Marcel Ricaud

Launch Africa Ventures is a frontier Pan-African fund solving the significant funding gap in the Seed to Series A bridge funding investment landscape in Africa. We invest in B2B and B2B2C early-stage, technology-driven startups with strong management teams solving the most meaningful problems on the continent. Our objective is to provide funding in that critical investment phase of a startup to enable scale and growth while creating a sustainable ecosystem.

Launch Africa Ventures is a frontier Pan-African fund solving the significant funding gap in the Seed to Series A bridge funding investment landscape in Africa. We invest in B2B and B2B2C early-stage, technology-driven startups with strong management teams solving the most meaningful problems on the continent. Our objective is to provide funding in that critical investment phase of a startup to enable scale and growth while creating a sustainable ecosystem.

Finovate Capital Partners is a FinTech investment bank providing independent strategic advice on Mergers & Acquisitions and Capital raising to leading FinTech entrepreneurs, companies and investors across the globe. Our passion for financial technology, our financial acumen and our understanding of the entrepreneurs journey differentiate our advice from other investment banks. We help exceptional people build exceptional businesses to create more successful technology companies across the Globe. We focus on the middle markets, and help our clients complete buy- and sell-side transactions in the $20 - $200 million enterprise value range. We specialize in the capital markets technology (FX & multi-asset trading systems for back, middle and front office), payments, insurance technology and financial data distribution segments, where we have closed a number of influential and notable transactions and maintain robust relationships with both companies and private equity and strategic investors. Services: - Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) - Capital Raising (Private) - Principal Investments (FinTech VC Fund)