & tools that enable businesses to embed insurance in digital channels and to administer claims cost-effectively.
  • 24seven.pk — 24seven.pk is using tech and data to digitize and disrupt the fresh food and FMCG verticals in one of the fastest-growing and rapidly evolving consumer markets in the world.
Ayodeji Adewunmi Angel · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
Ayodeji Adewunmi is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Dot. He previously worked at GOKADA as a President & Co-CEO. Ayodeji Adewunmi attended Obafemi Awolowo University.
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Investment focus
  • Apps, Gaming, Mobile
  • Seed, Angel
  • Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
  • ChopUP — ChopUP, a division of Pledge51 Ltd is a leading mobile gaming startup in Nigeria developing locally relevant games that tell the African narratives. We are committed to consistently creating world class mobile games that are specifically designed with African themes.
  • Pledge51 — Pledge51 is a fresh mobile media company pursuing opportunities in Nigeria's mobile internet space. On Tuesday 29th May 2013, the company launched her social gaming platform; Chopup.Chopup is a social platform that allows mobile game players to interact based on in-game achievements. As part of the release of Chopup, the company alsolaunched Danfo Reloaded II; the first mobile game to come integrated with the Chopup Platform. The platform is unique because it caters specifically to Africa's mobile market which mostly consists of fairly basic devices and is only recently witnessing growing adoption of smart phones.The company's game/app portfolio has already crossed over 1 million downloads and growing till date.
Shola Akinlade Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Shola Akinlade is the Co-founder and CEO at Paystack.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Education, InsurTech
  • Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Nigeria, Kenya, Rwanda
Portfolio highlights
  • Casava — Casava is a financial services company that offers insurance and life microinsurance. Casava uses technology to provide world-class, trusted, and affordable insurance to everyone.
  • Earnipay — Gain access, consolidate, and manage all your financial needs in one place.
  • 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.
Ire Aderinokun Angel · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
Ire Aderinokun - Co-Founder , COO & VP of Engineering @ Buycoins
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Investment focus
  • Software, Ticketing, Mobile Apps
  • Pre-Seed
  • Nigeria, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • ORDA — ORDA is a platform allowing guests to order and pay for food and beverage on a digital menu.
  • tix.africa — Tix is a refreshing approach to event ticketing in Africa. Create and sell your first ticket from your phone in under 10 minutes.
  • 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.
Andrew Vigneault Angel · New York, New York, United States
Andrew is a successful entrepreneur as well as investor and advisor to more than 100 early-stage startups across enterprise SaaS and fintech. He founded and served as CEO of ClearGraph (acquired by Tableau (NYSE: DATA)). Andrew is a top .5% contributor to Stanford StartX (2k+ entrepreneurs). Earlier in his career, he served multiple roles inventure and investment banking, and holds a B.S. in Finance, summa cum laude, from the Gabelli School of Business.
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Investment focus
  • Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, India, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
  • Nav.it — Uniting behavioral science and health tracking, Nav.it's financial app is the first of its kind to create daily financial habits that reduce financial stress and create lasting behavioral change, using the power of prescriptive analytics.
  • Helicone — How developers build AI applications. Get observability, tooling, fine-tuning, and evaluations out of the box.
  • Synthpop — Automate over 80% of your administrative processes using AI, using your existing procedures. The ultimate admin AI: autonomous, accurate, and scalable.
Yossi Hasson Angel · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa
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.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, Blockchain, Payments
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • South Africa, United States, Ghana
Portfolio highlights
  • Ozow — Easy, fast, safe online payments and bank API solutions for merchants and consumers across South Africa. Secure instant EFT directly from bank to bank.
  • 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.
  • The Sun Exchange — The Sun Exchange is the peer-to-peer solar leasing marketplace. We leverage financial innovation and the power of the crowd to drive sustainable energy development and make the environmental, social and economic benefits of solar accessible and affordable for all. Through the Sun Exchange online platform, anyone, anywhere in the world, can buyremotely-located solar cells and then lease them to power businesses and organisations in sunny emerging markets. Solar cell owners earn income from the electricity that’s generated, while schools, businesses, clinics and other organisations gain access to affordable clean energy, reducing electricity costs and carbon emissions.
