Marie Lora-Mungai

African Creative Industries & Sports Business | Advisor | Investor | Entrepreneur | Author | Speaker & Host

📍 Nigeria, Nigeria🔄 Updated September 2026💼 9 investments📅 10 years investing🗓 Last invested Apr 2022𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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9
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Portfolio

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Investor
Apr 2022
Afropolitan is creating a Digital Nation to enable all Africans to build abundant lives. The internet enables people to organize around shared values at scales that were previously unthinkable before the turn of the century. If it were a country, Facebook would be the largest one in the world. With the advent of cryptocurrency, the next Facebook will not be a social network with a passive online community, but rather a full-blown digital country with its own native currency and shared purpose.
Investor
Feb 2022
Kyshi is a UK-based company providing digital expansion services to global companies enabling accelerated expansion and payment services across Africa. We are passionate about building for our clients revolutionary solutions for cross-border expansion and payments and are driven by a desire to make global and African businesses and consumers trade seamlessly.
Investor
Jan 2022
Bamboo is an investment platform that gives Africans the tools to build wealth from the ground up through real-time access to the global markets
Investor
Jan 2022
We invest in NFT.
Investor
Oct 2021
Pngme enables one-click data sharing, real time insights, and credit scoring for financial institutions. At Pngme, we believe everyone deserves equal access to finance. Our platform enables this by making the process of collecting, analyzing, and using financial data by financial institutions frictionless and simple. Banks, Fintechs, and Credit Bureaus use our platform to create innovative financial products for un/underserved people. Pngme is on a mission to give ownership of data back to people, thereby giving equal access to finance and enabling wealth creation for billions of people.
Investor
Jul 2021
Nexford University is reimagining what a global American university can be. We exist to open doors. To give people everywhere access to high-quality learning that actually leads to career progress. And to prove that you don’t need debt or privilege to build a better future. We’re built for today’s world: a flexibly paced, fully online university designed around real workplace skills, employer needs, and measurable outcomes. Our programs teach the capabilities that drive careers in business and technology, powered by personalized learning, AI-driven support, and a curriculum shaped by global industry data. We focus on one thing: enabling career success. From first-time college learners to seasoned professionals, we help people gain the skills and credentials to unlock new roles, higher earning potential, and upward mobility. Behind the scenes is a cross-disciplinary team of builders, innovators, and problem solvers. We challenge conventions. We experiment. We use data, technology, and creativity to deliver one of the most efficient academic operations in the world while driving outcomes that outperform traditional universities. Nexford University is based in Washington, DC and accredited by DEAC — serving learners across more than 100 countries. If you believe talent is everywhere but opportunity is not, you’re one of us.
Investor
Jun 2021
ATHLST Inc. is a digital sports news and content studio. We work closely with African athletes to transform their personal stories into immersive and impactful content that resonate with sports fans worldwide. In an era where there’s a convergence of entertainment, sports, and culture, the African athlete is 62-65% less likely than his/her American or European counterpart to have their stories told by way of op-ed, documentary or film. We intend to change that. And in the process meet the news and branding needs of African athletes ensuring that they take control of their own narrative, and by extension, expand their presence and deepen their relevance in sports.
Investor / Advisor
Jan 2019
StarNews is unlocking the massive potential of Africa’s mobile video market by providing exclusive content to over 4 Million users and allowing content creators to monetize their fanbase in Africa, the world’s most promising continent. StarNew Mobile is partnered with MTN and Orange, two of the largest telecommunications operators in Africa, to distribute exclusive video content directly to mobile users and allow them to benefit from micro billing on their mobile wallets for a better experience. StarNews Mobile is Africa’s first media company with a mission to give financial freedom to African content creators.
Board Member
Jun 2016
Buni Media is a multimedia company based in Nairobi, Kenya and Los Angeles, California. "Buni" means "innovation" in Swahili, and our mission is to use a variety of innovative media techniques to tell thought-provoking, modern stories that challenge the status quo. Support us: https://www.patreon.com/bunimedia The Buni Media group is comprised of BuniStudios, a film & television production outlet, BuniVisualFX, an animation & post-production studio, BuniWorkshop, a puppet-making & special effects workshop, BuniPublishing, a publishing house, and Buni TV, a web and mobile video-on-demand platform. It employs 88 people.
Experience · 16 entries
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2022
Partner
Jul 2022
We are a buyers-only Portuguese property advisory company that helps you navigate the local real estate market like a true insider. Whether you are looking to obtain a Golden Visa or residency permit, invest in a rental property, or find your new home, we are here to help.
Investor
Apr 2022
Afropolitan is creating a Digital Nation to enable all Africans to build abundant lives. The internet enables people to organize around shared values at scales that were previously unthinkable before the turn of the century. If it were a country, Facebook would be the largest one in the world. With the advent of cryptocurrency, the next Facebook will not be a social network with a passive online community, but rather a full-blown digital country with its own native currency and shared purpose.
Investor
Feb 2022
Kyshi is a UK-based company providing digital expansion services to global companies enabling accelerated expansion and payment services across Africa. We are passionate about building for our clients revolutionary solutions for cross-border expansion and payments and are driven by a desire to make global and African businesses and consumers trade seamlessly.
Investor
Jan 2022
Bamboo is an investment platform that gives Africans the tools to build wealth from the ground up through real-time access to the global markets
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