Emerging Fintech Africa — Series A VC Firm ($1.5M–$5.5M Checks)
Emerging Fintech Africa is a Series A venture capital firm based in Cape Town, South Africa investing in Fintech, Other. The firm typically writes $1.5M–$5.5M checks and has 9 portfolio companies in our records.
- Check size
- $1.5M–$5.5M
- Portfolio
- 9 companies on record
- Partners
- 14 listed
- Stage
- Series A
- Sectors
- Fintech, Other
- HQ
- Cape Town, South Africa
- AUM
- Not in our records
Series A
$1.5M – $5.5M
9+ companies
14 partners
Investment Thesis
Empowers African fintech startups that drive progress in digital payments and banking solutions.
How Emerging Fintech Africa invests
Emerging Fintech Africa is a vc firm based in Cape Town, South Africa. The firm invests at the Series A stage, with a focus on Fintech, Other. It does not invest in Agriculture, Real Estate.
Emerging Fintech Africa typically writes checks of $1.5M–$5.5M per investment.
Emerging Fintech Africa has backed 9 companies in our records, including PayLink, Flutterwave, Expedier.
Partners & Team
Shola Akinlade
Co-Founder & CEO, Paystack
H.E Wamkele Mene
Secretary-General
Tomiwa Erinosho
General Partner
Nancy Imadi
Head of Policy for Fintech and Innovation
Maria Adebayo
Moderator
Lanre Ogungbe
Prembly
Betre Gizaw
King & Spalding
Jean-Marie Kananura
Chief Investment Officer, Rwanda Finance Limited
Sipho Ngcobo
General Partner
Jack Dorsey
Co-Founder & CEO, Block
GB Agboola
Co-Founder & CEO, Flutterwave
Tosin Eniolorunda
Founder & CEO, Moniepoint
Chuba Ezenwa
Managing Director & Head of Investment Banking Sub-Saharan Africa (Excl. SA), Bank of America
Michael Seibel
CEO, Y Combinator
Industry Focus
Invests In
Does Not Invest In
Portfolio Companies (9)
Other
PayLink
Flutterwave
Expedier
Prembly
Paystack
Block
Moniepoint
Regfyl Technologies Limited
Emerging Fintech Africa
Venture firm name mentioned in relation to potential fintech investments in Africa, though no verified portfolio could be identified.
- •Raising at Series A? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
- •Lead with your fit in Fintech, Other — the sectors they actively back.
- •Size your ask to their typical $1.5M – $5.5M check.
- •warm intro preferred
- •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Shola Akinlade, Co-Founder & CEO, Paystack.
- •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.
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