RaliCap

We are life-long believers in inclusive financial innovation — and the globalizing convergence of cloud, mobile and data technologies, harnessed by a generation of digitally-native founders, has set the stage for true fintech revolution from CDMX to Lagos, Cairo, Karachi and beyond.

Our LPs represent over 30 countries — 55%+ are outside the US — and have founded, scaled and sold businesses across the globe.

RaliCap invests in foundational fintech infrastructure -- the data, payment and communication startups accelerating scalable, multi-market financial services.

We’re thesis-driven, focused on infra APIs growing TAMs, driving scale and enabling multi-market expansion.

While the nascency of emerging market ecosystems creates compounding TAM :: CAC :: LTV challenges for consumer- & merchant-facing applications, B2B startups are disrupting these dynamics and laying the rails for profitable, inclusive and sustainable financial ecosystems.

We’re guided by the wisdom of Emeka Ajene:

Combining capital, operating expertise and venture capital networks into a collaborative investment community, RaliCap empowers a portfolio of top-tier founders building the next generation of emerging market financial services.

Early capital has outsized impact on founders’ journeys and our hands-on model is designed to optimize portfolio success. As founders and operators ourselves, we know how to launch, raise, scale, hire and win — and we put our founders at the center of everything we do.

Hayden Simmons founded ralicap in 2020.

Prior to becoming a VC, Hayden spent much of the past decade in emerging market fintech strategy and business development roles, with Facebook's Novi/Diem project, Juvo and Migo; he was also a venture partner at pan-African fund Lateral Capital.

Hayden graduated from Colorado College in 2007, majoring in Economic Development and minoring in Spanish; he wrote his thesis on ”Collectivized Remittances in Mexico.”

Born and raised in San Francisco, California, Hayden and his wife (and pup/trail-running buddy Eddy) recently moved to Marin County; he enjoys rock climbing, playing guitar and tending to his mezcal farm.

Kyane Kassiri is a partner at ralicap.

He has been working in the African tech scene for the past 7 years, first as an entrepreneur, then as an investor with African, US and European VC firms. Kyane has been prolifically angel investing across MENA and SSA before starting his [now fully deployed] micro-fund Suya Ventures.

Based in hometown Tunisia, Kyane is often wandering around RaliCap’s key markets, picking up some pidgin, swahili, urdu and Egyptian slang along the way.