What does LAVA invest in?
LAVA invests most often at Seed (100% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Web3, Stablecoin and Payments.
LAVA highlights
- 01
2 rounds on record
- 02
Mostly Seed: 100% of its rounds
What they do
LAVA invests $100K–$500K in pre-seed to pre-Series A founders building stablecoin, payments, credit, and trust infrastructure across Africa.From their own website
- Type
- VC firm
- Cheque size
- $100K – $500K as they say
- Stages
- Pre-seedSeedSeries A
- Sectors
- Web3StablecoinPayments
- Cold pitches
- Accepted
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first2 appearances
- 2025
2 rounds
- Aug
- Jan
An announcement gives the size of the round, not the size of this investor's cheque: the only rounds that imply a cheque are those where they were the sole named investor.
The team
Named by the firm itself, on a filing, its Form ADV or its company registration1 named
YSYoseph Seyoum AyeleDirectoriForm ADV
We also hold 1 person at this firm from the lists this database was built from: a weaker source than the filings, since a list does not say when a title ended. Login to see them.
What the register says
From the firm's own filings with the SEC, which it must file accurately by law
$10Mgross assets of its fundsOct 2026
5+funds on filenumbered funds in its name
Exemptreporting adviserventure or small private funds
- Legal name
- LAVA Ventures LTD.
- SEC number
- CRD 330688
What they claim to have backed
Weaker than a round we watched, stronger than a list somebody sold us. A firm is far less willing to put a company on its own site that it never funded.