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Top 45 SaaS Angel Investors in Kenya in October 2023

A list of 45 angel investors that invest in Saas startups based in Kenya. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Saas companies from Kenya. We update this investor list every month.

Top 45 SaaS Angel Investors in Kenya in October 2023

Investor SaaS Kenya investments
Cem Garih 3
Olugbenga Agboola 2
Darshan Chandaria 2
Olugbenga Agboola 2
Ken Njoroge 2
Justin Mateen 2
Samson Larsson 1
Gregory Rockson 1
Susan Kimberlin 1
Dr Ritesh Malik 1
Jon Oringer 1
Aaron Fu 1
Jesper Drescher 1
Christian Jantzen 1
Selma Ribica 1
Gary Scheft 1
Takuma Terakubo 1
Yago Arbeloa 1
Shola Akinlade 1
Melvyn Lubega 1
Aadil Mamujee 1
Rajesh Sawhney 1
Wes Schwalje 1
Nadav Ben-Chanoch 1
Jim Sorenson 1
Vaibhav Kapoor 1
Cheryl Heller 1
Nate Lipscomb 1
Christina Sass 1
Fredrik Jung Abbou 1
Winshall Walt 1
Richard Owen 1
Edward Lando 1
Jessica Chervin 1
Peter Sandberg 1
Guillaume Glaunès 1
Rus Newton 1
Tony Nicalo 1
Patrick Pichette 1
Mato Perić 1
Johnny Falla 1
Justin Ziegler 1
Shakir Merali 1
Jean Case 1
Steven Tamm 1

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Cem Garih
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom

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Investment focus

  • Internet, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, India, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

  • Troop — Troop is an app for retail investors to vote, organize shareholder resolutions and activist campaigns. Sign up for early access today.
  • Moment — Quickly deploy a full suite of fixed income investing tools to your clients in no time via our modern APIs. Trusted by firms representing over $100B in assets.
  • TradeX — TradeX lets you take positions on future events. Predict the outcome using data, earn money and learn something new. Earn Money online with online trading. Download the app & get FREE signup bonus.
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Olugbenga Agboola
Angel · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Olugbenga Agboola is the Co-Founder and CEO of Flutterwave. He previously worked at Africa Fintech Foundry as a Senior Entrepreneur In Residence. Olugbenga Agboola attended MIT Sloan School of Management.

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Investment focus

  • FinTech, Financial Services, Internet
  • Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Nigeria, Kenya, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • tushop — Enabling communities to reduce the cost of living together
  • Curacel — Curacel creates APIs & tools that enable businesses to embed insurance in digital channels and to administer claims cost-effectively.
  • 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.
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Darshan Chandaria
Angel

Darshan Chandaria is the Group CEO and Director of Chandaria Industries. He previously worked at Pentland Brands Plc as a Graduate Trainee. Darshan Chandaria attended Harvard Business School.

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Investment focus

  • Software, B2B, Marketplace
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Kenya, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Leta — Leta Technology is a software development company that creates supply chain and logistics software to enable the efficient and automated movement of goods.
  • 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.
  • Cloud9 - Africa's Lifestyle Network — Cloud9xp.com is a online marketplace and booking service for leisure experiences.We believe that everyone deserves to have fun, feel good and be happy. We believe happiness starts with a drop, becomes a ripple and creates a wave. We believe happiness is amplified when shared.Put simply, Cloud9 is in the business of happiness and are passionateabout giving people more #HighOnLIfe moments.All of our products; across apparel, consumer electronics and lifestyle items are authentic, and we only work with the most upstanding, and energetic brands in the world to bring you the best possible products.
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Olugbenga Agboola
Angel · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Olugbenga Agboola is the Co-Founder and CEO of Flutterwave. He previously worked at Africa Fintech Foundry as a Senior Entrepreneur In Residence. Olugbenga Agboola attended MIT Sloan School of Management.

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Investment focus

  • FinTech, Financial Services, Internet
  • Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Nigeria, Kenya, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • tushop — Enabling communities to reduce the cost of living together
  • Curacel — Curacel creates APIs & tools that enable businesses to embed insurance in digital channels and to administer claims cost-effectively.
  • 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.
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Ken Njoroge
Angel · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya · 2 investments in the past 12 months

