Dave Nangle

CEO VEF

📍 Ireland🔄 Updated September 2026💼 4 investments📅 8 years investing🗓 Last invested Jun 2025
VC🌍 Ireland
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Independent Board Member
Jun 2025
We are TBC Uzbekistan, the digital financial services ecosystem powering some of the country’s most innovative financial experiences. United by a mission of making people’s lives easier through innovative financial products, we are building one of the largest digital financial ecosystems in Central Asia. With a 4,000+ strong team, representing 28+ nationalities, we reach over 22 million users with our products and services. Our ecosystem provides a leading digital banking offering in the region and includes TBC Bank Uzbekistan, one of the country’s largest digital banks; TBC Business – empowering entrepreneurs and SMEs; payme, one of Uzbekistan’s most popular payment apps; TBC Nasiya, a fast-growing credit installment business; BILLZ, a retail platform for SMEs and TBC Sug‘urta, a new generation of digital insurance.
Investor and Board Member
Nov 2022
Founded in 2021 with the vision of making financial access a right, ABHI is a neobank of the future that promotes financial inclusivity across emerging markets. What began with Earned Wage Access (EWA), empowering employees to access their earned salaries instantly, has evolved into a comprehensive suite of finance solutions, including Payroll Processing, Payroll Financing, and SME Financing. In just four years, ABHI has grown from addressing a critical gap in Pakistan’s financial accessibility to partnering with over 5,000 companies and empowering the lives of 1,000,000 people across the region. The company has expanded into the UAE, KSA, and most recently, Oman through a partnership with Daud Group of Companies, a milestone that further strengthens ABHI’s mission to make financial wellness inclusive and accessible across the MENAP region. Further solidifying its impact on Pakistan’s financial sector, ABHI, in partnership with TPL, has acquired FINCA Microfinance Bank. This acquisition marks a transformative step towards expanding microfinance services and deepening financial inclusion in the country. ABHI’s impact and innovation have earned global recognition, including being named the first fintech in the MENAP region to receive the World Economic Forum’s Technology Pioneer 2023 Award, as well as accolades from Hub71 and Endeavor. It has also been listed among the Future 100 companies in the UAE and has recently been selected for Mastercard’s Start Path Small Business program. In 2025, ABHI marked another historic milestone as the first fintech from Pakistan invited to participate in Davos. From Pakistan to the Gulf, ABHI continues to lead the embedded finance revolution, driving economic growth, enabling financial independence, and creating lasting social impact for millions. Get in touch with us: 🌎 https://abhi.co/ 🇵🇰 https://abhi.com.pk/ 🇦🇪 https://abhi.ae/ 🇸🇦 https://abhi.sa/ 🇴🇲 https://abhi.om/
Investor and Board Member
Jun 2018
Konfío is one of the 250 Top Fintechs in the world, according to CB Insights. We are the largest online lending platform for Small and Medium Businesses in Mexico. We help these companies to achieve economic growth through the access of credit solutions with a proprietary algorithm that combines data and technology to measure creditworthiness in a matter of minutes. In the age of digital data, cloud computing and artificial intelligence, we are moving far beyond lending, to create an array of services, tools and platforms that can help all types of businesses to understand and cease their growth opportunities and to accelerate their workforce so they can compete and respond to the ever changing economic landscapes. In Konfío, we believe every business man and woman possesses a super power that can help communities, cities and entire families to thrive and achieve a prosperous life. Our main mission is make them unstoppable so no matter how big the dream is they can achieve it.
Investor and Board Member
Jan 2018
Every company knows what they do, but few know why they really exist. Creditas’ mission is well-defined: to enable what fulfils people by unleashing the potential of their assets. At the moment, we work with home equity, auto equity, private payroll-deducted personal loans, and vehicle financing. And we’re always researching innovative ways to help people reach new heights. Limits isn’t a word we like. It’s our culture to go further, think differently, educate people, and grow exponentially. We’re a technology company focused on people. And that’s what we’ll always be. If you also have this energy, come chat with us.