Ham Serunjogi Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Ham Serunjogi is a co-founder and CEO at Chipper Cash.
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Investment focus
  • Mobile Apps, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Nigeria, United States, South Africa
Portfolio highlights
  • Caliza — Give your users access to the digital dollar economy. Get early access!
  • Sudo — Sudo is an open API platform that enables businesses to embed powerful financial features into their products. Build in minutes, launch in days.
  • CreditChek — Bridging the trust gap between global credit businesses and underserved African consumers.
Richard Aseme Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
Richard Aseme is the VP, International Marketing and Distribution, EMEA at Paramount Pictures. He attended Oxford University (Jesus College) oct 1996 - June 2000.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Credit, InsurTech
  • Seed, Angel
  • Egypt, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Axis — axis for Business enables small businesses to seamlessly manage employee payroll, salary advances, and expenses - all from one place.
  • Finclusion Group — Enhancing financial inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa through data driven lending.
Sudeep Ramnani Angel
Sudeep Ramnani is the Founder and CEO of Sportybet. SportyBet is an international sports betting and real-money gaming operator that delivers an omni-channel entertainment experience in regulated emerging markets (www.sportybet.com). Sudeep is also an investor in fintech and mobile payments and an advocate of the growing African internet ecosystem.Sudeep will be discussing the challenge of changing customer betting patterns alongside other innovative leaders in the sports betting industry. His insights into the industry's toughest topics will be truly beneficial to anyone who attends the Sports Betting West Africa Summit.
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Investment focus
  • Credit, FinTech, InsurTech
  • Seed, Angel
  • United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Finclusion Group — Enhancing financial inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa through data driven lending.
Kola Aina Angel · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
Kola Aina is an entrepreneur, technology operator and investor with vast experience working in Africa’s largest economic market. His prior entrepreneurial experience spans several sectors including venture capital, technology, media, agriculture, infrastructure, publishing and real estate. As an angel investor and while leading the early stageAfrican VC firm Ventures Platform. Venture Platform is a leading early stage African VC fund that provides founder friendly capital and support to early stage companies in a framework that is buoyed by corporate governance and hands-on support. Kola has lead investment in about 28 companies including Payments company; Paystack, Connectivity company; Tizeti, Healthcare company; MDaaS and the Agric-tech company; Thrive Agric.Kola, founded the enterprise technology company Emerging Platforms Limited, 9 years ago, quickly growing it to become one of the leading technology service delivery companies and leaders in the e-learning space in West Africa providing services to over 100,000 students. Emerging Platforms Limited is a software and technology firm that specializes in developing innovative technology solutions in education, national security and enterprise sectors.Prior to focusing on full time entrepreneurship, Kola worked in corporate finance, administration, corporate turn-around and strategy. He led strategy and finance for one of the largest publishing companies in Nigeria up till 2009. Before that he worked in corporate finance proving financial analysis at Fifth Third Bank in the USA.Kola is a leader in the African startup and investing ecosystem, a Ted speaker and volunteers his time advising founders, speaking at events and serves on the Presidential Committee for Job Creation and Youth Employment as well as the Private Sector Advisory Group to the Presidency on Creativity and Technology. Kola studied Electrical Engineering and then secured a Master in Business Administration degree with a specialization in Finance from Bowling Green State University, Ohio. He has received further education from Berkley University, Harvard University and the Lagos Business School.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Financial Services, Internet
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • Nigeria, United States, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
  • Payourse — We're democratising access to crypto by providing tools that help businesses build user-friendly crypto products.
  • Coinprofile — Coinprofile allows anyone, anywhere in the world send money to Africa. It's fast, seamless and free!
