Invest
Safari & urban hospitality
The Fund channels institutional and private capital into lodges, camps and hotels across Namibia, Zimbabwe, Kenya and Zambia, developed and run with world-class operating partners.
Dr Tadiwanashe Muganyi
Capital, rooted in Africa.
Reaching further.
Economist · Investor · Author
Founding Partner of Nexcelia Solutions B.V. — leading a US$150 million conservation & hospitality fund, and author of Beyond Inclusion, on fintech’s AI inflection point.
01 About
Rooted in this soil,
always reaching higher.
An economist who builds — moving between research, capital and the ground where both have to work.
I lead Nexcelia Solutions B.V., a Dutch-domiciled investment and advisory firm operating across Europe, Asia and Southern Africa, alongside directorships spanning development, hospitality and finance in Zimbabwe and beyond.
My work sits where fintech meets financial development — as a researcher, as an operator, and as an investor backing the infrastructure that lets economies leapfrog.
- PhD
- Industrial Economics (Fintech)
- MSc
- Global Central Banking & Financial Regulation — Warwick Business School, in collaboration with the Bank of England
- Roles
- Founding Partner, Nexcelia Solutions B.V. · Managing Director, Urban HQ · Director, Alderwyke Investments
02 Nexcelia
Capital with a wingspan.
Nexcelia invests and operates across hospitality, real estate, fintech and conservation-linked ventures — pairing international capital with deep local operating knowledge in Southern Africa.
- 01 Hospitality Kōri Studio Café, restaurant acquisitions and a private hospitality fund spanning safari and urban assets.
- 02 Real Estate Residential land development, office parks and letting buildings across Bulawayo and Lusaka.
- 03 Fintech Payment rails, digital wallets and inclusive financial infrastructure for frontier markets.
- 04 Funds & Advisory Cross-border fund structuring and advisory between Europe, Asia and Southern Africa.
- 05 Conservation Ring-fenced conservation giving and sustainable-hospitality partnerships rooted in Zimbabwe’s wild heritage.
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06 Foundation The Nexcelia Foundation — access programmes in speech therapy, health and education.
03 The Fund
Nexcelia.org
US$ 150 M
Target fund size
A US$150 million fund investing in conservation and hospitality across Africa — where returns and the wild are designed into the same structure.
- Capital
- Conservation
- Hospitality
- Africa
- Long-term value
- 4+
- Countries — Namibia, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Zambia
- 2
- Capital tracks — investment & philanthropic
Conserve
Nexcelia Conservation Initiative
A defined share of every investment is ring-fenced for landscape-scale conservation and community programmes across Zimbabwe’s wild heritage — from Matopos to Hwange.
Give
Philanthropic capital
Alongside the investment vehicle, a philanthropic track routes donor funding directly to trusted conservation partners — transparent, audited and reported annually.
04 Research
Evidence first.
Then conviction.
- 1,000+
- Google Scholar citations
- 290
- Chinese cities — panel study
- 2
- Original frameworks — GFDI & the Leapfrog Paradox
My research examines how fintech shapes financial development — from China’s 290-city fintech experiment to AI developments and bank risk in the Eurozone, studied at Warwick Business School in collaboration with the Bank of England — and extended through the Global Fintech Development Index and the Leapfrog Paradox, a framework for how frontier economies skip legacy financial infrastructure.
2026
Beyond Inclusion: Fintech’s AI Inflection Point
2025
Fintech AI developments and bank risk in the Eurozone
2022
Fintech, regtech, and financial development: evidence from China
2021
Green finance, fintech and environmental protection: evidence from China
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Full publication record
05 Writing
Beyond Inclusion.
#1 New Release — Amazon
“Inclusion was the beginning. Intelligence is the inflection.”
Fintech’s AI Inflection Point argues that the great project of financial inclusion — a decade that brought hundreds of millions into the formal financial system — was only the opening act. Access to an account is not the same as power over one’s financial life.
Moving from China’s 290-city fintech experiment to the mobile-money economies of Africa, the book traces how artificial intelligence is turning financial access into financial intelligence: credit that understands context, regulation that reads markets in real time, and frontier economies that leapfrog legacy infrastructure entirely. It closes with a framework for builders, bankers and regulators navigating the inflection — and a warning about who gets left behind when intelligence, not access, becomes the dividing line.