Top 20 FinTech Angel Investors in Kenya (May 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Sajid Rahman
Angel
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1 | India, Nigeria, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Banking | $385k–$6M |
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Helena Riese Harstad
Angel
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1 | Kenya | Pre-Seed | Travel, Tourism, Venture Capital | |
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Shola Akinlade
Angel
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1 | Nigeria, Kenya, Rwanda | Pre-Seed, Seed | FinTech, Education, InsurTech | $740k–$2.1M |
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Wes Schwalje
Angel
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1 | India, United States, Mexico | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | FinTech, Information Technology, Financial Services | |
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Amit Bhatia
Angel
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1 | India, Kenya, United States | Seed, Series A | Bakery, Medical, Hospital | |
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Keisuke Honda
Angel
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1 | Japan, United States, Singapore | Seed, Series A | Education, Blockchain, E-Learning | $4.3M–$100M |
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Peter Bruce-Clark
Angel
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1 | Kenya | Seed | InsurTech, Financial Services | |
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Victor Asemota
Angel
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1 | Kenya, United States | Pre-Seed | Credit, Banking, FinTech | |
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Ana Andrianova
Angel
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1 | Kenya, Singapore | Seed, Series A | Analytics, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency | |
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Hamad Alhomaizi
Angel
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1 | Kenya | Seed | Financial Services | |
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Tony Nicalo
Angel
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1 | Kenya | Pre-Seed | FinTech, Advertising, Asset Management | |
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Michael Chow
Angel
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1 | United States, Kenya | Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Rental Property | |
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Larry RosenBerger
Angel
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1 | United States, Kenya | Series A, Pre-Seed | Analytics, FinTech, Finance | $4.2M–$5.6M |
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Federico Pirzio-Biroli
Angel
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1 | United Kingdom, Kenya, Sweden | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Non Profit, Software, Venture Capital | $200k–$1.7M |
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Ali Shaaban
Angel
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1 | Egypt, United States, Kenya | Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Banking | |
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Christian Jantzen
Angel
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1 | Denmark, Sweden, Finland | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $250k–$3.5M |
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Caribou Honig
Angel
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1 | Kenya, Colombia, Hong Kong | Seed, Series A | InsurTech, Insurance, EdTech | $2M–$15M |
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Peter Sandberg
Angel
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1 | Denmark, Kenya, Estonia | Angel, Pre-Seed, Secondary Market | Internet, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech | |
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Jesper Drescher
Angel
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1 | Kenya, Denmark | Seed, Angel | SaaS, Gaming, Content | $800k–$1.2M |
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Matilde Giglio
Angel
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1 | India, United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, Software, FinTech | $125k–$125k |
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Sajid currently works as Managing Partner at MyAsiaVC He attended London Business School.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Banking
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: India, Nigeria, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Pre-Seed $385k–$6M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ImaliPay — ImaliPay is a financial health platform offering financial products to freelancers and blue collar gig workers in partnership with gig platforms.
- Krave Mart — Krave Mart is a quick-commerce startup offering the delivery of groceries and other products in 10 minutes.
- EquityList — Equity management with online cap table management and employee stock option programs (ESOP) administration. Available free for Indian startups
Helena Riese Harstad is the Co-Founder and Chairman of Optimizer Foundation. She previously worked at SBAB Bank as a Project Specialist. Helena Riese attended Stockholm University.
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- Industry: Travel, Tourism, Venture Capital
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Purple Elephant Ventures — We are Africa's first venture studio focusing on the travel & tourism sector. Our aim is to build businesses that will lead Africa's tourism industry to a greener future
Shola Akinlade is the Co-founder and CEO at Paystack.
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- Industry: FinTech, Education, InsurTech
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, Rwanda
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Pre-Seed $740k–$2.1M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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 — Earnipay empowers businesses to overcome their finance and people operations challenges and improve their employees' financial wellness
- 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.
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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- Industry: FinTech, Information Technology, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: India, United States, Mexico
Investor stats
- Total investments: 35
- Lead/follow: no public data
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.
Amit Bhatia
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- Industry: Bakery, Medical, Hospital
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: India, Kenya, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Mara — Secure and easy to use crypto wallet, where you can buy, sell, earn, send or withdraw your fiat and crypto assets - including Bitcoin, Ethereum and Mara Token
- Annapurna Swadisht — Annapurna Swadisht offers ready-to-eat packaged snacks.