  • CutStruct — Buy construction materials at the best prices on Cutstruct. Order directly for cement, steel & reinforcement, granite, sharp sand, electrical materials and construction labor on Cutstruct.
Cristina Santin Angel
Cristina Santin
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Insurance, Blockchain
  • Seed
  • Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
  • Get It Done Now — GIDN is a Nigerian Fintech Company targeting medium and low income population for Loans and Financial products. GIDN has in addition a cashless, mobile based community marketplace, with more than 5k members, and aims to regulate the informal economy and facilitate the purchase of Services and Digital Products.
Echukwudi Daniel Angel
Echukwudi Daniel
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Investment focus
  • Drones, Energy, Delivery
  • Angel
  • Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
  • Arone — Arone pioneers technology that makes the world work more efficiently. 

In the air, Arone’s infrastructure enables hospitals access essential supplies on-demand for their patients. We also provide this infrastructure to logistics companies to enable a faster courier service for their customers. This infrastructure includes drones, dronedelivery stations (Avports), drone operators and license. For government institutions and organisations, Arone manufactures state of the art unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) saving lives and costs. For consumer electronics, Arone’s technology powers homes, offices and shops ensuring millions of people have access to electricity to live better lives.
Joachim Lecrivain Angel
Joachim Lecrivain
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Investment focus
  • Cryptocurrency, Marketplace, Blockchain
  • Seed, Series C, Series A
  • United States, United Kingdom, China
Portfolio highlights
  • WorkOS — Developer APIs / SDKs for enterprise-ready features like Single Sign-On (SSO/SAML), Passwordless Authentication, Directory Sync (SCIM), Audit Trail (SIEM), and more. Get started for free.
  • Jambo — Empowering the next generation of Africans via web3- Jambo
  • Merge — Fintech infrastructure that merges compliance, banking and payments into a single API and dashboard.
Khaled Ben Jilani Angel · Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia
Khaled Ben Jilani is a Senior Partner and a member of the ExCom of AfricInvest. He oversees investments early growth investments in Africa.
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Investment focus
  • Apps, EdTech, Software
  • Angel, Series A
  • Tunisia
Portfolio highlights
  • VYND — Vynd is revolutionizing North African food services market with a new integrated experience and better value proposition. It aims to provide a fully integrated digital platform to help venue owners better serve their customers and grow their businesses. Creating a Fully Integrated Venue Management System that offers booking, ordering and SPOSsystems, starting by a discovery app that connects customers to restaurants in Tunisia & North Africa.
  • GoMyCode — GoMyCode is changing the education market by training talents in a dynamic belnded environement on digital skills and connects them with tech opportunities around the world. Based on 4 Main Aspects: - Data based Assessment - Data based matching - Business Analytics - Learning Platform - Content EditorGoMyCode provides digital Skills Training forthe Future of Work. In 4 Different fields: - DATA - DEVELOPMENT - DESIGN - DIGITAL MARKETING
Tom Berckt Angel
Tom is currently a commercial executive at Clicks2customers.com, a global Search Engine Marketing company. His background is in (bio-) engineering but he has been involved in online companies for the past 10 years. Besides working at Clicks2customers, Tom is a part time lecturer at TSIBA (http://www.tsiba.org.za/) a South AfricanNGO providing tertiary education to economically disadvantaged children. He is also an angel investor in a number is technology startups and is an active member of the Silicon Cape initiative (www.siliconcape.com)
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Investment focus
  • Apps, Events, Printing
  • Angel
  • South Africa
Portfolio highlights
  • Personera — Personera is a technology company focused on the development of Facebook applications and personalized products. Personera's unique platform allows brands to offer their communities a variety of branded print products or digital downloads, easily ordered directly from the brand's Facebook fan page and fully personalized with their socialnetwork content. Personera's platform is white-labeled and completely customizable for any unique brand identity. Products include calendars, photobooks, cards, and posters, and are available in professional print versions or digital downloads. All of their products include shared content between the brand and the individual consumer, creating a one of a kind keepsake or merchandise piece for every customer. Implementing Personera on websites or Facebook fan pages (or both) is easy. All it requires is installation of an app by adding a new tab to a fan page or embedding a line of code onto a website. Personera handles payments, printing and delivery via their global network.Personera's business model works on a per-sale revenue share basis, so there are zero setup fees for clients. They have a global network of commercial print partners that manage physical production and delivery of the products, ensuring high quality, fast and reliable service worldwide. Personera makes it easy for brands to monetize their Facebook page while engaging their fans with personalized product offerings. The Personera personalized products platform has been used by a variety of brands including leading magazines, musicians, celebrities and consumer focused companies.
