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Sherif Nessim

Investor | Early Stage Investing across Africa | Advocate for Prosperous Africa

New York City Metropolitan Area

Overview 

Sherif Nessim is a Venture Capitalist specializing in early-stage investments across Africa, with a focus on sectors like Messaging, Logistics, and Retail. He is the Founder & Managing Partner of Jedar Capital and has made successful investments in companies like Bumpa, Julaya, and ImaliPay. Sherif's career highlights include founding Jedar Capital and serving as a Board Advisor for NAYA, while also making impactful investments in innovative startups like Treepz and Odiggo.

Work Experience 

  • Founder & Managing Partner

    2021 - Current

    An early stage investor focusing on Africa. We make Pre-Seed to Series A investments. We love solutions that address the bottom of the pyramid and touch lives of the under-served masses

Jedar Capital is a emerging VC fund focuses on early-stage investments in emerging & frontier markets: Middle East, Africa & Pakistan

  • Advisory Board Member

    2023

    NAYA is an AI-powered financial infrastructure platform designed for fintechs to build, manage, and scale financial operations

A modern financial data management and reconciliation platform for the new-age fintechs & financial services.

  • Limited Partner (LP)

    2015

    A15 is a tech VC Fund typically investing in pre-seed and seed rounds of start-ups in the Middle East and North Africa region, with a focus on Egypt

  • Investor

    2024

    Fincart is a leading tech company specialized in streamlining shipping and financing for social sellers, small & medium sized e-commerce brands and marketplaces so they can seamlessly grow their businesses.

  • Investor

    2022

    Julaya is a fintech providing African businesses with a digital account to make payments.

  • Investor

    2022

    Jem builds HR Software for companies with frontline/desk-less workers. Using WhatsApp, we make it easy for HR and Payroll Managers to send payslips, process leave requests and communicate with thousands of frontline workers in just a few clicks.

  • Investor

    2023

    Making doctors superhuman We're on a mission to make healthcare affordable and instantly accessible to every human on the planet. We have started the journey by solving some of the immediate problems healthcare practitioners and patients face today.

  • Investor

    2022

    Bumpa is building the infrastructure to power online commerce and enable African small business owners to start, manage and grow their businesses from their mobile devices. The platform enable merchants to sell on all social channels: instagram, whatsapp, facebook, online and offline and providing them with payment, shipping, logistics, fulfillment and other ancillary services through a SaaS platform model

  • Investor

    2022

    Formerly known as Topup mama before moving to San Francisco, USA and pivoting into Caantin Caantin is Africa's first enterprise-grade voice Al platform built specifically for financial institutions. We're transforming how banks, insurers, and fintechs engage with customers by enabling natural, intelligent voice interactions in every African language.

Caantin is developer of vendor management and software designed for brief onboarding and simple operations to enhance customer satisfaction.

Raised $2,260,000.00 from Google for Startups and Catalyst Fund.

  • Investor

    2022

    Proteinea is an insect-based biotechnology startup based in Egypt/US. We are replacing the single-cell technologies with an insect-based production platform as a next-gen bio-manufacturing platform. We are turning the mass-reared insect larvae into mini-bio-factories to produce recombinant proteins on a scale at a lower cost, reducing the capital and operational costs of conventional bioreactors.

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