Ken is a co-founder and the group CEO of Cellulant. A mobile commerce evangelist and career entrepreneur, Ken previously served as co-founder and Solution Design Director of 3Mice Interactive Media. The company grew from a two-man team to a leading web development firm in East Africa. 3Mice was later acquired by Africa Online- the largestPan-African Internet Service Provider.Ken is unwavering in his pursuit of seeing Cellulant achieve its mission of building a world class, values-driven $1B business for Africa, by Africans, in Africa. Ken has led the company from an idea sketched on a serviette in 2003 with his co-founder Bolaji Akinboro, to a reputable payments company in Africa. Cellulant currently has more than 300 employees across 11 markets; servicing 34 countries in Africa. Over the past couple of years, Ken has invested time in training and advising the next generation of entrepreneurs, and contributing to the growth of the entrepreneurship ecosystem in Africa. In recognition of this, in 2017, Ken was selected as the first Sub-Saharan and Kenyan Global Endeavor Entrepreneur for his commitment to advancing an ecosystem of entrepreneurship in Africa.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Web Development, Information Technology
  • Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Kenya, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Leta — Leta Technology is a software development company that creates supply chain and logistics software to enable the efficient and automated movement of goods.
  • MarketForce — MarketForce connects Africa’s informal retail outlets and consumers directly to suppliers of consumer goods and financial services by digitizing orders, delivery, and payments with the aim of solving the last mile distribution challenge.
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Justin Mateen
Angel · 8 investments in the past 12 months

Justin Mateen is the Founder of Tinder, the world's largest dating platform. Founded in 2012, Tinder is the highest grossing app on Apple's app store since 2017 and was valued at over $40 Billion dollars in 2021. In 2021, Business Insider ranked Mateen as the best early stage investor in the US, placing him at the number 1 spot on thetop 100 list of US Seed Investors. In 2020, Forbes included Mateen on their list of the decade's top 10 tech entrepreneurs. Fast Company has listed him as one of the most creative people in business.

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Investment focus

  • Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Mexico, India

Portfolio highlights

  • Whop — One-stop-shop for all the latest and greatest digital products to help you earn online. From trading software to reselling communities, we've got you.
  • Slash — Tens of thousands of online businesses use Slash to track their profits, earn cash back, and get faster payouts from platforms like GOAT and Amazon. No LLC required, no account fees, no minimum balance, and no credit checks.
  • Somethings — We connect your teen with a professional, trained 20-28 year old mentor who supports your teen via text and video call whenever they need. Start today.
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Samson Larsson
Angel · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya

Samson Larsson is the founder of Ayazona, a high-impact organisation in Kenya, enabling low-income households to access food and household essentials. Larsson is also the founder of Gretol, a startup connecting SMEs in EMEA to the blockchain infrastructure based on Hyperledger technology.

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Investment focus

  • Delivery, Logistics, E-Commerce
  • Pre-Seed
  • Kenya

Portfolio highlights

  • Ayazona — Are you on a budget? Ayazona delivers affordable breakfast, lunch, dinner, drinks and more from the best local farmers, brands and stores right to your door.
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Gregory Rockson
Angel · Ghana, Ebonyi, Nigeria

Gregory Rockson is Co-Founder & CEO at mPharma.

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Investment focus

  • FinTech, Finance, Consumer
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Kenya, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

  • Float — Float helps you manage cashflow and gives you the credit your business needs to cover operational costs like payroll, inventory, or even marketing expenses.
  • TopUp Mama — Kibanda Topup digitizes the supply for micro, small and medium-sized restaurants. Kibanda Topup allows restaurant owners to order inventory such as grains, poultry, beverages, and beef by app through a simple SMS and get the orders the next day.
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Susan Kimberlin
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States

Susan is an angel investor and startup advisor in San Francisco, where she has a front-row seat to an amazing variety of new ventures. She is passionate about making connections and helping people meet their potential. Susan believes that diversity is an essential and under-utilized asset to all businesses. She focuses on enterprise businessesand technology. Her background is in search and natural language processing technology and her operational experience spans product development roles from coding to product management at both startups and Fortune 500 companies like PayPal and Salesforce.

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Investment focus

  • Information Technology, Software, SaaS
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

  • fiifi — fiifi is founded on the belief that private company investing will continue to have exponential growth, and in order for investors to stay competitive, they need to have better decision making tools. Designed to be the product of choice for analysis of portfolio, deal flow, diligence, group collaboration, workflows, and expedient investing. Thesoftware works for scouts, angels, funds, family offices & PE firms.Fintech, Venture Capital, Angel Investing, Seed Investing, SaaS, Private Company Investing
  • Fireflies.ai — Fireflies uses generative AI to bring ChatGPT to meetings. Generate transcripts and smart summaries for Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Webex and several other platforms.
  • Yobs — Record your interviews, accelerate candidate review, coach recruiters and build a fair and rigorous hiring process.
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Dr Ritesh Malik
Angel · Delhi, Delhi, India · 2 investments in the past 12 months

Doctor turned Entrepreneur, Investor, Speaker & Philanthropist.