Nasir Jones Angel · New York, New York, United States
Nas, byname of Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones, also called Nasty Nas, (born September 14, 1973, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.), American rapper and songwriter who became a dominant voice in 1990s East Coast hip-hop. Nas built a reputation as an expressive chronicler of inner-city street life.Nasir Jones, the son of a jazz musician, grew up in public housingin Queens, New York. He dropped out of school in the eighth grade and searched for a creative outlet, finally settling on hip-hop. His breakthrough came in 1992, when his song “Half Time” (credited to Nasty Nas) appeared on the sound track to the film Zebrahead. Columbia Records soon signed him to a contract. His debut recording as Nas, Illmatic (1994), drew widespread acclaim for its poetic narration of hard-edged inner-city life.The more pop-oriented approach of It Was Written (1996) helped that album reach an even wider audience than its predecessor but ignited a recurring tension in Nas’s career between the appetite of the pop audience and the demands of hip-hop purists. He maintained his commercial appeal with I Am... (1999), although by that time he had also become embroiled in a public feud with fellow rapper Jay-Z over which of the two was the preeminent voice in East Coast hip-hop. The schism inspired Stillmatic (2001), which many fans considered a return to form. The two rappers publicly settled their differences in 2005, and shortly thereafter Nas signed with Def Jam, of which Jay-Z was president at the time.Nas’s penchant for provocation marked Hip Hop Is Dead (2006) and an untitled follow-up (2008), while Life Is Good (2012) struck an introspective tone. He also notably collaborated with reggae musician Damian Marley (the youngest son of Bob Marley) on the album Distant Relatives (2010).Nas also made occasional film appearances, notably in Belly (1998), a crime drama in which he starred opposite rapper DMX, and Black Nativity (2013), an adaptation of Langston Hughes’s gospel play.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Internet, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Canada, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
  • Magic Spoon — Magic Spoon cereal is high-protein, low-sugar, keto-friendly, and gluten-free. Available in Cocoa, Frosted, Fruity, Blueberry, Peanut Butter, and Cinnamon.
  • Everyrealm — Leaders in metaverse innovation and development.
  • Altered State Machine — Altered State Machine, aims to be a platform and protocol which any developer can build on it; can create, own, and compete with AI-based agents (bots) and upgrade and train their AI, buy, and sell them as NFTs. This will bring an evolution for NFTS.
Jon Oringer Angel · New York, New York, United States · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, France, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Skedway — Every work experience should be great! Skedway is the complete platform to optimize the hybrid work experience.
  • Zamp — We give you freedom from sales tax! Eliminate the need to learn, manage or touch any part of the sales tax compliance process.
  • NewHomesMate (formerly Propertymate) — Find, compare and buy a new construction home - all in one place.
Nahla Chelly Angel
Nahla Chelly
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Investment focus
  • Software, Collaboration, Information Technology
  • Seed
  • Tunisia
Portfolio highlights
  • Cynoia — Cynoia will serve as your apps hub and your unique workstation where you can access all your communication & collaboration channels from one place. In the form of a web platform used as an alternative or a complementary tool, You will have access to a unique space gathering built-in communication and collaborative features (Chating,Asynchronous voice and video messages, real-time video meeting spaces, personal and shared calendar, an organization task manager, and an acces to emails) as well as the ability to synchronize with most of the used apps to bring all your data from everywhere on any device. Our platform already supports the most used communication apps and platforms and it is personalizable based on user preferences. Thus, our team is still continuously working on adding other apps support.
