Carry1st

Gaming · Cape Town, ZA

Mobile games publisher and payments platform for Africa.

Founders

Cordel Robbin-Coker (Sierra Leone · ♂) — A former private-equity investor leading Carlyle's sub-Saharan Africa fund, he co-founded Carry1st in 2018 to publish and monetise mobile games for Africa's fast-growing player base.
Lucy Hoffman (South Africa · ♀) — A former Chief of Staff at the African Leadership Academy, she co-founded Carry1st in 2018 and serves as COO, building the operator's African games-publishing business.
Tinotenda Mundangepfupfu (Zimbabwe · ♂) — A software engineer, he co-founded Carry1st in 2018 as CTO to build the technology behind its mobile games and payments platform for frontier markets.

Shares the most investors with (number = shared investors):

Date	Round	Amount
Jan 2023	Funding round South African mobile gaming startup Carry1st raised $27M led by BITKRAFT Ventures with a16z participating.	$27M
Jan 2023	Series A Carry1st, a Cape Town mobile-games and web3 startup, raised USD27M led by BITKRAFT Ventures.	$27M
Jan 2022	Funding round African mobile-game publisher Carry1st raised $20M with backing from a16z, Avenir and Google.	$20M

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