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Investment focus

  • Software, SaaS, Education
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • India, United States, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

  • Deciml — Deciml is an investment app in India that enables Indians to start investing young by investing the spare change from their online transactions. Download App.
  • BankSathi — Earn Money online with Banksathi. Become a financial advisor and make a regular monthly income from home by sharing demat, loans & credit card leads.
  • The Yarn Bazaar — The Yarn Bazaar is a Purpose-Led, Modern, Efficient, and Transparent managed Marketplace for yarn that allows yarn buyers and sellers to discover real-time yarn prices, information, and market trends in an instant. Our proprietary processes and flexible unsecured financing options enable yarn sellers to expand their reach and sales whilemaintaining higher margins, and buyers to discover and purchase high-quality yarn at unbeatable prices while reducing raw material and procurement costs, saving time, money, and effort.
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Jon Oringer
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 3 investments in the past 12 months

Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, France, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • Skedway — Every work experience should be great! Skedway is the complete platform to optimize the hybrid work experience.
  • Zamp — We give you freedom from sales tax! Eliminate the need to learn, manage or touch any part of the sales tax compliance process.
  • NewHomesMate (formerly Propertymate) — Find, compare and buy a new construction home - all in one place.
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Aaron Fu
Angel · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya

Aaron has 10+ years of global experience building, scaling and investing in technology products in corporate and startup environments. He has co-founded both B2B & B2C businesses, in Africa - he has led seed stage equity investments in 20+ startups (totaling $2m+), driven the exit of 3 startups in Africa, he also sits on the board of ofstartups ranging from AgriTech to Transport and has worked with 100s through partners like Visa, MTN, Airbus, Société Générale and the World Bank.Prior to the Catalyst Fund, he was the Managing Director of MEST, Africa’s Largest Pre-Seed Incubator, and Managing Partner for Africa at Nest.vc, a Hong Kong based fund, which he joined after a career in financial services.

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Investment focus

  • Financial Services, Apps, Software
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Kenya, Egypt, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

  • OkHi — Smart addressing for emerging markets. Enabling businesses to collect an accurate address, navigate to it without getting lost and verity it remotely.
  • Nala — A new kind of mobile money transfer for Africans worldwide! Make safe, affordable, and reliable international payments to Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda.
  • Stitch — One API integration for all online payments across South Africa. Accept Instant EFT, debit + credit card, cash, direct deposit and debits. Manage + reconcile digital payments and send payouts.
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Jesper Drescher
Angel · Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark

Jesper Drescher

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Investment focus

  • SaaS, Gaming, Content
  • Seed, Angel
  • Kenya, Denmark

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
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Christian Jantzen
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom

Danish angel investor, based in London.

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Investment focus

  • Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Denmark, Sweden, Finland

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.
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Selma Ribica
Angel

Selma Ribica

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Investment focus

  • Payments, Software, Health Care
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Kenya, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

  • Klump — Use Klump to buy today, and pay in 4 equal instalments over 3 months! Businesses accept payments and increase conversion rate and revenue. The Easy Life! Try it now.
  • Ilara Health — Ilara Health brings accurate and affordable diagnostics to rural Africans through miniature, AI-powered diagnostic devices that are integrated via a proprietary technology platform and distributed directly to primary care doctors.
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Gary Scheft
Angel · New York, New York, United States

Gary is the co-founder of Accounting for Everything, and a serial entrepreneur with decades of experience in a variety of industries including healthcare, fashion, real estate, and communications. He is also a survivor of Wall Street.Gary’s is dedicated to helping small businesses and individuals organize and see the big picture of theirfinancial health, including relationships with partners, investors and customers.He brings experience in business management, marketing, human resources, and communication to client engagements, and many have benefited from his generosity and insight. Gary epitomizes the concept of wisdom, defined as experience, knowledge and the right action.Wise beyond his years, Gary is knowledgable about human issues as well as financial ones.

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Investment focus

  • Hardware, Telecommunications, Enterprise Software
  • Seed
  • Kenya

Portfolio highlights

  • BRCK — BRCK is an integrated hardware and software company based in Nairobi, Kenya that designs and engineers a rugged, self-powered, mobile WiFi device which connects people and things to the internet in areas of the world with poor infrastructure. Our vision is a world connected, where the last-mile of internet connectivity is as seamless for someoneliving in Africa as it is in Europe or the US. Ushahidi is a global organization that empowers people to make serious impact with open source technologies, cross-sector partnerships, and ground-breaking ventures.
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Takuma Terakubo
Angel

Takuma Terakubo is the CEO & General Partner at UNCOVERED FUND INC.

