Seedstars
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Overview
Seedstars is an industry-agnostic investment firm dedicated to emerging and frontier markets. We’ve invested across Latam, Africa, MENA, CEE and Asia backing ventures working to solve key societal challenges such as access to financial services, healthcare, education or commerce.
- Total investments
- 16
- Lead investments
- 2
- Investments · 12mo
- 2
- Active investors
- 9
Sector focus
- Venture Capital
Investment portfolio
- Gangkhar
Participated · Seed · Mar 2026
Gangkhar offers an AI-native embedded protection infrastructure platform delivering modular, scalable solutions across onboarding, pricing, underwriting and claims. Its platform includes real-time AI optimization, advanced analytics and access to global reinsurance capacity, and it exposes functionality via a single API to enable partners to integrate and scale embedded protection offerings across multiple markets. The company positions its product to help partners create new revenue streams, accelerate growth, improve customer loyalty and increase operational efficiency. Gangkhar is led by CEO Federico Spagnoli and is based in Dover, DE. Following its $4.25M Seed raise, the company intends to use proceeds to accelerate product development, deepen AI-driven processes and optimization capabilities, and support continued international expansion. The article does not disclose revenue, users, or other operating metrics.
- OneLot
Participated · Seed · Nov 2025
OneLot provides working-capital and inventory loans to secondhand car dealers through a digital platform that combines AI-driven credit underwriting with onsite vehicle appraisal for rapid loan disbursement. In its first 18 months of operations, the company has extended more than $7 million in loans to 150 dealers, validating demand in the country’s $15 billion used-car market. The service aims to improve cash flow for small, independent dealerships by shortening approval times and expanding access to credit. Alongside financing, OneLot is developing additional budget offerings and digital tools to help dealers manage and grow their businesses. Management plans to use newly raised capital to deepen penetration in the Philippine market and enhance its technology stack. CEO and co-founder Harm-Julian Schumacher says the company’s goal is to become the leading financing platform for used-car dealers in the region.
- Suplyd
Participated · Series A · Aug 2025
Suplyd provides an end-to-end digital procurement solution for small and medium-sized restaurants, replacing fragmented daily orders with a single streamlined platform. The product connects operators with hundreds of quality products, offers real-time analytics, and delivers procurement insights to simplify restaurant supply procurement. The company intends to expand operations and its development efforts and to enter untapped areas across Egypt while accelerating the development of new service verticals. Suplyd has shown strong operational growth since its 2022 pre-seed, growing nearly 20x in restaurants served and value of goods delivered. Today it serves over 5,000 restaurant customers and continues to roll out new operational tools and services. Suplyd operates a B2B procurement platform for HoReCa businesses that digitizes order procurement, payment and fulfillment, giving restaurants on-demand access to a wide range of SKUs at competitive prices. The platform aims to bring an e-commerce experience to restaurant supply chains, reduce waste, optimize assets and save time by replacing offline sourcing and manual supplier follow-ups. Suplyd also runs a network of tech-enabled fulfillment centers that provide real-time analytics and demand-pattern insights to inform stocking and guarantee fulfillment. The company was founded in January this year and is currently serving 500 customers in greater Cairo, reporting nearly 50% month-over-month growth since launch. Suplyd plans to use the new funding to scale its technology, expand within and beyond Cairo and explore additional growth opportunities across the MENA region.
- Raenest
Participated · Series A · Feb 2025
Raenest offers multicurrency virtual accounts (USD, GBP, EUR) and virtual and physical debit cards through its retail product Geegpay and a separate Raenest for Business platform. The company launched in 2022 as an Employer of Record and quickly pivoted to focus on enabling individuals to receive international payments, later expanding to serve businesses. Since launch it has processed over $1 billion in payment volume and reported 160% growth between 2023 and 2024. Today more than 700,000 individuals and over 300 businesses use Raenest to receive payments, make cross-border transfers, and raise capital; clients include Moniepoint, Helium Health, Fez Delivery, and Matta. Raenest currently operates in Nigeria under a money transfer license, maintains banking partnerships in the U.S. and U.K., and plans to secure licenses to expand into Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, and the U.S. The company is consolidating Geegpay and Raenest for Business under the single Raenest brand and has indicated additional product launches to broaden its financial services.
- Taxo
Led · Seed · Apr 2024
Taxo is a Mexican taxtech company that automates tax declaration forms and calculations and provides a marketplace connecting individuals with qualified accountants. Founded in 2022 by David Paredes and his team, the platform digitizes workflows to reduce manual effort for accountants and taxpayers. Taxo serves roughly 8,000 taxpayers and 800 accountants and has processed over 50,000 tax declarations. The company plans to expand product functionality—adding tax payment assistance—and to grow its customer base by 160%, targeting 200,000 declarations by the end of 2024. Taxo intends to expand beyond Mexico into Peru and Colombia to broaden its regional footprint. The recent $1.2M pre-seed funding will be used to further develop features and accelerate market expansion.