Investing in Africa

Renew is an Africa-focused early-stage investment firm backing tech and tech-enabled startups across 13 countries. Renew partners with founders from pre-seed to Series A, providing capital and hands-on support while building the ecosystems to help startups thrive. It has over a decade of experience investing across the continent and 50 active and exited portfolio companies. 

Tofino is a venture firm investing in frontier markets and frontier tech. Tofino has invested in over 30 companies in 20 countries, including Matta (Nigeria), Caafisom (Somaliland), and Leta (Kenya).

Kurt serves as a Managing Director for C5 Capital where he focuses on finding the right leaders and technologies to preserve our way of life, overseeing a portfolio focused on cybersecurity, space, and energy security solutions for commercial, defense, and intelligence community needs.