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Investment focus

  • Mobile Apps, Artificial Intelligence, Software
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Kenya, Nigeria, Togo

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.
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Yago Arbeloa
Angel · Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Yago Arbeloa - President @ MIOGROUP

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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, Apps, Internet
  • Seed, Angel, Convertible Note
  • Spain, United States, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

  • Balio — Personal Finance Manager and Investing
  • Rentuos — Rentuos is a Real Estate company specializing in rental sector. Their mission is to revolutionize the rental sector, incorporating the latest technologies and an innovative approach. For this, they have 60 years of experience in the real estate and new technologies sectors, and they have the support of a group of investors with proven success andsolvency.
  • Luda Partners — Luda Partners is a neural network of pharmacies generating new sources of income and reducing shortages.
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Shola Akinlade
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States

Shola Akinlade is the Co-founder and CEO at Paystack.

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Investment focus

  • FinTech, Education, InsurTech
  • Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Nigeria, Kenya, Rwanda

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.
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Melvyn Lubega
Angel · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Melvyn Lubega is the head of strategic partnership at Go1.

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Investment focus

  • E-Learning, Information Technology
  • Seed
  • Kenya

Portfolio highlights

  • Zeraki — Zeraki is to use technology to address some of the obstacles learners encounter in accessing quality education. We use technology to enhance the quality of education students get at each level of education and use technology to help students transition from one level of education to the next, and ultimately from education into employment.
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Aadil Mamujee
Angel · New York, New York, United States

Aadil has spent the last decade working in technology in Europe and USA. He was most recently VP of Product Management at Pocket Gems, a mobile entertainment company, where he was one of the founding employees and first product manager. He helped grow the company profitably to 200+ staff and 200M users. Previously Aadil worked in the early-stageinvestment team at Index Ventures and at Google in London. Aadil has a MEng from Cambridge University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Aadil was born and raised in Mombasa, Kenya.

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Investment focus

  • SaaS, Cryptocurrency, Software
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
  • United States, India, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

  • Blanq — Next-generation self-custody crypto wallet - secure and easy
  • Lottielab — Create and ship animations to your products faster. Bring your websites and apps to life with the simplest editor for lottie animations.
  • Stan — Stan has built a platform that allows esports fans to collect, play and trade digital collectibles such as non-fungible tokens (NFTs) of their favorite esports players and content creators, through which they can win physical and virtual world perks and rewards such as getting a chance to meet their favorite players.
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Rajesh Sawhney
Angel · Gurgaon, Haryana, India · 4 investments in the past 12 months

Rajesh is the co-founder and CEO of InnerChef and Super Angels. He holds a bachelor's degree in electronic engineering from Delhi University, and a master's degree in management from Mumbai University. He has also done a fellowship in 'Globalisation and Leadership' from the London School of Economics and Social Sciences.

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Investment focus

  • Software, E-Commerce, Internet
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • India, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • TyrePlex — Buy car and bike tyres. Best tyre price, features, reviews. Find right tyre size and tyre dealer details
  • Fairdeal Market — Seamlessly Sell Your Products Direct to Offline Retailers. Get Access To The Right Retailers Now.
  • hypergro — Hypergro provides the power of user-generated content, craft impactful UGC video ads designed to attract, engage, and convert.These video advertising act as a distinctive, tailored connection between the brand and potential clients, which boosts consumer traffic, app downloads, and revenue for your company.
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Wes Schwalje
Angel

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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Investment focus

  • FinTech, Information Technology, Financial Services
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • India, United States, Mexico

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.
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Nadav Ben-Chanoch
Angel · Miami, Florida, United States · 12 investments in the past 12 months

Nadav Ben-Chanoch - Partner @ Pareto Holdings

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Investment focus

  • Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

  • Swaap — We build the market-neutral AMM protocol.
  • micro1 — We help companies hire and manage the best software engineers easily.
  • Skedway — Every work experience should be great! Skedway is the complete platform to optimize the hybrid work experience.
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Jim Sorenson
Angel

Jim Sorenson a renowned entrepreneur, business leader, and social investor and has built multiple highly successful companies in industries ranging from technology and life sciences to real estate and private equity investment. Jim is the founder and former CEO of Sorenson Media and Sorenson Communications, with the latter sold in one of the mostlucrative private equity deals in Utah Unversity .

