# Sunrise: portfolio, investments and team > Sunrise is a hedge fund based in Rwanda. 1 investment on record, latest Jan 2025. Portfolio, stages, co-investors and team. Source: https://millionrounds.com/fund/sunrise (Millionrounds; every figure on the page links to its filing or article) Rwanda · [Investor](https://millionrounds.com/investors) # Sunrise Filed with the SEC to raise a fund in Oct 2025, closing $21M. Last cheque observed Jan 2025. Email Hedge fund Quiet New fund $21M, Oct 2025 Website unconfirmed Seed Venture Capital & Private Equity Follow Sunrise and see its new cheques in your feed. [Start following](https://millionrounds.com/login?join=1&why=follow&next=%2Ffund%2Fsunrise) Cheques on record **0%** of best year **0** **cheques in 12 months**, 1 on record Since the last cheque **660** days **00** hrs **00** min **00** sec Median round **$76M** Rounds led **0 of 1** Pitch Sunrise ## Sunrise highlights - 01 1 rounds on record - 02 Mostly Seed: 100% of its rounds ## What they do - **Type:** Hedge fund (from a list, unverified) - **Cheque size:** Not stated - **Sectors:** Venture Capital & Private Equity - **Based in:** Kigali, Rwanda - **Cold pitches:** Accepted A website was listed for this organisation, but we could not confirm it belongs to the firm that wrote these cheques. Either the site never mentions them, or it turned out to be a different company sharing the name. We show neither it nor anything read from it. [Tell us the right one](https://millionrounds.com/corrections?slug=sunrise). ## The record Every round we can evidence, newest first **1 appearances** - **2025** 1 round - **Jan** **[Bioptimus](https://millionrounds.com/company/bioptimus)** Seed · FR · Silicon Canals **$76M** With 9 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 **19 named** AC **Angelo Casartelli** Executive Officer i Filing they signed CM **Cary Marr** Director of General Partner i Filing they signed CS **Christopher Stanton** CIO i Filing they signed DG **Dr. Gary B. Davis** Executive Officer, Director i Filing they signed EV **Elissa V. Davis** Director i Filing they signed HO **Hussam Otaibi** Director of General Partner i Filing they signed JW **Jarod Winters** CCO/COO i Filing they signed JG **Jason Gerlach** CEO i Filing they signed JH **John Hughes** Executive Officer i Filing they signed JV **John V. Forrest** Director i Filing they signed JY **Jonathan Yost** Executive Officer i Filing they signed MM **Marie M. Laufik** Executive Officer, Director i Filing they signed MM **Martin M. Ehrlich** Executive Officer, Director i Filing they signed MP **Martin P. Klitzner** Executive Officer, Director i Filing they signed MD **Michael Dworkis** Executive Officer i Filing they signed MP **Miles Perryman** Director of General Partner i Filing they signed NC **Nic Corsetti** Director of General Partner i Filing they signed RC **Richard C. Slaughter** Director i Filing they signed TD **Tait Duryea** Executive Officer i Filing they signed We also hold **17** people 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 they claim to have backed From their own portfolio page (on their website) **0** of 19 we have independently watched raise Black Umbrellas Close the Gap Digemy Exchange vzw Ground Culture Intelactsoft Kamieleke King Baudouin Foundation Mobile Film Festival Ondernemersvoorondernemers Orakel Pelckmans Siluloulutho Southsudanpass Stichting Embrace Tony Elumelu Foundation Tycoon Tribe UNICHIR vzw AKETI 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. New fund on file **$21M** raised in Oct 2025 From its SEC filing, not a journalist: a firm that has just raised has money to deploy. ## The cheque Seed Median round joined **$76M** the round, not its cheque Led 0 of 1 rounds **0%** - **Sole investor:** Never alone - **Last cheque:** Jan 2025 Rounds by stage said on their site - Seed *1* Cheques by month Led Joined Dec 2023 Nov 2026 **Pitching Sunrise?** Put them on your fundraising board with this record on the card, and follow them to hear when they write a new cheque. Add to your CRM *→* ## Recently backed The latest companies Sunrise put money into. [**Bioptimus** $76M · Jan 2025](https://millionrounds.com/company/bioptimus) ## Quick answers about Sunrise ### What does Sunrise invest in? Sunrise invests most often at Seed (100% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Venture Capital & Private Equity. ### How active is Sunrise? 1 investments on record, 0 of them in the last 12 months. The most recent was in Jan 2025. ### What has Sunrise invested in recently? Its most recent investments on record: Bioptimus (Seed, Jan 2025). ### How big are Sunrise's cheques? The median round it joins is $76M. ### Is Sunrise investing now? No investments in the last 12 months; the latest was in Jan 2025. ### What kind of investor is Sunrise? Sunrise is a hedge fund based in Kigali, Rwanda. ### Has Sunrise raised a new fund? Its latest fund filing with the SEC was in Oct 2025, reporting $21M raised. ### Does Sunrise take cold pitches? Yes: its own website says it reads unsolicited pitches. ## Raising now? Find the investors who back rounds like yours, and keep every conversation on one fundraising board. Find similar investorsOpen your CRM Built from the rounds we watched, its filings and its own website, refreshed every night. [How we count](https://millionrounds.com/methodology) · [Report a correction](https://millionrounds.com/corrections?slug=sunrise) · [Is this your firm? 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