Top 10 Mobile Apps Angel Investors in Africa (October 2023)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Idris Ayodeji Bello
Angel
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2 | Nigeria, United States, Egypt | Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed | FinTech, Software, Financial Services | $450k–$2.1M |
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Olawale Ajayi
Angel
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1 | Nigeria | Pre-Seed | Apps, FinTech, Finance | |
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Takuma Terakubo
Angel
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1 | Kenya, Nigeria, Togo | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Mobile Apps, Artificial Intelligence, Software | $100k–$2M |
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Enagwolor Johnny
Angel
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1 | Nigeria | Pre-Seed | Delivery, Logistics, Mobile Apps | |
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Justin Stanford
Angel
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1 | South Africa | Seed, Angel, Series A | FinTech, Financial Services, Security | $3.4M–$6.4M |
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Axel Peyriere
Angel
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1 | Egypt, Nepal, Myanmar | Seed, Series A | Delivery, E-Commerce, Retail | $1.5M–$4.7M |
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Calvin Ayre
Angel
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, Spain | Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Information Technology, Bitcoin | $369k–$4.4M |
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Mato Perić
Angel
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1 | Germany, India, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce | $125k–$120M |
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Ire Aderinokun
Angel
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1 | Nigeria, Germany | Pre-Seed | Software, Ticketing, Mobile Apps | |
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Tom Stafford
Angel
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1 | United Kingdom, Germany, India | Series A, Series B, Series C | FinTech, Financial Services, Finance | $8M–$450M |
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The 'Afropreneur' (entrepreneur with an African focus), as he self-describes, Idris Ayodeji Bello is a Partner at LoftyInc Allied Partners Limited and co-founder of The Wennovation Hub, an innovation platform based in Nigeria, that has successfully accelerated the launch of several technology start-ups in social impact sectors. He isalso a Founding Partner at Loftyinc Capital Management, owners of the Afropreneurs Fund (I&II)The 'Afropreneur' (entrepreneur with an African focus), as he self-describes, Idris Bello is a Partner at LoftyInc Allied Partners Limited and co-founder of The Wennovation Hub, an innovation platform based in Nigeria, that has successfully accelerated the launch of several technology start-ups in social impact sectors. He is also a Founding Partner at Loftyinc Capital Management, owners of the Afropreneurs Fund (I&II)A first class honors graduate of Computer Engineering from Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria, he has an M.Sc in Computer Science & Data Mining from the University of Houston; an MBA in Entrepreneurship & Strategy from Rice University in Houston and an M.Sc in Global Health Science from the University of Oxford, where he was a 2011 recipient of The Lord Weidenfeld Scholarship for demonstrating remarkable potential as a future leader from an emerging economy.Idris spent the greater part of a decade working at Chevron Corporation and ExxonMobil USA, where he led several large upstream technology projects across the USA and Sub-Saharan Africa. Idris has also worked with the Clinton Foundation Health Access Initiative where he played a major role in the deployment and evaluation of Swaziland’s first mobile health patient appointment reminder system as part of the country’s National AIDS Program. Listed among CNN’s Top Ten African Technology Voices, he is a Singularity University Impact Fellow, Harambe Entrepreneur Alliance Associate, Clinton Global Initiative University Fellow, MIT Global Start-up Fellow, SAP Ashoka Global Changemakers Award Winner, Dell Technology Award Winner, StartingBloc Innovation Fellow and a Nigeria Leadership Initiative Future Leader.As a leader, Idris has mentored and catalyzed scores of contributors across the growing African landscape and is an angel investor and advisor to several African startups including Andela, Flutterwave, RelianceHMO, among others. He continues to devote his efforts to the development of innovation-driven, technology-enabled social enterprises that empower the underserved and develop transformative ideas to change lives on the African continent.He spends most of his time between Lagos, Cairo, or airport lounges.
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- Industry: FinTech, Software, Financial Services
- Stage:Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 32
- Round size: Seed $450k–$2.1M; Pre-Seed $500k–$1M
- Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Jem — We give employers the ability to send company-wide communications, deliver payslips, manage leave & give employees access to their earnings, via WhatsApp.
