Top 10 Transportation Angel Investors in South Africa (June 2026)

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

Industry: Blockchain, Internet, Software
Stage:Seed, Angel
Geography: United States, South Africa, United Kingdom

Investor stats

Total investments: 39
Round size: Seed $2.5M–$5.6M; Angel $125k–$500k
Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

Glif — Interoperable tools for the Filecoin network
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.
Spexi — An intuitive and collaborative platform for drone-based data

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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

Industry: Retail, Internet, Logistics
Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
Geography: Zambia, South Africa

Investor stats

Total investments: 6
Round size: Series A $8.3M–$11M
Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow

Portfolio highlights

Lupiya — Lupiya is an online marketplace for microloans. It is a branch-less, innovative digital microfinance platform that leverages technology to make the process of borrowing simpler and easier so that people and businesses located across the country even in rural, remote areas can access financial services.
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.
Alma Clinics —

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Bas Hochstenbach is the Co-Founder of Conservation Club. He attended Leiden University.

Investment focus

Industry: B2C, Travel, Tourism
Stage:Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
Geography: South Africa, The Netherlands

Investor stats

Total investments: 5
Round size: Angel $28k–$55k
Lead/follow: 80% lead, 20% follow

Portfolio highlights

DX Digital Africa — DX Digital Africa specializes in automotive intelligence to build capabilities for vehicles of the future. Optimizing processes and reducing maintenance costs throughout the lifecycle of vehicles from the factory floor to scrap yard.
Yebo Fresh — Yebofresh is a new online shopping service, delivering popular groceries straight into areas that are generally unserved by most formal retailers. Our unique business model and partnerships with manufacturers allow us to deliver top quality products and A-brands at extremely competitive prices. Yebofresh serves Imizamo Yethu, Langa, Khayelitsha,Mfuleni and Gugulethu and following recent seed funding, is rapidly expanding across the greater Cape Town area.
Zelda Learning — Zelda provides free online career guidance for students looking to enter university and then links them to bursary and study opportunities.

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Llew is the Managing Partner of Newtown Partners, an early-stage venture capital firm that actively invests in emerging, disruptive technology startup businesses. Founded and run by internationally successful entrepreneurs, Vinny Lingham and Llew Claasen, Newtown Partners has an entrepreneurial focus that goes beyond investment. The team operatesout of offices in Cape Town, South Africa and Sunnyvale, California (Silicon Valley).Llew is a go-to-market strategist with almost two decades of senior management experience in cryptoassets (since 2012), digital product management and digital marketing.He co-founded Clicks2customers (rebranded to www.nmpidigital.com) with Vinny Lingham, now a global digital marketing agency with annual billings in excess of $100 million and Synthasite (rebranded to www.yola.com).Llew is also the former Executive Director of the Bitcoin Foundation, the original, the oldest and the largest Bitcoin advocacy organization globally, headquartered in San Francisco, U.S.Llew has a Masters degree in the Management of Technology & Innovation and lives in Cape Town, South Africa.

Investment focus

Industry: Logistics, Retail, Health Care
Stage:Seed, Series A
Geography: Egypt, Nigeria, South Africa

Investor stats

Total investments: 7
Round size: Seed $2.3M–$5.5M
Lead/follow: 57% lead, 43% follow

Portfolio highlights

MDaaS Global — At MDaaS Global, we build and operate modern, tech-enabled diagnostic centres in clinically-underserved communities, starting in Nigeria. Our big goal is to create affordable healthcare solutions for Africa's next billion.
Chefaa — Chefaa is a GPS-enabled pharmacy benefits platform connecting patients & pharmacies nation-wide to help patients manage all their pharmacy needs. Chefaa uses big data, data ming & machine learning
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.

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Johan Dekker

Investment focus

Industry: Delivery, Logistics, Last Mile Transportation
Geography: South Africa

Investor stats

Total investments: 1
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

Pargo — Pargo is a convenient logistics solution that lets you collect and return parcels at Pargo parcel points throughout the country when it suits you best.

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A business owner and entrepreneur at heart, Jonathan started PayFast in 2007, personally developing the core platform and steering the company through more than a decade of hyper growth while maintaining a strong focus on financial return. Now a seasoned executive with strong technical roots and a keen understanding of the payments environment bothlocally and globally, he brings his unique combination of technical, operational and management expertise to bear in driving further growth within the business and across the larger group.

