Top 5 Transportation Angel Investors in South Africa in May 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

Blockchain, Internet, Software
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.

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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

Logistics, Retail, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Egypt, Nigeria, South Africa

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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Marc Andreessen was the Co-founder of LoudCloud Systems.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Internet
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, France, Germany

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

B2C, Energy, Organic
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
South Africa, The Netherlands

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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