Stage
Seed
Check Size
$250K – $3.0M
Portfolio
2+ companies
Team
1 partner
Investor activity
Investments in last 12 months: 0Investment Thesis
Surge Ventures invests in transformative African startups that digitize existing industries, with focus on fintech, marketplaces, and experiential technologies.
How Surge Ventures invests
Surge Ventures is a vc firm based in Johannesburg, South Africa. The firm invests at the Seed stage, with a focus on Fintech, Other, Marketplace. It does not invest in Hardware.
Surge Ventures typically writes checks of $250K–$3.0M per investment.
Surge Ventures has backed 2 companies in our records, including TicketTrove, CoinAfrica.
Meet the Team
NO
Ndidi Obi
Partner
Marketplace
African startups
Fintech
Industry Focus
Invests In
Fintech
Other
Marketplace
Does Not Invest In
Hardware
Portfolio Companies (2)
Other
TI
TicketTrove
Events Tech
CO
CoinAfrica
Fintech
How to pitch Surge Ventures
- •Raising at Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
- •Lead with your fit in Fintech, Other, Marketplace — the sectors they actively back.
- •Size your ask to their typical $250K – $3.0M check.
- •cold outreach ok
- •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Ndidi Obi, Partner.
- •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.
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