# LAVA: portfolio, investments and team

> LAVA is a vc firm. 2 investments on record, latest Aug 2025. Portfolio, stages, co-investors and team.

Source: https://millionrounds.com/fund/lava (Millionrounds; every figure on the page links to its filing or article)

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# LAVA

Last cheque observed Aug 2025. Silence since then is not evidence of inactivity: our sources miss unannounced rounds.

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VC firm Quiet

Pre-seed Seed Series A Web3 Stablecoin Payments

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Cheques on record

**0%** of best year **0** **cheques in 12 months**, 2 on record

Since the last cheque **449** days **00** hrs **00** min **00** sec

Median round **$3.2M** Cheque size, as they say **$100K – $500K** Rounds led **0 of 2**

Pitch LAVA

## 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-seed Seed Series A
- **Sectors:** Web3 Stablecoin Payments
- **Cold pitches:** Accepted

## The record

Every round we can evidence, newest first **2 appearances**

- **2025** 2 rounds
- **Aug** **[HoneyCoin](https://millionrounds.com/company/honeycoin)** Seed · KE · Disrupt Africa **$4.9M** With 9 others
- **Jan** **[Accrue](https://millionrounds.com/company/accrue)** Seed · NG · Disrupt Africa **$1.6M** With 4 others

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 registration **1 named**

YS **Yoseph Seyoum Ayele** Director i Form 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

**$10M** gross assets of its funds Oct 2026

**5+** funds on file numbered funds in its name

**Exempt** reporting adviser venture or small private funds

- **Legal name:** LAVA Ventures LTD.
- **SEC number:** CRD 330688

## What they claim to have backed

From their own portfolio page (on their website)

**1** of 1 we have independently watched raise

[Substack](https://millionrounds.com/company/substack)

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.

## The cheque

Pre-seed Seed Series A

Median round joined **$3.2M** the round, not its cheque

Led 0 of 2 rounds **0%**

- **Said size:** $100K – $500K
- **Sole investor:** Never alone
- **Last cheque:** Aug 2025

Rounds by stage said on their site

- Seed said *2*
- Pre-seed said *-*
- Series A said *-*

Cheques by month Led Joined

Dec 2023 Nov 2026

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## Recently backed

The latest companies LAVA put money into.

[**HoneyCoin** $4.9M · Aug 2025](https://millionrounds.com/company/honeycoin)

## Quick answers about LAVA

### 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.

### How active is LAVA?

2 investments on record, 0 of them in the last 12 months. The most recent was in Aug 2025.

### What has LAVA invested in recently?

Its most recent investments on record: HoneyCoin (Seed, Aug 2025) and Accrue (Seed, Jan 2025).

### How big are LAVA's cheques?

The median round it joins is $3.2M. It says it writes cheques of $100K to $500K.

### Is LAVA investing now?

No investments in the last 12 months; the latest was in Aug 2025.

### What kind of investor is LAVA?

LAVA is a VC firm.

### How much does LAVA manage?

About $10M, as gross assets of its private funds (Oct 2026).

### Does LAVA take cold pitches?

Yes: its own website says it reads unsolicited pitches.

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