- Medici — From triage to treatment, Medici provides a HIPAA-compliant, virtual patient engagement platform, and is built on SOC 2 compliance standards with seamless EHR integrations and multi-patient management so you can grow your practice without ever having to switch telemedicine providers.
Keisuke Honda is the Founder & CEO of Now Do.
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- Industry: Education, Blockchain, E-Learning
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Japan, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 28
- Round size: Seed $4.3M–$13M; Series A $11M–$100M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ImaliPay — ImaliPay is a financial health platform offering financial products to freelancers and blue collar gig workers in partnership with gig platforms.
- AnotherBall — AnotherBall = Digital + Entertainment + Token economy
- Bending Spoons — Bending Spoons is a fast-growing tech company focused on building and marketing mobile applications. Despite being such a young company, we've already achieved notable results, with tens of millions of downloads of our apps, and millions of users active every month. Our goal? Becoming the #1 app developer and publisher in the world. And ourambitions don't end there!We invest immensely in our team, and we couldn't be more proud of each other. We are a group of extremely young, talented, and ambitious software engineers, data scientists, and graphic designers, with among our ranks entrepreneurs that raised money from prestigious VCs, ex-CERN, ex-Google, and ex-McKinsey. We work from our amazing headquarters in Milan, but also support remote work.We're always on the lookout for people that want to be part of our über-challenging journey to build one of the greatest tech companies in the world. If that sounds exciting to you, don't hesitate to apply at http://bendingspoons.com/careers.html.
Peter Bruce-Clark - Partner @ Social Impact Capital
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- Industry: InsurTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Lami — Lami is an end-to-end digital insurance platform and API that enables companies across sectors to offer insurance products. Its API allows underwriters to connect with consumer-facing companies that can provide embedded insurance as a value add for existing customers, many of whom are uninsured.
Victor Asemota
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- Industry: Credit, Banking, FinTech
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Kenya, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Tanda — As a Tanda Agent, you can sell Kenya's favorite digital products, and grow your duka while you're at it
- Remedial Health — We improve business to business access to medicines by providing such medicines from manufactures/registered distributors direct to large and small healthcare retail businesses (large pharmacies and remote chemist/PPMVs (Patent and Proprietary Medicine Vendors)) using technology to deliver just-in-time stock and provide financing and awide selection of inventory to such retail business.
Ana Andrianova
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- Industry: Analytics, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Kenya, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Mara — Secure and easy to use crypto wallet, where you can buy, sell, earn, send or withdraw your fiat and crypto assets - including Bitcoin, Ethereum and Mara Token
- Nansen — The Nansen analytics platform analyzes millions of data points on Ethereum wallets, transactions, and smart contracts.
Investor, Entrepreneur
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- Industry: Financial Services
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Mara — Secure and easy to use crypto wallet, where you can buy, sell, earn, send or withdraw your fiat and crypto assets - including Bitcoin, Ethereum and Mara Token
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- Industry: FinTech, Advertising, Asset Management
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Alvin — Alvin is a powerful mobile app that automatically creates and adjusts your budget to help you meet your goals.
Michael Chow is the Founder and CEO of Dart Technologies.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Rental Property
- Stage:Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Teamble — Teamble dramatically improves how managers coach their people and how employees learn and up-skill. Teamble uniquely combines continuous feedback, performance, employee engagement, and learning & development in one AI-based platform, built to drive higher performance.
- Boom — Boom is the easiest way to build credit credit with your rent. With Boom, report your rent payments to all three credit bureaus for as little as $2 per month. Enroll in minutes.
- Tembo Health — Seniors deserve the very best care, no matter where they live. Tembo Health partners with nursing homes to provide residents with high quality telemedicine appointments in specialties like psychiatry, cardiology, and more.
Larry Rosenberger was named FICO's first Research Fellow in 2007, following more than 33 years of service to the company. In this capacity, he continues to pursue research projects that advance FICO's analytic science. From 1999 to 2007, he led FICO’s Research Unit, focused on early stage innovation in such areas as decisionanalytics/Strategy Science and Consumer Capacity Index. From 1991 to 1999, he served as President and CEO. During that time, FICO experienced consecutive years of record growth, with annual revenues increasing from $31 million to over $276 million. Prior to that position, he managed the Engineering, Research, and Development Division. In that capacity, he was responsible for the technical development, production and marketing of the company's most advanced products. Mr. Rosenberger holds a B.S. in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an MS in physics and operations research from the University of California, Berkeley. He is also chairman of the board of directors of the Marin Education Fund and board member of the Marin Community Foundation.
