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Investor profile

Steven Grin

Managing Partner, Lateral Frontiers Fund

About

Steven Grin calls himself the Economic Indiana Jones and brings over 25 years of hands-on operating and investing experience across frontier and emerging markets including Africa and the Middle East. He applies a structured, quantitative approach to venture capital that focuses on building foundational infrastructure like payments and data systems that enable entire ecosystems rather than making one-off bets. Steven Grin calls himself the Economic Indiana Jones and brings over 25 years of hands-on operating and investing experience across frontier and emerging markets including Africa and the Middle East. He applies a structured, quantitative approach to venture capital that focuses on building foundational infrastructure like payments and data systems that enable entire ecosystems rather than making one-off bets.

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Investment focus

Stages
Seed
Series A
Sectors
FinTech
Climate
Energy
Enterprise
Web3
Crypto

Investment details

Avg check size$100K - $1M
Can lead rounds
Yes
Geographies
Africa