Justin Standford

Justin Standford is a Partner at 4Di Capital ("4th Dimension Innovation") — the Claremont, Cape Town headquartered South African deep tech & enterprise SaaS venture capital platform with a Lagos Nigeria corridor office (opened 2020), managing approximately R2.5B+ (~$135M) cumulative AUM across 4Di Fund I (R300M, 2015), 4Di Deep Tech Fund II (R600M, 2018), 4Di Pan-African Enterprise Fund III (R800M, 2021), and 4Di Africa AI Fund IV (R800M, 2024 vintage, explicit 40% Nigeria fintech & healthtech AI allocation with Sequoia Heritage LP co-invest). A UCT Computer Science & Applied Mathematics BSc graduate, UCT GSB MBA, 2004–2011 prolific South African tech angel investor (30+ deals, 5 exits including to Naspers Group), 2011–2017 founder & CEO of the African Angel Network (now ANPI) before joining 4Di Capital as Partner in 2017.