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Nader is an Investment Associate on the Africa and Middle East team at Flourish. He brings hands-on transaction experience and deep regional expertise, with a background spanning both investment banking and venture capital across Africa and the Middle East. Prior to joining Flourish, Nader spent five years at Sawari Ventures,...

August 19, 2025

Why We Invested in HoneyCoin

Kenya-based HoneyCoin's hybrid fiat-stablecoin payments platform could redefine cross-border finance in Africa.

Portfolio

Infrastructure

Portfolio

Frontier

Solving a Core Infrastructure Gap in MENA: Why We Invested in Fuse

Fuse builds a seamless, API-first platform that enables businesses to collect and payout funds across the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Jordan — without needing…

Portfolio

Infrastructure

CNBC Africa: Efayomi Carr Discusses New Survey on African Startup Founders

Summary The biggest external stress factors for founders in Africa today are raising funds, inflation, and currency devaluation, among other macroeconomic challenges. That’s according to Flourish Ventures' latest survey, which shows that only 17 percent of founders are completely comfortable having an open conversation with their investors while noting that...

Ameya Upadhyay Q&A with The Cable: Investment Projections, Startup Founder Wellbeing and Financial Sustainability

Keen on creating a better financial system in Africa, Flourish Venture Partner Ameya Upadhyay spoke with TheCable’s Desmond Okon on emerging trends within the African…

Portfolio

Frontier Technology

Why We Invested in Zone: Redefining How Payment Infrastructure Works in Africa

If trying to pay via a POS machine, the odds of transaction failure are roughly 1 in 6. At the heart of these transactions is…

TechCabal Profile: Blockchain Payments Startup Zone Raises $8.5m in First Funding

Article by TechCabal Zone, a Nigerian blockchain startup that helps banks and fintechs process payments, has raised $8.5 million, its first VC funding since it became a standalone business in 2022. Until 2022, Zone was part of its parent company Appzone. Flourish Ventures and TLcom Capital, a pan-African venture capital...

[Disrupt Africa] Why has African tech startup funding declined so badly, and what happens now?

After bucking global trends in a record-breaking 2022, African tech saw a reset of sorts in 2023, as the global capital shortage began to bite. The number of funded ventures, and the total funding raised, declined for the first time since 2016, though not as dramatically as many had feared....