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- Industry: Analytics, FinTech, Finance
- Stage:Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Series A $4.2M–$5.6M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
Portfolio highlights
- MeasureOne — Our consumer-permissioned data exchange platform provides verifications, credit decision and more. See how it works. Request a demo today!
- Fenris — The single best API for data and insight used to streamline customer acquisition and improve retention for insurance products. Our clients (agencies, carriers, financial services providers) leverage our APIs to inject insights and data into their workflows, to increase conversions, and deliver killer Amazon-like customer journeys.Developer-first in our approach, it's the easy, secure way to access external data and custom algorithms that identify your best customer and ease the way. Our suite of APIs covers 95% of the US (255m adults, 130m households, 99% properties (residential and commercial), 35m small businesses, and 40m new life events annually). Machine learning analytics engine that consistently hones our predictive scores to deliver more results right at the point of quotesignals and scoring that streamline work flows and improve turn around time in traditional and embedded purchase pathways.
- Bridge To College — Bridge to College Inc uses a free survey to match students to colleges that are a social, financial, and academic fit. Next, our team of researchers (PhDs and EdDs with expertise in higher education, race, machine learning, and organizational leadership) provides the data with research to colleges and high schools to support their admissions andcounseling processes.
Fede started out as an angel investor in 2010. His portfolio quickly grew, so he built a team around him and thus Playfair Capital was born. We have since gone on to become one of Europe’s most active and well-known early-stage VC funds. Before becoming a technology investor Fede worked for several NGOs in Africa, with a particular focus on aidtransparency. He recently renewed his focus on Africa by relocating to Kenya and becoming an angel investor in East Africa’s burgeoning startup ecosystem. He maintains an active role at Playfair and continues to lead our investment team.
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- Industry: Non Profit, Software, Venture Capital
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, Kenya, Sweden
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$1.7M; Pre-Seed $200k–$1M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Bibblio — Conversion optimization, powered by AI. Increase user engagement, grow revenues and drive new audiences, for stronger site metrics and ROI.
- Brewbot — Brewbot is dedicated to the wonderful world of beer and beerbrewing
- Purple Elephant Ventures — We are Africa's first venture studio focusing on the travel & tourism sector. Our aim is to build businesses that will lead Africa's tourism industry to a greener future
Ali Shaaban has been a pioneer in the digital advertising and communications industry for more than 18 years, founding the award-winning full-fledged creative digital agency Icon Creations back in 2003 when the industry was at its infancy stage. Since then, Ali Shaaban has built strong long-term relationships and a strategic network with most ofthe leading automotive brands in Egypt and the Middle East, where he established a solid track record of delivering top-notch digital products & services that stood the test of time. Driven by passion for excellence and an always-on personalized approach to satisfying his partners, Ali Shaaban is the quintessential digital partner to have on your side in the automotive industry today.His automotive portfolio includes Alfa Romeo, Bentley, BMW, Castrol, Citroën, Ferrari, Fiat, Ford, Hyundai, JAC, Jaguar, Jeep, KIA, Land Rover, Maserati, Mazda, MINI, Mitsubishi, Nissan, Peugeot, Pirelli, Renault, Seat, Subaru, Toyota, Volkswagen and more. Aside from being a digital pioneer, Ali Shaaban is also an angel investor and serial supporter of emerging innovative startups and fresh business ideas, venturing into several sectors to contribute in making a sustainable impact on the local and regional economies. His latest investments have tapped into the Fintech sector with rising companies such as Paynas (https://Paynas.com), Oxygen (https://oxygen.us/), Dfin Holding (https://www.dfinholding.com/) , and Kiwe wallet (https://kiweapp.com/) as well as the Media and AI sector with Speakol (https://speakol.com/) , NU Digital Awards (https://nudigitalawards.com/) and Nanotronics (https://nanotronics.co/ ).Ali Shaaban believes in always taking the next step forward in his extensive career, and using his core values and commanding personality as motivation, he has paved an impressive path over the years that will certainly lead towards an even more diverse and fruitful future.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Banking
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Egypt, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ImaliPay — ImaliPay is a financial health platform offering financial products to freelancers and blue collar gig workers in partnership with gig platforms.
