Pieter Heyns

Co-founder Mindjoy

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 2 investments📅 4 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2022
Operator-angel🌍 United States
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Seed Investor and Advisor Root
Jan 2022
Root is the leading low-code end-to-end insurance platform powering universally programmable insurance products, any digital sales channel, digital insurance operations, and the ecosystem around this. Root is SOC2 certified (ISAE3000) and supports clients in Africa and the UK. Root’s platform is fully configurable and modular, with 500+ open insurance APIs designed for omni-channel and affinity partner distribution, policy admin, and claims at scale. Large brands, retailers, insurance providers and captives use Root to build and launch any insurance product at record speed, digitise policy administration and claims. By packaging the “hard things” in insurance behind a comprehensive suite of easy-to-use APIs, Root solves the infrastructure so that our clients can focus on their customer.
Seed Investor and Advisor Apex Pollination
Jan 2022
We help farmers win at pollination by using science and technology to create strong and healthy bees at scale.
early stageFarming
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2023
Co-Founder
May 2023
Were accelerating STEM learning with AI to unleash student curiosity. End-to-end AI platform for teaching and learning STEM with AI. We help transform classroom learning with a custom scalable AI learning environment, for data-guided learning that improves student outcomes built for STEM. Were with you every step of the way as your innovation partner supporting with precision training for your organisations needs.
mid stageEducation
2022
Seed Investor and Advisor Root
Jan 2022
Root is the leading low-code end-to-end insurance platform powering universally programmable insurance products, any digital sales channel, digital insurance operations, and the ecosystem around this. Root is SOC2 certified (ISAE3000) and supports clients in Africa and the UK. Root’s platform is fully configurable and modular, with 500+ open insurance APIs designed for omni-channel and affinity partner distribution, policy admin, and claims at scale. Large brands, retailers, insurance providers and captives use Root to build and launch any insurance product at record speed, digitise policy administration and claims. By packaging the “hard things” in insurance behind a comprehensive suite of easy-to-use APIs, Root solves the infrastructure so that our clients can focus on their customer.
Seed Investor and Advisor Apex Pollination
Jan 2022
We help farmers win at pollination by using science and technology to create strong and healthy bees at scale.
early stageFarming
2013
Co-founder and Head of Finance
Oct 2013
Luno makes it safe and easy to invest responsibly in crypto. We’re on a mission to spread the word about this once-in-a lifetime opportunity to create more freedom and financial growth across Africa, South East Asia, US and Europe. We’re making crypto inclusive and accessible by being a trusted guide at every step. We’re here for your questions, because for our financial system to be fair, everyone needs to understand it. So far, more than 10 million people have chosen to invest in crypto with Luno. We go above and beyond to keep our customers, and their hard-earned money, safe. All the crypto we store for you is verified by independent auditors. We’re in it for the long term and we invite you on this journey with us.
2011
Co-founder - Finance and Operations
Jan 2011
CustomMed Orthopaedics specialises in providing orthopaedic surgeons, and companies, with patient specific needs through pre-operative 3-dimensional CAD planning, and custom manufacturing, we strive to eliminate uncertainty and reduce the variables resulting in surgical outliers in knee, hip and shoulder implant placement.