Travel Collective Venture Partners — Pre-Seed & Seed VC Firm ($250K–$2.0M Checks)
Travel Collective Venture Partners is a Pre-Seed, Seed venture capital firm based in Cape Town, South Africa investing in Other, Marketplace, Consumer. The firm typically writes $250K–$2.0M checks and has 60 portfolio companies in our records.
- Check size
- $250K–$2.0M
- Portfolio
- 60 companies on record
- Partners
- 6 listed
- Stage
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Sectors
- Other, Marketplace, Consumer
- HQ
- Cape Town, South Africa
- AUM
- Not in our records
Last verified: 2026-06-23
Pre-Seed, Seed
$250K – $2.0M
60+ companies
6 partners
Investment Thesis
Specializes in early-stage investments in travel and tourism platforms that innovate in marketplace dynamics and community engagement.
How Travel Collective Venture Partners invests
Travel Collective Venture Partners is a vc firm based in Cape Town, South Africa. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages, with a focus on Other, Marketplace, Consumer. It does not invest in media.
Travel Collective Venture Partners typically writes checks of $250K–$2.0M per investment.
Travel Collective Venture Partners has backed 60 companies in our records, including TouriFi, X-Energy, Life Biosciences.
Partners & Team
Nandi Juma
Investment Partner
Nicholas Shekerdemian
Founding Partner
2x Founder: Headstart (exit), Teaching by the Top Thiel Fellow & YC, Summer 2017 60+ Angel Investments
Chris Ghadban
Principal
Principal, Alix Ventures Strategy & Innovation, AstraZeneca MS, Bioengineering, Tufts University
Industry Focus
Invests In
Does Not Invest In
Portfolio Companies (60)
Other
TouriFi
X-Energy
Life Biosciences
Universal Quantum
Axiom Space
Unnatural Products
Wonderbelly
Orbem
Qloo
Red Queen Bio
- •Raising at Pre-Seed, Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
- •Lead with your fit in Other, Marketplace, Consumer — the sectors they actively back.
- •Size your ask to their typical $250K – $2.0M check.
- •cold outreach ok
- •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Nandi Juma, Investment Partner.
- •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.
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