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About Investor

Jake Kendall is general partner at DFS Lab, a research-driven investment firm focused on digital financial services and digital commerce in Africa. DFS Lab concentrates on fintech and payments infrastructure, e-commerce and marketplaces, cross-border payments, financial inclusion, logistics, and related infrastructure, and it invests mainly at Pre-Seed and Seed with occasional Series A follow-ons and a typical check size of $50,000 - $1,000,000. Kendall previously worked on financial inclusion research at the Gates Foundation and CGAP at the World Bank, which gives his investing style a strong research and economics backbone.