We focus on investing in high-potential Fintech startups at angel to pre-seed stages, with teams that ideally include great engineers, designers, product and business founders.
Do not worry if you don’t have the “perfect” team, we will work with you if we see great potential.
Ground-breaking tech that seeks to improve and automate the delivery and use of financial services.
Refers to Digital solutions that increase productivity and improve access to products and services and in our case this could be access to financial services, data and critical information.
Technology built around the third phase in the evolution of the internet, characterized by decentralization, ubiquity, and artificial intelligence.
Primarily in East Africa and Africa but we can take investments from outside of Africa.
We invest in Fintech, Digital Infrastructure and Web 3.0 including Artificial Intelligence.
A strong founding team is one with domain expertise, founders who are knowledgeable about their industry and we can speak with and learn a great deal from during the process.
We prefer founding teams who have a history together preferably with a demonstrable track record of building a product or being part of a product with real users.
We love teams that have identified not just promising market opportunities, but huge opportunities that could generate millions of dollars in revenue.
As a software-focused firm, we want to make sure that every team we work with has at least one strong technical co-founder and can ship quality code.
We invest anywhere from Idea-Stage, Angel to Pre-seed. We do not invest in Serie A companies.
No, we are a venture studio meaning that if you have a brilliant idea then we could help develop it and take it to market with you.
We will prefer to lead rounds in companies where we have heavily invested from day one i.e. Ideas developed within our studio model and have issued larger cheque sizes.
We invest anywhere from 50K to 200K depending on a variety of factors.
We aim to have a turnaround time of about 2 weeks within which if it’s a No, then we will immediately inform you and explain why. If we wish to continue with the process then we shall inform you and begin a process that may or may not lead to an eventual investment.
We invest in the best possible founding team and believe the best teams have diversity in them. We want to support a vision of entrepreneurship that is inclusive of people from all walks of life, especially women and under-represented founders.
At the moment we don’t invest in any hardware, fashion, food, music or any companies that aren’t within Tech and Finance space.
No, the earlier you pitch us the better. We prefer to look at your founding team and see how you gel and work together, we also like to see the product early enough and possibly help you develop and take mature product to market.
It is never to early to start a conversation. We may start the conversation now then invest once we see some progress.
It is helpful if you explicitly include quantitative pieces of data that clearly demonstrate traction:
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Please give us a maximum 2 weeks to look at your Deck and get back to you.
Kindly take note, that we do no invest in any businesses with a heavy focus on Hardware, Manufacturing, Fashion, Entertainment. We prefer to only invest in Africa (Primarily Eastern Africa but anywhere else within Africa is fine), SEA, Europe or Diaspora founders with a focus on the African continent and most importantly, we have a preference for Delaware C-corps.
It is helpful if you explicitly include quantitative pieces of data that clearly demonstrate traction:
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