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Investment focus

  • Gaming, Hardware, Video Games
  • Seed, Funding Round
  • Kenya, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Funium — Playing games will be more interesting and fun if you play them with your friends or partners, there are many multiplayer games that you can play together only in Family Games.
  • BRCK — BRCK is an integrated hardware and software company based in Nairobi, Kenya that designs and engineers a rugged, self-powered, mobile WiFi device which connects people and things to the internet in areas of the world with poor infrastructure. Our vision is a world connected, where the last-mile of internet connectivity is as seamless for someoneliving in Africa as it is in Europe or the US. Ushahidi is a global organization that empowers people to make serious impact with open source technologies, cross-sector partnerships, and ground-breaking ventures.
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Vaibhav Kapoor
Angel · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Vaibhav Kapoor

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Investment focus

  • FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • India, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

  • Falca — Falca is a rural AgTech supply chain startup offering one-stop solution for all farming needs. Falca aims to enhance the farmer lifecycle through farmer centric phygital (Physical + Digital) platform by providing Input Solutions, Advisory Solutions and Market Linkages.
  • Kikibix — Relish what tastes like your childhood, loaded with an array of healthy ingredients for scrumptiously flavorful and healthy snacks. Born from the vision of a doctor to make a brilliant amalgamation of tasty and healthy. Made with love, baked to perfection, a home for healthy cookies that taste amazing!
  • MarketForce — MarketForce connects Africa’s informal retail outlets and consumers directly to suppliers of consumer goods and financial services by digitizing orders, delivery, and payments with the aim of solving the last mile distribution challenge.
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Cheryl Heller
Angel · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Cheryl is the Founding Chair of the first MFA program in Design for Social Innovation at SVA and the founder of the design lab CommonWise. She is a business strategist and communication designer who has founded two companies and taughtcreativity to leaders and organizations around the world, helped grow businesses from small regionalenterprises to multi-billion global market leaders, launched category-redefining divisions and products, reinvigorated moribund cultures, and designed strategies for hundreds of successful entrepreneurs. Cheryl received the prestigious AIGA medal for her contribution to the field of design in 2014.She is a Matrix Award winner for excellence in communication and has been profiled through articles in the New York Times, the Boston Globe, BusinessWeek and many others. Her work in included in the permanent collection of the Library of Congress.

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Investment focus

  • Hardware, Telecommunications, Enterprise Software
  • Seed
  • Kenya

Portfolio highlights

  • BRCK — BRCK is an integrated hardware and software company based in Nairobi, Kenya that designs and engineers a rugged, self-powered, mobile WiFi device which connects people and things to the internet in areas of the world with poor infrastructure. Our vision is a world connected, where the last-mile of internet connectivity is as seamless for someoneliving in Africa as it is in Europe or the US. Ushahidi is a global organization that empowers people to make serious impact with open source technologies, cross-sector partnerships, and ground-breaking ventures.
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Nate Lipscomb
Angel · Menlo Park, California, United States

Nate Lipscomb

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Investment focus

  • Education, EdTech, FinTech
  • Seed, Angel
  • United States, India, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

  • Kredi — Kredi is Rocket Mortgage for LatAm. Customers can easily secure a mortgage online.
  • Ziina — Send and Receive Cash. Fast.
  • Codingal — Codingal offers kid-friendly programming and coding classes for kids and teens of all ages! Try a free coding class and start creating your own apps, websites, games, and much more.
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Christina Sass
Angel · New York, New York, United States

Christina Sass is the co-founder and COO of Andela, a company that recruits the most talented software engineers on the African continent and pairs them with global tech companies as full-time, distributed team members. Founded on the premise that brilliance is evenly distributed but opportunity is not, Andela has built one of the most selectiveengineering institutions in the world, with headquarters in Lagos, Nairobi, and NYC.Christina has built education and employment programs in China, Gaza and the West Bank, Kenya, and Nigeria. Prior to co-founding Andela, she directed the Program department of the Clinton Global Initiative and advised the President and CEO of The MasterCard Foundation, a $9B global foundation working to advance education and financial inclusion for youth in Africa.Christina serves on the Advisory Council of the NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights and on the board of the non-profit Global Give Back Circle. She also serves as education topic expert for the Clinton Global Initiative University annual meeting. Christina’s work has been mentioned by Forbes, CNN, The New Yorker, NBC, and WIRED. She has a BA in Ancient Philosophy from the University of Georgia (Go Dawgs) and a MA in International Law and Diplomacy from The Fletcher School from Tufts University.

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Investment focus

  • Medical, Health Care, Social Network
  • Seed
  • Kenya, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Wowzi — Access influencer marketing and intelligence with Africa's most trusted software platform.
  • Journey Clinical — Journey Clinical is a platform that provides services to member psychotherapy practices that are independently owned and operated, and in no way owns, directs, or controls the mental healthcare clinicians providing care.
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Fredrik Jung Abbou
Angel · Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden

Fredrik Jung Abbou is a CCO & Co-founder of KRY.

