THAHEER MULLINS
CEO | Board Director | Venture Capitalist | Angel Investor

Enabling Cross-Border Transactions & Corporate Commercial Integrations Across Africa

Advising investors and operators on evaluating, structuring and scaling opportunities with a definitive, pattern-recognised strength in African emerging markets.

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Thaheer Mullins
Thaheer Mullins
CEO, Dala For Africa

Investor, Enabler & Ecosystem Catalyst

Thaheer Mullins is an African capital and innovation professional, currently serving as the CEO of Dala For Africa and Chair of the African Angels Guild. As a veteran deep-tech venture capital fund partner and active operator-investor, he provides structural governance and advisory architecture from initial pre-screening to commercial corporate integration.

Darkies In Tech (DIT) Obuntu Foundation Fellow VC Lab Fellow

Executive Track Record

$8.5M

Fund Management

Led and supported investments into early stage African companies

60+

Deal Exposure

Early-stage capital deployments via corporate, VC, angel and grant mechanisms

3

Angel investment networks

Started 1 intercontinental angel network and a member of 2 others

🏆 2025 Visionary of the Year (Finance & Insurance) - Forttuna Global Excellence Awards
DPI Focused 50.47% IRR Angel investor exit track record

Advisory & Consulting

Working directly with founders, corporates and SMEs on the structural questions that determine whether a venture, partnership or market entry actually holds together.

Partnership & Commercialisation Structuring

Structuring formal partnerships and commercialisation frameworks for innovation ecosystems, drawing on active board and advisory roles

Startup Market-Readiness Mentorship

Coaching founders through deal-readiness, fundraising narrative and go-to-market strategy, including through the OST BRAIN program for African deep-tech startups

Corporate & SME Advisory

Advising corporates and SMEs on evaluating, structuring and scaling opportunities — from initial pre-screening through commercial integration

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Global Stage Presence

Thaheer regularly engages with founders, funders and corporates, identifying deep tech futures, infrastructure gaps and market entry opportunities on international innovation platforms.

Keynote & Panel Footprint

  • UAE: GITEX Global / Expand North Star (Dubai), AIM Congress (Abu Dhabi)
  • Algeria: African Startup Conference (Algiers)
  • Morocco: GITEX Africa (Marrakech), Deep Tech Summit (Ben Guerir)
  • Uganda: Deep Tech Summit (Kampala)
  • Russia: Inaugural Moscow Startup Summit
  • Mauritius: India-Africa Entrepreneurship & Investment Summit
  • Tunisia: Global AI Congress for Africa (Tunis)
  • Kenya: India-Africa Entrepreneurship & Investment Summit (Nairobi)
  • South Africa: Alea Global Africa Family Office Summit, IT Web Summit (Johannesburg), OST BRAIN Bootcamp (Cape Town)
  • Turkey: Take Off Istanbul
Thaheer Mullins delivering a keynote at the African Startup Conference in Algiers, Algeria Thaheer Mullins on a panel at the Deep Tech Summit in Morocco Thaheer Mullins leading a session at the OST BRAIN Bootcamp in South Africa Thaheer Mullins on a panel at a Deep Tech Summit in Uganda

Media, Publications & Portfolio

A comprehensive review of key advisory portfolios, transaction structures and published perspectives.

VENTURE EDUCATION

Africa Venture Primer Program

A program syllabus and contributor list detailing Mullins' role as an emerging markets venture capital educator.

PODCAST FEATURE

Tech Aways Podcast (US)

Insights on why African founders should evaluate options before assuming VC is the only path.

NEWSLETTER

Tech Aways Substack

An archive feed discussing the operational governance angel syndicate members provide.

DEEP TECH

Continent's Deep-Tech Future

Investment thesis on hardware, satellite infrastructure and strategic corridors.

MENTORSHIP

Founder Institute Cape Town

A registry listing Mullins as an active advisor and mentor for early-stage founders.

HEALTH TECH

CERI Seminar: Access to Funding

Presentation on scaling clinical research and securing funding for health-tech innovators.

GLOBAL CONGRESS

AIM Congress Highlights

Article highlighting Mullins leading an MEA corporate-startup workshop.

AWARD

Forttuna Global Excellence Winner

Profile designates Mullins as 2025 'Visionary of the Year' in Finance.

TV INTERVIEW

ITWeb TV Video

Interview on local venture capital evolving Cybersecurity startups.

DEEP TECH PARTNERSHIP

UM6P Ventures partnership

Deep-tech startups partnership between Morocco and South Africa.

STARTUP JURY

Burning Heroes Africa 2024

Official competition portal listing Mullins as a member of the jury.

SUMMIT AGENDA

BigFive Summit Agenda 2024

Event details showcasing Mullins as a speaker on early-stage investment.

SPEAKER SERIES

BigFive Speaker Podcast

Interview on how tech companies address infrastructure needs in Africa.

INDUSTRY OUTLOOK

Deeptech, pitching to VCs & retaining talent

Venture Outlook interview with Seedstars compiled by Mullins.

VENTURE BLOG

AVCA Afri-spective Blog

Interview outlining Mullins' core operational principles and due diligence.

SPEAKER PROFILE

GAICA Speaker Profile

Listing for the summit in Tunisia on AI and VC.

INVESTMENT RALLY

Uganda Deep Tech Rally

News article quoting Mullins on solving real-world challenges.

CLEAN TECH PITCH

Energy Investment Village

Clean-tech partnership featuring Mullins' commentary.

PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT

Healthcare on the Move Mia

Investment explanation of Health Tech opportunity of Mia Technologies.

AGRITECH PORTFOLIO

Agriculture soil-less future

Portfolio profile featuring Mullins' commentary on customer engineering.

FELLOWSHIP

Obuntu Foundation Fellowship

Profile detailing Mullins' selection, studying hands-on due diligence.

CAREER PATH

EIR to Partner Journey

Interview tracing Mullins' transition from intern to Partner.

VIDEO BROADCAST

Angel Investing vs Venture Capital

Video analysing strategic differences between syndicates and VC.

VIDEO BROADCAST

Spotlight: Shift to Venture Capital

Interview tracing professional shift from marketing to early stage.

UNIVERSITY PORTFOLIO

UCT Campus Life 2015

UCT publication where Mullins is credited as student writer.

ACADEMIC Edu

UCT Mathematics Feature

Mathematical feature written by Mullins and Gilmour for UCT.

LAW CURATION

UCT Law faculty curation

Profiles compiled by Mullins for the UCT Law faculty curation.

MONOGRAPH

UCT Humanities monograph

Monograph co-curated by Mullins detailing research excellence.

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