Lateral Capital

$8Tdisclosed portfolio round capital

28 Nov, 2022last investment

4portfolio companies

2team members

Analyst signals

Portfolio activity and matriculation

Metrics use all recorded activity through 21 Jul 2026 across pre seed, seed, series a. Later-round outcomes are capped at the period end.

100%companies with a later round · 4/4

500004.00×median round-size step-up · n=4

Not availablemedian valuation step-up · n=0

0%recorded-solo rate · 0 solo / 5 syndicated

Data & Analytics · 1 companiesGaming · 1 companiesPayments · 1 companies

These are activity signals, not fund-return metrics. Round capital is the full disclosed financing amount, not this fund's check size. “Recorded solo” means only one investor is present in the source data and is a lead signal, not verified lead status; syndicated rounds are a co-investor or follower signal. IRR, TVPI, DPI, ownership, exits, and market beta cannot be calculated from the available records.

People

Team

John Lilly

General Partner

Tim Kost

Lateral Capital LP and Managing Director

Portfolio

Investments

Full financing histories for portfolio companies. Highlighted rounds are those where Lateral Capital is recorded as an investor.

Carry1st

fintech

Gaming

Carry1st is a consumer internet company operating across games, publishing, and fintech in Africa and the Middle East. It helps game publishers grow through localization, marketing, distribution, local payments, and an online digital-goods shop for players.

Strategic1 Feb, 2024

Series A1 Jan, 2022$20M round

Series A1 May, 2021$6M round

Seed1 May, 2020$2.5M roundSyndicated · 5 disclosed investors

EJARA

hybrid

Payments

EJARA provides a wallet, savings and investment products, plus business payment services for African businesses operating globally. Its business offering supports payments to employees, real-estate investments, suppliers, and invoices.

Series A28 Nov, 2022$8T roundSyndicated · 13 disclosed investors

Seed1 Oct, 2021$2M roundSyndicated · 8 disclosed investors

Masa Network

hybrid

Data & Analytics

Masa is a real-time data network for what it calls "Fair AI." It allows developers to access data from various sources to build and power AI agents and applications. The platform also enables users to become data miners, contributing their bandwidth to the network in exchange for token rewards.

Strategic1 Dec, 2024

Public Sale1 Mar, 2024$8.8M round$126M valuation

Seed23 Jan, 2024$5.4T round

Pre-Seed1 May, 2022$3.5M roundSyndicated · 9 disclosed investors

Vibra

crypto

Vibra offers a platform for learning, trading, and investing in cryptocurrency.

Seed17 Dec, 2021$6T round

Series A1 Dec, 2021$6M roundSyndicated · 14 disclosed investors