Aaron Fu Angel · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya
Aaron has 10+ years of global experience building, scaling and investing in technology products in corporate and startup environments. He has co-founded both B2B & B2C businesses, in Africa - he has led seed stage equity investments in 20+ startups (totaling $2m+), driven the exit of 3 startups in Africa, he also sits on the board of ofstartups ranging from AgriTech to Transport and has worked with 100s through partners like Visa, MTN, Airbus, Société Générale and the World Bank.Prior to the Catalyst Fund, he was the Managing Director of MEST, Africa’s Largest Pre-Seed Incubator, and Managing Partner for Africa at Nest.vc, a Hong Kong based fund, which he joined after a career in financial services.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, Apps, Software
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Kenya, Egypt, Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
  • OkHi — Smart addressing for emerging markets. Enabling businesses to collect an accurate address, navigate to it without getting lost and verity it remotely.
  • Nala — A new kind of mobile money transfer for Africans worldwide! Make safe, affordable, and reliable international payments to Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda.
  • Stitch — One API integration for all online payments across South Africa. Accept Pay by bank, debit + credit card, cash, manual EFT, debit order and crypto. Orchestrate + reconcile digital payments across methods and send payouts
Chibuzo Ujam Angel
Chibuzo Ujam
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Investment focus
  • Drones, Energy, Delivery
  • Angel
  • Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
  • Arone — Arone pioneers technology that makes the world work more efficiently. 

In the air, Arone’s infrastructure enables hospitals access essential supplies on-demand for their patients. We also provide this infrastructure to logistics companies to enable a faster courier service for their customers. This infrastructure includes drones, dronedelivery stations (Avports), drone operators and license. For government institutions and organisations, Arone manufactures state of the art unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) saving lives and costs. For consumer electronics, Arone’s technology powers homes, offices and shops ensuring millions of people have access to electricity to live better lives.
Santiago Roel Santos Angel · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Santiago Roel Santos was a Partner at ParaFi Capital.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Financial Services, Gaming
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • United States, Singapore, Australia
Portfolio highlights
  • Blur — Blur aims to solve these problems and move the NFT space toward becoming institutional-grade while increasing decentralization.
  • Tower Pop — Tower Pop is a mobile gaming industry that focuses on tower defense. Tower Pop was founded in 2020 and was headquartered in Finland.
  • OneKey — The best way to keep crypto assets safe in the industry. Your bitcoin, ethereum, solana, and other crypto assets can all be safe and secure.
Iyinoluwa Aboyeji Angel
Iyinoluwa Aboyeji is the Founder and former CEO of HOF portfolio company Flutterwave, a business building payments technology and infrastructure to connect Africa to the global economy. Under his leadership, the company has become one of the fastest growing payments technology businesses of all-time, processing over $2B across over 50Mtransactions, and attracted significant investment from experienced players in the space, including Y Combinator (investors in Stripe), Greycroft (investors in Braintree), Greenvisor Capital (led by the Former CEO of Visa), and Mastercard.Previously, Iyinoluwa Co-Founded Andela, Africa's largest engineering organization with over 1000 software engineers that has received investment from Mark Zuckerberg and Google Ventures.Iyinoluwa holds a B.A. in Legal Studies from the University of Waterloo, and sits on the board of several institutions including Paris’ Share Africa Project, Rainbow Educational Services Limited, and Filmo Realty. He served as the Deputy Director General for Madam Oby Ezekwesili’s 2019 Presidential Campaign, is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, a Forbes 30 under 30 honoree, and a member of Nigeria's Industrial Policy and Competitiveness Advisory Council.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, Nigeria, South Africa
Portfolio highlights
  • FoondaMate — Foondamate brings the internet through messaging applications so students with limited internet access can study online.
