About
Yoseph Ayele is building an investment platform around one of the defining problems of African technology: creating the financial and trust infrastructure that allows markets to connect. Ethiopian-born and Harvard-educated, Ayele founded Borderless Africa and magma and leads LAVA, an early-stage fund backing African companies across fintech and adjacent infrastructure. His portfolio includes businesses such as HoneyCoin, Kotani Pay, Onboard, Paycrest, Blockradar and Accrue, spanning payments, stablecoins, compliance and financial access. He belongs on the Borderless 100 for both his investment thesis and his ecosystem-building: few people have made the case for borderless African infrastructure as explicitly — and invested behind it — as Ayele.
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