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Portfolio 79
| Date | Name | Website | Total Raised | Location |
| 25.05.2023 | Revivo | revivokenya.com | - | Kenya, Nai... |
| 25.05.2023 | Terraa | terraa.co | $1.5M | Morocco, C... |
| 11.05.2023 | Hustle Sas... | hustlesasa.com | - | Kenya, Nai... |
| 12.01.2023 | Hohm Energ... | hohmenergy.co.za | $8M | South Afri... |
| 12.01.2023 | Lipa Later... | lipalater.com | $24M | Kenya, Nai... |
| 12.06.2022 | wasoko.com | wasoko.com | $125M | Tanzania, ... |
| 24.05.2022 | Nestcoin | nestcoin.com | $8.4M | Nigeria, L... |
| 24.05.2022 | Novek | novek.io | $100K | United Kin... |
| 24.04.2022 | Oval | ovalfi.com | - | - |
| 18.04.2022 | Nomba | nomba.com | $60M | Nigeria, L... |
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Persons 2
| Date | First Name | Last Name | Title | Location | |||
| - | Aadil | Mamujee | - | linkedin.c... | - | a***l@mush... | - |
| - | Sach | Chandaria | Advisor | linkedin.c... | - | i**o@musha... | - |
News 22
| Date | Title | Description |
| 04.12.2020 | Democratizing Access to Venture Capital in Africa | Most people don’t have access to investment opportunities in either emerging markets or private markets. Access to early-stage investing (venture capital), in particular, requires prohibitively high minimum amounts of capital, and emerging ... |
| 17.03.2020 | Moving from in person to distributed (remote) work rapdily | There have been a lot of posts about moving from an office to work distributed especially as Corona Virus spreads rapidly and many companies are quickly transitioning to working from home, practicing physical distancing. I wrote up somethi... |
| 07.03.2020 | Setting up for Distributed Work | I work at Automattic where I lead a distributed development team. I shared a few thoughts from my first few months working at a distributed company. Working remotely is currently a topical issue (March 7 2020) given the spread of the Corona... |
| 29.11.2019 | Management Frameworks | As a manager or manager of managers of a product development team it’s hard to focus on the right things and to make sure that you’re making progress on your ever growing list. I wanted to share a few of my personal frameworks that have hel... |
| 20.11.2019 | Predictions for the future | I was thinking about a few things that 20-30 years from now (our children) would be surprised that our generation thought was ‘normal’. I’ve broken this up into two categories – predictions where I have higher confidence and predictions whe... |
| 01.08.2019 | Investing in Niche Ideas | From time to time, I have an opinion on how the world may evolve and have not found a good way to invest in these kinds of macro theses. It’s too difficult or time consuming to find public (or private) products that provide access to these ... |
| 01.08.2019 | Distributed Work - thoughts | I recently joined Automattic which is a fully distributed company. We have ~900 people (in all functions) working in ~70 countries, with no central office. We are one of the largest, if not the largest fully distributed company in the world... |
| 01.05.2019 | Product Management: Insight through uncorrelated data | In my opinion, one of the hardest parts of product and general management is drawing insight from the right sources to determine ‘product health’ to identify where to focus, especially when managing multiple product lines. In my experience... |
| 26.12.2018 | Startup decks : tips on how to write and pitch | I’ve been investing in startups across the globe for the last 10 years and seen a lot of pitch decks that vary significantly in quality. Particularly when you come from a ‘non-traditional background’ or are an entrepreneur in an emerging m... |
| 17.01.2018 | New Remittance Products | The current business model for remittances will become obsolete in the long term - margins from transfer fees and fx is going to decrease as both the underlying payment rails get cheaper, competition intensifies and new technology (e.g. blo... |
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Mentions in press and media 7
| Date | Title | Description |
| 20.08.2025 | Payment orchestration platform HoneyCoin raised $4.9 M to transform stablecoin-powered payments | In order to solidify its position as a major force in the payments sector, Kenya’s HoneyCoin, a game-changing global payment orchestration platform, has raised US $4.9 million in funding to support its operations, product suite expansion, a... |
| 18.08.2025 | HoneyCoin, a Kenyan fintech startup Raises $4.9M in funding | Kenyan fintech startup HoneyCoin has secured $4.9 million in seed funding to scale its stablecoin-enabled payment infrastructure across Africa, Latin America, and Asia. Founded in 2020 by David Nandwa, HoneyCoin provides a full-stack financ... |
| 19.08.2022 | Nigerian e-commerce platform, Omnibiz, raises $15 million pre-Series A | Image Source: Omnibiz Omnibiz, a Nigerian B2B e-commerce company, has recently secured a $15 million pre-Series A investment led by Timon Capital. The raise is structured as a $5M equity and $10M debt investment deal and saw participation f... |
| 20.01.2022 | Simplifying blockchain, Frain’s $473k pre-seed and yesterday’s funding streak | Share this article: Hi there, Today, I’m discussing: Simplifying blockchain Frain Technologies’ $473k raise Funding stories out of Africa Simplifying blockchain with Crevatal Crevatal Co-Founders, Clement Hugbo and Oluchi Enebeli I’ll be ho... |
| 14.08.2020 | Kenyan HR startup, WorkPay, raises $2.1m seed funding led by Japanese VC, Kepple Africa | Share this article: WorkPay, a Kenyan startup that provides cloud-based workforce management system with human resource (HR) and payroll management for small businesses in Africa has raised $2.1m from Kepple Africa, Y Combinator and other i... |
| 12.12.2019 | Kenyan insurtech startup Turaco raises $1.2m seed investment [Updated] | Nairobi-based insurtech startup Turaco has raised a $1.2-million seed investment which it intends to use to further scale its operations across Africa. Turaco, which also has an office in Atlanta in the US, partners with local companies and... |
| 12.12.2019 | Kenyan insurtech startup Turaco raises $1.2m seed investment [Updated] | Nairobi-based insurtech startup Turaco has raised a $1.2-million seed investment which it intends to use to further scale its operations across Africa. Turaco, which also has an office in Atlanta in the US, partners with local companies an... |