Surge Ventures
Surge Ventures is a Seed venture capital firm based in Johannesburg, South Africa investing in Fintech, Other, Marketplace. The firm typically writes $250K–$3.0M checks and has 2 portfolio companies in our records.
- Check size
- $250K–$3.0M
- Portfolio
- 2 companies on record
- Partners
- 1 listed
- Stage
- Seed
- Sectors
- Fintech, Other, Marketplace
- HQ
- Johannesburg, South Africa
- AUM
- Not in our records
Last verified: 2026-06-29
Seed
$250K – $3.0M
2+ companies
1 partner
Investment 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.
Partners & Team
Ndidi Obi
Partner
Industry Focus
Invests In
Does Not Invest In
Portfolio Companies (2)
Other
TicketTrove
CoinAfrica
- •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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