Seedcamp invested in Klasha in 2021.
Seedcamp is a European seed-stage venture capital fund which was launched in London in 2007. Seedcamp has a successful track record of being the earliest backer of a number of leading companies such as Revolut, Wise, Hopin and UiPath. Seedcamp tend to have standard investment and legal terms for the pre-seed round and will follow the terms of lead investors at the seed round. Seedcamp will lead pre-seed investment rounds but will partner with other lead investors for seed rounds. Seedcamp tends to invest £300k in exchange for 6-7% at the pre-seed level and £500k at the seed level.
Klasha is building the technology to facilitate frictionless cross-border payments and allow international businesses to scale seamlessly into Africa through its API.
Seedcamp's Managing Partner, Reshma Sohoni, explains ‘’As Africa continues to undergo digitisation, there’s an increasing opportunity for online businesses in Europe and the US to garner market share quickly by accepting payments online in African currencies due to the nascent stage of commerce on the continent. Klasha is our first investment in Africa which will allow frictionless scalability for merchants into the continent through their cross-border payment technology, enabling billions of underserved consumers to access their services.’’