# Top 10 Transportation Angel Investors in South Africa in June 2026

## Vinny Lingham
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Blockchain, Internet, Software

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.

## Polo Leteka
- Type: Angel
- Location: Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Retail, Internet, Logistics

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.

## Bas Hochstenbach
- Type: Angel
- Location: Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: B2C, Travel, Tourism

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

## Llew Claasen
- Type: Angel
- Location: Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Logistics, Retail, Health Care

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.

## Johan Dekker
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Delivery, Logistics, Last Mile Transportation

Johan Dekker

## Jonathan Smit
- Type: Angel
- Location: Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: B2B, Travel, Tourism

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.

## Marc Andreessen
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Internet

Marc Andreessen was the Co-founder of LoudCloud Systems.

## Frederik Gerner
- Type: Angel
- Location: Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: B2C, Energy, Organic

Frederik Gerner

## Andre Pienaar
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series F
- Focus: Information Technology, Cyber Security, Delivery

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

## Tim Draper
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

Tim Draper is the Founding Partner of Draper Associates. He attended Harvard Business School.

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