Investment focus

Industry: B2B, Travel, Tourism
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
Geography: South Africa, The Netherlands

Investor stats

Total investments: 2
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

TUNL — Ship globally with ease. TUNL offers affordable, transparent international shipping built for South African brands. Up to 91% cheaper. No surprises.
Conservio — Discover and Book South Africa's best nature accommodations with Conservio. Book vetted accommodations, easy and safe to book online.

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Marc Andreessen was the Co-founder of LoudCloud Systems.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, SaaS, Internet
Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
Geography: United States, France, Germany

Investor stats

Total investments: 111
Round size: Seed $1M–$11M; Series A $3.1M–$36M; Series B $3M–$80M
Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow

Portfolio highlights

Libermans Co — We are the Liberman Siblings: David & Daniil, Anna, and Masha.
Canonical Crypto — Canonical leads early-stage investments in technical teams building at the frontier. SF-based, founder-obsessed.
Redbeard Ventures — We are an early-stage VC firm led by a team with operating and investing experience looking to enable the future of the Metaverse and develop frontier tech to better the world! View our portfolio

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Frederik Gerner

Investment focus

Industry: B2C, Energy, Organic
Stage:Seed, Angel
Geography: South Africa, The Netherlands

Investor stats

Total investments: 6
Round size: Angel $28k–$55k
Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

DX Digital Africa — DX Digital Africa specializes in automotive intelligence to build capabilities for vehicles of the future. Optimizing processes and reducing maintenance costs throughout the lifecycle of vehicles from the factory floor to scrap yard.
Yebo Fresh — Yebofresh is a new online shopping service, delivering popular groceries straight into areas that are generally unserved by most formal retailers. Our unique business model and partnerships with manufacturers allow us to deliver top quality products and A-brands at extremely competitive prices. Yebofresh serves Imizamo Yethu, Langa, Khayelitsha,Mfuleni and Gugulethu and following recent seed funding, is rapidly expanding across the greater Cape Town area.
Zelda Learning — Zelda provides free online career guidance for students looking to enter university and then links them to bursary and study opportunities.

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André Pienaar is Managing Partner, Founder and Executive Chairman of C5 Capital, a specialist venture capital firm focused on cloud computing, big data analytics, artifial intelligence and cyber security. He is also a Mentor for C5 Nebula which aims to empower women aspiring to engage in the tech space.André founded C5 in 2014, to providelong-term support, private equity and venture capital to innovative cyber security companies. The firm is made up of a varied international team of investors and entrepreneurs and has offices in Washington, London, Munich, Luxembourg and Bahrain.A recognised expert on cyber law and cybercrime, André Pienaar started his career with Kroll in 1996 where he went on to hold the position of the company’s youngest ever Managing Director and also built and lead Kroll’s Africa & Natural Resources Division out of London prior to Kroll’s sale in 2004.Following this success, André Pienaar went on to launch G3 (which stands for Good Governance Group), an advisory consultancy which provided advice on regulatory compliance, risk mitigation and cyber security to its global client base.André is also a member of: • USIP (United States Institute of Peace) International Advisory Council • The National Council on White House History

Investment focus

Industry: Information Technology, Cyber Security, Delivery
Stage:Series F
Geography: Luxembourg, South Africa, United States

Investor stats

Total investments: 4
Lead/follow: 75% lead, 25% follow

Portfolio highlights

Parcelninja — ParcelNinja is an outsourced warehousing & fulfilment cloud service, aimed at providing ecommerce business owners a turnkey solution.
Cassava Technologies — Cassava Technologies is an innovative technology company encompassing fiber networks, data centers, renewable energy, cloud & cybersecurity.
Haven Cyber Technologies — Haven Cyber Technologies is an industrial holding which is focused on creating a European champion in Managed Security Solution Providers (MSSP) for enterprise customers. Haven brings together a network of organisations onto its platform, enabling it to offer a bespoke product suite to each client. Companies within Haven maintain their own brandsand management and benefit from innovation across the platform, which focuses on cloud computing, machine learning and automation and also provides companies with world-class talent and mentorship.

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