  • Rapport — The smart solution for building superhuman teams. Rapport distills decades of research on high performing teams down to a few smart, simple steps that integrate seamlessly into your workflow.
  • 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.
Ugochukwu Aronu Angel
Ugochukwu Aronu is the Co-Founder And CEO of Xend.
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Investment focus
  • Drones, Energy, Delivery
  • Pre-Seed
  • Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
  • Arone — Arone pioneers technology that makes the world work more efficiently. 

In the air, Arone’s infrastructure enables hospitals access essential supplies on-demand for their patients. We also provide this infrastructure to logistics companies to enable a faster courier service for their customers. This infrastructure includes drones, dronedelivery stations (Avports), drone operators and license. For government institutions and organisations, Arone manufactures state of the art unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) saving lives and costs. For consumer electronics, Arone’s technology powers homes, offices and shops ensuring millions of people have access to electricity to live better lives.
Christian Jantzen Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
Danish angel investor, based in London.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Denmark, Sweden, Finland
Portfolio highlights
  • Medusa — The most popular ecommerce project on GitHub. Medusa provides open-source ecommerce backend infrastructure in NodeJS.
  • Heyhack — Automated web application security testing, protection, and reporting for software-as-a-service businesses.
  • Fullview — Fullview let's you instantly monitor, control and analyze user sessions for faster real time customer support. No downloads. Easy to integrate.
Shakir Merali Angel
Shakir Merali
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Investment focus
  • Credit, FinTech, Lending
  • Seed, Series C
  • Kenya, Mauritius
Portfolio highlights
  • 4G Capital — Financial Services, Small Business Loans, Unsecured Loans, Microfinance, Credit Solutions, Working Capital, Flexible Repayment Options, Quick Loan Disbursements, Collateral-free Loans. banking 4G Capital. Kuza. Kawi, Upia, NXTGEN, africa bank. kenya bank. uganda bank. Green Investment, Sustainable returns. funding. impact
  • Ilara Health — Ilara Health helps primary care clinics across Africa deliver better care.
Piers Kicks Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
Investing in crypto x gaming at BITKRAFT & Delphi Digital.Piers acquired his first bitcoin at 13 years old in exchange for virtual currency in a video game. After reaching 69 global in Rainbow Six Siege (over 50 million players), being a first generation virtual reality user, and growing up with crypto, he leverages his unique insight intothe undercurrents of the web to cross the digital divide.Computer science and philosophy background, entrepreneurial with a global digital asset network.Hunting asymmetric crypto/venture investment opportunities in early stage projects that seek to advance and support the emergence of synthetic reality.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Gaming, Video Games
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Australia, Liberia
Portfolio highlights
  • Jambo — Empowering the next generation of Africans via web3- Jambo
  • Upshot — The source for NFT pricing. Upshot uses machine learning to provide deep insight into NFT markets and unlocks a wave of exotic new DeFi possibilities.
