Kresten Buch

Investor at 88mph

📍 Monaco🔄 Updated September 2026💼 5 investments📅 21 years investing🗓 Last invested May 2020
Angel investor🌍 Monaco
5
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3
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0
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21y
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May 2020
pawaPay is a fast-growing B2B payments start-up, focused on mobile money in Africa. We are building the financial rails that allow entrepreneurs and merchants to reach hundreds of millions of people across Africa. Our vision is to connect every mobile money wallet in Africa to each other and to the world. Through our payments API we facilitate over 3 million transactions a day across 19 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. We believe that the future of payments in Africa is mobile money and we have positioned ourselves to take the lead as the payments space grows over the next decade.
Investor
Jan 2020
emPawa Africa is a label services company that provides Distribution, Publishing administration and Marketing for independent African artists and labels. Our aim is to empower the next generation of African artists with the tools, knowledge, network and investment to enable them become independent music entrepreneurs. The company was founded by global superstar Mr Eazi in November 2018 with the emPawa 100 initiative that provided grants to emerging artists across various African countries. The fund was used to shoot a video and provide each artist with digital marketing support.
Managing Partner & Investor
Aug 2011
88mph is a seed fund. We invest in early stage mobile-web companies targeting the African market. We are currently testing a new funding model, called DealWeek. We have joined forces with some great founders turned investors who will spend a week with us and some startups evaluating, advising, and making investment deals happen. To apply go to 88mph.ac, the deadline is February 8th, 2015. DealWeek is from Feb 16 -22, 2015. Since 2011, we have invested in 43 startups across Africa - 34 in Kenya and South Africa, and 9 through 440.ng, our joint venture with L5Lab in Nigeria. We have run 5 accelerator programs, a unique and competitive setting where startups spend three intensive months together, meeting with mentors & investors, launching products, and finding customers. Besides funding, startups have access to experienced founders to help them with focus, products, teams, structure, and strategy. We also provide access to Africa’s biggest growth markets via our networks and tech hubs - the Garages - in Nairobi and Cape Town and Lagos.
Co-CEO & Investor
Jun 2005
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2020
Investor
May 2020
pawaPay is a fast-growing B2B payments start-up, focused on mobile money in Africa. We are building the financial rails that allow entrepreneurs and merchants to reach hundreds of millions of people across Africa. Our vision is to connect every mobile money wallet in Africa to each other and to the world. Through our payments API we facilitate over 3 million transactions a day across 19 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. We believe that the future of payments in Africa is mobile money and we have positioned ourselves to take the lead as the payments space grows over the next decade.
Investor
Jan 2020
emPawa Africa is a label services company that provides Distribution, Publishing administration and Marketing for independent African artists and labels. Our aim is to empower the next generation of African artists with the tools, knowledge, network and investment to enable them become independent music entrepreneurs. The company was founded by global superstar Mr Eazi in November 2018 with the emPawa 100 initiative that provided grants to emerging artists across various African countries. The fund was used to shoot a video and provide each artist with digital marketing support.
2013
Nakuru AllStars
Investor
Dec 2013
2011
Managing Partner & Investor
Aug 2011
88mph is a seed fund. We invest in early stage mobile-web companies targeting the African market. We are currently testing a new funding model, called DealWeek. We have joined forces with some great founders turned investors who will spend a week with us and some startups evaluating, advising, and making investment deals happen. To apply go to 88mph.ac, the deadline is February 8th, 2015. DealWeek is from Feb 16 -22, 2015. Since 2011, we have invested in 43 startups across Africa - 34 in Kenya and South Africa, and 9 through 440.ng, our joint venture with L5Lab in Nigeria. We have run 5 accelerator programs, a unique and competitive setting where startups spend three intensive months together, meeting with mentors & investors, launching products, and finding customers. Besides funding, startups have access to experienced founders to help them with focus, products, teams, structure, and strategy. We also provide access to Africa’s biggest growth markets via our networks and tech hubs - the Garages - in Nairobi and Cape Town and Lagos.
2007
Managing Director
Mar 2007
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