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Angel Investing

Backing founders
building Africa's future.

Angel investing is not a side activity. It is a strategic extension of our conviction that Africa's most durable solutions will be built by bold founders who have access to the right capital, networks, and guidance at exactly the right time.

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Early
Stage focus: pre-seed to seed
Africa
Geographic mandate
Active
via Tekedia Capital
3
Diagnostic questions before any term sheet
Investment Thesis

Where we
deploy capital

We take a thesis-driven approach to early-stage investing. Our priority sectors reflect both market opportunity and personal conviction built across two decades at the intersection of medicine, public health, and business leadership.

We invest through Tekedia Capital and other vehicles, always as active partners. A cheque without mentorship is an incomplete investment.

Digital Health and HealthTech

Africa faces a structural deficit in healthcare access. Technology that closes gaps in diagnostics, telemedicine, and care delivery is urgent capital, not optional investment.

Healthcare EdTech

Transforming healthcare requires transforming the leaders within it. Platforms that build clinical and executive capability at scale deserve backing and deserve it early.

Startup Infrastructure

Payment rails, logistics networks, and SaaS tools that reduce the friction of building in Africa accelerate everything built on top of them. These are foundational bets.

Social Impact Ventures

Businesses that generate commercial returns while expanding opportunity, particularly in underserved communities across Sub-Saharan Africa. Returns and impact are not opposites.

Beyond Capital

What we bring
beyond the cheque

Money is the smallest part of what we offer. We invest as active partners who are deeply invested in the outcome.

01
Strategic Advisory
Boardroom, clinical, and operational lenses applied to your growth challenges. No templates. Diagnosis first.
02
Network Activation
Connections across healthcare systems, government, academia, and the African startup ecosystem, opened up for your benefit.
03
Leadership Coaching
Early-stage founders face as many people challenges as product challenges. We are equipped to diagnose and work on both.
04
Platform Visibility
Reach into the Leadership Pulse community (25,000+ subscribers) and aligned professional networks across Africa and the diaspora.
Our Diagnostic Lens

Three questions we
always ask

Before we deploy capital, we want to understand the founder as much as the product. These are the three questions that determine whether we proceed.

Is the founder diagnostic?

Do they understand the root cause of the problem they are solving, or are they treating symptoms? Founders who think in root causes build more durable companies.

Is the market timing right?

Africa's infrastructure for digital business is evolving rapidly. Is this venture positioned for where the market is going, not just where it is today?

Can this scale with integrity?

Growth that harms communities or undermines trust is not growth worth funding. We back ventures that earn their market, not exploit it.

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We are not transactional investors. Before we deploy capital, we want to understand the founder as much as the product.

Dr. Ikechukwu Okoh, Group Head
Are you a founder building in Africa?

If you are building in health, education, or startup infrastructure in Sub-Saharan Africa and are at the early stage, we would like to hear from you. Initial conversations are always confidential. Pitch decks are reviewed on a rolling basis.

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