Mercurio Ventures — Seed & Pre-Seed VC Firm ($25K–$250K Checks)
Mercurio Ventures is a Seed, Pre-Seed venture capital firm based in Cape Town, South Africa investing in Other, Fintech. The firm typically writes $25K–$250K checks and has 2 portfolio companies in our records.
- Check size
- $25K–$250K
- Portfolio
- 2 companies on record
- Partners
- 4 listed
- Stage
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Sectors
- Other, Fintech
- HQ
- Cape Town, South Africa
- AUM
- Not in our records
Last verified: 2026-05-09
Seed, Pre-Seed
$25K – $250K
2+ companies
4 partners
Investment Thesis
Mercurio Ventures prioritizes African fintech startups solving cross-border payment inefficiencies using blockchain and financial access technologies.
How Mercurio Ventures invests
Mercurio Ventures is a vc firm based in Cape Town, South Africa. The firm invests at the Seed, Pre-Seed stages, with a focus on Other, Fintech. It does not invest in Gaming, Media.
Mercurio Ventures typically writes checks of $25K–$250K per investment.
Mercurio Ventures has backed 2 companies in our records, including SendCrypto, ShillingPay.
Partners & Team
Thandi Mokoena
GP
Industry Focus
Invests In
Does Not Invest In
Portfolio Companies (2)
Other
SendCrypto
ShillingPay
- •Raising at Seed, Pre-Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
- •Lead with your fit in Other, Fintech — the sectors they actively back.
- •Size your ask to their typical $25K – $250K check.
- •warm intro preferred
- •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Viktor Kozma, Managing Partner.
- •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.
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