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Investment focus

  • Food and Beverage, Apps, Grocery
  • Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Kenya, Sweden, Germany

Portfolio highlights

  • Asilimia — Asilimia is a simple, fun mobile app for sending money through M-PESA quickly and without any transaction fees. Simply deposit money to your M-PESA, download Asilimia and send money for free to any other M-PESA account.
  • HackCapital — Join FoodTech focused investors looking to back impact-driven founders shaping our food system
  • Perfeggt — We harness the power of plants and cutting-edge technology to crack the egg.
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Winshall Walt
Angel

Winshall Walt

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Investment focus

  • Mobile, B2B, Cyber Security
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

  • Voatz — Voatz is a mobile election voting platform, secured via smart biometrics, real time ID verification, and the blockchain for irrefutability. Voatz enables citizens to vote in all kinds of elections or voting events via a smartphone. Past attempts at internet based voting have failed or not gone mainstream due to fundamental concerns around security,auditability, and voter anonymity. With Voatz, using biometrics for security and the Blockchain for irrefutability, it is able to tackle all challenges and significantly streamline the process of voting and identity verification.Voatz was a part of the Techstars Boston 2017 and Masschallenge Boston 2017 cohorts.The company was founded on 2015 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.
  • StoryFit — Earlier audiences' insights empower your content and improve its performance. StoryFit's AI technology platform helps you understand the true value of your
  • Percent Pledge — Promote corporate philanthropy in your workplace with Percent Pledge. Learn about our Workplace Giving Platform, Employee Volunteer Programs, and impact reports.
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Richard Owen
Angel · San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States

Richard Owen is the Founder at OCX Cognition. He Previously worked at Satmetrix as CEO. He Attended MIT Sloan School of Management in 1990.

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Investment focus

  • SaaS, Mobile, Cloud Computing
  • Series A
  • Kenya

Portfolio highlights

  • mSURVEY — Start your first business web-page in minutes. Easily power online transactions, Buy Ads with your Airtime on Facebook, Instagram, and Google. Get ratings and reviews to build your business credibility, and enlarge your customer base.
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Edward Lando
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 17 investments in the past 12 months

Edward Lando is the Managing Partner at Pareto Holdings.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • United States, France, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • micro1 — We help companies hire and manage the best software engineers easily.
  • Skedway — Every work experience should be great! Skedway is the complete platform to optimize the hybrid work experience.
  • NewHomesMate (formerly Propertymate) — Find, compare and buy a new construction home - all in one place.
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Jessica Chervin
Angel

Jessica Chervin

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Investment focus

  • Social Network
  • Seed
  • Kenya

Portfolio highlights

  • Wowzi — Access influencer marketing and intelligence with Africa's most trusted software platform.
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Peter Sandberg
Angel · Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark

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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Investment focus

  • Internet, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
  • Angel, Pre-Seed, Secondary Market
  • Denmark, Kenya, Estonia

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.
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Guillaume Glaunès
Angel · Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong

Angel Investor

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Investment focus

  • Software, E-Commerce, Apps
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • United Kingdom, United States, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

  • Voyage SMS — The flexible and delightful SMS marketing and message commerce platform. 30X ROAS, 30%+ CTR, and 2-5X relative list growth. Get a demo today.
  • Homebase — Founded in 2019 in Singapore, Homebase is one of Southeast Asia’s leading Proptech companies. Homebase provides revolutionary products made accessible that empower homeowners to buy, sell, and own homes in ways that work best for themselves. Our vision is to actualize each and every individual's dream of homeownership in Southeast Asia.Homebase is backed by leading investors and partners around the world. Our investors and partners include, but are not limited to, large global financial institutions (Shinhan Bank, Emles, ACE and Company), leading venture capital and private equity funds (Y Combinator, Goodwater Capital, VinaCapital, Partech, etc), and successful entrepreneurs and angel investors (founders and executives of disruptive companies like Divvy Homes, PropertyGuru, Zerodown, and Opendoor). Our management team comes from elite multi-national companies and institutions (McKinsey & Company, Goldman Sachs, Grab, Linkedin, University of Pennsylvania, Harvard, Caltech), and consists of diverse professionals across financial advisory, real estate, management consulting, capital markets, and technology. Homebase’s advisory board consists of founders and executives in some of the most successful and high-growth technology and proptech companies in Southeast Asia, including Alibaba, Lazada, 99.co, PropertyGuru, and Zalora.Homebase's head office is located in Ho Chi Minh City. We operate across most major cities in Vietnam in addition to smaller provincial areas in Vietnam.To learn more about Homebase, please visit our website at: https://homebase.com.vn
  • Rain — We build artificial intelligence processors, inspired by the brain. Our mission is to enable brain-scale intelligence.
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Rus Newton
Angel · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Co-Founder of Global Advisors & CoinShares. Previously JP Morgan, Salomon Brothers & Shell International

