# Top 20 Retail Angel Investors in Africa in October 2023

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

Vinny Lingham is Co-Founder & CEO at Civic. He was the founder and CEO of Gyft, a mobile gift card app that allows customers to buy, store, send and redeem gift cards conveniently from their mobile device.
He is also the founder of Yola.com, a web development and hosting company that enables users without prior programming knowledge to developwebsites.
Vinny is the recipient of numerous awards, including Top Young ICT Entrepreneur in Africa (2006) and was also a finalist for Men’s Health Best Man (2009) and ICT Personality of the Year in South Africa (2008). He also previously founded Clicks2Customers, which also won the Top Technology Company award in South Africa in 2006.
He has previously served on marketing advisory boards for Nasdaq listed Valueclick and Yahoo, was also selected as an Endeavor “High Impact Entrepreneur” in 2006. Vinny studied a B.Com (Information Systems) at the University of Cape Town.

## Peter anker
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Beauty, Retail, Consumer

Peter anker

## Michael Jordaan
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stellenbosch, NA - South Africa, South Africa
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: SaaS, Education, Financial Services

Michael Jordaan, the former banker now heads up a private investment company, Montegray Capital and lends a strategic-hand to various businesses, including as Chairman of Wines of South Africa (WoSA), Chairman of consumer data buro, Compuscan and as Director on the JSE. Michael also actively invests as a partner in AngelHub Ventures, a SouthAfrican based Venture Capital Fund.In 2014 he co-founded a coding apprenticeship program, ProjectcodeX, to grow highly skilled software developers to fuel the digital economy.

## Kiprono Elvis Terigin
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Beauty, Retail, Consumer

Kiprono Elvis Terigin

## Adebowale Martins
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Retail, Software, E-Commerce

Adebowale Martins

## Kwehnui Tawah
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Beauty, Retail, Consumer

Kwehnui Tawah is the Head of Platform Services + Special Projects at Sokowatch. He attended the University of Chicago.

## Pierre Martensson
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Beauty, Retail, Consumer

Pierre Martensson

## Camilla Hagen Sørli
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Beauty, Retail, Consumer

Camilla Hagen Sørli

## Michael Novogratz
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: B2B, Retail, Social

Mike Novogratz is the Founder, CEO and Chairman at Galaxy Digital.

## Baljinder Sharma
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Retail, E-Commerce, Debt Collections

Baljinder Sharma Launch Africa Ventures.

## Youcef Oudjidane
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Organic Food

Youcef Oudjidane is the founder of Byld Ventures and co-founder of Bloom (YC W22)

## O.D. Kobo
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Internet, Broadcasting, Video

O.D. Kobo is an accomplished entrepreneur with over twenty-years of demonstrated history working in the financial services and technology sector.

## Trond Riiber Knudsen
- Type: Angel
- Location: Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Construction, SaaS

Trond Riiber Knudsen is a Founder of TRK GROUP.

## Polo Leteka
- Type: Angel
- Location: Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, 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.

## Michael Lahyani
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series B, Series C
- Focus: B2B, SaaS, Beauty

Michael Lahyani is the CEO and Founder of Property Finder. Michael Lahyani attended HEC Lausanne - The Faculty of Business and Economics of the University of Lausanne.

## Patricia Ithau
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Beauty, Retail, Consumer

Patricia Ithau

## Atlas Benjelloun
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series C
- Focus: Software, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services

Atlas Benjelloun invest and support curious, mission-minded people who are committed to solving the Internet’s toughest challenges.

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

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.

## Varsha Rao
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Health Care, E-Commerce, Software

Varsha Rao is the Executive Partner at Flare Capital Partners.Rao received her BS/BA in Economics/Math from the University of Pennsylvania. For two years following graduation, she worked at the Wasserstein Perella financial consulting firm, where she advised clients on private and public investment strategies. She then returned toschool to obtain an MBA from Harvard Business School.As a strong believer in the power of education, she contributes to various educational initiatives for underprivileged children and youth. Among them is Breakthrough, a program that works to motivate and empower K12 students to continue to higher education and excel academically and professionally.

## Andrea Iannelli
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Beauty, Retail, Consumer

Andrea Iannelli

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