Top 10 Transportation Angel Investors in South Africa (August 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Vinny Lingham
Angel
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2 | United States, South Africa, United Kingdom | Seed, Angel | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Internet | $125k–$5.6M |
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Greg Fury
Angel
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1 | South Africa | Series A | Apps, Travel, Big Data | |
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Tim Draper
Angel
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, Canada | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | $356k–$50M |
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Llew Claasen
Angel
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1 | Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria | Seed, Series A, Corporate Round | Logistics, Transportation, Retail | $2.3M–$5.5M |
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Frederik Gerner
Angel
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1 | South Africa, Germany, The Netherlands | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | B2C, Energy, FinTech | $28k–$55k |
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Polo Leteka
Angel
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1 | South Africa, Zambia | Seed, Series A, Series B | Retail, Medical, Hospital | $8.3M–$11M |
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Jonathan Smit
Angel
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1 | South Africa, The Netherlands | Seed, Pre-Seed | B2B, Travel, Tourism | |
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Marc Andreessen
Angel
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1 | United States, France, Germany | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence | $1M–$80M |
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Bas Hochstenbach
Angel
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1 | South Africa, The Netherlands | Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed | B2C, Travel, Tourism | $28k–$55k |
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Johan Dekker
Angel
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1 | South Africa | Delivery, Logistics, Last Mile Transportation | ||
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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.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Internet
- 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
- Afterparty — Useful guides, stories, and updates
- Shield USDT — US bank accounts built for international wholesalers and distributors. Same-day USD wires, USDT payments, escrow, and business credit cards.
Greg Fury
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- Industry: Apps, Travel, Big Data
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- GoMetro — Fleet management simplified with GoMetro. Integrate telematics, gain real-time visibility, and optimize operations with a secure, scalable platform,
Tim Draper is the Founding Partner of Draper Associates. He attended Harvard Business School.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 298
- Round size: Seed $356k–$6.5M; Series A $2.5M–$25M; Series B $3M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- CASIMIR —
- illumicell AI — illumicell AI combines patented AI algorithms and proprietary microscopy technology to test 50x faster, 20x more effectively, empowering every healthcare provider at the point of care – not just fertility clinics – with accessible, scalable fertility diagnostics.
- SignalRank — SignalRank Corporation is a FinTech company in the Venture space. It focuses on the seed stage asset class and uses data analytics to allocate capital to the best seed fund managers for their top performing companies. GPRank and CompanyRank are two proprietary algorithms it leverages to automate capital allocation. The company invests from balancesheet. Its customers are seed stage investors with outstanding companies in their portfolio.
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.
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- Industry: Logistics, Transportation, Retail
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Corporate Round
- Geography: Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Seed $2.3M–$5.5M
- Lead/follow: 60% lead, 40% 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.
Frederik Gerner
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- Industry: B2C, Energy, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: South Africa, Germany, The Netherlands
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Angel $28k–$55k
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% 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.
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.
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- Industry: Retail, Medical, Hospital
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: South Africa, Zambia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Series A $8.3M–$11M
- Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Lupiya — Lupiya is a financial technology company that provides digital lending services designed to help individuals and small businesses access short-term credit and installment financing. The platform offers mobile-accessible loans that can be used for expenses such as personal needs, business cash flow, or emergency payments, using an online applicationprocess that evaluates creditworthiness through alternative data and behavioral indicators. Lupiya’s services include flexible repayment schedules, automated disbursement, and electronic account management so users can monitor balances and repayment activity within the app or web interface. The company also offers tools for budgeting and payment reminders to support borrowers in managing their credit obligations. Through integrations with local payment networks and banking partners, Lupiya facilitates secure fund transfers and compliance with financial regulations. Its lending infrastructure is tailored to expand access to credit for underserved populations and small enterprises that may have limited access to traditional banking 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 — ALMA CLINICS Primary Healthcare with Advanced Blockchain, AI technology. BEST Clinic providing affordable healthcare, Soweto, Johannesburg, South Africa.
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.
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- 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.
Marc Andreessen was the Co-founder of LoudCloud Systems.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: United States, France, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 114
- Round size: Seed $1M–$11M; Series A $3.1M–$48M; Series B $3M–$80M
- Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Unite — We started Unite because we saw a problem.Two problems, in fact. A problem faced by marketplace sellers like you, who see high- quality traffic on your pages but have no way of retargeting shoppers who don’t end up purchasing, leaving potential sales on the table. And a problem faced by the marketplaces where you sell, which win by helping youdrive sales but aren’t equipped to offer you the sorts of online advertising tools like retargeting pixels, audience creation, and campaign management platforms that big brands have been using for years.That’s where we come in. Understanding these constraints and sharing the frustration faced by both sellers and marketplaces over lost revenue and lost customers, we created the perfect platform to put the industry’s most powerful advertising technology capabilities in the hands of people like you, building them into the marketplaces where you already sell. The result? Higher traffic and higher conversion rates. In other words, higher sales.Today, thousands of sellers across the Internet are using Unite to advertise like a big brand and drive sales. It’s time to join them.
- Phi — Build your web3 cities from your wallet activities
- Quillette — What is Quillette? Quillette is an Australian based online magazine that focuses on long-form analysis and cultural commentary. We are politically non-partisan, but rely on reason, science, and humanism as our guiding values. Quillette hosts the Quillette and Quillette Cetera podcasts, and every year we throw Quillette Socials
Bas Hochstenbach is the Co-Founder of Conservation Club. He attended Leiden University.
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- 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.
Johan Dekker
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- 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.
Transportation Angel investor funding in South Africa at a glance
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