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Travel Collective Venture Partners

VC
Cape Town, South AfricaWebsite

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.

How to approach: cold outreach ok
Stage

Pre-Seed, Seed

Check Size

$250K – $2.0M

Portfolio

60+ companies

Team

6 partners

Investor activity
Investments in last 12 months: 0

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.

Meet the Team

NJ

Nandi Juma

Investment Partner

travel marketplace
African commerce
GS

Gina Shekerdemian

Partner

Director, BlackRock Forbes 30 Under 30 Yale University Advisory Board

SS

Stephanie Sarelakos

Partner

Founding Member, Walmart eCommerce Incubator Senior Manager, Jet.com Financial Markets Advisory, BlackRock

CM

Cat Middleton

General Partner

Partner, Primary Ventures Head of Due Diligence, PeopleTech Partners VP People, Chartbeat

NS

Nicholas Shekerdemian

Founding Partner

2x Founder: Headstart (exit), Teaching by the Top Thiel Fellow & YC, Summer 2017 60+ Angel Investments

CG

Chris Ghadban

Principal

Principal, Alix Ventures Strategy & Innovation, AstraZeneca MS, Bioengineering, Tufts University

Industry Focus

Invests In

Other
Marketplace
Consumer

Does Not Invest In

media

Portfolio Companies (60)

Other

TO

TouriFi

travel marketplace
X-

X-Energy

LI

Life Biosciences

UN

Universal Quantum

AX

Axiom Space

UN

Unnatural Products

WO

Wonderbelly

OR

Orbem

QL

Qloo

RE

Red Queen Bio

How to pitch Travel Collective Venture Partners
  • 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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