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2025
Independent Board Member
Jun 2025
We are TBC Uzbekistan, the digital financial services ecosystem powering some of the country’s most innovative financial experiences. United by a mission of making people’s lives easier through innovative financial products, we are building one of the largest digital financial ecosystems in Central Asia. With a 4,000+ strong team, representing 28+ nationalities, we reach over 22 million users with our products and services. Our ecosystem provides a leading digital banking offering in the region and includes TBC Bank Uzbekistan, one of the country’s largest digital banks; TBC Business – empowering entrepreneurs and SMEs; payme, one of Uzbekistan’s most popular payment apps; TBC Nasiya, a fast-growing credit installment business; BILLZ, a retail platform for SMEs and TBC Sug‘urta, a new generation of digital insurance.
2022
Investor and Board Member
Nov 2022
Founded in 2021 with the vision of making financial access a right, ABHI is a neobank of the future that promotes financial inclusivity across emerging markets. What began with Earned Wage Access (EWA), empowering employees to access their earned salaries instantly, has evolved into a comprehensive suite of finance solutions, including Payroll Processing, Payroll Financing, and SME Financing. In just four years, ABHI has grown from addressing a critical gap in Pakistan’s financial accessibility to partnering with over 5,000 companies and empowering the lives of 1,000,000 people across the region. The company has expanded into the UAE, KSA, and most recently, Oman through a partnership with Daud Group of Companies, a milestone that further strengthens ABHI’s mission to make financial wellness inclusive and accessible across the MENAP region. Further solidifying its impact on Pakistan’s financial sector, ABHI, in partnership with TPL, has acquired FINCA Microfinance Bank. This acquisition marks a transformative step towards expanding microfinance services and deepening financial inclusion in the country. ABHI’s impact and innovation have earned global recognition, including being named the first fintech in the MENAP region to receive the World Economic Forum’s Technology Pioneer 2023 Award, as well as accolades from Hub71 and Endeavor. It has also been listed among the Future 100 companies in the UAE and has recently been selected for Mastercard’s Start Path Small Business program. In 2025, ABHI marked another historic milestone as the first fintech from Pakistan invited to participate in Davos. From Pakistan to the Gulf, ABHI continues to lead the embedded finance revolution, driving economic growth, enabling financial independence, and creating lasting social impact for millions. Get in touch with us: 🌎 https://abhi.co/ 🇵🇰 https://abhi.com.pk/ 🇦🇪 https://abhi.ae/ 🇸🇦 https://abhi.sa/ 🇴🇲 https://abhi.om/
2018
Investor and Board Member
Jun 2018
Konfío is one of the 250 Top Fintechs in the world, according to CB Insights. We are the largest online lending platform for Small and Medium Businesses in Mexico. We help these companies to achieve economic growth through the access of credit solutions with a proprietary algorithm that combines data and technology to measure creditworthiness in a matter of minutes. In the age of digital data, cloud computing and artificial intelligence, we are moving far beyond lending, to create an array of services, tools and platforms that can help all types of businesses to understand and cease their growth opportunities and to accelerate their workforce so they can compete and respond to the ever changing economic landscapes. In Konfío, we believe every business man and woman possesses a super power that can help communities, cities and entire families to thrive and achieve a prosperous life. Our main mission is make them unstoppable so no matter how big the dream is they can achieve it.
Investor and Board Member
Jan 2018
Every company knows what they do, but few know why they really exist. Creditas’ mission is well-defined: to enable what fulfils people by unleashing the potential of their assets. At the moment, we work with home equity, auto equity, private payroll-deducted personal loans, and vehicle financing. And we’re always researching innovative ways to help people reach new heights. Limits isn’t a word we like. It’s our culture to go further, think differently, educate people, and grow exponentially. We’re a technology company focused on people. And that’s what we’ll always be. If you also have this energy, come chat with us.
2015
Managing Partner
Aug 2015
VEF is a listed investment company that invests in fintech businesses across emerging markets. We take minority stakes and are active investors with board representation in the majority of our portfolio companies, always looking to back the best entrepreneurs in our markets of focus. We invest in scale emerging markets across all areas of digital financial services including payments, credit, mobile money and wealth advisors. Today we have a portfolio of fintech companies spread across some of the most interesting scale emerging markets in the world, including Brazil, Mexico and India. VEF is structured as a publicly listed investment company, trading under the ticker VEF AB on Nasdaq Stockholms Main Market.
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