Participated · Seed · Mar 2026

Orca Fraud builds an adaptive fraud-detection platform that plugs directly into payment rails such as mobile wallets, cards, stablecoins and bank transfers. Trained on messy, real-world emerging-market data, its machine-learning models make instant decisions during the transaction flow, protecting against complex attacks without slowing legitimate payments. The system is designed for informal economies where traditional KYC is patchy, allowing it to outperform legacy vendors like Feedzai and NICE Actimize and regional peers such as Curacel and Beam. Today, Orca monitors more than $5 billion in payments every month across 70+ countries for banks, fintechs and telcos. Co-founded by Thalia Pillay and Carla Wilby, the company’s architecture continually improves as volumes grow, giving it a compounding data advantage. With fresh capital, Orca plans to deepen integrations with large African banks and telcos, boost infrastructure to handle 10× current volumes, and expand into Latin America and Southeast Asia while tackling new fraud vectors like AI-generated account takeovers.

Participated · Equity · Feb 2026

YOM is building a decentralized alternative to traditional cloud gaming, allowing users to play AAA titles instantly in a browser without downloads or consoles. Its architecture relies on edge computing nodes and will operate as a sovereign Layer-1 chain on Avalanche, targeting sub-10 millisecond latency. The company claims this approach can cut infrastructure costs by up to 93% compared with centralized clouds. YOM already supports more than 20 live geographic regions and reports that over 40 game studios have onboarded to the platform. End-users receive friction-free access, while developers gain lower distribution expenses and broader reach. Near-term plans include launching the Avalanche-based Layer-1 network and expanding regional coverage. To finance these goals, YOM has raised more than $4 million in total funding to date.

Participated · Seed · Aug 2025

TurnStay builds payment infrastructure for Africa’s tourism sector using a merchant-of-record model and stablecoin-based payouts to process payments in a traveller’s home country while settling funds locally. Its platform aims to cut cross-border payment fees by up to 70% and accelerate settlement times. The company was founded by fintech veterans Alon Stern and James Hedley. Since its $300K pre-seed in 2024, TurnStay has processed over ZAR 250M in transactions and secured key industry partnerships. With the new funding, TurnStay plans to scale across Africa, offering travel operators an alternative to global booking platforms. The product is positioned to boost operator margins and enable direct bookings. TurnStay provides a localized payments solution for the African travel and tourism sector, charging customers in their home currency and using familiar payment methods. The platform applies techniques used by major booking companies to lower card billing costs by up to 70% and has halved unnecessary failed transactions, boosting checkout conversion rates. TurnStay enables merchants to capture more direct bookings, reducing commissions paid to online travel agencies. The company has processed more than ZAR50 million (about US$2.8 million) in transactions to date. TurnStay will use the US$300,000 funding to expand quickly into additional African markets. Founders James Hedley (co-founder of Quicket) and Alon Stern (co-founder of Slide Financial) lead the business, and investors view the team as well-suited to scale across the continent.

Participated · Equity · Jan 2025

Reppo builds a permissionless coordination layer where prediction-market mechanics and staking convert human judgments into verifiable on-chain signals for AI training. Its Datanets are focused sub-networks (e.g., medical, legal, gaming) that act as marketplaces for niche, multimodal data and can be spun up by AI agents or developers; the team aims to reach over 100 Datanets by June 2026. The REPPO token powers participation, requires staking for contributors, has a capped supply of 1 billion and includes deflationary mechanics to reward long-term holders. Reppo reports trading volumes exceeding $2 million in the past month and claims its system can deliver fresh human-vetted data every 48 hours. The protocol emphasizes financial incentives to improve data quality—rewarding accurate contributors and penalizing poor inputs—to address labeling noise and bias common in centralized datasets. Reppo has progressed from a $2 million seed round to the recent $20 million strategic commitment and plans to use the new capital to scale infrastructure, improve protocol throughput, and build integrations for AI teams.

Participated · Seed · Aug 2023

Fungies.io is a no-code SaaS platform for the gaming industry that helps indie studios set up customizable web storefronts in minutes. Its tools cover digital game distribution, in-game transactions, and monetisation of private game servers, and the platform integrates with Stripe for payments. The company plans to integrate with third-party apps including Mailchimp, Zapier, Intercom, and various marketing tools. Fungies.io aims to onboard 2,000 game developers and publishers within the next year. The startup positions itself to serve both Web2 and Web3 commerce for in-game items and assets. It recently completed a fundraising round to support those growth plans.