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Investment focus

  • IaaS, Mining, Bitcoin
  • Seed
  • Kenya, Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • Mintgreen — MintGreen specializes in heat recovery from Bitcoin mining. Our proprietary Digital Boilers heat communities sustainably.
  • UTU Technologies — Trust infrastructure for the sharing economy.
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Tony Nicalo
Angel

Tony Nicalo

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Investment focus

  • FinTech, Advertising, Asset Management
  • Pre-Seed
  • Kenya

Portfolio highlights

  • Alvin — Alvin is a powerful mobile app that automatically creates and adjusts your budget to help you meet your goals.
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Patrick Pichette
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in the past 12 months

Patrick Pichette currently Board Member at LightSpeed and Twitter. He is a former Google's chief financial officer, where he started in June of 2008. He has nearly 20 years of experience in financial operations and management in the telecommunications sector, including seven years at Bell Canada, which he joined in 2001 as executive vicepresident of planning and performance management.During his time at Bell Canada, he held various executive positions, including CFO from 2002 until the end of 2003, and was instrumental in the management of the most extensive communications network in Canada and its ongoing migration to a new national IP-based infrastructure.Prior to joining Bell Canada, Patrick was a partner at McKinsey & Company, where he was a lead member of McKinsey's North American Telecom Practice. He also served as vice president and chief financial officer of Call-Net Enterprises, a Canadian telecommunications company.Patrick earned a bachelor's degree in business administration from UniversitA© du Quebec A  MontrA©al. He holds a master's degree in philosophy, politics, and economics from Oxford University, where he attended as a Rhodes Scholar. He also serves on the board of Engineers Without Borders (Canada).

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Investment focus

  • Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Software
  • Seed, Series B, Series A
  • United Kingdom, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Apheris — Build ML-powered products using data that spans organizational or geographical boundaries, while ensuring compliance with regulation.
  • Unlikely AI — We are pioneering safe, trustworthy and powerful artificial intelligence
  • Vay — Vay is a leading teledriving company that aims to launch a unique, affordable, and sustainable door-to-door mobility service.
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Mato Perić
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom

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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Investment focus

  • Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Germany, India, United Kingdom

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.
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Johnny Falla
Angel

Johnny Falla

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Investment focus

  • Social Network
  • Seed
  • Kenya

Portfolio highlights

  • Wowzi — Access influencer marketing and intelligence with Africa's most trusted software platform.
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Justin Ziegler
Angel

Justin Ziegler - Strategic Partnerships @ DoubleGDP

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Investment focus

  • Social Network
  • Seed
  • Kenya

Portfolio highlights

  • Wowzi — Access influencer marketing and intelligence with Africa's most trusted software platform.
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Shakir Merali
Angel

Shakir Merali

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Investment focus

  • Credit, FinTech, Lending
  • Seed, Series C
  • Kenya, Mauritius

Portfolio highlights

  • 4G Capital — Financial Services, Small Business Loans, Unsecured Loans, Microfinance, Credit Solutions, Working Capital, Flexible Repayment Options, Quick Loan Disbursements, Collateral-free Loans. banking 4G Capital. Kuza. Kawi, Upia, NXTGEN, africa bank. kenya bank. uganda bank. Green Investment, Sustainable returns. funding. impact
  • Ilara Health — Ilara Health brings accurate and affordable diagnostics to rural Africans through miniature, AI-powered diagnostic devices that are integrated via a proprietary technology platform and distributed directly to primary care doctors.
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Jean Case
Angel · Washington, District of Columbia, United States

Jean Case is an actively engaged philanthropist, investor and a pioneer in the world of interactive technologies. Her career in the private sector spanned nearly two decades before she and her husband, Steve Case, created the Case Foundation in 1997. A passionate believer in all things digital and the amazing potential of technology to change theworld for the better, Jean and her team focus the efforts of the Foundation around many of the same entrepreneurial approaches she and Steve cultivated throughout their business careers. The Case Foundation is recognized for its innovative efforts to address significant social challenges, harnessing the best impulses of entrepreneurship, innovation, technology and collaboration to drive exponential impact.Prior to co-founding the Case Foundation, Jean spent her career as a technology executive in the private sector. As a senior executive at America Online, Inc. (AOL), Jean directed the marketing and branding effort that launched the AOL service, directed the communications strategy for taking the company public, and helped establish AOL as a household utility. Before joining AOL, she held strategic marketing positions at GE’s Information Services Division and at The Source, the nation’s first online service.In addition to her role as CEO of the Case Foundation, Jean has served in two appointed roles leading strategic public-private efforts, including the President’s Council on Service and Civic Participation, to which she was appointed as Chair by President George W. Bush, and as Co-chair of the U.S.-Palestinian Partnership.In addition to her role as Chairman of the National Geographic Society Board of Trustees, Jean serves on the boards of Accelerate Brain Cancer Cure (ABC2), the White House Historical Association and BrainScope Company, Inc. She also serves on the advisory boards of the Harvard Business School Social Enterprise Initiative, the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society, Georgetown University’s Beeck Center for Social Impact & Innovation, the Brain Trust Accelerator Fund and the U.S. National Advisory Board to the Social Impact Investing Task Force (SIITF) established by the G8.Jean and Steve joined The Giving Pledge, started by Melinda and Bill Gates and Warren Buffett in 2010, and publicly reaffirmed their commitment to give away the majority of their wealth to fund worthy charitable causes. In recognition of their innovative work in philanthropy, Jean and Steve have received a number of accolades, including Barron’s “25 Best Givers”, the National Conference on Citizenship (NCoC) Citizens of the Year, and Washingtonians of the Year. Jean was also named Corporate Philanthropist of the Year by the Washington Business Journal, which also named her as a finalist for “Most Admired Nonprofit CEO” award, and received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Harvard Business School Alumni Association of Washington DC. She has also received honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degrees from Indiana University and from George Mason University.