  • Stardust — A software platform for games in the metaverse
Omar Darwazah Angel · New York, New York, United States
Omar is a Managing Director, General Partner, and CFO at AAF Management Ltd. (AAF), an early-stage venture capital firm he co-founded in 2016. Over the past 5 years, Omar has invested in over 120 venture-backed startups in the US, Europe, and MENA region across a multitude of different sectors alongside over 800 blue-chip venture capital firms,corporate venture arms as well as notable incubators and accelerators. Omar has also deployed capital to 18 emerging managers globally. His fund performance is consistently ranked in the top decile in terms of DPI and TVPI respectively benchmarked on Cambridge Associates’ data on over 1500 US VC Funds. Previously, Omar spent 10 years of his career with OCI N.V. in Cairo and New York focusing on investor relations, strategy, and corporate finance where he worked on over $35 billion worth of corporate transactions. Prior to that, Omar was with Deloitte Tax LLP in Chicago and Deutsche Bank’s Leveraged Finance team in London.Omar also founded and successfully exited his own startup, Premier Foods SAE, which managed two gourmet fast food brands in Egypt. Omar previously advised Hikma Pharmaceuticals’ corporate venture arm Hikma Ventures on its digital healthcare investments Omar is also an angel investor in over 20 tech companies including Andela, Blockstack, BitOasis, Dayra, Freterium, Halan, FiscalNote, Thndr, and Ziina. Omar sits on the Board of the Middle East Investor Relations Association (MEIRA) and the Middle East Venture Capital Association (MEVCA). He is also a mentor to the NYU Steinhardt EdTech Accelerator, an advisor to Yale University’s Center for Digital Health and Innovation, and a judge at the Wharton School’s Venture Lab. In aggregate, Omar has over 16 years of international experience in corporate finance, corporate communications, management consulting, strategy, investor relations, and venture capital.Omar is an avid traveler and has visited 87 countries around the world. He also has an interest in film production and has been an Executive Producer on several short feature films including Baby Mine (2017) and Lab Rat (2018).Omar holds a BA in Economics and Political Science with Honors from the University of Chicago and an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He was named as one of Wharton’s 40 under 40 in 2017 and one of the Top 100 the University of Chicago Alumni in Tech in 2021.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
  • United States, Egypt, United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
  • Dr. Treat — Experience pet care at its best with exceptional personalized veterinary care at unsurpassed levels. After all, our companions are entitled to happier, healthier, and longer lives.
  • Fuze — Embedded digital asset capabilities for financial institutions. Digital asset infrastructure - purpose-built for the Middle East.
  • Exponential DeFi — Exponential is an investment platform for crypto holders to earn yield on their crypto through decentralized finance (DeFi) safely and easily.
George Godula Angel · Shanghai, Shanghai, China
Cross-border angel / early stage investor with portfolio of 40+ startup companies and as of currently 4 exits, 4 unicorns & counting.George invests in companies helping people lead a longer, healthier and happier life - keywords sustainability, ESG, impact investing. In addition to investing he likes to be hands-on in hisportfoliocompanies, either helping China / SEA based teams to internationalize or global teams to break into China / SEA or support them in outsourcing, sourcing and manufacturing. Typically angel, seed and occasional Series A stage investments. Industry focus and selected startups in his portfolio: - E-Commerce e.g. Web2Asia, Grana, Mercato - SaaS e.g. Jimdo, Blush, Anduin Transactions - Marketplaces / crowdfunding Republic.co - Education / Training e.g. Vantage Point, Dexter, - IoT e.g. Mila, Cafe-X, Lyte charging, The Light Phone, Density.io - Fitness e.g. FitXR, Trainersvault, Overhand Fitness, Salut, Guavapass (exit via sale to ClassPass) - Health / Nutrition e.g. NutriSense, Blue Mesa Health (exit via sale to Virgin), Compass Therapeutics (exit via IPO) - Insurtech e.g. The Care Voice - Medtech / Biotech e.g. Life Biosciences, Sequencing.com, MycoWorks - Sustainability / Infrastructure e.g. Blokable, U.S. Bitcoin Corp, Hardt Hyperloop - Deep tech / frontier tech e.g. Rain Neuromorphics, ZaiNar, Massive, Protocol Labs (Filecoin) - On-demand / sharing economy e.g. Yassir, Truck it in, misterbnb, Delivery Hero Austria & China (exit via sale / IPO)
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Information Technology, Mobile
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, China, Algeria
Portfolio highlights
  • Mila Cares — Air breathers, rejoice. Meet Mila, the first air purifier designed with real, air-breathing humans in mind.
  • Yassir — Yassir is a transportation service that utilizes a mobile app to enable users to book drivers and travel safely.The company's app locates local drivers that provide on-demand convenience and food delivery, allowing Algerians to travel anywhere they want and get food delivered on-demand.Founded in 2016 by Amel Delli, El Mahdi Yettou,Mustapha Baha, and Noureddine Tayebi and is based in Algiers, Alger, Algeria.