- SimpliFi — SimpliFi is on a mission to democratize payments by building the leading Cards as a Service (CaaS) platform for MENA and Pakistan.
- ORDA — Process orders, accept payments, connect to logistic providers, engage with your customers + more. We equip you with everything you need to grow your business.
Olawale Ajayi
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- Industry: Apps, FinTech, Finance
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Skye Wallet — Africa’s Simplest Cryptocurrency Wallet & Exchange App (Mobile & Web): Launched on the 12th of April 2021, transacted N500M+ ($1M)+ volume in the first 16 weeks of launch and figure keeps growing. Access to over 10 top Cryptocurrency (Coins/Tokens) and have infrastructure to integrate up to 100 more tokens in few months.
Takuma Terakubo is the CEO & General Partner at UNCOVERED FUND INC.
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- Industry: Mobile Apps, Artificial Intelligence, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, Togo
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Seed $100k–$2M
- Lead/follow: 70% lead, 30% follow
Portfolio highlights
- MPost — MPost means Mobile Post office.It enables any mobile phone user to have his or her phone act like a mobile post office. It allows you to make your mobile number be a formal postal address. With it, you get access to Postal Services through your mobile phone.
- RxAll — RxAll is a drug checking technology that solves drug counterfeiting by providing a proprietary AI platform- nanoscanners and a mobile app to test drugs- prescription & recreational- in real time without destroying the sample
- Treepz — Treepz Inc. (formerly Plentywaka) is building the largest shared mobility platform in West Africa with over 500,000 satisfied customers.
Enagwolor Johnny is the co founder and president at Treepz. He attended University of Benin.
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- Industry: Delivery, Logistics, Mobile Apps
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Jise — Jise provides restaurant food delivery services, connecting customers with local businesses.We are extremely passionate about transforming local businesses and dedicated to enabling new ways of working, earning, and living. By building the last-mile delivery infrastructure for local cities, Jise is bringing communities closer, one door at a time.It connects customers with their favorite local and national restaurants within Lekki Phase 1 for now. Marvelous Gbenro, Osazuwa Agbonze Jeremiah, Ibukun Olasupo, and Majid Tokurah came together to found the company in 2021. It is headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria.
Justin is a 31-year old entrepreneur, angel investor and venture capitalist from Cape Town, South Africa. He is founder, MD, board member, advisor, or investor to a wide variety of companies in the global technology sector.Having grown up on a farm, he decided not to complete high-school and instead made the move to the city of Cape Town, topursue his dreams of being an Internet entrepreneur.Despite years of struggles and false starts in the wake of the dotcom crash in 2001, he ultimately went on to successfully launch and grow a pan-African Internet based software company from a garage in the suburbs of Cape Town.Have founded his first startup attempt at the age of 18, Justin has been involved in tech startups and entrepreneurial endeavours ever since.He is today the co-founder and MD of 4Di Group, a diversified investment management group and family office, and co-founding General Partner of early-stage technology venture capital firm 4Di Capital, as well as an active angel investor.As co-founder and Steering Committee Chairman of the Silicon Cape Initiative in 2009, designed to highlight and foster South Africa's nascent emerging tech startup ecosystem, Justin fully believes in South Africa’s potential as a global technology innovation hub.In 2011, he was listed by the Mail & Guardian for the 'Top 200 Young South Africans', and in 2013, listed by Forbes for '30 Under 30: Africa's Best Young Entrepreneurs'.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Security
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Series A $3.4M–$6.4M
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
Portfolio highlights
- FitKey — FitKey is about helping you find and manage the fitness life that makes you happy, through discovering new classes, studios, and fitness activities. With easy online and mobile booking, FitKey keeps your routine interesting.
- TaxTim — Originally funded by Google in 2011, TaxTim is Africa's answer to Making Tax Easy. Answer simple questions one-by-one, in a friendly automated chat, and your tax return is done in minutes. TaxTim has 40% market share of the tax base in South Africa (~4.5m), and has deployed localised versions in Namibia and Nigeria as JVs with PwC previously.TaxTim is integrated with the local revenue service (SARS) for instant electronic tax submissions, and partners with some of SA's largest consumer brands - Airbnb, Momentum, Sanlam, Old Mutual, FNB eBucks - to provide tax services for free or at discount. TaxTim has several business models including B2C, B2B and B2B2C. TaxTim is a compelling and popular consumer brand, with a fully-developed, profitable broker/financial product leads ecosystem.