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Investment focus

  • TV, Energy, Mobile
  • Funding Round, Series B, Seed
  • United States, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

  • M-KOPA — M-KOPA is the global leader for “pay-as-you-go” energy services for off-grid customers. M-KOPA was established in 2011. Following 2 years of piloting and development, M-KOPA began commercial sales in Kenya in October 2012. M-KOPA expanded to Uganda in 2013 and commences operations in Tanzania in late 2014. Their team includes over 500 staff andwe sell our product through more than 1000 retail agents and shops. The founders of the company are experienced mobile technology innovators who believe in the huge potential of transformative, affordable products designed for underserved consumers. While excellent technology is a pre-requisite, technology alone does not solve for customer needs. Success comes when smart technology is combined with a commitment to on-going, on-the-ground delivery. To that end, M-KOPA is beginning to license its technology to experienced and reputable third parties in markets outside of East Africa (licensing queries should be sent to licensing@m-kopa.com). M-KOPA has developed a proprietary, patented technology platform that combines embedded GSM + mobile payments to revolutionize asset financing in emerging markets. The M-KOPAnet platform has been designed and built from the ground up by our talented team of software engineers, who continue to innovate and improve the system every day. It offers the powerful combination of accounting + customer relationship management + inventory tracking in one complete system. Aside from enabling our business operations to scale at record speed, the M-KOPAnet™ platform captures and processes huge volumes of data, enabling us to improve our proposition, customer service, and security in real-time.
  • Hello Alice — Hello Alice (helloalice.com) helps businesses launch and grow. A free multi-channel platform, Hello Alice guides business owners by providing funding, networks, and services.The company's partners include enterprise business services, government agencies, and institutions looking to serve small and medium business owners to ensure increasedrevenues.Founded by Carolyn Rodz and Elizabeth Gore in 2017, Hello Alice is headquartered in Houston, Texas, United States.
  • SnagFilms — SnagFilms is an online film distribution company that allows viewers to stream thousands of films for free. Its platform broadcasts multi-lingual movies and TV programs to customers that enable them to stream and download shows on their platform of choice. It was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Washington, District of Columbia.
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Steven Tamm
Angel · San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States

CTO, salesforce.com, directing technical product strategy across all clouds and divisions. Previously CTO for CRM Appilcations and Technical Architect for Force.com Checkout at salesforce. Prior to salesforce, he worked at Open Text, SAP Markets, and Calico Commerce.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Analytics, Information Technology
  • Seed
  • United States, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

  • mSURVEY — Start your first business web-page in minutes. Easily power online transactions, Buy Ads with your Airtime on Facebook, Instagram, and Google. Get ratings and reviews to build your business credibility, and enlarge your customer base.
  • Qbox — So Long, Farewell This service permanently shut down on August 5, 2022 after 10 years in business. Thanks to all who supported us over the years! If you still need help restoring your clusters, please download the Disaster Recovery Guide. Our team is dispersing as of tonight. Please follow our
  • Perfect Price — Perfect Price makes pricing effortless. The only cloud-based AI platform built for pricing and revenue management, Perfect Price uses powerful artificial intelligence to analyze inventory, historical sales data, competitor pricing, consumer demand, and other externalities in order to adjust prices in real-time. Designed for enterprises in dynamicindustries, Perfect Price ensures a reliable data-driven approach to pricing that delivers immediate value while eliminating the guesswork, complexity, and cost associated with traditional pricing methods. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Oakland, California, Perfect Price is backed by leading technology investors. Businesses around the world rely on Perfect Price to maximize revenue, profitability, and growth. For more information please visit www.perfectprice.com.
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