- QuadriBot — QuadriBot is an engineering company specializing in the design and development of electronics and automation technology, real-time systems and the development of IT and electronic solutions around smart transportation issues. We focus on robotics and autonomous vehicles as well as any mobile platfo.
- Nanotronics Imaging — At Nanotronics we provide customized solutions for automated optical inspection, process control, and security. Learn more about what we can do for you.
Danish angel investor, based in London.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: Denmark, Sweden, Finland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 27
- Round size: Seed $500k–$3.5M; Pre-Seed $250k–$1.2M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Medusa — For developers who must customize e-commerce setups, Medusa is a new digital commerce engine that provides extensibility and customizability with low developer effort. Unlike Shopify, BigCommerce and others, we offer an open, modular architecture that removes the need for hacky workarounds and secures maintainability and speed.
- 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.
Caribou Honig enjoys pursuing harebrained ideas and supporting the creation of new businesses. He is Chairman and co-founder of the InsureTech Connect conference, the largest event of its type bringing together entrepreneurs, investors, and innovation executives. He is also co-founder of the HR Transform conference focused on the impact oftechnology on the workplace, and insurAPI.io, a catalog of insurance-related APIs. He previously cofounded QED Investors, a boutique venture capital firm focused on data-driven companies. Caribou and his wife live in Richmond, Virginia with their two children and two occasionally annoying dogs.
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- Industry: InsurTech, Insurance, EdTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Kenya, Colombia, Hong Kong
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $2M–$3.7M; Series A $9M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
Portfolio highlights
- HUNTY — HUNTY is a platform that help people find jobs by connecting them with world class mentors who prepare them for the job search process. And people only pay when they get hired.
- BriteCo — Their cloud-based BriteCo Appraisal Management System is the gateway to making the jeweler’s life easier and more productive—-and customers happier and more secure with immediate insurance coverage of their fine jewelry and watches.
- Lami — Lami is an end-to-end digital insurance platform and API that enables companies across sectors to offer insurance products. Its API allows underwriters to connect with consumer-facing companies that can provide embedded insurance as a value add for existing customers, many of whom are uninsured.
Peter Sandberg is a co-founder of Nordic Secondary Fund, and a venture partner at Startup Wise Guys. He has extensive experience as a Business Angel and in asset management.
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- Industry: Internet, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
- Stage:Angel, Pre-Seed, Secondary Market
- Geography: Denmark, Kenya, Estonia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Simporter — Make better products with more confidence, in just a fraction of the time.
- Cavea — Adlab connects brands with streamers to empower collaboration in the new creator economy. We bring creative, engaging ad campaigns to streams across the globe through automated sponsorship campaigns, which allows brands to reach specific audiences, and streamers to effortlessly monetize their content.
- Hive.id — Proactively prevent fraud, build secure experiences for your customers and drive your revenue growth.
Jesper Drescher
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- Industry: SaaS, Gaming, Content
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Kenya, Denmark
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Seed $800k–$1.2M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Sky.Garden — Sky.Garden is a SaaS ecommerce platform that allows African retailers to sell inventory with ease. Sky.Garden gives back control to the individual retailer by allowing inventory control and immediate payment reconciliation in an automated platform, where local shipping and payment options come out-of-the-box.
- GamerzClass — A new beginning for GamerzClass
- ReFlow - engineering a circular economy —
Matilde Giglio is the Co-Founder of Even and an angel investor in over 30 companies globally https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/10/even-healthcare-lands-additional-capital-to-advance-primary-care-adoption-in-india/
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- Industry: Financial Services, Software, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: India, United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 17
- Round size: Pre-Seed $125k–$125k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Turno — Turno Finance makes owning EV very affordable. Turno Club is a community around commercial EVs. Turno Battery Future is our solution to keeping batteries on the road for longer.
- Circular — We are making subscriptions the best way to experience tech. Circular aims to accelerate the circular economy and maximise the useful lives of each tech device to its fullest potential.
- Hubble Network — a Satellite network connecting billions of bluetooth devices. GLOBALLY.
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