- Ekaya.com — Ekaya exists to make renting simpler, safer and more connected - for everyone.
Startups - Mentoring - Advising - Emerging Markets. I am a enthusiastic entrepreneur and angel investor working with startups all around the world. Have worked / mentored / coached / partnered / invested in more than 200 startups around the world. Specially keen on online marketplaces and emerging and frontier markets.
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- Industry: Delivery, E-Commerce, Retail
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Egypt, Nepal, Myanmar
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$4.7M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Appetito — Buy all your groceries and household essentials from your online supermarket. Order from the comfort of your home at your finger tips.
- FreshGora — Food and Grocery delivery in Yangon, Myanmar.
- Treepz — Treepz Inc. (formerly Plentywaka) is building the largest shared mobility platform in West Africa with over 500,000 satisfied customers.
Calvin Ayre (born May 25, 1961, in Lloydminster, Saskatchewan, Canada) is the founder of the Bodog online gaming and entertainment brand, which he developed and launched in 1994.Ayre received a Bachelor of Sciences (BSc) in General Sciences from the University of Waterloo in 1984. In 1989, Ayre earned an MBA in Management Finance from CityUniversity of Seattle.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Information Technology, Bitcoin
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Spain
Investor stats
- Total investments: 20
- Round size: Seed $369k–$4.4M; Series A $1M–$1.2M
- Lead/follow: 75% lead, 25% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Mijem — Mijem is the buy sell marketplace app to tap into your campus community. Save money. Earn cash. Connect with students. Download the free app.
- Centi — Get a real-time payment solution designed for media, events, and e-commerce. Download the app and discover all the benefits Centi brings for business worldwide!
- Transmira — Augmented and Virtual Reality Solutions
Mato invests in technology companies globally. His portfolio companies have raised over US$ 5 billion in capital, employ >15,000 people and have operations in 35 countries across six continents.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Germany, India, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 50
- Round size: Seed $125k–$6.2M; Pre-Seed $3.2M–$6M; Series A $4.3M–$120M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Bamba — Smart, simple, digital
- Enter — Enter's Revenue Cycle Management & Medical Billing service makes healthcare Providers' and Patients' lives better. Increase revenue and delight patients with 100% transparency.
- Bamba — Today, organizations spend a lot of money on physical data gathering exercises using old-fashioned paper-based methods. These methods result in expensive, severely delayed and incomplete data . With Bamba, a client can launch a data collection exercise anywhere in the world simply from the comfort of their web browser and the client can ensureindividuals respond with complete answers by paying those individuals for that data with mobile airtime in 122 different countries thus far.
Ire Aderinokun - Co-Founder , COO & VP of Engineering @ Buycoins
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- Industry: Software, Ticketing, Mobile Apps
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ORDA — ORDA is a platform allowing guests to order and pay for food and beverage on a digital menu.
- tix.africa — Tix is a refreshing approach to event ticketing in Africa. Create and sell your first ticket from your phone in under 10 minutes.
- ORDA — Process orders, accept payments, connect to logistic providers, engage with your customers + more. We equip you with everything you need to grow your business.
Tom is a Co-Founder at DST Global, an internet-focused investment firm with a global focus.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
- Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 59
- Round size: Series A $8M–$230M; Series B $15M–$150M; Series C $41M–$450M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Even — Even is a health tech company and healthcare provider that partners directly with the top hospitals in the country to offer you unlimited diagnostics, consultations, and 50 lakh worth of hospitalisations all with one monthly subscription cost.
- Surfboard — Surfboard; Simpler, smarter and fairer scheduling software for customer support teams at scale. Click to learn more about Surfboard.
- Fuse Energy — Tesseract offers commission-free energy; 10x cheaper; 10x better, and 100 percent renewable energy.
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