  • Truck It In — is a platform tech company focused on simplifying road freight for 3.3M+ businesses in Pakistan to unlock 1 Billion dollars in resource potential
Vinny Lingham Angel · San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Vinny Lingham is Co-Founder & CEO at Civic. He was the founder and CEO of Gyft, a mobile gift card app that allows customers to buy, store, send and redeem gift cards conveniently from their mobile device. He is also the founder of Yola.com, a web development and hosting company that enables users without prior programming knowledge to developwebsites. Vinny is the recipient of numerous awards, including Top Young ICT Entrepreneur in Africa (2006) and was also a finalist for Men’s Health Best Man (2009) and ICT Personality of the Year in South Africa (2008). He also previously founded Clicks2Customers, which also won the Top Technology Company award in South Africa in 2006. He has previously served on marketing advisory boards for Nasdaq listed Valueclick and Yahoo, was also selected as an Endeavor “High Impact Entrepreneur” in 2006. Vinny studied a B.Com (Information Systems) at the University of Cape Town.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Internet, Cryptocurrency
  • Seed, Funding Round, Angel
  • United States, South Africa, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Glif — Interoperable tools for the Filecoin network
  • Afterparty — Afterparty is a technology company behind the new Web3 platform enabling creators to directly monetize and manage NFT collector relationships
  • Collectibles.com — Collectibles.com is a Web3 community and marketplace for collectors and the worldwide collectibles sector.
Wassim Jouini Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Wassim Jouini is a Co-Founder at Proservy. He attended CentraleSupélec.
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Investment focus
  • Apps, Software, Communities
  • Seed
  • Tunisia
Portfolio highlights
  • VYND — Vynd is revolutionizing North African food services market with a new integrated experience and better value proposition. It aims to provide a fully integrated digital platform to help venue owners better serve their customers and grow their businesses. Creating a Fully Integrated Venue Management System that offers booking, ordering and SPOSsystems, starting by a discovery app that connects customers to restaurants in Tunisia & North Africa.
Michael Leeman Angel · San Diego, California, United States
Michael is the San Diego based Senior VP Business Development for Cognician, a self coaching and behavior change platform based in San Francisco. He is also a shareholder and director. Michael also has array of investments in and advisory roles with a number of other start ups, including Gyft, Yola, ChessCube and Skyrove.
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Investment focus
  • Apps, Publishing, Software
  • Angel, Seed, Funding Round
  • United States, South Africa
Portfolio highlights
  • Personera — Personera is a technology company focused on the development of Facebook applications and personalized products. Personera's unique platform allows brands to offer their communities a variety of branded print products or digital downloads, easily ordered directly from the brand's Facebook fan page and fully personalized with their socialnetwork content. Personera's platform is white-labeled and completely customizable for any unique brand identity. Products include calendars, photobooks, cards, and posters, and are available in professional print versions or digital downloads. All of their products include shared content between the brand and the individual consumer, creating a one of a kind keepsake or merchandise piece for every customer. Implementing Personera on websites or Facebook fan pages (or both) is easy. All it requires is installation of an app by adding a new tab to a fan page or embedding a line of code onto a website. Personera handles payments, printing and delivery via their global network.Personera's business model works on a per-sale revenue share basis, so there are zero setup fees for clients. They have a global network of commercial print partners that manage physical production and delivery of the products, ensuring high quality, fast and reliable service worldwide. Personera makes it easy for brands to monetize their Facebook page while engaging their fans with personalized product offerings. The Personera personalized products platform has been used by a variety of brands including leading magazines, musicians, celebrities and consumer focused companies.
  • Swiftly — Harness your public transit data with Swiftly's urban mobility solutions to make your city's mass transportation move more efficiently.
  • Appstores.com — Appstores is making it easier for consumers to find apps by giving small and large niche publishers and API/platform companies the tools to showcase apps most relevant to their users.
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